First of all, I believe it was in reference to hurricane Frances, but I guess that's trivial information.
Secondly, who says that you are going to be with your data?
Many large scale companies no doubt had massive amounts of important data stored down in areas hit by the hurricanes. Though I'm sure that people that worked and lived in these areas could leave, I don't think the systems used to store data were easily transportable.
If they are such large scale companies they should have the ability to backup their data on their own.
What about medium sized businesses though? A business that isn't small enough to take all of it's data out of harms way, but isn't big enough to provide a solid backup system for it's data. I think this would be a good alternative (cost-wise, security, guarantees you'll be able to restore data, and other concerns aside)
Yes, however if you look at the picture you showed me, you must still move your hands to the 7,8, and 9 keys to type 7, 8, and 9. I wouldn't like to have to have my right hand type all of the numbers anyway. I would prefer to have the numbers split up.
Perhaps ASDFGHJKL; 0123456789?
I never got around to doing anything with it, but one day my obsession with manual transmission vehicles game me the idea to make a "manual keyboard". This idea came about a year ago.
At first this had literally no practical application, however in the beginning of this summer I realized that, at least for me, if it was done right it could be very useful.
My prime thought being: typing numbers. When I program, or even when I am just typing. It's a pain to move my hands to type numbers, and if I'm trying to type them while still keeping the rest of my hands in the "home position" errors are too high for my liking. What if the "clutch" in my manual keyboard would allow you to type numbers, but on letters. I guess having a whole pedal on the ground devoted to this would be completely unecessary, you could simply put another key on the keyboard, perhaps just above the shift key.
It may be worthless and useless, but I still like the idea.
I would have to tend to agree with crispyman and MMC Monster.
I think that this firewall is at least a small step in protecting those that are uninformed about these issues. As was pointed out, if the firewall were to be good at what it does, Microsoft would be hit with another lawsuit.
For new installs, however, couldn't Microsoft have a partnership with some antivirus/firewall company to put their software on by default? That way it wouldn't be a microsoft product that is included, however it would have a high rate of protection and not require intervention by uninformed users.
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First of all, I believe it was in reference to hurricane Frances, but I guess that's trivial information.
Secondly, who says that you are going to be with your data?
Many large scale companies no doubt had massive amounts of important data stored down in areas hit by the hurricanes. Though I'm sure that people that worked and lived in these areas could leave, I don't think the systems used to store data were easily transportable.
If they are such large scale companies they should have the ability to backup their data on their own.
What about medium sized businesses though? A business that isn't small enough to take all of it's data out of harms way, but isn't big enough to provide a solid backup system for it's data. I think this would be a good alternative (cost-wise, security, guarantees you'll be able to restore data, and other concerns aside)
Yes, I'm aware. That was covered by yet another anonymous writer. It doesn't work the way I want it to. Read my reply to the previos "Fn" post.
Yes, however if you look at the picture you showed me, you must still move your hands to the 7,8, and 9 keys to type 7, 8, and 9. I wouldn't like to have to have my right hand type all of the numbers anyway. I would prefer to have the numbers split up. Perhaps ASDFGHJKL; 0123456789?
I never got around to doing anything with it, but one day my obsession with manual transmission vehicles game me the idea to make a "manual keyboard". This idea came about a year ago.
At first this had literally no practical application, however in the beginning of this summer I realized that, at least for me, if it was done right it could be very useful.
My prime thought being: typing numbers. When I program, or even when I am just typing. It's a pain to move my hands to type numbers, and if I'm trying to type them while still keeping the rest of my hands in the "home position" errors are too high for my liking. What if the "clutch" in my manual keyboard would allow you to type numbers, but on letters. I guess having a whole pedal on the ground devoted to this would be completely unecessary, you could simply put another key on the keyboard, perhaps just above the shift key.
It may be worthless and useless, but I still like the idea.
I think that this firewall is at least a small step in protecting those that are uninformed about these issues. As was pointed out, if the firewall were to be good at what it does, Microsoft would be hit with another lawsuit.
For new installs, however, couldn't Microsoft have a partnership with some antivirus/firewall company to put their software on by default? That way it wouldn't be a microsoft product that is included, however it would have a high rate of protection and not require intervention by uninformed users.