At least they tried this guy instead of putting him in a jail in a foreign country (like Cuba), denying him even rights to defend himself in a court (albeit, an unjust one).
If Turkey followed America's example, this guy would have been rotting in a camp in a swamp, somewhere. The chances are he will be getting out of there in 3 months. It is still unjust but not the end of the world.
Depends. If you are working as IT technician in a company, you might find yourself installing something on a box reasonably frequently. On the other hand you would be installing it "for a reason" so you probably will end up with SuSE/Redhat for Oracle or (insert commercial product here). Same for desktops.
If you are installing it for home, you might find (like you) you don't have to wipe your workstation so often but I have a spare PC for just this reason, installing new stuff, tinkering around. So I install something new every week or so on that box and use it for nothing else.
Nope, still not necessary. Apache/MySQL/perl/PHP can be compiled and installed anywhere you like and doesn't have to be owned by the root. All of these (if applicable) can use unpriviledged ports and the only thing the root has to do is use iptables/ipfwd rules to make sure it is accessible as if they are running on priviledged ports. This is applicable especially if you are old-school, you should know how to change mysql's default listening port. Any odd idiot might not know how to do this but you probably would.
As for the contents and access, they are all files on a file system. Given the right access, you don't need more.
Even more importantly, as a secure site policy, webadmins should never have root accesses, in case the webadmin's account gets hacked into, they should not even be able to see inside the system. In some scenarios a chroot jail might be the best solution. Still no need for root access. That'd be just stupidity.
Can't agree more. The only time you need root access is a) you are doing system/OS level work b) you have a daemon using a port less than 1024. If it is case a, you are not a webmaster, you are a root. If it is case b, your root should be able to make sure you can stop/start the process, if asked nicely.
You are a user. Not a Root. The only things you need is access to your own database (not THE database). You don't need database creation rights. You don't need access to Apache. If you need mod_*, ask your sysadmin to sort it out for you.
The two things you need are rw access to some folders defined in Apache and rw access to some database backend. That's it. You don't need the root password. You are no longer working on Windows.
Curse Desmond Morris! Since I read about the aquatic ape theory, I'm sold. It explains everything, neatly. This running-around with spears explanation just doesn't make sense.
Spying on people? It is here. UK is planning to monitor inmates released early with satellite using GPS-enabled ankle-bracelets. They will know where you are and if you get out of your home, they will come and take you back to the prison.
Also yesterday they were discussing taxing auto users by their travels, again using GPS+Satellite enabled systems.
The technology is available, it only takes an asshole belonging to a government. (We have it here, the asshole is called Blunket.)
There is LEO and LEO. Usually you want these satellites as close to earth as possible, usually less than 300km. Air drag is noticeable and the orbit decays very quickly. Also if you want to investigate different locations, you might have to shift orbit which is very costly in fuel. Eventually you run out of fuel and the whole thing falls back to earth.
Skylab was at 450km, its orbit still decayed fairly quickly once the atmosphere expanded a little bit because of the solar maximum.
To be fair I haven't investigated the most recent US satellites, they might be orbiting a little bit higher but I don't believe it is much higher than 450km.
I see, it is actually true. To become a Marine, you have to donate your brain before joining in.
What the fuck WWII has anything to do with Iraq??? If you are doing something ugly, you cannot say "that guy did worse", you are only responsible of what you are doing.
You usually put these things in polar orbit to be able to cover most of the earth in one go. The second is, geostationary orbits are quite far away (36M metres), polar orbits tend to have fast and lower orbits like 4M meters. This means your telescopic camera doesn't have to be that big. Also gives you more resolution at a given magnification. Finally, if you want to cover different parts of Earth, it gets there much faster. Usually these things do an orbit every 90 min, a sun-sync orbit will cover all of the earth in a day, more or less. If you have a couple of these babies, you can have more or less cont. coverage.
The most annoying thing about these things are usually you know when it is observing you and the observation period is usually very limited, 10 min or so. So if you have a rebel base, you cover everything every day for 10 min and business as usual rest of the time. Al Queda used these tactics very successfully in Afghanistan, American satellite pictures used not to give enough evidence of the activities.
Obviously you can fool the observants by changing the orbit slightly, arriving a little bit early or late but this costs a lot of fuel and reduces your satellite's lifetime drastically.
You are right, you can spy anywhere you like. It is allowed in International Law. Do you have something to hide? Honest people don't have any problem with being observed, they don't have anything to hide. (I myself say that's just bollocks).
Correct.
Shuttle does about 3g of steady acceleration (because of structural limits) After 1min, it would do around 635km/h. After 8 min, it would be around 5000km/h.
This is net 3g downwards, if it were going up all the time. As you described, it changes attitute which enables to convert acceleration to speed because it doesn't have to go straigt up and waste acceleration (less is used against the gravitational acceleration). Since Shuttle engines are throttable, they can ease on the acceleration any time they like.
Mr. Planck called and asked his constant back. He also muttered something about "science being wasted on the youth" but I didn't catch it completely.
Obligatory do it yourself link here.
As for RHEL, I installed Centos 3 instead and was very happy with it. I strongly recommend it if you are into RHEL and don't want to pay the price tag. Mine was installed on a two-way Dell box for some testing/development. Suse 8 was supposed to be on the supported OS list but wouldn't recognise the SCSI card. I didn't care enough to fix it, had the CDs on my desk and 15 minutes after I had Centos running, an other 15 min, my Oracle 9i running on it. Worked like a dream. Although I can't suggest to anyone with a production system, bootstrapping Oracle actually works. Overall performance of the system was quite incredible, for an untweaked OS and Oracle setup.
Ximian's OOo is very nice to look at, quite an improvement over unmodified OOo. IMHO, being open source, OOo core crowd should adopt these changes. Now, if they can improve this startup time problem they have... And I though Word 6 used to take a long time to load...
It can be argued that Novell/SuSE FTP version is akin to Fedora Core. There is no comparable distribution from Redhat which matches SuSE Pro, that was what used to be Redhat's boxed offers but they no longer exist. Redhat only sells to the corporate market, makes sense, I don't know anyone who ordered SuSE Pro 9.2 either (thanks to torrents).
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If Turkey followed America's example, this guy would have been rotting in a camp in a swamp, somewhere.
The chances are he will be getting out of there in 3 months. It is still unjust but not the end of the world.
your basic files? you should see my fortran files!
I'm lazy. So what? why waste bits?
1. decide to make a profit. 2. Ask Slashdot how to do it. 3. ??? 4. Profittt!!!
well, you need to have a reason. Since it can't be GWB...
If you are installing it for home, you might find (like you) you don't have to wipe your workstation so often but I have a spare PC for just this reason, installing new stuff, tinkering around. So I install something new every week or so on that box and use it for nothing else.
It all depends what you are after.
GNOME is a desktop environment. GTK is a toolkit. Anaconda is an installation application. Can you spot the differences?
Oric Atmos. :)
Shutting down a system? Why? We are talking about Unix here, not Windows and IIS. Restart apache and bob's your uncle.
As for the contents and access, they are all files on a file system. Given the right access, you don't need more.
Even more importantly, as a secure site policy, webadmins should never have root accesses, in case the webadmin's account gets hacked into, they should not even be able to see inside the system. In some scenarios a chroot jail might be the best solution. Still no need for root access. That'd be just stupidity.
This jerk is asking for trouble.
The two things you need are rw access to some folders defined in Apache and rw access to some database backend. That's it. You don't need the root password. You are no longer working on Windows.
I thought Lemmings were good at running around...???
Curse Desmond Morris! Since I read about the aquatic ape theory, I'm sold. It explains everything, neatly. This running-around with spears explanation just doesn't make sense.
Also yesterday they were discussing taxing auto users by their travels, again using GPS+Satellite enabled systems.
The technology is available, it only takes an asshole belonging to a government. (We have it here, the asshole is called Blunket.)
Skylab was at 450km, its orbit still decayed fairly quickly once the atmosphere expanded a little bit because of the solar maximum.
To be fair I haven't investigated the most recent US satellites, they might be orbiting a little bit higher but I don't believe it is much higher than 450km.
What the fuck WWII has anything to do with Iraq??? If you are doing something ugly, you cannot say "that guy did worse", you are only responsible of what you are doing.
The most annoying thing about these things are usually you know when it is observing you and the observation period is usually very limited, 10 min or so. So if you have a rebel base, you cover everything every day for 10 min and business as usual rest of the time. Al Queda used these tactics very successfully in Afghanistan, American satellite pictures used not to give enough evidence of the activities.
Obviously you can fool the observants by changing the orbit slightly, arriving a little bit early or late but this costs a lot of fuel and reduces your satellite's lifetime drastically.
You are right, you can spy anywhere you like. It is allowed in International Law. Do you have something to hide? Honest people don't have any problem with being observed, they don't have anything to hide. (I myself say that's just bollocks).
After deep-fried Mars bar... This is quite a suprise.
Shuttle does about 3g of steady acceleration (because of structural limits) After 1min, it would do around 635km/h. After 8 min, it would be around 5000km/h.
This is net 3g downwards, if it were going up all the time. As you described, it changes attitute which enables to convert acceleration to speed because it doesn't have to go straigt up and waste acceleration (less is used against the gravitational acceleration). Since Shuttle engines are throttable, they can ease on the acceleration any time they like.
These convert photon's energy directly to electric current via an excitable medium.
Mr. Planck called and asked his constant back. He also muttered something about "science being wasted on the youth" but I didn't catch it completely. Obligatory do it yourself link here.
As for RHEL, I installed Centos 3 instead and was very happy with it. I strongly recommend it if you are into RHEL and don't want to pay the price tag. Mine was installed on a two-way Dell box for some testing/development. Suse 8 was supposed to be on the supported OS list but wouldn't recognise the SCSI card. I didn't care enough to fix it, had the CDs on my desk and 15 minutes after I had Centos running, an other 15 min, my Oracle 9i running on it. Worked like a dream. Although I can't suggest to anyone with a production system, bootstrapping Oracle actually works. Overall performance of the system was quite incredible, for an untweaked OS and Oracle setup.
Ximian's OOo is very nice to look at, quite an improvement over unmodified OOo. IMHO, being open source, OOo core crowd should adopt these changes. Now, if they can improve this startup time problem they have... And I though Word 6 used to take a long time to load...
It can be argued that Novell/SuSE FTP version is akin to Fedora Core. There is no comparable distribution from Redhat which matches SuSE Pro, that was what used to be Redhat's boxed offers but they no longer exist. Redhat only sells to the corporate market, makes sense, I don't know anyone who ordered SuSE Pro 9.2 either (thanks to torrents).