I have no idea about Windows NT, but "real" operating systems of yore such as Honeywell's ancient GCOS (usually referred to as God's Chosen Operating System) back in the late 70s and early 80s, PRIME's PRIMOS (1980s) and Data General's AOS/VS (1980s) and AOS/VS2 (early 1990s) all had effective implementations of ACLs. Nothing new here.
I've started getting nasty about Word attachments. I've set up my mail transport agent to send automatically send spurious responses to messages with.doc attachments with a polite policy message to the effect that their attachment had been rejected as being prepared with potentially insecure and malicious code, and if they care to send it in a sensible format I might deign to read it. If the sender isn't in my whitelist, I just consign it to the spam bin. Saves a lot of time, and some people have got the message. And if they don't get the message, I don't much care if I don't hear from them.
I waw the article at New Scientist earlier yesterday, and my immediate reaction was the thought "and this is news?". Let's face it, anybody who has ever run a.doc file through a hex dump or even a text editor (this is not new) should be aware that there's a lot more information than appears on the screen in MS Word. And I fail to see how Microsoft's incorporating DRM into their files is going to improve matters. Their claim that all the editing history being present in the file is "useful" is specious. It is only useful to someone who wants to spy on you.
Damn. I apologise for the solecism of replying to myself, but the HP48 emulator is not (IIRC) based on GTK, it uses its own widget set. However, there is a GTK version called (I think) grpn or something like that. Google should find it.
Try visiting hpcalc.org. There's a sweet GTK-based HP48 emulator there - or there was last time I looked. Since I got rid of my HP48G+, I haven't really kept in touch with developments there.
Unfortunately, looking at latest development versions, probably not. I'm a big fan of Gnome, but some apps have not really shown much of an improvement from a user's point of view. Dunno about RedHat, though; I use Dropline Gnome on Slackware.
Many lectures? That's your first mistake. You should be concentrating on getting something done.
I'm a student. If I don't turn up to lectures, I fail. A course involving a heap of laboratory work can't be done by correspondence. Simple as that.
So because the Windows folks fumble and futz just as much as the Mac folks when under the hot lights and the pressure's on, they're OK?
Read The F. Post, you fool. I said the exact opposite.
Sure there isn't just a teensy little platform bias
I don't see why. I don't have a problem with anyone using OSX or any other MacOS. Hell, they can use DOS for all I care, if it gets the job done. I don't think my Unix skills are in any danger of being relagated to history any time soon, but that doesn't mean I am so devoted to it that I won't consider better alternatives if they turn up.
Maybe. I'm not a Mac user, since Linux fulfils my specialised needs (scientific apps) very well. Until recently, I have been happy to give Mac zealots the benefit of the doubt when they claim everything "just works".
Over the last few months, though, I have attended many lectures where the various speakers, using a variety of applications managed to make a total cockup of their presentations (since they mostly failed to have any overhead transparencies as a backup). I have no problem with that kind of thing happening once in a while, but when these bozos gave the gall to insist that their stupid Macs are the only good solution for such-and-such, it makes me very tired. Sitting there for fifteen to twenty minutes at a time while the lecturer farts around resizing windows in futile attempts to bring up the widget they need to click to make it all "just work" is pretty frustrating if it happens several times a day.
Whereas a lot Windows users seem quite happy to admit that they're totally clueless, and manage to get the job done anyhow.
You don't need a body-builder to do that. My dog can clear a room in 15 seconds flat, and I don't need to feed him on a diet of anabolic steroids:-). Just plain old PAL does the trick.
I'd rather see IBM send in the attack lawyers in the black limos (their version of the black helicopters)...
Personally, I don't care how they do it. I just wish they would get a move on. SCO are behaving like brats, and anyone who can succeed in squashing them like the cockroaches that they are will be doing us all a favour.
Well I'm well and truly from the Mainframe world, and I wouldn't have known about S0C1. But then there are more mainframe platforms in this world than IBM, no matter what the latter try to tell us.
If they didn't know to patch against that (and how old is it?) why would you think that they know to patch against this?
I know plenty of Windows users (call them what you will) who never update or patch, but just go with what they got on their install CD. I think they must be under the impression that the fact that they have a CD-ROM in their hands somehow makes the software it contains inviolable and immutable.
Trouble is, it's hard to point this out (no matter how gently) without being dismissed as just being a zealot for "that" other operating system.
Never mind being intimidated by other students... I have the feeling that despite the many big-brother tactics being gleefully endorsed by our government here in Australia, images of teachers and students being recorded would lead to a lot of concerns amongst the anti-paedophilia lobby. Recording images of schoolkids (whether indecent or otherwise) is attracting quite a lot of media attention at the moment, and this would fuel the controversy.
I don't know what credentials this Paul Graham has, but I believe common sense might not be one of them.
Given that a lot of the URLs in spam mail are tokens to inform the spammer's server that your email address is a valid hit, it seems to me that the only result of following all the URLS would be more spam.
Also, he forgets that many people do not have permanent broadband connections, and may take hours or days to fire up their email client. Any "pounding" of the spammer's server is going to be puny indeed.
What's so obnoxious about the GPL? It seems to me that Mr. William Gates has the world convinced that the GPL is viral, immoral or otherwise indecent. Why is everybody getting sucked in by his bullshit?
Yes, I know. You can do something similar with lprng, but that isn't what I was talking about. I don't have Windows on any of my own computers, but one thing that is nice about "that" interface is the ease with which it is possible to change these preferences on the fly. Or off him, for that matter:-)
My first (and worst) agony was getting an on-board SiS AGP driver to work properly with kernel 2.0.something. It helped when the motherboard blew up and I had a good reason to get a real graphics card:-).
Huh. That's what they used to say about IBM. Funny thing is: many years ago, I knew this IT manager working at a major Burroughs site in London who did get fired just for suggesting that they buy IBM. Served him right...:-)
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I have no idea about Windows NT, but "real" operating systems of yore such as Honeywell's ancient GCOS (usually referred to as God's Chosen Operating System) back in the late 70s and early 80s, PRIME's PRIMOS (1980s) and Data General's AOS/VS (1980s) and AOS/VS2 (early 1990s) all had effective implementations of ACLs. Nothing new here.
I've started getting nasty about Word attachments. I've set up my mail transport agent to send automatically send spurious responses to messages with .doc attachments with a polite policy message to the effect that their attachment had been rejected as being prepared with potentially insecure and malicious code, and if they care to send it in a sensible format I might deign to read it. If the sender isn't in my whitelist, I just consign it to the spam bin. Saves a lot of time, and some people have got the message. And if they don't get the message, I don't much care if I don't hear from them.
I waw the article at New Scientist earlier yesterday, and my immediate reaction was the thought "and this is news?". Let's face it, anybody who has ever run a .doc file through a hex dump or even a text editor (this is not new) should be aware that there's a lot more information than appears on the screen in MS Word. And I fail to see how Microsoft's incorporating DRM into their files is going to improve matters. Their claim that all the editing history being present in the file is "useful" is specious. It is only useful to someone who wants to spy on you.
Damn. I apologise for the solecism of replying to myself, but the HP48 emulator is not (IIRC) based on GTK, it uses its own widget set. However, there is a GTK version called (I think) grpn or something like that. Google should find it.
Try visiting hpcalc.org. There's a sweet GTK-based HP48 emulator there - or there was last time I looked. Since I got rid of my HP48G+, I haven't really kept in touch with developments there.
Unfortunately, looking at latest development versions, probably not. I'm a big fan of Gnome, but some apps have not really shown much of an improvement from a user's point of view. Dunno about RedHat, though; I use Dropline Gnome on Slackware.
Many lectures? That's your first mistake. You should be concentrating on getting something done.
I'm a student. If I don't turn up to lectures, I fail. A course involving a heap of laboratory work can't be done by correspondence. Simple as that.
So because the Windows folks fumble and futz just as much as the Mac folks when under the hot lights and the pressure's on, they're OK?
Read The F. Post, you fool. I said the exact opposite.
Sure there isn't just a teensy little platform bias
I don't see why. I don't have a problem with anyone using OSX or any other MacOS. Hell, they can use DOS for all I care, if it gets the job done. I don't think my Unix skills are in any danger of being relagated to history any time soon, but that doesn't mean I am so devoted to it that I won't consider better alternatives if they turn up.
Over the last few months, though, I have attended many lectures where the various speakers, using a variety of applications managed to make a total cockup of their presentations (since they mostly failed to have any overhead transparencies as a backup). I have no problem with that kind of thing happening once in a while, but when these bozos gave the gall to insist that their stupid Macs are the only good solution for such-and-such, it makes me very tired. Sitting there for fifteen to twenty minutes at a time while the lecturer farts around resizing windows in futile attempts to bring up the widget they need to click to make it all "just work" is pretty frustrating if it happens several times a day.
Whereas a lot Windows users seem quite happy to admit that they're totally clueless, and manage to get the job done anyhow.
"Britain and America are two great nations divided by a common language"
It wasn't for Ronnie Raygun anyway. Sorry, I forgot, none of the /. crowd are old enough to remember him :-|.
You don't need a body-builder to do that. My dog can clear a room in 15 seconds flat, and I don't need to feed him on a diet of anabolic steroids :-). Just plain old PAL does the trick.
Personally, I don't care how they do it. I just wish they would get a move on. SCO are behaving like brats, and anyone who can succeed in squashing them like the cockroaches that they are will be doing us all a favour.
Well I'm well and truly from the Mainframe world, and I wouldn't have known about S0C1. But then there are more mainframe platforms in this world than IBM, no matter what the latter try to tell us.
Me too. And Slackware turned 10 just under a month ago :-)
I know plenty of Windows users (call them what you will) who never update or patch, but just go with what they got on their install CD. I think they must be under the impression that the fact that they have a CD-ROM in their hands somehow makes the software it contains inviolable and immutable.
Trouble is, it's hard to point this out (no matter how gently) without being dismissed as just being a zealot for "that" other operating system.
But hell, T3's worn out already. I saw it on DVD 3 weeks before the movie was released, but it really wasn't worth the bother of ripping it...
Never mind being intimidated by other students... I have the feeling that despite the many big-brother tactics being gleefully endorsed by our government here in Australia, images of teachers and students being recorded would lead to a lot of concerns amongst the anti-paedophilia lobby. Recording images of schoolkids (whether indecent or otherwise) is attracting quite a lot of media attention at the moment, and this would fuel the controversy.
Given that a lot of the URLs in spam mail are tokens to inform the spammer's server that your email address is a valid hit, it seems to me that the only result of following all the URLS would be more spam.
Also, he forgets that many people do not have permanent broadband connections, and may take hours or days to fire up their email client. Any "pounding" of the spammer's server is going to be puny indeed.
What's so obnoxious about the GPL? It seems to me that Mr. William Gates has the world convinced that the GPL is viral, immoral or otherwise indecent. Why is everybody getting sucked in by his bullshit?
It's not often that I actually learn something from reading Slashdot, so you rocks! :-)
As opposed to Windows, which is made by coprocephalics for cretinoids.
Yes, I know. You can do something similar with lprng, but that isn't what I was talking about. I don't have Windows on any of my own computers, but one thing that is nice about "that" interface is the ease with which it is possible to change these preferences on the fly. Or off him, for that matter :-)
Hmmm. Just looked at the man page... seems that for the purposes I was talking about, mpage is no different from psnup.
My first (and worst) agony was getting an on-board SiS AGP driver to work properly with kernel 2.0.something. It helped when the motherboard blew up and I had a good reason to get a real graphics card :-).
Huh. That's what they used to say about IBM. Funny thing is: many years ago, I knew this IT manager working at a major Burroughs site in London who did get fired just for suggesting that they buy IBM. Served him right... :-)