The Linuxbierwanderung does that since 1999. It's a gathering of geeks, making holiday together while doing the tech-stuff. Don't be bothered by the name Linux, every Geek is welcome.
And yes, it is non commercial. But Tim is surely invited, if if bothers to deal with geeks:) See http://www.linuxbierwanderung.org/
Alex.
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I used to work in a NOC of a major cellphone carrier. Working in shifts, staring at your HP Openview, no coffee/food at your desk, boring calls from the staff "Oh, the connection to server ABC isn't working. Do something!" - and when really something goes wrong you feel you want to be an octopus - you need 8 arms for 8 phones.
Essentially the job is: Stare at network map, wait for thingys to blink, make calls.
Blocking IP-addresses or IP-ranges does work, indeed, but blackholing a whole country (.cn) like a couple of people adviced here doesn't help you a bit. In that instant moment when some chinese IP changes it's IN PTR record to something like.com it doesen't matter anyway. Forging From: lines is common though, but blacklisting.cn... Or have you seen any spam arriving from *@*.cn? I haven't seen one for months.
You don't mean that serious, do you? Making it a crime running an open software? Why don't make it a crime to have open ports, 'cause all those bad trojans destroy the internet? Make it illegal for endusers offer services on their box anyway? Get a licence, pass a test in politically correctness?
I agree. When i'm at work where there is no spam-filter i sometimes just delete my project-managers emails 'cause his subject lines look like spam. It's not on purpose, but it looks so... Well, spamish.
If i can't decide by the subject line what's spam and what's real, how should a spamfilter do?
Can you imagine the rage of people, when some projectmanager's email gets filtered and you loose profit?
I'm not familiar with the laws in the US, but working more than 10 hours without a very good reason is illegal - at least in Germany.
A good reason would be something like solving emergency situation - if you are on call for instance. Or if life or property is in danger. Medical doctors for instance are used to more than 24 hour shifts. But hey, you're a coder.
If there isn't any law against it, quit or sue them for compensation.
Before ranting: I know, that 10 hour law is not always a good idea[TM]. I work in the telco business and i know that this 10 hour border is sometimes hard for projects. But come on, 12/7 for half a year... You're going to _burn out_, believe me.
Good point. Maybe some better bootloader as well so that you don't have to write one on the harddrive? I would like to see some sort of OBP for the pc. Booting off a kernel from the net, cool. Some basic filesystem support and an editor to repair a damaged system. If it could do ftp/ssh you could even upload patches to you system or download data from a crashed system.
The PC doesn't need a graphical OS with all that fancy nicknack. The PC needs:
* A serial console! I don't want to connect a VGA monitor to the machine just for tuning the bootdevice * Get rid of all that INT13 C/H/S booting crap * The BIOS needs real SCSI support, no more SCSI-BIOS remapping * Realmode should be dumped completly! When you power on the PC it should be in protected mode immediatly
Everything else like network support is neat, but can be optional.
Actually i once saw a report on TV that the Mt. Everest basecamp is really crowded, people queue for the peak. That could be a big opportunity. And considering that people climbing for the peak should have money he can ask for prices you couldn't take in a city.
Well, if you have a look at the form DS-157 [1] (supplement application for getting a Visa for the US) i'm sort of scared. They really want to know a lot, like my former rank in the forces? Special education in firearms, nuclear and biological warfare? All males in the age from 16-45 are obliged to fill this one out. But come on, be honest: the real bad guys will lie in that form, won't they? And the innocent will be punished for stupidity if they fill out something wrong? Is it really necessary for the US government to know who my last two former employers were?
Anyway: I'm neither a US citizen nor a US resident, but stuff like that seems to be common in all over the world since 911.
To put it simply, if a guy has extremly bad credit and is responsible for corporate accounts he may be tempted to steal from the company to cover his debt OR framed into doing so by one of his creditors.
You really put it simple. Don't lump everything together and assume that everybody in a bad private credit situtation is going to steel the money from his company. If you assume that, you're going to trust no one anymore. No chance for resocializiation?
These type of executives are also the most likley to be "functional" drug users
What the fuck? "These type of executives"? You know any? Sorry, aren't you exaggerating a bit?
Why is it so important? These are the people who run companies that employ at times tens, hundreds or thousands of people.
I understand you point and somehow i feel feel to agree. But don't lump everything together; there are actually quite nice people whith a good background with loads of debts out there.
Alex.
I'm not kidding at all. It is a standard feature of GSM and it is even mandatory by law in most of the countries. It's to gain some level of QoS.
This was not meant to be DONE. It belongs to the same category as exploits from Bugtraq; don't use them! It's illegal and you may harm people, overload emergency services and such.
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...that's more bandwidth to Mars than most of the people have on earth :-)
Alex.
The Linuxbierwanderung does that since 1999. It's a gathering of geeks, making holiday together while doing the tech-stuff. Don't be bothered by the name Linux, every Geek is welcome.
:)
And yes, it is non commercial. But Tim is surely invited, if if bothers to deal with geeks
See http://www.linuxbierwanderung.org/
Alex.
I used to work in a NOC of a major cellphone carrier. Working in shifts, staring at your HP Openview, no coffee/food at your desk, boring calls from the staff "Oh, the connection to server ABC isn't working. Do something!" - and when really something goes wrong you feel you want to be an octopus - you need 8 arms for 8 phones.
Essentially the job is: Stare at network map, wait for thingys to blink, make calls.
Yalla.
...who really know how to write secure code instead of offering Bounties. You get two quality coders for a year for that price.
Alex.
Blocking IP-addresses or IP-ranges does work, indeed, but blackholing a whole country (.cn) like a couple of people adviced here doesn't help you a bit. In that instant moment when some chinese IP changes it's IN PTR record to something like .com it doesen't matter anyway. Forging From: lines is common though, but blacklisting .cn... Or have you seen any spam arriving from *@*.cn? I haven't seen one for months.
:)
Yalla.
(Schon wach?
You don't mean that serious, do you? Making it a crime running an open software? Why don't make it a crime to have open ports, 'cause all those bad trojans destroy the internet? Make it illegal for endusers offer services on their box anyway? Get a licence, pass a test in politically correctness?
Sorry, but that's a really dumb idea.
Alex.
And what about mailinglists? That will kill them unless you find a sponsor.
Alex.
Who knows? As Andrew allready pointed out in in his posting, nobody knows the exact text yet. It still has to show up in the parliament.
Alex.
I think some hackers ought to get the email addresses of people that are buying the stuff spammers send. Maybe public humiliation would work.
;-)
Or just sell that email addresses to those spammers, who pay the most
SCNR, Alex.
I agree. When i'm at work where there is no spam-filter i sometimes just delete my project-managers emails 'cause his subject lines look like spam. It's not on purpose, but it looks so... Well, spamish.
If i can't decide by the subject line what's spam and what's real, how should a spamfilter do?
Can you imagine the rage of people, when some projectmanager's email gets filtered and you loose profit?
Alex.
Why not take this a step further by blocking anything that the user did not request in a NAT-like fashion?
This is not NAT-like but connection-tracking fashion. Very expensive in CPU-cycles if we're speaking of high-bandwidth.
Alex.
Why don't make that question the next /. poll?
[ ] Yes mam, filter everything!
[ ] Go away, no!
[ ] Filter Windows-ports
[ ] Filter all non Windows-ports
[ ] Help! Cowboy Neal triggers all my Snort-alerts!
Alex.
I'm not familiar with the laws in the US, but working more than 10 hours without a very good reason is illegal - at least in Germany.
A good reason would be something like solving emergency situation - if you are on call for instance. Or if life or property is in danger. Medical doctors for instance are used to more than 24 hour shifts. But hey, you're a coder.
If there isn't any law against it, quit or sue them for compensation.
Before ranting: I know, that 10 hour law is not always a good idea[TM]. I work in the telco business and i know that this 10 hour border is sometimes hard for projects. But come on, 12/7 for half a year... You're going to _burn out_, believe me.
Alex.
Ship a free zx80 prototype board with every copy of Windows. :-)
SCNR, Alex.
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/. in the future. That poor people :-)
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.
Perhaps it would be wise to contact the owners of the sites before posting it to
Cheers, Alex.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
That's all you and your all beloved users need :)
SCNR, Alex.
Good point. Maybe some better bootloader as well so that you don't have to write one on the harddrive? I would like to see some sort of OBP for the pc. Booting off a kernel from the net, cool. Some basic filesystem support and an editor to repair a damaged system. If it could do ftp/ssh you could even upload patches to you system or download data from a crashed system.
Yeah, that idea is really sexy and enlighting.
Alex.
The PC doesn't need a graphical OS with all that fancy nicknack. The PC needs:
* A serial console! I don't want to connect a VGA monitor to the machine just for tuning the bootdevice
* Get rid of all that INT13 C/H/S booting crap
* The BIOS needs real SCSI support, no more SCSI-BIOS remapping
* Realmode should be dumped completly! When you power on the PC it should be in protected mode immediatly
Everything else like network support is neat, but can be optional.
Just my 2c, Alex.
Actually i once saw a report on TV that the Mt. Everest basecamp is really crowded, people queue for the peak. That could be a big opportunity. And considering that people climbing for the peak should have money he can ask for prices you couldn't take in a city.
Alex.
Well, if you have a look at the form DS-157 [1] (supplement application for getting a Visa for the US) i'm sort of scared. They really want to know a lot, like my former rank in the forces? Special education in firearms, nuclear and biological warfare? All males in the age from 16-45 are obliged to fill this one out. But come on, be honest: the real bad guys will lie in that form, won't they? And the innocent will be punished for stupidity if they fill out something wrong? Is it really necessary for the US government to know who my last two former employers were?
Anyway: I'm neither a US citizen nor a US resident, but stuff like that seems to be common in all over the world since 911.
Alex.
[1] http://travel.state.gov/DS-0157.pdf
I don't agree in several points.
To put it simply, if a guy has extremly bad credit and is responsible for corporate accounts he may be tempted to steal from the company to cover his debt OR framed into doing so by one of his creditors.
You really put it simple. Don't lump everything together and assume that everybody in a bad private credit situtation is going to steel the money from his company. If you assume that, you're going to trust no one anymore. No chance for resocializiation?
These type of executives are also the most likley to be "functional" drug users
What the fuck? "These type of executives"? You know any? Sorry, aren't you exaggerating a bit?
Why is it so important? These are the people who run companies that employ at times tens, hundreds or thousands of people.
I understand you point and somehow i feel feel to agree. But don't lump everything together; there are actually quite nice people whith a good background with loads of debts out there.
Alex.
illuminati.mil
allyourbase.mil
borg.mil
Alex.
So the name 'The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace' is a contractiction.
Just my 2 eurocents,
Alex.
I'm not kidding at all. It is a standard feature of GSM and it is even mandatory by law in most of the countries. It's to gain some level of QoS.
This was not meant to be DONE. It belongs to the same category as exploits from Bugtraq; don't use them! It's illegal and you may harm people, overload emergency services and such.
I repeat: Don't do this!
Alex.