Calgary has an extremely high percentage of green space even in the downtown area compared to other cities in north america. Living downtown I'm a 5 minute walk from a several kilometer long riverfront park/trail system, a man-made island in the middle of the river which is full of trees, animals, etc and serves as a summer venue for plays, concerts and other things. I'm across the street from a water park and I'm no more than 15 minutes from about 10 other green and/or water parks. I also have a great view of the mountains. I'm about a 20 minute drive from where I can put in for a nice 3 hour rafting ride down the bow river which is nothing but nature. Ugly is right. I wish I could have been living in Vancouver during the several week long garbage strike instead...
don't move to Vancouver and move to Calgary step 2 walk in to any company and just start working.. they will probably throw a party in your honour. step 3 collect big pay cheque in slightly friendlier housing/rental market than Vancouver..
Its a company of 12,000 and the decision was made long before I got there. you'll be happy to know the software only does things like control various cities water systems, traffic systems, hurricane gates and oil and gas pipelines.
Right, they force you to take it with Vista at sale, then order their downgrade kit. its free, but they'll only ever send one to an address so make sure you make copies. this means even though we're not using vista on those (they haven't gotten around to certifying our software on vista yet because none of our business customers have asked for it) it probably registers as a vista sale.
I thought this.. I translated an article in google once. I'm trying to think.. I believe it might have been dutch. The first paragraph was perfect. Completely readable and grammatically very good. The first sentence of the second paragraph was good too, somehow after that though things went to crap and suddenly the article was made up of sentences like "giraffe pickled the box".
The last order I put in was in January and we were told by our HP dealer that they couldn't sell it to us with XP installed. And if the downgrade kit is the same set of CDs we already have and not XP installed, it still pads the Vista numbers.
Not all business users have a choice. Dell gives you a choice. HP does not. We're an HP value-add reseller and we can't get xw4400 workstations without vista. We had to request a downgrade kit (they will only give 1 to each business address, even though we order hundreds of these a year) and then downgrade them to XP.
I had some friends who have it on their new laptops...
At-fault insurance is great when you kill someone. I'm sure their family feels really good about that. America, where its not just a license to kill, its a right!
Is the average hardware the end-user is going to use easily supported? I realize not everything is supported "out of the box" in windows, but is it supported at all in linux? To dual boot ubuntu I've temporarily switched from using my SB X-fi to my built in real-tek because I don't want to crawl down behind my PC To change the speakers every time. The x-fi finally got 64 bit drivers..but no 32 bit drivers yet.
Yes yes blame the hardware manufacturers..Its not linux's fault. It really doesn't matter whose fault it is, until that problem is solved linux isn't ready for the desktop. They need to get some clout and start putting pressure on hardware vendors to support this kind of thing.
And no, I'm not really interested in that time you supposedly had to sacrifice a goat, kidnap bill gates and have him personally write a driver to support some obscure piece of hardware you claim you couldn't get working.
why have I spent untold hours fixing other peoples Windows machines
Because windows users are targeted relentless by various scams, viruses, malware, etc. When you have a user base in the hundreds of millions or billions you're bound to get some gullible people. The same as you see any number of "intelligent" people fooled by real world scams and con artists.
teaching people how to double click on icons,
You'd have to do the same in Linux..
teaching people how to connect to a wireless hotspot
You would have to do the same in linux, assuming the wireless card was supported as was the authentication type... When I wanted to connect to the college network I was at a couple years ago, I had to go beg people on the project for my wireless adapter to write something to support LEAP authentication.
If 95% of the market share suddenly belonged to linux we'd all be wearing shirts that said "No, I will not run make for you"
Speaking of things evolving, do you have any children? could you give this reply doing no less than 100 mph please? Ooo include little biographies.. Thanks.. *hugs n kisses* the rest of the drivers..
This means that a society of body builders would have the same average BMI as a society of, well, lazy Americans.
While true, its a bit of a misleading argument. It takes the focus off the lazy americans. Just because it can't distinguish between a competitive body builder and a fat guy, doesn't make the fat guy any more healthy, or any less fat. It doesn't take a genius to look at someone with a BMI of 35 and say "You're fat." If they can't tell the difference they need their eyes examined.
Not just objective. Definitive as he puts it. Everyone else will have an identical experience using the same hardware as him because he is Joe Everyman.
No, not all. And nothing will be a magic bullet that is going to solve everything. You need to make improvements where you can. Any bittorrent application which supposedly takes up 175% of all internet traffic if some sources are to be believed and has more than 1 leecher on it will benefit from multicast. Live events, streaming music, and any other kind of service which isn't on-demand (you join something in progress rather than it starting fresh for you) will benefit from it. On demand stuff can only benefit in the case where an ISP recognizes something is a popular download currently and caches it locally. Windows updates, virus definitions, etc. That would be a bugger of a system to automate though.
Multicast would do wonders on the internet for anything with a high volume. I've thought the same about work places that allow streaming music. Put in a media server that pulls the top X streams down once, and then internal users could hit that. Rather than several hundred streams, maybe you cut it down by 80%.
he "Iron Man" exoskeleton being worked on by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie (left) is eerily similar to the real Exoskeleton (right) being developed at Raytheon.
eerily? Side by side I can hardly tell them apart. I can't see why they wasted money on CGI.
That's kind of my point. Since most of the users aren't technical any activity that looks like a botnet is probably a botnet.
As for BT they failed because they were a lone wolf. Users had alternatives. This has to be a universal fix. Users will be lazy if you give them the chance. If they have nowhere else to go they'll fix their machines. Have a blitz campaign on phishing and malware under the pretext that the new rules would be coming in X days, weeks, whatever. It wouldn't be much for most ISPs to set up a page with simple instructions to popular, and free scanning and cleaning tools. Since ISPs can do basically whatever they want with your traffic it would also be nothing for them to redirect all your traffic to that page with locally hosted files in the event that you were blocked. Since they already check if you have their service based on MAC address, it would be nothing to throw you in to 1 of 2 access lists. The regular list, or a second list where all of the users traffic is blocked except for that directed to webserver to access cleaning applications.
This would be a pretty painless way for users to quickly download the cleaning applications if they didn't have them, scan, clean and then get back online.
We're talking about putting any kind of malware vendor who relies on botnets or malware which attacks others out of business. This isn't just some "wouldn't it be neat" idea. Its also something these guys really couldn't get around. They might be able to trick some virus software, but when the ISP has shut off your communication, you're done.
The internet is a community. Not your personal playground. If you're part of the community and your machine has be compromised to cause damage to other people who are part of that community there is no good reason that you can give for why you should be permitted to be part of that community until you fix your machine.
If you have the technical knowledge to be partaking in an activity that might resemble botnet behaviour, you'd also be smart enough to to let your ISP know of this and they could flag your machine as a non-concern. They key would be ensuring that any false positives were dealt with very quickly.
The inconvenience a user might experience over a potential false positive is far less than they might experience from a deluge of spam, worms, and dos attacks that originate from botnets. As time progressed the system would only improve and eventually it would move to a maintenance mode. As botnet operators found their ability to operate effectively essentially cut off, their business would dry up and there would be no reason for them to operate any more.
It seems to me that the simple fix still remains out there yet no one wants to do it. If we can detect the size of the botnet, it stands to reason you can probably identify which machines are part of this botnet by watching their traffic patterns. Any responsible ISP should immediately block the service of any customer whose machine appears to be a part of this botnet (with a very simple process to demonstrate that its not in the case of a false ID and/or that you've cleaned your machine). ISPs should then turn around and refuse to handle the traffic of any ISP who won't take this kind of corrective action. A list could then be published of which ISPs have taken a firm stance against harmful botnets and ones which haven't. Consumers would then follow to the responsible ISPs, and those ISPs which regularly found themselves harbouring spammers, etc and doing nothing about it would find their ability to operate severely limited. Spammers using botnets would also find their ability to peddle their crap limited as the industrialized world would stop allowing them to operate and accepting any mail from the few ISPs that still catered to them. If there was some kind of non-government ISP monopoly in a country that was irresponsible it would become a very attractive market for an outside party to start a responsible one and steal their legitimate customer base.
I'm happy to say I've never clicked on the stuff, but one particular message will always have a special place. The subject was for "antitank viagra" I wasn't sure exactly what it was, but I felt maybe the military should be researching it.
and you never cited any to the contrary. Do you have any evidence that a rom nintendo claimed copyright on doesn't actually belong to them or are you just trolling? We can all sit around and spout theories all day, but since you proposed this line of thought why don't you provide some actual leg work?
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Calgary has an extremely high percentage of green space even in the downtown area compared to other cities in north america. Living downtown I'm a 5 minute walk from a several kilometer long riverfront park/trail system, a man-made island in the middle of the river which is full of trees, animals, etc and serves as a summer venue for plays, concerts and other things. I'm across the street from a water park and I'm no more than 15 minutes from about 10 other green and/or water parks. I also have a great view of the mountains. I'm about a 20 minute drive from where I can put in for a nice 3 hour rafting ride down the bow river which is nothing but nature.
Ugly is right. I wish I could have been living in Vancouver during the several week long garbage strike instead...
have you ever been to Calgary? We haven't had any significant snowfall here in the last few years. Nor most years. Its an extremely dry climate.
don't move to Vancouver and move to Calgary
step 2
walk in to any company and just start working.. they will probably throw a party in your honour.
step 3
collect big pay cheque in slightly friendlier housing/rental market than Vancouver..
Its a company of 12,000 and the decision was made long before I got there. you'll be happy to know the software only does things like control various cities water systems, traffic systems, hurricane gates and oil and gas pipelines.
Because our software doesn't run on linux. It used to be unix based, but several generations ago they decided to go with a windows environment.
Right, they force you to take it with Vista at sale, then order their downgrade kit. its free, but they'll only ever send one to an address so make sure you make copies. this means even though we're not using vista on those (they haven't gotten around to certifying our software on vista yet because none of our business customers have asked for it) it probably registers as a vista sale.
I thought this.. I translated an article in google once. I'm trying to think.. I believe it might have been dutch.
The first paragraph was perfect. Completely readable and grammatically very good. The first sentence of the second paragraph was good too, somehow after that though things went to crap and suddenly the article was made up of sentences like "giraffe pickled the box".
The last order I put in was in January and we were told by our HP dealer that they couldn't sell it to us with XP installed. And if the downgrade kit is the same set of CDs we already have and not XP installed, it still pads the Vista numbers.
Not all business users have a choice. Dell gives you a choice. HP does not.
We're an HP value-add reseller and we can't get xw4400 workstations without vista. We had to request a downgrade kit (they will only give 1 to each business address, even though we order hundreds of these a year) and then downgrade them to XP.
I had some friends who have it on their new laptops...
At-fault insurance is great when you kill someone. I'm sure their family feels really good about that.
America, where its not just a license to kill, its a right!
Is the average hardware the end-user is going to use easily supported?
I realize not everything is supported "out of the box" in windows, but is it supported at all in linux?
To dual boot ubuntu I've temporarily switched from using my SB X-fi to my built in real-tek because I don't want to crawl down behind my PC To change the speakers every time. The x-fi finally got 64 bit drivers..but no 32 bit drivers yet.
Yes yes blame the hardware manufacturers..Its not linux's fault. It really doesn't matter whose fault it is, until that problem is solved linux isn't ready for the desktop. They need to get some clout and start putting pressure on hardware vendors to support this kind of thing.
And no, I'm not really interested in that time you supposedly had to sacrifice a goat, kidnap bill gates and have him personally write a driver to support some obscure piece of hardware you claim you couldn't get working.
Because windows users are targeted relentless by various scams, viruses, malware, etc. When you have a user base in the hundreds of millions or billions you're bound to get some gullible people. The same as you see any number of "intelligent" people fooled by real world scams and con artists.
You'd have to do the same in Linux.. You would have to do the same in linux, assuming the wireless card was supported as was the authentication type... When I wanted to connect to the college network I was at a couple years ago, I had to go beg people on the project for my wireless adapter to write something to support LEAP authentication.
If 95% of the market share suddenly belonged to linux we'd all be wearing shirts that said "No, I will not run make for you"
James Watt's -- possessive.
Speaking of things evolving, do you have any children? could you give this reply doing no less than 100 mph please? Ooo include little biographies.. Thanks..
*hugs n kisses* the rest of the drivers..
While true, its a bit of a misleading argument.
It takes the focus off the lazy americans. Just because it can't distinguish between a competitive body builder and a fat guy, doesn't make the fat guy any more healthy, or any less fat. It doesn't take a genius to look at someone with a BMI of 35 and say "You're fat." If they can't tell the difference they need their eyes examined.
Er no it hasn't..
it was shut down not that long ago:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=308877
Not just objective. Definitive as he puts it.
Everyone else will have an identical experience using the same hardware as him because he is Joe Everyman.
No, not all. And nothing will be a magic bullet that is going to solve everything. You need to make improvements where you can. Any bittorrent application which supposedly takes up 175% of all internet traffic if some sources are to be believed and has more than 1 leecher on it will benefit from multicast. Live events, streaming music, and any other kind of service which isn't on-demand (you join something in progress rather than it starting fresh for you) will benefit from it.
On demand stuff can only benefit in the case where an ISP recognizes something is a popular download currently and caches it locally. Windows updates, virus definitions, etc. That would be a bugger of a system to automate though.
Multicast would do wonders on the internet for anything with a high volume.
I've thought the same about work places that allow streaming music. Put in a media server that pulls the top X streams down once, and then internal users could hit that. Rather than several hundred streams, maybe you cut it down by 80%.
he "Iron Man" exoskeleton being worked on by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie (left) is eerily similar to the real Exoskeleton (right) being developed at Raytheon.
eerily? Side by side I can hardly tell them apart. I can't see why they wasted money on CGI.
That's kind of my point. Since most of the users aren't technical any activity that looks like a botnet is probably a botnet.
As for BT they failed because they were a lone wolf. Users had alternatives. This has to be a universal fix. Users will be lazy if you give them the chance. If they have nowhere else to go they'll fix their machines. Have a blitz campaign on phishing and malware under the pretext that the new rules would be coming in X days, weeks, whatever.
It wouldn't be much for most ISPs to set up a page with simple instructions to popular, and free scanning and cleaning tools.
Since ISPs can do basically whatever they want with your traffic it would also be nothing for them to redirect all your traffic to that page with locally hosted files in the event that you were blocked. Since they already check if you have their service based on MAC address, it would be nothing to throw you in to 1 of 2 access lists. The regular list, or a second list where all of the users traffic is blocked except for that directed to webserver to access cleaning applications.
This would be a pretty painless way for users to quickly download the cleaning applications if they didn't have them, scan, clean and then get back online.
We're talking about putting any kind of malware vendor who relies on botnets or malware which attacks others out of business. This isn't just some "wouldn't it be neat" idea. Its also something these guys really couldn't get around. They might be able to trick some virus software, but when the ISP has shut off your communication, you're done.
The internet is a community. Not your personal playground. If you're part of the community and your machine has be compromised to cause damage to other people who are part of that community there is no good reason that you can give for why you should be permitted to be part of that community until you fix your machine.
If you have the technical knowledge to be partaking in an activity that might resemble botnet behaviour, you'd also be smart enough to to let your ISP know of this and they could flag your machine as a non-concern. They key would be ensuring that any false positives were dealt with very quickly.
The inconvenience a user might experience over a potential false positive is far less than they might experience from a deluge of spam, worms, and dos attacks that originate from botnets. As time progressed the system would only improve and eventually it would move to a maintenance mode. As botnet operators found their ability to operate effectively essentially cut off, their business would dry up and there would be no reason for them to operate any more.
It seems to me that the simple fix still remains out there yet no one wants to do it.
If we can detect the size of the botnet, it stands to reason you can probably identify which machines are part of this botnet by watching their traffic patterns. Any responsible ISP should immediately block the service of any customer whose machine appears to be a part of this botnet (with a very simple process to demonstrate that its not in the case of a false ID and/or that you've cleaned your machine). ISPs should then turn around and refuse to handle the traffic of any ISP who won't take this kind of corrective action. A list could then be published of which ISPs have taken a firm stance against harmful botnets and ones which haven't. Consumers would then follow to the responsible ISPs, and those ISPs which regularly found themselves harbouring spammers, etc and doing nothing about it would find their ability to operate severely limited. Spammers using botnets would also find their ability to peddle their crap limited as the industrialized world would stop allowing them to operate and accepting any mail from the few ISPs that still catered to them.
If there was some kind of non-government ISP monopoly in a country that was irresponsible it would become a very attractive market for an outside party to start a responsible one and steal their legitimate customer base.
I'm happy to say I've never clicked on the stuff, but one particular message will always have a special place. The subject was for "antitank viagra" I wasn't sure exactly what it was, but I felt maybe the military should be researching it.
and you never cited any to the contrary. Do you have any evidence that a rom nintendo claimed copyright on doesn't actually belong to them or are you just trolling?
We can all sit around and spout theories all day, but since you proposed this line of thought why don't you provide some actual leg work?