What can be done? I really wish there was a way to use both, or make digital backwards compatable with analog sets. I know there must be more tech behind this than that, but hell, giving money for people to buy new TVs? I think there are some basic needs that could be fufilled first. (can I get a healthcare witness?)
Again, we're all used to Apple breaking backwards compatibility (to their credit, OS 9 'classic' apps run tons better now under OS X than when 10.1 came out), but the government? They're all about being behind!
Amazing, thanks for the info, again, I have friends that use Blackberrys for work and love them, but damnit I can't believe the backend is that crappy! Another company trying to pry more money via handicapped proprietary software. Wonder if there are any open source projects working on a version of the blackberry server?
Really, is anyone else bothered that more and more media is going from free to subscription? Think about it, tv used to be free, now virtually evenyone has cable/satellite subscriptions. Radio used to be free, still is, but now everyone is jumping to satellite radio and their attached subscriptions. Taping shows on your vcr is still free, however now everyone and their dog runs Tivo, sending a monthly check to them for the priviledge. Personally when you're raising a family and making a budget I don't see how all of these subscriptions are neccessary.
Of course we have to have our monthy cell phone bills...
Ah, so there's always hope. Did you ask for a replacement or no? I will next time, which will be my fourth, and if they'd replace it I would love it. Plus I'd like to have a laptop I can 'trust' to keep working.
Haha, thought I was the only one that had to do that, yep - I love that feature too! 6 times? Damn, start leaning on them for a new unit, that's what I'm going to do if this fails again. Oh, and notice how a driver just became avail for Airport extreme under Linux? They finally reverse eng it; opening the door for a new ibook/powerbook...
thanks for telling me what I already know, not sure how I was complaining...the topic was about reliability after all. As for them covering it, yes, I'm pleased with that, but I hated the fact that I had to be without my laptop (which I was using for work) for over a month!
But yes, I am an idiot, for that observation you hit the nail on the head, bravo! And congrats on your fabulous website: http://www.keanmarine.com/ - stunning really, did you do the css yourself?
I have a dual-USB 800Mhz iBook that is on it's THIRD logic board. It's now out of coverage, so if the board dies again I'm looking at a 500$ repair, basically meaning I have an overpriced disposable computer. Guess I'll buck up for a Powerbook, or just go IBM/Leano Thinkpad, since I'm running Linux I could go either way, next time.
Oh, but OT, the battery has been fine, after 3 years it only lasts ~1 hour or so for me.
No problem, always happy to share, but WTF? Can't they call the company whose malware remover gets installed? Why can't they ask them some questions or lean on them to uncover the originator of this scam?
That's the beauty of Mirco$oft - the spagetti code allows for discovery after discovery of bad thinking! This is the best exploit yet, but there will be better ones I'm sure!
Funny, I talked about this yesterday; how could a graphic cause something so severe?
This is a picture
So now an email, IM, webclick or maybe even a popup could kick off a payload from a graphic? I thought only new things would attack windows rep, as if all the old stuff had been discovered, but now, there's more and more daily!
I had no idea the server backend was so...crummy. Why do geeks running FreeBSD at home have their passwords encrypted within MySQL, but big companies with million dollar products don't?
The only question is, will everyone be willing to relearn how to type?
I just think back to when I was in elementary school and we were learning the metric system...yeah, that didn't come to pass since we were already so entrenced with the old way. Regardless of the benefits I would expect a new keyboard layout to go the same way.
While I have plenty of defense on my mail server (Spamassassin, Clamav, dcc, razor, MailScanner) to stop this stuff from reaching my users mailboxes, a good offense is needed to help polute the Phishers database with garbage. Enter:
"Just enter the Phishing emails REAL url below and watch as realistic looking, fake, entries are continously sent to the Phishers fake site. The criminal will receive hundreds or thousands of fake entries and he won't be able to tell which are fake and which are real."
I had this about 2 years ago, ordered a camera from a place in NYC for a great price, they called to 'confirm the order' and tried to sell me extra batteries, and other stuff...telling me that the stock battery won't last long enough. I said no, they said OK, they never shipped, when I called I got the same runaround, also, not to be racist but I could tell they were arab, but they'd tell me their names were 'Steve' or 'Brad'. I ended up getting yelled at after I called again, and cancelled my order. I contacted my CC card and made sure they didn't/couldn't chage me...but it gave me a bad feeling for ordering online from smaller places. It reminds me of the 419 scams since all the websites look professional - but share similar graphics, you can tell it's a front. Wish I remembered the name of the company, but I'm sure they've swapped names by now. I just went and paid 50$ more thru amazon, and had the new cam in two days.
Uhh...did I write this, or are you working 10 rows away from me at my current job? I agree with ALL of your points, and at this Mega-corp (~12,000) employees, working with software (and servers) is painful. I'm currently writing a change request where one script will be added to a daily cron on two servers - it's taking me 45 minutes to write it and lay out all 6 approvers! my last gig was at a startup, 30 ppl when I started, 3 years later 50 ppl. Needless to say I could do anything there, I had an idea of how to improve process, the management would say "let's see what you can do, and then we'll deciede". Here when I have a good idea and mail my manager and some co-workers it's just like a black hole; I never hear anything back. And yes, I meet with my manager 3 times a week for a 1/2 hour to go over tasks (I'm a contractor) but I always get to play firefighter, putting out fires daily. I know, someone has to do it, but it's not what they hired me for, and most of the day I'm just idling trying to work on something interesting. my background is working with Linux/bsd/oss - which is forbidden here; why not buy a product instead! terrible software, horrible support, but we have someone to *sue* if something goes wrong! please. anyway I'm going to write more about this on my blog, and will refer to this post/your blog; thanks for posting it./me checks his email for any new Jobster.com email job alerts...
While this article may bring some new ideas (hoping for it to be the panecea for converts is kinda silly) a very similar article was out in Feb 2005: Hacking a PSOne Screen
Yes, I do know that, the quote was from Apu, the Simpson's character, and his humor revolved around stereotyping; that's why my post was labelled 'Funny'. I'm in no way trying to start a racial thing here, just tying in a part of our popular culture to animate moves of a corporation in an attempt to make a joke. Crack a smile or not, but don't miss the intention.
Apu: "Yes, I'm sorry, I do not speak English, okay." Woman: "But, you were just talking to..." Apu: "Yes, yes, hot dog, hot dog, yes, sir, no, sir, maybe, okay."
The bad thing is that it will be an improvement over their current tech support...but I digress.
There is no way this person is thinking straight, with the features of Mozilla and technologies like AJAX the browser is becoming the app. Couple this with the growth of thin clients (think about where you work; how many people there *NEED* a full blown $2000 desktop computer to check email and trade word docs? Sure coders probably prefer a beefy box, but why not have them on a grid of computers to really get some performance?
I'm getting off topic, but come on, Evolution has all the features that even 'power users' would need, but for 90% a great webmail client is going to be all ppl need. Don't get me started on Exchange and licensing...when will the madness end - YOU DON'T NEED THAT MANY COMPUTERS! Think server-side, think thin clients, think savings (overhead, support, utilities, etc).
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What can be done? I really wish there was a way to use both, or make digital backwards compatable with analog sets. I know there must be more tech behind this than that, but hell, giving money for people to buy new TVs? I think there are some basic needs that could be fufilled first. (can I get a healthcare witness?) Again, we're all used to Apple breaking backwards compatibility (to their credit, OS 9 'classic' apps run tons better now under OS X than when 10.1 came out), but the government? They're all about being behind!
Go here and enter your email to be alerted when AllPeers goes live. I'm going to try it out, for sharing photos and home videos between friends/family, this sounds cool. Kinda like a .Mac for everyone.
Yep, it's like 'firewire' or 'airport extreme' it's just marketing speak. logic board == motherboard (or maybe it means 'crummy motherboard')
Amazing, thanks for the info, again, I have friends that use Blackberrys for work and love them, but damnit I can't believe the backend is that crappy! Another company trying to pry more money via handicapped proprietary software. Wonder if there are any open source projects working on a version of the blackberry server?
Here it is: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Finally,_a_linux_driver _for_the_Airport_Extreme_
Really, is anyone else bothered that more and more media is going from free to subscription? Think about it, tv used to be free, now virtually evenyone has cable/satellite subscriptions. Radio used to be free, still is, but now everyone is jumping to satellite radio and their attached subscriptions. Taping shows on your vcr is still free, however now everyone and their dog runs Tivo, sending a monthly check to them for the priviledge. Personally when you're raising a family and making a budget I don't see how all of these subscriptions are neccessary. Of course we have to have our monthy cell phone bills...
Ah, so there's always hope. Did you ask for a replacement or no? I will next time, which will be my fourth, and if they'd replace it I would love it. Plus I'd like to have a laptop I can 'trust' to keep working.
Haha, thought I was the only one that had to do that, yep - I love that feature too! 6 times? Damn, start leaning on them for a new unit, that's what I'm going to do if this fails again. Oh, and notice how a driver just became avail for Airport extreme under Linux? They finally reverse eng it; opening the door for a new ibook/powerbook...
thanks for telling me what I already know, not sure how I was complaining...the topic was about reliability after all. As for them covering it, yes, I'm pleased with that, but I hated the fact that I had to be without my laptop (which I was using for work) for over a month! But yes, I am an idiot, for that observation you hit the nail on the head, bravo! And congrats on your fabulous website: http://www.keanmarine.com/ - stunning really, did you do the css yourself?
I have a dual-USB 800Mhz iBook that is on it's THIRD logic board. It's now out of coverage, so if the board dies again I'm looking at a 500$ repair, basically meaning I have an overpriced disposable computer. Guess I'll buck up for a Powerbook, or just go IBM/Leano Thinkpad, since I'm running Linux I could go either way, next time. Oh, but OT, the battery has been fine, after 3 years it only lasts ~1 hour or so for me.
No problem, always happy to share, but WTF? Can't they call the company whose malware remover gets installed? Why can't they ask them some questions or lean on them to uncover the originator of this scam?
That's the beauty of Mirco$oft - the spagetti code allows for discovery after discovery of bad thinking! This is the best exploit yet, but there will be better ones I'm sure!
Don't forget to watch the video, I have a link to it at the end of this article: This is a picture click on "watch it in action"
Funny, I talked about this yesterday; how could a graphic cause something so severe? This is a picture So now an email, IM, webclick or maybe even a popup could kick off a payload from a graphic? I thought only new things would attack windows rep, as if all the old stuff had been discovered, but now, there's more and more daily!
I had an article here about it, looking for anyone who has a blackberry to discuss:
Blackberry handhelds/servers vulnerable to attack
I had no idea the server backend was so...crummy. Why do geeks running FreeBSD at home have their passwords encrypted within MySQL, but big companies with million dollar products don't?
The only question is, will everyone be willing to relearn how to type? I just think back to when I was in elementary school and we were learning the metric system...yeah, that didn't come to pass since we were already so entrenced with the old way. Regardless of the benefits I would expect a new keyboard layout to go the same way.
While I have plenty of defense on my mail server (Spamassassin, Clamav, dcc, razor, MailScanner) to stop this stuff from reaching my users mailboxes, a good offense is needed to help polute the Phishers database with garbage. Enter:
http://www.phishfighting.com/
"Just enter the Phishing emails REAL url below and watch as realistic looking, fake, entries are continously sent to the Phishers fake site. The criminal will receive hundreds or thousands of fake entries and he won't be able to tell which are fake and which are real."
Nice stuff.
Does anyone else want to see a picture of this rig? I know I do...
Nice, thanks for that, here are some reviews of the site in question, sounds EXACTLY what I experienced:
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller8613.html
I had this about 2 years ago, ordered a camera from a place in NYC for a great price, they called to 'confirm the order' and tried to sell me extra batteries, and other stuff...telling me that the stock battery won't last long enough. I said no, they said OK, they never shipped, when I called I got the same runaround, also, not to be racist but I could tell they were arab, but they'd tell me their names were 'Steve' or 'Brad'. I ended up getting yelled at after I called again, and cancelled my order. I contacted my CC card and made sure they didn't/couldn't chage me...but it gave me a bad feeling for ordering online from smaller places. It reminds me of the 419 scams since all the websites look professional - but share similar graphics, you can tell it's a front. Wish I remembered the name of the company, but I'm sure they've swapped names by now. I just went and paid 50$ more thru amazon, and had the new cam in two days.
Uhh...did I write this, or are you working 10 rows away from me at my current job? I agree with ALL of your points, and at this Mega-corp (~12,000) employees, working with software (and servers) is painful. I'm currently writing a change request where one script will be added to a daily cron on two servers - it's taking me 45 minutes to write it and lay out all 6 approvers! my last gig was at a startup, 30 ppl when I started, 3 years later 50 ppl. Needless to say I could do anything there, I had an idea of how to improve process, the management would say "let's see what you can do, and then we'll deciede". Here when I have a good idea and mail my manager and some co-workers it's just like a black hole; I never hear anything back. And yes, I meet with my manager 3 times a week for a 1/2 hour to go over tasks (I'm a contractor) but I always get to play firefighter, putting out fires daily. I know, someone has to do it, but it's not what they hired me for, and most of the day I'm just idling trying to work on something interesting. my background is working with Linux/bsd/oss - which is forbidden here; why not buy a product instead! terrible software, horrible support, but we have someone to *sue* if something goes wrong! please. anyway I'm going to write more about this on my blog, and will refer to this post/your blog; thanks for posting it. /me checks his email for any new Jobster.com email job alerts...
While this article may bring some new ideas (hoping for it to be the panecea for converts is kinda silly) a very similar article was out in Feb 2005: Hacking a PSOne Screen
Yes, I do know that, the quote was from Apu, the Simpson's character, and his humor revolved around stereotyping; that's why my post was labelled 'Funny'. I'm in no way trying to start a racial thing here, just tying in a part of our popular culture to animate moves of a corporation in an attempt to make a joke. Crack a smile or not, but don't miss the intention.
Apu: "Yes, I'm sorry, I do not speak English, okay."
Woman: "But, you were just talking to..."
Apu: "Yes, yes, hot dog, hot dog, yes, sir, no, sir, maybe, okay."
The bad thing is that it will be an improvement over their current tech support...but I digress.
There is no way this person is thinking straight, with the features of Mozilla and technologies like AJAX the browser is becoming the app. Couple this with the growth of thin clients (think about where you work; how many people there *NEED* a full blown $2000 desktop computer to check email and trade word docs? Sure coders probably prefer a beefy box, but why not have them on a grid of computers to really get some performance? I'm getting off topic, but come on, Evolution has all the features that even 'power users' would need, but for 90% a great webmail client is going to be all ppl need. Don't get me started on Exchange and licensing...when will the madness end - YOU DON'T NEED THAT MANY COMPUTERS! Think server-side, think thin clients, think savings (overhead, support, utilities, etc).