There's nothing in the article that talks about how this will be enforced. So, I want to know how will this be enforced? What will be the repercussions for a company that violates the agreement? How will compliance be measured and accounted for? Who will oversee this to ensure that the companies involved are complying? Without answers to these questions this agreement among companies is "just promises." And promises are largely worthless.
I'm serious. Stop doing the things that put you at risk for viruses and you won't have to run anti-virus. I don't run anti-virus or anti-spyware software on my computer and I've never had a problem. Occasionally, just to verify that I'm doing the right thing, I boot from a BartPE Windows CD and run anti-virus and anti-spyware tools against my hard drive. They never find anything bad. The last time I had a virus was in 1989 on my Amiga 500.
i think it would be more of hassle trying get a linux distro, than a free available-everywhere pirate of a windows os
I know. It's so difficult to find a linux distribution these days. Ever since linux distros had to go underground I have to search the far dark corners of the internet to find a working download. If I want a copy locally, I have to go to the seedy part of town and down some dark alleyway whispering to the dealer who will get me my linux fix. Oh! If only linux were freely available from universities, computer geeks, and the internet!
Personally, I don't use adblock, and don't really understand the need for it. I use flashblock, to get rid of annoying flash ads, and for the really annoying image ads, I can usually just use firefox's built in image block them.
The real value is that you can subscribe to a block list and never have to block ads manually. I use AdBlock Plus and the Filterset.G filters. I've never once needed to right-click on an image ad and tell AdBlock to block it. I simply don't see ads at all.
Btw, unless word is specifically requested, pdf resume's look a lot nicer.
Can you explain how PDf resume's look a lot nicer? It's going to look the same as a printed copy which will look the same as the copy in the word processor you are printing it from.
maybe if the environment around us was quieter, we wouldn't need to turn our {ipod,discman,walkman} up so loud to block it out!
I couldn't agree more. I look forward to the day when people start taking noise pollution as seriously as they do other types of pollution. At least some people are starting to notice the problems with excessive environmental noise.
If it is merely publication, QuarkXpress would be a much better choice than Words, which seems to get worse for each release.
QuarkXPress is a page layout program not a word processor. Although it does have some rudimentary text editing capabilities, it isn't designed for text editing.
It is when a new license costs $0.00. Other than deployment costs, there's no reason not to upgrade frequently.
There is always risk involved when upgrading or deploying systems. Businesses don't upgrade just for the sake of upgrading. They will weigh the risks against the benefits and proceed if there is a clear advantage to upgrading. Like the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The cost of licenses can be minuscule compared to deployment costs, so much so that many licenses might as well be $0.00. Deployment costs can be some of your largest costs. How many people will it take to upgrade? What is their cost per hour to the business? Multiply that by the number of people involved. Have you deployed on an identical test system and tested your software to ensure that it will continue to function as required on the new production system? Do you have test scripts so that you can validate that it performs as required? Will you have to make changes to software or hardware to accommodate the upgrade? Will you need to update your documentation? What is your contingency plan should the upgrade fail? What will be the cost to the business if the system is unavailable outside of the deployment window?
Some systems, like SAP, may take years to be deployed throughout an organization. Your favorite distro might reach the end of support before deployment even completes. For other systems, your time line for product upgrades and support may not be entirely within your control. What if your system is part of a product that needs approval from the FDA? With five years of support you may have eaten up three years of that during product development and FDA approval, leaving only two years of support for the OS on your products. That could leave you with a short product lifecycle or mean that you have to perform significant upgrades in the field.
Other operating systems, such as Solaris, Windows, AIX, and HP-UX are supported for 10 and sometimes 12 years. The only saving grace for these enterprise Linux distros is that the source is available. But when the five years are up, then what? Will you still be able to pay Red Hat or Canonical to support your end-of-life Linux distro? What if they have made a business decision not to support end-of-life distros no matter what? If they will support it, it's safe to assume that your support contract will cost more than it did during the previous five years. And if you go somewhere else and hire some linux experts to support your distro, they won't have access to the information that the distro creators have. They won't have the documentation about why certain patches were applied, or specific changes were made, or other internal decisions. You better hope that your new support company is very careful and thorough.
So then, would it have been a better investment to pay for Solaris and 10 years of support, pay for 10 years of Linux support, or pay to upgrade your systems every three to five years? I don't know. It depends on your goals. Clearly Wikipedia likes to move faster than the average business. They seem to be continually upgrading their wiki software and like staying on the leading edge. From reading about their server setup, they appear to have a lot of redundancy and can reduce their risk when upgrading. Three to five years of support for their operating systems is probably sufficient for their needs. But don't let that lull you into thinking that five years is long term.
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Define friend. I use the slashdot friend system for moderation. Foes get +1 and friends get +2 on their posts. I've only met one other person who reads slashdot. I don't know anyone in my friends, foes, or fans lists.
If my memory is correct, DNSSEC is one of the prerequisites for making opportunistic encryption easier to deploy widely. I hope this catches on and becomes more widespread.
I always get keygens and cracks for software I buy as a safety measure, and test them in a virtual machine to make sure they work. With all the phone home activation that software does these days I don't want to have to call a vendor and beg for access to to software I've already paid for when Windows takes a nose dive. What if the vendor doesn't support that version any more and doesn't want to give me a new activation key? What if the vendor is bought or goes out of business? If I reach that point I can at least use the keygen or crack to protect my investment.
I can't fault anyone for having keygens for their apps.
That doesn't work the way I'm talking about. What I want is for Funny mods to not count towards the total. If a post is posted by an AC (score 0) and is modded funny, insightful, and interesting, then it will have a score of 3. I want funny to count for 0 not +1, thereby giving the post in question a score of 2 when I view it. If I set funny to -5 then something with many +1 insightfuls would get buried if someone added one funny mod.
If you are annoyed by funny posts, change the funny moderation to be a -1 instead of a +1.
Unfortunately you can't do that. You can only apply a value that is added to the posts moderated funny. You can't change the actual value that is applied by a moderation. I wish we could. I'd set funny to zero so funny moderations wouldn't increase the score.
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There's nothing in the article that talks about how this will be enforced. So, I want to know how will this be enforced? What will be the repercussions for a company that violates the agreement? How will compliance be measured and accounted for? Who will oversee this to ensure that the companies involved are complying? Without answers to these questions this agreement among companies is "just promises." And promises are largely worthless.
I'm serious. Stop doing the things that put you at risk for viruses and you won't have to run anti-virus. I don't run anti-virus or anti-spyware software on my computer and I've never had a problem. Occasionally, just to verify that I'm doing the right thing, I boot from a BartPE Windows CD and run anti-virus and anti-spyware tools against my hard drive. They never find anything bad. The last time I had a virus was in 1989 on my Amiga 500.
Thanks for the link to this. It looks like an awesome program.
One can copy CDs these days. You don't have to rely on downloads.
I know. It's so difficult to find a linux distribution these days. Ever since linux distros had to go underground I have to search the far dark corners of the internet to find a working download. If I want a copy locally, I have to go to the seedy part of town and down some dark alleyway whispering to the dealer who will get me my linux fix. Oh! If only linux were freely available from universities, computer geeks, and the internet!
Seriously. What does this have to do with "your rights online" or news for nerds?
Yes, but why? How does it protect my data better? I was unable to find anything when I did a search on ZFS.
Isn't ZFS a filesystem? Why would I care about what filesystem I am using when I am trying to protect my data from disk failures?
I bought a Heathkit TV you insensitive clod!
The real value is that you can subscribe to a block list and never have to block ads manually. I use AdBlock Plus and the Filterset.G filters. I've never once needed to right-click on an image ad and tell AdBlock to block it. I simply don't see ads at all.
Can you explain how PDf resume's look a lot nicer? It's going to look the same as a printed copy which will look the same as the copy in the word processor you are printing it from.
I couldn't agree more. I look forward to the day when people start taking noise pollution as seriously as they do other types of pollution. At least some people are starting to notice the problems with excessive environmental noise.
QuarkXPress is a page layout program not a word processor. Although it does have some rudimentary text editing capabilities, it isn't designed for text editing.
What software would you recommend?
There is always risk involved when upgrading or deploying systems. Businesses don't upgrade just for the sake of upgrading. They will weigh the risks against the benefits and proceed if there is a clear advantage to upgrading. Like the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The cost of licenses can be minuscule compared to deployment costs, so much so that many licenses might as well be $0.00. Deployment costs can be some of your largest costs. How many people will it take to upgrade? What is their cost per hour to the business? Multiply that by the number of people involved. Have you deployed on an identical test system and tested your software to ensure that it will continue to function as required on the new production system? Do you have test scripts so that you can validate that it performs as required? Will you have to make changes to software or hardware to accommodate the upgrade? Will you need to update your documentation? What is your contingency plan should the upgrade fail? What will be the cost to the business if the system is unavailable outside of the deployment window?
Some systems, like SAP, may take years to be deployed throughout an organization. Your favorite distro might reach the end of support before deployment even completes. For other systems, your time line for product upgrades and support may not be entirely within your control. What if your system is part of a product that needs approval from the FDA? With five years of support you may have eaten up three years of that during product development and FDA approval, leaving only two years of support for the OS on your products. That could leave you with a short product lifecycle or mean that you have to perform significant upgrades in the field.
Other operating systems, such as Solaris, Windows, AIX, and HP-UX are supported for 10 and sometimes 12 years. The only saving grace for these enterprise Linux distros is that the source is available. But when the five years are up, then what? Will you still be able to pay Red Hat or Canonical to support your end-of-life Linux distro? What if they have made a business decision not to support end-of-life distros no matter what? If they will support it, it's safe to assume that your support contract will cost more than it did during the previous five years. And if you go somewhere else and hire some linux experts to support your distro, they won't have access to the information that the distro creators have. They won't have the documentation about why certain patches were applied, or specific changes were made, or other internal decisions. You better hope that your new support company is very careful and thorough.
So then, would it have been a better investment to pay for Solaris and 10 years of support, pay for 10 years of Linux support, or pay to upgrade your systems every three to five years? I don't know. It depends on your goals. Clearly Wikipedia likes to move faster than the average business. They seem to be continually upgrading their wiki software and like staying on the leading edge. From reading about their server setup, they appear to have a lot of redundancy and can reduce their risk when upgrading. Three to five years of support for their operating systems is probably sufficient for their needs. But don't let that lull you into thinking that five years is long term.
For home computer users, yes. Not for businesses.
According to their web site, it's only supported for five years. You must have some bizzaro-world definition of "long term."
Define friend. I use the slashdot friend system for moderation. Foes get +1 and friends get +2 on their posts. I've only met one other person who reads slashdot. I don't know anyone in my friends, foes, or fans lists.
Since the original link is slashdotted, you can find some pics here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10058352-1.html
If my memory is correct, DNSSEC is one of the prerequisites for making opportunistic encryption easier to deploy widely. I hope this catches on and becomes more widespread.
No, not at all. I have receipts and original boxes (where they came with one) for all of my purchased software.
I always get keygens and cracks for software I buy as a safety measure, and test them in a virtual machine to make sure they work. With all the phone home activation that software does these days I don't want to have to call a vendor and beg for access to to software I've already paid for when Windows takes a nose dive. What if the vendor doesn't support that version any more and doesn't want to give me a new activation key? What if the vendor is bought or goes out of business? If I reach that point I can at least use the keygen or crack to protect my investment.
I can't fault anyone for having keygens for their apps.
That doesn't work the way I'm talking about. What I want is for Funny mods to not count towards the total. If a post is posted by an AC (score 0) and is modded funny, insightful, and interesting, then it will have a score of 3. I want funny to count for 0 not +1, thereby giving the post in question a score of 2 when I view it. If I set funny to -5 then something with many +1 insightfuls would get buried if someone added one funny mod.
Unfortunately you can't do that. You can only apply a value that is added to the posts moderated funny. You can't change the actual value that is applied by a moderation. I wish we could. I'd set funny to zero so funny moderations wouldn't increase the score.
Tell me again why this phone is so cool?