i don't see what the problem is. there haven't been any cases of abuse. if you don't want to be spied upon, then don't do suspicious things. how has the patriot act directly affected you?
I'm running Windows XP on VMWare in Linux. Linux doesn't crash, it keeps on chugging along fine, but Windows XP in the vmware session is what reboots. its not a hardware problem, otherwise it would kill linux too (I run VMWare as root too). its crappy code in windows that kills it. I'm also running DC++ as me and I not an administrator.
then you obviously don't use your workstation and laptop hard enough. I can use DC++ (file sharing program) connect to two hundred or so servers, get several dozen 600+Meg downloads going. come back to my Windows XP Pro computer that is running DC++ and doing absolutely nothing else(p4 1.8ghz, 512M ram, gig ethernet to an OC3) and it will have rebooted sometime durning the night, every time. I don't run DC++ and its fine. I think XP can't handle all the network load for that length of time.
there is also another bug in XP with a shell script that prints 5 tab spaces that will crash XP every time. maybe another slashdotter can point me in the right direction to a link that explains this/has the code because I'm having trouble locating it on google, but I did run it once and crash my XP Pro box, so its out there somewhere.
does anyone remember the name of that utility that will show you what a user is browsing in a new netscape browser window? i thought it was part of dsniff but I think I'm wrong. anyone know what I'm talking about?
Myth #3: Outsourcing will cause a net loss of 3.3 million jobs.
Fact: Outsourcing has little net impact, and represents less than 1 percent of gross job turnover.
Over the past decade, America has lost an average of 7.71 million jobs every quarter.[4] The most alarmist prediction of jobs lost to outsourcing, by Forrester Research, estimates that 3.3 million service jobs will be outsourced between 2000 and 2015--an average of 55,000 jobs outsourced per quarter, or only 0.71 percent of all jobs lost per quarter.
Myth #6: Outsourcing is a one-way street.
Fact: Outsourcing works both ways.
The number of jobs coming from other countries to the U.S. (jobs "insourced") is growing at a faster rate than jobs lost overseas. According to the Organization for International Investment, the numbers of manufacturing jobs insourced to the United States grew by 82 percent, while the number outsourced overseas grew by only 23 percent.[5] Moreover, these insourced jobs are often higher-paying than those outsourced.[6]
nsourcing growing at a faster rate than outsourcing Posted Apr 11, 2004, 4:18 AM ET by Subramony S.
The New York Times is running an article on the benefits of insourcing and how it is growing at a much faster rate than outsourcing.
Proponents of free trade point to the near-record 6.4 million Americans who worked for foreign companies as of 2001, the last year for which complete figures were available. They also note that while more jobs are being outsourced than insourced, the number of new workers employed by foreign companies more than doubled during the 15 years ended in 2001. By comparison, the number that moved offshore - roughly 10 million, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis - grew by only 56 percent in the same period.
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I'm tired of this myth of outsourcing hurting jobs and the US economy. for the most part, its only low level, low paying, entry level positions being outsourced to places like india. the outsourcing saves companies money so they can hire people in higher paying, mid-level positions. Read the links I posted. While currently we have more jobs outsources then insources, the rate if insourcing is increasing faster then the level of outsourcing. For those of you wondering, insourcing is foreign companies in the USA hiring USA workers.
Since these foreign companies are hiring USA workers, they are taking away jobs from workers in their native homeland. Isn't this not fair to workers in their native homeland? Shouldn't we deny business with these companies until they fire all of the USA workers and hire native homeland workers? Because, thats the attitude you have with companies outsourcing to india. it should play both ways, right?
Your job belongs to your employer, not you. Your employer exists to make money, not provide you with a job. To get a job, you must have certain skills/talnets that an employer wants. If you get laid off, its your own fault for putting al your eggs in one basket (all your skills in one trade). The problem is with YOU, not your employer.
yeah i have the same problem here, i want to dumb bellsouth and get a cell phone but keep my DSL. can't do it unfortunately. to get bellsouth DSL you have to have a land line number, so until then I just won't get a cellphone.
I don't think most people buy a new PC when they want to play the next bleeding edge hardware requiring game. I atleast, upgrade one component at a time. One month I get a new video card, the next month I get a better motherboard (with CPU and memory for it if my old ones won't work on it), etc. I upgrade a little at a time to stay current.
No one with half a brain will want to spend $3k on a Dell with a non standard motherboard foot print (LPX or NPX or whatever its called where the daughercards all go in a slot that is perpendicular to the motherboard and therefore makes motherboard upgrading impossoble). and remember to stay bleeding edge you'd have to upgrade yearly or more often. no one will want to shell out $3+ a year on a completely new computer just to play the latest games. why do that when you can get a $200 play station and do the same thing and have it stay current for 5 years?
maybe the topic poster should learn to read a little before going "fedora sucks, i can't dual boot"
whats keeping xvid from doing mainstream...
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no freaking win32 release on their webpage. you have to have a win32 compiler to compile and use it, or do like in the first comment and use that link, or get kazaalite codec pack or one of the many other codec packs that include xvid. if xvid wants to compete with divx, they will need to offer a win32 binary download.
[adam@awilliam adam]$ ssh admin@snap1 admin@snap1's password: Last login: Tue May 4 10:09:58 2004 from 10.8.5.87 Snap Servers are optimized file serving storage appliances. The secure shell utility SSH is provided to enable easy installation of Snap Appliance Inc. certified and sanctioned backup agents only. Snap Appliance Inc. is not responsible for the support of installed third-party applications and cannot be held liable for system failures and/or data loss which may ensue from improper use of command-line or Graphical User Interface management utilities.
For a list of compatible Snap Appliance Inc. backup agents / client applications, please refer to our web site at http://www.snapappliance.com/support sh-2.04$ uname -r 2.4.19-snap.clipper sh-2.04$ uname Linux sh-2.04$
we use a snap server at my work (sorry I don't remember which model off hand) but it was very easy to setup. It runs a custom version of liunx, and you can ssh to it. We already have a samba server but needed more space for a few people. So I edited the snap's smb.conf and added passwd server = archives1 and used the snap server's adduser script to create the users we needed, and the users use \\snapserver\username in windows to access their home directories to store more files. They use their username and passwd from archives1, so I didn't have to add them to samba on the snap server. very cool
yeah but you are forgetting that if XM really takes off, if they can sell their service well, get most major automobile manufacturers to include it standard, etc...then XM radio's shares could go up to very high values, then Clear Channel can sell how ever many hundreds of thousands or millions of shares they own and make many millions, possibly billions of dollars. a lot of easy money to make if clear channel just sits back and lets XM do its thing.
according to http://www.stereophile.com/news/032904news/ and many other news article that can be searched on google news, clear channel has part ownership of XM radio, so why is clear channel trying to stop XM radio? clearly, if XM radio prospers, then so does clear channel.
"Other major XM shareholders include radio giant Clear Channel Communications, Inc."
thankfully, I have job security because i work for state government (state government don't lay off employees) but I still have to deal with users that should know the basics of how to use a computer since they probably have a computer at home or use their computer at work enough:(
and just so everyone knows, the dept of interior is 100% standardized on Microsoft Windows. They do not use any Unix/Linux/BSD anywhere. everything is windows. thats part of the problem of why they are so insecure
if your car has OBD-2 go to www.obd-2.com and buy the cable for it. I do this when I have to pull error codes for diagnostics on my honda. this works with any US vechile 1996 or newer. There are a few things I have to take it to the dealer for though, such as if I needed to have my immobilizer reprogrammed for my ignition keys, or stuff dealing with the airbags. But 99% of the other things I can do myself without the dealer with the use of the OBD-2.com cable and a notebook PC.
For those of you that have been in an autozone, you notice they have the dumb terminals at the parts counter. If you notice this dumb terminal runs a text based interface where you pu tin the year, car make, model, engine size, etc to look up parts. I was in an Autozone once and the server for the dumb terminals happened to lock up. This was 2 or 3 years ago when it happened. I watched the dumb terminal display as it rebooted and came up with some version of redhat (or another distro, I don't really remember too well) and had kernel 2.3 on it.
Responding to the other replies of this article, just because a company doesn't run Linux on their web server to the world, doesn't mean they don't use Linux for other things.
go to home depot, buy a $30 digital thermostat. install it yourself (its 3 wires for the heat/AC and a AA battery for the thermostat). program it so in the summer your AC is at 78 when you are home, 85 when you are at work, and in the winter, 68 when you are asleep and 72 when you are home). the digital thermostat will easily pay for itself in 1 month in the summer.
German WW2 jet fighter, fought in the last weeks of the war. Top speed of 521 mph. None left are light worthy though. The BMW-003 jet engine used in it had a lifetime of 10-12 hours, unfortunately.
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i don't see what the problem is. there haven't been any cases of abuse. if you don't want to be spied upon, then don't do suspicious things. how has the patriot act directly affected you?
I'm running Windows XP on VMWare in Linux. Linux doesn't crash, it keeps on chugging along fine, but Windows XP in the vmware session is what reboots. its not a hardware problem, otherwise it would kill linux too (I run VMWare as root too). its crappy code in windows that kills it. I'm also running DC++ as me and I not an administrator.
then you obviously don't use your workstation and laptop hard enough. I can use DC++ (file sharing program) connect to two hundred or so servers, get several dozen 600+Meg downloads going. come back to my Windows XP Pro computer that is running DC++ and doing absolutely nothing else(p4 1.8ghz, 512M ram, gig ethernet to an OC3) and it will have rebooted sometime durning the night, every time. I don't run DC++ and its fine. I think XP can't handle all the network load for that length of time.
there is also another bug in XP with a shell script that prints 5 tab spaces that will crash XP every time. maybe another slashdotter can point me in the right direction to a link that explains this/has the code because I'm having trouble locating it on google, but I did run it once and crash my XP Pro box, so its out there somewhere.
does anyone remember the name of that utility that will show you what a user is browsing in a new netscape browser window? i thought it was part of dsniff but I think I'm wrong. anyone know what I'm talking about?
http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAi d/wm467.cfm
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Myth #3: Outsourcing will cause a net loss of 3.3 million jobs.
Fact: Outsourcing has little net impact, and represents less than 1 percent of gross job turnover.
Over the past decade, America has lost an average of 7.71 million jobs every quarter.[4] The most alarmist prediction of jobs lost to outsourcing, by Forrester Research, estimates that 3.3 million service jobs will be outsourced between 2000 and 2015--an average of 55,000 jobs outsourced per quarter, or only 0.71 percent of all jobs lost per quarter.
Myth #6: Outsourcing is a one-way street.
Fact: Outsourcing works both ways.
The number of jobs coming from other countries to the U.S. (jobs "insourced") is growing at a faster rate than jobs lost overseas. According to the Organization for International Investment, the numbers of manufacturing jobs insourced to the United States grew by 82 percent, while the number outsourced overseas grew by only 23 percent.[5] Moreover, these insourced jobs are often higher-paying than those outsourced.[6]
http://outsourcing.weblogsinc.com/entry/038852817
nsourcing growing at a faster rate than outsourcing
Posted Apr 11, 2004, 4:18 AM ET by Subramony S.
The New York Times is running an article on the benefits of insourcing and how it is growing at a much faster rate than outsourcing.
Proponents of free trade point to the near-record 6.4 million Americans who worked for foreign companies as of 2001, the last year for which complete figures were available. They also note that while more jobs are being outsourced than insourced, the number of new workers employed by foreign companies more than doubled during the 15 years ended in 2001. By comparison, the number that moved offshore - roughly 10 million, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis - grew by only 56 percent in the same period.
***
I'm tired of this myth of outsourcing hurting jobs and the US economy. for the most part, its only low level, low paying, entry level positions being outsourced to places like india. the outsourcing saves companies money so they can hire people in higher paying, mid-level positions. Read the links I posted. While currently we have more jobs outsources then insources, the rate if insourcing is increasing faster then the level of outsourcing. For those of you wondering, insourcing is foreign companies in the USA hiring USA workers.
Since these foreign companies are hiring USA workers, they are taking away jobs from workers in their native homeland. Isn't this not fair to workers in their native homeland? Shouldn't we deny business with these companies until they fire all of the USA workers and hire native homeland workers? Because, thats the attitude you have with companies outsourcing to india. it should play both ways, right?
Your job belongs to your employer, not you. Your employer exists to make money, not provide you with a job. To get a job, you must have certain skills/talnets that an employer wants. If you get laid off, its your own fault for putting al your eggs in one basket (all your skills in one trade). The problem is with YOU, not your employer.
yeah i have the same problem here, i want to dumb bellsouth and get a cell phone but keep my DSL. can't do it unfortunately. to get bellsouth DSL you have to have a land line number, so until then I just won't get a cellphone.
I don't think most people buy a new PC when they want to play the next bleeding edge hardware requiring game. I atleast, upgrade one component at a time. One month I get a new video card, the next month I get a better motherboard (with CPU and memory for it if my old ones won't work on it), etc. I upgrade a little at a time to stay current.
No one with half a brain will want to spend $3k on a Dell with a non standard motherboard foot print (LPX or NPX or whatever its called where the daughercards all go in a slot that is perpendicular to the motherboard and therefore makes motherboard upgrading impossoble). and remember to stay bleeding edge you'd have to upgrade yearly or more often. no one will want to shell out $3+ a year on a completely new computer just to play the latest games. why do that when you can get a $200 play station and do the same thing and have it stay current for 5 years?
shouldn't all you need be a fiber gigabit NIC and the proper fiber SC or ST (depending on what they use) patch cable?
search google for sfdisk site:redhat.com fedora takes you to the 1st result:
2 004-May/msg00908.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/
maybe the topic poster should learn to read a little before going "fedora sucks, i can't dual boot"
no freaking win32 release on their webpage. you have to have a win32 compiler to compile and use it, or do like in the first comment and use that link, or get kazaalite codec pack or one of the many other codec packs that include xvid. if xvid wants to compete with divx, they will need to offer a win32 binary download.
i just checked, our model is a 4200
[adam@awilliam adam]$ ssh admin@snap1
$ uname -r
admin@snap1's password:
Last login: Tue May 4 10:09:58 2004 from 10.8.5.87
Snap Servers are optimized file serving storage appliances.
The secure shell utility SSH is provided to enable easy installation of
Snap Appliance Inc. certified and sanctioned backup agents only.
Snap Appliance Inc. is not responsible for the support of installed
third-party applications and cannot be held liable for system failures
and/or data loss which may ensue from improper use of command-line or
Graphical User Interface management utilities.
For a list of compatible Snap Appliance Inc. backup agents / client
applications, please refer to our web site at
http://www.snapappliance.com/support
sh-2.04
2.4.19-snap.clipper
sh-2.04$ uname
Linux
sh-2.04$
we use a snap server at my work (sorry I don't remember which model off hand) but it was very easy to setup. It runs a custom version of liunx, and you can ssh to it. We already have a samba server but needed more space for a few people. So I edited the snap's smb.conf and added passwd server = archives1 and used the snap server's adduser script to create the users we needed, and the users use \\snapserver\username in windows to access their home directories to store more files. They use their username and passwd from archives1, so I didn't have to add them to samba on the snap server. very cool
yeah but you are forgetting that if XM really takes off, if they can sell their service well, get most major automobile manufacturers to include it standard, etc...then XM radio's shares could go up to very high values, then Clear Channel can sell how ever many hundreds of thousands or millions of shares they own and make many millions, possibly billions of dollars. a lot of easy money to make if clear channel just sits back and lets XM do its thing.
according to http://www.stereophile.com/news/032904news/ and many other news article that can be searched on google news, clear channel has part ownership of XM radio, so why is clear channel trying to stop XM radio? clearly, if XM radio prospers, then so does clear channel.
"Other major XM shareholders include radio giant Clear Channel Communications, Inc."
i wish the author said what monitoring software he used (other then tcpdump), what software was used to transparently monitor http and smtp
1. users
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2. job security
thankfully, I have job security because i work for state government (state government don't lay off employees) but I still have to deal with users that should know the basics of how to use a computer since they probably have a computer at home or use their computer at work enough
and just so everyone knows, the dept of interior is 100% standardized on Microsoft Windows. They do not use any Unix/Linux/BSD anywhere. everything is windows. thats part of the problem of why they are so insecure
if your car has OBD-2 go to www.obd-2.com and buy the cable for it. I do this when I have to pull error codes for diagnostics on my honda. this works with any US vechile 1996 or newer. There are a few things I have to take it to the dealer for though, such as if I needed to have my immobilizer reprogrammed for my ignition keys, or stuff dealing with the airbags. But 99% of the other things I can do myself without the dealer with the use of the OBD-2.com cable and a notebook PC.
BET was also pulled. good, now I won't have to hear racist black comedians making jokes about whites.
For those of you that have been in an autozone, you notice they have the dumb terminals at the parts counter. If you notice this dumb terminal runs a text based interface where you pu tin the year, car make, model, engine size, etc to look up parts. I was in an Autozone once and the server for the dumb terminals happened to lock up. This was 2 or 3 years ago when it happened. I watched the dumb terminal display as it rebooted and came up with some version of redhat (or another distro, I don't really remember too well) and had kernel 2.3 on it.
Responding to the other replies of this article, just because a company doesn't run Linux on their web server to the world, doesn't mean they don't use Linux for other things.
go to home depot, buy a $30 digital thermostat. install it yourself (its 3 wires for the heat/AC and a AA battery for the thermostat). program it so in the summer your AC is at 78 when you are home, 85 when you are at work, and in the winter, 68 when you are asleep and 72 when you are home). the digital thermostat will easily pay for itself in 1 month in the summer.
not to flame, but why is slashdot posting an article from feb 24, 2004 on how to upgrade to linux 2.6?
this article i have bookmarked tells you how to upgrade to 2.6 and its from august 29, 2003.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799
crontab -e
0 0 * * * up2date --channel=redhat -u
or
0 0 * * * yum -y update
problem solved (for redhat linux users anyway, which probably compromises 50% of linux hack attempts)
I'd want to own one of these...Heinkel HE-162
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German WW2 jet fighter, fought in the last weeks of the war. Top speed of 521 mph. None left are light worthy though. The BMW-003 jet engine used in it had a lifetime of 10-12 hours, unfortunately.