One important point: publication is by far the most important factor in determining the hiring and promotion of faculty at Universities. A graduate student who doesn't publish enough will never become an assistant professor. An assistant professor who doesn't publish enough will be denied tenure and, basically, "fired". After you've got tenure, things get more interesting, but you won't get any grants (or more promotions, etc.) if you don't publish...
Anyway, the point is that journals are a for-profit business primarily run by a few large publishing companies, and they have academia by the balls. Academia is based on the publish-and-get-promoted system. Posters and talks at conferences can provie an alternative means of publication, but for the quantity of publication that is (realistically) required by every scientific field, you have to deal with those journals.
One note on alternative energy sources: remember, we're allowed to use more than one:) For example, wind and solar often complement each other nicely. And no, they're not as inconstant (trans: unreliable) as you think. There's no sun half the day, but when it's up, solar works.
Of course, there should always be redundancy - more than one power source for those days when one kind or other doesn't work. Fossil fuels should still be used if needed, but what's wrong with using cleaner sources of energy first?
Gangs? We are talking about SF here, right? They probably added the heart and peace signs themselves. (Note: I lived in Berkeley for six years, and I'm halfway serious. We're not talking South SF or Oakland here...)
Last thing, really, why don't people use ls-120's? the disks are cheaper, the drives are cheaper and I think they work fairly well? Any ideas?
Short answer: the disks and drives are not, in fact, cheaper. The lowest price on pricewatch for a zip drive is $29. For an LS-120, $42. Disks cost about the same.
Not that people shouldn't use LS-120 anyway, but...
Did you buy it before Jan 1, 1995? Some of those Click-of-Death websites claim that the problem mainly occurs with newer disks/drives. Presumably, manufacturing quality has slipped over time.
I'm pretty sure that when you give a waiter your credit card, they don't then leave the restaraunt, walk to the worst part of town, and sit there forever. Unfortunately, if you have an internet-connected storage repository, that's roughly what you're dealing with. Anything that can connect to your hospital, your wife, etc. can also be connected to. And while I'm sure MS is going to try to deal with security, there are about a million problems associated with this sort of thing (authentification, dealing with that one appointment who's not using the service, dealing with people who don't check the service regularly to see if anything has changed).
What really worries me, though, is this: What kind of software is going to do all this stuff? What happens when they find a bug? Can we sue MS if they acidentally cancel one of my vital appointments?
You'd think nobody had ever done so before. That Linux version n.0 sprang from the earth complete, perfect, without errors or missing parts.
Part of the problem is that Apple is trying to sell OS X as Mac OS 10. They didn't bother to put that.0 on the box, in their ads, or anywhere else. (Hell, they ditched Arabic numerals entirely! Talk about avoiding the issue!)
Anyway, it would be nice if companies bothered to mention it when they make.0 releases. For example, the Linux kernel 2.4.0 was called exactly that. Okay, yes, I know RedHat (for example) is just as guilty with RedHat 7. There's my "Linux-bashing quota to prove that I'm unbiased" for this post. The fact remains that Apple is not about to say "OS X is incomplete" in any way, irregardless of whether or not it's true.
I'm not inclined to believe many of these claims (i.e. Yes, I do believe that it was possible to insult kids during the Great Depression). However, you do raise an interesting point.
If students can't stand bullies, then bring criminal charges on them. If the level of harassment brought upon students does not qualify as criminal action, then learn to live with it. It's cruel and unfortunate, but (shockingly) that is how life works.
By itself, this is clearly silly. The average kid will be laughed at if he/she tries to go to the police. Do you think they'd waste a prosecutor on this case, or does the kid have to hire a lawyer (yeah right) and bring charges in civil court? Besides, where's the evidence of the crime?
However, the sheer ridiculousness of this suggestion illustrates an important point. What is a child to do if they're teased, kicked, have stuff stolen from them, or are generally "bullied"? Very little, I'd say. And it is exactly this feeling of a lack of power which can lead to extreme solutions. The kid wants to get away but they can't. They can go to the principal, but when was the last time you saw a bully get kicked out of school? They can go to their parents, but parents usually just go to the principal... and so on.
Unfortunately, the reality of bullying is that most people can't do anything about it. Lots of them don't even want to (what did the original poster say about "learn to live with it"?) And no, don't tell me that abuse is okay because "that's the way the world is". That's the mantra of the bully: "Learn to take it because you have no choice". Bullshit. Here's the real world: you fight back if you can. If someone commits a crime against you, then you try to get them arrested and convicted for it (obviously!). Just think about it this way: evolution would have gotten nowhere if every organism just said "oh well, I guess my species will go die off now" every time things got bad;)
Unfortunately, when all of the options for fighting back seem to disappear (the bully is too big, you don't have friends who will stand with you, and higher authorities won't help you) then, well, a few people resort to extreme measures. Thousands of years ago, bullies would have had big rocks dropped on their heads when they weren't looking. That's just the way the world is. Learn to live with it, or try to change it.
Based on the response I received, let me clarify my question. I'm asking how to access the ext2 filesystem from any arbitrary Windows program. I know that you can access the partition table from Windows. But that won't help a virus which wants to modify a single file. Again, how does any arbitrary Windows program (e.g. Word) access an ext2 filesystem.
Again, though, I'm asking you a simple question: where is the code which can read ext2 partitions from Windows? Is it in the virus? No. Is it in the OS? No. So where is it?!
What kinds of utilities? I'm mainly familiar with "fine-manager" like utilities which allow you to access an ext2 drive, but would be useless for allowing, say, Word to access the ext2 drive. Point me to a program which allows Word to access an ext2 drive (on a dual boot system, not on an active linux system using NFS or SAMBA), and I'll take back what I said.
Please oh please oh please oh please God don't let them put Brittany Spears music on the sharable list...
Congratulations, you've just found the silver lining. This may hurt the popularity of all of those silly teeny-bopper acts significantly! After all, PR is the main reason why they're popular at all, and this takes away one major source.
Fair enough, but this has nothing to do with the original claim that Linux files could be infected by running this program in Windows. They can't. Although there are special programs to read ext2 under Windows (don't know about RieserFS, which is what I use) I would assume that the virus uses standard W32 system calls. There are no standard system calls which allow access to the ext2 filesystem. So unless the virus itself has code in it allowing it to understand the ext2 filesystem from within Windows, it can't spread between partitions.
although I have heard some games don't like the CD pulled in Windows 2000 (although, I'd like you to try that, without unmounting, in Linux and see what happens. You'd get some pretty similar, nasty results).
I'm a bit curious about this comment. If I have the CD mounted in Linux, it won't eject, at least on my install. Let me clarify: pushing the eject button does nothing when the drive has a mounted CD. Using the virtual "eject" button in one of my dock apps also does nothing.
What kind of Linux install do you have that allows your to eject mounted CDs? You might want to report it to the maker of your distro: it's probably a bug.
I'm getting really tired of people just blindly assuming that Microsoft is going to turn out a poor piece of software. Have you even RUN Windows 2000? It is the most stable operating system I have ever seen, and yes, I've run Linux as well.
First of all, don't ever say "blindly". You have no idea who's making those comments. Your comment about someone's "blind assumption" makes a blind assumption about their background and experience! The irony is just horrific. So don't say "blindly". Some Slashdotters dislike Windows 2000 because they've used it and it didn't work out for them.
This isn't flame bait, or a troll, or anything else -- it is simply my opinion.
This is the core of the issue. Of course it's your opinion! And other people's opinion is that Windows 2000 sucks. Some people have used it and disliked it, some people have read things about it that we don't like (I'm not very impressed by an OS requires 64 MB of RAM minimum and costs $400), and some people have used and don't like other MS software. For that matter, some people don't like their attitude towards security, towards bug fixes, towards market competition, etc.
My point is, your post assumes that negative opinions of Windows 2000/XP/other MS software are unjustified. You're assuming that anyone who dislikes MS-whatever can't possibly have a good reason. In fact, as abrasively as that last fellow wrote, his (or her, but probably his) reasons for having a negative opinion of Windows XP may still be perfectly valid. And even moreso for the calmer heads on Slashdot. Do you actually know, for a fact, than anyone on Slashdot blindly assumes that MS will turn out poor software? Is it not possible that we have evidence of that claim, rather than just opinion? (I would remind you that even people who choose to run a non-MS OS at home often have to use one at work).
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First a disk defragmenter is "part of the OS", then a web browser is "part of the OS". Now BIND is "part of the OS"!? Where do they get this stuff?
The average Linux distro comes with hundreds or thousands of programs, implementing far more functionality than a fresh install of Windows 2000 or, God forbid, Windows ME! I mean, there are, what, sixteen text editors in a full install of Debian? If Linux gets attacked every time there's a bug in any one program installed in any distro, we're going to be on the defensive for a long time. Especially if the attack depends on running code which was fixed back in January (Another important point that some people seem to be ignoring!)
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Yeah, but strangely enough, the U.S. government isn't going to help Russia prosecute those crackers... (irony alert!)
One important point: publication is by far the most important factor in determining the hiring and promotion of faculty at Universities. A graduate student who doesn't publish enough will never become an assistant professor. An assistant professor who doesn't publish enough will be denied tenure and, basically, "fired". After you've got tenure, things get more interesting, but you won't get any grants (or more promotions, etc.) if you don't publish...
Anyway, the point is that journals are a for-profit business primarily run by a few large publishing companies, and they have academia by the balls. Academia is based on the publish-and-get-promoted system. Posters and talks at conferences can provie an alternative means of publication, but for the quantity of publication that is (realistically) required by every scientific field, you have to deal with those journals.
One note on alternative energy sources: remember, we're allowed to use more than one :) For example, wind and solar often complement each other nicely. And no, they're not as inconstant (trans: unreliable) as you think. There's no sun half the day, but when it's up, solar works.
Of course, there should always be redundancy - more than one power source for those days when one kind or other doesn't work. Fossil fuels should still be used if needed, but what's wrong with using cleaner sources of energy first?
Because rebooting is bad?
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Use your Windows box some more. You'll see what I mean
Dude, do you ever wonder why posts like this get modded down? Who wasted their time modding this down to 0?
Gangs? We are talking about SF here, right? They probably added the heart and peace signs themselves. (Note: I lived in Berkeley for six years, and I'm halfway serious. We're not talking South SF or Oakland here...)
Last thing, really, why don't people use ls-120's? the disks are cheaper, the drives are cheaper and I think they work fairly well? Any ideas?
Short answer: the disks and drives are not, in fact, cheaper. The lowest price on pricewatch for a zip drive is $29. For an LS-120, $42. Disks cost about the same.
Not that people shouldn't use LS-120 anyway, but...
Did you buy it before Jan 1, 1995? Some of those Click-of-Death websites claim that the problem mainly occurs with newer disks/drives. Presumably, manufacturing quality has slipped over time.
I would guess that the Brits would probably aim for Paris first.
I'm pretty sure that when you give a waiter your credit card, they don't then leave the restaraunt, walk to the worst part of town, and sit there forever. Unfortunately, if you have an internet-connected storage repository, that's roughly what you're dealing with. Anything that can connect to your hospital, your wife, etc. can also be connected to. And while I'm sure MS is going to try to deal with security, there are about a million problems associated with this sort of thing (authentification, dealing with that one appointment who's not using the service, dealing with people who don't check the service regularly to see if anything has changed).
What really worries me, though, is this: What kind of software is going to do all this stuff? What happens when they find a bug? Can we sue MS if they acidentally cancel one of my vital appointments?
This is labelled "Informative"?! Damn, you people are more paraniod than I thought...
Hmmmm....RIAA vs. Microsoft. Who the hell do you root for?
That's simple. The lawyers.
He said "root for", not "bet on".
Wow - Apple released a .0 release.
.0 on the box, in their ads, or anywhere else. (Hell, they ditched Arabic numerals entirely! Talk about avoiding the issue!)
.0 releases. For example, the Linux kernel 2.4.0 was called exactly that. Okay, yes, I know RedHat (for example) is just as guilty with RedHat 7. There's my "Linux-bashing quota to prove that I'm unbiased" for this post. The fact remains that Apple is not about to say "OS X is incomplete" in any way, irregardless of whether or not it's true.
You'd think nobody had ever done so before. That Linux version n.0 sprang from the earth complete, perfect, without errors or missing parts.
Part of the problem is that Apple is trying to sell OS X as Mac OS 10. They didn't bother to put that
Anyway, it would be nice if companies bothered to mention it when they make
I'm not inclined to believe many of these claims (i.e. Yes, I do believe that it was possible to insult kids during the Great Depression). However, you do raise an interesting point.
;)
If students can't stand bullies, then bring criminal charges on them. If the level of harassment brought upon students does not qualify as criminal action, then learn to live with it. It's cruel and unfortunate, but (shockingly) that is how life works.
By itself, this is clearly silly. The average kid will be laughed at if he/she tries to go to the police. Do you think they'd waste a prosecutor on this case, or does the kid have to hire a lawyer (yeah right) and bring charges in civil court? Besides, where's the evidence of the crime?
However, the sheer ridiculousness of this suggestion illustrates an important point. What is a child to do if they're teased, kicked, have stuff stolen from them, or are generally "bullied"? Very little, I'd say. And it is exactly this feeling of a lack of power which can lead to extreme solutions. The kid wants to get away but they can't. They can go to the principal, but when was the last time you saw a bully get kicked out of school? They can go to their parents, but parents usually just go to the principal... and so on.
Unfortunately, the reality of bullying is that most people can't do anything about it. Lots of them don't even want to (what did the original poster say about "learn to live with it"?) And no, don't tell me that abuse is okay because "that's the way the world is". That's the mantra of the bully: "Learn to take it because you have no choice". Bullshit. Here's the real world: you fight back if you can. If someone commits a crime against you, then you try to get them arrested and convicted for it (obviously!). Just think about it this way: evolution would have gotten nowhere if every organism just said "oh well, I guess my species will go die off now" every time things got bad
Unfortunately, when all of the options for fighting back seem to disappear (the bully is too big, you don't have friends who will stand with you, and higher authorities won't help you) then, well, a few people resort to extreme measures. Thousands of years ago, bullies would have had big rocks dropped on their heads when they weren't looking. That's just the way the world is. Learn to live with it, or try to change it.
Based on the response I received, let me clarify my question. I'm asking how to access the ext2 filesystem from any arbitrary Windows program. I know that you can access the partition table from Windows. But that won't help a virus which wants to modify a single file. Again, how does any arbitrary Windows program (e.g. Word) access an ext2 filesystem.
Again, though, I'm asking you a simple question: where is the code which can read ext2 partitions from Windows? Is it in the virus? No. Is it in the OS? No. So where is it?!
Let's see, the Atari 2600 has been a game console, a portable game console, and now a dashboard game console.
What I want to know is, when is someone going to turn it into a web server?
What kinds of utilities? I'm mainly familiar with "fine-manager" like utilities which allow you to access an ext2 drive, but would be useless for allowing, say, Word to access the ext2 drive. Point me to a program which allows Word to access an ext2 drive (on a dual boot system, not on an active linux system using NFS or SAMBA), and I'll take back what I said.
Please oh please oh please oh please God don't let them put Brittany Spears music on the sharable list...
Congratulations, you've just found the silver lining. This may hurt the popularity of all of those silly teeny-bopper acts significantly! After all, PR is the main reason why they're popular at all, and this takes away one major source.
Fair enough, but this has nothing to do with the original claim that Linux files could be infected by running this program in Windows. They can't. Although there are special programs to read ext2 under Windows (don't know about RieserFS, which is what I use) I would assume that the virus uses standard W32 system calls. There are no standard system calls which allow access to the ext2 filesystem. So unless the virus itself has code in it allowing it to understand the ext2 filesystem from within Windows, it can't spread between partitions.
So why don't they just look over this microchip before using it? The fact that it's Open Source should only make the process easier.
although I have heard some games don't like the CD pulled in Windows 2000 (although, I'd like you to try that, without unmounting, in Linux and see what happens. You'd get some pretty similar, nasty results).
I'm a bit curious about this comment. If I have the CD mounted in Linux, it won't eject, at least on my install. Let me clarify: pushing the eject button does nothing when the drive has a mounted CD. Using the virtual "eject" button in one of my dock apps also does nothing.
What kind of Linux install do you have that allows your to eject mounted CDs? You might want to report it to the maker of your distro: it's probably a bug.
I'm getting really tired of people just blindly assuming that Microsoft is going to turn out a poor piece of software. Have you even RUN Windows 2000? It is the most stable operating system I have ever seen, and yes, I've run Linux as well.
First of all, don't ever say "blindly". You have no idea who's making those comments. Your comment about someone's "blind assumption" makes a blind assumption about their background and experience! The irony is just horrific. So don't say "blindly". Some Slashdotters dislike Windows 2000 because they've used it and it didn't work out for them.
This isn't flame bait, or a troll, or anything else -- it is simply my opinion.
This is the core of the issue. Of course it's your opinion! And other people's opinion is that Windows 2000 sucks. Some people have used it and disliked it, some people have read things about it that we don't like (I'm not very impressed by an OS requires 64 MB of RAM minimum and costs $400), and some people have used and don't like other MS software. For that matter, some people don't like their attitude towards security, towards bug fixes, towards market competition, etc.
My point is, your post assumes that negative opinions of Windows 2000/XP/other MS software are unjustified. You're assuming that anyone who dislikes MS-whatever can't possibly have a good reason. In fact, as abrasively as that last fellow wrote, his (or her, but probably his) reasons for having a negative opinion of Windows XP may still be perfectly valid. And even moreso for the calmer heads on Slashdot. Do you actually know, for a fact, than anyone on Slashdot blindly assumes that MS will turn out poor software? Is it not possible that we have evidence of that claim, rather than just opinion? (I would remind you that even people who choose to run a non-MS OS at home often have to use one at work).
First a disk defragmenter is "part of the OS", then a web browser is "part of the OS". Now BIND is "part of the OS"!? Where do they get this stuff?
The average Linux distro comes with hundreds or thousands of programs, implementing far more functionality than a fresh install of Windows 2000 or, God forbid, Windows ME! I mean, there are, what, sixteen text editors in a full install of Debian? If Linux gets attacked every time there's a bug in any one program installed in any distro, we're going to be on the defensive for a long time. Especially if the attack depends on running code which was fixed back in January (Another important point that some people seem to be ignoring!)
Why do I get the feeling some moderators have too much time on their hands?
(Offtopic!?)