It's things like SELinux that make the status quo seem like a very good idea to the antivirus industry.
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Don't post your inadequacies as an argument for imperial unit usage. Go and practice some more or something. I've grown up with metric as well, and I *can* tell the difference between a 10mm and 11mm bolt. Usually by sight, but also by touch if it's in an odd location an I can't see it properly. And yes, I'm equally comfortable with SAE, which helps when fitting modern components to old English cars...
Milan should have those on the tram tracks. I almost got collected by one near the train station a while back. Felt pretty stupid too: I mean, how hard is it not to see or hear a big-ass tram trundling along the tracks?
Why does it even have to be centralized? The only reason I can think of is for collection and control of the information. If the aim is to improve traffic flow, a P2P based system would work fine. We don't need to stinking big-brother to make this kind of system work:
If a car "knows" it's doing 0 mph on a freeway, and can "talk" to other cars also doing 0 mph in the same location, it can be figured that there's a problem. The message can get wirelessly relayed until it meets cars that are moving and notify the driver that there's a problem up the road.
Nope you didn't give me that impression, but you also didn't suggest that you did give back. But my post was nothing personal, I just thought it worth posting something to make the point - I think with the increasing popularity of Free Software it will become a bigger and bigger problem.
I'm involved in several projects too, and the thing that I find *most* annoying about them is users who are demanding without giving anything back. Usually new folks who want it handed on a silver platter (we do try, but some folks *wont* read doco, etc), and usually wanting to back a quick dollar out of the work I and others have put into it.
...what Open Source can do for you: Ask what you can do for Open Source.
Apologies to JFK, but while it's great that you're making money from Open Source software, what have you put back into it? Donations, bug reports, anything? If not, that's known in some circles as leeching.
Free Software is free, true, but it doesn't just fall from the sky. It takes a lot of work from a lot of people, so hopefully businessmen such as yourself see the responsibility to replenish the pool, not just a resource to exploit.
Sounds like that 3D OpenGL desktop switcher from a few years back. Only the Microsoft implmentation is lamer, because it's not done in 3D. http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
$50 for Advanced Server? WTF? Updates are ALL I want. Updates are ALL most of their existing userbase want. I'm fucked if I'm going to pay $300 or so for ES updates when they're selling AS to "academics" for $50 - which is less than I've been paying for RedHat 9.0 updates.
I'd imagine they will go with Symantec, and integrate similar to the way the took on Diskeeper for defragmentation. Which is nice for Symantec and easy for Microsoft, but it *completely* shafts every other antivirus vendor.
It's not about credit, it's about "Developers! Developers! Devlopers!" The general public doesn't give a toss, and few people are going to be snickering behind closed doors over this sensible business decision. But anyone writing low level software - such as Linus - needs to know staight up if it's compatible or not. Not mentioning x86-64 means they screwed around the people that make their chips worth anything.
Heh. One shop I worked in, we had a photographer client who had extremely "sensitive" data (girly pics) who stood over the shoulder of the fella copying it to CD. He claimed to know what's up with this IT gig. Sure enough, a spare copy was sent to another computer, and the photograher had no idea at all. Presumably the FBI aren't quite that clueless...
It literally took me years to "get over" being cheated-on/dumped by a long-term ex-girlfriend. I'd say it could probably be classified as PTSD, and it had the usual side effects including depression, anxiety, and so on. I'm not convinced that re-living me visiting her workplace when she said she was working late but was really playing volleyball with her new b/f is going to help things. I don't think that seeing her slutting around with local personalities is going to make me feel better about being used and lied to by someone I trusted completely. Visuallising that shit hurts a little more eath time rather than making me feel better. The only thing that such repitition does is slowly desensitize me to that scenario. Hell, I've gone through it all in my head a bazillion times, and even now typing this my heart rate has gone up.
So given that my little drama is nothing compared to someone who sees their family massacred in front of their eyes, or someone who has set themselves on fire, how on earth can reliving their worst moments help the recovery processes? How about instead of beating them into submission with it, teach them ways to put it behind them? Use the VR to show them a life *after* their problems.
If they were doing anything dodgy, it would make sense to alter the main systems to remove any evidence. So, yeh, the FBI would be wise to take the backups too as they're less likely to have been altered. Smarters criminals wouldn't run their backups on the main tapes, of course.
Before you go nuts on the Indian "support" centers, remember that they're just doing what they're paid to do. Your US based Head Office is demanding exactly what they are giving. They will have had "negative feedback" about accents and off-shore outsourcing, so HQ has probably told them to be appear more localized (read pretend to be American).
I hate dealing with them as well*, however SlashGeeks are not the typical end user. Most people will have even less knowledge than these guys, and *need* to go through each step. Having said that, the entrapment bullshit you speak of is pretty shitty.
*I purposely mess up the scripts, when dealing with telecoms, pizza shops, tech lines, etc. I'm a person and so are they - fuck the corporate mindlessness.
Oh really? Check out this article about young Aussies being handcuffed and held in prison in The Land Of The Free, The United States of America, because they were non-white and had non-Christian names. But I guess it's ok to be a bunch of raciasts, cos you have 300 million people.
Crazy as it sounds with our current culture, history tells us that is exactly what we have to do.
Having democratic elections creates the illusion of that process, but unless the organisations that operate under the government get shuffled as well, then nothing much actually changes. Something tells me that overthrowing the CIA, NSA, FBI, Army, Navy, Airforce, etc, etc isn't going to be easy...
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It's things like SELinux that make the status quo seem like a very good idea to the antivirus industry.
Don't post your inadequacies as an argument for imperial unit usage. Go and practice some more or something. I've grown up with metric as well, and I *can* tell the difference between a 10mm and 11mm bolt. Usually by sight, but also by touch if it's in an odd location an I can't see it properly. And yes, I'm equally comfortable with SAE, which helps when fitting modern components to old English cars...
Milan should have those on the tram tracks. I almost got collected by one near the train station a while back. Felt pretty stupid too: I mean, how hard is it not to see or hear a big-ass tram trundling along the tracks?
Man, those big eyes on her just freak me out. I much prefer the Mai model.
Why does it even have to be centralized? The only reason I can think of is for collection and control of the information. If the aim is to improve traffic flow, a P2P based system would work fine. We don't need to stinking big-brother to make this kind of system work:
If a car "knows" it's doing 0 mph on a freeway, and can "talk" to other cars also doing 0 mph in the same location, it can be figured that there's a problem. The message can get wirelessly relayed until it meets cars that are moving and notify the driver that there's a problem up the road.
Nope you didn't give me that impression, but you also didn't suggest that you did give back. But my post was nothing personal, I just thought it worth posting something to make the point - I think with the increasing popularity of Free Software it will become a bigger and bigger problem.
I'm involved in several projects too, and the thing that I find *most* annoying about them is users who are demanding without giving anything back. Usually new folks who want it handed on a silver platter (we do try, but some folks *wont* read doco, etc), and usually wanting to back a quick dollar out of the work I and others have put into it.
...what Open Source can do for you: Ask what you can do for Open Source.
Apologies to JFK, but while it's great that you're making money from Open Source software, what have you put back into it? Donations, bug reports, anything? If not, that's known in some circles as leeching.
Free Software is free, true, but it doesn't just fall from the sky. It takes a lot of work from a lot of people, so hopefully businessmen such as yourself see the responsibility to replenish the pool, not just a resource to exploit.
Sounds like that 3D OpenGL desktop switcher from a few years back. Only the Microsoft implmentation is lamer, because it's not done in 3D. http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
That's exactly what happens in the courtroom. If a lawyer argues a case sufficiently then current law can be revised by the judges decision.
They don't need to. Microsoft will take care of that for most people.
Then why use Linux? Why not something like OpenBSD or something?
$50 for Advanced Server? WTF? Updates are ALL I want. Updates are ALL most of their existing userbase want. I'm fucked if I'm going to pay $300 or so for ES updates when they're selling AS to "academics" for $50 - which is less than I've been paying for RedHat 9.0 updates.
I'd imagine they will go with Symantec, and integrate similar to the way the took on Diskeeper for defragmentation. Which is nice for Symantec and easy for Microsoft, but it *completely* shafts every other antivirus vendor.
It's not about credit, it's about "Developers! Developers! Devlopers!" The general public doesn't give a toss, and few people are going to be snickering behind closed doors over this sensible business decision. But anyone writing low level software - such as Linus - needs to know staight up if it's compatible or not. Not mentioning x86-64 means they screwed around the people that make their chips worth anything.
Should be ideal for corporate usage then. :-)
Heh. One shop I worked in, we had a photographer client who had extremely "sensitive" data (girly pics) who stood over the shoulder of the fella copying it to CD. He claimed to know what's up with this IT gig. Sure enough, a spare copy was sent to another computer, and the photograher had no idea at all. Presumably the FBI aren't quite that clueless...
Make sure next installation uses stongly encrypted filesystem, and multiple methods of boot authentication.
Yeh, I was wondering about that whole thing...
It literally took me years to "get over" being cheated-on/dumped by a long-term ex-girlfriend. I'd say it could probably be classified as PTSD, and it had the usual side effects including depression, anxiety, and so on. I'm not convinced that re-living me visiting her workplace when she said she was working late but was really playing volleyball with her new b/f is going to help things. I don't think that seeing her slutting around with local personalities is going to make me feel better about being used and lied to by someone I trusted completely. Visuallising that shit hurts a little more eath time rather than making me feel better. The only thing that such repitition does is slowly desensitize me to that scenario. Hell, I've gone through it all in my head a bazillion times, and even now typing this my heart rate has gone up.
So given that my little drama is nothing compared to someone who sees their family massacred in front of their eyes, or someone who has set themselves on fire, how on earth can reliving their worst moments help the recovery processes? How about instead of beating them into submission with it, teach them ways to put it behind them? Use the VR to show them a life *after* their problems.
If they were doing anything dodgy, it would make sense to alter the main systems to remove any evidence. So, yeh, the FBI would be wise to take the backups too as they're less likely to have been altered. Smarters criminals wouldn't run their backups on the main tapes, of course.
If I'm paying a couple of thousand dollars for a new system, I shouldn't need to.
Before you go nuts on the Indian "support" centers, remember that they're just doing what they're paid to do. Your US based Head Office is demanding exactly what they are giving. They will have had "negative feedback" about accents and off-shore outsourcing, so HQ has probably told them to be appear more localized (read pretend to be American).
I hate dealing with them as well*, however SlashGeeks are not the typical end user. Most people will have even less knowledge than these guys, and *need* to go through each step. Having said that, the entrapment bullshit you speak of is pretty shitty.
*I purposely mess up the scripts, when dealing with telecoms, pizza shops, tech lines, etc. I'm a person and so are they - fuck the corporate mindlessness.
Oh really? Check out this article about young Aussies being handcuffed and held in prison in The Land Of The Free, The United States of America, because they were non-white and had non-Christian names. But I guess it's ok to be a bunch of raciasts, cos you have 300 million people.
Crazy as it sounds with our current culture, history tells us that is exactly what we have to do.
Having democratic elections creates the illusion of that process, but unless the organisations that operate under the government get shuffled as well, then nothing much actually changes. Something tells me that overthrowing the CIA, NSA, FBI, Army, Navy, Airforce, etc, etc isn't going to be easy...
when was the last time you thought of your leaders are public *servants*?
I think a better question is, when was the last time *they* thought of themselves as public servants?
So if it has to be manually reversed, could you use it as a storage device? Eg, to store sunlight, or laser light for example?