I'll probably be modded down for a viewpoint like this, but let me break it to you uptime bigots out there:
Uptime isn't worth jack shit. It's downtime that counts. The less downtime, the better. Ever used FreeBSD? You need to keep FreeBSD up to date with cvs or cvsup. And then you make world and a new kernel, and then you reboot. Big friggin deal. I reboot my FreeBSD boxen probably once every 2 weeks during the maintenace window after a cvsup and make world/kernel session I did the night before. Suffice to say, my FreeBSD boxen never let me down. It takes about 2 minutes every 2 weeks. It pays to have an updated kernel and world on a production box (because bugs get fixed).
So uptime doesn't tell you sh*t. Uptime junkies are a pathetic breed. Also, the longer your boxes are up, the more chance you have being r00ted because some long forgotten update hasn't been applied. I personally like to firewall away boxen that have been up > 100 days.
Turning off displays? What about just logging off when you walk away from your workstation?
Locking mechanisms can be circumvented. Logging off clears your credentials off the network. Much better (unless they write their password on a post-it note on their screen of course).
I can vouch that we have tried at my office... REPEATEDLY.... to do just that. Some users just don't learn. After many attempts and incidents, they continue to open and execute every darn thing they are sent. These are usually the same people who send out all the "cute little utilities" that will run supposedly humorous animations and whatever. Sure, the next step would be some sort of administrative control/intervention, but as expected.. management (non-IT dept) is more interested in keeping people happy than in properly run systems. Our hands our tied.
That's why the LART was invented. If you can't get sense into 'em, beat it into 'em.
Yes, I actually kicked a user off the network one time because he already gotten _three_ warnings from me. And yet he still opened untrusted attachements.
*clicketyclick* no more DHCP lease, blocked by MAC address. His e-mail was directed to a temporary mailbox (so he couldn't get it from someone else's machine)
He never did it again. Good luser. After a few days I couldn't stand his whimpering and copied his mail back and reactivated his lease. Now he listened and behaved. Actually, it had a more positive effect: that story went around the office, and they now think twice before opening something they get from someone they don't know. Heck, some even switched from OutLook to something else (I've seen copies of Eudora and filled up Netscape Mail folders appearing on the workstations all of a sudden).
Sometimes you have to make it smart a little before they listen.
(as a guitar player) I think this is interesting. Especially if you can save a couple of different setups so you can get back to a sane state if you were.. erh.. experimenting. Also, per-track settings is a cool thing, I bet.
This will take a lot of hassle out of setting up your guitar-effects and amp settings. I like it. I wouldn't mind messing with it.
> You're not gonna run games on top of Linux and expect them to run well on a PS2, are you? Leave the PS2 games to the PS2 game developers.
And why the hell not? If you can make a bootable CD that just boots linux on the PS2 (maybe disguised through a boot screen, easily possible through the framebuffer stuff) and starts a very cool game, what's wrong with that? We have enough toolkits (SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL et al), so why the hell not? I know this was the subject of a slashdot frontpage post once (can't remember when that was, it was a while back though)
Oh, about the word processor, one could port OpenOffice to the PS2/Linux setup and we wouldn't need Sony to make a deal with the evil AOL. X already runs on it. Or what about KDE? KOffice is also very decent (I do most of my worprocessing with KWord. I've had a few niggles, but nothing that really irks me). We have a lot of things ready to go for this.
Well... The really cool thing is if people write very cool games using this. Linux is absolutely a cool development platform. I wonder when people will start writing games using the Linux kit.
And linux will gain some cool games too if professional companies write games using this and decide to port it to linux as well (heck, it's only a recompile away)
Another contender are the scener groups that make demos. Imagine watching demo's on your PS/2, wouldn't that be cool?
Yes, sort of. The link is in my/. sig, I sometimes post it into forums. I get referenced from other sites as well, and people stumble in from various search engines. It gets visitors, only not everyone submits content.
> How do you diffrentiate from other hacker/security sites?
I'm not focussing on the latest vulnerability or the latest version of application foo, but rather things that a hacker/developer might find cool or handy (or irritating) and things that constitute as good hacks. I want to step away from the elitist image some hackers bestow on themselves, and show that us hackers appreciate a good clean hack now and then. I don't want to become yet-another-exploit-archive.
> Who is your target audience?
Well, I target Hackers. Not the elitist "I 0wn J00" type, but the kind that likes to mess with stuff, wanting to know what makes it tick.
> Do you actualy want to?
Sure... It's a learning experience for me. Communities are cool. I guess I am somewhat inexperienced at creating them. Hackerheaven is my latest (and first) attempt. Help is of course welcome.
> Most sites set out as a learning experience (hmm parallel with Open source projects) and for the most part aren't intended to be mush else.
Indeed. This is indeed a learning experience, and I am learning it the not so easy way. Content and loyal users are pretty hard to come by, although I have a few visitors that come back regularly and that also post/submit stuff on a regular basis. I appreciate that a lot of course.
Of course I have no idea where hackerheaven will go in the future. It will be an interesting thing to find out.
The reason they work is the low threshold in submitting a vote. And the feedback is instant. Very enjoyable for a first-time visitor. They fluff a little bit, but they work, just like fora(sp?)
Slashdot-style polls work. My site doesn't get much content from the users, but if I put up a poll, people vote. They can't resist. They instantly click on the poll option that they like the most (or think is the funniest). Heck, sometimes they incite a comment.
Another thing is that you'd just be "just another pr0n site". They are all the same, and also all boring.
I have yet to see a pornography site that is actually doing something that will turn my head around. (With that I mean that they are really doing something cool with pornography, not just the tacky "SEE TEEN SLUTS BOBBING FOR CUCUMBER" type of yelling shouting and awful BLINK tag hell, oh, and the popups, and the tacky resize-your-browser-fullscreen-and-bind-all-mouse- events-so-that-the-unsuspecting-onlooker-is-stuck- there kinda antics)
Usually porn sites just piss me off. I'm not alone.
I run hackerheaven.org and I am also suffering from lack of content. As things move slow, the site isn't updated for a long time. This will ultimately kill it of course. I also know that things like these start slow. I guess I'll have to tough it out. In the end it comes down to how much patience you got...
But it's also way different than my anti-spam strategy. Basically, what I do is I just junk everything that comes from AOL, Hotmail, MSN,Yahoo and a whole bunch of other free mail providers, and have a list of people that use these services that _can_ mail me. Cuts down spam a lot for me. I know it is quite rigourous, but hey, it works for me.
But I'm going to give this a shot too. This sounds seriously cool.
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So, unless your last name is Orga, or own a company that's called that way, you're not gonna get it from them.
Dunno about sex sites though: "So what do you sell?", "Well, we provide people with orga's, don't know what they are?":-)
Well... are you suggesting Malda switches over to something like this? No. Although I question the truthfulness of this story as well, Slashdot should not become a scoop site. Signal11 would have a fit, and Rusty and Inoshiro would split their sides laughing:-)
Although being able to rate an article would be nice, if you ask me.
But there's always the option of filtering JKatz stories of course, you know the drill.
*crawls back under the rock I came from* (duh, I knew about that... *slaps forehead*)
But still, my point is kind of valid. I see lots of people moaning. If there is a GNU/OSS equivalent going to be out there, what are people going to be worried about? As we all know, nothing can out-feature open source... (and I don't mean that negatively)
I for one am still a little skeptic, but more along the lines of the old: "Oh, god, not another language".
the open-source initiative builds a C# workalike? If the language spec is known, and motivation is there, a C# for less restrictive environments (as in non-win32) is bound to pop up.
It doesn't have to be based on Microsoft's code, you know. IANACW (compiler writer), but I think that sort of thing can be done. It's only a language. Look at python, or better yet, Jython (or whatever it's called nowadays). A Python byte compiler that creates java bytecode. Surely that can also be done with C#, I think
Or even better (and probably harder to do) would be a C# compiler that creates machine code.
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Uptime isn't worth jack shit. It's downtime that counts. The less downtime, the better. Ever used FreeBSD? You need to keep FreeBSD up to date with cvs or cvsup. And then you make world and a new kernel, and then you reboot. Big friggin deal. I reboot my FreeBSD boxen probably once every 2 weeks during the maintenace window after a cvsup and make world/kernel session I did the night before. Suffice to say, my FreeBSD boxen never let me down. It takes about 2 minutes every 2 weeks. It pays to have an updated kernel and world on a production box (because bugs get fixed).
So uptime doesn't tell you sh*t. Uptime junkies are a pathetic breed. Also, the longer your boxes are up, the more chance you have being r00ted because some long forgotten update hasn't been applied. I personally like to firewall away boxen that have been up > 100 days.
Locking mechanisms can be circumvented. Logging off clears your credentials off the network. Much better (unless they write their password on a post-it note on their screen of course).
That's why the LART was invented. If you can't get sense into 'em, beat it into 'em.
Yes, I actually kicked a user off the network one time because he already gotten _three_ warnings from me. And yet he still opened untrusted attachements.
*clicketyclick* no more DHCP lease, blocked by MAC address. His e-mail was directed to a temporary mailbox (so he couldn't get it from someone else's machine)
He never did it again. Good luser. After a few days I couldn't stand his whimpering and copied his mail back and reactivated his lease. Now he listened and behaved. Actually, it had a more positive effect: that story went around the office, and they now think twice before opening something they get from someone they don't know. Heck, some even switched from OutLook to something else (I've seen copies of Eudora and filled up Netscape Mail folders appearing on the workstations all of a sudden).
Sometimes you have to make it smart a little before they listen.
What boggles me is why they (the slashcode writers) don't have errors with their SQL syntax all the time if they do that consistently.
Just a thought... Yeah offtopic. There goes my karma...
Who's "harry"?
(IOW mod that up...)
*sigh*
This will take a lot of hassle out of setting up your guitar-effects and amp settings. I like it. I wouldn't mind messing with it.
The performance will come eventually. Maybe it's slow now, but of course it will _get better_. Why are you looking at today? I'm looking at tomorrow.
Oh, yeah well, slashdot likes to eat HTML tags :-)
And why the hell not? If you can make a bootable CD that just boots linux on the PS2 (maybe disguised through a boot screen, easily possible through the framebuffer stuff) and starts a very cool game, what's wrong with that? We have enough toolkits (SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL et al), so why the hell not? I know this was the subject of a slashdot frontpage post once (can't remember when that was, it was a while back though)
Oh, about the word processor, one could port OpenOffice to the PS2/Linux setup and we wouldn't need Sony to make a deal with the evil AOL. X already runs on it. Or what about KDE? KOffice is also very decent (I do most of my worprocessing with KWord. I've had a few niggles, but nothing that really irks me). We have a lot of things ready to go for this.
And linux will gain some cool games too if professional companies write games using this and decide to port it to linux as well (heck, it's only a recompile away)
Another contender are the scener groups that make demos. Imagine watching demo's on your PS/2, wouldn't that be cool?
Yes, sort of. The link is in my /. sig, I sometimes post it into forums. I get referenced from other sites as well, and people stumble in from various search engines. It gets visitors, only not everyone submits content.
> How do you diffrentiate from other hacker/security sites?
I'm not focussing on the latest vulnerability or the latest version of application foo, but rather things that a hacker/developer might find cool or handy (or irritating) and things that constitute as good hacks. I want to step away from the elitist image some hackers bestow on themselves, and show that us hackers appreciate a good clean hack now and then. I don't want to become yet-another-exploit-archive.
> Who is your target audience?
Well, I target Hackers. Not the elitist "I 0wn J00" type, but the kind that likes to mess with stuff, wanting to know what makes it tick.
> Do you actualy want to?
Sure... It's a learning experience for me. Communities are cool. I guess I am somewhat inexperienced at creating them. Hackerheaven is my latest (and first) attempt. Help is of course welcome.
> Most sites set out as a learning experience (hmm parallel with Open source projects) and for the most part aren't intended to be mush else.
Indeed. This is indeed a learning experience, and I am learning it the not so easy way. Content and loyal users are pretty hard to come by, although I have a few visitors that come back regularly and that also post/submit stuff on a regular basis. I appreciate that a lot of course.
Of course I have no idea where hackerheaven will go in the future. It will be an interesting thing to find out.
No worse, you'd have to dig bak seven years to remember your password :-)
The reason they work is the low threshold in submitting a vote. And the feedback is instant. Very enjoyable for a first-time visitor. They fluff a little bit, but they work, just like fora(sp?)
Slashdot-style polls work. My site doesn't get much content from the users, but if I put up a poll, people vote. They can't resist. They instantly click on the poll option that they like the most (or think is the funniest). Heck, sometimes they incite a comment.
Another thing is that you'd just be "just another pr0n site". They are all the same, and also all boring.
I have yet to see a pornography site that is actually doing something that will turn my head around. (With that I mean that they are really doing something cool with pornography, not just the tacky "SEE TEEN SLUTS BOBBING FOR CUCUMBER" type of yelling shouting and awful BLINK tag hell, oh, and the popups, and the tacky resize-your-browser-fullscreen-and-bind-all-mouse- events-so-that-the-unsuspecting-onlooker-is-stuck- there kinda antics)
Usually porn sites just piss me off. I'm not alone.
No thanks, I'm not _that_ desperate :)
Yup, that works somewhat. When I check my referer logs I see lots of visitors coming from here. A little self promotion hurts nobody. :-)
I run hackerheaven.org and I am also suffering from lack of content. As things move slow, the site isn't updated for a long time. This will ultimately kill it of course. I also know that things like these start slow. I guess I'll have to tough it out. In the end it comes down to how much patience you got...
But I'm going to give this a shot too. This sounds seriously cool.
I doubt you will get it from them.
:-)
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So, unless your last name is Orga, or own a company that's called that way, you're not gonna get it from them.
Dunno about sex sites though: "So what do you sell?", "Well, we provide people with orga's, don't know what they are?"
Gives a whole new meaning to the word 'bit-rot', doesn't it?
Although being able to rate an article would be nice, if you ask me.
But there's always the option of filtering JKatz stories of course, you know the drill.
But still, my point is kind of valid. I see lots of people moaning. If there is a GNU/OSS equivalent going to be out there, what are people going to be worried about? As we all know, nothing can out-feature open source... (and I don't mean that negatively)
I for one am still a little skeptic, but more along the lines of the old: "Oh, god, not another language".
It doesn't have to be based on Microsoft's code, you know. IANACW (compiler writer), but I think that sort of thing can be done. It's only a language. Look at python, or better yet, Jython (or whatever it's called nowadays). A Python byte compiler that creates java bytecode. Surely that can also be done with C#, I think
Or even better (and probably harder to do) would be a C# compiler that creates machine code.
Is this a good idea or is it just dead wrong?