Chrome doesn't have adblock, and probably never will. Extensions are king, and firefox has that mindshare. Linkify, Greasemonkey, noscript, webdeveloper, firebug, etc.
I played with Chrome for about an hour and then removed it. It's a pretty horrible experience after firefox which makes it a rather pointless web browser.
And apparently the correct punishment is hanging by the neck until dead?
In the RTFA department: No where does it say that he guessed a password or used a stolen password.
And apparently you must not have comprehended what you read. No where does it say that he will be punished by hanging. In fact, he is charged with felonies, but has NOT been convicted or sentenced. So before you fly off the handle, let's see how things go, M'Kay? Chances are that he will get off with a $250 fine and community service. Probably not a bad thing with some kid with too much time on his hands that he goes hacking around in shit he shouldn't be.
Has anyone been to the digital projection planetarium at the Smithsonian? The thing was UNWATCHABLE. Blurry as hell and WAY out of alignment. Hope this new one is a LOT better for that money.
Why don't you use yours? But seriously, I am so tired of all the political BS too. The Parent AND GP are right. I'd say mod down any post that flames either candidate. Throw Bush in there too. We all know his record, what kind of man he is, what kind of man his VP is. We have all already made up our minds. No need to keep harping on it. It serves no purpose.
I've used Asterisk now for about 4 years. I started filtering calls from unknown (not-whitelisted) calls a couple years ago and I'll tell you - the peace and quiet we get is soooo nice.
So mine doesn't ring the phone at all for robo's since they can't listen and act on a message that tells them to Press 1.
Oh - I've received (in the past) numerous calls where the telemarketers refuse to identify themselves, the name of their company, etc. This law is violated every single day millions of times. It's not strong enough.
We need laws that mandate that telcos ENFORCE proper callerID for ALL business phones, or the call is rejected. Penalties for forging need to include mandatory jail time for executives of businesses violating the law including a seizure of all assets.
If you want compliance, you have to get tough.
What I did is add a white-list my phone system (asterisk.)
Any number dialed from inside is automatically added to the white-list. Non-white-listed numbers, non-local numbers, and anonymous are prompted to press 1. Failure to do that in a timeframe sends them to voice mail.
It has worked VERY well for me. ZERO robo calls get through.
Oh please. It's NOT THAT HARD!!!! For what it does, it's fairly simple actually. Compared to any other package of similar capability, it's quite average in terms of difficulty actually. No worse than something like Exim or Apache. Just think of each server as a vhost and each service as a location directive
most of the problems you mention probably won't apply to this. It's point-to-point (so, line-of-sight) communications, so it will require an unobstructed path.
Yes - it will work GREAT then in the snow, rain, swarms of locusts, etc.
Not sure how it's going to be useful in a home environment either where very little is in a straight line / unobstructed.
No, just like EVERY OTHER wireless technology that claims it will replace physical cables (and really can't,) this one too will only be useful in very few situations with IDEAL conditions.
Imagine if these technologies have ALREADY been developed and are ALREADY in fairly widespread use? Holy Cow Batman! I have a great idea about using a circular object to move heavy items!!!!
Yes, let's give Walmart taxpayer money to help the poooooorrr Walmart who is suffering from high energy costs while forcing US companies out of business with their purchasing policies / behavior.
I won't. Ever. Never have, never will. Providers of DRM software and media can get stuffed, and this story is just another nail in the DRM coffin.
For YEARS we have been warning people about the evils of DRM, yet the mainstream media and consumers have been apathetic at best, and even downplayed the dangers. Bah.
That's why you don't run A DNS server, you run DNS ServerS, preferably on different networks. And it's easy. If you are Colo-ed, you usually can use secondaries from your hosting company, and get away with a single server (I still would run 2, but that's me.)
This AskSlash question is ridiculous. Anyone with more than 2 months networking experience can do it in their sleep. Modifying DNS is also trivial. An API? Sed, or 3 (readable) lines of perl. 'Nuff Said.
No, they don't see anything wrong, and neither do 90% of the parents who prefer to let the schools parent their child. This kind of crap is exactly why I send my child to private school. Schools are (for all practical purposes) a government run monopoly with NO incentives to provide a good product. So what happens when schools fail? They get taken over by another government agency which won't do any better. The political machine around schools (including the unions) will ensure that we never get better schools either - ideas like vouchers to send you child to a school of your choice will be killed using millions of taxpayer dollars (yes, your tax money is being spent to harm your children in order to maintain the current corrupt and incompetent system.)
You have a signed contract with comcast that allows you to use full bandwith 24x7x365 that does NOT have a clause that allows them to change the terms at any time? Do share the scanned copy of that signed agreement please. Oh - what's that? No signed contract?
Folks - the way telecom / cable / etc. works is that you have a TOS and AUP. Read the damn things. They all have clauses in there that your use must not negatively impact others and that they have the right to terminate service. You don't get signed contracts except for higher end business connections (and that is generally because you are getting an SLA, etc.)
Bandwidth hogs hurt us all. I see nothing wrong with what comcast is doing. They are cutting of the parasites that make the internet slower and more expensive for the rest of us. Use torrents responsibly. 250G is a huge amount of data and a very realistic cap for RESIDENTIAL use. The VAST majority don't even come close. We are talking about the 0.05% that routinely go over, and use 95% of the bandwidth.
If an ISP / site ignores a takedown notice they lose immunity for copyright violations. Since ISPs generally have fairly deep pockets, the risk is WAY too great. They don't dare - the legal / monetary risk is way too great. Their insurance companies may ALSO require that they comply with takedown notices.
Note that if a site ignores a takedown notice, the person may just go upstream to their ISP and issue one there which can cause even LARGER danger / damage to the site. So they too will comply.
not me. Ill take 100 mb/sec with a cap of 250 GB a month over 758 kb/sec with no cap.
Agreed. And if you can't live with the cap, get a business account - no caps. Yes, it costs more, but if you need the bandwidth you should pay for it instead of making MY rates higher to cover the 0.5% of the people that use 95% of the bandwidth.
Have you ever used cellular internet? I have - I use it for work nearly every day in various locations around the country. Sometimes it works great, but other times (same location) it goes to hell and you get modem speeds with multi-second latency. Cell modems are great as secondary / mobile access. They suck for primary, and REALLY suck for things like gaming. It's not the carrier, it's the nature of the connection.
I'm sure Microsoft will blame it on the fact that a massive number of machines shipped with Vista are getting upgraded to XP. Vista adoption numbers look great until you subtract all the those...
Um, do you realize just how much data 500G is? It's slow on USB2.0 which is 400M. At best, your cable connection probably won't burst over 8M. Let's say it sustains 10Mb just for the numbers. That's about 1MByte / sec which works out to 139 HOURS at full speed or about 6 days! REAL world you are not going to get that kind of sustained bandwidth, so plan on 2 weeks as a more realistic number.
It should be rather clear now just how ridiculous it would be to backup and restore 500G over a residential cable connection. If it's not clear, I would suggest a career other than anything in the computer field.
If you are using an internet based service to backup or restore a mostly filled 500G drive over a residential internet service, you need to have your head examined.
Those backup services are fine for moderate amounts of critical data, but until we all have 100M/100M connections, they are USELESS for backing up a 500G drive. Even then, just drop in an external 500G drive that you can backup to.
By the way, the bandwidth caps do not apply towards business service.
Of course - while the 5Ghz band is much less crowded, it has other issues - the higher you go in frequency, the less ability you have to go through walls. You trade one problem for another.
You will find a large number of those individuals right here on/.
About a year or so ago there was a discussion about WiFi, and I mentioned that I wired my entire house with the standard 2 RG6U, 2 Cat5e, 2 fiber to every room, sometimes two drops in a room. I have jacks EVERYWHERE. People said I was nuts. I said I was future-proofing - they claimed wireless would get faster too. And the response is Of course it will get faster, but so will physical cable as we have seen.
The bottom line is that wireless can not and will not replace physical cable. It can only supplement. Primary connectivity should always be planned to be wired. Yes it's more expensive. A LOT more expensive. But you need it.
Wireless by nature is flaky. I can have a laptop 10 feet from an AP and it can drop connection (and I don't care what brand of laptop or AP you have - it happens.) Why? Because the primary wireless frequency, 2.4Ghz, is a cesspool. I find it highly obnoxious that the FCC refused to allocate a band specifically and ONLY for WiFi - especially considering how extremely important connectivity is in this modern world. But Alas, they are only concerned about how much money they can bring in via auctioning off a PUBLIC resource, selling it to a corporate entity which in return lets the public use that band for insane prices.
Obviously in a company that is mostly blue collar, you are not going to have the IT needs of a white collar dominated company. Considering you are in construction, your IT needs are probably VERY modest, with desktop support being the largest portion, with email, file servers, and accounting flushing out the total. Doubtful you have CRM or ERP.
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Chrome doesn't have adblock, and probably never will. Extensions are king, and firefox has that mindshare. Linkify, Greasemonkey, noscript, webdeveloper, firebug, etc.
I played with Chrome for about an hour and then removed it. It's a pretty horrible experience after firefox which makes it a rather pointless web browser.
And apparently the correct punishment is hanging by the neck until dead?
In the RTFA department: No where does it say that he guessed a password or used a stolen password.
And apparently you must not have comprehended what you read. No where does it say that he will be punished by hanging. In fact, he is charged with felonies, but has NOT been convicted or sentenced. So before you fly off the handle, let's see how things go, M'Kay? Chances are that he will get off with a $250 fine and community service. Probably not a bad thing with some kid with too much time on his hands that he goes hacking around in shit he shouldn't be.
Has anyone been to the digital projection planetarium at the Smithsonian? The thing was UNWATCHABLE. Blurry as hell and WAY out of alignment. Hope this new one is a LOT better for that money.
Why don't you use yours? But seriously, I am so tired of all the political BS too. The Parent AND GP are right. I'd say mod down any post that flames either candidate. Throw Bush in there too. We all know his record, what kind of man he is, what kind of man his VP is. We have all already made up our minds. No need to keep harping on it. It serves no purpose.
They will make fun of the other guy. Making fun of presidents is a party neutral national past time.
I've used Asterisk now for about 4 years. I started filtering calls from unknown (not-whitelisted) calls a couple years ago and I'll tell you - the peace and quiet we get is soooo nice.
So mine doesn't ring the phone at all for robo's since they can't listen and act on a message that tells them to Press 1.
No. I want to *99 the call to have it reported as fraud, and have the report acted on. Your solution is to bend over and take it.
Oh - I've received (in the past) numerous calls where the telemarketers refuse to identify themselves, the name of their company, etc. This law is violated every single day millions of times. It's not strong enough.
We need laws that mandate that telcos ENFORCE proper callerID for ALL business phones, or the call is rejected. Penalties for forging need to include mandatory jail time for executives of businesses violating the law including a seizure of all assets.
If you want compliance, you have to get tough.
What I did is add a white-list my phone system (asterisk.)
Any number dialed from inside is automatically added to the white-list. Non-white-listed numbers, non-local numbers, and anonymous are prompted to press 1. Failure to do that in a timeframe sends them to voice mail.
It has worked VERY well for me. ZERO robo calls get through.
Great - now I have to tinfoil my house as well as my head!
Oh please. It's NOT THAT HARD!!!! For what it does, it's fairly simple actually. Compared to any other package of similar capability, it's quite average in terms of difficulty actually. No worse than something like Exim or Apache. Just think of each server as a vhost and each service as a location directive
most of the problems you mention probably won't apply to this. It's point-to-point (so, line-of-sight) communications, so it will require an unobstructed path.
Yes - it will work GREAT then in the snow, rain, swarms of locusts, etc.
Not sure how it's going to be useful in a home environment either where very little is in a straight line / unobstructed.
No, just like EVERY OTHER wireless technology that claims it will replace physical cables (and really can't,) this one too will only be useful in very few situations with IDEAL conditions.
Imagine if these technologies have ALREADY been developed and are ALREADY in fairly widespread use? Holy Cow Batman! I have a great idea about using a circular object to move heavy items!!!!
Yes, let's give Walmart taxpayer money to help the poooooorrr Walmart who is suffering from high energy costs while forcing US companies out of business with their purchasing policies / behavior.
I have not bought any DRM'd music yet
Which implies that you may in the future.
I won't. Ever. Never have, never will. Providers of DRM software and media can get stuffed, and this story is just another nail in the DRM coffin.
For YEARS we have been warning people about the evils of DRM, yet the mainstream media and consumers have been apathetic at best, and even downplayed the dangers.
Bah.
It's buyer beware.
That's why you don't run A DNS server, you run DNS ServerS, preferably on different networks. And it's easy. If you are Colo-ed, you usually can use secondaries from your hosting company, and get away with a single server (I still would run 2, but that's me.)
This AskSlash question is ridiculous. Anyone with more than 2 months networking experience can do it in their sleep. Modifying DNS is also trivial. An API? Sed, or 3 (readable) lines of perl. 'Nuff Said.
No, they don't see anything wrong, and neither do 90% of the parents who prefer to let the schools parent their child. This kind of crap is exactly why I send my child to private school. Schools are (for all practical purposes) a government run monopoly with NO incentives to provide a good product. So what happens when schools fail? They get taken over by another government agency which won't do any better. The political machine around schools (including the unions) will ensure that we never get better schools either - ideas like vouchers to send you child to a school of your choice will be killed using millions of taxpayer dollars (yes, your tax money is being spent to harm your children in order to maintain the current corrupt and incompetent system.)
You have a signed contract with comcast that allows you to use full bandwith 24x7x365 that does NOT have a clause that allows them to change the terms at any time? Do share the scanned copy of that signed agreement please. Oh - what's that? No signed contract?
Folks - the way telecom / cable / etc. works is that you have a TOS and AUP. Read the damn things. They all have clauses in there that your use must not negatively impact others and that they have the right to terminate service. You don't get signed contracts except for higher end business connections (and that is generally because you are getting an SLA, etc.)
Bandwidth hogs hurt us all. I see nothing wrong with what comcast is doing. They are cutting of the parasites that make the internet slower and more expensive for the rest of us. Use torrents responsibly. 250G is a huge amount of data and a very realistic cap for RESIDENTIAL use. The VAST majority don't even come close. We are talking about the 0.05% that routinely go over, and use 95% of the bandwidth.
If an ISP / site ignores a takedown notice they lose immunity for copyright violations. Since ISPs generally have fairly deep pockets, the risk is WAY too great. They don't dare - the legal / monetary risk is way too great.
Their insurance companies may ALSO require that they comply with takedown notices.
Note that if a site ignores a takedown notice, the person may just go upstream to their ISP and issue one there which can cause even LARGER danger / damage to the site. So they too will comply.
not me. Ill take 100 mb/sec with a cap of 250 GB a month over 758 kb/sec with no cap.
Agreed. And if you can't live with the cap, get a business account - no caps. Yes, it costs more, but if you need the bandwidth you should pay for it instead of making MY rates higher to cover the 0.5% of the people that use 95% of the bandwidth.
Have you ever used cellular internet? I have - I use it for work nearly every day in various locations around the country. Sometimes it works great, but other times (same location) it goes to hell and you get modem speeds with multi-second latency. Cell modems are great as secondary / mobile access. They suck for primary, and REALLY suck for things like gaming. It's not the carrier, it's the nature of the connection.
I'm sure Microsoft will blame it on the fact that a massive number of machines shipped with Vista are getting upgraded to XP. Vista adoption numbers look great until you subtract all the those...
Um, do you realize just how much data 500G is? It's slow on USB2.0 which is 400M. At best, your cable connection probably won't burst over 8M. Let's say it sustains 10Mb just for the numbers. That's about 1MByte / sec which works out to 139 HOURS at full speed or about 6 days! REAL world you are not going to get that kind of sustained bandwidth, so plan on 2 weeks as a more realistic number.
It should be rather clear now just how ridiculous it would be to backup and restore 500G over a residential cable connection. If it's not clear, I would suggest a career other than anything in the computer field.
If you are using an internet based service to backup or restore a mostly filled 500G drive over a residential internet service, you need to have your head examined.
Those backup services are fine for moderate amounts of critical data, but until we all have 100M/100M connections, they are USELESS for backing up a 500G drive. Even then, just drop in an external 500G drive that you can backup to.
By the way, the bandwidth caps do not apply towards business service.
Of course - while the 5Ghz band is much less crowded, it has other issues - the higher you go in frequency, the less ability you have to go through walls. You trade one problem for another.
You will find a large number of those individuals right here on /.
About a year or so ago there was a discussion about WiFi, and I mentioned that I wired my entire house with the standard 2 RG6U, 2 Cat5e, 2 fiber to every room, sometimes two drops in a room. I have jacks EVERYWHERE. People said I was nuts. I said I was future-proofing - they claimed wireless would get faster too. And the response is Of course it will get faster, but so will physical cable as we have seen.
The bottom line is that wireless can not and will not replace physical cable. It can only supplement. Primary connectivity should always be planned to be wired. Yes it's more expensive. A LOT more expensive. But you need it.
Wireless by nature is flaky. I can have a laptop 10 feet from an AP and it can drop connection (and I don't care what brand of laptop or AP you have - it happens.) Why? Because the primary wireless frequency, 2.4Ghz, is a cesspool. I find it highly obnoxious that the FCC refused to allocate a band specifically and ONLY for WiFi - especially considering how extremely important connectivity is in this modern world. But Alas, they are only concerned about how much money they can bring in via auctioning off a PUBLIC resource, selling it to a corporate entity which in return lets the public use that band for insane prices.
Obviously in a company that is mostly blue collar, you are not going to have the IT needs of a white collar dominated company. Considering you are in construction, your IT needs are probably VERY modest, with desktop support being the largest portion, with email, file servers, and accounting flushing out the total. Doubtful you have CRM or ERP.