Yes, I think the point Dvorak is trying to make is that he had a dream that Apple ditched Mac OS X completely in favour of Windows. That's not what you want, I think.:-)
And while you're at it, try to force everyone to use some sane coding style. They didn't do that where I work now, and code gets messy like hell when three people work on it.:-( Some people don't even care about indentation... *sigh*
Problem with today's malware is that the authors don't want their stuff to be noticed. Not by the owner of the infected machine, at least. They want to continue spreading spam, viruses and credit card numbers for as long as they can. Breaking things on purpose is not the way to go then.
Computer viruses today are hardly an annoyance to their "victims", only to the rest of the world.:-(
I guess EFI machines have ACPI microcode somewhere too, should be just as easy to change it, unless for some reason they don't store it on flash. This is about changing ACPI code (that is probably not just active at boot-time only, like with most of the BIOS code, now that DOS is dead...), which is there in any recent (x86) machine AFAIK.
Instead, right now many people use the netscape.net domain for forged source e-mail addresses. So actually, I'm surprised you don't get at least a couple of bounces a day...
It can't hurt to report such a bug at other places than SlashDot. Did you post it on lkml or maybe some USB-specific list yet, maybe with some more debugging information? (Although I can't imagine nobody else ever had this problem...)
I'm a bit late, but maybe someone still reads this. A possible suggestion: WYSE Winterm devices. Although they don't have an IDE connector, you can get them pretty much for free. They're quite powerful, can have USB ports (so maybe you can use an USB external disk), and memory can be extended with standard SODIMMs. And for a while now, you can run Linux on them. See winterm.gaast.net for more information.:-)
Just like we have at least 5 totally indepdendent (and mostly disconnected) IM-networks for years already. We never had a shake-out in that field, so why should there be one for VoIP?
I'm afraid not. Those people exist here (in.nl) too, just that they then have to pay something like EUR 2.49 I guess, which is even worse. But since they're young, usually their parents have to pay.;-)
... if Yahoo! would start to actually accept incoming mail. I keep getting these in my mail logs for a while already, for ever mail I send to Yahoo domains:
(host mx3.mail.yahoo.com[64.156.215.6] said: 451 mta236.mail.scd. yahoo.com Resources temporarily unavailable. Please try again later [#4.16.3:-110]. (in reply to end of DATA command))
Can you tell more about these attachment killing habits? I have no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds pretty serious... I only use GMail when I'm on vacation and don't want to SSH into my home-box, so I never noticed so far.
You bring up a nice point. Actually, in some cases the robot has a positive effect on the cow-farmer contact. In the old milking system, the farmer milks 8 (or more) cows at once. They get in, the farmer "connects" them, and goes to the next cow. And when the cow is finished, he quickly cleans up, goes to the next cow, etc.
While with the robot, the farmer gets time to actually walk through the barn a couple of times a day to find the cows that need more attention, that don't want to go to the robot by themself. I think that's better than rushing from cow to cow, just to connect and disconnect them to/from the milking system.
It was temporary. I don't know exactly why they had the bull walking between the cows in the first place, but they just needed to get this bull a tag so he could eat from the feeding units (and the milking robot is basically another feeding unit).
These radio-tags are not the official ID's for the cows by the way, in the Netherlands all farm animals have numbers in their ears as official ID. Those obviously don't get swapped.
Actually, one of their Dutch engineers told me that one of the next models will indeed have Flash. Right now they do at least use laptop disks IIRC, so slightly more shock-resistent.
However, although you're right about the data collection, this doesn't happen on the robot. Unfortunately, the machine is directly connected by plain Ethernet to a Win2K machine with MSSQL (I guess they left out this part on LinuxDevices;-)) and a special application for this robot. That's where all the data is collected. The robot itself doesn't really save anything.
Well, actually I heard a story about this happening with a slightly different model (from a different brand). Normally, nothing would happen, because the cows all have some thing around their neck (RFID?;-)) to identify them, and the system should know it's a bull, so it can walk through immediately.
However, at some farm they didn't have enough ID tags, so they had the bull borrow one from another cow. The bull felt hungry, so he went to eat in the robot. The robot thought it was a female cow and started to... errr, well, tried to milk. To make the long story short, they pretty much had to buy a completely new robot, since the bull didn't quite appreciate it.;-)
Coincidentally my parents have exactly this milking system on their farm now, for about half a year. It's really cool to see the thing boot up, see the LILO menu appear and Red Hat Linux booting up.
Anyway, the cows don't get too much training. One day they're milked the "traditional" way, the next day there's the robot. It takes some time before they get used to that. After about a week already (especially) the younger cows get used to it already. They come 2/3 times a day by themselves, no problem. The problem is mainly with the older cows, they somehow just don't feel like going by themselves. Even now, half a year after we started milking with this robot, we still walk through the barn a couple of times a day to find those cows and make sure they go to the robot.
And even then, they sometimes try to escape from the waiting room to go back to their resting place. Sometimes cows are really naughty.:-)
So I think it doesn't take a long time to make the connection between "that new place" and the actual milking. It just takes an eternity for some cows to actually want to go there.
I think he isn't that naive at all. With the "per message", that'll still be quite a lot of days in jail for such a huge spammer, so he's just using a spammer's excuse against them...
I'm not sure, but does ext3 actually have all the features you mention?
Anyway, some other things... AFAIK Ext3 undeletion doesn't work anymore (at least not using debuge2fs, lsdel always gives me an empty list these days). Also, snapshots are possible with any filesystem in Linux, as long as the fs is on LVM.
I'm sticking with Ext3 too. Heard too many scary stories about XFS, JFS and even Reiser, so I'll stick with what's known to work.
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Yes, I think the point Dvorak is trying to make is that he had a dream that Apple ditched Mac OS X completely in favour of Windows. That's not what you want, I think. :-)
> That's pretty much what I tried. The down side is when the boss asks, "OK, so if it's free, how do the people who build the distro make money?"
I actually wonder, why does he care? But even then, he can buy RHEL or some other paid distro if he thinks it has to cost money...
And while you're at it, try to force everyone to use some sane coding style. They didn't do that where I work now, and code gets messy like hell when three people work on it. :-( Some people don't even care about indentation... *sigh*
Problem with today's malware is that the authors don't want their stuff to be noticed. Not by the owner of the infected machine, at least. They want to continue spreading spam, viruses and credit card numbers for as long as they can. Breaking things on purpose is not the way to go then.
:-(
Computer viruses today are hardly an annoyance to their "victims", only to the rest of the world.
I guess EFI machines have ACPI microcode somewhere too, should be just as easy to change it, unless for some reason they don't store it on flash. This is about changing ACPI code (that is probably not just active at boot-time only, like with most of the BIOS code, now that DOS is dead...), which is there in any recent (x86) machine AFAIK.
Instead, right now many people use the netscape.net domain for forged source e-mail addresses. So actually, I'm surprised you don't get at least a couple of bounces a day...
It can't hurt to report such a bug at other places than SlashDot. Did you post it on lkml or maybe some USB-specific list yet, maybe with some more debugging information? (Although I can't imagine nobody else ever had this problem...)
I'm a bit late, but maybe someone still reads this. A possible suggestion: WYSE Winterm devices. Although they don't have an IDE connector, you can get them pretty much for free. They're quite powerful, can have USB ports (so maybe you can use an USB external disk), and memory can be extended with standard SODIMMs. And for a while now, you can run Linux on them. See winterm.gaast.net for more information. :-)
Can you explain to me, what's the exact connection between the rel=nofollow tag and AdWords click fraud?
Just like we have at least 5 totally indepdendent (and mostly disconnected) IM-networks for years already. We never had a shake-out in that field, so why should there be one for VoIP?
I'm afraid not. Those people exist here (in .nl) too, just that they then have to pay something like EUR 2.49 I guess, which is even worse. But since they're young, usually their parents have to pay. ;-)
... if Yahoo! would start to actually accept incoming mail. I keep getting these in my mail logs for a while already, for ever mail I send to Yahoo domains:
(host mx3.mail.yahoo.com[64.156.215.6] said: 451 mta236.mail.scd.
yahoo.com Resources temporarily unavailable. Please try again later [#4.16.3:-110]. (in reply to end of DATA command))
Takes a couple of hours to deliver a message...
Can you tell more about these attachment killing habits? I have no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds pretty serious... I only use GMail when I'm on vacation and don't want to SSH into my home-box, so I never noticed so far.
Indeed. It still centuries last for computers really the capacity to approach sense construction of the human languages also but slightly of course.
You bring up a nice point. Actually, in some cases the robot has a positive effect on the cow-farmer contact. In the old milking system, the farmer milks 8 (or more) cows at once. They get in, the farmer "connects" them, and goes to the next cow. And when the cow is finished, he quickly cleans up, goes to the next cow, etc.
While with the robot, the farmer gets time to actually walk through the barn a couple of times a day to find the cows that need more attention, that don't want to go to the robot by themself. I think that's better than rushing from cow to cow, just to connect and disconnect them to/from the milking system.
It was temporary. I don't know exactly why they had the bull walking between the cows in the first place, but they just needed to get this bull a tag so he could eat from the feeding units (and the milking robot is basically another feeding unit).
These radio-tags are not the official ID's for the cows by the way, in the Netherlands all farm animals have numbers in their ears as official ID. Those obviously don't get swapped.
Actually, one of their Dutch engineers told me that one of the next models will indeed have Flash. Right now they do at least use laptop disks IIRC, so slightly more shock-resistent.
;-)) and a special application for this robot. That's where all the data is collected. The robot itself doesn't really save anything.
However, although you're right about the data collection, this doesn't happen on the robot. Unfortunately, the machine is directly connected by plain Ethernet to a Win2K machine with MSSQL (I guess they left out this part on LinuxDevices
Well, actually I heard a story about this happening with a slightly different model (from a different brand). Normally, nothing would happen, because the cows all have some thing around their neck (RFID? ;-)) to identify them, and the system should know it's a bull, so it can walk through immediately.
... errr, well, tried to milk. To make the long story short, they pretty much had to buy a completely new robot, since the bull didn't quite appreciate it. ;-)
However, at some farm they didn't have enough ID tags, so they had the bull borrow one from another cow. The bull felt hungry, so he went to eat in the robot. The robot thought it was a female cow and started to
Coincidentally my parents have exactly this milking system on their farm now, for about half a year. It's really cool to see the thing boot up, see the LILO menu appear and Red Hat Linux booting up.
:-)
Anyway, the cows don't get too much training. One day they're milked the "traditional" way, the next day there's the robot. It takes some time before they get used to that. After about a week already (especially) the younger cows get used to it already. They come 2/3 times a day by themselves, no problem. The problem is mainly with the older cows, they somehow just don't feel like going by themselves. Even now, half a year after we started milking with this robot, we still walk through the barn a couple of times a day to find those cows and make sure they go to the robot.
And even then, they sometimes try to escape from the waiting room to go back to their resting place. Sometimes cows are really naughty.
So I think it doesn't take a long time to make the connection between "that new place" and the actual milking. It just takes an eternity for some cows to actually want to go there.
I think he isn't that naive at all. With the "per message", that'll still be quite a lot of days in jail for such a huge spammer, so he's just using a spammer's excuse against them...
I'm not sure, but does ext3 actually have all the features you mention?
Anyway, some other things... AFAIK Ext3 undeletion doesn't work anymore (at least not using debuge2fs, lsdel always gives me an empty list these days). Also, snapshots are possible with any filesystem in Linux, as long as the fs is on LVM.
I'm sticking with Ext3 too. Heard too many scary stories about XFS, JFS and even Reiser, so I'll stick with what's known to work.
I didn't, but hey, why not? We already got the MSN toilet. :-)
They could try doing the same to PDF, but Adobe clearly has the IP rights to the PDF spec.
Just like Sun has the IP rights to the Java spec?
> Finally, Mac users have a free (as in speech) approach to their filesystem.
/still running 10.3...
What? Did they remove Bash from 10.4 and put some non-free shell there instead?
ruby~# cat > /tmp/cat /tmp/cat: Text file busy
-su:
Same thing here. As soon as I quit the cat process still running from that binary, I can alter the binary.
Although unlinking and then replacing the binary would work.