I give free support to all of my family/friends if they have a Mac OS X machine, or FreeBSD and KDE.
I charge half of my consultant rate for any form of Windows.
The reason: Once you have and OS-X or other Unix style operating system set up - the tend not to break randomly. Winodws brakes for no apparent reason -
Clippy: " It looks like you doing somthing productive, would you like me to break Windows for you?"
someone like you comes along and describes telnetting into your servers from the middle of Antarctica,
It *is* very geeky to carry around such equipment, but it is liberating for me. I can hike in the wilderness for days and yet service my customers when they need it. If it wasen't for Iridium, I'd have to stay close to civilisation.
It's kind of interesting, that the ultimate geek toy like Iridium helpms me get away from the civilisation that created it.
The trouble is that good ssh clients are hard to find for small platforms like the portable Psion Revo. I telnet using SKEY into a locked-down server and then SSH from there to get around the problem.
After bankrupsy they were able to change their price structure to somthing more sane. I use mine at $1.50 a minuite - and the phones are now under $1000.
I highly recomended Iridium if you spend any time in the wilderness. With the serial calble and a old Psion Revo - I can telnet to any of my servers from anywhere and the whole package is under three pounds.
I don't know why somebody moded you down as flaimbait.
I appreciate your comments on my sig - I wrote in when I was in a nasty mood and I was tired of all the freeloaders in our socioty.
Our culture is nolonger holds the rugged individual as an ideal - our ideal is a gluttenous over-breadiding weflafre mom. Our ideal is a fat cat capitolist who inhereted his wealth.
It suck, but thankfully I can move on with my life and do the things that make me happy - friends, family, a hike now and then, and a glimmer of freedom if I look for it.
You did enable the built-in firewall before connecting your machine to the internet, didn't you?
All Windows XP computers are vulerable to Blaster during bootup.
Even if you have the Windows firewall turned on.
Windows XP doesen't ahve a firewall in place while the computer is booting - only after a full boot is the firewall policy pushed down to the network interfaces.
SP2 will include a "block everything" firewall policy during bootup, and you can have a firewall policy over all network connections - including new connections that you may install.
but for now - Put your XP behind a real network operating system like OpenBSD.
I know how you feel - but the fun in computing is coming BACK!!!!!
Five years ago, you had a choice: Windows98, WindowsNT or some wacky hard-to find os called Linux that you probably diden't know existed. Oh, and Mac's were ok if you were one of those "Artisits"
The camp was owned by a family that was a freind of the camp - they were in the process of selling the camp property at fair market value to the camp itself.
Then Paul came in with $BIGNUM and swiped the camp.
So, yes, someone sold out for $BIGNUM.
And yes, Paul Allan is still a JERK. Fucking with a summer-camp is just being an ass.
For my next shot, I'll pick on Catholics for believing they actually eat the body of Christ and drink the blood of Christ. It's not just wine & bread once it's been consecrated. Most Catholics don't think about that, but ask a priest about it.
In the bad old days, Catholics would burn you at the stake if you though that the wafer was just a wafer and that the wine was just wine.
any plans of a Linux version of iTunes? Since Mac OS X kernel is BSD, I guess porting to Linux wouldn't be that hard.
I kind of doubt it.
They *could* do it - but probably won't for marketing reasons.
Apple makes it's money selling Apple hardware - if in their eyes they think that there are a few Linux users that will buy an Apple just to have Quicktime, iTunes, iMovie etc - then they'll just refuse.
Apple has to have a Windows version of Quicktime - othewise the movie studios woulden't bother trying to use Quicktime for Apple's 8% market share.
Apple make itunes for Windows to expose Windows users to the iPod and to the Apple "expeience" - they're hoping to get some coverts. "This iTunes is pretty cool - I really would like a whole computer that behaves this nicley, instead of all this windows crap."
There's a theory that if there's enough space-junk that you could develope a chain reaction where one peice of junk shatters another, and really quickly you end up with a bunch of miniscule but deadly debris that will make space exploration almost impossible.
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In addition to Solaris, sparc+OpenBSD has this feature. We've been buyin SUN hardware just because of Sparc's cool features.
Only Microosft could claim that this is innovationb
Hear Hear...
Linux is great fun for personal computers - but I highly recomend that people looks at NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSd for server use.
They went throught the same problems that Linux is going through right now... but that was about 7 years ago and have moved on.
There stable, secure and robust - the perfect atributes for a server or even pesonal use if you value productivity over features.
$ man 15 daughter
No entry for daughter in section 15 of the manual
so long as this absurdity called "government" is restrained from causing yet more harm.
All of histories attorictices could not have been commpted without big goverment.
Hitler's Germany
Stallin's Russia
Napolian's France
The Queen's Empire
Letft to their own devices, individials kill a neighbor now and then, but group them together and call them an army and they can kill millions.
Big Government is very dangerous - in addition to being expensive.
98SE was not bad at all. It was definitely the best of the 9x kernel versions.
Pop Up Mini-Tarts was not bad at all. It was definatly the best of the midget-porn videos out there.
Do what I do....
I give free support to all of my family/friends if they have a Mac OS X machine, or FreeBSD and KDE.
I charge half of my consultant rate for any form of Windows.
The reason: Once you have and OS-X or other Unix style operating system set up - the tend not to break randomly. Winodws brakes for no apparent reason -
Clippy: " It looks like you doing somthing productive, would you like me to break Windows for you?"
These types of suits are considered a "cost of doing business"
You're only saying that because you're a lawer who makes money on silly lawsuits like this.
The rest of us see this lawsuit for what it is - a pathetic attempt to extort money.
someone like you comes along and describes telnetting into your servers from the middle of Antarctica,
It *is* very geeky to carry around such equipment, but it is liberating for me. I can hike in the wilderness for days and yet service my customers when they need it. If it wasen't for Iridium, I'd have to stay close to civilisation.
It's kind of interesting, that the ultimate geek toy like Iridium helpms me get away from the civilisation that created it.
The trouble is that good ssh clients are hard to find for small platforms like the portable Psion Revo. I telnet using SKEY into a locked-down server and then SSH from there to get around the problem.
Iridium is still going.
After bankrupsy they were able to change their price structure to somthing more sane. I use mine at $1.50 a minuite - and the phones are now under $1000.
I highly recomended Iridium if you spend any time in the wilderness. With the serial calble and a old Psion Revo - I can telnet to any of my servers from anywhere and the whole package is under three pounds.
I hear a port of apt-get is in the works!!!!!
(kidding)
I don't know why somebody moded you down as flaimbait.
I appreciate your comments on my sig - I wrote in when I was in a nasty mood and I was tired of all the freeloaders in our socioty.
Our culture is nolonger holds the rugged individual as an ideal - our ideal is a gluttenous over-breadiding weflafre mom. Our ideal is a fat cat capitolist who inhereted his wealth.
It suck, but thankfully I can move on with my life and do the things that make me happy - friends, family, a hike now and then, and a glimmer of freedom if I look for it.
Cheers.
You did enable the built-in firewall before connecting your machine to the internet, didn't you?
All Windows XP computers are vulerable to Blaster during bootup.
Even if you have the Windows firewall turned on.
Windows XP doesen't ahve a firewall in place while the computer is booting - only after a full boot is the firewall policy pushed down to the network interfaces.
SP2 will include a "block everything" firewall policy during bootup, and you can have a firewall policy over all network connections - including new connections that you may install.
but for now - Put your XP behind a real network operating system like OpenBSD.
Microsoft asks Linux users, "How can we get your business?'
I told them that they should give me all my base back.
I'm making time as best I can, and I need a chance to survive.
SARS came from an unholy union between Tux and the BSD Daemon.
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The diversity in computing is gone
I know how you feel - but the fun in computing is coming BACK!!!!!
Five years ago, you had a choice: Windows98, WindowsNT or some wacky hard-to find os called Linux that you probably diden't know existed. Oh, and Mac's were ok if you were one of those "Artisits"
Now you can by $1000 Sun/Solaris Boxes
Macs are kick ass computers.
There Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD - the're all cool.
Hell, even XP isen't soooo bad for light use.
Thinkgs are gitting fun again!!
The camp was relocated. The camp still exists, but in a different location.
It's not the same camp. The're doing the best they can - but it's a shaddow of their former self.
Sure.. Paul and the owners can do what they did legally.
Just like Paul Allan got his rape accuser to shut up by settleing with her.
Just like OJ was decared innocent.
I don't fucking care. It is a free market economy
We'll I do. People like Paul are legal, but the're still assholes.
If I see him, I'll tell him.
The camp was owned by a family that was a freind of the camp - they were in the process of selling the camp property at fair market value to the camp itself.
Then Paul came in with $BIGNUM and swiped the camp.
So, yes, someone sold out for $BIGNUM.
And yes, Paul Allan is still a JERK. Fucking with a summer-camp is just being an ass.
Paul Allan bought a summer camp out from under the camp, kicked the kids off and built a multi-million dollar trophy home in it's place.
Kind of like a "Ernest Goes to Camp" without the happy ending.
more info here
It all depens on what you think of a "Fligh":
If you think flight = "Man bouncing around the air, followed by a horrable crash into the ground" then Richard William Pearse is your man.
If you think flight = "Man in a controlled flight followd by a gentle landing" than the Writes are your men.
For my next shot, I'll pick on Catholics for believing they actually eat the body of Christ and drink the blood of Christ. It's not just wine & bread once it's been consecrated. Most Catholics don't think about that, but ask a priest about it.
In the bad old days, Catholics would burn you at the stake if you though that the wafer was just a wafer and that the wine was just wine.
More info about transubstantiation
Ummmm, Apple does *not* have an 8% market share.
Depending on the survey - Apple has anywhere from 2% to 6%.
I put 8% as it's my hunch that Apple has a larger effective market share when it comes to people who play MP3 and watch movie trailers.
any plans of a Linux version of iTunes? Since Mac OS X kernel is BSD, I guess porting to Linux wouldn't be that hard.
I kind of doubt it.
They *could* do it - but probably won't for marketing reasons.
Apple makes it's money selling Apple hardware - if in their eyes they think that there are a few Linux users that will buy an Apple just to have Quicktime, iTunes, iMovie etc - then they'll just refuse.
Apple has to have a Windows version of Quicktime - othewise the movie studios woulden't bother trying to use Quicktime for Apple's 8% market share.
Apple make itunes for Windows to expose Windows users to the iPod and to the Apple "expeience" - they're hoping to get some coverts. "This iTunes is pretty cool - I really would like a whole computer that behaves this nicley, instead of all this windows crap."
There's a theory that if there's enough space-junk that you could develope a chain reaction where one peice of junk shatters another, and really quickly you end up with a bunch of miniscule but deadly debris that will make space exploration almost impossible.
Thanks India!
The system I can build with the Athlon 64 completely blows away the G5 tower.
Just the processor-fan alone in an AMD system can blow just about aything away - I use my old Athlon system as a leaf blower now and then.