I'll also agree with the wonders of Joystix. My girlfriend and I go there with friends every few months or so.:-)
The two caveats I would make are that A) as it is a showroom and it is very popular, it gets pretty damn crowded in there after 9:30 PM or so, and B) they do repair/resell, so not everything is going to be working. Most of it is, but last time I went two of my favorite pinball machines (Bram Stoker's Dracula and Doctor Who) kept resetting themselves after a minute of play.
Still, like he says, there's a LOT of games there, including games I hadn't seen in ages. Time Traveler, anyone?
I happen to be the webmaster (really, sysadmin, but why quibble) of a popular Mortal Kombat fansite.
In the first "generation" of Mortal Kombat (MK 1-4), every one of the fighting games made their way to PC. As soon as the first of the second "generation" games was announced (Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance), we were bombarded with people asking about a PC version, because only console versions had been mentioned. We asked reps from Midway (including a head of marketing) at E3, and the reps told us they had no plans to make a PC version, as they had never made any money on the PC versions.
Between E3 and the game's actual release, the questions regarding the availability of a PC version only intensified, and many folks were irate that there were no PC versions. Then we got to thinking about it... we knew a lot of people had PC versions, but there was no money made on it? We knew the games had no DRM, so it wasn't hard for us to believe that a good chunk of the people who had gotten the PC version before (and were asking for it now) were pirates. In fact, one of our staff members actually caught out someone demanding a PC version admitting he pirated other game software...
So, yeah, I can say that the entire lack of MK for PC now is due to piracy. The earlier games got pirated all to hell and they never made money off those ports, so why bother porting if it's not worth the money?
Just keep in mind that it's not the original recording. Buckner & Garcia weren't allowed access to the master recordings so they re-recorded it. It's not any worse than the original... just slightly different in parts. The song "Mousetrap" is the most glaring example, as they didn't have access to a Mousetrap machine so they used stock sounds of a dog, cat, and bird...
I have 7 iPhones and over 30 Blackberrys at my workplace. The iPhones work with Exchange for 3 days then fail. The blackberrys never fail. When I reconfigure the iPhones they work for another 3 days and fail again. I had to switch them to POP3. I find the iPhone touch interface unresponsive and frustrating as the Blackberry interface is easy to use and very responsive (Tour, Storm, and Bold). I only have 2 users with Windows mobile phones, but I have had no issues with those either. Am I the only one experiencing this?
I'm actually on the opposite side of the spectrum from you. We have 10+ iPhones in my company (mostly in IT) and about the same number of Blackberry devices as you (maybe more), plus more WM devices than either, and one Android user. We haven't had a single problem with the iPhones and Exchange. What very few problems we've had were Exchange related and affected all ActiveSync devices (aka, all but Blackberry). My own iPhone has been synced up with Exchange flawlessly without a wipe/reload since I got it in mid-to-late 2008. As for the Blackberry interface, I'll grant the Bold as being relatively easy to use and never have used the Tour, but I HATED working on the Storm whenever I had to set one up for a user. The one Android user had a Storm previously; she hated it and was glad to migrate. We both found it clunky and unresponsive. Personally, I've no plans to migrate from iPhone as it's been the best smartphone I've ever used.
I won't say that you're the only one experiencing your problems, but I'd say you might want to look a little deeper and see if it might be something weird on your Exchange or a known issue. Otherwise... *shrug* like I said, I've got my iPhone connected to an Exchange server and it's been working without incident for a year and a half now.
Did you even read the Skype link? It says nothing about push notifications being enabled, and indeed, most of the comments are from people asking why they're not available and when they will be.
I didn't plan on it.:-) I was just going to say that the only reason they knew about that method of time travel was because they hit upon it quite literally by accident during TOS. There's nothing so far to indicate that they're going to find it in this new timeline...
But as a Trek fan, I am a little disappointed with how the storyline stacks up. I mean, Trek is known for having some plot holes here and there, but this movie really just forgoes all notion of continuity or semblance of some of the more recent Trek constants. To name a few:
The Temporal Prime Directive
In the Future, there is a division of Starfleet that watches the timeline for massive changes
Enterprise has shown us that they're not always too effective at preventing massive changes to the timeline. I can think of three massive changes alluded to or shown off the top of my head, only one of which was temporary (and that one resulted in the future Starfleet never existing; Archer and Daniels had to set things right on their own). I'd hazard to say that one massive change was enough to make any preventative changes unlikely.
The fact that reversing the damage caused by Neo would require a simple bit of time travel (jump to the past to reverse the damage caused, then jump to the future to prevent Neo from ever going back)
... time travel technology which did not exist in that era.
Neo's ship conforms to NONE of the established Romulan shiip design
There was a comic prequel series that explained this. Nero (NOT Neo) and his crew managed to steal some Borg technology acquired by the Romulans from one of their last surviving outposts.
Voyager's Chakotay-style Face Tattoos on romulans?
This was also explained in the prequel (I don't remember the exact explanation), but think of it this way: most Romulans we have seen before now have been military (naval equivalent), politicians, and/or white-collar civilians. Nero and his crew were civilian miners. It'd be like comparing naval ship captains, astronauts, or Senators to an offshore oil worker or roughneck.
So they negated the Trek that lead up to this. So? Batman Begins negated the Batman films that came before it, and Casino Royale negated the Bond films that came before it. Soetimes a clean sweep is a good thing, and if you're pining for the old Trek, I wouldn't worry; there's doubtless still going to be plenty of novels coming out based on the "prime" timeline...
I used to drink Diet Coke (and later Coke Zero) like it was water, and a few years back started drinking coffee, and would have at least two cups a morning (that's in addition to the Diet Coke/Coke Zero). Then about a year ago, I had an incident where I was taken to the hospital, and in the followup doctor's visits I was advised to give up caffeine, as it was likely my caffeine intake that did it to me. I quit that day.
I had to deal with headaches and lethargy for about a couple of weeks, but once I got over that I ended up feeling much better overall. I didn't feel anywhere near as jittery and it was easier for me to wake up in the morning.
Nowadays if I drink soda, it's mostly on the weekend and it's either Caffeine Free Diet Coke or Sprite Zero. I drink a couple of cups of decaf coffee in the morning, and other than alcohol I stick to water for the rest of the day (and I drink that like a fish).
All in all, though, I'm finding I don't miss it. I thought it would be harder to go without but since I got through the withdrawal I don't think about it much, other than the fact that I don't feel the after-effects of the caffeine use. I think it's safe to say that I've broken the addiction.:-)
Personally I will any time give up my money rather than face the option of taking someones life or losing my own - its just money for Christ sake! Remember; when you are being approached your gun is in your holster - his is already out, who do you think gets to shoot first?
There's a rule I go by in those situations. Those who have been trained in gun use and safety know this rule.
If you have a gun out, you intend to use it.
There is absolutely no guarantee that if you hand over the money, he isn't going to try and kill you anyway to eliminate the witness to his crime. I've personally heard of too many stories of robbery victims being murdered after submitting to the robbers' demands to take that chance.
Would I die resisting if I knew the robber planned on killing me? Maybe. But I'd sooner die on my feet than live on my knees...
Leaves them right where they were before. e360 won default judgment against Spamhaus because Spamhaus didn't even deign come to court. This is, of course, because Spamhaus operates totally outside the jurisdiction of US courts, and they simply don't care.
IANAL, but actually, that's not QUITE accurate. If Spamhaus had said to begin with that the US courts lacked jurisdiction, that would have been the end of it and e360 would not have won anything. However, Spamhaus claimed in state court that the suit belonged in federal court, thus acknowledging that the federal courts had jurisdiction. THEN they didn't bother to show up in court, and lost a default judgement.
Now, whether e360 can get anything out of them is another matter entirely, but they probably could have avoided the whole mess by denying the US courts had jurisdiction in the first place...
... isn't the Parents Television Council the same group that sends in the vast majority of "indecency" complaints to the FCC, far more than any other group combined?
The hypocrisy of them lambasting the gaming industry for playing political "dirty tricks" is truly disgusting, indeed.
Isn't creating MD5 collisions (making your changed file match the original MD5 value) something that can be done on a PC nowadays with stuff like this
Current (and future, very likely) releases now have PGP signatures in addition to MD5 signatures. PGP signatures would be a lot more difficult to fake.:-)
Yesterday morning it was discovered that the 1.5.1 (development) release had been compromised as well. It hadn't been discovered until then as the hacker had modified a different file in a slightly different way. If you're running a version of 1.5.1 that had been downloaded after sometime in late November, then it would be a good idea to remove it or replace it with a SVN release (which was not compromised).
There's no official announcement yet, but 1.5.1 has been pulled from distribution and an official announcement will probably be forthcoming.
The issue is that you're working from a bit of a flawed premise.:-)
1.4.11 and 1.4.12 were released uncompromised. In very late November, someone hacked a developer's SourceForge account and uploaded compromised versions of 1.4.11, 1.4.12, and 1.5.1. As soon as the problem was found in the stable branch, an announcement was made and the original 1.4.x versions restored. As soon as someone came onto Freenode #squirrelmail and explained the EXACT security implications of the poisoned releases, 1.4.11 and 1.4.12 were pulled from distribution entirely and 1.4.13 was released. Yesterday morning it was discovered that 1.5.1 was compromised via a different file, and that was pulled from distribution as well.
In other words, the compromised versions were introduced well after the original release, and once the issues were discovered they were swiftly dealt with.
Unfortunately, the next guy will just edit the.md5 files to contain the correct signature.
(For those who don't get it: MD5 only caught it because the 'hacker' didn't think to check for MD5 signatures. They're trivial to regenerate after you change the file.)
Correction: MD5 caught it because the MD5 files are stored on the main SquirrelMail server and the packages that were altered were stored on SourceForge. The "hacker" didn't have access to the former, so he couldn't change them.
Actually, when 1.4.11 and 1.4.12 were released, they were uncompromised. Sometime after one of the developers' accounts was hacked, and the compromised versions were uploaded.
So, if someone (like your techies) had installed 1.4.12 within a few days of its release, chances are they would have gotten an uncompromised version. I had installed 1.4.12 a couple of hours after release, and after the compromise was found I checked and found mine was an authentic release.
The Brigadier: [Describing the secret missile-sites information hidden in the safe of the cabinet minister]...and naturally the only country that could be trusted with such a role was Great Britain. The Doctor: Well, naturally; I mean, the rest are all foreigners!
Unreal Tournament 2004 wasn't a brand new game over Unreal Tournament 2003; it was seen as an incremental upgrade, and Epic/Atari actually offered rebates where you could send in your UT2003 discs and proof-of-purchase of UT2004, and get a rebate check back. So, technically speaking, UT2003 can be considered "UT2", and UT2004 can be considered "UT2.5".
If an ISP's customer is spamming me all I can do is complain, and they can ignore me. You are their customer, you are influential and you want your mail to go through, so you are completely within your rights to demand they get rid of their spammers that are causing you problems. Your ISP can make a choice, either deal with spammers and all their legitimate customers go elsewhere or sue them, or get rid of the spammers and have you, legitimate customers.
It makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
The problem I have with your argument is the fact that it assumes that 100% of the people who are on the list deserve to be on there. It does not take into account human error in placing the address into the blocklist, or the fact that maybe the ISP caught the spammers themselves without being notified first and still got blacklisted.
That's the big reason I have such an issue with SORBS. If you cannot be removed without paying a "donation" no matter what, then that is tantamount to blackmail. The fact that no one else has to accept your email doesn't make it any less blackmail. Unless you're a believer that the ends justify the means, then there's no reason for you to be justifying unethical behavior to fight unethical behavior. You just end up being dirty as well.
People don't want to travel to the US of A anymore because they're more afraid of the customs goons than the terrorists.
It's interesting that you mention that... this morning I was actually coming back to the US from a business trip to Mexico (which I had 24 hours notice of beforehand, but that's been discussed elsewhere by others). As I was waiting in line to have my passport checked, I noticed these LCD screens were showing one of those "informative" videos showing what to do when going through Immigrations/Customs, with "light-hearted" commentary from the hosts. The thing that stood out in my mind was when they showed an example of an older gentleman meeting an agent and showing his passport, while the video said, "Answer all of the officer's questions." The expression on the man's face was not an expression of bland calm one normally sees in these videos. The expression he had was more a quiet fear than anything else.
After seeing that, somehow I'm not surprised by the results of that poll you cited. I'm sure it was unintended, but still...
More like they think that they can get enterprise customers to pay them for simplifying push email to one application rather than having to setup Exchange or Notes or whatever setup to support Windows Mobile devices, and they are right. There are plenty of IT departments out there that are tasked with supporting whatever technology the business decides to use and if they can reduce their own workload for the fairly minimal cost of a BES license they WILL pay.
Uh, I don't know about you guys, but we actually didn't have too much trouble getting our Exchange server to work with the Windows Mobile clients. In fact, right now, we're having more trouble doing a migration/upgrade of our BES than we are working with Exchange 2K3 and Windows Mobile 5.
Pretty much, as long as your Exchange server is up to date (as in, 2003 with latest service pack or 2007) and has Outlook Web Access enabled, plus your WM5 device has the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (which is default with most devices nowadays, I do believe), you should be able to sync with no issues. Getting the free ActiveSync Web Administration add-on for Exchange helps greatly, too.
In all, for the cost of an SSL cert for the OWA, we got just about the same security as the Blackberry and removed a point of failure. (Our WM5 devices still kept working while RIM had their outage.) We didn't have any real trouble setting it up, either, and easy directions are available on the net. I could be mistaken, of course, but all in all, I find it a bit difficult to believe that the cost of a BES plus individual licenses is less than the cost of setting up Exchange 2003 for Windows Mobile access.
Up until about a week ago, I used a self-provided PowerBook G4 as my work machine.
Not too long after starting at where I work, I was given the task of overseeing my employer's Linux boxes. Seeing as most users did their Office et al work via Windows terminal server, I loaded Linux onto my laptop and used rdesktop for the terminal servers. It was... okay, but the power management and various interface issues annoyed me. I ended up buying a PowerBook G4 for both work and personal use, and it worked beautifully for the most part. (Though, MS's Remote Desktop Connection for Mac software was crap, and for the most part I still used rdesktop on X11.)
However, I finally ended up switching back to a Windows laptop last week. I'm doing more and more remote site implementations, and I found that not only was getting my USB-to-RS232 adapter working with minicom something of a chore (for programming switches, routers, and the like), there were a couple of programs that I would need in Windows that ran dog slow in VirtualPC. Also, I couldn't justify the cost of a new MacBook when the old one still worked well for personal use, and I knew the company wouldn't buy me one.
So, for work purposes, I now run a Dell Latitude D620 with XP Pro. If I need to administrate the Linux boxes, I use PuTTY and Xming, and if I need to do some local testing I have VMWare Workstation installed locally. I still keep the PowerBook for personal use.
I guess the point in this is that I've been lucky to get employers who let me choose what I want to use, but on the other hand it's best to have all the tools you need. If it's *nix (whether Linux, BSD, or OSX), more power to you, and I hope you can get your bosses to agree.
They claim their software will survive a hard drive format, but not sure how... anyone know?
As a previous poster has mentioned, newer laptops by certain manufacturers have a Computrace agent in the BIOS that, once activated, cannot be deactivated/disabled. Once the Computrace software is installed in the machine, it's registered with the BIOS agent. If the hard drive is wiped and the OS reinstalled, the BIOS agent simply silently reinstalls the software. I don't know if it supports Linux (but then, what laptop thief is going to bother with Linux?), but it supports Windows and OS X (not sure how it works there, though).
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I'll also agree with the wonders of Joystix. My girlfriend and I go there with friends every few months or so. :-)
The two caveats I would make are that A) as it is a showroom and it is very popular, it gets pretty damn crowded in there after 9:30 PM or so, and B) they do repair/resell, so not everything is going to be working. Most of it is, but last time I went two of my favorite pinball machines (Bram Stoker's Dracula and Doctor Who) kept resetting themselves after a minute of play.
Still, like he says, there's a LOT of games there, including games I hadn't seen in ages. Time Traveler , anyone?
I happen to be the webmaster (really, sysadmin, but why quibble) of a popular Mortal Kombat fansite.
In the first "generation" of Mortal Kombat (MK 1-4), every one of the fighting games made their way to PC. As soon as the first of the second "generation" games was announced (Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance), we were bombarded with people asking about a PC version, because only console versions had been mentioned. We asked reps from Midway (including a head of marketing) at E3, and the reps told us they had no plans to make a PC version, as they had never made any money on the PC versions.
Between E3 and the game's actual release, the questions regarding the availability of a PC version only intensified, and many folks were irate that there were no PC versions. Then we got to thinking about it... we knew a lot of people had PC versions, but there was no money made on it? We knew the games had no DRM, so it wasn't hard for us to believe that a good chunk of the people who had gotten the PC version before (and were asking for it now) were pirates. In fact, one of our staff members actually caught out someone demanding a PC version admitting he pirated other game software...
So, yeah, I can say that the entire lack of MK for PC now is due to piracy. The earlier games got pirated all to hell and they never made money off those ports, so why bother porting if it's not worth the money?
Just keep in mind that it's not the original recording. Buckner & Garcia weren't allowed access to the master recordings so they re-recorded it. It's not any worse than the original... just slightly different in parts. The song "Mousetrap" is the most glaring example, as they didn't have access to a Mousetrap machine so they used stock sounds of a dog, cat, and bird...
Hope this helps...
I have 7 iPhones and over 30 Blackberrys at my workplace. The iPhones work with Exchange for 3 days then fail. The blackberrys never fail. When I reconfigure the iPhones they work for another 3 days and fail again. I had to switch them to POP3. I find the iPhone touch interface unresponsive and frustrating as the Blackberry interface is easy to use and very responsive (Tour, Storm, and Bold). I only have 2 users with Windows mobile phones, but I have had no issues with those either. Am I the only one experiencing this?
I'm actually on the opposite side of the spectrum from you. We have 10+ iPhones in my company (mostly in IT) and about the same number of Blackberry devices as you (maybe more), plus more WM devices than either, and one Android user. We haven't had a single problem with the iPhones and Exchange. What very few problems we've had were Exchange related and affected all ActiveSync devices (aka, all but Blackberry). My own iPhone has been synced up with Exchange flawlessly without a wipe/reload since I got it in mid-to-late 2008. As for the Blackberry interface, I'll grant the Bold as being relatively easy to use and never have used the Tour, but I HATED working on the Storm whenever I had to set one up for a user. The one Android user had a Storm previously; she hated it and was glad to migrate. We both found it clunky and unresponsive. Personally, I've no plans to migrate from iPhone as it's been the best smartphone I've ever used.
I won't say that you're the only one experiencing your problems, but I'd say you might want to look a little deeper and see if it might be something weird on your Exchange or a known issue. Otherwise... *shrug* like I said, I've got my iPhone connected to an Exchange server and it's been working without incident for a year and a half now.
Did you even read the Skype link? It says nothing about push notifications being enabled, and indeed, most of the comments are from people asking why they're not available and when they will be.
I didn't plan on it. :-) I was just going to say that the only reason they knew about that method of time travel was because they hit upon it quite literally by accident during TOS. There's nothing so far to indicate that they're going to find it in this new timeline...
Enterprise has shown us that they're not always too effective at preventing massive changes to the timeline. I can think of three massive changes alluded to or shown off the top of my head, only one of which was temporary (and that one resulted in the future Starfleet never existing; Archer and Daniels had to set things right on their own). I'd hazard to say that one massive change was enough to make any preventative changes unlikely.
There was a comic prequel series that explained this. Nero (NOT Neo) and his crew managed to steal some Borg technology acquired by the Romulans from one of their last surviving outposts.
This was also explained in the prequel (I don't remember the exact explanation), but think of it this way: most Romulans we have seen before now have been military (naval equivalent), politicians, and/or white-collar civilians. Nero and his crew were civilian miners. It'd be like comparing naval ship captains, astronauts, or Senators to an offshore oil worker or roughneck.
So they negated the Trek that lead up to this. So? Batman Begins negated the Batman films that came before it, and Casino Royale negated the Bond films that came before it. Soetimes a clean sweep is a good thing, and if you're pining for the old Trek, I wouldn't worry; there's doubtless still going to be plenty of novels coming out based on the "prime" timeline...
Just my $.02...
Am I the only one here who doesn't take caffeine?
Nope. I quit cold turkey nearly a year ago.
I used to drink Diet Coke (and later Coke Zero) like it was water, and a few years back started drinking coffee, and would have at least two cups a morning (that's in addition to the Diet Coke/Coke Zero). Then about a year ago, I had an incident where I was taken to the hospital, and in the followup doctor's visits I was advised to give up caffeine, as it was likely my caffeine intake that did it to me. I quit that day.
I had to deal with headaches and lethargy for about a couple of weeks, but once I got over that I ended up feeling much better overall. I didn't feel anywhere near as jittery and it was easier for me to wake up in the morning.
Nowadays if I drink soda, it's mostly on the weekend and it's either Caffeine Free Diet Coke or Sprite Zero. I drink a couple of cups of decaf coffee in the morning, and other than alcohol I stick to water for the rest of the day (and I drink that like a fish).
All in all, though, I'm finding I don't miss it. I thought it would be harder to go without but since I got through the withdrawal I don't think about it much, other than the fact that I don't feel the after-effects of the caffeine use. I think it's safe to say that I've broken the addiction. :-)
Mario Brothers would never be in the packets, as they travel through pipes, not tubes. :-)
Personally I will any time give up my money rather than face the option of taking someones life or losing my own - its just money for Christ sake! Remember; when you are being approached your gun is in your holster - his is already out, who do you think gets to shoot first?
There's a rule I go by in those situations. Those who have been trained in gun use and safety know this rule.
If you have a gun out, you intend to use it.
There is absolutely no guarantee that if you hand over the money, he isn't going to try and kill you anyway to eliminate the witness to his crime. I've personally heard of too many stories of robbery victims being murdered after submitting to the robbers' demands to take that chance.
Would I die resisting if I knew the robber planned on killing me? Maybe. But I'd sooner die on my feet than live on my knees...
Leaves them right where they were before. e360 won default judgment against Spamhaus because Spamhaus didn't even deign come to court. This is, of course, because Spamhaus operates totally outside the jurisdiction of US courts, and they simply don't care.
IANAL, but actually, that's not QUITE accurate. If Spamhaus had said to begin with that the US courts lacked jurisdiction, that would have been the end of it and e360 would not have won anything. However, Spamhaus claimed in state court that the suit belonged in federal court, thus acknowledging that the federal courts had jurisdiction. THEN they didn't bother to show up in court, and lost a default judgement.
Now, whether e360 can get anything out of them is another matter entirely, but they probably could have avoided the whole mess by denying the US courts had jurisdiction in the first place...
... isn't the Parents Television Council the same group that sends in the vast majority of "indecency" complaints to the FCC, far more than any other group combined?
The hypocrisy of them lambasting the gaming industry for playing political "dirty tricks" is truly disgusting, indeed.
Isn't creating MD5 collisions (making your changed file match the original MD5 value) something that can be done on a PC nowadays with stuff like this
:-)
Current (and future, very likely) releases now have PGP signatures in addition to MD5 signatures. PGP signatures would be a lot more difficult to fake.
Hope this helps...
One thing that wasn't covered in the story...
Yesterday morning it was discovered that the 1.5.1 (development) release had been compromised as well. It hadn't been discovered until then as the hacker had modified a different file in a slightly different way. If you're running a version of 1.5.1 that had been downloaded after sometime in late November, then it would be a good idea to remove it or replace it with a SVN release (which was not compromised).
There's no official announcement yet, but 1.5.1 has been pulled from distribution and an official announcement will probably be forthcoming.
Hope this helps...
The issue is that you're working from a bit of a flawed premise. :-)
1.4.11 and 1.4.12 were released uncompromised. In very late November, someone hacked a developer's SourceForge account and uploaded compromised versions of 1.4.11, 1.4.12, and 1.5.1. As soon as the problem was found in the stable branch, an announcement was made and the original 1.4.x versions restored. As soon as someone came onto Freenode #squirrelmail and explained the EXACT security implications of the poisoned releases, 1.4.11 and 1.4.12 were pulled from distribution entirely and 1.4.13 was released. Yesterday morning it was discovered that 1.5.1 was compromised via a different file, and that was pulled from distribution as well.
In other words, the compromised versions were introduced well after the original release, and once the issues were discovered they were swiftly dealt with.
Hope this helps...
Unfortunately, the next guy will just edit the .md5 files to contain the correct signature.
(For those who don't get it: MD5 only caught it because the 'hacker' didn't think to check for MD5 signatures. They're trivial to regenerate after you change the file.)
Correction: MD5 caught it because the MD5 files are stored on the main SquirrelMail server and the packages that were altered were stored on SourceForge. The "hacker" didn't have access to the former, so he couldn't change them.
Hope this helps...
Actually, when 1.4.11 and 1.4.12 were released, they were uncompromised. Sometime after one of the developers' accounts was hacked, and the compromised versions were uploaded.
So, if someone (like your techies) had installed 1.4.12 within a few days of its release, chances are they would have gotten an uncompromised version. I had installed 1.4.12 a couple of hours after release, and after the compromise was found I checked and found mine was an authentic release.
The Brigadier: [Describing the secret missile-sites information hidden in the safe of the cabinet minister] ...and naturally the only country that could be trusted with such a role was Great Britain.
The Doctor: Well, naturally; I mean, the rest are all foreigners!
Wait until you have to abandon IM because of spam...
It's not as far-fetched as you might think. I actually abandoned my ICQ account because of the mass amounts of spam...
Unreal Tournament 2004 wasn't a brand new game over Unreal Tournament 2003; it was seen as an incremental upgrade, and Epic/Atari actually offered rebates where you could send in your UT2003 discs and proof-of-purchase of UT2004, and get a rebate check back. So, technically speaking, UT2003 can be considered "UT2", and UT2004 can be considered "UT2.5".
Hope this helps...
If an ISP's customer is spamming me all I can do is complain, and they can ignore me. You are their customer, you are influential and you want your mail to go through, so you are completely within your rights to demand they get rid of their spammers that are causing you problems. Your ISP can make a choice, either deal with spammers and all their legitimate customers go elsewhere or sue them, or get rid of the spammers and have you, legitimate customers.
It makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
The problem I have with your argument is the fact that it assumes that 100% of the people who are on the list deserve to be on there. It does not take into account human error in placing the address into the blocklist, or the fact that maybe the ISP caught the spammers themselves without being notified first and still got blacklisted.
That's the big reason I have such an issue with SORBS. If you cannot be removed without paying a "donation" no matter what, then that is tantamount to blackmail. The fact that no one else has to accept your email doesn't make it any less blackmail. Unless you're a believer that the ends justify the means, then there's no reason for you to be justifying unethical behavior to fight unethical behavior. You just end up being dirty as well.
People don't want to travel to the US of A anymore because they're more afraid of the customs goons than the terrorists.
It's interesting that you mention that... this morning I was actually coming back to the US from a business trip to Mexico (which I had 24 hours notice of beforehand, but that's been discussed elsewhere by others). As I was waiting in line to have my passport checked, I noticed these LCD screens were showing one of those "informative" videos showing what to do when going through Immigrations/Customs, with "light-hearted" commentary from the hosts. The thing that stood out in my mind was when they showed an example of an older gentleman meeting an agent and showing his passport, while the video said, "Answer all of the officer's questions." The expression on the man's face was not an expression of bland calm one normally sees in these videos. The expression he had was more a quiet fear than anything else.
After seeing that, somehow I'm not surprised by the results of that poll you cited. I'm sure it was unintended, but still...
More like they think that they can get enterprise customers to pay them for simplifying push email to one application rather than having to setup Exchange or Notes or whatever setup to support Windows Mobile devices, and they are right. There are plenty of IT departments out there that are tasked with supporting whatever technology the business decides to use and if they can reduce their own workload for the fairly minimal cost of a BES license they WILL pay.
Uh, I don't know about you guys, but we actually didn't have too much trouble getting our Exchange server to work with the Windows Mobile clients. In fact, right now, we're having more trouble doing a migration/upgrade of our BES than we are working with Exchange 2K3 and Windows Mobile 5.
Pretty much, as long as your Exchange server is up to date (as in, 2003 with latest service pack or 2007) and has Outlook Web Access enabled, plus your WM5 device has the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (which is default with most devices nowadays, I do believe), you should be able to sync with no issues. Getting the free ActiveSync Web Administration add-on for Exchange helps greatly, too.
In all, for the cost of an SSL cert for the OWA, we got just about the same security as the Blackberry and removed a point of failure. (Our WM5 devices still kept working while RIM had their outage.) We didn't have any real trouble setting it up, either, and easy directions are available on the net. I could be mistaken, of course, but all in all, I find it a bit difficult to believe that the cost of a BES plus individual licenses is less than the cost of setting up Exchange 2003 for Windows Mobile access.
Just my $.02...
Up until about a week ago, I used a self-provided PowerBook G4 as my work machine.
Not too long after starting at where I work, I was given the task of overseeing my employer's Linux boxes. Seeing as most users did their Office et al work via Windows terminal server, I loaded Linux onto my laptop and used rdesktop for the terminal servers. It was... okay, but the power management and various interface issues annoyed me. I ended up buying a PowerBook G4 for both work and personal use, and it worked beautifully for the most part. (Though, MS's Remote Desktop Connection for Mac software was crap, and for the most part I still used rdesktop on X11.)
However, I finally ended up switching back to a Windows laptop last week. I'm doing more and more remote site implementations, and I found that not only was getting my USB-to-RS232 adapter working with minicom something of a chore (for programming switches, routers, and the like), there were a couple of programs that I would need in Windows that ran dog slow in VirtualPC. Also, I couldn't justify the cost of a new MacBook when the old one still worked well for personal use, and I knew the company wouldn't buy me one.
So, for work purposes, I now run a Dell Latitude D620 with XP Pro. If I need to administrate the Linux boxes, I use PuTTY and Xming, and if I need to do some local testing I have VMWare Workstation installed locally. I still keep the PowerBook for personal use.
I guess the point in this is that I've been lucky to get employers who let me choose what I want to use, but on the other hand it's best to have all the tools you need. If it's *nix (whether Linux, BSD, or OSX), more power to you, and I hope you can get your bosses to agree.
They claim their software will survive a hard drive format, but not sure how... anyone know?
As a previous poster has mentioned, newer laptops by certain manufacturers have a Computrace agent in the BIOS that, once activated, cannot be deactivated/disabled. Once the Computrace software is installed in the machine, it's registered with the BIOS agent. If the hard drive is wiped and the OS reinstalled, the BIOS agent simply silently reinstalls the software. I don't know if it supports Linux (but then, what laptop thief is going to bother with Linux?), but it supports Windows and OS X (not sure how it works there, though).
Hope this helps...