"Partially this is because Windows is the predominant desktop OS, but it is also because *nix is generally secure by design, whereas Windows is user friendly by design."
Why do I get the feeling that the basis for your belief here is simply because you have to type in a password before you can boot into your Linux system?
Secure By Design? Absolutely not! Most apps are written in C, after all.
I'd say, though, that attack vectors are different, and definitely aren't as pathetically easy as Windows vectors.
After all, you don't need a whole bunch of resource-hogging apps for Evo, KMail, Tbird, Communicator, Sylpheed, etc, to not auto-run attachments. I guess that would be Default Deny.
Knowing that no system is perfect, I still sleep better at night knowing that my desktop is Linux, and unneeded daemons are turned off.
I would have chosen 9-track mag tape -- and I would have been wrong. (I still have a 9-track tape containing a backup of my student files, and no way to read it!) In any case, that mistake had to do with a choice of hardware. It's a lot easier to recreate old software than old hardware.
It's no problem to buy a "desktop" 9-track tape drive that understands EBCDIC. I'm sure you could then write a program to convert the data to something modern.
OCR is no match for eyeballs. You'd spend so much time editing it for slight errors, it wouldn't be worth your time.
Are the notes graphics-heavy (i.e., scientific/engineering)?
If not, give it to a typing service. Once you show them how much "stuff" you have, I'm sure they'll give you a discount. They might even agree to use OpenOffice2 (because it handles huge documents well, the files are small, and it has an excellent PDF exporter).
You'd still have to scan in the pictures/drawing/graphs, and place them appropriately, which will take time.
Also, there are firms that specialize it digitizing paper documents (mostly forms and regularized documents for businesses). Depending on the amount of hand-writing & graphics, it might not be appropriate, though.
All in all, no matter how you do it, the project will
Does the site use Exchange? As a small church, probably not.
If so, then switching to Firefox & Thunderbird would eliminate a huge vector for malware, especially if the pop-up blocker and spam filter were enabled.
You *might* not even need AV software, although if the Linux box is the mail server, it never hurts to install SpamAssassin and ClamAV.
On the box in our shop, it was the side of the main unit. Pressing it shot a bolt of aluminum[0] thru the main power cables, smashing the power unit. The box went down, quickly and hard[1], but the electricity was cut so totally (remember, this was in the early 1980s, and IBM mainframes were big and used lots of KW of electricity) that there was no possibility of electrical fires if water got in the units.
It goes without saying that anyone who ever pushed the BRS without a damned good reason was instantly fired.
[0] I asked why it fired a conductive bolt, but don't remember the answer. [1] The field engineer(s) would have to do major (days long) surgery on it before it would come up.
I can easily lock my Window's machine down as tight as Linux. The problem is that half the software won't install in such a restricted account, and even if it does, it's likely to fall down later on.
To follow up and expand on this point:
Linux is, top to bottom, userland to kernel, designed multi-user, and has a 30 year tradition of this.
Even though the NT kernel is multiuser, Windows come from a 30 yearsingle-user single-tasking tradion, starting with CP/M in the mid 1970s up thru WinME. Win 3.1, Win95 & Win98 presume that the luser is the administrator, and that there is no one except the luser who has full control of the hardware. That tradition has permeated developers assumptions.
The truth is, even if everyone in the world used Linux, the hackers would still write viruses to exploit the same vulnerabilities stemming from the ignorant masses.
You truly don't know anything about "Unix", do you?
This case also proves a bit of regulatory ineptness, I mean, doctors and pharmacies are highly regulated, how could they miss this guy writing this many prescriptions for so long?
It's a big country, and prescription drugs are a really big, legal business. 72000 prescriptions is a drop in the ocean.
Instead of seeing a half-empty glass, instead be glad that they *did* get caught after only 14 months, part of that time which they were under investigation, and thus had already been noticed by the Feds.
Does he have proper hashing is what the above is asking...
Hashed indexes (especially when the data and index key are co-located on the same page) are great for OLTP systems, but are otherwise a cast iron bitch to maintain.
Yes I just finished Data Structures, no I don't know mySql
If you wind up a "DP" developer writing lots of SQL, you'll never have to implement things like b-trees and hashes.
You will, though, need to grok the positive & negative consequences of each kind of data structure, and how those structure scale. What works great on a 10^6 row table can really suck ass on a 2^31 row table...
Well in the parts of the world where HIV/AIDS is endemic, there are thousands who believe that raping a virgin will cure their illness, so they are quickly running out of virgins and of individuals who aren't infected.
it is not your religion. In science you know, in faith you believe.
You've never met a scientist with an unshakeable pet theory, have you?;)
Being human and therefore fallible, scientists can very well fall into groupthink and succumb to peer pressure.
When I say, "science is my religion", I mean that I believe (i.e., have faith) that Science & the Scientific Method are the best ways to understand the world around us.
Well, several ways. For one, if you analyze Blue and Red shift, we can tell how fast stars are moving towards or away from us through the Dopplar Effect. Just because we observe mainly red shift, that means that most stars are moving away from each other,
I would call that "evidence", not a repeatable experiment.
meaning that there very well may have been some sort of Big Bang that started this initial movement.
That doesn't sound very robust.
The cosmos is so big, and we've got such an exceedingly narrow and tiny view of it, that all we have are marginally educated guesses.
Modern physical cosmology is less than 100 years old. Unless astrophysicists become dogmatically closed-minded, our understanding of the Universe will be way different when my children die than from what it is now.
But since you've mentioned that wikipedia page, lets quote more of that page: Theories are formulated, developed and evaluated according to the scientific method. From the article:
Predictions from these theories are tested by experiment. Any theory which is cogent enough to make predictions can then be tested reproducibly in this way. The method is commonly taken as the underlying logic of scientific practice. A scientific method is essentially an extremely cautious means of building a supportable, evidence-based understanding of our natural world.
How has the Big Bang been experimentally tested?
Sience is my "religion", and because it is, I am distrustful of ideas foisted upon us as Truth, but which have not been repeatably experimentally validated.
Because the thought "the heavens and earth were created in 7 days by God himself." is just a faith. It's not based on anything factual or event theoretical. A few people wrote some stuff down in a book(s) a few thousand years ago. Given how simple minded, or repressed people were back then, they all bought into it. And the hole thing perpetuated into what we have today.
It's just a belief system, and sometimes feebly measured into a theory.
May of us have a problem basing their actions or livelihood on that.
The archeological evidence for evolution isn't all that sturdy and complete, either.
Fortunately, DNA & cellular biology has come along to give the theory a stronger basis in real, hard science, instead of poofy speculations about ancient creatures, based on a jumble of 100M year old bones.
Is created in 7 days by God himself any more credulous than exploding from a single point, 13.7 (+/- 0.2) x10^9 years ago?
While the Big Bang Theeory is the currently accepted theory, it's just that, a theory. Yes, it's the best theory we have, based upon all observations, but, still, it's a theory, and will remain so until someone can devise a repeatable experiment to prove it.
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Why do you assume my data is in EBCDIC? IBM did own 90% of the market in that era,
I didn't assume. I was being prudent, since, as you say, Big Blue did have a huge chunk of the market.
"Partially this is because Windows is the predominant desktop OS, but it is also because *nix is generally secure by design, whereas Windows is user friendly by design."
Why do I get the feeling that the basis for your belief here is simply because you have to type in a password before you can boot into your Linux system?
Secure By Design? Absolutely not! Most apps are written in C, after all.
I'd say, though, that attack vectors are different, and definitely aren't as pathetically easy as Windows vectors.
After all, you don't need a whole bunch of resource-hogging apps for Evo, KMail, Tbird, Communicator, Sylpheed, etc, to not auto-run attachments. I guess that would be Default Deny.
Knowing that no system is perfect, I still sleep better at night knowing that my desktop is Linux, and unneeded daemons are turned off.
I would have chosen 9-track mag tape -- and I would have been wrong. (I still have a 9-track tape containing a backup of my student files, and no way to read it!) In any case, that mistake had to do with a choice of hardware. It's a lot easier to recreate old software than old hardware.
It's no problem to buy a "desktop" 9-track tape drive that understands EBCDIC. I'm sure you could then write a program to convert the data to something modern.
Are the notes graphics-heavy (i.e., scientific/engineering)?
If not, give it to a typing service. Once you show them how much "stuff" you have, I'm sure they'll give you a discount. They might even agree to use OpenOffice2 (because it handles huge documents well, the files are small, and it has an excellent PDF exporter).
You'd still have to scan in the pictures/drawing/graphs, and place them appropriately, which will take time.
Also, there are firms that specialize it digitizing paper documents (mostly forms and regularized documents for businesses). Depending on the amount of hand-writing & graphics, it might not be appropriate, though.
All in all, no matter how you do it, the project will
but the point is valid. Lynx is not crash-proof. However, it is the most secure web browser I can think of.
That page also hangs w3m, but links 1.00pre12 and 2.1pre18 handle it nicely.
Does the site use Exchange? As a small church, probably not.
If so, then switching to Firefox & Thunderbird would eliminate a huge vector for malware, especially if the pop-up blocker and spam filter were enabled.
You *might* not even need AV software, although if the Linux box is the mail server, it never hurts to install SpamAssassin and ClamAV.
http://www.opost.com/tenex/x118-27-modems.jpg
Ah, acoustic modems. 110 baud, from the look of them. Makes me a bit misty-eyed, remembering them.
Then I actually *do* remember them, and what a PITA they were, and how glad I was to get a direct-connect modem.
'big red button'
a.k.a. the Big Red Switch.
On the box in our shop, it was the side of the main unit. Pressing it shot a bolt of aluminum[0] thru the main power cables, smashing the power unit. The box went down, quickly and hard[1], but the electricity was cut so totally (remember, this was in the early 1980s, and IBM mainframes were big and used lots of KW of electricity) that there was no possibility of electrical fires if water got in the units.
It goes without saying that anyone who ever pushed the BRS without a damned good reason was instantly fired.
[0] I asked why it fired a conductive bolt, but don't remember the answer.
[1] The field engineer(s) would have to do major (days long) surgery on it before it would come up.
To follow up and expand on this point:
Vista has blah blah blah...
It's fscking vaporware that won't be out until 2007!!!
Let's have this discussion again in 2 years, 'kay?
The truth is, even if everyone in the world used Linux, the hackers would still write viruses to exploit the same vulnerabilities stemming from the ignorant masses.
You truly don't know anything about "Unix", do you?
This case also proves a bit of regulatory ineptness, I mean, doctors and pharmacies are highly regulated, how could they miss this guy writing this many prescriptions for so long?
It's a big country, and prescription drugs are a really big, legal business. 72000 prescriptions is a drop in the ocean.
Instead of seeing a half-empty glass, instead be glad that they *did* get caught after only 14 months, part of that time which they were under investigation, and thus had already been noticed by the Feds.
Does he have proper hashing is what the above is asking...
Hashed indexes (especially when the data and index key are co-located on the same page) are great for OLTP systems, but are otherwise a cast iron bitch to maintain.
Yes I just finished Data Structures, no I don't know mySql
If you wind up a "DP" developer writing lots of SQL, you'll never have to implement things like b-trees and hashes.
You will, though, need to grok the positive & negative consequences of each kind of data structure, and how those structure scale. What works great on a 10^6 row table can really suck ass on a 2^31 row table...
... was Linux friendly, the last time I checked by account online. Hope they haven't changed!
Well in the parts of the world where HIV/AIDS is endemic, there are thousands who believe that raping a virgin will cure their illness, so they are quickly running out of virgins and of individuals who aren't infected.
Makes me glad I don't live in Africa.
millions more have HIV and will soon die because they can't get effective drugs because of US imposed "intellectual property" laws.
HIV isn't a passively transmitted disease. You have to do something to get the disease (unless you are raped, but how frequent is that?).
Condoms aren't so new and complex as to have currently active patents on them.
You were asking if there were any proofs about it. I was just providing you with one.
Please don't misunderstand me. I do accept that the Big Bang Theory is the best (only?) fit to the current evidence.
it is not your religion. In science you know, in faith you believe.
;)
You've never met a scientist with an unshakeable pet theory, have you?
Being human and therefore fallible, scientists can very well fall into groupthink and succumb to peer pressure.
When I say, "science is my religion", I mean that I believe (i.e., have faith) that Science & the Scientific Method are the best ways to understand the world around us.
Well, several ways. For one, if you analyze Blue and Red shift, we can tell how fast stars are moving towards or away from us through the Dopplar Effect. Just because we observe mainly red shift, that means that most stars are moving away from each other,
I would call that "evidence", not a repeatable experiment.
meaning that there very well may have been some sort of Big Bang that started this initial movement.
That doesn't sound very robust.
The cosmos is so big, and we've got such an exceedingly narrow and tiny view of it, that all we have are marginally educated guesses.
Modern physical cosmology is less than 100 years old. Unless astrophysicists become dogmatically closed-minded, our understanding of the Universe will be way different when my children die than from what it is now.
OK, as far as that goes.
But since you've mentioned that wikipedia page, lets quote more of that page: Theories are formulated, developed and evaluated according to the scientific method.
From the article:
How has the Big Bang been experimentally tested?
Sience is my "religion", and because it is, I am distrustful of ideas foisted upon us as Truth, but which have not been repeatably experimentally validated.
I bet fire wouldn't care whether there's air flow or not inside a conduit.
Because the thought "the heavens and earth were created in 7 days by God himself." is just a faith. It's not based on anything factual or event theoretical. A few people wrote some stuff down in a book(s) a few thousand years ago. Given how simple minded, or repressed people were back then, they all bought into it. And the hole thing perpetuated into what we have today.
It's just a belief system, and sometimes feebly measured into a theory.
May of us have a problem basing their actions or livelihood on that.
The archeological evidence for evolution isn't all that sturdy and complete, either.
Fortunately, DNA & cellular biology has come along to give the theory a stronger basis in real, hard science, instead of poofy speculations about ancient creatures, based on a jumble of 100M year old bones.
Is created in 7 days by God himself any more credulous than exploding from a single point, 13.7 (+/- 0.2) x10^9 years ago?
While the Big Bang Theeory is the currently accepted theory, it's just that, a theory. Yes, it's the best theory we have, based upon all observations, but, still, it's a theory, and will remain so until someone can devise a repeatable experiment to prove it.
where do you get these great quotes?
Just found on the internet over the years.
The Kernigan quote is pretty common; I think the Perl humor was in someone's signature.
And put strings in the conduit.
I bet that (putting a flamable material in a conduit) breaks almost every fire code known to man.
That's why there's expensive plenum-rated cat5 that's designed for running thru, well, plenums (air-return conduits).