MSN, Yahoo and Google have the desktop search tools. Now everybody will follow suit. That's all fair and good, but isn't that why your OS has a "search" tool? I do not see the usefulness of a tool and will open you up to more problems than you need....
The built in search in Windows XP is slow and does not carry the features these other tools have.
If you are going to be marked Insightful for mentioning "problems" associated with this, I must ask: Does your Linux box have "locate" installed and do you consider it a possible source that "will open you up to more problems than you need"?
You obviously have never set up a desktop search tool for a new PC user. Trust me, they are a godsend to these people. Let's save the "OMG SECURITY HOLE!!!" for when there actually is one, k?
My only problem with all these people running out to adopt Linux:
Further commercialization and exploitation can only add to politics and power struggles.
You also have to ask yourself:
What have these companies given back to the community? They have saved considerable resources by riding on free code. It only seems fitting they write a few checks to a foundation or two. Maybe release some of their own code? No? Hmm.
That's cute, but I would fire your ass for pushing some half baked crap like that. Most tools these days have a "Corporate Edition" that allows centralized management to give you a status of each system. If you're not using something with built-in automation you:
a) don't have any true oversight on what the status of the system operations are when it comes time to report b) don't have any way of pushing installs, updates, or removals of the program or definitions or configs to the machines c) are wasting a LOT of time doing sneakernet d) isn't centralized so that people BESIDES YOURSELF can check in on the system e) all of the above!
You know, you are so right. I'll add that to my list of reasons why we shouldn't move all our employees over to Linux workstations instead of Windows.
All kidding aside, you are aware I wasn't talking of a fortune 500 deployment. Mind you, you can simply propogate out package and send to the scheduler just the same.
As for your a-e list, you should take a chill pill. If you won't allow software that requires external tools to assist in managing, then you should probably just do away with Apache, Sendmail, and the gambit of other Unix tools which don't have the button you apparently need.
I have serious doubts you are in a position to fire anyone, anywhere..;)
As opposed to the liberal Democrats' missing spine, selective blindness and continual whines about the rights of people that want to kill them?
That is amusing. I actually had a redneck with a "GW '04" and "GOD BLESS THE USA" bumper sticker run from me today when his attempts to start an altercation over an abrupt stop failed to intimidate me, the "spineless liberal".
We see this same pattern of "IM BAD IM BAD, OH WAIT IM NOT" played out time and again in politics and real life. If you are in the position to "take sides", then really think through the side you are taking. Do you want a lot of voices arguing over many things or do you want one simple message from high atop to represent you?
Well, it seems you've chosen the simple one. NP. Enjoy.
Just about all software that caters to a business has an auto-run and auto-update feature, just to ease the pains of the local IT guys.
Even the built in copy of defrag on Windows 98 has an option to be added to the task manager.
See: cron / task manager
I hate to disagree, but hardly any of the business tools I've used on the Win32 or Linux/BSD side have any automation built into them. Typically, I'd use the cron or task scheduler to launch apps with the needed CMD line to produce the results I need. Just because there isn't a 1-click button to do everything for you, doesn't really mean the program is bad or missing a feature.
I have rebooted. My initial impression is that there is no immediately obvious way to run the removal program. KB890830 points out the web version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool and says that "When you download the tool from Windows Update or from Automatic Updates, the tool always runs in quiet mode." The KB also has a url to download the tool. Whee.
So one person out of maybe 10k slashdotters runs out to DL this, can't figure out how to use it, then gets modded as "Informative". This should be +5 Funny, if anything.
Actually, this might be seriously unfunny in the near future. If MS takes a hardline against open source or GPL licensed stuff, or make they claim that any particular app in using infringing code, a lot of slashdotters might be saying "I told you so".
Oh, God. "Intellectual property" has a very well-defined and (outside RMS's fanclub) universally accepted meaning. Don't think for one second your tiny rage is going to change common use of the term.
If I were to post such tripe, I'd do it under the veil of AC as well.
Yeesh! That's one scary link you added there. Gnnnn! However, in an ironic twist, psychologists have shown that Republicanism is likely a form of mental illness, and fMRI scans do show that extreme right-wingers show abnormal or no brain activity in areas associated with positive feelings, possibly indicating brain dysfunction or damage of some kind.
You don't need to MRI people to figure out if they are a conservative/republican. Just look for the slanted, small forehead and rounder-than-average head.
Ex: Say you help an old lady across the street... good act, right? Ok, if your intention was to impress some girl by doing it, get to heaven, blah blah blah... your good act doesn't look so good anymore... ulterior motives aren't always seen through acts... intentions are what matters.
Get a free iPod [freeipods.com]
Dude, those are pretty wise words coming from one of those "FREE IPODS HEAR!!!" pimps. Get a job.
You guys also are forgetting multi-core multi-CPU machines. This is something that I cannot wait for, myself. I really would love to see a dual-core dual-CPU Opteron box. It definitely would decrease the compile times for me, as I perform numerous compile runs (read hundreds) each release, so every little bit of extra oomph I can get helps.
Gee, Captain Obvious, do you think? I would take that information to the New York Times before someone else beats you to it.
You fallaciously (inadequate sample) "disprove" an argument with your points, and then draw a conclusion that has nothing whatsoever to do with your arguments. (non sequitor)
Is this your way of saying you were unable to understand very watered down grammar?
'offering service through one of the primary cable platforms is not the best way to grow our business at this time, because the economics are not very attractive, instead, we have decided to embrace the PC as our friend.'
Translation: Guys, we have not posted a profit yet and our doors have been open almost 8 years. We have got to do something FAST! Drop the cable, push the DirecTV DVR and extend functionality to the PC fast. Otherwise we are going to lose more investors.
I like my Tivo, but I wish these cats would figure out some way to make a profit.
And you start crying like a little girl with a skinned knee. Who pissed in your wheaties? Do only people on your freinds list get to reply to your posts?
Grow up, you baby. Your post made no sense and just read like some blathering political statement. If you don't want to get called on this nonsense, then don't do it.
I don't see much point in answering your 5 question paragraph. Any further response will just encourage your trollish behaviour.
Personally, I don't it as fair to lock a phone in the first place if you're going to force someone to commit to a contract (except, perhaps, for a few months while validating they're real), but that's the way it works unfortunately.
Sure it is fair. You didn't have to buy the locked phone. Buy from someone who doesn't do it.
That is, unless you want to convince us that your cell provider held a gun to your head and made you buy a locked phone. Anything short of that and it is your own ignorance that brought on the "unfair" circumstance.
It would have been funnier if they were from a law firm (since then they should have know). This is just a case of people who can afford to buy neat toys but don't know how they work.
They didn't buy any neat toys, they just used company resources.
Companies are not required by law to read employee email. I worked for four years in information security at a 8.5k employee company and we rarely had to monitor anyone actively. We also never read employee email, monitored IMs or did anything along those lines unless we had a very good reason and some kind of evidence brought to us.
In your example of a racist joke, here is the sequence of events, as I know them:
1) The recipient, or witness, contacts HR and files a formal or anonymous complaint.
2) The HR group gets with Information Security and the employees manager. A discussion is made about what they want from IS.
3) Information Security monitors that single employees activities and reports back the findings to HR and the manager.
4) The employee is presented with the evidence and terminated or disciplined.
There are cases where people exchanging dirty jokes or looking at porn become the company's fault: This begins when a complaint is filed and not followed up on.. Thus, demonstrating the behavior is considered acceptable by the company, thus making them liable.
It would have been funnier if they were from a law firm (since then they should have know). This is just a case of people who can afford to buy neat toys but don't know how they work.
Too bad, it didn't happen. Hopefully, you'll get a clue before posting a bunch of nonsense again.
Did you just hit reply to the first message you found so you could throw out a bunch of opinions? I ask because this post doesn't appear to have anything to do with my parent post.
Don't just hit reply to get on the first page, fool.
Senior Executives in some of the companies I've worked for. Like the Senior VP who insisted he needed a faster more powerful PC - we bought him a bigger monitor and he was well pleased. Or the one who couldn't live without an upgraded PC - I told the tech to stick it on her desk but not plug in the AC and wait for a complaint. Never happened. Or the Senior Executive VP who never, ever figured out how to read e-mail (unless it was printed out by the secretary first). On and on.
This isn't really insightful. I have grown weary of watching IT people continue to play it like they are the "smart" ones. The VP doesn't know how to read his email because he is able to pay someone to print it for him, he went to school longer than you so he can do things like this. Personally, if I could pay someone to read, filter and hand deliver it to my desk with a cup of java, then um, I probably wouldn't know how to do it myself then either. I'd be a bit more preoccupied doing the things I'm actually paid for.
If you worked at my firm and did these things, you'd be fired and never rehired. Why? You insist upon trickery and deception for your own enjoyment instead of doing what you are paid to do. If there are budget reasons for not upgrading, then tell them. Typically, workstation costs come out of each departments budget, so it is best to let them buy what they want if THEIR budget affords it. It sounds to me that you enjoy just stifling your employer than actually being helpful. The fact this was considered "insightful" is just another example of why dealing with IT staff is hated by the majority of professionals. This is also one of the reasons they are so ready to outsource helpdesk and other internal support jobs.
Sounds like the RIAA should be going after the real pirates, not little Susie or Grandma."
Oh, oh, I know -- I know! {raised, waving hand}
The reason they aren't going after these "real" pirates is because they are in nations who's legal systems have no incentive to stop the flow of pirated American, European and Japanese media.
It really makes me sad to see this kind of uninformed tripe in a headline. It brings out the general ignorance of the masses in these threads.
Even from a geek point of view, these are not hugely hackable (I think) and serve no real purpose
Now if the shell was available and fully programmable, it'd be worthwhile
What makes you think they are not hackable? Do you have one and have tried to hack it? No? Then why is this made-up crap modded up? The world will never know.
Look, none of us know how hackable it will be. Instead of playing the pseudo-prophet, at least wait until this thing is in the hands of hackers before whining about how it isn't hackable..
Plasma I don't know about; I'm waiting for price to come down, and for certain issues to be fixed, before I'll even consider it. From what I've heard, current Plasma displays lose half their brightness withing a few years, and the price is still about $5000 for a 42" display (my info might be a year or two old)...
You can get a Gateway 42" for about $2400 on sale, they are just as good as any of the cheaper sets.. The one we have at the office has been on 24/7 for two years and looks fine -- no dead pixels, no fading. The screen is pretty easy to mess up, so don't touch. I would not advocate plasma since it, in my opinion, is flawed due to the short lifespan.
The largets CRT on the market is 40". It is the Sony XBR something. Very nice for playing video games, but it suffers from the same thing all larger CRTS suffer from: image instability.
Trust me, if you get a DLP set and watch it for a few weeks, then try to look at one of these "high contrast" CRTs - you'll begin seeing vertical waves in the image. I notice this on every CRT bigger than 32" after having a digital set for a while. This is why you see a lot of people who don't own one of these displays say they look better, whist the CRT crowd disagrees. The CRT crowd just has not seen the right hardware, or their eyes are just so used to looking at the inaccurate colors, waves, etc without noticing. Kind of like when Trinitron first came out with the monitors with little wires in them. People whined and moaned about them, but really, your eyes adjust and filter them out after a while. I get the filling a lot of this has been done whilst looking into a CRT and rendering the image in your mind.
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MSN, Yahoo and Google have the desktop search tools. Now everybody will follow suit. That's all fair and good, but isn't that why your OS has a "search" tool? I do not see the usefulness of a tool and will open you up to more problems than you need....
The built in search in Windows XP is slow and does not carry the features these other tools have.
If you are going to be marked Insightful for mentioning "problems" associated with this, I must ask: Does your Linux box have "locate" installed and do you consider it a possible source that "will open you up to more problems than you need"?
You obviously have never set up a desktop search tool for a new PC user. Trust me, they are a godsend to these people. Let's save the "OMG SECURITY HOLE!!!" for when there actually is one, k?
My only problem with all these people running out to adopt Linux:
Further commercialization and exploitation can only add to politics and power struggles.
You also have to ask yourself:
What have these companies given back to the community? They have saved considerable resources by riding on free code. It only seems fitting they write a few checks to a foundation or two. Maybe release some of their own code? No? Hmm.
That's cute, but I would fire your ass for pushing some half baked crap like that. Most tools these days have a "Corporate Edition" that allows centralized management to give you a status of each system. If you're not using something with built-in automation you:
;)
a) don't have any true oversight on what the status of the system operations are when it comes time to report
b) don't have any way of pushing installs, updates, or removals of the program or definitions or configs to the machines
c) are wasting a LOT of time doing sneakernet
d) isn't centralized so that people BESIDES YOURSELF can check in on the system
e) all of the above!
You know, you are so right. I'll add that to my list of reasons why we shouldn't move all our employees over to Linux workstations instead of Windows.
All kidding aside, you are aware I wasn't talking of a fortune 500 deployment. Mind you, you can simply propogate out package and send to the scheduler just the same.
As for your a-e list, you should take a chill pill. If you won't allow software that requires external tools to assist in managing, then you should probably just do away with Apache, Sendmail, and the gambit of other Unix tools which don't have the button you apparently need.
I have serious doubts you are in a position to fire anyone, anywhere..
As opposed to the liberal Democrats' missing spine, selective blindness and continual whines about the rights of people that want to kill them?
That is amusing. I actually had a redneck with a "GW '04" and "GOD BLESS THE USA" bumper sticker run from me today when his attempts to start an altercation over an abrupt stop failed to intimidate me, the "spineless liberal".
We see this same pattern of "IM BAD IM BAD, OH WAIT IM NOT" played out time and again in politics and real life. If you are in the position to "take sides", then really think through the side you are taking. Do you want a lot of voices arguing over many things or do you want one simple message from high atop to represent you?
Well, it seems you've chosen the simple one. NP. Enjoy.
Just about all software that caters to a business has an auto-run and auto-update feature, just to ease the pains of the local IT guys.
Even the built in copy of defrag on Windows 98 has an option to be added to the task manager.
See: cron / task manager
I hate to disagree, but hardly any of the business tools I've used on the Win32 or Linux/BSD side have any automation built into them. Typically, I'd use the cron or task scheduler to launch apps with the needed CMD line to produce the results I need. Just because there isn't a 1-click button to do everything for you, doesn't really mean the program is bad or missing a feature.
I have rebooted. My initial impression is that there is no immediately obvious way to run the removal program. KB890830 points out the web version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool and says that "When you download the tool from Windows Update or from Automatic Updates, the tool always runs in quiet mode." The KB also has a url to download the tool. Whee.
So one person out of maybe 10k slashdotters runs out to DL this, can't figure out how to use it, then gets modded as "Informative". This should be +5 Funny, if anything.
Click the green Go button, silly.
Actually, this might be seriously unfunny in the near future. If MS takes a hardline against open source or GPL licensed stuff, or make they claim that any particular app in using infringing code, a lot of slashdotters might be saying "I told you so".
So you *REALLY* think this?
When does the short bus get here?
Oh, God. "Intellectual property" has a very well-defined and (outside RMS's fanclub) universally accepted meaning. Don't think for one second your tiny rage is going to change common use of the term.
If I were to post such tripe, I'd do it under the veil of AC as well.
Take a phishing trip, spammer.
Dont forget to take your Free iPod, Free Viagra and Russian Bride with you.
Yeesh! That's one scary link you added there. Gnnnn! However, in an ironic twist, psychologists have shown that Republicanism is likely a form of mental illness, and fMRI scans do show that extreme right-wingers show abnormal or no brain activity in areas associated with positive feelings, possibly indicating brain dysfunction or damage of some kind.
You don't need to MRI people to figure out if they are a conservative/republican. Just look for the slanted, small forehead and rounder-than-average head.
Ex: Say you help an old lady across the street... good act, right? Ok, if your intention was to impress some girl by doing it, get to heaven, blah blah blah... your good act doesn't look so good anymore... ulterior motives aren't always seen through acts... intentions are what matters.
Get a free iPod [freeipods.com]
Dude, those are pretty wise words coming from one of those "FREE IPODS HEAR!!!" pimps. Get a job.
You guys also are forgetting multi-core multi-CPU machines. This is something that I cannot wait for, myself. I really would love to see a dual-core dual-CPU Opteron box. It definitely would decrease the compile times for me, as I perform numerous compile runs (read hundreds) each release, so every little bit of extra oomph I can get helps.
Gee, Captain Obvious, do you think? I would take that information to the New York Times before someone else beats you to it.
WTF? Surely you mean "Sue our customers".
That works, too. DirecTV has sued over 10,000 so far!
You fallaciously (inadequate sample) "disprove" an argument with your points, and then draw a conclusion that has nothing whatsoever to do with your arguments. (non sequitor)
Is this your way of saying you were unable to understand very watered down grammar?
'offering service through one of the primary cable platforms is not the best way to grow our business at this time, because the economics are not very attractive, instead, we have decided to embrace the PC as our friend.'
Translation: Guys, we have not posted a profit yet and our doors have been open almost 8 years. We have got to do something FAST! Drop the cable, push the DirecTV DVR and extend functionality to the PC fast. Otherwise we are going to lose more investors.
I like my Tivo, but I wish these cats would figure out some way to make a profit.
And you start crying like a little girl with a skinned knee. Who pissed in your wheaties? Do only people on your freinds list get to reply to your posts?
Grow up, you baby. Your post made no sense and just read like some blathering political statement. If you don't want to get called on this nonsense, then don't do it.
I don't see much point in answering your 5 question paragraph. Any further response will just encourage your trollish behaviour.
Personally, I don't it as fair to lock a phone in the first place if you're going to force someone to commit to a contract (except, perhaps, for a few months while validating they're real), but that's the way it works unfortunately.
Sure it is fair. You didn't have to buy the locked phone. Buy from someone who doesn't do it.
That is, unless you want to convince us that your cell provider held a gun to your head and made you buy a locked phone. Anything short of that and it is your own ignorance that brought on the "unfair" circumstance.
Dude, you need a pill. Better yet, a girlfriend to molest.
It would have been funnier if they were from a law firm (since then they should have know). This is just a case of people who can afford to buy neat toys but don't know how they work.
They didn't buy any neat toys, they just used company resources.
Companies are not required by law to read employee email. I worked for four years in information security at a 8.5k employee company and we rarely had to monitor anyone actively. We also never read employee email, monitored IMs or did anything along those lines unless we had a very good reason and some kind of evidence brought to us.
In your example of a racist joke, here is the sequence of events, as I know them:
1) The recipient, or witness, contacts HR and files a formal or anonymous complaint.
2) The HR group gets with Information Security and the employees manager. A discussion is made about what they want from IS.
3) Information Security monitors that single employees activities and reports back the findings to HR and the manager.
4) The employee is presented with the evidence and terminated or disciplined.
There are cases where people exchanging dirty jokes or looking at porn become the company's fault: This begins when a complaint is filed and not followed up on.. Thus, demonstrating the behavior is considered acceptable by the company, thus making them liable.
It would have been funnier if they were from a law firm (since then they should have know). This is just a case of people who can afford to buy neat toys but don't know how they work.
Too bad, it didn't happen. Hopefully, you'll get a clue before posting a bunch of nonsense again.
Did you just hit reply to the first message you found so you could throw out a bunch of opinions? I ask because this post doesn't appear to have anything to do with my parent post.
Don't just hit reply to get on the first page, fool.
Senior Executives in some of the companies I've worked for. Like the Senior VP who insisted he needed a faster more powerful PC - we bought him a bigger monitor and he was well pleased. Or the one who couldn't live without an upgraded PC - I told the tech to stick it on her desk but not plug in the AC and wait for a complaint. Never happened. Or the Senior Executive VP who never, ever figured out how to read e-mail (unless it was printed out by the secretary first). On and on.
This isn't really insightful. I have grown weary of watching IT people continue to play it like they are the "smart" ones. The VP doesn't know how to read his email because he is able to pay someone to print it for him, he went to school longer than you so he can do things like this. Personally, if I could pay someone to read, filter and hand deliver it to my desk with a cup of java, then um, I probably wouldn't know how to do it myself then either. I'd be a bit more preoccupied doing the things I'm actually paid for.
If you worked at my firm and did these things, you'd be fired and never rehired. Why? You insist upon trickery and deception for your own enjoyment instead of doing what you are paid to do. If there are budget reasons for not upgrading, then tell them. Typically, workstation costs come out of each departments budget, so it is best to let them buy what they want if THEIR budget affords it. It sounds to me that you enjoy just stifling your employer than actually being helpful. The fact this was considered "insightful" is just another example of why dealing with IT staff is hated by the majority of professionals. This is also one of the reasons they are so ready to outsource helpdesk and other internal support jobs.
Same, here. I submitted it last week and it was rejected.
Keep up the great work fellas.
Sounds like the RIAA should be going after the real pirates, not little Susie or Grandma."
Oh, oh, I know -- I know! {raised, waving hand}
The reason they aren't going after these "real" pirates is because they are in nations who's legal systems have no incentive to stop the flow of pirated American, European and Japanese media.
It really makes me sad to see this kind of uninformed tripe in a headline. It brings out the general ignorance of the masses in these threads.
Even from a geek point of view, these are not hugely hackable (I think) and serve no real purpose
Now if the shell was available and fully programmable, it'd be worthwhile
What makes you think they are not hackable? Do you have one and have tried to hack it? No? Then why is this made-up crap modded up? The world will never know.
Look, none of us know how hackable it will be. Instead of playing the pseudo-prophet, at least wait until this thing is in the hands of hackers before whining about how it isn't hackable..
Plasma I don't know about; I'm waiting for price to come down, and for certain issues to be fixed, before I'll even consider it. From what I've heard, current Plasma displays lose half their brightness withing a few years, and the price is still about $5000 for a 42" display (my info might be a year or two old)...
You can get a Gateway 42" for about $2400 on sale, they are just as good as any of the cheaper sets.. The one we have at the office has been on 24/7 for two years and looks fine -- no dead pixels, no fading. The screen is pretty easy to mess up, so don't touch. I would not advocate plasma since it, in my opinion, is flawed due to the short lifespan.
The largets CRT on the market is 40". It is the Sony XBR something. Very nice for playing video games, but it suffers from the same thing all larger CRTS suffer from: image instability.
Trust me, if you get a DLP set and watch it for a few weeks, then try to look at one of these "high contrast" CRTs - you'll begin seeing vertical waves in the image. I notice this on every CRT bigger than 32" after having a digital set for a while. This is why you see a lot of people who don't own one of these displays say they look better, whist the CRT crowd disagrees. The CRT crowd just has not seen the right hardware, or their eyes are just so used to looking at the inaccurate colors, waves, etc without noticing. Kind of like when Trinitron first came out with the monitors with little wires in them. People whined and moaned about them, but really, your eyes adjust and filter them out after a while. I get the filling a lot of this has been done whilst looking into a CRT and rendering the image in your mind.