The administrator doesn't have to do *anything* for it. As long as it's normal old bugzilla, then deskzilla will communicate with it via HTTP just like a webbrowser would.
This is something that the client can use if the client wants to; it adds extra functionality, and is only for users who want what it gives. It doesn't stop anyone from using the traditional web-based approach - indeed, if you want to use flags, you've still got to use the web.
This is actually really really interesting. I can totally see the value this would have for a company that uses Bugzilla as the bug-tracking software. The tree structure would be really handy in certain situations, and for a company, the $99 pricetag is a drop in the bucket. It's not something I would want everyone to use, but for some people who use bugzilla very often for management, this would be handy.
The offline bit is really great - if you need to go to a client, and want to take the buglist along with you, you're pretty screwed. But if you have this, there's a local copy you carry around, and it seamlessly integrates...very nice. Very very nice.
Howz music the loss leader - you say they're making big bucks on the iPods?
That's kind of a dumb model - you want it the other way around. You want the thing they buy once to be a loss leader, but the thing they keep paying for to make you money...
That's right. And in NYC, if you're on roller-blades, and a driver almost runs you off the road, the police can't do anything about it. If they injure you...well, that's a different story.
Anyone make a case for clusters for high-uptime situations?
Well, if your whole rackspace burns to the ground, that's a bit much for a "fault tolerant" server to handle. Mutliple sites mean a single nuclear weapon (plane hitting WTC, fire, hurricane, earthquake, you get the idea) can't take you down.
This is very important in terms of keeping what's left of our democracy alive.
The number of abuses possible using Diebold's is simply staggering...
I'm impressed with a lot of the people campaigning against slimy voting machines - one is http://blackboxvoting.org/; there are people who have been devoting their lives to this since the last election... More then I'm good for!
Open Source voting machines will make it much easier for potential problems to be spotted, and a hell of a lot easier to get them fixed! The current companies don't really need to worry about fixing their problems - after all, what's wrong with fixing elections?
If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear!
Except your mom finding all your pr0n. And your boss finding out you supported Kerry instead of Bush, getting worried, and not sending you to conferences. And the FBI finding out you support Amnesty International - bet you didn't know they're almost a terrorist organization, did you?
Not exactly PR, but very close - and very good, too! Better to call it PP - public perceptions. The words you use can make a big impact. Get people to assosciate "file sharing" with "illegal" and half the battle's already won.
Other examples of really good PP include the gambling giants getting it called "gaming" in the news - gaming has positive connotations; gambling is bad.
Another interesting one was the battle over what to call the proposed Social Security funds a few months back. "Personal" retirement accounts sound good, so Bush&co were using that phrase extensively, even when news organizations were going with more neutral phrasing.
Following mainstream US media news is generally not worth it. Much better to read the free newspapers going on about the evils of the Amerikkan Kon$umer Empire. At least there, there's no pretense of impartiality:-D
I liked the bit about "1 billion gauss is enough to turn you into magnetized mush".
Now *that*'s an image that means something!
--LWM
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Strategy games always have every unit exactly following orders giving by the higher authority - ones horsemen will happily attack the musketeers, that far-flung city on an isolated island will happily build knights, and your cities always produce what you want them to. But for much of history (especially pre-1000AD history), an emporer would generally have a difficult time getting amries to actually go out into the field or the rulers of cities to listen to him. Rather, cities revolt requently, and even if they didn't, tax money might be non-existant, and getting armies into action could be problematical at best. Civ III certainly made world-spanning empires more difficult, but you still don't see armies rebelling, disbanding themselves, cities deciding to carve out their own empires, or barbarian invasions that actually matter. Even the highest level of barbarian threats in the game are hardly fear-inspiring. Historically, the near mid-east would see civilization overrun by a different group of barbarians every few hundred years - armies overcome, cities wiped out, the works.
Granted, this takes away a lot of the simplicity of "Spearmen, go there" and "Knights, attack the city", but would provide a new challenge for players.
Any thoughts on this? Any hope of less dictatorial powers? Will we ever see the end of perfectly loyal servents willing to die for your cause?
1. Yes, it is theft. There are laws on the books for this. This is because we have metered electricity instead of Tessla's idea of free wireless power beamed from power stations as electromagnetic waves...
2. You don't need a coil to be placed next to the transformer. All you need is a properly pieced shape of metal. Think of a radio antenna - that's bascially a tool to steal power from the transformer. Granted, it's a small amount of power, but if you live next to a radio reciever, it's *quite* possible to light up light-bulbs with a device that's totally inside the house.
Now, if you could get your kid in the right shape....
As for protection, a faraday cage should do the trick;-)
If you're charging your iPod you aren't having a fucking emergency.
No, but when you're sitting around for a week in the Superdome waiting for evactuaion (sorry, did I say a week, I mean longer:-P ), it'd be pretty damn nice to listen to something besides misery.
Unless you're one of those who believe people should get all their inspiration from praying or singing gospels, then you've got to worry about feeding the spirit in some way as well. I'd rather have a hand-cranked laptop for playing CS, but that's me - iPods probably have more widespread appeal.
When we lost power in NYC a year back (due to the virus? We never found out...), the radio stations were all clueless as to what happened, but they didn't have much generator time, let me tell you!
So even though we had a batter powered radio, it was worthless when the power went down (no useful info on the radio) and then useless later on (no radio anymore).
Trying to run synaptic from the menu - that's what it was. Synaptic would run, but it couldn't install anything. I know it would run because I did a "ps -ef" to figure out WTF the command line name was (first time using Ubuntu - didn't know "synaptic"). But it was having permission issues.
I can check when I get home next. Oh wait...I no longer have a monitor attached to the box...
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The administrator doesn't have to do *anything* for it. As long as it's normal old bugzilla, then deskzilla will communicate with it via HTTP just like a webbrowser would.
This is something that the client can use if the client wants to; it adds extra functionality, and is only for users who want what it gives. It doesn't stop anyone from using the traditional web-based approach - indeed, if you want to use flags, you've still got to use the web.
--LWM
Silly boy, web interface will still work!
This is actually really really interesting. I can totally see the value this would have for a company that uses Bugzilla as the bug-tracking software. The tree structure would be really handy in certain situations, and for a company, the $99 pricetag is a drop in the bucket. It's not something I would want everyone to use, but for some people who use bugzilla very often for management, this would be handy.
The offline bit is really great - if you need to go to a client, and want to take the buglist along with you, you're pretty screwed. But if you have this, there's a local copy you carry around, and it seamlessly integrates...very nice. Very very nice.
--LWM
I told you so, but would you listen to me?
Oh, nooooooooo, DRM will never cause problems for consumers, just a little harmless DRM...
Time to bring in the Holy Hackgrenade, and blow the DRM into little pieces!
--LWM
Howz music the loss leader - you say they're making big bucks on the iPods?
That's kind of a dumb model - you want it the other way around. You want the thing they buy once to be a loss leader, but the thing they keep paying for to make you money...
--LWM
Has anyone considered the privacy implications of this yet?
Not sure I like logs listing that 3 years ago, I had a file named bad_kiddie_pr0n.jpeg (or whatever) on my computer.
They'd better have a good cleanup script!
--LWM
That's right. And in NYC, if you're on roller-blades, and a driver almost runs you off the road, the police can't do anything about it. If they injure you...well, that's a different story.
Great system, huh?
--LWM
Heh. I'd like to point out that even today, tuning in a TV isn't exactly easy; we just change cable channels.
--LWM
--LWM
Yay - two weeks of Beta Testers for Gentoo Tech Support!
:)
I'd be curious to know what they've done
--LWM
vi
--LWM
Oooo, ooo! Someone who has dealt with administering large numbers of machines at once!
Mod him up, mod him up!
--LWM
This is very important in terms of keeping what's left of our democracy alive.
The number of abuses possible using Diebold's is simply staggering...
I'm impressed with a lot of the people campaigning against slimy voting machines - one is http://blackboxvoting.org/; there are people who have been devoting their lives to this since the last election... More then I'm good for!
Open Source voting machines will make it much easier for potential problems to be spotted, and a hell of a lot easier to get them fixed! The current companies don't really need to worry about fixing their problems - after all, what's wrong with fixing elections?
--LWM
Obviously, you haven't read The MIM Notes from the Maoist Internationalist Movement.
:)
I really love them, actually
--LWM
I highly recommend this site:
http://www.cjrdaily.org/
They are very good at pointing out what is good reporting and what is bad reporting. Unfortunately, they point out more of the latter....
--LWM
If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear!
Except your mom finding all your pr0n. And your boss finding out you supported Kerry instead of Bush, getting worried, and not sending you to conferences. And the FBI finding out you support Amnesty International - bet you didn't know they're almost a terrorist organization, did you?
--LWM
Not exactly PR, but very close - and very good, too! Better to call it PP - public perceptions. The words you use can make a big impact. Get people to assosciate "file sharing" with "illegal" and half the battle's already won.
:-D
Other examples of really good PP include the gambling giants getting it called "gaming" in the news - gaming has positive connotations; gambling is bad.
Another interesting one was the battle over what to call the proposed Social Security funds a few months back. "Personal" retirement accounts sound good, so Bush&co were using that phrase extensively, even when news organizations were going with more neutral phrasing.
Following mainstream US media news is generally not worth it. Much better to read the free newspapers going on about the evils of the Amerikkan Kon$umer Empire. At least there, there's no pretense of impartiality
--LWM
I liked the bit about "1 billion gauss is enough to turn you into magnetized mush".
Now *that*'s an image that means something!
--LWM
Strategy games always have every unit exactly following orders giving by the higher authority - ones horsemen will happily attack the musketeers, that far-flung city on an isolated island will happily build knights, and your cities always produce what you want them to. But for much of history (especially pre-1000AD history), an emporer would generally have a difficult time getting amries to actually go out into the field or the rulers of cities to listen to him. Rather, cities revolt requently, and even if they didn't, tax money might be non-existant, and getting armies into action could be problematical at best. Civ III certainly made world-spanning empires more difficult, but you still don't see armies rebelling, disbanding themselves, cities deciding to carve out their own empires, or barbarian invasions that actually matter. Even the highest level of barbarian threats in the game are hardly fear-inspiring. Historically, the near mid-east would see civilization overrun by a different group of barbarians every few hundred years - armies overcome, cities wiped out, the works.
:-)
Granted, this takes away a lot of the simplicity of "Spearmen, go there" and "Knights, attack the city", but would provide a new challenge for players.
Any thoughts on this? Any hope of less dictatorial powers? Will we ever see the end of perfectly loyal servents willing to die for your cause?
Oh, BTW - they've all been great games so far
--LWM
1. Yes, it is theft. There are laws on the books for this. This is because we have metered electricity instead of Tessla's idea of free wireless power beamed from power stations as electromagnetic waves...
;-)
2. You don't need a coil to be placed next to the transformer. All you need is a properly pieced shape of metal. Think of a radio antenna - that's bascially a tool to steal power from the transformer. Granted, it's a small amount of power, but if you live next to a radio reciever, it's *quite* possible to light up light-bulbs with a device that's totally inside the house.
Now, if you could get your kid in the right shape....
As for protection, a faraday cage should do the trick
--LWM
Lead??? Please, you mean tin!
As in "foil"
--LWM
Oh, it definitely asked me for my password, and yes, I even put in the correct one :)
I tried this for sooo long before giving up and just logging in as root...
--LWM
Unless you're one of those who believe people should get all their inspiration from praying or singing gospels, then you've got to worry about feeding the spirit in some way as well. I'd rather have a hand-cranked laptop for playing CS, but that's me - iPods probably have more widespread appeal.
--LWM
When we lost power in NYC a year back (due to the virus? We never found out...), the radio stations were all clueless as to what happened, but they didn't have much generator time, let me tell you!
So even though we had a batter powered radio, it was worthless when the power went down (no useful info on the radio) and then useless later on (no radio anymore).
Go figure.
--LWM
Trying to run synaptic from the menu - that's what it was. Synaptic would run, but it couldn't install anything. I know it would run because I did a "ps -ef" to figure out WTF the command line name was (first time using Ubuntu - didn't know "synaptic"). But it was having permission issues.
I can check when I get home next. Oh wait...I no longer have a monitor attached to the box...
--Peter
Google search. I found out it's actually pretty easy to do it with Dell. But by then, I'd already given up.
--LWM