99% Linux at home, and the remaining '95 partition is for legacy apps only : it's not allowed a sniff of the net.
At work, I have 2xQNX, 1xDebian, 1xWindows - but the Debian is headless (so not that useful for browsing) and the QNX browser is not much fun. Hence I browse with Windows (Mozilla.. actually I usually try IE if a site doesn't work properly, but only very rarely find it helps. Often, it's worse.).
Windows is still the desktop machine, as we make several apps for Windows-using customers and need to run them ourselves too. It doesn't have many advantages for other work, but it does make half my slashdot accesses show a Windows OS.
This week's excitement foor PC users, the bugbear worm, is noted to sometimes search for copies of Apache 1.3.26 and attempt to report any it finds via email, presumably with the intention of attacking it.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bugb ea ra.html
There is may well be more to pre-christian religions than that. But using the character and context of christianity and then choosing the "dark side" is either pointlessly immoral or (rather more often) simply adolescent.
> 2) First its the Satanists, then the Hindus, then the Buddists, etc...
Sure, I have some sympathy with that argument, but there has to be a threshold below which it's simply silly : I see no need to defend those who claim to be Jedi (yes, they have a point to their claim, but it isn't due to a belief in Alec Guiness) or Barney the Dinosaur.
There's something deeply pointless about a religion that exists only to piss off christians.
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What about using it with Wine ? You could have a single image of the Windows filesystem, then keep multiple overlays, each containing the changed files for that instance. This would keep multiple virtual Windows systems going in their own jails, making it easier to recover from failures without having to trash unrelated projects.
It appears uq don't update their websites too frequently - the 'new' article linked from the page (actually written over a year ago) says the 8th drop fell in November 2000 (but, arguably, is still falling while the ninth drop forms).
You may not be able to install the player and codec on a Palladium-based OS in 10 years time. You may still be able to run it under a descendant of Wine, but you probably need to keep testing with every major architecture change, and keep the ability to transform the format to an uncompressed one.
Do the Epson cartridges have capacities on them ? I bought an Epson printer because it has better Linux support (well documented for gimp-print and a non-free driver from Epson themselves) but was annoyed that I couldn't find out how much the cartridges held.
Page coverage figures are possibly useful (and arguably could be more meaningful than volume), but only if all vendors use the same test page density.
Lots of people in my office use laptops for everyday work (they do a lot of support work away from the desk).
These things seem to forget all the ergo work that was done in the 70s and later : they have thick keyboards, poorly positioned screens, and fiddly mouse-substitutes (nipples) that encourage small, tight hand movements. They seem like a disaster : is there any fallout yet from their increasing use ?
Lipsync was poor in the film version I saw, too. It often is - I don't think they bother to set the sound systems up properly any more.
Did you also see a film version of AotC ? Posters have complained that the digital version si pixellated, but surely it was mastered in that resolution : printing to film won't improve the resolution, though it could be deliberately blurred.
Indeed, and make sure the DSP you add is reprogrammable, so it can handle the constant changes to watermarking technology.
So now we've got a piece of hardware with good ADC functionality and onboard reprogrammable DSP. Sooner or later, the upgrade system gets hacked. Now, you've got a low-cost high-quality ADC with built-in Ogg encoder.. and no watermark detector.
Why not support/ignore the bill instead of fighting it ?
When it's passed, and there's
a) a 5 year moratorium on ANY electronics device while the RIAA defines what sort of watermark has to be detected (because there probably isn't a piece of electronics of any significant complexity made today that doesn't use at least one, if not 20 ADCs).
and b) a huge hike in the manufacturing cost of everything from cars to cellphones,
then sit back and laugh while you watch the Trade Federation^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H RIAA torn to shreds by industry and politicians alike.
"I've never seen a systematic study that showed open source to be more secure," said Dorothy Denning, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University who specializes in information warfare."
So has Prof. Denning ever seen any systematic study that showed the opposite ? Or any systematic study at all ? This sounds like a careful lie by omission.
"Stenbit said that the debate is academic and that what matters is how secure a given piece of software is. To that end, the Defense Department is now prohibited from purchasing any software that has not undergone security testing by the NSA. Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested."
Snag is, much open source software doesn't need to be 'purchased'. So is this a very meaningful restriction ?
While I don't like the confusion of domain names with keywords, and think that adding a potentially conflicting alternate domain name system is a stupid idea, I do think the company has a point.
If your business model relies on an agreement with another company and that company reneges, then you're in trouble. If the company holds a monopoly, preventing you from making a new agreement with an alternate supplier, then that's unfair use of a monopoly.
Arguments that it was stupid to trust Microsoft and that their contract should have covered them for the case where Microsoft backs out have some merit but don't really change the moral situation.
The urge to buy power tools can rather easily be subverted int an urge to buy machine tools.
Machine tools are to power tools what Linux is to Windows, and will gratify any hacker (especially one who already has the inclination to wield a soldering iron).
As an interesting side issue, www.bivings.com is apparently running Apache on Linux, with MySQL behind it.
What do slashdotters think of free software (especially if you wrote or contributed to it) being used for immoral purposes ? It's sort of tempting to put a licensing condition in to make it illegal, but that would be incompatible with the GPL.
Audit your machines anyway - with only 50 users it's not a huge job, and even if you skimp it you'll have some idea of the size of the problem.
The last thing you want is to suffer from the FUD the BSA and MS are putting out : they know most administrators have no idea whether users are running unlicensed stuff, and they rely on panic measures to force the issue.
If you get a threatening letter, you may have no choice but to cave in. If you do your own survey you can make a proper, planned businesslike decision to either buy a few more licences (and purge a lot of unnecessary installations) or to scrap the whole lot and install something that doesn't come with built-in forced upgrades.
Upgrade older users when they change machines. They'd have to make some changes anyway because new machines would come with XP or whatever MS's flavour of the month is. They'll hate getting used to something new, but it might as well be Linux as anything else.
But since this is a custom development, not a shrinkwrap, the customers almost certainly do have access to source.
This is a testing problem : the new terminal software has generated server traffic of a volume that wasn't expected. Might be a terminal software bug, might be a system design problem, might be a capacity thing that they weren't expecting.
Either way, adequate testing would probably have avoidede it - but testing big client-server systems is pretty difficult, as the live system is often the only viable test platform. Credit to the ATC people that they were able to back off the upgrade and continue to run at night-time loading : better than the crash-and-burn that failed upgrades more often cause.
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99% Linux at home, and the remaining '95 partition is for legacy apps only : it's not allowed a sniff of the net.
.. actually I usually try IE if a site doesn't work properly, but only very rarely find it helps. Often, it's worse.).
At work, I have 2xQNX, 1xDebian, 1xWindows - but the Debian is headless (so not that useful for browsing) and the QNX browser is not much fun. Hence I browse with Windows (Mozilla
Windows is still the desktop machine, as we make several apps for Windows-using customers and need to run them ourselves too. It doesn't have many advantages for other work, but it does make half my slashdot accesses show a Windows OS.
This week's excitement foor PC users, the bugbear worm, is noted to sometimes search for copies of Apache 1.3.26 and attempt to report any it finds via email, presumably with the intention of attacking it.
b ea ra.html
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bug
> 1) There is more to it (satanism) than that.
There is may well be more to pre-christian religions than that. But using the character and context of christianity and then choosing the "dark side" is either pointlessly immoral or (rather more often) simply adolescent.
> 2) First its the Satanists, then the Hindus, then the Buddists, etc...
Sure, I have some sympathy with that argument, but there has to be a threshold below which it's simply silly : I see no need to defend those who claim to be Jedi (yes, they have a point to their claim, but it isn't due to a belief in Alec Guiness) or Barney the Dinosaur.
Who's going to care about satanists ?
There's something deeply pointless about a religion that exists only to piss off christians.
What about using it with Wine ?
You could have a single image of the Windows filesystem, then keep multiple overlays, each containing the changed files for that instance. This would keep multiple virtual Windows systems going in their own jails, making it easier to recover from failures without having to trash unrelated projects.
It appears uq don't update their websites too frequently - the 'new' article linked from the page (actually written over a year ago) says the 8th drop fell in November 2000 (but, arguably, is still
falling while the ninth drop forms).
You get a live bait vending machine.
'soon the best option for most of us will be to block all incoming international calls. '
Won't work. International call centres buy bulk connections from the telcos and can appear to be located locally.
You may not be able to install the player and codec on a Palladium-based OS in 10 years time. You may still be able to run it under a descendant of Wine, but you probably need to keep testing with every major architecture change, and keep the ability to transform the format to an uncompressed one.
What about the expanding ball of hot gas from the explosion itself ? It will hit the ship and vibrate the hull.
Do the Epson cartridges have capacities on them ? I bought an Epson printer because it has better Linux support (well documented for gimp-print and a non-free driver from Epson themselves) but was annoyed that I couldn't find out how much the cartridges held.
Page coverage figures are possibly useful (and arguably could be more meaningful than volume), but only if all vendors use the same test page density.
Lots of people in my office use laptops for everyday work (they do a lot of support work away from the desk).
These things seem to forget all the ergo work that was done in the 70s and later : they have thick keyboards, poorly positioned screens, and fiddly mouse-substitutes (nipples) that encourage small, tight hand movements. They seem like a disaster : is there any fallout yet from their increasing use ?
Lipsync was poor in the film version I saw, too. It often is - I don't think they bother to set the sound systems up properly any more.
Did you also see a film version of AotC ? Posters have complained that the digital version si pixellated, but surely it was mastered in that resolution : printing to film won't improve the resolution, though it could be deliberately blurred.
Indeed, and make sure the DSP you add is reprogrammable, so it can handle the constant changes to watermarking technology.
.. and no watermark detector.
So now we've got a piece of hardware with good ADC functionality and onboard reprogrammable DSP. Sooner or later, the upgrade system gets hacked. Now, you've got a low-cost high-quality ADC with built-in Ogg encoder
Why not support/ignore the bill instead of fighting it ?
When it's passed, and there's
a) a 5 year moratorium on ANY electronics device while the RIAA defines what sort of watermark has to be detected (because there probably isn't a piece of electronics of any significant complexity made today that doesn't use at least one, if not 20 ADCs).
and b) a huge hike in the manufacturing cost of everything from cars to cellphones,
then sit back and laugh while you watch the Trade Federation^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H RIAA torn to shreds by industry and politicians alike.
So a system that's state-sponsored but used for commercial convenience is anti-american ?
Like, say, a freeway ?
Of course it's murky.
When has Microsoft ever been anything else ?
"I've never seen a systematic study that showed open source to be more secure," said Dorothy Denning, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University who specializes in information warfare."
So has Prof. Denning ever seen any systematic study that showed the opposite ? Or any systematic study at all ? This sounds like a careful lie by omission.
"Stenbit said that the debate is academic and that what matters is how secure a given piece of software is. To that end, the Defense Department is now prohibited from purchasing any software that has not undergone security testing by the NSA. Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested."
Snag is, much open source software doesn't need to be 'purchased'. So is this a very meaningful restriction ?
While I don't like the confusion of domain names with keywords, and think that adding a potentially conflicting alternate domain name system is a stupid idea, I do think the company has a point.
If your business model relies on an agreement with another company and that company reneges, then you're in trouble. If the company holds a monopoly, preventing you from making a new agreement with an alternate supplier, then that's unfair use of a monopoly.
Arguments that it was stupid to trust Microsoft and that their contract should have covered them for the case where Microsoft backs out have some merit but don't really change the moral situation.
The urge to buy power tools can rather easily be subverted int an urge to buy machine tools.
Machine tools are to power tools what Linux is to Windows, and will gratify any hacker (especially one who already has the inclination to wield a soldering iron).
As an interesting side issue, www.bivings.com is apparently running Apache on Linux, with MySQL behind it.
What do slashdotters think of free software (especially if you wrote or contributed to it) being used for immoral purposes ? It's sort of tempting to put a licensing condition in to make it illegal, but that would be incompatible with the GPL.
Just read the article. It's excellent.
Audit your machines anyway - with only 50 users it's not a huge job, and even if you skimp it you'll have some idea of the size of the problem.
The last thing you want is to suffer from the FUD the BSA and MS are putting out : they know most administrators have no idea whether users are running unlicensed stuff, and they rely on panic measures to force the issue.
If you get a threatening letter, you may have no choice but to cave in. If you do your own survey you can make a proper, planned businesslike decision to either buy a few more licences (and purge a lot of unnecessary installations) or to scrap the whole lot and install something that doesn't come with built-in forced upgrades.
Upgrade older users when they change machines. They'd have to make some changes anyway because new machines would come with XP or whatever MS's flavour of the month is. They'll hate getting used to something new, but it might as well be Linux as anything else.
But since this is a custom development, not a shrinkwrap, the customers almost certainly do have access to source.
This is a testing problem : the new terminal software has generated server traffic of a volume that wasn't expected. Might be a terminal software bug, might be a system design problem, might be a capacity thing that they weren't expecting.
Either way, adequate testing would probably have avoidede it - but testing big client-server systems is pretty difficult, as the live system is often the only viable test platform. Credit to the ATC people that they were able to back off the upgrade and continue to run at night-time loading : better than the crash-and-burn that failed upgrades more often cause.