In my case, I consider a numpad-less keyboard is an optimal design. I detest number pads (and caps-lock keys but that's a whole other story) with a burning passion. Way back when, that's why I bought a Happy Hacker keyboard (PS2 interface, sadly). The gap between the keyboard and the mouse is annoying and physically bad for your body (though it may be fine for left-handed mouse users?). For same number of folks that do number crunching enough to actually need a numpad more than they need comfortable text typing, I wish the market would make standalone usb numpads more popular. They're ideal: pull one out when you're number crunching, puss it back when you're not.
The troubling thing is that the distinction isn't clear... I can't tell if you mean that "nothing happens" in the "it's acceptable" sense or in the "there's no trial" sense. Depends on who you are, whether you protested in a "free speech zone", who you've phoned in the past few years, or which websites you've visited I guess. And that makes it worse, not better -- trials at least would allow for some form of check and balance oversight system.
A transparent government exposes bad laws/inconsistent enforcement to public scrutiny. That doesn't seem to be "en vogue" anymore.
short term thinking. If you'd kept going with your argument, it does actually get you somewhere useful. I imagine he'll want to eat next year too. That might be more difficult with a criminal conviction.
Looking for work when you're in control of the timing and have a clean nose is vastly preferable in the putting-food-on-the-table sense than doing it when the timing is controlled by the courts and nobody wants you for anything more than washing dishes.
I'm a fan of TextEdit, and it's great that it can open basic.doc files. But it can't reliably and accurately read "every".doc file. I just tried a simple report template created in Word 2002 (3 levels of headings, simple 2 column tables) and a briefly skimming it turned up a few obvious problems:
* No headers or footers * Table of contents broke * Pagination, especially on pages with tables (which are significantly stretched vertically), is changed
Exactly! The trick is to realize that the concept of "noon" already doesn't equate to the concept of "12:00" (unless you're located along a very particular axis per time zone). "Noon hour" could just as easily be 11:00-12:00.
As long as they don't really match up anyway we might as well just shift hours in operation and leave the clocks alone.
I'd go a step further and propose the use of UTC worldwide rather than timezones, we could merely shift our "normal" hours to match. For example, in Saskatchewan I'm UTC -0600, so my regular working hours could be 0200 to 1100. Relative terms like "noon" would still work, it'd just be at 0600 locally.
What is this 9-5 of which you speak? Seriously, I've never heard of a job that operates on a literal 9am-to-5pm schedule. Maybe it's an American thing (I'm Canadian).
8-5, sure. 7:30-4:30 or 7-4, for those of us who want to avoid the worst of the traffic and get 20 minutes a day of our life back. But to only be at work for 8 continuous hours seems strange to me... I've never met anyone with a job like that. How does lunch work? Do you get a lunch? Is it part of the paid time?
"You can't compare Linux TCO with Windows TCO, because Windows doesn't have one. You don't own anything with windows. Windows TCO is a myth and should be called Windows TCL - Total Cost of/licenseship/."
If what you want is fine-grained ACLs, why would you specify ntfs? Standards based, man, standards based. IEEE 1003.1e (aka POSIX.1e) defines filesystem ACLs and much more.
The only reason this works is because that the cybertip site is generally trusted in the community and they are offering a feature that many customers want. Ok, so those customers that don't want it (for, say, civil rights reasons) can easily opt out (and without being demonized), right?
Continuing your argument down it's slippery slope, what's the need for the State? According to your argument, everything could be provided by corporations on a usage basis -- even private armies, where needed. If you're only paying for what you use, there's no need for a State to provide what you use. Anyone could provide it.
Naturally, as the poor have less wealth to spare, that means a lot of services will no longer have the minimum number of users required to support their existence.
It's easy to show that the rich benefit from the State. What if they wanted some of those services but don't want to pay 100% of the burden by having to provide it privately? What if the Stateless society limits their opportunities excessively? They benefit more than the poor from the very existence of the State. Redistribution of wealth through the State is a net positive, even for the rich.
To a student being introduced to this for the first time, it's still incomprehensible. They'll understand it's the shaded area under the curve, sure. But that doesn't mean anything to them -- it hasn't been tied to something that they're already familiar with in a way that makes it seem/useful/ to want to know the area under a curve.
And not knowing that they'll promptly file it away in the brains in the "useless theoretical handwaving" category.
Exactly. This discussion should be about any compromised data, not lost physical assets with a retail value quickly approaching the "disposable asset" level.
The fact that they even know the laptops are missing shows that they have better asset inventory control and reporting than many organizations I've worked with. If they also inventory sensitive data and can tell you if any (and what type) was on the laptop, they're another step up. At that point, it's fairly simple to ensure that the ensure is strongly encrypted and the whole incident becomes one of reporting a loss of a few dundred dollars worth of plastic and silicon.
Exactly, it doesn't belong in the main area of the keyboard at all.
And then the redundancy between the arrow keys and the numberic keypad -- bah! My mouse sits 16" to the right of the center of the home row. I notice that most people offset their keyboard to the left (relative to the display) to compensate. That/can't/ be good for your wrists. The numpad should be on a seperate cable -- when I'm not doing data entry, I'll toss it out of the way.
Exactly, it needs to be banished to the upper right quadrant with the other oddball keys (scroll lock, pause/break, and sysrq). They're all useful, but they all have no need to be on the valuable home row.
Exactly. What many posters don't seem to realize is that if you make your irreplaceable, you've also made it impossible to be promoted. This isn't just internal to your current organization -- doing the same thing for year after year without making career progress looks like hell on a resume.
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In my case, I consider a numpad-less keyboard is an optimal design. I detest number pads (and caps-lock keys but that's a whole other story) with a burning passion. Way back when, that's why I bought a Happy Hacker keyboard (PS2 interface, sadly). The gap between the keyboard and the mouse is annoying and physically bad for your body (though it may be fine for left-handed mouse users?). For same number of folks that do number crunching enough to actually need a numpad more than they need comfortable text typing, I wish the market would make standalone usb numpads more popular. They're ideal: pull one out when you're number crunching, puss it back when you're not.
I checked out that wikipedia link ... wow. That's an awfully complicated device to replace the proverbial cheap batter of brownie mix.
The troubling thing is that the distinction isn't clear ... I can't tell if you mean that "nothing happens" in the "it's acceptable" sense or in the "there's no trial" sense. Depends on who you are, whether you protested in a "free speech zone", who you've phoned in the past few years, or which websites you've visited I guess. And that makes it worse, not better -- trials at least would allow for some form of check and balance oversight system.
A transparent government exposes bad laws/inconsistent enforcement to public scrutiny. That doesn't seem to be "en vogue" anymore.
Amazing comment. Kudos!
(already at +5 for so no point in mod'ing)
short term thinking. If you'd kept going with your argument, it does actually get you somewhere useful. I imagine he'll want to eat next year too. That might be more difficult with a criminal conviction.
Looking for work when you're in control of the timing and have a clean nose is vastly preferable in the putting-food-on-the-table sense than doing it when the timing is controlled by the courts and nobody wants you for anything more than washing dishes.
I'm a fan of TextEdit, and it's great that it can open basic .doc files. But it can't reliably and accurately read "every" .doc file. I just tried a simple report template created in Word 2002 (3 levels of headings, simple 2 column tables) and a briefly skimming it turned up a few obvious problems:
* No headers or footers
* Table of contents broke
* Pagination, especially on pages with tables (which are significantly stretched vertically), is changed
Exactly! The trick is to realize that the concept of "noon" already doesn't equate to the concept of "12:00" (unless you're located along a very particular axis per time zone). "Noon hour" could just as easily be 11:00-12:00.
As long as they don't really match up anyway we might as well just shift hours in operation and leave the clocks alone.
Absolutely! Well said.
I'd go a step further and propose the use of UTC worldwide rather than timezones, we could merely shift our "normal" hours to match. For example, in Saskatchewan I'm UTC -0600, so my regular working hours could be 0200 to 1100. Relative terms like "noon" would still work, it'd just be at 0600 locally.
What is this 9-5 of which you speak? Seriously, I've never heard of a job that operates on a literal 9am-to-5pm schedule. Maybe it's an American thing (I'm Canadian).
... I've never met anyone with a job like that. How does lunch work? Do you get a lunch? Is it part of the paid time?
8-5, sure. 7:30-4:30 or 7-4, for those of us who want to avoid the worst of the traffic and get 20 minutes a day of our life back. But to only be at work for 8 continuous hours seems strange to me
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If what you want is fine-grained ACLs, why would you specify ntfs? Standards based, man, standards based. IEEE 1003.1e (aka POSIX.1e) defines filesystem ACLs and much more.
Continuing your argument down it's slippery slope, what's the need for the State? According to your argument, everything could be provided by corporations on a usage basis -- even private armies, where needed. If you're only paying for what you use, there's no need for a State to provide what you use. Anyone could provide it.
Naturally, as the poor have less wealth to spare, that means a lot of services will no longer have the minimum number of users required to support their existence.
It's easy to show that the rich benefit from the State. What if they wanted some of those services but don't want to pay 100% of the burden by having to provide it privately? What if the Stateless society limits their opportunities excessively? They benefit more than the poor from the very existence of the State. Redistribution of wealth through the State is a net positive, even for the rich.
Look into any one-time password system, like OPIE or S/Key. FreeBSD has it built into the operating system, Handbook entry at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/one-time-passwords.html.
Your comment about inactivity itself being potentially addictive being reminds me of The Programmers Stone.
To a student being introduced to this for the first time, it's still incomprehensible. They'll understand it's the shaded area under the curve, sure. But that doesn't mean anything to them -- it hasn't been tied to something that they're already familiar with in a way that makes it seem /useful/ to want to know the area under a curve.
And not knowing that they'll promptly file it away in the brains in the "useless theoretical handwaving" category.
Exactly. This discussion should be about any compromised data, not lost physical assets with a retail value quickly approaching the "disposable asset" level.
The fact that they even know the laptops are missing shows that they have better asset inventory control and reporting than many organizations I've worked with. If they also inventory sensitive data and can tell you if any (and what type) was on the laptop, they're another step up. At that point, it's fairly simple to ensure that the ensure is strongly encrypted and the whole incident becomes one of reporting a loss of a few dundred dollars worth of plastic and silicon.
Exactly, it doesn't belong in the main area of the keyboard at all.
/can't/ be good for your wrists. The numpad should be on a seperate cable -- when I'm not doing data entry, I'll toss it out of the way.
And then the redundancy between the arrow keys and the numberic keypad -- bah! My mouse sits 16" to the right of the center of the home row. I notice that most people offset their keyboard to the left (relative to the display) to compensate. That
Exactly, it needs to be banished to the upper right quadrant with the other oddball keys (scroll lock, pause/break, and sysrq). They're all useful, but they all have no need to be on the valuable home row.
If you're serious about the auditing functionality, you need more than just sudo.
Doug Hanks, a SAGE member, started with sudosh (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sudosh/) and now has released Enterprise Audit Shell (EAS). There's a very basic web page and PDF at http://download.strchr.net/, as well as a nice graphic explaining how it works (http://download.strchr.net/eas-layout.png).
Copying from the text of the email announcement a few weeks ago, the list of improvements over Sudosh includes:
* Conforms to COBiT
* Utilized ITIL best practices
* Enterprise-view of UNIX access
* Enterprise-level audit reporting tools for Sarbanes-Oxley
* Customizable audit reports via CSS
* Embedded transactional, ACID-compliant SQL92 relational database
* Load balancing
* Disaster recovery
* SSL encryption
* SSL Public Key Infrastructure authentication
* Audit file transfers and remote command execution when used as a login shell
* Configurable default shels
* Audit logs are digitally signed for integrity
* Client and server configuration files for easy management
* Idle session timeout
* Display corporate policy before eash session
It looks like a serious auditing tool for serious Unix shops.
For simpler needs there's also Kerberos `ksu` as a replacement for sudo, for shops that have already solved their centralized authentication.
In support of your point, try to buy a 17" iMac off the online Apple store. Or, shortly, the 20" iMac and 15" Powerbook.
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Exactly. What many posters don't seem to realize is that if you make your irreplaceable, you've also made it impossible to be promoted. This isn't just internal to your current organization -- doing the same thing for year after year without making career progress looks like hell on a resume.
This is exactly the same situation you'd have with Linux or BSD: OS X uses the popular CUPS printing system.
That's exactly what I like about OS X. Where it makes sense to do so (Kerberos, CUPS, KAME, etc) OS X uses familiar open source tools.