User Mode Linux is more like the Java virtual machine and uses features of the host operating system directly rather than trying to access virtual hardware.
There is a trick where you can get GIMP on Mac OS without using X11, but last I checked you needed to compile it using MacPorts and there were some issues with letters typed in text boxes being interpreted as hot keys.
iPods are USB mass storage devices. The DRM is at the file level and copying the file off won't do you any good unless you have a license to play it.
It's the library index format that requires special software to read and write.
You don't--Chrome and Safari are the same from a web development viewpoint. Besides, you shouldn't be sending different content based on the user agent string unless you're sending special content to work around browser bugs.
You're lucky. On my parents' series two Tivos all menus are agonizingly slow, especially the guide. All interaction with the Tivo is painful. It's almost like using MythTV except with a working TV guide and without any of the additional features offered by MythTV.
Also the local network applications do not work on one of the Tivos.
Neatgear has fixed this problem without changing the connection time out. The solution is to crash early and crash often. Back when the router was actually routing traffic to the internet, it would crash and reboot within minutes if a Bittorrent client started on the network.
I have since moved the Netgear router so it is plugged into a real router(Linux PC with multiple network cards) on a LAN port so all the traffic goes over the switch instead of being routed. The router doesn't reboot often anymore, but I have seen it reboot itself a few times since it was moved.
You got lucky then. Some of the Dell LCDs at my school have a terrible flicker in the uneven backlighting. It's painful to use one of the problem screens for an entire lab.
It's not just southern California. AT&T has trouble at my house and at my school ninety miles away. I don't believe that they really have (more bars) in (more places), but rather that they have (more bars in more places). Meaning that they don't have more bars than their competitors in any places that matter, but instead have service in lots of places that don't matter: poor service everywhere as opposed to decent service in less areas.
Their commercials make me angry. The guy can't receive your call because he doesn't have AT&T. Well I can't receive your call because I *do* have AT&T.
The link does not tell us how to attack and render all computers in [insert your favorite evil company
here AAPL,MSFT,GOOG]. Why would you want to render all the computers? Are out to embarrass them?
I had the same issue with a Lexmark copier/scanner/printer driver. It was a pain to install because it used some install shield like a Windows application. The software didn't work properly and I noticed a decrease in performance and battery life.
Also the Windows drivers feel the need to speak loudly whenever they do anything and weren't updated to work on Vista.
If you are catching students bypassing the Windows firewall and bypassing the school's content filter *and* installing software that affects other users of the computer, then there is something wrong with your system.
The Windows XP firewall should stop Bittorrent clients, Limewire, AIM, etc. The school content filter should block anything that gets around the Windows firewall, Windows Messenger, porn, etc.
I don't care what students install on the PCs as long as it doesn't take up too much space. If you're running Windows NT and have user accounts set up properly then users should not be able to negatively impact each other. If the teacher lets them play Quake in class it's not my job to stop them.
You should realize that it's impossible to block everything you want to block without whitelisting only what you want; there is always another proxy out there and students can run their own proxies off their home computers. You should also realize that at some point if you add too many restrictions the system becomes unusable and unmaintainable.
I had similar issues with a bot I set up. I put it in an IRC chat room and it was great fun until it started repeating nasty insults it had overheard.
I deleted the database and fed it some other text to learn from. Interestingly, if you feed a chatbot the scripts of the Star Wars trilogy, it spews random nonsense whenever it types anything.
I'm very concerned that ISPs will attempt to force the user to run antivirus or some other type of software to connect to the network. Besides compatibility and security issues involved in running software controlled by your ISP, some of the antivirus software out there is terrible.
My school requires that you must have some sort of antivirus software installed to connect to the network and provides a virus scanner for us. I was running Windows XP in a virtual machine, so I grabbed the free scanner. It was a Symantec corporate style scanner thing. After going through all the settings, the scanner would still run full system scans in the background. Unfortunately, "in the background" isn't very in the background when you're running Windows XP in a virtual machine, and the VM would use as much of the CPU as possible to do a background scan.
So, I tried to uninstall it. You can't do that. You need a password. I had to manually delete all the files and registry keys manually. Months later I was having problems with 16-bit applications because Symantec had not provided complete removal instructions.
I don't want to need to worry about my ISP forcing me to use some software that will permanently damage any software installation or degrade performance while doing things unrelated to my ISP. There are enough hidden problems with ISPs already.
An ActiveX control will be required to install it. The download will be slow and fail often, requiring a restart each time. Installation will take an hour after the files have been downloaded. You will not be given the option to save the installer for use on another machine. The basic installation will require three gigabytes of space. A "quick launch" application will be added to your startup list. The ability to read documents will be free, but involve advertisements and bundled software. The ability to write documents will cost an arm and a leg. It will be hard to type properly without that arm.
Adobe will tell you that Adobe Office is the ONLY office software that reads Word Documents, however the Word Document support won't be as complete as the support in Open Office.
Parallels supports automatically grabbing and releasing the mouse as you enter and leave the window, and has support for automatically changing the resolution of your VM when you change the size of the window. There is no coherence mode or 3D acceleration, but I doubt VMWare offers those features with a Linux guest either. You can hack something together with X11, ssh, and VMGL if you need it. Compiling VMGL may take a little work because the glext header on Mac OS X is too old and the linking system is different, but it is running on my computer.
I just saw somebody today who's new USB hard drive started to give off a burning smell, and then ceased to be recognized by the computer. I doubt it's related though.
The stored password in the registry cannot be a hash unless the authentication system on the remote end will accept the hash in place of the actual password, which is only marginally better than storing the password in plain text. Without some keychain system, the password cannot be encrypted and then decrypted again unless the decryption key is accessible to the user or the key is stored on the server, meaning that you only need the "encrypted" password to authenticate yourself. Depending on how the password is encrypted, the new password storage system could be worse than the old one.
I had an English class where the teacher forbid the use of Wikipedia because anybody could go on there and write whatever they wanted. Apparently, this is not how the internet works. All information is thoroughly checked before it appears in Google. Nobody would post biased studies or fake documentaries on the internet.
In my opinion Wikipedia is much more reliable than some random website because corrections can be made and there is more than one point of view. Besides, if you are writing a paper you should be using more than one source anyway, and if you are writing a paper just for the sake of writing, the facts don't matter anyway.
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User Mode Linux is more like the Java virtual machine and uses features of the host operating system directly rather than trying to access virtual hardware.
There is a trick where you can get GIMP on Mac OS without using X11, but last I checked you needed to compile it using MacPorts and there were some issues with letters typed in text boxes being interpreted as hot keys.
iPods are USB mass storage devices. The DRM is at the file level and copying the file off won't do you any good unless you have a license to play it. It's the library index format that requires special software to read and write.
You don't--Chrome and Safari are the same from a web development viewpoint. Besides, you shouldn't be sending different content based on the user agent string unless you're sending special content to work around browser bugs.
Or rdiff-backup which stores the latest version and diffs instead of using cp -al.
You're lucky. On my parents' series two Tivos all menus are agonizingly slow, especially the guide. All interaction with the Tivo is painful. It's almost like using MythTV except with a working TV guide and without any of the additional features offered by MythTV.
Also the local network applications do not work on one of the Tivos.
Neatgear has fixed this problem without changing the connection time out. The solution is to crash early and crash often. Back when the router was actually routing traffic to the internet, it would crash and reboot within minutes if a Bittorrent client started on the network.
I have since moved the Netgear router so it is plugged into a real router(Linux PC with multiple network cards) on a LAN port so all the traffic goes over the switch instead of being routed. The router doesn't reboot often anymore, but I have seen it reboot itself a few times since it was moved.
You got lucky then. Some of the Dell LCDs at my school have a terrible flicker in the uneven backlighting. It's painful to use one of the problem screens for an entire lab.
It's not just southern California. AT&T has trouble at my house and at my school ninety miles away. I don't believe that they really have (more bars) in (more places), but rather that they have (more bars in more places). Meaning that they don't have more bars than their competitors in any places that matter, but instead have service in lots of places that don't matter: poor service everywhere as opposed to decent service in less areas.
Their commercials make me angry. The guy can't receive your call because he doesn't have AT&T. Well I can't receive your call because I *do* have AT&T.
What's to stop someone from "printing" the book to PDF and then editing it?
I had the same issue with a Lexmark copier/scanner/printer driver. It was a pain to install because it used some install shield like a Windows application. The software didn't work properly and I noticed a decrease in performance and battery life. Also the Windows drivers feel the need to speak loudly whenever they do anything and weren't updated to work on Vista.
Rockbox does play Ogg Vorbis(and Speex) but is not Linux. There is iPod Linux if you really want Linux on your iPod.
If you are catching students bypassing the Windows firewall and bypassing the school's content filter *and* installing software that affects other users of the computer, then there is something wrong with your system.
The Windows XP firewall should stop Bittorrent clients, Limewire, AIM, etc. The school content filter should block anything that gets around the Windows firewall, Windows Messenger, porn, etc.
I don't care what students install on the PCs as long as it doesn't take up too much space. If you're running Windows NT and have user accounts set up properly then users should not be able to negatively impact each other. If the teacher lets them play Quake in class it's not my job to stop them.
You should realize that it's impossible to block everything you want to block without whitelisting only what you want; there is always another proxy out there and students can run their own proxies off their home computers. You should also realize that at some point if you add too many restrictions the system becomes unusable and unmaintainable.
I had similar issues with a bot I set up. I put it in an IRC chat room and it was great fun until it started repeating nasty insults it had overheard.
I deleted the database and fed it some other text to learn from. Interestingly, if you feed a chatbot the scripts of the Star Wars trilogy, it spews random nonsense whenever it types anything.
I'm very concerned that ISPs will attempt to force the user to run antivirus or some other type of software to connect to the network. Besides compatibility and security issues involved in running software controlled by your ISP, some of the antivirus software out there is terrible.
My school requires that you must have some sort of antivirus software installed to connect to the network and provides a virus scanner for us. I was running Windows XP in a virtual machine, so I grabbed the free scanner. It was a Symantec corporate style scanner thing. After going through all the settings, the scanner would still run full system scans in the background. Unfortunately, "in the background" isn't very in the background when you're running Windows XP in a virtual machine, and the VM would use as much of the CPU as possible to do a background scan.
So, I tried to uninstall it. You can't do that. You need a password. I had to manually delete all the files and registry keys manually. Months later I was having problems with 16-bit applications because Symantec had not provided complete removal instructions.
I don't want to need to worry about my ISP forcing me to use some software that will permanently damage any software installation or degrade performance while doing things unrelated to my ISP. There are enough hidden problems with ISPs already.
I've noticed some things that Adobe Acrobat Reader does not render properly.
An ActiveX control will be required to install it. The download will be slow and fail often, requiring a restart each time. Installation will take an hour after the files have been downloaded. You will not be given the option to save the installer for use on another machine. The basic installation will require three gigabytes of space. A "quick launch" application will be added to your startup list. The ability to read documents will be free, but involve advertisements and bundled software. The ability to write documents will cost an arm and a leg. It will be hard to type properly without that arm.
Adobe will tell you that Adobe Office is the ONLY office software that reads Word Documents, however the Word Document support won't be as complete as the support in Open Office.
Parallels supports automatically grabbing and releasing the mouse as you enter and leave the window, and has support for automatically changing the resolution of your VM when you change the size of the window. There is no coherence mode or 3D acceleration, but I doubt VMWare offers those features with a Linux guest either. You can hack something together with X11, ssh, and VMGL if you need it. Compiling VMGL may take a little work because the glext header on Mac OS X is too old and the linking system is different, but it is running on my computer.
There is no coherence mode for Linux, but you can use X11 to achieve a similar effect.
I just saw somebody today who's new USB hard drive started to give off a burning smell, and then ceased to be recognized by the computer. I doubt it's related though.
The javascript for the virus described at http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3063 is XORed with 0x7F. The code to decrypt it is even stored directly in the same file.
I've seen worse forms of security. There are some PHP scripts with blocks Base64 encoded so you can't remove the copyright notice.
I'm pretty sure Maxis made the original The Sims and then EA bought Maxis. The same way EA bought Bullfrog, Westwood, ...
The stored password in the registry cannot be a hash unless the authentication system on the remote end will accept the hash in place of the actual password, which is only marginally better than storing the password in plain text. Without some keychain system, the password cannot be encrypted and then decrypted again unless the decryption key is accessible to the user or the key is stored on the server, meaning that you only need the "encrypted" password to authenticate yourself. Depending on how the password is encrypted, the new password storage system could be worse than the old one.
I had an English class where the teacher forbid the use of Wikipedia because anybody could go on there and write whatever they wanted. Apparently, this is not how the internet works. All information is thoroughly checked before it appears in Google. Nobody would post biased studies or fake documentaries on the internet.
In my opinion Wikipedia is much more reliable than some random website because corrections can be made and there is more than one point of view. Besides, if you are writing a paper you should be using more than one source anyway, and if you are writing a paper just for the sake of writing, the facts don't matter anyway.