It would have killed the professor to complain about the buttons instead of just destroying them, of course.
I don't know if you've ever worked in IT in a large-ish environment like a university, but I have a few hundred users and don't have time to just check up on people.
Not just semantics - very important. If a firewall couldn't distinguish they wouldn't be functional firewalls. No shit, hence why I said "decent". Old NIS did not qualify since it *would* block DNS from working.
He does give good reasons for what he says, but I can't grok getting quite so emotional about relatively trivial UI changes. It's just too alien to me.
OTOH I'll swear at Vista's gratuitous Control Panel changes along with everyone else, but that's not as trivial as how the Dock and the menu bar look.
TweakUAC is your friend. With it, I've got my Vista VM set to have IE run in protected mode, but not bother me with the damned UAC prompts -- UAC must be at least partially on for IE protected mode.
You can probably do roughly what TweakUAC does by going to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Local Security Policy->[can't remember: something about local security settings], but TUAC is more convenient.
If your OS vendor supplies you with a firewall and you choose "Block all incoming connections" it should do simply that. You probably/don't/ want exactly what you say, since blocking *all* incoming connections would render you unable to access the Internet.
I seem to recall that at least early versions (circa 2002) of Norton Internet Security would do just that[1] and we (at my old computer-shop job) would have to uninstall the poxy thing and replace with less-sucky s/w like ZoneAlarm and AVG.
[1] I expect you'd have to ingest near LD50 of PCP and crack to get to the mental state of that abortion's programmers.
Then you've got a problem of enforcement -- historically quizzes like that have been used to keep blacks from voting in some areas of the US. Some whites wouldn't get the questions right, but either weren't made to take the test or the results ignored.
I like the idea of keeping the ignorant and willfully stupid from wreaking damage, but that method is too easily abused.
That depends on the filesystem, does it not? That's the size of an MS-DOS formatted disk. I wonder what size you might get from the same disk if it's Minix-formatted, or HFS-formatted.
I'm particularly intrigued with your custom MSIs. Can you point to a good tutorial on doing those?
And running Net apps on a low-priv account: are you doing that with batch files and the runas command? Do you prevent that account from logging in somehow?
bblean / bbclean are pretty nice, really. I used them on an old P3 laptop and there was a definite (timed) speed difference; plus the menu system is quite usable and you can get good themes.
I love to fly general aviation and military familiarization flights. But I loathe flying commercial these days.
Why?
Security theater: having to take off my shoes and other gear, can't have anything metal in carry-on luggage, severely limited amounts of liquids (I get thirsty easily and it can take a while for the stews to pass around refreshments). I don't feel any safer.
Delays: plane's late getting there to pick you up, takes longer than it should to get luggage and people in place, then you sit on the tarmac for a while because of weather delays at O'Hare or some other far-off airport. But you have to get to the airport early to deal with security theater.
The time we were stuck in the airplane at O'Hare, still attached to the terminal, with a dead APU and no start truck for like 45 minutes. In high heat. Air conditioning needs the APU to run. Bastards didn't even pass out extra drinks.
Airport food is crap and overpriced. Especially at O'Hare.
Other pax who think it's their $DEITY-given right to shove too much crap into the overhead bins and bang on the stew-call button all night on a red-eye flight.
So piddly little stuff like "baggage neutrality" doesn't even enter in to how much I loathe commercial air travel.
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It would have killed the professor to complain about the buttons instead of just destroying them, of course.
I don't know if you've ever worked in IT in a large-ish environment like a university, but I have a few hundred users and don't have time to just check up on people.
Semantics. They're incoming connections that you've initiated. Decent firewalls can distinguish between the two.
Gods know that either understanding & fixing the problem or asking someone knowledgeable would be too hard or make him look weak.
I hope you got his supervisor to LART him well.
DNS, for example. You send out a query, it comes back. Same deal for HTTP, FTP, hell, lots of protocols.
Yes, old versions of NIS could be configured to block DNS replies.
He does give good reasons for what he says, but I can't grok getting quite so emotional about relatively trivial UI changes. It's just too alien to me.
OTOH I'll swear at Vista's gratuitous Control Panel changes along with everyone else, but that's not as trivial as how the Dock and the menu bar look.
TweakUAC is your friend. With it, I've got my Vista VM set to have IE run in protected mode, but not bother me with the damned UAC prompts -- UAC must be at least partially on for IE protected mode.
You can probably do roughly what TweakUAC does by going to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Local Security Policy->[can't remember: something about local security settings], but TUAC is more convenient.
I seem to recall that at least early versions (circa 2002) of Norton Internet Security would do just that[1] and we (at my old computer-shop job) would have to uninstall the poxy thing and replace with less-sucky s/w like ZoneAlarm and AVG.
[1] I expect you'd have to ingest near LD50 of PCP and crack to get to the mental state of that abortion's programmers.
But the correct headline isn't sensationalistic enough.
I don't know if this is the submitter's headline, but furrfu, that's something that wossname, the editor, should catch.
Then you've got a problem of enforcement -- historically quizzes like that have been used to keep blacks from voting in some areas of the US. Some whites wouldn't get the questions right, but either weren't made to take the test or the results ignored.
I like the idea of keeping the ignorant and willfully stupid from wreaking damage, but that method is too easily abused.
That depends on the filesystem, does it not? That's the size of an MS-DOS formatted disk. I wonder what size you might get from the same disk if it's Minix-formatted, or HFS-formatted.
You /must/ be trolling. How big is your hard drive again?
Sensei, please teach me.
I'm particularly intrigued with your custom MSIs. Can you point to a good tutorial on doing those?
And running Net apps on a low-priv account: are you doing that with batch files and the runas command? Do you prevent that account from logging in somehow?
bblean / bbclean are pretty nice, really. I used them on an old P3 laptop and there was a definite (timed) speed difference; plus the menu system is quite usable and you can get good themes.
...at least you didn't ask "if you have a wife, why do you need porn?".
The answer to that should be pretty obvious.
I wonder: would security let you take a Model M keyboard in your carry-on?
That bad boy would be both shield *and* blunt weapon; much better than a lousy tray table.
Why do you hate America? ...aw, fuck it. This is too depressing; I can't channel Stephen Colbert right now.
1 + 7 = 8
/everywhere/. You've just got to look hard enough.
2^^3 = 8
2 + 3 = *5*
Five turns up
Funny, I thought Bush had a 30% approval rating.
That's *inter*state, as in between-the-states. Intrastate means within one state.
http://www.goatse.cz/ shows you all you need.
I love to fly general aviation and military familiarization flights. But I loathe flying commercial these days.
Why?
Security theater: having to take off my shoes and other gear, can't have anything metal in carry-on luggage, severely limited amounts of liquids (I get thirsty easily and it can take a while for the stews to pass around refreshments). I don't feel any safer.
Delays: plane's late getting there to pick you up, takes longer than it should to get luggage and people in place, then you sit on the tarmac for a while because of weather delays at O'Hare or some other far-off airport. But you have to get to the airport early to deal with security theater.
The time we were stuck in the airplane at O'Hare, still attached to the terminal, with a dead APU and no start truck for like 45 minutes. In high heat. Air conditioning needs the APU to run. Bastards didn't even pass out extra drinks.
Airport food is crap and overpriced. Especially at O'Hare.
Other pax who think it's their $DEITY-given right to shove too much crap into the overhead bins and bang on the stew-call button all night on a red-eye flight.
So piddly little stuff like "baggage neutrality" doesn't even enter in to how much I loathe commercial air travel.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. Can play Quicktime directly in WMP or MPC and includes RealAlternative. Never be annoyed by QT or RA players again!
Aw, what kind of an analogy is that? I didn't see mention of a car anywhere.
The problem with moderates who haven't decided that Bush and his Congressional enablers are Bad is really more with the moderate in question, IMO.
You'd have to have your head pretty far up your ass to not notice all the badness coming from DC since 2001 and realize "this is bad".