I could be wrong, but then again each keyboard could be different.
I have a small usb keyboard with a built in hub on my TiBook (which I'm using to write this) and the windows key is certainly acting like the command key.
Not to mention M$ has tried this with using word as the default editor for outlook.
You want to send a short email but it takes 5-10 mins by the time you start your email client, start word (to write the email) and then close it all later. Not to mention the memory footprint.
While that may be true, atleast they had to go to a judge and it had to be recorded somewhere that they are putting on a wire tap & the reason for it.
It also comes into obtaining proof legally. If they applied for the wiretap, then they can only use evidance directly related to the reason they asked for the wire tap
1. Alot of corporations will cling to windows because 99.9% of their userbase is on windows right now. [cut].
1/2 of the IT's problems is that users already know too much about how to bypass the windows controlls and mess things up. If they changed OS then that would cause most fiddling to stop. Additionally with the seperation between root & users it's harder to break the install.
2. Users in the workplace are comfortable with windows because it is what they know. Applications are not quite as cryptic and windows is truly a morons operating system which is what the vast majority of users in the workplace are.
Well that really depends on the workplace (as has been pointed out many times before). Your typical work place applications, web browser, mail client, word processor, spreadsheet are so generic there is almost no cross training needed. Give them a Start button with the apps there and you'll have less problems.
3. The cost of hiring systems administrators is pretty close of linux vs. windows, but the cost of deploying software and the simplification that microsoft has deployed in this area is still untouched.
Again this really depends on the software you're trying to install / deploy. I'll be the first to admit that a linux app is typically more costly to develop than a windows app (through numbers (lots more windows programmers)), but common office applications can easily be installed via a script.
I also have to really disagree about where linux has more potential to grow. There is still a stigma about linux being hard and difficult to use for the average user (and next to impossable to install). Get it installed on your average corporate desktop and you'll see that people will be MUCH more likely to try it at home.
It is currently still too much of an unknown for Joe Sixpack to try. Let them use it at the office, see it isn't as bad as they have heard and that it's free, and it will come more into the mainstream.
Well that depends on how you read the law. Last I knew you had to keep the records for a set amount of time.
You (Your company) are storing magnetic tapes. Unless they can reproduce the records / data correctly from those tapes, then I'd have to say you're not being legal.
If you kept everything on cards and used an ink that faded after 7 years but had to keep them for 10 would you be legal ?
How about if you encoded the information on the cards but lost the decode sheet ? It's still there, but you can't get to it, so is that legal ?
Last I heard Cisco was trying to do to IOS what M$ did to Windows.
AKA when you sell the hardware, the licence doesn't go with it. So to stay legit you had to either a) buy a new licence (almost the cost of the full product) b) put a different OS on it
As far as I knew RIP was just 'You have to keep a log of email' NOT 'You have to keep a copy of email'
Eg Sendmail / Exim / whatever mail server software logs
The real issue that most people I've spoken to have is not the automated searches done at the time of browsing to insert ads. Most see that as the cost of using a "free" webmail service.
But the "We'll keep a copy forever, even if you delete it & We'll give it to almost anyone that asks for it" is the part they can't swallow
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Heretic, How dare you use the D word.
Everyone knows that if it hasn't got lots of caffeine then it's not real coffee.
I could be wrong, but then again each keyboard could be different.
I have a small usb keyboard with a built in hub on my TiBook (which I'm using to write this) and the windows key is certainly acting like the command key.
So do what most *nix converts do get yourself a regular usb keyboard and a regular usb mouse (though I prefer an optical 5 button M$ mouse)
Just remember that the windows button on the keyboard is really the command/apple key
Have you ever tried to patch OSX. One of the options is to download the patch to apply later.
Most windows updates require you to be connected to windowsupdate using IE. You can find the patches to apply offline, but it's alot harder to do.
Get an extra IDE HDD. Put it in a firewire / USB2 case.
or just use the -y option
Well you can get 100GB laptop drives and firewire cases for them. I have a 60GB one for my TiBook.
Agreed the disks are too pricy right now, but more and more and putting power all over the plane to the only problem now comes with all the cables
Not to mention M$ has tried this with using word as the default editor for outlook.
You want to send a short email but it takes 5-10 mins by the time you start your email client, start word (to write the email) and then close it all later. Not to mention the memory footprint.
Looks like my post didn't attach to the correct parent. I didn't know who's flag it was, but I knew it wasn't the USA one that had been stated.
There aren't enough stripes on the flag.
The american flag has 13 stripes (one for every state in the origional union) with red at the top and bottom.
It might be some company flag
Wouldn't it be just as good an idea to get a patient on doing these attacks and then monopolize on that ?
You might want to start looking into exactly what a router is.
Router != MASQ (The sort of NAT you are saying).
As for your Buy a proper router Most real routers don't do IP Masq which you are proposing they do NAT-PAT with is still 1:1 not 1:many
While that may be true, atleast they had to go to a judge and it had to be recorded somewhere that they are putting on a wire tap & the reason for it.
It also comes into obtaining proof legally. If they applied for the wiretap, then they can only use evidance directly related to the reason they asked for the wire tap
1. Alot of corporations will cling to windows because 99.9% of their userbase is on windows right now. [cut].
1/2 of the IT's problems is that users already know too much about how to bypass the windows controlls and mess things up.
If they changed OS then that would cause most fiddling to stop. Additionally with the seperation between root & users it's harder to break the install.
2. Users in the workplace are comfortable with windows because it is what they know. Applications are not quite as cryptic and windows is truly a morons operating system which is what the vast majority of users in the workplace are.
Well that really depends on the workplace (as has been pointed out many times before). Your typical work place applications, web browser, mail client, word processor, spreadsheet are so generic there is almost no cross training needed. Give them a Start button with the apps there and you'll have less problems.
3. The cost of hiring systems administrators is pretty close of linux vs. windows, but the cost of deploying software and the simplification that microsoft has deployed in this area is still untouched.
Again this really depends on the software you're trying to install / deploy. I'll be the first to admit that a linux app is typically more costly to develop than a windows app (through numbers (lots more windows programmers)), but common office applications can easily be installed via a script.
I also have to really disagree about where linux has more potential to grow. There is still a stigma about linux being hard and difficult to use for the average user (and next to impossable to install). Get it installed on your average corporate desktop and you'll see that people will be MUCH more likely to try it at home.
It is currently still too much of an unknown for Joe Sixpack to try. Let them use it at the office, see it isn't as bad as they have heard and that it's free, and it will come more into the mainstream.
So why not get the ReplayTV one and tell her it's a TiVo ? Does she know what the box or UI looks like ?
A large part of corporate management doesn't rely on track records. And most support contracts that are purchased include penalty clauses.
You've got the idea backwards. They don't watch and block. If it's a router / NAT box then it simply blocks all ports EXCEPT the ones specified.
If it's a proxy, then it simply doesn't listen to any ports except the ones specified.
Net result, You tell it what you want to allow and block everything else.
Well that depends on how you read the law. Last I knew you had to keep the records for a set amount of time.
You (Your company) are storing magnetic tapes. Unless they can reproduce the records / data correctly from those tapes, then I'd have to say you're not being legal.
If you kept everything on cards and used an ink that faded after 7 years but had to keep them for 10 would you be legal ?
How about if you encoded the information on the cards but lost the decode sheet ? It's still there, but you can't get to it, so is that legal ?
Last I heard Cisco was trying to do to IOS what M$ did to Windows.
AKA when you sell the hardware, the licence doesn't go with it.
So to stay legit you had to either
a) buy a new licence (almost the cost of the full product)
b) put a different OS on it
And that point as "We'll have 2 pointers in the db. 1) From your email box to this item. 2) from the email message to your email box.
When you "delete" a message we'll remove the first link
As far as I knew RIP was just 'You have to keep a log of email' NOT 'You have to keep a copy of email' Eg Sendmail / Exim / whatever mail server software logs The real issue that most people I've spoken to have is not the automated searches done at the time of browsing to insert ads. Most see that as the cost of using a "free" webmail service. But the "We'll keep a copy forever, even if you delete it & We'll give it to almost anyone that asks for it" is the part they can't swallow