I'm sure that somewhere in Redmond, Bill Gates must be laughing at us right now.
This is the Slashdot community. I'm sure he's been laughing at us since day one.:-)
Except that Windows Live Mail works just fine in Firefox on OSX. Sure, you get a "This page works best in IE6, otherwise you only get this clunky UI" but at least I can still read my emails and send replies.
The BBC is also required by law to provide a variety of programming and not just what is very popular.
Does that mean that we can expect higher quality OSes or websites if we have to pay a license fees for our PCs? Somehow I doubt it...
On the other hand, if everyone needs to be licensed for a PC, we could vet out people who are too stupid to have a PC -- definitely a worthwhile proposition. I'd pay a license fee to use an internet where stupid people are denied access:-)
That sounds like a whole load of Arsenic Selenium to me!
(OK, so as a schoolkid, when presented with a periodic table made up of separate cards for each symbol, I just *had* to rearrange something, and of course the best my childish mind could come up with at the time was ArSe)
In fact, as a matter of point, the building was almost certainly designed so that in the unfortunate case of fire, it would burn safely and cause minimal damage to surrounding buildings, hence the lightweight walls. The chemistry department buildings are also built with this in mind.
The same is true of the jet propulsion industry, their test buildings are built as concertinas so that they collapse inward should anything untoward happen.
The explosion was believed to have been caused by a gas leak. If you think about what kinds of dangerous and obnoxious chemicals they were using in there, you can understand why, despite being a pretty well-designed building, it still went up.
I'm a sysadmin for this very department, and I'm quite happy to say that we have extensive, rigorous backups of all our infrastructure hardware (looks at the giant stack of LTO tapes in the corner of my living room). We have always planned for the doomsday scenario, so we have disaster recovery procedures. We're pretty confident we'll have a fully-functional network infrastructure up by the end of the week.
The problem comes from personal computers with un-backed up data being left in offices, and of course the lack of facilities for a great many researchers who are now without a livelihood. It's pretty devastating, but we'll come through:-)
No, you've got the cause and effect the wrong way round. (Or are you merely trolling?)
It's not "piracy" in the traditional sense, the GP post is accurate on this point. The OED definition (note the 2 at the beginning, denoting a 2nd meaning) was intended to explain current usage of the word. i.e. It's not piracy, but we're gonna call it that anyways, so the definition of piracy needs to be updated to include the new meaning.
I'd also go as far as to say that illegal copying of date != piracy. The whole "Piracy" thing is yet more scaremongering tactics to make the practice sound really bad.
Just as you're not actually stealing anything,neither are you plundering vessels at sea and brutally murdering their occupants!
You may be right in justifying it as less bad than stealing, in the same way that mugging someone is less bad than murdering them, but the fact is it's still illegal.
The content owners really ought to make a better effort of educating people as to why it's wrong, rather than spreading over-dramatised FUD at us.
It's not the server that's slow, it's the poor guy's ADSL line!
The guy is a mate of mine, and I understand from him that the iGrill itself handled things fine, but your average domestic 512kbps ADSL line *really* doesn't like the old slashdot effect!
That's all fine, except that it's not just scanners that barf on this currency; some printers and paint programs do. (That reminds me -- I must write a Gimp plugin to detect currency and bring up a "Forging currency wizard":)
For those who are interested, these patterns of 5 dots also feature on UK £5, £10 and £20 notes and on all Euro notes.
For the real geek, the reason these circles are chosen is because they're a really easy shape to pick out using image processing. The circles all appear in a mathematically-calculable formation.
Not quite. You'd be pretty naive to trust merely the "From" header -- Matching SMTP relays too would also help i.ie "From address is from example.com and has been relayed by mx.example.com so is valid"
Yeah, there are still ways round this, but there'll always be ways round this on an open network. The real solution is to have a closed network with fascist admin policies, but who will go for that?
The simple solution to this problem is to use default-deny mail filtering on your existing mail setup. You set up a whitelist of people you're want to receive mail from and delete everything else.
I can't see how this new system can be anything overly different.
So your computers do not "talk" to each other to any other computer...
Fine, be pedantic... To clarify things, our AUP has a blanket ban on "Peer to peer file transfer software, such as KaZaa, WinMX, eMule, BitTorrent etc...". Yes, perhaps you could claim that everything that runs on Ethernet is "Peer to peer", but that's just being difficult.
If you look at the Janet AUP (UK academic network), you'll see that "Non-academic use is not permitted", so technically our students aren't even allowed to email their folks! Of course, we don't enforce things to this level, but you started the pedantry:D
I'm a sysadmin for a UK university and it's certainly true that we have our own rules. For example, our AUP forbids the use of peer-to-peer software as it's easier that way. Anyone using it is in breach of the AUP, clean and simple. That way we avoid having to deal with legalities of copyright infringement etc.
As for prosecuting students who hack the systems and networks, we take a different approach. Before I was a sysadmin, I was a student at the same University and certainly had a go at the systems (I found a way to get a setuid copy of bash), on telling the sysadmins, they fixed the security hole, but I got kudos and respect for finding the hole.
The general policy is that our Computer Science students should be smart enough to root the systems, and if they manage it, so long as they don't abuse it and they report it quickly, then we are happy!
This isn't entirely correct. There are two versions of Windows XP Pro, there is the ordinary version "WXP_PRO" and there is the volume license edition "WXP_VOL" - VOL doesn't require activation, ordinary Pro does. The volume license version is commonly referred to as the "Corporate edition".
No! This is all IMHO, but I can't see Dell caring about the state of the iPods. The point is to offer an incentive to buy their player, whilst removing iPods from circulation too.
There's a similar deal with mobile phones in the UK, you can trade in old mobile phones for ~UK 50 when you take out a new contract. Most places will even accept old analogue phones for which there aren't any networks any more!
These phones aren't any use to people, but people think they're getting a "Special Offer" so are more inclined to take it up. The phone companies can afford to knock 50 off anyway. I suspect the same is true of this Dell offer.
The easiest way is to turn on the Windows XP firewall before you plug in the network/cable/dsl wire.
* Install Windows * Install network drivers * TURN ON FIREWALL on the external connection * Plug in and dial the 'net * Run through Windows Update * (At your discretion) turn the firewall off again.
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Odd. I logged into gmail@mailinator.com and used the invite and now have a gmail account. I *refuse* to believe that I could be the first person from the slashdot community to try this link, so who knows...
Did anyone else get a gmail account out of that link?
Aaaargh, I may be in the minority, but I'm sick and tired of DOOM and Quake clones everywhere, my mobile phone is the only place of solice, where I can play games that require me use my brain!
I don't want to spend money on 3D acceleration on my mobile phone. I begrudge even having to pay for a colour display!
Okay, I'm done ranting, but seriously, is this really what we want from our mobile phones? Probably not. Colour screens and multimedia communications, possibly, but 3D games?
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That's not entirely correct. Old UNIX keyboards had Caps lock and left-ctrl the other way round. I still have a PC keyboard with this layout.
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That being said, the only use that I can think of for caps lock is to keep us sysadmins busy answering "Why doesn't my password work" queries!
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do you always write 06/06/06?
No. Sometimes it isn't the 6th June 2006, and at those times I write a different date.
I'm sure that somewhere in Redmond, Bill Gates must be laughing at us right now. This is the Slashdot community. I'm sure he's been laughing at us since day one. :-)
Indeed, I was puzzled for a moment, trying to work out why TFA hadn't been modded 'troll' yet...
Except that Windows Live Mail works just fine in Firefox on OSX. Sure, you get a "This page works best in IE6, otherwise you only get this clunky UI" but at least I can still read my emails and send replies.
The BBC is also required by law to provide a variety of programming and not just what is very popular.
:-)
Does that mean that we can expect higher quality OSes or websites if we have to pay a license fees for our PCs? Somehow I doubt it...
On the other hand, if everyone needs to be licensed for a PC, we could vet out people who are too stupid to have a PC -- definitely a worthwhile proposition. I'd pay a license fee to use an internet where stupid people are denied access
Oh ArSe, hands up, I got that one wrong. Can we try again? Argon Selenium maybe?
That sounds like a whole load of Arsenic Selenium to me!
(OK, so as a schoolkid, when presented with a periodic table made up of separate cards for each symbol, I just *had* to rearrange something, and of course the best my childish mind could come up with at the time was ArSe)
In fact, as a matter of point, the building was almost certainly designed so that in the unfortunate case of fire, it would burn safely and cause minimal damage to surrounding buildings, hence the lightweight walls. The chemistry department buildings are also built with this in mind.
The same is true of the jet propulsion industry, their test buildings are built as concertinas so that they collapse inward should anything untoward happen.
The explosion was believed to have been caused by a gas leak. If you think about what kinds of dangerous and obnoxious chemicals they were using in there, you can understand why, despite being a pretty well-designed building, it still went up.
I'm a sysadmin for this very department, and I'm quite happy to say that we have extensive, rigorous backups of all our infrastructure hardware (looks at the giant stack of LTO tapes in the corner of my living room). We have always planned for the doomsday scenario, so we have disaster recovery procedures. We're pretty confident we'll have a fully-functional network infrastructure up by the end of the week.
:-)
The problem comes from personal computers with un-backed up data being left in offices, and of course the lack of facilities for a great many researchers who are now without a livelihood. It's pretty devastating, but we'll come through
No, you've got the cause and effect the wrong way round. (Or are you merely trolling?)
It's not "piracy" in the traditional sense, the GP post is accurate on this point. The OED definition (note the 2 at the beginning, denoting a 2nd meaning) was intended to explain current usage of the word. i.e. It's not piracy, but we're gonna call it that anyways, so the definition of piracy needs to be updated to include the new meaning.
I'd also go as far as to say that illegal copying of date != piracy. The whole "Piracy" thing is yet more scaremongering tactics to make the practice sound really bad.
Just as you're not actually stealing anything,neither are you plundering vessels at sea and brutally murdering their occupants!
You may be right in justifying it as less bad than stealing, in the same way that mugging someone is less bad than murdering them, but the fact is it's still illegal.
The content owners really ought to make a better effort of educating people as to why it's wrong, rather than spreading over-dramatised FUD at us.
Obligatory pedantic response...
It's not the server that's slow, it's the poor guy's ADSL line!
The guy is a mate of mine, and I understand from him that the iGrill itself handled things fine, but your average domestic 512kbps ADSL line *really* doesn't like the old slashdot effect!
That's all fine, except that it's not just scanners that barf on this currency; some printers and paint programs do. (That reminds me -- I must write a Gimp plugin to detect currency and bring up a "Forging currency wizard" :)
For those who are interested, these patterns of 5 dots also feature on UK £5, £10 and £20 notes and on all Euro notes.
For the real geek, the reason these circles are chosen is because they're a really easy shape to pick out using image processing. The circles all appear in a mathematically-calculable formation.
Not quite. You'd be pretty naive to trust merely the "From" header -- Matching SMTP relays too would also help i.ie "From address is from example.com and has been relayed by mx.example.com so is valid"
Yeah, there are still ways round this, but there'll always be ways round this on an open network. The real solution is to have a closed network with fascist admin policies, but who will go for that?
The simple solution to this problem is to use default-deny mail filtering on your existing mail setup. You set up a whitelist of people you're want to receive mail from and delete everything else.
I can't see how this new system can be anything overly different.
We can only claim Star Trek is dead once Netcraft confirms it!
So your computers do not "talk" to each other to any other computer...
:D
Fine, be pedantic... To clarify things, our AUP has a blanket ban on "Peer to peer file transfer software, such as KaZaa, WinMX, eMule, BitTorrent etc...". Yes, perhaps you could claim that everything that runs on Ethernet is "Peer to peer", but that's just being difficult.
If you look at the Janet AUP (UK academic network), you'll see that "Non-academic use is not permitted", so technically our students aren't even allowed to email their folks! Of course, we don't enforce things to this level, but you started the pedantry
I'm a sysadmin for a UK university and it's certainly true that we have our own rules. For example, our AUP forbids the use of peer-to-peer software as it's easier that way. Anyone using it is in breach of the AUP, clean and simple. That way we avoid having to deal with legalities of copyright infringement etc.
As for prosecuting students who hack the systems and networks, we take a different approach. Before I was a sysadmin, I was a student at the same University and certainly had a go at the systems (I found a way to get a setuid copy of bash), on telling the sysadmins, they fixed the security hole, but I got kudos and respect for finding the hole.
The general policy is that our Computer Science students should be smart enough to root the systems, and if they manage it, so long as they don't abuse it and they report it quickly, then we are happy!
This isn't entirely correct. There are two versions of Windows XP Pro, there is the ordinary version "WXP_PRO" and there is the volume license edition "WXP_VOL" - VOL doesn't require activation, ordinary Pro does. The volume license version is commonly referred to as the "Corporate edition".
No! This is all IMHO, but I can't see Dell caring about the state of the iPods. The point is to offer an incentive to buy their player, whilst removing iPods from circulation too.
There's a similar deal with mobile phones in the UK, you can trade in old mobile phones for ~UK 50 when you take out a new contract. Most places will even accept old analogue phones for which there aren't any networks any more!
These phones aren't any use to people, but people think they're getting a "Special Offer" so are more inclined to take it up. The phone companies can afford to knock 50 off anyway. I suspect the same is true of this Dell offer.
The easiest way is to turn on the Windows XP firewall before you plug in the network/cable/dsl wire.
* Install Windows
* Install network drivers
* TURN ON FIREWALL on the external connection
* Plug in and dial the 'net
* Run through Windows Update
* (At your discretion) turn the firewall off again.
Odd. I logged into gmail@mailinator.com and used the invite and now have a gmail account. I *refuse* to believe that I could be the first person from the slashdot community to try this link, so who knows...
Did anyone else get a gmail account out of that link?
Aaaargh, I may be in the minority, but I'm sick and tired of DOOM and Quake clones everywhere, my mobile phone is the only place of solice, where I can play games that require me use my brain!
I don't want to spend money on 3D acceleration on my mobile phone. I begrudge even having to pay for a colour display!
Okay, I'm done ranting, but seriously, is this really what we want from our mobile phones? Probably not. Colour screens and multimedia communications, possibly, but 3D games?
<pedant> That's not entirely correct. Old UNIX keyboards had Caps lock and left-ctrl the other way round. I still have a PC keyboard with this layout. </pedant>
That being said, the only use that I can think of for caps lock is to keep us sysadmins busy answering "Why doesn't my password work" queries!