Or, and I'm just thinking out loud here, I could just use a Mac or Linux or a BSD and not give Symantec, who has recently been credibly accused of installing rootkits and ignoring spyware developers who give Symantec money, any of my money.
Just a thought.
Uh, Can We Say Together "Apple Portables"?
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My laptop is already always on. It's a 12" PowerBook G4. I open the lid and within a second I can use the computer. I close the lid and within a second it's put into a sleep so deep the battery is almost not draining at all. I can leave it unplugged and asleep for days at a time, but as soon as I open the lid within a second I can use the computer.
Yellow Dog has a very nice distro and it is very convenient to be able to get new Apple hardware with Linux preinstalled.
But, based solely on their home page, it seems they are now trying to sell their software as a way to freshen up your old hardware. That doesn't seem very promising to me.
I run Yellow Dog on my ancient dual-proc PowerMac 9600. It's nice, but I don't think it's a very big market. I'd rather have their tight Linux distro running on a new Intel PoweMac, whenever that may be.
This raises the question of when we will see the Xserve line updated. The original Xserve was a very nice server and the update was even better.
It seemed like Apple was going to make a serious push at getting it's servers taken seriously by business, but that seems to have been seriously side tracked. The current top of the line PowerMac is a more impressive machine than the "Ultimate" Xserve.
Will Red Hat's announcement revitalize the XServe and that push into mainstream business? I hope so and look forward to such an announcement from Apple.
But in a diplomatic situation both sides having more to gain by being diplomatic than by all over the opposite side when they concede a point.
Diplomatic situations are relatively rare and are usually rather tense. Both sides realise that choosing a word or turn of phrase or inflection improperly can upset the whole situation and revert it to game theory.
The results of the study are unsurprising because Democrats and Republicans are all human beings. We are evolved to react to how we feel more than what our reason tells us. That this carries over into politics is inevitable.
If you concede a point, there is no incentive for the opposite party to concede a point on their side. Instead they get a big benefit by jumping all over the fact that you conceded and will continue to argue against you.
Instead of ever migrating to both sides conceding when they are wrong you get both sides never conceding anything.
Some admin here got sold on Microsoft Sharepoint and set up a server internally. It's such a joke. No one uses it because 1) there's been no training, 2) it's not obvious at all what benefit you'd get from actually using it, and 3) email, IM, and the corporate shared folder hierarchy work.
Until you get people trained on how to use it and understanding why they should invest their time in it, it's not going to be worth the investment.
And even if all of Pixar^H^H^H^H^HDisney's annual releases are a blockbuster grossing more than $100 Million, it's going to take 74 years to get a return on that investment.
Yeah, I'm ignoring marketing tie-ins.
Disney had to do something to revitalize it's franchise, and it's interesting that they thought it was cheaper and easier to buy Pixar than to clean house.
This is going to be fantastic for consultants when Win2K Server support ends.
Many companies are not going to want something that isn't supported and will be looking where they should transition. Savvy consultants can propose a migration to Samba which could provide higher margins than reselling Microsoft solutions -- especially if they aren't a close partner of Microsoft -- and they will be able to fix problems and customize the solution themselves without having to point fingers (they still can, they just don't have to).
This quote from the article gets me all warm and tingly inside: "Tridge demonstrated sucking the life out a Windows 2003 PDC [primary domain controller] in one click, importing all its user and machine information using SWAT." "He then restarted [domain server] BIND on his Samba 4 server, changed the server role to PDC... shut down the Windows PDC and then logged into the domain with an XP client using the new Samba 4 server as the PDC."
Most of your questions are answered in TFA: Samba 4 supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon environment used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain join and domain logon operations with these clients," the group said in a statement on its Web site, noting this feature was "the main emphasis" for the new software. "Our domain controller implementation contains our own built-in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server and Kerberos key distribution centre as well as the Samba 3-like logon services provided over CIFS," the statement continued.
AD is an OK directory. Novell's eDirectory is still the gold standard. IMO, Samba should be the go to choice for consultants since you can increase your margins over selling Microsoft solutions, especially if you aren't a close partner with Microsoft, and actually fix problems yourself instead having to point fingers (you still can if you want, but you don't have to).
Try watching BBC World's newscast on PBS in the evening, muted with closed captioning on. They obviously have an automated speech-to-text system working in the background and it's terrible.
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer is much better, and I guess that they actually are paying humans to type instead of relying on an automated system.
Sounds like the results of a DOD/DARPA/NSA funded research grant. They'd love to be able to translate on the fly, instead of having to train and pay actual humans to manually translate several hours -- or even days and weeks -- after the original transmission.
Now that IBM has something kinda working and the grant money is running out they are trying to market it to the public. Kinda like Tang for the War on Terror-age.
I'm interested in how they got these pictures. Was this the use of a start of the art technique? Or a new application of a technique that is more tried and true? Is this something that I can do at home with my kid? (I'm only half kidding about that last question.)
The subject says it all. You'd think they'd be cheaper since they are based on a standard platform with chips readily available.
But in reality you can get a basic cordless mouse for under $20, even a freakin' laser cordless mouse for $40, while you can't find a basic optical bluetooth mouse from a legitimate retailer for less than $60-70 and they are usualy $80+ in retail stores.
The need for dental materials; the same stuff used to make casting for denture, false teeth, etc. To do what the researchers did, one needs more than play-doh.
I assume they used dental plaster because it is longer lasting and easier to work with once set than play dough, jello, etc. There is nothing magical about dental plaster; I'm sure they could have just used the play dough, but would have had to continously re-imprint the dough because it fell apart after one or two uses.
Neglecting to mention the use of plaster in the fooling process is not a critical omission on the part of the poster, IMHO.
Check out the Gateway 3350 laptop. It's going on six years old at this point, but until I got my 12" PowerBook G4 it was the best portable computer I'd ever used.
I've used a couple tiny Vaios in the past, but the 3350 was better. Gorgeous screen and the best laptop keyboard of all time. It's smaller than a 8x11 sheet of paper, about.5" thin, and ~3-4lbs without the AC adapter. I ran Win2k with Office2k and they all worked as sweetly as you could want.
You can probably find one for ~$200 on eBay. Mine still got a couple hours of battery life when I sold it this summer. Battery life is always a gamble on laptops more than 4 years old, so plan to buy a new battery if you get one.
I think there was also a 4000- and 5000-series from Gateway that came out later and had a similar form factor. I've never used them, but if you can't find the 3350 you can look there.
The Bad Plus' lastest album "Suspicious Activity" (ironic!) has/had the DRM shit on it.
The Bad Plus is an innovative jazz band that I really enjoy. I loved their album "These Are the Vistas" and had put "Suspicious Activity" on my end-of-year buying list of CDs I missed earlier in the year. I was also planning to see them live in Minneapolis right after Christmas.
Then I saw the CD on the list.
I sent an email to the band's management and promoters telling them how upset I was that their CD could mess up my computer and how it was a terrible breach of trust between the artist and the listener.
Here's the message I got back the next day straight from their manager. I hope other affected artists and their management are as enlightened.
Greetings Foo Fighter:
The Bad Plus's manager here.
I empathize with your point of view that OF COURSE you shouldn't acquire a disk which can wreak the kind of havoc to your computer that has been reported to occur.
As you might imagine, this is an exasperating situation for us. We learned about the rootkit long after the fact and today all of us--you, The Bad Plus, other SONY/BMG creative artists, as well as SONY/BMG--are paying a price as a result of corporate's short-sighted, extraordinary folly.
Please be assured that neither the band nor management agreed to SONY's.....creativity. We were blindsided by this as well. I will forward your correspondence to the label and be assured it will have far greater impact than their interest in addressing the concerns of either The Bad Plus and their manager. That said, on behalf of the band, we're sorry Foo Fighter. Truly. Much is being done in an effort to remedy the current situation--and reportedly clean discs will soon be issued. Check out the following....
So please don't penalize yourself.....either wait it out or consider acquiring the album via iTunes. It's a terrific recording. I also hope you'll reconsider not making the drive to Minneapolis. If you make it to the show, you'll get a special gift.
Thanks for writing and again, I'm so sorry for the frustration/upset/hassle/insanity.
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Or, and I'm just thinking out loud here, I could just use a Mac or Linux or a BSD and not give Symantec, who has recently been credibly accused of installing rootkits and ignoring spyware developers who give Symantec money, any of my money.
Just a thought.
My laptop is already always on. It's a 12" PowerBook G4. I open the lid and within a second I can use the computer. I close the lid and within a second it's put into a sleep so deep the battery is almost not draining at all. I can leave it unplugged and asleep for days at a time, but as soon as I open the lid within a second I can use the computer.
Get a Mac next time.
Samba is one the most important open source software projects. It's up there with the various open operating systems, apache, etc.
Anytime the creator and developers of this project get recognition it's a good thing.
I, for one, can hardly wait for a stable release of v4.
Yellow Dog has a very nice distro and it is very convenient to be able to get new Apple hardware with Linux preinstalled.
But, based solely on their home page, it seems they are now trying to sell their software as a way to freshen up your old hardware. That doesn't seem very promising to me.
I run Yellow Dog on my ancient dual-proc PowerMac 9600. It's nice, but I don't think it's a very big market. I'd rather have their tight Linux distro running on a new Intel PoweMac, whenever that may be.
This raises the question of when we will see the Xserve line updated. The original Xserve was a very nice server and the update was even better.
It seemed like Apple was going to make a serious push at getting it's servers taken seriously by business, but that seems to have been seriously side tracked. The current top of the line PowerMac is a more impressive machine than the "Ultimate" Xserve.
Will Red Hat's announcement revitalize the XServe and that push into mainstream business? I hope so and look forward to such an announcement from Apple.
But in a diplomatic situation both sides having more to gain by being diplomatic than by all over the opposite side when they concede a point.
Diplomatic situations are relatively rare and are usually rather tense. Both sides realise that choosing a word or turn of phrase or inflection improperly can upset the whole situation and revert it to game theory.
Could someone point me to a good reference (book or website) that can explain to a layman our current understanding of gravity?
My most frustrated question in high school physics was "How does gravity work?" It seems we don't know anymore today than we did way back when.
My most frustrating questions in High School physics was "How does gravity work"?
It seems we don't really know much more now than we did way back when.
The results of the study are unsurprising because Democrats and Republicans are all human beings. We are evolved to react to how we feel more than what our reason tells us. That this carries over into politics is inevitable.
But look at that from a game theory perspective.
If you concede a point, there is no incentive for the opposite party to concede a point on their side. Instead they get a big benefit by jumping all over the fact that you conceded and will continue to argue against you.
Instead of ever migrating to both sides conceding when they are wrong you get both sides never conceding anything.
Amen.
Some admin here got sold on Microsoft Sharepoint and set up a server internally. It's such a joke. No one uses it because 1) there's been no training, 2) it's not obvious at all what benefit you'd get from actually using it, and 3) email, IM, and the corporate shared folder hierarchy work.
Until you get people trained on how to use it and understanding why they should invest their time in it, it's not going to be worth the investment.
Is it just me, or is ZDnet.au getting a lot of press here today? What's up with that?
It's interesting that the Australian publication has so much Open Source coverage.
Exactly.
And even if all of Pixar^H^H^H^H^HDisney's annual releases are a blockbuster grossing more than $100 Million, it's going to take 74 years to get a return on that investment.
Yeah, I'm ignoring marketing tie-ins.
Disney had to do something to revitalize it's franchise, and it's interesting that they thought it was cheaper and easier to buy Pixar than to clean house.
Later this year we'll see the release of the "MickeyMac".
It's case will be red and black with Mickey Mouse ears, similar to the TV/DVD combo you can find at Target.
Released at the same time will be the entire Disney animated feature catalog on iTunes Movie Store. I call first dibs on "Aristocats"!
This is going to be fantastic for consultants when Win2K Server support ends.
... shut down the Windows PDC and then logged into the domain with an XP client using the new Samba 4 server as the PDC."
Many companies are not going to want something that isn't supported and will be looking where they should transition. Savvy consultants can propose a migration to Samba which could provide higher margins than reselling Microsoft solutions -- especially if they aren't a close partner of Microsoft -- and they will be able to fix problems and customize the solution themselves without having to point fingers (they still can, they just don't have to).
This quote from the article gets me all warm and tingly inside:
"Tridge demonstrated sucking the life out a Windows 2003 PDC [primary domain controller] in one click, importing all its user and machine information using SWAT."
"He then restarted [domain server] BIND on his Samba 4 server, changed the server role to PDC
Most of your questions are answered in TFA:
Samba 4 supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon environment used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain join and domain logon operations with these clients," the group said in a statement on its Web site, noting this feature was "the main emphasis" for the new software.
"Our domain controller implementation contains our own built-in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server and Kerberos key distribution centre as well as the Samba 3-like logon services provided over CIFS," the statement continued.
AD is an OK directory. Novell's eDirectory is still the gold standard. IMO, Samba should be the go to choice for consultants since you can increase your margins over selling Microsoft solutions, especially if you aren't a close partner with Microsoft, and actually fix problems yourself instead having to point fingers (you still can if you want, but you don't have to).
Try watching BBC World's newscast on PBS in the evening, muted with closed captioning on. They obviously have an automated speech-to-text system working in the background and it's terrible.
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer is much better, and I guess that they actually are paying humans to type instead of relying on an automated system.
...perpetually monitors Arabic television...
Sounds like the results of a DOD/DARPA/NSA funded research grant. They'd love to be able to translate on the fly, instead of having to train and pay actual humans to manually translate several hours -- or even days and weeks -- after the original transmission.
Now that IBM has something kinda working and the grant money is running out they are trying to market it to the public. Kinda like Tang for the War on Terror-age.
Wait til we get those 3d printers that have been hyped for the past decade. That'll be some fun.
I'm interested in how they got these pictures. Was this the use of a start of the art technique? Or a new application of a technique that is more tried and true? Is this something that I can do at home with my kid? (I'm only half kidding about that last question.)
The subject says it all. You'd think they'd be cheaper since they are based on a standard platform with chips readily available.
But in reality you can get a basic cordless mouse for under $20, even a freakin' laser cordless mouse for $40, while you can't find a basic optical bluetooth mouse from a legitimate retailer for less than $60-70 and they are usualy $80+ in retail stores.
What is the deal?
The need for dental materials; the same stuff used to make casting for denture, false teeth, etc. To do what the researchers did, one needs more than play-doh.
I assume they used dental plaster because it is longer lasting and easier to work with once set than play dough, jello, etc. There is nothing magical about dental plaster; I'm sure they could have just used the play dough, but would have had to continously re-imprint the dough because it fell apart after one or two uses.
Neglecting to mention the use of plaster in the fooling process is not a critical omission on the part of the poster, IMHO.
As an INTP, I'd like to be the first to say...
Check out the Gateway 3350 laptop. It's going on six years old at this point, but until I got my 12" PowerBook G4 it was the best portable computer I'd ever used.
.5" thin, and ~3-4lbs without the AC adapter. I ran Win2k with Office2k and they all worked as sweetly as you could want.
I've used a couple tiny Vaios in the past, but the 3350 was better. Gorgeous screen and the best laptop keyboard of all time. It's smaller than a 8x11 sheet of paper, about
You can probably find one for ~$200 on eBay. Mine still got a couple hours of battery life when I sold it this summer. Battery life is always a gamble on laptops more than 4 years old, so plan to buy a new battery if you get one.
I think there was also a 4000- and 5000-series from Gateway that came out later and had a similar form factor. I've never used them, but if you can't find the 3350 you can look there.
The Bad Plus' lastest album "Suspicious Activity" (ironic!) has/had the DRM shit on it.
The Bad Plus is an innovative jazz band that I really enjoy. I loved their album "These Are the Vistas" and had put "Suspicious Activity" on my end-of-year buying list of CDs I missed earlier in the year. I was also planning to see them live in Minneapolis right after Christmas.
Then I saw the CD on the list.
I sent an email to the band's management and promoters telling them how upset I was that their CD could mess up my computer and how it was a terrible breach of trust between the artist and the listener.
Here's the message I got back the next day straight from their manager. I hope other affected artists and their management are as enlightened.
Greetings Foo Fighter:
The Bad Plus's manager here.
I empathize with your point of view that OF COURSE you shouldn't acquire a disk which can wreak the kind of havoc to your computer that has been reported to occur.
As you might imagine, this is an exasperating situation for us. We learned about the rootkit long after the fact and today all of us--you, The Bad Plus, other SONY/BMG creative artists, as well as SONY/BMG--are paying a price as a result of corporate's short-sighted, extraordinary folly.
Please be assured that neither the band nor management agreed to SONY's.....creativity. We were blindsided by this as well. I will forward your correspondence to the label and be assured it will have far greater impact than their interest in addressing the concerns of either The Bad Plus and their manager. That said, on behalf of the band, we're sorry Foo Fighter. Truly. Much is being done in an effort to remedy the current situation--and reportedly clean discs will soon be issued. Check out the following....
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/173602071
So please don't penalize yourself.....either wait it out or consider acquiring the album via iTunes. It's a terrific recording. I also hope you'll reconsider not making the drive to Minneapolis. If you make it to the show, you'll get a special gift.
Thanks for writing and again, I'm so sorry for the frustration/upset/hassle/insanity.
All best to you-
Darryl Pitt