I don't know if this is the same with standalone TiVos, but my DirecTV TiVo box is always on, and always 'recording' two channels. Which means there's pretty much 24 hours a day of stuff I'm watching without skipping anything, plus stuff I am watching and skipping.
Now, they could be ignoring Live TV, but... then they're ignoring when people watch live TV, which I think would be fairly important to advertisers.
Personally I don't care if TiVo (or DirecTV) collect viewing habits, as long as they remain anonymous. I just don't think it's accurate at all.
13.3" MacBook Pro. Please? Can I have a decent upgrade path for my 12" Powerbook that doesn't involve getting a much bigger laptop or crappy plastic keys? Please?
so they can get a fresh new cast of B actors that they can pay pennies to
You'd think they could tone down or outright remove Richard Dean Anderson and the rest of the original cast, and then get someone like, say, Ben Browder or Claudia Black or Morena Baccarin or something for much much cheaper. Oh, wait.
But that's exactly what I'm saying they should do - rename it Stargate:The Uncharted Territories or whatever the hell and just keep going like we were before. Why invent a 3rd series when we practically already had one?
All I can say is all the people I know who live there are always bragging about the quality and quantity of Indian food that is readily available. Despite this, I myself have not gone over to investigate.
I 'inherited' a SPARCserver running SunOS 4.1. Yeah, you can secure SunOS 4.1 (kinda). But the guy who was in charge of the UNIX machines for the past few years, hadn't. This was in 1996 or so and commercial ISPs were relatively new and nobody had really ever considered security.
When I took over the machine I started lobbying the boss to let me do some security work on it and he'd never let me do it. We gave used FULL SHELL ACCESS. Compilers included. Oh and SunOS didn't even have shadow passwords by default!
Anyway, a few months into that someone changed the MOTD to some racist statement. That's when the boss finally let me do stuff.
But he wouldn't let me reinstall the thing. OR take shell-access away.
It was a constant battle. Every day I'd show up and look for what they did TODAY, and fix it. just try to stay ahead of them, and they tried to stay ahead of me...
Sometimes I'd stay up at night and ttysnoop on them talking to their other friends on IRC. Then I'd sigsev their IRC client, and watch them log back on and complain about how the sysadmin can't even keep IRC from segfaulting randomly. Then I'd take over their terminal and start saying crap about the other people he was talking to, until his friends kickbanned the hell out of him. Haha.
I eventually managed to let the boss allow me to replace the shell with a restricted shell (ok, a shell replacement I wrote in perl - it was easier than reading the manpage for rksh).
So basically the point was to make it not worth their while to break into my server.
Eventually this kid started DOSing us. We had a small 64K line to the 'real' internet, and he was on a DS3 in some university in Sweden. Our uplink (UUnet) said they couldn't do anything. Yay. So one day my boss (not the big boss) goes "hey, didn't you say they brag about this stuff on IRC?" I said "Yeah" and he goes "Teach me how to use IRC!!!"
The guy figured out IRC, found some 'hacker' channels, and FOUND THE GUY who was bragging about DOSing us. Started talking to him, getting kinda friendly. Guy starts blackmailing us - said that unless we give him a machine with his own harddrive (he demanded at least 4 gigs) or he'd DOS us again. So we gave it to him to see what he'd do. he filled it up with warez (gah) fairly fast, and then had to download it all with a 28.8K modem...
so my boss goes "Hey...why don't you come in and bring a harddrive and we'll copy it for you?"
And the guy did it. He came into our office. Where I had an IndyCam setup for him. And where we had a PI waiting outside to follow him home. And of course he brought his harddrive which we copied everything off, including his master host/password list.
The kid was 15, so we couldn't sue him or anything. But we did get a LOT of info about him. My boss basically went through all the guy's hosts and nuked them or, if they seemed legit, changed his passwords and Emailed the admins. And some of these were machines belonging to some pretty big cracker/hacker/whatever rings. We nuked those, too.
I like to think that was a pretty good security clean-up. We got rid of a LOT of bad-guy hangouts at that point.
Oh, and I was no longer with that company, but when that kid turned 18, they got him thrown in jail. That was fun, too.
I agree, I'd expect more professionalism from Sun than from Slashdot, especially Slashdot circa 1995, back when that Bill Gates Borg thing was still funny. Man, I don't even remember the website it came from but it was a pretty funny one. I think it was "micros0ft.com" until they got sued and came back as "Zero-Micro Software", but this WAS 12 years ago.
But anyway, yeah... I think we should all be over that by now.
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I don't know if this is the same with standalone TiVos, but my DirecTV TiVo box is always on, and always 'recording' two channels. Which means there's pretty much 24 hours a day of stuff I'm watching without skipping anything, plus stuff I am watching and skipping.
Now, they could be ignoring Live TV, but... then they're ignoring when people watch live TV, which I think would be fairly important to advertisers.
Personally I don't care if TiVo (or DirecTV) collect viewing habits, as long as they remain anonymous. I just don't think it's accurate at all.
So the bottom line here is that they're almost exactly the same?
Oh please tell me that it's exponential! I can always learn more languages...
Then again, I'm bilingual and people are always saying I'm demented.
Good point. I didn't consider that an old version would't work with new everything else.
First of all, I'm currently using the nvidia drivers on an AMD64, not x86.
Second, if nvidia stop supporting the old cards, don't upgrade the driver. Like they're going to put in improvements for TNT cards anyway?
Well I'm pretty glad I'm a vegetarian right about now.
(and I don't drink milk)
Done!
13.3" MacBook Pro. Please? Can I have a decent upgrade path for my 12" Powerbook that doesn't involve getting a much bigger laptop or crappy plastic keys? Please?
The researchers blindfolded college students who crawled through grass to sniff out a chocolate-scented trail.
Sure... "researchers".
This is one of those weird Japanese game shows!
So what, people just don't know what snark and sarcasm are anymore?
so they can get a fresh new cast of B actors that they can pay pennies to
You'd think they could tone down or outright remove Richard Dean Anderson and the rest of the original cast, and then get someone like, say, Ben Browder or Claudia Black or Morena Baccarin or something for much much cheaper. Oh, wait.
But that's exactly what I'm saying they should do - rename it Stargate:The Uncharted Territories or whatever the hell and just keep going like we were before. Why invent a 3rd series when we practically already had one?
Why don't they just acknowledge that SG1 is essentially a new Stargate series and just keep it going?
I'm 33 and not only did I hear it, I can still hear it 3 minutes after it stopped. Oh, and my dog and cats hate you.
All I can say is all the people I know who live there are always bragging about the quality and quantity of Indian food that is readily available. Despite this, I myself have not gone over to investigate.
Clearly you don't like Indian food.
Seconded.
I just got one of theirs and I had to use a flashlight to look in it to make sure the fan was actually running, it's so quiet.
Now if I could do something about the 10 other fans...
You call incorrectly.
Remember, this was 10 years ago. And not in the US.
I 'inherited' a SPARCserver running SunOS 4.1. Yeah, you can secure SunOS 4.1 (kinda). But the guy who was in charge of the UNIX machines for the past few years, hadn't. This was in 1996 or so and commercial ISPs were relatively new and nobody had really ever considered security.
When I took over the machine I started lobbying the boss to let me do some security work on it and he'd never let me do it. We gave used FULL SHELL ACCESS. Compilers included. Oh and SunOS didn't even have shadow passwords by default!
Anyway, a few months into that someone changed the MOTD to some racist statement. That's when the boss finally let me do stuff.
But he wouldn't let me reinstall the thing. OR take shell-access away.
It was a constant battle. Every day I'd show up and look for what they did TODAY, and fix it. just try to stay ahead of them, and they tried to stay ahead of me...
Sometimes I'd stay up at night and ttysnoop on them talking to their other friends on IRC. Then I'd sigsev their IRC client, and watch them log back on and complain about how the sysadmin can't even keep IRC from segfaulting randomly. Then I'd take over their terminal and start saying crap about the other people he was talking to, until his friends kickbanned the hell out of him. Haha.
I eventually managed to let the boss allow me to replace the shell with a restricted shell (ok, a shell replacement I wrote in perl - it was easier than reading the manpage for rksh).
So basically the point was to make it not worth their while to break into my server.
Eventually this kid started DOSing us. We had a small 64K line to the 'real' internet, and he was on a DS3 in some university in Sweden. Our uplink (UUnet) said they couldn't do anything. Yay. So one day my boss (not the big boss) goes "hey, didn't you say they brag about this stuff on IRC?" I said "Yeah" and he goes "Teach me how to use IRC!!!"
The guy figured out IRC, found some 'hacker' channels, and FOUND THE GUY who was bragging about DOSing us. Started talking to him, getting kinda friendly. Guy starts blackmailing us - said that unless we give him a machine with his own harddrive (he demanded at least 4 gigs) or he'd DOS us again. So we gave it to him to see what he'd do. he filled it up with warez (gah) fairly fast, and then had to download it all with a 28.8K modem...
so my boss goes "Hey...why don't you come in and bring a harddrive and we'll copy it for you?"
And the guy did it. He came into our office. Where I had an IndyCam setup for him. And where we had a PI waiting outside to follow him home. And of course he brought his harddrive which we copied everything off, including his master host/password list.
The kid was 15, so we couldn't sue him or anything. But we did get a LOT of info about him. My boss basically went through all the guy's hosts and nuked them or, if they seemed legit, changed his passwords and Emailed the admins. And some of these were machines belonging to some pretty big cracker/hacker/whatever rings. We nuked those, too.
I like to think that was a pretty good security clean-up. We got rid of a LOT of bad-guy hangouts at that point.
Oh, and I was no longer with that company, but when that kid turned 18, they got him thrown in jail. That was fun, too.
Hey! I was trying to be snarky, not serious!
I do prefer flip-phones but Motorola likes putting easy to press buttons on the sides that get pressed all the time even when closed...
Yeah, but it's not a FLIP PHONE! I will NEVER buy a non-flip-phone!!!
I want a small MacBookPro too, to replace my 12" G4 PowerBook.
If they release anything it'll be a 13.3", which is still better than the 15.4".
I agree, I'd expect more professionalism from Sun than from Slashdot, especially Slashdot circa 1995, back when that Bill Gates Borg thing was still funny. Man, I don't even remember the website it came from but it was a pretty funny one. I think it was "micros0ft.com" until they got sued and came back as "Zero-Micro Software", but this WAS 12 years ago.
But anyway, yeah... I think we should all be over that by now.
Well I'm glad to know we're all still being immature and childish.
It's almost as if a News for Nerds website had derogatory icons for Microsoft and Bill Gates, or something.
Oh, wait.
(Seriously, Slahsdot, can we grow up a bit and just have non-insulting icons for these guys? It was funny in 1998, but come ON).