Since I'm thinking about it, I wonder if we'll see a higher number of intelligent posts on this article since we were unable to post for so long? Maybe a higher percentage of people actually clicked the link and read what they had to say? Maybe iit's not such a bad idea to let an article sit for 30 mins or so before they allow anyone to post replies.
From the article, David Reynolds says it better than I could: I think we have dropped the
material onto schools, we haven't provided adequate training for teachers in how to use it, we've assumed it's a good thing that doesn't need justification. And like many other innovations, the danger is that all innovation and change requires a coalition of
people in schools to support them.
"Here you are, a nice shiny new computer. What do you do with it? Why, plug it in, of course". About the best learning software I've seen (and admittedly I haven't looked recently) was MathBlaster. Better tools and better training for the teachers is what is really necessary to make computers work in schools.
You specifically said that you needed Perl installed on the server, and I merely pointed out that it isn't true. It was obvious that you knew about ADSI, but not clear that you knew it could be used with VBScript (Which is not VB, which is not clear that you understood from your post).
My apologies for misunderstanding.
Ahem... I never said you had to buy the resource kit. I specifically said that WSH comes native to windows. I just said that there are some very good canned scripts available through the resource kit, which cost about $100. The scripts could probably be found on the internet for free quite easily, or could be written very easily by someone who knows how to write the scripts.
You also see many older books decomposing. And that is truly a sad sight.
What would be a good idea for this is to implement it in library copies of books only. Just the ability for the paper to stretch rather than tear would save many copies from the "Friends of the library" bins.
You could have easily done it with ADSI in VBScript which is already natively supposrted. What were you trying to do, just write a script to add users? How about:
Function CreateUser(sOuDomainPath,sUserName)
On Error Resume Next
Set oLDAP = GetObject("LDAP://" & sOuDomainPath)
Set oUser = oLDAP.Create("user","cn=" & sUserName)
oUser.Put "sAMAccountName", sUserName
oUser.SetInfo
oUser.AccountDisabled = False
oUser.SetInfo
Set oUser = Nothing
Set oLDAP = Nothing
If Err.Number = 0 Then CreateUser = True Else CreateUser = False
End Function
Function
CreateUser2(sOuDomainPath,sFirstName,sLastName,sDe scription,sEmail,sPassword)
On Error Resume Next
Set oLDAP = GetObject("LDAP://" & sOuDomainPath)
Set oUser = oLDAP.Create("user","cn=" & sFirstName & " " & sLastName)
oUser.Put "sAMAccountName", Left(sFirstName,1)& sLastName
oUser.SetInfo
oUser.FullName = sFirstName & " " & sLastName
oUser.GivenName = sFirstName
oUser.Sn = sLastName
oUser.AccountDisabled = False
oUser.Description = sDescription
oUser.SetPassword sPassword
oUser.Mail = sEmail
'oUser.Profile = "\\server\share\username"
'oUser.Put("HomeDrive"),"X"
'oUser.HomeDirectory ="\\server\share\username"
'oUser.LoginScript = "myscript.vbs"
oUser.SetInfo
Set oUser = Nothing
Set oLDAP = Nothing
If Err.Number = 0 Then CreateUser2 = True Else CreateUser2 = False
End Function
That's actually some code that can be easily found in a number of locations Microsoft, for example.
Im not a huge fan of MS (Read my journal for opinions on your run-of-the-mill Windows admin), but I wish people would stop bashing Windows for a lack of understanding on their part. Most of this stuff is in the Windows 2k Server resource kit, too. I guess your company didn't shell out the $100, or you didn't read it...
Kinda troll-ish, but I just got up, so I'll bite.
It's really not so bad. Other than the weapon select, which unfortunately can be kind of tough in live mode (you have to keep pressing the change button till you get to the one you want), the gamepad is just as easy to use as the mouse, it just takes a little practice. Moving using the joysticks makes the gameplay only marginally slower if at all, and it's a lot easier to do things like making a running jump while selecting a weapon with a gamepad, since all the controls are right at your fingertips instead of all across the keyboard (i know this is configurable).
That depends on what you're playing. For the type of games that are easily turned into multiplayer games (FPS, mech games, etc), this is mostly true. Have you tryed playing any RPGs on a console though? Or something like Civ? I actually liked Civ 2 for the PSone better than for the computer. They had to clean up the controls and interface a little, and it made the gameply easier.
It's going at suggested retail of about $50... So you get your XBox starter kit with a console, one controller and two games for $230 at costco, then the Live kit, and you've got a networked station for under $300. Not too bad.
My buddy got his for christmas. Setup was simple, and it works great. What I like the best is being able to play games with people other than the two guys I normally beat;-). Ok, so it's probably the other way around... In any case, it rocks.
I wish MS would allow XBox Live users to hook up to UT games being played by nin-xbox users, though. That would be money.
I think you're right. These things are coming out way to fast to be a real person. This is some script kiddie's bot.
I thought there was a way for the/. editors to block a specific IP... Maybe they haven't noticed yet?
One of the key concepts of developing technology that depends on decentralization is simplicity.
Setting this up will not be simple. You have to chose who you trust and how much of what they trust you trust. In order to do that, you have to get some idea what a whole bunch of people like. Getting this up and working correctly will be a headache.
Now, a directed news system based on previous picks and voting a la amazon might not be a bad idea...
Who cares about forged email headers? There's almost always an address or link to their site, and in Washington State, you can send a bill for $500 for each spam to the address listed on the domain registry for the link provided in the email to order whatever product they're selling. All you have to do first is register your email address in a public directory as a Washington State resident.
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If I'm misreading the article, someone please enlighten me, but it sounds like what he's really talking about is a modified file system and new searching methods based on that file system.
If this is the case, then an OS still needs to run off of that file system, so the OS is clearly not dead.
This is what longhorn's filesystem is supposed to do: It's SQL and metadata-based. I don't see how that's making the OS irrelevant. I think the author could have chosen his words a little better.
The concept of more or less attractive ideas doesn't usually have anything to do with the access of the ideas. I believe this is done in an attempt to slow dissemination of ideas to the "impressionable youth", and to keep groups like these from organizing.
Will it work? Not really. There are still plenty of books (remember them?) available on the aformentioned subjects, and hate groups have been forming with large numbers of poorly educated members for years without the aid of the popular media or the internet.
Very true. In Psychiatrist John J Ratey's A User's Guide to the Brain, he explains how the conscious mind is inextricatbly tied to the body (via your nervous system). Even if you could download your brain to a chip, ot wouldn't do you any good unless you could then tranfer it to another body. Of course, that body being constructed differently than your body, you would no longer really be the same person.
Of course, I suppose that along with your mind on a chip, you could have virtual bodies...
Very good point. Most critical systems are already on custom-made hardware (with custom software as well), and I can't imagine any cruise missiles running stock Xeons ever, but with some of the less critical systems, older proprietary systems could be replaced with newer i386 based infrastructure. According to the TPM FAQ (PDF document), vendor supplied modules will have to be provided for any specific application to use TPM anyway. Yes, Microsoft will have Palladium enabled on the OS by default, but it's doubtful that your pacemaker will be using Modular Windows anytime soon.
I don't think that it's 100% accurate to say that you will have to log on to the internet to use your computer. Palladium would require a valid digital signature to run some content, but I'm sure you could cache that signature somehow. Any music that you have ripped in WMA format has a signature attached to it, and you don't need to log on to the internet to play those.
...Dude, you're on a geek site. At least you could come up with a more creative insult than that. Nobody on slashdot will ever have a woman... unless the slashdot reader is a woman.
From the article: The DRMP system is based on the premise that unlicensed use of software or data should make computers stop working. You could also argue that bridges should be designed to fall down if someone is detected crossing without paying the toll.
Ok, I don't like DRM either, but that's rediculous analogy. Most people's interpretation of DRM doesn't include making computers stop working if they're running unlicensed software. It's designed to stop a software package from running if it isn't licensed on the machine. I have a really hard time believing that DRM will ever be in anything like heart monitors or any other specially designed hardware. In my opinion, this guy really is just being alarmist.
1. Windows 2k provides a method to do secure telnet, which encrypts the session and requires a domain pwd.
2. the IP address can be re-assigned using ipconfig.
3. the NET USER command will allow you to change passwords and add or modify users, provided that you have sufficient rights.
You really can do most things from the command line, it's just that so many admins are lazy and haven't figure out how.
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Since I'm thinking about it, I wonder if we'll see a higher number of intelligent posts on this article since we were unable to post for so long? Maybe a higher percentage of people actually clicked the link and read what they had to say? Maybe iit's not such a bad idea to let an article sit for 30 mins or so before they allow anyone to post replies.
From the article, David Reynolds says it better than I could:
I think we have dropped the material onto schools, we haven't provided adequate training for teachers in how to use it, we've assumed it's a good thing that doesn't need justification. And like many other innovations, the danger is that all innovation and change requires a coalition of people in schools to support them.
"Here you are, a nice shiny new computer. What do you do with it? Why, plug it in, of course". About the best learning software I've seen (and admittedly I haven't looked recently) was MathBlaster. Better tools and better training for the teachers is what is really necessary to make computers work in schools.
You specifically said that you needed Perl installed on the server, and I merely pointed out that it isn't true. It was obvious that you knew about ADSI, but not clear that you knew it could be used with VBScript (Which is not VB, which is not clear that you understood from your post).
My apologies for misunderstanding.
Ahem... I never said you had to buy the resource kit. I specifically said that WSH comes native to windows. I just said that there are some very good canned scripts available through the resource kit, which cost about $100. The scripts could probably be found on the internet for free quite easily, or could be written very easily by someone who knows how to write the scripts.
You also see many older books decomposing. And that is truly a sad sight.
What would be a good idea for this is to implement it in library copies of books only. Just the ability for the paper to stretch rather than tear would save many copies from the "Friends of the library" bins.
Function CreateUser(sOuDomainPath,sUserName)e scription,sEmail,sPassword)
End FunctionOn Error Resume Next
Set oLDAP = GetObject("LDAP://" & sOuDomainPath)
Set oUser = oLDAP.Create("user","cn=" & sUserName)
oUser.Put "sAMAccountName", sUserName
oUser.SetInfo
oUser.AccountDisabled = False
oUser.SetInfo
Set oUser = Nothing
Set oLDAP = Nothing
If Err.Number = 0 Then CreateUser = True Else
CreateUser = False
End Function
Function
CreateUser2(sOuDomainPath,sFirstName,sLastName,sD
On Error Resume Next
Set oLDAP = GetObject("LDAP://" & sOuDomainPath)
Set oUser = oLDAP.Create("user","cn=" & sFirstName & " " & sLastName)
oUser.Put "sAMAccountName", Left(sFirstName,1)& sLastName
oUser.SetInfo
oUser.FullName = sFirstName & " " & sLastName
oUser.GivenName = sFirstName
oUser.Sn = sLastName
oUser.AccountDisabled = False
oUser.Description = sDescription
oUser.SetPassword sPassword
oUser.Mail = sEmail
'oUser.Profile = "\\server\share\username"
'oUser.Put("HomeDrive"),"X"
'oUser.HomeDirectory ="\\server\share\username"
'oUser.LoginScript = "myscript.vbs"
oUser.SetInfo
Set oUser = Nothing
Set oLDAP = Nothing
If Err.Number = 0 Then CreateUser2 = True Else
CreateUser2 = False
That's actually some code that can be easily found in a number of locations Microsoft, for example.
Im not a huge fan of MS (Read my journal for opinions on your run-of-the-mill Windows admin), but I wish people would stop bashing Windows for a lack of understanding on their part. Most of this stuff is in the Windows 2k Server resource kit, too. I guess your company didn't shell out the $100, or you didn't read it...
Kinda troll-ish, but I just got up, so I'll bite.
It's really not so bad. Other than the weapon select, which unfortunately can be kind of tough in live mode (you have to keep pressing the change button till you get to the one you want), the gamepad is just as easy to use as the mouse, it just takes a little practice. Moving using the joysticks makes the gameplay only marginally slower if at all, and it's a lot easier to do things like making a running jump while selecting a weapon with a gamepad, since all the controls are right at your fingertips instead of all across the keyboard (i know this is configurable).
That depends on what you're playing. For the type of games that are easily turned into multiplayer games (FPS, mech games, etc), this is mostly true. Have you tryed playing any RPGs on a console though? Or something like Civ? I actually liked Civ 2 for the PSone better than for the computer. They had to clean up the controls and interface a little, and it made the gameply easier.
It's going at suggested retail of about $50... So you get your XBox starter kit with a console, one controller and two games for $230 at costco, then the Live kit, and you've got a networked station for under $300. Not too bad.
My buddy got his for christmas. Setup was simple, and it works great. What I like the best is being able to play games with people other than the two guys I normally beat ;-). Ok, so it's probably the other way around... In any case, it rocks.
I wish MS would allow XBox Live users to hook up to UT games being played by nin-xbox users, though. That would be money.
You forgot Gundam Wing. Not about aliens per se, but definitely about when cultures diverge and collide...
I think you're right. These things are coming out way to fast to be a real person. This is some script kiddie's bot. /. editors to block a specific IP... Maybe they haven't noticed yet?
I thought there was a way for the
One of the key concepts of developing technology that depends on decentralization is simplicity.
Setting this up will not be simple. You have to chose who you trust and how much of what they trust you trust. In order to do that, you have to get some idea what a whole bunch of people like. Getting this up and working correctly will be a headache.
Now, a directed news system based on previous picks and voting a la amazon might not be a bad idea...
Who cares about forged email headers? There's almost always an address or link to their site, and in Washington State, you can send a bill for $500 for each spam to the address listed on the domain registry for the link provided in the email to order whatever product they're selling. All you have to do first is register your email address in a public directory as a Washington State resident.
If you're interested Here's some more info
If I'm misreading the article, someone please enlighten me, but it sounds like what he's really talking about is a modified file system and new searching methods based on that file system.
If this is the case, then an OS still needs to run off of that file system, so the OS is clearly not dead.
This is what longhorn's filesystem is supposed to do: It's SQL and metadata-based. I don't see how that's making the OS irrelevant. I think the author could have chosen his words a little better.
First of all, CN modifies many anime horribly for content. Entire storylines are sometimes cut out of longer series.
Secondly, if you're already into anime, you can probably find most of the titles they show at the local blockbuster.
Anime has already gone fairly main stream. It's doubtful whether Adult Swim brings in very many new viewers, so I'm not too upset over them, either.
The concept of more or less attractive ideas doesn't usually have anything to do with the access of the ideas. I believe this is done in an attempt to slow dissemination of ideas to the "impressionable youth", and to keep groups like these from organizing.
Will it work? Not really. There are still plenty of books (remember them?) available on the aformentioned subjects, and hate groups have been forming with large numbers of poorly educated members for years without the aid of the popular media or the internet.
Very true. In Psychiatrist John J Ratey's A User's Guide to the Brain, he explains how the conscious mind is inextricatbly tied to the body (via your nervous system).
Even if you could download your brain to a chip, ot wouldn't do you any good unless you could then tranfer it to another body. Of course, that body being constructed differently than your body, you would no longer really be the same person.
Of course, I suppose that along with your mind on a chip, you could have virtual bodies...
Very good point. Most critical systems are already on custom-made hardware (with custom software as well), and I can't imagine any cruise missiles running stock Xeons ever, but with some of the less critical systems, older proprietary systems could be replaced with newer i386 based infrastructure.
According to the TPM FAQ (PDF document), vendor supplied modules will have to be provided for any specific application to use TPM anyway. Yes, Microsoft will have Palladium enabled on the OS by default, but it's doubtful that your pacemaker will be using Modular Windows anytime soon.
I don't think that it's 100% accurate to say that you will have to log on to the internet to use your computer. Palladium would require a valid digital signature to run some content, but I'm sure you could cache that signature somehow. Any music that you have ripped in WMA format has a signature attached to it, and you don't need to log on to the internet to play those.
...Dude, you're on a geek site. At least you could come up with a more creative insult than that. Nobody on slashdot will ever have a woman... unless the slashdot reader is a woman.
From the article:
The DRMP system is based on the premise that unlicensed use of software or data should make computers stop working. You could also argue that bridges should be designed to fall down if someone is detected crossing without paying the toll.
Ok, I don't like DRM either, but that's rediculous analogy. Most people's interpretation of DRM doesn't include making computers stop working if they're running unlicensed software. It's designed to stop a software package from running if it isn't licensed on the machine. I have a really hard time believing that DRM will ever be in anything like heart monitors or any other specially designed hardware. In my opinion, this guy really is just being alarmist.
you mean IIS == Microsoft...
1. Windows 2k provides a method to do secure telnet, which encrypts the session and requires a domain pwd.
2. the IP address can be re-assigned using ipconfig.
3. the NET USER command will allow you to change passwords and add or modify users, provided that you have sufficient rights.
You really can do most things from the command line, it's just that so many admins are lazy and haven't figure out how.
The list of winners is available in this New Scientist article.
To point out that the capital D after Fritz Hollings' name means that he's a democrat. Dem's are fucking us just as bad as Rep's.