...but chances are somebody is going to want to borrow your external drive/get data off of it that is a Windows user
That is one circumstance I do not want to see. If any Windows users are trying to get data off my drives, I'm being hacked.
But getting back to your earlier point, UFS is more problematic than HFS+, because it only has read-only support on Linux. FAT32/NTFS are useless because they trash any Unix permissions.
It must be discouraged since it will corrupt any system.
A simple way to defuse that would be to not personally keep the money, but to contribute it to whatever lottery syndicate your office runs. That way there's something in it for everybody, and no whiff of corruption on your part.
...like locking the volume on their machine at max and setting their screensaver to play "badger badger mushroom mushroom" after 30 seconds' inactivity. If anyone calls to complain, just tell them that it doesn't do that if they keep working... >:-D
Well, I hope they work something out. I've been looking for a good cross-platform filesystem to work between my Mac and Linux boxes; at the moment I'm using HFS+ but am not entirely happy with the way it u/mounts on Linux after having been written by OS X. I've seen suggestions to use NTFS, but that doesn't do proper *nix permissions.
Didn't your mother ever teach you to not use a $20 word where a $5 word will do?;)
Nonsense. There is absolutely nothing wrong with improving the vocabulary of preliterate Slashdot readers, and the practice should be actively encouraged.
We see far too much of the "This is Spot. See Spot run." type of narrative in most text these days (actively encouraged by MBAs with an excessive tendency towards Powerpointisation and the attention span of a flea), and there is no reason to apologise for enriching others' lives with interesting language.
In fact, I would suggest that it would be beneficial to everybody to spend at least an hour or so every so often reading some really great poetry (John Donne comes uppermost in my mind, but whatever rocks one's boat). And no, I don't mean as part of any school curriculum (unless you want to): if it isn't done for "fun", there is absolutely no point in it.
I wasn't. At least not in particular. I was merely raising the point that the Japanese are not the only perverse people in this world. And I was deliberately steering clear of cultural norms by relating the issue to the subjection of someone who is not in a position to retaliate.
Why is there such huge demand for this perverse behavior in Japan?
Hmmm. Japan doesn't have a monopoly on perversity. American Idol, Australian Idol, Britain's Got Talent come to mind. Capitalising on humiliation and misery is arguably a form of rape, and I've only scratched the surface with what I know of those shows...
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Windows could take on board one thing from From Unix and be a much better product as a result: as David Korn (of ksh fame) says in TFA: "One of the hallmarks of Unix was that tools could be written, and better tools could replace them... It wasn't some monolith where you had to buy into everything; you could actually develop better versions.". Microsoft has a lot to learn. The progress from 1980's DOS to today's offering is pretty sad.
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I wondered how long it would be before some idiot posted a link to the Unix Hater's Handbook. Obviously even less time than I thought...
Correction to self: KC were not active (AFAIK) between 1984 and 1994, so I guess that makes 30 years. My bad. My favourites were the first two albums, In the Court of the Crimson King and In the Wake of Poseidon but that might be my nostalgia speaking...
Six months? May be it's just me but that is a lot of interest in an album... ATM, my music "library" has 13 artists for a grand total of 7 GB (half of it is King Crimson).
Make up your mind! King Crimson has been active for something like 40 years, and Robert Fripp has been prolific outside the context of that band for years. If you are discerning enough to download their work, why throw it away? And if you like it, why not let them have some royalties for their work?
I can just about understand not wanting to buy a CD if you only like one track, and I can even understand not wanting to pay for a single track if you're only half-enthusiastic about it.
But if you like a band enough to download 7GB of their work, why begrudge them a modest return for their work?
No useful comparison with China applies in any case. Sure, China has a big workforce, but their record for producing quality software (or any other products for that matter) is not good.
As soon as prople start to see dialog boxes saying things like "Data all gone. Gone away. Remove lice from drive and Crick OK", Microsoft will suddenly find they don't have any customers.
I've become more less familiar with the white-on-white titlebars for posts, but a new feature I seem to be getting is this sort of grey widget-like hoverbar that doesn't seem to do anything. Or is that just me?
Fortunately, it appears to be fixable in the same way, by clicking "change" at the top (without setting new thresholds), but perhaps it's a symptom of entropy setting in...
I don't think so. Everybody's lost interest. Chrome might have been interesting if Google had bothered to include the rest of the community from the start, but it's too late now.
Trouble is, there is still a surprisingly large number of banks who still insist that customers use Windows boxes to access internet banking. I have several friends who have been caught out and ripped off, despite having taken what they thought to be reasonable precautions re. keeping their anti-virus software up to date.
Fortunately, most banks here (Australia) now seem have to become OS-agnostic, but this wasn't the case as little as 5 years ago.
My own feeling is that an operating system with such an extensive and comprehensive record of being compromised has no business being used to handle critical data. And no amount of bleating about how "Linux doesn't have the customer-base to attract malefactors yet" suffices as an excuse. The simple fact is that Linux (or BSD, OS X or any other *nix) have had the benefit of some 30 years of hardening up security, and all of them are now pretty damn good by default. Microsoft doesn't seem to really care that their products have more holes than a Swiss cheese, and appear to be perfectly content to allow others to maintain security.
In any case, the more common exploit is to add an often cunningly-designed and plausible device outside the slot to skim data on the magstripe, in combination with a camera to record PINs.
This has the advantage (to the thief) of being OS-agnostic, and requires no access to the back of the cabinet.
We've recently had a rash of them around where I live, which is why I now mask my PIN by holding my large clutch-wallet over my hand to hide keystrokes from camera access. So far, so good; we work with (or against) the technology that we have.
That isn't really relevant. Sure, you might be speculating on the value of those stocks, but while you hold them you have a commitment to the future of that company. What we are talking about here is a situation where someone deliberately asserts a claim to something he has no intention of ever owning, just to extort money from legitimate enterprises.
It's not just "jackassery," it's also harmful to society at large!
That actually makes sense. What cybersquatters are doing is acting as parasites. Parasites contribute nothing, and usually the only ways to kill them are to poison or starve them. In this case, it is unfortunately illegal to poison the jerkwad, but we can starve him by letting him buy up domains and not pay him one cent.
If the exercise ends up costing him more money than it brings in, then his enterprise (for want of a less polite description) will die. And good riddance.
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Fuck this shit. Going back to Windows.
No-one will miss you.
Hmm, let me see: Nerd I'd Like to Fuck? Nope, doesn't do it for me.
...but chances are somebody is going to want to borrow your external drive/get data off of it that is a Windows user
That is one circumstance I do not want to see. If any Windows users are trying to get data off my drives, I'm being hacked.
But getting back to your earlier point, UFS is more problematic than HFS+, because it only has read-only support on Linux. FAT32/NTFS are useless because they trash any Unix permissions.
It must be discouraged since it will corrupt any system.
A simple way to defuse that would be to not personally keep the money, but to contribute it to whatever lottery syndicate your office runs. That way there's something in it for everybody, and no whiff of corruption on your part.
Sometimes terrorism works...
...like locking the volume on their machine at max and setting their screensaver to play "badger badger mushroom mushroom" after 30 seconds' inactivity. If anyone calls to complain, just tell them that it doesn't do that if they keep working... >:-D
either re-branded or forked by Apple
Well, I hope they work something out. I've been looking for a good cross-platform filesystem to work between my Mac and Linux boxes; at the moment I'm using HFS+ but am not entirely happy with the way it u/mounts on Linux after having been written by OS X. I've seen suggestions to use NTFS, but that doesn't do proper *nix permissions.
It's all about twitter
Twittering is something twits do.
Is this the kind of idiot we're handing out degrees to these days?
Never mind. One should probably remind you of the Chinese Relativity Theorem:
No matter how stupendous your triumphs, or how abject your defeats, there are always approximately two billion Chinese who couldn't give a fuck.
Didn't your mother ever teach you to not use a $20 word where a $5 word will do? ;)
Nonsense. There is absolutely nothing wrong with improving the vocabulary of preliterate Slashdot readers, and the practice should be actively encouraged.
We see far too much of the "This is Spot. See Spot run." type of narrative in most text these days (actively encouraged by MBAs with an excessive tendency towards Powerpointisation and the attention span of a flea), and there is no reason to apologise for enriching others' lives with interesting language.
In fact, I would suggest that it would be beneficial to everybody to spend at least an hour or so every so often reading some really great poetry (John Donne comes uppermost in my mind, but whatever rocks one's boat). And no, I don't mean as part of any school curriculum (unless you want to): if it isn't done for "fun", there is absolutely no point in it.
But if you're talking about the US
I wasn't. At least not in particular. I was merely raising the point that the Japanese are not the only perverse people in this world. And I was deliberately steering clear of cultural norms by relating the issue to the subjection of someone who is not in a position to retaliate.
Why is there such huge demand for this perverse behavior in Japan?
Hmmm. Japan doesn't have a monopoly on perversity. American Idol, Australian Idol, Britain's Got Talent come to mind. Capitalising on humiliation and misery is arguably a form of rape, and I've only scratched the surface with what I know of those shows...
Windows could take on board one thing from From Unix and be a much better product as a result: as David Korn (of ksh fame) says in TFA: "One of the hallmarks of Unix was that tools could be written, and better tools could replace them... It wasn't some monolith where you had to buy into everything; you could actually develop better versions.". Microsoft has a lot to learn. The progress from 1980's DOS to today's offering is pretty sad.
I wondered how long it would be before some idiot posted a link to the Unix Hater's Handbook. Obviously even less time than I thought...
A small correction to the submission:
;-)
Multics was believed to have stood for "Many Unnecessarily Large Tables In Core Simultaneously".
Correction to self: KC were not active (AFAIK) between 1984 and 1994, so I guess that makes 30 years. My bad. My favourites were the first two albums, In the Court of the Crimson King and In the Wake of Poseidon but that might be my nostalgia speaking...
Oh, and yes, of course 1/2 of 7GB is 3.5GB...
Six months? May be it's just me but that is a lot of interest in an album... ATM, my music "library" has 13 artists for a grand total of 7 GB (half of it is King Crimson).
Make up your mind! King Crimson has been active for something like 40 years, and Robert Fripp has been prolific outside the context of that band for years. If you are discerning enough to download their work, why throw it away? And if you like it, why not let them have some royalties for their work?
I can just about understand not wanting to buy a CD if you only like one track, and I can even understand not wanting to pay for a single track if you're only half-enthusiastic about it.
But if you like a band enough to download 7GB of their work, why begrudge them a modest return for their work?
No useful comparison with China applies in any case. Sure, China has a big workforce, but their record for producing quality software (or any other products for that matter) is not good.
As soon as prople start to see dialog boxes saying things like "Data all gone. Gone away. Remove lice from drive and Crick OK", Microsoft will suddenly find they don't have any customers.
All gone. Gone away.
...but becoming more relevant to /. in general:
I've become more less familiar with the white-on-white titlebars for posts, but a new feature I seem to be getting is this sort of grey widget-like hoverbar that doesn't seem to do anything. Or is that just me?
Fortunately, it appears to be fixable in the same way, by clicking "change" at the top (without setting new thresholds), but perhaps it's a symptom of entropy setting in...
Check out Stainless for Leopard...
I don't think so. Everybody's lost interest. Chrome might have been interesting if Google had bothered to include the rest of the community from the start, but it's too late now.
Hmmm. I wonder what imaginary property smells like... ;-)
Well, I guess an obvious way around it might be a liberal sprinkling of chilli powder. Or maybe soak the discs in laksa or something...
Oh damn, it wouldn't work. My dogs like curry...
Trouble is, there is still a surprisingly large number of banks who still insist that customers use Windows boxes to access internet banking. I have several friends who have been caught out and ripped off, despite having taken what they thought to be reasonable precautions re. keeping their anti-virus software up to date.
Fortunately, most banks here (Australia) now seem have to become OS-agnostic, but this wasn't the case as little as 5 years ago.
My own feeling is that an operating system with such an extensive and comprehensive record of being compromised has no business being used to handle critical data. And no amount of bleating about how "Linux doesn't have the customer-base to attract malefactors yet" suffices as an excuse. The simple fact is that Linux (or BSD, OS X or any other *nix) have had the benefit of some 30 years of hardening up security, and all of them are now pretty damn good by default. Microsoft doesn't seem to really care that their products have more holes than a Swiss cheese, and appear to be perfectly content to allow others to maintain security.
Who should we trust?
In any case, the more common exploit is to add an often cunningly-designed and plausible device outside the slot to skim data on the magstripe, in combination with a camera to record PINs.
This has the advantage (to the thief) of being OS-agnostic, and requires no access to the back of the cabinet.
We've recently had a rash of them around where I live, which is why I now mask my PIN by holding my large clutch-wallet over my hand to hide keystrokes from camera access. So far, so good; we work with (or against) the technology that we have.
Ever traded stocks?
That isn't really relevant. Sure, you might be speculating on the value of those stocks, but while you hold them you have a commitment to the future of that company. What we are talking about here is a situation where someone deliberately asserts a claim to something he has no intention of ever owning, just to extort money from legitimate enterprises.
It's not just "jackassery," it's also harmful to society at large!
That actually makes sense. What cybersquatters are doing is acting as parasites. Parasites contribute nothing, and usually the only ways to kill them are to poison or starve them. In this case, it is unfortunately illegal to poison the jerkwad, but we can starve him by letting him buy up domains and not pay him one cent.
If the exercise ends up costing him more money than it brings in, then his enterprise (for want of a less polite description) will die. And good riddance.