I was kicked out of my highschool library for knowing too much about their computers and network.
So who learns more in our school system? A student who knows they want to be a programmer from 8 years old or a student with absolutely no clue what they want to do in life? The programmer is going to end up in the US tech sector, barely able to find a job, while the other student will probably end up a manager and get paid well enough to not need a job after a few years.
Learn how to manage money, widgets and people and you can go far. Learn anything else and you'll just have a worthless clue.
History has shown that it is business management that runs the show. We treat employees as slave, always have. They work because they have to, or they can't afford to eat. And we know that. Which is why we have unions, etc. From my perspective anyway, but now I'm getting OT.
Which is why rebooting is a perfectly acceptable solution to fix most windows problems. That sort of mentality is not tolerated in the *nix world. We're serious about quality.
Yeah, what are these experiments? Schoolwide use... is that like enterprise class software? I bet these "experiments" are for whomever said they could implement it to learn how to install RedHat and maybe connect to the internal network. I could very easily swap out the network of most schools with Linux hardware and software providing almost all services they current have in less than a month. I could probably do it in two weeks. And I'm but one linux admin.
Why does it take people so long to figure these things out?
It depends. If you have a Linux expert or a sys admin its certainly more cost effective to use free software than to use expensive software. However, if nobody knows how to do anything at all, then the software isnt' very effective, even though it costs you nothing.
I would say give it a shot and see if you can make it work for you. If you can't, well, I'd probably just think you're stoopid. In which case, go pay as much as you can afford for someone else to solve your problems for you.
Schools should have no excuses when it comes to computer competence. Schools are where we go to get educated, afterall. If they don't know, they shouldn't be in the business of education.
for 64-bit systems I'm going to compare price/performance/compatibility of the hammer and PPC970 platforms before tossing any money at it. I just upgraded to an Athlon MP, which should be more than enough to keep me going for a few years. Got plenty of 1+Ghz systems lying around that make great video consoles.
I would only really use a 64-bit system as a fileserver, capable of storing a single file over a TB in size, if I ever needed that. It would be awesome for backups. Could easily store a single tar file instead of a directory hierarchy. I wonder if I could build a 64-bit 1+TB fileserver for less than $2000 by 2005.
Some nice information I didn't know about minidiscs.:)
But you can get a 256MB CF card for $100. Its stores around 250,000K of data, or about 2,000,000k. Compressing oggs at 128kbps still gives CD quality sound, equivelent to about 160kbps MP3s. That yields 15,625 seconds of audio or around 4 1/3 hours of CD quality music.
The price is impractical, unless you weigh in the benefits. My ogg player connects to my network over 802.11. It stores my data on an SD card, about the same price, and I have the option of having a card range from 32MB to 1024MB. I can use ssh/scp and rsync to move and organize data. And in the future I can use these SD and CF cards in other devices. But its still $5 for 5 hours of minidiscs vs. $100 flash RAM solution.
But let's say we don't care about CD quality music. What if we just need our entire collection of books on tape available on our PDA? Then we can store over 17 hours on that 256MB card or nearly 70 hours of audio on a 1024MB card. I guess it all depends on what you need it for.
The only reason I don't use minidics is because it was a proprietary Sony format and the players cost $500. If the data really is $1 ea and the players have come down in price it might actually be worth it.
That would be funny. Company X spends hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, on making their network secure, then lose hundreds of thousands in lost transactions and downtime because their admins get locked out of their network or don't have access to properly administrate it.
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I'm sure others have said this already, but there's more to security than physical location. You're only as secure as your weakest link. If any unauthorized people can gain physical access to the system you KNOW its insecure. If it uses any unencrypted network protocols it is possibly insecure, depending on what data is transmitted over them, like NFS and possibly SMB, telnet, ftp, etc. Its unlikely that, on a switched network, an attacker could gather much valuable data, but there's always the possibility.
Security is almost a state of mind. If anyone in your company isn't thinking securely and isn't trained to think this way you may be insecure. In short EVERY corporation I've worked for is entirely insecure and could easily be hacked by a professional like myself. Its a good thing I choose to work for the high paying tech industry instead of the high paying black market.
And if you think things are insecure now just wait a couple years as our modern technology pours out into the hands of those black hat script kiddies. A 400Mhz PDA sitting outside your building could be logging and forwarding all wireless communications anywhere and to anyone and nobody would ever know it. That same PDA could easily be walked into a building and connected to a live net drop for an hour at lunch someday, again snooping for useful data. Its only a matter of time before they find something and gain access. Then you're hacked. Its almost that easy, for them.
This is a chicken and egg problem. Alternative energies are innefficient right now because almost no money gets spent on R&D when compared with current coal, oil, gas sources. Someone is making a lot of money on non renewable resources and thinks its better to keep the status quo than to retool to benefit mankind.
In the next 10 years we'll watched half the problems you mentioned disappear. And nuclear fission is not the answer. Nuclear fusion might be, one day, but it is still a very dangerous technology compared with hydrogen or solar cells.
You think so two dimensionally. We are a big hunk of rock floating around the Sun. Just drop some large solar panel arrays in our orbit and collect the energy as we fly by them. Put them to orbit around the moon or even the Earth where they won't cast a shadow. When there's a will there's a way. It seems to me like you haven't given this much thought. None of us have. I say let's give it a chance, eh?
Why not include several of these Soyuz escape pods in the next shuttle? If something goes wrong on reentry, eject, eject. Or have a few of them on the ISS as well, in case they need to make an emergency trip, etc. I wonder how compact we could create a reentry vehicle. Can we make a suit that could deflect the heat and stuff and just open a parachute?
Already got my own. Remember that Sharp Zaurus that came out a year or two ago? It makes an excellent ogg player. And it only cost me around $100 to upgrade the ram enough to store several hours of music. The advantage to using the Zaurus to these other devices is you can have your network and computers manage your music collection for you through ssh and rsync over an 802.11 net. Show me a $100 ogg player that can do it right now and you might get yourself a customer, if I didn't already have one.
I'm an audiophile, of sorts. I listen to my music on studio monitors and play with analog synths if that counts. I noticed that anything above 160kbps MP3 is nearly identical to the original CD, and ogg can almost make it down to 128kbps maintaining similar quality. Personally I prefer 160kbps oggs, but usually I just get lazy and encode everything around 256 in case I get picky sometime down the road. I hate reencoding stuff. Should do it the right way the first time.
But yeah, you're on the right track. In my Zaurus I have a 256MB flash card to store my music on. If I can learn how to either grab a 64kbps stream from those 256kbps files or reencode it all for my portables, I should be able to store about 4 or 5 hours of music on a card the size of a quarter. At 256kbps I currently have over an hour of music on there with over 100MB free.
Don't waste your money on that copy of Windows 95. Get connected to the internet and download Linux instead and go buy a freakin book on C/C++, and learn it this time.
Oh, and forget about those NT classes, they're a waste of your time.
Mitnick wannabes should be put in jail, just like Enron Exec wannabes, or anyone who voted for the PATRIOT ACT. How can you compare the damage Kevin Mitnick did to society to that of those Enron Execs? How many people in california lost their jobs, lost their homes, or lost their money because of a few greedy people in one corporation? And guess what, every corporation has those same few greedy execs, just waiting, drooling to be the next Enron. And they'll get off, too.
But you're right, sir, all hackers/crackers and script kiddies should be executed by law. Specially all the teens that get a kick out of defacing websites or reading about Mitnick. Children are the worst criminals.
Maybe then we can be proactive about terrorists and arrest all the Iraqis living here, detain them indefinitely, etc. There's just no limit to the amount of freedom you want to take from me, is there?
you can run KDE as the filemanager for GNOME 2.x systems. Especially GNOME 2.2+ You can configure KDE to look however you want, possibly even run it without the kicker, and with the RedHat bluecurve theme it can almost match the GNOME applications with slight differences.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against VMWare, its just not my thing. Don't know anything about any ESX server. I do unix and I can't think of any real reason to use something like VMWare with VirtualPC or BOCHS/Plex86, or whatever its called. Obviously I'm not an expert on PC emulation. However, I have had my share of dealings with wine, winex, crossover stuff, vmware, virtualPC and native software. Personally I prefer to run my software natively or streamed through an X11/ssh connection. I get pretty good performance with VNC and samba for just about any type of application, but it does make sound editting difficult. But in this day and age when a computer weighs less than 5 pounds and costs less than $500 and can be stored almost anywhere, and makes very little noise... uh, I dunno what ESX server is...
Don't kid yourself, VMWare and most certainly any other publicly traded company can become the next Netscape. And they probably will because I already got free software that does almost everything VMWare does and it looks like their main market will get alternatives from the local monopoly. What incentive do I have to help any commercial company that doesn't release open source software stay in the green?
Why doesn't everyone just get an IP address? This system only works if everyone gets equal share and plays fairly. But we're all a bunch of liers, cheaters and theives.
Were you aware that the DMCA passed by a voice vote? With so many controversial laws being passed one would think the public might be concerned about how their representatives have been voting. But this is America.:)
We're just going to do the same things over and over again until we slowly degrade the quality of our legal system. Soon our laws will look like nothing more intelligent than our latest disney cartoons. All because people like you will keep voting for one party or the other, over and over again, thinking, "This time it will be different", "They're on our side now", or whatever.
But nobody has the balls to look over all the candidates, read through their political and economic views and think critically about which one would do what's best for all the people living in this country. Most people just think about which one will help their stock gain 30% or keep the gas prices low. The rest only care about jobs or health care. But nobody is willing to stand up for what's right. People before profits. Taking care of people and providing them the proper environment to grow mentally and physically is the right thing to do. And nobody is doing it.
Then tell me, what other animal is self aware and capable of learning more than one language? The soul is simply our ability to be creative, to be conscious, and to be self aware. Or how about show me an animal able to apply force to an object in any of the 3 dimensions at will. Or how about an animal that can design or build an engine, or even understand how or why it works. Show me one of those, then you might be on to something.
Personally I think intelligent life exists out there, somewhere, but we may never find them. Are we even serious about the search? I don't care. There are many species on Earth that are extremely intelligent, but they all fall short of being able to use that intelligence as humans did by forming civilizations and using communication, social status and many other complex concepts to structure and organize itself into something capable of producing microchips and understanding its environment. A single human is not capable of doing this on their own. But what gives us this self awareness or ability to organize into civilization like we have? Or why do we create? Is that the soul? If not, then what is it?
The difference is, and almost everyone agrees, Humans have a soul, a consciousness, that is capable of interacting with nature in very unnatural ways. Our ability to reason, use logic and take action, changing our environment and the objects around us goes far beyond any other naturally occuring lifeform, that we know of. Because of this we are blessed with the complexities of religion, divinity, etc. We think we're perfect because we're no longer a part of nature, no longer governed by its rules. However, we are still a part the natural order of the universe. As we explore the space outside our planet we learn more and more that we're not divine, we're not perfect. We're just another animal on a big rock, clinging onto it for our very survival.
But we are different.
I don't think you can say any action done by man could be naturally occuring. We are the observer of nature, not a participant, not for a long time, anyway.
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I was kicked out of my highschool library for knowing too much about their computers and network.
So who learns more in our school system? A student who knows they want to be a programmer from 8 years old or a student with absolutely no clue what they want to do in life? The programmer is going to end up in the US tech sector, barely able to find a job, while the other student will probably end up a manager and get paid well enough to not need a job after a few years.
Learn how to manage money, widgets and people and you can go far. Learn anything else and you'll just have a worthless clue.
History has shown that it is business management that runs the show. We treat employees as slave, always have. They work because they have to, or they can't afford to eat. And we know that. Which is why we have unions, etc. From my perspective anyway, but now I'm getting OT.
Which is why rebooting is a perfectly acceptable solution to fix most windows problems. That sort of mentality is not tolerated in the *nix world. We're serious about quality.
Yeah, what are these experiments? Schoolwide use... is that like enterprise class software? I bet these "experiments" are for whomever said they could implement it to learn how to install RedHat and maybe connect to the internal network. I could very easily swap out the network of most schools with Linux hardware and software providing almost all services they current have in less than a month. I could probably do it in two weeks. And I'm but one linux admin.
Why does it take people so long to figure these things out?
It depends. If you have a Linux expert or a sys admin its certainly more cost effective to use free software than to use expensive software. However, if nobody knows how to do anything at all, then the software isnt' very effective, even though it costs you nothing.
I would say give it a shot and see if you can make it work for you. If you can't, well, I'd probably just think you're stoopid. In which case, go pay as much as you can afford for someone else to solve your problems for you.
Schools should have no excuses when it comes to computer competence. Schools are where we go to get educated, afterall. If they don't know, they shouldn't be in the business of education.
same here
for 64-bit systems I'm going to compare price/performance/compatibility of the hammer and PPC970 platforms before tossing any money at it. I just upgraded to an Athlon MP, which should be more than enough to keep me going for a few years. Got plenty of 1+Ghz systems lying around that make great video consoles.
I would only really use a 64-bit system as a fileserver, capable of storing a single file over a TB in size, if I ever needed that. It would be awesome for backups. Could easily store a single tar file instead of a directory hierarchy. I wonder if I could build a 64-bit 1+TB fileserver for less than $2000 by 2005.
Some nice information I didn't know about minidiscs. :)
But you can get a 256MB CF card for $100. Its stores around 250,000K of data, or about 2,000,000k. Compressing oggs at 128kbps still gives CD quality sound, equivelent to about 160kbps MP3s. That yields 15,625 seconds of audio or around 4 1/3 hours of CD quality music.
The price is impractical, unless you weigh in the benefits. My ogg player connects to my network over 802.11. It stores my data on an SD card, about the same price, and I have the option of having a card range from 32MB to 1024MB. I can use ssh/scp and rsync to move and organize data. And in the future I can use these SD and CF cards in other devices. But its still $5 for 5 hours of minidiscs vs. $100 flash RAM solution.
But let's say we don't care about CD quality music. What if we just need our entire collection of books on tape available on our PDA? Then we can store over 17 hours on that 256MB card or nearly 70 hours of audio on a 1024MB card. I guess it all depends on what you need it for.
The only reason I don't use minidics is because it was a proprietary Sony format and the players cost $500. If the data really is $1 ea and the players have come down in price it might actually be worth it.
That would be funny. Company X spends hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, on making their network secure, then lose hundreds of thousands in lost transactions and downtime because their admins get locked out of their network or don't have access to properly administrate it.
I'm sure others have said this already, but there's more to security than physical location. You're only as secure as your weakest link. If any unauthorized people can gain physical access to the system you KNOW its insecure. If it uses any unencrypted network protocols it is possibly insecure, depending on what data is transmitted over them, like NFS and possibly SMB, telnet, ftp, etc. Its unlikely that, on a switched network, an attacker could gather much valuable data, but there's always the possibility.
Security is almost a state of mind. If anyone in your company isn't thinking securely and isn't trained to think this way you may be insecure. In short EVERY corporation I've worked for is entirely insecure and could easily be hacked by a professional like myself. Its a good thing I choose to work for the high paying tech industry instead of the high paying black market.
And if you think things are insecure now just wait a couple years as our modern technology pours out into the hands of those black hat script kiddies. A 400Mhz PDA sitting outside your building could be logging and forwarding all wireless communications anywhere and to anyone and nobody would ever know it. That same PDA could easily be walked into a building and connected to a live net drop for an hour at lunch someday, again snooping for useful data. Its only a matter of time before they find something and gain access. Then you're hacked. Its almost that easy, for them.
Like the internet?
This is a chicken and egg problem. Alternative energies are innefficient right now because almost no money gets spent on R&D when compared with current coal, oil, gas sources. Someone is making a lot of money on non renewable resources and thinks its better to keep the status quo than to retool to benefit mankind.
In the next 10 years we'll watched half the problems you mentioned disappear. And nuclear fission is not the answer. Nuclear fusion might be, one day, but it is still a very dangerous technology compared with hydrogen or solar cells.
You think so two dimensionally. We are a big hunk of rock floating around the Sun. Just drop some large solar panel arrays in our orbit and collect the energy as we fly by them. Put them to orbit around the moon or even the Earth where they won't cast a shadow. When there's a will there's a way. It seems to me like you haven't given this much thought. None of us have. I say let's give it a chance, eh?
Why not include several of these Soyuz escape pods in the next shuttle? If something goes wrong on reentry, eject, eject. Or have a few of them on the ISS as well, in case they need to make an emergency trip, etc. I wonder how compact we could create a reentry vehicle. Can we make a suit that could deflect the heat and stuff and just open a parachute?
Already got my own. Remember that Sharp Zaurus that came out a year or two ago? It makes an excellent ogg player. And it only cost me around $100 to upgrade the ram enough to store several hours of music. The advantage to using the Zaurus to these other devices is you can have your network and computers manage your music collection for you through ssh and rsync over an 802.11 net. Show me a $100 ogg player that can do it right now and you might get yourself a customer, if I didn't already have one.
I'm an audiophile, of sorts. I listen to my music on studio monitors and play with analog synths if that counts. I noticed that anything above 160kbps MP3 is nearly identical to the original CD, and ogg can almost make it down to 128kbps maintaining similar quality. Personally I prefer 160kbps oggs, but usually I just get lazy and encode everything around 256 in case I get picky sometime down the road. I hate reencoding stuff. Should do it the right way the first time.
But yeah, you're on the right track. In my Zaurus I have a 256MB flash card to store my music on. If I can learn how to either grab a 64kbps stream from those 256kbps files or reencode it all for my portables, I should be able to store about 4 or 5 hours of music on a card the size of a quarter. At 256kbps I currently have over an hour of music on there with over 100MB free.
Don't waste your money on that copy of Windows 95. Get connected to the internet and download Linux instead and go buy a freakin book on C/C++, and learn it this time.
Oh, and forget about those NT classes, they're a waste of your time.
P.S. invest in... oh, hell, it doesn't matter.
Mitnick wannabes should be put in jail, just like Enron Exec wannabes, or anyone who voted for the PATRIOT ACT. How can you compare the damage Kevin Mitnick did to society to that of those Enron Execs? How many people in california lost their jobs, lost their homes, or lost their money because of a few greedy people in one corporation? And guess what, every corporation has those same few greedy execs, just waiting, drooling to be the next Enron. And they'll get off, too.
But you're right, sir, all hackers/crackers and script kiddies should be executed by law. Specially all the teens that get a kick out of defacing websites or reading about Mitnick. Children are the worst criminals.
Maybe then we can be proactive about terrorists and arrest all the Iraqis living here, detain them indefinitely, etc. There's just no limit to the amount of freedom you want to take from me, is there?
I agree, and I think all of those problems you mentioned would vanish if we got rid of money.
you can run KDE as the filemanager for GNOME 2.x systems. Especially GNOME 2.2+ You can configure KDE to look however you want, possibly even run it without the kicker, and with the RedHat bluecurve theme it can almost match the GNOME applications with slight differences.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against VMWare, its just not my thing. Don't know anything about any ESX server. I do unix and I can't think of any real reason to use something like VMWare with VirtualPC or BOCHS/Plex86, or whatever its called. Obviously I'm not an expert on PC emulation. However, I have had my share of dealings with wine, winex, crossover stuff, vmware, virtualPC and native software. Personally I prefer to run my software natively or streamed through an X11/ssh connection. I get pretty good performance with VNC and samba for just about any type of application, but it does make sound editting difficult. But in this day and age when a computer weighs less than 5 pounds and costs less than $500 and can be stored almost anywhere, and makes very little noise... uh, I dunno what ESX server is...
Don't kid yourself, VMWare and most certainly any other publicly traded company can become the next Netscape. And they probably will because I already got free software that does almost everything VMWare does and it looks like their main market will get alternatives from the local monopoly. What incentive do I have to help any commercial company that doesn't release open source software stay in the green?
Why doesn't everyone just get an IP address? This system only works if everyone gets equal share and plays fairly. But we're all a bunch of liers, cheaters and theives.
Were you aware that the DMCA passed by a voice vote? With so many controversial laws being passed one would think the public might be concerned about how their representatives have been voting. But this is America. :)
We're just going to do the same things over and over again until we slowly degrade the quality of our legal system. Soon our laws will look like nothing more intelligent than our latest disney cartoons. All because people like you will keep voting for one party or the other, over and over again, thinking, "This time it will be different", "They're on our side now", or whatever.
But nobody has the balls to look over all the candidates, read through their political and economic views and think critically about which one would do what's best for all the people living in this country. Most people just think about which one will help their stock gain 30% or keep the gas prices low. The rest only care about jobs or health care. But nobody is willing to stand up for what's right. People before profits. Taking care of people and providing them the proper environment to grow mentally and physically is the right thing to do. And nobody is doing it.
Then tell me, what other animal is self aware and capable of learning more than one language? The soul is simply our ability to be creative, to be conscious, and to be self aware. Or how about show me an animal able to apply force to an object in any of the 3 dimensions at will. Or how about an animal that can design or build an engine, or even understand how or why it works. Show me one of those, then you might be on to something.
Personally I think intelligent life exists out there, somewhere, but we may never find them. Are we even serious about the search? I don't care. There are many species on Earth that are extremely intelligent, but they all fall short of being able to use that intelligence as humans did by forming civilizations and using communication, social status and many other complex concepts to structure and organize itself into something capable of producing microchips and understanding its environment. A single human is not capable of doing this on their own. But what gives us this self awareness or ability to organize into civilization like we have? Or why do we create? Is that the soul? If not, then what is it?
I'm an atheist, btw.
The difference is, and almost everyone agrees, Humans have a soul, a consciousness, that is capable of interacting with nature in very unnatural ways. Our ability to reason, use logic and take action, changing our environment and the objects around us goes far beyond any other naturally occuring lifeform, that we know of. Because of this we are blessed with the complexities of religion, divinity, etc. We think we're perfect because we're no longer a part of nature, no longer governed by its rules. However, we are still a part the natural order of the universe. As we explore the space outside our planet we learn more and more that we're not divine, we're not perfect. We're just another animal on a big rock, clinging onto it for our very survival.
But we are different.
I don't think you can say any action done by man could be naturally occuring. We are the observer of nature, not a participant, not for a long time, anyway.
ahh, the logic of capitalism. Anything is moral as long as it makes money. ;)