It does let you open the ports you need. It also scans your network connection for queries and lets YOU decide whether the packet is trustworthy or not. Anything you look at could be "fine grained" to make better. Nothing is perfect.
I have been beta testing SP2 in my corporate network environment since it's release. Once I configured about 15 ports and applications on the firewall, I have had no problems. Well except when I tried to uninstall it and it BSOD my computer.
The main reason why we have not deployed SP2 on our corporate image is that it breaks SMS. Until the most recent version of SMS was released, once you installed SP2 on a machine, you could no longer control it via SMS.
Remote Console would not establish an incoming connection on the remote PC. Now that SMS is fixed, we may move forward with it. We have had zero problems with application functionality and about 1/3 of our apps were created in house sometime around 1777. They work though, knock on wood.
I only use IBM drives for one reason...and it isn't because they are high quality because they are crap. But their Hard drive utility rocks. You can erase all bad sectors on the the drive and then write 000000000 to the ENTIRE disk. Do that 3X and you just met Department of Defense requirements.
"Perhaps Microsoft should include an option, like 'Prepare this computer for resale,' which utterly destroys all data."
Perhaps people should just learn how to take care of their machines and clean up after themselves. Just like you have to wash your car, and change your oil, etc. Your average computer user needs to educate themselves enough to take care of the PC.
"I burn it to CD-Rs that I know won't get moved around or scratched. They stand a good chance of lasting the rest of my life.
Actually, that's not true. New studies (forgive me I have no link but I did see it on the Screensavers a while back) have shown that if you take normal run of the mill CD-Rs and burn data on them then store them untouched for one year, when you try to read the data, a lot of them will fail. Just something to think about.
Most companies do make long-term disks (read expensive) for critical data storage. Something about "DVD/CD rot" which consists of inconsistencies in the organic dye on the disks that corrodes over time.
There are exceptions to everything and this is no different. But for most places, they print out at checkout and hand it right to you with a copy or your receipt. The rebate plainly will state the expiration and mail-in dates. Most do it in big bold numbers. I have also never seen a retailer hold back on a rebate offer just to piss their customers off. There have been weekend only rebate offers (like the Black Friday weekend deals after Thanksgiving) but those are plainly explained and noted that they are limited time only.
They also cannot be expected to hold your hand while you fill out the form. Better yet, let's back the lines up at checkout and go line by line over the rebate like it's a tax form. I don't have anything better to do than wait in line for people who can't follow simple instructions.
I think that is ridiculous. Namely because the vast majority of rebates aren't from the retailer, they are from the manufactor. They are saying that if you send them some information, and a proof of purchase, within a specified time frame, they will send you a rebate for being their customer.
Working in retail for the man, I see this at the bottom level everyday. For the most part, when there are problems with rebates, it is because the consumer did something wrong. Either they didn't send in a receipt or they sent a copy of the UPC when the form states the original UPC code from the box is required. Or it was postmarked after the deadline. Or you need a Chinese translator to read their handwriting. Now there is a percentage of rebates that just get lost, crossed in the mail, or looked over. But I am not convinced there is a great rebate conspiracy battling against the American Consumer.
"More people protested George Bush then any figure in history."
Do you have a figure to back this up? I am not a fan of Bush, but you just can't make statements like this and not say how you know this information. I would think that Harry Truman probably wasn't very popular in the world after nuking half of Japan. What about Nixon during Vietnam? Reagan during the Cold War?
I would like to see some concrete information on "the number of people protesting Bush".
I don't understand the issue here people. I don't mind rebates and I actually love Staples new easy rebate program. You don't have to send in any information, just go to a website and fill out a short form and 4-6 weeks later here comes your check.
I can honestly say that in my 25 years as an active consumer, I have had less than 10 rebates give me any problems. It does require about 10 mins to carefully read the instructions and fill out the form, but as long as you have the ability to pay attention to detail, you shouldn't have a problem.
On the rebates that I have had issues with, normally a simple call to their customer service line will get results. Especially if you start the conversation by stating that you have no problems informing your local Attorney General of their failure to comply with their rebate offers.
My worst experience was with Office Depot which has a notoriously bad rep for not fulfilling rebates. To get my rebate from them last year, I finally took a handful of paperwork from my small claims court to the store where I bought the product and the Store Manager seemed happy to cash out the amount of my rebate to me on the spot.
Rebates are okay by me. I don't care where you look online, you can't find a 160GB hard drive for 30 bucks straight out. Nor can you find a Dlink 802.11G Router and PCM Card bundle for 20 bucks. Both of these deals I got within the past 6 months with rebate offers.
'You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.'
Isn't this the premise of any good business? I have never heard of anyone having a successful anything that spent too much money, had shitty people working there, or sold something customers didn't want. Well except for Microsoft.
This is offtopic and feel free to flame me if you wish, but has anyone else noticed that it seems that/. has become the Digg.com repost forum? It seems like every time I see a news worthy article on the front page of Digg, 10 mins later it shows up here.
I would love to come to slashdot just one day out of the week and not see an article about what google MIGHT be doing or COULD be doing tomorrow. This is not news. Let me know when they ACTUALLY do something. And then only when it's something cool.
"A contraption for the containment or housing of odorless, colorless, and tasteless element of nature for which someone could use for various means in keeping a homosapien or other biological species functioning"
would probably be granted to you. That why you could put air in a bag and charge people to breathe.
"I wouldn't climb aboard a flying gas tank unless the thing had undergone some degree of flight testing prior to being loaded down for the long haul."
And that's why you aren't a test pilot. That's also why this guy has balls. Big, clingy, balls of steel...because he is willing to attempt something that has never been done before in a plane that hasn't been tested. Because he likes pushing the envelope and hanging his ass in the wind, literally. Some people may call him stupid, or a bored multi-gazillonaire, but either way, he has testicles the size of grapefruits for doing something like this. He past adventures even further that theory.
"They are as much victims of the AIDS epidemic as anything else. I quote from the linked article, "Researchers and AIDS prevention advocates attributed the high rate among blacks to such factors as drug addiction, poverty and poor access to health care."
So rather than being the CAUSE of the AIDS epidemic, they are victims due to poor social circumstance; using drugs, being poor, and being inadequately treated medically.
If they were the CAUSE, which you want to believe, then the researcher should have said something else, like, "Researchers and AIDS prevention advocates believe quarantine of the black population will stem the tide of AIDS among the white population."
They mention nothing of the sort in that article... only that we can do better for the black population."
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You're in the wrong room....the affirmative action conference is one room down
"I recognize that a lot of the acting is pretty bad, and the dialogure isn't great in a lot of spots, but that's just not what I'm watching for."
In that case, they should hurry up and make this movie, because it will make a ton...see "Mean Girls". I didn't watch it for the acting or dialogue either.
I don't know where you steal your movies from, but everything I have ever...uh.....seen out there on the net...is a perfect digital copy. Sometimes they rip the extras off or have generic menus, but the movie is in perfect shape, minus minor compression that you cannot notice on a 50" DLP HDTV.
That's not the issue. The issue is he broke the DRM. If I take an empty box and put it in a safe in my house and leave the front door of my home standing wide open, then you walk into my house and crack the safe and take the box, you have committed multiple crimes.
I don't agree with the censorship...but on the postive note, I am glad to see all of these different companies coming together with a common directive. Considering the "search engine wars" they are involved in, I am amazed reps from each company can even get in a room together without geek warfare breaking out.
"Governments are flawed, but AV companies have a vested interest in selling you things you don't want."
So does the government. Bush tries to sell me something I don't want everyday. The point I was making is this program sould be modded down -1 Redundant. There are great programs already in place that do this and don't involve funds that could be used to better educate your children or fund healthcare or even wasted on some pork belly project in some remote portion of the country.
I would go as far to say that if you dug deep enough, you would find a free, non commerically vested company doing this out there. The open source of antivirus and spyware alerts if you will...keep the government out. They have a hard enough time governing.
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I have been beta testing SP2 in my corporate network environment since it's release. Once I configured about 15 ports and applications on the firewall, I have had no problems. Well except when I tried to uninstall it and it BSOD my computer.
The main reason why we have not deployed SP2 on our corporate image is that it breaks SMS. Until the most recent version of SMS was released, once you installed SP2 on a machine, you could no longer control it via SMS.
Remote Console would not establish an incoming connection on the remote PC. Now that SMS is fixed, we may move forward with it. We have had zero problems with application functionality and about 1/3 of our apps were created in house sometime around 1777. They work though, knock on wood.
I only use IBM drives for one reason...and it isn't because they are high quality because they are crap. But their Hard drive utility rocks. You can erase all bad sectors on the the drive and then write 000000000 to the ENTIRE disk. Do that 3X and you just met Department of Defense requirements.
Perhaps people should just learn how to take care of their machines and clean up after themselves. Just like you have to wash your car, and change your oil, etc. Your average computer user needs to educate themselves enough to take care of the PC.
I bet you that writing 0's to the drive three times over will take care of it. Try recovering data off that.
IF by cute you mean rat faced, then yes she is VERY cute.
Actually, that's not true. New studies (forgive me I have no link but I did see it on the Screensavers a while back) have shown that if you take normal run of the mill CD-Rs and burn data on them then store them untouched for one year, when you try to read the data, a lot of them will fail. Just something to think about.
Most companies do make long-term disks (read expensive) for critical data storage. Something about "DVD/CD rot" which consists of inconsistencies in the organic dye on the disks that corrodes over time.
There are exceptions to everything and this is no different. But for most places, they print out at checkout and hand it right to you with a copy or your receipt. The rebate plainly will state the expiration and mail-in dates. Most do it in big bold numbers. I have also never seen a retailer hold back on a rebate offer just to piss their customers off. There have been weekend only rebate offers (like the Black Friday weekend deals after Thanksgiving) but those are plainly explained and noted that they are limited time only.
They also cannot be expected to hold your hand while you fill out the form. Better yet, let's back the lines up at checkout and go line by line over the rebate like it's a tax form. I don't have anything better to do than wait in line for people who can't follow simple instructions.
Working in retail for the man, I see this at the bottom level everyday. For the most part, when there are problems with rebates, it is because the consumer did something wrong. Either they didn't send in a receipt or they sent a copy of the UPC when the form states the original UPC code from the box is required. Or it was postmarked after the deadline. Or you need a Chinese translator to read their handwriting. Now there is a percentage of rebates that just get lost, crossed in the mail, or looked over. But I am not convinced there is a great rebate conspiracy battling against the American Consumer.
Do you have a figure to back this up? I am not a fan of Bush, but you just can't make statements like this and not say how you know this information. I would think that Harry Truman probably wasn't very popular in the world after nuking half of Japan. What about Nixon during Vietnam? Reagan during the Cold War?
I would like to see some concrete information on "the number of people protesting Bush".
I can honestly say that in my 25 years as an active consumer, I have had less than 10 rebates give me any problems. It does require about 10 mins to carefully read the instructions and fill out the form, but as long as you have the ability to pay attention to detail, you shouldn't have a problem.
On the rebates that I have had issues with, normally a simple call to their customer service line will get results. Especially if you start the conversation by stating that you have no problems informing your local Attorney General of their failure to comply with their rebate offers.
My worst experience was with Office Depot which has a notoriously bad rep for not fulfilling rebates. To get my rebate from them last year, I finally took a handful of paperwork from my small claims court to the store where I bought the product and the Store Manager seemed happy to cash out the amount of my rebate to me on the spot.
Rebates are okay by me. I don't care where you look online, you can't find a 160GB hard drive for 30 bucks straight out. Nor can you find a Dlink 802.11G Router and PCM Card bundle for 20 bucks. Both of these deals I got within the past 6 months with rebate offers.
Isn't this the premise of any good business? I have never heard of anyone having a successful anything that spent too much money, had shitty people working there, or sold something customers didn't want. Well except for Microsoft.
Flame away....
"A contraption for the containment or housing of odorless, colorless, and tasteless element of nature for which someone could use for various means in keeping a homosapien or other biological species functioning"
would probably be granted to you. That why you could put air in a bag and charge people to breathe.
It's CRAZY I SAY CRAZY.
And that's why you aren't a test pilot. That's also why this guy has balls. Big, clingy, balls of steel...because he is willing to attempt something that has never been done before in a plane that hasn't been tested. Because he likes pushing the envelope and hanging his ass in the wind, literally. Some people may call him stupid, or a bored multi-gazillonaire, but either way, he has testicles the size of grapefruits for doing something like this. He past adventures even further that theory.
The next thing you know they will be trying to get the US to switch from imperial units to the metric system....
So rather than being the CAUSE of the AIDS epidemic, they are victims due to poor social circumstance; using drugs, being poor, and being inadequately treated medically.
If they were the CAUSE, which you want to believe, then the researcher should have said something else, like, "Researchers and AIDS prevention advocates believe quarantine of the black population will stem the tide of AIDS among the white population."
They mention nothing of the sort in that article... only that we can do better for the black population."
whisper/
You're in the wrong room....the affirmative action conference is one room down
/whisper
WTF is that post about!!!!
In that case, they should hurry up and make this movie, because it will make a ton...see "Mean Girls". I didn't watch it for the acting or dialogue either.
Methadone is used for heroin addicts, not meth heads. Good point otherwise.
Or so I have been told.
Is it stupid? Yes. Is it illegal, most certainly.
I don't agree with the censorship...but on the postive note, I am glad to see all of these different companies coming together with a common directive. Considering the "search engine wars" they are involved in, I am amazed reps from each company can even get in a room together without geek warfare breaking out.
So does the government. Bush tries to sell me something I don't want everyday. The point I was making is this program sould be modded down -1 Redundant. There are great programs already in place that do this and don't involve funds that could be used to better educate your children or fund healthcare or even wasted on some pork belly project in some remote portion of the country.
I would go as far to say that if you dug deep enough, you would find a free, non commerically vested company doing this out there. The open source of antivirus and spyware alerts if you will...keep the government out. They have a hard enough time governing.