Maybe 5-10 years ago there were problems running Linux on some laptops but now a days it generally just works. I've run openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on several Dell (Inspiron and Latitude), one IBM (Lenova) laptop and one Toshiba laptop with minimal or no trouble. A very long time ago (8+ years) I had a Dell Inspiron laptop which had issues with its internal wireless card but I just popped in a PCMCIA wireless card with Linux support until the internal wireless card was supported.
He asked a technical question to people who might know the answer on a technical blog. I don't see the problem here. Your average non-techie probably doesn't download their bank records, import them into a mysql database and play with the data. A techie might. Finding the bank which meets our technical needs is the sort information you might have trouble finding on other forums.
If on the other hand he asked, what bank has the best savings account interest rate or what banks are compatible with Quicken, then by all means flame.
This legislation seems like a heavy-handed solution in search of a non-existent problem. I don't understand the necessity of it. If I'm a network administrator in charge of an ISP why do I need the US government to tell me when to shutoff parts of my network because I or one of my subscribers is under attack? The Internet has carried and withstood many worms, viruses and hackers since its inception.
If the government is concerned about their own network infrastructure, in the event of a cyber attack, why don't they install "kill switches" at the point of ingress into their own networks?
GCC stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. It consists of compilers for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada. Those compilers share a lot of code. Not all GCC programmers know all 6 languages. However they do all know C. What's been decided is that they will now have the option of using C++. All that's left is to decide what subset of C++ features are useful and easy to use effectively for both the GCC programmers who know C++ well and those who don't.
SLES 11 HAE is not some proprietary package. It's 100% OSS. It's made up of: Pacemaker (http://www.clusterlabs.org/) OpenAIS (http://www.openais.org/doku.php) DRBD (http://www.drbd.org/) OCFS2 (http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/)
As for security, it adds selinux availability, TPM support, more locked down defaults and a YaST security module for easier configuration.
While it's anecdotal, I've never had a SLES 11 server lock up whereas due to hardware/driver bugs I've had SLES 10 SP2 lockup on new HP hardware plenty of times until we upgraded the kernel.
Except your stop & identify statue only asks someone to identify themselves AKA "My name is X Y." NOT prove their identity which would violate the 4th amendment. Read the majority opinion in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_District_Court_of_Nevada the only reason your stop & identify statute was considered constitutional was because of the slim scope of it. Now that the scope have been expanded expect it to be ruled unconstitutional.
It clearly says that treaties do not override the constitution. treaties may trump state rights, but only when there is not language in the constitution prohibiting the treaty.
"...the Supreme Court held that the law was in fact constitutional, noting that the treaties clause of the Constitution (Article VI, clause 2), sometimes known as the "supremacy clause," makes treaties the "supreme law of the land," a finding that trumps any state-level concerns with regard to the provisions of any treaty (though it does not trump other provisions of the constitution)..."
Also Missouri v. Holland was in 1920, since then Reid v. Covert (1957) has made it even more explicit that the Constitution supersedes treaties ratified by the US Senate.
As I understand it, here's the order of law: Constitution Treaties ratified by the US Senate Federal enumerated powers only States all other powers
No. The summary is wrong. Obama did not give them diplomatic immunity. The article says so quite clearly. What Obama granted their organization was an exemption from some taxes and customs fees, and that their records cannot be seized.
Yes, I'm using binary blobs. I generally use the openSUSE provided NVIDIA repository with its nvidia driver RPMs unless I discover a bug that doesn't work for them.
Perhaps you're not from the US and don't understand how its government works. I'll assume either that you or failed civics class as a child. This country has 3 branches of government. They are designed to have equal power. They provide checks and balances on each other.
A simplistic view of the three branches would be: Legislative - They make the laws. (Article 1 of the US Constitution) Executive - They enforce the laws. (Article 2 of the US Constitution) Judicial - They decide if the enforcement matched law. (Article 3 of the US Constitution)
President Obama has power over the Executive branch.
> And putting legislation online at least five days before it's voted on. He doesn't put legislation online. He's the leader of the EXECUTIVE branch of government. The LEGISLATIVE branch (not his branch) is responsible for stuff like, you know, legislation. They would be the ones who should put legislation online.
>And allowing congressmen enough time to read legislation rather than ramming it down their throats at 2am. He doesn't control congressmen. That's not his branch of government. Complain about someone else who actually controls that please.
>And ending backroom politics. This may be a perfectly valid complaint. It would have been nice if you'd been specific and cited an example though.
>And get rid of the lobbyists - though perhaps I misheard him on that one and he actually said "I promise to hire as many >lobbyists and absolute freaks and weirdos into my administration as I possibly can". I think he would argue that people he hired were the best people for the job. Until it can be shown that the way he executes the law of the land is being mishandled due to the people he hired to advise him, I would hold my judgement. Personally I dislike the idea of corporate interests being able to pay for someone to influence my leaders. However, in a free society I don't see how you can prevent lobbyists.
By default the author's spreadsheet calculates how long it takes to guess a *likely* password based on the NIST model http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-63-rev1/SP800-63-Rev1_Dec2008.pdf of the amount of entropy in a likely password. If you look at the "Entropy Models" tab of the spreadsheet you'll see more of this information. If you change the spreadsheet to use a "perfect" entropy model it would require 22,926,448,052.7 guesses per second to find an 8 character password utilizing 96 characters within 90 days. Fortunately for hackers, people don't usually cat/dev/random when generating their password. Some letters are used more than others. Passwords are usually not perfectly random.
I voted for him and I've found plenty that I don't agree with:
Before he was president: * The extension of the patriot act * The new FISA legislation
Since he's been president: * Support of the war in afghanistan * Bailout of insurance/auto companies like AIG, GM, Chrysler * Defense of warrantless wiretapping
If another candidate I liked, Ron Paul, had been elected, I'd probably have a different list of things I didn't like that he had done...I imagine that his stance on abortion and homosexuality would probably disagree with mine.
I don't believe in an all-or-nothing politico. You vote for the person who believes in more of things you do and less of the things you don't. You accept that you won't agree with them on everything and you call them on what you disagree with and you hope that by the end of the 4 years your agree-with-total is greater than your disagree-with-total.
The article covered this possibility. The researchers gave amphetamines to the rodents to inhibit their tiredness. The rodents performed just as badly in this situation as well. This test helped rule out the tired aspect of not sleeping.
I give respect to people trying to find answers about how the world and organisms in it work. This researcher may not have found the correct reason for why we dream. However through his research and the spreading of ideas he's helping to move the science along a little bit more. Without trying, we cannot get anywhere.
What real job do you perform that is worthy of more respect?
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe 5-10 years ago there were problems running Linux on some laptops but now a days it generally just works. I've run openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on several Dell (Inspiron and Latitude), one IBM (Lenova) laptop and one Toshiba laptop with minimal or no trouble. A very long time ago (8+ years) I had a Dell Inspiron laptop which had issues with its internal wireless card but I just popped in a PCMCIA wireless card with Linux support until the internal wireless card was supported.
He asked a technical question to people who might know the answer on a technical blog. I don't see the problem here. Your average non-techie probably doesn't download their bank records, import them into a mysql database and play with the data. A techie might. Finding the bank which meets our technical needs is the sort information you might have trouble finding on other forums.
If on the other hand he asked, what bank has the best savings account interest rate or what banks are compatible with Quicken, then by all means flame.
A 3,616 bit password...not bad.
This legislation seems like a heavy-handed solution in search of a non-existent problem. I don't understand the necessity of it. If I'm a network administrator in charge of an ISP why do I need the US government to tell me when to shutoff parts of my network because I or one of my subscribers is under attack? The Internet has carried and withstood many worms, viruses and hackers since its inception.
If the government is concerned about their own network infrastructure, in the event of a cyber attack, why don't they install "kill switches" at the point of ingress into their own networks?
GCC stands for the GNU Compiler Collection. It consists of compilers for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada. Those compilers share a lot of code. Not all GCC programmers know all 6 languages. However they do all know C. What's been decided is that they will now have the option of using C++. All that's left is to decide what subset of C++ features are useful and easy to use effectively for both the GCC programmers who know C++ well and those who don't.
Can we uninvite them now?
What did 11 break? It's broken nothing for me.
SLES 11 HAE is not some proprietary package. It's 100% OSS. It's made up of:
Pacemaker (http://www.clusterlabs.org/)
OpenAIS (http://www.openais.org/doku.php)
DRBD (http://www.drbd.org/)
OCFS2 (http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/)
You can get it here: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=jC1wpkedb7A~
VMware tools DO work with the SLES 11 kernel. You can get them here:
http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.0latest/sles11/index.html
As for security, it adds selinux availability, TPM support, more locked down defaults and a YaST security module for easier configuration.
While it's anecdotal, I've never had a SLES 11 server lock up whereas due to hardware/driver bugs I've had SLES 10 SP2 lockup on new HP hardware plenty of times until we upgraded the kernel.
Except your stop & identify statue only asks someone to identify themselves AKA "My name is X Y." NOT prove their identity which would violate the 4th amendment. Read the majority opinion in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_District_Court_of_Nevada the only reason your stop & identify statute was considered constitutional was because of the slim scope of it. Now that the scope have been expanded expect it to be ruled unconstitutional.
What you linked is consistent with what I said.
It clearly says that treaties do not override the constitution. treaties may trump state rights, but only when there is not language in the constitution prohibiting the treaty.
"...the Supreme Court held that the law was in fact constitutional, noting that the treaties clause of the Constitution (Article VI, clause 2), sometimes known as the "supremacy clause," makes treaties the "supreme law of the land," a finding that trumps any state-level concerns with regard to the provisions of any treaty (though it does not trump other provisions of the constitution)..."
Also Missouri v. Holland was in 1920, since then Reid v. Covert (1957) has made it even more explicit that the Constitution supersedes treaties ratified by the US Senate.
As I understand it, here's the order of law:
Constitution
Treaties ratified by the US Senate
Federal enumerated powers only
States all other powers
The ask slashdot article is about SSH NOT SSL. Session hijacking has nothing to do with SSH.
They are not a loophole. The supreme court has ruled that treaties do not supersede the constitution.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89100044
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/staterights/treaties.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Clause
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=354&page=1
You can't cook an egg with 2 cellphones.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cook_egg_cell_phones.htm
No. The summary is wrong. Obama did not give them diplomatic immunity. The article says so quite clearly. What Obama granted their organization was an exemption from some taxes and customs fees, and that their records cannot be seized.
M-x skynet [No match]
I had to check, just to be sure...
Yes, I'm using binary blobs. I generally use the openSUSE provided NVIDIA repository with its nvidia driver RPMs unless I discover a bug that doesn't work for them.
http://en.opensuse.org/Nvidia contains a 1-click way to install the drivers.
If those fail me, I use the latest drivers from www.nvidia.com
If those fail me, I go to http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606
and download the latest beta driver.
I use openSUSE 11.2 with an Nvidia graphics card (Geforce 285) without problem. What card do you have and what problem did you have?
Perhaps you're not from the US and don't understand how its government works. I'll assume either that you or failed civics class as a child. This country has 3 branches of government. They are designed to have equal power. They provide checks and balances on each other.
A simplistic view of the three branches would be:
Legislative - They make the laws. (Article 1 of the US Constitution)
Executive - They enforce the laws. (Article 2 of the US Constitution)
Judicial - They decide if the enforcement matched law. (Article 3 of the US Constitution)
President Obama has power over the Executive branch.
> And putting legislation online at least five days before it's voted on.
He doesn't put legislation online. He's the leader of the EXECUTIVE branch of government. The LEGISLATIVE branch (not his branch) is responsible for stuff like, you know, legislation. They would be the ones who should put legislation online.
>And allowing congressmen enough time to read legislation rather than ramming it down their throats at 2am.
He doesn't control congressmen. That's not his branch of government. Complain about someone else who actually controls that please.
>And ending backroom politics.
This may be a perfectly valid complaint. It would have been nice if you'd been specific and cited an example though.
>And get rid of the lobbyists - though perhaps I misheard him on that one and he actually said "I promise to hire as many
>lobbyists and absolute freaks and weirdos into my administration as I possibly can".
I think he would argue that people he hired were the best people for the job. Until it can be shown that the way he executes the law of the land is being mishandled due to the people he hired to advise him, I would hold my judgement. Personally I dislike the idea of corporate interests being able to pay for someone to influence my leaders. However, in a free society I don't see how you can prevent lobbyists.
I've always heard that here in Arkansas you must get a Hepatitis vaccine shot in order to work in the food service industry.
I can recommend this as well. On an openSUSE system with broken pulseaudio, I ended up just moving /usr/bin/pulseaudio to /usr/bin/pulseaudio-broken
By default the author's spreadsheet calculates how long it takes to guess a *likely* password based on the NIST model /dev/random when generating their password. Some letters are used more than others. Passwords are usually not perfectly random.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-63-rev1/SP800-63-Rev1_Dec2008.pdf of the amount of entropy in a likely password. If you look at the "Entropy Models" tab of the spreadsheet you'll see more of this information. If you change the spreadsheet to use a "perfect" entropy model it would require 22,926,448,052.7 guesses per second to find an 8 character password utilizing 96 characters within 90 days. Fortunately for hackers, people don't usually cat
I voted for him and I've found plenty that I don't agree with:
Before he was president:
* The extension of the patriot act
* The new FISA legislation
Since he's been president:
* Support of the war in afghanistan
* Bailout of insurance/auto companies like AIG, GM, Chrysler
* Defense of warrantless wiretapping
If another candidate I liked, Ron Paul, had been elected, I'd probably have a different list of things I didn't like that he had done...I imagine that his stance on abortion and homosexuality would probably disagree with mine.
I don't believe in an all-or-nothing politico. You vote for the person who believes in more of things you do and less of the things you don't. You accept that you won't agree with them on everything and you call them on what you disagree with and you hope that by the end of the 4 years your agree-with-total is greater than your disagree-with-total.
Why back in my day we had to post questions to the legs of carrier pigeons. Gosh darn it! We liked it that way!
The article covered this possibility. The researchers gave amphetamines to the rodents to inhibit their tiredness. The rodents performed just as badly in this situation as well. This test helped rule out the tired aspect of not sleeping.
I give respect to people trying to find answers about how the world and organisms in it work. This researcher may not have found the correct reason for why we dream. However through his research and the spreading of ideas he's helping to move the science along a little bit more. Without trying, we cannot get anywhere.
What real job do you perform that is worthy of more respect?
Gopher? Bah! Young whippersnappers! The Internet went downhill with the introduction of DNS!
Why was MySQL chosen as the backend to MediaWiki? What other RDBMs did you test in addition to MySQL and why were they not chosen?