However, there is one security hole that I should point out to you: xhost 127.0.0.1 gives all processes on your system access to the X display, including Firefox and any malware it might execute. This is sufficient to run a keylogger, grab screenshots, etc.
One can allways do some xauth magic, restraing access to the Xserver for that session/user. Not that I'm a X expert, but I dont think that a remote client can read arbitrary data from the display anyway?
The 360 is $200 cheaper. (I dare you to find me a PS3 20GB).
Also, you don't have to pay a monthly fee for online pay. $50 for a year (which is 4 bucks a month)
[..]
I'm sure all the PS3 owners are still waiting for it to even out. quickly.
Which it actually will in around ($200/$50) 4 years time..
From where I sit, any country that takes away 28-51.3% of your personal income s socialist (that figure was second only to Denmark, btw).
Well, according to OECD, the tax revenue as percentage of GDP in the USA in 2000 was 29.9%. So according to you, the US was a socialist country in 2000 and 2001.
AD is LDAP compliant so use can also use nss_ldap to grab user information on Linux system from it
The devil lies in the details. LDAP compliance does not ensure that a product can be used as advertised.
The killer lies in the (lack of) implementation of OID matching rules.
Linux and Windows nodes can perform two directional file sharing via standard* CIFS protocol
The fact that this can be done is a credit to the Samba community and definetly not a credit to MS.
With Windows Server 2003 R2, AD can also serve standard NIS, NFS, CUPS and similar UNIX protocols.
Try creating a file with e.g a colon in it on a volume mounted from a WS2003 server. Their NFS implementation
is not only half-assed - its a complete bastard to set up. Other companies - like NetApp - has *far* better products. Which only shows that MS just couldn't be bothered with doing a good job compatibility wise.
I also find no mention on the WS2003 server feature page that it can serve anything remotely CUPS'ish.
You were probably thinking of IPP?
If you include non standard (but known) protocols in the mix, Windows and Linux machines can also interoperate via DFS (Distributed File Sharing), RPD (Terminal Services), etc.
RDP support on unix hosts should definetly not be credited MS.
The AD compatibility list and its features may look nice on a glossy paper. To be honest - I wouldn't touch
it with a long stick. Its a one way street into a long life of MS induced pain - non-compatibilities,
forced upgrades, a license policy that you need professional help to understand etc.
Not to mention the happy fact that with AD, MS has a perfect instrument to enforce any diabolic license-policy they can think of - at any point in time they want to. They are in complete control of your core infrastructure.
If we cap emissions, we force the USA into a quarter-after-quarter recession. Meanwhile, greenhouse gas problems are getting worse and worse because China and India are blowing smokestacks to the stars.
And why would China and India start seriously cutting emissions if the US - by far the larges polluter -
couldn't be bothered to do it?
You people should stop your pathetic whining and get with the frikking programme here. Take
responsibility instead of pointing fingers and shifting blame. Grow up.
Any changes that could be made in the USA, Canada, and Western Europe (and Oz and Japan) would pale in comparison to the large increases coming from China and India. And short-sighted, when you consider that capping CO2 emissions will force a quarter-after-quarter recession on all involved nations.
So - what is the point here? That any cuts you americans (19.4839 *) make is unneccesary as
long as those insidous indians (0.933086 *) and the vily chinese (2.65908 *) are polluting
like there is no tomorrow?
Have you considered the possibility that emission schemes like the Kyoto Protocol are made
specifically to help emission control in poor countries through emissions trading? **
And short-sighted, when you consider that capping CO2 emissions will force a quarter-after-quarter recession on all involved nations. And ain't that a pretty picture to consider?
Have you considered the possibility that not dealing with climate change may be more expensive
than not doing anything about it? ***
The *whole point* of a common market is to make sure each operator gains equal access to every market. Deutche Telecom is the incumbent national champion in germany. When it was privatized, it inherited the old telecoms infrastructure in Germany. With this inheritance came an obligation to let competitors into this infrastructure. The fact that DT *modernizes* this infrastructure should not be an argument for a new lockout.
In addition, Germany is building a national champion in DT. It essentially helps it grow fat on the domestic arena which again gives it resources to grow internationally. This is clearly against both the letter and intent of the EU common market.
The EU common market has been built both to give companies a chance to grow large by eliminating the problems of entering other markets, and to foster competition so that consumers gain better choice and price. The DT deal is clearly counterproductive to both these aims.
AlbumData.xml is easily parseable. If you dont want to get down and dirty with the xml itself, you can use
for example Mac::iPhoto. It's only slightly buggy.
Not only that, but GPS III will obsolete Galileo anyhow. I can understand the EU trying to do this for free for security and employment reasons, but charging for it is stupid. Who the hell is going to pay for use?
People said the same thing when RedHat launched its Enterprise server edition. In fact - selling such a service
makes perfect business sense. If you were to develop solutions using GPS - you would prefer to use the service
that comes with a guarantee - not one that comes with a "if you use it - and it stops working - its your problem" attitude.
What people here also seem to ignore is that the Galileo will emit a stronger signal and will give better coverage at higher latitudes compared to the GPS.
Unless I'm forgetting something, with Hubble, Chandra, SOHO, and Spitzer we're the only nation managing major space-based observatories.
Well,
SOHO is actually a ESA project in which NASA is a junior partner. ESA also has a 15% stake in the Hubble mission ( e.g. one of the cameras are ESA-made )
[..] it plans to hold Customers who promised to buy IPO shares to their pledges.
What is the problem? When you sign up for shares in an IPO, you sign a contract that
commits you to actually buy the shares at the given price. When the stocks are listed,
the agreed amount of shares are transferred to your account. At this point in time, you are expected to pay for them. If you don't, its a breach of contract, or simply "embezzlement" as
the rest of us would call it.
Why not shoot it into space every now and again? Aim it towards the sun if it makes you feel better.
Low radioactive waste (ILW ) includes parts of the building, cooling water, steam generators etc. Probably several hundreds of tons of material... imagine the uranium mill tailings from the initial processing of the urainum ore. If you need to shoot this stuff into space, you have probably done the most unprofitable investment ever.
My point is that if you incur these cost into the cost of a nuclear plant - just about every other form of energy generation looks cheap in comparison.
Two: If you make it an electromagnetic rail (a rail-gun) or a gauss gun system and power it | with a nuclear reactor, you could sell the electricity being produced when you arent
launching things, and so in the long run cutting costs and maybe even paying for the whole
launching system (mass driver and reactor).
If you include the cost of storing the low-radiactive waste for the next couple of millennia, the cost of a nuclear reactor is prohibitive. Why not instead power the pipe dream with another pipe dream - solar power satellites?
Databases are usually pretty disk intensive, so I would probably go for SCSI disks.
Anyway - when the hardware costs are dwarfed by the Oracle licence cost - why skimp on the hardware?
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http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/6/1/33826979.pdf
Spot on.Bjørn Lomborg has a Ph.D. in Political Science and is not an economist btw.
I also find no mention on the WS2003 server feature page that it can serve anything remotely CUPS'ish. You were probably thinking of IPP? RDP support on unix hosts should definetly not be credited MS.
The AD compatibility list and its features may look nice on a glossy paper. To be honest - I wouldn't touch it with a long stick. Its a one way street into a long life of MS induced pain - non-compatibilities, forced upgrades, a license policy that you need professional help to understand etc.
Not to mention the happy fact that with AD, MS has a perfect instrument to enforce any diabolic license-policy they can think of - at any point in time they want to. They are in complete control of your core infrastructure.
So - what is the point here? That any cuts you americans (19.4839 *) make is unneccesary as long as those insidous indians (0.933086 *) and the vily chinese (2.65908 *) are polluting like there is no tomorrow?
Have you considered the possibility that emission schemes like the Kyoto Protocol are made specifically to help emission control in poor countries through emissions trading? **
Have you considered the possibility that not dealing with climate change may be more expensive than not doing anything about it? ***
*: Thousand metric tonnes of carbon dioxide Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.**: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#Emiss
***: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews
The *whole point* of a common market is to make sure each operator gains equal access to every market.
Deutche Telecom is the incumbent national champion in germany. When it was privatized, it inherited the
old telecoms infrastructure in Germany. With this inheritance came an obligation to let competitors
into this infrastructure. The fact that DT *modernizes* this infrastructure should not be an argument
for a new lockout.
In addition, Germany is building a national champion in DT. It essentially helps it grow fat on the domestic
arena which again gives it resources to grow internationally. This is clearly against both the letter and
intent of the EU common market.
The EU common market has been built both to give companies a chance to grow large by eliminating the problems
of entering other markets, and to foster competition so that consumers gain better choice and price. The DT
deal is clearly counterproductive to both these aims.
AlbumData.xml is easily parseable. If you dont want to get down and dirty with the xml itself, you can use for example Mac::iPhoto. It's only slightly buggy.
What people here also seem to ignore is that the Galileo will emit a stronger signal and will give better coverage at higher latitudes compared to the GPS.
Try APC
Well, SOHO is actually a ESA project in which NASA is a junior partner. ESA also has a 15% stake in the Hubble mission ( e.g. one of the cameras are ESA-made )
You are also forgetting: XMM-Newton, Integral, Ulysses and arguably Rosetta By 2007, these missions will be joined by Corot, Herschel and Planck.
It's not easy getting your facts straight when jingoism gets the upper hand - is it?
Low radioactive waste (ILW ) includes parts of the building, cooling water, steam generators etc. Probably several hundreds of tons of material... imagine the uranium mill tailings from the initial processing of the urainum ore. If you need to shoot this stuff into space, you have probably done the most unprofitable investment ever.
My point is that if you incur these cost into the cost of a nuclear plant - just about every other form of energy generation looks cheap in comparison.
> So far, the US has been the only player who wants to maintain the free and open nature of the > internet, with little-to-no censoring. http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,685 45,00.html
You could use frequency jumping - with one pattern per client.
Databases are usually pretty disk intensive, so I would probably go for SCSI disks. Anyway - when the hardware costs are dwarfed by the Oracle licence cost - why skimp on the hardware?