Last I checked that was only available to corporate customers.. unless they've started rolling it out for everyone (which would be awesome) not much good to me.
That has the disadvantage of not allowing them to follow along through a demo or glance up at stuff written on the board while they work.
A better solution in my opinion is have the whiteboard and area where the teacher lectures at the front, and the teachers desk where he sits while they work at the back.
I'm not the best when it comes to hammering out quick replies and tend to introduce mistakes like that, but sometimes, I swear slashdot is disappearing my words on me...
Only thing I can think of is add some vegetation. A few well placed plants does wonders for a room. Maybe some geek paraphernalia around the room to get people in the right mindset
As usual, ergonomics are important. Get chairs and monitors that adjust easily, keyboards/trays with the proper support (and again, adjustable) and maybe educate students on how they should set up their work environment before they. Oh, and a decent amount of desk space. Just because they are working on a computer doesn’t mean they won’t be working from a book or have some other reason to need a little room to work.
Of course once you’ve drawn your balanced, well thought out and researched plan, it will promptly be rejected and the school can proceed to bring in some cheap tables and place an order with Dell;p
My slashdot account doesn't need three factor authentication, however I wish my bank would have at least 2 (seriously, I've yet to find any banks in Canada, let alone my province (Nova Scotia) that offer something beyond a password. The hell!).
The lock on your diary offers little protection from a skilled locksmith most can be opened with a simple bent piece of metal.
If you have someone following you around with cameras trying to capture your login info to use later when they have physical access to your machine a traditional password probably isn’t going to cut it either. This provides the same kind of “guy walking by” protection as traditional passwords do. Ok, maybe less.. but still. Maybe this will actually push people towards more secure auth for serious things by highlighting how insecure a basic password is.
All that said, I think it’s a pretty stupid feature;p
Yeah, but that's not a killer feature. Like many, I have enough resources that it has become a non-issue. Even if my setup used 3 times as much ram as KDE, I wouldn't care. I have 12GB of ram.. may as well use some of it.
When I gave up on kde4, it wasn't because of resource usage, it was because basic core features, like.. the menu editor and the control panel.. were completely broken. Stuff would crap out and you'd have to go delete some metafile (buried under gnome-style layers of meta folders).. all kinds of annoying stuff would pop up and couldn't easily be disabled.. the CLOCK APPLET crashed!.. it was as I said, like a pre-alpha version.
I did the whole roll your own thing back "in the day". Then I discovered kde3 and really got into the whole "wow, this just works" mentality.
Then kde4 came out and was a complete piece of shit (I hear it's better now.. but when it first came out.. it was like pre-alpha level messed up). I spend a fair bit of time trying to force kde4 to work in some kind of usable way.. but finally I grudgingly cobbled my own yet again and am now happily using a mixture of various bits (openbox, xfce4-panel, and a bunch of of ther stuff).
I used to be a minimalist.. using icewm mainly for many years.
Then I came around to this view point, and used kde3 for a while.
Then kde4 came out.. and while I hear it's somewhat usable now.. there was a good period of time where it wasn't. I got fed up and ended up switching to a combination of openbox and xfce4-panel, which gave me (most) of the functionality I loved from kde3. Being less bloated was secondary.. the fact that it actually worked was the main draw.
Point is, I probably won't be going back to kde4. What I have now works, and unless kde4 comes out with some killer feature, I see no reason to switch. I suspect I'm not the only one either.
I use openbox with xfce4-panel and a number of other odd programs (some I wrote, some from other environments, some standalone).
xfce4-panel is critical to my happiness because it handles multiple monitors very well (seperate panel for each window.. no glitches.. just works). This seems to be a feature lacking in a lot of panels/window managers.
I use dolphin for file browsing (I do most file management from a console but find dolphin is nice for browsing around my vast media collection).
I'm not an minimalist. I used kde3 for a long time and was happy with it (before that it was icewm). I like lots of clutter and silly apps that don't really do much. I've got lots of screen real estate (6 monitors) and usually have them plastered with all manner of stuff.
I use gkrellm for resource monitoring. I know.. kind of kiddie ish.. but I like that it can do remote monitoring. I have 5 "stacks" that monitor 5 different machines. 2 of those machines are only on periodically, so I wrote a patch that adds an option to gkrellm to display "offline" instead of going into alarm mode when a box disconnects.
I don't bother with desktop icons, but do use a homebrew app for desktop wallpaper. There are lots of wallpaper managers.. but I honestly couldn't find anything that did what I wanted. Everything was either too simple (and couldn't handle multiple monitors) or insanely over-complicated. Was easier to just whip up an app that randomly cycles through images in a directory than try to sort through all the options out there.
This one is gonna cost me some geek cred.. but I use... xchat! Used to use bitchx, than irssi (and still do occasionally).. but xchat is where it's at.
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It's a hobby like anything else..
You don't see businesses overclocking their systems (at least I've never seen this.. ). It's something people do at home to get more enjoyment out of their purchase (which was likely the point of the purchase to begin with). Most people who are into extreme overclocking are primarily using their box for gaming.. not preparing year end financial reports for work. A little data corruption isn't the end of the world (and for the record, I've never seen that happen.. the system either works fine or is obviously unstable.. and I've _never_ seen a processor "wear out").
These days I tend to limit myself to the safe limits of the chip, just overclocking enough to get what I paid for.. but I can see the appeal.
I'll admit right off that I havn't done serious thinking on this, but I think what has to happen is Internet has to become government run and just operate at a loss.
Also known as Piracy. Taking a copyrighted work, ignoring the terms and making up your own release terms instead.
My point was that the software doesn't get developed at all due to GPL restrictions. I'm not advocating violating the terms an author has chosen... just that I'm happy more people are choosing more permissive licenses.
having all software be GPL, not contain GPL code or just not exist is.
In other words, that last one...
Personally I write software to be used, not to further some fanatical view on how the world should work. If someone wants to take my work and make something useful to them with it.. great. They want to share it with others.. even better. Want to distribute the code, awesome! Even if there are restrictions on it.. at least people can compile the damn thing and make it work right on their platforms. Wanna sell it and not give back, what the hell do I care.. the code I wrote is still around...
I fully respect peoples right to choose whatever license they want.
I personally don't like GPL, and I'm glad others are coming around to more permissive licenses, but I didn't say anything against going against the wishes of people who do use the GPL or feeling that they shouldn't be allowed to use the GPL...
I'd also note that I think many people choosing the GPL do so because it's the default go to license, or they are using a GPL'ed component in it (the viral nature of GPL also annoys me greatly).. and in a lot of cases don't even realize the restrictions and practical implications.
The definition of "hacker" has changed to include people who break into systems for evil purposes. The battle to prevent this is over, it's a done deal. Insisting people use the word "cracker" is at this point just annoying.. it was a stupid choice of word to begin with, and never caught on (and never will). If they'd chosen something that doesn't make you sound like a complete tool and had intuitive meaning, maybe something like "cyber criminal", it might have had a shot, but as it stands they went with "cracker" and no one could say it with a straight face and even if they did they than had to explain what the hell they were talking about and so no one did and so they used "hacker" instead and so here we are.
At this point, we'd be more likely to invent a new word for people who would fall under the "old" hacking definition. And for the love of the great fire cactus and the Aztec god of romance.. pick something that people would be happy to be refered to as! If we end up with "electrofiddler" it's not going to catch on either!
I just made a comment about this above, but I'm a fan of "hacking: the art of exploitation" and "silence on the wire".
"Silence on the Wire" is completely useless from a real world standpoint, but gives a tremendous amount of background knowledge. The section on network alone is better than any networking textbook I've ever read.
"hacking: the art of exploitation" gives you basic background in how buffer overflows work, shell code is written, and just basic core background. Again, nothing that you can actually go out and use.. but a very interesting read and much more theory than "tool of the week".
I was a fan of "Hacking: the art of exploitation" and "Silence on the Wire".
The first one doesn't really give you much of practical use.. but gives you the basic foundation of buffer overflows and shellcode and such, a long with a fairly decent amount of background. There is a bit at the end on wireless network that kind of delves out of that curve (and in truth, feels kinda tacked on.. almost like it doesn't belong in the book but was added at the very end of writing for some reason).
Silence on the Wire gives you even less practical, but the amount of background knowledge that is given to lead up to the end "exploit" is well worth it. The section on network itself is better than any networking textbook I've ever read.
I actually didn't read the article, but when I saw the title, my gut said "yup".
Maybe it's just the circle I hang with, but I've personally felt a shift away from the GPL over the last several years, with v3 being for many the stray that broke the back.
I've largely attributed it to people my age who are now out in the work force and are running up against the restrictive elements of GPL when trying to bring open source into the work place. The realistic choice isn't creating a cool derived work and not releasing the code vs creating a cool derived work and releasing the code.. it's creating a cool derived work and releasing it under your own terms (which most non-fanatics would probbaly be happy with) vs not bothering at all. In my view GPL doesn't foster open source, it prevents it. And that's the vibe I get from those around me as well.
In addition to just sounding wrong, the word "Libre" is synonymous with the growingly more annoying RMS high horse crowd.. which has become more and more of a turnoff to many (there was an article the other day about how people are migrating away from GPL in general).
OpenOffice was fine if you dropped the "dot org" part, which most people did.
The big reason web mail probably still persists for most (at the very least most non-geeks) is because it's so damn simple. Downloading and configuring a mail client isn't complicated.. but it's a step you don't have to do with web mail.
Now we can easily enable IMAP on our gmail account and use our own client on our own computer, but to the average user, what is the value gained for effort expended.
But most people always read email from the same computer
I think most people browse from at least two (home and work).. and many three (home, work, and their smartphone). Again, yes you could use IMAP at home and the web client at work and on the phone.. but it's hard to find any added value even for a geek, much less an average user.
I used to do something like that.. In the early 90's, using Netscape composer and the email account my ISP provided me.
Point is, people migrated to web mail clients for a reason.. if we are talking about getting the masses on board, telling them to take a step backwards for some functionality they probably don't care about is somewhat silly.
This of course assumes the person receiving the spoofed email bothers to read the dialog telling them the signature did not match (and that's assuming their client even checking).
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Last I checked that was only available to corporate customers .. unless they've started rolling it out for everyone (which would be awesome) not much good to me.
I was thinking more like having an old TRS-80 (or dragon32.. which is what I learnt on) set up and functioning in the corner ;p
I never got into the dark lighting thing. Vi(m) .. sure.. but always in a well lit room.
And lose the techno...put on some pink floyd!
That has the disadvantage of not allowing them to follow along through a demo or glance up at stuff written on the board while they work.
A better solution in my opinion is have the whiteboard and area where the teacher lectures at the front, and the teachers desk where he sits while they work at the back.
* before they start working every class
I'm not the best when it comes to hammering out quick replies and tend to introduce mistakes like that, but sometimes, I swear slashdot is disappearing my words on me...
Only thing I can think of is add some vegetation. A few well placed plants does wonders for a room. Maybe some geek paraphernalia around the room to get people in the right mindset
As usual, ergonomics are important. Get chairs and monitors that adjust easily, keyboards/trays with the proper support (and again, adjustable) and maybe educate students on how they should set up their work environment before they. Oh, and a decent amount of desk space. Just because they are working on a computer doesn’t mean they won’t be working from a book or have some other reason to need a little room to work.
Of course once you’ve drawn your balanced, well thought out and researched plan, it will promptly be rejected and the school can proceed to bring in some cheap tables and place an order with Dell ;p
best of luck and have a great life!
It has to scale to the requirement for security.
My slashdot account doesn't need three factor authentication, however I wish my bank would have at least 2 (seriously, I've yet to find any banks in Canada, let alone my province (Nova Scotia) that offer something beyond a password. The hell!).
The lock on your diary offers little protection from a skilled locksmith most can be opened with a simple bent piece of metal.
If you have someone following you around with cameras trying to capture your login info to use later when they have physical access to your machine a traditional password probably isn’t going to cut it either. This provides the same kind of “guy walking by” protection as traditional passwords do. Ok, maybe less.. but still. Maybe this will actually push people towards more secure auth for serious things by highlighting how insecure a basic password is.
All that said, I think it’s a pretty stupid feature ;p
Yeah, but that's not a killer feature. Like many, I have enough resources that it has become a non-issue. Even if my setup used 3 times as much ram as KDE, I wouldn't care. I have 12GB of ram.. may as well use some of it.
When I gave up on kde4, it wasn't because of resource usage, it was because basic core features, like.. the menu editor and the control panel.. were completely broken. Stuff would crap out and you'd have to go delete some metafile (buried under gnome-style layers of meta folders) .. all kinds of annoying stuff would pop up and couldn't easily be disabled.. the CLOCK APPLET crashed! .. it was as I said, like a pre-alpha version.
I did the whole roll your own thing back "in the day". Then I discovered kde3 and really got into the whole "wow, this just works" mentality.
Then kde4 came out and was a complete piece of shit (I hear it's better now.. but when it first came out.. it was like pre-alpha level messed up). I spend a fair bit of time trying to force kde4 to work in some kind of usable way.. but finally I grudgingly cobbled my own yet again and am now happily using a mixture of various bits (openbox, xfce4-panel, and a bunch of of ther stuff).
I used to be a minimalist .. using icewm mainly for many years.
Then I came around to this view point, and used kde3 for a while.
Then kde4 came out.. and while I hear it's somewhat usable now.. there was a good period of time where it wasn't. I got fed up and ended up switching to a combination of openbox and xfce4-panel, which gave me (most) of the functionality I loved from kde3. Being less bloated was secondary .. the fact that it actually worked was the main draw.
Point is, I probably won't be going back to kde4. What I have now works, and unless kde4 comes out with some killer feature, I see no reason to switch. I suspect I'm not the only one either.
I use openbox with xfce4-panel and a number of other odd programs (some I wrote, some from other environments, some standalone).
xfce4-panel is critical to my happiness because it handles multiple monitors very well (seperate panel for each window.. no glitches.. just works). This seems to be a feature lacking in a lot of panels/window managers.
I use dolphin for file browsing (I do most file management from a console but find dolphin is nice for browsing around my vast media collection).
I'm not an minimalist. I used kde3 for a long time and was happy with it (before that it was icewm). I like lots of clutter and silly apps that don't really do much. I've got lots of screen real estate (6 monitors) and usually have them plastered with all manner of stuff.
I use gkrellm for resource monitoring. I know.. kind of kiddie ish.. but I like that it can do remote monitoring. I have 5 "stacks" that monitor 5 different machines. 2 of those machines are only on periodically, so I wrote a patch that adds an option to gkrellm to display "offline" instead of going into alarm mode when a box disconnects.
I don't bother with desktop icons, but do use a homebrew app for desktop wallpaper. There are lots of wallpaper managers.. but I honestly couldn't find anything that did what I wanted. Everything was either too simple (and couldn't handle multiple monitors) or insanely over-complicated. Was easier to just whip up an app that randomly cycles through images in a directory than try to sort through all the options out there.
This one is gonna cost me some geek cred.. but I use... xchat! Used to use bitchx, than irssi (and still do occasionally).. but xchat is where it's at.
It's a hobby like anything else..
You don't see businesses overclocking their systems (at least I've never seen this.. ). It's something people do at home to get more enjoyment out of their purchase (which was likely the point of the purchase to begin with). Most people who are into extreme overclocking are primarily using their box for gaming.. not preparing year end financial reports for work. A little data corruption isn't the end of the world (and for the record, I've never seen that happen.. the system either works fine or is obviously unstable.. and I've _never_ seen a processor "wear out").
These days I tend to limit myself to the safe limits of the chip, just overclocking enough to get what I paid for.. but I can see the appeal.
I'll admit right off that I havn't done serious thinking on this, but I think what has to happen is Internet has to become government run and just operate at a loss.
And the barriers to that are obvious...
Also known as Piracy. Taking a copyrighted work, ignoring the terms and making up your own release terms instead.
My point was that the software doesn't get developed at all due to GPL restrictions. I'm not advocating violating the terms an author has chosen... just that I'm happy more people are choosing more permissive licenses.
having all software be GPL, not contain GPL code or just not exist is.
In other words, that last one...
Personally I write software to be used, not to further some fanatical view on how the world should work. If someone wants to take my work and make something useful to them with it .. great. They want to share it with others.. even better. Want to distribute the code, awesome! Even if there are restrictions on it.. at least people can compile the damn thing and make it work right on their platforms. Wanna sell it and not give back, what the hell do I care.. the code I wrote is still around...
I never said that at all...
I fully respect peoples right to choose whatever license they want.
I personally don't like GPL, and I'm glad others are coming around to more permissive licenses, but I didn't say anything against going against the wishes of people who do use the GPL or feeling that they shouldn't be allowed to use the GPL...
I'd also note that I think many people choosing the GPL do so because it's the default go to license, or they are using a GPL'ed component in it (the viral nature of GPL also annoys me greatly).. and in a lot of cases don't even realize the restrictions and practical implications.
In my view, it is no longer wrong.
The definition of "hacker" has changed to include people who break into systems for evil purposes. The battle to prevent this is over, it's a done deal. Insisting people use the word "cracker" is at this point just annoying.. it was a stupid choice of word to begin with, and never caught on (and never will). If they'd chosen something that doesn't make you sound like a complete tool and had intuitive meaning, maybe something like "cyber criminal", it might have had a shot, but as it stands they went with "cracker" and no one could say it with a straight face and even if they did they than had to explain what the hell they were talking about and so no one did and so they used "hacker" instead and so here we are.
At this point, we'd be more likely to invent a new word for people who would fall under the "old" hacking definition. And for the love of the great fire cactus and the Aztec god of romance.. pick something that people would be happy to be refered to as! If we end up with "electrofiddler" it's not going to catch on either!
I just made a comment about this above, but I'm a fan of "hacking: the art of exploitation" and "silence on the wire".
"Silence on the Wire" is completely useless from a real world standpoint, but gives a tremendous amount of background knowledge. The section on network alone is better than any networking textbook I've ever read.
"hacking: the art of exploitation" gives you basic background in how buffer overflows work, shell code is written, and just basic core background. Again, nothing that you can actually go out and use.. but a very interesting read and much more theory than "tool of the week".
Indeed.
I was a fan of "Hacking: the art of exploitation" and "Silence on the Wire".
The first one doesn't really give you much of practical use.. but gives you the basic foundation of buffer overflows and shellcode and such, a long with a fairly decent amount of background. There is a bit at the end on wireless network that kind of delves out of that curve (and in truth, feels kinda tacked on.. almost like it doesn't belong in the book but was added at the very end of writing for some reason).
Silence on the Wire gives you even less practical, but the amount of background knowledge that is given to lead up to the end "exploit" is well worth it. The section on network itself is better than any networking textbook I've ever read.
I actually didn't read the article, but when I saw the title, my gut said "yup".
Maybe it's just the circle I hang with, but I've personally felt a shift away from the GPL over the last several years, with v3 being for many the stray that broke the back.
I've largely attributed it to people my age who are now out in the work force and are running up against the restrictive elements of GPL when trying to bring open source into the work place. The realistic choice isn't creating a cool derived work and not releasing the code vs creating a cool derived work and releasing the code.. it's creating a cool derived work and releasing it under your own terms (which most non-fanatics would probbaly be happy with) vs not bothering at all. In my view GPL doesn't foster open source, it prevents it. And that's the vibe I get from those around me as well.
They are both stupid names!
In addition to just sounding wrong, the word "Libre" is synonymous with the growingly more annoying RMS high horse crowd.. which has become more and more of a turnoff to many (there was an article the other day about how people are migrating away from GPL in general).
OpenOffice was fine if you dropped the "dot org" part, which most people did.
I suspected as such, yes ;p
I made the comment more for my own humor than as an attempt to actually argue against such a silly point.
Interestingly the fact that my reply got an AC response along the same cadance implies there is at least some human involvement.. which is neat.
The big reason web mail probably still persists for most (at the very least most non-geeks) is because it's so damn simple. Downloading and configuring a mail client isn't complicated.. but it's a step you don't have to do with web mail.
Now we can easily enable IMAP on our gmail account and use our own client on our own computer, but to the average user, what is the value gained for effort expended.
But most people always read email from the same computer
I think most people browse from at least two (home and work) .. and many three (home, work, and their smartphone). Again, yes you could use IMAP at home and the web client at work and on the phone.. but it's hard to find any added value even for a geek, much less an average user.
All the point by point comparisons I've seen of the two were blatantly one sides and obvious astroturfing.
Obviously if you focus entirely on browser features and ignore game elements.. the browser is going to come out on top...
I used to do something like that.. In the early 90's, using Netscape composer and the email account my ISP provided me.
Point is, people migrated to web mail clients for a reason.. if we are talking about getting the masses on board, telling them to take a step backwards for some functionality they probably don't care about is somewhat silly.
This of course assumes the person receiving the spoofed email bothers to read the dialog telling them the signature did not match (and that's assuming their client even checking).