From what I can recall, the locations of choice always used to be a disused chemical plant (a remake of Blake's Seven, anyone?); a clearing somewhere in Bracknell Forest; and the car park at Shepherds Bush studios.
And how come nowadays everything looks like Canadian tundra?!
Yes, I thought the text was familiar! And worse for me, I'm a Ph.D. theoretical physics student and am asked to explain what I think. My reply is usually along the lines of, "It's an article in the Daily Mail. Go figure." As Sir Runcible points out, this paper has a strange thing about crop circles and UFOs. It also has an unhealthy interest in the late Diana Spencer, the afterlife and lap-dancers, but I won't go into that here.
I must be one of the remaining three or four. My tastes are not served by any on-line music stores, either. And when they apparently are, the downloads are inexplicably broken (e.g., zero-byte file lengths --- took the provider over four weeks to decide they couldn't deliver and refunded my GBP 0.79). Furthermore, and I'm ranting now, most fileswap-kiddies couldn't rip an inch of a toilet-roll. They have no appreciation of how to choose a good bit-rate. And let's face it: do I really want the kind of music that sounds acceptable in MP3, WMA or AAC (at 128 -- 192 kbit/s)?
I can't understand why any self-respecting geek would buy an iPod. These things are all about "looking good/cool" while sacrificing sound quality to inferior formats (no Vorbis support), most likely encoded with little regards for the demands of individual pieces. To me, this seems particularly counter-geek. So I think I'll get an iRiver and continue buying (or borrowing) CDs, ripping them properly into Vorbis, and playing them entirely at my convenience.
OK, I (somewhat inaccurately) used the terms Microsoft and Gates Foundation interchangeably (since the funds of the latter would not exist without the former).
Vaccinating children worldwide can only be a good thing. Indeed, Microsoft pumps a lot of money into various charitable causes --- again, only a good thing.
But what does this have to do with the Linux community? Microsoft's raison d'etre is profit, and given the amount it makes, it has a social obligation. In this way, it fulfils it. The Linux community is driven by the product itself, not sales figures. "Let's see if the Linux community can match his generosity" is not only irrelevant, it verges on being not very nice.
In all likelihood, support.bbc.co.uk is a single non-essential server running in the shadows in a bandwidth restricted area of the BBC's Internet operation. It's probably meant for off-site monitoring more than anything else. I'm not surprised it's now refusing connections: this site wasn't meant for a dirty great mudslide of Slashdotters! (Note that all the BBC's normal content (news, etc.) is still working.)
It's so nice to discuss this in a chain of comments starting with "Don't take this lying down"!
I think this assignment is unfair as coursework (but not necessarily as a project) if the leader hasn't found a reasonable number of security holes him/herself, and frozen the software and sources from which students are expected to work.
A friend recently brought around a new notebook for help with installing some office software. It had never been on-line, so was "clean". I took this opportunity to apply all the necessary XP updates, install Firefox, Spybot, Ad-Aware and an anti-virus package. I also made sure he knew never to do ordinary stuff with an administrative account (an all too common mistake on XP) and crippled Internet Explorer.
It's a damn site easier to find out when a friend is getting a new PC and step in quickly to secure it before they can mess it, than to undo any damage.
Of course, with my brother's machine I was slightly stricter. He knows what bad things will happen to him if I ever catch him using Internet Explorer.
Genuine banks' web-sites should have digital certificates signed by known authorities (Verisign, etc.). If I know my authentication schemes correctly, this signature is nigh-on impossible to forge (one of those "mathematically hard" tasks). Thus, even though the name resolves to a bogus server, the certificates don't add up. To make a convincing effort, a phisher would need access to private data from within the on-line bank's systems (i.e., run an inside job).
Slashdot Mirror
...But not as repetitive as Steve Reich?
Port Talbot's just down the motorway.
From what I can recall, the locations of choice always used to be a disused chemical plant (a remake of Blake's Seven, anyone?); a clearing somewhere in Bracknell Forest; and the car park at Shepherds Bush studios.
And how come nowadays everything looks like Canadian tundra?!
Indeed. Aside from Doctor Who, etc., what other series can jump forward (and back) fifteen years in as many minutes?
Remember that infamous scene from Reservoir Dogs? Right, now substitute with a Ferengi.
I believe in this case it's "Grand-Theft Moto".
Yes, I thought the text was familiar! And worse for me, I'm a Ph.D. theoretical physics student and am asked to explain what I think. My reply is usually along the lines of, "It's an article in the Daily Mail. Go figure." As Sir Runcible points out, this paper has a strange thing about crop circles and UFOs. It also has an unhealthy interest in the late Diana Spencer, the afterlife and lap-dancers, but I won't go into that here.
I must be one of the remaining three or four. My tastes are not served by any on-line music stores, either. And when they apparently are, the downloads are inexplicably broken (e.g., zero-byte file lengths --- took the provider over four weeks to decide they couldn't deliver and refunded my GBP 0.79). Furthermore, and I'm ranting now, most fileswap-kiddies couldn't rip an inch of a toilet-roll. They have no appreciation of how to choose a good bit-rate. And let's face it: do I really want the kind of music that sounds acceptable in MP3, WMA or AAC (at 128 -- 192 kbit/s)?
I can't understand why any self-respecting geek would buy an iPod. These things are all about "looking good/cool" while sacrificing sound quality to inferior formats (no Vorbis support), most likely encoded with little regards for the demands of individual pieces. To me, this seems particularly counter-geek. So I think I'll get an iRiver and continue buying (or borrowing) CDs, ripping them properly into Vorbis, and playing them entirely at my convenience.
XP Home does have ACLs on NTFS and other objects, but no Explorer user interface elements to manage them. Use cacls on the Command Prompt.
Quite. Since when was a Microsoft operating system famed for long a uptime?
Does this now mean my brain and Internet nous are in violation of a U.S. method patent every time I inspect my logs?
OK, I (somewhat inaccurately) used the terms Microsoft and Gates Foundation interchangeably (since the funds of the latter would not exist without the former).
Vaccinating children worldwide can only be a good thing. Indeed, Microsoft pumps a lot of money into various charitable causes --- again, only a good thing.
But what does this have to do with the Linux community? Microsoft's raison d'etre is profit, and given the amount it makes, it has a social obligation. In this way, it fulfils it. The Linux community is driven by the product itself, not sales figures. "Let's see if the Linux community can match his generosity" is not only irrelevant, it verges on being not very nice.
...You may remember me from such movies as "M is for Murderousness"...
This is a bit unfair!
In all likelihood, support.bbc.co.uk is a single non-essential server running in the shadows in a bandwidth restricted area of the BBC's Internet operation. It's probably meant for off-site monitoring more than anything else. I'm not surprised it's now refusing connections: this site wasn't meant for a dirty great mudslide of Slashdotters! (Note that all the BBC's normal content (news, etc.) is still working.)
Now the latter would be news: an insider view from the individual whos job it is to clean out the zapper in the Microsoft canteen.
Now that's what I call a bug report.
As anyone who listened to the now defunct Vorbis streams of BBC radio, this has been here for many years. Nevertheless, it's still impressive.
Quite. He forgot the flameproof coating.
Yeah, he gets both his left-hand and right-hand man on the job.
Bang goes my karma.
And what about Jim Allchin?
That one even rhymes!
And a Merry Bloody Christmas to you too, Guv'nor!
It's so nice to discuss this in a chain of comments starting with "Don't take this lying down"!
I think this assignment is unfair as coursework (but not necessarily as a project) if the leader hasn't found a reasonable number of security holes him/herself, and frozen the software and sources from which students are expected to work.
"I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Down From Here!" anyone? I'm sure Bono and Bob Geldof should be willing to do their bit.
And do the hot babes have to be wrestling each other?
For the love of old people in Korea, pre-empt!
A friend recently brought around a new notebook for help with installing some office software. It had never been on-line, so was "clean". I took this opportunity to apply all the necessary XP updates, install Firefox, Spybot, Ad-Aware and an anti-virus package. I also made sure he knew never to do ordinary stuff with an administrative account (an all too common mistake on XP) and crippled Internet Explorer.
It's a damn site easier to find out when a friend is getting a new PC and step in quickly to secure it before they can mess it, than to undo any damage.
Of course, with my brother's machine I was slightly stricter. He knows what bad things will happen to him if I ever catch him using Internet Explorer.I'll have one iff it comes with one of those fancy silver Futurama-like suits.
Although I might be wrong on this...