Yep, gotta agree that google is unmatched for finding relevant content quickly.
I've found that google will find stuff that a site's own search engine won't find at all, or after a long wait.
I've found a lot of times I won't even bother with searching through the site. I go straight to google advanced search to find what I'm looking for from that particular site
That's a valid point, but I'm thinking there is a different reason for this.
It would be a huge mess if you started trying to apply different drug-use standards to different sports. Imagine the confusion and potential for error...
class A - swimming, track & field, gymnastics and wrestling - no steroids, no amphetimines, etc
class B - fencing, skeet shooting, curling and equestrian events - no steroids allowed, but amphetimines are ok.
class C - chess - take whatever the hell you want
"no, no, no -- please just make it easier for us to know what we can and can't take by having one standard for everything!"
You are quite right, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. This is in fact a problem with the group that supplies the PCs to the various departments. They have a process where they "ghost" pre-configured drive images. For some reason, they use a standard development image, which includes a running IIS5 config, on _all_ machines, even those used by the secretarial staff. Go figure.
But you are right, this isn't as much MS's fault as the bonehead admin that set up the default machine configs.
Here, all of the W2K workstation boxes were infected. These are not sysadmins or developers who should know better, these are just all the people who work here and are provided with a workstation to do their jobs and have no idea that IIS is running on their machines.
They have no idea and weren't ever told that they need to apply any patches. Couple days after the CR panic started to spread, we got an alert from our crack security administration group that we should download and install a patch from Microsoft if we were running any NT servers.
Of course, none of them new what the hell this meant, so they assumed it didn't apply to them and so did nothing.
>The comment you were replying too was moderated as funny, so it must be some kind of joke
they say you ruin the joke if you have to explain it, but in this case there isn't much to ruin...
The original post (Hammer) seems to try to make a joke of the fact that Apache (and Linux) are not compatible with the series of Code Red worms.
We seem to have a good ways to go befoer everything that runs on Winblows will also run on Linux
Then the reply to this (egburr) plays on the literal interpretation that Apache is not compatible with Linux...
Yes. I do know what was intended. But, it's fun to take things too literally occasionally.
And no, I didn't have anything better to do (waiting for a co-worker to get back from cig break to ask her a question before I head out) than to post this. Sue me.:-)
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He he, yeah... that one has been around for a while but is still funny.
At work I have a penny jar (pretty good sized gallon apple cider jug) full of change on which I have taped a sign that says the same thing, except for 'penny' instead of 'nickel'.
Initially I got some funny looks from people who came by my cube, now they come over and drop a penny in everytime their machine locks up*.
*except now we are all using w2k and we don't get crashes much; people now mostly come over to raid the jar for the odd nickel and dime for the coke machine.
Of course, I still have some of my earliest z80 code on cassette somewhere still in my basement (the integrated monitor on my ModelIII died and I never got around to trying to get it fixed while there might have been replacements parts around, now forget it. Man, I never should have donated that model 1 to the library!)
I think the point is that without a record head, a walkman would be pretty useless for a TRS-80 (unless you already had the data on tape and just wanted read-only).
Yeah, this is obviously a joke. Part of me was momentarily hopeful that someone had actually hacked a TRS-80 into a http server, though.;-)
That sounds right. I questioned the validity of the headline when I saw it wondering how Code Red could affect hotmail when last I heard they used BSD.
But what you say sounds familiar; that they still use BSD for the backend mail servers, but the 'user interface' websites are all running W2K/IIS5
Slashdot Mirror
Typing yes, speaking no. I have no problem whatsoever referring to my servers as Debian GNU/Linux machines.
In conversaion I use 'Linux' because any time I've tried to say GNU/Linux, I got so distracted that I forgot what I was trying to say.
:-)
>you can have an operating system (perhaps not for a PC) that doesn't involve user interaction
I didn't think he meant 'interface' to be user interface, at least not exclusively.
The context I took this in was the interface to the kernel, not particularly the GUI.
...have all the comments gone?
Made to works with adults or children.
How in the heck would you be able to make a funhouse mirror that didn't work everyone, anyway? (well, vampires yes, but adults only?)Wonder how long before a .deb for Woody will appear?
I've found that google will find stuff that a site's own search engine won't find at all, or after a long wait.
I've found a lot of times I won't even bother with searching through the site. I go straight to google advanced search to find what I'm looking for from that particular site
for example
search.support.microsoft.com would never be able to return this many KB articles in less than a second (if at all).
>Well, at least he used the apostrophe correctly.
...and they say we live in a time of lowered expectations!
uhhh, I wasn't going for a realistic example, just using drug names as they came to me to illustrate my point (badly, it seems)
That's a valid point, but I'm thinking there is a different reason for this.
It would be a huge mess if you started trying to apply different drug-use standards to different sports. Imagine the confusion and potential for error...
class A - swimming, track & field, gymnastics and wrestling - no steroids, no amphetimines, etc
class B - fencing, skeet shooting, curling and equestrian events - no steroids allowed, but amphetimines are ok.
class C - chess - take whatever the hell you want
"no, no, no -- please just make it easier for us to know what we can and can't take by having one standard for everything!"
web administration tool for SAMBA servers...
You are quite right, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. This is in fact a problem with the group that supplies the PCs to the various departments. They have a process where they "ghost" pre-configured drive images. For some reason, they use a standard development image, which includes a running IIS5 config, on _all_ machines, even those used by the secretarial staff. Go figure.
But you are right, this isn't as much MS's fault as the bonehead admin that set up the default machine configs.
It is worse than that, actually.
Here, all of the W2K workstation boxes were infected. These are not sysadmins or developers who should know better, these are just all the people who work here and are provided with a workstation to do their jobs and have no idea that IIS is running on their machines.
They have no idea and weren't ever told that they need to apply any patches. Couple days after the CR panic started to spread, we got an alert from our crack security administration group that we should download and install a patch from Microsoft if we were running any NT servers.
Of course, none of them new what the hell this meant, so they assumed it didn't apply to them and so did nothing.
Sheesh, what a mess!
Son of a bitch! Where is that @#$*! towel!?
Oh,man!
If you're going to the pool... make sure you take a towel... wanna get high?
they say you ruin the joke if you have to explain it, but in this case there isn't much to ruin...
The original post (Hammer) seems to try to make a joke of the fact that Apache (and Linux) are not compatible with the series of Code Red worms.
We seem to have a good ways to go befoer everything that runs on Winblows will also run on Linux
Then the reply to this (egburr) plays on the literal interpretation that Apache is not compatible with Linux...
Yes. I do know what was intended. But, it's fun to take things too literally occasionally.
And no, I didn't have anything better to do (waiting for a co-worker to get back from cig break to ask her a question before I head out) than to post this. Sue me. :-)
He he, yeah... that one has been around for a while but is still funny.
At work I have a penny jar (pretty good sized gallon apple cider jug) full of change on which I have taped a sign that says the same thing, except for 'penny' instead of 'nickel'.
Initially I got some funny looks from people who came by my cube, now they come over and drop a penny in everytime their machine locks up*.
*except now we are all using w2k and we don't get crashes much; people now mostly come over to raid the jar for the odd nickel and dime for the coke machine.
probably not, but Attack of the Clones is still the worst. Sounds like attack of the _clowns_
Still reminds me of that dog sci-fi bomb killer clowns from outer space everytime I hear it.
Ok, I missed it. What does stem cell research really have to do with human cloning?
err, that wasn't the point
I was talking about using tapes on trs80 in general, not using z80 assembler on a model 100
Of course, I still have some of my earliest z80 code on cassette somewhere still in my basement (the integrated monitor on my ModelIII died and I never got around to trying to get it fixed while there might have been replacements parts around, now forget it. Man, I never should have donated that model 1 to the library!)
;-)
I think the point is that without a record head, a walkman would be pretty useless for a TRS-80 (unless you already had the data on tape and just wanted read-only).
Yeah, this is obviously a joke. Part of me was momentarily hopeful that someone had actually hacked a TRS-80 into a http server, though.
Losing track of Nuclear materials
Nuclear Materials System Not Buggy, Says Microsoft
That sounds right. I questioned the validity of the headline when I saw it wondering how Code Red could affect hotmail when last I heard they used BSD.
But what you say sounds familiar; that they still use BSD for the backend mail servers, but the 'user interface' websites are all running W2K/IIS5
Wonder which one they could be talking about?
That would tend to explain a lot. I had originally wondered how the Empire managed to recruit and train an army of 100% incompetent stormtroopers.
;-)
Then I was told they were all clones. "Who did they clone, Bozo the clown?", I replied.
I guess I wasn't that far off.