Bah. Back around the turn of the century I constructed the most hack-proof OS install ever. My FreeBSD-running-Squid solution mounted the entire OS off of a CD-ROM, created a 2MB RAM disk, mounted it as/etc and copied the entire/etc directory from floppy disk. After booting, it unmounted the floppy disk and I called the NOC to eject it, creating a 1cm air gap between the read-write heads of the floppy drive to the floppy disk contents. The collocation space and bandwidth were free and the floppies and CD-Rs cost $.10 each. If I ever suspected rootkits I would just shut the machine down as I had half a dozen of these 1U servers, at $100 each off eBay! Take that cloud computing and McAfee ROMs!
Heh. That reminds me of the time I was driving 115 mph on the Tri-state (Chicago) tollway drifting from the hammer lane to the right lane (five separate lanes), *while* noticing the Illinois state trooper sitting in the middle of the road speed trapping.
I didn't even hit the brakes -- what was the point? Amazingly, he didn't budge.
And somehow every speeding ticket I've ever gotten was for 74 or below.
I just keep the keycode to our server room door pinned in the business side of my skivvies. Believe me, *nobody* wants to confront that security challenge.
The frickin' MAYOR is coming to your office. Not of Paducah, KY, but of New York City. He probably hasn't been there for three years. Don't you think you'd better make yourself a little more presentable?
I recall a story I heard from someone years back, when MS spoke at a conference of UNIX geeks. A man stood up and criticized MS's POSIX subsystem for Windows NT 4.0, stating that a feature in Korn shell wasn't compatible with true Korn shell. The conversation went something like this:
UNIX geek: Feature X in your korn shell implementation isn't true to the korn shell spec. Wnen do you plan to fix that?
MS guy: We're certain it's copmatible with the standard. Are you sure you don't have it wrong?
UNIX geek: Yes, I'm sure. It's broken.
MS guy: And who are you?
UNIX geek: I'm David Korn.
May or may not be true, but it was an amusing story, nonetheless.
After a trip to Ireland, where everything under two euros was a coin, I came back to the states with a pocket full of "junk change" -- after all, real money is in bills, right?
Ended up being over $100.00 I was carrying around.
"or having to beat my Linux box into submission to make it do what I want."
A-fucking-men.
I've been beating on Linux for the same reasons for nine years now and while I understand everything that's going on, I no longer care!
I've had to run a *specific* version of SANE (no upgrades!) to get my scanner to work, or compile XFree86 out of CVS just to get my 3D accelerator to work. Oops -- I didn't wait until *five* years after everyone else could enjoy quick graphics, I only waited three.
What about that wireless card? Or when the Linux team decided to take dbecker's stable eepro100 driver out of the kernel tree and replace it with crap?
I'll be buying my Mac mini this year for that exact reason -- long gone are the days that I feel like tweaking just so I can pop up a coherent terminal.
"As expected, the lawyers are coming out. Seems like a good idea, though. This capability might actually entice me to get an XM radio."
Why would you ever want to do that? The problem with FM radio today is that there's pretty much three companies controlling it -- Emmis, Clearchannel and Disney.
NATIONWIDE.
Why would you want to pay (and agree to a license?!) for "fixed radio", which has the same problem that all channels are run by the SAME company?
There ought to be a law prohibiting installation of DVD players in vehicles, PERIOD. Jesus, since when does anyone have time to pull over and watch a movie?
If your kids won't behave then try corporal punishment, not addiction.
I once worked for ServPro, which does fire and water damage restoration. One of our clients had a small fire in his kitchen and the insurance company picked up the tab for the whole house, so we had to clean everything, including his porno collection.
Magazines one, two, three...twenty-five were amusing. "Hey Pete, here's your mom!" After magazines 5,990, 5,991, 5,992.. 6,000 I never wanted to see two people screwing again.
When the shit hits the fan and some geek-led flame wars boils over and destroys the USA, Kevin Costner is supposed to save us all by carrying aluminum siding advertisements to the three people left in the country, and everyone will buy the aluminum siding and save the economy and start a new economy under Prime Minister Chrysler. What do you mean the Post Office isn't a government organization? It's the only one left!
Ads with sound. Hrm. Being a Bastard Operator from Hell, I'll surely take pleasure in extracting an explanation from some poor schmuck whose computer is locked in one of those pr0n-popup frenzies, especially now that Jenna Jameson will be making some kind of animal sounds...
Eventually I bit my lip and borrowed a windows box - went thru voicemail hell, then had to be handheld through "are you sure you typed in you IP
address correctly"
Simple solution: lie. Any linux geek here has probably been in and out of the Windows control panel enough times to lie effectively.
And then when you do lie, and you do eventually get through to a 2nd-tier tech, immediately tell the truth. Those people understand the terms "ICMP", "DHCP" and "MAC Address".
How is it that Excite @Home can go out of business when they essentially have a CORNERED MARKET?
They pay mentally challenged Canadians $7.00 an hour (that's about $0.35 in American money) to answer the phone and follow a script. If the script doesn't work (you answer a question out of order, you answer a question twice, you keep saying "bananas", etc.) then they schedule an American flunkie at $9.50 an hour (that's about $47,620.03 Canadian) to roll a truck to your house.
Because of the 2,000 mile (3,774,523 kilometre) geographical separation, however, you'll certainly have to be home between the hours of 1:00 AM and 11:00 PM more than once.
Not training their technicians on Windows XP before its release date doesn't surprise me at all. If the broadband providers were business savvy at all they'd hire phone techs competent enough to reduce company vehicle utilization in the first place.
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Bah. Back around the turn of the century I constructed the most hack-proof OS install ever. My FreeBSD-running-Squid solution mounted the entire OS off of a CD-ROM, created a 2MB RAM disk, mounted it as /etc and copied the entire /etc directory from floppy disk. After booting, it unmounted the floppy disk and I called the NOC to eject it, creating a 1cm air gap between the read-write heads of the floppy drive to the floppy disk contents. The collocation space and bandwidth were free and the floppies and CD-Rs cost $.10 each. If I ever suspected rootkits I would just shut the machine down as I had half a dozen of these 1U servers, at $100 each off eBay! Take that cloud computing and McAfee ROMs!
Heh. That reminds me of the time I was driving 115 mph on the Tri-state (Chicago) tollway drifting from the hammer lane to the right lane (five separate lanes), *while* noticing the Illinois state trooper sitting in the middle of the road speed trapping.
I didn't even hit the brakes -- what was the point? Amazingly, he didn't budge.
And somehow every speeding ticket I've ever gotten was for 74 or below.
RFID, SHMAR FID.
I just keep the keycode to our server room door pinned in the business side of my skivvies. Believe me, *nobody* wants to confront that security challenge.
Oh come on.
The frickin' MAYOR is coming to your office. Not of Paducah, KY, but of New York City. He probably hasn't been there for three years. Don't you think you'd better make yourself a little more presentable?
I recall a story I heard from someone years back, when MS spoke at a conference of UNIX geeks. A man stood up and criticized MS's POSIX subsystem for Windows NT 4.0, stating that a feature in Korn shell wasn't compatible with true Korn shell. The conversation went something like this:
UNIX geek: Feature X in your korn shell implementation isn't true to the korn shell spec. Wnen do you plan to fix that?
MS guy: We're certain it's copmatible with the standard. Are you sure you don't have it wrong?
UNIX geek: Yes, I'm sure. It's broken.
MS guy: And who are you?
UNIX geek: I'm David Korn.
May or may not be true, but it was an amusing story, nonetheless.
Actually, that would be 1994.
"WMD" is the keyword that can be applied to anybody (if you read the draft, that includes states and non-states alike)
Ah, fuck it. I say we just nuke Michael Moore.
After a trip to Ireland, where everything under two euros was a coin, I came back to the states with a pocket full of "junk change" -- after all, real money is in bills, right?
Ended up being over $100.00 I was carrying around.
I guess the confusion goes both ways.
How can this be modded "Informative"? It's purely opinion.
"or having to beat my Linux box into submission to make it do what I want."
A-fucking-men.
I've been beating on Linux for the same reasons for nine years now and while I understand everything that's going on, I no longer care!
I've had to run a *specific* version of SANE (no upgrades!) to get my scanner to work, or compile XFree86 out of CVS just to get my 3D accelerator to work. Oops -- I didn't wait until *five* years after everyone else could enjoy quick graphics, I only waited three.
What about that wireless card? Or when the Linux team decided to take dbecker's stable eepro100 driver out of the kernel tree and replace it with crap?
I'll be buying my Mac mini this year for that exact reason -- long gone are the days that I feel like tweaking just so I can pop up a coherent terminal.
I was thinking "Position Independent Code".
It's Laporte, Indiana. Not Laporte, Michigan.
The News Dispatch is a Michigan City newspaper. Michigan City is in Indiana, 7 miles from the Michigan border.
Lots of people get that wrong.
"As expected, the lawyers are coming out. Seems like a good idea, though. This capability might actually entice me to get an XM radio."
Why would you ever want to do that? The problem with FM radio today is that there's pretty much three companies controlling it -- Emmis, Clearchannel and Disney.
NATIONWIDE.
Why would you want to pay (and agree to a license?!) for "fixed radio", which has the same problem that all channels are run by the SAME company?
I'm fairly certain that even looking up massage girls in bikinis on google would violate hostile workplace/sexual harrassment laws. Bummer.
Try using kickstart -- I had Fedora core 2 customized for our environment, including our own RPMS in a day using PXE and kickstart.
There ought to be a law prohibiting installation of DVD players in vehicles, PERIOD. Jesus, since when does anyone have time to pull over and watch a movie?
If your kids won't behave then try corporal punishment, not addiction.
I once worked for ServPro, which does fire and water damage restoration. One of our clients had a small fire in his kitchen and the insurance company picked up the tab for the whole house, so we had to clean everything, including his porno collection.
.. 6,000 I never wanted to see two people screwing again.
Magazines one, two, three...twenty-five were amusing. "Hey Pete, here's your mom!" After magazines 5,990, 5,991, 5,992
Thank god that wore off.
What do you mean, insert a disc? It's supposed to *automagically mount*!
I've had two hard discs die on me *today*. Hard drives are definitely *not* the way to back up data if you'd like to keep it.
Haven't you seen "The Postman?"
When the shit hits the fan and some geek-led flame wars boils over and destroys the USA, Kevin Costner is supposed to save us all by carrying aluminum siding advertisements to the three people left in the country, and everyone will buy the aluminum siding and save the economy and start a new economy under Prime Minister Chrysler. What do you mean the Post Office isn't a government organization? It's the only one left!
Ads with sound. Hrm. Being a Bastard Operator from Hell, I'll surely take pleasure in extracting an explanation from some poor schmuck whose computer is locked in one of those pr0n-popup frenzies, especially now that Jenna Jameson will be making some kind of animal sounds...
Yeah, we pay shipping "insurance", and just to years back I can remember when UPS lost this lawsuit.
Eventually I bit my lip and borrowed a windows box - went thru voicemail hell, then had to be handheld through "are you sure you typed in you IP
address correctly"
Simple solution: lie. Any linux geek here has probably been in and out of the Windows control panel enough times to lie effectively.
And then when you do lie, and you do eventually get through to a 2nd-tier tech, immediately tell the truth. Those people understand the terms "ICMP", "DHCP" and "MAC Address".
How is it that Excite @Home can go out of business when they essentially have a CORNERED MARKET?
They pay mentally challenged Canadians $7.00 an hour (that's about $0.35 in American money) to answer the phone and follow a script. If the script doesn't work (you answer a question out of order, you answer a question twice, you keep saying "bananas", etc.) then they schedule an American flunkie at $9.50 an hour (that's about $47,620.03 Canadian) to roll a truck to your house.
Because of the 2,000 mile (3,774,523 kilometre) geographical separation, however, you'll certainly have to be home between the hours of 1:00 AM and 11:00 PM more than once.
Not training their technicians on Windows XP before its release date doesn't surprise me at all. If the broadband providers were business savvy at all they'd hire phone techs competent enough to reduce company vehicle utilization in the first place.
Charter Communications fucking BLOWS and SUCKS.
Depends on the polarity, right -- Just flip the switch?
Wasn't it just reported that an unmanned spy plane went missing over Iraq on monday?