Being an IT professional myself I see this all the time. Sometimes people just need to ask themselves, is there actually a benefit to having a computer system which no matter how well designed can go down just for the sake of being digital? To me, many times the cost and aggrivation doesnt always justify the "need"
Some people need to realize it isn't just "the man" in hollywood. By ripping off shows and movies they are also hurting the folks who work with the CG departments, lighting and sound, construction etc. Many of these people make an average or slightly above average salary and when people don't pay for content these people suffer. With that being said, Hollywood needs to stop the blatant abuse of the copyright system. Fair use should be just that, FAIR. I should have the ability to use the content I paid for on any device and in any format I desire without jumping through the hoops of DRM. On top of that DRM servers are sure to go offline at some time due to age or greed which does nothing but force the consumer to re-buy what they already bought.
From EPO disable the update task > Head to clients that already got the update and bring up the av console and click Tools > Rollback DATS and restore anything svchost
Not everyone has the ability to change browsers on a whim. There are complicated systems in place at many organizations that simply CANT make the move no matter how much they would like to. We understand the headaches this causes to the rest of the world, but for example I work for a hospital and our PACS system (medical imaging) is a GE product that until recently ONLY worked with IE6 due to activex control requirements. Are you telling me we should abandon a multi million dollar setup just because you want me to use a new browser? Futhermore, we push the vendors to move forward but with FDA certificaton requirements what they are sometimes this is a long arduous process.
I use team viewer, www.teamviewer.com for most remote assistance things, it can be installed easily or you can select the option of just running it if you dont want the app left on the pc. It supports pc and mac, it has throwaway userid and password scheme so people dont worry about you getting in later. Its fast, its small....damn I sound like an ad. Best of all, its free for personal use! It also has the option of setting a static id and password if you want to get in to a machine over and over. It has also worked behind every firewall ive ever come across.
Because there is no way for a tech to know whether the music is legal or not just by looking at it. Has this person ripped it themselves? Have they downloaded something they own? CP on the other hand is illegal no matter what.
802.11N is awesome. It's faster than 100Mb ethernet even in real world tests. But does it scale well even in dense office buildings? In a cube-farm scenario, where there are computers every five meters in every direction in 3D space, is it really possible to get 100Mb speed?
Security isn't there yet, either. Someone in the parking lot could still put up an access point which advertises itself as being part of your company network, and your users will connect to it. Doing it right is possible in theory (configure computers such that they will only connect to APs which have certificates issued by your company's PKI) but Windows doesn't allow you to lock down wireless in such a way.
Don't forget that's 100mbps HALF duplex and shared amongst everyone using it. And even that's in a perfect world with no interference and no retransmits.
No, your analogy sucks. There is a huge difference between a carrier marketing 30/5 and delivering 23/2 because of high load at times and them delivering 64k/s. I've not seen a single ISP that goes this bad. Man up to the fact that you can't expect 99.9% uptime and 99.9% of the speed they "promised" you.
They are not promising you shit, they try to get to x/x speeds and in my area its almost ALWAYS that speed, but I dont bitch when it drops 20-30% because of network congestion.
Hell, I bet you cant even tell when your speed drops if you were jerkin' it to speed tests all day.
> If you allow ssh access from the wide internet...
Why would you do that?
`ssh -i ~/.ssh/myrouter.key root@my.router.ip '/usr/sbin/wol -i 192.168.0.255 00:11:22:33:44:55'`
But there is no reason on earth to use SSH with password authentication. Ever.
4096bit keys with 30+ character passphrase is my standard at the moment.
That is one of the worst analogies I've ever heard. You are honestly trying to compare being gay to being a foreign worker?
By letting the H1B workers go first you are trying to protect the interests of your natural born citizens. By letting gays go first you are just being an asshole and closed minded.
The reason they do this is because it'd hard to say where you draw the line. Who says what does and does not change the real meaning of the photo? So in reality the only way to safely keep from altering peoples perception is to not allow changes at all, even cosmetic ones.
Or you could just use their removal tool which is much faster than a normal uninstall and removes all products in one fell swoop so there is no more removing their AV, then firewall, then antispyware etc
I use steam because I dont have to keep track of all the cd's install files, patches etc. I just click the game I want to play and it plays
Its pretty bad when you buy a game that is so riddled with bugs at launch that its nearly impossible to play and then for the publisher to have the audacity to offer a patch....but not from their site. You need to go to fileshack or something similar and create a damn account. And then if you are using the "free" account you get to download at dialup speeds with ads jumping around like a jack russel terrier.
In short, steam just works and it doesnt bug me. If i were a game dev I would pay whatever fee it costs to be on steam rather than waste time and money on DRM schemes that just piss off and drive away legit users.
Yes OSX does allow parallel of 2 versions of firefox, unless my wifes mac is some special magical mac. The only issue is each time you launch the "other" firefox it acts as though its the first time its been launched, ie. it checks the addons etc for compatibility.
Not being able to downgrade to IE6 is a bad thing? Yes, its a huge thing. In the medical industry where I work, things sometimes move at a snails pace. So this means for instance our web browser based PACS imaging software doesnt work because it uses and ActiveX control that doesnt work on IE7. The vendor has been slow to provide an update to allow it to work with IE7 so until then we are stuck.
If you honestly think that because vista makes you click an ok button every time it wants to do something it is providing any real security then you are seriously in denial. The only thing it does is condition the user to press the ok button for everything since they are so used to having to hit it.
Reminds me of the South Park episode where a recording company releases a song by Alanis Morisette called "stinky britches" and upon hearing it Chef claims that he wrote the song years ago. He went to the record exec to find out what was going on only to be sued himself for having used their song. The record exec repeatedly exlaims "I am above the law!"
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Being an IT professional myself I see this all the time. Sometimes people just need to ask themselves, is there actually a benefit to having a computer system which no matter how well designed can go down just for the sake of being digital? To me, many times the cost and aggrivation doesnt always justify the "need"
Just because its booming doesnt mean they arent being ripped off.
Some people need to realize it isn't just "the man" in hollywood. By ripping off shows and movies they are also hurting the folks who work with the CG departments, lighting and sound, construction etc. Many of these people make an average or slightly above average salary and when people don't pay for content these people suffer. With that being said, Hollywood needs to stop the blatant abuse of the copyright system. Fair use should be just that, FAIR. I should have the ability to use the content I paid for on any device and in any format I desire without jumping through the hoops of DRM. On top of that DRM servers are sure to go offline at some time due to age or greed which does nothing but force the consumer to re-buy what they already bought.
From EPO disable the update task > Head to clients that already got the update and bring up the av console and click Tools > Rollback DATS and restore anything svchost
Not everyone has the ability to change browsers on a whim. There are complicated systems in place at many organizations that simply CANT make the move no matter how much they would like to. We understand the headaches this causes to the rest of the world, but for example I work for a hospital and our PACS system (medical imaging) is a GE product that until recently ONLY worked with IE6 due to activex control requirements. Are you telling me we should abandon a multi million dollar setup just because you want me to use a new browser? Futhermore, we push the vendors to move forward but with FDA certificaton requirements what they are sometimes this is a long arduous process.
I use team viewer, www.teamviewer.com for most remote assistance things, it can be installed easily or you can select the option of just running it if you dont want the app left on the pc. It supports pc and mac, it has throwaway userid and password scheme so people dont worry about you getting in later. Its fast, its small....damn I sound like an ad. Best of all, its free for personal use! It also has the option of setting a static id and password if you want to get in to a machine over and over. It has also worked behind every firewall ive ever come across.
Because there is no way for a tech to know whether the music is legal or not just by looking at it. Has this person ripped it themselves? Have they downloaded something they own? CP on the other hand is illegal no matter what.
Because EVERYONE knows that clock speed is what determines a processors performance.....
802.11N is awesome. It's faster than 100Mb ethernet even in real world tests. But does it scale well even in dense office buildings? In a cube-farm scenario, where there are computers every five meters in every direction in 3D space, is it really possible to get 100Mb speed?
Security isn't there yet, either. Someone in the parking lot could still put up an access point which advertises itself as being part of your company network, and your users will connect to it. Doing it right is possible in theory (configure computers such that they will only connect to APs which have certificates issued by your company's PKI) but Windows doesn't allow you to lock down wireless in such a way.
Don't forget that's 100mbps HALF duplex and shared amongst everyone using it. And even that's in a perfect world with no interference and no retransmits.
No, your analogy sucks. There is a huge difference between a carrier marketing 30/5 and delivering 23/2 because of high load at times and them delivering 64k/s. I've not seen a single ISP that goes this bad. Man up to the fact that you can't expect 99.9% uptime and 99.9% of the speed they "promised" you.
They are not promising you shit, they try to get to x/x speeds and in my area its almost ALWAYS that speed, but I dont bitch when it drops 20-30% because of network congestion.
Hell, I bet you cant even tell when your speed drops if you were jerkin' it to speed tests all day.
/me runs to hide lest I be called a troll.
> If you allow ssh access from the wide internet... Why would you do that?
`ssh -i ~/.ssh/myrouter.key root@my.router.ip '/usr/sbin/wol -i 192.168.0.255 00:11:22:33:44:55'` But there is no reason on earth to use SSH with password authentication. Ever. 4096bit keys with 30+ character passphrase is my standard at the moment.
Let me be the first to say it
That is one of the worst analogies I've ever heard. You are honestly trying to compare being gay to being a foreign worker? By letting the H1B workers go first you are trying to protect the interests of your natural born citizens. By letting gays go first you are just being an asshole and closed minded.
I think that people who have been using windows consistently get inured to it or something.
No, we just know where all the GUI configuration settings are located.
Here are your answers:
Things like trying to hide the program and system files from me
Turn on display of system files.
God-fucking-forbid there ever be an unused icon on my desktop!!!
Turn off desktop cleanup
Vista seems to take that philosphy to the extreme with the UAC
UAC can be shut off completely from the control panel, or selectively disabled.
and the seriously messed up control panel.
Switch to classic view
HTH. HAND.
If you are turning all of the bu...er features off then tell me, what is the reason for the "upgrade" in the first place?
Thousands? Try MILLIONS! http://childsplaycharity.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child's_Play_(charity) To date they have raised over 4 Million.
Funny, since XP had a 64 bit edition as well.
The reason they do this is because it'd hard to say where you draw the line. Who says what does and does not change the real meaning of the photo? So in reality the only way to safely keep from altering peoples perception is to not allow changes at all, even cosmetic ones.
Or you could just use their removal tool which is much faster than a normal uninstall and removes all products in one fell swoop so there is no more removing their AV, then firewall, then antispyware etc
http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
I use steam because I dont have to keep track of all the cd's install files, patches etc. I just click the game I want to play and it plays
Its pretty bad when you buy a game that is so riddled with bugs at launch that its nearly impossible to play and then for the publisher to have the audacity to offer a patch....but not from their site. You need to go to fileshack or something similar and create a damn account. And then if you are using the "free" account you get to download at dialup speeds with ads jumping around like a jack russel terrier.
In short, steam just works and it doesnt bug me. If i were a game dev I would pay whatever fee it costs to be on steam rather than waste time and money on DRM schemes that just piss off and drive away legit users.
Of all the times I wish I some some mod points to award...
Yes OSX does allow parallel of 2 versions of firefox, unless my wifes mac is some special magical mac. The only issue is each time you launch the "other" firefox it acts as though its the first time its been launched, ie. it checks the addons etc for compatibility.
But if the Xbox team were put in charge, wouldn't the UI just be a big red ring?
If you honestly think that because vista makes you click an ok button every time it wants to do something it is providing any real security then you are seriously in denial. The only thing it does is condition the user to press the ok button for everything since they are so used to having to hit it.
Reminds me of the South Park episode where a recording company releases a song by Alanis Morisette called "stinky britches" and upon hearing it Chef claims that he wrote the song years ago. He went to the record exec to find out what was going on only to be sued himself for having used their song. The record exec repeatedly exlaims "I am above the law!"
The sad thing is.....it seems like he was right
Let me be the first to say
The GOGGLES THEY DO NOTHING!!!!