We've done everything we can in our Active Directory network to overcome roaming profile issues.
I believe that a lot of Windows users (including administrators) simply don't understand anything beyond the personal computer. They just don't understand a world in which one can sit down at another machine, log in and continue working just like they had sat down at their regular workstation. It's an alien concept to them.
a Ubuntu wants $105/desktop per year for a system that hopes to someday be as stabil and robust as MS Active Directory and Group Policy solutions that are (essentially) free with Windows Server...
But I would most people to continue paying for cable tv. Someone has to foot the bill, making tv shows and content is expensive.
How about the people who watch those shows? Why should I pay for the most expensive group of non-premium channels (ESPN) when I never, ever watch any ESPN channels? Today, my choice is limited to paying for ESPN or not getting the channels I really want (BBC*)
Oh I understand the issue just fine. But, they have to have a minimum level of proof to do the seizure and they also have to defend the action in court if/when the property owner objects.
Neatly proving that you don't have a clue. Read this and see how asset forfeiture happens in the real world.
and that requires that they actually have some level of proof that illegal activity was going on.
You haven't been following this issue very much, have you? Siezures have been made where there was no proof, only suspicion (based on the flimsiest of evidence). As the owner, you don't have the right to challenge the siezure -- the siezure is made against the property itself.
I don't expect that I have much to worry about, but that probably has more to do with my socio-economic status and the color of my skin than any other factors.
What's surprising, based on this article, is the minimal checks that the BBC's geolocation blocking uses. It's purely DNS based. Just set your nameserver to a UK-based DNS nameserver and you can fire up and watch programs using the BBC iPlayer.
The ITVPlayer, in the other hand requires the actual program streams to be pulled using a UK-based IP address.
For people with the technical skills, a London, UK based virtual private server can be rented for about $10/month and perhaps less.
Civil forfeiture consists of your property being the defendant, and you have no standing in the case.
It's things like this which convince me that the majority of the Supreme Court justices don't give a flying f*ck about the text of the constitution. Instead, they make up ridiculous justifications for any pro-police/pro-government/anti-civil rights judgment.
It's not even that expensive... there's usually plenty of Economy Plus available ranging from $50-$80 on a cross-country flight, down to $30 on a two hour flight (not exact, just my recollection)
I qualified for lifetime Gold in American's frequent flyer program some years ago and now I always get my pick of the economy plus type seats, but without having to pay extra for them.
Which means you don't actually konw how one could possibly reproduce such an issue, but you're going to offer your opinion that I don't know what I'm doing.
Based on the fact that I have performed many successful installs of Ubuntu on Thinkpad laptops and you have not performed a single successful install of Ubuntu on Thinkpad, my opinion of your abilities is quite reasonable.
pop Windows back in
No indication that you put a drive containing Windows back in. Also, "dump" is not synonymous with "remove". As for "professional", see my comment above.
Yes, they do. Some years ago, my daughter was abroad and she managed to completely destroy the hard drive in her Thinkpad. She is not a technical person. She had been running Ubuntu, which I had installed.
I told here where to find an Ubuntu ISO, a friend downloaded it for her and burned a CD. Using the CD, she did a basic installation, which was fully working.
I then got her to ssh into one of my servers, with a reverse tunnel configured. Using that tunnel, I was able to ssh back into her laptop (depite the fact it was behind a NAT router), configure up a VPN and then restore all her files from the backups that were local to me.
My guess is that somewhere along the line, you are doing something in the installation process that you think is necessary, but in fact is screwing things up. Either that or you are trolling.
But you know what? I had to do work *then*, and it took 10 minutes to dump the drive, pop Windows back in and get to *work*.
10 minutes for a usable Windows install? In your dreams.
Rather than have an/etc/init.d/myservice restart all related services to ensure a "clean" environment, I can list dependencies and triggers and rely on the system to do what is appropriate.
So it solves a problem that Gentoo solved years ago in its script-driven init system?
Imagine that a future Iraqi government indicts George W. Bush's cabinet for war crimes. They claim that payments to military contractors involved bribery. Do you think that the Iraqi court should get access (via a local office in Iraq) to the bank records held by US banks of the cabinet members?
Actually, this same scenario happened with the banking industry and what the judge is proposing actually follows the international law and treaties that came out of it. In short, it doesn't matter where the assets are stored as to who has jurisdiction, but as to who has control over them
So there is a treaty convering funds in accounts held by international banks. Tell us why a company should be obligated by a treaty that doesn't apply to the industry in which it operates?
Imagine that someone overseas has deposited something in a box held (overseas) by the subsidary of a US bank. Should the hypothetical US bank comply with the demand of a judge to make the contents available to a US law enforcement authority?
This is one case where I enjoy seeing the lawyers rake in the money at the expense of their asshole clients (both sides). Why Apple and Samsung don't settle this pissing match is beyond me. This can't possibly benefit either company.
Read the FA. THe summary doesn't explain exactly what is happening. EO 12333 originally allowed for collection of data abroad, but today, the collection happens in the USA -- in domestic Internet hubs. Naturally, the vast majority of the data scooped up this way is purely domestic and concerns US citizens, but the NSA claims that this is purely incidental. That's right -- the majority of the collection is "incidental". Yeah, right.
FISA? That rubber stamp is bypassed while collecting masses of data on US citizens.
"This program was started at least back in 2001 and has expanded to between 80 and 100 tap points on the fiber optic lines in the lower 48 states," he said by e-mail. "Most of these fiber optic tap points are not on the East or West coast. This means that the primary target of this collection is domestic... Most collection of US domestic communications and data is done under EO 12333, section 2.3 paragraph C in the Upstream program. They claim, near as I can tell, that all domestic collection is incidental. That's, of course, the vast majority of data."
More than a decade ago, when they abandoned desktop and regular users and only focused on enterprise, they made their biggest mistake. Where do you think Ubuntu Server users come from?
This.
Absolutely true. RedHat desktop was awful (in comparison to other distros) for a while. Unfortunately, it's going that way again (Gnome 3). I only hope that someone will create a MATE repository for RHEL/CentOS 7.
What this implies is that the execs at RedHat don't eat their own dogfood, which is terrible for any software company. They should run RHEL on their personal desktops/laptops, etc..
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I believe that a lot of Windows users (including administrators) simply don't understand anything beyond the personal computer. They just don't understand a world in which one can sit down at another machine, log in and continue working just like they had sat down at their regular workstation. It's an alien concept to them.
CALs are free?
How about the people who watch those shows? Why should I pay for the most expensive group of non-premium channels (ESPN) when I never, ever watch any ESPN channels? Today, my choice is limited to paying for ESPN or not getting the channels I really want (BBC*)
How do you think routinely ruling against the executive branch affects the prospects for a judge who wants to be appointed to the higher courts?
Neatly proving that you don't have a clue. Read this and see how asset forfeiture happens in the real world.
You haven't been following this issue very much, have you? Siezures have been made where there was no proof, only suspicion (based on the flimsiest of evidence). As the owner, you don't have the right to challenge the siezure -- the siezure is made against the property itself.
I don't expect that I have much to worry about, but that probably has more to do with my socio-economic status and the color of my skin than any other factors.
It only takes one PHB who thinks that programmers are a fungible commodity.
What's surprising, based on this article, is the minimal checks that the BBC's geolocation blocking uses. It's purely DNS based. Just set your nameserver to a UK-based DNS nameserver and you can fire up and watch programs using the BBC iPlayer.
The ITVPlayer, in the other hand requires the actual program streams to be pulled using a UK-based IP address.
For people with the technical skills, a London, UK based virtual private server can be rented for about $10/month and perhaps less.
It's things like this which convince me that the majority of the Supreme Court justices don't give a flying f*ck about the text of the constitution. Instead, they make up ridiculous justifications for any pro-police/pro-government/anti-civil rights judgment.
Then what was in the "lost" emails? Something doesn't smell right.
Headlines miss out words all the time. Film at 11...
I qualified for lifetime Gold in American's frequent flyer program some years ago and now I always get my pick of the economy plus type seats, but without having to pay extra for them.
I assume that you never fly on long-haul flights (especially overnight)?
At this point, I realize that I owe you an apology. I had confused you with the person who was 0/5 for installing Ubuntu on Thinkpads.
Based on the fact that I have performed many successful installs of Ubuntu on Thinkpad laptops and you have not performed a single successful install of Ubuntu on Thinkpad, my opinion of your abilities is quite reasonable.
No indication that you put a drive containing Windows back in. Also, "dump" is not synonymous with "remove". As for "professional", see my comment above.
Yes, they do. Some years ago, my daughter was abroad and she managed to completely destroy the hard drive in her Thinkpad. She is not a technical person. She had been running Ubuntu, which I had installed.
I told here where to find an Ubuntu ISO, a friend downloaded it for her and burned a CD. Using the CD, she did a basic installation, which was fully working.
I then got her to ssh into one of my servers, with a reverse tunnel configured. Using that tunnel, I was able to ssh back into her laptop (depite the fact it was behind a NAT router), configure up a VPN and then restore all her files from the backups that were local to me.
My guess is that somewhere along the line, you are doing something in the installation process that you think is necessary, but in fact is screwing things up. Either that or you are trolling.
10 minutes for a usable Windows install? In your dreams.
So it solves a problem that Gentoo solved years ago in its script-driven init system?
What does it say about the sorry state of schools when a press release put out by the Superintendent confuses "insure" with "ensure"?
Imagine that a future Iraqi government indicts George W. Bush's cabinet for war crimes. They claim that payments to military contractors involved bribery. Do you think that the Iraqi court should get access (via a local office in Iraq) to the bank records held by US banks of the cabinet members?
So there is a treaty convering funds in accounts held by international banks. Tell us why a company should be obligated by a treaty that doesn't apply to the industry in which it operates?
Imagine that someone overseas has deposited something in a box held (overseas) by the subsidary of a US bank. Should the hypothetical US bank comply with the demand of a judge to make the contents available to a US law enforcement authority?
Not sure where you got that from
Exactly -- it's working as planned.
Remember the tale of the the scorpion and the frog? . You identified what their nature is already.
FISA? That rubber stamp is bypassed while collecting masses of data on US citizens.
This.
Absolutely true. RedHat desktop was awful (in comparison to other distros) for a while. Unfortunately, it's going that way again (Gnome 3). I only hope that someone will create a MATE repository for RHEL/CentOS 7.
What this implies is that the execs at RedHat don't eat their own dogfood, which is terrible for any software company. They should run RHEL on their personal desktops/laptops, etc..