No, none of the networks that he describes have centralized servers. Gnutella2 and Kazaa have the concept of "super-nodes", but anybody's computer can become a super-node. They all autodiscover their peers. Yes, dude did read what you wrote. I don't understand what unsolved problem your idea is addressing.
Dunno why you're nostalgic for the old Napster. It worked great for a very select few things. Now we're all spoiled by porn and swarming downloads. Napster only flew because people were grabbing 4MB files, and it only worked for relatively popular files. I do better with Poisoned now on my Mac than I ever did with Napster, and my understanding is that y'all PC types have it even better.
We're running the corporate edition here. It does find spyware and adware. Doesn't do anything about it, but it does tell you it's there. The biggest drawback is that it also scans the system restore folder, and reports a machine as infected if it finds spyware there. (It does the same annoying thing with viruses.. if a virus is in quarantine, SAV detects it and reports the machine as infected.)
We're having a similar experience here, however right now we've configured SAV to "Log Only" in cases of "Extended Threats", which is what they call adware & spyware & shite. I figure that when we change it to "delete" rather than "log only" it'll actually remove the spyware.
I've never seen it complain about a virus that's been quarantined. That works flawlessly in my (limited) experience.
And it's found a few peices of adware that seem to have slipped by Ad-aware SE, although I'm not sure. I might have contracted them since my last system cleaning.
Dunno if anyone else remembers, but back when Prozac was new, there was this brief news item that Prozac was causing people to cut themselves. It eventually hit all the major papers, only to disappear once everyone decided it was groundless. The original stories all came from the Christian Science Monitor. In retrospect, those original stories seem to be spurious, and in line with Christian Scientist doctrine.
I realize it's kindof lame to harp on one single tiny item in the paper's excellent history. These articles might not have been poorly researched at all. They might even have been surprisingly prescient, given recent intimations of a link between some SSRIs and suicide in young people. Still, I've never had this little tiny thing explained to my satisfaction, so I bring it up again and again.
Did anybody else pay any attention to this? Was this just poor journalism, unrelated to Christian Scientists? Was their journalism not so bad after all?
And I got my programming job because my boss asked my mom on a date once.
If you want to do CS heavy stuff like OS, architecture & language design, then a Ph.D. from a big-name CS department would certainly help. But my totally decent software engineering job would have gone to me just the same if I went to Chico.
(e.g., a potential Mac exploit of this nature that spread via email would have to have its own MTA or a lot more complexity than a simple script on Windows where Outlook and the OS does all the work for you)
Most all email viruses contain their own MTAs now. This is not a reason that there aren't Mac based email viruses.
I'm not sure you understand what I'm saying. I completely believe you that the contract they asked you to sign was unnacceptable. The straightforward response would be to inform them that some of the provisions of the contract were unnacceptable, and to negotiate changes.
By signing "Won't agree" with the intention of leading them to believe that you have signed the document with your name, you have mislead them to follow their terms of the contract while you have no intention of following your (totally unnacceptable, I understand) terms of the contract. That might be immoral, and it might be illegal. Might not. Dunno.
It took me a while to figure out what your joke was. No, not Amish.
But obviously, the reason we don't need that stuff is because we have the internet. The combination of an urban environment and huge information resources has allowed us immense cost savings. Even if the cost of living is "higher" here, our quality of life is high, and we aren't rich. Some of us are poor. I think it's interesting.
If you did this with the intention of misleading someone that you had signed the document, you might be guilty of some kind of fraud.
Due to their own negligence, they might not have a very good case against you, but you are trying to mislead them in exchange for money. That's a little messed up.
You should check out The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen. It's a live action role playing game lying contest. It only really works with somewhat theater-geek-heavy crowds. Otherwise, it takes a bit of practice.
I realize you're joking, but people don't necessarily put spaces between words in spoken English. In any dialect. It's acceptable and common to say "itsacceptable" and listeners will be able to trivially parse that into two words.
a huge group of people that will just say "screw it" not buy either player, and download rips of HD-DVD/Blu-Ray DVD's that they can play on a computer hooked to the TV (becoming more common and certainly more common in a year or two)
What TV?
None of my friends here in the city own a TV or a car. None of us use land line telephones either.
In fact, it would be less likely to happen with a decent package manager, because instead of making his ~/bin group writable, he'd tell his buddy, "yeah, just apt-get gnu-tools mozilla", and it would be easy.
Not to mention, real movie buffs only watch movies on analog tape decks, because digital players strip out all the warmth from the sound and video. Too harsh looking.
Just because you can say "occipital lobe" does not make you smart.
I haven't you given any evidence that I think otherwise.
The ignorance of others does not make you smart either.
I don't know why you're bringing this up. I'm only talking about his ignorance, aren't I?
Calling this idea "colossally stupid" is going too far. They may just not have the understanding your profess to have.
The way he frames his suggestion seems to assume understanding that I definitely do not profess to have. That's why I considered it colossally stupid. I stand by that assertion.
Anyway, I'm modded flamebait now. Apparently someone agrees with you.
If you circumvent that, you do it at your own peril, and they're not going to make it easy for you to do.
That's his exact point. A package management utility should allow people to easily install shit without circumventing anything, and without requiring root access. No one is discussing circumvention, or doing anything the admin doesn't want, and you are being an asshole.
I can install mozilla in ~/bin. I can install all of mozilla's dependencies in ~/lib. This is totally acceptable by anyone's standards, so long as I don't exceed storage or cpu resource limitations. An excellent package manager should do this for me, and not require that I have access to/usr/local/bin or/usr/local/lib.
Why is this objectionable in any way? Are you trolling?
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It might or might not be insightful, but it certainly wasn't funny.
1) I don't know what I'm talking about.
2) I thought that SRAM had to be "refreshed" on most every clock cycle, and they store information by refreshing themselves with their current state.
If you can store and read an unlimited number of zeros, then couldn't you encode your information in the number of stored zeros?
From my post:
"They might even have been surprisingly prescient, given recent intimations of a link between some SSRIs and suicide in young people."
No, none of the networks that he describes have centralized servers. Gnutella2 and Kazaa have the concept of "super-nodes", but anybody's computer can become a super-node. They all autodiscover their peers. Yes, dude did read what you wrote. I don't understand what unsolved problem your idea is addressing.
Dunno why you're nostalgic for the old Napster. It worked great for a very select few things. Now we're all spoiled by porn and swarming downloads. Napster only flew because people were grabbing 4MB files, and it only worked for relatively popular files. I do better with Poisoned now on my Mac than I ever did with Napster, and my understanding is that y'all PC types have it even better.
We're running the corporate edition here. It does find spyware and adware. Doesn't do anything about it, but it does tell you it's there. The biggest drawback is that it also scans the system restore folder, and reports a machine as infected if it finds spyware there. (It does the same annoying thing with viruses.. if a virus is in quarantine, SAV detects it and reports the machine as infected.)
We're having a similar experience here, however right now we've configured SAV to "Log Only" in cases of "Extended Threats", which is what they call adware & spyware & shite. I figure that when we change it to "delete" rather than "log only" it'll actually remove the spyware.
I've never seen it complain about a virus that's been quarantined. That works flawlessly in my (limited) experience.
And it's found a few peices of adware that seem to have slipped by Ad-aware SE, although I'm not sure. I might have contracted them since my last system cleaning.
I'm curious about Symantec AntiVirus 9. Supposedly it finds spyware & adware too.
Dunno if anyone else remembers, but back when Prozac was new, there was this brief news item that Prozac was causing people to cut themselves. It eventually hit all the major papers, only to disappear once everyone decided it was groundless. The original stories all came from the Christian Science Monitor. In retrospect, those original stories seem to be spurious, and in line with Christian Scientist doctrine.
I realize it's kindof lame to harp on one single tiny item in the paper's excellent history. These articles might not have been poorly researched at all. They might even have been surprisingly prescient, given recent intimations of a link between some SSRIs and suicide in young people. Still, I've never had this little tiny thing explained to my satisfaction, so I bring it up again and again.
Did anybody else pay any attention to this? Was this just poor journalism, unrelated to Christian Scientists? Was their journalism not so bad after all?
And I got my programming job because my boss asked my mom on a date once.
If you want to do CS heavy stuff like OS, architecture & language design, then a Ph.D. from a big-name CS department would certainly help. But my totally decent software engineering job would have gone to me just the same if I went to Chico.
pro-Arab extremists
Hrm. I don't think anyone should have a problem with people vehemently in favor of falafel. This phrase, all by itself, is fucked.
(e.g., a potential Mac exploit of this nature that spread via email would have to have its own MTA or a lot more complexity than a simple script on Windows where Outlook and the OS does all the work for you)
Most all email viruses contain their own MTAs now. This is not a reason that there aren't Mac based email viruses.
If it's good enough material, a crusty white guy with leather elbow pads can still be engaging.
I'm not sure you understand what I'm saying. I completely believe you that the contract they asked you to sign was unnacceptable. The straightforward response would be to inform them that some of the provisions of the contract were unnacceptable, and to negotiate changes.
By signing "Won't agree" with the intention of leading them to believe that you have signed the document with your name, you have mislead them to follow their terms of the contract while you have no intention of following your (totally unnacceptable, I understand) terms of the contract. That might be immoral, and it might be illegal. Might not. Dunno.
It took me a while to figure out what your joke was. No, not Amish.
But obviously, the reason we don't need that stuff is because we have the internet. The combination of an urban environment and huge information resources has allowed us immense cost savings. Even if the cost of living is "higher" here, our quality of life is high, and we aren't rich. Some of us are poor. I think it's interesting.
If you did this with the intention of misleading someone that you had signed the document, you might be guilty of some kind of fraud.
Due to their own negligence, they might not have a very good case against you, but you are trying to mislead them in exchange for money. That's a little messed up.
You should check out The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen. It's a live action role playing game lying contest. It only really works with somewhat theater-geek-heavy crowds. Otherwise, it takes a bit of practice.
I think it might be a decent GM boot camp, too.
I realize you're joking, but people don't necessarily put spaces between words in spoken English. In any dialect. It's acceptable and common to say "itsacceptable" and listeners will be able to trivially parse that into two words.
a huge group of people that will just say "screw it" not buy either player, and download rips of HD-DVD/Blu-Ray DVD's that they can play on a computer hooked to the TV (becoming more common and certainly more common in a year or two)
What TV?
None of my friends here in the city own a TV or a car. None of us use land line telephones either.
Not to mention that there is nothing inherently evil about any of the actions he describes.
Apparently the book that has all the information about networking, warts and all, hasn't been written yet. This book is as good as it gets, so far.
Ah. That was the answer to my question. (Where is the rest of the documentation for Open Directory?)
Thanks.
That is obviously a completely unrelated problem.
In fact, it would be less likely to happen with a decent package manager, because instead of making his ~/bin group writable, he'd tell his buddy, "yeah, just apt-get gnu-tools mozilla", and it would be easy.
Not to mention, real movie buffs only watch movies on analog tape decks, because digital players strip out all the warmth from the sound and video. Too harsh looking.
Just because you can say "occipital lobe" does not make you smart.
I haven't you given any evidence that I think otherwise.
The ignorance of others does not make you smart either.
I don't know why you're bringing this up. I'm only talking about his ignorance, aren't I?
Calling this idea "colossally stupid" is going too far. They may just not have the understanding your profess to have.
The way he frames his suggestion seems to assume understanding that I definitely do not profess to have. That's why I considered it colossally stupid. I stand by that assertion.
Anyway, I'm modded flamebait now. Apparently someone agrees with you.
If you circumvent that, you do it at your own peril, and they're not going to make it easy for you to do.
/usr/local/bin or /usr/local/lib.
That's his exact point. A package management utility should allow people to easily install shit without circumventing anything, and without requiring root access. No one is discussing circumvention, or doing anything the admin doesn't want, and you are being an asshole.
I can install mozilla in ~/bin. I can install all of mozilla's dependencies in ~/lib. This is totally acceptable by anyone's standards, so long as I don't exceed storage or cpu resource limitations. An excellent package manager should do this for me, and not require that I have access to
Why is this objectionable in any way? Are you trolling?