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Actually, that's something that disappointed me a lot - I guess I didn't bother to consult a map or guide, and never found it 'by chance.' Therefore, I was rather bummed to learn of the NetBSD toaster *after* I got back. I would have loved to have see the Debian & Mozilla folks as well...oh well... I still thought it was a pretty good show - an improvement from a small decline in the past. Heck, I thought the improvement of some personnel was a pretty good indication that there's some more money flowing into the Linux field.;)
Go figure - I'm right handed, but mostly ambidextrous these days, and am reading/. using my mouse with my left hand, with the buttons oriented as normal. It just works better on my desk that way, and gives me fewer RSI issues (I even find that I use the mouse better with my right hand when holding it straight whilst to the left).
I have a Nextel, and would have to disagree with your call for the complete removal of PTT. Consumers should not be using Nextels - there is *no* question about that. I really do not understand why the hell anyone would spend $80/mo on a Nextel for personal use. I knew a few people who did that, and was annoyed by their stupid use of them.
On the other hand, my Nextel is for business use, and it is invaluable at times. It's called "Direct Connect" for a reason - if I had to wait for a full connect via a regular phone, every single time I needed to reach someone, for a brief confirmation of something, I would definitely be less productive, as would my colleagues. However, if I had to call for a single feature's removal, it would be the "Alert" - oh how I hate that thing. (The/only/ thing it's useful for is finding your phone if you leave it someone and forget precisely where it's located (under a pile of papers.))
Not addressing the precise technical comments here (I think others have done a good job of that already), I'll add that I've run very thorough data recovery programs on drives that have been wiped with DBAN. Many hours of scanning turned up 0 usable bytes of data. I have a nice floppy disk sitting on my desk with red lettering "DANGER: DBAN HD Wipe Disk!" Very useful stuff.
Frankly, I think Google Maps' Hybrid Mode is much better than Google Earth's street mode. It's so perfectly clear - that was the thing that immediately won my adoration of Google Maps when it came out...I immediately recognized just how much it eat the pants off stuff like MapQuest -- and of course, the smooth scrolling and zooming. Google Earth is pretty awesome, but: a. I can only use it at work (I run Linux & OS X at home); b. It's extremely sluggish sometimes (not sure if it's congestion or RAM/CPU availability on my machine at times); c. the streets don't seem to be labelled nearly as well as Google Maps. Heck, I'd really like it if Google Maps could be integrated into Google Earth - I don't need to see satellite imagery 100% of the time. These faults excepted, I must admit that Google Earth is loads of fun to play with when it works well.
Am I the only person who found it both funny and sick at the same time that their video is hosted at microsoft.com/winme? Apparently that URL has been repurposed for media releases, but it kind of caught me surprise.
Well, I was thinking about that a little bit, and just realized one possible answer for it. The only catch - it requires technical competency (or a Firefox extension to make it easier). Assuming the page with the picture is loaded off BoA's SSL protected site, the padlock icon will appear, and the URL will be from their site. MITM attack, you say? Well, that's only possible if the site you're actually connected to is a phishing domain, as HTTPS uses signed certificates, and you can check the credentials contained in them that your browser presents to you. As far as I know, it should be impossible to spoof that - you could certainly have a close match in a spoofed SSL certificate, but if you know what the domain is supposed to be, you can say without a doubt that it is coming from the server in question. Of course, if the [bank] site chose to be lazy, and transmit parts in HTTP, it would be rather hard to tell the difference. Also, if the coding of the page is poor, it might be possible for XSS attacks.
*shrug* I'm still not looking forward to using BoA - I'm a happy Fleet customer, damn it!
I respect BitTorrent, and think it's a pretty damn good system*. However, I strongly disagree with the model of P2P for official file distribution as "the only way to go." I cannot fathom why a paying customer should have to help defer the costs of a company w.r.t. bandwidth. Frankly, the Terms of Service of many ISPs may disallow the practice of file sharing, and in particular, for any commerical use. If a company is going to sell a product to customers that will require heavy downloads, then they must budget for a distributed, high bandwidth system.
*It's certainly helped me out for downloading Knoppix a few times in the past. (And yes, I've seeded it many times over. No, I do not use it for anything that isn't FL/OSS.)
It's you.:-)
Seriously, it worked without a flaw for me on FF1.04 at work on XPSP2. I'll see how it works on Deer Park Alpha 1 on OS X 10.3.9 when I get home.
As some of the replies to your post will indicate, careful setting of permission for some of these shoddily coded apps will let you run them as non-admin users. NOT true for Palm Desktop, though. If anyone can tell me how to do this for the latest version, I'd be quite grateful. I told one of my users that he simply couldn't run it, as we do not give admin rights, and the new version doesn't run with permission tweaking. The old one could be installed as follows: Make the user an admin; install as that user; take the user back to non-admin status; give the user "Full control" over the folder. I spent nearly an hour on the phone with Palm tech. support in India trying to get an answer out of them, pausing for the script-reader to ask his boss questions, and got the answer that it simply can't be done. I've tried everything that I could think of, observing the interactions with Regmon & NTFilMon, to no avail. What really gets me is that these companies advertise their products as being "Designed for Windows 2000/XP" - if this were the case, they would have been designed for proper user rights!
I've never tried this on XP Home, but I've done it on a Dell consumer targetted build of XP Pro. Go into Explorer's "Folder Options" (sorry, I'm at home, working on my Linux & Mac boxen - XP's already a distant memory...that I'll revisit at work again tomorrrow). At the bottom of the list of options (the 3rd tab, IIRC), there is a choice "Use Simple File Sharing." Uncheck that box, and you'll have full ACLs again.
Well, after seeing this news, I looked to see if Google has fixed a bug of mine yet*, and they have not done so yet, *but* the big thing that I immediately noticed was the addition of directional arrows for one-way streets. I then proceeded to take a glance at 10021 to see how that showed up, and was pleased.:)
*I noticed and reported a missing DLR station on their map of England - it's still not there, despite the nice directional arrows on/Station Road/.
Not true. The *login* page is https. However, unless you log in through https://gmail.google.com/gmail you will get redirected to http://gmail.google.com/gmail once the authentication is complete. Naturally, at this point, you can just append an 's' to the protocol name, but this is sloppy, and data may have already been transferred that you don't want passing through in the clear.
P.S. Many companies block all the free webmail sites to keep people from bypassing their filters.
Agreed. For my end users, this is a *must*. But man...I've come to really hate the stuff myself - it slows me down quite a bit...and really sucks when I'm doing analyses of virus-containing e-mail or the like. I mean, can't McAfee/tell/ that I'm a white-hat carefully examining stuff, and give me my room? [smirk]
I've also set up a white-listed directory to do my heavy work from, as a Perl app of mine gets slowed down tremendously while working on a few gig worth of large log files. It seems that on-access scans slow down the execution of `stat` a whole lot (or something closely related), and this bogs down cygwin's `ls` as well as doing "my @foo=;"
It pains me to hear that this disease of a product is now on Linux - I can possibly understand a need for it, but I simply hate the performance lag, particularly when it's unnecessary. (I've never gotten a virus on my Windows box at work, and definitely never gotten such a thing on my Linux boxen or Mac at home - it's a matter of caution.)
Most sensible people know this, but try telling that to the people who actually collect the items. I'm pretty sure you'll find there are some restrictions at place that the paper recycling collection only takes intact paper, or the like. That, or it all gets thrown into the garbage, even if it's in the correct receptacle.
You might want to take a look at Jesse Ruderman's "How'd I Get Here" extension that supports Firefox 1.1's extended history support. I don't think it has graphical thumbnails, but then again, I don't think I'd really want that much clutter (IMHO, YMMV).
Heh...sorry, I'm a vi user - I don't have any of these problems. Seeing as the Caps Lock key is an utter waste of an otherwise good key, though, I've mapped it to Escape.:)
Um...I don't get it. If it's mentioned in the same breath as goatse & tubgirl, why in the world would you *try* to find it? I mean, really, you got what you asked for, don't you think?
*sigh* This is a sad day for/. - seeing the number of posts around this, I'm stunned that people would 'fall' for such a thing.
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Actually, that's something that disappointed me a lot - I guess I didn't bother to consult a map or guide, and never found it 'by chance.' Therefore, I was rather bummed to learn of the NetBSD toaster *after* I got back. I would have loved to have see the Debian & Mozilla folks as well...oh well... I still thought it was a pretty good show - an improvement from a small decline in the past. Heck, I thought the improvement of some personnel was a pretty good indication that there's some more money flowing into the Linux field. ;)
Go figure - I'm right handed, but mostly ambidextrous these days, and am reading /. using my mouse with my left hand, with the buttons oriented as normal. It just works better on my desk that way, and gives me fewer RSI issues (I even find that I use the mouse better with my right hand when holding it straight whilst to the left).
I have a Nextel, and would have to disagree with your call for the complete removal of PTT. Consumers should not be using Nextels - there is *no* question about that. I really do not understand why the hell anyone would spend $80/mo on a Nextel for personal use. I knew a few people who did that, and was annoyed by their stupid use of them.
/only/ thing it's useful for is finding your phone if you leave it someone and forget precisely where it's located (under a pile of papers.))
On the other hand, my Nextel is for business use, and it is invaluable at times. It's called "Direct Connect" for a reason - if I had to wait for a full connect via a regular phone, every single time I needed to reach someone, for a brief confirmation of something, I would definitely be less productive, as would my colleagues. However, if I had to call for a single feature's removal, it would be the "Alert" - oh how I hate that thing. (The
Same here - I've seen it countless times - in the same manner as parent poster suggests.
Not addressing the precise technical comments here (I think others have done a good job of that already), I'll add that I've run very thorough data recovery programs on drives that have been wiped with DBAN. Many hours of scanning turned up 0 usable bytes of data. I have a nice floppy disk sitting on my desk with red lettering "DANGER: DBAN HD Wipe Disk!" Very useful stuff.
Turn the computer off? I'm afraid I don't understand...
Hmm...I feel exactly the opposite - it makes searching for some articles *very* efficient...and I'm an ACM member. :D
Frankly, I think Google Maps' Hybrid Mode is much better than Google Earth's street mode. It's so perfectly clear - that was the thing that immediately won my adoration of Google Maps when it came out...I immediately recognized just how much it eat the pants off stuff like MapQuest -- and of course, the smooth scrolling and zooming. Google Earth is pretty awesome, but: a. I can only use it at work (I run Linux & OS X at home); b. It's extremely sluggish sometimes (not sure if it's congestion or RAM/CPU availability on my machine at times); c. the streets don't seem to be labelled nearly as well as Google Maps. Heck, I'd really like it if Google Maps could be integrated into Google Earth - I don't need to see satellite imagery 100% of the time. These faults excepted, I must admit that Google Earth is loads of fun to play with when it works well.
Am I the only person who found it both funny and sick at the same time that their video is hosted at microsoft.com/winme? Apparently that URL has been repurposed for media releases, but it kind of caught me surprise.
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Well, I was thinking about that a little bit, and just realized one possible answer for it. The only catch - it requires technical competency (or a Firefox extension to make it easier). Assuming the page with the picture is loaded off BoA's SSL protected site, the padlock icon will appear, and the URL will be from their site. MITM attack, you say? Well, that's only possible if the site you're actually connected to is a phishing domain, as HTTPS uses signed certificates, and you can check the credentials contained in them that your browser presents to you. As far as I know, it should be impossible to spoof that - you could certainly have a close match in a spoofed SSL certificate, but if you know what the domain is supposed to be, you can say without a doubt that it is coming from the server in question. Of course, if the [bank] site chose to be lazy, and transmit parts in HTTP, it would be rather hard to tell the difference. Also, if the coding of the page is poor, it might be possible for XSS attacks.
*shrug* I'm still not looking forward to using BoA - I'm a happy Fleet customer, damn it!
I respect BitTorrent, and think it's a pretty damn good system*. However, I strongly disagree with the model of P2P for official file distribution as "the only way to go." I cannot fathom why a paying customer should have to help defer the costs of a company w.r.t. bandwidth. Frankly, the Terms of Service of many ISPs may disallow the practice of file sharing, and in particular, for any commerical use. If a company is going to sell a product to customers that will require heavy downloads, then they must budget for a distributed, high bandwidth system.
*It's certainly helped me out for downloading Knoppix a few times in the past. (And yes, I've seeded it many times over. No, I do not use it for anything that isn't FL/OSS.)
It's you. :-)
Seriously, it worked without a flaw for me on FF1.04 at work on XPSP2. I'll see how it works on Deer Park Alpha 1 on OS X 10.3.9 when I get home.
As some of the replies to your post will indicate, careful setting of permission for some of these shoddily coded apps will let you run them as non-admin users. NOT true for Palm Desktop, though. If anyone can tell me how to do this for the latest version, I'd be quite grateful. I told one of my users that he simply couldn't run it, as we do not give admin rights, and the new version doesn't run with permission tweaking. The old one could be installed as follows: Make the user an admin; install as that user; take the user back to non-admin status; give the user "Full control" over the folder. I spent nearly an hour on the phone with Palm tech. support in India trying to get an answer out of them, pausing for the script-reader to ask his boss questions, and got the answer that it simply can't be done. I've tried everything that I could think of, observing the interactions with Regmon & NTFilMon, to no avail. What really gets me is that these companies advertise their products as being "Designed for Windows 2000/XP" - if this were the case, they would have been designed for proper user rights!
I've never tried this on XP Home, but I've done it on a Dell consumer targetted build of XP Pro. Go into Explorer's "Folder Options" (sorry, I'm at home, working on my Linux & Mac boxen - XP's already a distant memory...that I'll revisit at work again tomorrrow). At the bottom of the list of options (the 3rd tab, IIRC), there is a choice "Use Simple File Sharing." Uncheck that box, and you'll have full ACLs again.
Well, after seeing this news, I looked to see if Google has fixed a bug of mine yet*, and they have not done so yet, *but* the big thing that I immediately noticed was the addition of directional arrows for one-way streets. I then proceeded to take a glance at 10021 to see how that showed up, and was pleased. :)
/Station Road/.
*I noticed and reported a missing DLR station on their map of England - it's still not there, despite the nice directional arrows on
Not true. There are penalties if you owe too much come April 15.
Um...sorry, I'm reading this in Deer Park Alpha on OS X. ;)
(However, I didn't bother to RTFA, so the only thing that can infect me is the foolish opinions of trolls.)
Not true. The *login* page is https. However, unless you log in through https://gmail.google.com/gmail you will get redirected to http://gmail.google.com/gmail once the authentication is complete. Naturally, at this point, you can just append an 's' to the protocol name, but this is sloppy, and data may have already been transferred that you don't want passing through in the clear. P.S. Many companies block all the free webmail sites to keep people from bypassing their filters.
Agreed. For my end users, this is a *must*. But man...I've come to really hate the stuff myself - it slows me down quite a bit...and really sucks when I'm doing analyses of virus-containing e-mail or the like. I mean, can't McAfee /tell/ that I'm a white-hat carefully examining stuff, and give me my room? [smirk]
I've also set up a white-listed directory to do my heavy work from, as a Perl app of mine gets slowed down tremendously while working on a few gig worth of large log files. It seems that on-access scans slow down the execution of `stat` a whole lot (or something closely related), and this bogs down cygwin's `ls` as well as doing "my @foo=;"
It pains me to hear that this disease of a product is now on Linux - I can possibly understand a need for it, but I simply hate the performance lag, particularly when it's unnecessary. (I've never gotten a virus on my Windows box at work, and definitely never gotten such a thing on my Linux boxen or Mac at home - it's a matter of caution.)
Most sensible people know this, but try telling that to the people who actually collect the items. I'm pretty sure you'll find there are some restrictions at place that the paper recycling collection only takes intact paper, or the like. That, or it all gets thrown into the garbage, even if it's in the correct receptacle.
Except that the things are just about melting...
(see the 'non-existant' stories about the capacitors on those things, and the temperature readings)
Oh, and apparently the new G5 towers have even more temperature sensors - those chips run *hot*.
And to think that I was tossed between potentially buying an iBook or a Thinkpad (or whatever Lenovo will call it).
You might want to take a look at Jesse Ruderman's "How'd I Get Here" extension that supports Firefox 1.1's extended history support. I don't think it has graphical thumbnails, but then again, I don't think I'd really want that much clutter (IMHO, YMMV).
http://www.squarefree.com/extensions/high/
Heh...sorry, I'm a vi user - I don't have any of these problems. Seeing as the Caps Lock key is an utter waste of an otherwise good key, though, I've mapped it to Escape. :)
Um...I don't get it. If it's mentioned in the same breath as goatse & tubgirl, why in the world would you *try* to find it? I mean, really, you got what you asked for, don't you think?
/. - seeing the number of posts around this, I'm stunned that people would 'fall' for such a thing.
*sigh* This is a sad day for
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