Perhaps brusquely put, but yes, many of the complaints voiced in the comments to this article are the same as the last time there was an article on the new mobile site. Like the shortened summa...
Oh, yes, I'm so tired of that...and the mbeta site is weirdly proportioned on my galaxy tab. Looks like I'm getting the "ancient nokia" version stretched to fill a 10 inch screen. Just gimme the desktop site already.
Well, yes. Expecting ad agencies to honor DNT seems about as clever as firewalling based on the April fool's "evil bit". In both cases, the people doing something you don't want have to choose to honor your wish. Good luck with that.
In my mind it doesn't even matter if cut off body parts are actually usable for biometric authentication. Any self-respecting thug who has seen Demolition Man, Minority Report, or one of the many others, will have to try the trick for himself just in case the people who said it didn't work were just trying to keep the competition in the dark..
According to wikipedia, the complete bible was available in "Norsk" (that's Norwegian for "Norwegian") in 1930, and it has been available in Danish (readable by any literate Norwegian at the time) since 1550. We're even lutheranian protestand christian by constitution, god damn it..
Indeed. The Norwegian writer, law professor, and early adopter Jon Bing had bing.no for years before Microsoft bought it from him for an undisclosed sum. Everyone's happy.
Though I suppose in a "no TLDs" world where he had.bing, Microsoft would just have named their search engine something else..
It's not that different from a skilled typist still looking at his hands once in a while. Besides the force of habit and natural tendency to look at your hands while working, it sometimes helps improve accuracy. I can type blind, but I often look down when typing in a new password. I can also play blind, but when it's not a very well rehearsed riff, I feel that looking at my left hand improves my accuracy and helps me focus on what I'm doing.
(but of course, if you're playing a guitar by vision alone, you're no better than the hunt-and-peck typist)
Unfortunately, the ReadyBoost concept seems to be patented in the US. Don't know if this patent still applies when the SSD is actually faster in every way than the moving platter disk, however. The clever trick of ReadyBoost was realizing that an USB drive could deliver a small file faster than a hard disk's seek time, so you save time even if the disk has a better sustained data rate over time for big reads.
I wouldn't accept a job where I'd be the only admin. For one thing, the company won't be set to handle my vacation time or any sick leave in a way I'm comfortable with. More importantly, I find that being the only guy who works with something gets old fast. I want someone to discuss ideas with who actually understand what I'm saying and can provide valuable input.
I love it when the boss or project manager takes this role. In addition to reminding people to eat, this person should also be in charge of making people go home to sleep, so we can continue in a useful manner tomorrow and maybe the day after.
When installing road user charging systems, the project manager also makes a fine test car driver..:)
We're using ip helper forwarding to two ISC dhcp3 servers (on linux) with a load balance / failover setup. Works just dandy for a few thousand users and 200+ subnets.
Separate pools and subnets per vlan and all that stuff, of course. I'm sure there are howtos on the web..
He explains why DNSSEC fixes one aspect of MiTM attacks, but he fails to mention any reason to prefer it over SSL certificates, or even in addition to SSL certificates. The example he uses (login / banking information) isn't something you'd want to be passing around unencrypted, anyway..
I've read about what DNSSEC does, but I haven't found is an actual reason why anyone should care. Is there one?
Seems to me it kinda-sorta solves a few non-problems, and any actual problems it might touch upon have been solved better by SSL certificates years ago. Is it just that ISC is envious of the SSL cert sellers, and want to create a new action they can have the largest piece of?
As I recall, the ubuntu installer is pretty helpful about deleting everything except/home if you install to a previously used "one-big-filesystem". I don't remember exactly how it goes, but I think it asks if this is what you want by default, kind of "this filesystem seems to already have been used for a linux install" kind of thing.
(and in case that bit breaks, I keep 6 months worth of daily rdiff-backup of my home directory on a different computer)
It's a silly admin who hands out root to edit a file. Both the time-honored practice of fiddling with groups and the more newfangled way of using posix ACLs (setfacl) would be safer for the admin and more convenient for the user. Sudo is for restarting the service after the config file has been edited.
(but yeah, I'm sure quite a few admins can be tricked into giving you root that way. Certain services could be used to gain root, too, if you're free to edit the config file as you wish).
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Perhaps brusquely put, but yes, many of the complaints voiced in the comments to this article are the same as the last time there was an article on the new mobile site. Like the shortened summa...
Oh, yes, I'm so tired of that. ..and the mbeta site is weirdly proportioned on my galaxy tab. Looks like I'm getting the "ancient nokia" version stretched to fill a 10 inch screen. Just gimme the desktop site already.
Well, yes. Expecting ad agencies to honor DNT seems about as clever as firewalling based on the April fool's "evil bit". In both cases, the people doing something you don't want have to choose to honor your wish. Good luck with that.
In my mind it doesn't even matter if cut off body parts are actually usable for biometric authentication. Any self-respecting thug who has seen Demolition Man, Minority Report, or one of the many others, will have to try the trick for himself just in case the people who said it didn't work were just trying to keep the competition in the dark..
According to wikipedia, the complete bible was available in "Norsk" (that's Norwegian for "Norwegian") in 1930, and it has been available in Danish (readable by any literate Norwegian at the time) since 1550. We're even lutheranian protestand christian by constitution, god damn it..
Indeed. The Norwegian writer, law professor, and early adopter Jon Bing had bing.no for years before Microsoft bought it from him for an undisclosed sum. Everyone's happy.
Though I suppose in a "no TLDs" world where he had .bing, Microsoft would just have named their search engine something else..
Sounds like a good idea. Would you like to work on this?
It's not that different from a skilled typist still looking at his hands once in a while. Besides the force of habit and natural tendency to look at your hands while working, it sometimes helps improve accuracy. I can type blind, but I often look down when typing in a new password. I can also play blind, but when it's not a very well rehearsed riff, I feel that looking at my left hand improves my accuracy and helps me focus on what I'm doing.
(but of course, if you're playing a guitar by vision alone, you're no better than the hunt-and-peck typist)
..and if they also have 3G ipads to go with those iphones, they count as three "coverage" people.
I like having two phones, so I can turn the work phone off and leave it at my desk when I go home for the day.
Time to buy a red Barchetta and an old farm in the country..
The way around this is to _indent_ with tabs and _align_ with spaces.
Like "UFO 2: Flying"?
Parent: +1 insightful
Unfortunately, the ReadyBoost concept seems to be patented in the US. Don't know if this patent still applies when the SSD is actually faster in every way than the moving platter disk, however. The clever trick of ReadyBoost was realizing that an USB drive could deliver a small file faster than a hard disk's seek time, so you save time even if the disk has a better sustained data rate over time for big reads.
I wouldn't accept a job where I'd be the only admin. For one thing, the company won't be set to handle my vacation time or any sick leave in a way I'm comfortable with. More importantly, I find that being the only guy who works with something gets old fast. I want someone to discuss ideas with who actually understand what I'm saying and can provide valuable input.
I love it when the boss or project manager takes this role. In addition to reminding people to eat, this person should also be in charge of making people go home to sleep, so we can continue in a useful manner tomorrow and maybe the day after.
When installing road user charging systems, the project manager also makes a fine test car driver.. :)
I'm much more happy with ours after we moved the servers to RHEL (and ~5 years more recent hardware).. We even get proper Gnome now :)
Actually, failure to smell the milk after I open it has given me grief more times than those other things put together.
We're using ip helper forwarding to two ISC dhcp3 servers (on linux) with a load balance / failover setup. Works just dandy for a few thousand users and 200+ subnets.
Separate pools and subnets per vlan and all that stuff, of course. I'm sure there are howtos on the web..
He explains why DNSSEC fixes one aspect of MiTM attacks, but he fails to mention any reason to prefer it over SSL certificates, or even in addition to SSL certificates. The example he uses (login / banking information) isn't something you'd want to be passing around unencrypted, anyway..
I've read about what DNSSEC does, but I haven't found is an actual reason why anyone should care. Is there one?
Seems to me it kinda-sorta solves a few non-problems, and any actual problems it might touch upon have been solved better by SSL certificates years ago. Is it just that ISC is envious of the SSL cert sellers, and want to create a new action they can have the largest piece of?
Laptop throwing contest.
As I recall, the ubuntu installer is pretty helpful about deleting everything except /home if you install to a previously used "one-big-filesystem". I don't remember exactly how it goes, but I think it asks if this is what you want by default, kind of "this filesystem seems to already have been used for a linux install" kind of thing.
(and in case that bit breaks, I keep 6 months worth of daily rdiff-backup of my home directory on a different computer)
It's a silly admin who hands out root to edit a file. Both the time-honored practice of fiddling with groups and the more newfangled way of using posix ACLs (setfacl) would be safer for the admin and more convenient for the user. Sudo is for restarting the service after the config file has been edited.
(but yeah, I'm sure quite a few admins can be tricked into giving you root that way. Certain services could be used to gain root, too, if you're free to edit the config file as you wish).
Should have tried a nicely worded one instead. That worked in one go for me.