I like this restricted subnet leper colony idea. A healthy network is one that runs well independently of how crapped out end nodes are. I think in this day, it is best to develop networks that assume that every node is a virus-ridden maggot that could potentially be a threat. Networks that rely on users keeping their systems tidy will not scale well and will invetibaly become weaker by not having to deal with minor day to day issues due to an intially placid user base.
By moving "leper" systems into a restricted subnet until they prove themselves cured, you minimize the risk to your infrastructure without completely terminating access. Additionally, people that let their systems become infested usually will not be power users and may not even notice/mind the restricted access state.
well, I'm curious to see what the review says, but I can't because the server is/.ed. However, I have used an Aver brand "TVgenie" extneral box now for six years now and it's great. No Drivers, no software, the computer doesn't even have to be on. It's just a tuner with a VGA pass-through. I've seen so many issues with the early tuner TV cards and the quality often stunk. This thing is great. It lacks fancy features like screen shots and video rips or the ability to watch TV in a window while doing something else, but it does everything a television does and eliminates the need for me to have one. Also since it requires no system resources, I can be rendering at full speed or switch back to a game of unreal during commercials without sacraficing any performance.
c'mon. it will be. they'll release it separately and let it gain acclaim at first. If it does not, well then it's a failed experiment - one that never had the chance to tarnish the OS's name. Then they'll integrate it and use it as a selling point for the newest version of the OS (probably whatever follows longhorn).
blury definitions yes, but that does not mean that there are not clear distinctions.
We can all tell the difference between the salvation army and a pawn shop.
Now if an app has a thousand ads attached to it but it makes you well aware that exposure to these ads is the "price" you pay for using it and you choose to continue using it anyway, then thats not evil, it is just an annoyance, and one that you have chosen to accept at that. If it secretly slips ads in after it is suppossedly a terminated process or if takes any action that cannot easily be stopped or that you were not made clearly aware of, then it's evil and it clearly smells evil (insert your "hey that sounds like windows" joke here).
yeah hardware will be free and java will make a comeback and Sun's stock will skyrocket. Go ahead and revitalize my corpse from its cryogenic state when that happens (don't worry, I'm sure Sun will have figured out how to make this possible too.)
TV tubes contain enough voltage to kill, so if you're fixing a TV anywhere that there are kids around take three or four bright yellow low-leakage capacitors, wrap the leads around the body in a spiral, and charge them to a couple of hundred volts.
It doesn't matter how many times you say no, some kids just HAVE to go touching things. It won't kill them to pick up one of these. It might well save their lives in the long run..
I'm afraid I do not agree with the policy of M$ to attempt to prevent pirates to get this update. I understand blocking piracy at the installation level , but since SP2 is touted to be a huge security update it seems that preventing it from installing on a certain population of systems will somewhat undermine the security of microsoft's global network (ie. the internet). Most of the powerful exploits are currently worms, and unpatched (sp2 disabled pirated copies)systems may serve as propogation nodes to either attack those legitimate(read wealthy)users that have not yet installed SP2 or to exploit windows issues that remain unfixed by SP2.
One scenario is a worm that can release a payload in SP2 or SP1 but can only be propegated by non SP2 systems.
Another is a trojan that permits DDOS or similar attacks from non SP2 systems but that essentially affects everybody.
this bothers me on so many levels. privacy issues aside, this is the friggin' woods we're talking about. hiking is associated with certain inherent risks that have been risks since the beginning of man kind. I am not trying to devalue human life, but if someone dies or is injured in the woods, well it happens nature is a tough mother and this event instills respect for the elements in the rest of us. When I go hiking I don't bring my cell phone or my GPS. That's my choice, if you want to bring yours fine, but please leave me the sanctity of the natural/human relationship and keep the machines out of the wilderness.
after all, its currently the only place I can go where I can take off my foil hat and listen to my "pirated" mp3s.
I have tried quite a number of 802.11 base stations and receivers and found M$'s to have by far the strongest most reliable signal, to be the easiest to setup and manage, and to encompass all the important features a wireless system should have without being overly complicated or buggy. Oh, and how can I forget, their tech support for these products is light years ahead of most of the other wireless vendors.
I am really bummed to hear this news, but when microsoft never released any firmware updates for their 802.11b line of products for over a year (actually they did end up releasing one update I believe for the base station, however it was not available through the update feature included in the wireless software) and especially when they began releasing support for WPA in their OS but never released any upgrades to allow their existing wireless products to take advantage of WPA, I started to guess that they were not too serious about competing in this market.
With the typical microsoft release delays I'll probably have a system like that running on my watch by the time windows 20XD6 (codename longhorn) is released.
well too bad by your standards, but by theirs it would be a far worse thing to adopt science as an alternative to religion.
You say too bad because you regret that they live in ignorance sheltered from the enlightenment of science (and if you are not of religious nature this bothers you because these people can only hinder you).
On the other hand they say too bad to those that adopt science as an alternative to religion because they believe those folks risk eternal damnation (that's fire forever--a far more serious concern than that of potential aggrevation)
As for common sense, perhaps it is too bad for those that have adopted this as an alternative to science OR religion. If science is taught by nature, and religion by God, common sense is taught by man, and God and nature both pity this creature.
pry your eyes off the monitor for a second and look at your desk - yes the one supporting your cheese-puffs that runs neither KDE nor Gnome, it just sits there even when the power goes out. It's a damn mess -- it will take you the equivalent of thousands of cpu clock cycles to find anything on it. Imagine if you didn't have to worry about things being behind or beneath other things, imagine if you could eliminate a whole "dimension" of clutter. It would be inherently more organized and easier to use.
are you getting the picture?
Can someone provide a better explanation of this process than the article did? I don't buy the water as a magnifying glass thing. Why not use a lens? it would do a nicer job and be much more controlable. I'm guessing this has something to do with the index of refraction of water and not just the fact that it appears to magnify things (although the this occurs b/c of the IOR interface).
Adolph you are a saddist indeed. Who in their right mind would put their kid in a Boston or NY school? Have you ever seen Boston Public??
The public schools in both of these cities are terrible.
yeah, and since downloading songs will certaintly destroy the music industry, and since it would be crazy to have music without an industry, everyone will get depressed and start taking heroin and other more deadly drugs -- how will you feel about deleting your ISP logs then?
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such efforts are hardly mutually exclusive to a behemoth like M$.
I hope we can get legislation to make it a federal offense to fart inside this thing.
I like this restricted subnet leper colony idea. A healthy network is one that runs well independently of how crapped out end nodes are. I think in this day, it is best to develop networks that assume that every node is a virus-ridden maggot that could potentially be a threat. Networks that rely on users keeping their systems tidy will not scale well and will invetibaly become weaker by not having to deal with minor day to day issues due to an intially placid user base.
By moving "leper" systems into a restricted subnet until they prove themselves cured, you minimize the risk to your infrastructure without completely terminating access. Additionally, people that let their systems become infested usually will not be power users and may not even notice/mind the restricted access state.
night vision camera on the phone.
well, I'm curious to see what the review says, but I can't because the server is /.ed. However, I have used an Aver brand "TVgenie" extneral box now for six years now and it's great. No Drivers, no software, the computer doesn't even have to be on. It's just a tuner with a VGA pass-through. I've seen so many issues with the early tuner TV cards and the quality often stunk. This thing is great. It lacks fancy features like screen shots and video rips or the ability to watch TV in a window while doing something else, but it does everything a television does and eliminates the need for me to have one. Also since it requires no system resources, I can be rendering at full speed or switch back to a game of unreal during commercials without sacraficing any performance.
c'mon. it will be. they'll release it separately and let it gain acclaim at first. If it does not, well then it's a failed experiment - one that never had the chance to tarnish the OS's name. Then they'll integrate it and use it as a selling point for the newest version of the OS (probably whatever follows longhorn).
I think we can all admit this whole topic is euphamistic for how do I make absolutely sure no one finds the awful porn on my computer when I die.
blury definitions yes, but that does not mean that there are not clear distinctions.
We can all tell the difference between the salvation army and a pawn shop.
Now if an app has a thousand ads attached to it but it makes you well aware that exposure to these ads is the "price" you pay for using it and you choose to continue using it anyway, then thats not evil, it is just an annoyance, and one that you have chosen to accept at that. If it secretly slips ads in after it is suppossedly a terminated process or if takes any action that cannot easily be stopped or that you were not made clearly aware of, then it's evil and it clearly smells evil (insert your "hey that sounds like windows" joke here).
yeah hardware will be free and java will make a comeback and Sun's stock will skyrocket. Go ahead and revitalize my corpse from its cryogenic state when that happens (don't worry, I'm sure Sun will have figured out how to make this possible too.)
the world is flat and president Bush is a Mensa card holder.
A handy tip for TV repair..
TV tubes contain enough voltage to kill, so if you're fixing a TV anywhere that there are kids around take three or four bright yellow low-leakage capacitors, wrap the leads around the body in a spiral, and charge them to a couple of hundred volts.
It doesn't matter how many times you say no, some kids just HAVE to go touching things. It won't kill them to pick up one of these. It might well save their lives in the long run..
I hate you dad.
yeah I know -1 redundant, but I feel the need to reiterate what a stupid last sentence that was.
ughh.. this sounds even more annoying than a screensaver coming up during a DVD.
I'm afraid I do not agree with the policy of M$ to attempt to prevent pirates to get this update. I understand blocking piracy at the installation level , but since SP2 is touted to be a huge security update it seems that preventing it from installing on a certain population of systems will somewhat undermine the security of microsoft's global network (ie. the internet). Most of the powerful exploits are currently worms, and unpatched (sp2 disabled pirated copies)systems may serve as propogation nodes to either attack those legitimate(read wealthy)users that have not yet installed SP2 or to exploit windows issues that remain unfixed by SP2.
One scenario is a worm that can release a payload in SP2 or SP1 but can only be propegated by non SP2 systems.
Another is a trojan that permits DDOS or similar attacks from non SP2 systems but that essentially affects everybody.
this bothers me on so many levels. privacy issues aside, this is the friggin' woods we're talking about. hiking is associated with certain inherent risks that have been risks since the beginning of man kind. I am not trying to devalue human life, but if someone dies or is injured in the woods, well it happens nature is a tough mother and this event instills respect for the elements in the rest of us. When I go hiking I don't bring my cell phone or my GPS. That's my choice, if you want to bring yours fine, but please leave me the sanctity of the natural/human relationship and keep the machines out of the wilderness.
after all, its currently the only place I can go where I can take off my foil hat and listen to my "pirated" mp3s.
I have tried quite a number of 802.11 base stations and receivers and found M$'s to have by far the strongest most reliable signal, to be the easiest to setup and manage, and to encompass all the important features a wireless system should have without being overly complicated or buggy. Oh, and how can I forget, their tech support for these products is light years ahead of most of the other wireless vendors.
I am really bummed to hear this news, but when microsoft never released any firmware updates for their 802.11b line of products for over a year (actually they did end up releasing one update I believe for the base station, however it was not available through the update feature included in the wireless software) and especially when they began releasing support for WPA in their OS but never released any upgrades to allow their existing wireless products to take advantage of WPA, I started to guess that they were not too serious about competing in this market.
remember this is coming from sweden. for all we know people could look totally different over there.
With the typical microsoft release delays I'll probably have a system like that running on my watch by the time windows 20XD6 (codename longhorn) is released.
well too bad by your standards, but by theirs it would be a far worse thing to adopt science as an alternative to religion.
You say too bad because you regret that they live in ignorance sheltered from the enlightenment of science (and if you are not of religious nature this bothers you because these people can only hinder you).
On the other hand they say too bad to those that adopt science as an alternative to religion because they believe those folks risk eternal damnation (that's fire forever--a far more serious concern than that of potential aggrevation)
As for common sense, perhaps it is too bad for those that have adopted this as an alternative to science OR religion. If science is taught by nature, and religion by God, common sense is taught by man, and God and nature both pity this creature.
pry your eyes off the monitor for a second and look at your desk - yes the one supporting your cheese-puffs that runs neither KDE nor Gnome, it just sits there even when the power goes out. It's a damn mess -- it will take you the equivalent of thousands of cpu clock cycles to find anything on it. Imagine if you didn't have to worry about things being behind or beneath other things, imagine if you could eliminate a whole "dimension" of clutter. It would be inherently more organized and easier to use.
are you getting the picture?
Can someone provide a better explanation of this process than the article did? I don't buy the water as a magnifying glass thing. Why not use a lens? it would do a nicer job and be much more controlable. I'm guessing this has something to do with the index of refraction of water and not just the fact that it appears to magnify things (although the this occurs b/c of the IOR interface).
This wouldn't really be considered an optical storage medium as the post suggests.
Adolph you are a saddist indeed. Who in their right mind would put their kid in a Boston or NY school? Have you ever seen Boston Public??
The public schools in both of these cities are terrible.
yeah, and since downloading songs will certaintly destroy the music industry, and since it would be crazy to have music without an industry, everyone will get depressed and start taking heroin and other more deadly drugs -- how will you feel about deleting your ISP logs then?
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mp3s make the baby Jesus cry.
C'mon, hasn't everyone here already Reserved a Skycar?