I foresee that, as a result of this brilliant strategy, many of the parents might move their kids to other schools, and this story will add to the long list of people who signed a deal with the Devil and ended up pretty badly.
(Hint: as the article says, 2 years ago the school won a $427.000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Sure, this is totally unrelated and I believe it)
The fun part is that it says the refusal is due to the school's policy of only having Windows PCs in order to keep maintenance costs and staff down. Too bad they already have many Macs around.
Crap, no!:-) I encode Ogg Vorbis files averaging 6 MB/Song, I can easily tell the difference with everything lower than that.
Jokes apart, this whole matter of "owning" is tricky.... Will I be able to do whatever I want with the songs, before they expire? Can I use them on my portable player, laptop, office PC and home PC without paying 4 subscriptions?
Will quality be crippled?
Will it work on Linux (that would be interesting from Microsoft) ? I have a Linux In-car mp3 player in the works, and my home theater is connected to my Linux Ogg server.
Actually the Ipod uses a non-cheap, not-so-mass-produced 1.8" hard drive - that's why it's so small. Apart from this, yes, I fully agree. I recently replaced the hdd in my laptop with a 40GB one, which eats 2.2 Watt and cost me less than 100 Euro.
How you're gonna hook it up a fastethernet without a PC in between is another story:-) (but I think such interfaces do exist).
Another option could be a Firewire or USB2 enclosure - they allow fairly long cables - up to 20 metres (sorry no body parts used for measurements on this side of the pond) for firewire on sale at the 1394 store. Linux and Windows have no problem using them.
Tonight, while seeing a yet-unpublished story from The Mysterious Future, the last line said: "See any problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor."
Looks like they are addressing the duplicate posts issue....
by letting us check, instead of doing it themselves
Oh well. That's still a lot better than nothing. Subscribers will be able to spot and report dupes before they go public.
I don't wish to be pedantic, and it doesn't compromise the understandability of the article, but in the drawing under chapter 3 (The basic solution), the "brown" OpenBSD file server is available to the Windows PC as.200, and NOT.5 as suggested. The green OpenBSD box just does a simple port forwarding (from its own 139 to port 139 on 127.0.0.1 seen from the other endpoint's perspective) and makes it available non-loopback-only via the "-g" option (which btw won't work if you don't have "GatewayPorts yes" in your sshd_config file, and the last time I checked this was not exactly well documented). Therefore, 192.168.0.200:139 (actually 0.0.0.0:139, esp. without this patch:-) ) gets mapped to 127.0.0.1:139 (but on the OTHER end of the tunnel - thus the brown box).
The next example is correct (and shows the use of the patch).
Fist of all, the Nokia firewall appliances already run a stripped-down and hardened *nix (freeBSD-derivative) so this is not exactly new. People have been replacing it with a home brewed distro for a while, for the fun of it.
Second you'd be crazy to ditch Checkpoint FW1 for iptables. I run a few FW1's at work, and have Linux+iptables at home, but I'd never exchange the two. Try to create a distributed, system-wide network policy with 5 clustered (stateful failover capable) enforcement points, some of which doing CVP-based email antivirus on the fly and tell me how easy it is with Iptables. And, get it to NAT Oracle sqlnet v2 sessions when someone decided not to run it on port 1521 "for added security" (aargh).
Third, don't *have* to pay for yearly support contract, but usually you *want* to. You have an initial cost depending on the FW1 license (50-node, 250-node or unlimited) and then you keep paying for two things called support and accountability, which matter a lot in the business sector. And that's exacly why Linux, to really flourish in the business sector, at the moment has more need of companies professionally supporting it (for $$$) than developers.
Don't get me wrong, I am a loyal, happy, avid Linux supporter and make my living out of it. I love Slackware and have come to rely on it like I could do with nothing else, but from the AC's comment it looks like he really got it totally wrong and never wondered *why* someone should pay for a professional product.
I sincerely hope you go down in flames for the way you treated Kevin Mitnick. You probably cost him 3 to 6 additional months of his life in a federal prison.
I hope you suffer the most humiliating informatic accident of history, which should ideally terminate your career and cause the whole world to instantly erase every memory it has about you and everything you wrote, while you're still alive and forgotten.
I just upmodded you and the previous post - I don't know who is the lamer which modded the 2 of you as redundant for saying something exactly right, for the first time in this discussion, but he clearly must have had a bad day, or he feels sooo trollish tonight.
The article IS five months old, and the previous post is also right - being a re-branded Pioneer drive, it *really* risks getting damaged if the new 4X media is inserted in a drive with the old firmware, as you can verify on pioneer's website.
(Damn lameness filter won't let this thru because of excessive "compressibility". Guess I'll have to feed it with something!) qaszddyrjo dsjifyuff mverb879 m097 nbhgy vgt65;_ òàùè+
Doggoned employers... OpenSSH still not running on Windows 2K, is it ?
There was this project which used to produce a very easily installable distribution, but the author has ceased maintaining the package, due to the Cygwin installation process being much easier nowadays.
Still, think about using Linux (or OpenBSD!) instead:-)
And that's the policy for nearly all of the other included packages as well.
And that's the reason we love Slackware and the great job you do, Pat. Many, many, many many thanks from all of us and from all the Slackware boxes reliably humming from all over the world!
Megaparsec (a parsec is 3.26 light years, or 3.08*10^16 meters).
Basically, it means that an object 1 megaparsec away from you is moving away by 71km/second (since the whole universe is expanding like a 4-dimensional balloon, all points are moving away from all other points, and this speed increases with their relative distances)
that doesn't make sense. The uranium has to split to generate energy, how can it be more uranium?
The point is not "more uranium". It is about putting U-238 (which is normally considered useless) to a productive use, instead of its more appreciated U-235 brother, which is much less common (0.7%). This way, instead of having to be disposed of as waste, it is used (and at the end of the process you have less waste than you started with).
In nuclear processes, Uranium does not produce more uranium:-), it either gets split into krypton and barium, or absorbs a neutron and through some intermediate decays becomes plutonium.
(apart from the other, naturally-occurring radioactive behaviour of uranium: it emits an alpha particle, becoming Thorium, which then becomes Radium, which becomes Polonium, which finally becomes Lead (not radioactive - it doesn't become anything else)).
Believe it or not, "polling" modems by checking their passwords is hacking. If not hacking, it is at least dishonest. How can I trust Wired not to root around my box looking through my private files now that they "polled" my computer to make sure I didn't use a default password?
Similarly misleading, the inclusion of the useless "32MB" number
I think there is another reason: Either the study is a bit old, or this guy found about 256 MegaBIT chips and converted that to MegaBYTES, so that the Mr. Average Joe would have some more easily-dealt-with numbers. Too bad he shouldn't have done this, as DRAM chip capacities are always referred to as bits, but he didn't probably know.
386 Released with a math CoProcessor reviews explaining the performance difference between the 386SX and 386DX here
Ehm..... Actually the link between the math coprocessor and the SX/DX name is an 80486 thing.
80386SX (Singleword Xchange) had a 16bit bus and could be plugged into a 286 board.
80386DX (Doubleword Xchange) had a 32bit bus and needed a new motherboard design (but was way faster because of the wider data bus, and could directly address more memory)
When the 80486 was introduced, the SX/DX distinction remained, this time to indicate the presence of the built-in FPU.
Urban myth wants that 80486SX's were full-blown CPUs in which the FPU silicon had failed tests, or, later, was just disabled, even though perfectly working.
Even worse was the fact that the 80487 was actually a FULL CPU+FPU, and not just an FPU. Upon startup it would disable the main processor and do everything. What a waste of power.... I never knew if the Weitek 4167 did this too.
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I foresee that, as a result of this brilliant strategy, many of the parents might move their kids to other schools, and this story will add to the long list of people who signed a deal with the Devil and ended up pretty badly.
(Hint: as the article says, 2 years ago the school won a $427.000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Sure, this is totally unrelated and I believe it)
The fun part is that it says the refusal is due to the school's policy of only having Windows PCs in order to keep maintenance costs and staff down. Too bad they already have many Macs around.
I hope Apple makes this story very, very public
Crap, no! :-)
I encode Ogg Vorbis files averaging 6 MB/Song, I can easily tell the difference with everything lower than that.
Jokes apart, this whole matter of "owning" is tricky....
Will I be able to do whatever I want with the songs, before they expire? Can I use them on my portable player, laptop, office PC and home PC without paying 4 subscriptions?
Will quality be crippled?
Will it work on Linux (that would be interesting from Microsoft) ? I have a Linux In-car mp3 player in the works, and my home theater is connected to my Linux Ogg server.
Actually the Ipod uses a non-cheap, not-so-mass-produced 1.8" hard drive - that's why it's so small. Apart from this, yes, I fully agree.
:-)
I recently replaced the hdd in my laptop with a 40GB one, which eats 2.2 Watt and cost me less than 100 Euro.
How you're gonna hook it up a fastethernet without a PC in between is another story
(but I think such interfaces do exist).
Another option could be a Firewire or USB2 enclosure - they allow fairly long cables - up to 20 metres (sorry no body parts used for measurements on this side of the pond) for firewire on sale at the 1394 store. Linux and Windows have no problem using them.
Just my 0.02
6.66
:-)
Man. that's evil!
Tonight, while seeing a yet-unpublished story from The Mysterious Future, the last line said: "See any problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor."
Looks like they are addressing the duplicate posts issue....
by letting us check, instead of doing it themselves
Oh well. That's still a lot better than nothing.
Subscribers will be able to spot and report dupes before they go public.
What's the point, I was getting 350 KB/s anyways. I'm sure bittorrent was much much slower.
:-) )
Sorry to disappoint you pal, 459 KB/s over BitTorrent (I took a picture
Currently I'm keeping it open and it's uploading about 30KB/s.
How about sex instead?
I don't wish to be pedantic, and it doesn't compromise the understandability of the article, but in the drawing under chapter 3 (The basic solution), the "brown" OpenBSD file server is available to the Windows PC as .200, and NOT .5 as suggested. :-) ) gets mapped to 127.0.0.1:139 (but on the OTHER end of the tunnel - thus the brown box).
The green OpenBSD box just does a simple port forwarding (from its own 139 to port 139 on 127.0.0.1 seen from the other endpoint's perspective) and makes it available non-loopback-only via the "-g" option (which btw won't work if you don't have "GatewayPorts yes" in your sshd_config file, and the last time I checked this was not exactly well documented). Therefore, 192.168.0.200:139 (actually 0.0.0.0:139, esp. without this patch
The next example is correct (and shows the use of the patch).
Just my 0.02
Fist of all, the Nokia firewall appliances already run a stripped-down and hardened *nix (freeBSD-derivative) so this is not exactly new. People have been replacing it with a home brewed distro for a while, for the fun of it.
Second you'd be crazy to ditch Checkpoint FW1 for iptables. I run a few FW1's at work, and have Linux+iptables at home, but I'd never exchange the two. Try to create a distributed, system-wide network policy with 5 clustered (stateful failover capable) enforcement points, some of which doing CVP-based email antivirus on the fly and tell me how easy it is with Iptables. And, get it to NAT Oracle sqlnet v2 sessions when someone decided not to run it on port 1521 "for added security" (aargh).
Third, don't *have* to pay for yearly support contract, but usually you *want* to. You have an initial cost depending on the FW1 license (50-node, 250-node or unlimited) and then you keep paying for two things called support and accountability, which matter a lot in the business sector. And that's exacly why Linux, to really flourish in the business sector, at the moment has more need of companies professionally supporting it (for $$$) than developers.
Don't get me wrong, I am a loyal, happy, avid Linux supporter and make my living out of it. I love Slackware and have come to rely on it like I could do with nothing else, but from the AC's comment it looks like he really got it totally wrong and never wondered *why* someone should pay for a professional product.
I sincerely hope you go down in flames for the way you treated Kevin Mitnick.
You probably cost him 3 to 6 additional months of his life in a federal prison.
I hope you suffer the most humiliating informatic accident of history, which should ideally terminate your career and cause the whole world to instantly erase every memory it has about you and everything you wrote, while you're still alive and forgotten.
Shame on you.
Jovian moons name YOU!
*ducks*
Great. I forgot to post anonymously and it removed my moderations to this discussion.
There used to be a warning!
I just upmodded you and the previous post - I don't know who is the lamer which modded the 2 of you as redundant for saying something exactly right, for the first time in this discussion, but he clearly must have had a bad day, or he feels sooo trollish tonight.
The article IS five months old, and the previous post is also right - being a re-branded Pioneer drive, it *really* risks getting damaged if the new 4X media is inserted in a drive with the old firmware, as you can verify on pioneer's website.
Bah.
I found the source!!!
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(Damn lameness filter won't let this thru because of excessive "compressibility". Guess I'll have to feed it with something!)
qaszddyrjo dsjifyuff mverb879 m097 nbhgy vgt65;_ òàùè+
Doggoned employers ... OpenSSH still not running on Windows 2K, is it ?
:-)
There was this project which used to produce a very easily installable distribution, but the author has ceased maintaining the package, due to the Cygwin installation process being much easier nowadays.
Still, think about using Linux (or OpenBSD!) instead
Ciao,
And that's the policy for nearly all of the other included packages as well.
And that's the reason we love Slackware and the great job you do, Pat.
Many, many, many many thanks from all of us and from all the Slackware boxes reliably humming from all over the world!
Everyone repost quick! Lets reduce Slashdot to one story!
Even better, let's resubmit stories with link to the same article already appeared on slashdot itself and see if they make it to front page.
What does the Mpc stand for?
Megaparsec (a parsec is 3.26 light years, or 3.08*10^16 meters).
Basically, it means that an object 1 megaparsec away from you is moving away by 71km/second (since the whole universe is expanding like a 4-dimensional balloon, all points are moving away from all other points, and this speed increases with their relative distances)
Assuming you actually have nothing to hide, and assuming you can get another job without too much hassle/trouble, do something:
Authorize them to perform these credit checks, and then resign. This should get the message through.
that doesn't make sense. The uranium has to split to generate energy, how can it be more uranium?
:-), it either gets split into krypton and barium, or absorbs a neutron and through some intermediate decays becomes plutonium.
The point is not "more uranium". It is about putting U-238 (which is normally considered useless) to a productive use, instead of its more appreciated U-235 brother, which is much less common (0.7%). This way, instead of having to be disposed of as waste, it is used (and at the end of the process you have less waste than you started with).
In nuclear processes, Uranium does not produce more uranium
(apart from the other, naturally-occurring radioactive behaviour of uranium: it emits an alpha particle, becoming Thorium, which then becomes Radium, which becomes Polonium, which finally becomes Lead (not radioactive - it doesn't become anything else)).
The grammar nazi is appalled!!
Pal, I really wish I had mod points for you today....
Believe it or not, "polling" modems by checking their passwords is hacking. If not hacking, it is at least dishonest. How can I trust Wired not to root around my box looking through my private files now that they "polled" my computer to make sure I didn't use a default password?
Wrong story, pal.
That's RIAA.
Similarly misleading, the inclusion of the useless "32MB" number
I think there is another reason:
Either the study is a bit old, or this guy found about 256 MegaBIT chips and converted that to MegaBYTES, so that the Mr. Average Joe would have some more easily-dealt-with numbers.
Too bad he shouldn't have done this, as DRAM chip capacities are always referred to as bits, but he didn't probably know.
386 Released with a math CoProcessor
reviews explaining the performance difference between the 386SX and 386DX here
Ehm.....
Actually the link between the math coprocessor and the SX/DX name is an 80486 thing.
80386SX (Singleword Xchange) had a 16bit bus and could be plugged into a 286 board.
80386DX (Doubleword Xchange) had a 32bit bus and needed a new motherboard design (but was way faster because of the wider data bus, and could directly address more memory)
When the 80486 was introduced, the SX/DX distinction remained, this time to indicate the presence of the built-in FPU.
Urban myth wants that 80486SX's were full-blown CPUs in which the FPU silicon had failed tests, or, later, was just disabled, even though perfectly working.
Even worse was the fact that the 80487 was actually a FULL CPU+FPU, and not just an FPU. Upon startup it would disable the main processor and do everything. What a waste of power....
I never knew if the Weitek 4167 did this too.
I also like this fact, but waitaminute...... no more first posts? :-)