Run linux?... well not really, but the neuros does and HiSi for the neuros is free and allows you to record a 30 second clip (line-in/built in mic/FM radio) and then on synchronizing it goes out to the web and analyzes each recording and gives a result. As with any audio-fingerprinting it is innacurate, but i would imagine less innacurate than a 24khz+ cellphone connection.
As I understand the law of conservation of energy only stipulates that the net energy must-not change after going through a process/transfer. Whatever energies were transferred to Ferrus material to magnetize it is slowly getting transfered away to the rotor by magnetizing it and slowly becoming less magnetically powerful.
I suppose if you were to utilize this same idea and take two perfectly balanced magnets and stand one above the other and somehow harness the kinetic force attempting to seperate the two you would have the same effect. Not perpetual motion, or even a violation of the law of conservation of energy, just another kind of battery, slowly disipating it's electric field.
Then again, IANAP but I do remember some of my classes.
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Dual Processor Xeon Server system w/2gigs of ram: $4000 Single Professional License for Vmware from ebay: $200~ The ability to milk a spammer for 30 bucks an hour: priceless.
Well, what this thread has basically told me is that Linux won't be ready for joe-sixpack anytime soon so I'll be whiping out my Fedora Partition and going back to Debian for apt alone... again.
When a very linux biased review doesn't do a good job of convincing a linux user that the linux method of application distribution isn't a crock there's something wrong.
I'm not just piping in on this topic, I have had to deal with dependency BS just like the rest of anyone who hasn't had some obscure perl module.
You are also required to download other programs/packages to make your program work.
Thank microsoft's installapp creator (visual studio) for alleviating this problem on the Win32 side of things. Linux is left to flounder without, since there's no real way to baseline the needed dependencies and install them with the application across multiple Distros/versions easily.
Automation is what makes computers useful, big round buttons make them usable by the avg.
This is a good idea behaviorally anyways... but if these intersections have the same "advances" infra-red sensors (I would bet) that were put in place not too long ago for "safety" reasons it will just be another thing people will abuse.
If you think the average joe will slow down, a sadist will speed up and just run the red, especially since the consequences are only effective if the person cares enough to break one law, but to follow another without repricussions. I dunno about you, but when I'm driving in the bay area there are sure as hell a lot of sadistic drivers. And this is *REALLY* gonna curb the street racing groups who care a whole lot about traffic laws to begin with.
That, and will it change anything if the same guy who's speeding has an IR remote to change the signal back? Good god no more messing with these systems. PLEASE GOD NO INPUT DEVICES in public systems like this AT ALL.
Heh, and an easy "undocumented feature" you can use to run win2k terminal server in application mode is to reinstall the server every 90 days as this is the length of time allowed before a connection must be licensed.
Also as an aside you can install win2k(any sp)/xp(pre sp1) and upon connection to a win2k terminal server in application mode you are given a CAL (client access license for those uninformed) that doesn't require a purchased license.
For "quick" access to a windows workstation from anywhere you could always use NT-Telnet services (authenticated via NTLM.) Or setup a cryptcat exported shell. Unless you're afraid of NT(X) bastardization of dos in which case VNC in (2k) or RDP (in XP) works well. Since your XP install is going to be headless, I'd say using RDP on the workstation and rdesktop on whatever platform you're connecting from would work fine, along with a nifty vbs(or bat, or shell scripts if are that kinda person.)
Still, if you want to provide access to a XP style desktop for a wider userbase I'd say install terminal services, and if you don't have the rackspace, but have the cycles/ram you can run VMware GSX. That would basically be emulating an XP desktop for each virtual instance you needed. If the use is small enough you could even run an instance of vmware on your desktop for the same results.
[quoteblock]It hasn't even been launched yet, it's in beta. I'd imagine the people in this beta have signed some kind of agreement where they say they cannot do anything if they are adversly affected by Gmail, so what's the problem? Of course it's a different matter when it's launched to the public.[/quoteblock]
Or more like they signed an agreement that made sure they agreed to complete and total lack of anonymity and privacy.
If your main vendor is HP you can now purchase with linux OEM installed. Bye bye, M$ tax.
We have purchased software packages and been recommended linux as our platform for these packages. Utility is the key here, the fastest way we were able to shoehorn linux was with our IPcop setup. (Yeah, yeah... flame them, but they were IPtables before smoothwall.) It was a fast way of implimenting packetfiltering/IDS (since our ISP controls our edge.)
Linux beats windows on the customized APPs hands down, on top of which qmail laughs at exchange really hard when it comes to message processing and queue handling. In fact I often try and wonder what it would be like having to deal with a mail virus on an exchange server... and then I wake up from my nightmare.
A SMB server running with Winbindd (nt4 style auth) has given us insane reliability for file services. We would not have been able to get it in if it hadn't been configured by default with the NT tie-ins by VA-Linux (on purchase) after having it running and living in it for a while it was cake to roll to RH8/9 and set it up from scratch. The idea being the quick+cheapest solutions are the best in the PHB mind.
3 years ago it was nt4/novell in our rack. Now our targetted custom apps running on RH/trustix boxen are king. Keeping up on the latest linux distros and possible replacement systems for your environment is the key. Don't try and shove it down the PHB throat, make it seem like a pill easily swallowed. And unless you're patient this will never happen due to all the prejudice.
I must agree... I cheated however, and purchased the developer model because I just *had* to have it as soon as it was available. Once I slotted in my 256mb SD card and 512mb flash the thing proved it's worth many times over. I used to hang out on the #zaurus channel an awful lot until I basically had the hang of it. In conjunction with the serial adapter + minicom it's a quick console into most of my gear, my Intel (aka symbol) lowpower Wifi allows me great flexibility while waiting for my cofee at the local hotspots and I'm thoroughly impressed with my CF modem while in those horrible 56k only spots.
Blah blah not a plug etc. The reason I am so stuck on it, is because (in part) with a bit of practice one can reflash on the fly betwixt firmwares in notime using only a CF card and a few shell scripts.
PS. for those with laptops the CF cards are dual use, with a nice 15$ CF to PCMCIA adapter.
I would say a town WITH streets without cars would be over-run by street vendors, performers and the plethora of those who now just maul you on the sidewalk.
Bikes won't work until the following industries stop making money to "donate": Banking & Credit/Oil/Automotive/Steel/Rubber/Insurance and of course the Recording Industry, since they'd lose money on this somehow for sure.
Number one: The easiest step towards securing your network is removing Outlook (Express, 2000, XP etc etc etc) Outlook is the number one target of viruses and the biggest headache ever.
Number two: Access may be a good tool for personal usage but in my opinion it is the shittiest piece of hacked ass software ever. It's ubiquity has led to a mass of shitty databases with crappy little frontends prone to corruption and horrific DB management. Forcing direct client to SQL connections IMO is a good idea, less chance for some of that data horded in the Access frontend being sucked off a hapless user workstation and having the thousand or so customers info cached locally released on the web.
Now, with that said my work uses a groupware package like Outlook+exchange that is faar less prone to attacks, with a good attachment blocking spam filter at our head end, we see basically 0 mail infections. (That and we remove outlook express/outlook from our automated installations so the users aren't happily installing and popping their personal mail either.)
Number Three: The only other valid issue mentioned is the Word compatibility. This is really only an issue with the newest version of Office/Word, and I tend to save everything in PDF if it's leaving my hands anyways. With the trend of businesses holding off on office upgrades I see this issue nearly being void, nearly...
The only concern the adoption of OO has is that newer systems will come solely with 2003 and the DRM bullshit. And the only way to fight it is to back HP 100% and start getting FLOSS pushed onto more vendors. Eventually OO will get pushed on EVERYTHING new as the default option. Ubiquity for free beats ubiquity for $$$ any day.
had half a brain, they would use a list like the following and point out real flaws:
1. Formatting of MSWord Docs can get hosed easily. 2. OO does not use the full printing capabilities which means in order to colate print a packet I want to give out I have to export to PDF open in acrobat then print and get full printer support. 3. Excel doesn't have exactly the same featureset 4. No access like DB engine. 5. Long load times.
Yeah yeah, there's tons of stuff GOOD about OO or I wouldn't use it instead of MSoffice. But the above are the only real valid points MS should be making. Currently they're attempting to make the correlation between FLOSS and the ever popular media whores the virus writing hackers. As Open software makes its way more and more into educational establishments and MS continues to lose it's stranglehold on it's Office suite expect to see more of these underhanded tactics. *cough* SCO *cough*
and It can go in my filing cabinet right between my lifetime to Tivo and lifetime to Kali. Then again, they were both reasonably priced, $999 is a bit steep for a name.
this was only posted because of the author, not because of the content. Perhaps a bit like Katz HMMM? Now, if ever there was a need for being behind a restrictive content filter, it would be to add the two words "John Markoff" to the prostitution category.
I much prefer Cat5/e for Phone systems because if ever a critter nibbles on a cat5 they got a ways further to chew through, and you've got 4 pair instead of just 2-3. The Coaxial idea many have mentioned seems sound, I would also make sure they all terminate wherever you have room for a coax-amp/head end. I guess Ideally just create an environment just like a professional cabler would. Label everything on any endpoint, and keep everything standard, if you are trying to decide on the fiber/copper debacle I would say Fibre is much too expensive to screw around with, and probably not necessary (unless your head end isn't going to be the area you're running your server room from, and in that case a single strand to your server room *might* make sense.) I'm not sure what the cheapest gear you could get for fibre would be, I'm sure 3com sells something resonably affordable (1200-2400 dollar range for a decent 10/100/1000)
Still unless there were some extenuating circumstances I wouldn't see any need for much more than a gig in the near future, but then again as long as the conduit is there, you can always retrofit.
This is no first step, it's the begining of the end of many steps Intel has taken forth with it's centrino *line.* The only remaining piece was the WLAN component they have already facilitated the release of the speed stepping and other integrated components.
Wintel isn't ALWAYS the badguy.
NOW, I can say THANK GOODNESS no more lockups in Fedora from DriverLoader BS, now my only question is how will they allow Linux users to flash their firmware when the manufacturers don't provide floppy drives on most of the Centrino lines.
I've noticed some of the most adept people often have a difficult time expressing themselves, and sometimes start off sentences just as this fellow has. HEY LOOK AT ME I'M SO SMART I HAVE NO INTERNAL DIALOG.
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Run linux?... well not really, but the neuros does and HiSi for the neuros is free and allows you to record a 30 second clip (line-in/built in mic/FM radio) and then on synchronizing it goes out to the web and analyzes each recording and gives a result. As with any audio-fingerprinting it is innacurate, but i would imagine less innacurate than a 24khz+ cellphone connection.
As I understand the law of conservation of energy only stipulates that the net energy must-not change after going through a process/transfer. Whatever energies were transferred to Ferrus material to magnetize it is slowly getting transfered away to the rotor by magnetizing it and slowly becoming less magnetically powerful.
I suppose if you were to utilize this same idea and take two perfectly balanced magnets and stand one above the other and somehow harness the kinetic force attempting to seperate the two you would have the same effect. Not perpetual motion, or even a violation of the law of conservation of energy, just another kind of battery, slowly disipating it's electric field.
Then again, IANAP but I do remember some of my classes.
Dual Processor Xeon Server system w/2gigs of ram: $4000
Single Professional License for Vmware from ebay: $200~
The ability to milk a spammer for 30 bucks an hour: priceless.
Well, what this thread has basically told me is that Linux won't be ready for joe-sixpack anytime soon so I'll be whiping out my Fedora Partition and going back to Debian for apt alone... again.
I'm not just piping in on this topic, I have had to deal with dependency BS just like the rest of anyone who hasn't had some obscure perl module.
Thank microsoft's installapp creator (visual studio) for alleviating this problem on the Win32 side of things. Linux is left to flounder without, since there's no real way to baseline the needed dependencies and install them with the application across multiple Distros/versions easily.
Automation is what makes computers useful, big round buttons make them usable by the avg.
This is a good idea behaviorally anyways... but if these intersections have the same "advances" infra-red sensors (I would bet) that were put in place not too long ago for "safety" reasons it will just be another thing people will abuse.
If you think the average joe will slow down, a sadist will speed up and just run the red, especially since the consequences are only effective if the person cares enough to break one law, but to follow another without repricussions. I dunno about you, but when I'm driving in the bay area there are sure as hell a lot of sadistic drivers. And this is *REALLY* gonna curb the street racing groups who care a whole lot about traffic laws to begin with.
That, and will it change anything if the same guy who's speeding has an IR remote to change the signal back? Good god no more messing with these systems. PLEASE GOD NO INPUT DEVICES in public systems like this AT ALL.
Heh, and an easy "undocumented feature" you can use to run win2k terminal server in application mode is to reinstall the server every 90 days as this is the length of time allowed before a connection must be licensed.
Also as an aside you can install win2k(any sp)/xp(pre sp1) and upon connection to a win2k terminal server in application mode you are given a CAL (client access license for those uninformed) that doesn't require a purchased license.
For "quick" access to a windows workstation from anywhere you could always use NT-Telnet services (authenticated via NTLM.) Or setup a cryptcat exported shell. Unless you're afraid of NT(X) bastardization of dos in which case VNC in (2k) or RDP (in XP) works well. Since your XP install is going to be headless, I'd say using RDP on the workstation and rdesktop on whatever platform you're connecting from would work fine, along with a nifty vbs(or bat, or shell scripts if are that kinda person.)
Still, if you want to provide access to a XP style desktop for a wider userbase I'd say install terminal services, and if you don't have the rackspace, but have the cycles/ram you can run VMware GSX. That would basically be emulating an XP desktop for each virtual instance you needed. If the use is small enough you could even run an instance of vmware on your desktop for the same results.
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[quoteblock]It hasn't even been launched yet, it's in beta. I'd imagine the people in this beta have signed some kind of agreement where they say they cannot do anything if they are adversly affected by Gmail, so what's the problem? Of course it's a different matter when it's launched to the public.[/quoteblock]
Or more like they signed an agreement that made sure they agreed to complete and total lack of anonymity and privacy.
Damn I saw this the other day, now it's prolly slashdotted for the downloads. Teaches me to wait.
If your main vendor is HP you can now purchase with linux OEM installed. Bye bye, M$ tax.
We have purchased software packages and been recommended linux as our platform for these packages. Utility is the key here, the fastest way we were able to shoehorn linux was with our IPcop setup. (Yeah, yeah... flame them, but they were IPtables before smoothwall.) It was a fast way of implimenting packetfiltering/IDS (since our ISP controls our edge.)
Linux beats windows on the customized APPs hands down, on top of which qmail laughs at exchange really hard when it comes to message processing and queue handling. In fact I often try and wonder what it would be like having to deal with a mail virus on an exchange server... and then I wake up from my nightmare.
A SMB server running with Winbindd (nt4 style auth) has given us insane reliability for file services. We would not have been able to get it in if it hadn't been configured by default with the NT tie-ins by VA-Linux (on purchase) after having it running and living in it for a while it was cake to roll to RH8/9 and set it up from scratch. The idea being the quick+cheapest solutions are the best in the PHB mind.
3 years ago it was nt4/novell in our rack. Now our targetted custom apps running on RH/trustix boxen are king. Keeping up on the latest linux distros and possible replacement systems for your environment is the key. Don't try and shove it down the PHB throat, make it seem like a pill easily swallowed. And unless you're patient this will never happen due to all the prejudice.
It doesn't, and if the media distribution is cheap enough it's not that hard to loopback locally.
as Metal gear solid gets text to speech demo?
Steven Hawking eat your heart out.
I must agree... I cheated however, and purchased the developer model because I just *had* to have it as soon as it was available. Once I slotted in my 256mb SD card and 512mb flash the thing proved it's worth many times over. I used to hang out on the #zaurus channel an awful lot until I basically had the hang of it. In conjunction with the serial adapter + minicom it's a quick console into most of my gear, my Intel (aka symbol) lowpower Wifi allows me great flexibility while waiting for my cofee at the local hotspots and I'm thoroughly impressed with my CF modem while in those horrible 56k only spots.
Blah blah not a plug etc. The reason I am so stuck on it, is because (in part) with a bit of practice one can reflash on the fly betwixt firmwares in notime using only a CF card and a few shell scripts.
PS. for those with laptops the CF cards are dual use, with a nice 15$ CF to PCMCIA adapter.
I would say a town WITH streets without cars would be over-run by street vendors, performers and the plethora of those who now just maul you on the sidewalk.
Bikes won't work until the following industries stop making money to "donate": Banking & Credit/Oil/Automotive/Steel/Rubber/Insurance and of course the Recording Industry, since they'd lose money on this somehow for sure.
Number one:
The easiest step towards securing your network is removing Outlook (Express, 2000, XP etc etc etc) Outlook is the number one target of viruses and the biggest headache ever.
Number two:
Access may be a good tool for personal usage but in my opinion it is the shittiest piece of hacked ass software ever. It's ubiquity has led to a mass of shitty databases with crappy little frontends prone to corruption and horrific DB management. Forcing direct client to SQL connections IMO is a good idea, less chance for some of that data horded in the Access frontend being sucked off a hapless user workstation and having the thousand or so customers info cached locally released on the web.
Now, with that said my work uses a groupware package like Outlook+exchange that is faar less prone to attacks, with a good attachment blocking spam filter at our head end, we see basically 0 mail infections. (That and we remove outlook express/outlook from our automated installations so the users aren't happily installing and popping their personal mail either.)
Number Three:
The only other valid issue mentioned is the Word compatibility. This is really only an issue with the newest version of Office/Word, and I tend to save everything in PDF if it's leaving my hands anyways. With the trend of businesses holding off on office upgrades I see this issue nearly being void, nearly...
The only concern the adoption of OO has is that newer systems will come solely with 2003 and the DRM bullshit. And the only way to fight it is to back HP 100% and start getting FLOSS pushed onto more vendors. Eventually OO will get pushed on EVERYTHING new as the default option. Ubiquity for free beats ubiquity for $$$ any day.
I'm no zealot, but more power to the movement.
had half a brain, they would use a list like the following and point out real flaws:
1. Formatting of MSWord Docs can get hosed easily.
2. OO does not use the full printing capabilities which means in order to colate print a packet I want to give out I have to export to PDF open in acrobat then print and get full printer support.
3. Excel doesn't have exactly the same featureset
4. No access like DB engine.
5. Long load times.
Yeah yeah, there's tons of stuff GOOD about OO or I wouldn't use it instead of MSoffice. But the above are the only real valid points MS should be making. Currently they're attempting to make the correlation between FLOSS and the ever popular media whores the virus writing hackers. As Open software makes its way more and more into educational establishments and MS continues to lose it's stranglehold on it's Office suite expect to see more of these underhanded tactics.
*cough* SCO *cough*
and It can go in my filing cabinet right between my lifetime to Tivo and lifetime to Kali. Then again, they were both reasonably priced, $999 is a bit steep for a name.
this was only posted because of the author, not because of the content. Perhaps a bit like Katz HMMM? Now, if ever there was a need for being behind a restrictive content filter, it would be to add the two words "John Markoff" to the prostitution category.
[/tin foil hat theory]
"Ok, who's writing the documentation... I know we don't have any administrators, but we can't play not-it for everything."
The shadows tell all. FAKE, now why the hell hasn't the article description been modified?
I much prefer Cat5/e for Phone systems because if ever a critter nibbles on a cat5 they got a ways further to chew through, and you've got 4 pair instead of just 2-3. The Coaxial idea many have mentioned seems sound, I would also make sure they all terminate wherever you have room for a coax-amp/head end. I guess Ideally just create an environment just like a professional cabler would. Label everything on any endpoint, and keep everything standard, if you are trying to decide on the fiber/copper debacle I would say Fibre is much too expensive to screw around with, and probably not necessary (unless your head end isn't going to be the area you're running your server room from, and in that case a single strand to your server room *might* make sense.) I'm not sure what the cheapest gear you could get for fibre would be, I'm sure 3com sells something resonably affordable (1200-2400 dollar range for a decent 10/100/1000)
Still unless there were some extenuating circumstances I wouldn't see any need for much more than a gig in the near future, but then again as long as the conduit is there, you can always retrofit.
Obligatory reference. Also, I hereby welcome our new Mice Overlords, in Soviet Russia mouse mutates you. 42 blah blah blah.
Now, if we can hear something new for once, like how cool it would be to have super smart mice tying our shoes or something... please begin.
This is no first step, it's the begining of the end of many steps Intel has taken forth with it's centrino *line.* The only remaining piece was the WLAN component they have already facilitated the release of the speed stepping and other integrated components.
Wintel isn't ALWAYS the badguy.
NOW, I can say THANK GOODNESS no more lockups in Fedora from DriverLoader BS, now my only question is how will they allow Linux users to flash their firmware when the manufacturers don't provide floppy drives on most of the Centrino lines.