I've been waiting a while for Netgear, Linksys and that crowd to add 6to4 support to their home NAT routers as a way to help jump start IPv6 adoption. There would be no security issue if incoming connections were blocked by default and people could turn it off if they didn't want it. But 6to4 can be set up automatically by any machine with a publicly routable IPv4 address.
Well, I'm happy to say that my wait is finally over. They didn't make a big deal about it, so I don't know exactly when they did it, but Apple added that support to their Airport Extreme. So now when I go anywhere that has one of those, I can directly SSH into those inside machines that I've opened ports for without undue muss or fuss.
Apple has been a stalwart supporter of IPv6, from my observation. It's been possible to use AFP file sharing over IPv6 since at least Tiger and the built-in VNC stuff works over IPv6 too (though there is a naming lookup bug that requires you to connect using the IPv6 address literal if you use the command-K "Connect to" dialog).
So, Netgear and Linksys, what's holding you guys up?
My formative years were during the great heyday of arcade games, so I would have to answer that the best gaming platform is the null one - that is, customized hardware and software to play a particular game.
But, that said, if I had to pick a best, I would have to pick the Wii, almost entirely due to the revolutionary contribution of the Wiimote and the way in which it has fundamentally altered game interaction.
Fine. If C&D letters are copyrightable, then publicly posting them is fair use either because of their inherent newsworthiness or for the purposes of criticism. Mischief managed.
From TFA:
One of the worst things about shell scripting--whether in bash, sh or csh--is that the syntax of the scripts themselves is fairly hard to read. So he's saying PERL is easy to read? You're kidding me, right?
Same as if you screwed up a BIOS update on your motherboard. Do it again, correctly and you'll be fine. But that's the thing - if you can do it again correctly, then it wasn't bricked to begin with. Most of the time, if you screw up a BIOS update on your motherboard, you'll wind up with a computer you can't boot sufficiently to run the BIOS updater. That's what "bricking" means.
Ignore my other reply: I didn't read your post well enough. Anyway...
Any television his wife watches (one a day) is via Netflix. If that's what he meant, then you're right. Although I know it can be done, it still seems non-standard to me to have one's first exposure to a particular TV show be on DVD.
Did you re-read his post? He does not watch broadcast television; I think I read it better than you. He said his wife watches at least one episode of a series per day. Presumably she must be doing this with an analog TV set and (gasp) an antenna.
We don't have cable or satellite T.V. and I can't see spending money on the antenna we'd need for broadcast digital--five hundred channels of nothing is still nothing. That makes no sense.
1. Broadcast digital uses the same antenna that your wife is using right now to pick up analog TV.
2. Next year you're at least going to have to buy a converter box (government subsidized, though) in order to keep doing that. But your same antenna should still work.
3. Broadcast digital is probably the same selection of content as analog for you. In some places, there are broadcasters offering multiplexed streams, but not many, and the alternate streams are often nothing more than weather or traffic or whatnot. So if you're in a big city it's probably 15 channels instead of 10, 3 of which are redundant.
I suspect the substantial majority of those embedded systems not only aren't running POSIX, making Y2038 irrelevant for them, a substantial number of them probably don't have clocks, much less calendars.
As for the 200 million PCs sold in 2007, I rather suspect that a substantial majority of THOSE were probably equipped with modern Core or AMD CPUs with X86-64, making it possible for them to run 64 bit operating systems.
But in any event, the suggestion that a 64 bit operating system is required to correctly deal with a time_t is obviously ludicrous.
Well, when you speak of "solar" energy, most folks assume you mean the star around which Earth orbits. You know, "Sol." The root of the word "solar."
All the elements of which the Earth is composed other than Hydrogen and Helium, however, came from the innards of other stars that went nova. So that plutonium is, in fact, not actually solar. The various hydrocarbons that we combust and the inertial conversion (hydro and wind power) are certainly derived from solar power, but nuclear ain't.
Airport security has become a ridiculous game of "Simon Says," only in this case Simon has a taser and the ability to ruin your vacation plans. Every congress-critter from any tourism-oriented state should be holding daily hearings with the head of the TSA asking for cost:benefit analyses on all of these stupid rules.
They bundle their OS with almost every computer sold in retail stores, so its not like people can choose not to use it. Sure they can. They are, in fact, choosing to do so in numbers that are increasing steadily, probably due in large part to the failure of Vista.
If they want to audit your business, make them get a warrant
That's what I don't understand either and perhaps somebody could explain it to me. How the hell do they gain access to all of your systems if you refuse to let them in? Are they going to sue you and force you to turn it all over in discovery?
Yes.
Has anybody tried to fight them on a legal front? It would seem to me that just by showing up to court (even if pro say) and answering their motions you could drag out the discovery process for months. Months that you could use to find any out of compliance software and fix it -- or better yet, switch to OSS if that's an option for your business.
1. Switching at that point would not matter if they found out through discovery that you previously were not in compliance.
2. Being a pro-se defendant is time consuming, and time is money in business. It would probably be cheaper (both in terms of time and, of course, effectiveness) to hire competent council, at which point it's likely that time is not your ally - certainly when compared to the plaintiff.
Perhaps so, but if you read the summary (much less TFA), it says that Ball's outrage was not caused by the BSA but by Microsoft using them in a marketing campaign centered around an anti-piracy message.
Your pilot friend is referring to the swashplate. As the rotors turn, their pitch changes relative to their position. This allows them to develop more lift in one spot and less in another. This, in turn, is what causes the pitch and roll of the helicopter to change. The cyclic control is the stick typically positioned between the pilot's knees and allows him to change the orientation of the swashplate. The rudder pedals (typically) alter the pitch of the tail rotor blades, which adjusts the yaw. The collective is the handle/stick typically found at the pilot's side which (again, typically) adjusts the baseline pitch of the rotors and the engine power and is the pilot's overall lift control.
With Parallels you can run Linux on the Mac Why bother? Why not just open up a terminal window and get more or less the exact same environment?
Parallels (or VMware Fusion, for that matter) make sense for running Windows, since it is the least onerous way of achieving the desired goal. But if your goal is to run X or *nix apps, there is a much, much easier way natively.
Clearly a finding of homicide in these circumstances suggests there's a problem. No, it bloody doesn't. A finding of homicide simply means that one person killed another. What part of that are you not understanding?
There are clearly issues with those cases you describe but they are no more or less homicides than when a cop shoots a bank robber menacing a teller or when OJ knifed Nicole.
Or, IF certain elements of a certain government were to perpetuate a certain climate of fear and uncertainty, in order to erode civil liberties thus causing profoundly detrimental social and political change... That would be terrorism, no? No, it wouldn't. At the very least, terrorism is, by definition, an illegal act. The actions you describe are not, per se, illegal.
I'm certainly not going to defend those actions, but I'm not going to mislabel them, either.
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1. Home routers that support it.
Done.I've been waiting a while for Netgear, Linksys and that crowd to add 6to4 support to their home NAT routers as a way to help jump start IPv6 adoption. There would be no security issue if incoming connections were blocked by default and people could turn it off if they didn't want it. But 6to4 can be set up automatically by any machine with a publicly routable IPv4 address.
Well, I'm happy to say that my wait is finally over. They didn't make a big deal about it, so I don't know exactly when they did it, but Apple added that support to their Airport Extreme. So now when I go anywhere that has one of those, I can directly SSH into those inside machines that I've opened ports for without undue muss or fuss.
Apple has been a stalwart supporter of IPv6, from my observation. It's been possible to use AFP file sharing over IPv6 since at least Tiger and the built-in VNC stuff works over IPv6 too (though there is a naming lookup bug that requires you to connect using the IPv6 address literal if you use the command-K "Connect to" dialog).
So, Netgear and Linksys, what's holding you guys up?
Well, I admit it's tangental, but the fight to fully legitimize Internet poker is a tech issue, of a sort.
To that end, the Poker Players Alliance has put together a guide to the presidential candidates' stances on the issue.
My formative years were during the great heyday of arcade games, so I would have to answer that the best gaming platform is the null one - that is, customized hardware and software to play a particular game.
But, that said, if I had to pick a best, I would have to pick the Wii, almost entirely due to the revolutionary contribution of the Wiimote and the way in which it has fundamentally altered game interaction.
Fine. If C&D letters are copyrightable, then publicly posting them is fair use either because of their inherent newsworthiness or for the purposes of criticism. Mischief managed.
Ignore my other reply: I didn't read your post well enough. Anyway... Any television his wife watches (one a day) is via Netflix. If that's what he meant, then you're right. Although I know it can be done, it still seems non-standard to me to have one's first exposure to a particular TV show be on DVD.
1. Broadcast digital uses the same antenna that your wife is using right now to pick up analog TV.
2. Next year you're at least going to have to buy a converter box (government subsidized, though) in order to keep doing that. But your same antenna should still work.
3. Broadcast digital is probably the same selection of content as analog for you. In some places, there are broadcasters offering multiplexed streams, but not many, and the alternate streams are often nothing more than weather or traffic or whatnot. So if you're in a big city it's probably 15 channels instead of 10, 3 of which are redundant.
I suspect the substantial majority of those embedded systems not only aren't running POSIX, making Y2038 irrelevant for them, a substantial number of them probably don't have clocks, much less calendars.
As for the 200 million PCs sold in 2007, I rather suspect that a substantial majority of THOSE were probably equipped with modern Core or AMD CPUs with X86-64, making it possible for them to run 64 bit operating systems.
But in any event, the suggestion that a 64 bit operating system is required to correctly deal with a time_t is obviously ludicrous.
No, no. That keynote is next week.
Well, when you speak of "solar" energy, most folks assume you mean the star around which Earth orbits. You know, "Sol." The root of the word "solar."
All the elements of which the Earth is composed other than Hydrogen and Helium, however, came from the innards of other stars that went nova. So that plutonium is, in fact, not actually solar. The various hydrocarbons that we combust and the inertial conversion (hydro and wind power) are certainly derived from solar power, but nuclear ain't.
Airport security has become a ridiculous game of "Simon Says," only in this case Simon has a taser and the ability to ruin your vacation plans. Every congress-critter from any tourism-oriented state should be holding daily hearings with the head of the TSA asking for cost:benefit analyses on all of these stupid rules.
I don't see the problem. Why, this guy was able to install it in only a couple minutes.
Of course. Everybody is equal, but some are more equal than others.
That's what I don't understand either and perhaps somebody could explain it to me. How the hell do they gain access to all of your systems if you refuse to let them in? Are they going to sue you and force you to turn it all over in discovery?
Yes.Has anybody tried to fight them on a legal front? It would seem to me that just by showing up to court (even if pro say) and answering their motions you could drag out the discovery process for months. Months that you could use to find any out of compliance software and fix it -- or better yet, switch to OSS if that's an option for your business.
1. Switching at that point would not matter if they found out through discovery that you previously were not in compliance.2. Being a pro-se defendant is time consuming, and time is money in business. It would probably be cheaper (both in terms of time and, of course, effectiveness) to hire competent council, at which point it's likely that time is not your ally - certainly when compared to the plaintiff.
Perhaps so, but if you read the summary (much less TFA), it says that Ball's outrage was not caused by the BSA but by Microsoft using them in a marketing campaign centered around an anti-piracy message.
Global warming is being blamed for everything anymore! Now you're blaming it for an earthquake?
I'd love to hear the explanation behind that one.
Your pilot friend is referring to the swashplate. As the rotors turn, their pitch changes relative to their position. This allows them to develop more lift in one spot and less in another. This, in turn, is what causes the pitch and roll of the helicopter to change. The cyclic control is the stick typically positioned between the pilot's knees and allows him to change the orientation of the swashplate. The rudder pedals (typically) alter the pitch of the tail rotor blades, which adjusts the yaw. The collective is the handle/stick typically found at the pilot's side which (again, typically) adjusts the baseline pitch of the rotors and the engine power and is the pilot's overall lift control.
Parallels (or VMware Fusion, for that matter) make sense for running Windows, since it is the least onerous way of achieving the desired goal. But if your goal is to run X or *nix apps, there is a much, much easier way natively.
There are clearly issues with those cases you describe but they are no more or less homicides than when a cop shoots a bank robber menacing a teller or when OJ knifed Nicole.
I'm certainly not going to defend those actions, but I'm not going to mislabel them, either.