I use a national ID card which is a smart card. This is called two-factor authentication. You got to have something (a key) and know something (a pin) to do anything. If i use a cardreader with an external pinpad, it is very hard for malware to sign any traffic or bank orders with this card. If you do not have an ID card already in your pocket, it should be quite feasible to a bank to use its own smartcards.
I think this harms open software more than Microsoft ever has.
Come to think of it - Microsoft with its money-grabbing ways did more in the way of pushing the open source movement than we would think. They provided the (although unintentionally) 87% of the incentive to go opensource.
I never acutally understood the reason for a PDF plugin. Why can't i just download the bloody file and look at it? On second thought, that's what i usually do. Can someone give me one good reason to have a plugin for PDF files? Paedophiles?
And that will very efficiently render all positive aspects of thin clients to ashes. Almost all of the reasons (in the way of TCO savings) of deploying thin clients in the first place rely on *the same hardware* running same configuration and system image. Running 200 broken laptops from ebay would be a fun sight, but would probably increase the cost ten times over traditional desktops, let alone thin clients.
It does not allow a "single binary file to run natively" on several platforms. All Universal Binary is - is a bunch of precompiled binaries that run on their particular platform in a folder with.app extension. Very convenient for an end user, but takes a lot of room on hard disk.
Yes, i would. Because then the ip information is always in one place - DHCP server - and there will be no conflicts and this information is *always* up to date. If a device needs a static address (e.g. a server or switch) i just assign it an IP address according to its MAC address in DHCP server. Everything else gets an address from the dynamic range.
i did that because the original article/question wasn't how to get a proper subset of the public repos, but rather how to get updates on many computers without logging in.
The grandparent seems to be implying that you should just switch on YUM & cronjob it to pull every available update from the global YUM repo, on every server, which is clearly a bad idea.
No, grandparent implied that you can apply updates on a gazillion hosts automatically. Ok - lets assume you have 1000 hosts of centos. You will create your own update repo and configure them all to update automatically from it. If an update comes you test it on a couple of machines and if it does not break anything (and of course if it is needed at all) you will add it to your update repo and all of the hosts will update themselves without you logging in all of them and running updates.
Neither vmware nor parallels is limited to windows guests. I run several different Linux, BSD (and win) virtual machines on a mca to test things. You can laugh if you want to.
It all boils down to free market. This is like complaining that all those cheap apples ruin the market for selling an apple for 10$ - "We used to sell the apples for 10$ a piece. And we can still charge 10$ per apple in some markets, like Iceland where they do not grow. But somehow our 10$ apples dont sell very well here, i wonder what that is. It must be those hippies that give their friends an apple or those who sell it by the pound!"
"Estonia's biggest ISP Linxtelecom" - where does this info come from!? Linxtelecom has about 1-2% of the market in Estonia (which has a population of roughly 1.3 million people).
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I use a national ID card which is a smart card. This is called two-factor authentication. You got to have something (a key) and know something (a pin) to do anything. If i use a cardreader with an external pinpad, it is very hard for malware to sign any traffic or bank orders with this card. If you do not have an ID card already in your pocket, it should be quite feasible to a bank to use its own smartcards.
I think this harms open software more than Microsoft ever has.
Come to think of it - Microsoft with its money-grabbing ways did more in the way of pushing the open source movement than we would think. They provided the (although unintentionally) 87% of the incentive to go opensource.
I never acutally understood the reason for a PDF plugin. Why can't i just download the bloody file and look at it? On second thought, that's what i usually do. Can someone give me one good reason to have a plugin for PDF files? Paedophiles?
Could we enhance that?
And that will very efficiently render all positive aspects of thin clients to ashes. Almost all of the reasons (in the way of TCO savings) of deploying thin clients in the first place rely on *the same hardware* running same configuration and system image. Running 200 broken laptops from ebay would be a fun sight, but would probably increase the cost ten times over traditional desktops, let alone thin clients.
He would get much smaller file with the same or better readability with djvu
It does not allow a "single binary file to run natively" on several platforms. All Universal Binary is - is a bunch of precompiled binaries that run on their particular platform in a folder with .app extension. Very convenient for an end user, but takes a lot of room on hard disk.
Shouldn't all pokers be arrested?
... all the engineers who have spent years on developing handwriting recognition software say collectively "frell".
Yes, i would. Because then the ip information is always in one place - DHCP server - and there will be no conflicts and this information is *always* up to date. If a device needs a static address (e.g. a server or switch) i just assign it an IP address according to its MAC address in DHCP server. Everything else gets an address from the dynamic range.
Rdiff-backup, anyone?
They're 1680x1050 physically, everything else is scaled.
All LCDs have one physical resolution and everything else is scaled
must be a russian loser
At least in my country (Estonia) you can track any GSM cellphone's (belonging to you) location from the provider's webpage or similar.
i did that because the original article/question wasn't how to get a proper subset of the public repos, but rather how to get updates on many computers without logging in.
The grandparent seems to be implying that you should just switch on YUM & cronjob it to pull every available update from the global YUM repo, on every server, which is clearly a bad idea.
No, grandparent implied that you can apply updates on a gazillion hosts automatically.
Ok - lets assume you have 1000 hosts of centos. You will create your own update repo and configure them all to update automatically from it. If an update comes you test it on a couple of machines and if it does not break anything (and of course if it is needed at all) you will add it to your update repo and all of the hosts will update themselves without you logging in all of them and running updates.
/etc/init.d/yum-updatesd start
in centos 5.x
/etc/init.d/yum start
and what do you know - the updates are installed automagically without any manual intervention
Neither vmware nor parallels is limited to windows guests. I run several different Linux, BSD (and win) virtual machines on a mca to test things. You can laugh if you want to.
The idea is to compare virtualization solutions running on Mac OSX. VMWare ESX does NOT run on OSX.
Who says you may not encrypt it first? A little AES never hurt steganography.
It all boils down to free market. This is like complaining that all those cheap apples ruin the market for selling an apple for 10$ - "We used to sell the apples for 10$ a piece. And we can still charge 10$ per apple in some markets, like Iceland where they do not grow. But somehow our 10$ apples dont sell very well here, i wonder what that is. It must be those hippies that give their friends an apple or those who sell it by the pound!"
Just for reference: http://www.linxtelecom.ee/uudised.php?ID=140&lang=est lists the total revenue of 2007 as being approx. 6,5 million $ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=mo&q=68%2C5+million+eek+in+usd&btnG=Search
As a comparison Estonia's actually biggest telecom Eesti Telekom's revenue was almost 10 times that: 510 million $ http://www.baltic.omxnordicexchange.com/market/?pg=details&instrument=EE3100007220&list=2&tab=news&news_id=222160
http://www.google.com/search?q=6%2C2+billion+eek+in+usd&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
"Estonia's biggest ISP Linxtelecom" - where does this info come from!? Linxtelecom has about 1-2% of the market in Estonia (which has a population of roughly 1.3 million people).
* Even typing a correct URL you're not free from dns-poisoning
How does a blacklist of urls address that?