There is a group policy setting to cause these to be flushed when you logout. Highly useful is lots of people use a computer, say if your company has hot desking. Stops a large amount of disk space being burnt up storing profiles.
Or you could just use a DLT/lTO drive with WORM media. Works just fine for appending, no special software needed. Admitedly the drives are not cheap, but it is an easy solution. In fact the WORM media for DLT/LTO where developed specifically for this sort of application.
I would also point out that revolutions that are not peaceful can occur with largely unarmed populations. I would point to the 1989 Romania revolution as a prime example.
I would also add that he gave his mobile phone SIM card to someone who turned out to be a terrorist. It's not like he was picked out at random for no reason and persecuted. He had the misfortune to associate himself with someone that carried out terrorist acts. In such circumstances it was entirely reasonable to bring him in for questioning. That he has been let free shows that the system is working.
Except most if not all fibre channel devices still support arbitrated loops. I have an arbitrated loop at 4Gbps at work hooking up a tape library to a server. I would have been nuts to buy a fibre channel switch for the job.
That is just such complete nonsense. Firstly fibre is not "far" more expensive than copper, it is a bit more expensive. However look at the cost of a 10Gbps switch, and now tell me that the cost of fibre is prohibitive. If you can afford the switch you can sure as hell afford a few fibre patch leads. Not only that I bet it will be CX4 type Infiniband cables which are not cheap, and far more trouble in a rack than a fibre patch lead.
What beats me is why they are bothering with multimode fibre. The cost of stocking both types quickly outweighs the slight increase in cost for single mode.
Funny I have an Optiplex 320 on my desk right now, arrived yesterday from Dell brand new. Still has a PATA optical drive. Now the Optiplex 740/745 are all SATA on the otherhand.
Thing is that in the UK they are f*&ked when it comes to stream ripping. Any sane person stream rips either the Freeview (digital terrestrial TV with absolutely no DRM) version if available (has higher bitrates) or the DAB version. You do end up with an MP2, but it is a perfect digital copy and free of any DRM.
If you want music, you can just stream rip the Freeview music channels, the hits, TMF, and E4 (weekend morning only for E4). Full of music videos but here is the deal while the video itself is not suitable for stream ripping, as it is overlayed with channel graphics and other stuff, the audio is and you get a nice DMR free 192kbps MP2 file with no fades when you demux it from the video. It is dead easy to cookie cutter out the tracks if you are so enclined.
It would take at least a decade to force out the existing DRM free TV and radio.
Obesity is on the rise because average calorie intake is on the rise. Whether it is fructose, sucrose or some other sugar is generally irrelevant. Eat too much and you will put on weight no matter what it is you are eating. If you look at graphs of average calorie intake and compare them to percentage of people who are obese you don't need to do any statistics to see the two are strongly correlated.
While we are at it the over use of energy and resultant sedantry lifestyle. The following picture is just wrong at so many levels and demonstrates much of what is wrong with American society, including the rise of obesity.
Except the USA has signed up to the Berne Convention, and it came into force on 1st March 1989. So while it might not have previously been protected, they are now.
I don't see a thing in that about power consumption. Given that the Geode LX that OLPC are using consumes a mere 0.5W I very much doubt that Intel will match this.
Thing about Stallman's "Right to Read", is that is was inspired by a case where the book in question was illegally purchased. That is the vendor had no right to sell it.
It was a very short time embargo on the Harry Potter book six, so that millions of people's enjoyment of the book was not spoiled by keeping the ending secret till everyone had the *SAME* opertunity to buy and read the book.
It was effectively before the officially sanctioned release date and time a trade secret and was being protected as such. That JKR just a few days later choose to release her trade secret to everyone is immaterial.
Frankly in this case Stallman was a stupid idiot, and I hope should the same situation arise in the next two weeks that those people illegaly divulging any trade secrets in book seven are equally persuded to the full extent of the law to keep their mouths shut.
The thing is that they make a big fuss about not making retroactive changes to the law at least here in the UK where I live. But here they are making a change when it suits them, and it is manifestly unjust.
However it has also occurred to me that there is an issue with any copyright extension. So for example you could complain for example that your VHS video of say Snow White is now changed in copyright terms and sue either the government or Disney to get your money back:-)
The reason this has occurred to me is that I am a big audio book fan. I have purchased quite a number of them, and with all the ones that will currently drop out of copyright within my expected lifetime there was a conscious decision that when the copyrights in both the work (which is generally already expired) and the recording (generally some time when I am retired) I will put these professionally produced recordings up for free somewhere on the internet or equivalent. Now some idiot politician wants to change the rules of the game for censorship purposes in some vague wishy washy notion.
So the music industry want to retroactively change the terms of the license. Thing is we already have already aggreed a contract. In particular I have a number of spoken word audiobooks, the original text of which is long out of copyright. I had a reasonably expectation when I purchased those audiobooks that the copyright on the recording of the books would lapse 50 years after it was made. I have made special note of the dates, and fully intend when the 50 years is up to release these professionally made recordings by leading performers on the internet (or equivalent) free for all.
What gives them the right to change the terms of that implied contract, and can I demand my money back? Alternatively if they have broken the contract can I just ignore it as well?
There was a case of a teacher murdered by some pervert for sexual gratification. He got of on some sort of technicality, and on retrial was found guilty and banged up for life.
Thing is, it transpired at the original trial that just a few hours before he murdered the teacher he had been view violent pornographic material on the internet. This is the background to the new law.
They are traffic monitoring radar things. They just count cars and how fast they are moving, and relay this information back to some central place. This is then used to issue traffic alerts if you have the right bit of kit in your car.
Yeah tell me about it. However you can print it once. Let's just assume that I print it to a network attached PostScript printer. Except it really is not a network attached PostScript printer but a small program running on a Linux box saying, thank you very much and saving the entire stream to a file. At which point you can fire up your favourite PostScript distiller and turn it right back into a PDF.
Bearing in mind that health outcomes are heavily corrolated to wealth, it is *much* worse than that. The richest soci-economic group in the USA has worse health outcomes than the poorest in the UK despite being many many times better off!!!
There is another problem with the US system, and that is the huge amounts of money being spent pushing paper around the system so the hospitals can get payed. Around 10 years ago I saw a report that indicated that the USA spent more money pushing paper for bills around the system than the UK spent in total on the health system. Now the population of the USA is 6~7 times higher than the UK but still that amounts to staggering waste. At the time the figure was something like 60 billion USD per annum spent on pushing paper...
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There is a group policy setting to cause these to be flushed when you logout. Highly useful is lots of people use a computer, say if your company has hot desking. Stops a large amount of disk space being burnt up storing profiles.
Or you could just use a DLT/lTO drive with WORM media. Works just fine for appending, no special software needed. Admitedly the drives are not cheap, but it is an easy solution. In fact the WORM media for DLT/LTO where developed specifically for this sort of application.
Not only that it was the Privy Council, not the Law Lords, but hey that's splitting hairs :-)
I would also point out that revolutions that are not peaceful can occur with largely unarmed populations. I would point to the 1989 Romania revolution as a prime example.
I would also add that he gave his mobile phone SIM card to someone who turned out to be a terrorist. It's not like he was picked out at random for no reason and persecuted. He had the misfortune to associate himself with someone that carried out terrorist acts. In such circumstances it was entirely reasonable to bring him in for questioning. That he has been let free shows that the system is working.
You do realize that for roughly the first 20 years Microsoft did not document FAT either, and Linux support comes from reverse engineering efforts?
:-)
I guess that you also don't use Samba either
Except most if not all fibre channel devices still support arbitrated loops. I have an arbitrated loop at 4Gbps at work hooking up a tape library to a server. I would have been nuts to buy a fibre channel switch for the job.
That is just such complete nonsense. Firstly fibre is not "far" more expensive than copper, it is a bit more expensive. However look at the cost of a 10Gbps switch, and now tell me that the cost of fibre is prohibitive. If you can afford the switch you can sure as hell afford a few fibre patch leads. Not only that I bet it will be CX4 type Infiniband cables which are not cheap, and far more trouble in a rack than a fibre patch lead.
What beats me is why they are bothering with multimode fibre. The cost of stocking both types quickly outweighs the slight increase in cost for single mode.
Funny I have an Optiplex 320 on my desk right now, arrived yesterday from Dell brand new. Still has a PATA optical drive. Now the Optiplex 740/745 are all SATA on the otherhand.
You also need to file more patents for over "wireless" as well.
Thing is that in the UK they are f*&ked when it comes to stream ripping. Any sane person stream rips either the Freeview (digital terrestrial TV with absolutely no DRM) version if available (has higher bitrates) or the DAB version. You do end up with an MP2, but it is a perfect digital copy and free of any DRM.
If you want music, you can just stream rip the Freeview music channels, the hits, TMF, and E4 (weekend morning only for E4). Full of music videos but here is the deal while the video itself is not suitable for stream ripping, as it is overlayed with channel graphics and other stuff, the audio is and you get a nice DMR free 192kbps MP2 file with no fades when you demux it from the video. It is dead easy to cookie cutter out the tracks if you are so enclined.
It would take at least a decade to force out the existing DRM free TV and radio.
Obesity is on the rise because average calorie intake is on the rise. Whether it is fructose, sucrose or some other sugar is generally irrelevant. Eat too much and you will put on weight no matter what it is you are eating. If you look at graphs of average calorie intake and compare them to percentage of people who are obese you don't need to do any statistics to see the two are strongly correlated.
While we are at it the over use of energy and resultant sedantry lifestyle. The following picture is just wrong at so many levels and demonstrates much of what is wrong with American society, including the rise of obesity.
Only in America.jpeg
You will find surpize in the OED I think you will find. It might not be a common spelling, does not make it wrong though.
Except the USA has signed up to the Berne Convention, and it came into force on 1st March 1989. So while it might not have previously been protected, they are now.
I don't see a thing in that about power consumption. Given that the Geode LX that OLPC are using consumes a mere 0.5W I very much doubt that Intel will match this.
Good job we had a captured Enigma machine in autumn 1939 then :-)
Thing about Stallman's "Right to Read", is that is was inspired by a case where the book in question was illegally purchased. That is the vendor had no right to sell it.
It was a very short time embargo on the Harry Potter book six, so that millions of people's enjoyment of the book was not spoiled by keeping the ending secret till everyone had the *SAME* opertunity to buy and read the book.
It was effectively before the officially sanctioned release date and time a trade secret and was being protected as such. That JKR just a few days later choose to release her trade secret to everyone is immaterial.
Frankly in this case Stallman was a stupid idiot, and I hope should the same situation arise in the next two weeks that those people illegaly divulging any trade secrets in book seven are equally persuded to the full extent of the law to keep their mouths shut.
The thing is that they make a big fuss about not making retroactive changes to the law at least here in the UK where I live. But here they are making a change when it suits them, and it is manifestly unjust.
:-)
However it has also occurred to me that there is an issue with any copyright extension. So for example you could complain for example that your VHS video of say Snow White is now changed in copyright terms and sue either the government or Disney to get your money back
The reason this has occurred to me is that I am a big audio book fan. I have purchased quite a number of them, and with all the ones that will currently drop out of copyright within my expected lifetime there was a conscious decision that when the copyrights in both the work (which is generally already expired) and the recording (generally some time when I am retired) I will put these professionally produced recordings up for free somewhere on the internet or equivalent. Now some idiot politician wants to change the rules of the game for censorship purposes in some vague wishy washy notion.
So the music industry want to retroactively change the terms of the license. Thing is we already have already aggreed a contract. In particular I have a number of spoken word audiobooks, the original text of which is long out of copyright. I had a reasonably expectation when I purchased those audiobooks that the copyright on the recording of the books would lapse 50 years after it was made. I have made special note of the dates, and fully intend when the 50 years is up to release these professionally made recordings by leading performers on the internet (or equivalent) free for all.
What gives them the right to change the terms of that implied contract, and can I demand my money back? Alternatively if they have broken the contract can I just ignore it as well?
There was a case of a teacher murdered by some pervert for sexual gratification. He got of on some sort of technicality, and on retrial was found guilty and banged up for life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6272330
Thing is, it transpired at the original trial that just a few hours before he murdered the teacher he had been view violent pornographic material on the internet. This is the background to the new law.
It's a Terry Prattchet Discworld novel. One of the more recent ones.
r ry-Pratchett/dp/0552149438/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/026-381 5619-2012456?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183673539&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Postal-Discworld-Te
They are traffic monitoring radar things. They just count cars and how fast they are moving, and relay this information back to some central place. This is then used to issue traffic alerts if you have the right bit of kit in your car.
Yeah tell me about it. However you can print it once. Let's just assume that I print it to a network attached PostScript printer. Except it really is not a network attached PostScript printer but a small program running on a Linux box saying, thank you very much and saving the entire stream to a file. At which point you can fire up your favourite PostScript distiller and turn it right back into a PDF.
Oh and by the way you can use Acrobat 8 now.
Bearing in mind that health outcomes are heavily corrolated to wealth, it is *much* worse than that. The richest soci-economic group in the USA has worse health outcomes than the poorest in the UK despite being many many times better off!!!
There is another problem with the US system, and that is the huge amounts of money being spent pushing paper around the system so the hospitals can get payed. Around 10 years ago I saw a report that indicated that the USA spent more money pushing paper for bills around the system than the UK spent in total on the health system. Now the population of the USA is 6~7 times higher than the UK but still that amounts to staggering waste. At the time the figure was something like 60 billion USD per annum spent on pushing paper...