What kind of idiot runs a workstation OS on a SERVER? Last time I looked, proper server operating systems didn't "autorun" things, especially w32 executables!
We got a Master 128 at home in the late 80's and for some strange reason I took to it rapidly, first basic, then assembler, figuring out how to write something which would copy all those Superior Software games (Crazee Rider, Repton 3, Codename Droid, anyone?). When I got to High School we also had an Econet with an SJ Research server. I wrote to SJ under the guise of designing the multiuser network game (which I did, in the end) and they sent me photocopies of the entire network API set, enabling me to code utilities superior to the standard *VIEW, *REMOTE, to bypass *PROT commands, get into network directories listed as Private etc..
I built a ROM image from said utilities and after discovering my dad's friend had an eeprom blower persuaded him to blow me a few chips. One found it's way into the B+ in the music room at school where I used to hang out, and needless to say, carnage followed.
That was about the last time I used a computer at school. The IT teacher flipped his lid over the whole affair and got the headmaster to ban me from using any computer connected to the school network.
I kinda lost interest in computers after that (nothing to do with discovering cigarettes, alcohol and girls you understand), and it wasn't until the mid 90's I figured they were my best chance of actually earning some money in the real world. A pity schools back then saw computers as "a passing phase, won't catch on", otherwise I'd probably be earning twice what I do now.
You would hope that a site like MySpace would get a properly signed certificate from a CA. That way, no pop-up... When was the last time you got a pop-up visiting your bank, or PayPal etc? Answer, never. Reason being that the big boys (Versign etc) are pre-populated in browser CA stores as trusted. Self-signed certificate will of course always pop a warning up, but only because the browser can't verify the authenticity of the cert as it's not from a trusted CA.
This is true, however I'm happy to pay that so I don't have to watch mindless fucking commercials for total shit I don't want every 3 minutes. The TV license funds the BBC, which is so refreshing in the 21st century because it doesn't bombard you with adverts. After a few weeks in the USA on business with the gash excuse you guys have for TV, getting home to BBC is utter heaven.
I trust sir chose a proper filesystem on which to save his 4Gb file, otherwise he'll spend 8*4x10^9/256x10^3 (/2) getting all excited, just to have it disappear up its own anus when it reaches 2Gb.
Don't be ridiculous. Here in the UK, as in Canada and a lot of other developed nations, technological advances such as this are hugely advancing prevention of inherited diseases. My ex, for example, discovered she had a gene which made her prone to a certain type of cancer, so the NHS (national health service) put her on regular screenings for it.
Free health care doesn't have to mean lower standards. All the bull in the USA slating universal healthcare is coming from.... you got it, the medical insurance industry. Joe public believes what his TV tells him and falls for it hook, line & sinker. Sicko was a little biased, I'll give you that, but the points Moore made were 100% valid. I needed some antibiotics on a recent business trip to the USA and for a 5 minute consultation and 20 tablets it cost me $300. 'The greatest nation on earth'? Do me a favour!
Go Clinton, I say. The USA needs a serious kick up the ass in terms of its view of healthcare.
Wifi in European Starbucks has been free for a long time now. Buy a coffee, get a free wifi scratchcard. When credit runs out, go back to counter and get another one.....
Juts mentioned this story to the girlfriend... Her response? "That'll be the American anti-terrorist strategy then...". Such insight for one so innocent...
How about putting Xenical (drug which prevents the body from absorbing fat) in fatty foods? Once the burger-loving youngsters have soiled themselves in the presence of their peers once or twice they'll be screaming for fruit and veg! I tried one once as an experiment, went out for a curry, woke up the next day and tried to slip a discreet fart out - bad idea.
Yes, but what if... OLPC are quietly stringing MS along with no intention of putting Windoze on the machine, whilst in the meantime getting thousands of laptops out there into the real world. Once the laptop (with it's splendid open source operating system) is out there in sufficient enough numbers, OLPC can tell MS to disappear back under their rock, safe in the knowledge that other avenues for indoctrinating the masses have long since closed.
It's still a pile of stinking poo compared to something half decent like Novell's NSS though. The day you can throw 80,000 student home directories on a single NTFS volume which gets thrashed all day, every day, and the performance is even HALF as good as the likes of NSS, I'll start bothering with Windoze.
No SSH? What a joke. Even Netware has that these days, as does everything else.
Option for no GUI? Well, that's progress I suppose.
The interoperability is still laughable I see. Square peg, round hole. Grown-up companies use all kinds of NOS products and they want them to play nice together. Everyone else bends over backwards to do this and still makes money, why is it so difficult?
Sorry to piss on your bonfire, but Apache isn't GPL.
The freedoms and restrictions of the GPL are simple in principle, perhaps you're just not good at understanding what you can and cannot do. If you write a product which heavily levers other peoples' GPL code, chances are you're obliged to disclose your own code. Don't like that? Fine, then write yours all from scratch and we'll talk again in 10 years time.
In the meantime, get your facts straight and stop talking from your rectal dump-trumpet.
Put computer in a secure cuff so it can't be opened.
Password the BIOS, lock out all boot options bar hard disc.
Run everyone as a restricted user using dynamic accounts (ZENworks for example, or deep freeze if you're stuck in the 90's)
Disable all onboard bluetooth, wifi etc
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Dear oh dear.
Of course it does. It simply has no password set and the policy requires root has a password, hence you have to set one before root can login.
I think you'll find it's eBay that keeps the USPS in business.
What kind of idiot runs a workstation OS on a SERVER? Last time I looked, proper server operating systems didn't "autorun" things, especially w32 executables!
WTF? Is it bollocks.
Perhaps you're confusing Europe with China?
We got a Master 128 at home in the late 80's and for some strange reason I took to it rapidly, first basic, then assembler, figuring out how to write something which would copy all those Superior Software games (Crazee Rider, Repton 3, Codename Droid, anyone?). When I got to High School we also had an Econet with an SJ Research server. I wrote to SJ under the guise of designing the multiuser network game (which I did, in the end) and they sent me photocopies of the entire network API set, enabling me to code utilities superior to the standard *VIEW, *REMOTE, to bypass *PROT commands, get into network directories listed as Private etc..
I built a ROM image from said utilities and after discovering my dad's friend had an eeprom blower persuaded him to blow me a few chips. One found it's way into the B+ in the music room at school where I used to hang out, and needless to say, carnage followed.
That was about the last time I used a computer at school. The IT teacher flipped his lid over the whole affair and got the headmaster to ban me from using any computer connected to the school network.
I kinda lost interest in computers after that (nothing to do with discovering cigarettes, alcohol and girls you understand), and it wasn't until the mid 90's I figured they were my best chance of actually earning some money in the real world. A pity schools back then saw computers as "a passing phase, won't catch on", otherwise I'd probably be earning twice what I do now.
You would hope that a site like MySpace would get a properly signed certificate from a CA. That way, no pop-up... When was the last time you got a pop-up visiting your bank, or PayPal etc? Answer, never. Reason being that the big boys (Versign etc) are pre-populated in browser CA stores as trusted. Self-signed certificate will of course always pop a warning up, but only because the browser can't verify the authenticity of the cert as it's not from a trusted CA.
This is true, however I'm happy to pay that so I don't have to watch mindless fucking commercials for total shit I don't want every 3 minutes. The TV license funds the BBC, which is so refreshing in the 21st century because it doesn't bombard you with adverts. After a few weeks in the USA on business with the gash excuse you guys have for TV, getting home to BBC is utter heaven.
I trust sir chose a proper filesystem on which to save his 4Gb file, otherwise he'll spend 8*4x10^9/256x10^3 (/2) getting all excited, just to have it disappear up its own anus when it reaches 2Gb.
But they haven't addressed the more fundamental issue; the atrocious lack of nekkid Starbuck scenes :(
Don't be ridiculous. Here in the UK, as in Canada and a lot of other developed nations, technological advances such as this are hugely advancing prevention of inherited diseases. My ex, for example, discovered she had a gene which made her prone to a certain type of cancer, so the NHS (national health service) put her on regular screenings for it.
Free health care doesn't have to mean lower standards. All the bull in the USA slating universal healthcare is coming from.... you got it, the medical insurance industry. Joe public believes what his TV tells him and falls for it hook, line & sinker. Sicko was a little biased, I'll give you that, but the points Moore made were 100% valid. I needed some antibiotics on a recent business trip to the USA and for a 5 minute consultation and 20 tablets it cost me $300. 'The greatest nation on earth'? Do me a favour!
Go Clinton, I say. The USA needs a serious kick up the ass in terms of its view of healthcare.
What, the, fuck?!
So then what are they going to do with it?
Why don't they build it in DC? The amount of political hot-air around these days would surely be sufficient to power a substantial wind farm.
Wifi in European Starbucks has been free for a long time now. Buy a coffee, get a free wifi scratchcard. When credit runs out, go back to counter and get another one.....
Juts mentioned this story to the girlfriend... Her response? "That'll be the American anti-terrorist strategy then...". Such insight for one so innocent...
How about putting Xenical (drug which prevents the body from absorbing fat) in fatty foods? Once the burger-loving youngsters have soiled themselves in the presence of their peers once or twice they'll be screaming for fruit and veg! I tried one once as an experiment, went out for a curry, woke up the next day and tried to slip a discreet fart out - bad idea.
Yes, but what if... OLPC are quietly stringing MS along with no intention of putting Windoze on the machine, whilst in the meantime getting thousands of laptops out there into the real world. Once the laptop (with it's splendid open source operating system) is out there in sufficient enough numbers, OLPC can tell MS to disappear back under their rock, safe in the knowledge that other avenues for indoctrinating the masses have long since closed.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
If you're not a MSFT employee after a Christmas bonus I'm a monkey's uncle!
It's still a pile of stinking poo compared to something half decent like Novell's NSS though. The day you can throw 80,000 student home directories on a single NTFS volume which gets thrashed all day, every day, and the performance is even HALF as good as the likes of NSS, I'll start bothering with Windoze.
No SSH? What a joke. Even Netware has that these days, as does everything else.
Option for no GUI? Well, that's progress I suppose.
The interoperability is still laughable I see. Square peg, round hole. Grown-up companies use all kinds of NOS products and they want them to play nice together. Everyone else bends over backwards to do this and still makes money, why is it so difficult?
No change there then...
What are you smoking?
Microsoft have been distributing Linux since 2003! Get with the program.
http://www.mslinux.org/
Sorry to piss on your bonfire, but Apache isn't GPL.
The freedoms and restrictions of the GPL are simple in principle, perhaps you're just not good at understanding what you can and cannot do. If you write a product which heavily levers other peoples' GPL code, chances are you're obliged to disclose your own code. Don't like that? Fine, then write yours all from scratch and we'll talk again in 10 years time.
In the meantime, get your facts straight and stop talking from your rectal dump-trumpet.
I wonder if your "name" is luser....
Put computer in a secure cuff so it can't be opened.
Password the BIOS, lock out all boot options bar hard disc.
Run everyone as a restricted user using dynamic accounts (ZENworks for example, or deep freeze if you're stuck in the 90's)
Disable all onboard bluetooth, wifi etc
Not all that difficult really.