Fair point, I can't name names but these are two of the biggest complaints against Wikipedia so it is expected there will be a sizable overlap.
You will hear e.g. on radio shows, the hosts encouraging people to vandalise articles, then the next week you'll hear them complain that there is stuff in their bio that isn't true. (If I said Hamish and Andy, Scott Dooley, Jay and the Doctor, you probably wouldn't know who they are.)
On forums etc. I often see people pointing out a humourous vandalised article and encourage others to out do it, then the next week go looking for information on something and complain that it is wrong.
For years, the same people have been simultaneously complaining about "Wikipedia not being accurate" and "nazis removing my edits". Honestly, how do you appease this sort of mentality?
This reminds me of when I used to work ISP helpdesk and due to our contract with the local University, we had someone there signing people up - in this case, it was my turn. I had just completed the sign up procedure for an extremely hot blonde, and out came the printout with all the details on it - I looked at it and turned to her... "um, I'll just generate you a different password"... I don't think she would have appreciated 'rapeShave9' for some reason.
Not to mention my example - my scanner is an all in one scanner/printer/card reader - I generally just scan direct to the SD card in the scanner and then read the contents of the card to the machine, as you would with any USB storage device.
That's not to say it doesn't work - I haven't actually ever tried scanning direct to the connected machine (Windows or Linux). It's a completely platform/driver/application independent solution!
The weather was fairly bad all across the country on Saturday which would have put a lot of people off. In Hobart it was so bad they postponed the entire event until next week. It will be interesting to see how many we get...
Actually, the current Government (Australian Labor Party) does not have a majority in the senate, requiring the co-operation of a Family First (christian) senator to pass other legislation. So yes, religion probably DOES have a lot to do with it.
Also, the filter is only http - no P2P is being blocked (how can they?) and presumably https will not be blocked (as they will not be able to see the traffic).
Sorry, your generic MS Office vs OpenOffice.org troll doesn't really apply here. This is about defining a blatantly proprietary file format as an open, standard file format.
"The U.S.-based Wikipedia Foundation, which is behind the popular compendium, was sued by three French nationals over a Wikipedia article that said they were gay activists."
Notice there is an error - it is the Wikimedia Foundation. It's a shame there isn't an "edit this page" link on Reuters' article so I can correct this!
Of course, I'm sure in the past Reuters has been only too happy to publish/distribute articles about Wikipedia's lack of accuracy..
Yes. The "sending email on behalf of their boss" functions works fine. "Booking a meeting on behalf of their boss" functions work fine. The problem is when a meeting is booked by the assistant, and the boss tries to move it, or if they have multiple assistants and another assistant tries to move it. Sometimes when they try, it will tell them they can't do it.. and when they click OK it will then delete it out of the meeting room's calendar, and delete it out of the meeting organisers calendar, while leaving the meeting visible in the recipients calendars. End result is the organiser thinks it has been cancelled/moved, when it hasn't.
We have a call logged with Microsoft about this, and they claim it is supposed to work this way. Yes, really. If anyone knows of a forum or something similar where Exchange/Outlook admins hang out and could assist, it would be much appreciated!
But, I'm not aware of any solid products that handle the calendaring side of exchange.
Me either, and that includes exchange.
Honestly, it can not handle the fairly normal business situation of managers who have assistants, and those assistants being able to book their managers into appointments. Sure, they can book it.. but the problem comes with recurring appointments, and then the manager wanting to change one of their own meetings (they don't have access) or they get a new assistant (they don't have access, or even worse, it allows them to change it but they don't have permission to update their managers calendar or the meeting rooms calendar).
Exchange is pretty solid, but some minor but common things that it just falls over on. Funny, that if an OSS solution was proposed which has these issues, it would be shot down in flames. But if Exchange has the same problem.. people (IT admins, etc) just put up with it.
"Should we assume that you get paid to praise OpenOffice?"
Of course it's silly to assume that everyone who vocally supports MS is paid to... but MS has a massive arsenal of cash behind it and if they wanted to do so, they could do and it wouldn't make a dent in their bank balance. How would OpenOffice's theoretical astroturfers be paid?
I would guess a lot of it - looking at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, on the high res version you can clearly see at least 15-20 lines coming out of it. In reality, there are only two fibre cables connecting the state to the rest of the country, and these are both owned by the same company.
One thing that the Mercury article doesn't mention, is that part of the OPEL plan involves using the (currently dormant) Basslink fibre under Bass Strait, as well as construction of a second fibre. This will create a Telstra-free, fully redundant backhaul path from Victoria to Tasmania, which is what one of the biggest problems is with supply of broadband here - Telstra previously had a monopoly on it. See http://www.minister.dcita.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf _file/69976/Fact_sheet_OPEL_Network.pdf
Just to clarify, Optus is a part of two groups: (By the use of the word "consortium" I'm guessing you you might be confusing the two.)
OPEL is 50/50 Optus (telco) and Elders ("rural" company) - they are responsible for the plan being discussed in this article.
The G9 consortium is a group of 9 companies, ONE of which is Optus, and the other eight of which are other telcos/ISPs.
The G9 has been working on a fully fledged FTTN plan for some time. The OPEL announcement was a bit of a surprise - the fact Optus/Elders were working on this plan wasn't really known, so whether Optus is still working on another larger plan with the G9, who knows.
Board: But we've already budgeted the purchase of software Man: You don't understand, with this you don't need to buy the software Board: No you don't understand, it was budgeted If the only problem is that the money must be spent..
Man: No problem, you can purchase the software from me, which includes the first year of support for only $10k. Board: Sure!
If the problem is that the money must be spent specifically on the other piece of software, then Man should have got in earlier!
The point is, you teach word processing and spreadsheets at school, not a specific package. Then they can use any Office package.
I grew up on Wordstar, then ClarisWorks (at school), then MS Word 5 (DOS) and MS Works, then MS Office 95/97/2000, now OpenOffice.org at home and MS Office 2003 at work.
It's like driving lessons. Do they teach you how to drive a Toyota or a Ford, or do they teach you to drive a car?
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Uncyclopedia is definitely more factual than Conservapedia :)
Fair point, I can't name names but these are two of the biggest complaints against Wikipedia so it is expected there will be a sizable overlap.
You will hear e.g. on radio shows, the hosts encouraging people to vandalise articles, then the next week you'll hear them complain that there is stuff in their bio that isn't true. (If I said Hamish and Andy, Scott Dooley, Jay and the Doctor, you probably wouldn't know who they are.)
On forums etc. I often see people pointing out a humourous vandalised article and encourage others to out do it, then the next week go looking for information on something and complain that it is wrong.
+1
For years, the same people have been simultaneously complaining about "Wikipedia not being accurate" and "nazis removing my edits". Honestly, how do you appease this sort of mentality?
Isn't that what Uncyclopedia already is? A fork of Wikipedia for people who like to vandalise?
For #2, get a netbook.
For #1.. I dunno.. lose some friends? :P
John, while Jack had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
This reminds me of when I used to work ISP helpdesk and due to our contract with the local University, we had someone there signing people up - in this case, it was my turn. I had just completed the sign up procedure for an extremely hot blonde, and out came the printout with all the details on it - I looked at it and turned to her ... "um, I'll just generate you a different password"... I don't think she would have appreciated 'rapeShave9' for some reason.
At least at first, this showed up in my RSS reader as "Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Finger..."
Not to mention my example - my scanner is an all in one scanner/printer/card reader - I generally just scan direct to the SD card in the scanner and then read the contents of the card to the machine, as you would with any USB storage device.
That's not to say it doesn't work - I haven't actually ever tried scanning direct to the connected machine (Windows or Linux). It's a completely platform/driver/application independent solution!
Apple is one of the few companies that get this and that's why they ended up owning the market for MP3 players.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure everyone got iPods because of the box.
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The weather was fairly bad all across the country on Saturday which would have put a lot of people off. In Hobart it was so bad they postponed the entire event until next week. It will be interesting to see how many we get ...
Actually, the current Government (Australian Labor Party) does not have a majority in the senate, requiring the co-operation of a Family First (christian) senator to pass other legislation. So yes, religion probably DOES have a lot to do with it.
Also, the filter is only http - no P2P is being blocked (how can they?) and presumably https will not be blocked (as they will not be able to see the traffic).
Sorry, your generic MS Office vs OpenOffice.org troll doesn't really apply here. This is about defining a blatantly proprietary file format as an open, standard file format.
"The U.S.-based Wikipedia Foundation, which is behind the popular compendium, was sued by three French nationals over a Wikipedia article that said they were gay activists."
Notice there is an error - it is the Wikimedia Foundation. It's a shame there isn't an "edit this page" link on Reuters' article so I can correct this!
Of course, I'm sure in the past Reuters has been only too happy to publish/distribute articles about Wikipedia's lack of accuracy..
Yes. The "sending email on behalf of their boss" functions works fine. "Booking a meeting on behalf of their boss" functions work fine. The problem is when a meeting is booked by the assistant, and the boss tries to move it, or if they have multiple assistants and another assistant tries to move it. Sometimes when they try, it will tell them they can't do it.. and when they click OK it will then delete it out of the meeting room's calendar, and delete it out of the meeting organisers calendar, while leaving the meeting visible in the recipients calendars. End result is the organiser thinks it has been cancelled/moved, when it hasn't.
We have a call logged with Microsoft about this, and they claim it is supposed to work this way. Yes, really. If anyone knows of a forum or something similar where Exchange/Outlook admins hang out and could assist, it would be much appreciated!
But, I'm not aware of any solid products that handle the calendaring side of exchange.
Me either, and that includes exchange.
Honestly, it can not handle the fairly normal business situation of managers who have assistants, and those assistants being able to book their managers into appointments. Sure, they can book it.. but the problem comes with recurring appointments, and then the manager wanting to change one of their own meetings (they don't have access) or they get a new assistant (they don't have access, or even worse, it allows them to change it but they don't have permission to update their managers calendar or the meeting rooms calendar).
Exchange is pretty solid, but some minor but common things that it just falls over on. Funny, that if an OSS solution was proposed which has these issues, it would be shot down in flames. But if Exchange has the same problem.. people (IT admins, etc) just put up with it.
"Should we assume that you get paid to praise OpenOffice?"
... but MS has a massive arsenal of cash behind it and if they wanted to do so, they could do and it wouldn't make a dent in their bank balance. How would OpenOffice's theoretical astroturfers be paid?
Of course it's silly to assume that everyone who vocally supports MS is paid to
I would guess a lot of it - looking at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, on the high res version you can clearly see at least 15-20 lines coming out of it. In reality, there are only two fibre cables connecting the state to the rest of the country, and these are both owned by the same company.
Not subtle enough, severely out of date. Overall, I give this post a troll rating of 2 out of 10.
You can't? Would you make an exception for this picture?
One thing that the Mercury article doesn't mention, is that part of the OPEL plan involves using the (currently dormant) Basslink fibre under Bass Strait, as well as construction of a second fibre. This will create a Telstra-free, fully redundant backhaul path from Victoria to Tasmania, which is what one of the biggest problems is with supply of broadband here - Telstra previously had a monopoly on it.f _file/69976/Fact_sheet_OPEL_Network.pdf
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See http://www.minister.dcita.gov.au/__data/assets/pd
In the past, getting data from Victoria to Tasmania cost ISPs way more than what it would cost to get the same data from Sydney to Tokyo.
Source: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?
Just to clarify, Optus is a part of two groups: (By the use of the word "consortium" I'm guessing you you might be confusing the two.)
The G9 has been working on a fully fledged FTTN plan for some time. The OPEL announcement was a bit of a surprise - the fact Optus/Elders were working on this plan wasn't really known, so whether Optus is still working on another larger plan with the G9, who knows.
Man: You don't understand, with this you don't need to buy the software
Board: No you don't understand, it was budgeted If the only problem is that the money must be spent..
Man: No problem, you can purchase the software from me, which includes the first year of support for only $10k.
Board: Sure!
If the problem is that the money must be spent specifically on the other piece of software, then Man should have got in earlier!
The point is, you teach word processing and spreadsheets at school, not a specific package. Then they can use any Office package.
I grew up on Wordstar, then ClarisWorks (at school), then MS Word 5 (DOS) and MS Works, then MS Office 95/97/2000, now OpenOffice.org at home and MS Office 2003 at work.
It's like driving lessons. Do they teach you how to drive a Toyota or a Ford, or do they teach you to drive a car?