When you find out what the exploit/rootkit/whatever do, then you know what it "did to you".
If you need days to do that, and you don't have any backups systems to move prod stuff to, then it would be good for you too, to start recognizing your limitations, and start looking for a new job.
I'm of course talking about server platforms, not some stupid workstations running windows xp sp1, which is falling apart of malware infestation.
Also, reimaging is ok, as long as you have protected your system, so the next time exploiting fails. - Read my first reply, I was talking about this. Not about some stupid made up concepts of you l33t rpm admins.
1. Three days ? From where did you get that info ? Bullshit.
2. If you can't 'clean' the server in acceptable time period, you then find out (which can be done in max few hours) what the rootkit/exploit does, and block it (or block everything except the business stuff, either firewall or various ACL systems). And/or move the production stuff on different server, from the one affected, and tighten the security of it to the max. In the mean time you diagnose the real problem on that already cracked server.
The point is to block the rootkit and the attacker of having control over your server.
Businesses have failover/backup systems, at least they should have, if they don't, they are not a business. It's like hospital having only one doctor.
After you 'contain' the problem, it isn't much of a problem anymore.
Of course, Im talking about Linux, and from my experience. Maybe you need 3 days and maybe you use reimaging as a solution (and if you do, I bet you use Windows), but it's utterly stupid to say that reimage is the only practical solution.
If you have some stuff on your site, that I don't want people to see, or I plan to do something, that you will somehow find out and post it on your site, and then I shut your domain name down - Censorship. At least a form of it.
It's easier for them to blame games then for the system(Police and other institutions) to do their job.
I played violent games as a kid, and I didn't end up shooting people in my town, and I believe 99 % of kids are the same as me.
The psychological problem of those kids, who shoot people, aren't caused by violent games, but by vast range of other mental factors. Sane human beings can tell the difference between shooting people in real life and shooting them in some stupid game.
Violence, unprovoked/provoked killings where happening long before games where invented. What was the cause then ?
Well, human violence have only one reason. And that reason is mental issues. If you are capable of killing other human being or even animals for that matter, then you will probably do that at some time in your life, no matter if you playing or played violent games or not.
the chief of Germany's national police union has now spoken out against violent games as well, saying, "The world would be no poorer if there were no more killergames."
It won't be richer either. Nor it would be safer. It will be more censored and more opressed.
If you measure that he deserved more because he was more "obedient" then me.. then you'r right.
I don't judge people, like you do for instance, I think all people are the same, and all of them deserve the same chances, no matter how hard they studied. That's why, if you come to ask a job from me, if you know what you'r doing, you'll get it, whatever you did in school, with diploma or without.
Whatever I got in life, I did it myself with my own two hands and brain. School didn't help me, system didn't help me, other people didn't help me, and if I meet more people like that in my lifetime I will respect them far more then I would respect you, whatever or whoever you are, because they worked twice as hard to learn and succeed, later in life.
Now move along and spread 'hate' about other people and their country's somewhere else. Douchebag.
Moral have nothing to do with learning, and with cheating on tests in school. Moral, ethics, etc. comes from parents, and theirs lifestyle && principals.
That what you have said now, is like saying "think of the children" that is popular among you Americans now. Distracts people from rational judgment. Moral is an emotional thing. If you can do something not moral, and feel fine about it, when you grow up... then you where fucked up somehow as a kid, certainly not because you cheated in school.
So: wich grownup's do you blame for you're shity litterasy?
As I said above, Im not native English speaker. Read posts above.
Before I buy even one cent worth of your argument that it's all the system's fault, you're going to have to show me that you -- or the apparently silent majority for whom you stand -- took the time to make up for it somehow on your own initiative.
I did. I learned English myself (maybe it's not perfect, but I can do my job), I was messing about with Linux, I got my first Job as Sys Admin in very 'large' company for this area when I was 16, 80+ servers, I run my own Wireless ISP, I have one more company dealing with Video Streaming.. I spent months reading psychology, philosophy and some ancient indian 'religions'... and I consider myself very knowledgable in all those areas. I however, suck at math, history, and some other (to ME) boring subjects.
I'm now 23 years old, and I was "very lousy pupil".
Is that enough ? For someone who dropped out of high school, and did all that in 7 years by himself ?
That is the point. They didn't care, because they where kids, their interests where in other stuff. They don't "understand" the consequences of not learning, but it's not theirs fault.
If you did learn, and many of slashdotters probably did learn, ok.. good for you. But it's not justifed to blame kids who don't, because they find the subject boring. In fact, those who find some subject boring, they will probably not be good at it, even if they learned it. I give a rats ass for history today, I know the basics, and a lot more probably then the kids who did learn, but I'm not interested in that, Maybe I would, if different approach to teaching was used. For example... video games ? I learned english sitting in front of TV and playing old dos adventure games.
Childrens mind is extraordinary.. it can learn and aquire new skills, faster then any other living being on earth, including adults.. I think we all can agree on that.. just give them fun way of learning.
Yeah, sounds like a perfect preparation for the real world.
As a gown up who as a kid was cheating in school:
Then change the teaching methods. Kids don't want to learn because they find that certain subject boring, or the way it's teached is boring. so they cheat. My teachers and system, weren't interested in all that. It's easier to give an F, so I was forced to cheat.
The current system, it appears to me, is designed for punishing. You didn't learn ? Ok, here's F and you think about this. System of reward and punishment. But that doesn't work very well, so when we talk about kids who cheat or get a F, be aware of that, before condeming and limiting them in "real world" when they grow up. Grown up's messed up, kids where innocent, naive and afraid victims.
As Winston Churchill says - Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Since majority are unsuccesful, half of that majority will buy that book. If you sell it in america, that's a whole lot of money.
In my country, people are writing books on how to make money on internet. Google ads, etc.. and swimming in money cuz of it, even if there's no real trick to it.
That's what I think about this book, even if I didn't read it. Whole lot of BS. There's nothing in it that, intelligent, thinking, human being doesn't know for itself, without anyone writing it.
Regarding success itself... you need to have some brain, some skill, a lot of will and enthusiasm, confidence, balls, money (you can't do anything without money, that's the reason people from poor country's and poor people in general, find next to impossible to succeed, and they'r vision of success is to work for other people).
I know a lot of smart people, people that had a chance, could do great things, but instead.. they live 'without electricity' in some villages, and are broke cuz there's no job, and they are screwed by politics (war, etc.) in general.
So give me money, give me all resources and education I need, make my parents rich (so I don't have to worry about food and future and failure), and I'll succeed. Only really stupid people can't succeed in those conditions.
I have a friend in Kabul, Afghanistan... civil stuff, but works in military base. They have internet there, but 70mb daily, then they shut you down.. until tomorrow.
At least you can use messangers... if the latency sucks, sorry.. don't know the details.
Why would someone use corporate mail for selling their IP or whatever ?
Anyone with a half of brain, wouldn't do it, and I guess, those who would, aren't working there.
1. Work 2. Go home 3. Send nokia secrets to someone, from some public webmail stuff, with temporary email adress.
You don't have to be a geek for that.
What is really going on, is that the government and corporations are slowly training people, to accept their rules, and their way. First there are rfid, then electronic passports/licenses and stuff, then spying on e-mail, corporate, then syping on private email, then putting some micro GPS devices on those elec. passports (when we invent them), then.. use your imagination.
People can't accept a radical change of their rights, but they can accept small ones. Drop by drop, ocean.
They probably don't want to let them go, since they probably give a lot of money to their government. It's easyer to just take away something from the people, it always has been, and the governemnts are and where always doing it.
Why is it so hard to setup pop3/imap and whats up with this obsession about the interface ?
I mean, I have no idea how to setup outlook mail right now. But as soon as I start the app, it's intuitive, and it's created that way... so 'users' can set up their mail accounts easily.
You have username, password, pop3/imap server, smtp server, and in most cases it's mail.domain.com. That's it. Eventually smtp auth, or pop3-before-smtp.
And besides that, if you 'know' how to setup one mail client, you know all of them.
People who _can't setup_ mail clients should not get a job working on a computer. Either learn (it's fscking 5 minute learn process...) or you don't get your job, because you'r too stupid to work on a computer, and you will probably mess everything up all the time.
And the interface... all this talk about how good interface of gmail is sick. Fuck the interface. All I need is to send mail, receive mail, to have local and server copy of the mail, and to have standard set of features, all mail clients have.
And I almost forgot... IMAP has (as people mentioned above) this option. Your client downloads mail to your comp, and leaves a copy on the server. So you can browse your mail in 'offline mode'.
Next, use channels that have lesser bandwidth consumption. It's not important how many ap's are on one channel, it's important how many data frames are going in and out on that channel.
How do you check that?
I used atheros, madwifi drivers, monitor mode... and tcpdump. Linux of course. However, mikrotik should be able to do that also. Snooper option - or frequency monitor.
But be aware, when interface is in monitor mode, it only receives packets, so don't start it on a link that transports your packets to the AP.
If you'r using fabric access points (clients), you can't do any of this. Buy an atheros card. It works great under Linux, and you can get pretty cheap one, tp-link, 651 for b/g, or 653 for a. Linux 2.6.28 introduced athk5 driver, so if you have it, just do modprobe ath5k and you'r ready to go.
You can minimize interference, but don't expect too much.
First, I don't know what type of antenna's you use, but escaping from vertical polarization (which is 'default'), to horizontal one. Difference in signal level between these two are 20 dbm. So, if you'r getting signal level from your neibh. -70, you will be getting -90, which will greatly improve your wifi stability.
Next, use channels that have lesser bandwidth consumption. It's not important how many ap's are on one channel, it's important how many data frames are going in and out on that channel.
I tested few days ago, my wifi nodes are receiving data from 3 channel bellow/above me, so cuz I use 11, that means I get data from channel 8, but not from 7 that much. Some packets get through, but that's nothing. Which means, if there's traffic on channel 6, you can safely use channel 9, and you won't feel interference blocking you.
Changing data rate, means changing signal modulation. If you use G or A(if you can, use 802.11a), OFDM modulation kicks in, which from my experience deals better with noise. Latency is far more better then on any modulation of B. So, try putting your devices on G, then fix the rate to 11mbps.
Basically... there's no real escape from noise. I'm dealing with it for years now, and I'm getting sick of it... even polarisation changes aren't effective anymore. That's why, I recommend to switch to 802.11a, there's more then 30 non overlaping channels.. or go above/bellow frequency range. Like.. channel 15 on 2.4. It's possible to do.
Disease ? Cured ? How the hell do you know ? To know the point of life (which you need to know, else you can't bring up those statements that you do) you need to know for sure, what happens when we die. Period. As far as we, humans, know.. life is maybe just a cycle, or preparation for something else.. or something third. So you can't say aging is a disease.
And no, overpopulation won't be a problem becasue humans, like all biological creatures will only expand to meet the amount of food that is available. The rest will starve.
Yeah ? That would be true, only if the amount of food that is available is equally divided among all human beings. And is certainly not. You'r just to blinded to see that, apparently. Hunger still exists, in the world... and a lot of people fight to survive.
And don't compare other biological beings to us. Other biological beings don't fuck other dead biological beings, don't steal, aren't greedy, aren't jealous, don't murder for fun, dont bomb other country's, and 100 other really really bad things, that we humans are capable of, for our own personal benefit.
Go ahead, mod me down for going offtopic, trolling or whatever, I hope you will.
This is said many times.. but as someone who have only high school, and work in IT, i feel like i need to reply. And, btw, I think this discussion is... self-taught people vs degree people. So my post, as well as those above me, will sound biased.
First of all... why degree ? I look at it this way. If I interview sys admin for a job, I'll judge his character and his knowledge. Why ? Because I'm sys admin from age of 16, literally. I hang out with sys admins, developers, and other IT people for 7 years now. I know them, how they think, and what they can do. I don't need a paper saying he can learn, or he's smart, or whatever... If I want to test his knowledge, or improvising or other skills, I'll assign him a task, and see how he will do it, in what timeframe, etc.
The problem is, people who are hiring, obviously lack skills to determine that, so they need a paper that proves they can.
Another thing, all the people I know are self taught. Maybe thats because my country doesn't have a CS school, but anyway, the people Im talking about, programmed in assembler when they where 14, now, they develop apps in 10 languages, whatever you ask them to do. From C,C++,VB,php,java,.. etc. Some of them do only php, some of them do only C, but they have a job for years now, and they are doing really well.
Why won't you hire that guy ? I know I would.
Self-taught people ARE self-taught because they liked all that things. They loved it... I skipped from school, so I can get home earlier and mess around on my freshly installed Linux when I was 13 years old. I'm sorry, but the amount of energy people like me put into all this, can beat every degree. I'm not in this for money, I'm in this because I am this.
Of course, there are CS people like me, who eventually went to college and got degree.. so Im not saying having a degree is bad thing. The reality is, If you have a degree, you will find a job 10x easier. But that shouldn't work that way. Not in IT.
And reply to parent, you can always find job online. And work from home as a sys admin/developer. IMHO, that's even better then sitting in the office 8h/day. I know people that have families, and work that way, not because they can't get a job, but because they like it that way. So you might consider finding a job that you can do from your home. No degree neccesary.
You where watching it since you where 5, and you missed whole voyager and tng ? I don't think you quite understand the problem here.
To star trek fans, like me... who watched every episode, this is important, because I don't want to see something I watched when I was a little kid, which gave me... emotional happiness, broaden my imagination and awareness, and still do, turn into garbage by adding commercials init, big explosions, naked chicks, and no story whatsoever, so more people can watch it, at least once.
Majority of those episodes and stuff, had a story... a lesson, or a different point of view on how things should be. On a lot of philosophical subjects, religion, death, human rights, point of living, technology, everything... and now we have one man killing 200k people, driving his.. - bike was it ? - 760mph, and fucking a lot of woman. Yeah.. why the bitterness.
'Users', not admins, programmers, or any other geeky kind of people - don't use IRC. They think its complicated and stuff, and they usually prefer IM, instead of IRC.
I don't know why they think so, but they certainly do. I suppose they would adjust if required, but they will always choose IM if they can.
Also, I, prefer IM for work related stuff. IRC seems... more interactive. I don't need/want anything more then IM for business (though I still use IRC for some private stuff).
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When you find out what the exploit/rootkit/whatever do, then you know what it "did to you".
If you need days to do that, and you don't have any backups systems to move prod stuff to, then it would be good for you too, to start recognizing your limitations, and start looking for a new job.
I'm of course talking about server platforms, not some stupid workstations running windows xp sp1, which is falling apart of malware infestation.
Also, reimaging is ok, as long as you have protected your system, so the next time exploiting fails. - Read my first reply, I was talking about this. Not about some stupid made up concepts of you l33t rpm admins.
1. Three days ? From where did you get that info ? Bullshit.
2. If you can't 'clean' the server in acceptable time period, you then find out (which can be done in max few hours) what the rootkit/exploit does, and block it (or block everything except the business stuff, either firewall or various ACL systems). And/or move the production stuff on different server, from the one affected, and tighten the security of it to the max.
In the mean time you diagnose the real problem on that already cracked server.
The point is to block the rootkit and the attacker of having control over your server.
Businesses have failover/backup systems, at least they should have, if they don't, they are not a business. It's like hospital having only one doctor.
After you 'contain' the problem, it isn't much of a problem anymore.
Of course, Im talking about Linux, and from my experience. Maybe you need 3 days and maybe you use reimaging as a solution (and if you do, I bet you use Windows), but it's utterly stupid to say that reimage is the only practical solution.
Also, "businesses" don't need to have time for fixing the issue.
Businesses hire people to do that for them and if the people who where hired don't do the job, then businesses sack them, and hire someone else.
Those "businesses" tend to be exploited again after reimage, which is logical, because the bug wasn't fixed.
I've seen it happen a lots of times, and in the end.. they are forced to do some action, besides 'reimaging'.
If you have some stuff on your site, that I don't want people to see, or I plan to do something, that you will somehow find out and post it on your site, and then I shut your domain name down - Censorship.
At least a form of it.
Or am I missing something here ?
It's easier for them to blame games then for the system(Police and other institutions) to do their job.
I played violent games as a kid, and I didn't end up shooting people in my town, and I believe 99 % of kids are the same as me.
The psychological problem of those kids, who shoot people, aren't caused by violent games, but by vast range of other mental factors. Sane human beings can tell the difference between shooting people in real life and shooting them in some stupid game.
Violence, unprovoked/provoked killings where happening long before games where invented. What was the cause then ?
Well, human violence have only one reason. And that reason is mental issues. If you are capable of killing other human being or even animals for that matter, then you will probably do that at some time in your life, no matter if you playing or played violent games or not.
the chief of Germany's national police union has now spoken out against violent games as well, saying, "The world would be no poorer if there were no more killergames."
It won't be richer either. Nor it would be safer. It will be more censored and more opressed.
God damn fucking asshole micro-brain fascist.
If you measure that he deserved more because he was more "obedient" then me .. then you'r right.
I don't judge people, like you do for instance, I think all people are the same, and all of them deserve the same chances, no matter how hard they studied. That's why, if you come to ask a job from me, if you know what you'r doing, you'll get it, whatever you did in school, with diploma or without.
Whatever I got in life, I did it myself with my own two hands and brain. School didn't help me, system didn't help me, other people didn't help me, and if I meet more people like that in my lifetime I will respect them far more then I would respect you, whatever or whoever you are, because they worked twice as hard to learn and succeed, later in life.
Now move along and spread 'hate' about other people and their country's somewhere else. Douchebag.
Moral choice ? BS.
Moral have nothing to do with learning, and with cheating on tests in school. Moral, ethics, etc. comes from parents, and theirs lifestyle && principals.
That what you have said now, is like saying "think of the children" that is popular among you Americans now. Distracts people from rational judgment. Moral is an emotional thing. If you can do something not moral, and feel fine about it, when you grow up ... then you where fucked up somehow as a kid, certainly not because you cheated in school.
Sorry for double posting, but I have a feeling someone will catch those "months learning part", so I gotta correct myself. It was years, for hours.
Regarding other things, as art.. I play guitar for 3 years now. I sucked at musical class too in school.
So: wich grownup's do you blame for you're shity litterasy?
As I said above, Im not native English speaker. Read posts above.
Before I buy even one cent worth of your argument that it's all the system's fault, you're going to have to show me that you -- or the apparently silent majority for whom you stand -- took the time to make up for it somehow on your own initiative.
I did. I learned English myself (maybe it's not perfect, but I can do my job), I was messing about with Linux, I got my first Job as Sys Admin in very 'large' company for this area when I was 16, 80+ servers, I run my own Wireless ISP, I have one more company dealing with Video Streaming.. I spent months reading psychology, philosophy and some ancient indian 'religions'... and I consider myself very knowledgable in all those areas. I however, suck at math, history, and some other (to ME) boring subjects.
I'm now 23 years old, and I was "very lousy pupil".
Is that enough ? For someone who dropped out of high school, and did all that in 7 years by himself ?
That is the point. They didn't care, because they where kids, their interests where in other stuff.
They don't "understand" the consequences of not learning, but it's not theirs fault.
If you did learn, and many of slashdotters probably did learn, ok .. good for you. But it's not justifed to blame kids who don't, because they find the subject boring. In fact, those who find some subject boring, they will probably not be good at it, even if they learned it. ... video games ? I learned english sitting in front of TV and playing old dos adventure games.
I give a rats ass for history today, I know the basics, and a lot more probably then the kids who did learn, but I'm not interested in that, Maybe I would, if different approach to teaching was used. For example
Childrens mind is extraordinary.. it can learn and aquire new skills, faster then any other living being on earth, including adults .. I think we all can agree on that.. just give them fun way of learning.
My native language is Serbian, not English.
Yeah, sounds like a perfect preparation for the real world.
As a gown up who as a kid was cheating in school:
Then change the teaching methods. Kids don't want to learn because they find that certain subject boring, or the way it's teached is boring. so they cheat. My teachers and system, weren't interested in all that. It's easier to give an F, so I was forced to cheat.
The current system, it appears to me, is designed for punishing. You didn't learn ? Ok, here's F and you think about this. System of reward and punishment. But that doesn't work very well, so when we talk about kids who cheat or get a F, be aware of that, before condeming and limiting them in "real world" when they grow up. Grown up's messed up, kids where innocent, naive and afraid victims.
As Winston Churchill says - Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
.. write a book about it.
Since majority are unsuccesful, half of that majority will buy that book. If you sell it in america, that's a whole lot of money.
In my country, people are writing books on how to make money on internet. Google ads, etc.. and swimming in money cuz of it, even if there's no real trick to it.
That's what I think about this book, even if I didn't read it. Whole lot of BS. There's nothing in it that, intelligent, thinking, human being doesn't know for itself, without anyone writing it.
Regarding success itself... you need to have some brain, some skill, a lot of will and enthusiasm, confidence, balls, money (you can't do anything without money, that's the reason people from poor country's and poor people in general, find next to impossible to succeed, and they'r vision of success is to work for other people).
I know a lot of smart people, people that had a chance, could do great things, but instead.. they live 'without electricity' in some villages, and are broke cuz there's no job, and they are screwed by politics (war, etc.) in general.
So give me money, give me all resources and education I need, make my parents rich (so I don't have to worry about food and future and failure), and I'll succeed. Only really stupid people can't succeed in those conditions.
I have a friend in Kabul, Afghanistan ... civil stuff, but works in military base. They have internet there, but 70mb daily, then they shut you down .. until tomorrow.
At least you can use messangers... if the latency sucks, sorry.. don't know the details.
Why would someone use corporate mail for selling their IP or whatever ?
Anyone with a half of brain, wouldn't do it, and I guess, those who would, aren't working there.
1. Work
2. Go home
3. Send nokia secrets to someone, from some public webmail stuff, with temporary email adress.
You don't have to be a geek for that.
What is really going on, is that the government and corporations are slowly training people, to accept their rules, and their way. First there are rfid, then electronic passports/licenses and stuff, then spying on e-mail, corporate, then syping on private email, then putting some micro GPS devices on those elec. passports (when we invent them), then .. use your imagination.
People can't accept a radical change of their rights, but they can accept small ones. Drop by drop, ocean.
They probably don't want to let them go, since they probably give a lot of money to their government. It's easyer to just take away something from the people, it always has been, and the governemnts are and where always doing it.
Why is it so hard to setup pop3/imap and whats up with this obsession about the interface ?
I mean, I have no idea how to setup outlook mail right now. But as soon as I start the app, it's intuitive, and it's created that way... so 'users' can set up their mail accounts easily.
You have username, password, pop3/imap server, smtp server, and in most cases it's mail.domain.com. That's it. Eventually smtp auth, or pop3-before-smtp.
And besides that, if you 'know' how to setup one mail client, you know all of them.
People who _can't setup_ mail clients should not get a job working on a computer. Either learn (it's fscking 5 minute learn process...) or you don't get your job, because you'r too stupid to work on a computer, and you will probably mess everything up all the time.
And the interface... all this talk about how good interface of gmail is sick. Fuck the interface. All I need is to send mail, receive mail, to have local and server copy of the mail, and to have standard set of features, all mail clients have.
And I almost forgot ... IMAP has (as people mentioned above) this option. Your client downloads mail to your comp, and leaves a copy on the server. So you can browse your mail in 'offline mode'.
Next, use channels that have lesser bandwidth consumption. It's not important how many ap's are on one channel, it's important how many data frames are going in and out on that channel.
How do you check that?
I used atheros, madwifi drivers, monitor mode... and tcpdump. Linux of course.
However, mikrotik should be able to do that also. Snooper option - or frequency monitor.
But be aware, when interface is in monitor mode, it only receives packets, so don't start it on a link that transports your packets to the AP.
If you'r using fabric access points (clients), you can't do any of this. Buy an atheros card. It works great under Linux, and you can get pretty cheap one, tp-link, 651 for b/g, or 653 for a.
Linux 2.6.28 introduced athk5 driver, so if you have it, just do modprobe ath5k and you'r ready to go.
It's dB (ratio), not dBm (power level). See http://www.antenna-theory.com/basics/antennapol.php [antenna-theory.com].
You'r right, sorry, my bad. Woked up 5 minutes before writing post.
You can minimize interference, but don't expect too much.
First, I don't know what type of antenna's you use, but escaping from vertical polarization (which is 'default'), to horizontal one.
Difference in signal level between these two are 20 dbm. So, if you'r getting signal level from your neibh. -70, you will be getting -90, which will greatly improve your wifi stability.
Next, use channels that have lesser bandwidth consumption. It's not important how many ap's are on one channel, it's important how many data frames are going in and out on that channel.
I tested few days ago, my wifi nodes are receiving data from 3 channel bellow/above me, so cuz I use 11, that means I get data from channel 8, but not from 7 that much. Some packets get through, but that's nothing. Which means, if there's traffic on channel 6, you can safely use channel 9, and you won't feel interference blocking you.
Changing data rate, means changing signal modulation. If you use G or A(if you can, use 802.11a), OFDM modulation kicks in, which from my experience deals better with noise. Latency is far more better then on any modulation of B.
So, try putting your devices on G, then fix the rate to 11mbps.
Basically ... there's no real escape from noise. I'm dealing with it for years now, and I'm getting sick of it ... even polarisation changes aren't effective anymore. That's why, I recommend to switch to 802.11a, there's more then 30 non overlaping channels.. or go above/bellow frequency range. Like .. channel 15 on 2.4. It's possible to do.
He did not say it's better to live in the 'wild', rather, it's better to be in a more natural environments, small city's, village's ... etc.
that will be cured.
+5 insightful ? Damn ...
Disease ? Cured ? How the hell do you know ? .. life is maybe just a cycle, or preparation for something else .. or something third. So you can't say aging is a disease.
To know the point of life (which you need to know, else you can't bring up those statements that you do) you need to know for sure, what happens when we die. Period. As far as we, humans, know
And no, overpopulation won't be a problem becasue humans, like all biological creatures will only expand to meet the amount of food that is available.
The rest will starve.
Yeah ? That would be true, only if the amount of food that is available is equally divided among all human beings. And is certainly not. You'r just to blinded to see that, apparently. Hunger still exists, in the world... and a lot of people fight to survive.
And don't compare other biological beings to us. Other biological beings don't fuck other dead biological beings, don't steal, aren't greedy, aren't jealous, don't murder for fun, dont bomb other country's, and 100 other really really bad things, that we humans are capable of, for our own personal benefit.
Go ahead, mod me down for going offtopic, trolling or whatever, I hope you will.
This is said many times.. but as someone who have only high school, and work in IT, i feel like i need to reply. ... self-taught people vs degree people.
And, btw, I think this discussion is
So my post, as well as those above me, will sound biased.
First of all ... why degree ? I look at it this way.
If I interview sys admin for a job, I'll judge his character and his knowledge. Why ? Because I'm sys admin from age of 16, literally. I hang out with sys admins, developers, and other IT people for 7 years now. I know them, how they think, and what they can do.
I don't need a paper saying he can learn, or he's smart, or whatever... If I want to test his knowledge, or improvising or other skills, I'll assign him a task, and see how he will do it, in what timeframe, etc.
The problem is, people who are hiring, obviously lack skills to determine that, so they need a paper that proves they can.
Another thing, all the people I know are self taught. Maybe thats because my country doesn't have a CS school, but anyway, the people Im talking about, programmed in assembler when they where 14, now, they develop apps in 10 languages, whatever you ask them to do. From C,C++,VB,php,java, .. etc. Some of them do only php, some of them do only C, but they have a job for years now, and they are doing really well.
Why won't you hire that guy ? I know I would.
Self-taught people ARE self-taught because they liked all that things. They loved it ... I skipped from school, so I can get home earlier and mess around on my freshly installed Linux when I was 13 years old. I'm sorry, but the amount of energy people like me put into all this, can beat every degree. I'm not in this for money, I'm in this because I am this.
Of course, there are CS people like me, who eventually went to college and got degree.. so Im not saying having a degree is bad thing.
The reality is, If you have a degree, you will find a job 10x easier. But that shouldn't work that way. Not in IT.
And reply to parent, you can always find job online. And work from home as a sys admin/developer. IMHO, that's even better then sitting in the office 8h/day. I know people that have families, and work that way, not because they can't get a job, but because they like it that way. So you might consider finding a job that you can do from your home. No degree neccesary.
You where watching it since you where 5, and you missed whole voyager and tng ?
I don't think you quite understand the problem here.
To star trek fans, like me ... who watched every episode, this is important, because I don't want to see something I watched when I was a little kid, which gave me ... emotional happiness, broaden my imagination and awareness, and still do, turn into garbage by adding commercials init, big explosions, naked chicks, and no story whatsoever, so more people can watch it, at least once.
Majority of those episodes and stuff, had a story... a lesson, or a different point of view on how things should be.
On a lot of philosophical subjects, religion, death, human rights, point of living, technology, everything... and now we have one man killing 200k people, driving his.. - bike was it ? - 760mph, and fucking a lot of woman. Yeah.. why the bitterness.
'Users', not admins, programmers, or any other geeky kind of people - don't use IRC.
They think its complicated and stuff, and they usually prefer IM, instead of IRC.
I don't know why they think so, but they certainly do. I suppose they would adjust if required, but they will always choose IM if they can.
Also, I, prefer IM for work related stuff. IRC seems ... more interactive. I don't need/want anything more then IM for business (though I still use IRC for some private stuff).