I am a real CLI addict, but some things still require a GUI.
For example comparing a server's/etc tree with another one, and applying changes.I found Meld to be great for that. But to be able to effectively run Meld on an otherwise headless remote server, connected through a slow ADSL link, I need NX.
Plain X forwarding is fine on a LAN, but it's not really usable over ADSL.
With DNSSEC it is now possible to check the veracity of the CERT RR to prevent man-in-the-middle accounts. DNSSEC could be used as a substitute for certificate authorities.
This is news for me, and extremely interesting. Are there any browsers/mail clients/whatever supporting this? Anything worth reading about it? Instructions on how to implement it and make some experimental use of it?
Can we lobby for this to be implemented in browsers, email, and the rest?
Currently, you either have to pay some CA, or be your own CA which nobody trusts, and have everyone install the cert or constantly click through the warnings maze.
What are you talking about? Do you suggest that the Delete key is not needed because all these file-manager specific shortcuts combined with right-click context menus and what-mot can be used instead?
Are you trying to say that a relatively standard key is not needed because every single program has it's own proprietary multi-key shortcut to accomplish the same task?
What is it with this crazy trend of removing useful keys??
I don't really care much about caps lock, which is only very rarely useful. But the Delete key??? How do you delete stuff (files, icons,...) without it? How do you delete right of the cursor instead of left?
Already, Page Up/Down and Home/End are gone on many notebook keyboards, making simple stuff like select to the start/end of line (Shift-Home / Shift-End) too clumsy to be useful when you need to hold a third Fn key simultaneously. And selecting to the end of the document becomes almost impossible.
So now someone is advocating the removal of Insert/Delete?
What is the next step? The return of Bob as a geek power-user OS?
LibreOffice can now expand into other realms that form part of the complete business suite, including project management, full relational database features, mail server and client, as well as CAD/CAM.
You mean it can now become even worse than OpenOffice?
I wish it would consider becoming a decent modern writing tool (outputting good html with css), instead of just being a buggy copy of last century's worse "word processor".
And while I am missing MS-Access a lot on Linux, I certainly don't need a "full relational database". PostgreSQL, MySQL (and sometimes simple SQLite) cover my needs perfectly. What would be needed is a front-end similar to Access, but I doubt that the people who gave us OpenOffice Base would consider something like that. I predict we will be stuck for a long time writing Windows-only simple database applications in Access with it's miserable VBA.
You can do that, but in practice you almost never do it, except for some very special single shots. These are photo lenses which are not well suited for cinematography. The RED has a standard PL mount that takes any of the standard film camera lenses (Zeiss, Cooke,...) from your local renting company.
the only true advantage of a larger sensor is having potentially larger pixels
Not at all.
The large sensor gives you long focal lengths, which give you small depth of field, which is extremely important for cinema.
While this camera may be a very interesting project, and may end up being useful for certain things, it doesn't look like it's real use will be anywhere in the realm of professional film making.
The small sensor is an essential drawback. The C-mount for lenses is absurd (that was used on "high-end" Super 8 cameras, and amateur 16 mm. cameras several generations ago. Good luck trying to rent modern C-mount lenses...), etc.
Looking at the photo in the article, I also notice a ridiculously large monitor, none of the usual accessories on the camera, and the whole thing screwed onto a tripod for stills photography. The people who set up that camera in the article's photo are certainly not thinking of professional cinematography, or if they are, they don't have a clue.
the PDF correctly displays the mathematical formula, while the html doesn't for me
Yes, the HTML version appears to be encoded in the old Macintosh character set, and doesn't have a header specifying the encoding. To view it properly, change the encoding in your browser. In Firefox: View -> Character Encoding -> More Encodings -> West European -> Western (MacRoman).
Alternatively, you can save it locally and convert it to UTF-8. If you have iconv, the command would be iconv -f MAC -t UTF8 -o piCompute-utf8.html piCompute.html
These guys may be able to intercept cell calls, but I can't even send an SMS message with Wammu on my Ubuntu machine.
The built-in Sony Ercicsson F3507g modem works for Mobile Broadband through Network Manager, but Wammu cannot use it to send an SMS.
And it doesn't work with my external phone either. On the rare occasions when Wammu can find the phone, it says it sent the SMS, but in fact it didn't.
So I sure admire these guys who can intercept calls with a laptop, while I need an XP virtual machine so that I can reliably send SMSes using "MyPhoneExplorer"...
the side effect of turning off autorun [...] might not be desirable (e.g., if it's someone else's machine)
For me, it is the desired side-effect, because these people will usually call me for help when they get a virus. I do tell them that I disabled it though, and try to explain why if they seem willing to listen.
Also, if a worm blindly writes it's own autorun.inf file, then your modified one will get overwritten. Make sure you at least write-protect the file.
One of my 2 reg entries is actually what is recommended in your link.
What I don't know yet is if it works on Win7 or if something else is needed. I'm not so much into fixing Windows any more, since I switched to Ubuntu. There's enough to do to try to fix/customize that now...:-)
VirtualBox is great. I agree that dual boot is a pain, but no access to Windows at all is a pain too. I have an XP VM in VirtualBox (in Ubuntu), so I can use the few Windows-only programs I occasionally need without any trouble.
I still haven't understood what this.lnk flaw actually is, or what fun things it might be used for (and how).
The previous discussion about this talked about SCADA systems, so I read the wikipedia article about SCADA but still don't quite get what it really is. And the vulnerability seemed to only be exploited on one particularly stupid system which used a hard-coded password.
And it seemed to also require the use of Autorun/Autoplay which should obviously be disabled anyway. I have 2 files to take care of that on all my USB drives:
A "bool" that can be TRUE, FALSE, "", "null", or "nan"
That's why I like Perl so much. Anything can be a Bool., and it's easy to understand: if it is "something" it is true; otherwise it is false (like 0, "0.0", "", undefined, or that NaN nonsense). It's the sort of thing that drives me crazy in places like PHP or Javascript, where you suddenly need "===" operators or crazy tests for something that should be completely obvious.
Of course, that makes offtopic, flamebait and whatnot all true.
New to computers??? But who on earth would be new to computers in 2010? Old people who didn't start using computers 10 years ago are not going to change their mind now that they are 10 years older. So they are not about to be "new to computers". That leaves a few exceptions, and small children...
The days of this "new to computers" concept are over, as are the days of Netscape and Internet Explorer 4.
Apart from that, I indeed agree that Macs are usually a good choice for most people who don't know much about computers. At least, all these.exe files they will click on in attachments or from the Internet will do no harm. For now. I'm afraid this is about to change quickly.
At the time it began, the Iraq war had widespread favor across the political spectrum, [...] . Belief in WMD was similarly pervasive
It may be useful to point out that this was only in the US, as far as I know. Of course, the US perception is what's the most relevant and important, since they started the war, but it's still interesting to be aware that it was limited to the US and very few other countries.
In continental Europe, the Iraq war had "widespread opposition across the political spectrum". And belief in WMD was definitely not "pervasive".
On the radio, I heard people like the boss of the UN inspectors, and others, explaining that the allegations didn't seem to make sense. They complained about all the problems they had to do their inspections because Iraq was very uncooperative, but at the same time, they still seemed very confident that there was no active WMD program, and that the programs that did exist had stopped after the first Gulf war and couldn't possibly have seriously restarted.
OK, looks like video games did exist in the late seventies after all. I just didn't know and was happy with pinball. Maybe pinball practice also helps controlling one's dreams?
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I am a real CLI addict, but some things still require a GUI.
For example comparing a server's /etc tree with another one, and applying changes.I found Meld to be great for that. But to be able to effectively run Meld on an otherwise headless remote server, connected through a slow ADSL link, I need NX.
Plain X forwarding is fine on a LAN, but it's not really usable over ADSL.
With DNSSEC it is now possible to check the veracity of the CERT RR to prevent man-in-the-middle accounts. DNSSEC could be used as a substitute for certificate authorities.
This is news for me, and extremely interesting. Are there any browsers/mail clients/whatever supporting this? Anything worth reading about it? Instructions on how to implement it and make some experimental use of it?
Can we lobby for this to be implemented in browsers, email, and the rest?
Currently, you either have to pay some CA, or be your own CA which nobody trusts, and have everyone install the cert or constantly click through the warnings
maze.
What are you talking about? Do you suggest that the Delete key is not needed because all these file-manager specific shortcuts combined with right-click context menus and what-mot can be used instead?
Are you trying to say that a relatively standard key is not needed because every single program has it's own proprietary multi-key shortcut to accomplish the same task?
What is it with this crazy trend of removing useful keys??
I don't really care much about caps lock, which is only very rarely useful. But the Delete key??? How do you delete stuff (files, icons, ...) without it? How do you delete right of the cursor instead of left?
Already, Page Up/Down and Home/End are gone on many notebook keyboards, making simple stuff like select to the start/end of line (Shift-Home / Shift-End) too clumsy to be useful when you need to hold a third Fn key simultaneously. And selecting to the end of the document becomes almost impossible.
So now someone is advocating the removal of Insert/Delete?
What is the next step? The return of Bob as a geek power-user OS?
First Post? Maybe an oportunity to ask what this is all about?
Any link to that speech?
LibreOffice can now expand into other realms that form part of the complete business suite, including project management, full relational database features, mail server and client, as well as CAD/CAM.
You mean it can now become even worse than OpenOffice?
I wish it would consider becoming a decent modern writing tool (outputting good html with css), instead of just being a buggy copy of last century's worse "word processor".
And while I am missing MS-Access a lot on Linux, I certainly don't need a "full relational database". PostgreSQL, MySQL (and sometimes simple SQLite) cover my needs perfectly. What would be needed is a front-end similar to Access, but I doubt that the people who gave us OpenOffice Base would consider something like that. I predict we will be stuck for a long time writing Windows-only simple database applications in Access with it's miserable VBA.
Where are my mod points when I need them? This is FUNNY, not flamebait!! Please someone read the linked thing and correct the mod. on the parent.
the Red One can use Nikon and Canon lenses
You can do that, but in practice you almost never do it, except for some very special single shots. These are photo lenses which are not well suited for cinematography. The RED has a standard PL mount that takes any of the standard film camera lenses (Zeiss, Cooke, ...) from your local renting company.
the only true advantage of a larger sensor is having potentially larger pixels
Not at all.
The large sensor gives you long focal lengths, which give you small depth of field, which is extremely important for cinema.
While this camera may be a very interesting project, and may end up being useful for certain things, it doesn't look like it's real use will be anywhere in the realm of professional film making.
The small sensor is an essential drawback. The C-mount for lenses is absurd (that was used on "high-end" Super 8 cameras, and amateur 16 mm. cameras several generations ago. Good luck trying to rent modern C-mount lenses...), etc.
Looking at the photo in the article, I also notice a ridiculously large monitor, none of the usual accessories on the camera, and the whole thing screwed onto a tripod for stills photography. The people who set up that camera in the article's photo are certainly not thinking of professional cinematography, or if they are, they don't have a clue.
the PDF correctly displays the mathematical formula, while the html doesn't for me
Yes, the HTML version appears to be encoded in the old Macintosh character set, and doesn't have a header specifying the encoding. To view it properly, change the encoding in your browser. In Firefox: View -> Character Encoding -> More Encodings -> West European -> Western (MacRoman).
Alternatively, you can save it locally and convert it to UTF-8. If you have iconv, the command would be
iconv -f MAC -t UTF8 -o piCompute-utf8.html piCompute.html
These guys may be able to intercept cell calls, but I can't even send an SMS message with Wammu on my Ubuntu machine.
The built-in Sony Ercicsson F3507g modem works for Mobile Broadband through Network Manager, but Wammu cannot use it to send an SMS.
And it doesn't work with my external phone either. On the rare occasions when Wammu can find the phone, it says it sent the SMS, but in fact it didn't.
So I sure admire these guys who can intercept calls with a laptop, while I need an XP virtual machine so that I can reliably send SMSes using "MyPhoneExplorer"...
Thanks for the detailed explanations. I got it at last.
the side effect of turning off autorun [...] might not be desirable (e.g., if it's someone else's machine)
For me, it is the desired side-effect, because these people will usually call me for help when they get a virus. I do tell them that I disabled it though, and try to explain why if they seem willing to listen.
Also, if a worm blindly writes it's own autorun.inf file, then your modified one will get overwritten. Make sure you at least write-protect the file.
The files do have the read-only attribute.
autorun correctly disabled
One of my 2 reg entries is actually what is recommended in your link.
What I don't know yet is if it works on Win7 or if something else is needed. I'm not so much into fixing Windows any more, since I switched to Ubuntu. There's enough to do to try to fix/customize that now ... :-)
VirtualBox is great. I agree that dual boot is a pain, but no access to Windows at all is a pain too. I have an XP VM in VirtualBox (in Ubuntu), so I can use the few Windows-only programs I occasionally need without any trouble.
I still haven't understood what this .lnk flaw actually is, or what fun things it might be used for (and how).
The previous discussion about this talked about SCADA systems, so I read the wikipedia article about SCADA but still don't quite get what it really is. And the vulnerability seemed to only be exploited on one particularly stupid system which used a hard-coded password.
And it seemed to also require the use of Autorun/Autoplay which should obviously be disabled anyway. I have 2 files to take care of that on all my USB drives:
Autorun.inf:
[AutoRun]
open=autorun.cmd
shell\open\Command=autorun.cmd
shell\explore\Command=autorun.cmd
And autorun.cmd:
@ECHO OFF
ECHO ALERT: You have autorun enabled on this drive (%~d0)!
ECHO.
ECHO Trying to disable it:
@ECHO ON
REG ADD "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun" /ve /t REG_DWORD /d 255 /f /ve /d "@SYS:Autorun-Disabled" /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf"
@ECHO OFF
ECHO.
ECHO You may need to reboot.
ECHO.
@pause
No mod points, so all I can say is that I totally agree. I suppose the people who hate Perl are the same sort of people who this quote refers to:
many Computer Scientists have come out in opposition to the Art of Programming. In trying to make programming predictable, they've mostly succeeded in making it boring. And in so doing, they've lost sight of the idea that programming is a human pursuit. They've designed languages intended more to keep the computer happy than the programmer.
For anyone who doesn't know Perl and wonders what other people like so much about it, I think the interview linked to above is worth reading.
Is it this book which is included?
A "bool" that can be TRUE, FALSE, "", "null", or "nan"
That's why I like Perl so much. Anything can be a Bool., and it's easy to understand: if it is "something" it is true; otherwise it is false (like 0, "0.0", "", undefined, or that NaN nonsense). It's the sort of thing that drives me crazy in places like PHP or Javascript, where you suddenly need "===" operators or crazy tests for something that should be completely obvious.
Of course, that makes offtopic, flamebait and whatnot all true.
New to computers??? But who on earth would be new to computers in 2010? Old people who didn't start using computers 10 years ago are not going to change their mind now that they are 10 years older. So they are not about to be "new to computers". That leaves a few exceptions, and small children...
The days of this "new to computers" concept are over, as are the days of Netscape and Internet Explorer 4.
Apart from that, I indeed agree that Macs are usually a good choice for most people who don't know much about computers. At least, all these .exe files they will click on in attachments or from the Internet will do no harm. For now. I'm afraid this is about to change quickly.
At the time it began, the Iraq war had widespread favor across the political spectrum, [...] . Belief in WMD was similarly pervasive
It may be useful to point out that this was only in the US, as far as I know. Of course, the US perception is what's the most relevant and important, since they started the war, but it's still interesting to be aware that it was limited to the US and very few other countries.
In continental Europe, the Iraq war had "widespread opposition across the political spectrum". And belief in WMD was definitely not "pervasive".
On the radio, I heard people like the boss of the UN inspectors, and others, explaining that the allegations didn't seem to make sense. They complained about all the problems they had to do their inspections because Iraq was very uncooperative, but at the same time, they still seemed very confident that there was no active WMD program, and that the programs that did exist had stopped after the first Gulf war and couldn't possibly have seriously restarted.
Cool. Let's indulge in some nineties nostalgia with a good old OS war... :-)
When I first laid hands on Win95 I thought to myself, "This feels just like my Quadra Mac."
Yes, it looked much the same, except in Win95 I could format a floppy disk while copying files over the network and typing an email.
The English Wikipedia entry seems to confuse Third World with the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement. This confusion doesn't appear in the French version, and the French article on Alfred Sauvy (who originally coined the expression) also mentions this frequent misunderstanding.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=111+EUR+in+USD
OK, looks like video games did exist in the late seventies after all. I just didn't know and was happy with pinball. Maybe pinball practice also helps controlling one's dreams?