You just mentioned them. But as your examples point out, good things can be used in a bad way.
I you would really be interested in using sudo to your advantage you would read 'man sudoers' or some of the examples already given here.
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Short answer: no
Long answer: man sudo and man sudoers
medium length answer: sudo gives a much more fine grained access control. If I had known about sudo I never would have needed to write wrapper programs with setuid permissions and all kind of groupbased access control to them myself.
The point you are illustrating is that there is no difference between Linux and Windows from the view of a novice user.
Both help systems suck, if included tools can't fix something the user is out of it's comfort zone on both systems. Editing a textfile or applying a registry hack is intimidating for any inexperienced user.
The big difference is that windows users have come accustomed to all its weirdness and simply don't know and care about alternatives.
'If you look at the card, you'll see a notice by the signature field that says "NOT VALID UNTIL SIGNED."'... 'The credit card company is not legally obligated to pay the store for the goods you bought, because the unsigned card was not a binding agreement.'
That's a nice though, but I'm wondering how an online transaction fits into this scheme?
It's because atleast 95% of all desktops have that codec already installed. Making users install other "non-standard" codecs in the default media player is a PITA.
"So far you have had the right to transfer the videos from the DVD you bought into your iPod (even though you have to hack the DVD protection for that)"
Welcome to the EUCD. It makes circumvention of copyprotection illegal. Since the EUCD was ratified the only legal copys of my DVDs I can be obtain are downloaded with P2P.
Well, there is a ST Voyager episode addressing this issue (sort of). I'm to lame to do a search for it but IIRC it was about the doctor writing a holodeck novel and evil publisher infringing ot it's copyrights.
(the holostuff being a spinoff from the replicator technology).
Which is offcourse even more unreadable (IMHO). Luckily such contructions can be avoided by some brackets and parentNode, which does little for readability of the actual construction. I'd rather spend some extra characters (mostly whitespace).
But have you been programming perl by any chance:)
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"Or just distribute a copy of FireFox with your product. If the customer isn't willing to install firefox
Thanks for supporting the GPs point.
Just suggest a case where firefox is replaced with latest IE on latest MS OS with latest SP and see what happens.
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"You're forgetting about the convenience methods and attributes that the DOM provides for HTML documents. As well as that, the various DOM methods have useful return values, so you can create and append elements without the temporary variables you use."
Good advise, I just wonder why you don't follow it yourself?
You are "hiding" allocation like: list.appendChild(item = document.createElement("li")); which to my knowledge (and a little testscript) equals: item=list.appendChild(document.createElement("li") );
This is much more readable in your example, now it suddenly becomes very clear where the object, item is a reference, to is changed.
That's normal I guess. Even worse the BBC actually airs programs that are 16:9 in 4:3 in 16:9 on BBC 1 and 2 (the analog versions I guess (mainland Europe)), resulting in blackborders all around on a 4:3 TV. This happens mostly with live sports (ans sometimes foreign news feeds).
WEP with MAC filtering is a joke at any key strength. The only "added security" is that I have to wait for the whitelisted device to be turned off.
The only time WEP actually adds a little security is when it's used with 80211.x with short interval key rotation. But even then captured transmissions can be "easily" brute forced (which offcourse can also be done with WPA/AES with a "little" more time).
I'm not paying for such a certificate either. But there are alternatives like http://www.cacert.org/ IMHO it is better than selfsigned but still vulnerable to the same schemes.
I know nothing about the error correction mechanisms on DVD, but even the ancient redbook CD has a resonable mechanism.
That is _IF_ you have decent hardware.
When I wanted to rip my CDs to flac I found one with horrible scratches (even a couple of holes), the cheap DVD-ROM (JLMS XJ-HD166S) in my desktop couldn't read it without errors, the same for a Plexwriter (10/12/40A). An ancient PX-32TS had absolutely no problem. I would not be supprised is there is a similar huge quality difference in todays playback devices.
There are open designs for wireless networks out there, things like http://ronja.twibright.com/ So start building a wireless grid and prepare to negotiate with an uplink provider.
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"Where's the real advantage to using sudo?"
You just mentioned them. But as your examples point out, good things can be used in a bad way.
I you would really be interested in using sudo to your advantage you would read 'man sudoers' or some of the examples already given here.
Short answer: no
Long answer: man sudo and man sudoers
medium length answer: sudo gives a much more fine grained access control. If I had known about sudo I never would have needed to write wrapper programs with setuid permissions and all kind of groupbased access control to them myself.
The Dexter's Lab. episode "Game Over" is essentially a remake of Tron.
http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/
The point you are illustrating is that there is no difference between Linux and Windows from the view of a novice user.
Both help systems suck, if included tools can't fix something the user is out of it's comfort zone on both systems. Editing a textfile or applying a registry hack is intimidating for any inexperienced user.
The big difference is that windows users have come accustomed to all its weirdness and simply don't know and care about alternatives.
Sure they are:
-gizmo is good for lots of gremlins
-skype sounds like hype
'If you look at the card, you'll see a notice by the signature field that says "NOT VALID UNTIL SIGNED."' ...
'The credit card company is not legally obligated to pay the store for the goods you bought, because the unsigned card was not a binding agreement.'
That's a nice though, but I'm wondering how an online transaction fits into this scheme?
It's because atleast 95% of all desktops have that codec already installed. Making users install other "non-standard" codecs in the default media player is a PITA.
Get your units straight, you are only 3 orders of magnitude wrong.
But don't feel to bad about it, even my stupid gov. doesn't know the difference between cal and kcal.
"[no (decent) printer/sound/video driver]
I posted about all these problems in the Ubuntu forums, and all of them remain unresolved."
What can Ubuntu do about this problem, you should be contacting the manufacturers of the devices. It is THEY would should provide the drivers.
"So far you have had the right to transfer the videos from the DVD you bought into your iPod (even though you have to hack the DVD protection for that)"
Welcome to the EUCD.
It makes circumvention of copyprotection illegal.
Since the EUCD was ratified the only legal copys of my DVDs I can be obtain are downloaded with P2P.
Aibo has been put down: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/ 26/1416201&from=rss
But why take care of the elderly with robots? They may be more effectively put to use by the Soylent corporation.
I don't live near Tokyo, so no worries here.
Well, there is a ST Voyager episode addressing this issue (sort of). I'm to lame to do a search for it but IIRC it was about the doctor writing a holodeck novel and evil publisher infringing ot it's copyrights.
(the holostuff being a spinoff from the replicator technology).
"Or start killing the families of known Hamas terrorists?"
They don't kill them, they only destroy their house.
"bar.appendChild(foo = document.createElement(...)).baz = '...';"
:)
Which is offcourse even more unreadable (IMHO). Luckily such contructions can be avoided by some brackets and parentNode, which does little for readability of the actual construction. I'd rather spend some extra characters (mostly whitespace).
But have you been programming perl by any chance
"Or just distribute a copy of FireFox with your product.
If the customer isn't willing to install firefox
Thanks for supporting the GPs point.
Just suggest a case where firefox is replaced with latest IE on latest MS OS with latest SP and see what happens.
"You're forgetting about the convenience methods and attributes that the DOM provides for HTML documents. As well as that, the various DOM methods have useful return values, so you can create and append elements without the temporary variables you use."
) );
Good advise, I just wonder why you don't follow it yourself?
You are "hiding" allocation like:
list.appendChild(item = document.createElement("li"));
which to my knowledge (and a little testscript) equals:
item=list.appendChild(document.createElement("li"
This is much more readable in your example, now it suddenly becomes very clear where the object, item is a reference, to is changed.
That's normal I guess. Even worse the BBC actually airs programs that are 16:9 in 4:3 in 16:9 on BBC 1 and 2 (the analog versions I guess (mainland Europe)), resulting in blackborders all around on a 4:3 TV. This happens mostly with live sports (ans sometimes foreign news feeds).
WEP with MAC filtering is a joke at any key strength. The only "added security" is that I have to wait for the whitelisted device to be turned off.
The only time WEP actually adds a little security is when it's used with 80211.x with short interval key rotation. But even then captured transmissions can be "easily" brute forced (which offcourse can also be done with WPA/AES with a "little" more time).
I'm not paying for such a certificate either. But there are alternatives like http://www.cacert.org/
IMHO it is better than selfsigned but still vulnerable to the same schemes.
There are enough crappy interlaced DVDs out there. I'd consider that 480i.
480i isn't acceptable even today. Please stop buying that crap and thus giving distributors the incentive to release interlaced DVDs.
I know nothing about the error correction mechanisms on DVD, but even the ancient redbook CD has a resonable mechanism.
That is _IF_ you have decent hardware.
When I wanted to rip my CDs to flac I found one with horrible scratches (even a couple of holes), the cheap DVD-ROM (JLMS XJ-HD166S) in my desktop couldn't read it without errors, the same for a Plexwriter (10/12/40A). An ancient PX-32TS had absolutely no problem. I would not be supprised is there is a similar huge quality difference in todays playback devices.
There are open designs for wireless networks out there, things like http://ronja.twibright.com/
So start building a wireless grid and prepare to negotiate with an uplink provider.