There are much better ways to italicize on Slashdot or any other site using HTML posting. One, for example, that doesn't depend on brackets. It's not even that hard. But meh, whatever works for you.;)
I wasn't in Korea that long ago, but that's the story I read about it too long ago to provide a source. I remember now. It was 128bit encryption. Sorry for the less-than-correct statement in my original post.
My school (here in SK) fought some worm all last week. They couldn't get rid of it. They re-installed all the computers in the school (except my clean box), but couldn't get rid of it. I tried to tell them that they had better be patched up before they connected.
Anyway, they just upgraded everyone to Vista (except, again, me), so there's here's another 100 or so computers with Vista. I have to assume it's pirated. Who knows? It appears to have worked, but large numbers of people lost months of work. See the blog in my sig for my experience about this this morning.
Regarding lock-in, though, the online banking industry here standardized on an ActiveX plugin before SSL was common, so anyone who wants to bank online has to be on MS Windows. It sucks here.
I don't buy that they're supporting ODF for a second. I believe they're against OOXML, but that's because almost everyone uses HanSoft's Han Office, which doesn't support it. This is one of the few places in the world where MS Office doesn't have a majority of installs.
Not to be a grammar nazi, but you need to watch your antecedents. I actually understood that the kids were selling the file, not the telecom, until long after I finished reading your comment. Just to make it clear: The telecom was trying to charge the kids $80K for a file the telecomwas itself selling for $30. Is that right?
Apparently everyone who knows the case agrees that Ernie Ball didn't intend to pirate. Things like that happen in businesses, especially small ones. Responsibilities move and the software moves with them. People install random stuff without authorization. Receipts get lost (I understand that the BSA requires not only proof of licens but proof of purchase, as well).
Saying "Don't pirate" is easy. Getting a company of any size to reach 100% compliance is utterly painful. It's no different than being autdited by the IRS -- they're going to get you for something.
Not a marketing strategy. I'm sure it has to do with the recent case where a pedophile fled South Korea and was arrested while trying to hide out in Thailand.
By the way, saying Thailand's major import is pedophiles is really obnoxious. I'm sure there's no child molestation going on in your country, eh? No sex slavery, either. Don't be a racist.
Are you bored? Why do you keep this shit up? I'm so tired of your trolls I want to puke. Oh, and the Linuzz/Abble troll is even more lame than people saying Windoze because yours reeks of desperation and uncreativeness.
Anyway, if you go over to Jamendo, look first at the recommended albums and albums of the month. It's like Lulu,com is for books -- self-publishing -- so there's a lot of just plain shit in there, but there are also a few jems. Most of the stuff seems to be techno, which doesn't float my boat, but all genres are represented.
some mainstream media page took down a poll after Ron Paul got 80% of the votes
Coincidentally, the combo of Debian/Ubuntu (basically Debian) got just about 80%. That's shockingly high. Will we see the survey come down now? I suspect it will come down in the next week.;)
About three months ago, I had a "discussion" with someone who claimed that piracy would be the end of the music industry and that no one would want to play music anymore. My assertions that real musicians (and I know quite a few) just want people to listen to their music. They'll work a day job, go without eating, or do anything else it takes to keep playing in front of groups was dismissed. In my experience, the guitar/bass/sax/whatever is always the last thing to get hocked and the first thing to come out of the pawn shop.
Real musicians play for the people, not the money. They always have and they always will. This fifty-year invention of the rock star lifestyle is just a fad.
Speaking of that, the movie Rock Star with Mark Wahlberg has an interesting opinion on that. Paraphrased. "You've got to start drinking and sleeping with women. Live the lifestyle. Be sexy. Then the women will want you, and come to your concerts. That'll make the guys want to come, and it's the guys that buy the album." (I lookes for the exact quote, but couldn't find it.
By the way, I use http://jamendo.com/ to get almost all my music. Current favorites are:
Antarhes
Brad Sucks, and
invain
There's also a ton of decent blues, though most is in French or Italian.
That is an interesting comment. I just talked to a friend who used to live in Taiwan, where he had a phone. #1) He was pissed that he can't use the phone in Korea. #2) He thought the iPhone was a big disappointment compared to his year-old phone. He said his UI was almost exactly the same as the iPhone and had many more features. Hmm. That's Taiwan and not Japan, but...
So I write in an extra right-click option on externally mounted drives to set it as the "Designated Backup Drive." I put the USB ID into/etc/dbdd.conf as"
# The Designated Backup Drive for the DBD daemon ID 0718:0246 Imation Corp.
Then I start a daemon which uses HAL and DBUS to monitor for that drive being inserted, starting the backup process every time. Heck, I might even be able to do it with only DBUS and no daemon.
This sounds so trivial even I might be able to do it, and I haven't programmed anything since 1989 or so. If this isn't standard on distros a year from now, I'll be really surprised.
Hardest part in the entire process was finding the itsy Torx driver needed to swap the caddy onto the new drive.
I'm not familiar with the Torx brand. The "itsy" thing kind fo goes against the oversized head trend. What kind of distance do you get from it? Does your caddy recommend clubs or just carry the bag?;)
Bottom line -- unless the Linux ecosystem becomes much more homogenized, the ELF format is too brittle to support a virus or worm which doesn't download source and compile itself.
That's a beautiful idea. I should start one of those sites, claim to have "found" a developers' version of QT++, and create a "video" of it in action, encoding the video with the new QuickTime++ codec. Offer the codec for download to view the new app, and PRESTO!
This post is slightly off the topic of OSX, but on the topic of general security. The new concepts for Ubuntu 8.04 include single click addition of third-party repositories, which just scares the shit out of me because it will make trojans that much easier. If Ubuntu ever picks up enough steam, that'll be hell waiting to happen.
I was all for the addition of the apt: link (if you don't know what that is, click on my signature) because it only installs software from current repositories, but adding repos willy-nilly (and even gdebi) just seem the wrong way to go.
About half the stuff I deal with on the Ubuntu forums equates to "I installed unsupported-app-foo and changed config-file-bar and now my system doesn't work the way it's supposed to. Meh. Kill security AND stability in one shot.
I agree with you to some extent. I never got into Myspace, but Facebook has some real value for me, mostly in the form of photo sharing and event planning. I can get most of the regulars I go out with to join a club, then when people want to organize events, there's a simple interface. While other sites for this exist, after the event is over, I can see all the photos my friends took during that event. The ones that include me are even tagged with my name so that everyone I know can keep up with what I'm doing.
Finally, I'm in a high-turnover area, so it makes learning about and seeing pictures of my South African former co-worker's new baby quite simple.
I really do wish that there were a method to get the social sites to work together so that I didn't have constant invitations to join a new one. Oh, and I hate vampires, zombies, X me, and "Rate me" quizzes. I wish the extra apps on FB would just go away.
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Windows 95B had USB support. I don't get it ...
There are much better ways to italicize on Slashdot or any other site using HTML posting. One, for example, that doesn't depend on brackets. It's not even that hard. But meh, whatever works for you. ;)
Leading software vendor in Korea
Word processor developer with over 70% market share (The only country in the world where Microsoft failed to dominate)
Over 10 million copies sold and 20 million estimated users
Strong brand identity - Recognized as a national icon - 1 from http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:1VZmxhjiJjkJ:www.haansoft.com/hnc4_0/haansoft/haancom_ir/200405IR_Presentation.pdf+haansoft+office+market+share&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2
Cute.
I wasn't in Korea that long ago, but that's the story I read about it too long ago to provide a source. I remember now. It was 128bit encryption. Sorry for the less-than-correct statement in my original post.
"it would be cheaper and easier to purchase a new computer..." We're talking about Macs here. Cheap is not an option.
My school (here in SK) fought some worm all last week. They couldn't get rid of it. They re-installed all the computers in the school (except my clean box), but couldn't get rid of it. I tried to tell them that they had better be patched up before they connected.
Anyway, they just upgraded everyone to Vista (except, again, me), so there's here's another 100 or so computers with Vista. I have to assume it's pirated. Who knows? It appears to have worked, but large numbers of people lost months of work. See the blog in my sig for my experience about this this morning.
Regarding lock-in, though, the online banking industry here standardized on an ActiveX plugin before SSL was common, so anyone who wants to bank online has to be on MS Windows. It sucks here.
I don't buy that they're supporting ODF for a second. I believe they're against OOXML, but that's because almost everyone uses HanSoft's Han Office, which doesn't support it. This is one of the few places in the world where MS Office doesn't have a majority of installs.
Not to be a grammar nazi, but you need to watch your antecedents. I actually understood that the kids were selling the file, not the telecom, until long after I finished reading your comment. Just to make it clear: The telecom was trying to charge the kids $80K for a file the telecomwas itself selling for $30. Is that right?
Apparently everyone who knows the case agrees that Ernie Ball didn't intend to pirate. Things like that happen in businesses, especially small ones. Responsibilities move and the software moves with them. People install random stuff without authorization. Receipts get lost (I understand that the BSA requires not only proof of licens but proof of purchase, as well).
Saying "Don't pirate" is easy. Getting a company of any size to reach 100% compliance is utterly painful. It's no different than being autdited by the IRS -- they're going to get you for something.
Not a marketing strategy. I'm sure it has to do with the recent case where a pedophile fled South Korea and was arrested while trying to hide out in Thailand.
By the way, saying Thailand's major import is pedophiles is really obnoxious. I'm sure there's no child molestation going on in your country, eh? No sex slavery, either. Don't be a racist.
Are you bored? Why do you keep this shit up? I'm so tired of your trolls I want to puke. Oh, and the Linuzz/Abble troll is even more lame than people saying Windoze because yours reeks of desperation and uncreativeness.
Sorry that first comment was so incoherent. Wow.
Anyway, if you go over to Jamendo, look first at the recommended albums and albums of the month. It's like Lulu,com is for books -- self-publishing -- so there's a lot of just plain shit in there, but there are also a few jems. Most of the stuff seems to be techno, which doesn't float my boat, but all genres are represented.
some mainstream media page took down a poll after Ron Paul got 80% of the votes
;)
Coincidentally, the combo of Debian/Ubuntu (basically Debian) got just about 80%. That's shockingly high. Will we see the survey come down now? I suspect it will come down in the next week.
About three months ago, I had a "discussion" with someone who claimed that piracy would be the end of the music industry and that no one would want to play music anymore. My assertions that real musicians (and I know quite a few) just want people to listen to their music. They'll work a day job, go without eating, or do anything else it takes to keep playing in front of groups was dismissed. In my experience, the guitar/bass/sax/whatever is always the last thing to get hocked and the first thing to come out of the pawn shop.
Real musicians play for the people, not the money. They always have and they always will. This fifty-year invention of the rock star lifestyle is just a fad.
Speaking of that, the movie Rock Star with Mark Wahlberg has an interesting opinion on that. Paraphrased. "You've got to start drinking and sleeping with women. Live the lifestyle. Be sexy. Then the women will want you, and come to your concerts. That'll make the guys want to come, and it's the guys that buy the album." (I lookes for the exact quote, but couldn't find it.
By the way, I use http://jamendo.com/ to get almost all my music. Current favorites are:
That is an interesting comment. I just talked to a friend who used to live in Taiwan, where he had a phone. #1) He was pissed that he can't use the phone in Korea. #2) He thought the iPhone was a big disappointment compared to his year-old phone. He said his UI was almost exactly the same as the iPhone and had many more features. Hmm. That's Taiwan and not Japan, but ...
This sounds so trivial even I might be able to do it, and I haven't programmed anything since 1989 or so. If this isn't standard on distros a year from now, I'll be really surprised.
Hardest part in the entire process was finding the itsy Torx driver needed to swap the caddy onto the new drive.
;)
I'm not familiar with the Torx brand. The "itsy" thing kind fo goes against the oversized head trend. What kind of distance do you get from it? Does your caddy recommend clubs or just carry the bag?
Can we stop the "Abble" troll already? I'm sick of it after only five minutes. Find a better joke.
How can you have a 5-digit UID and still have never seen the 17MB troll? Did you buy your account on ebay? P200. How old do you think the troll is?
Bottom line -- unless the Linux ecosystem becomes much more homogenized, the ELF format is too brittle to support a virus or worm which doesn't download source and compile itself.
So basically you don't understand what a 0-day exploit is? You'd better patch your system so you don't get that 0-day exploit! Quick now!
That's a beautiful idea. I should start one of those sites, claim to have "found" a developers' version of QT++, and create a "video" of it in action, encoding the video with the new QuickTime++ codec. Offer the codec for download to view the new app, and PRESTO!
You are an evil genius.
This post is slightly off the topic of OSX, but on the topic of general security. The new concepts for Ubuntu 8.04 include single click addition of third-party repositories, which just scares the shit out of me because it will make trojans that much easier. If Ubuntu ever picks up enough steam, that'll be hell waiting to happen.
I was all for the addition of the apt: link (if you don't know what that is, click on my signature) because it only installs software from current repositories, but adding repos willy-nilly (and even gdebi) just seem the wrong way to go.
About half the stuff I deal with on the Ubuntu forums equates to "I installed unsupported-app-foo and changed config-file-bar and now my system doesn't work the way it's supposed to. Meh. Kill security AND stability in one shot.
You presentations look quite clean and nice, but I can't help but commenting: Community college science looks a lot like 9th grade science.
I agree with you to some extent. I never got into Myspace, but Facebook has some real value for me, mostly in the form of photo sharing and event planning. I can get most of the regulars I go out with to join a club, then when people want to organize events, there's a simple interface. While other sites for this exist, after the event is over, I can see all the photos my friends took during that event. The ones that include me are even tagged with my name so that everyone I know can keep up with what I'm doing.
Finally, I'm in a high-turnover area, so it makes learning about and seeing pictures of my South African former co-worker's new baby quite simple.
I really do wish that there were a method to get the social sites to work together so that I didn't have constant invitations to join a new one. Oh, and I hate vampires, zombies, X me, and "Rate me" quizzes. I wish the extra apps on FB would just go away.