When talking to a passenger, the passenger is actually there with you. They know when you're not paying attention because you need to focus elsewhere. When you're on a cellphone the other person will keep talking at times when a passenger would know to stop. They'll ask "are you still there?" when you're trying to concentrate on something else and don't reply to them.
Handsfree phones don't solve this problem. After a while you learn to just ignore the phone when you need to focus elsewhere; some people never learn; some people have a few accidents in the process.
By coersion, I assume you mean "Sign this or you don't pass"
How does this differ from the typical "Sign this or you don't work for us"? NDA presented by a lot of places? There are other schools he could enroll at..?
Unless of course the 'agreement' is only presented after he's enrolled and paid fees.
I've run Linux on some pretty dodgy hardware in the past. RMA'd parts bought cheap at auction, Drives I got from dumpsters, Mobo's that other people threw away because they're too flakey.
Stuff locks up, so the linux kernel resets the device and tries again. Drivers get totally foobared because the device is returning gibberish; I remove and reload the module and everything comes right again. For a couple of years my main computer was built entirely from hardware other people had disposed of; things that would crash windows within minutes if it booted at all.
We're talking about Win2K v. Linux. There's no way to 'customise' the Win2K kernel so it's only fair to make a comparison against a 'stock' Linux kernel. Not that it matters, since you can boot with a stock kernel from CD and then recompile if necessary.
For quite a few years now, the linux kernel has been made highly modular. Almost everything that can be supported is already compiled in, but modules are only loaded for the hardware you actually have. If you have to compile anything for non-standard hardware, I'd strongly advise recompiling it as a module anyhow!
Even if you have a highly customised non-modular kernel, it's still no big issue to swap motherboards, and only slightly tricky to clone the entire install from one kind of drive onto another (IDE -> SCSI for example). Boot from the standard install CD with init=/bin/bash, remount the root filesystem as rw, then recompile the kernel and/or adjust/etc/fstab.
I've been in situations (more than once) trying to move Win2K onto new hardware, and eventually dug up MSKB articles that simply say "You must reinstall in this case. There is no other option"
Also note that in many situations it's not actually -legal- to change your MOBO without a fresh install off a new paid-for CD. Check your EULA. (Not that I give a fsck, NZ's Consumer Guarantees act invalidates much of MS's EULA, but in less-developed countries..:) ).
How about swapping the Mobo on a standard Windows XP install?
What's really needed is a short shell script to spider through all these links perhaps a couple of times per hour. Shouldn't be too hard. They'll probably catch on if you use the same 'session-id' every time so you have to run the search and get a new ID each time, which is getting a bit past my coding abilities..
NEVER install any of the updates. Run a stock install. There are only three 'problem areas' that you need to worry about, and MS's patches never fully address those anyhow!
Get a cheap firewall (In my case the windows machine is behind my freebsd box so it's not an issue) and block off new inbound connections on all the low ports. If you're paranoid you can configure it to dialog all new connections in both directions, but that gets annoying fairly fast!)
Remove IE (well, hide it..), and replace it with the most recent Mozilla. Or Opera.
Remove Outlook and replace it with a more secure mail program. I use Pegasus, but there are others.
If you're worried about viruses it might be a good idea to install a virus scanner. And running AdAware occasionally is a good idea, if only because things like Gator and Bonzi make your machine unstable and slow. So far it's not been a problem; my kids (6 and 8) mostly just go to nickjr.com (Blues Clues) and bbc.co.uk (Tweenies, Teletubbies..) and don't install games or click on the ads.
Since Enlightenment is a window manager for X11 which runs under various NIX's, and the mystery package is "For Windows(tm), and perhaps later for Linux and Mac" I'd say with almost 100% certainty that this mystery program has NOTHING to do with X11, and quite likely nothing to do with any kind of 'Window Management' either.
OTOH perhaps the Frist-Poster knows something I don't ?
My understanding is that the bug doesn't affect the -default- journalling mode of ext3. You have to specifically change it using some filesystem-tuning utility.
More to the point; Adaware lists some good non-spyware and free (both types) alternatives for the more common spyware vector programs. A very handy little list. You can find the link up there ^^ somewhere:)
On a less inflamatory note; it demonstrates something that most of us are already well aware of. Don't go enabling advanced features or running bleeding-edge kernels unless you either have good backups, or are happy to risk losing some data.
You're an idiot if you don't have backups anyhow. The most reliable filesystem in the world isn't going to save you from a hard-drive failure, user error, malicious code, theft, flood, fire, lightning strike, earthquake.. These things eat data a lot more frequently than filesystem bugs!
That might have been OK 40 years ago, but not any more. There's safety regulations and things like public liability to worry about. If an 'informal' worker hurts themselves or another worker, or damages property (EG digs up fiber) that can cost the company millions. The company will be held responsible, but won't be covered by ACC or public liability insurance or whatever you have in your country.
The same applies to some extent for technical support. If I say I work for xyzzy (even if I don't!) then people are going to assume I know what I'm talking about at least as far as xyzzy's service is concerned, even if I explicitly say I'm not currently answering in an official capacity. I'm exploiting (and if I screw up, damaging..) xyzzy's reputation.
The simple answer (at least for web forums) is to log on under a pseudonym and don't say who you work for. Build your own reputation. The company won't know who you are so they can't gag you. The customer has no idea who you are IRL or who you work for, so they can't sue anyone. Everyone's happy.
They'll make a note of his address somewhere, and simply ignore any further orders being delivered to that address.
The next time Ralsky's doing an all-night spamming run and wants to dial out for pizza or chinese food, he's gonna be waiting a long time for his order to arrive.
He's not really getting his fair share anyhow. The guy is mailing out hundreds of millions of spams every day. If he got even an A5-size single page flyer back for every email he sent his entire house would be buried several feet deep in paper by the end of the week.
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If that's what you want, just go ahead and put 'fsck -y' at the appropriate place in/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. I did.
OTOH I'd rather Xconfigurator didn't make too many 'guesses' on my behalf. I'm currently having an absolute shit of a time swapping video cards on my kid's computer. XP notices that the new card can do a much better refresh rate so it switches to it. The (slightly faulty) monitor I'm using can't handle the higher refresh rate and goes blank. If I boot into VGA mode I don't have access to the refresh rate option on the control panel. If I put the original card back in I'm not changing the new card's refresh rate. If I put a different mnitor on it'll change when I swap monitors back! So I have to throw out a perfectly useable monitor just because it won't do what XP assumes is the best refresh rate?!! Fuck that, I'll find a way around this but I'd be a lot happier if XP didn't force it's assumptions onto me!
BTW; XConfigurator does make perfectly good assumptions in my experience. Then it ASKS ME if they're OK before trying to use them!! That's how it should be!!
Not true. Optical usually refers to the entire range from IR to UV.. Fibre-optics, CD and DVD, etc are all optical but don't use visible light.
It'd be nice if the linked article was a little more informative; it doesn't say anything about what part of the 'optical' spectrum these things would use or why spread-spectrum using 'optics' is somehow magically more secure than spread-spectrum using microwave.
".. the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system."
and as the register pointed out.. $100 million fighting aids. $423 million fighting Open Source. Thanks Bill.
When you've got as much money as Bill Gates, giving it away is about the only realistic option.. it's just more money than a person can reasonably spend!
Of course if you're going to fork it like that, you'd have to call the new program SINB (SINB Is Not Bar) or WASABI (WASABI's A Substitute Alike Bar Intentionally) or some other terribly clever recursive acronym..
I hope this isn't about VAX btw; that's mine and if you're one of the people who's been mailing me about it you should have got a reply suggesting you use vgetty instead..
I just checked driversguide again and apparently it's actually free to join and they really really promise that they'll try not to sell your address to spammers.
OTOH their advertising partners 'flycast' will be tracking your every keyclick. No thanks, I'll just stick with getting drivers directly from the manufacturers sites thanks!
I just felt I'd better mention this correction and save anyone else the bother of flaming me..:)
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Here's my theory;
When talking to a passenger, the passenger is actually there with you. They know when you're not paying attention because you need to focus elsewhere. When you're on a cellphone the other person will keep talking at times when a passenger would know to stop. They'll ask "are you still there?" when you're trying to concentrate on something else and don't reply to them.
Handsfree phones don't solve this problem. After a while you learn to just ignore the phone when you need to focus elsewhere; some people never learn; some people have a few accidents in the process.
By coersion, I assume you mean "Sign this or you don't pass"
How does this differ from the typical "Sign this or you don't work for us"? NDA presented by a lot of places? There are other schools he could enroll at..?
Unless of course the 'agreement' is only presented after he's enrolled and paid fees.
No. CD's is prefectly correct in some situations.
:)
"That CD's case is on top of the player."
"This CD's TOC is all messed up."
Bob will set you right..
You browse the web. Does that mean you MUST have a web server open on port 80?
Stop. Think. Post.
I've run Linux on some pretty dodgy hardware in the past. RMA'd parts bought cheap at auction, Drives I got from dumpsters, Mobo's that other people threw away because they're too flakey.
Stuff locks up, so the linux kernel resets the device and tries again. Drivers get totally foobared because the device is returning gibberish; I remove and reload the module and everything comes right again. For a couple of years my main computer was built entirely from hardware other people had disposed of; things that would crash windows within minutes if it booted at all.
Linux is remarkably tolerant of bad hardware.
Wrong on so many points:
/etc/fstab.
:) ).
We're talking about Win2K v. Linux. There's no way to 'customise' the Win2K kernel so it's only fair to make a comparison against a 'stock' Linux kernel. Not that it matters, since you can boot with a stock kernel from CD and then recompile if necessary.
For quite a few years now, the linux kernel has been made highly modular. Almost everything that can be supported is already compiled in, but modules are only loaded for the hardware you actually have. If you have to compile anything for non-standard hardware, I'd strongly advise recompiling it as a module anyhow!
Even if you have a highly customised non-modular kernel, it's still no big issue to swap motherboards, and only slightly tricky to clone the entire install from one kind of drive onto another (IDE -> SCSI for example). Boot from the standard install CD with init=/bin/bash, remount the root filesystem as rw, then recompile the kernel and/or adjust
I've been in situations (more than once) trying to move Win2K onto new hardware, and eventually dug up MSKB articles that simply say "You must reinstall in this case. There is no other option"
Also note that in many situations it's not actually -legal- to change your MOBO without a fresh install off a new paid-for CD. Check your EULA. (Not that I give a fsck, NZ's Consumer Guarantees act invalidates much of MS's EULA, but in less-developed countries..
How about swapping the Mobo on a standard Windows XP install?
What's really needed is a short shell script to spider through all these links perhaps a couple of times per hour. Shouldn't be too hard. They'll probably catch on if you use the same 'session-id' every time so you have to run the search and get a new ID each time, which is getting a bit past my coding abilities..
Anyone handy with 'curl' ?
Here's how I run XP;
NEVER install any of the updates. Run a stock install. There are only three 'problem areas' that you need to worry about, and MS's patches never fully address those anyhow!
Get a cheap firewall (In my case the windows machine is behind my freebsd box so it's not an issue) and block off new inbound connections on all the low ports. If you're paranoid you can configure it to dialog all new connections in both directions, but that gets annoying fairly fast!)
Remove IE (well, hide it..), and replace it with the most recent Mozilla. Or Opera.
Remove Outlook and replace it with a more secure mail program. I use Pegasus, but there are others.
If you're worried about viruses it might be a good idea to install a virus scanner. And running AdAware occasionally is a good idea, if only because things like Gator and Bonzi make your machine unstable and slow. So far it's not been a problem; my kids (6 and 8) mostly just go to nickjr.com (Blues Clues) and bbc.co.uk (Tweenies, Teletubbies..) and don't install games or click on the ads.
0xdecafbad..
:)
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YHBT!
The original article didn't say what it was.
Since Enlightenment is a window manager for X11 which runs under various NIX's, and the mystery package is "For Windows(tm), and perhaps later for Linux and Mac" I'd say with almost 100% certainty that this mystery program has NOTHING to do with X11, and quite likely nothing to do with any kind of 'Window Management' either.
OTOH perhaps the Frist-Poster knows something I don't ?
My understanding is that the bug doesn't affect the -default- journalling mode of ext3. You have to specifically change it using some filesystem-tuning utility.
More to the point; Adaware lists some good non-spyware and free (both types) alternatives for the more common spyware vector programs. A very handy little list. You can find the link up there ^^ somewhere :)
otoh if you're planning to write a trojan md5sum and need a database of 'known-good' checksums for it to return.. voila!!
On a less inflamatory note; it demonstrates something that most of us are already well aware of. Don't go enabling advanced features or running bleeding-edge kernels unless you either have good backups, or are happy to risk losing some data.
You're an idiot if you don't have backups anyhow. The most reliable filesystem in the world isn't going to save you from a hard-drive failure, user error, malicious code, theft, flood, fire, lightning strike, earthquake.. These things eat data a lot more frequently than filesystem bugs!
Expect data loss. Keep backups.
Obviously you should be running a totally bug-free OS that has never needed to be patched for filesystem-corruption bugs.
That might have been OK 40 years ago, but not any more. There's safety regulations and things like public liability to worry about. If an 'informal' worker hurts themselves or another worker, or damages property (EG digs up fiber) that can cost the company millions. The company will be held responsible, but won't be covered by ACC or public liability insurance or whatever you have in your country.
The same applies to some extent for technical support. If I say I work for xyzzy (even if I don't!) then people are going to assume I know what I'm talking about at least as far as xyzzy's service is concerned, even if I explicitly say I'm not currently answering in an official capacity. I'm exploiting (and if I screw up, damaging..) xyzzy's reputation.
The simple answer (at least for web forums) is to log on under a pseudonym and don't say who you work for. Build your own reputation. The company won't know who you are so they can't gag you. The customer has no idea who you are IRL or who you work for, so they can't sue anyone. Everyone's happy.
Tried here? SpamYouSilly
Yes, and no..
They'll deliver the first couple of times, yes.
They'll make a note of his address somewhere, and simply ignore any further orders being delivered to that address.
The next time Ralsky's doing an all-night spamming run and wants to dial out for pizza or chinese food, he's gonna be waiting a long time for his order to arrive.
He's not really getting his fair share anyhow. The guy is mailing out hundreds of millions of spams every day. If he got even an A5-size single page flyer back for every email he sent his entire house would be buried several feet deep in paper by the end of the week.
If that's what you want, just go ahead and put 'fsck -y' at the appropriate place in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. I did.
OTOH I'd rather Xconfigurator didn't make too many 'guesses' on my behalf. I'm currently having an absolute shit of a time swapping video cards on my kid's computer. XP notices that the new card can do a much better refresh rate so it switches to it. The (slightly faulty) monitor I'm using can't handle the higher refresh rate and goes blank. If I boot into VGA mode I don't have access to the refresh rate option on the control panel. If I put the original card back in I'm not changing the new card's refresh rate. If I put a different mnitor on it'll change when I swap monitors back! So I have to throw out a perfectly useable monitor just because it won't do what XP assumes is the best refresh rate?!! Fuck that, I'll find a way around this but I'd be a lot happier if XP didn't force it's assumptions onto me!
BTW; XConfigurator does make perfectly good assumptions in my experience. Then it ASKS ME if they're OK before trying to use them!! That's how it should be!!
Not true. Optical usually refers to the entire range from IR to UV.. Fibre-optics, CD and DVD, etc are all optical but don't use visible light.
It'd be nice if the linked article was a little more informative; it doesn't say anything about what part of the 'optical' spectrum these things would use or why spread-spectrum using 'optics' is somehow magically more secure than spread-spectrum using microwave.
".. the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system."
Hey, you'll never guess who this was from!!!
and as the register pointed out.. $100 million fighting aids. $423 million fighting Open Source. Thanks Bill.
When you've got as much money as Bill Gates, giving it away is about the only realistic option.. it's just more money than a person can reasonably spend!
Of course if you're going to fork it like that, you'd have to call the new program SINB (SINB Is Not Bar) or WASABI (WASABI's A Substitute Alike Bar Intentionally) or some other terribly clever recursive acronym..
I hope this isn't about VAX btw; that's mine and if you're one of the people who's been mailing me about it you should have got a reply suggesting you use vgetty instead..
I just checked driversguide again and apparently it's actually free to join and they really really promise that they'll try not to sell your address to spammers.
:)
OTOH their advertising partners 'flycast' will be tracking your every keyclick. No thanks, I'll just stick with getting drivers directly from the manufacturers sites thanks!
I just felt I'd better mention this correction and save anyone else the bother of flaming me..