No doubt you are correct about counting bulletins, but that doesn't invalidate my point that IIS has become much more secure over the years. Maybe you could point out to us how IIS 6 contains many more unpatched vulnerabilites compared to IIS 5 or IIS 4?
Also, take into consideration how IIS 6 finally installs with most features/filters/add-ins disabled by default, where as previous versions enabled rarely used features and dropped insecure.vbs scripts into your site by default.
I think a good example of this is how many security problems have been found in IIS in recent years. For example, go to the MS Security Bulletin site and look up bulletins for IIS 6.0 compared to IIS 5.0 -- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx.
There are only two "Important" bulletins for IIS 6, while IIS 5 has almost 30 bulletins over the same inital time period. It is amazing how far IIS has come since that nightmare that was IIS 4.
Exactly. Most IT departments are already support 2 or 3 versions of Windows on 4 or more hardware platforms. Throw in the occasional Mac for the graphic artists and support is already becoming tough. Now add in 2 more flavor of Linux (not to mention 2 or more versions of each), and you have a real nightmare.
We're not just talking about supporting the OS, but also the business applications that would run in each of those environments. Sure more things are going web based, but 75% of what we do is still on desktop applications.
I would suggest reading some of the posts by Patrick McKenzie on his blog. He has some great ideas on how to handle customer support and why you should treat your customers with the upmost respect.
One good post is this one in response to a rant from Ryan Carson @ Dropsend.
Patrick runs a small ISV selling bingo card software, so he has some experience dealing with non-technical customers. Definately worth subscribing to his RSS feed.
I remember a local news story the week of the 11th stating that there was actually an increase in gas use after the DST change because people were driving more now that it stay light out later.
Developing games for Vista/Xbox is considerably easier than any other platform in history. And honestly, how many parents are actually going to use this feature to restrict content based on ESRB rating? Probably close to zero.
We have been looking at which technology to go with and I currently have two production systems up hosting virtual servers (one with VMWare Server, the other with Virtual Server 2003 R2). These are hosted on Windows 2003 Servers, and the guests are also Windows 2003. Although both products have been performing fairly well, we have had a few problems with the VMWare server (pausing/unpausing the server through the command line fails occasionally). Also, when SP1 comes out for VS 2003, it will officially support shadow copy so we can do live backups of the virtual images.
At this point, we have decided to go with MS Virtual Server to consolidate our servers. On the other hand, all of our test, development and demo environments are in VMWare Workstation and VMWare Player. VMWare Workstation is way ahead of Virtual PC.
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I just replaced all of my regularly used rechargeable batteries with 2500maH sets and I will never go back to lower rated batteries again. On my vacation last week I shot over 400 photos and about 4 minutes of video on my Canon S1 IS and I only recharged the batteries once.
You don't have to worry about charging on a USB port if your batteries don't die all of the time.
A West Virginia airport has been evacuated after a suspect bottle of liquid was discovered in a passenger's carry-on luggage, officials say. The bottle was subjected to a swab test and a sniffer dog examination and both tested positive for explosives.
A security guard first spotted the bottle in the bag, Tri-State Airport authority chief Jim Booton said.
Officials say the woman is of Pakistani origin and was travelling on a one-way ticket to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Chris Yates from Jane's Aviation told the BBC that both tests were extremely sensitive.
The likelihood that a container that had not come into contact with explosives would come up positive on both tests was extremely low, he said.
The incident comes a week after UK intelligence officers say they foiled a plot to blow up planes using liquid explosives.
I can guarantee that their definition of a "click" is going to favor the bottom line of Google/Yahoo/MSN and make it even harder for advertisers to get their money back on fraudulent clicks.
Free, as in speech, software certainly does have vendors. Some charge for the software, some only work for donations and some just do it for free; however, they still are all still vendors. Just because a product is open source does not mean that it has to be given away.
As for the article, I manage an open source product used only by business users. These would be the most likely to sue under any vendor liabiliy laws as they have the lawyers and the deep pockets. Personally, I would not take the risk of supporting the software or continuing development if I was putting my (and my family's) financial well being at stake.
I think any type of vendor liability law would hurt both commercial and OSS development. For the most part, commercial developers will just pass the cost back down to the consumers, while OSS developers would crawl back into the wood work to protect themselves.
That's great and all, execept you have craptastic programs like VMWare which default to storing their multi-gigabtye files in the My Documents folder. Not to mention the handful of other programs which drop "working" files in the My Docs and moving them to a network share just slows them down.
But otherwise yes, it is a good idea to move user's My Documents to a network share.
Really, the URL's are no different that UNC paths depending on how your SharePoint is setup. Instead of your path listed above, it might be http://sharepoint/IT/Documents/Folder/Coolstuff.xl s. The only convoluted part is that spaces are encoded into %20 which can be annoying.
All-in-all, I am very impressed with SharePoint 2003 and we keep finding more and more uses for it.
In my previous job I was in a professional union, as where most IT staff (most employees for that matter). There were good things and bad things that went along with that. One of the good things was our contract...not necessarily what the contract read, but the fact that my responsibilites and my employeer's where actually written down on paper. The second "perk" was that us employees actually had a say in our benefit package when the contract came up for renewal. It's not like HR could come by one year and say "you are now responsible for 100% of your premiums." *eek*
The bad, well, the bad was THE CONTRACT. Our union puts more emphasis on seniority than performance in the contract. Should there have been a large layoff, our performance reviews could not save us...only our time worked at the company. Also, only a small fraction of our raises were based off of performance, the rest was essentially a gaurantee COLA. The only way for me to get a decent raise at my job was for my manager to have my posistion reclassifed into something with a higher pay scale, which makes no sense if I'm doing the exact same job as before.
There is a lot of misinformation about unions in the other posts here. But I do think that a union's conviction that an employee's worth should be based on their seniority is misguided and does not really apply to the much more mobile IT crowd. Not to mention that it makes it tough for a union to even survive with that mobile workforce.
The real problem that IT employees face, like competition from H1-B and L2 visa employees, won't be fixed by unions. However, IT obviously need a better representation in Washington so there is a counter to the large employeers out there.
I should add that we have 2 graphic artists who work do the graphics on the site, but they are no way dedicated to the web site (usually doing marketing materials).
Our public facing site is managed by one dedicated person (250 employees, $25 million revenue). Of course, our marketing department manages a little bit of the content (through a custom CMS) but the overall site design and management is done by one person.
Now, our intranet site(s) take the time of several IS people, but no one is dedicated full time to those services. But intranet and internet web development are two different beasts.
Google: Oh we won't be giving out dividends to shareholders this year, instead we'll spend your money to provide free fiber to the home in west Africa.
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No doubt you are correct about counting bulletins, but that doesn't invalidate my point that IIS has become much more secure over the years. Maybe you could point out to us how IIS 6 contains many more unpatched vulnerabilites compared to IIS 5 or IIS 4?
.vbs scripts into your site by default.
Also, take into consideration how IIS 6 finally installs with most features/filters/add-ins disabled by default, where as previous versions enabled rarely used features and dropped insecure
I think a good example of this is how many security problems have been found in IIS in recent years. For example, go to the MS Security Bulletin site and look up bulletins for IIS 6.0 compared to IIS 5.0 -- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx.
There are only two "Important" bulletins for IIS 6, while IIS 5 has almost 30 bulletins over the same inital time period. It is amazing how far IIS has come since that nightmare that was IIS 4.
Exactly. Most IT departments are already support 2 or 3 versions of Windows on 4 or more hardware platforms. Throw in the occasional Mac for the graphic artists and support is already becoming tough. Now add in 2 more flavor of Linux (not to mention 2 or more versions of each), and you have a real nightmare.
We're not just talking about supporting the OS, but also the business applications that would run in each of those environments. Sure more things are going web based, but 75% of what we do is still on desktop applications.
This has got to be some type of joke: RedEnvelope Reports Two Years of Continuous Uptime at 365 Main's San Francisco's Datacenter.
It was released today....
I would suggest reading some of the posts by Patrick McKenzie on his blog. He has some great ideas on how to handle customer support and why you should treat your customers with the upmost respect.
One good post is this one in response to a rant from Ryan Carson @ Dropsend.
Patrick runs a small ISV selling bingo card software, so he has some experience dealing with non-technical customers. Definately worth subscribing to his RSS feed.
I remember a local news story the week of the 11th stating that there was actually an increase in gas use after the DST change because people were driving more now that it stay light out later.
Ok, I just pasted the wrong URL:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4747
Here are some comments on the changes related to the MS/Novell deal:
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Developing games for Vista/Xbox is considerably easier than any other platform in history. And honestly, how many parents are actually going to use this feature to restrict content based on ESRB rating? Probably close to zero.
More content, less whining please.
We have been looking at which technology to go with and I currently have two production systems up hosting virtual servers (one with VMWare Server, the other with Virtual Server 2003 R2). These are hosted on Windows 2003 Servers, and the guests are also Windows 2003. Although both products have been performing fairly well, we have had a few problems with the VMWare server (pausing/unpausing the server through the command line fails occasionally). Also, when SP1 comes out for VS 2003, it will officially support shadow copy so we can do live backups of the virtual images.
At this point, we have decided to go with MS Virtual Server to consolidate our servers. On the other hand, all of our test, development and demo environments are in VMWare Workstation and VMWare Player. VMWare Workstation is way ahead of Virtual PC.
I just replaced all of my regularly used rechargeable batteries with 2500maH sets and I will never go back to lower rated batteries again. On my vacation last week I shot over 400 photos and about 4 minutes of video on my Canon S1 IS and I only recharged the batteries once.
You don't have to worry about charging on a USB port if your batteries don't die all of the time.
I sure hope you meant it comes with component cables.
I can guarantee that their definition of a "click" is going to favor the bottom line of Google/Yahoo/MSN and make it even harder for advertisers to get their money back on fraudulent clicks.
Isn't general relativity incorrect for sub atomic particles anyway? ....it's been like 10 years since my last quantum physics class.
LOL
That interface looks like something out of Eudora circa 1995. No wonder why people don't take Linux on the desktop seriously.
Free, as in speech, software certainly does have vendors. Some charge for the software, some only work for donations and some just do it for free; however, they still are all still vendors. Just because a product is open source does not mean that it has to be given away.
As for the article, I manage an open source product used only by business users. These would be the most likely to sue under any vendor liabiliy laws as they have the lawyers and the deep pockets. Personally, I would not take the risk of supporting the software or continuing development if I was putting my (and my family's) financial well being at stake.
I think any type of vendor liability law would hurt both commercial and OSS development. For the most part, commercial developers will just pass the cost back down to the consumers, while OSS developers would crawl back into the wood work to protect themselves.
That's great and all, execept you have craptastic programs like VMWare which default to storing their multi-gigabtye files in the My Documents folder. Not to mention the handful of other programs which drop "working" files in the My Docs and moving them to a network share just slows them down.
But otherwise yes, it is a good idea to move user's My Documents to a network share.
For you web experts out there, how does one do those rounded corners on the article titles without using an image?
Really, the URL's are no different that UNC paths depending on how your SharePoint is setup. Instead of your path listed above, it might be http://sharepoint/IT/Documents/Folder/Coolstuff.xl s. The only convoluted part is that spaces are encoded into %20 which can be annoying.
All-in-all, I am very impressed with SharePoint 2003 and we keep finding more and more uses for it.
In my previous job I was in a professional union, as where most IT staff (most employees for that matter). There were good things and bad things that went along with that. One of the good things was our contract...not necessarily what the contract read, but the fact that my responsibilites and my employeer's where actually written down on paper. The second "perk" was that us employees actually had a say in our benefit package when the contract came up for renewal. It's not like HR could come by one year and say "you are now responsible for 100% of your premiums." *eek*
The bad, well, the bad was THE CONTRACT. Our union puts more emphasis on seniority than performance in the contract. Should there have been a large layoff, our performance reviews could not save us...only our time worked at the company. Also, only a small fraction of our raises were based off of performance, the rest was essentially a gaurantee COLA. The only way for me to get a decent raise at my job was for my manager to have my posistion reclassifed into something with a higher pay scale, which makes no sense if I'm doing the exact same job as before.
There is a lot of misinformation about unions in the other posts here. But I do think that a union's conviction that an employee's worth should be based on their seniority is misguided and does not really apply to the much more mobile IT crowd. Not to mention that it makes it tough for a union to even survive with that mobile workforce.
The real problem that IT employees face, like competition from H1-B and L2 visa employees, won't be fixed by unions. However, IT obviously need a better representation in Washington so there is a counter to the large employeers out there.
I should add that we have 2 graphic artists who work do the graphics on the site, but they are no way dedicated to the web site (usually doing marketing materials).
Our public facing site is managed by one dedicated person (250 employees, $25 million revenue). Of course, our marketing department manages a little bit of the content (through a custom CMS) but the overall site design and management is done by one person.
Now, our intranet site(s) take the time of several IS people, but no one is dedicated full time to those services. But intranet and internet web development are two different beasts.
That's what I'm wondering.
Google: Oh we won't be giving out dividends to shareholders this year, instead we'll spend your money to provide free fiber to the home in west Africa.