I was taught very early in my IT career that there are 3 considerations on any project.
1. It can be cheap
2. It can be fast
3. It can be reliable.
Now go and pick 2 out of 3.
Ah, but with FOSS, #1 is assumed (for the end users, not the developers) because FOSS can be seen as charity after a sort, it's quite possible for it to be #2, #3 for for devs, and all three for end users.
Has Conficker done anything malicious yet? Last I heard it all it has done is to extend and protect its installed base and has not yet been used to do any attacks.
Don't want a lot of cat hair, but want a deterrent? Use a little cat poo, urine, and a smidge of hair here and there... It might scare the little buggers to someone else's server room.
Microsoft, release a mandatory update to turn off auto-run/play, and show a reoccuring opt-out prompt on login that explains that auto-run is turned off, and the risks of turning it back on.
At least make XP's version of the patch that allows GPO auto-run disable to work properly a mandatory update. If no one's in a GPO, it won't break anything. If they are in a GPO that turns autorun off, then it should be turning auto-run off!
I don't know of a single widely used "slow" calculator on Linux.
Define "slow". It sometimes takes me for freakin' ever to type something into expr, because I keep trying to use eval instead. Nowadays, I just grep history to see which does which.;)
You're currently marked funny. Really mods? Powerpoint and Outlook/Exchange are the last reasons to keep a windows box (when the rest of your company is using Windows). If your customers are using Windows, then Powerpoint is the sole reason.
I'm sorry for not RTFA, but if their Linux runs on an ARM and Windows on a core2, could you partition some RAM and have _both_ OSes running concurrently without virtualization? That would be interesting.
The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.
I know feeding Trolls is bad form, but:
What about a level 3 Wwwyzzard d dot com providing your BBS connection? Last time I _had_ to compile something was almost a decade ago.
At least there is a laissez faire net neutrality, if not one strictly set in stone. What is being proposed is a strictly-set-in-stone prevention of official net neutrality, and removal of the laissez faire variety.
My friends and I have been wanting something like Surface for more than a decade; to use in Role Playing games. Big plexiglass boards with patchwork graph paper and grease pens don't always do what you want.
Um, Wha? It's been my experience, having worked in university, small business, and big-business IT, that university IT is at the bleeding edge, adopting not only what works, but new stuff just because it's new. Big Business might look at buzzword-of-the-month, and decide right away, but they'll test it for two or three years before rolling it out. Most of the time though, BB says "buzzword is unnecessary, we do things the X way here, always have, always will". Small business IT tends to sit in between, using whatever works to make things go, but only changing when necessary.
I sit here in this cafe, drinking a latte and typing on my laptop computer. Both the latte and the PC are hot, one from being prepared that way, the other as a result of internal processes. Both are hot as I have defined them.
Does the fact that one requires an external entity to prepare it make it any less hot than the one that becomes hot of its own accord?
Is the Barista hot? If so, is she hot because of being prepared that way, the as a result of internal processes?
The latest Windows Apple updater seems to run as a scheduled task once a day. Most other programs _should_ use a time-based schedule, but they often are lazy and just use a login script to start up a background process. So, the functionality's already there in the task scheduler, but the third party software vendors don't want to use it.
Short of holding the user's other hand, bringing a cup of coffee and providing a back-rub while installing the updated package, I don't see how much easier that could get.
It could be aptsh (aptitude-shell, a fictitious combination of the best of aptitude directly with bash)
$ bo The program 'bo' is currently not installed. Automatically installing it for you... Package bo not found in standard repositories. Automatically adding multiverse repository... Package bo not found in multiverse repository. Automatically adding third party repository from some guy's basement in China... The package is not digitally signed. Automatically accepting permission to install potentially dangerous unsigned package... Automatically re-running "bo" $ bo Permission denied. selinux prevented "bo" (pid 3407) from accessing restricted resources Automatically re-running "bo" with root privil^Ceges... ^C$ sudo b^C^Co aptsh detected an attempt to break out of current process; doing so could adversely affect the apt installation database. Are you sure [Y/N]? Y Automatically selecting N... $ sudo bo Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
Most (non IT) businesses print reams of paper every day
Concur, with an added insult: They print the documents, then throw them away in a locked shredding bin two minutes later. Biggest F'ing waste of toner and paper I've seen. I'm not an environmentalist by any means, but I was sickened by that at one company I worked for a few years back. At least the sysadmins who pipe their logs to lpr do it for a reason. These office people were printing because they needed to highlight portions of the documents for someone else to do data entry (oh yeah, waste of highlighters too).
I fire up Win98se's version of paint once in a while because it's the only paint app that will correctly place some specific non-antialiased fonts on an image. It's frightfully annoying, and if the text string I want is small enough, I just copy and paste it from a "quick brown fox" image I made a long time ago.
Bundling isn't the biggest reason IE users switched to IE, it was because IE4 was better than Netscape Navigator. [...] In any case, this isn't like 1994 when people did not know how to download software. Right now, people download stuff all the time, from chat programs to games and utilities, and wallpapers, songs, and more. None of that is bundled, but people manage fine. Same thing with browsers.
I was a web site designer back in those days, and I remember the exact opposite. Netscape was entrenched in the eyes of the only folk using the internet (because nearly 100% of the people using the 'net in 1994 _did_ know how to download software; we were almost all geeks). IE never bested Netscape in quality until AOL entered the mix with Netscape 6 (ca 1998-99?); the Netscape that never should have been. Of course, I was using Netscape on Windows, Mac, and Solaris, so that might have colored my vision since IE only worked on my Windows box.
The point I'm trying to make is that numbers were won by bundling because the market was heavily Netscape until ~1996-1997, which coincides with the time website URLs were finally ubiquitous in television commercials. (i.e. [pun not intended], every Tom, Dick, and Harry were finally getting on the 'net, and they didn't know how to download stuff, so they used IE).
FF + Exchange webmail = super fail. Basic mail works, but everything else, including mail filtering does not, even if you change the useragent string. I wouldn't be surprised if Hotmail uses the same or similar webmail code.
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I was taught very early in my IT career that there are 3 considerations on any project.
1. It can be cheap
2. It can be fast
3. It can be reliable.
Now go and pick 2 out of 3.
Ah, but with FOSS, #1 is assumed (for the end users, not the developers) because FOSS can be seen as charity after a sort, it's quite possible for it to be #2, #3 for for devs, and all three for end users.
Has Conficker done anything malicious yet? Last I heard it all it has done is to extend and protect its installed base and has not yet been used to do any attacks.
Don't want a lot of cat hair, but want a deterrent? Use a little cat poo, urine, and a smidge of hair here and there... It might scare the little buggers to someone else's server room.
Microsoft, release a mandatory update to turn off auto-run/play, and show a reoccuring opt-out prompt on login that explains that auto-run is turned off, and the risks of turning it back on.
At least make XP's version of the patch that allows GPO auto-run disable to work properly a mandatory update. If no one's in a GPO, it won't break anything. If they are in a GPO that turns autorun off, then it should be turning auto-run off!
We've even got "mild autism" if you can't handle the full euphemism.
It's not a euphemism, but a lot of guys can't handle "mild autism's" official name without laughing. Heh, heheh. He said ass burgers.
I don't know of a single widely used "slow" calculator on Linux.
Define "slow". It sometimes takes me for freakin' ever to type something into expr, because I keep trying to use eval instead. Nowadays, I just grep history to see which does which. ;)
You're currently marked funny. Really mods? Powerpoint and Outlook/Exchange are the last reasons to keep a windows box (when the rest of your company is using Windows). If your customers are using Windows, then Powerpoint is the sole reason.
I'm sorry for not RTFA, but if their Linux runs on an ARM and Windows on a core2, could you partition some RAM and have _both_ OSes running concurrently without virtualization? That would be interesting.
small wind generators deployed while coasting, regenerative braking,
Small wind generators are a form of regenerative (air)breaking.
It uses Sugar for its GUI?
The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.
I know feeding Trolls is bad form, but:
What about a level 3 Wwwyzzard d dot com providing your BBS connection? Last time I _had_ to compile something was almost a decade ago.
"testing environment"? What's that? Sounds like one of those things that adequately-funded IT departments get.
"Adequately-funded IT department"? What's that? Sounds like one of those things that only IT-oriented companies might have.
At least there is a laissez faire net neutrality, if not one strictly set in stone. What is being proposed is a strictly-set-in-stone prevention of official net neutrality, and removal of the laissez faire variety.
Ah, but a corporation is a person by way of legal fiction. The politicians are just thinking of the people...
My friends and I have been wanting something like Surface for more than a decade; to use in Role Playing games. Big plexiglass boards with patchwork graph paper and grease pens don't always do what you want.
Given how glacially slow IT moves in a university
Um, Wha? It's been my experience, having worked in university, small business, and big-business IT, that university IT is at the bleeding edge, adopting not only what works, but new stuff just because it's new. Big Business might look at buzzword-of-the-month, and decide right away, but they'll test it for two or three years before rolling it out. Most of the time though, BB says "buzzword is unnecessary, we do things the X way here, always have, always will". Small business IT tends to sit in between, using whatever works to make things go, but only changing when necessary.
So Lamarckian evolution, while not usefully applied to physiology, could be a good model for knowledge evolution.
I sit here in this cafe, drinking a latte and typing on my laptop computer. Both the latte and the PC are hot, one from being prepared that way, the other as a result of internal processes. Both are hot as I have defined them.
Does the fact that one requires an external entity to prepare it make it any less hot than the one that becomes hot of its own accord?
Is the Barista hot? If so, is she hot because of being prepared that way, the as a result of internal processes?
The latest Windows Apple updater seems to run as a scheduled task once a day. Most other programs _should_ use a time-based schedule, but they often are lazy and just use a login script to start up a background process. So, the functionality's already there in the task scheduler, but the third party software vendors don't want to use it.
Short of holding the user's other hand, bringing a cup of coffee and providing a back-rub while installing the updated package, I don't see how much easier that could get.
It could be aptsh (aptitude-shell, a fictitious combination of the best of aptitude directly with bash)
think it would be interesting to see what would happen if Microsoft bundled Firefox with Windows.
.Net Framework Assistant 1.0 (or version X) would be installed as a FF plugin by default instead of having to be a stealth install.
Most (non IT) businesses print reams of paper every day
Concur, with an added insult: They print the documents, then throw them away in a locked shredding bin two minutes later. Biggest F'ing waste of toner and paper I've seen. I'm not an environmentalist by any means, but I was sickened by that at one company I worked for a few years back. At least the sysadmins who pipe their logs to lpr do it for a reason. These office people were printing because they needed to highlight portions of the documents for someone else to do data entry (oh yeah, waste of highlighters too).
I fire up Win98se's version of paint once in a while because it's the only paint app that will correctly place some specific non-antialiased fonts on an image. It's frightfully annoying, and if the text string I want is small enough, I just copy and paste it from a "quick brown fox" image I made a long time ago.
Bundling isn't the biggest reason IE users switched to IE, it was because IE4 was better than Netscape Navigator. [...] In any case, this isn't like 1994 when people did not know how to download software. Right now, people download stuff all the time, from chat programs to games and utilities, and wallpapers, songs, and more. None of that is bundled, but people manage fine. Same thing with browsers.
I was a web site designer back in those days, and I remember the exact opposite. Netscape was entrenched in the eyes of the only folk using the internet (because nearly 100% of the people using the 'net in 1994 _did_ know how to download software; we were almost all geeks). IE never bested Netscape in quality until AOL entered the mix with Netscape 6 (ca 1998-99?); the Netscape that never should have been. Of course, I was using Netscape on Windows, Mac, and Solaris, so that might have colored my vision since IE only worked on my Windows box.
The point I'm trying to make is that numbers were won by bundling because the market was heavily Netscape until ~1996-1997, which coincides with the time website URLs were finally ubiquitous in television commercials. (i.e. [pun not intended], every Tom, Dick, and Harry were finally getting on the 'net, and they didn't know how to download stuff, so they used IE).
FF + Exchange webmail = super fail. Basic mail works, but everything else, including mail filtering does not, even if you change the useragent string. I wouldn't be surprised if Hotmail uses the same or similar webmail code.