I personally stick to sudo. The main reason why is to protect me from myself, more than anyone. Because I have to prefix the command with sudo, it serves as a 'mental brake' to slow down my typing, and double check what I type before I run it.
Sorry, I should have been a little clearer in that regard. Having separate partitions for the OS data and personal data would save time when reformatting because one would not have to back up their files (still a good idea, no doubt). As long as the malware does not reside in the personal files, the system can be wiped clean without loss of needed information.
The Internet can be used for publishing! It's very simple to use a blogging service to publish results or hire one of the many thousands of Slashdotters who are willing to make websites. Given the gravity of such research, I'll bet that many of the web-enlightened Slashdotters would be willing to make the site pro bono.
It's about time we start teaching Windows users to partition like we *nix users have been for years - data on one partition (/home) and the OS on another. I've done this with all of my Windows boxen since XP came out without a problem.
I've used just about every major package management system out there: yum, up2date, apt, portage, grimoire (the one from Sorcerer), and swup. I'm far more impressed with swup than I've ever been with anything else, apt included. I've been using Trustix for about 6 years now and I've never been disappointed with it. The solid, single command line executable aspect of it (swup --install, swup --search-[file|package|etc.]) compared to the variety of apt's executables (apt-get, apt-cache, etc.) reduce the complexity of the system greatly. I've used Ubuntu for almost 2 years and Fedora/Red Hat before that. Swup is solid, secure, quick, and fairly intuitive (as much as a command line program can be).
This may not actually be a problem, but hasn't the Court basically decided that, by not hearing this, content creators must adhere to the highest standard of obscenity laws in order to not face criminal punishment somewhere in the United States?
I give this example: if I created a picture that is completely moral/ethical/unobscene in Pennsylvania and put it on my web site or in my magazine, someone in, say Ohio (which, in this scenario, has stricter obscenity laws), could bring criminal charges against me even though my business in based in Pennsylvania and my web site is hosted in Florida.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the Court has decided in favor of the stricter obscenity laws and saved themselves some time by simply refusing to hear the case. I agree that it's up to the individual states to decide upon their own morality, but the Internet is a medium which knows no state bounds.
Going back to my example, would I then need to put a splash page that says something like, "If you are from Ohio, you cannot legally view this page. Please leave. If you choose to enter, you agree that you will not press charges against me for content of this web site that may be obscene in your state" ?
Sounds like we webmaster types are gonna have a lot more legal gotchas to monitor.
Isn't superman also a biology term for men with an extra Y chromosome (and superwomen for an extra X)? Said people aren't allowed to be in the Olympics because they have a physical advantage over normal XY/XX people. Or are they called supermales/superfemales?
Now, if those bacteria give off energy as they devour the styrofoam, we already have some sort of algorithm to try to get the bacteria to follow courtesy of Symantec's recent coding contest.
A link to this story needs to be posted on every RIAA-affiliated band's message board, MySpace, PureVolume, Friendster, and Facebook site so they know what's going on.
Or the watermark would still be there, but it simply points to another user. I think normalization would shift the watermark, as well. It's a very fallible system, at least at first glance.
Recently, I did a paper for a class and used a number of Wikipedia articles as sources. While I know (within reasonable limits) that the articles I referenced where accurate (I've done a lot of research already and in the past on this topic), my professor wasn't so sure of them, especially after all the bad press that Wikipedia's recieved in the past few months.
A basic rule of research is to never trust a single source alone; to always find corroborating stories/explanations/etc. in another source. Unfortunately, for a lot of the topics in which I am interested, there are very few official sources, and Wikipedia is the most prominent of them.
What can we, the people who trust Wikipedia the most, do to convince our professors and colleagues that Wikipedia is still a highly trustworthy source of accurate information?
One thing that bothers me about all this sudden talk of pandemics, how much cause for concern is there for the average American citizen? This flu strain is apparently more dangerous than SARS, yet it has recieved nowhere near the amount of press that SARS did, and SARS primarily affected the elderly and people with poor immune systems (there were exceptions, though, back off).
In my case, I haven't been sick enough to need antibiotics in more than a year and a half. I'm a full time college student living in a thirty year old dorm in western Pennsylvania. I regularly have contact with over 1000 people on any given weekday. At any given moment, there is at least 5 people in my hall who are sick.
Is this pandemic something that American college students at small schools should worry about? Obviously, there is a much higher chance at a university or much larger school (like Penn State with ~45,000 students from all over the world).
What about the people who are over 20 and don't have a credit card because they simply don't want one? Granted that segment of the population is fairly small, but isn't the goal of entertainment companies to entertain everyone they can?
What is SAP? A Google search yields a company that sells business products, but there doesn't seem to be anything related to a point-of-sale system or workstation software. Is it an electronics design software?
Trustix Secure Linux has been one of the most secure distributions since its inception. No services are on by default and only a minimal install is needed most of the time. Updates come out seemingly hourly (more like daily) and it's one of the smoothest and securest server operating systems out there. If you're looking for desktop, you're not going to find it with Trustix. I've been using it as my main server distribution for ~3 years without a single problem.
If very few of the teachers are technologically aware, take an inventory of students. Find one or two that have good grades and know their way around a computer or show promise AND interest. These one or two students can help A LOT and can help their teachers so that you can focus on other things, like getting your network into the 21st century.
Amen to that. It's a shame, though, that most of the States don't have an official teacher certification for Computer Science. Most high school computer science teachers are either geeky business teachers or English or Math majors who took English or Math with a Computer Science and secondary education double minor (or however other schools do it - Westminster does things a little different).
This generally means that most high school computer science teachers have had little or no formal education on computer science, let alone teaching computer science.
In my case, I'm a Computer Science major and am planning to get my Master's in education after graduation.
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I personally stick to sudo. The main reason why is to protect me from myself, more than anyone. Because I have to prefix the command with sudo, it serves as a 'mental brake' to slow down my typing, and double check what I type before I run it.
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I knew that some good would come out of UnitedLinux some day. *dodges flames*
Sorry, I should have been a little clearer in that regard. Having separate partitions for the OS data and personal data would save time when reformatting because one would not have to back up their files (still a good idea, no doubt). As long as the malware does not reside in the personal files, the system can be wiped clean without loss of needed information.
The Internet can be used for publishing! It's very simple to use a blogging service to publish results or hire one of the many thousands of Slashdotters who are willing to make websites. Given the gravity of such research, I'll bet that many of the web-enlightened Slashdotters would be willing to make the site pro bono.
It's about time we start teaching Windows users to partition like we *nix users have been for years - data on one partition (/home) and the OS on another. I've done this with all of my Windows boxen since XP came out without a problem.
As long as it's not against company policy, you could try using SSH tunneling to hit a proxy at home. It might be a lot slower, but you can go anywhere. I've been using one written in Python for six months and haven't had a hitch.
I've used just about every major package management system out there: yum, up2date, apt, portage, grimoire (the one from Sorcerer), and swup. I'm far more impressed with swup than I've ever been with anything else, apt included. I've been using Trustix for about 6 years now and I've never been disappointed with it. The solid, single command line executable aspect of it (swup --install, swup --search-[file|package|etc.]) compared to the variety of apt's executables (apt-get, apt-cache, etc.) reduce the complexity of the system greatly. I've used Ubuntu for almost 2 years and Fedora/Red Hat before that. Swup is solid, secure, quick, and fairly intuitive (as much as a command line program can be).
This may not actually be a problem, but hasn't the Court basically decided that, by not hearing this, content creators must adhere to the highest standard of obscenity laws in order to not face criminal punishment somewhere in the United States?
I give this example: if I created a picture that is completely moral/ethical/unobscene in Pennsylvania and put it on my web site or in my magazine, someone in, say Ohio (which, in this scenario, has stricter obscenity laws), could bring criminal charges against me even though my business in based in Pennsylvania and my web site is hosted in Florida.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the Court has decided in favor of the stricter obscenity laws and saved themselves some time by simply refusing to hear the case. I agree that it's up to the individual states to decide upon their own morality, but the Internet is a medium which knows no state bounds.
Going back to my example, would I then need to put a splash page that says something like, "If you are from Ohio, you cannot legally view this page. Please leave. If you choose to enter, you agree that you will not press charges against me for content of this web site that may be obscene in your state" ?
Sounds like we webmaster types are gonna have a lot more legal gotchas to monitor.
Isn't superman also a biology term for men with an extra Y chromosome (and superwomen for an extra X)? Said people aren't allowed to be in the Olympics because they have a physical advantage over normal XY/XX people. Or are they called supermales/superfemales?
Now, if those bacteria give off energy as they devour the styrofoam, we already have some sort of algorithm to try to get the bacteria to follow courtesy of Symantec's recent coding contest.
A link to this story needs to be posted on every RIAA-affiliated band's message board, MySpace, PureVolume, Friendster, and Facebook site so they know what's going on.
Or the watermark would still be there, but it simply points to another user. I think normalization would shift the watermark, as well. It's a very fallible system, at least at first glance.
Recently, I did a paper for a class and used a number of Wikipedia articles as sources. While I know (within reasonable limits) that the articles I referenced where accurate (I've done a lot of research already and in the past on this topic), my professor wasn't so sure of them, especially after all the bad press that Wikipedia's recieved in the past few months.
A basic rule of research is to never trust a single source alone; to always find corroborating stories/explanations/etc. in another source. Unfortunately, for a lot of the topics in which I am interested, there are very few official sources, and Wikipedia is the most prominent of them.
What can we, the people who trust Wikipedia the most, do to convince our professors and colleagues that Wikipedia is still a highly trustworthy source of accurate information?
And the real Tau'ri cried out in simultaneous orgasm, then were suddenly silenced when they saw no release date.
You can get one of these through PC Torque for under $3,000. It's also a Sager 9890.
Waterdeep is mentioned heavily in Neverwinter Nights. In fact, the entire first chapter is based on Waterdhavian creatures.
One thing that bothers me about all this sudden talk of pandemics, how much cause for concern is there for the average American citizen? This flu strain is apparently more dangerous than SARS, yet it has recieved nowhere near the amount of press that SARS did, and SARS primarily affected the elderly and people with poor immune systems (there were exceptions, though, back off).
In my case, I haven't been sick enough to need antibiotics in more than a year and a half. I'm a full time college student living in a thirty year old dorm in western Pennsylvania. I regularly have contact with over 1000 people on any given weekday. At any given moment, there is at least 5 people in my hall who are sick.
Is this pandemic something that American college students at small schools should worry about? Obviously, there is a much higher chance at a university or much larger school (like Penn State with ~45,000 students from all over the world).
What about the people who are over 20 and don't have a credit card because they simply don't want one? Granted that segment of the population is fairly small, but isn't the goal of entertainment companies to entertain everyone they can?
What is SAP? A Google search yields a company that sells business products, but there doesn't seem to be anything related to a point-of-sale system or workstation software. Is it an electronics design software?
Trustix Secure Linux has been one of the most secure distributions since its inception. No services are on by default and only a minimal install is needed most of the time. Updates come out seemingly hourly (more like daily) and it's one of the smoothest and securest server operating systems out there. If you're looking for desktop, you're not going to find it with Trustix. I've been using it as my main server distribution for ~3 years without a single problem.
If very few of the teachers are technologically aware, take an inventory of students. Find one or two that have good grades and know their way around a computer or show promise AND interest. These one or two students can help A LOT and can help their teachers so that you can focus on other things, like getting your network into the 21st century.
This works. I was the student.
The article says Firefox impedes investigations. I say Internet Explorer impedes the Internet.
..or they could just mandate Zyxel (sp?) and its comrades inform their customers that they cannot be found in case of an emergency.
Oh wait, this is the United States. We, by our very nature, must do everything in our power to disguise our hidden agendas.
Amen to that. It's a shame, though, that most of the States don't have an official teacher certification for Computer Science. Most high school computer science teachers are either geeky business teachers or English or Math majors who took English or Math with a Computer Science and secondary education double minor (or however other schools do it - Westminster does things a little different).
This generally means that most high school computer science teachers have had little or no formal education on computer science, let alone teaching computer science.
In my case, I'm a Computer Science major and am planning to get my Master's in education after graduation.
rm -rf /shuttle/gapfiller is a lot safer than rm -rf /shuttle/gap* - it's always better to do it by hand.