Then again, now that I think about it I can't think of a major anti-virus application for Linux. Can anyone suggest one?
Yes, the same one I use for windows. Common Sense. Viruses spread because of end-user idiocy. It is an education issue, and nothing more. All anti-virus software I have ever seen causes as much harm as the viruses themselves, wasting resources, mucking with files as you open and save them, causing corruption, etc. No thanks.
You can use KSql, which has a nifty way of embedding forms. The only thing lacking is a way of showing and creating relationships graphically. Anyone who takes 5 minutes to learn how to create a table in MySQL, however, won't need this, and will, in fact, probably write a better database because *gasp* they'll actually understand what it is they are doing! I can't count the number of times as a tech support person I've gone to an end user with a 'database' where they basically use access as a spreadsheet...250 databases...all with the same data structure. "I need to put the data in for this month now...I'll just copy/paste the database again!"
Any end user who 'can' write scripts would be fully comfortable writing them WITH WHATEVER LANGUAGE THEY CHOOSE, instead of being forced to use that "march through the recordset" crap that you have to do with MS-Access's Basic.
I don't know where you went to school, but even in the redneck hick town I went, being a willfully retarded sped was definitely not seen as cool (except by the morons themselves, who everyone else pretty much just ignored).
Intelligence and curiosity are definitely cool, as is athletics. But without balance, none of it is good.
Since I run my own domain, it should be easy for me to write pages that allow me to check my mail remotely through WAP if I ever get one of those things. Right now I just ssh into the home lan and use pine.
But I don't even own a regular cell phone, nor do I want to, so I guess it's a moot point...until I get a truly wireless palm that can also use standard 802.11 so it can hop on my network at home, and not use somebody else's network...
Every utility I write is text based. The quickest, most efficient way to use many of them, however, is to bind them to my favorite two gui's, ROX-Filer and Windowmaker's desktop menu.
This is how it should be. It took me no extra effort to 'gui-fy' my code, because the UI takes care of that FOR ME. You shouldn't HAVE to write gui code for simple tasks. You should be able to merge it into your GUI of choice to make you most productive. Windowmaker is awesome for this, as is ROX-Filer.
To see examples of what I'm talking about, please feel free to browse my code pages, http://freefall.homeip.net/
where I show examples of integration with ROX and Windowmaker, despite some of the utilities being text only. I do this with my envelope printer too (I have both a ROX App for it, and a fly-out windowmaker menu...I just tell it which envelope to print...drag drop in ROX's case, click the envelope I want to print in windowmaker's case). I just haven't gotten around to doing the example on the web page for the envelope printer yet.
But what if the pilots themselves did it? If this has been planned over years, what would have stopped the terrorists from becoming actual pilots in order to perform their task? What kind of background checks are pilots required to go through?
Not likely or probable, but a tiny possibility nontheless.
Actually, there were 3 planes hitting the towers. The third plane to hit the second tower low is what caused that tower to collapse. I'm not sure what caused the collapse of the other tower.
In a process I was in charge of, it took a certain amount of time to get a certain task done. Obviously as our experience grew along with the tools we wrote to help automate that task, it took less time to complete.
We just never told management we could do things more quickly now. That way they get things done in the time they expect...so they are happy...and you have time to focus on the details, or make things even more efficient, or study what you will need to know for the next phase of the project or for other projects, which kept us happy.
You just have to know how to play the game on their terms. They'll never allow you to take time away from real production to do things the 'right' way, so you have to come up with ways to allow you to do so while keeping management happy at the same time.
So set up an old pentium with MySQL and a nice web management scheme and everyone can then share their data that way.
It takes a little effort up front, but in my experience, once you've shown management how easy it is to *really* work together with a database server, they love it and never go back
From what I read, you are required to sign an NDA to get the specs.
If you write a driver, and then publish the source to that driver, are you not 'disclosing' the stuff you said you wouldn't?
Either accept the terms of the NDA, or don't. It's Trident's call whether they want to allow you to release how to write drivers to their hardware to the general public or not.
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You don't *NEED* outlook for a calendaring function like this. you can do it with a web page. Yes, the backend could even send you reminders. Imagine that.
Simple little tools. Not one big monstrous one. Use a mail server to forward mail. Use a mail client to retrieve it. Use a centralized database with a nice front end for data that needs to be shared (your calendar).
For small offices, it may be nice to have exchange with calendaring, since the small offices probably don't have people on staff with the skills to put together another (even customized to their processes...imagine that!) solution. But in big companies that already have IT staff dedicated to providing solutions taylored to that company? What's the problem?
The problem is that EVERYONE is using exchange now, not just those (small offices) that need it. There are better solutions, you just have to find one that fits with your company's way of doing things, or write one in an afternoon using MySQL and Embedded perl.
For documents that you use often, or documents you edit frequently, yes, LaTeX.
For quick one-time things, wordprocessors and spreadsheets. I don't really have the time to set up the templates, by the time I did, I could have had the finished product.
I could use MySQL with a web front end to keep track of my resume contacts...but it's a waste of time. That's what spreadsheets are for...quick and dirty.
Once you get at least 128MB of memory on your machine (yeah, I know), StarOffice works beautifully as an office suite. I've done several documents with it, including my resume.
On HPFS, they were stored as part of the file in the filesystem. You could copy the file to a FAT formatted floppy, however, and the EA's were stored as a separate file, allowing you to keep all attributes, including the long file name.
Actually the problem is the "all or nothing" mentality.
The best systems I've used combine text and gui in a very elegant manner, along with the file system. My love of simple things that work and are flexible through text programs defining the gui are seen in my choice of windowmanager, WindowMaker, which allows me to do all kinds of neat things (dynamic menus, for example), and my filemanager of choice, ROX-Filer.
It doesn't have to be this or that. You can combine both to have a truly elegant, simple, and powerful system.
To do anything unique or interesting with your interface in windoze, you have to be a developer. To do it in my environment of choice, you edit a text file or write a quick little perl script.
In making things "simple" the gui folks are actually making doing things 'your' way more complex.
It's sad that the primary use of a computer in a shcool is "The Internet"
whatever happened to expressing creativity through code? I remember when I was in High School, our computer room was a bunch of TRS-80 model III's. Computers in schools should be a tool to learn. Internet access??? Why? Maybe a networking class, with your own web and mail servers to play with.
Let's not forget why children are in school. To learn important skills they can't get elsewhere. How does being able to browse web pages help this?
Bluetooth's use was intended for inter-device communication at short range.
802.11 is for full-blown wireless networking.
Bluetooth is good for proximity-based services (neat things like flipping from free long-distance for authorized people when using a company phone, or how about a car door that unlocks as you approach?)
Since I don't have the cash to contribute right now, I did send an email to the address given at the end of the article. Here is what I wrote:
Hello,
I just read about a case involving Brian K. West. The URL is:
http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/17/2001/134. html
From everything that I have read, this person did absoultely nothing
wrong. I fail to understand why he is being persecuted for simply
notifying somebody of a *VERY SERIOUS* security hole on a service they
offer to the entire world.
Please consider throwing this case out. Mr. West has undoubtedly
already lost much time, money, and reputation due to this injustice.
Had he done the same thing for me, I would have immediately sent him a
message of thanks and IMMEDIATELY secured the site. Aparently, weeks
after the initial warning that Mr. West was so kind to give the poteau
daily news website administrator, this hole (really a misconfiguration
on the administrator's part) still was not closed.
Allowing frontpage publishing to the entire world is a serious
potential vulnerability. Doing the same with no authentication
mechanism is just plain stupid, especially for a news site whose
integrity is at stake.
If you would like to see other people's views on this incident, please
visit:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/18/170259 &mode=thread
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Yes, the same one I use for windows. Common Sense. Viruses spread because of end-user idiocy. It is an education issue, and nothing more. All anti-virus software I have ever seen causes as much harm as the viruses themselves, wasting resources, mucking with files as you open and save them, causing corruption, etc. No thanks.
You can use KSql, which has a nifty way of embedding forms. The only thing lacking is a way of showing and creating relationships graphically. Anyone who takes 5 minutes to learn how to create a table in MySQL, however, won't need this, and will, in fact, probably write a better database because *gasp* they'll actually understand what it is they are doing! I can't count the number of times as a tech support person I've gone to an end user with a 'database' where they basically use access as a spreadsheet...250 databases...all with the same data structure. "I need to put the data in for this month now...I'll just copy/paste the database again!"
Any end user who 'can' write scripts would be fully comfortable writing them WITH WHATEVER LANGUAGE THEY CHOOSE, instead of being forced to use that "march through the recordset" crap that you have to do with MS-Access's Basic.
Instead of KDE, a less complicated and easier to use and understand environment is Windowmaker + ROX-Filer.
:)
Instead of the apps he chose, here are my personal favorites:
Database: MySQL and Ksql for end-users, embedded perl for web-based company-wide databases.
PIM with Email: a web-based app tailored to the company's business processes for scheduling, and Pronto for mail.
Browser: Mozilla
Image Viewer: GQView
PDF Viewer: ghostview (gv) & Acrobat for stuff gv can't handle
Umm...what does a mp3 player have to do with business?
I don't know where you went to school, but even in the redneck hick town I went, being a willfully retarded sped was definitely not seen as cool (except by the morons themselves, who everyone else pretty much just ignored).
Intelligence and curiosity are definitely cool, as is athletics. But without balance, none of it is good.
...what does 'alot' mean?
They could use wireless, putting access points on towers in key locations. Problem solved.
Hmmm..
Since I run my own domain, it should be easy for me to write pages that allow me to check my mail remotely through WAP if I ever get one of those things. Right now I just ssh into the home lan and use pine.
But I don't even own a regular cell phone, nor do I want to, so I guess it's a moot point...until I get a truly wireless palm that can also use standard 802.11 so it can hop on my network at home, and not use somebody else's network...
This is how it should be. It took me no extra effort to 'gui-fy' my code, because the UI takes care of that FOR ME. You shouldn't HAVE to write gui code for simple tasks. You should be able to merge it into your GUI of choice to make you most productive. Windowmaker is awesome for this, as is ROX-Filer.
To see examples of what I'm talking about, please feel free to browse my code pages, http://freefall.homeip.net/ where I show examples of integration with ROX and Windowmaker, despite some of the utilities being text only. I do this with my envelope printer too (I have both a ROX App for it, and a fly-out windowmaker menu...I just tell it which envelope to print...drag drop in ROX's case, click the envelope I want to print in windowmaker's case). I just haven't gotten around to doing the example on the web page for the envelope printer yet.
hardcore conspiracy theory here....
But what if the pilots themselves did it? If this has been planned over years, what would have stopped the terrorists from becoming actual pilots in order to perform their task? What kind of background checks are pilots required to go through?
Not likely or probable, but a tiny possibility nontheless.
Actually, there were 3 planes hitting the towers. The third plane to hit the second tower low is what caused that tower to collapse. I'm not sure what caused the collapse of the other tower.
...but here's what I did...
In a process I was in charge of, it took a certain amount of time to get a certain task done. Obviously as our experience grew along with the tools we wrote to help automate that task, it took less time to complete.
We just never told management we could do things more quickly now. That way they get things done in the time they expect...so they are happy...and you have time to focus on the details, or make things even more efficient, or study what you will need to know for the next phase of the project or for other projects, which kept us happy.
You just have to know how to play the game on their terms. They'll never allow you to take time away from real production to do things the 'right' way, so you have to come up with ways to allow you to do so while keeping management happy at the same time.
http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.php3
Here are a couple of pictures of ROX running on my desktop:
It takes a little effort up front, but in my experience, once you've shown management how easy it is to *really* work together with a database server, they love it and never go back
From what I read, you are required to sign an NDA to get the specs.
If you write a driver, and then publish the source to that driver, are you not 'disclosing' the stuff you said you wouldn't?
Either accept the terms of the NDA, or don't. It's Trident's call whether they want to allow you to release how to write drivers to their hardware to the general public or not.
You don't *NEED* outlook for a calendaring function like this. you can do it with a web page. Yes, the backend could even send you reminders. Imagine that.
Simple little tools. Not one big monstrous one. Use a mail server to forward mail. Use a mail client to retrieve it. Use a centralized database with a nice front end for data that needs to be shared (your calendar).
For small offices, it may be nice to have exchange with calendaring, since the small offices probably don't have people on staff with the skills to put together another (even customized to their processes...imagine that!) solution. But in big companies that already have IT staff dedicated to providing solutions taylored to that company? What's the problem?
The problem is that EVERYONE is using exchange now, not just those (small offices) that need it. There are better solutions, you just have to find one that fits with your company's way of doing things, or write one in an afternoon using MySQL and Embedded perl.
For quick one-time things, wordprocessors and spreadsheets. I don't really have the time to set up the templates, by the time I did, I could have had the finished product.
I could use MySQL with a web front end to keep track of my resume contacts...but it's a waste of time. That's what spreadsheets are for...quick and dirty.
No, the ultimate cubicle is not being in the ofice at all!
Once you get at least 128MB of memory on your machine (yeah, I know), StarOffice works beautifully as an office suite. I've done several documents with it, including my resume.
These did the trick.
On HPFS, they were stored as part of the file in the filesystem. You could copy the file to a FAT formatted floppy, however, and the EA's were stored as a separate file, allowing you to keep all attributes, including the long file name.
Actually the problem is the "all or nothing" mentality.
The best systems I've used combine text and gui in a very elegant manner, along with the file system. My love of simple things that work and are flexible through text programs defining the gui are seen in my choice of windowmanager, WindowMaker, which allows me to do all kinds of neat things (dynamic menus, for example), and my filemanager of choice, ROX-Filer.
It doesn't have to be this or that. You can combine both to have a truly elegant, simple, and powerful system.
To do anything unique or interesting with your interface in windoze, you have to be a developer. To do it in my environment of choice, you edit a text file or write a quick little perl script.
In making things "simple" the gui folks are actually making doing things 'your' way more complex.
TruSecure corporation started a similar initiative last year during the DDOS scare that was happening then.
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See http://www.trusecure.com/html/partners/alliance.s
It's sad that the primary use of a computer in a shcool is "The Internet"
whatever happened to expressing creativity through code? I remember when I was in High School, our computer room was a bunch of TRS-80 model III's. Computers in schools should be a tool to learn. Internet access??? Why? Maybe a networking class, with your own web and mail servers to play with.
Let's not forget why children are in school. To learn important skills they can't get elsewhere. How does being able to browse web pages help this?
Bluetooth's use was intended for inter-device communication at short range.
802.11 is for full-blown wireless networking.
Bluetooth is good for proximity-based services (neat things like flipping from free long-distance for authorized people when using a company phone, or how about a car door that unlocks as you approach?)
Or better yet, contact the FBI and let them take care of it, even if a phone call to a competent admin could have fixed the problem.
Since I don't have the cash to contribute right now, I did send an email to the address given at the end of the article. Here is what I wrote:
. html
9 &mode=thread
Hello,
I just read about a case involving Brian K. West. The URL is:
http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/17/2001/134
From everything that I have read, this person did absoultely nothing
wrong. I fail to understand why he is being persecuted for simply
notifying somebody of a *VERY SERIOUS* security hole on a service they
offer to the entire world.
Please consider throwing this case out. Mr. West has undoubtedly
already lost much time, money, and reputation due to this injustice.
Had he done the same thing for me, I would have immediately sent him a
message of thanks and IMMEDIATELY secured the site. Aparently, weeks
after the initial warning that Mr. West was so kind to give the poteau
daily news website administrator, this hole (really a misconfiguration
on the administrator's part) still was not closed.
Allowing frontpage publishing to the entire world is a serious
potential vulnerability. Doing the same with no authentication
mechanism is just plain stupid, especially for a news site whose
integrity is at stake.
If you would like to see other people's views on this incident, please
visit:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/18/17025
-- greg, webmaster@no.slashdotting.desired
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Greg Spath
gspath@no.slashotting.desired
http://no.slashdotting.desired