The people who make the big e-mail software (Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook) have no concept of good e-mail editing techniques. I haven't used Outlook much (avoid Micro$oft like the plague!), but I have to use Notes at work. Notes makes it very difficult (well-nigh impossible) to properly format a reply. So I join the bandwidth-wasting crowd and do what's easiest at work.
2) I can archive a single mail and have saved the whole discussion.
Do I work with you? If so, let me know. I would have lots of fun editing the older portions of quoted text (I'm sure you don't read the full history of every message), rendering your single-message archive humorously useless! (or, if you get on my bad side, I could subtly alter the history of our conversation so that blame for project failure falls squarely on your shoulders...) Single message archiving only works if you can trust the person you're conversing with. That's fairly rare in a business environment.
"Now, I'm not saying everyone who watches Fox is cranially deficient, but think about the kind of shows the network survives on."
You mean like Simpsons, Malcom, X-Files, Boston Public, 70's Show, and Dark Angel? I would mention Futurama here too, but Fox doesn't really survive on that show, that show survives on Fox, and is perpetually on the brink of being cancelled, for the same reasons as the Tick. Bad time slot, and the humor is completely lost on some people. But don't slam Fox's lineup. I haven't seen better shows on any other network!
... we seem to be heading, as a society, towards Black Box mentality. We don't care how it works so long as it works. You see it every day when you look at people using computers. Many (most?) of them have no clue about how the computer works at all. They're doing pretty good if they know how the application (or game) that they want to use works. And when the magic Black Box breaks, they call tech support. And many (most, it seems) tech support people are almost as clueless as the people they're trying to help.
Now we're taking it up a level and worsening the problem, by saying it's okay if Sys Admins and programmers don't understand the intricacies of the Black Box. They just need to learn how their portion of it works, and they'll be okay.
Back to the original question: Does a Sys Admin need to learn Assembly? Probably not. But it's a disservice to the profession to only learn what you need to know.
Is it just me, or does anybody else think this is hilarious?
The bug allows hackers to take over your computer as soon as you go online. Microsoft makes the patch available online, and encourages users to go download it....
If I was running XP, I'd be crying. Instead, I'm laughing.
Err... uhm... I was suffering a lack of caffiene yesterday! That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!
I knew better. Really I did. For some reason, by brain did not engage before, during, or after my post. My deepest apologies to anybody misfortunate enough to have actually believed me.
Not to mention the fact that one side of the moon faces the sun at all times! Any solar collectors on Earth are subject to day/night cycles. The moon would rarely be impacted, when the lunar eclipses happen.
The details I am talking about are these:
"The vulnerability affects IE for Windows versions 5, 5.5, and 6, said Pynnonen. Citing the severity of the flaw, he refused to release technical details about the method he found for bypassing the browser's system for securely handling downloaded files."
I find that actually reading the articles usually helps...
First of all: Test what? Details of the bug have not been released. So only your own arrogance validates your "test" of this bug.
Second of all: The harm in this bug lies in IE asking the user if he wants to open a file of one type (i.e. Text, which is safe), and then proceeding to run maliscious code.
Now this bug may not pose any threat to reasonably intelligent people, but I think we all know that the internet (and IE users even moreso) is not comprised solely of reasonably intelligent people. Hell, it might even get me, if I was an IE user. Why waste time/space downloading a txt file when I can open it in the browser? Trust issues? Who worries about whether or not to trust a txt file? Text is harmless, as long as it's treated as text.
I'd like to believe that there's life on Europa, but since the bacteria couldn't survive surface conditions, I find it highly unlikely. Then again, there are subterranian life forms here on Earth, so I guess it's possible. It sounds like a better theory than the salts, at any rate.
Color me ignorant, but does fiber have any advantage over 5e, except for the fact that fiber is (virtually) impervious to EM noise? If not, then why bother? A properly run cable inside a house should never have a noise problem to speak of, unless you are big into experimenting with HVAC devices...
If you are worried about what you will want 5-10 years from now, don't waste your time. 5-10 years from now, we'll be networking with things you never even thought of before.
I can understand the expression "mixed reputation" when it comes to TigerDirect. My first buying experience with them was pretty bad. A buddy of mine recommended them to me and another guy at work, and we both had bad experiences.
Then after avoiding the company for awhile, they had a price on something I wanted that I just couldn't beat, and the service was very good. I've shopped TigerDirect many times since then, and the service has been superb. It was just that one time (well, two if you count the experience of my co-worker) that nearly kept me from ever shopping there again.
If you can put a copyleft on software, I don't see why it wouldn't work for other forms of copyrightable materials... Except for the obvious answer that the producers of those other materials don't have the same mindset.
Imagine the possibilities, though. Stephen King writes a new novel, and puts a copyleft on it. Open source book! If I don't like it, I can change it and re-release it, giving credit where credit is due.
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Yes. If you just hit reply, there is no quoting whatsoever...
The people who make the big e-mail software (Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook) have no concept of good e-mail editing techniques. I haven't used Outlook much (avoid Micro$oft like the plague!), but I have to use Notes at work. Notes makes it very difficult (well-nigh impossible) to properly format a reply. So I join the bandwidth-wasting crowd and do what's easiest at work.
2) I can archive a single mail and have saved the whole discussion. Do I work with you? If so, let me know. I would have lots of fun editing the older portions of quoted text (I'm sure you don't read the full history of every message), rendering your single-message archive humorously useless! (or, if you get on my bad side, I could subtly alter the history of our conversation so that blame for project failure falls squarely on your shoulders...) Single message archiving only works if you can trust the person you're conversing with. That's fairly rare in a business environment.
"Now, I'm not saying everyone who watches Fox is cranially deficient, but think about the kind of shows the network survives on."
You mean like Simpsons, Malcom, X-Files, Boston Public, 70's Show, and Dark Angel? I would mention Futurama here too, but Fox doesn't really survive on that show, that show survives on Fox, and is perpetually on the brink of being cancelled, for the same reasons as the Tick. Bad time slot, and the humor is completely lost on some people. But don't slam Fox's lineup. I haven't seen better shows on any other network!
Daimler Chrysler is using Novell/LDAP. Sounds like big industry to me...
... we seem to be heading, as a society, towards Black Box mentality. We don't care how it works so long as it works. You see it every day when you look at people using computers. Many (most?) of them have no clue about how the computer works at all. They're doing pretty good if they know how the application (or game) that they want to use works. And when the magic Black Box breaks, they call tech support. And many (most, it seems) tech support people are almost as clueless as the people they're trying to help.
Now we're taking it up a level and worsening the problem, by saying it's okay if Sys Admins and programmers don't understand the intricacies of the Black Box. They just need to learn how their portion of it works, and they'll be okay.
Back to the original question: Does a Sys Admin need to learn Assembly? Probably not. But it's a disservice to the profession to only learn what you need to know.
Following that prediction, I'll have to say that the next revolutionary war isn't far off, either.
Is it just me, or does anybody else think this is hilarious?
The bug allows hackers to take over your computer as soon as you go online.
Microsoft makes the patch available online, and encourages users to go download it....
If I was running XP, I'd be crying. Instead, I'm laughing.
sarcasm
/sarcasm
Seems logical to me! Everybody knows that if you throw sugar on the ground, you'll grow sugar cane.
Err... uhm... I was suffering a lack of caffiene yesterday! That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it!
I knew better. Really I did. For some reason, by brain did not engage before, during, or after my post. My deepest apologies to anybody misfortunate enough to have actually believed me.
Not to mention the fact that one side of the moon faces the sun at all times! Any solar collectors on Earth are subject to day/night cycles. The moon would rarely be impacted, when the lunar eclipses happen.
The details I am talking about are these: "The vulnerability affects IE for Windows versions 5, 5.5, and 6, said Pynnonen. Citing the severity of the flaw, he refused to release technical details about the method he found for bypassing the browser's system for securely handling downloaded files. "
I find that actually reading the articles usually helps...
First of all: Test what? Details of the bug have not been released. So only your own arrogance validates your "test" of this bug.
Second of all: The harm in this bug lies in IE asking the user if he wants to open a file of one type (i.e. Text, which is safe), and then proceeding to run maliscious code.
Now this bug may not pose any threat to reasonably intelligent people, but I think we all know that the internet (and IE users even moreso) is not comprised solely of reasonably intelligent people. Hell, it might even get me, if I was an IE user. Why waste time/space downloading a txt file when I can open it in the browser? Trust issues? Who worries about whether or not to trust a txt file? Text is harmless, as long as it's treated as text.
which would be... subterranian! Like I said.
I'd like to believe that there's life on Europa, but since the bacteria couldn't survive surface conditions, I find it highly unlikely. Then again, there are subterranian life forms here on Earth, so I guess it's possible. It sounds like a better theory than the salts, at any rate.
Time to point Hubble that direction and start searching for black monoliths...
Color me ignorant, but does fiber have any advantage over 5e, except for the fact that fiber is (virtually) impervious to EM noise? If not, then why bother? A properly run cable inside a house should never have a noise problem to speak of, unless you are big into experimenting with HVAC devices...
If you are worried about what you will want 5-10 years from now, don't waste your time. 5-10 years from now, we'll be networking with things you never even thought of before.
I can understand the expression "mixed reputation" when it comes to TigerDirect. My first buying experience with them was pretty bad. A buddy of mine recommended them to me and another guy at work, and we both had bad experiences.
Then after avoiding the company for awhile, they had a price on something I wanted that I just couldn't beat, and the service was very good. I've shopped TigerDirect many times since then, and the service has been superb. It was just that one time (well, two if you count the experience of my co-worker) that nearly kept me from ever shopping there again.
If you can put a copyleft on software, I don't see why it wouldn't work for other forms of copyrightable materials... Except for the obvious answer that the producers of those other materials don't have the same mindset. Imagine the possibilities, though. Stephen King writes a new novel, and puts a copyleft on it. Open source book! If I don't like it, I can change it and re-release it, giving credit where credit is due.
No lightning at the poles, and very little at sea? Obviously lightning is herbivorous, and tends to roam areas where there are trees to eat.