Posts by Eddie Johnson

Secure pipe to where?

So I'm supposed to create a secure pipe for them, connect it up to a virus farm, and then allow the employees to fork off all day while they destroy the network from within? Go Gartner! Let me guess, they determined that the deployment of "Inverse Vpn Connections" or IVC's, (TM) will be a $17B market by 2011? This is just how Gartner attempts to prop up all their previous failed predictions about Web 2.0.

Groupthink in worthless, it allows crappy ideas without legs of their own to get support for the idiotic huddled masses.

Video rentals?

Are there still video tape rental shops? I can't believe with $20 DVD players anyone still wastes their time rewinding videocasette. Ah, well, I guess there's always Appalachia.

Paris. Because in addition to owning a DVD player she undoubtedly owns a DVD cam too, and even better, she knows what its for.

If a browser fails to render nonexistent code ...

"the large quantity of legacy content authored around IE7's behaviors"

Seriously? They think someone has been writing to a nonstandard browser that has a single digit market share? Or are they just talking about FrontPage generated garbage? Because I doubt even FrontPage targets IE7. I only know maybe one person who uses it.

Its hilarious that Vista's browser is already considered legacy and no one has even adopted it yet.

@John A Blackley

"Amid all the self-congratulation and sneering, let's remember this: Facebook, MySpace, et al are the first (popular) generation of these applications and, despite the reduction in numbers, still have an avid user base."

No, AOL and Compuserve were the first generation. You had a user name, a profile, the ability to form groups, chat, etc. And then it got destroyed by hoards of idiots and the commercial spam that followed them. Sound familiar? Sound like eBay? Like MySpace? Like Facebook?

Back in the early 90's AOL actually was a lot like what Facebook first appeared as. Then the millions of disks mailed out brought millions of idiots and destroyed the community. Commercialization won.

Once eBay got popular the listings were flooded by a small handful of commercial powersellers who flooded the listings with a bunch of identical items that were not even a good deal just so you couldn't actually find the occasional good deal that showed up. Commercialization won.

I never saw MySpace before it was covered in fugly porn banner ads but apparently it was once upon a time relatively pollution free.

Never been to Facebook but from what I've heard its been destroyed by "application" spam.

The problem is, as you look at the death of these once popular destinations, you'll notice the cycle gets faster and faster. The spammers have gotten much faster at showing up and ruining the party.

Forgery has always been a crime

Comcast's "management" procedure consists of forgery and forgery has always been a crime. A simple criminal or civil case based on this should be pursued by EFF. They can argue the merits of management all they like but management accomplished by illegal means such as forgery is still illegal.

Title? We don't need no stinking title

@AC1 I didn't say MS was exclusive, I only said its already been attempted and refused by consumers, both at the OS level and at the component level in a proposed IDE HD spec. OSX matters forkall in the bigger picture anyhoo.

@AC2: "Do you even do anything other than click "yes" when your firewall claims that some DLL is trying to access the net? If you do, then you have more time than I have!"

You may as well not have a firewall then. The correct answer is to always say no if you don't recognize the source/sender. Only if something you actually want to do fails do you then close the program, do it again, and this time allow it. I'm assuming you know that but claim you don't have the time. Apparently you do have the numerous hours it take to clean your system after the fact though. Just remember the old oz/protection/pound/cure thingy.

@alain williams

Its not fiber that needs to be run into houses, but conduit. I know people who wired there houses up for Ethernet and stereo and such when built 10-20 years ago. Well, guess what? Their wiring won't support 100Mbps or Gbit Ethernet today. Its all about upgradeability and that is accomplished with conduit. Pull out the old coax installed 10 years ago, replace with twisted pair. Pull that out, replace with fiber. Pull that out, replace with ________.

I'm shocked I tell you...

Shocked to hear that free email services are rarely blocked. Back around, oh, 1999 I guess, I didn't fully block but applied serious score penalties to hotmail, yahoo, msn, and of course aohell. I mean, back then they were often forgeries, but still. A man ahead of my time I guess.

Well, there'll be no line at the coatroom at least. The one with the big "(A)" on the back please.

So if you have to use Google by force...

is their "all your emails are belong to us" policy still in effect or do they offer some false assurance of privacy?

[Black helo because they're always watching you]

Same story, different actor

AOL=>Yahoo=>eBay=>MySpace=>YouTube=>FaceBook=>???

Who will be next for their 15 months of fame?

Paris. Cuz she looks like she's really trying to think of the answer.

Simplest Solution

The solution that has worked great for me is to block google entirely and use scroogle.org, a sanitizing front end that removes all paid links. This avoids the potential of users accessing nasties from the google cache too.

Other than the freedom issues

I'd like to see the US ban the site too. Its already banned anywhere I admin.

Actually though it makes candidate interviews easier. "Do you use MySpace or YouTube regularly? NEXT!"

Content Please?

How about actually describing the clip in the text for those of us who are either not stupid enough to install flash plugins or unable to access the linked content for other reasons. Are you a news site or a "content conglomerator"?

Ultra Mobile Stamp Viewer?

An 800 pixel screen, eh? That's pretty pathetic! What is it 40x20?

Another reason to stick with "Standard"

This validates my decision to never spec MS Small Business Server. Why? Because as they create all these separate niche products you can't be sure that things have been properly tested. Why the hell do we need 75 different versions of Windows? Its done only to benefit MS's wallet and it must be a hell of a benefit to offset the 10's or 100's of millions it must cost them. I see a need for maybe 3 versions at most, Workstation, Server, and maybe some crazy clustering version. Beyond that its just ridiculous.

All chiefs, no injuns?

When I see "CEO and Founder" I usually suspect its shorthand for "CEO, Founder, and sole employee" and the company sign hangs on a basement door. Also, quitting time is whenever mom yells, "Supper's ready!"

I want one. I rilly RILLY want one

But if NSA's monitoring all my communications through their secret ATT wiretap I expect I'll have a brigade of incompetent Feebs crawling up me arse a few days after placing my order. Anyone know a good Paypal proxy?

@Marco

I assume they did quite a comprehensive background check on her searching Wikipedia for all of:

* Carolyn Doran

* Doran, Carolyn

* Carolyn Sue Bothwell

* Bothwell, Carolyn Sue

When they found she hadn't written any articles about herself, or that she'd deleted any articles others had written about her, they made the logical assumption - she's squeaky clean. Because THEY know Wikipedia is NEVER wrong.

Dumbest idea ever

The last thing I want is a book that can change. I already hate the dynamic web because I pretty much know if I ever go back to find anything it will be gone, either because the site is gone, they rearranged the furniture, or they decided to lock up the content under some new business model.

Now you want to apply that model to a book I purchased? Oh, wait, sorry. I guess I don't purchase it either - I license it, giving the content-controller (not the author, think like the RIAA for music) the authority to modify, delete, revoke, negate, or obfuscate the content at any time.

Just look what a success Wiki's have been, Wiki-fiddlin's become a commercial industry, with politicos hiring people to rewrite history for them.

When Web2.0 comes to a book near me my reading days will be over.

@Joe

Double ROT13? Very good Joe! Almost 3DES I bet.

Stop the train, I want to get off!

Its time to slow down this space race. I've just grudgingly moved from FF 1.5 to 2 within the past month. I still prefer most things about 1.5. The only feature in 2.0 that I appreciate is the session resume. I wouldn't mind if they continued to provide security bug fixes for the past versions but every new major version just rearanges the furniture needlessly.

Where's the Preferences dialog in this version? They move it back and forth from Edit/Preferences to Tools/Options in every other release, 2.0 has it back where it was in Mozilla and FF 1.0. And every new release just adds another 10M of bling in the form of gold plated spinner skins and other doodads to slow down the already sluggish browser.

Get over it Gene

Its easy to see why Gene is so freaked over this. Kiss is the perfect example of everything bad about the record business. We're talking about a band that is all costumes and marketing hype instead of talent. He's in the same category as Britney Spears, Milli Vanilli and all the other factory produced crap that is what actually destroyed the recording industry.

Its simple Gene, make a quality product and people will buy it. Based on your talent I'd say you deserve to be making about 35K a year. Are you ready to start handing out refund checks?

A Simple Solution for Simple People

If you're dumb enough to use Facebook or MySpace or whateva other Web 2.0 site you completely deserve having all your private details exposed to the world. The solution is simple, just stop being an attention whore.

Please don't Spread MS's Lies for Them

Please don't mindlessly parrot whatever TLA MS makes up without investigating whether it actually does something. You mention User Account Control (UAC) and I have to wonder what this is beyond the basic concept of NOT HAVING EVERY FREAKING IDIOT LOGIN AS ROOT, something that Unix has had for 30+ years. Seriously. If MS hadn't spent the NT/2K/XP years encouraging everyone to create an admin account would we need UAC? Kind of like their System File Protection (SFP) which they created because they never figured out how to acually use NTFS protections to accomplish what they were designed for, preventing unauthorized file modification.

Patch upon patch upon poorly designed foundation, that's the MS design paradigm.