Whether or not there's anything to be worried about, this seems like a good excuse to firewall off China... which would cut down on massive massive quantities of spam and random ssh brute force hack attempts.
I'd say firewall off Russia too for the same reasons, but Russia also contributes much of the porn on the internet, and that's a critical resource.
*buntu is the MicroSoft Bob of Linux. Try a real distribution, and preferably not under a VM (at least not a VM that has to rely on Windohs). You'll get much better performance.
There are multiple GUIs for mplayer, some are pretty good... but I love that it doesn't require a GUI. A good command line interface makes mplayer even better.
I've never found any videos or audio files mplayer doesn't play. I can use command lines and not have to be burdened by some silly GUI with mplayer (but it has a GUI for people who are keyboard-impaired). It has that super-useful -dumpstream feature for saving audio files off of the net which streaming sites make difficult for people to save. It lets you convert files between different formats, separately rip out the audio or video parts of a movie, or replace the audio track to a movie (or add audio to a silent video).
How much of this does VLC do?
Yes I think I'm going to take this sage wisdom from some ignant suit... "I dunno how to make money off it, so it must be irrelevant." Maybe loosen that tie a little and let some oxygen up in that ol' brain there, buddy? Perhaps then RedHat and Fedora will stop getting declining in quality with each new release.
This is the only solution I'd recommend, really. For most of the stuff office drones need, a managed Linux box with OpenOffice, Firefox and an email client is plenty. If you really really can't find some specialized program you need in open source, at least that limits the number of people who'll need commercial software licensed.
I've worked at companies where pirating was actively encouraged by upper management. Approach your bosses and see what they think.
I've only gotten one DMCA takedown request. I wrote back and told the guy to go F himself, then firewalled his IP off from my web server. If it'd been something where I felt the requester was in the right I probably would've complied, but... not the case.
I'd leave it up if I were you, that seems like fair use if you're using it for discussion purposes.
Sounds like they need you more than you need them. Use your leverage as the Linux whiz and tell them you don't think this is right and won't do it. The realization that they could lose a critical staff member may help enlighten them. It may cost you a job, it may not, but even if you end up having to quit, is that bad? Theyre already shafting you by dumping sysadmin work you don't really want on you.
Neat... but I don't actually care very much about the ads. I do care about the privacy issues (or rather Google's all out war on privacy). This gmbmg.com doesn't do diddlyfuck about that since it still goes right to Google (via my computer, not theirs - watch your status bar as it loads) to do it's thing.
I've only gotten one DMCA take down request, I wrote back and told the copyright owner which of my body parts he could orally copulate with and never heard back.
If this web site thought the law was vague and that they were in the right, they should've told Amazon something similar and left the script up. Stupid laws like this only survive because people crumble in the face of silly threats.
Why not just do "strings pifts.exe" from your shell prompt and see wha... oh. That's right. WinDoh's. It's cute & funny when people running Microsoft products worry about computer security.
Yeah, screw them. If it'll give you piece of mind, go in and talk to them about it with an audio recorder in your pocket;) Even without, you've got a good chance at winning a nice law suit.
Also think about this... you have a new job. As long as that one and your past jobs give good reviews, one asshole company talking shit isn't likely to damage your future hirability elsewhere.
If it were me, I'd go tell them they need to either settle down or you'll just walk immediately and not even give the 2 weeks.
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These sort of articles always focus on what the AOL plebes and other digital immigrants were doing back then, and totally ignores most of what actual internet users were doing. Aside from the numerous cool web sites that nobody mentions... where is IRC? Gopher? ICQ may not have existed, but lots of people used unix talk (or ytalk, if you knew better). There were lots of FTP sites that were incredibly popular. And of course, usenet... which was for many years as essential to the net as the web is today.
That's an idea I had too... surely someone's seen this on a space shuttle/station? There must be some data on low gravity water drops.
Still would need to account for the stuff being outdoors in the wind and all without moving.
Other possibility is it isn't liquid, but ice which just looks liquid.
Or Mars bugs hehe.
So this is supposedly water, or some other liquid, that's forming on exposed metal on a generally windy planet, and we're seeing photos over a 36 day period. Then why is it that there are quite a few persistent blobs that stay in the same place with basically the same shape over that period, while new ones form? Have any of you ever seen water droplets on your car retain their position and shape over 36 hours, much less 36 days? Isn't Mars generally pretty windy? Shouldn't there be much more rearrangement of blobs between these photos if we were looking at something like rain or condensation?
If you showed me a picture series like that and said was a picture of a plant on Earth, I'd look at the spreading blobs and immediately tell you it was showing a spreading infestation of scale bugs (or some mealybug relative perhaps).
Not saying this is evidence of life on Mars, but I'm interested to hear an explanation of how exposed liquid droplets on a metal surface outdoors can be persistent for that long, while more and more of them appear as time goes on.
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Whether or not there's anything to be worried about, this seems like a good excuse to firewall off China... which would cut down on massive massive quantities of spam and random ssh brute force hack attempts. I'd say firewall off Russia too for the same reasons, but Russia also contributes much of the porn on the internet, and that's a critical resource.
Besides, there are WAY better drugs for all night code binges.
Geeks like science fiction? STOP THE PRESSES!!!
Or use zsh, which has fantastic tab completion for lots of things.
*buntu is the MicroSoft Bob of Linux. Try a real distribution, and preferably not under a VM (at least not a VM that has to rely on Windohs). You'll get much better performance. There are multiple GUIs for mplayer, some are pretty good... but I love that it doesn't require a GUI. A good command line interface makes mplayer even better.
I've never found any videos or audio files mplayer doesn't play. I can use command lines and not have to be burdened by some silly GUI with mplayer (but it has a GUI for people who are keyboard-impaired). It has that super-useful -dumpstream feature for saving audio files off of the net which streaming sites make difficult for people to save. It lets you convert files between different formats, separately rip out the audio or video parts of a movie, or replace the audio track to a movie (or add audio to a silent video). How much of this does VLC do?
Using "your" for "you're" and accusing someone of bragging when a third party says it's the best also makes you look like a jerk.
Color me skeptical.
How did this asinine post make it to Slashdot?
Funny, the only response in MY mind was "god they aren't even trying anymore..."
Yes I think I'm going to take this sage wisdom from some ignant suit... "I dunno how to make money off it, so it must be irrelevant." Maybe loosen that tie a little and let some oxygen up in that ol' brain there, buddy? Perhaps then RedHat and Fedora will stop getting declining in quality with each new release.
Finally, Pedobear's long hours of training to join the DEA has paid off!
This is the only solution I'd recommend, really. For most of the stuff office drones need, a managed Linux box with OpenOffice, Firefox and an email client is plenty. If you really really can't find some specialized program you need in open source, at least that limits the number of people who'll need commercial software licensed. I've worked at companies where pirating was actively encouraged by upper management. Approach your bosses and see what they think.
I've only gotten one DMCA takedown request. I wrote back and told the guy to go F himself, then firewalled his IP off from my web server. If it'd been something where I felt the requester was in the right I probably would've complied, but... not the case. I'd leave it up if I were you, that seems like fair use if you're using it for discussion purposes.
Lorne Greene is dead, so there's no way Adama was just at the UN.
Sounds like they need you more than you need them. Use your leverage as the Linux whiz and tell them you don't think this is right and won't do it. The realization that they could lose a critical staff member may help enlighten them. It may cost you a job, it may not, but even if you end up having to quit, is that bad? Theyre already shafting you by dumping sysadmin work you don't really want on you.
Neat... but I don't actually care very much about the ads. I do care about the privacy issues (or rather Google's all out war on privacy). This gmbmg.com doesn't do diddlyfuck about that since it still goes right to Google (via my computer, not theirs - watch your status bar as it loads) to do it's thing.
I think the better approach is to give Google the finger and start using other tools.
I've only gotten one DMCA take down request, I wrote back and told the copyright owner which of my body parts he could orally copulate with and never heard back. If this web site thought the law was vague and that they were in the right, they should've told Amazon something similar and left the script up. Stupid laws like this only survive because people crumble in the face of silly threats.
Why not just do "strings pifts.exe" from your shell prompt and see wha... oh. That's right. WinDoh's. It's cute & funny when people running Microsoft products worry about computer security.
Yeah, screw them. If it'll give you piece of mind, go in and talk to them about it with an audio recorder in your pocket ;) Even without, you've got a good chance at winning a nice law suit.
Also think about this... you have a new job. As long as that one and your past jobs give good reviews, one asshole company talking shit isn't likely to damage your future hirability elsewhere.
If it were me, I'd go tell them they need to either settle down or you'll just walk immediately and not even give the 2 weeks.
These sort of articles always focus on what the AOL plebes and other digital immigrants were doing back then, and totally ignores most of what actual internet users were doing. Aside from the numerous cool web sites that nobody mentions... where is IRC? Gopher? ICQ may not have existed, but lots of people used unix talk (or ytalk, if you knew better). There were lots of FTP sites that were incredibly popular. And of course, usenet... which was for many years as essential to the net as the web is today.
That's an idea I had too... surely someone's seen this on a space shuttle/station? There must be some data on low gravity water drops. Still would need to account for the stuff being outdoors in the wind and all without moving. Other possibility is it isn't liquid, but ice which just looks liquid. Or Mars bugs hehe.
So this is supposedly water, or some other liquid, that's forming on exposed metal on a generally windy planet, and we're seeing photos over a 36 day period. Then why is it that there are quite a few persistent blobs that stay in the same place with basically the same shape over that period, while new ones form? Have any of you ever seen water droplets on your car retain their position and shape over 36 hours, much less 36 days? Isn't Mars generally pretty windy? Shouldn't there be much more rearrangement of blobs between these photos if we were looking at something like rain or condensation? If you showed me a picture series like that and said was a picture of a plant on Earth, I'd look at the spreading blobs and immediately tell you it was showing a spreading infestation of scale bugs (or some mealybug relative perhaps). Not saying this is evidence of life on Mars, but I'm interested to hear an explanation of how exposed liquid droplets on a metal surface outdoors can be persistent for that long, while more and more of them appear as time goes on.
Didn't almost the exact same thing happen to some blog hosting service within the past month? Wow.