Agreed...

I use rsync to keep an iPhoto library mirrored between two macs. It's the easiest and fastest method I've run across. I did have to make a symbolic link to the library using a name without spaces but it "just works."

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rsync -azvE -r --exclude '.DS_Store' --delete --verbose --progress /Users/otherdude/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary/ somedude@macbook-pro.local:/Users/somedude/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary/

Doomed? The PolicyKit API isn't even stable yet. Doomed might not be a strong enough word.

Jackass decisions like this is why I left DeadRat in the dust a decade ago.

You know... That's a really good idea.

Signed IP swapping somehow... Reverify those IP addresses as valid.

It would only require transferring them to a host processing site.

Then, they could be removed from block lists and be reallocated.

It would be a fuck load of record updates, though.

The idea is...

Once you learn to type this one cryptic password it's pretty secure and hard to forget. Typing it becomes second nature.

1 \/\/r4p 411 my p455w0rdz 1n d07z 4nd u53 13375p34k.

I pick a meaningful word to myself. Perhaps something like "Pathfinder," which is one of my favourite Vox amps.

This becomes: .p47hf1nd3r.

Why so defensive?

Because I've seen this argument 10 billion times on Slashdot. It was dumb then, and it was dumb now. There's nothing "artificial" about limiting the product line. It helps prevent consumer confusion. It has been a tremendously profitable decision for Apple-and not just in the computer line.

  Take the iPod vs. Zen, where Zen used to have myriad different players with different specs (5GB, 10GB, 15GB, some with FM radio, some without, etc). iPod's product line is getting increasingly convoluted, but it's still not nearly as bad as Zen. There's other reasons behind Apple's success besides flashy marketing, but few on this site seem to realize that.

First of all, you know what happens when you assume...

Secondly, if I go to a hotel restaurant and they assume I am a guest and only charge me the guest rate, am I stealing? I don't think so. If I falsified documentation to pass myself off as a hotel guest, then I am actively committing a fraudulent act.

Apple does not require the consumer to show proof of Mac ownership when purchasing the software, so you are not fraudulent in acquiring the software nor are you stealing. You are just making a retail purchase. Your argument does not hold up.

Sure, I agree that backups shouldn't duplicate unchanged data in every backup snapshot. But that would only happen if your "backup software" were literally imaging the drive and storing the images. Nearly every decent piece of backup software already does incremental snapshots, and imo it makes a lot more sense for that functionality to be in the backup system than as part of the filesystem.

i'd love to see the **entire** Asmoverse as a series on Sci-Fi. Give it a BSG budget, be true to the 50's look (like Sky Captain).

Yep, I have one of those boxes too. I don't seem to remember a computer being shipped with the DVD inside the box.

Really? That has nothing to do with this. Bobbs-Merrill Co. vs. Straus says that the creator cannot limit resale. Thats it. I can license a book, so that I will always retain the ownership of the book, but the licensee will have possession of the book under certain terms. The licensee has the right to sell his license to someone else under the same terms, yet he can not sell the book, since I retain the ownership of the book.

I just broke Slashdot rule 5, no criticism of Apple allowed, so I expect the fanfoys will mod me to oblivion.

Criticism of Apple gets you -2, but claiming that criticism of Apple gets you -5 gets you +6.

It's worse than that, actually. Cisco 7960's are pretty brain dead. They pull their configs off tftp based on the mac address. Flip the phone over and write down some digits and you're halfway there. Keys to the kingdom on the bottom of the phone.

I've actually checked out FreeSWITCH quite thoroughly. I believe I said before that I've used the app?

There were many of Diego's comments that I agreed with. I don't hate him. I never said I hate him. I think the strongest thing I said was "I'm beginning to think you are just a jerk." As far as i'm concerned, he is. In all honesty you can't behave like an idiot and expect to get your bugs looked at with any seriousness. You can't go onto public communities and rant completely off-topic without expecting some sort of backlash. Is it my fault that googling for Diego Viola turns up rampant lunacy? I think not.

I just think he acts like a troll and I fell for his bait so I felt the need to apologize to a community I feel a certain kinship with. I feel like I let Slashdot down yesterday by feeding the troll after contributing here for almost a decade.

There's no denying the fact that Diego acts like a jerk and posts pro-FreeSWITCH comments all over the internet. He's even admitted so. I don't really think any of my comments were out of line. In fact, I gave him the benefit of the doubt having not run into him on the internet before.

It didn't take too long to see through the agenda. He's a fanboi. Fanbois are annoying.

Nothing he has said here has really given anything positive or helpful to this discussion... Which, let me remind everyone, is about Asterisk and "Vishing" and has nothing to do with FS. Really, though, the problem is with shitty passwords and default settings which is an issue that plagues EVERY app when administered by an idiot.

I'm neither for or against FS for fucks sakes. Can I just drop out of this bullshit conversation now? I tried it and Asterisk serves my needs far better than FS does. Like I said before, we hack the code into smithereens in our labs and for us Asterisk just works. As a matter of fact, my original post in this thread-- http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1421913&cid=29898993 --had many negative things to say about Asterisk's security model. Diego missed my point regarding "BADministrators" completely and launched into his FreeSWITCH agenda. I agreed with many of his comments regarding security models.

I'm through with this. Last post in this thread for me. None of this is really about Asterisk, FreeSWITCH or any VoIP platform. Even the quoted guy is pissed off about the comments being taken out of context. This is just stupid now. It's Mac vs. PC vs. Linux with the names changed to protect the innocent. All of you need to take your Asterisk vs. FreeSWITCH hate-on's back to Kindergarten where behaviour like that belongs. I've honestly never experienced any problems with either the Asterisk or FreeSWITCH community until yesterday.

If people don't like being called jerks then they probably shouldn't be acting like jerks. THE END.

It is but it's so flexible. I have a lot of fun emulating carrier's broken VoIP calls into our network with Asterisk.

No scalability, drops calls during a reboot, causes alarms on SBCs, no HA, load balancing requires a session director (perhaps another asterisk) of some sort.

The code is not pretty. Asterisk and sipP make a pretty good testbed, though. The T.30 to T.38 passthrough in 1.6.1 with the digium plugin is pretty cool.

Faxing from a web page to a land line is fun.