I think what they are trying to say is this could open up petty theft to a lot of bored people. Car theft takes guts to do still. You need a good chunk of time, space, etc to properly steal a car and resell/chop it. If I can pickup the RFID of something and retransmit it for $100 (say), then buy mcdonalds with it, why not.
Wear a baseball hat to keep your face outta the grainy cameras at McDonalds, rotate numbers etc. People honestly wouldn't notice an extra mcdonalds bill every so often if you picked up the number at a mcdonalds. Most meat space theft requires less-than-subtly maneuvers. Snagging a purse, pocketing candy, breaking into a car. Getting a burger and fries at mcdonalds is fairly innocuous, especially if you can tag someone who has a kid/spouse of similar height/build to you.
Welcome to the free market, where it SUCKS TO BE YOU. Elitism is how the world goes around. I'm sorry that joe-burger flipper can't land the job as head accountant for some fortune 500 company.
$600 software meant for people who use the powerful features and speed to cut themselves, their coworkers, and, gasp, adobe paychecks. Photoshop lite, GIMP, paintshop pro, all have affordable price tags to people using them for casual things. Even less than casual things. Want to learn photoshop? Head down to your local college and buy it for $50. Dont make any money off it though or you are in Deep Shit(tm). For editing home pictures and such you dont need 8 color modes, PANTONE color matching, and excessivly precise measurements. If I were preparing one of those documents for print though, and not from your Hp-epso-mark printer deluxe, I would want to be damn sure the colors on my $500 banner are the same as on my computer.
If I want to rearrange the furniture in my living room I could use AutoCAD to get a precise layout of my room and then move the objects around. I could also use some $35 home design software from best buy.
Obviously Adobe sells their product to a whole ton of people. IF they didn't they would be out of business, or the cost would be much lower. Save your nickels and buy the product, or quit whining. Earn your living, your car, your house, your food with the product, then complain about some paltry $600 every few years to upgrade it.
Pure mechanical watches rely on a weight oscilating from a spring pushing on it to advance "time" within the watch? How well does said watch work in space, where Gravity is "slightly less" than here on earth? It seems a simple quartz digital with a different denominator would be easier to reprogram to mars (or any time) than something which relys on weight (gravity) to work.
$5 quartz watches still work by giving a quartz crystal juice and dividing its constant Hz by some number to keep time, correct?
...explosive bolts dont go off... O2 doesn't get vented to the atmosphere where the fire would be pushed out the door along with its intense heat. Water poured in, astronauts out.
I must say I agree with this. I used linux for awhile, and one day stumbled onto a FreeBSD system. I had been using it for a month or so and found myself liking it better, so I decided to see what it was running, uname said FreeBSD 4.something and that was that. I still use Linux to this day, but sometimes I find things not where I would like them, etc. New installs get FreeBSD unless there is a pressing reason to use Linux. Everyone says crash this and uptime that, I dunno, all our Unix machines seem to stay up indefinitly until hardware failure. Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X.
We do of course have the problem with "Lets reboot the solaris servers" "what for...do we even know if it will come up?";-)
Can you hear me N2H2/Bess? We have been a customer for years. Give us FreeBSD!
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I use FreeBSD on my workstation, and now 2 production servers here in this school district. They function rock solid as dns servers, and recently, a small DHCP server for roaming laptops. It took a complete failure of a motherboard to bring it down. Sure they only have 100 zones loaded, but they also are the recursive servers for the district.
Swapped out the hard drive into another computer, loaded kernel.GENERIC, and the computer boot up. Reinstalled world because I switched from Cyrix to Pentium, and I was up and running. 1 hour total downtime, most spent finding a suitable replacement and physical labor.
If FreeBSD can run stable for a year on old failing Cyrix hardware, I dont know what other kudos it needs. Oh yeah it runs fast on those dual opterons as well;-)
Because the results of the IBM case could have trickle down consequences on everything we know and love about Linux.
I use FreeBSD, but I understand the principle of the matter. I also know IBM as a firm with money to sink on R&D, which they do heavily. Something which eventually leads to cooler gagets for me to play with.
Well, In OO.org it opened, but anything bulleted had a strange grey backround and was a puke green font face color. Although that could be deemed acceptable for a MS document...
To comment on the iButtons, we recently purchased at the High School I work at a box of these buttons, not for controlling access to computers, but for the disabled kids to open their ADA approved lockers. These kids can't spin a combination but they can push an iButton into the socket, and the locker pops open.
I was always wondering if that product would take off, I dont see it as having taken off (the main population of students dont have them yet, and our doors still have traditional keys), but we are getting somewhere with them. These are the cheap buttons though, not the Java enabled ones. Remember though, USB started as an un-useable jack on the back of computers until Win98 came out. Now it's an overused jack on the back of peoples computers. (Yeah my Win95 CD said USB support included, never worked) Now firewire is coming to the masses on PC's, however it's crappy implementations of it. My 20$ texas instruments OHCI PCI adapter works much better than anything on a ??sound card?? or intel motherboard.
I would like to say I have 2 Nikormat's. These cameras are _tank_ cameras. They have no auto nothing in them, and a light meter. However they do have flash attachments, etc. I have inhereited both of my parents nikormats, one of which was dragged through central/south america by an anthropology student (my mom). It has dings and dents, but man if it doesn't take a beautiful picture.
It's not about being rich enough, it's about buying from sams club;-) Anyways, I now have it to the point of exactly one "jumbo" load in the washer. Easy to wash socks.
700K/s can't be had? Why not? A simple streaming protocol could be used, and download the movie. Say, your movie will begin in 5 minutes and prebuffer 10-15% of the movie. (NO PREVIEWS) I know streaming gets interupted, this isn't for dialup users. Make sure people can reliably continue their download, and I at least will use the service.
I have acheived the critical mass of socks. Sams club is a godsend for that. Whenever I was low on socks I bought the megapack from them, and was good for awhile longer. Now I have well over an entire months sock supply. Sock drawer be damned, sock trash bag in my closet.
I would assume the f in fMRI is really a reference to Fe(rrous)MRI. On the periodic table, that would make it an Iron MRI. Not too familiar with it myself, but it doesn't seem that far fetched.
Well, I know the home networking commodities are a lot different from putting a ton of data into a database and then having to migrate it, but it was mainly an example. Technically someone could build a similar-enough interface onto a backend program.
Where there is demand there will be an alternative. Look at linux or the GNU project in general. People wanted an alternative to UNIX, and so one sprang forth. It has taken ~10 years (1990/91 was the first "linux" right?) for Linux to mature into something usable. There is also the more "corporate friendly" FreeBSD. (You would think Cisco/Linksys woulda used BSD instead of GPL... anyways:)
It would be innovation if the product actually does as it's told. If it doesn't fail for unknown reasons, or succeed in not installing the patch, but report everything is installed properly? Why do some IE patches not take but others do? Why can't we find out why?
So for that sake of this argument, you have a 10,000 character password, and I have a 500 mhz P3 running FreeBSD 5.:) This computer is also running X, mozilla, a few rxvt+ssh terms, and gaim.
If my math checks out below, in 80 minutes you can do 25 million 10,000 character passwords. I assume you have 8bit bytes, and one byte is one char. If you use the raw speed measurment, then you get 31,803,521,400 8 character passwords. I know that the "raw speed" isn't accurate as there is setup and teardown time involved in any measurement.
My G4-400 running OS 10.3 went at 23 seconds for the same time trial.
At least apple knows when to cut users off. Even classic apps are being furiously killed off, let alone 68k. Oh yeah Duke3d and commander keen runs on my friends Athlon 2ghz with windows XP. In FreeBSD/Linux you can kill off support for older processors than you want to support easily, but the cludge is there in hardware still. Go 80386!
I think the details went along the lines of "We'll buy Peoplesoft to corner the CRM market. Then we'll drive the company into the ground and leave all their customers with no choice but to buy Oracle software." Don't know if those are the exact words, but Oracle's CEO has come out to say things pretty close to that. Sorry, but evil is evil.
Don't we always get mad at people for doing black box innovation? At least Larry Ellison knows what he wants, and takes initiative to make it happen, and tells us what he is up to. If I had a billion dollars I too would buy out the competition. Thats business, it makes the world go around. The competition doesn't have to bend over to the buyout, just as you can make a replacement for peoplesoft. Act! is a crappy version of peoplesoft when you get down to it, why can't symantec make it better and market it to peoplesoft customers who got burned?
If Cisco bought out Linksys, and then replaced all the boxes on the shelves with 8 port Catalyst switches and a 500$ pricetag, and cut off all the old support contracts as they expired (pretend your 5 port dsl router had onsite tech support), you can bet some other company (dsl routers and switches inc.) would step up and produce a competing product. Sucks to be you, but you can just go purchase the competitions product.
Cheaper than a phone call too. A few bytes (1K?) worth of an IM must be cheaper than the same zillion 1 minute phone calls, long distance, to say "server X could use a kick in the rear" "monitoring shows it fine" "X service is lagging" "ok ill check it".
I work in the school district that shares this small california town with ~7 other colleges, and one of the admins at one of the colleges is now looking for alternatives to RHEL since they are being effectivly cut off.
The basic idea is that there shouldn't be guest by default. It is easy to make a guest profile using poledit or whatever it's called this minute. Make administrators add an account called "guest" with no password and specific rights.
The thing he probably got dinged on were the continueances, and promises of money just around the corner. A hundred dollars here a thousand dollars there all in promise of a million dollars in the end. A smart scammer could incorporate many scams and cons to keep the ball rolling. Why not exchange some currency along the way?
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I think what they are trying to say is this could open up petty theft to a lot of bored people. Car theft takes guts to do still. You need a good chunk of time, space, etc to properly steal a car and resell/chop it. If I can pickup the RFID of something and retransmit it for $100 (say), then buy mcdonalds with it, why not.
Wear a baseball hat to keep your face outta the grainy cameras at McDonalds, rotate numbers etc. People honestly wouldn't notice an extra mcdonalds bill every so often if you picked up the number at a mcdonalds. Most meat space theft requires less-than-subtly maneuvers. Snagging a purse, pocketing candy, breaking into a car. Getting a burger and fries at mcdonalds is fairly innocuous, especially if you can tag someone who has a kid/spouse of similar height/build to you.
Welcome to the free market, where it SUCKS TO BE YOU. Elitism is how the world goes around. I'm sorry that joe-burger flipper can't land the job as head accountant for some fortune 500 company.
$600 software meant for people who use the powerful features and speed to cut themselves, their coworkers, and, gasp, adobe paychecks. Photoshop lite, GIMP, paintshop pro, all have affordable price tags to people using them for casual things. Even less than casual things. Want to learn photoshop? Head down to your local college and buy it for $50. Dont make any money off it though or you are in Deep Shit(tm). For editing home pictures and such you dont need 8 color modes, PANTONE color matching, and excessivly precise measurements. If I were preparing one of those documents for print though, and not from your Hp-epso-mark printer deluxe, I would want to be damn sure the colors on my $500 banner are the same as on my computer.
If I want to rearrange the furniture in my living room I could use AutoCAD to get a precise layout of my room and then move the objects around. I could also use some $35 home design software from best buy.
Obviously Adobe sells their product to a whole ton of people. IF they didn't they would be out of business, or the cost would be much lower. Save your nickels and buy the product, or quit whining. Earn your living, your car, your house, your food with the product, then complain about some paltry $600 every few years to upgrade it.
Pure mechanical watches rely on a weight oscilating from a spring pushing on it to advance "time" within the watch? How well does said watch work in space, where Gravity is "slightly less" than here on earth? It seems a simple quartz digital with a different denominator would be easier to reprogram to mars (or any time) than something which relys on weight (gravity) to work.
$5 quartz watches still work by giving a quartz crystal juice and dividing its constant Hz by some number to keep time, correct?
...explosive bolts dont go off... O2 doesn't get vented to the atmosphere where the fire would be pushed out the door along with its intense heat. Water poured in, astronauts out.
I must say I agree with this. I used linux for awhile, and one day stumbled onto a FreeBSD system. I had been using it for a month or so and found myself liking it better, so I decided to see what it was running, uname said FreeBSD 4.something and that was that. I still use Linux to this day, but sometimes I find things not where I would like them, etc. New installs get FreeBSD unless there is a pressing reason to use Linux. Everyone says crash this and uptime that, I dunno, all our Unix machines seem to stay up indefinitly until hardware failure. Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X.
;-)
We do of course have the problem with "Lets reboot the solaris servers" "what for...do we even know if it will come up?"
Can you hear me N2H2/Bess? We have been a customer for years. Give us FreeBSD!
"Me, too"
;-)
I use FreeBSD on my workstation, and now 2 production servers here in this school district. They function rock solid as dns servers, and recently, a small DHCP server for roaming laptops. It took a complete failure of a motherboard to bring it down. Sure they only have 100 zones loaded, but they also are the recursive servers for the district.
Swapped out the hard drive into another computer, loaded kernel.GENERIC, and the computer boot up. Reinstalled world because I switched from Cyrix to Pentium, and I was up and running. 1 hour total downtime, most spent finding a suitable replacement and physical labor.
If FreeBSD can run stable for a year on old failing Cyrix hardware, I dont know what other kudos it needs. Oh yeah it runs fast on those dual opterons as well
Because the results of the IBM case could have trickle down consequences on everything we know and love about Linux.
I use FreeBSD, but I understand the principle of the matter. I also know IBM as a firm with money to sink on R&D, which they do heavily. Something which eventually leads to cooler gagets for me to play with.
Well, In OO.org it opened, but anything bulleted had a strange grey backround and was a puke green font face color. Although that could be deemed acceptable for a MS document...
To comment on the iButtons, we recently purchased at the High School I work at a box of these buttons, not for controlling access to computers, but for the disabled kids to open their ADA approved lockers. These kids can't spin a combination but they can push an iButton into the socket, and the locker pops open.
I was always wondering if that product would take off, I dont see it as having taken off (the main population of students dont have them yet, and our doors still have traditional keys), but we are getting somewhere with them. These are the cheap buttons though, not the Java enabled ones. Remember though, USB started as an un-useable jack on the back of computers until Win98 came out. Now it's an overused jack on the back of peoples computers. (Yeah my Win95 CD said USB support included, never worked) Now firewire is coming to the masses on PC's, however it's crappy implementations of it. My 20$ texas instruments OHCI PCI adapter works much better than anything on a ??sound card?? or intel motherboard.
I would like to say I have 2 Nikormat's. These cameras are _tank_ cameras. They have no auto nothing in them, and a light meter. However they do have flash attachments, etc. I have inhereited both of my parents nikormats, one of which was dragged through central/south america by an anthropology student (my mom). It has dings and dents, but man if it doesn't take a beautiful picture.
It's not about being rich enough, it's about buying from sams club ;-) Anyways, I now have it to the point of exactly one "jumbo" load in the washer. Easy to wash socks.
700K/s can't be had? Why not? A simple streaming protocol could be used, and download the movie. Say, your movie will begin in 5 minutes and prebuffer 10-15% of the movie. (NO PREVIEWS) I know streaming gets interupted, this isn't for dialup users. Make sure people can reliably continue their download, and I at least will use the service.
I have acheived the critical mass of socks. Sams club is a godsend for that. Whenever I was low on socks I bought the megapack from them, and was good for awhile longer. Now I have well over an entire months sock supply. Sock drawer be damned, sock trash bag in my closet.
I would assume the f in fMRI is really a reference to Fe(rrous)MRI. On the periodic table, that would make it an Iron MRI. Not too familiar with it myself, but it doesn't seem that far fetched.
Odds are I dont use 10,000 character passwords, either. :)
Well, I know the home networking commodities are a lot different from putting a ton of data into a database and then having to migrate it, but it was mainly an example. Technically someone could build a similar-enough interface onto a backend program.
:)
Where there is demand there will be an alternative. Look at linux or the GNU project in general. People wanted an alternative to UNIX, and so one sprang forth. It has taken ~10 years (1990/91 was the first "linux" right?) for Linux to mature into something usable. There is also the more "corporate friendly" FreeBSD. (You would think Cisco/Linksys woulda used BSD instead of GPL... anyways
/me puts on cynacle hat
It would be innovation if the product actually does as it's told. If it doesn't fail for unknown reasons, or succeed in not installing the patch, but report everything is installed properly? Why do some IE patches not take but others do? Why can't we find out why?
Oh sorry.
bash-2.05b$ md5 -t ... done
:) This computer is also running X, mozilla, a few rxvt+ssh terms, and gaim.
8 171200/8
MD5 time trial. Digesting 100000 10000-byte blocks
Digest = 766a2bb5d24bddae466c572bcabca3ee
Time = 18.865835 seconds
Speed = 53005869.601767 bytes/second
So for that sake of this argument, you have a 10,000 character password, and I have a 500 mhz P3 running FreeBSD 5.
If my math checks out below, in 80 minutes you can do 25 million 10,000 character passwords. I assume you have 8bit bytes, and one byte is one char. If you use the raw speed measurment, then you get 31,803,521,400 8 character passwords. I know that the "raw speed" isn't accurate as there is setup and teardown time involved in any measurement.
My G4-400 running OS 10.3 went at 23 seconds for the same time trial.
bc 1.06
80*60/19
252
252*100000
25200000
80*60
4800
4800*53005869
254428171200
25442
31803521400
So Sun is doing what Intel/Microsoft does?
At least apple knows when to cut users off. Even classic apps are being furiously killed off, let alone 68k. Oh yeah Duke3d and commander keen runs on my friends Athlon 2ghz with windows XP. In FreeBSD/Linux you can kill off support for older processors than you want to support easily, but the cludge is there in hardware still. Go 80386!
I think the details went along the lines of "We'll buy Peoplesoft to corner the CRM market. Then we'll drive the company into the ground and leave all their customers with no choice but to buy Oracle software." Don't know if those are the exact words, but Oracle's CEO has come out to say things pretty close to that. Sorry, but evil is evil.
Don't we always get mad at people for doing black box innovation? At least Larry Ellison knows what he wants, and takes initiative to make it happen, and tells us what he is up to. If I had a billion dollars I too would buy out the competition. Thats business, it makes the world go around. The competition doesn't have to bend over to the buyout, just as you can make a replacement for peoplesoft. Act! is a crappy version of peoplesoft when you get down to it, why can't symantec make it better and market it to peoplesoft customers who got burned? If Cisco bought out Linksys, and then replaced all the boxes on the shelves with 8 port Catalyst switches and a 500$ pricetag, and cut off all the old support contracts as they expired (pretend your 5 port dsl router had onsite tech support), you can bet some other company (dsl routers and switches inc.) would step up and produce a competing product. Sucks to be you, but you can just go purchase the competitions product.
Cheaper than a phone call too. A few bytes (1K?) worth of an IM must be cheaper than the same zillion 1 minute phone calls, long distance, to say "server X could use a kick in the rear" "monitoring shows it fine" "X service is lagging" "ok ill check it".
I work in the school district that shares this small california town with ~7 other colleges, and one of the admins at one of the colleges is now looking for alternatives to RHEL since they are being effectivly cut off.
:)
FreeBSD so far is on top.
The basic idea is that there shouldn't be guest by default. It is easy to make a guest profile using poledit or whatever it's called this minute. Make administrators add an account called "guest" with no password and specific rights.
Am I the only one who sees this thing as being named "P2P" ? Or... ?
Oh right, with Sony it's the whole Right hand? Come in... joke.
The thing he probably got dinged on were the continueances, and promises of money just around the corner. A hundred dollars here a thousand dollars there all in promise of a million dollars in the end. A smart scammer could incorporate many scams and cons to keep the ball rolling. Why not exchange some currency along the way?