Wow, you've proved yourself one of the stoopid l773. You can't argue any better than that? Fucking pathetic what are our grade schools are turning out these days. Go work for Microsoft when you grow up. You'll fit in perfectly.
Yeah the lunix crowd can actually spell Linux correctly and as far as I know there hasn't been an actual D&D crowd in several years. Aside from that actually listen to how the phrase is said sometime and you'll find that most people say 'Could care less.' So stfu, and go be Microsoft's unthinking little lapdog again.
Lol, I don't think you'll have a problem. Bring enough cash and you'll probably be able to be able to buy them all, and make stocking them actually worth it for the store. Here's for another designated Microsoft crapshoot.
Xbox 360? Isn't that kinda like saying we turned our new product completely around (figuratively speaking) so we could send it in same direction as the old one? Talk about a vote for uncreativity:p Yes, I did hear it was a nod to the skateboarding community. Why? And if so why not just call it the Xbox 180? It would make more sense. Go figure.
By 360 I take it they mean they are turning the Xbox around in a full circle (figuratively speaking)...in order to go in exactly the same direction they were going before?
I played this game extensively a few years back, when I was in grade school, I think (okay more than a few years back), and as I recall it made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Not sure If I ever beat it or not, but I think not. Personally given my memories of it, I could care less if it comes out on DS or PSP.
Gee, I notice I'm not the one lacking the balls post with my actual name. Yes, the dialog was corny in places, but who the hell is looking at the cgi characters in the background. Watch the fucking movie and quit whing. I swear some people are never happy with anything. Quit whining jerkoff.
Gotta say I really applaud their marketing philosophy. There are to many crappy, uncreative sequels out there for games (and movies), that are only produced because the original did great and the company just wants to make an extra buck or two. I predict good things for the game, and I'll look for it on shelves.
To the author of this article:
Finally got it right? So it somehow seems that George messed up some critical point in the original three? I think an obssessed legion of fanatical Lucas zealots and Star Wars freaks would beg to differ with that statement. Aside from that, yeah the Phantom Menace wasn't so great. Jar Jar Binks was incredibly annoying (can they please, PLEASE KILL HIM this movie? I'd love to see Jar Jar's fricking head get lopped off with a lightsaber; hell I'd pay money just to see that one scene by itself) and was far to prominent in the movie, but Attack of the Clones was pretty good. Particularly the end battle scene in the arena, and Yoda stepping up to the plate againest Count Dooku were particularly good. Personal opinion: take your opinion and shove it pal. With the exception of Phantom Menace I've liked all the movies, and I don't doubt Revenge of the Sith will be great as well.
Okay, well granted BG working at McD's was mostly for laughs, on-topic though, it's not unprecedented for large companies to sometimes hinge their expectations on a particular product or service and then have it flop on a massive scale and never be seen again. Let's take an example here: Vince McMahon with the XFL. The XFL was supposed to be Vince's triumphant entry into the real professional sports arena, with the usual Vince flair to it, hence the name XFL (eXtreme Football League). It was a total failure. Nobody watched and it lasted all of about a month. That was a couple of years and now when you say XFL people stop and say 'WTF is that?' Granted it didn't take Vince under with it, but who's to say what could have happened if he'd given up Pro Wrestling and put all his money into the XFL?
To further my point on MS, Bill has to put forth a new OS, and it has to be a good one. Lets face it. Most people are fed up with the Windows franchise by now. It's slow. It's an easy hack usually, it can often be frustrating for both the user and overall sysadmins and other OS' like Apple and Linux are showing that they can do just about everything Windows can do, better (the sole exception right now, being games; difficult to run on most Linux distros and not enough of them made for MAC's).
Also, Microsoft is set to release both Longhorn and IE 7 fairly soon. These are supposed to be massive updates. Once they're out we'll know, but until then saying that "MS is dying" is very ignorant.
Cough, very ignorant? Longhorn is two years overdue. They've scaled down just about everything notable in the product from the much touted WINFX filesystem, to the new graphics system Indigo, and let's just face it nobody cares enough about Palladium to notice if it's there or not. And IE7? They just released notice that they're working on it last week.
To finish this off Windows is still the core of Microsoft. You don't see 80% or 90% of the corporate world writing memo's on their Xbox's.
So until you figure out what the hell you're talking about STFU.
Microsoft is dying. Look between the lines and it's easy to see. Linux and OSS are everyday cutting a sizable chunk out of Windows and MS software as people get sick of crashes, slow loadup times, frequent security holes, badly written programs, and badly produced crap; all the things that make Microsoft Microsoft. Basically right now all of Microsft is hinging around Longhorn. Longhorn doesn't have to be a good OS. It has to be a GREAT OS. Microsoft has to satisfy everyone with Longhorn. They've gotta create a product that will revolutionize the market--again (don't tell me the original GUI windows wasn't a real revolutionizer), but computer OS design has got to take another big step forward and I don't think MS has what it takes to do that.
This is just another attempt by Gates to make a company float, that is most assuredly siinnkkkiinnngg. Sorry Bill. Hope you like working at McDonald's.
I would say have the place your volunteering at purchase an oem version of antivirus software (personally I prefer Symantec, but anything except McAfee is alright), and give it out to all your users free of charge. Write a login script for your server that will check to make sure each computer that connects has antivirus installed and if it doesn't automatically disconnects them. Problem solved. Of course writing such a script might pose something of a problem, but think creatively and I'm sure you can figure out a way to do it.
Other solutions: force your users to login to access web services (the vast majority won't have enough knowledge to get around it, particularly if you secure it well, although you will have a percentage that is consistently able to bypass it; although these are the people you probably have to worry the least about accidentally getting a virus from), and make sure that only computers that have been personally verified to have antivirus are given accounts to login with. This will probably take an enormous amount of time to do. I'd suggest setting up a helpdesk and having users bring their laptops in for verification and arranging appointments for desktops (think positive, this could be a great way to meet women!). Once you get over the hump of existing users you'll have plenty of time, and you'll only have to deal with the occassional new user (hopefully). Lastly, I'd like to say volunteering on the basis of being anything more than a simple computer fix-it guy is BAD idea. On a small network, let's say 10 to 50 computers, network admining isn't terribly time consuming. 500 computers is a lot different. That is not a small network. For a network of that size admining is a full time job, and you should be willing to spend as much time as needed on it, if you're going to be the sysadmin, (in which case they also need to hire you and pay you cash for it), or you need to bite the bullet and tell them to get someone else. You're getting ripped off here pal, they're screwing you over for services they're not paying you for, you're screwing them over for having a life and not treating the network like a full time job, and the tenants are getting screwed because they're using an unsecure network, because you don't have enough time to properly secure it. I'll say it bluntly: get paid for it, or get out. That's my advice.
Not a bad idea actually. In truth it does scare me a bit, because of what it could open the door for, but for what it's intended I like the idea. Personally, in my opinion sex offenders are just about the lowest form of life on Earth. I mean it takes a sick individual to molest a child or rape a woman. Personally, if it weren't for the possibility that some of those guys might actually be innocent, I'd say the sentence should carry a mandatory automatic castration. But back to what I'm saying: sex offenders shouldn't have the same rights as everybody else. You're a sick freak, you can't control yourself, you pay the price (Michael Jackson).
"Curiously enough, PCMag thinks that's a perfectly good reason."
That's because PCmag isn't worth the ink that's wasted on it. They're a kissass magazine, they kissass to every hardware, software, and os vendor willing to bare their butt for it. Oh for the record that goes for PCWorld as well and all the rest.
Well I'm not goin to give out specific details, but I've got the exact opposite problem. I'm a sort of lower level sysadmin (the kind that fixes minor computer issues; 'I can't connect' 'it says I have Sasser, MsBlast, and Netsky, can you help me?' 'Can you come over and install Kazaa for me?' etc. that sort of job) the upper admins run the network, if you can call it that, and do the more important stuff.
Basically our network admins are idiots. They've got lots of really cool, expensive toys, but they have no clue how to use them. I suggest you try doing the same thing for your software compliance that we do for netadmins. Blow them off. Secure your network to the best of your abilities, then engage in extensive penetration testing of your network, while you document EVERYTHING you do.
This accomplishes (hopefully): securing your network, watching your back, making less work for you in the future/more time for Doom 3/Halflife 2/Halo/2 etc. That's a lot of work upfront, but if you can show them that your network if secure, with documented proof, they'll probably bite.
Even better, if your company will shell out the cash for it, hire a reputable 3rd party to hack the network, and have them thoroughly document your security measures/and the success/failure of the hack, then bring it to your boss.
The alternative is to do everything the software asks, and chances are your company will get so sick of 14 letter-digit-special character random passwords, that change every 2 weeks (and similar security measures; welcome to my world) that they'll just say screw it and not bother you again about security.
You filled out trouble tickets and they never responded? Big surprise. You need to be more aggressive. Call them up, demand to speak to the highest brass you can get at, and either a) work it out if they're willing (then get a new registrar cause this one sounds like crap) b) despite your earlier reluctance to the idea GET A LAWYER. It's your money man, fight for it. You paid for the their services, and they're screwing you over, so take their sorry asses to court and run them off your block.
Nevermind the cost it'll take to hire a lawyer. You've got a real legitimate claim here, that they can't dodge. Either settle for cash (and find a new registrar) or beat them in court and ask that they rectify the problem and pay your legal bills. It's just like in high school, you gotta stand up for yourself or people are gonna walk the hell all over you.
Is anybody really all that worried about the UN? If everything we've ever heard about the UN is correct, then why should we really be worried? By all appearances the UN is even more incompetent than the US government at nearly anything (particularly if it's related to security). All it's really going to do is make life more interesting for a few bored Computer Exploration Experts (hacker denotes such negative connotations these days, sigh). I mean hell look at the evidence, wrist slaps for nuclear weapons development and testing, genocidal dictators, Iraq, hell you name it the UN never did anything about it.
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Wow, you've proved yourself one of the stoopid l773. You can't argue any better than that? Fucking pathetic what are our grade schools are turning out these days. Go work for Microsoft when you grow up. You'll fit in perfectly.
Yeah the lunix crowd can actually spell Linux correctly and as far as I know there hasn't been an actual D&D crowd in several years. Aside from that actually listen to how the phrase is said sometime and you'll find that most people say 'Could care less.' So stfu, and go be Microsoft's unthinking little lapdog again.
Good light, you'd waste your time installing a Windows OS on this thing? I thought the average SD reader was supposed to be intelligent?
Lol, I don't think you'll have a problem. Bring enough cash and you'll probably be able to be able to buy them all, and make stocking them actually worth it for the store. Here's for another designated Microsoft crapshoot.
Xbox 360? Isn't that kinda like saying we turned our new product completely around (figuratively speaking) so we could send it in same direction as the old one? Talk about a vote for uncreativity :p Yes, I did hear it was a nod to the skateboarding community. Why? And if so why not just call it the Xbox 180? It would make more sense. Go figure.
By 360 I take it they mean they are turning the Xbox around in a full circle (figuratively speaking)...in order to go in exactly the same direction they were going before?
I played this game extensively a few years back, when I was in grade school, I think (okay more than a few years back), and as I recall it made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Not sure If I ever beat it or not, but I think not. Personally given my memories of it, I could care less if it comes out on DS or PSP.
Gee, I notice I'm not the one lacking the balls post with my actual name. Yes, the dialog was corny in places, but who the hell is looking at the cgi characters in the background. Watch the fucking movie and quit whing. I swear some people are never happy with anything. Quit whining jerkoff.
Gotta say I really applaud their marketing philosophy. There are to many crappy, uncreative sequels out there for games (and movies), that are only produced because the original did great and the company just wants to make an extra buck or two. I predict good things for the game, and I'll look for it on shelves.
To the author of this article:
Finally got it right? So it somehow seems that George messed up some critical point in the original three? I think an obssessed legion of fanatical Lucas zealots and Star Wars freaks would beg to differ with that statement. Aside from that, yeah the Phantom Menace wasn't so great. Jar Jar Binks was incredibly annoying (can they please, PLEASE KILL HIM this movie? I'd love to see Jar Jar's fricking head get lopped off with a lightsaber; hell I'd pay money just to see that one scene by itself) and was far to prominent in the movie, but Attack of the Clones was pretty good. Particularly the end battle scene in the arena, and Yoda stepping up to the plate againest Count Dooku were particularly good. Personal opinion: take your opinion and shove it pal. With the exception of Phantom Menace I've liked all the movies, and I don't doubt Revenge of the Sith will be great as well.
Okay, well granted BG working at McD's was mostly for laughs, on-topic though, it's not unprecedented for large companies to sometimes hinge their expectations on a particular product or service and then have it flop on a massive scale and never be seen again. Let's take an example here: Vince McMahon with the XFL. The XFL was supposed to be Vince's triumphant entry into the real professional sports arena, with the usual Vince flair to it, hence the name XFL (eXtreme Football League). It was a total failure. Nobody watched and it lasted all of about a month. That was a couple of years and now when you say XFL people stop and say 'WTF is that?' Granted it didn't take Vince under with it, but who's to say what could have happened if he'd given up Pro Wrestling and put all his money into the XFL?
To further my point on MS, Bill has to put forth a new OS, and it has to be a good one. Lets face it. Most people are fed up with the Windows franchise by now. It's slow. It's an easy hack usually, it can often be frustrating for both the user and overall sysadmins and other OS' like Apple and Linux are showing that they can do just about everything Windows can do, better (the sole exception right now, being games; difficult to run on most Linux distros and not enough of them made for MAC's).
Also, Microsoft is set to release both Longhorn and IE 7 fairly soon. These are supposed to be massive updates. Once they're out we'll know, but until then saying that "MS is dying" is very ignorant.
Cough, very ignorant? Longhorn is two years overdue. They've scaled down just about everything notable in the product from the much touted WINFX filesystem, to the new graphics system Indigo, and let's just face it nobody cares enough about Palladium to notice if it's there or not. And IE7? They just released notice that they're working on it last week.
To finish this off Windows is still the core of Microsoft. You don't see 80% or 90% of the corporate world writing memo's on their Xbox's.
So until you figure out what the hell you're talking about STFU.
Microsoft is dying. Look between the lines and it's easy to see. Linux and OSS are everyday cutting a sizable chunk out of Windows and MS software as people get sick of crashes, slow loadup times, frequent security holes, badly written programs, and badly produced crap; all the things that make Microsoft Microsoft. Basically right now all of Microsft is hinging around Longhorn. Longhorn doesn't have to be a good OS. It has to be a GREAT OS. Microsoft has to satisfy everyone with Longhorn. They've gotta create a product that will revolutionize the market--again (don't tell me the original GUI windows wasn't a real revolutionizer), but computer OS design has got to take another big step forward and I don't think MS has what it takes to do that. This is just another attempt by Gates to make a company float, that is most assuredly siinnkkkiinnngg. Sorry Bill. Hope you like working at McDonald's.
I would say have the place your volunteering at purchase an oem version of antivirus software (personally I prefer Symantec, but anything except McAfee is alright), and give it out to all your users free of charge. Write a login script for your server that will check to make sure each computer that connects has antivirus installed and if it doesn't automatically disconnects them. Problem solved. Of course writing such a script might pose something of a problem, but think creatively and I'm sure you can figure out a way to do it. Other solutions: force your users to login to access web services (the vast majority won't have enough knowledge to get around it, particularly if you secure it well, although you will have a percentage that is consistently able to bypass it; although these are the people you probably have to worry the least about accidentally getting a virus from), and make sure that only computers that have been personally verified to have antivirus are given accounts to login with. This will probably take an enormous amount of time to do. I'd suggest setting up a helpdesk and having users bring their laptops in for verification and arranging appointments for desktops (think positive, this could be a great way to meet women!). Once you get over the hump of existing users you'll have plenty of time, and you'll only have to deal with the occassional new user (hopefully). Lastly, I'd like to say volunteering on the basis of being anything more than a simple computer fix-it guy is BAD idea. On a small network, let's say 10 to 50 computers, network admining isn't terribly time consuming. 500 computers is a lot different. That is not a small network. For a network of that size admining is a full time job, and you should be willing to spend as much time as needed on it, if you're going to be the sysadmin, (in which case they also need to hire you and pay you cash for it), or you need to bite the bullet and tell them to get someone else. You're getting ripped off here pal, they're screwing you over for services they're not paying you for, you're screwing them over for having a life and not treating the network like a full time job, and the tenants are getting screwed because they're using an unsecure network, because you don't have enough time to properly secure it. I'll say it bluntly: get paid for it, or get out. That's my advice.
Not a bad idea actually. In truth it does scare me a bit, because of what it could open the door for, but for what it's intended I like the idea. Personally, in my opinion sex offenders are just about the lowest form of life on Earth. I mean it takes a sick individual to molest a child or rape a woman. Personally, if it weren't for the possibility that some of those guys might actually be innocent, I'd say the sentence should carry a mandatory automatic castration. But back to what I'm saying: sex offenders shouldn't have the same rights as everybody else. You're a sick freak, you can't control yourself, you pay the price (Michael Jackson).
"Curiously enough, PCMag thinks that's a perfectly good reason." That's because PCmag isn't worth the ink that's wasted on it. They're a kissass magazine, they kissass to every hardware, software, and os vendor willing to bare their butt for it. Oh for the record that goes for PCWorld as well and all the rest.
Well I'm not goin to give out specific details, but I've got the exact opposite problem. I'm a sort of lower level sysadmin (the kind that fixes minor computer issues; 'I can't connect' 'it says I have Sasser, MsBlast, and Netsky, can you help me?' 'Can you come over and install Kazaa for me?' etc. that sort of job) the upper admins run the network, if you can call it that, and do the more important stuff. Basically our network admins are idiots. They've got lots of really cool, expensive toys, but they have no clue how to use them. I suggest you try doing the same thing for your software compliance that we do for netadmins. Blow them off. Secure your network to the best of your abilities, then engage in extensive penetration testing of your network, while you document EVERYTHING you do. This accomplishes (hopefully): securing your network, watching your back, making less work for you in the future/more time for Doom 3/Halflife 2/Halo/2 etc. That's a lot of work upfront, but if you can show them that your network if secure, with documented proof, they'll probably bite. Even better, if your company will shell out the cash for it, hire a reputable 3rd party to hack the network, and have them thoroughly document your security measures/and the success/failure of the hack, then bring it to your boss. The alternative is to do everything the software asks, and chances are your company will get so sick of 14 letter-digit-special character random passwords, that change every 2 weeks (and similar security measures; welcome to my world) that they'll just say screw it and not bother you again about security.
You filled out trouble tickets and they never responded? Big surprise. You need to be more aggressive. Call them up, demand to speak to the highest brass you can get at, and either a) work it out if they're willing (then get a new registrar cause this one sounds like crap) b) despite your earlier reluctance to the idea GET A LAWYER. It's your money man, fight for it. You paid for the their services, and they're screwing you over, so take their sorry asses to court and run them off your block. Nevermind the cost it'll take to hire a lawyer. You've got a real legitimate claim here, that they can't dodge. Either settle for cash (and find a new registrar) or beat them in court and ask that they rectify the problem and pay your legal bills. It's just like in high school, you gotta stand up for yourself or people are gonna walk the hell all over you.
Is anybody really all that worried about the UN? If everything we've ever heard about the UN is correct, then why should we really be worried? By all appearances the UN is even more incompetent than the US government at nearly anything (particularly if it's related to security). All it's really going to do is make life more interesting for a few bored Computer Exploration Experts (hacker denotes such negative connotations these days, sigh). I mean hell look at the evidence, wrist slaps for nuclear weapons development and testing, genocidal dictators, Iraq, hell you name it the UN never did anything about it.