Linux-Mandrake 7.1 which to my knowledge is/was based upon the most up to date kernel, until yesterday 2.2.15, this bug jumps out of its tomb.
This newbie is forced to learn how to update his kernel.
Linux can be so interesting:-)
Does Mandrake significantly run faster on Pentium?
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Mandrake's unique selling proposition is that it is better optimised for Intel Pentium PCs than its rivals. Does anyone have experienced this difference or is it just commercial pep talk?
Give the user a completely new account (new login, e-mail etc.) which the DDOSers would not (yet) know. And ask the concerned user to keep a low profile while the access provider puts a system in place which will prevent a similar attack in the future.
Getting rid of the targetted customer is not a solution in the long term
-imagine a gang which blackmails Internet access providers, threatening them with serially DDOSing all of their clients until all of them are kicked out and subsequently the access provider can close its doors-
. The economic reasoning of the provider, ie simply throwing out the targetted user, is as a consequence sheer nonsense.
Every access provider should sooner rather than later have a routing and load balancing system in place which can tackle a DDOS or other attack (e-mail bombing is even more obvious).
I think much more importantly Microsoft keeps its monopoly pos through its exclusive contracts with schools, colleges and universities. Except of the comp sci and engineering deps all the rest is using MS Off. Employers, even those who do not need to use the so-called advanced features of MS Off, are forced to buy and use MS "productivity" apps because their recruits do not know anything else. Most of them agree that MS Off is not at all that logical in menus and general functioning etc as WP and others were/are.
Therefore I think it is time to make a basic hyper-logic office suit, as universal as possible, which would run on Linux, be free and could form a introduction to all offices not only the MS one.
Will this wireless, optical, programmable goodie be able to work on a PC? Probably it will have a USB interface. So the only thing we need is (access to hardware specs in order to write a Linux) driver.
(start cynism here)You are forgetting Hitler, Stalin and Mao. They also had some wonderful inventions. Hitler his V missiles and the seeds of the nuke, Stalin and Mao both got nukes. Look, what a great men they were. Moved their people forward. Besides your beloved neighbour also "invented" one.(stop cyn)
Fuck off you jackass. You are the proof that undemocratic idiots like you cannot be trusted with deadly technology.
I was always wondering how such a wise guy like Gandhi fitted among you primitives. That's probably why he was shot.
Rotten Microsoft is pissing me off again. Every time I get some compassion for these self-proclaimed PC revolutionaries, they (=MS) manage to give me diarhea. Damn MS, damn Bill Gates, damn eBay. Afterwards those asses dare to complain about DDOSs.
... me off. That psuedo intellectual big money man Bronfman should say the whole truth not just what he is paid for.
Who has ripped our money for years? First they said: "Buy a CD player and you will see, after a while the standard will have settled and CD will be cheaper than vinyl."
Forget it, at least at this side of the globe -Europe- nothing has changed. Audio CDs are still as expensive as they were in the starting days.
Come on Edward, tell them the truth about how much money you are still ripping from people, how the bunch of bandits you represent were lying in our face and how your earnings have not decreased a penny, if decreased at all.
One thing Mr Edward needs to bear in mind is that even if his gang succeeds in blocking Internet piracy thereby closing down the free access to it, there is still Russia, China and others where you can get any CD for 3 $ or less. And they will just become more popular if he continues to threaten, complain etc. He would better spend his time and efforts in working out new ways of attracting us to his products whereby attracting =/ threatening.
The calculations of the RIAA are just rough estimates and assumptions. They think they would sell everything what is being copied which is a serious exaggeration. Most pirates would not buy what they are copying. Forget it. And more importantly the record industry folks mistake their estimates for quiet exact calculations. Which is another mistake. And by their negative actions -all those lawsuits against MP3 and likes- they are just causing netizens to buy less of their products. They are a classic example of how not to deal with piracy.
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This newbie is forced to learn how to update his kernel.
Linux can be so interesting :-)
deBelge
Give the user a completely new account (new login, e-mail etc.) which the DDOSers would not (yet) know. And ask the concerned user to keep a low profile while the access provider puts a system in place which will prevent a similar attack in the future.
Getting rid of the targetted customer is not a solution in the long term
. The economic reasoning of the provider, ie simply throwing out the targetted user, is as a consequence sheer nonsense.Every access provider should sooner rather than later have a routing and load balancing system in place which can tackle a DDOS or other attack (e-mail bombing is even more obvious).
deBelge
Therefore I think it is time to make a basic hyper-logic office suit, as universal as possible, which would run on Linux, be free and could form a introduction to all offices not only the MS one.
lucky desperado
Isn't there a way of having it crash into a particular office in Redmond?
dePapierBelge
Lonely Skunk ... lonely
Stinking so
(start cynism here)You are forgetting Hitler, Stalin and Mao. They also had some wonderful inventions. Hitler his V missiles and the seeds of the nuke, Stalin and Mao both got nukes. Look, what a great men they were. Moved their people forward. Besides your beloved neighbour also "invented" one.(stop cyn)
Fuck off you jackass. You are the proof that undemocratic idiots like you cannot be trusted with deadly technology.
I was always wondering how such a wise guy like Gandhi fitted among you primitives. That's probably why he was shot.
Calimero
Afterwards those asses dare to complain about DDOSs.
the Nutcracker
Who has ripped our money for years? First they said: "Buy a CD player and you will see, after a while the standard will have settled and CD will be cheaper than vinyl."
Forget it, at least at this side of the globe -Europe- nothing has changed. Audio CDs are still as expensive as they were in the starting days.
Come on Edward, tell them the truth about how much money you are still ripping from people, how the bunch of bandits you represent were lying in our face and how your earnings have not decreased a penny, if decreased at all.
One thing Mr Edward needs to bear in mind is that even if his gang succeeds in blocking Internet piracy thereby closing down the free access to it, there is still Russia, China and others where you can get any CD for 3 $ or less. And they will just become more popular if he continues to threaten, complain etc. He would better spend his time and efforts in working out new ways of attracting us to his products whereby attracting =/ threatening.
Shalom suckerz,
el Sachem
The calculations of the RIAA are just rough estimates and assumptions. They think they would sell everything what is being copied which is a serious exaggeration. Most pirates would not buy what they are copying. Forget it. And more importantly the record industry folks mistake their estimates for quiet exact calculations. Which is another mistake. And by their negative actions -all those lawsuits against MP3 and likes- they are just causing netizens to buy less of their products. They are a classic example of how not to deal with piracy.