Sorry for my use of words here, English is not my primary. What I meant to say was that when trying out the Office beta it runs on some Citrix/Cisco Terminal thingy. I'm speculating that this combined with the fact that I'm using a corporate laptop (i.e.: heavily locked down) hindered my experience. A couple of weeks ago I downloaded IE7 Beta and it kept crashing. I downloaded it two days ago and it seems to work well.
Does that clarify the doubts of the present? I'll try the software again, certainly. Maybe my first impression wasn't the best.
Well the information I wrote on four or five screens before going into the beta was my position, number of employees, that sort of croc. I haven't yet received a notification via email of where to input any feedback from my experience using the beta. Come to think of it it wasn't present or evident to me at least.
Also I used my hotmail account which I use primarily for that kind of stuff (you know, free mags, pr0n.). And I haven't checked that in a while. Maybe the feedback form is sitting there waiting for me.
On the font thing maybe it was my emulator, but it's just the whole ribbon thing. You select the font and the ribbon changes in three or four places at the same time. It (IMHO) *asumes* you're going to do something with the selected text and it changes accordingly. Honestly I don't want any piece of software waiting in the wings for me to do something. It makes me nervous. On Outlook I got an error message, but then the emulator crashed on me. I didn't try again.
I tried the beta this week. I went in with an open mind, actually I was quite eager to try the 'ribbon' thingy. My hopes where dashed by the shameful M$ data mining effort before accesing the demo.
I don't like it. Maybe is the learning curve, but doing basic stuff in Word (changing font size, for instance) was troublesome. The terminal environment didn't work either. And Outlook? Piece of crap. I for one will stay on my current version of OpenOffice, thank you.
Disagree. On the preferences, TrueCrypt enables you to Auto-Dismount the encrypted partition when a user logs off, when the screen saver is launched, the computer enters power saving mode, if no data is read written for x amount of time, etc. You can even tell the program to force a dismount even if the volume contains open files/directories
My settings are simple: dismount when I log off and when the computer goes into power saving mode. I like this little app.
But that would still depend on the person stealing/copying the data to have enough time and ccomputing power to perform a brute force attack on an encrypted partition. I'm no expert in encryption, but if the password is strong enough, how long would it take to crack a file encrypted using 256 key AES or Blowfish algorithm? Months? Years? Lifetimes?!?
Of course, I'm talking about an individual. Intelligence agencies have the resources to do this, of course. Still, I'll take them a while
Nothing appeared to be copied? Bah. What's keeping a would be data thief to boot up with a Linux distro, copy at will and shutdown the computer
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I use a utility called TrueCrypt on my computer. I don't use a Mac (I would if I had the money), but I think the Mac has a utility (built in to the OS to boot) that let's you encrypt the contents of your home folder. This utility (TrueCrypt) enables me to reserve a chunk of space on my HD and encrypt it. I'm pretty confident that if my laptop gets stolen, the data will be *reasonably* safe.
This is just a mix of bad infosec policies and worse OS.
This is an incredibly stupid bad idea. What's keeping the cops from sniffing your entire network? Considering the lax security on the common user's Windows PC (blank passwords for the Administrator account) Can you say 'planted evidence'? What's stopping a cop out for an easy win to plant kiddie pr0n in an unsuspecting user's PC?
No thanks. One more reason to encrypt your WAP, even if it is using weak encryption.
Not my fault if the AP is wide open as a sorority girl after too many beers.
This is stupid. If the AP is open you either A. Want to share your Internet connection or B. You're too dumb to even implement the most basic of security schemes.
On my apartment complex there are over 20 AP's, most of them have at least WEP encryption or MAC filtering. Close to the pool and laundry there's a wide open AP that I've used and will continue to use until that idiot closes it up. If this guy (or gal) ever tells me something about using his/her AP, I'll just tell him to close it up.
For what it's worth I met Martin Taylor once. Aside from the fact that he worked for M$, I found him to be a great and knowledgeable person. Very engaging. M$ doesn't know what they're missing with his departure.
I hope somebody picks him up and puts him in a position in which he can use his skills.
Why add another info bar to the ones already in place? If they alternate the scoring bar with meaningful and minimum advertising that's ok. It would *work* a bit in Soccer because matches are often so contested that there's no scoring.
Meaningful for me would be an ad that fills the TV length as it sits on the bar. No more no less, followed by a URL for more info. That's it.
I just find the glut of advertising in sports just plain stupid. Even more dumb is setting expectation on new ads (as in the Super Bowl). For Christ's sake, they're ADS!
Soccer does not stop for anything. There's no stopping for injuries, time-outs for strategies, etc. Soccer is the most dynamic sport on the planet, period. I really admire those guys spending 90 minutes running and doing stuff. I think that Soccer, as a TV spectator sport, has not catched on major networks because advertisers here in the US do not like it. There's no place for 30 second ads! Gasp! Egads! There's no place for gimmicky Super Bowl ads!
I really like Soccer, on TV and on the flesh. I really hope that the US team goes far this time, even though I'm rooting for other teams. That's the only way US spectators will notice and learn what the rest of the planet knows. Soccer RULES!
According to Charles Stross' site (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/faq.html) a chapter of Accelerando was nominated for a 2005 Hugo for Best Novella. I kind of suspected something, but the information wasn't easily searchable last night. That and I was dead tired.
Thanks for the other suggestions! Is Pushing Ice also from Allastair Reynolds?
I certainly expected to see him up there. Accelerando and Singularity Sky are one of the best novels I've read in a long time.
I can root also for Richard Morgan, but Charles Stross takes the cake.
When I had one I could pack everything, and then some. Once I packed two laptops with all related paraphernalia, a couple of CD's and a couple of books. I miss that bag.
And so far so good. I wanted to stay away from iPod 'me too' syndrome. On the train, no one covets your Hi-MD. The SonicStage software was particularily bad when I got the player, but the most recent version is OK. It's not iTunes, but it's OK.
I got it also because I'm a clutz with electronics. I've killed a lot of gear just dropping it in the floor. I'm not willing to spend nearly $400 for an electronic hard drive casing. I've dropped the MD a couple of times from distances which would've killed an iPod (once from a couple of flights of stairs). No damage done: just pop the battery back in and the disc and we're ready to go.
Benefit number two is that I get two weeks, sometimes more, out of a SINGLE Triple-A battery. I have one of those Duracell rechargables for my digital camera, and I just use one for my MD. No need to be tethered to an AC plug, or a computer, to get juice for your player. Not in reach of your charger? Buy a pack of 2 Triple-AA's. Done.
It's a dirty shame that Sony wasn't more dilligent with the format. When flash drives come down to a reasonable price point I'll probably shift. For now, I'll stick with my Hi-MD.
I own a Sony Hi-MD Music Player. I bought this unit before the rootkit fiasco, and to be honest is one of the best purchases I've made in electronics.
I bought this because I'm a clutz with electronics. In 2001 I changed cell phones 4 times. All of them I misplaced, lost or utterly destroyed. I'm lucky that my employer changed them every time. So I figured that my music player should have very few moving parts. Back then flash players were a bit limited. The iPod Nano was at least 8 months away.
So far my experience has been good, if you set aside that Sony's first Connect software was utter trash. The current version (3.4) is quite good. I don't buy music online from Sony, or from iTunes for that matter. Most of my burning I do from my own collection, and some Podcasts. Often, the software won't transfer MP3's to the discs but this happens 90% of the time on Podcasts
The player takes a single AA battery. This often lasts for up to two+ weeks under normal use (e.g.: Bus/Train to and from work, at work). I don't know what kind of processing power the unit has but I don't think it's too much.
And in case you're wondering, I get 1GB per Hi-MD disc (350MB per normal MiniDisc). I've squeezed 20+ CD's in a single Hi-MD.
I refused a Crackberry on this project which doles them to employees as if they were Mana falling from heaven and in my very personal opinion they're badly used. Also my (soon to be ex)company started a trial with Blackberries but only for higher ups, for which I am glad. My commentary wasn't aimed at the technology per se, it was aimed at the whole sociology behind the people using it.
I agree on your point about meetings. For example on my current (soon to be ex)project the lead wanted us to meet every day twice at 9:00 AM and at 5:30 PM (a meeting BTW for which I'm right now waiting for). What's the use of having a meeting at 5:30 and then a next status meeting at 9:00 the next day?
As you said, meetings are productive if everyone conributes. But you have to know your audience and the type of meeting it is. If you're - for example - meeting with an executive give him the cliff notes. If you're leading a meeting with the worker bees keep 'em in check and on track.
I'm generally against patents in software and in IT in general. But it would have pleased me so much to see Crackberry addicts suffering from withdrawal.
There is no more annoying thing than sitting down in a roomful of people trying to make an argument about something important just to find all eyes downward towards those vile and evil devices. The meeting ends and you have to resend the information via email, wasting two good hours that could've been dedicated to other more worthy pursuits such as drinking.
I actually refused having a Crackberry. Everybody here thought I was from another planet, but once I'm out the door at 5:30PM I'm free. I don't want to be answering emails at 9:00 PM.
I got a three page web site up and running in about half an hour. I linked to my external blog (although the idiots here http://www.bellsouth.com/ have blogs blocked), uploaded a couple of pictures and changed the color and layout of the pages. It's crude, but elegant. At least it doesn't require a Dummy book for Frontpage.
Although the page is crashing my Firefox on Windows occasionally. It does not crash either IE or Firefox under Ubuntu.
Now, link it to Picasa and you got me sold cold. Better yet, an instalable client in your PC and add in an icon library and you got me sold.
I for one welcome our new FrontPage busting overlords.
Reading various of the posts here it seems that the mayority of scams in eBay are made by people selling electronics and those that have stores of electronics and other items.
I've actually had good experiences in eBay since I opened my account. I've bought digital cameras, phones, stamps, coins, etc. I usually keep a sharp eye for the big sharks. If I see something that could be a scam, I read the feedback thoroughly. Specially the negatives and the neutrals. I only buy from merchants with a decent amount of feedback, or specific individuals.
With stamps and coins I've never had a single problem. Items arrive as they appear on the page. I know some people that sell stamps and coins on eBay and what they tell me is that they'd better be honest because it could kill their business. For example my friend scans a stamp to be sold at the highest resolution he can. This way the detail in the stamp is very visible and truly WYSIWYG. The same with coins.
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Sorry for my use of words here, English is not my primary. What I meant to say was that when trying out the Office beta it runs on some Citrix/Cisco Terminal thingy. I'm speculating that this combined with the fact that I'm using a corporate laptop (i.e.: heavily locked down) hindered my experience. A couple of weeks ago I downloaded IE7 Beta and it kept crashing. I downloaded it two days ago and it seems to work well.
Does that clarify the doubts of the present? I'll try the software again, certainly. Maybe my first impression wasn't the best.
Well the information I wrote on four or five screens before going into the beta was my position, number of employees, that sort of croc. I haven't yet received a notification via email of where to input any feedback from my experience using the beta. Come to think of it it wasn't present or evident to me at least.
Also I used my hotmail account which I use primarily for that kind of stuff (you know, free mags, pr0n.). And I haven't checked that in a while. Maybe the feedback form is sitting there waiting for me.
On the font thing maybe it was my emulator, but it's just the whole ribbon thing. You select the font and the ribbon changes in three or four places at the same time. It (IMHO) *asumes* you're going to do something with the selected text and it changes accordingly. Honestly I don't want any piece of software waiting in the wings for me to do something. It makes me nervous. On Outlook I got an error message, but then the emulator crashed on me. I didn't try again.
I tried the beta this week. I went in with an open mind, actually I was quite eager to try the 'ribbon' thingy. My hopes where dashed by the shameful M$ data mining effort before accesing the demo.
I don't like it. Maybe is the learning curve, but doing basic stuff in Word (changing font size, for instance) was troublesome. The terminal environment didn't work either. And Outlook? Piece of crap. I for one will stay on my current version of OpenOffice, thank you.
Disagree. On the preferences, TrueCrypt enables you to Auto-Dismount the encrypted partition when a user logs off, when the screen saver is launched, the computer enters power saving mode, if no data is read written for x amount of time, etc. You can even tell the program to force a dismount even if the volume contains open files/directories
My settings are simple: dismount when I log off and when the computer goes into power saving mode. I like this little app.
But that would still depend on the person stealing/copying the data to have enough time and ccomputing power to perform a brute force attack on an encrypted partition. I'm no expert in encryption, but if the password is strong enough, how long would it take to crack a file encrypted using 256 key AES or Blowfish algorithm? Months? Years? Lifetimes?!?
Of course, I'm talking about an individual. Intelligence agencies have the resources to do this, of course. Still, I'll take them a while
Nothing appeared to be copied? Bah. What's keeping a would be data thief to boot up with a Linux distro, copy at will and shutdown the computer
.I use a utility called TrueCrypt on my computer. I don't use a Mac (I would if I had the money), but I think the Mac has a utility (built in to the OS to boot) that let's you encrypt the contents of your home folder. This utility (TrueCrypt) enables me to reserve a chunk of space on my HD and encrypt it. I'm pretty confident that if my laptop gets stolen, the data will be *reasonably* safe.
This is just a mix of bad infosec policies and worse OS.
This is an incredibly stupid bad idea. What's keeping the cops from sniffing your entire network? Considering the lax security on the common user's Windows PC (blank passwords for the Administrator account) Can you say 'planted evidence'? What's stopping a cop out for an easy win to plant kiddie pr0n in an unsuspecting user's PC?
No thanks. One more reason to encrypt your WAP, even if it is using weak encryption.
Not my fault if the AP is wide open as a sorority girl after too many beers.
This is stupid. If the AP is open you either A. Want to share your Internet connection or B. You're too dumb to even implement the most basic of security schemes.
On my apartment complex there are over 20 AP's, most of them have at least WEP encryption or MAC filtering. Close to the pool and laundry there's a wide open AP that I've used and will continue to use until that idiot closes it up. If this guy (or gal) ever tells me something about using his/her AP, I'll just tell him to close it up.
For what it's worth I met Martin Taylor once. Aside from the fact that he worked for M$, I found him to be a great and knowledgeable person. Very engaging. M$ doesn't know what they're missing with his departure.
I hope somebody picks him up and puts him in a position in which he can use his skills.
Why add another info bar to the ones already in place? If they alternate the scoring bar with meaningful and minimum advertising that's ok. It would *work* a bit in Soccer because matches are often so contested that there's no scoring.
Meaningful for me would be an ad that fills the TV length as it sits on the bar. No more no less, followed by a URL for more info. That's it.
I think so.
I just find the glut of advertising in sports just plain stupid. Even more dumb is setting expectation on new ads (as in the Super Bowl). For Christ's sake, they're ADS!
Advertising. Plain and simple.
Soccer does not stop for anything. There's no stopping for injuries, time-outs for strategies, etc. Soccer is the most dynamic sport on the planet, period. I really admire those guys spending 90 minutes running and doing stuff. I think that Soccer, as a TV spectator sport, has not catched on major networks because advertisers here in the US do not like it. There's no place for 30 second ads! Gasp! Egads! There's no place for gimmicky Super Bowl ads!
I really like Soccer, on TV and on the flesh. I really hope that the US team goes far this time, even though I'm rooting for other teams. That's the only way US spectators will notice and learn what the rest of the planet knows. Soccer RULES!
According to Charles Stross' site (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/faq.html) a chapter of Accelerando was nominated for a 2005 Hugo for Best Novella. I kind of suspected something, but the information wasn't easily searchable last night. That and I was dead tired.
Thanks for the other suggestions! Is Pushing Ice also from Allastair Reynolds?
I certainly expected to see him up there. Accelerando and Singularity Sky are one of the best novels I've read in a long time. I can root also for Richard Morgan, but Charles Stross takes the cake.
Roadwired's Mega Media Bag. www.roadwired.com.
When I had one I could pack everything, and then some. Once I packed two laptops with all related paraphernalia, a couple of CD's and a couple of books. I miss that bag.
And so far so good. I wanted to stay away from iPod 'me too' syndrome. On the train, no one covets your Hi-MD. The SonicStage software was particularily bad when I got the player, but the most recent version is OK. It's not iTunes, but it's OK. I got it also because I'm a clutz with electronics. I've killed a lot of gear just dropping it in the floor. I'm not willing to spend nearly $400 for an electronic hard drive casing. I've dropped the MD a couple of times from distances which would've killed an iPod (once from a couple of flights of stairs). No damage done: just pop the battery back in and the disc and we're ready to go. Benefit number two is that I get two weeks, sometimes more, out of a SINGLE Triple-A battery. I have one of those Duracell rechargables for my digital camera, and I just use one for my MD. No need to be tethered to an AC plug, or a computer, to get juice for your player. Not in reach of your charger? Buy a pack of 2 Triple-AA's. Done. It's a dirty shame that Sony wasn't more dilligent with the format. When flash drives come down to a reasonable price point I'll probably shift. For now, I'll stick with my Hi-MD.
I own a Sony Hi-MD Music Player. I bought this unit before the rootkit fiasco, and to be honest is one of the best purchases I've made in electronics.
I bought this because I'm a clutz with electronics. In 2001 I changed cell phones 4 times. All of them I misplaced, lost or utterly destroyed. I'm lucky that my employer changed them every time. So I figured that my music player should have very few moving parts. Back then flash players were a bit limited. The iPod Nano was at least 8 months away.
So far my experience has been good, if you set aside that Sony's first Connect software was utter trash. The current version (3.4) is quite good. I don't buy music online from Sony, or from iTunes for that matter. Most of my burning I do from my own collection, and some Podcasts. Often, the software won't transfer MP3's to the discs but this happens 90% of the time on Podcasts
The player takes a single AA battery. This often lasts for up to two+ weeks under normal use (e.g.: Bus/Train to and from work, at work). I don't know what kind of processing power the unit has but I don't think it's too much.
And in case you're wondering, I get 1GB per Hi-MD disc (350MB per normal MiniDisc). I've squeezed 20+ CD's in a single Hi-MD.
I should have made myself more clear. My bad
I refused a Crackberry on this project which doles them to employees as if they were Mana falling from heaven and in my very personal opinion they're badly used. Also my (soon to be ex)company started a trial with Blackberries but only for higher ups, for which I am glad. My commentary wasn't aimed at the technology per se, it was aimed at the whole sociology behind the people using it.
I agree on your point about meetings. For example on my current (soon to be ex)project the lead wanted us to meet every day twice at 9:00 AM and at 5:30 PM (a meeting BTW for which I'm right now waiting for). What's the use of having a meeting at 5:30 and then a next status meeting at 9:00 the next day?
As you said, meetings are productive if everyone conributes. But you have to know your audience and the type of meeting it is. If you're - for example - meeting with an executive give him the cliff notes. If you're leading a meeting with the worker bees keep 'em in check and on track.
I'm generally against patents in software and in IT in general. But it would have pleased me so much to see Crackberry addicts suffering from withdrawal.
There is no more annoying thing than sitting down in a roomful of people trying to make an argument about something important just to find all eyes downward towards those vile and evil devices. The meeting ends and you have to resend the information via email, wasting two good hours that could've been dedicated to other more worthy pursuits such as drinking.
I actually refused having a Crackberry. Everybody here thought I was from another planet, but once I'm out the door at 5:30PM I'm free. I don't want to be answering emails at 9:00 PM.
I got a three page web site up and running in about half an hour. I linked to my external blog (although the idiots here http://www.bellsouth.com/ have blogs blocked), uploaded a couple of pictures and changed the color and layout of the pages. It's crude, but elegant. At least it doesn't require a Dummy book for Frontpage. Although the page is crashing my Firefox on Windows occasionally. It does not crash either IE or Firefox under Ubuntu. Now, link it to Picasa and you got me sold cold. Better yet, an instalable client in your PC and add in an icon library and you got me sold. I for one welcome our new FrontPage busting overlords.
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Didn't pay through the nose for outsourcing and offshoring, they could instead invest in better technology and lower prices.
This is just sheer greed.
Disclaimer: I *know* someone there.
Reading various of the posts here it seems that the mayority of scams in eBay are made by people selling electronics and those that have stores of electronics and other items. I've actually had good experiences in eBay since I opened my account. I've bought digital cameras, phones, stamps, coins, etc. I usually keep a sharp eye for the big sharks. If I see something that could be a scam, I read the feedback thoroughly. Specially the negatives and the neutrals. I only buy from merchants with a decent amount of feedback, or specific individuals. With stamps and coins I've never had a single problem. Items arrive as they appear on the page. I know some people that sell stamps and coins on eBay and what they tell me is that they'd better be honest because it could kill their business. For example my friend scans a stamp to be sold at the highest resolution he can. This way the detail in the stamp is very visible and truly WYSIWYG. The same with coins.
Enough with the "something"casting already!
Never post stupid top ten administrator lists on Slashdot, lest I have to spend my time restoring a web server from backup.