My favorite fishism in here is the "The whole world is in sole possession of the Chinese Linux operating system, steadily beats a drum to announce the start of a watch the freedom."
Now now, remember when you laugh at a person for not getting your native tounge just right, its because they bothered to learn *your* lanaguage. Most Americans dont speak more than English, so it's not fair to make fun of this Mr. Fish. To Mr. Fish, we're sorry!
As a netadmin for a small-medium sized ISP, I'm going to have to disagree with that on two levels. First off, most of us small guys dont have all the bells and whistles, or disposable overhead to implement free tools to spy on our users. Quite a few of us pipe our customers "straight through". (That and you need to remember that the majority of us are no Vincent Cerfs.. we're smart people but we could sit here 24 hours a day and still not have enough time to learn it all- but thats another thread)
Second, for the things that we *can* look at (easy stuff like say someone's POP mailbox, just a text file) there is (most people wont believe this) actually an honor system amongst admins. We won't edit a mailbox if its broken until we have permission. Otherwise we might see something that isnt ours to see. Privacy is THE most important thing we can promise our customers, so everything else has to take the back seat, even if it means some uptime.
Even given that, though, I do recommend that people encrypt their email, cause just cause I wont read your mail, doesn't mean the kid who has a 60 minute kernel exploit who just rooted me wont- (the rooting being another thread, lets not talk about perfection in admining here) (So sorry to reply like this, but I just took it a little personally. We're not all sleazy. Most of us arent.)
In the process of digging this up, you have also apparently answered the question of "who originally archived this", as the bottom of the page has a "welcome user from.alexa.com" footer.
I've been using Linux, BSD and Solaris for three years professionally, and tinkering at home for several years before that, and I frankly wouldn't know where to start to enforce password policies.
i think just about any linux and solaris system will come with PAM these days, and one of those libraries lets you configure these requirements.
the article made me think of something about telephone wiretaps.
if me and my buddy each had a scrambling doodad that made my voice encrypted, and then on his end decrypted, how long do y'all figure it would be before someone showed up at my door asking what i was doing?
and do they make something like that? (thats just for the sake of interest)
a "safe zone" where telemarketers, if they call you during it, can be sued and all that crap, and otherwise, its just slimey business as usual.. like, "no calls from 6pm til 8am" so that families can plan on dinner together (thats a pretty important thing to have for a family) and if the phone rings, they know they should answer it. they could call it the "safe harbor from sleazeballs during dinner" act.
i know its a compromise but i'd settle for it, myself.
yeah, i can kinda see that. i always figure that the idea that makes the internet is a static idea that moves through time. it helped us make the internet run on junk like telephone lines, junky computers, heck, dsl over cow fences. as the idea moves forward, the internet cools off and hardens into a bunch of e-crap- banners, popups, and "its not an internet connection, it's a high speed web experience.. so you dont need these ports", the idea burrows underneah the scab of the 'net. we see interesting things come in the form of your buddies vpn-ing back and forth, making yet another infrastructure transparent to the shadow of the original internet. eventually, two big groups of friends are going to cross connect their web of vpns and make a small network, and some geek will realize "hey lets make a domain for it" and completely reimplement dns. and it will be good, and some old timer will comment on it, saying "this is more like it should be", and the young ones will say "oh?" and the old one will tell them a story about the good old days. eventually 10 years from then, that original geek will be living in a mansion cause he sold his idea, but who cares cause the kid next door started reinventing "the way it should be" using that original idea that's always been moving forward, never stopping to cash in on itself. and so it goes on and on. sure the net sucks, but the people that are bothered by it most will be the first to find what they want hidden within what is obvious. sorry my post sounds like a crappy high school english thesis paper, btw.
if they can easily monitor something like bandwidth usage on a per-customer basis, why the heck can't they also scan for other violations/problems like code red?
just cause i am counting cans doesnt mean i can read the labels:)
"...and this is Nick, our system adminstrator. You'll be sitting back here with him." (this is 1997, and i am the new phone tech) He grins at me but doesnt say anything.
A few hours later...
Nick swings around in his chair.
"BZZZZZZT!!!" he sprays out.
"I'm saaaaaad!" ye declares in a scratchy animal voice.
"BaZZZZZZZZZTTTT" he repeats.
"I'm haaaaapy!" (same scratchy voice)
"BZZZZZZZzzzT! I'm saaad! Bzzt! I'm happy!"
Then he swings around in his chair and is quiet for the rest of the day. Later on I asked him what that was about, and he described the obvious, "well, that was me on electro shock therapy. what, you didn't get it? bad tech!" and thats when he developed the (bad) habit of beaning me in the head with pennys as hard as he could. "Just the broze stuff, nothing grey", he retorted. *sigh*
You obviously haven't been enjoying Friday Night Treks on the NEW TNN. I'm sure others will back me up that that particular episode has been on at least 9 times in the past 4 weeks.
yeah.. it's pretty easy. thing is, i cant figure out a way to test how it will affect the load on the machine without actually testing it on the machine. i think piping it through a program as such might knock the stuffing out of it, which is why it would be nice of procmail could do it "while its there".
I suppose that's a developer trick. (setting up a test environment that can emulate 8 incoming emails a second/10k users popping). Actually, I would give serious kudos for a link to something like that. I tried to research the setting up of a test bed like this but didnt even know what to call it!:-P
its too bad procmail cant delve into the mime attachments, eh. then we could pattern match on the.. help me out here, uuencoded virus? i'm stabbing in the dark, though. that could be very incorrect.. and i'd love it if it was.
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Now now, remember when you laugh at a person for not getting your native tounge just right, its because they bothered to learn *your* lanaguage. Most Americans dont speak more than English, so it's not fair to make fun of this Mr. Fish. To Mr. Fish, we're sorry!
its cooler than www.superweapons.com, but at least mine isn't slashdotted :)
They ought to be talking to George Lucas today," Miller said, for no apparent reason whatsoever.
Second, for the things that we *can* look at (easy stuff like say someone's POP mailbox, just a text file) there is (most people wont believe this) actually an honor system amongst admins. We won't edit a mailbox if its broken until we have permission. Otherwise we might see something that isnt ours to see. Privacy is THE most important thing we can promise our customers, so everything else has to take the back seat, even if it means some uptime.
Even given that, though, I do recommend that people encrypt their email, cause just cause I wont read your mail, doesn't mean the kid who has a 60 minute kernel exploit who just rooted me wont- (the rooting being another thread, lets not talk about perfection in admining here) (So sorry to reply like this, but I just took it a little personally. We're not all sleazy. Most of us arent.)
In the process of digging this up, you have also apparently answered the question of "who originally archived this", as the bottom of the page has a "welcome user from .alexa.com" footer.
I was following the story pretty well up until that point.
If you're going to ask questions like that on Slashdot, until the farmer realized all the cows were already home!
"[...] in this manual, I will refer to myself as 'we', so that it will at least look like 'we' are learning [...]"
Our supplement formula is comprised of the highest quality crystalline protein source
:) j/k
10 bucks says I know whats in his clipboard
Ah, the eternal choice... to give up the beer to avoid the ramen, or to poison youself with ramen to keep the beer... a destructive infinite loop...
Does this mean that if they had their way, then if I spoke copyrighted lyrics into a speech to text system, it would shut down?
I am obligated to post a link to the 7 year old 14 year old fanboy-created website from 1995. And given that its 7 years old, dont expect the forms to work!
HEY! Is anyone here young enough that they dont get the website I am spoofing???
I've been using Linux, BSD and Solaris for three years professionally, and tinkering at home for several years before that, and I frankly wouldn't know where to start to enforce password policies.
i think just about any linux and solaris system will come with PAM these days, and one of those libraries lets you configure these requirements.
hi,
the article made me think of something about telephone wiretaps.
if me and my buddy each had a scrambling doodad that made my voice encrypted, and then on his end decrypted, how long do y'all figure it would be before someone showed up at my door asking what i was doing?
and do they make something like that? (thats just for the sake of interest)
what do other people think about this idea
a "safe zone" where telemarketers, if they call you during it, can be sued and all that crap, and otherwise, its just slimey business as usual.. like, "no calls from 6pm til 8am" so that families can plan on dinner together (thats a pretty important thing to have for a family) and if the phone rings, they know they should answer it. they could call it the "safe harbor from sleazeballs during dinner" act.
i know its a compromise but i'd settle for it, myself.
Apparently, the software is so new that it is not even featured on the front page of our web site.
:-D
Erm, I hope you didn't sign anything in particular before you found out about this product
thus circumventing the stranglehold the RIAA has on the music industry
No! I can not say anything nice about Verizon! I'll seize to be! Curses.. foiled.. gahh.... getting dark...
yeah, i can kinda see that. i always figure that the idea that makes the internet is a static idea that moves through time. it helped us make the internet run on junk like telephone lines, junky computers, heck, dsl over cow fences. as the idea moves forward, the internet cools off and hardens into a bunch of e-crap- banners, popups, and "its not an internet connection, it's a high speed web experience.. so you dont need these ports", the idea burrows underneah the scab of the 'net. we see interesting things come in the form of your buddies vpn-ing back and forth, making yet another infrastructure transparent to the shadow of the original internet. eventually, two big groups of friends are going to cross connect their web of vpns and make a small network, and some geek will realize "hey lets make a domain for it" and completely reimplement dns. and it will be good, and some old timer will comment on it, saying "this is more like it should be", and the young ones will say "oh?" and the old one will tell them a story about the good old days. eventually 10 years from then, that original geek will be living in a mansion cause he sold his idea, but who cares cause the kid next door started reinventing "the way it should be" using that original idea that's always been moving forward, never stopping to cash in on itself. and so it goes on and on. sure the net sucks, but the people that are bothered by it most will be the first to find what they want hidden within what is obvious. sorry my post sounds like a crappy high school english thesis paper, btw.
it is umm.. NIN? I think it's called "Rape Me". then I know for sure what the other is- it's Donut Plains from Mario World. Funny stuff.
just cause i am counting cans doesnt mean i can read the labels
anyone got the isbn?
sorry for the typos.. the A/C is getting fixed in here, and from the start of that post until the submit, it dropped over 35 degrees *chatter*
A few hours later...
Nick swings around in his chair.
"BZZZZZZT!!!" he sprays out.
"I'm saaaaaad!" ye declares in a scratchy animal voice.
"BaZZZZZZZZZTTTT" he repeats.
"I'm haaaaapy!" (same scratchy voice)
"BZZZZZZZzzzT! I'm saaad! Bzzt! I'm happy!"
Then he swings around in his chair and is quiet for the rest of the day. Later on I asked him what that was about, and he described the obvious, "well, that was me on electro shock therapy. what, you didn't get it? bad tech!" and thats when he developed the (bad) habit of beaning me in the head with pennys as hard as he could. "Just the broze stuff, nothing grey", he retorted. *sigh*
You obviously haven't been enjoying Friday Night Treks on the NEW TNN. I'm sure others will back me up that that particular episode has been on at least 9 times in the past 4 weeks.
yeah.. it's pretty easy. thing is, i cant figure out a way to test how it will affect the load on the machine without actually testing it on the machine. i think piping it through a program as such might knock the stuffing out of it, which is why it would be nice of procmail could do it "while its there".
:-P
I suppose that's a developer trick. (setting up a test environment that can emulate 8 incoming emails a second/10k users popping). Actually, I would give serious kudos for a link to something like that. I tried to research the setting up of a test bed like this but didnt even know what to call it!
its too bad procmail cant delve into the mime attachments, eh. then we could pattern match on the.. help me out here, uuencoded virus? i'm stabbing in the dark, though. that could be very incorrect.. and i'd love it if it was.