Glad the webcast coverage held up. Was watching space.com, and got disconnected a few minutes before launch, but it came back. Not like SpaceShipOne launch...pretty much missed that whole thing!
Any relationship to Thompson-West, who do massive databases of things like Westlaw? Why yes, there IS a relationship. That's why they think it's 'overhyped'...they are probably in a decent position to put together their own competing service.
...does EVERYTHING these days have to have 'Homeland Security' applications? Didn't RTFA but can it REALLY find bombs, or are they just saying that for future funding? Is anybody funding pure research anymore?
Yeah, but if they're elves they are less vulerable to mind-affecting stuff like that, and if the candidate has a high Will save, they're probably not much of a risk, unless they blow a roll somewhere.
Exactly how much? That's a tall order. A percentage point...maybe two. Not much more than that though, I wouldn't imagine. It looks like a nice system, but I wouldn't imagine that the iPod set Apple seems to be targeting would see the value in having multiple computers. I don't mean geeks with iPods, now, I mean the people who bought an iPod as much because it was the thing to have and be seen with as it was a nice piece of useful technology. It's harder to be seen on the Metro or walking around campus with a Mac Mini. Maybe if they made distinctive earphones for it.
As cynical as I'm being here, I would like to see the mini both on my desk, and putting a dent in the market!
I work at a library, where we have fairly comprehensive tech support availible to students. One thing we see a lot of is dead floppy disks. Over the summer, a student came to me with a dead disk containing his thesis. I put it in my laptop, a PI 166 running Slackware (Which is now damaged, and will be rehabilitated, because I love that thing, but that's not the point of the story!) and got most of his document back.
At the end of the summer, that student (I'll call him Mel, because that was his name*) gave an old 486-based Toshiba to my boss for some reason. So we were like, "You know...this thing is running Windows 95. The Win95 version of scandisk.exe will often fix floppy disks that Windows XP and the like won't read..." So now that laptop lives on, as the "The Mel's Thesis Memorial Laptop", in honor of the pseudo-irony of its provenance, whose sole purpose in life is to run scandisk on students 'dead' floppy disks, and actually fix them most of the time!
A few months after Longhorn comes out, all these XP features will break, legally if not logically, and you'll have to buy Longhorn anyway. How's that for an incentive?
But we're not sitting at home and watching TV and eating Pizza. We're somewhere else, taping the shows so we can watch them later. That's the 'problem'!
Didn't MIT do this in the 70s and 80s? Project Athena. NFS, kerberos, etc. Looks like they're still doing it; info here.
Furthermore, isn't this what 'Active Directory' is supposed to be for? Project Athena always sounded interesting, with a lot of neat stuff behind it, but the idea isn't appealing on a scale much larger than an office park or college campus.
...how many times did they use the generator before settling on the number to use? Nobody in the history of the world has been satisfied by the FIRST random number generated!
"No....no...no...maybe if it had a '7'. AH! Bingo!" -- Netgear Security Engineer
So what you're proposing, and please, correct me if I am mistaken, is that one should gather all one's sensitive pieces of data: credit card numbers, passwords, and the like, and compile them all into a plaintext set of firewall or IDS rules? Where would one store this treasure trove of sensitive information, conveniently gathered into one place for ease of use? Perhaps I have missed a critical component of your plan, which I'm sure isn't nearly as patently insane as it sounds.
Ok. The thing is...that's not my ACTUAL root password. It's a joke. The thing about it is, that string is a perfectly good root password. It has letters. It has digits. It's not in the dictionary. It's not pronouncable. Therefore, it was perfectly cromulent to use it in the context of a root password. I twisted that into a joke by suggesting it was my root password, and expressing dissatisfaction that it was published to the world. How he came to get the root password, I have no ideas, as it was not, as I previously stated, my actual root password. Really, *any* of my root passwords.
Finally, the fact that this alledged 'root password' does not contain punctuation or non-printable characters was not held against it. It still works for the purposes of this joke. Lets hope they remain safely anonymous by not responding to this thread to express their outrage and incredulity.
My thoughts, however, go out to all the sysadmins out there who really DID have their root password outed this evening.
Thank you for your time, and have a pleasent tomorrow.
Wow, not bad. Little tall, though. Sumicom used to (or still) have VIA or P3-based machines that fit into a single 5.25" slot. No links unfortunately, because the one place I've ever seen them no longer carries them.
Problem is that these 'real life' photos generally suck. They have no 'staying power'. You don't need to line everybody up and shoot them but come on, take 10 seconds and compose something with at least a nod to aesthetic and technical considerations. I was going that way ('real life snapshots') with most of the shots of the huge protests around DC two and three years ago, and they're less interesting every time I look at them. Do you really need pictures of every mundane moment of your life? I sure as hell don't. Daily life is boring. Why waste perfectly good silicon and precious bits recording it? I won't care what I ate for lunch today in ten years. It wasn't very good! (Chicken fingers and some anonymous Asian-styled beef and peppers thing from the Food By The Pound place downstairs, in case you were wondering. You probably weren't. See my point?)
"Sometimes i dont feel like taking pictures manually" was the kicker. Let me know how THAT outlook works out for you.
This whole thing reminds me of an article I read somewhere about how the proliferation of digital photography in journalism and amongst the great unwashed is actually causing more 'moments' to be *lost* rather than preserved. Digital images are so easy to delete, whole swaths of time can be lost without a second thought. One thing that was cited was the "Lewinsky Hug" photos with Clinton. According to the author, the whole thing may never have gone down if it had just happened today because the pictures were worthless in any other sense and would have been deleted. Since they were physical, they stuck around a while, and next thing you know we had a scandal!
Digital photography is overrated. This is just useless.
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Glad the webcast coverage held up. Was watching space.com, and got disconnected a few minutes before launch, but it came back. Not like SpaceShipOne launch...pretty much missed that whole thing!
Are they even trying with these operational code names anymore?
If you'll excuse me, I need to begin "Operation Orange Juice Drinking" before the scheduled commencement of "Operation Work Going".
They can DO that?!
Oooh no...
Any relationship to Thompson-West, who do massive databases of things like Westlaw? Why yes, there IS a relationship. That's why they think it's 'overhyped'...they are probably in a decent position to put together their own competing service.
I need a $300 laptop.
...does EVERYTHING these days have to have 'Homeland Security' applications? Didn't RTFA but can it REALLY find bombs, or are they just saying that for future funding? Is anybody funding pure research anymore?
Perhaps if the market were bigger, the sites would be there.
I know a guy who knows a guy, but he's not exactly a member of the Better Business Bureau. /me runs away...fast
Yeah, but if they're elves they are less vulerable to mind-affecting stuff like that, and if the candidate has a high Will save, they're probably not much of a risk, unless they blow a roll somewhere.
Exactly how much? That's a tall order. A percentage point...maybe two. Not much more than that though, I wouldn't imagine. It looks like a nice system, but I wouldn't imagine that the iPod set Apple seems to be targeting would see the value in having multiple computers. I don't mean geeks with iPods, now, I mean the people who bought an iPod as much because it was the thing to have and be seen with as it was a nice piece of useful technology. It's harder to be seen on the Metro or walking around campus with a Mac Mini. Maybe if they made distinctive earphones for it.
As cynical as I'm being here, I would like to see the mini both on my desk, and putting a dent in the market!
Same site
Might have been updated lately, though. Always interesting, though. There's one for UNIX, too.
I work at a library, where we have fairly comprehensive tech support availible to students. One thing we see a lot of is dead floppy disks. Over the summer, a student came to me with a dead disk containing his thesis. I put it in my laptop, a PI 166 running Slackware (Which is now damaged, and will be rehabilitated, because I love that thing, but that's not the point of the story!) and got most of his document back.
At the end of the summer, that student (I'll call him Mel, because that was his name*) gave an old 486-based Toshiba to my boss for some reason. So we were like, "You know...this thing is running Windows 95. The Win95 version of scandisk.exe will often fix floppy disks that Windows XP and the like won't read..." So now that laptop lives on, as the "The Mel's Thesis Memorial Laptop", in honor of the pseudo-irony of its provenance, whose sole purpose in life is to run scandisk on students 'dead' floppy disks, and actually fix them most of the time!
* Ok, it wasn't.
A few months after Longhorn comes out, all these XP features will break, legally if not logically, and you'll have to buy Longhorn anyway. How's that for an incentive?
But we're not sitting at home and watching TV and eating Pizza. We're somewhere else, taping the shows so we can watch them later. That's the 'problem'!
Other than that, I'm in total agreeance.
You must be new to Slackware. Woe were they who tried building their first GTK2 app on a Slack 9 system.
"What's your favorite text editor?" Seems more accurate, but you definately do not want to re-open that can of worms.
P.S.: Jed.
Didn't MIT do this in the 70s and 80s? Project Athena. NFS, kerberos, etc. Looks like they're still doing it; info here.
Furthermore, isn't this what 'Active Directory' is supposed to be for? Project Athena always sounded interesting, with a lot of neat stuff behind it, but the idea isn't appealing on a scale much larger than an office park or college campus.
...how many times did they use the generator before settling on the number to use? Nobody in the history of the world has been satisfied by the FIRST random number generated!
"No....no...no...maybe if it had a '7'. AH! Bingo!" -- Netgear Security Engineer
So what you're proposing, and please, correct me if I am mistaken, is that one should gather all one's sensitive pieces of data: credit card numbers, passwords, and the like, and compile them all into a plaintext set of firewall or IDS rules? Where would one store this treasure trove of sensitive information, conveniently gathered into one place for ease of use? Perhaps I have missed a critical component of your plan, which I'm sure isn't nearly as patently insane as it sounds.
Ok. The thing is...that's not my ACTUAL root password. It's a joke. The thing about it is, that string is a perfectly good root password. It has letters. It has digits. It's not in the dictionary. It's not pronouncable. Therefore, it was perfectly cromulent to use it in the context of a root password. I twisted that into a joke by suggesting it was my root password, and expressing dissatisfaction that it was published to the world. How he came to get the root password, I have no ideas, as it was not, as I previously stated, my actual root password. Really, *any* of my root passwords.
Finally, the fact that this alledged 'root password' does not contain punctuation or non-printable characters was not held against it. It still works for the purposes of this joke. Lets hope they remain safely anonymous by not responding to this thread to express their outrage and incredulity.
My thoughts, however, go out to all the sysadmins out there who really DID have their root password outed this evening.
Thank you for your time, and have a pleasent tomorrow.
I'll thank you to refrain from posting my root password in this public forum.
Bullet: "He's dead, Jim"
Andrew: "For the last time, my name isn't 'Jim'."
Wow, not bad. Little tall, though. Sumicom used to (or still) have VIA or P3-based machines that fit into a single 5.25" slot. No links unfortunately, because the one place I've ever seen them no longer carries them.
Problem is that these 'real life' photos generally suck. They have no 'staying power'. You don't need to line everybody up and shoot them but come on, take 10 seconds and compose something with at least a nod to aesthetic and technical considerations. I was going that way ('real life snapshots') with most of the shots of the huge protests around DC two and three years ago, and they're less interesting every time I look at them. Do you really need pictures of every mundane moment of your life? I sure as hell don't. Daily life is boring. Why waste perfectly good silicon and precious bits recording it? I won't care what I ate for lunch today in ten years. It wasn't very good! (Chicken fingers and some anonymous Asian-styled beef and peppers thing from the Food By The Pound place downstairs, in case you were wondering. You probably weren't. See my point?)
"Sometimes i dont feel like taking pictures manually" was the kicker. Let me know how THAT outlook works out for you.
This whole thing reminds me of an article I read somewhere about how the proliferation of digital photography in journalism and amongst the great unwashed is actually causing more 'moments' to be *lost* rather than preserved. Digital images are so easy to delete, whole swaths of time can be lost without a second thought. One thing that was cited was the "Lewinsky Hug" photos with Clinton. According to the author, the whole thing may never have gone down if it had just happened today because the pictures were worthless in any other sense and would have been deleted. Since they were physical, they stuck around a while, and next thing you know we had a scandal!
Digital photography is overrated. This is just useless.