I've seen plenty of posts on here about how reimaging the machines and or using LiveCD's and installing Linux to hdd - but what about the one or two students (even if they're the only ones out of the whole campus) that are geeky enough to even think of this? they do that, and they can pretty much nullify anything this Deep Freeze can do, and at best it can be re-imaged if Deep Freeze or any drive-imaging setup uses IP's instead of having to have the software on the client to be reset
the only few way's I can think of keeping people from using LiveCD's or installing to hdd, is to remove the cd drive and use a motherboard that doesn't allow for USB booting (in case they try a small distro for USB drives)
that and it's possible that they may get interested enough (out of geekyness or for the money) in linux to go and learn advanced stuff, and become a network or server admin, thus making much larger sums of money in their career path than they would if they only ever use WinXP and instant messenging...
This is pure crap I'm spittin out here, but I suppose anything is possible...
So it's slightly possible that George Lucas wasn't lying and the whole galactic-terran-empire "long-long ago" thing really happened?
In all seriousness though (well, half seriousness), suppose this would mean that Earth IS that bunch of humans huddled around a burning-trash-can of a black-hole?
this is one of the biggest problems with me upgrading to FF2 - how many of my extensions will either be replaced or the developers can't (or dont want to) maintain the extension to give it FF2 compatibility? I suppose at least if TabsMixPlus works, it'll be mostly fine since thats also one of my biggest
PS: well, aside from All-in-one sidebar, MenuX, Web Developer, Adblock... well, you get the idea - about 10 or so (and yes I do actually use them)
If I remember right, adblock has a "subscribe to blocked items" feature where it lets you select which public lists to use for blocking the majority of junk - so even though I'm positive it would be more of a pain than its worth (unless you run a big network maybe?) could you not make your own list and give adblock a url for the list on a LAN server?
maybe that will make people curious about ICANN and such things as how they don't give a damn about domain name squatters - ahh, well we can dream people will anyway, right?
Personally, M$ doesn't need to compete as far as media players (software such as WMP, VLC, foobar2000), is because they have about 20 or 30 third party media players available.
When I first really started listening to music on my PC about a year ago, I started with iTunes, which was great for me as a beginner, but then I got fed up with it sucking up between 50 and 70 mbs of RAM, not to mention even with the "Keep my folder organized" option disabled, it would still seem to take all my nicely organized directories of "top level/artist/album" and I end up with about 3 different directories for 1 (one) artist... what a pain in the ass...
After my initial encounter with iTunes I went to Winamp, which worked ok for a month or 2, by which time I had loaded it with enough plugins it was permanently broken - even after a complete removal of the plugins and Winamp with a reinstall of the player, it still wouldn't work. Oh ya, did I mention I ended up removing more than 80% of Winamps default plugins since they were useless to me?
At this point I went to foobar2000 - if you don't want it to do something, it doesn't do it, find the plugins/extensions you want, load em up, change the UI, etc and it loads ONLY the ones you have. The UI uses the "TAGZ" language (if thats what you call it) - the same that Winamp uses, except about 5x more extensively and provides documentation on most if not all of the commands - in other words, if you want something to say "Songs" instead of "Playlists" you can change it yourself. Basically its everything I could want - customized the hell out of the interface (well, ok it is missing the ability to lose window chrome and a skinnable toolbar, and no mini-mode is a downer, but hey - rainmeter widgets answer that for me) and it doesn't try to reorginize my stuff so that I can micromanage that myself like I want to.
do like you do with sending.zip's over webmail (gmail, yahoo, etc) and rename it - for example I had to send one to myself a few hours ago, and remembered seeing somebody with their email displayed in their/. sig (without link) and a notice after the address to remove all h's or something of the sort that had been randomly stuck in to actually be able to send to the email address. this is effectively what I did with the.zip doc - inserted n's, making.zip.nzninpn
hrmm... You must have been smart enough to have made sure your laptop wifi wasn't a Broadcom chipset before you bought it and put Ubuntu on. Don't get me wrong, stability-wise, Ubuntu so far beats the crap out of Fedora, but no matter which version you use, hell will freeze over before I get my broadcom chipset working. Most people aren't going to know any better to get a non-broadcom chipset/card - so I see the original argument of wifi not working under linux as still valid...
I watched this on the history (or was it discovery?) channel - afaik the contest limits the cannons to using compressed air - no explosive powders or exotic substances - not to mention to make to the pumkin work as a projectile in a rail gun or gauss gun, you would have to fill it with ferromagnetic metal or stick it in an armature the way the rail-guns being lab tested for combat/field use hold tungsten slugs...
Not that IPv6 isn't needed or that it sucks or whatever, but who else gets a feeling that by the time IPv4 is entirely out (9x%), IPv6 will be obsolete?
Did anybody else think of the similarity between VeraTech and Veritech of the Robotech anime? The article summary even says "...it folds..." - a transformation just like the Veritech Fighter to humanoid form!
Just so you know, no I didn't RTFA. Oh ya, and I can't guarantee anybody will understand this (even the people that know what buckyballs are) since I'm by no means a chemist, physicist, etc, and therefore there is a good chance I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about... you have been warned...
Am I one of the few that at least sorta understood?
Just myself being a nerd and having one day randomly stumbled upon "Buckyballs" (Buckminsterfullerene - and this was actually before Wikipedia). If I remember right, the stuff is basically a bunch of carbon atoms arranged in hex shapes, then the edges of the hex's are stuck together and wrapped up to make a ball. Since the hex's are pretty much perfectly symetrical, the ball oughta stick together fairly evenly and make, for the most part, a perfect sphere.
This is where the article starts to mean something, because the buckyball they produced broke that perfect sphere, so I would assume either the side(s) of some of the hex's are longer than other sides on those hex's, or some of the side's are not connected at the vertices
so what about the monthly email going out to everybody about the company cafeteria special, the one asking you to walk for whatever cause, give to whatever fund - that says "We'll have the following changes in policies, procedures, etc, you're getting your pay cut, etc - when we merge with whatever company next month" - would that maybe be how he would know?
I think he's counting on that within 20 minutes of N. Korea launching missiles against S. Korea or any other nation (or if any other nation were doing the launching), N. Korea (or whoever started the shooting) would have 20 missiles with MIRV's containing warheads of around upto 12 warheads (in other words, 1 or 2 missile(s) could take out N. Korea, so 20 is gonna make for damned sure its a glass parking lot) launched at them, probably from submarines, and detonate another 20 to 30 minutes later (if that)...
THAT is what he is most likely counting on making them lose... and it wouldn't be just 1 country launching, at least 2 or 3 are sure to do so...
BTW: the basis for 20 missiles wasn't really much, except that if the US alone still has thousands, how much of a dent is using 20 going to put into our nuclear stockpile? In fact, I bet if Congress or any of the penny-minded generals (admirals, whatever) knew that the cost of the missile and launching it would be outweighed by the cost of maintaining the things, they'd jump right on it...
somebody said in another post somewhere beneath the top of this thread:
"toss in firefox which automatically sets downloads to the desktop, and the battle is lost"
maybe it would help if in firefox's initial setup wizard, it prompted where you want downloads to go to - somewhere like My Documents\Downloads for Windows, and somewhere like/home/username/downloads/ for Linux with the option to change directories...
Sure standards are great, but does EVERY web-designer and developer out there write to standards? Of course not, I'll bet you that even a few major sites aren't up to standards - so when people take Opera for a test drive, and it doesn't display Yahoo or whatnot properly (just because the Firefox and Opera users on/. know Yahoo sucks, doesnt mean the rest of the world's Firefox and Opera users do), they are going to not use Opera...
So even though it would be great to live in a standards compliant world, it probably won't happen any time soon - so you have to make the browser in question (Firefox, Opera, whatever) also NON-standards compliant so that the page doesnt have layout tables shifting rows and columns around...
I know windows has horrible security and whatnot, and to the point of the summary, MS shot themselves in the foot with this by not fixing system vulnerabilities and bundling it with anti-virus back in the early 90's, and created the market for antivirus software. Then they kinda screwed themselves over with all the anti-trust mess they dug themselves into, so now even if they wanted to bundle antivirus or even just fix the vulnerabilities, I wonder if they would even be allowed to since it would be considered anti-competitive against the antivirus companies.
So my question is (I'm trying to make it as neutral and unbiased as I can) - is Apple bundling antivirus and whatnot with their Mac systems fair on the part of MS?
Now, if you could please keep this from being a flamewar, I'm not really against Apple bundling antivirus, because I think that the OS manufacturer should be the one to fix any problems/+ provide antivirus with the system for free - I just think that if Apple is allowed to do this, MS should too (it would also raise the standard of security on windows systems and create more competition for the antivirus companies because people would hopefully wonder why they pay for it, making the companies make better software)...
Its good to know that SanDisk still supports SD cards on their mp3 players. sure I could go get the stylish iPod Nano, or any 1gig built-in flash memory player - but I indescribedly hate the thought of being limited to a gig of music, and to have to delete half my song library to add a new album or discography. With SD card players, at least I still have the option open of going and buying more cards and swapping them out. The bad thing about SD card mp3 players is every time I look at Fry's Electronics or on Newegg and TigerDirect, there are only a few to choose from, and most of them are at least as bad or worse than the cheap $20 builtin flash memory players...
BTW: if anybody knows of any good sd card mp3 players, please drop a reply with a link... my current model is an RCA/Thompson Lyra M200, so like I said, if you know any better that are easy to find...
not that I really pay the worlds most attention to E3, but for what I can say about it - this article might as well be another cliche ad/article with "iPod Killer" in the title. in other words, I doubt much of anything could kill E3...
as to how long you want it to stay in beta - quick question, you might find it to help or not - how long has gmail been in beta? how long will gmail likely continue to be in beta? if the same applies to this writely thing, you shouldnt' have too much to worry about - unless you expect the Google dev team on this to have an infinite iq and catch every little bug, quirk, glitch, and put in every little feature wanted by everybody on slashdot...
I couldn't disagree with you more - I think he's more cautious (or at the absolute very least, paranoid) than a LOT of people here on Slashdot. He's not saying that you shouldn't give a damn about what you type, say, info you put on the net, etc - he's saying you should be always be watchful of what you say, do, etc, because you never know who might be watching or find that data at a later date.
Basically, he's saying if you don't want Google to know you search for illegal software, porn, or god knows what (even if it isn't "immoral" (whatever your definition of that happens to be) or legal) - don't search for it or type it in, say it, etc. Not just with Google, but with Yahoo, Alta Vista, your co-worker, alone at the water cooler, your dog, etc, etc.
Which is why so many people in so many countries simply pirate it - my guess is, the only people that actually pay for Windows is the ones that buy pre-manufactured boxes from HP, Dell, etc, and the people actually buying disks in the US, UK, and Europe...
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I've seen plenty of posts on here about how reimaging the machines and or using LiveCD's and installing Linux to hdd - but what about the one or two students (even if they're the only ones out of the whole campus) that are geeky enough to even think of this? they do that, and they can pretty much nullify anything this Deep Freeze can do, and at best it can be re-imaged if Deep Freeze or any drive-imaging setup uses IP's instead of having to have the software on the client to be reset
the only few way's I can think of keeping people from using LiveCD's or installing to hdd, is to remove the cd drive and use a motherboard that doesn't allow for USB booting (in case they try a small distro for USB drives)
that and it's possible that they may get interested enough (out of geekyness or for the money) in linux to go and learn advanced stuff, and become a network or server admin, thus making much larger sums of money in their career path than they would if they only ever use WinXP and instant messenging...
Sounds to me like they wanted it to feel kinda like the DMC series?
This is pure crap I'm spittin out here, but I suppose anything is possible...
So it's slightly possible that George Lucas wasn't lying and the whole galactic-terran-empire "long-long ago" thing really happened?
In all seriousness though (well, half seriousness), suppose this would mean that Earth IS that bunch of humans huddled around a burning-trash-can of a black-hole?
this is one of the biggest problems with me upgrading to FF2 - how many of my extensions will either be replaced or the developers can't (or dont want to) maintain the extension to give it FF2 compatibility? I suppose at least if TabsMixPlus works, it'll be mostly fine since thats also one of my biggest
PS: well, aside from All-in-one sidebar, MenuX, Web Developer, Adblock... well, you get the idea - about 10 or so (and yes I do actually use them)
If I remember right, adblock has a "subscribe to blocked items" feature where it lets you select which public lists to use for blocking the majority of junk - so even though I'm positive it would be more of a pain than its worth (unless you run a big network maybe?) could you not make your own list and give adblock a url for the list on a LAN server?
maybe that will make people curious about ICANN and such things as how they don't give a damn about domain name squatters - ahh, well we can dream people will anyway, right?
Personally, M$ doesn't need to compete as far as media players (software such as WMP, VLC, foobar2000), is because they have about 20 or 30 third party media players available.
When I first really started listening to music on my PC about a year ago, I started with iTunes, which was great for me as a beginner, but then I got fed up with it sucking up between 50 and 70 mbs of RAM, not to mention even with the "Keep my folder organized" option disabled, it would still seem to take all my nicely organized directories of "top level/artist/album" and I end up with about 3 different directories for 1 (one) artist... what a pain in the ass...
After my initial encounter with iTunes I went to Winamp, which worked ok for a month or 2, by which time I had loaded it with enough plugins it was permanently broken - even after a complete removal of the plugins and Winamp with a reinstall of the player, it still wouldn't work. Oh ya, did I mention I ended up removing more than 80% of Winamps default plugins since they were useless to me?
At this point I went to foobar2000 - if you don't want it to do something, it doesn't do it, find the plugins/extensions you want, load em up, change the UI, etc and it loads ONLY the ones you have. The UI uses the "TAGZ" language (if thats what you call it) - the same that Winamp uses, except about 5x more extensively and provides documentation on most if not all of the commands - in other words, if you want something to say "Songs" instead of "Playlists" you can change it yourself. Basically its everything I could want - customized the hell out of the interface (well, ok it is missing the ability to lose window chrome and a skinnable toolbar, and no mini-mode is a downer, but hey - rainmeter widgets answer that for me) and it doesn't try to reorginize my stuff so that I can micromanage that myself like I want to.
do like you do with sending .zip's over webmail (gmail, yahoo, etc) and rename it - for example I had to send one to myself a few hours ago, and remembered seeing somebody with their email displayed in their /. sig (without link) and a notice after the address to remove all h's or something of the sort that had been randomly stuck in to actually be able to send to the email address. this is effectively what I did with the .zip doc - inserted n's, making .zip .nzninpn
hrmm... You must have been smart enough to have made sure your laptop wifi wasn't a Broadcom chipset before you bought it and put Ubuntu on. Don't get me wrong, stability-wise, Ubuntu so far beats the crap out of Fedora, but no matter which version you use, hell will freeze over before I get my broadcom chipset working. Most people aren't going to know any better to get a non-broadcom chipset/card - so I see the original argument of wifi not working under linux as still valid...
I watched this on the history (or was it discovery?) channel - afaik the contest limits the cannons to using compressed air - no explosive powders or exotic substances - not to mention to make to the pumkin work as a projectile in a rail gun or gauss gun, you would have to fill it with ferromagnetic metal or stick it in an armature the way the rail-guns being lab tested for combat/field use hold tungsten slugs...
Not that IPv6 isn't needed or that it sucks or whatever, but who else gets a feeling that by the time IPv4 is entirely out (9x%), IPv6 will be obsolete?
Did anybody else think of the similarity between VeraTech and Veritech of the Robotech anime? The article summary even says "...it folds..." - a transformation just like the Veritech Fighter to humanoid form!
Just so you know, no I didn't RTFA. Oh ya, and I can't guarantee anybody will understand this (even the people that know what buckyballs are) since I'm by no means a chemist, physicist, etc, and therefore there is a good chance I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about... you have been warned...
Am I one of the few that at least sorta understood?
Just myself being a nerd and having one day randomly stumbled upon "Buckyballs" (Buckminsterfullerene - and this was actually before Wikipedia). If I remember right, the stuff is basically a bunch of carbon atoms arranged in hex shapes, then the edges of the hex's are stuck together and wrapped up to make a ball. Since the hex's are pretty much perfectly symetrical, the ball oughta stick together fairly evenly and make, for the most part, a perfect sphere.
This is where the article starts to mean something, because the buckyball they produced broke that perfect sphere, so I would assume either the side(s) of some of the hex's are longer than other sides on those hex's, or some of the side's are not connected at the vertices
so what about the monthly email going out to everybody about the company cafeteria special, the one asking you to walk for whatever cause, give to whatever fund - that says "We'll have the following changes in policies, procedures, etc, you're getting your pay cut, etc - when we merge with whatever company next month" - would that maybe be how he would know?
I think he's counting on that within 20 minutes of N. Korea launching missiles against S. Korea or any other nation (or if any other nation were doing the launching), N. Korea (or whoever started the shooting) would have 20 missiles with MIRV's containing warheads of around upto 12 warheads (in other words, 1 or 2 missile(s) could take out N. Korea, so 20 is gonna make for damned sure its a glass parking lot) launched at them, probably from submarines, and detonate another 20 to 30 minutes later (if that)...
THAT is what he is most likely counting on making them lose... and it wouldn't be just 1 country launching, at least 2 or 3 are sure to do so...
BTW: the basis for 20 missiles wasn't really much, except that if the US alone still has thousands, how much of a dent is using 20 going to put into our nuclear stockpile? In fact, I bet if Congress or any of the penny-minded generals (admirals, whatever) knew that the cost of the missile and launching it would be outweighed by the cost of maintaining the things, they'd jump right on it...
somebody said in another post somewhere beneath the top of this thread:
maybe it would help if in firefox's initial setup wizard, it prompted where you want downloads to go to - somewhere like My Documents\Downloads for Windows, and somewhere like /home/username/downloads/ for Linux with the option to change directories...
Sure standards are great, but does EVERY web-designer and developer out there write to standards? Of course not, I'll bet you that even a few major sites aren't up to standards - so when people take Opera for a test drive, and it doesn't display Yahoo or whatnot properly (just because the Firefox and Opera users on /. know Yahoo sucks, doesnt mean the rest of the world's Firefox and Opera users do), they are going to not use Opera...
So even though it would be great to live in a standards compliant world, it probably won't happen any time soon - so you have to make the browser in question (Firefox, Opera, whatever) also NON-standards compliant so that the page doesnt have layout tables shifting rows and columns around...
I know windows has horrible security and whatnot, and to the point of the summary, MS shot themselves in the foot with this by not fixing system vulnerabilities and bundling it with anti-virus back in the early 90's, and created the market for antivirus software. Then they kinda screwed themselves over with all the anti-trust mess they dug themselves into, so now even if they wanted to bundle antivirus or even just fix the vulnerabilities, I wonder if they would even be allowed to since it would be considered anti-competitive against the antivirus companies.
So my question is (I'm trying to make it as neutral and unbiased as I can) - is Apple bundling antivirus and whatnot with their Mac systems fair on the part of MS?
Now, if you could please keep this from being a flamewar, I'm not really against Apple bundling antivirus, because I think that the OS manufacturer should be the one to fix any problems/+ provide antivirus with the system for free - I just think that if Apple is allowed to do this, MS should too (it would also raise the standard of security on windows systems and create more competition for the antivirus companies because people would hopefully wonder why they pay for it, making the companies make better software)...
Its good to know that SanDisk still supports SD cards on their mp3 players. sure I could go get the stylish iPod Nano, or any 1gig built-in flash memory player - but I indescribedly hate the thought of being limited to a gig of music, and to have to delete half my song library to add a new album or discography. With SD card players, at least I still have the option open of going and buying more cards and swapping them out. The bad thing about SD card mp3 players is every time I look at Fry's Electronics or on Newegg and TigerDirect, there are only a few to choose from, and most of them are at least as bad or worse than the cheap $20 builtin flash memory players...
BTW: if anybody knows of any good sd card mp3 players, please drop a reply with a link... my current model is an RCA/Thompson Lyra M200, so like I said, if you know any better that are easy to find...
not that I really pay the worlds most attention to E3, but for what I can say about it - this article might as well be another cliche ad/article with "iPod Killer" in the title. in other words, I doubt much of anything could kill E3...
I dont wanna insult you or anything, but did you think about the fact that Google would have the encryption/decryption algorithm?
as to how long you want it to stay in beta - quick question, you might find it to help or not - how long has gmail been in beta? how long will gmail likely continue to be in beta? if the same applies to this writely thing, you shouldnt' have too much to worry about - unless you expect the Google dev team on this to have an infinite iq and catch every little bug, quirk, glitch, and put in every little feature wanted by everybody on slashdot...
I couldn't disagree with you more - I think he's more cautious (or at the absolute very least, paranoid) than a LOT of people here on Slashdot. He's not saying that you shouldn't give a damn about what you type, say, info you put on the net, etc - he's saying you should be always be watchful of what you say, do, etc, because you never know who might be watching or find that data at a later date.
Basically, he's saying if you don't want Google to know you search for illegal software, porn, or god knows what (even if it isn't "immoral" (whatever your definition of that happens to be) or legal) - don't search for it or type it in, say it, etc. Not just with Google, but with Yahoo, Alta Vista, your co-worker, alone at the water cooler, your dog, etc, etc.
Which is why so many people in so many countries simply pirate it - my guess is, the only people that actually pay for Windows is the ones that buy pre-manufactured boxes from HP, Dell, etc, and the people actually buying disks in the US, UK, and Europe...