it's their parent's property, they have every right to know every detail of how it is used. If they don't like their parents spying on them on the parents' computer then they should just not use their parents' computer...
Hold right there! You do realise that many kids have their own computers. Hand-me-downs or ever new ones. I know of kids that get computers when they start their secondary education (for example, other events may also exist). I'm not exactly in favour of letting them have one (especially in their room, including an internet connection), but it's a fact that such a thing is not uncommon these days.
Now, you might say that all property your kids have is in reality "your property". I ask you to think about that: a present is a present and becomes property of the person that receives it. If you give a Wii (for example) to your kid for its birthday, then it is the kids property. No discussion...
One part of the deal is that parents should respect that their children are people and have rights and properties. Sure, you'll take care that they don't get in too much trouble, but you simply can't avoid all trouble.
My sister wanted to... She wants to move and go live alone and one of the first thing she wants to buy is the PS3. A bit like I did when I moved out: the first thing I bought was a PS2, but it was already a few years after release and about 200€ or so. (Don't remember exactly)
I've talked it out of her head.... That kind of money she can spend on her music! Way better investment. I think I'm either going to give her my PS2 with all games (I'm married, I don't game much anymore) or buy her a spanking new slimline PS2 as a move-in-present.
Actually, I think I could even live without Windows Update. Heck, I bet I could live with a fully unpatched WinXP (SP0;-) ) My machines all run an antivirus (AVG Free) and I have an OpenBSD firewall in front of them with both incoming and outgoing ports filtered. Surfing is pretty much only allowed with Firefox, Thunderbird is the email client of choice and OpenOffice.org is used for productivity tasks. Last step would be to ditch Windows entirely, but my wife isn't ready for that and I'm still working on it myself (have a Debian workstation now, but well, not much time to play around with it much )
Because I might want to install it someday. I only get the popup under Admin anyway, and I'm pretty much never logged in as that. It's already downloaded. If I want to install it manually afterwards, I need to redownload it. Waste of bandwidth.
Everyone in my family, including me... (I eat my own dog food, and I am more likely to catch problems before my users complain) It's not even that hard to setup, if you know what you are doing.
Admin is for maintenance only. A bit like "root" on a Unix machine.
Logged in as restriced user? I have automatic updates on, and it only says that the update is ready when I log in as an Administrator. Just wondering if it's the same effect...
It's been there in the "Software Update" for weeks. Or better said, I always log in as "Restricted User" (as does my wife) and I then don't get notifications about that particular "Software Update". It's only when I have to login as "Administrator" that I get the notification. Logging in as "Administrator" doesn't happen often, and when I do, it's usually to fix something and I don't have time nor motivation to launch the IE7 update.
So my machines all still have IE6, but nobody uses it... They all use Firefox. The rest of the family all have their machines setup to be used in "Restricted User" configuration and that way IE7 doesn't install. Why, I do not know, because other updates do install. So people doing the "right thing" (running non-admin) don't get it automatically. Funny, isn't it?
Apparently, he thinks that everyone should have root.
Just like Microsoft in the pre-Vista days...;-) (Yes, yes, I know that NT 4.0, W2k, and XP all have restricted users, but normal people can't use that.)
Now Microsoft has changed stance, and they pretty much force you to be non-root. Heck, who is root on a Vista machine? I'd like to know, because it isn't the user...
Hmmm, yeah, in that way you can indeed "hear porn". After I posted, I also thought of phonesex, which probably is a form of porn for which you even pay. But a porn Audio CD is pretty much unheard of, at least to me....
In France a bundled phone can be unlocked from its operator network after 6 months
I don't bother and buy the cheapest unlocked one.... Works just fine. The last GSM I bought was one with a pre-paid card of the competing network, and it was unlocked in the first place. I never used the prepaid card.
I see what you mean, but I guess you never heard of DVDShrink? That's as easy as clicking "backup"... A DVD copy? Coming right up!
As for dd... Let me tell you, the first Linux distro I installed was with floppy disks (remember those?) and I had to use RAWRITE.EXE under DOS to create the first boot diskette. RAWRITE.EXE is pretty much the floppy equivalent of dd for DOS. It's a command line app.... Now, it isn't anymore. Somebody could write the equivalent of "dd" for Windows with an easy interface.
All it needs to crack DRM for the greater public is one dedicated geek. It probably won't be the guy that cracked the DRM in the first place, but it will one that can use the library the first one wrote and make a halfway decent GUI for it.
I don't know SME in particular, but I know the kind of hardware you speak of. I used to run a Pentium 166MMX/256Meg RAM as a home server. What surprises me is that you say that backups are a pain. Hardware of the category you describe most certainly has USB ports and PCI slots. Granted, probably USB 1.1... So invest in a 20€ USB 2.0 PCI card and buy a external USB drive for backups. I do it this way on my parents server (P-III/800MHz/768Meg RAM/Full-SCSI) by running a cron-job every night at 2am. Just for you, I'm going to check the logs: It backs up at about 3MByte/second (actually, I found that low and Wikipedia confirms my findings)
New let's just assume that the machine is basically unused between 2am and 6am. That's 4 hours, this means you can backup about 40Gigs daily. Now, I do admit that I do not have tons and tons of multimedia on that machine and 40Gigs may not be enough for you, but it's still quite reasonable. You could also schedule every day to backup a different part of the machine: in a week you get then 7x40Gig = 280Gig...
1) US median household income was less $35K/year (2005 dollars) and considerably less than the $46K/year in 2005.
2) Women had near zero job opportunities
Now, I don't want to sound like the macho guy. I'm not, far from even... Combine 1 and 2. You do realise that most family these days are working couples. Two incomes, not the one income of the 50s and 60s. So according to the US Census bureau the median income is about $43K/year. (for 2004). More than often this household is composed by two incomes, so -perhaps- just -perhaps- that 50s guy that came home to his housewife who held his martini cool for him has a better income relatively.
As said, I don't want to come over as a macho... I just see this myself: my dad could pay for our whole family, and I struggle with both me and my wife employed. (Okay, struggle is an exaggeration, but if I want to build a house someday, it will be "struggle")
Of course, not.... I still can do it myself, don't I? Besides, if those "out of the box" Linux servers (NAS boxes, MythTV machines, whatever) are somehow connected to the internet and a security flaw is found the shit hits the fan, and you know it. Their stength is that they usually are not connected to the internet, in that case it's just like any other embedded OS.
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Taken away for a while... Sure, I agree. Forever? Damn well not!
it's their parent's property, they have every right to know every detail of how it is used. If they don't like their parents spying on them on the parents' computer then they should just not use their parents' computer...
Hold right there! You do realise that many kids have their own computers. Hand-me-downs or ever new ones. I know of kids that get computers when they start their secondary education (for example, other events may also exist). I'm not exactly in favour of letting them have one (especially in their room, including an internet connection), but it's a fact that such a thing is not uncommon these days.
Now, you might say that all property your kids have is in reality "your property". I ask you to think about that: a present is a present and becomes property of the person that receives it. If you give a Wii (for example) to your kid for its birthday, then it is the kids property. No discussion...
One part of the deal is that parents should respect that their children are people and have rights and properties. Sure, you'll take care that they don't get in too much trouble, but you simply can't avoid all trouble.
My sister wanted to... She wants to move and go live alone and one of the first thing she wants to buy is the PS3. A bit like I did when I moved out: the first thing I bought was a PS2, but it was already a few years after release and about 200€ or so. (Don't remember exactly)
I've talked it out of her head.... That kind of money she can spend on her music! Way better investment. I think I'm either going to give her my PS2 with all games (I'm married, I don't game much anymore) or buy her a spanking new slimline PS2 as a move-in-present.
Actually, I think I could even live without Windows Update. Heck, I bet I could live with a fully unpatched WinXP (SP0 ;-) ) My machines all run an antivirus (AVG Free) and I have an OpenBSD firewall in front of them with both incoming and outgoing ports filtered. Surfing is pretty much only allowed with Firefox, Thunderbird is the email client of choice and OpenOffice.org is used for productivity tasks. Last step would be to ditch Windows entirely, but my wife isn't ready for that and I'm still working on it myself (have a Debian workstation now, but well, not much time to play around with it much )
Because I might want to install it someday. I only get the popup under Admin anyway, and I'm pretty much never logged in as that. It's already downloaded. If I want to install it manually afterwards, I need to redownload it. Waste of bandwidth.
Only when you run as Admin... (True for both Firefox and Internet Explorer 7)
You can also easily disable the auto-update for Firefox.
Everyone in my family, including me... (I eat my own dog food, and I am more likely to catch problems before my users complain) It's not even that hard to setup, if you know what you are doing.
Admin is for maintenance only. A bit like "root" on a Unix machine.
Logged in as restriced user? I have automatic updates on, and it only says that the update is ready when I log in as an Administrator. Just wondering if it's the same effect...
It's been there in the "Software Update" for weeks. Or better said, I always log in as "Restricted User" (as does my wife) and I then don't get notifications about that particular "Software Update". It's only when I have to login as "Administrator" that I get the notification. Logging in as "Administrator" doesn't happen often, and when I do, it's usually to fix something and I don't have time nor motivation to launch the IE7 update.
So my machines all still have IE6, but nobody uses it... They all use Firefox. The rest of the family all have their machines setup to be used in "Restricted User" configuration and that way IE7 doesn't install. Why, I do not know, because other updates do install. So people doing the "right thing" (running non-admin) don't get it automatically. Funny, isn't it?
Apparently, he thinks that everyone should have root.
Just like Microsoft in the pre-Vista days... ;-) (Yes, yes, I know that NT 4.0, W2k, and XP all have restricted users, but normal people can't use that.)
Now Microsoft has changed stance, and they pretty much force you to be non-root. Heck, who is root on a Vista machine? I'd like to know, because it isn't the user...
Tactile porn.... Yeah, you're on to something ;-)
Now that you say it: porn for the visually impaired! We're gonna get rich! ;-)
Hmmm, yeah, in that way you can indeed "hear porn". After I posted, I also thought of phonesex, which probably is a form of porn for which you even pay. But a porn Audio CD is pretty much unheard of, at least to me....
In France a bundled phone can be unlocked from its operator network after 6 months
I don't bother and buy the cheapest unlocked one.... Works just fine. The last GSM I bought was one with a pre-paid card of the competing network, and it was unlocked in the first place. I never used the prepaid card.
Wow... You are right, I was completely unaware of that...
I see what you mean, but I guess you never heard of DVDShrink? That's as easy as clicking "backup"... A DVD copy? Coming right up!
As for dd... Let me tell you, the first Linux distro I installed was with floppy disks (remember those?) and I had to use RAWRITE.EXE under DOS to create the first boot diskette. RAWRITE.EXE is pretty much the floppy equivalent of dd for DOS. It's a command line app.... Now, it isn't anymore. Somebody could write the equivalent of "dd" for Windows with an easy interface.
All it needs to crack DRM for the greater public is one dedicated geek. It probably won't be the guy that cracked the DRM in the first place, but it will one that can use the library the first one wrote and make a halfway decent GUI for it.
Except that Betamax was from Sony. VHS was from JVC. Philips (and Sony) released the CD (Audio CD), and I'm not really sure if I've ever heard "porn".
I don't know SME in particular, but I know the kind of hardware you speak of. I used to run a Pentium 166MMX/256Meg RAM as a home server. What surprises me is that you say that backups are a pain. Hardware of the category you describe most certainly has USB ports and PCI slots. Granted, probably USB 1.1... So invest in a 20€ USB 2.0 PCI card and buy a external USB drive for backups. I do it this way on my parents server (P-III/800MHz/768Meg RAM/Full-SCSI) by running a cron-job every night at 2am. Just for you, I'm going to check the logs: It backs up at about 3MByte/second (actually, I found that low and Wikipedia confirms my findings)
New let's just assume that the machine is basically unused between 2am and 6am. That's 4 hours, this means you can backup about 40Gigs daily. Now, I do admit that I do not have tons and tons of multimedia on that machine and 40Gigs may not be enough for you, but it's still quite reasonable. You could also schedule every day to backup a different part of the machine: in a week you get then 7x40Gig = 280Gig...
Okay, okay... Good point :-)
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I also have 5€ in my pocket, but that's not enough to put me above the law ;-)
Didn't you get the memo? Anyone with money and/or power is above the law... ;-)
1) US median household income was less $35K/year (2005 dollars) and considerably less than the $46K/year in 2005.
2) Women had near zero job opportunities
Now, I don't want to sound like the macho guy. I'm not, far from even... Combine 1 and 2. You do realise that most family these days are working couples. Two incomes, not the one income of the 50s and 60s. So according to the US Census bureau the median income is about $43K/year. (for 2004). More than often this household is composed by two incomes, so -perhaps- just -perhaps- that 50s guy that came home to his housewife who held his martini cool for him has a better income relatively.
As said, I don't want to come over as a macho... I just see this myself: my dad could pay for our whole family, and I struggle with both me and my wife employed. (Okay, struggle is an exaggeration, but if I want to build a house someday, it will be "struggle")
Of course, not.... I still can do it myself, don't I? Besides, if those "out of the box" Linux servers (NAS boxes, MythTV machines, whatever) are somehow connected to the internet and a security flaw is found the shit hits the fan, and you know it. Their stength is that they usually are not connected to the internet, in that case it's just like any other embedded OS.
My fileserver has 512Meg RAM... Not that it uses it, because top reports 34Meg used. Oh, well, I guess it has plenty of space for caching then ;-)