...but I *like* having a desk/cubicle to call my own. I like the security of feeling fairly confident that nobody but me has farted in my chair, and nobody has had their greasy hands on my mouse or stapler, not to mention their greasy fingerprints on my monitor.
I shudder at the thought of having to sit at my co-worker's desk. I wouldn't have any time for work after I finished cleaning the coffee stains from the desk and keyboard, and the potato chip crumbs out of the mouse rollers.
I don't know about the rest of you, but if this were implemented at my office, I'd come in as *late* as possible. I may bet the worst desk in the office, but I'd probably get teh same one every day.
First of all, your battery doesn't send power to the alternator...the alternator sends power to the battery. Why in the world would an alternator need power? It takes some energy from the running engine, and turns it into electricity to recharge the battery, not the other way around.
Second of all, no car battery outputs 3400 amps continuously. A UPS needs continuous output. Do you have any idea how much power 3400 amps is? And besides, you're probably referring to CCA or cold cranking amps, which tells you nothing about how much output the battery can sustain. For reference, a battery for an 8 cylinder diesel engine needs only about 1000 CCA.
Go here http://www.uuhome.de/william.darden/ and learn all you want about car batteries.
No way. Here on Slashdot, a comment like that will earn you a +5 informative.
Now my comment (this) will probably get me a -1 flamebait.
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"But there's no keyword on AOL -- which has a keyword for everything -- for cancelling membership. If you root around in customer support for a while and keep typing in "cancel service" at every prompt -- I'm talking two or three browser moves and about five minutes, just enough to discourage the rushed, confused or distractable -- you eventually reach a page that offers an 888 number for cancellation of membership."
Really?...I went to www.aol.com, and clicked on "search" at the top of the window. for a search query, I typed "cancel membership". The very first search result is a list of AOL's phone numbers, which clearly lists 1-888-265-8008 as the number for cancellation.
While there's really no excuse for bad customer service these days, it exists, and it's not going anywhere. If Katz actually expected to call a major company like AOL or Earthlink, and NOT get jerked around on the phone, the he's just too niave to be using the Internet.
If all else fails, just don't pay. dispute the charge on your credit card.
I work for a large web hosting firm, and a major part of my job is modifying customers' domain name information (contacts, nameservers, etc.). Many of our customers use GoDaddy, and I have found that about 60% of the time, changes that I make are never sent to the root zone servers, or otherwise horribly screwed up.
I have made changes to the nameserver info, only to have the new info show up in the WhoIs database, but never on the root zone servers.
I have made changes to the nameserver info, only to have the domain disappear completely from both the WhoIs database and the root zone servers.
I have made changes to the nameserver info, only to have both the WhoIs database and the root zone servers show no nameservers at all for the domain.
Like I said above this is a major part of my job, and I know what I'm doing. I never have these kinds of problems with any of the other registrars (Verisign, OpenSRS, Register.com, etc.).
Granted, as soon as I call GoDaddy and complain, they fix the problems manually over the phone, but their web-management really stinks.
I use DomainMonger too, and I've been nothing but happy with them.
The funny thing is, DomainMonger is not a registrar per se. They are an affiliate of OpenSRS (owned by Tucows), who is a wholesale reseller for (you guessed it) Verisign.
Actually, anyone can be a "DomainMonger". Just go to www.opensrs.org, and you can sign up. It's a little bit of work to get up and running, and I'm not sure if they're charging minimums these days, but this is all DomainMonger is. In fact, most of the little noname "registrars" use OpenSRS.
First of all, they're not electrons, they're photons, the quantegy of light. Your CRT has an electron gun that directs a narrow beam of electrons onto a phosphorus coated glass (the 'screen'). The phosphorus then glows, and radiates photons.
While LCD panels don't have an electron beam to radiate phosphorus, they still radiate photons. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to see them.
Basically, if your monitor is radiating photons (read: turned on) someone can intercept those photons and reconstruct an image, given the right equipment and circumstances.
I suppose given the right equipment and circumstances, they can read your mind as well, so we're screwed anyway.
You're right, physical security is important. But the problem here is that physical security becomes more complicated when you are *intentionally* giving your smart card (credit card, ID badge, etc.) to someone (waiter, security personell, etc.).
You need to trust that waiter isn't going to take your card and swipe it with his palm-pilot card reader. Now, I guess you also need to trust that the waiter doesn't have a photo-strobe and microscope handy.
Your hard disk, on the other hand, is not likely to leave your posession normally, unless someone steals it, or you RMA the hard disc with the manufacturer.
Microsoft's Overlooked Code Theft? No, SoftImage's overlooked code-theft, and timothy's lame (but effective) attempt to drum up today's anti MS babble.
This is just from my memory, but I remember seeing a similar device on TV many years ago.
It featured a cycle race. The player tries to get their brain to generate Alpha, Beta, or Delta waves (at the instructor's discretion). The more he can get his brain to 'concentrate' of one particular type of brainwave, the faster the cyclist on the screen pedals.
That's a pretty cool idea but when I look at that picture, I can't help but wonder why they're trying to emulate a pad of paper. For about $1, you could get yourself a nice real pad of paper and a real pencil.
I didn't read the whole article, bit I bet this thing is gonna cost some serious bucks. Why not make it look like something sleek and techno-sexy, instead of a cheap little paper binder.
Why try to emulate pencil and paper when we already have real pencil and real paper for much less money, that work much better than any fancy laptop. Why not exploit all the technology that goes into things like this and make them truly useful. Let the pencil and paper be it's own pencil and paper. These two simple items have a use.
Someone tell me how having a.pro top-level will make anything secure?
So the other top-levels cannot be secure? This is just another crapload of lies, which all of us/.'ers know. However the fact is, most of the.pro(fessionals) out there aren't hip to this.
I work for a large web-hosting firm, and most of our doctor/lawyer/etc. clients are truly clueless when it comes to this type of thing.
Those of you out there saying that the market should decide for itself are missing the point. We (as techno-smart Slashdot readers) are not the market, so we won't be the ones to decide. The doctor/lawyer/etc., who is too busy practicing medicine/law/whatever, and who's email address contains @aol.com is going to decide the market. If my clients are a good cross-section of this group, they'll pay thru the nose without ever knowing any better.
Why do you feel that just because a machine is running old software, it doesn't need to be licensed?
If businesses thought that way, there'd be no used car dealers, would there? Think about it...if the car's, say, 4 or 5 years old, there's no point in making sure it's legally purchased, right? Wrong. That's just plain rediculous.
Why not just make sure that you're in compliance with the licensing restrictions of the software that you're using?
Everytime Slashdot posts a story about the BSA, I read countless posts about how to get around their Gestapo/Stormtrooper/Mafia tactics, but the one thing I NEVER see is this:
Just make sure you're licensed!
Weather this means paying out the wazoo for MS-Windows, or using GPL'd software, just make sure you're legal.
Yes, the BSA uses underhanded tactics to get what they want, but their 'single point of failure' is that they rely on you being 'not legal' in order to get what they want.
Has anyone ever been audited by the BSA or it's cousins and had to pay, even though they were fully licensed for all software? I doubt it, but I could be wrong. If that has ever happened to you, post the story here.
My point is this: By using unlicensed software, you're giving the BSA an excuse to extort money from you. Don't wanna pay them? Then license all of your software, and tell them to go to hell.
Of course this doesn't factor the manpower needed to supervise the BSA auditing your systems.
Does anyone know how much bandwidth you need in order to get telephone quality audio?
I'm asking because I ditched my fancy-schmancy cable modem for my current connection: a dedicated 128Kb IDSL line. The bandwidth sucks, but I get 8 IPs and can run whatever kind of servers I want.
This sounds pretty cool, but I'm wondering if I can spare the bandwidth.
Sound's pretty f'd up. I personally gave up with the windows stuff. I now run a homebuilt tivo sort of box. It's MDK8.2 with a Hauppauge WinTV Stereo card. It uses the framebuffer to output both console and X11 to the TV.
It runs pretty good. The only thing I'm having trouble with is getting the damn Hauppauge remote to play nicely with XawTV and lirc.
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Ummm....ports are source, dipshit.
Don't be girly and just make dumb comments about BSD's features when you haven't a clue.
And the fact that the universe's documentation really *sucks* proves once and for all that the universe is running Linux.
Touche.
...but I *like* having a desk/cubicle to call my own. I like the security of feeling fairly confident that nobody but me has farted in my chair, and nobody has had their greasy hands on my mouse or stapler, not to mention their greasy fingerprints on my monitor.
I shudder at the thought of having to sit at my co-worker's desk. I wouldn't have any time for work after I finished cleaning the coffee stains from the desk and keyboard, and the potato chip crumbs out of the mouse rollers.
I don't know about the rest of you, but if this were implemented at my office, I'd come in as *late* as possible. I may bet the worst desk in the office, but I'd probably get teh same one every day.
You're wrong.
First of all, your battery doesn't send power to the alternator...the alternator sends power to the battery. Why in the world would an alternator need power? It takes some energy from the running engine, and turns it into electricity to recharge the battery, not the other way around.
Second of all, no car battery outputs 3400 amps continuously. A UPS needs continuous output. Do you have any idea how much power 3400 amps is? And besides, you're probably referring to CCA or cold cranking amps, which tells you nothing about how much output the battery can sustain. For reference, a battery for an 8 cylinder diesel engine needs only about 1000 CCA.
Go here http://www.uuhome.de/william.darden/ and learn all you want about car batteries.
-1 flamebait?
No way. Here on Slashdot, a comment like that will earn you a +5 informative.
Now my comment (this) will probably get me a -1 flamebait.
"But there's no keyword on AOL -- which has a keyword for everything -- for cancelling membership. If you root around in customer support for a while and keep typing in "cancel service" at every prompt -- I'm talking two or three browser moves and about five minutes, just enough to discourage the rushed, confused or distractable -- you eventually reach a page that offers an 888 number for cancellation of membership."
Really?...I went to www.aol.com, and clicked on "search" at the top of the window. for a search query, I typed "cancel membership". The very first search result is a list of AOL's phone numbers, which clearly lists 1-888-265-8008 as the number for cancellation.
While there's really no excuse for bad customer service these days, it exists, and it's not going anywhere. If Katz actually expected to call a major company like AOL or Earthlink, and NOT get jerked around on the phone, the he's just too niave to be using the Internet.
If all else fails, just don't pay. dispute the charge on your credit card.
GoDaddy's management system quite frankly sucks.
I work for a large web hosting firm, and a major part of my job is modifying customers' domain name information (contacts, nameservers, etc.). Many of our customers use GoDaddy, and I have found that about 60% of the time, changes that I make are never sent to the root zone servers, or otherwise horribly screwed up.
I have made changes to the nameserver info, only to have the new info show up in the WhoIs database, but never on the root zone servers.
I have made changes to the nameserver info, only to have the domain disappear completely from both the WhoIs database and the root zone servers.
I have made changes to the nameserver info, only to have both the WhoIs database and the root zone servers show no nameservers at all for the domain.
Like I said above this is a major part of my job, and I know what I'm doing. I never have these kinds of problems with any of the other registrars (Verisign, OpenSRS, Register.com, etc.).
Granted, as soon as I call GoDaddy and complain, they fix the problems manually over the phone, but their web-management really stinks.
I wouldn't ever use them for my personal domains.
I use DomainMonger too, and I've been nothing but happy with them.
The funny thing is, DomainMonger is not a registrar per se. They are an affiliate of OpenSRS (owned by Tucows), who is a wholesale reseller for (you guessed it) Verisign.
Actually, anyone can be a "DomainMonger". Just go to www.opensrs.org, and you can sign up. It's a little bit of work to get up and running, and I'm not sure if they're charging minimums these days, but this is all DomainMonger is. In fact, most of the little noname "registrars" use OpenSRS.
First of all, they're not electrons, they're photons, the quantegy of light. Your CRT has an electron gun that directs a narrow beam of electrons onto a phosphorus coated glass (the 'screen'). The phosphorus then glows, and radiates photons.
While LCD panels don't have an electron beam to radiate phosphorus, they still radiate photons. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to see them.
Basically, if your monitor is radiating photons (read: turned on) someone can intercept those photons and reconstruct an image, given the right equipment and circumstances.
I suppose given the right equipment and circumstances, they can read your mind as well, so we're screwed anyway.
You're right, physical security is important. But the problem here is that physical security becomes more complicated when you are *intentionally* giving your smart card (credit card, ID badge, etc.) to someone (waiter, security personell, etc.).
You need to trust that waiter isn't going to take your card and swipe it with his palm-pilot card reader. Now, I guess you also need to trust that the waiter doesn't have a photo-strobe and microscope handy.
Your hard disk, on the other hand, is not likely to leave your posession normally, unless someone steals it, or you RMA the hard disc with the manufacturer.
Hahaha! Good one.
Remonds me of some old Cheech and Chong movie:
"Where's my license? It's on the bumper, man..."
Microsoft's Overlooked Code Theft? No, SoftImage's overlooked code-theft, and timothy's lame (but effective) attempt to drum up today's anti MS babble.
This is just from my memory, but I remember seeing a similar device on TV many years ago.
It featured a cycle race. The player tries to get their brain to generate Alpha, Beta, or Delta waves (at the instructor's discretion). The more he can get his brain to 'concentrate' of one particular type of brainwave, the faster the cyclist on the screen pedals.
That's a pretty cool idea but when I look at that picture, I can't help but wonder why they're trying to emulate a pad of paper. For about $1, you could get yourself a nice real pad of paper and a real pencil.
I didn't read the whole article, bit I bet this thing is gonna cost some serious bucks. Why not make it look like something sleek and techno-sexy, instead of a cheap little paper binder.
Why try to emulate pencil and paper when we already have real pencil and real paper for much less money, that work much better than any fancy laptop. Why not exploit all the technology that goes into things like this and make them truly useful. Let the pencil and paper be it's own pencil and paper. These two simple items have a use.
Someone tell me how having a .pro top-level will make anything secure?
/.'ers know. However the fact is, most of the .pro(fessionals) out there aren't hip to this.
So the other top-levels cannot be secure? This is just another crapload of lies, which all of us
I work for a large web-hosting firm, and most of our doctor/lawyer/etc. clients are truly clueless when it comes to this type of thing.
Those of you out there saying that the market should decide for itself are missing the point. We (as techno-smart Slashdot readers) are not the market, so we won't be the ones to decide. The doctor/lawyer/etc., who is too busy practicing medicine/law/whatever, and who's email address contains @aol.com is going to decide the market. If my clients are a good cross-section of this group, they'll pay thru the nose without ever knowing any better.
This, as we all know, is the mark of a rtue geek:
"...but going through my collection of miscellaneous gears..."
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What will the FBI do? Why they'll just read the blinkenlights from your quantum switch!
Why do you feel that just because a machine is running old software, it doesn't need to be licensed?
If businesses thought that way, there'd be no used car dealers, would there? Think about it...if the car's, say, 4 or 5 years old, there's no point in making sure it's legally purchased, right? Wrong. That's just plain rediculous.
This is truly not meant as a troll, but:
Why not just make sure that you're in compliance with the licensing restrictions of the software that you're using?
Everytime Slashdot posts a story about the BSA, I read countless posts about how to get around their Gestapo/Stormtrooper/Mafia tactics, but the one thing I NEVER see is this:
Just make sure you're licensed!
Weather this means paying out the wazoo for MS-Windows, or using GPL'd software, just make sure you're legal.
Yes, the BSA uses underhanded tactics to get what they want, but their 'single point of failure' is that they rely on you being 'not legal' in order to get what they want.
Has anyone ever been audited by the BSA or it's cousins and had to pay, even though they were fully licensed for all software? I doubt it, but I could be wrong. If that has ever happened to you, post the story here.
My point is this:
By using unlicensed software, you're giving the BSA an excuse to extort money from you. Don't wanna pay them? Then license all of your software, and tell them to go to hell.
Of course this doesn't factor the manpower needed to supervise the BSA auditing your systems.
While this has 'cool factor', it's really not that impressive. Looking at the specs here:
e s/ 40System.pdf
http://www.ultimatetechnology.com/media/brochur
You can see that this thing's basically just a PC with a cash drawer.
You forgot:
Lower it
Put hydraulics in it
Put a slammin' stereo & subwoofer in it
Put a stupid wing on the back
Put a fire extinguisher and big ass tach on it
"Designed for deterministic performance with 640-Gbps font-panel throughput and 1,280-Gbps rear-panel throughput"
That's a lot of bandwidth killed if someone trips on the power cord.
Does anyone know how much bandwidth you need in order to get telephone quality audio?
I'm asking because I ditched my fancy-schmancy cable modem for my current connection: a dedicated 128Kb IDSL line. The bandwidth sucks, but I get 8 IPs and can run whatever kind of servers I want.
This sounds pretty cool, but I'm wondering if I can spare the bandwidth.
OIC.
Sound's pretty f'd up. I personally gave up with the windows stuff. I now run a homebuilt tivo sort of box. It's MDK8.2 with a Hauppauge WinTV Stereo card. It uses the framebuffer to output both console and X11 to the TV.
It runs pretty good. The only thing I'm having trouble with is getting the damn Hauppauge remote to play nicely with XawTV and lirc.
You're not referring to the 2GB file size limit are you?
IIRC win9x has a 2GB file limit inherent to the FAT32 filesystem. Upgrading to an NTFS filesystem as in Win2K/XP would solve this.