Still have to get around to the slightly scary prospect of partitioning this baby up so I can put Linux on it. I've been long overdue to playing around with it.
RFID chips are just another kind of key. We've been using them on campus longer than I've been here for dorm access. We use normal metal keys for room access.
Only significant differences I can see is that the RFID chip will eventually run out of juice and die (my ID card has been going strong for over two years so far tho), and it's alot easier to "change the locks" if you lose your RFID key.
If you're talking about the book of Job in that last bit, you should know that it wasn't God who brought the trials against Job... God merely allowed Satan to bring the trials against Job. Satan was basically all "God, if I do this this and this to Job, he'll curse you!" God was like "We'll see. Go ahead." And in the end Job came through and didn't curse God, and God blessed him for it.
For those who haven't, the book of Job is a good read, between all the ramblings of his friends (that stuffs a bit hard to get through).
[i]I'd rather have 9 out of ten "squalks" amount to nothing, than suffer the consequenses of the tenth.[/i]
Yes, but if 9 boys called wolf, would you listen to the tenth?
Imagine you're the one who buys a $2000 laptop for $300. Now, you understand this person is selling the laptop for MUCH less than they can get for it. They obviously want to get rid of it quickly. Now list some of the reasons they would do this... oh wait, there's only one possible one... bad things happen if they're caught with it. Which means you shouldn't want anything to do with it, or you should report your suspicions to the authorities.
This is actually one of the few places where US law WORKS.
His idea of "writing perfect code", as you say, is basically the idea of taking the time to design your app instead of jumping in to code and ending up with a mess that is hard to debug.
Also I would imagine it involves programmers learning about how to avoid programming pitfalls such as buffer overflows (make sure your buffer can hold the required data or make your char arrays on the heap so you can size them as needed, etc).
He also mentions that patches WILL be needed, just not as often as say, Internet Explorer needs patches.
Also, you mentioned a user possibly downloading and installing malware by mistake. He addresses that type of thing partly in like #5 or something.
Anyways I think the whole Default Deny thing would help mostly for network stuff (Windows Firewall already blocks everything except what you tell it to not block, all routers block incoming ports except for a whitelist of forwarded ports, etc).
For an OS, I agree, perhaps a whitelist of programs to run might be too much trouble for too little gain. Perhaps John Doe WILL download that program no matter how many ways you block it.
Doesn't mean you can't fire him after you find out he used a company PC to run unauthorized software.:P
And your shiny new default deny will isolate the problem, keeping a virus from propagating and spyware from transmitting.
Hmm I never would have guessed. Apache 2 has worked without problems for me as a service under XP Home edition.
Only thing I have problems with is that the service doesn't report problems when it can't start, so I have to run the non-service version to get error output. I guess that's to be expected as services might die and then restart, only to die again, and I wouldn't wait 10000 message boxes on my computer when I get up in the morning.
My dad buys the computer hardware for our household. We have like 5 computers running plus a couple really old ones we never use. As far back as I can remember (15 years, since I was 4 and playing iwth a TRS-80) we've NEVER had a hard drive failure. Never. The current hard drive in my latest computer has lasted over 2 years, the rest of the computers have even older drives.
Of course the question is "What brand/type?" Unfortunately I don't know. But when I buy my own computer (this one was a gift) I will be sure to find out.:)
Ha, on my keyboard the letters are disappearing from normal wear. Backspace, right shift, up arrow, and left arrow are completely gone, as is spac... erm, nevermind.
Left Ctrl, A, S, E, R, T, H, N, M, L, I, O,.,,, ?, Delete, Down Arrow all have moderate to heavy wear. That's actually an interesting and surprising set of keys. What's more surprising is how right arrow has almost no wear...
Of course, some of these rub-offs could be partially effected by the ice cream and stuff I regularly spill...
Amen! I especially enjoyed giving my money to Valve and not Vivendi when I bought HL2 Silver. I got something like 15 games for $60, which is an awesome deal anywhere, the best part being the only one that really sucked was Richochet.
And, I'm getting Lost Coast and DoD:S for free when they come out. All in all my Steam experience has been rather plesant for the most part. A few bumps, but who can blame Valve... besides those who don't understand what it takes to build and maintain a large scale network like they have. I mean really guys, Steam is groundbreaking, so give it some leeway. Someone's gotta test the waters.
I think Steam will revolutionize the way games are distributed and kept updated. Already, Valve is able to roll out patches weekly at times. The old download-run patches system wouldn't work well for that... especially when patches build on each other, it just gets too messy.
And for those of you who DON'T want automatic updates, you could always, you know, TURN THEM OFF IN THE OPTIONS. Right click the game, properties, switch the combobox value.
I will admit Steam should provide some rollback system to allow you to stop a patching process, turn off updates, and roll back to the state before it started updating.
As well as the fact that Steam has a few glitches... I've sometimes found it refuses to let me use offline mode even when I explicitly tell it to. Luckily Internet connections are pretty much ubiquitous now. And if you don't have one, what the hell are you doing here anyway?:p Seriously, go fix the problem instead of whining. You obviously WANT to play it, so take some steps to make sute that it can happen, AND you'll be able to post on slashdot from your own computer, too!
Oh and I am very much looking to play Day of Defeat Source when it comes out. Right when it comes out. Without fooling around with a few CDs or a DVD.
That's my two cents. Or my four cents. Ok maybe that's more like a dollar.
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Made me chuckle. :)
Still have to get around to the slightly scary prospect of partitioning this baby up so I can put Linux on it. I've been long overdue to playing around with it.
We sorta do, actually...
the lock can still be picked. Just by hackers instead of burglars.
RFID chips are just another kind of key. We've been using them on campus longer than I've been here for dorm access. We use normal metal keys for room access.
Only significant differences I can see is that the RFID chip will eventually run out of juice and die (my ID card has been going strong for over two years so far tho), and it's alot easier to "change the locks" if you lose your RFID key.
We don't WANT the technology (read: DRM) that Microsoft invents!
Rip once and throw away?
At least, that's how some people will treat them.
If you're talking about the book of Job in that last bit, you should know that it wasn't God who brought the trials against Job... God merely allowed Satan to bring the trials against Job. Satan was basically all "God, if I do this this and this to Job, he'll curse you!" God was like "We'll see. Go ahead." And in the end Job came through and didn't curse God, and God blessed him for it. For those who haven't, the book of Job is a good read, between all the ramblings of his friends (that stuffs a bit hard to get through).
[i]I'd rather have 9 out of ten "squalks" amount to nothing, than suffer the consequenses of the tenth.[/i] Yes, but if 9 boys called wolf, would you listen to the tenth?
Someone likes Douglas Adams. :)
...but I'm sure both of its users will like it.
And if we don't, the other nations get this technology FIRST. Then we're in trouble. That's probably some of the reasoning behind it.
Actually I'm fairly certain car crashes kill more people than terrorists.
Firefox 1.5b1 automatically updates itself by default.
I've known about Uncyclopedia FOREVER. It's awesome. Right up there with bash.org when you need a good laugh. Maybe even better in some cases.
If MS will buy me 2gb of RAM and a 256mb video card I might consider.
Imagine you're the one who buys a $2000 laptop for $300. Now, you understand this person is selling the laptop for MUCH less than they can get for it. They obviously want to get rid of it quickly. Now list some of the reasons they would do this... oh wait, there's only one possible one... bad things happen if they're caught with it. Which means you shouldn't want anything to do with it, or you should report your suspicions to the authorities.
This is actually one of the few places where US law WORKS.
His idea of "writing perfect code", as you say, is basically the idea of taking the time to design your app instead of jumping in to code and ending up with a mess that is hard to debug.
:P
Also I would imagine it involves programmers learning about how to avoid programming pitfalls such as buffer overflows (make sure your buffer can hold the required data or make your char arrays on the heap so you can size them as needed, etc).
He also mentions that patches WILL be needed, just not as often as say, Internet Explorer needs patches.
Also, you mentioned a user possibly downloading and installing malware by mistake. He addresses that type of thing partly in like #5 or something.
Anyways I think the whole Default Deny thing would help mostly for network stuff (Windows Firewall already blocks everything except what you tell it to not block, all routers block incoming ports except for a whitelist of forwarded ports, etc).
For an OS, I agree, perhaps a whitelist of programs to run might be too much trouble for too little gain. Perhaps John Doe WILL download that program no matter how many ways you block it.
Doesn't mean you can't fire him after you find out he used a company PC to run unauthorized software.
And your shiny new default deny will isolate the problem, keeping a virus from propagating and spyware from transmitting.
Check about a page down from the top of the comments.
Sorry man.
Hmm I never would have guessed. Apache 2 has worked without problems for me as a service under XP Home edition.
Only thing I have problems with is that the service doesn't report problems when it can't start, so I have to run the non-service version to get error output. I guess that's to be expected as services might die and then restart, only to die again, and I wouldn't wait 10000 message boxes on my computer when I get up in the morning.
I'm pretty sure it only applies to the 1.5 beta, and possibly earlier alphas of it.
My dad buys the computer hardware for our household. We have like 5 computers running plus a couple really old ones we never use. As far back as I can remember (15 years, since I was 4 and playing iwth a TRS-80) we've NEVER had a hard drive failure. Never. The current hard drive in my latest computer has lasted over 2 years, the rest of the computers have even older drives.
:)
Of course the question is "What brand/type?" Unfortunately I don't know. But when I buy my own computer (this one was a gift) I will be sure to find out.
Ha, on my keyboard the letters are disappearing from normal wear. Backspace, right shift, up arrow, and left arrow are completely gone, as is spac... erm, nevermind. Left Ctrl, A, S, E, R, T, H, N, M, L, I, O, ., ,, ?, Delete, Down Arrow all have moderate to heavy wear. That's actually an interesting and surprising set of keys. What's more surprising is how right arrow has almost no wear...
Of course, some of these rub-offs could be partially effected by the ice cream and stuff I regularly spill...
...and bought MS-DOS. Look what happened. Maybe it was a bit of luck, but that doesn't mean it's impossible it can't happen again.
I was looking at Google Earth like last weekend and they had the Katrina button there. Take a look at the superdome. Wow.
Amen! I especially enjoyed giving my money to Valve and not Vivendi when I bought HL2 Silver. I got something like 15 games for $60, which is an awesome deal anywhere, the best part being the only one that really sucked was Richochet. And, I'm getting Lost Coast and DoD:S for free when they come out. All in all my Steam experience has been rather plesant for the most part. A few bumps, but who can blame Valve... besides those who don't understand what it takes to build and maintain a large scale network like they have. I mean really guys, Steam is groundbreaking, so give it some leeway. Someone's gotta test the waters. I think Steam will revolutionize the way games are distributed and kept updated. Already, Valve is able to roll out patches weekly at times. The old download-run patches system wouldn't work well for that... especially when patches build on each other, it just gets too messy. And for those of you who DON'T want automatic updates, you could always, you know, TURN THEM OFF IN THE OPTIONS. Right click the game, properties, switch the combobox value. I will admit Steam should provide some rollback system to allow you to stop a patching process, turn off updates, and roll back to the state before it started updating. As well as the fact that Steam has a few glitches... I've sometimes found it refuses to let me use offline mode even when I explicitly tell it to. Luckily Internet connections are pretty much ubiquitous now. And if you don't have one, what the hell are you doing here anyway? :p Seriously, go fix the problem instead of whining. You obviously WANT to play it, so take some steps to make sute that it can happen, AND you'll be able to post on slashdot from your own computer, too!
Oh and I am very much looking to play Day of Defeat Source when it comes out. Right when it comes out. Without fooling around with a few CDs or a DVD.
That's my two cents. Or my four cents. Ok maybe that's more like a dollar.