I would agree that many of the "problems" people face with Windows are caused by using root privileges. I only have one Windows box that I never power on, but I recently left a system admin company for which I was one of the chief Windows consultants. Because most of our systems were distributed for medical purposes, many of them had restricted accounts, only able to access one part of a hard drive, able to access a few select programs (with which Windows Media Player was not one), etc.
However, about a year ago (I left the company four months ago) we started to see an influx in rootkit problems. Our technical support department was constantly bringing me new programs that were being used, etc. In an effort to be proactive to stop the rootkit/spyware combination, I googled "Windows rootkit" to find what was out there. Try it. While MANY of your system problems will be cured by tweaking Windows in a "user mode", not all of them will be fixed.
Common sense is the best policy. Be careful what you click on, etc. I have friends who have great, stable Windows boxes that they have used for a long time. They work great. I use linux, and it took me much longer to get my systems up and running than it did theirs (of course, I have to tweak everything perfectly...)
Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3 requires Windows 2000/2003 or Windows XP. Make sure you have the latest Service Pack installed for your computer using Windows Update.
The title is taken out of context. The program is called "Bonjour for Windows" and the version is 1.0.3
As far as the product, hasn't Microsoft, Novell, and an ungodly amount of other smaller companies tried to do this before? Has anyone used Bonjour? What's network traffic like? ActiveDirectory and Novell are both rather chatty applications when it comes to the network. If we can find a way to keep things quiet, this is a great idea. However, there's the challenge.
I started using Linux out of pure curiosity back in 1999. I put it on an old system that was being thrown out, and tried going through the "Linux for Dummies" book. I grew bored of it soon. However, I was learning about it with a friend of mine (we'll call him Jim), and we would work through problems together. It was a fun sort of project that never ended. When either of us would get stumped, we would turn to a friend of Jim's, and he would often give us the standard RTFM answers. This frustrated me, and very often, it wasn't that he was busy doing other things (I now cringe at how simple the questions were at the time), but because he didn't want to deal with it. Jim has since gotten a job as a IT manager, and is constantly administrating to Linux, and I have moved on to bigger and better things inside of Linux (programming, etc). However, I now see that Jim has become just like his friend, often useless to me when I get stumped. Granted, I'm much better at googling than I was before, but I don't need someone making me feel stupid. I have since turned multiple people onto Linux, and LOVE helping them grow by showing them the answer and they WHY.
One of my best friends will often say "I don't care what you did today, as long as tomorrow is better." I plan on making tomorrow better by spreading the word, and helping people, so that they don't get stuck on the learning curve as bad as I have.
This is interesting to me personally because I work for a contract development shop. This usually means that we're the code junkies behind someone's idea. Now, don't get me wrong, because the project coordinator (not part of our company) is a great guy, but he has a problem with dragging out QA and throwing features in. He hired someone full time for QA (which is good, except for that she just gives me more work to do... --:o), but now, because bug testing is much more thorough (as it should be) it takes a bit longer, and while that bug fixing is going on, I often find that our coordinator will throw tons of new ideas in the mix. Sometimes we can persuade him that those features can wait, sometimes we cannot. However, he still looks at time as well, and many times, we're having to work late on code and QA so that we can get a good STABLE application out the door. We look at time, we look at QA, and we look at features. Oftentimes, no one on the other end realizes that as you raise QA and feature releases, you also need to allow for more time.
I haven't been with this company for too long, and was actually in sysadmin before this. Does anyone else seem to notice this when they develop software for anyone? I know everyone wants to see cool new features, but does anyone else experience this frustration? These people pay the bills, so we are at their mercy. Bah!
3. Realize that telling the media in advance of a product's release can be positive even if secrets are leaked -- giving an inside scoop can get you more media coverage upon release.
Seriously, that leak probably didn't get them huge publicity. I hadn't heard about the new breakout box UNTIL I read this post. It seems to me that (as unethical as it may be) a good idea to boost publicity is to sue the person with the leak. I've now read upwards of 500 comments from both the source site and Slashdot. Personally, I think they should let the guy off and not keep pushing the issue. However, it's now become a SOUND BUSINESS/MARKETING MODEL to sue someone and boost the coverage of the leak. Now the leak is all over. Those 500 comments were only people who commented. So let's say there were a 5 people for every 1 person that commented that didn't comment. That's 3,000 people total now. Those 3,000 then go tell 5 people about it or blog about it, etc. Now you've just spread the word on your new toy (to God knows how many people) at the cost of a small lawsuit that you intend to drop anyway. Plus, now all those Mac geeks think they're 1337 because they know about the new toy coming out, so they look cool to their friends as they spread the word. The concept is entirely better than those Tommy Hilfiger shirts that just say "Tommy Hilfiger" essentially turning customers into walking billboards...
You know what the funny thing is? I HAVE a shredder, cross cut and all. My dad gave it to me when he remodeled his office and bought a new one. I brought it home and shredded two or things in it. I haven't used it since... It still has the shredded documents in it that I shredded when I first got it. I guess knowing what I know about network and online security, I figured it'd be much easier for someone to steal my identity online rather then actually taking the time to piece paper together. I would at least think that the credit card companies would have some sort of red flag for it. I guess not... I'm doing the same as hodet... Not a single thing with my name and address on it...
This is particularly interesting because I work for a contract development shop that has been contracted to create something of a social networking/citizen journalism type site out of newspaper sites. Imagine promoting your blog and getting so much interest that what you have blogged about and the articles you have written are published in a bi-weekly periodical. Some of our sample sites can be found at Bakotopia, Northwest Voice, and Southwest Voice. In fact, this technology has become so popular that we've won an EDGIE for Most Innovative Visitor Participation (project manager's blog) I think we've taken the idea of blogs and set it to a higher level. Before, people kept coming back to sites because they wanted to read the latest blog entry (which is why I always come back to Slashdot), and now, user's come back to do that, and make their own posts, etc. It's like the draw of MySpace, with the promise of one day becoming a "freelance journalist" for the paper. I think it's a great idea, with a promising future.
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I would agree that many of the "problems" people face with Windows are caused by using root privileges. I only have one Windows box that I never power on, but I recently left a system admin company for which I was one of the chief Windows consultants. Because most of our systems were distributed for medical purposes, many of them had restricted accounts, only able to access one part of a hard drive, able to access a few select programs (with which Windows Media Player was not one), etc.
However, about a year ago (I left the company four months ago) we started to see an influx in rootkit problems. Our technical support department was constantly bringing me new programs that were being used, etc. In an effort to be proactive to stop the rootkit/spyware combination, I googled "Windows rootkit" to find what was out there. Try it. While MANY of your system problems will be cured by tweaking Windows in a "user mode", not all of them will be fixed.
Common sense is the best policy. Be careful what you click on, etc. I have friends who have great, stable Windows boxes that they have used for a long time. They work great. I use linux, and it took me much longer to get my systems up and running than it did theirs (of course, I have to tweak everything perfectly...)
Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3 requires Windows 2000/2003 or Windows XP. Make sure you have the latest Service Pack installed for your computer using Windows Update.
The title is taken out of context. The program is called "Bonjour for Windows" and the version is 1.0.3
As far as the product, hasn't Microsoft, Novell, and an ungodly amount of other smaller companies tried to do this before? Has anyone used Bonjour? What's network traffic like? ActiveDirectory and Novell are both rather chatty applications when it comes to the network. If we can find a way to keep things quiet, this is a great idea. However, there's the challenge.
I started using Linux out of pure curiosity back in 1999. I put it on an old system that was being thrown out, and tried going through the "Linux for Dummies" book. I grew bored of it soon. However, I was learning about it with a friend of mine (we'll call him Jim), and we would work through problems together. It was a fun sort of project that never ended. When either of us would get stumped, we would turn to a friend of Jim's, and he would often give us the standard RTFM answers. This frustrated me, and very often, it wasn't that he was busy doing other things (I now cringe at how simple the questions were at the time), but because he didn't want to deal with it. Jim has since gotten a job as a IT manager, and is constantly administrating to Linux, and I have moved on to bigger and better things inside of Linux (programming, etc). However, I now see that Jim has become just like his friend, often useless to me when I get stumped. Granted, I'm much better at googling than I was before, but I don't need someone making me feel stupid. I have since turned multiple people onto Linux, and LOVE helping them grow by showing them the answer and they WHY.
One of my best friends will often say "I don't care what you did today, as long as tomorrow is better." I plan on making tomorrow better by spreading the word, and helping people, so that they don't get stuck on the learning curve as bad as I have.
This is interesting to me personally because I work for a contract development shop. This usually means that we're the code junkies behind someone's idea. Now, don't get me wrong, because the project coordinator (not part of our company) is a great guy, but he has a problem with dragging out QA and throwing features in. He hired someone full time for QA (which is good, except for that she just gives me more work to do... --:o), but now, because bug testing is much more thorough (as it should be) it takes a bit longer, and while that bug fixing is going on, I often find that our coordinator will throw tons of new ideas in the mix. Sometimes we can persuade him that those features can wait, sometimes we cannot. However, he still looks at time as well, and many times, we're having to work late on code and QA so that we can get a good STABLE application out the door. We look at time, we look at QA, and we look at features. Oftentimes, no one on the other end realizes that as you raise QA and feature releases, you also need to allow for more time. I haven't been with this company for too long, and was actually in sysadmin before this. Does anyone else seem to notice this when they develop software for anyone? I know everyone wants to see cool new features, but does anyone else experience this frustration? These people pay the bills, so we are at their mercy. Bah!
3. Realize that telling the media in advance of a product's release can be positive even if secrets are leaked -- giving an inside scoop can get you more media coverage upon release.
Seriously, that leak probably didn't get them huge publicity. I hadn't heard about the new breakout box UNTIL I read this post. It seems to me that (as unethical as it may be) a good idea to boost publicity is to sue the person with the leak. I've now read upwards of 500 comments from both the source site and Slashdot. Personally, I think they should let the guy off and not keep pushing the issue. However, it's now become a SOUND BUSINESS/MARKETING MODEL to sue someone and boost the coverage of the leak. Now the leak is all over. Those 500 comments were only people who commented. So let's say there were a 5 people for every 1 person that commented that didn't comment. That's 3,000 people total now. Those 3,000 then go tell 5 people about it or blog about it, etc. Now you've just spread the word on your new toy (to God knows how many people) at the cost of a small lawsuit that you intend to drop anyway. Plus, now all those Mac geeks think they're 1337 because they know about the new toy coming out, so they look cool to their friends as they spread the word. The concept is entirely better than those Tommy Hilfiger shirts that just say "Tommy Hilfiger" essentially turning customers into walking billboards...
I find it very odd that SCO seems to want to call everyone and now everything SCAMP. Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?
You know what the funny thing is? I HAVE a shredder, cross cut and all. My dad gave it to me when he remodeled his office and bought a new one. I brought it home and shredded two or things in it. I haven't used it since... It still has the shredded documents in it that I shredded when I first got it. I guess knowing what I know about network and online security, I figured it'd be much easier for someone to steal my identity online rather then actually taking the time to piece paper together. I would at least think that the credit card companies would have some sort of red flag for it. I guess not... I'm doing the same as hodet... Not a single thing with my name and address on it...
This is particularly interesting because I work for a contract development shop that has been contracted to create something of a social networking/citizen journalism type site out of newspaper sites. Imagine promoting your blog and getting so much interest that what you have blogged about and the articles you have written are published in a bi-weekly periodical. Some of our sample sites can be found at Bakotopia, Northwest Voice, and Southwest Voice. In fact, this technology has become so popular that we've won an EDGIE for Most Innovative Visitor Participation (project manager's blog) I think we've taken the idea of blogs and set it to a higher level. Before, people kept coming back to sites because they wanted to read the latest blog entry (which is why I always come back to Slashdot), and now, user's come back to do that, and make their own posts, etc. It's like the draw of MySpace, with the promise of one day becoming a "freelance journalist" for the paper. I think it's a great idea, with a promising future.