I've had the same problems with both. I installed PuTTY in Windows as Administrator, tried to run it as a user, oops.. No user rights.. This is when you find out what kind of user you are. Do you switch to Administrator, screw around with permissions, and test until it works and you feel it's secure, or do you just go "fuck it" and add your username to the Administrators group so you don't have to deal with that kind of shit every day.
First of all, PuTTY doesn't require admin rights so it must have been a folder permissions issue. Secondly, the right way to do this is to use the "Run as..." context menu option and only run those few apps that require Administrator permissions under that context.
If people are smart they will realize that Google isn't the one who sets the price. Due to the Dutch auction format it's the investors who set the price.
Actually, it's always the investors who set the price. The job of the investment bank handling the IPO is to ask around with major investors and find out how much they're filling to get their customers to pay. If you try to dictate some ridiculous price no one will touch your IPO with a 60-feet-pole.
For comparison, the P/E of M$ is 42, Apple is 54, Amazon is 107, Yahoo! is 107... so Google is indeed a bargain.
Huh? The Reuters article quotes a market cap that could be as high as 39.2 billion USD. It also states that 2nd quarter earnings were 79.1 million USD. If we assume that Google performs similarly for the other two quarters, annual profit would be somewhere around 316 million USD, which would give Google stock a whopping P/E of 124.
Do you understand that the iPod is not vendor locked? Its just that the iTMS is product-locked to the iPod.
Is product lock-in somehow different from vendor lock-in? Are there any other iPod vendors then Apple then?
You can put MP3s, WAVs, AACs from any source on the ipod so long as they're not DRM'd in a way besides FairPlay.
The Apple apologists are so predictable it's actually funny as hell. So the iPod supports all formats, as long as it's the Apple format? Which online music store sells tunes that have no DRM or use FairPlay besides iTunes?
I've seen that idea recited for years now. Make Free Software, give it away, and make money by selling support. Well, this sounds great if you are developing software for the corporate enterprise, which is the predominant purchaser of support services. Most corporate IT groups won't even consider a particular software package UNLESS they can buy a support contract for it.
But what if you are a developer of desktop software, designed for home users or small business? By and large, those users don't buy support services. More importantly, if you are developing desktop software such as an organizer or an email program, it should be designed well enough that it doesn't require support.
There is no money to be made in selling commodity software to individual consumers. Support or no support. The more software is available at no cost to consumers the better. Let the corporations and specialists feed the commercial software developers.
I was not aware of this. How do other major mail servers handle this hack
They don't. In general you can never trust any part of the headers apart from the last hop (because you know the connecting IP address). Anything before
Received: mailserver.consumerisp.com [xxx.yyy.zzz.www] by google
is basically trash and usually worthless for blocking purposes. Any time you forward an e-mail to another account, you lose all credibility when it comes to the Received-headers.
I'm not an expert, but this could be prevented by having the mailing list program refuse to post a bond.
Of course, but the end result will be that almost no one is willing to post a bond of any kind. Since sending e-mail to someone is not a service that most people are willing to spend a dime or even the effort of acknowledging a challenge-response to post a bond, either the bond system will fall out of use or people will resort to only accepting mail from whitelisted senders.
I doubt the latter will ever happen, so this bond scheme in effect will come to nothing.
When you notice spam, click the box beside it and then the button "Report as Spam".
Google will eventually be able to build up quite the comprehensive list of email/servers to block, but for now, like the software itself, that spam detector is in beta.
The only server that Google will block as a result of this will be his ISPs mailserver forwarding this stuff to Gmail. In general, forwarding e-mail from one account to another breaks a lot of anti-spam stuff (IP blocklists and header parsers for example).
Q: What prevents the recipient from claiming the bond, regardless of the message value?
A:. Nothing, other than perhaps etiquette and good judgment, prevents claiming a bond.
<sarcasm>Yeah, etiquette and good judgment worked so well with the old e-mail system.</sarcasm>
They propose an automatic bond posting system where for example if the bond is less than $0.50 (by the way what happens if I don't use dollars, who determines the the rate of exchange?) the bond is automatically posted. So:
1. Set bond to $ 0.01 to ensure automatic bond posting.
2. Subscribe to 10,000 different mailing lists.
3. Profit!
I think the distinction is important. If a particular application becomes popoular, Microsoft just rolls a copy of it into the OS, thereby gutting the market for that application. How many people buy Eudora anymore? Or Netscape? Or Trumpet Winsock? This is not the same thing as competing on price.
So suddenly we're supposed to be concerned about commercial software vendors all of a sudden? Woe is Netscape, woe is Qualcomm, woe is Trumpet Software. Does anyone actually think that a modern desktop OS shouldn't come with basic Internet access, a web browser and an e-mail client? That's right, in 1994 Windows had none of these. And was a that a good thing? Like fuck it was.
I don't want to pay for every single utility program you need to use a computer and neither does anyone else on Slashdot so let's drop the double standards and stop applauding Mozilla as the best thing since sliced bread but poopooing IE as a monopolistic tool of destruction. No one should be forced to pay for a web browser for Christ's sake!
I worked as the web admin to my student association when I was in college, and a job opening came up to redesign the programmers site, bringing online a bunch of new tools for students of that department. This was basically a summer job, and they had interviews where myself and four other students made it through the selection process to the final interview.
[...]
Did they ever get screwed. The guy who they hired was a Korean exchange student, who I happen to think was a great choice for the job, but the problems started cropping up with the ASP code. It was buggy as hell. The system took all summer to code out the object oriented code, and it was never opened because it was never quite good enough.
[...]
In my opinion, this was not the fault of the guy they hired at all, it's just that ASP takes a lot more time to get together than PHP. You can "know what you're doing" all you want, but when your boss wants you to make changes to core behaviours, there is nothing faster or more efficient than PHP for handling anything web related. It's just easier to whip together any site with any behaviour and get it working and stable.
Why isn't there a "-1, Jumping to conclusions" moderation option on Slashdot? Let's reiterate. This was a student body, hiring a student for the summer to hack some website, alone I might add. And the fact that it all went miserably wrong is supposed to imply that the Microsoft ASP platform is fundamentally flawed and everything would have magically worked with PHP?
Sure, the battles are won in the middlegame - however if you go up against a better prepared opponent you probably will be well-behind by then. If your opponent does nothing but read chess openings for six months prior to the game, while you actually take time to eat and sleep, you probably will lose.
From an interview with Rustam Kasimdzhanov, the new FIDE World Champion:
(On his preparation for the World Championship)
Nothing special, I only prepared for the first round against Alejandro Ramirez. I had to work very hard to catch up with opening theory during the tournament. I took each decision round by round and played lines I had rarely played before, since all my opponents were very well prepared.
Of course the new time controls and knockout format favored blitz players and players with good nerves in time pressure but still, opening theory can only get you so far.
I'm not sure what documentation exists on the formats of various other commercial database systems; I believe Oracle's formats are well documented (?). What about MSSQL? Informix?
Just dump it all (database structure and data) out in SQL statements and keep a copy of the SQL standard handy. Might be several terabytes but in easy enough to understand format that future conversions are easy.
Most accounts packages have documentation available on their database formats I believe.
Frankly, who cares. Most accounting information is not interesting after a few years other than for summary and long-time trend discovery and after the legal requirements for storing your business data have run out you can just about throw away all the details and just keep the totals.
Business types are afraid of OSS mostly for the fact that it's "unsupported." To them, support doesn't mean having developers on hand to fix problems so much as it does having someone to blame when things go wrong. As long as someone else is fiscally responsible for their technology problems, their customers/shareholders are happy.
What else do you expect? 99% of companies have no developers to fix problems with code and even scouring websites for patches is too big of a liability. What you want is 24/7 phone support (with escalation to someone who isn't a waste of air), automated patching facilities and on-site support. This is where Red Hat and their ilk come in.
OSS and enterprise support are not mutually exclusive, just because you'd rather not pay a dime and spend hours downloading and compiling patches doesn't mean corporations should choose the same route lest they be Microsoft sluts.
This piqued my interest so I did a little test. Saving an empty file (what the program gives you when to start a new document), here are my results for the various office utility program file formats:
OpenOffice Document (HTML): 622 bytes Adobe PDF: 1 217 bytes Microsoft Word (HTML): 1 838 bytes OpenOffice Presentation (HTML): 4 871 bytes OpenOffice Document (native): 5 173 bytes OpenOffice Presentation (native): 6 987 bytes Microsoft PowerPoint (native): 7 680 bytes Postscript (platform dependant): 17 388 bytes Microsoft Word (native): 19 456 bytes Microsoft PowerPoint (HTML*): 23 738 bytes
* Consisting of a boatload of HTML files, stylesheets and script
Mind you, this is just the overhead the actual content might change the size scalability greatly. But it seems like for web publishing, exporting to HTML is preferred and otherwise you should use PDFs.
One thing I never understand is the constant bitching about how Windows supposedly locks you in to a whole world of Microsoft written software. I think XP only comes with Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Windows Media Player preinstalled, maybe Office if you pay extra, but that's it. So where is all the "lock-in"? There's no Microsoft Photoshop, Microsoft Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Quicken or Microsoft AutoCAD. For most jobs I have to get 3rd party or open-source software anyway, and it's usually available for Windows as well as Linux (in my experience more often for the former than the latter).
I see this writeup was written in the same straightforward style as is the norm in European Union legislative matters:
"European Council of Ministers voted in favor of throwing out the European Parliament's efforts to keep software patents out of Europe."
So they voted in favor. In favor of what? Throwing out something. So they voted against something. Against what? European Parliament's efforts to keep software patents out of Europe. So they voted in favor of software patents. Gotcha.
Just another reason for folks to migrate away from their closed systems with forced expensive updates and security holes.
You mean a free service pack that improves security somehow translates into expensive updates with security holes? I'm sorry I fail to get your bizarro logic.
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I've had the same problems with both. I installed PuTTY in Windows as Administrator, tried to run it as a user, oops.. No user rights.. This is when you find out what kind of user you are. Do you switch to Administrator, screw around with permissions, and test until it works and you feel it's secure, or do you just go "fuck it" and add your username to the Administrators group so you don't have to deal with that kind of shit every day.
First of all, PuTTY doesn't require admin rights so it must have been a folder permissions issue. Secondly, the right way to do this is to use the "Run as..." context menu option and only run those few apps that require Administrator permissions under that context.
If people are smart they will realize that Google isn't the one who sets the price. Due to the Dutch auction format it's the investors who set the price.
Actually, it's always the investors who set the price. The job of the investment bank handling the IPO is to ask around with major investors and find out how much they're filling to get their customers to pay. If you try to dictate some ridiculous price no one will touch your IPO with a 60-feet-pole.
For comparison, the P/E of M$ is 42, Apple is 54, Amazon is 107, Yahoo! is 107... so Google is indeed a bargain.
Huh? The Reuters article quotes a market cap that could be as high as 39.2 billion USD. It also states that 2nd quarter earnings were 79.1 million USD. If we assume that Google performs similarly for the other two quarters, annual profit would be somewhere around 316 million USD, which would give Google stock a whopping P/E of 124.
Hardly a "bargain".
Do you understand that the iPod is not vendor locked? Its just that the iTMS is product-locked to the iPod.
Is product lock-in somehow different from vendor lock-in? Are there any other iPod vendors then Apple then?
You can put MP3s, WAVs, AACs from any source on the ipod so long as they're not DRM'd in a way besides FairPlay.
The Apple apologists are so predictable it's actually funny as hell. So the iPod supports all formats, as long as it's the Apple format? Which online music store sells tunes that have no DRM or use FairPlay besides iTunes?
I've seen that idea recited for years now. Make Free Software, give it away, and make money by selling support. Well, this sounds great if you are developing software for the corporate enterprise, which is the predominant purchaser of support services. Most corporate IT groups won't even consider a particular software package UNLESS they can buy a support contract for it.
But what if you are a developer of desktop software, designed for home users or small business? By and large, those users don't buy support services. More importantly, if you are developing desktop software such as an organizer or an email program, it should be designed well enough that it doesn't require support.
There is no money to be made in selling commodity software to individual consumers. Support or no support. The more software is available at no cost to consumers the better. Let the corporations and specialists feed the commercial software developers.
I was not aware of this. How do other major mail servers handle this hack
They don't. In general you can never trust any part of the headers apart from the last hop (because you know the connecting IP address). Anything before
is basically trash and usually worthless for blocking purposes. Any time you forward an e-mail to another account, you lose all credibility when it comes to the Received-headers.
People will wise up very soon
I have some counterevidence against this claim accumulated during the several past centuries.
I'm not an expert, but this could be prevented by having the mailing list program refuse to post a bond.
Of course, but the end result will be that almost no one is willing to post a bond of any kind. Since sending e-mail to someone is not a service that most people are willing to spend a dime or even the effort of acknowledging a challenge-response to post a bond, either the bond system will fall out of use or people will resort to only accepting mail from whitelisted senders.
I doubt the latter will ever happen, so this bond scheme in effect will come to nothing.
When you notice spam, click the box beside it and then the button "Report as Spam".
Google will eventually be able to build up quite the comprehensive list of email/servers to block, but for now, like the software itself, that spam detector is in beta.
The only server that Google will block as a result of this will be his ISPs mailserver forwarding this stuff to Gmail. In general, forwarding e-mail from one account to another breaks a lot of anti-spam stuff (IP blocklists and header parsers for example).
From the FAQ:
Q: What prevents the recipient from claiming the bond, regardless of the message value?
A:. Nothing, other than perhaps etiquette and good judgment, prevents claiming a bond.
<sarcasm>Yeah, etiquette and good judgment worked so well with the old e-mail system.</sarcasm>
They propose an automatic bond posting system where for example if the bond is less than $0.50 (by the way what happens if I don't use dollars, who determines the the rate of exchange?) the bond is automatically posted. So:
1. Set bond to $ 0.01 to ensure automatic bond posting.
2. Subscribe to 10,000 different mailing lists.
3. Profit!
Don't charge per click but per sale generated.
They tried that back in the day but the ad people didn't know what the word "sale" meant.
Using P2P To Make Gov't Documents Easy To Find,
Using Gov't To Make P2P Operators Hard To Find
...they were hinted that something fishy was going on the moment someone purportedly clicked on a banner ad.
"Hey, someone just punched the monkey!"
"Foul play!"
"Call the Feds!"
I think the distinction is important. If a particular application becomes popoular, Microsoft just rolls a copy of it into the OS, thereby gutting the market for that application. How many people buy Eudora anymore? Or Netscape? Or Trumpet Winsock? This is not the same thing as competing on price.
So suddenly we're supposed to be concerned about commercial software vendors all of a sudden? Woe is Netscape, woe is Qualcomm, woe is Trumpet Software. Does anyone actually think that a modern desktop OS shouldn't come with basic Internet access, a web browser and an e-mail client? That's right, in 1994 Windows had none of these. And was a that a good thing? Like fuck it was.
I don't want to pay for every single utility program you need to use a computer and neither does anyone else on Slashdot so let's drop the double standards and stop applauding Mozilla as the best thing since sliced bread but poopooing IE as a monopolistic tool of destruction. No one should be forced to pay for a web browser for Christ's sake!
I worked as the web admin to my student association when I was in college, and a job opening came up to redesign the programmers site, bringing online a bunch of new tools for students of that department. This was basically a summer job, and they had interviews where myself and four other students made it through the selection process to the final interview.
[...]
Did they ever get screwed. The guy who they hired was a Korean exchange student, who I happen to think was a great choice for the job, but the problems started cropping up with the ASP code. It was buggy as hell. The system took all summer to code out the object oriented code, and it was never opened because it was never quite good enough.
[...]
In my opinion, this was not the fault of the guy they hired at all, it's just that ASP takes a lot more time to get together than PHP. You can "know what you're doing" all you want, but when your boss wants you to make changes to core behaviours, there is nothing faster or more efficient than PHP for handling anything web related. It's just easier to whip together any site with any behaviour and get it working and stable.
Why isn't there a "-1, Jumping to conclusions" moderation option on Slashdot? Let's reiterate. This was a student body, hiring a student for the summer to hack some website, alone I might add. And the fact that it all went miserably wrong is supposed to imply that the Microsoft ASP platform is fundamentally flawed and everything would have magically worked with PHP?
Like a great mind once uttered:
"Is bingo an art, a game, a sport, or a science?"
"No."
Much the same could be said for math, although it's not as boring as bingo.
Sure, the battles are won in the middlegame - however if you go up against a better prepared opponent you probably will be well-behind by then. If your opponent does nothing but read chess openings for six months prior to the game, while you actually take time to eat and sleep, you probably will lose.
From an interview with Rustam Kasimdzhanov, the new FIDE World Champion:
Of course the new time controls and knockout format favored blitz players and players with good nerves in time pressure but still, opening theory can only get you so far.
I'm not sure what documentation exists on the formats of various other commercial database systems; I believe Oracle's formats are well documented (?). What about MSSQL? Informix?
Just dump it all (database structure and data) out in SQL statements and keep a copy of the SQL standard handy. Might be several terabytes but in easy enough to understand format that future conversions are easy.
Most accounts packages have documentation available on their database formats I believe.
Frankly, who cares. Most accounting information is not interesting after a few years other than for summary and long-time trend discovery and after the legal requirements for storing your business data have run out you can just about throw away all the details and just keep the totals.
Business types are afraid of OSS mostly for the fact that it's "unsupported." To them, support doesn't mean having developers on hand to fix problems so much as it does having someone to blame when things go wrong. As long as someone else is fiscally responsible for their technology problems, their customers/shareholders are happy.
What else do you expect? 99% of companies have no developers to fix problems with code and even scouring websites for patches is too big of a liability. What you want is 24/7 phone support (with escalation to someone who isn't a waste of air), automated patching facilities and on-site support. This is where Red Hat and their ilk come in.
OSS and enterprise support are not mutually exclusive, just because you'd rather not pay a dime and spend hours downloading and compiling patches doesn't mean corporations should choose the same route lest they be Microsoft sluts.
This piqued my interest so I did a little test. Saving an empty file (what the program gives you when to start a new document), here are my results for the various office utility program file formats:
Mind you, this is just the overhead the actual content might change the size scalability greatly. But it seems like for web publishing, exporting to HTML is preferred and otherwise you should use PDFs.
One thing I never understand is the constant bitching about how Windows supposedly locks you in to a whole world of Microsoft written software. I think XP only comes with Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Windows Media Player preinstalled, maybe Office if you pay extra, but that's it. So where is all the "lock-in"? There's no Microsoft Photoshop, Microsoft Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Quicken or Microsoft AutoCAD. For most jobs I have to get 3rd party or open-source software anyway, and it's usually available for Windows as well as Linux (in my experience more often for the former than the latter).
It starts with patents and ends with your freedom.
That's not quite right. Actually it's:
1. Patents
2. ???
3. Your freedom
4. Profit!
I see this writeup was written in the same straightforward style as is the norm in European Union legislative matters:
"European Council of Ministers voted in favor of throwing out the European Parliament's efforts to keep software patents out of Europe."
So they voted in favor. In favor of what? Throwing out something. So they voted against something. Against what? European Parliament's efforts to keep software patents out of Europe. So they voted in favor of software patents. Gotcha.
Because I only trust my penis to professionals.
You know you can put it in the hands of your lawyer, but it won't stand up in court.
Just another reason for folks to migrate away from their closed systems with forced expensive updates and security holes.
You mean a free service pack that improves security somehow translates into expensive updates with security holes? I'm sorry I fail to get your bizarro logic.