Now, I realize Wikipedia isn't always the most reliable source, but I'm going to go with their explanation on this...because I'm too lazy to look up the protocols and figure it out myself.
"I think these are in place. Last time I saw a flight map for a city, there were huge no fly circles around it. I'm not a pilot but I think that's been around for a while."
They're not "no-fly" zones, they're Terminal Control Areas. They're usually around airports, but those are near cities, so you could be forgiven. It's OK to fly over cities, planes do it all the time.
No-fly zones have P-nnnn or R-nnnn next to them, and are usually much smaller. It's generally considered bad form to fly there. Sometimes someone with an F-16 will take offense and shoot at you if you do.
How true. I got a few left-over reels of CAT-3 from work. Had the guy who built my house run 2 runs from each room to the basement for phone and a potential 10BASE-T network. I'm running 100M over it just fine now. Probably can't push it to Gigabit, but then again, I won't know until I try:-)
We had a contractor come in and rewire our facility. They ran raw CAT 6 and hand terminated it, then TDR'd each run. Your boss is unclear on the tools needed and the difficulty...just simple hand crimpers were all they needed. There's going to be an impedance bump at the RJ anyway...the cable's not twisted there.
As to making them yourself or buying patch cables? It's way cheaper to buy them (I like L-Com) but if you need one *right now*, (or a custom length) it's cheap to have a crimp tool, some RJs and a roll of cable handy in the corner of the office.
Go back and look at what the GUI was 20 years ago. Lots of that increased speed went to support flashy GUIs and desktops that do more. Lots more processes running, too.
I'm not running Compiz and Ubuntu runs perfectly fine for me on an old hand-me-down 2.4G P4 single core.
The article makes no sense. There should never be, as you say, any reason to decrypt and re-encrypt the encrypted PIN. Those who believe that there is, need only to look at the way passwords are stored in classical UNIX.
The person writing the original article apparently pasted together a bunch of quotes and theories. I'm not buying that someone has figured out how to reverse the PIN encryption. As far as I know, the banks are still using triple-DES which is secure unless you have a Beowulf cluster working on it, and even then, regular key changes should keep the cluster busy.// still using my card confidently
"If you don't want massacres, then don't fight the USA."
Ummm...they didn't "fight us", we invaded them, based on our president's dislike of their ruler and a bunch of trumped up "evidence".
Yes, they fought back, but think of what would happen if some foreign power invaded us. Certainly, there would be some who would choose to fight back.
Guerilla war is like that...the innocent die along with the insurgents, who shelter among them. But, let's remember who started it, and not place *all* of the blame on the opponent.
...if you pirate music for personal use, that's kinda different than running a profit-making business using bootlegged software.
You should be making enough money to pay for the software you need to run your business. If not, well, I guess you have bigger problems than some pirated software.
As they are providing a service for the disabled. Postage is free, too.
"Under U.S. copyright law, NLS is authorized to reproduce and distribute talking books without copyright infringement as long as they are produced in a specialized format exclusively for use by blind or other persons with disabilities."
So, you'd give your passwords to your supervisor upon request.
You do realize that anything done using your passwords would come back on you? Then, you're in the unenviable position of explaining why you, in violation of the NDA you signed, gave your passwords to your supervisor, who promptly responds "I never asked him for his passwords" (to save his own ass).
Why would you use two licenses? You never used Vista, and downgraded to XP. AND - you already paid (through the "Microsoft tax") for the Vista license, which should cost more than an XP license.
It all comes down to what image Dell copies to the hard drive as they build the PC. It should cost no more to write an XP image than to burn a Vista image, and only one license is ever used.
"Microsoft has a different PR problem. Their success has trivialized their products. Even their high end software which is rather nice..."
I'd say Microsoft's problem is first, that they can't design or maintain a robust, secure, desktop operating system; and second, that they continually ignore customer desires for a stable OS environment in favor of a business plan that forces upgrades.
Which high end software are you speaking of? Word? Excel? Project? Word's user interface changes every time they do a new version. A tool shouldn't change unless it helps you do your job better. Project is insanely overpriced. It's good software, but not great. MS should concentrate on making it "great" and "affordable". Because they are no longer the only game in town (thanks to OpenOffice.org), and people don't like not having a choice.
Several of my friends, faced with defunct laptops and the option of "Vista or nothing" on a new purchase, opted to jump to Apple instead of staying with Microsoft. This is not just one, but several of my friends and acquaintances. I think Microsoft may be in bigger trouble than they realize...
I built a Slackware system and had it dual-booting on my 486-33 at my new job. I was using it (with X11 and Motif) as an Xterminal off our UNIX system to do schematic capture, after I got fed up with Win3.1 and QEMM (which was what I was supposed to be using).
That the same hardware could perform so much better running Linux (versus Win3.1) was a real eye-opener .
Have not thought a Microsoft OS was worth paying for since.
I have in my hand, a CDROM marked "December 1993" from Infomagic, I also have Infomagic's 2-CD Linux Developer's Resource from June 1994, with (it says here):
- complete snapshots of TSX-11.MIT.EDU and sunsite.unc.edu Linux archives
- SLS 1.05 with kernel 1.0
- Debian 0.91 beta
- Preliminary versions of the WINE code
and a "complete live filesystem!"...and lots more. Wow. Hard to believe, huh?
(now, get off my lawn...and here, take this Ubuntu disk and try it out at home)
...that our elected officials might have one or two other things with which to better occupy their time.
Failing that, they might manage to come up with a way to prioritize all the demands on their time, so as to put the tasks that affect the *entire country* at a higher level than camera phone noises.
It's bills like this that should never see the light of day. At least until we're all a bit less worried about whether we'll have jobs next year.
But I can't see how waving my cellphone over a reader is an improvement over waving my credit card. The credit card is thinner, lighter and more waterproof than a cellphone.
When I go out, I always carry a wallet. It has my driver's license, credit card and cash in it. My cell phone may or may not be with me, depending on what I'm doing. Maybe it's in the car, or my backpack. If I were going to wave anything over a reader, it would most likely be my wallet.
Perhaps it's because I'm over 50, but when I hear people talking about combining media player, cell phone, digital camera, [whatever] into one single unit, all I see is one item that does everything "not quite as well" as the original separate items. The cellphone/camera is only 3 megapixel...OK for some uses; but not as good as my Canon point-and-shoot. My phone can hold a few gigabytes of music, nothing like the 80 G in my iPod. If the performance of the composite were equal or better, you might have me as a customer, but for now, I'll pick and choose.
I won't agree that it's nice that they record all my calls, emails, and movements. Their job isn't to be nice. Theirs, for the most part, is to gather intelligence. By monitoring journalists, that would put an extra 50,000 eyes and ears out there
Nice theory. The only thing you forgot to mention, is that it's ILLEGAL for them to monitor communications starting and terminating in the US. I really don't care if it makes their job easier, or gets them more intelligence...it's ILLEGAL. They've been doing this all along, while saying they weren't. Bush, Cheney, Gonzales and Rumsfeld deliberately ignored the law and instructed NSA to do the same. The communications companies (with one exception) happily assisted in the process.
You know, we have a Bill of Rights and a Constitution in this country, and we are all supposed to live by the rule of law. No one is above the law. *That's* why this is an issue.
That entirely depends on how heavily you rely on odd-ball features in office.
For example do you have Word setup to access a database or something ridiculous like that?
If you are just doing basic word processing it is unlikely that you will run into any problems beyond the (marginally) different UI.
A very true statement.
Personally, I use MS Office 2003 at work, but we do have several machines on which IT has not installed it. When we need to open Office files on these machines (usually Word, Excel or Powerpoint) all *usually* goes smoothly when we use OO 2.2.
The exception is with "richly detailed" Powerpoint (transitions, much graphics, wipes, etc -- you know, the stuff vendors use in their presentations) or the formatting of Excel graphs. All manageable, and won't happen if everyone's generating stuff with OO.
Summary:
For basic spreadsheets and Word docs...you should have no problem.
With MS's "fancy features", scripting, embedded video, all that other stuff I never use...yeah, you might need to have a PC with Office around to see what it's supposed to look like.
Oh, and Visio doesn't have an OO clone. There are open software substitutes, but Visio files are more of an enigma than the remainder of Office.
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They claim it's actually 140 octets, and the length is a byproduct of the fact that an idle control channel protocol is being used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service
Now, I realize Wikipedia isn't always the most reliable source, but I'm going to go with their explanation on this...because I'm too lazy to look up the protocols and figure it out myself.
"I think these are in place. Last time I saw a flight map for a city, there were huge no fly circles around it. I'm not a pilot but I think that's been around for a while."
They're not "no-fly" zones, they're Terminal Control Areas. They're usually around airports, but those are near cities, so you could be forgiven. It's OK to fly over cities, planes do it all the time.
No-fly zones have P-nnnn or R-nnnn next to them, and are usually much smaller. It's generally considered bad form to fly there. Sometimes someone with an F-16 will take offense and shoot at you if you do.
Not a pilot either, just know a bunch of them...
How true. I got a few left-over reels of CAT-3 from work. Had the guy who built my house run 2 runs from :-)
each room to the basement for phone and a potential 10BASE-T network. I'm running 100M over it just fine now.
Probably can't push it to Gigabit, but then again, I won't know until I try
It's still faster than wireless...
We had a contractor come in and rewire our facility. They ran raw CAT 6 and hand terminated it, then TDR'd each run.
Your boss is unclear on the tools needed and the difficulty...just simple hand crimpers were all they needed. There's going to be
an impedance bump at the RJ anyway...the cable's not twisted there.
As to making them yourself or buying patch cables? It's way cheaper to buy them (I like L-Com) but if you need one *right now*,
(or a custom length) it's cheap to have a crimp tool, some RJs and a roll of cable handy in the corner of the office.
Go back and look at what the GUI was 20 years ago. Lots of that increased speed went to support flashy GUIs and desktops that do more. Lots more processes running, too.
I'm not running Compiz and Ubuntu runs perfectly fine for me on an old hand-me-down 2.4G P4 single core.
...control!
With open source, you (not the vendor) have the option to control the features of the app. Want feature "X"? Write and contribute the code!
If I knew how to do it, I'd mod you up.
The article makes no sense. There should never be, as you say, any reason to decrypt and re-encrypt the encrypted PIN. Those who believe that there is, need only to look at the way passwords are stored in classical UNIX.
The person writing the original article apparently pasted together a bunch of quotes and theories. I'm not buying that someone has figured out how to reverse the PIN encryption. As far as I know, the banks are still using triple-DES which is secure unless you have a Beowulf cluster working on it, and even then, regular key changes should keep the cluster busy. // still using my card confidently
I'm Brian of Nazarus. ...and so's my wife.
"Linux pub"...both funny and shrewd
...and *very* French :-)
"If you don't want massacres, then don't fight the USA."
Ummm...they didn't "fight us", we invaded them, based on our president's dislike of their ruler and a bunch of trumped up "evidence".
Yes, they fought back, but think of what would happen if some foreign power invaded us. Certainly, there would be some who would choose to fight back.
Guerilla war is like that...the innocent die along with the insurgents, who shelter among them.
But, let's remember who started it, and not place *all* of the blame on the opponent.
...if you pirate music for personal use, that's kinda different than running a profit-making business using bootlegged software.
You should be making enough money to pay for the software you need to run your business. If not, well, I guess you have bigger problems than some pirated software.
Hear, Hear.
Touch screen voting is an overpriced, overly complex solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Mark original paper ballots, then count them by machine for speed. They remain as original, voter-marked, legal documents in case of a recount.
"Is anyone anyone really afraid of terrorists? Crackheads probably kill more people in America than terrorists do."
The reason they're called terrorists, is because they try to cause terror -- unreasoning fear is their goal.
We kill 40,000 of ourselves (in round numbers) in traffic accidents *every year*:
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
That's approximately 10 times the current US death toll in Iraq. Every year!
Now, every life is precious, and no one should die needlessly. But it's good to keep terrorism in perspective.
...you just need a bigger hammer!
As they are providing a service for the disabled. Postage is free, too.
"Under U.S. copyright law, NLS is authorized to reproduce and distribute talking books without copyright infringement as long as they are produced in a specialized format exclusively for use by blind or other persons with disabilities."
So, you'd give your passwords to your supervisor upon request.
You do realize that anything done using your passwords would come back on you? Then, you're in the unenviable position of explaining why you, in violation of the NDA you signed, gave your passwords to your supervisor, who promptly responds "I never asked him for his passwords" (to save his own ass).
Why would you use two licenses? You never used Vista, and downgraded to XP. AND - you already paid (through the "Microsoft tax") for the Vista license, which should cost more than an XP license.
It all comes down to what image Dell copies to the hard drive as they build the PC. It should cost no more to write an XP image than to burn a Vista image, and only one license is ever used.
"Microsoft has a different PR problem. Their success has trivialized their products. Even their high end software which is rather nice..."
I'd say Microsoft's problem is first, that they can't design or maintain a robust, secure, desktop operating system; and second, that they continually ignore customer desires for a stable OS environment in favor of a business plan that forces upgrades.
Which high end software are you speaking of? Word? Excel? Project? Word's user interface changes every time they do a new version. A tool shouldn't change unless it helps you do your job better. Project is insanely overpriced. It's good software, but not great. MS should concentrate on making it "great" and "affordable". Because they are no longer the only game in town (thanks to OpenOffice.org), and people don't like not having a choice.
Several of my friends, faced with defunct laptops and the option of "Vista or nothing" on a new purchase, opted to jump to Apple instead of staying with Microsoft. This is not just one, but several of my friends and acquaintances. I think Microsoft may be in bigger trouble than they realize...
I built a Slackware system and had it dual-booting on my 486-33 at my new job. I was using it (with X11 and Motif) as an Xterminal off our UNIX system to do schematic capture, after I got fed up with Win3.1 and QEMM (which was what I was supposed to be using).
That the same hardware could perform so much better running Linux (versus Win3.1) was a real eye-opener .
Have not thought a Microsoft OS was worth paying for since.
I have in my hand, a CDROM marked "December 1993" from Infomagic, I also have Infomagic's 2-CD Linux Developer's Resource from June 1994, with (it says here):
- complete snapshots of TSX-11.MIT.EDU and sunsite.unc.edu Linux archives
- SLS 1.05 with kernel 1.0
- Debian 0.91 beta
- Preliminary versions of the WINE code
and a "complete live filesystem!" ...and lots more. Wow. Hard to believe, huh?
(now, get off my lawn...and here, take this Ubuntu disk and try it out at home)
Ubuntu, NoScript and ABP. I went to the Adimpact website, no pop-up visible.
"Unblockable"...like the Titanic was unsinkable.
...that our elected officials might have one or two other things with which to better occupy their time.
Failing that, they might manage to come up with a way to prioritize all the demands on their time, so as to put the tasks that affect the *entire country* at a higher level than camera phone noises.
It's bills like this that should never see the light of day. At least until we're all a bit less worried about whether we'll have jobs next year.
But I can't see how waving my cellphone over a reader is an improvement over waving my credit card. The credit card is thinner, lighter and more waterproof than a cellphone.
When I go out, I always carry a wallet. It has my driver's license, credit card and cash in it. My cell phone may or may not be with me, depending on what I'm doing. Maybe it's in the car, or my backpack. If I were going to wave anything over a reader, it would most likely be my wallet.
Perhaps it's because I'm over 50, but when I hear people talking about combining media player, cell phone, digital camera, [whatever] into one single unit, all I see is one item that does everything "not quite as well" as the original separate items. The cellphone/camera is only 3 megapixel...OK for some uses; but not as good as my Canon point-and-shoot. My phone can hold a few gigabytes of music, nothing like the 80 G in my iPod. If the performance of the composite were equal or better, you might have me as a customer, but for now, I'll pick and choose.
I won't agree that it's nice that they record all my calls, emails, and movements. Their job isn't to be nice. Theirs, for the most part, is to gather intelligence. By monitoring journalists, that would put an extra 50,000 eyes and ears out there
Nice theory. The only thing you forgot to mention, is that it's ILLEGAL for them to monitor communications starting and terminating in the US. I really don't care if it makes their job easier, or gets them more intelligence...it's ILLEGAL. They've been doing this all along, while saying they weren't. Bush, Cheney, Gonzales and Rumsfeld deliberately ignored the law and instructed NSA to do the same. The communications companies (with one exception) happily assisted in the process.
You know, we have a Bill of Rights and a Constitution in this country, and we are all supposed to live by the rule of law. No one is above the law. *That's* why this is an issue.
That entirely depends on how heavily you rely on odd-ball features in office.
For example do you have Word setup to access a database or something ridiculous like that?
If you are just doing basic word processing it is unlikely that you will run into any problems beyond the (marginally) different UI.
A very true statement.
Personally, I use MS Office 2003 at work, but we do have several machines on which IT has not installed it. When we need to open Office files on these machines (usually Word, Excel or Powerpoint) all *usually* goes smoothly when we use OO 2.2.
The exception is with "richly detailed" Powerpoint (transitions, much graphics, wipes, etc -- you know, the stuff vendors use in their presentations) or the formatting of Excel graphs. All manageable, and won't happen if everyone's generating stuff with OO.
Summary:
For basic spreadsheets and Word docs...you should have no problem.
With MS's "fancy features", scripting, embedded video, all that other stuff I never use...yeah, you might need to have a PC with Office around to see what it's supposed to look like.
Oh, and Visio doesn't have an OO clone. There are open software substitutes, but Visio files are more of an enigma than the remainder of Office.