Anything built around windows is gonna be braindead when it comes to handling Timezones. I point this out to students as a side effect of Windows being inherently single-user. All times in Windows are the ephemeral 'local' time (whatever 'local' means).
Unix, on the other hand, being inherently multi-user has needed to deal with users in different timezones since it's early days -- thus UNIX time is based on GMT (now UCT) with a timezone offset for display. This is why programs like Evolution (which is Unix based) are more likely to be sane about dealing with timezones.
(PS: If you want to know what time it is in Calcuta, try:
How many times have you seen a corporation that was actually democratic? To create such a beast requires a conscious effort to bend the rules. Generally, a corporation is a paragon of dictatorships. The people at the top give the orders, and the people below them follow those orders -- or else. Where's the inherent democracy and freedom in that?
Back about a decade ago, one shell executive was quoted as saying that what any corporation needs, is political stability, and a compliant, cheap workforce == and dictatorships are really good at providing that.
Capitalism does not embrace democracy. It simply tolerates it in the context of western societies. In other countries where there is no need to push for democracy, why should a company do so? The linkage between the two is pure political sugar-coating. This is part of the reason for the tension between capitalism and Free Software (and why 'Open Source' seems like a compelling compromise). Free Software is about Freedom, choice and equality -- none of which really serves the purposes of your average corporate meta-entity.
I got a really nice Brother MFC-4420 multifunction printer/scanner/fax unit with card reader slots -- really nice except for one thing:
Absolutely no support for Linux. Not for the scanner, or the printeer. I havan't tried to access the memory cards. It's annoying. What's even more annoying is that they already have a CUPS driver for MacOS, so Linux support for at least the printer would be trivial.
Until the issue is resolved, I won't suggest brother devices to any of my friends or clients, because if they want to flip to Linux, they won't have any support.
A long time ago, a friend of mine wanted to print 100 copies of a rather popular (but fun and silly) document that she and a friend had created in high school. This was at the University of Alberta, and at the time the standard printer was a Xerox 9700 laser printer that did 2 sheets/ second. It was about the size of a skinny station wagon.
She asked around for how to get 100 copies of her 10 page article, and got two answers. Silly girl uses both methods. The next day she went to the computer room to pick up her print job, and they couldn't find it... "It's rather big" she says naievely. Somethink clicks "oh... that print job" says the clerk. He dissapears for a couple of seconds, and comes back with a 5000 page case box of paper. Then another... and another....
100x100x10= 100,000 pages, but since it was printed double-sided, it was only 10 cases of paper. She had friends using cases of paper as balast for winter driving.
In other words, government inquisitors can make up whatever standard they want after the fact.
The stated intent is that smaller entities which rarely handle customer/consumer data will not be required to do 'heavy lifting' to dispose of their documents. That's stated in the report, and even aluded to in the rules. Bigger companies will fight to minimize what 'reasonable measures' entail, and smaller companies will benefit from that, because they'll be expected to have to do less (by dint of the wording of the rule).
As for "everything" being interstate commerce -- no. Things like websites are now effectively interstate (because they can reach anywhere), but an agreement between my and my nanny wouldn't be because it doesn't touch anywhere non-local. Even local investment-raising is under the purview of state investment boards, so you can still escape the control of the FTC there.
It's only not safe if you have somebody willing to pay $big bucks per page for the information. My babysitter's credit report isn't worth that kind of money, whereas Bill Gates' might. The rule requires reasonable measures under the circumstances, not (necessarily) perfect destruction.
Like most other 'real life' security policies, you need to take into account how much effort an attacker is likely to be willing to undertake to recover your data. Joe schmoe and his babysitter's security report is going to be at the other end of the spectrum from the KGB and a Nuclear spy's transmissions.
For a mom & pop operation which rarely has sensitive info, hand shredding and splitting the result between a coupld of garbage cans will probably suffice. My lawyer, on the other hand, better have a cross-shredder.
For real-life spys, a thermite grenade on a disk drive is considered an emergency measure. For me, a single pass of zeroes would suffice, but urandom is probably a better solution.
I haven't found the actual rules themselves, but I did find the FCC report on the rulesl Page 5 gives a pretty good description of the requirements for disposal:
Under the proposed rule, any person that maintains or otherwise posesses consumer information would be required to "take reasonable measures to protect against unauthroized access to or use of the infomation in connection with its disposal." Recognizing that there are few foolproof methods of record destruction, the NPR stated that the propossed rule would not require covered persons to ensure perfect destruction of consumer information inevery instance; rather, it requires covered entities to take reasonable measures to protect against unauthorixrf access to or use of the information in connection with its disposal. In determining what measures are "reasonable" under the rule, the Commission stated in the NPR that it expects that entities covered by the rule would consider the sensitivity of the consumer information, the nature and suze if the entity's operations, the costs and benefits of different disposal methods and relevant technological changes. Thd commission also noted that "reasonable measures" are very likely to require elements such as establishment of policies and procedures governing disposal as well as appropriate employee training.
Ah.. The actual rule is on page 9 of the document... and I'll note of rule 682.2 b:
(b)scope. This rule applies to any person over which the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction, that, for a business purpose, maintains or otherwise possesses consumer information.
(bolding mine)
In other words, someone who hires a nanny would probably not be under the purview of FTC or any other such federal rule -- unless the nanny had to travel across state lines. Nonetheless, It seems that the rules qould require that somebody providing you with the information would have to warn you that the infomation is protected -- and you'd probably be best off to destroy it properly just in case you should find that you're under FTC control because of some technicality.
In any case, they call for reasonable measures -- in other words, a little mom and pop (literally) operation hiring a nanny wouldn't have the same requirements as equifax disposing of thousands of documents, so ripping up the mammy's credit/bond report and distributing the pieces between two or three different garbage cans would probably suffice.
The actual imortant part of this is the regulations (which may be yet to be created) for what needs to be done to appropriately destroy associated data. Hopeflly most people should be able to get away with just doing a single write of zeroes or pseudo-random data, while places like equifax should be required to do a bit more work. (because their collections would be especially valuable).
Of course, knowing the way that the political system works, it's probably going to end up being the other way 'round.
I picked up a handfull of 500MB drives the other day (so my students could play with RAID), but I didn't have the time to dump the data off of them before I gave them to my students. Oh well. Just as good.
The best that I've gotten off of a used drive so far is 3GB of downloaded music (including about 300MB of east-indian pop -- the best part of the score.
It would, of course, be nice to get a pointer to the actual law, so we're not just blathering blindly about something that is really barely referenced in the article.
Some cities (at least it's the case here in Vancouver) have zoning bylaws that don't allow regular wood (or, by implication, paper) burning fireplaces and stoves to be installed anymore. This may not be feasible.
And what happens if someone hacks into your computer?
It seems to talk about disposal, not storage, so if someone breaks into your computer, then I'd guess it's not covered. On the other hand, I'd strongly suggest that people get a knoppix CD and learn to type 'shred/dev/hda' before they throw their computers into the dumpster.
With IBM getting the contract to provide the CPUs for 3 (is it?) different gaming consoles, They're going to seriously up their volume of PPC chips. This should give them cause to drastically up the R&D that they put into the chip series. That would aleviate a lot of the pressure on the PPC family that Apple is probably feeling.
On the contrary, I can see one downside for Apple in this: They might be less important to IBM's PPC strategy, relatively speaking.
They might be going to a split Intel/PPC production as a test -- and as a cluestick to IBM to pay them a bit more attention. If IBM has to fight Intel
for Apple market share, they might be that much nicer to Apple.
There's a difference between sex and rape -- Rape isn't just a crime of sex. It's a crime of violence. There was a very recent case here in Vancouver where a guy hired hookers, set up a camera and then proceeded to do things like kicking them in the private parts, using heavy-duty clips and doing other very degrading and ainfull things that the hookers had not expected or wanted.
Thankfully (in terms of prosecuting the crimes) he videotaped many of these attacks and so, once the police came across him attacking a local hooker, they found his video tapes and were able to get convictions (( his attacks included foreign girls as young as 8 )).
It depends on what kind of sex you're looking for. Different 'bod every night sex, or boyfriend/girlfriend sex? I, personally, get a lot more out of the latter and trust is a much bigger issue there.
Even with the former, trust is part of the issue.. Most women want to know that they're not going off with a serial rapist/killer type -- and if you're an HIV-positive sex-fiend wanting to convince your partner to do without a condom, A nice whiff of this stuff would definitely help the process.
I can easily believe that. Sometimes when I'm typing out something, I'll just close my eyes, slouch and start typing. -- Like you say -- I just know when I've hit the right key. I probably don't do it that way as often as I should.
Where I get tripped up, though is when I have to type in some of the special characters. I don't type them as of ten, so I often loose my place when I'm typing them.
the.- coding is a visual method of encoding the length of the touch... It's back from a time when the underscore character didn't exist on most typewriters. Today it would probably be better represented as... ___... . Of course, it would help if the _'s didn't merge at their tips in most fonts. I guess you could use small bullets instead.
In any case, if you wanted to get the aural component right it would be
Yes, I fully agree with the above... Personally, I think that a law should be passed to make the use of this new chemical and it's relatives illegal except for medically important purposes (i.e. for medical research or with a prescription).
RTFA. Everyone converted. Windows NT was even replaced on most of the PCs by LTSP.
NT was being replaced -- so they decided to put Linux on those boxes (mostly terminal server). The rest of the machines (running 2000 or XP) were left running with MS office on them and with Open Office being added. People on those machines had a choice between OO and MSO -- and decicde to switch.
There was no requirement for students to switch, but it appers that most of them did, anyways.
Drop into the shop, and give them a set of Debian install disks... Tell them that if they install that instead of Linux, they can charge $75, keep $25 and give you $50. In return, they get 2 hours of free support and a 3 hour class (scheduled once a week, or when you have enough customers) on how to use it all and what's available.
$25/copy is probably more than they make from Windows, so they'll be happy, and you'll get a steady stream of customers. Depending on how things work, you can shift the price however works for you. You might find that $20/customer is good enough for you because of all the work that it ultimately generates. Whatever -- Have fun with it and see how things work.
Since 2000, just about everyh roommate that I've had has moved out running Windows on their box
Correction: That should have been that they've all moved out running Linux (if it wasn't obvious from the context). In fact, my first linux-convert roommate turned into such a Linux booster that it caught me by surprise.
but then, most of my experience has been fixing people's (sometimes horribly) broken MS Windows installataions. Since 2000, just about everyh roommate that I've had has moved out running Windows on their box. After working with Linux for about 4 months, my most recent roommate caught me by surprise when she asked me to remove the Windows partition from her box (it really does just get in the way).
People have tried ordering Linux boxes from the Dell website -- with generally unsatisfactory results -- In at least some cases, their version of 'Linux loaded' is shipping it with FreeDos and having a contractor drive out and install Linux after it arrives at your home. They also charge yoo more for this than you would pay for a Windows box.
You might be able to get pre-imaged machines, but from what I can tell, it's only for big-volume purchasers. For the techie types who know enough to produce a Linux image for Dell to put on their home boxes, it's pretty much irrelevenat. I mean, how many consumers do you know that could provide Dell with a workable Windows image?
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Unix, on the other hand, being inherently multi-user has needed to deal with users in different timezones since it's early days -- thus UNIX time is based on GMT (now UCT) with a timezone offset for display. This is why programs like Evolution (which is Unix based) are more likely to be sane about dealing with timezones.
(PS: If you want to know what time it is in Calcuta, try:
in bash.)Back about a decade ago, one shell executive was quoted as saying that what any corporation needs, is political stability, and a compliant, cheap workforce == and dictatorships are really good at providing that.
Capitalism does not embrace democracy. It simply tolerates it in the context of western societies. In other countries where there is no need to push for democracy, why should a company do so? The linkage between the two is pure political sugar-coating. This is part of the reason for the tension between capitalism and Free Software (and why 'Open Source' seems like a compelling compromise). Free Software is about Freedom, choice and equality -- none of which really serves the purposes of your average corporate meta-entity.
Absolutely no support for Linux. Not for the scanner, or the printeer. I havan't tried to access the memory cards. It's annoying. What's even more annoying is that they already have a CUPS driver for MacOS, so Linux support for at least the printer would be trivial.
Until the issue is resolved, I won't suggest brother devices to any of my friends or clients, because if they want to flip to Linux, they won't have any support.
She asked around for how to get 100 copies of her 10 page article, and got two answers. Silly girl uses both methods. The next day she went to the computer room to pick up her print job, and they couldn't find it... "It's rather big" she says naievely. Somethink clicks "oh... that print job" says the clerk. He dissapears for a couple of seconds, and comes back with a 5000 page case box of paper. Then another... and another....
100x100x10= 100,000 pages, but since it was printed double-sided, it was only 10 cases of paper. She had friends using cases of paper as balast for winter driving.
The stated intent is that smaller entities which rarely handle customer/consumer data will not be required to do 'heavy lifting' to dispose of their documents. That's stated in the report, and even aluded to in the rules. Bigger companies will fight to minimize what 'reasonable measures' entail, and smaller companies will benefit from that, because they'll be expected to have to do less (by dint of the wording of the rule).
As for "everything" being interstate commerce -- no. Things like websites are now effectively interstate (because they can reach anywhere), but an agreement between my and my nanny wouldn't be because it doesn't touch anywhere non-local. Even local investment-raising is under the purview of state investment boards, so you can still escape the control of the FTC there.
Like most other 'real life' security policies, you need to take into account how much effort an attacker is likely to be willing to undertake to recover your data. Joe schmoe and his babysitter's security report is going to be at the other end of the spectrum from the KGB and a Nuclear spy's transmissions.
For a mom & pop operation which rarely has sensitive info, hand shredding and splitting the result between a coupld of garbage cans will probably suffice. My lawyer, on the other hand, better have a cross-shredder.
For real-life spys, a thermite grenade on a disk drive is considered an emergency measure. For me, a single pass of zeroes would suffice, but urandom is probably a better solution.
In other words, someone who hires a nanny would probably not be under the purview of FTC or any other such federal rule -- unless the nanny had to travel across state lines. Nonetheless, It seems that the rules qould require that somebody providing you with the information would have to warn you that the infomation is protected -- and you'd probably be best off to destroy it properly just in case you should find that you're under FTC control because of some technicality.
In any case, they call for reasonable measures -- in other words, a little mom and pop (literally) operation hiring a nanny wouldn't have the same requirements as equifax disposing of thousands of documents, so ripping up the mammy's credit/bond report and distributing the pieces between two or three different garbage cans would probably suffice.
The entirety of H.R.2622 Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 and the specific section SEC. 216. DISPOSAL OF CONSUMER REPORT INFORMATION AND RECORDS.
The actual imortant part of this is the regulations (which may be yet to be created) for what needs to be done to appropriately destroy associated data. Hopeflly most people should be able to get away with just doing a single write of zeroes or pseudo-random data, while places like equifax should be required to do a bit more work. (because their collections would be especially valuable).
Of course, knowing the way that the political system works, it's probably going to end up being the other way 'round.
The best that I've gotten off of a used drive so far is 3GB of downloaded music (including about 300MB of east-indian pop -- the best part of the score.
It would, of course, be nice to get a pointer to the actual law, so we're not just blathering blindly about something that is really barely referenced in the article.
Some cities (at least it's the case here in Vancouver) have zoning bylaws that don't allow regular wood (or, by implication, paper) burning fireplaces and stoves to be installed anymore. This may not be feasible.
It seems to talk about disposal, not storage, so if someone breaks into your computer, then I'd guess it's not covered. On the other hand, I'd strongly suggest that people get a knoppix CD and learn to type 'shred /dev/hda' before they throw their computers into the dumpster.
bu now they're all set for a line drive...
*(just had to say that).
I take it you thought I was being serious there???
On the contrary, I can see one downside for Apple in this: They might be less important to IBM's PPC strategy, relatively speaking.
They might be going to a split Intel/PPC production as a test -- and as a cluestick to IBM to pay them a bit more attention. If IBM has to fight Intel for Apple market share, they might be that much nicer to Apple.
There's a difference between sex and rape -- Rape isn't just a crime of sex. It's a crime of violence. There was a very recent case here in Vancouver where a guy hired hookers, set up a camera and then proceeded to do things like kicking them in the private parts, using heavy-duty clips and doing other very degrading and ainfull things that the hookers had not expected or wanted.
Thankfully (in terms of prosecuting the crimes) he videotaped many of these attacks and so, once the police came across him attacking a local hooker, they found his video tapes and were able to get convictions (( his attacks included foreign girls as young as 8 )).
Even with the former, trust is part of the issue.. Most women want to know that they're not going off with a serial rapist/killer type -- and if you're an HIV-positive sex-fiend wanting to convince your partner to do without a condom, A nice whiff of this stuff would definitely help the process.
I can easily believe that. Sometimes when I'm typing out something, I'll just close my eyes, slouch and start typing. -- Like you say -- I just know when I've hit the right key. I probably don't do it that way as often as I should.
Where I get tripped up, though is when I have to type in some of the special characters. I don't type them as of ten, so I often loose my place when I'm typing them.
In any case, if you wanted to get the aural component right it would be
Dit's and diits both have the same tone.Yes, I fully agree with the above... Personally, I think that a law should be passed to make the use of this new chemical and it's relatives illegal except for medically important purposes (i.e. for medical research or with a prescription).
NT was being replaced -- so they decided to put Linux on those boxes (mostly terminal server). The rest of the machines (running 2000 or XP) were left running with MS office on them and with Open Office being added. People on those machines had a choice between OO and MSO -- and decicde to switch.
There was no requirement for students to switch, but it appers that most of them did, anyways.
$25/copy is probably more than they make from Windows, so they'll be happy, and you'll get a steady stream of customers. Depending on how things work, you can shift the price however works for you. You might find that $20/customer is good enough for you because of all the work that it ultimately generates. Whatever -- Have fun with it and see how things work.
This is what Open Source is all about.
Correction: That should have been that they've all moved out running Linux (if it wasn't obvious from the context). In fact, my first linux-convert roommate turned into such a Linux booster that it caught me by surprise.
but then, most of my experience has been fixing people's (sometimes horribly) broken MS Windows installataions. Since 2000, just about everyh roommate that I've had has moved out running Windows on their box. After working with Linux for about 4 months, my most recent roommate caught me by surprise when she asked me to remove the Windows partition from her box (it really does just get in the way).
You might be able to get pre-imaged machines, but from what I can tell, it's only for big-volume purchasers. For the techie types who know enough to produce a Linux image for Dell to put on their home boxes, it's pretty much irrelevenat. I mean, how many consumers do you know that could provide Dell with a workable Windows image?