"Umm, I don't want to, since it disables some pretty nice services I use..."
The scenario has you in a hostile environment. It is untrusted. You shouldn't want to expose anything except the bare minimum. Save the "nice" services for when you are on a trusted network. I don't want 3rd party.
"Based on this, I'd say that several major issues with the Application Firewall have been addressed."
So what do you do when you're at Starbucks with your PowerBook and you want to ensure that *ALL* connections are closed except TCP, ports (80, 443)? Maybe you would like to quickly change your settings to this scenario in a nice GUI without having to writing new ipfw rules you can't remember off the top of your head while sipping your quad latte.
You can put a IDE Flash disk into a Soekris net4801 too. I've done that. That saves the burden of installing on to a CF. I always have a DMZ on my networks so I need the 3rd network port. Plus I put a encryption accelerator card in the Soekris too. Their boxes have worked well for me. But, of course, YMMV.
"The current Mac Minis are useless as dedicated firewalls as they only have one NIC."
The Fit PC doesn't make a great router/firewall either. It has a hard drive. Something that wears out. For 24/7 operation a compact flash solution like on a Soekris box is better for this role. Plus you get more ports, is expandable with a 3.3V PCI and Mini PCI. And most of the Soekris boxes cost less than the Fit PC too.
"There is one good thing that comes out of this: collaboration between BSD and Linux developers on wireless drivers."
Let's hope. I'd like to see 802.11g in host AP mode and better performance in lossy and long range conditions in the OBSD ath(4) driver. Maybe the Linux guys can improve this and it gets back to OBSD.
"What will happen to the grammatical, pronunciation, and spelling differences between British English and American English (as well as others)?"
It will evolve and change with the times. For example, my English book listed the following rule: No colons after the verbs "is, are, was and were". When I pointed it out to my college professor examples that broke this rule all over the place, her response was, "Well, that's changing". wtf, changing? How can it be a rule if it can change, I wondered. Moral of the story. English is what a bunch of high-brows says it is.
"I think you do not actually want to put linux on it, i think that the issue here is that the iPod is linux supported, meaning that you can transfer music from and to your linux desktop."
From TFA: "Note: You will need to do the process of getting the hash on your iTunesDB every time you even so much as change a song name, or upload new music or video files."
You have to apply the hack each time? It doesn't sound too convenient just yet.
Significant figures! If a = acceleration due to gravity, how accurate do you know that, I wonder? If you only know it to, say, 6 significant figures, you will not know the change in mass anymore accurate than that no matter how accurate you know the force.
"No matter how much I personally might like OO, if I can't open a Word 2003 document in OO from a client the way that it's supposed to be viewed, I'm going to have a problem."
De facto standard or not no matter how much I personally might like MS Office, if I cant open an ODF document in Word 2003 from a client the way that it's supposed to be viewed, I'm going to have a problem.
You expect OO.o to be 100% compatible? Is there something about secret, proprietary file formats that you don't understand?
"Have you every tried to submit a resume in.txt format? "
An interesting note on that. At work, Google advertised on our Python mailing list for resumes. They specifically requested the resume be in a "plain text" format. My first thought was a.txt file but then I thought a XHTML with its CSS in the document with style for both screen and print media types would provide a more attractive resume and still be "plain text". So in a rare instance, yes, you can submit a resume in "plain text".
Is this the same doublclick that gets special treatment in my/etc/hosts file? $ sudo cat/etc/hosts |grep doubleclick 127.0.0.1 www.doubleclick.com 127.0.0.1 www2.doubleclick.com 127.0.0.1 ww3.doubleclick.com 127.0.0.1 www.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.com 127.0.0.1 ad.us..doubleclick.com...
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"Umm, I don't want to, since it disables some pretty nice services I use..." The scenario has you in a hostile environment. It is untrusted. You shouldn't want to expose anything except the bare minimum. Save the "nice" services for when you are on a trusted network. I don't want 3rd party.
"Based on this, I'd say that several major issues with the Application Firewall have been addressed."
So what do you do when you're at Starbucks with your PowerBook and you want to ensure that *ALL* connections are closed except TCP, ports (80, 443)? Maybe you would like to quickly change your settings to this scenario in a nice GUI without having to writing new ipfw rules you can't remember off the top of your head while sipping your quad latte.
You can put a IDE Flash disk into a Soekris net4801 too. I've done that. That saves the burden of installing on to a CF. I always have a DMZ on my networks so I need the 3rd network port. Plus I put a encryption accelerator card in the Soekris too. Their boxes have worked well for me. But, of course, YMMV.
"The current Mac Minis are useless as dedicated firewalls as they only have one NIC."
The Fit PC doesn't make a great router/firewall either. It has a hard drive. Something that wears out. For 24/7 operation a compact flash solution like on a Soekris box is better for this role. Plus you get more ports, is expandable with a 3.3V PCI and Mini PCI. And most of the Soekris boxes cost less than the Fit PC too.
"Not if you're on a budget."
Then you could buy a MacMini on e-bay for just a little more than the Fit PC.
And this is most likely the infringing code Microsoft will find:
"There is one good thing that comes out of this: collaboration between BSD and Linux developers on wireless drivers."
Let's hope. I'd like to see 802.11g in host AP mode and better performance in lossy and long range conditions in the OBSD ath(4) driver. Maybe the Linux guys can improve this and it gets back to OBSD.
"What will happen to the grammatical, pronunciation, and spelling differences between British English and American English (as well as others)?"
It will evolve and change with the times. For example, my English book listed the following rule: No colons after the verbs "is, are, was and were". When I pointed it out to my college professor examples that broke this rule all over the place, her response was, "Well, that's changing". wtf, changing? How can it be a rule if it can change, I wondered. Moral of the story. English is what a bunch of high-brows says it is.
"UMG is pissed..."
Maybe because now they know how the artist's feel when the middle man gouges you.
I think the GP post point is that Win2k was good enough for the "average user" back then. In the year 2026, we'll all be calling Vista of 2007 a POS.
"I think you do not actually want to put linux on it, i think that the issue here is that the iPod is linux supported, meaning that you can transfer music from and to your linux desktop."
From TFA:
"Note: You will need to do the process of getting the hash on your iTunesDB every time you even so much as change a song name, or upload new music or video files."
You have to apply the hack each time? It doesn't sound too convenient just yet.
"If you want to actually listen to the music the way it was intended to be, put Rockbox on it."
From Rockbox web site:
"Rockbox is an open source firmware for mp3 players, written from scratch. It runs on a wide range of players:
Apple: iPod 3rd gen, 4th gen (grayscale and color), 5th/5.5th gen (video), iPod Mini and 1st gen iPod Nano (not the 2nd gen Nano)"
Does this mean you're currently SOL for the new releases of the iPod line?
"m=f/a"
Significant figures! If a = acceleration due to gravity, how accurate do you know that, I wonder? If you only know it to, say, 6 significant figures, you will not know the change in mass anymore accurate than that no matter how accurate you know the force.
"Making a backup copy of a DVD that *I own* is very much Fair Use."
True, but you would be circumventing the encryption scheme which now violates the DMCA that is also "protecting" that content.
"No matter how much I personally might like OO, if I can't open a Word 2003 document in OO from a client the way that it's supposed to be viewed, I'm going to have a problem."
De facto standard or not no matter how much I personally might like MS Office, if I cant open an ODF document in Word 2003 from a client the way that it's supposed to be viewed, I'm going to have a problem.
You expect OO.o to be 100% compatible? Is there something about secret, proprietary file formats that you don't understand?
According to the VideoDownloader extension it says:
Sites supported:
Youtube, Google Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Myspace, Angry Alien, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Badjojo, Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, eVideoShare, EVTV1, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Grinvi, Grouper, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace Video Code, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Putfile, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, TotallyCrap, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, Vimeo, vSocial, Yikers, ZippyVideos... and any other webpage with embedded objects.
"Firefox extension called DownloadHelper..."
Do you know how that compares to the VideoDownloader extension?
"Since the host OS is MS; the government can always log into his box via terminal services and check the apps he has installed."
That assumes they also have control of his gateway firewall/router (if he has one) that should be blocking TCP, port 3389 or whatever it is.
"As bad as Windows is, it works."
Well, apparently, it just doesn't work for everybody. Isn't that what the PC Magazine editor is saying in TFA?
"What, like five percent?"
According to Danny himself:
"Once I installed the AdBlock shield script on my article directory, my revenues doubled."
So, it seems, half of his visitors are blocking ads?
"I just wish I could find a small embedded device using *any* architecture that wasn't very expensive..."
What is your idea of expensive? Soekris has a range of products for what you want. The low end is ~$185 USD for Mobo + case + power supply.
"Have you every tried to submit a resume in .txt format? "
.txt file but then I thought a XHTML with its CSS in the document with style for both screen and print media types would provide a more attractive resume and still be "plain text". So in a rare instance, yes, you can submit a resume in "plain text".
An interesting note on that. At work, Google advertised on our Python mailing list for resumes. They specifically requested the resume be in a "plain text" format. My first thought was a
You're right. But it's a habit.
Actually, that was OSX.
"Your thoughts?"
/etc/hosts file?
/etc/hosts |grep doubleclick ...
Is this the same doublclick that gets special treatment in my
$ sudo cat
127.0.0.1 www.doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 www2.doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 ww3.doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 www.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 ad.us..doubleclick.com