My partner Stuart, for instance, is addicted to capucino (has a $10,000 machine of his own at home... The use of solid-state drives would keep him in his chair more, and more than pay for the cost in increased productivity.
Speaking as someone who manages people and owns a $5000 espresso machine, I'd suggest you may likely be getting the highest productivity you can expect from Stuart precisely because he has time to get up out of his chair for his cappucino.
Cutting short breaks can be like deciding to forego 4 hours of sleep each night to be able to work an extra 4 hours each day. Moreover, the attention span of a typical person is limited to about 20-25 minutes, after which the brain starts slowing down for a few vacant minutes.
"The popular Craigslist bulletin board service has been allegedly used to offer sex and drugs. According to the report, members are using the system to conspire with other members, offering companionship, massage, and sex in conjunction with variety of controlled substances for fun and possibly profit.
One official was quoted as saying, "It took some time, but the guys in our Cybersecurity Department finally cracked the secret codes"
There is no good option for making text zoom permanent if you have bad eyes.
My eyes are getting progressively worse (biology, according to my ophtalmologist).
What works for me is setting the font size to a small number and using those drugstore-type reading glasses. While it sounds like a scene out of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, it's remarkably effective, and additionally allows me to use high resolutions that would otherwise be tiring over long periods.
BofA: What is your name? Sir Lancelot: My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot. BofA: What is your quest? Sir Lancelot: To seek the Holy Grail. BofA: What is your favorite color? Sir Lancelot: Blue. BofA: Right, off you go.
And if I was running a school, I would surley want somebody to yell at when things go foobar.
And if my name was Shirley, I'd surely be surly that you couldn't spell it. But because it's not, I'll suggest that maybe it's a good thing you're not running a school.
If you read the article, you'd know that they use 3 pounds of coffee beans for every pound of pasta. No wonder they're so productive, they never sleep!
Or maybe that the coffee is needed to make up for the pasta?
When President Bush referred to The Internets, many people thought he was mis-speaking. He was apparently foreshadowing a plan to make sure that Europe gets off our Internet and makes their own!
My own opinion of people who are in the habit of mis-speaking is that while they're vaguely aware of the meanings of the words of they're using, they have trouble stringing them together to form a coherent thought. Hence the earnest but dazed squint of our current President, not unlike the look on the face of a grade school student standing before his class delivering a book report on a book he didn't quite understand hoping his selection of of bullet points coincide with what the the teacher wanted to hear.
More to the topic, I did enjoy reading the following:
The automation plan will use existing and proven technologies and protocols to depoliticise the root by making it a purely technical matter, Kane said.
Perhaps it's some sort of nostalgia in reverse, but one would think that technical matters could and should be decided by those in academia or by those folks we used to call "experts." The Diebold circus provided us with an example of how corporate concerns don't belong in the mix. This controversy illustrates that politics similarly doesn't, with or without a squinty President at the helm.
This has only been an issue historically because: Pre-SP2, most Windows users didn't know to enable the firewall... Router/firewall devices were much less prevalent
Historically? Dear God.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Release Date: August 25, 2004
Windows XP Service Pack 1a - Release Date: February 3, 2003
Given the huge numbers of Windows-based PCs running something other than WindowsXP, both in enterprise and home user settings, any attempt to shrug this off as history is somewhere between naive and foolish. And making note of the fact that new PCs typically ship with XP+SP2, together with the wide selection of NAT-type boxes available for sale at your local electronics reseller is less relevant than you believe.
Put another way, if everyone is buying a new PC, and/or has installed SP2 on their XP systems with the firewall turned on, and/or has purchased a NAT box, and/or a separate firewall, and/or has antivirus software running, and/or has recently signed up for DSL/Cable service, then there's no problems out there, life's great, and we should all just call it a day, right?
As for the article, yes, indeed, it may present something with which most/. readers are already familiar, and it may be self-serving, but the information in it is worth repeating. And repeating again and again until either the easy fixes you mention (to the degree one can actually refer to them as fixes) are widely implemented, or everyone starts running Linux.
If you ponder the length of that wait, you may develop a better sense of time and thus, history. Come back in five years or so and give us a progress update.
The European Union Commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communication, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and have adopted a five year plan for what will be known as Euroenglish.
In the first year "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, a hard "c" will be replaced with "k. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one letter less.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the second year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f", making words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the third year, publik akeseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Government will enkourage the removal of double letters and you will agre that the horible mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful so it will go.
Bu the fourth year. peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fife year, ze uneseary "o" kan be droped from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplied to ozer kombinations of letrs.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls of difikultiis and everivun vil finf it eisi to understand.
I suppose "seized some major online distribution servers" sounds better than "nicked about a thousand bucks worth of equipment from some joe who never saw a dime from all the evil, evil crime he did.
Admittedly, it does sound better than
The investigation culminated in the apprehension of an unemployed college student in his parents' basement, catching him red-handed inserting lewd and lascivious ascii artwork into an NFO file. Investigators have declared Eugene Roshal, John Cowan and Paul Burton to be Persons of Interest and ask for the public's help.
Switching to one shared library means there's only one place for vulnerabilities to arise in this respect, and when each vulnerability is fixed, it will be fixed for all the applications at once.
So this is like ordering a #4, instead of having to order a Double-Whopper with Cheese, Large Fries and Large Coke all separately? Sounds simple.
May I take your order?
Yeah, we'll each have one library vulnerability, with one Microsoft Security Bulletin, a Microsoft Knowledge Base article, a BugTraq ID, a CVE ID, and if you could, throw some links, -- Shuddup! I don't care if you just wanted a Coke! -- Sorry, no, I didn't mean you. Add some emails, and newsgroup postings with extra napkins, but put it all in the same bag for me, will ya? And that's to go!
I would gloat over these Penguin Classics. I would look at them on their shelves, sorted lovingly, placed carefully. I would read their covers on short visits, read them through when temptation and time were aptly combined. I would anticipate them when I couldn't see them. Coveting them now is to caress them. Having them to read is to caress them. Tending them is to caress them. Caressing them is to thrill to opening them, reading their titles and authors; taking in their wealth of ideas and knowledge: understanding them.
Overlooking the fact that the above comment was offered by a guy (with a predeliction for wearing light blue sweaters no doubt), there seems to be people out there who love paperbacks the same way as some of us love leather.
I guess there's a certain je ne sais quoi about books that are printed on cheap paper and fall apart as easily as they discolour and stain that the rest of us simply don't appreciate.
Err, more correctly, Evangelical Protestant Christian Republic of America.
Christians were (and remain) Christians long before anyone anyone had heard of Martin Luther, or before anyone thought of translating anything into English and binding it in soft-cover to thump and reinterpret.
That's even before the schism that brought about the Catholics (the folks with the pointy hats) establishing themselves in Rome under a pope (the guy with the really big pointy hat), leaving the Orthodox (the incense burning bearded dudes dressed in black robes) to themselves in the East.
Karl Bode, editor of the ISP ratings Web site BroadbandReports.com
(formerly known as DSLreports.com), says that even with improvements in
equipment and technology, broadband installation remains problematic....
Gail Cafferty has first-hand experience with the problem.... "One week
after Cox sent a technician to install our service, everything died," she
says. "I was sure the installation wasn't the problem. I called the tech
support line and had to deal with someone who didn't understand what I was
talking about, and who made me walk through everything I'd already done
before getting to the next level of support," Cafferty says.
Cafferty persisted until Cox agreed to send a technician to her home, who
ultimately diagnosed and corrected the problem, which turned out to be Cox's
fault. A month later, Cafferty noted an $80 service charge for the house
call on her bill.
I don't think this qualifies as an "installation problem" but a typical
example of how any and all problems are handled. Namely, tech support isn't tech support. It's clueless computer user support.
I use SBC (only local
provider) and went through a few dozen or so "Support Tickets" over the
course of the first year. With each call, the voice on the other end forced
you through through an identical checklist -- running Windows, running their
PPPoE client, directly connnected (no NAT, firewall, proxy, etc.), resetting
the modem and rebooting at every stage, etc.. If you didn't lose your
temper and get to a higher level support, you'd discover that those folks
weren't any more knowledgable, but were at least willing to have somebody
investigate the problem (as opposed to having someone investigate me).
One day after having a line problem corrected (their fault), the technician who
showed up left me with *his* card with a home 24-hour contact number,
explaining to me that it's entirely possible for anyone to call the same
office ("Network Operations") and talk to the same people that
the field techs deal with, instead of customer service drones. Yeah, so why
wasn't I told a year before?
Since then, I've upgraded to a fixed IP service (for more money, of
course), and all my intermittent problems seem to have disappeared. I still have the tech's card, of course.
And windows setup doesn't really help much with a smoke and mirrors way of creating users and rights.
The thing I've always found bizarre is that for a user to "own" his/her files, a GPO needs to be set (running secpol.msc and clickity-clicking your way through Local Policies, Security Options, System Objects, and then changing "Default owner for objects created by members of the Administrators group" to "Object creator" instead of "Administrators group".) But that's just for XP systems. And for folks who know WTF secpol.msc is used for. Windows 2000, on the other hand, won't give you ownership of your own files unless you take them back manually for each file.
Certain Programs Do Not Work Correctly If You Log On Using a Limited
User Account
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 Professional
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 Century of Flight
Microsoft Train Simulator 1.x
Microsoft Money 2000
Microsoft Money 2001
Microsoft Money 2002
Microsoft Money 2003
MSN Messenger Service
Microsoft seems to have discovered the command-line, so maybe they'll discover the root account? Maybe they can fix their broken 'runas' soon thereafter.
Is there a ClamAV for Microsoft Windows that will scan on demand?
As mentioned, clamav is a part of the Cygwin distribution.
Is there a ClamAV for Microsoft Windows that will upgrade itself (virus definitions and "engine" as some anti-virus programs call it) when needed, invisibly, and on a schedule?
Sure. Is typing:
$ freshclam
easy enough? The process should take all of a few seconds. Scheduling updates is possible any number of ways, including a script, cron, at (the MS Task Scheduler), etc.
ClamWin won't yet do either of these things, according to its FAQ.
$ clamscan [myfile] $ clamscan -r [mydir]
Looking for a Windows port of any of the hundreds of Unix utilities most of us take for granted is somewhat of an ass-backwards approach. From the perspective of an end-user, first you need a terminal, then a shell, then interpreters, then all the programs.
If you're looking for advice, visit Cygwin and start with the default distribution. Then, instead of pointing and clicking trying to select what you need, install the whole damned thing and spend the next few months discovering and learning something useful.
A Cygwin Tip: To make things livable, be sure to avoid using cmd.exe and use rxvt insetad as your terminal (supports fake transparency, images, custom colors, etc.), and then spend some time customising it, removing scrollbars, etc., as well as selecting a good font (MS Andale Mono works well on Windows systems).
Slashdot Mirror
As this study has not been not done -- yet -- on humans
... not yet?
Err
Isn't that what it says?
My partner Stuart, for instance, is addicted to capucino (has a $10,000 machine of his own at home ... The use of solid-state drives would keep him in his chair more, and more than pay for the cost in increased productivity.
Speaking as someone who manages people and owns a $5000 espresso machine, I'd suggest you may likely be getting the highest productivity you can expect from Stuart precisely because he has time to get up out of his chair for his cappucino.
Cutting short breaks can be like deciding to forego 4 hours of sleep each night to be able to work an extra 4 hours each day. Moreover, the attention span of a typical person is limited to about 20-25 minutes, after which the brain starts slowing down for a few vacant minutes.
We all know how breakable the NTFS file encryption is ...
... so if they really want to get at your files, they can just reboot into Fedora from a CD, or run any other tool that circumvents the encryption ...
We do?
Circumvents the encryption? Dear Lord, and how would that be done? Without a recovery key the data remains encrypted.
does anyone else think Slashdot should have a special section for buffer overflows?
No, but a section for grossly-uniformed comments would seem in order.
This just in:
"The popular Craigslist bulletin board service has been allegedly used to offer sex and drugs. According to the report, members are using the system to conspire with other members, offering companionship, massage, and sex in conjunction with variety of controlled substances for fun and possibly profit.
One official was quoted as saying, "It took some time, but the guys in our Cybersecurity Department finally cracked the secret codes"
There is no good option for making text zoom permanent if you have bad eyes.
My eyes are getting progressively worse (biology, according to my ophtalmologist).
What works for me is setting the font size to a small number and using those drugstore-type reading glasses. While it sounds like a scene out of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, it's remarkably effective, and additionally allows me to use high resolutions that would otherwise be tiring over long periods.
BofA: What is your name?
Sir Lancelot: My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot.
BofA: What is your quest?
Sir Lancelot: To seek the Holy Grail.
BofA: What is your favorite color?
Sir Lancelot: Blue.
BofA: Right, off you go.
And if I was running a school, I would surley want somebody to yell at when things go foobar.
And if my name was Shirley, I'd surely be surly that you couldn't spell it. But because it's not, I'll suggest that maybe it's a good thing you're not running a school.
If you read the article, you'd know that they use 3 pounds of coffee beans for every pound of pasta. No wonder they're so productive, they never sleep!
Or maybe that the coffee is needed to make up for the pasta?
When President Bush referred to The Internets, many people thought he was mis-speaking. He was apparently foreshadowing a plan to make sure that Europe gets off our Internet and makes their own!
My own opinion of people who are in the habit of mis-speaking is that while they're vaguely aware of the meanings of the words of they're using, they have trouble stringing them together to form a coherent thought. Hence the earnest but dazed squint of our current President, not unlike the look on the face of a grade school student standing before his class delivering a book report on a book he didn't quite understand hoping his selection of of bullet points coincide with what the the teacher wanted to hear.
More to the topic, I did enjoy reading the following:
The automation plan will use existing and proven technologies and protocols to depoliticise the root by making it a purely technical matter, Kane said.
Perhaps it's some sort of nostalgia in reverse, but one would think that technical matters could and should be decided by those in academia or by those folks we used to call "experts." The Diebold circus provided us with an example of how corporate concerns don't belong in the mix. This controversy illustrates that politics similarly doesn't, with or without a squinty President at the helm.
Agreed, but personally, I'm more impressed by the abacus.
Wasn't XP already supposed to be fully IPv6 capable ?
From the article:
Jawad Khaki, corporate vice president for Microsoft [said] Microsoft's next operating system, dubbed Longhorn, will be "fully IPv6-capable,"
I think the opposite problem is more interesting: Why does liquid take forever to get to the boiling point and then rapidly increase in temperature?
That's easy. Everybody knows that water will come to a boil faster when you're not watching it.
Schroedinger's cat meets the melting is an adaptive response to a changing environment theory.
This has only been an issue historically because: Pre-SP2, most Windows users didn't know to enable the firewall ... Router/firewall devices were much less prevalent
/. readers are already familiar, and it may be self-serving, but the information in it is worth repeating. And repeating again and again until either the easy fixes you mention (to the degree one can actually refer to them as fixes) are widely implemented, or everyone starts running Linux.
Historically? Dear God.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Release Date: August 25, 2004
Windows XP Service Pack 1a - Release Date: February 3, 2003
Given the huge numbers of Windows-based PCs running something other than WindowsXP, both in enterprise and home user settings, any attempt to shrug this off as history is somewhere between naive and foolish. And making note of the fact that new PCs typically ship with XP+SP2, together with the wide selection of NAT-type boxes available for sale at your local electronics reseller is less relevant than you believe.
Put another way, if everyone is buying a new PC, and/or has installed SP2 on their XP systems with the firewall turned on, and/or has purchased a NAT box, and/or a separate firewall, and/or has antivirus software running, and/or has recently signed up for DSL/Cable service, then there's no problems out there, life's great, and we should all just call it a day, right?
As for the article, yes, indeed, it may present something with which most
If you ponder the length of that wait, you may develop a better sense of time and thus, history. Come back in five years or so and give us a progress update.
Or so they say ...
The European Union Commissioners have announced that agreement has been
reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communication, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English
spelling had some room for improvement and have adopted a five year plan for
what will be known as Euroenglish.
In the first year "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil
servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, a hard "c" will be replaced
with "k. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one
letter less.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the second year when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f", making words like fotograf 20%
shorter.
In the third year, publik akeseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Government will
enkourage the removal of double letters and you will agre that the horible
mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful so it will go.
Bu the fourth year. peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by
"z" and "w" by "v". During ze fife year, ze uneseary "o" kan be droped from
vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplied to ozer
kombinations of letrs.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls
of difikultiis and everivun vil finf it eisi to understand.
Ze drem vil finali kim tru.
I suppose "seized some major online distribution servers" sounds better than "nicked about a thousand bucks worth of equipment from some joe who never saw a dime from all the evil, evil crime he did.
Admittedly, it does sound better than
The investigation culminated in the apprehension of an unemployed college student in his parents' basement, catching him red-handed inserting lewd and lascivious ascii artwork into an NFO file. Investigators have declared Eugene Roshal, John Cowan and Paul Burton to be Persons of Interest and ask for the public's help.
Switching to one shared library means there's only one place for vulnerabilities to arise in this respect, and when each vulnerability is fixed, it will be fixed for all the applications at once.
So this is like ordering a #4, instead of having to order a Double-Whopper with Cheese, Large Fries and Large Coke all separately? Sounds simple.
May I take your order?
Yeah, we'll each have one library vulnerability, with one Microsoft Security Bulletin, a Microsoft Knowledge Base article, a BugTraq ID, a CVE ID, and if you could, throw some links, -- Shuddup! I don't care if you just wanted a Coke! -- Sorry, no, I didn't mean you. Add some emails, and newsgroup postings with extra napkins, but put it all in the same bag for me, will ya? And that's to go!
Try ssmtp. I use it when running mutt on Win32 under Cygwin.
I'm going to infer that because you read the Amazon patent story, and subsequently read a goof-off story, you might be interested in reading El Reg?
From a review:
I would gloat over these Penguin Classics. I would look at them on their shelves, sorted lovingly, placed carefully. I would read their covers on short visits, read them through when temptation and time were aptly combined. I would anticipate them when I couldn't see them. Coveting them now is to caress them. Having them to read is to caress them. Tending them is to caress them. Caressing them is to thrill to opening them, reading their titles and authors; taking in their wealth of ideas and knowledge: understanding them.
Overlooking the fact that the above comment was offered by a guy (with a predeliction for wearing light blue sweaters no doubt), there seems to be people out there who love paperbacks the same way as some of us love leather.
I guess there's a certain je ne sais quoi about books that are printed on cheap paper and fall apart as easily as they discolour and stain that the rest of us simply don't appreciate.
True, but think of the time the rest of America will save by not having to watch Oprah decide their next selection.
Christian Republic of America
Err, more correctly, Evangelical Protestant Christian Republic of America.
Christians were (and remain) Christians long before anyone anyone had heard of Martin Luther, or before anyone thought of translating anything into English and binding it in soft-cover to thump and reinterpret.
That's even before the schism that brought about the Catholics (the folks with the pointy hats) establishing themselves in Rome under a pope (the guy with the really big pointy hat), leaving the Orthodox (the incense burning bearded dudes dressed in black robes) to themselves in the East.
Karl Bode, editor of the ISP ratings Web site BroadbandReports.com (formerly known as DSLreports.com), says that even with improvements in equipment and technology, broadband installation remains problematic. ...
Gail Cafferty has first-hand experience with the problem. ... "One week
after Cox sent a technician to install our service, everything died," she
says. "I was sure the installation wasn't the problem. I called the tech
support line and had to deal with someone who didn't understand what I was
talking about, and who made me walk through everything I'd already done
before getting to the next level of support," Cafferty says.
Cafferty persisted until Cox agreed to send a technician to her home, who ultimately diagnosed and corrected the problem, which turned out to be Cox's fault. A month later, Cafferty noted an $80 service charge for the house call on her bill.
I don't think this qualifies as an "installation problem" but a typical example of how any and all problems are handled. Namely, tech support isn't tech support. It's clueless computer user support.
I use SBC (only local provider) and went through a few dozen or so "Support Tickets" over the course of the first year. With each call, the voice on the other end forced you through through an identical checklist -- running Windows, running their PPPoE client, directly connnected (no NAT, firewall, proxy, etc.), resetting the modem and rebooting at every stage, etc.. If you didn't lose your temper and get to a higher level support, you'd discover that those folks weren't any more knowledgable, but were at least willing to have somebody investigate the problem (as opposed to having someone investigate me).
One day after having a line problem corrected (their fault), the technician who showed up left me with *his* card with a home 24-hour contact number, explaining to me that it's entirely possible for anyone to call the same office ("Network Operations") and talk to the same people that the field techs deal with, instead of customer service drones. Yeah, so why wasn't I told a year before?
Since then, I've upgraded to a fixed IP service (for more money, of course), and all my intermittent problems seem to have disappeared. I still have the tech's card, of course.
And windows setup doesn't really help much with a smoke and mirrors way of creating users and rights.
The thing I've always found bizarre is that for a user to "own" his/her files, a GPO needs to be set (running secpol.msc and clickity-clicking your way through Local Policies, Security Options, System Objects, and then changing "Default owner for objects created by members of the Administrators group" to "Object creator" instead of "Administrators group".) But that's just for XP systems. And for folks who know WTF secpol.msc is used for. Windows 2000, on the other hand, won't give you ownership of your own files unless you take them back manually for each file.
Certain Programs Do Not Work Correctly If You Log On Using a Limited User Account
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 Professional
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 Century of Flight
Microsoft Train Simulator 1.x
Microsoft Money 2000
Microsoft Money 2001
Microsoft Money 2002
Microsoft Money 2003
MSN Messenger Service
Microsoft seems to have discovered the command-line, so maybe they'll discover the root account? Maybe they can fix their broken 'runas' soon thereafter.
As mentioned, clamav is a part of the Cygwin distribution.
Is there a ClamAV for Microsoft Windows that will upgrade itself (virus definitions and "engine" as some anti-virus programs call it) when needed, invisibly, and on a schedule?
Sure. Is typing:
easy enough? The process should take all of a few seconds. Scheduling updates is possible any number of ways, including a script, cron, at (the MS Task Scheduler), etc.
ClamWin won't yet do either of these things, according to its FAQ.
Looking for a Windows port of any of the hundreds of Unix utilities most of us take for granted is somewhat of an ass-backwards approach. From the perspective of an end-user, first you need a terminal, then a shell, then interpreters, then all the programs.
If you're looking for advice, visit Cygwin and start with the default distribution. Then, instead of pointing and clicking trying to select what you need, install the whole damned thing and spend the next few months discovering and learning something useful.
A Cygwin Tip: To make things livable, be sure to avoid using cmd.exe and use rxvt insetad as your terminal (supports fake transparency, images, custom colors, etc.), and then spend some time customising it, removing scrollbars, etc., as well as selecting a good font (MS Andale Mono works well on Windows systems).
Good luck.