We have a policy that any computer that may contain student data must be encrypted if it regularly leaves campus. Prior to this I tested truecrypt full disk encryption on about 17 different notebooks of varying amounts of ram, disk speeds, and processor speeds. Even on the worst laptops we have (which are 7 or 8 years old), the performance was undetectable by any user we dropped in front of the laptop to use for the day.
I guess it just works differently for different people. My boss was very worried it would impact the end users (besides just typing in a password). After a long testing process we were hard pressed to come up with a reason not to just encrypt every notebook on campus. That is exactly what we did.
Now servers and desktops are another thing. We secure our network and we secure our locations (keycard access to offices, etc). Adding the overhead of encryption to our servers would just be a waste of resources at this point.
I'm just more worried about the CFO who walks around with all the data he thinks he might ever need on a flash stick being unencrypted than I am my oracle server that sits behind a a team of engineers constantly keeping it patched and monitoring it's access.
I had no interest in hacking my wii until I heard they had blocked it. That got me looking into homebrew and then I found mplayer for wii. That night I went out and bought a sdcard reader for my computer and installed the homebrew channel on my wii.
I'd love to have one. I do however own crates of old games from atari to n64. Not to mention the huge collection of ps1, ps2, and gamecube games I own.
It really sucks that I can't really play any of them 'legally' without dragging out the old failing consoles and hooking them up.
I admit that there are currently no commercial products that do this and you will have to hack together your own solutions. I have found a few sites with google that detail how to go about trying this. Most involve hacking a nintendo and are out of the reach of most people.
But if it's legal, it just shows a nice market some enterprising engineer could get into.
Is format shifting a form of piracy? I bought a whole ton of nintendo and super nintendo games and I still own them. If I could rip the roms from them what is wrong with using the homebrew to play those roms via an emulator?
If a business wants my money, they will target me. I am not buying a windows computer for the sole purpose of playing shitty video games.
Currently I have enough good choices to play on my mac. I have Unreal tournament 2004, I have diablo 2, starcraft, warcraft 3, world of warcraft, baulders gate 2, spore, and a few others.
The fact is there is a easy target market via cider that they just don't see. It's not like you have to write once in directX and once in openGl/whatever. You just write once and make sure you meet whatever requirements transgaming gives you for cider.
I was skeptical of cider at first, but after using it on some games I find it to be solid and works well enough for me to spend my money on games ported via cider.
In my county (in Indiana) you have to pay for recycling even if you do not recycle. So in this analogy. I have to buy EA games even if I don't play them.
This I agree with! I didn't do my research well enough when I bought my mac. Imagine my surprise when I realized that most of my games that I planned to play would have to be bought again just to play them on my mac.
Just another thought. This gets even sillier when you see the success EA has has by developing for windows while keeping cider in mind. Their games tend to run fairly well on my mbp using cider. I'm not sure how much change has to be made to keep a game working on cider, but I'd suspect not much.
They never asked me. And I have bought some of their games. I would of told them I would prefer mac games over windows games. In fact now that I have only a mac (and no licenses of windows) I don't prefer mac games, I require them.
damn it, In any case, my firearms give me more protection then the constitution as it stands right now. At least I can choose where, when, and what to die for.
And who keeps the government in check with the constitution?
When they decide to do it, they will just do it. They have already tested the waters. Once they say it is for our own good then most everyone will fall in line.
For example, during Catrina, they confiscated firearms for law abiding citizens for their own protection.
In any case, my firearms give me more protection then the constitution as it stands right now. At least I can choose where, when, and what to do for.
If this is true,then why are there still terrorists?
It should be trivial to find and take them out. The fact that is not suggests that it is possible for a rebel group to wage war against the US. It's the fact that americans are fat and lazy that prevents us from fixing our government.
If we compare an encrypted file to a locked car (we need one car analogy) how would this play out?
Lets say I have stolen property in my trunk. If I hid my car keys and refused to tell the cops where I put them, then they would get a warrant to search my car and break the lock on my trunk.
So how is this different. It's not my fault my 'lock' is so strong they can't pop it.
Yet. It has already been suggested numerous times by some fringe congressmen that we need to suspend the constitution. It's only a matter of time before they actually do.
I used to always keep a windows partition on my computer to play games. I would buy at least 1 game a month on average. But as copy protection became more annoying and as the games because less fun I slowly stopped buying games and was only buying maybe 4 in the last year. At that point I realized I was spending 90% of my time in linux and 10 % in windows. So, when my wife need a new computer I gave her my current one and took the chance to go from a desktop to a full time notebook. I bought a macbook pro. I figured if the OS sucked I could still put linux on it.
I fell in love with the little thing. I never even did get around to putting windows or linux on it. At the same time my wife bought me a xbox 360 for my birthday. I also fell in love with that and my game purchases when from 4 to 0 on the pc and from 0 to 1 or 2 every few months on the 360.
I've seen games I would really LOVE to play on a computer. The new warhammer mmo, a few smaller game developers like the guys who make sins of a solar empire, etc. But without mac or 360 versions I'm not going to buy them. I did pass on spore because of the drm AND the fact it uses cider. I don't want to spend money on a game I can't play in 3 or 4 years. I STILL play baulders gate and diablo 2, warcraft 3, etc.
So sadly I pass on things I would find interesting. But my overall computing experience has been the better for it. I get more work done, I spend more time outside, and I've lost a lot of weight.
That's fine, but we get requests to do things like, violate copyright or licensing agreements (can you install this single copy of software I bought in all our labs) to change the entire way we do things (I think you should move from novell to microsoft because I read X in some paper), or straight up in violation of our security, privacy, or acceptable use policies. (I actually had a CS professor ask if we could remove the required full disk encryption from his notebook because he has trouble remembering passwords).
We need more than mail. We need chat and calendar and we prefer that to be integrated as much as possible. Not to mention the cost involved with bandwidth, hardware, and maintenance needed to manage a jabber server, a mail server, and some sort of calendar server.
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Lime disease. Nuff said.
We have a policy that any computer that may contain student data must be encrypted if it regularly leaves campus. Prior to this I tested truecrypt full disk encryption on about 17 different notebooks of varying amounts of ram, disk speeds, and processor speeds. Even on the worst laptops we have (which are 7 or 8 years old), the performance was undetectable by any user we dropped in front of the laptop to use for the day.
I guess it just works differently for different people. My boss was very worried it would impact the end users (besides just typing in a password). After a long testing process we were hard pressed to come up with a reason not to just encrypt every notebook on campus. That is exactly what we did.
Now servers and desktops are another thing. We secure our network and we secure our locations (keycard access to offices, etc). Adding the overhead of encryption to our servers would just be a waste of resources at this point.
I'm just more worried about the CFO who walks around with all the data he thinks he might ever need on a flash stick being unencrypted than I am my oracle server that sits behind a a team of engineers constantly keeping it patched and monitoring it's access.
Not only that, but crossover is the easiest way to get wine on a mac.
I had no interest in hacking my wii until I heard they had blocked it. That got me looking into homebrew and then I found mplayer for wii. That night I went out and bought a sdcard reader for my computer and installed the homebrew channel on my wii.
I'd love to have one. I do however own crates of old games from atari to n64. Not to mention the huge collection of ps1, ps2, and gamecube games I own.
It really sucks that I can't really play any of them 'legally' without dragging out the old failing consoles and hooking them up.
I admit that there are currently no commercial products that do this and you will have to hack together your own solutions. I have found a few sites with google that detail how to go about trying this. Most involve hacking a nintendo and are out of the reach of most people.
But if it's legal, it just shows a nice market some enterprising engineer could get into.
Is format shifting a form of piracy? I bought a whole ton of nintendo and super nintendo games and I still own them. If I could rip the roms from them what is wrong with using the homebrew to play those roms via an emulator?
If a business wants my money, they will target me. I am not buying a windows computer for the sole purpose of playing shitty video games.
Currently I have enough good choices to play on my mac. I have Unreal tournament 2004, I have diablo 2, starcraft, warcraft 3, world of warcraft, baulders gate 2, spore, and a few others.
The fact is there is a easy target market via cider that they just don't see. It's not like you have to write once in directX and once in openGl/whatever. You just write once and make sure you meet whatever requirements transgaming gives you for cider.
I was skeptical of cider at first, but after using it on some games I find it to be solid and works well enough for me to spend my money on games ported via cider.
In my county (in Indiana) you have to pay for recycling even if you do not recycle. So in this analogy. I have to buy EA games even if I don't play them.
This is the best statement I have read all day. I fully agree.
This I agree with! I didn't do my research well enough when I bought my mac. Imagine my surprise when I realized that most of my games that I planned to play would have to be bought again just to play them on my mac.
Just another thought. This gets even sillier when you see the success EA has has by developing for windows while keeping cider in mind. Their games tend to run fairly well on my mbp using cider. I'm not sure how much change has to be made to keep a game working on cider, but I'd suspect not much.
They never asked me. And I have bought some of their games. I would of told them I would prefer mac games over windows games. In fact now that I have only a mac (and no licenses of windows) I don't prefer mac games, I require them.
damn it,
In any case, my firearms give me more protection then the constitution as it stands right now. At least I can choose where, when, and what to die for.
And who keeps the government in check with the constitution?
When they decide to do it, they will just do it. They have already tested the waters. Once they say it is for our own good then most everyone will fall in line.
For example, during Catrina, they confiscated firearms for law abiding citizens for their own protection.
In any case, my firearms give me more protection then the constitution as it stands right now. At least I can choose where, when, and what to do for.
If this is true,then why are there still terrorists?
It should be trivial to find and take them out. The fact that is not suggests that it is possible for a rebel group to wage war against the US. It's the fact that americans are fat and lazy that prevents us from fixing our government.
If we compare an encrypted file to a locked car (we need one car analogy) how would this play out?
Lets say I have stolen property in my trunk. If I hid my car keys and refused to tell the cops where I put them, then they would get a warrant to search my car and break the lock on my trunk.
So how is this different. It's not my fault my 'lock' is so strong they can't pop it.
Yet. It has already been suggested numerous times by some fringe congressmen that we need to suspend the constitution. It's only a matter of time before they actually do.
It's for our own good....really.
Give me liberty or give me death.
I wish there was still one person alive today in america with half the balls of just one of the people who founded it.
I just sigh and wish I could give them my money.
I used to always keep a windows partition on my computer to play games. I would buy at least 1 game a month on average. But as copy protection became more annoying and as the games because less fun I slowly stopped buying games and was only buying maybe 4 in the last year. At that point I realized I was spending 90% of my time in linux and 10 % in windows. So, when my wife need a new computer I gave her my current one and took the chance to go from a desktop to a full time notebook. I bought a macbook pro. I figured if the OS sucked I could still put linux on it.
I fell in love with the little thing. I never even did get around to putting windows or linux on it. At the same time my wife bought me a xbox 360 for my birthday. I also fell in love with that and my game purchases when from 4 to 0 on the pc and from 0 to 1 or 2 every few months on the 360.
I've seen games I would really LOVE to play on a computer. The new warhammer mmo, a few smaller game developers like the guys who make sins of a solar empire, etc. But without mac or 360 versions I'm not going to buy them. I did pass on spore because of the drm AND the fact it uses cider. I don't want to spend money on a game I can't play in 3 or 4 years. I STILL play baulders gate and diablo 2, warcraft 3, etc.
So sadly I pass on things I would find interesting. But my overall computing experience has been the better for it. I get more work done, I spend more time outside, and I've lost a lot of weight.
It's enough of an upgrade that I'd consider selling my macbook pro to buy a macbook (and that nifty new monitor)
wine is a native api for linux yes, but chrome is not an application native to linux by most definitions.
It was not written with linux program methodology, performance, or usability in mind. Thus it is not native to linux.
which flips the man into the pan...the trap is set...
That's fine, but we get requests to do things like, violate copyright or licensing agreements (can you install this single copy of software I bought in all our labs) to change the entire way we do things (I think you should move from novell to microsoft because I read X in some paper), or straight up in violation of our security, privacy, or acceptable use policies. (I actually had a CS professor ask if we could remove the required full disk encryption from his notebook because he has trouble remembering passwords).
We need more than mail. We need chat and calendar and we prefer that to be integrated as much as possible. Not to mention the cost involved with bandwidth, hardware, and maintenance needed to manage a jabber server, a mail server, and some sort of calendar server.