In fact, I think the best thing would be a plugin for Mozilla which sticks a button on the Mozilla nav bar. Every time you hit a site that blocks non-IE browsers, or simply fails to show properly, you click the button and a form email is sent to webmaster@thesiteyouvisited.com and/or an email to advocacy groups such as you plan.
I know I visit pages all the time that wont show, I curse them then go somewhere else, or if I _really_ need to get to them, Citrix into a box and run IE there. I just dont have the time to fire off an abusive email every time I visit a dodgy site, but if I had a button staring me in the face, I'd do it every time.
The energy is created by rotation of the blade, which is reduced by wind resistance. Obviously the thin blades rotate relatively more and produce more power than the thick blades, which suffer more from wind resistance.
1) Ever heard of a mirror? RedHat maybe makes it hard to download from their site because there are hundreds of mirrors around the world. Besides, who wants to download from a site that might be around the globe from you when there is more than likely a mirror a few hops away? (Yes there are financial reasons too. All that bandwidth used up by people downloading directly from RedHat isnt free.) Oh yeah, it exists at the same relative location on all mirrors, so ftp://ftp.whatever.com/pub/redhat/linux/current will always point to the latest release of the distro. (Yes this includes ftp.redhat.com) It really _isnt_ that hard to find!
2) I guarantee that I could install 100 machines with RedHat faster than you could install 100 machines with WinXP, Win2k, Win98, WinME, Win95 or any friggen Win* you care to mention. A floppy Kickstart install with DHCP assigned addresses. Hell I could make every machine a different configuration and still get them done quicker than 100 identical Windows builds. (DHCP to assign different.cfg files) To cap it off, I can edit my default install to include apt-get and then script it to update each and every box to the latest revisions of all installed packages once installation completes. The MS way would be getting every single box to connect to WindowsUpdate or to run your own SoftwareUpdateServer (which requires a Windows2000 server machine...cha-ching goes the cash register down in Redmond). Either way you are up for more expense and time.
Total cost for RedHat solution - the floppy disks used. Total cost for MS solution - 100 x cost of WinXP/2000 + 100 CALs for the server they will likely connect to +.... +.... +....
(Disclaimer - I am a contractor who supports both Windows and Linux on server and desktops. I have several clients with RedHat on the desktop (admittedly a somewhat customised distro) and many with Windows. Right at the moment, I am kept in a job as a result of the Windows clients constant problems and adminstration required. The RedHat sites are pretty much set and forget, with the occasional re-KickStarting (which takes 15 minutes from go to whoa) Needless to say, for my livelihood, I suggest everyone runs Windows (But fuck i hate working on them!))
Very simply, there are 2 main types of hack. One is untargetted (ie scan a netblock and see what happens) and targetted (hacking a specific target). Now type 1 is by far the most common, and paying a heap for physical network security is pointless as the hacker is just looking for an open port/service. On the other hand, the concerted hacker is doing it to get at you. If you increase physical network security, they will just look for another way in.
The first principle behind hacking something is to attack the weakest point. In most cases the human factor is the weakest point. Social engineer a password out of a luser and you're on your way. In other cases it might be physical security. By increasing physical security of your network, you just push it further down the list of ways to get in.
The truth is that a truly concerted, determined (and skilled) hacker will get into pretty much any system they want.
USA - 1,000,000 - Million 1,000,000,000 - Billion 1,000,000,000,000 - Trillion
UK - 1,000,000 - Million 1,000,000,000,000 - Billion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - Trillion
In the USA, you multiply by 1000 to get to the next 'illion, in the UK you multiply by itself, so a thousand million is a billion in the USA, but its just a thousand million in the UK. A million million is a billion in the UK, but that is what yanks call a trillion.
IMHO the UK method is more correct (or at least gives us more headroom before we have to come up with a new 'illion to describe Bill Gates' net worth)
Simplicity is exactly whats required in a window manager for a business. For a linux window manager to really succeed in a big business rollout it needs;
- To look a bit and act a lot like Windows (the 2000 variety, not as smaltzy as XP)
- To enable the administrator to very simply lock it down so that the user is able to do absolutely nothing to brea^H^H^H^H change it.
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Not to debunk your entire post but....
If a human grandmaster is about to play Gary Kasaparov for instance, do you think he's likely to study as much about the way that Kasparov plays? Its just that the in this case the computer is able to forget the rest and _only_ focus on Kasparov's style. In any competition you would be foolish not to gain as much knowledge about your competition.
As for having multiple teams to win the Superbowl, ever heard of offense and defense and special teams. Its just an example of using the team that is most likely to win the play, or the game or whatever, it just so happens that these teams are all part of a larger team.
Its called specialisation and its pretty much what enabled us (humankind) to give up nomadic existence and focus on doing wonderful things like making chess playing computers and reading Slashdot instead of working.
Slightly off topic, and perhaps better suited to the NWN forums, but I have come up with a partial solution to the NWN problems (at least it seems to have done the trick for the 3 machines that I have tried it on)
Basically, you should disable Hardware Audio. It seems that the PCI bus is getting hammered beyond belief with the calls to both video and audio cards for all the positional sound. By disabling the hardware audio, you get the CPU to do the positional audio, and the PCI bus gets to concentrate on the eye candy. I have had good success with this on a Tbird 1.2, a PIII 7000 and a Duron 1000, which would lock up and stutter constantly, now doing so only once in a very long while. Dropping your visual level will obviously help a bit too.
The ultimate solution (which I tested yesterday at work) was to install it on a Dual P4 Xeon 2Ghz system with 2 gig of RAM on a dual pci bus motherboard, using a Geforce4 4600. It actually becomes pretty damn playable then!;)
The big problem with this is that for copyright holders to conduct their DoS attacks, they have to traverse other people's networks. I certainly would'nt look kindly to someone pumping a stack of packets across my network, even if it is for 'legitimate' purposes. How exactly they plan to DoS someone without impacting upstream users I can't see.
Unfortunately they aren't likely to wake up anytime soon. These days its a lot easier to litigate than to actually come up with a new business plan.
The way I see it, the music industry et al are likely to expend millions trying to block the increasing piracy, which in turn will be passed onto the consumer as increased CD prices, which of course will lead to more piracy. The musicians themselves won't see any of the price increase, it will simply go to further line the pockets of record company lawyers.
Just another sign of the decline of the human species. Money always wins out over common sense.
I notice that they mention that they run the "world's largest commercial Linux cluster". My question is who the f*ck runs a larger non-commercial one?!?!
Then how to allow caching. Surely a proxy cache simply archives and retransmits the website. The Way Back Machine is just a proxy cache with a cache that doesnt get overwritten very often;)
Additionally, the allies in many cases were forced to ignore the information discovered in Enigma transmissions so as not to alert the Germans that Enigma had been cracked.
In this light, the information was clearly valuable, but not invaluable. Many lives were lost to German uboats whilst crossing the Atlantic, even when the allies were aware of the presence of the Germans.
I am sure that there are mechanisms in place to verify the PGP signature at regular intervals. All it would take is to run a friggen cron job to download the binary, PGP test it and return a result. Hell, i'll do it on one of my boxen at home, i'm sure the momentary interuption won't inconvenience the machine's real work of rc5 cracking.:)
I personally think that they should have robots competing to see who can complete a jigsaw puzzle first. It is completely unbiased and provides a test of both vision and dexterity, and both to fairly high degrees......but then what do I know?
The fact that "top items in order of importance were Windows 2000 or XP Professional desktop operating systems [and] security software " strikes me as beutifully ironic.
You spend the most money on Windows desktops, then you spend the rest trying to make the damn things secure!!
If it wasnt for the fact that MS licensing means that a Win2k CAL required for any client on a Win2k Terminal server, I could persuade my boss to go with thin linux clients connecting to a Citrix server. As it is, why bother with running Linux if he owns the CALs for Win2k?
PerryMason
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Agreed 100%
In fact, I think the best thing would be a plugin for Mozilla which sticks a button on the Mozilla nav bar. Every time you hit a site that blocks non-IE browsers, or simply fails to show properly, you click the button and a form email is sent to webmaster@thesiteyouvisited.com and/or an email to advocacy groups such as you plan.
I know I visit pages all the time that wont show, I curse them then go somewhere else, or if I _really_ need to get to them, Citrix into a box and run IE there. I just dont have the time to fire off an abusive email every time I visit a dodgy site, but if I had a button staring me in the face, I'd do it every time.
Just a thought anyway.
Wind resistance.
The energy is created by rotation of the blade, which is reduced by wind resistance. Obviously the thin blades rotate relatively more and produce more power than the thick blades, which suffer more from wind resistance.
2 things;
.cfg files) To cap it off, I can edit my default install to include apt-get and then script it to update each and every box to the latest revisions of all installed packages once installation completes. The MS way would be getting every single box to connect to WindowsUpdate or to run your own SoftwareUpdateServer (which requires a Windows2000 server machine...cha-ching goes the cash register down in Redmond). Either way you are up for more expense and time.
.... + .... + ....
1) Ever heard of a mirror? RedHat maybe makes it hard to download from their site because there are hundreds of mirrors around the world. Besides, who wants to download from a site that might be around the globe from you when there is more than likely a mirror a few hops away? (Yes there are financial reasons too. All that bandwidth used up by people downloading directly from RedHat isnt free.) Oh yeah, it exists at the same relative location on all mirrors, so ftp://ftp.whatever.com/pub/redhat/linux/current will always point to the latest release of the distro. (Yes this includes ftp.redhat.com) It really _isnt_ that hard to find!
2) I guarantee that I could install 100 machines with RedHat faster than you could install 100 machines with WinXP, Win2k, Win98, WinME, Win95 or any friggen Win* you care to mention. A floppy Kickstart install with DHCP assigned addresses. Hell I could make every machine a different configuration and still get them done quicker than 100 identical Windows builds. (DHCP to assign different
Total cost for RedHat solution - the floppy disks used.
Total cost for MS solution - 100 x cost of WinXP/2000 + 100 CALs for the server they will likely connect to +
(Disclaimer - I am a contractor who supports both Windows and Linux on server and desktops. I have several clients with RedHat on the desktop (admittedly a somewhat customised distro) and many with Windows. Right at the moment, I am kept in a job as a result of the Windows clients constant problems and adminstration required. The RedHat sites are pretty much set and forget, with the occasional re-KickStarting (which takes 15 minutes from go to whoa) Needless to say, for my livelihood, I suggest everyone runs Windows (But fuck i hate working on them!))
Very simply, there are 2 main types of hack. One is untargetted (ie scan a netblock and see what happens) and targetted (hacking a specific target). Now type 1 is by far the most common, and paying a heap for physical network security is pointless as the hacker is just looking for an open port/service. On the other hand, the concerted hacker is doing it to get at you. If you increase physical network security, they will just look for another way in.
The first principle behind hacking something is to attack the weakest point. In most cases the human factor is the weakest point. Social engineer a password out of a luser and you're on your way. In other cases it might be physical security. By increasing physical security of your network, you just push it further down the list of ways to get in.
The truth is that a truly concerted, determined (and skilled) hacker will get into pretty much any system they want.
Today's excuse -
"Do you feel lucky......well do you punk?"
That would be S-Video.
Looking at the manifest, I am asuming that the guy was the pilot. (Unless of course Zubkoff can hack a linux kernel and fly a chopper)
Just with regards to your point 2)
You aren't even close.
USA -
1,000,000 - Million
1,000,000,000 - Billion
1,000,000,000,000 - Trillion
UK -
1,000,000 - Million
1,000,000,000,000 - Billion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - Trillion
In the USA, you multiply by 1000 to get to the next 'illion, in the UK you multiply by itself, so a thousand million is a billion in the USA, but its just a thousand million in the UK. A million million is a billion in the UK, but that is what yanks call a trillion.
IMHO the UK method is more correct (or at least gives us more headroom before we have to come up with a new 'illion to describe Bill Gates' net worth)
Simplicity is exactly whats required in a window manager for a business. For a linux window manager to really succeed in a big business rollout it needs;
- To look a bit and act a lot like Windows (the 2000 variety, not as smaltzy as XP)
- To enable the administrator to very simply lock it down so that the user is able to do absolutely nothing to brea^H^H^H^H change it.
Not to debunk your entire post but....
If a human grandmaster is about to play Gary Kasaparov for instance, do you think he's likely to study as much about the way that Kasparov plays? Its just that the in this case the computer is able to forget the rest and _only_ focus on Kasparov's style. In any competition you would be foolish not to gain as much knowledge about your competition.
As for having multiple teams to win the Superbowl, ever heard of offense and defense and special teams. Its just an example of using the team that is most likely to win the play, or the game or whatever, it just so happens that these teams are all part of a larger team.
Its called specialisation and its pretty much what enabled us (humankind) to give up nomadic existence and focus on doing wonderful things like making chess playing computers and reading Slashdot instead of working.
Coffee I like, its these friggen compters that make me sick!
Slightly off topic, and perhaps better suited to the NWN forums, but I have come up with a partial solution to the NWN problems (at least it seems to have done the trick for the 3 machines that I have tried it on)
;)
Basically, you should disable Hardware Audio. It seems that the PCI bus is getting hammered beyond belief with the calls to both video and audio cards for all the positional sound. By disabling the hardware audio, you get the CPU to do the positional audio, and the PCI bus gets to concentrate on the eye candy. I have had good success with this on a Tbird 1.2, a PIII 7000 and a Duron 1000, which would lock up and stutter constantly, now doing so only once in a very long while. Dropping your visual level will obviously help a bit too.
The ultimate solution (which I tested yesterday at work) was to install it on a Dual P4 Xeon 2Ghz system with 2 gig of RAM on a dual pci bus motherboard, using a Geforce4 4600. It actually becomes pretty damn playable then!
The birth of the Jedi....hmm I think I remember that one. Something to do with a census, a town that was too full and a stable wasnt it?
A rolling good work of fiction if I recall.
The big problem with this is that for copyright holders to conduct their DoS attacks, they have to traverse other people's networks. I certainly would'nt look kindly to someone pumping a stack of packets across my network, even if it is for 'legitimate' purposes. How exactly they plan to DoS someone without impacting upstream users I can't see.
Unfortunately they aren't likely to wake up anytime soon. These days its a lot easier to litigate than to actually come up with a new business plan.
The way I see it, the music industry et al are likely to expend millions trying to block the increasing piracy, which in turn will be passed onto the consumer as increased CD prices, which of course will lead to more piracy. The musicians themselves won't see any of the price increase, it will simply go to further line the pockets of record company lawyers.
Just another sign of the decline of the human species. Money always wins out over common sense.
I notice that they mention that they run the "world's largest commercial Linux cluster". My question is who the f*ck runs a larger non-commercial one?!?!
Then how to allow caching. Surely a proxy cache simply archives and retransmits the website. The Way Back Machine is just a proxy cache with a cache that doesnt get overwritten very often ;)
Additionally, the allies in many cases were forced to ignore the information discovered in Enigma transmissions so as not to alert the Germans that Enigma had been cracked.
In this light, the information was clearly valuable, but not invaluable. Many lives were lost to German uboats whilst crossing the Atlantic, even when the allies were aware of the presence of the Germans.
I have the misfortune of being a Telstra cable user and can provide this insight into the state of broadband in Australia -
You cannot pay your Telstra internet bill on the internet.
Consequently I havent ever paid my bill....maybe if I had, I could ditch the damn service without the $1000 hanging over my head!!
I wonder just how long it will be before these things are outselling the Xbox? :P
Geez dude, the only thing you forgot to say was "Won't somebody please think of the children..."
why did we go to the moon...and waste gagillions to do it?
;)
Bah! The US Gov'ment pocketed the gagillions and got Hollywood to fake the whole thing!
I am sure that there are mechanisms in place to verify the PGP signature at regular intervals. All it would take is to run a friggen cron job to download the binary, PGP test it and return a result. Hell, i'll do it on one of my boxen at home, i'm sure the momentary interuption won't inconvenience the machine's real work of rc5 cracking. :)
I personally think that they should have robots competing to see who can complete a jigsaw puzzle first. It is completely unbiased and provides a test of both vision and dexterity, and both to fairly high degrees......but then what do I know?
The fact that "top items in order of importance were Windows 2000 or XP Professional desktop operating systems [and] security software " strikes me as beutifully ironic. You spend the most money on Windows desktops, then you spend the rest trying to make the damn things secure!! If it wasnt for the fact that MS licensing means that a Win2k CAL required for any client on a Win2k Terminal server, I could persuade my boss to go with thin linux clients connecting to a Citrix server. As it is, why bother with running Linux if he owns the CALs for Win2k? PerryMason