It's not so much them believing that CLI is better, I think it's more a case of CLI tools being far easier to develop. Writing a good GUI is non-trivial, and writing a good GUI for something incredibly technical and involved will often result in a harder to use solution than just making the CLI.
Furthermore, admins are typically highly proficient with a keyboard, and can manipulate the CLI faster than they can a mouse.
It's a case of tool for the job. Many tasks are just better suited to CLI due to complexity, target audience and design experience of the developers.
Basically: 1. Mount remote FTP site to local drive/mount using something like WebDrive 2. Install TrueCrypt or some other file based encrypted FS on the mounted volume 3. Use any old regular sync tool to sync files to what now looks like a regular local volume but is infact your remote FTP space.
If the remote server only offers FTP, there's no way to ensure no hops are done in cleartext.
Personally, I'd mount the remote FTP site to a local drive using WebDrive for Windows or something similar for Linux (SSHFS does not do vanilla FTP, although I'm sure there's a tool that does if you look around) and then install TrueCrypt or some other file based encrypted filesystem.
That way you can mount an encrypted remote file system on the remote site and sync it using rsync or any other garden variety file sync tool.
Of course, don't start whining about performance when you start using it as scratch space for Photoshop.
Indeed. Giving in to whiny feminists only makes them whine twice as loud about the next thing.
Get them all back in the kitchen I say!
I know I won't be modded down for this because only women would object to those sentiments. As Slashdot is populated solely by unencumbered males, it is thus a haven for those wishing to express their support for the oppressive patriarchal system.
Down with the Rule of Law! Long live the Rule of Thumb!
There we hae it ladies and gentleman. After years, I think we can say we have found the person with the least understanding of the article and summary.
RTFA? This guy obviously didn't even read the TITLE fully. In fact, given his laughably silly comment, it very well may be that he only read the first word of the title and had some objection with "Debian" and portability.
May I present the new standard setter for Slashdot cluelessness, the man who didn't even RTFT!
Please can you tell us more about the windows boxes you met. What are they like to talk to? Are they overly trusting? I bet they're the polar opposite of the OpenBSD boxes I met. The conversation went like this:
Me: Hi guys! Enjoying the tofu at this conference? OpenBSD_box1: Who the fuck are you? OpenBSD_box2: We don't know you, get lost before we beat you to a pulp. OpenBSD_box1: He's leaving, but let's beat him anyway! OpenBSD_box3: Hey! He's still conscious! You guys are such slackers!
I, once again, assert that while, yes, there may be fewer in number in absolute terms, you are mistaken if you think that there are no Americans living in the crushing poverty you probably only see on World Vision ads. Just because you don't see it on TV doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
No I must, in the name of intellectual honestly, concede that I have not been to the US before. However, I can't imagine that it is any different to the UK, Australia and other first world nations that I have been to, where I have seen the same kind of poverty I've seen in the third world, only hidden beneath a veneer of flashy cars and cafe lattes. To me, this does not hide it, it only makes it more abhorrent.
Define "poverty" when you say that. Our "homeless" and "destitute" are very likely eating regular meals. Most have cells phones, and any can walk into the ER of a hospital and receive medical care without ever being billed.
Eh? You my friend have never looked down the ladder from where you are. Poverty in the US is no less crushing than poverty in Bangladesh. And your comment about free ER treatment is hogwash, there are thousands of stories of people dying in ER waiting rooms because doctors won't touch them without private health cover.
However, if you want to see real poverty, go to India, or rural China, or Africa.
I'm *from* South Africa, my grand parents are all from India. While my direct family is quite well off, I've had up close an personal contact with poverty my whole life.
True, yet their export market is fantastically dependent upon us being able to buy the stuff they're making.
News for you: The US is not the only net importer in the world. Yes, the US accounts for a far higher rate of consumption per capita than anywhere else, but the rest of the world would find a way to soldier on without you. No, really.
Oh, and the hypothetical was illustrative, highlighting the large cash surplus they have on hand. Poorly framed, perhaps, but only a fool would take it totally literally.
Poverty is not an indicator of economic health. The US has its share of the homeless and destitute which is disproportionately high given it's national income.
China's economy is not precarious, their budget surpluses are enormous and their cash reserve is so large that they are the largest holders of US government debt.
China could stop producing dead tomorrow, and they'd have the cash to keep the show running for quite some time.
Umm, I'm not saying the state shouldn't fund schools, roads or the military, nor am I saying anything at all about the nominal tax rate. I was making a point regarding the national budget, which has what many economists call an "irretrievable deficit". Meaning it's so far in debt, it'll likely never be able to pay it off, even if it stopped spending tomorrow. Economics 101 is down the hall.
standard of living
Sure, if you measure that in terms of "televisions per capita" or "calories consumed per capita". If you measure it in terms of "suicides per capita" or the rate of anti-depressant drug prescription, the US fares not so well.
if only for the fact there isn't a clear successor yet
Ahem. China? India? Heck, Brazil?
All have far more robust economies than the US at the moment, if national budgets are anything to go by. The US government has long considered its ability to tax its citizens as an unlimited line of credit. They (you?) are about (in the near future, near being used on the historical timescale) to find out that there is no such thing as an unlimited line of credit. The US citizens' willingness to be frogboiled into paying for more and more of their income to their government's siphon-wealth-to-the-rich program is wearing thin.
If you're cynical enough, you could postulate that the destruction of the US education system is no a political misadventure, but a deliberate act to keep the working class in a poorly educated state. This would ensure that they lack the insight to interpret political reality for themselves, instead relying solely on pre-digested conclusions drip fed to them via the mass media.
But that's a position you'd take if you were cynical enough. I'm obviously not:)
Who needs last.fm? A dictionary attack involving every song released by the RIAA in the last decade would run into (at a wild guess) a few million. Hashing those into a dictionary would take a few days or perhaps weeks, and once done, would not have to be done again. My bet would be on about a month before the first distributions of song hash tables by a bunch of bored kids who know how to use md5sum and bash scripting.
So dictionary attacks with a few million possibilities? This "security" development is worse than the use of real, un-obfuscated dictionary words.
"Fuel cell" refers to the module in which a membrane allows the following reaction to occur:
2H2 + 02 = 2H20
Or some variant if the reagent H2 source is a hydrocarbon.
A fuel cell will always have a reservoir of fuel, as will any engine or energy output mechanism. Thus a fuel cell can have a refillable "fuel tank" in which the user just ads the H2 source fuel, be it alcohol or some other liquid hydrocarbon.
More to the point about finding unsuspecting piggybackers, I don't see how it should be expected that the law should get involved to quickly unless a serious crime has been committed. I find this particularly alarming:
In addition to that, the project managed to show how trusting the local law enforcement agencies really were: 'Near the end of the operation, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police cruiser drove by the parking lot to see what was going on. Hill and his team waved. The police officers waved back and drove off.'
So they'd prefer if the police stopped and strip search everyone doing something they considered suspicious? What kind of hackers are they if they think authority needs to always get up close and personal with anyone doing anything remotely out of the ordinary.
It's a good thing that the police had a look, could see that a crime wasn't being committed, and decided to continue looking for something worthy of their time, not a bad thing as the absurd summary seems to suggest.
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It's not so much them believing that CLI is better, I think it's more a case of CLI tools being far easier to develop. Writing a good GUI is non-trivial, and writing a good GUI for something incredibly technical and involved will often result in a harder to use solution than just making the CLI.
Furthermore, admins are typically highly proficient with a keyboard, and can manipulate the CLI faster than they can a mouse.
It's a case of tool for the job. Many tasks are just better suited to CLI due to complexity, target audience and design experience of the developers.
Had I seen you post, I'd have replied with my proposed solution to you directly. You can see it here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=648583&cid=24644779
Basically:
1. Mount remote FTP site to local drive/mount using something like WebDrive
2. Install TrueCrypt or some other file based encrypted FS on the mounted volume
3. Use any old regular sync tool to sync files to what now looks like a regular local volume but is infact your remote FTP space.
If the remote server only offers FTP, there's no way to ensure no hops are done in cleartext.
Personally, I'd mount the remote FTP site to a local drive using WebDrive for Windows or something similar for Linux (SSHFS does not do vanilla FTP, although I'm sure there's a tool that does if you look around) and then install TrueCrypt or some other file based encrypted filesystem.
That way you can mount an encrypted remote file system on the remote site and sync it using rsync or any other garden variety file sync tool.
Of course, don't start whining about performance when you start using it as scratch space for Photoshop.
I measure "belligerent" using the metric "number of times it has started wars in foreign countries".
Not "proficiency at convincing public that its aggression is actually self-defense".
"13 year olds are the scariest most belligerent people on the planet"
After the United States government.
Indeed. Giving in to whiny feminists only makes them whine twice as loud about the next thing.
Get them all back in the kitchen I say!
I know I won't be modded down for this because only women would object to those sentiments. As Slashdot is populated solely by unencumbered males, it is thus a haven for those wishing to express their support for the oppressive patriarchal system.
Down with the Rule of Law! Long live the Rule of Thumb!
There we hae it ladies and gentleman. After years, I think we can say we have found the person with the least understanding of the article and summary.
RTFA? This guy obviously didn't even read the TITLE fully. In fact, given his laughably silly comment, it very well may be that he only read the first word of the title and had some objection with "Debian" and portability.
May I present the new standard setter for Slashdot cluelessness, the man who didn't even RTFT!
Please can you tell us more about the windows boxes you met. What are they like to talk to? Are they overly trusting? I bet they're the polar opposite of the OpenBSD boxes I met. The conversation went like this:
Me: Hi guys! Enjoying the tofu at this conference?
OpenBSD_box1: Who the fuck are you?
OpenBSD_box2: We don't know you, get lost before we beat you to a pulp.
OpenBSD_box1: He's leaving, but let's beat him anyway!
OpenBSD_box3: Hey! He's still conscious! You guys are such slackers!
Open Source at its very best.
The rest of us thank you for the wonderful work you are doing helping get free software into the mainstream.
Yea, a 1997 with laptops that weigh 1kg, have a battery life of 5 hours and a screen that is actually capable of doing graphics work on.
I wish I was around in *your* 1997.
I, once again, assert that while, yes, there may be fewer in number in absolute terms, you are mistaken if you think that there are no Americans living in the crushing poverty you probably only see on World Vision ads. Just because you don't see it on TV doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
No I must, in the name of intellectual honestly, concede that I have not been to the US before. However, I can't imagine that it is any different to the UK, Australia and other first world nations that I have been to, where I have seen the same kind of poverty I've seen in the third world, only hidden beneath a veneer of flashy cars and cafe lattes. To me, this does not hide it, it only makes it more abhorrent.
Eh? You my friend have never looked down the ladder from where you are. Poverty in the US is no less crushing than poverty in Bangladesh. And your comment about free ER treatment is hogwash, there are thousands of stories of people dying in ER waiting rooms because doctors won't touch them without private health cover.
I'm *from* South Africa, my grand parents are all from India. While my direct family is quite well off, I've had up close an personal contact with poverty my whole life.
News for you: The US is not the only net importer in the world. Yes, the US accounts for a far higher rate of consumption per capita than anywhere else, but the rest of the world would find a way to soldier on without you. No, really.
Oh, and the hypothetical was illustrative, highlighting the large cash surplus they have on hand. Poorly framed, perhaps, but only a fool would take it totally literally.
You've never walked into a homeless shelter in your country, have you?
Poverty is not an indicator of economic health. The US has its share of the homeless and destitute which is disproportionately high given it's national income.
China's economy is not precarious, their budget surpluses are enormous and their cash reserve is so large that they are the largest holders of US government debt.
China could stop producing dead tomorrow, and they'd have the cash to keep the show running for quite some time.
Umm, I'm not saying the state shouldn't fund schools, roads or the military, nor am I saying anything at all about the nominal tax rate. I was making a point regarding the national budget, which has what many economists call an "irretrievable deficit". Meaning it's so far in debt, it'll likely never be able to pay it off, even if it stopped spending tomorrow. Economics 101 is down the hall.
Sure, if you measure that in terms of "televisions per capita" or "calories consumed per capita". If you measure it in terms of "suicides per capita" or the rate of anti-depressant drug prescription, the US fares not so well.
Replying only because you made this on topic :)
Ahem. China? India? Heck, Brazil?
All have far more robust economies than the US at the moment, if national budgets are anything to go by. The US government has long considered its ability to tax its citizens as an unlimited line of credit. They (you?) are about (in the near future, near being used on the historical timescale) to find out that there is no such thing as an unlimited line of credit. The US citizens' willingness to be frogboiled into paying for more and more of their income to their government's siphon-wealth-to-the-rich program is wearing thin.
If you're cynical enough, you could postulate that the destruction of the US education system is no a political misadventure, but a deliberate act to keep the working class in a poorly educated state. This would ensure that they lack the insight to interpret political reality for themselves, instead relying solely on pre-digested conclusions drip fed to them via the mass media.
But that's a position you'd take if you were cynical enough. I'm obviously not :)
For Pete's sake!
"Given the ROCs forgiven and humanetarian nature..."
Where do you people get your education from? Cereal boxes?
The line you're after is "Given the ROC's forgiving and humanitarian nature..."
I also count rogue capitals W, P and S (since when are "web page" and "sysadmin" proper nouns?) and a name mistake (Bill's wife is Melinda).
I'll excuse "Dell expiron" and assume that was a joke, playing on the fact the laptop in question is, in fact, expirin'.
That joke format is old and retarded. If you're still young, you're halfway there.
Who needs last.fm? A dictionary attack involving every song released by the RIAA in the last decade would run into (at a wild guess) a few million. Hashing those into a dictionary would take a few days or perhaps weeks, and once done, would not have to be done again. My bet would be on about a month before the first distributions of song hash tables by a bunch of bored kids who know how to use md5sum and bash scripting.
So dictionary attacks with a few million possibilities? This "security" development is worse than the use of real, un-obfuscated dictionary words.
No.
"Fuel cell" refers to the module in which a membrane allows the following reaction to occur:
2H2 + 02 = 2H20
Or some variant if the reagent H2 source is a hydrocarbon.
A fuel cell will always have a reservoir of fuel, as will any engine or energy output mechanism. Thus a fuel cell can have a refillable "fuel tank" in which the user just ads the H2 source fuel, be it alcohol or some other liquid hydrocarbon.
What was he thinking? We all know that a compressor is cheaper than a lump of metal.
Slashdot is the ultimate source of entropy. Nothing can come close the the random BS emitted around here.
More to the point about finding unsuspecting piggybackers, I don't see how it should be expected that the law should get involved to quickly unless a serious crime has been committed. I find this particularly alarming:
So they'd prefer if the police stopped and strip search everyone doing something they considered suspicious? What kind of hackers are they if they think authority needs to always get up close and personal with anyone doing anything remotely out of the ordinary.
It's a good thing that the police had a look, could see that a crime wasn't being committed, and decided to continue looking for something worthy of their time, not a bad thing as the absurd summary seems to suggest.
I simply cannot believe that they are serious.
Thus, calling their leader "Chairman of the Bored" must be self-deprecating humour.
I think you mean B0wnd