One thing that windows lacks is for an Admin user to be able to impersonate anyone ala su under unix. It would make fixing problems for other people so much easier as you could log into their computer as them using your/admin credentials.
Granted, a su-like utility would be more useful, but there is a way to this. As an admin, you can:
change the user's password to something you know,
log in as the user, fix the problem
leave user a note that they need to contact you (or an appropriate helpdesk) to have their password reset to something only they know.
Guppy06 says:
Actually, it's the "faithless elector" laws that are of questionable legallity. They're state laws trying to influence a federal office.
The states have been expressly given the power to "influence a federal office". U.S. Constition, Article II, Section 1, Clause 2: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors [...]"
Clause 3 talks about how the electors function, but places no restrictions on how electors must vote. By my reading, which is merely as a citizen, not as a constitutional lawyer, a state can, by law, require electors to swear to vote according to the popular vote.
I'm guessing you've never tried that search before. PDF stores the meat of a document in compressed data streams. strings would return a bunch of font names, headers and compressed garbage.
There are a few other tools available, at various stages of stability:
Leviticus 11:9-12 says: 9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: 11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. 12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
Deuteronomy 14:9-10 says: 9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
The order is given in relation to eating, but YHWH seems pretty unequivocal about the acceptability of scaleless and finless water beasties what with using words like "unclean" and "abomination".
neurojab:
"Maybe Kerry's not perfect, but compared to Bush, he's the freaking Messiah."
JavaLord: "Jesus never flip flopped"
Well, there was that whole "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword." (Mt 10:24) and "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword." (Mt 26:52).
I don't know about the fellas on either side, but the lady in the middle looks like Alyssa Milano. She did at least one USO visit in 2003. That was a Navy show, but it mentions ground forces (the Army guys?) and at least we can place her in the area at some point.
That is somewhat different because it lets you install totally new software as well as updating. I haven't read the patent in its entirety yet though, so maybe that's covered.
Not in its entirety, eh?
Well, the title is "Method and system for distributing updates by presenting directory of software available for user installation that is not already installed on user station".[emphasis added] Certainly implies new software, but my eyes started crossing trying to decipher the "multiplicities" and "pluralties" in the abstract.
Eh... how do I tell that MSN thinks it's adult content? I followed your link (subtracting the added space) and got a number of XFree86 relevant results.
A fair portion of the replies to this topic talk about public performance licensing. There is a record label Magnatune that offers an easy way to license any of its music for a variety of uses, on-hold music included.
From their site:
We call it "try before you buy." It's the shareware model applied to music.
Listen to hundreds of MP3'd albums from our artists. Or try our genre-based radio stations.
If you like what you hear, buy our music online for as little as $5 an album or license our music for commercial use.
Artists get a full 50% of the purchase price. And unlike most record labels, our artists keep the rights to their music.
The technology is to the point now where it's nearly flawless unless you have the orginals and can say "OK, here's the source."
Except that the originals need to have some matching characteristics, especially direction (if not quality of) lighting. Anyone with a decent set of peepers should have at least noticed something wrong with this particular photograph.
Without any investigation of photo sources, the viewer can tell the lighting on Jane doesn't match the lighting on Kerry.
Re:da vinci code, angels & demons, plus minor
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Digital Fortress
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[Spoilage]... . .
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My disapointment is that the "catch" is the same in both books. Someone close and assumed to be trusted turns out to be the bad guy.
And that the plot in both (all three? I didn't bother reading _Digital Fortress_) is essentially our main character going on a "treasure hunt" following some fairly mindless clues.
Want to make better software? How about actually scheduling enough QA time to test it? When development time runs over schedule, push the damned ship date back!
And mandate unit testing be integrated with coding.
[From FUD-Induced Diatribe of an Aritcle:]
Malevolent code can enter open source software at several levels. [1] First, and least worrisome, is that the core project code could be compromised by inclusion of source contributed as a fix or extension. As the core Linux code is carefully scrutinized, that's not terribly likely.
Sooo... it's
not likely? Why bring it up then?
[2?] Much more likely is that distributions will be created and advertised for free, or created with the express purpose of marketing them to governments at cut-rate pricing. As anyone can create and market a distribution, it's not far-fetched to imagine a version subsidized and supported by organizations that may not have U.S. or other government interests at heart.
Which "the government" probably wouldn't purchase. Jones might not have noticed, but most linux installations run in government and the private sector are from the Big Name distributors. Why? Support contracts and the tendency for proprietary applications that run on Linux to require a particular Big Name distribution to run on.
[3]Third, an individual or group of IT insiders could target a single organization by obtaining a good copy of Linux, and then customizing it for an organization, including malevolent code as they do so. That version would then become the standard version for the organization. [...]
Sounds like contract programming to me
[...] Given the prevalence of inter-corporation and inter-governmental spying, and the relatively large numbers of people in a position to accomplish such subterfuge, this last scenario is virtually certain to occur. Worse, these probabilities aren't limited to Linux itself, the same possibilities (and probabilities) exist for every open source software package installed and used on the machines.
Right. These probabilities exist for *ANY* software development. Any contract programmer could do the same thing with software written for a closed-source operating system. I recall some statistic (probably made up) that said the vast majority of coding is done for in-house applications: a business' customized product database, a client database, etc. Any "IT insider" could target a government agency, bid on a programming contract and gleefully "accomplish such subterfuge". Until they were caught, charged, imprisoned and became some bad man's girlfriend.
I'm guessing the president uses conventional phone lines for voice, except in special circumstances. Compared to that, properly encrypted e-mail doesn't look too bad.
I'm thinking that the issue is more along the lines of e-mail being auditable.
I wonder if we can't sink the SCO coffers a little. How about responding to the letter with "Sure, I'll meet with you."? After SCO reps and/or lawyers spend SCO money to travel to your place of business, you then ask them to document for you the offending code, how exactly they've come to the conclusion that your company is running said code and on what computers.
If they cannot, tell them to return when they can. If and when they return, notify them that their claims are currently being weighed in a court case that you are following closely and that they should return once a verdict has been given.
"...we had a stray bullet come through a window...
"Two people were stabbed to death right across the street. [...]
"Our buildings are filled with asbestos. We can't drink the water due to bacteria in the pipes. [...]"
It was at this point that I thought of making a crack about working for the government in D.C. Little did I know how close I was to the truth.
It's been a while since I spent much time in IRC, but even several years ago we would identify channel ops with a bot (eggdrop, if I recall correctly). Giving everyone ops isn't necessary, either. It is simple to have usernames and passwords maintained and authenticated on a bot and to set the IRC channel to require members to be given a voice (by the bot upon authentication) to speak in the channel.
I had a great experience buying from this company, but I didn't get a custom designed ring from them. They state outright that they do custom designs. They may be open to using client-furnished materials, too.
Slashdot Mirror
One thing that windows lacks is for an Admin user to be able to impersonate anyone ala su under unix. It would make fixing problems for other people so much easier as you could log into their computer as them using your/admin credentials.
Granted, a su-like utility would be more useful, but there is a way to this. As an admin, you can:
What makes you think that there should be a port available on Freshports.org at the same time as the release of OpenSSH?
The new hacker/cracker challenge: zero day ports!
The states have been expressly given the power to "influence a federal office". U.S. Constition, Article II, Section 1, Clause 2: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors [...]"
Clause 3 talks about how the electors function, but places no restrictions on how electors must vote. By my reading, which is merely as a citizen, not as a constitutional lawyer, a state can, by law, require electors to swear to vote according to the popular vote.
I'm guessing you've never tried that search before. PDF stores the meat of a document in compressed data streams. strings would return a bunch of font names, headers and compressed garbage.
There are a few other tools available, at various stages of stability:
God hates shrimp.
Leviticus 11:9-12 says:
9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
Deuteronomy 14:9-10 says:
9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
The order is given in relation to eating, but YHWH seems pretty unequivocal about the acceptability of scaleless and finless water beasties what with using words like "unclean" and "abomination".
Further interest in the matter?
Well, there was that whole "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword." (Mt 10:24) and "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword." (Mt 26:52).
Can't do photos, but I can search across my e-mail, OpenOffice documents and archived web pages of interest...
~$ grep -r -i "find me" *I don't know about the fellas on either side, but the lady in the middle looks like Alyssa Milano. She did at least one USO visit in 2003. That was a Navy show, but it mentions ground forces (the Army guys?) and at least we can place her in the area at some point.
The same for me! I can search from my co-lo'ed webserver, but not from work (~15 miles away) in VA.
It must be a distance thing.
Not in its entirety, eh?
Well, the title is "Method and system for distributing updates by presenting directory of software available for user installation that is not already installed on user station".[emphasis added] Certainly implies new software, but my eyes started crossing trying to decipher the "multiplicities" and "pluralties" in the abstract.
Is this really "ironic"? If someone were to say to me that they believed the laws were real, I'd expect that they haven't read the stories.
Eh ... how do I tell that MSN thinks it's adult content? I followed your link (subtracting the added space) and got a number of XFree86 relevant results.
A fair portion of the replies to this topic talk about public performance licensing. There is a record label Magnatune that offers an easy way to license any of its music for a variety of uses, on-hold music included.
From their site:
I'm not much for loading Word to view something that could be displayed or edited in a browser.
This is my complaint about much of the information available at microsoft.com.
"Click here for a whitepaper we intended to put on the web, but couldn't bother producing in HTML."
The technology is to the point now where it's nearly flawless unless you have the orginals and can say "OK, here's the source."
Except that the originals need to have some matching characteristics, especially direction (if not quality of) lighting. Anyone with a decent set of peepers should have at least noticed something wrong with this particular photograph.
Without any investigation of photo sources, the viewer can tell the lighting on Jane doesn't match the lighting on Kerry.
minor spoiler, no names or real details given...
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[Spoilage]
[Space]
[Preserved]
My disapointment is that the "catch" is the same in both books. Someone close and assumed to be trusted turns out to be the bad guy.
And that the plot in both (all three? I didn't bother reading _Digital Fortress_) is essentially our main character going on a "treasure hunt" following some fairly mindless clues.
Want to make better software? How about actually scheduling enough QA time to test it? When development time runs over schedule, push the damned ship date back!
And mandate unit testing be integrated with coding.
[From FUD-Induced Diatribe of an Aritcle:]
Malevolent code can enter open source software at several levels.
[1] First, and least worrisome, is that the core project code could be compromised by inclusion of source contributed as a fix or extension. As the core Linux code is carefully scrutinized, that's not terribly likely.
[2?] Much more likely is that distributions will be created and advertised for free, or created with the express purpose of marketing them to governments at cut-rate pricing. As anyone can create and market a distribution, it's not far-fetched to imagine a version subsidized and supported by organizations that may not have U.S. or other government interests at heart.
[3]Third, an individual or group of IT insiders could target a single organization by obtaining a good copy of Linux, and then customizing it for an organization, including malevolent code as they do so. That version would then become the standard version for the organization. [...]
[...] Given the prevalence of inter-corporation and inter-governmental spying, and the relatively large numbers of people in a position to accomplish such subterfuge, this last scenario is virtually certain to occur. Worse, these probabilities aren't limited to Linux itself, the same possibilities (and probabilities) exist for every open source software package installed and used on the machines.
By checking the MD5sum on the file after it's done downloading and before you install it.
http://[mirrorURL]/firefox/releases/0.8/MD5SUMS
*boggle*
I'm thinking that the issue is more along the lines of e-mail being auditable.
I wonder if we can't sink the SCO coffers a little. How about responding to the letter with "Sure, I'll meet with you."? After SCO reps and/or lawyers spend SCO money to travel to your place of business, you then ask them to document for you the offending code, how exactly they've come to the conclusion that your company is running said code and on what computers.
If they cannot, tell them to return when they can. If and when they return, notify them that their claims are currently being weighed in a court case that you are following closely and that they should return once a verdict has been given.
It was at this point that I thought of making a crack about working for the government in D.C. Little did I know how close I was to the truth.
It's been a while since I spent much time in IRC, but even several years ago we would identify channel ops with a bot (eggdrop, if I recall correctly). Giving everyone ops isn't necessary, either. It is simple to have usernames and passwords maintained and authenticated on a bot and to set the IRC channel to require members to be given a voice (by the bot upon authentication) to speak in the channel.
deSignet International
I had a great experience buying from this company, but I didn't get a custom designed ring from them. They state outright that they do custom designs. They may be open to using client-furnished materials, too.