Re:Windows 3.1x may be old, but it's "tough enough
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Is Your OS Tough Enough?
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· Score: 2, Informative
Did Windows 3.1 even have listening services by default? I recall having to add a separate TCP/IP stack, and being able to choose from several different vendors (which would bundle their daemons along with the stack).. I recall Chameleon, some FTP.com stuff, Trumpet Winsock...
It's hard to remote sploit something that isn't even listening....
... Linux has good-to-outstanding driver support for every class of peripheral, though not every single peripheral. It's getting to the point where engineering and testing companies are looking to support linux as a proven platform (you know, so they can put 'linux' on the side of the box of whatever hardware it is).
Dvorak is a long time head-up-ass type anyway, along the lines of a Charles Cooper or any number of Bob Metcalfe-style curmudgeons.
IMHO, Linux's biggest problems lay in usability, and that's because usability isn't a fun itch to scratch. It's not fun hearing end users whine about how hard it is to do something. It's not fun having your pretty baby maligned by techno-illiterates. However, if you want to rule the world, that means ruling the 'mundanes' as well... And great aesthetics rarely come from a committee of committers, they usually come from a power-mad dictator of some sort or another.
Wow, sounds like iCal.. I subscribe to a number of calendars, including the US Holidays, DVD releases, etc.. Not only can I overlay them (check on calendar in the subscription pane, it pops up) but I can select which sync to my various devices.
Pretty handy. And it works with bog standard WebDAV so if you and a bunch of your OSXer friends want to do a collaborative calendar thing, it's easy as hell.
Fair nuff, but it's not his job to care about that crap.
That doesn't' mean it isn't someone's job to do.
And frankly, when it comes to people working with money or designing the aircraft or automobiles or subway cars I ride in, I would rather they have a solid accountable trail. Groupware tools can be easier to manage than huge email threads.
Leave the cable out, and shave some $$$ off the product price, and let the buyer pick a cable up at time of purchase.
BTW, folks interested in getting a full kit for their new ipod photo should check MacNN, there's a link to discounted 'old new stock' ipod photos that have full kits (dock, all cables, carry case, etc) which are really good deals.
Hell, what server admin runs Linux, the lowest common denominator of Unix and Unix-workalies, on a real server?
Take a trip to NYC, walk out of the Wall St. 4/5 station, pick a tall building, go up on the roof, unzip your fly, and take a piss. Inside the building you hit you will find a company that transacts hundreds of thousands of dollars of business per MINUTE.
On Linux.
Better be quick though, as there's TONS of jobs moving across the Hudson:/
I finally got around to ordering my iPod, and I get this in my inbox:
Thank you for your recent iPod order.
Apple is pleased to inform you that we have reduced the price of your iPod!
Now if they'd only do this with their Macs and Powerbooks... Maybe they have enough money to allow for 30-60 day upgrade warrantees? A free OS upgrade coupon with new systems?
Here's a suddenly-realized question for you: Why don't VCRs have a 30-sec skip feature? I've never seen one.
RCA had a few, with a 'commercial skip' feature that would mark the tape where the VCR thought commercials started. Never really worked that well though. Other VCRs had this as well, but it would wear and tear the shit out of tapes and transports. OTOH, with no tape and no transport (except for random access spindles) this is a perfectly doable thing for HDD recorders.
For that matter, why don't VCR (and now DVD) players have 2-level sound settings?
My receiver has this, they call it 'midnight mode', and it reduces the dynamic range of any input. It muddies things a bit, but when I had to worry about neighbors using it and killing the sub was good neighbor policy..
Cable DVRs suck. Most people would be much happier with a TiVo and would find the extra expense to be justified. I know I'm biased but I honestly believe that.
True, but... * I want a DVI+SPDIF/HDMI input and HD recording capability * I want faster menus and wishlist processing * I want nobody to ever mess with 30 second skip. DO NOT FUCK WITH 30 SECOND SKIP. * I want to be able to watch my TiVo recordings on my P800 fone and/or a video iPod * weather, stock, headline, etc. applets would be nice.
Cable DVRs do suck, but they also do digital sound and hi-def. They don't handle DVD burning though, and I _may_ upgrade to a DVD-capable DVR in the next few months, remains to be seen whether it's a TiVo unit or some kind of HTPC Linux box..
Fedora 1 was RH10, why do people keep saying otherwise? Same exact design process with the same exact engineers, they just stopped asking for money.
OK, so how many days of support come in the boxed version a curious Windows person who's sick and tired of Windows insecurity would buy at their local computer shop? How many pages in the manual that comes in the box? My last RH manual (5.2 IIRC) was halfway decent.
For better or for worse, RH withdrew themselves from the forefront of public perception of Linux. They niched themselves. This may have been profitable, and who knows, it may end up being the right thing to have done. OTOH, I think it's kind of sad, given the window MS is leaving open (no pun intended) with their Longhorn delays, that I can't see RedHat picking up much in the way of desktop rollouts.
Their WS/Desktop is too expensive, and their Fedora Core is not "officially supported" to the extent that a corp would be willing to pay. Also, charging for security and OSS RPM updates is unbearably lame, no matter how much stuff you wrap around it. Mandrake's system (RPMdrake) was far superior up until I left for gentoo-land (9.1)...
I say it again, I see SuSE/Novell eating their lunch on the desktop, and with IBM's cooperation they'll have an easier time creeping up than RedHat de-nicheing.
.... when Mandrake 7.1 hit. Then, of course, I found gentoo and have been compiling ever since.
IMHO, the only reason to run RedHat is because a particular proprietary vendor (such as, say, Oracle) supports only RH with their proprietary app.
I think it was deeply stupid for RH to drop their power-user distros, and Fedora was never a legit substitute. Methinks RH's strategies gave SuSE a golden opportunity to expand in the US market, and probably prompted Novell to buy SuSE.
The next set of infrastructure servers that need to run any kind of proprietaryware, I'm probably going to be recommending SuSE/Novell..
... Cingular has already started rolling UMTS out for evaluation, and they already have EDGE support. Dunno about TMobile, but maybe in a year's time it'll be time to switch...
So, in other words, buying any non-subsidized non-3G smartphone at this point would be foolish unless your company is footing the bill.
In theory, if I had a job, I would be sorely tempted to go with the SE 910a, but I would refrain from splurging knowing that they'll probably have a 3G smartphone with a better CPU, bluetooth 2.0, video, etc.. in a year or 18 months... Luckily I have other things to worry about first, like rent, broadband, xbox live, cans of soup, the essentials....
The friends/foes thing has a use: Comment visibility.
I was wondering what all that stuff was about. Still, it smacks of taking/. a bit too seriously.
And yeah, I think it was fair to take that one-liner parent as a slag on the ease-of-use crowd (of which I am a member). My foremost desire is to be able to build and run an entire IT infrastructure, including desktops, on OSSware. Reason being it's much easier for me to troubleshoot, fix, and improve that infrastructure. Ease-of-use snobbery reduces the chance that that desire will come to pass, therefore I am against it.
And I'm as 'use the right tool for the job' as the next guy, but MSware is only the right tool for jobs that have no solid, easy-to-use analog in the OSS world. Given the cost, poor design, laughable security and poor administration interfaces of most MSware, they really only succeed because of their monopoly tactics, marketing capability, and ease-of-use. Only one of those vectors is legitimate, and unfortunately it's the one which OSS developers are all too frequently myopic and auto-hamstringing about.
I think it works best when he's got a writing crew to keep him 'honest' when it comes to covering all sides of an issue. He's not quite so 'fair and balanced' solo. That is to say, he doesn't let his personal sympathies get in the way of a good joke.
I form opinions issue by issue, rather than subsuming my opinion to one particular groupthink tribal mass or another. Finding the absurdity in any situation where it appears appeals greatly to me, and good satire works when it's honest, telling the truth with humor. For the most part TDS is honest and smart satire, whether it's targeting Bush (I mean, I don't love or hate the man, but it's objectively honest that he can barely string two words together in public speaking.. ) or anyone else.
Besides, he'll have rightists on as guests often enough, and he's pretty fair. He won't usually go for the easy jabs, as a recent interview with Mike Mills demonstrated.. His interviews tend to be more thought-provoking, given that he'll engage his guests in some serious questioning, and I'd call it 2/3rds BookNotes with only 10% of the dryness.
I consider TDS mandatory viewing, and I only wish there were more of it.
I don't think Stewart would be a smart replacement for a network anchor like Rather though, I think he needs a guest to discuss things with, I think he'd do better as a George Stephanopoulous replacement.
Sounds like you want Windows and Active Directory.
WTF is so wrong with something that's easy to use and administer?
Does it threaten your manhood or something?
Why _SHOULDN'T_ an opensource directory system make the hard things easy and the impossible things routine? The fact that OpenLDAP can be a bear to build and maintain is a usability bug that needs redress.
Listen, if you want to live in a MS world, keep expecting more from people than they give a damn about living up to. That's _REALLY_ productive.
Oh and don't forget the years (decades?) of slow grinding on poor DNA, who probably had to keep adding and adding water to his story to get it palatable for the armani clad morons..
Then again, by book 4 of the trilogy I don't think he gave a damn about it anymore, having changed interests.
Still, the radio show, novels and BBC series are brilliant and beloved, and I only hope the movie doesn't do to them what Highlander 2 did to Highlander, Matrix Revolutions did to the Matrix, or what Episode I did to the entire bleeding cosmos.
The Vogons are all wrong, the ships are supposed to be uglier and yellower, the voice more menacingly metallic and vicious..
In what way does the Heart of Gold resemble a sneaker?
The Guide is wrong, too fragile..
I have no problem with the casting, strangely, I can understand 'Phil' being a smarmy American, in fact IIRC in the original BBC TV series his accent was a mildly butchered American accent.
This just looks terrible. And don't get me started on Marvin.
They'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Encryption vs. fingerprint hashing....
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SHA-1 Broken
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.... So these hashes are still good for uniqueness out to 2^32 size fingerprints?
What's the best hash for file fingerprinting, for stuff like version databases, tripwire, etc?
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Did Windows 3.1 even have listening services by default? I recall having to add a separate TCP/IP stack, and being able to choose from several different vendors (which would bundle their daemons along with the stack).. I recall Chameleon, some FTP.com stuff, Trumpet Winsock...
It's hard to remote sploit something that isn't even listening....
... Linux has good-to-outstanding driver support for every class of peripheral, though not every single peripheral. It's getting to the point where engineering and testing companies are looking to support linux as a proven platform (you know, so they can put 'linux' on the side of the box of whatever hardware it is).
Dvorak is a long time head-up-ass type anyway, along the lines of a Charles Cooper or any number of Bob Metcalfe-style curmudgeons.
IMHO, Linux's biggest problems lay in usability, and that's because usability isn't a fun itch to scratch. It's not fun hearing end users whine about how hard it is to do something. It's not fun having your pretty baby maligned by techno-illiterates. However, if you want to rule the world, that means ruling the 'mundanes' as well... And great aesthetics rarely come from a committee of committers, they usually come from a power-mad dictator of some sort or another.
Wow, sounds like iCal.. I subscribe to a number of calendars, including the US Holidays, DVD releases, etc.. Not only can I overlay them (check on calendar in the subscription pane, it pops up) but I can select which sync to my various devices.
Pretty handy. And it works with bog standard WebDAV so if you and a bunch of your OSXer friends want to do a collaborative calendar thing, it's easy as hell.
http://www.apple.com/ical
Fair nuff, but it's not his job to care about that crap.
That doesn't' mean it isn't someone's job to do.
And frankly, when it comes to people working with money or designing the aircraft or automobiles or subway cars I ride in, I would rather they have a solid accountable trail. Groupware tools can be easier to manage than huge email threads.
Leave the cable out, and shave some $$$ off the product price, and let the buyer pick a cable up at time of purchase.
BTW, folks interested in getting a full kit for their new ipod photo should check MacNN, there's a link to discounted 'old new stock' ipod photos that have full kits (dock, all cables, carry case, etc) which are really good deals.
You have a weird, juvenile, and disgusting way of trying to make a point. Grow up.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
Hell, what server admin runs Linux, the lowest common denominator of Unix and Unix-workalies, on a real server?
:/
Take a trip to NYC, walk out of the Wall St. 4/5 station, pick a tall building, go up on the roof, unzip your fly, and take a piss. Inside the building you hit you will find a company that transacts hundreds of thousands of dollars of business per MINUTE.
On Linux.
Better be quick though, as there's TONS of jobs moving across the Hudson
... HDTV is _NOT_ 1024x768!
That is a SQUARE resolution, not widescreen.
What a bunch of crap. If you're going to put out a widescreen, use a wide aspect ratio to square your bloody pixels for Cthulhu's sake!!!
Besides, plasma is notso hotso, unless you like burn in and short life...
I finally got around to ordering my iPod, and I get this in my inbox:
Thank you for your recent iPod order.
Apple is pleased to inform you that we have reduced the price of your iPod!
Now if they'd only do this with their Macs and Powerbooks... Maybe they have enough money to allow for 30-60 day upgrade warrantees? A free OS upgrade coupon with new systems?
... Just chiming in to ask when there'll be a filling station in the tristate NYC area...
I suppose when zero-sulfur diesel mandates go into effect, given that biodiesel doesn't have any sulfur...
Here's a suddenly-realized question for you: Why don't VCRs have a 30-sec skip feature? I've never seen one.
RCA had a few, with a 'commercial skip' feature that would mark the tape where the VCR thought commercials started. Never really worked that well though. Other VCRs had this as well, but it would wear and tear the shit out of tapes and transports. OTOH, with no tape and no transport (except for random access spindles) this is a perfectly doable thing for HDD recorders.
For that matter, why don't VCR (and now DVD) players have 2-level sound settings?
My receiver has this, they call it 'midnight mode', and it reduces the dynamic range of any input. It muddies things a bit, but when I had to worry about neighbors using it and killing the sub was good neighbor policy..
Got it already, but I would like to save a bit more on my car insurance...
Cable DVRs suck. Most people would be much happier with a TiVo and would find the extra expense to be justified. I know I'm biased but I honestly believe that.
True, but...
* I want a DVI+SPDIF/HDMI input and HD recording capability
* I want faster menus and wishlist processing
* I want nobody to ever mess with 30 second skip. DO NOT FUCK WITH 30 SECOND SKIP.
* I want to be able to watch my TiVo recordings on my P800 fone and/or a video iPod
* weather, stock, headline, etc. applets would be nice.
Cable DVRs do suck, but they also do digital sound and hi-def. They don't handle DVD burning though, and I _may_ upgrade to a DVD-capable DVR in the next few months, remains to be seen whether it's a TiVo unit or some kind of HTPC Linux box..
It is, but packaging, support engineers and usability development are not.
Then again, Linux is free if your time is worthless.
Fedora 1 was RH10, why do people keep saying otherwise? Same exact design process with the same exact engineers, they just stopped asking for money.
OK, so how many days of support come in the boxed version a curious Windows person who's sick and tired of Windows insecurity would buy at their local computer shop? How many pages in the manual that comes in the box? My last RH manual (5.2 IIRC) was halfway decent.
For better or for worse, RH withdrew themselves from the forefront of public perception of Linux. They niched themselves. This may have been profitable, and who knows, it may end up being the right thing to have done. OTOH, I think it's kind of sad, given the window MS is leaving open (no pun intended) with their Longhorn delays, that I can't see RedHat picking up much in the way of desktop rollouts.
Their WS/Desktop is too expensive, and their Fedora Core is not "officially supported" to the extent that a corp would be willing to pay. Also, charging for security and OSS RPM updates is unbearably lame, no matter how much stuff you wrap around it. Mandrake's system (RPMdrake) was far superior up until I left for gentoo-land (9.1)...
I say it again, I see SuSE/Novell eating their lunch on the desktop, and with IBM's cooperation they'll have an easier time creeping up than RedHat de-nicheing.
.... when Mandrake 7.1 hit. Then, of course, I found gentoo and have been compiling ever since.
IMHO, the only reason to run RedHat is because a particular proprietary vendor (such as, say, Oracle) supports only RH with their proprietary app.
I think it was deeply stupid for RH to drop their power-user distros, and Fedora was never a legit substitute. Methinks RH's strategies gave SuSE a golden opportunity to expand in the US market, and probably prompted Novell to buy SuSE.
The next set of infrastructure servers that need to run any kind of proprietaryware, I'm probably going to be recommending SuSE/Novell..
... Cingular has already started rolling UMTS out for evaluation, and they already have EDGE support. Dunno about TMobile, but maybe in a year's time it'll be time to switch...
So, in other words, buying any non-subsidized non-3G smartphone at this point would be foolish unless your company is footing the bill.
In theory, if I had a job, I would be sorely tempted to go with the SE 910a, but I would refrain from splurging knowing that they'll probably have a 3G smartphone with a better CPU, bluetooth 2.0, video, etc.. in a year or 18 months... Luckily I have other things to worry about first, like rent, broadband, xbox live, cans of soup, the essentials....
The friends/foes thing has a use: Comment visibility.
/. a bit too seriously.
I was wondering what all that stuff was about. Still, it smacks of taking
And yeah, I think it was fair to take that one-liner parent as a slag on the ease-of-use crowd (of which I am a member). My foremost desire is to be able to build and run an entire IT infrastructure, including desktops, on OSSware. Reason being it's much easier for me to troubleshoot, fix, and improve that infrastructure. Ease-of-use snobbery reduces the chance that that desire will come to pass, therefore I am against it.
And I'm as 'use the right tool for the job' as the next guy, but MSware is only the right tool for jobs that have no solid, easy-to-use analog in the OSS world. Given the cost, poor design, laughable security and poor administration interfaces of most MSware, they really only succeed because of their monopoly tactics, marketing capability, and ease-of-use. Only one of those vectors is legitimate, and unfortunately it's the one which OSS developers are all too frequently myopic and auto-hamstringing about.
I think it works best when he's got a writing crew to keep him 'honest' when it comes to covering all sides of an issue. He's not quite so 'fair and balanced' solo. That is to say, he doesn't let his personal sympathies get in the way of a good joke.
I form opinions issue by issue, rather than subsuming my opinion to one particular groupthink tribal mass or another. Finding the absurdity in any situation where it appears appeals greatly to me, and good satire works when it's honest, telling the truth with humor. For the most part TDS is honest and smart satire, whether it's targeting Bush (I mean, I don't love or hate the man, but it's objectively honest that he can barely string two words together in public speaking.. ) or anyone else.
Besides, he'll have rightists on as guests often enough, and he's pretty fair. He won't usually go for the easy jabs, as a recent interview with Mike Mills demonstrated.. His interviews tend to be more thought-provoking, given that he'll engage his guests in some serious questioning, and I'd call it 2/3rds BookNotes with only 10% of the dryness.
I consider TDS mandatory viewing, and I only wish there were more of it.
I don't think Stewart would be a smart replacement for a network anchor like Rather though, I think he needs a guest to discuss things with, I think he'd do better as a George Stephanopoulous replacement.
Sounds like you want Windows and Active Directory.
WTF is so wrong with something that's easy to use and administer?
Does it threaten your manhood or something?
Why _SHOULDN'T_ an opensource directory system make the hard things easy and the impossible things routine? The fact that OpenLDAP can be a bear to build and maintain is a usability bug that needs redress.
Listen, if you want to live in a MS world, keep expecting more from people than they give a damn about living up to. That's _REALLY_ productive.
Oh and don't forget the years (decades?) of slow grinding on poor DNA, who probably had to keep adding and adding water to his story to get it palatable for the armani clad morons..
Then again, by book 4 of the trilogy I don't think he gave a damn about it anymore, having changed interests.
Still, the radio show, novels and BBC series are brilliant and beloved, and I only hope the movie doesn't do to them what Highlander 2 did to Highlander, Matrix Revolutions did to the Matrix, or what Episode I did to the entire bleeding cosmos.
It's worth a trip to London.
;)
One of the many reasons I went on my first visit was to buy the CD series.
Then I came home and icecasted it for a while
This is going to be a catastrophe.
The Vogons are all wrong, the ships are supposed to be uglier and yellower, the voice more menacingly metallic and vicious..
In what way does the Heart of Gold resemble a sneaker?
The Guide is wrong, too fragile..
I have no problem with the casting, strangely, I can understand 'Phil' being a smarmy American, in fact IIRC in the original BBC TV series his accent was a mildly butchered American accent.
This just looks terrible. And don't get me started on Marvin.
They'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
.... So these hashes are still good for uniqueness out to 2^32 size fingerprints?
What's the best hash for file fingerprinting, for stuff like version databases, tripwire, etc?