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You think the Microsoft reference was serious? No , it wasn't.
All you have to do is put up some websites to make something legit? That's a scary idea
Dictionary.com's source is the jargon file.
I'd hate to see what would happen if the jargon file was legitimized wholesale. I'd hate to see 1337 sp34k make it too. Same goes for ebonics. While I'm on the subject. Please learn English if you are going to be a citizen of this counrty. If you are just visiting then it is optional even if it is longer term.
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Embrace and Extend.
Sounds like you are suggesting Microsoft English. Microsoft has been known for taking existing technologies/standards/etc. and slightly changing them so it only works with their stuff or makes it difficult as possible to work with their stuff.
A lot of the philosophy behind OSS is sticking to open standards and adding functionality. It is generally frowned upon to mess with existing standards but rather build from them.
There is already a rule for the plural of box which is boxes. There are plenty of new things out there needing terms without needing to pull a Microsoft and change existing terms.
Mmmm baking soda. Maybe I should just come over and leave you something good to eat.
I guess I just wanted to argue because I think if they don't shut the doors then they get what they get. It's really easy to put some basic security on these APs.
I still have a problem with people hacking through these measures. That crosses the line in my opinion.
I can assume the door to your dwelling being open gives me the right to come in and eat stuff out of your fridge?
Someone please post the parent's address because I'm hungry for some free soda and food.
Poor security or not, it is still tresspassing. You don't have to have locks on the door for it to be tresspassing. I personally think a person is stupid/irresponsible for not securing their home/network/etc.
You can leave your car in a bad neighborhood with the keys in it and the windows down. The law will prosecute anyone who steals it if they can find it. Don't be surprised if it is trashed/strippped/etc.
Most of the Dell controllers have a button on the controller to disable the siren. I was trapped in a closet working on a PowerEdge 2300 when I discovered that one. The poor users whined about the noise when it was quite a way away from them and behind a door. Poor babies.
You think this Reiser RAID 5 setup was on the user's workstation? doubt it
I think users were being responsible by saving to the server. How were they supposed to know that the IT staff's disaster recovery plan was going to fail?
If they are going to a data recovery service then I have to assume there aren't any tape backups. Were they assuming that RAID 5 is a disaster recovery solution by itself? I have seen drives go out slowly and backups were corupt and/or incomplete. This is why you have to verify your backups regularly.
2 drives out at the same time seem a little suspicous. Probably one drive was down for a while. Perhaps they need to monitor the status of the array. Find better methods if it was monitored. I remember a story during a certifcation class from the tech for Standby Server (Netware clustering). He got called in when the 2 server cluster went completely down and was chewed out all the way to server room in front of all the bigwigs. After he checked it out, it had failed over 4 months ago and now the second box died too. Extremely stable boxes can get you too complacent about monitoring them.
Maybe the higher powers wouldn't give them money to buy a tape drive to back it up. IT could teach them a lesson by sending the drives to a data recovery so the big boys see that a tape drive cost is nothing compared to the alternatives. IT ends up taking the heat because they used a filesystem that the data recovery people couldn't deal with. Even if they were working under these conditions, there are things they could have done to minimize the problem. Ext3 seems a little better now in this situation even if there was a performance hit.
Perhaps IT was just being lazy/stupid/etc. I don't know. I don't have all the facts so I will just have to say "what if".
Google is great and I get most of my answers there. I like the discussion on Ask/. so I don't complain. There are a lot of suggestions and alternatives brought up that a search never would have come up with in a Google search for the issue.
Editors just need to be a little more dicriminate of what they post.
E.G. I work at a Fortune 500 company and am soley responsible to migrate our SAN to a cheaper solution. I'm taking my A+ exam in a couple weeks so I know what I'm doing. Yes, I am uber leet. Should I install AtheOS or Windows ME on the Sun SunFire boxen??
E.G. I'm being sued by the RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft and my own grandmother. I don't have lawyer and thought I would ask some legal advice from a bunch of geeks instead of doing something smart like obtaining some legal counsel.
I was looking at options for managing bandwidth at work. We already do priority queuing but this could give a more fine grain control over who gets the bandwidth and when.
I was going to do some testing at home. My wife just browses the internet and chats while I have some higher priority realtime traffic (Counterstrike, MOHAA, UT2003, etc). I was thinking about giving her 1/4-1/3 of the bandwidth so it didn't affect my ping as much. Her traffic is fairly light and she goes to bed early so it hasn't really been a big deal. Most of what I do at home isn't necessary but it's a good place to tinker and learn.
There are a lot of good tidbits in this article. Very good timing for me.
That might be the thing to make it work. If you use the local businesses for the advertisers and some sort of interactivity then you may have the killer app to make it where others have failed. If you were sitting a the coffee shop and could order some more coffee while surfing. You could also order stuff from a local store and walk over and pick it up. You could even do the purchase online if you really want to tie it together.
This might be what is needed to make it work. If you just have a bunch of unrelated ads to non-local things that no one cares about then it probably will follow the footsteps of the dot-bombs.
Red Hat becomes more Mandrake-like with menus, defaults, standard tools, etc. and I like it that way.
I started on Red Hat 5.2 and took a while learning the different wm programs. I got a hold of a Mandrake 6.1 CD and loved running any program I wanted from the desktop of my choice. I was running Gnome and KDE apps on the "wrong" one all the time. I didn't even know some of these apps didn't belong on the current desktop. I went back and forth between Gnome and KDE over the years because all my apps were available on the menu so it didn't matter that much.
I like that Mandrake had common tools for configuring the system but was annoyed when they changed them every release. They also changed icons regularly but they where still annoying to me. The current releases have been much better and are getting much more consistent. The big complaint that everything had drake in the name seems a little silly.
Red Hat has a good example for the desktop in Mandrake. Let's hope they avoid the pitfalls Mandrake went through. The end result could be a very nice desktop.
That could be legit. If nuking Redmond gets the xbox ported then maybe that's what needs done. MS can't change specs, go after mod chips, etc. if headquarters is a glowing lump of glass.
Of course Redhat went out and wrote everything from scratch. Wait a minute, they "stole" software from everywhere.
Mandrake was the result of someone loving a product but wanting to add something to it. Mandrake gained popularity because many other people wanted the same things(mainly KDE in beginning). Mandrake has done a lot of good things and given a lot of software, patches, etc. back to the community.
It's not like a lot of other people. "I'm going to take my ball and you can't play". This is all about making things better. Use what you want.
You could even run heavier eye-candy distros if you kill uneeded services and run a lighter window manager. I personally like Blackbox but there are many other options that would work just as well. This gives you some resources free in case you want to run stuff like Mozilla or something else that might want a little more ram, cpu time, etc.
Of course it's not illegal to "see" other networks. I said when you start accessing someone's network then you crossed the line.
A crowbar is a fine tool until I whack you with it. Netstumbler is a great troubleshooting tool and so is nmap for that matter. I use them all the time. They are tools also used by crackers so it makes people a little edgy.
I'm very familiar with the way wireless networking works. I spent 6 months at a job doing point to point wireless connections and access points in businesses for clients. We were working within a coverged data/voice environment so I can assure you I spent a lot of time reading specifications for *many* networking protocols/rfc's/etc.
At least you know your limitations and post as an AC. Too bad you have to resort to name calling when you reading comprhension isn't up to snuff.
Quite a few neighbor feuds have started over such petty issues. When it all blows up and go to court, it all boils back to you tresspassing and trying to justify it. The judge will bring it all back to that.
Seeing their access point wide open is like looking through the windows. You browse the network then you just walked through the open door. It's tresspassing locked, unlocked, open or no door at all.
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You think the Microsoft reference was serious? No , it wasn't.
All you have to do is put up some websites to make something legit? That's a scary idea
Dictionary.com's source is the jargon file.
I'd hate to see what would happen if the jargon file was legitimized wholesale. I'd hate to see 1337 sp34k make it too. Same goes for ebonics. While I'm on the subject. Please learn English if you are going to be a citizen of this counrty. If you are just visiting then it is optional even if it is longer term.
Embrace and Extend.
Sounds like you are suggesting Microsoft English. Microsoft has been known for taking existing technologies/standards/etc. and slightly changing them so it only works with their stuff or makes it difficult as possible to work with their stuff.
A lot of the philosophy behind OSS is sticking to open standards and adding functionality. It is generally frowned upon to mess with existing standards but rather build from them.
There is already a rule for the plural of box which is boxes. There are plenty of new things out there needing terms without needing to pull a Microsoft and change existing terms.
And you could sponsor several if you weren't wasting your time. Never good enough for you is it?
Mmmm baking soda. Maybe I should just come over and leave you something good to eat.
I guess I just wanted to argue because I think if they don't shut the doors then they get what they get. It's really easy to put some basic security on these APs.
I still have a problem with people hacking through these measures. That crosses the line in my opinion.
I can assume the door to your dwelling being open gives me the right to come in and eat stuff out of your fridge?
Someone please post the parent's address because I'm hungry for some free soda and food.
Poor security or not, it is still tresspassing. You don't have to have locks on the door for it to be tresspassing. I personally think a person is stupid/irresponsible for not securing their home/network/etc.
You can leave your car in a bad neighborhood with the keys in it and the windows down. The law will prosecute anyone who steals it if they can find it. Don't be surprised if it is trashed/strippped/etc.
Most of the Dell controllers have a button on the controller to disable the siren. I was trapped in a closet working on a PowerEdge 2300 when I discovered that one. The poor users whined about the noise when it was quite a way away from them and behind a door. Poor babies.
You think this Reiser RAID 5 setup was on the user's workstation? doubt it
I think users were being responsible by saving to the server. How were they supposed to know that the IT staff's disaster recovery plan was going to fail?
If they are going to a data recovery service then I have to assume there aren't any tape backups. Were they assuming that RAID 5 is a disaster recovery solution by itself? I have seen drives go out slowly and backups were corupt and/or incomplete. This is why you have to verify your backups regularly.
2 drives out at the same time seem a little suspicous. Probably one drive was down for a while. Perhaps they need to monitor the status of the array. Find better methods if it was monitored. I remember a story during a certifcation class from the tech for Standby Server (Netware clustering). He got called in when the 2 server cluster went completely down and was chewed out all the way to server room in front of all the bigwigs. After he checked it out, it had failed over 4 months ago and now the second box died too. Extremely stable boxes can get you too complacent about monitoring them.
Maybe the higher powers wouldn't give them money to buy a tape drive to back it up. IT could teach them a lesson by sending the drives to a data recovery so the big boys see that a tape drive cost is nothing compared to the alternatives. IT ends up taking the heat because they used a filesystem that the data recovery people couldn't deal with. Even if they were working under these conditions, there are things they could have done to minimize the problem. Ext3 seems a little better now in this situation even if there was a performance hit.
Perhaps IT was just being lazy/stupid/etc. I don't know. I don't have all the facts so I will just have to say "what if".
Google is great and I get most of my answers there. I like the discussion on Ask /. so I don't complain. There are a lot of suggestions and alternatives brought up that a search never would have come up with in a Google search for the issue.
Editors just need to be a little more dicriminate of what they post.
E.G.
I work at a Fortune 500 company and am soley responsible to migrate our SAN to a cheaper solution. I'm taking my A+ exam in a couple weeks so I know what I'm doing. Yes, I am uber leet. Should I install AtheOS or Windows ME on the Sun SunFire boxen??
E.G.
I'm being sued by the RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft and my own grandmother. I don't have lawyer and thought I would ask some legal advice from a bunch of geeks instead of doing something smart like obtaining some legal counsel.
I was looking at options for managing bandwidth at work. We already do priority queuing but this could give a more fine grain control over who gets the bandwidth and when.
I was going to do some testing at home. My wife just browses the internet and chats while I have some higher priority realtime traffic (Counterstrike, MOHAA, UT2003, etc). I was thinking about giving her 1/4-1/3 of the bandwidth so it didn't affect my ping as much. Her traffic is fairly light and she goes to bed early so it hasn't really been a big deal. Most of what I do at home isn't necessary but it's a good place to tinker and learn.
There are a lot of good tidbits in this article. Very good timing for me.
That might be the thing to make it work. If you use the local businesses for the advertisers and some sort of interactivity then you may have the killer app to make it where others have failed. If you were sitting a the coffee shop and could order some more coffee while surfing. You could also order stuff from a local store and walk over and pick it up. You could even do the purchase online if you really want to tie it together.
This might be what is needed to make it work. If you just have a bunch of unrelated ads to non-local things that no one cares about then it probably will follow the footsteps of the dot-bombs.
Didn't they change to a pay model and go in with Juno?
I'm not sure but I thought that's what happened.
Red Hat becomes more Mandrake-like with menus, defaults, standard tools, etc. and I like it that way.
I started on Red Hat 5.2 and took a while learning the different wm programs. I got a hold of a Mandrake 6.1 CD and loved running any program I wanted from the desktop of my choice. I was running Gnome and KDE apps on the "wrong" one all the time. I didn't even know some of these apps didn't belong on the current desktop. I went back and forth between Gnome and KDE over the years because all my apps were available on the menu so it didn't matter that much.
I like that Mandrake had common tools for configuring the system but was annoyed when they changed them every release. They also changed icons regularly but they where still annoying to me. The current releases have been much better and are getting much more consistent. The big complaint that everything had drake in the name seems a little silly.
Red Hat has a good example for the desktop in Mandrake. Let's hope they avoid the pitfalls Mandrake went through. The end result could be a very nice desktop.
Any "good" firewall will see the ssh traffic on any port and act accordingly. We are just a lowly community college here and that's how it works.
Attitudes like that are just great.
How do you think they are going to pay for that? (I can think of a couple ways.)
Raise your tutition
or
Try to get a grant.
Grant proposals for copyright violation purposes are probably very easy to get and very common I'm sure.
There is no free ride. Someone is paying for all this and when other money isn't available it will be you with your tutition.
I got it to it straight from the main page. It is posted on the front even if it is in the BSD section.
That could be legit. If nuking Redmond gets the xbox ported then maybe that's what needs done. MS can't change specs, go after mod chips, etc. if headquarters is a glowing lump of glass.
Of course Redhat went out and wrote everything from scratch. Wait a minute, they "stole" software from everywhere.
Mandrake was the result of someone loving a product but wanting to add something to it. Mandrake gained popularity because many other people wanted the same things(mainly KDE in beginning). Mandrake has done a lot of good things and given a lot of software, patches, etc. back to the community.
It's not like a lot of other people. "I'm going to take my ball and you can't play". This is all about making things better. Use what you want.
Do you have some sources for that?
I was wondering what they are going to do to enforce this. How hard will be to get around? Oh, the fun of it all.
We are using Quark here with Classic. OS X 10.1.5 and 9.2.2.
What kind of problems are people having?
You could even run heavier eye-candy distros if you kill uneeded services and run a lighter window manager. I personally like Blackbox but there are many other options that would work just as well. This gives you some resources free in case you want to run stuff like Mozilla or something else that might want a little more ram, cpu time, etc.
While we are at it, how about a port to Irix since we can already play quake. Not sure how well this would play on my O2. Be fun to play with though.
True, no one said anything about it. You can be sure that some people are doing more than that to see if they could though. ;-)
I was really commenting on the original poster's comment about the open window/door analogy.
Of course it's not illegal to "see" other networks. I said when you start accessing someone's network then you crossed the line.
A crowbar is a fine tool until I whack you with it. Netstumbler is a great troubleshooting tool and so is nmap for that matter. I use them all the time. They are tools also used by crackers so it makes people a little edgy.
I'm very familiar with the way wireless networking works. I spent 6 months at a job doing point to point wireless connections and access points in businesses for clients. We were working within a coverged data/voice environment so I can assure you I spent a lot of time reading specifications for *many* networking protocols/rfc's/etc.
At least you know your limitations and post as an AC. Too bad you have to resort to name calling when you reading comprhension isn't up to snuff.
Quite a few neighbor feuds have started over such petty issues. When it all blows up and go to court, it all boils back to you tresspassing and trying to justify it. The judge will bring it all back to that.
Seeing their access point wide open is like looking through the windows. You browse the network then you just walked through the open door. It's tresspassing locked, unlocked, open or no door at all.