SRL is nothing like BattleBots. SRL borders on machanical performance art - there is far less structure to their events (Not to mention they are consisntaly in throes with the local Fire Dept. authorities.) BattleBots is a tournament with rules, regulations, and while I certainly don't find it all that facinating, and I know similar events have been going on for years, I'd have a hard time saying that it was SRL that pioneered this stuff.
> Wall Street has finally discovered what every nerd has known for the past five years: that Linux not only works - it works better!
What a load of balony. The success of the RedHat IPO says not a single thing about the value of Linux as a good OS. People buy stock cause other people are buying stock cause other big companies are pushing it as the New Thing (tm). It looks like Linux is poised to become the next big thing in the IT world, but since we've seen it happen with Windows 95, we can't draw a line between the stock value and the power of the OS; only the stock value and the percieved market placement and possible success of the OS. Beta was better than VHS... but thanks to consumers, VHS became the dominant brand.
I'm not bashing Linux, obviously; I use it myself. I'm trying to discredit the notion that success on Wall Street confirms the technical superiority of Linux... it doesn't. It just says alot of people think they can make money off buying Red Hat stock. And alot of people would be right - sound the alarms, its time for Linux to become the newest technical pin-up babe.
This is approaching dangerous levels of bandwagoning.
I'd think that if you really needed the kind of security that makes network sniffing a no-no, you'd spend more time trying to strengthen the types of security you use for network traffic rather than trying to detect who's sniffing.
Encrypted mail and such.... just make the data that could be sniffed useless in the hands of a sniffer, and you don't need a sniffer detector.
Not that I'm any sort of security expert, but this sounds kind of like the Radar Gun Detector argument - if you're afraid of being pulled over in the first place, you have to work to change the speed limit, not try to evade the Radar Guns.
Apple had a habit of naming it's internal secret projects after various things. One project was dubbed internally as "Sagan", with respect to, of course, the sci-fi writer Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan learned of this and threatened to sue Apple for the unauthorized use of his name. Apple quickly complied, chaning the name of the project to "Stuck-up astronomer." Or so the story goes.
Yes, its all good. Everyone is embracing Linux, it's small, it's stable, it's scalable, yadda yadda yadda. But doesn't anyone get this 'flavour of the month' kinda feeling? How many of these companies are doing it because they like Linux, rather than not liking Microsoft?
Tho, again, it sounds like an interesting use of Linux. I've always wanted to log into my toaster.
Well, uh, duh. Note the word 'hilarious' in the Subject line.:) Sorry, if anyone needs a disclaimer or something, the onion article linked above is, in fact, a joke.
Yeah, okay, you're right, I did kinda try to sneak that by. Shame on me.
If MacOS X would not run on these mother boards, then I perhaps may have misinterpreted the article. But I stand by my claim that I think appl e would stand to make alot more money by going software only. They just need to open up the OS a little, position it more as a technies OS, and get some services type business going. They've got a strangle hold for the most part on the publishing/music industry, and I don't see that being any different for the next 5 or so years. If they could just focus on bringing out the OSes of OSes, I think they'd do fine. Although, granted, with the explosion of interest in Linux and with Linux being positioned to be the next OS of choice possibly, I do concurr that now would be a bad time to make the switch.
And while you might argue that the success of the Mac's complatence with hardware is sue to the limited range of hardware it had to support (it still had to support lots of 3rd party cards anyhow), I feel that it was due to the correct balancing the MacOS has between automation and confiurability. I was rarely in a situation where I couldn't fix a problem due to control over the hardware/software involved, and I rarely found I had to do things which the OS really should have handled for me (ie, no brainers). Yes, you're right, I'm sure things wouldn't fare so well in a more wide open hardware market, but I'm bet my money on it still being more of a pleasure to work with than Windows, and dare I say it, possibly even Linux. Of course, I'm only specuating. And stupid.;)
Despite the stereotypes, I know of a good many tech-types who appreciate the MacOS for it's no hassle ease of use (I don't care what anyone says, sometimes I just don't need the configurability). I just wanted to dispell the notion that real Mac Users tend to be non-power users. Remember that MacOS runs in alot of school/library environments, and that the users who work with MacOS there are not even truely computer users. I think if you did a survey among Mac users by choice, you'd find them to be more technology saavy than you'd have expected.
For instance, for art and music, I'd be running Mac if I could afford it. For development, games, and such, Linux all the way. I'd happily run both systems, and leave Windows in the dust. If only I could afford it. And now, perhaps, maybe I can.
Finally, Apple will be forced to face a non monopolitic position in its hardware market. Which is a Good Thing (tm). For years Apple has ignored keeping it's OS on the cutting edge (because, lets face it, it was when it came out), choosing instead to cash in on the fact that if you/did/ want to run MacOS, you had to buy their hardware. Apple has NEVER understood what it does well - software. Repeatedly, they have released new technologies (quicktime, qtvr, OpenDoc) only to see them fail because of lack of choice regarding hardware/platform and their marketing focus on their hardware. Maybe this will finally force them to do what they do best when they put their minds to it - making software that takes the hassle out of/some things/. People have always complained you had no power under Mac, but at least it never had the gull, like some other WindOSes, to actually take over and do things for you without permission. MacOS X only gets better - built on the NexT kernel, a dynamite development environment (according to, for example, John Carmack of ID Software), and an open source initiative. Finally, I will have the power to choose, again (not to mention afford). I'm all for it. Thank YOU, IBM!
I think every finalist should have moved to Cuba. Just so not only would the US have had to import the encryption, but from Cuba to boot! (Clinton: "Oh, and hey, could you guys bring up some cigars with you as well? Thanks.")
One one small thing about your reply. I don't think 'media' is really it.. I was referring to many people - including some from the media. I hate to point fingers, cause it always ends up getting blown off. Garret
By the way, if anyone draws conclusions from a sample base of 750 people, ranging from 16 - 44 (ie not the full age spread of people who play games), they'd be out of their freaking mind. This study prooves nothing, for neither side.
Thats like 28 people per specific age, or 140 people for age ranges of 5 years. It's rediculous. While any survey is inherently flawed, this one is chopped, diced, and pureed.
1. A kid who plays Quake all the time is not hurting anyone. Sure, you can claim he's being influenced while he's playing, but only few people are influenced, and even less into doing deviant things because of it.
2. A kid who ping floods sites for fun is MUCH more likely to do something violent IMHO (of course, most never do, but I'm just saying this is more of an indicator than watching/interacting with pretend violence). Why? This type of action displays a much greater disregard for the respect of others, and their property. But people don't see this. They see the blood in Quake, they think blood. Ping flooding may not be violent, but it says to me that the guity party is more likely to disrespect the laws of society. Now don't get all up in arms. I'm just taking two activities, and pointing out where society seems to go wrong in analysing the people doing them.
3. You can't predict people. End of story. There has always, will always be murder. Sometimes you can spot it, other times you can't. But rather than targeting the ones we/think/ are in danger, there should simply be more focus in our society towards maintaining tolerance, patience, and an understanding that being picked on/isolated/teased is not justification for retribution, but rather motivation to keep on being superior life forms than the aggressors.
The important part here is distinguishing the underlying context of the activity/hobby. Something doesn't have to look violent to influence people into being more violent. But still, we take everything at face value......
Yes, CNs do support security via the use of ACI's (Access Control Information) in an LDAP entry. Check around from some LDAP documentation. I'm assuming of course that this Common Name Resolution stuff is for use with LDAP servers.
There are a variety of different security restrictions you can impose on an entry that allows various actions depdning on who is doing the query.
> when somebody who specializes in electronic banking might suddenly need to know about the Japanese fishing industry
I have experience in enterprises of large scale.. and I'll again conceed its a great technology for directory/HR, since these records are required frequently, and directories inherently support organization structure and authentication, but the case you describe.. well, I think they happen rarely enough such that it's difficult to justify a whole other layer on your intranet management work. I think a properly maintained search engine and intranet does well enough. (And obviously, I conceed that as a former sysadmin, these things do tend to be a matter of taste.:) I didn't expect the backlash this story is getting. I thought I was going to be presenting the unheard for side.;)
However, I'll step back a little on my position on the basis that lots of companies/are/ moving their HR info over to directories.. moving document organzation over to it is much more justifyable in this case. I still don't think document organzation alone justifies the deployment of such servers.
It/is/ nice tho to talk it out with someone who has a clear understanding of the technology involved tho, since I'm always open to the idea that I'm often wrong.;)
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SRL is nothing like BattleBots. SRL borders on machanical performance art - there is far less structure to their events (Not to mention they are consisntaly in throes with the local Fire Dept. authorities.) BattleBots is a tournament with rules, regulations, and while I certainly don't find it all that facinating, and I know similar events have been going on for years, I'd have a hard time saying that it was SRL that pioneered this stuff.
Good for him! I'm looking forward to getting the apps keeping Windows on my HD over to Linux; hopefully this should help.
On a side note, I may not be able to code Wine, but I sure can drink it - anyone wanna hire me?
> Wall Street has finally discovered what every nerd has known for the past five years: that Linux not only works - it works better!
... but thanks to consumers, VHS became the dominant brand.
... it doesn't. It just says alot of people think they can make money off buying Red Hat stock. And alot of people would be right - sound the alarms, its time for Linux to become the newest technical pin-up babe.
What a load of balony. The success of the RedHat IPO says not a single thing about the value of Linux as a good OS. People buy stock cause other people are buying stock cause other big companies are pushing it as the New Thing (tm). It looks like Linux is poised to become the next big thing in the IT world, but since we've seen it happen with Windows 95, we can't draw a line between the stock value and the power of the OS; only the stock value and the percieved market placement and possible success of the OS. Beta was better than VHS
I'm not bashing Linux, obviously; I use it myself. I'm trying to discredit the notion that success on Wall Street confirms the technical superiority of Linux
This is approaching dangerous levels of bandwagoning.
I'd think that if you really needed the kind of security that makes network sniffing a no-no, you'd spend more time trying to strengthen the types of security you use for network traffic rather than trying to detect who's sniffing.
.... just make the data that could be sniffed useless in the hands of a sniffer, and you don't need a sniffer detector.
Encrypted mail and such
Not that I'm any sort of security expert, but this sounds kind of like the Radar Gun Detector argument - if you're afraid of being pulled over in the first place, you have to work to change the speed limit, not try to evade the Radar Guns.
My favorite trademark infringement story ever:
Apple had a habit of naming it's internal secret projects after various things. One project was dubbed internally as "Sagan", with respect to, of course, the sci-fi writer Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan learned of this and threatened to sue Apple for the unauthorized use of his name. Apple quickly complied, chaning the name of the project to "Stuck-up astronomer." Or so the story goes.
Heehee.
Heehee. And I had just registered my domain 2 weeks ago, and then this news? Always seems to work that way ....
Yes, its all good. Everyone is embracing Linux, it's small, it's stable, it's scalable, yadda yadda yadda. But doesn't anyone get this 'flavour of the month' kinda feeling? How many of these companies are doing it because they like Linux, rather than not liking Microsoft?
Tho, again, it sounds like an interesting use of Linux. I've always wanted to log into my toaster.
Well, uh, duh. Note the word 'hilarious' in the Subject line. :) Sorry, if anyone needs a disclaimer or something, the onion article linked above is, in fact, a joke.
Um, just an example. Read:
Heroic PETA Commandos Kill 49, Save Rabbit
Stress? Small cage? Jesus, had I known it woulda been like that, I'da suggested we put Bill Gates in there (next to a bowl full of tomatoes.
People. Sheesh.
Yeah, okay, you're right, I did kinda try to sneak that by. Shame on me.
;)
If MacOS X would not run on these mother boards, then I perhaps may have misinterpreted the article. But I stand by my claim that I think appl e would stand to make alot more money by going software only. They just need to open up the OS a little, position it more as a technies OS, and get some services type business going. They've got a strangle hold for the most part on the publishing/music industry, and I don't see that being any different for the next 5 or so years. If they could just focus on bringing out the OSes of OSes, I think they'd do fine. Although, granted, with the explosion of interest in Linux and with Linux being positioned to be the next OS of choice possibly, I do concurr that now would be a bad time to make the switch.
And while you might argue that the success of the Mac's complatence with hardware is sue to the limited range of hardware it had to support (it still had to support lots of 3rd party cards anyhow), I feel that it was due to the correct balancing the MacOS has between automation and confiurability. I was rarely in a situation where I couldn't fix a problem due to control over the hardware/software involved, and I rarely found I had to do things which the OS really should have handled for me (ie, no brainers). Yes, you're right, I'm sure things wouldn't fare so well in a more wide open hardware market, but I'm bet my money on it still being more of a pleasure to work with than Windows, and dare I say it, possibly even Linux. Of course, I'm only specuating. And stupid.
Maybe not CompUSA, but why not Egghead? If the hardware's cheap enough, this is the route I'd take ..... ? prod_id= 0000104561&sesid=^bpi!S15660263^cen!Y^ies!DF01^ces !DF01^ ? prod_id= 0000090176&sesid=^bpi!S15660263^cen!Y^ies!DF01^ces !DF01^
Mac OS 8.5:
http://www.egghead.com/store/ent/eggs_prod.browse
Mac OS X server:
http://www.egghead.com/store/ent/eggs_prod.browse
Despite the stereotypes, I know of a good many tech-types who appreciate the MacOS for it's no hassle ease of use (I don't care what anyone says, sometimes I just don't need the configurability). I just wanted to dispell the notion that real Mac Users tend to be non-power users. Remember that MacOS runs in alot of school/library environments, and that the users who work with MacOS there are not even truely computer users. I think if you did a survey among Mac users by choice, you'd find them to be more technology saavy than you'd have expected.
For instance, for art and music, I'd be running Mac if I could afford it. For development, games, and such, Linux all the way. I'd happily run both systems, and leave Windows in the dust. If only I could afford it. And now, perhaps, maybe I can.
Finally, Apple will be forced to face a non monopolitic position in its hardware market. Which is a Good Thing (tm). For years Apple has ignored keeping it's OS on the cutting edge (because, lets face it, it was when it came out), choosing instead to cash in on the fact that if you /did/ want to run MacOS, you had to buy their hardware. Apple has NEVER understood what it does well - software. Repeatedly, they have released new technologies (quicktime, qtvr, OpenDoc) only to see them fail because of lack of choice regarding hardware/platform and their marketing focus on their hardware. Maybe this will finally force them to do what they do best when they put their minds to it - making software that takes the hassle out of /some things/. People have always complained you had no power under Mac, but at least it never had the gull, like some other WindOSes, to actually take over and do things for you without permission. MacOS X only gets better - built on the NexT kernel, a dynamite development environment (according to, for example, John Carmack of ID Software), and an open source initiative. Finally, I will have the power to choose, again (not to mention afford). I'm all for it. Thank YOU, IBM!
"The fossils were found in the vicinity of other fossils tentatively identified as the idealogies of the Kansas educational authorities."
I think keyboards for newbies only need one key, labled "Slam forehead here until you learn to read manuals".
Yet Another Example of how stupidity, immaturity and a lack of respect ruins a good thing (tm).
Its ironic that anyone who contributed to the problems outline on crack.linuxppc.org contributed nothing at all. And probably never does.
I think every finalist should have moved to Cuba. Just so not only would the US have had to import the encryption, but from Cuba to boot!
(Clinton: "Oh, and hey, could you guys bring up some cigars with you as well? Thanks.")
One one small thing about your reply. I don't think 'media' is really it .. I was referring to many people - including some from the media. I hate to point fingers, cause it always ends up getting blown off.
Garret
Mmm, my words taste delicious! And guess what's for desert? My foot! ;)
... Common Name ... it all sounded too much like leveraging LDAP.
Thanks for the correction
By the way, if anyone draws conclusions from a sample base of 750 people, ranging from 16 - 44 (ie not the full age spread of people who play games), they'd be out of their freaking mind. This study prooves nothing, for neither side.
Thats like 28 people per specific age, or 140 people for age ranges of 5 years. It's rediculous. While any survey is inherently flawed, this one is chopped, diced, and pureed.
Heres the part many people don't see:
/think/ are in danger, there should simply be more focus in our society towards maintaining tolerance, patience, and an understanding that being picked on/isolated/teased is not justification for retribution, but rather motivation to keep on being superior life forms than the aggressors.
......
1. A kid who plays Quake all the time is not hurting anyone. Sure, you can claim he's being influenced while he's playing, but only few people are influenced, and even less into doing deviant things because of it.
2. A kid who ping floods sites for fun is MUCH more likely to do something violent IMHO (of course, most never do, but I'm just saying this is more of an indicator than watching/interacting with pretend violence). Why? This type of action displays a much greater disregard for the respect of others, and their property. But people don't see this. They see the blood in Quake, they think blood. Ping flooding may not be violent, but it says to me that the guity party is more likely to disrespect the laws of society. Now don't get all up in arms. I'm just taking two activities, and pointing out where society seems to go wrong in analysing the people doing them.
3. You can't predict people. End of story. There has always, will always be murder. Sometimes you can spot it, other times you can't. But rather than targeting the ones we
The important part here is distinguishing the underlying context of the activity/hobby. Something doesn't have to look violent to influence people into being more violent. But still, we take everything at face value
Just my 2 bits.
Yes, CNs do support security via the use of ACI's (Access Control Information) in an LDAP entry. Check around from some LDAP documentation. I'm assuming of course that this Common Name Resolution stuff is for use with LDAP servers.
There are a variety of different security restrictions you can impose on an entry that allows various actions depdning on who is doing the query.
"Context" likely refers to the current root of your search, with respect to Directory Servers the and LDAP protocal.
> when somebody who specializes in electronic banking might suddenly need to know about the Japanese fishing industry
.. and I'll again conceed its a great technology for directory/HR, since these records are required frequently, and directories inherently support organization structure and authentication, but the case you describe .. well, I think they happen rarely enough such that it's difficult to justify a whole other layer on your intranet management work. I think a properly maintained search engine and intranet does well enough. (And obviously, I conceed that as a former sysadmin, these things do tend to be a matter of taste. :) I didn't expect the backlash this story is getting. I thought I was going to be presenting the unheard for side. ;)
/are/ moving their HR info over to directories .. moving document organzation over to it is much more justifyable in this case. I still don't think document organzation alone justifies the deployment of such servers.
/is/ nice tho to talk it out with someone who has a clear understanding of the technology involved tho, since I'm always open to the idea that I'm often wrong. ;)
I have experience in enterprises of large scale
However, I'll step back a little on my position on the basis that lots of companies
It