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Re: Setup a GNS3 Server on AWS EC2

Michael Bennett Cohn — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:38:28 -0000

I did this install successfully. But the reason I wanted to do the bare metal install was for the nested virtualization. In the course I'm following, the instructor says that after you install GNS3, to incorporate VMWare into it. So, in this remote setup, where do I install the VMWare workstation? If I install it locally, will it use my local CPU, thus negating the benefits of this setup? On the other hand, my local computer is a Mac, which doesn't run VM Workstation...

Re: Why The New ‘Ben Hur’ Is the Least Successful One Of All - Film & TV – Forward.com

Michael Bennett Cohn — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:29:47 -0000

Hi, I'm the author of the article. Thanks for your comment.

I agree that the book itself has been largely left behind as source material. The potential exists to do a more loyal adaptation, perhaps as a real TV series stretched out over multiple seasons. However, such a story would also end up being more overtly Christian than any of the versions we've seen. (Wouldn't it?) Modern audiences might not go for that.

Re: Why The New ‘Ben Hur’ Is the Least Successful One Of All - Film & TV – Forward.com

Michael Bennett Cohn — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:21:26 -0000

The caption has been changed. Thanks for your diligence.

Re: Why The New ‘Ben Hur’ Is the Least Successful One Of All - Film & TV – Forward.com

Michael Bennett Cohn — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:25:34 -0000

Hi, I'm the author. Thanks for the informed response. You make a good point about the hype around the 1959 version due to the cinematic technology it used. I had considered going into detail about the milieu in which each version was released, but ultimately I decided to limit the scope to what you see above.

As for the color in the 1925 version, I wasn't trying to suggest that the color had been added with a computer. You may be right that what I saw was the original version, but I did not find any definitive evidence of that. So I remain open to the possibility that the version digitized by Amazon was altered, perhaps even by someone other than the original filmmakers. My understanding is that this was a not-uncommon occurrence in the silent era.

Re: What Pokemon Go Has in Common With the Jewish Way of Life

Michael Bennett Cohn — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:39:47 -0000

Well, we're looking at this through several levels of remove. We're not even sure what language Rav Ashi spoke. It was probably a form of Aramaic.

Re: Girls is a Knockout

Michael Bennett Cohn — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:20:16 -0000

Based on this summary, it sounds terrible.

Re: 10 Worst Cities for Singles - Kiplinger

Michael Bennett Cohn — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:39:47 -0000

"An unlikely place to get married" is not the same as "a bad city to live in if you're single."

Re: Biggering And Biggering: The Real Problem With ‘The Lorax’ Movie Tie-Ins

Michael Bennett Cohn — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:24:14 -0000

Was that effective?

Re: Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox

Michael Bennett Cohn — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:49:31 -0000

You've got me all wrong. I am not, in any way, a cheerleader for more Internet regulation, nor do I personally care whether anyone at Sony uses P2P networks to get their content.

I'm simply saying that the discovery of content pirates within companies that have officially lobbied against piracy doesn't mean that some type of hypocrisy was exposed, nor should it even be surprising. I'm sure there are also people working at the DMV who run red lights.

Re: Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox

Michael Bennett Cohn — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:26:35 -0000

But the end result of exposing this "hyporcrisy" would only be that either a) the studios do nothing, or b) they crack down on their own people, firing them and sending them to jail. They're not going to say "oh yeah, since we didn't fire the people in our own walls who were doing this, it's okay for everyone else to keep doing it too."

Re: Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox

Michael Bennett Cohn — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:11:51 -0000

Sony, NBC, and Fox do not need to resort to bittorrent to obtain the media they need. It's easier and safer for them to just buy it, but for a Hollywood studio, even that is usually not necessary. For the well-connected (e.g. studio executives), free copies of all the latest movies and TV shows are in constant circulation. If a higher-up at Sony needs a movie, they send an assistant scurrying out to get the DVD.

Re: Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox

Michael Bennett Cohn — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:07:24 -0000

If you put pressure on the companies to enforce the standards, all that's going to happen is that they will up their internal security and shut down or fire the people doing the downloading. No greater moral point will get proved.

Re: Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox

Michael Bennett Cohn — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:21:18 -0000

Give me a break. It's not the companies that are responsible for those downloads, it's the rank-and-file people working there. They are not the same people lobbying congress to fight piracy.

Re: Occupy Steve Jobs

Michael Bennett Cohn — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:01:28 -0000

Ah, but if there were a Jobs clone, then that clone would have also grown up in the 70s and already been a major pioneer in the development of the personal computer. And who knows if Jobs would have been able to get himself promoted through the rungs of somebody else's company.

Re: Reagan’s Would-Be Assassin May Be Freed

Michael Bennett Cohn — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:24:39 -0000

"...as if the kind of mental illness that gets you declared insane in a court of law ever really goes away."

But sometimes it does. That's why they let people out in cases like this. What sort of bizarre conflation of law and medicine is going on in that argument?

This article is disappointingly biased and reductive, both about mental illness in general and Hinkley's case in particular. And it also seems to contain the disturbing assumption that appeasing the public's sense of justice is more important than giving even the slightest credence to effective punishment or rehabilitation.

Re: Hair Balls - Richard Connelly - No More Last Meal Requests on Death Row Senator Says UPDATED

Michael Bennett Cohn — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:52:21 -0000

Could have at least compromised and given a more limited choice. Like, it can't weigh more than 10 pounds, or cost more than $50, or contain more than four items.

Re: 15 year old teen in Sweden on trial for downloading movies via torrents

Michael Bennett Cohn — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:39:52 -0000

Was he using the school's computer, or his own?

Re: Woman Killed After Refusing To Give Purse To Muggers

Michael Bennett Cohn — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:26:51 -0000

As someone who has been mugged, I find it disturbing and disappointing that all the comments here condemn the victim's choice to not be complicit in being a victim.

Re: Movie Review: Exit Through The Gift Shop

Michael Bennett Cohn — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:17:16 -0000

And here is another article vouching for the believability of Thierry's whole situation.

Re: Martin And Me

Michael Bennett Cohn — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:41:12 -0000

Thanks for reading! But wait... it died? The school no longer has a chess team? Meh.

Re: Eureka and Multiples

Michael Bennett Cohn — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:37:01 -0000

Brilliant piece. I love how you interweave the creation of your own essay with the phenomenon you're discussing. Reminds me a bit of Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections, written autobiographically about the development of his ideas, and using those same ideas to explain how they developed.

Re: Movie Review: Exit Through The Gift Shop

Michael Bennett Cohn — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:55:12 -0000

Click here for a pretty good post by someone else arguing for the authenticity of the archive footage.

Re: Fashion Shoot At The Holocaust Memorial

Michael Bennett Cohn — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:01:03 -0000

Because that image uses the same juxtaposition of artistic intention (and sex, and distance in time) with disturbing historical truths.

Re: You Can't Kick Me Off Facebook, I Quit! - Richard Whittle - Politics - The Atlantic

Michael Bennett Cohn — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:53:28 -0000

Pettiness is a matter of perspective. It's certainly true that Richard Whittle is not an important person, and that, in terms of pure interpersonal interaction, commenting here, let alone hiding his books, would be a waste of my implicitly more valuable time.

And yet, this discourse doesn't happen in a vacuum. Other people, such as yourself, are reading it. My comment, although technically addressed to Whittle, was really intended to be read by those obtuse enough to think that he might be right. It's not as good as laughing in his face, but it will have to do.

Re: Fun With Bureaucracy: The Brooklyn Social Security Office

Michael Bennett Cohn — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:47:19 -0000

You've got me all wrong, my friend. I don't even drink coffee.