As a non-mechanic, I have disabled the seat belt warning on my own car. I'm mostly driving a few kilometers, I don't like to buckle up for a 1-minute drive. So i plugged the passengers belt in the drivers sensor. No reminders.:-)
You may build any system, if it restricts users, it's annoying. It it's annoying users, people will get their way around it. I just heard a story this weekend about gramps, who used an industrial machine which had 2 buttons to make sure the user's hands weren't in the way. It took too long to press both buttons every time, so he "fixed" one button with some duct tape. It wasn't the smartest thing to do, as he got injured, but it proves that systems that are too annoying, will get "fixed".
Furthermore, your car could detect a phone. But would it detect that you're eating a Big Mac at the wheel? Or that you're looking up your favorite song in your iPod? Or that your kids are fighting in the back seat, having your attention?
Too bad it's just another new filesystem. I would have preferred integration into (some future version of) EXTn or BTRFS. Not only would that mean it gets more widely available, it also means you don't have to miss al the nice functions of these filesystems. You may even be able to use it out of the box.
That's because only a few are boycotting DRM'ed crap. If A LOT of people start boycotting, companies that do DRM will die, and companies that don't will find that their customers have saved money by not buying crap.
Good point. Both morocco and turkey have been spying on the Dutch government and especially the Dutch police. Also, turkish online jihadists attack websites worldwide. Why would i trust turktrust and tubitak by default?
Have no fear, I have an asshole cousin who used to own a company. Anytime something went wrong he made sure to blame somebody else.
And for that exact reason, sometimes IT has to enforce things that even bosses don't like.
I read a lot of "the owner is the boss" replies, which is technically correct. But if something goes wrong, your ass 's gonna get in trouble. Therefore, if the boss doesn't cooperate, sometimes you have to 'help' him/her a little.
1) You could fix it under water by syncing over their c$ d$ etc, install a rsync daemon or something.
2) Make them come to you: i once had this boss that refused to bring his laptop in for anti-virus installation after the stand-alone anti-virus expired, for about half a year. I made a vbs script to pop up every hour warning about security issues, installed it over the network and had the laptop in my office in a few days.
3) Or use auditors to enforce policies. I have a little chat with our accountant's auditors every year. I haven'd had the need to use this way, but if i really need something fixed, I may inform the auditor something's wrong.
So handy... if a law or constitution is a little annoying, you just declare a few square meters "technically outside US soil", and do whatever you like.
I've been using ctrl+alt+ins as a hotkey to open rxvt, or now konsole for over 8 years. At one point, some keyboard manufacturers decided the insert wasn't needed anymore. It's still really pissing me off that some keyboards are just unavailable without my most important key.
Some people apparently still use it. So don't remove it, even if only for backward compatibility.
The third option: "Dear developers of [insert product name], I've found an security issue in [insert product name]. Details are attached. I give you 14 days before releasing this information publicly."
Just imagine old LP Albums having DRM. What company would still support servers to unlock those? Not even whe biggest multi-major-corp commitment would allow me to play records if this kinds of DRM would have been possible 80 years ago.
Bono can only afford 5 houses because he doesn't pay tax like anyone else does.
Funny how someone stealing from his own country can critisize people that don't even steal, but copy.
You can't even be sure that the (virtual) hardware or TPM chip of your (virtual) server hasn't been messed with. Anything that was man-build, can be hacked somehow.
The cloud is not safe. Period.
You might secure parts of your data. You can keep other internet users from illegally accessing your data. But as we just discussed, anyone with (virtual) fysical access to a server can break his way in. You may make it harder by installing full disk encryption software, but you can't even be sure that the bootloader of your virtual server isn't messed with.
If you build a bookstore that costs amazon millions of turnover a year, hosting it at ec2 might not be the smartest idea...
You don't need remote managemant to enter a boot-time password. I have a personal backup 'server' at my office, where I keep backups of my laptop and websites. Nobody, not even my boss is allowed to enter my personal data. On this system, I have installed CentOS 5.2 (upgraded to 5.4 by now) with full disk encryption. I'm running a combination of busybox, dropbear-ssh and some self-written scripts to boot a simple initrd, then unlock the harddisk over ssh. Exactly what the poster asks. Useful link: www.google.com/search?q=dropbear+luks
Nevertheless, in this situation, I think this hosting provider needs some serious 'correction'.
Anyone can type a DNS name. An ipv4 address is a bit cooler. But just imagine your coworker's respect when they see you telnet to 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334
I have had a few complaints about people not getting my mails. But all times, the fault was on the receiving mailservers.
Mostly, the situation was:
[my-mailserver]<------>[their-barracuda]<------>[their-mailserver]
When their-mailserver isn't configured to check the SPF of the second hop, mail gets rejected as their-barracuda clearly isn't one of my servers. I don't feel responsible for other organisations' misconfiguration.
Sorry, maybe the old search worked for you. But I have a personal IMAP account, a business IMAP account and a special charity projects account, all with 15+ folders. For my situation the old search was absolutely and completely useless. When I need to find a message, the best way to get results, is to ssh to the imap server and grep -ir.
Too bad I also use a lot of plugins, and the most important ones are not yet supported in TB3.
I was seriously considering switching to outlook on wine, but if all important plugins are working within a few weeks, I might give TB3 another try.
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As a non-mechanic, I have disabled the seat belt warning on my own car. I'm mostly driving a few kilometers, I don't like to buckle up for a 1-minute drive. So i plugged the passengers belt in the drivers sensor. No reminders. :-)
You may build any system, if it restricts users, it's annoying. It it's annoying users, people will get their way around it.
I just heard a story this weekend about gramps, who used an industrial machine which had 2 buttons to make sure the user's hands weren't in the way. It took too long to press both buttons every time, so he "fixed" one button with some duct tape. It wasn't the smartest thing to do, as he got injured, but it proves that systems that are too annoying, will get "fixed".
Furthermore, your car could detect a phone. But would it detect that you're eating a Big Mac at the wheel? Or that you're looking up your favorite song in your iPod? Or that your kids are fighting in the back seat, having your attention?
Too bad it's just another new filesystem. I would have preferred integration into (some future version of) EXTn or BTRFS.
Not only would that mean it gets more widely available, it also means you don't have to miss al the nice functions of these filesystems. You may even be able to use it out of the box.
Not gonna work. Most of my 40-year old collegues type like 12-year olds....
Do you want to talk to your hamburger before eating it?
That's because only a few are boycotting DRM'ed crap.
If A LOT of people start boycotting, companies that do DRM will die, and companies that don't will find that their customers have saved money by not buying crap.
And if a lot more people completely boycots DRM-crippled software/games/music/movies, vendors will be forced to stop using DRM.
Good point. Both morocco and turkey have been spying on the Dutch government and especially the Dutch police. Also, turkish online jihadists attack websites worldwide. Why would i trust turktrust and tubitak by default?
Most other countries didn't even have a blitzkrieg, people did an Anschluss instead.
Have no fear, I have an asshole cousin who used to own a company. Anytime something went wrong he made sure to blame somebody else.
And for that exact reason, sometimes IT has to enforce things that even bosses don't like.
I read a lot of "the owner is the boss" replies, which is technically correct. But if something goes wrong, your ass 's gonna get in trouble. Therefore, if the boss doesn't cooperate, sometimes you have to 'help' him/her a little.
1) You could fix it under water by syncing over their c$ d$ etc, install a rsync daemon or something.
2) Make them come to you: i once had this boss that refused to bring his laptop in for anti-virus installation after the stand-alone anti-virus expired, for about half a year. I made a vbs script to pop up every hour warning about security issues, installed it over the network and had the laptop in my office in a few days.
3) Or use auditors to enforce policies. I have a little chat with our accountant's auditors every year. I haven'd had the need to use this way, but if i really need something fixed, I may inform the auditor something's wrong.
So handy... if a law or constitution is a little annoying, you just declare a few square meters "technically outside US soil", and do whatever you like.
I've been using ctrl+alt+ins as a hotkey to open rxvt, or now konsole for over 8 years. At one point, some keyboard manufacturers decided the insert wasn't needed anymore. It's still really pissing me off that some keyboards are just unavailable without my most important key.
Some people apparently still use it. So don't remove it, even if only for backward compatibility.
The third option: "Dear developers of [insert product name], I've found an security issue in [insert product name]. Details are attached. I give you 14 days before releasing this information publicly."
Just imagine old LP Albums having DRM. What company would still support servers to unlock those? Not even whe biggest multi-major-corp commitment would allow me to play records if this kinds of DRM would have been possible 80 years ago.
A new challenge. Lets see if it stands for more than a week.
Bono can only afford 5 houses because he doesn't pay tax like anyone else does. Funny how someone stealing from his own country can critisize people that don't even steal, but copy.
They want you back.
You can't even be sure that the (virtual) hardware or TPM chip of your (virtual) server hasn't been messed with. Anything that was man-build, can be hacked somehow.
The cloud is not safe. Period. You might secure parts of your data. You can keep other internet users from illegally accessing your data. But as we just discussed, anyone with (virtual) fysical access to a server can break his way in. You may make it harder by installing full disk encryption software, but you can't even be sure that the bootloader of your virtual server isn't messed with. If you build a bookstore that costs amazon millions of turnover a year, hosting it at ec2 might not be the smartest idea...
You don't need remote managemant to enter a boot-time password.
I have a personal backup 'server' at my office, where I keep backups of my laptop and websites. Nobody, not even my boss is allowed to enter my personal data. On this system, I have installed CentOS 5.2 (upgraded to 5.4 by now) with full disk encryption. I'm running a combination of busybox, dropbear-ssh and some self-written scripts to boot a simple initrd, then unlock the harddisk over ssh. Exactly what the poster asks. Useful link: www.google.com/search?q=dropbear+luks
Nevertheless, in this situation, I think this hosting provider needs some serious 'correction'.
Anyone can type a DNS name. An ipv4 address is a bit cooler. But just imagine your coworker's respect when they see you telnet to 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334
I have had a few complaints about people not getting my mails. But all times, the fault was on the receiving mailservers.
Mostly, the situation was:
[my-mailserver]<------>[their-barracuda]<------>[their-mailserver]
When their-mailserver isn't configured to check the SPF of the second hop, mail gets rejected as their-barracuda clearly isn't one of my servers. I don't feel responsible for other organisations' misconfiguration.
151.9KG and 152.0KG are less than 1 glass of wine away from each other.
So in about 5 billion years we won't hear all that global warming talk anymore?
Great!
Sorry, maybe the old search worked for you. But I have a personal IMAP account, a business IMAP account and a special charity projects account, all with 15+ folders. For my situation the old search was absolutely and completely useless. When I need to find a message, the best way to get results, is to ssh to the imap server and grep -ir.
Too bad I also use a lot of plugins, and the most important ones are not yet supported in TB3.
I was seriously considering switching to outlook on wine, but if all important plugins are working within a few weeks, I might give TB3 another try.
It will probably mean that before setting off bombs, 'terrorists' will first smash the head of an old, helpless person to get a phone.