Take an old machine too slow to run M$ warez on and install SME/E-Smith on it. http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=13 This is a free linux server distro designed for small groups, it has a full mail server with pop and imap support. It builds the entire system and applications from one CD. It has a wonderful "backup to desktop" feature and runs for years without a reboot.
One of the reasons SME runs nicely on old hardware is that it does nor run a GUI but is administered throug its own web server.
Yea, its a dumb comment. But the issue that should be focused on "is Apple out of line going after the news sites?"
It's only a trade secret if you are the one who signed the NDA or other such agreement with Apple, to anyone else it is just news. Apple is having a problem with employees and contractors and is trying to use the courts to pressure third parties, that have no responsibility to maintain trade secrets with Apple to get at those who do.
This is hardly a national security issue and the judge should bounce the whole thing. Maintaining your trade secrets is your responsibility, Apple should be able to prove its case before it gets to court. e.g. Apple should have the names of the leakers and the signed contracts.
If Apple wants to play this game it should use its own money and not ours by bringing it to the courts or harassing innocent third parties with legal action.
Beside NDAs and contracts, companies may often obscure new product plans, create false product plans, "leak" false information and cleverly plan release dates or release date announcements to name a few tricks that are often used instead of our courts.
(IANAL, I have signed NDAs and I have refused to sign other NDAs but have never broken one.)
During his keynote speech Bill Gates announced that band aids will be given to windows users for no additional charge. Bill also said "We've looked hard at the nature of this problem, and made a decision that KY will also be free."
We both agree on the issue that your friend Sam is being paid to oppose. (I assume he is being paid for this one) I am sure Sam is a good person and his neighbors probably say he is clean cut, quiet and keeps to himself, and there is nothing wrong with working and earning a good living. But, I got a problem when corporations (or governments) go out of their way to disguise a one sided argument and attempt to deceive us with it.
If a corporate owned lobbying group hires a PR firm to create a research firm who pays for a lopsided report then tries to obscure its self from responsibility for the report, then it should be exposed for what it is. Back to the top of the thread, ASTROTURF.
If said PR firm then hired guys to keep an eye on unfavorable postings and create positive comments, what would that be called?
Maybe I still have a craw in my side as I worked with H&K during the nineties on campaigns for M$ and theSaudis and I never saw us helping out the little guy and especially not promoting truth, justice or liberty.
--- A lawyer is sitting in a bar having a drink when a beautiful women sits down next to him. The lawyer seeing oppurtunity buys the women a beer and proceeds to hit on her. He then asks her, "Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"
The women looks at him and says, "You know for a million dollars, sure."
The Lawyer then asks, "Would you sleep with me for 20 dollars?"
The women is instantly upset and yells, "Twenty dollars, what do you think I am some kind of whore?!"
The lawyer then looks at her and says, "Well, we have already established that fact. Now we are just negotiating."
"PC world"??? It's an industrial embedded system board and it's going to costs well over $500, that bare board alone cost over $400 plus memory, CPU, heatsink and a fan. A FAN? the Mac mini does not have a fan. And that board is two inches longer than the Mac mini.
Is there a "PC" company who makes a complete system for $500 total that is the same size or smaller than the Mac mini?
Ah. I smell a challange here. Can you surf/. on a computer that has no parts made in China? Possibly not a new one but I am sure the PDP 8 and 11 I used in high school were and possibly my first Apple ][ but those are long gone and mighty hard to put on the net.
I have a circa 1993 DEC Alpha that might be CNfree. My PowerBook says made in Ireland but I doubt it is CNfree. I just checked a '88 Mac IIcx and although no China it has parts made in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
I also concur, We are hurting the chances for Chinese freedom by purchasing Chinese goods but as long as Walmart and Walmart wanna-bees are bending the ears of D.C. about their freedom to get richer anyway they please then the poor of China are screwed and the rich fascist there will get richer too.
--Saddam's WMD was his plan to trade Iraq oil in Euros instead of US$.
It would be interesting to know how much spam is a direct result of owned windoze boxes versus the amount they will stop with lawyers taking a few spammers to court.
Oh, yea. If they could fix problems with programmers they would not be hiring lawyers.
That is a very cool device and I want one but it still needs a host computer so it is $250 plus a host with a wifi card.
It's got Linux/BSD support? I guess it does not use iTunes.
Have you noticed that all these new wireless devices still use a bunch of wires so as usuall those nice pictures of clean white devices floating in space are just some art directors dream. Look at the side view of the HomePod I think I see six jacks there, kinda breaks the clean image.
PowerMac G4 400mhz -this machine was made in early 2000 and came with optional 802.11b card. They can be had cheap now but I have had this one since new. It went from my main system and now it just handles my AV which it is doing beautifully.
Upgraded RAM to run latest OSX -found 4 very cheap pc100 ram chips for 1G ram.
Upgrade HD to 120 from 20 -gives me lots of room to time shift rented DVDs and for downloads.
Sony surround stereo. I got a great deal on this unit because it was last years model lacking mp3 or DVD which does not matter as I will use the mac for that. What is does have is digital in and out.
Video projector with svga input - This is my one excess, 1600x1200 sure pushes the price up but since I also use it for meetings and training session as well as X sessions I think it's money well spent. Since the projector also has s-video and comp inputs I hook the VCRs directly to it.
Mixer -mixer? Yea, another excess but this time it only cost me $260. The Edirol 100fx2 has digital in and out for the Sony as well as USB for the Mac and allows me to have many sources live simultaneously and to drive all the other stereo systems and computer speakers i have around the house and office. I can play my iTunes songs over every system in the house. mix in my email alerts and switch to movies at night or plug in my midi gear and jam.
Software is the latest OSX, iLife and many, many free tools. One of the beautiful things of running OSX is you can choose OSX, GNU or both. Mplayer, etc, etc, etc. has been ported to the mac and I am having a great time with them.
One caveat, I don't watch too much broadcast TV so I don't have a TV card or DTR and the projector is really only enjoyable if you can darken the room so I keep a 12" color TV for watching The Simpson's.
Flying with a laptop has become harder as the size and number of carry on bags changes but often a laptop is not seen as a carry on if it is in a small enough bag.
My travel bags are;
- A large pack that will hold all my stuff. This can be my back pack, suitcase or a duffle.
- A small carry on bag for all the stuff I want during the flight. Right now I am using a nylon zippered pouch on a belt or a small one strap back pack if I need a little more space. (really long flights)
- A small, tight fitting, padded laptop case that I carry on.
While I am moving about the laptop goes into the large pack and the small bag gets emptied into the large bag and stored.
No bag is perfect for everything and be prepared to find damage and wear. After many years of travel I have learned to appreciate lightweight over ruggedness.
p.s.
If you travel with a PowerBook sleep it, don't turn it off unless you want to wait for a full boot up and log it at security. It happened to me a couple of times where they wanted to see my laptop working and did not recognize the grey start screen as being on. (Anyone know how to replace the start screen with the XP desktop background?)
Every PC I have installed Linux on (since 1997) came with a factory installed copy of Windows. It was not until last year that I started to buy my PCs from a computer parts wholesaler that would build and test (with my copy of Linux) custom machines for me.
I never once bothered to claim back the OS tax from M$ and now don't need to.
Some times my wholesaler has "corp off-lease" machines for very good prices, those PCs all came with Windows and are now running Linux.
How many other people are there like myself? Our Linux PCs are built from scratch or sold with Windows and then removed in favor of Linux.
The real number of Linux machines out there is much higher than anyone in the corporate world would admit.
Corporations which temporarily or casually reside in the US (Which means ANY corp.) already have more rights and abilities than persons. Especially rich corps which have accumulated billions of $ worth of extra legal rights in the form of past judgments and investments in their own legal departments which keep track of how to use new laws like the DMCA and other things like the NAFTA.
It is also these legal departments that decide which and how much money goes to the various lobbyist campaigns which are actually a new billion dollar industry onto themselves. Even the fairly new "Astroturf" industry looks like it is worth about a billion bucks.
Of course this can be reversed but since 50% of your citizens can't even get off their buts to even vote the chances don't look good. So I guess step one is to care enough to educate yourself to know what is happening, oh yea and GET GEORGE BUSH OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Corporations also have another perverse and dangerous advantage over persons, Corporations are immortal.
Thats right the MPAA has your money BSA. What you need is to sell tickets to the Oren Hatch VS. Jack Valenti Cage Match and settle the score. Last one breathing wins.
Remember this is a low cost solution. The mobo has AGP and 3 PCI slots, that's it. Sure you could run many more serial terms off the same box at the same time but a serial term still cost more than a cheap video card and a usb hub. both require a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I would not be surprised to find out that four serial termals alone cost more than this setup.
The fact that people want GUIs kind of puts serial terms out of this market anyway.
The only way to secure Windows is to switch the power supply to 110v and plug it into 220v. The loud popping noise and flash of light are your confirmation that your Windows system is now secure. (Warning to Windows users and MCSEs, this is sarcasm)
If they were also not connected to the internet AND had a decent security plan then there might be a point.
Could the loss of a few k of data hurt them then, could you bring in a pen and paper? Or did they inspect your note pads on the way out? Were you strip searched on the way out?
Security is a funny thing, if you implement only one aspect then you are harassing for no good reason. If you implement an entire system of good security policy then you are totally harassing everyone but at least you can prove your plan as valid.
I am using SA on my mail server and OSX Mail Junk filter on the client side which cuts the crap rate down to about 1000:>10 and of those 10 that I do see China, Korea, and Brazil make up about 8 to 9.
Brazil has come into the lead lately and the sites advertised in those spams always seem to lead back to China. You would think that with the harsh censorship in China it would be hard to host a porn site there.:)
"Is any law that does not include public beheadings enough to stop spammers? "
Oh yea, sure just use a linux firewall? Or the suggestion that reads like a NASA space launch check list.
How about a solution that works.
1. Take Windows install disk out of package. 2. Grasp disk firmly. 3. With malicious forethought and intention strike disk against solid object. 4. Inspect bits, ensuring positively that no viruses will be present at install time. 5. Insert favorite *nix boot disk in infected computer, format drive and continue install.
"There are no Windows experts, they all signed NDAs."
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Take an old machine too slow to run M$ warez on and install SME/E-Smith on it. http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=13 This is a free linux server distro designed for small groups, it has a full mail server with pop and imap support. It builds the entire system and applications from one CD. It has a wonderful "backup to desktop" feature and runs for years without a reboot.
One of the reasons SME runs nicely on old hardware is that it does nor run a GUI but is administered throug its own web server.
Yea, its a dumb comment. But the issue that should be focused on "is Apple out of line going after the news sites?"
It's only a trade secret if you are the one who signed the NDA or other such agreement with Apple, to anyone else it is just news. Apple is having a problem with employees and contractors and is trying to use the courts to pressure third parties, that have no responsibility to maintain trade secrets with Apple to get at those who do.
This is hardly a national security issue and the judge should bounce the whole thing. Maintaining your trade secrets is your responsibility, Apple should be able to prove its case before it gets to court. e.g. Apple should have the names of the leakers and the signed contracts.
If Apple wants to play this game it should use its own money and not ours by bringing it to the courts or harassing innocent third parties with legal action.
Beside NDAs and contracts, companies may often obscure new product plans, create false product plans, "leak" false information and cleverly plan release dates or release date announcements to name a few tricks that are often used instead of our courts.
(IANAL, I have signed NDAs and I have refused to sign other NDAs but have never broken one.)
Serial Burglar Cought on "Linux video capture". Good Show!
Now that you have proven your software in a verified field test with positive results, something most commercial security software can't claim.
Would you consider working on spam?
It's like adding duct tape and bailing wire to fix duct tape and bailing wire!
During his keynote speech Bill Gates announced that band aids will be given to windows users for no additional charge. Bill also said "We've looked hard at the nature of this problem, and made a decision that KY will also be free."
--Happily removing windows from PCs since '97.
...the EA exec who discovered how to get free labour?
A. Professor.
-Tax dollars pays for the lines in the first place when no one wanted to build them.
-The lines become profitable and the utilities lobby to buy the lines at a consiterable discount from what the current value or replacement costs are.
-We now have the privilage of supporting an industry that has no problem accepting government handouts as long as its on the receiving end.
Yup that's the way it is.
We both agree on the issue that your friend Sam is being paid to oppose. (I assume he is being paid for this one) I am sure Sam is a good person and his neighbors probably say he is clean cut, quiet and keeps to himself, and there is nothing wrong with working and earning a good living. But, I got a problem when corporations (or governments) go out of their way to disguise a one sided argument and attempt to deceive us with it.
If a corporate owned lobbying group hires a PR firm to create a research firm who pays for a lopsided report then tries to obscure its self from responsibility for the report, then it should be exposed for what it is. Back to the top of the thread, ASTROTURF.
If said PR firm then hired guys to keep an eye on unfavorable postings and create positive comments, what would that be called?
Maybe I still have a craw in my side as I worked with H&K during the nineties on campaigns for M$ and theSaudis and I never saw us helping out the little guy and especially not promoting truth, justice or liberty.
---
A lawyer is sitting in a bar having a drink when a beautiful women sits down next to him. The lawyer seeing oppurtunity buys the women a beer and proceeds to hit on her. He then asks her, "Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"
The women looks at him and says, "You know for a million dollars, sure."
The Lawyer then asks, "Would you sleep with me for 20 dollars?"
The women is instantly upset and yells, "Twenty dollars, what do you think I am some kind of whore?!"
The lawyer then looks at her and says, "Well, we have already established that fact. Now we are just negotiating."
"Issue Dynamics, which is a lobbying firm that represents most US telcos and cable operators"
http://www.idi.net/grassroots/ Issue Dynamics make no bones about being in the astroturf business. Check out this link, I don't believe it.
"PC world"??? It's an industrial embedded system board and it's going to costs well over $500, that bare board alone cost over $400 plus memory, CPU, heatsink and a fan. A FAN? the Mac mini does not have a fan. And that board is two inches longer than the Mac mini.
Is there a "PC" company who makes a complete system for $500 total that is the same size or smaller than the Mac mini?
"brutally screwing the retarded" Now that's an image of Balmer I had not thought of before. Thank you,
Ah. I smell a challange here. Can you surf /. on a computer that has no parts made in China? Possibly not a new one but I am sure the PDP 8 and 11 I used in high school were and possibly my first Apple ][ but those are long gone and mighty hard to put on the net.
I have a circa 1993 DEC Alpha that might be CNfree. My PowerBook says made in Ireland but I doubt it is CNfree. I just checked a '88 Mac IIcx and although no China it has parts made in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
I also concur, We are hurting the chances for Chinese freedom by purchasing Chinese goods but as long as Walmart and Walmart wanna-bees are bending the ears of D.C. about their freedom to get richer anyway they please then the poor of China are screwed and the rich fascist there will get richer too.
--Saddam's WMD was his plan to trade Iraq oil in Euros instead of US$.
It would be interesting to know how much spam is a direct result of owned windoze boxes versus the amount they will stop with lawyers taking a few spammers to court.
Oh, yea. If they could fix problems with programmers they would not be hiring lawyers.
That is a very cool device and I want one but it still needs a host computer so it is $250 plus a host with a wifi card.
It's got Linux/BSD support? I guess it does not use iTunes.
Have you noticed that all these new wireless devices still use a bunch of wires so as usuall those nice pictures of clean white devices floating in space are just some art directors dream. Look at the side view of the HomePod I think I see six jacks there, kinda breaks the clean image.
I am very happy with this setup;
PowerMac G4 400mhz -this machine was made in early 2000 and came with optional 802.11b card. They can be had cheap now but I have had this one since new. It went from my main system and now it just handles my AV which it is doing beautifully.
Upgraded RAM to run latest OSX -found 4 very cheap pc100 ram chips for 1G ram.
Upgrade HD to 120 from 20 -gives me lots of room to time shift rented DVDs and for downloads.
Sony surround stereo. I got a great deal on this unit because it was last years model lacking mp3 or DVD which does not matter as I will use the mac for that. What is does have is digital in and out.
Video projector with svga input - This is my one excess, 1600x1200 sure pushes the price up but since I also use it for meetings and training session as well as X sessions I think it's money well spent. Since the projector also has s-video and comp inputs I hook the VCRs directly to it.
Mixer -mixer? Yea, another excess but this time it only cost me $260. The Edirol 100fx2 has digital in and out for the Sony as well as USB for the Mac and allows me to have many sources live simultaneously and to drive all the other stereo systems and computer speakers i have around the house and office. I can play my iTunes songs over every system in the house. mix in my email alerts and switch to movies at night or plug in my midi gear and jam.
Software is the latest OSX, iLife and many, many free tools. One of the beautiful things of running OSX is you can choose OSX, GNU or both. Mplayer, etc, etc, etc. has been ported to the mac and I am having a great time with them.
One caveat, I don't watch too much broadcast TV so I don't have a TV card or DTR and the projector is really only enjoyable if you can darken the room so I keep a 12" color TV for watching The Simpson's.
Flying with a laptop has become harder as the size and number of carry on bags changes but often a laptop is not seen as a carry on if it is in a small enough bag.
My travel bags are;
- A large pack that will hold all my stuff. This can be my back pack, suitcase or a duffle.
- A small carry on bag for all the stuff I want during the flight. Right now I am using a nylon zippered pouch on a belt or a small one strap back pack if I need a little more space. (really long flights)
- A small, tight fitting, padded laptop case that I carry on.
While I am moving about the laptop goes into the large pack and the small bag gets emptied into the large bag and stored.
No bag is perfect for everything and be prepared to find damage and wear. After many years of travel I have learned to appreciate lightweight over ruggedness.
p.s.
If you travel with a PowerBook sleep it, don't turn it off unless you want to wait for a full boot up and log it at security. It happened to me a couple of times where they wanted to see my laptop working and did not recognize the grey start screen as being on. (Anyone know how to replace the start screen with the XP desktop background?)
Every PC I have installed Linux on (since 1997) came with a factory installed copy of Windows. It was not until last year that I started to buy my PCs from a computer parts wholesaler that would build and test (with my copy of Linux) custom machines for me.
I never once bothered to claim back the OS tax from M$ and now don't need to.
Some times my wholesaler has "corp off-lease" machines for very good prices, those PCs all came with Windows and are now running Linux.
How many other people are there like myself?
Our Linux PCs are built from scratch or sold with Windows and then removed in favor of Linux.
The real number of Linux machines out there is much higher than anyone in the corporate world would admit.
Corporations which temporarily or casually reside in the US (Which means ANY corp.) already have more rights and abilities than persons. Especially rich corps which have accumulated billions of $ worth of extra legal rights in the form of past judgments and investments in their own legal departments which keep track of how to use new laws like the DMCA and other things like the NAFTA.
It is also these legal departments that decide which and how much money goes to the various lobbyist campaigns which are actually a new billion dollar industry onto themselves. Even the fairly new "Astroturf" industry looks like it is worth about a billion bucks.
Of course this can be reversed but since 50% of your citizens can't even get off their buts to even vote the chances don't look good. So I guess step one is to care enough to educate yourself to know what is happening, oh yea and GET GEORGE BUSH OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Corporations also have another perverse and dangerous advantage over persons, Corporations are immortal.
Thats right the MPAA has your money BSA. What you need is to sell tickets to the Oren Hatch VS. Jack Valenti Cage Match and settle the score. Last one breathing wins.
Remember this is a low cost solution.
The mobo has AGP and 3 PCI slots, that's it.
Sure you could run many more serial terms off the same box at the same time but a serial term still cost more than a cheap video card and a usb hub. both require a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I would not be surprised to find out that four serial termals alone cost more than this setup.
The fact that people want GUIs kind of puts serial terms out of this market anyway.
Oh yea sure, just look for that "Secure NT" button, its up there next to the "Don't get any virus" and "Never Crash" buttons.
Migrate to Linux
The only way to secure Windows is to switch the power supply to 110v and plug it into 220v. The loud popping noise and flash of light are your confirmation that your Windows system is now secure. (Warning to Windows users and MCSEs, this is sarcasm)
If they were also not connected to the internet AND had a decent security plan then there might be a point.
Could the loss of a few k of data hurt them then, could you bring in a pen and paper? Or did they inspect your note pads on the way out? Were you strip searched on the way out?
Security is a funny thing, if you implement only one aspect then you are harassing for no good reason. If you implement an entire system of good security policy then you are totally harassing everyone but at least you can prove your plan as valid.
I am using SA on my mail server and OSX Mail Junk filter on the client side which cuts the crap rate down to about 1000:>10 and of those 10 that I do see China, Korea, and Brazil make up about 8 to 9.
:)
Brazil has come into the lead lately and the sites advertised in those spams always seem to lead back to China. You would think that with the harsh censorship in China it would be hard to host a porn site there.
"Is any law that does not include public beheadings enough to stop spammers? "
Oh yea, sure just use a linux firewall?
Or the suggestion that reads like a NASA space launch check list.
How about a solution that works.
1. Take Windows install disk out of package.
2. Grasp disk firmly.
3. With malicious forethought and intention strike disk against solid object.
4. Inspect bits, ensuring positively that no viruses will be present at install time.
5. Insert favorite *nix boot disk in infected computer, format drive and continue install.
"There are no Windows experts, they all signed NDAs."