a) when they ask for root, change it to something innocuous, let them log in and do their stuff, then change it back.
b) change hosting providers.
c) host it yourself. Get a business class internet connection to your office/home/etc, rig up a closet with power and A/C. And if you need "five nines", get a second power provider and a UPS, and a second internet connection.
Ultimately, physical access is everything.
And yeah, why are you asking for help if you're not going to let them help you? Are you just seeking to prove that they're to blame? That seems like a waste of time given option b). Do you need to have the system locked down so that absolutely no one else can gain root access? That leaves you with option c).
a) Read the book "Getting Things Done" by David Allen
b) Find some software that emulates the GTD methodology. For the Mac, Daylight does a decent job, and iGTD was built for it (iGTD has now morphed into a commercial product)
Straight out of my "Languages: Animal, Human, and Machine" class in '88 -
"A professor teaching a languages class once asserted, 'There is no double-positive in the English language that means the opposite, like the double-negative.' To which a student replied, 'Yeah, right!'"
Another test case:
Prat: "Everything I say is a lie!"
computer response: Erk! human response: What a dick.
This was a dumb thing, for sure, but think about it from a pilot's perspective; even a little screwup will land you on the news across the nation.
Kinda reminds me of this quote:
Goaltender is a normal job. Sure. How would you like it if at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?" - Jaques Plante
How many Linux users manually download them from Nvidia? The 0.5 percentage could be a big understatement...
And how many Windows users repeatedly download the drivers every time they reinstall (and the last time I reinstalled Windows, I had to scrub and start from scratch a second time)?
Amen. I've been on Verizon since 2002 and have been through several low-end phones. Each one has been utterly crippled by Verizon before getting into my hands - having to go through their network (and therefore needing a data plan) just to download the photos you take, or upload ringtones, not being able to use a recorded message as a ringtone (I want my sweetie's ringtone to be her voice - I should be able to record that and use it! but noooooo), or otherwise needing to buy their $50 dollar cable which changes with every new phone so that the connectors are not backward/forward compatible.
It's a horrible, horrible misuse of what could be cool tech.
I have ZERO confidence that Verizon will allow this phone to actually be the "iPhone killer" they're trumping it up to be. "Whoa, wait! If we let it do that, we won't be able to squeeze customers of every dime!"
Yawn.
* - yeah, I know BitPim will let you do all this. The fact is that BitPim exists because cell carriers are pricks about crippling phones.
Everything I'd heard about holography and one of the most appealing and promising things about it was that it would not require, or at least minimize, moving parts. Why are they now recreating holographic media as Yet Another Spinning Disc device with parts that wear out quickly, go out of alignment, and put the media at risk of damage? A digital storage medium without moving parts could easily provide devices with unprecedented longevity.
I get the connection to make a Blu-Ray backward-compatible medium, but why lock ourselves in to a bad idea (spinning platters) for a medium that's had lackluster adoption*?
* - which I contend is almost entirely the fault of the iron grip the entertainment distribution industry has tried to impose on the digital storage industry With Great Fail.
In my lifetime, I've seen "donut" become the de facto spelling rather than "doughnut," and I haven't even lived that long.
This particular bastardization is an example of how external, unconsidered influences can affect language.
Words in the dictionary cannot be used as a trademark. Trademarks are used in marketing. We're more often exposed to modern, nearly ubiquitous marketing than we are to proper spelling and grammar. Therefore, "doughnut" has become "donut". "Lite" didn't exist as a word until Miller "Lite" beer (other low-calorie drinks were "light").
The flip side is when your trademark genius becomes defacto: Johnson & Johnson prints (or was printing) "Band-Aid is a Trademark" on the tear-away strips in order to legally defend their right to the trademark.
First person to build a smoking jacket out of these and hacking the memory to play a bunch of different random stuff wins. Bonus points for being photographed wearing it at an all night rave at Burning Man.
I'm not sure why Hulu isn't beefing up other open source software, containers and codecs to meet these needs.
Um, did you miss the part about Hulu being a whole-hearted tool for the networks and Hollywood (aka MPAA)?
It would certainly make it easier for them to satisfy the media licenses with ad revenue.
It's not Hulu's ad revenue, it the networks'. Why do you think Hulu is only available to US IP addresses? It's because there's no point in advertising products/services only available in the US to viewers outside the US.
[...]waste of taxpayer money that would only benefit the wealthy and bailout VCs who'd sunk money into the money-losing company.[...]
And that different from the Wall Street bailout exactly how?
Oh, if we help out Tesla we might actually get an innovative product to buy in the end, whereas with Wall Street we just get empty promises of the whole economy not collapsing as long as we prop them up.
Slashdot Mirror
[..] no connection between CO2 and world calamity.
Oh, I don't know. I consider this to be pretty calamitous.
And I seriously doubt the climate gives a rats butt what the IPCC report says or doesn't say.
[...] there is no really good scientific evidence of a threat from CO2 (and I seriously doubt you can show me any good evidence of a link).
It's hard to receive "really good scientific evidence" if you have your head in the sand.
How about:
a) when they ask for root, change it to something innocuous, let them log in and do their stuff, then change it back.
b) change hosting providers.
c) host it yourself. Get a business class internet connection to your office/home/etc, rig up a closet with power and A/C. And if you need "five nines", get a second power provider and a UPS, and a second internet connection.
Ultimately, physical access is everything.
And yeah, why are you asking for help if you're not going to let them help you? Are you just seeking to prove that they're to blame? That seems like a waste of time given option b). Do you need to have the system locked down so that absolutely no one else can gain root access? That leaves you with option c).
... or just $189 for a single license...
a) Read the book "Getting Things Done" by David Allen
b) Find some software that emulates the GTD methodology. For the Mac, Daylight does a decent job, and iGTD was built for it (iGTD has now morphed into a commercial product)
Straight out of my "Languages: Animal, Human, and Machine" class in '88 -
"A professor teaching a languages class once asserted, 'There is no double-positive in the English language that means the opposite, like the double-negative.' To which a student replied, 'Yeah, right!'"
Another test case:
Prat: "Everything I say is a lie!"
computer response: Erk!
human response: What a dick.
Distributed!
Centralized!
Distributed!
Centralized!
Distr...
ad infinitum
God: "NOAH!"
Noah: "What!"
God: "Noah, I did not put a backdoor in Windows 7."
Noah: "[...] RIGHT."
This was a dumb thing, for sure, but think about it from a pilot's perspective; even a little screwup will land you on the news across the nation.
Kinda reminds me of this quote:
How many Linux users manually download them from Nvidia? The 0.5 percentage could be a big understatement...
And how many Windows users repeatedly download the drivers every time they reinstall (and the last time I reinstalled Windows, I had to scrub and start from scratch a second time)?
Ok, it's time everybody! Break those old Sun SparcStation ELC's and SLC's out of storage!
Oh, wait, you don't have one? How about all those SunRays you've got in the garage?
No?
Right.
Amen. I've been on Verizon since 2002 and have been through several low-end phones. Each one has been utterly crippled by Verizon before getting into my hands - having to go through their network (and therefore needing a data plan) just to download the photos you take, or upload ringtones, not being able to use a recorded message as a ringtone (I want my sweetie's ringtone to be her voice - I should be able to record that and use it! but noooooo), or otherwise needing to buy their $50 dollar cable which changes with every new phone so that the connectors are not backward/forward compatible.
It's a horrible, horrible misuse of what could be cool tech.
I have ZERO confidence that Verizon will allow this phone to actually be the "iPhone killer" they're trumping it up to be. "Whoa, wait! If we let it do that, we won't be able to squeeze customers of every dime!"
Yawn.
* - yeah, I know BitPim will let you do all this. The fact is that BitPim exists because cell carriers are pricks about crippling phones.
In Soviet England, Big Brother is you!
Well, MIT's got a 3-year head start.
Rensselaer has been making them as light as paper for a couple years now.
Or even just use other existing technology to boost efficiency in their LiON battery idea.
But who knows, maybe they're content with reinventing the wheel without building on existing tech.
Everything I'd heard about holography and one of the most appealing and promising things about it was that it would not require, or at least minimize, moving parts. Why are they now recreating holographic media as Yet Another Spinning Disc device with parts that wear out quickly, go out of alignment, and put the media at risk of damage? A digital storage medium without moving parts could easily provide devices with unprecedented longevity.
I get the connection to make a Blu-Ray backward-compatible medium, but why lock ourselves in to a bad idea (spinning platters) for a medium that's had lackluster adoption*?
* - which I contend is almost entirely the fault of the iron grip the entertainment distribution industry has tried to impose on the digital storage industry With Great Fail.
Exactly what I was thinking! "When are we going to see one of these in the next Die Hard movie?!"
http://www.hulu.com/watch/10310/saturday-night-live-bad-idea-jeans
Even the Inquirer mentions that the screen were cracked by "external forces".
Lesson: don't spaz out while while playing BubbleBopple or whateverthehell.
In my lifetime, I've seen "donut" become the de facto spelling rather than "doughnut," and I haven't even lived that long.
This particular bastardization is an example of how external, unconsidered influences can affect language.
Words in the dictionary cannot be used as a trademark. Trademarks are used in marketing. We're more often exposed to modern, nearly ubiquitous marketing than we are to proper spelling and grammar. Therefore, "doughnut" has become "donut". "Lite" didn't exist as a word until Miller "Lite" beer (other low-calorie drinks were "light"). The flip side is when your trademark genius becomes defacto: Johnson & Johnson prints (or was printing) "Band-Aid is a Trademark" on the tear-away strips in order to legally defend their right to the trademark.
First person to build a smoking jacket out of these and hacking the memory to play a bunch of different random stuff wins. Bonus points for being photographed wearing it at an all night rave at Burning Man.
Home of the famous 'Tute Screw.
Winter in Troy is cold.
Go play nethack at midnight. Or during a full moon. Or on Friday the 13th.
I'm not sure why Hulu isn't beefing up other open source software, containers and codecs to meet these needs.
Um, did you miss the part about Hulu being a whole-hearted tool for the networks and Hollywood (aka MPAA)?
It would certainly make it easier for them to satisfy the media licenses with ad revenue.
It's not Hulu's ad revenue, it the networks'. Why do you think Hulu is only available to US IP addresses? It's because there's no point in advertising products/services only available in the US to viewers outside the US.
JBOD support lets you concatenate disks rather than stripe them into a redundant array
Uh, WHAT!? Seriously, Microsoft? You're selling concatenation as a feature?
Anyone who thinks concatenation is a good thing, much less better than striping, needs to have whatever certifications they bought revoked.
[...]waste of taxpayer money that would only benefit the wealthy and bailout VCs who'd sunk money into the money-losing company.[...]
And that different from the Wall Street bailout exactly how?
Oh, if we help out Tesla we might actually get an innovative product to buy in the end, whereas with Wall Street we just get empty promises of the whole economy not collapsing as long as we prop them up.
Right.