That's what worries me about MS "software assurance". What happens if people sign on with this licencing crap, and then MS Office doesn't support their OS anymore (98, ME, 2k). Then they're obligated to either flush the money down the toilet, or upgrade their OS (possibly requireing new hardware also).
Actually (as said above) you'll get a "shared files" error. Generally you'll just need to do a listing of interesting directories, and insert a deltree for each of them in autoexec.bat - provided that you put "echo off" and "echo updating files..." in there too. Also has the advantage that ther person probably won't associate problems with what you did to their computer at that time, but instead will think something happened during reboot. Much more fun to randomly use recover.exe (if on the system) if you ask me...
How about this: Why not put PuTTY on the machine in question since ftp is open, and download it onto whatever windows PC you're using? I'd think that would be safer than allowing telnet on your home pc.
If you're into it to save yourself money, it's probably not worth it. If you want some custom parts then it's definatly the way to go (especially for an AMD system).
One thing I'd point out is to get a good case... I got myself a pretty cool one from colorcases. One thing I don't like about pre-built computers is that they're a severe pain in the ass to work on. And don't skimp on the power supply either.
For those who aren't in control of the root domain, and still want to exclude portions of their site, you can (try to) use meta-tags. No guarantees if a spider will honor it.
I'm assuming this comes with KDE3. Has anyone messed with installing the liquid theme on FreeBSD? I recall I gave it a half hearted attempt one day but something didn't work, and I got sidetracked and never bothered again.
And looking at the changelog I see they updated ls. How many decades has this been around and we're still messing with ls? The change seems to be rather handy though...
I think what he means is that since he can choose his path, that he should give something a try that he always wanted to do, but probably hasn't. It's easy to say when you have a job, but it would probably be a mistake to jump on a buzzword then end up doing something that sucks.
I think he was referring to night scopes. Basically at night you can't see sh*t if it's two dark, and you can't shoot (as a sniper) with night vision goggles either. The scope actually turns on when you put your eye to the peice and allows functions both a scope and night vision.
If IE wasn't "free" software, I doubt anyone would use it either. Windows is hundreds of times more popular than it should be because it came with the computer. What's your point? You can't compete with Microsoft just because you have a superior product. THAT has been shown time and time again as MS strangles any competition. It's the onfortunate reality that you just can't compete with Microsoft. Every time I hear someone state "Well at least Microsoft can't kill Linux, because it's free" I sort of wonder. I mean it's sad that a legitamate buisness can't innovate and create a better product and gain marketshare. I buy what I think is worth the money. If they charged money for Mozilla (and that had better be pretty low considering the bugs), I would buy it. Same reason I don't use MS office - it's not worth $579. Truthfully, I don't know a single person that goes out and just buys software (exempting games).
And free works the other way too with open source. Mozilla has people who work on the code for free. Mozilla has thousands of beta testers using their software to improve it for free. Every time I report a bug, I basically do it for free. In return, they give me a better product (well in theory anyway).
If he was at a text prompt, I can understand. My mom reacted EXACTLY the same way when she saw me compiling the kernel. People truly are afraid of the old style computer CLI. It doesn't matter if they have to click a zillion buttions checkboxes and menus to do somethin trivial, and even if it doesn't always work - all they know is that a GUI is good. Then one day my mom walked in and saw me at a text prompt and said: "how can you use that stuff instead of Microsoft". I replied, this is Microsoft... [alt+enter] - tadah, it was a DOS prompt and MS was underneath. She never said anything about it again after that.
You know the only thing Macrovision does is prevent you from hooking up your DVD player through your VCR
As one of the 4 people who probably does this, I will say that I hate macrovision. I still need my VCR to watch some things, and basically I just tossed my TV remote in a drawer - one less remote is a good thing. Not to meantion I do have a rather good, yet old TV and I need the VCR as a go-between to put the sound through my stereo. It took me about a month to figure out that it wasn't that my PS2 couldn't play DVDs, it was f*ing macrovision. After I figured that out,I didn't buy another DVD (only had 2 anyway at that point). No big deal to me. Les s profits for them, less wasted time for me. I do however still buy anime on DVD though, as only about 1 in 5 are protected by macrovision.
Another good reason to make/home a different partition and mount it with noexec. Of course if you unpack something for doing an install, you'd probably unpack it in a directory that allows execution i guess.
alias nsl='netstat -alnp --protocol=inet|cut -c-6,21-94|tail +2|grep -v ESTABLISHED|grep -v CLOSE_WAIT'
You know, if I typed something like all that in front of my boss (not a tech literate guy) and actually got a result, he'd probably give me a raise. If you use redhat you might try:
Are you sure? Every redhat box I've set up seems to end up with stuff like NFS and network printing setup by default. I think you have to select "maximum security" option in the firewalling before anything is really firewalled off. One thing I wish redhat would do by default is put ALL:ALL in hosts.deny - at least jack up the security a bit by default and make people sift through a few things to enable services.
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I think what the **AAs would really be afraid of is people discovering that their public library has tons of good books that are free for you to read.
Actually it's been shown that people that win the lotter are usually less happy. Everyone who ever knew the person starts harassing them for money. So yeah, there'd be other shit to bitch about.
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Yeah, like this country as a whole would ever agree to that.
Actually the murder rate increased 1400% in a two year period in ND (from 1 to 14). Unfortunatly I can't recall the actual years.
That's what worries me about MS "software assurance". What happens if people sign on with this licencing crap, and then MS Office doesn't support their OS anymore (98, ME, 2k). Then they're obligated to either flush the money down the toilet, or upgrade their OS (possibly requireing new hardware also).
As long as fdisk is included on the windows cd, there's always hope :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but TeraTerm doesn't do full screen does it? I don't know since I haven't used it in a few years.
Actually (as said above) you'll get a "shared files" error. Generally you'll just need to do a listing of interesting directories, and insert a deltree for each of them in autoexec.bat - provided that you put "echo off" and "echo updating files ..." in there too. Also has the advantage that ther person probably won't associate problems with what you did to their computer at that time, but instead will think something happened during reboot. Much more fun to randomly use recover.exe (if on the system) if you ask me...
How about this: Why not put PuTTY on the machine in question since ftp is open, and download it onto whatever windows PC you're using? I'd think that would be safer than allowing telnet on your home pc.
If you're into it to save yourself money, it's probably not worth it. If you want some custom parts then it's definatly the way to go (especially for an AMD system).
One thing I'd point out is to get a good case... I got myself a pretty cool one from colorcases. One thing I don't like about pre-built computers is that they're a severe pain in the ass to work on. And don't skimp on the power supply either.
The only thing I would like MS to add to Word is vi emulation.
With the paperclip in Word, that's getting way to close to Vigor for comfort....
For those who aren't in control of the root domain, and still want to exclude portions of their site, you can (try to) use meta-tags. No guarantees if a spider will honor it.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
I'm assuming this comes with KDE3. Has anyone messed with installing the liquid theme on FreeBSD? I recall I gave it a half hearted attempt one day but something didn't work, and I got sidetracked and never bothered again.
And looking at the changelog I see they updated ls. How many decades has this been around and we're still messing with ls? The change seems to be rather handy though...
one word... Cobal (wide margin for tolerable there though)
I think what he means is that since he can choose his path, that he should give something a try that he always wanted to do, but probably hasn't. It's easy to say when you have a job, but it would probably be a mistake to jump on a buzzword then end up doing something that sucks.
I think he was referring to night scopes. Basically at night you can't see sh*t if it's two dark, and you can't shoot (as a sniper) with night vision goggles either. The scope actually turns on when you put your eye to the peice and allows functions both a scope and night vision.
If IE wasn't "free" software, I doubt anyone would use it either. Windows is hundreds of times more popular than it should be because it came with the computer. What's your point? You can't compete with Microsoft just because you have a superior product. THAT has been shown time and time again as MS strangles any competition. It's the onfortunate reality that you just can't compete with Microsoft. Every time I hear someone state "Well at least Microsoft can't kill Linux, because it's free" I sort of wonder. I mean it's sad that a legitamate buisness can't innovate and create a better product and gain marketshare. I buy what I think is worth the money. If they charged money for Mozilla (and that had better be pretty low considering the bugs), I would buy it. Same reason I don't use MS office - it's not worth $579. Truthfully, I don't know a single person that goes out and just buys software (exempting games).
And free works the other way too with open source. Mozilla has people who work on the code for free. Mozilla has thousands of beta testers using their software to improve it for free. Every time I report a bug, I basically do it for free. In return, they give me a better product (well in theory anyway).
If he was at a text prompt, I can understand. My mom reacted EXACTLY the same way when she saw me compiling the kernel. People truly are afraid of the old style computer CLI. It doesn't matter if they have to click a zillion buttions checkboxes and menus to do somethin trivial, and even if it doesn't always work - all they know is that a GUI is good. Then one day my mom walked in and saw me at a text prompt and said: "how can you use that stuff instead of Microsoft". I replied, this is Microsoft... [alt+enter] - tadah, it was a DOS prompt and MS was underneath. She never said anything about it again after that.
you'd be surprised.
You know the only thing Macrovision does is prevent you from hooking up your DVD player through your VCR
,I didn't buy another DVD (only had 2 anyway at that point). No big deal to me. Les s profits for them, less wasted time for me. I do however still buy anime on DVD though, as only about 1 in 5 are protected by macrovision.
As one of the 4 people who probably does this, I will say that I hate macrovision. I still need my VCR to watch some things, and basically I just tossed my TV remote in a drawer - one less remote is a good thing. Not to meantion I do have a rather good, yet old TV and I need the VCR as a go-between to put the sound through my stereo. It took me about a month to figure out that it wasn't that my PS2 couldn't play DVDs, it was f*ing macrovision. After I figured that out
does the Mozilla bug (well X bug actually) still work if you use pam limits on memory? I'm not to familiar with X.
Too bad Sony doesn't release any music I want to listen to.
Another good reason to make /home a different partition and mount it with noexec. Of course if you unpack something for doing an install, you'd probably unpack it in a directory that allows execution i guess.
alias nsl='netstat -alnp --protocol=inet|cut -c-6,21-94|tail +2|grep -v ESTABLISHED|grep -v CLOSE_WAIT'
You know, if I typed something like all that in front of my boss (not a tech literate guy) and actually got a result, he'd probably give me a raise. If you use redhat you might try:
nmap localhost
Are you sure? Every redhat box I've set up seems to end up with stuff like NFS and network printing setup by default. I think you have to select "maximum security" option in the firewalling before anything is really firewalled off. One thing I wish redhat would do by default is put ALL:ALL in hosts.deny - at least jack up the security a bit by default and make people sift through a few things to enable services.
I think what the **AAs would really be afraid of is people discovering that their public library has tons of good books that are free for you to read.
Actually it's been shown that people that win the lotter are usually less happy. Everyone who ever knew the person starts harassing them for money. So yeah, there'd be other shit to bitch about.