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Abso-frikking-lutely!
Put your customer list on Facebook instead of on the Cloud.
Is that what Ellison is proposing?
PS. Larry forgot to say that even in 1995 - before Farcebook - the interfaces of Oracle and SAP sucked donkey dong.
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Thanks to collaboration with the team at VirusTotal, this Process Explorer update introduces integration with VirusTotal.com, an online antivirus analysis service. When enabled, Process Explorer sends the hashes of images and files shown in the process and DLL views to VirusTotal and if they have been previously scanned, reports how many antivirus engines identified them as possibly malicious. Hyperlinked results take you to VirusTotal.com report pages and you can even submit files for scanning. This tool is so good Microsoft should buy them! Oh, wait...
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Thank you for posting this.
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We are offering to buy a new computer with a modern browser for any of our customers who are stuck with IE7. We determined that it would cost us more to support a browser from 2006 in 2014 and beyond than it would to help our clients upgrade their legacy hardware.
I suppose that's one way to deal with the long tail of legacy support.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If they can make that work, it's a genius move.
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But like someone else commented on that site, why don't they get their "errant" customer to just use a modern browser, like chrome or firefox?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Because:
0) If 'please use a non-crap browser' would work IE6-8 would have gone to zero years ago.
1) A 12 year old single core p4 with 512mb of ram running winXP is too slow to support a fancy modern web site in any browser.
FILE_NOT_FOUND) It's more a publicity stunt than anything else.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So much for Intel’s bid to get hip with our app-filled times: the company is shutting down its consumer-facing AppUp, its app store for Windows-based PC apps. “The world’s largest app store that nobody’s ever heard of,” in the words of AppUp boss Peter Biddle, a description that in hindsight may have been tempting fate.
I think Peter Biddle said it best. Not really a big loss....
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If you are a mobile user with a Windows 8.1 laptop or tablet, you may want to know which Internet browser to use so that you get the maximum battery time possible. To learn which browser uses the least battery power, I have compared all the major browsers on three separate Windows devices: an old laptop, a very new tablet and a powerful hybrid device. Your results will vary
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That's probably because its also generally slower - less CPU power needed.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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No, apparently it is not slower.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The per device variation in ranking was large enough that I'd like to see at least 3 or 5 runs of each done on one of the devices to see if the test itself was consistent before drawing any conclusions.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Kent Sharkey wrote: which Internet browser
I can't see how IE fit into that category...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Internet Explorer is an Internet Browser, that's why! The clue is in the name.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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A recent bug in Gmail resulted in some users accidentally deleting emails and reporting others as spam when applying those actions to other messages. So *that's* what happened to the email that told me I inherited $3,000,000
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"Honey Encryption" generates a piece of fake data resembling the user’s real information each time a hacker fails to access an account, as is common in brute-force hacking.
No idea why it's called honey encryption, but it seems like it'll piss off hackers to no end. Take that, you Target account info-stealing bastards.
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Christopher Shields wrote: No idea why it's called honey encryption I suspect from "honeypot[^]" that is the term used for a trap server set up to catch crackers.
TTFN - Kent
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Well that makes perfect sense. Keen eye once again, Kent.
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So the government is going open source, but the porn filter is still up and running. Riddle me that one, Cameron.
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I believe "porn filter" is a bit generous. It has also been known to block sex education and sexual health advice sites, rape victim support sites, League of Legends game updates, a few political activist groups.
Some other examples: Dalek Dave may want to avoid this link, I don't think he's a fan of the Guardian.[^]
Not an inspiring start. I think I'll opt out (nothing to do with the top shelf material you understand).
Nontheless, I don'r really see why you shoe-horned it into a reference to use of OSS, which I applaud (and its quite rare I applaud the current shower).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
modified 30-Jan-14 5:20am.
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I suspect it will be like when my employer's IT department came up with the brillant idea of putting an SGI box on every desk ~20 years ago. Everything went great until the frist box landed on the first secretary's desk. At which point the project was abruptly terminated.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I see no reason why open source office applications should not suffice for the vast majority of users.
However, I suspect many of the departments may have more invested - VBA macros, interfaces to other systems, etc. which could make this "cost-cutting" exercise have a number of hidden costs.
I can just imagine the thought process.
"Oh, there's a free alternative. We'll use that."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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