yes, my desktops and servers never need reboots. Only power outages or kernel upgrades. However laptops need to be restarted whenever you move location and are without power. Sadly Linux sleep support is not where it should be (thank you proprietary and non-standard acpi motherboards) and hibernate works 75% of the time for me. Thusly if you travel a lot you will be rebooting a lot.
I wonder how many websites out there have tested their designs and CSS with IE7? Many people use IE and if its getting pushed, then when they log in after the update, they'll be having some problems with many websites methinks. I haven't ever used ie7 so I don't know if all the IE css bugs (features) still are present or if they somehow improved the CSS engine.
It would have been nice to MS to announce 6 months in advance that IE7 will be pushed, so get the betas and test your website away with it. I'm assuming some devs did that anyway, but I'm on Linux so I don't care to much...anyone know if IE7 works under wine?
I don't know about Linux phones, but the nokia 770 internet tablet has a large linux developer community writing and porting software to it, all for free. I would get one of the devices if it had a keyboard...
Saying that linux doesn't have software is naive. I know plenty of people who use it for their daily OS without ever needing to turn to Wine to run windows software to fill a void. There may be some quality/testing issues with some of the software, but there is a ton of interesting stuff out there. Especially now with mono, Linux will sooner or later gain the ability to run lots of stuff written in the.net stack. I think it can already run a bunch of stuff.
I usually use google as a spell checker as if there are many websites with something, but it suggests an alternate spelling I may click that and see if the same pages come up, also because it will figure out things if it is in the wrong context. Ex. type in: "kaffee annan", and google will suggest koffee annan. Type in: "kaffee tasse", and it will suggest the german word kaffeetasse (german for coffee mug). It figured out what I was meaning, whereas MSword type spell checkers just look at each individual word without context. Now I couldn't think of a better example, but I'm sure there are many.
first thing I do on an ubuntu install is sudo passwd and now root has a password : )
Then I create my user account and logout and log into the new one. I do this because my home partition usually lives on a separate partition and I just ignore it during install to not accidentaly whipe it. Then I just mount it at a later time.
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thats why they are being supoenaed (is that how you spell it?). There may be no wrong doing on intel or skype's part, but since AMD is in a lawsuit with Intel, it has every right to know if intel is making exclusive deals to prevent AMD's products from reaching wieder audiences. I wonder what kind of evidence will be found if any.
The question is, why should anyone be against a voting system where people know that their vote was counted? If I press a buttong for candidate A and the paper trail shows candidate B, then one knows and can complain and perhaps revote? The only arguments I have heard of so far are that it would be to expensive. While it may cost a bit, I still think that the costs outweigh the problems when there is no paper trail.
How many districts have we heard about, where their have been problems with electronig voting machines? Don't get me wrong, I use ATMs all the time, and trust it with my money, so I don't see why it should be so hard to come up with a secure and easy way to use voting machines. Diebold, the same company in trouble in several counties, is trusted for making great ATMs, but their voting machines are notoriously bad and their behaviour not to be trusted http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60563,00 .html. Voting machines's source code should be open to election officials, so that they can take a look at them and make sure that they don't count backwards...
I rent 2 servers and have root access on up to 4. There is nother better than having root access, so when you want to install X you can just apt-get install or yum install or whatever distro you are using instead of waiting for 2 weeks and tech support people to do it for you.
But after many years of comuting, wont the money spent on gas + time equal out the extra money for an apt. closer to your work? I dunno I'm just making a guess. My boss gets up at 4 in the morning and travels 45min-1 hour from baltimore to DC bc his housing is cheaper there. So he may save there, but a 10-15 dollar train tride everyday adds up and also the time spent comuting has to be worth something. I for one would probably rather live 10-15 minutes from work and be able to walk or ride my bike, even if it might be more expensive...just personal preference though.
Not necessarily. I remember when I had cable and a pentium 200 mhz computer. My friend had a 56k connection and a pentium 3. Pages seemed to render at the same speeds. While mine certainly did download the pages faster, a 200mhz computer is painfully slow at rendering complex webpages whereas the better processor could manage that much faster. Now you did see big discrepancies on Downloads (No rendering required just write access) or simple pages with a few images, all loaded faster on the cable.
Just my 2 cents. Broadband is important, but having a slow processor can slow you down...but these days any new computer should be able to render websites at comparable speeds. Rendering web pages isn't terribly complicated and you will probably not really notice an increase between a pentium 3 running at 800 and an AMD 64 bit running at 2.2. So i'm not sure what caused the decrease in time.
Your right they are following law so if they want to be in china they don't have a choice. The other option would be not to go in to china. BUT, and a big BUT, since they are now a publicly traded company, I don't think the shareholders will be to happy of a company not entering a potential huge market and new revenue stream for the sake of morals. How often does a company do something "moral" and get rewarded in the market? I don't think moral is the best word to use in this instance, but you get my drift, I value access to information very highly and thus am disgusted when companies agree to deny access.
Not really malware if you know about it
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I don't use itunes so I don't have an idea of whether they let you opt out. However I know that some ones I use, namely amarok, which does connect to audioscrabbler (I think) to look up other songs in my playlist which other people like as well based on what is playing right now. I see it as a neat feature to discover new songs in my own playlist or to go to the website and perhaps find new artists I have never heard of, but that people who share similar tastes with me also have.
But then again, I don't get the feeling of being pushed to purchase anything its just making recommendations.
I must agree with the poster that with windows 2000 already, blue screens were quite uncommon. However Windows XP systems do carsh every once in a while, but don't leave the blue screen of death behind, they just reboot. If I have my facts straight then a registry change will let us see that beautiful blue screen that we all love so much. So I agree, talkin about windows Crashing isn't really an issue any more. What should be focused on is the terribly idea of the registry (Great for the lazy programmer, awful for system performance and maintainance). There is nothing like fixing a borked Linux machine from Knoppix by editing a text file. Screw up the registry and your most likely toast. Then the next problem with windows is that most software works in limited, or not at all unless the user is running as admin. This creates most of the security problems relating to windows IMO. Just my 2 cents
My college, George washington has these only on the first floor of the academic building which leads me to believe that they have them for visitors to see, so that they think that GW is trying to be environmentally friendly when in fact we don't recycle (that I know of) or do anything to help the environment. I'm just speculating here, if it works great and saves water (and thus money thru utilities) I don't see why they don't install more of these or atleast replace broken ones with these.
Why not hire a capable programmer for half of what buying office would have cost, and have him make changes which are useful for your company. Chances are that what one company needs, others will as well. Therefore you save money, 1/2 this time around, and get to customize it any way you see fit for your users, and if its something others like, then the changes can be pushed upstream and incorporated. I'm sure many companies would love a quiet auto installer which could be deployed via batch script without user clicking yes/no/next/I agree and with default output settings set to.doc.
This highlights a huge security flaw in many website logins. To many websites just md5($pass) the password and stick it into the database. A malicious hacker could then easily copy and paste it into the website and voila access granted.
A more secure system also has a salt value (generated randomly everytime the password is changed by a user) so that the resulting md5 hash is md5($salt.$password). This adds randomness and length to an otherwise possibly short password. I'm no security expert, but I just pasted in a few of my "passwords" in mysql tables which were generated with md5 and the website didn't find any that were generated with the salt. Older ones before I knew about the idea of salt were cracked instantaneously....so hope someone learns a lesson here
if you have to give a presenation or something, you can carry a server in your pocket and not have to rely on them having a server configured and ready to use. Just plug it into the laptop thats giving the presentation and then voila, server up in no time. Very helpful if you ask me, especially the fingerprint reader, so that no one could steal my drive and get my documents (if thats how it works, didn't find anything about that in the article)
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yes, my desktops and servers never need reboots. Only power outages or kernel upgrades. However laptops need to be restarted whenever you move location and are without power. Sadly Linux sleep support is not where it should be (thank you proprietary and non-standard acpi motherboards) and hibernate works 75% of the time for me. Thusly if you travel a lot you will be rebooting a lot.
i for one welcome our new tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, creative, and genetically supperior overlords.
I wonder how many websites out there have tested their designs and CSS with IE7? Many people use IE and if its getting pushed, then when they log in after the update, they'll be having some problems with many websites methinks. I haven't ever used ie7 so I don't know if all the IE css bugs (features) still are present or if they somehow improved the CSS engine.
It would have been nice to MS to announce 6 months in advance that IE7 will be pushed, so get the betas and test your website away with it. I'm assuming some devs did that anyway, but I'm on Linux so I don't care to much...anyone know if IE7 works under wine?
I don't know about Linux phones, but the nokia 770 internet tablet has a large linux developer community writing and porting software to it, all for free. I would get one of the devices if it had a keyboard...
.net stack. I think it can already run a bunch of stuff.
Saying that linux doesn't have software is naive. I know plenty of people who use it for their daily OS without ever needing to turn to Wine to run windows software to fill a void. There may be some quality/testing issues with some of the software, but there is a ton of interesting stuff out there. Especially now with mono, Linux will sooner or later gain the ability to run lots of stuff written in the
By adopting open source solutions, Munich is incentivating the creation and growth of a local market for training is incentivating a word?
I usually use google as a spell checker as if there are many websites with something, but it suggests an alternate spelling I may click that and see if the same pages come up, also because it will figure out things if it is in the wrong context. Ex. type in: "kaffee annan", and google will suggest koffee annan. Type in: "kaffee tasse", and it will suggest the german word kaffeetasse (german for coffee mug). It figured out what I was meaning, whereas MSword type spell checkers just look at each individual word without context. Now I couldn't think of a better example, but I'm sure there are many.
first thing I do on an ubuntu install is sudo passwd and now root has a password : ) Then I create my user account and logout and log into the new one. I do this because my home partition usually lives on a separate partition and I just ignore it during install to not accidentaly whipe it. Then I just mount it at a later time.
thats why they are being supoenaed (is that how you spell it?). There may be no wrong doing on intel or skype's part, but since AMD is in a lawsuit with Intel, it has every right to know if intel is making exclusive deals to prevent AMD's products from reaching wieder audiences. I wonder what kind of evidence will be found if any.
How many districts have we heard about, where their have been problems with electronig voting machines? Don't get me wrong, I use ATMs all the time, and trust it with my money, so I don't see why it should be so hard to come up with a secure and easy way to use voting machines. Diebold, the same company in trouble in several counties, is trusted for making great ATMs, but their voting machines are notoriously bad and their behaviour not to be trusted http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60563,00 .html. Voting machines's source code should be open to election officials, so that they can take a look at them and make sure that they don't count backwards...
Or if not that, what about re-encoding it to ogg or some other format. Wouldn't that get rid of the hash or change the volume slightly?
no X as being a variable not X server. Should I have used Y instead : )
I rent 2 servers and have root access on up to 4. There is nother better than having root access, so when you want to install X you can just apt-get install or yum install or whatever distro you are using instead of waiting for 2 weeks and tech support people to do it for you.
But after many years of comuting, wont the money spent on gas + time equal out the extra money for an apt. closer to your work? I dunno I'm just making a guess. My boss gets up at 4 in the morning and travels 45min-1 hour from baltimore to DC bc his housing is cheaper there. So he may save there, but a 10-15 dollar train tride everyday adds up and also the time spent comuting has to be worth something. I for one would probably rather live 10-15 minutes from work and be able to walk or ride my bike, even if it might be more expensive...just personal preference though.
Just my 2 cents. Broadband is important, but having a slow processor can slow you down...but these days any new computer should be able to render websites at comparable speeds. Rendering web pages isn't terribly complicated and you will probably not really notice an increase between a pentium 3 running at 800 and an AMD 64 bit running at 2.2. So i'm not sure what caused the decrease in time.
Your right they are following law so if they want to be in china they don't have a choice. The other option would be not to go in to china. BUT, and a big BUT, since they are now a publicly traded company, I don't think the shareholders will be to happy of a company not entering a potential huge market and new revenue stream for the sake of morals. How often does a company do something "moral" and get rewarded in the market? I don't think moral is the best word to use in this instance, but you get my drift, I value access to information very highly and thus am disgusted when companies agree to deny access.
I don't use itunes so I don't have an idea of whether they let you opt out. However I know that some ones I use, namely amarok, which does connect to audioscrabbler (I think) to look up other songs in my playlist which other people like as well based on what is playing right now. I see it as a neat feature to discover new songs in my own playlist or to go to the website and perhaps find new artists I have never heard of, but that people who share similar tastes with me also have.
But then again, I don't get the feeling of being pushed to purchase anything its just making recommendations.
this is when you just hide the dialog by moving it to the bottom right of the screen under the panel until you are ready to restart 4 days later
I must agree with the poster that with windows 2000 already, blue screens were quite uncommon. However Windows XP systems do carsh every once in a while, but don't leave the blue screen of death behind, they just reboot. If I have my facts straight then a registry change will let us see that beautiful blue screen that we all love so much. So I agree, talkin about windows Crashing isn't really an issue any more. What should be focused on is the terribly idea of the registry (Great for the lazy programmer, awful for system performance and maintainance). There is nothing like fixing a borked Linux machine from Knoppix by editing a text file. Screw up the registry and your most likely toast. Then the next problem with windows is that most software works in limited, or not at all unless the user is running as admin. This creates most of the security problems relating to windows IMO. Just my 2 cents
My college, George washington has these only on the first floor of the academic building which leads me to believe that they have them for visitors to see, so that they think that GW is trying to be environmentally friendly when in fact we don't recycle (that I know of) or do anything to help the environment. I'm just speculating here, if it works great and saves water (and thus money thru utilities) I don't see why they don't install more of these or atleast replace broken ones with these.
Why not hire a capable programmer for half of what buying office would have cost, and have him make changes which are useful for your company. Chances are that what one company needs, others will as well. Therefore you save money, 1/2 this time around, and get to customize it any way you see fit for your users, and if its something others like, then the changes can be pushed upstream and incorporated. I'm sure many companies would love a quiet auto installer which could be deployed via batch script without user clicking yes/no/next/I agree and with default output settings set to .doc.
heh it sure has...thats why I wont ever host anything on IIS boxen...good old apache for me
A firewall only allowing port 21 and port 80 will obsolete viruses for windows file sharing and uPnP like this last one...
A more secure system also has a salt value (generated randomly everytime the password is changed by a user) so that the resulting md5 hash is md5($salt.$password). This adds randomness and length to an otherwise possibly short password. I'm no security expert, but I just pasted in a few of my "passwords" in mysql tables which were generated with md5 and the website didn't find any that were generated with the salt. Older ones before I knew about the idea of salt were cracked instantaneously....so hope someone learns a lesson here
if you have to give a presenation or something, you can carry a server in your pocket and not have to rely on them having a server configured and ready to use. Just plug it into the laptop thats giving the presentation and then voila, server up in no time. Very helpful if you ask me, especially the fingerprint reader, so that no one could steal my drive and get my documents (if thats how it works, didn't find anything about that in the article)
I think you just said it