I *do* blame Microsoft, they created their OS with so little security that the early versions didn't even HAVE limited users. This meant that for nearly a decade, software developers were accustomed to have god-like rights on the machine. Linux have ALWAYS had a root account that isn't used for day-to-day activities doesn't suffer from that because the unix guys (back in the day) though "hmm, maybe every application on here SHOULDN'T be able to crash the mothership..."
It was Microsoft's lack of forethought and then their laid-back approach when it started to become an issue. We knew in window 2000 that this was going to be a SERIOUS issue, yet they waited until VISTA to even make the default user non-admin.
Developers may be party to blame, but Microsoft was the one that gave them those godly powers in the early days.
Yes, but moving the mat in/out of your work area is even worse than moving 1 hand over to the mouse. I'm talking about a texture mat that goes completely smooth in "mouse mode" then has raised areas when in keyboard mode.
But if you can show that setting a precedent of "indexing being infringement" the courts may realize they are about to outlaw search engines in general. Not only does this make the judge think twice, but shines a bit of a light on Google prodding them to possible speak up on your behalf before it becomes THEIR problem as well.
It's actually a neat tactic once you think it through.
I'm waiting for someone to combine the evoMouse with the laserKeyboard from thinkgeek. Just add a dynamic texture mat (for textile feedback) and I'd be happy!
Why oh WHY would you need a mouse on a rack-mount server?!? I can see a keyboard for the installation phase or debugging (loss of network), but a MOUSE?
So why isn't your screen name your full name and address then? That's what facebook attaches to everything you say on THEIR site. In fact, they attach your name to everything other people say TO you!
Yeah, had there been INTERNET at our location, there wouldn't have been a problem. We were literally running the entire station of generators, we were lucky to have flush toilets at this location!
Wow, somone's having a bad day. For your information.
A) I had no idea wmplayer was his only media player until we got there
B) We had NO internet access on site
C) I did not have any linux boot medias on me.
It would not have been nearly as much of a PITA had we had internet, but we didn't.
Ran into this myself at an event we were running. I had asked a friend to bring a laptop (he runs window) for people to listen to songs with so they could select one to be used at the next station (on my linux machine). It wasn't until after copying the library over and him trying a few songs that we discovered there was NO flac support what-so-ever on his machine. Turns out the *only* way to play flac on a windows machine is with FooBar (audio program) or VLC. PITA!
Maybe in the US, but here in Canada we have a recycling program. Every time you buy a piece of electronic equipment, a recycling fee is added to your bill. This means that we can now take ANY electronic device to the recyclers for FREE. If you have a *large* quantity, you can even arrange for them to pick it up, for FREE! It's very similar to the oil situation, almost any gas station with a garage will take used oil for free and send it to the recyclers, because you've already paid the recycling fee when you bought it.
It has actually been tested in Canada a few times and MANY of these agreements are NOT enforceable. There are *very* specific conditions the website has to adhere to in order for the agreement to be enforceable.
HAHAHA. Says the guy who's country created the patriot act! American VPS companies have been losing lots of money because people don't want to put their data on a server in a country where the government can just go "This server is running on the same hardware as someone who MAY have sent a secret message to someone in IRAQ with a picture of a child, thus we are confiscating everything!"
Don't forget, they'll report your torrenting the series as $199.80 in lost revenue in their lobbying to the government, when in fact they only lost a POTENTIAL $19.80 (what you were willing to pay for it, had they offered)!
A little more room maybe, but there is still room with the 2-party system. What is stopping the US and Russia from teaming up and wiping another country off the map? Just because YOUR country can't be destroyed (I'm guessing you are from the US), doesn't make any of the OTHER countries feel very safe.
Please don't compare a notebook used primarily for school work (that usually gets handed into the teacher on a regular basis anyways) to a phone that is used for everything from surfing the internet, texting your girl/boy friend, talking to your grandparents and storing MANY photos of family/friends.
Schools are not allowed to search your backpack (or locker in most countries) unless public safety is in danger (suspected gun/knife, etc), in which case the POLICE are called in to perform the search.
Actually, back in the day Apple was a very NICE company. Their products even came with circuit diagrams and hacking instructions. It was later on that they took on this whole BS "You don't own anything you buy" attitude.
Diaspora can be installed by anyone (and linked to the cloud), which means you could rent a VPS or install a home server and install it on that. It's basically facebook but
A) Controlled by a profit-obsessed megalomaniac
B) Open-Source (no hidden BS stuff)
C) In YOUR hands, so you can do backups/proper deletions, etc
D) Distributed, your content is on YOUR server (or a rented/borrowed on).
It's like Blogger vs Wordpress. Sure they both have free subscription options, but with wordpress you can run it on your OWN hardware.
Because 99% of people don't realize that a photo that looks fine on your computer or TV (which honestly have abysmal resolutions) look like utter CRAP when printed. It's amazing that people still can't wrap their heads around that fact.
Just how much moisture do you think there is in a pc tower? Unless you are leaving it off for extended periods of time, the temperature in that thing is going to dry it out rather quickly.
I'm not sure if you fully understand what a "zombie" process is. A zombie process is a process that has ended, but the parent process (high MISSION CRITICAL application) has not "closed" the process yet. Killing the process tree would take down the mission-critical app. rm'ing the process would allow a new process (possibly not owned by said app) to start and if the app tried to eventually close or even check that process, it would segfault the entire app WITHOUT that 10-15 minutes notice.
To all the people against open source (probably few in this crowd), this is a PRIME example of why close-source is bad. Even if this guy's company was not allowed to redistribute the software (like a normal software license), had they been given the code, he probably could have fixed the bug in a fraction of the time he's spent dealing with it. And the next time the system was forced to reboot, BOOM throw in the fixed binaries!
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I *do* blame Microsoft, they created their OS with so little security that the early versions didn't even HAVE limited users. This meant that for nearly a decade, software developers were accustomed to have god-like rights on the machine. Linux have ALWAYS had a root account that isn't used for day-to-day activities doesn't suffer from that because the unix guys (back in the day) though "hmm, maybe every application on here SHOULDN'T be able to crash the mothership..."
It was Microsoft's lack of forethought and then their laid-back approach when it started to become an issue. We knew in window 2000 that this was going to be a SERIOUS issue, yet they waited until VISTA to even make the default user non-admin.
Developers may be party to blame, but Microsoft was the one that gave them those godly powers in the early days.
Yes, but moving the mat in/out of your work area is even worse than moving 1 hand over to the mouse. I'm talking about a texture mat that goes completely smooth in "mouse mode" then has raised areas when in keyboard mode.
But if you can show that setting a precedent of "indexing being infringement" the courts may realize they are about to outlaw search engines in general. Not only does this make the judge think twice, but shines a bit of a light on Google prodding them to possible speak up on your behalf before it becomes THEIR problem as well.
It's actually a neat tactic once you think it through.
I'm waiting for someone to combine the evoMouse with the laserKeyboard from thinkgeek. Just add a dynamic texture mat (for textile feedback) and I'd be happy!
Why oh WHY would you need a mouse on a rack-mount server?!? I can see a keyboard for the installation phase or debugging (loss of network), but a MOUSE?
So why isn't your screen name your full name and address then? That's what facebook attaches to everything you say on THEIR site. In fact, they attach your name to everything other people say TO you!
So ... Windows users need not worry? :P
Wow, they sure charge a lot for tat extra TB. The 2TB versions are about half the price.
Yeah, had there been INTERNET at our location, there wouldn't have been a problem. We were literally running the entire station of generators, we were lucky to have flush toilets at this location!
Wow, somone's having a bad day. For your information.
A) I had no idea wmplayer was his only media player until we got there
B) We had NO internet access on site
C) I did not have any linux boot medias on me.
It would not have been nearly as much of a PITA had we had internet, but we didn't.
Ran into this myself at an event we were running. I had asked a friend to bring a laptop (he runs window) for people to listen to songs with so they could select one to be used at the next station (on my linux machine). It wasn't until after copying the library over and him trying a few songs that we discovered there was NO flac support what-so-ever on his machine. Turns out the *only* way to play flac on a windows machine is with FooBar (audio program) or VLC. PITA!
I fail to see how TOS agreements being unenforceable is bad, or even *applies* to your statement...
Maybe in the US, but here in Canada we have a recycling program. Every time you buy a piece of electronic equipment, a recycling fee is added to your bill. This means that we can now take ANY electronic device to the recyclers for FREE. If you have a *large* quantity, you can even arrange for them to pick it up, for FREE! It's very similar to the oil situation, almost any gas station with a garage will take used oil for free and send it to the recyclers, because you've already paid the recycling fee when you bought it.
It has actually been tested in Canada a few times and MANY of these agreements are NOT enforceable. There are *very* specific conditions the website has to adhere to in order for the agreement to be enforceable.
HAHAHA. Says the guy who's country created the patriot act! American VPS companies have been losing lots of money because people don't want to put their data on a server in a country where the government can just go "This server is running on the same hardware as someone who MAY have sent a secret message to someone in IRAQ with a picture of a child, thus we are confiscating everything!"
Don't forget, they'll report your torrenting the series as $199.80 in lost revenue in their lobbying to the government, when in fact they only lost a POTENTIAL $19.80 (what you were willing to pay for it, had they offered)!
A little more room maybe, but there is still room with the 2-party system. What is stopping the US and Russia from teaming up and wiping another country off the map? Just because YOUR country can't be destroyed (I'm guessing you are from the US), doesn't make any of the OTHER countries feel very safe.
Please don't compare a notebook used primarily for school work (that usually gets handed into the teacher on a regular basis anyways) to a phone that is used for everything from surfing the internet, texting your girl/boy friend, talking to your grandparents and storing MANY photos of family/friends.
Schools are not allowed to search your backpack (or locker in most countries) unless public safety is in danger (suspected gun/knife, etc), in which case the POLICE are called in to perform the search.
Actually, back in the day Apple was a very NICE company. Their products even came with circuit diagrams and hacking instructions. It was later on that they took on this whole BS "You don't own anything you buy" attitude.
Except the photos other people post. Unless you can convince all your friends to ALSO keep local copies, those photos will be lost forever as well.
Diaspora can be installed by anyone (and linked to the cloud), which means you could rent a VPS or install a home server and install it on that. It's basically facebook but
A) Controlled by a profit-obsessed megalomaniac
B) Open-Source (no hidden BS stuff)
C) In YOUR hands, so you can do backups/proper deletions, etc
D) Distributed, your content is on YOUR server (or a rented/borrowed on).
It's like Blogger vs Wordpress. Sure they both have free subscription options, but with wordpress you can run it on your OWN hardware.
Because 99% of people don't realize that a photo that looks fine on your computer or TV (which honestly have abysmal resolutions) look like utter CRAP when printed. It's amazing that people still can't wrap their heads around that fact.
She may not know how it works, but I'm DAMN sure she knows there's a chance she won't see that episode again unless she records it!
Just how much moisture do you think there is in a pc tower? Unless you are leaving it off for extended periods of time, the temperature in that thing is going to dry it out rather quickly.
I'm not sure if you fully understand what a "zombie" process is. A zombie process is a process that has ended, but the parent process (high MISSION CRITICAL application) has not "closed" the process yet. Killing the process tree would take down the mission-critical app. rm'ing the process would allow a new process (possibly not owned by said app) to start and if the app tried to eventually close or even check that process, it would segfault the entire app WITHOUT that 10-15 minutes notice.
To all the people against open source (probably few in this crowd), this is a PRIME example of why close-source is bad. Even if this guy's company was not allowed to redistribute the software (like a normal software license), had they been given the code, he probably could have fixed the bug in a fraction of the time he's spent dealing with it. And the next time the system was forced to reboot, BOOM throw in the fixed binaries!