If he lives in the Philippines he may not have broken any laws whatsoever. The way America thinks they can apply their laws to anyone on earth, regardless of location or citizenship is simply preposterous.
There's plenty of flexibility on TimeMachine backups. I've been using TimeWarp to backup to my Amazon S3 account for ages, and before that I used some cheap HD hung off a DSL router, mounted as a NAS. A quick and simple shell command is all that's required to allow TM backups to "unsupported" targets.
No, I'm not mistaken. We're not talking about holding it on the clutch; that's a whole different discussion. We're talking about being stationary, with clutch in and footbrake applied.
Most modern diesels have sufficient torque suddenly letting the clutch out with no gas will not cause it to stall, it'll just drive off at engine idle speed.
Most countries with mainly manual transmission cars teach to put it in neutral when stopped. Reason being that if someone hits you from behind and your foot comes off the clutch the car is a hazard as it's in gear and could injure others when it drives off with you unconscious at the wheel. Someone hits you in neutral you've only got the energy from the smash to play with.
Noone's suggesting putting it in neutral whilst driving, but say you're in slow moving traffic, going down a hill at walking pace, car stays in neutral, engine stays stopped. As soon as the car hits 5mph the engine restarts without any input from the driver.
It behaves perfectly well in cold weather. I have a 2.0L/200bhp diesel BMW in the UK where it's been sub-zero (that's on the rest-of-the-world temperature scale) for the last month. A number of pre-requisites have to be met for the car to commence the start-stop behaviour, such as the engine having warmed up sufficiently, battery charged etc.. There's also a button on the dash to disable it as it can get a little annoying during rush hour due to frequent stopping in heavy traffic. It took a couple of weeks to get used to, but it now feels strange to sit at the lights with the engine running. It's very fast aswell; kills the engine below 5mph when the car is in neutral and clutch is out, then the moment you hit the clutch to pop her back in gear she fires up again, so quickly that it's almost impossible to get your foot on the gas before she's running.
Not sure how they plan to implement it for cars which run in "stupid mode" (automatic transmission); presume it'll crank it when you take your foot off the brake to drive off.
BMW specifically recommend NOT warming the car up for long periods before driving off; it's no longer necessary due to today's technology, nicosil-plated cylinders etc...
Well let's see... the only copyright issues with jailbreaking are the teens using pirated apps; you know... the teens who wouldn't buy them because whilst they've blagged an iPhone out of daddy, they don't actually have any money.
The possibility of damaging the device is practically zero. You could do it with the 1st iPhone if you tried really hard, but it's practically impossible with 3G and later.
Potentially harmful physical effects?! WTF does that mean? You might stain your pants because jailbreaking gives you the choice of installing that strip poker app which got barred from the app store?
However, VNC is very poor and always has been. Citrix ICA compression will let you comfortably run a remote XenDesktop or apps via XenApp with as little as 100kbps.
3.1.3 hasn't been "hacked". The chap discovered a specific crash which could trigger a crash in the baseband software, potentially being one day developed into an unlock. Long way off..
The other guy cobbled a VB front-end onto a load of other people's utilities to make a questionably legal Windows version of an existing OSX program for creating custom firmware bundles.
Bit of an overreaction on Apple's part if you ask me.
Please pronounce the drug by its correct name; Paracetamol. America has a really big problem with confusing brand names with drug names. Just like I Hoover my lounge, with a Dyson...
My mother is a pharmacist, so is my wife. Following a motorcycle accident I was prescribed 60mg codeine 4x daily. When I moved from a very nice area to just a 'nice' area, that was substituted for 1000mg paracetamol + 60mg codeine 4x daily. It's common knowledge that the main reason for precribing the latter over the former is to prevent abuse. Paracetamol, or Placebotamol as it's often pronounced, is shite as a painkiller (except for certain specific conditions) and serves no purpose but to destroy your liver.
Even my professional family members are sufficiently wary to advise undertaking cold-water separation to get rid of the placebotamol and retain the useful drug without damaging my health.
AD is a widely used "pretend directory service", adopted by idiots worldwide who know nothing about computers or how they work.
As a directory, it's about as piss-poor as they get. Just look at the likes of eDirectory; runs on almost every OS you can think of and is superior to AD in every way, and has been for about 15 years.
I'd be interested if you could give a full breakdown of what SuSE's shortcomings are since Novell took them over. I've used SuSE since the late 90s. It was never foolproof, no distro is, but despite trying a number of other distros I still find it preferable to all of them, including Ubuntu.
Zenworks Configuration Management is also now completely detached from eDirectory. You can bind it to any directory you like in order to associate policies and applications with users. The Zen agent which runs on the client PC allows you to associate policies and applications with specific machines, or groups thereof. So you can push out config to users, groups, workstations, and filter all that based on any criteria you can possibly think of.
Zen has always been a kick-ass solution, and usually the ass being kicked was SMS. However I'd always had a wishlist of features for it; ZCM addressed all of them.
You may wish to read up on Domain Services for Windows which Novell released for OES2 recently. That's everything Samba 4 hopes to be, and more. It's not free, but I don't think it's a bank breaker. Gives you everything you need, plus a GOOD directory service and a proper server platform to do your file and print.
Not even any need for IDM any more... The latest Linux offering, Open Enterprise Server 2 (Support Pack 1) has Domain Services for Windoze. No more Novell Client, no more NCP. The backend is still Linux, NSS and eDirectory, but with full and seamless AD emulation. Administer it with MMC, the lot. The only time you'll realise you're not working on a Windoze server is when you right click on a DC and look at the properties to find it's an OES2 box. Worth looking into...
Otherwise there are numerous guides on the web as to how one configures Samba to use OpenLDAP as its authentication source, which makes mass admin of users a piece of cake.
Use the 90 day trial of Novell Identity Manager, plug it into your existing infrastructure and you can even migrate passwords across to your splendid new FOSS solution. Do it right and the lusers won't notice a thing!
I used to consult on such projects, but eventually gave in, took the money and ascended to management. Kinda miss it sometimes.
Not odd at all. Not everyone has a talent for insight.
Whether I get modded up or down is of little consequence. I only comment once in a blue moon (it's a bugger, all this "having a life" business). If some find my comments funny, good for them. If they don't, I won't loose any sleep over it.
PS. Feel free to mod me insightful.
SElinux alone is an utter pain in the ass to work with, hence many Linux admins simply switch it off.
Extensions such as AppArmour (formerly known as SubDomain), are what people should be embracing in order to make practical use of this excellent technology. Whilst using the same kernel hooks, AppArmour allows you to "snapshot" an application's activity and build a ruleset which can then be applied to the process. Much easier than titting around with SElinux policies forever and a day...
That's a good point, but.... anesthesiologist?!??? What kind of unneccessary syllable massacre is that? The correct spelling and pronunciation is anaesthetist. I'm glad I'm not American or I'd want my 2 syllables back!
There's one rather incorrect assertion in your comment.
Visturd (NT6) was developed from XP (NT5.1) which in turn was developed from 2000 (NT5), and in turn from NT(4). 98 is completely unrelated to 2000 and was simply a tarted up version of 95 and was still essentially DOS with a GUI slapped on top.
Home users, on the whole, never saw 2000 as it was targetted as a business OS much like NT. 98 users went to ME if they were unlucky, or direct to XP.
As a Linux consultant I obviously run Linux on most of my machines, but I also have a MacBook Pro with OSX/Visturd dual booted. As much as I just plain don't like Visturd, it's been stable enough for me not to complain. UAC got the bullet within about 10 minutes of installing, and auto updates are so irritating (pretend to install, then reboot, then piss you off for another 10 minutes installing when you said you already installed!?) that they got turned off aswell. There's a lot of fluffy crap which serves no functional purpose, and frankly there's nothing I can't do with it that I could do twice as fast in XP. There's certainly no business case for it and my workplace (50,000+ students and 5,000+ staff) won't be moving to it anytime soon, if ever.
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Ok, having RTFA again I see he was actually in the USA when he was arrested. In that case, good luck fella; you'll need it.
If he lives in the Philippines he may not have broken any laws whatsoever. The way America thinks they can apply their laws to anyone on earth, regardless of location or citizenship is simply preposterous.
I thought it was impossible to actually delete a Facebook account? Sure, you can deactivate it, but not delete as far as I can remember.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
The R2 scream. A proper, and possibly the most impressive R2 noise, IMHO. I have it as my SMS alert. It royally pisses off my work colleagues.
There's plenty of flexibility on TimeMachine backups. I've been using TimeWarp to backup to my Amazon S3 account for ages, and before that I used some cheap HD hung off a DSL router, mounted as a NAS. A quick and simple shell command is all that's required to allow TM backups to "unsupported" targets.
No, I'm not mistaken. We're not talking about holding it on the clutch; that's a whole different discussion. We're talking about being stationary, with clutch in and footbrake applied.
Most modern diesels have sufficient torque suddenly letting the clutch out with no gas will not cause it to stall, it'll just drive off at engine idle speed.
Most countries with mainly manual transmission cars teach to put it in neutral when stopped. Reason being that if someone hits you from behind and your foot comes off the clutch the car is a hazard as it's in gear and could injure others when it drives off with you unconscious at the wheel. Someone hits you in neutral you've only got the energy from the smash to play with.
Noone's suggesting putting it in neutral whilst driving, but say you're in slow moving traffic, going down a hill at walking pace, car stays in neutral, engine stays stopped. As soon as the car hits 5mph the engine restarts without any input from the driver.
It behaves perfectly well in cold weather. I have a 2.0L/200bhp diesel BMW in the UK where it's been sub-zero (that's on the rest-of-the-world temperature scale) for the last month. A number of pre-requisites have to be met for the car to commence the start-stop behaviour, such as the engine having warmed up sufficiently, battery charged etc.. There's also a button on the dash to disable it as it can get a little annoying during rush hour due to frequent stopping in heavy traffic. It took a couple of weeks to get used to, but it now feels strange to sit at the lights with the engine running. It's very fast aswell; kills the engine below 5mph when the car is in neutral and clutch is out, then the moment you hit the clutch to pop her back in gear she fires up again, so quickly that it's almost impossible to get your foot on the gas before she's running.
Not sure how they plan to implement it for cars which run in "stupid mode" (automatic transmission); presume it'll crank it when you take your foot off the brake to drive off.
BMW specifically recommend NOT warming the car up for long periods before driving off; it's no longer necessary due to today's technology, nicosil-plated cylinders etc...
Well let's see... the only copyright issues with jailbreaking are the teens using pirated apps; you know... the teens who wouldn't buy them because whilst they've blagged an iPhone out of daddy, they don't actually have any money.
The possibility of damaging the device is practically zero. You could do it with the 1st iPhone if you tried really hard, but it's practically impossible with 3G and later.
Potentially harmful physical effects?! WTF does that mean? You might stain your pants because jailbreaking gives you the choice of installing that strip poker app which got barred from the app store?
FUD, FUD and more FUD.
However, VNC is very poor and always has been. Citrix ICA compression will let you comfortably run a remote XenDesktop or apps via XenApp with as little as 100kbps.
SuSE with eDirectory and Zenworks will annihilate AD and group policy with ease.
As many others have said, Novell have some outstanding software but their marketing department should be shot.
3.1.3 hasn't been "hacked". The chap discovered a specific crash which could trigger a crash in the baseband software, potentially being one day developed into an unlock. Long way off..
The other guy cobbled a VB front-end onto a load of other people's utilities to make a questionably legal Windows version of an existing OSX program for creating custom firmware bundles.
Bit of an overreaction on Apple's part if you ask me.
Please pronounce the drug by its correct name; Paracetamol. America has a really big problem with confusing brand names with drug names. Just like I Hoover my lounge, with a Dyson...
My mother is a pharmacist, so is my wife. Following a motorcycle accident I was prescribed 60mg codeine 4x daily. When I moved from a very nice area to just a 'nice' area, that was substituted for 1000mg paracetamol + 60mg codeine 4x daily. It's common knowledge that the main reason for precribing the latter over the former is to prevent abuse. Paracetamol, or Placebotamol as it's often pronounced, is shite as a painkiller (except for certain specific conditions) and serves no purpose but to destroy your liver.
Even my professional family members are sufficiently wary to advise undertaking cold-water separation to get rid of the placebotamol and retain the useful drug without damaging my health.
What he said ^^
AD is a widely used "pretend directory service", adopted by idiots worldwide who know nothing about computers or how they work.
As a directory, it's about as piss-poor as they get. Just look at the likes of eDirectory; runs on almost every OS you can think of and is superior to AD in every way, and has been for about 15 years.
I'd be interested if you could give a full breakdown of what SuSE's shortcomings are since Novell took them over. I've used SuSE since the late 90s. It was never foolproof, no distro is, but despite trying a number of other distros I still find it preferable to all of them, including Ubuntu.
Zenworks Configuration Management is also now completely detached from eDirectory. You can bind it to any directory you like in order to associate policies and applications with users. The Zen agent which runs on the client PC allows you to associate policies and applications with specific machines, or groups thereof. So you can push out config to users, groups, workstations, and filter all that based on any criteria you can possibly think of.
Zen has always been a kick-ass solution, and usually the ass being kicked was SMS. However I'd always had a wishlist of features for it; ZCM addressed all of them.
You may wish to read up on Domain Services for Windows which Novell released for OES2 recently. That's everything Samba 4 hopes to be, and more. It's not free, but I don't think it's a bank breaker. Gives you everything you need, plus a GOOD directory service and a proper server platform to do your file and print.
I beg to differ.
Have you ever used the Group Policy management in Zenworks? It does a better job of GP than Windoze server does. I kid you not!
Not even any need for IDM any more... The latest Linux offering, Open Enterprise Server 2 (Support Pack 1) has Domain Services for Windoze. No more Novell Client, no more NCP. The backend is still Linux, NSS and eDirectory, but with full and seamless AD emulation. Administer it with MMC, the lot. The only time you'll realise you're not working on a Windoze server is when you right click on a DC and look at the properties to find it's an OES2 box. Worth looking into...
Otherwise there are numerous guides on the web as to how one configures Samba to use OpenLDAP as its authentication source, which makes mass admin of users a piece of cake.
Use the 90 day trial of Novell Identity Manager, plug it into your existing infrastructure and you can even migrate passwords across to your splendid new FOSS solution. Do it right and the lusers won't notice a thing!
I used to consult on such projects, but eventually gave in, took the money and ascended to management. Kinda miss it sometimes.
As far as I know, the USA is one of only a handful of countries that have carriers using anything other than GSM. Betamax all over again...
Not odd at all. Not everyone has a talent for insight.
Whether I get modded up or down is of little consequence. I only comment once in a blue moon (it's a bugger, all this "having a life" business). If some find my comments funny, good for them. If they don't, I won't loose any sleep over it. PS. Feel free to mod me insightful.
A religion is a large, popular cult.
A cult is a small, unpopular religion.
Is everyone clear now?
SElinux alone is an utter pain in the ass to work with, hence many Linux admins simply switch it off.
Extensions such as AppArmour (formerly known as SubDomain), are what people should be embracing in order to make practical use of this excellent technology. Whilst using the same kernel hooks, AppArmour allows you to "snapshot" an application's activity and build a ruleset which can then be applied to the process. Much easier than titting around with SElinux policies forever and a day...
That's a good point, but.... anesthesiologist?!??? What kind of unneccessary syllable massacre is that? The correct spelling and pronunciation is anaesthetist. I'm glad I'm not American or I'd want my 2 syllables back!
There's one rather incorrect assertion in your comment.
Visturd (NT6) was developed from XP (NT5.1) which in turn was developed from 2000 (NT5), and in turn from NT(4). 98 is completely unrelated to 2000 and was simply a tarted up version of 95 and was still essentially DOS with a GUI slapped on top.
Home users, on the whole, never saw 2000 as it was targetted as a business OS much like NT. 98 users went to ME if they were unlucky, or direct to XP.
As a Linux consultant I obviously run Linux on most of my machines, but I also have a MacBook Pro with OSX/Visturd dual booted. As much as I just plain don't like Visturd, it's been stable enough for me not to complain. UAC got the bullet within about 10 minutes of installing, and auto updates are so irritating (pretend to install, then reboot, then piss you off for another 10 minutes installing when you said you already installed!?) that they got turned off aswell. There's a lot of fluffy crap which serves no functional purpose, and frankly there's nothing I can't do with it that I could do twice as fast in XP. There's certainly no business case for it and my workplace (50,000+ students and 5,000+ staff) won't be moving to it anytime soon, if ever.