and the systems used for thermal cooling of these machines is impressive. When they talk "need to limit power consumption" the motivation is that the power generating stations are limited to 10-12 Megawatts.
I've wondered many times if the excess heat from Opterons and scorchers like the Xeon could be recycled for some other use.
On the other hand... DON'T try using a Live CD on a public computer in a library: you're liable to have an angry tech in your face ejecting you from the premises or calling the police. Live CD's on a public terminal can be interpreted as breaking and entering under most Public Access terminal usage agreements. That's another argument in itself, but it's how we'd treat live cd usage in my library.
Yup, yanno why? I'm constantly adminning my home network. CONSTANTLY. pretty hard to set folder permissions and shares and stuff like that when you're not running as admin.
Sucks to use Windows, doesn't it, not being able to use "su -" and control everything from a command window while logged in as a limited-permissions user?
Also, Livejournal, before these ads, was a pretty safe and secure site. Now they put in advertising, some of it flash based, and suddenly I'm nailed by one of their ads and malware hits my system.
Sucks to use IE, doesn't it? Firefox and Flashblocker would have protected you.
My simple fix for the security problems associated with Flash is to not install flash. Let's face it, 99.9% of flash is just obnoxious ads anyway. Who needs it.
It's for this reason that any webmaster who insists on using 100% flash to view their site deserves a swift kick to the nutsack.
Google Videos, for one, are all Flash.
Use Firefox and install Flashblock, then you'll have the benefits of both worlds.
I use an ad-supported LJ account, and the mentioned advertisement was made in flash. I had to deal with it a couple of days ago. Hoo-ray for security holes. Can't we just sue the ad company for unauthorized usage of our computer's resources?
You're using Windows from an account that has Administrator privs, aren't you?
I'm not sure if I agree or disagree but your post implies that there is an alternative to Capitalism that is hand in hand with positive morality. Please tell us what that is.
Communism. You know, communes, community, kum-bay-yah, matriarchy and all that crap.
can bump a major version number without having to dump/restore the whole database
The "planetary scale support apparatus" is also damned useful. At 03:00 EDT when the database isn't acting like the docs say it's supposed to act like, there's someone awake/at work in Europe or Australia ready to help you.
and when I sat next to him at Family Guy Club airings in the biggest hall on campus, my side would be splitting, when he'd be like, "what? I don't get it." He simply didn't grow up with the same cultural references--the "zeitgeist"
My wife doesn't get FG & Futurama either. But then, she's normal.
Except for marrying me.
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John Kricfalusi creater and the original voice of Ren was fired after Nickelodeon started rejecting many of his ideas for being inappropriate.
Absolutely. Ren & Stimpy are about as suitable for Nickelodeon as Celebrity Death Match is.
But CDM is 1000x funnier than R&S.
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"My honor student sterilized your kid." What the FUCK is that supposed to mean?
I think it's a reverse of "my Bud-swilling brat beat up your honor student" bumper stickers, using Science to sterilize the ass-wipe before he could beat up the nerd.
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Who the heck cares about the kernel?!
Everyone (should) care about the kernel. Why?
The kernel is the foundation. A sucky kernel means that your OS will be lame (slow and inefficient) no matter how nice the userland is.
Booting from a live cd gives you 100% unrestricted access to the hard drive.
You could install keyloggers, munge security settings, reset admin passwords, make goatse wallpaper, etc.
I'm certain these have all happened (even goatse) and are the reason for the policy.
Very reasonable. But then, I'm an Evil Fascist Republican who cares nothing for "rights".
Seriously, though, if that's your worry, why even have hard and CD-ROM drives and USB slots?
I've wondered many times if the excess heat from Opterons and scorchers like the Xeon could be recycled for some other use.
it's reasonably likely to have been benchmarked, for 2 reasons: (a) to let you know if you got what you paid for
Unless they did not use LINPACK as the benchmark.
Orrrr, he could have been making a joke.
He doesn't look very fast...
WHY is it considered "breaking and entering"?
"Run with alternate credentials" box
Interesting, very interesting. This is XP/SP2, right?
The benefit being to keep ADHD-affected 14 year olds off of
2. No, much like sudo you would specify the app name on the command line when you run RunAs in that manner.
The problem I see/have in Win2k that not every application adds itself to PATH.
So, you must know where each app lives, or create a monstrously huge PATH. Very aggrivating.
Since, in Unix, everything lives in a few predefined locations, it's PATH is short/manageable.
3. No matter what the platform, if you execute an app with elevated privileges and it misbehaves, then Bad Things(tm) can happen.
I'm thinking, though, of apps that presume that you have Administrator rights, and won't function if you are limited.
Honest questions:
- Does runas let you run all the GUI admin applications?
- Does it make you Browse for the application (like Start->Run does in Win2k)?
- What about misbehaving apps?
Not a flame, but an observation from someone who uses Linux & Win2k:It's easy to administer a Unix/Linux while logged into a limited-privs account. Every administrative task can be done from such an account.
Yup, yanno why? I'm constantly adminning my home network. CONSTANTLY. pretty hard to set folder permissions and shares and stuff like that when you're not running as admin.
Sucks to use Windows, doesn't it, not being able to use "su -" and control everything from a command window while logged in as a limited-permissions user?
Also, Livejournal, before these ads, was a pretty safe and secure site. Now they put in advertising, some of it flash based, and suddenly I'm nailed by one of their ads and malware hits my system.
Sucks to use IE, doesn't it? Firefox and Flashblocker would have protected you.
My simple fix for the security problems associated with Flash is to not install flash. Let's face it, 99.9% of flash is just obnoxious ads anyway. Who needs it.
It's for this reason that any webmaster who insists on using 100% flash to view their site deserves a swift kick to the nutsack.
Google Videos, for one, are all Flash.
Use Firefox and install Flashblock, then you'll have the benefits of both worlds.
I use an ad-supported LJ account, and the mentioned advertisement was made in flash. I had to deal with it a couple of days ago. Hoo-ray for security holes. Can't we just sue the ad company for unauthorized usage of our computer's resources?
You're using Windows from an account that has Administrator privs, aren't you?
I'm not sure if I agree or disagree but your post implies that there is an alternative to Capitalism that is hand in hand with positive morality. Please tell us what that is.
Communism. You know, communes, community, kum-bay-yah, matriarchy and all that crap.
That is irrelevant. Just because Airbus does something bad does not make using Echelon for companies suddenly good.
Everyone does it. French, PRC, Brits, PRC, Japanese, PRC, Koreans, PRC, USA, PRC, Germany, PRC.
I wouldn't be surprised if the US does less of it than the French and Brits, as a consequence of the anti-bribery laws passed in the 1970s.
Football (what you call soccer) has 95% world-wide market share;
Is soccer very popular in India & China?
If not, then that market-share just dropped to 60%.
They don't sell WAP's, or software that runs WAP's, actually.
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But they want to.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/default
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/windowsxpembed
Why would sterilization prevent someone from beating up another?
It doesn't. But it prevents the asswipe from reproducing.
- has cluster-aware multi-threaded hot backups.
- has the ability to to rolling upgrades.
- can bump a major version number without having to dump/restore the whole database
The "planetary scale support apparatus" is also damned useful. At 03:00 EDT when the database isn't acting like the docs say it's supposed to act like, there's someone awake/at work in Europe or Australia ready to help you.Let me emphasize that: NOTHING.
"Big databases" insert that many rows every time someone sneezes.
What if a building is the highest "thing" around?
and when I sat next to him at Family Guy Club airings in the biggest hall on campus, my side would be splitting, when he'd be like, "what? I don't get it." He simply didn't grow up with the same cultural references--the "zeitgeist"
My wife doesn't get FG & Futurama either. But then, she's normal.
Except for marrying me.
Absolutely. Ren & Stimpy are about as suitable for Nickelodeon as Celebrity Death Match is.
But CDM is 1000x funnier than R&S.
I think it's a reverse of "my Bud-swilling brat beat up your honor student" bumper stickers, using Science to sterilize the ass-wipe before he could beat up the nerd.