It seems to me that something like LogMeIn does or offers to do (for free!) would help quite a bit: When you originally set up the computer, you can use one time access codes as such: it will pre print 20 codes or so, so if the logger doesn't know to capture that right then or as you're printing it, you're reasonably secure.
Slightly more secure is the offer to text your cell phone the access code, good for 5 minutes or some limited time when you try and connect. This is out of band transmission (SMS vs internet, recipt is on a different piece of hardware). This seems pretty secure vs common spyware / viruses. And it has to be cheaper than mailing out cards / secureID fobs...
Well, not quite as portable, but there is Symantec Altiris SVS 2, which last time I looked was free for personal use, and $30 a license for commercial / supported use. The upside is it's much cheaper, the downside is you have to install the framework on each PC you want to run the app on and you have to export/import the app...
free stuff is either nagware that wants you to upgrade to a pay version or it isn't an integrated suite Well, unless you're talking about Comodo Internet Security...
Wouldn't the people leasing cars (and not always cheaper than buying, it depends on the miles you drive) be more like the people using STEAM or even people renting games?
I think that these complaints have to be from people who don't like Windows much anymore, and the main reason they use it is they are used to it. This leads to feeling like "If I have to re-learn the interface etc, damnit, why aren't I switching to OSX or Linux?"...
While MS maintains great levels of IT employment, I think you may be overstating the case a bit. I do suppose it depends on where you fall in the IT world, but even if you didn't have to show the user yet again how to check their e-mail, there is a case to be made that you'd still have to initially set up the e-mail, set up and deploy the computer, maintain the physical and logical network, etc. Most businesses still have janitors, even though I would guess most employees are capible of cleaning their areas, it's not the most efficient use of their time.
At the higher levels, there's all sorts of things to do by specialists to keep IT people busy for the forseeable future.
At worst, I expect we'll continue to see consolidation like we already see into specalized companies that contract out time (or independant contractors) for multiple other compaines so those companies, or units of large corporations, can focus on their core competencies.
Hmm, that might be useful if I used Firefox. But for all tab users, why would that be better than having the tab *if* the built in tab function worked better? In Opera I just use the windows panel and can quick find any tab, and the full title is written out. It's generally as good or better even than having the tabs on the left side of the screen (or right side). For quick use I might use the Window menu, but I've found the panel even more useful. Of course, this would mean I could generally get rid of my tabs alltogether, but I use them both due to habit.
And this is why I use Opera, because I almost never have less than 40 tabs open. Once you realize that there's a better way to have temportary bookmarks than, well, bookmarks you regularily delete or relying on a fickle history, you start to accumulate tabs. Or at least I do.
I suppose it depends as I've only purchased T series Thinkpads and dealt with that tech support, but how does the support suck? It's probably one of the best support experiances I've ever had from a large company, and I deal with them several times a year what with ~40 laptops used by very careless users.
Oddly enough, I do have to care about Linux, but Scientific Linux 4.5, which is a small derivative of REHL4.5. It's getting to be a huge PITA with Lenovo or Dell to get it to run on desktop / laptops...
Anyone happen to know a competitive place that might build newer hardware that works with SL4.5 and 5.3...?
I use Opera daily. It's my primary browser. I almost never need to zoom, but whenever I have, the resulting page is as readable for me as increasing the text size with Firefox, but it preserves page layout and sizing, so as I stated initinally, it is - to my eyes - clearly superior to text only sizing.
Your answer really isn't helpful, because if it was obvious to me why zoom is inferior, I wouldn't have asked the initinal question. If it's just personal preference I can understand that. Perhaps it has to do with HOW large you need to make the text?
The interesting question, of course, is whether the premises that seem to me to hold for your argument (if there is one and I'm not reading one in) are still the case for society at large (and of course who gets to speak for society at large)...
I see you're implying that a) The current business model or concert/tshirt revenues are the only business model applicable to artists b) society wants the same or more music/art/stuff produced every year as today
Neither are necessarily true. For instance, think of the Auto Workers. Society mostly a) has had no real problems with many less of them than in the past (save the general knashing of teeth as with the current RIAA) b) Some car makers have worked out different business models (Toyota) or "gamed the system" (GM) c) There is a potential for retooling factories and workers to make such as a recent suggestion for light rail.
This is of course overly simplistic, but just like the economy and society won't end with the lesser demand for cars (and so the lesser production of them), I'm not sure that less new music would necessarily hurt society in any way.
I would argue that in some cases, you *do* get what you pay for. Microsoft has Active Directory - if you want to integrate a bunch of devices like Windows PCs, Linux systems and Macs, I can't think of another central auth and control service that has plugins for them, for less money and of equal ease of use or ease of finding expertise. Much of MS is crap, but they do make some things that are worth paying for.
IBM? I can't speak to the mid to high end necessarily, but their low end servers do have value adds over a supermicro home built. For one thing, they come ready to go in a box. They offer on site 9x5x4 support for an additional 10%. Great build quality IME. Linux and Windows support and drivers.
On the desktop/laptop Lenovo is basically carrying on for IBM. And you just see touches of "hey, somebody thought about using this product, and engineered it". Like the SFF A57 has fold out case so you're not looking for where do I put the top when you have to work on it. Or the D20 Workstation - it's big and heavy, so there are handles to help move it around. Heck, even the desktops have handles - just makes it easier to carry in one hand if you're deploying or moving it. This matters to IT people who are moving them around all the time.
Their tech support is easy to reach (one # per country, you can find it on the web). IME, they speak decent english and the first person can ship out replacement parts... Compare that to Dell support for Precision Workstations. I spent 45 minutes being transferred through what sounded like 7 countries to get to the person who could send me a video card. I've called for all sorts of part replacements or help from Lenovo/IBM and it just doesn't happen. At work, my time is worth money to my employer. Afterwards my boss said it'll be cheaper to write off the Dell warranties and just buy new parts from newegg than to wait on the phone for 45 minutes...
And I expect, if it catches on, there will be some sort of appliance offered that can privately act as the central server.
I think that might well also be a great idea for Opera as they could turn that into a revenue stream a la Google's search appliances.
Collaboration is big in businesses, and there is definately space in that market if they can sell it. Now, whether Opera can make this a compelling alternative to Wikis etc I'm not sure. I can certainly see a potential to sell it to small business where there aren't IT people to set up a LAMP stack or an IRC server for instance. And if it was locally hosted, even the chat might have a value if they mention the monitoring that, say, AIM does on IMs for business secerets... This does assume that they're going to not proxy everything of course.
I assume it's the same reason that AddBlock Plus isn't a separate project, it was easier to leverage the existing technology in Opera for them. You can already minimize Opera to the system tray. And I think they want to advertise their browser as well.
As far as I know from postings of their public balance sheets (as they are on a stock exchange), they do make a profit. I can't figure out how they'd stay in business so long without making money...
And I'm not seeing any reason that would change, even if this Opera Unite is a huge flop (and it might well be).
Not that I'm aware of... I mean, the servers are supposed to set the content info in the headers and stuff (I'm not a web dev), and Opera mostly honors that via reload (but not necessarily on just navigating there)...
Why is this bad? I mean, I basically ignore facebook and myspace already... Just a few 100 million more websites out of the billions I already don't look at... I thought the web already got over the elitism of the "eternal september" mentality...
As I understand it, they're considering whether the final will require a login to their network. Also, for anyone who is using anything at my.opera.com, including the user support forums, you already have a login that works... My guess is most current Opera users (probably who they realistically expected to alpha test this) will already have an account. And it's no more privacy hurting than any other forum account...
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Is IBM no longer one of the big hardware vendors?
It seems to me that something like LogMeIn does or offers to do (for free!) would help quite a bit:
When you originally set up the computer, you can use one time access codes as such: it will pre print 20 codes or so, so if the logger doesn't know to capture that right then or as you're printing it, you're reasonably secure.
Slightly more secure is the offer to text your cell phone the access code, good for 5 minutes or some limited time when you try and connect. This is out of band transmission (SMS vs internet, recipt is on a different piece of hardware). This seems pretty secure vs common spyware / viruses. And it has to be cheaper than mailing out cards / secureID fobs...
Well, not quite as portable, but there is Symantec Altiris SVS 2, which last time I looked was free for personal use, and $30 a license for commercial / supported use. The upside is it's much cheaper, the downside is you have to install the framework on each PC you want to run the app on and you have to export/import the app...
A little more painful, but dooable I suppose.
free stuff is either nagware that wants you to upgrade to a pay version or it isn't an integrated suite
Well, unless you're talking about Comodo Internet Security...
Wouldn't the people leasing cars (and not always cheaper than buying, it depends on the miles you drive) be more like the people using STEAM or even people renting games?
I think that these complaints have to be from people who don't like Windows much anymore, and the main reason they use it is they are used to it. This leads to feeling like "If I have to re-learn the interface etc, damnit, why aren't I switching to OSX or Linux?"...
I think it might be easier and as effective to use cron...
While MS maintains great levels of IT employment, I think you may be overstating the case a bit. I do suppose it depends on where you fall in the IT world, but even if you didn't have to show the user yet again how to check their e-mail, there is a case to be made that you'd still have to initially set up the e-mail, set up and deploy the computer, maintain the physical and logical network, etc. Most businesses still have janitors, even though I would guess most employees are capible of cleaning their areas, it's not the most efficient use of their time.
At the higher levels, there's all sorts of things to do by specialists to keep IT people busy for the forseeable future.
At worst, I expect we'll continue to see consolidation like we already see into specalized companies that contract out time (or independant contractors) for multiple other compaines so those companies, or units of large corporations, can focus on their core competencies.
Hmm, that might be useful if I used Firefox. But for all tab users, why would that be better than having the tab *if* the built in tab function worked better? In Opera I just use the windows panel and can quick find any tab, and the full title is written out. It's generally as good or better even than having the tabs on the left side of the screen (or right side). For quick use I might use the Window menu, but I've found the panel even more useful. Of course, this would mean I could generally get rid of my tabs alltogether, but I use them both due to habit.
And this is why I use Opera, because I almost never have less than 40 tabs open. Once you realize that there's a better way to have temportary bookmarks than, well, bookmarks you regularily delete or relying on a fickle history, you start to accumulate tabs. Or at least I do.
I suppose it depends as I've only purchased T series Thinkpads and dealt with that tech support, but how does the support suck? It's probably one of the best support experiances I've ever had from a large company, and I deal with them several times a year what with ~40 laptops used by very careless users.
Oddly enough, I do have to care about Linux, but Scientific Linux 4.5, which is a small derivative of REHL4.5. It's getting to be a huge PITA with Lenovo or Dell to get it to run on desktop / laptops...
Anyone happen to know a competitive place that might build newer hardware that works with SL4.5 and 5.3 ...?
I use Opera daily. It's my primary browser. I almost never need to zoom, but whenever I have, the resulting page is as readable for me as increasing the text size with Firefox, but it preserves page layout and sizing, so as I stated initinally, it is - to my eyes - clearly superior to text only sizing.
Your answer really isn't helpful, because if it was obvious to me why zoom is inferior, I wouldn't have asked the initinal question. If it's just personal preference I can understand that. Perhaps it has to do with HOW large you need to make the text?
The interesting question, of course, is whether the premises that seem to me to hold for your argument (if there is one and I'm not reading one in) are still the case for society at large (and of course who gets to speak for society at large)...
I see you're implying that
a) The current business model or concert/tshirt revenues are the only business model applicable to artists
b) society wants the same or more music/art/stuff produced every year as today
Neither are necessarily true. For instance, think of the Auto Workers. Society mostly
a) has had no real problems with many less of them than in the past (save the general knashing of teeth as with the current RIAA)
b) Some car makers have worked out different business models (Toyota) or "gamed the system" (GM)
c) There is a potential for retooling factories and workers to make such as a recent suggestion for light rail.
This is of course overly simplistic, but just like the economy and society won't end with the lesser demand for cars (and so the lesser production of them), I'm not sure that less new music would necessarily hurt society in any way.
I would argue that in some cases, you *do* get what you pay for. Microsoft has Active Directory - if you want to integrate a bunch of devices like Windows PCs, Linux systems and Macs, I can't think of another central auth and control service that has plugins for them, for less money and of equal ease of use or ease of finding expertise. Much of MS is crap, but they do make some things that are worth paying for.
IBM? I can't speak to the mid to high end necessarily, but their low end servers do have value adds over a supermicro home built. For one thing, they come ready to go in a box. They offer on site 9x5x4 support for an additional 10%. Great build quality IME. Linux and Windows support and drivers.
On the desktop/laptop Lenovo is basically carrying on for IBM. And you just see touches of "hey, somebody thought about using this product, and engineered it". Like the SFF A57 has fold out case so you're not looking for where do I put the top when you have to work on it. Or the D20 Workstation - it's big and heavy, so there are handles to help move it around. Heck, even the desktops have handles - just makes it easier to carry in one hand if you're deploying or moving it. This matters to IT people who are moving them around all the time.
Their tech support is easy to reach (one # per country, you can find it on the web). IME, they speak decent english and the first person can ship out replacement parts... Compare that to Dell support for Precision Workstations. I spent 45 minutes being transferred through what sounded like 7 countries to get to the person who could send me a video card. I've called for all sorts of part replacements or help from Lenovo/IBM and it just doesn't happen. At work, my time is worth money to my employer. Afterwards my boss said it'll be cheaper to write off the Dell warranties and just buy new parts from newegg than to wait on the phone for 45 minutes...
Well, they claim they make 1/5 of their revenue from the google search box tie in on the desktop browser...
Odd. Middle Click the first time usually asks you what you want it to map to... It certainly maps to scrolling on WinXP with O9.64 ... for me.
And I expect, if it catches on, there will be some sort of appliance offered that can privately act as the central server.
I think that might well also be a great idea for Opera as they could turn that into a revenue stream a la Google's search appliances.
Collaboration is big in businesses, and there is definately space in that market if they can sell it. Now, whether Opera can make this a compelling alternative to Wikis etc I'm not sure. I can certainly see a potential to sell it to small business where there aren't IT people to set up a LAMP stack or an IRC server for instance. And if it was locally hosted, even the chat might have a value if they mention the monitoring that, say, AIM does on IMs for business secerets... This does assume that they're going to not proxy everything of course.
I assume it's the same reason that AddBlock Plus isn't a separate project, it was easier to leverage the existing technology in Opera for them. You can already minimize Opera to the system tray. And I think they want to advertise their browser as well.
As far as I know from postings of their public balance sheets (as they are on a stock exchange), they do make a profit. I can't figure out how they'd stay in business so long without making money...
And I'm not seeing any reason that would change, even if this Opera Unite is a huge flop (and it might well be).
Not that I'm aware of... I mean, the servers are supposed to set the content info in the headers and stuff (I'm not a web dev), and Opera mostly honors that via reload (but not necessarily on just navigating there)...
Why is this bad? I mean, I basically ignore facebook and myspace already... Just a few 100 million more websites out of the billions I already don't look at... I thought the web already got over the elitism of the "eternal september" mentality...
As I understand it, they're considering whether the final will require a login to their network. Also, for anyone who is using anything at my.opera.com, including the user support forums, you already have a login that works... My guess is most current Opera users (probably who they realistically expected to alpha test this) will already have an account. And it's no more privacy hurting than any other forum account...
Did it serve files to other peopler browsing, or just for local cgi programs? It also used IEs rendering (ick).
Have you considered trying Tools -> Clear Private Data, and delete your cache?
Also, perhaps change the setting Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> History, and check on server, change to more frequent checks...