Uuh, win2k supports disk quotas on a user. Now the actual implementation of this is tricky. You want them to have plenty of documant and internet cache, but not enough room to download Metalic tunes.
In practice, few users even realise that there is a difference in dirctory permissions. They just think, "I can't install this. I don't have permission. Oh well, I'll work on a Word doc instead." It never dawns on about 90% of them what the difference is.
Even if the user does understand what is going on, that user is probably smart enough to "Get It" and would never install P2P warez anyway.
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As long as she keeps her teeth covered. Japanese women have awful teeth. It's like dental hygene doesn't exist here. The guys prob have bad teeth too, but I've never bothered to notice.
Then they say, "It worked with the old guy, why can't you make it work?"
From years as a government worker, I have noticed that if you really want change, break something and blame it on the users.
Your systems are in chaos? Good! Stop pushing anti-virus updates, stop pushing win32 hotfixes, tftp a known bad image to your premise router, secretly push installs of quake3 and UT to all the workstations. If the users ask, say that their systems need to be reloaded to make things better.
If they will let you install Linux, do it! If not, install win2k and all the updates. Add the user to the box as a USER and remove USER permissions to WRITE anywhere but their desktop.
When they ask what is going on with the ability to install stuff, LIE...a lot. Claim that the latest hotfixes from M$ implement a security policy on corporate systems that only allow apps to be remotely installed from the Domain Application Server.
In short, users expect to be lied to and they want their computers to be fast and reliable. They want their Net(not)work(tm) to actually pass packets via some type of IT system and not have to be hand-carried via a Cuban waterboy. In your situation, the users needs and expectations are converging. Take advantage of the situation and become...The Network Natzi, The BOFH, whatever you want to call it.
What Is PC/104?
PC/104 (IEEE P996.1) was developed to fill the need for an embedded platform, which was compliant with standardized hardware and software of the PC architecture. Mechanically quite different from the PC form factor, PC/104 modules are 3.6 X 3.8 inches in size. A self-stacking bus is implemented with pin-and-socket connectors composed of 64- and 40- contact male/female headers, which replace the card edge connectors used in standard PC hardware. Virtually anything that is available for a standard PC is available in the PC/104 form factor. PC/104 components are designed to be stacked together to create a complete embedded solution. Normally there will be a single CPU board and several peripheral boards connected by the PC/104 (ISA) system bus. Often there will be a PCI bus provided by the CPU board that will accommodate PCI peripheral boards (this standard is called PC/104+). Overall the price point for a highly integrated PC/104 CPU module is lower than for a comparable IBM-compatible PC. However, due to the power dissipation constraints typically found in embedded applications, CPU horsepower is generally lower. For more look at the PC/104 consortium site.
I heartily disagree. Judges cannot be expected to be experts on everything.
However, you can, at the state level at least, have one judge who is an expert on 3 or 4 things. Maybe have a judge that knows about IT, copyright, and trademarking. Have another that knows a lot about automotive systems, personal property, and medical systems. If you have a problem with your ISP, it gets routed to the IT judge. If you have a problem with excessive exaust noise on your car, the automotive judge.
A better aproach would be having a registered comment period once a lawsuit was filed. You get sued because of something on your web site. The complaint gets published on a Kuro5hin like site under Tech/Web. People in the area covered by the suit who are working in the tech industry can then post comments and rate the validity of the suit. If the suit is deemed invalid by your peers, then it would never survive a jury trial. Therefore, it would be a waste of money for the suit to proceed.
The access list for the site could be based on the *.us domains. You bring a suit in California state court, everyone in *.ca.us can comment on the suit. If it involves violation of the building codes, then people who register as working in the construction industry would be able to comment.
There are certian packages you will never be able to just upgrade. If I am not mistaken, gcc is linked, at compile time, agianst your installed kernel. For more information on what it takes to build a linux system, go to linuxfromscratch.org.
Basicly, even us guys building linux from the ground up have to rebuild our systems on occasion. Not mutch of a prob when you just need to pop in a mandrake disk, but a real bitch when you spend 10+ hours compiling linux/x11/kde/mozilla/other assorted things. Not to mention configuring...
Yeah, I know. Still, maybe just fuck up the routing tables to send their packets through every router in the building...twice. Then dump it out of a 56k dialup from an ISP in Tiwan.
Or even better, add the judges' account to a Monsterhut spam list.
To me, that sounds like a great reason to start an upgrade on your router infrastructure. Of course, the only router that actually needs upgrading is the one Monsterhunt is connected to. Did I mention that the tech installing the new router accidentaly dropped it, twice. Then in the process of picking it up, a forklift backed over it. Oh, Cisco routers are in short supply, it'll take 3 months to get another. We will use a win95 box with 2 NICs and some clothesline as a router and cabling till then. Oh, darn, we gotta do hourly reboots. And because we are loading every service known to man, it takes at least 55 minutes to complete booting.
I'm not trying to be funny here, but if there is a cat-v cable next to my desk, sometimes my chair will accidentaly pull it out. Hey, sometimes routers need to be upgraded. Sometimes, while pulling new cable, the older cable gets frayed and burned.
If you have a cable in my company, and I don't like you...you are hella-fucked. No matter what anyone says. I will come up with a good reason, I will pull your cable, and (if the TOS requires avalibility) I will refund your money with a big apology.
I wish it were possible to moderate the initial article submission as being off-topic, because from what I have gathered from actually reading this excellent article is that the individual who submitted this story completely overlooked the primary topic on which the article was written...
I belive that feature is called Scoop. You can see a beautiful implementation of said system at Kuro5hin. Basicly, all the members of the community can submit stories(like slash), post comments (like slash), and rate comments(almost like slash). The differences lie in that everyone in the community votes to decide if a story gets posted, and everyone can moderate as much as they want. You can even post and moderate in the same discussion. Oh yeah, and I don't think Kuro5hin tracks "karma", but I could be wrong.
The screen updating has nothing to do with HD access. If you need 100mb of level info, and a status bar is plotting the progress, it will move some when a 10mb file loads, when a 50mb file loads, it will jump a lot.
The overall CPU usage on a HD read is also very low. At peak transfer, my system reports between 2% and 5% CPU utilization. You would think you could load a little of the next level while playing the current level, but I guess the memory managment nescessary to do that is too much for poor game programmers.
You also forgot to mention the fact that before every launch, an explosive demolition team arms a large satchel of c4 in the nose of the SRBs. Gee, I'd hate to be the one to press that big red button when the shuttle deviates from its flight plan.
WTF...30 fucking seconds of googling could have shown you that StarOffice runs just fine on Win32. Sometimes, it seems like you are just posting to hear yourself speak. Jesus man, better to remain silent and be thought an idiot than to post and remove any doubt.
Even ST:TNG used a model for the Enterprise. The model was mounted, upside down, in a green room. A motion controlled camera was then used to move around the ship to create movement. Then stary backgrounds were matted onto the green field. That is why 95% of Enterprise shots are of the bottom of the ship.
In some of the fly-bys, notably the opening credits, you can see people moving inside the Briefing Room. This was done with a green window where the briefing room window was, then stock footage of people walking around was shrunk and matted into the scene.
Even using cash can seem unsecure if you are parinoid enough. For instance, you withdraw 50$ from an ATM in the mall. Cross reference that with the purchaces made in the next 50 minutes and then filter anything >$75. They can quickly build a list of possible purchaces which will become increacingly accurate over time. The mall has the ability to do this as they probably own the ATM or have access to the log.
Ok, so now you are to the point where you can no longer withdraw cash form the mall ATM. You may be thinking, "I'll just use the QuickieMart ATM down the street." In time, and with better AI software, the places where you get cash annonymously will shrink. Right now, I consder the counter at my local bank the only place to get cash and not have my name cross-referenced to an ammount and then published to the world. But who knows what kind of deal your bank may have with local merchants. Even if they don't share your info, someone clever enough can find your pay scale, subtract your bills, and target you for specific advertisements based on what you will likely buy. Even knowing that it really isn't difficult for a 3rd party to find out how much free cash you have every month can scare the hell out of you.
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It even installed perfectly and added itself to my kde desktop/menu.
Quick Q for you...Did you install from src or did you do the rpm/deb? Did you do any special config to get it working in KDE? The reason I ask, is that the last time I downloaded WineX (March 2002), I didn't get any cool menus added under KDE.
On the other hand, most broadband users wouldn't know a megabit of downstream traffic if it bit them in the ass
Just because a user doesn't know that they can monitor their bandwidth doesn't give them an excuse.
In Win2k or better, you can just look at the properties for your network interface and see how much traffic has been passed. I am also 90% sure that there are countless freeware tools that do the same. In fact, the provider probably has a web page where a user can track their usage.
The bigger issue here is trying to get users into the habit of watching their usage. If you leave a room, you turn off the light. Do you know what a "kilowatt-hour" feels like?
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Uuh, win2k supports disk quotas on a user. Now the actual implementation of this is tricky. You want them to have plenty of documant and internet cache, but not enough room to download Metalic tunes.
In practice, few users even realise that there is a difference in dirctory permissions. They just think, "I can't install this. I don't have permission. Oh well, I'll work on a Word doc instead." It never dawns on about 90% of them what the difference is.
Even if the user does understand what is going on, that user is probably smart enough to "Get It" and would never install P2P warez anyway.
As long as she keeps her teeth covered. Japanese women have awful teeth. It's like dental hygene doesn't exist here. The guys prob have bad teeth too, but I've never bothered to notice.
Ahh, Tokyo! Nice tech, bad teeth.
Then they say, "It worked with the old guy, why can't you make it work?"
From years as a government worker, I have noticed that if you really want change, break something and blame it on the users.
Your systems are in chaos? Good! Stop pushing anti-virus updates, stop pushing win32 hotfixes, tftp a known bad image to your premise router, secretly push installs of quake3 and UT to all the workstations. If the users ask, say that their systems need to be reloaded to make things better.
If they will let you install Linux, do it! If not, install win2k and all the updates. Add the user to the box as a USER and remove USER permissions to WRITE anywhere but their desktop.
When they ask what is going on with the ability to install stuff, LIE...a lot. Claim that the latest hotfixes from M$ implement a security policy on corporate systems that only allow apps to be remotely installed from the Domain Application Server.
In short, users expect to be lied to and they want their computers to be fast and reliable. They want their Net(not)work(tm) to actually pass packets via some type of IT system and not have to be hand-carried via a Cuban waterboy. In your situation, the users needs and expectations are converging. Take advantage of the situation and become...The Network Natzi, The BOFH, whatever you want to call it.
And where is that snobby professor now? "Dunno" you say? That's what I frickin thought.
An "F". Gimme a break. Of course, he probably would have given NT an "I".
What Is PC/104?
PC/104 (IEEE P996.1) was developed to fill the need for an embedded platform, which was compliant with standardized hardware and software of the PC architecture. Mechanically quite different from the PC form factor, PC/104 modules are 3.6 X 3.8 inches in size. A self-stacking bus is implemented with pin-and-socket connectors composed of 64- and 40- contact male/female headers, which replace the card edge connectors used in standard PC hardware. Virtually anything that is available for a standard PC is available in the PC/104 form factor. PC/104 components are designed to be stacked together to create a complete embedded solution. Normally there will be a single CPU board and several peripheral boards connected by the PC/104 (ISA) system bus. Often there will be a PCI bus provided by the CPU board that will accommodate PCI peripheral boards (this standard is called PC/104+). Overall the price point for a highly integrated PC/104 CPU module is lower than for a comparable IBM-compatible PC. However, due to the power dissipation constraints typically found in embedded applications, CPU horsepower is generally lower. For more look at the PC/104 consortium site.
I heartily disagree. Judges cannot be expected to be experts on everything.
However, you can, at the state level at least, have one judge who is an expert on 3 or 4 things. Maybe have a judge that knows about IT, copyright, and trademarking. Have another that knows a lot about automotive systems, personal property, and medical systems. If you have a problem with your ISP, it gets routed to the IT judge. If you have a problem with excessive exaust noise on your car, the automotive judge.
A better aproach would be having a registered comment period once a lawsuit was filed. You get sued because of something on your web site. The complaint gets published on a Kuro5hin like site under Tech/Web. People in the area covered by the suit who are working in the tech industry can then post comments and rate the validity of the suit. If the suit is deemed invalid by your peers, then it would never survive a jury trial. Therefore, it would be a waste of money for the suit to proceed.
The access list for the site could be based on the *.us domains. You bring a suit in California state court, everyone in *.ca.us can comment on the suit. If it involves violation of the building codes, then people who register as working in the construction industry would be able to comment.
There are certian packages you will never be able to just upgrade. If I am not mistaken, gcc is linked, at compile time, agianst your installed kernel. For more information on what it takes to build a linux system, go to linuxfromscratch.org. Basicly, even us guys building linux from the ground up have to rebuild our systems on occasion. Not mutch of a prob when you just need to pop in a mandrake disk, but a real bitch when you spend 10+ hours compiling linux/x11/kde/mozilla/other assorted things. Not to mention configuring...
Yeah, I know. Still, maybe just fuck up the routing tables to send their packets through every router in the building...twice. Then dump it out of a 56k dialup from an ISP in Tiwan. Or even better, add the judges' account to a Monsterhut spam list.
To me, that sounds like a great reason to start an upgrade on your router infrastructure. Of course, the only router that actually needs upgrading is the one Monsterhunt is connected to. Did I mention that the tech installing the new router accidentaly dropped it, twice. Then in the process of picking it up, a forklift backed over it. Oh, Cisco routers are in short supply, it'll take 3 months to get another. We will use a win95 box with 2 NICs and some clothesline as a router and cabling till then. Oh, darn, we gotta do hourly reboots. And because we are loading every service known to man, it takes at least 55 minutes to complete booting.
I'm not trying to be funny here, but if there is a cat-v cable next to my desk, sometimes my chair will accidentaly pull it out. Hey, sometimes routers need to be upgraded. Sometimes, while pulling new cable, the older cable gets frayed and burned.
If you have a cable in my company, and I don't like you...you are hella-fucked. No matter what anyone says. I will come up with a good reason, I will pull your cable, and (if the TOS requires avalibility) I will refund your money with a big apology.
Finally, a proper use for those "punch the monkey" ads.
I wish it were possible to moderate the initial article submission as being off-topic, because from what I have gathered from actually reading this excellent article is that the individual who submitted this story completely overlooked the primary topic on which the article was written...
I belive that feature is called Scoop. You can see a beautiful implementation of said system at Kuro5hin. Basicly, all the members of the community can submit stories(like slash), post comments (like slash), and rate comments(almost like slash). The differences lie in that everyone in the community votes to decide if a story gets posted, and everyone can moderate as much as they want. You can even post and moderate in the same discussion. Oh yeah, and I don't think Kuro5hin tracks "karma", but I could be wrong.
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The screen updating has nothing to do with HD access. If you need 100mb of level info, and a status bar is plotting the progress, it will move some when a 10mb file loads, when a 50mb file loads, it will jump a lot.
The overall CPU usage on a HD read is also very low. At peak transfer, my system reports between 2% and 5% CPU utilization. You would think you could load a little of the next level while playing the current level, but I guess the memory managment nescessary to do that is too much for poor game programmers.
Yeah, but there has to be a few billion of thoes we could stand to loose...Maybe we can just get rid of the guys who clean telephone handsets.
On second thought...
You also forgot to mention the fact that before every launch, an explosive demolition team arms a large satchel of c4 in the nose of the SRBs. Gee, I'd hate to be the one to press that big red button when the shuttle deviates from its flight plan.
WTF...30 fucking seconds of googling could have shown you that StarOffice runs just fine on Win32. Sometimes, it seems like you are just posting to hear yourself speak. Jesus man, better to remain silent and be thought an idiot than to post and remove any doubt.
Or finding a good lawyer.
Even ST:TNG used a model for the Enterprise. The model was mounted, upside down, in a green room. A motion controlled camera was then used to move around the ship to create movement. Then stary backgrounds were matted onto the green field. That is why 95% of Enterprise shots are of the bottom of the ship.
In some of the fly-bys, notably the opening credits, you can see people moving inside the Briefing Room. This was done with a green window where the briefing room window was, then stock footage of people walking around was shrunk and matted into the scene.
I bet sneaking out with that gun barel was a bitch.
I wasn't trying to say that I'm parinoid...I was just pointing out the futility of trying to hide from "The Man".
Even using cash can seem unsecure if you are parinoid enough. For instance, you withdraw 50$ from an ATM in the mall. Cross reference that with the purchaces made in the next 50 minutes and then filter anything >$75. They can quickly build a list of possible purchaces which will become increacingly accurate over time. The mall has the ability to do this as they probably own the ATM or have access to the log.
Ok, so now you are to the point where you can no longer withdraw cash form the mall ATM. You may be thinking, "I'll just use the QuickieMart ATM down the street." In time, and with better AI software, the places where you get cash annonymously will shrink. Right now, I consder the counter at my local bank the only place to get cash and not have my name cross-referenced to an ammount and then published to the world. But who knows what kind of deal your bank may have with local merchants. Even if they don't share your info, someone clever enough can find your pay scale, subtract your bills, and target you for specific advertisements based on what you will likely buy. Even knowing that it really isn't difficult for a 3rd party to find out how much free cash you have every month can scare the hell out of you.
It even installed perfectly and added itself to my kde desktop/menu.
Quick Q for you...Did you install from src or did you do the rpm/deb? Did you do any special config to get it working in KDE? The reason I ask, is that the last time I downloaded WineX (March 2002), I didn't get any cool menus added under KDE.
Ok, so what if you rent? Would you want the "owner" taping the "occupant" without consent?
On the other hand, most broadband users wouldn't know a megabit of downstream traffic if it bit them in the ass
Just because a user doesn't know that they can monitor their bandwidth doesn't give them an excuse.
In Win2k or better, you can just look at the properties for your network interface and see how much traffic has been passed. I am also 90% sure that there are countless freeware tools that do the same. In fact, the provider probably has a web page where a user can track their usage.
The bigger issue here is trying to get users into the habit of watching their usage. If you leave a room, you turn off the light. Do you know what a "kilowatt-hour" feels like?
Just think Liv Tyler...We all know she got one good thing from her dad. Open up Liv...