Yeah, its hardware, but given that plenty of things go wrong with hardware, its a great thing to have.
I used to carry it in my pocket, but that's now illegal in Aus without "good reason". Trying to explain to a street-cop that i need it to pull open servers, remove stuck ribbon cables and strips oxidized power cables is not worth the headache.
Microsoft hire a lot of top grads, and have heaps and heaps of programmers. So its unreasonable to think that their all their code is shit.
I'd be pointing the fingers at the project and program managers, and the Microsoft arrogance of "build it and they will come".
I think XP was a bit of a shock to them, as so many people stayed on their Win98 and didn't upgrade. In general, people only upgrade Windows when they upgrade their PCs. Slashdotters aside, a lot of people are run the same technology for 7 or 8 years. Hell, my main multimedia PC is now four years old*, and I'm anticipating that it will do another three (until I need to upgrade something else and discover than AGP and PCI are dead). That's quite a long refresh cycle.
Given the Vista footprint, how many of those old machines will be upgraded? Microsoft have finally learnt that they have to make a product the people want. Problem is, when all is said and done, its an operating system.
* With a new graphics card, more memory and second harddrive - but its the same Windows installation.
I have around 5000 books, 10,000 CDs and 1000 DVDs, and the "on-the-shelf" method - Catagory then Author (or Titles for DVD)- works great for me. Reference (dictionaries) are under the TV in the living room as that's where we tend to be when we need them, technical books are in the Study, cook-books are in the kitchen and everything else is on open shelves in the AV room where they are acessible, attractive, and stop reflected sound during loud movies. CDs and DVDs are in closed (lockable) cupboards. There are all of about five people I trust enough to lend things to.
Of course, if you are looking for a cool technical solution, this won't help you. I suggest you re-evaluate the problem you are trying to solve.
So instead they plead guilty in return for a reduced sentence and justice is done.
We have different criteria for "justice". In my books, if you have to say you are guilty for a crime you did not commit in order to avoid the process to defend yourself against a different crime, then that is not justice.
Justice is when you are not penalised for committing a crime, either by way of penalty, costs to defend yourself nor public "outing", until its been proved to an appropriate level, that you actually did it. On the other hand, if you are a victim of crime, you shouldn't have to invest huge amounts of money in discovery before being able to accuse.
QED: The legal system needs to be a public service, funded in the same way that police force are, or some form of "equity" requirement needs to be introduced to prevent those with greater capital aquiring an advantage over others in the eyes of the law.
The problem is that every time the Government screws up, the opposition shoots themselves in the foot, and sends people back to the government. Devil you know and all that.
There is very little talent on either side of politics. Hell, why would you go and get a $120k a stressful job that you might keep if the public like you when you could go and get a $250k a year stressful job which you will probably keep unless you screw up. Talented leaders who believe in themselves aren't about to waste time in politics. Politicians have to be the only people in a position of power who get their jobs without 5 interviews and an impressive resume.
That Julia Gillard is seriously being portrayed as a possible future PM shows that we are really right down to the dregs in the pool.
Difference between the US and Australia is the Boston Tea Party.
That is unfortunately true
We have really only one historical civil uprising, the Eureka Stockade, which basically was crushed and didn't change very much at all. At least when I went through school, it wasn't taught as part of Australian history.
To add insult to injury, the "Queen's Baton" (the Commonwealth Games' poor impression of the Olympic Torch) was run right through the centre of what many people see as a sacred site.
Given that the Queen of England is still our head of state, despite a national referendum to become a republic, and that Britain's flag occupies 25% of our own national emblem, its quite obvious that we failed to establish ourselves as a country who are willing to let go of the apron strings and stand alone. I'd love to remove the Union Jack, but with our current political leaders, all we'd do is replace it with the Stars and Stripes.
If even the poorest contries in South America can separate themselves from the Spanish, and if all the ex-French-colonial African nations are now independant, why can't we, as a relatively prosperous nation, separate ourselves from the UK?
Simply put a line around the outside of your current DVDs using a blue permanent marker. This absorbs stray reflected light and stops the new player seeing it as an older DVD, allowing you to watch the higher-definition picture and access the additional content.
Well, it sounds good until a mission critical server crashes, reboots, requires the root password to go into maintenance mode to run fsck, and the person/people with the safe combination is/are unavailable.
Very good point. The point is not so much to keep it hidden, but to show when it has been tampered with. So I should have said:
Put the root password in a seal envelope signed by at least two senior employees in a position of responsbility. When the envelope is opened, change the password, put the new one on the page, and hide it.
The problem is the RIAA round up people and hit them with a fine without that person ever facing court. They are prosecutor, judge and jury. Sure, if you are guilty, you should wear the crime, but everybody is entitled to due process.
IANADO (I am not a Dell Owner), but I thought Dell did a lot of integrated components on the m/board to keep costs down.
The big one is ensuring that video has its own memory and doesn't share system memory, and motherboards with integrated memory didn't make this distinction. Maybe times have changed. Some people also complain that on-board sound is noisy. I have integrated sound on my NF7-S (not a new board!) and going through my (more than half decent) JVC amps, there is no issue. If I was paranoid, I go for SPDIF to external DACs.
I agree with the parent though - building a new PC from scratch is usually about tailoring to personal needs.
Thats because they are auditors and don't have a clue about security. Security is 95% psychology, and 5% technology.
A user password policy that is too restrictive means users will never remember them, and end up doing things like writing them on post-it notes and sticking them on the monitor.
A better solution is have easy-to-remember passwords (though not trivial passwords such as "password", the login name or "1234567890") and put in a 3-strikes-you-are-out rule and a hierachical user access policy - "need to know". Remember - 80% of attacks come from within. Don't trust your users.
Naturally, the root/Admin passwords for servers containing critical business data and de-encryption keys are long, complicated, regularly changed then written down and placed in an envelope in the corporate fireproof safe, along with the weekly backup tapes.
The IT department... has been ignoring knowledgeable user input
Remember that knowledgeable users usually aren't.
You need to put in a good IT manager, set business goals, and let him/her come back with a budget, with some sort of costs breakdown (not a line-by-line costing with minute-by-minute Gantt charts - think "Feasibility Study" level). Then you start working out what you need, what you don't need, and what the business cost is of implementing or not implementing each component.
"Do more with less" is fine, but that's only achieved by good planning. Don't have your IT guys explaining things to users when they should be implementing and managing your businesses IT resources.
You need somebody somewhere who talks both IT and business. There are 1000s of books on this - you are basically melding too separate cultures, and a good IT manager is the liason you need between them.
The problem, as I see it, is too many unions look only to short term gains and not to long term ones.
Everybody these days - corperations, politicians, unions and even workers - thinks "short term".
Plenty of listed companies cut staff at the insistance of Wall-Street "analysts" so that they make the share price looks good for end-of-quarter. 3-months isn't exactly long-term planning. Look at the "new" HP - basically the old HP with all the good bits either wound down or sold-off.
How many people in their 30s are planning for retirement? How many politicians give a damn about what will happen after the next election?
In some countries it is legal to reverse engineer for compatibility. I agree with the previous posters - talk to an IP lawyer.
If you release the specs you are likely to cop at least a threatening letter, which should be enough to blacklist you as an employee.
How about sending them a letter stating that you understand the system, and would be interested in working with them or for them to develop Macintosh and Linux compatibility. The music industry understands Macs.
> You do not have a right to not be annoyed by other humans.
Your rights stop where mine start. If I've paid $13 to see a movie, and you talk all the way through it, I reserve my "right" to follow you out afterward and beat seven shades of crap out of you.
If you want to talk for two hours, go to a bar, or a park, or stay at home.
Unless they can show significant blocks of copied text, I think it should be thrown out of court.
Yes, the ideas behind the Di Vinci code are part of its appeal, but they are really just another conspiracy surrounding the Catholic church. I haven't read the book, so I don't know if Dan Brown's brilliance is in his writing, his storytelling or in his marketting, but obviously he did something that the other's didn't.
If he's stolen their "ideas". Tough. If he's plagarized material, then he should be stuffed like a thanksgiving turkey.
2 ears - 2 speakers 1 body - 1 mother of a subwoofer.
I actually run "4.1", meaning I have the front-mid channel split between the left and right front speakers. In my 10'x10' living room, I don't miss the separate center speaker. It also means I can use the two Stereo Hi-Fi amps I bought years ago that are still in perfectly working order. Sure, its not digital to the amp, but the soundstorm on my NF7-S is more than adequate.
I like having the rear speakers. Its great for scaring the crap out of guests everytime the rabbit appears in Donny Darko.
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Leatherman supertool.
Yeah, its hardware, but given that plenty of things go wrong with hardware, its a great thing to have.
I used to carry it in my pocket, but that's now illegal in Aus without "good reason". Trying to explain to a street-cop that i need it to pull open servers, remove stuck ribbon cables and strips oxidized power cables is not worth the headache.
Microsoft hire a lot of top grads, and have heaps and heaps of programmers. So its unreasonable to think that their all their code is shit.
I'd be pointing the fingers at the project and program managers, and the Microsoft arrogance of "build it and they will come".
I think XP was a bit of a shock to them, as so many people stayed on their Win98 and didn't upgrade. In general, people only upgrade Windows when they upgrade their PCs. Slashdotters aside, a lot of people are run the same technology for 7 or 8 years. Hell, my main multimedia PC is now four years old*, and I'm anticipating that it will do another three (until I need to upgrade something else and discover than AGP and PCI are dead). That's quite a long refresh cycle.
Given the Vista footprint, how many of those old machines will be upgraded? Microsoft have finally learnt that they have to make a product the people want. Problem is, when all is said and done, its an operating system.
* With a new graphics card, more memory and second harddrive - but its the same Windows installation.
I have seen bookshelves sorted by cover-colors. Very pretty.
I have around 5000 books, 10,000 CDs and 1000 DVDs, and the "on-the-shelf" method - Catagory then Author (or Titles for DVD)- works great for me. Reference (dictionaries) are under the TV in the living room as that's where we tend to be when we need them, technical books are in the Study, cook-books are in the kitchen and everything else is on open shelves in the AV room where they are acessible, attractive, and stop reflected sound during loud movies. CDs and DVDs are in closed (lockable) cupboards. There are all of about five people I trust enough to lend things to.
Of course, if you are looking for a cool technical solution, this won't help you. I suggest you re-evaluate the problem you are trying to solve.
We have different criteria for "justice". In my books, if you have to say you are guilty for a crime you did not commit in order to avoid the process to defend yourself against a different crime, then that is not justice.
Justice is when you are not penalised for committing a crime, either by way of penalty, costs to defend yourself nor public "outing", until its been proved to an appropriate level, that you actually did it. On the other hand, if you are a victim of crime, you shouldn't have to invest huge amounts of money in discovery before being able to accuse.
QED: The legal system needs to be a public service, funded in the same way that police force are, or some form of "equity" requirement needs to be introduced to prevent those with greater capital aquiring an advantage over others in the eyes of the law.
"Does this smell like Chloroform to you?"
The problem is that every time the Government screws up, the opposition shoots themselves in the foot, and sends people back to the government. Devil you know and all that.
There is very little talent on either side of politics. Hell, why would you go and get a $120k a stressful job that you might keep if the public like you when you could go and get a $250k a year stressful job which you will probably keep unless you screw up. Talented leaders who believe in themselves aren't about to waste time in politics. Politicians have to be the only people in a position of power who get their jobs without 5 interviews and an impressive resume.
That Julia Gillard is seriously being portrayed as a possible future PM shows that we are really right down to the dregs in the pool.
That is unfortunately true
We have really only one historical civil uprising, the Eureka Stockade, which basically was crushed and didn't change very much at all. At least when I went through school, it wasn't taught as part of Australian history.
To add insult to injury, the "Queen's Baton" (the Commonwealth Games' poor impression of the Olympic Torch) was run right through the centre of what many people see as a sacred site.
Given that the Queen of England is still our head of state, despite a national referendum to become a republic, and that Britain's flag occupies 25% of our own national emblem, its quite obvious that we failed to establish ourselves as a country who are willing to let go of the apron strings and stand alone. I'd love to remove the Union Jack, but with our current political leaders, all we'd do is replace it with the Stars and Stripes.
If even the poorest contries in South America can separate themselves from the Spanish, and if all the ex-French-colonial African nations are now independant, why can't we, as a relatively prosperous nation, separate ourselves from the UK?
Simply put a line around the outside of your current DVDs using a blue permanent marker. This absorbs stray reflected light and stops the new player seeing it as an older DVD, allowing you to watch the higher-definition picture and access the additional content.
HTH
> That makes it harder to use a single mnemonic device to remember complex passwords.
Just leave an appropriate box of chocolates near each server.
Very good point. The point is not so much to keep it hidden, but to show when it has been tampered with. So I should have said:
Put the root password in a seal envelope signed by at least two senior employees in a position of responsbility. When the envelope is opened, change the password, put the new one on the page, and hide it.
The problem is the RIAA round up people and hit them with a fine without that person ever facing court. They are prosecutor, judge and jury. Sure, if you are guilty, you should wear the crime, but everybody is entitled to due process.
> VMWare? It isn't open source.
That doesn't mean that its not freely available.
IANADO (I am not a Dell Owner), but I thought Dell did a lot of integrated components on the m/board to keep costs down.
The big one is ensuring that video has its own memory and doesn't share system memory, and motherboards with integrated memory didn't make this distinction. Maybe times have changed. Some people also complain that on-board sound is noisy. I have integrated sound on my NF7-S (not a new board!) and going through my (more than half decent) JVC amps, there is no issue. If I was paranoid, I go for SPDIF to external DACs.
I agree with the parent though - building a new PC from scratch is usually about tailoring to personal needs.
This little experiment shows that users will install anything: http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php?id=205513513 5&eid=-302
Thats because they are auditors and don't have a clue about security. Security is 95% psychology, and 5% technology.
A user password policy that is too restrictive means users will never remember them, and end up doing things like writing them on post-it notes and sticking them on the monitor.
A better solution is have easy-to-remember passwords (though not trivial passwords such as "password", the login name or "1234567890") and put in a 3-strikes-you-are-out rule and a hierachical user access policy - "need to know". Remember - 80% of attacks come from within. Don't trust your users.
Naturally, the root/Admin passwords for servers containing critical business data and de-encryption keys are long, complicated, regularly changed then written down and placed in an envelope in the corporate fireproof safe, along with the weekly backup tapes.
Remember that knowledgeable users usually aren't.
You need to put in a good IT manager, set business goals, and let him/her come back with a budget, with some sort of costs breakdown (not a line-by-line costing with minute-by-minute Gantt charts - think "Feasibility Study" level). Then you start working out what you need, what you don't need, and what the business cost is of implementing or not implementing each component.
"Do more with less" is fine, but that's only achieved by good planning. Don't have your IT guys explaining things to users when they should be implementing and managing your businesses IT resources.
You need somebody somewhere who talks both IT and business. There are 1000s of books on this - you are basically melding too separate cultures, and a good IT manager is the liason you need between them.
If she's already hopelessly infected with spyware, chances are she'll sleep with you for a bunch of roses and a box of chocolates.
Everybody these days - corperations, politicians, unions and even workers - thinks "short term".
Plenty of listed companies cut staff at the insistance of Wall-Street "analysts" so that they make the share price looks good for end-of-quarter. 3-months isn't exactly long-term planning. Look at the "new" HP - basically the old HP with all the good bits either wound down or sold-off.
How many people in their 30s are planning for retirement? How many politicians give a damn about what will happen after the next election?
> But seriously... what else are you eating that causes hairs to get stuck in your teeth?
Anything prepared on a street stall in Mexico. I reckon they put the hair in it to show that its freshly prepared.
Having said that, I found a hair in a packet of ready-to-eat curry the other day.
Where are you?
In some countries it is legal to reverse engineer for compatibility. I agree with the previous posters - talk to an IP lawyer.
If you release the specs you are likely to cop at least a threatening letter, which should be enough to blacklist you as an employee.
How about sending them a letter stating that you understand the system, and would be interested in working with them or for them to develop Macintosh and Linux compatibility. The music industry understands Macs.
... Which is why God gave us elbows.
> You do not have a right to not be annoyed by other humans.
Your rights stop where mine start. If I've paid $13 to see a movie, and you talk all the way through it, I reserve my "right" to follow you out afterward and beat seven shades of crap out of you.
If you want to talk for two hours, go to a bar, or a park, or stay at home.
Agreed.
Unless they can show significant blocks of copied text, I think it should be thrown out of court.
Yes, the ideas behind the Di Vinci code are part of its appeal, but they are really just another conspiracy surrounding the Catholic church. I haven't read the book, so I don't know if Dan Brown's brilliance is in his writing, his storytelling or in his marketting, but obviously he did something that the other's didn't.
If he's stolen their "ideas". Tough. If he's plagarized material, then he should be stuffed like a thanksgiving turkey.
Nearly -
2 ears - 2 speakers
1 body - 1 mother of a subwoofer.
I actually run "4.1", meaning I have the front-mid channel split between the left and right front speakers. In my 10'x10' living room, I don't miss the separate center speaker. It also means I can use the two Stereo Hi-Fi amps I bought years ago that are still in perfectly working order. Sure, its not digital to the amp, but the soundstorm on my NF7-S is more than adequate.
I like having the rear speakers. Its great for scaring the crap out of guests everytime the rabbit appears in Donny Darko.