Yes, the EFS isn't really a proper guard against data being stolen upon loss of laptop. It is at most to stop casual people from picking up a laptop and ransoming off information. Any mediocre admin will be able to recover the information.
This appears to be a problem using the win2k recovery console on a winxp install, not the XP console.
And all it allows you to do is copy files around. Whoopty do. Pop in a linux boot floppy with ntfs support and do the same thing, only easier (because the win2k recovery console doesn't support wildcarding; lame.)
Re:ok, so he removes it from his lexicon so what?
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Actually it really does. Kleenex has lost the ability to copyright/trademark (I never remember which) their name because it's become common usage.
And yet in America all we seem to teach our children is to buy more than you need to learn something they don't (6 months to learn how to use word?!?) Even if Linux is used there still needs to be a change to teach children something rather than babysit them.
[note: general statement meant to be generally insightful as *MOST, NOT ALL* American public schools follow this general statement, just as I am sure some Indian schools waste money and time on overpowered machines teaching word]
Set permissions to the.xls/.doc to readonly for the groups that need it and other for others. They can copy the order forms and then modify them, but they'll be able to do that will DRM enabled Office. (or if not, it shouldn't be a difficult hack to read and save the doc somehow)
Instead of having permissions on the fielsystem they're now in the filesystem and in the file. woo hoo.
Why's this under privacy? There's no reasonable expectation of privacy using someone else's network. Especially when the stated policy upon arrival almost certainly says "don't do this"
Hell, it doesn't even have to be working, just offered. Just the offer of local phone service for some outrageous fee should be enough to require sharing.
The Bells have been dicking people around for ages, why not return the favor?
Just for the record I generally agree. I also believe the age of adulthood should be 16 (or lower) rather than 18. Hell, that alone generally brings a great amount of flamage.
They're very similar I think that the majority of the US (I do not know about elsewhere) believe that anyone under the age of 18 cannot make competant decisions. The common belief is that teenagers are wildly immature and irresponsible.
Usually they are. So are 18-200 year olds. IMO the US (and everywhere) would be *much* better off if people were once again made responsible for their actions and choices. No more excuses.
Now that computers aren't coming with floppy drives, there better be something that users can do crash recovery from if the machines won't boot from cd....
Personally I'd like the choice of recovery cds/floppies.
What if you're not redistributing it? I don't speak spanish. If I write down the spanish, look it up and translate it, and then burn the paper, it's not redistributed (except in my head).
If I take an encrypted satelite feed (that I don't understand) and unencrypt it to something I can understand and then erase the bits, it's not redistributed (except on my TV and in my head).
DirectTV broadcast their signals to everyone. Who are they to demand how their signal is used?
To criminalize the act of decrypting satellite TV is the same as criminalizing the act of translating spanish radio into english. The radio station cannot demand that only people that understand spanish listen to it. It's just taking information that's being broadcast to everyone and translating it into a different form.
Except of course that it didn't used to be this way. EA used to release tons of games, a few were truly great, and most of the rest were trash. The great ones made them enough cash to license out the madden series, and buy out "good" dev houses. Then they got conservative and ran innovation into the ground.
Maxis is the only dev house that EA has that does anything anymore it seems, and even they seem to be influenced greatly by the mothership (sims online and sim4? not high quality)
I'm aware of gui automation's existance, and I'm aware that most of them suck my left one. (and if they don't it's still significantly harder to automate a gui to find file, click click click than to run "pgp -f config.file infile.txt outfile.txt" or some such)
I don't think he was referring to cron, or at, or the windows scheduler. He was referring to being able to actually put an application into the scheduler. It's not useful when running someapp.exe just opens a gui. Then you just end up with the gui openned on regularly scheduled increments.
Techies, professors conclude, must act more like psychoanalysts; they must learn to "appreciate the difference between what people say and what they mean."
And they say the techies are the ones lacking communications skills? How about people ask for what they actually want; maybe they'll have a better chance of getting it that way...
Unfortunately not all of us are in a position to negotiate. I recently changed employers to one that required backround checks, including criminal and financial histories. The trick is of course that my new employer bought out my old employer, netting me in excess of $50k from the deal. Why would I have credit issues?
When I asked about negotiating the backround or simply the financial check I was informed flat out that "then we'll find someone else"
And in all honesty they could.
This is why unions exist, despite American's views that they just create jobs for people that don't deserve them.
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I concur (using a shell rather than a manager), though pretty/ugly are matters of preference. from what I've heard KDE's is 'better' functionally. This might be a perception holdover of when Nautilus was slow. I'm just passing along what I've heard.
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Ah, no; to the best of my knowledge the recovery console is only accessable by booting off the cd.
That would be very bad.
Yes, the EFS isn't really a proper guard against data being stolen upon loss of laptop. It is at most to stop casual people from picking up a laptop and ransoming off information. Any mediocre admin will be able to recover the information.
This has been known for "some time now".
This appears to be a problem using the win2k recovery console on a winxp install, not the XP console.
And all it allows you to do is copy files around. Whoopty do. Pop in a linux boot floppy with ntfs support and do the same thing, only easier (because the win2k recovery console doesn't support wildcarding; lame.)
Actually it really does. Kleenex has lost the ability to copyright/trademark (I never remember which) their name because it's become common usage.
And yet in America all we seem to teach our children is to buy more than you need to learn something they don't (6 months to learn how to use word?!?) Even if Linux is used there still needs to be a change to teach children something rather than babysit them.
[note: general statement meant to be generally insightful as *MOST, NOT ALL* American public schools follow this general statement, just as I am sure some Indian schools waste money and time on overpowered machines teaching word]
Umm, that's already in windows.
.xls/.doc to readonly for the groups that need it and other for others. They can copy the order forms and then modify them, but they'll be able to do that will DRM enabled Office. (or if not, it shouldn't be a difficult hack to read and save the doc somehow)
Set permissions to the
Instead of having permissions on the fielsystem they're now in the filesystem and in the file. woo hoo.
Why's this under privacy? There's no reasonable expectation of privacy using someone else's network. Especially when the stated policy upon arrival almost certainly says "don't do this"
take their money and don't provide service. It works for SBC/Verizon...
Cable.
Maybe some Comcast stock might be a better bet than some wireless venture.
Hell, it doesn't even have to be working, just offered. Just the offer of local phone service for some outrageous fee should be enough to require sharing.
The Bells have been dicking people around for ages, why not return the favor?
Just for the record I generally agree. I also believe the age of adulthood should be 16 (or lower) rather than 18. Hell, that alone generally brings a great amount of flamage.
They're very similar I think that the majority of the US (I do not know about elsewhere) believe that anyone under the age of 18 cannot make competant decisions. The common belief is that teenagers are wildly immature and irresponsible.
Usually they are. So are 18-200 year olds. IMO the US (and everywhere) would be *much* better off if people were once again made responsible for their actions and choices. No more excuses.
Now that computers aren't coming with floppy drives, there better be something that users can do crash recovery from if the machines won't boot from cd....
Personally I'd like the choice of recovery cds/floppies.
Has the film industry portrayed any normal person accurately? No. Normal people are boring.
Right, but what if it's not rebroadcast. What if english isn't your native language, and you simply translate it into something you can comprehend?
So running the light from the tv to your eyes is rebroadcasting if you want to go that far with it...
What if you're not redistributing it? I don't speak spanish. If I write down the spanish, look it up and translate it, and then burn the paper, it's not redistributed (except in my head).
If I take an encrypted satelite feed (that I don't understand) and unencrypt it to something I can understand and then erase the bits, it's not redistributed (except on my TV and in my head).
But where's the crime?
DirectTV broadcast their signals to everyone. Who are they to demand how their signal is used?
To criminalize the act of decrypting satellite TV is the same as criminalizing the act of translating spanish radio into english. The radio station cannot demand that only people that understand spanish listen to it. It's just taking information that's being broadcast to everyone and translating it into a different form.
1-6mb files? :P
heh, most 1-6mb files I see are on irc fserves
Except of course that it didn't used to be this way. EA used to release tons of games, a few were truly great, and most of the rest were trash. The great ones made them enough cash to license out the madden series, and buy out "good" dev houses. Then they got conservative and ran innovation into the ground.
Maxis is the only dev house that EA has that does anything anymore it seems, and even they seem to be influenced greatly by the mothership (sims online and sim4? not high quality)
Ah, my apologies, it was not meant to be meant that way. Simply that it was more difficult.
I'm aware of gui automation's existance, and I'm aware that most of them suck my left one. (and if they don't it's still significantly harder to automate a gui to find file, click click click than to run "pgp -f config.file infile.txt outfile.txt" or some such)
I don't think he was referring to cron, or at, or the windows scheduler. He was referring to being able to actually put an application into the scheduler. It's not useful when running someapp.exe just opens a gui. Then you just end up with the gui openned on regularly scheduled increments.
And they say the techies are the ones lacking communications skills? How about people ask for what they actually want; maybe they'll have a better chance of getting it that way...
Unfortunately not all of us are in a position to negotiate. I recently changed employers to one that required backround checks, including criminal and financial histories. The trick is of course that my new employer bought out my old employer, netting me in excess of $50k from the deal. Why would I have credit issues?
When I asked about negotiating the backround or simply the financial check I was informed flat out that "then we'll find someone else"
And in all honesty they could.
This is why unions exist, despite American's views that they just create jobs for people that don't deserve them.
I concur (using a shell rather than a manager), though pretty/ugly are matters of preference. from what I've heard KDE's is 'better' functionally. This might be a perception holdover of when Nautilus was slow. I'm just passing along what I've heard.