My wife bought a new machine with XP home. I decided to move some files. I turned on sharing. I wanted some protection. I tried to set a password on the shared folder.... Um where do you set a password on a folder for read and write privilages? It is missing. You can't share a folder and deny write privilages! This is major not good. My old version of Windows 95 does better on that one. XP home does not pass the Regression test. It's been crippled in several security areas. Ouch! MS missed on that one.
I don't recall the specifics (It's been a loooong time since I'v messed with XP Home), but many of these options reappear magically if you boot in "Safe Mode" - I do vaguely remember being able to do some *reasonably* secure file sharing using an XP home box as the "server".
So the irony is that Microsoft can't even secure security features they're trying to cripple so they can make an extra ~$150 on you upgrading to XP "Pro"...
We run a cluster of Barracuda Networks spam firewalls. They use mainly open-source software (spam-assassin on Linux, plus lots of other stuff), are super-easy to install, and they advertise on Slashdot. What more do you want?
I've compromised on my ringtones - during the day, I usually get only business calls, and at night I tend to get personal calls. My Treo 650 allows me to set ringtones by "group" (using the Ringo Pro software), so I have business people with an old-school telephone ring MP3. With friends, however, I tend to try to go all the way with the irony (I hate musical ringtones, so I'll make mine as obnoxious as possible - my friends find it amusing). Some suggestions:
* Kyle's Mom's a Bitch (From South Park)
* Suck My Salty Chocolate Balls (Also from South Park)
* Move Bitch, Get Out The Way
* America, Fuck Yeah! (From Team America: World Police)
* I Like Hubcaps (as sung by Brak on Space Ghost)
So this will just be like the last time Rambus had their hooks into a product, it will die a very expensive and slow death.
We'll see. IBM has historically been very smart (and sometimes downright ruthless) when it comes intellectual property issues. Their IP attorneys aren't referred to as "The Nazgul" for nothing...
1. The default window manager needs to REALLY emulate the GUI of Windows, or be resonably close for someone who has memorized the route to get to things that they know. Use more familar looking GUI widgets for example. Use a splash screen when the system is coming up instead of outputting alot of cryptic data that only old-timers and linux hackers even know what it means.
See: XPde. The project seems to be making slow progress, perhaps they could use more volunteers (before somebody flames me for not helping, it's not a project I find personally useful but I bookmarked it awhile ago because I figured someone might ask).
While I would agree that XML is usually a solution looking for a problem, there are a few areas where it really, really kicks ass. Specifically, when you are sharing very loosely structured data (structures with lots of optional fields, arbitrary field counts, etc.) between vastly dispate systems. The best example is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Everyone I know who has wrestled with ANSI X11 EDI specs sees XML as a godsend. Another good example is (obviously) XHTML.
I am Jeff Bezos. Welcome to my West Texas lair. We will use my Evil One-Click patent to take over the world. Meet my sidekick, Kevin Spacey. I call him "mini-me"...
</Doctor Evil Voice>
Meanwhile you probably secretly fantasize about having sex with underage cheerleaders yourself...
In case anyone didn't notice, danila looked up the posting history of FerretFrottage and found a post to use as incriminating evidence against him. This is a rather advanced flaming technique. I am quite impressed. Well done.
Technically, FerretFrottage is only flaming if [s]he is male, and so are the aforementioned cheerleaders.
Still happens. We're living in a brand-new low-rise (7-floor) building, and pipes are failing everywhere. Of course we make the contractors fix it, but it's an extreme pain in the ass when you can't occupy your condo for two months (we've been fortunate so far, but a couple of our neighbors have not) while they repair flood damage. And we're not living on the cheap either - this is Downtown San Diego; the least expensive 1 bedroom unit in our building goes for well over half a million $US.
Mention any remotely intellectual activity to an 'uneducated' person [...] and they'll immediately assume you're a snob.
Mention any remotely intellectual idea to an 'educated' person and they'll probably villify you with a religious fervor that has more of a place (or at least should have more of a place) in the dark ages than it does today. Rational intellectual discourse on any much any subject is nearly impossible due to the rabid and dogmatic mindset of the majority of people these days.
Does anyone know the reason why the speeds of these drives are rarely upgraded? I mean, IDE is just 7200, which it has been for years, S-ATA is 10.000 sometimes, but not really very much faster still.
Is it technically difficult? Is it unnessecary?
Even though the rotational speed stays the same, the throughput increases because the read/write head is moving over more data (more bits per square millimeter) during any given time period. So if an older platter contains 100 GB (this demonstration is grossly oversimplified and the math is off, but it will get the point across) the read/write head will pass over only half as much data per second at the same rotational speed as it would pass over if the new platter of the same physical size contains 200 GB. So the data would be read / written at twice the speed with the newer drive.
The problem with communism/socialism is not the people who are running it, it's people. We just don't work that way in groups larger than a high school study group, and that's why it fails every time.
Bad news - it didn't work in high school study groups, either, at least not when I was in high school. It was always one schlup (me) doing all of the work...
BTW, did you consider the number of ignorant rants your comment is going to spawn? Never mind, I just read my own sig:)
If trading copyrighted material is no-longer possible, I am not sure that BitTorrent will retain its current popularity for long.
Just about everything is copyrighted by default, at least in the US (registered copyrights are a different matter). Open Source code is nearly all copyrighted as well - how else could you enforce the GPL? Even the most liberal licenses such as BSD usually require the inclusion of original copyright notices when the works in question are distributed.
What I'm getting at is that trading non-copyrighted material is almost impossible, for the simple reason that nearly everything is copyrighted. Illegally traded copyright material is a different matter, of course. As for myself, I'll continue to download my Linux distro ISOs and other legally-ditributed coprighted material via bittorrent when possible.
ust wait until the social retards start screaming that that wasn't "real" Communism and try to explain to you and your girlfriend why "real" (hint: imaginary, goes against human free will, never going to happen) Communism is a good thing.:D
The really scary thing is that that level of stupidity and ignorance is usually the product of an expensive education.
I was ready to call B.S. until I started reading the Slashdot thread full of people explaining how Communism isn't so bad. I'll let them explain this to my girlfriend, who grew up in part of the former USSR (now Latvia). Funny thing - since we got together I've met many people who used to live in the Eastern Bloc - 100% of them (the ones I've met) think that Communism is about the worst thing to ever infect the planet. The scariest thing (at least to some of the posters in this thread) is that most of them now vote Republican.
What kills me is that the left-wingers who advocate communism (to call them Liberals would be an insult to, well, Liberals) so blindly ignore the fact that it has caused some of the worst environmental and human rights abuses in history. We go around villifying Hitler, and rightly so, but he was strictly junior-varsity when compared to Stalin. The most evil corporate polluters (and yes, I think that a few companies are actually evil in this regard) have nothing on Moscow's old five-year plans.
My suggestion to these wanna-be Commies is that they go live in an actual Communist country for awhile. Enjoy life in these workers' paradises full of happy people. Oh, what, these people have either thrown the Communists out, or would do so if they didn't have guns to their heads?
Yes, I know there are a few people screaming about why they can't mod this post -50 flamebait (feel free, I have karma to burn). I'm not saying everyone that supports Open Source, Creative Commons, etc. is a Communist. Far from it: I doubt that more than a tiny, tiny percentage of them actually are. I am, however, shocked at how many crawl out from under their rocks when a subject like this pops up.
That's only because the award wasn't given by CBS...
Heard inside the smoke-filled room of CBS News Executives: "And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling bloggers!" (a voice from an indeterminable source adds: "And their dog, too!")
Seriously, this stuff gets obsessed on because so many people eat it up. There's something in the human psyche (our BIOS or OS, perhaps?) that thrives on fear. Michael Chricton touches on that a bit in his new book, State of Fear (link is commission-free). In any case, it appears that most people need something to be afraid of - a Red Menace / Cold War, environmental distaster, terrorism, angry gods, etc. This has been exploited by religious leaders and politicians since the beginning of mankind, but now the media is using it to sell, sell, sell. News, books, and movies about the end of the world get lots of attention and make lots of money.
Myself, I realize that I can't control these things and just try to enjoy each day.
You beat me to it. All of a sudden I'm getting a NO CARRIER from my FM Radio and cell phone. And do we have to paint over our windows as well? This is an incredibly poorly-thought-out solution.
Oh, and who the hell modded the parent post "off-topic"???
f the phone companies' approach to TV is anything like their approach to DSL, we're in for some exciting tales of boundless incompetence.
Fuck that. If the phone companies' approach to TV is anything like their approach to T1 data services, we're in for some exciting tales of boundless incompetence. Not that you can get a T1 anymore. You get HDSL with T1 emulation on your end....
Slashdot Mirror
So the irony is that Microsoft can't even secure security features they're trying to cripple so they can make an extra ~$150 on you upgrading to XP "Pro"...
We run a cluster of Barracuda Networks spam firewalls. They use mainly open-source software (spam-assassin on Linux, plus lots of other stuff), are super-easy to install, and they advertise on Slashdot. What more do you want?
I've compromised on my ringtones - during the day, I usually get only business calls, and at night I tend to get personal calls. My Treo 650 allows me to set ringtones by "group" (using the Ringo Pro software), so I have business people with an old-school telephone ring MP3. With friends, however, I tend to try to go all the way with the irony (I hate musical ringtones, so I'll make mine as obnoxious as possible - my friends find it amusing). Some suggestions:
* Kyle's Mom's a Bitch (From South Park)
* Suck My Salty Chocolate Balls (Also from South Park)
* Move Bitch, Get Out The Way
* America, Fuck Yeah! (From Team America: World Police)
* I Like Hubcaps (as sung by Brak on Space Ghost)
You get the idea.
While I would agree that XML is usually a solution looking for a problem, there are a few areas where it really, really kicks ass. Specifically, when you are sharing very loosely structured data (structures with lots of optional fields, arbitrary field counts, etc.) between vastly dispate systems. The best example is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Everyone I know who has wrestled with ANSI X11 EDI specs sees XML as a godsend. Another good example is (obviously) XHTML.
I am Jeff Bezos. Welcome to my West Texas lair. We will use my Evil One-Click patent to take over the world. Meet my sidekick, Kevin Spacey. I call him "mini-me"...
</Doctor Evil Voice>
Still happens. We're living in a brand-new low-rise (7-floor) building, and pipes are failing everywhere. Of course we make the contractors fix it, but it's an extreme pain in the ass when you can't occupy your condo for two months (we've been fortunate so far, but a couple of our neighbors have not) while they repair flood damage. And we're not living on the cheap either - this is Downtown San Diego; the least expensive 1 bedroom unit in our building goes for well over half a million $US.
You can put two SATA drives on the same channel? I want to see this trick (if only because I need a good laugh today).
Single-sided, single-density ~= 90K, or something like that. Ahhh, the days of my old TI-99/4A. Who needs nostalgia when we have emulation?
BTW, did you consider the number of ignorant rants your comment is going to spawn? Never mind, I just read my own sig
What I'm getting at is that trading non-copyrighted material is almost impossible, for the simple reason that nearly everything is copyrighted. Illegally traded copyright material is a different matter, of course. As for myself, I'll continue to download my Linux distro ISOs and other legally-ditributed coprighted material via bittorrent when possible.
I was ready to call B.S. until I started reading the Slashdot thread full of people explaining how Communism isn't so bad. I'll let them explain this to my girlfriend, who grew up in part of the former USSR (now Latvia). Funny thing - since we got together I've met many people who used to live in the Eastern Bloc - 100% of them (the ones I've met) think that Communism is about the worst thing to ever infect the planet. The scariest thing (at least to some of the posters in this thread) is that most of them now vote Republican.
What kills me is that the left-wingers who advocate communism (to call them Liberals would be an insult to, well, Liberals) so blindly ignore the fact that it has caused some of the worst environmental and human rights abuses in history. We go around villifying Hitler, and rightly so, but he was strictly junior-varsity when compared to Stalin. The most evil corporate polluters (and yes, I think that a few companies are actually evil in this regard) have nothing on Moscow's old five-year plans.
My suggestion to these wanna-be Commies is that they go live in an actual Communist country for awhile. Enjoy life in these workers' paradises full of happy people. Oh, what, these people have either thrown the Communists out, or would do so if they didn't have guns to their heads?
Yes, I know there are a few people screaming about why they can't mod this post -50 flamebait (feel free, I have karma to burn). I'm not saying everyone that supports Open Source, Creative Commons, etc. is a Communist. Far from it: I doubt that more than a tiny, tiny percentage of them actually are. I am, however, shocked at how many crawl out from under their rocks when a subject like this pops up.
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!! News at 11...
Seriously, this stuff gets obsessed on because so many people eat it up. There's something in the human psyche (our BIOS or OS, perhaps?) that thrives on fear. Michael Chricton touches on that a bit in his new book, State of Fear (link is commission-free). In any case, it appears that most people need something to be afraid of - a Red Menace / Cold War, environmental distaster, terrorism, angry gods, etc. This has been exploited by religious leaders and politicians since the beginning of mankind, but now the media is using it to sell, sell, sell. News, books, and movies about the end of the world get lots of attention and make lots of money.
Myself, I realize that I can't control these things and just try to enjoy each day.
You beat me to it. All of a sudden I'm getting a NO CARRIER from my FM Radio and cell phone. And do we have to paint over our windows as well? This is an incredibly poorly-thought-out solution.
Oh, and who the hell modded the parent post "off-topic"???
Give them a subscription to Safari.
(Of course, I'm running Firefox)