Well I'd be more along the lines of say it would run on your Dell but not any other PC. Perhaps I could expand it to "It will run on branded PC's only".
After all your branded hardware makers are churning out alot of boxes with exactly the same hardware. Isn't this essentially what Apple are doing. They are picking the hardware and only providing support for stuff on their list.
On that note I am annoyed with the iLife package. It will only write DVD's on 'Superdrives' aka DVD RW's that are on apple's list. I have a NEC DVD+-RW ND-1300 in an external firewire case (I have an old TiBook). It works under OSX, Toast dragonburn & all shell tools can use everything (even the burnproof settings, but iLife won't write to it, or even export a files for something like toast to burn the DVD.
Anyone know of a superdrive emulator for OSX, aka something that will pretend to be a superdrive and either write the files to a dir or to a dmg
With how Media player, the search tool (and who knows what else) reporting home (aka to M$) who would want this feature ?
Ok I admit that it's a nice feature. It would probably make local file searches faster, but IF it was in the OS how much traffic would be going back to redmond saying 'Hey this is the meta data of the users HDD'?
To take it s step further (and considering M$'s security record) how long would it be before the RIAA / MPAA are routinely downloading this from users and using it to go after users who have ANY MP3's or video's ?
The point I was addressing was what companies would log reboots. And that's every company which wanted to keep serious logs.
The point about the "real admin" is that for fault (or potential fault) diagnosis, short of keylogging, you log everything. That way when something does go wrong, you've atleast got a chance of figuring it out.
Yes there are other logs that you can (and would use) to trace unauthorized activity. Also not all places have pc's who's network cards support WOL, unless you're meaning the screen and HDD's power down while the system is idle in which case tey aren't really 'shut off' are they.
I think we're digressing a bit from the point that a USB HDD is a far cry from a laptop.
and just how long would you ban the IP for ? Exactly what point would that provide. You would then have a beta tester who couldn't test your product instead of cutting a 3rd party use.
We all know that you can forge whatever browser headers you want. So the easiest thing is to put some picture recognition into the login process. Software still has a problem with that
Well as soon as you allow 3rd party products to do this, the next step is for them to do the advertising and show you your mail or pipe it straight into your mail client.
Then what's the point of google hosting your mail (from google's view point) They are no longer selling you ads.
Well it's a simply registry entry to log reboots into the system log. It's much harder to log remote desktop connections.
So in answer to your question, most companies with any real admin would log it, even for the simple case of 'you say your system is unstable, but it's only rebooted once a day without any program crashes'
And exactly how many do you think would do it from a static location instead of the back of a van or similar ?
Even with a system like you suggest it's probably going to take the best part of 1 hour or more for law enforcement to show up. Then if they are lucky they will catch 1 or 2 flunkies operating the equipment. If they are unlucky they will find a van with some automated equipment that was activated via a delay loop as the guy parked and walked away.
If they wanted to get more secure why not use a cell phone as a modem into a computer controlling your equipment. Then you've got remote data feed into your equipment
The problem is most people running servers aren't compotent sysadmins. They are typically business people who lease a server. They get hit by something small then find something like portsentry. Install it, a bunch of time set the security to paranoid and then start wondering why their customers are complaining
They're actively trying to prevent me from using my iPod in the way I choose.
No, they are trying to stop Real from using their file formats. The RIAA are preventing you from using your iPod as you want to.They are the ones saying that all music content must be DRM crippled
2 is also bogus. People having problems with Real music playing on iPods will most likely call Real because they'll be using Real's solution to load music bought from Real's music store. Even if someone opts to go straight to Apple, Apple has a perfect right to direct such queries back to Real.
We all know that a large number of people will call apple and expect apple to fix any problems they have with content from real. If you've done any sort of work on any help desk you'll know this.
Apple's best response would be to cooperate or ignore. Suing Real is a direct attack on their customer base, and that's not acceptable.
To do this Real has had to reverse engineer Apple's IP for their version of AAC (The only format I know of that has DRM on an iPod).
The problem here is the RIAA only allowing DRM'd content to be sold.
I've got a bunch of mp3's from allofmp3.com that work just fine on my iPod. I don't touch WMA, but I would like to see the iPod support ogg's.
That's debateable. Not all sex within marrage (even between the 2 that are married) is with 'consent'.
There are issules like statiotary (sp?) rape. Which while it is usually with consent, it is still sex with a minor.
There's also Stockholm Syndrome to think about.
I think all in all, you're talking about a 'lets not go there' issue.
The low-price article may have individual identifying RFID data that must NOT be scanned at the checkout counter, not even after you and maybe your helper have left the store (Remember the security cameras, they could potentially match up your face at the automatic checkout with the article!). Also, again if the RFID data uniquely identifies the article another customer could take it to the automatic checkout and the system could mark the article as already sold in its database meaning you can't purchase it in lieu of the cam-corder. You must disable / destroy the low-price article's RFID tag either physically or with the forger.
So why not just swap the RFID's. You want the expensive camera, You find a cheap one that looks similar, scan it's RFID, Get your expensive one, scan it's RFID, write the cheap RFID to the expensive camera and then write the expensive RFID to the cheap camera.
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Ever tried sudo -s
it gives you a root shell
It's not restricting you to a single OS, it's restricting you from one and leaving all the others. Most other *nix will run on it.
I thought windows was never out of beta anyway
They can survive the winds just fine. It's all the other stuff in the hurricane that causes the problems, like the 1000 panels from the VAB.
Don't expect this to run on your Dell.
Well I'd be more along the lines of say it would run on your Dell but not any other PC. Perhaps I could expand it to "It will run on branded PC's only".
After all your branded hardware makers are churning out alot of boxes with exactly the same hardware. Isn't this essentially what Apple are doing. They are picking the hardware and only providing support for stuff on their list.
On that note I am annoyed with the iLife package. It will only write DVD's on 'Superdrives' aka DVD RW's that are on apple's list. I have a NEC DVD+-RW ND-1300 in an external firewire case (I have an old TiBook). It works under OSX, Toast dragonburn & all shell tools can use everything (even the burnproof settings, but iLife won't write to it, or even export a files for something like toast to burn the DVD.
Anyone know of a superdrive emulator for OSX, aka something that will pretend to be a superdrive and either write the files to a dir or to a dmg
You can't tell me that everyone there has been working on XP service packs.
You're trying to convince us that there weren't THAT many bug, security holes etc ?
With how Media player, the search tool (and who knows what else) reporting home (aka to M$) who would want this feature ?
Ok I admit that it's a nice feature. It would probably make local file searches faster, but IF it was in the OS how much traffic would be going back to redmond saying 'Hey this is the meta data of the users HDD'?
To take it s step further (and considering M$'s security record) how long would it be before the RIAA / MPAA are routinely downloading this from users and using it to go after users who have ANY MP3's or video's ?
Don't you mean $9999.99. What companies don't add the 99c.
The real question will be does that include taxes (chances are it doesn't)
The point I was addressing was what companies would log reboots. And that's every company which wanted to keep serious logs.
The point about the "real admin" is that for fault (or potential fault) diagnosis, short of keylogging, you log everything. That way when something does go wrong, you've atleast got a chance of figuring it out.
Yes there are other logs that you can (and would use) to trace unauthorized activity. Also not all places have pc's who's network cards support WOL, unless you're meaning the screen and HDD's power down while the system is idle in which case tey aren't really 'shut off' are they.
I think we're digressing a bit from the point that a USB HDD is a far cry from a laptop.
and just how long would you ban the IP for ?
Exactly what point would that provide. You would then have a beta tester who couldn't test your product instead of cutting a 3rd party use.
How do you ban some but not others ?
We all know that you can forge whatever browser headers you want. So the easiest thing is to put some picture recognition into the login process. Software still has a problem with that
Well as soon as you allow 3rd party products to do this, the next step is for them to do the advertising and show you your mail or pipe it straight into your mail client. Then what's the point of google hosting your mail (from google's view point) They are no longer selling you ads.
You forgot to point out that slackware was doing this on zipdisks how many years ago now ?
Well it's a simply registry entry to log reboots into the system log.
It's much harder to log remote desktop connections.
So in answer to your question, most companies with any real admin would log it, even for the simple case of 'you say your system is unstable, but it's only rebooted once a day without any program crashes'
And exactly how many do you think would do it from a static location instead of the back of a van or similar ?
Even with a system like you suggest it's probably going to take the best part of 1 hour or more for law enforcement to show up. Then if they are lucky they will catch 1 or 2 flunkies operating the equipment. If they are unlucky they will find a van with some automated equipment that was activated via a delay loop as the guy parked and walked away.
If they wanted to get more secure why not use a cell phone as a modem into a computer controlling your equipment. Then you've got remote data feed into your equipment
The problem is most people running servers aren't compotent sysadmins. They are typically business people who lease a server. They get hit by something small then find something like portsentry. Install it, a bunch of time set the security to paranoid and then start wondering why their customers are complaining
Most people that I've seen running Web Edition come up against 'can't run M$ SQL' before the try making it a domain controller
and there I thought one of them was the Queen of England
You forgot "Reasonable hours"
The real question is can you buy a portable player that isn't an iPod that can play AAC files (drm'd or not)?
It's not done by sharepoint is it ?
They're actively trying to prevent me from using my iPod in the way I choose.
No, they are trying to stop Real from using their file formats. The RIAA are preventing you from using your iPod as you want to.They are the ones saying that all music content must be DRM crippled
2 is also bogus. People having problems with Real music playing on iPods will most likely call Real because they'll be using Real's solution to load music bought from Real's music store. Even if someone opts to go straight to Apple, Apple has a perfect right to direct such queries back to Real.
We all know that a large number of people will call apple and expect apple to fix any problems they have with content from real. If you've done any sort of work on any help desk you'll know this.
Apple's best response would be to cooperate or ignore. Suing Real is a direct attack on their customer base, and that's not acceptable.
To do this Real has had to reverse engineer Apple's IP for their version of AAC (The only format I know of that has DRM on an iPod).
The problem here is the RIAA only allowing DRM'd content to be sold.
I've got a bunch of mp3's from allofmp3.com that work just fine on my iPod. I don't touch WMA, but I would like to see the iPod support ogg's.
Once you marry, that's consent.
That's debateable. Not all sex within marrage (even between the 2 that are married) is with 'consent'.
There are issules like statiotary (sp?) rape. Which while it is usually with consent, it is still sex with a minor.
There's also Stockholm Syndrome to think about.
I think all in all, you're talking about a 'lets not go there' issue.
And I don't think his gf will be happy when you find out what sort of birth control she's (not?) using.
The low-price article may have individual identifying RFID data that must NOT be scanned at the checkout counter, not even after you and maybe your helper have left the store (Remember the security cameras, they could potentially match up your face at the automatic checkout with the article!). Also, again if the RFID data uniquely identifies the article another customer could take it to the automatic checkout and the system could mark the article as already sold in its database meaning you can't purchase it in lieu of the cam-corder. You must disable / destroy the low-price article's RFID tag either physically or with the forger.
So why not just swap the RFID's. You want the expensive camera, You find a cheap one that looks similar, scan it's RFID, Get your expensive one, scan it's RFID, write the cheap RFID to the expensive camera and then write the expensive RFID to the cheap camera.