...beyond the nearly 15 years or so they have been in business?...or 6 months before they expand and become a nationwide chain?
They are doing exceptionally well from what I understand and are always quite busy. Plus, unlike Blockbuster and other nationwide chains, if there is a movie you want, they WILL get it for you to rent, even if you are the only one to rent the movie over a few year period.
...out where I live, we have one of the absolutely best 'Mom and Pop' videostores to exist...
It's called "Thomas Video" and it does a great job of supporting the local 'Art Theatre' scene and has the largest collection of Independent as well as B-Movies that you could find anywhere else. They also have a number of B-movie stars show up from time to time, like Bruce Campbell and The Ghoul.
So, you are saying that it's elitist for the vast majority of society to decide that certain individuals, based upon past behaviours, should be removed from society...
Hmm... That's funny. I always thought it was prudent to lockup those that have and will continue to cause murder and mayhem upon greater society by being left to their own devices...
Ooooh... Wait a minute... you must be one of those Fresh out of Liberal College kids... Wake up and take a look at reality.
(Of course in Hollywood today if someone pitches that plot the network says "Yeah, sounds good, but it needs tits.")
Okay, so then it goes like this...
"Their home systems destroyed by internal treachery and a race of genocidal cyborgs, the remains of humanity, a scant 6,000 refugees and 201 exotic strippers (one of which is ugly), flee across the galaxy in search of the ancient legend of their 13th tribe, humans who settled on a planet called Earth rumored to be filled with large breasted easy woman..."
I didn't recall, nor did I feel the need to look up the producer's name, but that's correct. I had read that is why there are so many similarities between the Mormon religion and BSG.
It was probably part of the 'nefarious' Mormon plot to convert Star Wars and other SciFi fans into being Mormons... hehhe...
The original BSG was composed of a mixing of Space Opera Science Fiction and the Mormon religion story.
The whole thing with the 12 colonies of man and the 'lost' 13th colony is exactly like the Mormon belief of 12 tribes of man with a lost 13th tribe and how reuniting with that 13th tribe would be their salvation or something along those lines.
There was a great deal of other Mormon influences behind a great deal of the back-story to BSG. The actual TV series stories followed the basic 'hodge-podge' that often plagues the first season of a number of television series, although there was some really interesting storylines built around the Mormon mythology, like the thing with the beings of light that went through a handful of the episodes.
If it had stayed on the air, it would have developed into a very significant series of stories instead of just the barely exposing the surface that was shown back in the 70's.
The whole draw to the series was and still is the way the characters were, how they interacted and the relationships they held with eachother. These days the producers and storywriters claim that having 'damaged' characters and conflict amongst the heroes is the way that things are supposed to be. That's not the BSG that I remember and it's not the BSG that I would like to see.
I will probably watch this show, just to give it a chance, but in the end I will likely still give more weight to the original with it's compelling back-history and lofty ideals. (Even though it is based heavily on a somewhat 'odd' religious group's history.)
...that there should be a new criminal charge created called 'Attempted Vehicular Manslaughter' designed specifically for Drunks. If you are a repeat offender, it's off to prison for you for a good 8 to 10 years.
For a first time offense, with no priors, you get a slap on the wrist and probation, but you still carry having been charged with attempted vehicular manslaughter.
This kind of charge may stop the occasional drunk from getting behind the wheel, it won't stop those that don't care, but then again, do we really need people like that in society?
Would the latop have been 'secure' against this thief and most people? (Based upon the assumption that most people aren't technically skilled.)
Definately. At best, this thief should have been forced to take the stolen laptop into a computer store to have the employees there install a new Operating System. (Which probably should have gotten the thief arrested anyway.)
Why should taking that laptop into a computer store get the thief arrested anyway?
Well, a good security conscious organization would 'permanently' mark their computer systems with identifying information that is 'permanently' attached to the physical unit. Perhaps support numbers, theft reporting numbers and the like.
I know that when I used to work in a computer store and a laptop came in with such markings, I would definately contact the numbers listed on the back. Since the laptop obviously should only be supported by the corporation that issued it.
Did you just complete a degree in poor flaming? I thought so... You should take the enhanced courses that cover using your mind's ability to use logic before spouting off.
IF and only IF, the thief is inteligent to know how to locate and use such tools. In this case and most other cases similar to it, the thief was/is likely nowhere near inteligent enough to have even known such tools existed.
If that thief knew of such tools, it would also have been likely that the thief would have been smart enough to know that he could easily be caught using AOL without drastically altering the laptop. He would have removed what data he thought he needed, wiped the machine, wiped the BIOS, flashed the NIC to change the MAC Address, installed his own Operating System, disabled the Intel CPUID thingy (Which is already disabled on most systems by default.) and then went off on his way.
If all of that happened, well, we wouldn't be talking about it. Of course, he wasn't that technically skilled. Soooo we are talking about it.
You can't expect all laptop thieves to have the same skills and knowledge that you have. (Note: I am not calling you a thief or even suggesting that you are someone with dubious moral values.)
Again... Most thieves do the snatch and grab because it is convenient and have little to no desire to get involved in any of the intricacies of actually knowing how to circumvent any security on anything that they have stolen.
In our office, if a user does that, the laptop 'locks' and can only be unlocked by a local/network administrator or the user that was logged into the laptop.
Because of that, I am not so terribly concerned if one of our laptops are stolen. It would be a minor financial blow, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
MOST people that steal laptops aren't smart enough to know how to recover passwords using the methods you described. Also, MOST of those password recovery tools are rather pricey.
If they can't use the Laptop, they HAVE to format it and reinstall, if they are that smart, or they have to take it into a computer store somewhere and get someone to install an OS for them.
At the VERY least, proprietary information could be kept more secure, especially since MOST thieves would have to format the machine and put a new OS onto it in order to be able to use the laptop.
How was this thief even able to use this stolen laptop? Were they not running a password protected operating system, at least Windows 2000 or Windows XP?
I know that if ANY of the laptops and roughly ALL of our desktop PC's would be useless to any thieves unless they format each and every machine, since there isn't a single account that doesn't have a password that isn't controlled by our Domain Controller...
I am not so happy about Wells Fargo's apparent disinterest in keeping things secure...
Well's Fargo is using some cool 'Phone Home' software that was described on Slashdot several times that MOST everyone thought was a good idea...
Why is it a good idea when it will protect your laptop or employer's laptop, but suddenly, the FBI has some nefarious hooks into AOL when they publish that they captured a laptop thief because the thief logged into AOL?
That some serial killers come from rather normal homes, with a rather decent upbringing. It is something inside they are born with that gives them the chance to become a serial killer. I understand, it takes a special kind of person to become a serial killer as well.
'Space Above and Beyond', which was quite an excellent SciFi show, it lasted something like one and a half to two and a half seasons before having the plug pulled on it.
It used revolutionary (for television) special effects for the space scenes. If I am not mistaken, I believe that it was the first to use computer generated graphics for the entirety of the space scenes, from the large cruiser/carrier the space marines were using to the sleek starfighters that that marines were using...
The stories were rather compelling as well. Especially with the whole back history of the clone warriors and the human-looking androids. It's to bad that they ended the whole show as it was beginning to really grow... (I feel that most shows take a good two to three seasons to really get their legs and start running...)
The server is used to run a back-up software and acts as the BDC to our domain. Rather then have the machine simply sit there doing a whole bunch of nothing all the time...
The server is also acting as an application server. These applications are, surprise, surprise, GUI based. Therein lies the answer to your assumption.
As for the rest of the software on the server, it only changes for security issues, unless a new feature is EXTREMELY useful, then the application would be updated.
I am not talking about 'High End' software applications. I am talking about two things; ONE is a tape back-up application that barely costs more then $200, but has some VERY nice features. TWO is that a local Linux support company wasn't supporting anything newer then Redhat 7.3 and just recently moved up to supporting Redhat 8.2 and will probably not move to Redhat 9 until they have had time to test and study 9 to its core.
So tell me how I get this 'Synaptic' to install on Redhat 7.3. Show me how this 'Synaptic' will install the latest Mr Project, along with all required dependencies and not hose other applications that are dependent upon those libraries that were updated for the latest Mr Project to run.
Then do the same thing with The GIMP.
Again, I am not talking about Fedora 1, I am not talking about Redhat 9. I am talking about a Redhat OS that is the ONLY version supported by a few critical pieces of software and is also supported by an external vendor we use for when I am out of town. This is Redhat 7.3, this is an OS that is barely 3 years old.
Running Up2date on this apparently now 'archaic' Linux didn't fix the dependency issues for installing the latest Mr Project or the latest The GIMP. All it did was update packages to fix security issues without breaking 7.3 compatibility.
Besides, you brought up ONE example where it could be a pain in dealing with getting ONE aspect of performance out of Windows. I mentioned two, recent to me. There has been MANY more in the past. For instance, updating GNOME or updating KDE or updating other applications that came with Redhat 7.3.
Sure, these issues have existed on Windows, but for the most part, those issues have long been resolved, meaning since the release of Windows 95b. There are FEW applications made today for MS Windows that you would be unable to install on Windows 95b. There are even fewer that you would be unable to install on Windows 98FE/SE and even fewer for Win2K (NT4.0 is a seperate and special case).
Few applications from when Windows 95b was released until today demand MAJOR overhauls of a Windows 98SE in order to be installed. However, in the time that Win98SE has existed there has been something akin to 4 different point releases of Redhat Linux, from 5.2 all the way to Redhat 9 and if you are using a Redhat Linux older then that latest release and you want to upgrade to a newer version of ONE application, you may find yourself needing to update dozens of libraries and most likely a handful of other applications that won't work with the new libraries you just installed.
Granted, the major point releases of Redhat signify a breaking of binary compatibility, but that's beside the point. The point is that in order to use the latest software you may have to upgrade your ENTIRE Redhat (or other) Linux OS every 6 months.
I am not suggesting that adding new features and progress is a bad thing. What I am saying is that, at least, Redhat Linux is constantly a moving target and that should be stopped. It shouldn't be a moving target every 6 months, if it MUST move it should happen every 2 to 4 years and even then attempt to keep compatibility, unless security is at issue, with at least two FULL point releases back. That will pretty much guarantee that someone 'stuck' on an older release could still access more modern software without having to 'gut' their entire system, possibly even losing that component that a mission critical app depends upon.
Microsoft does that. Sometimes it turns out to be a significant pain. However, that is what helps them keep the strangehold on the desktop market that they have. Once the greater OSS community can open their eyes, see that and DO something about it, Linux will indeed start to become ready for the desktop. (Thus ready for the 'Joe Sixpacks' of the world.)
For me, Linux is ready for the desktop. For 95% of the regular users out there, it isn't. You can stand on a train track and disbelieve that a train is actually bearing down on you all you want, that doesn't change the fact that the train will run you down.
I was asking how you would update to a latest piece of software, Mr Project, that isn't supported through Up2date, without having to deal with hunting down what could be dozens of RPMs.
My servers stay up2date with up2date and cron as well. But...
How do I upgrade to the latest GIMP? (You have to update/replace MANUALLY a decent number of libraries, which will 'break' up2date for that box.)
How do I upgrade to the latest Mr Project? (You have to update/replace MANUALLY a decent number of libraries, which will 'break' up2date for that box.)
I have a server running Red Hat 7.3, because some of the software we NEED to run is only supported on Red Hat 7.3.
It is also used as a remote application server, with Cygwin installed on several machines on the network a GUI is provided to users to take care of some tasks that aren't possible on Windows without spending a significant amount of money.
The Mr Project debacle is incredibly recent and Redhat Linux 7.3 is also fairly young as Operating Systems go. I believe that it was released sometime in 2001 or 2002, right? (BTW, the reason I thought of MR Project in the first place is that I had used the release that came with Redhat 9 and was quite impressed. Unfortunately, the version that came with Redhat 7.3 was missing a handful of features and it crashed a few times when performing 'basic' actions.)
So tell me, when was the issue I experienced fixed? How could I have avoided needing to update 90 or so other packages with Redhat 7.3?
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They are doing exceptionally well from what I understand and are always quite busy. Plus, unlike Blockbuster and other nationwide chains, if there is a movie you want, they WILL get it for you to rent, even if you are the only one to rent the movie over a few year period.
It's called "Thomas Video" and it does a great job of supporting the local 'Art Theatre' scene and has the largest collection of Independent as well as B-Movies that you could find anywhere else. They also have a number of B-movie stars show up from time to time, like Bruce Campbell and The Ghoul.
The place is absolutely awesome.
So, you are saying that it's elitist for the vast majority of society to decide that certain individuals, based upon past behaviours, should be removed from society...
Hmm... That's funny. I always thought it was prudent to lockup those that have and will continue to cause murder and mayhem upon greater society by being left to their own devices...
Ooooh... Wait a minute... you must be one of those Fresh out of Liberal College kids... Wake up and take a look at reality.
(Of course in Hollywood today if someone pitches that plot the network says "Yeah, sounds good, but it needs tits.")
Okay, so then it goes like this...
"Their home systems destroyed by internal treachery and a race of genocidal cyborgs, the remains of humanity, a scant 6,000 refugees and 201 exotic strippers (one of which is ugly), flee across the galaxy in search of the ancient legend of their 13th tribe, humans who settled on a planet called Earth rumored to be filled with large breasted easy woman..."
I didn't recall, nor did I feel the need to look up the producer's name, but that's correct. I had read that is why there are so many similarities between the Mormon religion and BSG.
It was probably part of the 'nefarious' Mormon plot to convert Star Wars and other SciFi fans into being Mormons... hehhe...
I am not a very religous kind of guy... So, there was little impetus for me to research that out farther then what I wrote above...
The original BSG was composed of a mixing of Space Opera Science Fiction and the Mormon religion story.
The whole thing with the 12 colonies of man and the 'lost' 13th colony is exactly like the Mormon belief of 12 tribes of man with a lost 13th tribe and how reuniting with that 13th tribe would be their salvation or something along those lines.
There was a great deal of other Mormon influences behind a great deal of the back-story to BSG. The actual TV series stories followed the basic 'hodge-podge' that often plagues the first season of a number of television series, although there was some really interesting storylines built around the Mormon mythology, like the thing with the beings of light that went through a handful of the episodes.
If it had stayed on the air, it would have developed into a very significant series of stories instead of just the barely exposing the surface that was shown back in the 70's.
The whole draw to the series was and still is the way the characters were, how they interacted and the relationships they held with eachother. These days the producers and storywriters claim that having 'damaged' characters and conflict amongst the heroes is the way that things are supposed to be. That's not the BSG that I remember and it's not the BSG that I would like to see.
I will probably watch this show, just to give it a chance, but in the end I will likely still give more weight to the original with it's compelling back-history and lofty ideals. (Even though it is based heavily on a somewhat 'odd' religious group's history.)
For a first time offense, with no priors, you get a slap on the wrist and probation, but you still carry having been charged with attempted vehicular manslaughter.
This kind of charge may stop the occasional drunk from getting behind the wheel, it won't stop those that don't care, but then again, do we really need people like that in society?
+5 Angry Psychotic?
Would the laptop have been 'secure' against you?
Nope. Because you have technical skill.
Would the latop have been 'secure' against this thief and most people? (Based upon the assumption that most people aren't technically skilled.)
Definately. At best, this thief should have been forced to take the stolen laptop into a computer store to have the employees there install a new Operating System. (Which probably should have gotten the thief arrested anyway.)
Why should taking that laptop into a computer store get the thief arrested anyway?
Well, a good security conscious organization would 'permanently' mark their computer systems with identifying information that is 'permanently' attached to the physical unit. Perhaps support numbers, theft reporting numbers and the like.
I know that when I used to work in a computer store and a laptop came in with such markings, I would definately contact the numbers listed on the back. Since the laptop obviously should only be supported by the corporation that issued it.
Did you just complete a degree in poor flaming? I thought so... You should take the enhanced courses that cover using your mind's ability to use logic before spouting off.
IF and only IF, the thief is inteligent to know how to locate and use such tools. In this case and most other cases similar to it, the thief was/is likely nowhere near inteligent enough to have even known such tools existed.
If that thief knew of such tools, it would also have been likely that the thief would have been smart enough to know that he could easily be caught using AOL without drastically altering the laptop. He would have removed what data he thought he needed, wiped the machine, wiped the BIOS, flashed the NIC to change the MAC Address, installed his own Operating System, disabled the Intel CPUID thingy (Which is already disabled on most systems by default.) and then went off on his way.
If all of that happened, well, we wouldn't be talking about it. Of course, he wasn't that technically skilled. Soooo we are talking about it.
You can't expect all laptop thieves to have the same skills and knowledge that you have. (Note: I am not calling you a thief or even suggesting that you are someone with dubious moral values.)
Again... Most thieves do the snatch and grab because it is convenient and have little to no desire to get involved in any of the intricacies of actually knowing how to circumvent any security on anything that they have stolen.
In our office, if a user does that, the laptop 'locks' and can only be unlocked by a local/network administrator or the user that was logged into the laptop.
Because of that, I am not so terribly concerned if one of our laptops are stolen. It would be a minor financial blow, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
MOST people that steal laptops aren't smart enough to know how to recover passwords using the methods you described. Also, MOST of those password recovery tools are rather pricey.
If they can't use the Laptop, they HAVE to format it and reinstall, if they are that smart, or they have to take it into a computer store somewhere and get someone to install an OS for them.
At the VERY least, proprietary information could be kept more secure, especially since MOST thieves would have to format the machine and put a new OS onto it in order to be able to use the laptop.
How was this thief even able to use this stolen laptop? Were they not running a password protected operating system, at least Windows 2000 or Windows XP?
I know that if ANY of the laptops and roughly ALL of our desktop PC's would be useless to any thieves unless they format each and every machine, since there isn't a single account that doesn't have a password that isn't controlled by our Domain Controller...
I am not so happy about Wells Fargo's apparent disinterest in keeping things secure...
That last line should have been...
"Anyone care to give that an answer?"
Which I had thought to change to...
"Anyone care to answer that?"
Well's Fargo is using some cool 'Phone Home' software that was described on Slashdot several times that MOST everyone thought was a good idea...
Why is it a good idea when it will protect your laptop or employer's laptop, but suddenly, the FBI has some nefarious hooks into AOL when they publish that they captured a laptop thief because the thief logged into AOL?
Anyone care to give that answer that?
Dangit! I have that song in my head...
"Mentos, The Freshmaker!"
That some serial killers come from rather normal homes, with a rather decent upbringing. It is something inside they are born with that gives them the chance to become a serial killer. I understand, it takes a special kind of person to become a serial killer as well.
I also left my statements as not necesarily the truth, in that I said 'If I recall...'
So, without further adieu...
How can you say DS9 copied B5's Epic Continuous story arc format?
'Space Above and Beyond', which was quite an excellent SciFi show, it lasted something like one and a half to two and a half seasons before having the plug pulled on it.
It used revolutionary (for television) special effects for the space scenes. If I am not mistaken, I believe that it was the first to use computer generated graphics for the entirety of the space scenes, from the large cruiser/carrier the space marines were using to the sleek starfighters that that marines were using...
The stories were rather compelling as well. Especially with the whole back history of the clone warriors and the human-looking androids. It's to bad that they ended the whole show as it was beginning to really grow... (I feel that most shows take a good two to three seasons to really get their legs and start running...)
The server is used to run a back-up software and acts as the BDC to our domain. Rather then have the machine simply sit there doing a whole bunch of nothing all the time...
The server is also acting as an application server. These applications are, surprise, surprise, GUI based. Therein lies the answer to your assumption.
As for the rest of the software on the server, it only changes for security issues, unless a new feature is EXTREMELY useful, then the application would be updated.
I am not talking about 'High End' software applications. I am talking about two things; ONE is a tape back-up application that barely costs more then $200, but has some VERY nice features. TWO is that a local Linux support company wasn't supporting anything newer then Redhat 7.3 and just recently moved up to supporting Redhat 8.2 and will probably not move to Redhat 9 until they have had time to test and study 9 to its core.
So tell me how I get this 'Synaptic' to install on Redhat 7.3. Show me how this 'Synaptic' will install the latest Mr Project, along with all required dependencies and not hose other applications that are dependent upon those libraries that were updated for the latest Mr Project to run.
Then do the same thing with The GIMP.
Again, I am not talking about Fedora 1, I am not talking about Redhat 9. I am talking about a Redhat OS that is the ONLY version supported by a few critical pieces of software and is also supported by an external vendor we use for when I am out of town. This is Redhat 7.3, this is an OS that is barely 3 years old.
Running Up2date on this apparently now 'archaic' Linux didn't fix the dependency issues for installing the latest Mr Project or the latest The GIMP. All it did was update packages to fix security issues without breaking 7.3 compatibility.
Besides, you brought up ONE example where it could be a pain in dealing with getting ONE aspect of performance out of Windows. I mentioned two, recent to me. There has been MANY more in the past. For instance, updating GNOME or updating KDE or updating other applications that came with Redhat 7.3.
Sure, these issues have existed on Windows, but for the most part, those issues have long been resolved, meaning since the release of Windows 95b. There are FEW applications made today for MS Windows that you would be unable to install on Windows 95b. There are even fewer that you would be unable to install on Windows 98FE/SE and even fewer for Win2K (NT4.0 is a seperate and special case).
Few applications from when Windows 95b was released until today demand MAJOR overhauls of a Windows 98SE in order to be installed. However, in the time that Win98SE has existed there has been something akin to 4 different point releases of Redhat Linux, from 5.2 all the way to Redhat 9 and if you are using a Redhat Linux older then that latest release and you want to upgrade to a newer version of ONE application, you may find yourself needing to update dozens of libraries and most likely a handful of other applications that won't work with the new libraries you just installed.
Granted, the major point releases of Redhat signify a breaking of binary compatibility, but that's beside the point. The point is that in order to use the latest software you may have to upgrade your ENTIRE Redhat (or other) Linux OS every 6 months.
I am not suggesting that adding new features and progress is a bad thing. What I am saying is that, at least, Redhat Linux is constantly a moving target and that should be stopped. It shouldn't be a moving target every 6 months, if it MUST move it should happen every 2 to 4 years and even then attempt to keep compatibility, unless security is at issue, with at least two FULL point releases back. That will pretty much guarantee that someone 'stuck' on an older release could still access more modern software without having to 'gut' their entire system, possibly even losing that component that a mission critical app depends upon.
Microsoft does that. Sometimes it turns out to be a significant pain. However, that is what helps them keep the strangehold on the desktop market that they have. Once the greater OSS community can open their eyes, see that and DO something about it, Linux will indeed start to become ready for the desktop. (Thus ready for the 'Joe Sixpacks' of the world.)
For me, Linux is ready for the desktop. For 95% of the regular users out there, it isn't. You can stand on a train track and disbelieve that a train is actually bearing down on you all you want, that doesn't change the fact that the train will run you down.
I was asking how you would update to a latest piece of software, Mr Project, that isn't supported through Up2date, without having to deal with hunting down what could be dozens of RPMs.
My servers stay up2date with up2date and cron as well. But...
How do I upgrade to the latest GIMP? (You have to update/replace MANUALLY a decent number of libraries, which will 'break' up2date for that box.)
How do I upgrade to the latest Mr Project? (You have to update/replace MANUALLY a decent number of libraries, which will 'break' up2date for that box.)
How is that 'fixed'?
I have a server running Red Hat 7.3, because some of the software we NEED to run is only supported on Red Hat 7.3.
It is also used as a remote application server, with Cygwin installed on several machines on the network a GUI is provided to users to take care of some tasks that aren't possible on Windows without spending a significant amount of money.
The Mr Project debacle is incredibly recent and Redhat Linux 7.3 is also fairly young as Operating Systems go. I believe that it was released sometime in 2001 or 2002, right? (BTW, the reason I thought of MR Project in the first place is that I had used the release that came with Redhat 9 and was quite impressed. Unfortunately, the version that came with Redhat 7.3 was missing a handful of features and it crashed a few times when performing 'basic' actions.)
So tell me, when was the issue I experienced fixed? How could I have avoided needing to update 90 or so other packages with Redhat 7.3?