I checked it out from the library. It is a huge book, the type that you could use as a weapon if need be, so I assume that is where the somewhat high price comes from.
You know that saying "you were cool if you had an iPod" is the same statement as "you aren't cool if you don't have an iPod." So what your saying is that nothing has changed.
build a superior computer Well unless your using a Sun, thats already happened. Most of your computer was made in Asia and simply assembled and branded in the US. Hell if you buy a Honda in Western Canada it was made in Japan, not in any of the Canadain factories. Marty McFly said it best, "All the best stuff is made in Japan."
Why run as a regular user and have two keys to worry about? You might as well run as admin and only have one. In this way running as admin is actually more secure.
You could look at it that way, but thats not the way I've seen it work. I have seen a user run as admin and ust EFS, they goofed and forgot their password and guess what, there wasn't another account to fall back on. On top of that users don't have to manage their keys so its not a matter of having your mother manage 2 keys making running as admin more secure, which by the way, is the dumbest statement I've read all day.
...arguing against functionality to make a machine more secure and easier to use in a home setting
I can go a lot farther. I don't see why your average home user would run EFS at all. More often then not, it prevents the legitimate owner of the files from accessing them after they make a mistake, I suppose it could be considered the ultimate in home data security, but personally I just view EFS as silly for most home users.
one of the worst MS apologists I have ever seen. I really hope they are paying you to astroturf.
You must be a joy to work with. I give my opinion, it's different then your worshiping all things OS X so I must be paid by MS. It was a legitamate question, you made it sound like the user chose if the admin gets a copy of the key, I have never used OS X so I asked. Steve isn't a god, OS X is not the holy grail, so calm down.
OK, if you give the user the option to choose if they have an Admin have a backup key, how do you ensure that that user is not simply encrypting things as an attempt to have some job security by encrypting everything that no one else can decrypt.
The fact that the Administrator owns a key to decrypt the EFS in the event they have to is not another example of Windows requireing users to run as admin. It is Microsoft recognizing that a business needs to access to everything no matter what happenes to its people.
An OS is not a religious experience for everyone. I use what works for its purpose and for a lot of things the choice is Windows or nothing. I didn't buy a computer to play games on to turn around and say that I'm going to refuse to install the one thing that is required for that, and no, Wine is not an option.
I'm sure that as soon as IBM provides the needed information, or licences Sun to provide Solaris native versions of Websphere, DB2 and whatnot, Sun will choose that route. The point was that Sun as not locked IBM out of Java just because they do not directly provide a binary themselves. IBM neither licences websphere out the same way Sun does Java, nor do they povide binaries.
IBM licenced Java and took it upon themselves to have a JRE for their software, Apple did the same thing. *BSD has various patches to build a native java binary if you agree to the SCSL, or can use Java under Linux emulation. SGI and HP seem to have done the same thing as they also release Java binaries for their OS's. QNX seems to have partnered with IBM for them to provide a Java environment.
Other then a snide remark, can you really give any good reasons why it actually could not be that?
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My girlfriend took one look at it and saw an image embedded in the way the characters are laid out. She figures that a real message would be too obvious and since its art, the real purpose could simply be to see what is not plainly there.
Maybe the boys at Langley are being too literal at trying to solve it.
I knew a company that rebooted their VMS boxes once a year when the building did their power test. It was more fear of a power spike then anything elss. Other then that, they never had a need to reboot the systems.
Its not scary, its what an Enterprise Class OS should be.
Calling Unix a 'junk OS' is streaching it a little, but personally I do feel that VMS is the more worthy of the two. Its funny that Windows is moving in on areas that Unix is traditionally king, since before it was Unix moving in on OS's that were technically superior. At this rate, in 50 years it will be amazing to have a system that can stay up longer then a day.
1) BSD makes a lousy desktop It can use the same Windowing system you use on Fedora
2) BSD doesn't do SMP gracefully Chances are FreeBSD will handle SMP better then Linux will, and it has for some time
3) BSD doesn't have the mindshare of Linux It has a dedicated team of people that develop the system as a whole and i386 has over 10,000 ports that have been verified to work
4) Getting to know BSD would require getting comfortable with a new administration Ya learning things sucks, especially when it uses pretty much the same tools as Linux does, and the packaging system makes far more sence, well at least to me it does. Is this the same argument you use for not using Slackware?
5) As of Redhat 7.x, Linux is "good enough" At least you have a sense of humour.
6) BSD has much more limited hardware compatability BSD often gets drivers before Linux and with few, though sometimes notable exceptions, if your system runs Linux it will run a *BSD.
Why didnt you just say you dont use it because you don't want to instead of making up some 'insightfull' points that show you don't know what your talking about.
Well since I've been using a Mac since the SE and I am often the one pointing out that the BSD portion of the kernel is a subsystem in the Mach kernel, yes it was a joke.
Did it hurt to have your sense of humour removed, or were you born that way?
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Your supposed to stop when it hurts? Oh....
I checked it out from the library. It is a huge book, the type that you could use as a weapon if need be, so I assume that is where the somewhat high price comes from.
You should take a look at tracking down The Codebreakers which is a fasinating read.
Maybe it was really dense dark matter.
You know that saying "you were cool if you had an iPod" is the same statement as "you aren't cool if you don't have an iPod." So what your saying is that nothing has changed.
build a superior computer
Well unless your using a Sun, thats already happened. Most of your computer was made in Asia and simply assembled and branded in the US. Hell if you buy a Honda in Western Canada it was made in Japan, not in any of the Canadain factories. Marty McFly said it best, "All the best stuff is made in Japan."
Why run as a regular user and have two keys to worry about? You might as well run as admin and only have one. In this way running as admin is actually more secure.
...arguing against functionality to make a machine more secure and easier to use in a home setting
You could look at it that way, but thats not the way I've seen it work. I have seen a user run as admin and ust EFS, they goofed and forgot their password and guess what, there wasn't another account to fall back on. On top of that users don't have to manage their keys so its not a matter of having your mother manage 2 keys making running as admin more secure, which by the way, is the dumbest statement I've read all day.
I can go a lot farther. I don't see why your average home user would run EFS at all. More often then not, it prevents the legitimate owner of the files from accessing them after they make a mistake, I suppose it could be considered the ultimate in home data security, but personally I just view EFS as silly for most home users.
one of the worst MS apologists I have ever seen. I really hope they are paying you to astroturf.
You must be a joy to work with. I give my opinion, it's different then your worshiping all things OS X so I must be paid by MS. It was a legitamate question, you made it sound like the user chose if the admin gets a copy of the key, I have never used OS X so I asked. Steve isn't a god, OS X is not the holy grail, so calm down.
OK, if you give the user the option to choose if they have an Admin have a backup key, how do you ensure that that user is not simply encrypting things as an attempt to have some job security by encrypting everything that no one else can decrypt.
The fact that the Administrator owns a key to decrypt the EFS in the event they have to is not another example of Windows requireing users to run as admin. It is Microsoft recognizing that a business needs to access to everything no matter what happenes to its people.
Because if it was his fault he would have told you.
An OS is not a religious experience for everyone. I use what works for its purpose and for a lot of things the choice is Windows or nothing. I didn't buy a computer to play games on to turn around and say that I'm going to refuse to install the one thing that is required for that, and no, Wine is not an option.
Why? Its already in Solaris, you can have it now.
Lots of people can say that, and its not that hard if you read the documentation.
She saw a woman in a wooded area.
I'm sure that as soon as IBM provides the needed information, or licences Sun to provide Solaris native versions of Websphere, DB2 and whatnot, Sun will choose that route. The point was that Sun as not locked IBM out of Java just because they do not directly provide a binary themselves. IBM neither licences websphere out the same way Sun does Java, nor do they povide binaries.
IBM licenced Java and took it upon themselves to have a JRE for their software, Apple did the same thing. *BSD has various patches to build a native java binary if you agree to the SCSL, or can use Java under Linux emulation. SGI and HP seem to have done the same thing as they also release Java binaries for their OS's. QNX seems to have partnered with IBM for them to provide a Java environment.
What exactly was your problem again?
Other then a snide remark, can you really give any good reasons why it actually could not be that?
My girlfriend took one look at it and saw an image embedded in the way the characters are laid out. She figures that a real message would be too obvious and since its art, the real purpose could simply be to see what is not plainly there.
Maybe the boys at Langley are being too literal at trying to solve it.
I knew a company that rebooted their VMS boxes once a year when the building did their power test. It was more fear of a power spike then anything elss. Other then that, they never had a need to reboot the systems.
Its not scary, its what an Enterprise Class OS should be.
Calling Unix a 'junk OS' is streaching it a little, but personally I do feel that VMS is the more worthy of the two. Its funny that Windows is moving in on areas that Unix is traditionally king, since before it was Unix moving in on OS's that were technically superior. At this rate, in 50 years it will be amazing to have a system that can stay up longer then a day.
Congradulations, your an idiot.
1) BSD makes a lousy desktop
It can use the same Windowing system you use on Fedora
2) BSD doesn't do SMP gracefully
Chances are FreeBSD will handle SMP better then Linux will, and it has for some time
3) BSD doesn't have the mindshare of Linux
It has a dedicated team of people that develop the system as a whole and i386 has over 10,000 ports that have been verified to work
4) Getting to know BSD would require getting comfortable with a new administration
Ya learning things sucks, especially when it uses pretty much the same tools as Linux does, and the packaging system makes far more sence, well at least to me it does. Is this the same argument you use for not using Slackware?
5) As of Redhat 7.x, Linux is "good enough"
At least you have a sense of humour.
6) BSD has much more limited hardware compatability
BSD often gets drivers before Linux and with few, though sometimes notable exceptions, if your system runs Linux it will run a *BSD.
Why didnt you just say you dont use it because you don't want to instead of making up some 'insightfull' points that show you don't know what your talking about.
Until file cabinets, folders, desks, walls, and documents all dissapear, nothing is going to be more familiar then those ideas.
I don't know about you, but I'm surrounded by file cabinets. Don't 'fix' what isn't broken.
Yes there is a BSD subsystem that runs in kernel space.
Well since I've been using a Mac since the SE and I am often the one pointing out that the BSD portion of the kernel is a subsystem in the Mach kernel, yes it was a joke.
Did it hurt to have your sense of humour removed, or were you born that way?
It was a joke.
Apples are BSD based not SysV.