On FreeBSD server: es, vim, cvsup, portupgrade, curl, lynx-ssl, tcl, nmap, cmatrix, apache/dbmail/postgres/neowebscript/bind/setiathom e depending on what it's for...
On Windows: Putty, Opera, er... er... er... and that's it. I then reboot into FreeBSD. Occasionally I'll boot back in, install the latest security updates, and boot out again. But that's about it. Oh wait! On my laptop I had to install some partioning software to convert some of the NTFS to FAT32. Oh, and acroread, I think.
Neither of which are without their flaws. IIRC maradns isn't even under active developement anymore, and powerdns had a number of bugs which were filed under "strange".
FYI, while BIND comes with FreeBSD, I actually use the ports version of it over the built-in one. I could use something else, I choose not to.
I continue to use BIND because I don't like DJB's licence.
An immature DBM attracted an immature userbase
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Why MySQL Grew So Fast
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Not trying to flame... talking about maturity of experience...
Lots of people didn't care. They just wanted to stick dynamic content on their pages.
Most of them didn't care about things like transactions. They either never heard of them in the first place, or figured they didn't need them.
Most of them didn't care about portability.
A few of them found that MySQL was fast when you don't care about these things, and that it was easier to install. The told others, and it became 'cool'...
I'm not knocking the above, most of them were probably self taught, and have learned a lot since. The MySQL userbase seems to have matured a lot, and as MySQL becomes more like a 'real' DBM, it's users are becoming more like 'real' SQL admins.
The only real competition at the time was postgres, and it was slower, and possibly more difficult to install. Those of us like me who cared about things like transactions took the extra time to make it work, because we wanted what MySQL didn't offer.
That's how I tend to debug code too. I think it happens if you have a problem halfway through a piece of code, but you only 'back-think' a few steps. When you start to explain it to a colleague, your brain is forced to go back to step one. There's been a number of times I've gone over to a colleague and just said, "Hi, uh, oh, never mind, thanks", and then walked away again.
In Ireland, there are plans to introduce E-Voting for elections this June. In a recent debate, one Senator whom I did not recognise roughly said, "Once the voter pushes the 'Confirm' button, the machines beeps. The voter can be sure that his vote has been counted when he hears the machine has beeped."
It shows how little the layman knows, and further shows the trust people have when a computer operates as expected.
Although, I do not believe people have trust in computers per se. In order to trust something, one usually requires a certain level of understanding. As such, I think people are unwilling to display a lack of trust without any obvious cause, especially when one's peers do appear to trust it.
How *anybody* can be modded insightful for explicitly not Reading The Fucking Article is beyond me.
I have to question the studies Really? You *really* want to question the studies? Then Read The Fucking Article.
How did they come up with this 99.84% figure? Read The Fucking Article.
Were the spam messages the same? Read The Fucking Article.
Scepticism is a useful tool when analysing information, but it should never be taken to the extreme that it prevents you from even accessing the information in the first place.
The irony here is that in taking a swipe at pop journalism, you engage is pop criticism.
Additionally, TVI charges that Microsoft patent 6,366,966, entitled "method and system for automatically running a program" interferes with the TVI patents as it covers a TVI invention.
Funny, that patent was filed on December 13, 1994. The earliest of the TVI patents was filed on May 11, 1995. Now maybe their "invention" was developed prior to MS's patent application.
I just find it funny that, on one hand, they'll be trying to use their products as prior art, while at the same time hoping nobody else's products are used against them...
[T]he drawback of sending multiple identical probes [is] if one is intrinsically fucked, they all are.
That depends. If, for example an exception is raised when the robotic arm is rotated 247 degrees while tilted 24 degrees, then they can make sure not to tell Opportunity to do it until they have a fix.
It's called redundancy. ESA were originally planning to send two other landers with Mars Express, I bet there's people in there now regretting that decision.
More like an eighth of the mission. There's still plenty to do. It's a shame Beagle appears to have failed, because Pilinger's playing of the media focused the public's view of the mission solely on Beagle.
I do hate the way the JPL mission and the Mars Express missions have been compared in the media (or rather haven't been). They are really very different missions. NASA spent their $820m getting two rovers to Mars. ESA spent 300m. getting an orbiter to Mars, and sending a 35m lander to the surface.
Still, worst comes to the worst, the Mars success rate has been about 1 in 3, so Opportunity must be secretly rubbing it's robotic claws in glee.
But for now, we'll hope Spirit stays alive. And for the optimists out there, next attempt to contact Beagle is Sunday.
Apparently the string 'beagle' is scattered throughout the code. Taking this as an indicator that the author(s) wanted it to be called the Beagle virus, it was labelled 'bagel', just to annoy the author.
I guess others just went ahead and called it beagle, hence the discrepancy.
I noticed the surge last week, and set Sylpheed, my email client, to automatically forward any spam with those headers to reports AT habeas DOT com.
SpamAssassin dumps the spam it catches into a single folder, and Sylpheed lets you add processing rules for that folder, so they get forwarded on automatically.
I figure if they do track down the offenders, each extra instance will give them more of a punch in court.
There's nothing to stop you filtering based on the header's existence. IP addresses on the whitelist consist only of businesses who have purchased a licence from Habeas. As such, they are almost certainly authentic, and if not, will be easy for Habeas to track down and prosecure.
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On FreeBSD desktop:
m e depending on what it's for...
es, vim, cvsup, portupgrade, kde, xfce, wdm, eterm, opera, sylpheed-claws, setiathome
On FreeBSD server:
es, vim, cvsup, portupgrade, curl, lynx-ssl, tcl, nmap, cmatrix, apache/dbmail/postgres/neowebscript/bind/setiatho
On Windows: Putty, Opera, er... er... er... and that's it.
I then reboot into FreeBSD. Occasionally I'll boot back in, install the latest security updates, and boot out again. But that's about it.
Oh wait! On my laptop I had to install some partioning software to convert some of the NTFS to FAT32. Oh, and acroread, I think.
Distribute it to clients as part of a custom distro.
Neither of which are without their flaws.
IIRC maradns isn't even under active developement anymore, and powerdns had a number of bugs which were filed under "strange".
FYI, while BIND comes with FreeBSD, I actually use the ports version of it over the built-in one. I could use something else, I choose not to.
It's not clear why people continue to use BIND.
I continue to use BIND because I don't like DJB's licence.
Not trying to flame... talking about maturity of experience...
Lots of people didn't care. They just wanted to stick dynamic content on their pages.
Most of them didn't care about things like transactions. They either never heard of them in the first place, or figured they didn't need them.
Most of them didn't care about portability.
A few of them found that MySQL was fast when you don't care about these things, and that it was easier to install. The told others, and it became 'cool'...
I'm not knocking the above, most of them were probably self taught, and have learned a lot since. The MySQL userbase seems to have matured a lot, and as MySQL becomes more like a 'real' DBM, it's users are becoming more like 'real' SQL admins.
The only real competition at the time was postgres, and it was slower, and possibly more difficult to install. Those of us like me who cared about things like transactions took the extra time to make it work, because we wanted what MySQL didn't offer.
That's how I tend to debug code too.
I think it happens if you have a problem halfway through a piece of code, but you only 'back-think' a few steps. When you start to explain it to a colleague, your brain is forced to go back to step one. There's been a number of times I've gone over to a colleague and just said, "Hi, uh, oh, never mind, thanks", and then walked away again.
AFAIK, it goes to the EU's institution's coffers. So it'll be 500 million euro less for the 15(25) member states to contribute next year.
I like the fact that this was marked 'Insightful', as opposed to 'Funny'...
In Ireland, there are plans to introduce E-Voting for elections this June. In a recent debate, one Senator whom I did not recognise roughly said, "Once the voter pushes the 'Confirm' button, the machines beeps. The voter can be sure that his vote has been counted when he hears the machine has beeped."
It shows how little the layman knows, and further shows the trust people have when a computer operates as expected.
Although, I do not believe people have trust in computers per se. In order to trust something, one usually requires a certain level of understanding.
As such, I think people are unwilling to display a lack of trust without any obvious cause, especially when one's peers do appear to trust it.
How *anybody* can be modded insightful for explicitly not Reading The Fucking Article is beyond me.
I have to question the studies
Really? You *really* want to question the studies? Then Read The Fucking Article.
How did they come up with this 99.84% figure?
Read The Fucking Article.
Were the spam messages the same?
Read The Fucking Article.
Scepticism is a useful tool when analysing information, but it should never be taken to the extreme that it prevents you from even accessing the information in the first place.
The irony here is that in taking a swipe at pop journalism, you engage is pop criticism.
Neither have a place in informed debate.
Additionally, TVI charges that Microsoft patent 6,366,966, entitled "method and system for automatically running a program" interferes with the TVI patents as it covers a TVI invention.
Funny, that patent was filed on December 13, 1994.
The earliest of the TVI patents was filed on May 11, 1995. Now maybe their "invention" was developed prior to MS's patent application.
I just find it funny that, on one hand, they'll be trying to use their products as prior art, while at the same time hoping nobody else's products are used against them...
Funny, in it's original design, Beagle was to be pyramid shaped. Then they figured out the clamshell is easier to unfold if it lands the wrong way.
[T]he drawback of sending multiple identical probes [is] if one is intrinsically fucked, they all are.
That depends. If, for example an exception is raised when the robotic arm is rotated 247 degrees while tilted 24 degrees, then they can make sure not to tell Opportunity to do it until they have a fix.
It's called redundancy. ESA were originally planning to send two other landers with Mars Express, I bet there's people in there now regretting that decision.
Damn it, I just use up my last mod point 10 minutes ago.
Better make sure he's MSCE certified then.
And it the mission is a success, we can pack the rest of them in with the telephone sanitisers on a deep space colonisation mission...
Ah, so it's possible that he also has a Uranium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator in his arsenal - an upgrade perhaps...
Yes, but it'd take another 6 months for the Martian Language Module drivers to be added...
More like an eighth of the mission. There's still plenty to do. It's a shame Beagle appears to have failed, because Pilinger's playing of the media focused the public's view of the mission solely on Beagle.
I do hate the way the JPL mission and the Mars Express missions have been compared in the media (or rather haven't been). They are really very different missions.
NASA spent their $820m getting two rovers to Mars.
ESA spent 300m. getting an orbiter to Mars, and sending a 35m lander to the surface.
Still, worst comes to the worst, the Mars success rate has been about 1 in 3, so Opportunity must be secretly rubbing it's robotic claws in glee.
But for now, we'll hope Spirit stays alive. And for the optimists out there, next attempt to contact Beagle is Sunday.
Except that I'm modding at the moment, I would have missed this interchange as my normal threshold is +3.
But this was funny enough that I'm knocking it back down to 2.
Only problem is, now I have "Puppy love" stuck in my head...
It's posts like this that make you want a '+1, Flamebait, but Funny' option.
Does it strike anybody as odd that the Pentagon is developing a voting system???
I understand this is intended for overseas servicemen, but it's also for citizens abroad.
Surely this would fall under some other department like maybe, the Department of State?
Sheesh, you Americans...
For those of you wanting to learn more about the organisation, here's the British Phonographic Industry website.
Apparently the string 'beagle' is scattered throughout the code. Taking this as an indicator that the author(s) wanted it to be called the Beagle virus, it was labelled 'bagel', just to annoy the author.
I guess others just went ahead and called it beagle, hence the discrepancy.
I noticed the surge last week, and set Sylpheed, my email client, to automatically forward any spam with those headers to reports AT habeas DOT com.
SpamAssassin dumps the spam it catches into a single folder, and Sylpheed lets you add processing rules for that folder, so they get forwarded on automatically.
I figure if they do track down the offenders, each extra instance will give them more of a punch in court.
Note that that applies for the whitelist only.
There's nothing to stop you filtering based on the header's existence. IP addresses on the whitelist consist only of businesses who have purchased a licence from Habeas. As such, they are almost certainly authentic, and if not, will be easy for Habeas to track down and prosecure.