Think about an individual being in too much debt, now is that "an investment" in the person?
Yes, it is. Whatever bank loaned that person the money has made an investment, for which they receive interest accrued monthly, annually, or at some other interval.
Think about junk bonds at a low interest rate, is that "an investment"?
It might be Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. They don't exist, either.
"Junk bond" and "low interest rate" simply don't belong in the same sentance. The two are mutually exclusive.
Because I don't want to have a collection of external hard drives sitting down next to my tv generating more noise and heat and looking down right ugly. So, no. That wouldn't be easier.
It most definitely would be easier! All you'd have to do is plug in the hard drive and you're done. With the original method, you'd have to set up two separate servers, connect them over a network, and configure them to share access to a hard disk. How is that easier than plugging an external disk into a USB slot?
Whether it would be better, that's another matter. I submit that it would be, because the hard drive in question is 5.25 inches deep and 2U wide. It would generate far less heat than a complete server, use far less power, and could be safely stored on the same shelf as the Mac Mini media server. Given the combined size of the two devices, you'd still use less space than with separate DVD and VCR players.
Are you asking how to set up an alias kind of like this:
ruptime=`ssh $1 '/bin/uptime'`
Then when you want to check the uptime on a remote box, you run: ruptime remote_host
And do all this from a Windows box?
If that's the case, you should use Putty. The Putty configuration can be set up to run a remote command, linked to a given hostname. Then when you open Putty, just select the proper 'alias' from the list, just like you would any host.
I would expect SecureCRT has a similar function, but I haven't used it in a few years.
More direct question. Rip a dvd into an ISO image, store all the ISO images on a linux box that has a samba share. Can the mini with front row (1) access this filesystem across the network and (2) play the iso image as if the dvd were in the drive with full menu and functionality through front row?
I have been thinking. Wouldn't it be interesting if they used this to offer paid hosting of websites and businesses (ala Rackspace/Dreamhost/CIHost/Whatever)? Now I realized that this is quite a bit out of their core market, but it would get Apple servers out there. And who better to know how to run a datacenter of Macs than Apple themselves. Rent your own partial XServer to even a full XServer!
Well, if there's one company that knows how to use a service to push hardware, it's Apple. I'm not sure how they'd replicate the success of iTunes+iPod to a hosting service (iRack? naaah). But if there's a way to make it work, I'm sure Jobs and Company can find it.
I'll be surprised if this hasn't been said yet, but there's an obvious name for this:
The Chinternet.
Why do I suddenly have a mental image of two private white-hat hackers giving up on finding the source for a child porn ring? And why is that image in black and white?
How do you (do you?) fight stereotypes of all Westerners as depraved, immoral, Iraqi-woman-raping Crusaders? How common is the image of Westerners, especially Americans, as hell bent on conquering the Dar al-Islam, and what can be done to mitigate it?
Serious question: from your point of view, what do you think it would take for MidEast nations to embrace democracy, in one form or another, rather than the monarchal and dictatorial systems which are currently popular? For instance, your home nation of Jordan is a monarchy, though a relatively benign one. Do you see any impetus for that to change? If not, why not? As a correllary, do you think it's important that MidEast nations embrace democracy (since my question implies that it is)? Why or why not?
Why ironic? The LA DA is the one who filed the charges, not the White House. So where's the connection?
According to the biography for the DA (http://da.co.la.ca.us/history/cooley.htm), the man has never had anything to do with the Republican Party (not directly, at any rate). He's also never held any posts in either Texas or DC, so there's no direct connection between him and Bush. So, again, could you expand on this whole White House conspiracy connection to which you referred?
Unless you were just commenting on the original memos, which seem to state that Diebold was using faulty and/or shoddy equipment. That's a different matter.
As for whether I should comment on your comments, get over yourself, Marty. You can always make me your foe (http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=214229). I won't be offended. Hell, I wouldn't even care. Then you won't be bothered by having to read my ironic drivel.
The Canadian courts ruled years ago that the recording industry can't sue people who've paid the tax, so it makes me happy knowing that I'm a law-abiding citizen.
That's freakin' sweet! So it's actually legal in Canada to download songs from the Internet, burn them to a CDR, then sell them at a profit? Or do you still have to buy a copy of the song, first, before recording?
Either way, I see a potential business model in there. If you can get your cost per CD down below $1, you could actually undercut iTunes pricing.
I wonder if those legal copies would be legal in the US, too? And is there a comparable tax on DVD-R blanks, that goes to the movie industry?
You never know who's on the payoff in this government thing. I wonder how he got caught.
Gee, I dunno, maybe by giving his real name?
Today's tip is: when you hand over sensitive documents to reporters, don't tell them who they are. And definitely don't correct their spelling of your name to make sure you get the proper credit!
t's not like I'm the first person to notice that something smells rotten in the white house and point it out to people, but people who were calling me paranoid and insane just a few years ago are coming around to my way of thinking... starting in the last few years.
I don't see the connection between the White House and the Los Angeles DA's office. Could you expand on that connection?
And don't forget President Jackson's timeless quote: "It's Mr. Marshall's law, let him enforce it."*
Basically, the Executive Branch can tell the Judicial Branch they disagree with the court's reasoning in a case, so they won't enforce the ruling of the court.
*I may be misremembering the exact quote. This was regarding the ruling in Worcester v. State of Georgia that said a state could not impose its laws on an Indian nation, only the Federal government could do that. The long and the short of it was, Georgia got to evict the Cherokee, anyway.
The judge could also set aside the jury verdict, since the patents are invalid, but still award huge sums of money to NTP just to punish RIM for lying in court. It over yet, though there is a woman with a severe thyroid problem gargling water off in the corner.
What does Kathleen Harris have to do with the 2004 election? She was in Congress by then.
http://harris.house.gov/Biography/ With her swearing in on January 7, 2003, as U.S. Representative for the 13th District of Florida, Katherine Harris opened the newest chapter in her distinguished career of public service to her native state.
Sounds like you're still whining about the 2000 election. Maybe it's time for you to move on.
That's exactly what I'm clinging to - the hope that just maybe my fellow countrymen haven't been turned into ignorant beleivers by the constant stream of lies and misdirection coming out of this administration. I also beleive that a certain percentage of Republicans are just simply too stubborn to admit they were wrong with Dubya.
I think we've passed that point. The port scandal is gonna get bigger and bigger, and the consequences this November could be catastrophic for the Republican party. Die hards like Rush might want to pretend it's no big deal, but when you have the House Speaker and the Senate Majority leader both coming out (strongly) against it, that's not a good sign.
I was really hoping Condi would run in '08. But now there's no way I'd vote for anyone associated with this administration. Especially since it turns out she was on the committee that approved this abomination in the first place.
The task would be much simpler if there was an alternative to the Republicans in power who could be trusted to tell the truth. But quite frankly, I don't think the Democrats fit that bill well enough. They need some major changes before they can take back their base - the average working class American.
I'd love to see a new Federalist party form. One based on supporting a free market like the Libertarians, but without their abhorrence of everything military. Or just good ol' fashioned Lincoln-Reagan Republicanism (strong in war, magnaminous in victory, supporting free markets and free trade, that kind of thing).
Think I'll expand on these thoughts in my new blog later today.
So you'd never hire a Windows admin to take care of the local workstations used by the UNIX and mainframe admins? Do you expect someone who spends every minute of their day babysitting an OS/390 server to keep track of which patches should be installed on his SuSE workstation? Or what about having the Windows admin also be responsible for managing the SAN shares where the office's files are stored, or the tape backup library that protects the same?
In smaller shops there might be some crossover, but the larger the organization (eg, the greater the number of machines), the less well this works.
The person you responded to didn't make that claim. I sort of did, but if you had been paying attention you'd see that I was implying he said and using generalized "quotes" from his speech.
You can't even keep track of with whom you're talking, why should I even bother pointing these things out to you?
The torture which was authorized was different from happened at Abu Ghraib (sp?). The investigations into what happened started before the pictures were "leaked". They were in fact released by the DoD as part of the investigation.
George H. W. Bush is not the United States.
First, I know that and you know that. People living in a dictatorship might not. Second, he said the US has been doing these things, not just referring to the administration.
You do realize that you're defending someone who appears to have fanned the flames of Islamic extremism, don't you? I'm all for free speech, but when someone starts mouthing off and goading people into acts of violence, they've crossed the line. And make no mistake, hammering these kinds of things into an Islamic audience, in Saudi Arabia no less, is doing exactly that. It wouldn't be a big deal if he gave this kind of speech in the US, or Europe, or some other Western nation. But over there? That's different.
I've been trying to find the text myself, it doesn't seem to be printed anywhere. The "quotes" are more abstractions, based on how his audience would likely take them. Consider the context:
* Saudi Arabia was the breeding ground for 15 of the 19 hijackers. * It's also OBL's old stompin' grounds. * It's also one of the most repressive regimes on earth.
So any speech by a former vice-president (or any high ranking government-type, really), in which that person accuses the US government/current administration of purposely targetting Arabs for no good reason; refers to Abu Graib as "Bush's gulag" (that one is a quote), even though Bush had nothing to do with it and the perps who did are either on trial or in prison; and generally makes it clear that the US is now the enemy of Arabs/Muslims, should be considered treasonous. He's feeding the fires that are burning all over the world, just to make a few bucks (I'm sure the Jeddah Economic Council paid him a hefty fee to come tell them how horrible the US is). It's despicable, and a lot worse than accidentally wounding a friend, then not telling the national media about it that same day.
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Think about an individual being in too much debt, now is that "an investment" in the person?
Yes, it is. Whatever bank loaned that person the money has made an investment, for which they receive interest accrued monthly, annually, or at some other interval.
Think about junk bonds at a low interest rate, is that "an investment"?
It might be Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. They don't exist, either.
"Junk bond" and "low interest rate" simply don't belong in the same sentance. The two are mutually exclusive.
My marbles disappeared a long time ago.
Hence the stereotype of the single male computer geek.
Exactly, because all married males know exactly where their marbles are: in a jar in a cupboard in the kitchen.
Because I don't want to have a collection of external hard drives sitting down next to my tv generating more noise and heat and looking down right ugly. So, no. That wouldn't be easier.
It most definitely would be easier! All you'd have to do is plug in the hard drive and you're done. With the original method, you'd have to set up two separate servers, connect them over a network, and configure them to share access to a hard disk. How is that easier than plugging an external disk into a USB slot?
Whether it would be better, that's another matter. I submit that it would be, because the hard drive in question is 5.25 inches deep and 2U wide. It would generate far less heat than a complete server, use far less power, and could be safely stored on the same shelf as the Mac Mini media server. Given the combined size of the two devices, you'd still use less space than with separate DVD and VCR players.
Are you asking how to set up an alias kind of like this:
ruptime=`ssh $1 '/bin/uptime'`
Then when you want to check the uptime on a remote box, you run:
ruptime remote_host
And do all this from a Windows box?
If that's the case, you should use Putty. The Putty configuration can be set up to run a remote command, linked to a given hostname. Then when you open Putty, just select the proper 'alias' from the list, just like you would any host.
I would expect SecureCRT has a similar function, but I haven't used it in a few years.
More direct question. Rip a dvd into an ISO image, store all the ISO images on a linux box that has a samba share. Can the mini with front row (1) access this filesystem across the network and (2) play the iso image as if the dvd were in the drive with full menu and functionality through front row?
Why wouldn't you add an external disk to the mini? The Apple store shows some that are 1.2TB for only a grand. Wouldn't that be even easier?
In other words can the mini EASILY act as a stand alone media device?
Not doing it your way. It would be easier to remove the additional computer from the equation in the first place.
I have been thinking. Wouldn't it be interesting if they used this to offer paid hosting of websites and businesses (ala Rackspace/Dreamhost/CIHost/Whatever)? Now I realized that this is quite a bit out of their core market, but it would get Apple servers out there. And who better to know how to run a datacenter of Macs than Apple themselves. Rent your own partial XServer to even a full XServer!
Well, if there's one company that knows how to use a service to push hardware, it's Apple. I'm not sure how they'd replicate the success of iTunes+iPod to a hosting service (iRack? naaah). But if there's a way to make it work, I'm sure Jobs and Company can find it.
I'll be surprised if this hasn't been said yet, but there's an obvious name for this:
The Chinternet.
Why do I suddenly have a mental image of two private white-hat hackers giving up on finding the source for a child porn ring? And why is that image in black and white?
"Forget it, Jake, it's the Chinternet."
Another question on stereotypes:
How do you (do you?) fight stereotypes of all Westerners as depraved, immoral, Iraqi-woman-raping Crusaders? How common is the image of Westerners, especially Americans, as hell bent on conquering the Dar al-Islam, and what can be done to mitigate it?
Isam? You're not a MySQL admin, by any chance?
(Sorry, sorry, couldn't resist.)
Serious question: from your point of view, what do you think it would take for MidEast nations to embrace democracy, in one form or another, rather than the monarchal and dictatorial systems which are currently popular? For instance, your home nation of Jordan is a monarchy, though a relatively benign one. Do you see any impetus for that to change? If not, why not? As a correllary, do you think it's important that MidEast nations embrace democracy (since my question implies that it is)? Why or why not?
Thought it sounded too good to be true. Thanks for the clarification.
Why ironic? The LA DA is the one who filed the charges, not the White House. So where's the connection?
According to the biography for the DA (http://da.co.la.ca.us/history/cooley.htm), the man has never had anything to do with the Republican Party (not directly, at any rate). He's also never held any posts in either Texas or DC, so there's no direct connection between him and Bush. So, again, could you expand on this whole White House conspiracy connection to which you referred?
Unless you were just commenting on the original memos, which seem to state that Diebold was using faulty and/or shoddy equipment. That's a different matter.
As for whether I should comment on your comments, get over yourself, Marty. You can always make me your foe (http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=214229). I won't be offended. Hell, I wouldn't even care. Then you won't be bothered by having to read my ironic drivel.
The Canadian courts ruled years ago that the recording industry can't sue people who've paid the tax, so it makes me happy knowing that I'm a law-abiding citizen.
That's freakin' sweet! So it's actually legal in Canada to download songs from the Internet, burn them to a CDR, then sell them at a profit? Or do you still have to buy a copy of the song, first, before recording?
Either way, I see a potential business model in there. If you can get your cost per CD down below $1, you could actually undercut iTunes pricing.
I wonder if those legal copies would be legal in the US, too? And is there a comparable tax on DVD-R blanks, that goes to the movie industry?
You never know who's on the payoff in this government thing. I wonder how he got caught.
Gee, I dunno, maybe by giving his real name?
Today's tip is: when you hand over sensitive documents to reporters, don't tell them who they are. And definitely don't correct their spelling of your name to make sure you get the proper credit!
This is because we do not have a written constitution that safeguards our rights.
;)
Don't worry, you will in 2050, after Billy ends the monarchy and the UK becomes states 51-54 (assuming 51-62 aren't already taken up by Canada).
t's not like I'm the first person to notice that something smells rotten in the white house and point it out to people, but people who were calling me paranoid and insane just a few years ago are coming around to my way of thinking... starting in the last few years.
I don't see the connection between the White House and the Los Angeles DA's office. Could you expand on that connection?
And don't forget President Jackson's timeless quote: "It's Mr. Marshall's law, let him enforce it."*
Basically, the Executive Branch can tell the Judicial Branch they disagree with the court's reasoning in a case, so they won't enforce the ruling of the court.
*I may be misremembering the exact quote. This was regarding the ruling in Worcester v. State of Georgia that said a state could not impose its laws on an Indian nation, only the Federal government could do that. The long and the short of it was, Georgia got to evict the Cherokee, anyway.
The judge could also set aside the jury verdict, since the patents are invalid, but still award huge sums of money to NTP just to punish RIM for lying in court. It over yet, though there is a woman with a severe thyroid problem gargling water off in the corner.
but people want to right abuot what there dog did today.
And if they publish it in a book, it'll become a best seller!
Just because you decide to attach a hidden meaning to a random number after the fact, it doesn't make it not random.
Tell that to lottery winners who played their kids' birthdays!
Though come to think of it, if they're playing the lottery, they probably don't understand what "random" means...
What does Kathleen Harris have to do with the 2004 election? She was in Congress by then.
http://harris.house.gov/Biography/
With her swearing in on January 7, 2003, as U.S. Representative for the 13th District of Florida, Katherine Harris opened the newest chapter in her distinguished career of public service to her native state.
Sounds like you're still whining about the 2000 election. Maybe it's time for you to move on.
That's exactly what I'm clinging to - the hope that just maybe my fellow countrymen haven't been turned into ignorant beleivers by the constant stream of lies and misdirection coming out of this administration. I also beleive that a certain percentage of Republicans are just simply too stubborn to admit they were wrong with Dubya.
I think we've passed that point. The port scandal is gonna get bigger and bigger, and the consequences this November could be catastrophic for the Republican party. Die hards like Rush might want to pretend it's no big deal, but when you have the House Speaker and the Senate Majority leader both coming out (strongly) against it, that's not a good sign.
I was really hoping Condi would run in '08. But now there's no way I'd vote for anyone associated with this administration. Especially since it turns out she was on the committee that approved this abomination in the first place.
The task would be much simpler if there was an alternative to the Republicans in power who could be trusted to tell the truth. But quite frankly, I don't think the Democrats fit that bill well enough. They need some major changes before they can take back their base - the average working class American.
I'd love to see a new Federalist party form. One based on supporting a free market like the Libertarians, but without their abhorrence of everything military. Or just good ol' fashioned Lincoln-Reagan Republicanism (strong in war, magnaminous in victory, supporting free markets and free trade, that kind of thing).
Think I'll expand on these thoughts in my new blog later today.
I would never hire a sysadmin for sysadmins.
So you'd never hire a Windows admin to take care of the local workstations used by the UNIX and mainframe admins? Do you expect someone who spends every minute of their day babysitting an OS/390 server to keep track of which patches should be installed on his SuSE workstation? Or what about having the Windows admin also be responsible for managing the SAN shares where the office's files are stored, or the tape backup library that protects the same?
In smaller shops there might be some crossover, but the larger the organization (eg, the greater the number of machines), the less well this works.
The person you responded to didn't make that claim. I sort of did, but if you had been paying attention you'd see that I was implying he said and using generalized "quotes" from his speech.
You can't even keep track of with whom you're talking, why should I even bother pointing these things out to you?
The torture which was authorized was different from happened at Abu Ghraib (sp?). The investigations into what happened started before the pictures were "leaked". They were in fact released by the DoD as part of the investigation.
George H. W. Bush is not the United States.
First, I know that and you know that. People living in a dictatorship might not. Second, he said the US has been doing these things, not just referring to the administration.
You do realize that you're defending someone who appears to have fanned the flames of Islamic extremism, don't you? I'm all for free speech, but when someone starts mouthing off and goading people into acts of violence, they've crossed the line. And make no mistake, hammering these kinds of things into an Islamic audience, in Saudi Arabia no less, is doing exactly that. It wouldn't be a big deal if he gave this kind of speech in the US, or Europe, or some other Western nation. But over there? That's different.
I've been trying to find the text myself, it doesn't seem to be printed anywhere. The "quotes" are more abstractions, based on how his audience would likely take them. Consider the context:
* Saudi Arabia was the breeding ground for 15 of the 19 hijackers.
* It's also OBL's old stompin' grounds.
* It's also one of the most repressive regimes on earth.
So any speech by a former vice-president (or any high ranking government-type, really), in which that person accuses the US government/current administration of purposely targetting Arabs for no good reason; refers to Abu Graib as "Bush's gulag" (that one is a quote), even though Bush had nothing to do with it and the perps who did are either on trial or in prison; and generally makes it clear that the US is now the enemy of Arabs/Muslims, should be considered treasonous. He's feeding the fires that are burning all over the world, just to make a few bucks (I'm sure the Jeddah Economic Council paid him a hefty fee to come tell them how horrible the US is). It's despicable, and a lot worse than accidentally wounding a friend, then not telling the national media about it that same day.