Tsk, tsk. It was not a DoS, Fuat, and it was not an attack. It was a DDoS, and the result of your publishing an article that many people tried to read simultaniously, an occurance commonly refered to as a "slashdotting". You're a publisher. Isn't this the kind of attention you wanted?
I think the real issue is reporting facts, regardless of slant. I for one read several news sources and look for the common threads. Usually this leaves the facts, although sometimes even then the leftovers are awfully suspicious. However, there are the non-stories like I suspect O'Gara writes (I haven't read them but her reputation precedes her), the same sort of useless bullshit that the "E" channel broadcasts 24 hours a day. There are no facts, and if there are, they are useless facts, especially in a trade magazine.
Interesting, complainuing about not using facts and then relying on the OPINIONS of others to garner her reputation and then you pontificate on it! You should be ashamed! (you were right, she is fact poor in her reporting, but being right is no excuse either)
They own it after all, since S-OX uses a substantial portion of thier ecxlusive and proprietary NASDAQ stock symbol. Since they own it, they can ignore it, and sue you for ignoring it.
I was sharing and downloading live Grateful Dead and Black Crowes shows. Both are fully permissible by the bands and free of copyright.
The bands that allow thier live shows to be recorded and shared/traded DO NOT give up thier copyright. Here is the Grateful Dead's policy on sharing thier music electronically:
STATEMENT TO MP3 SITE OPERATORS The Grateful Dead and our managing organizations have long encouraged the purely non-commercial exchange of music taped at our concerts and those of our individual members. That a new medium of distribution has arisen - digital audio files being traded over the Internet - does not change our policy in this regard. Our stipulations regarding digital distribution are merely extensions of those long-standing principles and they are as follow:
No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of our music, whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from their traffic, or any other means. All participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the copyrights of the performers, writers and publishers of the music. This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this activity. We reserve the ability to withdraw our sanction of non-commercial digital music should circumstances arise that compromise our ability to protect and steward the integrity of our work.
Great. So when a variable-IP zombie pc power cycles and I get their old IP address next, it becomes my problem. Time to buy a fixed IP service, people.
It says the mails will be returned immediately. The effect of innocent users should be minimal and short term, Once there's no more mail going out, the problem will clear up.
Unfortunately I cannot purchase Adaptec controllers anymore. No, it's not because they aren't supported in OpenBSD, nor is it a new decision. It is because a couple years ago I purchased several Adaptec raid controllers for some webservers and the drivers included didn't work. I managed to obtain, after much pain, a better driver. To make a long story short, they had to come out of service because the driver updates took so long that I had to run really old kernels just to support the raid driver. Sounds like they haven't changed. Too bad, I used to buy a fair number of raid controllers from them.
* If I plug the firewire port into the firewire port on my PC, it seems to interfere with the PC's power supply. It's like holding down the "reset" button on the PC. This makes it impossible to use "firewire target disk mode" on the Mac Mini.
However, I'll wager that if he used a 4 pin Firewire cable and it would have worked fine. The 6 pin cable supplys power as well as data, and both the PC and the mini are supplying power. It's probably a ground loop.
Slashdot Mirror
I say yes, pseudonyms are necessary. Is it my privacy, therefore it should be my choice whether to reveal myself directly or use a pseudonym.
It was 13 June, but i have just realized that is it 1 April instead...
Are you sure it's not Friday?
Oops, what am I thinking? it was a DoS too, just not an attack.
Tsk, tsk. It was not a DoS, Fuat, and it was not an attack. It was a DDoS, and the result of your publishing an article that many people tried to read simultaniously, an occurance commonly refered to as a "slashdotting". You're a publisher. Isn't this the kind of attention you wanted?
I think the real issue is reporting facts, regardless of slant. I for one read several news sources and look for the common threads. Usually this leaves the facts, although sometimes even then the leftovers are awfully suspicious. However, there are the non-stories like I suspect O'Gara writes (I haven't read them but her reputation precedes her), the same sort of useless bullshit that the "E" channel broadcasts 24 hours a day. There are no facts, and if there are, they are useless facts, especially in a trade magazine.
Interesting, complainuing about not using facts and then relying on the OPINIONS of others to garner her reputation and then you pontificate on it! You should be ashamed! (you were right, she is fact poor in her reporting, but being right is no excuse either)
They own it after all, since S-OX uses a substantial portion of thier ecxlusive and proprietary NASDAQ stock symbol. Since they own it, they can ignore it, and sue you for ignoring it.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/24/45212/6874
Oops, umm, I meant mod up the parent
Mod up this post! Finally someone got it. Your players probably need a sensor adjustment or a laser realignment.
There was acually a time when my wife was out driving in the new min-van I bought her with our first new born child.
What country uses children for currency?
I was sharing and downloading live Grateful Dead and Black Crowes shows. Both are fully permissible by the bands and free of copyright.
The bands that allow thier live shows to be recorded and shared/traded DO NOT give up thier copyright. Here is the Grateful Dead's policy on sharing thier music electronically:
STATEMENT TO MP3 SITE OPERATORS
The Grateful Dead and our managing organizations have long encouraged the purely non-commercial exchange of music taped at our concerts and those of our individual members. That a new medium of distribution has arisen - digital audio files being traded over the Internet - does not change our policy in this regard. Our stipulations regarding digital distribution are merely extensions of those long-standing principles and they are as follow:
No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of our music, whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from their traffic, or any other means.
All participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the copyrights of the performers, writers and publishers of the music.
This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this activity.
We reserve the ability to withdraw our sanction of non-commercial digital music should circumstances arise that compromise our ability to protect and steward the integrity of our work.
Check out the movie "DIY Or Die: How To Survive As An Independent Artist"
I found this great guide through Eric McFadden's website, a very deserving, highly accomplished independant artist who is also featured in the film.
Doesn't this already happen in animals? e.g. Hair color in humans? Maybe it's just a recessive gene thing.
Great. So when a variable-IP zombie pc power cycles and I get their old IP address next, it becomes my problem. Time to buy a fixed IP service, people.
It says the mails will be returned immediately. The effect of innocent users should be minimal and short term, Once there's no more mail going out, the problem will clear up.
Unfortunately I cannot purchase Adaptec controllers anymore. No, it's not because they aren't supported in OpenBSD, nor is it a new decision. It is because a couple years ago I purchased several Adaptec raid controllers for some webservers and the drivers included didn't work. I managed to obtain, after much pain, a better driver. To make a long story short, they had to come out of service because the driver updates took so long that I had to run really old kernels just to support the raid driver. Sounds like they haven't changed. Too bad, I used to buy a fair number of raid controllers from them.
Are you trying to help your company stay out of trouble?
Um... They stole his code, dude.
Did you RTFA? Most end-users are not sw developers.
RTFA? WTF? Most slashdot-readers are not article readers.
It really isn't anything wrong with the fact that they play D&D, just that they feel they should put it on thier resume that sends up the flags.
Who has 6 minutes these days?
You need Jose Canseco's Instant Abs !
What's this going to do to samplers? Any pause in a song will open it for lawsuits!
From the article:
A few odd problems I've discovered:
* If I plug the firewire port into the firewire port on my PC, it seems to interfere with the PC's power supply. It's like holding down the "reset" button on the PC. This makes it impossible to use "firewire target disk mode" on the Mac Mini.
However, I'll wager that if he used a 4 pin Firewire cable and it would have worked fine. The 6 pin cable supplys power as well as data, and both the PC and the mini are supplying power. It's probably a ground loop.
Well, I'm considering it because the mac mini is cool hardware. Silent, low power, very small.
How patient are you?
Don't forget thier new cheese spread, G-whiz