I like Energy Star when the device is running, but, when I turn it off I expect it to be OFF! My kids thought I was crazy to put a power bar on their computers, TVs and various 'toys'. They told me they turned it off and it wasn't using any power. I know better, it is on 'standby' when they turn it off. After two months of using the power bar to turn off the boxes when they are done my hydro bill dropped $30! I Want two buttons on every device for 'off'. The first puts it into standby the other actually turns off the box. I WANT accuracy on the term 'OFF' on every electronic device. If it still draws power it is not off, but, is on standby!
1. Define the threat level. 2. How long before notification that it was acknowledged. 3. How long until the fix. 4. For the fixes, did it work?
MS has the bad habit of not letting us know of a hole until they have the patch ready. This is a real pain as the ones who can use the hole can, without me knowing!. Also, Firefox is a new product, it has an excuse. MS is a mature product, why are there serious holes still in this product?
It is an extension on how MS works. Remember Netscape... What happened? Stacker? WordPerfect? Spyware scanners? If you can't beat them outright they get into a fight of attrition and since MS has billions want to guess who usually wins?
It may not be a joke on the part of MS. Think about it, how do you shut down the threat of Open Source? Starve it of resources. Now what are the resources? The people who are like ESR. Put it very bluntly this is war and MS is determined to deny the enemy (Linux) the materials (people) to wage war.
It is not only the office suite, their email package (outlook) is a royal pain in the ass. I was happy at work and home using Thunderbird. At work I was forced to go back to outlook as they were updating to the exchange server. Outlook 2002 could not directly import the mail folders in Thunderbird. I actually had to copy them to a very old copy of Netscape (4.5), rebuild the indexes. Following that I had to use Outlook express to import the mail and address books. When that was done I could then import that into Outlook 2002. From MS point of view that was a valid way. BTW, Thunderbird easily re-imported the converted outlook folders and in about 1/10th of the time. If you want people to use your product make it easier to use, import/export, and most importantly follow industry standard file formats!
Hell, even any O/S would qualify. The O/S allows the programs access to the net. If those programs allow pirating therefore the O/S facilitated that crime. Hardware manufacturers of network cards, the PCs themselves, burners could also be implicated as the hardware allowed for pirating.
The economics of it makes it worth their while. It costs very little to send out millions of messages. All they need is a few suckers to buy their product and they have already profited. For the software it does not cost much to buy CDs (I can buy them for about 35 cents/CD0 and the cost of the mailing. If they go via FTP for software delivery the cost is still lower.
The spammers are playing on either ignorance or greed and it works.
To get it to stop may well be impossible, but, we can do our bit to make the spammers life difficult. I do my part by having a homepage that friends and family can access to read about the latest scams/spams and I always try to educate people about why they should buy from legit local businesses.
I am not holding my breath, but, if this helps reduce the number of spam messages that hit my inbox I would be grateful. Several weeks ago it was hitting in excess of 20 messages a day and they were all so obvious spam. A number of them had sotware prices so low it had to be pirated.
So far this week it is at about 2-5 per day. Not a problem as the filters identify it most of the time. A quick look at the sending name and subject line and I file it in the trash without looking at them.
308 seats. Liberals have 135, Conservatives 99, Bloq 54, NDP 19 and other = 1.
It is a minority government. The Liberals at this time can't afford to piss off anyone as all it will take is to lose one confidence motion to be in another election. Also, the last thing they need is to have it noised about that there is another department, minister or Liberal MPP accepting money for favours.
I agree, if anyone takes money from the government we the people should have complete access to everything. If they don't like that then have them go get private funding.
I am in Canada and I know that they are not avoiding us. My Yahoo two weeks ago was averaging 30 spams per day. My Sympatico id so fare is spam free, but, it is only a matter of time. We have the filters at work, but, they figured a way to bypass and a large number of people got porno spam... Not fun.
The laws in Canada works only if the company sending this crap and/or the people buying the service reside in Canada. Otherwise the law is like a tape recording of a dog barking at the door... absolutely useless.
For me it depends on the account. My old ISP would let through about 3/month. On average it would block 10-30 per day. I moved to sympatico and it dropped to 0 (so far). My Yahoo id two weeks ago was averaging 30+/day, it is now down to about 3/day. My Yahoo id is used by my kids for the 'registration' that everyone insists on. That way our normal email ids are not flooded (as much) by the obvious spams generated by those companies who sell the email addresses from registered software.
Spam is a fact of life at this time. While we can enact laws targeting the person(s) sending this crap we are trying to cure the symptom and not the disease. We should be looking at who is buying the service and target their pocket books. If those who buy this service cannot make any money using this medium it will (hopefully) dry up to a low level annoyance (like telemarketers).
We also should insist that ISPs properly configure their servers to minimize misconfigured systems that allow this crap to flow through.
Then we should follow up with more education for the normal user about trojans and spyware that are now being harnessed to route the spam through.
Around the house ->
- Compact Flourescent where I can
- Power bars on everything. When not in use I turn the bar off. TVs, monitors even when off draw power.
- Timer on the fish tank lights.
- Constant yelling at the kids to turn off the lights.
Driving ->
- Taking the bus most of the time.
- When driving we know where we are going rather than aimless driving.
We now only fill up the car every 2 weeks rather than twice weekly. Hydro bill has dropped about $30/bill.
And a telephone jack in the bathroom. Hello.... you are with a telemarketing firm, please hold a second.... (sound effect of taking a massive dump and then a flush).
How about leaving an empty conduit so you can snake additional cabling (Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre, etc) for future expansion. Everything leads down to a central location in the basement so that you set that up as the location where the server, TV (cable or satellite), telephone are centrally located.
When they realize that they now are losing control of their artists. I have not heard of her before, but this is nice in that web based distro of music won a Grammy and I hope that this is the first of many more for here and other artists.
IBM did provide a huge pile of code. They also pointed out that SCO has all of the code as it is publicly available and free to download.
SCO complained to the magistrate that they needed complete unfettered access to ALL versions of AIX and DYNIX. That is billions of lines of code.
The judge even doubts that SCO has any evidence and stated that quite bluntly in his decision.
As for efficient use of lawyer time read the history of this case. SCO has consistenly asked for and received delays. In my not so humble opinion SCO is trying to get bought out and IBM's NAZGULS are saying no we want your head on our stake.
1. We are tired of all of the waits for the patches. The hackers know MS releases on a specific day of the month and time their releases for max effect.
2. These patch only the holes that we are told about. how many others are there that we don't know about until MS lets the world know?
3. I admin a home network (6 machines) and the Linux boxes are the easiest to admin. The MS machines tend to break S/ware (A/V & firewalls) on these upgrades and it takes me a while to fix them.
I actually have separate entries for team reviews, client reviews and signoffs. I try to keep each line to a specific task. Makes for a large Work Breakdown structure, but, you see at a glance who the bottleneck is for a project. For a simple one person project I usually have about 150+ items. Top line items are for project management. Followed by Pre-Analysis tasks, then Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, with Implementation being the last.
I never pretend if I don't like someone. I try my best to keep my feelings to myself and work as a professional with the person. When I have a problem I try to work with the person privately on what the problem is and what we can do.
At the end of the project where I am the team lead I must do an evaluation on each team member and that is a bitch of a job. My last project took me a day to do for the six members of my team.
If you use project management software (and it is a good idea to use it if you have it) I use the following metrics for % completed:
0 - Not started (obvious)
25 - Activity started
50 - Work in progress
80 - Ready for team review
90 - Team review done and ready for client review
100 - Completed and signoffs completed.
When holding meetings try to set a standard number of days in advance for a notice. Also set a short and simple agenda. One that I usually use has the following items:
Minutes from last meeting
Project Status update
Upcoming deliverables
Other
Executive summary report template for sending to the client and your bosses. Keep everyone up-to-date at a high level, they probably don't want the gory details.
My meetings usually lasted 15 to 30 minutes each week. If they are on time and no problems I don't want to hear the gory details, they can send me a note on that. The only thing I want to hear is if there is a problem and what they have done to solve it and if they need me to help. On the 'Other' I poll each team member to see if they have anything to contribute.
If the client has praise I make sure that the team and their bosses know this. If there are problems I don't make them public, but, I discuss privately with the person to see how we can resolve the issue. Never ever put a team member down in front of the others or publically criticize the member.
At the end of the project hold a team meeting to review the project and the lessons learned. I usually bring in munchies and drinks.
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I like Energy Star when the device is running, but, when I turn it off I expect it to be OFF! My kids thought I was crazy to put a power bar on their computers, TVs and various 'toys'. They told me they turned it off and it wasn't using any power. I know better, it is on 'standby' when they turn it off. After two months of using the power bar to turn off the boxes when they are done my hydro bill dropped $30! I Want two buttons on every device for 'off'. The first puts it into standby the other actually turns off the box. I WANT accuracy on the term 'OFF' on every electronic device. If it still draws power it is not off, but, is on standby!
1. Define the threat level.
2. How long before notification that it was acknowledged.
3. How long until the fix.
4. For the fixes, did it work?
MS has the bad habit of not letting us know of a hole until they have the patch ready. This is a real pain as the ones who can use the hole can, without me knowing!. Also, Firefox is a new product, it has an excuse. MS is a mature product, why are there serious holes still in this product?
It is an extension on how MS works. Remember Netscape... What happened? Stacker? WordPerfect? Spyware scanners? If you can't beat them outright they get into a fight of attrition and since MS has billions want to guess who usually wins?
It may not be a joke on the part of MS. Think about it, how do you shut down the threat of Open Source? Starve it of resources. Now what are the resources? The people who are like ESR. Put it very bluntly this is war and MS is determined to deny the enemy (Linux) the materials (people) to wage war.
It is not only the office suite, their email package (outlook) is a royal pain in the ass. I was happy at work and home using Thunderbird. At work I was forced to go back to outlook as they were updating to the exchange server. Outlook 2002 could not directly import the mail folders in Thunderbird. I actually had to copy them to a very old copy of Netscape (4.5), rebuild the indexes. Following that I had to use Outlook express to import the mail and address books. When that was done I could then import that into Outlook 2002. From MS point of view that was a valid way. BTW, Thunderbird easily re-imported the converted outlook folders and in about 1/10th of the time. If you want people to use your product make it easier to use, import/export, and most importantly follow industry standard file formats!
I can see the new show SDD-51. Science Development Department - Area 51....
Hell, even any O/S would qualify. The O/S allows the programs access to the net. If those programs allow pirating therefore the O/S facilitated that crime. Hardware manufacturers of network cards, the PCs themselves, burners could also be implicated as the hardware allowed for pirating.
The economics of it makes it worth their while. It costs very little to send out millions of messages. All they need is a few suckers to buy their product and they have already profited. For the software it does not cost much to buy CDs (I can buy them for about 35 cents/CD0 and the cost of the mailing. If they go via FTP for software delivery the cost is still lower.
The spammers are playing on either ignorance or greed and it works.
To get it to stop may well be impossible, but, we can do our bit to make the spammers life difficult. I do my part by having a homepage that friends and family can access to read about the latest scams/spams and I always try to educate people about why they should buy from legit local businesses.
I am not holding my breath, but, if this helps reduce the number of spam messages that hit my inbox I would be grateful. Several weeks ago it was hitting in excess of 20 messages a day and they were all so obvious spam. A number of them had sotware prices so low it had to be pirated.
So far this week it is at about 2-5 per day. Not a problem as the filters identify it most of the time. A quick look at the sending name and subject line and I file it in the trash without looking at them.
308 seats. Liberals have 135, Conservatives 99, Bloq 54, NDP 19 and other = 1.
It is a minority government. The Liberals at this time can't afford to piss off anyone as all it will take is to lose one confidence motion to be in another election. Also, the last thing they need is to have it noised about that there is another department, minister or Liberal MPP accepting money for favours.
I agree, if anyone takes money from the government we the people should have complete access to everything. If they don't like that then have them go get private funding.
I am in Canada and I know that they are not avoiding us. My Yahoo two weeks ago was averaging 30 spams per day. My Sympatico id so fare is spam free, but, it is only a matter of time. We have the filters at work, but, they figured a way to bypass and a large number of people got porno spam... Not fun.
The laws in Canada works only if the company sending this crap and/or the people buying the service reside in Canada. Otherwise the law is like a tape recording of a dog barking at the door... absolutely useless.
For me it depends on the account. My old ISP would let through about 3/month. On average it would block 10-30 per day. I moved to sympatico and it dropped to 0 (so far). My Yahoo id two weeks ago was averaging 30+/day, it is now down to about 3/day. My Yahoo id is used by my kids for the 'registration' that everyone insists on. That way our normal email ids are not flooded (as much) by the obvious spams generated by those companies who sell the email addresses from registered software.
Spam is a fact of life at this time. While we can enact laws targeting the person(s) sending this crap we are trying to cure the symptom and not the disease. We should be looking at who is buying the service and target their pocket books. If those who buy this service cannot make any money using this medium it will (hopefully) dry up to a low level annoyance (like telemarketers).
We also should insist that ISPs properly configure their servers to minimize misconfigured systems that allow this crap to flow through.
Then we should follow up with more education for the normal user about trojans and spyware that are now being harnessed to route the spam through.
Around the house ->
- Compact Flourescent where I can
- Power bars on everything. When not in use I turn the bar off. TVs, monitors even when off draw power.
- Timer on the fish tank lights.
- Constant yelling at the kids to turn off the lights.
Driving ->
- Taking the bus most of the time.
- When driving we know where we are going rather than aimless driving.
We now only fill up the car every 2 weeks rather than twice weekly. Hydro bill has dropped about $30/bill.
And a telephone jack in the bathroom. Hello.... you are with a telemarketing firm, please hold a second.... (sound effect of taking a massive dump and then a flush).
How about leaving an empty conduit so you can snake additional cabling (Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre, etc) for future expansion. Everything leads down to a central location in the basement so that you set that up as the location where the server, TV (cable or satellite), telephone are centrally located.
Park your car in the parking lot nearby and then used approved gas cans. Just fill up at the pump and then transfer it to your vehicle.
When they realize that they now are losing control of their artists. I have not heard of her before, but this is nice in that web based distro of music won a Grammy and I hope that this is the first of many more for here and other artists.
SCO complained to the magistrate that they needed complete unfettered access to ALL versions of AIX and DYNIX. That is billions of lines of code.
The judge even doubts that SCO has any evidence and stated that quite bluntly in his decision.
As for efficient use of lawyer time read the history of this case. SCO has consistenly asked for and received delays. In my not so humble opinion SCO is trying to get bought out and IBM's NAZGULS are saying no we want your head on our stake.
1. We are tired of all of the waits for the patches. The hackers know MS releases on a specific day of the month and time their releases for max effect.
2. These patch only the holes that we are told about. how many others are there that we don't know about until MS lets the world know?
3. I admin a home network (6 machines) and the Linux boxes are the easiest to admin. The MS machines tend to break S/ware (A/V & firewalls) on these upgrades and it takes me a while to fix them.
I actually have separate entries for team reviews, client reviews and signoffs. I try to keep each line to a specific task. Makes for a large Work Breakdown structure, but, you see at a glance who the bottleneck is for a project. For a simple one person project I usually have about 150+ items. Top line items are for project management. Followed by Pre-Analysis tasks, then Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, with Implementation being the last.
I never pretend if I don't like someone. I try my best to keep my feelings to myself and work as a professional with the person. When I have a problem I try to work with the person privately on what the problem is and what we can do.
At the end of the project where I am the team lead I must do an evaluation on each team member and that is a bitch of a job. My last project took me a day to do for the six members of my team.
0 - Not started (obvious)
25 - Activity started
50 - Work in progress
80 - Ready for team review
90 - Team review done and ready for client review
100 - Completed and signoffs completed.
When holding meetings try to set a standard number of days in advance for a notice. Also set a short and simple agenda. One that I usually use has the following items:
Minutes from last meeting
Project Status update
Upcoming deliverables
Other
Executive summary report template for sending to the client and your bosses. Keep everyone up-to-date at a high level, they probably don't want the gory details.
My meetings usually lasted 15 to 30 minutes each week. If they are on time and no problems I don't want to hear the gory details, they can send me a note on that. The only thing I want to hear is if there is a problem and what they have done to solve it and if they need me to help. On the 'Other' I poll each team member to see if they have anything to contribute.
If the client has praise I make sure that the team and their bosses know this. If there are problems I don't make them public, but, I discuss privately with the person to see how we can resolve the issue. Never ever put a team member down in front of the others or publically criticize the member.
At the end of the project hold a team meeting to review the project and the lessons learned. I usually bring in munchies and drinks.