Right now, the price of gold has done this. A computer is worth about $25USD in bulk. Finger boards are worth $10usd - $15usd in bulk. The majority is getting broken down.
I thought no business cared about the individuals any more. At least that is the feeling I get when I listen to the 25th recording of how valuable a customer I am to them... Could also by why I am on craigslist so much.
You can with partitions... And if you are running full RAID, it makes sense to have that failsafe in your system drive as well. But if you want a smaller drive, call them. I got drives for mine that were not on the web site. (Although they were options about a week later)
The big companies' main flaw is assuming that all of their users are idiots (including system administrators)
Continuing to use them as they continue to not meet your needs, means they are correct in that assessment. As custom builds and white boxes make it back into the data center, they may try and go after a market with a clue, and a budget.
That is just software. How about hardware? Why do you need a chipset with high end RAID and 12 SATA ports when you are going to install a LSI card? Look under the hood and you see the same crap, but worse.
Not custom, just not bloated. Bloat, both in hardware, operating systems, and "standard desktops" has become so bad that people are willing to pay a premium to remove some of it. The high end Intel server I got from System76 had nothing on it I did not need, and was cheaper than others, even while being "custom." The Linux drivers were a plus as well.
If this goes though, then I think by far most people will stick with the LTS releases.
Goddamnit, how am I supposed to keep up with firefox that way? I don't want to miss out on the next major firefox version increase. The changelog says they've added a new feature nobody cares about!
Use the PPA. https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable There is a PPA for most of the big apps, like FireFox, LibreOffice, Nvidia, Transmission... OK, my repo list looks like a phone book, but that is still better then 11.04.
This makes it harder to hold back a release because the decided to axe a stable Gnome. Also makes it hard to hold back a week for the final beta testing.
Correction... A handful are known about. And it is an absolute certainty that more will occur. And they will only be revoked after they are found out, which is usually after they have been in the wild for a while.
Of course, in that case, the government can just come in and say "Give us root." Or use the ubiquitous xkcd password recovery technique with a wrench. There is no technical fix for that.
This is just Enumerating Badness. http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/ In other words, it is a game of whack-a-mole where you do not know there is a problem until after lots of people have been fucked. Like in AV software before heuristics.
Wow... A whole chain of people who never read what they are commenting on.
It does not prove that X really is X. It proves that the cert you got for X website is the same as the certs others got for X website. It prevents an unnoticed cert swap. There is no "issuing" of the cert. It can be self signed... Just checking to make sure it is the same cert as yesterday, and for all places. No special cert for the hidden proxy in Iran.
"...HTC secured some patents from Google (who purchased them originally from Palm Inc., Motorola Inc. and Openwave Systems Inc.) on the 1st of September."
If HTC secured them from Google, how then are these patents Google patents?
A better heading could be:
"HTC acquires patents from Google then employs them to sue Apple."
How about that?
That is far to many words for most people to understand. This is why so many have trouble reading the summaries, not to mention the actual article in question.
It is not just paying the money. You also have to listen to the advice. Occasionally, that is rare in some management types. (No, you do not need root on the mail server.)
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And how does the PHB know the certificate is fake to present it?
Gee... If only someone else had an idea... http://convergence.io/
And the easy to recycle tin, and plastic from the cases and power supplies that is usually broken down at the first step.
Right now, the price of gold has done this. A computer is worth about $25USD in bulk. Finger boards are worth $10usd - $15usd in bulk. The majority is getting broken down.
I thought no business cared about the individuals any more. At least that is the feeling I get when I listen to the 25th recording of how valuable a customer I am to them... Could also by why I am on craigslist so much.
Their website is ugly as sin and a mess. They aren't the only the site on the web that does just one thing.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist
No irony there... Other than the slow loading, ugly site, with pop-over adds to close before I could read it. Give me craigslist over wired any day.
You can with partitions... And if you are running full RAID, it makes sense to have that failsafe in your system drive as well. But if you want a smaller drive, call them. I got drives for mine that were not on the web site. (Although they were options about a week later)
The big companies' main flaw is assuming that all of their users are idiots (including system administrators)
Continuing to use them as they continue to not meet your needs, means they are correct in that assessment. As custom builds and white boxes make it back into the data center, they may try and go after a market with a clue, and a budget.
That is just software. How about hardware? Why do you need a chipset with high end RAID and 12 SATA ports when you are going to install a LSI card? Look under the hood and you see the same crap, but worse.
Not custom, just not bloated. Bloat, both in hardware, operating systems, and "standard desktops" has become so bad that people are willing to pay a premium to remove some of it. The high end Intel server I got from System76 had nothing on it I did not need, and was cheaper than others, even while being "custom." The Linux drivers were a plus as well.
If this goes though, then I think by far most people will stick with the LTS releases.
Goddamnit, how am I supposed to keep up with firefox that way? I don't want to miss out on the next major firefox version increase. The changelog says they've added a new feature nobody cares about!
Use the PPA. https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable There is a PPA for most of the big apps, like FireFox, LibreOffice, Nvidia, Transmission... OK, my repo list looks like a phone book, but that is still better then 11.04.
Or policies that lock them to a given major revision. (Large enterprises, Ubuntu, and etc...)
Here here... The number of people on 10.04LTS and 10.10 just to avoid Unity should tell them that "more updates" is not what we are looking for.
This makes it harder to hold back a release because the decided to axe a stable Gnome. Also makes it hard to hold back a week for the final beta testing.
Correction... A handful are known about. And it is an absolute certainty that more will occur. And they will only be revoked after they are found out, which is usually after they have been in the wild for a while.
Of course, in that case, the government can just come in and say "Give us root." Or use the ubiquitous xkcd password recovery technique with a wrench. There is no technical fix for that.
Sure, I'll download and run code without a crypto hash from a non-HTTPS site.
And you think https is more secure? Have you been reading the news? I think the period should have gone directly after "crypto hash."
This is just Enumerating Badness. http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/ In other words, it is a game of whack-a-mole where you do not know there is a problem until after lots of people have been fucked. Like in AV software before heuristics.
You can querry the notaries directly when you start up. If there is no match, than you know there is a lserver attack in place, and you move the box.
Wow... A whole chain of people who never read what they are commenting on.
It does not prove that X really is X. It proves that the cert you got for X website is the same as the certs others got for X website. It prevents an unnoticed cert swap. There is no "issuing" of the cert. It can be self signed... Just checking to make sure it is the same cert as yesterday, and for all places. No special cert for the hidden proxy in Iran.
"...HTC secured some patents from Google (who purchased them originally from Palm Inc., Motorola Inc. and Openwave Systems Inc.) on the 1st of September."
If HTC secured them from Google, how then are these patents Google patents?
A better heading could be:
"HTC acquires patents from Google then employs them to sue Apple."
How about that?
That is far to many words for most people to understand. This is why so many have trouble reading the summaries, not to mention the actual article in question.
"but, but.. Apple started it!!" Well, boohoo. If your sister annoys you and you break her arm as a result, you're still doing wrong.
Have you met my sister?
It is not just paying the money. You also have to listen to the advice. Occasionally, that is rare in some management types. (No, you do not need root on the mail server.)
I really hate how insightful that is.
Actually, yes. http://convergence.io/ However, it also is not perfect, just better. Just catching that troll behind you there...