I'm not saying there is a conspiracy; I don't know, and, at this point, I can't know. I will just say this: if I wanted to kill someone, and the conditions applied, that's what I would use. There is plausible deniability. Small airplanes have a long history of being dangerous to the right people. It just takes a minor tweak in the right place to achieve catastrophic results. Small planes also have a tendency to remain stored in dark, very quiet places for extended periods of time. The only hard part is getting access, but you have all the time you want once you're in, and all the time to come up with a good reason for being there. It's also more or less guaranteed to result in death if it goes off as planned. No whiny paralyzed burnt victim making a scene about you wanting to get rid of them on 60 Minutes. And AFAIK no black box on small planes. In fact, judging by Steve Fossett's crash site report, there's a fairly good chance that there's not much left to go CSI on. So I don't know if he was assassinated, but if someone wanted to get him done, that's how they would have done it. Now let's compare this with 9/11 nutjobs. Ok so zionist republican muslim illuminatis placed tons of explosives in the WTC so that it would go down when two large planes loaded with kerosen would hit them. And thousands of people lie when they say a plane crashed in the Pentagon. Also, even though the plan required a dozen thousand people to keep quiet about it, they managed to keep the details super seecrit, and all the structural engineers who vetted the official version are obviously in on the plot. Also Bush reading my pet goat... nah I've got nothing on this one.
Nobody's saying they'll just go "poof" and just cease to exist, one day. There most certainly will be newspapers around in 15 years time. But how many? I used to read a newspaper in the metro, and even got the paper delivered to my mailbox; but it's even easier to just read it on one of my 24" screens instead of having to go down the stairs to pick it up. And in the metro I just read the news on my $smartphone.
The world is in a global depression because everybody's listened to Milton Friedman (Pinochet's best buddy), and it turns out the creep was just completely bonkers; even 'bubbles' Greenspan admits it. Turns out that traders are as useless as they seem to be, that the whole finance system is just a collection of Ponzi schemes. This has'nt got much to do with central banking, because here those banks that failed (Lehman and friends) were creating money (borderline illegally), through what the bozos called "leveraging."
That's a great anecdote. I had the same kind of problem once, my doctor sent me to a kinesiotherapist. He probably did the same kind of thing, but without the bullshit. Chiropractors believe that a lot of completely related ailments have something to do with the spine being improperly aligned. That's bullshit.
There's no doubt that (at least some) herbal medicines have therapeutic value. It's also well known that many pills sold by big pharma contain chemicals originally found in nature (not just herbs, but also fungi and so on). So what's better, the natural herb or the pill, if they contain the same chemical? The pill, without a doubt, because its content is precisely calibrated. A plant will have wildly varying concentrations of the substance, depending on weather, soil, method of harvesting, drying, packaging and how long it's sat on a shelf. A given pill will contain 50 mg plus or minus.1%. The same kind of pill, at a different pharmacy, the next month, will also contain 50 mg. An herbal decoction might have 10mg in winter at the hippie store, and 800 mg in summer at the herbal website. Why will it matter? Because it might just take 30 mg to heal you, and 500 mg to kill you.
What are the major deficincies in the Windows USB stack?
Linux can pretty much saturate the USB bus with a mass storage device transfer, i.e. use almost all the available bandwidth. Last time I tried (with XP, might have improved with Vista) I got 1/2 the transfer rate than on Linux.
VLC? Most Linux distributions won't even ship a MP3 decoder! You need third party software to effectively support the popular audio & video formats on any recent desktop OS.
On Fedora and Ubuntu (the last two I've checked), when you try to play an MP3, it warns you about the licensing issue and after a couple clicks, installs the codecs for you. Come to think of it, I don't even remember Fedora asking, it just worked.
I am puzzled as to why SELinux matters on a desktop system.
Just two quick examples on what you can do on Fedora 10:
The flash plugins runs in a separate process, through nspluginwrapper, with a restricted selinux context. It mitigates most vulnerabilities in that opaque binary blob. The same principle can be applied to other types of plugins.
You can install the xguest package, which allows a guest user to log in locally, browse the web, use installed applications, and not do much of anything else. It's not just a kiosk mode; even if you managed to elevate priviledges, you'd still be in a restricted context. And even if you could install any executable or compile your own, you'd still be unable to connect to most local daemons or send spam and so on.
Eventually, should Linux gain enough market share as to make it appealing to virus writers, SELinux could help block most of them.
...and that's the exact reason I haven't migrated.
It's not about any single person migrating or not. It's about whether Linux is ready to compete seriously with Windows on the desktop. It is. Not everyone plays games on every computer, if they did Intel wouldn't be selling so many craptastic "integrated graphics" chipsets.
And it's a great argument to counter the "enterprisey" reputation of Windows; if all it can do better than Linux is games, well...
I've been using Vista64 for about 3 months now and haven't had a single crash or freeze.
Windows Enterprise Professional Business: it doesn't crash too often, and it's great for games.
... on the desktop. There was a time when Windows had USB support, and Linux panicked within 5 minutes of inserting one of those fancy new 512k USB keys. That was a whiiiile ago.
There was a time when Windows had antialiased fonts but not Linux.
When Windows had Media Player and I struggled to play a DVD or the odd.avi in mplayer without it crashing.
When the only decent graphical browser that didn't crash was konqueror, and then it crashed quite a bit.
That was the time when IE was the best browser, although not by much. And that was a long fucking time ago.
Not so long ago, there was a time when you seriously use Linux on a laptop. Couldn't suspend, hibernate, or what have you. Wireless drivers? There was that ONE orinoco thingie or something, and if you could get lucky enough to find one...
So that was at least 5 years ago.
Today Linux's USB support is vastly superior to any Windows, performance was and so on. Linux doesn't require dodgy third-party drivers. Suspend/hibernate/energy saving features work on 99% of laptops. Wifi works out of the box on most distribs, or at worst requires the DLL compatibility thingie because some vendors still suck (proprietary) cock. We have the best built-in full disk encryption, built-in virtualization, and there's SELinux, which is much better than what Windows has to offer.
Soo, hm yeah, there is this applications thing, or the lack thereof. Really? Most apps now run in a browser window. And what is the situation today, in the browser war? Internet Explorer 8 BETA sucks as much, compared to modern browsers, as early, crashy Mozilla sucked compared to IE 5. And here at the office today, someone had to watch a video sent by the communications dept. Windows couldn't play it. They ended up downloading VLC with Firefox, and it worked great.
So in the end, what's left is games. I'll give you that.
"Yeah, Windows; gotta admit it's better for videogames."
What is that thing, another overpriced piece of proprietary bloatware? On RPM based Linux distribs, it's trivial to create an RPM package of any bunch of file you have. A simple.spec file need not be more than a dozen lines to achieve this. Rpmbuild it, and voila, you've got a new package that you can push any number of ways. Just create a yum repository, again, quite a basic thing to do, and on the next update request it will be installed. So what's preventing you from doing that with FF and WSUS? FF is almost entirely self-contained, no need for esoteric DLLs, you can basically just push the folder to your "Program Files" dir.
Firefox doesn't do tray icon notifications. And distribution-provided Firefox packages disable the auto-update, which wouldn't succeed anyway as the user running FF is not supposed to have write access to/usr. Instead, the distrib's auto-update mechanism handle it (apt for Ubuntu/Debian, yum for RedHat/Fedora, emerge for Gentoo, yast IIRC for Suse and so on). This is better on many levels, since it prevents a user process from altering the binary. But you can also download the official Linux tarball and deploy it to your home directory; the FF update mechanism will handle it.
In a controversial move to restore trust in its products, Microsoft just announced that it will rename Internet Explorer 8 as "Microsoft Firefox Downloader 1.0". A spokesperson for the company, speaking on conditions of anonymity, commented that the move was the result of a market study to identify the most common task performed by users of the product.
Also, still no XHTML, you fucking shitheads? You can XML, you can do HTML, but you can't do XHTML?
HTML+CSS (current versions) is inadequate for most of what it's used for (user interfaces), as opposed to what it's meant for (documents). Add to the mix the monster that is IE, and you need javascript to make it bearable.
Gwenole Beauchesne has committed a lot of fixes in the past few weeks; the latest version is quite stable. In fact, it never crashes the browser for me, at worst the plugin instances die but a simple page reload fixes it. Separating the plugins in another process allows Fedora 9+ to isolate them in their own, limited SELinux context. Even if there's a performance price for it, it might well be worth it.
You can't specify service dependencies in/service; but it's extremely awesome when you need to roll out a quick service. Last week I had to make sure an ssh tunnel stayed open, here's what it takes: cat > run #!/bin/sh exec ssh -i key -L 4000:127.0.0.1:4000 user@host vmstat 30 ^D chmod a+x run ln -s $PWD/service
I don't need svn to do that, I just use it to keep an history of the changes I made, and it's free to use since it's just included in the make process. Instead of signalling bind to reload, I type "make" instead, and it does much more, more predictively. And yes, I use scp, and make, and also bash and vi. Looook at meee! I use Haute Technology! My zone "transfers" are compressed, encrypted and authentified; I'm so spoiled!/snark
Me I'd just use display: -moz-box; --moz-box-align: horizontal; and -moz-box-flex: 1;, but that's very much non-standard. Thing is, even if it's not strictly speaking tabular data, it's not a case of tablesoup either.
Generic records have an awkward syntax, but they allow you to store any kind of record. If you don't like it, you can just write a single line perl script to preprocess it. I have 100 domains managed with tinydns, the "data" file was getting a bit big. So I broke it up in a few files, and then have a makefile to * svn commit * Cat it all together and * preprocess it into "data" * Run tinydns-data * scp data.cdb to a number of secondary servers * Delete data (so that someone doesn't mistakenly edit it)
Trust me, it beats the kludgy master/slave BS of bind.
The only limitation have encountered is when you want to let a user have access to only part of the data. It would require some programming to make sure they don't add data for domains they don't own.
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The few trillions Bush funnelled to his friends at Halliburton and Blackwater, that's gotta have some power, doesn't it?
I'm not saying there is a conspiracy; I don't know, and, at this point, I can't know. I will just say this: if I wanted to kill someone, and the conditions applied, that's what I would use. ... nah I've got nothing on this one.
There is plausible deniability. Small airplanes have a long history of being dangerous to the right people. It just takes a minor tweak in the right place to achieve catastrophic results. Small planes also have a tendency to remain stored in dark, very quiet places for extended periods of time. The only hard part is getting access, but you have all the time you want once you're in, and all the time to come up with a good reason for being there.
It's also more or less guaranteed to result in death if it goes off as planned. No whiny paralyzed burnt victim making a scene about you wanting to get rid of them on 60 Minutes. And AFAIK no black box on small planes. In fact, judging by Steve Fossett's crash site report, there's a fairly good chance that there's not much left to go CSI on.
So I don't know if he was assassinated, but if someone wanted to get him done, that's how they would have done it.
Now let's compare this with 9/11 nutjobs. Ok so zionist republican muslim illuminatis placed tons of explosives in the WTC so that it would go down when two large planes loaded with kerosen would hit them. And thousands of people lie when they say a plane crashed in the Pentagon. Also, even though the plan required a dozen thousand people to keep quiet about it, they managed to keep the details super seecrit, and all the structural engineers who vetted the official version are obviously in on the plot. Also Bush reading my pet goat
Same thing, right?
Cue last week's news about BitTorrent going UDP ...
Nobody's saying they'll just go "poof" and just cease to exist, one day. There most certainly will be newspapers around in 15 years time. But how many?
I used to read a newspaper in the metro, and even got the paper delivered to my mailbox; but it's even easier to just read it on one of my 24" screens instead of having to go down the stairs to pick it up. And in the metro I just read the news on my $smartphone.
The world is in a global depression because everybody's listened to Milton Friedman (Pinochet's best buddy), and it turns out the creep was just completely bonkers; even 'bubbles' Greenspan admits it.
Turns out that traders are as useless as they seem to be, that the whole finance system is just a collection of Ponzi schemes.
This has'nt got much to do with central banking, because here those banks that failed (Lehman and friends) were creating money (borderline illegally), through what the bozos called "leveraging."
That's a great anecdote.
I had the same kind of problem once, my doctor sent me to a kinesiotherapist. He probably did the same kind of thing, but without the bullshit. Chiropractors believe that a lot of completely related ailments have something to do with the spine being improperly aligned. That's bullshit.
There's no doubt that (at least some) herbal medicines have therapeutic value. It's also well known that many pills sold by big pharma contain chemicals originally found in nature (not just herbs, but also fungi and so on). .1%. The same kind of pill, at a different pharmacy, the next month, will also contain 50 mg. An herbal decoction might have 10mg in winter at the hippie store, and 800 mg in summer at the herbal website.
So what's better, the natural herb or the pill, if they contain the same chemical?
The pill, without a doubt, because its content is precisely calibrated. A plant will have wildly varying concentrations of the substance, depending on weather, soil, method of harvesting, drying, packaging and how long it's sat on a shelf. A given pill will contain 50 mg plus or minus
Why will it matter? Because it might just take 30 mg to heal you, and 500 mg to kill you.
What are the major deficincies in the Windows USB stack?
Linux can pretty much saturate the USB bus with a mass storage device transfer, i.e. use almost all the available bandwidth. Last time I tried (with XP, might have improved with Vista) I got 1/2 the transfer rate than on Linux.
VLC? Most Linux distributions won't even ship a MP3 decoder! You need third party software to effectively support the popular audio & video formats on any recent desktop OS.
On Fedora and Ubuntu (the last two I've checked), when you try to play an MP3, it warns you about the licensing issue and after a couple clicks, installs the codecs for you.
Come to think of it, I don't even remember Fedora asking, it just worked.
I am puzzled as to why SELinux matters on a desktop system.
Just two quick examples on what you can do on Fedora 10:
Eventually, should Linux gain enough market share as to make it appealing to virus writers, SELinux could help block most of them.
...and that's the exact reason I haven't migrated.
It's not about any single person migrating or not. It's about whether Linux is ready to compete seriously with Windows on the desktop. It is. Not everyone plays games on every computer, if they did Intel wouldn't be selling so many craptastic "integrated graphics" chipsets.
And it's a great argument to counter the "enterprisey" reputation of Windows; if all it can do better than Linux is games, well ...
I've been using Vista64 for about 3 months now and haven't had a single crash or freeze.
Windows Enterprise Professional Business: it doesn't crash too often, and it's great for games.
"Most apps run in a browser window?" There are many web applications out there, yet I find myself using real applications when they are available.
It's called hyperbole. My browser doesn't run in a browser window, for one.
If there's a way to make it update 3rd party software, I'm not aware of it.
So it's not free-as-in-speech, and it's barely free-as-in-beer, as long as you agree to drink the beer through a thin curly straw.
... on the desktop.
There was a time when Windows had USB support, and Linux panicked within 5 minutes of inserting one of those fancy new 512k USB keys. That was a whiiiile ago.
There was a time when Windows had antialiased fonts but not Linux.
When Windows had Media Player and I struggled to play a DVD or the odd .avi in mplayer without it crashing.
When the only decent graphical browser that didn't crash was konqueror, and then it crashed quite a bit.
That was the time when IE was the best browser, although not by much. And that was a long fucking time ago.
Not so long ago, there was a time when you seriously use Linux on a laptop. Couldn't suspend, hibernate, or what have you. Wireless drivers? There was that ONE orinoco thingie or something, and if you could get lucky enough to find one ...
So that was at least 5 years ago.
Today Linux's USB support is vastly superior to any Windows, performance was and so on. Linux doesn't require dodgy third-party drivers. Suspend/hibernate/energy saving features work on 99% of laptops. Wifi works out of the box on most distribs, or at worst requires the DLL compatibility thingie because some vendors still suck (proprietary) cock. We have the best built-in full disk encryption, built-in virtualization, and there's SELinux, which is much better than what Windows has to offer.
Soo, hm yeah, there is this applications thing, or the lack thereof. Really? Most apps now run in a browser window. And what is the situation today, in the browser war? Internet Explorer 8 BETA sucks as much, compared to modern browsers, as early, crashy Mozilla sucked compared to IE 5. And here at the office today, someone had to watch a video sent by the communications dept. Windows couldn't play it. They ended up downloading VLC with Firefox, and it worked great.
So in the end, what's left is games. I'll give you that.
"Yeah, Windows; gotta admit it's better for videogames."
What is that thing, another overpriced piece of proprietary bloatware? .spec file need not be more than a dozen lines to achieve this. Rpmbuild it, and voila, you've got a new package that you can push any number of ways. Just create a yum repository, again, quite a basic thing to do, and on the next update request it will be installed.
On RPM based Linux distribs, it's trivial to create an RPM package of any bunch of file you have. A simple
So what's preventing you from doing that with FF and WSUS? FF is almost entirely self-contained, no need for esoteric DLLs, you can basically just push the folder to your "Program Files" dir.
Firefox doesn't do tray icon notifications. And distribution-provided Firefox packages disable the auto-update, which wouldn't succeed anyway as the user running FF is not supposed to have write access to /usr. Instead, the distrib's auto-update mechanism handle it (apt for Ubuntu/Debian, yum for RedHat/Fedora, emerge for Gentoo, yast IIRC for Suse and so on). This is better on many levels, since it prevents a user process from altering the binary.
But you can also download the official Linux tarball and deploy it to your home directory; the FF update mechanism will handle it.
Also, still no XHTML, you fucking shitheads? You can XML, you can do HTML, but you can't do XHTML?
HTML+CSS (current versions) is inadequate for most of what it's used for (user interfaces), as opposed to what it's meant for (documents). Add to the mix the monster that is IE, and you need javascript to make it bearable.
Gwenole Beauchesne has committed a lot of fixes in the past few weeks; the latest version is quite stable. In fact, it never crashes the browser for me, at worst the plugin instances die but a simple page reload fixes it.
Separating the plugins in another process allows Fedora 9+ to isolate them in their own, limited SELinux context. Even if there's a performance price for it, it might well be worth it.
It's in the goddamn rfc, they HAVE to follow it. What are you, from Microsoft?
Of course that requires that the use of the evil bit be mandated by law.
You can't specify service dependencies in /service; but it's extremely awesome when you need to roll out a quick service. Last week I had to make sure an ssh tunnel stayed open, here's what it takes: /service
cat > run
#!/bin/sh
exec ssh -i key -L 4000:127.0.0.1:4000 user@host vmstat 30
^D
chmod a+x run
ln -s $PWD
Bang. It's done. Beat that.
I don't need svn to do that, I just use it to keep an history of the changes I made, and it's free to use since it's just included in the make process. Instead of signalling bind to reload, I type "make" instead, and it does much more, more predictively. /snark
And yes, I use scp, and make, and also bash and vi. Looook at meee! I use Haute Technology! My zone "transfers" are compressed, encrypted and authentified; I'm so spoiled!
Me I'd just use display: -moz-box; --moz-box-align: horizontal; and -moz-box-flex: 1;, but that's very much non-standard.
Thing is, even if it's not strictly speaking tabular data, it's not a case of tablesoup either.
Generic records have an awkward syntax, but they allow you to store any kind of record. If you don't like it, you can just write a single line perl script to preprocess it. I have 100 domains managed with tinydns, the "data" file was getting a bit big. So I broke it up in a few files, and then have a makefile to
* svn commit
* Cat it all together and
* preprocess it into "data"
* Run tinydns-data
* scp data.cdb to a number of secondary servers
* Delete data (so that someone doesn't mistakenly edit it)
Trust me, it beats the kludgy master/slave BS of bind.
The only limitation have encountered is when you want to let a user have access to only part of the data. It would require some programming to make sure they don't add data for domains they don't own.
Or what's you definition of "tabular data"? Numerical spreadsheets?