That's what I use and it works okay. However, it would be really convenient if new users became Samba users automatically and password changes reflected in Samba too.
I'd like something akin to Windows 2000 so I could right click a folder, share it and set the security from there.
Overall it's not a BIG deal though. How often do you mess with shares?
One thing I want to add to all of this is that open != free. There's no reason you can't have open source under a license that does not allow for reselling or whatever.
There are more choices in licensing than just GNU and BSD.
I'd be interested in seeing a software company take this route and see if/how well it does.
And I had a long post... and decided it wasn't worth going off on a lot of tangents so I'll just hit my favorite one:
"Iraq was a response to a decade of ignoring UN security council resolutions and international law."
You mean like... torturing detainees?
Man, someone should bomb those international law breaking criminal motherfuckers. Maybe blowing up some major civilian target inside the borders of their nation would teach them a lesson and then they'd calm down and try giving peace a chance.
Or, does breaking international law only count if it's done for a decade?
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, you know?
(Let me also take this opportunity to mention how much I hate the new "Web 2.0" Slashdot.)
Don't hold your breath. I can't think of a sane solution that's come out of the Federal Government in my lifetime. I have seen so-called "solutions" but sane is simply not the word I would use.
SL requires 1GB and Leopard ran on 512mb (albeit, there was no reason not to have at least 1GB). I'll bet SL runs better with less RAM than Leopard did too, but I'm not making that claim since I haven't done any actual testing.
No. Macs cost more because it's not the same market as Dell or [insert OEM here]. It's the same reason they don't feverishly update the processors or specs. They don't sell PCs. They sell a platform and they sell complete devices. Period. They also have a much nicer profit margin per unit than Dell.
I'm not here to defend or attack that. The financials speak for themselves. There are hundreds of morons on this site who think that Apple would just "take over" if it took the advice of said morons and did things like offer budget machines or a customizable desktop that it would be king, etc.
Mind you, I would LOVE a Mac desktop that was a real desktop and NOT an iMac and not a Mac Pro. I don't hate Apple for not releasing it though because I'm certainly not their bread and butter. (Neither are gamers and neither are people who, for the most part, really care about Hz, Bytes or tech specs.) My dad doesn't care what processor is in his MacBook Pro. My mom doesn't care about how much RAM is in her Mac Mini. All they care about is that it does what they want at a pace that's reasonable for them. I like it because, as I'm the "family IT guy" I almost never have to touch these machines.
Just because Apple doesn't meet your needs, doesn't mean their execs are stupid. Getting annoyed at Apple for what they charge and what the sell is like getting pissed off when BMW doesn't my a 4x4 pickup work truck. It's not their market. They don't care about getting into it.
If Apple doesn't meet your needs then don't buy their stuff. I have GOT to stop reading any article that's Apple related on Slashdot. It just turns in to mountains of faulty comparisons and complaints and crap on both sides.
I use mine as a desktop most of the time. I sit down, I plug in my monitor, USB (which handles virtually everything else) and a network connection and I'm good to go. Mind you, I wish Macs had some kind of docking deal since it's a bit of a hassle to plug that stuff in, but the machine I get is worth dealing with that.
(It'll be nice when everything is on some kind of unified external connector. Nothing but 5 of the same ports on the side for EVERYTHING.)
Actually, these printers were built in a time where there weren't a lot of bargain printers. Generally, old printers that are still in service today were anything but cheap "back in the day." HP LaserJet 4s did NOT run a measly $200 15 years ago.
Buy a $700 - $1,000 laserjet now and I bet it's still working in 15 years.
I still use an HP LaserJet 4 Plus and although mine lacks the PostScript module, it does have JetDirect and every machine on the planet supports it. I used it to print forms for a political campaign I was a part of a couple years ago to the tune of about 25,000 pages in a matter of 2 weeks. It's old. The plastic is all yellowed. It still works just fine.
I tell most people I know to check eBay or Craig's List for old HP LaserJets. They last forever and can be had for almost nothing. The toner isn't even that pricey.
As someone with no formal education in coding, is there some definitive guide on unit testing?
Particularly for the Python/Ruby camp? I'm working on a project right now that, while documented, I know is going to need some tests on a few things once it's deployed. It'd just be nice.
Well, being one of those archaic throwbacks, I don't think the problem is all the tax dodging going on. The problem is all the taxing going on.
I'd like to see fewer government services and less government meddling in my life. The problem with most tax laws is that they're crafted by the wealthy, by corporate interests and with lobbyists overseeing the process. You know what that means? Even if it looks good on paper that it's going to be "fair" and "tax the rich" or "tax corporations" the only people that are going to pay the lion's share are the middle class and upper middle class.
Not that any of it matters anyway. We live in a country full of people who simultaneously distrust the government and yet, still want it to solve a bunch of problems they have no faith it'll solve and who can be lead on by the most trite of messages (hope and change anyone?).
"But we can vote! That makes us free. We're a democracy. Democracies are free and good." And yeah... so long as you think you're the best kind of slave.
Do I think avoiding taxes is moral? Yeah, sure do. If there's one organization that I think can do MORE damage with excess money than Microsoft, it's a government at any level. I want governments to have money on about the same level that I want crack addicts to have crack. It's just out of control.
"What's the cost of data insecurity, of giving up freedoms, and of supporting a criminal corporation? What form do you write those costs off on?"
If you're going to a typical university then you've already compromised most of that. If you're going to some small private university then it's like they're not going to have some retarded technical policy.
And if you think religion has more power over the minds of people in modern industrialized nations than the corporate economy, you're deluding yourself. I'm certainly not saying religion has nothing to do with it, but as I said in another post, look at our "justice" system:
It's cruel and unusual to kill someone but locking them up in a little room alone 23-hours a day in a maximum security penitentiary is "civilized"? Keep in mind, historically the "religious" were the ones most in favor of killing these guys. And what did they lose out to? The fact that there's more money to be made in keeping them alive in a private prison than there is to just get it over with.
So much for those thousands of years of impact. And even if it's not just the money interests, something changed in the population in a very rapid manner to go from "kill the criminals and let God deal with them" to "they have to live!" We've been killing "the guilty" for about as long as religion's been around.
I see I was flagged as a troll too. I keep forgetting that on Slashdot I have to concede that religion is the root of ever evil perpetrated on the mind of man and any thinking that goes against that is gonna get modded down. Oh well. I just get sick to deal of religion being the scapegoat for everything around here.
I can't think of a situation where I would ever side with the IRS. Even if "the law" was on their side. There's just a point where you have to say, "You know what? Fuck you guys."
Suicide doesn't take courage by default. Often times it's a chicken shit's way out. However, in the case of being old and terminal, it's common place in a lot of older cultures to simply "leave the tribe" so you're not a burden anymore. In industrialized nations have become oddly life obsessed to the point that it defies reality. The old and sick can but put out and while it's perfectly acceptable to lock people in a maximum security penitentiary where they're alone 23 hours a day, killing them is "cruel and unusual."
Of course, there's less money in death than in prolonging the inevitable. Plus, people in pain are the most desperate sort of suckers out there.
Or a medical industry the brings in the lion's share of its profits from the last years of people's lives.
Short of being paralyzed you can kill yourself anyway. The's the cool part about killing yourself--even if it's illegal it's not like they can prosecute you for it.
"What bugs me though is when a single bug in an OS is exploited by a thousand different bits of malware and instead of fixing the bug we have a dozen antivirus vendors producing a detector for each of the thousand bits of malware."
Which in turn makes my machine run like it's running malware and requires an additional core just to handle all the "security" software I have installed.
People just like to bitch. They flame Microsoft for going too far with backward compatibility and then flame Apple for doing what people suggest Microsoft do. It's ridiculous.
What I don't get is... if you need old shit to run, your current stuff that supports it still works. You don't NEED the newest OS nor are you entitled to it.
One of the biggest problems with "strongly typed" that I've seen is that sometimes it becomes synonymous with with "statically typed" and they just aren't the same thing. Some people seem to think that dynamically typed languages are automatically "weakly typed" which is just flat out wrong.
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That's what I use and it works okay. However, it would be really convenient if new users became Samba users automatically and password changes reflected in Samba too.
I'd like something akin to Windows 2000 so I could right click a folder, share it and set the security from there.
Overall it's not a BIG deal though. How often do you mess with shares?
You're not. That was my first thought when I read the title.
One thing I want to add to all of this is that open != free. There's no reason you can't have open source under a license that does not allow for reselling or whatever.
There are more choices in licensing than just GNU and BSD.
I'd be interested in seeing a software company take this route and see if/how well it does.
And I had a long post... and decided it wasn't worth going off on a lot of tangents so I'll just hit my favorite one:
"Iraq was a response to a decade of ignoring UN security council resolutions and international law."
You mean like... torturing detainees?
Man, someone should bomb those international law breaking criminal motherfuckers. Maybe blowing up some major civilian target inside the borders of their nation would teach them a lesson and then they'd calm down and try giving peace a chance.
Or, does breaking international law only count if it's done for a decade?
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, you know?
(Let me also take this opportunity to mention how much I hate the new "Web 2.0" Slashdot.)
War is simply terrorism with a bigger budget anyway.
Don't hold your breath. I can't think of a sane solution that's come out of the Federal Government in my lifetime. I have seen so-called "solutions" but sane is simply not the word I would use.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
SL requires 1GB and Leopard ran on 512mb (albeit, there was no reason not to have at least 1GB). I'll bet SL runs better with less RAM than Leopard did too, but I'm not making that claim since I haven't done any actual testing.
No. Macs cost more because it's not the same market as Dell or [insert OEM here]. It's the same reason they don't feverishly update the processors or specs. They don't sell PCs. They sell a platform and they sell complete devices. Period. They also have a much nicer profit margin per unit than Dell.
I'm not here to defend or attack that. The financials speak for themselves. There are hundreds of morons on this site who think that Apple would just "take over" if it took the advice of said morons and did things like offer budget machines or a customizable desktop that it would be king, etc.
Mind you, I would LOVE a Mac desktop that was a real desktop and NOT an iMac and not a Mac Pro. I don't hate Apple for not releasing it though because I'm certainly not their bread and butter. (Neither are gamers and neither are people who, for the most part, really care about Hz, Bytes or tech specs.) My dad doesn't care what processor is in his MacBook Pro. My mom doesn't care about how much RAM is in her Mac Mini. All they care about is that it does what they want at a pace that's reasonable for them. I like it because, as I'm the "family IT guy" I almost never have to touch these machines.
Just because Apple doesn't meet your needs, doesn't mean their execs are stupid. Getting annoyed at Apple for what they charge and what the sell is like getting pissed off when BMW doesn't my a 4x4 pickup work truck. It's not their market. They don't care about getting into it.
If Apple doesn't meet your needs then don't buy their stuff. I have GOT to stop reading any article that's Apple related on Slashdot. It just turns in to mountains of faulty comparisons and complaints and crap on both sides.
Why? Seriously. Why?
If you need the ports, great. Don't get a Mac.
I use mine as a desktop most of the time. I sit down, I plug in my monitor, USB (which handles virtually everything else) and a network connection and I'm good to go. Mind you, I wish Macs had some kind of docking deal since it's a bit of a hassle to plug that stuff in, but the machine I get is worth dealing with that.
(It'll be nice when everything is on some kind of unified external connector. Nothing but 5 of the same ports on the side for EVERYTHING.)
Actually, these printers were built in a time where there weren't a lot of bargain printers. Generally, old printers that are still in service today were anything but cheap "back in the day." HP LaserJet 4s did NOT run a measly $200 15 years ago.
Buy a $700 - $1,000 laserjet now and I bet it's still working in 15 years.
I still use an HP LaserJet 4 Plus and although mine lacks the PostScript module, it does have JetDirect and every machine on the planet supports it. I used it to print forms for a political campaign I was a part of a couple years ago to the tune of about 25,000 pages in a matter of 2 weeks. It's old. The plastic is all yellowed. It still works just fine.
I tell most people I know to check eBay or Craig's List for old HP LaserJets. They last forever and can be had for almost nothing. The toner isn't even that pricey.
I doesn't matter how many hours of bullshit you add. It's still gonna have the same result.
Of course, this has nothing to do with education and everything to do with conditioning and indoctrination.
Change? Ha. I knew I was going to loathe this president, but I never imagined he'd be scoring as well as the previous asshole.
Nice.
I'll have to have a look see into that, but it's a good rule. I do unit testing all the time... I just junk the tests.
As someone with no formal education in coding, is there some definitive guide on unit testing?
Particularly for the Python/Ruby camp? I'm working on a project right now that, while documented, I know is going to need some tests on a few things once it's deployed. It'd just be nice.
Well, being one of those archaic throwbacks, I don't think the problem is all the tax dodging going on. The problem is all the taxing going on.
I'd like to see fewer government services and less government meddling in my life. The problem with most tax laws is that they're crafted by the wealthy, by corporate interests and with lobbyists overseeing the process. You know what that means? Even if it looks good on paper that it's going to be "fair" and "tax the rich" or "tax corporations" the only people that are going to pay the lion's share are the middle class and upper middle class.
Not that any of it matters anyway. We live in a country full of people who simultaneously distrust the government and yet, still want it to solve a bunch of problems they have no faith it'll solve and who can be lead on by the most trite of messages (hope and change anyone?).
"But we can vote! That makes us free. We're a democracy. Democracies are free and good." And yeah... so long as you think you're the best kind of slave.
Do I think avoiding taxes is moral? Yeah, sure do. If there's one organization that I think can do MORE damage with excess money than Microsoft, it's a government at any level. I want governments to have money on about the same level that I want crack addicts to have crack. It's just out of control.
As the Supreme Court has made clear:
tax avoidance != tax evasion
The first is legal. The second... not so much.
For the most part, I still use FAT32 since everything can read it. Simple as that.
However, Linux has no issue reading HFS+ and my main machine is a Mac so it does the trick too.
"What's the cost of data insecurity, of giving up freedoms, and of supporting a criminal corporation? What form do you write those costs off on?"
If you're going to a typical university then you've already compromised most of that. If you're going to some small private university then it's like they're not going to have some retarded technical policy.
And if you think religion has more power over the minds of people in modern industrialized nations than the corporate economy, you're deluding yourself. I'm certainly not saying religion has nothing to do with it, but as I said in another post, look at our "justice" system:
It's cruel and unusual to kill someone but locking them up in a little room alone 23-hours a day in a maximum security penitentiary is "civilized"? Keep in mind, historically the "religious" were the ones most in favor of killing these guys. And what did they lose out to? The fact that there's more money to be made in keeping them alive in a private prison than there is to just get it over with.
So much for those thousands of years of impact. And even if it's not just the money interests, something changed in the population in a very rapid manner to go from "kill the criminals and let God deal with them" to "they have to live!" We've been killing "the guilty" for about as long as religion's been around.
I see I was flagged as a troll too. I keep forgetting that on Slashdot I have to concede that religion is the root of ever evil perpetrated on the mind of man and any thinking that goes against that is gonna get modded down. Oh well. I just get sick to deal of religion being the scapegoat for everything around here.
I can't think of a situation where I would ever side with the IRS. Even if "the law" was on their side. There's just a point where you have to say, "You know what? Fuck you guys."
Suicide doesn't take courage by default. Often times it's a chicken shit's way out. However, in the case of being old and terminal, it's common place in a lot of older cultures to simply "leave the tribe" so you're not a burden anymore. In industrialized nations have become oddly life obsessed to the point that it defies reality. The old and sick can but put out and while it's perfectly acceptable to lock people in a maximum security penitentiary where they're alone 23 hours a day, killing them is "cruel and unusual."
Of course, there's less money in death than in prolonging the inevitable. Plus, people in pain are the most desperate sort of suckers out there.
Religion?
Or a medical industry the brings in the lion's share of its profits from the last years of people's lives.
Short of being paralyzed you can kill yourself anyway. The's the cool part about killing yourself--even if it's illegal it's not like they can prosecute you for it.
"What bugs me though is when a single bug in an OS is exploited by a thousand different bits of malware and instead of fixing the bug we have a dozen antivirus vendors producing a detector for each of the thousand bits of malware."
Which in turn makes my machine run like it's running malware and requires an additional core just to handle all the "security" software I have installed.
People just like to bitch. They flame Microsoft for going too far with backward compatibility and then flame Apple for doing what people suggest Microsoft do. It's ridiculous.
What I don't get is... if you need old shit to run, your current stuff that supports it still works. You don't NEED the newest OS nor are you entitled to it.
I like your definition.
One of the biggest problems with "strongly typed" that I've seen is that sometimes it becomes synonymous with with "statically typed" and they just aren't the same thing. Some people seem to think that dynamically typed languages are automatically "weakly typed" which is just flat out wrong.