i can see it now, all windows 2000 sysadmins replaced with a simple, automated windows update utility. oh wait, they already have that.
i don't think real sys admin work will ever go away. there will always be a need for people to flip reset switches, install new software, and upgrade old software. If you don't think that's part of sysadmin work, you're probably just a "Password Change Engineer."
locksmiths around the world are pissed because to do their job, they are circumventing the protections put in place by the manufacturer of the lock. They are therefore violating the DMCA and can be dealt with accordingly.
yeah, but we trust them to only do it when we call them. don't worry that most of them are ex-cons that were caught breaking and entering and now are trying to find a legit job. sounds like Kevin.
are they just too lazy to "export to html" and put it up as a webpage?
and no, i don't want to load the adobe viewer. 30 megs of ram for a viewer program? there's probably 80% redundant code loaded into memory in that program alone
the article also states SimDesk was the ONLY company to enter a bid. 20 companies looked at the offer, and decided they could not do it. What kind of rigging is possible when there is only one bid?
When a company says they will deliver a product for a certain price, why would the city of Houston want to pay more for the same product?
i was using it for a while on a, ahem, "heavily loaded server" with limited ram, and it choked (load of ~50, all 64 megs of ram used, around 256megs of swap used). at the time, about a month ago, i had the newest php with the newest apache. The 64 megs of ram could have been the problem, but when i downgraded to the newest apache version 1 i didn't have a problem. the load problem disappeared, and the swap was almost unused. I eventually got more ram and all is well now, however with apache 1.
I would stick with version 1 unless there's something in apache2 that you absolutely need.
dollar for dollar, x86 offerings will be much lower in price and support costs in the 2-4 processor setups. I think HP should team up with a company like Apple or Sun and start offering processors on the alpha platform that run the other company's software. Can anyone say OSX on EV7?
i got a Y2K solar power converter i'll sell you for cheap.
remember when everyone thought the world would end because of the y2k bug? all it caused was a lot of unqualified employment in the computer industry. This type of hype is speculative at best, at worst it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The BSA claims they have no protection...
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...to maintain their monopoly. What did you expect them to say, "OK, we give up, you can copy anything you want and we don't care?" Any business man will tell you they are only in business to make money. Any business man that tells you different is probably selling something.
550 is a temporary denial. 553 is a permanent failure (rblsmtpd switch is "-b"). spammers usually just move on to another host if they keep getting 553's. 550s tell them to keep on trying, which is bad on the receiving mail server if you're getting a pretty heavy load.
on a side note, i would advise against using the spews.org list. it is almost impossible to get off of that list. they recently decided to put a few/23's and/22's of a network that i run, just because abuse@domain.com did not respond fast enough. The only way to get off of that list is to post to a newsgroup, and just hope they read your posting and take off the ban. That means it is a total manual process on their side to remove you.
in my eyes, using something like sbl.spamhaus.org or/and relays.ordb.org is a much better solution. If you are going to go the DNSBL route, and you should, i would advise you figure out how to run your own DNSBL so you can quickly add and remove hosts that are mailbombing your server.
too bad if you have cable you don't get the choice to use another isp for cable internet. if you don't like your internet cable company, then the US gubment says you don't have a choice.
Do you think AT&T is charged for it's bandwidth? If so, who charges them? They are one of the rare companies that built out their own network. Their only charge is maintenance.
1. request tracker - problem tracking 2. big brother - problem notification 3. mrtg - bandwidth (and other stuff) monitoring 4. find, grep, awk, sed, cat, less - problem troubleshooting
Why is it that I can't just buy the porn channel and a few others? sure, I get about 15 religious and infomercial stations that I never watch (but end up paying for), but what I really want is the ability to only view what I asked for. If I wanted the latino HBO, I would have bought it. Since I get it, and I have to purchase 5 HBOs all together for one price, I end up paying extra for something I don't use. I think a la carte pricing is on its way, and not a moment too soon. The only reason cable companies would not want this is because they are subsidized by the extra crap.
What if the internet was this way and you had to pay to view other web pages that you were not interested in just to get to the few that you actually want to see? Oh wait, NetZero and Juno couldn't give that away. the only difference I see is the cable companies don't have to compete for local market share (can you say monopoly?).
...I have used a dual monitor setup for several years now at home, and when i go to the office, i find myself sending quite a bit of time alt-tabbing back and forth between applications.
To be able to have documentation open on one screen, and your actual work on the other screen would speed up development. I know using spreadsheets benefit greatly using the monitor spanning, where your work is spread over both monitors. I can see how a vertical monitor configuration would allow a coder to view more code at the same time, and would probably speed up development.
your two weeks of installation and configuration could have been avoided if you used debian and 'apt-get install squid' and spent 15 minutes reading the squid howto located here
people use microsoft because it is easy. people use linux because it works better (has a much higher price to performance ratio).
in real life, would you rather someone look something up in a book or on the internet and be 100% correct, or try to remember back 5-10 years to something a professor once had on a test?
how about one second of silence for the one person they missed.
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bad e-mail security should be treated like bad harware security and litigated to death. seems like if there is ANY filter in place, attempts to bypass that filter would be a violation of the DMCA.
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why build from source? if you don't modify the source in the first place, you will gain at most, marginal speed improvements by compiling by source. what you will do is waste bandwidth and time compiling something for which you can get a standard binary. i am mostly talking about common utilities like the binutils, traceroute, ping, netstat, and other common utilities. these are programs that almost never have a bug fix, and are pretty much optimised as good as they need to be. why would you want to download the source to these programs and compile them? i know for me, 'apt-get install traceroute' is ultimately the quickest and easiest way to install.
of course, if you're running apache with php, mysql, mod_perl, and a million other modules, you'll need to compile by hand, but the average Joe Linux User isn't going to find a use for all of that.
The power of linux is that you can install and uninstall parts of the operating system without affecting other parts of it. what allows this to happen is the availability of open source. the little guy has no need to go through several thousand lines of code and fill several dependencies just to install a simple network utility (like how ntop needs libpcap). apt-get and some other utilities are ultimately very useful in this respect. Don't even get me started on upgrading or uninstalling.
your solution would not leave room for the oversubscription of the bandwidth that started in the mid 90's. bandwidth will become a limitation of the line carriers. they should just have 2 levels of service, instead of the one (internet cable). they should offer a service that is 1500/128 that is the product that is there now. and then, have a higher package that is meant for the top 1% of the 30%. don't overcharge for this higher package, since this will be the people that usually run the internet in the first place.
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i can see it now, all windows 2000 sysadmins replaced with a simple, automated windows update utility. oh wait, they already have that.
i don't think real sys admin work will ever go away. there will always be a need for people to flip reset switches, install new software, and upgrade old software. If you don't think that's part of sysadmin work, you're probably just a "Password Change Engineer."
locksmiths around the world are pissed because to do their job, they are circumventing the protections put in place by the manufacturer of the lock. They are therefore violating the DMCA and can be dealt with accordingly.
yeah, but we trust them to only do it when we call them. don't worry that most of them are ex-cons that were caught breaking and entering and now are trying to find a legit job. sounds like Kevin.
the article is in a pdf. now that redundancy.
are they just too lazy to "export to html" and put it up as a webpage?
and no, i don't want to load the adobe viewer. 30 megs of ram for a viewer program? there's probably 80% redundant code loaded into memory in that program alone
the article also states SimDesk was the ONLY company to enter a bid. 20 companies looked at the offer, and decided they could not do it. What kind of rigging is possible when there is only one bid?
When a company says they will deliver a product for a certain price, why would the city of Houston want to pay more for the same product?
i was using it for a while on a, ahem, "heavily loaded server" with limited ram, and it choked (load of ~50, all 64 megs of ram used, around 256megs of swap used). at the time, about a month ago, i had the newest php with the newest apache. The 64 megs of ram could have been the problem, but when i downgraded to the newest apache version 1 i didn't have a problem. the load problem disappeared, and the swap was almost unused. I eventually got more ram and all is well now, however with apache 1.
I would stick with version 1 unless there's something in apache2 that you absolutely need.
off topic, but for a real good time, call 127.0.0.1:79
dollar for dollar, x86 offerings will be much lower in price and support costs in the 2-4 processor setups. I think HP should team up with a company like Apple or Sun and start offering processors on the alpha platform that run the other company's software. Can anyone say OSX on EV7?
i got a Y2K solar power converter i'll sell you for cheap.
remember when everyone thought the world would end because of the y2k bug? all it caused was a lot of unqualified employment in the computer industry. This type of hype is speculative at best, at worst it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
...to maintain their monopoly. What did you expect them to say, "OK, we give up, you can copy anything you want and we don't care?" Any business man will tell you they are only in business to make money. Any business man that tells you different is probably selling something.
550 is a temporary denial. 553 is a permanent failure (rblsmtpd switch is "-b"). spammers usually just move on to another host if they keep getting 553's. 550s tell them to keep on trying, which is bad on the receiving mail server if you're getting a pretty heavy load.
/23's and /22's of a network that i run, just because abuse@domain.com did not respond fast enough. The only way to get off of that list is to post to a newsgroup, and just hope they read your posting and take off the ban. That means it is a total manual process on their side to remove you.
on a side note, i would advise against using the spews.org list. it is almost impossible to get off of that list. they recently decided to put a few
in my eyes, using something like sbl.spamhaus.org or/and relays.ordb.org is a much better solution. If you are going to go the DNSBL route, and you should, i would advise you figure out how to run your own DNSBL so you can quickly add and remove hosts that are mailbombing your server.
Nothing beats cash.
You can't pay bills with a company shirt, a coffee mug, or a company party. I would rather have something that is of actual value.
too bad if you have cable you don't get the choice to use another isp for cable internet. if you don't like your internet cable company, then the US gubment says you don't have a choice.
Do you think AT&T is charged for it's bandwidth? If so, who charges them? They are one of the rare companies that built out their own network. Their only charge is maintenance.
1. request tracker - problem tracking
2. big brother - problem notification
3. mrtg - bandwidth (and other stuff) monitoring
4. find, grep, awk, sed, cat, less - problem troubleshooting
links to these are on http://www.freshmeat.net
Why is it that I can't just buy the porn channel and a few others? sure, I get about 15 religious and infomercial stations that I never watch (but end up paying for), but what I really want is the ability to only view what I asked for. If I wanted the latino HBO, I would have bought it. Since I get it, and I have to purchase 5 HBOs all together for one price, I end up paying extra for something I don't use. I think a la carte pricing is on its way, and not a moment too soon. The only reason cable companies would not want this is because they are subsidized by the extra crap.
What if the internet was this way and you had to pay to view other web pages that you were not interested in just to get to the few that you actually want to see? Oh wait, NetZero and Juno couldn't give that away. the only difference I see is the cable companies don't have to compete for local market share (can you say monopoly?).
...I have used a dual monitor setup for several years now at home, and when i go to the office, i find myself sending quite a bit of time alt-tabbing back and forth between applications.
To be able to have documentation open on one screen, and your actual work on the other screen would speed up development. I know using spreadsheets benefit greatly using the monitor spanning, where your work is spread over both monitors. I can see how a vertical monitor configuration would allow a coder to view more code at the same time, and would probably speed up development.
your two weeks of installation and configuration could have been avoided if you used debian and 'apt-get install squid' and spent 15 minutes reading the squid howto located here
people use microsoft because it is easy. people use linux because it works better (has a much higher price to performance ratio).
in real life, would you rather someone look something up in a book or on the internet and be 100% correct, or try to remember back 5-10 years to something a professor once had on a test?
how about one second of silence for the one person they missed.
bad e-mail security should be treated like bad harware security and litigated to death. seems like if there is ANY filter in place, attempts to bypass that filter would be a violation of the DMCA.
why build from source? if you don't modify the source in the first place, you will gain at most, marginal speed improvements by compiling by source. what you will do is waste bandwidth and time compiling something for which you can get a standard binary. i am mostly talking about common utilities like the binutils, traceroute, ping, netstat, and other common utilities. these are programs that almost never have a bug fix, and are pretty much optimised as good as they need to be. why would you want to download the source to these programs and compile them? i know for me, 'apt-get install traceroute' is ultimately the quickest and easiest way to install.
of course, if you're running apache with php, mysql, mod_perl, and a million other modules, you'll need to compile by hand, but the average Joe Linux User isn't going to find a use for all of that.
The power of linux is that you can install and uninstall parts of the operating system without affecting other parts of it. what allows this to happen is the availability of open source. the little guy has no need to go through several thousand lines of code and fill several dependencies just to install a simple network utility (like how ntop needs libpcap). apt-get and some other utilities are ultimately very useful in this respect. Don't even get me started on upgrading or uninstalling.
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Product? In a Microsoft security hole?
your solution would not leave room for the oversubscription of the bandwidth that started in the mid 90's. bandwidth will become a limitation of the line carriers. they should just have 2 levels of service, instead of the one (internet cable). they should offer a service that is 1500/128 that is the product that is there now. and then, have a higher package that is meant for the top 1% of the 30%. don't overcharge for this higher package, since this will be the people that usually run the internet in the first place.