"Libertarian" and "libertarian" and not the same thing at all. DO YOU HAVE _ANY_ IDEA of the difference?
And no - for the record - I have never been in favour of enforcing vegetarianisim.
Quite frankly I DO belive that killing one animal is pretty much the same as killing another animal on a moral level. How does that make me a 'pro lifer' or a 'peace activist' that starts riots? I know I'm most definately NEITHER.
So, at any rate, now we your 'libertarian' principles go as far as 'it's okay to do things to animals, as long as they arn't human animals'. That's fine, we have established your liberty has limits. So if your idea of liberty can have limits, why not mine?
Oh I forgot I am on the same level as those who kills doctor and stars riots! Sounds like Bush saying "Your with us or your with the terrorists!"
In this case, the right of something not be killed, versus the right of something to kill. Just as being a libertarian does not automatically qualify you as being in favour of kiddy fiddling, being liberal does not mean you have go along with everything everyone else want's to do, regardless of consequence.
And, in this case, it's a case of the law forcing an opinon of the majority on a small minority who have no respect for the liberty of a 3rd party.
Being a libertarian does not simply mean being in favor of everyone "do what the hell they like whenever they like to whoever or whatever they like". That's quite utterly ridiculous and an astoundingly naive statement.
I may want to roast your genitals over an open fire, gut you like a fish and cut you into little pieces and mail you home to mother, but oh - do you stop your so called liberty then? What about child molesting? Are you _that_ liberal? Would your liberarian priciples not be offended if your neighbor was to molest your children? Or perhaps feed them to his doberman?
So, either your an idiot (by your _own_ definition, not mine!) or your in favor of being able to randomly kill people for fun (and, not forgetting, kiddy fiddling).
No wonder your posting anonymously.
It seems clear, the only person trying to 'sound cool' by calling themselves a libertarian (or indeed a Libertarian) appears to be you.
If your going to use the term at all, at least take the time to learn the difference between a libertarian and a Libertarian because YOU plainly don't know what they mean!
I'm libertarian, but I'm also a vegitarian (of the non leather shoe wearing variety) and where lives are concerned am not in favour of killing or treating living things cruely (and personal freedom's to kill other things for fun be dammed).
If you were to treat a household animal (say, cat or dog) in this way you would be banned from owning an animal and face a hefty fine (I also note that there are more stray cat's in this country than foxes).
Like badger baiting and bear fighting and cock fights, it's a step away from nasty vile things we've been doing to animals and each other for thousands of years. Yay!
Let's hear it for the unelected aristrocrats![1]:D
[1] May not be spelled correctly, but then I'm just an oik:P
Actually, fox hunting and the hassle over the gay age of concent aside, the house of lords is not bad really. I mean, they seem to be better at opposing bad legislation than the party lackies in the commons...
The story here is that China are using it as an excuse to shut down all other cybercafe's (except the ones they can exert control over and that play nicely with the corrupt & controling government).
THAT *IS* ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS.
*HOW* CAN YOU FAIL TO SEE THAT?
This entirely to do with whole nature of the corrupt, abusive, unelected, manipulating communist government.
If a fire broke out and people died in ANY western cybercafe no western nation would shut down all cybercafe's in the city!
The Chinese government shutting down all cybercafe's is about human rights. Period.
Most business places in China are so unsafe they would fail western health and safety standards yet the Chinese government do *nothing*. Do you *really* think the government have had a change of heart and now care about it's populace? The same government that throws people trying to leave the country in jail, that openly beats up grandmothers in view of the world, or that runs tanks over it's own students peacefully protesting in full view of the world with no HINT of remorse?
If you think all there is to the story that a building has burned down and lots of people, your a complete moron of the highest order.
The unelected communist government oppresses the people by torturing and killing them.
In order to maintain their power, they are preventing a billion people from being free to communicate with each other and people outside China. The unelected government decide what the populous can read, view and even talk about. Which paintings they can look at, what poetry they can recite. What web pages they view. What news they hear.
If you publicly disagree with them, they put you in prison, torture you or have you executed. Just think about that.
No one but a naive fool could believe they are shutting down all the cybercafes for heath and safety reasons. Chinese high density houses, factories and restaurants have equally as bad heath and safety. Chinese hospitals aren't much better!
China has an APPALLING HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD. They RUN THEIR OWN PEOPLE OVER IN TANKS. They don't give a fuck about public safety. If they did they would not TORTURE PEOPLE or KILL THEM for committing crimes against the state (such/obviously/ heinous crimes as *asking* for democratic elections!).
If you can't see the significance of an oppressive, cruel regime shutting down one of the few places where it's citizens can subvert the government and gain access to unfiltered information about the rest of the world (and how much happier and wealthier we all are in the west) then you don't deserve your own damn freedoms.
You can better your bottom dollar that the only cybercafe's which are allowed to open are ones that tow the government line and ensure they have the proper filters set up.
Not true, dyslexia is very common in engineers, even writers suffer from it, like Scott Adams.
Despite some excellent education, I'll never be able to spell correctly. This has no impact on my technical skill or employability, or my ability to get paid a high wage packet.
However, explaining to people who don't know what dyslexia is, does take up lots of time as is *extremely* frustraiting. But you wouldn't know about that. (Ever tried spell checking EVERY SINGLE WORD you type or write?)
Don't think the 'mechanic' analogy holds up though.
The types of people who where Engineers who designed cars in the 50's are still designing cars and getting good paychecks of it (not as good as management, but still significantly above the national average).
The types of young kids who simply goofed around with the cars were never on much money, they are akin to script kiddies and warez doodz who don't make any money now.
Real Engineers are still Engineers and are as such worth money no matter what industry they are in (Automotive, Aerospace, Telecomunications, Computing).
There is a difference between being able to fix or tinker with a car (or computer) and knowing how to design a car (or a computer). 'Mechanics' and 'Engineers' are not the same thing.
People who write software, or maintain corporate networks or computing faclilites are in a whole different world for a guy who can mearly 'build his own PC' or 'install Linux'.
When red necks and trailer trash start writing their own software at home, and parking rusty PC's out side their front door I'll get worried.
I wish we could see the names of the moderetors so we can find out who it's that performs crap moderating (like moderating that comment down as a Troll...) then we could a community burn *their* karma down for bad moderation (to a point where it was so low they would never be picked for moderation duties).
HOW, *EXACTLY*, IS DISAGREEING WITH SOMEONE AND GIVING VALID REASONS FOR DOING SO, THE SAME AS TROLLING?
Are we not supposed to disagree now in our society? Are we all "with a poster or with the terrorists"?
Pardon me for daring to express a fucking opinion!
Here's a big FUCK YOU to you mister moderator, you lily livered, chicken shit, middle of the road, don't rock the boat, ass kissing, missionary position, tedious fuck.
You are NOT invited to moderate so you can express your opinions, you are invited to do so in order to make this forum more useful for everybody. If you can't agree to that kindly get the fuck out of here because your just fucking the rest of us off and screwing up the system for everybody.
Programs like Apple's Mail.app or Mozilla's built in browser, or Ximian's Evolution client aren't as badly written from a security viewpoint so it would never have reached the repeately epedemic proportions we have seen in recent years.
(And the same goes for IIS vrs Apache, and IE verus Mozilla, and Microsoft Office vrs OpenOffice, AbiWord, StarOffice, KOffice, or Corel's Office Suite!)
So I agree, the target would shift, but the results would most certainly not be similar, or even comparable.
Guilty as charged. All I can say is, I didn't think very many people were interested in it; I can count the daily hits on the project page with one hand. Seems like the interest level is higher than I thought, though, so I'll get off my lazy ass and write more docs, pronto.
Please do, I've had it installed for a while now, and am very happy with it!
Now, is it just me or does this article seem like a troll? Both from speaking to other users and from personal experience, loads of good articles get rejected then crap like this get's posted...
Anyway...
By default, Unix systems have typically had an 8 char password limit for decades. An 8 char limit for usernames, groupnames and passwords is part of the Unix standard.
"Why?" I hear you ask...
Well, deviating from this standard causes things like servers that often make use of authentication (e.g. FTP, Gopher, SSH, etc), NIS/NIS+ and various other local command line utilities to break. That's why you shouldn't deviate from the standard.
Mac OS X, Darwin, AIX, Sco, Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HURD and Linux all have this limit with DES passwords. Additionaly, all of these Operating Systems support alternative authentication mechanisims though (but you should *still* never have a user or group name longer than 8 chars).
If you don't like it, you have the option to configure NetInfo to authenticate against another source, like say an OpenLDAP database, a Novell client or a Microsoft Active Directory server. If the system you are concerned about is a desktop system an 8 char passwd limit is your last problem, if it's a sever SSH can be configured to require an authentication certificate and so again, is a moot point.
This is not even a remotely serious problem given the context. Anyone that thinks so is (a) so paranoid as to be mentally ill or (b) doesn't know enough about the topic to comment.
This can't be stressed strongly enough: If you have data that's important (that is to say 'sensitive'), you should encrypt it, which is trivial to do by making a an encrypted disk image in Mac OS X (using Apple's included GUI utility: Disk Copy) then making it a login item and mounting it at login using scripts.
As a senior systems engineer from a similar organization (Carrier1 (FALCO!)) I can say there were no issue running a multi unix environment, and I've never had any issue with it at any of my previous companies (nor have any of the engineers I've worked with).
At Carrier1 had FreeBSD, Red Hat & Debian Linux, Solaris 9 & 9, HP-UX, even GNU/Hurd and Mac OS X (well, on *my* system:). I had Mac OS X, GNU/HURD, Debian and Solaris all on my desk at one point.
The only problem I've ever had is the fairly trivial (?!) one of getting the command flags right - stuff like the 'ps','route','ipchains, 'ipfw' and 'ifconfig' commands syntax being different, the different flags for package management tools, that sort of thing.
I quickly came to realise that it's not possible to remember all the flags for all programs and remember the best way to do something on a particular system if you are busy all the time, things just seem to seep out. This happens if you are spending lots of time programming or in meetings or working on large projects - in which case you might not touch one type of system for months (until there is a problem with it), at which point you find your self quickly reading man pages and referring to Google a lot. All you need to do is remeber what's improrant, especially things you'll need for troubleshooting, and not worry about the rest - it's enough to know about tool's like Solaris 'ndd' and Linux's 'mknod' and what they do, if you need to remeber exactly how to use them in a given instance you can refer to man pages, O'Reilly Books or Google (which I often find the fastest).
Staying current, reading Freshmeat everyday, installing and configuring new Unixes and new & un-familer packages regularly, being on mailing lists and reading Slashdot are good ways to stay up to date - the more you know the less likely you are to run into something completely unexpected. If your resourceful (which you should be as a Systems Engineer) the only real problems arise went you don't even know where to start, everything else is a piece of cake.
Basically, if you really know unix (and are not just a Red Hat Linux or Solaris flunky who has convinced themselves they are Gurus while they still run Windows 2000 day to day) then you won't have any problems.
Oh, and making lame excuses like 'well I need Windows for work stuff' and 'they won't let me run Unix on my desktop' DO NOT wash - they are just that - excuses for lameness.
I have been for job interviews and been introduced to guys who called themselves (literally!) 'Unix Gods', yet they had only ever used Solaris - if you have any of those you are in deep shit right now. [ Needless to say I ran a mile! ]
Most people fall somewhere in the middle of those two, you'll probably only have one or two decent guys, if your lucky, though if you need to ask you are very possibly in trouble already!
As a senior systems engineer from a similar organization (Carrier1 (FALCO!)) I can say there were no issue running a multi unix environment, and I've never had any issue with it at any of my previous companies (nor have any of the engineers I've worked with).
At Carrier1 had FreeBSD, Red Hat & Debian Linux, Solaris 9 & 9, HP-UX, even GNU/Hurd and Mac OS X (well, on *my* system:). I had Mac OS X, GNU/HURD, Debian and Solaris all on my desk at one point.
The only problem I've ever had is the fairly trivial (?!) one of getting the command flags right - stuff like the 'ps','route','ipchains, 'ipfw' and 'ifconfig' commands syntax being different, the different flags for package management tools, that sort of thing.
I quickly came to realise that it's not possible to remember all the flags for all programs and remember the best way to do something on a particular system if you are busy all the time, things just seem to seep out. This happens if you are spending lots of time programming or in meetings or working on large projects - in which case you might not touch one type of system for months (until there is a problem with it), at which point you find your self quickly reading man pages and referring to Google a lot. All you need to do is remeber what's improrant, especially things you'll need for troubleshooting, and not worry about the rest - it's enough to know about tool's like Solaris 'ndd' and Linux's 'mknod' and what they do, if you need to remeber exactly how to use them in a given instance you can refer to man pages, O'Reilly Books or Google (which I often find the fastest).
Staying current, reading Freshmeat everyday, installing and configuring new Unixes and new & un-familer packages regularly, being on mailing lists and reading Slashdot are good ways to stay up to date - the more you know the less likely you are to run into something completely unexpected. If your resourceful (which you should be as a Systems Engineer) the only real problems arise went you don't even know where to start, everything else is a piece of cake.
Basically, if you really know unix (and are not just a Red Hat Linux or Solaris flunky who has convinced themselves they are Gurus while they still run Windows 2000 day to day) then you won't have any problems.
Oh, and making lame excuses like 'well I need Windows for work stuff' and 'they won't let me run Unix on my desktop' DO NOT wash - they are just that - excuses for lameness.
I have been for job interviews and been introduced to guys who called themselves (literally!) 'Unix Gods', yet they had only ever used Solaris - if you have any of those you are in deep shit right now. [ Needless to say I ran a mile! ]
Most people fall somewhere in the middle of those two, you'll probably only have one or two decent guys, if your lucky, though if you need to ask you are very possibly in trouble already!
There were *about *(!) 30 significantly different viruses (including at least a couple of worms) for Mac OS Classic (though I'm not counting Macro viruses like the ones that can infect Word and Hypercard, etc).
For example, many of the Word Macro viruses are cross platform.
Many of the origional viruses came out of fun and games at MacHack, people just trying to see if they could do it, but a few were modified and released into the wild by Script Kiddies after they appeared on some of the MacHack CD's, IIRC...
I think the last virus of any sigificance for Mac OS classic was Autostart-9805 in 1998.
First off, if you live in the city then you wouldn't see the wild cats.
I spend 20 years living in the British countryside. The only fucking cats where domestic moggies.
YOUR A *NUTTER*.
We are not the most powerful of creatures to exist.
Yes we are. That's why we are the dominant species as the top of the food chain.
That's why there are so many exitinct species in the first place.
We are THE most dangerous species every to exist. To date, we are the only one capable of mass destruction.
Besides, you must be daft to think that England is nothing but populated spaces.
As I said *ENGLAND IS ONE OF THE MOST HEAVILY POPULATED AREAS IN THE WORLD*.
It's impossible to get any distance away from humans in England (though this is not true of Scotland which is lightly populated and has less people in it than live in London), England isn't very big. It's *tiny*. For example, the US has *states* twice the size of England.
Not a *SINGLE* SOLITARY reputable source (like the WWF, RSPCA, CPL, etc.) belives there are large wild cats in Britian.
The ONLY wildcats are in Scotland, and, as I said, are the size of a domestic moggie, terrfied of poeople and are an endangered species.
Only tiny minded little Englanders who haven't been to see the rest of the world can see *absurd* the idea is - wild cat encounters happen regularly the US and it's much bigger.
Yet no clear photograhs of such animals exist - only fuzzy pictures that could be domesic moggies or simple stuffed animals. Better photographic evidence exists of Bigfoot or Nessie!
You see, in order for a human to be dangerous, we need to use a tool. If we haven't a tool, then we really aren't all that dangerous.
Ah yes but we *do* have tools. LOTS of them and they make us *much* better at killing that all other animals.
And if we didn't? Well we will *make* them. THAT'S HOW WE GOT THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN!
Unlike the fictional Jurassic Park, in real life we'd shoot the dinosaurs. Bye bye dinosaurs (of course, would have made a dull movie).
There are plenty of big dangerous animals around, and there have been for centuries - we managed to come top of the food chain using spears and arrows, and good luck to any animal that thinks it can topple us.
Just what are you scared of?
the many wild jungle cats running around in England
Oh yeah see them *every day*. Get a fucking grip on reality! This myths have been going around for *centuries* (litteraly) and are still not true.
There are precious few wildcats in Scotland (and they are no bigger than domestic moggies), there are not large litters of 'wild animals'. England is so small and the is one of the most heavily populated areas *in the World*, you'd bump into them every five minutes!
Do you also believe crop circles are made by aliens?
Imagine if a few of them got loose in the countryside....we would have a serious problem on our hands
Bullshit. What, you think maybe they would take over the world? Are you confusing them with Pinky and Brain?
They *might* manage to kill a handful of people, but as of course they'd have eletronic tags, so spotting them really quickly by tracking them remotely and then shooting them would be a non-issue.
Good point (and your right about the tax about - it's' about 20% in Europe).
It's 17.5% here in the UK, but the average is higher (20-25%) apart from Switzerland, which is only 7%, the minimum allowed by the EU is 15% (one of the reasons they are not members).
I know the laws about displaying taxes on goods differs in the US (here in the UK/Europe all prices aimed at consumers included VAT, though products aimed at business users may omit VAT as long as they state that's the case).
I had assumed that a 'Federal' level of tax would be included and that the only tax left to pay would be 'State' tax (which they might be ignoring or charging at a the rate of the where ever Apple's dispatch point is) because it's a web site (and as such their is little/no strict regulation enforce yet).
I wouldn't normally point this out as I don't give two hoots which word's someone decides to use as long as the meaning is clear _and_ I like the fact that language is constantly evolving, but you went to such great pains to allege 'funner' is a word so....
Inventing new words when it's NOT necessary (as opposed to when it is) just makes life difficult for non native English speakers, historians and translators (and is an annoying and largely American habit to boot). Also the grammar of the sentence in which the word 'funner' was deployed was so bizarre a small part of my brain melted (I'm not a grammar natzi by ANY means, but it was really weird, aka bad, which is worth mentioning bearing in mind the context).
I dispute your claim that 'funner' is a word in the English language.
The Oxford English Dictionary does not list it. (From which we can gather it's not British English) The Cambridge Dictionary of American English does not list it. (From which we can gather it's not American English) The Cambridge International Dictionary of English does not list it. (From which we can gather it's not some *other* form of English)
Additionally, Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=funner) doesn't think it's a work either.
MW (Websters) may allow for it, but MW has lots of badly spelled words that don't existing in *any* other dictionary so no kudos to them (and it's hardly in the same class as the OED, or Cambridge Dictionaries, or arguably even Dictionary.com).
So (in future) instead of: But, it's fun, and is funner (yes, it's a word, so shut up) to a broader market
How about: "The Sims is fun and appeals to a wider market"
Note that it has all the same meaning, is shorter and doesn't required the use of new and superfluous words!
NB: I'm all for new words (!) when they are warranted (i.e. not when someone is too lazy to learn how to communicate properly!)
The maximum rebate of '240' UKP applies only to a Dual 1 Ghz G4 sytem.
Hmm now a a Dual 1 Ghz G4 system is 2583.83 UKP (which is 3752.91 USD).
The SAME system in the US costs only 2,999.00 USD. So, even WITH the discount it's *still* over 550 dollars cheaper in the US (and I'm one PowerMac down)!
It's cheaper just to fly to the US!
If they want to knock off 500 UKP off the system then I'll consider it, otherwise I'll stick a G3 upgrade card in my 7100, an $5 extra SCSI card, an extra $10 NIC and use it as a NAS.
I know exactly how the Keychain works, but as I went to great pains to point out, this program fails to save time effectively if you are still prompted for authorization each time and if you are not, then it is insecure, and that's why IMO it's a bad idea.
For some reason (because it didn't fit your argument) you selectively ommited that part of my post from your reply and chose instead to ignore it.
And yes, I also know how to lock the screen in Mac OS X (WOW you can lock the screen? Who would have thought! You must be a rocket scientist!)
As for your reply of "I believe that was the entire point!" when I stated "this seems like someone's excuse not to have to remeber passwords." you would seem to have little experience managing systems responsibly.
Quite frankly, if you can't even remeber your password for a host, you shouldn't not be messing around at the command line at all and are likely to break something quite badly.
This is useful as long as you remeber to lock your screen when you are away from your keyboard.
But to be honest, I wouldn't count on that. (as even doing that is not sufficent)
If you store your passwords on your machine and permit programs to access your keychain (which stores them encrypted but *outputs* them as plain text), a malacious program could steal all your account passwords without you knowing (which is of course much worse than just stealing the password to your desktop).
If you make sure the Keychain prompted you before allowing applications to access the Keychain, then that would be all well and good, but then that would elimiate most of the useful functionality of this method (as it would be more annoying than simply having to type in a password in the first place, as it would involve a hand leaving the keyboard and going for the mouse/trackball to point and click).
Even making Terminal.app the only application which can access passwords on the Keychain without prompting does not work around this problem as it's trivial to call the Terminal and get it to do stuff (and, infact some installers do).
In my experience, I have enough problems convincing lusers not to save their passwords in clear text in CRT/SecureCRT login scripts.
I don't wish to detract from someone's work, but this seems like someone's excuse not to have to remeber passwords.
(If there are a lot of systems to look after and you can't possibly remeber the passwords for all of them (and your not able to use something like NIS/LDAP), a plain text/CSV and something like Cypher is probably a better bet.)
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Your *STILL* doing it!
"Libertarian" and "libertarian" and not the same thing at all. DO YOU HAVE _ANY_ IDEA of the difference?
And no - for the record - I have never been in favour of enforcing vegetarianisim.
Quite frankly I DO belive that killing one animal is pretty much the same as killing another animal on a moral level. How does that make me a 'pro lifer' or a 'peace activist' that starts riots? I know I'm most definately NEITHER.
So, at any rate, now we your 'libertarian' principles go as far as 'it's okay to do things to animals, as long as they arn't human animals'. That's fine, we have established your liberty has limits. So if your idea of liberty can have limits, why not mine?
Oh I forgot I am on the same level as those who kills doctor and stars riots! Sounds like Bush saying "Your with us or your with the terrorists!"
I didn't swallow that one either.
Ah not true.
A libertarian is one who advocates *liberty*.
In this case, the right of something not be killed, versus the right of something to kill. Just as being a libertarian does not automatically qualify you as being in favour of kiddy fiddling, being liberal does not mean you have go along with everything everyone else want's to do, regardless of consequence.
And, in this case, it's a case of the law forcing an opinon of the majority on a small minority who have no respect for the liberty of a 3rd party.
Being a libertarian does not simply mean being in favor of everyone "do what the hell they like whenever they like to whoever or whatever they like". That's quite utterly ridiculous and an astoundingly naive statement.
I may want to roast your genitals over an open fire, gut you like a fish and cut you into little pieces and mail you home to mother, but oh - do you stop your so called liberty then? What about child molesting? Are you _that_ liberal? Would your liberarian priciples not be offended if your neighbor was to molest your children? Or perhaps feed them to his doberman?
So, either your an idiot (by your _own_ definition, not mine!) or your in favor of being able to randomly kill people for fun (and, not forgetting, kiddy fiddling).
No wonder your posting anonymously.
It seems clear, the only person trying to 'sound cool' by calling themselves a libertarian (or indeed a Libertarian) appears to be you.
If your going to use the term at all, at least take the time to learn the difference between a libertarian and a Libertarian because YOU plainly don't know what they mean!
I'm libertarian, but I'm also a vegitarian (of the non leather shoe wearing variety) and where lives are concerned am not in favour of killing or treating living things cruely (and personal freedom's to kill other things for fun be dammed).
If you were to treat a household animal (say, cat or dog) in this way you would be banned from owning an animal and face a hefty fine (I also note that there are more stray cat's in this country than foxes).
Like badger baiting and bear fighting and cock fights, it's a step away from nasty vile things we've been doing to animals and each other for thousands of years. Yay!
Let's hear it for the unelected aristrocrats![1] :D
:P
[1] May not be spelled correctly, but then I'm just an oik
Actually, fox hunting and the hassle over the gay age of concent aside, the house of lords is not bad really. I mean, they seem to be better at opposing bad legislation than the party lackies in the commons...
The story here is that China are using it as an excuse to shut down all other cybercafe's (except the ones they can exert control over and that play nicely with the corrupt & controling government).
THAT *IS* ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS.
*HOW* CAN YOU FAIL TO SEE THAT?
This entirely to do with whole nature of the corrupt, abusive, unelected, manipulating communist government.
If a fire broke out and people died in ANY western cybercafe no western nation would shut down all cybercafe's in the city!
The Chinese government shutting down all cybercafe's is about human rights. Period.
Most business places in China are so unsafe they would fail western health and safety standards yet the Chinese government do *nothing*. Do you *really* think the government have had a change of heart and now care about it's populace? The same government that throws people trying to leave the country in jail, that openly beats up grandmothers in view of the world, or that runs tanks over it's own students peacefully protesting in full view of the world with no HINT of remorse?
If you think all there is to the story that a building has burned down and lots of people, your a complete moron of the highest order.
/obviously/ heinous crimes as *asking* for democratic elections!).
The unelected communist government oppresses the people by torturing and killing them.
In order to maintain their power, they are preventing a billion people from being free to communicate with each other and people outside China. The unelected government decide what the populous can read, view and even talk about. Which paintings they can look at, what poetry they can recite. What web pages they view. What news they hear.
If you publicly disagree with them, they put you in prison, torture you or have you executed. Just think about that.
No one but a naive fool could believe they are shutting down all the cybercafes for heath and safety reasons. Chinese high density houses, factories and restaurants have equally as bad heath and safety. Chinese hospitals aren't much better!
China has an APPALLING HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD. They RUN THEIR OWN PEOPLE OVER IN TANKS. They don't give a fuck about public safety. If they did they would not TORTURE PEOPLE or KILL THEM for committing crimes against the state (such
If you can't see the significance of an oppressive, cruel regime shutting down one of the few places where it's citizens can subvert the government and gain access to unfiltered information about the rest of the world (and how much happier and wealthier we all are in the west) then you don't deserve your own damn freedoms.
You can better your bottom dollar that the only cybercafe's which are allowed to open are ones that tow the government line and ensure they have the proper filters set up.
Not true, dyslexia is very common in engineers, even writers suffer from it, like Scott Adams.
Despite some excellent education, I'll never be able to spell correctly. This has no impact on my technical skill or employability, or my ability to get paid a high wage packet.
However, explaining to people who don't know what dyslexia is, does take up lots of time as is *extremely* frustraiting. But you wouldn't know about that. (Ever tried spell checking EVERY SINGLE WORD you type or write?)
fat, dateless, acne-scarred men
I resent that!...I don't have acne scars, ha!
Don't think the 'mechanic' analogy holds up though.
The types of people who where Engineers who designed cars in the 50's are still designing cars and getting good paychecks of it (not as good as management, but still significantly above the national average).
The types of young kids who simply goofed around with the cars were never on much money, they are akin to script kiddies and warez doodz who don't make any money now.
Real Engineers are still Engineers and are as such worth money no matter what industry they are in (Automotive, Aerospace, Telecomunications, Computing).
There is a difference between being able to fix or tinker with a car (or computer) and knowing how to design a car (or a computer). 'Mechanics' and 'Engineers' are not the same thing.
People who write software, or maintain corporate networks or computing faclilites are in a whole different world for a guy who can mearly 'build his own PC' or 'install Linux'.
When red necks and trailer trash start writing their own software at home, and parking rusty PC's out side their front door I'll get worried.
I wish we could see the names of the moderetors so we can find out who it's that performs crap moderating (like moderating that comment down as a Troll...) then we could a community burn *their* karma down for bad moderation (to a point where it was so low they would never be picked for moderation duties).
HOW, *EXACTLY*, IS DISAGREEING WITH SOMEONE AND GIVING VALID REASONS FOR DOING SO, THE SAME AS TROLLING?
Are we not supposed to disagree now in our society? Are we all "with a poster or with the terrorists"?
Pardon me for daring to express a fucking opinion!
Here's a big FUCK YOU to you mister moderator, you lily livered, chicken shit, middle of the road, don't rock the boat, ass kissing, missionary position, tedious fuck.
You are NOT invited to moderate so you can express your opinions, you are invited to do so in order to make this forum more useful for everybody. If you can't agree to that kindly get the fuck out of here because your just fucking the rest of us off and screwing up the system for everybody.
You may take my karma and shove it up your ass.
Programs like Apple's Mail.app or Mozilla's built in browser, or Ximian's Evolution client aren't as badly written from a security viewpoint so it would never have reached the repeately epedemic proportions we have seen in recent years.
(And the same goes for IIS vrs Apache, and IE verus Mozilla, and Microsoft Office vrs OpenOffice, AbiWord, StarOffice, KOffice, or Corel's Office Suite!)
So I agree, the target would shift, but the results would most certainly not be similar, or even comparable.
You have todo what makes you happy, shiny things does not improve your life.
:P
:)
Oh yes they do
Having TiVo, PowerBook, Big Widescreen TV, Wireless Palm, ADSL all improve *my* life
Guilty as charged. All I can say is, I didn't think very many people were interested in it; I can count the daily hits on the project page with one hand. Seems like the interest level is higher than I thought, though, so I'll get off my lazy ass and write more docs, pronto.
Please do, I've had it installed for a while now, and am very happy with it!
Now, is it just me or does this article seem like a troll? Both from speaking to other users and from personal experience, loads of good articles get rejected then crap like this get's posted...
Anyway...
By default, Unix systems have typically had an 8 char password limit for decades. An 8 char limit for usernames, groupnames and passwords is part of the Unix standard.
"Why?" I hear you ask...
Well, deviating from this standard causes things like servers that often make use of authentication (e.g. FTP, Gopher, SSH, etc), NIS/NIS+ and various other local command line utilities to break. That's why you shouldn't deviate from the standard.
Mac OS X, Darwin, AIX, Sco, Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HURD and Linux all have this limit with DES passwords. Additionaly, all of these Operating Systems support alternative authentication mechanisims though (but you should *still* never have a user or group name longer than 8 chars).
If you don't like it, you have the option to configure NetInfo to authenticate against another source, like say an OpenLDAP database, a Novell client or a Microsoft Active Directory server. If the system you are concerned about is a desktop system an 8 char passwd limit is your last problem, if it's a sever SSH can be configured to require an authentication certificate and so again, is a moot point.
This is not even a remotely serious problem given the context. Anyone that thinks so is (a) so paranoid as to be mentally ill or (b) doesn't know enough about the topic to comment.
This can't be stressed strongly enough: If you have data that's important (that is to say 'sensitive'), you should encrypt it, which is trivial to do by making a an encrypted disk image in Mac OS X (using Apple's included GUI utility: Disk Copy) then making it a login item and mounting it at login using scripts.
As a senior systems engineer from a similar organization (Carrier1 (FALCO!)) I can say there were no issue running a multi unix environment, and I've never had any issue with it at any of my previous companies (nor have any of the engineers I've worked with).
:). I had Mac OS X, GNU/HURD, Debian and Solaris all on my desk at one point.
:)
At Carrier1 had FreeBSD, Red Hat & Debian Linux, Solaris 9 & 9, HP-UX, even GNU/Hurd and Mac OS X (well, on *my* system
The only problem I've ever had is the fairly trivial (?!) one of getting the command flags right - stuff like the 'ps','route','ipchains, 'ipfw' and 'ifconfig' commands syntax being different, the different flags for package management tools, that sort of thing.
I quickly came to realise that it's not possible to remember all the flags for all programs and remember the best way to do something on a particular system if you are busy all the time, things just seem to seep out. This happens if you are spending lots of time programming or in meetings or working on large projects - in which case you might not touch one type of system for months (until there is a problem with it), at which point you find your self quickly reading man pages and referring to Google a lot. All you need to do is remeber what's improrant, especially things you'll need for troubleshooting, and not worry about the rest - it's enough to know about tool's like Solaris 'ndd' and Linux's 'mknod' and what they do, if you need to remeber exactly how to use them in a given instance you can refer to man pages, O'Reilly Books or Google (which I often find the fastest).
Staying current, reading Freshmeat everyday, installing and configuring new Unixes and new & un-familer packages regularly, being on mailing lists and reading Slashdot are good ways to stay up to date - the more you know the less likely you are to run into something completely unexpected. If your resourceful (which you should be as a Systems Engineer) the only real problems arise went you don't even know where to start, everything else is a piece of cake.
Basically, if you really know unix (and are not just a Red Hat Linux or Solaris flunky who has convinced themselves they are Gurus while they still run Windows 2000 day to day) then you won't have any problems.
Oh, and making lame excuses like 'well I need Windows for work stuff' and 'they won't let me run Unix on my desktop' DO NOT wash - they are just that - excuses for lameness.
I have been for job interviews and been introduced to guys who called themselves (literally!) 'Unix Gods', yet they had only ever used Solaris - if you have any of those you are in deep shit right now. [ Needless to say I ran a mile! ]
Most people fall somewhere in the middle of those two, you'll probably only have one or two decent guys, if your lucky, though if you need to ask you are very possibly in trouble already!
YMMV.
Oh bollocks. Your right - I must have got my Mozilla tabs mixed up and posted to the wrong story.
Cheers.
I'll get my coat....
As a senior systems engineer from a similar organization (Carrier1 (FALCO!)) I can say there were no issue running a multi unix environment, and I've never had any issue with it at any of my previous companies (nor have any of the engineers I've worked with).
At Carrier1 had FreeBSD, Red Hat & Debian Linux, Solaris 9 & 9, HP-UX, even GNU/Hurd and Mac OS X (well, on *my* system
The only problem I've ever had is the fairly trivial (?!) one of getting the command flags right - stuff like the 'ps','route','ipchains, 'ipfw' and 'ifconfig' commands syntax being different, the different flags for package management tools, that sort of thing.
I quickly came to realise that it's not possible to remember all the flags for all programs and remember the best way to do something on a particular system if you are busy all the time, things just seem to seep out. This happens if you are spending lots of time programming or in meetings or working on large projects - in which case you might not touch one type of system for months (until there is a problem with it), at which point you find your self quickly reading man pages and referring to Google a lot. All you need to do is remeber what's improrant, especially things you'll need for troubleshooting, and not worry about the rest - it's enough to know about tool's like Solaris 'ndd' and Linux's 'mknod' and what they do, if you need to remeber exactly how to use them in a given instance you can refer to man pages, O'Reilly Books or Google (which I often find the fastest).
Staying current, reading Freshmeat everyday, installing and configuring new Unixes and new & un-familer packages regularly, being on mailing lists and reading Slashdot are good ways to stay up to date - the more you know the less likely you are to run into something completely unexpected. If your resourceful (which you should be as a Systems Engineer) the only real problems arise went you don't even know where to start, everything else is a piece of cake.
Basically, if you really know unix (and are not just a Red Hat Linux or Solaris flunky who has convinced themselves they are Gurus while they still run Windows 2000 day to day) then you won't have any problems.
Oh, and making lame excuses like 'well I need Windows for work stuff' and 'they won't let me run Unix on my desktop' DO NOT wash - they are just that - excuses for lameness.
I have been for job interviews and been introduced to guys who called themselves (literally!) 'Unix Gods', yet they had only ever used Solaris - if you have any of those you are in deep shit right now. [ Needless to say I ran a mile! ]
Most people fall somewhere in the middle of those two, you'll probably only have one or two decent guys, if your lucky, though if you need to ask you are very possibly in trouble already!
YMMV.
There were *about *(!) 30 significantly different viruses (including at least a couple of worms) for Mac OS Classic (though I'm not counting Macro viruses like the ones that can infect Word and Hypercard, etc).
For example, many of the Word Macro viruses are cross platform.
Many of the origional viruses came out of fun and games at MacHack, people just trying to see if they could do it, but a few were modified and released into the wild by Script Kiddies after they appeared on some of the MacHack CD's, IIRC...
I think the last virus of any sigificance for Mac OS classic was Autostart-9805 in 1998.
First off, if you live in the city then you wouldn't see the wild cats.
I spend 20 years living in the British countryside. The only fucking cats where domestic moggies.
YOUR A *NUTTER*.
We are not the most powerful of creatures to exist.
Yes we are. That's why we are the dominant species as the top of the food chain.
That's why there are so many exitinct species in the first place.
We are THE most dangerous species every to exist. To date, we are the only one capable of mass destruction.
Besides, you must be daft to think that England is nothing but populated spaces.
As I said *ENGLAND IS ONE OF THE MOST HEAVILY POPULATED AREAS IN THE WORLD*.
It's impossible to get any distance away from humans in England (though this is not true of Scotland which is lightly populated and has less people in it than live in London), England isn't very big. It's *tiny*. For example, the US has *states* twice the size of England.
Not a *SINGLE* SOLITARY reputable source (like the WWF, RSPCA, CPL, etc.) belives there are large wild cats in Britian.
The ONLY wildcats are in Scotland, and, as I said, are the size of a domestic moggie, terrfied of poeople and are an endangered species.
Only tiny minded little Englanders who haven't been to see the rest of the world can see *absurd* the idea is - wild cat encounters happen regularly the US and it's much bigger.
Yet no clear photograhs of such animals exist - only fuzzy pictures that could be domesic moggies or simple stuffed animals. Better photographic evidence exists of Bigfoot or Nessie!
You see, in order for a human to be dangerous, we need to use a tool. If we haven't a tool, then we really aren't all that dangerous.
Ah yes but we *do* have tools. LOTS of them and they make us *much* better at killing that all other animals.
And if we didn't? Well we will *make* them. THAT'S HOW WE GOT THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN!
Unlike the fictional Jurassic Park, in real life we'd shoot the dinosaurs. Bye bye dinosaurs (of course, would have made a dull movie).
There are plenty of big dangerous animals around, and there have been for centuries - we managed to come top of the food chain using spears and arrows, and good luck to any animal that thinks it can topple us.
Just what are you scared of?
the many wild jungle cats running around in England
Oh yeah see them *every day*. Get a fucking grip on reality! This myths have been going around for *centuries* (litteraly) and are still not true.
There are precious few wildcats in Scotland (and they are no bigger than domestic moggies), there are not large litters of 'wild animals'. England is so small and the is one of the most heavily populated areas *in the World*, you'd bump into them every five minutes!
Do you also believe crop circles are made by aliens?
Imagine if a few of them got loose in the countryside....we would have a serious problem on our hands
Bullshit. What, you think maybe they would take over the world? Are you confusing them with Pinky and Brain?
They *might* manage to kill a handful of people, but as of course they'd have eletronic tags, so spotting them really quickly by tracking them remotely and then shooting them would be a non-issue.
Kook.
Good point (and your right about the tax about - it's' about 20% in Europe).
It's 17.5% here in the UK, but the average is higher (20-25%) apart from Switzerland, which is only 7%, the minimum allowed by the EU is 15% (one of the reasons they are not members).
I know the laws about displaying taxes on goods differs in the US (here in the UK/Europe all prices aimed at consumers included VAT, though products aimed at business users may omit VAT as long as they state that's the case).
I had assumed that a 'Federal' level of tax would be included and that the only tax left to pay would be 'State' tax (which they might be ignoring or charging at a the rate of the where ever Apple's dispatch point is) because it's a web site (and as such their is little/no strict regulation enforce yet).
Is this correct?
I wouldn't normally point this out as I don't give two hoots which word's someone decides to use as long as the meaning is clear _and_ I like the fact that language is constantly evolving, but you went to such great pains to allege 'funner' is a word so....
Inventing new words when it's NOT necessary (as opposed to when it is) just makes life difficult for non native English speakers, historians and translators (and is an annoying and largely American habit to boot). Also the grammar of the sentence in which the word 'funner' was deployed was so bizarre a small part of my brain melted (I'm not a grammar natzi by ANY means, but it was really weird, aka bad, which is worth mentioning bearing in mind the context).
I dispute your claim that 'funner' is a word in the English language.
The Oxford English Dictionary does not list it.
(From which we can gather it's not British English)
The Cambridge Dictionary of American English does not list it.
(From which we can gather it's not American English)
The Cambridge International Dictionary of English does not list it.
(From which we can gather it's not some *other* form of English)
Additionally, Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=funner) doesn't think it's a work either.
MW (Websters) may allow for it, but MW has lots of badly spelled words that don't existing in *any* other dictionary so no kudos to them (and it's hardly in the same class as the OED, or Cambridge Dictionaries, or arguably even Dictionary.com).
So (in future) instead of:
But, it's fun, and is funner (yes, it's a word, so shut up) to a broader market
How about:
"The Sims is fun and appeals to a wider market"
Note that it has all the same meaning, is shorter and doesn't required the use of new and superfluous words!
NB: I'm all for new words (!) when they are warranted (i.e. not when someone is too lazy to learn how to communicate properly!)
The maximum rebate of '240' UKP applies only to a Dual 1 Ghz G4 sytem.
Hmm now a a Dual 1 Ghz G4 system is 2583.83 UKP (which is 3752.91 USD).
The SAME system in the US costs only 2,999.00 USD. So, even WITH the discount it's *still* over 550 dollars cheaper in the US (and I'm one PowerMac down)!
It's cheaper just to fly to the US!
If they want to knock off 500 UKP off the system then I'll consider it, otherwise I'll stick a G3 upgrade card in my 7100, an $5 extra SCSI card, an extra $10 NIC and use it as a NAS.
No my assumptions are NOT false.
I know exactly how the Keychain works, but as I went to great pains to point out, this program fails to save time effectively if you are still prompted for authorization each time and if you are not, then it is insecure, and that's why IMO it's a bad idea.
For some reason (because it didn't fit your argument) you selectively ommited that part of my post from your reply and chose instead to ignore it.
And yes, I also know how to lock the screen in Mac OS X (WOW you can lock the screen? Who would have thought! You must be a rocket scientist!)
As for your reply of "I believe that was the entire point!" when I stated "this seems like someone's excuse not to have to remeber passwords." you would seem to have little experience managing systems responsibly.
Quite frankly, if you can't even remeber your password for a host, you shouldn't not be messing around at the command line at all and are likely to break something quite badly.
Hmm mostly *but not entirely* , a bad idea, IMO.
This is useful as long as you remeber to lock your screen when you are away from your keyboard.
But to be honest, I wouldn't count on that. (as even doing that is not sufficent)
If you store your passwords on your machine and permit programs to access your keychain (which stores them encrypted but *outputs* them as plain text), a malacious program could steal all your account passwords without you knowing (which is of course much worse than just stealing the password to your desktop).
If you make sure the Keychain prompted you before allowing applications to access the Keychain, then that would be all well and good, but then that would elimiate most of the useful functionality of this method (as it would be more annoying than simply having to type in a password in the first place, as it would involve a hand leaving the keyboard and going for the mouse/trackball to point and click).
Even making Terminal.app the only application which can access passwords on the Keychain without prompting does not work around this problem as it's trivial to call the Terminal and get it to do stuff (and, infact some installers do).
In my experience, I have enough problems convincing lusers not to save their passwords in clear text in CRT/SecureCRT login scripts.
I don't wish to detract from someone's work, but this seems like someone's excuse not to have to remeber passwords.
(If there are a lot of systems to look after and you can't possibly remeber the passwords for all of them (and your not able to use something like NIS/LDAP), a plain text/CSV and something like Cypher is probably a better bet.)