Yes, the previous article is (IMHO) much more informative, as it tells you how to set up a fake.MAC server.
The current article tells you what you can do with it... kinda. The language is rather obtuse in some sections, and all of those tips rely on the server being an OS X machine. What if I want my central server to run Linux? BSD?
The useful articles are this one which explains how to set up a fake.Mac server, and use Apple's Backup with it, and this one about making an iSync server.
Oh please. Everyone who is going to commit fraud has to do it a first time.
Sure, if you've done it before you are arguably more likely to do it again. One would think that the employer could get that information by contacting your previous employers, though.
And, unless you are fiscally responsible for the company (i.e. on the Board of Directors), your personal finances shouldn't be of any use to them.
Oh... and the asker says that they got all current and new hires to submit to this? So what? 40 counts of invasion of privacy don't make it right.
I'd check with a lawyer first, then tell your employer to stick it. Then again, I have a job.
A.G. Lafley, president and CEO of Proctor and Gamble, complained strongly about the US Government's recent decision to add Pringles to the list of munitions subject to export control laws.
"I mean, come on", Lafley complained at the company's recent AGM. "We were just starting to gain market share in the highly covetted 15-25 year-old male, Arab, electronic terrorist demographic. And now this? It's so un-American! My question to George Bush is: Where's your head at?"
Sure, you can do all that in Perl, but only because someone has bothered to write the appropriate CPAN modules for you. That's not the same as saying you can't do those things in PHP.
As PEAR and PECL (PHP's answer to CPAN) comes into it's own, I suspect you will see a lot of that functionality get ported over to PHP. Heck, some of what you mention has already been done.
But to say that PHP is not capable of doing any of those tasks is disingenuous.
Next you'll need to install the PHP CGI binary before you can run the PEAR Package Manager's Command Line Installer. Execute the following from a new window in Terminal to download and install the PHP CGI binary:
If you've installed a recent version of PHP from source, you should use the --enable-cli flag to configure. This will build the Apache module and a command-line version of PHP, obviating the need to download the (out-of-date) CGI they link to.
PHP may automagically do this anyway, so check first. Besides, it's probably best to have your web-server version of PHP the same as your CGI version.
... would be to stop spreading FUD like "the biggest thing the PHP community needs to start serious dialog on is how to meld it with the business world".
My company has used PHP since the very early days, and we've enjoyed year-over-year growth since then (granted, that has almost little to do with our choice to use PHP).
To claim that PHP isn't "ready for prime time" or whatever other crap gets spewed these days, is disingeneous. Maybe if you tell us what you think is missing, we can point you in the right direction.
I don't think so... I think that US will try to force simmilar legislation on other countries (by means of commercial treaties, intelectual properties agreements, etc).
What I hope it does is force other countries, when they are pressured to write their own DMCA-type laws, to look at how the US did it, and do it properly.
Look at this one. I hope you got permission from the San Jose Airport to do this. Don't the generally frown on people sending up ballons/model rockets/etc. in their airspace?
What the article doesn't mention, but you can find by digging around for screenshots, is that the back panel has not only ethernet outputs, but a VGA, USB and modem connections.
Dunno how useful the modem would be, but it sounds like you could probably hook-up a USB keyboard and monitor, and get a shell on this device.
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I read this article and just installed it. Wow.
However, I'm I the only one who still sees Skylab orbiting the earth? Shouldn't it be in a geostationary orbit, approximately 0km above Australia?
Does this mean I can get a car to match my iBook?
And, if so, can I do this with it?
Eerie that I was just reading this opinion piece on whether to choose on- or off-board audio processing.
Still, I'd rather my backups were going to a server that I control, than one I don't.
Oh
Yes, the previous article is (IMHO) much more informative, as it tells you how to set up a fake .MAC server.
... kinda. The language is rather obtuse in some sections, and all of those tips rely on the server being an OS X machine. What if I want my central server to run Linux? BSD?
.Mac server, and use Apple's Backup with it, and this one about making an iSync server.
The current article tells you what you can do with it
The useful articles are this one which explains how to set up a fake
Oh please. Everyone who is going to commit fraud has to do it a first time.
... and the asker says that they got all current and new hires to submit to this? So what? 40 counts of invasion of privacy don't make it right.
Sure, if you've done it before you are arguably more likely to do it again. One would think that the employer could get that information by contacting your previous employers, though.
And, unless you are fiscally responsible for the company (i.e. on the Board of Directors), your personal finances shouldn't be of any use to them.
Oh
I'd check with a lawyer first, then tell your employer to stick it. Then again, I have a job.
... how long before /. reports that someone has a case mod made of this?
I intend to use the Net to its full potential to advance my professional and personal agendas.
Translation: I'm surfing pr0n all day, baby!
Damn ... I read the title and I thought "Whoa, someone has come up with a way to hide secret messages in their garden."
Kinda like steganography, but with flowers.
Now *that* would be news for nerds.
You're talking about Peep, right?
Except OSX uses bitmap images for their icons (TIF, PNG), not vector graphics (SVG).
Default icons are 128x128 pixels, but are usually displayed at 32x32. OSX just has a very good scaling algorithm.
A.G. Lafley, president and CEO of Proctor and Gamble, complained strongly about the US Government's recent decision to add Pringles to the list of munitions subject to export control laws.
"I mean, come on", Lafley complained at the company's recent AGM. "We were just starting to gain market share in the highly covetted 15-25 year-old male, Arab, electronic terrorist demographic. And now this? It's so un-American! My question to George Bush is: Where's your head at?"
In a related mater, Lafley again denied that he supports Satanism.
A nerd without Karma is like a pretty girl without breasts.
... Kate Moss?
That would make you
Your comment isn't entirely fair.
Sure, you can do all that in Perl, but only because someone has bothered to write the appropriate CPAN modules for you. That's not the same as saying you can't do those things in PHP.
As PEAR and PECL (PHP's answer to CPAN) comes into it's own, I suspect you will see a lot of that functionality get ported over to PHP. Heck, some of what you mention has already been done.
But to say that PHP is not capable of doing any of those tasks is disingenuous.
If you've installed a recent version of PHP from source, you should use the --enable-cli flag to configure. This will build the Apache module and a command-line version of PHP, obviating the need to download the (out-of-date) CGI they link to.
PHP may automagically do this anyway, so check first. Besides, it's probably best to have your web-server version of PHP the same as your CGI version.
Isn't it great how the second post can be modded redundant?
No, he means render. As in: "This horse will soon be rendered into glue."
... would be to stop spreading FUD like "the biggest thing the PHP community needs to start serious dialog on is how to meld it with the business world".
My company has used PHP since the very early days, and we've enjoyed year-over-year growth since then (granted, that has almost little to do with our choice to use PHP).
To claim that PHP isn't "ready for prime time" or whatever other crap gets spewed these days, is disingeneous. Maybe if you tell us what you think is missing, we can point you in the right direction.
Well, there goes my Backstreet Boys collection then.
I don't think so... I think that US will try to force simmilar legislation on other countries (by means of commercial treaties, intelectual properties agreements, etc).
What I hope it does is force other countries, when they are pressured to write their own DMCA-type laws, to look at how the US did it, and do it properly.
Build in protections for fair-use, etc.
Look at this one. I hope you got permission from the San Jose Airport to do this. Don't the generally frown on people sending up ballons/model rockets/etc. in their airspace?
Bad people ... who hide behind the shield provided to them by incorporating.
And use the powers and rights provided to them by the government, those powers and rights which should be limited to individuals.
I think that's what he meant to say.
What the article doesn't mention, but you can find by digging around for screenshots, is that the back panel has not only ethernet outputs, but a VGA, USB and modem connections.
Dunno how useful the modem would be, but it sounds like you could probably hook-up a USB keyboard and monitor, and get a shell on this device.
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