I do the same thing for my firewall and workstation at home, but production servers I do manually with testing before hand, I've been burned a few times in the past (I do run the unstable version, so I accept resposibility for that).
Haha, that is a good one. I particularily like the leprachan-looking fellow at the back right. But isn't that Linus in the front next to the androgenous, uh, guy, in the blue shirt?
I set up an acl in squid to block all requests from gator.com... I see *a lot* of messages in squid's log about this site, dozons of machines here are "infected". The users deny any knowledge when confronted about it. Gator is definately one of the worst offenders.
My company is so paranoid about security on the main frame, all the local IT people are locked down to the point they almost can't work. Instead of worrying about logical security inside the system, I should send them the link to this story. This is what an employee would do if s/he were seriously pissed, not hack into the system. This sort of thing would be a mission critical disaster to any company. It really made me re-think my offsite backup storage scheme!
Seems unlikely to me. Virus and bacteria evolved over millions of years to be compatible with animals and people on our planet. I don't think we'd make good hosts for a parasite that had evolved on another planet. At least I hope not!!;-)
Damn, and I thought the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show jumbo-tron billboard on the Gardner Expressway in Toronto was distracting! Oh, wait a sec, these new billboards won't beat that.;-)
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Win 95 as a print server? For god sake, man, why? Printing always was (and still is) the most unreliable component in Windows (in my opinion). How often do you reboot that machine? Why not set up a Linux machine with Samba? Or is your printer a crappy inkjet with no drivers? That's the only reason I can think of to explain your set up..
Actually, XP has some good lock down features, which you can control from the domain controller. The XP deployment which is comming at my company will be completely locked down, users won't be able to install programs, play games, or even change their desktop settings. I haven't seen it yet myself, but that's what the PC group at work tells me.
As someone who did PC support for years, I can relate to this. Everyone and their brother wants help with their PC's, and expects it for free. They think you like nothing better than to sit around giving computer advice at family functions, parties, etc. You wouldn't expect your brother-in-law the mechanic to fix your car for free, would you? Or get a free root canal from a relative who's a dentist? Why is there this perception that IT people should work for free, and live to fix your Windows problems? Now I just tell them I only work on mainframes (or "BIG Computers" when they give you a blank look), and don't know Windows. Anyway, sorry for the rant, this is something that's been bugging me for years.
Thank God for this book! I've been learning UNIX system administration for years on my own, but now in just 24 hours I can learn to be a UNIX guru! Where was this book all my life?!
Yep, the 1541 came about a year or two later. Actually, towards the end of the C64 era, I had dual 1541 drives (drive 8 and drive 9, I never understood their device numbering system). I used to run a BBS system and needed the second drive for storage. The beasts are currently sitting in my basement, I've got half a mind to bring them up and see if they still work! But you're right, the tape drive was something of a nightmare to work with. Slow, unreliable, and did I say SLOW?
Yeah, I remember being about 13 years old, and having my younger brother read the codes to me so I could key them faster on our C64. Our success rate didn't seem good, though, I remember most games not working after the hours of keying. Even though there was some kind of parity check on every line. Even if the game did work, the tape drive would usually crap out and not let you save it anyway.
to boot instantly cutting down on the boring and annoying wait for the computer to start up.
I don't know if this would help as much as you think it would... If you watch either Windows or Linux booting, a lot of time seems to be spent doing other tasks than loading data from the HD, such as waiting for devices to initialize. So booting wouldn't become instant, but it would be faster. Plus my computer does a long RAM check which can't be skipped and takes a long time to spin up the SCSI disks, this is all before the OS starts loading... Not to mention that 8 second LILO delay!;-)
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I do the same thing for my firewall and workstation at home, but production servers I do manually with testing before hand, I've been burned a few times in the past (I do run the unstable version, so I accept resposibility for that).
Haha, that is a good one. I particularily like the leprachan-looking fellow at the back right. But isn't that Linus in the front next to the androgenous, uh, guy, in the blue shirt?
I set up an acl in squid to block all requests from gator.com ... I see *a lot* of messages in squid's log about this site, dozons of machines here are "infected". The users deny any knowledge when confronted about it. Gator is definately one of the worst offenders.
"These are not the droids you're looking for!"
My company is so paranoid about security on the main frame, all the local IT people are locked down to the point they almost can't work. Instead of worrying about logical security inside the system, I should send them the link to this story. This is what an employee would do if s/he were seriously pissed, not hack into the system. This sort of thing would be a mission critical disaster to any company. It really made me re-think my offsite backup storage scheme!
Seems unlikely to me. Virus and bacteria evolved over millions of years to be compatible with animals and people on our planet. I don't think we'd make good hosts for a parasite that had evolved on another planet. At least I hope not!! ;-)
Damn, and I thought the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show jumbo-tron billboard on the Gardner Expressway in Toronto was distracting! Oh, wait a sec, these new billboards won't beat that. ;-)
Win 95 as a print server? For god sake, man, why? Printing always was (and still is) the most unreliable component in Windows (in my opinion). How often do you reboot that machine? Why not set up a Linux machine with Samba? Or is your printer a crappy inkjet with no drivers? That's the only reason I can think of to explain your set up..
Just go with it, man. Create your self some folders, such as "My Porn", "My Backups", "My MP3's". You can even do the same thing in Linux!! ;-)
Actually, XP has some good lock down features, which you can control from the domain controller. The XP deployment which is comming at my company will be completely locked down, users won't be able to install programs, play games, or even change their desktop settings. I haven't seen it yet myself, but that's what the PC group at work tells me.
Last month, some of those builds leaked to the Internet, causing a stir in the Windows enthusiast community.
There is a community of Windows enthusiasts? Who are these sick bastards??!! ;-)
As someone who did PC support for years, I can relate to this. Everyone and their brother wants help with their PC's, and expects it for free. They think you like nothing better than to sit around giving computer advice at family functions, parties, etc. You wouldn't expect your brother-in-law the mechanic to fix your car for free, would you? Or get a free root canal from a relative who's a dentist? Why is there this perception that IT people should work for free, and live to fix your Windows problems? Now I just tell them I only work on mainframes (or "BIG Computers" when they give you a blank look), and don't know Windows. Anyway, sorry for the rant, this is something that's been bugging me for years.
You mean 8.3, not 7.3
Cool! Don't throw it away, it could be in a museum one day soon!
The best advice I can give you is this: Spend less time posting stories on Slashdot, and more time actually learning something. ;-)
Thank God for this book! I've been learning UNIX system administration for years on my own, but now in just 24 hours I can learn to be a UNIX guru! Where was this book all my life?!
Depends on the OS ... You can run Linux on a PC or on some pretty heavy duty IBM iron (390's, etc).
And yes, keying BASIC code sounds a lot better than HEX bytecode!! ;-)
Yep, the 1541 came about a year or two later. Actually, towards the end of the C64 era, I had dual 1541 drives (drive 8 and drive 9, I never understood their device numbering system). I used to run a BBS system and needed the second drive for storage. The beasts are currently sitting in my basement, I've got half a mind to bring them up and see if they still work! But you're right, the tape drive was something of a nightmare to work with. Slow, unreliable, and did I say SLOW?
Yeah, I remember being about 13 years old, and having my younger brother read the codes to me so I could key them faster on our C64. Our success rate didn't seem good, though, I remember most games not working after the hours of keying. Even though there was some kind of parity check on every line. Even if the game did work, the tape drive would usually crap out and not let you save it anyway.
This is Slashdot. Use The GIMP. That is all you need. For everything.
Maybe I should shut off that hydroponic lab in my basement...
I don't know if this would help as much as you think it would ... If you watch either Windows or Linux booting, a lot of time seems to be spent doing other tasks than loading data from the HD, such as waiting for devices to initialize. So booting wouldn't become instant, but it would be faster. Plus my computer does a long RAM check which can't be skipped and takes a long time to spin up the SCSI disks, this is all before the OS starts loading... Not to mention that 8 second LILO delay! ;-)
I believe OS/400 does this, at least it seems to be very object oriented, but I'm not more than a casual user of that system, so I could be wrong.
Damn FBI .. Thank God I'm not American.