Quite some time ago, IBM did release the source code of the WorkPlace Shell for Windows under the Common Public License. So if someone really wanted to examine a WorkPlace Shell implementation... It does exist in open source form...
I'm an idiot. They were stored in SHA-512 hashes, since they were passwords for JIRA, but the likelihood of the passwords breaking on a dictionary attack is apparently high.
And they also logged passwords with a fake login page, so protections like that are pretty much void...
So, meh... It's my fault for not reading the article... When will I learn?:P
With passwords for HTTP[S], normally they are stored entirely in plaintext. So, no. Probably the Apache Foundation will wipe all the passwords and require a total reset of brutus.apache.org
Nothing about the rest of what I said? And I don't think Wine is bunk. I have played quite a few edutainment Windows games in Wine and they perform well in it. And quite a few of the newest games work in Wine too. Wine has been ready for prime time for a long time now. However, it isn't perfect, and there could be games that would be problematic. It depends on the games they are playing.
GNOME Nanny and TimeKpr both have time usage management available in an easy to use GUI. And there is dansguardian and various GUI tools for it to do web filtering.
Wine and Linux for the client machines should work well for your needs. Ive seen that most games work quite well under Linux+Wine. If Wine isnt enough, possibly CrossOver Games would be better.
Windows prior to Vista doesnt really offer capabilities that you are requesting, as far as I know. And Windows is still expensive...
But on the Linux side, there are a few tools that can do that.
For GNOME, there is GNOME Nanny. Though it seems restricted to time session management and web activities.
A more universal set of tools is available too:
TimeKpr- Controls login and session times using PAM
WebContentControl- Despite its name, it does more than control website access. It also includes scripts for controlling application access.
A new *in-development* GUI called GChildCare is being made to succeed WebContentControl.
Im not sure if there are other tools out there that work. I think Mandriva Linux actually provides integrated support for parental controls similar to GNOME Nanny and TimeKpr. The scripts from WebContentControl would let you block which applications they can run, though that isnt that big of a problem on Linux if they dont have a compiler or root access.
KDE itself has a configurable Kiosk mode, which can help control KDE itself.
Submitters don't tend to fully read the articles they submit, which helps the sensationalism that is the "Slashdot Effect." Is that bad? Maybe. Is it going to change? Unlikely.
My university here teaches intro with C++, which they feel isn't a good choice. However, they teach it because Electrical Engineers need to know a "C" or "C-like" language. Apparently they want to shift to Python in the near future, which means they need to work out how to bridge between Python and C in Intermediate (which is another required course for Electrical Engineers)...
Well, isn't it sorta an architectural problem too? X11 and the X server weren't designed with 3D graphics in mind, nor were they designed with hardware accelerated graphics in mind either.
They were designed for integrated remote network session support that was efficiently and transparently shifting and handling local and remote displays.
Nowadays, the 3D code cuts through the X server and goes straight to the graphics card to handle 3D. However, we might see those 3D drivers being used to globally accelerate Xorg as a whole soon enough. If a Gallium driver is written to bridge Xorg with Gallium and display the desktop as an OpenGL composite, then perhaps the stability issues might be reduced...
Of course, what do I know? I barely mess with Xorg as it is, and I'm certainly no expert on the X11 protocol and the X server...
I've seen a few Japanese sites that use Flash to make hover menus embedded with CJK text in order to escape the font problem. They could probably do it with JavaScript and images, but Flash seems to be the popular solution right now...
With 14 contributors, that they got it done in two years is impressive. Hopefully with this update, more distributions will be able to readily support LTSP 5.2 again...
Apple works really hard to keep everything in their little bubble... I am not surprised they are going this route, if indeed it turns out to be that way....
Meh... Of course Microsoft responds that way....
They don't want to say that the iPad could possibly be another game-changer, even though Apple seems to be known for doing that nowadays...
Absolutely not. The H.264 license is explicitly only valid for Google builds of "Google Chrome." Chromium and non-Google builds of Chrome do not count. If you build it yourself, you don't have the license. Two words: You're screwed.
According to Wikipedia's page history on the list of CMSes, it has been put there before... more than once apparently. And each time it was removed because it "wasn't notable"
Opera is dependent on the licensing of their technology to specialized devices to survive. As a result, Opera's focus is largely on speed and memory footprint more than anything else.
Mozilla largely has free reign over the development of Firefox and Thunderbird because of Google's "hands-off" sponsorship. All they require is Google be the default engine and start page when Firefox is installed. Not much to sacrifice really...
You are normally right. However, it is possible to write codecs in ActionScript, but they are horribly slow. Flash includes a VP6, H.263, and H.264 codecs for video as well as a PCM and MP3 codec for audio within the plugin itself...
It is about time video game music gets the recognition it deserves!!! You have to be creative to make good music for video games, although nowadays that is lessening due to the increasing capabilities of video game consoles....
And that's probably why companies would start to fight this. If the government could circumvent it like that, NDAs will be as well. No company worth its salt would dare allow NDAs to become useless...
There's no way in hell that Red Hat, as an American company, would use Fedora 13 as the basis for RHEL 6. So, almost definitely, Fedora 12 will be the primary release that RHEL6 is based on. There will almost certainly be some components cherry picked from Fedora 13, but Fedora 13 will not be the ultimate basis of RHEL 6.
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Quite some time ago, IBM did release the source code of the WorkPlace Shell for Windows under the Common Public License. So if someone really wanted to examine a WorkPlace Shell implementation... It does exist in open source form...
I'm an idiot. They were stored in SHA-512 hashes, since they were passwords for JIRA, but the likelihood of the passwords breaking on a dictionary attack is apparently high.
And they also logged passwords with a fake login page, so protections like that are pretty much void...
So, meh... It's my fault for not reading the article... When will I learn? :P
With passwords for HTTP[S], normally they are stored entirely in plaintext. So, no. Probably the Apache Foundation will wipe all the passwords and require a total reset of brutus.apache.org
Nothing about the rest of what I said? And I don't think Wine is bunk. I have played quite a few edutainment Windows games in Wine and they perform well in it. And quite a few of the newest games work in Wine too. Wine has been ready for prime time for a long time now. However, it isn't perfect, and there could be games that would be problematic. It depends on the games they are playing.
GNOME Nanny and TimeKpr both have time usage management available in an easy to use GUI. And there is dansguardian and various GUI tools for it to do web filtering.
Wine and Linux for the client machines should work well for your needs. Ive seen that most games work quite well under Linux+Wine. If Wine isnt enough, possibly CrossOver Games would be better.
Windows prior to Vista doesnt really offer capabilities that you are requesting, as far as I know. And Windows is still expensive...
But on the Linux side, there are a few tools that can do that.
For GNOME, there is GNOME Nanny. Though it seems restricted to time session management and web activities.
A more universal set of tools is available too:
Im not sure if there are other tools out there that work. I think Mandriva Linux actually provides integrated support for parental controls similar to GNOME Nanny and TimeKpr. The scripts from WebContentControl would let you block which applications they can run, though that isnt that big of a problem on Linux if they dont have a compiler or root access.
KDE itself has a configurable Kiosk mode, which can help control KDE itself.
The new Doctor is quite impressive! A little bit on the stranger side, but fans of Doctor Who are no strangers to strange Doctors!
Submitters don't tend to fully read the articles they submit, which helps the sensationalism that is the "Slashdot Effect." Is that bad? Maybe. Is it going to change? Unlikely.
My university here teaches intro with C++, which they feel isn't a good choice. However, they teach it because Electrical Engineers need to know a "C" or "C-like" language. Apparently they want to shift to Python in the near future, which means they need to work out how to bridge between Python and C in Intermediate (which is another required course for Electrical Engineers)...
As far as I know, it definitely is a privacy violation.... But then again, IANAL
Well, isn't it sorta an architectural problem too? X11 and the X server weren't designed with 3D graphics in mind, nor were they designed with hardware accelerated graphics in mind either. They were designed for integrated remote network session support that was efficiently and transparently shifting and handling local and remote displays. Nowadays, the 3D code cuts through the X server and goes straight to the graphics card to handle 3D. However, we might see those 3D drivers being used to globally accelerate Xorg as a whole soon enough. If a Gallium driver is written to bridge Xorg with Gallium and display the desktop as an OpenGL composite, then perhaps the stability issues might be reduced... Of course, what do I know? I barely mess with Xorg as it is, and I'm certainly no expert on the X11 protocol and the X server...
I've seen a few Japanese sites that use Flash to make hover menus embedded with CJK text in order to escape the font problem. They could probably do it with JavaScript and images, but Flash seems to be the popular solution right now...
With 14 contributors, that they got it done in two years is impressive. Hopefully with this update, more distributions will be able to readily support LTSP 5.2 again...
Apple works really hard to keep everything in their little bubble... I am not surprised they are going this route, if indeed it turns out to be that way....
Ehh... Microsoft is still Chairman of the company...
Meh... Of course Microsoft responds that way.... They don't want to say that the iPad could possibly be another game-changer, even though Apple seems to be known for doing that nowadays...
Enano CMS... It's already on SourceForge
Absolutely not. The H.264 license is explicitly only valid for Google builds of "Google Chrome." Chromium and non-Google builds of Chrome do not count. If you build it yourself, you don't have the license. Two words: You're screwed.
According to Wikipedia's page history on the list of CMSes, it has been put there before... more than once apparently. And each time it was removed because it "wasn't notable"
Heh. I'm the other guy on the project. I'm surprised the comments didn't turn out to be too bad. I'd forgotten about the Freshmeat page....
Opera is dependent on the licensing of their technology to specialized devices to survive. As a result, Opera's focus is largely on speed and memory footprint more than anything else. Mozilla largely has free reign over the development of Firefox and Thunderbird because of Google's "hands-off" sponsorship. All they require is Google be the default engine and start page when Firefox is installed. Not much to sacrifice really...
You are normally right. However, it is possible to write codecs in ActionScript, but they are horribly slow. Flash includes a VP6, H.263, and H.264 codecs for video as well as a PCM and MP3 codec for audio within the plugin itself...
It is about time video game music gets the recognition it deserves!!! You have to be creative to make good music for video games, although nowadays that is lessening due to the increasing capabilities of video game consoles....
And that's probably why companies would start to fight this. If the government could circumvent it like that, NDAs will be as well. No company worth its salt would dare allow NDAs to become useless...
There's no way in hell that Red Hat, as an American company, would use Fedora 13 as the basis for RHEL 6. So, almost definitely, Fedora 12 will be the primary release that RHEL6 is based on. There will almost certainly be some components cherry picked from Fedora 13, but Fedora 13 will not be the ultimate basis of RHEL 6.