Once/. realizes they've completely creamed the feckfeck out of someones page, what's the harm in removing <a href=""></a> from the link? The story will remain posted, but not generate that ton of traffic from people who click links "because they're there"./. was smart enough to write slashcode, I'm sure they could come up with a bit of perl that only activated the link after it was moved off the front page. Hell, come up with a little superscript (2) like everything2 uses to signify it's a time delayed link.
At our school we have quite a few HP 1100 printers. Thier pollicy states that if you use anything other than genuine HP toner cartridges the warrenty is void. I wouldn't be suprised if other printer manufacturers do the same, specificly Dell.
Of course, nothing can help you when you've got a faculty member who keeps trying to print transparencies in a laser printer. FFS!
You've got a good point bringing that up. Jabber keeps most (all?) of it's information in XML files, which are of course plaintext. From a simple IM client side view, there's no way to examine those XML files remotely. The only way to gain access is to have shell access to the server, so we implement security that revolves around that type of access.
As far as we, as MIS staff, are concerned, yes, we do have access to that information at any given time. So far we've relied on personal ethics not to pry into others confidential information and it's worked well for us. Only three of us have access to that server, and, while I can't speak directly for the other two, I have full trust that those ethics are firm.
More direct to your question, the students don't really feel anything about that. While we do brief students on many aspects of network usage, we don't get into details about which services do or do not store their configs in plaintext files. We're open to inquiries if students have questions, but there are many pieces of info we don't outright offer.
One of the beauties of Jabber, and also one that hasn't received as much attention as it should IMHO, is that is can connect to pretty much every other network out there. Granted this is a server feature, just having a Jabber client doesn't mean you get this connectivity.
FEX:
I admin at an.edu. Even though we have software policies (both ethical and those mandated physically on the network) we still find students installing every known IM client to man. To solve this we installed a Jabber server with transports that would allow it to connect to MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AIM/IRC/etc.. and installed a Jabber client on each machine. Then we created policy stating that you can connect to any network you need to, but you must use the Jabber client to do so. Once students get over the hump of figuring out YAIMC, they actually enjoy being able to login once and be connected to any network with which they have an account. It also concretely gives them no excuse to install any other IM client on our machines.
At home I've taken to doing the same thing. I run a local Jabber server with a full transport setup and just connect to myself with my client. It's a bit backwards, but pays off in desk space and effeciency in the end.
Bootable linux floppy that can reset the password for any local account without knowing the old one. At our.edu students are constantly doing Win2k labs, forgeting their passwords, and showing up at my office door to get it fixed. Been using that same floppy for greater then a year now and it's never failed.
But, like eleventy people have stated before, once you have physical access to the machine, discussing it in any more detail is just verbal jacking off.
What about ext3? Oh, well, I guess you can actually mount ext3 as ext2 so that's no good. SOL? Uh.. there's still Reiser, XFS, things like EVMS, etc.. . Got yourself a nice Win98 proggy to mount those? I doubt it.
Instead of trying to look cool and access an operating system from another operating system, the best choice is usually the same exact operating system. If you've got the capabilities to install a new system along side the old, why bother with freakin' 98?! Intercepting a Linux filesystem is as easy as installing a parallel copy of Linux with a kernel built to access as many given partition types as possible. Hell, download or build a bootable Linux CD-Rom distro and use that. Intercepting NT/2000/XP is exactly the same. Since we've already accepted physical access, just pop the drive out and into another NT/2000/XP machine and mount the NTFS volume. It's trivial and you instantly have a set of naitive tools built to work with that filesystem.
Microsoft does not need^H^H^H^Hdeserve this much control.
It's bad enough the world has to deal with things like the SQL Slammer, but there's no way in hell I'm going to risk waking up one morning to the Toaster Twister and Coffee Cruncher, visit the bathroom to great the Rectal Reamer, and find out my mailbox says STOP ERROR 0x00000e24 - INACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE.
Only to be topped off by being yelled at by some/. troll becuase "Hotfix Q1873672 has been out for your microwave for 3 months!!1 It's your own fault you can't walk upright anymore!!". Hmm.. must be time to patch the house again.
Someone mentioned PHP-Nuke earlier and I couldn't agree more.
There are three of us in our MIS office, and between the three of us we are responsible for everything from backups to phones. When I first started there was no system for online information delivery. Initially we tried writing our own custom pages but it eventually became obvious that a prebuilt CMS would benifit us greatly. I'd had experience with PHP-Nuke before so we decided to give it a shot and it has been perfect for our needs ever since.
Which ever package you potentially decide on it's likely you'll desire features that are not included. This turned from being our motiviation to create a whole site to creating custom modules for Nuke. Nuke gave us the base, and so far I've finished a staff/faculty information module, started an online scheduling application, and I'm currently working on moving our paper based critique system to a module as well.
Unless you're looking to develop something soley to try and market, it's difficult to find a reason to start from scratch. A freshmeat search turns up a healthy ammount of people doing their own thing so you can scope out your competition. Otherwise, find the one you like the best and mod the hell out of it.
I find it interesting that they've chosen to display the "Designed for" logo on their product page. IIRC, that logo is used as somewhat of a certification. IE. you're only granted use of that logo after you pass certain requirements from Microsoft.
I'd find it hard to believe they actually have official support from Microsoft for a DVD region hack utility.
I work for an.edu on the east coast. We're a technical school with >10 campuses. Currently we're using a single Exchange 5.5 server at a central location for staff/faculty mailboxes, and an Exchange 2k server at each location to handle student mailboxes per/campus. In order to make email as easy and uniform as possible, students are only using OWA, not Outlook or Outlook Express (in fact we block 110 and 143). Yes, this means we've paid the cost of >10 Exchange 2k servers for mere webmail. I was not invloved in that purchase decision.
My issue is this: I am ITCHING to kill our Exchange box. I would do it yesterday if I could. However, as much as a Linux advocate as I am, I'm still a believer in making changes for the better, not based soley on principle. ATM, it is simply to easy to have new user creation in Active Directory create Exchange mailboxes as well. I've done some testing with winbind, Postfix, Courier, and PAM to have IMAP authenticate to AD. I admit I was shocked to see it work as good as it did, but it just doesn't seem stable enough at this time.
I would change in an instant if I had:
A decent webmail client that wasn't "branded". It's painful to find good apps that are tainted by egotistical authors that splay their name or some silly logo all over the place. It has to look professional. I've looked at Squirelmail and IMP, either of which I would be willing to use if everything fell into place.
Without a major uproar, we're effectively forced to use a domain model for our network. With Exchange, users need only remember their single domain password to logon or to check email. I need this same functionality in a new mail system. Winbind is a nice tool, and does a good job of authenticating to AD, but it has a tendancy to lose it's mapings after a reboot or process restart. We have greater then 300 machines in our building, all authenticating to AD. If I could easily switch ALL clients over to LDAP authentication I would consider removing AD.
That's it. The first is obviously trivial, so the real hangup for me is authentication. Protocol is trivial, it can be IMAP, POP3, whatever. I know authentication to AD from linux is somewhat of a large task, but show me the answer and I'll switch in a heartbeat.
I'm no authority on these devices, but this is interesting. So far I've come across two different types of digi-sig-pads:
Slide the paper receipt in, sign, take it out.
Sign directly on a touchscreen LCD that requires no paper receipt.
The grocery store I mainly visit uses the latter of the two. While I sign the pad it replicates my signature as if it were a pen-touch screen drawing program. Greater then 75% of the time, the machine is b0rk3d and my signature looks like a 50's vector graphics version of the real thing. Seeing this happen so frequently I only assume that what they're capturing cannot be an exact signature (or perhaps the display is just screwing up). I'd say there is a chance that what they're capturing is actually a signature pattern.
"The last thing I'd want someone to think is that they could put a bomb around their waist and hug the A root and think they're going to significantly impact the Internet,"
Forget the bomb. What techie wouldn't get a boner for the chance to "hug the A root"?!?
Yes, that's fast, but that is a sustained transfer rate. What you have to pay attention to, though, is access times. How fast can it perform random read/wite I/O in small bursts?
Granted, it is vastly improved over USB 1.0, USB has caught up with IEEE1394, and there are IEEE1394 HDD's. But I still don't think they're worth holding anything other then "dumb data", things like video, mp3, etc....
*BUT*, if being hot-swappable is worth a drop in access times, then I agree that this would be a good fix.
It doesn't matter. To be successfull they need to sell there products even to those who don't actually need it. They need to get people to believe that they need RedHat.
I cannot fucking believe you just said that. You must be one of those idiot "own your own business web entrepreneurs" that I keep running into at B&N in the computer section.
How can you begin to make a statment like that? To say that no matter what your product is, you should suggest it is the fix for everyone's needs, when you know that is simply not possible? Perhaps I'm just not suited for the salesman's mentality, but I fail to see the success in your strategy. You, similar to Microsoft, are self serving and are not interested in the true needs of your customers.
So who are you? If you're a salesman, you suck by definition. If you work for Micosoft, I've pegged you (and you also suck by definition). If you're neither, then you have no excuse for sucking. I'm not interested in a reply.
As most people know, Microsoft has decided to open it's extention to Kerberos. So, no, it is no longer proprietary or undocumented. But they used to be.
And to me that just shows another facet of Microsoft's actions. There have been a few times when they have "embraced and extended" standards and have not chosen to release their extention untill they have rung them out for all their worth. This makes it possible for them to soley benifit from new "standards", and when the release their specs when the time is right to make it hard for others to complain.
Yes, Kerberos is open now, but when it is convenient for Microsoft. You could make an arguement that they are a business and they're just trying to protect an investment. But this is a standard. You don't go around fucking with standards if it's not for the good of the entire community.
And don't ask me for other specific examples. I'm not your Microsoft research lakey. When people ask for specific examples it's usually because they're trying to avoid the broader topic.
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Once /. realizes they've completely creamed the feckfeck out of someones page, what's the harm in removing <a href=""></a> from the link? The story will remain posted, but not generate that ton of traffic from people who click links "because they're there". /. was smart enough to write slashcode, I'm sure they could come up with a bit of perl that only activated the link after it was moved off the front page. Hell, come up with a little superscript (2) like everything2 uses to signify it's a time delayed link.
At our school we have quite a few HP 1100 printers. Thier pollicy states that if you use anything other than genuine HP toner cartridges the warrenty is void. I wouldn't be suprised if other printer manufacturers do the same, specificly Dell.
Of course, nothing can help you when you've got a faculty member who keeps trying to print transparencies in a laser printer. FFS!
You've got a good point bringing that up. Jabber keeps most (all?) of it's information in XML files, which are of course plaintext. From a simple IM client side view, there's no way to examine those XML files remotely. The only way to gain access is to have shell access to the server, so we implement security that revolves around that type of access.
As far as we, as MIS staff, are concerned, yes, we do have access to that information at any given time. So far we've relied on personal ethics not to pry into others confidential information and it's worked well for us. Only three of us have access to that server, and, while I can't speak directly for the other two, I have full trust that those ethics are firm.
More direct to your question, the students don't really feel anything about that. While we do brief students on many aspects of network usage, we don't get into details about which services do or do not store their configs in plaintext files. We're open to inquiries if students have questions, but there are many pieces of info we don't outright offer.
One of the beauties of Jabber, and also one that hasn't received as much attention as it should IMHO, is that is can connect to pretty much every other network out there. Granted this is a server feature, just having a Jabber client doesn't mean you get this connectivity.
.edu. Even though we have software policies (both ethical and those mandated physically on the network) we still find students installing every known IM client to man. To solve this we installed a Jabber server with transports that would allow it to connect to MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AIM/IRC/etc.. and installed a Jabber client on each machine. Then we created policy stating that you can connect to any network you need to, but you must use the Jabber client to do so. Once students get over the hump of figuring out YAIMC, they actually enjoy being able to login once and be connected to any network with which they have an account. It also concretely gives them no excuse to install any other IM client on our machines.
FEX:
I admin at an
At home I've taken to doing the same thing. I run a local Jabber server with a full transport setup and just connect to myself with my client. It's a bit backwards, but pays off in desk space and effeciency in the end.
Talk, talk, talk. All you need is this:
.edu students are constantly doing Win2k labs, forgeting their passwords, and showing up at my office door to get it fixed. Been using that same floppy for greater then a year now and it's never failed.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
Bootable linux floppy that can reset the password for any local account without knowing the old one. At our
But, like eleventy people have stated before, once you have physical access to the machine, discussing it in any more detail is just verbal jacking off.
What about ext3? Oh, well, I guess you can actually mount ext3 as ext2 so that's no good. SOL? Uh.. there's still Reiser, XFS, things like EVMS, etc.. . Got yourself a nice Win98 proggy to mount those? I doubt it.
Instead of trying to look cool and access an operating system from another operating system, the best choice is usually the same exact operating system. If you've got the capabilities to install a new system along side the old, why bother with freakin' 98?! Intercepting a Linux filesystem is as easy as installing a parallel copy of Linux with a kernel built to access as many given partition types as possible. Hell, download or build a bootable Linux CD-Rom distro and use that. Intercepting NT/2000/XP is exactly the same. Since we've already accepted physical access, just pop the drive out and into another NT/2000/XP machine and mount the NTFS volume. It's trivial and you instantly have a set of naitive tools built to work with that filesystem.
Microsoft does not need^H^H^H^Hdeserve this much control.
/. troll becuase "Hotfix Q1873672 has been out for your microwave for 3 months!!1 It's your own fault you can't walk upright anymore!!". Hmm.. must be time to patch the house again.
It's bad enough the world has to deal with things like the SQL Slammer, but there's no way in hell I'm going to risk waking up one morning to the Toaster Twister and Coffee Cruncher, visit the bathroom to great the Rectal Reamer, and find out my mailbox says STOP ERROR 0x00000e24 - INACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE.
Only to be topped off by being yelled at by some
NO SIR.
Someone mentioned PHP-Nuke earlier and I couldn't agree more.
There are three of us in our MIS office, and between the three of us we are responsible for everything from backups to phones. When I first started there was no system for online information delivery. Initially we tried writing our own custom pages but it eventually became obvious that a prebuilt CMS would benifit us greatly. I'd had experience with PHP-Nuke before so we decided to give it a shot and it has been perfect for our needs ever since.
Which ever package you potentially decide on it's likely you'll desire features that are not included. This turned from being our motiviation to create a whole site to creating custom modules for Nuke. Nuke gave us the base, and so far I've finished a staff/faculty information module, started an online scheduling application, and I'm currently working on moving our paper based critique system to a module as well.
Unless you're looking to develop something soley to try and market, it's difficult to find a reason to start from scratch. A freshmeat search turns up a healthy ammount of people doing their own thing so you can scope out your competition. Otherwise, find the one you like the best and mod the hell out of it.
I find it interesting that they've chosen to display the "Designed for" logo on their product page. IIRC, that logo is used as somewhat of a certification. IE. you're only granted use of that logo after you pass certain requirements from Microsoft.
I'd find it hard to believe they actually have official support from Microsoft for a DVD region hack utility.
My issue is this: I am ITCHING to kill our Exchange box. I would do it yesterday if I could. However, as much as a Linux advocate as I am, I'm still a believer in making changes for the better, not based soley on principle. ATM, it is simply to easy to have new user creation in Active Directory create Exchange mailboxes as well. I've done some testing with winbind, Postfix, Courier, and PAM to have IMAP authenticate to AD. I admit I was shocked to see it work as good as it did, but it just doesn't seem stable enough at this time.
I would change in an instant if I had:
That's it. The first is obviously trivial, so the real hangup for me is authentication. Protocol is trivial, it can be IMAP, POP3, whatever. I know authentication to AD from linux is somewhat of a large task, but show me the answer and I'll switch in a heartbeat.
- Slide the paper receipt in, sign, take it out.
- Sign directly on a touchscreen LCD that requires no paper receipt.
The grocery store I mainly visit uses the latter of the two. While I sign the pad it replicates my signature as if it were a pen-touch screen drawing program. Greater then 75% of the time, the machine is b0rk3d and my signature looks like a 50's vector graphics version of the real thing. Seeing this happen so frequently I only assume that what they're capturing cannot be an exact signature (or perhaps the display is just screwing up). I'd say there is a chance that what they're capturing is actually a signature pattern.shrug
What's the upgrade path on gentoo like anyway?
emerge --update world
Does it all.
For all you Debian users waiting around for debs, I'm in Gentoo. So your apt-get can bite my emerge kde.
Compiled from source w/ all dependencies all in one command. Suck it.
Now be a predictable Debian user and mod me down for bashing your golden cow.
I just tried Borkov and TriMagic on my Prism and both freeze at an all white screen. I'm aware that Handspring tweaks PalmOS for their hardware.
Can anyone confirm these issues with a Handspring?
"The last thing I'd want someone to think is that they could put a bomb around their waist and hug the A root and think they're going to significantly impact the Internet,"
Forget the bomb. What techie wouldn't get a boner for the chance to "hug the A root"?!?
Yes, that's fast, but that is a sustained transfer rate. What you have to pay attention to, though, is access times. How fast can it perform random read/wite I/O in small bursts?
.
Granted, it is vastly improved over USB 1.0, USB has caught up with IEEE1394, and there are IEEE1394 HDD's. But I still don't think they're worth holding anything other then "dumb data", things like video, mp3, etc...
*BUT*, if being hot-swappable is worth a drop in access times, then I agree that this would be a good fix.
You can nix USB off the bat, as transfer rates are far to slow. Firewire I may not trust enough as most of that subsystem is still in development.
It's all about tradeoffs.
Ok, the foam is an obvious issue, but..
He's running Windows (cheap shot)
It's an Apple HDD (look carefully at the label)
Is that a Voodoo in there? (check out that classic loopback cable)
That's an old NIC (planning on using a transceiver?)
Yeah, I know his specs are listed at the top of the page, but I guess it was just kinda fun to point the out.
And yes, not hot-swapping at all is the true answer.
No kidding. Read this thread and tell and tell me how confident it would make anyone trying to hotswap IDE.
It doesn't matter. To be successfull they need to sell there products even to those who don't actually need it. They need to get people to believe that they need RedHat.
I cannot fucking believe you just said that. You must be one of those idiot "own your own business web entrepreneurs" that I keep running into at B&N in the computer section.
How can you begin to make a statment like that? To say that no matter what your product is, you should suggest it is the fix for everyone's needs, when you know that is simply not possible? Perhaps I'm just not suited for the salesman's mentality, but I fail to see the success in your strategy. You, similar to Microsoft, are self serving and are not interested in the true needs of your customers.
So who are you? If you're a salesman, you suck by definition. If you work for Micosoft, I've pegged you (and you also suck by definition). If you're neither, then you have no excuse for sucking. I'm not interested in a reply.
As most people know, Microsoft has decided to open it's extention to Kerberos. So, no, it is no longer proprietary or undocumented. But they used to be.
And to me that just shows another facet of Microsoft's actions. There have been a few times when they have "embraced and extended" standards and have not chosen to release their extention untill they have rung them out for all their worth. This makes it possible for them to soley benifit from new "standards", and when the release their specs when the time is right to make it hard for others to complain.
Yes, Kerberos is open now, but when it is convenient for Microsoft. You could make an arguement that they are a business and they're just trying to protect an investment. But this is a standard. You don't go around fucking with standards if it's not for the good of the entire community.
And don't ask me for other specific examples. I'm not your Microsoft research lakey. When people ask for specific examples it's usually because they're trying to avoid the broader topic.
Back of box:
For external use only.
If Playstation 6 contacts skin, flush with water for 15 minutes.
Do not stare directly at Playstation 6.
If Playstation 6 breaks open, run and take cover.
Carrie Fisher and Alec Guiness were both cast emembers of Star Wars
the fisher and wolverine are both members of the weazel family
The U.S.S. Wolverine and U.S.S. Seawolf are both submarines
The Seawolf was the first sub powered by a liquid metal cooled reactor. It was completed exactly 10 years after the Roswell incident
Enigma is the name of a UFO museum in Roswell, NM
Skipjack and Enigma are both encryption algorithms
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I don't know if it's possible to run a full blown instance of IIS on WinXP...
WindowsXP Pro comes with IIS 5.1. And yes, it is "fully blows".
And just to add...
WTF is up with the new static site? I mean, do what you have to with the product, but why can't we still have access to the tutorials??