btw, for a good ansi font, try smoothansi ('s what i'm using) and a nice tutorial on how to begin building incredibly interesting and not all that useful prompts, check out keebler's page on it:
there's a lot more to it than that, i'd suggest reading the book entitled "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (do a search on amazon for it or somethin). it's got an outrageously accurate brief summary of the history of human societal evolution with an eye toward answering the question of why are certain nations/people affluent today and others not.
take 'em down the same way shylock got took down;)
they can have their pound of flesh only, no blood.
they can require that access to the listed material be blocked, but only if the technology used does not block anything else...which the technology cannot.
like the article itself says, this isn't exactly shocking news...the framers of tcp knew about it and most security books make mention of it somewhere (the o'reilly firewalling books leap immediately to mind)
communism has been wildly successful as a form of government (various native american societies used them extensively for millenia). what you're thinking of, in reference to (i'm assuming) the USSR and china and the like, is called "socialism" and is a dismal failure.
-dk
awesome site: welcometohell.net
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this is a site in norther new jersey dedicated to an old sanitorium. found it spraypainted on the walls of the place when we were adventuring there one night, had a good laugh, then we all went back and secretly checked the url;P
although there's not much left of the place now, i remember seeing it when it was all there and the photos _really_ do it justice...as well as the wealth of historical information, maps, and other sundry stuff the site includes. truly awesome site if you're into this sort of thing. i only wish the place was still all there as there was some seriously creepy stuff there about a decade ago when it was still standing
if his cause was noble (this is assuming he even has a cause), WHY would he pick such an ignoble method for getting his (as yet nonexistent) message across? you don't communicate anything with [D]DoS attacks, you simply shut stuff down.
please note that bandwidth doesn't only mean web bandwidth. there's other protocols on the net besides http. it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the site was the object of a DoS attack, anon-ftp warez site, cracked and made the launchpad of a DoS attack, or any number of other bandwidth-spiking endeavors.
i'd have to seriously argue against that. this is _not_ the only solution we have available. and, honestly, most of the time a broken solution is even worse than no solution...with no solution you know, at least, where the problem lies and can keep an eyeball on it...with a broken solution, there's no telling where the new problem will erupt, how long till it does, and how bad it will be.
arbitrarily banning things left and right is not a particularly good solution as the nazi party, christian religion, and most other morally righteous groups have proven quite effectively over the centuries.
instead of forcing an inherently broken solution down everyone's throats, what congress ought to be doing is giving the question over to a committee of people who are qualified to recognize the brokenness of the solution and propose a different one. as always, education is the _best_ solution and should be looked at first.
children need supervision and guidance to help them grow, yes. they need to be able to explore in relative safety, yes. what they do _not_ need is some wierd digital overlord arbitrarily defining areas of their world as acceptable or not...especially when that overlord has no fscking clue what he's talking about. what they need is goddamn parents. if you don't want your kid going to www.farmsex.com or somethin like that, you're just gonna have to suck it up and pay attention to what they're doing. i know it's a wierd idea pople, but really...watching your kids isn't all that horrible a prospect. the same thing goes for schools...teachers, pay attention to what your students are doing in computer classes, just like you'd catch them with a pr0n mag hidden inside their algebra book. if we're so concerned about it and the teachers feel that it's beyond their ability then we all need to pony up some more dough and hire more and better educated teachers.
very true, and what saddens me...altho the point has been made many times before...is that this type of thing (telling our children what they can/cannot should/should not do) _used_ to be the province of parents, teachers, and adults in general. replacing good parenting with tv addiction, beyond being an exercise in extreme apathy, is bad enough for our kids...but we're beginning to see people (legislators, apparently) ignoring the fact that none of these things works as they are purported to and would theoretically be more damaging to a growing child's psyche by dint of their brokenness (how twisted would a child get if he/she grows up believing that doing research on the topic of breast cancer is evil or something of that sort).
i do, however, have a lot of faith in the current generation of children. even though their parents, teachers, lawmakers, religious leaders, etc. seem to think they're all mildly retarded AND don't seem to think enough of them to take the time to teach them right from wrong themselves, i think they'll turn out all right.
locking the next generation of this country's leaders, teachers, lawmakers, etc. up in a mental cage throughout their formative years isn't going to teach them right from wrong, all it's going to teach them is: parents, teachers, etc. don't want us to see this stuff and we need to develop a skillset that will allow us mental freedom. as a side-effect they will probably also develop a healthy contempt for both those too lazy to teach their kids and the mindset that derives from that laziness
that's the major problem, though. censorware _never_ _EVER_ works like it's supposed to. We've all seen the graphically stupid, albeit funny, stories about censorware blocking sites that have no business whatsoever being blocked.
Beyond the galling thought that we're entrusting decisions on how to educate the youth of this country to a piece of sofware, what makes it even worse is that we're entrusting decisions on how to educate the youth of this country to a horribly broken -dk
it may sound silly, but try coding on a mud to start out. my personal experience was with the envy and merc types. the code is generally clear and modular and simple so it's fairly easy to drop in commands, new features, etc. (just about everyone either does work with the color code or messes with writing a bank their first time out...i did;P)
and it's fairly easy to see the immediate results of your code in the game state
true, but for what he's looking for (seeing if servers are downed or overloaded...mainly http and smtp) the three above should suffice for finding out where bottlenecks are and suchlike, as well as normal browser messages (microsoft REALLY needs to do away with the default half-assed error messages in IE)...
if you just want to know why your yahoo mail account isn't responding, there's generally no need to whip out the UNIX Swiss Army Chainsaw (tm)
if what you're looking for is more comprehensive monitoring (specific services, machines, states, etc.) and most likely reporting/notification (email, paging, etc.) you're better off with some of the established systems...nocol comes immediately to mind (as does ipmon by mediahouse for you NT types).
13 ats1.worldramp.net (207.30.147.2) 55.705 ms 47.382 ms 50.295 ms
14 * router.uneedus.com (205.161.235.1) 447.491 ms 264.871 ms
15 205.161.235.52 (205.161.235.52) 287.682 ms 433.657 ms 711.278 ms
an astute observation, but mayhap you're assuming too much objectivity in his case. is it not possible that he really doesn't care which is better and just wants data to prove that apache r0x0rs or something?:)
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yes, i'm an E fanatic and all the time spent staring at raster's screenshots must have warped my mind, so i blame him ;)
\ 30 0\304\304|hi \u|\304\304\331 \w \$ \[\e[1;37m\]"
here's my prompt:
PS1="\[\e[1;34m\]\332\304\304|\T|\304\304\277\n
btw, for a good ansi font, try smoothansi ('s what i'm using) and a nice tutorial on how to begin building incredibly interesting and not all that useful prompts, check out keebler's page on it:
http://knuckle.sandwich.net/ansi.html
-dk
anyone know if they're planning on trying to get xfs stuff into the kernel? or know where there's info on it?
-dk
there's a lot more to it than that, i'd suggest reading the book entitled "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (do a search on amazon for it or somethin). it's got an outrageously accurate brief summary of the history of human societal evolution with an eye toward answering the question of why are certain nations/people affluent today and others not.
-dk
What you say?
;)
sorry...had to
-dk
take 'em down the same way shylock got took down ;)
they can have their pound of flesh only, no blood.
they can require that access to the listed material be blocked, but only if the technology used does not block anything else...which the technology cannot.
-dk
like the article itself says, this isn't exactly shocking news...the framers of tcp knew about it and most security books make mention of it somewhere (the o'reilly firewalling books leap immediately to mind)
-dk
on an off tangent, and to slightly correct you:
communism has been wildly successful as a form of government (various native american societies used them extensively for millenia). what you're thinking of, in reference to (i'm assuming) the USSR and china and the like, is called "socialism" and is a dismal failure.
-dk
www.welcometohell.net
this is a site in norther new jersey dedicated to an old sanitorium. found it spraypainted on the walls of the place when we were adventuring there one night, had a good laugh, then we all went back and secretly checked the url
although there's not much left of the place now, i remember seeing it when it was all there and the photos _really_ do it justice...as well as the wealth of historical information, maps, and other sundry stuff the site includes. truly awesome site if you're into this sort of thing. i only wish the place was still all there as there was some seriously creepy stuff there about a decade ago when it was still standing
-dk
if his cause was noble (this is assuming he even has a cause), WHY would he pick such an ignoble method for getting his (as yet nonexistent) message across? you don't communicate anything with [D]DoS attacks, you simply shut stuff down.
-dk
instead of wasting more bandwidth, why don't we just track the kid down physically and remove his net access the good ole fashioned way.
in short, let's find him and break his damn fingers.
-dk
please note that bandwidth doesn't only mean web bandwidth. there's other protocols on the net besides http. it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the site was the object of a DoS attack, anon-ftp warez site, cracked and made the launchpad of a DoS attack, or any number of other bandwidth-spiking endeavors.
-dk
it hasn't ceased operations, that "error" message is actually his page.
other sites on the same machine are operating perfectly (try woodyrussell.com)
-dk
i'd have to seriously argue against that. this is _not_ the only solution we have available. and, honestly, most of the time a broken solution is even worse than no solution...with no solution you know, at least, where the problem lies and can keep an eyeball on it...with a broken solution, there's no telling where the new problem will erupt, how long till it does, and how bad it will be.
arbitrarily banning things left and right is not a particularly good solution as the nazi party, christian religion, and most other morally righteous groups have proven quite effectively over the centuries.
instead of forcing an inherently broken solution down everyone's throats, what congress ought to be doing is giving the question over to a committee of people who are qualified to recognize the brokenness of the solution and propose a different one. as always, education is the _best_ solution and should be looked at first.
children need supervision and guidance to help them grow, yes. they need to be able to explore in relative safety, yes. what they do _not_ need is some wierd digital overlord arbitrarily defining areas of their world as acceptable or not...especially when that overlord has no fscking clue what he's talking about. what they need is goddamn parents. if you don't want your kid going to www.farmsex.com or somethin like that, you're just gonna have to suck it up and pay attention to what they're doing. i know it's a wierd idea pople, but really...watching your kids isn't all that horrible a prospect. the same thing goes for schools...teachers, pay attention to what your students are doing in computer classes, just like you'd catch them with a pr0n mag hidden inside their algebra book. if we're so concerned about it and the teachers feel that it's beyond their ability then we all need to pony up some more dough and hire more and better educated teachers.
-dk
very true, and what saddens me...altho the point has been made many times before...is that this type of thing (telling our children what they can/cannot should/should not do) _used_ to be the province of parents, teachers, and adults in general. replacing good parenting with tv addiction, beyond being an exercise in extreme apathy, is bad enough for our kids...but we're beginning to see people (legislators, apparently) ignoring the fact that none of these things works as they are purported to and would theoretically be more damaging to a growing child's psyche by dint of their brokenness (how twisted would a child get if he/she grows up believing that doing research on the topic of breast cancer is evil or something of that sort).
i do, however, have a lot of faith in the current generation of children. even though their parents, teachers, lawmakers, religious leaders, etc. seem to think they're all mildly retarded AND don't seem to think enough of them to take the time to teach them right from wrong themselves, i think they'll turn out all right.
locking the next generation of this country's leaders, teachers, lawmakers, etc. up in a mental cage throughout their formative years isn't going to teach them right from wrong, all it's going to teach them is: parents, teachers, etc. don't want us to see this stuff and we need to develop a skillset that will allow us mental freedom. as a side-effect they will probably also develop a healthy contempt for both those too lazy to teach their kids and the mindset that derives from that laziness
-dk
that's the major problem, though. censorware _never_ _EVER_ works like it's supposed to. We've all seen the graphically stupid, albeit funny, stories about censorware blocking sites that have no business whatsoever being blocked. Beyond the galling thought that we're entrusting decisions on how to educate the youth of this country to a piece of sofware, what makes it even worse is that we're entrusting decisions on how to educate the youth of this country to a horribly broken
-dk
wget ftp://ftp.envy.com/pub/mud/servers/Envy_22.tar.gz
-dk
it may sound silly, but try coding on a mud to start out. my personal experience was with the envy and merc types. the code is generally clear and modular and simple so it's fairly easy to drop in commands, new features, etc. (just about everyone either does work with the color code or messes with writing a bank their first time out...i did ;P)
and it's fairly easy to see the immediate results of your code in the game state
-dk
true, but for what he's looking for (seeing if servers are downed or overloaded...mainly http and smtp) the three above should suffice for finding out where bottlenecks are and suchlike, as well as normal browser messages (microsoft REALLY needs to do away with the default half-assed error messages in IE)...
if you just want to know why your yahoo mail account isn't responding, there's generally no need to whip out the UNIX Swiss Army Chainsaw (tm)
if what you're looking for is more comprehensive monitoring (specific services, machines, states, etc.) and most likely reporting/notification (email, paging, etc.) you're better off with some of the established systems...nocol comes immediately to mind (as does ipmon by mediahouse for you NT types).
-dk
three words:
nslookup
ping
traceroute
now go monitor and such
-dk
the best part about this article isn't the unbelievable technology (altho it is really spiffy)
;)
it's the department it comes from...proving yet again that pr0n is the real reason for mankind's existence
-dk
their router vomited on itself
13 ats1.worldramp.net (207.30.147.2) 55.705 ms 47.382 ms 50.295 ms
14 * router.uneedus.com (205.161.235.1) 447.491 ms 264.871 ms
15 205.161.235.52 (205.161.235.52) 287.682 ms 433.657 ms 711.278 ms
-dk
reread the article man, 80% of the focus was on the speed hit you take with a jfs that would be alleviated by this phase tree method
-dk
actually, it means "second extended" (hence the 2) :)
just take a look in filesystems when doing a kernel config, you'll see it listed as "second extended filesystem" support
-dk
it's not a misspelling, he's just from the bronx is all...
-dk
an astute observation, but mayhap you're assuming too much objectivity in his case. is it not possible that he really doesn't care which is better and just wants data to prove that apache r0x0rs or something? :)
lies, damn lies, etc.
-dk