Why did ATT keep confidential records on an exposed system in the 1st place, instead of immediately moving the critical data to a behind-the-firewall system?
Or... did they do that, but the crackers were able to pierce the firewall?
...or possibly to supplement the heating system during cold months?
Back in the Cretaceous Period, data centers up in the northern latitudes would vent the cold winter air into the dinosaur pens. Saved a lot of electricity that way.
Now that x86 server densities are getting so high, that same technique should be brought back.
So what we're both saying is neither of us can think of anything interesting to do in one or the other.
I just don't use Windows enough to need to do fancy things with Win Explorer. Don't much like GNOME Nautilus either, but again, don't see/feel the need to use a GUI file manager.
Bash, locate, grep, mv/cp/rm and python do everything I need done.
Oh I dunno...give me an example of something in Linux.
It's your assertion, not mine. You provide an example of some file manipulations that are easier in Windows Explorer than using bash or GNOME Nautilus or KDE Konqueror.
How is it that my GUI windows drag and drop doesnt allow me to understand this? wait that's right....it does. CLI has it's place but in my experience I've been able to do a great number of things that a Linux Guru can do in CLI with my Windows GUI.
That's precisly the point. Africa is a continent, not a country. There are millenium old cultures.
Unfortunately, too few of them are large enough to constitute a critical mass.
Countries need to pick a language, and the people need to use it, even if it is their tribal enemy's mother tongue.
OTOH, if the tribes want to stay, well, tribal (poor, uneducated, rife with AIDS, constantly at war with their neighbors) they will stick with their own tiny languages.
African countries should promote their local languages instead.
Do you think that the United States would have survived if the country was Balkanized? English here, German there, 100 aboriginal languages, Gaelic over there, Spanish, Swedish, French, Russian, Hmong, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum?
No, it would not have lasted 20 years.
Countries need a single common language if they are to survive, much less prosper.
I was in Kenya recently teaching computers to schools. One primary school we visited in Mombassa actually forbid the children from speaking Kiswahili while in school, they had to speak english instead. This was to encourage them to speak english. English is very prevelant in lots of Kenya.
That is soooo politically incorrect. Someone needs sue someone else.
People may have cell phones before they have running water in their homes. (Or we might be seeing cellphone videos uploaded from refugee camps by people who don't even have homes!)
And who's going to pay for all that infrastructure?
I don't have too much trouble updating the various modules of my Linux system. The kernel is seperate from the "services", which are seperate from the GUI, which is seperate from the user apps.
Why can't MS? They maybe could if they wanted too, but they have (or had, for a long, long time) a "we're just developing for a single-user machine" mentality. not thinking about basic stuff like, "hey, maybe it's a bad idea to need to touch the iron".
Making NT the only code bade back in 1994 would have eliminated at the source a heck of a lot of the problems that the Windows world now sees.
If tasteless white curd is your thing, then yes, it is good.
If, OTOH, you like flavor and texture, then tofu is not so good. It's a good additive/extender, though. Fresh fruit, coconut & tiny-cubed tofu is delicious.
If I ever work for someone who thinks they can fire me on a whim,
Most businesses (in the USA) can fire you on a whim. It's called AT WILL employment.
If you are in a "protected class" (crippled, black, female, gay, etc) they must be able to prove that that's not why they fired you. So, most companies will keep a record of your misconduct (minor, major and in-between), making it all sound as bad as possible, so that they have legal cover when firing you.
I RTFA, but all I saw was that these employees wanted to look at it themselves, and not pass it around to their friends.
If that's all that this was (gain better knowledge of the product, because they are Mac-addicts and want to be knowledgable(sp?) for the customers), I don't see this as a firing offence.
I typically admit to things I've done that would otherwise go undetected to satisfy my need to not be under anyone's boot. "Yeah I took the day off and didn't call in sick, what are you gunna do about it, fire me?"
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Oh Great Oracle, pray tell us why Flash 7 for Linux is almost completely useless!
How the hell did drivel like this get modded +4, Insighful?
There is no Flash 9, and Linux Flash 7 is a hell of a lot stabler than 6.x ever was.
What kind of fantasy world do you live in?
Or... did they do that, but the crackers were able to pierce the firewall?
On big disks, swap files seem more flexible to me, since otherwise you are wasting a partition on sub-1% of total disk space.
Another thing I do is create "spare" swapfiles, and if the existing swap is getting too tight, I can quickly add another gig of vm.
Why not enable all of them all the time? Because I think that the 2.6 kernel does not like high swap:RAM ratios.
I just use the entire 6GB drive for swap on some machines.
By using such old/slow disks, you're chopping performance even more.
Instead of a slow 6GB swap disk, use 2.5% of your 200GB drive for swap files, and now you have an available slot for another modern hard drive.
Back in the Cretaceous Period, data centers up in the northern latitudes would vent the cold winter air into the dinosaur pens. Saved a lot of electricity that way.
Now that x86 server densities are getting so high, that same technique should be brought back.
So what we're both saying is neither of us can think of anything interesting to do in one or the other.
I just don't use Windows enough to need to do fancy things with Win Explorer. Don't much like GNOME Nautilus either, but again, don't see/feel the need to use a GUI file manager.
Bash, locate, grep, mv/cp/rm and python do everything I need done.
It's your assertion, not mine. You provide an example of some file manipulations that are easier in Windows Explorer than using bash or GNOME Nautilus or KDE Konqueror.
Is ray-tracing "tied in with" vector graphics?
CLI has it's place but in my experience I've been able to do a great number of things that a Linux Guru can do in CLI with my Windows GUI.
(Not a defensive knee-jerk hostile response.)
Really? Like what?
Unfortunately, too few of them are large enough to constitute a critical mass.
Countries need to pick a language, and the people need to use it, even if it is their tribal enemy's mother tongue.
OTOH, if the tribes want to stay, well, tribal (poor, uneducated, rife with AIDS, constantly at war with their neighbors) they will stick with their own tiny languages.
The Boy Scouts are not a commercial entity. That's why they can "get away" with it.
Probably. I ran NT 3.51 way back when. Needed 96MB RAM, IIRC.
Still, sacrifices must be made. People who want Vista are going to have to pony up some cash for some serious new h/w.
Re-read granparent.
The school forbids the children from speaking Kiswahili. Period.
It's the best way to teach English, but terribly un-PC.
Do you think that the United States would have survived if the country was Balkanized? English here, German there, 100 aboriginal languages, Gaelic over there, Spanish, Swedish, French, Russian, Hmong, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum?
No, it would not have lasted 20 years.
Countries need a single common language if they are to survive, much less prosper.
That is soooo politically incorrect. Someone needs sue someone else.
And who's going to pay for all that infrastructure?
I don't have too much trouble updating the various modules of my Linux system. The kernel is seperate from the "services", which are seperate from the GUI, which is seperate from the user apps.
Why can't MS? They maybe could if they wanted too, but they have (or had, for a long, long time) a "we're just developing for a single-user machine" mentality. not thinking about basic stuff like, "hey, maybe it's a bad idea to need to touch the iron".
Making NT the only code bade back in 1994 would have eliminated at the source a heck of a lot of the problems that the Windows world now sees.
If tasteless white curd is your thing, then yes, it is good.
If, OTOH, you like flavor and texture, then tofu is not so good. It's a good additive/extender, though. Fresh fruit, coconut & tiny-cubed tofu is delicious.
It isnt like they were THE source for it...
Doesn't matter. By joining the bittorrent "web", they violated the NDA.
'kay, thanks.
Most businesses (in the USA) can fire you on a whim. It's called AT WILL employment.
If you are in a "protected class" (crippled, black, female, gay, etc) they must be able to prove that that's not why they fired you. So, most companies will keep a record of your misconduct (minor, major and in-between), making it all sound as bad as possible, so that they have legal cover when firing you.
Did I miss something? Honestly.
I RTFA, but all I saw was that these employees wanted to look at it themselves, and not pass it around to their friends.
If that's all that this was (gain better knowledge of the product, because they are Mac-addicts and want to be knowledgable(sp?) for the customers), I don't see this as a firing offence.
Remind me not to hire you.
Proof that Rap Music destroys it's listeners' minds.
The word is ludicrous.