Re:Major downfall (no pun intended)
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Fanwing Planes?
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Helicopters autorotate.......
Re:This year's once-in-a-lifetime event
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Meet The Leonids
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Well, spent the early part of the morning on the roof. I'm in the middle of the Med, and there was a clear sky. roused the wife and kid as well, and we all stayed watching. There was significant light pollution, but the show was still okay - my boy loved it (2.5 yrs) - kept running around shouting "Fireworks!, Fireworks!";-) - I counted maybe 1 per minute.
Use both. I have a 2.5 yr old, and he is happy with both. He uses Win2K, as well as XP and Linux. KDE has some good edu stuff, but mainly it is websites. cbeebies (bbc kids site) is especially favorite at the moment. Whenever he sees a penguin anywhere, he starts jumping up and down: Tux!! Tux!! - he adores tux, and tuxracer etc are favorites.
In order to keep your machine from getting fried, I suggest beefing up your main box, give it a real distro like Debian, get a Psomething from eBay, Install RedHat 8 or Mandrake on it, run VMWare from your main box over X to it, and away you go. VMWare allows you to set partitions in a read-only mode that put your VMbox in pristine condition everytime you boot it up.
Personally, on the topic of OS Politics etc. I think it is important that he uses both Windows and Linux (and I am happy he prefers linux ^_^) and that he'll learn to use the best tool for the job.
Maybe so, but none of these options apply, really. What counts here is WEP and RDP encryption. Both are not really known for their "quality". Now, considering that - in true MS fashion - the target user for this machine isn't likely to know a whole lot off stuff about security, and add to that the fact that *I* for would not be so much interested in *real time* access to the datastream between terminal and processor, but would settle for capturing a few hours worth of the datastream and then taking my own good time in decrypting it, and looking for any goodies I could find (CC numbers, bank account numbers, good porn, etc) those measures don't go far enough, IMO.
Of course, as in "security through obscurity" kind of secure. How silly I didn't think of that before....
Re:Securing OpenSSL
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Due Diligence?
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You really should get out more. There are distro's that include a trusted key on the install media, and yes, people who use Free Software do get install media. If you don't have anything factual to see, silence will become you.....
Moot points, IMO. Why not simply use an OSI-approved license, instead of the license you currently yield? Why not adapt yours to meet the OSI standards?
I mean, at the end of the day, it is your work, and you are free to license it how you like. Your arguments in this discussion come across (to me) that your license is as good or better vis. the OSI standards. I am just curious as to where, exactly, your license is an improvement over the OSI standards (other then you maintaining totalitarian control, and not wanting others to build on your work and persuing different paths?)
"Be aware, of course, that the RFCs incorrectly describe BIND-specific implementation details as part of the standard"
That statement is factually incorrect. If it is described in the RFC, it is the standard. You cannot say "the standard incorrectly describes" in this context. What you _can_ say is "djb does not like that part of the standard, and if only they would have asked him, it never would have made it in the standard". But that is a different thing....
Or somebody writes a streaming frontend to a good P2P system, and so all the bandwith, storage, management and all is shared, in the best of the Internet traditions. Do you think the RIAA wants P2P to die because of the pirated music? OF COURSE NOT!!! They want P2P to die because it offers a better distributing mechanism then they can ever hope to offer.
This is factually incorrect. The last time the.doc format changed was between office 95 and office 97. After office 97, going to office 2k, there were some minor changes in the format, but nothing grand, and nothing that has to spark a major format-transition.
Sorry, but your post is not consistent. You state the criteria for what an acceptable desktop OS should be. Then you list a bunch of OS'es that according to you do not meet your criteria. You don't, however, state how any of these fail to meet your own criteria.
You then state one that you believe meets your own (rather limited) criteria. Again you do not state how this options meets your criteria. Then you finish by stating that anybody who does not agree with you is either incompetent or an idiot.
I'm not taking the piss, I'm just interested in how you arrive at your conclusions. I mean, you get to set the criteria, and *still* you don't manage to make a convincing case? That leaves me little other options but to consider you not competent to make these kinds of statements.
I don't think this is about security, or.htaccess, or typing a URL, or anything technical whatsoever. This is simply a company that is being *extremely* clever when it comes to Marketing.
Yesterday, I, as an IT professional that makes purchasing decision for a large organisation, had never heard from this company. Now I know they make Collaborative Solutions. All it cost them was a bogus courtcase with Reuters.
This is clever marketing, nothing more, nothing less. Anyone can spot the lack of merits of this case from a mile away. Brand and name recognition of this company is soaring though. I wonder how their stock price is taking it?
Well, you make some good points, but MS has consistently marketed their usage of XML as their way of being "open" and "interoperable". We all *know* that Ms is not interested in open formats. Ms, however, keeps insinuating that they are. They have little choice of course. Would you buy from a business that tells you "Buy the ultimate in vendor lock-in now!"?
OH NO!!!! An anonymous poster, who I don't know and will never meet has decided to NOT pledge his/her alliance with me on an Internet-based forum. I am shocked! My self-esteem has plummeted! How will I survive this massive blow to my ego!?!
Hmm, I think you are the one sounding like an idiot. It is well known that when MS implemented Kerberos within active Directory, they did so with several non-standard, proprietary extensions, in the same way they are doing with the Office XML file format. Have you ever opened an Office XML file in a text editor? Have you ever tried Active Directory Kerberos interoperabillity? Thought not.....
No you were not. MS routinely uses XML to encapsulate (proprietary) binary data. In the case of the MSOffice file format, this is especially true, but to a lesser extent this also goes for stuff like BizTalk etc (that has a terrible license attached to it). If Ms is *really* serious about using open formats, and using XML in their Office suite, they should put their money where their mouth is and join in the OpenOffice File format project. Most of the opensource players are working their already, and the EU is also set to join. I assure you that mature participation of Microsoft would be very welcome.
Of course, this will never happen. Instead, MS will continue to push their own "open" XML based file formats. Microsoft Kerberos, anyone?
Sourcecast sucks ass in so many ways, it is not even funny anymore. We have to use it on a daily basis at openoffice.org, and nothing is possible. The source is closed. Yes, the components are freely available, but the glue isn't. and the glue is what makes this thing tick. They have knocked up the infrastructure using some "WebMacro" kind of stuff, but none of the documentation is available - CollabNet say it is a "trade secret". This means that people hosting stuff at CN cannot customise their sites, and cannot do anything really more interesting then static HTML. I have some issues with how SourceForge run their club, but if you have to compare the two, SF.Net blows them away on every turn.
Heh. There is a photo of some shirtless, tatooed protester swinging a punch to a policeman, with as caption:"The net could help improve political debate". Anybody else thinks the BBC has a strange idea of political debate? Besides, how is the net going to improve political debate, or at least raise it above the level depicted in that photo? Soon, we'll all be wetware-wired into the net, and then, instead of beating you with a stick, the cops i'll just fry your brains instead. It's called progress.
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Helicopters autorotate.......
Well, spent the early part of the morning on the roof. I'm in the middle of the Med, and there was a clear sky. roused the wife and kid as well, and we all stayed watching. There was significant light pollution, but the show was still okay - my boy loved it (2.5 yrs) - kept running around shouting "Fireworks!, Fireworks!" ;-) - I counted maybe 1 per minute.
In order to keep your machine from getting fried, I suggest beefing up your main box, give it a real distro like Debian, get a Psomething from eBay, Install RedHat 8 or Mandrake on it, run VMWare from your main box over X to it, and away you go. VMWare allows you to set partitions in a read-only mode that put your VMbox in pristine condition everytime you boot it up.
Personally, on the topic of OS Politics etc. I think it is important that he uses both Windows and Linux (and I am happy he prefers linux ^_^) and that he'll learn to use the best tool for the job.
Maybe so, but none of these options apply, really. What counts here is WEP and RDP encryption. Both are not really known for their "quality". Now, considering that - in true MS fashion - the target user for this machine isn't likely to know a whole lot off stuff about security, and add to that the fact that *I* for would not be so much interested in *real time* access to the datastream between terminal and processor, but would settle for capturing a few hours worth of the datastream and then taking my own good time in decrypting it, and looking for any goodies I could find (CC numbers, bank account numbers, good porn, etc) those measures don't go far enough, IMO.
Of course, as in "security through obscurity" kind of secure. How silly I didn't think of that before....
You really should get out more. There are distro's that include a trusted key on the install media, and yes, people who use Free Software do get install media. If you don't have anything factual to see, silence will become you.....
I bet you don't allow ICMP through your firewall either.....
My rule of thumb: If it is not something I want the whole world to find out about, it doesn't go on the computer. Period.
Hey man, thanks for the excellent links!! brilliant stuff
I mean, at the end of the day, it is your work, and you are free to license it how you like. Your arguments in this discussion come across (to me) that your license is as good or better vis. the OSI standards. I am just curious as to where, exactly, your license is an improvement over the OSI standards (other then you maintaining totalitarian control, and not wanting others to build on your work and persuing different paths?)
That statement is factually incorrect. If it is described in the RFC, it is the standard. You cannot say "the standard incorrectly describes" in this context. What you _can_ say is "djb does not like that part of the standard, and if only they would have asked him, it never would have made it in the standard". But that is a different thing....
This is why running BIND9 instead of the djb stuff may be a very good idea.
Or somebody writes a streaming frontend to a good P2P system, and so all the bandwith, storage, management and all is shared, in the best of the Internet traditions. Do you think the RIAA wants P2P to die because of the pirated music? OF COURSE NOT!!! They want P2P to die because it offers a better distributing mechanism then they can ever hope to offer.
This is factually incorrect. The last time the .doc format changed was between office 95 and office 97. After office 97, going to office 2k, there were some minor changes in the format, but nothing grand, and nothing that has to spark a major format-transition.
Heh. My desk is just a big mess.
Couldn't agree more.
You then state one that you believe meets your own (rather limited) criteria. Again you do not state how this options meets your criteria. Then you finish by stating that anybody who does not agree with you is either incompetent or an idiot.
I'm not taking the piss, I'm just interested in how you arrive at your conclusions. I mean, you get to set the criteria, and *still* you don't manage to make a convincing case? That leaves me little other options but to consider you not competent to make these kinds of statements.
Yesterday, I, as an IT professional that makes purchasing decision for a large organisation, had never heard from this company. Now I know they make Collaborative Solutions. All it cost them was a bogus courtcase with Reuters.
This is clever marketing, nothing more, nothing less. Anyone can spot the lack of merits of this case from a mile away. Brand and name recognition of this company is soaring though. I wonder how their stock price is taking it?
Well, you make some good points, but MS has consistently marketed their usage of XML as their way of being "open" and "interoperable". We all *know* that Ms is not interested in open formats. Ms, however, keeps insinuating that they are. They have little choice of course. Would you buy from a business that tells you "Buy the ultimate in vendor lock-in now!"?
OH NO!!!! An anonymous poster, who I don't know and will never meet has decided to NOT pledge his/her alliance with me on an Internet-based forum. I am shocked! My self-esteem has plummeted! How will I survive this massive blow to my ego!?!
Hmm, I think you are the one sounding like an idiot. It is well known that when MS implemented Kerberos within active Directory, they did so with several non-standard, proprietary extensions, in the same way they are doing with the Office XML file format. Have you ever opened an Office XML file in a text editor? Have you ever tried Active Directory Kerberos interoperabillity? Thought not.....
Of course, this will never happen. Instead, MS will continue to push their own "open" XML based file formats. Microsoft Kerberos, anyone?
Sourcecast sucks ass in so many ways, it is not even funny anymore. We have to use it on a daily basis at openoffice.org, and nothing is possible. The source is closed. Yes, the components are freely available, but the glue isn't. and the glue is what makes this thing tick. They have knocked up the infrastructure using some "WebMacro" kind of stuff, but none of the documentation is available - CollabNet say it is a "trade secret". This means that people hosting stuff at CN cannot customise their sites, and cannot do anything really more interesting then static HTML. I have some issues with how SourceForge run their club, but if you have to compare the two, SF.Net blows them away on every turn.
It's called "social life". Try it, sometimes.
Heh. There is a photo of some shirtless, tatooed protester swinging a punch to a policeman, with as caption:"The net could help improve political debate". Anybody else thinks the BBC has a strange idea of political debate? Besides, how is the net going to improve political debate, or at least raise it above the level depicted in that photo? Soon, we'll all be wetware-wired into the net, and then, instead of beating you with a stick, the cops i'll just fry your brains instead. It's called progress.