Strict policies on outgoing traffic for untrusted networks is essential.
I would suggest a default policy of something like www, ssh, msn/aim im, p2p programs (possibly, depending on the uni's rules and regulations).
Providing you have a mechanism for giving the students access to other ports when necessary, then there should be no problem enforcing a strict egress policy.
No... no it doesn't. Just as people calling crackers hackers, it only annoys the people who are anal enough to stick to the specific terms. It doesn't make any difference though.
Its clear from this article that the majority of OSS people are going to be childish about it.
The person that can give infinite patience and chances is a very strong person indeed.
Maybe... just maybe... listen to what they have to say, and provide *constructive* criticism.
I think the keyword here is "interoperability". That is all that is needed to be asked for. Without it (I believe), Microsoft will get left behind.
I'm thinking the main areas here are:
@ Office file formats. @ Windows Media Player format. @ SMB format and protocol. @ DirectX (eek!).
I think the core problem here is that Microsoft seems to be too money-oriented. It works - very well. But inevitably, someone will come along who cares about the end user (OSS community, Google,...) and will "win"
So how about people that aren't in planet USA? In Britain, its 999 (and many people don't know 911). In Australia, its 000. In Europe, its 112 (and many people can't speak 911). Shouldn't this bill provide for all of these "international" emergency services numbers?
you can't take a quote, edit it to death to remove the point of the sentence, and then call it hype. "consumer" was the key freakin point in that sentence and you just said "haha no. I shall rewrite this to mean something else and then call them liars!"
Of course not. Works with current CVS (and I suspect the latest release). There is no soundtrack (or/sounds/ directory), so it will complain about no sound.
Otherwise it works perfectly in Wine with no modification (and graphics jacked to full:-))
Point 1: - If we start GDM sooner, we don't have to start rhgb. starting 2 X servers at boot up doesn't play nice with some hardware and rhgb doesn't really offer much anyway.
rhgb is *very slow* (IIRC, it loads up X and then rhgb on top, which is a little wasteful when it gets killed before gdm runs). Swapping this for gdm will probably shave off in the region of 5 seconds of boot time.
Point 2: - If we start GDM sooner, the user can type in his or her username and password sooner (as long as we don't actually process the information until the system is in a usable state).
Lots of users will take at least 1-2 seconds to type in their username/password. Thats another extra 1-2 seconds for the startup scripts to finish their jobs.
Another point to note: This will actually increase speed, as gdm/gnome will be competing for cpu time with other processes. As more processes are loading in parallel, it takes advantage of process idle time waiting on disk read etc.
In other words, it makes perfect sense...
And is what Ubuntu have done and are trying to better. This is just one stage in a large process of useful boot optimisations.
The problem is, if MS make an awesome browser that works faster and more reliable than any other browser, and distributes it with MS Windows, they're back in trouble with the unfair lockout of other programs.
With a shite browser, at least they can say "well, we give this below-standard one as a basic package, and allow the user to download better browsers if they feel necessary". This could potentially make the courts ignore the fact that its pre-installed.
I know what you are saying, and I think you are right. However, there is a simple solution for this whole set of problem. Make it remember options. If you click the "+", twice or more for example, then it defaults to auto-expanded. Of course, it does give rise to the argument "who would put it back into simple mode before they save it again". I suspect no-one.
It could be an idea to have, on gnome's first boot, a quick configuration box which has basic options to enable "simple" mode for the average Joes and "advanced" mode for the slashdot-esque crowd.
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The idea is simple: Egress filtering.
Strict policies on outgoing traffic for untrusted networks is essential.
I would suggest a default policy of something like www, ssh, msn/aim im, p2p programs (possibly, depending on the uni's rules and regulations).
Providing you have a mechanism for giving the students access to other ports when necessary, then there should be no problem enforcing a strict egress policy.
No. You see your great great grandma in a picture and shudder with the knowledge that someday, you *will inevitably* go back in time and do her.
but it makes a big difference.
No... no it doesn't. Just as people calling crackers hackers, it only annoys the people who are anal enough to stick to the specific terms. It doesn't make any difference though.
Slashdot: Olds for Nerds, stuff that mattered.
Free Hookers.
Free as in speech, or free as in beer?
Its clear from this article that the majority of OSS people are going to be childish about it.
...) and will "win"
The person that can give infinite patience and chances is a very strong person indeed.
Maybe... just maybe... listen to what they have to say, and provide *constructive* criticism.
I think the keyword here is "interoperability". That is all that is needed to be asked for. Without it (I believe), Microsoft will get left behind.
I'm thinking the main areas here are:
@ Office file formats.
@ Windows Media Player format.
@ SMB format and protocol.
@ DirectX (eek!).
I think the core problem here is that Microsoft seems to be too money-oriented. It works - very well. But inevitably, someone will come along who cares about the end user (OSS community, Google,
Yeah, but when the universe is of infinite length, width, depth and time, everything seems nearby.
Wait, is this Mac OSX Tiger or TigerDirect? I'm confused...
Another good reason to use OGG... *ducks*
Yeah, you can just imagine a user going...
"Right, whats that company called.. Tiger... Tiger something."
[cue user whipping out their trusty google webpage]
"Ahh thats it, Apple Tiger."
[user buys Mac OS Tiger instead of buying a new hard drive for their PC]
In other words: Fucking morons. Ah shit, can't say morons, its been copyrighted... Fucking dick'eds.
http://web.archive.org/web/19971221012817/http://s lashdot.org/
;)
Well, it renders better in firefox
So how about people that aren't in planet USA? In Britain, its 999 (and many people don't know 911). In Australia, its 000. In Europe, its 112 (and many people can't speak 911). Shouldn't this bill provide for all of these "international" emergency services numbers?
Screenshot here: http://webstandards.org/act/acid2/reference.html
you can't take a quote, edit it to death to remove the point of the sentence, and then call it hype. "consumer" was the key freakin point in that sentence and you just said "haha no. I shall rewrite this to mean something else and then call them liars!"
Its called Journalism.
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Of course not. Works with current CVS (and I suspect the latest release). There is no soundtrack (or /sounds/ directory), so it will complain about no sound.
:-))
Otherwise it works perfectly in Wine with no modification (and graphics jacked to full
Point 1:
- If we start GDM sooner, we don't have to start rhgb. starting 2 X
servers at boot up doesn't play nice with some hardware and rhgb doesn't
really offer much anyway.
rhgb is *very slow* (IIRC, it loads up X and then rhgb on top, which is a little wasteful when it gets killed before gdm runs). Swapping this for gdm will probably shave off in the region of 5 seconds of boot time.
Point 2:
- If we start GDM sooner, the user can type in his or her username and
password sooner (as long as we don't actually process the information
until the system is in a usable state).
Lots of users will take at least 1-2 seconds to type in their username/password. Thats another extra 1-2 seconds for the startup scripts to finish their jobs.
Another point to note: This will actually increase speed, as gdm/gnome will be competing for cpu time with other processes. As more processes are loading in parallel, it takes advantage of process idle time waiting on disk read etc.
In other words, it makes perfect sense...
And is what Ubuntu have done and are trying to better. This is just one stage in a large process of useful boot optimisations.
While the game is currently win32 only,
:)
It also works under WINE, it seems
The problem is, if MS make an awesome browser that works faster and more reliable than any other browser, and distributes it with MS Windows, they're back in trouble with the unfair lockout of other programs.
With a shite browser, at least they can say "well, we give this below-standard one as a basic package, and allow the user to download better browsers if they feel necessary". This could potentially make the courts ignore the fact that its pre-installed.
Calm down dear, its only a slashdot article.
I know what you are saying, and I think you are right. However, there is a simple solution for this whole set of problem. Make it remember options. If you click the "+", twice or more for example, then it defaults to auto-expanded. Of course, it does give rise to the argument "who would put it back into simple mode before they save it again". I suspect no-one.
It could be an idea to have, on gnome's first boot, a quick configuration box which has basic options to enable "simple" mode for the average Joes and "advanced" mode for the slashdot-esque crowd.
I bet you still say you're a 14 year old bum living in your mothers basement with only $3.42 pocket money a week, you tax evasionist you!
Any setuid program that uses GTK2 as its toolkit will exhibit the same behaviour also - It will not run. See http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
Also, IIRC (and FWIW), if you run Windows as a normal user, Windows won't allow you to run a program as Administrator, unless you supply credentials.
Whats the bets on the text...
"goatse rulesszz!!11!1111oneone"
"first post"
"windaz sux long live GreekOS"
Hehe, I can see it now:
Monday: Very Cold.
Tuesday: Very Cold.
Wednesday: Very Cold.
Thursday: Very Cold.
Friday: Get your shorts out!... Nah, only kidding. Very Cold.