Yet more proof that it's not the OS, it's the admins.
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Point out the fact that if American made computers need this stuff, that lots of people will start importing from Canada. Especially with our poor loonie taking it up the tailfeathers.
Point out the fact that in this scheme, monitors, pens and paper become illegal; it's easy enough to take a 'copy protected' work, display it in hex to the monitor, write it down, and distribute it.
Ask innocently why the printing industry hasn't demanded that photocopiers recognize copyrighted texts and refuse to copy them.
Start singing the latest Britney tune, then say 'oops, I'm sorry, I'm infringing on their copyrights, aren't I? And you just copied it.'
Pull out a text of some 100 year old book that's in the public domain. Pull out an 8 inch floppy. Note that it's only 20 years old, but you probably wouldn't be able to find a reader. Ask how copyright is going to expire on these copy protected thingies.
The eye can only see fifty FPS of FILM, as film includes motion blur and the like, foolying your eyes into seeing many more virutal frames.
Standard example: Take a camera that films at 2 frames per second. Film something passing from extreme left to extreme right over the space of a second; you'll get a blurred image of it passing.
Now, write a 3d engine that will render at 2 frames per second. Have a 3d object pass from left to right over the space of a second. You'll get a static image of the object at one side of the screen for half a second, then a static image of the object on the other side of the screen for half a second.
Looks much different, nicht wahr?
When it's time to install an upgrade, I, as the sys admin, will do the regression testing, sanity checking, and all that stuff. When I'm happy with the upgrade, I'll roll it out to my servers and desktops through automatic means.
My users, on the other hand, are forbidden from installing patches and upgrades on their own. Who knows what it will break? And, as a corallary, they don't need to be bugged about things that are out of their control anyway.
I just find that VPN tends to be a real hit/miss sort of thing; it's delicate, it's fragile, and split networks present a lot of programs some very real difficulties. And heaven help you if you're trying to VPN *out* through a firewall.
Once you've got one working though, especially if you've broadband at home, you're golden.
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Yeah, but accepting a TCP/IP connect, and sending a "we're full" message back, for thousands of Slashdotters, some of whom will have their software set to retry every second, will bring the box down.
Windows 2000 had a PXE install; only needed a boot disk if the computer wasn't PXE-boot capable. Of course, you needed to stand there and hit F11 or some such.
If you had the appropriate GUIDs from the machines, you could even pre-load the active directory and it would go.
When you read warnings on curling irons that warn 'Not for internal use,' and have people suing McDonalds for hot coffee being hot, it's not that far away.
I submitted this yesterday, but it seems that April Fools 'jokes' were more important.
Speaking as somebody who was throughly MUD addicted in college, there really does need to be some study into this. It's perfect 'task-reward' style psychology.
Thanks. I knew it was one of the two, and thought it was Mel Brooks, but I'm often wrong when I'm sure it's one of two, so I usually go for the one I don't think it is.:-)
Actually, the gov't (to the best of my knowledge, still does) use atmospheric noise.
The other option would be SGI's Lava Lamp based RNG. They had a whack of Lava Lamps, would take digital photos, and automagically convert the bitmap into random numbers.
Unfortunately, this is when the AI quite logically concludes that the best way to do this is to start imprisoning every human it can find in a statis chamber. "If *this unit* does not place human in stasis, human will die of systemic failure after approximately 70 years. Therefore, to preserve human life, *this unit* must place human in stasis.
Or, in other words, The Matrix followed the Three Laws, including listening to the orders of humans who knew how to give said orders.
I believe Unisys is one of the companies that sells the huge 64 way x86 boxes that Windows 2000 Datacenter runs on, and thus is directly competitive to UNIX big iron.
Think structure, not representative format.
I.e. you COULD make a relational database using ASCII text files if you really really wanted to; it's just row/column data that you mash together, after all.
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Point out the fact that if American made computers need this stuff, that lots of people will start importing from Canada. Especially with our poor loonie taking it up the tailfeathers.
Point out the fact that in this scheme, monitors, pens and paper become illegal; it's easy enough to take a 'copy protected' work, display it in hex to the monitor, write it down, and distribute it. Ask innocently why the printing industry hasn't demanded that photocopiers recognize copyrighted texts and refuse to copy them. Start singing the latest Britney tune, then say 'oops, I'm sorry, I'm infringing on their copyrights, aren't I? And you just copied it.' Pull out a text of some 100 year old book that's in the public domain. Pull out an 8 inch floppy. Note that it's only 20 years old, but you probably wouldn't be able to find a reader. Ask how copyright is going to expire on these copy protected thingies.
How about Canada? The guy would get laughed out of court up here.
The eye can only see fifty FPS of FILM, as film includes motion blur and the like, foolying your eyes into seeing many more virutal frames. Standard example: Take a camera that films at 2 frames per second. Film something passing from extreme left to extreme right over the space of a second; you'll get a blurred image of it passing. Now, write a 3d engine that will render at 2 frames per second. Have a 3d object pass from left to right over the space of a second. You'll get a static image of the object at one side of the screen for half a second, then a static image of the object on the other side of the screen for half a second. Looks much different, nicht wahr?
It's out of whack enough to damage the firmware of CD-ROM drives, apparently. Buggered-up hardware will easily crash an OS.
When it's time to install an upgrade, I, as the sys admin, will do the regression testing, sanity checking, and all that stuff. When I'm happy with the upgrade, I'll roll it out to my servers and desktops through automatic means.
My users, on the other hand, are forbidden from installing patches and upgrades on their own. Who knows what it will break? And, as a corallary, they don't need to be bugged about things that are out of their control anyway.
I just find that VPN tends to be a real hit/miss sort of thing; it's delicate, it's fragile, and split networks present a lot of programs some very real difficulties. And heaven help you if you're trying to VPN *out* through a firewall. Once you've got one working though, especially if you've broadband at home, you're golden.
Yeah, but accepting a TCP/IP connect, and sending a "we're full" message back, for thousands of Slashdotters, some of whom will have their software set to retry every second, will bring the box down.
If they're offering you a two year contract, you speak up. If they're employing you 'at will' then it's none of their damn business.
Well, you can set the bios for the machine to include 'network' in the boot order, but that has it's own whack of problems.
Windows 2000 had a PXE install; only needed a boot disk if the computer wasn't PXE-boot capable. Of course, you needed to stand there and hit F11 or some such. If you had the appropriate GUIDs from the machines, you could even pre-load the active directory and it would go.
When you read warnings on curling irons that warn 'Not for internal use,' and have people suing McDonalds for hot coffee being hot, it's not that far away.
I submitted this yesterday, but it seems that April Fools 'jokes' were more important. Speaking as somebody who was throughly MUD addicted in college, there really does need to be some study into this. It's perfect 'task-reward' style psychology.
If I subscribe, will I be able to filter out all the fake stories?
Thanks. I knew it was one of the two, and thought it was Mel Brooks, but I'm often wrong when I'm sure it's one of two, so I usually go for the one I don't think it is. :-)
Actually, the gov't (to the best of my knowledge, still does) use atmospheric noise. The other option would be SGI's Lava Lamp based RNG. They had a whack of Lava Lamps, would take digital photos, and automagically convert the bitmap into random numbers.
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
Mel Blanc (I believe.)
In other words, there's exactly two programs the ISP should support; ping and traceroute.
And have you ever watched a Solaris server start refusing connections when the /tmp partition is full?
I believe Unisys is one of the companies that sells the huge 64 way x86 boxes that Windows 2000 Datacenter runs on, and thus is directly competitive to UNIX big iron.
Think structure, not representative format. I.e. you COULD make a relational database using ASCII text files if you really really wanted to; it's just row/column data that you mash together, after all.