Exactly, it's actually the root account and not the user account that installs the programs.
Well, it depends on how it's set up. If you're making a package, you can determine if you want to require no authorization (as current user), admin, or root. It then installs as the user you authorized as.
I changed the root password to be different from the admin password for our computers at work, and I haven't had any problems installing anything (except flexlm, but I do that via a clui anyway).
But hey, all together now, let's chant "Windows is unstable!"
Win98 has poor error handling, it's easy for one app to crash the whole system. That's why I consider it unstable. I have to re-boot my Win98 box more than the WinXP box next to it, when they've both been doing the exact same thing.
This 'hidden cost' is the #1 reason I hate sales tax, and will vote it down any time it comes up as a possibility (there is no sales tax in Oregon). If you have sales tax, make everyone include in the advertised/posted price.
I was very frustrated the first time I rented a car at the local airport. There was nobody else around, so I asked each person their best deal (3 different companies). Each one quoted me a price. However, one said 'x amount, plus x % airport fees' and another said 'x amount total.' Of course, the 2nd was cheaper, and I assumed they included the fees, because the other people told me. Well, it would have been cheaper to go with the first people, because the 2nd didn't tell me it'd be about $50 more in fees.
All quoted costs should be required to include all taxes, fees, etc!
I always look at the various prices, use my experience, and get suggestions from others if the generic is the same as the name brand. For example, in one store I go to, the generic oatmeal is more expensive than the name-brand one (ounce for ounce). So, I buy the name brand. If the generic becomes cheaper, I'll buy that.
There are some things that I'm never going to buy the generic of (beer, for example). Some things that I've learned from experience are bad generics (Safeway's generic diet root beer tasts like crap).
It's all trial and error, talking to people who've tried different things, learning how and where to buy the things you need.
I'm no LOTR expert, but I don't think that any of the people who were called to the council
Heck, the council wasn't even really 'called' in the book. They each has their own reasons for wanting to come. Boromir needed to know what his vision meant, he didn't even know about the ring!
So is Faramir. The House of Stewards was one of the noblest families of the South Kingdom of Gondor (which is why they were chosen to be the Stewards of the Kings)
What do the orcs eat? There's no food in Moria, and Mordor is barren, and wherever the orcs go they slash and burn.
In RotK (the book), the great slave-labor farms in the south of Mordor beyond the ash and smoke and other bad stuff is described. They also eat meat - including human flesh. In Moria, they could have hunted and foraged outside of the caves. Or found the source of the Dwarves' food, as it was a great city of the Dwarves' before.
Besides, something like 'where does the food come from' isn't something you usually put in a movie. Where did anyone's food come from? We're not usually told things like that - they aren't 'plot holes' they're details which are usually borring for a story.
If 51% of a the US (or substantially less, if there are at least 3 major candidates for political offices) wants to enslave the other 49%, they can.
Actually, the US was set up to prevent this. Majority rule, but protection for the minority. Supermajorities for amending the Constitution are one example. The original purpose of the 2nd amendment was for this also.
The way to prevent the 'tyranny of the majority' is by being under the rule of laws, not the rule of men.
I carry a cell phone, PDA, gameboy advance, *AND* an iPod. You know why? I hate compromising. And like it or not, there aren't any decent "convergence" devices that can do 2 of those things well, let alone 4.
What I want to know is why do we even try to make one devise that can do all these things.
What is overlapping in these devices?
CPU
Memory
Storage
Speaker
Microphone
Display
Battery
So, we make one device that has the main CPU, Memory, Storage, and Battery. Give it a very basic display. Another device has the speakers (headphones) and microphone. Another is the Display/Input mechanism.
Now, the main unit doesn't have to be that ergonomic, it just has to fit on the body somewhere. The display is thin and light and easy to use. They communicate wirelessly. Maybe the display has a small amount of memory in order to function as an input devise when away from the main unit. Phones have voice dialing for common numbers now, so you'd only pull out the display for numbers you don't use often.
The base unit and each of the other units (more can be thought of, I'm sure) could be mix-n-match. Poor students could get the basic of each, someone who wanted could get the basic main unit, but a color screen. Or just the basic screen, but the most memory/storage and fastest CPU. Heck, if we get standards going, you might not even need to stick with one manufacturer (not likely - but the whole thing actually makes sense, so it's not likely at all).
We need something faster than bluetooth to get the display separate from the main unit, but as long as we're keeping it all a 'BAN' (Body Area Network) we don't need to worry about distance.
I'm quite confident that fewer people are dying on a daily basis in Iraq now, although I will admit that the deaths are more visible than they were when they were hidden by a dictator.
But now there are AMERICANS who are dying, not some Iraqis.
JA: When I interviewed Andrew Morton I definitely got the feeling that you've impressed at least him.:)
Rusty Russell: That's such an amazing compliment, because I aspire be more like Andrew.
That's what makes a good community, people who inspire, impress and encourage each-other. I've noticed that the 'big name' hackers tend to be ones who want to inspire people, not shoot them down.
When your proud army finds all the WMD that George and Tony lied about
Just for the record, everybody knows that Iraq had WMD. The international argument was over what to do about it. France, Germany, Russia, and China all knew that Iraq had them. Saying that they didn't have WMD is sticking your head in the sand.
My personaly feeling on the matter is that Saddam prob. had them all (or most) sent to Syria.
I simply pointed out that if we started this policy Jan 1 2004 and I worked about the same amount of hours that I did this year, he would have to give me October through December off. He quickly decided that paying for OT would be fine.
I would have not done the math for him, and taken the time off.
I still remember when my dad got 'comp time' which meant that if he worked an extra 10 hours one week (50 hrs) then he'd have to get 15 hours off (time and a half). Oh, no more (at least that's not how it works where I work - but I get to work the hours I want to, so that makes up for it)
1. no linux msblaster worms Any competent sysadmin already had their systems patched against that one.
I'm a competent sysadmin, and I got hit. I was installing WinXP from scratch and got hit before going to Windows Update (all of 30 seconds). Another one of our brand new computers was hit before we even logged on.
Lots of other sysadmins, who have important things on their computers, have to test all patches in order to make sure they don't brake anything (just got an email that M$'s latest VBA fix brakes PowerPoint's MPEG playback)
8. no having to hunt down 50 cds when trying to rebuild a machine Gross exaggeration, obviously. And like in #1, any competent sysadmin should always know where their original discs are.
If they are allowed to keep all of their original disks where they want to. I'm happy that most of our stuff is kept in a couple of binders in my bosses office, but I know of others who need to find out who's been borrowing what.
To get the absolute minimum build, we need 4 CDs (and that doesn't count the more CDs we'd need if we didn't have some installers online)
Slashdot Mirror
Give it an unique name, so people can Google it easily.
What the article doesn't point out is that pre-OSX operating systems from Apple exhibited very few vulnerabilities.
Uh, yeah. Besides allowing any user to walk up and trash the system folder...
Exactly, it's actually the root account and not the user account that installs the programs.
Well, it depends on how it's set up. If you're making a package, you can determine if you want to require no authorization (as current user), admin, or root. It then installs as the user you authorized as.
I changed the root password to be different from the admin password for our computers at work, and I haven't had any problems installing anything (except flexlm, but I do that via a clui anyway).
But hey, all together now, let's chant "Windows is unstable!"
Win98 has poor error handling, it's easy for one app to crash the whole system. That's why I consider it unstable. I have to re-boot my Win98 box more than the WinXP box next to it, when they've both been doing the exact same thing.
I nearly walked out of the theater in disgust when I heard the word "micron" used as a unit of time.
IIRC, BSG had it's own system of time (centon, micron, etc.) After all, these people weren't from earth, and had different measurements.
This 'hidden cost' is the #1 reason I hate sales tax, and will vote it down any time it comes up as a possibility (there is no sales tax in Oregon). If you have sales tax, make everyone include in the advertised/posted price.
I was very frustrated the first time I rented a car at the local airport. There was nobody else around, so I asked each person their best deal (3 different companies). Each one quoted me a price. However, one said 'x amount, plus x % airport fees' and another said 'x amount total.' Of course, the 2nd was cheaper, and I assumed they included the fees, because the other people told me. Well, it would have been cheaper to go with the first people, because the 2nd didn't tell me it'd be about $50 more in fees.
All quoted costs should be required to include all taxes, fees, etc!
I always look at the various prices, use my experience, and get suggestions from others if the generic is the same as the name brand. For example, in one store I go to, the generic oatmeal is more expensive than the name-brand one (ounce for ounce). So, I buy the name brand. If the generic becomes cheaper, I'll buy that.
There are some things that I'm never going to buy the generic of (beer, for example). Some things that I've learned from experience are bad generics (Safeway's generic diet root beer tasts like crap).
It's all trial and error, talking to people who've tried different things, learning how and where to buy the things you need.
He walks on top of the snow in Fellowship while the rest are slogging through hip-deep. While I don't remember it in the book
It was in there. I remember thinking 'cool, they left that in' when I saw the movie.
I'm no LOTR expert, but I don't think that any of the people who were called to the council
Heck, the council wasn't even really 'called' in the book. They each has their own reasons for wanting to come. Boromir needed to know what his vision meant, he didn't even know about the ring!
Aragorn is no simple Man, he is a Dunedain.
So is Faramir. The House of Stewards was one of the noblest families of the South Kingdom of Gondor (which is why they were chosen to be the Stewards of the Kings)
Of course, the day after Thanksgiving isn't the biggest shopping day of the year.
Nit, meet Pick
Yes, the OEM versions of these programs (we get them via OETC) have the nice side benefit of not having to use sysprep.
We have only had this issue since we moved to NTFS. Ghost 8.0 is supposedly going to work better multicasting NTFS partitions.
Under FAT, we only did 10 at a time, more than that can be an issue.
In the meantime, I just do one at a time, or I let it go for hours and then
What do the orcs eat? There's no food in Moria, and Mordor is barren, and wherever the orcs go they slash and burn.
In RotK (the book), the great slave-labor farms in the south of Mordor beyond the ash and smoke and other bad stuff is described. They also eat meat - including human flesh. In Moria, they could have hunted and foraged outside of the caves. Or found the source of the Dwarves' food, as it was a great city of the Dwarves' before.
Besides, something like 'where does the food come from' isn't something you usually put in a movie. Where did anyone's food come from? We're not usually told things like that - they aren't 'plot holes' they're details which are usually borring for a story.
Yes, the MPAA reserves all ownership rights on "crap."
I thought they had a joint-ownership and cross-licencing deal with the RIAA...
If 51% of a the US (or substantially less, if there are at least 3 major candidates for political offices) wants to enslave the other 49%, they can.
Actually, the US was set up to prevent this. Majority rule, but protection for the minority. Supermajorities for amending the Constitution are one example. The original purpose of the 2nd amendment was for this also.
The way to prevent the 'tyranny of the majority' is by being under the rule of laws, not the rule of men.
But why is my homepage www.slashdot.org?
/.'s address?
what's this www doing in front of
What I want to know is why do we even try to make one devise that can do all these things.
What is overlapping in these devices?
So, we make one device that has the main CPU, Memory, Storage, and Battery. Give it a very basic display. Another device has the speakers (headphones) and microphone. Another is the Display/Input mechanism.
Now, the main unit doesn't have to be that ergonomic, it just has to fit on the body somewhere. The display is thin and light and easy to use. They communicate wirelessly. Maybe the display has a small amount of memory in order to function as an input devise when away from the main unit. Phones have voice dialing for common numbers now, so you'd only pull out the display for numbers you don't use often.
The base unit and each of the other units (more can be thought of, I'm sure) could be mix-n-match. Poor students could get the basic of each, someone who wanted could get the basic main unit, but a color screen. Or just the basic screen, but the most memory/storage and fastest CPU. Heck, if we get standards going, you might not even need to stick with one manufacturer (not likely - but the whole thing actually makes sense, so it's not likely at all).
We need something faster than bluetooth to get the display separate from the main unit, but as long as we're keeping it all a 'BAN' (Body Area Network) we don't need to worry about distance.
Oh, well, I can dream, can't I?
I'm quite confident that fewer people are dying on a daily basis in Iraq now, although I will admit that the deaths are more visible than they were when they were hidden by a dictator.
But now there are AMERICANS who are dying, not some Iraqis.
(note: sarcasm involved here)
JA: When I interviewed Andrew Morton I definitely got the feeling that you've impressed at least him. :)
Rusty Russell: That's such an amazing compliment, because I aspire be more like Andrew.
That's what makes a good community, people who inspire, impress and encourage each-other. I've noticed that the 'big name' hackers tend to be ones who want to inspire people, not shoot them down.
How does a blatantly anti-Catholic statement get modded as 'funny'????
When your proud army finds all the WMD that George and Tony lied about
Just for the record, everybody knows that Iraq had WMD. The international argument was over what to do about it. France, Germany, Russia, and China all knew that Iraq had them. Saying that they didn't have WMD is sticking your head in the sand.
My personaly feeling on the matter is that Saddam prob. had them all (or most) sent to Syria.
Like a space shuttle, only instead of reusable tiles they use ablative poorly-researched Greek mythology.
But Greek doesn't have an ablative case...
I simply pointed out that if we started this policy Jan 1 2004 and I worked about the same amount of hours that I did this year, he would have to give me October through December off. He quickly decided that paying for OT would be fine.
I would have not done the math for him, and taken the time off.
I still remember when my dad got 'comp time' which meant that if he worked an extra 10 hours one week (50 hrs) then he'd have to get 15 hours off (time and a half). Oh, no more (at least that's not how it works where I work - but I get to work the hours I want to, so that makes up for it)
1. no linux msblaster worms
Any competent sysadmin already had their systems patched against that one.
I'm a competent sysadmin, and I got hit. I was installing WinXP from scratch and got hit before going to Windows Update (all of 30 seconds). Another one of our brand new computers was hit before we even logged on.
Lots of other sysadmins, who have important things on their computers, have to test all patches in order to make sure they don't brake anything (just got an email that M$'s latest VBA fix brakes PowerPoint's MPEG playback)
8. no having to hunt down 50 cds when trying to rebuild a machine
Gross exaggeration, obviously. And like in #1, any competent sysadmin should always know where their original discs are.
If they are allowed to keep all of their original disks where they want to. I'm happy that most of our stuff is kept in a couple of binders in my bosses office, but I know of others who need to find out who's been borrowing what.
To get the absolute minimum build, we need 4 CDs (and that doesn't count the more CDs we'd need if we didn't have some installers online)