Monochrome, high-res screen (I don't need color sucking away my battery life)
Replaceable, rechargeable battery (not the kind that dies in 6 months and can't be replaced, Palm!)
8MB of memory
Unfortunately, my old hangspring visor deluxe nearly fit all of those criteria (and I'm not picky on the batteries). I can't purchase a PDA at this point because the market has decided that I need to play MP3s and watch videos on a device that I would be using for work. And all the entry-level stuff is crippled (Palm Zire 21 erases its data when it's near cell phones).
You didn't RTFA. You STFV. It was the History of Doom video that was released just a short while prior to Doom 3 being released. John Carmack said it, if I recall correctly.
The way I see it, those Russian programmers who released the SSL-evading, key-logging, bank-site-sniffing software did me a favor. I've had a much easier time converting people over to Firefox ever since that little escapade. *wink*
I'm not sure where the happy medium is between total computer intrusion and none at all
I can answer that for you: "none at all". When I connect to my campus network, what I do or get infected with affects the entire network. Therefore, they are entitled to take action, but I think that action should in all cases be reactive, just as antivirus software is reactive. Cut people off of the network if their port goes psychotic with some new virus, or if they're hogging bandwidth sharing files outside of the campus intranet.
But installing spyware on students' computers is invasive and proactive with no track record of stability. If my university were going to be installing software on people's computers, the only thing I could agree to would be Linux.;)
Unfortunately it will never prove beneficial for me, the consumer. Microsoft wants to keep people on their platform. How? Keep developers on their platform. How? Open source some nice tools. Sure, the tools are nice, but people are still designing software for a Microsoft environment. The consumer gets nice software, and loses his/her freedom and in fact steals mine. Look at.doc files and various IE-only sites: because of my school's business decision, or my friend's pre-loaded computer, they're effectively locking themselves in, and me out.
It's like the king's food taster: he gets to sample some really, really tasty food, sure, but one day he's going to end up dead. And more than likely it will come after he's become accustomed to years of tasty food. Just because Microsoft is giving out free bling doesn't mean wearing it won't chain you down.
On the other hand, I seem to recall that a major game (Tribes 2, if I recall correctly), was produced using OpenAL, so at least someone was impressed by it.;)
one 'super duper' master password...for everything and never change it
Actually, I have a "super duper" password that's an unspecified-but-very-large number of characters long, was randomly generated, includes alphanumeric and punctuation characters, and I learned by brute force memorization and repetition. I use that for root's password and GPG.
My lesser password I keep at 10 or more characters. It's got alphanumeric and punctuation characters. I change it yearly.
Oh yeah, and I have a separate BIOS password.:) I use public key encryption for password-less login over SSH. Heck, I check for keyloggers when using my college's computer labs!
So here's the punchline: I act paranoid out of principle.
Shoulder-surfing is exactly the security risk. The guys around me in my dorm are fairly competent with computers. One in particular likes to gain access to other people's computers and mess around wrecking havoc. Him having my password is a dangerous proposition.
Having password displayed in plaintext against my will is even more dangerous.
...the page where you change your password has a Javascript app that will check if your password meets the Northwestern University IT guidelines.
If it doesn't, a pretty window pops up, displaying your password along with an explanation of the error. Wonderful. A variation of my second most sensitive password suddenly popped up when I missed the shift key while typing in a symbol. So far all my complaint has gotten from IT is "We'll forward this one on to so-and-so."
Students in-the-know are generally ignored. I wouldn't bet heavily that your school will change its policies anytime soon. It probably took a boatload of work to make the switch in the first place, so more changes will probably take a lot of prodding.
While sniffing passwords sounds like a great way to get students' awareness up, that's generally an extremely bad idea. While the administration sounds like it's being incompetent, you posting sensitive information online will quickly get you slapped with legal issues.
Nah, they were going to do it in 3D. They seem to ruin their games when they go 3D. Just look at the Monkey Island series. Many of the puzzles were too easy to solve in the 4th one (hey buddy, it's not like I ever completed Riven or anything...I'm just saying).;)
Mod the parent a troll. Sure, this guy's years ahead of his time, but look at FreeBSD trolls. When the first "FreeBSD is dead" post showed up, I'm sure it was modded +5 Funny. We've got to nip these "Microsoft is dead" posts in the bud before everybody start doing it.;)
I'm really looking forward to this GnomeVFS abstraction layer while saving and opening. What I've read (without having yet compiled it for Gentoo) has already gotten me into some fun conversations with my Linux-using friends:
Allan: "Whoa, whoa, Gnome's getting _really_ smart!" Me: "No, it's getting really STUPID. It only understands opening and saving.
Gnome: "FTP? Yeah, I'm not sure what that is, but I'd sure like to save this document right now to this location. GnomeVFS: "Sure thing." *** 1337 under-cover action *** Gnome: "Oh, you can do that for me? Cool!"
Most people, I'd imagine, would want to typeset music graphically
Remember that many major books are still created using LaTeX, which, although unwieldy to some, is so ridiculously powerful that it just can't be gotten rid of.
We need each and every GPL project being distributed by SCO to do this
However, I would think that that kind of behavior, if used by too many projects, could be used as ammo for [insert usual suspects here] to defame open source software. "See?! If your business uses OSS and they decide they don't like you, they'll tell you you can't use their software anymore! They're unreliable!"
So while I approve the NMAP decision, I hesitate to encourage mass Denial of Software.
My university uses Peoplesoft as a vendor; we use them for class scheduling and managing class documents and communication. But they output some of the shoddiest HTML I've seen in a long time. It's a strange mix of HTML and CSS, and obviously hasn't been tested except on one browser. It's been published in our school's most-distributed newspaper: Use IE to avoid problems.
Our school's course management system is one of the more infuriating sites around. For instance, hitting enter in a form doesn't submit the form. Rather, it reloads the page. And blanks all of your entries. And you can't stop the reload.
I have a serious problem with Peoplesoft's products.
</rant>
I don't know or understand all of the stakes involved in the acquisition or lawsuit, but I have this to say: I can only hope that Peoplesoft cleans up its act (read: HTML output). I don't like having to use other people's computers when Firefox doesn't know how to deal the poor output.
Generally speaking, sharing files is illegal (copyrighted music, copyrighted movies, copyrighted software, etc). I think at this point, being proactive is equivalent to a thief complaining to the Better Business Bureau because the shop he steals from has put bars on the windows and security cameras in the corners of the shop.
Slashdot Mirror
Apache the server supports modules.
Apache the foundation doesn't support modules.
Mod parent down "-1 Uninformed".
Unfortunately, my old hangspring visor deluxe nearly fit all of those criteria (and I'm not picky on the batteries). I can't purchase a PDA at this point because the market has decided that I need to play MP3s and watch videos on a device that I would be using for work. And all the entry-level stuff is crippled (Palm Zire 21 erases its data when it's near cell phones).
That, and it seemed like a wonderful misspelling of STFU.
I'm hoping for a chess game of some sort.
> Really? I don't. Can you name any offhand?
Slashdot. *grin*
The way I see it, those Russian programmers who released the SSL-evading, key-logging, bank-site-sniffing software did me a favor. I've had a much easier time converting people over to Firefox ever since that little escapade. *wink*
I can answer that for you: "none at all". When I connect to my campus network, what I do or get infected with affects the entire network. Therefore, they are entitled to take action, but I think that action should in all cases be reactive, just as antivirus software is reactive. Cut people off of the network if their port goes psychotic with some new virus, or if they're hogging bandwidth sharing files outside of the campus intranet.
But installing spyware on students' computers is invasive and proactive with no track record of stability. If my university were going to be installing software on people's computers, the only thing I could agree to would be Linux. ;)
Unfortunately it will never prove beneficial for me, the consumer. Microsoft wants to keep people on their platform. How? Keep developers on their platform. How? Open source some nice tools. Sure, the tools are nice, but people are still designing software for a Microsoft environment. The consumer gets nice software, and loses his/her freedom and in fact steals mine. Look at .doc files and various IE-only sites: because of my school's business decision, or my friend's pre-loaded computer, they're effectively locking themselves in, and me out.
It's like the king's food taster: he gets to sample some really, really tasty food, sure, but one day he's going to end up dead. And more than likely it will come after he's become accustomed to years of tasty food. Just because Microsoft is giving out free bling doesn't mean wearing it won't chain you down.
PS - Please excuse the use of the word "bling". ;)
"Freed Software"
On the other hand, I seem to recall that a major game (Tribes 2, if I recall correctly), was produced using OpenAL, so at least someone was impressed by it. ;)
Actually, I have a "super duper" password that's an unspecified-but-very-large number of characters long, was randomly generated, includes alphanumeric and punctuation characters, and I learned by brute force memorization and repetition. I use that for root's password and GPG.
My lesser password I keep at 10 or more characters. It's got alphanumeric and punctuation characters. I change it yearly.
Oh yeah, and I have a separate BIOS password. :) I use public key encryption for password-less login over SSH. Heck, I check for keyloggers when using my college's computer labs!
So here's the punchline: I act paranoid out of principle.
Having password displayed in plaintext against my will is even more dangerous.
If it doesn't, a pretty window pops up, displaying your password along with an explanation of the error. Wonderful. A variation of my second most sensitive password suddenly popped up when I missed the shift key while typing in a symbol. So far all my complaint has gotten from IT is "We'll forward this one on to so-and-so."
Students in-the-know are generally ignored. I wouldn't bet heavily that your school will change its policies anytime soon. It probably took a boatload of work to make the switch in the first place, so more changes will probably take a lot of prodding.
While sniffing passwords sounds like a great way to get students' awareness up, that's generally an extremely bad idea. While the administration sounds like it's being incompetent, you posting sensitive information online will quickly get you slapped with legal issues.
No, I just got the impression that they spent more time making the thing 3D than they did creating an engaging set of puzzles.
Nah, they were going to do it in 3D. They seem to ruin their games when they go 3D. Just look at the Monkey Island series. Many of the puzzles were too easy to solve in the 4th one (hey buddy, it's not like I ever completed Riven or anything...I'm just saying). ;)
Mod the parent a troll. Sure, this guy's years ahead of his time, but look at FreeBSD trolls. When the first "FreeBSD is dead" post showed up, I'm sure it was modded +5 Funny. We've got to nip these "Microsoft is dead" posts in the bud before everybody start doing it. ;)
Guys...c'mon. It's April 1st.
I'm really looking forward to this GnomeVFS abstraction layer while saving and opening. What I've read (without having yet compiled it for Gentoo) has already gotten me into some fun conversations with my Linux-using friends:
Allan: "Whoa, whoa, Gnome's getting _really_ smart!"
Me: "No, it's getting really STUPID. It only understands opening and saving.
Gnome: "FTP? Yeah, I'm not sure what that is, but I'd sure like to save this document right now to this location.
GnomeVFS: "Sure thing." *** 1337 under-cover action ***
Gnome: "Oh, you can do that for me? Cool!"
- Kurt
Denemo is a GUI frontend to Lilypond.
Most people, I'd imagine, would want to typeset music graphically
Remember that many major books are still created using LaTeX, which, although unwieldy to some, is so ridiculously powerful that it just can't be gotten rid of.
However, I would think that that kind of behavior, if used by too many projects, could be used as ammo for [insert usual suspects here] to defame open source software. "See?! If your business uses OSS and they decide they don't like you, they'll tell you you can't use their software anymore! They're unreliable!"
So while I approve the NMAP decision, I hesitate to encourage mass Denial of Software.
Windows
You can rip to Ogg using CDex and play using Winamp.
Linux
You can rip to Ogg using Grip and playing using XMMS
My university uses Peoplesoft as a vendor; we use them for class scheduling and managing class documents and communication. But they output some of the shoddiest HTML I've seen in a long time. It's a strange mix of HTML and CSS, and obviously hasn't been tested except on one browser. It's been published in our school's most-distributed newspaper: Use IE to avoid problems.
Our school's course management system is one of the more infuriating sites around. For instance, hitting enter in a form doesn't submit the form. Rather, it reloads the page. And blanks all of your entries. And you can't stop the reload.
I have a serious problem with Peoplesoft's products.
</rant>
I don't know or understand all of the stakes involved in the acquisition or lawsuit, but I have this to say: I can only hope that Peoplesoft cleans up its act (read: HTML output). I don't like having to use other people's computers when Firefox doesn't know how to deal the poor output.
Generally speaking, sharing files is illegal (copyrighted music, copyrighted movies, copyrighted software, etc). I think at this point, being proactive is equivalent to a thief complaining to the Better Business Bureau because the shop he steals from has put bars on the windows and security cameras in the corners of the shop.
Whitelisting, my dear sir. Whitelisting.