So if you're stuck with streaming not only are you most likely to be watching it at peak times, when congestion is most likely to occur but you could end up seeing an inferior quality version to what you wanted?
That's why i download, my connection is too congested during the day and i don't want to watch tv after midnight, but i can happily download torrents after midnight and watch them in full quality the following day.
The improving video codecs will be offset by higher resolutions, 4K, 8K etc...
I would much prefer to rsync data at night, but most of the commercial services don't offer that option and force you to stream, so you end up with much higher bandwidth usage at peak times and virtually nothing at night.
Most of those systems are also horribly insecure... I bought a system with 4 night vision cameras, they all run linux and have a hard coded root password, as well as a directory traversal bug which lets you get any file from the filesystem (including/etc/passwd but also the file where the dvr software itself stores your admin password in plaintext)... Many of the ones i've seen also have extremely crude interfaces, requiring ie6 and activex...
I very rarely print anything, and when i do 99% of it is just monochrome, although i do scan quite a lot... I had an inkjet all in one and it dried out due to lack of use... I also found that they never updated the closed source drivers, so its usable from 32bit xp, macos ppc or linux which has open source drivers for it.
These days i bought an old laserjet 4200 from ebay, it came with a full toner, has ethernet and supports postscript. It won't dry out due to lack of use, and the toner it has will probably outlast my use of the printer. I paid something like $50 for it. Being postscript i know it will work with anything and i won't need to screw around with drivers.
For scanning i did much the same, bought a networked scanner which just talks SMTP and sends the output via email.
Doing the hash client side will open you up to pass the hash attacks... Trying fixed size hashes won't be a real advantage, there are usually many more possible hashes than actual passwords (assuming you use a sensible hashing algorithm)... Doing it client side also makes it impractical/pointless to use salts.
You want to authenticate using public/private keys and/or a two factor system if you can, passwords really are a lowest common denominator.
They're not saying its ok, they're saying you should only reuse passwords for similar systems, which makes sense... Your slashdot password gets compromised its not a big deal, use the same password on some other news site its also not a big deal, just make sure you use a different password for your bank.
That sounds more like incompetence than malice, or excessive cautiousness... Vegans won't eat eggs, and will avoid products which contain them.
A lot of products are advertised as "may contain traces of nuts" when they usually dont, the companies are over cautious incase there is a trace of nuts and someone has a severe reaction. They must consider that the risk of a lawsuit outweighs the number of customers who will avoid the product because of the notice on the label.
But who profits from good health? Poor health is actually highly profitable for medical and pharmaceutical companies... Obesity is highly profitable for food companies, even car manufacturers and oil companies etc as obese people are usually unwilling or unable to walk very far.
The "healthy food" propaganda is also quite ridiculous... There seems to be a demon every week wether its sugar, salt, fat, msg etc... The problem is that once you take one or more of these so called "unhealthy" substances out of the food it tastes like crap, so other substances are used as substitutes so something that's low in fat can often be very high in sugar.
I like to stick to fresh foods, using traditional ingredients... I avoid processed foods wherever i can, but i do cook food with animal fat etc. My grandparents eat much the same way too and have done for their whole lives. I live a rather sedentary lifestyle, don't get much exercise etc and yet i'm not fat, based on most of the charts available online i'm well within the ideal weight band for my height and age.
That's even worse, only qualified IT departments would be buying these switches so you have every reason to expect that they *should* research their purchase before buying. Normally a reset button needs to be pressed with a pin to prevent accidental pressing...
But what constitutes authorization? Being given the password by whoever set it? In the case of a default it was set by the manufacturer, and they have given you the password in the form of documentation.
I don't understand why manufacturers insist on bundling their own crappy firmware anyway...
It always has less features than dd-wrt, costs them money to develop and maintain (which they then try to minimize, thus making the firmware even worse), and generates bad publicity when their corner cutting invariably comes back to bite them in the ass through security holes and bad publicity... They would all be much better off just bundling dd-wrt and using the money they would have spent on development to contribute towards the project and ensure good support for their devices.
You can't disable remote access... You can disable your own remote access (ie the feature that lets you connect to the public routable ip of the router from somewhere else on the internet), but you can't disable the access that the isp has via a separate private address within their own infrastructure.
The only reason blurays are difficult to play is DRM... Raw video files in the same format are perfectly easy to play on linux, or at least in a country which doesn't have software patents.
These problems are not technical, and aren't the fault of linux.
You're also limited by a slow 100mbit nic, and USB for storage, so the filesystem isn't the bottleneck... Most lowend NAS devices come with gigabit nics these days.
GNOME tried to change the UI quite radically, and it resulted in third parties forking the older code base to make a more familiar interface. You have choices, familiar interfaces will always remain available so long as there are users who want to use them, and you aren't forced to run an old os just to get the familiar interface.
You don't get the same options with MS, they have forced several significant ui changes on users in recent years.
Remember this is local government doing the spending...
Licensing is money leaving the area, even leaving the country.
Money spent on training and developers can and should stay in the local area, which creates jobs and some of it returns in the form of tax. So long as the total cost isn't massively higher (which it isn't, their published figures show that it's overall lower) then it's preferable.
Training and custom development also creates longer term value, the software licenses you buy will become worthless in a few years when that software reaches end of life and has to be replaced. Similarly custom development scales - the costs are the same regardless of how many users are running your custom software, making it highly beneficial for a large organization.
That's the problem, windows is usually configured in a horrendously insecure fashion such that people are able to run their own software... Even if you don't have admin privileges, you can still usually install stuff locally. Sure there are ways to prevent this, but they are rarely configured properly. Linux is much easier to configure in such a way so as to prevent users from introducing their own programs.
Who's to say that all the members of the site are necessarily married? While the site is clearly advertised that way, there's nothing to stop single people or those in open relationships from signing up.
The more intrusive ads get (popups, sounds, unskippable video, high bandwidth use combined with capped connections etc - i especially hate ads with sound), the more likely people are to install ad blockers. If ads were less intrusive, people would be less inclined to block them.
I installed an ad blocker specifically because of ads which contained sound, especially annoying when you have multiple tabs open and ads rotate so all of a sudden one of your 50 tabs starts making noise and you have to hunt around to shut it off.
Yeah while i agree with disabling old stuff by default especially in the server side implementation, the client should probably retain support for such things at least as a compile time option...
Such an option has been supported for a while, at least within the HPN patch... Back when i used remote X11, it would automatically forward the DISPLAY parameter when logging in (over telnet in those days), ie it would take your display number (:0) and append it to the end of the host you logged in from. You could also look into an x11 compression system like NX if bandwidth is lacking.
Have a windows install solely for games, then the only thing they can spy on is your game playing, and your gaming performance won't be degraded by any other activity occurring on the host. Basically windows is a toy, treat it as such.
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So if you're stuck with streaming not only are you most likely to be watching it at peak times, when congestion is most likely to occur but you could end up seeing an inferior quality version to what you wanted?
That's why i download, my connection is too congested during the day and i don't want to watch tv after midnight, but i can happily download torrents after midnight and watch them in full quality the following day.
The improving video codecs will be offset by higher resolutions, 4K, 8K etc...
I would much prefer to rsync data at night, but most of the commercial services don't offer that option and force you to stream, so you end up with much higher bandwidth usage at peak times and virtually nothing at night.
Most of those systems are also horribly insecure... I bought a system with 4 night vision cameras, they all run linux and have a hard coded root password, as well as a directory traversal bug which lets you get any file from the filesystem (including /etc/passwd but also the file where the dvr software itself stores your admin password in plaintext)...
Many of the ones i've seen also have extremely crude interfaces, requiring ie6 and activex...
You disallow color printing, but provide color printers?
They still manufacture mono lasers you know.
I very rarely print anything, and when i do 99% of it is just monochrome, although i do scan quite a lot... I had an inkjet all in one and it dried out due to lack of use... I also found that they never updated the closed source drivers, so its usable from 32bit xp, macos ppc or linux which has open source drivers for it.
These days i bought an old laserjet 4200 from ebay, it came with a full toner, has ethernet and supports postscript. It won't dry out due to lack of use, and the toner it has will probably outlast my use of the printer. I paid something like $50 for it.
Being postscript i know it will work with anything and i won't need to screw around with drivers.
For scanning i did much the same, bought a networked scanner which just talks SMTP and sends the output via email.
Doing the hash client side will open you up to pass the hash attacks...
Trying fixed size hashes won't be a real advantage, there are usually many more possible hashes than actual passwords (assuming you use a sensible hashing algorithm)...
Doing it client side also makes it impractical/pointless to use salts.
You want to authenticate using public/private keys and/or a two factor system if you can, passwords really are a lowest common denominator.
They're not saying its ok, they're saying you should only reuse passwords for similar systems, which makes sense... Your slashdot password gets compromised its not a big deal, use the same password on some other news site its also not a big deal, just make sure you use a different password for your bank.
That sounds more like incompetence than malice, or excessive cautiousness...
Vegans won't eat eggs, and will avoid products which contain them.
A lot of products are advertised as "may contain traces of nuts" when they usually dont, the companies are over cautious incase there is a trace of nuts and someone has a severe reaction. They must consider that the risk of a lawsuit outweighs the number of customers who will avoid the product because of the notice on the label.
But who profits from good health?
Poor health is actually highly profitable for medical and pharmaceutical companies...
Obesity is highly profitable for food companies, even car manufacturers and oil companies etc as obese people are usually unwilling or unable to walk very far.
The "healthy food" propaganda is also quite ridiculous... There seems to be a demon every week wether its sugar, salt, fat, msg etc... The problem is that once you take one or more of these so called "unhealthy" substances out of the food it tastes like crap, so other substances are used as substitutes so something that's low in fat can often be very high in sugar.
I like to stick to fresh foods, using traditional ingredients... I avoid processed foods wherever i can, but i do cook food with animal fat etc. My grandparents eat much the same way too and have done for their whole lives. I live a rather sedentary lifestyle, don't get much exercise etc and yet i'm not fat, based on most of the charts available online i'm well within the ideal weight band for my height and age.
That's even worse, only qualified IT departments would be buying these switches so you have every reason to expect that they *should* research their purchase before buying.
Normally a reset button needs to be pressed with a pin to prevent accidental pressing...
It's more like visual basic... Easy for people to learn, so attracts a lot of novice programmers who write poor code.
But what constitutes authorization? Being given the password by whoever set it?
In the case of a default it was set by the manufacturer, and they have given you the password in the form of documentation.
I don't understand why manufacturers insist on bundling their own crappy firmware anyway...
It always has less features than dd-wrt, costs them money to develop and maintain (which they then try to minimize, thus making the firmware even worse), and generates bad publicity when their corner cutting invariably comes back to bite them in the ass through security holes and bad publicity...
They would all be much better off just bundling dd-wrt and using the money they would have spent on development to contribute towards the project and ensure good support for their devices.
You can't disable remote access...
You can disable your own remote access (ie the feature that lets you connect to the public routable ip of the router from somewhere else on the internet), but you can't disable the access that the isp has via a separate private address within their own infrastructure.
The only reason blurays are difficult to play is DRM...
Raw video files in the same format are perfectly easy to play on linux, or at least in a country which doesn't have software patents.
These problems are not technical, and aren't the fault of linux.
You're also limited by a slow 100mbit nic, and USB for storage, so the filesystem isn't the bottleneck... Most lowend NAS devices come with gigabit nics these days.
Because your fairly old and underpowered solaris servers likely had small disks...
GNOME tried to change the UI quite radically, and it resulted in third parties forking the older code base to make a more familiar interface.
You have choices, familiar interfaces will always remain available so long as there are users who want to use them, and you aren't forced to run an old os just to get the familiar interface.
You don't get the same options with MS, they have forced several significant ui changes on users in recent years.
Remember this is local government doing the spending...
Licensing is money leaving the area, even leaving the country.
Money spent on training and developers can and should stay in the local area, which creates jobs and some of it returns in the form of tax. So long as the total cost isn't massively higher (which it isn't, their published figures show that it's overall lower) then it's preferable.
Training and custom development also creates longer term value, the software licenses you buy will become worthless in a few years when that software reaches end of life and has to be replaced.
Similarly custom development scales - the costs are the same regardless of how many users are running your custom software, making it highly beneficial for a large organization.
That's the problem, windows is usually configured in a horrendously insecure fashion such that people are able to run their own software...
Even if you don't have admin privileges, you can still usually install stuff locally. Sure there are ways to prevent this, but they are rarely configured properly. Linux is much easier to configure in such a way so as to prevent users from introducing their own programs.
Who's to say that all the members of the site are necessarily married?
While the site is clearly advertised that way, there's nothing to stop single people or those in open relationships from signing up.
The more intrusive ads get (popups, sounds, unskippable video, high bandwidth use combined with capped connections etc - i especially hate ads with sound), the more likely people are to install ad blockers.
If ads were less intrusive, people would be less inclined to block them.
I installed an ad blocker specifically because of ads which contained sound, especially annoying when you have multiple tabs open and ads rotate so all of a sudden one of your 50 tabs starts making noise and you have to hunt around to shut it off.
Yeah while i agree with disabling old stuff by default especially in the server side implementation, the client should probably retain support for such things at least as a compile time option...
Such an option has been supported for a while, at least within the HPN patch...
Back when i used remote X11, it would automatically forward the DISPLAY parameter when logging in (over telnet in those days), ie it would take your display number (:0) and append it to the end of the host you logged in from.
You could also look into an x11 compression system like NX if bandwidth is lacking.
Have a windows install solely for games, then the only thing they can spy on is your game playing, and your gaming performance won't be degraded by any other activity occurring on the host.
Basically windows is a toy, treat it as such.