for fixing a pothole in a normal roadway you would need a digging machine, asphalt machine, steamroller machine, and people to drive all the machines.
Where do they fix potholes like that? Here in Alberta, its just two dudes, one driving the pickup with cold mix in it and the second with a spade putting the cold mix in the hole. They then back the pickup over the cold mix to pack it down a bit.
That way Windows update & such won't be bugging you that updates are available every time you boot.
You know you can turn off windows update? Same goes for most other software that will do its updates automatically. The rest either don't use them, complain to the developer to make it does that you can turn off auto updates, or just use the proxy or firewall to block the site that the software checks for updates with.
I agree. I would never accept the liability for data loss on any computer that a customer brought in for repair.
When I have to send a computer out for repair (normally just laptops) but it also includes towers under warranty I am not authorized to work on. I will, if it seems to be a hard drive failure, image the drive before shipping it, or if it is defidently not a hard drive issue remove the hard drive from the computer and either hold it in store or give it to the customer.
Yes, VirtualBox supports direct access. You have to edit config files to do it but it does work, but the VirtualBox team does not recommend it. They instead recommend that you use iSCSI, which VirtualBox also supports to connect to SANs directly. You also have to edit config files or use the CLI version of the VirtualBox machine setup (VBoxManage addiscsidisk), the option is not available in the GUI.
I highly doubt that ASUS hosts there website on 1and1.co.uk. Nor would they use 1and1 for their registrar. Especially when asus.com is registered with Network Solutions.
Not to mention that page seems to be the only page that the domain has on it and if try to snoop around it just redirects to uk.asus.com which is where asus.com sends you when you choose the UK for your country. If you check other countries on the asus.com landing page you will see that Asus puts there country sites on subdomains.
Agreed! The meta-moderation should be to moderate for the moderators not yet another way to moderate the comments. If they want more comments moderated give more mod points rather than repurpose another system.
There is no way you could screw up painting a wall..
you absolutely can screw up painting a wall.
Use the wrong paint (colour or base), use the wrong type of rollers or brush, don't use a seal coat so the paint just bleeds through, or my personal favorite, put oil/latex based paint over latex/oil paint without a seal coat.
Why should synchronous writes be the default ? Programmers are already too lazy and/or stupid to add a simple fsync() where needed, why should we all drop what we're doing, make the slowest option the default, and then have to jump through hoops to make things workable again ?
Not only that, we would end up in the same position that the IE8 team was complaining about with HTML and the doctype with new developers copy-pasting.
AUTH=Make sure you get your data from the right sources.
Okay.
ENCR=make sure the data are correct.
Huh?
Encryption makes the information secure from snooping, which is pointless in the case of DNS as it is public information by definition.
Signing makes sure the data has not been tampered with. Which is more or less the same as authentication.
Sorry to disappoint you, but you can't "verify" DNS by "querying" if the original data are unprotected.
That is the general idea of how SSL and the CA's work, only with DNS we don't really care if other people know what you are looking for, we just care that we are getting the correct response from the correct server, which requires signing of the responses, which is authentication. That is, with DNS we only really need signing of the data for transfers and queries, not encryption.
You could also change the PATH variable for the user. It would work more or less the same and you don't run the risk of/tmp being deleted because the computer reboots. echo "export PATH=~/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
Sell computers with whatever you want installed, but require an activation key to be typed in in order to use it. Sell the activation key for an extra fee at checkout. If you don't activate, you're free to wipe your computer and use it as you wish.
But then Windows isn't free!! We all know that a computer is useless with out Windows, so why bother selling the computer without. Just have the OEM give Windows to the user for free anyway.
:)
On a serious note, I have seen customers that for some reason think that the 60-day trial of Norton (or McAfee) that is bundled with their computers is all they ever need for AV, even if the software complains at them for 2 years! that it's subscription is out of date and to upgrade the subscription (seriously, a computer that I was working on, on Saturday, had its last definitions update mid 2007, and the customer brought it in because it was "acting funny").
No. I worked for Microsoft tech support and I can tell you that we were not allowed to push customer issues back to the OEMs...
... On top of that, I regularly received calls from customers who were told by HP or Dell or whoever to call MS because it wasn't an issue on their end. The OEMs may or may not offer decent Windows support, but they're under no obligation to. All of the companies involved have strict support boundaries, and if something appears to be an issue with something one of the other parties is responsible for, the support call basically ends there.
If it is a bug in Windows sure, obviously the OEM can't fix it, but I was under the impression that the point of the OEM license was that Microsoft does not directly support it, and as such it is cheaper for that reason.
7. End User Support. You must provide end user support for the Software or Hardware. You will provide support under terms at least as favorable to the end user as the terms that you provide to support any Customer System. At a minimum, you will provide commercially reasonable telephone support.
As a Staples retail employee I can tell you that that would not "cost extremely little to implement." There would definitely have to be a charge, to offset the time an employee would have to be away from the sales floor while wiping a computer hard drive.
Uh, are you wiping the hard drive by using a tiny magnet and flipping all the bits by hand? Typically, you just go out and find your favorite drive wiper, spend five minutes getting it started and then walk away for a few hours.
Well even five minutes would cost ~$10 to do it. And don't forget the computer has to be removed from its box and put back neatly, which adds more time to the operation.
I attempted to use it. I found that it did not work very well. The UI was vary packed and difficult to use. I had to remove the chat window just to see the ships controls. All in all, it was so poorly done that I didn't use more than a few hours of the 14 day trial account.
What you are describing is how everyone describes the general UI for EvE itself. The UI is just as horrible on windows as it is on linux. The players only put up with that for basically two reasons: 1) the UI is very dense so that it can communicate all of the information that the game generates, and 2) EvE is the only game like it.
With open source the file format is always documented, at least in the code itself.
As great as that is, I believe it's a bad idea to use this as a selling point for OSS. I mean, the theory is great - everything is open, all the information you could ever want is documented in some way and if you happen to find a bug or whatever, you can go in and fix it yourself. But what if you're not a programmer? What if you're just an average Joe who knows an average amount about computers? (I.e. not a lot short of turning it off and on and maybe running the odd Virus scan). A car is open, if you're a Mechanic and something goes wrong with it, you can just open it up and replace or fix whatever is broken - but of the millions of car drivers out there, how many know how to do more than change the odd flat tire? I think if you presented OSS in this way, the average person is more than likely going to get scared off by the prospect of having to be a programmer just to write a letter or whatever.
Sure your not a programmer, thats fine. The advantage of having the source code applies to all users of the software. For example, if it is important to you pay a programmer to fix it for you. This is no different than a support contract with a appropriator software vendor. The advantage of having the source code thought is that *any* programmer that can code in the language that the software is written in, can write the fix for you.
This is why a smart company that is having another company build them a core system will have the contractor put the code of the system is escrow in case the contractor gets hit by a bus, fails financially, etc. The other company then gets the code from escrow and hires another company to continue building the system.
To go back to your car example, okay so you are not a mechanic and so the open specifications of the car are useless to you personally (as in you can't fix it yourself), but as with my previous example, you can hire any mechanic that is qualified to work on your car and understands the specifications of the car can fix it for you.
Don't forget about opportunity costs. While some people are able to use what the specifications of the stuff they buy or the source code of their software that they use. It may cost them less to have someone else fix their problem for them, while they are doing their higher paying normal jobs.
The only thing interesting about this whole situation is the "news" coverage it is getting.
It might seem like some sort of big deal because so many people are involved, but this sort of thing is a core element for the higher level play of the game. Maybe if the game didn't focus on this aspect of the gameplay as one of its main selling points to get new players, this would be interesting. This is just a "water is wet" story.
I doubt it really has much to do with the number of people that it potentially affects. The real reason that this is news in the game is BoB is the enemy of enemies in the game. BoB is the evil empire in the game, especially since the t20 incident (dev spawned stuff for them but apparently they never used it). The players of EvE focus on what BoB, Goonswarm and Red Alliance (or whatever there allaince is called now) are doing because they are the Goliath (BoB) and David.
The real headline could be about how one alliance managed to use sites like Slashdot to wave the flag that their rival's outposts are now conquerable. Going so far as to get pseudo news sites with large followings to function as a communications tool and a rallying cry for a virtual world battle is actually pretty interesting.
This is an interesting idea, and I imagine we will see more of this type of stuff in the mainstream media because of the increasing number of people playing. EvE is especially poised for this because there are more and more players playing in one world
Oh, and the bigger ships are persistent and cannot be stored and do not disappear when you log out, and neither do these player space stations ("POS" in Eve lingo, player-owned structures.) So you'd better have some good defense, a big alliance with someone always around to sound the alarm, or be damned good at security-through-obscurity.
No ship is persistent, the super-capitals (titans and mother-ships) can not dock in stations, but when the pilot logs out the ship does do the warp and vanish (eventually, the align takes forever). But as with all ships the aggression timer does apply, so the if the ship was aggressed, the ship itself does not disappear for up to 15 minutes (this is how the first couple of titans were destroyed, pilot logged before the timer was up)..
That being said the POSes are persistent but they can also defend themselves in a limited fashion.
Slashdot Mirror
for fixing a pothole in a normal roadway you would need a digging machine, asphalt machine, steamroller machine, and people to drive all the machines.
Where do they fix potholes like that? Here in Alberta, its just two dudes, one driving the pickup with cold mix in it and the second with a spade putting the cold mix in the hole. They then back the pickup over the cold mix to pack it down a bit.
Otherwise, I have to agree with you.
Spring Break?
I am glad that you are so politically correct as not to exclude 50% of the population.
Well...
There is the pregnant man (transgendered technically).
I can't find it but there is also one case that a man (with the normal man equipment) that had a embryo implanted and was carried to term.
And now you can know!
That way Windows update & such won't be bugging you that updates are available every time you boot.
You know you can turn off windows update? Same goes for most other software that will do its updates automatically. The rest either don't use them, complain to the developer to make it does that you can turn off auto updates, or just use the proxy or firewall to block the site that the software checks for updates with.
I agree. I would never accept the liability for data loss on any computer that a customer brought in for repair.
When I have to send a computer out for repair (normally just laptops) but it also includes towers under warranty I am not authorized to work on. I will, if it seems to be a hard drive failure, image the drive before shipping it, or if it is defidently not a hard drive issue remove the hard drive from the computer and either hold it in store or give it to the customer.
Yes, VirtualBox supports direct access. You have to edit config files to do it but it does work, but the VirtualBox team does not recommend it. They instead recommend that you use iSCSI, which VirtualBox also supports to connect to SANs directly. You also have to edit config files or use the CLI version of the VirtualBox machine setup (VBoxManage addiscsidisk), the option is not available in the GUI.
asus.co.uk is not Asus's offical website. The offical website is uk.asus.com as linked by asus.com.
Also see my other post about the registration status of the co.uk site.
The GGP poster is right, Slashdot has been had.
I highly doubt that ASUS hosts there website on 1and1.co.uk. Nor would they use 1and1 for their registrar. Especially when asus.com is registered with Network Solutions.
Not to mention that page seems to be the only page that the domain has on it and if try to snoop around it just redirects to uk.asus.com which is where asus.com sends you when you choose the UK for your country. If you check other countries on the asus.com landing page you will see that Asus puts there country sites on subdomains.
nic.uk asus.co.uk whois
Result of WHOIS query:
Domain name:
asus.co.uk
Registrant:
Asustek Computer Inc
Trading as:
Asus
Registrant type:
UK Individual
Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.
Registrar:
1 & 1 Internet AG [Tag = SCHLUND]
URL: http://registrar.1und1.info/
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 23-May-1997
Renewal date: 23-May-2011
Last updated: 22-May-2009
Registration status:
Renewal request being processed.
Name servers:
ns59.1and1.co.uk
ns60.1and1.co.uk
WHOIS lookup made at 16:22:49 28-May-2009
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Agreed! The meta-moderation should be to moderate for the moderators not yet another way to moderate the comments. If they want more comments moderated give more mod points rather than repurpose another system.
There is no way you could screw up painting a wall..
you absolutely can screw up painting a wall.
Use the wrong paint (colour or base), use the wrong type of rollers or brush, don't use a seal coat so the paint just bleeds through, or my personal favorite, put oil/latex based paint over latex/oil paint without a seal coat.
If they don't like the name American, then they can call us United States of American, or... American for short.
UnitedStatesians?
USaires?
Seriously, for the individuals that want to Nitpick about the name, there is no place called "America". There is "North America" and "South America".
No there is, it is call America or the Americas, that is both North and South America together.
I'm pretty sure that "North American" is universal understood to be someone from any country in North America.
Sure but there are only three.
This is a lovely summary of the complaints about "American" that is put to music, called "I am not American".
That being said its not that anyone has any real chance of rewriting history and/or the dictionary.
Why should synchronous writes be the default ? Programmers are already too lazy and/or stupid to add a simple fsync() where needed, why should we all drop what we're doing, make the slowest option the default, and then have to jump through hoops to make things workable again ?
Not only that, we would end up in the same position that the IE8 team was complaining about with HTML and the doctype with new developers copy-pasting.
AUTH=Make sure you get your data from the right sources.
Okay.
ENCR=make sure the data are correct.
Huh?
Encryption makes the information secure from snooping, which is pointless in the case of DNS as it is public information by definition.
Signing makes sure the data has not been tampered with. Which is more or less the same as authentication.
Sorry to disappoint you, but you can't "verify" DNS by "querying" if the original data are unprotected.
That is the general idea of how SSL and the CA's work, only with DNS we don't really care if other people know what you are looking for, we just care that we are getting the correct response from the correct server, which requires signing of the responses, which is authentication. That is, with DNS we only really need signing of the data for transfers and queries, not encryption.
You could also change the PATH variable for the user. It would work more or less the same and you don't run the risk of /tmp being deleted because the computer reboots.
echo "export PATH=~/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
Sell computers with whatever you want installed, but require an activation key to be typed in in order to use it. Sell the activation key for an extra fee at checkout. If you don't activate, you're free to wipe your computer and use it as you wish.
But then Windows isn't free!! We all know that a computer is useless with out Windows, so why bother selling the computer without. Just have the OEM give Windows to the user for free anyway.
:)
On a serious note, I have seen customers that for some reason think that the 60-day trial of Norton (or McAfee) that is bundled with their computers is all they ever need for AV, even if the software complains at them for 2 years! that it's subscription is out of date and to upgrade the subscription (seriously, a computer that I was working on, on Saturday, had its last definitions update mid 2007, and the customer brought it in because it was "acting funny").
No. I worked for Microsoft tech support and I can tell you that we were not allowed to push customer issues back to the OEMs...
... On top of that, I regularly received calls from customers who were told by HP or Dell or whoever to call MS because it wasn't an issue on their end. The OEMs may or may not offer decent Windows support, but they're under no obligation to. All of the companies involved have strict support boundaries, and if something appears to be an issue with something one of the other parties is responsible for, the support call basically ends there.
If it is a bug in Windows sure, obviously the OEM can't fix it, but I was under the impression that the point of the OEM license was that Microsoft does not directly support it, and as such it is cheaper for that reason.
According to this OEM license on Microsoft's website http://www.microsoft.com/oem/sblicense/default.mspx microsoft does not provide end user support for the license. In particluar section 7 states:
As a Staples retail employee I can tell you that that would not "cost extremely little to implement." There would definitely have to be a charge, to offset the time an employee would have to be away from the sales floor while wiping a computer hard drive.
Uh, are you wiping the hard drive by using a tiny magnet and flipping all the bits by hand? Typically, you just go out and find your favorite drive wiper, spend five minutes getting it started and then walk away for a few hours.
Well even five minutes would cost ~$10 to do it. And don't forget the computer has to be removed from its box and put back neatly, which adds more time to the operation.
Well to quote Isaac Asimov,
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'
Not for much longer, if we have anything to do with it!
It composition may become not very useful to us but its not going to escape the gravity well anytime soon.
What is there to figure out?
Figuring out fusion itself would be a good start.
What you are thinking of is fission, that we have down good.
I attempted to use it. I found that it did not work very well. The UI was vary packed and difficult to use. I had to remove the chat window just to see the ships controls. All in all, it was so poorly done that I didn't use more than a few hours of the 14 day trial account.
What you are describing is how everyone describes the general UI for EvE itself. The UI is just as horrible on windows as it is on linux. The players only put up with that for basically two reasons: 1) the UI is very dense so that it can communicate all of the information that the game generates, and 2) EvE is the only game like it.
As great as that is, I believe it's a bad idea to use this as a selling point for OSS. I mean, the theory is great - everything is open, all the information you could ever want is documented in some way and if you happen to find a bug or whatever, you can go in and fix it yourself.
But what if you're not a programmer? What if you're just an average Joe who knows an average amount about computers? (I.e. not a lot short of turning it off and on and maybe running the odd Virus scan).
A car is open, if you're a Mechanic and something goes wrong with it, you can just open it up and replace or fix whatever is broken - but of the millions of car drivers out there, how many know how to do more than change the odd flat tire?
I think if you presented OSS in this way, the average person is more than likely going to get scared off by the prospect of having to be a programmer just to write a letter or whatever.
Sure your not a programmer, thats fine. The advantage of having the source code applies to all users of the software. For example, if it is important to you pay a programmer to fix it for you. This is no different than a support contract with a appropriator software vendor. The advantage of having the source code thought is that *any* programmer that can code in the language that the software is written in, can write the fix for you.
This is why a smart company that is having another company build them a core system will have the contractor put the code of the system is escrow in case the contractor gets hit by a bus, fails financially, etc. The other company then gets the code from escrow and hires another company to continue building the system.
To go back to your car example, okay so you are not a mechanic and so the open specifications of the car are useless to you personally (as in you can't fix it yourself), but as with my previous example, you can hire any mechanic that is qualified to work on your car and understands the specifications of the car can fix it for you.
Don't forget about opportunity costs. While some people are able to use what the specifications of the stuff they buy or the source code of their software that they use. It may cost them less to have someone else fix their problem for them, while they are doing their higher paying normal jobs.
The only thing interesting about this whole situation is the "news" coverage it is getting.
It might seem like some sort of big deal because so many people are involved, but this sort of thing is a core element for the higher level play of the game. Maybe if the game didn't focus on this aspect of the gameplay as one of its main selling points to get new players, this would be interesting. This is just a "water is wet" story.
I doubt it really has much to do with the number of people that it potentially affects. The real reason that this is news in the game is BoB is the enemy of enemies in the game. BoB is the evil empire in the game, especially since the t20 incident (dev spawned stuff for them but apparently they never used it). The players of EvE focus on what BoB, Goonswarm and Red Alliance (or whatever there allaince is called now) are doing because they are the Goliath (BoB) and David.
The real headline could be about how one alliance managed to use sites like Slashdot to wave the flag that their rival's outposts are now conquerable. Going so far as to get pseudo news sites with large followings to function as a communications tool and a rallying cry for a virtual world battle is actually pretty interesting.
This is an interesting idea, and I imagine we will see more of this type of stuff in the mainstream media because of the increasing number of people playing. EvE is especially poised for this because there are more and more players playing in one world
Oh, and the bigger ships are persistent and cannot be stored and do not disappear when you log out, and neither do these player space stations ("POS" in Eve lingo, player-owned structures.) So you'd better have some good defense, a big alliance with someone always around to sound the alarm, or be damned good at security-through-obscurity.
No ship is persistent, the super-capitals (titans and mother-ships) can not dock in stations, but when the pilot logs out the ship does do the warp and vanish (eventually, the align takes forever). But as with all ships the aggression timer does apply, so the if the ship was aggressed, the ship itself does not disappear for up to 15 minutes (this is how the first couple of titans were destroyed, pilot logged before the timer was up)..
That being said the POSes are persistent but they can also defend themselves in a limited fashion.