Puh-leaze. Yes, this announcement is obviously aimed at preventing adoption of Linux on low-end hardware. The real question is whether or not a product will ever emerge from the vapor. How many times has Longhorn slipped? And what kind of bleeding edge hardware specs does it have? Microsoft can't build an OS with a blank check for hardware specs, so how are they going to do it on a budget?
but have you asked them to resupply your original serial(s)?
That's the problems right there. The droid working the support line needs you to ask the question in just the right way. They really should have records of past serial nos/activation codes/license keys/whatever they call them. You may just have gotten some comissioned yutz on the phone who thinks he can score another sale. My company can go back years, to the time that we started using a license-key type of mechanism, and find every license key we ever sent out.
If they don't keep records of past sales, then there is a chance that something else shady is going on. In that case, it may be time to contact the BBB, an attorney, or local law enforcement.
I had not seen the Google cache link either, but by searching Google for the URL, Google will give you one. I agree that the content of the article is relevant (even central) to the discussion, but part of the reason that it is relevant is that the content of the article is an obvious troll for page hits from the community. The best available tool for discussing trolls without feeding them is Google Cache.
I find it completely unfair that I have to run Adaware Pro, Microsoft Antispyware, and Spybot just to get around the internet.
You don't -- you can choose to run Mac OS or another *nix instead.
Even if you don't want to go that far, Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows would be a good start. This old NT 4 box I sit in front of all day got Mozilla M18 when it was built, and some form of Moz has been my primary browser and email ever since. I have not ever, in very close to 5 years (May 1), been infected by an email or a web page.
Second that. And another suggestion. Keep a diary/blog/writeup of some sort as your efforts progress. I would love to know how this plays out in the end, successful or not. And if not, your story may illuminate the pitfalls for the next person to try something similar.
Even back in the mid-eighties, the fine print on college admission forms stated that you were not *required* to give your actual social security number, and that if you choose not to, a unique non-SSN number would be assigned to you. But then of course, you have two 9-digit ID numbers to keep up with, possibly more if you have psuedo numbers assigned by more than one organization.
In the config I am trying to setup, the Xvnc server is on the same machine as kdm. The remote machine connects with vnc, which is working.
The kdm config file is ${kde_dir}/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, and in the [xdmcp] section I have set enabled=true, which should do it from everything I've read, yet it doesn't.
TightVNC includes a server Xvnc that has an inetd mode. Basically, you set up identd (or equivalent) to listen on a port (say, 5901) and when a connection comes in it fires up a copy of Xvnc to serve it. Xvnc can query an XDMCP server it initallize a new desktop for the new server. That part runs like a champ.
kdm claims that it will respond to XDMCP requests when the proper config options are set, but I have not yet been able make that part happen. So for now all I get is a grey-crosshatch default X background and mouse pointer that doesn't have anything to click on.
Back when the show was still reasonably cool (12-18 months ago maybe), somebody called in with a question on how to do something or other in Linux, so Leo segued to "our own CompTIA certified Kevin Rose", who responded with "That is the lamest cert ever" and quickly went on to answer the question.
PuTTY has pscp and Cygwin has scp from the openssh package. SSL encryption and files get from point A to point B. I use perl to move files to a web server and simultaneously update a MySQL table of file info (filename, description, size, modifed date), so its scriptable as all hell.
The Miniket encodes and compresses video using a codec included in the MPEG4 standard. Its video files can be played back using Windows Media Player 6.4 or later, or on Samsung's DVD recorders, the company says.
and:
Photos can be played back on the device's tilt-and-swivel color LCD, transfered to removable storage cards, or copied to a PC over a USB mass storage device connection. USB mass storage support also allows the device to be used for generic data storage.
WMP 6.4 is positively ancient in Windows terms, and the codec is included in the MPEG4 standard, so it's not proprietary in that sense. And USB mass storage is about as universal as USB interfaces get. If this thing doesn't work with Linux, its only because you're not trying hard enough.
db_... are the database files which are filled by blearn. They are used as reference when btail calculates if an event is bad or good. logfile is the logfile which you want to monitor. As you see, one needs a seperate configurationfile AND databases(!) for each file to monitor.
Step 3. learn logging
blearn -g good_logging blearn -b bad_logging
good_logging should contain events which are considered ok. bad_logging should contain logging of events you want to see, e.g. disk errors, invalid loggings, etc.
Step 3. use btail
btail
This will read the logfile defined in btail.conf and emit events which are considered not-ok by the bayesian filter.
--- folkert@vanheusden.com
Still very preliminary at this point, but shows promise. Now, to build and try it out!
... and Novell lets you add or remove FileScan rights. If they don't have access, take away filescan too, so they don't even see it. Then give them access (and visibility) to only exactly what they need.
I'm pretty sure there is no equivalent to filescan rights at the server level in NT. There might be a way to do it in *nix, but I don't know off the top of my head what it is.
To succeed in today's - and tomorrow's - classroom, workplace, home, or technology-rich community, students need to know how to efficiently find, use, manage, and evaluate information resources so that they can create and effectively convey information and ideas to others. That is what the Higher Education ICT Initiative is all about: ensuring that individuals are proficient in ICT competencies so that they can improve their learning, their work, their lives, and their world.
Yeech. "Create and effectively convey"??? Sounds like Powerpoint.
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Any idea why?
I've seen some OP-ED stuff that talked about states deciding to go the winner-take-all route to increase their own "importance" or to get more "attention" from candidates. But I think history shows that election-year attention does not translate to legislative attention in any meaningful way. IMHO, proportional vote allocation more accurately represents the will of the people, which is what the Electoral College is supposed to do in the first place.
SHAME on Colorado for turning down that bill that would split their EC votes based on the popular vote.
Turned down? AFAIK, it's on the ballot today, and if it passed it takes effect today. The following was posted to CNN at 9:41 AM EST today:
In Colorado, voters will be asked to approve Amendment 36, which would apportion the state's electoral votes based on the percentage of votes each candidate wins instead of the current winner-takes-all method. If passed, it would take effect immediately.
with such an obvious/condescending/manipulative lie, it's not possible.
HR163 was a clay pidgeon. The only reason it was sent up was so it could be shot down, and give everybody an election-year warm fuzzy. Next year (after the election) is a whole new ball game. So a condescending manipulative lie is in the eye of the beholder.
That said, nobody in the military wants the draft either. The reason that the all-volunteer armed forces are the most effective in the world is that every member joined up knowing what was at stake and made a concious decision to serve their country. Billions in funding don't hurt, but that Abrams M-1 doesn't drive itself.
The problem with an all-volunteer military is that its members signed up because they thought it was the right thing to do, so they work best when the work they are doing is also the right thing to do. When bureaucrats start having imperialist wet dreams about oil producing nations, the work that the military is asked to do starts to diverge from what the volunteers volunteered for, and things just don't run as smoothly as they have before.
So the draftees don't want the draft. The draftors don't want the draft. But neither of them are calling the shots, are they?
So Badnarik has the balls to call their (very thin) bluff. And he has the balls to state his party's position in terms that say to an individual voter "you are not the most important person on the face of the earth". I want to like him, but I have to respect him.
Face it, in this election, *nobody* is voting for anybody. Watch the ads, listen to the speeches, talk to the people around you, and you will see that everyone is planning to vote for what they perceive to be the lesser evil.
Again, nobody is voting for anything, we are all voting against something else.
Following this logic, a vote for Nader/Badnarik/Cobb/etc. is a against both Bush and Kerry. Not a wasted vote at all in my book!
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Puh-leaze. Yes, this announcement is obviously aimed at preventing adoption of Linux on low-end hardware. The real question is whether or not a product will ever emerge from the vapor. How many times has Longhorn slipped? And what kind of bleeding edge hardware specs does it have? Microsoft can't build an OS with a blank check for hardware specs, so how are they going to do it on a budget?
but have you asked them to resupply your original serial(s)?
That's the problems right there. The droid working the support line needs you to ask the question in just the right way. They really should have records of past serial nos/activation codes/license keys/whatever they call them. You may just have gotten some comissioned yutz on the phone who thinks he can score another sale. My company can go back years, to the time that we started using a license-key type of mechanism, and find every license key we ever sent out.
If they don't keep records of past sales, then there is a chance that something else shady is going on. In that case, it may be time to contact the BBB, an attorney, or local law enforcement.
I had not seen the Google cache link at the time.
I had not seen the Google cache link either, but by searching Google for the URL, Google will give you one. I agree that the content of the article is relevant (even central) to the discussion, but part of the reason that it is relevant is that the content of the article is an obvious troll for page hits from the community. The best available tool for discussing trolls without feeding them is Google Cache.
For the love of all that is holy, don't link to the real article. Blindly questing for page hits is what got us in this mess to begin with.
Google cache, text only.
PJ's writing does tend to have a bit of that paranoic edge, though.. as this post shows.
It's not paranoia if the really are out to get you, as O'Gara's "article" shows.
Domains in the same netblock, according to Netcraft:
c om
/etc/hosts mapped to 127.0.0.1 shortly.
sys-con.com
linuxworld.com
linuxbusinessnews.
linuxbusinessweek.com
java-buyerguide.com
And various sub-domains of these. These will be added to my
Don'y give them any unneccessary page hits.
Use the Google cache of the article instead.
I find it completely unfair that I have to run Adaware Pro, Microsoft Antispyware, and Spybot just to get around the internet.
You don't -- you can choose to run Mac OS or another *nix instead.
Even if you don't want to go that far, Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows would be a good start. This old NT 4 box I sit in front of all day got Mozilla M18 when it was built, and some form of Moz has been my primary browser and email ever since. I have not ever, in very close to 5 years (May 1), been infected by an email or a web page.
Good luck, I wish you well.
Second that. And another suggestion. Keep a diary/blog/writeup of some sort as your efforts progress. I would love to know how this plays out in the end, successful or not. And if not, your story may illuminate the pitfalls for the next person to try something similar.
Even back in the mid-eighties, the fine print on college admission forms stated that you were not *required* to give your actual social security number, and that if you choose not to, a unique non-SSN number would be assigned to you. But then of course, you have two 9-digit ID numbers to keep up with, possibly more if you have psuedo numbers assigned by more than one organization.
In the config I am trying to setup, the Xvnc server is on the same machine as kdm. The remote machine connects with vnc, which is working.
The kdm config file is ${kde_dir}/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, and in the [xdmcp] section I have set enabled=true, which should do it from everything I've read, yet it doesn't.
TightVNC includes a server Xvnc that has an inetd mode. Basically, you set up identd (or equivalent) to listen on a port (say, 5901) and when a connection comes in it fires up a copy of Xvnc to serve it. Xvnc can query an XDMCP server it initallize a new desktop for the new server. That part runs like a champ.
kdm claims that it will respond to XDMCP requests when the proper config options are set, but I have not yet been able make that part happen. So for now all I get is a grey-crosshatch default X background and mouse pointer that doesn't have anything to click on.
Back when the show was still reasonably cool (12-18 months ago maybe), somebody called in with a question on how to do something or other in Linux, so Leo segued to "our own CompTIA certified Kevin Rose", who responded with "That is the lamest cert ever" and quickly went on to answer the question.
PuTTY has pscp and Cygwin has scp from the openssh package. SSL encryption and files get from point A to point B. I use perl to move files to a web server and simultaneously update a MySQL table of file info (filename, description, size, modifed date), so its scriptable as all hell.
What color was that card? Was it white? Was there any text on the front of it? No? Hmmmm.....
From TFA:
The Miniket encodes and compresses video using a codec included in the MPEG4 standard. Its video files can be played back using Windows Media Player 6.4 or later, or on Samsung's DVD recorders, the company says.
and:
Photos can be played back on the device's tilt-and-swivel color LCD, transfered to removable storage cards, or copied to a PC over a USB mass storage device connection. USB mass storage support also allows the device to be used for generic data storage.
WMP 6.4 is positively ancient in Windows terms, and the codec is included in the MPEG4 standard, so it's not proprietary in that sense. And USB mass storage is about as universal as USB interfaces get. If this thing doesn't work with Linux, its only because you're not trying hard enough.
Mozilla has done a tiny bit of html testing.
Still very preliminary at this point, but shows promise. Now, to build and try it out!
I thought it was Natalie Portman!
... and Novell lets you add or remove FileScan rights. If they don't have access, take away filescan too, so they don't even see it. Then give them access (and visibility) to only exactly what they need.
I'm pretty sure there is no equivalent to filescan rights at the server level in NT. There might be a way to do it in *nix, but I don't know off the top of my head what it is.
To succeed in today's - and tomorrow's - classroom, workplace, home, or technology-rich community, students need to know how to efficiently find, use, manage, and evaluate information resources so that they can create and effectively convey information and ideas to others. That is what the Higher Education ICT Initiative is all about: ensuring that individuals are proficient in ICT competencies so that they can improve their learning, their work, their lives, and their world.
Yeech. "Create and effectively convey"??? Sounds like Powerpoint.
Any idea why?
I've seen some OP-ED stuff that talked about states deciding to go the winner-take-all route to increase their own "importance" or to get more "attention" from candidates. But I think history shows that election-year attention does not translate to legislative attention in any meaningful way. IMHO, proportional vote allocation more accurately represents the will of the people, which is what the Electoral College is supposed to do in the first place.
SHAME on Colorado for turning down that bill that would split their EC votes based on the popular vote.
Turned down? AFAIK, it's on the ballot today, and if it passed it takes effect today. The following was posted to CNN at 9:41 AM EST today:
with such an obvious/condescending/manipulative lie, it's not possible.
HR163 was a clay pidgeon. The only reason it was sent up was so it could be shot down, and give everybody an election-year warm fuzzy. Next year (after the election) is a whole new ball game. So a condescending manipulative lie is in the eye of the beholder.
That said, nobody in the military wants the draft either. The reason that the all-volunteer armed forces are the most effective in the world is that every member joined up knowing what was at stake and made a concious decision to serve their country. Billions in funding don't hurt, but that Abrams M-1 doesn't drive itself.
The problem with an all-volunteer military is that its members signed up because they thought it was the right thing to do, so they work best when the work they are doing is also the right thing to do. When bureaucrats start having imperialist wet dreams about oil producing nations, the work that the military is asked to do starts to diverge from what the volunteers volunteered for, and things just don't run as smoothly as they have before.
So the draftees don't want the draft. The draftors don't want the draft. But neither of them are calling the shots, are they?
So Badnarik has the balls to call their (very thin) bluff. And he has the balls to state his party's position in terms that say to an individual voter "you are not the most important person on the face of the earth". I want to like him, but I have to respect him.
Face it, in this election, *nobody* is voting for anybody. Watch the ads, listen to the speeches, talk to the people around you, and you will see that everyone is planning to vote for what they perceive to be the lesser evil.
Again, nobody is voting for anything, we are all voting against something else.
Following this logic, a vote for Nader/Badnarik/Cobb/etc. is a against both Bush and Kerry. Not a wasted vote at all in my book!