I spoke with/met Adams on more than one occasion; once during a radio interview when he was talking about Last Chance to See, and once about 3 years earlier at a book signing - he signed a towel I brought in (and I still have and know where it is). Stephen Fry's comments brought the memory back of Adams trying to figure out how to sign the towel and hold it flat at the same time (in the end, I held the towel still while he signed it). After he signed it, we chatted for a few minutes and then I had to head back to class.
I also think that a tribute was not the place to go on about how lousy the movie is, Mr. Simpson - it was a place to remember DNA for the man he was, not for the ways that one person might think someone screwed his stuff up.
I thought that was staggeringly tactless. Every single one of the other tributes made me laugh, MJS' made me want to smack him.
i-ro-ny: 2. a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
It is quite ironic that SCO seems to think that only their most holy IP is significant to them. They should clarify that they couldn't give a rat's arse about anyone else's efforts, or they should at least credit people for doing the work they did instead of (perhaps inadvertantly) trying to make it look like they did this themselves.
The/. story here is highly sensationalized. The proposed law would require ISPs to give parents the choice to block all of the sites in a database of such sites. It does not, according to the article, require ISPs just blindly block sites that are in a government-supplied list.
I live in Utah, so the/. article got my attention because of how it was worded; it's this sort of sensationalism that has me seriously considering stopping reading/. - please, editors, CHECK THE FRICKING ARTICLE before you post a story that is not an accurate representation of what you are reporting!
You may be a jelly doughnut, but you are also correct on this one - I had forgotten about the use of the formal "you" used with "usted". That's what I get for not having spoken Spanish in about 15 years.;-)
Which is the form you would use if asking someone if they (ie, "do you") speak English.
Usually if someone is stealing your socks (not that I speak from a position of experience from this, having only ever lost socks to my washer/dryer - and let's face it, asking the washer/dryer if it speaks English is just a little strange), the first words out of your mouth probably wouldn't be "what language to you speak?" but "STOP, SOCK THIEF!!!!!!", and a lot more would be communicated in the tone than the actual words.
I doubt the first reaction would be to ask some other total stranger if that stranger over there speaks English in a language that isn't your first language. For all you know you might just be asking him if he sees the cat under the table....
Yes, I am sure about that. Sure, some of the management are members of the LDS Church, but that does not make Novell a Mormon company. Some of those members of management may have taken Linus on a tour of parts of the local temples (in order to tour the full temple, you must be a member in good standing, though I understand it's not hard to work around that if you really, really wanted to). If I were an executive (I'm not) and then took you to a Pagan circle, would that make the company I work for a Pagan company?
I used Beneficial Life as an example of a Mormon company. They are actually an asset of the LDS Church. That is the definition of a Mormon company. Another example is Zion's Bank.
You are mistaken, it isn't a Mormon company. I work for Novell and have been through the hiring process. I also am a shareholder, as it is traded on the public market.
It was originally founded by people who happen to be members of the LDS church, yes, but that does not make it a Mormon company. Beneficial Life is an example of a Mormon company.
Listening to inconsiderate people answer their damn cell phones, as well as make comments like "Oh, watch now, he's going to die!" before it happens, and twits who bring their small children in because they can't find a babysitter and the kid cries through the entire movie.
I'd go to the movies more often if it were (a) less expensive (last time I went with my wife and kid, it cost us over $40), and if the theaters would actually remove people who were not considerate of the other patrons. The staff are so afraid of pissing a customer off by asking them to shut up or leave that they piss customers off by not asking the inconsiderate ones to shut up or leave.
Given that, I'd much rather pay to rent a film and watch it at home - sound system in the house isn't much less impressive than the modern theater anyways...
They're ALL biased. That's the problem with the news media these days, they want to do the thinking for us. And most of the citizens in the US are more than happy to let them do it for them.
Jon Stewart nailed it on Crossfire. The media is working for the politicians, but they should be working for the people. We don't pay as well, but they could actually sleep at night.
Picking on Fox is natural for those left-of-center, just like picking on CNN is natural for those right-of-center. Both organizations editorialize far too much instead of delivering facts. They're propaganda machines.
At least the NYT was up front about its endorsement of Kerry. Fox claims to be "Fair and Balanced" yet must be using strange new definitions for those words, because I don'd find an organization that (a) cuts off opposing viewpoints repeatedly "fair", and (b) has 4/5 of its guests from the right and 1/5 from the left "balanced".
VPN will protect you against outside hackers - DES encryption tends to be 56-bit, though, if memory servers (and it may well not), 3DES is a bit more secure.
What the VPN won't prevent is people inside the firewall from sniffing the traffic. This is why I use SSH tunnels to connect over VNC to systems inside my own firewalls and over VPN connections.
I do tend to run Linux/Unix more often than Windows, though, so setting up the SSH tunnel is pretty simple (it's installed by default on most of the OSes I use); it's not difficult to set up on Windows, though, and does provide an extra layer of security. Make sure you pass -2 to the SSH client though, because SSH tends to default to trying both V1 and V2 (this will depend on the implementation of SSH and SSHD used) and there is an issue with SSHv1 that can be exploited.
For Windows, I personally use Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/, but there are plenty of other alternatives out there that don't have the installation overhead that Cygwin does.
I hate when I write something in a hurry and it looks fine until I post. That last sentence:
I also had found one once upon a time that would crack a password stored in the Windows registry of a VNC Server, so make sure that registry is secure if you're using Windows.
Should read:
I also had found a program one once upon a time that would crack a password stored in the Windows registry of a VNC Server, so make sure that registry is secure if you're using Windows.
Yeah, there is an encryption present for the password, but there are programs out there that will crack it fairly quickly; according to the tightvnc site:
for password encryption, VNC uses a DES-encrypted challenge-response scheme, where the password is limited by 8 characters, and the effective DES key length is 56 bits
I also had found one once upon a time that would crack a password stored in the Windows registry of a VNC Server, so make sure that registry is secure if you're using Windows.
Used to do PCAW over a satellite connection as well in a previous job - it wasn't too bad, (our connection was assymetrical, which made things interesting, and it was a shared video/data pipe); latency is going to be a problem for many applications, though - so if the author of the article has a satellite connection they need to work over, I would highly recommend testing in that envioronment.
The satellite connection I used to use was MMV through a couple of Hughes' High Earth Orbit geostationary satellites - nothing like a > 2s latency.:-)
Personally, I only trust any VNC client (and I use RealVNC and TightVNC regularly) if I tunnel it over SSH. The protocol itself isn't terribly complex, and there are plenty of ways to obtain passwords off the wire (the password encryption algorithm, last time I checked, wasn't very secure).
I have used a number remote control software packages (ranging from PCAnywhere to TightVNC), and in my experience, RAdmin provided the absolute lowest possible overhead on the wire - with PCAW 10 (the last version I used) and others, the best way to get the best performance is to cut the resolution down and cut the colour depth down.
With RAdmin, neither of these was necessary. I threw a sniffer on the wire to see what the traffic was like, and it was extremely small.
It also worked under Wine reasonably well (I don't know if they make a native Linux version now, they didn't when I played with it a couple of years ago). The amount of traffic with a 1600x1200x24 resolution on the remote desktop was small enough to be used over a dialup with reasonably good performance.
Of course, CNet neglected to list the patent number as well. In searching for patents issued to Sun Microsystems with the keyword "licensing", I turned up 14 patents, the most recent issued on 21-September-2004 - but that particular patent is entitled "Mechanism for embedding network based control systems in a local network interface device" and doesn't actually appear to cover this topic.
That's one thing that's always facinated me - why companies listen to vendors who have something to gain as a result of the outcome of a "study".
It's like comparing NetWare of yesteryear with Windows of yesteryear....A lot of customers would go to, say, HP and ask "What OS should I install?"
Let me think...NetWare 3.x or 4.x required a 386 with 16-64 MB of RAM and some disk; Windows required a Pentium with 128 MB of RAM....Which is it likely a hardware vendor with a monetary stake in the decision is going to recommend?
Novell eDirectory supports ACL support in the tree and always has, and it scales to the largest enterprises in the world. Clustering support - it doesn't do that, but it supports replication of the database, so clustering it is largely a moot point. As I understand it, the LDAP interface can be clustered.
"Best" is very much in the eye of the beholder....
Novell eDirectory has been on Linux for some time now....The first release was with NDS 8 (which was spec'ed only for RedHat systems) which was available in 2000, and may have been released in 1999.
It can be difficult ot make that determination - absolutely. I've found that it's important to be able to debate the other side of the issue intelligently - that really helps with determining whether the report is bogus or not.
One of the guys I used to work with used to debate with me all the time about stuff he agreed with me on - it was a very interesting working relationship. It helped him prove to himself that I knew what I was talking about, and at the same time, it made me think about things in different ways and helped me identify weaknesses in my own point of view.
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I always considered the 'w's silent....
110% agreed.
I spoke with/met Adams on more than one occasion; once during a radio interview when he was talking about Last Chance to See, and once about 3 years earlier at a book signing - he signed a towel I brought in (and I still have and know where it is). Stephen Fry's comments brought the memory back of Adams trying to figure out how to sign the towel and hold it flat at the same time (in the end, I held the towel still while he signed it). After he signed it, we chatted for a few minutes and then I had to head back to class.
I also think that a tribute was not the place to go on about how lousy the movie is, Mr. Simpson - it was a place to remember DNA for the man he was, not for the ways that one person might think someone screwed his stuff up.
I thought that was staggeringly tactless. Every single one of the other tributes made me laugh, MJS' made me want to smack him.
i-ro-ny: 2. a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
It is quite ironic that SCO seems to think that only their most holy IP is significant to them. They should clarify that they couldn't give a rat's arse about anyone else's efforts, or they should at least credit people for doing the work they did instead of (perhaps inadvertantly) trying to make it look like they did this themselves.
Minnesotan, actually - but yes, I do recognize the joke - thanks for the laugh. :-)
The /. story here is highly sensationalized. The proposed law would require ISPs to give parents the choice to block all of the sites in a database of such sites. It does not, according to the article, require ISPs just blindly block sites that are in a government-supplied list.
/. article got my attention because of how it was worded; it's this sort of sensationalism that has me seriously considering stopping reading /. - please, editors, CHECK THE FRICKING ARTICLE before you post a story that is not an accurate representation of what you are reporting!
I live in Utah, so the
Better yet, use Wine to run things other than Microsoft software, don't buy Microsoft Office to run on Wine, use OpenOffice instead.
Don't give your money to Microsoft, that solves the problem of having to deal with their crapware and "anti-piracy" baloney.
You may be a jelly doughnut, but you are also correct on this one - I had forgotten about the use of the formal "you" used with "usted". That's what I get for not having spoken Spanish in about 15 years. ;-)
"Does s/he speak English?" ?
I think you mean:
"Hablas ingles?"
Which is the form you would use if asking someone if they (ie, "do you") speak English.
Usually if someone is stealing your socks (not that I speak from a position of experience from this, having only ever lost socks to my washer/dryer - and let's face it, asking the washer/dryer if it speaks English is just a little strange), the first words out of your mouth probably wouldn't be "what language to you speak?" but "STOP, SOCK THIEF!!!!!!", and a lot more would be communicated in the tone than the actual words.
I doubt the first reaction would be to ask some other total stranger if that stranger over there speaks English in a language that isn't your first language. For all you know you might just be asking him if he sees the cat under the table....
Yes, I am sure about that. Sure, some of the management are members of the LDS Church, but that does not make Novell a Mormon company. Some of those members of management may have taken Linus on a tour of parts of the local temples (in order to tour the full temple, you must be a member in good standing, though I understand it's not hard to work around that if you really, really wanted to). If I were an executive (I'm not) and then took you to a Pagan circle, would that make the company I work for a Pagan company?
I used Beneficial Life as an example of a Mormon company. They are actually an asset of the LDS Church. That is the definition of a Mormon company. Another example is Zion's Bank.
You are mistaken, it isn't a Mormon company. I work for Novell and have been through the hiring process. I also am a shareholder, as it is traded on the public market.
It was originally founded by people who happen to be members of the LDS church, yes, but that does not make it a Mormon company. Beneficial Life is an example of a Mormon company.
Walmart can but hold a candle to Major League Baseball....
Listening to inconsiderate people answer their damn cell phones, as well as make comments like "Oh, watch now, he's going to die!" before it happens, and twits who bring their small children in because they can't find a babysitter and the kid cries through the entire movie.
I'd go to the movies more often if it were (a) less expensive (last time I went with my wife and kid, it cost us over $40), and if the theaters would actually remove people who were not considerate of the other patrons. The staff are so afraid of pissing a customer off by asking them to shut up or leave that they piss customers off by not asking the inconsiderate ones to shut up or leave.
Given that, I'd much rather pay to rent a film and watch it at home - sound system in the house isn't much less impressive than the modern theater anyways...
They're ALL biased. That's the problem with the news media these days, they want to do the thinking for us. And most of the citizens in the US are more than happy to let them do it for them.
Jon Stewart nailed it on Crossfire. The media is working for the politicians, but they should be working for the people. We don't pay as well, but they could actually sleep at night.
Picking on Fox is natural for those left-of-center, just like picking on CNN is natural for those right-of-center. Both organizations editorialize far too much instead of delivering facts. They're propaganda machines.
At least the NYT was up front about its endorsement of Kerry. Fox claims to be "Fair and Balanced" yet must be using strange new definitions for those words, because I don'd find an organization that (a) cuts off opposing viewpoints repeatedly "fair", and (b) has 4/5 of its guests from the right and 1/5 from the left "balanced".
VPN will protect you against outside hackers - DES encryption tends to be 56-bit, though, if memory servers (and it may well not), 3DES is a bit more secure.
What the VPN won't prevent is people inside the firewall from sniffing the traffic. This is why I use SSH tunnels to connect over VNC to systems inside my own firewalls and over VPN connections.
I do tend to run Linux/Unix more often than Windows, though, so setting up the SSH tunnel is pretty simple (it's installed by default on most of the OSes I use); it's not difficult to set up on Windows, though, and does provide an extra layer of security. Make sure you pass -2 to the SSH client though, because SSH tends to default to trying both V1 and V2 (this will depend on the implementation of SSH and SSHD used) and there is an issue with SSHv1 that can be exploited.
For Windows, I personally use Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/, but there are plenty of other alternatives out there that don't have the installation overhead that Cygwin does.
I hate when I write something in a hurry and it looks fine until I post. That last sentence:
Should read:
I also had found a program one once upon a time that would crack a password stored in the Windows registry of a VNC Server, so make sure that registry is secure if you're using Windows.
(Reference: http://www.tightvnc.com/faq.html)
I also had found one once upon a time that would crack a password stored in the Windows registry of a VNC Server, so make sure that registry is secure if you're using Windows.
Used to do PCAW over a satellite connection as well in a previous job - it wasn't too bad, (our connection was assymetrical, which made things interesting, and it was a shared video/data pipe); latency is going to be a problem for many applications, though - so if the author of the article has a satellite connection they need to work over, I would highly recommend testing in that envioronment.
:-)
The satellite connection I used to use was MMV through a couple of Hughes' High Earth Orbit geostationary satellites - nothing like a > 2s latency.
Additional comment/answer to question in the story, RAdmin does scale the screen; it also has a configurable polling interval.
Personally, I only trust any VNC client (and I use RealVNC and TightVNC regularly) if I tunnel it over SSH. The protocol itself isn't terribly complex, and there are plenty of ways to obtain passwords off the wire (the password encryption algorithm, last time I checked, wasn't very secure).
I have used a number remote control software packages (ranging from PCAnywhere to TightVNC), and in my experience, RAdmin provided the absolute lowest possible overhead on the wire - with PCAW 10 (the last version I used) and others, the best way to get the best performance is to cut the resolution down and cut the colour depth down.
With RAdmin, neither of these was necessary. I threw a sniffer on the wire to see what the traffic was like, and it was extremely small.
It also worked under Wine reasonably well (I don't know if they make a native Linux version now, they didn't when I played with it a couple of years ago). The amount of traffic with a 1600x1200x24 resolution on the remote desktop was small enough to be used over a dialup with reasonably good performance.
A list of the patent numbers in the article....
Of course, CNet neglected to list the patent number as well. In searching for patents issued to Sun Microsystems with the keyword "licensing", I turned up 14 patents, the most recent issued on 21-September-2004 - but that particular patent is entitled "Mechanism for embedding network based control systems in a local network interface device" and doesn't actually appear to cover this topic.
That's one thing that's always facinated me - why companies listen to vendors who have something to gain as a result of the outcome of a "study".
It's like comparing NetWare of yesteryear with Windows of yesteryear....A lot of customers would go to, say, HP and ask "What OS should I install?"
Let me think...NetWare 3.x or 4.x required a 386 with 16-64 MB of RAM and some disk; Windows required a Pentium with 128 MB of RAM....Which is it likely a hardware vendor with a monetary stake in the decision is going to recommend?
Novell eDirectory supports ACL support in the tree and always has, and it scales to the largest enterprises in the world. Clustering support - it doesn't do that, but it supports replication of the database, so clustering it is largely a moot point. As I understand it, the LDAP interface can be clustered.
"Best" is very much in the eye of the beholder....
Novell eDirectory has been on Linux for some time now....The first release was with NDS 8 (which was spec'ed only for RedHat systems) which was available in 2000, and may have been released in 1999.
It can be difficult ot make that determination - absolutely. I've found that it's important to be able to debate the other side of the issue intelligently - that really helps with determining whether the report is bogus or not.
One of the guys I used to work with used to debate with me all the time about stuff he agreed with me on - it was a very interesting working relationship. It helped him prove to himself that I knew what I was talking about, and at the same time, it made me think about things in different ways and helped me identify weaknesses in my own point of view.