There is so much wrong with that statement... First if it is a vbscript, it isn't manual and it isn't command-line.
Do me a favour. Find your IIS root folder (C:\Inetpub by default). Go into the AdminScripts subfolder. Try double-clicking adsutil.vbs and see how well it works running as a GUI app instead of being called from the command line using cscript.
Also when using Windows Integrated Auth, Kerberos is the default authentication. If Kerberos fails, then it uses NTLM. Unless you can provide a link that says otherwise...
Kerberos is allowed by default, but so is NTLM. If you want to *disallow* NTLM, you have to do this using the script I mentioned above, and in my original post. The syntax is e.g.:
cscript -nologo adsutil.vbs SET w3svc/1/root/NTAuthenticationProviders "Negotiate"
Seems pretty manual to me. But what do I know?
PS: You can verify this on your IIS install using the GET version of that command. The default is "Negotiate,NTLM" (which is also true if it's not explicitly defined). Most IIS admins and engineers don't know how to do things like set up SPNs for Kerberos authentication, which I'm sure is why NTLM is allowed by default.
Wolfram Alpha doesn't just provide you with knowledge. It provides you with a new kind of knowledge. Any knowledge you gain from it must be attributed to Stephen Wolfram... because he invented it.
Note: you may not fully appreciate this joke unless you have read some or all of Wolfram's voluminous tome A New Kind of Science.
I don't think it's so much that they don't want to use new software in this case. I think it's that LaTeX has a huge learning curve, and the "good enough for non-typesetters" software doesn't.
And even if the correct tool for the job is easily available, they don't want to learn how to use it!
I don't have a lot of experience with (La)TeX, but from what I can tell, using it still involves dealing with manual markup and/or using an IDE-style interface.
That may be what professional typesetters want (although I doubt they want it as their only option), but it's definitely not what most people who aren't professional typesetters want to use.
If I'm trying to put together documentation quickly, I care about the content being correct and the presentation being more or less nice to look at. I'm not paid to be a typesetter, and I don't have time to learn another markup language. If I wanted to be *really* fancy, I would use something like InDesign.
I think it's great that it's possible to manually specify LaTeX markup for people who want to go that route, but expecting most users to do that is wishful thinking at best.
A movie where they send mentally unstable astronauts to reignite the Sun by dropping a bomb in it.
The technical explanation of what they were trying to do is online if you want to read about it, and is actually based on advice from some physicist consultants the production team worked with.
The director seems to have (correctly) assumed that most audience members wouldn't want to sit through a lengthy briefing.
If you can't buy the idea that a few members of a team of astronauts might start exhibiting unusual behaviour when they're isolated and placed under extreme stress for a long duration, it's probably not your film though.
Transformers is a well-made movie if you like Michael Bay's style. It's not a well-made movie in the "film as art" sense, but that's not the point. If someone goes to see one of his movies expecting to see Citizen Kane or 2001, they bought the wrong ticket.
Warship bridges in real life are deadly serious places without a dozen extras milling about without a purpose just to fill space.
The Enterprise isn't a warship. Starfleet's primary mission is exploration, and they double as peacekeeping/defence. I believe the analogy that's been made before is "NASA combined with the Coast Guard".
This is something that was *very* important to Gene Roddenberry. IIRC, he was very upset at some background voiceover chatter in the first film about a Starfleet dreadnought.
The refusal on the part of LucasFilm to do a new, anamorphic transfer of the original editions makes the version that's included on those DVDs not worth buying. For all their claims that they allegedly don't have the original versions anymore, it's pretty obvious that they do, because they scanned them in to make the Special Editions. The Rogue Squadron games for the GameCube even include some un-altered footage that was given to them by the LucasFilm team doing the digitizing, according to an article I read at the time.
Very few. If such a thing were to happen I would contact the bank and inform them that the charge was unauthorized and I refuse to pay it. In my admittedly limited experience the bank will then charge the amount back to the merchant and demand that he prove I authorized the charge.
In the US, that's generally true for a credit card. It's not necessarily true for a debit card. Both of the banks I've used have given "provisional" credit back when I've contested debit card charges, and the process for the investigation can take months. So if, for example, you contested a $300 charge, and then six months later your bank reversed the provisional credit (without prior notice) because they lost the form you faxed them from one of their branches and claimed it never arrived, and you happened to have only $250 in your checking account at the time, you would incur an overdraft fee. I make it a point to only use a credit card now. I feel badly for the merchants, because I know it costs them more, but the lack of protections for debit cards is too much of a hassle for me to deal with.
This article would be 2/3rds right if this was 1995. But almost every thing in this article has been corrected for years and years.
My experience is that there are a lot of things in Linux that are sort of fixed versus how they were in 1995, but not really.
For example, X. Supposedly in the shiny future-world of 2009, I'm not supposed to have to manually edit xorg.conf, and X will figure everything out on its own. And yet, out of the five Linux installations I've done in the last 6 months, I've had to manually specify parameters on four of those systems.
Three of them were media PCs that were being connected with S-video or composite to televisions, and I had to key in all the parameters for NTSC output.
One is a Pentium 3-era Toshiba Tecra 8200 laptop. On that laptop, the Linux video driver won't draw the top half of the screen at the default resolution (800x600, I think?). I've tried specifying 1280x1024 (the native resolution) in a Modes entry for the display, but X won't obey the setting, so I'm probably going to have to type up one of those ridiculous modelines that only driver authors should ever have to deal with.
Why is there no GUI for this? Why is the man page for xorg.conf so completely useless and devoid of actual examples of complete sections and subsections? Why do I have to wade through forum posts as reference material for this core desktop system functionality? Why is there no one-click (or one-keypress) method of adding an NTSC (or PAL) output? I can understand being hesitant about automatically adding actual monitor sync/refresh/resolution values, but the whole point of NTSC and PAL is that they're always the same!
That doesn't give you the old menus back. It gives you the ribbon tabs which expand back to the full ribbon when you click on them.
My theory is that MS implemented the ribbon because they seem to have a mistaken belief that their UI should be consistent across platforms (desktop PC/server, table, tablet, handheld). In the end, they have a UI that doesn't work well for any of them. The Start Menu is a terrible paradigm for a handheld device, and the ribbon is a terrible one for desktop PCs.
This is even infecting their design of server-side applications. All of the MMCs for e.g. IIS 7 are more like navigating through Windows Explorer in icon mode than previous versions.
Different device types should have different interfaces that take advantage of the strengths of that platform. Keeping them consistent is less important than making them as user-friendly as possible.
Dia is off to a great start (I use it myself), but it's got a long way to go to catch up with Visio. The interface is not as intuitive (sort of the GIMP syndrome), and it needs a library of shapes designed by good artists.
Windows 32-bit has been able to address more than 4 GB of RAM for at least a decade now.
Even though the high-end 32-bit versions of Windows Server have been able to address more than 4GB of RAM, they can't make as effective use of it as the 64-bit versions.
For example, the Volume Shadow Service on 32-bit Windows can't deal with volumes > 10TB, even if you're running Enterprise and have 32GB of RAM in the system. You *must* be running a 64-bit version of the OS.
If I remember correctly, this is because the 32-bit Windows builds have a 2GB virtual memory size (per process?), whereas 64-bit increases it to 8GB (again, per process I think).
Time travel is lazy science, leading Science Fiction's devolution into Fantasy.
So you've completely reverse-engineered reality and determined that time travel is impossible? That's impressive.
Time travel in the "changing your own past" causality violation sense is probably impossible. But if there really are "many worlds", then there is no causality violation, so what makes it *impossible*, as opposed to something that may or may not be possible?
That's the Star Trek way, kick the opponent, when he already lies on the ground.
The Federation lost an entire planet because they didn't follow through on killing off Nero and his ship the first time. Do you think they should have potentially let him go and maybe had him come back later? They gave him the chance to surrender first, and he refused.
More importantly, if you're willing to pay 20,000 for a bottle of whiskey, you're never going to be drinking it. You want no one anywhere to be drinking it or saying that they have it.
What's the point, then? To save it until someone invents a food replicator and then you can have as many bottles of "$20,000" whiskey as you want, all to yourself?
As for the cameras issue. That is legit. Not only do courts sometimes deal with cases where identities must be protected (I.e. It's bad enough little Sandy has to testify against her Daddy for molesting her, but putting her picture on the net would make it a whole lot worse) but there are other "institutions" that have vested interest in being photograph free. I.e. Many titty Bars ban Cams to protect the day jobs and church membership of part time strippers as well as the Senate seat of tonight's #1 tipper.
The ability to effectively enforce a ban on cameras is something that's only possible for the current relative sliver of history. What are those organizations going to do when technology allows virtually anyone to covertly record what they see through their eyes (organic or cybernetic)? They should start thinking about that now, because in the not-too-distant future they will have no choice but to allow it.
$0.10/gb * 500 GB = $50. I can buy a 1 TB hard drive for around $80. Why would I use this stuff?
Power surges and giant magnets probably won't erase a holographic disc.
The media is separate from the read/write mechanism so being able to read the media (outside of a clean room-equipped lab) is not tied to the lifetime of a single drive's mechanical components.
It's a lot harder to accidentally erase the contents of a WORM storage device.
That's the problem with this and every other UV adaptive lens treatment: Glass (like, for example, your windscreen) blocks UV. So, they don't actually work when you're driving.
Glass doesn't fully block UV. I take UV photos using regular glass lenses with a UV-A bandpass filter in front. I lose something like 3-4 stops of light sensitivity compared to visible, but at least some of that is probably due to the camera sensor not being designed with UV in mind.
Apparently glass does block UV-B, UV-C, and shorter wavelengths. My camera isn't sensitive to wavelengths shorter than UV-A or I'd test it myself.
There aren't a lot of mannerisms to get right, and voice inflection is minimal as well.
Voice synthesis technology is still nowhere near capable of convincingly simulating an actual human voice. It's a bit of a head-scratcher for me - especially the dead-end "sample a bunch of phonemes" approach that has been in vogue for the last couple of decades, instead of using a physical-modeling approach.
Churches do operate under the 'do good' platform, but they do good for the church, not for the individuals in the church and certainly not for individuals outside the church.
There are plenty of churches that do good for individuals outside the church, and I say that as someone who is agnostic. Off the top of my head, my mother's church has a weekly free dinner for low-income families that's open to everyone, and during the severe flooding two winters ago here in the Northwest, the Mormons donated emergency supplies to victims.
A rust-colored streak in the middle of a bunch of ice. What does it remind me of? Ah, yes [nasa.gov].
That is really interesting. It's obviously not as good as a true spectrograph, but it would be worth comparing the false-colour images NASA has on that same page with similar ones taken of rust (or ideally the Blood Falls) here on Earth to see if they match up. I can do that myself, minus the Blood Falls part (unless someone wants to pony up for a ticket). Maybe this weekend?
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There is so much wrong with that statement... First if it is a vbscript, it isn't manual and it isn't command-line.
Do me a favour. Find your IIS root folder (C:\Inetpub by default). Go into the AdminScripts subfolder. Try double-clicking adsutil.vbs and see how well it works running as a GUI app instead of being called from the command line using cscript.
Also when using Windows Integrated Auth, Kerberos is the default authentication. If Kerberos fails, then it uses NTLM. Unless you can provide a link that says otherwise...
Kerberos is allowed by default, but so is NTLM. If you want to *disallow* NTLM, you have to do this using the script I mentioned above, and in my original post. The syntax is e.g.:
cscript -nologo adsutil.vbs SET w3svc/1/root/NTAuthenticationProviders "Negotiate"
Seems pretty manual to me. But what do I know?
PS: You can verify this on your IIS install using the GET version of that command. The default is "Negotiate,NTLM" (which is also true if it's not explicitly defined). Most IIS admins and engineers don't know how to do things like set up SPNs for Kerberos authentication, which I'm sure is why NTLM is allowed by default.
Since no one in their right mind will have WebDav and NTLM exposed to a public site
They will if they're running Outlook Web Access, and haven't manually disabled NTLM using a command-line vbscript that comes with IIS.
Wolfram Alpha doesn't just provide you with knowledge. It provides you with a new kind of knowledge. Any knowledge you gain from it must be attributed to Stephen Wolfram ... because he invented it.
Note: you may not fully appreciate this joke unless you have read some or all of Wolfram's voluminous tome A New Kind of Science.
Most of these "generic" sounding brands are the makers of some of the finest media available.
"Some of the finest" non-Japanese-manufactured media, maybe. I gave up buying Taiwan-manufactured media years ago due to reliability problems.
People don't want to learn to use new software.
I don't think it's so much that they don't want to use new software in this case. I think it's that LaTeX has a huge learning curve, and the "good enough for non-typesetters" software doesn't.
And even if the correct tool for the job is easily available, they don't want to learn how to use it!
I don't have a lot of experience with (La)TeX, but from what I can tell, using it still involves dealing with manual markup and/or using an IDE-style interface.
That may be what professional typesetters want (although I doubt they want it as their only option), but it's definitely not what most people who aren't professional typesetters want to use.
If I'm trying to put together documentation quickly, I care about the content being correct and the presentation being more or less nice to look at. I'm not paid to be a typesetter, and I don't have time to learn another markup language. If I wanted to be *really* fancy, I would use something like InDesign.
I think it's great that it's possible to manually specify LaTeX markup for people who want to go that route, but expecting most users to do that is wishful thinking at best.
A movie where they send mentally unstable astronauts to reignite the Sun by dropping a bomb in it.
The technical explanation of what they were trying to do is online if you want to read about it, and is actually based on advice from some physicist consultants the production team worked with.
The director seems to have (correctly) assumed that most audience members wouldn't want to sit through a lengthy briefing.
If you can't buy the idea that a few members of a team of astronauts might start exhibiting unusual behaviour when they're isolated and placed under extreme stress for a long duration, it's probably not your film though.
You're missing a sarcasm tag I hope?
Transformers is a well-made movie if you like Michael Bay's style. It's not a well-made movie in the "film as art" sense, but that's not the point. If someone goes to see one of his movies expecting to see Citizen Kane or 2001, they bought the wrong ticket.
Warship bridges in real life are deadly serious places without a dozen extras milling about without a purpose just to fill space.
The Enterprise isn't a warship. Starfleet's primary mission is exploration, and they double as peacekeeping/defence. I believe the analogy that's been made before is "NASA combined with the Coast Guard".
This is something that was *very* important to Gene Roddenberry. IIRC, he was very upset at some background voiceover chatter in the first film about a Starfleet dreadnought.
The refusal on the part of LucasFilm to do a new, anamorphic transfer of the original editions makes the version that's included on those DVDs not worth buying.
For all their claims that they allegedly don't have the original versions anymore, it's pretty obvious that they do, because they scanned them in to make the Special Editions. The Rogue Squadron games for the GameCube even include some un-altered footage that was given to them by the LucasFilm team doing the digitizing, according to an article I read at the time.
Very few. If such a thing were to happen I would contact the bank and inform them that the charge was unauthorized and I refuse to pay it. In my admittedly limited experience the bank will then charge the amount back to the merchant and demand that he prove I authorized the charge.
In the US, that's generally true for a credit card. It's not necessarily true for a debit card. Both of the banks I've used have given "provisional" credit back when I've contested debit card charges, and the process for the investigation can take months.
So if, for example, you contested a $300 charge, and then six months later your bank reversed the provisional credit (without prior notice) because they lost the form you faxed them from one of their branches and claimed it never arrived, and you happened to have only $250 in your checking account at the time, you would incur an overdraft fee.
I make it a point to only use a credit card now. I feel badly for the merchants, because I know it costs them more, but the lack of protections for debit cards is too much of a hassle for me to deal with.
This article would be 2/3rds right if this was 1995. But almost every thing in this article has been corrected for years and years.
My experience is that there are a lot of things in Linux that are sort of fixed versus how they were in 1995, but not really.
For example, X. Supposedly in the shiny future-world of 2009, I'm not supposed to have to manually edit xorg.conf, and X will figure everything out on its own. And yet, out of the five Linux installations I've done in the last 6 months, I've had to manually specify parameters on four of those systems.
Three of them were media PCs that were being connected with S-video or composite to televisions, and I had to key in all the parameters for NTSC output.
One is a Pentium 3-era Toshiba Tecra 8200 laptop. On that laptop, the Linux video driver won't draw the top half of the screen at the default resolution (800x600, I think?). I've tried specifying 1280x1024 (the native resolution) in a Modes entry for the display, but X won't obey the setting, so I'm probably going to have to type up one of those ridiculous modelines that only driver authors should ever have to deal with.
Why is there no GUI for this? Why is the man page for xorg.conf so completely useless and devoid of actual examples of complete sections and subsections? Why do I have to wade through forum posts as reference material for this core desktop system functionality? Why is there no one-click (or one-keypress) method of adding an NTSC (or PAL) output? I can understand being hesitant about automatically adding actual monitor sync/refresh/resolution values, but the whole point of NTSC and PAL is that they're always the same!
Right-click on the ribbon|Minimize the Ribbon
That doesn't give you the old menus back. It gives you the ribbon tabs which expand back to the full ribbon when you click on them.
My theory is that MS implemented the ribbon because they seem to have a mistaken belief that their UI should be consistent across platforms (desktop PC/server, table, tablet, handheld). In the end, they have a UI that doesn't work well for any of them. The Start Menu is a terrible paradigm for a handheld device, and the ribbon is a terrible one for desktop PCs.
This is even infecting their design of server-side applications. All of the MMCs for e.g. IIS 7 are more like navigating through Windows Explorer in icon mode than previous versions.
Different device types should have different interfaces that take advantage of the strengths of that platform. Keeping them consistent is less important than making them as user-friendly as possible.
Have you tried Dia as an alternative to Visio?
Dia is off to a great start (I use it myself), but it's got a long way to go to catch up with Visio. The interface is not as intuitive (sort of the GIMP syndrome), and it needs a library of shapes designed by good artists.
Windows 32-bit has been able to address more than 4 GB of RAM for at least a decade now.
Even though the high-end 32-bit versions of Windows Server have been able to address more than 4GB of RAM, they can't make as effective use of it as the 64-bit versions.
For example, the Volume Shadow Service on 32-bit Windows can't deal with volumes > 10TB, even if you're running Enterprise and have 32GB of RAM in the system. You *must* be running a 64-bit version of the OS.
If I remember correctly, this is because the 32-bit Windows builds have a 2GB virtual memory size (per process?), whereas 64-bit increases it to 8GB (again, per process I think).
There on on 60's in a minute and 60 of those in an hour because we decided there should be.
Actually, it's because the Sumerians and Babylonians used a base-60 counting system.
Time travel is lazy science, leading Science Fiction's devolution into Fantasy.
So you've completely reverse-engineered reality and determined that time travel is impossible? That's impressive.
Time travel in the "changing your own past" causality violation sense is probably impossible. But if there really are "many worlds", then there is no causality violation, so what makes it *impossible*, as opposed to something that may or may not be possible?
MORE SPOILERS
That's the Star Trek way, kick the opponent, when he already lies on the ground.
The Federation lost an entire planet because they didn't follow through on killing off Nero and his ship the first time. Do you think they should have potentially let him go and maybe had him come back later? They gave him the chance to surrender first, and he refused.
More importantly, if you're willing to pay 20,000 for a bottle of whiskey, you're never going to be drinking it. You want no one anywhere to be drinking it or saying that they have it.
What's the point, then? To save it until someone invents a food replicator and then you can have as many bottles of "$20,000" whiskey as you want, all to yourself?
As for the cameras issue. That is legit. Not only do courts sometimes deal with cases where identities must be protected (I.e. It's bad enough little Sandy has to testify against her Daddy for molesting her, but putting her picture on the net would make it a whole lot worse) but there are other "institutions" that have vested interest in being photograph free. I.e. Many titty Bars ban Cams to protect the day jobs and church membership of part time strippers as well as the Senate seat of tonight's #1 tipper.
The ability to effectively enforce a ban on cameras is something that's only possible for the current relative sliver of history. What are those organizations going to do when technology allows virtually anyone to covertly record what they see through their eyes (organic or cybernetic)? They should start thinking about that now, because in the not-too-distant future they will have no choice but to allow it.
$0.10/gb * 500 GB = $50. I can buy a 1 TB hard drive for around $80. Why would I use this stuff?
Power surges and giant magnets probably won't erase a holographic disc.
The media is separate from the read/write mechanism so being able to read the media (outside of a clean room-equipped lab) is not tied to the lifetime of a single drive's mechanical components.
It's a lot harder to accidentally erase the contents of a WORM storage device.
That's the problem with this and every other UV adaptive lens treatment: Glass (like, for example, your windscreen) blocks UV.
So, they don't actually work when you're driving.
Glass doesn't fully block UV. I take UV photos using regular glass lenses with a UV-A bandpass filter in front. I lose something like 3-4 stops of light sensitivity compared to visible, but at least some of that is probably due to the camera sensor not being designed with UV in mind.
Apparently glass does block UV-B, UV-C, and shorter wavelengths. My camera isn't sensitive to wavelengths shorter than UV-A or I'd test it myself.
There aren't a lot of mannerisms to get right, and voice inflection is minimal as well.
Voice synthesis technology is still nowhere near capable of convincingly simulating an actual human voice. It's a bit of a head-scratcher for me - especially the dead-end "sample a bunch of phonemes" approach that has been in vogue for the last couple of decades, instead of using a physical-modeling approach.
Churches do operate under the 'do good' platform, but they do good for the church, not for the individuals in the church and certainly not for individuals outside the church.
There are plenty of churches that do good for individuals outside the church, and I say that as someone who is agnostic.
Off the top of my head, my mother's church has a weekly free dinner for low-income families that's open to everyone, and during the severe flooding two winters ago here in the Northwest, the Mormons donated emergency supplies to victims.
A rust-colored streak in the middle of a bunch of ice. What does it remind me of? Ah, yes [nasa.gov].
That is really interesting. It's obviously not as good as a true spectrograph, but it would be worth comparing the false-colour images NASA has on that same page with similar ones taken of rust (or ideally the Blood Falls) here on Earth to see if they match up. I can do that myself, minus the Blood Falls part (unless someone wants to pony up for a ticket). Maybe this weekend?