While they might be crude they do the job, we get a number of ssh hackers and whatever doing there best to enter our systems over wired connections and crude it might be i would not want to be running a microsoft os - like many/.'ers we have several routers just to protect windoze and the ancient print servers which i'd rather not give a public ip to.
I had a haircut recently, and I was subjected to a nasty set of print magazines, well put together yes, but the content value about zero.
Last computer mag i read was byte, Mcgraw Hill sold it and it closed down in a month. If I had to give all reviews 5/5 then i certainly think about quiting the magazine business.
I dont buy magazines - and it appears i wont be doing so very soon either.
I suggest that all magazine reviewed products SHOULD get a 5/5 in all categories then neither publisher and supplier can complain - if your a punter well your just a moron who should have spend your money better.
Bitter moi ? - just think of the crap i dont download, and by the way windows nt cannot also do latest flash theres no plugin for that
yes while nt is old, if it sits behind many firewalls and routers its safe enough until it gets upgraded to linux. There must be some nt users out there other than us and some might even be non geeks.
Some of us hate flash - small tip if you don't have a T1 connection and things are slow Block flash and the internet really speeds up.
If people wish to develop sites that we cant view (think scfi channel) or adverts in it then its not a problem here as we associate flash with rubbish/spam.
Also a defacto standard is not if no 'upto' date linux plugin is available. It is possible to live without flash, and yes the world is a better place.
Flash (and wannabe ompetitors)is a childrens program whether the flash developers suck more the program is something that becomes conjecture.
So firefox informs me that when i do open https:/// its flaggable and that seems WAY more secure to me than having a ca signed by some company that by default i have to trust and may be 'wrong'.
Since no insurance company will probably ever payout on an an illegal ca (thats becomes fraud and criminal matter) i don't see the point the thwaite et al. Mind you they could not even be bothered to even send me an electronic pdf when i once asked them for information once.
Sounds good - but in practice root certs seem useless 'trust' I would recommend everybody does there own ca cert auth.
Mind you i never expected that myspace contained state secrets (a leak this secret button), so i do hope his journalists and editors refuse to use mysapce as a source of stories just in case.
Ok then why do american corp's then send there designs to China to get copied then ?
We use chinese made networking gear - i suspect most of us do somewhere in x z and z, and where I refuse to buy american stuff made in china so it seems i get chinese stuff that is open about censorship.
example - I can drop packets - or alert persons that myspace is being activatedby user at x time if i wanted too. While i do not like the chinese idea of 'clean' I use there stuff and i'm trying to buy another chinese router. Why ? it works and our west european supplier only supplies the netgear rubbish (theres been a purging of linux compatible stuff too i might add) so I asked in the suppliers forum and got a link, yes they would be very happy to sell me it direct.
While this might 'censor innovation within china', the point of failure in your argument is that apple, intel, ms,motorola and yada not forgetting yadaye corp all ship there latest and greatest designs to china where citizens 'doing the right thing' no doubt copy and pass on to there companies and government these latest designs / tech manuals and i end up using later in some adapted form or another.
This is not flaimbait - I would argue too that Bush'es moral agenda and spying on isps might be deemed something along the lines of what chinese might desire to attain.
Not everything is good. but as/. is a place where software patents and drm is bad why should i support an american corp who's chinese products support patent trolls, and not pay many a decent wage in bad conditions and fail to work with linux.
Theres plenty of flaws in my argument i know. But at least chinese stuff is open unlike say netgear's usb wifi network adaptors.
With Boy on Boy action, the manage a trois between Ron,Darl and Chair_Thrower() Mr Balmer, and small time players like Baystar not forgetting that Sco poster girl Maureem it might well be an 21+ age feature.
I thought Microsoft 'partners' (thats Darl and Ron) where not allow to sue each other. I bet Mr Balmer is going to get mad on Monday.
We own a fax/copier/printer/scanner from hp that is an inkjet. Its only inkjet we own, we don't use hp ink either - old model officejet is very happy with 'wrong' ink.
So yes - I'd buy another officejet, i would not buy an inkjet for normal printing
Colour laser printers used to be very heavy when i last picked one up.
A blogger i read once covered this using an 'ore is bad law' website, my understanding was that the (usa) police decided that all of an paypal like payment processors transactions where all for kiddie porn - that was fault 1.
English police even tampered with the american electronic evidence - that was fault 2.
This explained to me while Paypal don't like the police (thats not working with them) - for say if you bought a car on ebay - your a child sex offender too apparently according to the policeman.
If im honest - Paypals approach to tell the police to 'get lost' seems the right one. The damage has been done and police forces worldwide have been declared retards and morons by corporations like ebay.
If i was a payment processor I'd consider that not cooperating with the police was a wise business decision and what ever badness it might generate it will payoff in the longterm.
Law enforcement needs better staff - give it 20 twenty years.
It will happen. And the pieces of the solution are all there - imap/jabber etc.
Heres an example of an mcse in action: we once tried to sell a wifi link to a firm with one building next to another a few meters away. Big road block for (mcse) then was there oldest windows client didnt then support wifi, and they werent interested in upgrading either. - guess the outcome.
So the problem with mcse's or (that type of specail it manager) is that the exchange killer app must support windows 3.1 before it is even considered replacable. its probably a critical success factor somewhere.
If its not there one mcse will say (on top of not knowing unix) that they still cannot migrate. because it doesnt work like exchange does and they like the status quo.
I'd imagine that an imap server and postfix would freak many mcse's out. After all they probably want a support contract just to feel safe too.
Dear victim
I am prince Uboogkio from Nigeria and my friend I need your help for my Tribal leader King Uboogkio has invested in a firm called Sco who has also been invested in by big companies like Baystar and Microsoft and a lady called Maureen.
King Uboogkio personally knows a MR Darl MCBRIDE as being an amazing bisiness man.
I need more money and since Sco is where 'IT' is going on Nasdaq I guarantee you dear victim 50% of all of the shares I hold personally and and the King shareholding.
To help me and you be RICH BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS I need
1. a copy of your passport
2. $10000 us dollars
3. a telephone number
Please email me so i tell you more
My best (praise be to Jesus and Allah)
Steve (prince) Uboogkio email me sco.getrichnow@uboogkio.ng
Our village awaits news as we are about to sell some children to slave owners - this should inform you on how keen we are on Sco shares.
I've wondered, ever since Novell announced their plans to migrate to Linux
That was 'Pre Ron' (new ceo) remember now Ron Hovispan recently called all Novell products (that compete with exchange/ad recently as 'crap' in conjunction with the ms pr department. Now
If the OSS community torpedoes Novell, what do you think that will do to the long term prospects of Linux becoming an accepted alternative to Windows
Novell where early and then too late to the party. - Linux will be there because it scales on old pc's and in the money argument. Fud might make it tricky for it managers who have replaced ibm for microsoft (eg not getting fired) but a day will come.
The question is: What has Novell done for you recenlty ?, - be honest this is why Redhat lives and why Novell's ceo has to admit that all its windows/server products are rubbish compared to ms's products in return for a cashflow from Redmond.
Im an ex Suse user (9.2). - Novell have zero creditbility. I imagine Novells ceo will recommend they use Vista at Novell soon one as Ron does not like chairs being thrown() with those words 'what have you done recently for microsoft'.
As a suse user (pre Novell purchasing i will add) Last year I informed the general email users list why i was leaving to go to another distro because of the announced m/s novell deal and thanked them all for any hints and tips for the 'hobby version' they occasionally supplied. I was rational and adopted a calm term in the message.
I was later accused by some more vocal 'open suse' users on that email list that my objection's where irrational and would i please shut up.
I did just that and i moved on successfully. As to the Microsoft fan boys i found - i must admit i was surprised to find them there.
Sorry I liked the film (bit depressing), anyhow if your critism was not enough pink floyd then perhaps the fim was not for you to start with.
perhaps the master disk should have been better tested using the microsoft encoding method rather than the industry standard that somebody broke somewhere.
Most Vista sales are bundled, while it its possible to remove it is a 'forced' sale - if you are happy with xp, why would you want to use vista on a new machine.
People did the 95->98->windows 2000->windows xp thing so is the penny dropping out there and what they have is good enough ?
If you run games use probably have a wii/ps3/xbox - next gen dvd is still up in the air. I dont see that uber game you need vista for, and the dvd format winner is going to mean more upgrading.
Its a hard sale - while i know theres a gideon bible in the hotel room dont expect me to use it.
can i mention patents here ? that patent office (us pto) employee needs to buy there church a new building and for more patents awarded means more bonus and thus a bigger church to pray in to so that people get told the world is flat.
That must stifle things when the product you could have made you cannot because patent troll 'x' will sue you for using a computer chip (rim), or business method (amazon), or software sort method mentioned in an very old text book on a computer langauge has been registered.
Doing one of something is easy, even i could get dkim working with one - but doing many means things don't work or play happy with the other things the mail interacts with. Im a fool, but then there was an emperor once who wore no clothes.
postfix - multiple instances of each on an public ip but on one machine, lots of spam garbage filters - while it might be possible its a pain for very little payback.
Thats another eight high ports open (inbound and outbound) where i think i have to filter one process chain into another aka sign->spam-check->send-here->then-here. we got stuck with postfix in outbound message signing before. The second domain got the dkim signature for domain 1 which is wrong.
nice idea - crap outbound message signing implementation.
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I like dumb consumer empathy
I'm tall, and love to stretch - so im leaving the employment of the seven dwarfs..... ok snow white is cute but those bloody songs
While they might be crude they do the job, we get a number of ssh hackers and whatever doing there best to enter our systems over wired connections and crude it might be i would not want to be running a microsoft os - like many /.'ers we have several routers just to protect windoze and the ancient print servers which i'd rather not give a public ip to.
And Ron (Novells ceo) will do the right thing and cancel it
I had a haircut recently, and I was subjected to a nasty set of print magazines, well put together yes, but the content value about zero.
Last computer mag i read was byte, Mcgraw Hill sold it and it closed down in a month. If I had to give all reviews 5/5 then i certainly think about quiting the magazine business.
I dont buy magazines - and it appears i wont be doing so very soon either.
I suggest that all magazine reviewed products SHOULD get a 5/5 in all categories then neither publisher and supplier can complain - if your a punter well your just a moron who should have spend your money better.
After all the publisher does not care.
We do backups, but i dont floss. Quite never saw the point of flossing. - perhaps they should have flossed less.
Bitter moi ? - just think of the crap i dont download, and by the way windows nt cannot also do latest flash theres no plugin for that
yes while nt is old, if it sits behind many firewalls and routers its safe enough until it gets upgraded to linux. There must be some nt users out there other than us and some might even be non geeks.
Some of us hate flash - small tip if you don't have a T1 connection and things are slow Block flash and the internet really speeds up.
If people wish to develop sites that we cant view (think scfi channel) or adverts in it then its not a problem here as we associate flash with rubbish/spam.
Also a defacto standard is not if no 'upto' date linux plugin is available. It is possible to live without flash, and yes the world is a better place.
Flash (and wannabe ompetitors)is a childrens program whether the flash developers suck more the program is something that becomes conjecture.
I agree - I roll my own ca's here
So firefox informs me that when i do open https:/// its flaggable and that seems WAY more secure to me than having a ca signed by some company that by default i have to trust and may be 'wrong'.
Since no insurance company will probably ever payout on an an illegal ca (thats becomes fraud and criminal matter) i don't see the point the thwaite et al. Mind you they could not even be bothered to even send me an electronic pdf when i once asked them for information once.
Sounds good - but in practice root certs seem useless 'trust' I would recommend everybody does there own ca cert auth.
Well not much
Mind you i never expected that myspace contained state secrets (a leak this secret button), so i do hope his journalists and editors refuse to use mysapce as a source of stories just in case.
Ok then why do american corp's then send there designs to China to get copied then ?
We use chinese made networking gear - i suspect most of us do somewhere in x z and z, and where I refuse to buy american stuff made in china so it seems i get chinese stuff that is open about censorship.
example - I can drop packets - or alert persons that myspace is being activatedby user at x time if i wanted too. While i do not like the chinese idea of 'clean' I use there stuff and i'm trying to buy another chinese router. Why ? it works and our west european supplier only supplies the netgear rubbish (theres been a purging of linux compatible stuff too i might add) so I asked in the suppliers forum and got a link, yes they would be very happy to sell me it direct.
While this might 'censor innovation within china', the point of failure in your argument is that apple, intel, ms ,motorola and yada not forgetting yadaye corp all ship there latest and greatest designs to china where citizens 'doing the right thing' no doubt copy and pass on to there companies and government these latest designs / tech manuals and i end up using later in some adapted form or another.
This is not flaimbait - I would argue too that Bush'es moral agenda and spying on isps might be deemed something along the lines of what chinese might desire to attain.
Not everything is good. but as /. is a place where software patents and drm is bad why should i support an american corp who's chinese products support patent trolls, and not pay many a decent wage in bad conditions and fail to work with linux.
Theres plenty of flaws in my argument i know. But at least chinese stuff is open unlike say netgear's usb wifi network adaptors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threesome
With Boy on Boy action, the manage a trois between Ron,Darl and Chair_Thrower() Mr Balmer, and small time players like Baystar not forgetting that Sco poster girl Maureem it might well be an 21+ age feature.
I thought Microsoft 'partners' (thats Darl and Ron) where not allow to sue each other. I bet Mr Balmer is going to get mad on Monday.
We own a fax/copier/printer/scanner from hp that is an inkjet. Its only inkjet we own, we don't use hp ink either - old model officejet is very happy with 'wrong' ink.
So yes - I'd buy another officejet, i would not buy an inkjet for normal printing
Colour laser printers used to be very heavy when i last picked one up.
A blogger i read once covered this using an 'ore is bad law' website, my understanding was that the (usa) police decided that all of an paypal like payment processors transactions where all for kiddie porn - that was fault 1.
English police even tampered with the american electronic evidence - that was fault 2.
This explained to me while Paypal don't like the police (thats not working with them) - for say if you bought a car on ebay - your a child sex offender too apparently according to the policeman.
If im honest - Paypals approach to tell the police to 'get lost' seems the right one. The damage has been done and police forces worldwide have been declared retards and morons by corporations like ebay.
If i was a payment processor I'd consider that not cooperating with the police was a wise business decision and what ever badness it might generate it will payoff in the longterm.
Law enforcement needs better staff - give it 20 twenty years.
Excuse my ignorance here - but neither wishing to defend pdflib, or you what is wrong with the source code that pdflib apparently provides PDFlib Lite source code package http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdfli b-lite/
Love to know.
It will happen. And the pieces of the solution are all there - imap/jabber etc.
Heres an example of an mcse in action: we once tried to sell a wifi link to a firm with one building next to another a few meters away. Big road block for (mcse) then was there oldest windows client didnt then support wifi, and they werent interested in upgrading either. - guess the outcome.
So the problem with mcse's or (that type of specail it manager) is that the exchange killer app must support windows 3.1 before it is even considered replacable. its probably a critical success factor somewhere.
If its not there one mcse will say (on top of not knowing unix) that they still cannot migrate. because it doesnt work like exchange does and they like the status quo.
I'd imagine that an imap server and postfix would freak many mcse's out. After all they probably want a support contract just to feel safe too.
Im wasted....
Dear victim I am prince Uboogkio from Nigeria and my friend I need your help for my Tribal leader King Uboogkio has invested in a firm called Sco who has also been invested in by big companies like Baystar and Microsoft and a lady called Maureen. King Uboogkio personally knows a MR Darl MCBRIDE as being an amazing bisiness man. I need more money and since Sco is where 'IT' is going on Nasdaq I guarantee you dear victim 50% of all of the shares I hold personally and and the King shareholding. To help me and you be RICH BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS I need 1. a copy of your passport 2. $10000 us dollars 3. a telephone number Please email me so i tell you more My best (praise be to Jesus and Allah) Steve (prince) Uboogkio email me sco.getrichnow@uboogkio.ng Our village awaits news as we are about to sell some children to slave owners - this should inform you on how keen we are on Sco shares.OK That should do it
That was 'Pre Ron' (new ceo) remember now Ron Hovispan recently called all Novell products (that compete with exchange/ad recently as 'crap' in conjunction with the ms pr department. Now
Novell where early and then too late to the party. - Linux will be there because it scales on old pc's and in the money argument. Fud might make it tricky for it managers who have replaced ibm for microsoft (eg not getting fired) but a day will come.
The question is: What has Novell done for you recenlty ?, - be honest this is why Redhat lives and why Novell's ceo has to admit that all its windows/server products are rubbish compared to ms's products in return for a cashflow from Redmond.
Im an ex Suse user (9.2). - Novell have zero creditbility. I imagine Novells ceo will recommend they use Vista at Novell soon one as Ron does not like chairs being thrown() with those words 'what have you done recently for microsoft'.
As a suse user (pre Novell purchasing i will add) Last year I informed the general email users list why i was leaving to go to another distro because of the announced m/s novell deal and thanked them all for any hints and tips for the 'hobby version' they occasionally supplied. I was rational and adopted a calm term in the message.
I was later accused by some more vocal 'open suse' users on that email list that my objection's where irrational and would i please shut up.
I did just that and i moved on successfully. As to the Microsoft fan boys i found - i must admit i was surprised to find them there.
Anyhow - rational is hard to define i suppose
Sorry I liked the film (bit depressing), anyhow if your critism was not enough pink floyd then perhaps the fim was not for you to start with.
perhaps the master disk should have been better tested using the microsoft encoding method rather than the industry standard that somebody broke somewhere.
Most Vista sales are bundled, while it its possible to remove it is a 'forced' sale - if you are happy with xp, why would you want to use vista on a new machine.
People did the 95->98->windows 2000->windows xp thing so is the penny dropping out there and what they have is good enough ?
If you run games use probably have a wii/ps3/xbox - next gen dvd is still up in the air. I dont see that uber game you need vista for, and the dvd format winner is going to mean more upgrading.
Its a hard sale - while i know theres a gideon bible in the hotel room dont expect me to use it.
can i mention patents here ? that patent office (us pto) employee needs to buy there church a new building and for more patents awarded means more bonus and thus a bigger church to pray in to so that people get told the world is flat.
That must stifle things when the product you could have made you cannot because patent troll 'x' will sue you for using a computer chip (rim), or business method (amazon), or software sort method mentioned in an very old text book on a computer langauge has been registered.
That surely does not help.
Said the coward to the fool
Doing one of something is easy, even i could get dkim working with one - but doing many means things don't work or play happy with the other things the mail interacts with. Im a fool, but then there was an emperor once who wore no clothes.
postfix - multiple instances of each on an public ip but on one machine, lots of spam garbage filters - while it might be possible its a pain for very little payback.
Thats another eight high ports open (inbound and outbound) where i think i have to filter one process chain into another aka sign->spam-check->send-here->then-here. we got stuck with postfix in outbound message signing before. The second domain got the dkim signature for domain 1 which is wrong.
nice idea - crap outbound message signing implementation.