It keeps the CRT Screen because it is easier to clean up from pencel marks and takes scratches better."
As opposed to? A laptop LCD? The eMac is a desktop. Compare it to desktop LCDs. Every desktop LCD screen I've seen out now comes with a nice piece of glass on the front panel to keep the screen safe from scratches. Only laptop LCDs leave those off to save on the weight/thickness.
Access isn't always used as a database. In many places, it just just a front-end GUI which talks to MS SQL, Oracle, or some other Database server. Access makes interfaces to the database fairly quick to put togeather. Usually much faster than writing a web/java based one.
We never use the actual Access database here. We just use it as a front-end. I'm glad to see an 'access-like' program in OpenOffice. We could use a nice free front-end to talk with a 'real' database server. Not just some lightweight database that comes as a part of an office suite.
True. However they note under the goals of the project that some folks don't run NTPD at all because it is difficult to set up, uses quite a bit of memory, and their machines are often hugely off correct time because of this. OpenNTP gives those folks an easy way to run it on their system.
The other big thing is it is easily auditable whereas NTPD isn't. OpenBSD guys seem to be big into auditing code. They've often cleaned up 'dirty' code, and ended up being immune to security holes that were only later identified in those apps run on other OS's. They might figure the possibility of a spoofing problem ( and ending up with time being off because of that ) might be better than a potential unseen security hole letting the bad guys get root access.
Actually they may have more wealth AND innovation. Without a motive (wealth) people will often spend less time working on new innovations. The thoughts of profit drive R&D for most companies (as well as individuals).
I think IP laws are a good idea as the provide a motive to drive innovation. The only problem with them is the US is extending them to longer and longer periods of time. They shouldn't be perpetual (ala Disney's mickey mouse), but should expire after several years. They should give the originator of the idea time to profit enough to make the investment in R&D worthwhile, but not so long that they stiffle future use of the idea. Hitting what different people consider a fair balance is always going to be the controversial part.
The asking price is the value as far as the law is concerned.
So you like stealing music eh? Maybe you shoplift too. Suppose the store lists the price of a sweater at $100. You like the sweater, but decide it's only worth $15 to you, so you are just going to steal it. The store didn't actually pay $100 for the sweater, they bought it from a wholesaler for $40. When the cops arrest you, do they charge you for stealing a $15 item? No. Do they charge you for stealing a $40 item? No. They charge you what the asking/going rate for that item. $100.
Oh, but you are just 'copying' software you say. That's not stealing you say (yes it is, you are stealing the right of the person who made it to decide who should have the right to use the product they produced). So let's look at software. Photoshop might only be worth $10 in your estimation, because it's just a little easier to use than the Gimp, so that justify's the $10 price in your mind over 'free'. But Adobe wants $500! So you just download it for free off some p2p site. What is Adobe going to go after you for? Stealing $500. That's their asking price for their product. That's the way the law works. Deal with it.
If you don't want to pay for music or software, don't. More power to you. There's lots of free art and software out there, you are free to get that. Get your art/software from someone who makes it for free. No one is stopping them from making art/software for free. No one is stopping you from using BSD/GPL/etc software or free music.Go for it.
However, if someone decides they want to charge for their art, that is THEIR choice, not yours. Maybe they think their art is better than other peoples and is worth more. Maybe they just want to profit from it so that they can do their art full time, rather than having to get a 'regular job' to put food on the table and a roof over their head and only doing their art part-time in their spare time. Maybe they want to get rich. Either way, it is THEIR choice what to do with their art, not yours. Just because thay produced it, that doesn't give you a right to it.
If someone prices their music or software rediculously high in your estimation, DON'T BUY IT! But that does NOT give you the right to download it and get charged with taking something of a lesser value because it is worth less to you personally
Well, it doesn't really matter in that the people were willing to download the movies, songs, or software rather than pay the known retail price for them. They knew they were downloading something with a known retail value, and that it was illegal.
If you are going to do the crime, be ready to do the time. It's well known that the charge of the crime is going to be based off the retail rate for the product. They are being charged with avoiding paying that known retail value. I don't see what's wrong with listing that.
Nice. So, since you aren't allowed access to the 'shutdown' feature of the public terminal, you are just going to hit the power button to take the machine down in a dirty state. That's mighty nice of you.
In the case of malware and just dumb mistakes on the user level, why allow most people to admin the desktop machines?
It depends on a lot of variables. Expectations of the users, attitude of the big boss, frequency of need for install of new programs by some of the users, etc. As I said above 'most' users at our place have an admin account on their desktop as well as their regular domain account. Some have shown they can't handle the privledge, so they don't have it. At most other places, I'd agree with you and be all for locking the users down and not giving them any admin privledges.
I don't consider the servers special because they have better hardware, but because that's where the data lives. No data lives on the workstations here. They just have applications for viewing manipulating the limited amount of data the user is specifically allowed access to. If someone screws up a machine it is simply ghosted back to the install image. If someone toasts the server all the important stuff, the data, is compromised.
Also because configuration problems in the server affect everyone, not just the user of the single workstation. Yes, a workstation can cause problems for the whole network, but a compromised server immediately puts all the data/configs for the whole network in question.
Right. But folks are probably normally going to do their work as the domain user. And running as admin all the time is DUMB, so it's not a good idea to make the domain user account the admin. Make a separate admin account for doing the software installs, not the domain account you normally work as.
If they are doing it they way I'd assume, they have a regular Active Directory username they normally log in to do their work. The users aren't assigning themselves these normal 'working' username. That would all be handled by the Domain admins.
In addition, they probably also have a separate username on that individual machine that is the admin group on that individual machine. Just for installing software specific to the user.
Apparently you can't read. He didn't say they were Administrator if their DOMAIN. He said they were the admin of their own machine. HUGE difference. Apparently you have no clue how MS domain/security works.
And as far as for being an admin of your machine, it does not mean you are running as admin all the time. Locally most folks here have an admin username they can log into to install software on their machines when needed. They also have a regular normal username they use to log in as a normal user to do their work.
4200RPM? *SHUDDER*. My laptop (dell i8600)has a 60GB 7200 RPM drive in it. That extra 20 GB would be nice, but not at that speed. I can't see bringing the machine to a crawl for the extra 20 GB unless you really need it badly.
I wish more modern laptops came with an extra slot for an extra hard drive like my old dell 8100 did. Maybe the thinness of these new drives will allow manufacturers to add a slot for them. I wouldn't mind some slow access to 80 GB, as long as I have a fast drive as well for the OS, swap, and most-used files.
As far as I know, not too many online file sharers have landed in jail. Quite a few HAVE been sued or threatened with a lawsuit and had to pay thousands.
I think the real concern with using bittorrent or ED2K to obtain copyrighted material is that you may end up much poorer, not land in jail.
Well, for one, we can ignore calls that "intelligent design" be taught in science in place of evolution. When you have states like Kanses, Georgia, etc, in this country saying they should be taught as equally likely theories in science classes... we are doomed.
That's the best way to go. At least they warn you ahead of the time that they are going to ruin the basic plot so you can stay away.
I still remember going to see Highlander 2 the first night it came out. Within the first five minutes the movie and the previous movie were forever ruined for me. "It all began five hundred years ago on a planet named Zeist." NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo!
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As opposed to? A laptop LCD? The eMac is a desktop. Compare it to desktop LCDs. Every desktop LCD screen I've seen out now comes with a nice piece of glass on the front panel to keep the screen safe from scratches. Only laptop LCDs leave those off to save on the weight/thickness.
We never use the actual Access database here. We just use it as a front-end. I'm glad to see an 'access-like' program in OpenOffice. We could use a nice free front-end to talk with a 'real' database server. Not just some lightweight database that comes as a part of an office suite.
Don't worry, we are working on reverse engineering them.
The other big thing is it is easily auditable whereas NTPD isn't. OpenBSD guys seem to be big into auditing code. They've often cleaned up 'dirty' code, and ended up being immune to security holes that were only later identified in those apps run on other OS's. They might figure the possibility of a spoofing problem ( and ending up with time being off because of that ) might be better than a potential unseen security hole letting the bad guys get root access.
http://www.ie.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#OpenNTPD
Subversion isn't a better alternative to OpenBSD folks. It's got security holes in it too.
Apparently you failed to read the rest of the post. You stole the right of the creator to determine who was allowed to use their creation.
I think IP laws are a good idea as the provide a motive to drive innovation. The only problem with them is the US is extending them to longer and longer periods of time. They shouldn't be perpetual (ala Disney's mickey mouse), but should expire after several years. They should give the originator of the idea time to profit enough to make the investment in R&D worthwhile, but not so long that they stiffle future use of the idea. Hitting what different people consider a fair balance is always going to be the controversial part.
So you like stealing music eh? Maybe you shoplift too. Suppose the store lists the price of a sweater at $100. You like the sweater, but decide it's only worth $15 to you, so you are just going to steal it. The store didn't actually pay $100 for the sweater, they bought it from a wholesaler for $40. When the cops arrest you, do they charge you for stealing a $15 item? No. Do they charge you for stealing a $40 item? No. They charge you what the asking/going rate for that item. $100.
Oh, but you are just 'copying' software you say. That's not stealing you say (yes it is, you are stealing the right of the person who made it to decide who should have the right to use the product they produced). So let's look at software. Photoshop might only be worth $10 in your estimation, because it's just a little easier to use than the Gimp, so that justify's the $10 price in your mind over 'free'. But Adobe wants $500! So you just download it for free off some p2p site. What is Adobe going to go after you for? Stealing $500. That's their asking price for their product. That's the way the law works. Deal with it.
If you don't want to pay for music or software, don't. More power to you. There's lots of free art and software out there, you are free to get that. Get your art/software from someone who makes it for free. No one is stopping them from making art/software for free. No one is stopping you from using BSD/GPL/etc software or free music.Go for it.
However, if someone decides they want to charge for their art, that is THEIR choice, not yours. Maybe they think their art is better than other peoples and is worth more. Maybe they just want to profit from it so that they can do their art full time, rather than having to get a 'regular job' to put food on the table and a roof over their head and only doing their art part-time in their spare time. Maybe they want to get rich. Either way, it is THEIR choice what to do with their art, not yours. Just because thay produced it, that doesn't give you a right to it.
If someone prices their music or software rediculously high in your estimation, DON'T BUY IT! But that does NOT give you the right to download it and get charged with taking something of a lesser value because it is worth less to you personally
They have a right to charge for their work if they want to. Just because they made it, that doesn't give you a right to it.
If you are going to do the crime, be ready to do the time. It's well known that the charge of the crime is going to be based off the retail rate for the product. They are being charged with avoiding paying that known retail value. I don't see what's wrong with listing that.
Nice. So, since you aren't allowed access to the 'shutdown' feature of the public terminal, you are just going to hit the power button to take the machine down in a dirty state. That's mighty nice of you.
It depends on a lot of variables. Expectations of the users, attitude of the big boss, frequency of need for install of new programs by some of the users, etc. As I said above 'most' users at our place have an admin account on their desktop as well as their regular domain account. Some have shown they can't handle the privledge, so they don't have it. At most other places, I'd agree with you and be all for locking the users down and not giving them any admin privledges.
I don't consider the servers special because they have better hardware, but because that's where the data lives. No data lives on the workstations here. They just have applications for viewing manipulating the limited amount of data the user is specifically allowed access to. If someone screws up a machine it is simply ghosted back to the install image. If someone toasts the server all the important stuff, the data, is compromised.
Also because configuration problems in the server affect everyone, not just the user of the single workstation. Yes, a workstation can cause problems for the whole network, but a compromised server immediately puts all the data/configs for the whole network in question.
I use that on my BSD box as well. But for the windows environment, you can always just do 'runas'.
Right. But folks are probably normally going to do their work as the domain user. And running as admin all the time is DUMB, so it's not a good idea to make the domain user account the admin. Make a separate admin account for doing the software installs, not the domain account you normally work as.
In addition, they probably also have a separate username on that individual machine that is the admin group on that individual machine. Just for installing software specific to the user.
And as far as for being an admin of your machine, it does not mean you are running as admin all the time. Locally most folks here have an admin username they can log into to install software on their machines when needed. They also have a regular normal username they use to log in as a normal user to do their work.
I wish more modern laptops came with an extra slot for an extra hard drive like my old dell 8100 did. Maybe the thinness of these new drives will allow manufacturers to add a slot for them. I wouldn't mind some slow access to 80 GB, as long as I have a fast drive as well for the OS, swap, and most-used files.
I think the real concern with using bittorrent or ED2K to obtain copyrighted material is that you may end up much poorer, not land in jail.
Living on one of the great lakes, I can tell you that plenty of migratory birds go straight over them.
Well, for one, we can ignore calls that "intelligent design" be taught in science in place of evolution. When you have states like Kanses, Georgia, etc, in this country saying they should be taught as equally likely theories in science classes... we are doomed.
I still remember going to see Highlander 2 the first night it came out. Within the first five minutes the movie and the previous movie were forever ruined for me. "It all began five hundred years ago on a planet named Zeist." NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo!
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