1:100 may not be bad for desktop support only (which I what I suspect this guy only does), but most companies are probably closer to 1:25 when you include all IT staff (from help desk through telecom and management). It all really depends on what type of data your company has and how it's used. We are at 1:30 and are a little streached in some areas; however, many of our business processes are highly automated and our CEO/CFO make great use of the IT department to solve pains in sales, marketing, admin and other departments.
I have to agree with you. I am the author of a web based help desk application that is used on hundreds of public facing websites and licensed under the GPL. I see absolutely no reason to place a requirement on these people to make the source code available. Many simply can not make the code available and will either be in violation of the license, or they just won't use the software.
In either case, that is not want I want. In the end, it would either force me to stay with the v2 license or move to license with less of a religous attitude about open source.
Here is something that has always been broke in IE, but Firefox has right....
In the auto-complete field in IE is not accessible with the TAB key. The list drops down, but you can only access items in the list by using an arrow key which means lifting one's hand up while typing and pressing the DOWN key.
Firefox, on the other hand, allows me to TAB through the autocompletes which is considerably easier.
I assume the IE problem has something to do with accessibility (tabbing through fields, etc), but it's very annoying.
BTW, I use Avant Browser over Firefox because I like it's tab management better....and I can visit those pesky IE-only sites.
That's not all true. I host my own domain for e-mail only. My account is a catch-all for the domain and it receives absolutely no spam, and I have been using it for almost two years now.
I also have no web presence for this domain, which may be preventing the address from being crawled and then used for dictionary spamming.
During the jury selection process for a murder trial last year, I was first 14 selected to go through voir dire.
The prosecutor asked me if I watched any crime shows on TV. I said I watched Law & Order and CSI. He then asked me what I like about CSI, and I replied with something about enjoying the science or some BS.
The prosecutor then used one of his peremptory challenges to kick me off off the jury.
A week later they found the guy guilty of killing his roomate, but apparenly there wasn't a who lot of physical evidence in the trial. I guess the prosecutor though I might be biased against circumstantial evidence since I watch CSI.
Eh...whatever. At least I didn't have to sit in a jury box that week.
I know you are looking for a free solution, but in the future if you need to do some other heaving lifting with your documents, check out DeliveryWare from Esker Software.
I ran across this a little while ago....
DeliveryWare
It will handle XML documents and convert to various formats and can fax, e-mail, print or do whatever with the file.
In gaming (FPS especially), you do not get respect because of your gender, you earn it based on your talent.
If you're learning a game and you make newbie mistakes, people are going to fling insults, especially if you hurt your team or other players in the process. Now, you can either be offended by that, or you can take that as a challenge to improve your play.
We girls are simply seen as people who aren't techy. If one of us IS, then we're seen as not as competent as a guy. If we prove to be competent, then we suddenly turn into a threat.
Online games are competitions. You either suck or are treated as a threat (regardless of gender). Most of us would like to be considered a threat when we're playing Counter Strike or Enemy Territory, so I don't see what your problem is.
What is to stop Verisign from returning NS referals now instead of A records? Then they would just need to point those NS records to their own DNS servers holding the *.com/*.net wild card...correct?
UW-Zero is also on Wiscnet, along with ever other UW school and many K12's in the state. This may have effected you quite a bit if not for the actions of an excpetional group at UW-Madison.
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1:100 may not be bad for desktop support only (which I what I suspect this guy only does), but most companies are probably closer to 1:25 when you include all IT staff (from help desk through telecom and management). It all really depends on what type of data your company has and how it's used. We are at 1:30 and are a little streached in some areas; however, many of our business processes are highly automated and our CEO/CFO make great use of the IT department to solve pains in sales, marketing, admin and other departments.
I have to agree with you. I am the author of a web based help desk application that is used on hundreds of public facing websites and licensed under the GPL. I see absolutely no reason to place a requirement on these people to make the source code available. Many simply can not make the code available and will either be in violation of the license, or they just won't use the software.
In either case, that is not want I want. In the end, it would either force me to stay with the v2 license or move to license with less of a religous attitude about open source.
Here is something that has always been broke in IE, but Firefox has right....
In the auto-complete field in IE is not accessible with the TAB key. The list drops down, but you can only access items in the list by using an arrow key which means lifting one's hand up while typing and pressing the DOWN key.
Firefox, on the other hand, allows me to TAB through the autocompletes which is considerably easier.
I assume the IE problem has something to do with accessibility (tabbing through fields, etc), but it's very annoying.
BTW, I use Avant Browser over Firefox because I like it's tab management better....and I can visit those pesky IE-only sites.
Haha, that's funny. You should come back, OT is great! ;)
(beethoven on nasioc)
dada....were you on i-club/nasioc back in the day? You name and rants sound familiar.
From Microsoft 2004 annual report:
11% growth in Windows XP/2000 revenue
19% growth in server revenue (2003/SQL/Exchange)
17% growth in Office/Project/Visio revenue
Yea, I don't think the guy writing this article has a clue what he's talking about.
I have tried several times to ditch OE for Thunderbird to check my IMAP accounts, but everytime I run into annoying bugs or just plain slowness.
Add that to the fact that you can have two accounts on one server, and that makes Tbird a fairly useless tool for me.
That's not all true. I host my own domain for e-mail only. My account is a catch-all for the domain and it receives absolutely no spam, and I have been using it for almost two years now.
I also have no web presence for this domain, which may be preventing the address from being crawled and then used for dictionary spamming.
No, it wasn't me. I was just trying to find out more info (like if it was a known worm/virus) to e-mail to the madison.com folks.
Dont' visite with IE
www.madison.com
During the jury selection process for a murder trial last year, I was first 14 selected to go through voir dire.
The prosecutor asked me if I watched any crime shows on TV. I said I watched Law & Order and CSI. He then asked me what I like about CSI, and I replied with something about enjoying the science or some BS.
The prosecutor then used one of his peremptory challenges to kick me off off the jury.
A week later they found the guy guilty of killing his roomate, but apparenly there wasn't a who lot of physical evidence in the trial. I guess the prosecutor though I might be biased against circumstantial evidence since I watch CSI.
Eh...whatever. At least I didn't have to sit in a jury box that week.
The new version of Avant Browser includes support for RSS feeds. Avant is a pretty cool "wrapper" for IE.
I ran across this a little while ago.... DeliveryWare
It will handle XML documents and convert to various formats and can fax, e-mail, print or do whatever with the file.
Did you even read the rest of the article?
Good idea, let's get a dozen different companies all using the bandwidth and let the fun ensue.
In other words...."Use Indie-Mail, we may or may not be around next month."
A stipe set of mirrors is RAID 10, but a stripe set is NOT RAID 5. RAID 5 is a stripe set with parity.
I may not be a programmer nor care much about eXtreme programming, but this was still one of the best written book reviews I've seen on Slashdot.
Other people submitting book reviews should read this one first. Thanks Sarusa!
In gaming (FPS especially), you do not get respect because of your gender, you earn it based on your talent.
If you're learning a game and you make newbie mistakes, people are going to fling insults, especially if you hurt your team or other players in the process. Now, you can either be offended by that, or you can take that as a challenge to improve your play.
Online games are competitions. You either suck or are treated as a threat (regardless of gender). Most of us would like to be considered a threat when we're playing Counter Strike or Enemy Territory, so I don't see what your problem is.
...which happens to be the low frequency effects channel that can be played by a subwoofer or any other speaker than can handle the frequency range.
If I had 4 subwoofers, does that mean I have a 5.4 system? No.
What "flakiness" is that?
Ummm....he's not saying that the iTunes store provides the radio stations. He's saying that their available in the iTunes application.
And that seems like a fairly accurate statement, since you can listen to those radio stations anywhere without iTunes.
What is to stop Verisign from returning NS referals now instead of A records? Then they would just need to point those NS records to their own DNS servers holding the *.com/*.net wild card...correct?
So, which domains actually return this ip address? I can't seem to find any.
UW-Zero is also on Wiscnet, along with ever other UW school and many K12's in the state. This may have effected you quite a bit if not for the actions of an excpetional group at UW-Madison.