Trillian has informed me that Wikipedia has entires for all sorts of useful topics like "asshat" and "1337 h4X0rz"
For those of you who don't follow, the new version of Trillian offers realtime lookups of selected keywords. You can mouseover underlined words in chat windows and it will pop up with the Wikipedia definition.
Hope it works out! I'm not sure if all those American actors and production teams are used to working in our studio igloos. They'll probably have Enterprise spend lots of time visiting Andoria.
That's good and bad though. Those ads pay for the free sites we so love. The ones that force you to help them pay for their server fees will be left in the dust. The ones that let you avoid the ads that support them will be rewarded with way more users and very few of them actually giving them the ad revenue they so badly need...
Apple has had many hits, and will continue to have hits. The iPod was more like a platinum-hit. Will they create something else as revolutionary as the iPod? Who knows, but they don't need to in order to stay a highly successful company.
Trust me, people buy them. If they just spent $400 on an iPod they're going to want to protect it, sell them a case. They want to listen to their iPod in their CD players at home/in the car, sell them a transmitter. It's an expensive toy, so $50 more to make it work better and stay in better shape is not much...
I work for the Canadian Government and we have our own in-house security department. This problem is not limited to consultants and third parties. The small staff in our office can create reports hundreds of pages long using open source and proprietary tools. The hard part is finding the owner of each asset and getting them to take responsibility for it. Often the "administrator" isn't even close to qualified to perform system maintenance.
I remember about three years ago when I was selling electronics. The MiniDisc players were about the same price as 128MB Mp3 players, but could hold way more tunes (depending on quality settings), had better battery life, and had removable media. It always seemed like an easy sell until they'd ask me how they put their Mp3s onto the MD. I'd then have to describe the awful interface and conversion software and how it's not really using Mp3s. I can't believe they haven't figured this out and finally comply with the rest of the industry (the successful ones anyway)!
I've been applying 2k3 SP1 to servers at my office all week. MS did a good job of designing the patch so that it adds lots of security lockdowns without limiting applications. They add the firewall but it defaults to off for upgrades. The only part that seems scary is the stronger authentication for DCOM. It's secure, but has potential to break some apps. Details on SP1 here.
Five servers so far, and all of them have worked after the update. I'm far from a MS fan, but I have no problem admitting when they've done a good job...
Not even! Debian has done so much work for so long, including maintaining the packages that Ubuntu is using. Now this new distro comes along with all the momentum of something fresh and exciting and destabilizes much of what Debian has worked so hard for!
Not a slam against Ubuntu either. I bit into the hype and torrented it. I loaded it on an extra box too. I like it so far, but it's no Debian, IMHO.
It's surprising how much some people will pay for a tap. A tap! I should go buy some water valves, scratch off the brand name and write NASA on it with a marker. The only thing more reliable than a get-rich-quick scheme, is the stupidity of people.
Ah! Good call. Strange that MS would implement security features on system files then set up the rest of the OS so that it's extremely conducive and intuitive to make normal users run as administrators.
This has been a long time coming! It's not that hard to implement but can add so much security and stability!
I wonder if MS is going to follow their good old track record of bending and breaking all the rules. If the permission system is full of exceptions then in a short time it's going to be the same problems we're seeing now.
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Trillian has informed me that Wikipedia has entires for all sorts of useful topics like "asshat" and "1337 h4X0rz"
For those of you who don't follow, the new version of Trillian offers realtime lookups of selected keywords. You can mouseover underlined words in chat windows and it will pop up with the Wikipedia definition.
Some info on it here.
Hope it works out! I'm not sure if all those American actors and production teams are used to working in our studio igloos. They'll probably have Enterprise spend lots of time visiting Andoria.
Hahahahaha... *wipes tear* I love Canada.
Hah! And people ask why I love this country so much!
That's good and bad though. Those ads pay for the free sites we so love. The ones that force you to help them pay for their server fees will be left in the dust. The ones that let you avoid the ads that support them will be rewarded with way more users and very few of them actually giving them the ad revenue they so badly need...
Awww... Beat me to it! That's three blocks from my apartment!
Apple has had many hits, and will continue to have hits. The iPod was more like a platinum-hit. Will they create something else as revolutionary as the iPod? Who knows, but they don't need to in order to stay a highly successful company.
Trust me, people buy them. If they just spent $400 on an iPod they're going to want to protect it, sell them a case. They want to listen to their iPod in their CD players at home/in the car, sell them a transmitter. It's an expensive toy, so $50 more to make it work better and stay in better shape is not much...
I work for the Canadian Government and we have our own in-house security department. This problem is not limited to consultants and third parties. The small staff in our office can create reports hundreds of pages long using open source and proprietary tools. The hard part is finding the owner of each asset and getting them to take responsibility for it. Often the "administrator" isn't even close to qualified to perform system maintenance.
That I, for one, welcome our new frozen-light overlords!
They're breaking into the biggest industry on the net. Porn. First images now video...
I remember about three years ago when I was selling electronics. The MiniDisc players were about the same price as 128MB Mp3 players, but could hold way more tunes (depending on quality settings), had better battery life, and had removable media. It always seemed like an easy sell until they'd ask me how they put their Mp3s onto the MD. I'd then have to describe the awful interface and conversion software and how it's not really using Mp3s. I can't believe they haven't figured this out and finally comply with the rest of the industry (the successful ones anyway)!
Agreed. I get fake letters from the Domain Registry of Canada every year. Those letters are what remind me it's time to renew with Internic!
I've been applying 2k3 SP1 to servers at my office all week. MS did a good job of designing the patch so that it adds lots of security lockdowns without limiting applications. They add the firewall but it defaults to off for upgrades. The only part that seems scary is the stronger authentication for DCOM. It's secure, but has potential to break some apps. Details on SP1 here.
Five servers so far, and all of them have worked after the update. I'm far from a MS fan, but I have no problem admitting when they've done a good job...
I use internic.ca and I've never had a problem...
Evidently you've never played City of Heroes.
I'll never get those eight months back. It was so worth it though...
Not even! Debian has done so much work for so long, including maintaining the packages that Ubuntu is using. Now this new distro comes along with all the momentum of something fresh and exciting and destabilizes much of what Debian has worked so hard for!
Not a slam against Ubuntu either. I bit into the hype and torrented it. I loaded it on an extra box too. I like it so far, but it's no Debian, IMHO.
It's surprising how much some people will pay for a tap. A tap! I should go buy some water valves, scratch off the brand name and write NASA on it with a marker. The only thing more reliable than a get-rich-quick scheme, is the stupidity of people.
Never had the chance to do it myself since I build all my own systems. I've kept this in my Bookmarks for some time though:
www.windowsrefund.org
(In the title bar it says windowsrefund.net, but that site times out. Don't know what that's all about...)
Ah! Good call. Strange that MS would implement security features on system files then set up the rest of the OS so that it's extremely conducive and intuitive to make normal users run as administrators.
This has been a long time coming! It's not that hard to implement but can add so much security and stability!
I wonder if MS is going to follow their good old track record of bending and breaking all the rules. If the permission system is full of exceptions then in a short time it's going to be the same problems we're seeing now.
I remember when I beat The Internet.
The last boss was hard...
Way easier way to do that. Do a Yahgoohoogle search:
search for 'xyzzy'
Evidently the author of the article isn't aware of how desired the Star Wars Kid is...
Canada's not the paranoid one. We're the nice guys remember? :P
I'd more worried about someone saying "What if the US deports me? I'm screwed!"
Good ol' Canada, we're not scared of a few satellite pictures!
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