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Comment Re:Drupal + CiviCRM? (Score 1) 186

by tab0wling on Thursday May 28, 2009 @09:16PM (#28133269) Attached to: Customer Resource Management For Non-Profits?

The company where I work is looking into the Drupal + CiviCRM for a non-profit client. We still in the early stages of evaluation but it looks very promising. I'm not sure out the Outlook integration, but Drupal has soooo many modules that I can't imagine it being an issue. And did I mention it's free?!?!

Antivirus Inventor Says Security Pros Are Wasting Time 282

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 07, 2008 @01:04PM from the think-outside-the-para-digum dept.

talkinsecurity writes "Earlier this week Peter Tippett, chief scientist at the ICSA and the inventor of the progam that became Norton Antivirus, had some interesting things to say about the state of the security industry. In a nutshell, Tippett warned that about a third of the work that security departments do today is a waste of time. Tippett goes on to systematically blow holes in a lot of security's current best practices, including vulnerability research/patching, strong passwords, and the product evaluation process. 'If a hacker breaks into the password files of a corporation with 10,000 machines, he only needs to guess one password to penetrate the network, Tippett notes. "In that case, the long passwords might mean that he can only crack 2,000 of the passwords instead of 5,000," he said. "But what did you really gain by implementing them? He only needed one."' Some of his arguments are definitely debatable, but there is a lot of truth to what he's saying as well."

Microsoft Responds to 'Save XP' Petition 440

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @09:38PM from the we-like-the-old-ways dept.

DaMassive writes "Computerworld Australia is running a story with a response from Microsoft to Infoworld's SAVE XP petition Web site, which has gathered over 75,000 signatures so far. Apparently Microsoft is aware of the petition, but says it is "listening first and foremost to feedback we hear from partners and customers about what makes sense based on their needs, that's what informed our decision to extend the availability of XP initially, and what will continue to guide us" — a somewhat strange response given that the vast majority of people signing the petition ARE Microsoft customers! The Save XP movement has attracted the attention of the software giant, despite its claims that Vista has sold more than 100 million copies and its adoption rate is in line with the company's expectations. "We're seeing positive indicators that we're already starting to move from the early adoption phase into the mainstream and that more and more businesses are beginning their planning and deployment of Windows Vista," the company said. Nevertheless vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Fujitsu, and more recently NEC, all offer the opportunity to downgrade to XP Pro."

Comment Yes - you must understand (Score 1) 310

by tab0wling on Thursday February 02, 2006 @03:13PM (#14628567) Attached to: Is Verizon a Network Hog?

You must understand the architecture. Verizon is only delivering video to FiOS customers. So all the posts from DSL users do not matter. FiOS is their brand name for Fiber To The Premises (FTTP). They basically deliver a fiber optic cable to your home or premise. Over this fiber, they have 3 laser wavelenghts. One is for video and the other two are for the incoming/outgoing broadband data.

SO IT DOESN'T MATTER!!! Your data and video are separate. There is no overlap or oversaturation of video messing up your internet data or phone calls. Also, they are setting it up so that the video never travels across the public backbones. Only from Verizon's points of the physical networks.

So this is all completely bogus. Somebody is running their mouth when they don't have all the info.

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