The company I work for insists that we use Plesk to add new virtual hosts.
Dont get me wrong, plesk is a fairly decent tool, but its not even close to being a replacement for a few well designed perl scripts run by the admin himself.
Plesk makes -extremely- dirty config files, nearly unreadable except to itself.
Just keep that in mind when you use it, dont expect to go through you config files later after Plesk gets done with them. Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Dude, the same thing happened to me one night!!
I was sitting on my computer about 12 am, power was flickering around the house (I have a big 'ole UPS so I was OK) but there was a greeng low coming from the stairway to upstairs.. I was like wtf... did a power transformer blow a few block away.. that was one green flash.. so I go around ICQ getting paranoid about the sky turning green, and no one beleived me, so I thought I was going crazy, and stopped getting paranoid..
Oh well...
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Brent Jones, and affiliates filed for a patent today that deals with something we take for granted everyday when browsing the web.
Have you ever wondered how they got multiple domains running on a single IP webserver? Simple, ServerAlias. By adding aliases to the server it will recieve the domain request from the client, and direct you to that domain on the server.
By patenting this otherwise non-patented tool, Brent Jones and associates, if they so choose, could ask for royalty fees from millions of websites for using the ServerAlias function.
Royalties would be collected as per-use, meaning each time a website gets a hit, and is using the ServerAlias function, a royalty will be charged.
This patent applies to only Apache, because Microsoft already patented thier own version of ServerAlias into thier IIS 4 and 5.
Pretty good huh? =)
Heres another one.
This document hereby states that Brent Jones and associates legal upholding of the left wrist watch wearing technique.
Although done for hundreds of years, consumers wearing thier watch on thier left wrist will need to pay royalties to Brent Jones and Associates for un-consented usage of thier left wrist as a watch placement mechanism.
This patent covers the whole area of the wrist, wether the watch be facing down or up, and partial left arm area.
Hows that for a stupid patent!?
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
How about consumers turn this against Motorola?
Maybe its time for us to ask personal information of employees at these companies, how would they like to have thier information sold, analyzed, and then to be targeted for solicitation?
Im sure Motorola would find this to be a different story, and would say that dilvulging thier employee's personal information would be a constitutional infringement and would fight it all the way through, but they dont stop to think about how the consumers feel.
They think consumers are just a bunch of mindless animals that need to be organized and cataloged.
Maybe if they had a higher respect for the people that make those companies what they are, they would have a better reputation, not a reputation of law suit happy, information hungry monopolies.
I know that if I find out my personal information was sold without my permition, which probably has already happened, I would fight it up to the courts, and I think its time for consumers to demand their information be kept confidential.
This is getting real sad, from the CueCat propoganda that tracked your scanniong habbits and stored your name and address in an online database that was eventualy hacked, to Motorola demanding this personal information that will most probably be sold to 3rd parties for targeted solicitation. Im really sick of this.
Maybe some day Ill move to a remote island and make my own rules and such.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
This is fucking rediculous!
How can AT&T expect to be payed for sales using thier internet service?
As the topic says, that would be like the phone company asking for a percentage of sales made using the phone, which is absolutely rediculous.
AT&T is just excersising its assfuck attitude to boss people around, thinking they run the financial wold and everyone owes them something, because as we all AT&T -is- in fact the ruler of the financial world ... just kidding!!
Quite frankly, im sick of these corporations trying to take everything, and controlling the whole market in a bullish fasion, and where is the FTC in this? Isnt the FTC's job to insure American's have a fair marketplace, the Microsoft cases helped a little, but only caused confusion instead of reform.
We need to see some steps forward to reduce monopolies, and to ensure customers rights.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Maybe providing the ISBN number of the CD jewel case?
Thats the only legal proof that even comes with a music CD after purchase, besides a reciept, which you cant transfer over the internet.
The more I think about it, the ISBN number would probably be a very attractive way of providing prrof of ownership, not very secure though, as anyone can copy thier ISBN number and give it to a friend.
Maybe as you use the BeamIt software for my.mp3.com itll be able to read the watermark on the CD proving that its an authentic CD, as well as providing the ISBN number.
Only time will tell how its implemented.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Yes, finaly, the political system is getting caught up to the rest of the world.
Record companies have no right to tell thier customers how and when/why/where to use the music they purchased.
Once anything I paid for enters my house, its MINE
Just like the electricity I pay for, PGE doesnt say "your a mad scientist, dont use our electricity to make evil experiments", they just charge me more =)
If this bill passes it will be one step forward to getting the rest of the political system caught up int he digital world.
Next step, get the patenting office caught up as well and ban patents of frivelous things such as One Clock Shopping and shit like that.
Only one question, are there any websites set up that have forms, and send the form out to the state represetitive of our choosing? If not, who wants to help me set one up?
If you want to help me set up a form for theis MP3 Bill thatll have a premade, or variable form field that lets you choose what state your in, then send your plea to your corrosponding state representetive, mail me, brentj@servuhome.net
I think that would be a real effective way of getting people easier access to thier state officials, and will probably get a bigger show!
Just my 2 cents though.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Now I have a seperate power plant for my watch, my car, and my house!
Whats next, a seperate power plant for our computers (hmm.. good idea actualy).
Use the waste water to cool your system, and expell the heat through a vent. Very efficient.
I also thought fual cells could actualy run off water, by extracting stuff directly from the water? Well, the efficency probably wouldnt be high, but Id rather pay a large water bill then a natural gas bill, plus water erm.. doesnt EXPLODE in an accident!
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
This is just like Intel to think they can make and modify existing standards to fir thier inability to work with the current standards. I know now that I will never buy another Intel product again because I will be fueling thier egotistical revolution to try and make the PC Chip business a 1 company thing just like Microsoft tries to do with thier software. I think the stock market will also see that Intel is shooting itself in the foot and thier stock prices will fall accordingly. Luckily I have a couple hundred shares of AMD! God I love watching companies commit suicide!!!!!!
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Just like all new technologies, electric vehicles go through their stage as being the new kid on the block and never get adopted as fast as they could just because of thier pricetag and peoples unwillingness to try new things. Also, at this point there just isnt a big infrastucture out to recharge electric vehicles, just like gas stations are placed every 30 miles on a lonely highway, recharging stations also need to be placed too. This is just like ADSL, its a great technology, but still isnt widely available because the word needs to get out, the prices need to come down, and the infrastructure just isnt in place yet. But, as for ADSL, electric cars have a bright future in my opinion.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Doesnt the TiVO have a 6 gig HD or something?
Maybe the space you dont use you could maybe upload all your MP3's that wont fit on your HD to the TiVO =)
Dont know what kind of tcp/ip stack the tivo uses, if any, let alone if it even has filesharing abilities.
But that would be pretty cool, almost like to those "Network harddrive" that only have a NIC and a HD.. the tivo could be the first multi-purpose LAN storage device !!!!!
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Ive thought about this for a couple years also. I mean, with the current crop of video cards, like the Geforce, they already offload a lot of work from the CPU with HW T&L, so why not offload even more from the CPU by having an actualt bus type dedicated to adding riser cards that can hold more CPU's without having to buy a dual, or quad motherboard? They already designed a special video card bus, AGP, so why not make a special.. CPU Addon bus? Say, a 100, or 133 mhz bus, that runs in paralell with the current cpu for example, and have a special riser port when you can plug in a card that can hold 2 or 4 more CPU's that could work in tandem. Back on topic, using a video card, or network card, or even a sound card (yes, sound blaster live cards actualy have a very fast chip) and rewrite thier codes to perform other tasks. Hell, im surprised someone hasnt done this already!
Systems Administrator Servu Networks http://www.servuhome.net
I have already seens some phones with games on them. While I was at a movie theatre just this weekend, I was watching the advertisements before the movie previews, and I noticed the guy in front of me playing that worm game, where you move you worm around obstacles without you running into a part of your own worm. After about 10 minutes of him playing that, he actualy got a call, and pressed a few buttons, and answered it! Then, when he was done talking, he started playing that worms game again. The theatre was pretty dark, so I couldnt tell you the name or model of the phone, but it was pretty damned nice, had a back-lit display, obviously, it has sound producing capabilities, so MP3 playing cell phones would be relatively easy to produce, since thier design already incorporates sound producing capabilities, with headphones, or the built in earpiece. If you ask me, this is a great time to be alive!
Systems Administrator Servu Networks http://www.servuhome.net
I know how you feel, people used to forward me stupid movies like a monkey drinking its own urine. While I find that sort of stuff funny as hell, it couldnt have come at a worse time, I was in the school library, and a teacher caught me wtaching it. You can imagine what a teacher would think about a kid who has movies of monkeys drinking urine. Needless to say, Im not welcome at that school anymore:)
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Cheap, if you bought a single package of 1 sq. inch of silk. But, prices may ramp up upon mass production of these "special" chips. Plus, I bet its pretty hard to form silk (whats the correct term?) to the dimensions of a microprocessor, especialy around its circuty. But, this could also end up bieng cheaper then previous methods of packaging, since Im not aware of the current price of the materials they use now.
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This method may help lengthen the life of microprocessors. As you know, CPU's are damaged by electro-static migration, and heat, maybe this will in some way prevent some of that damage. Lets just hope it doesnt raise the cost of the chips (isnt silk pretty expensive?
Systems Administrator Servu Networks http://www.servuhome.net
Everyone should leave TC for matureing networks like Efnet, DALnet, or Astrolink. TC's attempt at controlling which client thier users can use is a blatent attempt at free advertising, and a chance for 3rd party advertisers to put some plugs in for themselves. Xchat baby! ps, I mentioned Astrolink because its small, and has a lot of friendly users (plus Im an oper there;) Systems Administrator Servu Networks http://www.servuhome.net
Yes, I have a home network, and my logs show during the day close to 500 port scans below the standard ports, and only about 60-90 scans on higher non-standard ports. This has really increased over the last 3 weeks, from nearly none at all, to, the numbers above. Luckily, I have strict rules on my router which do not allow them to be easily exploited. It is possible to exploit me, but its more trouble then anyone would want to put in.
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The company I work for insists that we use Plesk to add new virtual hosts.
Dont get me wrong, plesk is a fairly decent tool, but its not even close to being a replacement for a few well designed perl scripts run by the admin himself.
Plesk makes -extremely- dirty config files, nearly unreadable except to itself.
Just keep that in mind when you use it, dont expect to go through you config files later after Plesk gets done with them.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Dude, the same thing happened to me one night!! I was sitting on my computer about 12 am, power was flickering around the house (I have a big 'ole UPS so I was OK) but there was a greeng low coming from the stairway to upstairs.. I was like wtf... did a power transformer blow a few block away.. that was one green flash.. so I go around ICQ getting paranoid about the sky turning green, and no one beleived me, so I thought I was going crazy, and stopped getting paranoid.. Oh well...
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
My patent:
Brent Jones, and affiliates filed for a patent today that deals with something we take for granted everyday when browsing the web.
Have you ever wondered how they got multiple domains running on a single IP webserver? Simple, ServerAlias. By adding aliases to the server it will recieve the domain request from the client, and direct you to that domain on the server.
By patenting this otherwise non-patented tool, Brent Jones and associates, if they so choose, could ask for royalty fees from millions of websites for using the ServerAlias function.
Royalties would be collected as per-use, meaning each time a website gets a hit, and is using the ServerAlias function, a royalty will be charged.
This patent applies to only Apache, because Microsoft already patented thier own version of ServerAlias into thier IIS 4 and 5.
Pretty good huh? =)
Heres another one.
This document hereby states that Brent Jones and associates legal upholding of the left wrist watch wearing technique.
Although done for hundreds of years, consumers wearing thier watch on thier left wrist will need to pay royalties to Brent Jones and Associates for un-consented usage of thier left wrist as a watch placement mechanism.
This patent covers the whole area of the wrist, wether the watch be facing down or up, and partial left arm area.
Hows that for a stupid patent!?
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
How about consumers turn this against Motorola?
Maybe its time for us to ask personal information of employees at these companies, how would they like to have thier information sold, analyzed, and then to be targeted for solicitation?
Im sure Motorola would find this to be a different story, and would say that dilvulging thier employee's personal information would be a constitutional infringement and would fight it all the way through, but they dont stop to think about how the consumers feel.
They think consumers are just a bunch of mindless animals that need to be organized and cataloged.
Maybe if they had a higher respect for the people that make those companies what they are, they would have a better reputation, not a reputation of law suit happy, information hungry monopolies.
I know that if I find out my personal information was sold without my permition, which probably has already happened, I would fight it up to the courts, and I think its time for consumers to demand their information be kept confidential.
This is getting real sad, from the CueCat propoganda that tracked your scanniong habbits and stored your name and address in an online database that was eventualy hacked, to Motorola demanding this personal information that will most probably be sold to 3rd parties for targeted solicitation. Im really sick of this.
Maybe some day Ill move to a remote island and make my own rules and such.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
This is fucking rediculous!
... just kidding!!
How can AT&T expect to be payed for sales using thier internet service?
As the topic says, that would be like the phone company asking for a percentage of sales made using the phone, which is absolutely rediculous.
AT&T is just excersising its assfuck attitude to boss people around, thinking they run the financial wold and everyone owes them something, because as we all AT&T -is- in fact the ruler of the financial world
Quite frankly, im sick of these corporations trying to take everything, and controlling the whole market in a bullish fasion, and where is the FTC in this? Isnt the FTC's job to insure American's have a fair marketplace, the Microsoft cases helped a little, but only caused confusion instead of reform.
We need to see some steps forward to reduce monopolies, and to ensure customers rights.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Maybe providing the ISBN number of the CD jewel case?
Thats the only legal proof that even comes with a music CD after purchase, besides a reciept, which you cant transfer over the internet.
The more I think about it, the ISBN number would probably be a very attractive way of providing prrof of ownership, not very secure though, as anyone can copy thier ISBN number and give it to a friend.
Maybe as you use the BeamIt software for my.mp3.com itll be able to read the watermark on the CD proving that its an authentic CD, as well as providing the ISBN number.
Only time will tell how its implemented.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Yes, finaly, the political system is getting caught up to the rest of the world.
Record companies have no right to tell thier customers how and when/why/where to use the music they purchased.
Once anything I paid for enters my house, its MINE
Just like the electricity I pay for, PGE doesnt say "your a mad scientist, dont use our electricity to make evil experiments", they just charge me more =)
If this bill passes it will be one step forward to getting the rest of the political system caught up int he digital world.
Next step, get the patenting office caught up as well and ban patents of frivelous things such as One Clock Shopping and shit like that.
Only one question, are there any websites set up that have forms, and send the form out to the state represetitive of our choosing? If not, who wants to help me set one up?
If you want to help me set up a form for theis MP3 Bill thatll have a premade, or variable form field that lets you choose what state your in, then send your plea to your corrosponding state representetive, mail me, brentj@servuhome.net
I think that would be a real effective way of getting people easier access to thier state officials, and will probably get a bigger show!
Just my 2 cents though.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Now I have a seperate power plant for my watch, my car, and my house!
Whats next, a seperate power plant for our computers (hmm.. good idea actualy).
Use the waste water to cool your system, and expell the heat through a vent. Very efficient.
I also thought fual cells could actualy run off water, by extracting stuff directly from the water? Well, the efficency probably wouldnt be high, but Id rather pay a large water bill then a natural gas bill, plus water erm.. doesnt EXPLODE in an accident!
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
This is just like Intel to think they can make and modify existing standards to fir thier inability to work with the current standards. I know now that I will never buy another Intel product again because I will be fueling thier egotistical revolution to try and make the PC Chip business a 1 company thing just like Microsoft tries to do with thier software. I think the stock market will also see that Intel is shooting itself in the foot and thier stock prices will fall accordingly. Luckily I have a couple hundred shares of AMD! God I love watching companies commit suicide!!!!!!
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Just like all new technologies, electric vehicles go through their stage as being the new kid on the block and never get adopted as fast as they could just because of thier pricetag and peoples unwillingness to try new things. Also, at this point there just isnt a big infrastucture out to recharge electric vehicles, just like gas stations are placed every 30 miles on a lonely highway, recharging stations also need to be placed too. This is just like ADSL, its a great technology, but still isnt widely available because the word needs to get out, the prices need to come down, and the infrastructure just isnt in place yet. But, as for ADSL, electric cars have a bright future in my opinion.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Doesnt the TiVO have a 6 gig HD or something? Maybe the space you dont use you could maybe upload all your MP3's that wont fit on your HD to the TiVO =) Dont know what kind of tcp/ip stack the tivo uses, if any, let alone if it even has filesharing abilities. But that would be pretty cool, almost like to those "Network harddrive" that only have a NIC and a HD.. the tivo could be the first multi-purpose LAN storage device !!!!!
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Ive thought about this for a couple years also. I mean, with the current crop of video cards, like the Geforce, they already offload a lot of work from the CPU with HW T&L, so why not offload even more from the CPU by having an actualt bus type dedicated to adding riser cards that can hold more CPU's without having to buy a dual, or quad motherboard? They already designed a special video card bus, AGP, so why not make a special.. CPU Addon bus? Say, a 100, or 133 mhz bus, that runs in paralell with the current cpu for example, and have a special riser port when you can plug in a card that can hold 2 or 4 more CPU's that could work in tandem. Back on topic, using a video card, or network card, or even a sound card (yes, sound blaster live cards actualy have a very fast chip) and rewrite thier codes to perform other tasks. Hell, im surprised someone hasnt done this already!
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
I have already seens some phones with games on them. While I was at a movie theatre just this weekend, I was watching the advertisements before the movie previews, and I noticed the guy in front of me playing that worm game, where you move you worm around obstacles without you running into a part of your own worm. After about 10 minutes of him playing that, he actualy got a call, and pressed a few buttons, and answered it! Then, when he was done talking, he started playing that worms game again. The theatre was pretty dark, so I couldnt tell you the name or model of the phone, but it was pretty damned nice, had a back-lit display, obviously, it has sound producing capabilities, so MP3 playing cell phones would be relatively easy to produce, since thier design already incorporates sound producing capabilities, with headphones, or the built in earpiece. If you ask me, this is a great time to be alive!
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
HAHAHA!!!! Nice one, man :)
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Servu Networks
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I know how you feel, people used to forward me stupid movies like a monkey drinking its own urine. While I find that sort of stuff funny as hell, it couldnt have come at a worse time, I was in the school library, and a teacher caught me wtaching it. You can imagine what a teacher would think about a kid who has movies of monkeys drinking urine. Needless to say, Im not welcome at that school anymore :)
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Cheap, if you bought a single package of 1 sq. inch of silk. But, prices may ramp up upon mass production of these "special" chips. Plus, I bet its pretty hard to form silk (whats the correct term?) to the dimensions of a microprocessor, especialy around its circuty. But, this could also end up bieng cheaper then previous methods of packaging, since Im not aware of the current price of the materials they use now.
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
This method may help lengthen the life of microprocessors. As you know, CPU's are damaged by electro-static migration, and heat, maybe this will in some way prevent some of that damage. Lets just hope it doesnt raise the cost of the chips (isnt silk pretty expensive?
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Everyone should leave TC for matureing networks like Efnet, DALnet, or Astrolink. TC's attempt at controlling which client thier users can use is a blatent attempt at free advertising, and a chance for 3rd party advertisers to put some plugs in for themselves. Xchat baby! ps, I mentioned Astrolink because its small, and has a lot of friendly users (plus Im an oper there ;)
Systems Administrator
Servu Networks
http://www.servuhome.net
Yes, I have a home network, and my logs show during the day close to 500 port scans below the standard ports, and only about 60-90 scans on higher non-standard ports. This has really increased over the last 3 weeks, from nearly none at all, to, the numbers above. Luckily, I have strict rules on my router which do not allow them to be easily exploited. It is possible to exploit me, but its more trouble then anyone would want to put in.