That's a pretty stupid recommendation, unless you're just trolling for flames. Not to start an OS flamewar here or anything, but if you were to go as so far as to suggest a totally new OS for firewall purposes, there is no other choice but OpenBSD in that league.
Yes, there is one in the DLC. Or at least there was; I haven't been in there in a while. IIRC, they were used for rendering as well, and may be the same exact machines, just transplanted into MATH. Either way, we've had Linux clusters long before Sun's magic "donation."
And since the university has it's own power plant, it doesn't have to pay retail prices for the elctricity that runs them
I don't know if the Math building is on it though, because herald.cc (the mail-hub) got knocked offline thanks to that little power outage last Friday.... I couldn't get my e-mail for a while. ECN was even worse as it took for-f'in-ever to bring shay (the ECE undergrad server) back up, which meant no logging into any Linux or Sun machines, either.
The example I was shown was that the registry was mapped to a drive, and you could navigate it like any other drive, with the results being returned from the commandlet as.NET objects!
Hmm.... doesn't this sound like "/proc filesystem" to anybody? After all, it is very similar to the Registry in some functions...
Hell, many GUI locks on XP can be averted if you have terminal services running and want to login and poke around.
Actually, the usual case is that the "Windows Security" dialog (with task manager, etc) is tied to the ctrl-alt-del keyboard interrupt, and is available about 99% of the time, even when you've hosed the GUI.
While this reeks "video driver" to me as a windows/linux user, APPLE MAKES THE DAMN HARDWARE... one would think they could avert things like this easily since they have very fine control over everything.
Apple and Linux are really lagging behind in the recovery area... when X gets hosed, it usually takes the console keyboard with it. Now Linux has support for that "Magic sysrq key" thingee if you compile it into the kernel to do things like reboot, but it would be great if you could do that, and it would spawn another virtual console running top or something.
Not everyone has a second computer they can ssh in from, let alone the fact that you're running sshd or not.
When saving, choose "Web Page, Filtered" in the "File Type" drop-down.
"Saving Doc1.htm in this format (Web Page, Filtered) will remove Office-specific tags. Some Office features may not be available when you reopen this page. Do you want to save the document in this format?"
But since Windows and Office both give you 30 days until you need to activate, your "finding yourself on the phone w/ product activation" argument falls apart. Also, in most cases you just activate over the internet which just takes mere seconds so I don't really see where the big problem is. It's not really an inconveience either.
The instant I saw the "Thank you for activating" message come up, I was so pissed that I just hung up on him. The incompetence of the rep just killed me.
I would have to agree that I had a more intellectually stimulating conversation ordering a cheeseburger at McDonalds yesterday than talking with their phone reps.
I think the difference with XP is that it generates the same hardware hash each time you install it if you haven't changed too much stuff, so it let's you re-activate w/o problems. Also, XP stores its data in %SystemRoot%\System32\wpa.dbl, NOT in the HDD's boot record (!)... the neat thing about this is you can just save this file if you are reinstalling/reformatting and just recover it next time and skip activation altogether.
Although I'll admit the activation isn't foolproof... it threw an "I don't think so Tim" at me last time I reinstalled, which meant I had to call MS. It's surprisingly a no-questions asked phone call... pretty much:
"Is this the only computer you're running this copy of XP on?"
On the OSS side of things, this should be a (small) boon to projects like Konq and Mozilla that aren't going to require all the online applications and plugins to be re-coded.
Yeah, wait till the Mozilla project and AOL/Netscape is sued over this. Then you'll have your proverbial open-source foot in your mouth.
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That's a pretty stupid recommendation, unless you're just trolling for flames. Not to start an OS flamewar here or anything, but if you were to go as so far as to suggest a totally new OS for firewall purposes, there is no other choice but OpenBSD in that league.
What blows my mind is that I don't think any of the routers and switches are on UPSes.
Yes, there is one in the DLC. Or at least there was; I haven't been in there in a while. IIRC, they were used for rendering as well, and may be the same exact machines, just transplanted into MATH. Either way, we've had Linux clusters long before Sun's magic "donation."
And since the university has it's own power plant, it doesn't have to pay retail prices for the elctricity that runs them
I don't know if the Math building is on it though, because herald.cc (the mail-hub) got knocked offline thanks to that little power outage last Friday.... I couldn't get my e-mail for a while. ECN was even worse as it took for-f'in-ever to bring shay (the ECE undergrad server) back up, which meant no logging into any Linux or Sun machines, either.
although they will backport bugfixes
Ok, good, I was curious whether or not they were actually distributing security updates, which is why I was starting to worry.
Maybe Debian Stable can finally update their Apache packages??? I'm still running 1.3.26... jeez!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A448 98-2003Oct30.html
The example I was shown was that the registry was mapped to a drive, and you could navigate it like any other drive, with the results being returned from the commandlet as .NET objects!
Hmm.... doesn't this sound like "/proc filesystem" to anybody? After all, it is very similar to the Registry in some functions...
Hell, many GUI locks on XP can be averted if you have terminal services running and want to login and poke around.
Actually, the usual case is that the "Windows Security" dialog (with task manager, etc) is tied to the ctrl-alt-del keyboard interrupt, and is available about 99% of the time, even when you've hosed the GUI.
While this reeks "video driver" to me as a windows/linux user, APPLE MAKES THE DAMN HARDWARE... one would think they could avert things like this easily since they have very fine control over everything.
Apple and Linux are really lagging behind in the recovery area... when X gets hosed, it usually takes the console keyboard with it. Now Linux has support for that "Magic sysrq key" thingee if you compile it into the kernel to do things like reboot, but it would be great if you could do that, and it would spawn another virtual console running top or something.
Not everyone has a second computer they can ssh in from, let alone the fact that you're running sshd or not.
Sorry, the ACLU is too busy making sure the freedoms of pedophile groups isn't suppressed. I can't make shit like this up.
I get all my political news from BroadbandReports.com --- accept no substitutes!
Here you go.
When saving, choose "Web Page, Filtered" in the "File Type" drop-down.
"Saving Doc1.htm in this format (Web Page, Filtered) will remove Office-specific tags. Some Office features may not be available when you reopen this page. Do you want to save the document in this format?"And that, folks, is today's Office lesson of the day.
But since Windows and Office both give you 30 days until you need to activate, your "finding yourself on the phone w/ product activation" argument falls apart. Also, in most cases you just activate over the internet which just takes mere seconds so I don't really see where the big problem is. It's not really an inconveience either.
You probably need to map your TEMP environment variable.
Are you Icelandic or retarded?
The instant I saw the "Thank you for activating" message come up, I was so pissed that I just hung up on him. The incompetence of the rep just killed me.
I would have to agree that I had a more intellectually stimulating conversation ordering a cheeseburger at McDonalds yesterday than talking with their phone reps.
It's actually in a database file, not the registry... see my other post.
I think the difference with XP is that it generates the same hardware hash each time you install it if you haven't changed too much stuff, so it let's you re-activate w/o problems. Also, XP stores its data in %SystemRoot%\System32\wpa.dbl, NOT in the HDD's boot record (!)... the neat thing about this is you can just save this file if you are reinstalling/reformatting and just recover it next time and skip activation altogether.
Although I'll admit the activation isn't foolproof... it threw an "I don't think so Tim" at me last time I reinstalled, which meant I had to call MS. It's surprisingly a no-questions asked phone call... pretty much:
"Is this the only computer you're running this copy of XP on?"
"Yeah."
"OK here is your 10000-digit long cd key..."
Isn't this the shite that flipped a bit in the HDD boot record (in an unused area, of course) to show that it was "activated"?
Lack of native popup blocking.
I think they can't include that cause of the whole "monopoly" thing...
Funny because it's true.
On the OSS side of things, this should be a (small) boon to projects like Konq and Mozilla that aren't going to require all the online applications and plugins to be re-coded.
Yeah, wait till the Mozilla project and AOL/Netscape is sued over this. Then you'll have your proverbial open-source foot in your mouth.
Oh yeah, black helicopters!
Seriously, Slashdot seems to have no problem stifling technology when it gives rise to insane, improbable conspiracy theories.