Maybe you should talk to the recording artist you borrowed from. Lets get passed the RIAA and post the blame on the artist. Unless it's Metallica, I would hope a musician understood the importance of viewing art and the value of education. In the end, if the artist doesn't value education and museums, you'll probably gain a spot on some random news channel and start the next anti-RIAA movement. If people aren't buying a particular artist because the artist enforced the RIAA's settlement policy, I have a sneaky suspicion consumers wouldn't purchase as many of the artists songs, in effect cutting into the profits of the recording industry. I should probably get my checkbook ready after making a statement against the RIAA; I still have a semester left of school.
I thought the CD was suppose to cost less than the tape?.!
I thought this was slashdot..."news for nerds" Since when was reading about building a budget box worth my time? Want to know what my budget box is? The garage sale down the street for a $15 monitor and the local university scrapping last years computers for $100 even. Thank you and good day.
It's disgusting to see all of the pro Apple people not being subjective here. Back in the "day" all Apple people would say was how great the video was on his/her computer opposed to that of a pc. Not long after, quietly under the table nobody seems to be willing to attack Apple. So, now we know Apple laptop screens BLOW (just take a look at a Sony and you'll see who really owns the laptop screen.), Apple isn't the fastest computer, so no more of the b/s line about "oh, it's not an Intel based processor so an Apple running at 500mhz is actually equal to your 1ghz" comments that flooded my mind for the last ten years. And last but not least Apple doesn't have the best sound card for my home recording studio. It's all mediocre crap stuffed into a pretty case running Unix.
The real genius behind Apple is Unix. Will a pc manufacture hurry and come out with laptops that look the part as well as perform the part? Enough of these $500 64bit power desktop replacements. Lets think about the toys to go along with the laptop. Give me a magnetic power supply detachment, a clean and handy wall adapter, a thinner notebook, better headphones, and I guess that's it. If electronic manufactures put more time into appearance, we'd have a world full of Apples.
Yes, I blame Steve Jobs(not gonna give him the uber cool nick SJ, because I don't know him, we're not boys, thugs, hommies, or whatever we call people these days) for over rating his new Intel based products. We would all rape Nvidia, ATI, Intel, and AMD if they told us the wrong specs. If Apple is going to take five years before the processor reaches its advertised speed, don't be a salesman. Be an honest person and tell me the current speed. You're not working at a frickin' car dealership. We're not buying your computer for CPU speed, we're buying it for Unix and its sleek appearance.
But in the end, come on, who realy believed the advertised speed? And who didn't just say, "I want one" before we had any idea about the CPU speed?
If you're going to spend the money on a Beowulf cluster, I suspect you have a network security engineer or someone acting in a similar fashion. If a user was given sudo access to change permissions, move, and copy files how would you manage these changes? Do you plan on keeping a log book with the changes you've made, why they were made, and the positive/negative effects of the changes you made? In a small business of around one or two administrators sudo access loses a bit of its charm since they literally are root. Once random workers go around the office changing files, your risk management and security plan are basically screwed.
For starters, since you're asking this question about giving sub-root users sudo access, I feel your security engineer isn't working at his best. Having you guys believe in his work and understanding why his activities are needed is important in maintaining a secure environment. Obviously you question his motives.
I do have a question. If you're going to be given access to commands such as mv and cp, what stops corporate espionage in this situation? Is it a log file the admin must scavenge through for days just to search for an inconspicuous cp without an attached reason for the commands execution?
Will wireless jamming become a problem? I'm going to be optimistic on this one and hope Tempe pulls it off. Why? Because I live here. I'm worried that wireless security just isn't up to speed though. I see this becoming the heart of a massive spoofing, sniffing, and poisoning ring.
Is this new? A proof of concept for any encryption cracking should be a video game patch. So it stands on top for a couple hours, only to be knocked down by crackers a short time later. Is this really something new? Every time a new patch comes out it's like the world expects it to stop everything.
Lets be realistic, if we didn't leave our trash on the table at the mall where would the guy that gets paid to clean it up go? Same with security. If we didn't have people to break into stuff, where would all the security professionals go? There's no stopping it, might as well enjoy it. Keep quantum costly and that will be its firewall, keep quantum available to only the elite and that will be the encryption, put it on newegg and watch me buy one, meaning the technology is no longer useful and has been hacked.
I truly don't see how anything that travels outside of ones' self could ever be secure. As soon as your password reaches your fingertips and is typed, data is no longer secure.
I have an asterisk server setup to serve myself, and have commercial hard phone access. Can we get an estimate on the maintenance cost? Businesses don't want to leave the blame on themselves. I definitely see the boom in your normal ISP serving up voip, but I don't see your local tech company serving up its own voip. Asterisk isn't a tough setup, but asterisk isn't the only thing needing setup. I think security might want to take a chunk out of the costs.
If asterisk servers end up being the new hip tool, I'm ready for the next hip hack, Asterisk war driving. Wireless access at these "affordable" technology companies and "affordable" voip access gives way to free phone calls for sniffers. So we've "war driven" bluetooth, wifi, netcams, security cams; oh ya, I'm ready for voip. Come to think of it, take a stroll within a few feet of my apartment and have a phone call. Access is free!!
I'm also a college student without a life. So maybe I'm being a bit tough on the security end, but even though everyone is different, I'm sure I'm not the only curious kid.
Ya I'm human, but Hollywood Video still creates a dark dungeon atmosphere for the video game section. Let me live the surreal life, I don't want to be human. Back to the basics, have we all not heard about this everyday for the last couple of years? I get the point, gamers are no longer your dungeons and dragons people. They're sexy man beasts like me!
I'm a bit out of sync here, so less sleep makes you fat, but too much sleep is a form of depression. Then depression leads to weight gain? There's a study for everything and you can push that study to favor either side. This is just another story, story in every meaning. Obese people are so because they lack physical activity. Asleep or awake they're all lying horizontal.
Sony could finally have a chance to capitalize on it's proprietary formats. The PSP uses a memory stick and if enough people purchase memory sticks this will indeed encourage them to purchase more products that use the memory stick because they already own the media. Similar to the reasons Nintendo customers love the reuse of there gameboy uno games, and the playstation 2 appeased to playstation 1 owners.
Sony has a great opportunity to take a chunk of the electronics market if it can successfully lure new buyers to purchase any of there products. Unfortunately Sony seems to change there media as often as new products come out. AKA my new sony dsc-t1 camera uses memory stick duo instead of the classic memory stick. Now I have to buy new media. I'm gonna get tired of this someday, don't know when, but someday.
As far as only selling 500k due to lack of hardware. I don't understand how this is possible. Once or twice by mistake, but repeatedly happening is just non-sense. Playstation 2 "slim" for most recent example. If sony were to raise prices and create an artificial lack of supply I would understand, but they don't change the price of the product. End consumers are changing that price through Ebay, but sony isn't reaping the benefits of this. Maybe sony is playing it safe and testing the waters before releasing a huge order. Better yet, giving them the ability to sustain a higher priced final good.
I'm lost on the marketing scheme Sony uses, but it works on me, since I'm typing on a sony laptop, taking pictures on a sony camera, video taping on a sony camcorder, and saving my information on sony media. Darn I guess they got me. Pure brilliance. I won't buy the PSP because, well, I still own my gameboy 1 from 1990 and it still works. That's more than I can say for many playstaion 2's and this memory stick slot that died on my laptop last week. If sony didn't look so damn good I probably wouldn't own soo many sony goods. I also want a Sony Aibo, yep uses sony memory stick and this sony wireless card I have. Unfortunately I can't afford an Aibo and I'm sitting at college student status for another couple years. Sony, I'm due for some Sony reward miles!!!
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What has Knoppix brought into my life as a linux user? More questions from new users. And new users always seem to start with Knoppix, only later to give up on Linux.
I'm glad to see Linux growing in popularity, but the first thing I tell friends when they ask me a question about a problem with his/her knoppix install is, "Install slackware or a full install of a linux distro." The theory behind Knoppix and cd installs is little effort and less dedication. It's a low risk to throw a cd in and walla have linux running without having to destroy data or take the extra measure of partitioning a disk.
My new answer to a friends question will be, "check out this new book, it answers everything." If they show the dedication to read it, I will proudly look into helping more. It just too bad that some won't take the time to do so, but only linger around asking for help from others. I love the linux motto of just sending people links to a wiki to solve their problems.
When I first entered the linux world I hated being sent from wiki to wiki, I felt like a peon and people were treating me like one, but the entire tribulation of sending me here and there really encouraged me to keep going. It's an addicting travel. Let's treat this book as a beginners step to beginning. Please stop the non-sense of beginner Knoppix users!! VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!
The point I received from this article wasn't to find another hundred ways to prove the article wrong, but to prove the statisticians that have advertised to the world for at least five years if not longer that the video game industry is larger than the movie industry wrong. That's just a flat out lie. It just makes the story sound more exciting when you can compare it to, let's say this together "The movie Industry". Now you have all eyes watching as you present the game industry. This hidden dark dungeon of money. It's all bull. Flat out, the movie industry makes more, screw the fact that games get pirated; would that put them over the game industry? NO, because then you would counter sue with the fact that the movie industry is being pirated. I'm glad to finally see that the movie industry makes plenty of money and the video game industry is peeking at half the movie industries profits; which we've been told were less than that of the "video entertainment" industry. Movies make more, no more bull from CNN about this massive industry overtaking the world! So does this mean there's room for growth?
We can send just enough power to the lan card to have it start the computer, so why not leave just enough power to the memory to keep the system up. I guess that's what standby tries to do, but poorly accomplishes.
Fossil fuels are killing the ozone, but If I'm not mistaken, within the last year a study came out about wind mills and the harm they cause. Wind power doesn't solve anything long term.
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Maybe you should talk to the recording artist you borrowed from. Lets get passed the RIAA and post the blame on the artist. Unless it's Metallica, I would hope a musician understood the importance of viewing art and the value of education. In the end, if the artist doesn't value education and museums, you'll probably gain a spot on some random news channel and start the next anti-RIAA movement. If people aren't buying a particular artist because the artist enforced the RIAA's settlement policy, I have a sneaky suspicion consumers wouldn't purchase as many of the artists songs, in effect cutting into the profits of the recording industry. I should probably get my checkbook ready after making a statement against the RIAA; I still have a semester left of school.
I thought the CD was suppose to cost less than the tape?.!
I thought this was slashdot..."news for nerds" Since when was reading about building a budget box worth my time? Want to know what my budget box is? The garage sale down the street for a $15 monitor and the local university scrapping last years computers for $100 even. Thank you and good day.
But I thought Gentoo was only for ricers? Obviously Gentoo is the superior flavor.
What if I told you I didn't pay a dime for my OS?
It's disgusting to see all of the pro Apple people not being subjective here. Back in the "day" all Apple people would say was how great the video was on his/her computer opposed to that of a pc. Not long after, quietly under the table nobody seems to be willing to attack Apple. So, now we know Apple laptop screens BLOW (just take a look at a Sony and you'll see who really owns the laptop screen.), Apple isn't the fastest computer, so no more of the b/s line about "oh, it's not an Intel based processor so an Apple running at 500mhz is actually equal to your 1ghz" comments that flooded my mind for the last ten years. And last but not least Apple doesn't have the best sound card for my home recording studio. It's all mediocre crap stuffed into a pretty case running Unix.
The real genius behind Apple is Unix. Will a pc manufacture hurry and come out with laptops that look the part as well as perform the part? Enough of these $500 64bit power desktop replacements. Lets think about the toys to go along with the laptop. Give me a magnetic power supply detachment, a clean and handy wall adapter, a thinner notebook, better headphones, and I guess that's it. If electronic manufactures put more time into appearance, we'd have a world full of Apples.
Yes, I blame Steve Jobs(not gonna give him the uber cool nick SJ, because I don't know him, we're not boys, thugs, hommies, or whatever we call people these days) for over rating his new Intel based products. We would all rape Nvidia, ATI, Intel, and AMD if they told us the wrong specs. If Apple is going to take five years before the processor reaches its advertised speed, don't be a salesman. Be an honest person and tell me the current speed. You're not working at a frickin' car dealership. We're not buying your computer for CPU speed, we're buying it for Unix and its sleek appearance.
But in the end, come on, who realy believed the advertised speed? And who didn't just say, "I want one" before we had any idea about the CPU speed?
If you're going to spend the money on a Beowulf cluster, I suspect you have a network security engineer or someone acting in a similar fashion. If a user was given sudo access to change permissions, move, and copy files how would you manage these changes? Do you plan on keeping a log book with the changes you've made, why they were made, and the positive/negative effects of the changes you made? In a small business of around one or two administrators sudo access loses a bit of its charm since they literally are root. Once random workers go around the office changing files, your risk management and security plan are basically screwed.
For starters, since you're asking this question about giving sub-root users sudo access, I feel your security engineer isn't working at his best. Having you guys believe in his work and understanding why his activities are needed is important in maintaining a secure environment. Obviously you question his motives.
I do have a question. If you're going to be given access to commands such as mv and cp, what stops corporate espionage in this situation? Is it a log file the admin must scavenge through for days just to search for an inconspicuous cp without an attached reason for the commands execution?
Will wireless jamming become a problem? I'm going to be optimistic on this one and hope Tempe pulls it off. Why? Because I live here. I'm worried that wireless security just isn't up to speed though. I see this becoming the heart of a massive spoofing, sniffing, and poisoning ring.
Is this new? A proof of concept for any encryption cracking should be a video game patch. So it stands on top for a couple hours, only to be knocked down by crackers a short time later. Is this really something new? Every time a new patch comes out it's like the world expects it to stop everything.
Lets be realistic, if we didn't leave our trash on the table at the mall where would the guy that gets paid to clean it up go? Same with security. If we didn't have people to break into stuff, where would all the security professionals go? There's no stopping it, might as well enjoy it. Keep quantum costly and that will be its firewall, keep quantum available to only the elite and that will be the encryption, put it on newegg and watch me buy one, meaning the technology is no longer useful and has been hacked.
I truly don't see how anything that travels outside of ones' self could ever be secure. As soon as your password reaches your fingertips and is typed, data is no longer secure.
I have an asterisk server setup to serve myself, and have commercial hard phone access. Can we get an estimate on the maintenance cost? Businesses don't want to leave the blame on themselves. I definitely see the boom in your normal ISP serving up voip, but I don't see your local tech company serving up its own voip. Asterisk isn't a tough setup, but asterisk isn't the only thing needing setup. I think security might want to take a chunk out of the costs.
If asterisk servers end up being the new hip tool, I'm ready for the next hip hack, Asterisk war driving. Wireless access at these "affordable" technology companies and "affordable" voip access gives way to free phone calls for sniffers. So we've "war driven" bluetooth, wifi, netcams, security cams; oh ya, I'm ready for voip. Come to think of it, take a stroll within a few feet of my apartment and have a phone call. Access is free!!
I'm also a college student without a life. So maybe I'm being a bit tough on the security end, but even though everyone is different, I'm sure I'm not the only curious kid.
Ya I'm human, but Hollywood Video still creates a dark dungeon atmosphere for the video game section. Let me live the surreal life, I don't want to be human. Back to the basics, have we all not heard about this everyday for the last couple of years? I get the point, gamers are no longer your dungeons and dragons people. They're sexy man beasts like me!
I'm a bit out of sync here, so less sleep makes you fat, but too much sleep is a form of depression. Then depression leads to weight gain? There's a study for everything and you can push that study to favor either side. This is just another story, story in every meaning. Obese people are so because they lack physical activity. Asleep or awake they're all lying horizontal.
Sony could finally have a chance to capitalize on it's proprietary formats. The PSP uses a memory stick and if enough people purchase memory sticks this will indeed encourage them to purchase more products that use the memory stick because they already own the media. Similar to the reasons Nintendo customers love the reuse of there gameboy uno games, and the playstation 2 appeased to playstation 1 owners.
Sony has a great opportunity to take a chunk of the electronics market if it can successfully lure new buyers to purchase any of there products. Unfortunately Sony seems to change there media as often as new products come out. AKA my new sony dsc-t1 camera uses memory stick duo instead of the classic memory stick. Now I have to buy new media. I'm gonna get tired of this someday, don't know when, but someday.
As far as only selling 500k due to lack of hardware. I don't understand how this is possible. Once or twice by mistake, but repeatedly happening is just non-sense. Playstation 2 "slim" for most recent example. If sony were to raise prices and create an artificial lack of supply I would understand, but they don't change the price of the product. End consumers are changing that price through Ebay, but sony isn't reaping the benefits of this. Maybe sony is playing it safe and testing the waters before releasing a huge order. Better yet, giving them the ability to sustain a higher priced final good.
I'm lost on the marketing scheme Sony uses, but it works on me, since I'm typing on a sony laptop, taking pictures on a sony camera, video taping on a sony camcorder, and saving my information on sony media. Darn I guess they got me. Pure brilliance. I won't buy the PSP because, well, I still own my gameboy 1 from 1990 and it still works. That's more than I can say for many playstaion 2's and this memory stick slot that died on my laptop last week. If sony didn't look so damn good I probably wouldn't own soo many sony goods. I also want a Sony Aibo, yep uses sony memory stick and this sony wireless card I have. Unfortunately I can't afford an Aibo and I'm sitting at college student status for another couple years. Sony, I'm due for some Sony reward miles!!!
What has Knoppix brought into my life as a linux user? More questions from new users. And new users always seem to start with Knoppix, only later to give up on Linux.
I'm glad to see Linux growing in popularity, but the first thing I tell friends when they ask me a question about a problem with his/her knoppix install is, "Install slackware or a full install of a linux distro." The theory behind Knoppix and cd installs is little effort and less dedication. It's a low risk to throw a cd in and walla have linux running without having to destroy data or take the extra measure of partitioning a disk.
My new answer to a friends question will be, "check out this new book, it answers everything." If they show the dedication to read it, I will proudly look into helping more. It just too bad that some won't take the time to do so, but only linger around asking for help from others. I love the linux motto of just sending people links to a wiki to solve their problems.
When I first entered the linux world I hated being sent from wiki to wiki, I felt like a peon and people were treating me like one, but the entire tribulation of sending me here and there really encouraged me to keep going. It's an addicting travel. Let's treat this book as a beginners step to beginning. Please stop the non-sense of beginner Knoppix users!! VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!
The point I received from this article wasn't to find another hundred ways to prove the article wrong, but to prove the statisticians that have advertised to the world for at least five years if not longer that the video game industry is larger than the movie industry wrong. That's just a flat out lie. It just makes the story sound more exciting when you can compare it to, let's say this together "The movie Industry". Now you have all eyes watching as you present the game industry. This hidden dark dungeon of money. It's all bull. Flat out, the movie industry makes more, screw the fact that games get pirated; would that put them over the game industry? NO, because then you would counter sue with the fact that the movie industry is being pirated. I'm glad to finally see that the movie industry makes plenty of money and the video game industry is peeking at half the movie industries profits; which we've been told were less than that of the "video entertainment" industry. Movies make more, no more bull from CNN about this massive industry overtaking the world! So does this mean there's room for growth?
We can send just enough power to the lan card to have it start the computer, so why not leave just enough power to the memory to keep the system up. I guess that's what standby tries to do, but poorly accomplishes.
found a site that is subject to the concerns. http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRe publish_1227393.htm
Fossil fuels are killing the ozone, but If I'm not mistaken, within the last year a study came out about wind mills and the harm they cause. Wind power doesn't solve anything long term.