Do you mean ntfs-3g? I know about ntfs-3g. I also understand it operates by way of FUSE. But there's been a write-enabled NTFS driver in the 2.6 line of kernels for at least the past year and a half, as part of the core kernel source distribution, and that runs in kernel space.
True. But quoth Wikipedia:
Microsoft launched an initiative in 1996 to rename SMB to Common Internet File System (CIFS)[1], and added more features, including support for symbolic links, hard links, larger file sizes and an attempt at supporting direct connection without all the NetBIOS trimmings I would be surprised if Microsoft didn't patent some of those enhancements, along with how they organized the protocol, etc.
SMB/NET Bios was an IBM technology from '84 SMB is rarely used these days. CIFS replaced it. And modern implementations of both SMB and CIFS include lots of improvements over IBM's original version.
vfat, I heard you intend suing camera/flash card manufacturers for this too, but do you really want to start a war with (the much derided) Sony, they're also part of the OIN You do know that Linux includes a fully-functional NTFS driver these days, don't you?
Don't Sun have a cross licensing deal over Star Office, so there go those Sun's license deal may not extend to exported software. I don't know, I'm not a lawyer, and I haven't seen the license deal. Furthermore, OpenOffice's license may not explicitly carry with it patent protections.
Actually, I'd think that I'd be more likely to try to shoot someone when ambivalent than to try and knife 'em/smack them with a hammer. I'll grant you that a gun does grant one some degree of temporary immunity from the victim, but I'll maintain that guns don't have any impact on the level of violence in a society. Other factors like impulsiveness and cultural conditioning play a much larger role.
I just realized I've never heard anyone compare reports of violence in general with gun violence. It would be interesting to note the change in levels of gun violence as compared with the change in overall levels of violence.
A korea man who speaks...French? Anyway..."Otaku" is right. As for baka, I suspect you know. But look it up about 200 miles east of your namesake locale.
See the problem with your logic? No, I see a problem with yours. A gun has limited ammunition (And, for handguns, that's significantly less than 30 rounds.). A hammer doesn't require ammunition. A man with a bloodlust can kill more people with a hammer than he can with a gun.
Not to mention that guns aren't particularly efficient as a lethal weapon. It's much more likely you'll wound with a handgun than kill. Especially if the victim is moving around. A hammer is, ironically, a much more accurate weapon (you're closer), and much harder to avoid.
You're so afraid of guns, you don't think about them logically. Your fear elevates your perception of their capabilities far beyond what they're capable of in the hands of the untrained.
On the other hand, nobody needs training to use a hammer effectively; It's a blunt object. There's no fancy trigger, no matter of holding the thing steady, no worries about missing at longer ranges. You just swing where you want it to hit.
When the Western world finally gets rid of guns, it'll be forced to address knives. And knives are a much simpler tool to use effectively than guns. Expect reports of knife-related violence to far exceed gun-related violence.
Hm. I wonder how they'll try to legislate away blunt objects. They'll probably go after martial arts first.
The mere fact that MS is fighting this with a 'standard' of their own should be indication enough to anyone that MS means to keep them locked into MS products. Well, duh. That's what you do when you make your money from software licenses. The only thing that "obligates" them to make emigration possible is their status as a convicted monopoly.
If Flash hadn't come along, and Sun had locked down Java (and made a deal with the top two or three OS vendors to distribute their product), people would be saying the same thing about Sun.
Well, there's the copious amounts of per-core cache. That helps. Then there's the fact that it's a hell of a lot cheaper to make a four parts that run at 2 GHz than one part that runs at 8GHz. (Like, it can't be done right now.)
Baka. I've pissed off many drivers (my car is a slow piece of crap.), and have never had someone pull a gun on me. I've been questioned by the police, and have never had a gun drawn on me.
I've spent many a holiday weekend out in the woods with hunters and gun enthusiasts. They police themselves, train newcomers in gun safety, and ban anyone who doesn't handle their weapon properly, including their own senior family members.
I even live in a neighborhood known for drugs.
I've gone my whole life without ever having had a gun pointed at me, and without having had a gun-related injury occur to me or anyone I know.
Guns aren't the problem, people are. And guns don't make people violent any more than hammers do.
My bio-dad is one. Jackass insists on MSI files to distribute the price quoting software I'm supposed to use for his business, rather than simple.exe files that I'd be able to use with WINE. And I had one classmate who spent more time presenting how he was using Virtual PC for his presentation than he spent presenting the SQL Server installation he was supposed to demo the installation of.
Now we run into portability issues. I'm not always using an account where I can install FF extensions. Heck...If I forget my flash drives at home, I'm stuck running Firefox 1.5 at the latest, and IE6 in places on campus where they still haven't installed Firefox.
Maybe if I memorized the table for a simple substitution cipher. Like ROT13, but less common.
The best system is one that you can keep in your head.
Knowing the whole story now it really does look like Uh, you've heard his side of the story. What other side have you heard, that you might reasonably claim to heard the whole thing?
It's not that I don't like Jobs and Apple; I'd love to get me some of that pearly fruit, if I had the money. It's just that I don't take what individual people say as the whole story.
The beauty of this is that no one has your password except you. And if you forget the generated password, you can always regen it by entering the exact same information. However, since hashes can't be reversed, your master password will not be compromised even if a lame admin compromises your generated password on his site. Until the site with the hashing algorithm you're using goes offline. (Unless you saved it, of course.)
My system is similar, yet much easier. The first portion of my password is the name of the computer or service I'm connecting to, while the second half is a random string that only I know. Which string I use depends on what group of people I need to share the account with--in such cases where an account needs to be shared. Otherwise, I have my own string.
The downside, is that if someone were to sniff one of my passwords, and if they're familiar with my system, they could then guess the passwords to most of my accounts. Which is why I change that suffix relatively frequently. The upside, of course, is that I have a different password for every single computer and service I log into.
I should add that there is nothing more embarrassing to a hopeful OSS beginner than to have a history of incomplete projects behind him. It's much better to be able to show one or two completed projects than fifteen or twenty false starts. Sure, you can have all sorts of ideas...but can you follow through?
Seconded. Write the first version yourself, then release, then grow.
My Citygen and Rosetta Code projects were created before they were released, and have fared much better than, say Apparition (a program I envisioned which was intended to be an efficient replacement to Symantec Ghost). Another project I worked on last summer, a PHP character sheet for the d20 system, got out a few betas, but I ultimately ran out of time to work on it.
(For the record, Citygen is GPL, Rosetta Code is GNU FDL, and the d20 character sheet is GPL. I'm hoping to get Citygen moved over to Google Code, where d20cs already is, but I'd like to keep the Subversion history intact. I need to find out how to do that.)
I've got a couple other project ideas which I've mentioned in a few circles, and have even fleshed out the specs for, but I haven't tried to get anyone involved in their development. And I won't, until I have at least a basic version of the software up.
Not really a datacenter, but when I was 16, I went to COMDEX. I wandered around for a while, and saw the APC booth with a whole bunch of UPS systems on display behind it. In front of the booth, APC employees were doing a presentation describing their products.
There was one huge UPS in the display that must have weighed seven or eight times what I did, and I started examining it. It had a menu system, which I explored. A minute later, one of the APC employees walked around the back of the booth, did something with the UPS menu, and walked back to the front of the booth. I overheard:
The only reason to need retroactive protection is if actions that have already been taken were illegal at the time. Not true. A court ruling can change the official interpretation of a law, so that, while a law was on the books the whole time, it wasn't interpreted as making a specific action illegal until recently.
Similarly, public opinion has something of an effect on interpretation of law as well. The more the public clamors for a certain result, the more this executive branch bends its interpretation of laws to achieve those results. Verizon's actions wouldn't have raised a lawyer's eyebrow had this become public knowledge only a few weeks after 9/11.
And then there's things like P2P, security research and other gray areas that Slashdot thrives on. Wouldn't you like retroactive protection for running Nessus on your friend's computer at his request? Laws already on the books could easily be interpreted so as to make such actions illegal.
What about running a Tor endpoint? A friend of a friend of mine was investigated by the FBI for hacking a French website. Turned out, the hacks had come through a Tor endpoint he had been running. Running a Tor endpoint isn't illegal, but other people may use the Tor network, and thus your computer, for illegal purposes.
And then there's Freenet. You could be hosting kiddie porn without even knowing it. Gnutella; You're facilitating music and movie piracy by passing along search queries. Bittorrent; You're violating your service agreement by running a server.
I'd certainly like protections for these sorts of things.
I think you mean: "If you want RETROACTIVE protection, you have something to be protected from" to corporations. I meant what I said. Assuming someone has something to hide merely because they want privacy, retroactive or not, is assumption of guilt, and is immoral. End of story.
I can think of plenty of reasons corporations deserve similar protections as individuals, but I doubt any of them would convince you. Most of them involve the fact that corporations consist of human beings, but you probably don't really believe that.
Especially when the speech in question is not political Since when was the War on Terror not a politically-motivated endeavor? Am I the only one that remembers terror alert levels going up just prior to the 2004 elections?
If it hadn't been for the war in Iraq, Republicans would have had the next 15 years of politics sewn up already.
You've just applied "If you want protection, you have something to be protected from" to corporations. That seems rather analogous to arguments made against personal privacy from government security.
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I could go on, but I'd have to RTFA.
It's Japanese. Depending on usage, it translates to English as "fool", "idiot", "foolish" or "stupid".
I just realized I've never heard anyone compare reports of violence in general with gun violence. It would be interesting to note the change in levels of gun violence as compared with the change in overall levels of violence.
A korea man who speaks...French? Anyway..."Otaku" is right. As for baka, I suspect you know. But look it up about 200 miles east of your namesake locale.
Not to mention that guns aren't particularly efficient as a lethal weapon. It's much more likely you'll wound with a handgun than kill. Especially if the victim is moving around. A hammer is, ironically, a much more accurate weapon (you're closer), and much harder to avoid.
You're so afraid of guns, you don't think about them logically. Your fear elevates your perception of their capabilities far beyond what they're capable of in the hands of the untrained.
On the other hand, nobody needs training to use a hammer effectively; It's a blunt object. There's no fancy trigger, no matter of holding the thing steady, no worries about missing at longer ranges. You just swing where you want it to hit.
When the Western world finally gets rid of guns, it'll be forced to address knives. And knives are a much simpler tool to use effectively than guns. Expect reports of knife-related violence to far exceed gun-related violence.
Hm. I wonder how they'll try to legislate away blunt objects. They'll probably go after martial arts first.
If Flash hadn't come along, and Sun had locked down Java (and made a deal with the top two or three OS vendors to distribute their product), people would be saying the same thing about Sun.
Well, there's the copious amounts of per-core cache. That helps. Then there's the fact that it's a hell of a lot cheaper to make a four parts that run at 2 GHz than one part that runs at 8GHz. (Like, it can't be done right now.)
At one point, the Opteron was single-core. And it still beat the P4 Xeon.
Baka. I've pissed off many drivers (my car is a slow piece of crap.), and have never had someone pull a gun on me. I've been questioned by the police, and have never had a gun drawn on me.
I've spent many a holiday weekend out in the woods with hunters and gun enthusiasts. They police themselves, train newcomers in gun safety, and ban anyone who doesn't handle their weapon properly, including their own senior family members.
I even live in a neighborhood known for drugs.
I've gone my whole life without ever having had a gun pointed at me, and without having had a gun-related injury occur to me or anyone I know.
Guns aren't the problem, people are. And guns don't make people violent any more than hammers do.
My bio-dad is one. Jackass insists on MSI files to distribute the price quoting software I'm supposed to use for his business, rather than simple .exe files that I'd be able to use with WINE. And I had one classmate who spent more time presenting how he was using Virtual PC for his presentation than he spent presenting the SQL Server installation he was supposed to demo the installation of.
Perhaps I didn't include enough context in my quote. The poster I replied to was talking about the stock scandal, not the Greenpeace issue.
It's a salted md5 algorithm, meaning it's not quite the same as virtually any other implementation.
Now we run into portability issues. I'm not always using an account where I can install FF extensions. Heck...If I forget my flash drives at home, I'm stuck running Firefox 1.5 at the latest, and IE6 in places on campus where they still haven't installed Firefox.
Maybe if I memorized the table for a simple substitution cipher. Like ROT13, but less common.
The best system is one that you can keep in your head.
It's not that I don't like Jobs and Apple; I'd love to get me some of that pearly fruit, if I had the money. It's just that I don't take what individual people say as the whole story.
My system is similar, yet much easier. The first portion of my password is the name of the computer or service I'm connecting to, while the second half is a random string that only I know. Which string I use depends on what group of people I need to share the account with--in such cases where an account needs to be shared. Otherwise, I have my own string.
The downside, is that if someone were to sniff one of my passwords, and if they're familiar with my system, they could then guess the passwords to most of my accounts. Which is why I change that suffix relatively frequently. The upside, of course, is that I have a different password for every single computer and service I log into.
I should add that there is nothing more embarrassing to a hopeful OSS beginner than to have a history of incomplete projects behind him. It's much better to be able to show one or two completed projects than fifteen or twenty false starts. Sure, you can have all sorts of ideas...but can you follow through?
Seconded. Write the first version yourself, then release, then grow.
My Citygen and Rosetta Code projects were created before they were released, and have fared much better than, say Apparition (a program I envisioned which was intended to be an efficient replacement to Symantec Ghost). Another project I worked on last summer, a PHP character sheet for the d20 system, got out a few betas, but I ultimately ran out of time to work on it.
(For the record, Citygen is GPL, Rosetta Code is GNU FDL, and the d20 character sheet is GPL. I'm hoping to get Citygen moved over to Google Code, where d20cs already is, but I'd like to keep the Subversion history intact. I need to find out how to do that.)
I've got a couple other project ideas which I've mentioned in a few circles, and have even fleshed out the specs for, but I haven't tried to get anyone involved in their development. And I won't, until I have at least a basic version of the software up.
Not really a datacenter, but when I was 16, I went to COMDEX. I wandered around for a while, and saw the APC booth with a whole bunch of UPS systems on display behind it. In front of the booth, APC employees were doing a presentation describing their products.
There was one huge UPS in the display that must have weighed seven or eight times what I did, and I started examining it. It had a menu system, which I explored. A minute later, one of the APC employees walked around the back of the booth, did something with the UPS menu, and walked back to the front of the booth. I overheard:
"Customer turned off the power."
Similarly, public opinion has something of an effect on interpretation of law as well. The more the public clamors for a certain result, the more this executive branch bends its interpretation of laws to achieve those results. Verizon's actions wouldn't have raised a lawyer's eyebrow had this become public knowledge only a few weeks after 9/11.
And then there's things like P2P, security research and other gray areas that Slashdot thrives on. Wouldn't you like retroactive protection for running Nessus on your friend's computer at his request? Laws already on the books could easily be interpreted so as to make such actions illegal.
What about running a Tor endpoint? A friend of a friend of mine was investigated by the FBI for hacking a French website. Turned out, the hacks had come through a Tor endpoint he had been running. Running a Tor endpoint isn't illegal, but other people may use the Tor network, and thus your computer, for illegal purposes.
And then there's Freenet. You could be hosting kiddie porn without even knowing it. Gnutella; You're facilitating music and movie piracy by passing along search queries. Bittorrent; You're violating your service agreement by running a server.
I'd certainly like protections for these sorts of things.
I can think of plenty of reasons corporations deserve similar protections as individuals, but I doubt any of them would convince you. Most of them involve the fact that corporations consist of human beings, but you probably don't really believe that.
If there's no specific rule against it, it falls under the elastic clause of "Behavior unacceptable of a student of XXXX".
If it hadn't been for the war in Iraq, Republicans would have had the next 15 years of politics sewn up already.
You've just applied "If you want protection, you have something to be protected from" to corporations. That seems rather analogous to arguments made against personal privacy from government security.
When did we come full circle?