Apple's Safari screws up FTP sites by mounting them in the Finder.
It sounds like Safari encountered a URI for which it doesn't handle the protocol, and passed it to the operating system. That's a sensible thing to do.
Mouting a remote directory as if it were a local one, how is that screwing up? Or do you just want the "hey we kind-of implemented this protocol in a receive-only way, it may or may not be completely unusable for your use case, but built into your browser anyway".
I care more about protecting the identities of the people that do business with us then protecting the personal assets of employees that were careless (i.e. by not backing them up) with them.
So what happens when employees start backing up everything on their phones including this data? Suddenly your desire for control has caused sensitive data to go from only being stored on a smartphone, to stored on an employees personal computer as well. The fact the backups exist only increases the risk that this sensitive data can get into the wrong hands.
And I'm sure you would understand how we couldn't possibly let you store sensitive corporate information on a device that could be lost or stolen. Right?
I'd be cool with it. It is actually what my employer does and it makes sense. I don't even know why any cooperation would rely on remote-wipe. A remote wipe seems way too unreliable if the thief is actually after the data stored on the device.
Well I don't know why you would want to use slow flash as your primary storage rather than fast DRAM or SRAM.
Maybe rather than just taking up the slot use it for communication too? Appear as RAM to the computer and then create a RAM drive to mount the SSD? Though it does seems like a rather roundabout way just to avoid using a SATA cable.
Not bad, I set one up about a year ago, without a package manager and it was OK. Downloaded it, had to google up what to put in the WSGI file, then added it to the apache config and edited the trac.ini. Painless other than a few config files. We don't use it that heavily but I haven't had any administrative headache at all with it.
Thats probably caused by the TV station you watch. The EAS messages are region-encoded, by the county IIRC, and I've never seen a national weather service message with bad region info. Its probably the TV station with a misconfiguration decoder.
Or are you just watching TV stations located far away?
They actually use the EAS system for weekly tests, what they call it is a different matter. Not that its a big deal though, even after spending a year as a radio station engineer I still use "emergency broadcast" and "emergency alert" interchangeably.
Its the quick and easy solution. I don't really do enough with it, or anything serious enough to actually justify to myself putting in any more effort. Kind of like how I have a macbook. I'm not exactly proud of it, but its nice to be able to take the easy road when I'm not feeling it.
I hope its 2.3. Many of the 1.x handsets never got a 2.0 upgrade, but 2.x handsets seem to have decent offerings for upgrades in the 2.x version. I don't want to see handsets that could otherwise support Gingerbread have support dropped for them just because the marketing plan says to stop supporting certain handset when the next major version come down the pipeline.
Yes, yes, there's always rooting the device and custom firmware but that's not an option for every one (be it technical limitation or user limitation)
Because somehow the "jailbreak" vernacular has replaced every instance of "hacking" when restrictions are involved. I know why it was called "jailbreaking", but just like with the phrase "apps", it didn't become widespread common usage applied to nearly everything until it involved Apple products. That does not make sense.
While there is no arguing with the Chewbacca defense, I think its because "hacking" doesn't fit into widespread vocabulary the same way it does in ours, and the iPhone was the first place where having to hack your own product to make it do what you want became such a widespread desire. I put a custom firmware on my router ages ago but things like that are really nerdy and have small appeal compared to simply visiting a webpage that will hack your phone to do what you want. Jailbreak was a clever verb for it and it took off because it makes the software creator seem like one in the wrong, not the "hacker".
Is there something I'm missing? How is the choose a bad thing? Personally I have/home,/home/me/movies,/home/me/music, and/home/me/docs
/movies1,/movies2,/movies3
What would you going to label the in windows? Incoorperate that into the mountpoint name. This isn't a problem unique to unix mounts. If you have to just remember what the contents of X: Y: and Z: are, then what difference is remembering the contents of/moviesX/moviesY and/moviesZ
I can use "dir" to see the files in each folder, find the ones I can move then use "dir" multiple times to find out which drive has enough free space for those files then move them.
Or, I can open "My Computer" and see the free space of each drive, then go to some folder to look for files that can be moved or use some GUI tool like SpaceMonger to see what are the largest files and folder in the whole drive at once. This way is much less typing and much faster.
I bet it does suck to use `dir` to find that information, but I would use tools more appropriate for the job, like `du` and `df`.
You don't think that a single person is going to host a server that is free for anybody? Paying them to host it seems like a good way to get people to give money to support the project, but it seems laughable that with all the distributed architecture that there will only be one true place to get your account hosted other than doing it yourself.
Moving data from one node to another could be part of the protocol. Server A says to server B "give me this user's stuff". It would be the smart way to handle transfers anyway.
Jabber-based eh? I'll give it another shot then, I thought the reason adium kept dropping my connection to facebook chat was they had to do some ugly hack to fetch whatever the ajax code on facebook would. Now I'm going to blame it on my alma mater's network and its unfortunate shaping of chat protocol traffic.
This would be the same thing as a web browser automatically assuming if you click on a url 'http://blackhatbadstuff.com/csrss.exe' the web browser should tell the OS load it into memory and run it.
Yes, its much better that the browser asks you to A) load it now or B) save it so you can load it again and again
1. If, as a mail admin, you are still allowing Windows executables of any description through your system, you should be shot.
We might as well just allow the damn things through.
I needed to get an executable to someone in the next building. The email server stripped it out. So I threw it on some file sharing site and sent them a link. User clicks the link, gets the download. I've already trained users to click the link in email to the dropbox link in the email and grab the exe. Users are going to run untrusted code regardless of if it is attached or is at the end of a link.
The isn't any significant hurdle that can be put up that doesn't also block legit uses, it just creates another "only do this if you know you should" that gets worn out and ignored. I have to go to IT every time mp3s emailed to a radio station get quarantined. Is is no shock to me that users ignore all the safety nonsense, its a technical solution that not only tries to solve a non-technical problem, it doesn't even bother to solve the problem.
I don't know why that the idiot from Gawker believes the idea to persecute Assange is any reasonable or even if he decided to do that to be able to profit from the controversy.
Gawker is just upset that a different website is stirring up drama with the internet, and on a much larger scale then gawker ever could. They're just trying to cash in on that.
No, it is free. You may be thinking of groveshark which only had a few day trial on my phone (I don't know what their web based pricing is like). Pandora on mobile actually has fewer audio ads than on the web (and the google on screen ones are as unobtrusive as ads get). The 40 hour/month limit might still apply.
Thats what I gathered too, and it was a bit confusing to read. Knowing parenthesis as delimiters for so long, it was strange to see. I wonder if that is what they showed to the kids, and how it would have been different if they used something like:
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Apple's Safari screws up FTP sites by mounting them in the Finder.
It sounds like Safari encountered a URI for which it doesn't handle the protocol, and passed it to the operating system. That's a sensible thing to do.
Mouting a remote directory as if it were a local one, how is that screwing up? Or do you just want the "hey we kind-of implemented this protocol in a receive-only way, it may or may not be completely unusable for your use case, but built into your browser anyway".
I care more about protecting the identities of the people that do business with us then protecting the personal assets of employees that were careless (i.e. by not backing them up) with them.
So what happens when employees start backing up everything on their phones including this data? Suddenly your desire for control has caused sensitive data to go from only being stored on a smartphone, to stored on an employees personal computer as well. The fact the backups exist only increases the risk that this sensitive data can get into the wrong hands.
And I'm sure you would understand how we couldn't possibly let you store sensitive corporate information on a device that could be lost or stolen. Right?
I'd be cool with it. It is actually what my employer does and it makes sense. I don't even know why any cooperation would rely on remote-wipe. A remote wipe seems way too unreliable if the thief is actually after the data stored on the device.
Well I don't know why you would want to use slow flash as your primary storage rather than fast DRAM or SRAM.
Maybe rather than just taking up the slot use it for communication too? Appear as RAM to the computer and then create a RAM drive to mount the SSD? Though it does seems like a rather roundabout way just to avoid using a SATA cable.
Not bad, I set one up about a year ago, without a package manager and it was OK. Downloaded it, had to google up what to put in the WSGI file, then added it to the apache config and edited the trac.ini. Painless other than a few config files. We don't use it that heavily but I haven't had any administrative headache at all with it.
Thats probably caused by the TV station you watch. The EAS messages are region-encoded, by the county IIRC, and I've never seen a national weather service message with bad region info. Its probably the TV station with a misconfiguration decoder.
Or are you just watching TV stations located far away?
They actually use the EAS system for weekly tests, what they call it is a different matter. Not that its a big deal though, even after spending a year as a radio station engineer I still use "emergency broadcast" and "emergency alert" interchangeably.
The drop down also does not obscure any of the page, it pushes it down.
I guess I need to go file a bug report, because it always overlaps the first search result for me.
Adobe Flash is my contraceptive.
Its the quick and easy solution. I don't really do enough with it, or anything serious enough to actually justify to myself putting in any more effort. Kind of like how I have a macbook. I'm not exactly proud of it, but its nice to be able to take the easy road when I'm not feeling it.
Why would he even want to? Analog downloads, now that's where the good content is.
I hope its 2.3. Many of the 1.x handsets never got a 2.0 upgrade, but 2.x handsets seem to have decent offerings for upgrades in the 2.x version. I don't want to see handsets that could otherwise support Gingerbread have support dropped for them just because the marketing plan says to stop supporting certain handset when the next major version come down the pipeline.
Yes, yes, there's always rooting the device and custom firmware but that's not an option for every one (be it technical limitation or user limitation)
Because somehow the "jailbreak" vernacular has replaced every instance of "hacking" when restrictions are involved. I know why it was called "jailbreaking", but just like with the phrase "apps", it didn't become widespread common usage applied to nearly everything until it involved Apple products. That does not make sense.
While there is no arguing with the Chewbacca defense, I think its because "hacking" doesn't fit into widespread vocabulary the same way it does in ours, and the iPhone was the first place where having to hack your own product to make it do what you want became such a widespread desire. I put a custom firmware on my router ages ago but things like that are really nerdy and have small appeal compared to simply visiting a webpage that will hack your phone to do what you want. Jailbreak was a clever verb for it and it took off because it makes the software creator seem like one in the wrong, not the "hacker".
Apple isn't going to 'stop supporting Java'.
Actually, if the JVM goes back to being a 3rd party system on OS X, which it seems like it will, this is exactly what they've done.
Whatever you want them to be. Even /a /b /c.
Is there something I'm missing? How is the choose a bad thing? Personally I have /home, /home/me/movies, /home/me/music, and /home/me/docs
/movies1, /movies2, /movies3
What would you going to label the in windows? Incoorperate that into the mountpoint name. This isn't a problem unique to unix mounts. If you have to just remember what the contents of X: Y: and Z: are, then what difference is remembering the contents of /moviesX /moviesY and /moviesZ
I can use "dir" to see the files in each folder, find the ones I can move then use "dir" multiple times to find out which drive has enough free space for those files then move them.
Or, I can open "My Computer" and see the free space of each drive, then go to some folder to look for files that can be moved or use some GUI tool like SpaceMonger to see what are the largest files and folder in the whole drive at once. This way is much less typing and much faster.
I bet it does suck to use `dir` to find that information, but I would use tools more appropriate for the job, like `du` and `df`.
In your world, every linux mountpoint for drives other than the one mounted at "/" is in /mnt and linux doesn't do RAID? Seriously?
You don't think that a single person is going to host a server that is free for anybody? Paying them to host it seems like a good way to get people to give money to support the project, but it seems laughable that with all the distributed architecture that there will only be one true place to get your account hosted other than doing it yourself.
Moving data from one node to another could be part of the protocol. Server A says to server B "give me this user's stuff". It would be the smart way to handle transfers anyway.
Jabber-based eh? I'll give it another shot then, I thought the reason adium kept dropping my connection to facebook chat was they had to do some ugly hack to fetch whatever the ajax code on facebook would. Now I'm going to blame it on my alma mater's network and its unfortunate shaping of chat protocol traffic.
This would be the same thing as a web browser automatically assuming if you click on a url 'http://blackhatbadstuff.com/csrss.exe' the web browser should tell the OS load it into memory and run it.
Yes, its much better that the browser asks you to A) load it now or B) save it so you can load it again and again
1. If, as a mail admin, you are still allowing Windows executables of any description through your system, you should be shot.
We might as well just allow the damn things through.
I needed to get an executable to someone in the next building. The email server stripped it out. So I threw it on some file sharing site and sent them a link. User clicks the link, gets the download. I've already trained users to click the link in email to the dropbox link in the email and grab the exe. Users are going to run untrusted code regardless of if it is attached or is at the end of a link.
The isn't any significant hurdle that can be put up that doesn't also block legit uses, it just creates another "only do this if you know you should" that gets worn out and ignored. I have to go to IT every time mp3s emailed to a radio station get quarantined. Is is no shock to me that users ignore all the safety nonsense, its a technical solution that not only tries to solve a non-technical problem, it doesn't even bother to solve the problem.
I don't know why that the idiot from Gawker believes the idea to persecute Assange is any reasonable or even if he decided to do that to be able to profit from the controversy.
Gawker is just upset that a different website is stirring up drama with the internet, and on a much larger scale then gawker ever could. They're just trying to cash in on that.
No, it is free. You may be thinking of groveshark which only had a few day trial on my phone (I don't know what their web based pricing is like). Pandora on mobile actually has fewer audio ads than on the web (and the google on screen ones are as unobtrusive as ads get). The 40 hour/month limit might still apply.
Thats what I gathered too, and it was a bit confusing to read. Knowing parenthesis as delimiters for so long, it was strange to see. I wonder if that is what they showed to the kids, and how it would have been different if they used something like:
4 + 3 + 2 = ? + 2