You know, I can get over the "offtopic" moderation, since it is offtopic. But flamebait??? Flamewars about the spelling of "boobies" in a calculator? How exciting!!
I can go around my problem by using a Windows laptop, but it's not a perfect world for me.
As for checking before you buy, the hardware in question does some great DSP. It does work without Windows, it does have a (3rd-party) Linux driver, but the app is Windows only. When I bought it I knew about this limitation, but I bought it nevertheless. Reason? There's no real competitor for this product.
Things are much better now than were in the past, and we're slowly moving forward. I'll buy a good effects processor with Linux support over a Windows-only similar anytime, even if it's more expensive (but not too much). But for now, I'm doing my part.
Which means bitching every other day about it to the manufacturer... hey, I'm no developer:)
Not really. As for the specific product I'm talking about (PODxt), there is alredy a driver for Linux. However, the application that manages it (i.e., stores all patches, sets up all effects, imports and exports tones from the Internet) runs only on Windows, and requires the USB device to be plugged in to work (Line 6 Edit is the name of the application).
So it's not a driver for Linux, it's support for USB in Wine that's needed.
I know about usb-storage support, it works perfectly, but what about full USB support?
Many USB devices require Windows apps to use them correctly. For me, Line6 USB products for audio come to mind, but i'm sure there are plenty of others.
From what I've seen in the wine-devel discussions, it looks like a tough challenge. Are there any takers yet? What are the main showstoppers? Or, am I totally wrong on my figures and these other USB devices are not used that much?
If these are a lot of questions, please stick to the first one:)
Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The counter girl took my $2 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register.
I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried.
Why do I tell you this?
Because of the evolution in teaching math since the 1950's:
1. Teaching Math In 1950's
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ?
2. Teaching Math In 1960's
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100 His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
3. Teaching Math In 1970's
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
4. Teaching Math In 1980's
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5. Teaching Math In 1990's
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it's ok. )
6. Teaching Math In 2008
Un hachero vende una carretada de maderapara $100. El costo de la producciones es $80. Cuanto dinero ha hecho?
I've done it. Once, asked by a family that's really close to me.
It's surely not that simple to know a dead man's wishes. But in the case of suicide, any clue that helps the family understand the reason and circumstances serves as an enormous relief.
That kind of info gets at least all the paranoia out of the family's heads. By paranoia I mean all the thoughts about the "why", "who", "what", "how" that everyone left behind here can't help thinking.
As for the legal part (paying for the funeral, etc) I have no idea how it would work.
And you can flood them even if they are not responding, because a ping flood saturates network resources, not server resources. So not replying would not make a significant difference.
You could save some upstream bytes blocking ICMP responses, but I don't think that's a problem for them. And responding to pings is just playing fair on the network.
You do realize that Pidgin/Gaim works with more than one protocol, right? Actually most people don't give a damn about aim, since they use it for MSN/GTalk.
Right on. Powerpoint presentations actually help, if appropriately (sp?) used. As an educator myself, I always try to summarize the main thought into the slide, and let students work on their own notes. As presenting the subject, I frequently draw on the whiteboard, use my hands, videos and several NLP techniques to get to all students.
Powerpoint by itself is useless. Mainly because not all people learn better visually. Some are audile, others tactile, others visual. Powerpoint presentations are a great way to keep your lecture together and make it flow. The mistake is that some people use it as the only tool to teach.
That's just stupid. But then again, if you are stupid enough you could end up as president of some country.
I'm pretty sure that the initial guidelines from Gartner, which I see as the inventor of TCO, cannot be applied today, ten years later.
Even so, wouldn't it be safe to say that the criteria for this calculation are quite subjective? And even if they weren't, can we safely assume that the numbers for TCO will be the same in any part of the world?
I would say not.
Anybody willing to enlighten me on that subject? It really looks like you can make TCO say whatever you want.
PS: Linux user since '97, Windows-Free since y2k at my office. So that you don't mod this down to oblivion, 'cause I'm really looking for an answer.
Not a lot of attacks can benefit from spoofing. See, spoofing only works for the kind of attacks where you don't expect a response, such as denial of service attacks. If you're trying to "own" a server somewhere or even transfer files using TCP to deface a site (as in using exploits on webservers) you will be identified.
That is where zombies come in place, using them as decoys for traceback. IOW, you first own a chinese machine and then launch everything from there, making sure nothing gets logged on that particular machine. Much more efficient than spoofing.
Hey, remember when MS Office 2k announced the use of 12 clipboards? Yes, *12*!!!
vim has had this for ages! and there are 36 of them!! a thru z, and numbers!
instead of yy or dd, try "ayy or "add (with the quote sign, saves in clipboard a)! Same for paste.
Seriously though, how would a bunch of cops that only use times new roman and the default location for everything feel that MS Office is more efficient than any other point-and-click simple text processor? They could be using wordpad, FWIW.
Why not build a virtual machine into the browser itself? Sort of a special purpose virtual machine that has just enough of an OS to run the browser.
Because that's exactly the problem. IE is only that vulnerable beacuse it is integrated with every single feature of the operating system. So, to build a VM to support the browser would be to build the whole OS into it.
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Call me when they find Urectium.
You know, I can get over the "offtopic" moderation, since it is offtopic. But flamebait??? Flamewars about the spelling of "boobies" in a calculator? How exciting!!
Newbie...
correct spelling is "5318008" and you have to look at the calculator "umop apisdn"
Mod me down, I dare you!!!
You're right about that.
I can go around my problem by using a Windows laptop, but it's not a perfect world for me.
As for checking before you buy, the hardware in question does some great DSP. It does work without Windows, it does have a (3rd-party) Linux driver, but the app is Windows only. When I bought it I knew about this limitation, but I bought it nevertheless. Reason? There's no real competitor for this product.
Things are much better now than were in the past, and we're slowly moving forward. I'll buy a good effects processor with Linux support over a Windows-only similar anytime, even if it's more expensive (but not too much). But for now, I'm doing my part.
Which means bitching every other day about it to the manufacturer... hey, I'm no developer :)
Not really. As for the specific product I'm talking about (PODxt), there is alredy a driver for Linux. However, the application that manages it (i.e., stores all patches, sets up all effects, imports and exports tones from the Internet) runs only on Windows, and requires the USB device to be plugged in to work (Line 6 Edit is the name of the application).
So it's not a driver for Linux, it's support for USB in Wine that's needed.
I know about usb-storage support, it works perfectly, but what about full USB support?
Many USB devices require Windows apps to use them correctly. For me, Line6 USB products for audio come to mind, but i'm sure there are plenty of others.
From what I've seen in the wine-devel discussions, it looks like a tough challenge. Are there any takers yet? What are the main showstoppers? Or, am I totally wrong on my figures and these other USB devices are not used that much?
If these are a lot of questions, please stick to the first one :)
Makes me wonder what was the calibration method for feet, inches and pretty much every other imperial measurement unit.
Even the size of the King's foot is an average.
Humor-impaired people, please don't read.
Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The counter girl took my $2 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register.
I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried.
Why do I tell you this?
Because of the evolution in teaching math since the 1950's:
1. Teaching Math In 1950's
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ?
2. Teaching Math In 1960's
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100 His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
3. Teaching Math In 1970's
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
4. Teaching Math In 1980's
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5. Teaching Math In 1990's
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it's ok. )
6. Teaching Math In 2008
Un hachero vende una carretada de maderapara $100. El costo de la producciones es $80. Cuanto dinero ha hecho?
You know you are reading Slashdot when somebody says Matt "Daemon" and nobody seems to have a problem with that.
I've done it. Once, asked by a family that's really close to me.
It's surely not that simple to know a dead man's wishes. But in the case of suicide, any clue that helps the family understand the reason and circumstances serves as an enormous relief.
That kind of info gets at least all the paranoia out of the family's heads. By paranoia I mean all the thoughts about the "why", "who", "what", "how" that everyone left behind here can't help thinking.
As for the legal part (paying for the funeral, etc) I have no idea how it would work.
Hope that helped.
Wouldn't that be "African-European"?
(just kidding, yeah I got your point...)
That one's easy.
Ping of Death is history.
And you can flood them even if they are not responding, because a ping flood saturates network resources, not server resources. So not replying would not make a significant difference.
You could save some upstream bytes blocking ICMP responses, but I don't think that's a problem for them. And responding to pings is just playing fair on the network.
Little nitpick: 99.999% uptime means a bit more than 5 minutes/year of downtime.
Point taken and agreed, nevertheless.
And, unless its not a product, Reader.
Double nitpick.
VMKernel has its own drivers. There's even an HCL for ESX. The products that use the base OS drivers are the hosted ones (i.e. Workstation, Server).
The binary blob might be the only issue, if any. But I'd rather see what happens instead of further speculating.
You do realize that Pidgin/Gaim works with more than one protocol, right? Actually most people don't give a damn about aim, since they use it for MSN/GTalk.
Right on. Powerpoint presentations actually help, if appropriately (sp?) used. As an educator myself, I always try to summarize the main thought into the slide, and let students work on their own notes. As presenting the subject, I frequently draw on the whiteboard, use my hands, videos and several NLP techniques to get to all students.
Powerpoint by itself is useless. Mainly because not all people learn better visually. Some are audile, others tactile, others visual. Powerpoint presentations are a great way to keep your lecture together and make it flow. The mistake is that some people use it as the only tool to teach.
That's just stupid. But then again, if you are stupid enough you could end up as president of some country.
If you are using CDs, or for that matter DVDs, for archival, you deserve it.
PS: Not flamebait. Anybody who has worked seriously on backups/archiving knows for sure that magnetic is still the way to go.
At least for now.
your readers are all technically literate.
If that were true, this story would not have a submitter.
Dear Slashdot editors,
Please don't instigate any more flamewars on OS security. If I may help, security actually depends on the administrator, period.
How about ::1?
MAC addresses?
Just sayin'.
I'm pretty sure that the initial guidelines from Gartner, which I see as the inventor of TCO, cannot be applied today, ten years later.
Even so, wouldn't it be safe to say that the criteria for this calculation are quite subjective? And even if they weren't, can we safely assume that the numbers for TCO will be the same in any part of the world?
I would say not.
Anybody willing to enlighten me on that subject? It really looks like you can make TCO say whatever you want.
PS: Linux user since '97, Windows-Free since y2k at my office. So that you don't mod this down to oblivion, 'cause I'm really looking for an answer.
Not a lot of attacks can benefit from spoofing. See, spoofing only works for the kind of attacks where you don't expect a response, such as denial of service attacks. If you're trying to "own" a server somewhere or even transfer files using TCP to deface a site (as in using exploits on webservers) you will be identified.
That is where zombies come in place, using them as decoys for traceback. IOW, you first own a chinese machine and then launch everything from there, making sure nothing gets logged on that particular machine. Much more efficient than spoofing.
Hey, remember when MS Office 2k announced the use of 12 clipboards? Yes, *12*!!!
vim has had this for ages! and there are 36 of them!! a thru z, and numbers!
instead of yy or dd, try "ayy or "add (with the quote sign, saves in clipboard a)! Same for paste.
Seriously though, how would a bunch of cops that only use times new roman and the default location for everything feel that MS Office is more efficient than any other point-and-click simple text processor? They could be using wordpad, FWIW.
Why not build a virtual machine into the browser itself?
Sort of a special purpose virtual machine that has
just enough of an OS to run the browser.
Because that's exactly the problem. IE is only that vulnerable beacuse it is integrated with every single feature of the operating system. So, to build a VM to support the browser would be to build the whole OS into it.