I've never tried rsync, but I've used tar and gzip/bzip2 using Samba to backup Windows admin shares (C$). Unfortunately, I have never been able to successfully restore the Windows OS based upon such a backup. I've always had to reinstall the OS, reinstall the apps, then restore the data. AFAIK, imaging the drive is the only way to completely restore the system -- OS, apps and all -- from a backup of a Windows machine.
If most people had to install Windows to get it to work on their PCs, they'd be in the same boat they are currently in with Linux -- they wouldn't have any more clue how to install and configure Windows than they do Ubuntu. Having installed multiple flavors of both Windows and Linux, Ubuntu currently has the easiest installer I've ever seen, bar none. And I've had all the same problems you've described with Linux when I've had to install Windows from a retail (vice OEM) CD. In fact, I've even had to boot a PC with Knoppix, just to find out what kind of hardware was inside the case so I could go download Windows drivers to make the hardware work. However, since every PC maker since Windows 95 has included Windows installed by default (at least until recently), non-techie Windows users typically don't have to worry about it. Now, Windows is what Grandma expects on her PC. And since people, as a rule, are afraid of change, that will be the default until someone gives someone a compelling enough reason to use something else. Unfortunately, at this point, I suspect the only thing that will be compelling enough is, "You can't get a PC with Windows, anymore, ma'am...".
I think you are confusing the issue here. Google (and therefore YouTube), as a private entity, has the right to say what they will and will not allow on the forums they create. Don't like their censorship? Then build your own forum. I have, and found myself forced to censor the forum because of the spammers -- in fact, I ended up shutting it down because it was just too much work to maintain. A completely free forum is anything but the "cruft-free content" for which you pine nowadays. Back when the Internet was limited to researches and academics who lived by a code of professional ethics, it was possible to have a pretty much "hands-off" network. That's not the case anymore.
But, IMHO, that's not the real issue. The real issue is that governments, including China, Australia and, unfortunately, the U.S. where I live, keep trying to push their own legal requirements on the Internet as well. Rather than simply saying, "anyone in our country who violates these laws will be prosecuted", they are trying to force the Google's, the eBay's, and so on to police the networks for them. France freaked out a while ago because people were selling WWII memorabilia that had Nazi logos on them (which violated their "hate speech" laws). Someone in Illinois sued Spamhaus for including a domain that the plaintiff owned in a blacklist. Spamhaus elected not to travel to the U.S. to fight the legal battle, and therefore lost by default. That's just two examples from the so-called "Free World" It's even worse if you want to think about the mid-east, the banana republics, etc.
Sometimes the girl you are dating is picky and therefore will only accept two of the options that you are not. I'll leave whether or not I am talented as an exercise for the reader, but I do play guitar. My former girlfriend (before I met my wife, just to be clear) did NOT like it when I played guitar because when I was playing guitar, I wasn't paying attention to her. My wife, OTOH, does like it when I play guitar. After she heard me playing the first time, she said that if we ever got married, I would have to play at our wedding.
Eventually, we got married, and, well...I'm a schmuck. I played at our wedding.
real women like flowers, chocolate, and other mushy stuff.
Real women also do NOT like stereotypes...especially when you are trying to force them into one. I bought my wife chocolate for Valentine's Day exactly once -- the first year we were dating. I never did that again because as it turns out, she doesn't particularly like chocolate.
Here's the real way to win a woman's heart: try actually listening to her once in a while. Find out what she likes. Then surprise her with things that she has mentioned during the last year. It's a little more work, but trust me...you hang out on/. If a girl actually gives you her number, treat her like the treasure she really is:)
Actually, in hindsight, my comment doesn't have a lot of relevance anyway. Just because you can camp in a National Park in the U.S. (even back-country camping) doesn't mean that you can in other countries.
Sorry -- my U.S.-centric thinking bit me in the butt
The iTouch/iPhone has a different OS and file system. Why doesn't your computer appear as a USB mass storage device?
Because so far, there has been no advantage in doing so. If you need to transfer files between two computers, rsync, ftp, http, NFS, Samba/CIFS, etc. are much better ways to do so than connecting a USB cable between the two machines and making one of them appear to be a USB Mass Storage device. However, if you insist on treating the i(Touch|Phone) as a full-fledged computer, then just equip it with the OS agnostic tools that already exist to transfer files between two computers.
Think about it for a second: other versions of the iPod *did* present themselves as USB Mass Storage Devices. Ergo, it can't be a contractual agreement with their media partners that presents the iPod Touch from presenting itself as a USB Mass Storage Device (unless the other versions are grandfathered in...could be, I guess). USB Mass Storage is a standard -- that's the reason it is supported on Windows, Linux and Mac. It's not like every company that makes a USB Mass Storage device has to figure out how they are going to communicate with Win2K, XP, Vista, 7, OS-X, Suse, Gentoo, Redhat, Slackware, Gnome, Enlightenment and KDE (to quote and expand upon your list). I use the same USB thumb drives on my wife's Win2K, XP and Vista machines, on my Gentoo, Slackware, Debian and Ubuntu boxes (all of which run Gnome, except the Slack box, which runs BlackBox) and my OS-X laptop.
Seems to me, it's just Apple trying to establish vendor lock in, which makes me less than thrilled to use their products.
In Anchorage, Alaska, the municipality already requires business owners to have a lock box near the front door with a key inside used to open said front door...in the event of an emergency, of course. I imagine it is only a matter of time until they require the same for private residences.
all email is already being snooped, in the US and most of the EU
I can all but guarantee you it's not. How? Because I live in the U.S. (thereby satisfying one of the conditions you posited). I run my own mail server at home, and some of the e-mail messages that I receive in my inbox are system messages that originate on and are subsequently delivered directly to the same machine (my mail server). Therefore, at the very least, those messages are not being snooped by the government (unless the government has already hacked my server*)
* It is possible, I suppose, that my server is in fact dutifully reporting to one or more TLA's. While I have taken steps to secure the server, I certainly do not claim that my sys admin-fu is equal to the task of keeping a suitably motivated black hat -- much less the entire U.S. government -- frustrated indefinitely. If you want my data bad enough, you can probably get at it.
It also says that you shall not be denied the right to habeus corpus, but Alberto Gonzales argued otherwise. And the second amendment protects your right to keep and bear arms, but the courts have decreed that -- contrary to all the other rights in the Bill of Rights -- this one doesn't really apply to you, but to the National Guard.
That's one (of many) reasons I live in Alaska. No state sales tax here. Although many municipalities have their own local sales tax, many others (including Anchorage, where I live) don't. However, even in Anchorage, there is a tax on real estate, so if you are a homeowner, you are still paying at least that tax. Then there's federal taxes on gasoline, and.....
I'd wager that you would be hard pressed indeed to find a person who isn't paying any taxes at all.
Depends upon what the carbon molecules are. Diamonds and graphite, IIRC, tend not to be terribly reactive to O2. CH4 etc., OTOH...yeah, that could be a problem:)
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I've never tried rsync, but I've used tar and gzip/bzip2 using Samba to backup Windows admin shares (C$). Unfortunately, I have never been able to successfully restore the Windows OS based upon such a backup. I've always had to reinstall the OS, reinstall the apps, then restore the data. AFAIK, imaging the drive is the only way to completely restore the system -- OS, apps and all -- from a backup of a Windows machine.
Meh...
If most people had to install Windows to get it to work on their PCs, they'd be in the same boat they are currently in with Linux -- they wouldn't have any more clue how to install and configure Windows than they do Ubuntu. Having installed multiple flavors of both Windows and Linux, Ubuntu currently has the easiest installer I've ever seen, bar none. And I've had all the same problems you've described with Linux when I've had to install Windows from a retail (vice OEM) CD. In fact, I've even had to boot a PC with Knoppix, just to find out what kind of hardware was inside the case so I could go download Windows drivers to make the hardware work. However, since every PC maker since Windows 95 has included Windows installed by default (at least until recently), non-techie Windows users typically don't have to worry about it. Now, Windows is what Grandma expects on her PC. And since people, as a rule, are afraid of change, that will be the default until someone gives someone a compelling enough reason to use something else. Unfortunately, at this point, I suspect the only thing that will be compelling enough is, "You can't get a PC with Windows, anymore, ma'am...".
Yet he was able to post about his predicament on /.
"WHOOSH!", perhaps?
I'm sure there's a joke in there regarding LaTeX and safe computing somewhere...
Stupid question for you, then...if it isn't being sold, but is being freely given away, does it still run afoul of the law?
I think you are confusing the issue here. Google (and therefore YouTube), as a private entity, has the right to say what they will and will not allow on the forums they create. Don't like their censorship? Then build your own forum. I have, and found myself forced to censor the forum because of the spammers -- in fact, I ended up shutting it down because it was just too much work to maintain. A completely free forum is anything but the "cruft-free content" for which you pine nowadays. Back when the Internet was limited to researches and academics who lived by a code of professional ethics, it was possible to have a pretty much "hands-off" network. That's not the case anymore.
But, IMHO, that's not the real issue. The real issue is that governments, including China, Australia and, unfortunately, the U.S. where I live, keep trying to push their own legal requirements on the Internet as well. Rather than simply saying, "anyone in our country who violates these laws will be prosecuted", they are trying to force the Google's, the eBay's, and so on to police the networks for them. France freaked out a while ago because people were selling WWII memorabilia that had Nazi logos on them (which violated their "hate speech" laws). Someone in Illinois sued Spamhaus for including a domain that the plaintiff owned in a blacklist. Spamhaus elected not to travel to the U.S. to fight the legal battle, and therefore lost by default. That's just two examples from the so-called "Free World" It's even worse if you want to think about the mid-east, the banana republics, etc.
My wife is a drummer, and (AFAIK, anyway...) has no girlfriend :D
Sometimes the girl you are dating is picky and therefore will only accept two of the options that you are not. I'll leave whether or not I am talented as an exercise for the reader, but I do play guitar. My former girlfriend (before I met my wife, just to be clear) did NOT like it when I played guitar because when I was playing guitar, I wasn't paying attention to her. My wife, OTOH, does like it when I play guitar. After she heard me playing the first time, she said that if we ever got married, I would have to play at our wedding.
Eventually, we got married, and, well...I'm a schmuck. I played at our wedding.
I'm sorry..."Sedate" and "IANAL" should NOT be used together in the same post. Just sayin'...
real women like flowers, chocolate, and other mushy stuff.
Real women also do NOT like stereotypes...especially when you are trying to force them into one. I bought my wife chocolate for Valentine's Day exactly once -- the first year we were dating. I never did that again because as it turns out, she doesn't particularly like chocolate.
/. If a girl actually gives you her number, treat her like the treasure she really is :)
Here's the real way to win a woman's heart: try actually listening to her once in a while. Find out what she likes. Then surprise her with things that she has mentioned during the last year. It's a little more work, but trust me...you hang out on
Thanks for that, you insensitive clod! I really did not need to know how my parents celebrated Valentine's Day!
Actually, in hindsight, my comment doesn't have a lot of relevance anyway. Just because you can camp in a National Park in the U.S. (even back-country camping) doesn't mean that you can in other countries.
Sorry -- my U.S.-centric thinking bit me in the butt
I just got back from Central America two weeks ago. I'd go back in a heartbeat, especially for $10K.
You can camp in the Chugach National Park in Alaska (and probably most other National Parks up here, too...I just haven't checked).
The iTouch/iPhone has a different OS and file system. Why doesn't your computer appear as a USB mass storage device?
Because so far, there has been no advantage in doing so. If you need to transfer files between two computers, rsync, ftp, http, NFS, Samba/CIFS, etc. are much better ways to do so than connecting a USB cable between the two machines and making one of them appear to be a USB Mass Storage device. However, if you insist on treating the i(Touch|Phone) as a full-fledged computer, then just equip it with the OS agnostic tools that already exist to transfer files between two computers.
Interpretation: "I have nothing useful to say, and just want to call people names. News at 11!"
Doesn't make sense to me.
Think about it for a second: other versions of the iPod *did* present themselves as USB Mass Storage Devices. Ergo, it can't be a contractual agreement with their media partners that presents the iPod Touch from presenting itself as a USB Mass Storage Device (unless the other versions are grandfathered in...could be, I guess). USB Mass Storage is a standard -- that's the reason it is supported on Windows, Linux and Mac. It's not like every company that makes a USB Mass Storage device has to figure out how they are going to communicate with Win2K, XP, Vista, 7, OS-X, Suse, Gentoo, Redhat, Slackware, Gnome, Enlightenment and KDE (to quote and expand upon your list). I use the same USB thumb drives on my wife's Win2K, XP and Vista machines, on my Gentoo, Slackware, Debian and Ubuntu boxes (all of which run Gnome, except the Slack box, which runs BlackBox) and my OS-X laptop.
Seems to me, it's just Apple trying to establish vendor lock in, which makes me less than thrilled to use their products.
I think you may have unintentionally stumbled upon the decryption key: "Krispy-Kreme".
In Anchorage, Alaska, the municipality already requires business owners to have a lock box near the front door with a key inside used to open said front door...in the event of an emergency, of course. I imagine it is only a matter of time until they require the same for private residences.
all email is already being snooped, in the US and most of the EU
I can all but guarantee you it's not. How? Because I live in the U.S. (thereby satisfying one of the conditions you posited). I run my own mail server at home, and some of the e-mail messages that I receive in my inbox are system messages that originate on and are subsequently delivered directly to the same machine (my mail server). Therefore, at the very least, those messages are not being snooped by the government (unless the government has already hacked my server*)
* It is possible, I suppose, that my server is in fact dutifully reporting to one or more TLA's. While I have taken steps to secure the server, I certainly do not claim that my sys admin-fu is equal to the task of keeping a suitably motivated black hat -- much less the entire U.S. government -- frustrated indefinitely. If you want my data bad enough, you can probably get at it.
or direct management of those assets
8^*
It also says that you shall not be denied the right to habeus corpus, but Alberto Gonzales argued otherwise. And the second amendment protects your right to keep and bear arms, but the courts have decreed that -- contrary to all the other rights in the Bill of Rights -- this one doesn't really apply to you, but to the National Guard.
See how that works?
That's one (of many) reasons I live in Alaska. No state sales tax here. Although many municipalities have their own local sales tax, many others (including Anchorage, where I live) don't. However, even in Anchorage, there is a tax on real estate, so if you are a homeowner, you are still paying at least that tax. Then there's federal taxes on gasoline, and.....
I'd wager that you would be hard pressed indeed to find a person who isn't paying any taxes at all.
Depends upon what the carbon molecules are. Diamonds and graphite, IIRC, tend not to be terribly reactive to O2. CH4 etc., OTOH...yeah, that could be a problem :)
Ummm...used Linux? :P