technological advancements that have been missed because of this disgusting behaviour.
Microsoft has done more to lower the standards and expectations of computing than any other company in history. If you argue that they have lots of money therefore must be good then you just don't get it.
Did you hear that NTT joined with OSDL? They'll be working on our Linux OS for all new projects! Obviously they have come to their senses, email from "l337_d00dx0rzz@hotmail.com" said that NTT would be sending us a large sum of money for licensing.
Darl
ps: we *could* use another $500 or $600K to make this month's payroll.
Simple solution: swap your transit passes with your friends when you get together.
SCREW PROFILING, some ways to poison the well:
Swap supermarket "discount cards" with friends. (friend and I swap Safeway Club Cards when we get
together)
Never give the right answers on surveys. Postage-paid mail in ones are the best. Make them think you go
through 12 boxes of Kotex Extra Fluffy Pads a month even though it may just be you in your mom's basement.
Air Miles cards? Flying is cheap enough without my purchasing info being pored over by scumbag marketers.
Places that ask for your phone number? Give them a local massage parlour's number. (yes, I have one
memorized for that purpose)
When entering your name somethere use a bogus middle initial so you know which firm sold your info when
mail starts coming in with a wrong middle letter. If you get junk, return it as "Moved".
Bah, this is way off topic (mod me to hell) but it felt good. Time to check the tinfoil on my hat.
I wish these companies would leave just a single RS-232
or RS-422 port. Sometimes you need a simple serial connection to connect
through if the network is down. The lack of serial also limits the use for these boards for controlling other
pieces of hardware if embedding is your thing.
Maybe an online petition to bring back the RS-232 is in order:)
So you'd be happy to have the worst-case-nightmare all the GPL-lovers fear: having MS scoop up Linux and not contribute back? The could currently do this with the BSD license but haven't (yet:))..
Think of it from the other side of the fence; if you weren't running Windows on every desktop you wouldn't need your 2+/week meetings to discuss the latest viruses and trojans.
Of course that would mean your IT budgets would be cut and people laid off as your group became more productive with less.
Why is such an important system run on Windows? This isn't an "MS sux0r5, install Linux" rant, they
should use the proper systems for the job. If that tool is some open source stuff or closed source then
so be it but you can't tell me that this database can only be run on Windows.
Of course "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail."..
Having a small amount of the sshd code running as root with the 'sshd' user handling the rest helps make it harder for other exploits. I don't think anyone would suggest that PrivSep makes an exploit impossible, but it is another great layer on the security-onion.
From the article: At least one of these bugs is remotely exploitable (under a non-standard
configuration, with privsep disabled)
Priviledge Separation saves the day again. I think this is a testament to the forward thinking of the
OpenBSD and OpenSSH people: they know that human error introduces potentially exploitable bugs,
hence the work that went into PrivSep to minimize the risk.
Having started with Wordstar under CP/M on an Apple ][+ in ~1981 or 82, I found
Joe to be just what I was looking for.
If I want a graphical editor on a Unix-like system,
NEdit is the only thing I use (I have it configured to highlight/italicize/colourize keywords and other goo in Cisco
PIX config files). It's graphical, yes, but otherwise quite lightweight and responsive. Of course a
good working knowledge of vi is useful as it's pretty much the lowest common denominator
on any Unix-like system.
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technological advancements that have been missed because of this disgusting behaviour.
Microsoft has done more to lower the standards and expectations of computing than any other company in history. If you argue that they have lots of money therefore must be good then you just don't get it.
more than 50 million Americans believe that the earth is 6000 years old (or whatever bullshit theory that is)
Young Earth Theory, IIRC. Are you serious? I have a hard time believing that 1 in 6 Americans is brainwashed that badly.
Remember:
Cult: A small, unpopular religion
Religion: A large, popular cult.
"Fifty million Americans can't be wrong."
Unless those same 50 million people are using P2P software.
If you thought SCO was mad over 2.4, just wait until they make up evidence for the 2.6 kernel!
My employer asked for a blood sample, urine sample, stool sample and sperm sample.. I gave them my underwear.
Simple solution: swap your transit passes with your friends when you get together.
SCREW PROFILING, some ways to poison the well:
Swap supermarket "discount cards" with friends. (friend and I swap Safeway Club Cards when we get together)
Never give the right answers on surveys. Postage-paid mail in ones are the best. Make them think you go through 12 boxes of Kotex Extra Fluffy Pads a month even though it may just be you in your mom's basement.
Air Miles cards? Flying is cheap enough without my purchasing info being pored over by scumbag marketers.
Places that ask for your phone number? Give them a local massage parlour's number. (yes, I have one memorized for that purpose)
When entering your name somethere use a bogus middle initial so you know which firm sold your info when mail starts coming in with a wrong middle letter. If you get junk, return it as "Moved".
Bah, this is way off topic (mod me to hell) but it felt good. Time to check the tinfoil on my hat.
Yup. Hell, I'd be happy with bare solder pads on the board. I rarely need anything other than TX, RX and Ground.
.. and chips never fail. Really, for embedding things like this KISS will save you work in the long run.
Mini-itx was 17x17 centimeters, this is 12x12, so 5cm (or about 2 inches) smaller than a mini-itx.
You're looking at it wrong: Mini-ITX 17^2 = 289 cm^2, this board 12^2 = 144 cm^2. It's just less than half the size, quite a feat.
Just get a USB->RS232 cable.
That's another layer of complexity. It may work fine for Rube Goldberg but the less things to break, the better.
VIA have removed the legacy ports
I wish these companies would leave just a single RS-232 or RS-422 port. Sometimes you need a simple serial connection to connect through if the network is down. The lack of serial also limits the use for these boards for controlling other pieces of hardware if embedding is your thing.
Maybe an online petition to bring back the RS-232 is in order
You forgot beer.. lots of beer..
So you'd be happy to have the worst-case-nightmare all the GPL-lovers fear: having MS scoop up Linux and not contribute back? The could currently do this with the BSD license but haven't (yet :))..
Abolishing copyright would make various open source licenses unenforcable..
What you mean is "Windows Means Job Security".
Think of it from the other side of the fence; if you weren't running Windows on every desktop you wouldn't need your 2+/week meetings to discuss the latest viruses and trojans.
Of course that would mean your IT budgets would be cut and people laid off as your group became more productive with less.
We can't have that now, can we?
Why is such an important system run on Windows? This isn't an "MS sux0r5, install Linux" rant, they should use the proper systems for the job. If that tool is some open source stuff or closed source then so be it but you can't tell me that this database can only be run on Windows.
Of course "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail."
couch: 3.2 metric tonnes, hello Cowboy Neil!
Get all your Dartmouth friends to call the Help Desk on their leet VoIP phones and yell "PING" repeatedly when the person answers.
Having a small amount of the sshd code running as root with the 'sshd' user handling the rest helps make it harder for other exploits. I don't think anyone would suggest that PrivSep makes an exploit impossible, but it is another great layer on the security-onion.
From the article: At least one of these bugs is remotely exploitable (under a non-standard configuration, with privsep disabled)
Priviledge Separation saves the day again. I think this is a testament to the forward thinking of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH people: they know that human error introduces potentially exploitable bugs, hence the work that went into PrivSep to minimize the risk.
"The lengths some people will goto to try and damage Theo's pride" Most moronic submitter comment ever.
Does the $15,000 include the $699 for SCO?
Ummm...you can turn off all those "damned features," unless you're too stupid (script writers) to know how.
If you turn off all those features then you may as well use a simpler, tighter editor in the first place, yes?
Having started with Wordstar under CP/M on an Apple ][+ in ~1981 or 82, I found Joe to be just what I was looking for. If I want a graphical editor on a Unix-like system, NEdit is the only thing I use (I have it configured to highlight/italicize/colourize keywords and other goo in Cisco PIX config files).
It's graphical, yes, but otherwise quite lightweight and responsive. Of course a good working knowledge of vi is useful as it's pretty much the lowest common denominator on any Unix-like system.
Pico? Begone, infidel!