IE, yep get rid of it everywhere I can. install firefox instead.
Outlook however is a problem. Management seem to love it. I've never got a real answer why. Perhaps others can explain it. I think it's something to do with one director insisting on having exchange (another thing I hate and luckily I don't have to touch) and so exchange server = outlook client.
Friends / family etc only run Firefox & Thunderbird. I've told them they are free to run IE and outlook express, but I won't touch their computer if they do.
I understand people do stupid things. But why waste tons of cash on fixing the issue when you can just spend a little bit of cash up front to educate the employees on what not to do... and then fire them if they don't listen.
Corporate MIS/IT/IS dept is a whole different world to an ISP. The average ISP's won't take any responsability beyond here's the settings for your email program & dialup settings. The Average MIS/IT/IS dept however has to maintain and keep every desktop running and in many cases has VERY limited recourse to assign blame when things go wrong.
What do you think will happen when you tell a senior manager that they have done simething they aren't allowed to on the company computer?
The response is simple, instead of allowing them selfrestraint you treat them linke a pre-school child. eg Instead of saying "Please don't open that door" you simply lock the door and make sure they never have access to the key.
Most places have clauses in the employment contract concerning wilful damage and even neglect causing damage. Very few companies apply that to computers. Those that do tend to exempt any management from it. Many very large companies have software policies that include diciplinary procedures, most companies don't.
That's the point the parent is trying to make. Shouldn't there also be up to date virus scanners on the desktop that would catch the virus as it's extracted from the archive or at very least when the user attempts to run it?
While DRM schemes may not (in themselves) be copyriteable (I'm not going to argue that point), they protect works that are copyrited.
As such I think the courts would see alot of difference between this and where DRM is reverse engineered to allow unrestricted (free) access to copyrited material.
The grey area here is if DRM is reverse engineered to provide a more interoperable product. eg ebook reader under linux (if one doesn't exist).
I get the impression that is what you're trying to say, but it doesn't spell it out clearly enough.
The problem is that many of these 'players' have other patitented / copyrited work in them that effectivly makes reverse engineering them illegal.
Network Address Translation aka NAT, by it's very nature it MUST alter the source and destination addresses. Typically NAT boxes also do port translation as well as address translation. Both alter the headers of the packet.
So then do you only consider the packet to be the only the data portion, or would the entire packet be signed ?
While I'd agree that a desktop PC that is 5-7 years old is archaic, I would not apply that to a network device (such as a router or nat box). Most can handle 100baseTX-FD connections. Do you expect to have faster than 100Mbit to the average consumer by the time they are forced to expect it ? The only way I would see them becoming obsolite would be if things were IPV6 and what's the bet these features won't be IPV6 only
That however would be a good way to finally get IPV6 in widespread use and it would eliminate the need for NAT
So what happens with packets that come from outside your network ?
a) They require Trusted computing b) They are assumed to have passed whatever required tests
In short do the routers pass on (and expect) whatever certificates are exchanged.
If it's a) what about all the old routers / networks or the vast bulk of servers on the internet that doesn't run M$ Windows
If it's b) then security is out the window. How can you expect to be secure if you trust everyone. not directly connected to your switches and so verified by your routers.
Ok lets for a minute agree that ISP's will agree to this. What about all the NAT / Firewalls won't most of their packets not conform to this. How happy will joe sixpack be when he's told he has to go out and buy a new firewall/nat box so he can connect to the net with others in the house ?
Then there are the hosting companies (I work in a large on in the UK) currently about 70%-80% of servers where I work (we have a 2/19's in this DC alone) have *nix. I can assure you that as much as management might want to implement this there is NO WAY they are going to tell the bulk of our customers "Sorry our new network routers won't talk to your servers, you'll have to find hosting (co-location) elsewhere"
Then where's this all going to be, an ISP will reject connections from most servers because they aren't running windows ? What happens then when 1/4 of the customer base (or more) can't get to their favorite porn site http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/08/brit_net_f ilth/ because it happens to be on a linux box ?
Another person already pointed out the tarket market for this advert is LA
The other person is wrong, take a look at the ad. hey are trying to educate people what Enterprise is, then get people to fill out a section and post it in.
I don't know the views / readership of the papers, but from how the ad is written it looks like they are targeting "Joe Sixpack", Who probably has something better to do than watch sci-fi at 8pm on a friday night. As such they would be best going for the paper with the highest readership. Perhaps even 2 smaller papers that have the right demographics
The whole 386 / 387 (and 486 S*/D*) was to do with the floating point operations. These days those operations are built into the core. You couldn't designate one of the other processors / core's as a co-processor because both already have that functionality.
About the closest you can come is limit the application to executing only on 1 processor / core while the other takes care of running the system & any other tasks.
As for building your own x86 class processing unit, it comes down to the same thing.
What is at heart here is how many instructions can you execute per cycle (or should I say finish executing) in your x86 class processing unit it's still 1 instruction per cycle (or less) in your dual core / SMP system there are multiple instructions per cycle.
And yes I know about pipelining where multiple instructions are being executed (but only 1 will finish per cycle) and HT is just a technology to prevent the long pipelines from stalling as often.
What it really boils down to is how many instructions can you execute per clock cycle.
With SMP you have 2 cpu's so you execute 2 instructions (one on each cpu, assuming the chips are clocked at the same speed). With HT (as far as I am aware) you are still only executing 1 instruction per cycle (one pipeline), BUT there is a second set of registers that can swap very quickly so you don't waste a lot of cycles when the cpu does the wrong branch prediction. With Dual Core's you've got 2 independant pipelines, so you're executing 2 instructions per cycle. Effectivly SMP on 1 chip.
I have a power book myself, and yes software update does a great job, but there have been examples where applying the updates the day they are released is a really bad thing. On more than one occasion Apple have caused significant problems because they didn't do enough testing.
One software update killed wifi on all the laptops. A more recient update killed ftpd. The wifi one was fixed within 2 days. The broken ftpd took about a month before they put a working version in the next update.
As much as I'd like to agree with your view, things get very tricky if you start doing that.
I work for a large ISP / Hosting company and I have seen on more than 1 occasion where 1 site has had spam complaints from a competitor where the sole intent was to get rid of others selling similar products / services.
Yes most spam is an open & shut case and we'll pull any & everything relating to the spam (including occasions where the only connections was a colo hosting the DNS).
The problem is that mommy thinks along the lines of ratings for movies. An 18 cert movie (whatever the approprate rating in your country is) contains sex & violence and generally considered to be similar to what's on some late night TV.
Most parents don't get that computer games are more violent and have worse themes than your average movie.
Example, My little sister (14) wanted a copy of the latest Grand Theft Auto last christmas. My mom was, well you can get that one for her. Even after I said it was an 18 cert game she was "Yea so what?". It was only after I explained the main theme of the game and then told her to google it she turned around and said "Oh, I'd never allow that in the house." And proceeded to give my little sister an earbashing about asking for it.
I think the real point here is what different people see as art.
Different people have different idea's. For many art is more of a science than an "art".
I know for myself the basic qualifier is "Is it aesthetically pleasing or fascinating to the eye / ear / <what ever form it is directed at> and hence provide a positive feeling or one of inspiration".
For others art is something that can only be produced by "artists", but then what qualifies a person as an artist? The simplist definition of that is someone who makes their living by producing art (Kinda cyclic isn't it).
Mandelbrot sets could easily be considered a form of mathmatical art. Just as there have been some provoking images from hubble etc (who's to say god isn't an artists and the cosmos isn't the medium used?).
There have been slides from plant and animal cells with various dies used to highlight different parts that are just as visually appealing and though provoking as some pieces thought of as "real art".
Your statement includes "in many cases you have to know more about the object to appreciate it as art" How is that different than most sciences ? OR more to the point, isn't that why most people see things called art and think it's just a waste of time.
I'd clasify the timed camera attached to a random person as "waste of time", not art.
There was an "artist" who use to have a camera setup in his car and took pictures of people driving as he passed them. Why is that considered art and not invasion of privacy ? Would you really want a picture of you in your car, watching the road as you drive to be hung on a gallery wall?
Slashdot Mirror
Since when have laws been used as they were "intended".
ref : USA : DCMA & PATRIOT act to name but 2.
IE, yep get rid of it everywhere I can. install firefox instead.
Outlook however is a problem. Management seem to love it. I've never got a real answer why. Perhaps others can explain it.
I think it's something to do with one director insisting on having exchange (another thing I hate and luckily I don't have to touch) and so exchange server = outlook client.
Friends / family etc only run Firefox & Thunderbird. I've told them they are free to run IE and outlook express, but I won't touch their computer if they do.
exactly as it should do and the entire reason this story should be dismissed as a joke / troll.
Shocking stuff there may be viruses in compressed archives
You forgot mp3's and cam copies of the latest movies :p
I understand people do stupid things. But why waste tons of cash on fixing the issue when you can just spend a little bit of cash up front to educate the employees on what not to do... and then fire them if they don't listen.
Corporate MIS/IT/IS dept is a whole different world to an ISP. The average ISP's won't take any responsability beyond here's the settings for your email program & dialup settings. The Average MIS/IT/IS dept however has to maintain and keep every desktop running and in many cases has VERY limited recourse to assign blame when things go wrong.
What do you think will happen when you tell a senior manager that they have done simething they aren't allowed to on the company computer?
The response is simple, instead of allowing them selfrestraint you treat them linke a pre-school child. eg Instead of saying "Please don't open that door" you simply lock the door and make sure they never have access to the key.
Most places have clauses in the employment contract concerning wilful damage and even neglect causing damage. Very few companies apply that to computers. Those that do tend to exempt any management from it. Many very large companies have software policies that include diciplinary procedures, most companies don't.
That's the point the parent is trying to make.
Shouldn't there also be up to date virus scanners on the desktop that would catch the virus as it's extracted from the archive or at very least when the user attempts to run it?
While DRM schemes may not (in themselves) be copyriteable (I'm not going to argue that point), they protect works that are copyrited.
As such I think the courts would see alot of difference between this and where DRM is reverse engineered to allow unrestricted (free) access to copyrited material.
The grey area here is if DRM is reverse engineered to provide a more interoperable product. eg ebook reader under linux (if one doesn't exist).
I get the impression that is what you're trying to say, but it doesn't spell it out clearly enough.
The problem is that many of these 'players' have other patitented / copyrited work in them that effectivly makes reverse engineering them illegal.
Network Address Translation aka NAT, by it's very nature it MUST alter the source and destination addresses.
Typically NAT boxes also do port translation as well as address translation. Both alter the headers of the packet.
So then do you only consider the packet to be the only the data portion, or would the entire packet be signed ?
While I'd agree that a desktop PC that is 5-7 years old is archaic, I would not apply that to a network device (such as a router or nat box). Most can handle 100baseTX-FD connections. Do you expect to have faster than 100Mbit to the average consumer by the time they are forced to expect it ?
The only way I would see them becoming obsolite would be if things were IPV6 and what's the bet these features won't be IPV6 only
That however would be a good way to finally get IPV6 in widespread use and it would eliminate the need for NAT
It was the latter that I was asking about.
How about the situiation of incoming connections eg mail ?
Or perhaps a customer wanting to look at the corporate website.
So what happens with packets that come from outside your network ?
a) They require Trusted computing
b) They are assumed to have passed whatever required tests
In short do the routers pass on (and expect) whatever certificates are exchanged.
If it's a) what about all the old routers / networks or the vast bulk of servers on the internet that doesn't run M$ Windows
If it's b) then security is out the window. How can you expect to be secure if you trust everyone. not directly connected to your switches and so verified by your routers.
Ok lets for a minute agree that ISP's will agree to this.
/19's in this DC alone) have *nix.
f ilth/
What about all the NAT / Firewalls won't most of their packets not conform to this. How happy will joe sixpack be when he's told he has to go out and buy a new firewall/nat box so he can connect to the net with others in the house ?
Then there are the hosting companies (I work in a large on in the UK) currently about 70%-80% of servers where I work (we have a 2
I can assure you that as much as management might want to implement this there is NO WAY they are going to tell the bulk of our customers "Sorry our new network routers won't talk to your servers, you'll have to find hosting (co-location) elsewhere"
Then where's this all going to be, an ISP will reject connections from most servers because they aren't running windows ?
What happens then when 1/4 of the customer base (or more) can't get to their favorite porn site http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/08/brit_net_
because it happens to be on a linux box ?
Another person already pointed out the tarket market for this advert is LA
The other person is wrong, take a look at the ad. hey are trying to educate people what Enterprise is, then get people to fill out a section and post it in.
I don't know the views / readership of the papers, but from how the ad is written it looks like they are targeting "Joe Sixpack", Who probably has something better to do than watch sci-fi at 8pm on a friday night. As such they would be best going for the paper with the highest readership. Perhaps even 2 smaller papers that have the right demographics
The whole 386 / 387 (and 486 S*/D*) was to do with the floating point operations. These days those operations are built into the core.
You couldn't designate one of the other processors / core's as a co-processor because both already have that functionality.
About the closest you can come is limit the application to executing only on 1 processor / core while the other takes care of running the system & any other tasks.
As for building your own x86 class processing unit, it comes down to the same thing.
What is at heart here is how many instructions can you execute per cycle (or should I say finish executing) in your x86 class processing unit it's still 1 instruction per cycle (or less) in your dual core / SMP system there are multiple instructions per cycle.
And yes I know about pipelining where multiple instructions are being executed (but only 1 will finish per cycle) and HT is just a technology to prevent the long pipelines from stalling as often.
What it really boils down to is how many instructions can you execute per clock cycle.
With SMP you have 2 cpu's so you execute 2 instructions (one on each cpu, assuming the chips are clocked at the same speed).
With HT (as far as I am aware) you are still only executing 1 instruction per cycle (one pipeline), BUT there is a second set of registers that can swap very quickly so you don't waste a lot of cycles when the cpu does the wrong branch prediction.
With Dual Core's you've got 2 independant pipelines, so you're executing 2 instructions per cycle. Effectivly SMP on 1 chip.
I have a power book myself, and yes software update does a great job, but there have been examples where applying the updates the day they are released is a really bad thing. On more than one occasion Apple have caused significant problems because they didn't do enough testing.
One software update killed wifi on all the laptops. A more recient update killed ftpd.
The wifi one was fixed within 2 days. The broken ftpd took about a month before they put a working version in the next update.
I thought it was they did things the cheap way and used the machine that created the mirror to check if it was the correct shape
That's after the post in rebate right ?
What really needs to happen is a class action suit against M$ for promoting spam though the security holes in their software
As much as I'd like to agree with your view, things get very tricky if you start doing that.
I work for a large ISP / Hosting company and I have seen on more than 1 occasion where 1 site has had spam complaints from a competitor where the sole intent was to get rid of others selling similar products / services.
Yes most spam is an open & shut case and we'll pull any & everything relating to the spam (including occasions where the only connections was a colo hosting the DNS).
The camera effects look like they have been copied from firefly
Big internet shop, gift vouchers.
ebay money orders, direct credit transfer.
Now kids can bypass the need for a credit card.
The problem is that mommy thinks along the lines of ratings for movies. An 18 cert movie (whatever the approprate rating in your country is) contains sex & violence and generally considered to be similar to what's on some late night TV.
Most parents don't get that computer games are more violent and have worse themes than your average movie.
Example, My little sister (14) wanted a copy of the latest Grand Theft Auto last christmas. My mom was, well you can get that one for her. Even after I said it was an 18 cert game she was "Yea so what?". It was only after I explained the main theme of the game and then told her to google it she turned around and said "Oh, I'd never allow that in the house." And proceeded to give my little sister an earbashing about asking for it.
Are you sure that's not just the shop's policy?
Or because of some local law ?
The point that is trying to be made is that there should be a national (or atleast state) law, like most other countries do.
People would whine alot less about these closed formats if they even worked between different versions of M$ Office.
I think the real point here is what different people see as art.
Different people have different idea's. For many art is more of a science than an "art".
I know for myself the basic qualifier is "Is it aesthetically pleasing or fascinating to the eye / ear / <what ever form it is directed at> and hence provide a positive feeling or one of inspiration".
For others art is something that can only be produced by "artists", but then what qualifies a person as an artist? The simplist definition of that is someone who makes their living by producing art (Kinda cyclic isn't it).
Mandelbrot sets could easily be considered a form of mathmatical art. Just as there have been some provoking images from hubble etc (who's to say god isn't an artists and the cosmos isn't the medium used?).
There have been slides from plant and animal cells with various dies used to highlight different parts that are just as visually appealing and though provoking as some pieces thought of as "real art".
Your statement includes "in many cases you have to know more about the object to appreciate it as art" How is that different than most sciences ? OR more to the point, isn't that why most people see things called art and think it's just a waste of time.
I'd clasify the timed camera attached to a random person as "waste of time", not art.
There was an "artist" who use to have a camera setup in his car and took pictures of people driving as he passed them. Why is that considered art and not invasion of privacy ? Would you really want a picture of you in your car, watching the road as you drive to be hung on a gallery wall?