At one point you seemed to be getting a bit upset about all of the unwanted advice that you were getting...
It's not worth it. Laugh it off and be glad that you don't need it.
It's amazing (to me at least) how some people rail against being stereotyped, and then blindly stereotype everyone else... You are a geek therefore you are living in your mother's basement, have no social skills, and dream of being able to go out with girls...
I know of geeks who clearly don't fit that description at all... In fact I don't know of any exact matches for that stereotype...
Anyway, smile, laugh if you can and get your problem solved without worrying about what people might imply about the relationship between you and your friend.
Hey... Less of the stereotyping (all around) please... I'm not wrong. I never claimed that you wanted a relationship with this girl, nor did I assume that.
Personally I find it hilarious that a fair number of people on Slashdot (and in real life) assume that because a guy talks to a girl, the guy wants to have a relationship with the girl. Back in the dim and distant past, on the first day of College, everyone from my new Applied Physics class was milling around in the corridor. Little groups of people started to congregate, but the one girl in the class was left standing on her own. As I was painfully shy, and couldn't think of anything better to do, I walked over and said "Hi, I'm Zwack and the rest of the class probably thinks that I'm hitting on you. What's your name, and why did you choose Physics?" Needless to say, with an opening line like that we didn't even become friends. However it did have the desired effect, in that she laughed, and a couple of other people joined the group, thus breaking the ice.
My reading of it was slightly different, but I will allow that he may mean "integrated into the GUI". If that is what he means then he is right, but not necessarily correct. Some of the meta-information is available from the nautilus shell though, depending on file-type. Z.
Before we get a bunch of people chiming in to say "but XXXXX is easy in ubuntu, you just open a terminal and type..."
I KNOW.
But, the article did explicitly say that Ubuntu failed in some things because in Vista those things are tightly integrated into the shell.
So, the author is comparing Ubuntu to Vista, and he marks Ubuntu down when he has to use the shell, but marks Vista up when he CAN use the shell. That seems slightly biased. Just because he doesn't know the metainformation mangling commands within Ubuntu isn't a reason to claim that they aren't there.
I've used SECURID tokens and they work, but they're slower than regular login/logout methods.
Are you trying to lock access to the desktop or is the desktop being used as a dumb terminal to some random application?
If the latter then can you just lock down the desktop and modify the application?
I'm thinking that this is for something like a time card system, where people walk up, sign in/out and walk off. Given that you're saying speed is of the essence then it seems that that is likely. Have you considered a commercial offering? I am sure that most of the vendors have some sort of solution to uniquely identify particular individuals.
Magnetic stripe card containing a private key and a passphrase (pin?) known by the employee would work.
If you need to grant them full access to the windows PC then why are you worrying about security in the first place...:-)
Looking at Oregon (the state I know most about for obvious reasons) they rate Gordon Smith (R) at 50% and Ron Wyden (D) at 43%.
Gordon Smith has voted in committee against Net Neutrality. Ron Wyden has continually voiced his support for it. Now there isn't a specific vote they could use to quantify that for all senators, but what is wrong with including such an important issue on their list?
This list is as meaningless as a random number generator.
I'm not sure that he could adjust his "misprediction". What he is doing is taking multiple independent polls for each race (House and Senate) and using them as a predictor. Last time, there were many polls, including exit polls, that showed a different result than the final result. This raises the question of election fraud, but with so many electronic machines being used (and the lack of a guaranteed recount on them) it is hard to say. For more information look at this link...
But some of the very small cars don't have crumple zones (no room for them) they get safety by being a rigid enough cage that you're safely protected and will bounce off of larger objects...
So are they more or less protective than the Volvo that hits them and crumples?
Both models work. They do different things and work in different ways.
A pack of dogs that is housebroken won't pee or crap on the carpet either, they only puke if they can't help it. They're also a heck of a lot more fun (in my opinion) than a gun.
Our neighbours like our pack of dogs too... They bark at people who are where they shouldn't be. One of our neighbours had his boat stolen before we moved in... Car prowls were also not uncommon.
Since we've moved in there have been no problems in the immediate vicinity. Someone thinks about trying a car prowl and stops because the dogs start barking and people look to see what is going on.
I have yet to see a gun left alone have the same effect.
I always think of a dirk as being the much larger 8-10 inch knife usually with a couple of smaller knives in the same sheath...
Sgian Dubh is gaelic for black knife and it's pronounced skeen doo (roughly... say ski then Ian, then run the two together into one syllable.)
I don't know whether that makes scooby-doo a black scooby or not though.:-)
I don't know too much Gaelic, just the odd words and phrases.
Mhor (or more) is Big Beg is small Canmore is Big Head (one of the early Scottish kings was Malcolm Canmore) Claymore is Big Sword Fillybeg is the "small kilt" as mostly worn these days. Sgian is knife Dubh is Black
I was thinking of a simple "ask him questions then take him to the range and have him fire off a clip" test that would be sufficient to see if they knew the theory of safe handling and storage, and if they then practically followed it.
A colleague who is a reserve police officer reckons that 50% of the people on the streets don't have licences or insurance. I suspect he's overestimating, but if it's even 5% that could account for most of the really dangerous drivers out there.
I'm not sure about a dirk, but it probably is allowed. The exception is for knives that are part of National Dress or Religion. Most Scots only carry a Sgian Dubh in their sock. Mine is about four inches long and sharp, but there is no requirement for it to be under a certain length or to be blunt. Some people (and most rental stores use these) have bladeless Sgian Dubhs that have just enough of a tang to hold the handle into the sheath.
I'm Scottish... I get to carry a knife in my sock as long as I'm wearing a Kilt...
So, there's a man who's inciting a fight by "dressing up in a skirt" and he's the one who's allowed to carry a knife...
Yes, ultimately the cultural problem is the one to address... But the legal short cut is to ban the objects so that the politicians can look as though they are doing something.
How would you feel about a gun licence similar to a driving licence? One that required you to pass a theory test and show proficiency (and safety) before you were allowed to own a gun. It would need to be renewable every so often, but wouldn't limit your ownership once you had it.
I wouldn't want to try and get into my house in the middle of the night. We have 11 dogs. Some of them are Chow mixes. If you've ever met a chow mix they are usually fiercely loyal one person dogs. Mine likes me. She tolerates the rest of the family.
A baseball bat might stop one of our dogs... But you're not going to get them all, and while the pack holds you back I have time to take whatever action I deem is necessary. If you want to shoot all of my dogs then very little I can do is going to stop you just killing me anyway... But you're not going to get into the house quietly, or get rid of the dogs without killing at least some of them.
So, do you (and your hypothetical friend) feel up to taking on a dog pack in the night?
Actually kitchen knives are already banned in public places in the UK... although they did omit a couple of exceptions in that article that you pointed to.
You can carry a knife if it's a) a religious object or b) part of your national dress.
The Scots can carry a Sgian Dubh when wearing highland dress, and the Sikhs can carry their ceremonial swords.
But... I've never seen a Scot carrying as much weaponry in normal circumstances as Americans at either Highland games or Renaissance fairs...
I think you might have a cultural problem in America too...
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I think that you are mistaken...
I would say this as
"Is that that that that that man talked about?"
Z.
LOL!
Thanks, apology accepted...
At one point you seemed to be getting a bit upset about all of the unwanted advice that you were getting...
It's not worth it. Laugh it off and be glad that you don't need it.
It's amazing (to me at least) how some people rail against being stereotyped, and then blindly stereotype everyone else... You are a geek therefore you are living in your mother's basement, have no social skills, and dream of being able to go out with girls...
I know of geeks who clearly don't fit that description at all... In fact I don't know of any exact matches for that stereotype...
Anyway, smile, laugh if you can and get your problem solved without worrying about what people might imply about the relationship between you and your friend.
Z.
Hey... Less of the stereotyping (all around) please... I'm not wrong. I never claimed that you wanted a relationship with this girl, nor did I assume that.
Personally I find it hilarious that a fair number of people on Slashdot (and in real life) assume that because a guy talks to a girl, the guy wants to have a relationship with the girl. Back in the dim and distant past, on the first day of College, everyone from my new Applied Physics class was milling around in the corridor. Little groups of people started to congregate, but the one girl in the class was left standing on her own. As I was painfully shy, and couldn't think of anything better to do, I walked over and said "Hi, I'm Zwack and the rest of the class probably thinks that I'm hitting on you. What's your name, and why did you choose Physics?" Needless to say, with an opening line like that we didn't even become friends. However it did have the desired effect, in that she laughed, and a couple of other people joined the group, thus breaking the ice.
Z.
Some people in the Sandisk Sansa E200 Linux forum have run MTP Mode on Linux...
Z.
As I keep saying...
Look at Cintiq
Z.
It is a heck of a lot cheaper and is used by graphic artists already... No reason it couldn't be used for CAD/CAM either.
Z.
Sure it's not cheap (but it's cheaper than this MS coffee table) but the Cintiq is highly recommended for graphic artists.
Z.
My reading of it was slightly different, but I will allow that he may mean "integrated into the GUI". If that is what he means then he is right, but not necessarily correct. Some of the meta-information is available from the nautilus shell though, depending on file-type.
Z.
But, the article did explicitly say that Ubuntu failed in some things because in Vista those things are tightly integrated into the shell.
So, the author is comparing Ubuntu to Vista, and he marks Ubuntu down when he has to use the shell, but marks Vista up when he CAN use the shell. That seems slightly biased. Just because he doesn't know the metainformation mangling commands within Ubuntu isn't a reason to claim that they aren't there.
Z.
If you don't give us enough details...
I've used SECURID tokens and they work, but they're slower than regular login/logout methods.
Are you trying to lock access to the desktop or is the desktop being used as a dumb terminal to some random application?
If the latter then can you just lock down the desktop and modify the application?
I'm thinking that this is for something like a time card system, where people walk up, sign in/out and walk off. Given that you're saying speed is of the essence then it seems that that is likely. Have you considered a commercial offering? I am sure that most of the vendors have some sort of solution to uniquely identify particular individuals.
Magnetic stripe card containing a private key and a passphrase (pin?) known by the employee would work.
If you need to grant them full access to the windows PC then why are you worrying about security in the first place...:-)
Z.
Looking at Oregon (the state I know most about for obvious reasons) they rate Gordon Smith (R) at 50% and Ron Wyden (D) at 43%.
Gordon Smith has voted in committee against Net Neutrality. Ron Wyden has continually voiced his support for it. Now there isn't a specific vote they could use to quantify that for all senators, but what is wrong with including such an important issue on their list?
This list is as meaningless as a random number generator.
Z.
No Problem, and thank you for taking the correction in good humour. I try not to be a spelling nazi too often, but sometimes I just can't help myself.
Z.
You're a physics student? Or you are referring to an old name for a doctor? Or did you mean Physique?
Damn that's hard to understand.
Z.
I'm not sure that he could adjust his "misprediction". What he is doing is taking multiple independent polls for each race (House and Senate) and using them as a predictor. Last time, there were many polls, including exit polls, that showed a different result than the final result. This raises the question of election fraud, but with so many electronic machines being used (and the lack of a guaranteed recount on them) it is hard to say. For more information look at this link...
o tingrights1_4.htm
http://usliberals.about.com/od/electionreform/a/v
In particular the comments about how 800 registered voters in one ward produced 4,518 votes.
Z.
Or there is still Electoral-Vote.com from Mr Tanenbaum himself. Z.
$75... They are insane.... Last one I saw was $15.
Z.
But some of the very small cars don't have crumple zones (no room for them) they get safety by being a rigid enough cage that you're safely protected and will bounce off of larger objects...
So are they more or less protective than the Volvo that hits them and crumples?
Both models work. They do different things and work in different ways.
Z.
Ummm... Not always...
Knapping involves "chipping away" bits of flint... Some people might use fire and water, but others hit the stone with something else...
Z.
If you have that type of bomb your cardiac arrest won't be momentary... :-)
Z.
A pack of dogs that is housebroken won't pee or crap on the carpet either, they only puke if they can't help it. They're also a heck of a lot more fun (in my opinion) than a gun.
Our neighbours like our pack of dogs too... They bark at people who are where they shouldn't be. One of our neighbours had his boat stolen before we moved in... Car prowls were also not uncommon.
Since we've moved in there have been no problems in the immediate vicinity. Someone thinks about trying a car prowl and stops because the dogs start barking and people look to see what is going on.
I have yet to see a gun left alone have the same effect.
Z.
I always think of a dirk as being the much larger 8-10 inch knife usually with a couple of smaller knives in the same sheath...
:-)
Sgian Dubh is gaelic for black knife and it's pronounced skeen doo (roughly... say ski then Ian, then run the two together into one syllable.)
I don't know whether that makes scooby-doo a black scooby or not though.
I don't know too much Gaelic, just the odd words and phrases.
Mhor (or more) is Big
Beg is small
Canmore is Big Head (one of the early Scottish kings was Malcolm Canmore)
Claymore is Big Sword
Fillybeg is the "small kilt" as mostly worn these days.
Sgian is knife
Dubh is Black
Z.
I was thinking of a simple "ask him questions then take him to the range and have him fire off a clip" test that would be sufficient to see if they knew the theory of safe handling and storage, and if they then practically followed it.
A colleague who is a reserve police officer reckons that 50% of the people on the streets don't have licences or insurance. I suspect he's overestimating, but if it's even 5% that could account for most of the really dangerous drivers out there.
I'm not sure about a dirk, but it probably is allowed. The exception is for knives that are part of National Dress or Religion. Most Scots only carry a Sgian Dubh in their sock. Mine is about four inches long and sharp, but there is no requirement for it to be under a certain length or to be blunt. Some people (and most rental stores use these) have bladeless Sgian Dubhs that have just enough of a tang to hold the handle into the sheath.
Z.
I'm Scottish... I get to carry a knife in my sock as long as I'm wearing a Kilt...
So, there's a man who's inciting a fight by "dressing up in a skirt" and he's the one who's allowed to carry a knife...
Yes, ultimately the cultural problem is the one to address... But the legal short cut is to ban the objects so that the politicians can look as though they are doing something.
How would you feel about a gun licence similar to a driving licence? One that required you to pass a theory test and show proficiency (and safety) before you were allowed to own a gun. It would need to be renewable every so often, but wouldn't limit your ownership once you had it.
Z.
I don't have any trained guard dogs...
I wouldn't want to try and get into my house in the middle of the night. We have 11 dogs. Some of them are Chow mixes. If you've ever met a chow mix they are usually fiercely loyal one person dogs. Mine likes me. She tolerates the rest of the family.
A baseball bat might stop one of our dogs... But you're not going to get them all, and while the pack holds you back I have time to take whatever action I deem is necessary. If you want to shoot all of my dogs then very little I can do is going to stop you just killing me anyway... But you're not going to get into the house quietly, or get rid of the dogs without killing at least some of them.
So, do you (and your hypothetical friend) feel up to taking on a dog pack in the night?
Z.
Actually kitchen knives are already banned in public places in the UK... although they did omit a couple of exceptions in that article that you pointed to.
You can carry a knife if it's a) a religious object or b) part of your national dress.
The Scots can carry a Sgian Dubh when wearing highland dress, and the Sikhs can carry their ceremonial swords.
But... I've never seen a Scot carrying as much weaponry in normal circumstances as Americans at either Highland games or Renaissance fairs...
I think you might have a cultural problem in America too...
Z.