The company I'm working for is using Interwise http://www.interwise.com/ for all netmeetings. The software provides shared documents and desktops, VoIP calls, etc. and performs pretty well, IMHO. It also provides support for using regular phone for conference calls as an alternative method for audio.
Well, I guess that the completed work will be reviewed by the paying party before accepting the work and paying the bounty. Besides, I think that the motivation to do a good work is equally high or even a bit higher than just contributing to an open source project without receiving any monetary compensation.
I think that this is a great way to reward voluntary work, which will benefit open source projects.
I actually clicked the article link after commenting the title. I just learned that the stupid-looking title is not the fault of a submitter of editors. So, my comment is unjustified.
One thing that bothers me with newer Linux distributions is that most of them seem to ingore the Ralink chip-set based cards completely. The driver for the rt2400/2500 chip-sets (11b/11g) is available under GPL directly from the manufacturer and also from the Sourceforge, but still for example Ubuntu just lists these wireless cards as non-supported even though they are providing a link directly to the GPL'ed drivers. I just don't get it. Because of this lack of support, I can't install or use Ubuntu.
Fortunately everything is not lost. Mandrake provides a pre-packaged driver and enables me to use Linux on my laptop.
And no, I'm not willing to compile and install the driver myself. Nowadays I demand these kind of things pre-packaged.
What the hell is wrong with people these days? The version number is 1.0.2not 1.02. This error has been seen many times on the Slashdot lately. Small thing, but significant, IMHO.
Set up few bar tables for laptop users, so they have to stand up while using the wireless access. Just state clearly that chairs are reserved only for customers with beverages.
"The OP probably wants to avoid scp and sftp because they will usually require authentication, whereas with FTP over SSL can still be done anonymously (and then you don't have to leave passwords in your script)."
By using key files, it's possible to create SCP sessions, which don't require passwords at all.
Well, some time ago I needed a reliable ftp-like client for my scripting needs, but security was also a requirement. I decided to use pscp through command line interface. Pscp is a PuTTY SCP client for Windows platform. Works well for me.
"A new, more secured password policy has just taken effect and will be strictly enforced: 8 characters alphanumeric, changed *every 90 days*"
So? In the company I'm working for, we have a policy that the password has to be at least 10 characters long, alphanumeric mixed case and it will change *every 30 days*. And the new password can't be the same as 10 last ones.
I have solved the problem of memorizing these passwords by using source code as a password. For example: "printf("Hello, World!");" should be complex enough and it is relatively easy to remember.
To your question: No, I don't know if the longer, more complex passwords are actually more secure / cost efficient than shorter ones, because of the side effects caused by difficult to remember passwords. But at least this kind of policy prevents the most trivial dictionary attacks. It's a completely different story, how else the security is taken care of (ie. educating the personnel, so there will not be any post-it notes laying around and other forms of security, because it's all about layers).
Oh come on! This is just stupid. Fuck, if this really works then I'm going to stick on of these to my forehead. Should boost my brain and result better performance with my projects.
When the Carmageddon was a new game, I actually wrecked my parents' car by driving it to the wall.
I was reversing from a tight spot and there wasn't enough space to turn the vehicle. Unfortunately, I was just been playing Carmageddon quite heavily earlier that day and I instinctively thought that I can "slide" the car along the wall. I hit the gas and, well... the damage was repairable, but it did cost quite a lot and I wasn't allowed to use the car again for quite a while.
Aah... those fond memories. I remember, when I first time tried the PostgreSQL... I went to their web site and was scared away, because I thought it was some commercial closed source product that cannot even be evaluated without signing up for a demo version or something other horrible soul-eating stuff... The web site was so professional-looking even years ago that at the first time I was totally fooled about it.
It's surprising, how huge effect a visual layout can have. At that time, I was only used to see ugly, unprofessional-looking open source project homepages. But PostgreSQL has always been an exception. In my opinion they have always had a very good-looking web site.
It's surprising, how much visual appearance can affect our (or at least my) judgment. I hope that this is something that all OSS projects keep in mind when designing web sites and user interfaces.
I'm using an IBM ThinkPad R50 with Pentium-M processor. I have similar problems with it. Some times it won't come back from hibernation or suspend at all, sometimes it wakes up after a very long pause (over 5 minutes) and sometimes the machine just throws a blue screen of death instead of waking up.
My personal opinion about this specific R50: I hate it. It's the worst laptop I've ever used. I can't understand how it has gathered so much positive reviews.
I like Blender. And the user interface is so clever and easy to use after a bit of learning.
My only gripe about the Blender is, that the user interface is so damn slow. I don't understand how it can be so slow. The UI is actually completely unusable in my 1700MHz laptop (with only 256 MB of RAM, I know it's not enough for real work, but still, I expect that the UI would be more responsive).
Is there any way to speed the UI up, besides buying a faster machine and more memory?
Has anyone else seen Firefox render slashdot incorrectly?
Yes. And I've seen some other sites render incorrectly too.
In Slashdot case, simply Ctrl-+, Ctrl-= should do the trick, but unfortunatelly there are some sites out there, where even this trick will not fix the page. Also, there seems to be some sort of CSS rendering bug in Firefox, which fucks up Bloglines.com, if you use some proxy server.
There are some other bugs still in Firefox, which haven't been fixed even if there are several bug reports about these issues. (rendering, lock-ups, etc.)
There also seems to be a way to work around the pop-up filter. I've bumped into sites, which are able to open tons of pop-ups and crash the Firefox even if the pop-up blocker is on. I need to investigate this issue a bit more and file a report, if there already isn't a bug report in Bugzilla.
So, you're not only one having problems with Firefox.
In this case, I think, it's not about focusing to some specific windowing environment / framework. The real reason for (possibly) dropping the GNOME from future releases seems to be much simpler: Pat just feels that building and supporting GNOME is too much trouble and it takes too much time away from the more important stuff.
So, don't take this case as an indication of companies focusing to KDE. If you want to seek some message from Pat's possible actions, then it would be that the building process of the GNOME might be too complicated. Nothing else.
Just put everything under one folder (for example "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents") and right-click the folder and just "send-to" to the CD Burner (at least under Windows XP). Shouldn't be hard to burn the whole directory hierarchy once in the while. I think this should be enough for majority of the home users who cannot figure out themselves, how to create more sophisticated backup scripts.
Dont you mean into the email application Thunderbird...
Yes, but it IS a Mozilla plug-in (Mozilla e-mail client is not same as Thunderbird, difference being same as with Mozilla and Firefox). It's the only thing I install after installing Mozilla, because it's important for me. And that's why I thought it would be worth mentioning.
...is Enigmail. A GPG/PGP plug-in for Mozilla. It integrates GnuPG commandline tools seamlessly into the browser. It's easiest to use encryption/signing tool I've seen so far.
Slashdot Mirror
The company I'm working for is using Interwise http://www.interwise.com/ for all netmeetings. The software provides shared documents and desktops, VoIP calls, etc. and performs pretty well, IMHO. It also provides support for using regular phone for conference calls as an alternative method for audio.
Seriously, what form of QA is in place here?
Well, I guess that the completed work will be reviewed by the paying party before accepting the work and paying the bounty. Besides, I think that the motivation to do a good work is equally high or even a bit higher than just contributing to an open source project without receiving any monetary compensation.
I think that this is a great way to reward voluntary work, which will benefit open source projects.
Please, ignore my stupid comment and mod it down.
"What's your problem?"
I'm stupid and ignorant, I guess...
I actually clicked the article link after commenting the title. I just learned that the stupid-looking title is not the fault of a submitter of editors. So, my comment is unjustified.
"We Heart Katamari Preview"
What kind of a title is that? Is it now fashionable to sound like a 13 year old girl?
A small hint to the editors: to sound even more lame, just replace "heart" with "<3", so you can look even more like a teenager.
"We <3 Katamari Preview"
One thing that bothers me with newer Linux distributions is that most of them seem to ingore the Ralink chip-set based cards completely. The driver for the rt2400/2500 chip-sets (11b/11g) is available under GPL directly from the manufacturer and also from the Sourceforge, but still for example Ubuntu just lists these wireless cards as non-supported even though they are providing a link directly to the GPL'ed drivers. I just don't get it. Because of this lack of support, I can't install or use Ubuntu.
Fortunately everything is not lost. Mandrake provides a pre-packaged driver and enables me to use Linux on my laptop.
And no, I'm not willing to compile and install the driver myself. Nowadays I demand these kind of things pre-packaged.
What the hell is wrong with people these days? The version number is 1.0.2 not 1.02. This error has been seen many times on the Slashdot lately. Small thing, but significant, IMHO.
http://www.itconversations.com/
Tons of public speeches from variety of interesting tech/sci related topics.
Set up few bar tables for laptop users, so they have to stand up while using the wireless access. Just state clearly that chairs are reserved only for customers with beverages.
"The OP probably wants to avoid scp and sftp because they will usually require authentication, whereas with FTP over SSL can still be done anonymously (and then you don't have to leave passwords in your script)."
By using key files, it's possible to create SCP sessions, which don't require passwords at all.
Well, some time ago I needed a reliable ftp-like client for my scripting needs, but security was also a requirement. I decided to use pscp through command line interface. Pscp is a PuTTY SCP client for Windows platform. Works well for me.
"A new, more secured password policy has just taken effect and will be strictly enforced: 8 characters alphanumeric, changed *every 90 days*"
So? In the company I'm working for, we have a policy that the password has to be at least 10 characters long, alphanumeric mixed case and it will change *every 30 days*. And the new password can't be the same as 10 last ones.
I have solved the problem of memorizing these passwords by using source code as a password. For example: "printf("Hello, World!");" should be complex enough and it is relatively easy to remember.
To your question: No, I don't know if the longer, more complex passwords are actually more secure / cost efficient than shorter ones, because of the side effects caused by difficult to remember passwords. But at least this kind of policy prevents the most trivial dictionary attacks. It's a completely different story, how else the security is taken care of (ie. educating the personnel, so there will not be any post-it notes laying around and other forms of security, because it's all about layers).
Oh come on! This is just stupid. Fuck, if this really works then I'm going to stick on of these to my forehead. Should boost my brain and result better performance with my projects.
When the Carmageddon was a new game, I actually wrecked my parents' car by driving it to the wall.
I was reversing from a tight spot and there wasn't enough space to turn the vehicle. Unfortunately, I was just been playing Carmageddon quite heavily earlier that day and I instinctively thought that I can "slide" the car along the wall. I hit the gas and, well... the damage was repairable, but it did cost quite a lot and I wasn't allowed to use the car again for quite a while.
Aah... those fond memories. I remember, when I first time tried the PostgreSQL... I went to their web site and was scared away, because I thought it was some commercial closed source product that cannot even be evaluated without signing up for a demo version or something other horrible soul-eating stuff... The web site was so professional-looking even years ago that at the first time I was totally fooled about it.
It's surprising, how huge effect a visual layout can have. At that time, I was only used to see ugly, unprofessional-looking open source project homepages. But PostgreSQL has always been an exception. In my opinion they have always had a very good-looking web site.
It's surprising, how much visual appearance can affect our (or at least my) judgment. I hope that this is something that all OSS projects keep in mind when designing web sites and user interfaces.
This happens to me often, and as far as I can tell it has something to do with java apps running on the background.
Thanks for the tip! I'll have to check this out, because I have a JBuilder always running at my laptop.
What operating system are you using with it?
It has a Windows XP Pro installed. And it's a company laptop, so I don't have much to say about the setup.
I'm using an IBM ThinkPad R50 with Pentium-M processor. I have similar problems with it. Some times it won't come back from hibernation or suspend at all, sometimes it wakes up after a very long pause (over 5 minutes) and sometimes the machine just throws a blue screen of death instead of waking up.
My personal opinion about this specific R50: I hate it. It's the worst laptop I've ever used. I can't understand how it has gathered so much positive reviews.
I like Blender. And the user interface is so clever and easy to use after a bit of learning.
My only gripe about the Blender is, that the user interface is so damn slow. I don't understand how it can be so slow. The UI is actually completely unusable in my 1700MHz laptop (with only 256 MB of RAM, I know it's not enough for real work, but still, I expect that the UI would be more responsive).
Is there any way to speed the UI up, besides buying a faster machine and more memory?
Has anyone else seen Firefox render slashdot incorrectly?
Yes. And I've seen some other sites render incorrectly too.
In Slashdot case, simply Ctrl-+, Ctrl-= should do the trick, but unfortunatelly there are some sites out there, where even this trick will not fix the page. Also, there seems to be some sort of CSS rendering bug in Firefox, which fucks up Bloglines.com, if you use some proxy server.
There are some other bugs still in Firefox, which haven't been fixed even if there are several bug reports about these issues. (rendering, lock-ups, etc.)
There also seems to be a way to work around the pop-up filter. I've bumped into sites, which are able to open tons of pop-ups and crash the Firefox even if the pop-up blocker is on. I need to investigate this issue a bit more and file a report, if there already isn't a bug report in Bugzilla.
So, you're not only one having problems with Firefox.
In this case, I think, it's not about focusing to some specific windowing environment / framework. The real reason for (possibly) dropping the GNOME from future releases seems to be much simpler: Pat just feels that building and supporting GNOME is too much trouble and it takes too much time away from the more important stuff.
So, don't take this case as an indication of companies focusing to KDE. If you want to seek some message from Pat's possible actions, then it would be that the building process of the GNOME might be too complicated. Nothing else.
Just put everything under one folder (for example "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents") and right-click the folder and just "send-to" to the CD Burner (at least under Windows XP). Shouldn't be hard to burn the whole directory hierarchy once in the while. I think this should be enough for majority of the home users who cannot figure out themselves, how to create more sophisticated backup scripts.
Bloglines
It's a great reader. And always with me there, where I have an Internet connection.
Dont you mean into the email application Thunderbird ...
Yes, but it IS a Mozilla plug-in (Mozilla e-mail client is not same as Thunderbird, difference being same as with Mozilla and Firefox). It's the only thing I install after installing Mozilla, because it's important for me. And that's why I thought it would be worth mentioning.
...is Enigmail. A GPG/PGP plug-in for Mozilla. It integrates GnuPG commandline tools seamlessly into the browser. It's easiest to use encryption/signing tool I've seen so far.