Im actually looking forward to TCPA and Palladium. No, really i am. It will lighten the load of my job, being a support engineer.
What im saying of course is it will have its place, on the business desktop, on the childs computer, on public accessable computers etc etc. They have already stated that there will be a option to turn it off, and to be honest all of those who say "Well yes, but what about when they remove that option?" are just scaramongering. Yes true they can remove it in the future, but will it be that easy? I dont think so, there will be too a big outcry, and there will still be large numbers of eastern computer manufacturers making PCs as we know them now.
As i said at the beginning of my post, i am looking forward to this. Especially if systems administrators will be able to control it (and i bet they will be able to), as this creates a whole new set of security barriers to wouldbe theives etc. Imagine what the outcries were like when the first user account was created on an OS which didnt have full rights to all the system. This is jsut the same.
Yes this is true, tho as i do quite a few installs in buisnesses, i tend to feel a lot more secure in having a fairly up to date physical install media to hand jsut in case i dont have a high bandwidth connection. Plus with 3.1 you got decent stickers, which i know i enjoyed:)
The other reason i purchase a cd rather than download a iso made by someone is it seems to me to be rather a wierd thing to do. Go for a secure distro, then download a iso from someone you have never met, dont know how they are connected with teh team and therefor can be adding god knows what to the install. So peeps, either do a net install, or buy the cds. Please:)
So i can pass on the cds. If i just buy one copy and donate money, then i cant spread the cds around can i? (what with the cd layout being copyrighted, rightly so)
charge what they want? If its overpriced, tehres one simple answer: dont buy it. Its not as tho these products mentioned (anything by nintendo, Levi, Microsoft etc) have anything to do with practical and normal living needs?!?! Now, if this was against a supermarket or a foodgoods seller, then fine, but in this case i dont agree.
Firstly, its their product, why cant they decide how much they want to charge? The value is only that of what people are willing to pay, people stop paying and the product obviously isnt worth what they are asking.
Secondly, as i said before, its not a vital product. All of these things are luxuries, and definatly things we can live without.
Priorities people, want to go after a price fixer? Then go after the Pharmacuetical Industry who definatly fixes prices! That sort of battle would benifit more people than this.
Why should they? This is probably going to come across as flamebait, and i really dont intend for it to be.
Its their business, they can sell it in whatever manner they want. If their business model doesnt suit you, then dont expect them to change it jsut for you, because they dont have to. There are still plenty of people using the old business model, and to develop a new one would cost them money. I dont go down the local supermarket and bitch because i wander round the shelves, pick what i want and pay for it, rather than someone do it for me.
The first use of the F-117a in combat has a similar stupidity surrounding it. Indeed it was used in the invasion of Panama, but not actually to strike anything strategic. Its target was to miss some buildings and hit a rather large field:) (this was to serve as a distraction). A lot of people afterwards thought that the F-117 HAD actually missed its targets as it wa widely believed that the buildings were the targets, and thus was now an expensive peice of crap that cant hit anything.
Actually an internal release in the pentagon stated that the "reason" the F-117s missed the targets was cause a change of orders caused the first aircraft to bomb wide, and the second aircraft had its aim point offset from the first.
Once the F-117s planners came on the scene tho, the true reason was reported: Congress was pushing for the F-117 to be used in combat, and indeed it had almost been used to strike Libya before Panama (but that was cancelled because they wanted to use spanish airbases to launch the attacks,and the spanish government protested, so the attacks were carried out by F-111s from the UK). Thus they included the F-117 in the strike plans, albeit lately in the game so they didnt retask any other aircraft.
There are actually several points that dispute the official version of Gary Powers U2 shooting down. The official version goes that he was hit by a Surface to Air missile, and thus bailed out etc etc.
This version tells a different version of events, and quite rightly states that there was no Missile or Bullet damage on the wreckage that the Soviets displayed. Another version of events (a source escapes me atm) is that the U2 wasnt at all shot down by a SAM, as this was next to impossible for the technology of those days, but he was infact shot down by a modified or experimental MiG-25, which has since been proven to be able to fly at those altitudes.
There are certyain things called "Lifting bodies" which require little wing area to fly. Granted they are not very economic designs but they do have their uses. One problem with them tho is that the more you lesson the wing area, the greater the take off and landing speeds must be (one of the reasons Groom Dry Lake has a huge runway).
Or they do what they are doing on the F-22, take all missiles internally or mounted externally in pods with similar radar dissolving charateristics.
With the F-22, and the JSF as well, the plan is to make it stealthy by hiding the missiles in payload bays (the F-22 has a belly bay and a bay on the side of each air intake), and once air dominence has been acheived, then the aircraft can mount external ordinance.
Yeah, and if you have a Apple based Ipod (to work on apple systems, not a... oh never mind) or a windows based one, then you can use either on a Windows PC with Ephpod, a brilliant bit of freeware that just works. It also has another bit of software that allows you to read apple formated ones, so you have the best of both worlds. And to top it all off, it looks fantastic, jsut like a apple app as well. Its the Application apple should bundle!
I recently bought a ipod (windows 20gb version) after years of using minidiscs. All i can say is they rule. 1 hour charge time to 80%, firewire connectivity, ability to jsut use it as a external harddisk, the interface rocks. And above all they look sweet as well.
Any competitor is going to have to do a lot to beat Apples domination of the market.
If they do bring the ipods price down, it wont be a bad thing. Yes ill probably feel resentful cause i paid more, but what the hell. The morepeople that have iPods the better.
Oh and if you have a Windows Ipod, dont use the enclosed software, use Ephpod, a fantastic bit of free software which is so much better than Apples bundled Music Match Jukebox.
Its a bad thing cause it means more to download. I got home from the Expo, and a mate had already gotten hold of 4.7, so i had the cds. All i have to download now is updates as opposed to the whole cvs tree for 4.7.
Oh and just so you know, i use openBSD extensivly so i know what im talking about and not just mumbling;)
I think its a good thing i didnt buy 4.6 from the London (UK) Linux Expo then isnt it:)
No, dont ask me why they were selling BSD (quite heavily actually) along side Linux on most stalls.
Oh, and a note to KDE and Gnome teams, having blank stalls with two spotty kids sitting at laptops, with no promotional items or banners or posters really isnt a good way to promote your product guys. (And believe it or not, they were sat next to each other, AND NOT FIGHTING;) )
including an actually useful Javascript console and Venkman, an excellent Javascript debugger AND profiler and remarkably useful DOM Inspector.
A change to Mozilla for me in these circumstances will not have any difference, since i dont use Javascript or Java, or indeed any clientside stuff other than CSS. I just dont like using them, as i prefer using PHP to handle everything server side, and i havent come across a situation i cant handle this way yet.
IE is a good browser, but as a web developer for web development, shame on you for not using Mozilla.
Well, all i can say is, IE is normally used almost 100% by my target audience i can target IE totally. Yes i do stick to standards (xhtml1.0 trans) so it should work in any browser:)
I use IE cause i like it, i dont use Mozilla because i dont like it. Simple really. Now theres pheonix and it looks good enough for me to use in place of IE (actually it may not atm, ive just used it on some webpages which are CSS heavy and it doesnt format correctly, oh well).
Again, i wish to thank the pheonix developers for this fantastic project!
Well, all i can say is, im hooked. Im a web developer, and thus in my days i get to look at a lot of browsers, and i can say this:
Pheonix is the only browser that has come close to tempting me away from IE!
All i can say is, its fantastic. Small, lightweight. Has jsut the features i use, and is clean as well.
It even makes fonts look good etc.
I think ill be sticking for the time being, and i will certainly be following the development closely from now on!
Theres the UK expo this week as well. Website here to sign up. It goes on for two days, Wednesday 9th October to Thursday 10th October with a lot of big name companies displaying, its in the Olympia conference centers if anyones itnerested!
Its also sharing the date with the UK Websolutions 2002 convention, which is another goiod excuse to get out of work!
You don't think sales reps have training to deal with a question like that ? Come on.
No they probably dont, but then it will be interesting to see if they try to cover it up.
And as for the DNS server thing...did you ever think that perhaps there was a problem with the proxy that your client was using? UUnet doesn't use proxies for DNS resolution.
Well yes i did actually, and wasted 2 days working with them to fix their proxy (when a company is one of your best customers, you dont jsut tell them they have a problem). I finally worked out it wasnt a issue with their proxy server and decided to look at the ISP. Doing nslookups on the Uunet nameserver ips they had been given revealed two nameservers which were totally out of sync (and this is after 2 months for the DNS to propagate).
True other providors have similar issues at times, infact im having a very bad time with my current providor, which is why im looking to switch. There is a point when the providors issues become so publicised like this that it does them tremendous harm even if its a small issue.
Another point i think i missed in my origional post was that this is in the UK, where Uunets situation might not be the same as its US parent.
Im currently gathering quotes for a new leased line as part of a office move to new premises. Dont know how they got hold of our details, but i had a call from worldcom today about arranging a visit from a sales representative for a leased line quote. I wonder how they react when i ask them about this?
I have had prior dealings with Uunet as one of our customers use them, and to be honest, their support is dire. One of their DNS servers was not refreshing its cache well at all, resulting in a client not being able to access our website at random periods. Wierd error, one minute he would get "proxy errors, no website at " where ip was a old ip we no longer used, and the next, he would get us fine.
The British Intelligence, in league with the NSA and the Australian Intelligence services, managed to do exaclty what u say. Basically in the 1950s -> 1970s the Soviets ran short of cypher material so they reissued Pads, not jsut once, but many times.
Basically what the hunt then entailed of, was traffic capturing, and then use early computers to trawl this traffic looking for matches in the coded groups, which isnt such a hard task, as certain groups (such as SPELL and ENDSPELL) come up a lot more often than others, and a pre encoding dictionary is finite in size.
When matches came up between two messages, you had something in common between the messages which could be used to attackthe other groups in the messages.
Basically the stats for all this make poor reading, something like 30% of traffic was "broken" into, which sounds good untill u realise that "broken into" can actually mean that a single group or word was uncovered in the message, still making the message unreadable.
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Im actually looking forward to TCPA and Palladium. No, really i am. It will lighten the load of my job, being a support engineer.
What im saying of course is it will have its place, on the business desktop, on the childs computer, on public accessable computers etc etc. They have already stated that there will be a option to turn it off, and to be honest all of those who say "Well yes, but what about when they remove that option?" are just scaramongering. Yes true they can remove it in the future, but will it be that easy? I dont think so, there will be too a big outcry, and there will still be large numbers of eastern computer manufacturers making PCs as we know them now.
As i said at the beginning of my post, i am looking forward to this. Especially if systems administrators will be able to control it (and i bet they will be able to), as this creates a whole new set of security barriers to wouldbe theives etc. Imagine what the outcries were like when the first user account was created on an OS which didnt have full rights to all the system. This is jsut the same.
Yes this is true, tho as i do quite a few installs in buisnesses, i tend to feel a lot more secure in having a fairly up to date physical install media to hand jsut in case i dont have a high bandwidth connection. Plus with 3.1 you got decent stickers, which i know i enjoyed :)
:)
The other reason i purchase a cd rather than download a iso made by someone is it seems to me to be rather a wierd thing to do. Go for a secure distro, then download a iso from someone you have never met, dont know how they are connected with teh team and therefor can be adding god knows what to the install. So peeps, either do a net install, or buy the cds. Please
So i can pass on the cds. If i just buy one copy and donate money, then i cant spread the cds around can i? (what with the cd layout being copyrighted, rightly so)
Already have 10 copies on order :)
charge what they want? If its overpriced, tehres one simple answer: dont buy it. Its not as tho these products mentioned (anything by nintendo, Levi, Microsoft etc) have anything to do with practical and normal living needs?!?! Now, if this was against a supermarket or a foodgoods seller, then fine, but in this case i dont agree.
Firstly, its their product, why cant they decide how much they want to charge? The value is only that of what people are willing to pay, people stop paying and the product obviously isnt worth what they are asking.
Secondly, as i said before, its not a vital product. All of these things are luxuries, and definatly things we can live without.
Priorities people, want to go after a price fixer? Then go after the Pharmacuetical Industry who definatly fixes prices! That sort of battle would benifit more people than this.
OOh id go for this code, could you email it to wired@dsl.pipex.com by anychance? cheers
You dont, but its very easy to get either working. I myself had a LVM ext3 system about 30 mins after finishing the install.
Depends wether you use Metric or Imperial measurements and convert properly
Tried it in Mozilla, opera, Pheonix, and IE. Works fine in all cases.
Why should they? This is probably going to come across as flamebait, and i really dont intend for it to be.
Its their business, they can sell it in whatever manner they want. If their business model doesnt suit you, then dont expect them to change it jsut for you, because they dont have to. There are still plenty of people using the old business model, and to develop a new one would cost them money. I dont go down the local supermarket and bitch because i wander round the shelves, pick what i want and pay for it, rather than someone do it for me.
The Russians have a forward swept wing design in testing at the moment, and is due to go into service sometime this decade.
It is desgined by Sukhoi, and is designated the S-37 Berkat (picture here) and is highly advanced.
The first use of the F-117a in combat has a similar stupidity surrounding it. Indeed it was used in the invasion of Panama, but not actually to strike anything strategic. Its target was to miss some buildings and hit a rather large field :) (this was to serve as a distraction). A lot of people afterwards thought that the F-117 HAD actually missed its targets as it wa widely believed that the buildings were the targets, and thus was now an expensive peice of crap that cant hit anything.
Actually an internal release in the pentagon stated that the "reason" the F-117s missed the targets was cause a change of orders caused the first aircraft to bomb wide, and the second aircraft had its aim point offset from the first.
Once the F-117s planners came on the scene tho, the true reason was reported: Congress was pushing for the F-117 to be used in combat, and indeed it had almost been used to strike Libya before Panama (but that was cancelled because they wanted to use spanish airbases to launch the attacks,and the spanish government protested, so the attacks were carried out by F-111s from the UK). Thus they included the F-117 in the strike plans, albeit lately in the game so they didnt retask any other aircraft.
There are actually several points that dispute the official version of Gary Powers U2 shooting down. The official version goes that he was hit by a Surface to Air missile, and thus bailed out etc etc. This version tells a different version of events, and quite rightly states that there was no Missile or Bullet damage on the wreckage that the Soviets displayed. Another version of events (a source escapes me atm) is that the U2 wasnt at all shot down by a SAM, as this was next to impossible for the technology of those days, but he was infact shot down by a modified or experimental MiG-25, which has since been proven to be able to fly at those altitudes.
There are certyain things called "Lifting bodies" which require little wing area to fly. Granted they are not very economic designs but they do have their uses. One problem with them tho is that the more you lesson the wing area, the greater the take off and landing speeds must be (one of the reasons Groom Dry Lake has a huge runway).
Or they do what they are doing on the F-22, take all missiles internally or mounted externally in pods with similar radar dissolving charateristics.
With the F-22, and the JSF as well, the plan is to make it stealthy by hiding the missiles in payload bays (the F-22 has a belly bay and a bay on the side of each air intake), and once air dominence has been acheived, then the aircraft can mount external ordinance.
Yeah, and if you have a Apple based Ipod (to work on apple systems, not a ... oh never mind) or a windows based one, then you can use either on a Windows PC with Ephpod, a brilliant bit of freeware that just works. It also has another bit of software that allows you to read apple formated ones, so you have the best of both worlds. And to top it all off, it looks fantastic, jsut like a apple app as well. Its the Application apple should bundle!
I recently bought a ipod (windows 20gb version) after years of using minidiscs. All i can say is they rule. 1 hour charge time to 80%, firewire connectivity, ability to jsut use it as a external harddisk, the interface rocks. And above all they look sweet as well.
Any competitor is going to have to do a lot to beat Apples domination of the market.
If they do bring the ipods price down, it wont be a bad thing. Yes ill probably feel resentful cause i paid more, but what the hell. The morepeople that have iPods the better.
Oh and if you have a Windows Ipod, dont use the enclosed software, use Ephpod, a fantastic bit of free software which is so much better than Apples bundled Music Match Jukebox.
Its a bad thing cause it means more to download. I got home from the Expo, and a mate had already gotten hold of 4.7, so i had the cds. All i have to download now is updates as opposed to the whole cvs tree for 4.7.
;)
Oh and just so you know, i use openBSD extensivly so i know what im talking about and not just mumbling
I think its a good thing i didnt buy 4.6 from the London (UK) Linux Expo then isnt it :)
;) )
No, dont ask me why they were selling BSD (quite heavily actually) along side Linux on most stalls.
Oh, and a note to KDE and Gnome teams, having blank stalls with two spotty kids sitting at laptops, with no promotional items or banners or posters really isnt a good way to promote your product guys. (And believe it or not, they were sat next to each other, AND NOT FIGHTING
including an actually useful Javascript console and Venkman, an excellent Javascript debugger AND profiler and remarkably useful DOM Inspector.
:)
A change to Mozilla for me in these circumstances will not have any difference, since i dont use Javascript or Java, or indeed any clientside stuff other than CSS. I just dont like using them, as i prefer using PHP to handle everything server side, and i havent come across a situation i cant handle this way yet.
IE is a good browser, but as a web developer for web development, shame on you for not using Mozilla.
Well, all i can say is, IE is normally used almost 100% by my target audience i can target IE totally. Yes i do stick to standards (xhtml1.0 trans) so it should work in any browser
I use IE cause i like it, i dont use Mozilla because i dont like it. Simple really. Now theres pheonix and it looks good enough for me to use in place of IE (actually it may not atm, ive just used it on some webpages which are CSS heavy and it doesnt format correctly, oh well).
Again, i wish to thank the pheonix developers for this fantastic project!
Well, all i can say is, im hooked. Im a web developer, and thus in my days i get to look at a lot of browsers, and i can say this:
Pheonix is the only browser that has come close to tempting me away from IE!
All i can say is, its fantastic. Small, lightweight. Has jsut the features i use, and is clean as well.
It even makes fonts look good etc. I think ill be sticking for the time being, and i will certainly be following the development closely from now on!
Theres the UK expo this week as well.
Website here to sign up. It goes on for two days, Wednesday 9th October to Thursday 10th October with a lot of big name companies displaying, its in the Olympia conference centers if anyones itnerested!
Its also sharing the date with the UK Websolutions 2002 convention, which is another goiod excuse to get out of work!
You don't think sales reps have training to deal with a question like that ? Come on.
No they probably dont, but then it will be interesting to see if they try to cover it up.
And as for the DNS server thing...did you ever think that perhaps there was a problem with the proxy that your client was using? UUnet doesn't use proxies for DNS resolution.
Well yes i did actually, and wasted 2 days working with them to fix their proxy (when a company is one of your best customers, you dont jsut tell them they have a problem). I finally worked out it wasnt a issue with their proxy server and decided to look at the ISP. Doing nslookups on the Uunet nameserver ips they had been given revealed two nameservers which were totally out of sync (and this is after 2 months for the DNS to propagate).
True other providors have similar issues at times, infact im having a very bad time with my current providor, which is why im looking to switch. There is a point when the providors issues become so publicised like this that it does them tremendous harm even if its a small issue.
Another point i think i missed in my origional post was that this is in the UK, where Uunets situation might not be the same as its US parent.
Im currently gathering quotes for a new leased line as part of a office move to new premises. Dont know how they got hold of our details, but i had a call from worldcom today about arranging a visit from a sales representative for a leased line quote. I wonder how they react when i ask them about this?
I have had prior dealings with Uunet as one of our customers use them, and to be honest, their support is dire. One of their DNS servers was not refreshing its cache well at all, resulting in a client not being able to access our website at random periods. Wierd error, one minute he would get "proxy errors, no website at " where ip was a old ip we no longer used, and the next, he would get us fine.
The British Intelligence, in league with the NSA and the Australian Intelligence services, managed to do exaclty what u say. Basically in the 1950s -> 1970s the Soviets ran short of cypher material so they reissued Pads, not jsut once, but many times.
Basically what the hunt then entailed of, was traffic capturing, and then use early computers to trawl this traffic looking for matches in the coded groups, which isnt such a hard task, as certain groups (such as SPELL and ENDSPELL) come up a lot more often than others, and a pre encoding dictionary is finite in size.
When matches came up between two messages, you had something in common between the messages which could be used to attackthe other groups in the messages.
Basically the stats for all this make poor reading, something like 30% of traffic was "broken" into, which sounds good untill u realise that "broken into" can actually mean that a single group or word was uncovered in the message, still making the message unreadable.
If you want to read more, read Spy Catcher.