Bottom line: Current OS/2 code has little or no Microsoft code. There is no legal threat from Microsoft if IBM opens the code. The biggest blocker to opening the source to OS/2 that I can tell is the fact that OS/2 powers a large number of sensitive embedded systems (e.g., almost all ATMs) that evil hackers would love to have the source to.
Just an FYI...if you have 5000 clients, SBS is not going to be your solution as it is limited to only one storage group and 16GB of storage space (both SBS versions are based on the Standard Edition of Exchange). Very limiting for such an "enterprise" that has 5000 clients.
Quit you say? OK I'll quit my job, so give me your e-mail address so I can send the details for you to deposit money into my bank account to pay for all my bills and costs of living.
Tip #1 -- Never quit your job until you have one to replace it.
Unless someone can think of a communist country I can move to where being unemployed doesn't mean you starve to death or live on the streets.
Unfortunately, this economic model causes poverty and starvation due to lack of resources. Why work extra or advance if there's no compensation for it and all people are paid the same? It makes you want to move to a country where you "can" advance.
What's wrong with lies and trickery? It's not like the management are doing much work either. At my job I'm going to do the MINIMUM not to get sacked. Nothing more. They don't pay me enough to care about my job, they don't treat me well enough to care about my job, so I'm going to do as little as I can get away with.
This quickly explains why you get passed up for advancement and pay raises. You offer nothing beyond your current value. It sounds like management has to waste time seeing if you will perform the MINIMUM.
The few 'enjoyable' jobs available are taken, and only open to people skilled and experienced in their field, for everyone else it's a choice between a miserable job and the dole queue.
You're so busy shirking, how do you expect to become the skilled or experienced to handle such a position?! Spend your spare time more wisely, even if just to advance your career so you can qualify for those 'enjoyable' jobs. Believe me, management will notice if you take this approach and put you beyond those lazy management dolts you complain about. The worst that can happen is you qualify for a better paying job.
"This will kill off 99% of all mom'n'pop zombies because they already use the ISP mailserver"
If they already use their ISP's mailserver, blocking ports is ineffective as they already have permission to same mailserver...jeez.
For starters, that little box is more than your "hard drive". It also contains the power supply, your sound card, your network interface card (nic), your motherboard, your cdrom drive, miscellaneous ports that included USB, firewire, and possibly others. Yes, you put electronic files on your HARD drive, but you might choose to put them on your FLASH drive, or your camera, or your floppy drive, or your networked drive, hell, even your printer might have a hard drive these days.
I'm just giving you hell, but it really does bug me when someone calls the "case" that holds most of the crap together the "hard drive" -- what keeps it in perspective for me is that you ARE a mac user...despite the popularity or even the power of the kernel underneath your OS's pretty pictures.;)
Your first mistake was listening to Papa Bell. They are experts at leaving out details.
Likely, your coverage was in the cell phone network. This speed is ok in that it's connected, but not better than for small emails. The other coverage (that dsl speed) is the CDMA network and since getting Sprint/Cingular/Whatever-the-fuck-they've-become, and can deliver much faster rates. The problem is there are always two maps to look at (cell and data). They left this information for you in the fine print. You have to study the maps. Metro's hot, rural depends.
The second is "truth in advertising". It _is_ as fast as DSL...the lowest bandwidth possible and still call it DSL.
I agree with you about the rural areas being lost. With the satellelite or cable options, the telcos have been slowing even further reaching out to them. But the same reason you didn't just post one up on a tower for your boss...the cost of "starting your own service" requires much more administrative costs than just the hardware. In addition to the high real estate of a tower, not just anybody can climb a tower (legally) and it usually takes two or three expensive trips to get the range right. There's numerous other details I'm leaving out and I'm not saying it 'can't' be done, just that it's not so easy of an investment as it sounds AND getting the personnel in that small town that can understand it.
If you're in the coverage area. Study the maps of each of the providers that promise this. The maps are broken up basically into two parts for those "out in the boonies".
The first map will the provider's cell coverage. An example is Verizon's extensive 98% coverage or some number up there. The second map is the digital coverage area where CDMA is covered. For the most part, if you live near the metropolitan areas, you should be ok and receive what is relative to 1MB nic transfer (workable). The downside is the coverage isn't everywhere and gets spotty around the edges. Study the maps carefully!
Not to say there's not options, though. Some providers offer a secondary that connect thru the cell phone path's, but the speed is a whopping 14.4Kb and acts like it. Painful, but when you need that connection...
$79 is about the going rate for just data unlimited, but you can package rates get a regular cell phone with an adapter connecting to the PC. I would warn here about the PDA phones battery life, though. Especially when the phone is not in "flight" mode and busy searching for signal to the CDMA network.
It is a fucking acronym, just got it wrong.
And some do not consider unclean animals as "real" meat...I missed the adjective. I dunno, maybe Hormel just sounded Jewish to me.
From TFA.
---
No names were used, but this spring at Southern Methodist University, students and faculty began recognizing themselves in the phantom's prose. A student in SMU's corporate communications and public affairs department discovered the blog had quoted the content of e-mail she had sent to one of her teachers. It called her "clueless."
An assistant professor had no trouble identifying herself in another short posting about a faculty member who was "fresh from a mediocre Midwestern University with a Ph.D. in something no one cares about."
---
I agree with the grandparent...zero sympathy. She should have done a better job as a positioned professional:
1) Despite the level of protection exhibited, she published material obtained from her role and violated the client relationship (students are to teacher as the client is to the lawyer or therapist).
2) The fact that she teaches a writing class itself defines the requirement for perfection in publishment (blogs, albeit anonymous, are a form of publishing).
You missed it completely (watching plane fly over your head).
The limits just spit back a generic message that the naive user doesn't understand, only that their email doesn't work, then for some 'strange' reason, the Outbox empties. Ok, they think, it does work. They send some more, all's fine. The spammer is back at it later, fills the quota for the day and fills it again the next day. Revolving cycle.
Not really. Mac and Linux are used by the uninformed as well (ESPECIALLY Mac). People will use what they are comfortable with and can use at work.
People know Windows can be secured, because their IT department has shown them it can be done.
The spike will be in the spyware/antivirus companies that take care of smtp 25 for them.
" Why do people need more than one password? Why can't websites and applications authenticate you using your PGP public key?"
Because some morons setup web sites for just that purpose...to "get" your password that you use everywhere else. Duh.
If he had Windows (pick a version), it would have worked just as well on that IBM Thinkpad, too.
The problem is faulty hardware...tablets and pdas just aren't durable enough for software that requires the dependability of timed presentations.
Linux products would fail if installed on the Tablet as well...if they 'ever' get there.
SPAM = Spiced Pork And Meats (ham is pork and for some inanse reason pork is not considered a meat). The reference to Monty's skit is correct in that it refers to spam drowns out normal conversation...which it has.
Of course, now the dilemna is "use filtering or inaccurate and poorly administrated DNBLs?" -- imho, either approach requires administration by the email admin, but one keeps the decision making at the recipient level (the actual email server) while the other blocks resolving communication.
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Bottom line: Current OS/2 code has little or no Microsoft code. There is no legal threat from Microsoft if IBM opens the code. The biggest blocker to opening the source to OS/2 that I can tell is the fact that OS/2 powers a large number of sensitive embedded systems (e.g., almost all ATMs) that evil hackers would love to have the source to.
Now _that_ was an Insightful statement.
Don't you know ideological purity is sooooo much more important than positive outcomes?
Even if it results in negative outcomes? How does that make it "more" important?
Just an FYI...if you have 5000 clients, SBS is not going to be your solution as it is limited to only one storage group and 16GB of storage space (both SBS versions are based on the Standard Edition of Exchange). Very limiting for such an "enterprise" that has 5000 clients.
Quit you say? OK I'll quit my job, so give me your e-mail address so I can send the details for you to deposit money into my bank account to pay for all my bills and costs of living.
Tip #1 -- Never quit your job until you have one to replace it.
Unless someone can think of a communist country I can move to where being unemployed doesn't mean you starve to death or live on the streets.
Unfortunately, this economic model causes poverty and starvation due to lack of resources. Why work extra or advance if there's no compensation for it and all people are paid the same? It makes you want to move to a country where you "can" advance.
What's wrong with lies and trickery? It's not like the management are doing much work either. At my job I'm going to do the MINIMUM not to get sacked. Nothing more. They don't pay me enough to care about my job, they don't treat me well enough to care about my job, so I'm going to do as little as I can get away with.
This quickly explains why you get passed up for advancement and pay raises. You offer nothing beyond your current value. It sounds like management has to waste time seeing if you will perform the MINIMUM.
The few 'enjoyable' jobs available are taken, and only open to people skilled and experienced in their field, for everyone else it's a choice between a miserable job and the dole queue.
You're so busy shirking, how do you expect to become the skilled or experienced to handle such a position?! Spend your spare time more wisely, even if just to advance your career so you can qualify for those 'enjoyable' jobs. Believe me, management will notice if you take this approach and put you beyond those lazy management dolts you complain about. The worst that can happen is you qualify for a better paying job.
(Additional reporting by Duncan Martell in San Francisco, Reed Stevenson in Seattle and Kevin Krolicki in Los Angeles)
:P
Case in point by example.
Duh! They actually needed a "study" to tell them this?!
"You're a traitor to your country if you support this administration." -- You're a moron. Get the fuk out.
"This will kill off 99% of all mom'n'pop zombies because they already use the ISP mailserver" If they already use their ISP's mailserver, blocking ports is ineffective as they already have permission to same mailserver...jeez.
Get a NAT firewall with a built-in switch and network your machines together with the shared connection.
Go here for a free service from if you have real control of your email server's ip address:
http://postmaster.msn.com/
-- am I way off base here?
;)
Yes.
For starters, that little box is more than your "hard drive". It also contains the power supply, your sound card, your network interface card (nic), your motherboard, your cdrom drive, miscellaneous ports that included USB, firewire, and possibly others. Yes, you put electronic files on your HARD drive, but you might choose to put them on your FLASH drive, or your camera, or your floppy drive, or your networked drive, hell, even your printer might have a hard drive these days.
I'm just giving you hell, but it really does bug me when someone calls the "case" that holds most of the crap together the "hard drive" -- what keeps it in perspective for me is that you ARE a mac user...despite the popularity or even the power of the kernel underneath your OS's pretty pictures.
Verizon gives you 15 days (I'm sure only because of some law).
Your first mistake was listening to Papa Bell. They are experts at leaving out details. Likely, your coverage was in the cell phone network. This speed is ok in that it's connected, but not better than for small emails. The other coverage (that dsl speed) is the CDMA network and since getting Sprint/Cingular/Whatever-the-fuck-they've-become, and can deliver much faster rates. The problem is there are always two maps to look at (cell and data). They left this information for you in the fine print. You have to study the maps. Metro's hot, rural depends. The second is "truth in advertising". It _is_ as fast as DSL...the lowest bandwidth possible and still call it DSL. I agree with you about the rural areas being lost. With the satellelite or cable options, the telcos have been slowing even further reaching out to them. But the same reason you didn't just post one up on a tower for your boss...the cost of "starting your own service" requires much more administrative costs than just the hardware. In addition to the high real estate of a tower, not just anybody can climb a tower (legally) and it usually takes two or three expensive trips to get the range right. There's numerous other details I'm leaving out and I'm not saying it 'can't' be done, just that it's not so easy of an investment as it sounds AND getting the personnel in that small town that can understand it.
If you're in the coverage area. Study the maps of each of the providers that promise this. The maps are broken up basically into two parts for those "out in the boonies". The first map will the provider's cell coverage. An example is Verizon's extensive 98% coverage or some number up there. The second map is the digital coverage area where CDMA is covered. For the most part, if you live near the metropolitan areas, you should be ok and receive what is relative to 1MB nic transfer (workable). The downside is the coverage isn't everywhere and gets spotty around the edges. Study the maps carefully! Not to say there's not options, though. Some providers offer a secondary that connect thru the cell phone path's, but the speed is a whopping 14.4Kb and acts like it. Painful, but when you need that connection... $79 is about the going rate for just data unlimited, but you can package rates get a regular cell phone with an adapter connecting to the PC. I would warn here about the PDA phones battery life, though. Especially when the phone is not in "flight" mode and busy searching for signal to the CDMA network.
First insightful, then funny...+5 Flamebait, judging by the replies.
1) -- rolling of the eyes...heil to you, too. 2) -- One doesn't have to glean, especially when the biased mod system ups the twist as "insightful".
It is a fucking acronym, just got it wrong. And some do not consider unclean animals as "real" meat...I missed the adjective. I dunno, maybe Hormel just sounded Jewish to me.
...there's GOT to be.
From TFA. --- No names were used, but this spring at Southern Methodist University, students and faculty began recognizing themselves in the phantom's prose. A student in SMU's corporate communications and public affairs department discovered the blog had quoted the content of e-mail she had sent to one of her teachers. It called her "clueless." An assistant professor had no trouble identifying herself in another short posting about a faculty member who was "fresh from a mediocre Midwestern University with a Ph.D. in something no one cares about." --- I agree with the grandparent...zero sympathy. She should have done a better job as a positioned professional: 1) Despite the level of protection exhibited, she published material obtained from her role and violated the client relationship (students are to teacher as the client is to the lawyer or therapist). 2) The fact that she teaches a writing class itself defines the requirement for perfection in publishment (blogs, albeit anonymous, are a form of publishing).
You missed it completely (watching plane fly over your head). The limits just spit back a generic message that the naive user doesn't understand, only that their email doesn't work, then for some 'strange' reason, the Outbox empties. Ok, they think, it does work. They send some more, all's fine. The spammer is back at it later, fills the quota for the day and fills it again the next day. Revolving cycle.
" You'd use your telephone?" You gonna pay for the long distance costs?
Not really. Mac and Linux are used by the uninformed as well (ESPECIALLY Mac). People will use what they are comfortable with and can use at work. People know Windows can be secured, because their IT department has shown them it can be done. The spike will be in the spyware/antivirus companies that take care of smtp 25 for them.
" Why do people need more than one password? Why can't websites and applications authenticate you using your PGP public key?" Because some morons setup web sites for just that purpose...to "get" your password that you use everywhere else. Duh.
If he had Windows (pick a version), it would have worked just as well on that IBM Thinkpad, too. The problem is faulty hardware...tablets and pdas just aren't durable enough for software that requires the dependability of timed presentations. Linux products would fail if installed on the Tablet as well...if they 'ever' get there.
SPAM = Spiced Pork And Meats (ham is pork and for some inanse reason pork is not considered a meat). The reference to Monty's skit is correct in that it refers to spam drowns out normal conversation...which it has. Of course, now the dilemna is "use filtering or inaccurate and poorly administrated DNBLs?" -- imho, either approach requires administration by the email admin, but one keeps the decision making at the recipient level (the actual email server) while the other blocks resolving communication.