I've read several parts of this article, and I appreciate your input on Ubuntu, but I also raised an eyebrow at the idea of a "poweruser" that couldn't get Windows to perform without a full reinstall.
I changed over to Ubuntu about six months ago from windows, because I wanted to try a 64bit build of linux for my laptop and desktop (both AMD 64). I was rasied on SunOS, and by the late 90s, was installing BSD on all my non-sun servers. I have been tempted for years to play around more with linux, as it appeared to have the best chance of appealing to a personl computer, and spent a little time with gentoo.
What made me decide to keep Ubuntu on my laptop were several reasons you mentioned, mostly it's out of the box functionality. I've refined my scripts for years to install all the software I need for my servers, and automatix seems to be the exact same thing I've been doing, except for desktops.
My only complaint so far for linux s a desktop replacement has been that sometimes finding the right software is a pain in the ass. Automatix installs DVD ripping software for linux? Great. That's one thing I couldn't find on Doom9.
As far as your corrupt TCP/IP stack goes.. next time, try un/reinstalling your networking before you reformat your drive.
"I got my sony handycam about two years ago and contains no such feature that I can tell."
You ever tried using out that firewire port with your vaio laptop? have you hooked the av cables up to your Sony theater receiver or television? Getting it to work with the home theater is a no-brainer, but the firewire port isn't anything to scoff.
I have no idea what you are talking about 'losing its flexibility' can you give me some examples? Ever since Sony decided a few years ago to refocus their consumer electronics on the integration of their products to work seamlessly with each other, it's been like wonderland.
I don't see how the DRM scheme of blueray is going to "burn" me. I can still watch my movies with ease, and even my friends with DVD players can borrow them and watch them, thanks to dual layering allowing a DVD layer and a hi-def layer. The idea that preventing piracy is a barrier to preventing a consumer product from suceeding in the market is ridiculous.
Even still, it's been announced that inputs that do not support the blueray DRM scheme will receive a signal only downgraded to 1080i interlaced. So my HiDef media center PC will still be able to record and playback HiDef movies, where's the 'crippling'?
Let's not forget that in 1995, CD-R drives were over $1,000. That in 1998, CD-RW drives were over $400.. and in 2002, a DVD-RW drive was over $500 and the media was nearly $20 a disc. By 2004, DVD-RW media was only $2 a disc, and the drives were under $200. It's amazing how hysterical people can get over entry price points for new technology like this. If it's too expensive, then wait a year to buy it.. but don't think "It's destined for failure, it's too expensive". If there's one constant truth in technology, it's that if you wait, the price will soon come down.
Seriously, I couldn't even calculate how much i spent on my PC since it's been piece by part upgrades for years, but I would consider it a solid mid-line contendor.. Athlon 64 3200, geforce 6200, 1GB (2x512) ram. I chose a fairly expensive coolermaster powersupply, and used an antec case with 120mm fans. The CPU uses copper pipes and a low speed fan as well. I didn't spend more than maybe na extra hundred bucks on what keeps it cool and quiet, and it performs (in these two categories) better than my laptop.
Heat and irregular voltage are the two major causes of electrical component failure. Your PC may run fine at 100C, but I guarantee you an identical system running at 40c will last alot longer... and by the time you realize the heat is too much for your system to handle it's too late. It's like this guy I knew who got his first turbo, and I kept telling him, let it idle for a few minutes in the driveway before turning it off after you're done driving it hard and hot. He said his car drove fine and that it wasn't necessary. Two years later he dished out $15,000 for a new pair of turbo chargers... after cooking his bearings.
I know sound studios use a pyramid foam that's very similar to the foam used in hard drive packaging to remove ambient noise from recording sessions.
Given the decent shape, material, and quantity of this foam that HDs are shipped in, I wonder if some strategical placing of this foam inside the box could produce a noticable effect on noise without any added cost?
If publishers want their online game to be popular, and sell well, they will provide an adequate service. The idea that the price barrier between bad service and excellent service is a chasm is absurd.
How is this even relevant? The newspapers were discolsing secret details of crime investigations.. you know, those little details they use to confirm confessions that are sensitive to leads in the investigations? This newspaper, desperate to give more details than the others, compromised the police departments ability to investigate crimes. I'm scratching my head wondering how this should be glorified, and how whistleblowing applies?
I'm not going to litigate an example I pulled out of my ass, but to redraw the analogy to the original article. The users password was discovered to access information illegally. They asked the user, and he said he had not given out his password. He didn't report his password misused, the municipality discovered a crime when it discovered information had been gleamed from their secure website, and that password had been used to access it, likely from the newspaper's offices. So in the analogy, the access card was misued by theives, and discovered by authorities. It's a fair analogy, and noone needs to 'make up their mind' they just need to RTFA and understand the anaolgy.
A class in reading would probably be even more helpful, troll.
I don't see where the article suggests the investigators did not check the logs. I'm pretty sure that's how they figured out whose password was used to access this website.
and if they refused on the bullshit grounds of protecting their client's confidentiality that the press so often uses, they would get rolled over for obstructing an investigation.
If you noticed in your logs someone had breached your security and was poking around your documents looking at your accounting records, would you want the government to seize their computers and look for what information they may have stolen from you? Or would you let burgulary be reduced to breaking & entering?
So a bank notices an employee key card is missing, and it was used to open the front door and the vault door. they even find a hundred thousand dollars missing from the bank, and a review of the security cameras reveals the offender. Should they bother to get a warrant to search their house, or is that just harrassment?
I agree that the protests about all the data they don't want the government to find is a red herring. In reporting this story, it's pretty clear they're trying to shape public opinion of the big, bad, invasive government vs the good-natured press. What is really the story is that law enforcement (the REAL good guys, in case you didn't know) busted a reporter so desperate for information, that they violated the security of the municipality, and who knows what other laws they broke. The freedom of the press, isn't the freedom to be above the law... and just to help out the FUD, when you attempt to access a protected computing system, you will get a notice that reads something like this...
ATTENTION! THIS COMPUTING SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL RELATED EQUIPMENT, NETWORKS, AND NETWORK DEVICES ARE PROVIDED ONLY FOR AUTHORIZED U.S. GOVERNMENT USE. ONLY AUTHORIZED USERS ARE PERMITTED ACCESS TO THIS SYSTEM. DOD COMPUTER SYSTEMS MY BE MONITORED FOR ALL LAWFUL PURPOSES, INCLUDING TO ENSURE THEIR USE IS AUTHORIZED.
I think it's pretty clear even if someone gave you a password, you should know you are not authorized to use it.
Yeah, I noticed this when i doubled-back and read the article in depth. i read the summary, and looked over the list and was astonished when neither of these BSD distros was mentioned, as they are pretty well known for being a high security distribution.
The delays are because the Blueray developers couldn't agree on a standard for the DRM aspect of it until sometime 1Q 2006. This delayed the manufacture of BR Drives, which will delay the launch of the PS3. It's not because they couldn't get any aspect of it to perform, it was a question of ironing out the standards before launch.
What gives? If you're going to do something as mind-boggling as stack enough GPUs togeather for four computers, let's atleast support four cores... Add in Sun's hardware domain manager, and maybe we could get four workstations out of one box.. or two workstations and a server.. or two servers.. Does anyone else see this as the next inevitable step in computing after EFI?
Correct me if I'm wrong.. because I can't access the pictures (Thanks Websense!) But couldn't you just put a PC under the table and connect the Mac monitor to the PC? Or was this done on a mac notebook?
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I changed over to Ubuntu about six months ago from windows, because I wanted to try a 64bit build of linux for my laptop and desktop (both AMD 64). I was rasied on SunOS, and by the late 90s, was installing BSD on all my non-sun servers. I have been tempted for years to play around more with linux, as it appeared to have the best chance of appealing to a personl computer, and spent a little time with gentoo.
What made me decide to keep Ubuntu on my laptop were several reasons you mentioned, mostly it's out of the box functionality. I've refined my scripts for years to install all the software I need for my servers, and automatix seems to be the exact same thing I've been doing, except for desktops.
My only complaint so far for linux s a desktop replacement has been that sometimes finding the right software is a pain in the ass. Automatix installs DVD ripping software for linux? Great. That's one thing I couldn't find on Doom9.
As far as your corrupt TCP/IP stack goes.. next time, try un/reinstalling your networking before you reformat your drive.
You ever tried using out that firewire port with your vaio laptop? have you hooked the av cables up to your Sony theater receiver or television? Getting it to work with the home theater is a no-brainer, but the firewire port isn't anything to scoff.
I don't see how the DRM scheme of blueray is going to "burn" me. I can still watch my movies with ease, and even my friends with DVD players can borrow them and watch them, thanks to dual layering allowing a DVD layer and a hi-def layer. The idea that preventing piracy is a barrier to preventing a consumer product from suceeding in the market is ridiculous.
Even still, it's been announced that inputs that do not support the blueray DRM scheme will receive a signal only downgraded to 1080i interlaced. So my HiDef media center PC will still be able to record and playback HiDef movies, where's the 'crippling'?
Let's not forget that in 1995, CD-R drives were over $1,000. That in 1998, CD-RW drives were over $400.. and in 2002, a DVD-RW drive was over $500 and the media was nearly $20 a disc. By 2004, DVD-RW media was only $2 a disc, and the drives were under $200. It's amazing how hysterical people can get over entry price points for new technology like this. If it's too expensive, then wait a year to buy it.. but don't think "It's destined for failure, it's too expensive". If there's one constant truth in technology, it's that if you wait, the price will soon come down.
How quickly people forget the last time Nintendo tried something like this.
RRRrrrr!!!!! So what's the spacebar for?
Seriously, I couldn't even calculate how much i spent on my PC since it's been piece by part upgrades for years, but I would consider it a solid mid-line contendor.. Athlon 64 3200, geforce 6200, 1GB (2x512) ram. I chose a fairly expensive coolermaster powersupply, and used an antec case with 120mm fans. The CPU uses copper pipes and a low speed fan as well. I didn't spend more than maybe na extra hundred bucks on what keeps it cool and quiet, and it performs (in these two categories) better than my laptop.
Heat and irregular voltage are the two major causes of electrical component failure. Your PC may run fine at 100C, but I guarantee you an identical system running at 40c will last alot longer... and by the time you realize the heat is too much for your system to handle it's too late. It's like this guy I knew who got his first turbo, and I kept telling him, let it idle for a few minutes in the driveway before turning it off after you're done driving it hard and hot. He said his car drove fine and that it wasn't necessary. Two years later he dished out $15,000 for a new pair of turbo chargers... after cooking his bearings.
Given the decent shape, material, and quantity of this foam that HDs are shipped in, I wonder if some strategical placing of this foam inside the box could produce a noticable effect on noise without any added cost?
It's probably considered fair use.
If publishers want their online game to be popular, and sell well, they will provide an adequate service. The idea that the price barrier between bad service and excellent service is a chasm is absurd.
"I know that you guys posted a big stop sign back there, but i'm so used to seeing them that i drove right through it."
How is this even relevant? The newspapers were discolsing secret details of crime investigations.. you know, those little details they use to confirm confessions that are sensitive to leads in the investigations? This newspaper, desperate to give more details than the others, compromised the police departments ability to investigate crimes. I'm scratching my head wondering how this should be glorified, and how whistleblowing applies?
A class in reading would probably be even more helpful, troll.
I don't see where the article suggests the investigators did not check the logs. I'm pretty sure that's how they figured out whose password was used to access this website.
Don't give the NY Times any ideas, he is beating Hillary in the polls for 2008.
and if they refused on the bullshit grounds of protecting their client's confidentiality that the press so often uses, they would get rolled over for obstructing an investigation.
If you noticed in your logs someone had breached your security and was poking around your documents looking at your accounting records, would you want the government to seize their computers and look for what information they may have stolen from you? Or would you let burgulary be reduced to breaking & entering?
So a bank notices an employee key card is missing, and it was used to open the front door and the vault door. they even find a hundred thousand dollars missing from the bank, and a review of the security cameras reveals the offender. Should they bother to get a warrant to search their house, or is that just harrassment?
ATTENTION! THIS COMPUTING SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL RELATED EQUIPMENT, NETWORKS, AND NETWORK DEVICES ARE PROVIDED ONLY FOR AUTHORIZED U.S. GOVERNMENT USE. ONLY AUTHORIZED USERS ARE PERMITTED ACCESS TO THIS SYSTEM. DOD COMPUTER SYSTEMS MY BE MONITORED FOR ALL LAWFUL PURPOSES, INCLUDING TO ENSURE THEIR USE IS AUTHORIZED.
I think it's pretty clear even if someone gave you a password, you should know you are not authorized to use it.
Yeah, I noticed this when i doubled-back and read the article in depth. i read the summary, and looked over the list and was astonished when neither of these BSD distros was mentioned, as they are pretty well known for being a high security distribution.
OpenBSD nad NetBSD are the top two that came to mind at first for me, but apparently BSD didn't make the list at all. I wonder what that is about.
The delays are because the Blueray developers couldn't agree on a standard for the DRM aspect of it until sometime 1Q 2006. This delayed the manufacture of BR Drives, which will delay the launch of the PS3. It's not because they couldn't get any aspect of it to perform, it was a question of ironing out the standards before launch.
What gives? If you're going to do something as mind-boggling as stack enough GPUs togeather for four computers, let's atleast support four cores... Add in Sun's hardware domain manager, and maybe we could get four workstations out of one box.. or two workstations and a server.. or two servers.. Does anyone else see this as the next inevitable step in computing after EFI?
Correct me if I'm wrong.. because I can't access the pictures (Thanks Websense!) But couldn't you just put a PC under the table and connect the Mac monitor to the PC? Or was this done on a mac notebook?