'XP started out with an investment from Microsoft, which offered a majority of its software products and a very large number of its licenses to build some process management. XP is basing its collaborative space around the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server'
Apart from the price what's the difference between 'Windows 7 Home Premium' and 'Windows 7 Ultimate'. Is it a case of taking 'Windows 7 Ultimate' and disabling core functionality and renaming it 'Windows 7 Home Premium', and then charging people more money to subsequently re-enable it..
Windows 7 Home Premium $199, Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade $119, Windows 7 Professional $299, Windows 7 Professional upgrades $199, Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade $219, Windows 7 Ultimate $319
"The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed a so-called
Tunney Act challenge to the Department of Justice's controversial
settlement with Microsoft in 2001", Sep 2003
"The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is criticizing
last month's decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
to exclusively use Microsoft Corp. software, arguing that recent
computer virus and worm attacks against Microsoft products are evidence
that such a decision is a poor choice", Aug 2003
Why don't they sue the Internet companies for hosting the material and facilitating illegal copying. Instead of suing end users, grannies and dead people? Or did the CAN-SPAM act indemnify the ISPs.
synopsus: All slashdot readers who support ODF are guilty of distorting reality. The FSF are all goons. ODF is flawed and incomplete and only Microsoft has ever produced a compliant implementation.
mod me up interesting:)
No mention of anyone walking off with all your financial information, merely by clicking on an URL or opening an email attachment. Oh, wait, at 3:30 a bit about family safety, just how long will it take young Juan to bypass it and find the pjorn ? I see at 3:38 tobacco is deemed unsafe to even look at on a web site. Assault rifle I guess gets through no problem. Who would stoop to exploiting parental fears to sell product:|
They must really really needed for the ASUS Linux experiment to fail. I just wonder what really went on behind closed doors, and what it cost MS in monetary value to squelch the deal.
"In order to compete more effectively against Linux and other providers on these deals, we can now leverage the Education and Government Incentive [EDGI] program to help tip the scales to MS in the deal. After engaging the regional team. the region may use funds to provide services and/or rebates to the customer with the following limitation:
"Not to exceed the estimated Windows royalties recognized by MS from the OEM selling the PC's to the customer (in the example, 50,000 PC's at approx. $100/PC for OEM Windows XP Professional would result in a maximum of $5M for the individual deal)"
It is essential, therefore, that we use this in only in deals we would lose otherwise
"Bottom line do our best to show the great value of our software to these customers and ensure we get paid for it under NO circumstances lose against Linux before ensuring we have used this program actively and in a smart way
It's patently obvious that the Zune is the better and most innovative product ever to come out of Redmond, despite Apple launching the iPod in 2001, a full five years before the Zune. And Apple stealing the 'Zune Marketplace' and rebranding it as the iTunes Store..:)
Seriously: if they don't tie the Zune to the Windows desktop, and make using the other players a jolting experience, then the 'innovation' magic isn't going to work this time. The constant mud slinging at Apple being a reminder as to who they are a worry to.
'dirty Hobbitses, trying to steal my precious! kill Hosbitses'
"I.. have been guilty of being too busy with the doing of it to document the changes and systems that were put in place. Now as I look back, I'm worried that I am the only one who will ever know how this network works. If I get hit by a bus or throw in the towel for any reason, I'd be leaving behind a network that requires some significant expertise to run"
Excuse me for saying so, but if you've implemented a system that is only understandable by your own good self, perhaps you're in the wrong profession. What is it about the system that required constant intervention and keeps you too busy to document it. From what I've seen, and I've seen a lot, most anyone would want from a system, is an exchange type server and a bunch of shared folders, and some kind of offline/mobile device. Most of which could be provided by a basic LAMP stack and a BlackBerry.
How to document, in each directory on the system that you are customizing, put a log file detailing the changes you have made. One line per entry as in: 'date: message: username'. That way, over time you will be able to track and document changes. You or anyone else for that matter.
"Today is Memorial Day in the United States of America. We would appreciate you folks taking some time to reflect on our servicemen who gave their lives saving your asses in WW I and II"
Actually it was the Soviet Union that broke the back of the German army. And if you liberated us in 1945, then why are you still occupying the place with military bases. The price we are paying being the continued McDonaldization of the place..
"NTLM on a public facing web site means someone made the conscious decision of disabling anonymous and form authentication"
You are confusing me, I thought NTLM was the authentication mechanism used by IIS, and what is IIS if not a web server. Is there any technical advisory that IIS shouldn't be used on a public facing web site? and also.. did the admins at Ball State University disable anonymous and form authentication?
"This is really not a typically configuration for an outward facing site"
How do you know this, is IIS shiped by default with this 'safe' configuration?
"the flaw is currently being exploited in online attacks, according to CERT", and according to theReg, Ball State University was hacked using this exact same exploit.
'Shortly after the attack, students checking their iWeb pages were greeted with a message that said they had been hacked'
'Office 2010 finally adds support for Advanced Typographic features (ligatures, number forms, alternates, etc.) of OpenType, allowing one to create documents so far possible only in TeX or InDesign. Between this, the new equation editor and styles, what are the chances of Word replacing LaTeX as the editor of choice in academia?"'
About zero, but when will MS come after TeX for patent royalties on Microsoft OpenType ?
I can see a use for pilots to help in navigation, an all over body suit with electrodes and a HUD interacting with vibrations and colors to produce a map he can feel, as in turbulence would be more viscous that clear air. Or incoming obstables, the vibration to get your attention and the color on the HUD to tell you what it is. You could also combine it with sound..
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Requesting records in non-MS formats FoF 381002R Mar 03 2009
"Install the Tree Style Tab add then switch your tabs to vertical orientation"
That good, except I would like the tab tree to be always collapsed except when you mouseover the left part of the screen, instead of resizing it, it pops up over the main window. That doesn't resize or move...
Generally the answer is; the people doing the hiring, being time-serving lackies, don't want anyone working for them that is smarter then them. And being non-techies themselves, risk losing control or looking stupid, as in a new techie-CTO would wonder why they got their job. The best way of getting found out is to hire a non-techie CTO and keep recycling the real IT staff.:)
'Industry experience does little to prepare you for the additional complexities of working within the bounds of government.. Chopra has demonstrated that he has these skills.. Try a few of these Virginia technology initiatives on for size:'
* the first officially-approved open source textbook in the country, the Physics Flexbook.
* integrating iTunes U with Virginia's state education assessment framework;
* the Learning Apps Development Challenge, a competition for the best iPhone and iPod Touch applications for middle-school math teaching;
* a Ning-based social network to connect clinicians working in small health care offices in remote locations;
* a state-funded "venture capital fund" to allow government agencies to try out risky but promising new approaches to delivering their services or improving their productivity;
* a lightweight approval and testing process that allows the government to try out new technologies before making a full, expensive commitment.
- unquote -
If he's not a techie, then who actually created these ?
"the report ultimately undermined one of the BSA's core arguments -- that countries which enact DMCA-style legislation experience significantly reduced piracy rates"
The fallacy being that the crooks will comply with the law, as.. beign crooks, they are prone to break it. Same with ID-cards, being pushed by the consumer sector to reduce Credit-Card fraud. All it will do is boost the trade in fake IDs..
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'XP started out with an investment from Microsoft, which offered a majority of its software products and a very large number of its licenses to build some process management. XP is basing its collaborative space around the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server'
Apart from the price what's the difference between 'Windows 7 Home Premium' and 'Windows 7 Ultimate'. Is it a case of taking 'Windows 7 Ultimate' and disabling core functionality and renaming it 'Windows 7 Home Premium', and then charging people more money to subsequently re-enable it ..
Windows 7 Home Premium $199, Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade $119, Windows 7 Professional $299, Windows 7 Professional upgrades $199, Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade $219, Windows 7 Ultimate $319
"The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed a so-called Tunney Act challenge to the Department of Justice's controversial settlement with Microsoft in 2001", Sep 2003
..
"The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is criticizing last month's decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to exclusively use Microsoft Corp. software, arguing that recent computer virus and worm attacks against Microsoft products are evidence that such a decision is a poor choice", Aug 2003
I guess this was before Daniel Geer got fired
Membership as of 2003: Yahoo, Oracle, Sun, Nortel, AOL, not.Microsoft
Cause it dampens the sensory inputs to your willie - DOH !!!
Why don't they sue the Internet companies for hosting the material and facilitating illegal copying. Instead of suing end users, grannies and dead people? Or did the CAN-SPAM act indemnify the ISPs.
:) ...
synopsus: All slashdot readers who support ODF are guilty of distorting reality. The FSF are all goons. ODF is flawed and incomplete and only Microsoft has ever produced a compliant implementation. mod me up interesting :)
"I think that this story is half bogus. PIN numbers aren't stored on a debit card"
But if you have a keylogger installed on a compromised XP system then you can read it off as they are typing it in.
"When a PIN number is typed into an ATM machine it is automatically encrypted by a 3DES encryptor on the PIN pad"
Do you have any citations for this?
'Abstract. We describe new attacks on the financial PIN processing API'
No mention of anyone walking off with all your financial information, merely by clicking on an URL or opening an email attachment. Oh, wait, at 3:30 a bit about family safety, just how long will it take young Juan to bypass it and find the pjorn ? I see at 3:38 tobacco is deemed unsafe to even look at on a web site. Assault rifle I guess gets through no problem. Who would stoop to exploiting parental fears to sell product :|
They must really really needed for the ASUS Linux experiment to fail. I just wonder what really went on behind closed doors, and what it cost MS in monetary value to squelch the deal.
"In order to compete more effectively against Linux and other providers on these deals, we can now leverage the Education and Government Incentive [EDGI] program to help tip the scales to MS in the deal. After engaging the regional team. the region may use funds to provide services and/or rebates to the customer with the following limitation:
"Not to exceed the estimated Windows royalties recognized by MS from the OEM selling the PC's to the customer (in the example, 50,000 PC's at approx. $100/PC for OEM Windows XP Professional would result in a maximum of $5M for the individual deal)"
It is essential, therefore, that we use this in only in deals we would lose otherwise
"Bottom line do our best to show the great value of our software to these customers and ensure we get paid for it under NO circumstances lose against Linux before ensuring we have used this program actively and in a smart way
It's patently obvious that the Zune is the better and most innovative product ever to come out of Redmond, despite Apple launching the iPod in 2001, a full five years before the Zune. And Apple stealing the 'Zune Marketplace' and rebranding it as the iTunes Store .. :)
Seriously: if they don't tie the Zune to the Windows desktop, and make using the other players a jolting experience, then the 'innovation' magic isn't going to work this time. The constant mud slinging at Apple being a reminder as to who they are a worry to.
'dirty Hobbitses, trying to steal my precious! kill Hosbitses'
"I .. have been guilty of being too busy with the doing of it to document the changes and systems that were put in place. Now as I look back, I'm worried that I am the only one who will ever know how this network works. If I get hit by a bus or throw in the towel for any reason, I'd be leaving behind a network that requires some significant expertise to run"
Excuse me for saying so, but if you've implemented a system that is only understandable by your own good self, perhaps you're in the wrong profession. What is it about the system that required constant intervention and keeps you too busy to document it. From what I've seen, and I've seen a lot, most anyone would want from a system, is an exchange type server and a bunch of shared folders, and some kind of offline/mobile device. Most of which could be provided by a basic LAMP stack and a BlackBerry.
How to document, in each directory on the system that you are customizing, put a log file detailing the changes you have made. One line per entry as in: 'date: message: username'. That way, over time you will be able to track and document changes. You or anyone else for that matter.
You could one from CAI, if you are in the non profit sector.
"Today is Memorial Day in the United States of America. We would appreciate you folks taking some time to reflect on our servicemen who gave their lives saving your asses in WW I and II"
..
Actually it was the Soviet Union that broke the back of the German army. And if you liberated us in 1945, then why are you still occupying the place with military bases. The price we are paying being the continued McDonaldization of the place
"haha.. I know I can use a filebrowser, but I want the notes content to appear on the right side of the tree. And support for encryption..."
"NTLM on a public facing web site means someone made the conscious decision of disabling anonymous and form authentication"
.. did the admins at Ball State University disable anonymous and form authentication?
You are confusing me, I thought NTLM was the authentication mechanism used by IIS, and what is IIS if not a web server. Is there any technical advisory that IIS shouldn't be used on a public facing web site? and also
"Technically inclined people who aren't programmers simply don't need linux, and programmers will already know about it"
Did you factor in all the time you spend at installing 'service packs' (bug fixes) and fighting off the malware, virus, phishing infestation.
"On linux, there is not one note app that can deal with a tree of documents or even import it"
Konqueror, Using Konqueror
"This is really not a typically configuration for an outward facing site"
How do you know this, is IIS shiped by default with this 'safe' configuration?
"the flaw is currently being exploited in online attacks, according to CERT", and according to theReg, Ball State University was hacked using this exact same exploit.
'Shortly after the attack, students checking their iWeb pages were greeted with a message that said they had been hacked'
"If Word 2010 does this extremely well, perhaps they deserve to become the editor of choice. How well does OpenOffice.org do this?"
I wouldn't use either for book size projects, that's what TeX is for.
'Office 2010 finally adds support for Advanced Typographic features (ligatures, number forms, alternates, etc.) of OpenType, allowing one to create documents so far possible only in TeX or InDesign. Between this, the new equation editor and styles, what are the chances of Word replacing LaTeX as the editor of choice in academia?"'
About zero, but when will MS come after TeX for patent royalties on Microsoft OpenType ?
I can see a use for pilots to help in navigation, an all over body suit with electrodes and a HUD interacting with vibrations and colors to produce a map he can feel, as in turbulence would be more viscous that clear air. Or incoming obstables, the vibration to get your attention and the color on the HUD to tell you what it is. You could also combine it with sound ..
--
Requesting records in non-MS formats FoF 381002R Mar 03 2009
"Install the Tree Style Tab add then switch your tabs to vertical orientation"
...
That good, except I would like the tab tree to be always collapsed except when you mouseover the left part of the screen, instead of resizing it, it pops up over the main window. That doesn't resize or move
Generally the answer is; the people doing the hiring, being time-serving lackies, don't want anyone working for them that is smarter then them. And being non-techies themselves, risk losing control or looking stupid, as in a new techie-CTO would wonder why they got their job. The best way of getting found out is to hire a non-techie CTO and keep recycling the real IT staff .:)
.. Chopra has demonstrated that he has these skills .. Try a few of these Virginia technology initiatives on for size:'
'Industry experience does little to prepare you for the additional complexities of working within the bounds of government
* the first officially-approved open source textbook in the country, the Physics Flexbook.
* integrating iTunes U with Virginia's state education assessment framework;
* the Learning Apps Development Challenge, a competition for the best iPhone and iPod Touch applications for middle-school math teaching;
* a Ning-based social network to connect clinicians working in small health care offices in remote locations;
* a state-funded "venture capital fund" to allow government agencies to try out risky but promising new approaches to delivering their services or improving their productivity;
* a lightweight approval and testing process that allows the government to try out new technologies before making a full, expensive commitment.
- unquote -
If he's not a techie, then who actually created these ?
"the report ultimately undermined one of the BSA's core arguments -- that countries which enact DMCA-style legislation experience significantly reduced piracy rates"
.. beign crooks, they are prone to break it. Same with ID-cards, being pushed by the consumer sector to reduce Credit-Card fraud. All it will do is boost the trade in fake IDs ..
The fallacy being that the crooks will comply with the law, as