Not to mention that I can't scroll the page at all using Camino under OSX.4. No scroll bars for my browser and pressing space doesn't do anything. Thanks for the great contribution to usability Mike.
Alston wasn't marginal or independent, he was first on Victoria's Liberal party Sentate ticket. He wasn't ultra(or uber)-conservative, just ultra-stupid. He didn't lose his seat, he retired and was appointed as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. And we still have bans against any hardcore porn being hosted on servers located in Australia.
You're right that he was a complete luddite nutjob though. Google still views him as the "World's greatest luddite".
I agree with you about the idiocy of this latest attempt to filter our porn, but what do you mean that we're "...still reeling from the effects of gun control laws"?
The gun control laws were pretty universially popular with the exception of some farmers and they passed years ago with no problems. I haven't heard anything about them for at least three or four years now.
2. The tax issue -- let's get this straight. If you have a Ph.D. in the maths and/or sciences area, let's just pull a number out of nowhere. You have a 'right' to command a wage near $75K, say (more or less, depending on the field, but yeah). Now, let's suppose you're Jimmy, the 'average' American citizen. Wait! You only make $45K. Why will you be excited to pay for some kid to go to college so he can make more with your money? That's going to be an exciting bill to pass... Why would you vote for someone who takes that kind of money from you?
I can see your point but there are any number of other areas where people pay taxes to support programs/services/infrastructure that they'll never use. I think it's more important to consider the value of having a more-educated workforce on the economic performance of a country.
A lot of the material I've read indicates that the cost of the increase in education spending is more than covered by an increase in economic output---mind you, most of these studies have been in countries where education is a lot less costly than the US.
It's actually pretty easy to join a Linux desktop to an Active Directory if you know what you're doing - try the instructions at http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=6.
I don't have a lot of experience with Windows, but
Kickstart is one of the most impressive pieces of Linux software that I've used.
Network PXE boot, enter a configuration file location and sit back while Kickstart configures and partitions your server, downloads and installs all your packages, runs post-installation scripts to install updates and start all your services, and finally reboots your completed server. All without any intervention.
Not to mention that if you ever need to re-deploy that server, or deploy a similar server, you can reuse the configuration file to guarantee the server is identical.
I think you misunderstand the meaning of cartel. A single company operating on its own can be a monopolist but it by definition it takes more than one to be a cartel. RIAA yes, Microsoft and Walmar, no.
I won't get in to the 'discussion' about whether the Apple music store should let you re-download songs, but remember that if you have an iPod, you already have a backup of your music. There are plenty of programs that let you copy music off your iPod back to a computer.
In my humble opinion all these other "fancy schmancy" iPod style players (which I am assuming this Dell will emulate) are complete crap. Absolute over engineered bollocks. Why do you need special drivers to talk to a flash based device ? Why do you need crappy management software to talk to a flash device ?
You don't need any fancy drivers to access the filesystem on an iPod Shuffle. You do need to configure it for disk use (so iTunes knows to leave some free space when copying your music over) but after that, simply plug it in to any computer and it will show up as a removable drive.
Are you forgetting "Mr WinSuperSite" who says "Too, I'd like to remind you that Windows Vista is only in Beta 1. Lots of things are going to change, and many, many features will be added by Beta 2 and beyond."
Or does that only apply to positive features yet to be added?
I think you've got this around the wrong way. The problem is that you need to manually import the appropriate public keys, rather than the fact that Red Hat doesn't sign its updates. They're all signed - it's just that by default the public keys aren't in the RPM database.
See the bottom of this page for more information (and no, I don't know why they keys don't come pre-installed).
You can also left-click on the icon and just drag it off the dock to remove it. When I first switched, this kind of behaviour (so simple!) felt strange but it's quite common throughout OSX.
e.g. Dragging a picture from Safari to the desktop to save it...or dragging an application to the Trash to delete it.
Have you got any documentation on this that I could have a look at? I work at the University of Melbourne in the Windows group as Linux and OSX systems administrator. I can get Linux / AD logins working but I'm having trouble restricting logins based on AD group membershoip.
It's not just Australia who has them, according to this (2002) article there are around twenty countries using plastic notes.
As an Australian, I imagine that the notes would be quite hard to fake. They look and feel like plastic and have a clear plastic section with a hologram printed on it. You'd certainly need more than just some fancy paper and a colour laser printer!
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know of an OSX equivalent to TrueCrypt? I'd like to encrypt some of my home directory but not all of it so I can't use the built-in Filevault.
You seem to be confusing AFP with AppleTalk. AFP can use AppleTalk or TCP/IP for its network transport - certainly AppleTalk is disappearing from network routers due to its verbosity but AFP over TCP/IP works perfectly on all the networks I've seen.
Microsoft has limited support for AFP with its Windows services for Macintosh but they don't support AFP 3.1 (long file name, files > 2GB) at all. You have to buy an expensive commercial product to get these features (or use Free/free Netatalk on a *NIX OS).
Maybe next time you should be a little slower to tell other to get their facts right.
No, it's not "Fedora Red Hat". They are very careful to refer to the "Fedora project" and "Fedora Linux" but you won't see "Fedora Red Hat" around (at least not from the official project). The closet the website gets is "The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project."
I agree, the course is well worth doing and it's the only way of getting good documentation from Apple in this area. There is a section on cross-realm Kerberos authentication which is what you are looking at here.
We run a large AD (~70,000 users and ~20,000 computers) and many of the university's departments have configured X.3 clients to authenticate against the AD.
The bug is this: If I want to make a document use any font besides their (IMHO, ugly) default "Nimbus Roman No9 L" font, the font will revert back to the Nimbus roman font if I hit the right arrow at the end of the document. Because of how I write, I frequently do this, resulting in what I type being in the wrong font.
You'll find that MS Office does this too and it's a design decision rather than a bug. The end of the document is always the default / normal style. The solution is to change the font for that style.
Firstly, thanks for linking to my page! We have a large AD implementation (roughly 60,000 staff and student accounts) at Melbourne Uni, mostly Windows machines but also a number Macs.
Our AD is currently running in mixed mode with some W2k and a majority of W2k3 domain controllers. We will probably be switching over native W2k3 mode in the next few months and have no reason to believe that Mac authentication will stop working (but I haven't yet tested that to confirm it).
OS 10.3's support for AD groups is pretty useless but if you are running an OS 10.3 server then you can manage AD users and computers by adding it to your clients as a second authentication path. I've written some draft notes on how this works (and it works very well).
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions / comments - my email address is on the linked web page.
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And what about the complete lack of page scrolling ability using (at least) Camino on OSX? I'd call that a little more than a 'supposed' limitation.
Not to mention that I can't scroll the page at all using Camino under OSX.4. No scroll bars for my browser and pressing space doesn't do anything. Thanks for the great contribution to usability Mike.
Yeah, just a few minor facts wrong there.
Alston wasn't marginal or independent, he was first on Victoria's Liberal party Sentate ticket. He wasn't ultra(or uber)-conservative, just ultra-stupid. He didn't lose his seat, he retired and was appointed as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. And we still have bans against any hardcore porn being hosted on servers located in Australia.
You're right that he was a complete luddite nutjob though. Google still views him as the "World's greatest luddite".
I agree with you about the idiocy of this latest attempt to filter our porn, but what do you mean that we're "...still reeling from the effects of gun control laws"?
The gun control laws were pretty universially popular with the exception of some farmers and they passed years ago with no problems. I haven't heard anything about them for at least three or four years now.
2. The tax issue -- let's get this straight. If you have a Ph.D. in the maths and/or sciences area, let's just pull a number out of nowhere. You have a 'right' to command a wage near $75K, say (more or less, depending on the field, but yeah). Now, let's suppose you're Jimmy, the 'average' American citizen. Wait! You only make $45K. Why will you be excited to pay for some kid to go to college so he can make more with your money? That's going to be an exciting bill to pass... Why would you vote for someone who takes that kind of money from you?
I can see your point but there are any number of other areas where people pay taxes to support programs/services/infrastructure that they'll never use. I think it's more important to consider the value of having a more-educated workforce on the economic performance of a country.
A lot of the material I've read indicates that the cost of the increase in education spending is more than covered by an increase in economic output---mind you, most of these studies have been in countries where education is a lot less costly than the US.
It's actually pretty easy to join a Linux desktop to an Active Directory if you know what you're doing - try the instructions at http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=6.
I don't have a lot of experience with Windows, but Kickstart is one of the most impressive pieces of Linux software that I've used.
Network PXE boot, enter a configuration file location and sit back while Kickstart configures and partitions your server, downloads and installs all your packages, runs post-installation scripts to install updates and start all your services, and finally reboots your completed server. All without any intervention.
Not to mention that if you ever need to re-deploy that server, or deploy a similar server, you can reuse the configuration file to guarantee the server is identical.
I think you misunderstand the meaning of cartel. A single company operating on its own can be a monopolist but it by definition it takes more than one to be a cartel. RIAA yes, Microsoft and Walmar, no.
I won't get in to the 'discussion' about whether the Apple music store should let you re-download songs, but remember that if you have an iPod, you already have a backup of your music. There are plenty of programs that let you copy music off your iPod back to a computer.
Or even better, use software from the Hymn Project to convert your protected AACs in to DRM-free ones without having to burn and re-encode your music.
You don't need any fancy drivers to access the filesystem on an iPod Shuffle. You do need to configure it for disk use (so iTunes knows to leave some free space when copying your music over) but after that, simply plug it in to any computer and it will show up as a removable drive.
Are you forgetting "Mr WinSuperSite" who says "Too, I'd like to remind you that Windows Vista is only in Beta 1. Lots of things are going to change, and many, many features will be added by Beta 2 and beyond."
Or does that only apply to positive features yet to be added?
I think you've got this around the wrong way. The problem is that you need to manually import the appropriate public keys, rather than the fact that Red Hat doesn't sign its updates. They're all signed - it's just that by default the public keys aren't in the RPM database.
See the bottom of this page for more information (and no, I don't know why they keys don't come pre-installed).
You can also left-click on the icon and just drag it off the dock to remove it. When I first switched, this kind of behaviour (so simple!) felt strange but it's quite common throughout OSX. e.g. Dragging a picture from Safari to the desktop to save it...or dragging an application to the Trash to delete it.
Have you got any documentation on this that I could have a look at? I work at the University of Melbourne in the Windows group as Linux and OSX systems administrator. I can get Linux / AD logins working but I'm having trouble restricting logins based on AD group membershoip.
It's not just Australia who has them, according to this (2002) article there are around twenty countries using plastic notes.
As an Australian, I imagine that the notes would be quite hard to fake. They look and feel like plastic and have a clear plastic section with a hologram printed on it. You'd certainly need more than just some fancy paper and a colour laser printer!
How do you Redhat people update your systems???
up2date on RHEL and yum on Fedora.
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know of an OSX equivalent to TrueCrypt? I'd like to encrypt some of my home directory but not all of it so I can't use the built-in Filevault.
You seem to be confusing AFP with AppleTalk. AFP can use AppleTalk or TCP/IP for its network transport - certainly AppleTalk is disappearing from network routers due to its verbosity but AFP over TCP/IP works perfectly on all the networks I've seen.
Microsoft has limited support for AFP with its Windows services for Macintosh but they don't support AFP 3.1 (long file name, files > 2GB) at all. You have to buy an expensive commercial product to get these features (or use Free/free Netatalk on a *NIX OS).
Maybe next time you should be a little slower to tell other to get their facts right.
It's included by default in Fedora Core 4 (currently at test 2 release).
No, it's not "Fedora Red Hat". They are very careful to refer to the "Fedora project" and "Fedora Linux" but you won't see "Fedora Red Hat" around (at least not from the official project). The closet the website gets is "The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project."
The pre-release builds are including both gcc 3.3 and gcc 4.0 with 4.0 being the default.
You can switch between them using the
command.I agree, the course is well worth doing and it's the only way of getting good documentation from Apple in this area. There is a section on cross-realm Kerberos authentication which is what you are looking at here.
We run a large AD (~70,000 users and ~20,000 computers) and many of the university's departments have configured X.3 clients to authenticate against the AD.
I've documented how to authenticate a X.3 client against and AD as well as how to use an AD for authentication and an OD server to manage groups and computers.
The bug is this: If I want to make a document use any font besides their (IMHO, ugly) default "Nimbus Roman No9 L" font, the font will revert back to the Nimbus roman font if I hit the right arrow at the end of the document. Because of how I write, I frequently do this, resulting in what I type being in the wrong font.
You'll find that MS Office does this too and it's a design decision rather than a bug. The end of the document is always the default / normal style. The solution is to change the font for that style.
Firstly, thanks for linking to my page! We have a large AD implementation (roughly 60,000 staff and student accounts) at Melbourne Uni, mostly Windows machines but also a number Macs.
Our AD is currently running in mixed mode with some W2k and a majority of W2k3 domain controllers. We will probably be switching over native W2k3 mode in the next few months and have no reason to believe that Mac authentication will stop working (but I haven't yet tested that to confirm it).
OS 10.3's support for AD groups is pretty useless but if you are running an OS 10.3 server then you can manage AD users and computers by adding it to your clients as a second authentication path. I've written some draft notes on how this works (and it works very well).
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions / comments - my email address is on the linked web page.