Maybe, and I realize you may be joking but why would Microsoft persue another antitrust trial? Thats what they would be doing...
Yep, Microsoft wouldn't want that. The 3 trials so far -- 2 in the US, 1 in the EU -- have really caused them serious problems...wonder what the 4th and 5th antitrust trials would bring?
I bet they are really scared!
Sexually explicit??? What about XBox!
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If anything is sexually explicit, I'd think that XBox qualifies.
This is a feature I wish Google had. If I get too many matches that appear to not be what I'm looking for I rephrase the querry which AJ does on the fly with these filters.
*shudders* Ah-no!
Google is already a little too soft for me. The last thing I want is it to do any of my thinking for me. Do what I ask -- even if it's a dumb idea -- and I'll figure it out. I like the challenge, the control, and the reliability.
I'm especially irritated by the increasing number of highly-ranked pages that are nothing more than another search engine's results. If Google could find some way to identify and remove these from my result set, Google's usefulness to me would increase 10 times over.
Agreed. I'd like to add these sites to a global block list; stumble on them during a search -- GRRRR! -- click 'block host' and never see the site again (bonus if the link can be removed or marked as 'already read'.
You should be able to whip something up with dd to do something similar. Make n number of dd images. Write a quick perl program to read through all the images at the same time, figure out if the bit at i position is more likely to be a one or a zero, and write the more likely bit to a new image file. Then mount the new image file as a loopback device, or copy it and try to run some file checkers on the copy.
dd does not investigate hardare. dd does bit copies and does not even do error correction. Spinrite -- while not a tool for deep analysis of dammaged media -- does have the ability to check for data errors and correct them.
That said, I'd use dd as you've described on failing media before attempting to use any data recovery tools (if they look like they are necessary).
in the mean time, linux' better support the proprietary crap (or at least a decent ammount of it) or it's chances in the corparate desktop will be smaller, way smaller, than it should.
Fully agree. In addition to Linux, though, any replacement system must also support the previous proprietary crap.
One machine shop I helped out -- we're talking 50+ ton computerized hydrolic presses -- was not only stuck using DOS for the CAD system they chose years before, they had to use specific video cards.
That means no DOS boxes.
No hardware emulation.
There are no programs on any platform that support the data files.
When the hardware fails and can no longer be upgraded, they will have to redo all of the templates that the business is based on.
That's my concern...and I see similar things all the time on my larger corporate sites. MS Access/VB is a poor choice (though not as serious) for the same reasons.
I think you'll agree that it's not enough that Linux applications chase propriatory formats. The propriatory formats are the problem.
I can't fight worth jack. Yet, I frequently have been the key person on my team when turning around many games. Yet, tactics don't tend to show up in stats. At best, I'll get a plug for doing the most building dammage... or sniping the most workers. (S2's Savage btw)
Doing things that get me killed again and again and again is often the only way to make that one manuver that tips the game in your team's favor -- or at worst keeps your team from loosing as fast.
Yeah thats why I figure I'd never become a serial killer.
I mean, to make a difference to this planet I'd have to kill *billions* not just a few hundred here and a few hundred there.
You know what to call those billions who won't kill themselves for the good of the environment? Inconsiderate, thoughtless, weenies! That's what! It's true!
Be quick about it, OK? OH, and when you kill yourself, do it in a forest by yourself so that you can be converted into plant material with the minimum of impact.
We can't get all of that last fifth of the 5 fifths -- though you worthless schmuck should do your part ASAP and stop ruining the environment with each extra breath or moment that you block the wind.
Shortly after disclosure, Novell reps were seen flexing thier arms, feigning a body punch toward SCO reps, and scratching their chins. Something like 'you my itch now' was muttered by a few from Novell. The SCO representives skulked away without comment.
got it ? it may not be important to you, but some big companies have _decades_ of data stored in their systems, some of this data only accessible through aged proprietary apps written in clipper, cobol, VB 3.0, whatever (some of those only exists in binary form. sources are long gone)... heck, once i went to a stock brokerage office and they had an access 2.0 running under OS/2 (by M$ recomendation) because access 2.0 was the only thing their PBX supported, and they had by force of law to record every phone call, internal or external.
To add to your Clipper data story, that's exactly the reason to use open data types if not open source itself; you can get at the data in 5...10...50 years. I have word processing documents from college that I can no longer access. Using a propriatory, single vendor, closed format, application to store data or business logic is the core problem.
It's conservative to move away from these traps and pick a better way of storing business rules and data. Open source, formats, and protocols provided by different groups (commercial and/or non-commercial) are the best way to do that.
Today, spammers buy and sell large lists of email addresses on CDs or other media. Each of these addressess took some mining to find it, and put it on the CD.
Nope. From my experience, that's not true. These are crooks...selling to crooks. If they sell bad data -- and I'd bet they do -- why would they care and how would the buyers of these lists know the difference?
Reason: About 1/2 of the spam messages I get are to addresses that are total fiction; they have never been used anywhere. Of the common ones, the associated name tends to be the same or from a short list of names -- and also total fiction (ex: "Marge Simmons" sales@bogus_sample_domain.com). The majority of the remaining addresses that were valid at one point are ancient (4+ years old).
I know this for a fact because one domain I have has only been used by me and I track the addresses I hand out.
I'd be curious if anyone else in a similar situation (old domain, not shared) has the same experiences.
The specific domain I'm refering to has been around for about 8 years.
I've got a running gag with my team that if I can find the answer to their problem in 3 google searches I get their pay for that week. The number of dumb question I get is WAY down.
Smart. Back when I worked as a Tech Support manager (pre-WWW, post 'net), the techs would constantly come to me with the same questions... I'd fire back to them "did you find anything in IZE?" (a simple but useful outline database back then). If they said no, I'd look...and about 1/3 of the time found the answer there.
The only difference between then and now is that it used to be that if the search came up empty, I would tell them to write up a note on what they learn so that the next person searching would find something. Now, with Google, that is rarely necessary.
That's just a worldofwarcraft.com search for "linux" and therefore not especially helpful. I've never played a Windows game on my new Linux box. Does anyone have a how-to for the WineX (or whatever) thing that's been written specifically to cope with WoW (just in case there are "quirks" unique to WoW)?
Read the link. It does include a how-to. That's why I posted it!
The question is about whether we really need a World Wide Web that looks like Wikipedia with links to every word and generally just a jumbled mess of blue and purple text.
Like that, no. Though we do need meta data and a browser or search engine to support that meta data.
Not for the current popular stuff that's out there -- the web browsers and search engines work well enough for that.
Where meta data and ways to search it is interesting is in media files such as audio, video, and images. This isn't like a book search in a card catalog, though. Transient stuff such as audio blogs covered by RSS with enclosures (Podcasting) would need to be indexed. Currently, a standard search engine would be a week or two behind this media -- making it much less valuable.
I'm not surprised. Making a manual transcript would be great...though I can't see it being done very often because it is so time consuming.
Are there any good speaker independant voice to text programs out there now? Even if there are, I can't see the poor quality of the current audio in most audio blogs being used to make useful transcripts.
I'm willing to bet that he doesn't have a hardware drive copier that supports SATA.
There are data recovery shops that probably do have the necessary equipment...though I don't see a problem with taking the drive, booting off of a CD and doing a bit copy to another drive using dd.
In either case, I think your confidence level is a bit too high. The forensics software I've used has checksum ID strings for known files and uses that as the basis for finding the known parts. These checksum databases are available for Unix-like systems, not just Windows. Once accounted for, the remaining file space can be investigated for other data.
The real problem is that the average nerds and the hackers are so far ahead of the forensics guys in terms of knowledge about modern technology and software that they can't keep up. Hackers will always have bleeding edge tools, and police budgets can't
The average hacker vs. the average cop, no doubt you are correct. The average hacker vs. a professional data forensics expert...it all depends on how much time the forensics expert has to do the investigation.
I run a portal site for video content, we've got a feed w/ enclosures. Check it out.
Thanks -- though I have been! The Daily Show's Bush words vs. facts video was fun.
From the Podcasting side, I can see the need for having transcripts. With text blogs, you can search them as-is. With audio or video blogs...there's little that is searchable. Anu idea if the video bloggers are considering this as an extra bit of data in the RSS feed?
Video blogs suffer from a few practical drawbacks;
Bandwidth.
Too much like TV: harder to do anything but watch.
Increased production time. The Podcasters are finding that they are spending quite a bit of time figuring out what equipment to buy, how to use it, and what software to use. A 1 hour audio blog can take 3 hours to produce depending on how much polish is needed. Add video and I can see that tagging on another hour -- minimum -- unless you don't have much to show or don't care much about how it looks.
Who would want to look at ~your~ face?:)
That said, I think that video blogs will become popular...though it may be a couple years before these issues aren't as big of a problem to deal with.
Some really interesting things out there...as well as garbage. I'd tell you my favorite -- hint smart show 4 on 'scene' -- though I don't want to swamp the server! For other non-tech, listen to Atomic City Fitness (health) or get angry along with Al Franken on AirAmerica (politics) (even interesting for a few hours to this libertarian).
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Yep, Microsoft wouldn't want that. The 3 trials so far -- 2 in the US, 1 in the EU -- have really caused them serious problems...wonder what the 4th and 5th antitrust trials would bring?
I bet they are really scared!
We didn't return results because your SafeSearch setting is set to Strict. To get results using the current search, change your SafeSearch setting."
If anything is sexually explicit, I'd think that XBox qualifies.
To make sure it doesn't change, one additional horror: Clippy or smiles the vapid dog.
*shudders* Ah-no!
Google is already a little too soft for me. The last thing I want is it to do any of my thinking for me. Do what I ask -- even if it's a dumb idea -- and I'll figure it out. I like the challenge, the control, and the reliability.
Thanks for repling to him. It's close to what I would have written -- except with fewer words!
Agreed. I'd like to add these sites to a global block list; stumble on them during a search -- GRRRR! -- click 'block host' and never see the site again (bonus if the link can be removed or marked as 'already read'.
dd does not investigate hardare. dd does bit copies and does not even do error correction. Spinrite -- while not a tool for deep analysis of dammaged media -- does have the ability to check for data errors and correct them.
That said, I'd use dd as you've described on failing media before attempting to use any data recovery tools (if they look like they are necessary).
Fully agree. In addition to Linux, though, any replacement system must also support the previous proprietary crap.
One machine shop I helped out -- we're talking 50+ ton computerized hydrolic presses -- was not only stuck using DOS for the CAD system they chose years before, they had to use specific video cards.
That means no DOS boxes.
No hardware emulation.
There are no programs on any platform that support the data files.
When the hardware fails and can no longer be upgraded, they will have to redo all of the templates that the business is based on.
That's my concern...and I see similar things all the time on my larger corporate sites. MS Access/VB is a poor choice (though not as serious) for the same reasons.
I think you'll agree that it's not enough that Linux applications chase propriatory formats. The propriatory formats are the problem.
Doing things that get me killed again and again and again is often the only way to make that one manuver that tips the game in your team's favor -- or at worst keeps your team from loosing as fast.
I mean, to make a difference to this planet I'd have to kill *billions* not just a few hundred here and a few hundred there.
You know what to call those billions who won't kill themselves for the good of the environment? Inconsiderate, thoughtless, weenies! That's what! It's true!
Be quick about it, OK? OH, and when you kill yourself, do it in a forest by yourself so that you can be converted into plant material with the minimum of impact.
We can't get all of that last fifth of the 5 fifths -- though you worthless schmuck should do your part ASAP and stop ruining the environment with each extra breath or moment that you block the wind.
Thanks!
Shortly after disclosure, Novell reps were seen flexing thier arms, feigning a body punch toward SCO reps, and scratching their chins. Something like 'you my itch now' was muttered by a few from Novell. The SCO representives skulked away without comment.
To add to your Clipper data story, that's exactly the reason to use open data types if not open source itself; you can get at the data in 5...10...50 years. I have word processing documents from college that I can no longer access. Using a propriatory, single vendor, closed format, application to store data or business logic is the core problem.
It's conservative to move away from these traps and pick a better way of storing business rules and data. Open source, formats, and protocols provided by different groups (commercial and/or non-commercial) are the best way to do that.
http://www.novell.com/products/connector/ [novell.com]
Exchange 5.5 and earlier was not supported by Connector last year. Has that changed?
Nope. From my experience, that's not true. These are crooks...selling to crooks. If they sell bad data -- and I'd bet they do -- why would they care and how would the buyers of these lists know the difference?
Reason: About 1/2 of the spam messages I get are to addresses that are total fiction; they have never been used anywhere. Of the common ones, the associated name tends to be the same or from a short list of names -- and also total fiction (ex: "Marge Simmons" sales@bogus_sample_domain.com). The majority of the remaining addresses that were valid at one point are ancient (4+ years old).
I know this for a fact because one domain I have has only been used by me and I track the addresses I hand out.
I'd be curious if anyone else in a similar situation (old domain, not shared) has the same experiences.
The specific domain I'm refering to has been around for about 8 years.
Smart. Back when I worked as a Tech Support manager (pre-WWW, post 'net), the techs would constantly come to me with the same questions... I'd fire back to them "did you find anything in IZE?" (a simple but useful outline database back then). If they said no, I'd look...and about 1/3 of the time found the answer there.
The only difference between then and now is that it used to be that if the search came up empty, I would tell them to write up a note on what they learn so that the next person searching would find something. Now, with Google, that is rarely necessary.
Read the link. It does include a how-to. That's why I posted it!
Like that, no. Though we do need meta data and a browser or search engine to support that meta data.
Not for the current popular stuff that's out there -- the web browsers and search engines work well enough for that.
Where meta data and ways to search it is interesting is in media files such as audio, video, and images. This isn't like a book search in a card catalog, though. Transient stuff such as audio blogs covered by RSS with enclosures (Podcasting) would need to be indexed. Currently, a standard search engine would be a week or two behind this media -- making it much less valuable.
Are there any good speaker independant voice to text programs out there now? Even if there are, I can't see the poor quality of the current audio in most audio blogs being used to make useful transcripts.
There are data recovery shops that probably do have the necessary equipment...though I don't see a problem with taking the drive, booting off of a CD and doing a bit copy to another drive using dd.
In either case, I think your confidence level is a bit too high. The forensics software I've used has checksum ID strings for known files and uses that as the basis for finding the known parts. These checksum databases are available for Unix-like systems, not just Windows. Once accounted for, the remaining file space can be investigated for other data.
The average hacker vs. the average cop, no doubt you are correct. The average hacker vs. a professional data forensics expert...it all depends on how much time the forensics expert has to do the investigation.
Thanks -- though I have been! The Daily Show's Bush words vs. facts video was fun.
From the Podcasting side, I can see the need for having transcripts. With text blogs, you can search them as-is. With audio or video blogs...there's little that is searchable. Anu idea if the video bloggers are considering this as an extra bit of data in the RSS feed?
Threads on running WoW on Linux using WineX/Cedega.
That said, I think that video blogs will become popular...though it may be a couple years before these issues aren't as big of a problem to deal with.
Podcasting! Seriously. Audio blogs fetched automatically.
Go here and here.
Does not require an iPod. Really simple syndication (RSS) with encosures.
I'm using a 76 line Bash script.
Current favorite feeds (RSS - not browseable web pages!);
Some really interesting things out there...as well as garbage. I'd tell you my favorite -- hint smart show 4 on 'scene' -- though I don't want to swamp the server! For other non-tech, listen to Atomic City Fitness (health) or get angry along with Al Franken on AirAmerica (politics) (even interesting for a few hours to this libertarian).
[raises hand] Ahmmm...to make Microsoft even more paranoid while getting a free and respectable 'home page'?