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I've delt with this before in other institutional locking systems (specifically, Best locks at rpi.edu) - the patent on key blanks only lasts 7 years, and given most lock rotations this is long enough. At RPI, only high value buildings (dorms, new buildings) use the patented, newer, high security cores. Older ones, like the one I was responsible for, can be copied anywhere.
The real security in Medeco is that very few places are equipped to cut medeco keys, and a medeco key looks nothing like a key most people should be legitimately copying.
That's interested. I rarely run into tape that old, but I can think of one where their likely is some, I'll have to go check it out. I'm also a big fan of Permacel.
SQL is a language, not a thing you connect to... unless I've totally missed something.
If you mean that the service pack breaks connectivity to various RDBMSs, that's entirely possible as it contains all sorts of new firewalling excitement, and most RDBMSs I've used use TCP/IP as their main transport...
By the way, minidisc does not use DRM, it just doesn't have a digital line out jack.
Um, no. I have several players with digital outs, both optical and copper. They work fine.
MD does have a rudimentary DRM, wherein you can only make a certain numbers of digital copies of media. This is encoded as two bits in the digital audio stream, and there are a _wide_ variety of devices to strip them out.
Their heirarchy as to the rate of change is thus (asending order):
stable - changes every few years, security fixes are backported to packages. testing - packages get here when they compile on all supported platforms. This is what's frozen to create the next stable version. unstable - packages get here nearly immediately. experimental - things that aren't in unstable yet, for whatever reason.
I don't fully understand how the unstable / experimental relationship works - but hey, I only run stable.
That seems... crazy. It seems like the RDBMS should be keeping statistics on queries and data, particularly those that drastically effect the run time / complexity of stored procedures.
Isn't the whole point of a decent database a decent query optimizer? Doesn't that include adapting to the data? The first time an SP is run, it may very well be against an empty or sample data set. Seems dumb (and unlikely) for the query plan to be completely static.
A friend of mine's father had a severely screwed up sleep patter the developed when his youngest son was an infant. The kid had ear infections (or something that kept him up a lot) and dad got used to staying up the whole night. For years, he would barely sleep and was able to do somewhat monotonous tasks for long periods of time without interruption or noticeable performance degradation (read: driving for 6 hours without stopping).
This isn't really a good thing. The guy had a nervous breakdown a few years ago, and though he's doing well now, it wasn't a fun time for him and his family. I have no idea if they were related, but man, I can't imagine living on a few hours of sleep a night was good for him.
Helmets are great, I ride a bike and a motorcycle and wear helmets on both. I'm all for people under 18 being forced to wear helmets by legislation - they're not citizens, feel free to force them to do things all they want.
I also firmly disagree with helmet laws. If you're worried injuried motorcyclist will cost your state money and health care, then legislate against state-sponsored emergency health care. If someone wants to significantly increase the chance that they are going to die, that's up to them. This isn't like a seat belt law - there is some justification that the driver and passenger need to be held in their seat in an emergency so the driver can operate the vehicle - that actually effects others. If you're not wearing a helmet in an emergency on a motorcycle, it's not going to make a difference to anyone other than you and the guy who has to scrape your brain off the pavement.
My life is mine. You have no right to protect me from myself.
can't telnet from the school due to policies? just bring Putty on a memory stick... I'm confused, wouldn't this be better addressed with a packet filter instead of removing the telnet binary? What happens if a kid brings a laptop in?
knoppix is _great_ as a recovery / analysis tool. For instance, I'm installing XP on some machine and can't figure out what kind of ethernet card it has... Linux has 'lspci', but XP just reports "Unknown network card."
I can boot into Knoppix, lspci, download the drivers I need from Intel's site, and put them on the disk for Windows to find.
Another good example is my boss, who's laptop drive crashed a few weeks ago. While he waited for a replacement, he ran everything off of Knoppix and a USB Key.
My humblest apologies for discussing something on a discussion forum. God forbid discourse might occur!
I don't want everything for free - I'm happy to make the buying decision as to the value of microsoft's (or oracle's, or whoever) groupware product. For most company under 30 people, I've found its not worth it.
This finding leads me to believe that there's a market for inexpensive (or, *gasp*, free!) groupware software. I like free(-as-in-speech) software, and I think this is a good opportunity. I don't have the resources to write something like this on my own (i.e., no one will pay me to do it), but if there were a project that was developing something and it matched my skillset (Java, primarily), I'd love to contribute.
Hmm, how would I find such a project... maybe I'd post on/. or something...
oh wait, then I'd be "whining on slashdot about how I can't get free candy."
Two different scenarios, really. But you're right, I've been a bit unclear.
I've been in a few situations where a boss has said "I'd like to be able to handle group calendaring." All the solutions mentioned in this thread have been too expensive (I've mainly worked for small businesses where I am the only IT employee and responsible for the entire infrastructure). This type of application is a great place for open source to make inroads into the business environment. Once you're using an open source mail / calendaring app on the desktop, the office suite isn't far away.
I've used Exchange / outlook in the office in places where it predated me and I wasn't responsible for its administration, and I've watched it being used in large organizations (5,000+ employees on a single campus), and it seems like a great tool. Other closed-source solutions don't appeal to me because the cost is consistently too high for my employers.
I hated eclipse until I got some good emacs keybindings going (specifically the behavior of tab and the indentation style). Now if it tightly integrated with Subversion, I'd be using it for all of my Java development.
I talk as if there are no Free Software programs that do this, which the responses my comment has recieved have shown there isn't.
I'm not interested in paying for this functionality; I'm primarily a home user that does IT support for small businesses. My point is that this integration is a killer application for any business large enough to have a secretary, and very few small businesses have the facilities for a full exchange server install.
I would love to have some sort of IMAP-for-calendaring that was open source and reliable. I'm sure others would as well.
This doesn't count in my book because its only half a solution; you still need something server-side to centralize all the resource tracking. I have a friend who's trying to find an exchange replacement from the Free Software world, and has turned up very little.
imho, Outlook/Exchange's ability to handle meeting scheduling is a Big Freaking Deal. Of course, I'm just a college student working in IT, but I've never seen anything in the Free Software world that could compare to the power of Exchange for colloboration.
Man, you're a genius. I was totally saying that spam is a non-issue, you sure put me in my place. Thank the lord.
Oh wait, no, that's wrong.
Did you read my comment before replying? I never said spam wasn't a problem; I called it "a pain" - I generally consider pain to be a problem, but maybe you're an easily confused masochist - perhaps I should have been more clear. Allow me to elaborate for your edification:
The point of my post, the grandparent of this post, was that the great-grandparent of this posts argument was specious. That is all. It is not a commentary on spam inasmuch as it was a commentary on the lack of logic one commonly finds in this forum.
Thank you, Jethro Rose, for decreasing the signal to noise ratio on slashdot even further. In the future, please try to think of something to say before speaking.
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I've delt with this before in other institutional locking systems (specifically, Best locks at rpi.edu) - the patent on key blanks only lasts 7 years, and given most lock rotations this is long enough. At RPI, only high value buildings (dorms, new buildings) use the patented, newer, high security cores. Older ones, like the one I was responsible for, can be copied anywhere.
The real security in Medeco is that very few places are equipped to cut medeco keys, and a medeco key looks nothing like a key most people should be legitimately copying.
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I've done so many (well, 10 or so) base installs of off floppies... what fun. Two decent floppies and a copy of ntrawrite is all you need!
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excellent! You win automatic friends-ing just for having seen that movie!
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That's interested. I rarely run into tape that old, but I can think of one where their likely is some, I'll have to go check it out. I'm also a big fan of Permacel.
What do you do, theatrically? I'm in school, running the amateur theatre group at rpi.edu, and having a lot of fun with it.
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How long is a long time? I've been doing amateur tech theatre for 7 or so years now and I've never noticed any residue from gaffers...
Also, any particular brand show this effect?
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I don't think being emigrants from North Africa makes these particular angry people any less in France.
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lds
SQL is a language, not a thing you connect to... unless I've totally missed something.
If you mean that the service pack breaks connectivity to various RDBMSs, that's entirely possible as it contains all sorts of new firewalling excitement, and most RDBMSs I've used use TCP/IP as their main transport...
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lds
eh, I see that more like the warning on all UPSs saying "DON'T USE THIS IN A HOSPITAL TO KEEP SOMEONE BREATHING! YOU'LL ALL DIE!"
More ass-covering than an actual commentary on the reliability of the equipment.
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Man, I bet you have a lot of intelligence information to back up those claims. ...
well?
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By the way, minidisc does not use DRM, it just doesn't have a digital line out jack.
Um, no. I have several players with digital outs, both optical and copper. They work fine.
MD does have a rudimentary DRM, wherein you can only make a certain numbers of digital copies of media. This is encoded as two bits in the digital audio stream, and there are a _wide_ variety of devices to strip them out.
umm, no.
Their heirarchy as to the rate of change is thus (asending order):
stable - changes every few years, security fixes are backported to packages.
testing - packages get here when they compile on all supported platforms. This is what's frozen to create the next stable version.
unstable - packages get here nearly immediately.
experimental - things that aren't in unstable yet, for whatever reason.
I don't fully understand how the unstable / experimental relationship works - but hey, I only run stable.
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lds
That seems... crazy. It seems like the RDBMS should be keeping statistics on queries and data, particularly those that drastically effect the run time / complexity of stored procedures.
Isn't the whole point of a decent database a decent query optimizer? Doesn't that include adapting to the data? The first time an SP is run, it may very well be against an empty or sample data set. Seems dumb (and unlikely) for the query plan to be completely static.
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Phil
A friend of mine's father had a severely screwed up sleep patter the developed when his youngest son was an infant. The kid had ear infections (or something that kept him up a lot) and dad got used to staying up the whole night. For years, he would barely sleep and was able to do somewhat monotonous tasks for long periods of time without interruption or noticeable performance degradation (read: driving for 6 hours without stopping).
This isn't really a good thing. The guy had a nervous breakdown a few years ago, and though he's doing well now, it wasn't a fun time for him and his family. I have no idea if they were related, but man, I can't imagine living on a few hours of sleep a night was good for him.
the energy intensive part of a cell call is transmitting RF, not the flirking audio amp.
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lds
*cough*screwitandusdjbdns*cough*
(Blah blah, American bias, blah).
Helmets are great, I ride a bike and a motorcycle and wear helmets on both. I'm all for people under 18 being forced to wear helmets by legislation - they're not citizens, feel free to force them to do things all they want.
I also firmly disagree with helmet laws. If you're worried injuried motorcyclist will cost your state money and health care, then legislate against state-sponsored emergency health care. If someone wants to significantly increase the chance that they are going to die, that's up to them. This isn't like a seat belt law - there is some justification that the driver and passenger need to be held in their seat in an emergency so the driver can operate the vehicle - that actually effects others. If you're not wearing a helmet in an emergency on a motorcycle, it's not going to make a difference to anyone other than you and the guy who has to scrape your brain off the pavement.
My life is mine. You have no right to protect me from myself.
can't telnet from the school due to policies? just bring Putty on a memory stick ... I'm confused, wouldn't this be better addressed with a packet filter instead of removing the telnet binary? What happens if a kid brings a laptop in?
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lds
knoppix is _great_ as a recovery / analysis tool. For instance, I'm installing XP on some machine and can't figure out what kind of ethernet card it has... Linux has 'lspci', but XP just reports "Unknown network card."
I can boot into Knoppix, lspci, download the drivers I need from Intel's site, and put them on the disk for Windows to find.
Another good example is my boss, who's laptop drive crashed a few weeks ago. While he waited for a replacement, he ran everything off of Knoppix and a USB Key.
It's impressive stuff.
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lds
My humblest apologies for discussing something on a discussion forum. God forbid discourse might occur!
/. or something...
I don't want everything for free - I'm happy to make the buying decision as to the value of microsoft's (or oracle's, or whoever) groupware product. For most company under 30 people, I've found its not worth it.
This finding leads me to believe that there's a market for inexpensive (or, *gasp*, free!) groupware software. I like free(-as-in-speech) software, and I think this is a good opportunity. I don't have the resources to write something like this on my own (i.e., no one will pay me to do it), but if there were a project that was developing something and it matched my skillset (Java, primarily), I'd love to contribute.
Hmm, how would I find such a project... maybe I'd post on
oh wait, then I'd be "whining on slashdot about how I can't get free candy."
Two different scenarios, really. But you're right, I've been a bit unclear.
I've been in a few situations where a boss has said "I'd like to be able to handle group calendaring." All the solutions mentioned in this thread have been too expensive (I've mainly worked for small businesses where I am the only IT employee and responsible for the entire infrastructure). This type of application is a great place for open source to make inroads into the business environment. Once you're using an open source mail / calendaring app on the desktop, the office suite isn't far away.
I've used Exchange / outlook in the office in places where it predated me and I wasn't responsible for its administration, and I've watched it being used in large organizations (5,000+ employees on a single campus), and it seems like a great tool. Other closed-source solutions don't appeal to me because the cost is consistently too high for my employers.
I hope that makes more sense.
I hated eclipse until I got some good emacs keybindings going (specifically the behavior of tab and the indentation style). Now if it tightly integrated with Subversion, I'd be using it for all of my Java development.
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lds
I talk as if there are no Free Software programs that do this, which the responses my comment has recieved have shown there isn't.
I'm not interested in paying for this functionality; I'm primarily a home user that does IT support for small businesses. My point is that this integration is a killer application for any business large enough to have a secretary, and very few small businesses have the facilities for a full exchange server install.
I would love to have some sort of IMAP-for-calendaring that was open source and reliable. I'm sure others would as well.
This doesn't count in my book because its only half a solution; you still need something server-side to centralize all the resource tracking. I have a friend who's trying to find an exchange replacement from the Free Software world, and has turned up very little.
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lds
imho, Outlook/Exchange's ability to handle meeting scheduling is a Big Freaking Deal. Of course, I'm just a college student working in IT, but I've never seen anything in the Free Software world that could compare to the power of Exchange for colloboration.
Am I wrong?
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Phil
Man, you're a genius. I was totally saying that spam is a non-issue, you sure put me in my place. Thank the lord.
Oh wait, no, that's wrong.
Did you read my comment before replying? I never said spam wasn't a problem; I called it "a pain" - I generally consider pain to be a problem, but maybe you're an easily confused masochist - perhaps I should have been more clear. Allow me to elaborate for your edification:
The point of my post, the grandparent of this post, was that the great-grandparent of this posts argument was specious. That is all. It is not a commentary on spam inasmuch as it was a commentary on the lack of logic one commonly finds in this forum.
Thank you, Jethro Rose, for decreasing the signal to noise ratio on slashdot even further. In the future, please try to think of something to say before speaking.