Alternatively, only drop a session tracking ID by cookie then maintain session expiry data on the server. With this it's possible to also do things like hostmask matching, so if the hostmask of the machine sending the session doesn't match one on the database, the password can be asked for again as verification.
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Much as I hate to respond to the trolls, yes I have administered a Windows system. I happened to find the Windos group policies, file ownership, file permissions (execute, read, write, modify etc) over Active Directory a fairly efficient way of controlling the permissions of around 1300 users with hugely varied needs over some 200 terminals across two sites.
However, I agree with your point about stock Dell boxes not being bulletproof. <sarcastic_tone> Of course, the Ubuntu CD managed to install a completely secure and totally configured environment on my machine without requiring me to know anything about what it was asking me. </sarcastic_tone> Yes, Windows has issues but Linux or Unix is not a mystically secure-by-default solution.
Both security models are fairly sane as far as I am concerned, but I'm afraid Windows wins hands-down for me in terms of networked permissions.
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Umm... used Windows lately? As in a properly configured Windows?
My school (of all places) has totally replaced its PBX with a Cisco VoIP network, and are in the process of installing WiFi over the entire site. Once this is done, all the IT techs are moving to the Cisco WiFi VoIP phones as opposed to the networked desk phones.
Not quite *, but a definate improvement over PBX. Even better, they plan to ditch our current PoS ISP and let 6th Form students and staff freeload off the network. Finally a way to VPN my laptop out to home from school short of stealing a network socket, forging a MAC address, and tunnelling everything through port 80.
Not sure how staff will deal with me recieving phone calls on my PDA though. Could be fun.
Minor point here, but surely making the BIOS FOSS won't exactly help matters? Admittedly it probably won't make them worse, but how is it supposed to make them better?
"Dismissing this as just "something that goes with progress" suggests that we need not learn from our mistakes, since it's okay if we mess up every now and then."
Ey? Mistakes go with progress. They allow you to find a flaw and correct it. What you're basically saying is that it's possible to progress with nothing going wrong, which any engineer will tell you is a load of bollocks.
The difference is, many of these systems are very simple and designed to do one thing well, without fail, with multiple redundancy.
The flight surface control system on a 767 isn't the same one which runs the in-flight entertainment. It is a specifically designed mathematical logic system which does what it's told, when it's told, and nothing more. Should part of it fail, a seperate system detects that part of it failed and routes the control through another system. If all else fails, there's another system which basically exists to hard-wire the controls into their respective control surfaces regardless of any other computer saying that the plane should be climbing/descending/turning/bursting into flames.
Diebold uses Microsoft Access, which despite being a reasonably powerful database also happens to implement a general purpose execution system into it and run on general purpose hardware.
Possibly. I use Exchange 2003 SP2 and Windows Mobile 5, and to be honest I can't tell if it's pushing or pulling. I believe there's an option for explicit push somewhere, but I'd have to look through the manual (I've still got it no further than the test lab, sorry).
To be perfectly honest, I'd put the Offline Mode of Windows Mobile 5 above Push capability, especially since it works so much in the background that on a test system I got mails within 30 seconds of sending them. If the link dropped, I could keep working with virtually no impairment (I didn't even realise until I tried something obscure) and then reconnect smoothly. However, I can't speak for devices with limited bandwith (GPRS etc) so you may need to do some more research in this area.
I disagree with some points there. Upcoming IPv6 priority headers are part of the spec and should be honoured. This means if a packet comes through with a high priority header it should be given that priority. This doesn't take common carrier status, it's simply following the spec and the switches passively obey the headers.
However, explicitly analysing packets looking for "google.com" and then setting them to higher priority, or looking for "generickiddiepornsite.com" and blocking them, *does* strip them of common carrier because they are actively monitoring traffic and altering its content or delivery based on its original content.
For example, mobile phone operators in the UK at least (US may vary) have to follow rules about allowing numbers emergency operation and bandwidth priority. This doesn't take common carrier since it's part of how the system works, but allocating priority to any text saying "BEGIN JIHAD FOR HONOUR OF ALLAH" would remove that common carrier since they pay attention to content (Note - services used e.g. via WAP are not covered in this, because that requested data is not a direct part of the network carrying the data).
Mind boggling, huh? I'd just wait for a lawyer to drop in.
That was my bad - I meant to put "Lilo & Stitch Series". I agree with you that the film was by no means as abysmal as others, and agree even more so that Treasure Planet was ruined entirely.
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They *used* to employ people to hand-draw cartoons. They used to be bloody good quality too, just take a look at something like Beauty and the Beast. Then compare it to Tarzan or Lilo & Stitch, and you'll see that Disney clearly no longer employ as much talent as they did before.
Linux sometimes falls over, it's known as a fact of life. My Windows 2003 server hit its 9th month of solid uptime yesterday. All OSes are perfectly capable of long uptime, and equally capable of crashing spectacularly. Deal with it.
Generally speaking, sharing any connection is best achieved with an external router and not via a computer. That way if your Gentoo machine falls over or you need to reboot, it won't take out the connection for everyone else. YMMV.
Bicycle tyres have been available for some time with a self-repairing goo. So, the outermost shell of the spacecraft (the rubber of the tyre) can absorb minor nicks and scratches, but as soon as it is punctured and damages the inner shell (the 'goo' in the tyre) the inner shell oozes out and seals the damage in the outer shell...
Sort of. We (Yes, we. Flame me if you must prove unaccepting of other world views) believe that the soul which carries the actual 'person' bit of the person doesn't need a physical 'body' per-se to be resurrected in the next life.
As far as I am aware there is no Christian requirement for whole burial, since the story of Revelations will likely rip up the first 7 feet of soil anyway. For a real intact body requirement, try various Ancient Egyptian belief systems.
Hunchback was acceptable, it really began to fail around that time though. Pocahontas etc were wavering considerably, then by Tarzan it had dropped to poorly-animated part-computerised crud backed by Phil Collins.
Lion King... now that's a movie which should live forever. The stage version ain't half bad either.
Depends. An error caused by a lull in the floor management sensor inputs (A cable failing, for example) could cause the IMS to order an entire allocated budget's worth of foreign products. This would cause a massive outgoing from the economy to another country, so GWB would declare nuclear war since America's own economy had collapsed.
A bit far-fetched, but theoretically possible. If you bend theory a bit.
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Alternatively, only drop a session tracking ID by cookie then maintain session expiry data on the server. With this it's possible to also do things like hostmask matching, so if the hostmask of the machine sending the session doesn't match one on the database, the password can be asked for again as verification.
Much as I hate to respond to the trolls, yes I have administered a Windows system. I happened to find the Windos group policies, file ownership, file permissions (execute, read, write, modify etc) over Active Directory a fairly efficient way of controlling the permissions of around 1300 users with hugely varied needs over some 200 terminals across two sites.
However, I agree with your point about stock Dell boxes not being bulletproof. <sarcastic_tone> Of course, the Ubuntu CD managed to install a completely secure and totally configured environment on my machine without requiring me to know anything about what it was asking me. </sarcastic_tone> Yes, Windows has issues but Linux or Unix is not a mystically secure-by-default solution.
Both security models are fairly sane as far as I am concerned, but I'm afraid Windows wins hands-down for me in terms of networked permissions.
Umm... used Windows lately? As in a properly configured Windows?
The security model does that one already.
We need a "-1 Bad Taste" moderation.
My school (of all places) has totally replaced its PBX with a Cisco VoIP network, and are in the process of installing WiFi over the entire site. Once this is done, all the IT techs are moving to the Cisco WiFi VoIP phones as opposed to the networked desk phones.
Not quite *, but a definate improvement over PBX. Even better, they plan to ditch our current PoS ISP and let 6th Form students and staff freeload off the network. Finally a way to VPN my laptop out to home from school short of stealing a network socket, forging a MAC address, and tunnelling everything through port 80.
Not sure how staff will deal with me recieving phone calls on my PDA though. Could be fun.
Minor point here, but surely making the BIOS FOSS won't exactly help matters? Admittedly it probably won't make them worse, but how is it supposed to make them better?
"Dismissing this as just "something that goes with progress" suggests that we need not learn from our mistakes, since it's okay if we mess up every now and then."
Ey? Mistakes go with progress. They allow you to find a flaw and correct it. What you're basically saying is that it's possible to progress with nothing going wrong, which any engineer will tell you is a load of bollocks.
To not put too fine a point on it, yes. You do.
The difference is, many of these systems are very simple and designed to do one thing well, without fail, with multiple redundancy.
The flight surface control system on a 767 isn't the same one which runs the in-flight entertainment. It is a specifically designed mathematical logic system which does what it's told, when it's told, and nothing more. Should part of it fail, a seperate system detects that part of it failed and routes the control through another system. If all else fails, there's another system which basically exists to hard-wire the controls into their respective control surfaces regardless of any other computer saying that the plane should be climbing/descending/turning/bursting into flames.
Diebold uses Microsoft Access, which despite being a reasonably powerful database also happens to implement a general purpose execution system into it and run on general purpose hardware.
The two are simply not the same.
Possibly. I use Exchange 2003 SP2 and Windows Mobile 5, and to be honest I can't tell if it's pushing or pulling. I believe there's an option for explicit push somewhere, but I'd have to look through the manual (I've still got it no further than the test lab, sorry).
To be perfectly honest, I'd put the Offline Mode of Windows Mobile 5 above Push capability, especially since it works so much in the background that on a test system I got mails within 30 seconds of sending them. If the link dropped, I could keep working with virtually no impairment (I didn't even realise until I tried something obscure) and then reconnect smoothly. However, I can't speak for devices with limited bandwith (GPRS etc) so you may need to do some more research in this area.
Could you imagine having to deal with haircuts from every decade from the 80s?
I disagree with some points there. Upcoming IPv6 priority headers are part of the spec and should be honoured. This means if a packet comes through with a high priority header it should be given that priority. This doesn't take common carrier status, it's simply following the spec and the switches passively obey the headers.
However, explicitly analysing packets looking for "google.com" and then setting them to higher priority, or looking for "generickiddiepornsite.com" and blocking them, *does* strip them of common carrier because they are actively monitoring traffic and altering its content or delivery based on its original content.
For example, mobile phone operators in the UK at least (US may vary) have to follow rules about allowing numbers emergency operation and bandwidth priority. This doesn't take common carrier since it's part of how the system works, but allocating priority to any text saying "BEGIN JIHAD FOR HONOUR OF ALLAH" would remove that common carrier since they pay attention to content (Note - services used e.g. via WAP are not covered in this, because that requested data is not a direct part of the network carrying the data).
Mind boggling, huh? I'd just wait for a lawyer to drop in.
That was my bad - I meant to put "Lilo & Stitch Series". I agree with you that the film was by no means as abysmal as others, and agree even more so that Treasure Planet was ruined entirely.
At least it prevents goatse.xxx
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"Can someone tell me how I can share my internet connection on my gentoo box with other computers?"
They *used* to employ people to hand-draw cartoons. They used to be bloody good quality too, just take a look at something like Beauty and the Beast. Then compare it to Tarzan or Lilo & Stitch, and you'll see that Disney clearly no longer employ as much talent as they did before.
Woah, you made me a foe over that?
Linux sometimes falls over, it's known as a fact of life. My Windows 2003 server hit its 9th month of solid uptime yesterday. All OSes are perfectly capable of long uptime, and equally capable of crashing spectacularly. Deal with it.
Generally speaking, sharing any connection is best achieved with an external router and not via a computer. That way if your Gentoo machine falls over or you need to reboot, it won't take out the connection for everyone else. YMMV.
Bicycle tyres have been available for some time with a self-repairing goo. So, the outermost shell of the spacecraft (the rubber of the tyre) can absorb minor nicks and scratches, but as soon as it is punctured and damages the inner shell (the 'goo' in the tyre) the inner shell oozes out and seals the damage in the outer shell...
Make it double-layered and you're on to a winner.
Sort of. We (Yes, we. Flame me if you must prove unaccepting of other world views) believe that the soul which carries the actual 'person' bit of the person doesn't need a physical 'body' per-se to be resurrected in the next life.
As far as I am aware there is no Christian requirement for whole burial, since the story of Revelations will likely rip up the first 7 feet of soil anyway. For a real intact body requirement, try various Ancient Egyptian belief systems.
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Nah. I thought more "Wailey wailey"
Interesting analogy, but is the size of the layer proportional to total funding or inversely proportional to the skills required?
Hunchback was acceptable, it really began to fail around that time though. Pocahontas etc were wavering considerably, then by Tarzan it had dropped to poorly-animated part-computerised crud backed by Phil Collins.
Lion King... now that's a movie which should live forever. The stage version ain't half bad either.
It does. WPM 10 has native music store support, backed with PlaysForSure and the Janus DRM system.
Luckily, the interface seems like it was designed by monkeys on crack and nobody in their right mind wants to use it.
Depends. An error caused by a lull in the floor management sensor inputs (A cable failing, for example) could cause the IMS to order an entire allocated budget's worth of foreign products. This would cause a massive outgoing from the economy to another country, so GWB would declare nuclear war since America's own economy had collapsed.
A bit far-fetched, but theoretically possible. If you bend theory a bit.