Microsoft's games division is a bit more reasonable. The license for Mechwarrior 4 (demo) specifically allows a second copy to be installed on a laptop. Anybody have the EULA for the full version ?
That'd be "due diligence". Sysadminning can't really be a profession without ethics, standards, practices and all the other trappings of a respected profession.
If someone can get into your system with nothing more than a binary download, then you haven't exercised due diligence. If your system has reasonable precautions against known attacks, and a reasonablesecurity setup, then you have exercised due diligence.
It's another (iirc) common law concept, similar to the apocryphal reasonable man.
Note that the Picturebook has a 1024x480 (repeat, 1024x480) display. That's landscape mode with a vengeance. Our CEO just decided he had to have one.
Like all Vaios the drivers are unavailable from Sony (if you can find 'em, let me know), so you're stuck with running the restore disk if any problems come up. And the several models we have all hate their USB interface when more than just a mouse... Let's jusrt say the Vaios aren't really happy when you start installing software.
Here's what I'm going to do:
Encrypt a copy of the Constitution, store on my hard drive. Just for the sheer, delicious irony when I turn over the encryption key for it.
Quote from back in the day: "Want a copy of Mondo2000 ? Lift any garbage can lid in the East Bay". I never considered it worth so much as a 'nice try'.
Yep. Macintosh, 1984. 4-byte file type field and 4-byte creater field (default app for this file). Technically, this is in the file structure, not the filesystem. But it is always there. Resources are structured storage for everything that makes up a program: code, icons, menus, windows, graphics, sounds, CLUTs, at al. There was a very nifty Swiss Army kinfe called ResEdit, useful for poking around inside things (Don't like the keyboard shortcuts ? Resedit ! Want a sound from a game ? Resedit !)
Then there's NeXT style.app packages. These are folders with a special attribute. They act like an executable, but can also be treated as a normal directory with the binaries and other resources inside. In OS X, I've seen source packed in as well. So the user sees one monolithic icon, but the splash screen (TIFFs or PDFs in OS X) has a path and can be accessed. So can code modules, the icons, everything. Notably, preferences go into either the user or the system library so they're independent of the app, and can roam with a user profile.
Not in my experience. Extreme programming is really just a formalized two-person collaboration. If the two programmers want to type different things, then they should probably be at a whiteboard sorting things out.
Actually, IE on the Mac is notoriously slow at rendering Slashdot. iCab, OmniWeb, Netscape and Mozilla all render Slashdot in a few seconds. The IE developers obviously don't read this site.
Two-button mouse support is in OS X. The new optical mouse is terrific. And not round.
infinite height refers to Fitt's Law. This is a User Interface principle that states, in short, "The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target."
In terms of menus, this means that it's easier to hit a menu if it is placed at an edge of the screen. In Windows apps, there is a space above the menus, so you have to be more precise with the mouse. It's a subtle difference, but it makes a difference in daily usage of the OS.
Right now, MS has two branches for Mac email clients. One for Exchange and one for POP/IMAP mail. The POP/IMAP clients are Outlook Express 5.01 and Entourage (part of Office 2001 and really just OE with some PIM functionality). For accessing an Exchange server they have Outlook 8.22.
Outlook 8.22 sucks, plain and simple. Most importantly, it does not fully support the calendaring functions that make Exchange worth having. In addition, it's still a bit buggy and it's ugly as sin. there is no preview pane for messages, nor is the calendar really integrated, even as far as it goes. Anybody remember Schedule+ ? This is its last incarnation.
The Watson project (Outlook 9) is now in Preview Release 3. This is a complete re-write and looks like an actual, useful enterprise-caliber mail client. I'm testing it in our office now (and it runs under OS X, albeit in Classic mode) and the calendar functions are up to par with Outlook 2000. It's also a very nicely designed Mac program, it does seem to have a different team than OE/Entourage, but the Watson team seems determined to produce a world-class application. It's been stable since PR1, and with PR3 good until March I will be deploying a few copies for our Mac people.
Ahhh, no. It looks fine from here. I'm using Mac OS X PB, MSIE 5.5b2; Mac_PowerPC. No Javascript errors. I have had some, but not recently. Even the nifty outliner javascript they use on some of their pages works fine.
Say, why are they specifying Mac_PowerPC ? Maybe my next mac will be an x86 box, or an Alpha...
Information About Security Incident on Microsoft Corporate Network
You may have read news reports today about a security incident involving the Microsoft corporate network. Here is some information on the incident and what Microsoft is doing about it.
Microsoft Corporate Security recently became aware of a hacking incident on the Microsoft Corporate Network, and is moving aggressively to isolate the problem and ensure the security of the network. Although Microsoft Corporate Security is continuing to investigate the incident to determine its full scope, we have no reason to believe that any customers have been or will be affected in any way by the incident.
The best information we have suggests that the scope of the incident may have been much narrower than originally reported. The hacker may have viewed the source code for a single future product under development. Contrary to some reports, the product was not a major product such as Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Office, and our investigation has confirmed that it has not been modified or corrupted in any way. We have no evidence to suggest that the hacker gained any other access to any other source code. Similarly, we have no evidence to suggest that any of Microsoft's online services have been or will be affected by the incident.
The security breach did not involve a security vulnerability in any Microsoft product. Microsoft is implementing an aggressive plan to improve the protection of our internal corporate network -- both in the immediate term and in the long term -- and will announce some of these measures in the near future.
Microsoft is a frequent target of network-based attacks, and Corporate Security actively works to protect the network against them. Microsoft is working with US law enforcement authorities to investigate this incident, and will take appropriate action when the responsible parties have been identified.
In sum, this is a deplorable act of industrial espionage, but we anticipate that customers will be unaffected by it. We are taking appropriate steps to deal with the immediate problem, and are developing follow-on steps to prevent it from happening again.
As a professional tech support tech, I must wholeheartedly endorse step three (3) above.
On the whole, these documents are pretty tame stuff. The charges for self-inflicted problems sounds reasonable under the "you break it, you bought it" school of thought. I've had to enforce a $5 password change fee at one job, it bouhgt a coupla beers and dropped the number of forgotten pwords to almost zero (and that last guy was a real piece of work, lemmee tell you).
And as a broadband customer, I'd be delighted to see the credit schedule for outages (2 months and no downtime so far on Speakeasy/Covad in S.F.). Of course, they didn't pass it out either...
Still and all, I really don't see that @HOME has anything to seriously complain about, besides the simple principle of having internal documents publicly posted. I do think they have a point here, but they're definitely overreacting (canceling posts, pulling websites (always a bad precedent in any but the clearest of cases)).
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On the other hand, Microsoft announced Office for Mac OS X this morning. That's a s close as we're likely to see Office on Unix.
Microsoft's games division is a bit more reasonable. The license for Mechwarrior 4 (demo) specifically allows a second copy to be installed on a laptop. Anybody have the EULA for the full version ?
If someone can get into your system with nothing more than a binary download, then you haven't exercised due diligence. If your system has reasonable precautions against known attacks, and a reasonablesecurity setup, then you have exercised due diligence.
It's another (iirc) common law concept, similar to the apocryphal reasonable man.
Like all Vaios the drivers are unavailable from Sony (if you can find 'em, let me know), so you're stuck with running the restore disk if any problems come up. And the several models we have all hate their USB interface when more than just a mouse... Let's jusrt say the Vaios aren't really happy when you start installing software.
And ABE's search server is dogbert.abebooks.com. Sounds geek-friendly to me.
Here's what I'm going to do:
Encrypt a copy of the Constitution, store on my hard drive. Just for the sheer, delicious irony when I turn over the encryption key for it.
Actually, it was a tricameral system. The first two similar to the American House and Senate, plus the third to repeal laws.
Quote from back in the day: "Want a copy of Mondo2000 ? Lift any garbage can lid in the East Bay". I never considered it worth so much as a 'nice try'.
I'd have to say that the girlfriend page script is critical to my mission.
Then there's NeXT style .app packages. These are folders with a special attribute. They act like an executable, but can also be treated as a normal directory with the binaries and other resources inside. In OS X, I've seen source packed in as well. So the user sees one monolithic icon, but the splash screen (TIFFs or PDFs in OS X) has a path and can be accessed. So can code modules, the icons, everything. Notably, preferences go into either the user or the system library so they're independent of the app, and can roam with a user profile.
Not in my experience. Extreme programming is really just a formalized two-person collaboration. If the two programmers want to type different things, then they should probably be at a whiteboard sorting things out.
You blocked port 25 outgoing for dialups ? Thanks ! That helped.
Sad, sad, sad.
Two-button mouse support is in OS X. The new optical mouse is terrific. And not round.
In terms of menus, this means that it's easier to hit a menu if it is placed at an edge of the screen. In Windows apps, there is a space above the menus, so you have to be more precise with the mouse. It's a subtle difference, but it makes a difference in daily usage of the OS.
There is further discussion, with examples, here.
He's still writing SSR books ! The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus came out in September.
That's John Brunner's Shockwave Rider . All the way down to the 'special school'.
Awwww, the Denver Broncos..."
Right now, MS has two branches for Mac email clients. One for Exchange and one for POP/IMAP mail. The POP/IMAP clients are Outlook Express 5.01 and Entourage (part of Office 2001 and really just OE with some PIM functionality). For accessing an Exchange server they have Outlook 8.22.
Outlook 8.22 sucks, plain and simple. Most importantly, it does not fully support the calendaring functions that make Exchange worth having. In addition, it's still a bit buggy and it's ugly as sin. there is no preview pane for messages, nor is the calendar really integrated, even as far as it goes. Anybody remember Schedule+ ? This is its last incarnation.
The Watson project (Outlook 9) is now in Preview Release 3. This is a complete re-write and looks like an actual, useful enterprise-caliber mail client. I'm testing it in our office now (and it runs under OS X, albeit in Classic mode) and the calendar functions are up to par with Outlook 2000. It's also a very nicely designed Mac program, it does seem to have a different team than OE/Entourage, but the Watson team seems determined to produce a world-class application. It's been stable since PR1, and with PR3 good until March I will be deploying a few copies for our Mac people.
For more info on macs and Exchange see:
here for current versions and here for Watson and Exchange 2k. And see anything else on www.macwindows.com for Macs and Windows.
The Claris Emailer team went to Microsoft and worked on Outlook Express for the Mac. Their first version was, iirc, OE 4.5.
Sure ! Uh, what time ?
Say, why are they specifying Mac_PowerPC ? Maybe my next mac will be an x86 box, or an Alpha...
Here's the text from that page:
Information About Security Incident on Microsoft Corporate Network
You may have read news reports today about a security incident involving the Microsoft corporate network. Here is some information on the incident and what Microsoft is doing about it.
Microsoft Corporate Security recently became aware of a hacking incident on the Microsoft Corporate Network, and is moving aggressively to isolate the problem and ensure the security of the network. Although Microsoft Corporate Security is continuing to investigate the incident to determine its full scope, we have no reason to believe that any customers have been or will be affected in any way by the incident.
The best information we have suggests that the scope of the incident may have been much narrower than originally reported. The hacker may have viewed the source code for a single future product under development. Contrary to some reports, the product was not a major product such as Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Office, and our investigation has confirmed that it has not been modified or corrupted in any way. We have no evidence to suggest that the hacker gained any other access to any other source code. Similarly, we have no evidence to suggest that any of Microsoft's online services have been or will be affected by the incident.
The security breach did not involve a security vulnerability in any Microsoft product. Microsoft is implementing an aggressive plan to improve the protection of our internal corporate network -- both in the immediate term and in the long term -- and will announce some of these measures in the near future.
Microsoft is a frequent target of network-based attacks, and Corporate Security actively works to protect the network against them. Microsoft is working with US law enforcement authorities to investigate this incident, and will take appropriate action when the responsible parties have been identified.
In sum, this is a deplorable act of industrial espionage, but we anticipate that customers will be unaffected by it. We are taking appropriate steps to deal with the immediate problem, and are developing follow-on steps to prevent it from happening again.
As a professional tech support tech, I must wholeheartedly endorse step three (3) above.
On the whole, these documents are pretty tame stuff. The charges for self-inflicted problems sounds reasonable under the "you break it, you bought it" school of thought. I've had to enforce a $5 password change fee at one job, it bouhgt a coupla beers and dropped the number of forgotten pwords to almost zero (and that last guy was a real piece of work, lemmee tell you).
And as a broadband customer, I'd be delighted to see the credit schedule for outages (2 months and no downtime so far on Speakeasy/Covad in S.F.). Of course, they didn't pass it out either...
Still and all, I really don't see that @HOME has anything to seriously complain about, besides the simple principle of having internal documents publicly posted. I do think they have a point here, but they're definitely overreacting (canceling posts, pulling websites (always a bad precedent in any but the clearest of cases)).
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