I like to use screw-drivers as crowbars some times, unfortunately, when the forces get too high, they bend and break. Somebody should make me a stronger screwdriver.
Anyone who'd read any of the reviews would've known well enough to stay away from this chipset, even without the product flaw.
In the grand Intel tradition, this new series of hardware is both slower & more expensive than the previous generation, not to mention that you can't actually find any PCI Express video cards yet. I don't really see too many of these things floating around in the hands of actual customers yet.
Exactly. Even if you can't fully populate the wiki, if you put enough stuff in there that the next guy will find it useful enough to keep putting info in, you've improved the system.
I work for the engineering department's IT office and the campus computer people, even without worying about dorm machines, has their hands full. The public labs are -constantly- getting infected & flooding the network with garbage. I wouldn't trust these guys to format a floppy, let alone manage my system.
OTOH, if they can keep the rest of their network pretty clean & the dorms are the last thing, they really only have 2 options - firewall the hell out of the dorms or try to force users to maintain their own systems. IDSes are of limited use when a new bug hits (or hits after 5p on a Friday) and that's when you're paying the kind of money it takes to get competent people; with the kind of budget most colleges are willing to spend on IT staff (especially when it's something as un-sexy as a liberal arts school), you're lucky if they don't flag your counterstrike packets as viral.
The problem with a system like this is that no matter how secure the underlying mechanism is, by making it so that any random site could possibly be using it for authentication, you have no idea who is legit & who is simply harvesting passwords.
With Passport, you know you're only dealing with big-name sites that are going to be linked from MSN.com, but here you have to wonder about the chain of trust.
I had a few C=64 cartriges with various bits of software on them; there were plenty of carts other than fastloaders. They were never emensely popular, but they were there.
On top of that, any real solution would require you to have full access to class registration data. Considering the way most schools treat their IT people, you're not going to get this.
I'm trying to figure out why this needs to be done in the first place... If it's to prevent students from surfing during class but still allow them to type notes, you're fighting a losing battle. If it's to allow a professor to have laptops used (something like matlab) during a test but prevent cheating, you're fighting a losing battle.
This is the kind of thing that's likely not even really a problem and just bothers one specific professor who is probably in the English department and doesn't have any idea of the complexity of solving it & the ease of which any solution could be worked around.
What kind of crackhead decided that Gentoo for an embedded device was a good idea?
I mean, for a static box that does one job & doesn't need any user configuration, what does Gentoo give you? Most of the functionality of Gentoo classifies as 'bloat' on this kind of device.
The same could be said for any real distro, of course.
You'd think there would be some sort of hole in this. Installing software without notifying the user or giving them the option of saying no has to go against something.
For one, they lose the protections that a standard EULA gives publishers (the 'you can't sue me if something's wrong with this software. ever' clause) and considering the level of ass covering that goes on in corporate America, I find it hard to believe that this goes on...
When it comes to consumer goods, does it really matter how much money the top 1% has? Just because somebody has 5 bajillion dollars in the bank doesn't mean that they have any reason to buy 10 copies of some random CD. I understand that, as a display of wealth, The Rich are known to buy multiples of things, but I don't think this applies to things like CDs, movies and the like...
You've obviously never worked with win32. We're talking a half-dozen library calls and about the same number of strange handle types & structures to do something simple like get a directory listing & then look at the dates on files. MFC and.NET may be more usable but they still have an underpinning on an API that was designed to be backwards compatable with 16 bit windows and the 16 bit Windows API was an outgrowth of the structure of a large assembly program rather than being designed with any sort of usability in mind.
From the sound of things, I doubt that the guy who was hosting everything would have much of a problem handing over the domain to somebody who'd be willing to put the server back up or at least provide redirection to the new homes of the sites.
Face it; PHP is the 'slower' little brother of Perl.
No language that puts the ENTIRE standard library in the global namespace is suited for actually writing applications. I mean, if you're going to stuff your namespace full of crap, can't you at least make the naming conventions consistant?
Get drunk & meet girls your freshman year of college; if you're half as bright as you say you are, you'll have plenty of free time & it's the perfect time to break out of the anti-social rut you were in in highschool. I suggest trying to do all those things that the 'other' people were doing in HS that you acted like you were better than.
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You mean they're not just using this?
No, spammers can be as dishonest as they wish. They'll have to be unbelievably smart to get around this.
How long until somebody adds a stamp-accelerating DSP to one of these and completely blows the computational limitations out of the water?
I like to use screw-drivers as crowbars some times, unfortunately, when the forces get too high, they bend and break. Somebody should make me a stronger screwdriver.
Anyone who'd read any of the reviews would've known well enough to stay away from this chipset, even without the product flaw.
In the grand Intel tradition, this new series of hardware is both slower & more expensive than the previous generation, not to mention that you can't actually find any PCI Express video cards yet. I don't really see too many of these things floating around in the hands of actual customers yet.
Exactly. Even if you can't fully populate the wiki, if you put enough stuff in there that the next guy will find it useful enough to keep putting info in, you've improved the system.
What's the state of the public computer labs?
I work for the engineering department's IT office and the campus computer people, even without worying about dorm machines, has their hands full. The public labs are -constantly- getting infected & flooding the network with garbage. I wouldn't trust these guys to format a floppy, let alone manage my system.
OTOH, if they can keep the rest of their network pretty clean & the dorms are the last thing, they really only have 2 options - firewall the hell out of the dorms or try to force users to maintain their own systems. IDSes are of limited use when a new bug hits (or hits after 5p on a Friday) and that's when you're paying the kind of money it takes to get competent people; with the kind of budget most colleges are willing to spend on IT staff (especially when it's something as un-sexy as a liberal arts school), you're lucky if they don't flag your counterstrike packets as viral.
The problem with a system like this is that no matter how secure the underlying mechanism is, by making it so that any random site could possibly be using it for authentication, you have no idea who is legit & who is simply harvesting passwords.
With Passport, you know you're only dealing with big-name sites that are going to be linked from MSN.com, but here you have to wonder about the chain of trust.
I had a few C=64 cartriges with various bits of software on them; there were plenty of carts other than fastloaders. They were never emensely popular, but they were there.
Yeah..
nothing like a graph that makes a 10% difference look like a 90% gap.
On top of that, any real solution would require you to have full access to class registration data. Considering the way most schools treat their IT people, you're not going to get this.
I'm trying to figure out why this needs to be done in the first place... If it's to prevent students from surfing during class but still allow them to type notes, you're fighting a losing battle. If it's to allow a professor to have laptops used (something like matlab) during a test but prevent cheating, you're fighting a losing battle.
This is the kind of thing that's likely not even really a problem and just bothers one specific professor who is probably in the English department and doesn't have any idea of the complexity of solving it & the ease of which any solution could be worked around.
What kind of crackhead decided that Gentoo for an embedded device was a good idea?
I mean, for a static box that does one job & doesn't need any user configuration, what does Gentoo give you? Most of the functionality of Gentoo classifies as 'bloat' on this kind of device.
The same could be said for any real distro, of course.
Isn't it easier to just not pay for the music?
You'd think there would be some sort of hole in this. Installing software without notifying the user or giving them the option of saying no has to go against something.
For one, they lose the protections that a standard EULA gives publishers (the 'you can't sue me if something's wrong with this software. ever' clause) and considering the level of ass covering that goes on in corporate America, I find it hard to believe that this goes on...
When it comes to consumer goods, does it really matter how much money the top 1% has? Just because somebody has 5 bajillion dollars in the bank doesn't mean that they have any reason to buy 10 copies of some random CD. I understand that, as a display of wealth, The Rich are known to buy multiples of things, but I don't think this applies to things like CDs, movies and the like...
You've obviously never worked with win32. We're talking a half-dozen library calls and about the same number of strange handle types & structures to do something simple like get a directory listing & then look at the dates on files. MFC and .NET may be more usable but they still have an underpinning on an API that was designed to be backwards compatable with 16 bit windows and the 16 bit Windows API was an outgrowth of the structure of a large assembly program rather than being designed with any sort of usability in mind.
WTF?
Slashdot didn't parse my URL +(
Don't you mean
images.google.com is your friend.?
From the sound of things, I doubt that the guy who was hosting everything would have much of a problem handing over the domain to somebody who'd be willing to put the server back up or at least provide redirection to the new homes of the sites.
Face it; PHP is the 'slower' little brother of Perl.
No language that puts the ENTIRE standard library in the global namespace is suited for actually writing applications. I mean, if you're going to stuff your namespace full of crap, can't you at least make the naming conventions consistant?
For the love of god, stop posting & upmodding freecache links to webpages. It doesn't work like that.
If you've been following things lately, Intel's P4 offerings have been cranking out far more heat than anything AMD's got comming of the line.
Nice job. You quote the previous poster, write 5 new words and plagarize a paragraph from TFA and get modded to 5.
...but which ones work under Linux?
Aye.
Get drunk & meet girls your freshman year of college; if you're half as bright as you say you are, you'll have plenty of free time & it's the perfect time to break out of the anti-social rut you were in in highschool. I suggest trying to do all those things that the 'other' people were doing in HS that you acted like you were better than.