That's because "-chen" indicates a diminutive, a "small and cute" version of the original meaning: Think of "Häuschen" (a tiny house), "Fläschchen" (a tiny bottle): You can attach "-chen" to any noune. "Mädchen", although mostly not recognized as such, is originally the diminutiv of "Magd" or "Maid". For some circumstance, all diminutives are neuter: Although it is "die Flasche", it will be transformed to "das Fläschchen", "der Hut" (hat) becomes "das Hütchen".
And as for helping before the EMT's get there, I'm not going to risk that lawsuit.
I don't know how the situation is in your country, but here in Germany you have an obligation to help in a case of emergency as long as you don't put yourself into danger. While calling 911 (or rather 112 here) is usually sufficient to not getting sued: If you do not provide assistance at all, it will be considered an offence ("Unterlassene Hilfeleistung"). And as long as you have the real intention of helping an injured person, any additional damage done to them by accident is covered by law: So go ahead, break a rib while doing CPR, it will be the far better alternativ for all involved.
Many a linux distribution I've used (most noticeably Debian) applies the "shotgun" approach to module-loading because the hardware detection and hotplug methods are so convoluted and undependable. Kind of defeats the purpose of loadable modules if the distribution simply loads everything under the sun to see what sticks.
Obviously you haven't used Linux for a long time. Modules are not loaded to detect hardware, instead the hardware acquires the driver module: The kernel identifies hardware via PCI or USB device ids, which are also stored in the modules. So Hotplug (and newer versions of udev) can load the appropiate module once hardware is added to the system.
Worse, many modules aren't smart enough to determine "hey, I'm a driver for [some non-removable component]. If I can't find my hardware, maybe I should print an error to ksyslogd and unload myself."
The driver will not be loaded if there is no hardware, unless you explicitly tell your system to do so.
That's because the science related modules have to wait for the shuttle (or an equivalent). There is no other way to lift the european Columbus module - where "real science" could take place - into orbit.
I recently took the time to study NTFS file permissions in XP and the inheritance options for example (which I don't think has an equivalent in the Linux world) are very powerful, especially when coupled with pseudo permissions on "CREATOR OWNER" and the like, but it can also lead to file permissions becoming rather messy, complex and confusing.
There are some nice features reagarding (file) permissions in Windows, but since they are so powerful, they are rarely used at all: On Linux, all file permissions nicely fit into a single line of text. I can check the permissions of all files in a directory with a single look. The complex the scheme gets, the more it will be ignored. And I think this is the case with Windows: You can do nifty things with its ACLs, but it loses managability.
In Linux, you will receive a 'package not installed' error then go install that package only to find that it needs another package that you don't have. It's a mess.
No, it's not a mess. I've seen a lot of people complaining that there are not setup programs for Linux packages. If you need to install a package, tell your package manager. He will manage the downloading of the requested program for you, and even download the packages required to install the selected one. It is much more conveniet than having to download the program, calling setup.exe and searching for additional packages (.NET? Java? VB-Runtime? Some codec library?): Just use "apt-get install foobar", and there you go.
This Pepper pad looks nice, just like a bigger version of the Nokia 770, which runs Linux as well. Having an open plattform is a nice way to attract developers and establish a nice collection of applications. I hope we see more of those linux gadgets in the future.
What government, regardless of natural human rights, is going to allow itself to be overthrown?
A passage regarding this issue has been added to the german Grundgesetz in 1968:
Gegen jeden, der es unternimmt, diese Ordnung zu beseitigen, haben alle Deutschen das Recht zum Widerstand, wenn andere Abhilfe nicht möglich ist.
So everyone citizen has the right to oppose anyone trying to get rid of the democratic system, although this is more of theoretical nature. If the resistance does not succeed in its goals, the people involved won't have any chance quoting that line.
Now, if your router is doing NAT, then yes, stuff gets mangled. However, routers and gateways can move packets keeping the original MAC in place.
No, this is just plain wrong. You are completely mixing up layers here. The MAC address is part of the ethernet layer; It is not included in the IP packet. While the IP address is used to logically locate the receiver on a global scale, the MAC address is only used to address the packet in the local (read: broadcast domain) scope. Everytime a packet travels through a router, the router exchanges the MAC address, since the IP packet is put into a new Ethernet packet (assuming the router has ethernet devices at all). You do not even have an MAC address when using point to point connection, and you don't have to have them, since they are not necessary for IP.
If you mistyped the account number, the transfer will most likely bounce. But a bank cannot undo a transfer once the money has reached the destination bank; You have to contact the person who received the transaction to get it back from there.
Banks will undo transfers for up to six weeks, so as long as you check your list of transfers regularly, the risk is minimal.
There is a slight misconception here, at leat here in germany: If you initiate the transfer to another account yourself ("Überweisung"), the transfer cannot be undone by the bank. But if you give someone the permission to retrieve money from your account ("Einzugsermächtigung"/"Lastschrift"), you can cancel that transfer up to six weeks after it happened. To pull money from other people's accounts you need to have a special contract with your bank, so they will get suspicious if there are a lot of transfers bounce back.
If this photo is correct (looks a little bit strange), the device runs GPE, a pretty nice handheld interface used by several linux handheld derivates and based on GTK+. Since GPE uses a real XServer, porting applications is quite easy (you can even run them remote), as opposed to OPIE, which uses the framebuffer directly. Nokia's maemo platform has many similarities to GPE, I hope that both projects profit from each other.
That's a good point, IF the system was configured to not boot from a CD. Even if CD booting is disabled in BIOS, the user can still cut the power, turn it on, and enter single user mode as I stated above.
No, he might not be able to enter single user mode. And even if he does, what will happen? He will be prompted for the root password.
Once you have physical access, game over.
I don't think that there is only one level of physical access - Even if I leave keyboard, mouse and display to the user, I can still lock the computer itself into a box. Not everyone working on a computer has the opportunity to dismantle it.
It worked in FC4 so I'm sure it will work in other distros.
So Fedora is just as broken in that issue as Ubuntu. That's why I stick to Debian, it may be as conservative as 20 year old tinned food, but I am sure that this would have been considered a critical security bug. (No flame war intended)
Indeed, the information of your equilibrum sense in your inner tube does not match the visual impressions you receive from your eyes, just like it happens when you start reading a book in a car on a winding road. You brain will suspect something strange going on, perhaps food poisoning - and will try to get rid of it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that if you boot any distro into single-user mode, it would not prompt for the root password.
It's called "single user mode", not "root me mode". Neither SuSE nor Debian will drop you into a rootshell.
I've seen it automatically dump into a root shell before on some distros (Mandrake comes to mind). With physical access, it's almost pointless to prompt for the root password in single-user mode because if it did, the user could just boot off a liveCD and change the root password anyway.
No. How will the user be able to boot from a CD, if he cannot put any media into the drive, since booting fro it has been disabled, it is either locked or not even installed?
You can't be root in Ubuntu; you have to consciously make the decision to run software as root by typing 'sudo' before it. (Actually you can run a shell under sudo, but still.) The idea was that since you can't login as root, the system is more secure and resists exploits that try to gain root access. This vulnerability is the kind of stupid mistake people make sometimes.
There is another stupid vulnerability I noticed in Ubuntu, which relates directly to the missing root password: If something goes wrong during system startup (e.g. a failed fsck), usually you are prompted for the root password to open the rescue console and fix the issue. Not so with Ubuntu: Since there is not root password, you will be thrown into a root shell without any hesitation. Kind of strange, is it? One could argue that once you have physical access to the system, you have a lot of possibilities to circumvent the system's security, but I found this issue to be rather harsh.
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So are Debian packages. Check "man apt-key" about that.
Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
So now that they are using lasers, the old missile shield is outdated?
That's because "-chen" indicates a diminutive, a "small and cute" version of the original meaning: Think of "Häuschen" (a tiny house), "Fläschchen" (a tiny bottle): You can attach "-chen" to any noune. "Mädchen", although mostly not recognized as such, is originally the diminutiv of "Magd" or "Maid". For some circumstance, all diminutives are neuter: Although it is "die Flasche", it will be transformed to "das Fläschchen", "der Hut" (hat) becomes "das Hütchen".
I don't know how the situation is in your country, but here in Germany you have an obligation to help in a case of emergency as long as you don't put yourself into danger. While calling 911 (or rather 112 here) is usually sufficient to not getting sued: If you do not provide assistance at all, it will be considered an offence ("Unterlassene Hilfeleistung"). And as long as you have the real intention of helping an injured person, any additional damage done to them by accident is covered by law: So go ahead, break a rib while doing CPR, it will be the far better alternativ for all involved.
http://www.google.com/search?q=225+US%24+in+EUR So why do we europeans have to pay 50 US$ more for the same console?
That's because the science related modules have to wait for the shuttle (or an equivalent). There is no other way to lift the european Columbus module - where "real science" could take place - into orbit.
No, it's not a mess. I've seen a lot of people complaining that there are not setup programs for Linux packages. If you need to install a package, tell your package manager. He will manage the downloading of the requested program for you, and even download the packages required to install the selected one. It is much more conveniet than having to download the program, calling setup.exe and searching for additional packages (.NET? Java? VB-Runtime? Some codec library?): Just use "apt-get install foobar", and there you go.
And where did I deny that? Even the summary says that.
This Pepper pad looks nice, just like a bigger version of the Nokia 770, which runs Linux as well. Having an open plattform is a nice way to attract developers and establish a nice collection of applications. I hope we see more of those linux gadgets in the future.
What government, regardless of natural human rights, is going to allow itself to be overthrown?
A passage regarding this issue has been added to the german Grundgesetz in 1968:
Gegen jeden, der es unternimmt, diese Ordnung zu beseitigen, haben alle Deutschen das Recht zum Widerstand, wenn andere Abhilfe nicht möglich ist.
So everyone citizen has the right to oppose anyone trying to get rid of the democratic system, although this is more of theoretical nature. If the resistance does not succeed in its goals, the people involved won't have any chance quoting that line.
Now, if your router is doing NAT, then yes, stuff gets mangled. However, routers and gateways can move packets keeping the original MAC in place.
No, this is just plain wrong. You are completely mixing up layers here. The MAC address is part of the ethernet layer; It is not included in the IP packet. While the IP address is used to logically locate the receiver on a global scale, the MAC address is only used to address the packet in the local (read: broadcast domain) scope. Everytime a packet travels through a router, the router exchanges the MAC address, since the IP packet is put into a new Ethernet packet (assuming the router has ethernet devices at all). You do not even have an MAC address when using point to point connection, and you don't have to have them, since they are not necessary for IP.
NAT mangles the IP address.
if I remember my physics, correctly, the power lost during transmission is proportional to i^2 where i is the current
That's why they use transformers to lower the current and increase the voltage.
If you mistyped the account number, the transfer will most likely bounce. But a bank cannot undo a transfer once the money has reached the destination bank; You have to contact the person who received the transaction to get it back from there.
Banks will undo transfers for up to six weeks, so as long as you check your list of transfers regularly, the risk is minimal.
There is a slight misconception here, at leat here in germany: If you initiate the transfer to another account yourself ("Überweisung"), the transfer cannot be undone by the bank. But if you give someone the permission to retrieve money from your account ("Einzugsermächtigung"/"Lastschrift"), you can cancel that transfer up to six weeks after it happened. To pull money from other people's accounts you need to have a special contract with your bank, so they will get suspicious if there are a lot of transfers bounce back.
you still would have to figure out that Professor Falken's son was named 'Jerome'
But he was called "Joshua".
If this photo is correct (looks a little bit strange), the device runs GPE, a pretty nice handheld interface used by several linux handheld derivates and based on GTK+. Since GPE uses a real XServer, porting applications is quite easy (you can even run them remote), as opposed to OPIE, which uses the framebuffer directly. Nokia's maemo platform has many similarities to GPE, I hope that both projects profit from each other.
That's a good point, IF the system was configured to not boot from a CD. Even if CD booting is disabled in BIOS, the user can still cut the power, turn it on, and enter single user mode as I stated above.
No, he might not be able to enter single user mode. And even if he does, what will happen? He will be prompted for the root password.
Once you have physical access, game over.
I don't think that there is only one level of physical access - Even if I leave keyboard, mouse and display to the user, I can still lock the computer itself into a box. Not everyone working on a computer has the opportunity to dismantle it.
It worked in FC4 so I'm sure it will work in other distros.
So Fedora is just as broken in that issue as Ubuntu. That's why I stick to Debian, it may be as conservative as 20 year old tinned food, but I am sure that this would have been considered a critical security bug. (No flame war intended)Indeed, the information of your equilibrum sense in your inner tube does not match the visual impressions you receive from your eyes, just like it happens when you start reading a book in a car on a winding road. You brain will suspect something strange going on, perhaps food poisoning - and will try to get rid of it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that if you boot any distro into single-user mode, it would not prompt for the root password.
It's called "single user mode", not "root me mode". Neither SuSE nor Debian will drop you into a rootshell.
I've seen it automatically dump into a root shell before on some distros (Mandrake comes to mind). With physical access, it's almost pointless to prompt for the root password in single-user mode because if it did, the user could just boot off a liveCD and change the root password anyway.
No. How will the user be able to boot from a CD, if he cannot put any media into the drive, since booting fro it has been disabled, it is either locked or not even installed?
That is a non issue. anyone with a floppy can have the exact same access.
No, since there is no disc drive, and because you cannot boot from it.
init=/bin/sh
This won't work if your bootloader is set up accordingly. Both lilo and grub can be configured not to accept modifications without authentification.
You can't be root in Ubuntu; you have to consciously make the decision to run software as root by typing 'sudo' before it. (Actually you can run a shell under sudo, but still.) The idea was that since you can't login as root, the system is more secure and resists exploits that try to gain root access. This vulnerability is the kind of stupid mistake people make sometimes.
There is another stupid vulnerability I noticed in Ubuntu, which relates directly to the missing root password: If something goes wrong during system startup (e.g. a failed fsck), usually you are prompted for the root password to open the rescue console and fix the issue. Not so with Ubuntu: Since there is not root password, you will be thrown into a root shell without any hesitation. Kind of strange, is it? One could argue that once you have physical access to the system, you have a lot of possibilities to circumvent the system's security, but I found this issue to be rather harsh.