How much bandwidth does reading email, surfing CNN, or running SSH require?
Not that much. What does require bandwidth are the admin-type things that we all have to do (or should be doing). Backing up and/or restoring from a machine on your local network is one. Ever try to ghost a Windows system to a network share? You'll be crying for more bandwidth. Then, there's all that multimedia stuff already described in a previous post. Myself, for my personal systems, backups are all network-based, installations are networked-based, files are mostly network-based, and on some machines, home directories are networked-based. I'd imagine something similar would be appropriate or commonplace in a family-with-kids environment, to say nothing of what happens in any corporate environment. Hell, I've even set up RAID on a few systems because I found the 100Mb network too slow for backing up newer large capacity drives. And as for my laptop, unless I'm sitting in the backyard or am on the road, I leave the ethernet cable connected.
My own opinion is that any self-respecting geek would already have gigabit NICs, switches, etc. installed. For everyone else, the advantages will become obvious after the technology becomes commonplace, even for those who insist they're fine with the way things are.
Browsers are even worse. They are beyond horrible when trying to use keyboard navigation. The notable exception is Links (similar to lynx), and yet nobody is adapting those highly intuitive and powerful keyboard navigation features to other browsers.
I agree fully, but my own preference is elinks. More importantly, elinks with vi keystrokes exclusively that match the same keystrokes I use in vim, bash, etc. and with a great deal of effort and less than perfect results, Firefox.
Having to scroll side-to-side while reading a webpage is absolutely the worst interface design ever concieved. Web pages aren't giant images or PDFs, after all. I was telling people, 10 years ago, that browsers needed to ignore any HTML code (and wrap/resize images) that forced the page to become wider than the browser window.
The concept of srolling horizontally (or seeing a horizontal scrollbar, for that matter) is obscene. In my case, I simply don't bother with any web page that doesn't fit into the real estate I'm willing to allot for its window, which isn't much. At the same time however, I'd expect a web page designer not to cater to the lowest common denominator, and implement what it is he or she thinks is visually appropriate. Personally, I'd prefer designers stick to the print-oriented design because what exists in the print world is generally far superiour to anything most web designers have come up with. We are supposed to be reading something, right? Or is everything supposed to be a poster with intereactive buttons. Instead of a "giant PDF", I'd prefer it be a standarard PDF, or better yet, a PDF that resembles a printed page but is sized for the awkward sized computer screens we use which are are too narrow for movies and too wide for reading.
At the same time, I've seen some amazing and incredibly beautiful web pages in Flash, for instance, that I can't read in elinks, require too much real estate, and don't correspond to any traditional notion of design, but I sure as hell can't find any fault with them.
Thes repeated discussions of interfaces and interface designs are interesting, but I wonder whether they're at least partially motivated by users with an ever decreasing attention span and an ever increasing laziness. I expect there will be continued improvements (even in Windows), but I have zero expectation that they'll have any serious impact on how we use computers. To paraphrase an earlier post, a visually-pleasing desktop environment, etc. is great, a bit of eye-candy can be a good thing, but real computer users will choose to continue to work in a terminal window because it works best.
I'd be interested in hearing about how well things work using Qemu with FreeBSD as a host OS.
But would be even more interesting is hearing about anyone's experience using the various Qemu compatible OS Types listed on the Qemu support page link, including, but not limited to:
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Maybe the folks at Qemu should check out that redirect?
And 'biased reporting' is an overworn, inflammatory cliche drummed up by the conservative right some years ago in reaction the perception that the Fifth Estate was unfair to their ideals and goals and should be beholden to those in power instead of continuing the long standing tradition of questioning it. The phrase is repeated on a daily basis so often that people actually believe it means something.
If you're a devotee of "talk" radio or a consumer of similar ill-informed, opinion-laden punditry, I guess it's a catchy phrase, and no doubt reinforces long held opinions without the risk of alternative viewpoints or critical thinking messing things up. Like they say, whatever works.
For everyone else, I'd suggest removing this cliche from your vocabulary and consider the following. Everyone has opinions; not everyone has an agenda. People have been known to lie, but not everyone does. The world may seem like shit, but for many of us, it's coming along nicely, thankyouverymuch, and we will insist on continuing our work toward a goal armed with optimism and hope instead of brandishing our cynicism about like a cheap flag, or worse, using it to malign those who disagree with us instead of addressing their opposing point of view.
As for those who do the reporting, I'd wager that anyone who spends years in an institution of higher learning so they can earn (yes, "earn") a degree in journalism has probably learned something during those years that the rest of us sitting on our couches didn't. I'd also wager that after graduating, most take up employment in an organisation that has a history and tradition that extends farther than recent memory. If you don't believe any of that counts for something, then I guess it's both fair and logical to assume you don't count for anything, either.
If you want an idea of whats going on, read/view as much as you can -- from as many sources as you can.
Agreed. Reading is good. As are diverse viewpoints and perspectives.
From Fox to CNN, from the far left Pacifica to convervative talk radio. From The Standard to the NY Times. From LGF to DailyKos.
I would have chosen better examples than Fox, CNN, or "talk" radio. Assuming, of course, the goal is reading, which none of those offer. If you are looking for first-class reporting and context and not the marketing efforts of those who sell headlines with catchy graphics and music accompaniment, or seek to play on the emotions of their audience, then that may be your short list. Either way, you get bonus points for knowing WTF Pacifica is.
My limited experience has suggested to me that the 'real story' is usually somewhere in the middle.
I commend you on being honest to admit your shortcomings. Personally, I'd rephrase the above to read "the truth is somewhere in the middle." The reporting has to come first. I think we'd all prefer it to come from capable and reputable sources (entertainment, idle gossip and well-written blogs, notwithstanding). I'd also hope most of us would prefer not to have our opinions handed to us along with the news of the day, but evidence to contrary abounds.
CACLS and NTRIGHTS have been around for a while now.
So have a bunch of similar one-off tools provided in the various Resource Kits. Have you even used these? Sorry, I can't consider any utility that spits out verbose, nonparseable output as useful except as a last resort. Or is the idea that I'm supposed to be running DIR/Q and cacls and collating the output into a book that I can print daily to get some practical use from it and accomplish a mundane task? Because right now, I sure as hell can't accomplish anything even remotely similar to a trivial 'find . -type f -perm 0777 -user value_added -exec blah {} \;'. And cacls takes care of Tasks, roles and objects... services, registry sections, config/admin programs, and anything... as well, right?
I don't mean to dismissive, but all this talk about What's New In Vista suggests that everything is so well designed and integrated when all I see is the continuation of the historically opaque, overly-complex ad hoc approach that currently exists. Try writing some WMI scripts and see how far you get before you ask yourself why there isn't a standardized, coherent set of tools that accomplish routine tasks without the requisite gobs of Perl or VBS. Or, in this particular case, gobs of output from something like cacls, combined with gobs of output from yet another one-off [enter favourite MS tool].
When you run the console while you're logged into administrator, it does not automatically have superuser status--you need to choose to run the console as administrator [...] How do I know this? I'm one of the contracted testers that is working with the vista firewall and its ACLs.
This sentence doesn't parse for me, but I'd be interested in knowing whether Vista has a "super user", or are you using that term in the historically generalised and hence meaningless sense? In 2000, there's SYSTEM (not entirely appropriate for daily use) which has rights beyond Administrator, but in 2003 there's rights that the SYSTEM account doesn't have unless granted by... wait for it... the Administrator account. I'd also be interested if there's any useful tools for managing permissions. Or is that still a mixture of DOS attributes and whatnot that one needs to right-click one's way through the file system/registry/etc. to make effective use of?
Make gobs of money by ripping DVDS minus bigger gobs of money paying attorney fee equals a world of hurt.
I think that's an exaggeration. First, you can be certain any corporation the size of Circuit City already has a sizable legal department. It's unlikely this action hasn't already been vetted. To the extent there are issues, and dealing with those issues gets beyond the abilities or capabilities of their legal department to handle (an unlikely scenario), they're already set up for using outside counsel when appropriate and such costs are typically budgetted well in advance.
The big question here is, given the possible legal issues, What Was Circuit City's reasoning? The article provides no real insight on that question, and the Circuit City website offers no press releases or information on the subject. In fact the article is a scoop from another website (which, in turn contains a photograph and similar speculation), so it's anybody's guess as to what's going on and why.
It could be that people don't submit articles from El Reg because they can't figure out what a punter is. At any rate...
From the article:
"At the time of making this change the engineer had two management console sessions open - one to the backup storage system and one to live storage. These both have the same interface... the engineer made an incorrect presumption that the window he was working in was the back-up rather than the live server. Subsequently the command to reconfigure the disk pack and remove all data therein was made to the wrong server."
Anyone who has inadvertently typed an 'rm -rf' should now feel a bit better.
I do wonder whether this will cause people (and companies) to re-evaluate the growing popularity and hence reliance on web-based email. Myself, I don't go near it. Leaving the reliability concerns, and ignoring the historically bad reputation of services such as Hotmail, the spammy footers and similarly badly formatted garbage that users of web-based email end up sending everyone else, I can't fathom why it's so difficult for someone simply to log in remotely to a server that their company manages, or their own box at home. I hear you can even use those same tubes to do it.
This incident makes for a good argument, but my guess is that people will want to continue use their browsers for everything and similarly continue to rely on companies they think they know.
I despise Realplayer. It does nothing for me, and when it gets installed, it's harder to get rid of than spyware.
I believe things have changed for the better, but IIRC, RealPlayer didn't cause any problems provided you took the time to configure it, not unlike installing Windows for the first time and needing to spend a good amount of time unchecking and disabling all the "features." Most people didn't, of course, and hence the outcries of "spyware."
That said, the RealAlternative codec works fine, and when used with mplayerc (for Windows users), the playback problems are gone. No need for RealPlayer.
My main complaint about java regexps is that all the backslashes have to be quoted with a backslash, making them completely unreadable compared to a language that supports regular expressions natively, like perl...
You're asking about Java regexps, but similar problems extend to other languages where the the syntax, features and usage are different enough so that anyone with a basis in Perl is similarly annoyed, if not dumbfounded by the awkwardness and limitations. Any systems administrator will tell you sed and awk are still alive and well and very much in use, as other shell tools, even where Perl is available. Then there's.NET, C#, Python and PCRE, which you mentioned. I use Vim, for example, all day long and still trip up on the differences and find myself using workarounds where I can use Perl directly.
And have you ever tried telling a Python programmer they could use PERL?
Not if that programmer didn't at least know it was called Perl, and not PERL.
I'd happily have ten copies of Python on my server just to avoid having that debate once.
I'm not sure what that means, but whatever you can do with those ten copies of Python, rest assured I can do it with one copy of Perl. And most likely in a single line.;-)
As to the parent's advocacy against anything not involving C, shell, Perl, etc., I'm guessing he may be referring to using PHP for something other than web-related work. In that regard, I did come across a discussion on some mailing list from someone talking about writing shell-type code using PHP. I found the idea too strange to fathom, so maybe someone can clue me in if people are actually in the habit of doing this, and living to tell about it.
Another session discussed how malicious software could leave traces on Vista PCs even after it is removed, McAfee's Kuo said. The trace is in the form of a so-called symbolic link, a technology introduced in Vista. These are designed to make it easier to locate items on a computer, and are somewhat similar to current shortcuts in Windows XP and aliases in Mac OS systems.
"Symbolic links can clutter up your machine with lots and lots of links that point nowhere" after the malicious software is removed, Kuo said. Protective tools will probably end up doing the clean-up, he said. It's a sign that on Vista systems, security software has more work to do than on earlier versions of the operating system.
This new symbolic link technology sounds like serious stuff. I hope they hold back on the release date until they it's working correctly.
Chances are the install is going to work. I think people should focus their attention on the OS after it is installed.
Sure!
ACLs? No worries. We'll just have to get into the habit of running chmod 777 across the file system and we'll be fully backwards compatible. I am left wondering whether they'll opt to make the permission structures more unecessarily complex/obtuse (and typically left alone for that very reason) than they currently are.
An even bigger question is what, if anything, they've done with the DOS attributes? Got have those. Otherwise, the DIR command output might be even more useless, if that's possible.
As compared to your comment? Don't mean to be harsh here, but the Indexing Service has always been regarded a bit of a joke. I'd suggest that the post you're complaining about is more informative than your own.
Without spending much time, it effectively indexes filenames and text file contents [...]
Text files on a Windows system? Dear Lord. Are there any?
[...] on my server.
Obviously an enterprise level environment. Sorry. While personal anecdotes can sometimes interesting to read, they're hardly the basis for offering informed opinions, doncha think?
When will "professionals" realize that Word is not meant for all documents? It's great for short documents, posters, etc.
I'd like to think that "professionals" have no problem grasping that Word isn't really good for anything. Office drones and beginners may get by with writing shopping lists and memos in Word, but I consider it unfortunate that their sheer number perpetuate the notion that Word is the tool to use for generating documents of any type.
But for real professional looking documents it's hard to beat a typesetter like TeX [or LaTeX].
Agreed, but most anyone can crank out a short document, poster, etc. faster in LaTeX than some else pointing and clicking their way using Word. Long articles and books doubly so.
I submitted the following as a story some time ago. It wasn't accepted so I'm guessing most/. readers are more interested in reading about inconsequential techno-trivia or games. Maybe someone will find it as interesting as I did.
I'll just backup my ~/.firefox-conf file and call it a day, right?
The question, of course, is what's going to break. And what the new rules are. And then searching for replacement extensions to to replace the existing ones, followed by the usual trial and error to see to what extent the replacement is acceptable. And that's after you've spent the time figuring out how it works.
Let's take one example -- configuring keyboard shorcuts. Customising keyboard shortcuts is supposed to be done using something like the keyconfig extension . But that won't always work because the keyconfig extension won't accomodate anything more than the simple changes, so directly editing the prefs.js file is required. So, close Firefox, make the changes, and restart Firefox, right? Well, after writing a few dozen lines that look like
Close Current Tab: c user_pref("keyconfig.main.xxx_key_CloseTabFocusLef t", "!][][][var tab = gBrowser.mCurrentTab; if(tab.previousSibling) gBrowser.mTabContainer.selectedIndex--; gBrowser.removeTab(tab);");
I restart Firefox and see my carefully crafted, thoughtfully commented prefs.js file get rewritten. Lather, rinse, repeat and an afternoon is gone.
Maybe the above is an unfair example, but it seems to me that this kind of nonsense reminds me too much of Windows Update where something will typically break something else with little or no warning, and the lack of documentation leaves the user in a position where guessing is the operative word. Will the new version accept keyconfig? Will my existing prefs.js work? And what about the other dozen extensions I have installed?
Firefox is a great browser, and the large number of extensions can be a blessing, but I'll pass on the updates and start relying more on using lynx, elinks, etc. for the day to day stuff. Maybe when things settle down...
Seriously, my PIII laptop has 'Designed for Windows 98' on it, and can run Windows 2000 and Windows XP just fine, but the mainstream Linux distros are too bloaty to even install: the Ubuntu and Fedora installers literally hang, and SUSE and Mandriva are too slow even on my other machine in the +2GHz range.
It's been already pointed out this is mostly FUD, but I'll chime in as well. I've installed Windows 2000 and XP with no problem on all sorts of PIII machines. I've also used those machines and run a gamut of programs, video editing included.
I've also installed just about every Linux distribution on one or more of those machines and had no problems with the installation, and experienced no limitations with any programs I ran. Yeah, video-related programs included. From my own experience, distros like Ubuntu to seem to come out of the box with the proverbial kitchen sink, but nothing that adding some extra RAM doesn't cure.
For the record, all of those machines were the 550-600 Mhz variety with onboard video (a whopping 4MB in most cases) hooked up to CRT monitors running 1280x1024@85Hz. None has more than 128MB of RAM. My laptop is a 2GHz Thinkpad clocked down to 800Mhz (an arbitrary choice, but everything works and the machine stays nice and cool) and runs FreeBSD with a Gnome desktop. As a side note, I'll add that if I had any complaint whatsoever, it would be with gnome-terminal only, but on a 1024x768 laptop, the "full screen" feature is a blessing.
I'd suggest that anyone who states or implies that Linux, etc. is too slow, hangs, or requires more than average processing capabilities has some hardware issues that they haven't bothered to investigate beforehand and consequently can't possibly diagnose or fix, let alone offer wide-ranging comments on how their personal one-off experience is representative of anything more than just that.
Personally, I am quite happy managing my inbox myself. I judge for myself how important an email is likely to be, based on previous correspondance with that person. Important people get their own folders, and the email is routed to that location via filtering. Simple.
Indeed. My guess is that the ever-increasing need for the New And Improved(TM) has to do with people not wanting to take the time or trouble to use (and/or learn) their computers.
Someone make this easier, because thinking is too hard. Just give me a button to click!
Personally, I use mutt along with the usual fetchmail->procmail->mbox routine. Searching, sorting, filtering, copying, moving all with braindead easy-to-use vi keystrokes. Visualising relationships? LOL. How about filtering using a regular expression?
What else could I possibly need? Aside from dealing with brain-dead, misconfigured clients sending emails that wind up in my inbox with spam footers attached, I couldn't be happier. Standard tools, standard formats.
I know, the nerds out there are saying "just edit your x config file", right? OK, but here's the thing:
(1) that's an INEXCUSABLY STUPID AND LAZY way to design operating system software (2) it's too easy to screw up your x config file and break x (and by "too easy" I mean "remotely possible")
So, tell me if I have this right: you're insisting on using an OS that's designed around the concept of a terminal, a shell and text configuration files, and you adamantly refusing to use a terminal, a shell, or edit a text file?
I'd suggest you'd be happier using Windows. It doesn't have any of those features you object to so strongly.
Everyone that builds network imaging boot CD's does.
Or "uses", of course.
But networking in DOS, like just about everything else in DOS is still ugly, limited and painful. And if you remove the need to support a legacy application, it's usefulness approaches zero.
I can go on for hours if you really want me to list everyone who cares about FreeDos....
And I could go on about the what I see as my wasted years in the DOS world, to say nothing of the first few generations of Windows. To be fair, you are correct, DOS is still alive and well and very much in use, but my hopes for the new generation is that after using for the first time something like a Knoppix live CD is that they never even consider learning or using what the rest of did, and turn their noses up at the very thought of it.
Makes you wonder why children take the male's family name?
Not really. For those averse to reading, the Netherlands section is probably the funniest.
But while we're on the subject, I do wonder why a woman asserting her independence by refusing to take her husband's name when getting married feels perfectly comfortable carrying her father's name. According to the Wikipedia article, the practice is generally in decline, but for those of us old enough to remember the shrill "I'm no one's property" arguments before the notion became politically correct and commonplace, the irony lingers. Even funnier if you've been through divorce court.
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How much bandwidth does reading email, surfing CNN, or running SSH require?
Not that much. What does require bandwidth are the admin-type things that we all have to do (or should be doing). Backing up and/or restoring from a machine on your local network is one. Ever try to ghost a Windows system to a network share? You'll be crying for more bandwidth. Then, there's all that multimedia stuff already described in a previous post. Myself, for my personal systems, backups are all network-based, installations are networked-based, files are mostly network-based, and on some machines, home directories are networked-based. I'd imagine something similar would be appropriate or commonplace in a family-with-kids environment, to say nothing of what happens in any corporate environment. Hell, I've even set up RAID on a few systems because I found the 100Mb network too slow for backing up newer large capacity drives. And as for my laptop, unless I'm sitting in the backyard or am on the road, I leave the ethernet cable connected.
My own opinion is that any self-respecting geek would already have gigabit NICs, switches, etc. installed. For everyone else, the advantages will become obvious after the technology becomes commonplace, even for those who insist they're fine with the way things are.
Browsers are even worse. They are beyond horrible when trying to use keyboard navigation. The notable exception is Links (similar to lynx), and yet nobody is adapting those highly intuitive and powerful keyboard navigation features to other browsers.
I agree fully, but my own preference is elinks. More importantly, elinks with vi keystrokes exclusively that match the same keystrokes I use in vim, bash, etc. and with a great deal of effort and less than perfect results, Firefox.
Having to scroll side-to-side while reading a webpage is absolutely the worst interface design ever concieved. Web pages aren't giant images or PDFs, after all. I was telling people, 10 years ago, that browsers needed to ignore any HTML code (and wrap/resize images) that forced the page to become wider than the browser window.
The concept of srolling horizontally (or seeing a horizontal scrollbar, for that matter) is obscene. In my case, I simply don't bother with any web page that doesn't fit into the real estate I'm willing to allot for its window, which isn't much. At the same time however, I'd expect a web page designer not to cater to the lowest common denominator, and implement what it is he or she thinks is visually appropriate. Personally, I'd prefer designers stick to the print-oriented design because what exists in the print world is generally far superiour to anything most web designers have come up with. We are supposed to be reading something, right? Or is everything supposed to be a poster with intereactive buttons. Instead of a "giant PDF", I'd prefer it be a standarard PDF, or better yet, a PDF that resembles a printed page but is sized for the awkward sized computer screens we use which are are too narrow for movies and too wide for reading.
At the same time, I've seen some amazing and incredibly beautiful web pages in Flash, for instance, that I can't read in elinks, require too much real estate, and don't correspond to any traditional notion of design, but I sure as hell can't find any fault with them.
Thes repeated discussions of interfaces and interface designs are interesting, but I wonder whether they're at least partially motivated by users with an ever decreasing attention span and an ever increasing laziness. I expect there will be continued improvements (even in Windows), but I have zero expectation that they'll have any serious impact on how we use computers. To paraphrase an earlier post, a visually-pleasing desktop environment, etc. is great, a bit of eye-candy can be a good thing, but real computer users will choose to continue to work in a terminal window because it works best.
I'd be interested in hearing about how well things work using Qemu with FreeBSD as a host OS.
But would be even more interesting is hearing about anyone's experience using the various Qemu compatible OS Types listed on the Qemu support page link, including, but not limited to:
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Maybe the folks at Qemu should check out that redirect?
True 'unbiased' reporting is a myth.
And 'biased reporting' is an overworn, inflammatory cliche drummed up by the conservative right some years ago in reaction the perception that the Fifth Estate was unfair to their ideals and goals and should be beholden to those in power instead of continuing the long standing tradition of questioning it. The phrase is repeated on a daily basis so often that people actually believe it means something.
If you're a devotee of "talk" radio or a consumer of similar ill-informed, opinion-laden punditry, I guess it's a catchy phrase, and no doubt reinforces long held opinions without the risk of alternative viewpoints or critical thinking messing things up. Like they say, whatever works.
For everyone else, I'd suggest removing this cliche from your vocabulary and consider the following. Everyone has opinions; not everyone has an agenda. People have been known to lie, but not everyone does. The world may seem like shit, but for many of us, it's coming along nicely, thankyouverymuch, and we will insist on continuing our work toward a goal armed with optimism and hope instead of brandishing our cynicism about like a cheap flag, or worse, using it to malign those who disagree with us instead of addressing their opposing point of view.
As for those who do the reporting, I'd wager that anyone who spends years in an institution of higher learning so they can earn (yes, "earn") a degree in journalism has probably learned something during those years that the rest of us sitting on our couches didn't. I'd also wager that after graduating, most take up employment in an organisation that has a history and tradition that extends farther than recent memory. If you don't believe any of that counts for something, then I guess it's both fair and logical to assume you don't count for anything, either.
If you want an idea of whats going on, read/view as much as you can -- from as many sources as you can.
Agreed. Reading is good. As are diverse viewpoints and perspectives.
From Fox to CNN, from the far left Pacifica to convervative talk radio. From The Standard to the NY Times. From LGF to DailyKos.
I would have chosen better examples than Fox, CNN, or "talk" radio. Assuming, of course, the goal is reading, which none of those offer. If you are looking for first-class reporting and context and not the marketing efforts of those who sell headlines with catchy graphics and music accompaniment, or seek to play on the emotions of their audience, then that may be your short list. Either way, you get bonus points for knowing WTF Pacifica is.
My limited experience has suggested to me that the 'real story' is usually somewhere in the middle.
I commend you on being honest to admit your shortcomings. Personally, I'd rephrase the above to read "the truth is somewhere in the middle." The reporting has to come first. I think we'd all prefer it to come from capable and reputable sources (entertainment, idle gossip and well-written blogs, notwithstanding). I'd also hope most of us would prefer not to have our opinions handed to us along with the news of the day, but evidence to contrary abounds.
There's also ... Ctrl+Shift+Enter for ".org".
1, 2, 3.
1, 2, 3.
Hmm.
CACLS and NTRIGHTS have been around for a while now.
/Q and cacls and collating the output into a book that I can print daily to get some practical use from it and accomplish a mundane task? Because right now, I sure as hell can't accomplish anything even remotely similar to a trivial 'find . -type f -perm 0777 -user value_added -exec blah {} \;'. And cacls takes care of Tasks, roles and objects ... services, registry sections, config/admin programs, and anything ... as well, right?
So have a bunch of similar one-off tools provided in the various Resource Kits. Have you even used these? Sorry, I can't consider any utility that spits out verbose, nonparseable output as useful except as a last resort. Or is the idea that I'm supposed to be running DIR
I don't mean to dismissive, but all this talk about What's New In Vista suggests that everything is so well designed and integrated when all I see is the continuation of the historically opaque, overly-complex ad hoc approach that currently exists. Try writing some WMI scripts and see how far you get before you ask yourself why there isn't a standardized, coherent set of tools that accomplish routine tasks without the requisite gobs of Perl or VBS. Or, in this particular case, gobs of output from something like cacls, combined with gobs of output from yet another one-off [enter favourite MS tool].
When you run the console while you're logged into administrator, it does not automatically have superuser status--you need to choose to run the console as administrator [...] How do I know this? I'm one of the contracted testers that is working with the vista firewall and its ACLs.
... wait for it ... the Administrator account. I'd also be interested if there's any useful tools for managing permissions. Or is that still a mixture of DOS attributes and whatnot that one needs to right-click one's way through the file system/registry/etc. to make effective use of?
This sentence doesn't parse for me, but I'd be interested in knowing whether Vista has a "super user", or are you using that term in the historically generalised and hence meaningless sense? In 2000, there's SYSTEM (not entirely appropriate for daily use) which has rights beyond Administrator, but in 2003 there's rights that the SYSTEM account doesn't have unless granted by
Make gobs of money by ripping DVDS minus bigger gobs of money paying attorney fee equals a world of hurt.
I think that's an exaggeration. First, you can be certain any corporation the size of Circuit City already has a sizable legal department. It's unlikely this action hasn't already been vetted. To the extent there are issues, and dealing with those issues gets beyond the abilities or capabilities of their legal department to handle (an unlikely scenario), they're already set up for using outside counsel when appropriate and such costs are typically budgetted well in advance.
The big question here is, given the possible legal issues, What Was Circuit City's reasoning? The article provides no real insight on that question, and the Circuit City website offers no press releases or information on the subject. In fact the article is a scoop from another website (which, in turn contains a photograph and similar speculation), so it's anybody's guess as to what's going on and why.
From the article:
Anyone who has inadvertently typed an 'rm -rf' should now feel a bit better.
I do wonder whether this will cause people (and companies) to re-evaluate the growing popularity and hence reliance on web-based email. Myself, I don't go near it. Leaving the reliability concerns, and ignoring the historically bad reputation of services such as Hotmail, the spammy footers and similarly badly formatted garbage that users of web-based email end up sending everyone else, I can't fathom why it's so difficult for someone simply to log in remotely to a server that their company manages, or their own box at home. I hear you can even use those same tubes to do it.
This incident makes for a good argument, but my guess is that people will want to continue use their browsers for everything and similarly continue to rely on companies they think they know.
I despise Realplayer. It does nothing for me, and when it gets installed, it's harder to get rid of than spyware.
I believe things have changed for the better, but IIRC, RealPlayer didn't cause any problems provided you took the time to configure it, not unlike installing Windows for the first time and needing to spend a good amount of time unchecking and disabling all the "features." Most people didn't, of course, and hence the outcries of "spyware."
That said, the RealAlternative codec works fine, and when used with mplayerc (for Windows users), the playback problems are gone. No need for RealPlayer.
My main complaint about java regexps is that all the backslashes have to be quoted with a backslash, making them completely unreadable compared to a language that supports regular expressions natively, like perl ...
.NET, C#, Python and PCRE, which you mentioned. I use Vim, for example, all day long and still trip up on the differences and find myself using workarounds where I can use Perl directly.
You're asking about Java regexps, but similar problems extend to other languages where the the syntax, features and usage are different enough so that anyone with a basis in Perl is similarly annoyed, if not dumbfounded by the awkwardness and limitations. Any systems administrator will tell you sed and awk are still alive and well and very much in use, as other shell tools, even where Perl is available. Then there's
No problem. Boston's WiFi technology will be using of tubes instead of tunnels.
And have you ever tried telling a Python programmer they could use PERL?
;-)
Not if that programmer didn't at least know it was called Perl, and not PERL.
I'd happily have ten copies of Python on my server just to avoid having that debate once.
I'm not sure what that means, but whatever you can do with those ten copies of Python, rest assured I can do it with one copy of Perl. And most likely in a single line.
As to the parent's advocacy against anything not involving C, shell, Perl, etc., I'm guessing he may be referring to using PHP for something other than web-related work. In that regard, I did come across a discussion on some mailing list from someone talking about writing shell-type code using PHP. I found the idea too strange to fathom, so maybe someone can clue me in if people are actually in the habit of doing this, and living to tell about it.
This new symbolic link technology sounds like serious stuff. I hope they hold back on the release date until they it's working correctly.
Sure!
ACLs? No worries. We'll just have to get into the habit of running chmod 777 across the file system and we'll be fully backwards compatible. I am left wondering whether they'll opt to make the permission structures more unecessarily complex/obtuse (and typically left alone for that very reason) than they currently are.
An even bigger question is what, if anything, they've done with the DOS attributes? Got have those. Otherwise, the DIR command output might be even more useless, if that's possible.
You're too humble. And this is too funny.
My contributions:
It's sad that the parent got insightful.
As compared to your comment? Don't mean to be harsh here, but the Indexing Service has always been regarded a bit of a joke. I'd suggest that the post you're complaining about is more informative than your own.
Without spending much time, it effectively indexes filenames and text file contents [...]
Text files on a Windows system? Dear Lord. Are there any?
[...] on my server.
Obviously an enterprise level environment. Sorry. While personal anecdotes can sometimes interesting to read, they're hardly the basis for offering informed opinions, doncha think?
When will "professionals" realize that Word is not meant for all documents? It's great for short documents, posters, etc.
/. readers are more interested in reading about inconsequential techno-trivia or games. Maybe someone will find it as interesting as I did.
I'd like to think that "professionals" have no problem grasping that Word isn't really good for anything. Office drones and beginners may get by with writing shopping lists and memos in Word, but I consider it unfortunate that their sheer number perpetuate the notion that Word is the tool to use for generating documents of any type.
But for real professional looking documents it's hard to beat a typesetter like TeX [or LaTeX].
Agreed, but most anyone can crank out a short document, poster, etc. faster in LaTeX than some else pointing and clicking their way using Word. Long articles and books doubly so.
I submitted the following as a story some time ago. It wasn't accepted so I'm guessing most
Love at First Byte -- Among the many enduring passions of Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming is only the one with the most pages.,
I'll just backup my ~/.firefox-conf file and call it a day, right?
The question, of course, is what's going to break. And what the new rules are. And then searching for replacement extensions to to replace the existing ones, followed by the usual trial and error to see to what extent the replacement is acceptable. And that's after you've spent the time figuring out how it works.
Let's take one example -- configuring keyboard shorcuts. Customising keyboard shortcuts is supposed to be done using something like the keyconfig extension . But that won't always work because the keyconfig extension won't accomodate anything more than the simple changes, so directly editing the prefs.js file is required. So, close Firefox, make the changes, and restart Firefox, right? Well, after writing a few dozen lines that look like
I restart Firefox and see my carefully crafted, thoughtfully commented prefs.js file get rewritten. Lather, rinse, repeat and an afternoon is gone.
Maybe the above is an unfair example, but it seems to me that this kind of nonsense reminds me too much of Windows Update where something will typically break something else with little or no warning, and the lack of documentation leaves the user in a position where guessing is the operative word. Will the new version accept keyconfig? Will my existing prefs.js work? And what about the other dozen extensions I have installed?
Firefox is a great browser, and the large number of extensions can be a blessing, but I'll pass on the updates and start relying more on using lynx, elinks, etc. for the day to day stuff. Maybe when things settle down ...
Seriously, my PIII laptop has 'Designed for Windows 98' on it, and can run Windows 2000 and Windows XP just fine, but the mainstream Linux distros are too bloaty to even install: the Ubuntu and Fedora installers literally hang, and SUSE and Mandriva are too slow even on my other machine in the +2GHz range.
It's been already pointed out this is mostly FUD, but I'll chime in as well. I've installed Windows 2000 and XP with no problem on all sorts of PIII machines. I've also used those machines and run a gamut of programs, video editing included.
I've also installed just about every Linux distribution on one or more of those machines and had no problems with the installation, and experienced no limitations with any programs I ran. Yeah, video-related programs included. From my own experience, distros like Ubuntu to seem to come out of the box with the proverbial kitchen sink, but nothing that adding some extra RAM doesn't cure.
For the record, all of those machines were the 550-600 Mhz variety with onboard video (a whopping 4MB in most cases) hooked up to CRT monitors running 1280x1024@85Hz. None has more than 128MB of RAM. My laptop is a 2GHz Thinkpad clocked down to 800Mhz (an arbitrary choice, but everything works and the machine stays nice and cool) and runs FreeBSD with a Gnome desktop. As a side note, I'll add that if I had any complaint whatsoever, it would be with gnome-terminal only, but on a 1024x768 laptop, the "full screen" feature is a blessing.
I'd suggest that anyone who states or implies that Linux, etc. is too slow, hangs, or requires more than average processing capabilities has some hardware issues that they haven't bothered to investigate beforehand and consequently can't possibly diagnose or fix, let alone offer wide-ranging comments on how their personal one-off experience is representative of anything more than just that.
Personally, I am quite happy managing my inbox myself. I judge for myself how important an email is likely to be, based on previous correspondance with that person. Important people get their own folders, and the email is routed to that location via filtering. Simple.
Indeed. My guess is that the ever-increasing need for the New And Improved(TM) has to do with people not wanting to take the time or trouble to use (and/or learn) their computers.
Someone make this easier, because thinking is too hard. Just give me a button to click!
Personally, I use mutt along with the usual fetchmail->procmail->mbox routine. Searching, sorting, filtering, copying, moving all with braindead easy-to-use vi keystrokes. Visualising relationships? LOL. How about filtering using a regular expression?
What else could I possibly need? Aside from dealing with brain-dead, misconfigured clients sending emails that wind up in my inbox with spam footers attached, I couldn't be happier. Standard tools, standard formats.
I know, the nerds out there are saying "just edit your x config file", right? OK, but here's the thing:
(1) that's an INEXCUSABLY STUPID AND LAZY way to design operating system software
(2) it's too easy to screw up your x config file and break x (and by "too easy" I mean "remotely possible")
So, tell me if I have this right: you're insisting on using an OS that's designed around the concept of a terminal, a shell and text configuration files, and you adamantly refusing to use a terminal, a shell, or edit a text file?
I'd suggest you'd be happier using Windows. It doesn't have any of those features you object to so strongly.
Everyone that builds network imaging boot CD's does.
Or "uses", of course.
But networking in DOS, like just about everything else in DOS is still ugly, limited and painful. And if you remove the need to support a legacy application, it's usefulness approaches zero.
I can go on for hours if you really want me to list everyone who cares about FreeDos....
And I could go on about the what I see as my wasted years in the DOS world, to say nothing of the first few generations of Windows. To be fair, you are correct, DOS is still alive and well and very much in use, but my hopes for the new generation is that after using for the first time something like a Knoppix live CD is that they never even consider learning or using what the rest of did, and turn their noses up at the very thought of it.
Makes you wonder why children take the male's family name?
Not really. For those averse to reading, the Netherlands section is probably the funniest.
But while we're on the subject, I do wonder why a woman asserting her independence by refusing to take her husband's name when getting married feels perfectly comfortable carrying her father's name. According to the Wikipedia article, the practice is generally in decline, but for those of us old enough to remember the shrill "I'm no one's property" arguments before the notion became politically correct and commonplace, the irony lingers. Even funnier if you've been through divorce court.
What would happen if Microsoft decided to start making the browser entirely standards compliant?
... web developers could develop to standards and call it a day?
Uh