How can we help the people of Egypt? What can we do to help them overthrow this tyranny? I usually post about what I'm doing to try help, but am coming up blank here.
yeah yeah IE7, but it's not like I am the only one who has to use it.
Yea the other user is going to be pissed. But really why are you still using IE7? Unless your laptop is very well locked down (which it is not) you could do the old run Firefox from a folder in your Documents.
I made a big blog post about using Firefox 4 and a bunch of other things you can do to help make it better. Most of you in this crowd can skip to Item 3, I wrote it for users who are not technical. http://bryanquigley.com/uncategorized/try-the-new-firefox-beta
The article ends with, "It will be interesting to see if major browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari will follow the suit and drop support for H.264."
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"Paul Fisher and I have successfully run the exploit against a copy of Exim running in a debugger on debian lenny, and we believe it utilizes this bug:
Tell them that you support Wikileaks and that you want answers about what the cables reveal the US Goverment is doing. That what the US is doing against Wikileaks in response to this is wrong and unAmerican. The response by the US Government is embarrassing.. it confirms that we really do all of these backhanded actions that the cables say.
The last transition I ran (had to leave due to personal reasons) was looking like it was ultimately going to fail.
Why? OpenOffice - found several critical bugs (all fixed now) that kept people from being able to work effectively Intel video drivers - found a fun critical bug whenever they plugged into a projector Didn't have control over what other groups bought as software (big one, make sure management is actually willing to back you up)
* think hard about this one, is there anyone (manager) in the company that will end up buying something without consulting you and who no one wants to go against...
The 3 OSes can easily coexist. Here's how I would go forward: Don't touch the different platforms at first, start with the applications.
* Web browsers - make sure everyone is running firefox. I found out that 1 person was using IE6 for an important project. they hadn't mentioned it, even when asked directly. Solution: Block Internet explorer access, (I forced the person to move to IE8, yay for small victories)
having people complain when you have it blocked on Windows is much better than having people complain when they are now on Linux. (They will blame Linux)
* Best in class applications - DON'T start with OpenOffice. Make open source applications a regular part of discussions for new software. Evaluate other software you use for open source applications. Make sure they are successful.
* Make sure the other people in IT actually want this change.
* Move them to Linux/OpenOffice and observe problems over at least 1 full release of Fedora, trying to get problems fixed for the next one
* Transition office to OpenOffice on all machines (have just installed first, then default, then uninstall MS Office - very important) watch for issues over at least 6 months
* Transition office to Linux
Yes, this is more like a 2 year plan. But well. Go Slowly.:)
One other point, if anyone wants to move over let them, and help them do it. If they are choosing to switch they could be very very helpful down the road.
As a pro-choice, pro-gay rights atheist, I voted almost entirely Democratic, knowing that both parties suck horrifically at spending control and that a senate majority might just help Obama move forward with protecting the environment. We can only hope that the republicans will feel that they will blamed enough in the next election to get them to start thinking about compromise and bipartinanship.
I am wondering if anyone knows just how much money the federal goverment sends to Microsoft each year.. There has got to be somewhere I can easily find this information. And while I am at, how about for any corporation?
I would love to see the Top 10 Fed supported companies.
Can we at least get the Linux Foundation to support Ogg/Theora as a supported format to upload videos in. Ideally they would accept only Ogg and use HTML5 to show the videos instead of Flash..
They will choose browsers more fairly then politicians are chosen. I would love to see randomized ballots so voting the party line actually requires some knowledge.
People who just vote Democrat or Republican every election for all levels of government are ensuring we won't be able to get any real improvement (yes I didn't say change) in the US. Randomized ballots would make it more difficult to do, and might, make them learn a little more of who they are voting for...
Our summary was:
* create/maintain/update a fully free and open source electronic health record system
* mandate their electronic health record system to be taught in medical and nursing schools
* mandate an open and freely implementable patient record communication standard
* mandate a national medical identification number and prohibit the use of and storage of Social Security Numbers in any health care system
Depending on where it fails (if it fails in a the same spot) you can relatively easily work around it and not throw out the remaining good portion of the stick. I wrote a howto..
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How can we help the people of Egypt? What can we do to help them overthrow this tyranny? I usually post about what I'm doing to try help, but am coming up blank here.
yeah yeah IE7, but it's not like I am the only one who has to use it.
Yea the other user is going to be pissed. But really why are you still using IE7? Unless your laptop is very well locked down (which it is not) you could do the old run Firefox from a folder in your Documents.
And once again, a psot makes it all the way out of preview before proofreading gets its pants on.
Does anyone actually proofread anything anymore?
Since they haven't removed it yet... it's the worse kind of security risk.. Involving lawyers and patent laws.
I made a big blog post about using Firefox 4 and a bunch of other things you can do to help make it better. Most of you in this crowd can skip to Item 3, I wrote it for users who are not technical.
http://bryanquigley.com/uncategorized/try-the-new-firefox-beta
Or in just one sentence, turn on the surveys to automatically submit, and install/run Grafx Bot - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/200733/.
And in related news, I also would love to see Duck Duck Go be included as one of the search engines...
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla/topics/include_duck_duck_go_as_option_by_default_in_search_box
You are correct... Apparently I should be more verbose next time...
They can't drop something they've never had.
The article ends with, "It will be interesting to see if major browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari will follow the suit and drop support for H.264."
If you do get the beta, go and run this add-on, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/200733/
It will help the Firefox developers learn how best to use hardware acceleration.
http://www.exim.org/lurker/message/20101210.071922.233697ac.en.html
"Paul Fisher and I have successfully run the exploit against a copy of
Exim running in a debugger on debian lenny, and we believe it utilizes
this bug:
http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787
It was fixed in 4.70, but not in the version currently in debian
stable.
James E. Blair
UC Berkeley"
I'm not sure I have ever pressed the Caps Lock key on purpose... Anyone?
Tell them that you support Wikileaks and that you want answers about what the cables reveal the US Goverment is doing. That what the US is doing against Wikileaks in response to this is wrong and unAmerican. The response by the US Government is embarrassing.. it confirms that we really do all of these backhanded actions that the cables say.
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
It's a hybrid. Unfortunately hybrid is very unambiguous as well.
The last transition I ran (had to leave due to personal reasons) was looking like it was ultimately going to fail.
Why?
OpenOffice - found several critical bugs (all fixed now) that kept people from being able to work effectively
Intel video drivers - found a fun critical bug whenever they plugged into a projector
Didn't have control over what other groups bought as software (big one, make sure management is actually willing to back you up)
* think hard about this one, is there anyone (manager) in the company that will end up buying something without consulting you and who no one wants to go against...
The 3 OSes can easily coexist. Here's how I would go forward:
Don't touch the different platforms at first, start with the applications.
* Web browsers - make sure everyone is running firefox. I found out that 1 person was using IE6 for an important project. they hadn't mentioned it, even when asked directly. Solution: Block Internet explorer access, (I forced the person to move to IE8, yay for small victories)
having people complain when you have it blocked on Windows is much better than having people complain when they are now on Linux. (They will blame Linux)
* Best in class applications - DON'T start with OpenOffice. Make open source applications a regular part of discussions for new software. Evaluate other software you use for open source applications. Make sure they are successful.
* Make sure the other people in IT actually want this change.
* Move them to Linux/OpenOffice and observe problems over at least 1 full release of Fedora, trying to get problems fixed for the next one
* Transition office to OpenOffice on all machines (have just installed first, then default, then uninstall MS Office - very important) watch for issues over at least 6 months
* Transition office to Linux
Yes, this is more like a 2 year plan. But well. Go Slowly. :)
One other point, if anyone wants to move over let them, and help them do it. If they are choosing to switch they could be very very helpful down the road.
As a pro-choice, pro-gay rights atheist, I voted almost entirely Democratic, knowing that both parties suck horrifically at spending control and that a senate majority might just help Obama move forward with protecting the environment.
We can only hope that the republicans will feel that they will blamed enough in the next election to get them to start thinking about compromise and bipartinanship.
I am wondering if anyone knows just how much money the federal goverment sends to Microsoft each year.. There has got to be somewhere I can easily find this information. And while I am at, how about for any corporation?
I would love to see the Top 10 Fed supported companies.
Can we at least get the Linux Foundation to support Ogg/Theora as a supported format to upload videos in. Ideally they would accept only Ogg and use HTML5 to show the videos instead of Flash..
They will choose browsers more fairly then politicians are chosen. I would love to see randomized ballots so voting the party line actually requires some knowledge.
People who just vote Democrat or Republican every election for all levels of government are ensuring we won't be able to get any real improvement (yes I didn't say change) in the US. Randomized ballots would make it more difficult to do, and might, make them learn a little more of who they are voting for...
This is one of the key things me and my local linux user group recommended.
http://www.healthreform.gov/communityreports/new_jersey/new_jersey_08002.html
Contact Your Senator and show your support!
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Our summary was:
* create/maintain/update a fully free and open source electronic health record system
* mandate their electronic health record system to be taught in medical and nursing schools
* mandate an open and freely implementable patient record communication standard
* mandate a national medical identification number and prohibit the use of and storage of Social Security Numbers in any health care system
Depending on where it fails (if it fails in a the same spot) you can relatively easily work around it and not throw out the remaining good portion of the stick. I wrote a howto..
http://gquigs.blogspot.com/2009/01/bad-memory-howto.html
I've been running on Option 3 for quite some time now. No, it's not as good as ECC, but it doesn't cost you anything.
That's hilarious :).
One of the reasons you make them restart is because the notification system just isn't good enough.
BTW, I know I've seen Windows force restarts before.
And waste all that power over a weekend! Plus, your instructions are confusing :P. No really, I had to read them twice.
Also, why can't they just logoff?
Is someone at least requesting it?
I suppose if we get an exception we could play both DVDs and BluRays on Linux.. legally. Well except for the codecs, but shh.
They know what GNU is, or at least use it by name. That's really the biggest story here.
On Linux at least. I am unaware of any updates as of yet.
and it teaches you a little physics.
http://www.slingshot-game.org/