If you are shooting a show, you end up with a lot of images in the buffer (1DII can do 8images/sec). You cannot change card until they are all spooled out. So either you have a big card and shoot your bursts, or you have small cards and need to wait till you have spooled (1-2 mins) until you can change cards. Waiting is not a thing which a professional photographer likes to do, although Java users are a patient lot (glad I got that in:)
The definition fits a kernel call better than sudo:"'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process".
Seeong that the US has military and economic power to boot, we pass the laws that the US requests, and hope to stay alive. And of course the US passes the laws that Microsoft requests:)
Many firms need banking screens designed, stuff like that. What's so special about writing a form that checks that no bill for less than $.001 get sent out ?
An inevitable evolution of bluetooth phones is going to be P2P. Tell your phone what you're looking for, go for a walk on campus, or have coffee at starbucks, and it'll be there when you get back home. The phones eg. P800 can already be used for listening to MP3s, and they can be programmed in Java and C++, it's only a matter of month till we get fully integrated Bluetooth P2P.
I don't think Sun's open sourcing the thing will help Linux users much anyway, the kernel design is probably very different, with more evolved semantics. Which means Linux developers will hae to do the work themselves if they want their admins to have these facilites.
Note that this is finally a tool to resolve finger-pointing *it's your app that's slow - no it's the kernel etc* . I guess IBM will find it advantageous to create a similar Linux tool for their systems, as they bill Linux as an application serving environment. So we should see it soon on our own boxen.
The sad thing is this proves once again that closed source companies retain an edge at innovating.
They'll be hacked, as GNAA points out; but as each disk is custom made there will probably be some individual watermarking buried in the film frames somewhere.
Next year we will first hear that the disks were hacked; then we will see a lawsuit against the poor bastard who lent his disk and player to someone else.
Actually, some of the Pentium comes from the soviet bloc, it is said, as does the core Itanium technology (I remember this from Microprocessor report) - western firms went on a buying spree, buying the brains to make their chips when the wall came down. Their hardware was primitive, but they were very good at supercomputer architecture. Their missiles seem to have been functional too, although we didn't believe it at the time.
Why don't you use a Linux box and Webmin ? Why don' you use Darwin if you need AFS ?
The real point of your issue is that you, like many, want the benefit of an tightly integrated solution that just works - a thing the OS community does not supply - but refuse to pay a company for their proprietary solution to your problem.
Actually, I think that Apple is making a huge mistake by behaving this churlishly, because a lot of techies want to run all these services but don't have the time to admin them the hard way. If Apple Server was free, there would be a lot Macs getting bought, not to replace the Linux boxes but rather to supplement them.
If you are not using AFS you can just use standard OS X as a server, and add the few extensions for services that are essential. Most stuff is already there under the standard user system anyway.
The services compile like on BSD, and you then do GUI-less administration for them. Apple basically sells you the fact that they have done all the compiling and configuring for you - I just wish some of the Open Source vendors did the same.
Sorry for the knee jerk reaction - I looked have now at the site. this distro only asks three questions to install, and set up a server. The architecture seems extremely well thought out for a school-type environment. Kudos to the SkoleLinux people for recognizing the need for a tailor-made solution, and easy to use solution and having the persevrance to create it.
Here's hoping SkoleLinux finds its intended audience. And stays maintained.
Wow, yet another distro. One year from now, half the original contributors will have lost interest and no one will want to maintai it any more, and the poor users will spend their lives under the hood.
Linux needs a couple of well maintained distros, not willions of roll-your-owns
This argument is fallacious. If publishers who do not use DRM make more money than those that do, soon the publishers who do not use DRM will be making most of the running and getting the most bands.
Of course, if the publishers somehow manage to brainwash the public into thinking that DRM is better -sorry Jane, I cannot share this music with you it's just for us, us who've paid- a bit like the hard-to-get-into-club, then DRM will rule.
I don't get the fuss - surely, authors are allowed to sell their stuff *WITHOUT* DRM ? So, if buyers hate DRM, those authors ought to have an economic advantage over the ones who imose DRM restrictions, should sell more, and DRM restrictions should slowly vanish for purely economic reasons...
If the lamers have ftp upload ability and can execute cgi's via apache you'better have that fix in there too. I guess every single free webhost in the world with cgi's will go down in the next few days.
I think I'm getting tired of the script kiddie menatlity, I guess. Tell me you've crashed your own machine with an exploit, and I'll thank you for making this information available. Tell me you've crashed someone else's machine, especially when they offer free accounts, and I'll accuse you of vandalism.
Yeah, the open source mentality at work - on day zero fo a vulnerability announcement, designate those offering free public computing as a "lame free-shell provider", and take them down, together with the users who depend on them.
Only open source people would be stupid and nasty enough to do this sort of thing - if any software company took down its clients on purpose, they'd get seriously sued.
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When I was at university, in the UK, I left my room door ajar usually, nothing ever got stolen.
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In my street nowadays I can hear car windows getting smashed as druggies hit the parked ATMs
Any script kiddie can hack 90% of the "security" measures out there. And that ratio is here to stay - better safeguards, better scripts.
Locks only make locksmiths richer.
And a little round of applause to Sean for his brilliant and *concise* presentation :)
If you are shooting a show, you end up with a lot of images in the buffer (1DII can do 8images/sec). You cannot change card until they are all spooled out. So either you have a big card and shoot your bursts, or you have small cards and need to wait till you have spooled (1-2 mins) until you can change cards. Waiting is not a thing which a professional photographer likes to do, although Java users are a patient lot (glad I got that in:)
The definition fits a kernel call better than sudo :"'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process".
:)
Microsoft has just patented Unix
Seeong that the US has military and economic power to boot, we pass the laws that the US requests, and hope to stay alive. And of course the US passes the laws that Microsoft requests :)
I think rms had rms as password ::)
Many firms need banking screens designed, stuff like that. What's so special about writing a form that checks that no bill for less than $.001 get sent out ?
Interesting. A typical case for something like this would of course be the result of a search.
The most intersting things on slashdot are the offtopic comments
Just echoing parent's content into subject line.
Webmin for me :)
Add a one-liner with the tool name here to create a quick overview.
An inevitable evolution of bluetooth phones is going to be P2P. Tell your phone what you're looking for, go for a walk on campus, or have coffee at starbucks, and it'll be there when you get back home. The phones eg. P800 can already be used for listening to MP3s, and they can be programmed in Java and C++, it's only a matter of month till we get fully integrated Bluetooth P2P.
I don't think Sun's open sourcing the thing will help Linux users much anyway, the kernel design is probably very different, with more evolved semantics. Which means Linux developers will hae to do the work themselves if they want their admins to have these facilites.
Note that this is finally a tool to resolve finger-pointing *it's your app that's slow - no it's the kernel etc* . I guess IBM will find it advantageous to create a similar Linux tool for their systems, as they bill Linux as an application serving environment. So we should see it soon on our own boxen.
The sad thing is this proves once again that closed source companies retain an edge at innovating.
They'll be hacked, as GNAA points out; but as each disk is custom made there will probably be some individual watermarking buried in the film frames somewhere.
Next year we will first hear that the disks were hacked; then we will see a lawsuit against the poor bastard who lent his disk and player to someone else.
Actually, some of the Pentium comes from the soviet bloc, it is said, as does the core Itanium technology (I remember this from Microprocessor report) - western firms went on a buying spree, buying the brains to make their chips when the wall came down. Their hardware was primitive, but they were very good at supercomputer architecture. Their missiles seem to have been functional too, although we didn't believe it at the time.
Why don't you use a Linux box and Webmin ? Why don' you use Darwin if you need AFS ?
The real point of your issue is that you, like many, want the benefit of an tightly integrated solution that just works - a thing the OS community does not supply - but refuse to pay a company for their proprietary solution to your problem.
Actually, I think that Apple is making a huge mistake by behaving this churlishly, because a lot of techies want to run all these services but don't have the time to admin them the hard way. If Apple Server was free, there would be a lot Macs getting bought, not to replace the Linux boxes but rather to supplement them.
If you are not using AFS you can just use standard OS X as a server, and add the few extensions for services that are essential. Most stuff is already there under the standard user system anyway.
The services compile like on BSD, and you then do GUI-less administration for them. Apple basically sells you the fact that they have done all the compiling and configuring for you - I just wish some of the Open Source vendors did the same.
Sorry for the knee jerk reaction - I looked have now at the site. this distro only asks three questions to install, and set up a server. The architecture seems extremely well thought out for a school-type environment. Kudos to the SkoleLinux people for recognizing the need for a tailor-made solution, and easy to use solution and having the persevrance to create it.
Here's hoping SkoleLinux finds its intended audience. And stays maintained.
Wow, yet another distro. One year from now, half the original contributors will have lost interest and no one will want to maintai it any more, and the poor users will spend their lives under the hood.
Linux needs a couple of well maintained distros, not willions of roll-your-owns
This argument is fallacious. If publishers who do not use DRM make more money than those that do, soon the publishers who do not use DRM will be making most of the running and getting the most bands.
Of course, if the publishers somehow manage to brainwash the public into thinking that DRM is better -sorry Jane, I cannot share this music with you it's just for us, us who've paid- a bit like the hard-to-get-into-club, then DRM will rule.
I don't get the fuss - surely, authors are allowed to sell their stuff *WITHOUT* DRM ? So, if buyers hate DRM, those authors ought to have an economic advantage over the ones who imose DRM restrictions, should sell more, and DRM restrictions should slowly vanish for purely economic reasons ...
The moderation problem here encourages groupthink: Nothing one can do about that. Besides, exactly what is the real workd ?
If the lamers have ftp upload ability and can execute cgi's via apache you'better have that fix in there too. I guess every single free webhost in the world with cgi's will go down in the next few days.
I think I'm getting tired of the script kiddie menatlity, I guess. Tell me you've crashed your own machine with an exploit, and I'll thank you for making this information available. Tell me you've crashed someone else's machine, especially when they offer free accounts, and I'll accuse you of vandalism.
Yeah, the open source mentality at work - on day zero fo a vulnerability announcement, designate those offering free public computing as a "lame free-shell provider", and take them down, together with the users who depend on them.
Only open source people would be stupid and nasty enough to do this sort of thing - if any software company took down its clients on purpose, they'd get seriously sued.