Ding! Ding! Ding! We rely on that too and it is a major factor. If I can ever sort out how to make Clonezilla use existing DHCP then I may go to that. We also use various Live CDs for password resets, data recovery, and what not. So Windows machines that barf on Linux would be a no-go here.
In my workplace we run Windows, OS X, and Linux. I have the expectation of being able to use Linux on any x86 kit we buy. Absent an explanation or attitude change from this vendor, I won't recommend their kit here for Windows use either. That seems somewhat important so I'll repeat it:
I will not buy Foxconn kit for Windows use if Linux compatibility is impaired.
A straight ban has more integrity than this tactic and the "trollcage" doesn't really take any cleverness at all to detect. The same method has been used for years on IM services to see if someone has dropped you from their friends or is truly offline. This pretty much means that all teenagers are aware of the countertactic.
Ban Tor exit nodes and proxy ips from posting and require a ip address that isn't either to post. Starting with a post ban followed by an IP ban is far more effective than playing a game that the troll likely enjoys anyway. The true troll will try as hard as he can to grief regardless of the control methods used so you pretty much have to go to strong measures immediately.
As I've said, I've seen sandboxing applied more to thoughtful contrarians than I have actual trolls. Since the method is designed to make one talk to an empty room, a non-troll is going to feel more dicked by this than a straight ban. So all you really have is a method for smacking non-groupthinkers.
Absent DOS attacks or other obnoxiousness, it's probably best to allow read-only access from the proxies and TOR and require an account and unique IP to post. Often has been the time that I found the answers to questions in forums I don't post in. Anonymous lurkers don't hurt anything. It is anonymous posters determined to be a tool that do.
By allowing him to continue to post unhindered, your other visitors will see through his crap and it won't have any power and, eventually, when he realizes he isn't getting your ire up like he wants, he's going to either go away or bring up a legitimate concern.
I've never seen that work well. What usually happens is that otherwise intelligent people feel the need to continually rebut and correct the troll which just encourages it. At a minimum, the forum should support plonking. Moderation is all well and good but individuals shouldn't wait for it to have an effect if it will at all.
Temporary bans, followed by permanent bans, followed by IP blocks seems to be the best way of not letting such take over a forum.
That isn't hard to detect and some sites are notorious for doing this to non-groupthink posters rather than true trolls. All one needs to do is use another machine with a different IP and a new nym to catch this. The end result is no different than banning the troll and having the troll come back with a new nym.
Then I'd say that is our fault for letting the lawyers get out of control. But that is a long long rant..........
And true I depend on the power company for power but outside of a maximum amp draw or feeding crap back into their network, the power company doesn't micromanage my use of what I plug into it. That isn't even remotely analogous to the crap ISPs, phone, software, and hardware vendors are pulling. And yes, I will be cheering hackers who frustrate that; these assholes need to learn and they can learn it the hard way or the easy way but they'll learn either way.
And incidentally, given a wide enough choice. I'll vote with my dollars and go with things I don't have to hack or jailbreak in the first place. If that choice isn't provided then I'll go with whatever is easiest to assert my ownership of. The problem here is that the powers that be want to reserve the very idea of ownership for themselves. Letting them get away with it is an even bigger mistake then unleashed lawyers.
What about your grandmother or the millions like her who are not as savvy as you and most/.ers?
Knowledge is power. Grandma can always not jailbreak her iPhone and stay in Steve's walled garden. If Grandma makes the choice to employ her property in a way that Steve doesn't like then Grandma has responsibility for that.
All things considered, I come down on the side of ownership, empowerment, and responsibility. I don't care for the idea of devices I pay for and ostensibly own still being directed and controlled by others. Locked phones, TCPA, and DRM in general are all attempts by so-called capitalists to treat us like communists. I'm not a child and for that matter Grandma isn't either. Grandma may indeed "reap a malware infested device" but taking that risk is her right....and by default she isn't taking that risk.
Great idea! I'll also have Steve Job personally approve everything that goes on other devices I use too.
Seriously, climb down off the high horse already. Jailbreaks will come out for no other reason than to prove they can be done. Getting malware isn't "just punishment" for anything. Anyone who writes malware is a criminal or little punk at best. Ignorant and stupid people are more easily victimized but this stupidity in no way justifies the existence of the malware. Methinks your value system needs some rethinking.
There's risk in jailbreaking one of these things sure and most with the savvy to find the tool and run will be aware of the downsides. But you seem awfully eager for it to end in tears. You have a dog in this race you aren't telling us about?
....the more they stay the same. I was a Mandrake user 5 years ago. Compared to everything else around, it was the slickest out of the box. But the the Drak* tools were always flaky, as were the update tools, and I could never find a mirror that was worth a damn even if the package manager was working well that day. Hell, it made Windows ME look like a paragon of polish and stability.
Going to Debian after that was like a breath of fresh air. Sure it wasn't packed full of wizards and GUI config tools but once configured into a working configuration it STAYED working. I've been running either Debian or a Debian derivative since. I've thought that maybe by now Mandr(ake|iva) would have improved. It looks like they're still up to their old ways of surface polish atop a creaky collection of dirty hacks.
The output of a compiler for any non-trivial code will contain constructs that identify it as a product of that compiler. Basically, a $1000/hr lawyer might be able to argue that anything compiled with gcc should be considered a derivative work of GCC. Rather than a car analogy, I'll go for a genetic analogy. DNA tends to act as both compiler and source code all rolled into one. The protein a given sequence of DNA codes for could be considered a derived work even though God doesn't care if you denature, alter it with enzymes, or even synthesize it by other means.
Now, the FSF are often branded as zealots. If so, they are long term and practical zealots. They clearly do not intend for anything that runs through GCC to be automatically GPLed. So in this case of code that transforms and generates other code, they explicitly spell that out to deny the shyster the chance to speak for them.
Also, I'm talking about an Elise... it's a small two door Lotus, not a Ford Mustang.
This is nothing more than "That's the way they've always been. It's what I grew up with. Everything else is sacrilege." If the damn thing can press me back in my seat and leave that punk in the Mustang with his jaw hanging down then I could care less what it sounds like. These things are damn near silent? Good. You can get yer noise from a decent stereo. I gather a close gated 6-speed to authoritatively bang up and down is quite the man-toy. It is pointless in a vehicle with a torque curve that is very very flat and very very wide. I'll allow that it may take too long to recharge the thing after flogging it around 50 or 60 miles of curvy road. I'm not saying it's without flaws but not mimicking a gasoline powered vehicle to every last detail isn't one of them. I think gobs of quiet buttery smooth power could be quite fun in it's own right.
I've even heard that some CVT equipped cars have synthetic bumpy shifts due to untrained consumers. Gee, now what was the point of a CVT again? Let's have unnecessary wear and tear and both power and economy loss because a 21st century vehicle doesn't shift like a '72 Dodge. Sheesh!
I can see your problem with WINE or any other re-implementation of win32 but what is your problem with virtualization? A VM could basically run a copy of XP or at least a stripped down OS that is based on XP and transparently overlay it on any new OS MS comes up with. As far as your mission critical apps are concerned, they'd be running on XP.
Your girlfriend is unwittingly contributing to the arms race that got us stuck with Hummers in the first place. Once your girlfriend gets her SUV, am I going to have to go to a semi-truck based SUV to be safe from her?
That said, the SmartCars currently err too small in the range of sizes found on the road. Suck it up and buy the damn Corolla. I drive a relatively efficient Ford Contour and all the SUV driving girlfriends are helping to accelerate the rise in gas prices. I'd rather have the Corolla than what I have now. The milage would be better and it would be a more reliable car.
Another note on safety. SUVs drive like the trucks they are. But its worse than that. Trucks have stiffer suspensions to carry loads but these stiff suspensions also keep them somewhat maneuverable considering their size and weight. An SUV has the size and likely the frame of a truck but has a carlike gushy suspension. This means that if you see trouble that you HAVE to take the hit and ride it out. It isn't likely you'll have the control necessary to drive out of it. If I see a fuckin' Hummer coming at me, my Contour is nimble enough to get me out of the way in many situations. I've even heard of a few wrecks where the SUV driver was a fatality while the driver of the smaller car walked away. We had one here in Columbus, Ohio a few years back. Some reckless teenagers in a riceburner took out a pookie and her family in an SUV and walked away from it. It seems there is more to safety than sheer mass.
Symantec and Grisoft most likely are doing the spineless thing in regards to such tools already. I have a suspicion the ClamAV guys wouldn't have a problem with the signatures and even if they do third parties have ClamAV sigs now.
Are they dumb enough to install this on a clubie's machine? A paranoid or diligent sort who runs a tripwire and keeps the checksums on other media would discover this thing toot-sweet.
You're dead right. What is interesting is that if you're "caught" with some of these random blocks on your disk, they're just random blocks of data. You can't decode them unless you have the key, hence there's no charge of copyright infringement.
Under this system, anyone distributing URLs necessary to reconstruct a Britney Spears tune is definitely violating copyright. I also think that anyone holding any of the pieces referred to by those URLs could also get in trouble. It would matter little if the blocks got on your machine due to someone uploading some Creative Commons content. If one or two them also can also be used to reconstruct the Britney tune then some lawyer will make hay of it.
Thanks to all the "home users" trying to send my workplaces email unblocking 25 wouldn't help you anyway. As far as I'm concerned, if it comes from residential IP space then it is spam unless an exception has been made otherwise.
You mean, aside from the fact that the included driver is rarely the latest, fully-featured driver from nvidia, and doesn't include the nvidia control panel utility...
nvidia-settings - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.13-19.42 nvidia-settings - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
Reasonably new and the panel is available as are utilities for such things as dual monitors. "Legacy" drivers are available for older NVidia cards.....and said situation is squarely in NVidia's court until the Noveau people do more of the thankless job of reverse engineering their cards. And I've done dual monitors and mirrored to a TV. It wasn't that hard, entailed use of an older 440MX card, and was done entirely with graphical utilities.
And if I absolutely needed the newest driver, NVidia does a decent job of providing an automagical installer that isn't all that hard. It isn't as pretty as ticking a box in package manager but you don't need much more intellect than a monkey to do it. I've had more trouble with bare metal XP installs. Try installing XP on a machine with a recent SATA controller. Once you post something to the effect of NLite, DriverPacks or a 5 year old USB floppy making that easy then you are well in the land of not being able to assert that Windows is automagical paradise. I've likewise had extreme fun with a older ScanWise scanner that Just Worked with Debian.
Does Windows make some things easier than Linux? Sure. Do some Windows advocates look around at the shiny walls before chucking rocks?
how about the fact that this magical "tickbox" you speak of doesn't exist in every distro.
Recent desktop oriented distros have such ways. Fedora and SuSE seem to have equivalents for all this. If you consciously picked something like Gentoo or Slackware in light of the voluminous documentation that such things are for experts than that is your own fault.....
Even in ubuntu, this mystical checkbox of yours is a relatively new thing, grasshopper
Away under the bridge with you! I don't recall personally attacking anyone. It's here now isn't it? Which is something ELSE I've noticed: No matter how much people work their hearts out to improve things, someone always has to post snarky rants.
Install the "restricted drivers" package that matches the kernel you're installing. It's a tickbox in the graphical package manager. I've been running NVidia drivers in Ubuntu for years now and haven't had to recompile kernels or any other such whackery to do it. Why is it that failure to understand how to use Windows isn't a problem with Windows but failure understand Linux is a problem with Linux?
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Ding! Ding! Ding! We rely on that too and it is a major factor. If I can ever sort out how to make Clonezilla use existing DHCP then I may go to that. We also use various Live CDs for password resets, data recovery, and what not. So Windows machines that barf on Linux would be a no-go here.
In my workplace we run Windows, OS X, and Linux. I have the expectation of being able to use Linux on any x86 kit we buy. Absent an explanation or attitude change from this vendor, I won't recommend their kit here for Windows use either. That seems somewhat important so I'll repeat it:
I will not buy Foxconn kit for Windows use if Linux compatibility is impaired.
A straight ban has more integrity than this tactic and the "trollcage" doesn't really take any cleverness at all to detect. The same method has been used for years on IM services to see if someone has dropped you from their friends or is truly offline. This pretty much means that all teenagers are aware of the countertactic.
Ban Tor exit nodes and proxy ips from posting and require a ip address that isn't either to post. Starting with a post ban followed by an IP ban is far more effective than playing a game that the troll likely enjoys anyway. The true troll will try as hard as he can to grief regardless of the control methods used so you pretty much have to go to strong measures immediately.
As I've said, I've seen sandboxing applied more to thoughtful contrarians than I have actual trolls. Since the method is designed to make one talk to an empty room, a non-troll is going to feel more dicked by this than a straight ban. So all you really have is a method for smacking non-groupthinkers.
Absent DOS attacks or other obnoxiousness, it's probably best to allow read-only access from the proxies and TOR and require an account and unique IP to post. Often has been the time that I found the answers to questions in forums I don't post in. Anonymous lurkers don't hurt anything. It is anonymous posters determined to be a tool that do.
By allowing him to continue to post unhindered, your other visitors will see through his crap and it won't have any power and, eventually, when he realizes he isn't getting your ire up like he wants, he's going to either go away or bring up a legitimate concern.
I've never seen that work well. What usually happens is that otherwise intelligent people feel the need to continually rebut and correct the troll which just encourages it. At a minimum, the forum should support plonking. Moderation is all well and good but individuals shouldn't wait for it to have an effect if it will at all.
Temporary bans, followed by permanent bans, followed by IP blocks seems to be the best way of not letting such take over a forum.
That isn't hard to detect and some sites are notorious for doing this to non-groupthink posters rather than true trolls. All one needs to do is use another machine with a different IP and a new nym to catch this. The end result is no different than banning the troll and having the troll come back with a new nym.
Then I'd say that is our fault for letting the lawyers get out of control. But that is a long long rant..........
And true I depend on the power company for power but outside of a maximum amp draw or feeding crap back into their network, the power company doesn't micromanage my use of what I plug into it. That isn't even remotely analogous to the crap ISPs, phone, software, and hardware vendors are pulling. And yes, I will be cheering hackers who frustrate that; these assholes need to learn and they can learn it the hard way or the easy way but they'll learn either way.
And incidentally, given a wide enough choice. I'll vote with my dollars and go with things I don't have to hack or jailbreak in the first place. If that choice isn't provided then I'll go with whatever is easiest to assert my ownership of. The problem here is that the powers that be want to reserve the very idea of ownership for themselves. Letting them get away with it is an even bigger mistake then unleashed lawyers.
What about your grandmother or the millions like her who are not as savvy as you and most /.ers?
Knowledge is power. Grandma can always not jailbreak her iPhone and stay in Steve's walled garden. If Grandma makes the choice to employ her property in a way that Steve doesn't like then Grandma has responsibility for that.
All things considered, I come down on the side of ownership, empowerment, and responsibility. I don't care for the idea of devices I pay for and ostensibly own still being directed and controlled by others. Locked phones, TCPA, and DRM in general are all attempts by so-called capitalists to treat us like communists. I'm not a child and for that matter Grandma isn't either. Grandma may indeed "reap a malware infested device" but taking that risk is her right....and by default she isn't taking that risk.
Great idea! I'll also have Steve Job personally approve everything that goes on other devices I use too.
Seriously, climb down off the high horse already. Jailbreaks will come out for no other reason than to prove they can be done. Getting malware isn't "just punishment" for anything. Anyone who writes malware is a criminal or little punk at best. Ignorant and stupid people are more easily victimized but this stupidity in no way justifies the existence of the malware. Methinks your value system needs some rethinking.
There's risk in jailbreaking one of these things sure and most with the savvy to find the tool and run will be aware of the downsides. But you seem awfully eager for it to end in tears. You have a dog in this race you aren't telling us about?
Using this?
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/VBounceRuleset
....the more they stay the same. I was a Mandrake user 5 years ago. Compared to everything else around, it was the slickest out of the box. But the the Drak* tools were always flaky, as were the update tools, and I could never find a mirror that was worth a damn even if the package manager was working well that day. Hell, it made Windows ME look like a paragon of polish and stability.
Going to Debian after that was like a breath of fresh air. Sure it wasn't packed full of wizards and GUI config tools but once configured into a working configuration it STAYED working. I've been running either Debian or a Debian derivative since. I've thought that maybe by now Mandr(ake|iva) would have improved. It looks like they're still up to their old ways of surface polish atop a creaky collection of dirty hacks.
www.eduke32.com
Can't help you with Civilization.
The output of a compiler for any non-trivial code will contain constructs that identify it as a product of that compiler. Basically, a $1000/hr lawyer might be able to argue that anything compiled with gcc should be considered a derivative work of GCC. Rather than a car analogy, I'll go for a genetic analogy. DNA tends to act as both compiler and source code all rolled into one. The protein a given sequence of DNA codes for could be considered a derived work even though God doesn't care if you denature, alter it with enzymes, or even synthesize it by other means.
Now, the FSF are often branded as zealots. If so, they are long term and practical zealots. They clearly do not intend for anything that runs through GCC to be automatically GPLed. So in this case of code that transforms and generates other code, they explicitly spell that out to deny the shyster the chance to speak for them.
In a sports car? Yes.
Also, I'm talking about an Elise... it's a small two door Lotus, not a Ford Mustang.
This is nothing more than "That's the way they've always been. It's what I grew up with. Everything else is sacrilege." If the damn thing can press me back in my seat and leave that punk in the Mustang with his jaw hanging down then I could care less what it sounds like. These things are damn near silent? Good. You can get yer noise from a decent stereo. I gather a close gated 6-speed to authoritatively bang up and down is quite the man-toy. It is pointless in a vehicle with a torque curve that is very very flat and very very wide. I'll allow that it may take too long to recharge the thing after flogging it around 50 or 60 miles of curvy road. I'm not saying it's without flaws but not mimicking a gasoline powered vehicle to every last detail isn't one of them. I think gobs of quiet buttery smooth power could be quite fun in it's own right.
I've even heard that some CVT equipped cars have synthetic bumpy shifts due to untrained consumers. Gee, now what was the point of a CVT again? Let's have unnecessary wear and tear and both power and economy loss because a 21st century vehicle doesn't shift like a '72 Dodge. Sheesh!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vSp_U0-bD84&feature=related
I can see your problem with WINE or any other re-implementation of win32 but what is your problem with virtualization? A VM could basically run a copy of XP or at least a stripped down OS that is based on XP and transparently overlay it on any new OS MS comes up with. As far as your mission critical apps are concerned, they'd be running on XP.
Your girlfriend is unwittingly contributing to the arms race that got us stuck with Hummers in the first place. Once your girlfriend gets her SUV, am I going to have to go to a semi-truck based SUV to be safe from her?
That said, the SmartCars currently err too small in the range of sizes found on the road. Suck it up and buy the damn Corolla. I drive a relatively efficient Ford Contour and all the SUV driving girlfriends are helping to accelerate the rise in gas prices. I'd rather have the Corolla than what I have now. The milage would be better and it would be a more reliable car.
Another note on safety. SUVs drive like the trucks they are. But its worse than that. Trucks have stiffer suspensions to carry loads but these stiff suspensions also keep them somewhat maneuverable considering their size and weight. An SUV has the size and likely the frame of a truck but has a carlike gushy suspension. This means that if you see trouble that you HAVE to take the hit and ride it out. It isn't likely you'll have the control necessary to drive out of it. If I see a fuckin' Hummer coming at me, my Contour is nimble enough to get me out of the way in many situations. I've even heard of a few wrecks where the SUV driver was a fatality while the driver of the smaller car walked away. We had one here in Columbus, Ohio a few years back. Some reckless teenagers in a riceburner took out a pookie and her family in an SUV and walked away from it. It seems there is more to safety than sheer mass.
I'd have to dig it out of the closet to be sure but I think we recorded it from cable.
My wife and I love that jazz soundtrack as well. We have a copy with that soundtrack on VHS but the print is far from remastered......
Symantec and Grisoft most likely are doing the spineless thing in regards to such tools already. I have a suspicion the ClamAV guys wouldn't have a problem with the signatures and even if they do third parties have ClamAV sigs now.
Are they dumb enough to install this on a clubie's machine? A paranoid or diligent sort who runs a tripwire and keeps the checksums on other media would discover this thing toot-sweet.
You're dead right. What is interesting is that if you're "caught" with some of these random blocks on your disk, they're just random blocks of data. You can't decode them unless you have the key, hence there's no charge of copyright infringement.
Under this system, anyone distributing URLs necessary to reconstruct a Britney Spears tune is definitely violating copyright. I also think that anyone holding any of the pieces referred to by those URLs could also get in trouble. It would matter little if the blocks got on your machine due to someone uploading some Creative Commons content. If one or two them also can also be used to reconstruct the Britney tune then some lawyer will make hay of it.
Thanks to all the "home users" trying to send my workplaces email unblocking 25 wouldn't help you anyway. As far as I'm concerned, if it comes from residential IP space then it is spam unless an exception has been made otherwise.
You mean, aside from the fact that the included driver is rarely the latest, fully-featured driver from nvidia, and doesn't include the nvidia control panel utility...
nvidia-settings - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.13-19.42
nvidia-settings - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
Reasonably new and the panel is available as are utilities for such things as dual monitors. "Legacy" drivers are available for older NVidia cards.....and said situation is squarely in NVidia's court until the Noveau people do more of the thankless job of reverse engineering their cards. And I've done dual monitors and mirrored to a TV. It wasn't that hard, entailed use of an older 440MX card, and was done entirely with graphical utilities.
And if I absolutely needed the newest driver, NVidia does a decent job of providing an automagical installer that isn't all that hard. It isn't as pretty as ticking a box in package manager but you don't need much more intellect than a monkey to do it. I've had more trouble with bare metal XP installs. Try installing XP on a machine with a recent SATA controller. Once you post something to the effect of NLite, DriverPacks or a 5 year old USB floppy making that easy then you are well in the land of not being able to assert that Windows is automagical paradise. I've likewise had extreme fun with a older ScanWise scanner that Just Worked with Debian.
Does Windows make some things easier than Linux? Sure. Do some Windows advocates look around at the shiny walls before chucking rocks?
how about the fact that this magical "tickbox" you speak of doesn't exist in every distro.
Recent desktop oriented distros have such ways. Fedora and SuSE seem to have equivalents for all this. If you consciously picked something like Gentoo or Slackware in light of the voluminous documentation that such things are for experts than that is your own fault.....
Even in ubuntu, this mystical checkbox of yours is a relatively new thing, grasshopper
Away under the bridge with you! I don't recall personally attacking anyone. It's here now isn't it? Which is something ELSE I've noticed: No matter how much people work their hearts out to improve things, someone always has to post snarky rants.
Install the "restricted drivers" package that matches the kernel you're installing. It's a tickbox in the graphical package manager. I've been running NVidia drivers in Ubuntu for years now and haven't had to recompile kernels or any other such whackery to do it. Why is it that failure to understand how to use Windows isn't a problem with Windows but failure understand Linux is a problem with Linux?