Fully update Windows 10 before the start of the simulation and then disconnect it from the Internet during execution, or build in checkpointing to disk. Both should avoid data loss due to forced restarts after kernel security updates.
To be fair, when Windows 10 was first released, they had that problem of forced restarts. Now, you can set when you want something to restart, and while it may download the update in the background, it won't install it until the next time you shut down or restart
Although to make my job easier, whenever I notice such a flag, I work to the end of that session, and then restart while I'm taking a break - be it lunch or anything else. That way, I don't have to worry about an update sabotaging anything else I am doing. Granted, not ideal, which is why I do any important stuff, like my banking or shopping, on this TrueOS laptop
The PC isn't dying. Not at all. Despite tablets and mobile devices, there's a lot of work that can't easily be done on them. There are lots of jobs that still require or are much easier when done on a PC. This question is built upon a premise that is false. As long as there's work that requires a PC, and there will be for the foreseeable future, the PC sure isn't going to die.
Precisely. Where exactly did this one come from? Are they talking about the traditional PC form factor - of a tower accompanied by a separate monitor and keyboard, or are they talking about all Wintel devices?
Either way, I just don't see that. Whenever I go to Microcenter or Best Buy, I see a whole bunch of traditional desktop PCs - mainly for gaming, that are priced anywhere from $400 and up. A number of years ago, the prediction was that those would disappear as laptops became more affordable while tablets and netbooks horned into the desktop price range. Instead, the desktop has become solely a gaming platform, while each of the other form factors seem to have found their niches
The other premise of the submitter's question - an end to openness: what exactly does it mean? Does it mean that Walled Gardens would make something inherently less open? I see no reason why companies like Canonical, Red Hat, iXsystems, et al can't make devices that include their own OSs, if the PC does for any reason go away.
Precisely the point. That's the assumption too many people make: just b'cos something is open source implies that it has to be $0.00. It doesn't. Yeah, the fact that a lot of FOSS packages out there are $0.00, probably due to the redistribution rights implicit in the licenses, but there is nothing that says that the price of anything has to be $0.00, as both RMS and ESR have been at pains to emphasize
Where in the submission did it say that he doesn't want to pay for it? He simply said that he wanted it to be FOSS: it could be for all the other reasons that FOSS is better, not the least of which is that if its maintainers lose interest in it, someone else can take it up.
If you have a need, you start a project and write code.
So programmers would be the only people who have needs? Or in other words, anybody who has a need had better become a programmer? And people wonder why so many software projects get offshored to Eastern Europe or India or anywhere else
You are right that maintaining a project is hard work and expensive. However, the reason for wanting something to be open source is so that in the event the maintainers of a project go belly up, just like a company can go belly up, the sources are out there so that anyone who wants to use it for one reason or another can do it. It also helps in case someone has a really exotic piece of hardware that's not widely supported, like, say, the original Be Box.
Yeah, a lot of people assume that anyone who wants their software to be FOSS wants a free download, or something they can order from osdisc.com But that's not the only reasons people prefer the software they use to be FOSS
That, and you can always say , 'Sorry, but we don't have the bandwidth to do this. Is this something you'd be capable of supporting or contributing to'?
The tone of this message is exactly why so many people consider open source developers to be an incredibly hostile and rude crowd. Although I do understand the reasons for saying no, it need not be done in the rudest way possible, such as what you see on display with the parent post. If you want more open source developers and users, perhaps it's time for the community to become a less hostile place.
I thought the question in the summary was rude, not the answer
Are you talking about dryriver's post, or the one from his friend? This is what he said:
This is a good place to discuss the general logistics of new open source projects -- so leave your best answers in the comments. What's the best place to suggest new open source software?
How is it rude to check w/ 'the community' what's the best way to get an open source package written, if the people who want it written are not coders themselves? The first post in this thread demands that the people do something they are not trained to do, instead of outsourcing it to somebody who does that either as a hobby or as a living. When consumers get such attitudes, their natural response would be to look at proprietary solutions to these, instead of FOSS ones
There are, but unless something is explicitly built for that, like Devuan, it's more that they are behind a few releases, and are just starting to get systemd
Interesting that you picked the example of Gaza for your headline. That's the area that Israel FULLY VACATED a few years ago, to the extent of relocating Jewish graves. What did they get in return? Rocket attacks on Sderot and other border areas. Had Hamas eliminated all attacks from Gaza, they would have gotten more settlement freezes in the West Bank
The real dirty secret is that all Pali groups want to wipe out Israel as a Jewish state, and replace it w/ an Arab Islamic state. The only difference b/w Hamas vs Fatah vs Islamic Jihad is whether the resulting country would look like Saudi Arabia or Iran or Saddam's Iraq. The clause in Hamas' charter
'The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.' (Article 7)
is something directly taken out of the Hadiths. And before you start playing the 'this is an inauthentic hadith', it's taken from Sahih Bukhari, which is one of the primary 'sahih' (authentic) hadiths.
$100,000 is still too low. I'd say $300,000, but I'm open to an auction system too. The auction method would need a quota, and the other could safely be open ended.
It's a start. At that point, one is talking managers - at that level
If they can raid colleges for CS graduates, why can't they attract their professors? Those professors would be easy to attract given that they would get both a pay raise, as well as government benefits, which are invariably better than universities
For things like services, I'm not sure whether Trump has thought out a way here. But for anything involving manufacturing and reselling in the US, Trump has already been wagging the 'Border Tax' so loudly that companies have been falling over each other in not closing, or in fact expanding, US manufacturing. Now he'll have to decide whether and what to do for things like offshoring operations, like IT
The GP's assertion was that Rudy got the job b'cos he was a sycophant of Trump, and this was his reward. If Trump thought that his cabinet is the place to reward his loyalists, as opposed to brainstorming interesting ways of addressing the leadership of various government departments, then as per the GP, Trump would have given Rudy the Secretary of State, Chris Christie the AG, Ben Carson Education and so on.
That's a good point - something I hadn't thought of. But if someone is making those sort of changes, then ain't it worth branding it a different distro - like say Giulianix or something, and give it version numbers starting from anywhere - be it 1, 6, 10, whatever... Not to mention - the fixes to a lot of them would be there in the sources of all the subsequent versions from 7 to 12, so they could indeed do it w/o reflecting it in the OS name or version number
Not the problem, the problem is the inability of someone to distinguish such a person from a used car salesman with a slick line in pretending to be an admin w/ a good cyber-security certification.
A person without any exposure to an industry is going to make newbie mistakes. That's not the sort of thing you want in an important post.
But how is he pretending anything? He heads a physical security company - something he does have a long experience in since leaving the post of NYC mayor, and is extending his mission to cover online security as well. Yeah, there ought to be the questions of how well he's staffed and what his computing infrastructure is, but aside from that, why would he be any worse than any of the other companies out there?
Does someone who heads a cyber-security company have to actually be an admin w/ a good cyber-security certification? That's like demanding that Gates be a whiz at C++ programming and win APIs, or that Jobs should have been a whiz at Objective-C or AppBuilder. Rudy has a security company of his own, and he's recently added cyber-security as an area of focus in their mission. Question is - how much has he outsourced to the company hosting his site vs having his in-house admins managing it?
The server is FreeBSD based, which is not a bad choice. Question is - how essential is it that the FreeBSD version be made current? And how easy is it if they are running FreeBSD - the CLI version, as opposed to PC-BSD? Would it had been better had they based it on OpenBSD? From the summary above, it looks like the organization has let the data center manage that configuration, but if they took that expertise in-house, to what extent could they get rid of the holes in question?
The real story here is that Giuliani is now a goddamn cybersecurity advisor, not that this personal site is crap. The guy was hired not because of competence but because he spent the entire campaign kissing Trump's ass.
If that's how Trump works, then why didn't he give Giuliani what he wanted - the Secretary of State job? It would have saved Trump a lot of grief that he's going thru w/ Rex Tillerson, and Rudy would have got his first choice
This role would probably not have been created so quickly, had the Dems not been obsessed w/ the Russians - something they conveniently ignored the last 8 years
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As long as whatever you do doesn't involve extensive typing, which is when a tablet becomes a pain
Fully update Windows 10 before the start of the simulation and then disconnect it from the Internet during execution, or build in checkpointing to disk. Both should avoid data loss due to forced restarts after kernel security updates.
To be fair, when Windows 10 was first released, they had that problem of forced restarts. Now, you can set when you want something to restart, and while it may download the update in the background, it won't install it until the next time you shut down or restart
Although to make my job easier, whenever I notice such a flag, I work to the end of that session, and then restart while I'm taking a break - be it lunch or anything else. That way, I don't have to worry about an update sabotaging anything else I am doing. Granted, not ideal, which is why I do any important stuff, like my banking or shopping, on this TrueOS laptop
The PC isn't dying. Not at all. Despite tablets and mobile devices, there's a lot of work that can't easily be done on them. There are lots of jobs that still require or are much easier when done on a PC. This question is built upon a premise that is false. As long as there's work that requires a PC, and there will be for the foreseeable future, the PC sure isn't going to die.
Precisely. Where exactly did this one come from? Are they talking about the traditional PC form factor - of a tower accompanied by a separate monitor and keyboard, or are they talking about all Wintel devices?
Either way, I just don't see that. Whenever I go to Microcenter or Best Buy, I see a whole bunch of traditional desktop PCs - mainly for gaming, that are priced anywhere from $400 and up. A number of years ago, the prediction was that those would disappear as laptops became more affordable while tablets and netbooks horned into the desktop price range. Instead, the desktop has become solely a gaming platform, while each of the other form factors seem to have found their niches
The other premise of the submitter's question - an end to openness: what exactly does it mean? Does it mean that Walled Gardens would make something inherently less open? I see no reason why companies like Canonical, Red Hat, iXsystems, et al can't make devices that include their own OSs, if the PC does for any reason go away.
Precisely the point. That's the assumption too many people make: just b'cos something is open source implies that it has to be $0.00. It doesn't. Yeah, the fact that a lot of FOSS packages out there are $0.00, probably due to the redistribution rights implicit in the licenses, but there is nothing that says that the price of anything has to be $0.00, as both RMS and ESR have been at pains to emphasize
Where in the submission did it say that he doesn't want to pay for it? He simply said that he wanted it to be FOSS: it could be for all the other reasons that FOSS is better, not the least of which is that if its maintainers lose interest in it, someone else can take it up.
If you have a need, you start a project and write code.
So programmers would be the only people who have needs? Or in other words, anybody who has a need had better become a programmer? And people wonder why so many software projects get offshored to Eastern Europe or India or anywhere else
You are right that maintaining a project is hard work and expensive. However, the reason for wanting something to be open source is so that in the event the maintainers of a project go belly up, just like a company can go belly up, the sources are out there so that anyone who wants to use it for one reason or another can do it. It also helps in case someone has a really exotic piece of hardware that's not widely supported, like, say, the original Be Box.
Yeah, a lot of people assume that anyone who wants their software to be FOSS wants a free download, or something they can order from osdisc.com But that's not the only reasons people prefer the software they use to be FOSS
That, and you can always say , 'Sorry, but we don't have the bandwidth to do this. Is this something you'd be capable of supporting or contributing to'?
He's talking about the way someone else is treated - namely the friend of the submitter. Where did he come in as far as the respect goes?
The tone of this message is exactly why so many people consider open source developers to be an incredibly hostile and rude crowd. Although I do understand the reasons for saying no, it need not be done in the rudest way possible, such as what you see on display with the parent post. If you want more open source developers and users, perhaps it's time for the community to become a less hostile place.
I thought the question in the summary was rude, not the answer
Are you talking about dryriver's post, or the one from his friend? This is what he said:
This is a good place to discuss the general logistics of new open source projects -- so leave your best answers in the comments. What's the best place to suggest new open source software?
How is it rude to check w/ 'the community' what's the best way to get an open source package written, if the people who want it written are not coders themselves? The first post in this thread demands that the people do something they are not trained to do, instead of outsourcing it to somebody who does that either as a hobby or as a living. When consumers get such attitudes, their natural response would be to look at proprietary solutions to these, instead of FOSS ones
More like
1. Get an order from somebody w/ a particular need (like the submitter's friend) to write FOSS, w/ the license and terms of support agreed to
2. Write the program, and refine it to meet the needs of the person funding it
3. Release the software under the agreed terms
4. Profit, as per the arrangement
The person who's looking for the software can work w/ the software writers on the license used, and the business model for that piece of software
There are, but unless something is explicitly built for that, like Devuan, it's more that they are behind a few releases, and are just starting to get systemd
Like Kathy Russell Tsarnaev?
So his people realize that he'd be a disaster as Secretary of State, but not as Cyber-security Tsar? That's very convincing!
In what sense? What is there, for instance, preventing anyone from running, say, PF instead of IPFW on top of FreeBSD?
Interesting that you picked the example of Gaza for your headline. That's the area that Israel FULLY VACATED a few years ago, to the extent of relocating Jewish graves. What did they get in return? Rocket attacks on Sderot and other border areas. Had Hamas eliminated all attacks from Gaza, they would have gotten more settlement freezes in the West Bank
The real dirty secret is that all Pali groups want to wipe out Israel as a Jewish state, and replace it w/ an Arab Islamic state. The only difference b/w Hamas vs Fatah vs Islamic Jihad is whether the resulting country would look like Saudi Arabia or Iran or Saddam's Iraq. The clause in Hamas' charter
'The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.' (Article 7)
is something directly taken out of the Hadiths. And before you start playing the 'this is an inauthentic hadith', it's taken from Sahih Bukhari, which is one of the primary 'sahih' (authentic) hadiths.
$100,000 is still too low. I'd say $300,000, but I'm open to an auction system too. The auction method would need a quota, and the other could safely be open ended.
It's a start. At that point, one is talking managers - at that level
If Microsoft is paying someone $70k, bumping that up to $100k WILL make a difference
If they can raid colleges for CS graduates, why can't they attract their professors? Those professors would be easy to attract given that they would get both a pay raise, as well as government benefits, which are invariably better than universities
For things like services, I'm not sure whether Trump has thought out a way here. But for anything involving manufacturing and reselling in the US, Trump has already been wagging the 'Border Tax' so loudly that companies have been falling over each other in not closing, or in fact expanding, US manufacturing. Now he'll have to decide whether and what to do for things like offshoring operations, like IT
The GP's assertion was that Rudy got the job b'cos he was a sycophant of Trump, and this was his reward. If Trump thought that his cabinet is the place to reward his loyalists, as opposed to brainstorming interesting ways of addressing the leadership of various government departments, then as per the GP, Trump would have given Rudy the Secretary of State, Chris Christie the AG, Ben Carson Education and so on.
That's a good point - something I hadn't thought of. But if someone is making those sort of changes, then ain't it worth branding it a different distro - like say Giulianix or something, and give it version numbers starting from anywhere - be it 1, 6, 10, whatever... Not to mention - the fixes to a lot of them would be there in the sources of all the subsequent versions from 7 to 12, so they could indeed do it w/o reflecting it in the OS name or version number
Not the problem, the problem is the inability of someone to distinguish such a person from a used car salesman with a slick line in pretending to be an admin w/ a good cyber-security certification. A person without any exposure to an industry is going to make newbie mistakes. That's not the sort of thing you want in an important post.
But how is he pretending anything? He heads a physical security company - something he does have a long experience in since leaving the post of NYC mayor, and is extending his mission to cover online security as well. Yeah, there ought to be the questions of how well he's staffed and what his computing infrastructure is, but aside from that, why would he be any worse than any of the other companies out there?
Does someone who heads a cyber-security company have to actually be an admin w/ a good cyber-security certification? That's like demanding that Gates be a whiz at C++ programming and win APIs, or that Jobs should have been a whiz at Objective-C or AppBuilder. Rudy has a security company of his own, and he's recently added cyber-security as an area of focus in their mission. Question is - how much has he outsourced to the company hosting his site vs having his in-house admins managing it?
The server is FreeBSD based, which is not a bad choice. Question is - how essential is it that the FreeBSD version be made current? And how easy is it if they are running FreeBSD - the CLI version, as opposed to PC-BSD? Would it had been better had they based it on OpenBSD? From the summary above, it looks like the organization has let the data center manage that configuration, but if they took that expertise in-house, to what extent could they get rid of the holes in question?
Robert Graham explained it succinctly: http://blog.erratasec.com/2017... .
The real story here is that Giuliani is now a goddamn cybersecurity advisor, not that this personal site is crap. The guy was hired not because of competence but because he spent the entire campaign kissing Trump's ass.
If that's how Trump works, then why didn't he give Giuliani what he wanted - the Secretary of State job? It would have saved Trump a lot of grief that he's going thru w/ Rex Tillerson, and Rudy would have got his first choice
This role would probably not have been created so quickly, had the Dems not been obsessed w/ the Russians - something they conveniently ignored the last 8 years