Yes , it drops the firewall for that machine, which is the expected result. Is it a good idea to drop the firewall? Your sysadmin is supposed to know that before messing with the firewall. This is Linux, not Fisher-Price.
A very minor not pick - the standard for law is Word Perfect. You said "share or read documents that other people send to you (such as anything in contracting, law, real estate, medical, etc)".
More significant is the claim "share or READ". I've found that LibreOffice is MORE reliable for reading files from various versions of MS Office then MS Office itself is. For collaborative editing, sending a complex document back and forth, sure you'd want to both use the same version of the same software, if you forgot that much better collaborative platforms are available, such as Google Docs.
For collaboration, working on the same document via Google docs really works better than emailing different versions around and changes. That actually leaves a pretty narrow set of circumstances for which MS Office is actually the best choice. You realize that when a newer version of Word comes out that doesn't handle your existing Word 200x format documents properly.
He wants to build a society with built-in mechanisms that subvert existing businesses and institutions, while promoting new ones. Okay, that's fine on day one.
A week later, the "new" institutions are "existing", so those mechanisms subvert them. His plan then, is quite literally to build a society that subverts itself -where anything built is destroyed.
That's simply false. The Free Software Foundation and the Red Cross are corporations. Do you think they focus on making money? Google has given away over a BILLION dollars to charity.
Shareholders have a cause of action if board members or executives take company assets and convert them to their PERSONAL use in a way that damages shareholders. The board and executives are serving as representatives of the shareholders, so they aren't allowed to put their personal gain above the interests of the shareholders they represent. The clearest example of that is that the CEO can't "donate" $100,000 of shareholder money to himself. They can, and do, donate to causes that don't directly benefit the executives making the decision.
"If they could we'd probably have free energy and plentiful drinking water by now."
The MySQL team says S-Q-L, and I believe their web page says that's how their name is pronounced. The official SQL standard says it's s-q-l.
On the other hand, it seems to me that Windows admins tend to say sequel. The primary author of the language, Chamberlain, says sequel.
Putting all that together, neither is really right or wrong. When talking about Microsoft's rdms to Microsoft-based listeners, sequel will elicit the fewest snickers. In the FOSS community, say My s-q-l. S-Q-L is the standard data manipulation language, sequel is some Microsoft crap, the OSS folks will say.
> As long as "whatever you want" doesn't include cable shows, overseas shows [most of which are available on cable], or (depending where you live) shows on > lesser networks such as the CW [also available on cable], then sure, PC-based DVR is awesome and free.
Yeah, if you want cable TV, get cable TV. There are about 100 movies on cable each month, so by plugging that cable TV into a DVR you can pretty much watch whatever you want whenever you want. That's what I do.
To spend less, we're considering getting rid of cable and instead spending 90% less on Amazon Prime, or maybe Netflix, along with free services that index Hulu, the network's web sites, etc. Going that route, we can watch most any show we want, any time we want, but we'd be a season behind for many of them. I'm cool with that. My wife may want to see the shows sooner, and for her it might be worth paying for cable to see them immediately. We'll see what we decide.
> Do you think people who use an antenna are also free loading scumbags?
No, in fact I suggested using a DVR to record shows and movies to watch them whenever you please. I replied to someone suggesting that a good plan would be for someone to put up an ad supported site serving movies they'd ripped off. On TV, the ads actually pay for the movie to be made. Doesn't that make a little more sense?
That might kind of work. Another method that's proven to work is called "Netflix", aka "Amazon Prime". You want them to spend a few million dollars making something cool for you to watch, you pony up ninety-nine cents. You get what you want, the costs are covered and everyone is happy. Plus, that way you're not a free-loading scumbag
Alternatively, don't pay even 99 cents. Instead, download MythTV, set it to automatically record your favorite actors and shows, and watch pretty much whatever you want, whenever you want, at no cost.
You can, if you wish, have a simple uncluttered interface and be able to do everything from the command line, only launching GUI programs when there's a benefit to a GUI (web and email). That's the way I work. It's ten times faster than click-click-click-click-click through five levels of menus for everything, and whether I'm working on on the local machine or remote makes no difference. Any time I need to do the same thing several times, I can loop: "foreach thing; do something $thing; done".
At home, that clean, uncluttered interface runs on top of Linux. At work, it's Mac underneath. My interface is the same either way - a simple terminal in a POSIX environment.
True they are no longer two views of the same binary like they used to be. Of course we're talking about XP. On XP, they are the same COM object. As Microsoft explained in US vs. Microsoft, you couldn't remove IE from the Windows system because IE WAS the system.
More recently, there has been some separation, but go to the Windows update site in Firefox or Chrome. You won't get very far . Only IE can replace system files with stuff it downloads from a web site.
These retired parents probably aren't playing massive online games, so approximately all of their online activity will be through the browser.
As long as the browser is a) up-to-date and b) not tightly coupled with the system shell, that's almost an up-to-date system as far as the internet is concerned. What I mean regarding coupling is that if Explorer gets exploited, the system is owned because Explorer the browser ~ Explorer the desktop ~ Explorer the file manager. If Chrome gets exploited, the worst that can happen is that web pages get messed with, not the system.
I did something similar. That worked pretty well except it made me an EMPLOYER. It takes a lot of extra work to be an employer in the US, if you want to do it legally. The fed, state, county, and city all want a piece of you.
I just sold my business that had two employees. From now on, I won't hire anyone until I'm ready to hire at least three.
BTW, the comment above is from someone who has run businesses my entire life, helped several other people start businesses, and whose clients and mostly small businesses. I just sold one of my companies, which is the second time I've sold a business. Now I have one left (Clonebox). So it's not that I'm saying starting and running a business is a bad thing - it's just not right for YOU right NOW.
When I was about eight years old I put an ad in the newspaper selling replacement window screens. I'd go to your home or business (on my bicycle) and make custom fit window screens. I have a passion for starting new businesses, and don't mind working until 2AM doing that. I also enjoy running them, being the "buck stops here" guy, even though that means the buck stops with me at 2AM, I'm the one who has to get up and drive 90 miles to the datacenter or whatever. From what you've said, you really don't know if you have any interest in business. In that case, starting one would be like getting married without ever going on a date.
Absolutely do NOT start your own business at this point. The first few years of starting a business typically means working 60 hours doing alot of business management and adminsistration. Unless you have a passion for either a) tax forms or b) working until 2AM because the buck stops with you, starting and running a business probably isn't your optimal choice. That's especially true if you'd have any employees. There's a lot of crap involved in being an employer. Without employees, you still have to run the company, so while you're doing the quarterly taxes, who is serving the customers?
Check into project management. There are certifications available. After a few years of managing projects, you'll have some clue if you'd want to manage a company and how to manage a company.
Wind is great. In certain parts of California, if you don't mind a windfarm. Water is great. At two or three locations in North America where you have giant waterfalls next to big cities. Solar is - expensive as hell, and all those huge lead acid batteries are nasty for the environment. It's a cool toy, though.
Alternative energy is great for the 8% of cases where it works. For the other 92%, it's time to set aside 1960s political propaganda and get moving on a sustainable path.
> That's what bursting and borrowing is for in a fair queuing setup. You define a commit. Then you define a burst, then you make the bandwidth borrowable.
Sure, you, me and Linus can sign up for that. Normally, broadband is advertised as "30 times faster than dial-up, 50X faster than dial-up" because most home users don't know what a Mbps is. Hell, half the WEBMASTERS we have as customers say their office service is "x megaBYTES".
As the first part of that sentence said that's, assuming you and the other person who "corrected" me are correct. If $1 is right for PEAK watts at noon, $3.50 is about right to get the same watts at 10AM or 4PM or when there's one cloud in the sky. Alternatively, they can spend the extra $2.50 / watt on batteries, inverters, etc.
> Where did you get 10 years from (a dark place)?
That's an average, more or less. If they want to have power in the early morning, late afternoon, or when it's cloudy, they'll need to replace the bank of batteries of every 3-5 years. With no batteries, they can only have that power available for three hours per day, the solar cells will lose power over the course of several years. After five years they've lost SOME power. Sellers of solar power point out that they still produce some power after 30 years. So figure for the cells themselves 15 years as a rough average before they weaken too much to get the job done. So we've got some parts that last three years, some that last 15.
So yeah, solar is neat and at all. A neat rich man's toy. Hopefully one day it'll be more than that.
> If i put up a moderate website, i doubt that'll get more than 1 gigabyte of traffic a month.
We did 600 GB - in 1997, before there was any video on the web. A GB is 1/4th of a DVD iso. Our "half server" plans include a terabyte for each of the two customers on a server. (Meaning 2TB per 1U server.) One guy I work with - one guy, working out of his house, has a site that never drops below 100 Mbps. It peaks at around 400 Mbps.
> servers do not use 100% of the bandwidth all the time. There is no service that i'm aware of that will use a full 1gbit link 100% of the time.
Their average use, for a typical web site, is 40%-50% of their peak. A site provisioned for 1 Gbps will use about 300,000 GBs, while a residential customer might use 10 GBs. See why one costs more than the other?
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Yes , it drops the firewall for that machine, which is the expected result. Is it a good idea to drop the firewall? Your sysadmin is supposed to know that before messing with the firewall. This is Linux, not Fisher-Price.
A very minor not pick - the standard for law is Word Perfect. You said "share or read documents that other people send to you (such as anything in contracting, law, real estate, medical, etc)".
More significant is the claim "share or READ". I've found that LibreOffice is MORE reliable for reading files from various versions of MS Office then MS Office itself is. For collaborative editing, sending a complex document back and forth, sure you'd want to both use the same version of the same software, if you forgot that much better collaborative platforms are available, such as Google Docs.
For collaboration, working on the same document via Google docs really works better than emailing different versions around and changes. That actually leaves a pretty narrow set of circumstances for which MS Office is actually the best choice. You realize that when a newer version of Word comes out that doesn't handle your existing Word 200x format documents properly.
He wants to build a society with built-in mechanisms that subvert existing businesses and institutions, while promoting new ones. Okay, that's fine on day one.
A week later, the "new" institutions are "existing", so those mechanisms subvert them. His plan then, is quite literally to build a society that subverts itself -where anything built is destroyed.
I've done that to Very Important Client.
Now I explicitly have a drop everything rule, with default accept. That way -F doesn't bite me.
That's simply false. The Free Software Foundation and the Red Cross are corporations. Do you think they focus on making money?
Google has given away over a BILLION dollars to charity.
Shareholders have a cause of action if board members or executives take company assets and convert them to their PERSONAL use in a way that damages shareholders.
The board and executives are serving as representatives of the shareholders, so they aren't allowed to put their personal gain above the interests of the shareholders they represent.
The clearest example of that is that the CEO can't "donate" $100,000 of shareholder money to himself. They can, and do, donate to causes that don't directly benefit the executives making the decision.
"If they could we'd probably have free energy and plentiful drinking water by now."
Funny you should mention that. Google has given millions to water projects in Africa, like this one:
http://www.google.com/giving/impact-awards.html#charity_water
. If they could we'd probably have free energy and plentiful drinking water by now.
The MySQL team says S-Q-L, and I believe their web page says that's how their name is pronounced. The official SQL standard says it's s-q-l.
On the other hand, it seems to me that Windows admins tend to say sequel. The primary author of the language, Chamberlain, says sequel.
Putting all that together, neither is really right or wrong. When talking about Microsoft's rdms to Microsoft-based listeners, sequel will elicit the fewest snickers. In the FOSS community, say My s-q-l. S-Q-L is the standard data manipulation language, sequel is some Microsoft crap, the OSS folks will say.
> As long as "whatever you want" doesn't include cable shows, overseas shows [most of which are available on cable], or (depending where you live) shows on
> lesser networks such as the CW [also available on cable], then sure, PC-based DVR is awesome and free.
Yeah, if you want cable TV, get cable TV. There are about 100 movies on cable each month, so by plugging that cable TV into a DVR you can pretty much watch whatever you want whenever you want. That's what I do.
To spend less, we're considering getting rid of cable and instead spending 90% less on Amazon Prime, or maybe Netflix, along with free services that index Hulu, the network's web sites, etc. Going that route, we can watch most any show we want, any time we want, but we'd be a season behind for many of them. I'm cool with that. My wife may want to see the shows sooner, and for her it might be worth paying for cable to see them immediately. We'll see what we decide.
> the most popular stuff that gets torrented is point blank not available from those sources
Let's check and see:
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Grosse_Pointe_Blank/1153034?locale=en-US
Oh, you said "most popular". Is the most popular movie of 2012 available on Netflix?:
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Avengers/70217913?locale=en-US
How about so far this year? The most popular movie of the 2013 summer movie season is "Iron Man 3":
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Iron_Man_3/70243360?locale=en-US
> Do you think people who use an antenna are also free loading scumbags?
No, in fact I suggested using a DVR to record shows and movies to watch them whenever you please.
I replied to someone suggesting that a good plan would be for someone to put up an ad supported site serving movies they'd ripped off.
On TV, the ads actually pay for the movie to be made. Doesn't that make a little more sense?
That might kind of work. Another method that's proven to work is called "Netflix", aka "Amazon Prime". You want them to spend a few million dollars making something cool for you to watch, you pony up ninety-nine cents. You get what you want, the costs are covered and everyone is happy. Plus, that way you're not a free-loading scumbag
Alternatively, don't pay even 99 cents. Instead, download MythTV, set it to automatically record your favorite actors and shows, and watch pretty much whatever you want, whenever you want, at no cost.
You can, if you wish, have a simple uncluttered interface and be able to do everything from the command line, only launching GUI programs when there's a benefit to a GUI (web and email).
That's the way I work. It's ten times faster than click-click-click-click-click through five levels of menus for everything, and whether I'm working on on the local machine or remote makes no difference. Any time I need to do the same thing several times, I can loop: "foreach thing; do something $thing; done".
At home, that clean, uncluttered interface runs on top of Linux. At work, it's Mac underneath. My interface is the same either way - a simple terminal in a POSIX environment.
Too bad I don't have mod points today.
True they are no longer two views of the same binary like they used to be. Of course we're talking about XP. On XP, they are the same COM object. As Microsoft explained in US vs. Microsoft, you couldn't remove IE from the Windows system because IE WAS the system.
More recently, there has been some separation, but go to the Windows update site in Firefox or Chrome. You won't get very far . Only IE can replace system files with stuff it downloads from a web site.
I hear you. On the other hand, Red Hat and Centos users can still install the latest Chrome:
# wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh ./install_chrome.sh
# chmod u+x install_chrome.sh
#
That's about 10 times too complex for most XP users.
These retired parents probably aren't playing massive online games, so approximately all of their online activity will be through the browser.
As long as the browser is a) up-to-date and b) not tightly coupled with the system shell, that's almost an up-to-date system as far as the internet is concerned. What I mean regarding coupling is that if Explorer gets exploited, the system is owned because Explorer the browser ~ Explorer the desktop ~ Explorer the file manager. If Chrome gets exploited, the worst that can happen is that web pages get messed with, not the system.
I did something similar. That worked pretty well except it made me an EMPLOYER. It takes a lot of extra work to be an employer in the US, if you want to do it legally. The fed, state, county, and city all want a piece of you.
I just sold my business that had two employees. From now on, I won't hire anyone until I'm ready to hire at least three.
BTW, the comment above is from someone who has run businesses my entire life, helped several other people start businesses, and whose clients and mostly small businesses. I just sold one of my companies, which is the second time I've sold a business. Now I have one left (Clonebox). So it's not that I'm saying starting and running a business is a bad thing - it's just not right for YOU right NOW.
When I was about eight years old I put an ad in the newspaper selling replacement window screens. I'd go to your home or business (on my bicycle) and make custom fit window screens. I have a passion for starting new businesses, and don't mind working until 2AM doing that. I also enjoy running them, being the "buck stops here" guy, even though that means the buck stops with me at 2AM, I'm the one who has to get up and drive 90 miles to the datacenter or whatever. From what you've said, you really don't know if you have any interest in business. In that case, starting one would be like getting married without ever going on a date.
Absolutely do NOT start your own business at this point. The first few years of starting a business typically means working 60 hours doing alot of business management and adminsistration. Unless you have a passion for either a) tax forms or b) working until 2AM because the buck stops with you, starting and running a business probably isn't your optimal choice. That's especially true if you'd have any employees. There's a lot of crap involved in being an employer. Without employees, you still have to run the company, so while you're doing the quarterly taxes, who is serving the customers?
Check into project management. There are certifications available. After a few years of managing projects, you'll have some clue if you'd want to manage a company and how to manage a company.
> but forgot to grant explicit permission to make derived works
They did not forget - they laid out the permissions they wanted to grant in their license.
> You have no reason to suspect that whoever wrote it, has a problem with relicensing.
Suspect? We KNOW exactly what they have a problem with and what they don't - it's right there in black and white.
and Michelle Obama chose "have a war on food".
This while her husband was mandating the mass burning of vegetables.
> Solar, wind, and water are better choices.
Wind is great. In certain parts of California, if you don't mind a windfarm.
Water is great. At two or three locations in North America where you have giant waterfalls next to big cities.
Solar is - expensive as hell, and all those huge lead acid batteries are nasty for the environment. It's a cool toy, though.
Alternative energy is great for the 8% of cases where it works. For the other 92%, it's time to set aside 1960s political propaganda and get moving on a sustainable path.
> That's what bursting and borrowing is for in a fair queuing setup. You define a commit. Then you define a burst, then you make the bandwidth borrowable.
Sure, you, me and Linus can sign up for that. Normally, broadband is advertised as "30 times faster than dial-up, 50X faster than dial-up"
because most home users don't know what a Mbps is. Hell, half the WEBMASTERS we have as customers say their office service is "x megaBYTES".
> Now it's $3.50 a peak watt?
As the first part of that sentence said that's, assuming you and the other person who "corrected" me are correct.
If $1 is right for PEAK watts at noon, $3.50 is about right to get the same watts at 10AM or 4PM or when there's one cloud in the sky.
Alternatively, they can spend the extra $2.50 / watt on batteries, inverters, etc.
> Where did you get 10 years from (a dark place)?
That's an average, more or less. If they want to have power in the early morning, late afternoon, or when it's cloudy, they'll need to replace the bank of batteries of every 3-5 years.
With no batteries, they can only have that power available for three hours per day, the solar cells will lose power over the course of several years.
After five years they've lost SOME power. Sellers of solar power point out that they still produce some power after 30 years.
So figure for the cells themselves 15 years as a rough average before they weaken too much to get the job done. So we've got some parts that last three years, some that last 15.
So yeah, solar is neat and at all. A neat rich man's toy. Hopefully one day it'll be more than that.
> If i put up a moderate website, i doubt that'll get more than 1 gigabyte of traffic a month.
We did 600 GB - in 1997, before there was any video on the web. A GB is 1/4th of a DVD iso.
Our "half server" plans include a terabyte for each of the two customers on a server. (Meaning 2TB per 1U server.)
One guy I work with - one guy, working out of his house, has a site that never drops below 100 Mbps. It peaks at around 400 Mbps.
> servers do not use 100% of the bandwidth all the time. There is no service that i'm aware of that will use a full 1gbit link 100% of the time.
Their average use, for a typical web site, is 40%-50% of their peak. A site provisioned for 1 Gbps will use about 300,000 GBs, while a
residential customer might use 10 GBs. See why one costs more than the other?
We paid $500 million to build a web site that doesn't work. That's the bottom line.