My opinion is that the "open access" many on the Net support ("us") is predicated upon control of the underlying physical medium. With the physical layer of our current Internet increasingly being both monitored and controlled (albeit with the latter so far being incomplete), do you have any thoughts on where this may be going? Do you agree with this diagnosis? Do you see where "the Net" may eventually move to keep and foster the open access upon which it -- I claim -- is predicated? Do you see nascent, realistic technology solutions and/or serious support for same?
In other words, when can I expect my neutrino "radio"?;-)
I'll add that I'm not "a pirate" and that my concern does not center around swapping Hollywood saccharine and the like.
I wondered, as well, and was surprised at how little information is available -- both in the Linksys literature and online -- on this feature. Reprehensible.
Here's the thing, Mozilla. If/As you screw over extension support, I have no reason to stay with you.
You'd better rethink the implications of your "rapid release"... nomenclature. And really, it's just nomenclature. So, you are willing to toss your competitive advantage for the sake of bumping version numbers like Chrome?
So, this would be the new "one pitch, you're out" model?
(With an adjunctory "three strikes" model in that repeated occurrences cost you any future right to appeal/respond.)
Contrary to the propaganda, the U.S.'s IP demagoguery is making it (and organizations it touches/controls) untenable for business, except for a quickly resolving group of oligarchs.
Maybe OT, but here's MS's information for controlling this "feature" in Windows.
There've been various sets of instructions and registry hacks floating around, but this appears to be from the horse's mouth, relatively recently updated, and addresses some of the shortcomings of previous fixes.
Article ID: 967715 - Last Review: September 9, 2010 - Revision: 6.2 How to disable the Autorun functionality in Windows
(I'm posting this due to the confusion all the various instructions / search results can create, and because this article addresses Autoruns and so I expect a number of Windows users will be having a look out of curiosity.)
Mums has one of these, that I pointed out to her when it was on sale. Works fine, but a couple of tips:
Clean the corona wire with 20 - 25 passes of the integrated cleaning "tab" BEFORE first installing the drum/cartridge unit: These printers are known for a vertical black line of the first some dozen pages of a new cartridge; the cleaning eliminates or greatly lessens this.
The wireless connection works fine, but you need to configure it for the first time using a wired connection (e.g. Ethernet connection into your router). Establishing the initial wireless configuration using a wireless connection is problematic and/or, depending on what comment you are reading online, simply doesn't work.
The other week, Amazon had this thing for $90. It is a bargain. For that, you get 2400x600, 23 pages/min, USB, Ethernet, and wireless connectivity (the latter two meaning it is network-capable out of the box). The Brother driver and supporting software is actually decent (on Windows, at least). There was a problem with the Linux driver; a bug prevented -- of all things -- printing on Tuesday due to errant pattern matching in the print command contents. Hopefully, that's fixed, now. There were also workarounds described online.
I learned of Skim a few months ago, and it looks like a great tool. Extensive navigation and annotation abilities, with the annotations saved separately (merging them into the PDF file is also supported). Exactly what I want for migrating to more on-screen research and study.
Unfortunately, it is dependent upon Mac OS PDF handling libraries. I've been wishing/hoping something similar will appear that is cross platform. Some recent news about Python-based PDF libraries (I forget the specific names, at the moment) has perked my interest/hope a bit.
I hope something does develop. Or that I generate enough spare cash to finally put down for a Mac. (Suboptimal: I don't want to be tied to Apple's libraries.)
Thanks. I have "Lila" on the nightstand, waiting to be (re)started. (It's been that way for some considerable time.) Your post is a reminder to go back and revisit the earlier work -- it's been years, but I remember being consumed one summer and cramming the margins with notes and my own observations.
Entirely agree. There was a nascent guideline for users: Check the "padlock". Check that the protocol is https.
Designers then started breaking this. To avoid an extra https serve, particularly on a front page or popular page. For the sake of "Design", including putting a sign in form on the front page. Etc.
At least I knew to, if at all possible, force the site to serve up an https version of the sign on page. Most users have no clue about that. And the means for accomplishing this vary. Sometimes, you can do it by replacing "http" with "https" and resubmitting. Sometimes by submitting a blank form. Sometimes you have to populate the form with garbage in order to get by initial checks; the "error" page that comes back when the garbage credentials aren't found is served as https, if you're lucky.
Users were just learning to secure their transactions, when those who presumably had interest in the users' doing so, broke the paradigm, and broke it hard.
I'm at the end of my patience with such fools, who consider themselves professionals.
I'll also mention the idiots who populate their https pages with http references to components. Once you pull in one unencrypted piece, you've opened the door to exploitation. Get a f*cking clue.
My performance took a dive after some chronic physical health issues emerged. When I do have a better day, I'm struck with the difference between it and other days; I function so much better.
One reason I tend to land in the camp that wants to view healthcare as a right. Good health plays such a role in quality of life. And, in my anecdotal experience, in one's ability to contribute to society.
Whether or not one embraces "healthcare as a right" as a moral standard, to me it makes sense simple from a practical point of view. Healthy people contribute more.
Not all people are the same. Thing is, when you create an inherently loud, distracting environment, you remove the ability for those who need to to get away from those distractions.
Further, I have seen so much *crap* come out of "collaborative" environments. The net effect seems to be that I have to work all the harder to fix their problems. Running at the mouth does not necessarily equal problem solving.
I find Verdana by far one of the easiest fonts to read on a screen. I've continued to maintain mis-trust of the world's (and especially the non-MS world's) continuing access to it. Yes, I have the "free font pack" saved off, somewhere, but I can't expect/guarantee other users of my stuff to 1) Have access to it themselves; 2) Be able to and/or willing to install it manually.
But how soon until they can read the keyboard LEDs? Then I'll really be screwed.
(I don't care if it was fiction -- it was a good introduction for a lot of people to basic information security concepts, including those who might otherwise not get or suffer through one.)
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My opinion is that the "open access" many on the Net support ("us") is predicated upon control of the underlying physical medium. With the physical layer of our current Internet increasingly being both monitored and controlled (albeit with the latter so far being incomplete), do you have any thoughts on where this may be going? Do you agree with this diagnosis? Do you see where "the Net" may eventually move to keep and foster the open access upon which it -- I claim -- is predicated? Do you see nascent, realistic technology solutions and/or serious support for same?
In other words, when can I expect my neutrino "radio"? ;-)
I'll add that I'm not "a pirate" and that my concern does not center around swapping Hollywood saccharine and the like.
If Quickbooks is running in a VM, you can take snapshots of the VM and also back the whole VM up.
Although I would additionally back up the Quickbooks data itself, in a "normal", stand-alone format.
With both kinds of backup (and copies stored off-site), it will be very difficult for "the dog to eat your homework".
I wondered, as well, and was surprised at how little information is available -- both in the Linksys literature and online -- on this feature. Reprehensible.
The AFL CIO leadership has show itself in the last few years to be little more than a group of high-priced whores.
I support the unions. But they suffer from the same leadership crisis our broader society labors under.
Illinois, on the other hand, is shutting down. Get out while you can!
Here's the thing, Mozilla. If/As you screw over extension support, I have no reason to stay with you.
You'd better rethink the implications of your "rapid release"... nomenclature. And really, it's just nomenclature. So, you are willing to toss your competitive advantage for the sake of bumping version numbers like Chrome?
So, this would be the new "one pitch, you're out" model?
(With an adjunctory "three strikes" model in that repeated occurrences cost you any future right to appeal/respond.)
Contrary to the propaganda, the U.S.'s IP demagoguery is making it (and organizations it touches/controls) untenable for business, except for a quickly resolving group of oligarchs.
Maybe OT, but here's MS's information for controlling this "feature" in Windows.
There've been various sets of instructions and registry hacks floating around, but this appears to be from the horse's mouth, relatively recently updated, and addresses some of the shortcomings of previous fixes.
Article ID: 967715 - Last Review: September 9, 2010 - Revision: 6.2
How to disable the Autorun functionality in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715
(I'm posting this due to the confusion all the various instructions / search results can create, and because this article addresses Autoruns and so I expect a number of Windows users will be having a look out of curiosity.)
According to the discoverer and the issue; he mixed up two different fixes, initially:
http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/06/yeah-about-that-address-bar-thing.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556957#c46
I'd say more like Facebook is the AIM of 10 years ago.
(Hmm... I haven't heard anyone mention AIM in a couple of years...)
Mums has one of these, that I pointed out to her when it was on sale. Works fine, but a couple of tips:
Clean the corona wire with 20 - 25 passes of the integrated cleaning "tab" BEFORE first installing the drum/cartridge unit: These printers are known for a vertical black line of the first some dozen pages of a new cartridge; the cleaning eliminates or greatly lessens this.
The wireless connection works fine, but you need to configure it for the first time using a wired connection (e.g. Ethernet connection into your router). Establishing the initial wireless configuration using a wireless connection is problematic and/or, depending on what comment you are reading online, simply doesn't work.
The other week, Amazon had this thing for $90. It is a bargain. For that, you get 2400x600, 23 pages/min, USB, Ethernet, and wireless connectivity (the latter two meaning it is network-capable out of the box). The Brother driver and supporting software is actually decent (on Windows, at least). There was a problem with the Linux driver; a bug prevented -- of all things -- printing on Tuesday due to errant pattern matching in the print command contents. Hopefully, that's fixed, now. There were also workarounds described online.
I learned of Skim a few months ago, and it looks like a great tool. Extensive navigation and annotation abilities, with the annotations saved separately (merging them into the PDF file is also supported). Exactly what I want for migrating to more on-screen research and study.
Unfortunately, it is dependent upon Mac OS PDF handling libraries. I've been wishing/hoping something similar will appear that is cross platform. Some recent news about Python-based PDF libraries (I forget the specific names, at the moment) has perked my interest/hope a bit.
I hope something does develop. Or that I generate enough spare cash to finally put down for a Mac. (Suboptimal: I don't want to be tied to Apple's libraries.)
Thanks. I have "Lila" on the nightstand, waiting to be (re)started. (It's been that way for some considerable time.) Your post is a reminder to go back and revisit the earlier work -- it's been years, but I remember being consumed one summer and cramming the margins with notes and my own observations.
aka "Lightning"?
Entirely agree. There was a nascent guideline for users: Check the "padlock". Check that the protocol is https.
Designers then started breaking this. To avoid an extra https serve, particularly on a front page or popular page. For the sake of "Design", including putting a sign in form on the front page. Etc.
At least I knew to, if at all possible, force the site to serve up an https version of the sign on page. Most users have no clue about that. And the means for accomplishing this vary. Sometimes, you can do it by replacing "http" with "https" and resubmitting. Sometimes by submitting a blank form. Sometimes you have to populate the form with garbage in order to get by initial checks; the "error" page that comes back when the garbage credentials aren't found is served as https, if you're lucky.
Users were just learning to secure their transactions, when those who presumably had interest in the users' doing so, broke the paradigm, and broke it hard.
I'm at the end of my patience with such fools, who consider themselves professionals.
I'll also mention the idiots who populate their https pages with http references to components. Once you pull in one unencrypted piece, you've opened the door to exploitation. Get a f*cking clue.
My performance took a dive after some chronic physical health issues emerged. When I do have a better day, I'm struck with the difference between it and other days; I function so much better.
One reason I tend to land in the camp that wants to view healthcare as a right. Good health plays such a role in quality of life. And, in my anecdotal experience, in one's ability to contribute to society.
Whether or not one embraces "healthcare as a right" as a moral standard, to me it makes sense simple from a practical point of view. Healthy people contribute more.
Interesting. Thanks.
Isaac Asimov had some very interesting things to say about this, as well as about society at large.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov's_Robot_Series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_to_Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_the_Foundation
Yes. Entirely agree with you.
Not all people are the same. Thing is, when you create an inherently loud, distracting environment, you remove the ability for those who need to to get away from those distractions.
Further, I have seen so much *crap* come out of "collaborative" environments. The net effect seems to be that I have to work all the harder to fix their problems. Running at the mouth does not necessarily equal problem solving.
Gives that old t-shirt a new significance.
An interesting, informative article about Verdana:
c id=14256548
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Verdana.htm
and a comment I made on some previous thread about Verdana:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171165&
I find Verdana by far one of the easiest fonts to read on a screen. I've continued to maintain mis-trust of the world's (and especially the non-MS world's) continuing access to it. Yes, I have the "free font pack" saved off, somewhere, but I can't expect/guarantee other users of my stuff to 1) Have access to it themselves; 2) Be able to and/or willing to install it manually.
But how soon until they can read the keyboard LEDs? Then I'll really be screwed.
(I don't care if it was fiction -- it was a good introduction for a lot of people to basic information security concepts, including those who might otherwise not get or suffer through one.)
They provided a very useful link.
Argh! In the original summary -- actual useful information. PayPal. Ok.
Not only am I tired, I am blind. A good, good sign to go home before I erase Alaska here, or something.
Tired. Realizing the inanity of my previous post. Of course you were comfortable. I guess what I'm asking is: What are the options?