Yeah, but not first season, quirky jerky, goofy expression, "I'm programmed to provide pleasure in 27 different ways to Tasha Yar" Data. You can keep that guy. I want the cool Data. Data, go fetch me a Guinness, prove my theories and ward off some ruffians.
According to their press release, "CoolIT Systems has designed a retrofit product that will transform the stock forced air cooling system with a state-of-the-art liquid-chilled system that employs the exclusive MTEC technology pioneered by CoolIT Systems."
The "Systems" and "cooling system" are autogenerated hyperlinks to advertisements. And they're not even close to being relative to the subject matter. "Systems" takes you to Microsoft's web conferencing service. "cooling system" takes you to Sears.
What a joke. Hey we saw something somewhere and we don't know how it works, but it's got something to with an XBox360 and aren't those cool? And by the way, speaking of cool, Sears can give you a free estimate on installing a central air conditioning unit!
It looks like it attaches to the outside of the box, where the vent currently is. You can see the fan in the pic. This second fan would take the exhaust normally expelled by the 360 and cool it further, perhaps drawing more air through the box as well.
Evaluating the security of an operating system based on the number of CERT advisories is assinine, err, unreasonable. There's no debate here.
Windows is more secure than it used to be, and you can absolutely make a Windows box more secure than a Linux box, but come on. Any OS that requires (or at least strongly encourages) all applications to be run with full admin privileges is de facto less secure. All these IE/Outlook exploits wouldn't do squat if Windows was Unix-like in that regard. I don't give my grandma root. Redmond does it by default.
If M$soft could figure out a way to separate privs, the Net would be a better place. Their OS architecture, especially that God-awful anything-goes "read me write me 69 me" registry, is killing them.
I don't understand the market for these sort of laptops. At almost 6kg, this is approaching the portability level of my desktop PC, especially since with its battery life of one hour you're still effectively tethered to power supplies anyway. And for this 'privilege' you pay far, far more than you would for an equivalent desktop system. So, where's the market?
One assumes it's easier to lug this laptop around than a desktop and a monitor and its specs make it desktop comparable, thus the moniker DTR. Using the same machine at home as you do at work makes life easier, as does taking said machine on the road. If they seldom are used without their umbellical power cords, battery life is a nonissue. This isn't a "work on a plane" laptop, clearly.
As for why it has to be this beefy, well simply because it can. The majority of machines today are overkill for what people use them for. Video editing requires certain specs, but for most people the limits of a machine never come into question. If you've decided your laptop won't be used that often away from a desk, and you make a purchasing decision based on the most bang for your buck, and if this is being paid for by your employer, then why not get the most powerful one? That's what they're banking on.
Hundreds of people are, as we speak, frantically searching P2P services for a download of Death Death 2000.
As well they should...
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
>open the mailbox.
Opening the small mailbox reveals a leaflet.
>take the leaflet out of the mailbox.
Taken.
>read the leaflet.
"WELCOME TO DEATH DEATH 2000!
DEATH DEATH 2000 is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore
some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortals. No computer should be
without one!"
>go north.
North of House
You are facing the north side of a white house. There is no door here, and all
the windows are boarded up. To the north a narrow path winds through the trees.
>kill everything
Done!
You have achieved DEATH DEATH 2000. I hope you're 18.
It's pretty lame to reply to your own post, I know, but it's worth noting that all the cocaine in the world is grown in a region of Central America roughly the size of Iraq. With the same troop deployment and budget currently being spent in the Middle East, we could have eradicated cocaine crops from the face of the earth, saved countless lives and families, reduced the crime rate in this country by 50% immediately, kept kids alive and out of jail and destroyed the business of the most powerful criminals alive. Nope. Not interested.
The same goes with Afghanistan. 90% of the world's opium is grown there. We have an occupying force there, why not have them torch the crops? Nope. Not interested. Heroin remains as available on American streets as it ever has been.
Regardless of what you think of drug addicts, ridding the world of the dope that gets them high does society a world of good. Crime and drugs go hand in hand. We could absolutely do something about it. The reasons we're not are pretty frightening.
. . . how do they know how much money drug lords make? Are they somehow monitoring ALL the drug deals and not making a move to stop drug deals that they KNOW ABOUT?
That's a really good question. In terms of volume (the measurement, not the quantity), the amount of cocaine alone flowing across the borders to the streets defies lack of detection. Something on the order of a skyscraper on a daily basis, I suspect. A big one. How does one accomplish that? Hmmm....
It is not only the rights of the children, but the free speech rights of the authors and publishers of game software that these laws seek to restrict.
Beh. Restricting the distribution of material to adults doesn't fall under the umbrella of free speech protection. If that were so, age requirements for pornography sales would fall under the same category.
This falls in the category of "legislation to prevent things parents wish weren't true." Kids look at porn on the Internet. Kids listen to music with naughty language. Kids go to R rated movies and learn about all sorts of interesting things. Kids play video games with blood and boobies and, in fact, seem to prefer those video games. You can affix labels and restrict sales all you want to, but kids are smart enough to figure out how to get access to these things.
By passing this legislation, nothing is accomplished. Maybe once in a great while a youngster won't be able to play Death Death 2000 for a week or two. But that's not the point. It makes the legislator look like a family values guy and gives concerned parents an outlet for their frustrations. They can smile sweetly and say they did something, regardless of the fact nothing was accomplished.
Just another example of our justice system at work... adding to a long series of poorly-written laws enforced irregularly.
To further explain that, when you enable the setgid bit on a directory, newly created files will inherit the directory's group, and newly created directorys will do that as well as inheriting the setgid bit.
Is that the sticky bit? You'd think after having being asked that question during a few dozen clue checks I would know by now, but I remain a clod.
I can tell you the difference between RIP and OSPF in my sleep, though.
IIRC, there were config files, properties files and the like that needed to be modified within QA, who received a "push" of the codebase rather than checking it out. Too, the web developers weren't putting their stuff in CVS.
I used to be both sysadm and web admin of my web server. When I moved to a different division where there is a sysadm group, I thought I'd die without root.
A decent amount of people start out with *nix at home, and do everything as root so they don't have to figure out permissions. When they leave that environment for an org's production environment, they think they need root. I did that, too, until I blew away a bunch of mail by accident at my first sysadmin job. Doh.
The only time I've ever considered allowing sudo chown was when I had a bunch of developers working on the same code base and files kept getting added and moved around between dev and QA which no one else could access. I ended up going with a workaround to avoid it.
When will programmers start writing secure code? When will we stop hearing "security is hard" or even worst "security is impossible"? When will people start demanding that programmers write secure code?
Phishing, fraudulent Ebay auctions and Nigerian lottery scams have nothing to do with poorly-written code. They have to do with poorly-thinking brains. The Internet makes a great place for fraud because you don't know who you're communicating with. Some people haven't grasped that concept yet. I guess they don't give sermons about that stuff.
In a related story, cybersex as increased as well.
I couldn't get them to come to my house to get rid of my roommate's ex-wife when she was violating a CLETS restraining order, simply because she wasn't actively physically threatening anyone at the moment. (That woman is large enough she can actually cause physical harm without a weapon...)
You could have told them Large Marge is coming to get you.
Organizing an armed resistance against the police or the US government is an easy way to make your life go bye bye, either via death or imprisonment. Throwing a shot at an elected official or law enforcement is frowned upon in these parts. Revolution is a romantic idea, but in practice it's brutal. There are no soundtracks playing in the background, no Mel Gibson, no speeches. Just a bunch of people getting smushed.
I like it here, but I like doing my thing as well. I'll do it somewhere else if I have to but I don't think it's going to come to that. Unless Dick Cheney is our next president.... shudder. One would hope they could put an end to recent overstepping of the second amendment in the court of public opinion, the press or even in the political arena, where it's supposed to be controlled. If they don't, there will be decisions to be made, but the backlash has been significant enough so far to expect some curtailing will take place.
I just replaced Random with God. It was not an eureka moment, just about anyone can make the connection without any hoaxing, just an understanding based on my faith that nothing is truly random but work of God, as Einstein said God doesn't roll dice.
Well, I don't know what faith that would be, but it's not Christianity. The Bible specifically explains the origin of the universe.
Ever heard of RINOs? Republicans In Name Only? They should make a new designation... CHINOs... CHristians In Name Only. I don't know how they expect to be taken seriously when they say the Bible is the Word of God (TM) one day and that yes, it's the word of God, but it shouldn't be taken literally the next. Intelligent design isn't how it was written in the verses. Six days. No more, no less. Or six "Biblical" days, 5000 years or what have you. No evolution. No nothing. He did everything. He does everything. Static universe. If he didn't say it, it's not the truth.
If you believe your God said those things, then get behind his words, get behind his explanation of how things should be, be a man and stand up for what you believe. The way I see it, you're just making it up as you go along to appear less foolish in face of contrary evidence. Until JC shows up again to settle this, all you have to go by is what's written in the Bible. So stick with that.
But regarding user friendliness, I'd say distributions like Ubuntu are friendly enough for basic tasks like Office / EMail / Internet work. But Windows is just a much better desktop OS, we all gotta give it that I guess.
Ubuntu is as user-friendly a Linux distro as I've ever seen. Like you said... Internet, email, office apps work great out of the box and the system both installs and hides guts really well. But it doesn't play music or video files out of the box... what does that Totem player actually play anyway? Oh well, so much for wide acceptance.
a computer is a tool. if you don't understand your tool, don't fuck with it or don't use it.
Shit, now I have to start getting up and changing channels by hand again.
I hate to demolish your fiefdom (actually I enjoy it immensely), but not everyone in the world thinks knowing how to work a computer is impressive. I drive my car. I don't futz with the innards. The mechanic does that, and he knows a lot more about it than I do, but his hands are always dirty so I win.
I agree. Too often admins see the problem of "insecure or unwanted traffic on port XX" and solve it by blocking port XX. My question is why wasn't that port already blocked? As a system administrator I block All ports except the ones we need. Even then those ports are monitored for the correct kind of data.
Even that doesn't help as many P2P programs use port 80. If they don't already, they'll likely start embedding HTML tags in their protocol to avoid detection.
It's a L7 filter you can use to identify P2P traffic from all popular applications, then apply rate-limiting rules to throttle or eliminate it. Works great, although you need a router with some horsepower if you're pushing a decent-size load through.
The theory of evolution is refuted quite clearly in the Bible. Quantum mechanics wasn't covered. Jesus had nothing to say about subatomic particles. That would have been a hard thing to explain to a civilization which hadn't yet harnessed electricity and he was too busy teaching them what to think and how to behave.
We should prepare ourselves for the possibility that evolution doesn't explain everything or is even completely off base. It seems kind of simplistic, to be honest. Evolutionary theory is just that, theory. It's impossible to prove. And it doesn't really matter whether it's off base or not. Like all theories that are contested by faith groups, it comes down to one thing: is there a God or not? You either believe it or you don't.
Christians have a hard enough time trying to account for inadequacies in Biblical text... you're never going to convince them that they're wrong as long as they believe that there is a Jesus floating around somewhere. This whole "intelligent design" thing is indicative of that; at this point, they're ignoring huge chunks of verses and making it up as they go along. There's no good reason to point out the faults in their position unless you need to blow off some steam.
Isn't it more likely that your brain is trying to create a continuity where one doesn't exist or that your perception is inadequate of conceiving? That these signposts and clever games are entertainment for the self, based on the ideal that we are capable of understanding everything that's going on around us, that all the forces that act upon our subjectivity during a particular moment are clearly labelled and explicable to our monkey brains?
Our brains are designed to fill in what we don't see or understand. Our blind spot, where the sheath of nerves carry visual signals to the brain, is a classic example: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindspot1.html. Logic is no exception. Witness religion. We like to fill in the holes. We don't like it when our rules collapse. It's more likely we're inferior beings than the universe is of inferior quality.
Then again, maybe you're Neo. What the fuck do I know? Keep eating shrooms and help me find a way out.
It's like saying, something happens in reality only the very moment you know it. Turn on CNN, and all what they are reporting on, just happened at that very moment you learnt of it, and if you did not hear it or know it, then it did not happen! Crack!
Firstly, just because they say something on CNN doesn't mean it actually happened. But that's got nothing to do with this discussion.
Secondly, you're inferring too far. You can't discount perspective from measurement, perspective being a point in space and time (space-time). If you do, then you might as well go flip burgers, because everything has happened already from the null point of view, the universe should eventually collapse back into a single point at which point all these laws will be defunct and all time will be irrelevant, so what's the point of observation anyway? The argument is not that something didn't exist because it's not observed, it's that it isn't relevant because it wasn't observed.
If a tree falls in the woods and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound? The correct answer is: Who gives a shit?
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Yeah, but not first season, quirky jerky, goofy expression, "I'm programmed to provide pleasure in 27 different ways to Tasha Yar" Data. You can keep that guy. I want the cool Data. Data, go fetch me a Guinness, prove my theories and ward off some ruffians.
According to their press release, "CoolIT Systems has designed a retrofit product that will transform the stock forced air cooling system with a state-of-the-art liquid-chilled system that employs the exclusive MTEC technology pioneered by CoolIT Systems."
The "Systems" and "cooling system" are autogenerated hyperlinks to advertisements. And they're not even close to being relative to the subject matter. "Systems" takes you to Microsoft's web conferencing service. "cooling system" takes you to Sears.
What a joke. Hey we saw something somewhere and we don't know how it works, but it's got something to with an XBox360 and aren't those cool? And by the way, speaking of cool, Sears can give you a free estimate on installing a central air conditioning unit!
It looks like it attaches to the outside of the box, where the vent currently is. You can see the fan in the pic. This second fan would take the exhaust normally expelled by the 360 and cool it further, perhaps drawing more air through the box as well.
Windows is more secure than it used to be, and you can absolutely make a Windows box more secure than a Linux box, but come on. Any OS that requires (or at least strongly encourages) all applications to be run with full admin privileges is de facto less secure. All these IE/Outlook exploits wouldn't do squat if Windows was Unix-like in that regard. I don't give my grandma root. Redmond does it by default.
If M$soft could figure out a way to separate privs, the Net would be a better place. Their OS architecture, especially that God-awful anything-goes "read me write me 69 me" registry, is killing them.
One assumes it's easier to lug this laptop around than a desktop and a monitor and its specs make it desktop comparable, thus the moniker DTR. Using the same machine at home as you do at work makes life easier, as does taking said machine on the road. If they seldom are used without their umbellical power cords, battery life is a nonissue. This isn't a "work on a plane" laptop, clearly.
As for why it has to be this beefy, well simply because it can. The majority of machines today are overkill for what people use them for. Video editing requires certain specs, but for most people the limits of a machine never come into question. If you've decided your laptop won't be used that often away from a desk, and you make a purchasing decision based on the most bang for your buck, and if this is being paid for by your employer, then why not get the most powerful one? That's what they're banking on.
As well they should ...
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
>open the mailbox.
Opening the small mailbox reveals a leaflet.
>take the leaflet out of the mailbox.
Taken.
>read the leaflet.
"WELCOME TO DEATH DEATH 2000! DEATH DEATH 2000 is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortals. No computer should be without one!"
>go north.
North of House
You are facing the north side of a white house. There is no door here, and all
the windows are boarded up. To the north a narrow path winds through the trees.
>kill everything
Done!
You have achieved DEATH DEATH 2000. I hope you're 18.
The same goes with Afghanistan. 90% of the world's opium is grown there. We have an occupying force there, why not have them torch the crops? Nope. Not interested. Heroin remains as available on American streets as it ever has been.
Regardless of what you think of drug addicts, ridding the world of the dope that gets them high does society a world of good. Crime and drugs go hand in hand. We could absolutely do something about it. The reasons we're not are pretty frightening.
That's a really good question. In terms of volume (the measurement, not the quantity), the amount of cocaine alone flowing across the borders to the streets defies lack of detection. Something on the order of a skyscraper on a daily basis, I suspect. A big one. How does one accomplish that? Hmmm....
Beh. Restricting the distribution of material to adults doesn't fall under the umbrella of free speech protection. If that were so, age requirements for pornography sales would fall under the same category.
This falls in the category of "legislation to prevent things parents wish weren't true." Kids look at porn on the Internet. Kids listen to music with naughty language. Kids go to R rated movies and learn about all sorts of interesting things. Kids play video games with blood and boobies and, in fact, seem to prefer those video games. You can affix labels and restrict sales all you want to, but kids are smart enough to figure out how to get access to these things.
By passing this legislation, nothing is accomplished. Maybe once in a great while a youngster won't be able to play Death Death 2000 for a week or two. But that's not the point. It makes the legislator look like a family values guy and gives concerned parents an outlet for their frustrations. They can smile sweetly and say they did something, regardless of the fact nothing was accomplished.
Just another example of our justice system at work ... adding to a long series of poorly-written laws enforced irregularly.
Is that the sticky bit? You'd think after having being asked that question during a few dozen clue checks I would know by now, but I remain a clod.
I can tell you the difference between RIP and OSPF in my sleep, though.
Probaly lieing? Eh?
LIEING 15 YEARS FTW!
Where's C3PO?
IIRC, there were config files, properties files and the like that needed to be modified within QA, who received a "push" of the codebase rather than checking it out. Too, the web developers weren't putting their stuff in CVS.
A decent amount of people start out with *nix at home, and do everything as root so they don't have to figure out permissions. When they leave that environment for an org's production environment, they think they need root. I did that, too, until I blew away a bunch of mail by accident at my first sysadmin job. Doh.
The only time I've ever considered allowing sudo chown was when I had a bunch of developers working on the same code base and files kept getting added and moved around between dev and QA which no one else could access. I ended up going with a workaround to avoid it.
Phishing, fraudulent Ebay auctions and Nigerian lottery scams have nothing to do with poorly-written code. They have to do with poorly-thinking brains. The Internet makes a great place for fraud because you don't know who you're communicating with. Some people haven't grasped that concept yet. I guess they don't give sermons about that stuff.
In a related story, cybersex as increased as well.
You could have told them Large Marge is coming to get you.
I like it here, but I like doing my thing as well. I'll do it somewhere else if I have to but I don't think it's going to come to that. Unless Dick Cheney is our next president .... shudder. One would hope they could put an end to recent overstepping of the second amendment in the court of public opinion, the press or even in the political arena, where it's supposed to be controlled. If they don't, there will be decisions to be made, but the backlash has been significant enough so far to expect some curtailing will take place.
Well, I don't know what faith that would be, but it's not Christianity. The Bible specifically explains the origin of the universe.
Ever heard of RINOs? Republicans In Name Only? They should make a new designation ... CHINOs ... CHristians In Name Only. I don't know how they expect to be taken seriously when they say the Bible is the Word of God (TM) one day and that yes, it's the word of God, but it shouldn't be taken literally the next. Intelligent design isn't how it was written in the verses. Six days. No more, no less. Or six "Biblical" days, 5000 years or what have you. No evolution. No nothing. He did everything. He does everything. Static universe. If he didn't say it, it's not the truth.
If you believe your God said those things, then get behind his words, get behind his explanation of how things should be, be a man and stand up for what you believe. The way I see it, you're just making it up as you go along to appear less foolish in face of contrary evidence. Until JC shows up again to settle this, all you have to go by is what's written in the Bible. So stick with that.
Ubuntu is as user-friendly a Linux distro as I've ever seen. Like you said ... Internet, email, office apps work great out of the box and the system both installs and hides guts really well. But it doesn't play music or video files out of the box ... what does that Totem player actually play anyway? Oh well, so much for wide acceptance.
Shit, now I have to start getting up and changing channels by hand again.
I hate to demolish your fiefdom (actually I enjoy it immensely), but not everyone in the world thinks knowing how to work a computer is impressive. I drive my car. I don't futz with the innards. The mechanic does that, and he knows a lot more about it than I do, but his hands are always dirty so I win.
Are you the guy that hums along to elevator music?
Are you sure you're not listening to Rubber Soul?
Even that doesn't help as many P2P programs use port 80. If they don't already, they'll likely start embedding HTML tags in their protocol to avoid detection.
Cisco has a nice IOS feature called NBAR (Network-Based Application Recognition): http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/so ftware/ios122/122newft/122t/122t8/dtnbarad.htm
It's a L7 filter you can use to identify P2P traffic from all popular applications, then apply rate-limiting rules to throttle or eliminate it. Works great, although you need a router with some horsepower if you're pushing a decent-size load through.
We should prepare ourselves for the possibility that evolution doesn't explain everything or is even completely off base. It seems kind of simplistic, to be honest. Evolutionary theory is just that, theory. It's impossible to prove. And it doesn't really matter whether it's off base or not. Like all theories that are contested by faith groups, it comes down to one thing: is there a God or not? You either believe it or you don't.
Christians have a hard enough time trying to account for inadequacies in Biblical text ... you're never going to convince them that they're wrong as long as they believe that there is a Jesus floating around somewhere. This whole "intelligent design" thing is indicative of that; at this point, they're ignoring huge chunks of verses and making it up as they go along. There's no good reason to point out the faults in their position unless you need to blow off some steam.
Our brains are designed to fill in what we don't see or understand. Our blind spot, where the sheath of nerves carry visual signals to the brain, is a classic example: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindspot1.html. Logic is no exception. Witness religion. We like to fill in the holes. We don't like it when our rules collapse. It's more likely we're inferior beings than the universe is of inferior quality.
Then again, maybe you're Neo. What the fuck do I know? Keep eating shrooms and help me find a way out.
Firstly, just because they say something on CNN doesn't mean it actually happened. But that's got nothing to do with this discussion.
Secondly, you're inferring too far. You can't discount perspective from measurement, perspective being a point in space and time (space-time). If you do, then you might as well go flip burgers, because everything has happened already from the null point of view, the universe should eventually collapse back into a single point at which point all these laws will be defunct and all time will be irrelevant, so what's the point of observation anyway? The argument is not that something didn't exist because it's not observed, it's that it isn't relevant because it wasn't observed.
If a tree falls in the woods and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound? The correct answer is: Who gives a shit?