Hehe. I always send files to myself just so I can pull them up at work or school. I set up a filter which shows all files with attachemets, so I don't even need to flag 'em.
Actually the source code to the BIOS (but not IBM BASIC) was availbale with the manuals. THe problem wasn't *knowing* what the BIOS does, since the code was there for all to see. The problem was having your *OWN* BIOS, that wasn't tainted in any way vy IBM's version. Hence the clean-rooom reverse-engineering effort. If the developers never see IBM's code, you cannot claim infrinigement.
That, and please forget about Windows/DOS single-user mentality. Linux as a multi-user system. Have fun explaining to your significant other or parents on why their tax filing information, personal documents, letters, porn, photos and other stuff is missing simply because it was "too inconventient" for you to be like everyone else and run non-root?
Actually.... as a root you risk wiping out your system without realizing what even happened - your files are gone too, bub. As a user blowing out your home directory, you then have, as root, the possibililty of recovering your files, modulo the type of filesystem you have (ext2fs good, reiser bad). Considering I have a CVS repo set up for ALL my files, whether schoolwork or source code, I would be pissed off if I wiped out my homedir - but suicidal if I wiped out the entire contents of my disk.
You mean the software they sold before is actually good enough to pass for a release candidate?
Let's see... NT4 with SP3 was okay, but installing SP4 was a mistake, as all 3 systems that I had NT on bluescreened. After that I stopped installing NT3 SPs... supposedly SP6 is okay.
Windows 2000 was practically unusable until SP3. Windows XP was horrible without SP1 (couldn't even run it on a VIA KT266A mobo for 5 minutes without it farking up the disk), and just plain bad with SP1. With SP2 it seems almost sale-worthy, seriously.
With Microsoft, *any* piece of software developed in house is best not to be deployed in the real world until 2-3 "Service Packs" whiz by.
Well that and it's complete horseshit... you don't need to be root to change your background. You also don't need to be root to play sound, burn CDs, or download horse pr0n to your removable thumb drive - the fact that the Linspire people haven't figured out what the/etc/groups file is for, doesn't mean that what they are doing is right.
Linspire should mayhap look at Novell Linux Desktop, SuSE and Ubuntu - in ALL of these systems, you can perform system adiministration tasks as a normal user - it will prompt for the root/sudo password and let you through, but you're still not running your CLI/X session as a system user thus exposing your system to compromise, whether it be the result of malways, vulnerability or... well... stupidity.
If you run as root, you or a malicious program can hose an entire system down - whether it's malware, a badly written shellscript/makefile, PEBCAK CLI problems, or a clueless luser making more space for all that horse pr0n he/she just torrented. Is this really so hard to understand?
As a non-root user, you do *not* have the priviledges to fuck around with system files. How the hell is that a *bad* thing?
Don't want to deal with logging-in, in order to pander to Sally Sockermom and Lou Serr? Then make the system log in, by default, into a NON-ROOT account. Really, there is nothing that a person can't live without being a USER and not a SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR. Sheesh.
It's not that they "grew" more spiney.... some of them did by chance while others didn't. THose that didn't got eaten. Those taht did lived on to procreate.
The iPod stores the files in a specific layout... a database one might think... but it does so only out of convenience for it's firmware - not to annoy the consumer.
Considering that if have an iPod, you use iTunes - and thus all your media files have metadata, who gives a rats ass about the file name?
Mount the iPod - go into the music folder, and drag and drop it's contents into iTunes. Presto. What the hell are you talking about?
Don't make programs setuid! There are very few cases where setuid is required, and in almost all of those cases the programs themselves are design to drop priviledges ASAP.
Uh buddy... if I had been designing a similar system (to wipe disks), I would *not* use a computer case, not matter how well designed (yay G5 tower). A case means I need to spend time mounting the disks nside, and be possibly restricted by inside space to the amount of disks I can wipe at the same time.
I would instead go with a custom solution... with the hd connector being a huge backplane containing tens of crevices similar to the ones on an ipod dock. Theory of operation - plop interface-specific adapter onto each disk (combines the power connector and I/O - sort of like SCA on Sun machines), plop disks into docks, turn off, go get coffee.
The St.Petersburg subway system in Russia has some stations similarly decked-out (double doors). This scheme, however, was abandoned due to a number of issues -
1) The train doors would, occasionally, not line up with the platform doors. I remember a particular nasty case where one of the set of doors of the last car on some station would only line up with HALF the platform door, which made exit/entry very odd and uncomfortable.
2) The closing/opening of car and platform doors was not synced very well. There is an old case where a passenger, rushing to a train he clearly was going to miss, ended up having the platform doors closing behind him while the car doors were already closed. Imagining the small clearance between the car and platform, I can't imagine how they cleaned his viscera off the tunnel walls *shudder*.
And given that this will be done by a business, I suppose they won't choke on the ridiculous idea of buying an expen$ive, shiny Unix workstation just to trash it's OS and put an OSS alternative on it?
Sorry folks... I love Linux, I love Macs - but the last thing I will do is by an Apple TO RUN LINUX ON IT. Damn.
Here is a clue - $500 gets you an up-to-date Sempron Socket-A computer or an okay Socket 764 AMD-64 computer you can run Linux on. Fo' real, yo.
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Didn't the Cold War end about 16 years ago, bub?
Hehe. I always send files to myself just so I can pull them up at work or school. I set up a filter which shows all files with attachemets, so I don't even need to flag 'em.
Actually the source code to the BIOS (but not IBM BASIC) was availbale with the manuals. THe problem wasn't *knowing* what the BIOS does, since the code was there for all to see. The problem was having your *OWN* BIOS, that wasn't tainted in any way vy IBM's version. Hence the clean-rooom reverse-engineering effort. If the developers never see IBM's code, you cannot claim infrinigement.
Sure it wasn't Slackware 3.6?
Funny how Linux had no issues with my then-new motherboard, while Microsoft Windows XP couldn't pony it up?
That, and please forget about Windows/DOS single-user mentality. Linux as a multi-user system. Have fun explaining to your significant other or parents on why their tax filing information, personal documents, letters, porn, photos and other stuff is missing simply because it was "too inconventient" for you to be like everyone else and run non-root?
Actually.... as a root you risk wiping out your system without realizing what even happened - your files are gone too, bub. As a user blowing out your home directory, you then have, as root, the possibililty of recovering your files, modulo the type of filesystem you have (ext2fs good, reiser bad). Considering I have a CVS repo set up for ALL my files, whether schoolwork or source code, I would be pissed off if I wiped out my homedir - but suicidal if I wiped out the entire contents of my disk.
You mean the software they sold before is actually good enough to pass for a release candidate?
Let's see... NT4 with SP3 was okay, but installing SP4 was a mistake, as all 3 systems that I had NT on bluescreened. After that I stopped installing NT3 SPs... supposedly SP6 is okay.
Windows 2000 was practically unusable until SP3. Windows XP was horrible without SP1 (couldn't even run it on a VIA KT266A mobo for 5 minutes without it farking up the disk), and just plain bad with SP1. With SP2 it seems almost sale-worthy, seriously.
With Microsoft, *any* piece of software developed in house is best not to be deployed in the real world until 2-3 "Service Packs" whiz by.
Well that and it's complete horseshit... you don't need to be root to change your background. You also don't need to be root to play sound, burn CDs, or download horse pr0n to your removable thumb drive - the fact that the Linspire people haven't figured out what the /etc/groups file is for, doesn't mean that what they are doing is right.
Linspire should mayhap look at Novell Linux Desktop, SuSE and Ubuntu - in ALL of these systems, you can perform system adiministration tasks as a normal user - it will prompt for the root/sudo password and let you through, but you're still not running your CLI/X session as a system user thus exposing your system to compromise, whether it be the result of malways, vulnerability or... well... stupidity.
If you run as root, you or a malicious program can hose an entire system down - whether it's malware, a badly written shellscript/makefile, PEBCAK CLI problems, or a clueless luser making more space for all that horse pr0n he/she just torrented. Is this really so hard to understand?
As a non-root user, you do *not* have the priviledges to fuck around with system files. How the hell is that a *bad* thing?
Don't want to deal with logging-in, in order to pander to Sally Sockermom and Lou Serr? Then make the system log in, by default, into a NON-ROOT account. Really, there is nothing that a person can't live without being a USER and not a SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR. Sheesh.
Censoring BBS access? Wtf? Since when is "freedom to dialup" an adult thing?
Has a man on it? I knew it!! I knew the gubbmit had to have a secret moon base!!
Same. Hehe, probably have the same CD-ROM drive too. Mine is a Toshiba, 2x, caddy cd-rom that has been in about 10 computers since 1994. (1993?)
Constructive criticism is now "hate" for America?
Jorge Bush called. He is looking for a part time GOP lackey.
Yea mod me down as "Troll" or "Flamebait". I don't care. Truth hurts and you know it.
It's not that they "grew" more spiney.... some of them did by chance while others didn't. THose that didn't got eaten. Those taht did lived on to procreate.
if _anything_, he double the ripping and the destroying, now that he /doesn't/ need to be re-elected...
gosh GP is so naive.
+3 Obscure. +5 Funny.
The iPod stores the files in a specific layout... a database one might think... but it does so only out of convenience for it's firmware - not to annoy the consumer.
Considering that if have an iPod, you use iTunes - and thus all your media files have metadata, who gives a rats ass about the file name?
Mount the iPod - go into the music folder, and drag and drop it's contents into iTunes. Presto. What the hell are you talking about?
Psssh 'ed'? Real men use TECO ;-)
More info on TECO for those who care.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TecoEditor
http://almy.us/teco.html
Don't make programs setuid! There are very few cases where setuid is required, and in almost all of those cases the programs themselves are design to drop priviledges ASAP.
Maybe you should find someone as knowledgable as you are, maybe a friend with a CLMD5620DT-based modem, and transfer your maintaining duties to him?>
Crap... I mean turn *ON* and go get coffee :-))))
Uh buddy... if I had been designing a similar system (to wipe disks), I would *not* use a computer case, not matter how well designed (yay G5 tower). A case means I need to spend time mounting the disks nside, and be possibly restricted by inside space to the amount of disks I can wipe at the same time.
I would instead go with a custom solution... with the hd connector being a huge backplane containing tens of crevices similar to the ones on an ipod dock. Theory of operation - plop interface-specific adapter onto each disk (combines the power connector and I/O - sort of like SCA on Sun machines), plop disks into docks, turn off, go get coffee.
The St.Petersburg subway system in Russia has some stations similarly decked-out (double doors). This scheme, however, was abandoned due to a number of issues - 1) The train doors would, occasionally, not line up with the platform doors. I remember a particular nasty case where one of the set of doors of the last car on some station would only line up with HALF the platform door, which made exit/entry very odd and uncomfortable. 2) The closing/opening of car and platform doors was not synced very well. There is an old case where a passenger, rushing to a train he clearly was going to miss, ended up having the platform doors closing behind him while the car doors were already closed. Imagining the small clearance between the car and platform, I can't imagine how they cleaned his viscera off the tunnel walls *shudder*.
And given that this will be done by a business, I suppose they won't choke on the ridiculous idea of buying an expen$ive, shiny Unix workstation just to trash it's OS and put an OSS alternative on it?
Sorry folks... I love Linux, I love Macs - but the last thing I will do is by an Apple TO RUN LINUX ON IT. Damn.
Here is a clue - $500 gets you an up-to-date Sempron Socket-A computer or an okay Socket 764 AMD-64 computer you can run Linux on. Fo' real, yo.