You do realise that the only reason this car is as big as it is and costs as much as it does is because the guy set out to build a vehicle that could thrash most supercars?
Last time I looked, a Porsche or Ferrari wasn't going for $10,000 either.
Jesus Christ, if everybody thought like you did we'd still be riding around in horse buggies, cause you have to refuel those goldarned newfangled automobiles yourself, instead of letting the horse munch away by itself.
Obviously, you have not been in a large company that is obsessed with "data security".
Boot from a CD? The BIOS is set to boot only from the primary HDD.
Try and change the BIOS? BIOS password.
Try and clear the BIOS by cracking the case and pulling the battery? Case open detector that rats on you to the admins.
Hope you had a good excuse for opening that case (something other than "I was trying to install Gentoo cause it r0XX0r5!!!111"), because otherwise it's time to brush up your resume.
Scheduling system updates on Friday/the weekend is SOP in any business environment.
If, however, you do it unnecessarily, you're just asking to get put on the admin's shitlist.
I've been on both sides of the fence in this, and having users get in your face over a bunch of meaningless changes when you've got a major system upgrade scheduled is not something any admin needs.
I work a lot on boxes for which I do not have root access (financial systems), and it's absolutely unnecessary if your admin is competent.
Add a new user? Ask the admin. Restart a system service? Ask the admin. Implement regular backups? Ask the admin.
Remember, it's his JOB. He's paid to do that sort of thing; you aren't. You're paid to get your application working and keep it working.
(Actually, you can do an awful lot even without root access. I've built a fairly comfortable environment on a bare Solaris box, including gcc, emacs, vim, Tcl/Tk, CVS, blackbox (because otherwise I would have been stuck with Exceed's godawful window handling), and many other utilities, and root was not required for any of that. There's a reason such things as PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH exist.)
Heh - I played Q3 on a dual PII with a Voodoo2 (12MB of video RAM) - the lowest spec card that could do genuine 3D acceleration in Linux. Worked well enough to play anything except really big maps.
microsoft.com is #5 if you search for "more evil than Satan himself".
However, it doesn't show up if you search for "more evil than Satan and all his little devils". Nor does it show up if you search for "more evil than all Satan's little devils".
If we assume that: x = Satan y = All of Satan's little devils z = Microsoft
then we can deduce the following based on MS's search results: x <= z is true. y <= z is true. x + y >= z is true. x <= z + y is true.
Thus, if all of Satan's little devils decided to change sides and join up with the big Bill G., Satan wouldn't stand a chance in Hell.
Most of these already exist in one form or another.
1) Use smb:// in Nautilus. 2) Dump Active Directory and use something that's a bit more cross-platform. There's plenty of LDAP-compatible stuff out there, and Novell will sell you a drop-in solution for single signon. If you do it right, you get single signon across Windows, Linux, Solaris and HPUX. 3) Evolution Connector. 4) Just set OOo to use the MS TT fonts. 5) Terminal Server Client or rdesktop (I'm guessing they mean a RDP client here). 6) Nautilus can handle file associations just fine. 7) Not sure what the hell they mean by this. 8) Mplayer using MS codecs;)
Basically, it sounds like a list drawn up by someone who hasn't considered that introducing a new platform into a corporate environment means that they're supposed to exploit the advantages of that platform, rather than force it to conform to whatever existing platforms they have.
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If the primary existence of the Earth was as a collective consensus among humans, yes.
You're comparing apples and oranges here. Language does not exist as an objective reality; it relies entirely upon the internal representation of that language shared between its speakers. If in the future nobody understood that language, it would no longer "exist" in any meaningful sense, whereas the Earth exists independently of the internal reality any human (or other being) holds to be true.
In other words, the only way a language can be said to exist is as a "mainstream belief" of its speakers. So, you lose.
As opposed to a security hole in a closed-source router... like a Cisco?
A default username/password pair is present in all releases of the Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) software. A user who logs in using this username has complete control of the device. This username cannot be disabled. There is no workaround.
Golly, if you had the source, you might be able to do something like... hmmm... I dunno... disable the default password, maybe?
Nah, Asterix and Obelix are just users. I'm sure Getafix would have a posse of open-source potion developers if he could find somebody as good as he is.
The idea of a dupe detector is proposed every time Taco reposts a story, but it hasn't been implemented yet. If it hasn't happened in 6+ years, it's never going to happen.
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You do realise that the only reason this car is as big as it is and costs as much as it does is because the guy set out to build a vehicle that could thrash most supercars?
Last time I looked, a Porsche or Ferrari wasn't going for $10,000 either.
Jesus Christ, if everybody thought like you did we'd still be riding around in horse buggies, cause you have to refuel those goldarned newfangled automobiles yourself, instead of letting the horse munch away by itself.
Obviously, you have not been in a large company that is obsessed with "data security".
Boot from a CD? The BIOS is set to boot only from the primary HDD.
Try and change the BIOS? BIOS password.
Try and clear the BIOS by cracking the case and pulling the battery? Case open detector that rats on you to the admins.
Hope you had a good excuse for opening that case (something other than "I was trying to install Gentoo cause it r0XX0r5!!!111"), because otherwise it's time to brush up your resume.
Foresee can I its end not.
And thus flamefests breed new flamefests.
Please don't bring the Gentoo riceboys into it - next thing you know, we'll have the NRA gun-nuts in here with us.
Scheduling system updates on Friday/the weekend is SOP in any business environment.
If, however, you do it unnecessarily, you're just asking to get put on the admin's shitlist.
I've been on both sides of the fence in this, and having users get in your face over a bunch of meaningless changes when you've got a major system upgrade scheduled is not something any admin needs.
Good answer.
I work a lot on boxes for which I do not have root access (financial systems), and it's absolutely unnecessary if your admin is competent.
Add a new user? Ask the admin.
Restart a system service? Ask the admin.
Implement regular backups? Ask the admin.
Remember, it's his JOB. He's paid to do that sort of thing; you aren't. You're paid to get your application working and keep it working.
(Actually, you can do an awful lot even without root access. I've built a fairly comfortable environment on a bare Solaris box, including gcc, emacs, vim, Tcl/Tk, CVS, blackbox (because otherwise I would have been stuck with Exceed's godawful window handling), and many other utilities, and root was not required for any of that. There's a reason such things as PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH exist.)
Jesus Christ, what asshat admin gave him sudo access to /bin/cat?!
With just that one command, it'd be piss-easy to take over the box (if he's evil) or screw it up terminally (if he's incompetent).
Might as well not bother with sudo at all...
Heh - I played Q3 on a dual PII with a Voodoo2 (12MB of video RAM) - the lowest spec card that could do genuine 3D acceleration in Linux. Worked well enough to play anything except really big maps.
Hahaha ;) Thanks for the laugh.
I can just see the mounds of gibs piled up around a single dead deer...
Don't worry, they erase visitors' memory with a frontal lobotomy before they leave.
Beta. I'm guessing that their IP locator omits the button for people outside the US.
Er... "big" caps, rather.
Definitely. I've welded screwdrivers to bog caps while discharging them.
microsoft.com is #5 if you search for "more evil than Satan himself".
However, it doesn't show up if you search for "more evil than Satan and all his little devils".
Nor does it show up if you search for "more evil than all Satan's little devils".
If we assume that:
x = Satan
y = All of Satan's little devils
z = Microsoft
then we can deduce the following based on MS's search results:
x <= z is true.
y <= z is true.
x + y >= z is true.
x <= z + y is true.
Thus, if all of Satan's little devils decided to change sides and join up with the big Bill G., Satan wouldn't stand a chance in Hell.
Did you have to do something to get that to appear? I couldn't find any such link on any of the searches I did.
Most of these already exist in one form or another.
;)
1) Use smb:// in Nautilus.
2) Dump Active Directory and use something that's a bit more cross-platform. There's plenty of LDAP-compatible stuff out there, and Novell will sell you a drop-in solution for single signon. If you do it right, you get single signon across Windows, Linux, Solaris and HPUX.
3) Evolution Connector.
4) Just set OOo to use the MS TT fonts.
5) Terminal Server Client or rdesktop (I'm guessing they mean a RDP client here).
6) Nautilus can handle file associations just fine.
7) Not sure what the hell they mean by this.
8) Mplayer using MS codecs
Basically, it sounds like a list drawn up by someone who hasn't considered that introducing a new platform into a corporate environment means that they're supposed to exploit the advantages of that platform, rather than force it to conform to whatever existing platforms they have.
If the primary existence of the Earth was as a collective consensus among humans, yes.
You're comparing apples and oranges here. Language does not exist as an objective reality; it relies entirely upon the internal representation of that language shared between its speakers. If in the future nobody understood that language, it would no longer "exist" in any meaningful sense, whereas the Earth exists independently of the internal reality any human (or other being) holds to be true.
In other words, the only way a language can be said to exist is as a "mainstream belief" of its speakers. So, you lose.
As opposed to a security hole in a closed-source router... like a Cisco?
A default username/password pair is present in all releases of the Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) software. A user who logs in using this username has complete control of the device. This username cannot be disabled. There is no workaround.
Golly, if you had the source, you might be able to do something like... hmmm... I dunno... disable the default password, maybe?
Why don't you try comparing the prices of those CPUs too, eh?
Bagdes? We don't need no steenking bagdes!
Even if that were true (which it's not), the rip doesn't just include a translation - it's the WHOLE FREAKING VIDEO. Of course it's illegal.
Nah, Asterix and Obelix are just users. I'm sure Getafix would have a posse of open-source potion developers if he could find somebody as good as he is.
As in "Stick a fork in Lucas's ass and turn him over; he's well and truly done."
Er... certainly for the Alpha, there existed versions of Windows right up to a 2000 pre-release.
Let me put it this way:
The idea of a dupe detector is proposed every time Taco reposts a story, but it hasn't been implemented yet. If it hasn't happened in 6+ years, it's never going to happen.