The Motorola (Droid) Pro+ has a number of enterprise level additions to it, focusing on security in a business environment. Including encryption, remote wiping, and "dead zones" to disable features like the camera, etc. in certain areas. And it's got a querty keypad (candbar design, not a slider) Check it out!
Why would the US want to participate in a skank, low class mission like this when we have an armada of successful spacecraft already operating on Mars and more advanced ones on the way? It would just lend prestige to the backward Russian and the Chinese effort.
That's a pretty ignorant thing to say. Just because a culture is different than what you perceive as normal doesn't mean it's "backwards" and "low class".
I don't understand how the use of file sharing software immediately implicates the user as a pirate. As you all know, many thing are made available for download with torrents.
They would either have to go after everyone detected using a file sharing protocol (with no knowledge of what the contact was) or somehow determine what was being download, which would take much more resources. Either way, it's impractical.
What's the difference between downloading a free eBook or a copyrighted one? A Linux ISO or a Windows ISO? A copyrighted game or a patch for the same game? The differences are very slight and most torrent trackers provide all of this content together without differentiating.
So are they basically saying the use of torrents would be illegal in the EU (if this law was passed)? Direct content from legitimate companies, would be all we would could legally access?
People bad-mouth X because their PC happens not to use its power. They complain about its "bloat", because they see it taking 10MB of their 256-MB machine's precious RAM, most of which is idle.
You obviously have not tried ripping a CD, while listening to an MP3, using Mozilla, checking email in Evolution, in Gnome2 or KDE3... window responsiveness really starts to suffer. 256mb of RAM goes fast. But that isn't the point of this topic, and neither is your comment. Using 10mb is using 10mb, no matter how much RAM you have in total.
It's like saying, Oh you are complaining about loosing you're hand when you still have 95% of your body left!
The point is the unneeded cruft that you have to have loaded, not the fact that you have enough resources to load it in the first place.
They complain about it being "slow", which tells me that they have nothing better to do than play video games.
What bearing does this have on the topic at hand? So if someone has nothing better to do than play video games, their opinion doesn't matter? And I assume you have some much better stuff to do, like make snobby comments on slashdot and "summing it all up" because you "know".
X is many times better than anything else in the marketplace
Does that mean it fits everyones needs? Obviously there is a need for something else. Just because it's "better" (by better I'm assuming you mean better at what it offers), doesn't mean I want to use it.
I say: look beyond what's good enough for the PC in your bedroom right now
Why? Obviously people want what's good enough for them right now, not what is the most powerfull for network applications, when they don't USE that feature anyway.
Don't get me wrong, I think Gollum was good work. However I am looking at things from the goal of not being able to tell, technically not logically, whether something is CG or not.
I mean, if you see a Gollum or a Hulk in a movie, you know it's not real, but this should only be due to obvious reasoning as opposed to shoddy CG.
All in all, I think Gollum is the best example we have so far (though I could be wrong, I haven't seen every CG movie to date), but it's still a far cry from seemless.
I think that regardless of when CGI is used, it should be quality work. The HULK looks so damn fake in these trailers it's almost embarrasing to the industry. Even Gollum didn't look this bad.
there's plenty of other trees to cut down, and frankly I'm glad they're out of the way.
The forest in humbolt county isn't just "a bunch of trees", it's an old-growth redwood forest. Some trees in this forest are thousands of years old. We are trying to protect the last of this ecosystem from destruction.
I think this is just some bullshit the industry exec invented out of whole cloth to prove again how 'damaging' pirating is to his industry.
Uhm, pirated DVD's in China are as common as green tea. Sometimes they are bogus, sometimes someone actually goes into the movie theater with a camcorder on a tripod and converts it into a DVD when he gets home. Sometimes they are actual real DVD copies. Rarely is the quality very good, but for $1 who cares anyways?
It's not some "industry conspiracy", just people trying to make a quick buck... and I though I was paranoid.
It's no longer called EPOC, it's called 'Symbian/OS'. Also, the PSION was cool, in theory, but when it came down to it, the internet connectivity was extremely lacking.
The "everything over IP" crowd seems to be mostly the same group that feels that NAT is a bad thing -- i.e. that everything should be one big network with the same addressed space (i.e. the Intranet, really, rather than the Internet, because the latter implies connections between different networks.)
I don't agree at all. I like the idea of everything using a standard protocol. I hate having to deal with bridging different *types* of networks together, and the incompatibility and limitations that creates. (Think Netware).
I also implement NAT'd networks quite a bit, and find it extremely usefull. The two prefferences have nothing to do with each other.
I wasn't refering to the language itself (or how clean the code is) but the OO of Java vs. the scripting of Perl. Sure, there is OO in perl, but its slapped on and unelegant.
I disagree. I think perl has very powerfull OO capabilities. You pretty much disregard these features, and you compare two conflicting aspects.
most coders I know would find a well written, large scale, high level OO application easier to maintain and update than a large scale, powerful scripted application.
A high level OO application can apply to both perl and Java. Java's OO is not equal to Perls scripting nature. OO != compiled code.
You sound full of bias and purposefull misrepresentation.
Perhaps something like, "Most coders I know like Java better than Perl", is what you are trying to say?
The "chaos" that we'd have to worry about would actually be in relation to the radiation shielding provided by the Earth's magnetic field. If the poles were to switch, it's not the kind of thing that happens instantaneously. It could take years, even decades for the switch to complete, and in the interim, we would be vulnerable to harsh radiation from the Sun. Aside from the obvious effects to our health, this could disrupt power grids and disable magnetic storage media. THAT is what you should be worried about.
And not just human health. Several types of species would become extinct or close to it. I'd say the most heavily effected species would be birds. The lack of a magnetic field would render them completely helpless.
There is no "American Country", there is an American continent, with several countries on it. The people living in any of these countries could be called "American" the same way you could be called "European". However, your country is not called "Europe".
The country is called the United States of America. We are U.S. citizens. Unfortunately theres no "ican", "ean" or "ese" word for us...
USean? USican? USese?.. .
DISCLAIMER: My corrections on the term "American" are in no way endorsing or patriotic of the U.S., in fact the purpose is more for the integrity of the the other countries on this continent.
I understand what you are saying. But actually this doesn't apply as directly to source-based distributions, which there aren't many of.
Yet Another Linux Distribution, is for the most part useless, if the distribution is pretty much an RPM (or even just binary) based distro. There needs to be something different and innovative about the distro that provides something not widely available in other distros.
A source-based idea, which I think is inherited from FreeBSD, is rather imperfected on Linux so far. There has yet to be very many attempts at this and I *fully* support SGL (and Gentoo) in going this route. They are doing very well!
So instead of thinking about "Linux Distros" as one big clump. Think of it like:
Binary Based:
RPM: Way too many
DEB: Only a few
MISC: Hey! inovate a new package system!
Source Based: Not very many, intrested to see how different ideas are implemented.
If you see another RPM distro, RUN!:)
Re:SNMP's a pretty damned scary protocol anyway
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The security in ANY service (*read: smtp, dns, snmp etc.*) is questionable when you do not restrict who is able to access it.
Why, just because SNMP provides a community string as a level of deterent, you says it's insecure because of this? Anyone with a tinge of security mindedness knows that you don't want SNMP exposed to the world in the same way you don't want HTTP available to external IPs (on an intranet machine).
If you bind the snmp daemon to the internal network, and disable snmp-sets, you have a pretty locked down information gathering service.
I use SNMP as a remote information gathering tool for a home-brewed network monitor, No One can even know I am running SNMP untill they first break into my internal network.
Not saying it can't be done, but if it was done, I'd have more to worry about than SNMP.
Disable snmp-sets (which allows the remote admin to change data on the target system). I only use SNMP for infomation gathering, and do nothing with snmp-sets.
Also, if your implementation supports it, bind SNMP to the back end (internal network).
SNMP Is actually a very usefull and (if used right) is a non-issue with security.
If you use SNMP only as a data gathering tool (i.e. you do NOT allow snmp-sets, which can change configuration data on the system) the worst anyone could do (if allowed) would be to do an snmp-get and get some info on your system (such as name, load avg, etc.)
any recent version of SNMP also has the ability to bind to a port and/or subnet mask.
So, if you lock down your boxen, and only allow snmp requests from internal networks, you're pretty secure. Someone would have to hack an internal machine & then they would only be able to get some general info on the server.
When you search for "orange," Google might also have the ability to search for "fruit" and "color," depending on how broad you want your search to be.
This idea is severly flawed. It is not often that a webpage will "clarify" what it meant by orange outside of the context of the sentence.
The cat was the color orange.
The cat was orange.
Which do you think is more likely to exist? I think it's apparent that adding the word "color" to the search will only end up trashing otherwise good results.
Re:Why dont you update the damm Kernel
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you don't need to install the 2.4 kernel from source on a Debian system (stable). Use the 2.4 packages built for stable maintained by Adrian Bunk.
Add the following line to your/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
run dselect and update your package list, then make sure you select one of the 2.4 kernels, it will upgrade several base packages to support the new kernel, but it works absolutely perfect!
Well, At my previous job we had the best web team I've ever seen as far as efficient website management. Let me break it down for you.
The company had about 200 total employees, our web team was about 5 people, and then there was the Database team & the content team, both which we worked closely with. It was extremely important that each of the 5 people knew a little of everything and was an expert in one important skill.
1). Team leader - very good with security, and FreeBSD (or server OS of choice). And general server setup & maintnence.
2). Network guy - had a nack for network setup & design. Worked with the foundry routers and junipers, as well as helped with server maintnence and shell scripting little things.
3). Perl Scripter - wrote many scripts to help automate and monitor servers. Helped with server administration and setup etc.
4). Jack of all trades - proficient in most areas and able to help out where things were needed. Excellent to have.
5). Jr. Sysadmin - the lackey you get to make patch cables and drill in the rack. train him on
server setup & maintnence etc.
Our team was responsible for the setup/maintnence & overall design of the website. We setup load balancers, content management (not the actuall content), like seting up jserv, monitoring the servers, setting up the Sun boxen for the database etc.
The database team just focused on the data organization etc. and they worked with the Java (content) team to produce the dynamic pages. We did the build process and installed everything into our network layout, they didnt have to worry about anything but whether their content was correct (and looked cool).
I think this design is very efficient, because it allows each team to have a very specific focus and to not be distracted with understanding some other areas that are close, but not related.
Our main problem (which you really want to avoid) was that there was a big gap between US and our Manager (Director of Engineering). Basically we just didnt have enough communication and there was alot of distance between the teams and him. Basically fell apart at that point.
These sounds just like the arguments for why I should give up my archaic (but very well understood by me) vi editor and use that other one (you know, Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping?).
Actually, that'd be the other way around (switching to vi, from that other... well, you know).
I see your point, and I'm not trying to get people to switch if they don't want to. I'm merely trying to clear up some of the confusion about how Ion handles frames and tabs. (I know it was a little confusing to me, untill I started to play around with it).
The ideal window manager would have tiles, tabs, AND overlaps
Well, Ion has 2 out of three. I suggest you give it a try and provide comments on how your ideas could be integrated into it, in order to have 3 out of 3.
Or better yet, hack GNOME to support Tiles, Frames, Tabs and other generally mouseless functionality.:)...
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The Motorola (Droid) Pro+ has a number of enterprise level additions to it, focusing on security in a business environment. Including encryption, remote wiping, and "dead zones" to disable features like the camera, etc. in certain areas. And it's got a querty keypad (candbar design, not a slider) Check it out!
Why would the US want to participate in a skank, low class mission like this when we have an armada of successful spacecraft already operating on Mars and more advanced ones on the way? It would just lend prestige to the backward Russian and the Chinese effort.
That's a pretty ignorant thing to say. Just because a culture is different than what you perceive as normal doesn't mean it's "backwards" and "low class".
And lending prestige? Come on.
I don't understand how the use of file sharing software immediately implicates the user as a pirate. As you all know, many thing are made available for download with torrents.
They would either have to go after everyone detected using a file sharing protocol (with no knowledge of what the contact was) or somehow determine what was being download, which would take much more resources. Either way, it's impractical.
What's the difference between downloading a free eBook or a copyrighted one? A Linux ISO or a Windows ISO? A copyrighted game or a patch for the same game? The differences are very slight and most torrent trackers provide all of this content together without differentiating.
So are they basically saying the use of torrents would be illegal in the EU (if this law was passed)? Direct content from legitimate companies, would be all we would could legally access?
SKU - Stock Keeping Unit. It's an identification code used to refer to a single purchase-able item. The Orange Box being one item for sale.
People bad-mouth X because their PC happens not to use its power. They complain about its "bloat", because they see it taking 10MB of their 256-MB machine's precious RAM, most of which is idle.
You obviously have not tried ripping a CD, while listening to an MP3, using Mozilla, checking email in Evolution, in Gnome2 or KDE3... window responsiveness really starts to suffer. 256mb of RAM goes fast. But that isn't the point of this topic, and neither is your comment. Using 10mb is using 10mb, no matter how much RAM you have in total.
It's like saying, Oh you are complaining about loosing you're hand when you still have 95% of your body left!
The point is the unneeded cruft that you have to have loaded, not the fact that you have enough resources to load it in the first place.
They complain about it being "slow", which tells me that they have nothing better to do than play video games.
What bearing does this have on the topic at hand? So if someone has nothing better to do than play video games, their opinion doesn't matter? And I assume you have some much better stuff to do, like make snobby comments on slashdot and "summing it all up" because you "know".
X is many times better than anything else in the marketplace
Does that mean it fits everyones needs? Obviously there is a need for something else. Just because it's "better" (by better I'm assuming you mean better at what it offers), doesn't mean I want to use it.
I say: look beyond what's good enough for the PC in your bedroom right now
Why? Obviously people want what's good enough for them right now, not what is the most powerfull for network applications, when they don't USE that feature anyway.
You didn't like Gollum?
Don't get me wrong, I think Gollum was good work. However I am looking at things from the goal of not being able to tell, technically not logically, whether something is CG or not.
I mean, if you see a Gollum or a Hulk in a movie, you know it's not real, but this should only be due to obvious reasoning as opposed to shoddy CG.
All in all, I think Gollum is the best example we have so far (though I could be wrong, I haven't seen every CG movie to date), but it's still a far cry from seemless.
I think that regardless of when CGI is used, it should be quality work. The HULK looks so damn fake in these trailers it's almost embarrasing to the industry. Even Gollum didn't look this bad.
there's plenty of other trees to cut down, and frankly I'm glad they're out of the way.
The forest in humbolt county isn't just "a bunch of trees", it's an old-growth redwood forest. Some trees in this forest are thousands of years old. We are trying to protect the last of this ecosystem from destruction.
I think this is just some bullshit the industry exec invented out of whole cloth to prove again how 'damaging' pirating is to his industry.
Uhm, pirated DVD's in China are as common as green tea. Sometimes they are bogus, sometimes someone actually goes into the movie theater with a camcorder on a tripod and converts it into a DVD when he gets home. Sometimes they are actual real DVD copies. Rarely is the quality very good, but for $1 who cares anyways?
It's not some "industry conspiracy", just people trying to make a quick buck... and I though I was paranoid.
It's no longer called EPOC, it's called 'Symbian/OS'. Also, the PSION was cool, in theory, but when it came down to it, the internet connectivity was extremely lacking.
The "everything over IP" crowd seems to be mostly the same group that feels that NAT is a bad thing -- i.e. that everything should be one big network with the same addressed space (i.e. the Intranet, really, rather than the Internet, because the latter implies connections between different networks.)
I don't agree at all. I like the idea of everything using a standard protocol. I hate having to deal with bridging different *types* of networks together, and the incompatibility and limitations that creates. (Think Netware).
I also implement NAT'd networks quite a bit, and find it extremely usefull. The two prefferences have nothing to do with each other.
I wasn't refering to the language itself (or how clean the code is) but the OO of Java vs. the scripting of Perl. Sure, there is OO in perl, but its slapped on and unelegant.
I disagree. I think perl has very powerfull OO capabilities. You pretty much disregard these features, and you compare two conflicting aspects.
most coders I know would find a well written, large scale, high level OO application easier to maintain and update than a large scale, powerful scripted application.
A high level OO application can apply to both perl and Java. Java's OO is not equal to Perls scripting nature. OO != compiled code.
You sound full of bias and purposefull misrepresentation.
Perhaps something like, "Most coders I know like Java better than Perl", is what you are trying to say?
Who call us Americans, you buffoon.
Have you every BEEN out of the country? Even in Canada people are confused when you say "I'm an American", they say "Me Too!".
Though in South America this is more common.
The "chaos" that we'd have to worry about would actually be in relation to the radiation shielding provided by the Earth's magnetic field. If the poles were to switch, it's not the kind of thing that happens instantaneously. It could take years, even decades for the switch to complete, and in the interim, we would be vulnerable to harsh radiation from the Sun. Aside from the obvious effects to our health, this could disrupt power grids and disable magnetic storage media. THAT is what you should be worried about.
And not just human health. Several types of species would become extinct or close to it. I'd say the most heavily effected species would be birds. The lack of a magnetic field would render them completely helpless.
There is no "American Country", there is an American continent, with several countries on it. The people living in any of these countries could be called "American" the same way you could be called "European". However, your country is not called "Europe".
..
The country is called the United States of America. We are U.S. citizens. Unfortunately theres no "ican", "ean" or "ese" word for us...
USean? USican? USese?
.
DISCLAIMER: My corrections on the term "American" are in no
way endorsing or patriotic of the U.S., in fact the purpose is more
for the integrity of the the other countries on this continent.
I understand what you are saying. But actually this doesn't apply as directly to source-based distributions, which there aren't many of.
:)
Yet Another Linux Distribution, is for the most part useless, if the distribution is pretty much an RPM (or even just binary) based distro. There needs to be something different and innovative about the distro that provides something not widely available in other distros.
A source-based idea, which I think is inherited from FreeBSD, is rather imperfected on Linux so far. There has yet to be very many attempts at this and I *fully* support SGL (and Gentoo) in going this route. They are doing very well!
So instead of thinking about "Linux Distros" as one big clump. Think of it like:
Binary Based:
RPM: Way too many
DEB: Only a few
MISC: Hey! inovate a new package system!
Source Based: Not very many, intrested to see how different ideas are implemented.
If you see another RPM distro, RUN!
The security in ANY service (*read: smtp, dns, snmp etc.*) is questionable when you do not restrict who is able to access it.
Why, just because SNMP provides a community string as a level of deterent, you says it's insecure because of this? Anyone with a tinge of security mindedness knows that you don't want SNMP exposed to the world in the same way you don't want HTTP available to external IPs (on an intranet machine).
If you bind the snmp daemon to the internal network, and disable snmp-sets, you have a pretty locked down information gathering service.
I use SNMP as a remote information gathering tool for a home-brewed network monitor, No One can even know I am running SNMP untill they first break into my internal network.
Not saying it can't be done, but if it was done, I'd have more to worry about than SNMP.
Disable snmp-sets (which allows the remote admin to change data on the target system). I only use SNMP for infomation gathering, and do nothing with snmp-sets.
Also, if your implementation supports it, bind SNMP to the back end (internal network).
SNMP Is actually a very usefull and (if used right) is a non-issue with security.
If you use SNMP only as a data gathering tool (i.e. you do NOT allow snmp-sets, which can change configuration data on the system) the worst anyone could do (if allowed) would be to do an snmp-get and get some info on your system (such as name, load avg, etc.)
any recent version of SNMP also has the ability to bind to a port and/or subnet mask.
So, if you lock down your boxen, and only allow snmp requests from internal networks, you're pretty secure. Someone would have to hack an internal machine & then they would only be able to get some general info on the server.
When you search for "orange," Google might also have the ability to search for "fruit" and "color," depending on how broad you want your search to be.
This idea is severly flawed. It is not often that a webpage will "clarify" what it meant by orange outside of the context of the sentence.
The cat was the color orange.
The cat was orange.
Which do you think is more likely to exist? I think it's apparent that adding the word "color" to the search will only end up trashing otherwise good results.
you don't need to install the 2.4 kernel from source on a Debian system (stable). Use the 2.4 packages built for stable maintained by Adrian Bunk.
/etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following line to your
deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
run dselect and update your package list, then make sure you select one of the 2.4 kernels, it will upgrade several base packages to support the new kernel, but it works absolutely perfect!
Well, At my previous job we had the best web team I've ever seen as far as efficient website management. Let me break it down for you.
The company had about 200 total employees, our web team was about 5 people, and then there was the Database team & the content team, both which we worked closely with. It was extremely important that each of the 5 people knew a little of everything and was an expert in one important skill.
1). Team leader - very good with security, and FreeBSD (or server OS of choice). And general server setup & maintnence.
2). Network guy - had a nack for network setup & design. Worked with the foundry routers and junipers, as well as helped with server maintnence and shell scripting little things.
3). Perl Scripter - wrote many scripts to help automate and monitor servers. Helped with server administration and setup etc.
4). Jack of all trades - proficient in most areas and able to help out where things were needed. Excellent to have.
5). Jr. Sysadmin - the lackey you get to make patch cables and drill in the rack. train him on
server setup & maintnence etc.
Our team was responsible for the setup/maintnence & overall design of the website. We setup load balancers, content management (not the actuall content), like seting up jserv, monitoring the servers, setting up the Sun boxen for the database etc.
The database team just focused on the data organization etc. and they worked with the Java (content) team to produce the dynamic pages. We did the build process and installed everything into our network layout, they didnt have to worry about anything but whether their content was correct (and looked cool).
I think this design is very efficient, because it allows each team to have a very specific focus and to not be distracted with understanding some other areas that are close, but not related.
Our main problem (which you really want to avoid) was that there was a big gap between US and our Manager (Director of Engineering). Basically we just didnt have enough communication and there was alot of distance between the teams and him. Basically fell apart at that point.
I can't believe you people. His name is 'Chuck' ... got that? Chuck!
On a side note:
Server OS: Debian & BSD
Workstation: Debian
apt-get >= ports
Hmm, can you say DEBIAN?
These sounds just like the arguments for why I should give up my archaic (but very well understood by me) vi editor and use that other one (you know, Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping?).
Actually, that'd be the other way around (switching to vi, from that other... well, you know).
I see your point, and I'm not trying to get people to switch if they don't want to. I'm merely trying to clear up some of the confusion about how Ion handles frames and tabs. (I know it was a little confusing to me, untill I started to play around with it).
To each his own.
The ideal window manager would have tiles, tabs, AND overlaps
:)...
Well, Ion has 2 out of three. I suggest you give it a try and provide comments on how your ideas could be integrated into it, in order to have 3 out of 3.
Or better yet, hack GNOME to support Tiles, Frames, Tabs and other generally mouseless functionality.