If I can download them in non-DRM'd MP3 format at a bitrate of my choosing. And if the 1% tax on computers idea goes away.
I'd love to have legal copies of everything I've downloaded from "a major discussion group provider", and I would at those prices, but A) a lot of it simply wasn't available in stores, because it was old and obscure, and B) it was overpriced if it was available, for the same reason.
But I refuse to give in on DRM. At prices like that, it would frankly come very close to being more of a pain in the ass to copy music from someone else than to just pay the lousy buck.
You seem a bit uninformed. There's no connection made between end-user software and Certificate Authority's systems when an SSL site is accessed - the browser software has the CA's certificate loaded, and the web site's certificate is signed by that certificate.
There is occasional Certificate Revocation List (CRL) processing on occasion, but certainly not with "each and every SSL connection".
The CA provides a service in (supposedly, see Verisign) doing due diligence to ensure that a given certificate is only provided to the site that's detailed in the certificate, so you can trust that they're who they say they are. They also maintain CRL distribution points in case they screw that up. That's about it.
Last year I was in Amsterdam (and had a GREAT time consuming some other smokables!), and, on the train from town to the airport, met two men.
These guys, it turned out, were from someplace in England and their wives smoked. They evidently FLEW IN to Amsterdam once a month or so to buy cigarettes and take them back, because it was cheaper to do that than to buy smokes in England. Pretty sad state of affairs if you ask me.
As to why they picked Amsterdam to take a once-a-month trip, I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
I've been doing external and internal security assessments for several years now.
Initially, back in the 1998-2001 era, we had an ISS Internet Scanner travelling license, which is required if you're, say, a consultant doing scans for other companies. The only alternative is having the company buy the license and then using it for them. It cost in the neighborhood of $20k per year.
But even then, I used Nessus for external scans, because it was heavily oriented towards external scanning. At first, I would always run ISS on the external side as well, but it was frankly a pain to get it to even admit there were machines there, much less scan them. After a while, I stopped using ISS at all for external scans.
Then, in the 2001-2002 timeframe, work dropped enough that we didn't feel it was worth it to renew the ISS license. I did one or two assessments with Nessus only and was pretty pleased with the results.
Now, present time, I just got done with a full-blown external and internal assessment for a client and used Nessus. It gave me GREAT output. We used Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) to assess their patch management, and I think that Nessus' output was better than MBSA's.
I've run Snort-based IDS sensors for quite a long time as well - using Demarc PureSecure (a topic for another day) as the frontend. While ISS Realsecure has some nice "more than x events in a five-minute timeframe" filtering possible with their engine, overall, Snort does a great job for us. With Demarc I have a great interface for drilling into events real-time to get a good idea of what's going on. ISS doesn't have anywhere near the usability for that.
If you switch to OpenSolaris, just remember that it's only as "open" as Sun wants it to be, and that it wouldn't be open at all if it weren't for "all this neo-freedom-fascism".
The only reason there (supposedly will be) code to look at in Solaris is because that's the only way it has a prayer of competing with Linux. It still won't compete, though, because Sun chose to make sure that the licenses are such that they can take, take, take, but not give back to GPL projects.
Speak for yourself - my wife does scrapbooking and prints out a LOT of pictures. I would happily have paid $200 for the Epson C84 printer I have, if I had the assurance that a full set of printer carts would always cost in the $10-15 range. This razor-blade arrangement we have now SUCKS.
I saw a web page the other day talking about the fact that a freaking MICROWAVE OVEN can be bought for less than a set of ink cartridges for the average printer. How does that work, exactly? The carts are priced artifically high, that's how.
I haven't bought a thing from Phillips since I bought a Velo 500 WinCE palmtop way back in 1998 or so, the day it came out, for like $550 I think.
Then, not a year later, when M$ released a CE upgrade and NEC and others would upgrade current machines for $10 or so, Phillips announced they had no plans to produce an upgrade for the Velo 500.
Three months or so later, they dropped everything that ran Windows CE.
I don't reward behavior like that with continued purchases.
Now, of course, my Zaurus is pretty immune to such problems. I can pick among several distributions to run on it.
So run it on a different port! Geez, if you're running SSH (or just about any other service, for that matter) on its default port with a "consumer grade" Internet connection, you deserve what you get.
They can't block SSH on any abritrary port unless they do content inspection on all traffic.
You know, if MS/really/ wanted to make SP2 do the right thing, you'd think they would have put in a service to monitor all the regkeys/win.ini/whatever points that software gets autorun, and then scream loudly and ask for confirmation when something tries to use them.
Bollocks. Just do what I did - build a nice little Mini-ITX system, put in a gig of RAM and load up Linux with a custom initrd that extracts the system to a ramdisk and pivot_roots to it. Mount the drive for storage, then use hdparm to tell it to power down when idle.
Then write a daemon to watch when the drive is spun up, and copy the mailboxes off to a storage area on the drive. Use rc.local to copy them back when the system reboots.
Voila - low power (max 40 watts, usually less because the drive isn't spinning) and fast.
You could do this with flash as well, you just won't have the storage space of a drive. And it obviously doesn't have to spin down. Just use a cron job.
NPR here in Colorado (here) did this, and it's pretty nice. Unfortunately the two channels turned out to be all classical on FM, and the news on AM 1340, with AM 1430, whose format can only be described as "the worst songs of all time", bleeding through on my car radio. It must be a multiple of the IF or something.
I'd kill for the satellite radio bunch to start carrying All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
Already happening here in Denver. Our company went through a bankrupcy in May of 2001 and cut everyone's salary 10% (or, at least, they said everyone...) and wasn't up-front about it being permanent for several months afterward. And pretty much no raises since.
Well, things appear to be starting to pick back up around here - four or five high-level people have left in the past couple of months.
I tried to tell them a couple of years ago that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to look back the last two years and see a 10% pay cut done in a slimy fashion and no raises, and look forward to a new company and new opportunities, and conclude that the new company looks good.
Well, they're pretty screwed now. Pretty much all of the new people they've hired (which hasn't been many) have been morons. The ones that haven't been, have taken upwards of a year to get properly acclimated and be really productive. In the meantime, we have to pass up projects because we don't have the staffing/expertise now.
They probably do piss off the INS people, yes - I've had a lot of dealings with Brits over the years, and so far without fail, every one from London has been a royal a**hole, and every other one has been a pretty decent human being.
My personal theory is that Londoners are like the New Yorkers of England.
I've had a Siemens Gigaset system for several years, and it works great with 80211b. My cordless base station is upstairs in the house, the Linksys is downstairs, and I can sit right next to the base station and surf with nary a burp on the call in progress.
Occasionally I'll be transferring a movie from my Linux server to my laptop while on the phone and you'll hear a slight hissing on the call (with 100% full throughput) but that's about it, and the phone call doesn't slow down the transfer.
You can get Gigaset systems quite cheap on Ebay these days. The really great thing is that the handsets use NiMh or Nicad AA rechargables instead of proprietary batteries, so when batteries go I can run just about anywhere and get new batteries.
"Most mainframes can stay up as long as the power remains on..."
Heck, some even longer!
I still remember back in high school in about 1984 or 1985, we got a donation of a DEC PDP 8/e processor, 4K of core memory, two big 512K drum drives (that looked like a refrigerator) and scads of DECtape drives, along with some terminals.
Well, reading through the system documentation, the cool thing about this machine was that, while it couldn't run without power, it would start right back up where it left off when power failed.
Turns out the CPU could sense when the power had ended and dump its state into (nonvolatile) core memory as its last gasp. When power came back on, the startup cycle would see the state info, load it, and off things would go again.
We tried it once just to see - ran a BASIC program to continuously print something on the LA21, pulled the plug, and damned if it didn't work.
I had a job from 1992-1994 programming those credit card activation numbers, and our service bureau operated entirely on ANI data and not caller ID.
AFAIK, you can't spoof ANI data, only deny it, and in that case my program transferred the call to a live operator who had a script of verification questions to ask.
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Heck, I'd pay 10 cents no problem.
IF...
If I can download them in non-DRM'd MP3 format at a bitrate of my choosing. And if the 1% tax on computers idea goes away.
I'd love to have legal copies of everything I've downloaded from "a major discussion group provider", and I would at those prices, but A) a lot of it simply wasn't available in stores, because it was old and obscure, and B) it was overpriced if it was available, for the same reason.
But I refuse to give in on DRM. At prices like that, it would frankly come very close to being more of a pain in the ass to copy music from someone else than to just pay the lousy buck.
Um, what?
You seem a bit uninformed. There's no connection made between end-user software and Certificate Authority's systems when an SSL site is accessed - the browser software has the CA's certificate loaded, and the web site's certificate is signed by that certificate.
There is occasional Certificate Revocation List (CRL) processing on occasion, but certainly not with "each and every SSL connection".
The CA provides a service in (supposedly, see Verisign) doing due diligence to ensure that a given certificate is only provided to the site that's detailed in the certificate, so you can trust that they're who they say they are. They also maintain CRL distribution points in case they screw that up. That's about it.
Last year I was in Amsterdam (and had a GREAT time consuming some other smokables!), and, on the train from town to the airport, met two men.
These guys, it turned out, were from someplace in England and their wives smoked. They evidently FLEW IN to Amsterdam once a month or so to buy cigarettes and take them back, because it was cheaper to do that than to buy smokes in England. Pretty sad state of affairs if you ask me.
As to why they picked Amsterdam to take a once-a-month trip, I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
I've been doing external and internal security assessments for several years now.
Initially, back in the 1998-2001 era, we had an ISS Internet Scanner travelling license, which is required if you're, say, a consultant doing scans for other companies. The only alternative is having the company buy the license and then using it for them. It cost in the neighborhood of $20k per year.
But even then, I used Nessus for external scans, because it was heavily oriented towards external scanning. At first, I would always run ISS on the external side as well, but it was frankly a pain to get it to even admit there were machines there, much less scan them. After a while, I stopped using ISS at all for external scans.
Then, in the 2001-2002 timeframe, work dropped enough that we didn't feel it was worth it to renew the ISS license. I did one or two assessments with Nessus only and was pretty pleased with the results.
Now, present time, I just got done with a full-blown external and internal assessment for a client and used Nessus. It gave me GREAT output. We used Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) to assess their patch management, and I think that Nessus' output was better than MBSA's.
I've run Snort-based IDS sensors for quite a long time as well - using Demarc PureSecure (a topic for another day) as the frontend. While ISS Realsecure has some nice "more than x events in a five-minute timeframe" filtering possible with their engine, overall, Snort does a great job for us. With Demarc I have a great interface for drilling into events real-time to get a good idea of what's going on. ISS doesn't have anywhere near the usability for that.
So to sum up, yes, OSS works great!
If you switch to OpenSolaris, just remember that it's only as "open" as Sun wants it to be, and that it wouldn't be open at all if it weren't for "all this neo-freedom-fascism".
The only reason there (supposedly will be) code to look at in Solaris is because that's the only way it has a prayer of competing with Linux. It still won't compete, though, because Sun chose to make sure that the licenses are such that they can take, take, take, but not give back to GPL projects.
She's hotter anyway, and currently winning in the sluttiness race.
4,203 results from all over the place.
No. Denied Federal funding, yes.
Speak for yourself - my wife does scrapbooking and prints out a LOT of pictures. I would happily have paid $200 for the Epson C84 printer I have, if I had the assurance that a full set of printer carts would always cost in the $10-15 range. This razor-blade arrangement we have now SUCKS.
I saw a web page the other day talking about the fact that a freaking MICROWAVE OVEN can be bought for less than a set of ink cartridges for the average printer. How does that work, exactly? The carts are priced artifically high, that's how.
Frontend, dude, frontend...
Bottom right of this page has info on a Super/Composite adapter, and of course it already has DVI if your TV accepts it.
Somewhat overpriced, but note that the Mini has a Radeon graphics processor and 32 MB of dedicated graphics RAM.
I'll just about guarantee you that the Gateway (by the way, ick!) you linked to has a crappy video processor and shared RAM for graphics.
What I wanna know is, how soon until I can run Linux on this baby and use it for a way-cool MythTV frontend?
I haven't bought a thing from Phillips since I bought a Velo 500 WinCE palmtop way back in 1998 or so, the day it came out, for like $550 I think.
Then, not a year later, when M$ released a CE upgrade and NEC and others would upgrade current machines for $10 or so, Phillips announced they had no plans to produce an upgrade for the Velo 500.
Three months or so later, they dropped everything that ran Windows CE.
I don't reward behavior like that with continued purchases.
Now, of course, my Zaurus is pretty immune to such problems. I can pick among several distributions to run on it.
So run it on a different port! Geez, if you're running SSH (or just about any other service, for that matter) on its default port with a "consumer grade" Internet connection, you deserve what you get.
They can't block SSH on any abritrary port unless they do content inspection on all traffic.
Hooray! Mission accomplished!
And Poland.
Except, on Red Hat, it may have been backpatched - still reporting the same version but the hole is closed.
You know, if MS /really/ wanted to make SP2 do the right thing, you'd think they would have put in a service to monitor all the regkeys/win.ini/whatever points that software gets autorun, and then scream loudly and ask for confirmation when something tries to use them.
Bollocks. Just do what I did - build a nice little Mini-ITX system, put in a gig of RAM and load up Linux with a custom initrd that extracts the system to a ramdisk and pivot_roots to it. Mount the drive for storage, then use hdparm to tell it to power down when idle.
Then write a daemon to watch when the drive is spun up, and copy the mailboxes off to a storage area on the drive. Use rc.local to copy them back when the system reboots.
Voila - low power (max 40 watts, usually less because the drive isn't spinning) and fast.
You could do this with flash as well, you just won't have the storage space of a drive. And it obviously doesn't have to spin down. Just use a cron job.
NPR here in Colorado (here) did this, and it's pretty nice. Unfortunately the two channels turned out to be all classical on FM, and the news on AM 1340, with AM 1430, whose format can only be described as "the worst songs of all time", bleeding through on my car radio. It must be a multiple of the IF or something.
I'd kill for the satellite radio bunch to start carrying All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
Already happening here in Denver. Our company went through a bankrupcy in May of 2001 and cut everyone's salary 10% (or, at least, they said everyone...) and wasn't up-front about it being permanent for several months afterward. And pretty much no raises since.
Well, things appear to be starting to pick back up around here - four or five high-level people have left in the past couple of months.
I tried to tell them a couple of years ago that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to look back the last two years and see a 10% pay cut done in a slimy fashion and no raises, and look forward to a new company and new opportunities, and conclude that the new company looks good.
Well, they're pretty screwed now. Pretty much all of the new people they've hired (which hasn't been many) have been morons. The ones that haven't been, have taken upwards of a year to get properly acclimated and be really productive. In the meantime, we have to pass up projects because we don't have the staffing/expertise now.
Serves 'em right, I say.
They probably do piss off the INS people, yes - I've had a lot of dealings with Brits over the years, and so far without fail, every one from London has been a royal a**hole, and every other one has been a pretty decent human being.
My personal theory is that Londoners are like the New Yorkers of England.
I've had a Siemens Gigaset system for several years, and it works great with 80211b. My cordless base station is upstairs in the house, the Linksys is downstairs, and I can sit right next to the base station and surf with nary a burp on the call in progress.
Occasionally I'll be transferring a movie from my Linux server to my laptop while on the phone and you'll hear a slight hissing on the call (with 100% full throughput) but that's about it, and the phone call doesn't slow down the transfer.
You can get Gigaset systems quite cheap on Ebay these days. The really great thing is that the handsets use NiMh or Nicad AA rechargables instead of proprietary batteries, so when batteries go I can run just about anywhere and get new batteries.
"If his boss was such a poor performer, his failures would have made themselves evident over time."
You've never worked in government, have you?
"Most mainframes can stay up as long as the power remains on..."
Heck, some even longer!
I still remember back in high school in about 1984 or 1985, we got a donation of a DEC PDP 8/e processor, 4K of core memory, two big 512K drum drives (that looked like a refrigerator) and scads of DECtape drives, along with some terminals.
Well, reading through the system documentation, the cool thing about this machine was that, while it couldn't run without power, it would start right back up where it left off when power failed.
Turns out the CPU could sense when the power had ended and dump its state into (nonvolatile) core memory as its last gasp. When power came back on, the startup cycle would see the state info, load it, and off things would go again.
We tried it once just to see - ran a BASIC program to continuously print something on the LA21, pulled the plug, and damned if it didn't work.
I had a job from 1992-1994 programming those credit card activation numbers, and our service bureau operated entirely on ANI data and not caller ID.
AFAIK, you can't spoof ANI data, only deny it, and in that case my program transferred the call to a live operator who had a script of verification questions to ask.
So, not much to see here, move along...