There are hundreds of thousands of people using unpriveleged user accounts every single day. That's how things run in the enterprise, kid.
Hundreds of thousands is a tiny fraction of the Windows userbase.
Are you stupid? Do you know how much trouble an unpriveleged user can cause by screwing with file associations? Not to mention how easy it would be to circumvent any kind of security restriction. If you have the policy limiting what.exe files they can run, they could just invent their own file extension, and associate it with explorer.exe or cmd.exe.
Only on a system with poor security is this a problem. Who cares what program I run if I am running with limited privileges? As log as I don't change any other user's associations, there is no security implication. If for security reasons you have to limit.exe's that the user can run, then you have deeper problems.
You have not addressed:
Quickbooks -- try running that as a limited user. Arguably the OS does not provide the features necessary to have this run as anything other than administrator
On XP Home -- try using a new wireless network as a limited user.
The only way to lose heat is through thermal radiation.
Given the other posts about someone who was exposed to a vacuum for some 30 seconds and remembers the saliva boiling off his tongue, would not the evaporation process also cause cooling?
A fraction of the Muslim world wants us dead. Period. They've been blowing up a handful of people and a boatload of innocent bystanders (many times, Muslims as well) JUST because they're American or Jewish, for nearly half a century
I don't believe it is so simple: I believe that they want us to either convert and submit to Islam or die. So, I think they are quite happy with GWB's responses to the various attacks since those responses push our free society in the direction of the controlled societies that exist in the Muslim world. It's the classic terrorist approach: kill one, scare a thousand. GWB is amplifying the "scare" part of that equation.
t's been observed that any dictatorship requires a permanent state of emergency or war. Based on this, all kinds of law and basic rights can be disrespected based on the higher requirement of national security.
This insight is why I believe George Orwell's "1984" should be required reading for all young adults. Hopefully, some of them will be able to draw the parallel between the war on "Oceana" (later "Eastasia") and the "War on Terror" (or the "War on Drugs", or the war on whatever).
So is this the visual equivalent of the Brown note? Let's hope it works better.
Other comments regarding mirrors and sunglasses (and presumably, sunglasses with mirror lenses) would seem to be equivalent of those pictures of Daleks encountering staircases.
See my other posts about the fact that if Linux wants a share of the desktop market migration and dual-boot must be a one-click, no-brains process.
I think you missed the replies that pointed out that it would have worked if you had picked the default option. The problem arise because you thought you were savvy enough to stray from the default, but then found that your knowledge was lacking.
1. The version of RealVNC is broken and possibly insecure.
You sure about that? I certainly used RealVNC before the feisty final release. Insecure? That'd be addressed in security updates.
Yes I am sure. Have you used vnc4server and been able to get a Gnome desktop when accessing it from another machine? There are lots of posts in various forums, most of which end with "I uninstalled vnc and install ". The only working solution seems to be to add "-extension XFIXES" to the command line when running "vnc4server".
I mainly run a Gentoo desktop and frankly, I find the package management tools much easier and effective than the Debian tools.
If you want a GUI frontend, check out firestarter.
I am quite familiar with IPTABLES/Netfilter and I did not find the Firestarter interface easy to use -- it did not seem to handle wireless (ath+) interfaces easily. Frankly, I found it easier to copy the relevant files off a Red Hat system, modify the init script, create the config files and make the links in/etc/rcX.d
I think IP Tables is installed by default. Is firestarter to control IP Tables from the GUI in the repos still or not?
IPTABLES is installed by default, but no script to set up IPTABLES in/etc/init.d, nor is there a default set of IPTABLES rules installed anywhere. Red Hat manages to do this.
Firestarter is available, but it is not particularly easy to set up a policy.
Before the Ubuntu team criticizes add-ons that make the system useful to many more people, they should get their own house in order.
I recently installed a 7.04 system and I found that: 1. The version of RealVNC is broken and possibly insecure. 2. The CDFS-src package is broken, and has been for months. There are bug reports on both of these issues, yet it does not seem that the Ubuntu team has any interest in fixing them. 3. There does not seem to be any good and easy way to install a firewall. Red Hat seems to have a simple IPTABLES firewall installed as an option in the installation process, why can't Ubuntu do this?
There may be other problems, These are just 2 that I have found. Also my 6.06 LTS system has been unable to connect to open wireless networks since upgrading from 5.10.
So: my message to Canonical is: get your own house in order. Only then should you criticize third-party solutions.
Amazingly, I still have my Windows 3.1 disks, Windows 95 and Win2k CDs as well.
Having the disks is a far cry from getting them the OS to install and run. I imagine getting Win 3.1 to run on a SATA only system would be difficult today and may be impossible in the future. And as for that legacy hardware, good luck with that, but hardware does not last forever, even if not used. Maybe you will be lucky, maybe not.
Your company is probably doing the right things and will not have any problems, but governments need to keep documents for longer times that companies do.
As a pc support guy in a biggish company, I'm REALLY glad this guy isn't making decisions here....... CIOs should not be spending their time testing and selecting OSes. If that's what he's interested in, he's in the wrong line of work.
And you know this because....... you are a "pc support guy"?
Let's face it, here on/. we are always mocking PHBs who have no knowledge of the technology under their control. Now one comes along who does something to expand his knowlendge of the technology and you post that he is wasting his time?
How is this any different from someone like say, Mikhail Gorbachev or the Dalia Lama coming to the US to give a speech? And I guarantee you those people charge a large speaking fee.
Good question. I don't really know the answer except to suggest that they are well known individuals and the various agencies turn a blind eye? Or perhaps they actually get a suitable visa?
There are many types of visas available and it is not entirely impossible that these type of people may be quaified to get something that allows them to give speeches. In fact, perhaps the subject of the story could have got a visa that would make his visit entirely legal.
The blogger makes several excellent points about how foolish the whole situation was, how the application of the law was inconsistent relative both to similar situations in the US as well as international standards, and proffered two different, "do-able," legal solutions that were promptly ignored by the "officers" in question.
Personally, I am very skeptical that any pay arrangement would make the teaching of tutorials at a conference legal without an H1-B or some other visa that expressly allows the holder to work.
My guess is that it many people do come into the US in similar circumstances, but that does not make it legal. Also, using the visa waiver program may be a mistake -- it's not just a visa that is waived, but also any rights that the person attempting to enter US might hold are waived.
Break the rules, get sent home. That's just the processes working properly.
Now, as to whether those rules are sensible or in the best interest of the USA, that's different. It seems to me that there should be a process that would allow very limited "work" under an B1 (visitor) visa. Already the line between business meetings and work is somewhat gray, but in this case, his entry was entirely about work to be performed in the USA.
There is also an EXT2 driver for MAC-OS, so this makes ext2/3 look like the most portable option after FAT.
One problem with the Windows ext2 driver, though -- if the filesystem is not clean when you attempt to open in in Windows, Windows helpfully offers to re-format it.
You're one of those freaks who used to like the xterms with yellow backgrounds and black foreground huh? The first thing I do when I get a new terminal is change all the backgrounds to black and the foreground to light grey or white... it IS easier on my eyes than a dark color on light backgrounds.
If you have a CRT monitor in anything less than 100% condition, white on black is very difficult to read. Black on White is usually much easier for me to read.
It's too bad TiVo isn't in such great financial shape because all they'd really have to do is give away a bunch of boxes for free and let people play with them for a month.
Errr.... they did. They gave away thousands at their HQ a couple of years back. You did not even have to commit to buy their subscription.
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned the HME interface that Tivo has -- there are applications written by third parties that run on PCs and display on the Tivo. You can use it as a media player, you can also download the shows from the Tivo and play them on your PC.
It would be very interesting to know how many copies of Vista have been sold that are not OEM pre-installs. The small number of people that I know that have bought PCs with Vista are dissatisfied with them (one returned the PC). The latest complaint that I heard was that IE does not work properly under Vista.
Replying to my own post, but I think this pdf file is quite relevent. It looks like a company registration service offering services to Swedish operations wanting to register in the UK.
In the UK, companies are required to have registered offices at which documents can be served. It is quite usual for smaller companies to use their accountant's address for this.
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You have not addressed:
Quickbooks -- try running that as a limited user. Arguably the OS does not provide the features necessary to have this run as anything other than administrator
On XP Home -- try using a new wireless network as a limited user.
So is this the visual equivalent of the Brown note? Let's hope it works better.
Other comments regarding mirrors and sunglasses (and presumably, sunglasses with mirror lenses) would seem to be equivalent of those pictures of Daleks encountering staircases.
I wonder if improved support under Linux for the sensors in IBM/Lenovo laptops will come from this?
I mainly run a Gentoo desktop and frankly, I find the package management tools much easier and effective than the Debian tools.
Firestarter is available, but it is not particularly easy to set up a policy.
Before the Ubuntu team criticizes add-ons that make the system useful to many more people, they should get their own house in order.
I recently installed a 7.04 system and I found that:
1. The version of RealVNC is broken and possibly insecure.
2. The CDFS-src package is broken, and has been for months.
There are bug reports on both of these issues, yet it does not seem that the Ubuntu team has any interest in fixing them.
3. There does not seem to be any good and easy way to install a firewall. Red Hat seems to have a simple IPTABLES firewall installed as an option in the installation process, why can't Ubuntu do this?
There may be other problems, These are just 2 that I have found. Also my 6.06 LTS system has been unable to connect to open wireless networks since upgrading from 5.10.
So: my message to Canonical is: get your own house in order. Only then should you criticize third-party solutions.
Your company is probably doing the right things and will not have any problems, but governments need to keep documents for longer times that companies do.
Let's face it, here on
Just put the people into tanks and give them virtual lives ..... what's that, the Matrix was fiction?
There are many types of visas available and it is not entirely impossible that these type of people may be quaified to get something that allows them to give speeches. In fact, perhaps the subject of the story could have got a visa that would make his visit entirely legal.
My guess is that it many people do come into the US in similar circumstances, but that does not make it legal. Also, using the visa waiver program may be a mistake -- it's not just a visa that is waived, but also any rights that the person attempting to enter US might hold are waived.
Break the rules, get sent home. That's just the processes working properly.
Now, as to whether those rules are sensible or in the best interest of the USA, that's different. It seems to me that there should be a process that would allow very limited "work" under an B1 (visitor) visa. Already the line between business meetings and work is somewhat gray, but in this case, his entry was entirely about work to be performed in the USA.
There is also an EXT2 driver for MAC-OS, so this makes ext2/3 look like the most portable option after FAT.
One problem with the Windows ext2 driver, though -- if the filesystem is not clean when you attempt to open in in Windows, Windows helpfully offers to re-format it.
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned the HME interface that Tivo has -- there are applications written by third parties that run on PCs and display on the Tivo. You can use it as a media player, you can also download the shows from the Tivo and play them on your PC.
Replying to my own post, but I think this pdf file is quite relevent. It looks like a company registration service offering services to Swedish operations wanting to register in the UK.
In the UK, companies are required to have registered offices at which documents can be served. It is quite usual for smaller companies to use their accountant's address for this.