summary: she likes it and would install it over Windows... except for 2 items: the default gnome font (white with a black dropshadow) isn't acceptable for her as she's partially sighted. However she said she'd dump Gnome in favour of KDE so that's not a show-stopper.
The show stopper was the lack of an outline feature for Openoffice. Until that 2000/2001 bug report gets resolved, she'll remain dependant on Office and so cannot get rid of Windows.
yeah, that's why I get spam for viagra or porn that says at the bottom some disclaimer that it's ok under US spam laws because this particular piece of spam has fulfills some loophole-style requirement.
And she isn't even blonde! Its not exactly a sat-nav story at all, she drove up to a rail crossing and didn't know how to confront the unusual mechanism in front of her. The biggest deal is that the crossing wasn't marked on the sat-nav, and this rail crossing didn't have enough flashing lights to warn of oncoming trains (they usually do, but this one was in the middle of nowhere - google maps simply doesn't know where Ffynongain is - its actually near here
Apart from the green light thing, she didn't have enough common-sense to open both gates and drive through and then close them, but in her defence she is 20 year old, and is cute as a button - see the original BBC news story
Here's the reason you can't install Windows directly on the USB drive... turns out its all to do with pageable kernels (that OSX and Linux don't support)
Unfortunately, if you put files in the Program Files folder, then you need admin privileges.
So, you need to put the 'static' program apps and so in/ProgramFiles and then put your per-user data in either the HKCU registry or in the user's own/Application Data folder.
If they were the 2/3 places you could find an app's files then I think that'd be fine.
then find out where the per-domain configuration has ended up being stored and delete those.
Of course the above only applies to certain Linux distros, others will put their apache (which may or may not even be called httpd) in different directories.
in the event of something like an earthquake, you may find that people have other things on their minds
Only if you live there, most people rent servers in a geographically different location, and their customers may easily be all over the world. If you live in the Uk, and your servers are in Texas, and your customers are in Australia - you only care about the disaster like its just another news story.
The OP is not necessarily concerned about disasters though - power cuts (increasingly likely nowadays), cable accidents, human error are all much more likely to cause you extensive downtime.
No-one can become an expert by self-teaching. Especially with regard to fixed-feature products (eg everything made by man).
Someone can become good at it by tinkering and figuring out how it appears to work, but unless you've read the specification sheets and internal documentation then you're never going to know everything about it, and to be honest, why bother - read the docs and you'll learn it. Its much more efficient than thinking you know what you're doing.
For example, you want to know how your email client sends mail? You could just play with the network settings until it works, or you could read the RFCs (821 and 822 IIRC) and get a excellent and complete understanding of what it is supposed to do. The only thing left to learn is the configuration UI used by the product you use.
This is how the experts learn - they go to the source of the product. (it is different for things that are not man-made, eg Doctors, but even then, they learn from accumulated knowledge discovered over hundreds of years. I don't think anyone should try to become an expert medic by experimenting!)
So, if you want to know how networks work, you can fiddle with Window's TCP/IP settings, or you can spend a lot of money on Cisco's certification courses. Going back to the original post, it all came down to a "poorly configured network". If the person planning that knew what he was doing, then it wouldn't have been poorly configured, and the students would have no way of getting unrestricted internet by changing the proxy - they'd get nothing at all. Of course, paying a CCNA to configure the network would cost a lot, but it would be done exactly right. The person who configured it in the first place didn't know everything and it showed.
Apple and Microsoft did have formal training on programming - even from the days where someone used punched cards there was training available, otherwise there would be no further use of it. There may have been no training on how to write a programming language, but there was training for how to write programs (and a compiler is just another app).
The people that come up with new ideas always know their field first. They always build on the work of others.
There are probably a load of people who think that, unfortunately they are all 'self taught' by experimenting, and none of them have formal training in anything.
There's a lot of people who think they're the best driver in the world, even though they know how to razz their cars up and down a straight line, none of them have had the discipline of any kind of training - neither race driving, or advanced driving courses.
I have a colleague who is a programmer, he learnt by looking at existing code and mainly cutting&pasting. No problem, he is good - but he acknowledges that he is only a journeyman coder and will not attempt anything outside the stuff he knows. A striking example of this was when he started to implement a thread, and passed a stack variable to the thread, and unsurprisingly his code crashed as almost-random places. He simply didn't know memory and variable scoping rules so made this schoolboy error in this code.
In all these cases, these people havn't learnt how things work, they've just learn the hacks and tricks that allow them to do something. They're not experts, they're the 'power users' who know how to tweak the settings.
For example, you who know everything about networks - can you add a new node to a BGP routed network? Could you implement a IPv6 to v4 tunnel? Could you subnet a network to allow all network access while restricting broadcast packets within one subnet? How would you handle DHCP in such a situation? the list goes on and on, yet if all you know is how to beat the network admins by changing the gateway so you can surf the web, you have so much more that you've missed.
There is so much to learn about anything in life, pretending you don't need to get the basics first is an arrogance born out of laziness and ignorance.
If those computers were paid for with my tax dollars for the purpose of educating the younger generation, then they should be used as such
*Exactly*. Bypassing the security measures so the little 'darlings' can look at myspace is violating your own idea of what they should be using thse computers for.
If you want them to learn about security, then send them to a school that has lessons on computer science and computer security, and they'll learn a hell of a lot more than a single 'script kiddie' exploit.
After reading this, the best thing the BlueFrog people could have done was to taunt the attackers and refuse to stop. Nothing would be different from today's state (where BlueFrog effectively closed down), but the botnet used to DDoS them would still be used in the attack, and not used to send out millions of spams. And the spammer would be poorer and more pissed off.
So the moral of this story, kids, is never give in to the blackmailers.
sod that, that sounds like effort. A better model:
1. become a SEO consultant 2. charge $35k 3. do something to the pages, preferably by outsourcing it to a cheap, foreign worker 4. take the money to the bank, laughing your nuts off.
You can't touch this.
How is a 12 year old kid, taking everything in there at face value, supposed to seperate the BS from the truth so they can get their school project done simple, because wikipedia has a poor reputation for accuracy, and there are a lot of vandalised pages means that said 12 year old will have to actually do some research. I suppose it would be great if he could just go to wikipedia as a perfect source of all knowledge and get the answer without having to think for himself whatsoever, but I like that he has to apply some discriminatory thinking to what he reads and find other sources to verify the wikipedia text.
Wikipedia is a great first start, but you must keep telling people its full of rubbish so they won't get complacent. They'll still go to wikipedia first because they're lazy, but they will always think "is this correct?".
Obviously, it takes more energy to spin a disk all week than it does to power it down for a read on monday morning and a write on friday afternoon. I don't know exactly at what point is it more cost effective? I generally use 1hr in the power save box before the drive is spun down. However, the OP wanted to 'pulse' the HDD, basically keeping it powered down until it was needed which would be terrible for energy use.
Bear in mind that big, fancy SCSI arrays on big boxes have special circuitry to bring the drives up 1 at a time, rather than all at once - the simple reason being that the surge of power required to start them all up at once would trip the power protection circuitry.
Quick check on Google: an old 75Gb IBM deskstar drive takes 1.8amps at startup, 0.8 amps when used (0.6 amps when idle). Modern Seagate sata drives take 2.8amps at startup (but then settle down to 0.7amps active, 0.4 amps idle)
Well, for windows at least, if you have a "power-aware" CPU (eg the Core2Duo or AMD64) then it will automatically step itself down. My AMD x2 steps down to 1Ghz and also (more importantly) reduces the voltage used to 1.075v.
You can set the monitor to switch off anytime - the 2 'mini' powersave options are 'turn off monitor' and 'turn off hard disks' - so go ahead and put some minutes in the boxes.
You don't really want to 'pulse' the hard disks, I think that'll just wear them out. Its also better to keep them spinning than it is to turn them on/off/on/off all the time - inertia keeps a drive spinning using less power than it takes to get it going from a stopped state.
He's an American, Not only does he think you have to use his dialect, but you've simply confused him by suggesting that there are places outside America.:-)
If they want 'several hundred' terabytes then they can afford a server with a SAS enclosure attached to it. The true cost will be the drives you put in it, but you can use standard SATA drives so it won't cost too much.
Alternatively, buy more drives and put them in 1 server with a good raid card. Even cheaper.
If they want true mutiple server redundancy, then you just need 2 of everything, and rsync them every so often, or make backups of the first onto the second.
I'm not so sure it was an unremarkable prank. Sure, maybe everything on MySpace is unremarkable (or should be considered so), but they made allegations of (amongst other things) paedophilia. That's a big deal nowadays and even the allegation of such can have very serious consequences.
The remarks about earning potential is something you put in court cases - he's not got much case for a civil suit is he said 'and there was no ill effect on me'.
If you consider it to be an egotrip, consider if you'd like a MySpace page yourself, with details of your own drunken child-fondling activities:-) (obviously I don't consider you are, but just put yourself in that circumstance)
I think that measuring an employee's productivity against their peers is a bad idea in this instance - if the employee is goofing off 80% of the day, yet still keeping up with the colleagues, then there's a very good chance that they are also goofing off all the time too!
I think most terms of employment make this clear (somewhere in the 50-page employee handbook:) ) that the facilities provided by the company for you to perform your work on may be monitored at any time. If not, remember to put one in yours if you ever start a company or you may end up paying someone to surf porn all day.
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summary: she likes it and would install it over Windows ... except for 2 items: the default gnome font (white with a black dropshadow) isn't acceptable for her as she's partially sighted. However she said she'd dump Gnome in favour of KDE so that's not a show-stopper.
The show stopper was the lack of an outline feature for Openoffice. Until that 2000/2001 bug report gets resolved, she'll remain dependant on Office and so cannot get rid of Windows.
Ubuntu came out with a big gold star though.
yeah, that's why I get spam for viagra or porn that says at the bottom some disclaimer that it's ok under US spam laws because this particular piece of spam has fulfills some loophole-style requirement.
And she isn't even blonde! Its not exactly a sat-nav story at all, she drove up to a rail crossing and didn't know how to confront the unusual mechanism in front of her. The biggest deal is that the crossing wasn't marked on the sat-nav, and this rail crossing didn't have enough flashing lights to warn of oncoming trains (they usually do, but this one was in the middle of nowhere - google maps simply doesn't know where Ffynongain is - its actually near here
Apart from the green light thing, she didn't have enough common-sense to open both gates and drive through and then close them, but in her defence she is 20 year old, and is cute as a button - see the original BBC news story
Maybe MS doesn't support it directly
o ur_pocket/ or http://www.sureboot.com/ or http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6346-592 8902.html
but... http://tomshardware.co.uk/2005/09/09/windows_in_y
Here's the reason you can't install Windows directly on the USB drive... turns out its all to do with pageable kernels (that OSX and Linux don't support)
Unfortunately, if you put files in the Program Files folder, then you need admin privileges.
/ProgramFiles and then put your per-user data in either the HKCU registry or in the user's own /Application Data folder.
So, you need to put the 'static' program apps and so in
If they were the 2/3 places you could find an app's files then I think that'd be fine.
I think it goes:
/var/www/ /var/log/httpd/ /etc/httpd/ /usr/httpd /usr/local/sbin/httpd/
remove:
then find out where the per-domain configuration has ended up being stored and delete those.
Of course the above only applies to certain Linux distros, others will put their apache (which may or may not even be called httpd) in different directories.
in the event of something like an earthquake, you may find that people have other things on their minds
Only if you live there, most people rent servers in a geographically different location, and their customers may easily be all over the world. If you live in the Uk, and your servers are in Texas, and your customers are in Australia - you only care about the disaster like its just another news story.
The OP is not necessarily concerned about disasters though - power cuts (increasingly likely nowadays), cable accidents, human error are all much more likely to cause you extensive downtime.
na, they'll just argue the toss whether GPL is better than BSD :)
No-one can become an expert by self-teaching. Especially with regard to fixed-feature products (eg everything made by man).
Someone can become good at it by tinkering and figuring out how it appears to work, but unless you've read the specification sheets and internal documentation then you're never going to know everything about it, and to be honest, why bother - read the docs and you'll learn it. Its much more efficient than thinking you know what you're doing.
For example, you want to know how your email client sends mail? You could just play with the network settings until it works, or you could read the RFCs (821 and 822 IIRC) and get a excellent and complete understanding of what it is supposed to do. The only thing left to learn is the configuration UI used by the product you use.
This is how the experts learn - they go to the source of the product. (it is different for things that are not man-made, eg Doctors, but even then, they learn from accumulated knowledge discovered over hundreds of years. I don't think anyone should try to become an expert medic by experimenting!)
So, if you want to know how networks work, you can fiddle with Window's TCP/IP settings, or you can spend a lot of money on Cisco's certification courses. Going back to the original post, it all came down to a "poorly configured network". If the person planning that knew what he was doing, then it wouldn't have been poorly configured, and the students would have no way of getting unrestricted internet by changing the proxy - they'd get nothing at all. Of course, paying a CCNA to configure the network would cost a lot, but it would be done exactly right. The person who configured it in the first place didn't know everything and it showed.
Apple and Microsoft did have formal training on programming - even from the days where someone used punched cards there was training available, otherwise there would be no further use of it. There may have been no training on how to write a programming language, but there was training for how to write programs (and a compiler is just another app).
The people that come up with new ideas always know their field first. They always build on the work of others.
There are probably a load of people who think that, unfortunately they are all 'self taught' by experimenting, and none of them have formal training in anything.
There's a lot of people who think they're the best driver in the world, even though they know how to razz their cars up and down a straight line, none of them have had the discipline of any kind of training - neither race driving, or advanced driving courses.
I have a colleague who is a programmer, he learnt by looking at existing code and mainly cutting&pasting. No problem, he is good - but he acknowledges that he is only a journeyman coder and will not attempt anything outside the stuff he knows. A striking example of this was when he started to implement a thread, and passed a stack variable to the thread, and unsurprisingly his code crashed as almost-random places. He simply didn't know memory and variable scoping rules so made this schoolboy error in this code.
In all these cases, these people havn't learnt how things work, they've just learn the hacks and tricks that allow them to do something. They're not experts, they're the 'power users' who know how to tweak the settings.
For example, you who know everything about networks - can you add a new node to a BGP routed network? Could you implement a IPv6 to v4 tunnel? Could you subnet a network to allow all network access while restricting broadcast packets within one subnet? How would you handle DHCP in such a situation? the list goes on and on, yet if all you know is how to beat the network admins by changing the gateway so you can surf the web, you have so much more that you've missed.
There is so much to learn about anything in life, pretending you don't need to get the basics first is an arrogance born out of laziness and ignorance.
If those computers were paid for with my tax dollars for the purpose of educating the younger generation, then they should be used as such
*Exactly*. Bypassing the security measures so the little 'darlings' can look at myspace is violating your own idea of what they should be using thse computers for.
If you want them to learn about security, then send them to a school that has lessons on computer science and computer security, and they'll learn a hell of a lot more than a single 'script kiddie' exploit.
except that if you pay once, you'll very likely pay again.. and again... and again...
in the case on online extortion, so what if you bankrupt them - you don't care, there are thousands upon thousands more marks out there.
After reading this, the best thing the BlueFrog people could have done was to taunt the attackers and refuse to stop. Nothing would be different from today's state (where BlueFrog effectively closed down), but the botnet used to DDoS them would still be used in the attack, and not used to send out millions of spams. And the spammer would be poorer and more pissed off.
So the moral of this story, kids, is never give in to the blackmailers.
sod that, that sounds like effort. A better model:
1. become a SEO consultant
2. charge $35k
3. do something to the pages, preferably by outsourcing it to a cheap, foreign worker
4. take the money to the bank, laughing your nuts off.
$35k!!! cripes.
Hmm.
Hamburger: The Motion Picture, Stewardess School:
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Are you sure the movie companies aren't doing us all a favour by not releasing those 2 on DVD.??
On the other hand, you do have a point about copyright. The studios are more likely to provide a 'burn on demand' system though.
Wikipedia is a great first start, but you must keep telling people its full of rubbish so they won't get complacent. They'll still go to wikipedia first because they're lazy, but they will always think "is this correct?".
Obviously, it takes more energy to spin a disk all week than it does to power it down for a read on monday morning and a write on friday afternoon. I don't know exactly at what point is it more cost effective? I generally use 1hr in the power save box before the drive is spun down. However, the OP wanted to 'pulse' the HDD, basically keeping it powered down until it was needed which would be terrible for energy use.
Bear in mind that big, fancy SCSI arrays on big boxes have special circuitry to bring the drives up 1 at a time, rather than all at once - the simple reason being that the surge of power required to start them all up at once would trip the power protection circuitry.
Quick check on Google: an old 75Gb IBM deskstar drive takes 1.8amps at startup, 0.8 amps when used (0.6 amps when idle). Modern Seagate sata drives take 2.8amps at startup (but then settle down to 0.7amps active, 0.4 amps idle)
Well, for windows at least, if you have a "power-aware" CPU (eg the Core2Duo or AMD64) then it will automatically step itself down. My AMD x2 steps down to 1Ghz and also (more importantly) reduces the voltage used to 1.075v.
You can set the monitor to switch off anytime - the 2 'mini' powersave options are 'turn off monitor' and 'turn off hard disks' - so go ahead and put some minutes in the boxes.
You don't really want to 'pulse' the hard disks, I think that'll just wear them out. Its also better to keep them spinning than it is to turn them on/off/on/off all the time - inertia keeps a drive spinning using less power than it takes to get it going from a stopped state.
He's an American, Not only does he think you have to use his dialect, but you've simply confused him by suggesting that there are places outside America. :-)
If they want 'several hundred' terabytes then they can afford a server with a SAS enclosure attached to it. The true cost will be the drives you put in it, but you can use standard SATA drives so it won't cost too much.
Alternatively, buy more drives and put them in 1 server with a good raid card. Even cheaper.
If they want true mutiple server redundancy, then you just need 2 of everything, and rsync them every so often, or make backups of the first onto the second.
I'm not so sure it was an unremarkable prank. Sure, maybe everything on MySpace is unremarkable (or should be considered so), but they made allegations of (amongst other things) paedophilia. That's a big deal nowadays and even the allegation of such can have very serious consequences.
:-) (obviously I don't consider you are, but just put yourself in that circumstance)
The remarks about earning potential is something you put in court cases - he's not got much case for a civil suit is he said 'and there was no ill effect on me'.
If you consider it to be an egotrip, consider if you'd like a MySpace page yourself, with details of your own drunken child-fondling activities
Yeah, I'm sure he really wanted a page that described him as a drunkard and a paedophile. (RTFA).
they may do as much work as their colleagues,
I think that measuring an employee's productivity against their peers is a bad idea in this instance - if the employee is goofing off 80% of the day, yet still keeping up with the colleagues, then there's a very good chance that they are also goofing off all the time too!
I think most terms of employment make this clear (somewhere in the 50-page employee handbook :) ) that the facilities provided by the company for you to perform your work on may be monitored at any time. If not, remember to put one in yours if you ever start a company or you may end up paying someone to surf porn all day.