I never, ever ran adblockers until advertisers became so obnoxious that they insist on displaying their ads over content in floating flash objects, which don't always turn off when clicked, and when they started with the auto-playing video (with audio) crap. I was fine with banner and text ads and accepted them as the reality that content providers need to make a living too. However, by interfering with my web browser and making the very sites they are trying to advertise on completely useless by covering content, they crossed way over the line. So, I installed adblock and haven't looked back.
Fix your fucking advertisements then I might consider uninstalling adblock.
Why notebooks in general don't come with transflective screen options is beyond me. It's an old and proven technology used on most PDAs and many smartphones now and the color gamut is actually pretty decent; perhaps not enough for color matching but excellent for gaming, movies, and the like (not to mention basic word processing, coding, etc. tasks). They are perfectly readable in all lighting conditions including direct sunlight, with full color reproduction. It is true that contrast and color gamut do suffer in direct sunlight but what does that matter, when you are looking at a screen that is incredible when backlight in normal viewing conditions, and very usable in sunlight?
I've seen only a couple of notebooks with that option over the years. I'd like to see some new higher-end notebooks with transflective screens.
If you browse too many issues too quickly (I was using thumbnail view to quickly look for ads and articles I remember from reading my dad's subscription in the late 70s/early 80s) you'll encounter this:
We're sorry...... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
Why they (google) don't display a captcha when you get to that point is beyond me. It seems silly to make thousands of magazines available with thumbnail views of entire issues, then block a user after viewing about 10.
Another thing:
Remember the Synchronar/sunwatch ads? The hovercraft and hybrid car (run your car off four car batteries, a generator, and a lawnmower engine!) ads in the back? Remember the various DAK Industries ads (I STILL want the graphic equalizer they used to peddle)?
Anything that is linked to it, not items which use the library in other ways (such as tcp/ip, etc.). In those cases it becomes "mere aggregation." There is always a LEGAL way around the GPL when you really, absolutely must make closed source software and rely on GPL.
Otherwise, commercial software for Linux couldn't exist, period.
A stance more like the BSD licence (do what you want with it as long as you give credit) than the GPL licence (lots of restrictions on redistribution).
There is NOT a lot of restrictions with the GPL license; in fact it is quite simple. If you want to distribute a program using GPL code or derived GPL code, you release the component (or derivative) as GPL, including source. That is not a lot of restrictions. All it does is ensure that people share and share alike, something most people learn by kindergarten but quickly forget.
A Mac Mini server comes with two hard drives on a fakeraid controller. You can set this up with RAID[sic]0 (striped array) for performance improvements, and back up the server diligently to offset the risk introduced by RAID0.
I disagree. Technically, doesn't that property belong to the citizens of San Fran?
What was he supposed to do - file a legal notice with area newspapers detailing the credentials of each device? Send out a mailer to all the registered voters?
Yes, it belongs to you ("you" meaning citizens living in San Francisco) but that doesn't mean you have the right to the passwords to those devices; it's not as though it's a public park or a library.
I'm going to come at this from both angles since I don't know both sides and am reading up on it now. It seems that both sides are at fault here; I think they are FAR too hard on Childs (two years in prison? He didn't do anything to warrant that. Go arrest a child diddler instead and stop wasting tax money criminalizing this guy. It's obviously a civil matter). I think they should pursue it as a civil matter though, because of how he configured some items to be totally reliant on him (see below on flashing)
Firing
It's not his responsibility after being fired to guide city officials through administration of various components of the city infrastructure. His responsibility to them, aside from handing the password over to the respective individual (apparently the mayor in this case, but if that wasn't it, blame city council for not having a pecking order in place with a trustee assigned to this information) ended when he was fired. Why should he have to explain how to reconfigure routers, smart switches, servers, and the like, or how to enter passwords or to clear IP filter lists they tripped when they kept typing the passwords wrong (presumably with capslock on?). if they wanted all of that documented they should have paid him to document it (either as part of his job description or after the fact), or allowed him to hire enough assistants to document it all (which in turn can introduce security holes with more people than necessary knowing the passwords and the network architecture), or maybe they could have just visited www.google.com and do their own job.
(When I asked Terry if we could get a copy of the City's network security policy some months ago, he told me, 'I've been trying to get them to approve one for years. I've written ones up and submitted them, but they don't want to do it, because they don't want to be held to it.')
Now granted, that is his word against theirs, but truly competent system administrators are often almost paranoid about whom they share passwords with, and are sticklers about following policy/procedure when it comes to handing over those credentials (and backups which may contain those credentials in easily retrievable format or otherwise provide an easy way to compromise a device).
“At one point he was concerned about the security of the FiberWAN routers in remote offices, so he had them set up without saving the config to flash. 'If they go down, I'll get alerted, and connect up to them and reload the config.' Great, except we have power outages all the time in this city, some of those devices aren't on UPSes, and what happens if you're on vacation? And what about the 15 to 60 minutes it might take you to connect up and reload? He eventually conceded and (ahem) decided that disabling password recovery was sufficient security.”
As you can see, Childs may have had the city's best interest at heart when it came to sharing the passwords and changing configurations on a moment's notice, but not writing the configurations to flash? How ridiculous is that? What would have happened if he became sick enough to not be
I can think of some people I'd like to sell off as scrap. I'd start out with Massachusetts politicians who have the tax-and-spend-and-tax-some-more mentality. At least then the politicians would be worth their weight.;) Sadly, the iron content doesn't weigh all that much.
ANYWAY - a corporation is an entity which gives it a legal personality. This is so that a corporation can own, buy, borrow, sell, and get taxed, be taken to court, and so forth. Think of a corporation as a fictional person which can be represented in court, because that is exactly what it is. Legally a corporation is people.
I'm sure 3,921 customers will convince netflix to do it. I'd sign the petition except I think that I don't think that petition will help much. What will help is contacting customer service with your account username and tell them you want to see them roll out Linux support. Heck, if they only offer the old flash player to linux users everything will work great!
I'll counter your argument with Rhapsody. You can queue whatever tracks Rhapsody has to offer and stream it on demand. You can store any number of playlists you like. It's a better deal than iTunes purchases if all of your listening is from web-enabled devices (newer A/V receivers, your PC or Mac, your iPhone) and you don't care about audiophile-quality media, in which case you're probably not the target consumer of iTunes anyhow.
Since Windows is obviously the problem for 99.999%+ of the instances of malware out there, why not tax Microsoft directly since they're the ones negligent in this manner (requiring antispyware and antivirus software that slows PCs to a crawl, and are largely effective against new trojans and viruses anyhow, since they're the ones who delivered the pathetically insecure piece of shit Windows. Why should users of Mac, Linux, and $OTHER operating system be penalized?
Better yet, why doesn't the FCC investigate this and slap some huge fines on Microsoft for creating this mess in the first place, and make the fine significant enough so that Microsoft doesn't consider it simply being the cost of doing business, but inspires them to finally cut the cord on backwards compatibility and move to a *NIX or VMS security model from the kernel all the way up to the UI? Even in Windows 7, security is a tacked-on afterthought due to Microsoft's never having considered cutting the cord on backwards compatibility with Win3x and Win9x - heck, even today many apps still in widespread use in businesses ranging from sole proprietorships to enterprise-size megacorps still require Administrative privileges.
Many (non-US) iPhone carriers allow tethering but Apple strongly discourages it through technical measures. Their answer to customers is to contact the carrier for the provisioning files to enable tethering, and the carriers' response has been that Apple hasn't allowed them to deploy it, that they have to contact Apple. It's a game of passing the buck and customers are the ones getting pooched in the process.
It is trivial to enable tethering on a jailbroken phone but you can lose your "profiles" and "cellular data" settings tabs in the process, which can lead to visual voicemail being broken. I no longer have visual voicemail and since I am one of those users missing the profiles tab I need to learn how the profiles are configured and fix it at the shell prompt (courtesy mobile terminal or ssh).
having drum brakes won't make it easier for people to steal your car, or cause it to suddenly stop working while you're driving
I take it you have never had a "classic" car with drum brakes all around. I assure you that drum brakes can suddenly stop working; they are far more susceptible to fade than disc brakes with vented rotors, and if you don't know to ride the brakes a bit after driving through puddles if you have drum brakes (to boil off the nice layer of water that ends up being a great lubricant on the shoes) you can end up with NO braking "power." There is good reason a lot of owners of antique R^HMustangs upgrade to front disc brakes even for non-performance builds.
As for FAT vs. NTFS, how many people know the difference between disc and drum brakes?
About two hours' difference when it's time to do the brakes (or more if the drums have a deep ridge and the cylinders and springs are nice and clogged up with brake dust and rust). In one of my cars I can do the brakes in ~15 minutes per corner. On my GMC 1500 (now junked thank god) the rear drum brakes alone would take ~2.5 hours (the fronts weren't so bad, being disc).
A PC in 2030 will have the power of a supercomputer today, but by then we'll be doing things with them that we can't imagine right now, and we'll actually have a need for all that power.
Of course we will; Microsoft will still be producing operating systems around Windows architecture, so we will need the usual CPU-hogging Windows+antispyware+antivirus stack, and IE6 will still be in heavy use in the enterprise.;)
Anyone who has to support Windows 2003 or XP or earlier uses floppy drives on a regular basis.
Fortunately, most servers will work with a USB floppy drive just fine. Not all will though.
Also, many server BIOS update routines require booting off the floppy drive - You can often work around that but it's a pain in the neck - it's easier just to have a floppy drive installed in the server even though you'll use it two or three times during the life of the server.
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I never, ever ran adblockers until advertisers became so obnoxious that they insist on displaying their ads over content in floating flash objects, which don't always turn off when clicked, and when they started with the auto-playing video (with audio) crap. I was fine with banner and text ads and accepted them as the reality that content providers need to make a living too. However, by interfering with my web browser and making the very sites they are trying to advertise on completely useless by covering content, they crossed way over the line. So, I installed adblock and haven't looked back.
Fix your fucking advertisements then I might consider uninstalling adblock.
Try, reading it, as, William Shatner would.
There, I fixed, that, for you!
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Why notebooks in general don't come with transflective screen options is beyond me. It's an old and proven technology used on most PDAs and many smartphones now and the color gamut is actually pretty decent; perhaps not enough for color matching but excellent for gaming, movies, and the like (not to mention basic word processing, coding, etc. tasks). They are perfectly readable in all lighting conditions including direct sunlight, with full color reproduction. It is true that contrast and color gamut do suffer in direct sunlight but what does that matter, when you are looking at a screen that is incredible when backlight in normal viewing conditions, and very usable in sunlight?
I've seen only a couple of notebooks with that option over the years. I'd like to see some new higher-end notebooks with transflective screens.
If you browse too many issues too quickly (I was using thumbnail view to quickly look for ads and articles I remember from reading my dad's subscription in the late 70s/early 80s) you'll encounter this:
Why they (google) don't display a captcha when you get to that point is beyond me. It seems silly to make thousands of magazines available with thumbnail views of entire issues, then block a user after viewing about 10.
Another thing:
Remember the Synchronar/sunwatch ads? The hovercraft and hybrid car (run your car off four car batteries, a generator, and a lawnmower engine!) ads in the back? Remember the various DAK Industries ads (I STILL want the graphic equalizer they used to peddle)?
Anything that is linked to it, not items which use the library in other ways (such as tcp/ip, etc.). In those cases it becomes "mere aggregation." There is always a LEGAL way around the GPL when you really, absolutely must make closed source software and rely on GPL.
Otherwise, commercial software for Linux couldn't exist, period.
Baseball bats work quite well against one or two. Any more waps than that, you'll need to look for an alternative.
There is NOT a lot of restrictions with the GPL license; in fact it is quite simple. If you want to distribute a program using GPL code or derived GPL code, you release the component (or derivative) as GPL, including source. That is not a lot of restrictions. All it does is ensure that people share and share alike, something most people learn by kindergarten but quickly forget.
A Mac Mini server comes with two hard drives on a fakeraid controller. You can set this up with RAID[sic]0 (striped array) for performance improvements, and back up the server diligently to offset the risk introduced by RAID0.
How long have you been a pimp?
When was the last time a petitiononline.com petition accomplished anything?
What was he supposed to do - file a legal notice with area newspapers detailing the credentials of each device? Send out a mailer to all the registered voters?
Yes, it belongs to you ("you" meaning citizens living in San Francisco) but that doesn't mean you have the right to the passwords to those devices; it's not as though it's a public park or a library.
I'm going to come at this from both angles since I don't know both sides and am reading up on it now. It seems that both sides are at fault here; I think they are FAR too hard on Childs (two years in prison? He didn't do anything to warrant that. Go arrest a child diddler instead and stop wasting tax money criminalizing this guy. It's obviously a civil matter). I think they should pursue it as a civil matter though, because of how he configured some items to be totally reliant on him (see below on flashing)
Firing
It's not his responsibility after being fired to guide city officials through administration of various components of the city infrastructure. His responsibility to them, aside from handing the password over to the respective individual (apparently the mayor in this case, but if that wasn't it, blame city council for not having a pecking order in place with a trustee assigned to this information) ended when he was fired. Why should he have to explain how to reconfigure routers, smart switches, servers, and the like, or how to enter passwords or to clear IP filter lists they tripped when they kept typing the passwords wrong (presumably with capslock on?). if they wanted all of that documented they should have paid him to document it (either as part of his job description or after the fact), or allowed him to hire enough assistants to document it all (which in turn can introduce security holes with more people than necessary knowing the passwords and the network architecture), or maybe they could have just visited www.google.com and do their own job.
Heck, if you read some of the older news on this, it appears Childs attempted to get policies in place for protecting and storing backups and credentials but city officials did not accept it (the "Not Invented Here" syndrome; if it's not done by overpaid hack officials, it's not good enough). From http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/why-san-franciscos-network-admin-went-rogue-286?page=0,3
Now granted, that is his word against theirs, but truly competent system administrators are often almost paranoid about whom they share passwords with, and are sticklers about following policy/procedure when it comes to handing over those credentials (and backups which may contain those credentials in easily retrievable format or otherwise provide an easy way to compromise a device).
Flashing
However, this should weigh against Childs in most people's minds, including the more technical (from http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/why-san-franciscos-network-admin-went-rogue-286?page=0,4 ):
As you can see, Childs may have had the city's best interest at heart when it came to sharing the passwords and changing configurations on a moment's notice, but not writing the configurations to flash? How ridiculous is that? What would have happened if he became sick enough to not be
I can think of some people I'd like to sell off as scrap. I'd start out with Massachusetts politicians who have the tax-and-spend-and-tax-some-more mentality. At least then the politicians would be worth their weight. ;) Sadly, the iron content doesn't weigh all that much.
ANYWAY - a corporation is an entity which gives it a legal personality. This is so that a corporation can own, buy, borrow, sell, and get taxed, be taken to court, and so forth. Think of a corporation as a fictional person which can be represented in court, because that is exactly what it is. Legally a corporation is people.
I'm sure 3,921 customers will convince netflix to do it. I'd sign the petition except I think that I don't think that petition will help much. What will help is contacting customer service with your account username and tell them you want to see them roll out Linux support. Heck, if they only offer the old flash player to linux users everything will work great!
I'll counter your argument with Rhapsody. You can queue whatever tracks Rhapsody has to offer and stream it on demand. You can store any number of playlists you like. It's a better deal than iTunes purchases if all of your listening is from web-enabled devices (newer A/V receivers, your PC or Mac, your iPhone) and you don't care about audiophile-quality media, in which case you're probably not the target consumer of iTunes anyhow.
I propose a better solution:
Since Windows is obviously the problem for 99.999%+ of the instances of malware out there, why not tax Microsoft directly since they're the ones negligent in this manner (requiring antispyware and antivirus software that slows PCs to a crawl, and are largely effective against new trojans and viruses anyhow, since they're the ones who delivered the pathetically insecure piece of shit Windows. Why should users of Mac, Linux, and $OTHER operating system be penalized?
Better yet, why doesn't the FCC investigate this and slap some huge fines on Microsoft for creating this mess in the first place, and make the fine significant enough so that Microsoft doesn't consider it simply being the cost of doing business, but inspires them to finally cut the cord on backwards compatibility and move to a *NIX or VMS security model from the kernel all the way up to the UI? Even in Windows 7, security is a tacked-on afterthought due to Microsoft's never having considered cutting the cord on backwards compatibility with Win3x and Win9x - heck, even today many apps still in widespread use in businesses ranging from sole proprietorships to enterprise-size megacorps still require Administrative privileges.
Many (non-US) iPhone carriers allow tethering but Apple strongly discourages it through technical measures. Their answer to customers is to contact the carrier for the provisioning files to enable tethering, and the carriers' response has been that Apple hasn't allowed them to deploy it, that they have to contact Apple. It's a game of passing the buck and customers are the ones getting pooched in the process.
It is trivial to enable tethering on a jailbroken phone but you can lose your "profiles" and "cellular data" settings tabs in the process, which can lead to visual voicemail being broken. I no longer have visual voicemail and since I am one of those users missing the profiles tab I need to learn how the profiles are configured and fix it at the shell prompt (courtesy mobile terminal or ssh).
I take it you have never had a "classic" car with drum brakes all around. I assure you that drum brakes can suddenly stop working; they are far more susceptible to fade than disc brakes with vented rotors, and if you don't know to ride the brakes a bit after driving through puddles if you have drum brakes (to boil off the nice layer of water that ends up being a great lubricant on the shoes) you can end up with NO braking "power." There is good reason a lot of owners of antique R^HMustangs upgrade to front disc brakes even for non-performance builds.
About two hours' difference when it's time to do the brakes (or more if the drums have a deep ridge and the cylinders and springs are nice and clogged up with brake dust and rust). In one of my cars I can do the brakes in ~15 minutes per corner. On my GMC 1500 (now junked thank god) the rear drum brakes alone would take ~2.5 hours (the fronts weren't so bad, being disc).
Not drinking excessively* works for everyone.
*excessively meaning beyond a person's tolerance threshold. In some people's cases this may mean 0 drinks.
When you're fired, such agreements are usually considered null and void since the employees are acting in good faith but the employer is not.
Of course we will; Microsoft will still be producing operating systems around Windows architecture, so we will need the usual CPU-hogging Windows+antispyware+antivirus stack, and IE6 will still be in heavy use in the enterprise. ;)
. . . but it's that "because I can" that often makes sysadmins who are familiar with this "antiquated" technology extremely valuable.
Anyone who has to support Windows 2003 or XP or earlier uses floppy drives on a regular basis.
Fortunately, most servers will work with a USB floppy drive just fine. Not all will though.
Also, many server BIOS update routines require booting off the floppy drive - You can often work around that but it's a pain in the neck - it's easier just to have a floppy drive installed in the server even though you'll use it two or three times during the life of the server.