Case in point: Spacial Nautilus. It's a moronic idea. Just plain idiotic. Everyone absolutely despises it.
i think that you misunderstand the concept of being truly spatial (hint, early Macs and Windows we're NOT spatial).
When I first tried this new spatial thing, I was hesitant because of all the bad press it was getting at the time. I started using it, and hated it right off the bat.
Once I realized the concept behind it, I reorganized all my files with this new organizational concept. Now, I can find and get to my data quicker than ever before. For those of you that don't seem to understand the spatial concept, it's because your files aren't organized in a way to take advantage of what spatial organization offers.
There's no button to turn it off.
I agree with you here. I think there should be an easy preference menu for switching between the two.
Perhaps it was because there was an imminent threat?
the UN didn't think so. the world didn't think so. Only the United States thought so, and the world wasn't convinced of it. in any case, we all now know that there was no immediate threat.
how come the UN didn't condemn Saddam for his dictatorial and genocidal rule?
are you aware of how many countries are dictatorial?
The UN showed itself to be irrelevant when they did nothing as Saddam made them look foolish and kicked the UN weapons inspectors out.
The UN inspectors were not kicked out. They were told to leave by the US because the US was about to unleash holy hell on Iraq.
Then they proved their irrelevance when the U.S. invaded Iraq.
What was the UN to do? declare war on the US to prove they are relevant? The only entity making the UN irrelevant is the United States everytime they make a double standard.
I'm an American living in Europe, so between my parents and the locals here, I get to hear both sides of the story. One of the biggest concerns was when the US went against the UN. That was a major mistake in the eyes of the world.
The UN wasn't denying that there were WMD's in Iraq. All the UN wanted was more time to be absolutely sure that the supposed WMD reports about Iraq were accurate (which now we all know they weren't).
The UN didn't make any mistakes here. Why was Bush in such a hurry? The only answer I can think of here is because election was just around the corner.
Why don't people just realize that once you open your web browser you should just leave it open?! Why are you even on your computer?:P
you are forgetting that windows users are still stuck in the stone age with a single desktop. if they left it open, they would have to deal with minimizing and maximizing, etc.
once microsoft begins this new era of 'innovation', i'm sure it will come around to 'inventing' the multiple desktop concept. sit tight.
hold on, something is seriously amiss here. why am i not seeing MS advertising about IE? i'm surprised i haven't read 'independent' studies showing IE being faster and more secure and more advanced...or more something
why does it seem like MS is more than willing to lose web client marketshare? what's up their sleaves this time? that's the question we should be asking ourselves.
German is one of the easiest languages to learn for an English speaker (along with French and Spanish). if it's a learning curve you're after, go for Finnish or Russian.
i've always been under the impression that most of the linux based distribution security advisories aren't exploitable remotely, unless you already have a user account on the system.
can someone please enlighten me as to what exact services in linux have been exploitable in the last few years? i mean, a completely anonymous attacker gaining root access to a machine over a network?
these 'statistics' apparently show some 20 holes in linux that are remotely exploitable by anonymous attackers. i call shenanigans.
i'm interested what country you're in that it's available in. normally here in Saint Petersburg, Russia, i can get the DVD from any street corner CD shop the same day as the movie release in the states.
however, yesterday i went all over town looking for this movie, and it wasn't available anywhere.
oh, and we pay about $3 per dvd instead of $2 (but we have PC games at $2 a pop, sometimes coming with the crack and/or serial number generator...)
anyone in Saint Pete know where i can pick up a copy??
is a honkin' server in your trunk just to listen to music. Or, here's an idea, get an iPod!
the only way this can be justified is if you didn't spend any money. i started a similar project in the summer of 2002. the entire concept was to *not spend any money* and get it going with parts laying around the house.
i ended up putting an old beatup p300 in the back of my car, with a mini keyboard running up to the front. i had it booting up in init 1 (for speed) with a nice female voice announcing she was 'ready' when it finished booting up, people really dug that.
i was using some little program i found on sourceforge, god i can't remember the name of it, that used mpg123 for the backend, which worked great. i hacked the program up a bit to allow for certain songlists to be played when a certain keys was struck on the mini keyboard.
now, this was free and worked really well, but here's what i would rather have done:
i wanted to catalog each song into a mysql database with fields like year, genre, artist, etc.(typical id3 tag fields) i wanted to incorporate speech recognition so one could populate search fields based on what they wanted, e.g., 'search rock from 1970 to 1972' and have a playlist generate from the results. if you took a cheapo microphone, but applied a hardcore limiter to it, it should work fine even with a bunch of background noise. and since the machine is running linux, how easy would it be to write up a quick php front end for custom playlist organization, song transfers to and from the machine over wireless....the possibilities are endless and all for just a few bucks and some of your time.
i have a pic, but it doesn't really show any details:( this pic shows the little keyboard i was using, but i had set the output for this little stereo as we were camping and wanted a little music.
i am sure all those advertisement dollars probably didn't amount to much, either. m not saying that he's obligated at all.
what i'm saying is that you if you're going to do something, at least follow thru and don't be a cop out. if you're going to cop out, and your actions will end up hurting people, the least you could do is make some kind of announcement a few weeks before deciding to cop out.
there's nothing wrong with having a little common courtesy and basic respect. let me guess, jcr: are you the guy that honks his horn in some neighborhood for his friend to come out at 3AM? are you that guy that sees a long line and looks for some opportunity to cut it? are you that guy that might see some old person fall down and, instead of helping you chuckle to yourself?
because your reponse to me makes you look like that guy....
he's basically saying that sometime after July 1, when he's moved and settled in and he gets around to it, he will make them available. that doesn't exactly sound like any kind of reassurance.
i don't see why he just doesn't do a huge database dump, compress the hell out of it and make the whole thing available to anyone who wants to download it.
i see people all the time using public or free internet services for things like finance management and blogs. i'm always telling them that one day these services will disappear, and when it happens they're going to lose all their data.
i know that i want my blog to be with me until i die. therefore, i decided to write my own and host it on my own machine. i decided to keep the blog data raw as hell in the database, so it will make for easy exporting years down the road when everything changes.
being a system administrator for as long as you claim, i'm really scratching my head over much of your reply.
just because you have users doesn't make you a helpless administrator. does all your users require shell access? are they all familiar with strong passwords? must all of your shell users be allowed to ssh from anywhere in the world? if there are policies in place that you don't agree with, call a meeting with your superiors and let them know your thoughts. you are the administrator afterall, and your thoughts on security are the most important of all.
if many of your users have laptops that come and go from the building, just setup a seperate subnet for those users with strong firewall protection so it creates a separation between them and your critical systems. problem solved.
after reading your reply, it is becoming clear that all of your backend network glue is all handled my Microsoft machines. is this where your $250,000 charge comes from for implementing simple security? if you must use MS for company services, no problem. but i would highly recommend using linux for all your backend routing and security.
sure, your CEO may be clueless when it comes to security and/or technology, but you can bet your bottom dollar that your CTO isn't so ignorant of these issues.
you said: Where you are, is the realization that something should be actively done to stop it at all costs (sacrificing usability).
if you think that usability is sacrificed because of security, then you really have a lot of learning to do.
if you're a linux user (and if you are, then you're a new one), then i bet you a million dollars that you log into your desktop as root.
sorry for the barb, let me make my point.
you see, exploits typically are before patches along the timeline. if an exploit comes out that punches a major hole thru apache, then most of us are in trouble and there's not much we can do about it other than kill the service until a patch comes along (or help find a solution, if that's your cup of tea).
let's take your example: let's say you're running a box with apache, ftp, vnc server and mysql. on this machine, only apache should be available to the world because your resume is on there. fine.
however, if you only ftp from this one computer across town, and vnc from the system across the hall, then it would be retarted to open these services to the world. instead, lock those services down to be used by specific machines.
the more services you have available to the world, the more chances you have of being exploited. not only that, but if you don't block all the ports you don't use, then you may have some trojined program running some secret service on some high port somewhere, exposing your machine to the world without your knowledge.
just because your system is 100 percent current on patches doesn't mean your system isn't vulnerable.
it was only about 2 weeks after the alleged theft when i started noticing Half Life 2 CD's in all the cornerstore CD shops here in Saint Petersburg, Russia. it cost about $1.50, so i picked it up to see what it was about.
basically, there were a number of maps, most of them from the HF2 demonstration given at E3 last year. it was a bit clunky but it worked. there were many missing textures and some of the maps weren't even finished yet.
i was really disappointed about the theft, as it hurts the relationship between Valve and gamers everywhere, but moreso because this theft taints both the Half Life and Valve's good name and track record.
i really don't see Valve releasing 'Half Life 2' anytime soon because of this. i think they will make some more modifications the HL2 and release it under some new title. maybe Half Life XP? hehe
i have a gforce 5200 and p4-2600, not a terrific system but it lets me play most games with decent framerates.
theif3, at the lowest settings gives me horrible framerates. not only that, but the graphics are nothing to look at. even the menus in the game are pixelated to the point of almost being unreadable.
i wouldn't mind jerky framerates if everything looked good (Farcry with all settings high jerks a little bit, but looks beyond amazing), but as i said before, Theif3 looks terrible.
to give you an idea what i'm talking about, it appears like Ion Storm took the original 1998 Theif engine and added some dynamic lighting and physics, and that's it.
this game would even be a lot better if they licensed the Quake 3 engine for crissakes.
on a side note, i absolutely hated Daikatana as well, but i don't like Theif3 as much as i like Daikatana....
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Case in point: Spacial Nautilus. It's a moronic idea. Just plain idiotic. Everyone absolutely despises it.
i think that you misunderstand the concept of being truly spatial (hint, early Macs and Windows we're NOT spatial).
When I first tried this new spatial thing, I was hesitant because of all the bad press it was getting at the time. I started using it, and hated it right off the bat.
Once I realized the concept behind it, I reorganized all my files with this new organizational concept. Now, I can find and get to my data quicker than ever before.
For those of you that don't seem to understand the spatial concept, it's because your files aren't organized in a way to take advantage of what spatial organization offers.
There's no button to turn it off.
I agree with you here. I think there should be an easy preference menu for switching between the two.
What ad??
I'd think that the percentage of computers that actually run Linux would be higher...
not only that, but how the heck can they possibly know how many people are running linux or not running it?
I understand they can count the number of linux pc's going out the door, but how do they know people are installing winxp or not?
also, how do they know how many linux desktops are out there? are they just counting how many copies of mandrake were bought at CompUSA?
Perhaps it was because there was an imminent threat?
the UN didn't think so. the world didn't think so. Only the United States thought so, and the world wasn't convinced of it.
in any case, we all now know that there was no immediate threat.
how come the UN didn't condemn Saddam for his dictatorial and genocidal rule?
are you aware of how many countries are dictatorial?
then why were weapons inspectors in Iraq just before the United States invaded in 2003?
The UN showed itself to be irrelevant when they did nothing as Saddam made them look foolish and kicked the UN weapons inspectors out.
The UN inspectors were not kicked out. They were told to leave by the US because the US was about to unleash holy hell on Iraq.
Then they proved their irrelevance when the U.S. invaded Iraq.
What was the UN to do? declare war on the US to prove they are relevant?
The only entity making the UN irrelevant is the United States everytime they make a double standard.
I'm an American living in Europe, so between my parents and the locals here, I get to hear both sides of the story.
One of the biggest concerns was when the US went against the UN. That was a major mistake in the eyes of the world.
The UN wasn't denying that there were WMD's in Iraq. All the UN wanted was more time to be absolutely sure that the supposed WMD reports about Iraq were accurate (which now we all know they weren't).
The UN didn't make any mistakes here. Why was Bush in such a hurry? The only answer I can think of here is because election was just around the corner.
Why don't people just realize that once you open your web browser you should just leave it open?! Why are you even on your computer? :P
you are forgetting that windows users are still stuck in the stone age with a single desktop. if they left it open, they would have to deal with minimizing and maximizing, etc.
once microsoft begins this new era of 'innovation', i'm sure it will come around to 'inventing' the multiple desktop concept. sit tight.
also, what killed the USSR was not so much political ideals as it was an obliterated economy...
I'll bet MS considers it significant also.
hold on, something is seriously amiss here. why am i not seeing MS advertising about IE? i'm surprised i haven't read 'independent' studies showing IE being faster and more secure and more advanced...or more something
why does it seem like MS is more than willing to lose web client marketshare? what's up their sleaves this time?
that's the question we should be asking ourselves.
German is one of the easiest languages to learn for an English speaker (along with French and Spanish). if it's a learning curve you're after, go for Finnish or Russian.
but samba isn't a service turned on by default in most (if not all) distros. samba should never be exposed to the internet anyway.
i've always been under the impression that most of the linux based distribution security advisories aren't exploitable remotely, unless you already have a user account on the system.
can someone please enlighten me as to what exact services in linux have been exploitable in the last few years? i mean, a completely anonymous attacker gaining root access to a machine over a network?
these 'statistics' apparently show some 20 holes in linux that are remotely exploitable by anonymous attackers. i call shenanigans.
i'm interested what country you're in that it's available in. normally here in Saint Petersburg, Russia, i can get the DVD from any street corner CD shop the same day as the movie release in the states.
however, yesterday i went all over town looking for this movie, and it wasn't available anywhere.
oh, and we pay about $3 per dvd instead of $2 (but we have PC games at $2 a pop, sometimes coming with the crack and/or serial number generator...)
anyone in Saint Pete know where i can pick up a copy??
for those of you not running the separate googlebar extension for firefox, RUN do not walk and download the googlebar extension right now!
Would you really want some guy 2,000 miles away doing your surgery?
can you imagine if it ends up that Real writes the transmission protocols for this technology?
THAT would be scary...
um are you sure you're not talking about your vic-20? Jupiter Lander was a very popular vic-20 cartridge, but i don't recall seeing it for c-64.
i do remember saving a few months of my paperboy salary to buy me the 8k expansion cartridge...
thanks for your post; you just proved my point.
is a honkin' server in your trunk just to listen to music.
:( this pic shows the little keyboard i was using, but i had set the output for this little stereo as we were camping and wanted a little music.
Or, here's an idea, get an iPod!
the only way this can be justified is if you didn't spend any money. i started a similar project in the summer of 2002. the entire concept was to *not spend any money* and get it going with parts laying around the house.
i ended up putting an old beatup p300 in the back of my car, with a mini keyboard running up to the front. i had it booting up in init 1 (for speed) with a nice female voice announcing she was 'ready' when it finished booting up, people really dug that.
i was using some little program i found on sourceforge, god i can't remember the name of it, that used mpg123 for the backend, which worked great. i hacked the program up a bit to allow for certain songlists to be played when a certain keys was struck on the mini keyboard.
now, this was free and worked really well, but here's what i would rather have done:
i wanted to catalog each song into a mysql database with fields like year, genre, artist, etc.(typical id3 tag fields) i wanted to incorporate speech recognition so one could populate search fields based on what they wanted, e.g., 'search rock from 1970 to 1972' and have a playlist generate from the results. if you took a cheapo microphone, but applied a hardcore limiter to it, it should work fine even with a bunch of background noise.
and since the machine is running linux, how easy would it be to write up a quick php front end for custom playlist organization, song transfers to and from the machine over wireless....the possibilities are endless and all for just a few bucks and some of your time.
i have a pic, but it doesn't really show any details
He was giving people something for nothing
i am sure all those advertisement dollars probably didn't amount to much, either. m not saying that he's obligated at all.
what i'm saying is that you if you're going to do something, at least follow thru and don't be a cop out. if you're going to cop out, and your actions will end up hurting people, the least you could do is make some kind of announcement a few weeks before deciding to cop out.
there's nothing wrong with having a little common courtesy and basic respect.
let me guess, jcr: are you the guy that honks his horn in some neighborhood for his friend to come out at 3AM? are you that guy that sees a long line and looks for some opportunity to cut it? are you that guy that might see some old person fall down and, instead of helping you chuckle to yourself?
because your reponse to me makes you look like that guy....
you RTFA.
he's basically saying that sometime after July 1, when he's moved and settled in and he gets around to it, he will make them available. that doesn't exactly sound like any kind of reassurance.
i don't see why he just doesn't do a huge database dump, compress the hell out of it and make the whole thing available to anyone who wants to download it.
i see people all the time using public or free internet services for things like finance management and blogs. i'm always telling them that one day these services will disappear, and when it happens they're going to lose all their data.
i know that i want my blog to be with me until i die. therefore, i decided to write my own and host it on my own machine. i decided to keep the blog data raw as hell in the database, so it will make for easy exporting years down the road when everything changes.
being a system administrator for as long as you claim, i'm really scratching my head over much of your reply.
just because you have users doesn't make you a helpless administrator. does all your users require shell access? are they all familiar with strong passwords? must all of your shell users be allowed to ssh from anywhere in the world? if there are policies in place that you don't agree with, call a meeting with your superiors and let them know your thoughts. you are the administrator afterall, and your thoughts on security are the most important of all.
if many of your users have laptops that come and go from the building, just setup a seperate subnet for those users with strong firewall protection so it creates a separation between them and your critical systems. problem solved.
after reading your reply, it is becoming clear that all of your backend network glue is all handled my Microsoft machines. is this where your $250,000 charge comes from for implementing simple security? if you must use MS for company services, no problem. but i would highly recommend using linux for all your backend routing and security.
sure, your CEO may be clueless when it comes to security and/or technology, but you can bet your bottom dollar that your CTO isn't so ignorant of these issues.
you said:
Where you are, is the realization that something should be actively done to stop it at all costs (sacrificing usability).
if you think that usability is sacrificed because of security, then you really have a lot of learning to do.
if you're a linux user (and if you are, then you're a new one), then i bet you a million dollars that you log into your desktop as root.
sorry for the barb, let me make my point.
you see, exploits typically are before patches along the timeline. if an exploit comes out that punches a major hole thru apache, then most of us are in trouble and there's not much we can do about it other than kill the service until a patch comes along (or help find a solution, if that's your cup of tea).
let's take your example: let's say you're running a box with apache, ftp, vnc server and mysql. on this machine, only apache should be available to the world because your resume is on there. fine.
however, if you only ftp from this one computer across town, and vnc from the system across the hall, then it would be retarted to open these services to the world. instead, lock those services down to be used by specific machines.
the more services you have available to the world, the more chances you have of being exploited. not only that, but if you don't block all the ports you don't use, then you may have some trojined program running some secret service on some high port somewhere, exposing your machine to the world without your knowledge.
just because your system is 100 percent current on patches doesn't mean your system isn't vulnerable.
How will they ever be ready in time for the November elections?"
don't worry, i'm sure George Bush will find a way...
it was only about 2 weeks after the alleged theft when i started noticing Half Life 2 CD's in all the cornerstore CD shops here in Saint Petersburg, Russia. it cost about $1.50, so i picked it up to see what it was about.
basically, there were a number of maps, most of them from the HF2 demonstration given at E3 last year. it was a bit clunky but it worked. there were many missing textures and some of the maps weren't even finished yet.
i was really disappointed about the theft, as it hurts the relationship between Valve and gamers everywhere, but moreso because this theft taints both the Half Life and Valve's good name and track record.
i really don't see Valve releasing 'Half Life 2' anytime soon because of this. i think they will make some more modifications the HL2 and release it under some new title. maybe Half Life XP? hehe
picked it up last night.
utterly and completely disappointed.
i have a gforce 5200 and p4-2600, not a terrific system but it lets me play most games with decent framerates.
theif3, at the lowest settings gives me horrible framerates. not only that, but the graphics are nothing to look at. even the menus in the game are pixelated to the point of almost being unreadable.
i wouldn't mind jerky framerates if everything looked good (Farcry with all settings high jerks a little bit, but looks beyond amazing), but as i said before, Theif3 looks terrible.
to give you an idea what i'm talking about, it appears like Ion Storm took the original 1998 Theif engine and added some dynamic lighting and physics, and that's it.
this game would even be a lot better if they licensed the Quake 3 engine for crissakes.
on a side note, i absolutely hated Daikatana as well, but i don't like Theif3 as much as i like Daikatana....