An alternative view is that Symantec only reckon you are at risk if you use IE and that if you are using something else then you're already safe and hence of no interest to them?
Your biggest problem isn't filesystem compatibility, but id compatibility.
For transfer between system I don't control I use tar files onto fat32, then extract at the other end. Or zip files if I think a non-standard based system such as MS Windows might be involved.
For ones I do control, they are all Linux, so ext3. And I have the same uid/gid across them (so I use the same one at home (and teh same account name) as I have been allocated at work.
You can pay Microsoft any amount of money but you have no rights at all over the software they give you except to use it as Microsoft says you may. And you don't own it in any way.
They all seem to be about fetching content - not about adding functionality. The only extension I have ever used on IE is iehttpheaders, and it doesn't get a mention. Can anyone create extensions to be added here, or would you have to pay Microsoft to host it?
XP is also out of date. In fact, isn't in now more expensive to put XP onto a system rather than Vista? This decision will save money over 10 years? Compared to what? It doesn't mention how much other options might have saved.
I just hope they don't put Windows in submarines.
"Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both."
OK - but not in the Science class. Politics, Religion or Sociology classes would be OK.
Presumably she is equally keen for Atheism, Druidism and Witchcraft to be taught? Oh, no - wait - she's in the US, so you have to keep religion out of school.
> Congestion pricing of traffic is emerging as a completely new services market
Isn't that just an implementation of the law of supply and demand? Doesn't prior art an obviousness come into play anywhere here?
I certainly never thought of doing it before I saw others do it
I have CGI scripts from the 90's that did this. It allowed the "query" part to either follow a ? ("normal" CGI calling) or just keep going with the "path". One advantage of the latter was that a browser would be more likely to cache it (as they might expect that a URI containing a "?" represented dynamic content). But it wasn't my idea then - I was just copying what I'd seen others do in the past.
So the only "novelty" I can see here is that the query is the whole of the path (or v.v.), which strikes me as being in the obvious category
Set your servers to use NTP, either from your local
nameservers or from *.pool.ntp.org and have it automatically adjust for
DST.
That would only affect the current time, which isn't much use if you are
scheduling something to occur next month and the DST change occurs in between. The system needs to know about future (and past) DST changes in order to display all dates correctly. If you ever use a date (rather than just a time) you need more than just NTP synchronizing.
I agree, the article suggests that Vista is crap because his two older laptops had hardware problems and that Lenovo hasn't released Vista-ready drivers yet. Sounds pretty weak to me.
> I think you overestimate the general population > of browser users.
And also ignore the fact that many of them are corporate users who have to use what the company supllies them with, and that tends to be whatever MS supplies. The "quality" or "standards-compliance" is irrelevant to them, as everything is written using tools which are only ever tested against IE anyway.
Personally, given way that IE will happily "parse" any old rubbish and produce a page, I am reluctant to place any great faith in what I see being what the author intended, which is of great interest to me in pages containing important/confidential information, but is (apparently) of no concern at all to large companies.
I also have no objection to the licence fee. It no doubt constitutes less than I pay indirectly for commercial channels (in the extra costs of products to cover advertizing budgets).
In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, and for non-UK readers who may not know, the licence is per-house, not per-set.
My favourites comment is from an old OS, now mostly gone. I'll change the name and the non-relevant parts to protect the innocent - the name of the truly-guilty (de)part(ment) is left in.
/* Called by XXXXX to start the Assassin. Has this dopey alternate /* name because XXXXX is an ABC module. The Assassin runs under the /* name LOGOUT_SERVER due to the chicken-livered complaints of our /* Customer Service and Marketing groups, who were worried that our /* customers would get all bent out of shape over this. ... ... /* 12/01/87 Wrong Changed name to "LOGOUT_SERVER" at request of our /* crack Marketing group.
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An alternative view is that Symantec only reckon you are at risk if you use IE and that if you are using something else then you're already safe and hence of no interest to them?
Your biggest problem isn't filesystem compatibility, but id compatibility. For transfer between system I don't control I use tar files onto fat32, then extract at the other end. Or zip files if I think a non-standard based system such as MS Windows might be involved. For ones I do control, they are all Linux, so ext3. And I have the same uid/gid across them (so I use the same one at home (and teh same account name) as I have been allocated at work.
IANAL, but what about making it a licence fee?
You can pay Microsoft any amount of money but you have no rights at all over the software they give you except to use it as Microsoft says you may. And you don't own it in any way.
No - such as on-line gambling. The US has it's own strictures, just as Iran and China do.
They all seem to be about fetching content - not about adding functionality. The only extension I have ever used on IE is iehttpheaders, and it doesn't get a mention. Can anyone create extensions to be added here, or would you have to pay Microsoft to host it?
XP is also out of date. In fact, isn't in now more expensive to put XP onto a system rather than Vista? This decision will save money over 10 years? Compared to what? It doesn't mention how much other options might have saved.
I just hope they don't put Windows in submarines.
OK - but not in the Science class. Politics, Religion or Sociology classes would be OK. Presumably she is equally keen for Atheism, Druidism and Witchcraft to be taught? Oh, no - wait - she's in the US, so you have to keep religion out of school.
> Congestion pricing of traffic is emerging as a completely new services market Isn't that just an implementation of the law of supply and demand? Doesn't prior art an obviousness come into play anywhere here?
> Clearly you have trouble understanding short and clear sentences
No, I don't, but likewise I have no problem in understanding long and clear ones. The original sentence, while long, was quite clear to me.
> they would teach you to use short and clear sentences.
Shortness does not make for clarity and can often add ambiguity.
So the only "novelty" I can see here is that the query is the whole of the path (or v.v.), which strikes me as being in the obvious category
Who says the Universal Name Service will use "sol" and "milky"? I'm sure the French will object even if the rest of the universe doesn't.
It is what is often said about Linux though.
Personally, given way that IE will happily "parse" any old rubbish and produce a page, I am reluctant to place any great faith in what I see being what the author intended, which is of great interest to me in pages containing important/confidential information, but is (apparently) of no concern at all to large companies.
I also have no objection to the licence fee. It no doubt constitutes less than I pay indirectly for commercial channels (in the extra costs of products to cover advertizing budgets).
In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, and for non-UK readers who may not know, the licence is per-house, not per-set.
Sellafield is nowhere near London. It's about as far away as you can get while still being in England (ie. it's close to Scotland).
My favourites comment is from an old OS, now mostly gone. I'll change the name and the non-relevant parts to protect the innocent - the name of the truly-guilty (de)part(ment) is left in.