The Provost of the university has gotten involved at the national level in disussions of peer-to-peer file sharing. This draws attention from companies like Napster and indicates he's interested hearing about their service.
Don't worry, UofR still doesn't have email aliases (the address you get is the address you get), single sign-on (like RIT's DCE), or university web servers that are actually useful to students doing anything beyond static HTML.
No they don't. I believe they do throttle uploads from P2P apps like Kazaa (which is an appropriate response to out-of-control bandwidth use) but they don't do it across the board. If you can't get better than 10KB/s ftp-ing a file to your mail account, complain to ResNet because they're something wrong with your connection.
Am I the only one who finds analog noise more pleasing than digital macroblocking, though?
You definitely aren't the only one. I'm always annoyed when I'm watching something excellent like The Sopranos and there's a fade-to-black but instead of it being nice and smooth, the "black" is filled with blocky artifacts of varying shades. I like having the multiple "HBOs" but I wish we could still get HBO1 on an analog channel.
echo GET A GODDAMN ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM YOU FUCKING MORON' | smbclient -NM -U AnnoyedSysadmin
Supposedly you can specify an ip instead of NetBIOS name with smbclient but I couldn't get the syntax right. An alternative is to write the offending ips to Samba's lmhosts file the send to all the made up NetBIOS names:
66.24.49.13 ASSHAT001 24.130.42.139 ASSHAT002 etc.
It sounds like you've never used an IMAP client. If you open a message using an IMAP client, it does not download attachments along with the body of the mesage. Also, the size of attachments is recorded in the message headers so you can see an attachment's filename, see how large it is and choose to download it, delete it, or leave it on the server attached to the message.
This has been my experience with Microsoft Entourage, Netscape Mail, Eudora, Apple Mail.app, Pine and a WebMail system which accesses the mail server via IMAP (which I think is a fairly common way for 3rd party webmail programs to work.).
You mean like they did for Windows 98? I seriously doubt they'll stop releasing security fixes for NT Server for at least another year, maybe 2. If they did, they'd run the risk of people switching to using Samba as a PDC rather than upgrading to Win2k3 Server and Active Directory.
Microsoft's next shot at killing NT is making Longhorn such that it can't join an NT domain.
Then he puts porn on the same level as mafia crime, pedophilia, and drugs.
No, he references the scare-mongering media's (and sometimes Justic Department's) "Four Horsemen," not his own. Plus he's being interviewed by his buddy, Mike Godwin (yes, Godwin's Law Godwin), who knows what Bruce means.
I think that major difference 6.6 % of XP users versus 38 % of XP users is caused by a very simple thing: win95/98 users are not connected to internet thus, they are not using google.
While I agree an older OS is more likely to not be online, I don't think that's the source of the difference between the study's percentage and Google's. The study surveyed only companies, not home computers. Since it was released, XP has almost been the only OS the average consumer could buy so there's a lot of it out there.
You have to wonder where WinME falls, is it lumped in with 98, 2K, or XP? As an architecture, it's closest to 98, it's a contemporary of 2K and it has some of the chrome of XP.
You can rather easily convert protected AAC's... to MP3.
The only way I know of is to burn AAC's to CD-R (or RW so you can erase and re-use) then rip it to MP3. I wouldn't call that easy, especially since the ripped MP3s won't have ID3 tags (well, if you burn an entire AAC album it might, if the times are a close enough match to the times on the pressed CD).
I'm aware of the recent work to use QuickTime to strip the protection from protected AACs but that still not in the realm of "easy."
Considering I'm not in a management position, I have had to interview and review the resumes of way too many people. I continue to be amazed by spelling & grammar errors. I expect them on Slashdot but not in a document which one has had time to craft and upon which one's future may depend. We don't automatically toss those resumes, they're never applying for positions which require strong writing skills, but if they get an interview we ask more questions related to paying attention to details ("rm -rf / tmp/, what's wrong with this?").
This sentence from a recent cover letter caught my eye and I felt compelled to blog it.
I am very hard worker and a stickler for details. (Yes, English is their first language but even if it wasn't, that would be no excuse.)
I still have a big stack of resumes and cover letters for people I've interviewed over the years. I'll review them for do's and don'ts next year when I relocate and have to update my own resume. Maybe I'll compile a list of the funny stuff I find along the way.
Uh, you realize those don't actually read the discs, right? They just spit the disc you want out. The USB connection is so you can use a database to keep track of which disc is in which slot and to have the computer send the command to spit out the correct disc. Or you have a piece of paper with them written down and you punch in the correct number on the keypad. This is like the "Dacal CD Library" someone else posted.
He might like to have these, if he can't find what he really wants, but having to use a fleshy arm vs. a mechanical arm to put the disc in the drive is a definite drawback.
Under $.50/GB? Where? Even the lowest listed on PriceWatch (I'd probably never trust the lowest price listed) is $101 for 160GB or just over $.63/GB.
a nice RAID 1.5 (or ever just striped RAID, since you obviously don't care much for speed....) setup...
RAID1.5 is too new for me to trust it. I'd stick with good old RAID1 if using only 2 drives and RAID5 if more than 2. And why mention striped RAID (RAID0), that provides zero redundancy and this guy it talking about backups! Also, when comparing hard drives to disc changers, I don't think the performance issues derived from RAID or rpm differences are an issue.
In New York your polling place has a book with a copy of your signature from when you registered to vote. When you vote you sign your name next to the signature copy (they cover it while you're signing). You'd have to have a copy of the dead guy's signature and be able to replicate it, assuming the poll volunteers are diligent.
Do you have your code online somewhere? I've run into snags related to Unicode in ID3 tags while working on a project and while I have a workaround in place, I'm interested in alternatives. An email would be appreciated.
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This makes perfect sense. Passwords are meant to be felt (typed) not spoken and unless your password is "******" you can't see what it is either.
I don't do this for my regular passwords but when creating temp passwords (when setting up new accounts) I typically use some pattern on the keyboard, like pecking a "ring" of characters around the F key.
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I think the ticket is to make it an impersonal firewall. At work we have managed Norton AntiVirus installed and basically disabled all the user configurable options. It seems Norton's personal firewall can be similarly managed. Like Managed NAV it can probably do centralised logging as well. I would probably configure it to not give the local user pop-up warnings at all. The user can't do anything if someone is portscanning them anyway. If a program is trying to make an outbound connection, they probably don't have the knowledge to make an informed decision about letting it. Maybe I would just let it warn them the outbound connection was blocked so if a program didn't work they would know why.
Of course this assumes the user does not have local admin to stop the NAV or firewall service. Since they have physical access to the machine, there's all kinds of things they could do to circumvent the firewall (Knoppix CD being my favorite possibility) but they tend to be more time consuming, technically demanding, and obvious. "Obvious" means they're much more likely to get in hot water.
No, this will punish the innocent - just like blacklisting whole IP blocks does.
I don't think adding Warn IP" is a good idea either but the current Warn feature based on screen name is time dependent. Warnings eventually expire so a user can't be permanently blacklisted.
I think IM clients should have their default set to allow IMs from Buddies only. I think this is the best option for the large majority of IM users. For those who want or need to receive IMs from unknown people, they could just change the the setting.
I don't see this becoming as big a problem as spam is. Spam requires no authentication whereas IM requires you to create an account with the IM service. The IM service provider can do all kinds of things to make mass screen name creation hard.
How does presenting the ballot questions on a tiny screen reduce the complexity?
You present them one at a time.
They could also include additional information such as what the responsibilities of a particular position is ("What is State Comptroller?") or what a referendum question means. Last Nov. 4th I had to vote on two questions which had a little explanation in the mechanical voting booth, but not really enough. When there are great many candidates, such as in the California recall election, an option could be provided to enter some text to find the candidate you wish to vote for. Designing interfaces with such options would certainly be challenging but it can be done and done well.
Also, the screen doesn't have to be tiny. I'm sure early adopters have machines with small screens because of their expense but they won't always be small.
Those who register on election day (or anyone not on record at a given polling place) should fill out paper absentee ballots to be counted separately. That way the time can be taken to make sure they weren't already registered and to make sure they didn't cast multiple ballots at multiple locations (sort the ballot envelopes by name to more easily find the duplicates).
Would also make it easier to expose voter fraud...have everyone sign their ballot.
Great, then when the fascist tree-hugger or bleeding-heart baby killer gets elected, they can send their troopers to pick up everyone who signed a ballot cast for their opponent.
Here in NY, one's polling place has a book of everyone's signature from their registration card. You show up, tell them your name, sign your name in the book (they cover the signature already there), then vote. That way they have the signature to see that I am who I say I am and so I can't vote twice but that record is separate from the ballot itself. I believe when you vote absentee, they remove your name from the registration book at the polling place so you can't vote twice that way. I've never tried to vote somewhere other than my designated polling place so I don't know how that's handled, possibly like an absentee ballot.
Of course we have mechanical voting booths which make signing the ballot rather difficult. I guess they could add a few more rows of levers so you could "sign" your name in binary.
Why are you splitting the top 5% into two groups? Why, to make their contributions look smaller!
Because that's how the original Seattle Times graphs broke them down. And given how large a part of the federal budget is devoted to Social Security and Medicare, it's ridiculous to look only at income tax and not at all federal taxes. The total for all federal taxes for the top 5% is 41.2% of all taxes paid vs. the 44.6% paid by the "middle class" WHICH WERE ENTIRELY OMITTED from the Seattle Times graph.
(And for what it's worth, a bar chart was a poor choice for this graph. A pie chart would be preferred.)
While the fact that they're taking 100% of something and splitting it up implies a pie graph would be favorable, it's easier for people to see differences when it's a bar graph vs. a pie graph.
Well shit, now they've made it a partisan issue, with 50 Democrats as co-sponsors. If the Republicans go for it now, it's a victory for the Democrats and they can't have that. Rep. Holt should have gotten a Republican as a co-sponsor early on before a bunch of Democrats piled on.
Anyway, if it really is a "receipt," something the voter takes with them, that's bad because it opens the door for coercion and vote-selling. If what they really mean is a paper ballot, that's good. The piece of paper doesn't have to be the sole or even primary thing counted but as long as it anonymously records the ballot of each voter, it should be sufficient.
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The Provost of the university has gotten involved at the national level in disussions of peer-to-peer file sharing. This draws attention from companies like Napster and indicates he's interested hearing about their service.
Don't worry, UofR still doesn't have email aliases (the address you get is the address you get), single sign-on (like RIT's DCE), or university web servers that are actually useful to students doing anything beyond static HTML.
No they don't. I believe they do throttle uploads from P2P apps like Kazaa (which is an appropriate response to out-of-control bandwidth use) but they don't do it across the board. If you can't get better than 10KB/s ftp-ing a file to your mail account, complain to ResNet because they're something wrong with your connection.
Am I the only one who finds analog noise more pleasing than digital macroblocking, though?
You definitely aren't the only one. I'm always annoyed when I'm watching something excellent like The Sopranos and there's a fade-to-black but instead of it being nice and smooth, the "black" is filled with blocky artifacts of varying shades. I like having the multiple "HBOs" but I wish we could still get HBO1 on an analog channel.
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echo GET A GODDAMN ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM YOU FUCKING MORON' | smbclient -NM -U AnnoyedSysadmin
Supposedly you can specify an ip instead of NetBIOS name with smbclient but I couldn't get the syntax right. An alternative is to write the offending ips to Samba's lmhosts file the send to all the made up NetBIOS names:
66.24.49.13 ASSHAT001
24.130.42.139 ASSHAT002
etc.
It sounds like you've never used an IMAP client. If you open a message using an IMAP client, it does not download attachments along with the body of the mesage. Also, the size of attachments is recorded in the message headers so you can see an attachment's filename, see how large it is and choose to download it, delete it, or leave it on the server attached to the message.
This has been my experience with Microsoft Entourage, Netscape Mail, Eudora, Apple Mail.app, Pine and a WebMail system which accesses the mail server via IMAP (which I think is a fairly common way for 3rd party webmail programs to work.).
You mean like they did for Windows 98? I seriously doubt they'll stop releasing security fixes for NT Server for at least another year, maybe 2. If they did, they'd run the risk of people switching to using Samba as a PDC rather than upgrading to Win2k3 Server and Active Directory.
Microsoft's next shot at killing NT is making Longhorn such that it can't join an NT domain.
Perhaps it is because they're not Cold Lampin'? My AV consultant, Flavor Flav, is the best!
Then he puts porn on the same level as mafia crime, pedophilia, and drugs.
No, he references the scare-mongering media's (and sometimes Justic Department's) "Four Horsemen," not his own. Plus he's being interviewed by his buddy, Mike Godwin (yes, Godwin's Law Godwin), who knows what Bruce means.
I think that major difference 6.6 % of XP users versus 38 % of XP users is caused by a very simple thing: win95/98 users are not connected to internet thus, they are not using google.
While I agree an older OS is more likely to not be online, I don't think that's the source of the difference between the study's percentage and Google's. The study surveyed only companies, not home computers. Since it was released, XP has almost been the only OS the average consumer could buy so there's a lot of it out there.
You have to wonder where WinME falls, is it lumped in with 98, 2K, or XP? As an architecture, it's closest to 98, it's a contemporary of 2K and it has some of the chrome of XP.
The title is "Cheap On-Line CD/DVD Storage Library?" I think that makes it pretty clear.
You can rather easily convert protected AAC's ... to MP3.
The only way I know of is to burn AAC's to CD-R (or RW so you can erase and re-use) then rip it to MP3. I wouldn't call that easy, especially since the ripped MP3s won't have ID3 tags (well, if you burn an entire AAC album it might, if the times are a close enough match to the times on the pressed CD).
I'm aware of the recent work to use QuickTime to strip the protection from protected AACs but that still not in the realm of "easy."
Considering I'm not in a management position, I have had to interview and review the resumes of way too many people. I continue to be amazed by spelling & grammar errors. I expect them on Slashdot but not in a document which one has had time to craft and upon which one's future may depend. We don't automatically toss those resumes, they're never applying for positions which require strong writing skills, but if they get an interview we ask more questions related to paying attention to details ("rm -rf / tmp/, what's wrong with this?").
This sentence from a recent cover letter caught my eye and I felt compelled to blog it.
I am very hard worker and a stickler for details. (Yes, English is their first language but even if it wasn't, that would be no excuse.)
I still have a big stack of resumes and cover letters for people I've interviewed over the years. I'll review them for do's and don'ts next year when I relocate and have to update my own resume. Maybe I'll compile a list of the funny stuff I find along the way.
Uh, you realize those don't actually read the discs, right? They just spit the disc you want out. The USB connection is so you can use a database to keep track of which disc is in which slot and to have the computer send the command to spit out the correct disc. Or you have a piece of paper with them written down and you punch in the correct number on the keypad. This is like the "Dacal CD Library" someone else posted.
He might like to have these, if he can't find what he really wants, but having to use a fleshy arm vs. a mechanical arm to put the disc in the drive is a definite drawback.
Under $.50/GB? Where? Even the lowest listed on PriceWatch (I'd probably never trust the lowest price listed) is $101 for 160GB or just over $.63/GB.
a nice RAID 1.5 (or ever just striped RAID, since you obviously don't care much for speed....) setup...
RAID1.5 is too new for me to trust it. I'd stick with good old RAID1 if using only 2 drives and RAID5 if more than 2. And why mention striped RAID (RAID0), that provides zero redundancy and this guy it talking about backups! Also, when comparing hard drives to disc changers, I don't think the performance issues derived from RAID or rpm differences are an issue.
In New York your polling place has a book with a copy of your signature from when you registered to vote. When you vote you sign your name next to the signature copy (they cover it while you're signing). You'd have to have a copy of the dead guy's signature and be able to replicate it, assuming the poll volunteers are diligent.
Do you have your code online somewhere? I've run into snags related to Unicode in ID3 tags while working on a project and while I have a workaround in place, I'm interested in alternatives. An email would be appreciated.
This makes perfect sense. Passwords are meant to be felt (typed) not spoken and unless your password is "******" you can't see what it is either.
I don't do this for my regular passwords but when creating temp passwords (when setting up new accounts) I typically use some pattern on the keyboard, like pecking a "ring" of characters around the F key.
I think the ticket is to make it an impersonal firewall. At work we have managed Norton AntiVirus installed and basically disabled all the user configurable options. It seems Norton's personal firewall can be similarly managed. Like Managed NAV it can probably do centralised logging as well. I would probably configure it to not give the local user pop-up warnings at all. The user can't do anything if someone is portscanning them anyway. If a program is trying to make an outbound connection, they probably don't have the knowledge to make an informed decision about letting it. Maybe I would just let it warn them the outbound connection was blocked so if a program didn't work they would know why.
Of course this assumes the user does not have local admin to stop the NAV or firewall service. Since they have physical access to the machine, there's all kinds of things they could do to circumvent the firewall (Knoppix CD being my favorite possibility) but they tend to be more time consuming, technically demanding, and obvious. "Obvious" means they're much more likely to get in hot water.
No, this will punish the innocent - just like blacklisting whole IP blocks does.
I don't think adding Warn IP" is a good idea either but the current Warn feature based on screen name is time dependent. Warnings eventually expire so a user can't be permanently blacklisted.
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I think IM clients should have their default set to allow IMs from Buddies only. I think this is the best option for the large majority of IM users. For those who want or need to receive IMs from unknown people, they could just change the the setting.
I don't see this becoming as big a problem as spam is. Spam requires no authentication whereas IM requires you to create an account with the IM service. The IM service provider can do all kinds of things to make mass screen name creation hard.
How does presenting the ballot questions on a tiny screen reduce the complexity?
You present them one at a time.
They could also include additional information such as what the responsibilities of a particular position is ("What is State Comptroller?") or what a referendum question means. Last Nov. 4th I had to vote on two questions which had a little explanation in the mechanical voting booth, but not really enough. When there are great many candidates, such as in the California recall election, an option could be provided to enter some text to find the candidate you wish to vote for. Designing interfaces with such options would certainly be challenging but it can be done and done well.
Also, the screen doesn't have to be tiny. I'm sure early adopters have machines with small screens because of their expense but they won't always be small.
Those who register on election day (or anyone not on record at a given polling place) should fill out paper absentee ballots to be counted separately. That way the time can be taken to make sure they weren't already registered and to make sure they didn't cast multiple ballots at multiple locations (sort the ballot envelopes by name to more easily find the duplicates).
Would also make it easier to expose voter fraud...have everyone sign their ballot.
Great, then when the fascist tree-hugger or bleeding-heart baby killer gets elected, they can send their troopers to pick up everyone who signed a ballot cast for their opponent.
Here in NY, one's polling place has a book of everyone's signature from their registration card. You show up, tell them your name, sign your name in the book (they cover the signature already there), then vote. That way they have the signature to see that I am who I say I am and so I can't vote twice but that record is separate from the ballot itself. I believe when you vote absentee, they remove your name from the registration book at the polling place so you can't vote twice that way. I've never tried to vote somewhere other than my designated polling place so I don't know how that's handled, possibly like an absentee ballot.
Of course we have mechanical voting booths which make signing the ballot rather difficult. I guess they could add a few more rows of levers so you could "sign" your name in binary.
Why are you splitting the top 5% into two groups? Why, to make their contributions look smaller!
Because that's how the original Seattle Times graphs broke them down. And given how large a part of the federal budget is devoted to Social Security and Medicare, it's ridiculous to look only at income tax and not at all federal taxes. The total for all federal taxes for the top 5% is 41.2% of all taxes paid vs. the 44.6% paid by the "middle class" WHICH WERE ENTIRELY OMITTED from the Seattle Times graph.
(And for what it's worth, a bar chart was a poor choice for this graph. A pie chart would be preferred.)
While the fact that they're taking 100% of something and splitting it up implies a pie graph would be favorable, it's easier for people to see differences when it's a bar graph vs. a pie graph.
Well shit, now they've made it a partisan issue, with 50 Democrats as co-sponsors. If the Republicans go for it now, it's a victory for the Democrats and they can't have that. Rep. Holt should have gotten a Republican as a co-sponsor early on before a bunch of Democrats piled on.
Anyway, if it really is a "receipt," something the voter takes with them, that's bad because it opens the door for coercion and vote-selling. If what they really mean is a paper ballot, that's good. The piece of paper doesn't have to be the sole or even primary thing counted but as long as it anonymously records the ballot of each voter, it should be sufficient.