Yeah, what the worlds needs is some disgruntled employee putting a computer in their office that will dump client data out a particular port without IT knowing what is going on.
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Besides, it shouldn't kill them to white list your server on one freaking port.
No... It can kill them. You're running an application that isn't approved, and they haven't weighed the vulnerabilities. An open port is always a target for exploitation, which is why the IT department needs to be able to audit the machine and ensure what software is installed, so they can mitigate those vulnerabilities.
I'm going to guess that if this person set up a server just say, in their office, this machine is on a network segment that may not be as firewalled-off as a data center may be. That means if something malicious does happen to this server, there's a greater chance of infection elsewhere, as well as some risk of productivity loss. Besides, the machine itself doesn't have to be the target of attack-- it can just be the jumping-off point for something bigger, once they've installed tools to probe the network.
Especially when you're in a healthcare setting, privacy is a big issue. You could conceivably have someone post patient data in a calendar appointment, even. If that connection isn't TLS encrypted, and the devices not properly managed, it just takes one theft of a device sitting in a coffee shop to result in a serious breach of privacy and patient trust, even if the thief doesn't access the data that might be contained on the device.
On top of that, my son is on the autism spectrum. Receiving a reward at home, maybe an hour or so later, is well beyond his present understanding.
You should have mentioned that in the first place. Yes, you can keep a child quiet and calm in a new and intriguing environment without handing them some device like an iPod. Parents have done it for years. You have a special circumstance where you've found an approach that works that might honestly be ill-advised for others.
It is just as modular as any other OS now-- they just don't provide the users the opportunity to change the shell or other components.
The iPhone is just as open as any other device now -- they just don't provide the users the opportunity to change the applications or other components.
There's a difference between "open" and "modular"-- "modular" simply means interchangeable components, and implies nothing about who is capable or authorized to do it. Conversely, just because something is "open", that doesn't mean it's going to be trivial to yank out one component and replace it with another, just because one has the source code or schematics for it.
Have you really been paying attention to the latest Windows OS's? Server 2008 isn't "monolithic"-- if you look at Server Core, there's not even an "explorer" to run. There's just a command shell, sitting on top of the Windows kernel.
I'm not a fanboi, but I do give credit where credit is due-- It's been a long time since Windows was as monolithic as you are suggesting. It is just as modular as any other OS now-- they just don't provide the users the opportunity to change the shell or other components. In this sense, it's perfectly reasonable to say that there's a modified Windows kernel, and WP7 just has a different interface to that kernel, same as iOS, or Android.
(Dell warranties may not like you having 3rd part ram)
Not true. If you put in 3rd party RAM, they just expect you to take it out or put in the OEM RAM before they troubleshoot it. And it makes sense-- you go and buy some "high density" crap RAM from PriceWatch that isn't guaranteed to work with the chipset on the machine, it's just standard practice to make sure that it isn't causing the problem.
Easier, yes, but according to the agreement(s) you agree to when starting the PC for the first time that might invalidate the PC's warranty. That kind of greasy dickery is hardly beyond them.
Sorry that's just not true. Computer companies are bound by the terms of their warranties to make sure their hardware works. If you've installed another OS, or wiped what was there, they still have to troubleshoot and/or replace parts.
It's called integration. If you're going to participate in a certain society, then you have to follow that society's norms. It doesn't matter what YOUR culture follows, you're participating in a DIFFERENT culture now.
Take your hypothetical island. Would I have legal recourse if someone was murdered, being it's not against the law? Probably not. But, I'm not longer in MY society, where outright murder is illegal. But, you mean to tell me there's still not repercussions and negative consequences to an act like murder, theft, or fraud?
Take murder. You have no idea what that person could have had planned. The victim could have been on his/her way to pick up a sick relative. The victim could have been the bread winner of a household, and now that family is going to struggle.
Theft: You took a resource that didn't belong to you. The rightful owner of that resource now is inconvenienced, if not put through outright hardship by not having that item. Steal money from that person; that may have been their food money, or rent money. Now that person is potentially hungry or out of a home. Fraud can be placed in the same category, because it is essentially theft by deception.
THAT is the part that defies culture. There are repercussions to the action, and generally it's someone else losing out because you've done something dishonest, rather than working through conventional means to get your due. If a culture doesn't recognize that the action is dishonest, fine, but I really doubt that the victims who have the act perpetrated upon them are going to be so peachy with what happened.
As for this particular group of people, they were interfacing with a culture that frowns upon theft and fraud. As such, THEY were wrong. Using your own logic, they attempted to force their beliefs that theft and fraud was OK, which conflicted with the culture they were contacting. That imposition of beliefs is wrong.
I don't know about you, but to me, the "context" (not culture) of a theft sometimes makes a difference.
E.g. stealing $10 when your family are starving is and entirely different thing than stealing $10 million when you are filthy rich.
Think about that.
...Not to me. Theft is theft. You're taking a resource from someone else that you didn't work for, and that you haven't earned. You have no idea what that $10 could have been allocated for-- you may have just taken $10 that was going to go to you anyways, out of a charity, perhaps. There's really no reason for it.
With as little faith as I have in humanity, I still do feel like there are enough resources out there that you don't have to steal in order to survive. There is enough charity (I don't mean charitable organizations, just people willing to give and to help) that you can get by.
We are talking the Ukraine here. Let's not automatically superimpose American sensibilities on someone that comes from a drastically different culture and lifestyle.
Let's have a little charity for someone who hasn't grown up as extravagantly privileged as us.
I've never understood this rationale. How is theft in the Ukraine any different from theft anywhere else? I'm sure many people make an honest living there, just like every other country. You can't put a "cultural" spin on fraud or theft.
is VT really significant? VMware on a CPU without VT works just fine, doesn't it?
Yes, but there are many applications where having VT will improve the performance of the VM. If you do a lot of virtualization, you'll definitely want it.
I think, though, what the GP was trying to get at is that the Linux Journal is kind of a "mainstream" Linux publication. Articles about Linux-powered sump pumps are great examples of "look what we can port it to", but overall they do nothing to encourage widespread Linux adoption by average users.
So, what does one do when one has to reinstall Windows? That happens often enough that it becomes a PITA to have to keep unplugging and shuffling drives around to keep their installer from finding and f*cking up every other partition.
Generally, Windows wants to boot from the FIRST partition of the FIRST drive. There are tricks you can use to get around this-- GRUB has methods of remapping devices and partitions so Windows "thinks" it's on the right drive. But, generally, you install Windows first, to first partition of our first drive, and then install the other OSes afterward. If you have to install Windows again, generally other OS install discs come with some kind of "rescue mode" where you can re-install your bootloader. For instance, you could use an Ubuntu CD, and with a few steps, restore the bootloader you had from the menu.lst file that grub created when you first installed Ubuntu.
But, as an aside, it's been my experience that having to reinstall Windows frequently is becoming more and more of a myth. I've had my Windows XP install running now just fine since I built my machine (over 2 years now), and the Vista install I have on another desktop has been chugging along for about a year and a half. Both machines are dual-booting with some other form of Linux or BSD...
Here on my prepaid phone (Net10), it costs $0.05 to even READ a text message, and minutes are used on incoming calls. That sucks for wrong numbers, telemarketers, and SMS spam...
It doesn't matter what language you actually program in, but your productivity and efficiency is greatly impacted by how well versed in profanity you are, especially after getting your compiler errors, and not understanding them.
...Well I know this is totally off-topic at this point, but I'd go for the Camaro, personally. I had the same experience with the leg-room, and I could, albeit uncomfortably, fit people in the back of the thing, still.
Personally, from a reliability stand point, I think they're about even, though. Fortunately, Mustangs and Camaros, IMHO, aren't "Sports Cars", where you need to take them to a dealer for service all the time. You can change the oil yourself, and do most repairs, and not worry about fouling things up. At least, that's how it's been on every pre-2002 Camaro or Mustang I have worked with...
I have to throw in my 2 cents, being 1.95m tall (6'5") and right at 240lbs. I'm considered "Average" build, I guess you could say. A few years back, I had trouble fitting in a giant Ford F-250 crew cab. There was NO way I was fitting in the back seat, and when it became my turn to drive, I couldn't make the seat lower enough so that my head wouldn't hit the ceiling.
I owned a 1991 Honda Civic hatch back. Not bad, but not that great, either. I had to lean the seat back so far that it basically eliminated a spot for someone to sit behind me.
...This has been the story of my life. Right now I drive an '02 Cadillac Deville. It fits perfectly; in fact, I have leg room to spare, and still can fit someone behind me in that car. I've driven many models of light pickup trucks and compact cars (Kia, Honda, Chevrolet, Toyota, Nissan, and Pontiac), and I have pretty much had to grin and bear "scrunching up" my legs to fit under the steering wheel. Heck, even a lot of Ford Mustang models give me trouble, as do "mid-sized" cars like the Ford Taurus or Lexus ES300.
Personally, I'm waiting for the time to come for larger cars to start getting greater fuel efficiency. If I could have a car like a Chevy Impala or a Cadillac Deville that got 35+ miles to the gallon, I'd totally be there.
do Linux any favors with the half-assed customized version of Xandros they chose, anyways. At least, not on the 900A. It was crippled, and after the first update, you didn't have any disk space left with a 4GB SSD!
ASUS would have made a more palatable choice had they chosen an OS configuration that was actually usable, as well as being more customizable than the almost broken OS they installed on there.
Dude if my computer came back smelling like smoke, I'd be asking for a refund, as well as a replacement of every component that smelled like smoke.
Not that I would need to take any of my machines to a repair shop, but if I did, I'd take it to Geek Squad before I would take it into a place that reeked of smoke in the back room.
Totally willing to be modded off-topic here-- my karma can stand the hit.
I watched the episode on the Tesla. I think the only bad impression I did get from it was the mileage on the battery. Sure, they were driving the car hard, but the life span didn't seem up to par.
Since the car is based off of the Lotus Elise, people will buy it because it looks (and, in fact is,) sporty. As such, they're going to drive it with a bit of a lead foot, with hard take-offs, and perhaps even a bit more speed than an average driver on the roads. When you factor those two things in, I doubt you'll get the 200 mile range that they advertise-- probably more like 100, or less. In the Top Gear review, they got 55 miles under hard driving conditions, and then had to switch to their secondary car, which subsequently overheated and then had some major subsystem failure....
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Yeah, what the worlds needs is some disgruntled employee putting a computer in their office that will dump client data out a particular port without IT knowing what is going on.
Besides, it shouldn't kill them to white list your server on one freaking port.
No... It can kill them. You're running an application that isn't approved, and they haven't weighed the vulnerabilities. An open port is always a target for exploitation, which is why the IT department needs to be able to audit the machine and ensure what software is installed, so they can mitigate those vulnerabilities.
I'm going to guess that if this person set up a server just say, in their office, this machine is on a network segment that may not be as firewalled-off as a data center may be. That means if something malicious does happen to this server, there's a greater chance of infection elsewhere, as well as some risk of productivity loss. Besides, the machine itself doesn't have to be the target of attack-- it can just be the jumping-off point for something bigger, once they've installed tools to probe the network.
Especially when you're in a healthcare setting, privacy is a big issue. You could conceivably have someone post patient data in a calendar appointment, even. If that connection isn't TLS encrypted, and the devices not properly managed, it just takes one theft of a device sitting in a coffee shop to result in a serious breach of privacy and patient trust, even if the thief doesn't access the data that might be contained on the device.
On top of that, my son is on the autism spectrum. Receiving a reward at home, maybe an hour or so later, is well beyond his present understanding.
You should have mentioned that in the first place. Yes, you can keep a child quiet and calm in a new and intriguing environment without handing them some device like an iPod. Parents have done it for years. You have a special circumstance where you've found an approach that works that might honestly be ill-advised for others.
It is just as modular as any other OS now-- they just don't provide the users the opportunity to change the shell or other components.
The iPhone is just as open as any other device now -- they just don't provide the users the opportunity to change the applications or other components.
There's a difference between "open" and "modular"-- "modular" simply means interchangeable components, and implies nothing about who is capable or authorized to do it. Conversely, just because something is "open", that doesn't mean it's going to be trivial to yank out one component and replace it with another, just because one has the source code or schematics for it.
Have you really been paying attention to the latest Windows OS's? Server 2008 isn't "monolithic"-- if you look at Server Core, there's not even an "explorer" to run. There's just a command shell, sitting on top of the Windows kernel.
I'm not a fanboi, but I do give credit where credit is due-- It's been a long time since Windows was as monolithic as you are suggesting. It is just as modular as any other OS now-- they just don't provide the users the opportunity to change the shell or other components. In this sense, it's perfectly reasonable to say that there's a modified Windows kernel, and WP7 just has a different interface to that kernel, same as iOS, or Android.
(Dell warranties may not like you having 3rd part ram)
Not true. If you put in 3rd party RAM, they just expect you to take it out or put in the OEM RAM before they troubleshoot it. And it makes sense-- you go and buy some "high density" crap RAM from PriceWatch that isn't guaranteed to work with the chipset on the machine, it's just standard practice to make sure that it isn't causing the problem.
Actually, the new Windows Phone 7 is supposed to be pretty slick...
Easier, yes, but according to the agreement(s) you agree to when starting the PC for the first time that might invalidate the PC's warranty. That kind of greasy dickery is hardly beyond them.
Sorry that's just not true. Computer companies are bound by the terms of their warranties to make sure their hardware works. If you've installed another OS, or wiped what was there, they still have to troubleshoot and/or replace parts.
I think he was comparing Doom, saying it was released 3 years after Ultima VI.
Actually... There are public waves. You can search for waves with a "Public" attribute on them, that anyone can follow.
...No.
It's called integration. If you're going to participate in a certain society, then you have to follow that society's norms. It doesn't matter what YOUR culture follows, you're participating in a DIFFERENT culture now.
Take your hypothetical island. Would I have legal recourse if someone was murdered, being it's not against the law? Probably not. But, I'm not longer in MY society, where outright murder is illegal. But, you mean to tell me there's still not repercussions and negative consequences to an act like murder, theft, or fraud?
Take murder. You have no idea what that person could have had planned. The victim could have been on his/her way to pick up a sick relative. The victim could have been the bread winner of a household, and now that family is going to struggle.
Theft: You took a resource that didn't belong to you. The rightful owner of that resource now is inconvenienced, if not put through outright hardship by not having that item. Steal money from that person; that may have been their food money, or rent money. Now that person is potentially hungry or out of a home. Fraud can be placed in the same category, because it is essentially theft by deception.
THAT is the part that defies culture. There are repercussions to the action, and generally it's someone else losing out because you've done something dishonest, rather than working through conventional means to get your due. If a culture doesn't recognize that the action is dishonest, fine, but I really doubt that the victims who have the act perpetrated upon them are going to be so peachy with what happened.
As for this particular group of people, they were interfacing with a culture that frowns upon theft and fraud. As such, THEY were wrong. Using your own logic, they attempted to force their beliefs that theft and fraud was OK, which conflicted with the culture they were contacting. That imposition of beliefs is wrong.
I don't know about you, but to me, the "context" (not culture) of a theft sometimes makes a difference.
E.g. stealing $10 when your family are starving is and entirely different thing than stealing $10 million when you are filthy rich.
Think about that.
With as little faith as I have in humanity, I still do feel like there are enough resources out there that you don't have to steal in order to survive. There is enough charity (I don't mean charitable organizations, just people willing to give and to help) that you can get by.
We are talking the Ukraine here. Let's not automatically superimpose American sensibilities on someone that comes from a drastically different culture and lifestyle.
Let's have a little charity for someone who hasn't grown up as extravagantly privileged as us.
I've never understood this rationale. How is theft in the Ukraine any different from theft anywhere else? I'm sure many people make an honest living there, just like every other country. You can't put a "cultural" spin on fraud or theft.
No, they're still around. There are at least 5-6 of them here in Nashville, TN. Although there were more...
I dunno man... Al Qaeda might be all over it...
is VT really significant? VMware on a CPU without VT works just fine, doesn't it?
Yes, but there are many applications where having VT will improve the performance of the VM. If you do a lot of virtualization, you'll definitely want it.
I think, though, what the GP was trying to get at is that the Linux Journal is kind of a "mainstream" Linux publication. Articles about Linux-powered sump pumps are great examples of "look what we can port it to", but overall they do nothing to encourage widespread Linux adoption by average users.
So, I had a friend who regrew his foreskin twice after circumcision in a similar manner.... Actually, I believe his father did as well.
Sounds to me that's natures way of saying, "Stop that shit!"
So, what does one do when one has to reinstall Windows? That happens often enough that it becomes a PITA to have to keep unplugging and shuffling drives around to keep their installer from finding and f*cking up every other partition.
Generally, Windows wants to boot from the FIRST partition of the FIRST drive. There are tricks you can use to get around this-- GRUB has methods of remapping devices and partitions so Windows "thinks" it's on the right drive. But, generally, you install Windows first, to first partition of our first drive, and then install the other OSes afterward. If you have to install Windows again, generally other OS install discs come with some kind of "rescue mode" where you can re-install your bootloader. For instance, you could use an Ubuntu CD, and with a few steps, restore the bootloader you had from the menu.lst file that grub created when you first installed Ubuntu.
But, as an aside, it's been my experience that having to reinstall Windows frequently is becoming more and more of a myth. I've had my Windows XP install running now just fine since I built my machine (over 2 years now), and the Vista install I have on another desktop has been chugging along for about a year and a half. Both machines are dual-booting with some other form of Linux or BSD...
Here on my prepaid phone (Net10), it costs $0.05 to even READ a text message, and minutes are used on incoming calls. That sucks for wrong numbers, telemarketers, and SMS spam...
Profanity.
It doesn't matter what language you actually program in, but your productivity and efficiency is greatly impacted by how well versed in profanity you are, especially after getting your compiler errors, and not understanding them.
...Well I know this is totally off-topic at this point, but I'd go for the Camaro, personally. I had the same experience with the leg-room, and I could, albeit uncomfortably, fit people in the back of the thing, still.
Personally, from a reliability stand point, I think they're about even, though. Fortunately, Mustangs and Camaros, IMHO, aren't "Sports Cars", where you need to take them to a dealer for service all the time. You can change the oil yourself, and do most repairs, and not worry about fouling things up. At least, that's how it's been on every pre-2002 Camaro or Mustang I have worked with...
I have to throw in my 2 cents, being 1.95m tall (6'5") and right at 240lbs. I'm considered "Average" build, I guess you could say. A few years back, I had trouble fitting in a giant Ford F-250 crew cab. There was NO way I was fitting in the back seat, and when it became my turn to drive, I couldn't make the seat lower enough so that my head wouldn't hit the ceiling.
...This has been the story of my life. Right now I drive an '02 Cadillac Deville. It fits perfectly; in fact, I have leg room to spare, and still can fit someone behind me in that car. I've driven many models of light pickup trucks and compact cars (Kia, Honda, Chevrolet, Toyota, Nissan, and Pontiac), and I have pretty much had to grin and bear "scrunching up" my legs to fit under the steering wheel. Heck, even a lot of Ford Mustang models give me trouble, as do "mid-sized" cars like the Ford Taurus or Lexus ES300.
I owned a 1991 Honda Civic hatch back. Not bad, but not that great, either. I had to lean the seat back so far that it basically eliminated a spot for someone to sit behind me.
Personally, I'm waiting for the time to come for larger cars to start getting greater fuel efficiency. If I could have a car like a Chevy Impala or a Cadillac Deville that got 35+ miles to the gallon, I'd totally be there.
do Linux any favors with the half-assed customized version of Xandros they chose, anyways. At least, not on the 900A. It was crippled, and after the first update, you didn't have any disk space left with a 4GB SSD!
ASUS would have made a more palatable choice had they chosen an OS configuration that was actually usable, as well as being more customizable than the almost broken OS they installed on there.
Dude if my computer came back smelling like smoke, I'd be asking for a refund, as well as a replacement of every component that smelled like smoke.
Not that I would need to take any of my machines to a repair shop, but if I did, I'd take it to Geek Squad before I would take it into a place that reeked of smoke in the back room.
Totally willing to be modded off-topic here-- my karma can stand the hit.
I watched the episode on the Tesla. I think the only bad impression I did get from it was the mileage on the battery. Sure, they were driving the car hard, but the life span didn't seem up to par.
Since the car is based off of the Lotus Elise, people will buy it because it looks (and, in fact is,) sporty. As such, they're going to drive it with a bit of a lead foot, with hard take-offs, and perhaps even a bit more speed than an average driver on the roads. When you factor those two things in, I doubt you'll get the 200 mile range that they advertise-- probably more like 100, or less. In the Top Gear review, they got 55 miles under hard driving conditions, and then had to switch to their secondary car, which subsequently overheated and then had some major subsystem failure....