A well managed Windows box is worse than a poorly admined Mac.
I disagree most heartily. I admin Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX boxes (used to admin SGI and Solaris too). Mac OSX is sort of like Solaris used to be: you remember Solaris, with its remotely exploitable telnet daemons turned on by default, but with a little tweaking and patching before connecting to the internet, you could have a rock solid system? Mac OSX systems (with the exception of OSX Server) don't have firewalls on by default, nor do they have a fine-grained GUI for ipfw (just firewall:on/off). Furthermore, unless you're an _all_ Mac house, the Apple Remote Desktop can only be accessed via unencrypted VNC (have fun explaining to users that they aren't allowed to remote into their Macs from their Windows boxes; then when they complain enough, show them how to enable the standard VNC service to listen to 127.0.0.1 only, use an SSH tunnel to connect to encapsulate their VNC connection, and convince them that yes, they really do want to connect to localhost with VNC on their Windows machine). Also, iMac physical security is sorely lacking. The RAM is easily removed even if the machine is physically locked, and removal of the RAM causes erasure of the nvram/setup password, so users can essentially always boot from unapproved sources.
And... Apple tends to be last in any patch deployments for widespread security vulns like cross-platform libs or bad certs. Sometimes they're half a year late like with Java.
Gravity Biatches!
No, seriously though. Hear me out...
We know gravity can bend light going around a star, thus it has an effect on the speed of light much in the same manner as a refracting medium. When traveling near a source of gravity, c even in a vacuum isn't going to be constant.
The problem is, it's not that obvious at first. Gravity causes time dilation. So what does that affect? Oh yeah, that atomic clock you're using to time the speed of light. You're just not going to be able to measure the variation in c because of that.
This is much akin to taking a metal measuring stick along with a block made of the same metal and putting both in an oven, and then taking measurements. Then dipping both the block and measuring stick in liquid nitrogen, and again taking measurements. Oh yeah, the measurements didn't change did they? Now imagine if you swapped out the block of the same metal as the measuring stick for one with a different metal with a thermal expansion rate...
Apparently neutrinos may be affected by gravity in a different way than photons. At least if they're faster than light in certain situations, this may be the case. Alright physicists, have at it!
Darn it AC, if you're posting something mildly interesting, at least make a new account so it gets a default score of 1. So many people ignore 0 and -1.
While an IT worker may do some light programming in his job, the average IT worker is not a programmer, and does not have the skill set to be one.
Ah, but the excellent IT worker _is_ a programmer. Being able to alter kernel code to add/tweak specialty drivers, bugfix C[++], makefiles, perl, etc can make you a highly paid unix sysadmin doing a job with a large amount of variety. Plus a lot of the tasks involve near-instant gratification; no waiting three months before the code is usable (and you get to use it too).
And any sysadmin should be a programmer (thus all the BS in CS or equiv requirements). Without programming skills and basic hardware knowhow, "sysadmins" just point and click and reimage machines.
Perhaps we should start teaching people more in high school and failing them until they know the material required to graduate? Then they'll be educated, and there might be less demand for a college education, allowing college tuition to drift back down to where it was. At my university, I saw a math class introduced that was lower than Math 100 (pre-algebra). They named it Math 110 because there was no way the numbering system would allow a number lower than 100 for a freshman level course. The course covered "obviously" college-level material like numerators and denominators. I agree that it's a perfect storm in colleges these days; employer demand for degrees, high schools promoting kids who don't deserve it, and colleges willing to pick up the slack (because they can charge huge amounts).
Right-wingers always assume people have the ability to gather savings when they are under-paid and/or under-employed
I did while I was in college. No student loans, only a $10/hr 30hr/week internship. I just didn't buy piles of CDs and worthless do-dads like other kids. You don't _need_ cable and 50" flatscreens.
If I could pay for school, books, food, apartment, etc and still save on $300/week back then, I'm sure someone with two part time minimum wage jobs could have too.
Now granted, I never saved enough to start a business, but I've never heard a right winger say that starting a business is easy peasy.
Despite the political rhetoric, you don't get arrested for your potential threat, you get arrested for an alleged crime. Pretty simple concept.
If I spray-paint "My mom's a whore call here at 555-1212" on the side of your car, I broke the law.
And no one's mom will get arrested (or even investigated) for prostitution.
FYI, her number seems to be disconnected.
Well no wonder no one could repeat the experiment; it took them the whole first night just to make their characters and character growth was so slow no one bothered past three sessions!
Given the maximum size of these zip files, you could replace the sectors and attempt to unzip for every possible value. Command line loops are wonderful things.
What the fuck does it mean that PSP isn't a professional program? First of all, how is it not professional? What does that mean? And second, why the fuck does that matter for PSP, but not for Mozilla, VLC or the GIMP?
paintshopPRO. You'd think if you were buying something that said PRO it would be exactly like or better than Adobe Photoshop. I was pointing out that even PSP has an unusual name for what it is.
Why is the "calendar" feature of Mozilla named "lighting"?
Mozilla actually had a specialized calendar program named Sunbird (doesn't fix your issue with non-descriptive names). Lightning actually makes sense since it is a Thunderbird extention.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/
Conpare: InternetExplorer, PaintShopPro, MediaPlayer
Compare to: Mozilla, Gimp, VLC
I'll bite
IE self identifies as Mozilla, PSP isn't a professional program
GNUImageManipulationProgram, VideoLanClient
SysInternals - The best toolset for Windows. It is pity that the it's author was hired be the evil MS....
I'm happy he was hired. I didn't fully trust sysinternals until it was offered for download from Microsoft's website. And, Mark supposedly learned a couple tricks to make his pstools work better after he was hired.
There is not a single product, free or otherwise, that does what AD does, or even half as well.
*single* is the key word. You could cobble together a system with openldap, puppet/cfengine, some rsync over ssh and other scripts, but there is no single product. Of course, single products aren't the unix way, so there shouldn't be an expectation of a single product. It's like saying there's no single product, free or otherwise that does what windows' "net" does. Well, no %@$! "net" is almost like busybox, except without the good reason for cramming everything into one binary.
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The Law is Black and white anyways... I mean how much more True/False can you get?
I hear the spirit of the law is white as a bedsheet.
A well managed Windows box is worse than a poorly admined Mac.
I disagree most heartily. I admin Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX boxes (used to admin SGI and Solaris too). Mac OSX is sort of like Solaris used to be: you remember Solaris, with its remotely exploitable telnet daemons turned on by default, but with a little tweaking and patching before connecting to the internet, you could have a rock solid system? Mac OSX systems (with the exception of OSX Server) don't have firewalls on by default, nor do they have a fine-grained GUI for ipfw (just firewall:on/off). Furthermore, unless you're an _all_ Mac house, the Apple Remote Desktop can only be accessed via unencrypted VNC (have fun explaining to users that they aren't allowed to remote into their Macs from their Windows boxes; then when they complain enough, show them how to enable the standard VNC service to listen to 127.0.0.1 only, use an SSH tunnel to connect to encapsulate their VNC connection, and convince them that yes, they really do want to connect to localhost with VNC on their Windows machine). Also, iMac physical security is sorely lacking. The RAM is easily removed even if the machine is physically locked, and removal of the RAM causes erasure of the nvram/setup password, so users can essentially always boot from unapproved sources.
And... Apple tends to be last in any patch deployments for widespread security vulns like cross-platform libs or bad certs. Sometimes they're half a year late like with Java.
"A textbook case of" *looks in textbook* "Fraw oo ud?"
Gravity Biatches! No, seriously though. Hear me out... We know gravity can bend light going around a star, thus it has an effect on the speed of light much in the same manner as a refracting medium. When traveling near a source of gravity, c even in a vacuum isn't going to be constant. The problem is, it's not that obvious at first. Gravity causes time dilation. So what does that affect? Oh yeah, that atomic clock you're using to time the speed of light. You're just not going to be able to measure the variation in c because of that. This is much akin to taking a metal measuring stick along with a block made of the same metal and putting both in an oven, and then taking measurements. Then dipping both the block and measuring stick in liquid nitrogen, and again taking measurements. Oh yeah, the measurements didn't change did they? Now imagine if you swapped out the block of the same metal as the measuring stick for one with a different metal with a thermal expansion rate... Apparently neutrinos may be affected by gravity in a different way than photons. At least if they're faster than light in certain situations, this may be the case. Alright physicists, have at it!
Darn it AC, if you're posting something mildly interesting, at least make a new account so it gets a default score of 1. So many people ignore 0 and -1.
While an IT worker may do some light programming in his job, the average IT worker is not a programmer, and does not have the skill set to be one.
Ah, but the excellent IT worker _is_ a programmer. Being able to alter kernel code to add/tweak specialty drivers, bugfix C[++], makefiles, perl, etc can make you a highly paid unix sysadmin doing a job with a large amount of variety. Plus a lot of the tasks involve near-instant gratification; no waiting three months before the code is usable (and you get to use it too).
And any sysadmin should be a programmer (thus all the BS in CS or equiv requirements). Without programming skills and basic hardware knowhow, "sysadmins" just point and click and reimage machines.
Have you even thought about a WAMP setup? A poorly admined Linux box is worse than a well managed Windows one. - from a *nix sysadmin
Perhaps we should start teaching people more in high school and failing them until they know the material required to graduate? Then they'll be educated, and there might be less demand for a college education, allowing college tuition to drift back down to where it was. At my university, I saw a math class introduced that was lower than Math 100 (pre-algebra). They named it Math 110 because there was no way the numbering system would allow a number lower than 100 for a freshman level course. The course covered "obviously" college-level material like numerators and denominators. I agree that it's a perfect storm in colleges these days; employer demand for degrees, high schools promoting kids who don't deserve it, and colleges willing to pick up the slack (because they can charge huge amounts).
You realize that $300/week won't even cover tuition these days, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_tense
I hibernate the whole time between House episodes.
Then House is on right now. Why are you posting on /. during House!?
Right-wingers always assume people have the ability to gather savings when they are under-paid and/or under-employed
I did while I was in college. No student loans, only a $10/hr 30hr/week internship. I just didn't buy piles of CDs and worthless do-dads like other kids. You don't _need_ cable and 50" flatscreens.
If I could pay for school, books, food, apartment, etc and still save on $300/week back then, I'm sure someone with two part time minimum wage jobs could have too.
Now granted, I never saved enough to start a business, but I've never heard a right winger say that starting a business is easy peasy.
And Apple switched from openfirmware to EFI. Thanks for leading the way Apple!
Despite the political rhetoric, you don't get arrested for your potential threat, you get arrested for an alleged crime. Pretty simple concept. If I spray-paint "My mom's a whore call here at 555-1212" on the side of your car, I broke the law.
And no one's mom will get arrested (or even investigated) for prostitution.
FYI, her number seems to be disconnected.
At the very bottom right of the page there's a grey Contact Us link
Dude! Forget Time Traveling Neutrinos! The BBC can contact the greys!?
Go ahead and sue Borders... after they've dissolved themselves and sold the company assets.
"With less competition across the board, we can all charge higher prices. It's a win-win!"
Well no wonder no one could repeat the experiment; it took them the whole first night just to make their characters and character growth was so slow no one bothered past three sessions!
Didn't the legendary cold fusion experiment utilize platinum?
Given the maximum size of these zip files, you could replace the sectors and attempt to unzip for every possible value. Command line loops are wonderful things.
What the fuck does it mean that PSP isn't a professional program? First of all, how is it not professional? What does that mean? And second, why the fuck does that matter for PSP, but not for Mozilla, VLC or the GIMP?
paintshopPRO. You'd think if you were buying something that said PRO it would be exactly like or better than Adobe Photoshop. I was pointing out that even PSP has an unusual name for what it is.
Why is the "calendar" feature of Mozilla named "lighting"?
Mozilla actually had a specialized calendar program named Sunbird (doesn't fix your issue with non-descriptive names). Lightning actually makes sense since it is a Thunderbird extention. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/
Conpare: InternetExplorer, PaintShopPro, MediaPlayer Compare to: Mozilla, Gimp, VLC
I'll bite
IE self identifies as Mozilla, PSP isn't a professional program
GNUImageManipulationProgram, VideoLanClient
SysInternals - The best toolset for Windows. It is pity that the it's author was hired be the evil MS....
I'm happy he was hired. I didn't fully trust sysinternals until it was offered for download from Microsoft's website. And, Mark supposedly learned a couple tricks to make his pstools work better after he was hired.
Only if you leave your computer on overnight on a Wednesday. Yet another reason to enforce an always-on power policy.
There is not a single product, free or otherwise, that does what AD does, or even half as well.
*single* is the key word. You could cobble together a system with openldap, puppet/cfengine, some rsync over ssh and other scripts, but there is no single product. Of course, single products aren't the unix way, so there shouldn't be an expectation of a single product. It's like saying there's no single product, free or otherwise that does what windows' "net" does. Well, no %@$! "net" is almost like busybox, except without the good reason for cramming everything into one binary.