Goddamn Ubuntu fanboys are even worse than Mac fanboys. Seriously, every post about an issue with Windows and "Here's your fix right here: www.ubuntu.com herp derp!"
I hate to break it to you, but you can cover pretty much every BIOS nowadays just with AMI and Award. Eeeeeeeeveryone OEMs the same stuff. It's pretty much either Foxconn, MSI, or Asustek at the core.
That's what it declared itself as to me - "Firefox 5 - Security Update". About 2 weeks ago. I hear Firefox 6 went Beta last week.
I'm very close to dumping Firefox with crap like this - running it uses more RAM than SQL Server, updates more frequently than Flash Player, and requires more aggregate bandwidth to update than an iPhone OS release.
Plus they forget to mention that if you just wrap your PhoneGap web app with a web view, it'll get on Android Market fine but Apple will reject it out of hand for being a "web clipping".
DigitalOne doesn't own the datacentre. It's either CoreSite or Equinix who own it. DigitalOne is a company headquartered in Switzerland, so the "cannot check" is likely due to "because we're on the other side of the planet".
It would have to be FOSS because even though I see nothing wrong with proprietary per se, when someone's life is on the line we are gonna want to be able to see the source and ensure it is doing what they claim.
Why? None of the existing forensic tools are FOSS. Why does it suddenly matter with this one?
Unmanaged hosting companies don't keep backups (technically, they can't - they have no access to your server beyond the physical). That's your problem. According to their SLA (the Google cache of it anyway) they are unmanaged, and do not keep backups.
When you reply, Slashdot sets the subject to "Re: ". The GGP is complaining that the GGGP consciously changed the subject to the first part of their post, despite the fact they were not forced to do so.
The only reason anyone ever endorses moving to the gold standard is one of these: 1) they've been deluded by that whackjob Ron Paul or 2) they have holdings in gold (like that whackjob Ron Paul) and know that a shift to gold standard would vastly increase the value of gold overnight, resulting in a huge profit to them.
You probably would. Except that the general Slashdot consensus is that "LulzSec" are heroes for stealing and distributing personal information on hundreds of thousands of people and should get off scot free, while the companies that held the information should be put in front of a firing squad.
In fact, both the bastards should go to prison. "LulzSec" are goddamned criminals, and the companies holding the information are scum (since I guarantee that someone at the bottom said "this really isn't good" but someone at the top said "tough, you aren't getting any budget to fix it. Just release it already").
Open Task Manager some time and check out just how much memory it's using... for 5 tabs, expect it to be 500MB or more. In fact on my PC, Firefox clocks in at twice the memory usage of SQL Server, 3 times the memory usage of Visual Studio 2010, and about the same memory usage as Duke Nukem Forever.
Private equity companies are even worse than that. The ones that we have here work by buying a company, loading it up with gargantuan debt, then using that debt to purchase other companies, at which time they let the previous acquisition default and liquidate it - leaving a shattered trail of obliterated companies (often virtual landmark companies that have been around for over 100 years) in their wake. Then of course they get pissed off when the court objects to them slotting themselves in line ahead of everyone else to recover the money they spent buying it in the first place, which they "loaned" it post-purchase.
I suspect your grandmother is only wary of the acquisition because you have been instilling that wariness into her. No 80 year old I have ever seen has given a shit about some tech company and who buys it, without some tech-centric teen or 20-something telling them they should care.
Personally, I actually don't think that at all. If anything, they'll integrate Exchange/OCS/Lync/whatever they're calling it these days, allow you to federate your unified communications servers using Skype, then try and use that to bludgeon people into forking out money to Microsoft for their inter-system phone links rather than to the telco or to some SIP trunk provider, etc. Then integrate it into Windows Phone, and they've pretty much got a captive market using Microsoft Skype on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Windows, and OS X (which has Office, so it might actually improve on Mac).
Alternatively, they'll ignore Skype completely save for using the protocol as the basis for the next gen of Windows Live Messenger and Office Communicator.
Both MSSQL and Postgres are pretty SQL-92 standards compliant. The language is virtually drop-in compatible. It's MySQL that sucks balls and interoperates with nothing (seriously, selecting random rows for a GROUP BY query?!?)
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IOS? Yeah, that thing's pretty locked down. Even needs a maintenance agreement to run effectively. And, my god - that command line is arcane!
Goddamn Ubuntu fanboys are even worse than Mac fanboys. Seriously, every post about an issue with Windows and "Here's your fix right here: www.ubuntu.com herp derp!"
I hate to break it to you, but you can cover pretty much every BIOS nowadays just with AMI and Award. Eeeeeeeeveryone OEMs the same stuff. It's pretty much either Foxconn, MSI, or Asustek at the core.
That's what it declared itself as to me - "Firefox 5 - Security Update". About 2 weeks ago. I hear Firefox 6 went Beta last week.
I'm very close to dumping Firefox with crap like this - running it uses more RAM than SQL Server, updates more frequently than Flash Player, and requires more aggregate bandwidth to update than an iPhone OS release.
They don't. GP needs a bit of schooling too.
Plus they forget to mention that if you just wrap your PhoneGap web app with a web view, it'll get on Android Market fine but Apple will reject it out of hand for being a "web clipping".
DigitalOne doesn't own the datacentre. It's either CoreSite or Equinix who own it. DigitalOne is a company headquartered in Switzerland, so the "cannot check" is likely due to "because we're on the other side of the planet".
It would have to be FOSS because even though I see nothing wrong with proprietary per se, when someone's life is on the line we are gonna want to be able to see the source and ensure it is doing what they claim.
Why? None of the existing forensic tools are FOSS. Why does it suddenly matter with this one?
Unmanaged hosting companies don't keep backups (technically, they can't - they have no access to your server beyond the physical). That's your problem. According to their SLA (the Google cache of it anyway) they are unmanaged, and do not keep backups.
When you reply, Slashdot sets the subject to "Re: ". The GGP is complaining that the GGGP consciously changed the subject to the first part of their post, despite the fact they were not forced to do so.
Sounds like a job for QR codes!
The only reason anyone ever endorses moving to the gold standard is one of these: 1) they've been deluded by that whackjob Ron Paul or 2) they have holdings in gold (like that whackjob Ron Paul) and know that a shift to gold standard would vastly increase the value of gold overnight, resulting in a huge profit to them.
Seriously? You're now using LastPass? The one that had the master password database stolen?
Your data is now more insecure than it ever was.
You probably would. Except that the general Slashdot consensus is that "LulzSec" are heroes for stealing and distributing personal information on hundreds of thousands of people and should get off scot free, while the companies that held the information should be put in front of a firing squad.
In fact, both the bastards should go to prison. "LulzSec" are goddamned criminals, and the companies holding the information are scum (since I guarantee that someone at the bottom said "this really isn't good" but someone at the top said "tough, you aren't getting any budget to fix it. Just release it already").
Because even native English speakers are confused by statements like that. The editors here suck.
Internet Explorer?
Open Task Manager some time and check out just how much memory it's using... for 5 tabs, expect it to be 500MB or more. In fact on my PC, Firefox clocks in at twice the memory usage of SQL Server, 3 times the memory usage of Visual Studio 2010, and about the same memory usage as Duke Nukem Forever.
No. You know the rules, they're pretty anal retentive on that NDA.
Private equity companies are even worse than that. The ones that we have here work by buying a company, loading it up with gargantuan debt, then using that debt to purchase other companies, at which time they let the previous acquisition default and liquidate it - leaving a shattered trail of obliterated companies (often virtual landmark companies that have been around for over 100 years) in their wake. Then of course they get pissed off when the court objects to them slotting themselves in line ahead of everyone else to recover the money they spent buying it in the first place, which they "loaned" it post-purchase.
It's on the Apple developer forums. You can read the post, if you have access to it...
Setting the user agent field is not supposed to work though. At least, that's what Apple devs on their developer forums say.
Yeah, I think I'd prefer the deltas - the 4.2GB update wreaks havoc on my cap (it's 10% gone in one fel swoop).
I suspect your grandmother is only wary of the acquisition because you have been instilling that wariness into her. No 80 year old I have ever seen has given a shit about some tech company and who buys it, without some tech-centric teen or 20-something telling them they should care.
Personally, I actually don't think that at all. If anything, they'll integrate Exchange/OCS/Lync/whatever they're calling it these days, allow you to federate your unified communications servers using Skype, then try and use that to bludgeon people into forking out money to Microsoft for their inter-system phone links rather than to the telco or to some SIP trunk provider, etc. Then integrate it into Windows Phone, and they've pretty much got a captive market using Microsoft Skype on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Windows, and OS X (which has Office, so it might actually improve on Mac).
Alternatively, they'll ignore Skype completely save for using the protocol as the basis for the next gen of Windows Live Messenger and Office Communicator.
Both MSSQL and Postgres are pretty SQL-92 standards compliant. The language is virtually drop-in compatible. It's MySQL that sucks balls and interoperates with nothing (seriously, selecting random rows for a GROUP BY query?!?)