If I find a suspicious box in my network I first ask who put it there and what it does. If there is no answer, i shut it down or unplug it and wait until somwone comes around whining why his box box got cut off.
If someone gets caught hacking even in his own network (other than for research purposes, which he should do on a machine dedicated to that purpose), he deserves to get fired. If there is a problem, you can always walk up to the box and ask for access. (If you don't already have access!)
There simply is NO reason for hacking boxes in your network!!!
IMHO, offices with 2 or 3 closely matched people work best. The productivity also depends on the type of person you are (I personally like most to work alone in my office). I worked before in a war-room like setting, with 3 other people in the same room, and music/phones/talk was a great nuisance.
BTW, over here in Germany cubicles are also largely unknown. (One of the reasons could be a requirement that no permanent working desk be farther than 3m away from the next window! (AFAIK...))
How do you implement, for example, access to a certain directory for multiple *groups*, which might be rather largish? In NT, i just add the respective groups to the access list, in Linux I ??? (I hate to admit it, but there seems to be a point for NT... %-()
I guess quite long, because just using the CPU doesn't mean it consumes lots of power. What consumes lots of power is the transmitter, which sits in a sort of standby mode (just every 30 or so seconds a short burst to keep connected).
I don't remember all of them, but at least one was caused by a stupid technician killing the UPS, the long outage was caused by a rather severe storm which blew the air conditioner off the roof, one was caused by a dodgy CPU, one was caused by a burnt out centerplane... (at a time when all the sites ran off one box...) IMHO it was just bad luck.
So go get yourself a console! Most of the console games are exactly what you want, because a console lacks the memory to store large pieces of state info. (Especially savegames etc.) So, console games *are* games quick to play!
The surface shielding would probably work ok on cars. The trick there is that it radiates, but not on the frequency of the radar receiver, which is based on the Doppler shift to detect your speed.
I really can't see your problem here. I go with you on the warped Keyboard, but the Intellimouse Explorer is just nice. 5 Buttons, plus scroll-wheel. I configured the 2 extra buttons to iconify a window and to change to the previously active window, respectivly. Now, when I get back home to my Linux box I run into trouble when I press the side of my Logitech Pilot and expect the window to disappear... 8-)
On the same vein, the egyptians had the hierographic writings which have lasted over 3,000 years - any 'modern days' records going to last that long? Nope..
Easy enough if you invest the same manpower in writing
Substitute 'Manpower of people knowledgeable enough to write that' with 'Salary costs of these people' and you won't get any problems. Just mak records like the ones that went out with the Voyager probes and store them somewhere safe. I'm sure they would last longer than 3000 years.
Yes, I agree. But pseudo-science like "warp drives" and "wormholes" are not going to produce anything except for fat research grants for "scientists" more interested in Star Trek than the real Universe.
I wouldn't say that. If you don't do research in an area, you'll never discover anything in that area. Remember the first attempts to flight? Flapping the wings didn't work, etc, but large enough fixed wings did...
But then, what are we to expect in a world where physicists have done into raptures about another pseudo-scientific "theory of everything" called superstrings? The brightest minds in physics have been enraptured by a "theory" which purports to explain everything but which cannot be tested. This makes a mockery of the scientific paradigm, and puts superstrings on the same level and religion and mythology.
You forgot the word "yet" again! There are lots of theories out there that weren't proven until years later. AFAIK nobody believed Columbus when he went looking for India. Admitted, he didn't find it, but he found something else: America! The researchers say "We think there is something, so lets go looking for it. Hmm... we don't see anything, but we can prove there is something. Probably we didn't look close enough?..." and so on. (Did you ever see an atom?)
There is a serious flaw in the way that research is conducted nowadays. We need more accountability from scientists over what they are allowed to research. There are more deserving areas of research which are allowed to languish whilst scientists amuse themselves with the fanciful flights of psuedo-science.
No, what they do isn't pseudo-science, it's more like philosophy. And accountability isn't the right way, either, or we would still be using superconductors that work only at single digit Kelvin temperatures, we probably wouldn't have antibiotics, etc.
If you don't go looking in completely new areas, you'll always have to expand from where you are. Who would've thought that certain insulating materials drop all their resistance once the get below about 90 Kelvin?
2) A lot of people who take more than 5 minutes to think about UI's will respond with "but my grandmother doesn't need to run pipes and greps and stuff". OK, but that's not an argument for a simple (minded?) Linux UI--it's an argument for your grandmother to use a different OS.
You are both right and wrong:
Your grandmother doesn't need pipes, but it is only an argument for a different OS if that different OS does something that the OS with pipes and greps doesn't do. So it's a non-argument most of the time!
Which? Heavier than air was developed in US and Australia. A lot of people think it is likely that hot air ballons were used in India and China long before Europe.
*Powered* Flight was developed in the US. Heavier than air, but unpowered, was Otto Lilienthal, near Berlin, Germany.
What about using a trebuchet style launcher? Or (since the cans are made of metal) a magnetic accelerator? Or a steam catapult? Just a few thoughts... (are there automatic laser rangefinders?) The range could probably be got via some signal processing from a couple of microphones spread around the room...
I really hate the "get out of my way, I have to speed" attitude. Some people have taken this as far as, "If you're not exceeding the speed limit, you must use the right had lane." How absurd! First off, this would reduce all two lane roads to one laners for most drivers. Also in congested areas, it's safer to ride the left had lane so that merging traffic has space. Unless, that is, some one decides to pass on the right. People with this attitude just can't win. In the end, someone will always be driving faster, and they will get pissed off waiting for the slower driver to get out of the way.
IMHO you're telling nonsense. Driving in the left lane is OK, but not for extended periods of time with no (or just a little) traffic in the right lane. It's ok to overtake, it's ok to move left to make room for someone merging, but not without first looking if you don't cut someone off, and please, when that situation has passed, move back to the right lane to make room for people that want to go a little faster.
There are two big fat harry differences between US roads and the Autobon. The first is that most US cars would fail German inspections. The second is that the Autobon does not take many prisoners. When people screw up at 120 MPH, wrecks are unrecognizable, and the passengers are dead.
Yes, it does. Every year, a couple hundred people die in accidents on the Autobahn. But there are tens of thousands more that are much less severe. They just don't make the news.;-) The speed is not so much the problem, it's the drivers. If you run off the road at 60 mph and hit a tree and are likely dead. If you run off the road at 120, the likelyhood of death is higher, sure, but if that happens to you, you're also likely to have driven too fast for the situation at hand. You simply cannot drive at 120 in the night, in heavy rain, on an unknown, curved road. Yet some people think they can and wonder why they crash.
This news is simply cool! It seems Loki is evolving into a (sort of) Red Hat of games! Ok, they don't open source the games, but they open source the libraries they had to develop to port those games!:-)
The point is: do you post here to please other readers, or do you post here to voice your opinion?
You post here to voice your opinion, clearly. Moderators are explicitly asked to moderate down only posts that are off topic or flamebait.
A lot of the discussion so far about moderation has been based on the assumption that the reading pleasure of slashdot frequenters is of utmost importance. But perhaps it would be a good idea to reconsider this view. What's the point of devising new rules and methods of discussion just to make it more pleasant? There are plenty of unplaisant things that can be said, that still contribute to the value and the reality of a forum.
IMHO, the moderation system is not intended for the viewing pleasure of the readers but to weed out bad posts and to help stand out the really good ones. If you want the raw and uncut stuff, read at -1. I, for myself, read at +2, just because I don't have the time to dig through hundreds of posts, just to find a few gems.
Moderators are also asked to moderate up comments that they don't agree with, but make a valid point in the discussion (but not posts that say something or other is better or worse and give no reason!).
I would not call the moderation system censorship. But I wouldn't call slashdot a free speech forum either. Whether this sounds pleasing to Rob's ears or not, any system where there is the possibility of automated filtering based on criteria set by third parties,(other than the writer and the reader) any discussion environment where voices can be volumed up or volumed down at the discretion of some judges.. any such system is NOT free.
That is correct. This system is not completely free, and IMHO it is good that way. I would just stop reading/. if had not choice but to read all comments. I prefer to read those few that other people (changing people!) deem worth reading. This approch I'd call a democratic approach, because moderators vote, rather than delete postings. IMHO, this is a improvement from usenet, where the approach is anarchistic and I have to keep my own scorefile or read all the posts and the valid points get drowned out in noise.
Regarding free speech: would you go to town hall and shout "The mayor is a turnip!" and complain about being removed? (Probably he is, but that's another story;-)) Or would you complain when you are asked the leave the church, because you were talking loudly with your neighbor about the preferences of your ex-lover? IMHO you have every right to say whatever you want, but don't expect everyone to listen, and don't even try to force everyone to listen!
And lack of freedom is never a good sign. Perhaps Rob ought to look towards this direction for some answers as to why the quality of the discussions on slashdot is declining.
No, IMHO that's probably because it starts to become more and more crowded. IMHO, the quality didn't decrease too much, but I browse at +2, so...;-)
Ironic isn't it..? The majority of people here support free software, yet they cannot handle the more basic concept of free speech.
Yes, they can. They just have chosen not to listen to everyone that happens to say something. Try joining a few large IRC channels and read everything. Or read news, but not just a few groups, and without kill- or scorefile!/. has grown to dimensions where it needs mechanisms to help people sort out the crap. (It doesn't force them to do that!) Usenet was completely free speech, and with the advent of AOL and the likes, it grew into a failure. So, what do you propose as a solution?
I don't worry about that. They'll probably do some damage, but at the same time they'll advance cryptography and responsibility for one's postings. Scorefiles will probably get a rather big boost, too.
Just say, "I read only postings that are signed by the author, and only if the author is new, or recognized by me for his high quality."
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If someone gets caught hacking even in his own network (other than for research purposes, which he should do on a machine dedicated to that purpose), he deserves to get fired. If there is a problem, you can always walk up to the box and ask for access. (If you don't already have access!)
There simply is NO reason for hacking boxes in your network!!!
Cheers, Ulli
BTW, over here in Germany cubicles are also largely unknown. (One of the reasons could be a requirement that no permanent working desk be farther than 3m away from the next window! (AFAIK...))
Cheers, Ulli
How do you implement, for example, access to a certain directory for multiple *groups*, which might be rather largish? In NT, i just add the respective groups to the access list, in Linux I ??? (I hate to admit it, but there seems to be a point for NT... %-()
Regards, Ulli
Regards, Ulli
Nope, more likely something like the ACLs of NT...
Now you can patch the source the same way you would patch some Open Source OS.
Questions? :-)
Regards, Ulli
Regards, Ulli
Regards, Ulli
Regards, Ulli
Substitute 'Manpower of people knowledgeable enough to write that' with 'Salary costs of these people' and you won't get any problems. Just mak records like the ones that went out with the Voyager probes and store them somewhere safe. I'm sure they would last longer than 3000 years.
3000 years old spam and newspapers?!? *YUCK*...
Regards, Ulli
I wouldn't say that. If you don't do research in an area, you'll never discover anything in that area. Remember the first attempts to flight? Flapping the wings didn't work, etc, but large enough fixed wings did...
But then, what are we to expect in a world where physicists have done into raptures about another pseudo-scientific "theory of everything" called superstrings? The brightest minds in physics have been enraptured by a "theory" which purports to explain everything but which cannot be tested. This makes a mockery of the scientific paradigm, and puts superstrings on the same level and religion and mythology.
You forgot the word "yet" again! There are lots of theories out there that weren't proven until years later. AFAIK nobody believed Columbus when he went looking for India. Admitted, he didn't find it, but he found something else: America! The researchers say "We think there is something, so lets go looking for it. Hmm... we don't see anything, but we can prove there is something. Probably we didn't look close enough? ..." and so on. (Did you ever see an atom?)
There is a serious flaw in the way that research is conducted nowadays. We need more accountability from scientists over what they are allowed to research. There are more deserving areas of research which are allowed to languish whilst scientists amuse themselves with the fanciful flights of psuedo-science.
No, what they do isn't pseudo-science, it's more like philosophy. And accountability isn't the right way, either, or we would still be using superconductors that work only at single digit Kelvin temperatures, we probably wouldn't have antibiotics, etc.
If you don't go looking in completely new areas, you'll always have to expand from where you are. Who would've thought that certain insulating materials drop all their resistance once the get below about 90 Kelvin?
Regards, Ulli
The interface didn't look like X, it was rather slim and fast. (Not as much fuss as CE!)
Hope that helps, regards, Ulli
You are both right and wrong:
Your grandmother doesn't need pipes, but it is only an argument for a different OS if that different OS does something that the OS with pipes and greps doesn't do. So it's a non-argument most of the time!
Regards, Ulli
Which? Heavier than air was developed in US and Australia. A lot of people think it is likely that hot air ballons were used in India and China long before Europe.
*Powered* Flight was developed in the US. Heavier than air, but unpowered, was Otto Lilienthal, near Berlin, Germany.
What about using a trebuchet style launcher? Or (since the cans are made of metal) a magnetic accelerator? Or a steam catapult? Just a few thoughts... (are there automatic laser rangefinders?) The range could probably be got via some signal processing from a couple of microphones spread around the room...
IMHO you're telling nonsense. Driving in the left lane is OK, but not for extended periods of time with no (or just a little) traffic in the right lane. It's ok to overtake, it's ok to move left to make room for someone merging, but not without first looking if you don't cut someone off, and please, when that situation has passed, move back to the right lane to make room for people that want to go a little faster.
There are two big fat harry differences between US roads and the Autobon. The first is that most US cars would fail German inspections. The second is that the Autobon does not take many prisoners. When people screw up at 120 MPH, wrecks are unrecognizable, and the passengers are dead.
Yes, it does. Every year, a couple hundred people die in accidents on the Autobahn. But there are tens of thousands more that are much less severe. They just don't make the news. ;-)
The speed is not so much the problem, it's the drivers. If you run off the road at 60 mph and hit a tree and are likely dead. If you run off the road at 120, the likelyhood of death is higher, sure, but if that happens to you, you're also likely to have driven too fast for the situation at hand. You simply cannot drive at 120 in the night, in heavy rain, on an unknown, curved road. Yet some people think they can and wonder why they crash.
Remember DR DOS?
I've seen...
You post here to voice your opinion, clearly. Moderators are explicitly asked to moderate down only posts that are off topic or flamebait.
A lot of the discussion so far about moderation has been based on the assumption that the reading pleasure of slashdot frequenters is of utmost importance. But perhaps it would be a good idea to reconsider this view. What's the point of devising new rules and methods of discussion just to make it more pleasant? There are plenty of unplaisant things that can be said, that still contribute to the value and the reality of a forum.
IMHO, the moderation system is not intended for the viewing pleasure of the readers but to weed out bad posts and to help stand out the really good ones. If you want the raw and uncut stuff, read at -1. I, for myself, read at +2, just because I don't have the time to dig through hundreds of posts, just to find a few gems.
Moderators are also asked to moderate up comments that they don't agree with, but make a valid point in the discussion (but not posts that say something or other is better or worse and give no reason!).
I would not call the moderation system censorship. But I wouldn't call slashdot a free speech forum either. Whether this sounds pleasing to Rob's ears or not, any system where there is the possibility of automated filtering based on criteria set by third parties,(other than the writer and the reader) any discussion environment where voices can be volumed up or volumed down at the discretion of some judges.. any such system is NOT free.
That is correct. This system is not completely free, and IMHO it is good that way. I would just stop reading /. if had not choice but to read all comments. I prefer to read those few that other people (changing people!) deem worth reading. This approch I'd call a democratic approach, because moderators vote, rather than delete postings. IMHO, this is a improvement from usenet, where the approach is anarchistic and I have to keep my own scorefile or read all the posts and the valid points get drowned out in noise.
Regarding free speech: would you go to town hall and shout "The mayor is a turnip!" and complain about being removed? (Probably he is, but that's another story ;-)) Or would you complain when you are asked the leave the church, because you were talking loudly with your neighbor about the preferences of your ex-lover? IMHO you have every right to say whatever you want, but don't expect everyone to listen, and don't even try to force everyone to listen!
And lack of freedom is never a good sign. Perhaps Rob ought to look towards this direction for some answers as to why the quality of the discussions on slashdot is declining.
No, IMHO that's probably because it starts to become more and more crowded. IMHO, the quality didn't decrease too much, but I browse at +2, so... ;-)
Ironic isn't it..? The majority of people here support free software, yet they cannot handle the more basic concept of free speech.
Yes, they can. They just have chosen not to listen to everyone that happens to say something. Try joining a few large IRC channels and read everything. Or read news, but not just a few groups, and without kill- or scorefile! /. has grown to dimensions where it needs mechanisms to help people sort out the crap. (It doesn't force them to do that!) Usenet was completely free speech, and with the advent of AOL and the likes, it grew into a failure. So, what do you propose as a solution?
Why donate cycles? Just step forward and say "Hi!". -> ETI found, so S terminated. ;-)
Just say, "I read only postings that are signed by the author, and only if the author is new, or recognized by me for his high quality."