I live in Manhattan (New York City, not Kansas) and we are consistently behind the rest of the country. It's hard for anyone to dig up the roads to lay new cables etc. So while my friends in Bumfuck, New Jersey and Armpit, Pennsylvania are singing the joys of FIOS I am locked into Time Warner - a de facto monopoly.
I actually have both cable modem (Time Warner bastards) and DSL (Verizon sons of bitches). They are both capricious - showing odd variations in bandwidth throughout the day - but overall the cable modem gives me significantly higher bandwidth. Hence I am particularly worried about this - I have no recourse and no alternative (except maybe buying more DSL lines and aggregating them!).
Agreed! I'm not an M$ apologist* - but XP has been remarkably stable. My team supports 15,000 Windows XP workstations and frankly, we very rarely see BSOD problems (5 per year). When we do it's almost always either dying hardware or a poorly-written 3rd-party driver installed by a user.**
I think it's only fair to give M$ credit where it's due - they have improved Windows stability dramatically from the NT days.
* I own only Macs (PowerBook G4, Intel Mini) and use a MacPro at work (with W2K, XP, Vista and Linux on Parallels).
** For political reasons we have to give many users local admin rights. It makes my job sooo much harder.
This book is a useful reference that assumes you know 2000/XP/2003 but need to know the equivalent commands etc in Linux:
"Linux for Windows Administrators" by Mark Minasi and Dan York
Slightly out of date now, but definitely a good starting point.
2 -- Bloomberg's DDE system seems not to work with OO (not that it's particularly efficient in Excel either). Is that OO's fault or Bloomberg's?
It's Bloomberg's fault. Sorta. They probably haven't had enough feedback from customers saying "We need OO support!". Why would any company spend time and effort on developing a product if there's no (known) customer base?
Contact their customer service and tell them you want their DDE system to work with OO.
2. When OS X is first installed or configured, the first user account is allowed to "Administer this computer". Not root but close enough. This is a serious hole that probably exists on most home user's configurations.
3. Who cares if the box is not compromised but the user's files are deleted/corrupted? Sure - I'd be so happy that *only* my 100GB of music files, 40GB of photos, 12 years of email/correspondence/papers/articles etc got whacked. Phew. Box is not compromised. Dodged a bullet.
OS X users need education in some simple security basics - like never use an administrator/su level account for day-to-day websurfing/work. They do not need to be deceived by either AV companies or UNIX fans.
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It's codenamed "Cloverfield" or "1-18-08". Official trailer is at:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/
I actually have both cable modem (Time Warner bastards) and DSL (Verizon sons of bitches). They are both capricious - showing odd variations in bandwidth throughout the day - but overall the cable modem gives me significantly higher bandwidth. Hence I am particularly worried about this - I have no recourse and no alternative (except maybe buying more DSL lines and aggregating them!).
They can still type with their other hands.
All your ass are belong to us.
Agreed! I'm not an M$ apologist* - but XP has been remarkably stable. My team supports 15,000 Windows XP workstations and frankly, we very rarely see BSOD problems (5 per year). When we do it's almost always either dying hardware or a poorly-written 3rd-party driver installed by a user.** I think it's only fair to give M$ credit where it's due - they have improved Windows stability dramatically from the NT days. * I own only Macs (PowerBook G4, Intel Mini) and use a MacPro at work (with W2K, XP, Vista and Linux on Parallels). ** For political reasons we have to give many users local admin rights. It makes my job sooo much harder.
This book is a useful reference that assumes you know 2000/XP/2003 but need to know the equivalent commands etc in Linux:
"Linux for Windows Administrators" by Mark Minasi and Dan York
Slightly out of date now, but definitely a good starting point.
A similar story appeared in Wired three years ago: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.h tml
and here's some background on De Beers and engagement rings: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond
What are the chances that an AOL user is:
a) reading
b) knows of zcat, grep or zgrep
c) knows how to use zcat, grep or zgrep?
It's Bloomberg's fault. Sorta. They probably haven't had enough feedback from customers saying "We need OO support!". Why would any company spend time and effort on developing a product if there's no (known) customer base?
Contact their customer service and tell them you want their DDE system to work with OO.
I propose a new law banning the sale, private ownership and carrying of all portable music players. We will call it "Guy's Law" in memory of Cocker.
1. "UNIX" and "secure" are not synonyms.
2. When OS X is first installed or configured, the first user account is allowed to "Administer this computer". Not root but close enough. This is a serious hole that probably exists on most home user's configurations.
3. Who cares if the box is not compromised but the user's files are deleted/corrupted? Sure - I'd be so happy that *only* my 100GB of music files, 40GB of photos, 12 years of email/correspondence/papers/articles etc got whacked. Phew. Box is not compromised. Dodged a bullet.
OS X users need education in some simple security basics - like never use an administrator/su level account for day-to-day websurfing/work. They do not need to be deceived by either AV companies or UNIX fans.
And yes I am an ardent Mac OS X fan.