At least, if you keep documentation... after I reformatted my hard drive (intentionally, but still), I made a vow to always take copious notes when setting stuff up. And it makes for good HOW-TOs, too!
Yeah, and if you don't have any computer experience, you may think your mouse is a microphone or foot pedal, your CD drive is a drink holder, your "desktop" is the thing your monitor is on, your "CPU" or "hard drive" is the big boxy thing...
At least with CLI, Grandma could call me up and I could say, "type 'startx', no spaces, then hit 'Enter'" more easily than I could say, "now, right-click on your desktop... now what do you see? No, you were supposed to right-click... ok, I'll drive down and fix it for you".
1.) Apt works not just for debian packages, but for rpms, and can be installed on Fedora.
2.) If you want that, it's easily done with a few config file edits.
3.) I can't remember the last time I couldn't find an RPM. Or just built one myself using developer-supplied Specs files. Debian's system has everything (or so I've heard). And you can always compile a program, or roll your own binary package very easily.
In the original thread, someone said "mount - only root can do that" and the reply said to man fstab. I guess I missed the post in the middle saying "how do I fix that". So my reply was a sarcastic reference to "man fstab".
I agree that it'd be expensive and only serve to buck the system. But:
a.) So I can walk around my room without tripping over cables, so I can walk in and out of my room w/o unplugging, or 'cuz I use wireless everywhere else and I don't want to also have cables to deal with.
b.) If you have your own service, who cares? Walk outside if you want campus service. If enough people do it, though, and they block someone *else*'s service, then there'd be problems. It does raise issues with cellphone usage, though.
c.) No argument here. Perhaps you could get anti-wifi wall hangings?
Yes. Because of the whole "you can't make it perfectly secure" thing. Thus, from the defender's point of view (ICC or Yahoo!), [cost of broken security] > [cost of implementing security], all is well. If, from the attacker's point of view, [reward of breaking security]
A special case of this is the "don't run faster than the bear - run faster than the slowest guy you're with" - if the bear doesn't get anything to reward him (her?) for running past the slowest guy in order to get you, then he (she?) won't, and thus, you're safe.
Y'might want to rethink your choice of words... until I clicked the link, I thought you meant idiots^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeople thought pics of SSC blowing up were Armageddon (as in, a vision of the end of the universe).
Ah, but if he PD'd it or GPL/FDL'd it, he still couldn't distribute it... and the fact that *anyone* could then distribute F911 would probably violate his contract with Lion's Gate. He would've had to PD/GPL/FDL it *first*, then get Lion's Gate to distribute it... which would've been pretty dang hard.
The iPod thing is stupid, yeah (unless they do end up using 'em in some way, which I doubt). OTOH, the Napster thing may help save the college from lawsuits, and protect students from (sometimes) groundless accusations by the RIAA.
... if gold ruste, what shal iren doo?
For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste,
No wonder is a lewed man to ruste;
And shame it is, if a prest take keep,
A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep.
From Canterbury Tales. But at least Chaucer was consistent - Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.
Better question is how come that money isn't spent equally on diverse platforms (i.e. Mac, Linux, Sun, whatever). Instead, MS buys out the entire college.
I don't know about non-engineering labs, but in the comp. labs on UMich's engineering campus, every single computer dual-boots a Windows (XP or 2000) and a Linux (Bluehat? Their custom-branded Redhat.) I believe even the library computers on North Campus do this. I would be quite surprised and annoyed if the school I went to didn't have at least one lab with Unix or Mac computers, and preferably equal numbers - at least in the Engineering labs.
Hibbert: [chuckles] Your playing days are over, my friend. But, you can always fall back on your degree in... [reads chart] communications!? Oh, dear Lord! Lubchenko: I know! Is phony major. Lubchenko learn nothing. Nothing! [cries]
Oh, and guess where the full-ride scholarships go? Yup, football. Which is part of why one of my favorite schools is my favorite - no football team:)
In part, yeah... but it's also supply and demand. College is no longer only for the intellectually inclined... it's for everyone who's middle-class or upper-class, and for a lot of poorer kids as well. Thus, colleges are able to stratify, both based on how much you can pay and how smart you are. (A lot of these cheaper schools didn't exist a few decades ago).
Lifespan begins from the time it's granted. Specifically, because I recall hearing someone argue (quite rightly) that a simple way of eliminating submarine patents would be to make the patent date from the date of submission. Looking it up, officially the 20 year period begins from the filing date of the first application, but can be extended by a given length of time, based on how long it took to be approved.
IIRC, this is why many things are marked "patent pending" - that gives it legal protections similar to having the product already patented.
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At least, if you keep documentation ... after I reformatted my hard drive (intentionally, but still), I made a vow to always take copious notes when setting stuff up. And it makes for good HOW-TOs, too!
Why not use yum/Gyum to organize RPMs? Or apt-get, since you like it so much? What is so pathetic about RPM?
Yeah, yeah, IHBT, IHL, HAND.
Yeah, and if you don't have any computer experience, you may think your mouse is a microphone or foot pedal, your CD drive is a drink holder, your "desktop" is the thing your monitor is on, your "CPU" or "hard drive" is the big boxy thing ...
... now what do you see? No, you were supposed to right-click ... ok, I'll drive down and fix it for you".
At least with CLI, Grandma could call me up and I could say, "type 'startx', no spaces, then hit 'Enter'" more easily than I could say, "now, right-click on your desktop
1.) Apt works not just for debian packages, but for rpms, and can be installed on Fedora.
2.) If you want that, it's easily done with a few config file edits.
3.) I can't remember the last time I couldn't find an RPM. Or just built one myself using developer-supplied Specs files. Debian's system has everything (or so I've heard). And you can always compile a program, or roll your own binary package very easily.
Once you've learned vi[m], if you still want a GUI, use jEdit. All sorts of nice features for programmers & sysadmins.
I think you misspelled daemons. After all, we wouldn't want to admit to using Windows on Slashdot, would we?
In the original thread, someone said "mount - only root can do that" and the reply said to man fstab. I guess I missed the post in the middle saying "how do I fix that". So my reply was a sarcastic reference to "man fstab".
Jeez. Next time my sarcasm won't be so subtle.
I think I need that patch - where can I get it? You *are* talking about the one where I can edit fstab w/o being root, right?
I agree that it'd be expensive and only serve to buck the system. But:
a.) So I can walk around my room without tripping over cables, so I can walk in and out of my room w/o unplugging, or 'cuz I use wireless everywhere else and I don't want to also have cables to deal with.
b.) If you have your own service, who cares? Walk outside if you want campus service. If enough people do it, though, and they block someone *else*'s service, then there'd be problems. It does raise issues with cellphone usage, though.
c.) No argument here. Perhaps you could get anti-wifi wall hangings?
That'd be like calling a new BMW a "carrying case" for an iPod (with an extra pocket for an optional GPS!). Who wrote the article summary?
Yes. Because of the whole "you can't make it perfectly secure" thing. Thus, from the defender's point of view (ICC or Yahoo!), [cost of broken security] > [cost of implementing security], all is well. If, from the attacker's point of view, [reward of breaking security]
A special case of this is the "don't run faster than the bear - run faster than the slowest guy you're with" - if the bear doesn't get anything to reward him (her?) for running past the slowest guy in order to get you, then he (she?) won't, and thus, you're safe.
Or just nuke the damn thing to prevent contamination. I mean, you never know what's going to slip over the border.
Y'might want to rethink your choice of words ... until I clicked the link, I thought you meant idiots^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeople thought pics of SSC blowing up were Armageddon (as in, a vision of the end of the universe).
Ah, but if he PD'd it or GPL/FDL'd it, he still couldn't distribute it ... and the fact that *anyone* could then distribute F911 would probably violate his contract with Lion's Gate. He would've had to PD/GPL/FDL it *first*, then get Lion's Gate to distribute it ... which would've been pretty dang hard.
Moore said he doesn't care ... but I'm pretty sure Lion's Gate Films does, and they're the ones with (sole?) distribution rights.
Agreed, but DS9 was pretty good. Not as good as TOS and TNG, but decent in most episodes, good in quite a few.
That may actually be relevant. "Only goin' forward, cuz [they] can't find reverse" - or the brakes, for that matter.
The iPod thing is stupid, yeah (unless they do end up using 'em in some way, which I doubt). OTOH, the Napster thing may help save the college from lawsuits, and protect students from (sometimes) groundless accusations by the RIAA.
Exactly. Case in point:
... if gold ruste, what shal iren doo?
For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste,
No wonder is a lewed man to ruste;
And shame it is, if a prest take keep,
A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep.
From Canterbury Tales. But at least Chaucer was consistent - Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.
Better question is how come that money isn't spent equally on diverse platforms (i.e. Mac, Linux, Sun, whatever). Instead, MS buys out the entire college.
I don't know about non-engineering labs, but in the comp. labs on UMich's engineering campus, every single computer dual-boots a Windows (XP or 2000) and a Linux (Bluehat? Their custom-branded Redhat.) I believe even the library computers on North Campus do this. I would be quite surprised and annoyed if the school I went to didn't have at least one lab with Unix or Mac computers, and preferably equal numbers - at least in the Engineering labs.
Hibbert: [chuckles] Your playing days are over, my friend. But, you can always fall back on your degree in ... [reads chart] communications!? Oh, dear Lord!
:)
Lubchenko: I know! Is phony major. Lubchenko learn nothing. Nothing! [cries]
Oh, and guess where the full-ride scholarships go? Yup, football. Which is part of why one of my favorite schools is my favorite - no football team
In part, yeah ... but it's also supply and demand. College is no longer only for the intellectually inclined ... it's for everyone who's middle-class or upper-class, and for a lot of poorer kids as well. Thus, colleges are able to stratify, both based on how much you can pay and how smart you are. (A lot of these cheaper schools didn't exist a few decades ago).
"'Scuse me, salesdroid, can this mobo boot off a GMail drive?"
Lifespan begins from the time it's granted. Specifically, because I recall hearing someone argue (quite rightly) that a simple way of eliminating submarine patents would be to make the patent date from the date of submission. Looking it up, officially the 20 year period begins from the filing date of the first application, but can be extended by a given length of time, based on how long it took to be approved.
IIRC, this is why many things are marked "patent pending" - that gives it legal protections similar to having the product already patented.