It reminds me of the 3 times I tried to do something with typo. Most of the internal links don't work. I gave up on typo and went with Xoops PNuke and Mambo.
It would really be cool if you had an email form on your typo site, cause then I could have told you off-list. I really like PhishFighting.com. Glad somebody thought of it.
Wolf
Named Coward
I think the corporate line would change if that same person polled were asked about their home machine. My informal poll of home users is that they wouldn't pay 20USD per month to have an assurance policy on their PC, where a technician comes around every month for an hour to check if they have the patches right on their box, and they get phone support for free. I cancelled the service after I had absolutely nobody embrace the idea, including the clients who spend 40 times that much having emergency calls made.
With home users, it is more about a sense of, autonomy. The business IT exec who doesn't back up their stuff or have support for their software if a user discovers a bug, an unknown feature or what have you, is an unemployed IT exec. CYA is a way of life in the business world of my experience, except among many small businesses who act more like home users, and even think it is a slam against their competence that they will ever need any support services at all.
I fix my own stuff, and so do not have service contracts on any of it. I do know where to look for information if I need it, though. This is not unusual among/.ers, I have noticed.
I like open source because I can make changes lower in the source code (if I want) to more fully differentiate the stuff I work with, and there is not ever a question of infringement. The people I sell services to understand that the license of the software was free and they were paying for me to customize it. I can show a comparison of buying big box software, buying custom coding, and open source. The costs are comparable (if you include maintenance) for an implementation of Reddot or Mambo. They come in different times in the effective life of the software.
Slashdot Mirror
What is all this in real numbers, anyway? 5% of .com could be 800 times 20% of .hk
This is just a silly-season piece of useless fluff, don't you think?
It reminds me of the 3 times I tried to do something with typo. Most of the internal links don't work. I gave up on typo and went with Xoops PNuke and Mambo. It would really be cool if you had an email form on your typo site, cause then I could have told you off-list. I really like PhishFighting.com. Glad somebody thought of it. Wolf Named Coward
some do, some don't, so what, next!
I think the corporate line would change if that same person polled were asked about their home machine. My informal poll of home users is that they wouldn't pay 20USD per month to have an assurance policy on their PC, where a technician comes around every month for an hour to check if they have the patches right on their box, and they get phone support for free. I cancelled the service after I had absolutely nobody embrace the idea, including the clients who spend 40 times that much having emergency calls made. With home users, it is more about a sense of, autonomy. The business IT exec who doesn't back up their stuff or have support for their software if a user discovers a bug, an unknown feature or what have you, is an unemployed IT exec. CYA is a way of life in the business world of my experience, except among many small businesses who act more like home users, and even think it is a slam against their competence that they will ever need any support services at all. I fix my own stuff, and so do not have service contracts on any of it. I do know where to look for information if I need it, though. This is not unusual among /.ers, I have noticed.
I like open source because I can make changes lower in the source code (if I want) to more fully differentiate the stuff I work with, and there is not ever a question of infringement. The people I sell services to understand that the license of the software was free and they were paying for me to customize it. I can show a comparison of buying big box software, buying custom coding, and open source. The costs are comparable (if you include maintenance) for an implementation of Reddot or Mambo. They come in different times in the effective life of the software.
Priceless! But of course he would be wearing the reporter suit underneath, in case there is a breaking news story that needs to be covered. lol
About the smoke part..
http://www.lcolby.com/ is an alternate view to the prohibitionist puritan mob currently at the helm of the AMA and yo gubmint.