55,000 emails at home (283MB) in a few mbox-format files. 25 seconds to search them with grep. 11,000 emails at work (281MB) on an exchange server (shortly going down for another essential microsoft patch). 4 minutes to search them with outlook.
I log in to webmail via Username Password (changed every month) Pin number RSA Secure ID, a key fob which changes every minute, with a 3 year battery life
Fairly secure, doesn't matter if you're videoed as the key fob constantly changes. I guess if there's a weakness in the fob, and you have two adjacent numbers, you can probably guess the future ones, but it's easier for a fraudster to go elsewhere. Ultimatly security is making your system harder to break than other similar systems.
# Are way ahead when it comes to stanards, (think about their take on IE and ODF)
Not the UK, which is consistently much lower than even the US, mainly due to Blair sucking up to Gates as much as Bush. The BBC's love for microsoft doesn't do any favours either.
'The' appears in both forms, I was referring to 'of'. And I'm not sure how the word 'in' can refer to outside.
Welcome to the world of America. When most people read "the kids are out [the] back", they immediatly think of kids playing in the back garden. In naughties America, you're more likely to hear "The kids are in [the] back [of the car]", as there are terrorists outside the confines of the armoured vehicle.
struck on the back of the head by a full 2L PET drink bottle. The kid still had the bottle in his hand and when my friend turned around, there were 5-6 or so kids ready to "go at it"
It's situations like this that ABSO's were created, which is why I'm all for them.
No, it's situations like this (assault) that PRISONS were created.
All an asbo does is say "Don't do it again". ASBOs are relavent when somebody is repeatadly causing a nuisence but not actually breaking any laws -- e.g. loud music every night.
Any bets on the timing of the _next_ American Civil War?
The only way that will happen is if the American public care about the rights they lose, as long as they have bread and circuses (Beer and TV) they'll be happy. America will fall in the same way the Roamn Empire fell.
They may very specifically not ask what religion you subscribe to.
Not so in the U.K. I refused to answer on the "equal oportunities form" when I applied for a job at a publicly funded (non-governmental though) corporation. I also answered "Other" for "Race" and put "Human".
My S.O. applied for a job at the Independent Police Complaints Commission, and got asked for, amongst other irrellevent personal details, religion and sexual orientation, again on a "Equal opportunities" form.
Of course we have a government organisation to make sure that there's no discrimination based on ethnicity. Sadly the head of it is the biggest racist on the planet. Aside from encouraging discrimination based on skin colour in the workplace, he believes that there should be seperate schools depending on skin colour. Black kids in one school, white kids in another.
Yes, you're right that copyright law doesn't cover use.
But in the case of a computer program, "using" it includes copying the program from a storage location (hard drive, CD rom etc), into memory.
There's nothing I can find in the UK in the 1988 copyright act, or the 1991 and 2003 ammendments, to specifically say that this is not infringing, except in the case
It is not an infringement of copyright for a lawful user of a copy of a computer program to observe, study or test the functioning of the program in order to determine the ideas and principles which underlie any element of the program if he does so while performing any of the acts of loading, displaying, running, transmitting or storing the program which he is entitled to do.
So I can arguably use the program to understand it. Ther's also something about making a backup copy of the program not being an infringment.
Playing a CD also creates a copy, however specifically
The rights conferred by Part 2 are not infringed by the making of a temporary copy of a recording of a performance which is transient or incidental, which is an integral and essential part of a technological process and the sole purpose of which is to enable -
(a) a transmission of the recording in a network between third parties by an intermediary; or
(b) a lawful use of the recording;
It also mentions transitory copys (webcache etc) of all copyright work excluding computer programs and databases.
Does anyone know any case law (preferably since 2003), in the UK (although other countries would be of interest) which specifically defines if *running* any computer program (including open source ones) requires permission of the copyright holder, for the transitory copy in memory (or even permament copy on the HDD)
Wow. This is really big brother. Essentially they put these on top of cop cars an the thing just starts searching 360 for license plates and drops them in the system. The trick would be to have enough police cars fitted with them to give back good data. Also it would not help track the car if it were in someone's garage.
It's reality in the UK, has been for a while. ANPR cameras are everywhere, if you drive past them, they check your number against various databases to check it's tax, MOTed, insured, and perhaps if you're lucky not stolen. In London they also check you've paid the congestion charge (toll), and on a few motorways they're used to calculate average speed and ticket you if you break it.
If you break the law, you get a fine. The result? Less cops on the street to pull over the dangerous drivers and cars with no plates.
Most people I know haven't got a clue what a file is. They aren't computer litereate, they can load a few programs (word processor, browser, email), and that's about it.
It took YEARS for me to get somewhat computer literate (using linux). Not everyone fancies spending hundreds of hours re-learning it all.
I've tried windows XP (and 2K) several times, but I hate using something I don't understand, or don't understand enough to configure to run properly and such... Every time I've tried it, I've had problems, I couldn't even find the command line, had to download cygwin. All I could find (after about 2 hours) was an expanded run command "Command Prompt".
Files were stored seemingly randomly, and I wasn't sure where my files were for some programs, I couldn't find apache's htdocs without doing a search. The version of windows search I had seemed to have a bug, instead of taking half a second like 'locate htdocs' does, it took forever.
Of course, I had to figure out that installing apache wasn't enough - gotta install the service too or something, wtf is this computer management thing?
My PDA wouldn't work, I plugged it in (just works (TM) under linux), but windows said "Found new hardware, insert driver disk". WTF is a driver disk? My PDA's a few years old, and it's a standard usb networking device. Fixing it seemed overly complex, I couldn't find a driver on the "list all drivers" option. Had to spend donkeys years finding and installing essential programs, and it turns out with windows I can't just click on a program and have it automatically download and install (I hoped "add remove programs" in control panel would do that, it seems to simply be "remove (some) programs" though, I have to visit a website, click through dozens of popups, download a zip file, extract that, run a setup program, install that, then get arround to configuring the program. I looked for something like ".putty" to see where it stored connects, so I could move to another machine easilly, but no sign of that.
I'm also told I need something called "Anti Virus"? WTF is that? If my computer sneezes I'll know about it, but I doubt that it can get a cold (my PC runs >50C). Coupled with having to find alternatives for the programs I take for granted (cygwin helps a lot, but not for everything), and I find that programs that are available don't have the same support.
USB flash drive had to have drivers installed and a reboot (a reboot? I've plugged in a simple USB storage device, nto a new freakin' OS) too.
Yes, there is always an answer, a fix, or whatever. And the OS is ubiquitus and all. But, you gotta figure it all out, and even though ppl here like to say their grandma runs windows and finds it easy, IT'S NOT. I was completely fucking lost. Want to understand where files are (I hear some configuration settings are stored in a single binary file with a lousy editor)? Sure! Just read some website that's 100 pages of adverts. There's no nice sinple help system like "man" to find out how to do something easilly.
I'm sorry, but I'd rather download a linux net-install disk at dinner, and put it on that night, rather than having to leave the house, go 20 miles to some shop, spend $CAD 400 on a version of windows, come back and then faff arround installing, registering and activating it?
I'm still toying with windows at work, but for my home desktop? Not a chance.
If someone was learning from scratch one OS or the other, perhaps windows could be a better choice, but there's some of us that have already invested more time than we care learning to use an OS and associated apps, I just aren't going to relearn it all. When I had a problemwith linux I'd fire off an email to my local LUG and get a few nice courteous replies within an hour or two. I haven't found a windows user group though.
As I point out to my wife, unless you live more than 12 miles from work or are in tremendously horrible shape... cycling smokes all other forms of transpo...
I live 40 miles from work as the crow flies (about 55 by road), I ride to the station (1 mile), take the train, then ride the last 6 miles to work.
We have showers at our work, so I get up at 7, get the 7:14 train (It's all down hill), arrive at 8:05, get to work at 8:40, and at my desk before 9, depending on how many red lights I meet.
Going via train/tube involves getting up at 6:30, shower, leave at 6:55, getting the 7:14 train, get the tube at 8:05, arrive at work arround 8:50 hot and sweaty (over 40 degrees on the central line today)
Going by bike saves £50 a month on the tube, and burns about 1600 calaries a day (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=260320)
There are few disadvantages but the biggest of these is that I have to share the road with the lazy, dangerous and callous fools who insist on poisoning the air and making the world a generally less plesant place by choosing to haul their fat arses around in metal exoskeletons.
Buses? Yeah, London bus drivers are inexplicably bad. Consistently straining to overtake, then stopping just as they finish to pick up/drop off.
Taxi's and lorries are pretty bad too, consistently driving, and stopping, in cycle lanes.
Most cyclists are infurating, mainly because they give the minority of us a bad name, jumping lights, riding pavements etc.
For the most part, cars in London are relativly courteous.
Cars around here simply tendto move faster than 10-15 miles per hour.
Then you live in a nice uncongested area then. Try averaging 10-15mph in London door to door (that includes walking from home to the car, driving to your destination, parking, then walking from parking spot to the office)
I used to travel in from near Reading to West London, thereby avoiding the worst of the traffic and the centre of town, and also having a lively seperated highway (no red lights etc) for the majority of the trip. It took a little under 2 hours and was 32 miles. Most of that time was spent inside the M25.
It's really the bridge between Ketchikan and its airport, so that rich tourists can get to the airport with all their damned salmon.
In which case increase landing fees at the airport to pay for it, or charge a toll on the bridge (with appropiate discounts for locals). Why be all socialist and get someone else who will never use it to pay for it?
Of course Thatcher must get some of the blame for her short-sighted, if not actually completely idiotic, privatisation shite which she forced on everyone (rail cannot be run as a private entity.
Short-sighted I think, she was far-sighted in other things though (closing non-profitable mines so that the raw material will still be there when global price increases in the future). She certainly wasn't idiotic, anyone that is in charge of a nuclear power isn't idiotic, and that includes Bush.
The rail infrastructure should never have been privitised, neither should new rail that's built (CTRL for example), or new roads (M6 toll), but in todays accountancy reigime that's not how things work.
However some services (mainly long distances) could be privitised, if done correctly, and given safeguards against one company "competing" with itself, and you do get healthy competition on some routes - London - Exeter for example. It can be done cheap and slow on SWT, or Fast and pricey on FGW. Manchester - London used to have two options too, MML and Virgin. Glasgow - London has Virgin and GNER. Open access operators like Hull Trains also throw stuff into the mix.
You don't need to put 'London UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND'
The OP clearly wrote Calgary (which even us Brits know where that is), then wrote the country, in capital letters.
I did the same.
England is not a soverign nation. The OP didn't write Calgary, Alberta (not the same thing, but close).
The UK is a common abbreviation of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but it's not the offical name. I just wanted to make clear which London I was on about, the OP might have assumed I was on about London, Ontario, for example.
Doesn't hurt to remind people the realy name of the country (ruled by the decendent of a Scottish King)
Actually, here in Calgary CANADA, there's been a big hubub recently about people parking all day at parking meters and just paying the fine. It was cheaper to pay the $25 fine than to pay $28 for eight hours of parking.
in London UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, it's £50 (CAD$100), and you risk a tow-away, which runs the fine over the $500 mark, and results in you having to trek across town to get your car back.
That's after you pay CAD$16 a day to enter the city.
I live in the UK. We used to have the best railway network in the world. Hell, we invented them. Then we had Margaret Thatcher
I think you're forgetting that Beeching fellow, who tore up 40% of the track and 65% of the stations in the country. Under both Labour and Tory governments.
better would be if all legislation had to have a Constitutionally mandated and specified sunset clause.
Then lawmakers would spend all their time arguing and renewing things like murder, carjacking etc. Every time murder comes up for renewal there would be the same arguments over abortion and euthanasia, not to mention dozey woman plowing into busstop doing makeup at 75mph in her SUV
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55,000 emails at home (283MB) in a few mbox-format files. 25 seconds to search them with grep.
11,000 emails at work (281MB) on an exchange server (shortly going down for another essential microsoft patch). 4 minutes to search them with outlook.
I log in to webmail via
Username
Password (changed every month)
Pin number
RSA Secure ID, a key fob which changes every minute, with a 3 year battery life
Fairly secure, doesn't matter if you're videoed as the key fob constantly changes. I guess if there's a weakness in the fob, and you have two adjacent numbers, you can probably guess the future ones, but it's easier for a fraudster to go elsewhere. Ultimatly security is making your system harder to break than other similar systems.
# Are way ahead when it comes to stanards, (think about their take on IE and ODF)
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Not the UK, which is consistently much lower than even the US, mainly due to Blair sucking up to Gates as much as Bush. The BBC's love for microsoft doesn't do any favours either.
http://www.xitimonitor.com/etudes/equipement13.as
'The' appears in both forms, I was referring to 'of'. And I'm not sure how the word 'in' can refer to outside.
Welcome to the world of America. When most people read "the kids are out [the] back", they immediatly think of kids playing in the back garden. In naughties America, you're more likely to hear "The kids are in [the] back [of the car]", as there are terrorists outside the confines of the armoured vehicle.
struck on the back of the head by a full 2L PET drink bottle. The kid still had the bottle in his hand and when my friend turned around, there were 5-6 or so kids ready to "go at it"
It's situations like this that ABSO's were created, which is why I'm all for them.
No, it's situations like this (assault) that PRISONS were created.
All an asbo does is say "Don't do it again". ASBOs are relavent when somebody is repeatadly causing a nuisence but not actually breaking any laws -- e.g. loud music every night.
Yes, I did, still in it 3 years later too
Any bets on the timing of the _next_ American Civil War?
The only way that will happen is if the American public care about the rights they lose, as long as they have bread and circuses (Beer and TV) they'll be happy. America will fall in the same way the Roamn Empire fell.
They days of Franklin are long gone.
They may very specifically not ask what religion you subscribe to.
Not so in the U.K. I refused to answer on the "equal oportunities form" when I applied for a job at a publicly funded (non-governmental though) corporation. I also answered "Other" for "Race" and put "Human".
My S.O. applied for a job at the Independent Police Complaints Commission, and got asked for, amongst other irrellevent personal details, religion and sexual orientation, again on a "Equal opportunities" form.
Of course we have a government organisation to make sure that there's no discrimination based on ethnicity. Sadly the head of it is the biggest racist on the planet. Aside from encouraging discrimination based on skin colour in the workplace, he believes that there should be seperate schools depending on skin colour. Black kids in one school, white kids in another.
It's sickening apartheid.
Just imagine what the [lawyer] profession would be like if they didn't do the rigerous background checks.
It would be full of blood sucking sub-human leaches?
Yes, you're right that copyright law doesn't cover use.
But in the case of a computer program, "using" it includes copying the program from a storage location (hard drive, CD rom etc), into memory.
There's nothing I can find in the UK in the 1988 copyright act, or the 1991 and 2003 ammendments, to specifically say that this is not infringing, except in the case
It is not an infringement of copyright for a lawful user of a copy of a computer program to observe, study or test the functioning of the program in order to determine the ideas and principles which underlie any element of the program if he does so while performing any of the acts of loading, displaying, running, transmitting or storing the program which he is entitled to do.
So I can arguably use the program to understand it. Ther's also something about making a backup copy of the program not being an infringment.
Playing a CD also creates a copy, however specifically
The rights conferred by Part 2 are not infringed by the making of a temporary copy of a recording of a performance which is transient or incidental, which is an integral and essential part of a technological process and the sole purpose of which is to enable -
(a) a transmission of the recording in a network between third parties by an intermediary; or
(b) a lawful use of the recording;
It also mentions transitory copys (webcache etc) of all copyright work excluding computer programs and databases.
Does anyone know any case law (preferably since 2003), in the UK (although other countries would be of interest) which specifically defines if *running* any computer program (including open source ones) requires permission of the copyright holder, for the transitory copy in memory (or even permament copy on the HDD)
ARP poisoning works effectively on the unmanaged switches at my office*.
:)
*Where I'm the IT guy and using it for purely ethical things...
I just use a monitoring port...
Wow. This is really big brother. Essentially they put these on top of cop cars an the thing just starts searching 360 for license plates and drops them in the system. The trick would be to have enough police cars fitted with them to give back good data. Also it would not help track the car if it were in someone's garage.
It's reality in the UK, has been for a while. ANPR cameras are everywhere, if you drive past them, they check your number against various databases to check it's tax, MOTed, insured, and perhaps if you're lucky not stolen. In London they also check you've paid the congestion charge (toll), and on a few motorways they're used to calculate average speed and ticket you if you break it.
If you break the law, you get a fine. The result? Less cops on the street to pull over the dangerous drivers and cars with no plates.
Most people I know haven't got a clue what a file is. They aren't computer litereate, they can load a few programs (word processor, browser, email), and that's about it.
It took YEARS for me to get somewhat computer literate (using linux). Not everyone fancies spending hundreds of hours re-learning it all.
I've tried windows XP (and 2K) several times, but I hate using something I don't understand, or don't understand enough to configure to run properly and such... Every time I've tried it, I've had problems, I couldn't even find the command line, had to download cygwin. All I could find (after about 2 hours) was an expanded run command "Command Prompt".
Files were stored seemingly randomly, and I wasn't sure where my files were for some programs, I couldn't find apache's htdocs without doing a search. The version of windows search I had seemed to have a bug, instead of taking half a second like 'locate htdocs' does, it took forever.
Of course, I had to figure out that installing apache wasn't enough - gotta install the service too or something, wtf is this computer management thing?
My PDA wouldn't work, I plugged it in (just works (TM) under linux), but windows said "Found new hardware, insert driver disk". WTF is a driver disk? My PDA's a few years old, and it's a standard usb networking device. Fixing it seemed overly complex, I couldn't find a driver on the "list all drivers" option. Had to spend donkeys years finding and installing essential programs, and it turns out with windows I can't just click on a program and have it automatically download and install (I hoped "add remove programs" in control panel would do that, it seems to simply be "remove (some) programs" though, I have to visit a website, click through dozens of popups, download a zip file, extract that, run a setup program, install that, then get arround to configuring the program. I looked for something like ".putty" to see where it stored connects, so I could move to another machine easilly, but no sign of that.
I'm also told I need something called "Anti Virus"? WTF is that? If my computer sneezes I'll know about it, but I doubt that it can get a cold (my PC runs >50C). Coupled with having to find alternatives for the programs I take for granted (cygwin helps a lot, but not for everything), and I find that programs that are available don't have the same support.
USB flash drive had to have drivers installed and a reboot (a reboot? I've plugged in a simple USB storage device, nto a new freakin' OS) too.
Yes, there is always an answer, a fix, or whatever. And the OS is ubiquitus and all. But, you gotta figure it all out, and even though ppl here like to say their grandma runs windows and finds it easy, IT'S NOT. I was completely fucking lost. Want to understand where files are (I hear some configuration settings are stored in a single binary file with a lousy editor)? Sure! Just read some website that's 100 pages of adverts. There's no nice sinple help system like "man" to find out how to do something easilly.
I'm sorry, but I'd rather download a linux net-install disk at dinner, and put it on that night, rather than having to leave the house, go 20 miles to some shop, spend $CAD 400 on a version of windows, come back and then faff arround installing, registering and activating it?
I'm still toying with windows at work, but for my home desktop? Not a chance.
If someone was learning from scratch one OS or the other, perhaps windows could be a better choice, but there's some of us that have already invested more time than we care learning to use an OS and associated apps, I just aren't going to relearn it all. When I had a problemwith linux I'd fire off an email to my local LUG and get a few nice courteous replies within an hour or two. I haven't found a windows user group though.
Windows isn't for everyone I guess.
Where's the kaboom
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
As I point out to my wife, unless you live more than 12 miles from work or are in tremendously horrible shape... cycling smokes all other forms of transpo...
I live 40 miles from work as the crow flies (about 55 by road), I ride to the station (1 mile), take the train, then ride the last 6 miles to work.
We have showers at our work, so I get up at 7, get the 7:14 train (It's all down hill), arrive at 8:05, get to work at 8:40, and at my desk before 9, depending on how many red lights I meet.
Going via train/tube involves getting up at 6:30, shower, leave at 6:55, getting the 7:14 train, get the tube at 8:05, arrive at work arround 8:50 hot and sweaty (over 40 degrees on the central line today)
Going by bike saves £50 a month on the tube, and burns about 1600 calaries a day (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=260320)
There are few disadvantages but the biggest of these is that I have to share the road with the lazy, dangerous and callous fools who insist on poisoning the air and making the world a generally less plesant place by choosing to haul their fat arses around in metal exoskeletons.
Buses? Yeah, London bus drivers are inexplicably bad. Consistently straining to overtake, then stopping just as they finish to pick up/drop off.
Taxi's and lorries are pretty bad too, consistently driving, and stopping, in cycle lanes.
Most cyclists are infurating, mainly because they give the minority of us a bad name, jumping lights, riding pavements etc.
For the most part, cars in London are relativly courteous.
Cars around here simply tendto move faster than 10-15 miles per hour.
Then you live in a nice uncongested area then. Try averaging 10-15mph in London door to door (that includes walking from home to the car, driving to your destination, parking, then walking from parking spot to the office)
I used to travel in from near Reading to West London, thereby avoiding the worst of the traffic and the centre of town, and also having a lively seperated highway (no red lights etc) for the majority of the trip. It took a little under 2 hours and was 32 miles. Most of that time was spent inside the M25.
It's really the bridge between Ketchikan and its airport, so that rich tourists can get to the airport with all their damned salmon.
In which case increase landing fees at the airport to pay for it, or charge a toll on the bridge (with appropiate discounts for locals). Why be all socialist and get someone else who will never use it to pay for it?
Of course Thatcher must get some of the blame for her short-sighted, if not actually completely idiotic, privatisation shite which she forced on everyone (rail cannot be run as a private entity.
Short-sighted I think, she was far-sighted in other things though (closing non-profitable mines so that the raw material will still be there when global price increases in the future). She certainly wasn't idiotic, anyone that is in charge of a nuclear power isn't idiotic, and that includes Bush.
The rail infrastructure should never have been privitised, neither should new rail that's built (CTRL for example), or new roads (M6 toll), but in todays accountancy reigime that's not how things work.
However some services (mainly long distances) could be privitised, if done correctly, and given safeguards against one company "competing" with itself, and you do get healthy competition on some routes - London - Exeter for example. It can be done cheap and slow on SWT, or Fast and pricey on FGW. Manchester - London used to have two options too, MML and Virgin. Glasgow - London has Virgin and GNER. Open access operators like Hull Trains also throw stuff into the mix.
Remember that BR was hardly amazing.
You don't need to put 'London UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND'
The OP clearly wrote Calgary (which even us Brits know where that is), then wrote the country, in capital letters.
I did the same.
England is not a soverign nation. The OP didn't write Calgary, Alberta (not the same thing, but close).
The UK is a common abbreviation of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but it's not the offical name. I just wanted to make clear which London I was on about, the OP might have assumed I was on about London, Ontario, for example.
Doesn't hurt to remind people the realy name of the country (ruled by the decendent of a Scottish King)
Actually, here in Calgary CANADA, there's been a big hubub recently about people parking all day at parking meters and just paying the fine. It was cheaper to pay the $25 fine than to pay $28 for eight hours of parking.
in London UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, it's £50 (CAD$100), and you risk a tow-away, which runs the fine over the $500 mark, and results in you having to trek across town to get your car back.
That's after you pay CAD$16 a day to enter the city.
2 private runways in his backyard.
Only in American can you land, or even fit, a plane in your "back yard"
I live in the UK. We used to have the best railway network in the world. Hell, we invented them. Then we had Margaret Thatcher
I think you're forgetting that Beeching fellow, who tore up 40% of the track and 65% of the stations in the country. Under both Labour and Tory governments.
Amazing how anti-Thatcher hatred warps the mind.
It includes DVR software that understands the dual tuner that came with my computer, among other things.
Other things like not record programs you want to record? Sounds great.
better would be if all legislation had to have a Constitutionally mandated and specified sunset clause.
Then lawmakers would spend all their time arguing and renewing things like murder, carjacking etc. Every time murder comes up for renewal there would be the same arguments over abortion and euthanasia, not to mention dozey woman plowing into busstop doing makeup at 75mph in her SUV