That's just phonetic spelling for English with an Ebonic accent...
Ebonics?!!! Well well. Which one you dey? Di thing wey mai eyes see, mi mouth no fit talk am!
Seriously, though, I doubt you've ever visited Nigeria, but you don't know any Nigerians, do you? I am impressed you can use the word allophone in a sentence, though.
One advantage that Nigeria has over India, is that the Nigerians' English is very easy to understand.
Jared, how dey go dey go? Before I efen sey eniting I wan tank you for wey you say kain ting about Naija.
But mebbe dey people here dey laff na bicos ee dey like say dis wahala no speak English. He speak pidgin. Wake up and hear de smell, Dell!
Everione naim get right to tink or talk wetin e like about any mata, nobodi get right to say make e no tink like dat. But efribodi here speak good English same like dem do in Merika or in anoda kontri like Merika. No lie Broda! If I talk smoke dey commot for my mouth.. no be lie O!
This is a viewpoint I've always found kinda interesting. I mean, I know for some things the command line is more convenient (I certainly use bash shells for a lot of stuff), but in the case of Windows servers and their configuration, is there a lot of call for it?
This is getting a bit off topic, but since you asked... I think the question is backwards. The question is why isn't there a method to accomplish what is needed without a GUI? This was hinted at since Win2K, but it was closer to reality in Win95 than it is today.
The counterpart to that question is what exists or is possible that's not presented or otherwised obscured in a GUI? On a Windows system, that can be just about anything, and most often is.
The over-rated permissions approach is just one fragment of an example. You're suggesting on a routine basis we use RDP and right-clicking our way through each directory (or a key in the registry) on a given system and then click our way through the ACLs to determine or set permissions, instead of looking at just looking at what 'ls -l' presents? Don't know about you, but I'd prefer a single terminal window over having a bunch of programs running and property sheets exploded all over my screen.
or is it just a case of not being what most older administrators are used to
Windows ACL is much better than the "standard" unixy permissions...
Granted they're more fine-grained, yada, yada, but to the degree they're effective, and to the degree the defaults are acceptable, I wonder how many Windows admins can make use of them, or, just as importantly, manage them. Using the GUI is brain dead, and the command-line tools are messy and a chore to use, not to mention the lack of complementary tools.
And as for interoperability, the folks at Cygwin, for example, have gone to great lengths trying to implement POSIX permissions on a Windows system. The results are not always pretty. You can read about the mapping leak, for example, here
Even if it wasn't used for "therapy" but instead used for a simulation - one that medicates the need for younglings - then it's a good thing right?
Well,that's a tad more intelligent than a bullet to the brain suggested by someone else. Paedophilia is defined as an interest or desire, not an act. The word for the act is molestation or rape. Knowing what words mean is helpful to intelligent discussion, innit?
Satisfying desires or interests of any sort take an infinite number of forms, most of which are benign. With respect to sexual desires, watching X-rated videos found in your local video store is one form. I trust that requires little explanation for the/. crowd. Moreover, watching those videos, does not encourage you to become a rapist, cause you to become a rapist or otherwise make you guilty of any crime. Just as obvious, right?
The problem, however, is that the above common-sense logic, in the context of underage material, is turned on its head. Viewing such material is considered a crime. A serious crime. The reasoning behind this IIRC stems from a Supreme Court decision where it was argued and accepted that such material encourages the person act out on his desires. It has also been argued and accepted in related cases that the distribution of such material creates further demand for them, thereby creating a market of some sort, hence the new laws that make mere possesion a crime.
So, while watching Jenna Jameson do the nasty won't make you a rapist, watching Natalie Portman do the same (to use the current reasoning) will. And, irrespective of your actions or lack of them, you will be deemed a threat to society. And if you are found to be in possession of a topless picture of Natalie Portman, you could very well end up in jail.
Most paedophiles hide in their own maturbatory fantasy worlds and are of no threat to anyone except themselves. Similary, the most of what is considered kiddy porn, urban legends aside, involves no sexual acts.
With respect to the topic at hand, my own opinion is that a therapeutic use would have the same value as that of a Jenna Jameson video. Which isn't much. Satisfying, perhaps, at least to her fans, but not therapeutic. And for the records, I really don't know WTF Jenna Jameson is, and used her name only because I've seen it bandied about on / when the topic involves RAID devices.
i can't wait for my doctor to be outsourced to India.
There was a program on one of the commercial teevee networks a few days ago that showed how many people, Americans included, are taking medical vacations in Thailand. Seems the price of a doctor's visit there is around twenty bucks, and the doctors, for the most part, are American educated and trained. The cost for treatment is generally one-third to one-half of that stateside, and post-op recovery can be relaxing in luxury hotel style accomodations, or lying on the beach.
The point, if there is one, is that the U.S. has no monopoly on world-class healthcare, or anything else for that matter.
Your post reminds me of something I read on the NTBugTraq mailing list. I don't have a link so I'll quote it below.
CWS, CoolWebSearch, is a particularly nasty incarnation of ad-ware. CWS is widely discussed on the web, but it's poorly understood and procedures to remove it are often lengthy, cumbersome and ineffective.... The shield-DLL installs itself to the following registry value in NT4-type systems:
Per MSKB 197571, a.DLL listed there is "loaded by each Windows-based application running within the current logon session." IOW, any ad-ware found here runs concurrently with _every_ program launched. It is truly astonishing that such a registry location exists.
Here's what the CWS shield-DLL manages to do:
1. It prevents almost all registry editors from displaying it as an AppInit_Dlls value. This list includes, but is not limited to: Regedit.exe (even if renamed), Regedt32.exe, Reg.exe, Autoruns, HijackThis, and, my favorite (because I wrote it), the "Silent Runners.vbs" script. The _only_ program known to display it, for unknown reasons, is the freeware Registrar Lite 2.0, available here: http://www.resplendence.com/reglite/
2. It prevents all GUI and command line tools from listing it or deleting it. This list includes, but is not limited to: Windows Explorer, DIR, ATTRIB, CACLS, and DEL.
3. The.DLL file has eccentric security permissions (SYNCHRONIZE and FILE_EXECUTE) and is READ-ONLY. Once the shield-DLL is removed from memory, an Admin must reset security to delete the file.
4. It has a unique name on every system it infects.
5. It ensures that a BHO starts up with IE at every boot.
6. If the BHO is deleted, it restores the BHO under a new name at the next boot.
I'm sure you'd agree it's interesting reading. The conclusions one can draw are numerous, but I can't resist the comment that every time the folks at at Systernals decide to write a program, Microsoft should feel embarrassed.
In its favor, this particular case does admittedly go well with certain decors.
Depends on your version of ugly. Personally, I think all computer equipment should strive to emulate the look of audio equipment, but if that's not possible or desired, sticking a 4U rackmount system into a wooden cabinet offers a look that's infinitely preferrable to the goofiness for sale on store shelves.
If you are not used to reading these SEC filings, even the healthiest of companies can seem to be in pretty dire straits once you get to the "risks" section.
To be fair, if you are used to reading SEC filings you'd know that all risks are described using deliberately vague may or may not language referring to adverse effects, not unlike (to put thing in a/. context) the boilerplate Microsoft uses when politely describing gaping holes in their OS as vulnerabilities that could allow elevation of privilege.
The comment that Hadi Partovi points us to as a comment by his main engineer doesn't seem to be the right one...
Maybe you're looking for the post that begins with:
(I posted this as a new topic earlier. I hope I don't end up in karma hell for re-posting it as a reply like I should have...)... I work on start.com and am one of the 3 folks on the team...
And ends with:
I noticed one of the posts mention that we use a cookie. Yeah we do, we use it to index your settings on the back-end. The last thing we wanted to do was slap on a huge LOGIN TO PASSPORT page before you can even do anything since a) our target audience (you guys) would probably thing that was lame and wouldn't even try the site out and b) we use start.com too and *we* think that would be lame. We want people to check it out, kick the tires, give it a whirl, etc and a simple cookie works pretty well for now.
Reading the previous statement, I wonder whether Microsoft would be less generally reviled if such expressions of humour and honesty were more common.
Funny, when I'm booting Windows, I often find myself wishing it was more like *nix in booting, so I could actually, you know, *see* whatever the hell it does while booting up.
Add the/SOS switch to your boot.ini. You'll get a some screen output. Hardly informative or useful, but it's something, I guess.
I don't agree with Microsoft's policy of restricting updates (such as the essential SP2) from unlicenced products, but cheap headlines like this help [no one].
Perhaps, but when change is needed, the politics of how it's pursued is as important as rational thought, arguments or anything else for that matter. For my money, cheap headlines and various levels of advocacy all play important roles. And to the degree any of them can be considered feckless, it will keep the spotlight on an issue, thereby increasing the chances of success for other means.
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Any regulation on networks is bad. "Freeing information" only means "information provided by the free market." More information providers competing for your DOLLARS means better products/services/speeds.
Exactly. They should the same with roads. What we need is to privatise all roads and highways so that transportation providers will have a level playing field without goverment competition and can compete based on the quality their products and services. Who needs speed limits, police patrols, motor vehicle laws or driver registration when a toll booth at every intersection will free everyone and solve their problems. I live in a nice area and I'm getting sick and tired of poor people clogging up the roads.
And those commie pinko countries like Canada or those in Europe that regularly give shit away like health care? They have it all wrong. What they need to do is to adopt our health care model where healthy competition can spur the development of superior products and services and at lower prices. The drug companies can't be wrong.
Keep the public interest/need out of it.
Indeed. The right of profit triumphs all else. I mean, that's what life's all about, right? Even simple-minded idiots like John Stossel know it says so right in the Constitution.
All they are doing is identifying the brain's reaction to different stimuli.
To the degree that's true, isn't that simply restating the obvious, that the current state of modern medicine is based on the Poke it With a Stick and See What Happens method?
What you wrote is s essentially correct, but is a feature of NTFS, so FAT32 is out of the question.
The 'subst' command also works, as does the ResKit's 'linkd' and Sysinternals 'junction'. All of these, however, have limitations that aren't readily apparent, so none is a substitute for the 'Map Drive to Folder' approach (as though that isn't limited as well).
The feature is a welcome addition, though lame compared to what's possible in *nix. I won't hold my breath waiting for DOS remnants like drive letters will go away any time soon.
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I can't hardly believe that.
Perhaps a more useful link.
That's just phonetic spelling for English with an Ebonic accent...
Ebonics?!!! Well well. Which one you dey? Di thing wey mai eyes see, mi mouth no fit talk am!
Seriously, though, I doubt you've ever visited Nigeria, but you don't know any Nigerians, do you? I am impressed you can use the word allophone in a sentence, though.
Cheers.
One advantage that Nigeria has over India, is that the Nigerians' English is very easy to understand.
Jared, how dey go dey go? Before I efen sey eniting I wan tank you for wey you say kain ting about Naija.
But mebbe dey people here dey laff na bicos ee dey like say dis wahala no speak English. He speak pidgin. Wake up and hear de smell, Dell!
Everione naim get right to tink or talk wetin e like about any mata, nobodi get right to say make e no tink like dat. But efribodi here speak good English same like dem do in Merika or in anoda kontri like Merika. No lie Broda! If I talk smoke dey commot for my mouth.. no be lie O!
God go dey continue to butter yua bread. Amen!
This is a viewpoint I've always found kinda interesting. I mean, I know for some things the command line is more convenient (I certainly use bash shells for a lot of stuff), but in the case of Windows servers and their configuration, is there a lot of call for it?
... I think the question is backwards. The question is why isn't there a method to accomplish what is needed without a GUI? This was hinted at since Win2K, but it was closer to reality in Win95 than it is today.
;-)
This is getting a bit off topic, but since you asked
The counterpart to that question is what exists or is possible that's not presented or otherwised obscured in a GUI? On a Windows system, that can be just about anything, and most often is.
The over-rated permissions approach is just one fragment of an example. You're suggesting on a routine basis we use RDP and right-clicking our way through each directory (or a key in the registry) on a given system and then click our way through the ACLs to determine or set permissions, instead of looking at just looking at what 'ls -l' presents? Don't know about you, but I'd prefer a single terminal window over having a bunch of programs running and property sheets exploded all over my screen.
or is it just a case of not being what most older administrators are used to
Most definitely. They know better.
Windows ACL is much better than the "standard" unixy permissions ...
Granted they're more fine-grained, yada, yada, but to the degree they're effective, and to the degree the defaults are acceptable, I wonder how many Windows admins can make use of them, or, just as importantly, manage them. Using the GUI is brain dead, and the command-line tools are messy and a chore to use, not to mention the lack of complementary tools.
And as for interoperability, the folks at Cygwin, for example, have gone to great lengths trying to implement POSIX permissions on a Windows system. The results are not always pretty. You can read about the mapping leak, for example, here
Even if it wasn't used for "therapy" but instead used for a simulation - one that medicates the need for younglings - then it's a good thing right?
/. crowd. Moreover, watching those videos, does not encourage you to become a rapist, cause you to become a rapist or otherwise make you guilty of any crime. Just as obvious, right?
Well,that's a tad more intelligent than a bullet to the brain suggested by someone else. Paedophilia is defined as an interest or desire, not an act. The word for the act is molestation or rape. Knowing what words mean is helpful to intelligent discussion, innit?
Satisfying desires or interests of any sort take an infinite number of forms, most of which are benign. With respect to sexual desires, watching X-rated videos found in your local video store is one form. I trust that requires little explanation for the
The problem, however, is that the above common-sense logic, in the context of underage material, is turned on its head. Viewing such material is considered a crime. A serious crime. The reasoning behind this IIRC stems from a Supreme Court decision where it was argued and accepted that such material encourages the person act out on his desires. It has also been argued and accepted in related cases that the distribution of such material creates further demand for them, thereby creating a market of some sort, hence the new laws that make mere possesion a crime.
So, while watching Jenna Jameson do the nasty won't make you a rapist, watching Natalie Portman do the same (to use the current reasoning) will. And, irrespective of your actions or lack of them, you will be deemed a threat to society. And if you are found to be in possession of a topless picture of Natalie Portman, you could very well end up in jail.
Most paedophiles hide in their own maturbatory fantasy worlds and are of no threat to anyone except themselves. Similary, the most of what is considered kiddy porn, urban legends aside, involves no sexual acts.
With respect to the topic at hand, my own opinion is that a therapeutic use would have the same value as that of a Jenna Jameson video. Which isn't much. Satisfying, perhaps, at least to her fans, but not therapeutic. And for the records, I really don't know WTF Jenna Jameson is, and used her name only because I've seen it bandied about on / when the topic involves RAID devices.
Crocodiles?
I'm working on a script for a Matt Damon movie, "The Bourne Shell".
FLASHBACK - INT. CAR - NIGHT
"Kill zcat," sed ed.
"Awk!" sed perl.
"Make sum nice tee, joe," sed man.
just don't let the guy declare bankruptcy (another thing I've never really understood)
Such debts can't be discharged in bankruptcy court.
Didn't effect you? Of course not.
The article describes how highly emotional images affect people by effecting a temporary blindness in those that view them.
i can't wait for my doctor to be outsourced to India.
There was a program on one of the commercial teevee networks a few days ago that showed how many people, Americans included, are taking medical vacations in Thailand. Seems the price of a doctor's visit there is around twenty bucks, and the doctors, for the most part, are American educated and trained. The cost for treatment is generally one-third to one-half of that stateside, and post-op recovery can be relaxing in luxury hotel style accomodations, or lying on the beach.
The point, if there is one, is that the U.S. has no monopoly on world-class healthcare, or anything else for that matter.
I still find this funny.
And still use Perl.
Who cares about downloading their TV crap-o-rama? I want to upload my own reality show crap-o-rama! SHAZAM!
... reruns.
LOL! I'll be sure to make time between my downloads of The Charlie Rose Show to watch it.
Seriously, I'm waiting for Slashdot The Teevee Show. We can download dupes and pretend they're just
In its favor, this particular case does admittedly go well with certain decors.
Depends on your version of ugly. Personally, I think all computer equipment should strive to emulate the look of audio equipment, but if that's not possible or desired, sticking a 4U rackmount system into a wooden cabinet offers a look that's infinitely preferrable to the goofiness for sale on store shelves.
If you are not used to reading these SEC filings, even the healthiest of companies can seem to be in pretty dire straits once you get to the "risks" section.
/. context) the boilerplate Microsoft uses when politely describing gaping holes in their OS as vulnerabilities that could allow elevation of privilege.
To be fair, if you are used to reading SEC filings you'd know that all risks are described using deliberately vague may or may not language referring to adverse effects, not unlike (to put thing in a
Maybe you're looking for the post that begins with:
And ends with: Reading the previous statement, I wonder whether Microsoft would be less generally reviled if such expressions of humour and honesty were more common.Funny, when I'm booting Windows, I often find myself wishing it was more like *nix in booting, so I could actually, you know, *see* whatever the hell it does while booting up.
/SOS switch to your boot.ini. You'll get a some screen output. Hardly informative or useful, but it's something, I guess.
Add the
I don't agree with Microsoft's policy of restricting updates (such as the essential SP2) from unlicenced products, but cheap headlines like this help [no one].
Perhaps, but when change is needed, the politics of how it's pursued is as important as rational thought, arguments or anything else for that matter. For my money, cheap headlines and various levels of advocacy all play important roles. And to the degree any of them can be considered feckless, it will keep the spotlight on an issue, thereby increasing the chances of success for other means.
Any regulation on networks is bad. "Freeing information" only means "information provided by the free market." More information providers competing for your DOLLARS means better products/services/speeds.
Exactly. They should the same with roads. What we need is to privatise all roads and highways so that transportation providers will have a level playing field without goverment competition and can compete based on the quality their products and services. Who needs speed limits, police patrols, motor vehicle laws or driver registration when a toll booth at every intersection will free everyone and solve their problems. I live in a nice area and I'm getting sick and tired of poor people clogging up the roads.
And those commie pinko countries like Canada or those in Europe that regularly give shit away like health care? They have it all wrong. What they need to do is to adopt our health care model where healthy competition can spur the development of superior products and services and at lower prices. The drug companies can't be wrong.
Keep the public interest/need out of it.
Indeed. The right of profit triumphs all else. I mean, that's what life's all about, right? Even simple-minded idiots like John Stossel know it says so right in the Constitution.
All they are doing is identifying the brain's reaction to different stimuli.
To the degree that's true, isn't that simply restating the obvious, that the current state of modern medicine is based on the Poke it With a Stick and See What Happens method?
Yeah, but that's Cygwin. Not very efficient to install Cygwin on a client's machine just to kill a process.
:-)
/interactive cmd.exe
My own opinion is that it's more efficient to install Cygwin to do anything on a Windows system.
The following, however, will work similarly:
c:\> at \\clientbox 11:17:00
This link will show you how to start a shell under the SYSTEM account.
What you wrote is s essentially correct, but is a feature of NTFS, so FAT32 is out of the question.
The 'subst' command also works, as does the ResKit's 'linkd' and Sysinternals 'junction'. All of these, however, have limitations that aren't readily apparent, so none is a substitute for the 'Map Drive to Folder' approach (as though that isn't limited as well).
The feature is a welcome addition, though lame compared to what's possible in *nix. I won't hold my breath waiting for DOS remnants like drive letters will go away any time soon.