My entire music collection is in AAC format. Tivo Desktop allows access and there is music coming out of my TV. It's possible that Tivo Desktop will not allow the playing of protected AAC files, I don't have any to try. Guess I'll have to buy some Mountain Dew with some winning iTunes caps and get some.
Olbigatory Head Quotes
Stuart Mackenzie: Would ya look at the size of that kid's head! It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system! Looks like an orange on a toothpick!
Stuart Mackenzie: I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts! Aye, now that was offsides, now wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow.
About 3 years ago, Bob Cringely wrote in his PBS.org column about Microsoft purposely putting Windows in peril by making a number of changes to the TCP/IP stack. The goal? According to Cringely, Microsoft wants to offer it's own 'secure' version of TCP/IP.
An excerpt:
Now to the other approach, the one some people attribute to Microsoft. I am not making this up. The story came to me from people I have come to trust, and I have looked into it closely enough to think it might have some validity. But for the sake of keeping lawyers off my back, let's just call it a rumor, and only use it as a basis for discussion. To be perfectly clear, I am not claiming that the following is true--just that I have heard it from more than one source,and think it accurately characterizes some past behaviors of Microsoft. Perhaps by bringing it into the light, we can insure that Redmond takes a more thoughtful course. I certainly hope it is wrong.
Programmers who ought to be familiar with Microsoft's plans have suggested that the real motive for raw socket support is for Microsoft to use Windows XP to exploit a bad situation, to deliberately make things worse.
According to these programmers, Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol--a protocol owned by Microsoft--that it will tout as being more secure. Actually, the new protocol would likely be TCP/IP with some of the reserved fields used as pointers to proprietary extensions, quite similar to Vines IP, if you remember that product from Banyan Systems. I'll call it TCP/MS.
How do you push for the acceptance of a new protocol? First, make the old one unworkable by placing millions of exploitable TCP/IP stacks out on the Net, ready-to-use by any teenage sociopath. When the Net slows or crashes, the blame would not be assigned to Microsoft. Then ship the new protocol with every new copy of Windows, and install it with every Windows Update over the Internet. Zero to 100 million copies could happen in less than a year, and that year could be prior to the new protocol even being announced. It could be shipping right now.
Suppose you are a typical firm that also has some non-Microsoft servers. You will want to use this new protocol between your Microsoft and non-Microsoft servers. Microsoft could charge Sun millions to put TCP/MS on their systems. Microsoft can promise open support, but make it financially impractical. Then use it in a marketing attack against competitors. Zero-Footprint network drivers, ODBC, and MAPI are examples of Microsoft "open" standards that took years for non-Microsoft firms to use. Almost anyone who would have wanted to use these open standards has been driven out of business.
Re:You can save a few clicks...and read it here.
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PostgreSQL 8.0 Enters Beta
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· Score: 3, Informative
Apologies to Ziff-Davis...
From: "Marc G. Fournier"
To: pgsql-announce ( at ) postgresql ( dot ) org
Subject: PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Officially Goes Beta
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 21:36:52 -0300 (ADT)
After almost 9 months of development, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group is proud to announce that development on PostgreSQL 8.0.0 has now finished, and is ready for some serious testing.
For those wondering about the 8.0.0 designation on this release, there have been several *very* large features included in this release that we felt warranted the jump. As with all of our releases, we aim to have this one as rock solid as possible, but *at least* one of the features added to this release involved such changes that may warrant a bit extra testing post-release before deploying it in production.
Although the list of new features in 8.0.0 is extensive, with both SMB (Win32 Native Support) and Enterprise (Nested Transactions and Point in Time Recory) features being added, there is one thing that hasn't been included as part of the core distribution, and that is a Windows Installer, which can be found at: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller
And, thanks to David Fetter, the Beta is also available via BitTorrent at: http://bt.postgresql.org
As with all releases, the success of this release falls in the your hands... to go from Beta -> Release, we need as many people out there to put it through her paces as possible, on as many platforms as possible. We urge anyone, and everyone, to download a copy and run her through her regression tests, and report any/all problems, and bugs, to
pgsql-bugs ( at ) postgresql ( dot ) org
The more bugs we can find, and eliminate, during Beta, the more successful the Release will be...
On behalf of all of the developers, Happy Bug Hunting...
I've learned my one thing for the day: an admin can control who can and who cannot execute the sudo command.
"Sudo Since the root user is disabled, it is not possible to use the su command to obtain root privileges; instead, OS X makes use of the sudo program. By default Panther allows all administrative users access to the sudo command and it allows these users to run any program with sudo. In some circumstances, this may contravene system usage policies. In these cases, it is possible to disallow sudo access to the administrator group and instead, enable it on a per user basis.
From the terminal, edit the/etc/sudoers file by typing: sudo visudo Insert a hash (#) character, in front of the line %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
To allow only the user 'bob' access to sudo add the line: bob ALL = (ALL) ALL
Make sure that at least one user has permissions to run sudo before saving the file! Access controls within the sudoers file can be specified minutely, for example, it is possible to grant the user james access to the file/usr/bin/kill, but only with the privileges of user tim. See the sudoers man page for more details on tightening access controls through sudo."
hehehe I had forgotten about that. I was in the keynote audience and from where I was sitting, I couldn't tell the difference between Noah playing Steve and Steve himself.
Section 2870 (a)(1) of the California Labor Code, which states that an employer can take ownership if the product "relate[s] at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer."
Although it would be harder to pull off, it'd be much more effective to use dry lawn fertilizer to spell SPAMMER out. It'd take most of a year before it faded.
I transfer fairly large (2-3gb) files on a regular basis. No problem whatsoever.
I have, however, come to the conclusion that I am unable to burn a DVD if I have booted from the Panther installation on my iPod. I always get a buffer underrun error.
I liked this one. Mental note: avoid McDonald's on Chicago's famed museum campus.
12 It could be worse. At least they're not selling wolf milk. In July, a McDonald's outlet in Chicago's Field Museum is closed by health inspectors who discover that the food preparation area is backed up with raw sewage and that employees have changed the expiration dates on 200 cartons of milk.
Cheap DVDs at Wal*Mart
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=115 376&path=0%3A4096%3A41938%3A115376
My local Blockbuster charges about $4 for a rental. With a paid rental on Monday thru Thursday, I get another one free with my Rewards card. So it works out to be about $2 each. I also get a free rental each month with the Rewards card.
2) When dragging a file to the trash, it is very easy to miss the trash which causes the entire dock to stretch and actually move the trash can further from the icon you're dragging. If that happens, and you drag the icon down to get in the trash, the dock then contracts and you end up overshooting the trash can! His gripe isn't so much that the trash can is on the Dock, but more than the Dock moves the damned thing around while you're trying to drag files into it. Maybe you can
I agree, it is sometimes difficult to get items to the Trash instead of just adding them to the Dock. Perhaps a preference could toggle a confirmation dialog before doing so?
I get around this by using the keyboard equivalant Command-Delete to move items to the Trash and then Command-Shift-Delete to empty the Trash.
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The merchant will typically get their money deposited from Visa/Mastercard et al, in about 3 to 5 days. AMEX takes longer as I recall.
I'd tell you that you're wrong, but you're not.
And of course, propane accessories.
I can personally verify it runs on a Pismo just fine.
My entire music collection is in AAC format. Tivo Desktop allows access and there is music coming out of my TV. It's possible that Tivo Desktop will not allow the playing of protected AAC files, I don't have any to try. Guess I'll have to buy some Mountain Dew with some winning iTunes caps and get some.
hehehe
He's got a BIG head.
Olbigatory Head Quotes
Stuart Mackenzie: Would ya look at the size of that kid's head! It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system! Looks like an orange on a toothpick!
Stuart Mackenzie: I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts! Aye, now that was offsides, now wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow.
Why didn't they just use Thing from The Addams Family? He always seemed willing to lend a helping hand.
boom-cha!
Thanks, I'll be here all week!
Play a game of Age of Mythology or any such game, and study real world history, power comes and power goes...
So you're saying play more games and learn about real world history?
Yeah, right.
(in best Bill Lumbergh voice)
There's no way you're at UW/Madison, Wisconsin with that political slant. You'd be tarred and feathered in no time!
Of course, if you were wearing a tinfoil body suit, it'd come off easier.
About 3 years ago, Bob Cringely wrote in his PBS.org column about Microsoft purposely putting Windows in peril by making a number of changes to the TCP/IP stack. The goal? According to Cringely, Microsoft wants to offer it's own 'secure' version of TCP/IP.
An excerpt:
Now to the other approach, the one some people attribute to Microsoft. I am not making this up. The story came to me from people I have come to trust, and I have looked into it closely enough to think it might have some validity. But for the sake of keeping lawyers off my back, let's just call it a rumor, and only use it as a basis for discussion. To be perfectly clear, I am not claiming that the following is true--just that I have heard it from more than one source,and think it accurately characterizes some past behaviors of Microsoft. Perhaps by bringing it into the light, we can insure that Redmond takes a more thoughtful course. I certainly hope it is wrong.
Programmers who ought to be familiar with Microsoft's plans have suggested that the real motive for raw socket support is for Microsoft to use Windows XP to exploit a bad situation, to deliberately make things worse.
According to these programmers, Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol--a protocol owned by Microsoft--that it will tout as being more secure. Actually, the new protocol would likely be TCP/IP with some of the reserved fields used as pointers to proprietary extensions, quite similar to Vines IP, if you remember that product from Banyan Systems. I'll call it TCP/MS.
How do you push for the acceptance of a new protocol? First, make the old one unworkable by placing millions of exploitable TCP/IP stacks out on the Net, ready-to-use by any teenage sociopath. When the Net slows or crashes, the blame would not be assigned to Microsoft. Then ship the new protocol with every new copy of Windows, and install it with every Windows Update over the Internet. Zero to 100 million copies could happen in less than a year, and that year could be prior to the new protocol even being announced. It could be shipping right now.
Suppose you are a typical firm that also has some non-Microsoft servers. You will want to use this new protocol between your Microsoft and non-Microsoft servers. Microsoft could charge Sun millions to put TCP/MS on their systems. Microsoft can promise open support, but make it financially impractical. Then use it in a marketing attack against competitors. Zero-Footprint network drivers, ODBC, and MAPI are examples of Microsoft "open" standards that took years for non-Microsoft firms to use. Almost anyone who would have wanted to use these open standards has been driven out of business.
The full article can be found here.
I leave you to discuss this amongst yourselves.
Apologies to Ziff-Davis...
... to go from Beta -> Release, we need as many people out there to put it through her paces as possible, on as many platforms as possible. We urge anyone, and everyone, to download a copy and run her through her regression tests, and report any/all problems, and bugs, to
...
From: "Marc G. Fournier"
To: pgsql-announce ( at ) postgresql ( dot ) org
Subject: PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Officially Goes Beta
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 21:36:52 -0300 (ADT)
After almost 9 months of development, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group is proud to announce that development on PostgreSQL 8.0.0 has now finished, and is ready for some serious testing.
For those wondering about the 8.0.0 designation on this release, there have been several *very* large features included in this release that we felt warranted the jump. As with all of our releases, we aim to have this one as rock solid as possible, but *at least* one of the features added to this release involved such changes that may warrant a bit extra testing post-release before deploying it in production.
Although the list of new features in 8.0.0 is extensive, with both SMB (Win32 Native Support) and Enterprise (Nested Transactions and Point in Time Recory) features being added, there is one thing that hasn't been included as part of the core distribution, and that is a Windows Installer, which can be found at:
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller
For a complete list of changes/improvements since 7.4.0 was released, please see:
http://developer.postgresql.org/beta-history.txt
That said, and without further ado, Beta 1 is currently available for download on all mirrors:
http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-ftp.html
And, thanks to David Fetter, the Beta is also available via BitTorrent at:
http://bt.postgresql.org
As with all releases, the success of this release falls in the your hands
pgsql-bugs ( at ) postgresql ( dot ) org
The more bugs we can find, and eliminate, during Beta, the more successful the Release will be...
On behalf of all of the developers, Happy Bug Hunting
That should be:
3. ?????
4. Profit!
And with politicians, it's #3 that scares me.
1) Some of us aren't credit worthy enough to get an actual credit card. I'm not.
2) If a parent wants to allow a teenager to have their allowance on a debit card, it's easier to control the amount that's available to spend.
I've learned my one thing for the day: an admin can control who can and who cannot execute the sudo command.
/etc/sudoers file by typing: sudo visudo Insert a hash (#) character, in front of the line
/usr/bin/kill, but only with the privileges of user tim. See the sudoers man page for more details on tightening access controls through sudo."
"Sudo
Since the root user is disabled, it is not possible to use the su command to obtain root privileges; instead, OS X makes use of the sudo program. By default Panther allows all administrative users access to the sudo command and it allows these users to run any program with sudo. In some circumstances, this may contravene system usage policies. In these cases, it is possible to disallow sudo access to the administrator group and instead, enable it on a per user basis.
From the terminal, edit the
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
To allow only the user 'bob' access to sudo add the line:
bob ALL = (ALL) ALL
Make sure that at least one user has permissions to run sudo before saving the file! Access controls within the sudoers file can be specified minutely, for example, it is possible to grant the user james access to the file
Who'da thunk?
My personal favorite is irregardless. Look that one up at dictionary.org.
FWIW, I submitted this Friday morning after watching the peice on the CBS morning news.
I'd tell you you're wrong. But you're not!
hehehe I had forgotten about that. I was in the keynote audience and from where I was sitting, I couldn't tell the difference between Noah playing Steve and Steve himself.
It's a California thing alright:
Section 2870 (a)(1) of the California Labor Code, which states that an employer can take ownership if the product "relate[s] at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer."
Although it would be harder to pull off, it'd be much more effective to use dry lawn fertilizer to spell SPAMMER out. It'd take most of a year before it faded.
hehehe
I transfer fairly large (2-3gb) files on a regular basis. No problem whatsoever.
I have, however, come to the conclusion that I am unable to burn a DVD if I have booted from the Panther installation on my iPod. I always get a buffer underrun error.
I liked this one. Mental note: avoid McDonald's on Chicago's famed museum campus.
12 It could be worse. At least they're not selling wolf milk.
In July, a McDonald's outlet in Chicago's Field Museum is closed by health inspectors who discover that the food preparation area is backed up with raw sewage and that employees have changed the expiration dates on 200 cartons of milk.
Cheap DVDs at Wal*Mart5 376&path=0%3A4096%3A41938%3A115376
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=11
My local Blockbuster charges about $4 for a rental. With a paid rental on Monday thru Thursday, I get another one free with my Rewards card. So it works out to be about $2 each. I also get a free rental each month with the Rewards card.
2) When dragging a file to the trash, it is very easy to miss the trash which causes the entire dock to stretch and actually move the trash can further from the icon you're dragging. If that happens, and you drag the icon down to get in the trash, the dock then contracts and you end up overshooting the trash can! His gripe isn't so much that the trash can is on the Dock, but more than the Dock moves the damned thing around while you're trying to drag files into it. Maybe you can
I agree, it is sometimes difficult to get items to the Trash instead of just adding them to the Dock. Perhaps a preference could toggle a confirmation dialog before doing so?
I get around this by using the keyboard equivalant Command-Delete to move items to the Trash and then Command-Shift-Delete to empty the Trash.
Things should get even more interesting in the Free software arena with this news. Let's revisit this in July and see where we've gotten to.
Everyone click this link.