There are many things that use numbering that does not follow the idea of a huge difference between 1.x and 2.x. openSUSE is such a product. There you have SUSE (SLES and SLED) that go 9, 10, 11. openSUSE somewhat follows this numbering. Theversion before is e.g. 11.0, the numbering after it is 11.1.
These numbers have no other meaning then marketing.
So perhaps it is like this with the kernel. It is not something that is so with everything.
You login and he still has put in a nice little program in the kernel that will start to delete random files when you do this. Why do you think he stopped at just changing admin rights?
There is a lot of nasty stuff that you can do. The only thing they could do to be sure is pull the plug and boot the dives read-only from a machine that is 100% not affected thus a new install. Anything else might corrupt the data.
Also I would not trust the backup data as he might have changed that as well.
I do not bow to his guts. There is a fine but definite line between fantasy and reality. This might be YOUR data he uses to play his game.
It is not gutsy to do this. It is childish at best. And no, it doesn't matter if he might be in his right with whatever dispute he has or had. Put him in jail untill he is willing to talk.
Susan Goldin-Meadow's studies showed that deaf children across many languages and continents, when deprived of sign-language education (yes some families decide to do this), all come up with their own home-grown sign language with key syntactic elements (notably word order) which are exactly the same. Even when the language that their parents speak have different word orders. There's some hard-coded syntax for at least gestural language.
That might be, but how much is the influence of the people who DO speak and hear and interact with these deaf children? Because there is interaction with peoaple able to speak, it might still be not something hard-coded, but soft-coded.
The choice should be with the user, not with the distribution.
If I want to fill my desktop and PC with tons of software that is closed and made by Microsoft or whomever you dislike, that is MY choice. It is My PC so I do whith it what I want.
Yes, I use NVidia drivers that are closed source. Yes I have Opera running. Yes I have other software that I payed for. I use openSUSE and there I can select between an OSS and a Non-OSS. That way I can decide myself wether I want it pure or not.
The reason they did it was because some people were moaning about Non-OSS software in the distribution and that that wa s what holding SUSE (now openSUSE) back, so they changed it.
And that is were the choice should be. With the user, not with the distribution, not with some freak with a beard.
To me it is about choice and if I have a duistribution that does not give me that choice (I do not know if they exist) that that is NOT a good thing.
The iPhone 2 is for sale in Belgium for 525EUR afor the 8GB nd 615EUR for the 16GB version.
At this moment it is forbidden by law to sell them locked and with a contract. This means that Apple has pumped up the price a bit, so it can show how good it would be to have it locked and so on like in other countries.
1. We asked to be added as a mirror
2. We succeeded without the distributions doing a cavity search
3. A11 y0ur L1nux are b3l0ng t0 us!
openSUSE does the following. You are asked to be added as a mirror and they add you. However YaST (or better zypper) will point to http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/ by default which will then point you to the mirror. Then they also look if you have the latest version available or not. If not, they will not point to you untill you do. The reason is that this way they can spread the traffic among the mirrors, so that not everybody is using the same mirror, making the idea of mirrors obsolete. They also test if the mirror is up.
So there is already a big barrier to overcome. Obviously you could still make your own repository like Packman or http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0 and then see that people point there. This will need some social enginering and can be done, just as you can convice people to type in a code for a ziptfile, unpack it and then run the file inside as admin.
SSL would be nice to have, but many things are on mirrors and those mirrors run FTP or HTTP. They are most of the time not under control of the distribution.
I guess he WANTED to spend all that money and foced himself to run Windows. Otherwise he would have found the Kisosk HOWTO. Yes, very much outdated, but sill an interesting base for what you can do now. Interesting tips there.
Now it is even easier. Install Opera and run opera -kioskhelp to see what options you want. Use that instead of Netscape in the Kiosk HOWTO.
Once you have decided what parameters you want Opera to use to run, run only those things that you actualy need. Even disableling the keyboard and mouse and making the HD read-only, exept perhaps some small partition for cache and/or data users leave behind and logfiles.
If there is a network, you can write the data to another machine, so that the data is not lost when the machine is stolen. You can even connect more then one screen to the PC.
I run 2 instances of Firefox (not Windows, two seperate processes) and I am forced to use different profiles. However I want them to have the same bookmarks and addons. Now I just symlink it from one profile to another what is needs. I would be much nicer to have something that could do that on my own machine, without telling anybody else what my Pr0n preferences are.
But anything less than that, ask if it's important, if not, call them back! Big pet peeve.
I always say that when I am working. Sometimes I even just pick up with "I'm busy". The person on the other side will then most of the time say 'OK' and hang up or if it is really importand start saying what the problem is so I can decide what the priority is.
I hate it when I call people and do an explanation and at the end of it say "I will have to call you back. I am in a meeting." That is rude to me and rude to the people in the meeting. Put some key people (your boss, your wife, your parrents) in a specific meeting group and all the rest on silent when in a meeting.
I have had people in my team call me and I, not so nicely, explained that they knew I was in a meeting and NOT call me. They were a bit pissed of and said they would solve the problem themselves. RESULT! They started to actualy think instead of calling me for each and every issue.
No, I do not feel importand when I get a lot of calls. I feel importand when I can show good results with a team that thinks for themselves and can take decisions when I am not around.
When I worked at a company, I got a portable. That stayed at the office, untill I needed it ofside for work.
At an other comapny the on-call people had a Nokia Communicator. That way they could do small tasks remotely and still have the same number for an emergency for certain customers outside office hours.
If I can not be missed during my off-hours, I either am doing it wrong or they are not paying me enough or both.
Organise work so that people CAN work when you are not there. If your procedure tells you, you must contact person X, change the procedure. If you are the only person who can do something, then you need to find a way of how other people can do it who ARE working.
I understand that this will not always work in small companies, but in many cases it is. It is just that the higher management first wants to save momney and seconly uses the excuse that they themselves do it. Well, give me your pay and I will be willing to get 2 calls per week outside office hours as well.
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If you run a VM on that hidden partition, would that not be safe? You could still access your 'normal' data with anything else.
1) Boot up our system
2) Mount the hidden partition
3) Start the image of the OS you have there
There are many things that use numbering that does not follow the idea of a huge difference between 1.x and 2.x. openSUSE is such a product. There you have SUSE (SLES and SLED) that go 9, 10, 11. openSUSE somewhat follows this numbering. Theversion before is e.g. 11.0, the numbering after it is 11.1.
These numbers have no other meaning then marketing.
So perhaps it is like this with the kernel. It is not something that is so with everything.
Also there are plenty of people using not qwerty but azerty
You login and he still has put in a nice little program in the kernel that will start to delete random files when you do this. Why do you think he stopped at just changing admin rights?
There is a lot of nasty stuff that you can do. The only thing they could do to be sure is pull the plug and boot the dives read-only from a machine that is 100% not affected thus a new install. Anything else might corrupt the data.
Also I would not trust the backup data as he might have changed that as well.
Those backups would then also have the back doors installed. He had admin rights and he would have been able to temper with the backups as well.
I do not bow to his guts. There is a fine but definite line between fantasy and reality. This might be YOUR data he uses to play his game.
It is not gutsy to do this. It is childish at best. And no, it doesn't matter if he might be in his right with whatever dispute he has or had. Put him in jail untill he is willing to talk.
C? These people basically know only 0 and 1. They do not need C or any other language. They speak binary.
And the majority who do, don't care.
That might be, but how much is the influence of the people who DO speak and hear and interact with these deaf children?
Because there is interaction with peoaple able to speak, it might still be not something hard-coded, but soft-coded.
The choice should be with the user, not with the distribution.
If I want to fill my desktop and PC with tons of software that is closed and made by Microsoft or whomever you dislike, that is MY choice. It is My PC so I do whith it what I want.
Yes, I use NVidia drivers that are closed source. Yes I have Opera running. Yes I have other software that I payed for.
I use openSUSE and there I can select between an OSS and a Non-OSS. That way I can decide myself wether I want it pure or not.
The reason they did it was because some people were moaning about Non-OSS software in the distribution and that that wa s what holding SUSE (now openSUSE) back, so they changed it.
And that is were the choice should be. With the user, not with the distribution, not with some freak with a beard.
To me it is about choice and if I have a duistribution that does not give me that choice (I do not know if they exist) that that is NOT a good thing.
Why are you against a free market economy?
Oh and you know why people do this offshoring thing? Because the market want to pay less and prices for them are lower there.
a 'Soviet America' joke in there. The sad fact is that it isn't a joke anymore.
On another note:
When the governement came for p2p,
I remained silent;
I was not a p2p user
Whem the governement closed nntp,
I remained silent,
I was not a Usenet user.
When the governement came for ssh,
I remained silent,
I was not a ssh user.
When the govenement came for http,
there was no way left to speak out.
The iPhone 2 is for sale in Belgium for 525EUR afor the 8GB nd 615EUR for the 16GB version.
At this moment it is forbidden by law to sell them locked and with a contract. This means that Apple has pumped up the price a bit, so it can show how good it would be to have it locked and so on like in other countries.
Here is what to do when you are on the list and still get a call:
http://www.junkbusters.com/script.html
You may be able to sue them.
I can now just spoof a MAC adress, download as crazy and tell them it wasn't me.
With truecrypt they can't even see what I have downloaded and saved.
openSUSE does the following. You are asked to be added as a mirror and they add you. However YaST (or better zypper) will point to http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/ by default which will then point you to the mirror.
Then they also look if you have the latest version available or not. If not, they will not point to you untill you do.
The reason is that this way they can spread the traffic among the mirrors, so that not everybody is using the same mirror, making the idea of mirrors obsolete. They also test if the mirror is up.
So there is already a big barrier to overcome. Obviously you could still make your own repository like Packman or http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0 and then see that people point there. This will need some social enginering and can be done, just as you can convice people to type in a code for a ziptfile, unpack it and then run the file inside as admin.
Even easier would be to ask them to do `sudo rpm -Uvh http://example.com/hAxOr.rpm`
SSL would be nice to have, but many things are on mirrors and those mirrors run FTP or HTTP. They are most of the time not under control of the distribution.
I guess he WANTED to spend all that money and foced himself to run Windows. Otherwise he would have found the Kisosk HOWTO. Yes, very much outdated, but sill an interesting base for what you can do now. Interesting tips there.
Now it is even easier. Install Opera and run opera -kioskhelp to see what options you want. Use that instead of Netscape in the Kiosk HOWTO.
Once you have decided what parameters you want Opera to use to run, run only those things that you actualy need. Even disableling the keyboard and mouse and making the HD read-only, exept perhaps some small partition for cache and/or data users leave behind and logfiles.
If there is a network, you can write the data to another machine, so that the data is not lost when the machine is stolen. You can even connect more then one screen to the PC.
These people vote for such a law, yet they don't think it is possible that they are related to monkeys?
I run 2 instances of Firefox (not Windows, two seperate processes) and I am forced to use different profiles. However I want them to have the same bookmarks and addons. Now I just symlink it from one profile to another what is needs. I would be much nicer to have something that could do that on my own machine, without telling anybody else what my Pr0n preferences are.
And for those who think neither is usefull: http://www.gillian.co.za/images/blogposts/HatAndScarf.jpg
I always say that when I am working. Sometimes I even just pick up with "I'm busy". The person on the other side will then most of the time say 'OK' and hang up or if it is really importand start saying what the problem is so I can decide what the priority is.
I hate it when I call people and do an explanation and at the end of it say "I will have to call you back. I am in a meeting." That is rude to me and rude to the people in the meeting. Put some key people (your boss, your wife, your parrents) in a specific meeting group and all the rest on silent when in a meeting.
I have had people in my team call me and I, not so nicely, explained that they knew I was in a meeting and NOT call me. They were a bit pissed of and said they would solve the problem themselves. RESULT! They started to actualy think instead of calling me for each and every issue.
No, I do not feel importand when I get a lot of calls. I feel importand when I can show good results with a team that thinks for themselves and can take decisions when I am not around.
When I worked at a company, I got a portable. That stayed at the office, untill I needed it ofside for work.
At an other comapny the on-call people had a Nokia Communicator. That way they could do small tasks remotely and still have the same number for an emergency for certain customers outside office hours.
If I can not be missed during my off-hours, I either am doing it wrong or they are not paying me enough or both.
Organise work so that people CAN work when you are not there. If your procedure tells you, you must contact person X, change the procedure. If you are the only person who can do something, then you need to find a way of how other people can do it who ARE working.
I understand that this will not always work in small companies, but in many cases it is. It is just that the higher management first wants to save momney and seconly uses the excuse that they themselves do it. Well, give me your pay and I will be willing to get 2 calls per week outside office hours as well.
when you find a robot that can beat a human in several things.
1) Air hockey
2) Darts
3) Pool
4) Bowling
5) mini golf
6) Afterwards tie a shoelace
This all without any rebuilding of the machine or doors. Also no external help, like power.
Untill then I am not impressed if a specialy build machine is able to do a task better then a human can.