>As it stands now, we at store level cannot even access the Internet or gmail due to (i guess) the fear of virii.
First of all, virii isnt a word. Its viruses. Secondly, I imagine the biggest reason the internet is blocked from a friggin supermarket is so you guys dont horse around all day on the web. Changing OSs isnt going to usher in some new firewall policy.
Are your crazy? The only way we're doing weather prediction is with computers. Its amazing how accurate we can get. It may not be up to the standards you have imagined in your brain, but here in the real world its pretty good considering.
computer models have failed to accurately manage loan portfolios to higher risk buyers
Garbage in, garbage out. If the algorithm is written in way that makes the same assumptions the bankers made (packing high risk nightmare loans with low risk loans == win) then you will get the same results.
>Firefox 3 is hungry enough that it'll use up 100-300MB if you have a lot of tabs open, so you really do need at *least* 1GB to run the OS plus just a web browser
That sounds like a problem with the browser, not with the OS. In real life, windows xp will use 80-120 megs of ram for itself. With a 512meg system that leaves you quite a bit of ram. Considering Ive used several machines running the full XP-2003 era office suite with 256 megs of ram then I would say the OS itself is pretty lean, its the applications you choose to use that eat all your ram.
In other words, if youre a power user with 100 apps open then yes, you may think that for yourself 1gig is the minimum, but thats because of how you use it. Its not the OS doing this, nor is a 1gig minumum really being honest about the OS.
If you insist on something realistic, then I can totally see why you say it sucks.
Exactly. Those who want realism can play the BF2 mod called Project Reality. One shot one kill, super slow, etc just like real warfare. I doubt most CS or TF2 players would think it was fun.
Conspiracy theory is right. FUD about privacy? Err, there are real privacy concerns with pretty much all the search engines, not to mention social network sites. Expressing dissatisfaction in privacy policies isnt FUD its giving a shit about privacy.
I also fail to understand why I should support one faceless corporations but hate another. Once you peel away the flagrant fanboyism there really isnt much difference between google, apple, yahoo, ms, etc. A savvy consumer should be playing them against themselves for best quality and price, not making irrational allegiances.
Sadly, this is "high quality" article by slashdot standards.
The bounty really shouldnt matter. Imagine all the free advertising they would get. I think its getting obvious that they arent able to do this. They can remount the platters on a working drive and try to read data, but stuff thats been purposely wiped is beyond their retrieval powers.
The 500 is nothing compared to all the free advertising the winner would get. Its very telling that these companies cant do this. This kind of thing has more to do with "big evil government full of phds and electron microscopes" than "guys who mount platters and read deleted data with new motor and head." I'm also skeptical the former group can have much luck with a drive thats been zero'd once. I'll accept that there's some data leakage from between head writes, but a full retrieval of documents? Doubtful.
Yeah, I think there was some famous challenge a little while ago. Someone offered a bounty to any data recovery place that could retrieve data from a zero'd once drive. They all said no.
The difference being that Americans have been fed so much corporate propaganda about healthcare and political propaganda about expansion of government services, that they just dismiss successful programs overseas as impossible or astroturf right-wing talking points about "how they dont really work." You'll see this in replies to your post in 3...2...1...
Yes, Sony created a fake movie reviewer named David Manning. Its actually an incredible tale of corporate craziness and dishonesty. This Manning character would give glowing reviews to all of Sony's terrible movies like a Knight's Tale or a Rob Schneider movie. He was actually interviewed once via telephone. Sony used a synthesizer to create his voice. This all ended with a lawsuit with Sony offering 5 dollars to anyone who saw the movies he reviewed and didnt like them. No one went to prison or anything. Sony quitely retired Mr Manning.
Exactly. AD isnt just ldap + kereberos. Its group policy and a handful of other things that havent been implemented in FOSS.
If they asker wants to get off AD then get off AD. Switch to some other authentication method or pay for the real AD. Or take a step back and implement an NT4-style domain with Samba.
He may not even need to make any changes to the WAP. Just point the dish at the WAP. If need be, he can add another directional antenna at the WAP to point at the laptop.
Just pick the channel thats least used and experiment a little. Or switch to 802.11a.
Automatic updates doesn't do this. Just turn it on from my control panel. The web version of automatic updates will try to install WGA, but you can not allow the package.
If their office installs are not valid then they'll just get a warning when they try to download any new features (templates and stuff). It wont shut them off.
MS allows critical and security updates to come through even on machines that have known pirated installs and keys. Its pretty safe to do.
Who gets 22mbps from a cable modem? Regardless, Im guessing either the ubuntu machine wasnt configured to use the ISPs web proxy but the windows one was or that the windows machine's antivirus was crippling the download.
This is a really lazy test. Didnt swap out hardware, didnt try different networks, didnt try clean installs, didnt tell us what network drivers he was using, didnt try anything really.
Also, there's no unique thing as "downloading." Its just TCP/IP. Why not try a share on the local lan? That simplifies things quite a bit. Or at the very least get off your ass and try a different ISP.
I want to say I'm surprised something so shoddy got on the slashdot, but I really am not that surprised. Between the lazy posts and idle stuff somehow getting loose into other sections, slashdot has gotten pretty crappy lately.
>Everything else was either tiny flash memory (64-256 megs) or heavy desktop hard drives
Err, no. When I opened by old Archos Jukebox mp3 player I found a 2.5" laptop hard drive. Not a 3.5 desktop drive. I dont think Ive ever seen one with a desktop drive.
The first generation ipod had a 1.8" drive, which is a laptop drive, but a little smaller than the 2.5". So its not "OMG BIG DESKTOP DRIVE vs MICRODRIVE" its really 2.5" vs 1.8". At least until Apple moved to the Hitachi Microdrive, but that wasnt for a few years. Its not fair to compare a device from 1999 to one in 2004. Also, considering how many ipod mini's I went through which all had bad drives, perhaps the microdrive wasnt such a good idea. The move to flash, which ironically was what original mp3 players used, was a smart move.
Im from the "Man vs Wild" survival school. When lost and starving in the woods I just instruct my production crew to drive me to the nearest Pizza Hut. When sleepy I got to a 5-star hotel.
>The article suggests that experts agree the passports will be much harder to forge (impossible with current methods) - which is a big strength.
This is the problem with slashdot and the culture of whiners. When discussing the American passport people said it was too easy to forge. Then the RFID is badly implemented and that you need some other form of authentication like biometrics to really be sure that the passport belongs to the person. Now we are seeing a biometric implementation and the whiners have just moved to "OMG NO PAPERS!!!"
Either you want good passports on your dont. No privacy group is getting rid of the passport anytime soon. You can have half-assed ones or secure ones.
>Of course that is all it is but they are selling like hot-cakes
Yes we must all judge things by popularity. Good idea! The best phone: the iphone. The best artistic endeavor in human history: the reality show. The best food: McDonalds. The best country: india.
Bullshit, before the iphone was a twinkle in Steve's eye we had Palm and WindowsMobile doing a lot of things you cant do today with an iphone. Tethering, copy and paste, downloading any app you like, *gasp* running software you wrote, choosing whatever wireless company you want to go with, outlook syncing, voip, etc.
Useless mp3 players? Perhaps useless as a fashion accessory, but I had an mp3 player before the ipod was even released. Worked fine, thanks for asking.
You mean manufacturered outrage and manufactuered hypocrisy.
Is Gore really about moving people into smaller homes? My understanding of the hodgepodge of ideologies that pass as "green" is that we dont need to become cavemen, but we can stop burning coal and stop buying 12mpg cars. The idea with renewable energy sources isnt just paring everything down, but of maintaining the same lifestyle except its powered by smarter tech. The idea here is getting rid of fossil fuels, not wearing a filthy poncho all the time and living in a 300sqft apartment.
I doubt Gore or his supporters have any strict ideology. Like I wrote above, its a mix of a lot of things, but the only consistent aspect I see is getting the fuck off fossil fuel, yet loud-mouth conservatives see someone actually doign this at nitpick at him for other things, like owning a big home or flying in a plane. Gore buys carbon offsets I believe too.
Now compare Gore to guys who are as wealthy as him and lets look at what they burn. The idea here isnt Gore vs the perfect idealized man in your imagination but Gore vs a man of his means. Let me save you the trouble of googling this stuff:
average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year," the Gore residence "uses an average of 17,768 kWh per month -1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations."[190] Gore's spokeswoman Kalee Kreider countered the claim by stating that the Gores' "utility bills have gone down 40 percent since the green retrofit."
Its foolish to compare Gore to average americans in average sized homes with average power requirements. Heres a newsflash: class is real. Rich people are different than you. Just the fact that his little compound can be so efficient is impressive.
Contrary to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, Gore and his supporters arent against the american dream of buying a house, getting a good job, and having a couple of cars. Theyre against burning fossil fuels to power all these things. They are for being efficient with what you have without sacrificing lifestyle. But please dont let the facts stop your "lib-basihng" or hurt the precious strawman youve built in your head.
Wait, competent people from the startup-world with real success are "extreme leftists" but Bush's pick of fucking lawyer with no tech business experience is "good business sense?" Get off it already, no one but the Rush Limbaugh echo chamber believes these talking points.
I disagree. Id hate to deal with someone who needs a sudden influx of a stimulant like nicotine just to get by. That includes caffeine. The Jr Tweakers at my old job drove me crazy. There's nothing worse than trying to deal with someone who is an emotional speedball, cant sit for a minute, cant relax, and stinks of coffee breath.
Even if you remove the smelly smoke its still a addiction someone has to manage day in and day out. You can do heroin and your whole life and not have any unhealthy effects as long as you manage to eat right and avoid "the lifestyle". Its still a problem. No one likes to deal with addicts and addicts dont like being addicts.
In other words self-diagnoses Assburgers eh? Get off it. Im sure there are many people with real asperger's but the self-diagnosed WoW addicts arent them. Most nerds I know just have big fucking egos, hate all established social customs, hate anything mainstream, etc. They marginalize themselves just like any rebellious type or hipster. Most of us outgrow it though, but it takes a few years of real world humbling to do the job. Suddenly, the idea of showering daily, cracking a smile or a joke, and not speaking strictly in quoted lines from movies makes a lot of sense.
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>As it stands now, we at store level cannot even access the Internet or gmail due to (i guess) the fear of virii.
First of all, virii isnt a word. Its viruses. Secondly, I imagine the biggest reason the internet is blocked from a friggin supermarket is so you guys dont horse around all day on the web. Changing OSs isnt going to usher in some new firewall policy.
Are your crazy? The only way we're doing weather prediction is with computers. Its amazing how accurate we can get. It may not be up to the standards you have imagined in your brain, but here in the real world its pretty good considering.
computer models have failed to accurately manage loan portfolios to higher risk buyers
Garbage in, garbage out. If the algorithm is written in way that makes the same assumptions the bankers made (packing high risk nightmare loans with low risk loans == win) then you will get the same results.
and are probably wrong about climate.
Yeah, youre a troll.
>Firefox 3 is hungry enough that it'll use up 100-300MB if you have a lot of tabs open, so you really do need at *least* 1GB to run the OS plus just a web browser
That sounds like a problem with the browser, not with the OS. In real life, windows xp will use 80-120 megs of ram for itself. With a 512meg system that leaves you quite a bit of ram. Considering Ive used several machines running the full XP-2003 era office suite with 256 megs of ram then I would say the OS itself is pretty lean, its the applications you choose to use that eat all your ram.
In other words, if youre a power user with 100 apps open then yes, you may think that for yourself 1gig is the minimum, but thats because of how you use it. Its not the OS doing this, nor is a 1gig minumum really being honest about the OS.
If you insist on something realistic, then I can totally see why you say it sucks.
Exactly. Those who want realism can play the BF2 mod called Project Reality. One shot one kill, super slow, etc just like real warfare. I doubt most CS or TF2 players would think it was fun.
Conspiracy theory is right. FUD about privacy? Err, there are real privacy concerns with pretty much all the search engines, not to mention social network sites. Expressing dissatisfaction in privacy policies isnt FUD its giving a shit about privacy.
I also fail to understand why I should support one faceless corporations but hate another. Once you peel away the flagrant fanboyism there really isnt much difference between google, apple, yahoo, ms, etc. A savvy consumer should be playing them against themselves for best quality and price, not making irrational allegiances.
Sadly, this is "high quality" article by slashdot standards.
The bounty really shouldnt matter. Imagine all the free advertising they would get. I think its getting obvious that they arent able to do this. They can remount the platters on a working drive and try to read data, but stuff thats been purposely wiped is beyond their retrieval powers.
The 500 is nothing compared to all the free advertising the winner would get. Its very telling that these companies cant do this. This kind of thing has more to do with "big evil government full of phds and electron microscopes" than "guys who mount platters and read deleted data with new motor and head." I'm also skeptical the former group can have much luck with a drive thats been zero'd once. I'll accept that there's some data leakage from between head writes, but a full retrieval of documents? Doubtful.
Yeah, I think there was some famous challenge a little while ago. Someone offered a bounty to any data recovery place that could retrieve data from a zero'd once drive. They all said no.
The difference being that Americans have been fed so much corporate propaganda about healthcare and political propaganda about expansion of government services, that they just dismiss successful programs overseas as impossible or astroturf right-wing talking points about "how they dont really work." You'll see this in replies to your post in 3...2...1...
Yes, Sony created a fake movie reviewer named David Manning. Its actually an incredible tale of corporate craziness and dishonesty. This Manning character would give glowing reviews to all of Sony's terrible movies like a Knight's Tale or a Rob Schneider movie. He was actually interviewed once via telephone. Sony used a synthesizer to create his voice. This all ended with a lawsuit with Sony offering 5 dollars to anyone who saw the movies he reviewed and didnt like them. No one went to prison or anything. Sony quitely retired Mr Manning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning_(fictitious_writer)
Exactly. AD isnt just ldap + kereberos. Its group policy and a handful of other things that havent been implemented in FOSS.
If they asker wants to get off AD then get off AD. Switch to some other authentication method or pay for the real AD. Or take a step back and implement an NT4-style domain with Samba.
Yep,
something as simple as this little USB dish wifi adapter will do.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164012
He may not even need to make any changes to the WAP. Just point the dish at the WAP. If need be, he can add another directional antenna at the WAP to point at the laptop.
Just pick the channel thats least used and experiment a little. Or switch to 802.11a.
Automatic updates doesn't do this. Just turn it on from my control panel. The web version of automatic updates will try to install WGA, but you can not allow the package.
If their office installs are not valid then they'll just get a warning when they try to download any new features (templates and stuff). It wont shut them off.
MS allows critical and security updates to come through even on machines that have known pirated installs and keys. Its pretty safe to do.
Who gets 22mbps from a cable modem? Regardless, Im guessing either the ubuntu machine wasnt configured to use the ISPs web proxy but the windows one was or that the windows machine's antivirus was crippling the download.
This is a really lazy test. Didnt swap out hardware, didnt try different networks, didnt try clean installs, didnt tell us what network drivers he was using, didnt try anything really.
Also, there's no unique thing as "downloading." Its just TCP/IP. Why not try a share on the local lan? That simplifies things quite a bit. Or at the very least get off your ass and try a different ISP.
I want to say I'm surprised something so shoddy got on the slashdot, but I really am not that surprised. Between the lazy posts and idle stuff somehow getting loose into other sections, slashdot has gotten pretty crappy lately.
>Everything else was either tiny flash memory (64-256 megs) or heavy desktop hard drives
Err, no. When I opened by old Archos Jukebox mp3 player I found a 2.5" laptop hard drive. Not a 3.5 desktop drive. I dont think Ive ever seen one with a desktop drive.
The first generation ipod had a 1.8" drive, which is a laptop drive, but a little smaller than the 2.5". So its not "OMG BIG DESKTOP DRIVE vs MICRODRIVE" its really 2.5" vs 1.8". At least until Apple moved to the Hitachi Microdrive, but that wasnt for a few years. Its not fair to compare a device from 1999 to one in 2004. Also, considering how many ipod mini's I went through which all had bad drives, perhaps the microdrive wasnt such a good idea. The move to flash, which ironically was what original mp3 players used, was a smart move.
Im from the "Man vs Wild" survival school. When lost and starving in the woods I just instruct my production crew to drive me to the nearest Pizza Hut. When sleepy I got to a 5-star hotel.
>The article suggests that experts agree the passports will be much harder to forge (impossible with current methods) - which is a big strength.
This is the problem with slashdot and the culture of whiners. When discussing the American passport people said it was too easy to forge. Then the RFID is badly implemented and that you need some other form of authentication like biometrics to really be sure that the passport belongs to the person. Now we are seeing a biometric implementation and the whiners have just moved to "OMG NO PAPERS!!!"
Either you want good passports on your dont. No privacy group is getting rid of the passport anytime soon. You can have half-assed ones or secure ones.
>Of course that is all it is but they are selling like hot-cakes
Yes we must all judge things by popularity. Good idea! The best phone: the iphone. The best artistic endeavor in human history: the reality show. The best food: McDonalds. The best country: india.
I think you can see where Im going with this.
Bullshit, before the iphone was a twinkle in Steve's eye we had Palm and WindowsMobile doing a lot of things you cant do today with an iphone. Tethering, copy and paste, downloading any app you like, *gasp* running software you wrote, choosing whatever wireless company you want to go with, outlook syncing, voip, etc.
Useless mp3 players? Perhaps useless as a fashion accessory, but I had an mp3 player before the ipod was even released. Worked fine, thanks for asking.
You mean manufacturered outrage and manufactuered hypocrisy.
Is Gore really about moving people into smaller homes? My understanding of the hodgepodge of ideologies that pass as "green" is that we dont need to become cavemen, but we can stop burning coal and stop buying 12mpg cars. The idea with renewable energy sources isnt just paring everything down, but of maintaining the same lifestyle except its powered by smarter tech. The idea here is getting rid of fossil fuels, not wearing a filthy poncho all the time and living in a 300sqft apartment.
I doubt Gore or his supporters have any strict ideology. Like I wrote above, its a mix of a lot of things, but the only consistent aspect I see is getting the fuck off fossil fuel, yet loud-mouth conservatives see someone actually doign this at nitpick at him for other things, like owning a big home or flying in a plane. Gore buys carbon offsets I believe too.
Now compare Gore to guys who are as wealthy as him and lets look at what they burn. The idea here isnt Gore vs the perfect idealized man in your imagination but Gore vs a man of his means. Let me save you the trouble of googling this stuff:
Its foolish to compare Gore to average americans in average sized homes with average power requirements. Heres a newsflash: class is real. Rich people are different than you. Just the fact that his little compound can be so efficient is impressive.
Contrary to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, Gore and his supporters arent against the american dream of buying a house, getting a good job, and having a couple of cars. Theyre against burning fossil fuels to power all these things. They are for being efficient with what you have without sacrificing lifestyle. But please dont let the facts stop your "lib-basihng" or hurt the precious strawman youve built in your head.
Wait, competent people from the startup-world with real success are "extreme leftists" but Bush's pick of fucking lawyer with no tech business experience is "good business sense?" Get off it already, no one but the Rush Limbaugh echo chamber believes these talking points.
Not to mention IP over DNS. They may block him on wifi after his 100 minutes, but he can get a slow connection this way.
http://thomer.com/howtos/nstx.html
>I'll finally be one step closer to creating my race of manbearpigs.
A whole race of "man bears" Wow, you must have incredible stamina and tolerance for couch hair.
I disagree. Id hate to deal with someone who needs a sudden influx of a stimulant like nicotine just to get by. That includes caffeine. The Jr Tweakers at my old job drove me crazy. There's nothing worse than trying to deal with someone who is an emotional speedball, cant sit for a minute, cant relax, and stinks of coffee breath.
Even if you remove the smelly smoke its still a addiction someone has to manage day in and day out. You can do heroin and your whole life and not have any unhealthy effects as long as you manage to eat right and avoid "the lifestyle". Its still a problem. No one likes to deal with addicts and addicts dont like being addicts.
>It's because they have a disorder or disease.
In other words self-diagnoses Assburgers eh? Get off it. Im sure there are many people with real asperger's but the self-diagnosed WoW addicts arent them. Most nerds I know just have big fucking egos, hate all established social customs, hate anything mainstream, etc. They marginalize themselves just like any rebellious type or hipster. Most of us outgrow it though, but it takes a few years of real world humbling to do the job. Suddenly, the idea of showering daily, cracking a smile or a joke, and not speaking strictly in quoted lines from movies makes a lot of sense.