Well, if you're forward-thinking, you put a clause in your purchase agreement stating you're allowed onto the site to lay wires, etc. Just make sure your purchase doesn't fall through, or you're out all your time and material, and some other shmuck get's a huge bonus when he moves in to find wiring everywhere.
Use smurf-tubing, and install everything consistently, like, 2'1/2" up from the base flooring (to account for carpeting/tile/etc.) and then you know your smurf tubing is two feet off the floor, everywhere you put it.
My uncle built a new (huge) workshop with water-pipe heated flooring. He has 110 and 220 to every other outlet, located every 16 (32?) inches around the entire room. He has 110 and 220 to every floorplate. Every wire is run in a straight line, measured from a known location. Including the water piping. He then tiled his floors with narrow colored (red) tile over the electrical lines, blue over the water. Every outlet, light, cat5 cable goes to one junction box where he has what amounts to a switchboard to move a 110 to 220 or vice-versa, should he decide he wants his bandsaw two feet down. His walls also have those adjustable metal slotted shelve hangers (sorta like you see in retail stores). Need a shelf in a certain spot, grab one from the closet and hang it up.
If that were the living room, it wouldn't go over well with any gf/wife, most likely, but luckily, it's only your living room. The gf/wife can live in the rest of the house:) Now if only he'd have thought to put a bathroom in there...
My password currently is about 35 characters; it's a sentence with punctuation and all, but not ordered correctly. It's easy to remember and easier to type. And I'd give you a year with a handful of systems and you wouldn't brute-force it.
IMO, 8 chars, complex, changed every 90 days is the absolute minimum for password strength for any system beyond generic webmail or/. accounts.
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You can log in as another user. If the user is not an Admin, s/he must be specified as allowed to connect remotely, done from the same location where you enable the service.
And contrary to what you say, if someone at the console logs in, it logs your remote session out, and vice-versa.
The best alternative for support is the "remote help" functionality of remote desktop. The user requests help, IMs/emails you a file/link that lets you (on an XP workstation) connect remotely and view their session, and they can then give you control. They can interact with the system at the same time, you both have a small chat window, you can show them what you need to, and all they have to do to boot you is hit escape.
Handy for support with folks who don't know computers well and say "what?" when you tell them go to start->settings->control panel.
Seriously only five? Well, as another poster said, the volume licensing copy will work just fine.
And if you're going to go to the extent of actually buying a copy, check out Microsoft's ActionPack. Lets you get ten seats of pretty much every piece of MS crap you'd need, with Server 2003 to boot. You'd, you know, have to say you're a consultant and implement Microsoft solutions, but I'm guessing all of/. have supported or installed Windows for family/friends, save the Linux zealots, of which I am one, who have forgone Windows "support" for "replacement" with Linux.
There are three parts to security that many geeks (myself included, at first) do not typically comprehend.
Confidentiality - Can I control access to a resource
Integrity - Can I be sure that my resource has remained unharmed
Availability - Can I use my resource
In this case, not being able to install a plugin (as the original poster's and your example) is a loss of availability. If I'm to operate a normal user on my system, but I have to log out and back in as Administrator to install a simple plugin that, say, pulls an RSS feed, you can be certain that I will both view this is a big issue, and probably not use the product.
That said, firefox is an exception in my book, but my solution is to run as Administrator, which is not a good solution either.
In my opinion, this poster raises a *very* valid and important point with respect to all software, not just OSS. If the software I'm trying to use won't let me run Windows securely, (heh, like third-party software is all that's stopping that from happening...) it's an issue.
(To everyone who ignored the poster's comment about not being able to use VMWare)
Okay, did you ever think that perhaps he's not developing, but is instead consulting? Or will be firewalled with limited outgoing access? Perhaps he'll actually be on an air-gapped LAN. Maybe the stuff he does requires actual access to the hardware/native drivers/etc. I've experienced this using security tools. This can be especially true since VMWare does not pass through wireless network cards or the PCMCIA slot reliably, if at all. Sure, there are ways to hack around this sort of stuff, but that's probably not what this person gets paid for.
In short, answer his question or don't waste our time responding.
But how much more energy is used in manufacturing and shipping a smaller number of these LED bulbs, as opposed to the [presumably] high-volume, high-efficiency manufacturing process of GE or the like?
This is the same old *I want my PC to do everything I tell it to, but I don't want it to possibly ever harm me* mentality...if you're going to install something, read the documentation and understand what that means.
This is not even close to spyware. Now Windows, I don't ever recall seeing documentation on Windows until after it was installed...:)
Polls are an art, not a science. There's an article on page B1 (cover of the Marketplace section) of today's WSJ.
As example (and the fuel for the article I mention, as well, perhaps, as the article linked) is the fact that last week, "Gallup Organization had President Bush up by 13 percentage points, while the Pew Research Center had him and Sen. John Kerry dead even."
The article goes on to discuss how poll results are adjusted to represent even precentages of economic, educational, gender, age, and sometimes political affiliation, demographics. What that means: if only 4% of respondents are age 18-24, and it should be 6%, the results from that group will be increased by 50%.
This becomes an issue, as the article points out, because as much as 3% of the population whom are aged 18-30 are missed because they do not have land-lines, and cellular phones are not polled. But when they are adjusted by the means I mentioned, the views of those [typically more urban] population are not necessarilly represented.
In addition to all of this, as I mentioned, these polls are sometimes adjusted based on party representation. But if individuals being polled are Independent, but will vote for Bush, they have a tendency to call themselves Republican, which skews those numbers. Note that not all polling organizations adjust in this manner.
The last thing that can throw polls off is that 45% of the responses are thrown out immediately, based on their "liklihood to vote", which is arbitrarily decided with questions like "How likely are you to vote in November? Do you vote Always, Often, Sometimes, Rarely, or Never?" and on and on.
Well, I won't throw a tantrum. I'm capable of updating my own PC no problem; I can't, however, take the time to run around and update every time a new patch is released.
tangent: I hope firefox/mozilla begins releasing patches rather than having to pull the full binary every time.
The flip side to this 'drawback' is this: [I hope] there will be the same number, if not less, of exploits released for firefox/mozilla as compared to IE, but patches/updates for firefox/mozilla will be released within hours, rather than weeks or months.
I disagree. The more users that use Firefox, the more it will be targeted with viruses/exploits/etc. And Firefox can't be updated automatically. At least with IE, you can rely on MS' eventual patch to be pulled down with WindowsUpdate. For shops large enough to be using SUS, [I assume] you can update Firefox with that. And you can easily update any.msi-based software with Novell's ZENworks.
The group is divided on technical issues (meaning bickering about this or that, I assume) related to how the TXT record should be formatted and chacked by MTAs.
The group is also sick of the IP bickering between Apache/Debian, et. al. and MS, et. al., rather than purely engineering tasks.
In the end, the group will make no headway, because no one will concede or compromise on the technical aspects of MARID's goal. Microsoft's IP claims only seem to be a final blow.
Instead of the group coming up with a [proposed] standard, they are asking each individual entity to put forth their document as an RFC.
So it seems MS, SPF, etc. will each put forth their version of the standard, and may the best RFC win.
Next time you submit a story, how about you actually include something about it in the description?
This would fail even more quickly. Most of my clients are stressed out as it is when they bring my firm in. The one thing we have that they take comfort in is our integrity. Without that, we would be out of a job.
If a company's entire basis is the fact that their employees do not (or did not, if truly grey hat...) have integrity, they're sunk before they leave dock.
In the same breath, I will just state what I have seen someone else on/. state, and I found humorous: black hats are good hackers, white hats are good fakers, and grey hats are good liars.
First, let's correct your previous statement. Novell and SuSE are one, and so there's not as much for a developer to struggle to conform to. Second, as was announced on/., the WSJ, and several other sources a few days ago, IBM, Novell, HP, and several other very major vendors all announced support of LSB-2. Whether they're posting placards and advertising everywhere or not, if I'm a developer for Linux tools, I'm going to code to LSB-2 spec, not to a platform (RH/SuSE/FC/LM/etc.)
No, that's two characters concatenated, not added; Carriage Return, then Line Feed. But as others have pointed out, this is for terminating lines of text, not buffers.
This was mentioned in an article in the Wall Street Journal today. The article is regarding vendor-backing of LSB2. Near the end, the WSJ stated this product is meant to compete with Sun and HP workstations. Link to related story, as WSJ's requires subscription services.
Hello, how is paying the set $250 price for merchandise, then canabilizing YOUR property, not nice? I fail to see the point of this entire thread.
I buy a product from Rio, that's that. If they're selling these at a loss, (which I guarantee you they're not) then they're losing money whether I use it, advertise, etc. or not.
If this were not the case, and they are selling it at a loss to increase sales, as someone suggested, then wouldn't their losses increase due to additional sales? What fruity business consultant would come up with that idea?
Yes, but the University has a right to define its Terms of Service (ToS) for a student to use the University network. Port scanning may be legal, but that's probably against their ToS too. And if they want to require all cat5 cables on their network be purple, well, they can probably do that too.
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Well, if you're forward-thinking, you put a clause in your purchase agreement stating you're allowed onto the site to lay wires, etc. Just make sure your purchase doesn't fall through, or you're out all your time and material, and some other shmuck get's a huge bonus when he moves in to find wiring everywhere.
My uncle built a new (huge) workshop with water-pipe heated flooring. He has 110 and 220 to every other outlet, located every 16 (32?) inches around the entire room. He has 110 and 220 to every floorplate. Every wire is run in a straight line, measured from a known location. Including the water piping. He then tiled his floors with narrow colored (red) tile over the electrical lines, blue over the water. Every outlet, light, cat5 cable goes to one junction box where he has what amounts to a switchboard to move a 110 to 220 or vice-versa, should he decide he wants his bandsaw two feet down. His walls also have those adjustable metal slotted shelve hangers (sorta like you see in retail stores). Need a shelf in a certain spot, grab one from the closet and hang it up.
If that were the living room, it wouldn't go over well with any gf/wife, most likely, but luckily, it's only your living room. The gf/wife can live in the rest of the house :) Now if only he'd have thought to put a bathroom in there...
IMO, 8 chars, complex, changed every 90 days is the absolute minimum for password strength for any system beyond generic webmail or /. accounts.
And contrary to what you say, if someone at the console logs in, it logs your remote session out, and vice-versa.
The best alternative for support is the "remote help" functionality of remote desktop. The user requests help, IMs/emails you a file/link that lets you (on an XP workstation) connect remotely and view their session, and they can then give you control. They can interact with the system at the same time, you both have a small chat window, you can show them what you need to, and all they have to do to boot you is hit escape.
Handy for support with folks who don't know computers well and say "what?" when you tell them go to start->settings->control panel.
And if you're going to go to the extent of actually buying a copy, check out Microsoft's ActionPack. Lets you get ten seats of pretty much every piece of MS crap you'd need, with Server 2003 to boot. You'd, you know, have to say you're a consultant and implement Microsoft solutions, but I'm guessing all of /. have supported or installed Windows for family/friends, save the Linux zealots, of which I am one, who have forgone Windows "support" for "replacement" with Linux.
There are three parts to security that many geeks (myself included, at first) do not typically comprehend.
Confidentiality - Can I control access to a resource
Integrity - Can I be sure that my resource has remained unharmed
Availability - Can I use my resource
In this case, not being able to install a plugin (as the original poster's and your example) is a loss of availability. If I'm to operate a normal user on my system, but I have to log out and back in as Administrator to install a simple plugin that, say, pulls an RSS feed, you can be certain that I will both view this is a big issue, and probably not use the product.
That said, firefox is an exception in my book, but my solution is to run as Administrator, which is not a good solution either.
In my opinion, this poster raises a *very* valid and important point with respect to all software, not just OSS. If the software I'm trying to use won't let me run Windows securely, (heh, like third-party software is all that's stopping that from happening...) it's an issue.
Okay, did you ever think that perhaps he's not developing, but is instead consulting? Or will be firewalled with limited outgoing access? Perhaps he'll actually be on an air-gapped LAN. Maybe the stuff he does requires actual access to the hardware/native drivers/etc. I've experienced this using security tools. This can be especially true since VMWare does not pass through wireless network cards or the PCMCIA slot reliably, if at all. Sure, there are ways to hack around this sort of stuff, but that's probably not what this person gets paid for.
In short, answer his question or don't waste our time responding.
No offense to anyone in particular.
But how much more energy is used in manufacturing and shipping a smaller number of these LED bulbs, as opposed to the [presumably] high-volume, high-efficiency manufacturing process of GE or the like?
He also said vmware, wine, etc. didn't work for him. in previous attempts.
This is the same old *I want my PC to do everything I tell it to, but I don't want it to possibly ever harm me* mentality...if you're going to install something, read the documentation and understand what that means.
This is not even close to spyware. Now Windows, I don't ever recall seeing documentation on Windows until after it was installed... :)
Read it again. The one just released is compatible; the planned dual-core CPU probably will not be (my assumption).
As example (and the fuel for the article I mention, as well, perhaps, as the article linked) is the fact that last week, "Gallup Organization had President Bush up by 13 percentage points, while the Pew Research Center had him and Sen. John Kerry dead even."
The article goes on to discuss how poll results are adjusted to represent even precentages of economic, educational, gender, age, and sometimes political affiliation, demographics. What that means: if only 4% of respondents are age 18-24, and it should be 6%, the results from that group will be increased by 50%.
This becomes an issue, as the article points out, because as much as 3% of the population whom are aged 18-30 are missed because they do not have land-lines, and cellular phones are not polled. But when they are adjusted by the means I mentioned, the views of those [typically more urban] population are not necessarilly represented.
In addition to all of this, as I mentioned, these polls are sometimes adjusted based on party representation. But if individuals being polled are Independent, but will vote for Bush, they have a tendency to call themselves Republican, which skews those numbers. Note that not all polling organizations adjust in this manner.
The last thing that can throw polls off is that 45% of the responses are thrown out immediately, based on their "liklihood to vote", which is arbitrarily decided with questions like "How likely are you to vote in November? Do you vote Always, Often, Sometimes, Rarely, or Never?" and on and on.
tangent: I hope firefox/mozilla begins releasing patches rather than having to pull the full binary every time.
The flip side to this 'drawback' is this: [I hope] there will be the same number, if not less, of exploits released for firefox/mozilla as compared to IE, but patches/updates for firefox/mozilla will be released within hours, rather than weeks or months.
I disagree. The more users that use Firefox, the more it will be targeted with viruses/exploits/etc. And Firefox can't be updated automatically. At least with IE, you can rely on MS' eventual patch to be pulled down with WindowsUpdate. For shops large enough to be using SUS, [I assume] you can update Firefox with that. And you can easily update any .msi-based software with Novell's ZENworks.
The group is divided on technical issues (meaning bickering about this or that, I assume) related to how the TXT record should be formatted and chacked by MTAs.
The group is also sick of the IP bickering between Apache/Debian, et. al. and MS, et. al., rather than purely engineering tasks.
In the end, the group will make no headway, because no one will concede or compromise on the technical aspects of MARID's goal. Microsoft's IP claims only seem to be a final blow.
Instead of the group coming up with a [proposed] standard, they are asking each individual entity to put forth their document as an RFC.
So it seems MS, SPF, etc. will each put forth their version of the standard, and may the best RFC win.
Next time you submit a story, how about you actually include something about it in the description?
If a company's entire basis is the fact that their employees do not (or did not, if truly grey hat...) have integrity, they're sunk before they leave dock.
In the same breath, I will just state what I have seen someone else on /. state, and I found humorous: black hats are good hackers, white hats are good fakers, and grey hats are good liars.
Linux will rule the world through Novell. Novell will be nothing but our puppet.
<insert evil laugh here>
First, let's correct your previous statement. Novell and SuSE are one, and so there's not as much for a developer to struggle to conform to. Second, as was announced on /., the WSJ, and several other sources a few days ago, IBM, Novell, HP, and several other very major vendors all announced support of LSB-2. Whether they're posting placards and advertising everywhere or not, if I'm a developer for Linux tools, I'm going to code to LSB-2 spec, not to a platform (RH/SuSE/FC/LM/etc.)
That, or the user can write the password on the drive in Sharpie. Or better yet, put it in a text file on the drive!
No, that's two characters concatenated, not added; Carriage Return, then Line Feed. But as others have pointed out, this is for terminating lines of text, not buffers.
This was mentioned in an article in the Wall Street Journal today. The article is regarding vendor-backing of LSB2. Near the end, the WSJ stated this product is meant to compete with Sun and HP workstations. Link to related story, as WSJ's requires subscription services.
I buy a product from Rio, that's that. If they're selling these at a loss, (which I guarantee you they're not) then they're losing money whether I use it, advertise, etc. or not.
If this were not the case, and they are selling it at a loss to increase sales, as someone suggested, then wouldn't their losses increase due to additional sales? What fruity business consultant would come up with that idea?
Well, maybe not purple...
I was not aware that they were 1.5Mb down. That makes me happy, if this is the case for me too.
TimeWarner in Minneapolis offer 6M down, 768k up (I think.) That's the best I've seen apart from SDSL, but it runs $85/mo.