The GP's friend probably rented a root server - those come preconfigured, although you can do with them what you want. If the hoster's default configuration has an unpatched security flaw (for example because they didn't bother to update the image regularly) you could easily end up with a server that's vulnerable out of the box.
That's why OS X is so much superior to Linux. OS X viruses come as bundles and are super easy to install - just open the disk image and drag the virus to your hard drive. Also, they're very clean as all the files they're ever going to infect come right with the virus binary itself in the bundle. It's truly the future of malware.
In other words, the near future of home computer storage is looking bad as prices are going to significantly increase, with RAIDs of SSDs worth 200+ USD being the closest equivalent to a current 50 USD HDD. (500 GB HDD @ 50 USD vs. 2x256 GiB SSD + RAID controller @ 100 USD per SSD)
Ugh. Yes, the "Windows 7 refuses to be installed if it can't write to the first partition of the first hard drive" issue is really annoying. Good thing I only need it in a VM.
It's not exactly +1, Funny; +1, Informative applies better. The Landgericht Hamburg is known for their peculiar opinions. For example, they maintain that someone running a website involving user content (like a forum or anything with a comment function) is liable for everything anyone writes on that website. And I'm not just talking about thinfs like hate speech, I'm talking about "a company sues the webmaster because a random user falsely said they have been sued in the past".
Oh, and if you delete the post and sign an agreement stating that you won't say that ever again (even though you never said it in the first place)? The user just needs to come back and repost his allegiation and you're getting a fine (historically in the five digits).
The real kicker? The law says that you're responsible for user-generated content on your website only if it's technologically feasible and reasonable to monitor the content. However, the LG Hamburg is of the opinion that it's always reasonable to thoroughly monitor all content, even if your forum generates 200.000 posts a month - as in the "Heise verdict", which has luckily been revised in the next instance so that you only need to remove posts you know contain illegal content. Yes, the LG Hamburg maintained that you're supposed to know for every single post made on your site whether its content is legal or not.
It's no surprise at all that Hamburg is the venue of choice to sue YouTube and possibly its users over videos infringing on someone's copyrights. I'm positive that the LG Hamburg will come to the conclusion that every user can be expected to be fully aware of the licensing status of all background music in random videos. Before they even watch the video and know which song(s) it contains.
Didn't the last/. story mention that Apple signed the agreement but wanted to keep the dock connector? IIRC they wanted to make an adapter.
I wouldn't complain if they did just switch to micro-USB, though. Essentially they trade one socket for which cheap cables are available for another with more ubiquitous cheap cables.
I remember that Apple commented they'll stick with their dock connector but plan on making an adapter available. This will definitely become supported by virtually everyone within two or three years.
Well, they did sell internet surveillance equipment to Iran and successfully lobbied for a law in Finland that allows them to spy on their employees. Nobody's perfect and Nokia happens to be into surveillance. Still one of the less appalling mobile phone manufacturers, though.
The problem is reaching critical mass. The filesystem needs to be out with rock solid drivers for Linux and especially OS X and Windows within short time of the first affordable SDXC cards hiting market. (That would be within the next two or three months.) Right now, Apple offers no way of reading/writing standard SDXC cards (and yes, SDHC readers can access SDXC cards, just not at the new speeds; at least with a firmware update). That might change if they do decide to license exFAT.
If the replacement FS really gained traction we'd see all Mac and Linux users use it for their SDXC cards and recommend it to their Win-using friends. Then we'd just somehow need to convince the entire electronics industry that every device capable of working with SDXC cards needs to support three different file systems (FAT32, exFAT, whatever we use).
Remember, the manufacturers don't care about what works with Rockbox, they only care about what makes them money. All Linux users demanding something is irrelevant and all Mac users demanding something can only faze a few manufacturers that mostly cater to them. We'd need a significant part of all Windows users to decide they want to use some other file system over exFAT, which works with all devices and most computers.
In short, we'd need to implement a vastly superior alternative that works on every major operating system and is more appealing to the general public than (the actually pretty decent) exFAT and start a media blitz about it, all within three months.
From that perspective I expect that the whole thing will end with Windows and later OS X using exFAT and Linux users either paying for the commercial exFAT driver or not using SDXC at all.
We are, however, going to exchange SDXC cards. And those come with a next-gen filesystem. With extremely limited interoperability (read: none). If we had something better than FAT32 that actually worked on all OSes we could just ignore the specification and use that, even if it's something as overblown (for flash cards) as ZFS.
It seems that FAT32 is still the apex of filesystem interoperability, closely followed by NTFS, courtesy of reverse-engineered drivers. That's kind of sad.
Android has something called the Android Marketplace, which is an App Store analog. However, this specific implementation of Android lacks that feature. So it is valid to decry the lack of it and saying "lack of a proper Marketplace" is understandable if you roughly know how Android works. "lack of Android Marketplace" would've been a much better way of saying it, though.
It's as if they sold a computer dual-booting Windows and Linux and the Linux they ship comes without a package manager. In fact, that's pretty much what they did as Android is fairly crippled without the Marketplace.
Maybe the submitter is an Android fanboy. "Android on this netbook is so un-perfect that buyers might decide to switch back to what's probably the best operating system they've ever seen before it." Yeah. Harsh criticism alright.
Note: I'm not implying that Win7 is the best OS out there; it's just the best OS most people actually get to use on a general-purpose computer... with the compatition being earlier versions of Windows, Splashtop and now Android.
Actually, wouldn't it be a good idea to put the bootloader onto an EEPROM module with a password passively baked in? The computer password acts as the encryption key for the bootloader so without knowing the password you can't meaningfully replace the loader- if you do the computer can't be unlocked anymore. Unless, of course, you brute-force the bootloader encryption, which takes time. Still, replacing the bootloader is a fairly involved procedure in itself - easy to do for a company's IT department but not quite as easy to do stealthily.
The system should be designed in such a way that the EEPROM is the only way to boot it. Of course this makes installing operating systems harder as they aren't aware of the EEPROM. On the other hand, what's your business installing a new operating system on a high-security computer anyway? Plus, I'd expect Linux to support the system in relatively short time.
Granted, this is less likely to work with Windows (unless you use Vista/7 and the EEPROM is presented to the system as a ROM drive containing only the EFI System Partition containing the BCD, which contains entries for the windows partition and all other drives).
I think that feminism can be seen as a sliding scale or a qualitative, er, quality one can possess, indicating how highly one values women and their power. There are those entirely without it (old-school machos), those with moderate amounts of it (those who passively support gender equality), those with somewhat elevated levels (those who actively work towards greater gender equality), those with high levels (womens' rights activists) and those with entirely too high levels (female supremacists; womens' rights zealots). Of course those are just random labels I stuck onto some points on the scale.
Most people don't like shades of grey and collapse the list to a few points ("machos, normal people, feminist zealots" being a popular set) and just try to put every person they meet into those categories. As everyone categorizes differently, one person's feminist can be another person's normal person (and some may take feminism as a prerequisite to being normal).
In the end the label doesn't tell you that much without further details about what it's supposed to express.
Likewise in Germany. We get even more fun, though:
- The GEMA (our ASCAP) requires that members register all songs that might possibly generate income with them. GEMA-registered songs cannot be made available for free.
- Once a song is registered it stays registered as the GEMA can't unregister it without violating contracts it has with its customers.
- If you perform your own songs you have to pay a performance fee. If you perform only your own songs and every single artist performing on the venue is listed on the form you get them back, though - minus a service fee.
- If you do manage to put a song on your website that does constitute a public performance and you do have to pay the fee. Again, you get most of it back.
That's just some of the fun GEMA disperses. Oh, and they operate on a "guilty until proven innocent" model - any song is assumed to be GEMA-covered until the creator proves it isn't. So if you make and perform CC music you better have a copy of the license with you.
I agree that songwriters should get compensated for their work but it seems that the associations responsible for that have an unfortunate tendency towards asshattery. Must come with the (arguably valid) business model of charging people for work that already has been done before.
Generalizing the date thing - would Barack Obama be president of the United States of America 44th? Or president 44th od the United States of America? How are the precedence rules here?
Disregarding the fact that there also is a DD-MM-YYYY word order in English -does any other language use a MM-DD-YYYY order when spoken? I know that German doesn't (we say "the 28th January, 2009").
Get with the time and carry an unspecified length of stealth rope and a Predator. And a survival knife. But never, under any circumstances, remember to bring more than one radio per team until right before you're going into action.
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Also boot sector viruses galore because your ancient copy of F-PROT couldn't detect any virus written within the last three years.
The International System of Units has standardized swimsuits? What's the SI unit of swimsuits and how does it fit in with the other units?
Details, man, details!
That relieves me a little, although it still remains to be seen whether the usual Hamburg weirdness manages to find a way to manifest itself.
The GP's friend probably rented a root server - those come preconfigured, although you can do with them what you want. If the hoster's default configuration has an unpatched security flaw (for example because they didn't bother to update the image regularly) you could easily end up with a server that's vulnerable out of the box.
That's why OS X is so much superior to Linux. OS X viruses come as bundles and are super easy to install - just open the disk image and drag the virus to your hard drive. Also, they're very clean as all the files they're ever going to infect come right with the virus binary itself in the bundle. It's truly the future of malware.
In other words, the near future of home computer storage is looking bad as prices are going to significantly increase, with RAIDs of SSDs worth 200+ USD being the closest equivalent to a current 50 USD HDD. (500 GB HDD @ 50 USD vs. 2x256 GiB SSD + RAID controller @ 100 USD per SSD)
Ugh. Yes, the "Windows 7 refuses to be installed if it can't write to the first partition of the first hard drive" issue is really annoying. Good thing I only need it in a VM.
It's not exactly +1, Funny; +1, Informative applies better. The Landgericht Hamburg is known for their peculiar opinions. For example, they maintain that someone running a website involving user content (like a forum or anything with a comment function) is liable for everything anyone writes on that website. And I'm not just talking about thinfs like hate speech, I'm talking about "a company sues the webmaster because a random user falsely said they have been sued in the past".
Oh, and if you delete the post and sign an agreement stating that you won't say that ever again (even though you never said it in the first place)? The user just needs to come back and repost his allegiation and you're getting a fine (historically in the five digits).
The real kicker? The law says that you're responsible for user-generated content on your website only if it's technologically feasible and reasonable to monitor the content. However, the LG Hamburg is of the opinion that it's always reasonable to thoroughly monitor all content, even if your forum generates 200.000 posts a month - as in the "Heise verdict", which has luckily been revised in the next instance so that you only need to remove posts you know contain illegal content. Yes, the LG Hamburg maintained that you're supposed to know for every single post made on your site whether its content is legal or not.
It's no surprise at all that Hamburg is the venue of choice to sue YouTube and possibly its users over videos infringing on someone's copyrights. I'm positive that the LG Hamburg will come to the conclusion that every user can be expected to be fully aware of the licensing status of all background music in random videos. Before they even watch the video and know which song(s) it contains.
More plug cycles. Mini is rated for 5,000 plug/unplug cycles, micro is rated for 10,000.
Didn't the last /. story mention that Apple signed the agreement but wanted to keep the dock connector? IIRC they wanted to make an adapter.
I wouldn't complain if they did just switch to micro-USB, though. Essentially they trade one socket for which cheap cables are available for another with more ubiquitous cheap cables.
I remember that Apple commented they'll stick with their dock connector but plan on making an adapter available. This will definitely become supported by virtually everyone within two or three years.
Well, they did sell internet surveillance equipment to Iran and successfully lobbied for a law in Finland that allows them to spy on their employees. Nobody's perfect and Nokia happens to be into surveillance. Still one of the less appalling mobile phone manufacturers, though.
The problem is reaching critical mass. The filesystem needs to be out with rock solid drivers for Linux and especially OS X and Windows within short time of the first affordable SDXC cards hiting market. (That would be within the next two or three months.) Right now, Apple offers no way of reading/writing standard SDXC cards (and yes, SDHC readers can access SDXC cards, just not at the new speeds; at least with a firmware update). That might change if they do decide to license exFAT.
If the replacement FS really gained traction we'd see all Mac and Linux users use it for their SDXC cards and recommend it to their Win-using friends. Then we'd just somehow need to convince the entire electronics industry that every device capable of working with SDXC cards needs to support three different file systems (FAT32, exFAT, whatever we use).
Remember, the manufacturers don't care about what works with Rockbox, they only care about what makes them money. All Linux users demanding something is irrelevant and all Mac users demanding something can only faze a few manufacturers that mostly cater to them. We'd need a significant part of all Windows users to decide they want to use some other file system over exFAT, which works with all devices and most computers.
In short, we'd need to implement a vastly superior alternative that works on every major operating system and is more appealing to the general public than (the actually pretty decent) exFAT and start a media blitz about it, all within three months.
From that perspective I expect that the whole thing will end with Windows and later OS X using exFAT and Linux users either paying for the commercial exFAT driver or not using SDXC at all.
We are, however, going to exchange SDXC cards. And those come with a next-gen filesystem. With extremely limited interoperability (read: none). If we had something better than FAT32 that actually worked on all OSes we could just ignore the specification and use that, even if it's something as overblown (for flash cards) as ZFS.
It seems that FAT32 is still the apex of filesystem interoperability, closely followed by NTFS, courtesy of reverse-engineered drivers. That's kind of sad.
Android has something called the Android Marketplace, which is an App Store analog. However, this specific implementation of Android lacks that feature. So it is valid to decry the lack of it and saying "lack of a proper Marketplace" is understandable if you roughly know how Android works. "lack of Android Marketplace" would've been a much better way of saying it, though.
It's as if they sold a computer dual-booting Windows and Linux and the Linux they ship comes without a package manager. In fact, that's pretty much what they did as Android is fairly crippled without the Marketplace.
Maybe the submitter is an Android fanboy. "Android on this netbook is so un-perfect that buyers might decide to switch back to what's probably the best operating system they've ever seen before it." Yeah. Harsh criticism alright.
Note: I'm not implying that Win7 is the best OS out there; it's just the best OS most people actually get to use on a general-purpose computer... with the compatition being earlier versions of Windows, Splashtop and now Android.
Actually, wouldn't it be a good idea to put the bootloader onto an EEPROM module with a password passively baked in? The computer password acts as the encryption key for the bootloader so without knowing the password you can't meaningfully replace the loader- if you do the computer can't be unlocked anymore. Unless, of course, you brute-force the bootloader encryption, which takes time. Still, replacing the bootloader is a fairly involved procedure in itself - easy to do for a company's IT department but not quite as easy to do stealthily.
The system should be designed in such a way that the EEPROM is the only way to boot it. Of course this makes installing operating systems harder as they aren't aware of the EEPROM. On the other hand, what's your business installing a new operating system on a high-security computer anyway? Plus, I'd expect Linux to support the system in relatively short time.
Granted, this is less likely to work with Windows (unless you use Vista/7 and the EEPROM is presented to the system as a ROM drive containing only the EFI System Partition containing the BCD, which contains entries for the windows partition and all other drives).
I think that feminism can be seen as a sliding scale or a qualitative, er, quality one can possess, indicating how highly one values women and their power. There are those entirely without it (old-school machos), those with moderate amounts of it (those who passively support gender equality), those with somewhat elevated levels (those who actively work towards greater gender equality), those with high levels (womens' rights activists) and those with entirely too high levels (female supremacists; womens' rights zealots). Of course those are just random labels I stuck onto some points on the scale.
Most people don't like shades of grey and collapse the list to a few points ("machos, normal people, feminist zealots" being a popular set) and just try to put every person they meet into those categories. As everyone categorizes differently, one person's feminist can be another person's normal person (and some may take feminism as a prerequisite to being normal).
In the end the label doesn't tell you that much without further details about what it's supposed to express.
I think that's a Marvel superhero.
Disney's PR division already agrees that critics agree that Keychect 2 is a "masterwork".
Likewise in Germany. We get even more fun, though:
- The GEMA (our ASCAP) requires that members register all songs that might possibly generate income with them. GEMA-registered songs cannot be made available for free.
- Once a song is registered it stays registered as the GEMA can't unregister it without violating contracts it has with its customers.
- If you perform your own songs you have to pay a performance fee. If you perform only your own songs and every single artist performing on the venue is listed on the form you get them back, though - minus a service fee.
- If you do manage to put a song on your website that does constitute a public performance and you do have to pay the fee. Again, you get most of it back.
That's just some of the fun GEMA disperses. Oh, and they operate on a "guilty until proven innocent" model - any song is assumed to be GEMA-covered until the creator proves it isn't. So if you make and perform CC music you better have a copy of the license with you.
I agree that songwriters should get compensated for their work but it seems that the associations responsible for that have an unfortunate tendency towards asshattery. Must come with the (arguably valid) business model of charging people for work that already has been done before.
Generalizing the date thing - would Barack Obama be president of the United States of America 44th? Or president 44th od the United States of America? How are the precedence rules here?
Disregarding the fact that there also is a DD-MM-YYYY word order in English -does any other language use a MM-DD-YYYY order when spoken? I know that German doesn't (we say "the 28th January, 2009").
Get with the time and carry an unspecified length of stealth rope and a Predator. And a survival knife. But never, under any circumstances, remember to bring more than one radio per team until right before you're going into action.
Shouldn't "yard" be an area measurement? After all, most yards (backyards, for example) are two-dimensional.