>Yeah, but why do you assume that assembly line workers are less intelligent?
Your words, not mine. I never said they were less inteligent (did I?). I said they probably didn't know, not that they are too stupid to figure it out. Difference between inexperience.ignorance and stupidity.
>You have what appears to be an amazingly low estimation of people's intelligence.
Yeah, well you seem to have an amazing ability to put words in people's mouths and then make disparaging remarks about their values.:p
Yeah, but how many assembly-line workers at Ford are gonna know how to install a different OS, let alone use the thing to do anything more than e-mail surf and buy stuff online? But then, maybe jr. will do this while dad's at work and get him fired? Hmmm... sticky wicket.
Awesome! I have to admit, the last time I checked out Mozilla's progress was the Netscape6 preview that came out. I've used it on and off, but still found it a bit clunky to be my full-time daily browser (I'm stuck with NT at work for now, yeesh).
I played around with sullivan skin and that was pretty encouraging, yet it still seemed to have a way to go yet. (yes, I understand this is pre-release software... not complaining, just making observations).
But this is impressive. The rendering is damn fast and almost all of the features I want to use on a daily basis seem to be implemented and fairly well polished at this point. The sidebar really caught me by surprise. I have a customized 'my yahoo!' start page with headlines, stocks and tv listings set up - and mozilla cleanly imported all my preferences into the sidebar without my even knowing! Hell, now I almost don't even need the startpage, just put a link to the webmail in ther personal toolbar and I'd have everything I use from yahoo without ever loading the page.
I'm impressed. Mozilla is shaping up extremely well, IMO! (hell, even the proxy username and password get sved correctly between sessions now! Woohoo, byebye Internet Exploder!)
Had a friend that actually pulled the emblems off his camaro and replaced them with something that looked similar to the Z28 logo with the red and chrome "Z" but it read Z80. Not everyone got the joke, tho.
BEWARE! You may be the next victim of the latest variant of the ILOVEYOU worm, the "Honor System" worm.
This worm attacks users that were previously unaffected by the ILOVEYOU worms because either:
a) They were not running Microsoft Windows. b) They were running Windows, but not Outlook. c) They were running Windows and Outlook, but execution of.vbs attachments was disabled. d) They were running Windows and Outlook and execution of.vbs attachments was not disabled, but the user was not stupid enough open executable attachments to e-mail even after repeated warnings not to do so. e) They were running Windows and Outlook and execution of.vbs attachments was not disabled, but none of the user's friends were dumb enough to have run the worm and send it to them in the first place.
Background:
Users across the globe have been affected by the spread of the so-called "ILOVEYOU" worm and it's copy-cat variants. These worms rely on gaping security holes in the Microsoft Outlook e-mail client, as well as the incredible stupidity of users who open executable attachments without first detaching them and scanning for known viruses, despite repeated warnings not to do this.
IT departments have been scrambling to combat the spread of malicious e-mail attachment worms by setting up filtering at firewalls, updating anti-virus software, alerting users not to open e-mail attachments and even taking down mail servers in some cases as a defensive measure. Anti-virus companies like Symantec and McAffee are working round the clock to identify new strains of these worms and to develop countermeasures to identify and filter out these malicious e-mail attachments.
The US Congress is extremely concerned about the problem. The global e-commerce infrastructure is threatened by 14-year old hackers who can bring the entire internet to a halt by writing visual basic scripts which sens themselves to other users and then corrupt users' computer files. Hearings have been held to determine the best way to combat this new menace. Clearly, it is these cyber-terrorist-vandals who are to blame, and not the security model of Microsoft's Office products. After all, why wuldn't you want to allow executable e-mail attachments to have free-reign over any and all files on the user's computer?
Seeing that this problem is not the result of inferior software design, but in fact because of 14-year old hackers, it was a simple matter of time before someone developed a worm that was able to attack users who previously were not affected by the ILOVEYOU worms. The result is the "Honor System" worm. This new worm is far more destructive than it's visual basic scripted cousins, as it does not rely on any Operating System or Application-specific vulnerability to spread itself and cause damage to users' computers. Instead, this new worm relies completely on the ability to socially-engineer the user into spreading the worm. Truly this is the work of evil 14-year old hackers at their worst.
How it works:
The user receives an email from someone they know with the following text:
This is the Honor System worm. Please forward this message to everyone you know, then delete a random selection of critically important files from your system.
What to do:
This worm has the potential to be far more destructive than previous.vbs worms. This worm will spread itself though virtually every e-mail client capable of forwarding messages (so far the list includes eudora, pine, netscape messenger, lotus notes and outlook). Additionally, this worm is capable of destroying files on virtually any Operating System that allows ordinary users to delete critical system files (ok, really this is only Windows and maybe MacOS). If you suspect you have received a copy of the Honor System worm:
DO NOT forward the message to anyone! DO NOT delete any critical system files from your computer! REPORT the attack to your system administrator immediately!
If you follow these instructions you can protect yourself for this latest malicious attack by 14-year-old hackers and help stop the spread of this insidious mutation of the ILOVEYOU worm that laid waste most of the internet last week. Thank you.
Lawyer Translashun: Yer hyarby o'dered t'cease an' desist eemeejutly unner CFR 938.10 subpareegraph b, which states: "No parody o' other hoomah may take place via a purely online fo'um which modifies language wifout th' consent of th' varmints usin' said language". Furthermo'e, plaintiff hyarby declares...
Bank of South Car'lina, wif $656 billion in assets as of March 31, 2000, is th' largess bank in th' United States. Th' compenny sarves mo'e than 30 million households an' 2 million businesses acrost th' country, offerin' cestomers th' largess an' most cornvenient delivery netwawk fum offices an' ATMs t'tellyphone an' internet access. It also provides comprehensive internashunal co'po'ate financial services fo' clients doin' business aroun' th' wo'ld, cuss it all t' tarnation. Th' compenny creates financial relashunships featurin' a full array of financial services, fum tradishunal bankin' producks t'investments an' capital raisin' wifin th' securities markets. Bank of South Car'lina stock is listed on th' Noo Yawk, Pacific an' London stock exchanges an' sartin shares is listed on th' Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Exactly, even more so with options. Everyone is laughing at how these sucker employees are screwed over now because the stock is down.
Employees who got options in December before the stock started its slide will just have to hold them a bit longer than they wanted since it will be a while before they can make money on $120 options. Employees who are getting options now at 67 are probably going to be really happy in a few months once the dust clears and the stock rebounds.
I think the way it works is you have to hold them for a couple years anyway and you have up to ten years before they expire (at least that's the way it works in my company). Yeah, the stock is down sharply since the beginning of the year. Yeah, bet a bunch of employees are looking at pretty disspointing negative or reduced value in their options right now. Seems to me that is an incentive to stick it out and work harder. Once you quit you usually have only 30 days or so to use any unexercised options. Better to hang around for another year to see if the stock goes up.
This is one of the reasons companies use stock options and bonuses as compensation. Gives the employee an incentive to stick around. Now, anyone who was really smart took all their options in December and split. But then, we've always wondered about how many Microsoft employees qualify as 'really smart' (not in the talented technician sense, in the 'why the hell would you work at Microsoft' sense)
I have also heard that you can directly connect two NICs with a special cable. Do you need software changes to do this?
Yes, you can do this with a crossover cable and no you don't really need any special software to do this. I use one when I bring my laptop into work and want to hook it to my workstation. You can either make one yourself or buy one at any decent site like hardwarestreet.com.
Sorry I am so clueless.
:-) Try 'Networking for Dummies'. It is a pretty good reference for setting up a Q&D network. The examples are for windows, but the basic principles are the same. I started out with the intent to hook up my PC with my Wife's to share a printer, knew nothing at all about setting up a LAN. That book and those howto's and a lot of tinkering were pretty much all that were required. Now I have my whole house wired, I have a Linux box hooked up to my cable modem doing masquerading for the machines in my house. I set up a server to do SMB file and print sharing and stuff.
Heh, wondered how long before I came aross something like this. Sure, it makes complete sense...
Microsoft knew they would lose in court and face a break up. They figure they can somehow scare all of us into not breaking them up because this would somehow leave us vulnerable to haccker attacks (read the Time intervew? Gates actually said we would get more Melissa and ILOVEYOU type problems is MS were split up). So they launch major DDOS attacks on yahoo and everyone else to get our attention. Then they write and release ILOVEYOU and frame some poor Philipino student. Next they send a letter to the evil, lawbreaking hacker nest that is slashdot, telling them to stop breaking the law by posting their trade secret 'innovations'. Then they DDOS/. just for good measure.
How will this all end? Bill Gates will go on TV one night to reveal to the world that he has single-handedly uncovered the perps of the now fabled DDOS attacks, and proceeds to show a national audience the face of the depised individual behind the entire Melissa/ILOVEYOU/DDOS/whatever conspiracy...
I assumed that either the new server had a problem, or that my net connection was crap (as usual). Didn't occur that someone would DDOS slashdot (well, any more than the usual traffic is a DDOS:-) )
Under what definition does Andover qualify as an ISP? Aren't they more of a content provider? I'm curious about why MS chose this salutation. It seems to imply some status for Andover that makes the DMCA invokation legit, but is Andover really an ISP under some definition in the DMCA?
Yes, the most bothersome 'defect' I've noticed lately is that they seem to not be manufactured as well in terms of 'rotational balance'.
What I mean by this is that the disc wobbles a lot in my CDRom drive either because it isn't balanced or has a slight surface warp. Of course, this is more of a problem when used in a 48x CD reader than in an audio CD player. I've had problems where the drive buzzes very loudly and refuses to recognize that there is a disc in the drive at all. I've ended up pulling out an old 8x reader and using it to do ripping on another box because some of the CD's I've bought recently just can't be read on the 48x drive in my PC.
I'm sure the RIAA is all broken up about that, huh?
Actually, I've been thinking about setting up a machine to do just ripping/encoding anyway. I've got this P150 machine that I got from a friend as payment for helping put together a new box to replace this one. (hmmm... forgive me while I think outloud about this...) All I would really need is a cheap NIC so I could NFS mount a volume over on my file server to be able to dump the mp3 files when they are done. Wonder which distro I could use which would have a small enough footprint to fit on the 1.28 Gig drive I have in this thing? The biggest issue would probably be having enough drive space for holding the.wav data while it gets encoded. I'm assuming I'd have to use a local filesystem to rip and encode and then I could ship the finished mp3 files off to the file server, or maybe a NFS mounted fs would be fast enough if I went and got a 100 mbit NIC instead of a cheap 10 mbit card?
I would probably need to install X since I like using grip and would probably keep using it. I don't have the space for a monitor and keyboard and all for this so I'll set it up to export the grip window to my workstation's X server. Hmmm... (sorry for the OT ramble)
>I have yet to figure out how to enable them for sites like Slashdot
you can do this easily - edit the sblock.ini file...
# The ~ character in column one stops blocking if a previous pattern matched. # The last match wins, so these exceptions are usually placed at the end. # ~mycompany.com
so add
~betaimages.slashdot.org ~adfu.blockstackers.com
and anything else that appears to get blocked if you really want to see ads on/.;)
>1) you can waste many man-hours of Napster Inc, especially when you deliver them 300,000 usernames on hard copy.
I keep hearing this repeated that the list was delivered on hard-copy only but napster's own notice on their site says they had a soft copy.
On Thursday afternoon, May 4, Metallica sent computerized lists of 317,377 Napster user names alleged to be infringing Metallica's copyrights.
This makes me wonder where this hard copy claim got started and if I should consider it FUD?
P.S. (OT) My god slashdot is fast on this new server!
Re:A trap! Don't click that link! - mod it down!
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>You better not either if you're at work or your mom is in the room
Hell, even if you're at home and you don't live with your mom, better not click the link unless you want to remind yourself what you had for lunch (gag)
You know, I had that same idea, that Open BSD should make a great choice for a masq/firewall box for my cable modem. I had been using an old 486 with a pair of ne2000-compat SMC ISA NIC's running RH5.2 to do this, and I decided one day to switch out the HD and try setting up the box using OpenBSD instead of Linux.
I had mixed results. I couldn't get the NE2000 cards to work very well, apparently there are some issues with ne2000 cards.
The packet forwarding worked ok but I didn't find much support for stuff that doesn't work well with masq out of the box (ala ip_masq_ftp, ip_masq_irc, etc).
What really put me off was the hostile attitude I got when I posted newbie questions on one of the newsgroups (think it was openbsd.tech). You know, I know how to search deja and look for faq's and RTFM and I din't think my question was inappropriate, but man did I get a lot of grief. Probably got 3 flames for every helpful reply. Who needs that?
So instead I went and installed slack and decided I would put off another *BSD adventure for another day.
geez, either you are too thick to recognize sarcasm or too dim to come up with a witty retort. Which is it? And where can I sign up for the signal 11 fan club?
>Like him or not Sig11 is usually quite insightful, just post early, often, and on-topic and you too can benefit from massive flames by generating too much karma.
Sig11 is far too little appreciated. He is knowledgeable on any conceivable topic posted to slashdot. The depth of his insight, and the speed with which he can post a +5 comment on any topic awes me. He is truly a genius of the highest order. How he is able to continually post on slashdot while holding down 3 jobs a major IT companies and serving a research fellow to four different universities is a object of wonder and splendor.
Give me a break. He produces the equivalent of Mr. Ed's lifetime quantity of horeshit every single time he posts.
You know, this is exactly what I think when I see that Datek online commercial, you know the one where all the internet investors break through the gallery glass and coming storming onto the trading floor? I did not see that as a positive image, for the exact reason you give. Seasoned professional traders might indeed be better able to understand and weather a correction. An online investor probably less so. For some reason, the mental image of thousands of individual investors breaking the glass over the trading floor and pouring down into the pit during a sharp downturn in the market makes me very uneasy.
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>Yeah, but why do you assume that assembly line workers are less intelligent?
:p
Your words, not mine. I never said they were less inteligent (did I?). I said they probably didn't know, not that they are too stupid to figure it out. Difference between inexperience.ignorance and stupidity.
>You have what appears to be an amazingly low estimation of people's intelligence.
Yeah, well you seem to have an amazing ability to put words in people's mouths and then make disparaging remarks about their values.
Yeah, but how many assembly-line workers at Ford are gonna know how to install a different OS, let alone use the thing to do anything more than e-mail surf and buy stuff online? But then, maybe jr. will do this while dad's at work and get him fired? Hmmm... sticky wicket.
Awesome! I have to admit, the last time I checked out Mozilla's progress was the Netscape6 preview that came out. I've used it on and off, but still found it a bit clunky to be my full-time daily browser (I'm stuck with NT at work for now, yeesh).
I played around with sullivan skin and that was pretty encouraging, yet it still seemed to have a way to go yet. (yes, I understand this is pre-release software... not complaining, just making observations).
But this is impressive. The rendering is damn fast and almost all of the features I want to use on a daily basis seem to be implemented and fairly well polished at this point. The sidebar really caught me by surprise. I have a customized 'my yahoo!' start page with headlines, stocks and tv listings set up - and mozilla cleanly imported all my preferences into the sidebar without my even knowing! Hell, now I almost don't even need the startpage, just put a link to the webmail in ther personal toolbar and I'd have everything I use from yahoo without ever loading the page.
I'm impressed. Mozilla is shaping up extremely well, IMO! (hell, even the proxy username and password get sved correctly between sessions now! Woohoo, byebye Internet Exploder!)
>Z80 - It sounds like an American muscle car
Had a friend that actually pulled the emblems off his camaro and replaced them with something that looked similar to the Z28 logo with the red and chrome "Z" but it read Z80. Not everyone got the joke, tho.
BEWARE! You may be the next victim of the latest variant of the ILOVEYOU worm, the "Honor System" worm.
.vbs attachments was disabled. .vbs attachments was not disabled, but the user was not stupid enough open executable attachments to e-mail even after repeated warnings not to do so. .vbs attachments was not disabled, but none of the user's friends were dumb enough to have run the worm and send it to them in the first place.
.vbs worms. This worm will spread itself though virtually every e-mail client capable of forwarding messages (so far the list includes eudora, pine, netscape messenger, lotus notes and outlook). Additionally, this worm is capable of destroying files on virtually any Operating System that allows ordinary users to delete critical system files (ok, really this is only Windows and maybe MacOS). If you suspect you have received a copy of the Honor System worm:
This worm attacks users that were previously unaffected by the ILOVEYOU worms because either:
a) They were not running Microsoft Windows.
b) They were running Windows, but not Outlook.
c) They were running Windows and Outlook, but execution of
d) They were running Windows and Outlook and execution of
e) They were running Windows and Outlook and execution of
Background:
Users across the globe have been affected by the spread of the so-called "ILOVEYOU" worm and it's copy-cat variants. These worms rely on gaping security holes in the Microsoft Outlook e-mail client, as well as the incredible stupidity of users who open executable attachments without first detaching them and scanning for known viruses, despite repeated warnings not to do this.
IT departments have been scrambling to combat the spread of malicious e-mail attachment worms by setting up filtering at firewalls, updating anti-virus software, alerting users not to open e-mail attachments and even taking down mail servers in some cases as a defensive measure. Anti-virus companies like Symantec and McAffee are working round the clock to identify new strains of these worms and to develop countermeasures to identify and filter out these malicious e-mail attachments.
The US Congress is extremely concerned about the problem. The global e-commerce infrastructure is threatened by 14-year old hackers who can bring the entire internet to a halt by writing visual basic scripts which sens themselves to other users and then corrupt users' computer files. Hearings have been held to determine the best way to combat this new menace. Clearly, it is these cyber-terrorist-vandals who are to blame, and not the security model of Microsoft's Office products. After all, why wuldn't you want to allow executable e-mail attachments to have free-reign over any and all files on the user's computer?
Seeing that this problem is not the result of inferior software design, but in fact because of 14-year old hackers, it was a simple matter of time before someone developed a worm that was able to attack users who previously were not affected by the ILOVEYOU worms. The result is the "Honor System" worm. This new worm is far more destructive than it's visual basic scripted cousins, as it does not rely on any Operating System or Application-specific vulnerability to spread itself and cause damage to users' computers. Instead, this new worm relies completely on the ability to socially-engineer the user into spreading the worm. Truly this is the work of evil 14-year old hackers at their worst.
How it works:
The user receives an email from someone they know with the following text:
This is the Honor System worm. Please forward
this message to everyone you know, then delete
a random selection of critically important files
from your system.
What to do:
This worm has the potential to be far more destructive than previous
DO NOT forward the message to anyone!
DO NOT delete any critical system files from your computer!
REPORT the attack to your system administrator immediately!
If you follow these instructions you can protect yourself for this latest malicious attack by 14-year-old hackers and help stop the spread of this insidious mutation of the ILOVEYOU worm that laid waste most of the internet last week. Thank you.
Hmmm... strange. Maybe somebody goofed?
Well, that's a really good point, didn't really think about it that way. Raises a hypothetical question:
What if the New York Times had printed the spec in it's entirety as part of a page-three editorial? What would Microsoft's move be then?
ANDOVER:
"Rise, my friend."
DARTH TACO:
"The server cluster will be completed on schedule."
ANDOVER:
"You have done well, Lord Taco! And now... I
sense that you wish to resume your search for
young hot-grits guy.
DARTH TACO: "Yes, my Master."
ANDOVER:
"Patience Lord Taco, in time he will come to you."
DARTH TACO:
"He will come to me?
ANDOVER:
"He will come to you, and you will bring him
before me... I have foreseen it."
DARTH TACO:
"Yes, my Master."
ANDOVER:
"Everything is proceeding according to my design!"
*cackle*
ah propose a noo dialeckic:
F*ck yo'! Fry mah hide!
Lawyer Translashun: Yer hyarby o'dered t'cease an' desist eemeejutly unner CFR 938.10 subpareegraph b, which states: "No parody o' other hoomah may take place via a purely online fo'um which modifies language wifout th' consent of th' varmints usin' said language". Furthermo'e, plaintiff hyarby declares...
Bank of South Car'lina, wif $656 billion in assets as of March 31, 2000, is th' largess bank in th' United States. Th' compenny sarves mo'e than 30 million households an' 2 million businesses acrost th' country, offerin' cestomers th' largess an' most cornvenient delivery netwawk fum offices an' ATMs t'tellyphone an' internet access. It also provides comprehensive internashunal co'po'ate financial services fo' clients doin' business aroun' th' wo'ld, cuss it all t' tarnation. Th' compenny creates financial relashunships featurin' a full array of financial services, fum tradishunal bankin' producks t'investments an' capital raisin' wifin th' securities markets. Bank of South Car'lina stock is listed on th' Noo Yawk, Pacific an' London stock exchanges an' sartin shares is listed on th' Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Exactly, even more so with options. Everyone is laughing at how these sucker employees are screwed over now because the stock is down.
Employees who got options in December before the stock started its slide will just have to hold them a bit longer than they wanted since it will be a while before they can make money on $120 options. Employees who are getting options now at 67 are probably going to be really happy in a few months once the dust clears and the stock rebounds.
I think the way it works is you have to hold them for a couple years anyway and you have up to ten years before they expire (at least that's the way it works in my company). Yeah, the stock is down sharply since the beginning of the year. Yeah, bet a bunch of employees are looking at pretty disspointing negative or reduced value in their options right now. Seems to me that is an incentive to stick it out and work harder. Once you quit you usually have only 30 days or so to use any unexercised options. Better to hang around for another year to see if the stock goes up.
This is one of the reasons companies use stock options and bonuses as compensation. Gives the employee an incentive to stick around. Now, anyone who was really smart took all their options in December and split. But then, we've always wondered about how many Microsoft employees qualify as 'really smart' (not in the talented technician sense, in the 'why the hell would you work at Microsoft' sense)
Because of this?
Keep in mind that until January this year, MSFT was always going in the same direction. Notice also the little arrows that indicate stock splits.
Up until a few months ago, MSFT stock options would look pretty sweet.
net3-4-howto
firewall howto
masq-howto
I have also heard that you can directly connect two NICs with a special cable. Do you need software changes to do this?
Yes, you can do this with a crossover cable and no you don't really need any special software to do this. I use one when I bring my laptop into work and want to hook it to my workstation. You can either make one yourself or buy one at any decent site like hardwarestreet.com.
Sorry I am so clueless.
Anyway, good luck.
Not sure why I'm replying to an AC that will probably never see this but...
Well, that was the reason for the smiley, I was kidding you fuck-wit.
Heh, wondered how long before I came aross something like this. Sure, it makes complete sense...
/. just for good measure.
Microsoft knew they would lose in court and face a break up. They figure they can somehow scare all of us into not breaking them up because this would somehow leave us vulnerable to haccker attacks (read the Time intervew? Gates actually said we would get more Melissa and ILOVEYOU type problems is MS were split up). So they launch major DDOS attacks on yahoo and everyone else to get our attention. Then they write and release ILOVEYOU and frame some poor Philipino student. Next they send a letter to the evil, lawbreaking hacker nest that is slashdot, telling them to stop breaking the law by posting their trade secret 'innovations'. Then they DDOS
How will this all end? Bill Gates will go on TV one night to reveal to the world that he has single-handedly uncovered the perps of the now fabled DDOS attacks, and proceeds to show a national audience the face of the depised individual behind the entire Melissa/ILOVEYOU/DDOS/whatever conspiracy...
Rob (CmdrTaco) Malda!
(god that was a stupid rant, but I'm bored)
I assumed that either the new server had a problem, or that my net connection was crap (as usual). Didn't occur that someone would DDOS slashdot (well, any more than the usual traffic is a DDOS :-) )
"Dear Internet Service Provider:"
Under what definition does Andover qualify as an ISP? Aren't they more of a content provider? I'm curious about why MS chose this salutation. It seems to imply some status for Andover that makes the DMCA invokation legit, but is Andover really an ISP under some definition in the DMCA?
Yes, the most bothersome 'defect' I've noticed lately is that they seem to not be manufactured as well in terms of 'rotational balance'.
.wav data while it gets encoded. I'm assuming I'd have to use a local filesystem to rip and encode and then I could ship the finished mp3 files off to the file server, or maybe a NFS mounted fs would be fast enough if I went and got a 100 mbit NIC instead of a cheap 10 mbit card?
What I mean by this is that the disc wobbles a lot in my CDRom drive either because it isn't balanced or has a slight surface warp. Of course, this is more of a problem when used in a 48x CD reader than in an audio CD player. I've had problems where the drive buzzes very loudly and refuses to recognize that there is a disc in the drive at all. I've ended up pulling out an old 8x reader and using it to do ripping on another box because some of the CD's I've bought recently just can't be read on the 48x drive in my PC.
I'm sure the RIAA is all broken up about that, huh?
Actually, I've been thinking about setting up a machine to do just ripping/encoding anyway. I've got this P150 machine that I got from a friend as payment for helping put together a new box to replace this one. (hmmm... forgive me while I think outloud about this...) All I would really need is a cheap NIC so I could NFS mount a volume over on my file server to be able to dump the mp3 files when they are done. Wonder which distro I could use which would have a small enough footprint to fit on the 1.28 Gig drive I have in this thing? The biggest issue would probably be having enough drive space for holding the
I would probably need to install X since I like using grip and would probably keep using it. I don't have the space for a monitor and keyboard and all for this so I'll set it up to export the grip window to my workstation's X server. Hmmm... (sorry for the OT ramble)
>I have yet to figure out how to enable them for sites like Slashdot
/. ;)
you can do this easily - edit the sblock.ini file...
# The ~ character in column one stops blocking if a previous pattern matched.
# The last match wins, so these exceptions are usually placed at the end.
# ~mycompany.com
so add
~betaimages.slashdot.org
~adfu.blockstackers.com
and anything else that appears to get blocked if you really want to see ads on
I keep hearing this repeated that the list was delivered on hard-copy only but napster's own notice on their site says they had a soft copy.
On Thursday afternoon, May 4, Metallica sent computerized lists of 317,377 Napster user names alleged to be infringing Metallica's copyrights.
This makes me wonder where this hard copy claim got started and if I should consider it FUD?
P.S. (OT) My god slashdot is fast on this new server!
>You better not either if you're at work or your mom is in the room
Hell, even if you're at home and you don't live with your mom, better not click the link unless you want to remind yourself what you had for lunch (gag)
You know, I had that same idea, that Open BSD should make a great choice for a masq/firewall box for my cable modem. I had been using an old 486 with a pair of ne2000-compat SMC ISA NIC's running RH5.2 to do this, and I decided one day to switch out the HD and try setting up the box using OpenBSD instead of Linux.
I had mixed results. I couldn't get the NE2000 cards to work very well, apparently there are some issues with ne2000 cards.
The packet forwarding worked ok but I didn't find much support for stuff that doesn't work well with masq out of the box (ala ip_masq_ftp, ip_masq_irc, etc).
What really put me off was the hostile attitude I got when I posted newbie questions on one of the newsgroups (think it was openbsd.tech). You know, I know how to search deja and look for faq's and RTFM and I din't think my question was inappropriate, but man did I get a lot of grief. Probably got 3 flames for every helpful reply. Who needs that?
So instead I went and installed slack and decided I would put off another *BSD adventure for another day.
geez, either you are too thick to recognize sarcasm or too dim to come up with a witty retort. Which is it? And where can I sign up for the signal 11 fan club?
>....and yet Friends is still popular...
Well, ya really got me there! =D
>Like him or not Sig11 is usually quite insightful, just post early, often, and on-topic and you too can benefit from massive flames by generating too much karma.
Sig11 is far too little appreciated. He is knowledgeable on any conceivable topic posted to slashdot. The depth of his insight, and the speed with which he can post a +5 comment on any topic awes me. He is truly a genius of the highest order. How he is able to continually post on slashdot while holding down 3 jobs a major IT companies and serving a research fellow to four different universities is a object of wonder and splendor.
Give me a break. He produces the equivalent of Mr. Ed's lifetime quantity of horeshit every single time he posts.
You know, this is exactly what I think when I see that Datek online commercial, you know the one where all the internet investors break through the gallery glass and coming storming onto the trading floor? I did not see that as a positive image, for the exact reason you give. Seasoned professional traders might indeed be better able to understand and weather a correction. An online investor probably less so. For some reason, the mental image of thousands of individual investors breaking the glass over the trading floor and pouring down into the pit during a sharp downturn in the market makes me very uneasy.