Just because yours was OK doesn't mean every single one was.
I fix them for a living though, so I am not just blowing wind, I see all the machines that customers are unhappy with. Today I installed a program today that allows manual control of the "minimum speed" of the fans in my pro and I have to say apple seems to have picked a very good speed for the fans. I tested them with various processor and graphics loads, and the fans only spooled up when the laptop's temperature started to get up there. Right now it shows 132F, relatively idle, and at least in this room it appears to be dead silent. If I max the fans right now it drops to 118F but it sounds like a jet.
At least with the current technologies, I would propose "quiet, small, cool, fast, pick three." I don't want to compromise on small or fast, and I think Apple is giving us a flexible tradeoff between the two that remain: cool and quiet.
There must be a reason apple has the fans at the speed they are at factory.
- excessive fan noise at higher speed when unnecessary? (apple likes their lappies quiet) - excessive wear on the fan, maybe if you run the fans fast constantly the fans will throw their bearings in a year or two? - some parts of the computer being significantly cooloer than others causes thermal problems, physical stress?
I can't believe that apple would run the fans slower than optimal without good reason.
I have a 2.16dp MBP here and it does run warmer than say, my tibook or wallstreet did. I have noticed that if I use it for an extended period of time doing something that eats processor, it does get uncomfortably warm on my lap. That being said, I don't use it on my lap very often. Most often I am out on the front porch relaxing, and it's just on for the IM or ichat or something, so it's not getting heated up. Most times when I am doing something "intense" with the computer, it's on a desk. Then the bottom does get quite warm and the palmrests warm up also and I don't think I'd like it on my lap. But it's not to the point of being uncomfortable to use. None of this is a surprise to me, it's performing as I expect it to and it's completely acceptable.
People that want to complain about a product's temperature should try some of the high power micro handheld ham radios for comparison. A friend of mine owned a new super mini Alinco HT and was describing something that took a few minutes of continuous talk (transmit) on the radio. When he unkeyed, the radio was stuck to his hand. He had to basically peel it off his hand and it took one layer of skin off his palm and fingertips. Really weird looking at his fingerprints and palm print stuck to the back of the radio. Now if we see macbooks get THAT hot, ok we have a problem. But until then ppl need to just stop whining. That's like complaining about the high noise level while you're flying down the autobon in a Bugatti. waaaah!
My take on it is, if MS wants to protect the people, why is it blocking the harmful web sites?
Isn't it a bit like disbanding the police force and trying to get guns outlawed?
The web sites aren't the problem. They are doing exactly what you'd expect them to do in a random free society, they are taking advantage of suckers. And in this case, windows is a big dum-dum pop. The problem has to be solved on the computers, not on the web sites.
I suppose another way to look at it would be for you to take all that money you were going to spend on locks and deadbolts and an alarm for your house, and instead donate it to the police force. Yes, if you manage to get rid of all the criminals in your neighborhood you might be safe, but do you really think that's ever going to happen?
You cannot make a safe system by starting with an insecure-by-design system and apply layer upon layer of security on top of it. It never works. If you want it secure, it has to start with a reasonably small amount of external security on top of a solid internal design.
I've been pondering the reasons for the split release (business first) of Vista. I haven't even bothered "RTFA" on this because I don't think I'd put any stock in their answer anyway. Something tells me they are doing it for a reason they don't really want to admit or discuss. After much consideration I am tossing out the theory that MS wants to use the business market as a "guinea pig" for their new system. This limited initial release will allow the businesses to smoke test the system and shake out the majority of the really nasty problems and allow MS to get a Service Pack 1 developed and ready for the public release of Vista. If they didn't do this, wouldn't the release of Vista create a golden opportunity for someone to write a virus that nukes hundreds of thousands of new Vista users on Day 1? You just know there are dozens of people out there just foaming at the mouth waiting for the main release day. Though only a stupid virus writer would release his work today, surely they would hold it until it had maximum impact. Maybe MS is hoping that they are impatient and consider hitting the business community worthy enough to take the heavy hit?
God forbid my business rely on windows, but if it did, you certainly wouldn't see me with a copy of vista before March.
It's been awhile since I saw any shows that focused at all on SIDS, but I thought they already knew there was a problem with the brain stem? I mean, people don't just keel over for no reason, these babies are dying of what amounts to respiratory or cardiac shutdown, they just stop doing the things necessary for basic biological survival. These things are controlled by the brain stem. It should be no surprise that SIDS is linked to the brain stem.
And how do they intend to 'treat' these babies? pacemaker for a 2 yr old anyone? I hate to be the cold insensitive SOB but what kind of a life will a kid like that have? I sometimes wonder if all that science we use to prolong life that was not meant to be is not such a good idea. Oftentimes that science serves only the others around them, and makes their life living misery.
It's possibly not to prevent copying, but more to prevent you from running it on non-apple hardware, and to prevent subversion of critical code through malware.
Remember there are many reasons macs are not infested with malware, and arguably the largest reason is that apple takes a highly proactive approach. They don't wait for a garage-door-size hole to appear in the OS and then start down a 6 month make-another-patch project. They build it (relatively) secure from the get-go and are continually improving security internally even though they are not under attack. This makes it a tougher nut to crack from day 1. This is probably just another way to tighten security. People are scratching their heads asking why apple is doing this because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of making it more secure before someone has busted down the door. If nothing else, this mitigates the damage should someone find and take advantage of an exploit. Breaking it up the way they do with mulitple layers, Instead of owning the entire system, a hacker is more likely to gain control over a small subsection of the OS and have a much less devostating effect on the system as a whole.
As for why only certain binaries are protected thusly, apple most likely has researched their OS and determined that those are either the most likely points of attack, or that those systems, if subverted, would give the attacker a very large degree of fredom (a "big hole") to work with so they are more important to protect. They may also see those systems as more vulnerable to subversion by their design and requried functionality and thus in need of additional protection. Look at how heavily unix protects "sudo", and for good reason.
Without knowing the details I would be guessing, but I suppose it's possible that the systems being protected are all linked by a network of trust, and that if one is taken over, the others would all fall easily, making it important to protect them as a group.
That depends on the laptop. iBooks could not be without battery and power for any time at all under any circumstance or they would shut down. Powerbooks had a backup battery in them that was supposedly good for 3 minutes with no power while ASLEEP. So to swap batteries in a powerbook or tibook you would sleep it, swap batteries (quickly) and wake it back up. The computer would not wake if it had no power. Take too long to swap batteries and it would shut off and you'd have to reboot when powered up again. The backup battery also functioned as a PRAM battery if the computer was without power for a long time it would usually hold the clock.
The macbooks and macbook pros take a different approach. When you sleep them, it takes upwards of 30 seconds to sleep them, depending on memory installed. At that time it is preparing to "hibernate". This means it stores processor state AND memory on the hard drive. If you remove the battery after it has gone to sleep, it does indeed shut off. But when you put the battery back in, it is still off. Press power, and it will reanimate. This process takes about 15-20 seconds, again depending on memory. Durig this time, the screen that was up when it sleeped is displayed, but in a washed out way. A progress indicator marches across the screen, it looks a bit like the volume adjust indicator. During this time it is restoring memory from the hard drive. When that gets all the way to the right, the screen returns to normal intensity and it's awake. So the macbooks have no backup battery and there is no limit to how long it takes you to change batteries. Best of both worlds I suppose.
Also, if the computer is critically low on battery and is awake, it automatically puts itself to sleep and hibernates. So the only way you are going to force it to need to reboot would be to pull the battery either while it's awake or while it's in the process of hibernating. (so if you need to change batteries, be sure you wait until the sleep light is pulsing before pulling the battery)
Since everything is on the hard drive while hibernating, there should be no theoretical limit to how long it can hibernate without power. I assume it will lose the clock at some point though. I have taken a few macbooks apart and I seem to recall seeing a small watch battery on the board... that being the case, that's probably the pram battery and is there to keep the clock and possibly to keep hibernation status. In that case it should keep the clock even if left unpowered for days.
How slow this code is. Usually when you are trying to squeak out another 1% of space in a file your algorythm triples in size and quadruples in runtime to get that improvement. I wonder how practical this new algorythm really is. Probably not so much an issue nowadays but I also wonder how big the compression program is. This used to be a really big deal many years ago when the compression programs could easily be larger than the data they were compressing.
My solution to this is get a 2nd battery and a 2nd power adapter. I keep the one adapter in my bag and the other at my desk. This way I am not always dorking around with the power pack anytime I move my computer. (is it really worth it to crawl under there again and unplug it, will I really need it today at work? - inevetably the day you don't take it is the day you need it) The second battery gives me anywhere from 4-7 hrs of total battery time depending on what I'm doing, and I full cyclone and swap batteries monthly to keep them both charged and conditioned.
I've done this with the last three laptops I've owned and I've never regretted it.
There are also free CPU tools you can buy that will, among other things, turn one of the two cores off, on the fly. That, together with enabling processor cycling in energysaver, will probably double your battery life if you really need it to last. No need to get a whole new computer to get decent battery life.
Checked this out but it was more of a halloween rap album unfortunately. Does anyone happen to have music (individual songs or an entire album even) that would work well to play over the speakers as the trick or treaters are roaming around? Looking for spooky tracks. So far Thriller is about the only thing I've come up with. With or without vocals, just some spooky music or sound fx would be fine.
A former manager of mine used to be the IT director at a bank. There, when they upgraded computers, they went out to the dump and had a 'hard drive party". They removed the hard drives from the computers before tossing them in, disassembled them, and beat the platters throughly with hammers, then frisbee'd them into the hole and watched them be coverd up by the dozer.
I was under the impression that banks always were anal about destruction of customer records.
The US Navy has an interesting method also. They have these three level shredders. First level does strips. Second level does squares. Thrid level can best be described as "paper dust", it's the consistency of fine sawdust. Then they flush that out below decks directly into the water. Good luck getting that back.
With the logs that most computers keep, it just takes a skilled technician to find out what was there. They may not be able to salvage it, but it's not too difficult to show you deleted something. And at that point, once they have proven that you tampered with the evidence while under investigation, though they are not legally entitled to take this as surrendering your innocence, in practice it works this way.
There have been examples of people being framed for something, (poorly) and in fear of it sticking, they attempt to destroy the forged evidence. They leave behind just enough evidence of the elleged wrongdoing that the forensics people can tell there was evidence of wrongdoing but they cannot fully reconstruct it. Had they been able to examine the evidence intact, it would be easy to tell it was forged. But now, all they know is something that appeared incriminating was there and is gone now, and due to the tampering you did they can't really tell how genuine the original information was.
That makes you look all the more guilty. So, tampering with evidence can work heavily against you even if you are innocent.
Tampering with or destroying evidence can get you more penalties than facing the evidence in court. They make penalties for this hurt really bad so you are either very motivated to not destroy it, or if you do, you are going to get a good spanking from that since they can't prove what you really did anymore.
parts of OS X (such as Darwin) are open source, and include GPL'd code. The operating system as a whole, including the Finder and most of the graphical system, are not GPL, not open source, and are (C) apply computer. Just like Ford can make a car and use someone else's open idea of the internal combustion engine, that doesn't make the whole car free.
I've talked with hardcore Mac people who bought a copy of Windows that they run on their Mac with Parallels to test their work in IE. For other developers, I've seen some very clever
That's nice. Did you talk with them about how MS just used the EULA to make that clever idea illegal for Vista?
But when the courts can't efficiently go after the ones breaking the law, the usual response is to go after those that are enabling them or are otherwise involved even if not actually responsible.
I suppose if you can't herd cats, you bomb the catfood plant instead?
Some of it I wonder isn't just the legal system taking out its frustrations on any targettable group that is in any way connected to their frustrations?
I suppose if you make 20B$, knowing you are risking a 5B$ fine is just the cost of doing business, and if it means clearing 15B$ proffit in a few years, why wouldn't you?
Lock them up instead. Fines are just business. Jail time is incentive to behave.
unless you have a very very large budget, "physical access = owned"
If I were in your position I would look at a nightly restore strategy. Every night at 11pm all the machines hammer the server and run a broadcast netrestore. Every morning by 8 every machine in every lab is back to how it was this time yesterday.
Assuming they will occasionally hose the machine beyond netrestore, keep a stack of 3 hard drives on hand that can be hot swapped if a machine goes down. Image the drive at your leisure and add it back to the repair pile.
Users should use network based home folders. This not only makes them more portable (can login anywhere on campus) but there is no problem if a machine has to be reimged or blows up or is stolen or whatever.
There is automated software that will auto refresh machines nightly. I imagine any internet kiosk has to use it. Ask around.
A business in my town did several stupid things that led to disaster.
1. run windows 98 as your server (in 2005) 2. no passwords on anything 3. lets install a wap 4. passwords are inconvenient on a wap, turn them off
2am Sunday morning, janitorial staff notice a kid in the parking lot sitting next to his bike, typing on a laptop.
Next day, all gone. Except one rude note left on what was left of the fileserver. He basically deleted everything that he could, which was just about everything.
People nowadays seem to believe that the whole world must protect them (and their children it would seem) from everything... from the criminals, from the person next door, from everything bad in the whole world.
I am so tired of hearing how the world failed to protect some idiot from their own stupidity or how the world failed to be the good partent to your child that you for some mysterious reason could not, and now somehow it's all our fault and you are totally innocent and victimized. There's an article here at least every 10 days with another sickening example of this retarded behavior.
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Just because yours was OK doesn't mean every single one was.
I fix them for a living though, so I am not just blowing wind, I see all the machines that customers are unhappy with. Today I installed a program today that allows manual control of the "minimum speed" of the fans in my pro and I have to say apple seems to have picked a very good speed for the fans. I tested them with various processor and graphics loads, and the fans only spooled up when the laptop's temperature started to get up there. Right now it shows 132F, relatively idle, and at least in this room it appears to be dead silent. If I max the fans right now it drops to 118F but it sounds like a jet.
At least with the current technologies, I would propose "quiet, small, cool, fast, pick three." I don't want to compromise on small or fast, and I think Apple is giving us a flexible tradeoff between the two that remain: cool and quiet.
There must be a reason apple has the fans at the speed they are at factory.
- excessive fan noise at higher speed when unnecessary? (apple likes their lappies quiet)
- excessive wear on the fan, maybe if you run the fans fast constantly the fans will throw their bearings in a year or two?
- some parts of the computer being significantly cooloer than others causes thermal problems, physical stress?
I can't believe that apple would run the fans slower than optimal without good reason.
I have a 2.16dp MBP here and it does run warmer than say, my tibook or wallstreet did. I have noticed that if I use it for an extended period of time doing something that eats processor, it does get uncomfortably warm on my lap. That being said, I don't use it on my lap very often. Most often I am out on the front porch relaxing, and it's just on for the IM or ichat or something, so it's not getting heated up. Most times when I am doing something "intense" with the computer, it's on a desk. Then the bottom does get quite warm and the palmrests warm up also and I don't think I'd like it on my lap. But it's not to the point of being uncomfortable to use. None of this is a surprise to me, it's performing as I expect it to and it's completely acceptable.
People that want to complain about a product's temperature should try some of the high power micro handheld ham radios for comparison. A friend of mine owned a new super mini Alinco HT and was describing something that took a few minutes of continuous talk (transmit) on the radio. When he unkeyed, the radio was stuck to his hand. He had to basically peel it off his hand and it took one layer of skin off his palm and fingertips. Really weird looking at his fingerprints and palm print stuck to the back of the radio. Now if we see macbooks get THAT hot, ok we have a problem. But until then ppl need to just stop whining. That's like complaining about the high noise level while you're flying down the autobon in a Bugatti. waaaah!
My take on it is, if MS wants to protect the people, why is it blocking the harmful web sites?
Isn't it a bit like disbanding the police force and trying to get guns outlawed?
The web sites aren't the problem. They are doing exactly what you'd expect them to do in a random free society, they are taking advantage of suckers. And in this case, windows is a big dum-dum pop. The problem has to be solved on the computers, not on the web sites.
I suppose another way to look at it would be for you to take all that money you were going to spend on locks and deadbolts and an alarm for your house, and instead donate it to the police force. Yes, if you manage to get rid of all the criminals in your neighborhood you might be safe, but do you really think that's ever going to happen?
You cannot make a safe system by starting with an insecure-by-design system and apply layer upon layer of security on top of it. It never works. If you want it secure, it has to start with a reasonably small amount of external security on top of a solid internal design.
I've been pondering the reasons for the split release (business first) of Vista. I haven't even bothered "RTFA" on this because I don't think I'd put any stock in their answer anyway. Something tells me they are doing it for a reason they don't really want to admit or discuss. After much consideration I am tossing out the theory that MS wants to use the business market as a "guinea pig" for their new system. This limited initial release will allow the businesses to smoke test the system and shake out the majority of the really nasty problems and allow MS to get a Service Pack 1 developed and ready for the public release of Vista. If they didn't do this, wouldn't the release of Vista create a golden opportunity for someone to write a virus that nukes hundreds of thousands of new Vista users on Day 1? You just know there are dozens of people out there just foaming at the mouth waiting for the main release day. Though only a stupid virus writer would release his work today, surely they would hold it until it had maximum impact. Maybe MS is hoping that they are impatient and consider hitting the business community worthy enough to take the heavy hit?
God forbid my business rely on windows, but if it did, you certainly wouldn't see me with a copy of vista before March.
It's been awhile since I saw any shows that focused at all on SIDS, but I thought they already knew there was a problem with the brain stem? I mean, people don't just keel over for no reason, these babies are dying of what amounts to respiratory or cardiac shutdown, they just stop doing the things necessary for basic biological survival. These things are controlled by the brain stem. It should be no surprise that SIDS is linked to the brain stem.
And how do they intend to 'treat' these babies? pacemaker for a 2 yr old anyone? I hate to be the cold insensitive SOB but what kind of a life will a kid like that have? I sometimes wonder if all that science we use to prolong life that was not meant to be is not such a good idea. Oftentimes that science serves only the others around them, and makes their life living misery.
when he posted an article on slashdot, warned us "warning: heavy Flash!!", and yet posted a direct link instead of a mirror/cache?
What sort of a system do these people think others are running? Sorry we don't all have OC3's and a rack full of blades in our basement.
It's possibly not to prevent copying, but more to prevent you from running it on non-apple hardware, and to prevent subversion of critical code through malware.
Remember there are many reasons macs are not infested with malware, and arguably the largest reason is that apple takes a highly proactive approach. They don't wait for a garage-door-size hole to appear in the OS and then start down a 6 month make-another-patch project. They build it (relatively) secure from the get-go and are continually improving security internally even though they are not under attack. This makes it a tougher nut to crack from day 1. This is probably just another way to tighten security. People are scratching their heads asking why apple is doing this because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of making it more secure before someone has busted down the door. If nothing else, this mitigates the damage should someone find and take advantage of an exploit. Breaking it up the way they do with mulitple layers, Instead of owning the entire system, a hacker is more likely to gain control over a small subsection of the OS and have a much less devostating effect on the system as a whole.
As for why only certain binaries are protected thusly, apple most likely has researched their OS and determined that those are either the most likely points of attack, or that those systems, if subverted, would give the attacker a very large degree of fredom (a "big hole") to work with so they are more important to protect. They may also see those systems as more vulnerable to subversion by their design and requried functionality and thus in need of additional protection. Look at how heavily unix protects "sudo", and for good reason.
Without knowing the details I would be guessing, but I suppose it's possible that the systems being protected are all linked by a network of trust, and that if one is taken over, the others would all fall easily, making it important to protect them as a group.
I think this new one we call the Ministry of Truth?
The other two appear to have already come to pass in the last couple years so I suppose this just rounds out the set.
That depends on the laptop. iBooks could not be without battery and power for any time at all under any circumstance or they would shut down. Powerbooks had a backup battery in them that was supposedly good for 3 minutes with no power while ASLEEP. So to swap batteries in a powerbook or tibook you would sleep it, swap batteries (quickly) and wake it back up. The computer would not wake if it had no power. Take too long to swap batteries and it would shut off and you'd have to reboot when powered up again. The backup battery also functioned as a PRAM battery if the computer was without power for a long time it would usually hold the clock.
The macbooks and macbook pros take a different approach. When you sleep them, it takes upwards of 30 seconds to sleep them, depending on memory installed. At that time it is preparing to "hibernate". This means it stores processor state AND memory on the hard drive. If you remove the battery after it has gone to sleep, it does indeed shut off. But when you put the battery back in, it is still off. Press power, and it will reanimate. This process takes about 15-20 seconds, again depending on memory. Durig this time, the screen that was up when it sleeped is displayed, but in a washed out way. A progress indicator marches across the screen, it looks a bit like the volume adjust indicator. During this time it is restoring memory from the hard drive. When that gets all the way to the right, the screen returns to normal intensity and it's awake. So the macbooks have no backup battery and there is no limit to how long it takes you to change batteries. Best of both worlds I suppose.
Also, if the computer is critically low on battery and is awake, it automatically puts itself to sleep and hibernates. So the only way you are going to force it to need to reboot would be to pull the battery either while it's awake or while it's in the process of hibernating. (so if you need to change batteries, be sure you wait until the sleep light is pulsing before pulling the battery)
Since everything is on the hard drive while hibernating, there should be no theoretical limit to how long it can hibernate without power. I assume it will lose the clock at some point though. I have taken a few macbooks apart and I seem to recall seeing a small watch battery on the board... that being the case, that's probably the pram battery and is there to keep the clock and possibly to keep hibernation status. In that case it should keep the clock even if left unpowered for days.
How slow this code is. Usually when you are trying to squeak out another 1% of space in a file your algorythm triples in size and quadruples in runtime to get that improvement. I wonder how practical this new algorythm really is. Probably not so much an issue nowadays but I also wonder how big the compression program is. This used to be a really big deal many years ago when the compression programs could easily be larger than the data they were compressing.
My solution to this is get a 2nd battery and a 2nd power adapter. I keep the one adapter in my bag and the other at my desk. This way I am not always dorking around with the power pack anytime I move my computer. (is it really worth it to crawl under there again and unplug it, will I really need it today at work? - inevetably the day you don't take it is the day you need it) The second battery gives me anywhere from 4-7 hrs of total battery time depending on what I'm doing, and I full cyclone and swap batteries monthly to keep them both charged and conditioned.
I've done this with the last three laptops I've owned and I've never regretted it.
There are also free CPU tools you can buy that will, among other things, turn one of the two cores off, on the fly. That, together with enabling processor cycling in energysaver, will probably double your battery life if you really need it to last. No need to get a whole new computer to get decent battery life.
* An option for a 7200rpm hard disk (except the "aircraft carrier" model
Heh, I like that. Though I usually refer to them as "TV dinner trays".
Checked this out but it was more of a halloween rap album unfortunately. Does anyone happen to have music (individual songs or an entire album even) that would work well to play over the speakers as the trick or treaters are roaming around? Looking for spooky tracks. So far Thriller is about the only thing I've come up with. With or without vocals, just some spooky music or sound fx would be fine.
A former manager of mine used to be the IT director at a bank. There, when they upgraded computers, they went out to the dump and had a 'hard drive party". They removed the hard drives from the computers before tossing them in, disassembled them, and beat the platters throughly with hammers, then frisbee'd them into the hole and watched them be coverd up by the dozer.
I was under the impression that banks always were anal about destruction of customer records.
The US Navy has an interesting method also. They have these three level shredders. First level does strips. Second level does squares. Thrid level can best be described as "paper dust", it's the consistency of fine sawdust. Then they flush that out below decks directly into the water. Good luck getting that back.
With the logs that most computers keep, it just takes a skilled technician to find out what was there. They may not be able to salvage it, but it's not too difficult to show you deleted something. And at that point, once they have proven that you tampered with the evidence while under investigation, though they are not legally entitled to take this as surrendering your innocence, in practice it works this way.
There have been examples of people being framed for something, (poorly) and in fear of it sticking, they attempt to destroy the forged evidence. They leave behind just enough evidence of the elleged wrongdoing that the forensics people can tell there was evidence of wrongdoing but they cannot fully reconstruct it. Had they been able to examine the evidence intact, it would be easy to tell it was forged. But now, all they know is something that appeared incriminating was there and is gone now, and due to the tampering you did they can't really tell how genuine the original information was.
That makes you look all the more guilty. So, tampering with evidence can work heavily against you even if you are innocent.
Tampering with or destroying evidence can get you more penalties than facing the evidence in court. They make penalties for this hurt really bad so you are either very motivated to not destroy it, or if you do, you are going to get a good spanking from that since they can't prove what you really did anymore.
parts of OS X (such as Darwin) are open source, and include GPL'd code. The operating system as a whole, including the Finder and most of the graphical system, are not GPL, not open source, and are (C) apply computer. Just like Ford can make a car and use someone else's open idea of the internal combustion engine, that doesn't make the whole car free.
I've talked with hardcore Mac people who bought a copy of Windows that they run on their Mac with Parallels to test their work in IE. For other developers, I've seen some very clever
That's nice. Did you talk with them about how MS just used the EULA to make that clever idea illegal for Vista?
But when the courts can't efficiently go after the ones breaking the law, the usual response is to go after those that are enabling them or are otherwise involved even if not actually responsible.
I suppose if you can't herd cats, you bomb the catfood plant instead?
Some of it I wonder isn't just the legal system taking out its frustrations on any targettable group that is in any way connected to their frustrations?
I suppose if you make 20B$, knowing you are risking a 5B$ fine is just the cost of doing business, and if it means clearing 15B$ proffit in a few years, why wouldn't you?
Lock them up instead. Fines are just business. Jail time is incentive to behave.
unless you have a very very large budget, "physical access = owned"
If I were in your position I would look at a nightly restore strategy. Every night at 11pm all the machines hammer the server and run a broadcast netrestore. Every morning by 8 every machine in every lab is back to how it was this time yesterday.
Assuming they will occasionally hose the machine beyond netrestore, keep a stack of 3 hard drives on hand that can be hot swapped if a machine goes down. Image the drive at your leisure and add it back to the repair pile.
Users should use network based home folders. This not only makes them more portable (can login anywhere on campus) but there is no problem if a machine has to be reimged or blows up or is stolen or whatever.
There is automated software that will auto refresh machines nightly. I imagine any internet kiosk has to use it. Ask around.
did you miss the funeral? how long has it been?
A business in my town did several stupid things that led to disaster.
1. run windows 98 as your server (in 2005)
2. no passwords on anything
3. lets install a wap
4. passwords are inconvenient on a wap, turn them off
2am Sunday morning, janitorial staff notice a kid in the parking lot sitting next to his bike, typing on a laptop.
Next day, all gone. Except one rude note left on what was left of the fileserver. He basically deleted everything that he could, which was just about everything.
Darwin at work I suppose.
People nowadays seem to believe that the whole world must protect them (and their children it would seem) from everything... from the criminals, from the person next door, from everything bad in the whole world.
I am so tired of hearing how the world failed to protect some idiot from their own stupidity or how the world failed to be the good partent to your child that you for some mysterious reason could not, and now somehow it's all our fault and you are totally innocent and victimized. There's an article here at least every 10 days with another sickening example of this retarded behavior.
Makes me sick. People, grow up!
Lets see... cancer is uncontrolled multiplication and growth of cells.
Stem cells are cells that are specifically designed to multiply rapidly.
Stem cells behaving like cancer, this surpses them WHY?