It's been said, but how could you do off-site backups with this system? One user said something to the extent of "this will work in any situation short of tornados or the building burning down". Well, what if the building burns down, or a tornado flattens your office? Seems to me you'd be out of business in an instant after losing every piece of data possessed.
My employer uses a two SANs from Xiotech, one off-site (actually, that's still being implemented), with two off-site servers to support us should our server room spontaneously combust. All of our employees are encouraged to store any and all information on the network drives. These drives get partial backups each night MTWH (any files that changed from the previous day), and a full backup on Friday, and all the tapes are stored off-site. If a user had data s/he wished to save on the HDD and their PC is reimaged, they're SOL, and they know that from the beginning.
At the same time, each user has a 20GB or larger HDD that is essentially wasted because of this. Of course, no one in this organization could have 20GB of reports and text documents, etc.
You developed those pathways. That doesn't mean your brain evolved =) You were genetically predisposed to form the pathways you did. That doesn't mean you're totally stuck with what your parents gave you as far as intelligence; education and being challenged early will form different pathways than if you sit in a corn field all day. But the genetics are a factor.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you don't just evolve while sitting on a couch zoned out in a game. If that were the case, there would be a lot more super-soldiers and fantastical role-players amongst us. You can learn things, but that doesn't mean your brain became more efficient at them, just that different pathways were developed than in a non-gamer. Your hand-eye coordination, for instance (which isn't a bad thing...)
Depending on the subject-matter of the site though, making it flash could quickly make it difficult to navigate, at least if it was designed by a less-than-skilled person. At least until recently (I think) Flash wasn't much good to a person using Linux, though. Perhaps I'm wrong though, I haven't been using Linux for web-browsing until recently.
I know what you're saying, and each of these examples has been extreme, but for a break-in, I would consider simple locks enough counter-measure. Regardless, even if no technological counter-measure is attempted to prevent deep-linking, I would take a notice stating "do not provide deep-links to this site" as enough, personally. Anywho...
"documentation" encapsulates end-user dox, not just README/INSTALL. The README & INSTALL files can be enough to get a program installed, but that doesn't mean it's documented.
Windows is Windows and I hate it for that fact, but it is relatively decently documented, between the help system and the KB (and XP's help system integrates both, albeit sluggishly). Too bad good documentation doesn't always imply good software. And that goes for all software, not just MS.
As for KDevelop and other programming environments, I disagree with you partly. You do indeed need a simple & complete step-by-step to get up and running, but you also need the endless class descriptions and and the nitty-gritty. Otherwise you could never [easily] progress beyond what that simple tutorial shows you.
Given that technology can prevent deep linking, it is most efficient if the law is in accordance with that technological reality.
And if you want to allow people to deep link to your site? Is it then illegal to do so? I know it's an unreal example, but technology (knives, guns, blunt objects, whatever) can be utilized to injur, maim, murder, etc. someone...does that mean the law should also be in accordance with this technological reality?
If the technology to prevent deep-linking is present, and a web-site that wishes to prevent deep-linking does not utilize (or attempt to utilize) this existing technology, they shouldn't be able to complain if someone deep-links to their site, IMNSHO.
Note that I am making two assumptions: implementing anti-deep-linking technology does not require the time or resources it would take to build a wall around 10 acres; the second is that you are just as able to give permission to deep-link as you are able to give permission for someone to murder you.
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Nearly anything is better than ribbon cables. aibrahim writes "In the recent/. article about Serial ATA some people wanted to know where SCSI was going, and if Serial ATA could deal with some higher end workstation and low end server requirements. Apparently it has been decided that Serial ATA 2 (pdf doc) and Serial Attached SCSI are the answers."
I agree with you that a local white-box builder is an optimal choice in that situation, but there are some advantages to buying dell, micron or gateway...the support is generally excellent, the cost isn't extremely out of whack (anymore), and if a part dies, you can usually have a replacement within 7-10 business days, more if you pay for some shipping, I think. You can also go to places like the Gateway country stores and get parts sometimes, if you've called tech support already.
Definitely not a preferential thing for a home user that is considering building one, but there are still a few advantages there, if minor...
Yeah, you may be right, but would you give up your internet to upgrade to a pentium? Do you feel that is worth it? Also, don't forget that some people use a spare machine to play with Linux while they're still learning (Yes, maybe total immersion is a better way to learn, but not everyone can do that, or wants to do that). I have a spare pentium laptop that I am going to install Gentoo on tonight, after reading a bit about it.
This is what we're working on at work now (at a Univ. with approx. 400 desktop users). We just got ZENworks 3.2 (ugh, Novell....) and it has some pretty nice features like inventorying all the workstations and showing you what software is installed on each machine. Combine this information with bandwidth-usage statistics by user/application and perhaps some HTTP proxy information, and go to your management and discuss all of this with him/them.
It's touchy, but you may want to go around your direct manager if he's unwilling to fulfill his duties....
Didn't think of that...but I don't know enough about IP law to know if that would work, releasing a patch publicly under a different license, when technically the source shouldn't be available to a person anyway.
Of course, it's a hell of a lot easier to say "what if blah blah" than to actually see it happen.
Would they still be complaining though, when someone organized a few skilled coders and find some serious holes in Windows that haven't surfaced yet, and send a fix to MS to include in a patch? I wouldn't think so.
=D Sorry...First chance I've had to regurgitate some info from a class I'm taking. The way I read it, you were slamming our free-market economy and wrongly comparing it with socialism. And you're right, socialism is great. IN THEORY. But IN THEORY, communism works. hmmm...that example doesn't work in that sense very well, does it.
Uh, okay. First, if an admin isn't testing his backups, or is doing backups to CD-R without owning the software, it's hiw own damn fault. Second, the satellite companies can't ruin their hardware that way. And if you'll remember far back enough (all of what, three years?) one of the satellite companies DID destroy hardware, sending a signal to fry illegal cards. Fact of the matter is this: if you had a legal right to the software and the key provided you was illegal, you'd have a basis for legal action. If you downloaded a keygen to use this software because you felt the measly price requested is too much, then you get what you pay for.
I know it's blasphemous to mention on/. but, last time I checked, CDRWin wasn't (and indeed, never was) open-source software. This guy wrote the app, and he's free to do whatever he wants to prevent it from being stolen and/or used illegally. CDRWin is a great friggin app, and one that I got more than my money's worth from. A program like that, or nero, is one I am happy to fork money over for. Something like EZ-CD Creator on the other hand, if I were desperate, I would steal in two seconds. And I would delete it as fast as is physically possible. But that's why I never bought (or installed) a copy of it.
I start to have problems with paying for programs when I'm paying more for the software than my computer cost me when it was new, though. I still haven't paid for anything like that...so no one is perfect. But I don't blow sunshine up my ass and pretend I have a "right" to the software. I know I'm still stealing it.
Take some polisci courses and come back and re-read what you just wrote...we pay taxes because our government DOES build roads and provide welfare for the poorest of the poor (ideally, at least). Would you rather have to be billed by another utility company for road usage? Have police be owned/run by the road company! That'd make them much less corrupt. Oh, and I bet the fees would be very fair for those roads...
Our system has holes, and it's very easy to whip out complaints and arguments against. But take a look at a few pics of russia under communist rule and then look at what we have.
Oh, and just for your betterment (or knowledge, whichever way you prefer to take it) Soviet Russia was between Socialism and Capitalism; you seem to imply that socialism is the one in the middle.
Agreed. Even just from a convenience standpoint (go to lan party at friends who has a few imacs around, plug, boot, go (assuming mac people have lan parties =)) From a System Support/HelpDesk standpoint, this could be pretty handy for fieldwork, too, at least in some rather rare situations. Pretty high geek factor to this ability though.
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It's been said, but how could you do off-site backups with this system? One user said something to the extent of "this will work in any situation short of tornados or the building burning down". Well, what if the building burns down, or a tornado flattens your office? Seems to me you'd be out of business in an instant after losing every piece of data possessed.
My employer uses a two SANs from Xiotech, one off-site (actually, that's still being implemented), with two off-site servers to support us should our server room spontaneously combust. All of our employees are encouraged to store any and all information on the network drives. These drives get partial backups each night MTWH (any files that changed from the previous day), and a full backup on Friday, and all the tapes are stored off-site. If a user had data s/he wished to save on the HDD and their PC is reimaged, they're SOL, and they know that from the beginning.
At the same time, each user has a 20GB or larger HDD that is essentially wasted because of this. Of course, no one in this organization could have 20GB of reports and text documents, etc.
Fluxbox is a worthwhile WM to donate to, as well, based on Blackbox 0.6, I think. Although, I'm not sure that they have a donate link...
When I get my paypal account in order though, the first donation I make will be to these guys.
Yeah, but the guy still didn't say what you could use if the files _were_ all ASCII...
You developed those pathways. That doesn't mean your brain evolved =) You were genetically predisposed to form the pathways you did. That doesn't mean you're totally stuck with what your parents gave you as far as intelligence; education and being challenged early will form different pathways than if you sit in a corn field all day. But the genetics are a factor.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you don't just evolve while sitting on a couch zoned out in a game. If that were the case, there would be a lot more super-soldiers and fantastical role-players amongst us. You can learn things, but that doesn't mean your brain became more efficient at them, just that different pathways were developed than in a non-gamer. Your hand-eye coordination, for instance (which isn't a bad thing...)
Depending on the subject-matter of the site though, making it flash could quickly make it difficult to navigate, at least if it was designed by a less-than-skilled person. At least until recently (I think) Flash wasn't much good to a person using Linux, though. Perhaps I'm wrong though, I haven't been using Linux for web-browsing until recently.
I know what you're saying, and each of these examples has been extreme, but for a break-in, I would consider simple locks enough counter-measure. Regardless, even if no technological counter-measure is attempted to prevent deep-linking, I would take a notice stating "do not provide deep-links to this site" as enough, personally. Anywho...
"documentation" encapsulates end-user dox, not just README/INSTALL. The README & INSTALL files can be enough to get a program installed, but that doesn't mean it's documented.
Windows is Windows and I hate it for that fact, but it is relatively decently documented, between the help system and the KB (and XP's help system integrates both, albeit sluggishly). Too bad good documentation doesn't always imply good software. And that goes for all software, not just MS.
As for KDevelop and other programming environments, I disagree with you partly. You do indeed need a simple & complete step-by-step to get up and running, but you also need the endless class descriptions and and the nitty-gritty. Otherwise you could never [easily] progress beyond what that simple tutorial shows you.
If the technology to prevent deep-linking is present, and a web-site that wishes to prevent deep-linking does not utilize (or attempt to utilize) this existing technology, they shouldn't be able to complain if someone deep-links to their site, IMNSHO.
Note that I am making two assumptions: implementing anti-deep-linking technology does not require the time or resources it would take to build a wall around 10 acres; the second is that you are just as able to give permission to deep-link as you are able to give permission for someone to murder you.
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..But you can rest easy! Just remember that any Supreme Court appointee must be approved by both houses of congress.
Well, why aren't you resting yet? Oh yeah...that's why.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is entirely the reason you would bring Echostar to court in the first place...
I agree with you that a local white-box builder is an optimal choice in that situation, but there are some advantages to buying dell, micron or gateway...the support is generally excellent, the cost isn't extremely out of whack (anymore), and if a part dies, you can usually have a replacement within 7-10 business days, more if you pay for some shipping, I think. You can also go to places like the Gateway country stores and get parts sometimes, if you've called tech support already.
Definitely not a preferential thing for a home user that is considering building one, but there are still a few advantages there, if minor...
Yeah, you may be right, but would you give up your internet to upgrade to a pentium? Do you feel that is worth it? Also, don't forget that some people use a spare machine to play with Linux while they're still learning (Yes, maybe total immersion is a better way to learn, but not everyone can do that, or wants to do that). I have a spare pentium laptop that I am going to install Gentoo on tonight, after reading a bit about it.
This is what we're working on at work now (at a Univ. with approx. 400 desktop users). We just got ZENworks 3.2 (ugh, Novell....) and it has some pretty nice features like inventorying all the workstations and showing you what software is installed on each machine. Combine this information with bandwidth-usage statistics by user/application and perhaps some HTTP proxy information, and go to your management and discuss all of this with him/them.
It's touchy, but you may want to go around your direct manager if he's unwilling to fulfill his duties....
Didn't think of that...but I don't know enough about IP law to know if that would work, releasing a patch publicly under a different license, when technically the source shouldn't be available to a person anyway.
Of course, it's a hell of a lot easier to say "what if blah blah" than to actually see it happen.
Would they still be complaining though, when someone organized a few skilled coders and find some serious holes in Windows that haven't surfaced yet, and send a fix to MS to include in a patch? I wouldn't think so.
=D Sorry...First chance I've had to regurgitate some info from a class I'm taking. The way I read it, you were slamming our free-market economy and wrongly comparing it with socialism. And you're right, socialism is great. IN THEORY. But IN THEORY, communism works. hmmm...that example doesn't work in that sense very well, does it.
I like having roads too.
Uh, okay. First, if an admin isn't testing his backups, or is doing backups to CD-R without owning the software, it's hiw own damn fault. Second, the satellite companies can't ruin their hardware that way. And if you'll remember far back enough (all of what, three years?) one of the satellite companies DID destroy hardware, sending a signal to fry illegal cards. Fact of the matter is this: if you had a legal right to the software and the key provided you was illegal, you'd have a basis for legal action. If you downloaded a keygen to use this software because you felt the measly price requested is too much, then you get what you pay for.
I know it's blasphemous to mention on /. but, last time I checked, CDRWin wasn't (and indeed, never was) open-source software. This guy wrote the app, and he's free to do whatever he wants to prevent it from being stolen and/or used illegally. CDRWin is a great friggin app, and one that I got more than my money's worth from. A program like that, or nero, is one I am happy to fork money over for. Something like EZ-CD Creator on the other hand, if I were desperate, I would steal in two seconds. And I would delete it as fast as is physically possible. But that's why I never bought (or installed) a copy of it.
I start to have problems with paying for programs when I'm paying more for the software than my computer cost me when it was new, though. I still haven't paid for anything like that...so no one is perfect. But I don't blow sunshine up my ass and pretend I have a "right" to the software. I know I'm still stealing it.
Take some polisci courses and come back and re-read what you just wrote...we pay taxes because our government DOES build roads and provide welfare for the poorest of the poor (ideally, at least). Would you rather have to be billed by another utility company for road usage? Have police be owned/run by the road company! That'd make them much less corrupt. Oh, and I bet the fees would be very fair for those roads...
Our system has holes, and it's very easy to whip out complaints and arguments against. But take a look at a few pics of russia under communist rule and then look at what we have.
Oh, and just for your betterment (or knowledge, whichever way you prefer to take it) Soviet Russia was between Socialism and Capitalism; you seem to imply that socialism is the one in the middle.
/me unplugs cable modem and cowers in the corner in fear.
Agreed. Even just from a convenience standpoint (go to lan party at friends who has a few imacs around, plug, boot, go (assuming mac people have lan parties =)) From a System Support/HelpDesk standpoint, this could be pretty handy for fieldwork, too, at least in some rather rare situations. Pretty high geek factor to this ability though.