I never see mention of the Social Security system as a form of national ID. Why is that? Is it because the card doesn't directly identify more personal characteristics such as a photo, address, or phone number?
What info do these "authorities" want? Under what circumstances can they requisition this information, or ask the person to make an ID?
I can understand using it in a fully secure situation such as boarding a plane, assuming that such a thing is Constitutional and isn't yet another link into the Revelations style end of humanity, and assuming that it can be used accurately.
Of course the answer to that last question fades off into potential violation of independant liberty, as in requiring national criminal ID for renting a truck in case you intend to load it with a fertilizer bomb. But I think at least the previous questions should be reasonably answered.
Yes, exactly. Another example is that the ELF binary executable format used by Linux and many other OSs can embed all kinds of stuff into the filesystem such as icons.
I meant that the FAT32 filesystem has nothing to do with it in Windows, as the previous poster claimed. On classic MacOS, the filesystem is relevant as you say because MacOS doesn't suck in that respect.:)
The point is that Apple is not a monopoly, and it doesn't tend to behave like one. It doesn't tend to set arbitrary defaults. It tends to be legitimately helpful via good defaults, which is a hallmark of good UI design.
The article says this about filetype associations...
Then, you're basically at Microsoft's mercy. Because Windows makes you go on a mad hunt through menus and folders and options to find the dialogue box that lets you make any such change.
It's not in the "add/remove programs" control panel, where you'd expect it. It's not under "properties" when you right-click on a file. It's not in any obvious or easily accessible location.
This quote describes almost every operation of every kind in Windows. The only reason anyone calls it user-friendly is because of their perception of the crushing effects of group psychology steered by a monopoly. It's like living in a technological ghetto -- some people whose course is altered under this influence are weak minded, but many of them have no reasonable alternative without radically and permanently altering their lifestyles with no help or prior evidence for success. Like nationalistic propaganda, it's heavily reinforced at just about every level of society. Having a monopoly that pervasively influences every aspect of society is like having narcotics in the water supply.
If that would work around the problem in Windows, then the MacOS solution of just dragging the file directly to an icon would be even easier. So what's your point?
Furthermore, the point of the article is that a monopoly sets the so-called standards to begin with, which doesn't tend to happen on MacOS.
At the risk of Slashdot-style nitpicking, I'll point out that the filesystem has absolutely nothing to do with it. Those associations are made by something like the Registry or whatever.
I am interested in having a remote MacOS application server on Linux, especially if they integrate VNC service into MOL because the native MacOS VNC server has not been the greatest quality. Before, I was considering doing it with Basilisk II which is a 68k Mac emulator which requires an individually licensed MacOS ROM. Thanks!
Hey all. I spent my dotcom days developing Linux-based rich media network appliances, so I don't mean to disrespect the hard work of TiVo, ReplayTV, or any PVR vendor other than Microsoft.;) But I was wondering if any of you have any pointers to the state of the art in open source Video4Linux-based PVR apps. I'd like the following:
change channels on digital cable or satellite (I don't know if a personal computer can do that without IR)
get program listings via the Internet for digital cable or satellite, hopefully with categories
have some utility to convert to Divx or 3ivx
web-based or other GUI interface
I currently have partial use of the PlanB video chipset on my Powermac 8500 on Linux, and I would like to use it as a PVR. I'll either use my large RAID or get a faster CPU to compensate for PlanB's lack of realtime compression.
On the first try, Debian did not pick up both processors on my machine. Also, using mySQL, I can consistently crash my machine by trying to index a 5 million row table.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but choosing Debian for guaranteed specific commercial support and choosing MySQL for stability sound like about the opposite of what you should do. Debian has an excellent product and I'm sure the Debian community has top notch aggregate support but perhaps a commercial contract would be better for very specific needs, and perhaps you'd get that with Redhat, Mandrake, TerraSoft, etc. MySQL wasn't originally designed for high reliability either; for example, PostgreSQL and Oracle were.
Sounds like you're in for some nontrivial work due to your arbitrary choices, especially with trying to scale MySQL.
You just proved the article's point. You say Windows XP comes with lots of innovations, but you're using Microsoft's proprietary definition of the word "innovation". Every one of the features you listed are already available in other OSs, many of which have been for a long time. And every one of the improvements can only be judged relative to prior versions of Windows, many of which are less horrible versions of situations that were never justifyable.
You just sold your freedom to use your OS according to your own terms without having to contact the vendor for each nontrivial change, your freedom for anyone to view or modify the OS's source code, and your freedom to choose a vendor for each standard or component, in exchange for a big bag of marketing hype designed just for the willing apologist.
I'd be the first to admit I don't have everything figured out, so I deliberately post my flaming, raw, unrationalized opinions to/., and I rely on the collective
brainpower to either mod me down, publish an opinion that agrees with mine, or a dissenting statement that rationally disarms my position. Yours was the latter.
It's all a social experiment: I'd rather be modded as a troll on/. than beat up in real life for shooting my mouth off.
Hi there. Good intentions. I would suggest that next time, you experiment in a more responsible fashion by stating your intentions to begin with. Thanks.
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Good points. Furthermore I don't know how long mass adoption will take because the consumer electronics industry's chief R&D and mass marketing shop, Apple Computer, is already committed to Firewire.:)
I wouldn't use specifically a leased line due to the fact that it's very expensive in most places, but I would consider SDSL. To connect the neighborhood to this outbound point, I would consider either 802.11b or try that homebrew DSL recipe. I might even string heavy duty cabling between houses, across a fence or something.:)
You'd just need neighbors who are cooperative, long-term minded, trusting of the admin, and with startup equipment funding. Consider that everyone's paying $20-80 per month already and that some neighbors can't even get broadband. In my neighborhood, my neighbor had DSL but I couldn't for several months due to insufficient circuits, and our cable network had unstable power levels that fluctuate with environmental conditions.
As for the wireless, I'd test compatibility with the environment to make sure it works, and possibly put up signal extending antennae. I heard of someone taking apart an Apple Airport base station, adding a large antenna, and getting line of sight throughput all the way to their ISP.:)
Has anyone tried homebrew DSL? Got any links to any personal experience? In my case, I'd like to hear from someone in the San Francisco Bay Area. Good luck!
Hi guys. My roommate and I have been studying various security tools based on open source and Linux. I'm using primarily the Immunix tools including the Stackguard patches to GCC, the SubDomain patches to the kernel, and the FormatGuard patches to glibc. So far, I use either the whole Immunix OS distro which is based on an updated Redhat 7.0 (almost 7.1) or Mandrake 7.2 piecemeal upgraded with Immunix RPMs. He's primarily using Mandrake 8.0 plus the various patches at Get Rewted, which includes the kernel-based LIDS ACL patches, the portsentry IDS, the libsafe wrappers to glibc, and such.
You can even install some premade Immunix packages on top of Mandrake or Redhat. I'm successfully running apache, bind, pidentd, and openssh from Immunix conveniently on top of my good old Mandrake 7.2. I got it from the nice mirror at ibiblio and just installed them like any other package.
There is minor overlap in functionality between the two kernel-based and glibc-based subsystems, but it seems to me that the rest of these methods are all complementary. Do any of you know of a comparison between them or any analysis of them together?
Relevant criteria would include the development methods, objectives, and priorities such as the fact that as far as I know, LIDS and everything from Immunix only run on IA32.:( Then there may be technical superiority or optimization. They're all open source compatible so we're covered that way. Any other criteria?
To recap:
either LIDS or SubDomain for kernel level ACLs for processes
either libsafe or FormatGuard for glibc format trapping
portsentry for IDS and port scan protection
StackGuard to compile all your buffer overflow sensitive binaries (or use those made from Immunix)
My ISP uses OpenSRS. However I'm interested in comparing other OpenSRS-compatible registrars' policies. Also, I'm interested in learning exactly how domain registry works and how it bridges into DNS, like what denotes an SOA and what prioritizes them if there are multiple SOAs by accident. Any pointers? Thanks!
I have another problem to bring up, regarding the cheap disk backup situation. Hard drives are probably not a good choice for long term archiving, because they're built to have mechanical moving parts, so the oil and bearings will coagulate.
There's a company called Solid Data which does file servers based off of RAM chips for main storage, with an optional hard drive periodic snapshot mirror. They learned the hard way that they had to periodically and automatically spin up the drives, because after about a year of solid operation, they had a failure on one server and it wasn't able to snapshot the data out before the data was lost, because the drives couldn't spin up.
The hard drives are a cheap high performance backup, but they apparently don't do well on a long term shelf. Does anyone here have more info on that phenomenon?
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I would like to know if A/UX runs on Basilisk II though.
Hehe. So now the government wants to just make another one that they didn't promise not to abuse. :)
What info do these "authorities" want? Under what circumstances can they requisition this information, or ask the person to make an ID?
I can understand using it in a fully secure situation such as boarding a plane, assuming that such a thing is Constitutional and isn't yet another link into the Revelations style end of humanity, and assuming that it can be used accurately.
Of course the answer to that last question fades off into potential violation of independant liberty, as in requiring national criminal ID for renting a truck in case you intend to load it with a fertilizer bomb. But I think at least the previous questions should be reasonably answered.
Yes, exactly. Another example is that the ELF binary executable format used by Linux and many other OSs can embed all kinds of stuff into the filesystem such as icons.
Unless you install or configure Windows a whole buncha times in various locations. You may not need to do so.
I meant that the FAT32 filesystem has nothing to do with it in Windows, as the previous poster claimed. On classic MacOS, the filesystem is relevant as you say because MacOS doesn't suck in that respect. :)
The point is that Apple is not a monopoly, and it doesn't tend to behave like one. It doesn't tend to set arbitrary defaults. It tends to be legitimately helpful via good defaults, which is a hallmark of good UI design.
Yeah I know. That's my point :)
The article says this about filetype associations...
This quote describes almost every operation of every kind in Windows. The only reason anyone calls it user-friendly is because of their perception of the crushing effects of group psychology steered by a monopoly. It's like living in a technological ghetto -- some people whose course is altered under this influence are weak minded, but many of them have no reasonable alternative without radically and permanently altering their lifestyles with no help or prior evidence for success. Like nationalistic propaganda, it's heavily reinforced at just about every level of society. Having a monopoly that pervasively influences every aspect of society is like having narcotics in the water supply.
Furthermore, the point of the article is that a monopoly sets the so-called standards to begin with, which doesn't tend to happen on MacOS.
At the risk of Slashdot-style nitpicking, I'll point out that the filesystem has absolutely nothing to do with it. Those associations are made by something like the Registry or whatever.
I am interested in having a remote MacOS application server on Linux, especially if they integrate VNC service into MOL because the native MacOS VNC server has not been the greatest quality. Before, I was considering doing it with Basilisk II which is a 68k Mac emulator which requires an individually licensed MacOS ROM. Thanks!
I currently have partial use of the PlanB video chipset on my Powermac 8500 on Linux, and I would like to use it as a PVR. I'll either use my large RAID or get a faster CPU to compensate for PlanB's lack of realtime compression.
Thanks!
I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but choosing Debian for guaranteed specific commercial support and choosing MySQL for stability sound like about the opposite of what you should do. Debian has an excellent product and I'm sure the Debian community has top notch aggregate support but perhaps a commercial contract would be better for very specific needs, and perhaps you'd get that with Redhat, Mandrake, TerraSoft, etc. MySQL wasn't originally designed for high reliability either; for example, PostgreSQL and Oracle were.
Sounds like you're in for some nontrivial work due to your arbitrary choices, especially with trying to scale MySQL.
You just sold your freedom to use your OS according to your own terms without having to contact the vendor for each nontrivial change, your freedom for anyone to view or modify the OS's source code, and your freedom to choose a vendor for each standard or component, in exchange for a big bag of marketing hype designed just for the willing apologist.
Hi there. Good intentions. I would suggest that next time, you experiment in a more responsible fashion by stating your intentions to begin with. Thanks.
Good points. Furthermore I don't know how long mass adoption will take because the consumer electronics industry's chief R&D and mass marketing shop, Apple Computer, is already committed to Firewire. :)
Poster: "Scientists build a black box enabling anyone to travel through time, cure the common cold, and make food out of dirt."
Slashdot Pseudo-editor: This is a good start, but when it can explain my phone bill and sterilize my navel ring, maybe I'll buy one!
Exactly. The government should lead the people by example, not by force.
You'd just need neighbors who are cooperative, long-term minded, trusting of the admin, and with startup equipment funding. Consider that everyone's paying $20-80 per month already and that some neighbors can't even get broadband. In my neighborhood, my neighbor had DSL but I couldn't for several months due to insufficient circuits, and our cable network had unstable power levels that fluctuate with environmental conditions.
As for the homebrew DSL, try these links:
As for the wireless, I'd test compatibility with the environment to make sure it works, and possibly put up signal extending antennae. I heard of someone taking apart an Apple Airport base station, adding a large antenna, and getting line of sight throughput all the way to their ISP. :)
Has anyone tried homebrew DSL? Got any links to any personal experience? In my case, I'd like to hear from someone in the San Francisco Bay Area. Good luck!
You can even install some premade Immunix packages on top of Mandrake or Redhat. I'm successfully running apache, bind, pidentd, and openssh from Immunix conveniently on top of my good old Mandrake 7.2. I got it from the nice mirror at ibiblio and just installed them like any other package.
There is minor overlap in functionality between the two kernel-based and glibc-based subsystems, but it seems to me that the rest of these methods are all complementary. Do any of you know of a comparison between them or any analysis of them together?
Relevant criteria would include the development methods, objectives, and priorities such as the fact that as far as I know, LIDS and everything from Immunix only run on IA32. :( Then there may be technical superiority or optimization. They're all open source compatible so we're covered that way. Any other criteria?
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My ISP uses OpenSRS. However I'm interested in comparing other OpenSRS-compatible registrars' policies. Also, I'm interested in learning exactly how domain registry works and how it bridges into DNS, like what denotes an SOA and what prioritizes them if there are multiple SOAs by accident. Any pointers? Thanks!
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There's a company called Solid Data which does file servers based off of RAM chips for main storage, with an optional hard drive periodic snapshot mirror. They learned the hard way that they had to periodically and automatically spin up the drives, because after about a year of solid operation, they had a failure on one server and it wasn't able to snapshot the data out before the data was lost, because the drives couldn't spin up.
The hard drives are a cheap high performance backup, but they apparently don't do well on a long term shelf. Does anyone here have more info on that phenomenon?
This type of suggestion ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/07/19/15542 16&cid=48) is my favorite so far. I've been waiting for that for a long time! I don't like tapes!
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That's what a stripe is for!
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