Seems strange that they want to prevent the people who know how to stop snipers from helping. As long as the assistance is purely technical, I have no problem with it. Now if the military was setting up roadblocks and detaining citizenz, it'd be another matter.
Methinks you were trying to be funny, but I'd like to respond.
My wife and I make our own bread. We have several bags of different flour. We purchace yeast like it's a fine wine. We spend hours getting everything together. After it bakes, we run it through a meat slicer set to extra thick.
I don't mean to gloat, but GODDAMN that's some good bread. We'd take the Pepsi Challenge agianst that Wonderbread shit any day.
In the next year, we will probably get our own flour mill and purchace bags of wheat to lessen our dependency on choosing prepackaged flours.
Gentoo is, IMHO, the best Linux distro out there. I'm sure there are some people, let's call them "Linux Gourmets", who could put together an awesome distro to beat Gentoo. I haven't seen it yet.
Gentoo needs an install cd. A full Gentoo system already ready to go. After install, you could recompile packages as you see fit. Emerge kicks ass. I've never used the BSD ports, but with emerge, it just works. The dependencies seem reasonable. The ebuild files are well laid out and easily modifyable.
I'm not a linux developer, but I have a freaky feeling that a lot of RPM and APT gurus are looking at emerge and thinking of ways to make their systems more like it. Maybe a system like apt-compile or urpmi.compile is already in development. If not, it will be soon.
In short, Gentoo is a serious player in the distro wars. I forsee a lot of people moving to Gentoo in the next year. Especially on the developer front.
I like to make a copy of the game disk with all the latest patches and mods. That way, if I dig out the disk in 2 years, I don't have to worry about finding patches from a company that may not be around anymore.
Oh yeah, I also put the nocd cracks on there just so I don't have to worry about doping the disk-juggle thingy every time I want to play the game.
It's pretty hard to stop someone once they have made up their mind to do something like September 11. If we had better airport security, they'd have done something else like rent a private plane, or even buy their own 747.
When you have enough money, nothing is impossible.
I'll agree that the ADA is needed for most B&M buisnesses. But a website is a product. Does anyone have the right to tell you what features to include in your product? Could I sue MS for not including MouseGestures? Could I sue Adobe for not supporting my Nintendo PowerGlove as a pointing device?
We aren't talking about hiring policies. If I make a product aimed at a core customer, what right do you have to tell me to modify my product for another customer. If you don't like win32 because the source is closed, don't buy it. If SW Airlines doesn't want blind people for customers, so be it. You can't sue MS claiming that closed source prevents you from accessing the internals, why should you sue SW Airlines?
Now there are some Brick & Mortar laws about access. I think thoes are mainly for safety. You don't want someone in a wheelchair trapped in your building if it is on fire. However, I don't think anyone has the right to tell you what features you need to add to your product.
The mounting scheme we use is based on drive letters. NOC policy is to have a 14GB OS/Program Files partition and a 4GB Data partition. Thoes are C: and D:. The D: drive gets mirrored weekly to our SAN.
Then we have several other drives. These are all network mounts for file plans and other assorted shit that *SHOULD* live on a decent intranet page. All of these drives are mounted as like T:, O:, P:, and whatever. AFAIK, there is no way to mount a network drive (or physical, for that matter) to c:\mnt\My_Network_Drive\
I'm not saying you are wrong about the mount thingy, but if MS had figured that one out, I think they'd advertise it like it was the second coming of christ...
I have a soft place in my heart for RH. Way back in the day (late 1996), I was struggling through yet another Debian install (broken kernel update), when my buddy gave me a RH cd. I was amazed with basicly everything on there. I went out and bought RH4.2 the next day. By tine a year had passed, I was in love with RH.
Then another buddy introduced me to Mandrake. Everything good about RH, but compiled for CPUs that were actually fabbed in the last 5 years. Ever since 1998, I have had a love/hate relationship with Mandrake. Not very stable (compared to RH), but at least I have the comfort of knowing that it is somewhat optimized for my system.
I still try RH releases. I love to see the work the guys have done. If I ever convert my office to Linux, I will reccomend RH. But why, oh why, can't the guys over there just update the compiler options. Would it really take that long to compile for i586? I know there are some people still running 80486 chips (esp in the embedded world), but why do they insist on keeping 80386 as a baseline?
Actually, I guess people like me are never really happy. I bitch at Mandrake for not moving to i686 as a base. In any event, my home box runs Gentoo now. Gcc 3.2, -O3, march=athlon, and whatever else I want to throw in there. I'm happy with my system, but I still look at RH 8.0 and their snazzy desktop/installer/awesome support, and wish they would take a few days to pump out an i686 ISO.
I'd be interested to see what kind of overhead this checking adds to a server. I'll agree that a slow, secure server is better than a fast, unsecure server, but if it is too slow...
Also, I wonder how well this scales up to the enterprise. It may work well for several processes on a single box, but what happens when you distribute those processes to back-end servers. Each box on its own may be fine, but when they intercommunicate, problems could arise.
Can you tell me some more about the security setup you have? I am looking for a (possibly wireless, possibly night vision) solution for a baby monitor. All the (baby magazine) sloutions I have seen are all in one packages that include too much crap....and the prices are around the $250 mark.
Where did you get the cameras? Were they easy to setup? Would you do it differently if you were to do it agian?
OK. How can we, as a platform moving through space, spot a distant object, also moving through space, and say with any accuracy that the object is X distance from us. It seems a lot like measuring the distance between rafts on a river by moving from the front of your raft to the rear of your raft and calculating the angles. It may give a ballpark, but the margin for error would be enormous. Especially when you are measuring angles comparable to the width of a dime on the moon.
Damnit, guttentag! I just swallowed a pepperoni Combos thingy.....whole. Damn near killed myself. But still, funniest frickin' thing I've read all week.
As the public need increaces, the number of annonimizers will also increace. As it stands now, anyone (almost) with a DSL/Cable connection can set up a system to keep them completely annonymous.
I think there is even a howto. Firewall peircing howto or something like that. Set up ssl on the remote box, ssh into it, and surf from there. All the sniffer sees is a really long session to www.yourstupidsoftwareiscrap.net.
A GPG-encrypted filesystem is. Set it up so that 5 different people have part of the key. If you need to get in, you need at least 3 people there. You could then claim to not remember your keycode.
A small dead-man-switch connected to a packet of gunpowder on your hard drive is even better. Pick up the box and BANG! No more data. Just make sure you have a EULA near the PC stating that moving the box will destroy the contents.
Then just block numbers coming from that prefix and place a call to the RBOC explainin that their service has been blocked to your area till they agree to disconnect the spammer...
I was watching a show about the people behind the scenes at NASA. One of the Shuttle mechanics made the point that there are places inside the Shuttle that require major disassembly just to inspect. He also added that a lot of things in the shuttle were never MEANT to be worked on. The designers just thought the older Shuttles would be retired before the parts wore out.
Free speach was intended to be speach directed at the government, not an individual. You can, in America, say anything you want about our leaders. If you met GW Bush, you could shake his hand and call him a pathetic corporate puppethead to his face. He would not be able to throw you in jail.
Your freedom of speach may not extend into informing the public about MS security flaws. Especially if you agree to a click through stating you waive that right. The only answer is just to keep quiet. If you want to tell mom that MS sucks, fine. If you want to tell the world MS sucks, fine too. If you want to purchace a product and rip it apart while glamourizing every tiny flaw, that's not cool.
>To put people's freedom's above the Right to Profit that is rapidly proliferating makes sense. There is no good reason that corporations should be assured profits.
The problem with this is that PEOPLE work for corporations. If MS employs thousands, their rights to earn income from their job outweigh your right to run linux on an XBox.
>I am never, never going to bow to corporate interests
Corporate interests are also the interests of the people who work for those corporations. Those people have individual freedoms too. If those people want something, who's to say they don't deserve to get it.
Yes, as long as it wasn't my little girl. In fact, anyone who wears clothes pretty much agrees with me. Sweat shops may not be the nicest thing in the world, but they are a big part of our economy.
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Seems strange that they want to prevent the people who know how to stop snipers from helping. As long as the assistance is purely technical, I have no problem with it. Now if the military was setting up roadblocks and detaining citizenz, it'd be another matter.
Methinks you were trying to be funny, but I'd like to respond.
My wife and I make our own bread. We have several bags of different flour. We purchace yeast like it's a fine wine. We spend hours getting everything together. After it bakes, we run it through a meat slicer set to extra thick.
I don't mean to gloat, but GODDAMN that's some good bread. We'd take the Pepsi Challenge agianst that Wonderbread shit any day.
In the next year, we will probably get our own flour mill and purchace bags of wheat to lessen our dependency on choosing prepackaged flours.
Gentoo is, IMHO, the best Linux distro out there. I'm sure there are some people, let's call them "Linux Gourmets", who could put together an awesome distro to beat Gentoo. I haven't seen it yet.
Gentoo needs an install cd. A full Gentoo system already ready to go. After install, you could recompile packages as you see fit. Emerge kicks ass. I've never used the BSD ports, but with emerge, it just works. The dependencies seem reasonable. The ebuild files are well laid out and easily modifyable.
I'm not a linux developer, but I have a freaky feeling that a lot of RPM and APT gurus are looking at emerge and thinking of ways to make their systems more like it. Maybe a system like apt-compile or urpmi.compile is already in development. If not, it will be soon.
In short, Gentoo is a serious player in the distro wars. I forsee a lot of people moving to Gentoo in the next year. Especially on the developer front.
Does this really work? I was under the impression that the game won't recognise the virtual cd as the real game disk.
I like to make a copy of the game disk with all the latest patches and mods. That way, if I dig out the disk in 2 years, I don't have to worry about finding patches from a company that may not be around anymore.
Oh yeah, I also put the nocd cracks on there just so I don't have to worry about doping the disk-juggle thingy every time I want to play the game.
Yep, and here I am at 80% done and it's just now falling under 150KB/s. So much for locality. I'm shedding a tear for your poor hard drives...
20 something comments already, and I'm still able to pull down the 49MB movie at like 200KB/sec. Cmon slackers, you all asleep?
It's pretty hard to stop someone once they have made up their mind to do something like September 11. If we had better airport security, they'd have done something else like rent a private plane, or even buy their own 747.
When you have enough money, nothing is impossible.
I'll agree that the ADA is needed for most B&M buisnesses. But a website is a product. Does anyone have the right to tell you what features to include in your product? Could I sue MS for not including MouseGestures? Could I sue Adobe for not supporting my Nintendo PowerGlove as a pointing device?
>hire blacks and women
We aren't talking about hiring policies. If I make a product aimed at a core customer, what right do you have to tell me to modify my product for another customer. If you don't like win32 because the source is closed, don't buy it. If SW Airlines doesn't want blind people for customers, so be it. You can't sue MS claiming that closed source prevents you from accessing the internals, why should you sue SW Airlines?
Now there are some Brick & Mortar laws about access. I think thoes are mainly for safety. You don't want someone in a wheelchair trapped in your building if it is on fire. However, I don't think anyone has the right to tell you what features you need to add to your product.
The mounting scheme we use is based on drive letters. NOC policy is to have a 14GB OS/Program Files partition and a 4GB Data partition. Thoes are C: and D:. The D: drive gets mirrored weekly to our SAN.
Then we have several other drives. These are all network mounts for file plans and other assorted shit that *SHOULD* live on a decent intranet page. All of these drives are mounted as like T:, O:, P:, and whatever. AFAIK, there is no way to mount a network drive (or physical, for that matter) to c:\mnt\My_Network_Drive\
I'm not saying you are wrong about the mount thingy, but if MS had figured that one out, I think they'd advertise it like it was the second coming of christ...
Just checked in Win2k...The highest drive letter is Z:
I have a soft place in my heart for RH. Way back in the day (late 1996), I was struggling through yet another Debian install (broken kernel update), when my buddy gave me a RH cd. I was amazed with basicly everything on there. I went out and bought RH4.2 the next day. By tine a year had passed, I was in love with RH.
Then another buddy introduced me to Mandrake. Everything good about RH, but compiled for CPUs that were actually fabbed in the last 5 years. Ever since 1998, I have had a love/hate relationship with Mandrake. Not very stable (compared to RH), but at least I have the comfort of knowing that it is somewhat optimized for my system.
I still try RH releases. I love to see the work the guys have done. If I ever convert my office to Linux, I will reccomend RH. But why, oh why, can't the guys over there just update the compiler options. Would it really take that long to compile for i586? I know there are some people still running 80486 chips (esp in the embedded world), but why do they insist on keeping 80386 as a baseline?
Actually, I guess people like me are never really happy. I bitch at Mandrake for not moving to i686 as a base. In any event, my home box runs Gentoo now. Gcc 3.2, -O3, march=athlon, and whatever else I want to throw in there. I'm happy with my system, but I still look at RH 8.0 and their snazzy desktop/installer/awesome support, and wish they would take a few days to pump out an i686 ISO.
I'd be interested to see what kind of overhead this checking adds to a server. I'll agree that a slow, secure server is better than a fast, unsecure server, but if it is too slow...
Also, I wonder how well this scales up to the enterprise. It may work well for several processes on a single box, but what happens when you distribute those processes to back-end servers. Each box on its own may be fine, but when they intercommunicate, problems could arise.
Can you tell me some more about the security setup you have? I am looking for a (possibly wireless, possibly night vision) solution for a baby monitor. All the (baby magazine) sloutions I have seen are all in one packages that include too much crap....and the prices are around the $250 mark.
Where did you get the cameras? Were they easy to setup? Would you do it differently if you were to do it agian?
3. Replace CD with crappy Kenny G. CD
4. Write review about PJ's new stuff being really "mellow".
5. Return CD player to company.
It'd take them months to connect the review to the player. The look on their faces, as they opened the player, would be classic.
OK. How can we, as a platform moving through space, spot a distant object, also moving through space, and say with any accuracy that the object is X distance from us. It seems a lot like measuring the distance between rafts on a river by moving from the front of your raft to the rear of your raft and calculating the angles. It may give a ballpark, but the margin for error would be enormous. Especially when you are measuring angles comparable to the width of a dime on the moon.
Damnit, guttentag! I just swallowed a pepperoni Combos thingy.....whole. Damn near killed myself. But still, funniest frickin' thing I've read all week.
As the public need increaces, the number of annonimizers will also increace. As it stands now, anyone (almost) with a DSL/Cable connection can set up a system to keep them completely annonymous.
I think there is even a howto. Firewall peircing howto or something like that. Set up ssl on the remote box, ssh into it, and surf from there. All the sniffer sees is a really long session to www.yourstupidsoftwareiscrap.net.
A GPG-encrypted filesystem is. Set it up so that 5 different people have part of the key. If you need to get in, you need at least 3 people there. You could then claim to not remember your keycode.
A small dead-man-switch connected to a packet of gunpowder on your hard drive is even better. Pick up the box and BANG! No more data. Just make sure you have a EULA near the PC stating that moving the box will destroy the contents.
Then just block numbers coming from that prefix and place a call to the RBOC explainin that their service has been blocked to your area till they agree to disconnect the spammer...
Unless, of course, Ford claimed that with the new 450hp engine, the roads go much faster now.
I was watching a show about the people behind the scenes at NASA. One of the Shuttle mechanics made the point that there are places inside the Shuttle that require major disassembly just to inspect. He also added that a lot of things in the shuttle were never MEANT to be worked on. The designers just thought the older Shuttles would be retired before the parts wore out.
Free speach was intended to be speach directed at the government, not an individual. You can, in America, say anything you want about our leaders. If you met GW Bush, you could shake his hand and call him a pathetic corporate puppethead to his face. He would not be able to throw you in jail.
Your freedom of speach may not extend into informing the public about MS security flaws. Especially if you agree to a click through stating you waive that right. The only answer is just to keep quiet. If you want to tell mom that MS sucks, fine. If you want to tell the world MS sucks, fine too. If you want to purchace a product and rip it apart while glamourizing every tiny flaw, that's not cool.
>To put people's freedom's above the Right to Profit that is rapidly proliferating makes sense. There is no good reason that corporations should be assured profits.
The problem with this is that PEOPLE work for corporations. If MS employs thousands, their rights to earn income from their job outweigh your right to run linux on an XBox.
>I am never, never going to bow to corporate interests
Corporate interests are also the interests of the people who work for those corporations. Those people have individual freedoms too. If those people want something, who's to say they don't deserve to get it.
Yes, as long as it wasn't my little girl. In fact, anyone who wears clothes pretty much agrees with me. Sweat shops may not be the nicest thing in the world, but they are a big part of our economy.