They can't enforece it, but they can ask, preferrably nicely. I can't think of any reason to steal it and distribute it without attribution (not that someone else couldn't) so I'm not real worried at this point. Besides, stealing from COngress torques them off, they hate the competition.
System Restore has probably saved thousands and thousands of novice users from total system meltdowns. I became very fond of that feature after taking a call at 11pm from a user with a basically hosed network stack after a failed VPN install [1]. She was toast if she had been using anything but WinXP. I mentally took a $1000 of my my running total [2] of "Bill Gates personally owes me..." that I update whenever an MS product pisses me off for the System Restore feature. It's even easy enough to use that I could walk a panicky novice through it just from the TechNote on using it in front of me.
[1] Their IT group refused to support or deploy XP for any reason and was leaning heavily towards OS X (new standard biosciences workstation and a good numbercrunching machine anyway) and Mozilla (good IMAP client) since most users had both on their desks for different things. The Windows NT workstations on the production line (massively locked down, standardized and secured) won't change for a long time - the FDA recertification would be a really expensive PITA.
[2] From $5650 to $4650. It's back up to $4900 now btw.
I was sitting on my couch taking a sick day (sick of work) when the phone rings. It's the PBX I said, I gotta go in. Maybe someone forgot their password (bonehead, no - that's what I reset their password to last time).
So after some quick agonizing I take the call, hoping it isn't my boss in a panic. It's Pacific Bell. The nice lady wans to know if I'm interested in signing up for CallerID.
Yup. Users find out that the office has a T1 line and set their streaming speed to that. Then they get an irritated visit from me and the lecture on "WE have a T1 line, YOU share it with 100 other people. Even at 56k, you and 23 others would FILL our T1" Then their settings get changed WAY down (modem speeds), and a reminder that a followup visit to check the settings again is mentioned. I love what I can do to my users when my boss is agonizing over bandwidth costs. The one nitwit who was streaming their NannyCam at maximum... with the window minimized so she couldn't watch it.. and with no one home anyway.. she caught hell for that.
Our rule was "if you don't understand it, don't mess with it". Except for executives, HR and Finance of course.
The.bomb I worked for could contribute several business plans from 2000 alone. Add in the three they went through in 2001 before ad revenues dropped into four figures...
Take a look through Infoworld or a magazine of similar ilk. Almost all of the browser screenshots are taken on Macs - there's more than enough of the interface showing to be sure.
Then again, on the Daily Show last nite (6/24/2002) we got to see a reporter browsing porn on his TiBook. I don't think Apple's gonna be exactly thrilled about that sighting.
It's transparently a sweetheart deal because the DoJ is taking a hands off approach to a case that is closed and is just awaiting sentencing (and appeals).
Favoritism towards a campaign contributor doesn't quite reach the level of a bribe per se but it does indicate the use of money to influence the political process. Some might argue that this is part of the political process, but I don't see "lobbyist" anywhere in the Constitution.
Giving money to both sides is nothing more than hedging your bets. Whichever way the election goes, you have the ear of the eventual officeholder. It really is just that simple. They don't call it "horsetrading" for nothing.
Actually, since MS lost, they Feds have some leverage where before Bill might have stood on principle (the mythical NSA Key notwithstanding). The remedy might be: we won't fuck you over if you wear this wire...
That sounds like a different problem. OS X 10.15 has a bug which may cause your system to lose its DHCP lease and never try and renew it. The recommended fix is to delete the file com.apple.PowerManagement.plist.
I really do expect them to fire up NortonAV and scan every single file on the disk, and every archive. THEN they can hand it off to manufacturing.
I haven't seen a virus on a shrinkwrapped product since the early 90s. Back then, when I was in software retail, we saw 2-3 games a year with a virus on one of the floppies. Bad thing to do to your customers (never mind broken.bat installers and so forth). I'm pretty certain that we never heard from any of those publishers again.
Honestly, how long does it take to virus scan a CD ? Not the disk image, but the actual burned master in a CD-ROM drive ? In a fast drive (24x or up) it's not that long. And right now every Windows developer in Korea has been sent a virus. What if they do that to a state where it is a criminal offence to distribute a virus ? I'll be quiet now, maybe somebody at RandomeSoftwareHouse will go to jail over sloppy QA. That'll be the Day !
I strongly suspect that the Pentagon is keenly interested in that gearbox. If LM can pull that off and come anywhere near budget (30% say) it'll be a miracle. They just might. Or they could Osprey the whole thing. Or, if we get really lucky the gearbox can be used to rescue the Osprey program.
The Osprey really needs to be fixed. The Marines could really use flocks of them operating from the amphib carriers. We obviously need something really fast that can land troops like a helicopter, sooner orlater the engineering (maybe not on the V-22) will get worked out.
If you only pay for one piece of software on your network...
Retrospect.
It's convenient, it's easy, it blows every other backup system for workstations out of the water (it's worth switching if it will scale to your systems), and the users can safely ignore it.
Retrospect is a treat to use. The hardest part will be figuring out what tape rotation to use.
I took over a Retrospect installation that had been running for three years when I got to it, and upgradedc it for three more. The previous BOFH had been a fanatic about backing up everything. I could give you a copy of any database from at least 2 different days from anyweek over a period of years.
Retrospect is a very well designed program. The client software can schedule or initiate a backup. It can hold the shutdown process (can be cancelled) to wait until the server backs up the client. It can automatically do a differential backup of a laptop when it is undocked.
Did I say differential backups ? Yep. I backed up whole hard drives for dozens of machines every night. Why ? Retrospect only needs to store one copy of any given file. A System Folder is pretty much identical accross the network, only preferences vary. The file comparison is blazing fast. What you lose in comparisons you more than make back in not transerring multiple copies of system and application files.
I did two kinds of offsite backups. One was a tape that went out, the other went on to a Jazz drive (in 1998 I needed *TWO* whole gigs !). The Jazz drive held copies of every production database and differentials of the servers and the Jaz was massively faster than tape for a quick restore.
Finding files and getting them back is incredibly easy. The search interface is great (would stand out for searching anything) and can easily span multiple tape catalogs. You can also browse it like a file tree. It will either image a whole disk (just like Ghost, and available for Macs) or put a specified file anywhere on any client on the network.
I really do sound like a comemrcial endorsement here (I'll post without the bonus as pennance), but Retrospect is a professional tool I feel strongly about having available. My current gig doesn't do desktop backups and someone else handles the sevrers. But Retrospect is proving invaluable as a Ghost substitute. I use a 20GB Firewire drive loaded with utilities to boot systems and re-image them or troubleshoot them. Anybody out there have a disk that will boot any machine on a PC or Unix network ?
Final note, I haven't used 5.0 as anything but a Ghost substitute. I administered a 4.0 network and enjoyed it, 5 is probably even niftier.
Nah, reminded me in a scene from one of the Zatoichi movies. Zatoichi accidentally offends a munch of boisterous students at a dojo. Thet take him inside to beat him up, he stumbles towards the center, finding the rack of practice swords by touch and cane. The scene cuts to his buddy waiting outside. WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK. Reaction shot of his buddy wincing in sympathy. Zatoichi walks back outside completely unruffled. Budyy looks surprised.
Zatoichi was way cool.
Of course, the Japanese have been doing cool-guys-with-swords for as long as they've had a cinema (call it 50+ years for argument's sake). SOme black and white samurai movie has done pretty much every cool sword trick already. Not much left for Lucas to do but to steal from the masters.
Look at it this way. Microsoft isn't going to see a lot of sales from ads on Slashdot. But they're still giving Slashdot money. Whether its an act of generosity or incompetence, a little bit of Bill's money is still helping to keep Slashdot online. And that's a Good Thing.
I was still seeing them last year on our Human Resources machines (Office and Windows 2000). It amazes me that people are still sending Office macro viruses in resumes. The first one I saw (back in 97) was for an IT Manager position, I told HR that there was no freaking way I was working for that person since he's creating unecessary work for me before his interview.
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Steal it may have been an overbroad statement. If anyone has fallen into the RIAA groupthink it's the HoReps who put the notice in in the first place.
They can't enforece it, but they can ask, preferrably nicely. I can't think of any reason to steal it and distribute it without attribution (not that someone else couldn't) so I'm not real worried at this point. Besides, stealing from COngress torques them off, they hate the competition.
The article mentions WordPerfect as well. And so long as the DTD is available, anything else that reads and writes XML will work fine.
Yeah, but you can opt-out of Jon Katz articles. Just assume that it's your competition that's reading Katz and you'll feel better.
System Restore has probably saved thousands and thousands of novice users from total system meltdowns. I became very fond of that feature after taking a call at 11pm from a user with a basically hosed network stack after a failed VPN install [1]. She was toast if she had been using anything but WinXP. I mentally took a $1000 of my my running total [2] of "Bill Gates personally owes me..." that I update whenever an MS product pisses me off for the System Restore feature. It's even easy enough to use that I could walk a panicky novice through it just from the TechNote on using it in front of me.
[1] Their IT group refused to support or deploy XP for any reason and was leaning heavily towards OS X (new standard biosciences workstation and a good numbercrunching machine anyway) and Mozilla (good IMAP client) since most users had both on their desks for different things. The Windows NT workstations on the production line (massively locked down, standardized and secured) won't change for a long time - the FDA recertification would be a really expensive PITA.
[2] From $5650 to $4650. It's back up to $4900 now btw.
So after some quick agonizing I take the call, hoping it isn't my boss in a panic. It's Pacific Bell. The nice lady wans to know if I'm interested in signing up for CallerID.
I couldn't have been more interested !
WTG Guys !
{just posting to erase a mismoderation on my part before the meta bandits get to me).
Our rule was "if you don't understand it, don't mess with it". Except for executives, HR and Finance of course.
The .bomb I worked for could contribute several business plans from 2000 alone. Add in the three they went through in 2001 before ad revenues dropped into four figures...
Then again, on the Daily Show last nite (6/24/2002) we got to see a reporter browsing porn on his TiBook. I don't think Apple's gonna be exactly thrilled about that sighting.
Favoritism towards a campaign contributor doesn't quite reach the level of a bribe per se but it does indicate the use of money to influence the political process. Some might argue that this is part of the political process, but I don't see "lobbyist" anywhere in the Constitution.
Giving money to both sides is nothing more than hedging your bets. Whichever way the election goes, you have the ear of the eventual officeholder. It really is just that simple. They don't call it "horsetrading" for nothing.
Actually, since MS lost, they Feds have some leverage where before Bill might have stood on principle (the mythical NSA Key notwithstanding). The remedy might be: we won't fuck you over if you wear this wire...
This is from KB document 106905
I really do expect them to fire up NortonAV and scan every single file on the disk, and every archive. THEN they can hand it off to manufacturing.
I haven't seen a virus on a shrinkwrapped product since the early 90s. Back then, when I was in software retail, we saw 2-3 games a year with a virus on one of the floppies. Bad thing to do to your customers (never mind broken
Honestly, how long does it take to virus scan a CD ? Not the disk image, but the actual burned master in a CD-ROM drive ? In a fast drive (24x or up) it's not that long. And right now every Windows developer in Korea has been sent a virus. What if they do that to a state where it is a criminal offence to distribute a virus ? I'll be quiet now, maybe somebody at RandomeSoftwareHouse will go to jail over sloppy QA. That'll be the Day !
Whether the details are right or wrong is unimportant. This post is +10: Insightful and Funny.
I'll be keeping an eye on UserFriendly. Just in case.
Keep the faith !
The Osprey really needs to be fixed. The Marines could really use flocks of them operating from the amphib carriers. We obviously need something really fast that can land troops like a helicopter, sooner orlater the engineering (maybe not on the V-22) will get worked out.
Retrospect.
It's convenient, it's easy, it blows every other backup system for workstations out of the water (it's worth switching if it will scale to your systems), and the users can safely ignore it.
I took over a Retrospect installation that had been running for three years when I got to it, and upgradedc it for three more. The previous BOFH had been a fanatic about backing up everything. I could give you a copy of any database from at least 2 different days from anyweek over a period of years.
Retrospect is a very well designed program. The client software can schedule or initiate a backup. It can hold the shutdown process (can be cancelled) to wait until the server backs up the client. It can automatically do a differential backup of a laptop when it is undocked.
Did I say differential backups ? Yep. I backed up whole hard drives for dozens of machines every night. Why ? Retrospect only needs to store one copy of any given file. A System Folder is pretty much identical accross the network, only preferences vary. The file comparison is blazing fast. What you lose in comparisons you more than make back in not transerring multiple copies of system and application files.
I did two kinds of offsite backups. One was a tape that went out, the other went on to a Jazz drive (in 1998 I needed *TWO* whole gigs !). The Jazz drive held copies of every production database and differentials of the servers and the Jaz was massively faster than tape for a quick restore.
Finding files and getting them back is incredibly easy. The search interface is great (would stand out for searching anything) and can easily span multiple tape catalogs. You can also browse it like a file tree. It will either image a whole disk (just like Ghost, and available for Macs) or put a specified file anywhere on any client on the network.
I really do sound like a comemrcial endorsement here (I'll post without the bonus as pennance), but Retrospect is a professional tool I feel strongly about having available. My current gig doesn't do desktop backups and someone else handles the sevrers. But Retrospect is proving invaluable as a Ghost substitute. I use a 20GB Firewire drive loaded with utilities to boot systems and re-image them or troubleshoot them. Anybody out there have a disk that will boot any machine on a PC or Unix network ?
Final note, I haven't used 5.0 as anything but a Ghost substitute. I administered a 4.0 network and enjoyed it, 5 is probably even niftier.
I don't know about that. A lot of the multiplayer FPS I have played (mostly RtCW) could have benefited from having a live referee around.
Zatoichi was way cool.
Of course, the Japanese have been doing cool-guys-with-swords for as long as they've had a cinema (call it 50+ years for argument's sake). SOme black and white samurai movie has done pretty much every cool sword trick already. Not much left for Lucas to do but to steal from the masters.
I propose a ban on butterflies. Not only would we have fewer earthquakes, but fewer storms too.
Look at it this way. Microsoft isn't going to see a lot of sales from ads on Slashdot. But they're still giving Slashdot money. Whether its an act of generosity or incompetence, a little bit of Bill's money is still helping to keep Slashdot online. And that's a Good Thing.
I was still seeing them last year on our Human Resources machines (Office and Windows 2000). It amazes me that people are still sending Office macro viruses in resumes. The first one I saw (back in 97) was for an IT Manager position, I told HR that there was no freaking way I was working for that person since he's creating unecessary work for me before his interview.