The Queen didn't dismiss the Whitlam government. The Queen wasn't consulted. Governor-General John Kerr acted in cahoots with Leader of the Opposition Malcolm Fraser. The Queen had no knowledge. When Whitlam was asked what he would have done if he had found out about the plot he replied that he would have advised the Queen to dismiss the Governor-General and the Queen would have been bound by convention to act on his advice to her - hardly proof that the Queen has "real power".
I can't see any reference to the latest BIND vulnerability being fixed by Apple in the Mac OS X Server. It's vulnerable and has been fixed by othervendors so why not?
I have a firewire iPod mini (yes, it's old - but it still works, why should I get rid of it?), three firewire backup drives for the old G4 we use as a server at my workplace (yes, again, it's old - but it's an inexpensive recycling of old equipment for a useful purpose which has enabled our small business to free up cash for other uses).
*Seen a firewire port on anything besides a faulty motherboard I once had
Just so this doesn't appear like a Mac-only rant, my wife's 2 year old PC also has Firewire built into the motherboard. On anything but cheap PC trash it's pretty ubiquitous...
*Seen anyone using a firewire device
Then you don't get out much.
I don't think many people care, at least here in Australia.:\
Well I'm in Australia and I will certainly be keeping clear of the MacBook - but then again, I agree with another post's suggestion that this is part of an Apple strategy to (a) ease the market away from Firewire, and (b) differentiate the MacBook market (student etc. that uses their Mac for nothing more than web/email/productivity apps) from the MacBook Pro which is for users that want all the bells and whistles and are prepared to pay for them.
I'm somewhat relieved to hear it's not just me. When the small business I work for (3x Windows and 1x MacOS X clients) recently expanded I recommended MacOS X 10.4 Server, believing the Apple claims that it was the perfect cross-platform workgroup server for our needs. Like you, what I have found is that for all but the most trivial tasks one needs to delve beyond the limited built-in GUI administration tools and administer via the command-line and text configuration files - even Apple's own PDF documentation acknowledges this at many points.
While I am confident with the command-line (I enjoyed learning *nix on MacOS X 10.1-10.4 client and the experience also made me confident learning OpenBSD which we now use for our firewall) no-one else in the business is confident doing so, which is most likely the case in many small businesses I expect. I must say I consider Apple's implementation of their workgroup server is very much half-baked, particularly for the cost of the licence.
You can call that whatever you want, but I call that persecution. ...then your understanding of persecution is woefully inadequate. A dictionary may be of assistance to you. Persection of christians in an Italian university? That's even more ridiculous than the idea of Christians being persecuted in America. Stop being paranoid. The world is not out to get you. Occassionally (just occassionally) the more rational members of society actually manage to exert some control of their institutions against your irrational theological ideas. Get over it!
How about freedom from persecution? What persecution? Exactly. Too many relgious types seem to confuse criticism with persecution. It's laughable for any Christian to think they are being persecuted in a Western country, and particularly American Christians... for Christ's sake [pun intended] your friggin' President is a Christian.
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Not sure if you're aware but there is a Thunderbird project called Penelope for those Eudora users stuck by Qualcomm's decision to discontinue the product. I haven't tried the Eudora importers, though...
You should check your facts. The 650,000 is a highly researched, peer-reviewed estimate compiled by one of the preeminent medical journals of the world (The Lancet) and using the most up-to-date methodology for estimating death tolls in catastophies of either human or natural making:
George Bush's comment on the report, "The methodology is pretty well discredited", was widely broadcast and printed. A great moment in TV history was missed when journalists failed to seek clarification on the exact nature of the president's problem with the methodology.
In fact Bush's claim that the methodology had been discredited was a lie, as the people who told him what to say are surely well aware. Richard Brennan, head of health programmes at the New York-Based International Rescue Committee, told Associated Press:
"This is the most practical and appropriate methodology for sampling that we have in humanitarian conflict zones."
Brennan's group has conducted similar projects in Kosovo, Uganda and Congo. He added:
"While the results of this survey may startle people, it's hard to argue with the methodology at this point." (Malcolm Ritter, 'Bush Dismisses Iraq Death Toll Study,' Associated Press Online, October 12, 2006)
Professor Mike Toole of the Centre for International Health, Melbourne, said:
"The methodology used is consistent with survey methodology that has long been standard practice in estimating mortality in populations affected by war. For example, the Burnet Institute and International Rescue Committee (IRC) used the same methods to estimate mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The findings of this study received widespread media attention and were accepted without reservation by the US and British governments. The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health's Centre for International Health endorses this study." (Toole, The Age (Melbourne), letters to the editor, October 14, 2006)
Richard Garfield, a public health professor at Columbia University who works closely with a number of the authors of the report, told the Christian Science Monitor:
"I loved when President Bush said 'their methodology has been pretty well discredited'. That's exactly wrong. There is no discrediting of this methodology. I don't think there's anyone who's been involved in mortality research who thinks there's a better way to do it in unsecured areas. I have never heard of any argument in this field that says there's a better way to do it." (Dan Murphy, 'Iraq casualty figures open up new battleground,' Christian Science Monitor, October 13, 2006)
John Zogby, whose New York-based polling agency, Zogby International, has done several surveys in Iraq since the war began, said:
"The sampling is solid. The methodology is as good as it gets. It is what people in the statistics business do." (Anna Badkhen, 'Critics say 600,000 Iraqi dead doesn't tally,' San Francisco Chronicle, October 12, 2006)
Zogby said similar survey methods have been used to estimate casualty figures in other conflicts, such as Darfur and the Congo. Zogby also noted that US critics accept the method for opinion polls, which are based on interviews with around 1,000 Americans in a country of 300 million people.
Frank Harrell Jr., chair of the biostatistics department at Vanderbilt University, called the study design solid and said it included "rigorous, well-justified analysis of the data". (Ritter, op., cit)
Steve Heeringa, director of the statistical design group at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, said:
"Given the conditions (in Iraq), it's actually quite a remarkable effort. I can't imagine them doing much more in a much more rigorous fashion." (Ibid)
BBC Newsnight interviewed Sir Richard Peto, Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Oxford, who de
As a Eudora user at our small business (3 Eudora installations), what I do hope more than anything else is that they develop a rock-solid, stable and reliable importer for Eudora mail into the new Penelope/Eudora-Thunderbird hybrid so that we can transition our mail to the new platform with confidence.
If this is done well - and it must be seen as the number one priority of the developers - then I think that's half the battle won.
Fetchmail is excellent at POPing mail and then delivering it to a SMTP daemon or local delivery agent. You'll still need to install an IMAP server locally, but fetchmail provides the necessary bridge.
If we really want wireless OSS firmware (I doubt that) the enforcement method of the current FCC regime must change and FCC must allow the manufacturers to release such firmware.
You really need to read what Theo and others are asking, rather than making assumptions. If you did you would realise there are two things OpenBSD asks of Intel, and neither of them relate to your conclusions:
Documentation for their hardware so that drivers can be written for it without reverse engineering.
A licence for the firmware which allows redistribution of it in OpenBSD without restriction.
Note we're not talking about open-source firmware, we're talking about opening up the licensing conditions on distribution of the closed-source firmware.
If one is applying for a job at Microsoft and they've asked you for a CV in the native format of one of the very same applications they author, then sure, you're mad if you don't follow their wishes.
But you took this one specific example and made a generalisation about all prospective employers wanting to use online editing tools to make notes on your CV, wanting to do this in Word, yet not asking for your CV in Word format, and then disregarding your CV because you didn't read their mind and supply your CV in Word.
Look, if they haven't specifically asked you for it in Word and you supply it in PDF (for which everyone has a free reader on their computer) and they need to make notes they'll:
Curse themselves for not asking for applications in Word format, and then
Just print it out and make notes by hand.
It's totally unreasonable to expect applicants to send their application in a proprietary format without even a hint of suggesting this in the job description.
If your CV is really skipped over for this reason, be thankful - you don't want to work for a company that conducts themselves in this way.
My boss brought in his new computer about a year ago for me to set it up securely, as our company is the only one he knows that has not had any kind of downtime due to malicious code/spyware/etc in the last six years (since I've been there).
The reason? Despite all the difficulties associated with it, all user accounts are Standard (Restricted) Users in Windows XP, and Power Users in Windows 2000 (I've found its impossible to iron-out all the kinks when attempting to run as a Restricted User in Windows 2000).
So I give him and his wife Administrator profiles on their brand new Windows XP machine, and his two kids are Restricted Users, and I installed anitvirus for good measure. The result?
For every game he attempts to install the computer needs to be brought in to work for me, as the kids can't run it without implementing some of the usual hacks as specified by the parent post.
He's recently admitted to me that the kids now use the Administrator profiles as they just work, unlike their own Restricted User accounts.
And as a result...
He recently had to bring in his machine which had slowed to a crawl as (surprise, surprise) it had been overriden by spyware.
My conclusion?
Windows XP can be used securely, and can be used as a home (as opposed to business) operating system... but it cannot be used as both.
If an adult family wishes to restore its right to have access to pornographic and other material on the internet that may be deemed inappropriate, so be it...
Who the hell is this guy to tell me what is and is not "inappropriate"???
I thought in a liberal democracy our politicians were our servants, not our masters! I think Mr Barnett should consider resigning from the Liberal Party and join Family First or one of the other cooky authoritarian Christian extremists, as his "liberal" values seem to be somewhat lacking.
This is a country where graphic depictions of violence is not only allowed, but glorified, but gets in an uproar over a boob at a half time commercial.
Indeed, yours is a country where those responsible for said graphic depictions of violence become Governor of its most populated state, and where it is forseen that same person may have that same nation's Constitution altered so he may become President.
In this context, I can't say I'm shocked any more about the moral double-standards your current Administration exhibits.
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Scientific evidence is to the contrary: http://eureka.australianmuseum.net.au/eureka-prize/research-that-contributes-to-animal-protection2
The Queen didn't dismiss the Whitlam government. The Queen wasn't consulted. Governor-General John Kerr acted in cahoots with Leader of the Opposition Malcolm Fraser. The Queen had no knowledge. When Whitlam was asked what he would have done if he had found out about the plot he replied that he would have advised the Queen to dismiss the Governor-General and the Queen would have been bound by convention to act on his advice to her - hardly proof that the Queen has "real power".
I can't see any reference to the latest BIND vulnerability being fixed by Apple in the Mac OS X Server. It's vulnerable and has been fixed by other vendors so why not?
A naked example of blaming the victim if I've ever heard one.
Hey, you could always, like, not eat them...
*Seen a firewire device
I have a firewire iPod mini (yes, it's old - but it still works, why should I get rid of it?), three firewire backup drives for the old G4 we use as a server at my workplace (yes, again, it's old - but it's an inexpensive recycling of old equipment for a useful purpose which has enabled our small business to free up cash for other uses).
*Seen a firewire port on anything besides a faulty motherboard I once had
Just so this doesn't appear like a Mac-only rant, my wife's 2 year old PC also has Firewire built into the motherboard. On anything but cheap PC trash it's pretty ubiquitous...
*Seen anyone using a firewire device
Then you don't get out much.
I don't think many people care, at least here in Australia. :\
Well I'm in Australia and I will certainly be keeping clear of the MacBook - but then again, I agree with another post's suggestion that this is part of an Apple strategy to (a) ease the market away from Firewire, and (b) differentiate the MacBook market (student etc. that uses their Mac for nothing more than web/email/productivity apps) from the MacBook Pro which is for users that want all the bells and whistles and are prepared to pay for them.
I'm somewhat relieved to hear it's not just me. When the small business I work for (3x Windows and 1x MacOS X clients) recently expanded I recommended MacOS X 10.4 Server, believing the Apple claims that it was the perfect cross-platform workgroup server for our needs. Like you, what I have found is that for all but the most trivial tasks one needs to delve beyond the limited built-in GUI administration tools and administer via the command-line and text configuration files - even Apple's own PDF documentation acknowledges this at many points.
While I am confident with the command-line (I enjoyed learning *nix on MacOS X 10.1-10.4 client and the experience also made me confident learning OpenBSD which we now use for our firewall) no-one else in the business is confident doing so, which is most likely the case in many small businesses I expect. I must say I consider Apple's implementation of their workgroup server is very much half-baked, particularly for the cost of the licence.
Not sure if you're aware but there is a Thunderbird project called Penelope for those Eudora users stuck by Qualcomm's decision to discontinue the product. I haven't tried the Eudora importers, though...
Oh, you mean "Try and pwn an AS/400..."
Doesn't work as of MacOS X 10.4 ("Tiger"), unfortunately.
You should check your facts. The 650,000 is a highly researched, peer-reviewed estimate compiled by one of the preeminent medical journals of the world (The Lancet) and using the most up-to-date methodology for estimating death tolls in catastophies of either human or natural making:
As a Eudora user at our small business (3 Eudora installations), what I do hope more than anything else is that they develop a rock-solid, stable and reliable importer for Eudora mail into the new Penelope/Eudora-Thunderbird hybrid so that we can transition our mail to the new platform with confidence. If this is done well - and it must be seen as the number one priority of the developers - then I think that's half the battle won.
Fetchmail is excellent at POPing mail and then delivering it to a SMTP daemon or local delivery agent. You'll still need to install an IMAP server locally, but fetchmail provides the necessary bridge.
You really need to read what Theo and others are asking, rather than making assumptions. If you did you would realise there are two things OpenBSD asks of Intel, and neither of them relate to your conclusions:
Note we're not talking about open-source firmware, we're talking about opening up the licensing conditions on distribution of the closed-source firmware.
Not to mention by default VNC is unencrypted... unless you tunnel it - and how might one tunnel it? Hmmmm...
If one is applying for a job at Microsoft and they've asked you for a CV in the native format of one of the very same applications they author, then sure, you're mad if you don't follow their wishes.
But you took this one specific example and made a generalisation about all prospective employers wanting to use online editing tools to make notes on your CV, wanting to do this in Word, yet not asking for your CV in Word format, and then disregarding your CV because you didn't read their mind and supply your CV in Word.
Look, if they haven't specifically asked you for it in Word and you supply it in PDF (for which everyone has a free reader on their computer) and they need to make notes they'll:
- Curse themselves for not asking for applications in Word format, and then
- Just print it out and make notes by hand.
It's totally unreasonable to expect applicants to send their application in a proprietary format without even a hint of suggesting this in the job description.If your CV is really skipped over for this reason, be thankful - you don't want to work for a company that conducts themselves in this way.
You've obviously never used any Acrobat product other than the free reader:
Acrobat Family - Product Comparison
My boss brought in his new computer about a year ago for me to set it up securely, as our company is the only one he knows that has not had any kind of downtime due to malicious code/spyware/etc in the last six years (since I've been there).
The reason? Despite all the difficulties associated with it, all user accounts are Standard (Restricted) Users in Windows XP, and Power Users in Windows 2000 (I've found its impossible to iron-out all the kinks when attempting to run as a Restricted User in Windows 2000).
So I give him and his wife Administrator profiles on their brand new Windows XP machine, and his two kids are Restricted Users, and I installed anitvirus for good measure. The result?
And as a result...
My conclusion? Windows XP can be used securely, and can be used as a home (as opposed to business) operating system... but it cannot be used as both.
From TFA:
Who the hell is this guy to tell me what is and is not "inappropriate"???
I thought in a liberal democracy our politicians were our servants, not our masters! I think Mr Barnett should consider resigning from the Liberal Party and join Family First or one of the other cooky authoritarian Christian extremists, as his "liberal" values seem to be somewhat lacking.
In this context, I can't say I'm shocked any more about the moral double-standards your current Administration exhibits.