You're speaking of it as if it is a certainty. You might want to wait and see just how good these devices are. I bet that you'll be pleasantly surprised by the state of the computer-controlled radio art.
The TV Band (whitespace) Devices will broadcast over top of, and block my Baltimore/Philly stations.
Prove it. Oh, wait... you can't, as there currenlty are no licensed whitespace devices out in the market. The FCC is requiring that whitespace devices not interfere with DTV and wireless mic signals. I bet that you would get a rapid and effective response from the FCC if you *really* did have a whitespace device that was fucking up your TV signal.
If PB runs as a system service, then there should be two parts to PB. The first part should be embedded in the game and should have no problems with running w/out privs. The second part should be running as a service with privs. When a PB enabled game starts, the first part should say to the second part "Hi. PB service, I'm a PB enabled game. Start scanning for eeevil!".
And yeah. I've *heard* that PB kinda sucks, too. I don't have any recent first-hand experience with it as I've not run it in a very long time.
Hey, circletimesqueare! I use NoScript and AdBlock. I've also gotten really sick of Adobe's Flash plugin and have switched to Gnash. About 50% of the Flash on the web doesn't work any more, but -since the switch- I've never walked up to my computer to find Firefox hopelessly wedged.
Just thought I'd let you know how I was doing these days.:) How are you?
This is overkill. If your software will only accept connections from whitelisted hosts (or subnets, you get the picture), then one can have all of the open ports that they wish. The app on the other side of em won't give attackers the time of day.:)
I tried to run in a "user" usergroup when I replaces win2k pro with win xp pro but nothing ran correctly.
My anecdotal experience does not match your own. I have a Windows Server 2003 machine that I use to play video games at home. My primary user account is unprivileged. The only non-installer app that I've run into that required Admin privs was Quake (3? 4?)'s PunkBuster. (Why the fuck it needed privs, I have no idea. It didn't get em, and was shitcanned before the day was out.) Run As... works for everything but launching Windows Update, or running an app that lives on a mapped network share.
I have a Windows XP Pro machine that I use to do development at work. Company policy dictates that I run as a limited user. (VS 2003 and up dictate that I have be a member of the Debugging Users group. This is the only concession that the Company is willing to make.) I am able to do development work in this environment. I've been able to run every piece of development-oriented software that I've come across. I'm able to run all of the MSFT Office suite. If I need an app installed, I get a Sysadmin to install it for me. (This process is really less painful than it sounds.)
Having Google Latitude at least makes people aware that...
Aye! This is very much like Facebook's switch to the "All-Seeing-Eye" style of feed that aggregated all of the public info about your friends and presented it to you.
"By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program."
It would seem that GPLv3 doesn't change the landscape for this sort of thing. Also, I would wonder if publishing your communication protocol (maybe along with a liberally licensed, actively maintained client and server) would cause the FSF to look more favourably at your closed-source app.
Regardless. Wouldn't Apple be using GCC to merely generate an AST of some source code? I can't possibly see how *that* would qualify as a complex internal data structure.:)
Bright colors, exclamation points, crazy logos, claims of a "safer internet" [1]. That sort of stuff screams EVIL to me... I might be the only one, though.
I've never actually scrolled to the bottom of their page, so this is the first time I've seen the citations they've received in real news publications. That does offset the spammy feel of the rest of their site.
[1] Yeah, I know that noscript really does make a safer internet. A lot of evil software makes that same claim, so ya know...:)
Okay. If they don't want to use Bonjour, then the traffic is unneeded. But, isn't this a tempest in a teapot? I'd be willing to bet that Bonjour is *far* less chatty than CIFS/SMB. Also, how many folks actually use CIFS? For the average Joe, it's a little tricky to turn that fucker off.:)
WRT "network being serviced by other protocols": Bonjour is about arbitrary service discovery. CIFS just does file and printer sharing. As far as I know, there's *nothing* in the Windows world that provides the same services that Bonjour does.
If that junction throws off the total disk usage stat, then either Explorer or NTFS (or both) is completely useless.
As dumb as both of those things are, I can't imagine that they are useless.;)
From what I understand, in order to better serve backcompat, winsxs contains a copy of just about every DLL ever shipped with WinNT. I'm sure that this is a little bit of an exaggeration. I'm also pretty sure that all those DLLs wouldn't take up more than 4GB.
Reminded me of that airhead I once knew who had been hired to be a 911 in NYC, even though her husband was a fugitive from the law and had an outstanding warrent on him.
What do crimes of the husband have to do with the behaviour of the wife?
Please write back with a situation report when the DTV stations are at full power. If these threads are locked, you can reach me at my slashdot username on gmail's server.
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QT can be used for more than just GUIs, hoss.
C++ is bloated?
Yes, it is. Have you ever used the language?
I have, and do. Care to point out specific instances of bloat?
You're speaking of it as if it is a certainty. You might want to wait and see just how good these devices are. I bet that you'll be pleasantly surprised by the state of the computer-controlled radio art.
The TV Band (whitespace) Devices will broadcast over top of, and block my Baltimore/Philly stations.
Prove it. Oh, wait... you can't, as there currenlty are no licensed whitespace devices out in the market.
The FCC is requiring that whitespace devices not interfere with DTV and wireless mic signals. I bet that you would get a rapid and effective response from the FCC if you *really* did have a whitespace device that was fucking up your TV signal.
If PB runs as a system service, then there should be two parts to PB. The first part should be embedded in the game and should have no problems with running w/out privs. The second part should be running as a service with privs. When a PB enabled game starts, the first part should say to the second part "Hi. PB service, I'm a PB enabled game. Start scanning for eeevil!".
And yeah. I've *heard* that PB kinda sucks, too. I don't have any recent first-hand experience with it as I've not run it in a very long time.
Hey, circletimesqueare!
I use NoScript and AdBlock.
I've also gotten really sick of Adobe's Flash plugin and have switched to Gnash. About 50% of the Flash on the web doesn't work any more, but -since the switch- I've never walked up to my computer to find Firefox hopelessly wedged.
Just thought I'd let you know how I was doing these days. :)
How are you?
Continuing to converse with circletimesquare is generally a waste of time. (FYI)
keep his airwaves filled with entertainment.
This is inexplicably hilarious.
In comes Win2k and suddenly, when you are not logged in as admin, your games don't work.
All of my games work as a limited user.
I've been running some old and some new games.
(I might be biased, though. I can't imagine that I would keep playing a game the required me to run as Admin.)
Having no open ports.
This is overkill. If your software will only accept connections from whitelisted hosts (or subnets, you get the picture), then one can have all of the open ports that they wish. The app on the other side of em won't give attackers the time of day. :)
I tried to run in a "user" usergroup when I replaces win2k pro with win xp pro but nothing ran correctly.
My anecdotal experience does not match your own.
I have a Windows Server 2003 machine that I use to play video games at home. My primary user account is unprivileged. The only non-installer app that I've run into that required Admin privs was Quake (3? 4?)'s PunkBuster. (Why the fuck it needed privs, I have no idea. It didn't get em, and was shitcanned before the day was out.)
Run As... works for everything but launching Windows Update, or running an app that lives on a mapped network share.
I have a Windows XP Pro machine that I use to do development at work. Company policy dictates that I run as a limited user. (VS 2003 and up dictate that I have be a member of the Debugging Users group. This is the only concession that the Company is willing to make.) I am able to do development work in this environment. I've been able to run every piece of development-oriented software that I've come across. I'm able to run all of the MSFT Office suite. If I need an app installed, I get a Sysadmin to install it for me. (This process is really less painful than it sounds.)
Anecdotal evidence sucks.
*sigh* Fuck ZFS.
Support costs for open source ARE more expensive than for major vendors who supply training and other support.
Got any apples-to-apples comparisons to back this up?
Windows-based sysadmins are easier to find than those who claim to know Linux...
Doubtful. You *do* know how many Ubuntu users there are, right? I'd be willing to be that the bulk of them would claim to know Linux. :D
Having Google Latitude at least makes people aware that...
Aye! This is very much like Facebook's switch to the "All-Seeing-Eye" style of feed that aggregated all of the public info about your friends and presented it to you.
Oooh. You're good.
Do one on Gentoo Linux!
You can speak HTTP over a UNIX socket just as easily as you can over a network socket.
WRT Licensing:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
"By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program."
It would seem that GPLv3 doesn't change the landscape for this sort of thing. Also, I would wonder if publishing your communication protocol (maybe along with a liberally licensed, actively maintained client and server) would cause the FSF to look more favourably at your closed-source app.
Regardless. Wouldn't Apple be using GCC to merely generate an AST of some source code? I can't possibly see how *that* would qualify as a complex internal data structure. :)
because GCC GPL'd and so they can't use it for syntax highlighting in XCode.
Rubbish. Apple can create a GCC-based syntax highlighter that communicates with XCode through sockets. Licensing problem solved.
Check out their website:
http://noscript.net/
Bright colors, exclamation points, crazy logos, claims of a "safer internet" [1]. That sort of stuff screams EVIL to me... I might be the only one, though.
I've never actually scrolled to the bottom of their page, so this is the first time I've seen the citations they've received in real news publications. That does offset the spammy feel of the rest of their site.
[1] Yeah, I know that noscript really does make a safer internet. A lot of evil software makes that same claim, so ya know... :)
Okay. If they don't want to use Bonjour, then the traffic is unneeded. But, isn't this a tempest in a teapot? I'd be willing to bet that Bonjour is *far* less chatty than CIFS/SMB. Also, how many folks actually use CIFS? For the average Joe, it's a little tricky to turn that fucker off. :)
WRT "network being serviced by other protocols":
Bonjour is about arbitrary service discovery. CIFS just does file and printer sharing. As far as I know, there's *nothing* in the Windows world that provides the same services that Bonjour does.
Given the unnecessary network traffic that comes with Bonjour,
What unnecessary traffic? Is it any worse than the SMB/CIFS/WINS broadcasts that samba and Windows boxes generate?
TBH, I *REALLY* wish that the Avahi folks would get around to letting you announce IPv6 DNS servers on your lan.
So then, we could have radvd for v6 autoconfigure, the avahi daemon rewriting resolv.conf (or whatever Windows uses), and do away with DHCPv6 servers!
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I looked into Foxit. It *sounds* really shady.
However, if you look into NoScript, it *SCREAMS* really shady, so looks can be very deceiving.
If that junction throws off the total disk usage stat, then either Explorer or NTFS (or both) is completely useless.
As dumb as both of those things are, I can't imagine that they are useless. ;)
From what I understand, in order to better serve backcompat, winsxs contains a copy of just about every DLL ever shipped with WinNT. I'm sure that this is a little bit of an exaggeration. I'm also pretty sure that all those DLLs wouldn't take up more than 4GB.
Reminded me of that airhead I once knew who had been hired to be a 911 in NYC, even though her husband was a fugitive from the law and had an outstanding warrent on him.
What do crimes of the husband have to do with the behaviour of the wife?
Please write back with a situation report when the DTV stations are at full power. If these threads are locked, you can reach me at my slashdot username on gmail's server.