You must just love it when grandmas who have only just discovered the internet lose their life savings to PRESIDENT UBUNTA OF NIGERIA.
[rhetorical]Why does the internet have anything to do with this?[/rhetorical]
If grandma received a letter in the mail from the PRESIDENT UBUNTA OF NIGERIA what are the odds of the scam working? I would say it's less likely to work with snail mail based on purely nothing other than I think that since the internet is much more convenient and "magical". It's almost effortless to for people to just click reply and think, well, it can't hurt.
A previous landlord of mine, who I figured was quite intelligent (he did have a phd in geology and was a professor) received a friendly note from our friends in Nigeria. He mentioned it to me and I explained to him how the scams work in detail. He said he was going to try seeing what he can get out of it, since some guy from "Canada" (since it's not Nigeria it's okay right?) had contacted him. Four checks came in with the sum of about 100k, he cashed them. I told him to not do anything at all, don't send these guys money, ever. Few weeks later he stopped by my place and said: "I'm sorry, but, you were right, I'm in the hole 300k. I've made arrangements with the bank to start repaying the money". The bank actually managed to recover all of it eventually (he had wired some people money and then the Nigerians withdrew even more). I can't believe he was actually thinking about just paying the bank back over 40 years.
I really don't know if it's just pure stupidity or not.
She's 12 now. In a year or two, she'll be 14, and well on her way to adulthood. I agree with the others here: talk to her. She isn't a little girl any more, so it's time to take a less authoritative stance - how else will she learn to function as an adult?
I totally agree on this one. When I have kids it's going to be the same way. Define what's good and bad, explain things, keep an eye on things from a distance. Only if the kid is really defiant do you need to step in and be more aggressive because obviously your tactics aren't working. But on the other hand, if you were with the child since the day they were born (rather than coming in later) you can groom the child to behave in a way that matches the style of parent you want to be. As in, if you're always yelling and doing the "now go to your room" shit, the child is always going to view you as an authority to rebel against as opposed to a guardian who is looking out for them and helping them grow into adulthood on their own. (This by the way is exactly how my parents did it, and I think it worked out great)
1. The "quick find" menu. When I 'find as I type' it no longer opens-up the actual "find" bar that allows me to highlight/move next/move previous. Instead, it opens a USELESS quick find bar and I have to press ctrl-f to get the full find-bar. This is so idiotic it's difficult to put it into words. There is absolutely no good reason for this. The quick-find takes up as much screen real-estate and my guess is that it takes up just as much resources.
This is actually one of the things I absolutely love about firefox is the quickfind bar that you get when you ctrl-f. Every application should have something like this rather than a popup window that obscures what your working on. If I wind up with too many tabs (50 or so) open in firefox and firefox starts really dogging it I load up opera. Opera is quite nice with it's speed, but many pages render poorly. If the rendering was fixed up, and opera had a quickfind bar, I would switch instantly just because of it's speed.
I know this story is a bit old but I still had the tab open from a few days ago. My firefox 2.0 has actually been running for 14 days straight and it's currently using 500megs total allocated mem, 290megs physical and I have 55 tabs open. It's not exactly snappy but it's not too bad either. I wonder if IE could perform the same.
Teachers as a separate level of authority is circling the drain. Trying to become even more authorative and giving away even more homework to try to solve the problem just pushes struggling students over the edge - going from "I may not know this stuff cold, but I'm making an effort" to "fuck this and fuck the teacher".
This was exactly one of my peeves back when I was in school. I had a teacher in junior high school who was fresh out of college and excited to show the world what a great teacher she was... er... wait...
Actually I think this girl had a personal vendetta against students. If one student caused some trouble in the class she would have everyone open their text books and start copying text from it into notebooks verbatim. Useless busywork. She routinely yelled at students who did so much as asked the teacher something without raising a hand. Once there was an in class fight between two students and she sat there and watched without calling security. It ended when other students joined in to stop it.
On the other hand I've had amazing teachers in junior high as well as other levels. They were interactive, entertaining, quite intelligent, and made everyone want to be involved in the class (even the school assholes). Now that is what I call a teacher.
I really don't get it. This is something like the 4th post I've read where someone used to build and now buys. I think it really makes no sense. I run debian on my main workstation, debian/windows on my laptop, and windows on the wintendo. I've had less problems with my debian workstation than my wintendo. If you have the skills to build a computer, why bother with buying an overpriced proprietary system?
Sure I've had hardware failures. Hard drives are usually the things to go first. I just recently had a video card go wacky, I've had monitors get all borked. But really what is the cost of time investment? Not much if you know what you are doing. I use raid-1 mirroring on my workstation. Hard drive dies, pop in a new one, array rebuilds, back in business within a couple of minutes (assuming you have a new drive on hand (which everyone should)).
Compare that with calling tech support and waiting on hold for an hour and then talking to some indian guy you can't understand who tells you to run some diagnostic program. You tell the guy that you know it's the drive but he tells you that you can't return it without running this program. So you run it and wait, and wait. Finally you get an RMA and mail it off. Now you have no computer for a week while it gets fixed up (if you only have one).
What about if your video card dies and you mail it in and get your computer back and it's been wiped clean with an oem install of windows. Apparently they didn't care that you had a 50 gig mp3 collection. This could have been all avoided by throwing in that $15 spare video card that's in the closet while your replacement geforce9000 comes in the mail.
If you built a computer yourself, it's your responsibility to have parts on hand to restore the computer to full functionality. If you don't, then you're not a true computer builder and you should just go get a dell.
I don't really tinker at all. If I get a new machine, I load up debian on it, rebuild the kernel to include drivers for what I need, load up X, get firefox going, and I'm good to go. Although you do need to buy your hardware according to the kernel you wish to run, but all that does is add a little extra time to shopping.
I think you have some terms mixed up. Backwards compatibility means that version 2 will work with data from version 1. Forwards compatibility is when version 1 will work data from version 2.
In terms of the ext fs: - ext2 is forwards compatible with ext3 since the file storage structures were not changed and the only addition was journaling; you can mount an ext3 fs with ext2 drivers - ext3 is backwards compatible with ext2; you can mount an ext2 fs with ext3 drivers.
Actually... the first thing I do after installing XP is load up the registry editor, remove messenger from the startup, load up explorer, make my way to program files and remove the messenger directory. Two easy steps, done.
POST is not secure in any way. POST is jsut another method of sending data to the web server, anyone can send the server any data they please to try and exploit your app. The key is validating all user input so that something unexpected never gets into your backend.
One word, virginmobile. They seem to be the least evil of all cell phone companies... especially if you hardly use your phone (the standard plan will suck you dry if you do talk alot). I love it, I don't need to use my minutes every month, they never expire (assuming i buy $15 of airtime every 3 months, which is automatically billed anyway).
Disclaimer: I don't work for or have any affiliation with virgin mobile, just a happy customer.
A company can charge you by the packet no matter which protocol you use, they just have to look at the packet counter for your account once a month and send you a bill.
That's easy, it's called format and re-install. Use Powermax to do a complete low level format of the hard drive,
Why does everyone talk about doing a low-level format these days. Since I'm not the best at explaining things... from wikipedia:
Physical formatting, or low-level formatting, is the division of hard disk platters into tracks, sectors, and cylinders. Tracks, sectors, and cylinders define the divisions in which a hard disk accesses a data from a hard disk platter. This was considered to be a dangerous task to be performed on older discs for possible surface damage, but should be safe on modern drives.
Basicly a low level format reinitalizes the hardware level methods of splitting up the drive into various addressable spaces. If you have a virus/spyware/malware/etc and you want to get rid of it, a low level format is completely wasteful, instead you want a high-level format which wipes all the data, writes the boot record, file allocation tables, and etc.
Are you being sarcastic or do you actually have something useful behind your post? If so, please explain, because I'm quite unfamilar on how the internals of apache operate other than the minimal exposure I got from writing a few modules for 1.3.x
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When apache first introduced mpm I was looking forward to the ability to have each virtual domain run under a seperate user. Right now it will spawn a seperate process for each user specified. So if you are hosting 1000 domains on one machine and specify unique users for each domain, you have 1000 idle listener processes when you start up the server.
I'm thinking the way it should be is only spawn processes for the specified user when an incomming request needs to be served, keep the process around to serve new requests if there are more to serve, and kill it off if there is no requests in X period of time. This would surely make hosting things like cgi much more secure.
For me, the best "religion" is one where you include all the good things that are popular with religion such as treating people nicely, respecting elders, don't kill people, etc, all the "moral" things that religion teaches. Then you ignore and remove all the weird/useless things like creationism, prayer, belief in a "higher power", "historical" things like moses talking to a burning bush that gave him some commandments.
I find that many (not all though) people who strongly follow a religion to all of it's teachings usually have below average intelligence. The people I refer to are sometimes low income and expect that their problems will be solved if they "believe" enough in some higher power who will save them. If those people spent more time working harder and learning the ways of the world as well as learning a skill to make a living, they would have a much better life.
I find that many highly technical people such as engineers, programmers, architects, and many other professions that require logical thinking do not follow a religion. Logical thinking and religion are contradictory. Science and religion is contradictory.
If you want to pick a good religion, try taoism since it focuses on philosophy more than some "higher power".
Why does control+Z minimize the chat window in Gaim?
For the same reason that emacs minimizes when you hit ctrl-z. In the unix world ctrl-z is suspend, they are just following the convention. Gaim wasn't ported to windows until much after it's initial release.
Unless you are working some 14 hour a day plus weekends death job (I actually got offered one of those and said hell no) then your job really has no barrier on your fitness level. How would the weather completely prevent you from working out? If you have an enclosed living area (as in, not a cardboard box on 42nd street) then you have plenty of room to do some cardio for even 30 minutes a day.
Local town architecture? How exactly does the town layout force you to sit on the couch and watch tv all day? I'm missing something here. Traffic? BS on that one too.
There is no higher power that dictates how much free time you have, you make your own free time. Assuming you have a "normal" 9-5er, wake up an hour earlier than usual, hop on the treadmill for 30 minutes or do some pushups... get your heart going, it will actually make you feel a lot better for the entire day. Junk food, well, thats your problem... you could just not eat it. Children obviously will suck up a lot of your time, but if your child able to walk you should be outside with them once a day for some excersise, it's just important for kids as it is for adults.
There are millions of quite healthy people that aren't couch potatos and have children and have a full time job. There is no reason you can't be one of them. A friend of mine, a Junior High school teacher who works constantly gets up at 6:30 every morning and runs 3 miles before heading to work... every day.
Junk food and the TV is no excuse for being overweight or unhealthy.
The microwave water heaters only output heat (and a little bit of interference with your Wifi network). That's why they're more efficient.
Actually microwave cookers/heaters generate microwaves! The microwaves in turn vibrate water molecules to the point where they heat up due to friction. As a result microwaves are something like at most 65% efficient at heating if I remember correctly because of the wasted microwaves that don't make contact with the water.
I can't believe how many posts on this forum are completely wrong.
If they are serious about a filesystem, it has to be bundled with the linux distros every release. Take Reiser and JFS for example, some distros have it, some don't. Not every release of the same distro has it, what a mess. Only two have stayed permanently EXT2, EXT3. Everything else is trendy.
Reiser and JFS have been in the mainline kernel since umm, I think early 2.4. They were put in around the same era that ext3 showed up in the mainline kernel.
I don't know about you but I never use the included kernel of a distro (except in the install phase) because 90% of the time it doesn't have all the drivers compiled in that I need for the system I'm using.
Huh? I know users are the weakest link in security, but how can you justify one product is better than the other because the users screw things up less? I don't get that.
Even though users are the weakest link, an insecure browser (eg: msie) is an even weaker link. Here is a perfect example:
Customer of mine routinely gets spyware while doing normal web activity like searching google, buying things online, checking some email, sending some online greeting cards to friends, etc.
Previously about once a week I would run adware for him and it would pick up at least 50 someodd spyware/malware/adware things (and I dont count cookies as spyware).
I did a test and installed firefox for him and when I stopped by a week later adware returned 2 items, both of which were weird registry entries.
I didn't educate him about what not to click on, and what files not to run, and what email not to read, things that may contain adware and all that crap. It's the same user, using a different browser, all else is equal.
I've seen this across the board in my consulting career, and I've read other very similar reports. The default settings of IE make it so wide open you can drive a mac truck through the "security". If you try and lock down IE, then the casual joe schmoe is left frusterated every time he visits a web page and has to choose yes or no to "run activex on this page?" and "load scripts on this page?", etc etc. And how does the user know what to click on? ActiveX is the biggest security hole in computing today by far.
It is about reducing piracy, and it is also about trying to stop it. The RIAA knows it cannot stop piracy, so obviously it's trying its best to try and reduce it.
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My point wasn't that he shouldn't be held responsible. My point was he was not thinking of even trying to fight to get this fixed.
You must just love it when grandmas who have only just discovered the internet lose their life savings to PRESIDENT UBUNTA OF NIGERIA.
[rhetorical]Why does the internet have anything to do with this?[/rhetorical]
If grandma received a letter in the mail from the PRESIDENT UBUNTA OF NIGERIA what are the odds of the scam working? I would say it's less likely to work with snail mail based on purely nothing other than I think that since the internet is much more convenient and "magical". It's almost effortless to for people to just click reply and think, well, it can't hurt.
A previous landlord of mine, who I figured was quite intelligent (he did have a phd in geology and was a professor) received a friendly note from our friends in Nigeria. He mentioned it to me and I explained to him how the scams work in detail. He said he was going to try seeing what he can get out of it, since some guy from "Canada" (since it's not Nigeria it's okay right?) had contacted him. Four checks came in with the sum of about 100k, he cashed them. I told him to not do anything at all, don't send these guys money, ever. Few weeks later he stopped by my place and said: "I'm sorry, but, you were right, I'm in the hole 300k. I've made arrangements with the bank to start repaying the money". The bank actually managed to recover all of it eventually (he had wired some people money and then the Nigerians withdrew even more). I can't believe he was actually thinking about just paying the bank back over 40 years.
I really don't know if it's just pure stupidity or not.
I totally agree on this one. When I have kids it's going to be the same way. Define what's good and bad, explain things, keep an eye on things from a distance. Only if the kid is really defiant do you need to step in and be more aggressive because obviously your tactics aren't working. But on the other hand, if you were with the child since the day they were born (rather than coming in later) you can groom the child to behave in a way that matches the style of parent you want to be. As in, if you're always yelling and doing the "now go to your room" shit, the child is always going to view you as an authority to rebel against as opposed to a guardian who is looking out for them and helping them grow into adulthood on their own. (This by the way is exactly how my parents did it, and I think it worked out great)
You did great up until you misspelled lose :(
I know this story is a bit old but I still had the tab open from a few days ago. My firefox 2.0 has actually been running for 14 days straight and it's currently using 500megs total allocated mem, 290megs physical and I have 55 tabs open. It's not exactly snappy but it's not too bad either. I wonder if IE could perform the same.
This was exactly one of my peeves back when I was in school. I had a teacher in junior high school who was fresh out of college and excited to show the world what a great teacher she was... er... wait...
Actually I think this girl had a personal vendetta against students. If one student caused some trouble in the class she would have everyone open their text books and start copying text from it into notebooks verbatim. Useless busywork. She routinely yelled at students who did so much as asked the teacher something without raising a hand. Once there was an in class fight between two students and she sat there and watched without calling security. It ended when other students joined in to stop it.
On the other hand I've had amazing teachers in junior high as well as other levels. They were interactive, entertaining, quite intelligent, and made everyone want to be involved in the class (even the school assholes). Now that is what I call a teacher.
I really don't get it. This is something like the 4th post I've read where someone used to build and now buys. I think it really makes no sense. I run debian on my main workstation, debian/windows on my laptop, and windows on the wintendo. I've had less problems with my debian workstation than my wintendo. If you have the skills to build a computer, why bother with buying an overpriced proprietary system?
Sure I've had hardware failures. Hard drives are usually the things to go first. I just recently had a video card go wacky, I've had monitors get all borked. But really what is the cost of time investment? Not much if you know what you are doing. I use raid-1 mirroring on my workstation. Hard drive dies, pop in a new one, array rebuilds, back in business within a couple of minutes (assuming you have a new drive on hand (which everyone should)).
Compare that with calling tech support and waiting on hold for an hour and then talking to some indian guy you can't understand who tells you to run some diagnostic program. You tell the guy that you know it's the drive but he tells you that you can't return it without running this program. So you run it and wait, and wait. Finally you get an RMA and mail it off. Now you have no computer for a week while it gets fixed up (if you only have one).
What about if your video card dies and you mail it in and get your computer back and it's been wiped clean with an oem install of windows. Apparently they didn't care that you had a 50 gig mp3 collection. This could have been all avoided by throwing in that $15 spare video card that's in the closet while your replacement geforce9000 comes in the mail.
If you built a computer yourself, it's your responsibility to have parts on hand to restore the computer to full functionality. If you don't, then you're not a true computer builder and you should just go get a dell.
I don't really tinker at all. If I get a new machine, I load up debian on it, rebuild the kernel to include drivers for what I need, load up X, get firefox going, and I'm good to go. Although you do need to buy your hardware according to the kernel you wish to run, but all that does is add a little extra time to shopping.
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I think you have some terms mixed up.
Backwards compatibility means that version 2 will work with data from version 1. Forwards compatibility is when version 1 will work data from version 2.
In terms of the ext fs:
- ext2 is forwards compatible with ext3 since the file storage structures were not changed and the only addition was journaling; you can mount an ext3 fs with ext2 drivers
- ext3 is backwards compatible with ext2; you can mount an ext2 fs with ext3 drivers.
Actually... the first thing I do after installing XP is load up the registry editor, remove messenger from the startup, load up explorer, make my way to program files and remove the messenger directory. Two easy steps, done.
POST is not secure in any way. POST is jsut another method of sending data to the web server, anyone can send the server any data they please to try and exploit your app. The key is validating all user input so that something unexpected never gets into your backend.
Haha, excellent point :)
Oops, I forgot to include that you can get no frills phones without the camera and all that crap.
One word, virginmobile. They seem to be the least evil of all cell phone companies... especially if you hardly use your phone (the standard plan will suck you dry if you do talk alot). I love it, I don't need to use my minutes every month, they never expire (assuming i buy $15 of airtime every 3 months, which is automatically billed anyway).
Disclaimer: I don't work for or have any affiliation with virgin mobile, just a happy customer.
A company can charge you by the packet no matter which protocol you use, they just have to look at the packet counter for your account once a month and send you a bill.
Why does everyone talk about doing a low-level format these days. Since I'm not the best at explaining things... from wikipedia:
Physical formatting, or low-level formatting, is the division of hard disk platters into tracks, sectors, and cylinders. Tracks, sectors, and cylinders define the divisions in which a hard disk accesses a data from a hard disk platter. This was considered to be a dangerous task to be performed on older discs for possible surface damage, but should be safe on modern drives.
Basicly a low level format reinitalizes the hardware level methods of splitting up the drive into various addressable spaces. If you have a virus/spyware/malware/etc and you want to get rid of it, a low level format is completely wasteful, instead you want a high-level format which wipes all the data, writes the boot record, file allocation tables, and etc.
Are you being sarcastic or do you actually have something useful behind your post? If so, please explain, because I'm quite unfamilar on how the internals of apache operate other than the minimal exposure I got from writing a few modules for 1.3.x
When apache first introduced mpm I was looking forward to the ability to have each virtual domain run under a seperate user. Right now it will spawn a seperate process for each user specified. So if you are hosting 1000 domains on one machine and specify unique users for each domain, you have 1000 idle listener processes when you start up the server.
I'm thinking the way it should be is only spawn processes for the specified user when an incomming request needs to be served, keep the process around to serve new requests if there are more to serve, and kill it off if there is no requests in X period of time. This would surely make hosting things like cgi much more secure.
Okay, time to burn some karma.
For me, the best "religion" is one where you include all the good things that are popular with religion such as treating people nicely, respecting elders, don't kill people, etc, all the "moral" things that religion teaches. Then you ignore and remove all the weird/useless things like creationism, prayer, belief in a "higher power", "historical" things like moses talking to a burning bush that gave him some commandments.
I find that many (not all though) people who strongly follow a religion to all of it's teachings usually have below average intelligence. The people I refer to are sometimes low income and expect that their problems will be solved if they "believe" enough in some higher power who will save them. If those people spent more time working harder and learning the ways of the world as well as learning a skill to make a living, they would have a much better life.
I find that many highly technical people such as engineers, programmers, architects, and many other professions that require logical thinking do not follow a religion. Logical thinking and religion are contradictory. Science and religion is contradictory.
If you want to pick a good religion, try taoism since it focuses on philosophy more than some "higher power".
For the same reason that emacs minimizes when you hit ctrl-z. In the unix world ctrl-z is suspend, they are just following the convention. Gaim wasn't ported to windows until much after it's initial release.
Unless you are working some 14 hour a day plus weekends death job (I actually got offered one of those and said hell no) then your job really has no barrier on your fitness level. How would the weather completely prevent you from working out? If you have an enclosed living area (as in, not a cardboard box on 42nd street) then you have plenty of room to do some cardio for even 30 minutes a day.
Local town architecture? How exactly does the town layout force you to sit on the couch and watch tv all day? I'm missing something here. Traffic? BS on that one too.
There is no higher power that dictates how much free time you have, you make your own free time. Assuming you have a "normal" 9-5er, wake up an hour earlier than usual, hop on the treadmill for 30 minutes or do some pushups... get your heart going, it will actually make you feel a lot better for the entire day. Junk food, well, thats your problem... you could just not eat it. Children obviously will suck up a lot of your time, but if your child able to walk you should be outside with them once a day for some excersise, it's just important for kids as it is for adults.
There are millions of quite healthy people that aren't couch potatos and have children and have a full time job. There is no reason you can't be one of them. A friend of mine, a Junior High school teacher who works constantly gets up at 6:30 every morning and runs 3 miles before heading to work... every day.
Junk food and the TV is no excuse for being overweight or unhealthy.
Actually microwave cookers/heaters generate microwaves! The microwaves in turn vibrate water molecules to the point where they heat up due to friction. As a result microwaves are something like at most 65% efficient at heating if I remember correctly because of the wasted microwaves that don't make contact with the water.
I can't believe how many posts on this forum are completely wrong.
Reiser and JFS have been in the mainline kernel since umm, I think early 2.4. They were put in around the same era that ext3 showed up in the mainline kernel.
I don't know about you but I never use the included kernel of a distro (except in the install phase) because 90% of the time it doesn't have all the drivers compiled in that I need for the system I'm using.
Even though users are the weakest link, an insecure browser (eg: msie) is an even weaker link. Here is a perfect example:
Customer of mine routinely gets spyware while doing normal web activity like searching google, buying things online, checking some email, sending some online greeting cards to friends, etc.
Previously about once a week I would run adware for him and it would pick up at least 50 someodd spyware/malware/adware things (and I dont count cookies as spyware).
I did a test and installed firefox for him and when I stopped by a week later adware returned 2 items, both of which were weird registry entries.
I didn't educate him about what not to click on, and what files not to run, and what email not to read, things that may contain adware and all that crap. It's the same user, using a different browser, all else is equal.
I've seen this across the board in my consulting career, and I've read other very similar reports. The default settings of IE make it so wide open you can drive a mac truck through the "security". If you try and lock down IE, then the casual joe schmoe is left frusterated every time he visits a web page and has to choose yes or no to "run activex on this page?" and "load scripts on this page?", etc etc. And how does the user know what to click on? ActiveX is the biggest security hole in computing today by far.
Haha, nice try.
It is about reducing piracy, and it is also about trying to stop it. The RIAA knows it cannot stop piracy, so obviously it's trying its best to try and reduce it.