But I really do think the pictures are too big. They get in the way of the page's continuity. I kinda like the small icons we have now. If you want other icons, or even images, that's cool -- but these are as big as the stories, themselves. Overkill, IMHO.
At least stateside, "facts" aren't copyrightable. This applies (for example) to phone books -- but perhaps even more applicable is recipes. You can copyright the comments *about* a recipe, but the recipe, itself, is not copyrightable. It seems to me that it's a fairly small leap from an ordered list of ingredients to an ordered list of songs.
Clearly, the author of the post has forgotten 3+ year intervals for kernel releases. Of the odd, quickly fixed pothole is the price of 6x release speed, "Hell, yes!" Is the answer.
Just sayin'. NSA may be bad-boy du-jour, but China's the one who's been hacking accounts on media and technology companies. I'd think NSA would be content to just sit there and sniff your traffic.
Roblimo has posted a story that I almost care about.
I don't mean to wale on the guy, but after over a decade, I get kinda tired of One Single Person who continually annoys me on Slashdot. And... somehow, I don't think I'm alone.
It's simple, really: either your users should be doing it, or they shouldn't. If they should, it should be easy to do. If they shouldn't, well, they shouldn't. Any gray area just means you need to better define the parameters.
Segway was no longer a part of DEKA (Dean Kamen's company) when I worked at Segway, but our head of engineering, Ron Reich, was actively involved in one of the local schools' program, and I must say, it really did seem to make a difference. I admit that, as a SysAdmin, I'm leery of offering my services to FIRST -- I mean, I ain't gonna be the one coding robotic algorithms (except maybe in Ruby). Perhaps I should re-consider... the positive feedback here is making me think that, perhaps, I'm overlooking an opportunity to chip in to something worthwhile.
I'm not sure how uptime and Token Ring really compare. Though I will say that I haven't worked on *any* Token Ring since '94 -- and that was a Thomas Conrad bastardization that did 100 Mbit over fiber. Haven't touched the copper stuff since '92.
You said that you can't install Linux for them -- and in a sense, you're right. And in another sense, you're woo wrong. In 2006, I was tasked with sending roughly 100 laptops to dealers around the world. They needed to run, and run well, despite the fact that, for stupid legacy reasons, they needed administrator-level access to the machines. That being said, they didn't need to *do* much with the machines... which meant that the install footprint was relatively small.
So I cheated. I installed Windows, re-sized the partition down to as small as I could reasonably get it, then installed Linux, also. I then set up grub to offer three (well, really, four) options: 1) Boot Windows (default) 2) Back up the current Windows partition (e.g., "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=winimage.img") 3) Restore the Windows partition from the most recent backup (e.g., "dd if=winimage.img of=/dev/sda1") 4) Linux (set up to OpenVPN to my company's domain if need be)
I can't quite remember how I kicked off 2 & 3 -- it involved booting Linux, and, perhaps, kicking off a script from/etc/rc.local. But the bottom line is it worked like a dream. Infected by virus? WHAM. New image. Installed new, important software? Make a new image. Etc.
Of course, it's not foolproof -- there's a chance you could take an image of an install you didn't know was already broken. And I never bothered with things like multiple on-disk images with datestamps, etc., as the worst-case scenario was "send it back."
But I gotta say -- it tended to work, and work well.
Your points are valid, but I think your conclusion misses the point. Scientific American, oh, 20 years ago, had a fascinating article, the basic conclusion of which was that the HUGE amount of (say) African famine is directly attributable to corruption and political instability. Bad infrastructure is a symptom of these. That's the irony, in a sense: colonialism in Africa implemented good infrastructure, but also the seeds of horrid political conditions after the collapse of said colonialism. Now the whole thing -- especially what with religious fanatics and easily accessible weapons in the mix -- is a vicious cycle. And, simply put, I don't see a way out of it.
Y'know... it's funny. I never thought to compare the two, but you are, of course, completely correct. What in this day and age, you'd imagine it would be less likely a model -- after all, it's a whole lot easier for a miffed engineer denied credit to go on-line and attempt to regain some of it, even anonymously. Maybe there's a hint of cult of personality going on, too? That's the only explanation I have for some of the engineers who work for him being there, at the wages they're getting. I mean, it's not a sweat shop (though, ironically, it's located in a building that was one), but the engineers I've known who've worked for him fall into two very distinct camps: those who enjoy working for him (and, indeed, probably are), and those who would never return. Haven't seen a whole lot of middle ground.
Except, well... while I do own a Segway -- employees get what comes to a 50% discount, and in November of '08, it really, really looked like they were about to go belly-up; figured I'd get one while I still could -- I admit that the bike argument is a decent one. I really do enjoy riding Segways (or "PT's" -- personal transporters -- since Segway(tm) refers to the company, and not their product), but there are many drawbacks. Personally, I think they are freaking ideal for sightseeing. The best thing ever. As someone who'd ridden them for years, it wasn't until I'd gone on a sightseeing trip that I realized how awesome they can be, when used for their intended niche. Outside of that niche? Maybe not so much...
Oh. And Dean likely didn't "invent" the pump, no more than he "invented" the Segway. (The insulin pump is all his, though.) What Dean truly excels at is putting a bunch of relatively inexpensive engineers in a big mill building, and then promoting himself on what they produce.
Personally, when I found that Linux didn't do what I wanted, I learned how to *make* it do it. This held true when automounting didn't use SunOS mappings, and when there were no office-suite-like applications. Does this make me a dork for wanting to use my favorite OS? I guess that's a matter of perspective. But I certainly didn't sit there, *in the employ of a Linux magazine*, and say "Sorry, folks: Linux will never be able be able to measure up -- might as well throw in the towel." Again: each has strengths, each has weaknesses. But when you're supposed to be showing people how best to make use of their favorite operating system -- indeed, most likely the entire reason they're buying your magazine -- you don't put it down because one of *your* favorite apps doesn't have a Linux version. That's just silly and egocentrical.
He's always been an apologist for Windows -- even right during his tenure writing for Linux Magazine. This isn't to say that Linux doesn't have its shortcomings, nor Windows its strengths: they both do. But, dammit: when you're writing for a Linux magazine, you eat the dogfood, you don't find reasons to prophesize that Linux will never be a contender. Which he did. Repeatedly.
In a nutshell: I can't be bothered to listen to his drivel. I called him on his antics, both in forums, and directly via e-mail, and he never dignified me with a response. I certainly needn't dignify his verbal ramblings with time wasted on my side.
It's not that the institutions are (significantly) different than they used to be, but, rather, that people are more cynical. Hell -- go back to the 20's, to any manufacturing or mining town -- you could believe in those companies, because you *knew* they didn't give a damn as to whether you lived or died.
It almost seems to me that it's the other way around; now that we can afford to become somewhat complacent, now that we have time on our hands and a means for easy bi-directional communication, many have decided that "things suck." Additionally, I have to lay some of the blame on the hard-core right-wing media: to many of them, stuff *always* sucks. Government is, by definition, bad. Teachers are out to brainwash your children. Etc. (Granted that several of these themes have been held by the hard-core liberals over the years, but not since, or prior to, the 60's did they really give voice to it.)
The bottom line, I suppose, is that more media makes us more cynical.
There *is* a stock IPSec (Cisco) client for Android, though it lacks a lot of functionality. Ice Cream Sandwich release addresses those failings. As for connecting to a non-Cisco IPSec device, well, that's a different kettle of fish of another color, if you will.
I kind of feel like I'm cheating when I read stuff compiled/edited/tweaked by Christopher. I hold no opinion for or against him, but, darn it, I read Tolkien to read *JRR* Tolkien. Though there is plenty of other actual JRR stuff -- but let's face it, while he was a fun writer, his pinnacle was Hobbit/LoTR. And that's what I dig into.
For the Hell of it, let's look at the beginning of the true changes -- Bree. Bree was supposed to be viewed as a welcoming community where "big people" and "little people" got along together, with comfort and self respect. Three significant things happened there: we were introduced to Bill/Bill Ferny, the Nazgul struck, and we met Strider.
The movie? Bree is a place full of mean-spirited big people; Butterbur is surly; Strider not only doesn't have his birthright sword, but now can't even be identified by Gandalf's letter. Lots was modified to suit Jackson's whims. And that was the merest beginning of things altered.
Now, see, for most books, honestly, I don't care all that much, so long as the general feel of the book remains. There are even some where I feel the movie version was significantly superior to the book, itself -- Thank You for Smoking is a perfect example. But Tolkien spent *years* trying to get everything right in LoTR; I admire and respect that, and clearly, many others do, as well, else he wouldn't be considered the father of modern-day fantasy. Who is Jackson to alter -- not just abridge -- his story?
I'm sorry. I tried. I really did. I *wanted* to like the LoTR movies -- and I certainly didn't expect them to keep everything that was in the books -- I mean, we're talking 1500+ pages! But *changing* storyline, that, I had issues with. Complete timelines, and storylines, were altered, for no effect that I could see. As someone who reads LoTR every 18 months or so, it was Just Wrong to see a series crafted as carefully as Tolkien did, twisted to meet whatever it was that Jackson was attempting to do. So. Don't. Care.
And, well, I'll be (pleasantly!) surprised if I don't wind up feeling much the same about The Hobbit.
Bees don't keep the hive warm. Bees keep the *cluster* warm. At the center, it's near the temps you describe (which is where the queen hangs out); the fringes are considerably colder. The hive, itself, is probably several degrees above ambient, but it sure the hell ain't in the 80's. So, yeah, I completely disagree.;-) If their metabolism were anything like it is in the summer, they would live the six-odd weeks that is the usual lifetime for a worker. As it is, wintering bees can see close to six months. And your bigger problem than sending out foragers (quick way to stop that: put in a screen) would be to clean the hive. Bees are pretty darn tidy creatures. But only when they can get *rid* of waste material. Lowered metabolism means not much waste during the wintering; a complete metabolism for four months of hive confinement would be a no good way to have things work; expect to see dysentery (yes, bees can get it) or worse in such circumstances.
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But I really do think the pictures are too big. They get in the way of the page's continuity. I kinda like the small icons we have now. If you want other icons, or even images, that's cool -- but these are as big as the stories, themselves. Overkill, IMHO.
At least stateside, "facts" aren't copyrightable. This applies (for example) to phone books -- but perhaps even more applicable is recipes. You can copyright the comments *about* a recipe, but the recipe, itself, is not copyrightable. It seems to me that it's a fairly small leap from an ordered list of ingredients to an ordered list of songs.
Clearly, the author of the post has forgotten 3+ year intervals for kernel releases. Of the odd, quickly fixed pothole is the price of 6x release speed, "Hell, yes!" Is the answer.
I miss Hemos and Taco that much the more.
Just sayin'. NSA may be bad-boy du-jour, but China's the one who's been hacking accounts on media and technology companies. I'd think NSA would be content to just sit there and sniff your traffic.
Roblimo has posted a story that I almost care about.
I don't mean to wale on the guy, but after over a decade, I get kinda tired of One Single Person who continually annoys me on Slashdot. And... somehow, I don't think I'm alone.
-Slarty
Which has plenty of video editing options -- some of them even quite good, and some of them even quite easy. (Note the two don't always overlap.)
P.S. If you think my subject is sarcastic... well, yes.
It's simple, really: either your users should be doing it, or they shouldn't. If they should, it should be easy to do. If they shouldn't, well, they shouldn't. Any gray area just means you need to better define the parameters.
Segway was no longer a part of DEKA (Dean Kamen's company) when I worked at Segway, but our head of engineering, Ron Reich, was actively involved in one of the local schools' program, and I must say, it really did seem to make a difference. I admit that, as a SysAdmin, I'm leery of offering my services to FIRST -- I mean, I ain't gonna be the one coding robotic algorithms (except maybe in Ruby). Perhaps I should re-consider... the positive feedback here is making me think that, perhaps, I'm overlooking an opportunity to chip in to something worthwhile.
I used to name my boxen "hal", "sal", and so forth.
I'm not sure how uptime and Token Ring really compare. Though I will say that I haven't worked on *any* Token Ring since '94 -- and that was a Thomas Conrad bastardization that did 100 Mbit over fiber. Haven't touched the copper stuff since '92.
Just sayin'.
You said that you can't install Linux for them -- and in a sense, you're right. And in another sense, you're woo wrong. In 2006, I was tasked with sending roughly 100 laptops to dealers around the world. They needed to run, and run well, despite the fact that, for stupid legacy reasons, they needed administrator-level access to the machines. That being said, they didn't need to *do* much with the machines... which meant that the install footprint was relatively small.
So I cheated. I installed Windows, re-sized the partition down to as small as I could reasonably get it, then installed Linux, also. I then set up grub to offer three (well, really, four) options:
1) Boot Windows (default)
2) Back up the current Windows partition (e.g., "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=winimage.img")
3) Restore the Windows partition from the most recent backup (e.g., "dd if=winimage.img of=/dev/sda1")
4) Linux (set up to OpenVPN to my company's domain if need be)
I can't quite remember how I kicked off 2 & 3 -- it involved booting Linux, and, perhaps, kicking off a script from /etc/rc.local. But the bottom line is it worked like a dream. Infected by virus? WHAM. New image. Installed new, important software? Make a new image. Etc.
Of course, it's not foolproof -- there's a chance you could take an image of an install you didn't know was already broken. And I never bothered with things like multiple on-disk images with datestamps, etc., as the worst-case scenario was "send it back."
But I gotta say -- it tended to work, and work well.
$.02
-- Slarty
Your points are valid, but I think your conclusion misses the point. Scientific American, oh, 20 years ago, had a fascinating article, the basic conclusion of which was that the HUGE amount of (say) African famine is directly attributable to corruption and political instability. Bad infrastructure is a symptom of these. That's the irony, in a sense: colonialism in Africa implemented good infrastructure, but also the seeds of horrid political conditions after the collapse of said colonialism. Now the whole thing -- especially what with religious fanatics and easily accessible weapons in the mix -- is a vicious cycle. And, simply put, I don't see a way out of it.
Y'know... it's funny. I never thought to compare the two, but you are, of course, completely correct. What in this day and age, you'd imagine it would be less likely a model -- after all, it's a whole lot easier for a miffed engineer denied credit to go on-line and attempt to regain some of it, even anonymously. Maybe there's a hint of cult of personality going on, too? That's the only explanation I have for some of the engineers who work for him being there, at the wages they're getting. I mean, it's not a sweat shop (though, ironically, it's located in a building that was one), but the engineers I've known who've worked for him fall into two very distinct camps: those who enjoy working for him (and, indeed, probably are), and those who would never return. Haven't seen a whole lot of middle ground.
Except, well... while I do own a Segway -- employees get what comes to a 50% discount, and in November of '08, it really, really looked like they were about to go belly-up; figured I'd get one while I still could -- I admit that the bike argument is a decent one. I really do enjoy riding Segways (or "PT's" -- personal transporters -- since Segway(tm) refers to the company, and not their product), but there are many drawbacks. Personally, I think they are freaking ideal for sightseeing. The best thing ever. As someone who'd ridden them for years, it wasn't until I'd gone on a sightseeing trip that I realized how awesome they can be, when used for their intended niche. Outside of that niche? Maybe not so much...
Oh. And Dean likely didn't "invent" the pump, no more than he "invented" the Segway. (The insulin pump is all his, though.) What Dean truly excels at is putting a bunch of relatively inexpensive engineers in a big mill building, and then promoting himself on what they produce.
Personally, when I found that Linux didn't do what I wanted, I learned how to *make* it do it. This held true when automounting didn't use SunOS mappings, and when there were no office-suite-like applications. Does this make me a dork for wanting to use my favorite OS? I guess that's a matter of perspective. But I certainly didn't sit there, *in the employ of a Linux magazine*, and say "Sorry, folks: Linux will never be able be able to measure up -- might as well throw in the towel." Again: each has strengths, each has weaknesses. But when you're supposed to be showing people how best to make use of their favorite operating system -- indeed, most likely the entire reason they're buying your magazine -- you don't put it down because one of *your* favorite apps doesn't have a Linux version. That's just silly and egocentrical.
He's always been an apologist for Windows -- even right during his tenure writing for Linux Magazine. This isn't to say that Linux doesn't have its shortcomings, nor Windows its strengths: they both do. But, dammit: when you're writing for a Linux magazine, you eat the dogfood, you don't find reasons to prophesize that Linux will never be a contender. Which he did. Repeatedly.
In a nutshell: I can't be bothered to listen to his drivel. I called him on his antics, both in forums, and directly via e-mail, and he never dignified me with a response. I certainly needn't dignify his verbal ramblings with time wasted on my side.
It's not that the institutions are (significantly) different than they used to be, but, rather, that people are more cynical. Hell -- go back to the 20's, to any manufacturing or mining town -- you could believe in those companies, because you *knew* they didn't give a damn as to whether you lived or died.
It almost seems to me that it's the other way around; now that we can afford to become somewhat complacent, now that we have time on our hands and a means for easy bi-directional communication, many have decided that "things suck." Additionally, I have to lay some of the blame on the hard-core right-wing media: to many of them, stuff *always* sucks. Government is, by definition, bad. Teachers are out to brainwash your children. Etc. (Granted that several of these themes have been held by the hard-core liberals over the years, but not since, or prior to, the 60's did they really give voice to it.)
The bottom line, I suppose, is that more media makes us more cynical.
While I hate to resort to tit-for-tat tactics, the obvious answer here is to spam all the founders' accounts.
Because, quite simply, that's 100% undiluted B.S.
There *is* a stock IPSec (Cisco) client for Android, though it lacks a lot of functionality. Ice Cream Sandwich release addresses those failings. As for connecting to a non-Cisco IPSec device, well, that's a different kettle of fish of another color, if you will.
I kind of feel like I'm cheating when I read stuff compiled/edited/tweaked by Christopher. I hold no opinion for or against him, but, darn it, I read Tolkien to read *JRR* Tolkien. Though there is plenty of other actual JRR stuff -- but let's face it, while he was a fun writer, his pinnacle was Hobbit/LoTR. And that's what I dig into.
For the Hell of it, let's look at the beginning of the true changes -- Bree. Bree was supposed to be viewed as a welcoming community where "big people" and "little people" got along together, with comfort and self respect. Three significant things happened there: we were introduced to Bill/Bill Ferny, the Nazgul struck, and we met Strider.
The movie? Bree is a place full of mean-spirited big people; Butterbur is surly; Strider not only doesn't have his birthright sword, but now can't even be identified by Gandalf's letter. Lots was modified to suit Jackson's whims. And that was the merest beginning of things altered.
Now, see, for most books, honestly, I don't care all that much, so long as the general feel of the book remains. There are even some where I feel the movie version was significantly superior to the book, itself -- Thank You for Smoking is a perfect example. But Tolkien spent *years* trying to get everything right in LoTR; I admire and respect that, and clearly, many others do, as well, else he wouldn't be considered the father of modern-day fantasy. Who is Jackson to alter -- not just abridge -- his story?
I'm sorry. I tried. I really did. I *wanted* to like the LoTR movies -- and I certainly didn't expect them to keep everything that was in the books -- I mean, we're talking 1500+ pages! But *changing* storyline, that, I had issues with. Complete timelines, and storylines, were altered, for no effect that I could see. As someone who reads LoTR every 18 months or so, it was Just Wrong to see a series crafted as carefully as Tolkien did, twisted to meet whatever it was that Jackson was attempting to do. So. Don't. Care.
And, well, I'll be (pleasantly!) surprised if I don't wind up feeling much the same about The Hobbit.
*sigh*
Bees don't keep the hive warm. Bees keep the *cluster* warm. At the center, it's near the temps you describe (which is where the queen hangs out); the fringes are considerably colder. The hive, itself, is probably several degrees above ambient, but it sure the hell ain't in the 80's. So, yeah, I completely disagree. ;-) If their metabolism were anything like it is in the summer, they would live the six-odd weeks that is the usual lifetime for a worker. As it is, wintering bees can see close to six months. And your bigger problem than sending out foragers (quick way to stop that: put in a screen) would be to clean the hive. Bees are pretty darn tidy creatures. But only when they can get *rid* of waste material. Lowered metabolism means not much waste during the wintering; a complete metabolism for four months of hive confinement would be a no good way to have things work; expect to see dysentery (yes, bees can get it) or worse in such circumstances.