Speakers are built in. They're probably pretty nice quality, if not very powerful speakers, so many won't need to use external speakers - not on e.g. a company desktop.
Networking seems more like the cable you'd have on a company desktop - better performance, cheaper, and way way less security headache than wireless.
Incidentally, the stand looks like it has a sort of cable holder thing, to make things a little bit neater. And you can of course always get a cable snake thingy if you're plugging in lots of stuff.
Compare the linear graph to the log graph - you'll see that the changes at the high end (between about 5 and 15 $/share) are considerably 'understated', while the low end is somewhat exaggerated.
A log scale chart is more meaningful when it comes to the real value of the company - a share price drop from $5 to $4/share means they've lost 20% of their value, while going from $15 to $14 is only about a 7% drop. The log scale graph comes a little closer to representing how serious each day's change is to SCO (and their investors).
in american universities professors and booksellers conspire to require new editions of books every year or two... the professors often get a kickback from the booksellers
I don't know if it's really that different in Canada, but I can tell you I don't know any professors that like the new edition scam. I know quite a number of profs too, since both my parents are profs. There are some profs that are more or less oblivious to it, and there are others (most of them, in my experience) that hate it, and try to avoid it, by staying with the publishers that have the longer edition cycles, or getting the bookstore to stock old editions (to skip every second edition).
As for the kickbacks - is there any evidence of this? I'm pretty sure that at any Canadian university, if there were proof of this, the prof in question would be out on the street in pretty short order. The prof and the publisher (or more likely an agent of the publisher, who gets to be the fall guy) would likely end up in court not long after.
Of course you're right that authors do get paid when their books sell, but there's nothing wrong with that (I assume you'd agree).
Das Kapital, the Manifesto of the Communist Party. Whatever. If he wanted to have a real effect on the world, he clearly should have gone into SF - look at his contemporaries:
H.G. Wells, now there was someone who really changed history...
No, really - I know what you mean - as a fiction genre, not non-fiction...
Hm, I was wondering - would this mean we can make reasonable affordable glass that still blocks RF signals? I guess you've answered me, and it's right out.
Just think if it did work though - we could sit in a nice restaurant with plenty of big windows, and where cellphones wouldn't work... And no need for signal jammers (illegal in most places, although Canada was considering allowing them for some uses).
Of course, I also have no idea if this stuff qualifies as "reasonably affordable" only as compared to gigantic diamonds...
At her average low of 15 mins per day dealing with the problem manually or socially, the rate of intrusions only has to increase 32-fold before it takes up an entire 8-hour normal working day.
That's mathematically correct, but completely unrelated to the observed behaviour of the real world.
The attacks did not increase 3200%, they decreased 66%. The advantage of a human dealing with things, is that humans can change their plans as needed. If the attacks had increased 32-fold, the admin would presumably not have continued on that course of action. Since the actual effect was to decrease the attacks by an appreciable amount, presumably relatively efficiently in terms of the amount of time she spent at it, she was able to apply rational human judgement and decide to continue her approach.
As he pointed out - you're in the public IP space; any services you leave open without password or similar protection are implicitly public. And, even if you do have password protection, and e.g. a banner stating it's a private service, the initial connection attempt is legitimate, since they have to do that to read the banner.
In the physical-analogy sense, it would be more akin to closing your restaurant without putting up the "closed" sign. When people walk by and try to open the door, you got no business being offended - they're attempting to take advantage of the public service you appear to be offering.
And if you were really dumb and forgot to lock the door too, you've got no business being upset when they walk in and start wondering where the waiter is.
All you're hitting is the most 'downstream' IP address. How many of these script kiddies do you suppose are attacking from their home computers, and how many from some poor unsuspecting home user's computer? Even if 75% of kiddies don't hide their tracks, you're still getting 25% innocent victims.
Scaring some poor sucker who's already been owned once is not going to change things much.
Looks like there might finally be RAID 5 in the works in OS X. No mention of it in any documentation I've seen, but (!!!) among the installed files with 10.3.5 are:
None of the megaraid stuff is in 10.3.4. The disk utility plugin was there, it's just been updated.
The megaraid manpage seems to indicate support for RAID level 5; but the GUI in disk utility still only offers the old 0 and 1.
So, does anyone know - does the megaraid command support more features than the kernel extension has available yet, or is it just that the GUI isn't there yet? Maybe they just don't put a GUI on it except in the server edition (sneaky buggers!) - anyone with OS X server out there that can check?
And, in general - anyone out there with a bunch of blank disks they can play around with and see if they can make a RAID 5 set?
If anyone has OS X server around, and if they're interested, these md5 sums are from the regular OS X; maybe we could compare results:
On a Canadian ballot, there is usually one question - who should represent this riding?. Although IIRC, there was one other question on the 2000 ballot, at least in my riding at the time.
Plebiscites / referenda are pretty rare here, and when they do happen it's a big deal - usually not something that can wait until next time there's an election coming up.
That's the point of a dutch auction - they're not demanding anything. They're holding a dutch auction to determine the fairest price, and that's what they'll sell at.
I was under the impression that many of the problems with the Florida vote were based on technology of a slightly less advanced nature - pull the lever and punch a hole in a perforated card, so that the votes can be counted by punch-card machines...
What's wrong with putting an X in a little circle with a pen, I'll never understand. Sure, you need people to count the votes, but surely the US has enough people dedicated to democratic principles that they would volunteer a few hours every four years, to count ballots? It's worked in Canada for a hundred years or so...
In fact, most if not all election scrutineers are volunteers. Presumably there are some paid staff, but all the people physically shuffling about ballots, and all the people watching over their shoulders, are volunteers.
Incidentally, the vote counting is also open to the public, if I'm not mistaken, so anyone can go and witness for themselves that the count at at least one polling station was free of shenanigans.
You're probably right that he knows more about OS X than I thought.
I admit I was prejudiced against him as soon as I read the bit in about the third section on common criteria - which he clearly misunderstands - and so I was perhaps overly skeptical of what he said from there on in...
He doesn't know gobsmack about the feature set in OS X, he's just spouting what he's heard elsewhere.
Incidentally - it's true that the firewall is a nice up to date ipfw; unfortunately the firewall GUI is seriously braindead - turn firewall on or off, allow or deny particular services, that's all.
His equation of assurance levels to orange book certification levels is just silly. Am I the only one to be bothered by this?
The orange book certification level describes a set of security properties - the CC equivalent is a protection profile (PP). The assurance level describes the depth of testing that went into confirming that the particular protection profile is met by a product.
Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP) corresponds pretty much to C2. Whether a product is evaluated against CAPP to EAL 1 or 7, it will always correspond to C2 - just that the evaluators are stating more or less certainty in the results.
So, Win2k got evaluated against CAPP to EAL 4 - that corresponds to C2, not B1, no matter what the EAL was.
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Networking seems more like the cable you'd have on a company desktop - better performance, cheaper, and way way less security headache than wireless.
Incidentally, the stand looks like it has a sort of cable holder thing, to make things a little bit neater. And you can of course always get a cable snake thingy if you're plugging in lots of stuff.
A log scale chart is more meaningful when it comes to the real value of the company - a share price drop from $5 to $4/share means they've lost 20% of their value, while going from $15 to $14 is only about a 7% drop. The log scale graph comes a little closer to representing how serious each day's change is to SCO (and their investors).
Yes, indeed. They may not be denser than average, but they're pretty dense nonetheless.
I don't know if it's really that different in Canada, but I can tell you I don't know any professors that like the new edition scam. I know quite a number of profs too, since both my parents are profs. There are some profs that are more or less oblivious to it, and there are others (most of them, in my experience) that hate it, and try to avoid it, by staying with the publishers that have the longer edition cycles, or getting the bookstore to stock old editions (to skip every second edition).
As for the kickbacks - is there any evidence of this? I'm pretty sure that at any Canadian university, if there were proof of this, the prof in question would be out on the street in pretty short order. The prof and the publisher (or more likely an agent of the publisher, who gets to be the fall guy) would likely end up in court not long after.
Of course you're right that authors do get paid when their books sell, but there's nothing wrong with that (I assume you'd agree).
H.G. Wells, now there was someone who really changed history...
No, really - I know what you mean - as a fiction genre, not non-fiction...
Just think if it did work though - we could sit in a nice restaurant with plenty of big windows, and where cellphones wouldn't work... And no need for signal jammers (illegal in most places, although Canada was considering allowing them for some uses).
Of course, I also have no idea if this stuff qualifies as "reasonably affordable" only as compared to gigantic diamonds...
In the UK, now, I understand they do call them 'rooters'. Sounds to me like those things plumbers use to clear tree roots from the drains.
And I'm in Canada, where our literacy rate is almost as abyssmal, so don't say I'm slamming the US only.
Surely the people with guns are in the room for a reason - it makes collecting the fees for the session so much easier.
That's mathematically correct, but completely unrelated to the observed behaviour of the real world.
The attacks did not increase 3200%, they decreased 66%. The advantage of a human dealing with things, is that humans can change their plans as needed. If the attacks had increased 32-fold, the admin would presumably not have continued on that course of action. Since the actual effect was to decrease the attacks by an appreciable amount, presumably relatively efficiently in terms of the amount of time she spent at it, she was able to apply rational human judgement and decide to continue her approach.
In the physical-analogy sense, it would be more akin to closing your restaurant without putting up the "closed" sign. When people walk by and try to open the door, you got no business being offended - they're attempting to take advantage of the public service you appear to be offering.
And if you were really dumb and forgot to lock the door too, you've got no business being upset when they walk in and start wondering where the waiter is.
Scaring some poor sucker who's already been owned once is not going to change things much.
Make a tarball of the site, seed a torrent, then slashdotters can slashdot themselves.
After a more detailed read through the manpage...
mark@poppacrow:~ % megaraid -showadapter
MEGARAID CLI version 1.0.12
No MegaRAID Adapter Available
yeah, that'll do it. Thanks for the info.
None of the megaraid stuff is in 10.3.4. The disk utility plugin was there, it's just been updated.
The megaraid manpage seems to indicate support for RAID level 5; but the GUI in disk utility still only offers the old 0 and 1.
So, does anyone know - does the megaraid command support more features than the kernel extension has available yet, or is it just that the GUI isn't there yet? Maybe they just don't put a GUI on it except in the server edition (sneaky buggers!) - anyone with OS X server out there that can check?
And, in general - anyone out there with a bunch of blank disks they can play around with and see if they can make a RAID 5 set?
If anyone has OS X server around, and if they're interested, these md5 sums are from the regular OS X; maybe we could compare results:
807ecfca34f30598207553f1e4a15d28 /usr/sbin/megaraid
/System/Library/Extensions/MegaRAID.kext/Contents/ MacOS/MegaRAID
8cc344ea9edce9138acf8803e267e3f6
Plebiscites / referenda are pretty rare here, and when they do happen it's a big deal - usually not something that can wait until next time there's an election coming up.
That's the point of a dutch auction - they're not demanding anything. They're holding a dutch auction to determine the fairest price, and that's what they'll sell at.
I have to put something here, because slashdot doesn't believe in (nt) meaning (no text)...
Apparently many legislators think Americans are too dumb to count votes by hand...
What's wrong with putting an X in a little circle with a pen, I'll never understand. Sure, you need people to count the votes, but surely the US has enough people dedicated to democratic principles that they would volunteer a few hours every four years, to count ballots? It's worked in Canada for a hundred years or so...
Incidentally, the vote counting is also open to the public, if I'm not mistaken, so anyone can go and witness for themselves that the count at at least one polling station was free of shenanigans.
I admit I was prejudiced against him as soon as I read the bit in about the third section on common criteria - which he clearly misunderstands - and so I was perhaps overly skeptical of what he said from there on in...
Incidentally - it's true that the firewall is a nice up to date ipfw; unfortunately the firewall GUI is seriously braindead - turn firewall on or off, allow or deny particular services, that's all.
The orange book certification level describes a set of security properties - the CC equivalent is a protection profile (PP). The assurance level describes the depth of testing that went into confirming that the particular protection profile is met by a product.
Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP) corresponds pretty much to C2. Whether a product is evaluated against CAPP to EAL 1 or 7, it will always correspond to C2 - just that the evaluators are stating more or less certainty in the results.
So, Win2k got evaluated against CAPP to EAL 4 - that corresponds to C2, not B1, no matter what the EAL was.
But the Reg is a British publication, so you can't hold it against them, can you?