However, it would be a barrier to the defendant from being able to travel to/do business in Australia. ISTR that Australia is pretty anal about letting people with any kind of conviction (even one in a foreign country) into the country, which is ironic considering its colonial roots... --
I assume the non-standard power connectors are due to Athlons being such power-hungry beasts, so they need more power, which a standard ATX PS can't support.
That said, it's still a pain that you have to have a new PS for the MB. --
Nothing against AMD, but for servers, I'd wait a couple of month to make sure there aren't any 'gotchas' in the new systems. Given the delays in shipping, I'm assuming(hoping?) that AMD have waited until they ironed out all the problems before releasing, but it's still largely untested in the wild.
That said, I'm glad to see extra competition in the marketplace; CPU power has ramped up considerably since the Athlon debued and gave Intel a scare.
Also, I'll probably end up buying a 760MP fairly soon:) --
You really don't want to spin down all disks, as that can cause extra wear & tear, reducing the drive's lifetime. Well, certainly, you don't want to have disks starting and stopping constantly.
As for getting a solid state disk, why? You'd be best off just buying more RAM for probable less money and better performance. These days, you don't need swap space unless you want crash dump analysis. Ideally, you should never swap, with everything being held in RAM. --
Haven't we already figured out that "security through obscurity" doesn't work? Even hiding it away, the resourceful terrorists (ie, the ones we should be scared about) will find it anyway. If it's hidden away, it's less likely to be well protected and therefore easier to steal. --
McAfee is a dream to administer for updates; at my old work, I grabbed the updates nightly from NAI's web site onto the local FTP server (NB: don't try to use 'mirror' for this, as the MS FTP server doesn't work in way mirror expects). Then, all the clients would check overnight for updates and automatically install them. Also, the system had a 'window' it would try to do the updates in, so they didn't all go to the FTP server at the same time!
After spending a couple of days on getting the installer working (it also comes with an installer creator which will automatically put all the install options in), I never had to touch the clients and they were always kept up to date. Not bad for over 250 workstations! --
I just moved from a University sysadmin post to working as a Unix project engineer (various people will say I'm not a real engineer, but that's my job title, and it explains what I do).
What this involves is stuff like an admin does (ie, setting up systems, installing software), but doesn't have the same level of support that you may expect in a normal sysadmin post. Plus I don't have to do on-call stuff!
Oh, and since this is as a contractor in an oil company, the pay has increased dramatically!:) --
FWIW, Redhat do still release Sparc patches; I saw an announcement on BUGTRAQ today where they were releasing a GNUPG patch for RH5.2 for sparc.
With regards to automatic patching, how would you feel about updating patches on 100 machines? How about 1000? Fact is, admins don't want to have to manually log in to hundreds of machines to apply patches, so an automatic roll-out is the way to go. --
There are different techniques for finding plagiarism. I used to work at a University where they used a program to scan Java source files for plagiarism.
What it did was to concatenate the whole thing into a stream of data; it stripped out comments, indentation, spacing etc. In short, you had a line of elements (it didn't even bother about variable names, so changing 'int i' to 'int x' wouldn't bypass the system). Then, it looked for commonality with other submissions. If a stream of elements of a certain length matched another submission, it flagged it up as a potential plagiarism.
Very smart and it caught a few people out, despite them having been warned that electronic means were going to be employed. I actually took the course that semester and it was pretty obvious to the lecturer I hadn't plagiarised; I was using C style coding stuff (I think I embedded a calculation in an if statement, IIRC) which he hadn't taught:) --
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why Magnequench has chosen this time to sue
It's something I keep feeling when I see this kind of lawsuit; why wait until now, unless it's to let it become the "standard" and then grab all the royalties they can? Much the same thing happened with GIF images. They became the de facto standard for web pages then suddenly Unisys started enforcing the LZW patent.
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That's a point; we have this accumulated pile of GPL'd code which you can use if you're willing to let your derived work be GPL'd as well. If you don't want to live with a GPL'd product for your effort, find the code elsewhere.
On the flip side, you have this accumulated pile of MS code (xx million lines in Win2K + Office, + others) which you can't see, unless you agree not to use it without, I would assume, a hefty licence fee to be paid. If you don't want to live with paying the vendor money, find the code elsewhere.
This is why I believe DeCSS should ultimately win out. There is a valid reason why it should be allowed (to whit, allowing users to view DVD's in open source OS's).
However, I don't believe that copying DVD's for piracy should be allowed, which is what I think the MPAA et al are worried about. The trouble is, as it says in the article, the pirates just do a bit-to-bit copy and DeCSS doesn't come into it. Where the internet comes in is that an unencoded DVD is simple an mpeg file which could be transferred across the internet. While current network bandwidth's aren't large enough to cope, it wasn't that long ago that trading music on the 'net wasn't a viable option but Napster has proven that it can work now. Give it a few years, and unencrypted DVD on the net will become comparitively commonplace.
However, even if they manage to band DeCSS, there will still be ways to grab the film and encode as an mpeg; all you need to do is put a filter between the app and the screen to capture the output. You'll miss out on the extras (subtitles etc), but you'd miss that with a decrypted mpeg anyway. The alternative is, of course, DVD images (similar to.iso images) which, again, don't use DeCSS.
With some luck, the judges will realise that piracy of DVD's will happen with or without DeCSS and they'll throw it out. --
Pam_smb is good (we used it at my old work to save an extra password; we used Samba to share files from Unix to NT and didn't want another password), but you do have to create a Unix user (eg, under NIS) as it needs that information for home directory, uid, gid etc.
Winbind sounds like it's the solution to that problem... --
Not least of its advantages are that it's cross platform. You can run the same perl program (with only a few caveats) on Solaris, linux, Windows, OS/2 and even DOS.
Apart from that, the mindshare of perl is not insignificant. Chances are, someone's had the same problem you're trying to address so you might be able to find a ready-made solution already. --
This was given an error, but there are problems. Try doing an apt-get install task-kde out of unstable ATM; it's missing klisa which is listed as a dependancy but isn't on the site. Yes, I have done apt-get update, and it's still broken. It could just be the mirror I'm connecting to hasn't updated, but it's a little frustrating:)
That said, apt-get is a damn fine tool and has made my life very easy for keeping up to date.
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Well, something like this should add some useful features. Something that Windows has long had (well, since 95, anyway) is an integrated feel; stuff can be hooked into explorer so that on a right click, you can get file properties, security information etc while your virus scanner can hook into this as well. As another example, it's trivial to add a web share under NT/IIS compared to Apache (the merits of Apache/IIS are another matter entirely which I'm ignoring here).
The trouble with X-windows has been that there is no standard for this; an app vendor would have to create a hook for WindowMaker, fvwm, KDE and GNOME; if a user had a different file manager, the plugin would have to be created for that as well. I'm guessing the Nautilus authors hope to bypass this and make a standard so that the "average user" (whatever the hell that is) can work with linux as easily as Windows/MacOS.
Those of us who want to use linux for servers simply don't install it, much like we'd probably like to remove the GUI from NT... --
Urm, anyone else have problems with games which will only work on one console? What happens if your PS/2 breaks/gets stolen/has your 3 year-old put cornflakes in it? You then have a very expensive frisbee....
It will also kill the second user market for games, but then, that's probably what they want... --
My personal preference is for PostgreSQL, but that's more because it's what I used first (no, I don't want a flamewar between mysql/PostgreSQL/whatever; it's been done to death already).
However, there's still a lot you can do very easily with PHP and a DB backend, whether it's Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL. We've got stuff like a web-based coursework submissions system I hacked together using PHP and Postgres. PHP is a damn good language and very easy to learn if you've had any exposure to perl; a lot of the syntax and usage is similar, even easier under PHP. --
Yeah, it's one of the things I turn off as well. The main reason is that it obscures whether that "Notepad document" is actually.txt,.log or.cfg as they all have the same icon and description. It's also a git where there are 4 files with the same name; foobar.exe foobar.dll foobar.ini and foobar.ico all appear as foobar, making it difficult to differentiate between them. --
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However, it would be a barrier to the defendant from being able to travel to/do business in Australia. ISTR that Australia is pretty anal about letting people with any kind of conviction (even one in a foreign country) into the country, which is ironic considering its colonial roots...
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Then again, is that really being reduced? *ponder*
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That said, it's still a pain that you have to have a new PS for the MB.
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That said, I'm glad to see extra competition in the marketplace; CPU power has ramped up considerably since the Athlon debued and gave Intel a scare.
Also, I'll probably end up buying a 760MP fairly soon :)
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As for getting a solid state disk, why? You'd be best off just buying more RAM for probable less money and better performance. These days, you don't need swap space unless you want crash dump analysis. Ideally, you should never swap, with everything being held in RAM.
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Haven't we already figured out that "security through obscurity" doesn't work? Even hiding it away, the resourceful terrorists (ie, the ones we should be scared about) will find it anyway. If it's hidden away, it's less likely to be well protected and therefore easier to steal.
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After spending a couple of days on getting the installer working (it also comes with an installer creator which will automatically put all the install options in), I never had to touch the clients and they were always kept up to date. Not bad for over 250 workstations!
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I wonder if anyone will really mod this up as 'interesting'? :)
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What this involves is stuff like an admin does (ie, setting up systems, installing software), but doesn't have the same level of support that you may expect in a normal sysadmin post. Plus I don't have to do on-call stuff!
Oh, and since this is as a contractor in an oil company, the pay has increased dramatically! :)
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With regards to automatic patching, how would you feel about updating patches on 100 machines? How about 1000? Fact is, admins don't want to have to manually log in to hundreds of machines to apply patches, so an automatic roll-out is the way to go.
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Well, at least until you get the fire extinguisher...
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What it did was to concatenate the whole thing into a stream of data; it stripped out comments, indentation, spacing etc. In short, you had a line of elements (it didn't even bother about variable names, so changing 'int i' to 'int x' wouldn't bypass the system). Then, it looked for commonality with other submissions. If a stream of elements of a certain length matched another submission, it flagged it up as a potential plagiarism.
Very smart and it caught a few people out, despite them having been warned that electronic means were going to be employed. I actually took the course that semester and it was pretty obvious to the lecturer I hadn't plagiarised; I was using C style coding stuff (I think I embedded a calculation in an if statement, IIRC) which he hadn't taught :)
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Of course, in this case, it's fairly easy to argue that the companies named could have managed a patent search before using the technology.
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On the flip side, you have this accumulated pile of MS code (xx million lines in Win2K + Office, + others) which you can't see, unless you agree not to use it without, I would assume, a hefty licence fee to be paid. If you don't want to live with paying the vendor money, find the code elsewhere.
Hrm, finding a trend here, aren't we? :)
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However, I don't believe that copying DVD's for piracy should be allowed, which is what I think the MPAA et al are worried about. The trouble is, as it says in the article, the pirates just do a bit-to-bit copy and DeCSS doesn't come into it. Where the internet comes in is that an unencoded DVD is simple an mpeg file which could be transferred across the internet. While current network bandwidth's aren't large enough to cope, it wasn't that long ago that trading music on the 'net wasn't a viable option but Napster has proven that it can work now. Give it a few years, and unencrypted DVD on the net will become comparitively commonplace.
However, even if they manage to band DeCSS, there will still be ways to grab the film and encode as an mpeg; all you need to do is put a filter between the app and the screen to capture the output. You'll miss out on the extras (subtitles etc), but you'd miss that with a decrypted mpeg anyway. The alternative is, of course, DVD images (similar to .iso images) which, again, don't use DeCSS.
With some luck, the judges will realise that piracy of DVD's will happen with or without DeCSS and they'll throw it out.
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Winbind sounds like it's the solution to that problem...
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Apart from that, the mindshare of perl is not insignificant. Chances are, someone's had the same problem you're trying to address so you might be able to find a ready-made solution already.
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That said, apt-get is a damn fine tool and has made my life very easy for keeping up to date.
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Because they were suspended for a site with derogatory remarks about the school. Read the article...
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The trouble with X-windows has been that there is no standard for this; an app vendor would have to create a hook for WindowMaker, fvwm, KDE and GNOME; if a user had a different file manager, the plugin would have to be created for that as well. I'm guessing the Nautilus authors hope to bypass this and make a standard so that the "average user" (whatever the hell that is) can work with linux as easily as Windows/MacOS.
Those of us who want to use linux for servers simply don't install it, much like we'd probably like to remove the GUI from NT...
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It will also kill the second user market for games, but then, that's probably what they want...
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However, there's still a lot you can do very easily with PHP and a DB backend, whether it's Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL. We've got stuff like a web-based coursework submissions system I hacked together using PHP and Postgres. PHP is a damn good language and very easy to learn if you've had any exposure to perl; a lot of the syntax and usage is similar, even easier under PHP.
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Yeah, it's one of the things I turn off as well. The main reason is that it obscures whether that "Notepad document" is actually .txt, .log or .cfg as they all have the same icon and description. It's also a git where there are 4 files with the same name; foobar.exe foobar.dll foobar.ini and foobar.ico all appear as foobar, making it difficult to differentiate between them.
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Let's see if another week's delay will happen...:)
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