Also bear in mind that wonks like me who work at state universities are implicitly handing over our work to the state in most cases. In a private situation, you have a better chance, but eventually your employer's going to want to know who gets the kids in the divorce.
Are you labeling me some silly moron abusing his internet cable access? Exactly the kind of sniping around here debasing every last original exchange of thoughts I deplore so.
I work in a university library which is trying to go as digital as possible. The publishers are bending us over a barrel and fucking us in the arse with fees, fees which when not paid result in all future access being cut off.
Google is a for-profit corporation selling branded advertising which believes it has more fair use rights than us, an actual "scholarly" institution? Jesus fucking christ.
I was working in a copy shop when the SCOTUS dropped the hammer on Kinko's as to the line between "fair use" and duplication for profit. It hasn't moved much since then, and it'll be damned interesting to see SCOTUS reverse itself on this.
Clue: The theme "the secret life of [nonsentient/mythical beings/objects] where they turn out to have lives just as mundane as yours" was great THE FIRST FOUR TIMES YOU DID IT.
Unfortunately for you, every other CG animated production in the last ten years has traded on the same exact theme. Christ, it's done, stick a fork in it and turn it.
If Pixar's next big thing is going to be 90 minutes about the secret life of Luxo lamps, pack it in while your rep is still shiny. Chris Ware's "Bunny" got an Oscar because it was good storytelling, not because it had great diffuse lighting.
When I'm buying "Incredibles" even though I hate the "government good/lawyers evil" pap because it has sexy hair shaders, you're hurting.
Why shouldn't they be able to install those as users? The whole point to having non-root users is to allow them to work within their permissions without worrying about it.
These plugins aren't going to magically rootkit your Linux box any more than GAIM will, and having them installed at the user level isolates them a step further from that possibility.
Moreover, your kids playing on a Linux box with support for Java, Flash and Real content means kids who will eventually tell other kids "yeah, Linux can do those things, too."
Unfortunately that's pretty lame. Remember, the data may be digital, but the magnetic pulse content on the media is analog. Even overwriting one set of the same bit over and over doesn't guarantee wiping the signature off the disk, even if your Mac thinks it's blank. Steve Gibson documented this in his stuff on SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/srphysics.htm
Fortunately, DBAN is also available for PowerPC machines.
Darik's Boot and Nuke. Cheap, efficient, portable.
Worst thing that happened using it was cleaning a PC so old its CD-ROM drivers weren't in firmware, so I had to download a boot disk off the net to reinstall them.
This canard again. PalmSource was looking at a Linux *kernel*, but the OS and the API would remain the same to your apps. PalmOS has changed kernels three times in its history without any noticeable change to apps.
The PS rep in a thread went on to say "these devices will *not* run Linux apps."
The chief reason they went this direction was because they foresaw PalmOS being embedded in a wide variety of phones and Linux is already proven in the embedded market. They don't have the time it took to collaborate with Qualcomm or develop the Treo.
Seriously, as a 6+ year web developer for a state university, we managed complex JavaScript solutions which were platform agnostic.
But more importantly, we designed sites that didn't rely on JS to be functional. We recently had to ditch a plan to make a database vendor's page look like it was inside our core site because WebFeat's code capuchins decided they needed to dynamically generate the entire content from an array client-side using JS (apparently XSLT is unknown there). When we requested that they generate HTML we could include into our framework using Perl SSIs, their answer was that because the form used JS validation, logically the entire form had to be generated with JS.
No one's arguing that FEMA isn't busy or that there aren't other massive fuckups on FEMA's part which dwarf a browser compatibility issue. But this is Slashdot, and this is what we bitch about here.
The complete list of certified OSes includes Windows 2K Professional, Server, and Advanced Server, but not XP, while Red Hat Enterprise 3 and SuSE Enterprise V8 are certified.
Of all the certified OSes, only W2K Pro and OS X are consumer desktop OSes.
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The guy next to me, it downgraded his PSP to a Merlin!
Also bear in mind that wonks like me who work at state universities are implicitly handing over our work to the state in most cases. In a private situation, you have a better chance, but eventually your employer's going to want to know who gets the kids in the divorce.
There's no love for us, these days. Beer?
It keeps referring to me as "Mrs. Cleaver."
Are you labeling me some silly moron abusing his internet cable access? Exactly the kind of sniping around here debasing every last original exchange of thoughts I deplore so.
Free software In peRu; outSTanding PrOmiSe for The open source movement.
It said something about needing a bald chick to merge with. No idea what that means.
Is it true your firstborn was named "Sid Meier's Jennifer Meier by Sid Meier, Inc."?
RMS was interviewed about that very thing, and said, "I'm all out of love, I'm so lost without you. I know you were right, believing for so long."
with the dodgy looking pron director and his clapper. So that's what you kids are calling it today.
FInally, a ReaSon To consider Picking Out another office SuiTe.
...giving a whole new meaning to Teraflops.
I work in a university library which is trying to go as digital as possible. The publishers are bending us over a barrel and fucking us in the arse with fees, fees which when not paid result in all future access being cut off. Google is a for-profit corporation selling branded advertising which believes it has more fair use rights than us, an actual "scholarly" institution? Jesus fucking christ. I was working in a copy shop when the SCOTUS dropped the hammer on Kinko's as to the line between "fair use" and duplication for profit. It hasn't moved much since then, and it'll be damned interesting to see SCOTUS reverse itself on this.
are the first that come to mind.
Clue: The theme "the secret life of [nonsentient/mythical beings/objects] where they turn out to have lives just as mundane as yours" was great THE FIRST FOUR TIMES YOU DID IT.
Unfortunately for you, every other CG animated production in the last ten years has traded on the same exact theme. Christ, it's done, stick a fork in it and turn it.
If Pixar's next big thing is going to be 90 minutes about the secret life of Luxo lamps, pack it in while your rep is still shiny. Chris Ware's "Bunny" got an Oscar because it was good storytelling, not because it had great diffuse lighting.
When I'm buying "Incredibles" even though I hate the "government good/lawyers evil" pap because it has sexy hair shaders, you're hurting.
...that they didn't get a bigger cameo in Grand Theft Auto: Detroit?
Why shouldn't they be able to install those as users? The whole point to having non-root users is to allow them to work within their permissions without worrying about it.
These plugins aren't going to magically rootkit your Linux box any more than GAIM will, and having them installed at the user level isolates them a step further from that possibility.
Moreover, your kids playing on a Linux box with support for Java, Flash and Real content means kids who will eventually tell other kids "yeah, Linux can do those things, too."
Unfortunately that's pretty lame. Remember, the data may be digital, but the magnetic pulse content on the media is analog. Even overwriting one set of the same bit over and over doesn't guarantee wiping the signature off the disk, even if your Mac thinks it's blank. Steve Gibson documented this in his stuff on SpinRite:
http://www.grc.com/srphysics.htm
Fortunately, DBAN is also available for PowerPC machines.
Darik's Boot and Nuke. Cheap, efficient, portable. Worst thing that happened using it was cleaning a PC so old its CD-ROM drivers weren't in firmware, so I had to download a boot disk off the net to reinstall them.
This canard again. PalmSource was looking at a Linux *kernel*, but the OS and the API would remain the same to your apps. PalmOS has changed kernels three times in its history without any noticeable change to apps.
The PS rep in a thread went on to say "these devices will *not* run Linux apps."
The chief reason they went this direction was because they foresaw PalmOS being embedded in a wide variety of phones and Linux is already proven in the embedded market. They don't have the time it took to collaborate with Qualcomm or develop the Treo.
I'm told girth is where it's at, now.
Oh, you're thinking of the "Go To Jail, Do Not Pass Go" Grape Jelly Tossed Salad mod.
Just askin'.
Seriously, as a 6+ year web developer for a state university, we managed complex JavaScript solutions which were platform agnostic.
But more importantly, we designed sites that didn't rely on JS to be functional. We recently had to ditch a plan to make a database vendor's page look like it was inside our core site because WebFeat's code capuchins decided they needed to dynamically generate the entire content from an array client-side using JS (apparently XSLT is unknown there). When we requested that they generate HTML we could include into our framework using Perl SSIs, their answer was that because the form used JS validation, logically the entire form had to be generated with JS.
No one's arguing that FEMA isn't busy or that there aren't other massive fuckups on FEMA's part which dwarf a browser compatibility issue. But this is Slashdot, and this is what we bitch about here.
This is a dumbshit situation.
- nsa.gov's own page on Security-Enhanced Linux.
- nist.gov's own page on OS X as a Common Criteria Certified OS in its default install.
- The complete list of certified OSes includes Windows 2K Professional, Server, and Advanced Server, but not XP, while Red Hat Enterprise 3 and SuSE Enterprise V8 are certified.
Of all the certified OSes, only W2K Pro and OS X are consumer desktop OSes.The same DOJ that abandoned the entire Office suite for WordPerfect six months ago (excepting Exchange). The NSA runs their servers on a custom Linux, and OS X is a government certified OS.