I think SixApart is being far too generous in not laying the blame for this fully at the feet of Blue Security. Basically Blue Security decided that their web site couldn't stand the DDOS, so they pointed the URL for their company to their blog.com blog. Thus DDOS'ing all of SixApart.
If I were SixApart, I'd sue the fuck out of Blue Security for deliberately DDOSing them.
I've often dreamed of dropping the code monkey job before it drops me, and becoming a bush pilot. I know that being a bush pilot is a lot of hard work, a lot of flying in conditions you don't really want to fly in, and crappy wages, but I'd still like to try it out to see if I could take it or not.
I've flown for hours at a time without talking to the FAA, and my plane didn't fall out of the sky. The FAA doesn't keep the planes from falling out of the sky, they keep them from hitting each other, and *then* falling out of the sky. And even then they're barely up to the job.
But this isn't that system. I'm not sure, but I think this is the system that gives airlines ground holds to keep them from spending too much time in holding patterns.
A friend of mine was doing that - working in the US managing a team of programmers in India, getting the "customer" input, updating the spec, making sure the Indians followed the spec, etc. The end result was the repair and return tracking system for a very large fruit-themed computer company - the same tracking system which lost two of my shiny white and chrome music players which were returned for repairs after arriving dead. I wasn't impressed. He doesn't work there any more.
Money, but also the prospect that the job you've trained for will still be around for your whole career. I told my kids not to bother with computer science, because more and more of those jobs are being sent overseas. Sure, right now every outsourcing situation I've ever seen has been a total clusterfuck, but one of these days those $60 a month Asians are going to produce stuff as good as us $60 an hour North Americans, and then we're totally screwed. I just hope I'm dead by the time that happens.
My first one (for my 15" TiBook) and my step-daughter's first one (for her 14" iBook) both had the same flaw (no strain relief where cords go into hard components) and both failed on the same week after about 10 months. Both of our free replacements have strain relief and both have lasted 3+ years. I since upgraded to a newer 17" AlBook and bought a used adaptor from a friend, so I have three adapters, which means I can leave one in my office, one in the TV room and one in the laptop bag.
The AlBook is nearly a year old and the battery life now sucks (barely get an hour and half out of it), so if I could I'd sprinkle adaptors all over the house and never use it unplugged.
...and you'll get a lot of idiotic code. Hell, it's hard enough finding trained programmers who don't write idiotic code, I can't imagine untrained "Joe Users" using consistent design patterns and not reinventing a lot of square wheels.
In order for bad code to get "feedbacked" into good code, it will have to be read and understood and commented on by people who have the skills to have written it in the first place. Who is going to do that to "Joe Users" code when they could be more productive writing fresh code in the first place?
My first was the Pet 4032 (Fat 40). My second was the C=64. My third was the Kim-1. (Kind of a step backwards, but I was reading Lance Leventhal's 6502 book and it seemed like a good idea at the time.)
It amuses me that my cell phone has more memory than my first 6 computers put together. And that I carry around a USB thumb drive that is bigger than my first 4 hard drives (including the one I installed SLS Linux on) put together.
I use the 60Gb for day-to-day use at home and in the car, and my wife uses her Mini the same way. But we've also got a Shuffle for two reasons: - it's plugged into the stereo, so we can load it up with appropriate music for a party and leave it playing - I sometimes take it kayaking. For both of those applications, a screen and a larger capacity are irrelevant. But by the same token, neither the screen nor the larger capacity would be an impediment, so if Apple wanted to rationalize the product line a bit and bring out a Nano at the $100 price point, I'm sure they'd sell bazillions of them, even to people who only needed a Shuffle.
Personally I like the way that Slashdot announces this amazing new service that is exactly like 47 previous announcements of previous implementations of the same idea, most of which failed as business models or were sued out of existance, none of which did a clear job of explaining why anybody would want such a service. Yeah, that's much better than hearing about alternatives that work and which are not going to get you sued or fired.
Create a small portable device with either a hard drive or flash storage, a battery, and maybe a screen that displays the song title, album name, artist name, and album art. That way people could bring their playlists anywhere, even if they are behind facist firewalls or even (gasp) away from a computer.
Oh wait, I seem to have one right here. It's called "Photo iPod 60Gb". Come to think of it, I think my wife has one too - hers is called "iPod Mini 4Gb".
According to a person with a MacBook Pro prototype, it won't boot with the Windows install CD. Or the FreeBSD install CD for that matter. But that's just booting with the C key held down, like you do to boot the OS X installer CD. Maybe there is another way?
They had MiGs there long before the reunification of Germany. Many were presents from the Israelis who captured them in their various wars. Some came after Israel signed the peace deal with Egypt - Egypt got modern western aircraft, and the US got a bunch of their old Soviet equipment. And some where flat-out purchased from non-aligned nations.
There was a myspace user who was using an utterly huge image of mine (taken with a Kodak Pro14N 14 megapixel camera) as his background. It was a significant hit on my bandwidth, so I put the following in my.htaccess:
It made his page utterly unreadable, but I guess he and his friends still had the old picture in their caches because it took him about 6 months to notice and change it.
My daughter has a myspace account because her friends at college have them (and facebook as well), so she contacted this loser and made some vague remark about his "interesting" background. He didn't get it - he said something about how he googled for kayaking pictures and found this one and liked it.
You know, the number of times bloggers try to turn blogging into something more like Usenet, you'd think eventually they'd figure it out and go back to Usenet.
Slashdot Mirror
I think SixApart is being far too generous in not laying the blame for this fully at the feet of Blue Security. Basically Blue Security decided that their web site couldn't stand the DDOS, so they pointed the URL for their company to their blog.com blog. Thus DDOS'ing all of SixApart.
If I were SixApart, I'd sue the fuck out of Blue Security for deliberately DDOSing them.
I've often dreamed of dropping the code monkey job before it drops me, and becoming a bush pilot. I know that being a bush pilot is a lot of hard work, a lot of flying in conditions you don't really want to fly in, and crappy wages, but I'd still like to try it out to see if I could take it or not.
they keep the planes from falling out of the sky
I've flown for hours at a time without talking to the FAA, and my plane didn't fall out of the sky. The FAA doesn't keep the planes from falling out of the sky, they keep them from hitting each other, and *then* falling out of the sky. And even then they're barely up to the job.
But this isn't that system. I'm not sure, but I think this is the system that gives airlines ground holds to keep them from spending too much time in holding patterns.
Those who do not remember the NetWinder are doomed to repeat it.
A friend of mine was doing that - working in the US managing a team of programmers in India, getting the "customer" input, updating the spec, making sure the Indians followed the spec, etc. The end result was the repair and return tracking system for a very large fruit-themed computer company - the same tracking system which lost two of my shiny white and chrome music players which were returned for repairs after arriving dead. I wasn't impressed. He doesn't work there any more.
Money, but also the prospect that the job you've trained for will still be around for your whole career. I told my kids not to bother with computer science, because more and more of those jobs are being sent overseas. Sure, right now every outsourcing situation I've ever seen has been a total clusterfuck, but one of these days those $60 a month Asians are going to produce stuff as good as us $60 an hour North Americans, and then we're totally screwed. I just hope I'm dead by the time that happens.
My first one (for my 15" TiBook) and my step-daughter's first one (for her 14" iBook) both had the same flaw (no strain relief where cords go into hard components) and both failed on the same week after about 10 months. Both of our free replacements have strain relief and both have lasted 3+ years. I since upgraded to a newer 17" AlBook and bought a used adaptor from a friend, so I have three adapters, which means I can leave one in my office, one in the TV room and one in the laptop bag.
The AlBook is nearly a year old and the battery life now sucks (barely get an hour and half out of it), so if I could I'd sprinkle adaptors all over the house and never use it unplugged.
He's already broken one of Spirit's.
0 rows returned
You could go to digg and find out what Steve Jobs had for breakfast.
I bet it was really cool and trendy, and worked way better than what Bill Gates had for breakfast.
I'd like to go and do about a dozen touch and goes without having to turn.
...and you'll get a lot of idiotic code. Hell, it's hard enough finding trained programmers who don't write idiotic code, I can't imagine untrained "Joe Users" using consistent design patterns and not reinventing a lot of square wheels.
In order for bad code to get "feedbacked" into good code, it will have to be read and understood and commented on by people who have the skills to have written it in the first place. Who is going to do that to "Joe Users" code when they could be more productive writing fresh code in the first place?
My first was the Pet 4032 (Fat 40). My second was the C=64. My third was the Kim-1. (Kind of a step backwards, but I was reading Lance Leventhal's 6502 book and it seemed like a good idea at the time.)
It amuses me that my cell phone has more memory than my first 6 computers put together. And that I carry around a USB thumb drive that is bigger than my first 4 hard drives (including the one I installed SLS Linux on) put together.
I use the 60Gb for day-to-day use at home and in the car, and my wife uses her Mini the same way. But we've also got a Shuffle for two reasons:
- it's plugged into the stereo, so we can load it up with appropriate music for a party and leave it playing
- I sometimes take it kayaking.
For both of those applications, a screen and a larger capacity are irrelevant. But by the same token, neither the screen nor the larger capacity would be an impediment, so if Apple wanted to rationalize the product line a bit and bring out a Nano at the $100 price point, I'm sure they'd sell bazillions of them, even to people who only needed a Shuffle.
Personally I like the way that Slashdot announces this amazing new service that is exactly like 47 previous announcements of previous implementations of the same idea, most of which failed as business models or were sued out of existance, none of which did a clear job of explaining why anybody would want such a service. Yeah, that's much better than hearing about alternatives that work and which are not going to get you sued or fired.
Enjoy your RIAA lawsuit.
Create a small portable device with either a hard drive or flash storage, a battery, and maybe a screen that displays the song title, album name, artist name, and album art. That way people could bring their playlists anywhere, even if they are behind facist firewalls or even (gasp) away from a computer.
Oh wait, I seem to have one right here. It's called "Photo iPod 60Gb". Come to think of it, I think my wife has one too - hers is called "iPod Mini 4Gb".
Has it ever been definitely proven that the Soviet claims that their domestic versions were better wasn't just propoganda and ass-covering?
Well, considering that the only ones the US and our allies saw in battle were the export versions, it's kind of a moot point.
According to a person with a MacBook Pro prototype, it won't boot with the Windows install CD. Or the FreeBSD install CD for that matter. But that's just booting with the C key held down, like you do to boot the OS X installer CD. Maybe there is another way?
I know one of the guys working on the Intel port, and I was trying to convince him to call it "i86Book".
They had MiGs there long before the reunification of Germany. Many were presents from the Israelis who captured them in their various wars. Some came after Israel signed the peace deal with Egypt - Egypt got modern western aircraft, and the US got a bunch of their old Soviet equipment. And some where flat-out purchased from non-aligned nations.
There was a myspace user who was using an utterly huge image of mine (taken with a Kodak Pro14N 14 megapixel camera) as his background. It was a significant hit on my bandwidth, so I put the following in my .htaccess:
.* http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/leech.png [R,L]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.myspace.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule
It made his page utterly unreadable, but I guess he and his friends still had the old picture in their caches because it took him about 6 months to notice and change it.
My daughter has a myspace account because her friends at college have them (and facebook as well), so she contacted this loser and made some vague remark about his "interesting" background. He didn't get it - he said something about how he googled for kayaking pictures and found this one and liked it.
then turned to "did" in the meantime before it was posted
then turned into "no longer" by the time Cmdr Taco posts a dupe.
No, it's
Reboot, Reinstall, RedHat
RHEL, or as we call it around here, Service Pack 4.0.
It doesn't matter whether I'm giving or requesting tech support, the number one rule is that the person on the other end of the telephone is an idiot.
You know, the number of times bloggers try to turn blogging into something more like Usenet, you'd think eventually they'd figure it out and go back to Usenet.