yeah, that's the reality. Of course the poster was suggesting that Microsoft can do nothing. This is obviously bunk.
I feel slightly sorry for Microsoft. I used their products in a LAN environment and these features did actually come in handy. They've been exposed by a transition from (relatively) trusted clients to untrusted clients which is a massive paradigm shift. Unix, oth, has had untrusted clients in mind since not long after it's inception (that security was not in mind at the start still reveals itself and plenty of situations).
Maybe one can claim self defence, like being burgled and apprehending your burglars.
If we could then project that theRIAA are an illegal cartel and that we are trying to act in self defence... hmm pretty long shot.
There is one oft overlook aspect to the legal system (at least in the UK) and that is that a jury does not have to return a guilty verdict even if they have been convinced that the defendant committed the act. It is quite within the power of a jury to return not guilty if they think that the law is unjust or unjustly applied. Maybe someone should try that defence sometime and see if they can make it stick!
Sorry Lars but you are wrong. see : rfc2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
3.2.3 URI Comparison
When comparing two URIs to decide if they match or not, a client
SHOULD use a case-sensitive octet-by-octet comparison of the entire
URIs, with these exceptions:
- Comparisons of host names MUST be case-insensitive;
- Comparisons of scheme names MUST be case-insensitive;
if you can't see the need then stick to your GUI, you can't have done much in depth system administration.
Because some vendors operating systems don't discriminate between filenames that differ in case so when their users generate HTML they feel free to mix the case of filenames with no penalty. When they upload their websites to an OS that does discriminate then it often falls to the system admin to perform such tedious tasks.
The post to which I was responding was asserting that a GUI is faster to use in all cases. I was providing a counter example.
Maybe you'd prefer others such as:
generating jpegs for all the ppms in the current directory
for i in *.ppm ; do cat "$i" | cjpeg > `basename $i`.jpg ; done
There seems to be a fast pace to the announcements from the laser & crasytalography world atm. I'm pleased because It's the kind of buzz and hype we need to support the flaky tech industry.
XP has failed to set the world on fire. I think the Linux buzz has been and gone (probably for the best, consolidation is what we need now).
The CPU people seem to have hit a plateau. We just don't seem to need any more raw speed. The GFX people have hit the same place too me thinks. HD storage density is now at a place where we have more storage in our computers than we can readily generate data to fill. We've got broadband. Okay you can never really have too much of these things but ram & hd doublers are very much a thing of the past and my network connection is rarely maxed out.
What does that leave? What technologies are going to drive us to spend?
If I knew I wouldn't say, I'd be investing;)
Roll on crystalline storage and optical computers!
Not necessarily. Recall from this slashdot story about this article the intel compiler also showed similar results over GCC when targetting the Athlon.
GCC's mission statement is not the running time of executable code, we've recently been having a thread about it on the plan9 mailing list (or comp.os.plan9). (although ours started as a flame from Thomas Bushnell that plan9's 8c was nothing more than a "cute toy" - 8c is more concerned with compilation speed than execution time where it beats GCC hands down, if you want raw execution speed look elsewhere).
It could well be that Intel's compiler will show similar performance gains over GCC on the Hammer.
I wonder if every problem will start to look like a nail when the hammer claws it's way out of the AMD tool box.
it's Denise Richie's system design and it has no place on my home machine
that would be Dennis I presume;)
and you know what, he agrees with you. These days the successor to Unix (plan9), in which Dennis was very much involved, doesn't have a root user. Root was deemed a silly thing. A plan9 terminal will let anyone log into it (with a bit of file editing). type "disk/kfscmd allow" and you get to scribble away on the local FS to your heart's content. Access to network resources (particularly the file server) requires authentication from the authentication server which protects you from me and me from you.
In our group when we log in we get the environment we have chosen.
Sounds like Jeff should get a better OS not be a UI nazi.
or
In our car pool I insist no one moves the seats or the mirrors, that way none of us have to annoyingly move the seats or mirrors when we get in. Sure my knees are round my ears and I can't see what's behind me but it beats the crap out of having to move the chair every time!!!
maybe in your country but you may notice the UK part of my post, in our money the higher the denomination, the larger the paper.
Plus water marks and strips of metal woven into the paper in different patterns for different notes. These days notes in the UK are regularly checked under UV lighting. A special pen is used to draw a line on the note but banknote paper is resistant to the ink and it doesn't take to the paper, if the ink shows up under the light you've got a forgery.
And the design of our notes changes every 5 years or so.
Forgeries are possible, I have had them in my own hands when I worked in a pub.
(Plus I once knew someone who laundered forged money as part of his criminal lifestyle, busy nightclubs is the place such things regularly happen).
The Australians have experimented with plastic banknotes but apparently the ink wears off.
I've heard reports that the new Euro notes are going to be electronically tagged. A story has been on/. about it.
I use nochex becuase I can use my UK debit card and I'm not allowed a credit card
http://www.nochex.com
just a heads up:)
What's wrong with worldpay anyhow?
I probably would pay if I could pay!
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1. I don't have a moustache 2. I'm not a liberal 3. I will die, but not for you. 4. No one has faught a war on my behalf, ever! 5. Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough.
How about when I steal them and I can worm my way into your life by knowing everything about your friends beforeI hunt you down and kill you for posting anti-Linux rhetoric on/.
okay maybe not the last bit but just because *you* can't think of a use for the infor doesn't mean someone else can't!
I tried to scan in a picture from a girlie calender the other day and it came out with an array of dots over the picture, it looked terrible. I was told that it was a relatively old form of copy protection. I looked at the source picture but it looked perfect in real life, I wondered how they did it.
The Image can be tuned to the the sampling rate of your scanner and interference introduced (called moire patterns). Change the DPI at which you're scanning and the interference will go away. (or find a real girl!)
It's a techniqued used on UK (and other) banknotes too. The engravers make a series of very this, closely spaced lines. When scanned or photocopied they too form moire patterns.
Of course it's just an arms race but like having a locked gate it affords some security. I have access to cheap scanners & colour photocopiers but not to bank note paper or high end engraving equipment.
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yeah, that's the reality. Of course the poster was suggesting that Microsoft can do nothing. This is obviously bunk.
I feel slightly sorry for Microsoft. I used their products in a LAN environment and these features did actually come in handy. They've been exposed by a transition from (relatively) trusted clients to untrusted clients which is a massive paradigm shift. Unix, oth, has had untrusted clients in mind since not long after it's inception (that security was not in mind at the start still reveals itself and plenty of situations).
Of course MS are hobbled by being a desktop OS provider. Thin clients booting across a network where real file permissions and a sensible built in backup procedure protect the time sharing device from malicious clients make the most security sense I think.
Maybe one can claim self defence, like being burgled and apprehending your burglars.
... hmm pretty long shot.
If we could then project that theRIAA are an illegal cartel and that we are trying to act in self defence
There is one oft overlook aspect to the legal system (at least in the UK) and that is that a jury does not have to return a guilty verdict even if they have been convinced that the defendant committed the act. It is quite within the power of a jury to return not guilty if they think that the law is unjust or unjustly applied. Maybe someone should try that defence sometime and see if they can make it stick!
what else can Microsoft do about blatant user stupidity
1. sandbox any executable
2. introduce an executable bit into the file system so that downloades CANT auto execute
that's 2 things off the top of my head.
you really like making life difficult for yourselves.
You should live somehwre like the UK. We've got no constitution and no freedom of speech!
But everything is legal (unless proscribed!).
USA #1 (tm)
USA #1 (tm)
..
ad nauseum!
blimey one quick example and two people are using it as the definitive distinction between GUI and CLI
the original poster asserted the GUI was quicker FOR EVERYTHING. I provided one counter example. I've provided two more in other posts.
Get a grip!
Sorry Lars but you are wrong.
see : rfc2616
Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
3.2.3 URI Comparison
When comparing two URIs to decide if they match or not, a client
SHOULD use a case-sensitive octet-by-octet comparison of the entire
URIs, with these exceptions:
- Comparisons of host names MUST be case-insensitive;
- Comparisons of scheme names MUST be case-insensitive;
if you can't see the need then stick to your GUI, you can't have done much in depth system administration.
:
Because some vendors operating systems don't discriminate between filenames that differ in case so when their users generate HTML they feel free to mix the case of filenames with no penalty. When they upload their websites to an OS that does discriminate then it often falls to the system admin to perform such tedious tasks.
The post to which I was responding was asserting that a GUI is faster to use in all cases. I was providing a counter example.
Maybe you'd prefer others such as
generating jpegs for all the ppms in the current directory
for i in *.ppm ; do cat "$i" | cjpeg > `basename $i`.jpg ; done
or even just
cat *access_log > allvhosts-access_log
in fact I don't use it at all
FreeBSD for 6 years & plan9 for 2
:) I'll fold
GUI wimp
you should be using gnut like a real geek!
:)
There seems to be a fast pace to the announcements from the laser & crasytalography world atm. I'm pleased because It's the kind of buzz and hype we need to support the flaky tech industry.
;)
XP has failed to set the world on fire. I think the Linux buzz has been and gone (probably for the best, consolidation is what we need now).
The CPU people seem to have hit a plateau. We just don't seem to need any more raw speed. The GFX people have hit the same place too me thinks. HD storage density is now at a place where we have more storage in our computers than we can readily generate data to fill. We've got broadband. Okay you can never really have too much of these things but ram & hd doublers are very much a thing of the past and my network connection is rarely maxed out.
What does that leave?
What technologies are going to drive us to spend?
If I knew I wouldn't say, I'd be investing
Roll on crystalline storage and optical computers!
Not necessarily. Recall from this slashdot story about this article the intel compiler also showed similar results over GCC when targetting the Athlon.
GCC's mission statement is not the running time of executable code, we've recently been having a thread about it on the plan9 mailing list (or comp.os.plan9). (although ours started as a flame from Thomas Bushnell that plan9's 8c was nothing more than a "cute toy" - 8c is more concerned with compilation speed than execution time where it beats GCC hands down, if you want raw execution speed look elsewhere).
It could well be that Intel's compiler will show similar performance gains over GCC on the Hammer.
I wonder if every problem will start to look like a nail when the hammer claws it's way out of the AMD tool box.
not if Raskin has anything to do with, that's my point.
He suggests no-one should move the settings from their default
get it?
it's Denise Richie's system design and it has no place on my home machine
;)
that would be Dennis I presume
and you know what, he agrees with you. These days the successor to Unix (plan9), in which Dennis was very much involved, doesn't have a root user. Root was deemed a silly thing. A plan9 terminal will let anyone log into it (with a bit of file editing). type "disk/kfscmd allow" and you get to scribble away on the local FS to your heart's content. Access to network resources (particularly the file server) requires authentication from the authentication server which protects you from me and me from you.
plan9
woohoo my first post in the Apple sections and it's about plan9!
/me looks forward to his iMac arriving but has to wait 3-5 weeks for Apple UK to deliver it!
the next time the machine with that serial # uses Software Update, bam!
what!!! my stolen laptop Explodes, no way!
so bam, waddya mean bam?
Do Apple get involved with law enforcement at this point? or what, come on explain yourself....
In our group when we log in we get the environment we have chosen.
Sounds like Jeff should get a better OS not be a UI nazi.
or
In our car pool I insist no one moves the seats or the mirrors, that way none of us have to annoyingly move the seats or mirrors when we get in. Sure my knees are round my ears and I can't see what's behind me but it beats the crap out of having to move the chair every time!!!
Everyone knows that you can get things done ten times faster in a GUI yet home many people still stick with a plain old Bash shell?
Such rubbish. You can do some things quicker in a GUI and other things take an absolute age.
I challenge you to rename 100 jpegs from *.JPG to *.jpg quicker in a GUI than it took me to type:
ls *.JPG | awk -f '\.JPG' '{system(sprintf("mv \"%s\".JPG \"%s\".jpg", $0, $0))}'
I like the font efficiency though
maybe in your country but you may notice the UK part of my post, in our money the higher the denomination, the larger the paper.
/. about it.
Plus water marks and strips of metal woven into the paper in different patterns for different notes. These days notes in the UK are regularly checked under UV lighting. A special pen is used to draw a line on the note but banknote paper is resistant to the ink and it doesn't take to the paper, if the ink shows up under the light you've got a forgery.
And the design of our notes changes every 5 years or so.
Forgeries are possible, I have had them in my own hands when I worked in a pub.
(Plus I once knew someone who laundered forged money as part of his criminal lifestyle, busy nightclubs is the place such things regularly happen).
The Australians have experimented with plastic banknotes but apparently the ink wears off.
I've heard reports that the new Euro notes are going to be electronically tagged. A story has been on
no credit card = no PayPal
:)
I use nochex becuase I can use my UK debit card and I'm not allowed a credit card
http://www.nochex.com
just a heads up
What's wrong with worldpay anyhow?
I probably would pay if I could pay!
1. I don't have a moustache
2. I'm not a liberal
3. I will die, but not for you.
4. No one has faught a war on my behalf, ever!
5. Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough.
nuttin'
How about when I steal them and I can worm my way into your life by knowing everything about your friends beforeI hunt you down and kill you for posting anti-Linux rhetoric on /.
okay maybe not the last bit but just because *you* can't think of a use for the infor doesn't mean someone else can't!
who cares?
life at the karma kap is dull
I've earned my right to be as offtopic, flamebaiting and trollish as I like!
I'd prefer to be able to keep racking up the points but seeing a post scored 5 is disappointing when you were at 50 when you posted it.
I tried to scan in a picture from a girlie calender the other day and it came out with an array of dots over the picture, it looked terrible. I was told that it was a relatively old form of copy protection. I looked at the source picture but it looked perfect in real life, I wondered how they did it.
The Image can be tuned to the the sampling rate of your scanner and interference introduced (called moire patterns).
Change the DPI at which you're scanning and the interference will go away. (or find a real girl!)
It's a techniqued used on UK (and other) banknotes too. The engravers make a series of very this, closely spaced lines. When scanned or photocopied they too form moire patterns.
Of course it's just an arms race but like having a locked gate it affords some security. I have access to cheap scanners & colour photocopiers but not to bank note paper or high end engraving equipment.
I wonder what the army and their "toys" are capable of...
murdering people in unimaginably painful ways
oh, and eating 4 year old macaroni cheese!