"Embrace open source?". The hell the should.. just as they should not 'Embrace' any other buzzword or technology. Why? Because to PROPERLY be flexible, you have to look at ALL Your options.
That's the problem with many open source zealots these days. So many of them can't see beyond the purchace price of the software, or the fact that they can hack away at the code. They blab about security.
Open source security? Is open-source a better model for security? In a way.. as anyone who cares to can go have a look at it.. but does that make anything open-source better? No, absolutely not. It's like arguing risc-vs-cisc... someone saying their processor is 'better' because it is risc. In other words, they mix up a technology or methodology being better with an actual implementation being better.
Cheaper? Certainly in some cases. But in others, the cost of windows is NEGLIGIBLE compared to the cost of other tools in use... tools that don't HAVE an open-source equivalent. Tools that have some serious technical support.
I'll advocate free tools anytime... if they make sense. But in many cases, the proprietary stuff IS better, that's reality.
My Vaio z505le... I should have thought harder before buying this 18 months ago.
It takes non-standard ram.
BIOS will only boot of a particular brand of external pcmcia cdrom (not scsi, either).
Thankfully my godlike powers let me rig up a convoluted process of partitioning, network booting, etc.
Laptops.. I'm really starting to wonder. Some officemates just picked up the latest Toshiba Satellites. Wow. 2 grand...
Beautiful display, dvd, smartmedia reader, SD, big hard drive, 512MB, firewire/usb/etc. The works, basically.
All I could really want in a PC.. even being the PC nut that I am.
ANd when I have to go travelling.. I can take my army of PC's with me.
this is good? perhaps this will somehow allow the public to put paypal under closer scrutiny?
I'm not one who's usually in favor of regulation.. and I'm not sure I think it's a good idea, even in paypal's case...
but when you have one institution JUST moving money around.. they end up with the power to SERIOUSLY disrupt people's lives.
A bank can't generally freeze your account without a court order. Why? it's YOUR MONEY, not theirs.
Same thing should apply to paypal. This freezing of funds is rediculous. Paypal is not a credit card; if you want purchase protection, use a credit card.
Paypal should do the right thing and simply allow funds to move.. after all, they take their cut.
My point was not that it's okay for anyone to sniff things or intercept them. THat is something that varies from region to region and jurisdiction to jurisdiction, as well as usage contracts, etc.
My point is that you ARE sending data over a network where you have no direct control over what happens once the data leaves your immediate network. You are sending it in plaintext, in a format that can be read/modified. Can/should your ISP be intercepting and redirecting your web traffic? Arguable. Would this hpapen if you used secure protocols? No.
Analogies comparing this to property theft, or telephone conversations, or postal service are all flawed; this is neither, this is the internet...
Yes.. it would make sense that someone selling you bandwidth should not be modifying anything... It would be nice if they also didn't filter anything, didn't use nat, didn't force you to use their mail server only, and didn't transparently proxy your data.
But the reality is it's anarchy and chaos... so use crypto, use secure protocols.
As for locking your front door... I agree. There is no excuse.. you should protect yourslef. You should use crypto. Yes, we should watch providers and try to keep them in line.. but we have the power to prevent them from screwing us already.. and we can do it ourselves.. so we should.
And the thing about 'divulging what you see' is common myth, but not true either.
The deal with satellite TV has generally been this:
Many satellite broadcasters do NOT have license to sell their service within Canada.
Now.. in Canada, a company can get you for descrambling, or 'stealing' their service.. but the thing is..
Many of these companies CANT sue you, because you ARENT stealing because it is ILLEGAL for them to sell it to you anyway.
It's a grey area of law; don't kid yourself into thinking it's totally legit; it's not.
You are correct. Icrave was incorporated in the US, and was sued in the US. What they were doing was legal by canadian law.
Well yeah, that's what I took the guy to mean... he never said CVS could not handle that much code functionally, just that it was not suited to projects of that size.
Firstly, 99.9% of the people arguing about.NET don't actually know what.NET is.
Secondly...we have 2 choices when it comes to making linux popular.
1) Not Invented Here - Do our own thing, ignore what everyone else is doing, and make an incompatable system yet try to make it superior. Developers will have to learn this system saparately than others.
2) As.NET IS a publicly available standard, and is very well documented, the API, VM's, etc, are fully documented. We can concentrate on implementing those into the linux world, and give developers a very easy way to develop apps for our platform as well.
In other words, regardless of MS history, if the.NET specification fits the needs we have, why on earth not use it?
They sell you unlimited high-speed access, then start bitching when you use far more than the average amount of bandwidth. They make YOU out to be the badguy.
Now they want to jack up prices.. cool.
In reality, they should simply be charging for bandwidth used, period. You want flat rate? Use some kind of proxied service.
Wow!
Terrorists can talk to each other too.. we should require all conversations to be licensed & recorded.
Also.. terrorists could leave notes somewhere for another terrorist to pick up later.... we should not allow anyone to leave anything anywhere without filing a form, in triplicate.
THey can patent specific genes for a specific purpose.
So if they discover a gene that permits them to do something interesitng, like grow you a third arm... they can patent that.
If they discover a gene that will make you smarter... they can patent that.
They cannot patent genes until they have a use for them.
I know we all basically know that pirating software is illegal. (call it whatever you want, pirating, unlicenced use, copying, who cares, you get the idea)
However... heres'the thing.
Given free software or pay software, aside from the risk of expense to business due to legal actions, anyone will generally pirate software rather than pay for it if it's convenient to do so. If it's hard to find, they'll buy it. If I show up with a copy of Office XP, they will happily use it, with no moral qualms at all.
So you see, I have to wonder.
Does anyone really consider piracy to be immoral? No, not really. We can come up with lots of reasons why it is, but we don't really FEEL that it is.
That should tell us something.
It's the same for music. People will happily use kazaa or whatnot to swap mp3's without paying for it. All that talk about how it increases CD sales is bunk.. nobody in my family has bought a CD since they discovered kazaa.
Are they immoral people? Bad people? Hell no, they are the best people on earth, very straight shooters.
Well, first of all. Do I pay for shareware? Not usually.
Do I use much shareware? Not usually. It is annoying.
That being said.. I don't have any great way to justify using shareware without paying for it, other than it's easier for me, and less hassle.
Now.. call me a thief if you want. If I was told I had to pay for them or not use them, I would not use most shareware. Most of it is too expensive anyway.
More monitors -vs- bigger monitors.
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This is something people seem to disagree on.
A large monitor is great. A bigger monitor is better.
But for somethings.. 2,3, or 4 displays can be handy... especially when you really aren't after one big desktop (like, for widescreen movies, spreadsheets, etc). or graphics (because you end up with color variances between displays, etc).
Multiple monitors can be very handy... like, one web page open in one to read documentation... and my editor on the bigmonitor....
Every multi-head setup I've had involved a central, main screen (19" or 21") and smaller, 17 or 15 inchers on the sides.. these were usually used to just stick monitoring windows, slashdot.. whatever on . The central big one is for the work.
This side by side setup looks great for office work.. not great for games.
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Open source hippies. Sheesh.
"Embrace open source?". The hell the should.. just as they should not 'Embrace' any other buzzword or technology. Why? Because to PROPERLY be flexible, you have to look at ALL Your options.
That's the problem with many open source zealots these days. So many of them can't see beyond the purchace price of the software, or the fact that they can hack away at the code. They blab about security.
Open source security? Is open-source a better model for security? In a way.. as anyone who cares to can go have a look at it.. but does that make anything open-source better? No, absolutely not. It's like arguing risc-vs-cisc... someone saying their processor is 'better' because it is risc. In other words, they mix up a technology or methodology being better with an actual implementation being better.
Cheaper? Certainly in some cases. But in others, the cost of windows is NEGLIGIBLE compared to the cost of other tools in use... tools that don't HAVE an open-source equivalent. Tools that have some serious technical support.
I'll advocate free tools anytime... if they make sense. But in many cases, the proprietary stuff IS better, that's reality.
Are you for real?
In every country where they have a distribution agreement with Microsoft?
for laptops, which are increasingly important.
In fact.. I only HAVE laptops.
on that note..
My Vaio z505le... I should have thought harder before buying this 18 months ago.
It takes non-standard ram.
BIOS will only boot of a particular brand of external pcmcia cdrom (not scsi, either).
Thankfully my godlike powers let me rig up a convoluted process of partitioning, network booting, etc.
Laptops.. I'm really starting to wonder. Some officemates just picked up the latest Toshiba Satellites. Wow. 2 grand...
Beautiful display, dvd, smartmedia reader, SD, big hard drive, 512MB, firewire/usb/etc. The works, basically.
All I could really want in a PC.. even being the PC nut that I am.
ANd when I have to go travelling.. I can take my army of PC's with me.
this is good? perhaps this will somehow allow the public to put paypal under closer scrutiny?
I'm not one who's usually in favor of regulation.. and I'm not sure I think it's a good idea, even in paypal's case...
but when you have one institution JUST moving money around.. they end up with the power to SERIOUSLY disrupt people's lives.
A bank can't generally freeze your account without a court order. Why? it's YOUR MONEY, not theirs.
Same thing should apply to paypal. This freezing of funds is rediculous. Paypal is not a credit card; if you want purchase protection, use a credit card.
Paypal should do the right thing and simply allow funds to move.. after all, they take their cut.
Bad analogy.. not even related.
My point was not that it's okay for anyone to sniff things or intercept them. THat is something that varies from region to region and jurisdiction to jurisdiction, as well as usage contracts, etc.
My point is that you ARE sending data over a network where you have no direct control over what happens once the data leaves your immediate network. You are sending it in plaintext, in a format that can be read/modified. Can/should your ISP be intercepting and redirecting your web traffic? Arguable. Would this hpapen if you used secure protocols? No.
Analogies comparing this to property theft, or telephone conversations, or postal service are all flawed; this is neither, this is the internet...
Yes.. it would make sense that someone selling you bandwidth should not be modifying anything... It would be nice if they also didn't filter anything, didn't use nat, didn't force you to use their mail server only, and didn't transparently proxy your data.
But the reality is it's anarchy and chaos... so use crypto, use secure protocols.
As for locking your front door... I agree. There is no excuse.. you should protect yourslef. You should use crypto. Yes, we should watch providers and try to keep them in line.. but we have the power to prevent them from screwing us already.. and we can do it ourselves.. so we should.
Folks.. it shouldn't even have to be repeated, but it does.
When you send plaintext over the net, like HTTP reuqests..
YOU ARE SENDING PLAIN READABLE TEXT OVER A PUBLIC NETWORK.
Where is your expectation of privacy? That's right.. you don't really have one.
Passwords? HTTPS.. that's what the 'secure'part means you know.
The phone company keeps track of who you call and when.. is that illegal?
Watching the traffic over their network to analyze it is certainly not illegal.
Snarfing your passwords and reading your corporate mail.. that definately IS
Actually.. your DirecTV thing is wrong.
And the thing about 'divulging what you see' is common myth, but not true either.
The deal with satellite TV has generally been this:
Many satellite broadcasters do NOT have license to sell their service within Canada.
Now.. in Canada, a company can get you for descrambling, or 'stealing' their service.. but the thing is..
Many of these companies CANT sue you, because you ARENT stealing because it is ILLEGAL for them to sell it to you anyway.
It's a grey area of law; don't kid yourself into thinking it's totally legit; it's not.
You are correct. Icrave was incorporated in the US, and was sued in the US. What they were doing was legal by canadian law.
The burden of proof IS on the accuser.
"Unless you prove to us that you have not pirated our software, we will turn it into a court proceeding"
THe burden of proof is still on the accusor.
Well yeah, that's what I took the guy to mean... he never said CVS could not handle that much code functionally, just that it was not suited to projects of that size.
People on sourceforge tend to have some actual development interest.
People sign up to linux-kernel because they want to be cool.
Well...
.NET don't actually know what .NET is.
.NET IS a publicly available standard, and is very well documented, the API, VM's, etc, are fully documented. We can concentrate on implementing those into the linux world, and give developers a very easy way to develop apps for our platform as well.
.NET specification fits the needs we have, why on earth not use it?
Firstly, 99.9% of the people arguing about
Secondly...we have 2 choices when it comes to making linux popular.
1) Not Invented Here - Do our own thing, ignore what everyone else is doing, and make an incompatable system yet try to make it superior. Developers will have to learn this system saparately than others.
2) As
In other words, regardless of MS history, if the
It's about time.
You see... it's been hypocricy from day one.
They sell you unlimited high-speed access, then start bitching when you use far more than the average amount of bandwidth. They make YOU out to be the badguy.
Now they want to jack up prices.. cool.
In reality, they should simply be charging for bandwidth used, period. You want flat rate? Use some kind of proxied service.
Linux does not, and probably will never, focus on anything.. that's what makes it interesting.
Wow!
Terrorists can talk to each other too.. we should require all conversations to be licensed & recorded.
Also.. terrorists could leave notes somewhere for another terrorist to pick up later.... we should not allow anyone to leave anything anywhere without filing a form, in triplicate.
Get over your "Terrorist" fears.
They do not Patent DNA. They did not invent DNA.
THey can patent specific genes for a specific purpose.
So if they discover a gene that permits them to do something interesitng, like grow you a third arm... they can patent that.
If they discover a gene that will make you smarter... they can patent that.
They cannot patent genes until they have a use for them.
That's the stupidest Thing I've heard in a long time.
What's the point?
What? You get Cable TV over twisted pair in The Netherlands? Because that's what the article is about...
I know we all basically know that pirating software is illegal. (call it whatever you want, pirating, unlicenced use, copying, who cares, you get the idea)
However... heres'the thing.
Given free software or pay software, aside from the risk of expense to business due to legal actions, anyone will generally pirate software rather than pay for it if it's convenient to do so. If it's hard to find, they'll buy it. If I show up with a copy of Office XP, they will happily use it, with no moral qualms at all.
So you see, I have to wonder.
Does anyone really consider piracy to be immoral? No, not really. We can come up with lots of reasons why it is, but we don't really FEEL that it is.
That should tell us something.
It's the same for music. People will happily use kazaa or whatnot to swap mp3's without paying for it. All that talk about how it increases CD sales is bunk.. nobody in my family has bought a CD since they discovered kazaa.
Are they immoral people? Bad people? Hell no, they are the best people on earth, very straight shooters.
So maybe something IS wrong with IP law..
Well, first of all. Do I pay for shareware? Not usually.
Do I use much shareware? Not usually. It is annoying.
That being said.. I don't have any great way to justify using shareware without paying for it, other than it's easier for me, and less hassle.
Now.. call me a thief if you want. If I was told I had to pay for them or not use them, I would not use most shareware. Most of it is too expensive anyway.
This is something people seem to disagree on.
A large monitor is great. A bigger monitor is better.
But for somethings.. 2,3, or 4 displays can be handy... especially when you really aren't after one big desktop (like, for widescreen movies, spreadsheets, etc). or graphics (because you end up with color variances between displays, etc).
Multiple monitors can be very handy... like, one web page open in one to read documentation... and my editor on the bigmonitor....
Every multi-head setup I've had involved a central, main screen (19" or 21") and smaller, 17 or 15 inchers on the sides.. these were usually used to just stick monitoring windows, slashdot.. whatever on . The central big one is for the work.
This side by side setup looks great for office work.. not great for games.
I agree.. my EMC is the same.
So what, exactly makes it a 'storage area network'
Just curious. Anyone got an actual definition of a SAN?
I've seen some pretty different observations.
Some people think a SAN is just networked storage.... file server, etc.
The real idea behind a SAN, as far as I thought.. is that it is a 'network' in the sense that different hosts can access the same storage.
What does this mean?
SCSI or FC-AL connections to a disk array, generally.. but from more than one host at a time. Plus.. a shared filesystem.
Why is it a storage area network? because the machines are networked via storage.
Well.. what are you expecting?
It's an untrusted network.
Do you have some illusion that nbody can snoop on what you are doing when you surf slashdot normally from home?
How is this any different?
SEcurity must be in the hands of the end stations, not the carriers.
It's free for anyone to use if they have the gear..
What SHOULD they do for security? Nothing. not their problem.