Very much agreed. Sun Rays are absolutely excellent. Need to show someone something? Take your Sun Ray card to their office (it's identical in size to a credit card and has a smart chip on it) and slide your it in. There's your session, just as you left it.
It's kind of funny really, because it seems a lot of people who *need* to test their stuff on IE give no concern to testing their crap (yes, utter crap) on other (read: better) browsers. As an anecdote, I installed Mac OS 10.3 on my mom's iBook the other day. I converted her from Internet Explorer to Safari with two clicks. I clicked the IE button and then the Safari button. Even though Safari started later, it came up first. She was convinced. Even simple users can appreciate things like this. They just need to be shown.
Make sure you contact whoever handles your networking so you can properly configure multicast on whatever app you use (Ghost, etc.). If not, you're almost bound to kill your upstream router, especially if it's older. It happens at the U where I work fairly frequently. CPU load goes high on a certain router, you check it, and its just flooded with multicast from incorrectly configured applications.
Oh, I'm an idiot. I didn't realize they scanned in all these pages. Wow, I didn't think they were that stupid. As a side note, phase 2 of this should be a one way hash of every word:-) Ah yes.
Not necessarily. If Amazon was smart about this, they one-way hashed everything to avoid this whole copyright issue. If that's the case, then they do not have a copy of the whole thing in a database somewhere.
Well, the reason I raised an eyebrow is because you seemed (IMHO) to point to PPP being the core of this whole thing. PPTP is something different entirely (a something I hate with a passion but that's another discussion all together;)). Really, PPP, or PPTP, not CHAP are critical to this. All you really need is a challenge response. Avoiding this all together, we can just use a one time password. There are numerous (good) ways for implementing those.
Right, and *something* is causing people to hear things differently, whether we recognize its existance or not. That something might be a facet of audio we do not yet understand, or pure placebo effect.
What the? How would you manage to run PPP over IP? It's a WAN protocol. SFTP, on the other hand, uses the SSH Transport Layer protocol, and as such, can run on top of TCP/IP. Have fun writing your "script."
Call me crazy here, but I got through about the first 3 minutes of the interview, and it started to sound *very* much like Catch-22. I'm dead serious. The Linux community is Yossarian and Darl is Doc. Anyone else see where I'm coming from here?
You seem to make some interesting pointss, unfortunately, you are misguided. Proprietary is never good. Take a protocol like HDLC for example. It's rarely used because it's inherently proprietary to every vendor (it has to be by definition). Instead, things like Frame Relay win out. You forget that your ability to use the.doc format is contingent on Microsoft letting you. There's nothing preventing Microsoft (legally) from going "hey, we're revoking everyone's privilege to use the.doc format unless they use Word." Do you want that? Is that something you want to worry about happening? I personally do not want to be held back by Microsoft. If you like leaving your business in the hands of an untrustworthy company, then by all means screw yourself over.
Eh, some of us consider Mac OS X inferior to Linux. I run Linux on my Powerbook G4 because I couldn't deal with Mac OS X. That said, I love the notebook itself. It's of incredible quality. But, if you're a person who doesn't like Mac OS X, I can't see justifying the extra cost for a G5 workstation.
And, just to add something to my original post. I am a proponent for using Linux in certain routing situations. I have used it with a T1 with a Sangoma PCI CSU/DSU card. It works very well and very reliably, once you get it configured. However, you have to mess around with drivers and such, which is something you don't need to do with Cisco hardware. Cisco stuff "just works."
It's not as if Cisco has no competition and can charge whatever they want. The reason Cisco chassis and line cards are so expensive is because they are GOOD and FAST. For example, the Catalyst 6500 has a 32Gbps backplane and with a SFM, a 256Gbps Switch Fabric. Fast WAN connections are generally only used on networks with large LANs and such organizations can justify something like a 6513, which loaded with a few cards, clocks in around $125,000.
Well, in order for someone to press it for you, they'd have to actually have your "remote." You can't spoof who you are. There's nothing to lose if you get an answer wrong. You get full credit even if you're long. Really, I think it's just to try to keep you awake and make you actually go to class... something a lot of us never do.
At Rutgers University'sPhysics Lecture Hall there is a PRS (Personal Response System) setup. Basically, every student who ever takes a Physics class has to buy a $30 transmitter to participate in class. It works via IR so the system can get overloaded with a large class. However, the IDs of the units responding show up in a dynamic list on the projected screen as you respond (so you can see if your answer got registered). The system then displays a graph (or presumably other information) detailing which answers were chosen. It's good because it can't hurt your grade if you are there to press the button (you get one point for pressing the button, two for being right, out of a possible one point). It's bad because you lose points off your PRS portion of the grade if you don't go to class or forget your transmitter. You cannot borrow someone else's because an ID is hard coded into the device and then one to one associated with your student ID.
Wow, thanks for the explanation. I wasn't that familiar with all the features of Quartz, and now I am (sorta hehe). As an aside, printing in OS X in pre-Jaguar releases was absolutely terrible. I have spent hours trying to get my mother's iBook to print to an LPD print queue. No matter what driver you select, it sends it PostScript. Meanwhile, printing under Linux seems to work wonderfully. I guess my biggest complaint (and its mostly unique to me) is that Apple succeeded wonderfully at making a good consumer grade OS. BUT, it caters too much to designers and such while ignoring the engineers, and the coders, and the sysadmins who generally have a LOT of crap going on at once and need to be able to manage it all efficiently. Mac OS X seems to work well for an artist who's working on one image, and making it perfect. In Linux, I generally run my 1 GHz Powerbook at 667 MHz. It is never slow, hard to use, even with up to 30 or so windows open at once. Yet, in OS X, running at full speed, Mozilla takes forever to load, the little morphs stall while shrinking an app to the dock, etc. It just wastes my time really. There are probably a lot of tweaks to do to get things running, but I guess it all boils down to what you are familiar with. I went out on a limb and bought a Mac. As far as I'm concerned, they make the best notebook hardware out there. I wanted to be able to use Mac OS X. Unfortunately, I cannot. That is a shame because I'll never buy a Mac desktop, it's just not worth it for me.
You want these. Basically, you give one to each user who needs access to the site. They enter their username, and then to get their password, they enter their PIN into this credit card sized device, and it gives them a one time password. To further enhance security, you can make the password they have to enter a concatenation of a "permanent" password and the one time generated one. This pretty much ensures you are allowing the right person in. You can also implement paranoia features in the generators (we call them Enigmas where I work, as that used to be the name of the company). Such things include lockout from the physical password generator itself when the wrong PIN is entered N times or lockout from the authentication system after a number of incorrect tries.
Well, I use fluxbox. Fluxbox is about as quick and minimal as you get when it comes to desktops. I have root menus, title bars and a bar at the bottom of the screen. That's it. I've seen Aqua choke. And frankly, I don't understand how I could manage 45 windows on one screen. It's just not possible. I think rather than going their own way, Apple would have been smarter to embrace and extend X and make its changes (even if they forked X specifically for Apple hardware) open to the community. What do I know though, I use a Sun Ray xterm all day:-).
Yea, I've looked at it and it sounds pretty good from what I've read. Unfortunately, I refuse to pay $30 for something that should be built in to the GUI. There's a GPL'd virtual desktop tool too which basically fakes it by creating window sets that get hidden and made visible when you "switch desktops." Unfortunately, since it's forced to fake it, you can tell.
While many people rave and rave about Mac OS X, it's missing a lot. I've had a new TiBook for about 2 months now. It ran Mac OS X for all of about an hour. I immediately completely wiped it and installed Debian PPC. Why? Well...
What? Mac OS X has no virtual desktop support? Oh, I'll just install X Darwin and get virtual desktops that way. What? I can't run regular Mac OS X apps through X? What the hell?
That's why I don't run OS X. That and... oh yea, to me, the GUI seems completely counter-intuitive. It's really a shame you can't run regular OS X apps through X, because then I might pay the ridiculous price for OS X. Panther looks promising (steps in the right direction, like Expose), but it cannot compete with a good X desktop when you need to get *real* *work* *done*. I still love the hardware though. Worth every penny.
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Very much agreed. Sun Rays are absolutely excellent. Need to show someone something? Take your Sun Ray card to their office (it's identical in size to a credit card and has a smart chip on it) and slide your it in. There's your session, just as you left it.
Erm. How do you think things like xterms have sound? Solutions exist.
It's kind of funny really, because it seems a lot of people who *need* to test their stuff on IE give no concern to testing their crap (yes, utter crap) on other (read: better) browsers. As an anecdote, I installed Mac OS 10.3 on my mom's iBook the other day. I converted her from Internet Explorer to Safari with two clicks. I clicked the IE button and then the Safari button. Even though Safari started later, it came up first. She was convinced. Even simple users can appreciate things like this. They just need to be shown.
Make sure you contact whoever handles your networking so you can properly configure multicast on whatever app you use (Ghost, etc.). If not, you're almost bound to kill your upstream router, especially if it's older. It happens at the U where I work fairly frequently. CPU load goes high on a certain router, you check it, and its just flooded with multicast from incorrectly configured applications.
Oh, I'm an idiot. I didn't realize they scanned in all these pages. Wow, I didn't think they were that stupid. As a side note, phase 2 of this should be a one way hash of every word :-) Ah yes.
Not necessarily. If Amazon was smart about this, they one-way hashed everything to avoid this whole copyright issue. If that's the case, then they do not have a copy of the whole thing in a database somewhere.
And I'm sure KDE would rather you contribute some ideas and/or code than to criticize their project and not do anything to help out.
I have all but forgotten about Pop Under/Over/In the Middle/Whatever ads since using Mozilla Firebird. The builtin pop-up blocker is truly lovely.
Well, the reason I raised an eyebrow is because you seemed (IMHO) to point to PPP being the core of this whole thing. PPTP is something different entirely (a something I hate with a passion but that's another discussion all together ;)). Really, PPP, or PPTP, not CHAP are critical to this. All you really need is a challenge response. Avoiding this all together, we can just use a one time password. There are numerous (good) ways for implementing those.
Right, and *something* is causing people to hear things differently, whether we recognize its existance or not. That something might be a facet of audio we do not yet understand, or pure placebo effect.
What the? How would you manage to run PPP over IP? It's a WAN protocol. SFTP, on the other hand, uses the SSH Transport Layer protocol, and as such, can run on top of TCP/IP. Have fun writing your "script."
It's kind of like the Coriolis Force. It's one of those "fake" forces, but something causes the effects described by the Coriolis Force.
Call me crazy here, but I got through about the first 3 minutes of the interview, and it started to sound *very* much like Catch-22. I'm dead serious. The Linux community is Yossarian and Darl is Doc. Anyone else see where I'm coming from here?
You seem to make some interesting pointss, unfortunately, you are misguided. Proprietary is never good. Take a protocol like HDLC for example. It's rarely used because it's inherently proprietary to every vendor (it has to be by definition). Instead, things like Frame Relay win out. You forget that your ability to use the .doc format is contingent on Microsoft letting you. There's nothing preventing Microsoft (legally) from going "hey, we're revoking everyone's privilege to use the .doc format unless they use Word." Do you want that? Is that something you want to worry about happening? I personally do not want to be held back by Microsoft. If you like leaving your business in the hands of an untrustworthy company, then by all means screw yourself over.
Eh, some of us consider Mac OS X inferior to Linux. I run Linux on my Powerbook G4 because I couldn't deal with Mac OS X. That said, I love the notebook itself. It's of incredible quality. But, if you're a person who doesn't like Mac OS X, I can't see justifying the extra cost for a G5 workstation.
And, just to add something to my original post. I am a proponent for using Linux in certain routing situations. I have used it with a T1 with a Sangoma PCI CSU/DSU card. It works very well and very reliably, once you get it configured. However, you have to mess around with drivers and such, which is something you don't need to do with Cisco hardware. Cisco stuff "just works."
It's not as if Cisco has no competition and can charge whatever they want. The reason Cisco chassis and line cards are so expensive is because they are GOOD and FAST. For example, the Catalyst 6500 has a 32Gbps backplane and with a SFM, a 256Gbps Switch Fabric. Fast WAN connections are generally only used on networks with large LANs and such organizations can justify something like a 6513, which loaded with a few cards, clocks in around $125,000.
Well, in order for someone to press it for you, they'd have to actually have your "remote." You can't spoof who you are. There's nothing to lose if you get an answer wrong. You get full credit even if you're long. Really, I think it's just to try to keep you awake and make you actually go to class... something a lot of us never do.
At Rutgers University's Physics Lecture Hall there is a PRS (Personal Response System) setup. Basically, every student who ever takes a Physics class has to buy a $30 transmitter to participate in class. It works via IR so the system can get overloaded with a large class. However, the IDs of the units responding show up in a dynamic list on the projected screen as you respond (so you can see if your answer got registered). The system then displays a graph (or presumably other information) detailing which answers were chosen. It's good because it can't hurt your grade if you are there to press the button (you get one point for pressing the button, two for being right, out of a possible one point). It's bad because you lose points off your PRS portion of the grade if you don't go to class or forget your transmitter. You cannot borrow someone else's because an ID is hard coded into the device and then one to one associated with your student ID.
Wow, thanks for the explanation. I wasn't that familiar with all the features of Quartz, and now I am (sorta hehe). As an aside, printing in OS X in pre-Jaguar releases was absolutely terrible. I have spent hours trying to get my mother's iBook to print to an LPD print queue. No matter what driver you select, it sends it PostScript. Meanwhile, printing under Linux seems to work wonderfully. I guess my biggest complaint (and its mostly unique to me) is that Apple succeeded wonderfully at making a good consumer grade OS. BUT, it caters too much to designers and such while ignoring the engineers, and the coders, and the sysadmins who generally have a LOT of crap going on at once and need to be able to manage it all efficiently. Mac OS X seems to work well for an artist who's working on one image, and making it perfect. In Linux, I generally run my 1 GHz Powerbook at 667 MHz. It is never slow, hard to use, even with up to 30 or so windows open at once. Yet, in OS X, running at full speed, Mozilla takes forever to load, the little morphs stall while shrinking an app to the dock, etc. It just wastes my time really. There are probably a lot of tweaks to do to get things running, but I guess it all boils down to what you are familiar with. I went out on a limb and bought a Mac. As far as I'm concerned, they make the best notebook hardware out there. I wanted to be able to use Mac OS X. Unfortunately, I cannot. That is a shame because I'll never buy a Mac desktop, it's just not worth it for me.
You want these. Basically, you give one to each user who needs access to the site. They enter their username, and then to get their password, they enter their PIN into this credit card sized device, and it gives them a one time password. To further enhance security, you can make the password they have to enter a concatenation of a "permanent" password and the one time generated one. This pretty much ensures you are allowing the right person in. You can also implement paranoia features in the generators (we call them Enigmas where I work, as that used to be the name of the company). Such things include lockout from the physical password generator itself when the wrong PIN is entered N times or lockout from the authentication system after a number of incorrect tries.
Well, I use fluxbox. Fluxbox is about as quick and minimal as you get when it comes to desktops. I have root menus, title bars and a bar at the bottom of the screen. That's it. I've seen Aqua choke. And frankly, I don't understand how I could manage 45 windows on one screen. It's just not possible. I think rather than going their own way, Apple would have been smarter to embrace and extend X and make its changes (even if they forked X specifically for Apple hardware) open to the community. What do I know though, I use a Sun Ray xterm all day :-).
Yea, I've looked at it and it sounds pretty good from what I've read. Unfortunately, I refuse to pay $30 for something that should be built in to the GUI. There's a GPL'd virtual desktop tool too which basically fakes it by creating window sets that get hidden and made visible when you "switch desktops." Unfortunately, since it's forced to fake it, you can tell.
What? Mac OS X has no virtual desktop support?
Oh, I'll just install X Darwin and get virtual desktops that way.
What? I can't run regular Mac OS X apps through X? What the hell?
That's why I don't run OS X. That and... oh yea, to me, the GUI seems completely counter-intuitive. It's really a shame you can't run regular OS X apps through X, because then I might pay the ridiculous price for OS X. Panther looks promising (steps in the right direction, like Expose), but it cannot compete with a good X desktop when you need to get *real* *work* *done*. I still love the hardware though. Worth every penny.
If you don't use your 16C much, can I buy it? I'm serious.