Hey, as long as the boxes are secure, and the developers really do know how to admin the boxes, then maybe it's ok.
On the other hand, I've seen developers try this strategy and create a huge security hole in otherwise secure networks like this:
- Developers set up two boxes for development. Fine. - Developers don't patch the system. Developers want to focus on development, not on patching systems. It wasn't a super-important network, so maybe this acceptable. - Developers wanted access to every port on the system, and therefore allow access to every single TCP/IP portn. In reality they just needed access to the SSH, HTTP and HTTPS ports, and a few unprivlidged ports. - Developers couldn't figure out how to get SSH to work, so they all used telnet and rsh. - Passwords on the subnetwork are the same as the passwords used on the rest of the network - Nobody told the sysadmin about the secret network, for obvious political reasons.
And then some genius hooked up a wireless access point to the subnet without any strong authentication.
Bam! Hackers crack into the network, because:
- WAP becomes an entry point into the network, around the firewall. - Unpatched system has dozens of vulnerabilities - Unencrypted traffic on the network exposes everyone's password - Passwords work everywhere on the system. - The network become a base on which they can attack the rest of the organizational network. - Organizational network became base from which crackers can attack other networks.
Shit gets cracked, passwords are decrypted, crackers replace login scripts and 'passwd' with their own fun utlities.
The developers were clueless, and had no idea the attacks came from their network. This is because a simple network has no intrusion detection system, no traffic monitor, etc.
Cell phone jamming should be legalized, and it should become more widespread.
I'd specifically like to see cell-phones jammed in movie theaters,
Personally, I'd rather that people use a simpler technology-- tell them to shut up. If that fails, throw ice cubes at the idiots.
Phone jammers only jam the phones, but they do nothing to the idiots who gab to each other throughout the movie. Whispering seems to be a lost skill...
When I was a sysadmin, I had to be on call for many evenings. If I want to see a movie, I kept my phone on vibrate mode, let people leave me a voicemail, and always left the theater to have a conversation. This allowed me to keep my job, and have a life.
Doctors also need this ability. Many doctors are on call 24/7 for weeks at a time.
Fish, Jellyfish. Most people don't care. Why? Because neither animal is cute or cuddly.
I'm going to make this debate more interesting. I'm going take come cute breed of dog, and genetically modify them the face of a human baby.
Then, I'll take the cute puppy for a walk in busy shopping districts, big media events, political debates, the fancy resturants where the politicians have their fancy meals. Anywhere where many people will see it.
I'll treat it like a dog. Teach it tricks, yell at it when the dog disobeys, when it poops in the wrong place, I'll rub it's nose in it. When I go have dinner, I'll leave the poor thing in the rain.
That'll get the debate going.
Tell me, do you think people would accept this dog as "normal" and just go about their business? What do you think people will do then?
After all, what's the difference between a transgenic fish and a transgenic dog? Sure, a baby face will require more modifications to get the right bone structure, skin texture, etc. , but it's no more then what we'll be seeing in the genetically-modified pet market in a few years.
Really, this is on the level of what we'll be seeing in the genetically-modified pet market in a few years.
I can't remember the details on this, but would the NCF Locking Services work for you?
NFS input/output is stateless, but I believe the locking mechanism is stateful.
When clients are accessing a file, a lock is established. When the client is done with the file, the lock is removed. You can see who has what resource locked with a utility (I forget which, but fcntl() and lockf() come to mind).
In a shutdown script, look for locks, and refuse to procede until the locks are cleared.
I disagree. Gnome isn't some pointless academic exercise with no end purpose.
The Gnome developers created Gnome so that people use Gnome. If people don't use Gnome, then what's the point in creating it?
I agree that the design criteria are also a goal for developers, but that's because we want a well designed product. If the product is well designed, then more people will use it.
If you want people to use Gnome, then you need to market the product. Even "word of mouth" is a kind of marketing. No shame in that. After all, if marketing works for Linux, it should work for Gnome.
I figure that most of the 'switch to us' plans right now are designed for customers who are desperate to leave their current service, and will trap the desperate customers into bad, year-long contracts.
I haven't found any plans that are very different then their old plans. I don't need 2000 minutes for $50 bucks a month, with 10 pages of tiny print discussing how I must give them my first born if I leave the contract. I just want inexpensive, reliable phone service.
I'll wait a while for the plans to become more competitive. I want to put 2 cells on a single plan for under $30 a month, with decent minutes (But I don't need any of those '2000 minutes a month' plans), and a new, small phone for cheap/free.
You could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then your product will be a failure.
Compare and contrast to linux kernel development where Linus *the star of the linux world* actively shuns the spotlight.
That's not an accurate comparison. Linux is hyped up the wazoo by other organizations, IBM pushes 'Linux' during primetime television ads. Gnome has no such marketing.
In the GNOME community you have everyone racing to the cameras.
There aren't any cameras to run to. Gnome barely gets any coverage outside of a few geek magazine articles and websites. Most people don't know that it exists.
I have no problem with libraries selling extra copies of some 50's pulp fiction to gain a buck.
However, I hope they are really scrutinizing about which items they auction off.
Around here (Berkeley, CA) the libraries are a repository of historical documents, interesting maps that were donated by other government agencies, etc. The City needs them, but uses them very rarely (like in some property dispute that goes back a long ways). I'm facinated by the local history in this area, and use the maps and books to track down interesting factiods.
An antique map of Historic Berkeley or San Francisco is worth a pretty penny to a collector. I really don't want our local library to sell our heritage to the highest bidder, for the same reason I don't want the US Government to auction off one of their copies of the US Consitution.
I'm sure the libraries are pretty scrutinizing now, but what about in 20 years, when the practice of auctioning off library items is a well accepted practice?
In the FotR Extended DVD set, Christopher Lee mentions that he wanted to be Gandalf. Somehow, he ended up being Saurman.
If you listen to Lee, he's a dedicated LotR reader, and has quite a vision about how things should work. If he disagreed with Jackson's vision, I could see this resulting in some major personality conflicts between the two.
GTK does work on Windows, and it works pretty good. Two projects that use GTK are Gaim and Workrave. I have used both on my Win2K box at home for the last year, and use it regularly here on my work box also.
The Amazing Randi, along with Penn and Teller and a host of other illusionists, have actually has done a couple of shows debunking certain quackeries and paranormal happenings.
They mostly focus on psychic tricks and illusions-- showing tricks on how it is to get information on your dead relatives, by using selective questions and special wording, watching for you to react to certain words, etc.
Their philosophy is that it's OK when everyone involved knows that the trick is for entertainment. The line is crossed when people start taking it seriously, and start paying large sums of money for quackery.
Randi has even appeared on some popular kids science shows such as Bill Nye the Science guy where he'll take a horoscope, seperate each sign and the associated "fortune", mix them up, and then paste one sign to an unrelated fortune, so that the sign Aries actually has the fotune for "Taurus", etc.
He then has audience members read the fotunes, and guages their reaction. "Gosh, that fortune sounds just like my brother, who is an Aries", when in fact it's just a fortune from another randomly selected sign. The fortunes are all so generic that they work for just about everyone, at about any point in your life.
This stuff is mostly focused at kids, but it's a great science lesson.
Sometimes, I can't even login without a browser timeout. Huminity might be able to do really well if they can get decent performance, or even just perceived performance through the use of caching tricks, saved data, etc.
Well, I noticed one advantage over friendster right away.
The Huminity download is an.exe file. Is it even a web (http) app? A plugin?
Why is a.exe necessary in this case? Can it do something that a well-tuned web app & well-tuned datbase cannot do?
Most of these other social networks use the Web. Why not huminity?
I've been burned too often in the past by.exe's from small companies, why should I trust Huminity?
I did a bunch of research about 2 years ago about these HUBS. There wasn't much information available, and I couldn't find a shipper for these Shimano hubs. Not that I pursued it real aggressively. I'm a little intimidated by the prospect of building my own wheel...
I also went for some bike rides while in Austria. All of the bikes there had a dynamo hub. I had a cheap rental, and the light put out by my bike was pretty low. I saw a few bikes that had brigher lights, but still much dimmer then my 10-watt. There was one guy who had LED lights, but I think his system was homebrewed.
It looks like they don't work with LEDs as is, and probably require a battery and some fancy doohickies....
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Hey, as long as the boxes are secure, and the developers really do know how to admin the boxes, then maybe it's ok.
On the other hand, I've seen developers try this strategy and create a huge security hole in otherwise secure networks like this:
- Developers set up two boxes for development. Fine.
- Developers don't patch the system. Developers want to focus on development, not on patching systems. It wasn't a super-important network, so maybe this acceptable.
- Developers wanted access to every port on the system, and therefore allow access to every single TCP/IP portn. In reality they just needed access to the SSH, HTTP and HTTPS ports, and a few unprivlidged ports.
- Developers couldn't figure out how to get SSH to work, so they all used telnet and rsh.
- Passwords on the subnetwork are the same as the passwords used on the rest of the network
- Nobody told the sysadmin about the secret network, for obvious political reasons.
And then some genius hooked up a wireless access point to the subnet without any strong authentication.
Bam! Hackers crack into the network, because:
- WAP becomes an entry point into the network, around the firewall.
- Unpatched system has dozens of vulnerabilities
- Unencrypted traffic on the network exposes everyone's password
- Passwords work everywhere on the system.
- The network become a base on which they can attack the rest of the organizational network.
- Organizational network became base from which crackers can attack other networks.
Shit gets cracked, passwords are decrypted, crackers replace login scripts and 'passwd' with their own fun utlities.
The developers were clueless, and had no idea the attacks came from their network. This is because a simple network has no intrusion detection system, no traffic monitor, etc.
Cell phone jamming should be legalized, and it should become more widespread.
I'd specifically like to see cell-phones jammed in movie theaters,
Personally, I'd rather that people use a simpler technology-- tell them to shut up. If that fails, throw ice cubes at the idiots.
Phone jammers only jam the phones, but they do nothing to the idiots who gab to each other throughout the movie. Whispering seems to be a lost skill...
When I was a sysadmin, I had to be on call for many evenings. If I want to see a movie, I kept my phone on vibrate mode, let people leave me a voicemail, and always left the theater to have a conversation. This allowed me to keep my job, and have a life.
Doctors also need this ability. Many doctors are on call 24/7 for weeks at a time.
Civilized people.
Would you prefer that killing people become unshocking and not horrible?
Well I live in San Francisco, and now I REALLY want some GloFish.
Wait, I'm confused. Can you smoke them or something?
Nobody is arguing that it is bad to crossbreed corn with corn.
At no point did the Indians crossbreed corn with jellyfish. How can you even compare the two?
Fish, Jellyfish. Most people don't care. Why? Because neither animal is cute or cuddly.
I'm going to make this debate more interesting. I'm going take come cute breed of dog, and genetically modify them the face of a human baby.
Then, I'll take the cute puppy for a walk in busy shopping districts, big media events, political debates, the fancy resturants where the politicians have their fancy meals. Anywhere where many people will see it.
I'll treat it like a dog. Teach it tricks, yell at it when the dog disobeys, when it poops in the wrong place, I'll rub it's nose in it. When I go have dinner, I'll leave the poor thing in the rain.
That'll get the debate going.
Tell me, do you think people would accept this dog as "normal" and just go about their business? What do you think people will do then?
After all, what's the difference between a transgenic fish and a transgenic dog? Sure, a baby face will require more modifications to get the right bone structure, skin texture, etc. , but it's no more then what we'll be seeing in the genetically-modified pet market in a few years.
Really, this is on the level of what we'll be seeing in the genetically-modified pet market in a few years.
I can't remember the details on this, but would the NCF Locking Services work for you?
Sorry, that's "NFS Locking Services"
I can't remember the details on this, but would the NCF Locking Services work for you?
NFS input/output is stateless, but I believe the locking mechanism is stateful.
When clients are accessing a file, a lock is established. When the client is done with the file, the lock is removed. You can see who has what resource locked with a utility (I forget which, but fcntl() and lockf() come to mind).
In a shutdown script, look for locks, and refuse to procede until the locks are cleared.
I disagree. Gnome isn't some pointless academic exercise with no end purpose.
The Gnome developers created Gnome so that people use Gnome. If people don't use Gnome, then what's the point in creating it?
I agree that the design criteria are also a goal for developers, but that's because we want a well designed product. If the product is well designed, then more people will use it.
If you want people to use Gnome, then you need to market the product. Even "word of mouth" is a kind of marketing. No shame in that. After all, if marketing works for Linux, it should work for Gnome.
I figure that most of the 'switch to us' plans right now are designed for customers who are desperate to leave their current service, and will trap the desperate customers into bad, year-long contracts.
I haven't found any plans that are very different then their old plans. I don't need 2000 minutes for $50 bucks a month, with 10 pages of tiny print discussing how I must give them my first born if I leave the contract. I just want inexpensive, reliable phone service.
I'll wait a while for the plans to become more competitive. I want to put 2 cells on a single plan for under $30 a month, with decent minutes (But I don't need any of those '2000 minutes a month' plans), and a new, small phone for cheap/free.
So I'll hold off for now.
Why is GNOME so populated with marketing types?
You could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then your product will be a failure.
Compare and contrast to linux kernel development where Linus *the star of the linux world* actively shuns the spotlight.
That's not an accurate comparison. Linux is hyped up the wazoo by other organizations, IBM pushes 'Linux' during primetime television ads. Gnome has no such marketing.
In the GNOME community you have everyone racing to the cameras.
There aren't any cameras to run to. Gnome barely gets any coverage outside of a few geek magazine articles and websites. Most people don't know that it exists.
That's right, "Hallucigenia"! You can get really drunk or drop acid until you Hallucinate, and our Hallucigenia will take you home safely.
Bet your puny Explorer can't do that!
Hallucigenia! Yeah, now that's the nice schnizzit!
I have no problem with libraries selling extra copies of some 50's pulp fiction to gain a buck.
However, I hope they are really scrutinizing about which items they auction off.
Around here (Berkeley, CA) the libraries are a repository of historical documents, interesting maps that were donated by other government agencies, etc. The City needs them, but uses them very rarely (like in some property dispute that goes back a long ways). I'm facinated by the local history in this area, and use the maps and books to track down interesting factiods.
An antique map of Historic Berkeley or San Francisco is worth a pretty penny to a collector. I really don't want our local library to sell our heritage to the highest bidder, for the same reason I don't want the US Government to auction off one of their copies of the US Consitution.
I'm sure the libraries are pretty scrutinizing now, but what about in 20 years, when the practice of auctioning off library items is a well accepted practice?
Gandalf is not a man -- he is istari, an immortal Maya
Ok, but Ian, the actor -- is a man, and is far from immortal...
So yeah, they need to do it quick!
By 'this' do you mean the exploit wouldn't be happening? Or the Kernel?
In the FotR Extended DVD set, Christopher Lee mentions that he wanted to be Gandalf. Somehow, he ended up being Saurman.
If you listen to Lee, he's a dedicated LotR reader, and has quite a vision about how things should work. If he disagreed with Jackson's vision, I could see this resulting in some major personality conflicts between the two.
So, it's been one snub after another.
And hey, it could be worse. Stuart Townsend had been cast to play Aragorn, but after the first day of filming, the guy 'left' Jackson and Co. hired Mortensen.
peace
Yeah, I had a big problem when Trinity kept talking with those big peaces of metal sticking out of her...
Sheesh. Just die already!
Qt also works on the Mac and Windows - GNOME toolkits don't
There is no GNOME toolkit. I think you mean "The GIMP Toolkit.
GTK does work on Windows, and it works pretty good. Two projects that use GTK are Gaim and Workrave. I have used both on my Win2K box at home for the last year, and use it regularly here on my work box also.
Hey, nobody's stopping you!
So, when you're done with the lawyer, you just throw him out the airlock?
No, you silly. That's a waste of resources. First, you need to extract all the moisture and valuable elements from the body.
THEN you can just throw the residue out the airlock.
It's space, you need to CONSERVE RESOURCES. Sheesh... kids...
The Amazing Randi, along with Penn and Teller and a host of other illusionists, have actually has done a couple of shows debunking certain quackeries and paranormal happenings.
They mostly focus on psychic tricks and illusions-- showing tricks on how it is to get information on your dead relatives, by using selective questions and special wording, watching for you to react to certain words, etc.
Their philosophy is that it's OK when everyone involved knows that the trick is for entertainment. The line is crossed when people start taking it seriously, and start paying large sums of money for quackery.
Randi has even appeared on some popular kids science shows such as Bill Nye the Science guy where he'll take a horoscope, seperate each sign and the associated "fortune", mix them up, and then paste one sign to an unrelated fortune, so that the sign Aries actually has the fotune for "Taurus", etc.
He then has audience members read the fotunes, and guages their reaction. "Gosh, that fortune sounds just like my brother, who is an Aries", when in fact it's just a fortune from another randomly selected sign. The fortunes are all so generic that they work for just about everyone, at about any point in your life.
This stuff is mostly focused at kids, but it's a great science lesson.
Half of us probably looked at the term "social networking" and were hoping that it was some sort of geekspeak for sex
Well actually, have you seen friendster? I'm not sure if it's much more then an elaborate dating network...
And I keep getting ads for "Hot asian girls" on their site. Hello, I'm married, not interested...
Sometimes, I can't even login without a browser timeout. Huminity might be able to do really well if they can get decent performance, or even just perceived performance through the use of caching tricks, saved data, etc.
.exe file. Is it even a web (http) app? A plugin?
.exe necessary in this case? Can it do something that a well-tuned web app & well-tuned datbase cannot do?
.exe's from small companies, why should I trust Huminity?
Well, I noticed one advantage over friendster right away.
The Huminity download is an
Why is a
Most of these other social networks use the Web. Why not huminity?
I've been burned too often in the past by
Seems like your country is obsessed with making rich companies richer, at the cost of the environment. (From the US, are you? Interesting)
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Actually, this is the price charged by the European dealers...
Schmidt hubs were something like $180: http://www.kinetics.org.uk/html/son_hub_dynamo.ht
Excellent link, thanks!
I did a bunch of research about 2 years ago about these HUBS. There wasn't much information available, and I couldn't find a shipper for these Shimano hubs. Not that I pursued it real aggressively. I'm a little intimidated by the prospect of building my own wheel...
I also went for some bike rides while in Austria. All of the bikes there had a dynamo hub. I had a cheap rental, and the light put out by my bike was pretty low. I saw a few bikes that had brigher lights, but still much dimmer then my 10-watt. There was one guy who had LED lights, but I think his system was homebrewed.
It looks like they don't work with LEDs as is, and probably require a battery and some fancy doohickies....