Thanks for the link, I was going to put a bit saying exactly the same in mine then forgot about it entirely.
There is also a beta IPv6 deployment pack for the Windows 2000 platform, but Microsoft seem to have removed it from the obvious places. If I find it, I'll let you know.
Nope. The whole of Google's mystical advertising knowledge is built *entirely* on statistical analysis of their data. It just so happens that certain combinations of words have become associated with certain products or areas.
Even AdSense's precision is built on what ads people clicked when the page's content was x/y/x, which is why occasionally you see adverts with little or no relevance. The fact they are not clicked on weighs against them in that particular content's category (Which again is put together through PageRank and analysis of page content).
My BIOS has a boot-sector virus guardy thing on it, which is updated whenever the BIOS is reflashed. Perhaps an antivirus/spyware/rootkit detector could be built into the motherboard?
Since more and more internet connections come over an RJ45 straight from the modem, or a wireless network, could the motherboard not switch into a 'self update' mode when the PC is off, which would connect to an update server (Since it doesn't need to involve the OS), grab the latest definitions, flash the antivirus with the new definitions, and then power down. BIOS updates could be included with this as well.
Since power buttons on modern PCs are nothing more than a hint to the BIOS that the user hit the button anyway, and the motherboard always takes power in some form, surely it could automatically start the PSU without involving booting the disks? It kicks in its own update system, downloads the updates (since it's an always-on connection), installs them and then shuts down.
Start with yourself. Install an IPv6 stack and start using IPv6 servers (Such as for IRC) wherever possible. The 6-to-4 routing can be dealt with on your end (Usually without you needing to change anything awkward) and through one of many open 4-to-6 bridges on the other end. Eventually your IP will notice more and more IPv6 traffic traversing their network using 6-to-4.
Start turning businesses on internal networks and when it is realised that IPv6 is in fact far nicer, because you're not playing hell trying to set DNS servers and allocate IPs, they will demand more from their ISP.
Longhorn has an IPv6 stack built in, find your favourite Linux distro and demand an IPv6 stack in that.
Windows has a 'flash taskbar icon' feature which does much the same. I hate *most* applications stealing focus, but occasionally there are some "You need to know this NOW" messages, such as remote shutdown, which I am fine with stealing focus as long as they have some failsafe to stop themselves closing instantly as I keep typing before i notice it is there.
Our shower is computer controlled with user profiles, it's a pain in the ass. Yes, it has shower, rain shower, steam generator, body jets and foot massager features (Sometimes all at once) but all I want is a bloody shower.
The profiles are useful for getting a starting point (Such as turning off the bits I don't want), but from there on it's manual control.
On the plus side, the computer control keeps the water pressure and temperature constant at whatever you set it to (On a nice LCD, so you can see the temperature) even when people flush the toilet. *That's* what computer control should be for, none of this profile nonsense.
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It takes me on my sandbox network an average of 46 minutes and 18 seconds (Timed over 12 differing hardware configurations, with a maximum variation of 27.4%) to connect, install from scratch and configure a fully secure Windows Server 2003 server. In this case, connect, install and configure is about as advanced as "plug it in, turn it on, let network boot deal with it until I need to shove in a password to add it to the domain".
I am fully aware that it is possible to do the same with Linux after some frigging, but my point was that Windows does indeed have the same facility as Kickstart. And it's a damn sight easier to use, plus integration with Office, Outlook and Exchange (I have yet to see the Linux community come up with an integrated system for everything, even on the same build).
This might just be my poor grasp of geography, but I thought that SE, UK and JP were Sweden, United Kingdom and Japan respectively. Unless the USA has expanded without notifying the rest of the world, they are most certainly not US servers.
Sensible placement of them I can understand, like every 10th motorway sign overhang, and at regular intervals along trunk roads. This way cars can automatically be roughly located (Good for stolen cars), finding if they're driven without tax etc. etc. but the proposed placing interval is just bloody ridiculous. It would be more efficient and have the same effect to make all car on-board computers carry tracking and 'phone-home' equipment.
Surely if all you are doing is hash comparison for password security you may as well just hash once to MD5 and once to SHA-1. The chances of there being an input which is not the password which collides with both the MD5 and the SHA-1 hashes and which passes your password input validation (Under 20 chars, alphanumeric only etc) is so slim as to be negligable.
So logically you do *NOT* want something like Linux, where a simple deleting of a file or a misplaced semicolon can screw the entire system with no technician within 500 miles.
Yes, but just because you and I know how to set a proxy doesn't necessarily mean that everybody knows how to. I have seen people open Internet Explorer, type "Yahoo" in the address bar, and use the MSN search results to find Yahoo to search for what they were looking for.
Won't work. Companies and schools (at least in the UK) are accountable for what is done on their networks. Just having dumb terminals doesn't help this.
For schools especially, all internet access must be monitored, and schools in Leeds (Which ain't a small city) use an individual-user-login based service. This means a proxy server, and most kids wouldn't know what a proxy server was if it came up and slapped them in the face.
I'd love to be able to run a portable distro in school, but at the moment it's just not feasable. Even our own laptops have to be forced through the proxy to do anything useful.
In an ideal situation yes, however when the power comes back out of the batteries (UPS) it is switched back to AC for distribution to the individual systems before they change it back into DC for the circuit.
I doubt they are easing into the current PC market because it lacks so much of what makes Macs what they are - a single, closely controlled set of hardware and software which just works when you plug it in. An iMac with wireless keyboard and mouse needs 1 cable to work - power. If you have internet, it will either be wireless or need another (single) cable to work.
hence my thinking for the future bit. I wasn't doing quick math for a worldwide total, I was doing quick math to show how many we could concievably need in the *immediate* future. The great-gp's comment about interplanetary networks kinda ties into my comment.
What's worse is people wanting AJAX where it's not needed. I was putting together a database reading (not even editing) app and someone wanted "Dropdown AJAX boxes when you click on records instead of showing all the info underneath to start with". I patiently agreed, then just put a JS function to expand a hidden when you clicked the record name. Not a bit of AAX in site, only the J.
I'm aware of this, and think it's a bit of a retarded thing to do because I *know* iTMS has my purchase record. What I was more aiming at was the idea that all your purchases are stored centrally so that you can access them from any location, thus not even need to bring a copy of a film with you to watch it on a friend's system. Just plug in your username/password and auth it to play. I could put up with "only allow 24 hours of playing per auth on a non-'home' machine".
To be honest I wouldn't care about DRM if there was a universal standard for everything. If I buy a CD track over iTunes I have no problem with it being DRMed on the condition that I can also play it on anything else, be it a 'Windows Media' device or my TV or my phone.
Saying you want new music to always be backwards compatible is like saying you want all new music to play on an old vinyl deck. With DRM at least there is a record of "this person has already bought this, so in fact we *can* authorise this download without charging them again".
If I buy a video with this 'universal DRM' why can I not for example go to my friend's house, plug in my username and password and it appears in my 'media list'. Steam does it for games, why can't the same be done for media? And whilst they're at it I would appreciate a way to add all my old media and games to the list as well.
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Thanks for the link, I was going to put a bit saying exactly the same in mine then forgot about it entirely.
There is also a beta IPv6 deployment pack for the Windows 2000 platform, but Microsoft seem to have removed it from the obvious places. If I find it, I'll let you know.
Nope. The whole of Google's mystical advertising knowledge is built *entirely* on statistical analysis of their data. It just so happens that certain combinations of words have become associated with certain products or areas.
Even AdSense's precision is built on what ads people clicked when the page's content was x/y/x, which is why occasionally you see adverts with little or no relevance. The fact they are not clicked on weighs against them in that particular content's category (Which again is put together through PageRank and analysis of page content).
Doesn't censoring anything accessible over a raw connection (Such as, say, usenet) lose them common carrier status?
My BIOS has a boot-sector virus guardy thing on it, which is updated whenever the BIOS is reflashed. Perhaps an antivirus/spyware/rootkit detector could be built into the motherboard?
Since more and more internet connections come over an RJ45 straight from the modem, or a wireless network, could the motherboard not switch into a 'self update' mode when the PC is off, which would connect to an update server (Since it doesn't need to involve the OS), grab the latest definitions, flash the antivirus with the new definitions, and then power down. BIOS updates could be included with this as well.
Since power buttons on modern PCs are nothing more than a hint to the BIOS that the user hit the button anyway, and the motherboard always takes power in some form, surely it could automatically start the PSU without involving booting the disks? It kicks in its own update system, downloads the updates (since it's an always-on connection), installs them and then shuts down.
Start with yourself. Install an IPv6 stack and start using IPv6 servers (Such as for IRC) wherever possible. The 6-to-4 routing can be dealt with on your end (Usually without you needing to change anything awkward) and through one of many open 4-to-6 bridges on the other end. Eventually your IP will notice more and more IPv6 traffic traversing their network using 6-to-4.
Start turning businesses on internal networks and when it is realised that IPv6 is in fact far nicer, because you're not playing hell trying to set DNS servers and allocate IPs, they will demand more from their ISP.
Longhorn has an IPv6 stack built in, find your favourite Linux distro and demand an IPv6 stack in that.
Windows has a 'flash taskbar icon' feature which does much the same. I hate *most* applications stealing focus, but occasionally there are some "You need to know this NOW" messages, such as remote shutdown, which I am fine with stealing focus as long as they have some failsafe to stop themselves closing instantly as I keep typing before i notice it is there.
Our shower is computer controlled with user profiles, it's a pain in the ass. Yes, it has shower, rain shower, steam generator, body jets and foot massager features (Sometimes all at once) but all I want is a bloody shower.
The profiles are useful for getting a starting point (Such as turning off the bits I don't want), but from there on it's manual control.
On the plus side, the computer control keeps the water pressure and temperature constant at whatever you set it to (On a nice LCD, so you can see the temperature) even when people flush the toilet. *That's* what computer control should be for, none of this profile nonsense.
Network Based Installation
Active Directory
Group Policies
It takes me on my sandbox network an average of 46 minutes and 18 seconds (Timed over 12 differing hardware configurations, with a maximum variation of 27.4%) to connect, install from scratch and configure a fully secure Windows Server 2003 server. In this case, connect, install and configure is about as advanced as "plug it in, turn it on, let network boot deal with it until I need to shove in a password to add it to the domain".
I am fully aware that it is possible to do the same with Linux after some frigging, but my point was that Windows does indeed have the same facility as Kickstart. And it's a damn sight easier to use, plus integration with Office, Outlook and Exchange (I have yet to see the Linux community come up with an integrated system for everything, even on the same build).
This might just be my poor grasp of geography, but I thought that SE, UK and JP were Sweden, United Kingdom and Japan respectively. Unless the USA has expanded without notifying the rest of the world, they are most certainly not US servers.
Sensible placement of them I can understand, like every 10th motorway sign overhang, and at regular intervals along trunk roads. This way cars can automatically be roughly located (Good for stolen cars), finding if they're driven without tax etc. etc. but the proposed placing interval is just bloody ridiculous. It would be more efficient and have the same effect to make all car on-board computers carry tracking and 'phone-home' equipment.
Yes, so
hash1 = md5(input1)
hash2 = sha1(input1)
Then to validate you run the input through the same thing. Like I said, the chances of a valid input colliding with both are ignorably slim.
Surely if all you are doing is hash comparison for password security you may as well just hash once to MD5 and once to SHA-1. The chances of there being an input which is not the password which collides with both the MD5 and the SHA-1 hashes and which passes your password input validation (Under 20 chars, alphanumeric only etc) is so slim as to be negligable.
So logically you do *NOT* want something like Linux, where a simple deleting of a file or a misplaced semicolon can screw the entire system with no technician within 500 miles.
Therefore planting trees doesn't affect carbon emissions at all, it only affects the amount of carbon re-absorbed.
Just a thought here, but since when has planting trees reduced carbon emissions?
Yes, but just because you and I know how to set a proxy doesn't necessarily mean that everybody knows how to. I have seen people open Internet Explorer, type "Yahoo" in the address bar, and use the MSN search results to find Yahoo to search for what they were looking for.
Won't work. Companies and schools (at least in the UK) are accountable for what is done on their networks. Just having dumb terminals doesn't help this.
For schools especially, all internet access must be monitored, and schools in Leeds (Which ain't a small city) use an individual-user-login based service. This means a proxy server, and most kids wouldn't know what a proxy server was if it came up and slapped them in the face.
I'd love to be able to run a portable distro in school, but at the moment it's just not feasable. Even our own laptops have to be forced through the proxy to do anything useful.
"people" not "ppl". With your signature as it is I'm amazed that you can revert to txtesque.
Britney Spears has these. There one minute, gone the next.
In an ideal situation yes, however when the power comes back out of the batteries (UPS) it is switched back to AC for distribution to the individual systems before they change it back into DC for the circuit.
I doubt they are easing into the current PC market because it lacks so much of what makes Macs what they are - a single, closely controlled set of hardware and software which just works when you plug it in. An iMac with wireless keyboard and mouse needs 1 cable to work - power. If you have internet, it will either be wireless or need another (single) cable to work.
hence my thinking for the future bit. I wasn't doing quick math for a worldwide total, I was doing quick math to show how many we could concievably need in the *immediate* future. The great-gp's comment about interplanetary networks kinda ties into my comment.
What's worse is people wanting AJAX where it's not needed. I was putting together a database reading (not even editing) app and someone wanted "Dropdown AJAX boxes when you click on records instead of showing all the info underneath to start with". I patiently agreed, then just put a JS function to expand a hidden when you clicked the record name. Not a bit of AAX in site, only the J.
I'm aware of this, and think it's a bit of a retarded thing to do because I *know* iTMS has my purchase record. What I was more aiming at was the idea that all your purchases are stored centrally so that you can access them from any location, thus not even need to bring a copy of a film with you to watch it on a friend's system. Just plug in your username/password and auth it to play. I could put up with "only allow 24 hours of playing per auth on a non-'home' machine".
To be honest I wouldn't care about DRM if there was a universal standard for everything. If I buy a CD track over iTunes I have no problem with it being DRMed on the condition that I can also play it on anything else, be it a 'Windows Media' device or my TV or my phone.
Saying you want new music to always be backwards compatible is like saying you want all new music to play on an old vinyl deck. With DRM at least there is a record of "this person has already bought this, so in fact we *can* authorise this download without charging them again".
If I buy a video with this 'universal DRM' why can I not for example go to my friend's house, plug in my username and password and it appears in my 'media list'. Steam does it for games, why can't the same be done for media? And whilst they're at it I would appreciate a way to add all my old media and games to the list as well.