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So you bought a server that didn't support hot-swappable SATA. Why did you do that if you prefer hot-swap drives? All my servers I've bought lately (and PCI-SATA cards to add to other machines) have been hot-swappable.
They exist and work just fine. You can even get the nice blinky lights you like if you buy the right hardware.
Agreed. My only debt is my credit card, which I pay off every month. I've had it for about 2 years, spent plenty of money (bought a HDTV, and a Laptop, along with all my gas) and yet I've never paid them a cent of interest.
Start. At least once a year allow at least a small amount of debt to roll over (which you then pay in full the next month). It actually helps build your credit score to have it on record that you had a standing debt that you repaid. A bit silly I know, but that's the way the strange credit score calculations work.
If you have a 1 GB encrypted volume, it's a 1 GB encrypted volume. What happens when you have 900MB or data on a 'normal' partition and try to add a 200 MB file? It will fail because there isn't enough space. It makes no difference if it's an encrypted partition or not 900+200 > 1000.
When you have a hidden volume, it is considered 'free space' as far as the original partition is concerned. If you try to overwrite the hidden volume with a file that takes up the remaining 'free space' on the original partition, Truecrypt will happily let you, over-writing and destroying the encrypted volume.
It's one of the things you have to be careful about using it if you did have an encrypted volume. You need to be sure to never add so many files to the original partition that it starts overwriting the hidden partition.
He seemed to be referring to the hidden volumes just fine. "3) Making sure that it's a hidden encrypted volume"
And his way is more secure because no one knows it's a Truecrypt volume in the first place, so they don't know he has a file that needs a password (which may then of course have a hidden file within it which needs another password. But if you are using Truecrypt, this is then a very well known possibility). If they don't know you have a encrypted file, they won't be asking you for the password for it.
You never used Truecrypt eh? It's not a zip file. It acts as a virtual hard drive partition that can be mounted as a drive.
When you create the volume it generates random bits throughout the virtual partition. You can copy whatever files you want onto the virtual partition, the rest of it is random noise. You may or may not choose to have additional hidden encrypted partitions within that noise. Adding up the size of know files tells you nothing about what may or may not lurk in the rest of the space on the virtual partition.
Even the lite(express) version of SQL 2005 has TCP disabled by default. Only local pipes work by default. You have to explicitly enable TCP to allow other folks to connect.
MS SQL Server 2005 doesn't even have TCP enabled by default. You have to enable it/run the surface area configuration utility to get it to allow other machines to connect to it.
Any exposed ports are from older versions or admins who for some reason explicitly opened the ports to the world.
If you RTFA, you can see it's an external drive. Almost every external drive you buy will already be formatted. Usually with tools on it so that a button on it will start a backup of your internal drives, etc. I haven't seen an external drive in years that wasn't already formatted. If you left autoplay ON on your windows machine, your nailed as soon as you plug in the bugged external drive.
Computer Configuration > Click "Administrative Templates" > Click "System" > Double-Click "Turn off Autoplay", set it for "All Drives" and click the "apply" button.
I think if you look at the % of firefox users who hack firefox to mod if for themselves, and the % of any web framework users who who hack on their framwork, you will find the second numer is much much higher than the first.
Firefox also doesn't require me to have C++ installed on my machine. Drupal does need php to be installed on my machine.
I went to the Drupal site. It didn't say anywhere I could see what language it was based on. If you hadn't mentioned php in your post I would have been at a total loss.
These platforms all need to spell out what language they are based on a lot better than they do.
Well, seeing that they have a readily available closed solution that works with over 99% of their users, yes, I think they can justify it.
Please note I'm an OpenBSD user. I love truely open formats. I can just recognize that from their perspective with a fraction of 1% of users wanting it, changing to an open platform would be additional work for them with little apparent payout to them.
In the RA arena researchers don't know the cause. Same thing for cancer and a host of other diseases.
Cancer isn't one disease. It's a host of them. We know the causes of many. We can now cure many of them.
Biology is much more complicated than computers are. And if we screw something up someone dies. You can't just run a few more off the production line. Research will go slower because of that fact.
Interdisciplinary research has been happening for decades. Andy Grove's 'suggestion' is something that already happens. Even without the great man's insights.
Respectable training? Training by what measure. He got more educated in an area that was crucial to his survival. Not that extraordinary really. I've known a number of people with possibly terminal illnesses that have bothered to educate themselves a bit in the area.
But most of the time he wasn't talking to researchers. He was talking to physicians whose whole careers were practice. That's like asking the mechanic at your local Chevy dealership about advances in engine design. It's not what they do. They just fix what they learned to fix, not keep up on the latest technology on composite material engineering. They don't do new treatments until they are standard. If you want to find out about the latest things going on, new clinical trials are always starting for just about any condition you can think if, if you bother to go cutting edge with the researchers rather than stick with tried-and-tested treatments.
if only the experts in the medical profession would open up their minds a little and try to learn from other fields how to improve their research.
I'm a biologist. Every week I interact with someone who does social science research, a mathematician, and a physicist. Folks in the medical profession DO learn and work with folks in other fields all the time. Where do you think many of the advances in the past several decades have come from? Today for example I was working with some Genechips. A critical tool in biology that takes advantage of advances in chemistry and computer science. He's proposing stuff that has been a fact in the field for just about as long as it's existed.
There is no financial interest in developing new drugs when old drugs are still protected under obscenely long lasting patents.
20 years is obscene? You do realize that half that time is over before the drug makes it out of clinical trials don't you? Usually a company has to make all the real profit they are going to make in under 10 years. Not really that obscene to me. And there certainly is motivation to develop new drugs. By the time you get the first drug into production/sales, you damn well better have several more in the pipeline, because most are going to fail in clinical trials, and you current one will become a 'generic' by the time the new ones hit the market.
And researchers are, as researchers are. I highly doubt many of the silicon engineers are eagerly awaiting news of how Timmy used their latest creation to do his high school term paper on. Like whys, most researchers are likely more interested in continuing their research than the 5-20 year battle what ever their last findings will go through before becoming a commercial grade product.
I have no idea what you mean by this. I assure you, every research I know that got a drug patented is VERY interested it it getting out and becoming a product. A patent on a commercial product means money. Funding for your research, as well as personal income. And silicon engineers might not get a lot of satisfaction about Timmy playing that new game, but every biomedical researcher I know does like knowing one of their discoveries might save or improve lives.
All of that could be put aside though, save for one major factor. There is a HUGE amount of money in the pharmaceutical world. And the sad fact is, more of that money goes to crap like Viagra commercials during the Super Bowl than to the research and development of new drugs and treatments.
This is the only valid part of your post. The pharma companies blow an insane amount of money on advertising.
I'm not saying everyone in the industry is a greedy whore, heck, I've met and worked with some really great people who are in it for the cures. But the privatization of research, the excessive burden of patents, and the big-business/lobbyist friendly approach of our government over the last 2+ decades have lead to a slowing of development and a maximization of profits.
Privatization of research? The NIH will spend about 29 billion on research this year. There is a LOT of public research going on. The government isn't in the practice of selling drugs though, so any drug discoveries will end up going through private industry when it comes time to go to clinical trials. The increasing threat of lawsuits and things like HIPAA regulation (necessary, but a huge burden) have significantly helped slow things and make them more expensive.
People are perfectly free to turn the walls of their business into a faraday cage. Totally legal, and stops nimrods from bothering others with their cell phones.
People actually did manage without cell phones for a long time. Really.
Shocker. The parties have changed over time. Stephen Colbert has a poster in his office of Nixon. Why?
"He was so liberal! Look at what he was running on. He started the EPA. He gave 18-year-olds the vote. His issues were education, drugs, women, minorities, youth involvement, ending the draft, and improving the environment. John Kerry couldn't have run on this!"
The Republican party USED to stand for liberal views. Now they stand for neo-conservatism. The new republicans values are not at all like the old republican values. Not even close.
And I'd as soon vote Communist as Libertarian because both can only work when everyone is a idealistic true-believer. If you aren't delusional you realize neither can work in the real world.
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So you bought a server that didn't support hot-swappable SATA. Why did you do that if you prefer hot-swap drives? All my servers I've bought lately (and PCI-SATA cards to add to other machines) have been hot-swappable.
They exist and work just fine. You can even get the nice blinky lights you like if you buy the right hardware.
Agreed. My only debt is my credit card, which I pay off every month. I've had it for about 2 years, spent plenty of money (bought a HDTV, and a Laptop, along with all my gas) and yet I've never paid them a cent of interest.
Start. At least once a year allow at least a small amount of debt to roll over (which you then pay in full the next month). It actually helps build your credit score to have it on record that you had a standing debt that you repaid. A bit silly I know, but that's the way the strange credit score calculations work.
You think things like this don't happen at private hospitals? I work with one and I can tell you right now they do.
If you have a 1 GB encrypted volume, it's a 1 GB encrypted volume. What happens when you have 900MB or data on a 'normal' partition and try to add a 200 MB file? It will fail because there isn't enough space. It makes no difference if it's an encrypted partition or not 900+200 > 1000.
No.
When you have a hidden volume, it is considered 'free space' as far as the original partition is concerned. If you try to overwrite the hidden volume with a file that takes up the remaining 'free space' on the original partition, Truecrypt will happily let you, over-writing and destroying the encrypted volume.
It's one of the things you have to be careful about using it if you did have an encrypted volume. You need to be sure to never add so many files to the original partition that it starts overwriting the hidden partition.
He seemed to be referring to the hidden volumes just fine. "3) Making sure that it's a hidden encrypted volume"
And his way is more secure because no one knows it's a Truecrypt volume in the first place, so they don't know he has a file that needs a password (which may then of course have a hidden file within it which needs another password. But if you are using Truecrypt, this is then a very well known possibility). If they don't know you have a encrypted file, they won't be asking you for the password for it.
Filesize arithmetic?
You never used Truecrypt eh? It's not a zip file. It acts as a virtual hard drive partition that can be mounted as a drive.
When you create the volume it generates random bits throughout the virtual partition. You can copy whatever files you want onto the virtual partition, the rest of it is random noise. You may or may not choose to have additional hidden encrypted partitions within that noise. Adding up the size of know files tells you nothing about what may or may not lurk in the rest of the space on the virtual partition.
Even the lite(express) version of SQL 2005 has TCP disabled by default. Only local pipes work by default. You have to explicitly enable TCP to allow other folks to connect.
MS SQL Server 2005 doesn't even have TCP enabled by default. You have to enable it /run the surface area configuration utility to get it to allow other machines to connect to it.
Any exposed ports are from older versions or admins who for some reason explicitly opened the ports to the world.
You remember wrongly.
If you RTFA, you can see it's an external drive. Almost every external drive you buy will already be formatted. Usually with tools on it so that a button on it will start a backup of your internal drives, etc. I haven't seen an external drive in years that wasn't already formatted. If you left autoplay ON on your windows machine, your nailed as soon as you plug in the bugged external drive.
3rd party tools? Who needs 3rd party tools?
gpedit.msc
It's a windows GUI tool.
Computer Configuration > Click "Administrative Templates" > Click "System" > Double-Click "Turn off Autoplay", set it for "All Drives" and click the "apply" button.
I think if you look at the % of firefox users who hack firefox to mod if for themselves, and the % of any web framework users who who hack on their framwork, you will find the second numer is much much higher than the first.
Firefox also doesn't require me to have C++ installed on my machine. Drupal does need php to be installed on my machine.
They are very different things.
I went to the Drupal site. It didn't say anywhere I could see what language it was based on. If you hadn't mentioned php in your post I would have been at a total loss.
These platforms all need to spell out what language they are based on a lot better than they do.
Well, seeing that they have a readily available closed solution that works with over 99% of their users, yes, I think they can justify it.
Please note I'm an OpenBSD user. I love truely open formats. I can just recognize that from their perspective with a fraction of 1% of users wanting it, changing to an open platform would be additional work for them with little apparent payout to them.
Yeah, it went from a lot less than 1% to, less than 1%.
I still don't think that makes non Windows/MacOS support a priority for them. Do you?
Wow, we can't make new thyroid glands yet and so the medical community sucks.
How many times have you written your congressmen asking for more money for the NIH for research funding?
I thought so.
In the RA arena researchers don't know the cause. Same thing for cancer and a host of other diseases.
Cancer isn't one disease. It's a host of them. We know the causes of many. We can now cure many of them.
Biology is much more complicated than computers are. And if we screw something up someone dies. You can't just run a few more off the production line. Research will go slower because of that fact.
Interdisciplinary research has been happening for decades. Andy Grove's 'suggestion' is something that already happens. Even without the great man's insights.
Respectable training? Training by what measure. He got more educated in an area that was crucial to his survival. Not that extraordinary really. I've known a number of people with possibly terminal illnesses that have bothered to educate themselves a bit in the area.
But most of the time he wasn't talking to researchers. He was talking to physicians whose whole careers were practice. That's like asking the mechanic at your local Chevy dealership about advances in engine design. It's not what they do. They just fix what they learned to fix, not keep up on the latest technology on composite material engineering. They don't do new treatments until they are standard. If you want to find out about the latest things going on, new clinical trials are always starting for just about any condition you can think if, if you bother to go cutting edge with the researchers rather than stick with tried-and-tested treatments.
if only the experts in the medical profession would open up their minds a little and try to learn from other fields how to improve their research.
I'm a biologist. Every week I interact with someone who does social science research, a mathematician, and a physicist. Folks in the medical profession DO learn and work with folks in other fields all the time. Where do you think many of the advances in the past several decades have come from? Today for example I was working with some Genechips. A critical tool in biology that takes advantage of advances in chemistry and computer science. He's proposing stuff that has been a fact in the field for just about as long as it's existed.
Who the hell modded this insightful?
His argument is not without merit though.
Yeah, it pretty much is.
There is no financial interest in developing new drugs when old drugs are still protected under obscenely long lasting patents.
20 years is obscene? You do realize that half that time is over before the drug makes it out of clinical trials don't you? Usually a company has to make all the real profit they are going to make in under 10 years. Not really that obscene to me. And there certainly is motivation to develop new drugs. By the time you get the first drug into production/sales, you damn well better have several more in the pipeline, because most are going to fail in clinical trials, and you current one will become a 'generic' by the time the new ones hit the market.
And researchers are, as researchers are. I highly doubt many of the silicon engineers are eagerly awaiting news of how Timmy used their latest creation to do his high school term paper on. Like whys, most researchers are likely more interested in continuing their research than the 5-20 year battle what ever their last findings will go through before becoming a commercial grade product.
I have no idea what you mean by this. I assure you, every research I know that got a drug patented is VERY interested it it getting out and becoming a product. A patent on a commercial product means money. Funding for your research, as well as personal income. And silicon engineers might not get a lot of satisfaction about Timmy playing that new game, but every biomedical researcher I know does like knowing one of their discoveries might save or improve lives.
All of that could be put aside though, save for one major factor. There is a HUGE amount of money in the pharmaceutical world. And the sad fact is, more of that money goes to crap like Viagra commercials during the Super Bowl than to the research and development of new drugs and treatments.
This is the only valid part of your post. The pharma companies blow an insane amount of money on advertising.
I'm not saying everyone in the industry is a greedy whore, heck, I've met and worked with some really great people who are in it for the cures. But the privatization of research, the excessive burden of patents, and the big-business/lobbyist friendly approach of our government over the last 2+ decades have lead to a slowing of development and a maximization of profits.
Privatization of research? The NIH will spend about 29 billion on research this year. There is a LOT of public research going on. The government isn't in the practice of selling drugs though, so any drug discoveries will end up going through private industry when it comes time to go to clinical trials. The increasing threat of lawsuits and things like HIPAA regulation (necessary, but a huge burden) have significantly helped slow things and make them more expensive.
People are perfectly free to turn the walls of their business into a faraday cage. Totally legal, and stops nimrods from bothering others with their cell phones.
People actually did manage without cell phones for a long time. Really.
Shocker. The parties have changed over time. Stephen Colbert has a poster in his office of Nixon. Why?
"He was so liberal! Look at what he was running on. He started the EPA. He gave 18-year-olds the vote. His issues were education, drugs, women, minorities, youth involvement, ending the draft, and improving the environment. John Kerry couldn't have run on this!"
The Republican party USED to stand for liberal views. Now they stand for neo-conservatism. The new republicans values are not at all like the old republican values. Not even close.
And I'd as soon vote Communist as Libertarian because both can only work when everyone is a idealistic true-believer. If you aren't delusional you realize neither can work in the real world.
Please find a hole in my pf firewall on any of my OpenBSD machines.
It's well, well worth the resources to run.
Who the hell modded that insightful?
Yes they SHOULD be used, in ADDITION to external dedicated firewalls.
Anyone plugging in an infected laptop behind your LAN's firewall now has a shot at your firewall-free computer.
Use both hardware and software firewalls. Layers of protection are good.
Don't buy now. Black Friday is almost here. I'll bet you can find one at a cheaper price then.