I do believe that Firefox itself is free as in beer...
But notice that he said he doesn't want to view "crappy" ads. Personally I find google ads to be quite good, and I'll actually click on them from time to time... animations I'll only ever right click on to block them (or i'll head to adblock:p)
If their business is based on me viewing an ad.. deny the content to me unless the ads are displayed.. then i'll happily take my viewing habits elsewhere...
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I was going to ask why how this list was compiled, but since I got really interested I happened to google these and found the following: This seems to indicate that ksdjfg934t is a default password for a SuperMicro PC BIOS Console.
And from the same site: Micronics has a PC-BIOS which uses dn_04rjc as the default password as does Micron for the password sldkj754.
I want to know how often these passwords are used for services that a open to the internet, or even to the local network. I would imagine that these bios passwords are only able to be entered locally? If so why does that merit a place on this "Passwords that should NEVER be used!" list... apart from the fact that now this list will be used in lame dictionary attacks....
There are going to be three parts to this article on the tech lounge. But really.. is slashdot going to be able to have insightful commentary for all three parts? Or will it be a case of comment rehashing and karma whoring in all three threads..
Surely one slashdot article with links to all three techlounge articles would be more appropriate? But of course 3 separate articles on slashdot generates more advertising revenue than 1 doesnt it?
I have mod points at this current time, but I'm sure as hell not using them in this thread... I don't want to waste my time reading part 1 and part 2 checking that noone is karma whoring...
"Open Park supports the free flow of information and ideas over the Internet." but conversely
"THE USE OF THE SERVICE FOR THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES IS PROHIBITED:"
* "Obscene or Indecent Speech or Materials"
* "Defamatory or Abusive Language" (we aren't allowed to swear?)
* "Forging of Headers" does this mean I can't change my User Agent ID to pretend to be M$IE?
* "Hacking" - I can't program?!? oh wait they mean cracking: "Accessing illegally or without authorization computers, accounts, equipment or networks belonging to another party, or attempting to penetrate security measures of another system." but for some reason it doesn't allow alot of network diagnostic tools to be used: "This includes any activity...including, but not limited to, port scans, stealthscans, or other information gathering activity."
--- It seems to be the following would be more appropriate: You are not to use our network to do anything illegal or take "actions that may lead to liability for Open Park".
Why can't they just say that instead of all this legalese mumbo jumbo?
To be honest I think that any team composed entirely of (older|younger) programmers wouldn't be the best to have particularly from a company/business perspective.
Consider a group of old programmers working their craft.
Firstly they cost more.. this is probably what your boss is talking about. Also what happens when they all retire/move on, what happens to the system that particular group was maintaining? It will either fall over and die, or someone will have to be hired to wade through all the legacy code with the mountain of patches ect ect.
Now consider a group of young programmers. They think they know everything but really there are several traps awaiting them in the real world and they will probably fall into every single one without fail.
Now consider a group comprised of experienced and inexperienced programmers. The inexperienced can learn quickly from their mistakes and not spend much time on fixing them because the experienced programmers already know how. And when the experienced programmers leave we have trained replacements already there, who know the system, know the company and are able to adequetly fill the shoes of the person who just left.
---------
Then along comes the boss, sees all these young programmers getting along great.. and hires too many of them because they are cheaper...
IE has vulnerabilities which can cause software to be downloaded WITHOUT a user clicking Yes or OK.
So far I haven't seen anything like that associated with Firefox...
Combine open source (more eyeballs), active development where they "release early, release often" (how long as it been since IE was updated?) and some security by obscurity (I think everyone can agree it helps but shouldn't be used exclusively) and then you have a browser that is MUCH more secure than IE.
So perhaps when Firefox becomes used by a significant number of people then it might become a problem.. for a week until they release a patch.
Plus I thought that XPInstall files were used to only modify the behaviour of mozilla based apps?
The chances of John Howard not being re-elected in his own seat are miniscule to none.. I think I might write to some senators and a few labor politicians though...
My federal minister happens to be John Howard (the current prime minister and bush lap-dog) so somehow I don't know if he'll be totally receptive to my letter...
Well its half a centimeter along each edge obviously.
With 10 pieces along each edge, (If you look at the picture they are pretty much square) then each piece has the width of 0.05cm or 0.0005m which for me is pretty tiny.
But the most impressive thing is that the laser is able to cut this substance while not destroying it.
1. What happens when two clueless users open the same spreadsheet at once? A database backend can handle this but and excel spreadsheet cannot.
2. Databases are DESIGNED to store data... not display it. This means you can also SHARE data with everyone else... possibily simultaneously..
3. shared spreadsheet adminstration:
Have you ever had to merge two highly complex and large spreadsheets? No? move along then since its obvious you have no idea what you're talking about.
"Maybe there is a genuine need for a database program (and I use this term here loosely) that provides an interace as easy to use as spreadsheet? Not every user is a programmer, and the vagaries of the any DBMS are well known. Besides, no end-user wants to meddle with software administration."
What happens when multiple end users want to access 1 spreadsheet at a time. For small teams this can work fine (We're always talking over the partition getting others to 'release' the spreadsheet). But when this team grows to around 30 people even trivial amounts of data should be in a database. If the boss wants his pretty excel file he can use ODBC to access it over the network, and its fairly simplistic to create (or buy/acquire) a frontend for a database.
Part of the problem of using excel AS a database is that it combines both the database AND the frontend - which means everyone has to "meddle with software adminstration". Users may be more familiar with Excel which is why you're dismissing their use of Excel (and probable misuse, particularly if it has complex VBA macros) as not falling into the domain of software administration.
I think you need to examine the concept of a "database program" and a database frontend.
I thought that said "A PIRATE is introduced to congress" and had visions of a peg-legged, bearded dirty man with a parrot on his shoulder looking around at all the politicians thinking to himself: "So this is what the real pro's look like..."
Mr. President, I rise to join Senator Leahy in sponsoring the Protecting
Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act (the "PIRATE Act"), a
measure that will provide the Department of Justice with tools to combat the
rampant copyright piracy facilitated by peer-to-peer filesharing software.
Mr. President, I'm going to join with Senator Leahy and prove once and for all
that democrats and republicans are equally as corrupt when enough money is
waved under our noses. Our "owners" would like to stop people giving away
works which don't actually belong to them, but yet, they make a considerable
amount of money from as they signed prohibitively restrictive contracts
with the actual copyright owners. My "owners" would like to continue to
make money (and short of being given access to the money printing press)
want to prevent a tool which can actually harm their monopoly by providing
an efficient way for independant artists to distribute their works.
Let me underscore at the outset that our bill does not expand the scope of the
existing powers of the Department of Justice to prosecute persons who infringe
copyrights. Instead, our proposal will assist the Department in exercising
existing enforcement powers through a civil enforcement mechanism. After
considerable study, we have concluded that this is the most appropriate
mechanism.
Some of us want to lock these pirates up and throw away the key, but others
want to keep them hooked to my "owners" products. So basically we've decided
we want to destroyt their current lives, and still give them a chance to
buy our stuff.
Peer-to-peer file sharing software has created a dilemma for law-enforcement
agencies. Millions of otherwise law-abiding American citizens are using this
software to create and redistribute infringing copies of popular music, movies,
computer games and software.
We think that millions of law-abiding americans are criminals but don't want
to come out and say it like that, so we'll back-hand them instead.
Some who copy these works do not fully understand the illegality, or perhaps the
serious consequences, of their infringing activities. This group of filesharers
should not be the focus of federal law-enforcement efforts. Quite frankly, the
distributors of most filesharing software have failed to adequately educate the
children and young people who use their software about its legal and illegal
uses.
We don't want to harm the stupid ones since they probably don't know how to
cause serious harm anyway. And since most of my constituents are as thick
as two planks and I'd like to be re-elected I don't want this either.
A second group of filesharers consists of those who copy and redistribute
copyrighted works even though they do know that doing so violates federal law.
In many cases, these are college students or young people who think that they
will not get caught. Many of these filesharers are engaging in acts that could
now subject them to federal criminal prosecution for copyright piracy.
There do exist a group of people that would probably never vote for me anyway,
as they think I'm a complete turd, and who happen to be poor because our education
system is up shit creek without a paddle but still enjoy listening to music and
watching movies so they do share alot of these copyrighted works. They know its
wrong but since we continually shaft them most of the time anyway they do it
as a type of protest. Basically we want them to stop.
...
But recently, some unscrupulous corporations may have exploited new technologies
and discovered that the narrow scope of civil contributory liability for
copyright infringement can be utilized so that ordinary consumers and children
Sure there are small things (not a GNU/Linux in sight) which will probably be the cause of much criticism here but for an INTRODUCTION to Linux, and a brief update on the who SCO joke I thought it was rather well done.
At least it didn't leave me thinking: "What idiots wrote this garbage..."
Kudo's to a small newspaper standing up the/. effect too...:D
I find with a bit of work those games tend to work fine in win2k at least.
There are utilities for CPU slowdown (such as CPU-Killer). For some games this doesn't work (Mechwarrior 1, works but the battle scenes are over in like 3 seconds flat... even running at 1% of my CPU speed.) It might be a good project to have on sourceforge if there already isn't one.
I do know that Dune 2 works fine, as does Prince of Persia. All the old Apogee games (keen, crystal caves, duke nukem ect) I have found all work fine with no slowdown.
Slashdot Mirror
I do believe that Firefox itself is free as in beer...
:p)
But notice that he said he doesn't want to view "crappy" ads. Personally I find google ads to be quite good, and I'll actually click on them from time to time... animations I'll only ever right click on to block them (or i'll head to adblock
If their business is based on me viewing an ad.. deny the content to me unless the ads are displayed.. then i'll happily take my viewing habits elsewhere...
As a comment at the bottom says:
A52896nG93096a
but also:
dn_04rjc
ksdjfg934t
sldkj754
----
I was going to ask why how this list was compiled,
but since I got really interested I happened to
google these and found the following:
This seems to indicate that ksdjfg934t is a default
password for a SuperMicro PC BIOS Console.
And from the same site: Micronics has a PC-BIOS
which uses dn_04rjc as the default password as
does Micron for the password sldkj754.
I want to know how often these passwords are used
for services that a open to the internet, or even
to the local network. I would imagine that these
bios passwords are only able to be entered
locally? If so why does that merit a place on this
"Passwords that should NEVER be used!" list...
apart from the fact that now this list will be
used in lame dictionary attacks....
There are going to be three parts to this article on the tech lounge. But really.. is slashdot going to be able to have insightful commentary for all three parts? Or will it be a case of comment rehashing and karma whoring in all three threads..
Surely one slashdot article with links to all three techlounge articles would be more appropriate? But of course 3 separate articles on slashdot generates more advertising revenue than 1 doesnt it?
I have mod points at this current time, but I'm sure as hell not using them in this thread... I don't want to waste my time reading part 1 and part 2 checking that noone is karma whoring...
BAH...
Just some interesting points from their AUP:
"Open Park supports the free flow of information and ideas over the Internet." but conversely
"THE USE OF THE SERVICE FOR THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES IS PROHIBITED:"
* "Obscene or Indecent Speech or Materials"
* "Defamatory or Abusive Language" (we aren't allowed to swear?)
* "Forging of Headers" does this mean I can't change my User Agent ID to pretend to be M$IE?
* "Hacking" - I can't program?!? oh wait they mean cracking: "Accessing illegally or without authorization computers, accounts, equipment or networks belonging to another party, or attempting to penetrate security measures of another system." but for some reason it doesn't allow alot of network diagnostic tools to be used: "This includes any activity...including, but not limited to, port scans, stealthscans, or other information gathering activity."
---
It seems to be the following would be more appropriate: You are not to use our network to do anything illegal or take "actions that may lead to liability for Open Park".
Why can't they just say that instead of all this legalese mumbo jumbo?
For OSX dev tools come free on the software update cds.
xcode, interface builder and more.
also see The Fink Project
To be honest I think that any team composed entirely of (older|younger) programmers wouldn't be the best to have particularly from a company/business perspective. Consider a group of old programmers working their craft. Firstly they cost more.. this is probably what your boss is talking about. Also what happens when they all retire/move on, what happens to the system that particular group was maintaining? It will either fall over and die, or someone will have to be hired to wade through all the legacy code with the mountain of patches ect ect. Now consider a group of young programmers. They think they know everything but really there are several traps awaiting them in the real world and they will probably fall into every single one without fail. Now consider a group comprised of experienced and inexperienced programmers. The inexperienced can learn quickly from their mistakes and not spend much time on fixing them because the experienced programmers already know how. And when the experienced programmers leave we have trained replacements already there, who know the system, know the company and are able to adequetly fill the shoes of the person who just left. --------- Then along comes the boss, sees all these young programmers getting along great.. and hires too many of them because they are cheaper...
IE has vulnerabilities which can cause software to be downloaded WITHOUT a user clicking Yes or OK.
So far I haven't seen anything like that associated with Firefox...
Combine open source (more eyeballs), active development where they "release early, release often" (how long as it been since IE was updated?) and some security by obscurity (I think everyone can agree it helps but shouldn't be used exclusively) and then you have a browser that is MUCH more secure than IE.
So perhaps when Firefox becomes used by a significant number of people then it might become a problem.. for a week until they release a patch.
Plus I thought that XPInstall files were used to only modify the behaviour of mozilla based apps?
The chances of John Howard not being re-elected in his own seat are miniscule to none.. I think I might write to some senators and a few labor politicians though...
My federal minister happens to be John Howard (the current prime minister and bush lap-dog) so somehow I don't know if he'll be totally receptive to my letter...
Well its half a centimeter along each edge obviously.
With 10 pieces along each edge, (If you look at the picture they are pretty much square) then each piece has the width of 0.05cm or 0.0005m which for me is pretty tiny.
But the most impressive thing is that the laser is able to cut this substance while not destroying it.
1. What happens when two clueless users open the same spreadsheet at once? A database backend can handle this but and excel spreadsheet cannot. 2. Databases are DESIGNED to store data... not display it. This means you can also SHARE data with everyone else... possibily simultaneously.. 3. shared spreadsheet adminstration: Have you ever had to merge two highly complex and large spreadsheets? No? move along then since its obvious you have no idea what you're talking about.
"Maybe there is a genuine need for a database program (and I use this term here loosely) that provides an interace as easy to use as spreadsheet? Not every user is a programmer, and the vagaries of the any DBMS are well known. Besides, no end-user wants to meddle with software administration."
What happens when multiple end users want to access 1 spreadsheet at a time. For small teams this can work fine (We're always talking over the partition getting others to 'release' the spreadsheet). But when this team grows to around 30 people even trivial amounts of data should be in a database. If the boss wants his pretty excel file he can use ODBC to access it over the network, and its fairly simplistic to create (or buy/acquire) a frontend for a database.
Part of the problem of using excel AS a database is that it combines both the database AND the frontend - which means everyone has to "meddle with software adminstration". Users may be more familiar with Excel which is why you're dismissing their use of Excel (and probable misuse, particularly if it has complex VBA macros) as not falling into the domain of software administration.
I think you need to examine the concept of a "database program" and a database frontend.
I thought that said "A PIRATE is introduced to congress" and had visions of a peg-legged, bearded dirty man with a parrot on his shoulder looking around at all the politicians thinking to himself: "So this is what the real pro's look like..."
Mr. President, I rise to join Senator Leahy in sponsoring the Protecting
...
But recently, some unscrupulous corporations may have exploited new technologies
Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act (the "PIRATE Act"), a
measure that will provide the Department of Justice with tools to combat the
rampant copyright piracy facilitated by peer-to-peer filesharing software.
Mr. President, I'm going to join with Senator Leahy and prove once and for all
that democrats and republicans are equally as corrupt when enough money is
waved under our noses. Our "owners" would like to stop people giving away
works which don't actually belong to them, but yet, they make a considerable
amount of money from as they signed prohibitively restrictive contracts
with the actual copyright owners. My "owners" would like to continue to
make money (and short of being given access to the money printing press)
want to prevent a tool which can actually harm their monopoly by providing
an efficient way for independant artists to distribute their works.
Let me underscore at the outset that our bill does not expand the scope of the
existing powers of the Department of Justice to prosecute persons who infringe
copyrights. Instead, our proposal will assist the Department in exercising
existing enforcement powers through a civil enforcement mechanism. After
considerable study, we have concluded that this is the most appropriate
mechanism.
Some of us want to lock these pirates up and throw away the key, but others
want to keep them hooked to my "owners" products. So basically we've decided
we want to destroyt their current lives, and still give them a chance to
buy our stuff.
Peer-to-peer file sharing software has created a dilemma for law-enforcement
agencies. Millions of otherwise law-abiding American citizens are using this
software to create and redistribute infringing copies of popular music, movies,
computer games and software.
We think that millions of law-abiding americans are criminals but don't want
to come out and say it like that, so we'll back-hand them instead.
Some who copy these works do not fully understand the illegality, or perhaps the
serious consequences, of their infringing activities. This group of filesharers
should not be the focus of federal law-enforcement efforts. Quite frankly, the
distributors of most filesharing software have failed to adequately educate the
children and young people who use their software about its legal and illegal
uses.
We don't want to harm the stupid ones since they probably don't know how to
cause serious harm anyway. And since most of my constituents are as thick
as two planks and I'd like to be re-elected I don't want this either.
A second group of filesharers consists of those who copy and redistribute
copyrighted works even though they do know that doing so violates federal law.
In many cases, these are college students or young people who think that they
will not get caught. Many of these filesharers are engaging in acts that could
now subject them to federal criminal prosecution for copyright piracy.
There do exist a group of people that would probably never vote for me anyway,
as they think I'm a complete turd, and who happen to be poor because our education
system is up shit creek without a paddle but still enjoy listening to music and
watching movies so they do share alot of these copyrighted works. They know its
wrong but since we continually shaft them most of the time anyway they do it
as a type of protest. Basically we want them to stop.
and discovered that the narrow scope of civil contributory liability for
copyright infringement can be utilized so that ordinary consumers and children
Did you look at the notice at the END of the trailer before deciding to redistribute it?
Sure there are small things (not a GNU/Linux in sight) which will probably be the cause of much criticism here but for an INTRODUCTION to Linux, and a brief update on the who SCO joke I thought it was rather well done.
/. effect too... :D
At least it didn't leave me thinking: "What idiots wrote this garbage..."
Kudo's to a small newspaper standing up the
I find with a bit of work those games tend to work fine in win2k at least.
:)
There are utilities for CPU slowdown (such as CPU-Killer). For some games this doesn't work (Mechwarrior 1, works but the battle scenes are over in like 3 seconds flat... even running at 1% of my CPU speed.) It might be a good project to have on sourceforge if there already isn't one.
I do know that Dune 2 works fine, as does Prince of Persia. All the old Apogee games (keen, crystal caves, duke nukem ect) I have found all work fine with no slowdown.
Sound was a problem for me until I found VDMsound
Have fun !
May I suggest vdmsound Allowed me to play Dune 2 no problems under windows 2k. Bonus points for it being open source and gpl'ed eh?