I've had a fairly painless upgrade from Jaunty on two laptops and a desktop. What is weird for me is how it interacted with VirtualBox; after the upgrade, my username was missing from the vboxusers group and my XP VMs no longer saw the USB hub; easy to fix once I figured it out, but really frustrating.
Right, I did the update from update-manager. I usually do; after a re-install, things normally work fine, but the update usually works great.
Except for 8.10, which was enough of a disaster that I had to re-install from scratch. And even that almost didn't work; I was on the verge of moving/home and/etc off and wiping the drive, it went that badly.
I just installed 9.04 on my work machine. The upgrade had one minor hiccup, which was quickly fixed(the PCM setting in the volume control was muted). Compared to the 8.10 upgrade, which was an unmitigated disaster, this was refreshing.
I haven't really seen a noticeable improvement like the article's author has yet; maybe that will change. I can say that this is the first upgrade yet that hasn't required fiddling with Envy or the Restricted Drivers Manager to get my Nvidia card humming nicely.
So add a USB keyboard on; sterilize that. I'm sure someone has sterilized a keyboard before; even if it's as simple as putting it in a sterililizable bag or something.
This isn't directly an answer to your question, but why not put a keyboard/mouse in the hood and use that? A wireless keyboard, perhaps, or it shouldn't be too difficult to put an interface through one of the existing ports. They even make some smaller keyboards that take up less space.
Note that this exploit also works if you're using the IE Tab add-on for Firefox. I know that IE Tab basically runs IE in a Firefox window; but, I was surprised that the address bar was corruptible.
Not sure I follow your point. Are you saying it wont be so bad this time because we aren't in a world war?
No, I was merely responding to the assertion that there was no significant world travel and/or food shipment in 1918. In fact, there was VERY significant world travel and food shipment, and it seems that a lot of that led to the spread.
I'm not terribly worried about the bird flu. I applaud the CDC for attempting to track pandemics, but I don't know that this is the way to do it.
20 - 50 million world wide died in a time before widespread food shipment and travel.
Well, except for that largish war that was going on at the time, causing both food and people to be shipped around the world.
In fact, your link points out that the stresses of combat may have accelerated the progress of the disease, as well as distrust of some medicines because they were from overseas.
The Spanish flu was probably made quite worse by the suddenly widespread food shipment and travel.
...that anyone who posts a ten-year-old joke as news should be calling anyone else a moron.
Seriously, this or things like it have been around since the idea of a loopback was presented. There's got to be at least a dozen posts to bash.org with the joke, it's used on IRC at least daily, and as others have pointed out, it's previosuly been in UF and Dilbert. It's like Taco just figured out loopbacks, and he's all proud.
I'm having the exact same problem with Wazooweb, but I can't even figure out who the 'upstream' is. I thought it was hosting4u.com, but I can't contact them either. Anyone have any help?
THe Sleuth Kit and the Autopsy frontend are outstanding tools. Use a Knoppix or FIRE CD plus an external hard drive for acquisitions.
However, I would HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend that you take some training. SANS has a track for forensics that is pretty damn good. At the very least, it'll get you comfortable with the tools and tactics.
120,000 terrorists in the US? C'mon! Has ANYONE on/. ever met a "terrorist"?
Well, honestly, how do you know? That's like asking if you've ever met a child molester, or a murderer, or a rapist. Without full background checks on everyone you know, you have no idea.
As for 120,000 terrorists, if that's out of the population of the US, that's only.04% of the population. That number doesn't sound too off-the-wall to me.
This said, I hope LL Bean loses. If I choose to let a program show me ads(or anything else) when I visit their site, that's my business, not LL Bean's.
Gator's predatory practices are a problem, and they need to be reined in; but LL Bean has no right to say that I can't be shown an ad on a machine I own.
I think you are in the minority. If the printer is currently down then you can't use it so configure it later when you CAN use it.
You've never installed corporate hardware, have you?
You don't walk in with a OS-only server, jack it into the network and start configuring. You've got a design sitting there, and you configure the server *before* dropping it into production. So when you drop it in place, it does 'just work'.
If you require auto-detection for configuration, you take yourself out of well-designed networks. Well-designed networks are defined and documented enough that you can(and should!) configure a server without any access to the real network, and only implement when it's fully ready.
The ruling prohibits governmental entities (cities, counties, other municipalities, or groups thereof) of entering the telecom business
This is incorrect.
The ruling states that a state may make a law banning local municipalities from providing telco service. If the state chooses not to make such a law, local municipalities are still free to enter the telco market
At my school, the CS department has a pretty low graduation rate
(His school is Michigan Tech, www.mtu.edu)
That's because the program is friggin' difficult. I should know, my Bachelor's is in CS from Tech.
The program is also outstanding from a learning standpoint. It's got a good grounding in theoreticals and practicals, and the profs(for the most part) know their stuff.
Grad rate may be low, but the students they turn out are good. A better test, IMHO
However, if they are sharing songs and encouranging others to download it, would that be entrapment?
In order to be guilty of entrapment, the officer has to coerce or encourage the defendant to commit a crime.
It's not uncommon, for instance, for officers to perform a sting by leaving a nice car sitting on the street and arresting those who come to steal it. Since the officers did not make any attempt to coerce or encourage the subject to steal, it's not entrapment.
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But for God's sake, don't forget about the concise user manual
Obviously I meant "don't forget about the full user manual". Dammit, I even previewed.
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User interfaces should be well-designed and as simple to use as possible. Granted.
Include a quickstart guide with your gear. Good idea.
But for God's sake, don't forget about the concise user manual. I hate buying new gear and not getting a good manual with it. The manual should explain everything the unit can do in every configuration.
If they want to make a simple quickstart guide too, that's great, but don't leave out the full-blown details.
Freevo was not a pain to set up. Far from it - it went really well. I was up and running about an hour after first install, and was fully tweaked out just a couple of hours after that.
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I've had a fairly painless upgrade from Jaunty on two laptops and a desktop. What is weird for me is how it interacted with VirtualBox; after the upgrade, my username was missing from the vboxusers group and my XP VMs no longer saw the USB hub; easy to fix once I figured it out, but really frustrating.
CEO of competing firm: "This totally wouldn't happen with ours, ours is awesome!" No meat there, just an assertion passed as fact in a 'news' article.
I have run compiz in the past, but gave it up. No real reason, other than it just didn't give me anything I needed or really wanted.
The Nvidia drivers installed automagically on 9.04; I see no reason why compiz wouldn't be as easy as flipping a switch.
Right, I did the update from update-manager. I usually do; after a re-install, things normally work fine, but the update usually works great.
Except for 8.10, which was enough of a disaster that I had to re-install from scratch. And even that almost didn't work; I was on the verge of moving /home and /etc off and wiping the drive, it went that badly.
I just installed 9.04 on my work machine. The upgrade had one minor hiccup, which was quickly fixed(the PCM setting in the volume control was muted). Compared to the 8.10 upgrade, which was an unmitigated disaster, this was refreshing.
I haven't really seen a noticeable improvement like the article's author has yet; maybe that will change. I can say that this is the first upgrade yet that hasn't required fiddling with Envy or the Restricted Drivers Manager to get my Nvidia card humming nicely.
So add a USB keyboard on; sterilize that. I'm sure someone has sterilized a keyboard before; even if it's as simple as putting it in a sterililizable bag or something.
This isn't directly an answer to your question, but why not put a keyboard/mouse in the hood and use that? A wireless keyboard, perhaps, or it shouldn't be too difficult to put an interface through one of the existing ports. They even make some smaller keyboards that take up less space.
Note that this exploit also works if you're using the IE Tab add-on for Firefox. I know that IE Tab basically runs IE in a Firefox window; but, I was surprised that the address bar was corruptible.
And never regretted it.
Your new job is going to have a lot of the same crap as your old job, but it's at least going to be interesting for you.
Ask yourself this question: will the pay/benefits of my new job be enough for me to live comfortably on? If so, I say go for it.
Not sure I follow your point. Are you saying it wont be so bad this time because we aren't in a world war?
No, I was merely responding to the assertion that there was no significant world travel and/or food shipment in 1918. In fact, there was VERY significant world travel and food shipment, and it seems that a lot of that led to the spread.
I'm not terribly worried about the bird flu. I applaud the CDC for attempting to track pandemics, but I don't know that this is the way to do it.
20 - 50 million world wide died in a time before widespread food shipment and travel .
Well, except for that largish war that was going on at the time, causing both food and people to be shipped around the world.
In fact, your link points out that the stresses of combat may have accelerated the progress of the disease, as well as distrust of some medicines because they were from overseas.
The Spanish flu was probably made quite worse by the suddenly widespread food shipment and travel.
Where exactly do you live? My parents live in taht area, and they have some options for broadband; they just don't like the price.
...that anyone who posts a ten-year-old joke as news should be calling anyone else a moron.
Seriously, this or things like it have been around since the idea of a loopback was presented. There's got to be at least a dozen posts to bash.org with the joke, it's used on IRC at least daily, and as others have pointed out, it's previosuly been in UF and Dilbert.
It's like Taco just figured out loopbacks, and he's all proud.
I'm having the exact same problem with Wazooweb, but I can't even figure out who the 'upstream' is. I thought it was hosting4u.com, but I can't contact them either. Anyone have any help?
I do data forensics work for a living.
THe Sleuth Kit and the Autopsy frontend are outstanding tools. Use a Knoppix or FIRE CD plus an external hard drive for acquisitions.
However, I would HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend that you take some training. SANS has a track for forensics that is pretty damn good. At the very least, it'll get you comfortable with the tools and tactics.
120,000 terrorists in the US? C'mon! Has ANYONE on /. ever met a "terrorist"?
.04% of the population. That number doesn't sound too off-the-wall to me.
Well, honestly, how do you know? That's like asking if you've ever met a child molester, or a murderer, or a rapist. Without full background checks on everyone you know, you have no idea.
As for 120,000 terrorists, if that's out of the population of the US, that's only
Nobody is trying to tell you what you personally can put on your screen.
That's exactly what they're doing.
They want to tell me that I cannot run a program that display other competitor's ads on the screen when I go to their site.
If I make the choice, it's my call. Not LL Bean's.
I hate spyware/adware as much as anyone.
This said, I hope LL Bean loses. If I choose to let a program show me ads(or anything else) when I visit their site, that's my business, not LL Bean's.
Gator's predatory practices are a problem, and they need to be reined in; but LL Bean has no right to say that I can't be shown an ad on a machine I own.
I think you are in the minority. If the printer is currently down then you can't use it so configure it later when you CAN use it.
You've never installed corporate hardware, have you?
You don't walk in with a OS-only server, jack it into the network and start configuring. You've got a design sitting there, and you configure the server *before* dropping it into production. So when you drop it in place, it does 'just work'.
If you require auto-detection for configuration, you take yourself out of well-designed networks. Well-designed networks are defined and documented enough that you can(and should!) configure a server without any access to the real network, and only implement when it's fully ready.
The ruling prohibits governmental entities (cities, counties, other municipalities, or groups thereof) of entering the telecom business
This is incorrect.
The ruling states that a state may make a law banning local municipalities from providing telco service. If the state chooses not to make such a law, local municipalities are still free to enter the telco market
At my school, the CS department has a pretty low graduation rate
(His school is Michigan Tech, www.mtu.edu)
That's because the program is friggin' difficult. I should know, my Bachelor's is in CS from Tech.
The program is also outstanding from a learning standpoint. It's got a good grounding in theoreticals and practicals, and the profs(for the most part) know their stuff.
Grad rate may be low, but the students they turn out are good. A better test, IMHO
However, if they are sharing songs and encouranging others to download it, would that be entrapment?
In order to be guilty of entrapment, the officer has to coerce or encourage the defendant to commit a crime.
It's not uncommon, for instance, for officers to perform a sting by leaving a nice car sitting on the street and arresting those who come to steal it. Since the officers did not make any attempt to coerce or encourage the subject to steal, it's not entrapment.
But for God's sake, don't forget about the concise user manual
Obviously I meant "don't forget about the full user manual". Dammit, I even previewed.
User interfaces should be well-designed and as simple to use as possible. Granted.
Include a quickstart guide with your gear. Good idea.
But for God's sake, don't forget about the concise user manual. I hate buying new gear and not getting a good manual with it. The manual should explain everything the unit can do in every configuration.
If they want to make a simple quickstart guide too, that's great, but don't leave out the full-blown details.
Freevo was not a pain to set up. Far from it - it went really well. I was up and running about an hour after first install, and was fully tweaked out just a couple of hours after that.