America already has the Library of Congress, which increases scientific output by 50% in all cities. There are just too many entertainers, some of which should be converted to scientists. That should be pretty obvious to most Civ players, I hope.
Put it this way, if the majority of the links at isohunt were linking to legally shareable media, then they wouldn't be facing this legal battle. Ergo, Google is fine.
Some good points, but I disagree with the idea that the computer is becoming less magical and mysterious. Actually, I believe the unsaid point of the article is that people understand much less about how a computer works, and are thus unable to cope beyond the number of fixit techniques in their toolbox.
To really diagnose a problem, you need a good understanding of the underlying system. Most people just don't have that understanding. Thus the computer is actually more of a mystery than ever. I have no clue about the bootup process for Windows, other than some ntldr things and some Run/RunOnce/RunServices registry entries. It's all hidden from me. It's magical, as far as I'm concerned. I'm fairly lost if Windows had a boot problem. In fact, I have had issues, and basically try blindly to fix thing, like booting in safe mode and uninstalling software, booting up the Windows recovery console to allow it to automatically restore system files, even googling the problem and following whatever suggestions that people come up with.
With Linux, I can see the whole process on the console. I can examine the startup scripts, and see how they've been ordered. I can look into the inittab file and see how everything has been arranged. I know the linux kernel parameters and see them in my local lilo.conf/menu.lst/grub.conf file. It is not magical to me, and thus I can figure out bootup problems, and can even work around, and have worked around, just about any booting issue. I'm not saying I have complete understanding, but it's certainly deep enough to know how it all fits together.
That sort of knowledge is not a commodity, and to my mind, is essential for coping with system issues and maximising uptime.
To be fair, I've cursed Microsoft on many an occasion for changing configuration locations and behaviour. Seems like every version of Windows they release, I have to re-learn many of my standard procedures.
I'm using open source software for almost everything at my work. The only thing I lack is a good Exchange client, so have to use a remote desktop to view my work email. The software I use have all the features I need. Do we really need all the features that the commercial counterparts put in? Most people don't.
I don't use Ubuntu per se, but I've installed it on my dad's computer. Whenever I do updates to it, I don't notice anything that breaks. Then again, I've installed a LTS version of Ubuntu. Minimal need for me to update that way.
Having said all that, Linux is not ready for the corporate environment. Windows has some beautiful tools for managing networks of computers, in many different ways, and controlling updates to them all. I've seen some simple tools on the Linux side, but nothing that compares to the Microsoft offering. I do believe that Linux is wonderful for the home environment, though, or small business networks.
Thanks for that. I've been aware of netcat, but haven't really bothered to look into it deeply, as telnet pretty much solves my remote troubleshooting needs, and it's quite ubiquitous, even available on the windows command line.
Still, I'm always up for learning a new command. I'll check it out more thoroughly, and see what it can do.
I played the first one on the PS3. The game was great! I thought using parkour for a game was awesome fun.
I don't know what the controls were like on other systems, but the PS3 felt pretty natural to me. It was so much fun to pull off strings of moves, like doing a wall run, then spin and jump, grabbing onto a pole, flinging yourself forward to some platform which you hit at a running pace. Once the controls became instinctive, the movement just felt so natural and fluid. An excellent game. One of my favourites.
Well, doesn't that make me feel inadequate. I like vim syntax highlighting. Makes config files easier to read. And I still use telnet, mainly for connecting to remote http and smtp servers. Great for troubleshooting issues, or even finding out what type/version a webserver is.
I'd even recommend Debian for people who want the latest software updates. That's what testing and unstable are for. Using package pinning, you can run a stable base, with selected testing and unstable packages. Mix and match what you want. Debian will cope fine with it. That's the beauty of the system.
Of course, you have to be a little more careful, but it's easy enough to revert to a previously installed package if you have issues. I've been running a mixed testing and unstable install on my laptop, and have had only one issue in the last few years where I needed to revert a package.
Actually, some Debian fans, like me, like to run the testing or unstable distributions of Debian, which gives the exciting new dev box feel. OK, I don't run pure testing; I pin my system to testing, and then pick and choose from unstable as I need. I've even installed the occasional experimental package. Sure, my system is a hodgepodge of packages, but it works and works well. I've had surprisingly few issues out of it, and where I have had issues, it's always been fixed by a package downgrade.
That's what I really like about Debian. It gives me choice to have the packages that I want, in a reliable and manageable manner. I can even download packages from source, and compile it on my system, if I were that way inclined. OK, not as easily as Gentoo or FreeBSD (the two other source systems that I've used), but the option is there.
I'm a Debian user of around 15 years. I think you'll find that Debian has changed somewhat. Or maybe it's just the xorg system. It's much better than XFree was, at just working automatically from scratch. I haven't had to fiddle around with an X config file for years now. Sound also just works.
While Ubuntu is definitely the more polished desktop experience, Debian has become very good at getting things to work automatically, and dare I say, it's much better at being able to customise a system to how you need it. They're both great systems, and I'd say they compliment each other. Ubuntu fills the desktop criteria well, and Debian is just a pleasure to use in a server system.
They're in sid (unstable). I'm running the Debian e17 packages. I've pinned my system to testing by default, and selectively installed unstable packages as required. E17 works great. It's easily my window manager of choice.
You'll have to download the source via svn, and compile it by hand. You can find the svn details in the Contribute section of the Enlightenment website.
Otherwise, a few distributions have it available in binary. I'm running E17 via Debian unstable. Been running it for years. I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu has it available as well. For other distributions, you'll have to google it.
I'm not a doctor nor a physicist. That won't stop me from using my intuition, though. By preventing aorta expansion, this should actually increase back pressure on the aorta. The heart will not be able to squeeze down as much, due to the increased back pressure, leading to less liquid escaping. The reduced volume of liquid going through the aorta will decrease pressure further on in the system.
Maybe not automatically right, but it does make him more likely to be right about the subject he studied.
Then again, the whole concept of "right" is often subjective, so he may very well automatically be right, while simultaneously being quite wrong. This is a relatively common state in usability design, I believe.
I used to teach Linux, a few years back, in TAFE (provides further education in Australia, from high school, but not to the level of universities).
I created all the coursework myself. If it helps, below is my lesson outline. I designed it to be generic Linux for the most part, but when I get specific, I concentrated on RedHat. At the time, that was the Linux distribution that most people were aware of. If I was doing it today, I would probably go for Ubuntu.
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Week 1 Introduction to Linux A brief history of Unix How Unix is organised Features of Unix/Linux
Week 2 Installation of Linux Steps to installing Red Hat on your computer
Week 3 The Linux Console An Introduction to the Shell Basic Linux commands Shutting down the system
Week 4 Managing Files The Linux Directory structure
Reiserfs is pretty old now, and dying, and ext4 hasn't thrilled me.
What features have you enabled in ext4? I'm running it on one of our servers, and I like the performance very much. It's even a debian stable machine, although I had to use a kernel from "testing" to properly enable ext4.
I've got extents, uninit_bg, and dir_index enabled, amongst other features. If you converted from ext3, then you probably don't have these options enabled. Even if you created the ext4 filesystem from scratch, some older versions of mke2fs won't enable these ext4 features by default.
Try giving ext4 another go. Maybe you'll like it more the second time around.
Repetition will develop the necessary instinct and coordination. Just keep at it, and you'll get better with the controls.
The good thing for you with Batman Arkham Asylum, is you can either choose to wade right into the fights, or you can take a stealth approach and slowly take our your opponents one by one. The stealth method will allow you to have time to think about what you want to do. You'll enjoy the game.
Try buying a game called Flower from the Playstation Network store. It's a game that only uses one button, and only very minimally at that. Very cool game too. Great after a stressful day at work.
Oh, and don't worry about your PS3 becoming obsolete any time soon. Both Sony and Microsoft want to keep the current console generation going for at least another 3 or 4 years.
He might have gotten away with it too, if instead he used the connection to download and share heaps of music, and then sent an anonymous tip to the RIAA. That would have put his neighbour in court quick smart. From what I've heard, lack of evidence means little to the RIAA.
Very nice anecdote about Fundy and Thinky. I hope you don't mind if I borrow that in the future.
I agree that it's not human to be completely rational. It's very human, though, to use rationality to justify an emotionally based viewpoint. So much so, that the person deludes themselves into thinking that the viewpoint is completely rational. That's probably what you mean by "blinded by rationality".
It's all OK, really. Nothing wrong with a little self delusion, whether it be by rationality or faith. As long as it doesn't impinge on the rights of others to think and believe what they want.
Speaking of self delusion, and to drag this post back on topic, that Sarah Palin woman is getting a bit hysterical over what essentially amounts to diplomatic gossip. Some people should just lighten up.
This bug would have allowed them full access to the machine, assuming the daemon ran as root. I certainly had a few Plesk machines that were compromised by this bug. It's a pain clearing out rootkits from the system, I can tell you.
The bug was patched a month ago, so their server could have been exploited for that long, with crackers setting up backdoors into the system to regain root access. Just a hypothesis.
How do you approach any person? By trying to understand who they are, and making your points from a perspective that they know and understand.
This Jesus character had some very intelligent things to say. It's worth learning, and even impressing your fundamentalist neighbours with, if you can pull off a few quotes.
If you find that trying to understand Christians is distasteful, then I put it to you that your reaction is emotional, not rational. Treat it like a science experiment, if you want. The aim is to try and discover methods and practices which make for a more congenial fundamentalist neighbour. It's possible, especially if the religion has a love and acceptance factor built into it.
In Australia, we have this lovely organisation called ACMA (Australian Communication and Media Authority). They have a program called AISI (Australian Internet Security Initiative) which sends reports to many Australian ISPs, notifying them of any detected infections. I assume they get their data from honeypots and such, although according to the linked ZDNet article, they're set to receive data from Symantec, McAfee, and other security companies.
So that's how ISPs can determine infected hosts without inspecting traffic.
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America already has the Library of Congress, which increases scientific output by 50% in all cities. There are just too many entertainers, some of which should be converted to scientists. That should be pretty obvious to most Civ players, I hope.
Moving matter back in time is so passé.
Put it this way, if the majority of the links at isohunt were linking to legally shareable media, then they wouldn't be facing this legal battle. Ergo, Google is fine.
Some good points, but I disagree with the idea that the computer is becoming less magical and mysterious. Actually, I believe the unsaid point of the article is that people understand much less about how a computer works, and are thus unable to cope beyond the number of fixit techniques in their toolbox.
To really diagnose a problem, you need a good understanding of the underlying system. Most people just don't have that understanding. Thus the computer is actually more of a mystery than ever. I have no clue about the bootup process for Windows, other than some ntldr things and some Run/RunOnce/RunServices registry entries. It's all hidden from me. It's magical, as far as I'm concerned. I'm fairly lost if Windows had a boot problem. In fact, I have had issues, and basically try blindly to fix thing, like booting in safe mode and uninstalling software, booting up the Windows recovery console to allow it to automatically restore system files, even googling the problem and following whatever suggestions that people come up with.
With Linux, I can see the whole process on the console. I can examine the startup scripts, and see how they've been ordered. I can look into the inittab file and see how everything has been arranged. I know the linux kernel parameters and see them in my local lilo.conf/menu.lst/grub.conf file. It is not magical to me, and thus I can figure out bootup problems, and can even work around, and have worked around, just about any booting issue. I'm not saying I have complete understanding, but it's certainly deep enough to know how it all fits together.
That sort of knowledge is not a commodity, and to my mind, is essential for coping with system issues and maximising uptime.
To be fair, I've cursed Microsoft on many an occasion for changing configuration locations and behaviour. Seems like every version of Windows they release, I have to re-learn many of my standard procedures.
I'm using open source software for almost everything at my work. The only thing I lack is a good Exchange client, so have to use a remote desktop to view my work email. The software I use have all the features I need. Do we really need all the features that the commercial counterparts put in? Most people don't.
I don't use Ubuntu per se, but I've installed it on my dad's computer. Whenever I do updates to it, I don't notice anything that breaks. Then again, I've installed a LTS version of Ubuntu. Minimal need for me to update that way.
Having said all that, Linux is not ready for the corporate environment. Windows has some beautiful tools for managing networks of computers, in many different ways, and controlling updates to them all. I've seen some simple tools on the Linux side, but nothing that compares to the Microsoft offering. I do believe that Linux is wonderful for the home environment, though, or small business networks.
Thanks for that. I've been aware of netcat, but haven't really bothered to look into it deeply, as telnet pretty much solves my remote troubleshooting needs, and it's quite ubiquitous, even available on the windows command line.
Still, I'm always up for learning a new command. I'll check it out more thoroughly, and see what it can do.
I played the first one on the PS3. The game was great! I thought using parkour for a game was awesome fun.
I don't know what the controls were like on other systems, but the PS3 felt pretty natural to me. It was so much fun to pull off strings of moves, like doing a wall run, then spin and jump, grabbing onto a pole, flinging yourself forward to some platform which you hit at a running pace. Once the controls became instinctive, the movement just felt so natural and fluid. An excellent game. One of my favourites.
Well, doesn't that make me feel inadequate. I like vim syntax highlighting. Makes config files easier to read. And I still use telnet, mainly for connecting to remote http and smtp servers. Great for troubleshooting issues, or even finding out what type/version a webserver is.
I'd even recommend Debian for people who want the latest software updates. That's what testing and unstable are for. Using package pinning, you can run a stable base, with selected testing and unstable packages. Mix and match what you want. Debian will cope fine with it. That's the beauty of the system.
Of course, you have to be a little more careful, but it's easy enough to revert to a previously installed package if you have issues. I've been running a mixed testing and unstable install on my laptop, and have had only one issue in the last few years where I needed to revert a package.
Actually, some Debian fans, like me, like to run the testing or unstable distributions of Debian, which gives the exciting new dev box feel. OK, I don't run pure testing; I pin my system to testing, and then pick and choose from unstable as I need. I've even installed the occasional experimental package. Sure, my system is a hodgepodge of packages, but it works and works well. I've had surprisingly few issues out of it, and where I have had issues, it's always been fixed by a package downgrade.
That's what I really like about Debian. It gives me choice to have the packages that I want, in a reliable and manageable manner. I can even download packages from source, and compile it on my system, if I were that way inclined. OK, not as easily as Gentoo or FreeBSD (the two other source systems that I've used), but the option is there.
Damn it Jim, they're engineers, not graphic designers.
I'm a Debian user of around 15 years. I think you'll find that Debian has changed somewhat. Or maybe it's just the xorg system. It's much better than XFree was, at just working automatically from scratch. I haven't had to fiddle around with an X config file for years now. Sound also just works.
While Ubuntu is definitely the more polished desktop experience, Debian has become very good at getting things to work automatically, and dare I say, it's much better at being able to customise a system to how you need it. They're both great systems, and I'd say they compliment each other. Ubuntu fills the desktop criteria well, and Debian is just a pleasure to use in a server system.
They're in sid (unstable). I'm running the Debian e17 packages. I've pinned my system to testing by default, and selectively installed unstable packages as required. E17 works great. It's easily my window manager of choice.
You'll have to download the source via svn, and compile it by hand. You can find the svn details in the Contribute section of the Enlightenment website.
Otherwise, a few distributions have it available in binary. I'm running E17 via Debian unstable. Been running it for years. I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu has it available as well. For other distributions, you'll have to google it.
http://bash.org/?244321
While you're there, check out the top few hundred quotes. You will laugh, you will cry.
I'm not a doctor nor a physicist. That won't stop me from using my intuition, though. By preventing aorta expansion, this should actually increase back pressure on the aorta. The heart will not be able to squeeze down as much, due to the increased back pressure, leading to less liquid escaping. The reduced volume of liquid going through the aorta will decrease pressure further on in the system.
Maybe not automatically right, but it does make him more likely to be right about the subject he studied.
Then again, the whole concept of "right" is often subjective, so he may very well automatically be right, while simultaneously being quite wrong. This is a relatively common state in usability design, I believe.
I used to teach Linux, a few years back, in TAFE (provides further education in Australia, from high school, but not to the level of universities).
I created all the coursework myself. If it helps, below is my lesson outline. I designed it to be generic Linux for the most part, but when I get specific, I concentrated on RedHat. At the time, that was the Linux distribution that most people were aware of. If I was doing it today, I would probably go for Ubuntu.
----------
Week 1
Introduction to Linux
A brief history of Unix
How Unix is organised
Features of Unix/Linux
Week 2
Installation of Linux
Steps to installing Red Hat on your computer
Week 3
The Linux Console
An Introduction to the Shell
Basic Linux commands
Shutting down the system
Week 4
Managing Files
The Linux Directory structure
Week 5
Redirecting I/O
Basic Regular Expressions
Unix Permissions and Attributes
Week 6
Using VI
Linux Kernel Modules
Week 7
Unix Shell Scripts
Scheduling and Cron
Week 8
Adding and Removing Users and Groups
Managing devices and Mounting Filesystems
Week 9
Mid-semester Lab Test
Week 10
Managing Processes
The Unix boot process
Week 11
Setting up a Linux Printer
Using a Linux Printer
Week 12
Linux Networking
Week 13
Unix Network Services
FTP and Telnet
Week 14
Linux Network Filtering
Week 15
RedHat RPM
XWindows
Week 16
Revision
Week 17
Exam
What features have you enabled in ext4? I'm running it on one of our servers, and I like the performance very much. It's even a debian stable machine, although I had to use a kernel from "testing" to properly enable ext4.
I've got extents, uninit_bg, and dir_index enabled, amongst other features. If you converted from ext3, then you probably don't have these options enabled. Even if you created the ext4 filesystem from scratch, some older versions of mke2fs won't enable these ext4 features by default.
Try giving ext4 another go. Maybe you'll like it more the second time around.
Repetition will develop the necessary instinct and coordination. Just keep at it, and you'll get better with the controls.
The good thing for you with Batman Arkham Asylum, is you can either choose to wade right into the fights, or you can take a stealth approach and slowly take our your opponents one by one. The stealth method will allow you to have time to think about what you want to do. You'll enjoy the game.
Try buying a game called Flower from the Playstation Network store. It's a game that only uses one button, and only very minimally at that. Very cool game too. Great after a stressful day at work.
Oh, and don't worry about your PS3 becoming obsolete any time soon. Both Sony and Microsoft want to keep the current console generation going for at least another 3 or 4 years.
He might have gotten away with it too, if instead he used the connection to download and share heaps of music, and then sent an anonymous tip to the RIAA. That would have put his neighbour in court quick smart. From what I've heard, lack of evidence means little to the RIAA.
Very nice anecdote about Fundy and Thinky. I hope you don't mind if I borrow that in the future.
I agree that it's not human to be completely rational. It's very human, though, to use rationality to justify an emotionally based viewpoint. So much so, that the person deludes themselves into thinking that the viewpoint is completely rational. That's probably what you mean by "blinded by rationality".
It's all OK, really. Nothing wrong with a little self delusion, whether it be by rationality or faith. As long as it doesn't impinge on the rights of others to think and believe what they want.
Speaking of self delusion, and to drag this post back on topic, that Sarah Palin woman is getting a bit hysterical over what essentially amounts to diplomatic gossip. Some people should just lighten up.
The vulnerability could have been this bug:
http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3521
This bug would have allowed them full access to the machine, assuming the daemon ran as root. I certainly had a few Plesk machines that were compromised by this bug. It's a pain clearing out rootkits from the system, I can tell you.
The bug was patched a month ago, so their server could have been exploited for that long, with crackers setting up backdoors into the system to regain root access. Just a hypothesis.
How do you approach any person? By trying to understand who they are, and making your points from a perspective that they know and understand.
This Jesus character had some very intelligent things to say. It's worth learning, and even impressing your fundamentalist neighbours with, if you can pull off a few quotes.
If you find that trying to understand Christians is distasteful, then I put it to you that your reaction is emotional, not rational. Treat it like a science experiment, if you want. The aim is to try and discover methods and practices which make for a more congenial fundamentalist neighbour. It's possible, especially if the religion has a love and acceptance factor built into it.
In Australia, we have this lovely organisation called ACMA (Australian Communication and Media Authority). They have a program called AISI (Australian Internet Security Initiative) which sends reports to many Australian ISPs, notifying them of any detected infections. I assume they get their data from honeypots and such, although according to the linked ZDNet article, they're set to receive data from Symantec, McAfee, and other security companies.
So that's how ISPs can determine infected hosts without inspecting traffic.