The pulse hate (of which I certainly spewed heavily at the time) was almost entirely due to flakiness
One of the more bizzare of which is you could speed up performance of X by blocking a port that pulseaudio listens to on the network. There should have been an option in pulseaudio to turn that absurdly resource hungry polling off instead of having to use iptables to block it.
Everyone in the distro world seems to be embracing it
Everything RedHat has put a lot of work into has been embraced, even NetworkManager and SystemD.
Yes, but I wouldn't expect it to be hyped as if it was better than the other option. It's like hyping Ferdinand Porshe for the Volkswagen Beetle and pretending Porshe sportscars do not exist.
If you are buying into their man in the middle attack devices in the first place I doubt you'd actually care that they are selling more capable ones to governments. I don't see a boycot working since the people who would boycot their stuff for this reason would never buy it in the first place.
Nothing. Smoking guns are very easy to come by in SSL shenanigans, so when nobody can produce one you should be suspicious that it's a false alarm.
There's not a lot of press on the topic coming out of Iran, Saudi Arabia etc which is the sort of place where I'd expect something as flexible as this to be deployed.
Do you get permission from all parties to sniff their traffic? No? Shady, and an accident waiting to happen when bank passwords or whatever get lifted by people with physical access to the device.
If you say that a company should be able to snoop on all connections of their employees, that's trivial to do. Just install the company's CA root on every employee's machine. But you want to do this to innocent third parties, don't you? Tough cookies then. I see no legitimate reason for SSL interception without the owner's consent. Ever.
That's still only getting consent from one party. There's a huge pile of laws broken for sniffing encrypted traffic when the second party does not agree. Of course you they can be rung up and asked - "Hello, Bank of America, do you mind if we sniff all the passwords of your customers at this workplace?" So as you say it's a mess.
I'm waiting for a bank to sue the utter shit out of a company that has deployed one of these "enterprise network MiTM" devices after someone with access to it rips off bank accounts. They are an accident waiting to happen.
This may be a bit out of left field as a suggestion, but How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff is short, funny, enlightening, and teaches a lot about the presentation of technical information. It's a painless introduction to the subjects that Edward Tufte goes into in far more depth.
It's worth keeping in mind that the original name for statistics was "Political Arithmetick". How to Lie With Statistics was a major part of the original purpose.
Of course we use if for a hell of a lot of other things now but have to take care that results are presented in meaningful ways.
The "drive for originality and perfection" in the blurb nearly made me cough up drink all over my keyboard. I wonder what the world would be like if they had kept going with Xenix and had licenced VMS. In several ways NT hasn't caught up with either of them.
See this article today for an example of what your "https only" suggestion is resulting in and why it is not as useful as you think it is: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/05/28/1335247/controversial-surveillance-firm-blue-coat-was-granted-a-powerful-encryption-certificate
I'd probably find the second depressing since it was about making something "good enough" when surrounded by giants. If you were lead on a groundbreaking successful product and then asked to work on a pale imitation that only implemented a fraction of the first how would you feel about it? Next generation my arse, NT was no VMS but a step backwards.
What if I kept a big book of photographs taken in public places where there is no expectation of privacy
It seems there's always an expectation of privacy now, despite there actually being far less. Years ago I used to take a camera to the beach. If I did it now I'd probably get the utter shit beaten out of me or the cops called on me just for having it around my neck. Taking photos in the street isn't much better sometimes.
The most hilarious migration I've seen was taking a system for several university libraries from a large number of fairly cheap terminals to a small number of expensive PCs with MS Windows running a terminal emulator application. Of course they were all down a few days each year due to virus incidents.
They weren't re-writing it because it was slow or buggy or anything like that. They were re-writing it because they didn't like perl. And their reason for not liking perl was that it wasn't spelled "ruby"
Sounds like "Wayland":) It's getting more and more of that hated X Windows "complexity" as the project matures.
It's not the nuclear codes. They are all zeros remember. It's from when the Rand corporation did a review of Air Force security and decided they needed to add something to justify the fees, so the code was added to the procedure. The Air Force saw it as bullshit and a potential point of failure so made the code all zeros.
It's the "reverse ninja" rule from movies. One ninja is awesome but if twenty attack the hero they are dealt with in seconds.
In more real terms the talented people are accompanied by those that got to be their superiors via blatant nepotism and other factors that weaken an org. See the "Star Trek Set" example as to how fucked up things can be at the NSA.
Atlas fucking Shrugged? If you are going to get politics from SF I suggest trying something well written and consistent like the Heinlien stuff instead of that "bring back the Tsar" thing with it's jailbait nobility fucking her way into the group of "great men".
If daddy wasn't rich Atlas fucking Shrugged is telling you to be a good little serf and do what you are told by Rand's dreams of a lost Russian nobility. Read Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" and as an antidote to both Tsarist and Commie screeds.
If you want lighter entertainment reading that's vaguely computer related, I can strongly recommend Charles Stross's "The Laundry Files" books. These are a mash-up of spy thriller and Lovecraftian horror with a hacker protagonist, in a world where computers are the ultimate key to summoning up tentacled creatures from beyond.
I love those books, but one common criticism is some of it reads like incredibly crappy James Bond, which is entirely correct because some of it is a parody of incredibly crappy James Bond. If you have not seen "Diamonds Are Forever" one of the Laundry books will come off as just being really bad, while if you have the pokes at the worst of Bond will be funny.
Some of Greg Egan's stuff with problem solving plots gets you thinking of possibilities, but at least one critic says he has too much science in his SF and his aliens are too alien:) "Incandescence" has a very simple society discovering general relativity in a serious of simple steps due to living very close to a black hole - plus it also has a complex society made up of uploaded people and A.I.s in another plot thread. The "orthogonal" series is in a parallel (or maybe orthogonal) universe where some very complex physics becomes simple, sort of in the spirit of "flatland" but with a clockwork rocket - the only books he's had with faster than light travel since he's built a universe where light is a bit different. He's brought back slide-rule space travel.
Read a game rule book and then implement all those constraints, conditions and dependencies into code. Then read a book about the programming language you used to work out how you could have done it better, then look at a DIFFERENT set of rules, doing it better from scratch instead of tinkering at the edges of the first.
Bonus points if it's not a game but a simulation of a real system, but games are normally more precisely described with possibly more motivation.
I did all that and did LOGO and BASIC as well. The only major one of the "basics" I missed out on was learning to type properly since only the girls were allowed to do that.
By "learning to code" they really mean spending about as many hours as a module of mathematics telling a turtle where to go, doing simple sorts and a few other things so that the kids won't think computers are some sort of mystical crystal powered box. It seems most current office computer users have no clue about macros and are terrified at the prospect of attempting one. Going back to teaching kids that very simple coding is very simple may result in a return to office computer users being able to save time and effort by automating their repetitive tasks with simple macros instead of looking for something to buy.
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One of the more bizzare of which is you could speed up performance of X by blocking a port that pulseaudio listens to on the network. There should have been an option in pulseaudio to turn that absurdly resource hungry polling off instead of having to use iptables to block it.
Everything RedHat has put a lot of work into has been embraced, even NetworkManager and SystemD.
These people (Lennart et al) just do not get the concept of a multiuser operating system so it makes perfect sense to them.
An unbacked "currency" called Ether and so many people taking it seriously?
Yes, but I wouldn't expect it to be hyped as if it was better than the other option.
It's like hyping Ferdinand Porshe for the Volkswagen Beetle and pretending Porshe sportscars do not exist.
If you are buying into their man in the middle attack devices in the first place I doubt you'd actually care that they are selling more capable ones to governments. I don't see a boycot working since the people who would boycot their stuff for this reason would never buy it in the first place.
There's not a lot of press on the topic coming out of Iran, Saudi Arabia etc which is the sort of place where I'd expect something as flexible as this to be deployed.
Do you get permission from all parties to sniff their traffic? No? Shady, and an accident waiting to happen when bank passwords or whatever get lifted by people with physical access to the device.
That's still only getting consent from one party. There's a huge pile of laws broken for sniffing encrypted traffic when the second party does not agree. Of course you they can be rung up and asked - "Hello, Bank of America, do you mind if we sniff all the passwords of your customers at this workplace?"
So as you say it's a mess.
I'm waiting for a bank to sue the utter shit out of a company that has deployed one of these "enterprise network MiTM" devices after someone with access to it rips off bank accounts. They are an accident waiting to happen.
This may be a bit out of left field as a suggestion, but How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff is short, funny, enlightening, and teaches a lot about the presentation of technical information. It's a painless introduction to the subjects that Edward Tufte goes into in far more depth.
It's worth keeping in mind that the original name for statistics was "Political Arithmetick". How to Lie With Statistics was a major part of the original purpose.
Of course we use if for a hell of a lot of other things now but have to take care that results are presented in meaningful ways.
The "drive for originality and perfection" in the blurb nearly made me cough up drink all over my keyboard.
I wonder what the world would be like if they had kept going with Xenix and had licenced VMS. In several ways NT hasn't caught up with either of them.
See this article today for an example of what your "https only" suggestion is resulting in and why it is not as useful as you think it is:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/05/28/1335247/controversial-surveillance-firm-blue-coat-was-granted-a-powerful-encryption-certificate
I'd probably find the second depressing since it was about making something "good enough" when surrounded by giants. If you were lead on a groundbreaking successful product and then asked to work on a pale imitation that only implemented a fraction of the first how would you feel about it? Next generation my arse, NT was no VMS but a step backwards.
It seems there's always an expectation of privacy now, despite there actually being far less. Years ago I used to take a camera to the beach. If I did it now I'd probably get the utter shit beaten out of me or the cops called on me just for having it around my neck. Taking photos in the street isn't much better sometimes.
It's a piezoelectric crystal and can both generate sound when a current is applies or generate current when vibrated by a sound.
The most hilarious migration I've seen was taking a system for several university libraries from a large number of fairly cheap terminals to a small number of expensive PCs with MS Windows running a terminal emulator application. Of course they were all down a few days each year due to virus incidents.
Sounds like "Wayland" :)
It's getting more and more of that hated X Windows "complexity" as the project matures.
"World Welfare Work Association" could be a title dreamed up for them if it wasn't already used by "Dirty Pair".
It's not the nuclear codes. They are all zeros remember. It's from when the Rand corporation did a review of Air Force security and decided they needed to add something to justify the fees, so the code was added to the procedure. The Air Force saw it as bullshit and a potential point of failure so made the code all zeros.
It's the "reverse ninja" rule from movies. One ninja is awesome but if twenty attack the hero they are dealt with in seconds.
In more real terms the talented people are accompanied by those that got to be their superiors via blatant nepotism and other factors that weaken an org. See the "Star Trek Set" example as to how fucked up things can be at the NSA.
They are toy soldiers.
Atlas fucking Shrugged? If you are going to get politics from SF I suggest trying something well written and consistent like the Heinlien stuff instead of that "bring back the Tsar" thing with it's jailbait nobility fucking her way into the group of "great men".
If daddy wasn't rich Atlas fucking Shrugged is telling you to be a good little serf and do what you are told by Rand's dreams of a lost Russian nobility. Read Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" and as an antidote to both Tsarist and Commie screeds.
"The Madness of King George" to understand that none of it is new, we already have the antidote and it's very strange that we are going back that way.
I love those books, but one common criticism is some of it reads like incredibly crappy James Bond, which is entirely correct because some of it is a parody of incredibly crappy James Bond. If you have not seen "Diamonds Are Forever" one of the Laundry books will come off as just being really bad, while if you have the pokes at the worst of Bond will be funny.
:) "Incandescence" has a very simple society discovering general relativity in a serious of simple steps due to living very close to a black hole - plus it also has a complex society made up of uploaded people and A.I.s in another plot thread. The "orthogonal" series is in a parallel (or maybe orthogonal) universe where some very complex physics becomes simple, sort of in the spirit of "flatland" but with a clockwork rocket - the only books he's had with faster than light travel since he's built a universe where light is a bit different. He's brought back slide-rule space travel.
Some of Greg Egan's stuff with problem solving plots gets you thinking of possibilities, but at least one critic says he has too much science in his SF and his aliens are too alien
Read a game rule book and then implement all those constraints, conditions and dependencies into code. Then read a book about the programming language you used to work out how you could have done it better, then look at a DIFFERENT set of rules, doing it better from scratch instead of tinkering at the edges of the first.
Bonus points if it's not a game but a simulation of a real system, but games are normally more precisely described with possibly more motivation.
I did all that and did LOGO and BASIC as well. The only major one of the "basics" I missed out on was learning to type properly since only the girls were allowed to do that.
By "learning to code" they really mean spending about as many hours as a module of mathematics telling a turtle where to go, doing simple sorts and a few other things so that the kids won't think computers are some sort of mystical crystal powered box. It seems most current office computer users have no clue about macros and are terrified at the prospect of attempting one. Going back to teaching kids that very simple coding is very simple may result in a return to office computer users being able to save time and effort by automating their repetitive tasks with simple macros instead of looking for something to buy.