That's what NIS is for. You can schedule regular downloads of group/passwd files, which are updated in a NIS database stored on a master server, and passed down to "slave" servers.
Good point. If everything came from one small thing, that perhaps came from a smaller thing, that perhaps came from a smaller thing. Where did the first smaller thing come from, and what made it come become the bigger thing (big bang).
Everything is supposedly created from compressed matter that was infinitesimally small... but where did that matter come from, and why. Basically, the farther you look back, there was always something before. There is no start to time itself... and who can prove that something (e.g. a deity) isn't directing it all, or started it all.
Take life on earth, bacteria, etc. It's a fair stretch to show that such simple life was put under conditions that it evolved that it just happened to become a more advanced being (man). And if you want to argue that the universe is so limitless that (million monkeys on typewriters) anything can happen... then why can't there be an ultimate being... but that is part of the infinite possibility.
Believing in infinite possibilty conflicts with the idea of no God. Believing in such blind chance within finite possibility is no more believable that the concept that there is a God.
Ever try thinking of where that first something came from. If time started here as Y, but started from X, which started from W... which gives me headaches whenever I try thinking even to simple depths of that problem...
And besides... once a game comes out that you can use that spiffy video card on, you'll be wanting quick meals so that you can slurp them down w/o leaving the keyboard. I expect that a lot of geeks are going to be permanently attached to the computer desks when doom3 comes out... they'll be eating their ramen raw.
You mean Apple becomes more corporation/money-centered, and MS actually starts to care about their users?
Mac often goes "against the grain" to do things for "Mac people." Why, because they have a following. Being a Mac person is like being part of a social club, where every now and then you get little benefits for taking part.
iTunes? A good business idea, but also one aimed to do as much as possible to keep customers happy, whilst satisfying good business sense. Customers had a need, and Apple is taking a shot at supplying for it.
Now if MS had made a similar initiative, if would have been more broadly targetted, aimed at profit - or at least at breeding opposition. There is no MS fanbase. Yes, some people like MS, but not with the dedication Apple has. So, when Apple rolls out something new, it's got that fuzzy special "we did this for you - because we know who our customers are" type mentality to it.
How about Alberta, Canada? There's not sales tax there, Federal tax is 7%, and the dollar is one the rise. Canadians need to boost their business presence to keep the dollar strong and employment as the American economy slides... it might end up being good for both sides (you can keep your RIAA and MPAA, though).
Truly, VGS was very nice for less 3d-intensive games (some FF collection games notably) that didn't work as nicely on some things such as EPSXE. However, it lacked the 3d power and configurability of many of the more common modularized emulators.
If Sony had wanted, there were probably a lot of choices they could have picked up on after VGS for emulation, provided they find a way to reduce their usage for piracy.
"they recommend working around the problem by underclocking the processor to run at 800 MHz instead of it's default 900 MHz or 1 GHz."
Why not just buy the lower-clocked CPU's then? Will Intel replace the crap chips when a revision with a fix comes around?
"If the customer feels it's the right solution, we'll exchange processors with ones that aren't affected," she said. Intel has developed a simple software test that can determine whether a chip is affected.
Meaning what? Lower-end chips that aren't aaffected, or a fixed version of the same chip. If it's the same chip, who wouldn't think it is the right solution? The article doesn't indicate whether the problem is actually solved either, but that it seems to be somewhat of an anomaly that doesn't affect all chips.
Not a good day for Intel, and probably another reason why you don't immediately need that "Newest on the shelf" CPU, whether for your home machine or a server. Besides, by the time this chip is assuredly fixed, a faster revision will probably be out at a comparable price.
So somebody doesn't try to get away with something similarly scummy in the future? Slapping down on scummy patent abuse is a good thing, regardless of whether the patent is on an "active" product.
Somebody has to? One thing you will find about less-hospitable locations, is that they need workers. Head up north for example, there are places that are more like to overlook things that might otherwise disqualify you for similar jobs elsewhere, and they generally tend to increase in payscale (+hazard pay).
As for the taxpayers buying new trailers... what about insurance? Your rate is dependant on your risk category (e.g. my parents pay more on fire insurance because they're outside of the city's fire-department area) - so it's all a case of gambling on their and the insurance co's part.
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I doubt it. It might be more useful if the iTunes users could transfer rights to another users' iTunes account though, which would also make trading a disc acceptable - so long as the songs are then owned by the receiving party.
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But it's a step. A small one... with one foot ahead and one back... but it's a step.
And once somebody starts such a service, we can hopefully expect more. And we can expect themto try and cater to our needs (little/no restrictions, etc etc), as growth will breed competition.
Even this little step shows that the xxAA business model is not the only way to make a profit, so in that sense it's still a very good thing.
If, for example, record companies included some kind of encryption in their files that would prevent them from being played without some kind of key, and if Grokster/Morpheus included in their software some ability to strip out that encryption, then Grokster/Morpheus would be violating the DMCA, and might also be held liable for copyright infringement.
Except that it's not files being distributed by the record companies... it's discs. And while they do make attempts to make discs unrippable, it usually screws up their playback ability as well. Since it's not the xxAA ripping the discs, they have little ability to encrypt the content.
I wonder if they also try to get away with this on Credit Cards, and/or how many debit customers they nail.
For me personally, I don't check my debit as regularly as my Credit Cards, and I don't get nice itemized statements at the end of the month etc. I think this applies to a lot of people. I pay close enough attention to my balance to catch any large charges... but small ones would probably be lost in the series of service charges that I incur on a regular basis.
Debit is a great scam, since few people watch every nickel. My bank is very guilty of overcharging, when they're supposed to not charge for accounts with a certain balance or up to a certain amount etc. They're also good at changing debit policies w/o notification, and then resetting accounts to the policy that charges most. I don't care very much right now, I know they do it, but I'm switching to a better bank soon anyways - in which case I'll be watching my balance carefully for odd service charges... and now apparently MSN subscriptions as well.
A lot of programmers have both. You try sucking down twinkies and jolt all day and see if you don't start developing breasts to go along with that spare tired around your waist...
Yes, truly. The motherboard should be in the head, with a fan to blow hot air out the ear. In place of the current motherboard residence, I would like a place to insert my "dongle"... er... network interface variety of course.
As per the recent survey on fun ways to reboot one's PC, and the mention of reading "sleep" buttons on 'nix...
How about some more basic instructions on how to configure 'input' devices on the parallel port, and then maybe some programming tips (windows and 'nix both) on how to work with them.
Personally, I've been wondering if I could make my own input-device. Maybe a DDR floor panel or something? Or just I/O, with panels that light up as well as sending back info. How about it?
Mailing program adds "Bob@you.com" to Alice's list of valid emails (after all, you're not often going to send email to somebody that you don't want responding, right?).
Bob@you.com sends a challenge to Alice@me.com
Alice@me.com accepts the challenge, since she already sent the original email to "Bob" and had him added as an authorized user
Alice authenticates to Bob's system, and all is good
Another way would be to make all "challenge" type emails follow a specific pattern - with little to no allowance for anything other than the challenge. Then, challenges will be accepted as legit without bouncing back-and-forth, and spammers cannot simply send a message as a challenge with extra spamcrap attached - and still cannot send non-challenging email.
Now, an ignorant spammer could send a flood of challenges just to be annoying, but this isn't very profitable as they wouldn't be able to contain penis/viagara/etc ads.
For an Mp3 player, I'd recommend an Mp3-enabled discman. I've got one that plays Audio CD, Mp3, and VCD too (VCD is a bit off at times, but fairly good with a full-pass VCD).
It's good if you're just looking at using long playlists of music. Many units are rugged enough for exercise (jogging, blading, I wouldn't recommend it for swimming though) - and you can fit >100 songs on a disc. If you already have existing mp3-disc plays (say, in your car, par example), it's a good addition to the family. I don't know about OGG compatability, but I'd imagine that one could be found somewhere soon.
I cant beleave that all these border states havent lobbied DC to demand the drinking age be uped in canada
Probably because there's no chance in hell that they would change the local drinking age because of a DC demand. Not to mention that fact that in Canada, drinking age is by province, so while my province is 19, the adjascent province allows drinking at 18 (which used to make trips East a special treat for those just a little shy of age).
Strange. Ever since I got broadband there has been a lot less high-speed penetration at my home. Oh, wait... that's of
Seriously though, even many small towns in Canada have high speed. I live in a town (note, not even a city) that has not even a movie theatre or a small mall, yet we still have ADSL, Cable, and (crappy reception in many areas but...) cell-phone access. From what I've heard, it's often cheaper here too.
Here, it's the telco and cableco that mostly run the show. My telco does a really decent job of it most times too (Telus), though I dislike the requirement of a landline to run my ADSL. Cable is less so... it can be damn slow at some times/locations. I wonder why not as many telcos in the US aren't abandoning the old-fashioned phone-market for a higher focus on cellular/internet connectivity?
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As stated on userfriendly... the iLoo concept was created by some of the most nefarious minds in the cosmos.
Oh ok, maybe not by "Hastur", but MS is equally evil and seems to believe in their own divinity.
I especially like the sign on the door... "where do you want to go today" - load of crap indeed
That's what NIS is for. You can schedule regular downloads of group/passwd files, which are updated in a NIS database stored on a master server, and passed down to "slave" servers.
Good point. If everything came from one small thing, that perhaps came from a smaller thing, that perhaps came from a smaller thing. Where did the first smaller thing come from, and what made it come become the bigger thing (big bang).
Everything is supposedly created from compressed matter that was infinitesimally small... but where did that matter come from, and why. Basically, the farther you look back, there was always something before. There is no start to time itself... and who can prove that something (e.g. a deity) isn't directing it all, or started it all.
Take life on earth, bacteria, etc. It's a fair stretch to show that such simple life was put under conditions that it evolved that it just happened to become a more advanced being (man). And if you want to argue that the universe is so limitless that (million monkeys on typewriters) anything can happen... then why can't there be an ultimate being... but that is part of the infinite possibility.
Believing in infinite possibilty conflicts with the idea of no God. Believing in such blind chance within finite possibility is no more believable that the concept that there is a God.
Ever try thinking of where that first something came from. If time started here as Y, but started from X, which started from W... which gives me headaches whenever I try thinking even to simple depths of that problem...
And besides... once a game comes out that you can use that spiffy video card on, you'll be wanting quick meals so that you can slurp them down w/o leaving the keyboard. I expect that a lot of geeks are going to be permanently attached to the computer desks when doom3 comes out... they'll be eating their ramen raw.
a 20% take on the "profit" of spamhaus as damages. What's that, no profit... but they're a business right, and competing with the spammers?
Seriously... I think these spammers believe they're the RIAA... and that simple intimidation tactics will work against anyone.
You mean Apple becomes more corporation/money-centered, and MS actually starts to care about their users?
Mac often goes "against the grain" to do things for "Mac people." Why, because they have a following. Being a Mac person is like being part of a social club, where every now and then you get little benefits for taking part.
iTunes? A good business idea, but also one aimed to do as much as possible to keep customers happy, whilst satisfying good business sense. Customers had a need, and Apple is taking a shot at supplying for it.
Now if MS had made a similar initiative, if would have been more broadly targetted, aimed at profit - or at least at breeding opposition. There is no MS fanbase. Yes, some people like MS, but not with the dedication Apple has. So, when Apple rolls out something new, it's got that fuzzy special "we did this for you - because we know who our customers are" type mentality to it.
How about Alberta, Canada? There's not sales tax there, Federal tax is 7%, and the dollar is one the rise. Canadians need to boost their business presence to keep the dollar strong and employment as the American economy slides... it might end up being good for both sides (you can keep your RIAA and MPAA, though).
Truly, VGS was very nice for less 3d-intensive games (some FF collection games notably) that didn't work as nicely on some things such as EPSXE. However, it lacked the 3d power and configurability of many of the more common modularized emulators.
If Sony had wanted, there were probably a lot of choices they could have picked up on after VGS for emulation, provided they find a way to reduce their usage for piracy.
"they recommend working around the problem by underclocking the processor to run at 800 MHz instead of it's default 900 MHz or 1 GHz."
Why not just buy the lower-clocked CPU's then? Will Intel replace the crap chips when a revision with a fix comes around?
"If the customer feels it's the right solution, we'll exchange processors with ones that aren't affected," she said. Intel has developed a simple software test that can determine whether a chip is affected. Meaning what? Lower-end chips that aren't aaffected, or a fixed version of the same chip. If it's the same chip, who wouldn't think it is the right solution? The article doesn't indicate whether the problem is actually solved either, but that it seems to be somewhat of an anomaly that doesn't affect all chips.
Not a good day for Intel, and probably another reason why you don't immediately need that "Newest on the shelf" CPU, whether for your home machine or a server. Besides, by the time this chip is assuredly fixed, a faster revision will probably be out at a comparable price.
So somebody doesn't try to get away with something similarly scummy in the future? Slapping down on scummy patent abuse is a good thing, regardless of whether the patent is on an "active" product.
How about "circumventing the authenticating methodology" to access data that would normally be protected.
E.G. If I run a site w/o a public password, and a hacker bypasses my password, the site was still passworded, so you weren't authorized...
Somebody has to? One thing you will find about less-hospitable locations, is that they need workers. Head up north for example, there are places that are more like to overlook things that might otherwise disqualify you for similar jobs elsewhere, and they generally tend to increase in payscale (+hazard pay).
As for the taxpayers buying new trailers... what about insurance? Your rate is dependant on your risk category (e.g. my parents pay more on fire insurance because they're outside of the city's fire-department area) - so it's all a case of gambling on their and the insurance co's part.
I doubt it. It might be more useful if the iTunes users could transfer rights to another users' iTunes account though, which would also make trading a disc acceptable - so long as the songs are then owned by the receiving party.
But it's a step. A small one... with one foot ahead and one back... but it's a step.
And once somebody starts such a service, we can hopefully expect more. And we can expect themto try and cater to our needs (little/no restrictions, etc etc), as growth will breed competition.
Even this little step shows that the xxAA business model is not the only way to make a profit, so in that sense it's still a very good thing.
Dirty rotten...
That's not a P2P port... more like the port the xxAA reams us in when we try to get reasonably priced music...
If, for example, record companies included some kind of encryption in their files that would prevent them from being played without some kind of key, and if Grokster/Morpheus included in their software some ability to strip out that encryption, then Grokster/Morpheus would be violating the DMCA, and might also be held liable for copyright infringement.
Except that it's not files being distributed by the record companies... it's discs. And while they do make attempts to make discs unrippable, it usually screws up their playback ability as well. Since it's not the xxAA ripping the discs, they have little ability to encrypt the content.
--moot--
I wonder if they also try to get away with this on Credit Cards, and/or how many debit customers they nail.
For me personally, I don't check my debit as regularly as my Credit Cards, and I don't get nice itemized statements at the end of the month etc. I think this applies to a lot of people. I pay close enough attention to my balance to catch any large charges... but small ones would probably be lost in the series of service charges that I incur on a regular basis.
Debit is a great scam, since few people watch every nickel. My bank is very guilty of overcharging, when they're supposed to not charge for accounts with a certain balance or up to a certain amount etc. They're also good at changing debit policies w/o notification, and then resetting accounts to the policy that charges most. I don't care very much right now, I know they do it, but I'm switching to a better bank soon anyways - in which case I'll be watching my balance carefully for odd service charges... and now apparently MSN subscriptions as well.
A lot of programmers have both. You try sucking down twinkies and jolt all day and see if you don't start developing breasts to go along with that spare tired around your waist...
Yes, truly. The motherboard should be in the head, with a fan to blow hot air out the ear. In place of the current motherboard residence, I would like a place to insert my "dongle"... er... network interface variety of course.
So,now we can have our girlfriend and computer combined?
If we put speakers in the head... hey, we can even turn her off
If these become more common, I can foresee a lot of scary things happening with lonely geeks and computers resembling girls...
As per the recent survey on fun ways to reboot one's PC, and the mention of reading "sleep" buttons on 'nix...
How about some more basic instructions on how to configure 'input' devices on the parallel port, and then maybe some programming tips (windows and 'nix both) on how to work with them.
Personally, I've been wondering if I could make my own input-device. Maybe a DDR floor panel or something? Or just I/O, with panels that light up as well as sending back info. How about it?
Alice@me.com sends an email to Bob@you.com
Mailing program adds "Bob@you.com" to Alice's list of valid emails (after all, you're not often going to send email to somebody that you don't want responding, right?).
Bob@you.com sends a challenge to Alice@me.com
Alice@me.com accepts the challenge, since she already sent the original email to "Bob" and had him added as an authorized user
Alice authenticates to Bob's system, and all is good
Another way would be to make all "challenge" type emails follow a specific pattern - with little to no allowance for anything other than the challenge. Then, challenges will be accepted as legit without bouncing back-and-forth, and spammers cannot simply send a message as a challenge with extra spamcrap attached - and still cannot send non-challenging email.
Now, an ignorant spammer could send a flood of challenges just to be annoying, but this isn't very profitable as they wouldn't be able to contain penis/viagara/etc ads.
For an Mp3 player, I'd recommend an Mp3-enabled discman. I've got one that plays Audio CD, Mp3, and VCD too (VCD is a bit off at times, but fairly good with a full-pass VCD).
It's good if you're just looking at using long playlists of music. Many units are rugged enough for exercise (jogging, blading, I wouldn't recommend it for swimming though) - and you can fit >100 songs on a disc. If you already have existing mp3-disc plays (say, in your car, par example), it's a good addition to the family. I don't know about OGG compatability, but I'd imagine that one could be found somewhere soon.
I cant beleave that all these border states havent lobbied DC to demand the drinking age be uped in canada
Probably because there's no chance in hell that they would change the local drinking age because of a DC demand. Not to mention that fact that in Canada, drinking age is by province, so while my province is 19, the adjascent province allows drinking at 18 (which used to make trips East a special treat for those just a little shy of age).
Strange. Ever since I got broadband there has been a lot less high-speed penetration at my home. Oh, wait... that's of
Seriously though, even many small towns in Canada have high speed. I live in a town (note, not even a city) that has not even a movie theatre or a small mall, yet we still have ADSL, Cable, and (crappy reception in many areas but...) cell-phone access. From what I've heard, it's often cheaper here too.
Here, it's the telco and cableco that mostly run the show. My telco does a really decent job of it most times too (Telus), though I dislike the requirement of a landline to run my ADSL. Cable is less so... it can be damn slow at some times/locations. I wonder why not as many telcos in the US aren't abandoning the old-fashioned phone-market for a higher focus on cellular/internet connectivity?