"I notice that in my version of Firefox the search box defaults to Google, and that the pulldown menu of pre-entered options doesn't even include MSN Search, but Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available.""
Google does not control Firefox development or standards. It is up to Microsoft to assert to Firefox that they are being infringed upon and ask the Firefox development community include MSN as a search option. Google is only responsible for fighting their own battles and there is nothing about fair trade practices that say a company is required to make an argument for their competitors. Of course Microsoft will never ask this of the Firefox development community because that would provide acknowledgment of Firefox as realistic alternative to IE6/7. The last thing Microsoft wants right now while trying to roll out IE7 is to give any additional legitimacy to Firefox as true competitor and alternative.
Maybe there is a configuration option I am missing or something but IE7 honestly seems very slow at times. Certain web pages I go to just are not loading very quickly. Such as this morning I opened http://www.usatoday.com/ thinking I would take IE7 out for a bit longer of a test drive. It took a longer ammount of time for the USAToday home page to load in IE7 than for me to get frustrated with the wait, open Firefox and start reading the details of a particular cover story article. By the way it did finally load but it took almost 35 to 40 seconds to do so. I am assuming there is a logical explaination though because that was so slow I cannot imagine anyone using IE7 if this were a comon occurance. However, I do like the new stripped down look of the interface though very simliar to firefox and opera.
Honestly i cannot decide which is my favorite browser but neither IE6 nor 7 are even in the running. Sometimes I use Opera other times I use firefox as each has small things I like about them more based off whatever it is I am currently doing. These days i pretty much only use IE if I go to a page that requires ActiveX support and it flashes up that my browser is unsupported by this site. By the way, to me those sites seem to be getting fewer and farther between all the time.
In other news Microsoft has vowed to move all of their next line of operating systems to the PowerPC chip. An unnamed executive from Microsoft was quoted to say, "Stick it Steve! Go play with you mouse ears and let the big boys handle computer stuff."
An Apple spokesman resoponded by announcing the release of there latest iPod brain child. "This latest generation of iPod will be called the iBear. Basically it is a stuffed pinky teddy bear slash iPod which we think will be a hit with the 13 year old girl market."
I'll tell you what I just want some "Doctor Who." I get sick and tired of downloading them from through Bit Torrent. I am an American and I want me some real BBC content and not this watered down BBC America rubbish!!!!
"Good managers ask for something in 5 days, but need it in 6."
This is good and it keeps your employee's stress level down a bit. But just remember not to kill them over that five day deadline. I have seen to many managers push that five day deadline so hard when they only needed it in six and it tends to upset the employees. Everyone is busting tail to get it done and want to put it into production to get the big pat on the back and hear the old "that a boy/girl". (By the way that was an analogy do not ever patronize your employee with that quote.) Manager says, "Well we are not going to actually roll it out until tomorrow." Now you have honked off employees.
Managers, Remember to compliment and thank your employees on a regular baisis. Remember that we managers will fail without the support of our staff so remember not take your employees for granted and be courteous.
Sorry that's the whole reason of getting someone to sign a Non-disclosure/Infringement agreement before you pitch an idea. Because the NDA is supposed to protect you from someone like EA ripping off your idea's/I.P.
There are too many companies out there that just steal ideas so that they can make a little extra cash. It is sad state of affairs when R&D starts meaning Rip-off and Duplicate. Remember the old days when it actually meant research and development.... [sighs]
I think the title is extremely valid. The writer wants to know about what issues people of encountered with rolling out a Linux enterprise desktop environment. A Postmortem or "After Action Report" if you were brought up through the military:) is what most good IT Managers go through after a project to research what if anything went wrong during the implementation phase. It allows you to outline the implementations faults so that it never happen again. My IT department does a postmortem any time there is a major issue that arrises. The postmortem is then submitted to Sr. Management who usually only glances at it before tossing it away. However the postmortem analyzes what went wrong, what was done to resolve the issue and what steps have been taken to prevent the issue from happening again in the future.
Not really a problem. You can buy an Exchange extension for Ximian's Evolution mail program. It seems like it may have been a little pricey around $30-$40 the last time I looked a couple of years ago but you should check it out.
Who died and gave the RIAA supreme Legislative and Judicial control in this country. Sometimes I think this group just has a serious pair that someone needs to walk up and slam a bat between
MY GOD, they are using the Jedi mind trick on us! "This is not the Sony exploit you are looking for... it can go on about it's business of destabalizing your system's security. Move along now... Move along"
I don't think that Dell will take sides on shipping a desktop PC with any one Linux flavor. The reason is when when a company as large as Dell chooses a particular distribution they tend to make a statement. It gives the false perception that one distribution is better than the other because a large company like Dell says so. This could also create a backlask within the OSS community considering that everyone has their favorite distro and probably have little desire to switch to another. By remaining neutral Dell can let the market and customers decide for themselves. It's actually a good position from the point of both Dell and the consumer. Let the consumer decide how they want their system to look. This is the philosphy that has made Dell so successful today. Well that and no one can touch their after sale service solution.
Sorry, but that is not how the Internet is designed. We use the trickle down method on the Internet. Content providers already pay their ISP's, who in turn pay their Telcos, who back bone providers and so on. You can't just decide to change the rules in the middle of the game.
It's like the just woke up to the Internet and said, "Hey those content guys are getting mega wealthy due to stuff coming accross our backbone and we're only getting filty rich from the existing bandwidth usage agreements with the ISP's and telcos." Even though they did not have the inovation and fore thought to come up with these ideas such as Google they still think they deserve an extra piece of the pie. That's crap and I do not care what context you try to spin it in and yes I actually read the article.
Why that Self-righteous glutinous SOB!!!! Those pipes have been paid for 100x over by now. SBC is just trying to save their old busniess model. Now, I'm not saying that they don't have a right to try and protect their buiness but I think they could come up with a better way of putting other than, "It's my ball and if you don't play my way I'm going home and taking my ball with me." I really think the all of the coporations in America are run by those same whiners from when were kids. So I think its time to insert Congress to take their ball and kick them to the curb.
My God this was a ridiculous waste of time and almost as stupid a bill as "High School Cheerleading Decency Act" which I might add, actually passed. I mean for Christ's sake, our Texas legislature only meets 6 months out of every two years to begin with and this is a really good sample of the stupid nonsense the people of this state have to put up with. However, we did seem to completely drop the ball anything resembling education reform. But we can be reassured that while our young people won't see any better quality of education out of this congressional session at the very least our young cheerleaders will be spared a future of becoming a harlot due to improper dance moves, thank God for the strong state wide stand cheerleading decency!
ARGH!!!!!!!!
So, once again important issues facing the state's citizenry have been brushed aside in an effort to stroke the moral pride of the stupid and useless but highly vocal right wing of my beloved Republican party. God it makes me proud to be a minority with a the majority. Gah! I assume a special session will now be called again by our Governor. Maybe this time something will get done and the Democrats in congress won't feel the need to flee the state in order to prevent a vote. I mean it is really embarrassing when the Governor of your state threatens to have a warrant issued for the Democrat members of the state congress in order to have Texas State Troopers bring congressmen and congresswomen back to the state so that voting can occur.
Sometimes I wonder how in the heck with anything gets done in Texas when my state's politics are so completely out of control.
Isn't that like blocking FTP traffic. I no a lot of companies that distribute large files via BitTorrent. This seems like a rather rash decision to me.
I really think that if they stick to the classic works that have no copyright issues this will be a great thing for all. This makes the research and reading of historical works more easily accessible. This could also really open up the world to a true digital library available to anyone everywhere and that cannot be anything but good.
With regards to the printers loosing money; I do not think it will be replacing the traditional books though any time soon. Most people that I know still enjoy the tactile sensation of reading an actual hard copy book as oposed to e-book style literature. Who knows though, future generations who live out most of their day-to-day lives interacting with web enabled content may choose differently. We are today setting the ground works for our children and grandchildren to enjoy leasure of a true digital age of always available content.
Okay just took a look at this for the first time and I am very impressed. It found my house with no problems. I am especially impressed with the lack of clutter. The mapping system just looks crisp and clean. This may be beta but I would say look out Mapquest who has grown too complacient for too long.
It also really helps when your motivation is a Sgt. standing over you and yelling. Let me explain something to you soldier, for every Math Miscalculation I see here you will run ten miles... NOW BREAK OUT THAT SLIDE RULE, AM I CLEAR!!!!
I think they become good at there jobs out of fear that they will be made to run from California to New York and then back again.:)
Sorry but it will cost more than 10s of billions to wire every house in the United Stated with fiber. That is just an unheard of and extremely expensive prospet.
Well, here is my opinion and we have been used four seperate satellite setups for about two years now. For normal web browsing the DirectWay Satellite system is not much better than dial-up and in some cases much worse. The more individual files that the website has the slower the response time is from the satellite. We installed several on the outskirts of three cities to provide a link to our remote offices were broadband was not an option.
First off, talk with the technical engineers because the sales people forget to mention that some traffic like ICMP and others are automatically placed at the bottom of the satellite systems queue. This is why you will see things like a 400ms+ ping time. What we learned is that if you use your link for downloading files it is great. Once the connection is established it goes beautifully. The problem with game playing or even intense web browsing is that you are always transmitting data and files that may be small but the fact that it requires multiple file transfers is the bad part. When you think about it, how many files does your web browser download when you go to a website core html, pics, flash, audio, etc? The more individual files on a site really causes problems for the system's performance. Like I said though when we used it we did data batching scenario and would compress large quantities of data into a single file and then FTP it to a drop box for pick up in our corporate office at regular batch intervals. In this type of scenario we got great performance with a several hundred K/sec file transfer rate.
If you want to deploy any type of remote desktop software you better make it VNC with best compression or forget it. Even the use of VNC will turn out to be a lesson in humility and frustration.
In my opinion the system really stinks for anything other than large file downloads. It just does not seem to be very versatile.
I have not done much research on this so I am asking this question here, please do not flame me for my ignorance. Has it been theorized that their may or may not be in existence some sort of interstellar currents? By asking this, I am making reference to the types of underwater currents that we find in the ocean on Earth.
So what about this possible existence of a system interstellar currents that run between the solar systems? Has it been shot down as negative, ruled as possible or not even considered?
Those are the kind of stupid things someone supports right before they are very public dragged from their office beaten with a very large stick in the middle of the town square.
If you want to use this for personal use like suggested in the article. Stream from home to work then just set you up a cheapo Linux VPN server. Dial-in from work and let the tunes flow.
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"I notice that in my version of Firefox the search box defaults to Google, and that the pulldown menu of pre-entered options doesn't even include MSN Search, but Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available.""
Google does not control Firefox development or standards. It is up to Microsoft to assert to Firefox that they are being infringed upon and ask the Firefox development community include MSN as a search option. Google is only responsible for fighting their own battles and there is nothing about fair trade practices that say a company is required to make an argument for their competitors. Of course Microsoft will never ask this of the Firefox development community because that would provide acknowledgment of Firefox as realistic alternative to IE6/7. The last thing Microsoft wants right now while trying to roll out IE7 is to give any additional legitimacy to Firefox as true competitor and alternative.
Maybe there is a configuration option I am missing or something but IE7 honestly seems very slow at times. Certain web pages I go to just are not loading very quickly. Such as this morning I opened http://www.usatoday.com/ thinking I would take IE7 out for a bit longer of a test drive. It took a longer ammount of time for the USAToday home page to load in IE7 than for me to get frustrated with the wait, open Firefox and start reading the details of a particular cover story article. By the way it did finally load but it took almost 35 to 40 seconds to do so. I am assuming there is a logical explaination though because that was so slow I cannot imagine anyone using IE7 if this were a comon occurance. However, I do like the new stripped down look of the interface though very simliar to firefox and opera.
Honestly i cannot decide which is my favorite browser but neither IE6 nor 7 are even in the running. Sometimes I use Opera other times I use firefox as each has small things I like about them more based off whatever it is I am currently doing. These days i pretty much only use IE if I go to a page that requires ActiveX support and it flashes up that my browser is unsupported by this site. By the way, to me those sites seem to be getting fewer and farther between all the time.
In other news Microsoft has vowed to move all of their next line of operating systems to the PowerPC chip. An unnamed executive from Microsoft was quoted to say, "Stick it Steve! Go play with you mouse ears and let the big boys handle computer stuff."
An Apple spokesman resoponded by announcing the release of there latest iPod brain child. "This latest generation of iPod will be called the iBear. Basically it is a stuffed pinky teddy bear slash iPod which we think will be a hit with the 13 year old girl market."
GAH!!!!!!!!
I'll tell you what I just want some "Doctor Who." I get sick and tired of downloading them from through Bit Torrent. I am an American and I want me some real BBC content and not this watered down BBC America rubbish!!!!
"Good managers ask for something in 5 days, but need it in 6."
This is good and it keeps your employee's stress level down a bit. But just remember not to kill them over that five day deadline. I have seen to many managers push that five day deadline so hard when they only needed it in six and it tends to upset the employees. Everyone is busting tail to get it done and want to put it into production to get the big pat on the back and hear the old "that a boy/girl". (By the way that was an analogy do not ever patronize your employee with that quote.) Manager says, "Well we are not going to actually roll it out until tomorrow." Now you have honked off employees.
Managers, Remember to compliment and thank your employees on a regular baisis. Remember that we managers will fail without the support of our staff so remember not take your employees for granted and be courteous.
Sorry that's the whole reason of getting someone to sign a Non-disclosure/Infringement agreement before you pitch an idea. Because the NDA is supposed to protect you from someone like EA ripping off your idea's/I.P.
There are too many companies out there that just steal ideas so that they can make a little extra cash. It is sad state of affairs when R&D starts meaning Rip-off and Duplicate. Remember the old days when it actually meant research and development.... [sighs]
I think the title is extremely valid. The writer wants to know about what issues people of encountered with rolling out a Linux enterprise desktop environment. A Postmortem or "After Action Report" if you were brought up through the military :) is what most good IT Managers go through after a project to research what if anything went wrong during the implementation phase. It allows you to outline the implementations faults so that it never happen again. My IT department does a postmortem any time there is a major issue that arrises. The postmortem is then submitted to Sr. Management who usually only glances at it before tossing it away. However the postmortem analyzes what went wrong, what was done to resolve the issue and what steps have been taken to prevent the issue from happening again in the future.
Not really a problem. You can buy an Exchange extension for Ximian's Evolution mail program. It seems like it may have been a little pricey around $30-$40 the last time I looked a couple of years ago but you should check it out.
No no your honor... downloading 3000 mp3's for free was not wrong... it was just a mistake!
Who died and gave the RIAA supreme Legislative and Judicial control in this country. Sometimes I think this group just has a serious pair that someone needs to walk up and slam a bat between
MY GOD, they are using the Jedi mind trick on us! "This is not the Sony exploit you are looking for... it can go on about it's business of destabalizing your system's security. Move along now... Move along"
I don't think that Dell will take sides on shipping a desktop PC with any one Linux flavor. The reason is when when a company as large as Dell chooses a particular distribution they tend to make a statement. It gives the false perception that one distribution is better than the other because a large company like Dell says so. This could also create a backlask within the OSS community considering that everyone has their favorite distro and probably have little desire to switch to another. By remaining neutral Dell can let the market and customers decide for themselves. It's actually a good position from the point of both Dell and the consumer. Let the consumer decide how they want their system to look. This is the philosphy that has made Dell so successful today. Well that and no one can touch their after sale service solution.
Sorry, but that is not how the Internet is designed. We use the trickle down method on the Internet. Content providers already pay their ISP's, who in turn pay their Telcos, who back bone providers and so on. You can't just decide to change the rules in the middle of the game.
It's like the just woke up to the Internet and said, "Hey those content guys are getting mega wealthy due to stuff coming accross our backbone and we're only getting filty rich from the existing bandwidth usage agreements with the ISP's and telcos." Even though they did not have the inovation and fore thought to come up with these ideas such as Google they still think they deserve an extra piece of the pie. That's crap and I do not care what context you try to spin it in and yes I actually read the article.
Why that Self-righteous glutinous SOB!!!! Those pipes have been paid for 100x over by now. SBC is just trying to save their old busniess model. Now, I'm not saying that they don't have a right to try and protect their buiness but I think they could come up with a better way of putting other than, "It's my ball and if you don't play my way I'm going home and taking my ball with me." I really think the all of the coporations in America are run by those same whiners from when were kids. So I think its time to insert Congress to take their ball and kick them to the curb.
My God this was a ridiculous waste of time and almost as stupid a bill as "High School Cheerleading Decency Act" which I might add, actually passed. I mean for Christ's sake, our Texas legislature only meets 6 months out of every two years to begin with and this is a really good sample of the stupid nonsense the people of this state have to put up with. However, we did seem to completely drop the ball anything resembling education reform. But we can be reassured that while our young people won't see any better quality of education out of this congressional session at the very least our young cheerleaders will be spared a future of becoming a harlot due to improper dance moves, thank God for the strong state wide stand cheerleading decency!
ARGH!!!!!!!!
So, once again important issues facing the state's citizenry have been brushed aside in an effort to stroke the moral pride of the stupid and useless but highly vocal right wing of my beloved Republican party. God it makes me proud to be a minority with a the majority. Gah! I assume a special session will now be called again by our Governor. Maybe this time something will get done and the Democrats in congress won't feel the need to flee the state in order to prevent a vote. I mean it is really embarrassing when the Governor of your state threatens to have a warrant issued for the Democrat members of the state congress in order to have Texas State Troopers bring congressmen and congresswomen back to the state so that voting can occur.
Sometimes I wonder how in the heck with anything gets done in Texas when my state's politics are so completely out of control.
Isn't that like blocking FTP traffic. I no a lot of companies that distribute large files via BitTorrent. This seems like a rather rash decision to me.
I really think that if they stick to the classic works that have no copyright issues this will be a great thing for all. This makes the research and reading of historical works more easily accessible. This could also really open up the world to a true digital library available to anyone everywhere and that cannot be anything but good.
With regards to the printers loosing money; I do not think it will be replacing the traditional books though any time soon. Most people that I know still enjoy the tactile sensation of reading an actual hard copy book as oposed to e-book style literature. Who knows though, future generations who live out most of their day-to-day lives interacting with web enabled content may choose differently. We are today setting the ground works for our children and grandchildren to enjoy leasure of a true digital age of always available content.
Okay just took a look at this for the first time and I am very impressed. It found my house with no problems. I am especially impressed with the lack of clutter. The mapping system just looks crisp and clean. This may be beta but I would say look out Mapquest who has grown too complacient for too long.
And how does that 2 miles per second size up compared to the speed required in order to escape the Earths Gravity and reach orbit?
Does anyone know?
I could be wrong but I was pretty sure that words which end in "s" such as "Nazis" have the mark after the "s" when shown in the posessive form.
Nazis'
I could be wrong though since I have always been horrible with regards to the proper uses of grammar.
It also really helps when your motivation is a Sgt. standing over you and yelling. Let me explain something to you soldier, for every Math Miscalculation I see here you will run ten miles... NOW BREAK OUT THAT SLIDE RULE, AM I CLEAR!!!!
:)
I think they become good at there jobs out of fear that they will be made to run from California to New York and then back again.
Sorry but it will cost more than 10s of billions to wire every house in the United Stated with fiber. That is just an unheard of and extremely expensive prospet.
Well, here is my opinion and we have been used four seperate satellite setups for about two years now. For normal web browsing the DirectWay Satellite system is not much better than dial-up and in some cases much worse. The more individual files that the website has the slower the response time is from the satellite. We installed several on the outskirts of three cities to provide a link to our remote offices were broadband was not an option.
First off, talk with the technical engineers because the sales people forget to mention that some traffic like ICMP and others are automatically placed at the bottom of the satellite systems queue. This is why you will see things like a 400ms+ ping time. What we learned is that if you use your link for downloading files it is great. Once the connection is established it goes beautifully. The problem with game playing or even intense web browsing is that you are always transmitting data and files that may be small but the fact that it requires multiple file transfers is the bad part. When you think about it, how many files does your web browser download when you go to a website core html, pics, flash, audio, etc? The more individual files on a site really causes problems for the system's performance. Like I said though when we used it we did data batching scenario and would compress large quantities of data into a single file and then FTP it to a drop box for pick up in our corporate office at regular batch intervals. In this type of scenario we got great performance with a several hundred K/sec file transfer rate.
If you want to deploy any type of remote desktop software you better make it VNC with best compression or forget it. Even the use of VNC will turn out to be a lesson in humility and frustration.
In my opinion the system really stinks for anything other than large file downloads. It just does not seem to be very versatile.
I have not done much research on this so I am asking this question here, please do not flame me for my ignorance. Has it been theorized that their may or may not be in existence some sort of interstellar currents? By asking this, I am making reference to the types of underwater currents that we find in the ocean on Earth.
So what about this possible existence of a system interstellar currents that run between the solar systems? Has it been shot down as negative, ruled as possible or not even considered?
WOW!!!
Those are the kind of stupid things someone supports right before they are very public dragged from their office beaten with a very large stick in the middle of the town square.
If you want to use this for personal use like suggested in the article. Stream from home to work then just set you up a cheapo Linux VPN server. Dial-in from work and let the tunes flow.