Not that it matters now, but even when doubleclick wasn't DDOSed they caused craptastically slow browsing. Their whole infrastrcuture is crap. I hope they fix all of that now. Note that I don't like what they do (obtrusive irritating privacy-debilitating advertising methods), but they sure have a right to exist.
I block them because they make my browsing slow anyway, and I almost go into slight seizures from viewing their ads.
If you don't approve of them, don't use their ad service. Go for google adwords instead. At least the people at Google know how to set up the infrastucture in such a way that it doesn't affect anything at all.
You said it bub. I for one grow tired of every cpu revision intel does because they shange the sockets everytime. p1->p2: new socket. p2->p3: well, there was a slot-1 p3, but again, there was a new socket. p3-p4: new socket. And almost every upgrade across cpu revisions requires the purchase of a new mainboard. Grah.
Glad to see that Intel is finally waking up and smelling the coffee.
I've done it quite a few times. The first few times it's scary, but it becomes second nature quick. Although I have to admin that fdisk(8) is scary, disklabel(8) however, is very friendly (IMHO) because you can use slice letter, wildcards and Human Friendly Sizes(tm) as offsets and sizes. At least on DFBSD and FreeBSD I can. I doubt OpenBSD's disklabel(8) is much different.
...because if you do, you will become one. I wander about with my laptop bag all the time. I'm fairly big, and I don't look and act like someone you could easily mug without ending up with some permanent damage.
The key is attitude. Don't flash your shit, and don't act like you are carrying something of big value. Darkening your typical white ipod headphones is a good move. You move attention away from yourself, and as long as you keep not attracting attention, you should be relatively safe.
Hey! I _own_ domainwitheld.com. Thanks for the spam already... Geez...
Use example.com next time allright? That one is reserved by IANA for crap like that. If you want to use an example domain, use example.com, don't make up your own.
(I don't really own domainwitheld.com, but I was just trying to prove a point here).
Q "What do you run for anti-virus?"
A "Nothing. Linux isn't as succeptible to viruses"
(disclaimer, I'm a freebsd/dfbsd guy, and I dislike stuff from MS as much as the next slashdotter)
I have to say that statement is false. *nix _is_ susceptable for viruses, it's just a lousy target to write viruses for, so that's why we don't see 'em. The point of the author of the article is that MS has virus/worm distribution so easy it's almost criminal.
As for my solution, I usually advise people to buy a cheap low-end P1 at some computer dump, slap in two NIC's and put smoothwall or (if they pay me for it) openbsd + pf on there with NAT and firewalled up the hilt. Takes care of all the messenger spam and worm attack problems, and it's a workable solution. If they need a new computer alltogether, I usually advise them to go for a macintosh and to steer clear of the windows deathtrap.
As for the spyware, well, educating them does help, and aquainting them with adaware and/or spybot search & destroy does help somewhat. Of course you can advocate your favourite open source OS, but why do people mostly decline? The apps. People fear change.
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Get a floppy drive.
The nature of a job is doing what your boss hired you to do. Very important distinction.
I block them because they make my browsing slow anyway, and I almost go into slight seizures from viewing their ads.
If you don't approve of them, don't use their ad service. Go for google adwords instead. At least the people at Google know how to set up the infrastucture in such a way that it doesn't affect anything at all.
Glad to see that Intel is finally waking up and smelling the coffee.
not me reading slashdot, but my wife, after sex. Oh wait...
I've done it quite a few times. The first few times it's scary, but it becomes second nature quick. Although I have to admin that fdisk(8) is scary, disklabel(8) however, is very friendly (IMHO) because you can use slice letter, wildcards and Human Friendly Sizes(tm) as offsets and sizes. At least on DFBSD and FreeBSD I can. I doubt OpenBSD's disklabel(8) is much different.
You are forgetting:
Sandia: Would you like fries with that?
But they'd have to fix the mp3 support... I know, it's easily fixable, but it's so terribly _annoying_
I fail to see how this is a bad thing...
Hey, it worked for Linus :)
so, when are you going to put a real website there? :)
Oh well, at least that little list is updated until dragonflybsd.org website gets another update...
MD5sum: MD5 (dfly-1.0RC1.iso.gz) = 663bc0ce4c077c4eeb38792e846210ea
And yes, the Makefile-based ports from BSD are a lot better, but it's showing it's age. Luckily there's DragonFly to breathe new life into it.
Mind you, that there are two publicly know Alan Cox'es, one in the Linux camp, and one in the FreeBSD/DragonFlyBSD camp...
Penis enlargements
with some herbal viagra
I get lots of these
The key is attitude. Don't flash your shit, and don't act like you are carrying something of big value. Darkening your typical white ipod headphones is a good move. You move attention away from yourself, and as long as you keep not attracting attention, you should be relatively safe.
Use example.com next time allright? That one is reserved by IANA for crap like that. If you want to use an example domain, use example.com, don't make up your own.
(I don't really own domainwitheld.com, but I was just trying to prove a point here).
If the chinese took better care in cloing their open relays and proxies, that whole issue wouldn't be a problem.
A "Nothing. Linux isn't as succeptible to viruses"
(disclaimer, I'm a freebsd/dfbsd guy, and I dislike stuff from MS as much as the next slashdotter)
I have to say that statement is false. *nix _is_ susceptable for viruses, it's just a lousy target to write viruses for, so that's why we don't see 'em. The point of the author of the article is that MS has virus/worm distribution so easy it's almost criminal.
As for my solution, I usually advise people to buy a cheap low-end P1 at some computer dump, slap in two NIC's and put smoothwall or (if they pay me for it) openbsd + pf on there with NAT and firewalled up the hilt. Takes care of all the messenger spam and worm attack problems, and it's a workable solution. If they need a new computer alltogether, I usually advise them to go for a macintosh and to steer clear of the windows deathtrap.
As for the spyware, well, educating them does help, and aquainting them with adaware and/or spybot search & destroy does help somewhat. Of course you can advocate your favourite open source OS, but why do people mostly decline? The apps. People fear change.
(just kidding, although hugging a tesla coil while earthing yourself would do the job just nicely)
Mac fanatics are pussies. You haven't met a real fanatic until you've debated with an Amiga fanatic.
Yeah, he should have named it "YATTA".