Yes, you are right. Most people have no idea that there is more to the internet than web sites and email. You start talking TCP vs UDP to them and they have never heard of either of them.
Yeah, if you don't mind someone else coming along and formatting your apparently unformatted drive for you. Or a rogue boot loader (like the Windows one installing itself at the start of your filesystem.
I ran into that a few years ago when I added a 4TB hardware RAID5 to my Linux server. The partition table that is made by fdisk can't handle it. I was forced to use parted to make an EFI partition table instead. It was a little different but completely doable. Took me about 2 minutes on Google to find a howto.
What will kill DJBDNS is when PCI and other standards groups start to require DNSSEC in order to do business. Then companies will be forced to switch to a less secure DNS server just to speak a slightly more secure protocol.
Actually, flying with a checked and properly declared firearm is a great way to keep your stuff safe. You are required by federal law to use locks that the TSA can't open so you don't have to worry about them stealing stuff from your case.
Are these researchers doing anything about it? Have they handed the IP lists with timestamps over to the appropriate ISPs or corporate network administrators so that the infected systems can be dealt with? Did they even put up a page where you can check yourself or your network?
Merely counting the infected is nothing but mental masturbation. Even the lame government census has moved beyond simply counting.
Since we are talking about web logins here there is a simple solution...
Most modern web browsers support remembering passwords and typing them in for you. If you are so unconcerned about security that you want your password to be displayed on the screen for anyone to see then you may as well just let your browser type it in for you and eliminate the typo problem completely.
I love the large screen on the bigger Clie models. They are the only Palms you can run the HP48GX calculator emulator (Power48) on without it looking cramped.
I could care less about the keyboard though. I always enter things with graffiti so I wouldn't miss it if it was gone.
I would certainly be a member of the Palm cult. I still carry a Clie NX70V which IMO is the best PalmOS based PDA ever made. I have newer gadgets like a modern iPod but I like to keep my phone and my PDA independent so that draining my batteries playing music all day doesn't cut me off from communications and information. I might consider upgrading to a Pre when they come out but I don't really want to double my cell phone bill with a "data plan" either.
If only this was open source software. We could look and see what it is and what it is doing. In the closed software model you only even know it exists because it screwed up and told you.
If we are talking about an HTPC why not just make it diskless? That is how mine is setup.
You can boot from the network and keep your OS stored on a server somewhere (probably where your media is stored too). It can be in a completely different room leaving you only fan noise to worry about.
On top of the noise reduction you also save about 15-20W of power for each hard drive you aren't running as well as the reduced heat generation.
A media player shouldn't need high speed disk IO anyways. Even if it is also a recorder it only needs to keep up with realtime TV which isn't that much. A good network should handle it just fine.
You think I wanted to? It was either that or have no TV at all. The complex didn't allow dishes and it was too far away from the city to get much of a signal from inside antennas.
Also, this was back in 1999 when you couldn't just get TV from the internet.
I wish they had done this before I got an apartment. The one I had used a cable company called Optel. It was the most horrible thing I ever experienced.
They used an old (like from the early 80s) satellite dish to cable converter within the complex. The equipment was so old that all of the channels including the premium ones were mono. When I called to complain they acted like I should be thankful that I got any signal at all.
Then they disconnected me instead of my neighbor who had moved out and refused to fix it for an entire week because they only send a tech to the complex once per week no matter how many people are broken or why they are broken and of course the tech had just been there disconnecting people.
When I finally moved out they continued billing me until someone else moved in (yes, I called them and told them I was leaving). I didn't find out about it until they sent a collections agency after me.
For that fine level of service I had to pay $115/month.
I actually remembered quatloos from the Futurama episode where Fry was playing a Star Trek trivia game and refused to leave until he got the quatloos he had won.
I knew what it was from the original Star Trek but had long forgotten it until I heard it there.
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Yes, you are right. Most people have no idea that there is more to the internet than web sites and email. You start talking TCP vs UDP to them and they have never heard of either of them.
That isn't a VPN. It is just a proxy and it only works with stuff that supports SOCKS.
OpenSSH can make a VPN with ssh -w but it kinda sucks at it.
I didn't say it wasn't good I said it wasn't modular.
And OpenBSD's init system (rc) is about as non-modular as it gets.
This is about talking to Cisco not from Cisco.
Use netcat (aka nc) for that. It works just as well and you can just ^C to get out of it.
I know I am splitting hairs here but neither was a state at the time.
So, what do I add to USE or CFLAGS to be able to call myself rich using imaginary money? CFLAGS="-fmake-money"? USE="federal_reserve"?
You think we get nothing from exploring beyond our tiny little insignificant spec of space?
So, some day the children of helicopter parents will get their revenge.
Assuming some of them at some point learn how to live.
Yeah, if you don't mind someone else coming along and formatting your apparently unformatted drive for you.
Or a rogue boot loader (like the Windows one installing itself at the start of your filesystem.
I ran into that a few years ago when I added a 4TB hardware RAID5 to my Linux server. The partition table that is made by fdisk can't handle it. I was forced to use parted to make an EFI partition table instead. It was a little different but completely doable. Took me about 2 minutes on Google to find a howto.
What will kill DJBDNS is when PCI and other standards groups start to require DNSSEC in order to do business. Then companies will be forced to switch to a less secure DNS server just to speak a slightly more secure protocol.
Flare guns count too. Plus they are unregulated in every state. Their ammo is not allowed though.
This guy has some good info: http://deviating.net/firearms/packing/
Actually, flying with a checked and properly declared firearm is a great way to keep your stuff safe. You are required by federal law to use locks that the TSA can't open so you don't have to worry about them stealing stuff from your case.
Are these researchers doing anything about it? Have they handed the IP lists with timestamps over to the appropriate ISPs or corporate network administrators so that the infected systems can be dealt with? Did they even put up a page where you can check yourself or your network?
Merely counting the infected is nothing but mental masturbation. Even the lame government census has moved beyond simply counting.
Since we are talking about web logins here there is a simple solution...
Most modern web browsers support remembering passwords and typing them in for you. If you are so unconcerned about security that you want your password to be displayed on the screen for anyone to see then you may as well just let your browser type it in for you and eliminate the typo problem completely.
I love the large screen on the bigger Clie models. They are the only Palms you can run the HP48GX calculator emulator (Power48) on without it looking cramped.
I could care less about the keyboard though. I always enter things with graffiti so I wouldn't miss it if it was gone.
I would certainly be a member of the Palm cult. I still carry a Clie NX70V which IMO is the best PalmOS based PDA ever made. I have newer gadgets like a modern iPod but I like to keep my phone and my PDA independent so that draining my batteries playing music all day doesn't cut me off from communications and information. I might consider upgrading to a Pre when they come out but I don't really want to double my cell phone bill with a "data plan" either.
If only this was open source software. We could look and see what it is and what it is doing. In the closed software model you only even know it exists because it screwed up and told you.
You can sign or not sign anything. If you don't like what it says then don't sign it.
Even if it turns out to be unenforceable it would still be your burden to convince a judge of that if they decide to sue you.
If we are talking about an HTPC why not just make it diskless? That is how mine is setup.
You can boot from the network and keep your OS stored on a server somewhere (probably where your media is stored too). It can be in a completely different room leaving you only fan noise to worry about.
On top of the noise reduction you also save about 15-20W of power for each hard drive you aren't running as well as the reduced heat generation.
A media player shouldn't need high speed disk IO anyways. Even if it is also a recorder it only needs to keep up with realtime TV which isn't that much. A good network should handle it just fine.
You think I wanted to? It was either that or have no TV at all. The complex didn't allow dishes and it was too far away from the city to get much of a signal from inside antennas.
Also, this was back in 1999 when you couldn't just get TV from the internet.
I wish they had done this before I got an apartment. The one I had used a cable company called Optel. It was the most horrible thing I ever experienced.
They used an old (like from the early 80s) satellite dish to cable converter within the complex. The equipment was so old that all of the channels including the premium ones were mono. When I called to complain they acted like I should be thankful that I got any signal at all.
Then they disconnected me instead of my neighbor who had moved out and refused to fix it for an entire week because they only send a tech to the complex once per week no matter how many people are broken or why they are broken and of course the tech had just been there disconnecting people.
When I finally moved out they continued billing me until someone else moved in (yes, I called them and told them I was leaving). I didn't find out about it until they sent a collections agency after me.
For that fine level of service I had to pay $115/month.
I actually remembered quatloos from the Futurama episode where Fry was playing a Star Trek trivia game and refused to leave until he got the quatloos he had won.
I knew what it was from the original Star Trek but had long forgotten it until I heard it there.