If you run Windows Server 2008 R2, the "recommended" setup is to install the OS without a full GUI, called Windows Server Core. It includes a very minimalist set of tools, such as "task manager" that you can launch, but not much else.
I've found that Microsoft Security Essentials is no better than ESET NOD32 for anti-virus protection.
Then again, against anything but zero-day exploits, a properly configured OS and good browsing practices would make a potato a good AV solution.
For home users, sure. For work, corporate, enterprise, no. I've tested many, and I've yet to find anything better than ESET NOD32 for medium to large networks. Centralized updates, controls, new client/config installation pushing (push a button, and the client is remotely installed on a machine), logs, alerts, reports, etc. etc. etc.
This is a monumental difference between stand alone "good" and network "good".
"Reddit's planned 12-hour 'blackout' on January 18 sounds like an ineffectual, if not self-defeating, strategy for opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act."
I live in Indiana and property taxes only recently went down after a massive spike a few years back because of outrage. I was one of those outraged, having also lost an exemption. Also, I just sold my house in a short sale at 60% of the original value, but was taxed at 100%.
Sales Tax History of Indiana
Oct. 24, 1963* 2% May 1, 1973 4% Jan. 1, 1983 5% Dec. 1, 2002 thru March 31, 2008 6% April 1, 2008 thru present 7%
Yeah, we got a 1% cap, and 2% rental and 3% business property tax rate, but we got it at the cost of ever increasing sales taxes. It's just stealing from Peter to pay Paul, and makes it even harder on poorer Hoosiers.
Simon Properties don't give a damn about residents here. They think they will somehow save their GAP and Sunglass Hut malls with this stunt, rolling back the clock to the 80's. Hoosiers are fiscal conservatives. We damn well remember who raises our taxes, and Simon is on that list.
Of many animals both available in abundance and ones that people don't feel too bad about possibly killing, mice and pigs share enough DNA and inner workings to make them both adequate test subjects. Animal testing works very well for many drugs, though of course we won't know how it will exactly react with people just as reactions will differ from person to person. Unlike animals, we interact with other drugs, activities, eating habits, and existing conditions.
But I'm sure people with Diabetes are happier with your "[make] sure you are hungry" remedy./sarcasm
Just out of curiosity, are you also an antivaxxer? Psuedo-science is not "like" science. It is the opposite of real science.
You xxxx? These comments are xxxxxx works of xx, xx opinion, xx creation.
Xxx have to see the difference between xxxxxxx and xxxxxxx. That xxxxxxx is the lightest element in the periodic table is not xxxxxxxxxx. It's information. Even if I xxxxx an elaborate statement that culminates in xxx essence in this and little else, there's no chance that X'xx retain xxxxxxx of it. Because the main part of what I xxxxxx is still just the information that hydrogen is the element with the least mass.
A fantasy xxxxx about various xxxxxx coming together and having a party, while playing puns on xxxxx weight and some of their properties (and look how fat xxxxxx looks, any more yellow cake and she's gonna blow!) is a different matter. That IS xxxxxxxxx.
Amazon I can see, but Samsung? And we're not talking about a tablet, but a phone. Amazon wasn't foolish enough to try to pull off an "Amazon experience" phone because they knew it would fail. You can only pull that off with a tablet because its a very select list of tasks that need to work really well. No Google App store on the phone is instant buzzkill for me and 99% of the market. Even if they partnered with Amazon, it's just not enough. That's like buying an iPhone and being forced to use GetJar only. (No offense GetJar.) That's a hell of a weak bargaining position, considering that's not all they'd lose.
Forget App store, it would also lose Gmail, Maps, Navigator, YouTube, etc, etc, etc. DOA! And it's not as though HTC isn't reading to take their #1 spot in a heartbeat.
Billions of dollars in technology, but nobody with an air nozzle hooked up to an air compressor found at any car mechanic's shop to blow out a fuel line.
Richard Dawkins should be jealous of Robertson, who has converted far more Christians to athiesm than Dawkins ever dreamed of. But what, exactly, does Pat Robertson have to do with researchers working out the process by which evolution added a component to a cellular machine?
Pat Robertson: "Science perverting resurrection is an abomination, and God's wrath will strike us most likely in the form of a random earthquake or hurricane or tornado sometime within the 12 months."
I'd add the/sarcasm tag just to show I'm just making fun of him, but I actually think my prediction of what will show up on YouTube from him next is pretty accurate.
Then scroll sideways. Yes, it's very non-intuitive and confusing to scroll sideways, without a scroll bar, by mousing over the right side of the screen. But hey, why make it easy?.... keep scrolling... keep scrolling... keep scrolling.
When you reach the 68th listing, it will be Google.
Even funnier is that the one and only Apple product I ever owned, an iPhone 3G was set to Google search.
If it's good enough for their main competitor, why is it not good enough for them? And as the PP points out, this is all customizable by the hardware maker.
And apparently, South Koreans have never installed Chrome, which immediately gives you a simple choice of Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Install the latest Internet Explorer and see how hard it is to not choose Bing.
It's hard to take a clear picture of a far away galaxy that requires as little cloud and atmospheric interference as possible, and for motors to slowly track the far away object with the slow motion of earth through space.
Putting a telescope on the equator with it's faster motion and hectic atmospheric conditions is the equivalent of trying to take a portrait shot of a race car driver while speeding around a track in fog. Sure, it can be done, but it will never be of the same quality for money spent. This is why space based telescopes are needed for the clearest pictures of the furthest away objects.
Even if it did work, you still don't get the entire sky just by going to the equator. Near the horizon, you have severely bending light, and the accumulation of not just one cloud, but lines of clouds for miles. There is one single location solution for ground based telescopes.
108 mph is only around 174 km/h. I know Americans like "crusing", on big roads with low speeds, but on our highways people going over that are fairly common, despite the 130km/h limit.
The speed necessary to break bones, puncture vital organs, crush skulls, and kill a human being is universal, regardless of any nation's preference for driving speeds, common or not.
Or more simply, if you survive a 108 mph or 174 km/h is damn lucky no matter where you're driving or how good of a driver you think you are.
I do hear that they are speeding up their license versioning to become incompatible much faster in future iterations. Next week is MPL 3, and by next month they hope to be up to MPL 13, guaranteed to be future proof compatible with all copyleft licenses forever... yet incompatible with all GPL once incorporated with any of them.
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*Waves hand over submitter's eyes* These are not the solutions you are looking for...
So it's a stupid idea... yeah, I agree with that.
If you run Windows Server 2008 R2, the "recommended" setup is to install the OS without a full GUI, called Windows Server Core. It includes a very minimalist set of tools, such as "task manager" that you can launch, but not much else.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee391626(v=VS.85).aspx
I've found that Microsoft Security Essentials is no better than ESET NOD32 for anti-virus protection.
Then again, against anything but zero-day exploits, a properly configured OS and good browsing practices would make a potato a good AV solution.
For home users, sure. For work, corporate, enterprise, no. I've tested many, and I've yet to find anything better than ESET NOD32 for medium to large networks. Centralized updates, controls, new client/config installation pushing (push a button, and the client is remotely installed on a machine), logs, alerts, reports, etc. etc. etc.
This is a monumental difference between stand alone "good" and network "good".
"Reddit's planned 12-hour 'blackout' on January 18 sounds like an ineffectual, if not self-defeating, strategy for opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act."
Yep, no trolling there.
When I hear analyst, I don't think blogger, journalist, or even pundit. Maybe I'm thinking too financial about the word.
I live in Indiana and property taxes only recently went down after a massive spike a few years back because of outrage. I was one of those outraged, having also lost an exemption. Also, I just sold my house in a short sale at 60% of the original value, but was taxed at 100%.
Sales Tax History of Indiana
Oct. 24, 1963* 2%
May 1, 1973 4%
Jan. 1, 1983 5%
Dec. 1, 2002 thru March 31, 2008 6%
April 1, 2008 thru present 7%
http://www.in.gov/dor/4159.htm
Yeah, we got a 1% cap, and 2% rental and 3% business property tax rate, but we got it at the cost of ever increasing sales taxes. It's just stealing from Peter to pay Paul, and makes it even harder on poorer Hoosiers.
Simon Properties don't give a damn about residents here. They think they will somehow save their GAP and Sunglass Hut malls with this stunt, rolling back the clock to the 80's. Hoosiers are fiscal conservatives. We damn well remember who raises our taxes, and Simon is on that list.
Now we just need to make a billion CO2 scrubbing fake trees.
Of many animals both available in abundance and ones that people don't feel too bad about possibly killing, mice and pigs share enough DNA and inner workings to make them both adequate test subjects. Animal testing works very well for many drugs, though of course we won't know how it will exactly react with people just as reactions will differ from person to person. Unlike animals, we interact with other drugs, activities, eating habits, and existing conditions.
But I'm sure people with Diabetes are happier with your "[make] sure you are hungry" remedy. /sarcasm
Just out of curiosity, are you also an antivaxxer? Psuedo-science is not "like" science. It is the opposite of real science.
You xxxx? These comments are xxxxxx works of xx, xx opinion, xx creation.
Xxx have to see the difference between xxxxxxx and xxxxxxx. That xxxxxxx is the lightest element in the periodic table is not xxxxxxxxxx. It's information. Even if I xxxxx an elaborate statement that culminates in xxx essence in this and little else, there's no chance that X'xx retain xxxxxxx of it. Because the main part of what I xxxxxx is still just the information that hydrogen is the element with the least mass.
A fantasy xxxxx about various xxxxxx coming together and having a party, while playing puns on xxxxx weight and some of their properties (and look how fat xxxxxx looks, any more yellow cake and she's gonna blow!) is a different matter. That IS xxxxxxxxx.
Does xxxx xxxx I can't use the xxxxx button?
FTFY, DMCA compatible now.
Amazon I can see, but Samsung? And we're not talking about a tablet, but a phone. Amazon wasn't foolish enough to try to pull off an "Amazon experience" phone because they knew it would fail. You can only pull that off with a tablet because its a very select list of tasks that need to work really well. No Google App store on the phone is instant buzzkill for me and 99% of the market. Even if they partnered with Amazon, it's just not enough. That's like buying an iPhone and being forced to use GetJar only. (No offense GetJar.) That's a hell of a weak bargaining position, considering that's not all they'd lose.
Forget App store, it would also lose Gmail, Maps, Navigator, YouTube, etc, etc, etc. DOA! And it's not as though HTC isn't reading to take their #1 spot in a heartbeat.
That's only because you don't have alien eyes to appreciate its beauty.
Billions of dollars in technology, but nobody with an air nozzle hooked up to an air compressor found at any car mechanic's shop to blow out a fuel line.
Richard Dawkins should be jealous of Robertson, who has converted far more Christians to athiesm than Dawkins ever dreamed of. But what, exactly, does Pat Robertson have to do with researchers working out the process by which evolution added a component to a cellular machine?
Pat Robertson's involvement with protein goes back a long time: http://www.cbn.com/communitypublic/shake.aspx
Pat Robertson: "Science perverting resurrection is an abomination, and God's wrath will strike us most likely in the form of a random earthquake or hurricane or tornado sometime within the 12 months."
I'd add the /sarcasm tag just to show I'm just making fun of him, but I actually think my prediction of what will show up on YouTube from him next is pretty accurate.
That was pretty simple. Writing up the process took me at least an order of magnitude more time.
"Choose Google from the resulting list." is a bit of a gloss over, if we're being honest with ourselves.
During setup, if you tell it that you want a new search provider, you are presented with a catalog with pages and pages of search providers. http://www.ieaddons.com/en/addons/?feature=accelerators
Then click the "Search" category.
Then scroll sideways. Yes, it's very non-intuitive and confusing to scroll sideways, without a scroll bar, by mousing over the right side of the screen. But hey, why make it easy? .... keep scrolling... keep scrolling... keep scrolling.
When you reach the 68th listing, it will be Google.
There was nothing simple about that.
Even funnier is that the one and only Apple product I ever owned, an iPhone 3G was set to Google search.
If it's good enough for their main competitor, why is it not good enough for them? And as the PP points out, this is all customizable by the hardware maker.
And apparently, South Koreans have never installed Chrome, which immediately gives you a simple choice of Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Install the latest Internet Explorer and see how hard it is to not choose Bing.
Sony may be coding up a rootkit for ubuntu as we talk.
Motorola, maker of set top boxes, is working on Ubuntu Blur theme-ification and unremovable Blockbuster app as we speak.
Unlike an airplane, you can't just "drop" a bomb from a space station.
Duh, you blow up planets with your giant freaking laser beam from you airquote Death... Star... airquote.
You want to foster innovation? Make it so a company doesn't have to spend zillions on lawyers to deal with trolls.
Yeah, just create a karma system and let your users identify and mute the trolls.
typo: There is no single location solution...
It's hard to take a clear picture of a far away galaxy that requires as little cloud and atmospheric interference as possible, and for motors to slowly track the far away object with the slow motion of earth through space.
Putting a telescope on the equator with it's faster motion and hectic atmospheric conditions is the equivalent of trying to take a portrait shot of a race car driver while speeding around a track in fog. Sure, it can be done, but it will never be of the same quality for money spent. This is why space based telescopes are needed for the clearest pictures of the furthest away objects.
Even if it did work, you still don't get the entire sky just by going to the equator. Near the horizon, you have severely bending light, and the accumulation of not just one cloud, but lines of clouds for miles. There is one single location solution for ground based telescopes.
108 mph is only around 174 km/h. I know Americans like "crusing", on big roads with low speeds, but on our highways people going over that are fairly common, despite the 130km/h limit.
The speed necessary to break bones, puncture vital organs, crush skulls, and kill a human being is universal, regardless of any nation's preference for driving speeds, common or not.
Or more simply, if you survive a 108 mph or 174 km/h is damn lucky no matter where you're driving or how good of a driver you think you are.
I do hear that they are speeding up their license versioning to become incompatible much faster in future iterations. Next week is MPL 3, and by next month they hope to be up to MPL 13, guaranteed to be future proof compatible with all copyleft licenses forever... yet incompatible with all GPL once incorporated with any of them.
I can't wait until they can grow the cells upside down and shaking so they can work on the wings of our rocket planes while in flight.