Our state's computer systems are only now recovering from that worm. These are boxes with career sysadmins. Keeping them secure is their job. WHY AREN'T THEY FIRED?
Well, I was more assuming that Cuba imprisoned its own dissidents within its own borders. But the great part about trolling is... you don't have to worry with all that pesky "research".
I can just see some highschool newb coming across this article and choosing which language to learn based on it. Poor soul, so locked in for the rest of his life...
Probably the guy that does that shouldn't use their follow up article in choosing a nice place to live:
Well, I have to eat some humiliation pie at this point, because there was a misconfiguration that's not entirely not my fault.
There was a copy of gcc 3 sitting in (nfs-mounted)/usr/local. Debian does the path backwards (/usr/local/bin before/usr/bin), and so it was finding an incompatibile libstdc++ and running amok. Don't ask me why this isn't a problem when I run plain woody.
No, the system is F.U.B.A.R. Its pretty hard to rescue a system when 75% of things don't work. Thinking about reading the doc on dpkg? Think again:
shadow:~# man dpkg Reformatting dpkg(8), please wait... /usr/bin/tbl:/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.3' not found (required by/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5) groff:/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.3' not found (required by/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5) shadow:~#
'approximately 148 files of direct Sequent UNIX code to the Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels, containing 168,276 lines of code. This Sequent code is critical NUMA and RCU multi-processor code previously lacking in Linux.
Doesn't some linux zealot happen to have these sources lying around? Can't he/she just start looking for long matches in the Linux kernel?
Can't Linux developers just audit all their "critical NUMA and RCU multi-processor code", to look for shady origins? There's a big difference between the 80 lines previously claimed and the 168,000 lines now claimed!
People complaining that Debian is out of date always bug me just because all they have to do is change a bunch of instances of the word "stable" to "unstable" and then run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. *boom* bestest upgrade process EVAR.
Important note to naive passers by: its not this easy. Take me for example. I had been running testing on a desktop for a few months. I did my usual update;dist-upgrade to get all the latest stuff. Some bozo had committed an incompatible version of libstdc++, and apt got hopelessly confused. All C++ programs stopped working, including most of the package management tools that could have fixed the problem. Things got exponentially more complex as I tried to pin versions and downgrade to correct the problem. After a few weeks of trying, the tar-baby was so bad I had to re install the machine from scratch.
According to IRC, the moral of the story is: don't use dist-upgrade, use plain ol upgrade.
People saying debian is a shark really irk me...its more like a dinosaur.:)
One thing they don't discuss in the article, but which I think would be legal, would be to permanently lease your equipment rather than sell it on eBay.
E.g. Used router for sale - $ 400 versus Used router for lease - $ 400 first month, $0 each additional month.
If you really need service contracts negotiated through me, then I do it for you at a reasonable hourly rate for my inconvenience.
Huh? I think you just need to wrap your brain around the way selections work under X:
left-mouse text light up => copy left-mouse text light up, delete => cut middle-mouse click => paste
This isn't the same as on Mac/Windows. Its better, because its fewer keystrokes (none, in fact!).
Its supported by every X app I know. Even ones that try to shoe-horn in the mac way of doing it, still support the above functionality.
However I did learn from this discussion - there sould be a simpler system of deleteing all text in a field and replacing it with the current selection. I'm no gui expert, so I'm entitled to some rampant futile brainstorming! Consider putting either "Clear" or "Replace" in the right mouse menu. The former clears the text area, in preperation for a paste, and the latter does the same and then auto-pastes.
I agree that USB seems awfully flaky. But I think I can beat it with: SERIAL PORTS!!
That's right, (on debian) configuring your serial ports to use different devices is about as straightforward as making a faster-than-light spaceship out of plastic sporks and wet-naps!
Its not an issue of not-enough-documentation. There's boatloads of documentation. The problem is the doc just sucks. IIRC it has you:
Generate a rough configuration file using a shell command.
Edit the ~20,000 line configuration file and de-comment the correct device(s). If you grep it for
"# multiple choice time, uncomment the case that applies to you: [cryptic garbage]"
, you'll find about 1000 matches.
Give up and ask on IRC.
Its a mess. And my girlfriend's palm III still won't sync.
I don't think the navy gives a flying fish about "bang for the buck". Because their systems have to be so thorougly te$ted (we hope), $10,000 dollars in difference in cost of a single computer matters not a whit.
If, on the other hand, they'd already tested the software on that hardware, THEN you might see cost savings that make them sit up and take notice.
Their way out is simple: 1) Fix the stupid bugs with Angel of Dorkness. 2) Name it AoD 2.0 3) Offer free upgrades and apologies to the few people who bought 1.0 4) Everyone else has to pay 5) regain lost honor 6) Profit!
To make a guess, perhaps as storage is growing fast, but read times are not, his drives are getting filled up faster than he can run "du -s -m | sort -n " to figure out whose's filling them up?
Also, whose to say file size increases with storage capacity? Perhaps at his site, number-of-files increases with storage capacity, with the file size staying statistically constant. MB for MB, traversing lots of little files is harder than traversing a few big files.
Dammit, I lost my mod points hours ago, but if I still had them I'd mod you up to 5.
Ray-o-vacs cost about $2.50 a battery, you can get them anywhere (Walgreens, Home Depot, etc). I got a $10 charger and about 20 of the little beggars, and am completely satisfied. I use them in bike lights, digitial cameras, and palm pilots. They work, period.
You're surely correct. I was singling out windows because of the incredible ease-of-development of keyboard monitors for it, and its high market penetration. True its a security-by-obscurity argument.
Okay, here's how we shut down these RIAA bastards for all time. They're sueing the computer owners not the actual criminals, so:
Friendly neighborhood crackers root all the computers at famously litigious companys such as: SCO, Microsoft, and Rambus. Oh yeah, and while they're at it, how about all the home computers of every single lawyer.
Use those computers to swap songs like a son-of-witch!
Wait for the soepenas to arrive
The counter-suits to begin -- a massive legal clusterfuck!
I hereby boycott all non-GPL'ed console games that I haven't already bought. I'm out of the console market. I'm applying the same logic to MS-hosted systems. Until I get my $ back, or I get Freedom of the source, I'm out of these propritary shit-holes.
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they should be so FIRED!
Our state's computer systems are only now recovering from that worm. These are boxes with career sysadmins. Keeping them secure is their job. WHY AREN'T THEY FIRED?
Especially since they can force you to buy things you don't want:
E.T. 20th anniversarry edition, with a free copy of E.T. The Suck-ass-Atari-Game!
Sells several million copies coz people just want the DVD.
Atari: "see, even 20 years later we still gots the market penetration, yo!
Well, I was more assuming that Cuba imprisoned its own dissidents within its own borders. But the great part about trolling is ... you don't have to worry with all that pesky "research".
Probably the guy that does that shouldn't use their follow up article in choosing a nice place to live:
Compare and contrast Soviet Gulags!
Well, I have to eat some humiliation pie at this point, because there was a misconfiguration that's not entirely not my fault.
/usr/local. Debian does the path backwards (/usr/local/bin before /usr/bin), and so it was finding an incompatibile libstdc++ and running amok. Don't ask me why this isn't a problem when I run plain woody.
There was a copy of gcc 3 sitting in (nfs-mounted)
Doesn't some linux zealot happen to have these sources lying around? Can't he/she just start looking for long matches in the Linux kernel?
Can't Linux developers just audit all their "critical NUMA and RCU multi-processor code", to look for shady origins? There's a big difference between the 80 lines previously claimed and the 168,000 lines now claimed!
According to IRC, the moral of the story is: don't use dist-upgrade, use plain ol upgrade.
People saying debian is a shark really irk me...its more like a dinosaur.
I would just give the buyer a @mycompany.com mail drop. As far as actual work, weasel out AMAP
One thing they don't discuss in the article, but which I think would be legal, would be to permanently lease your equipment rather than sell it on eBay.
E.g. Used router for sale - $ 400
versus Used router for lease - $ 400 first month, $0 each additional month.
If you really need service contracts negotiated through me, then I do it for you at a reasonable hourly rate for my inconvenience.
You're right, I was misremembering. Now if only I can remember why the heck I still use ISA. I guess I use it for sound.
Huh?
I think you just need to wrap your brain around the way selections work under X:
left-mouse text light up => copy
left-mouse text light up, delete => cut
middle-mouse click => paste
This isn't the same as on Mac/Windows. Its better, because its fewer keystrokes (none, in fact!).
Its supported by every X app I know. Even ones that try to shoe-horn in the mac way of doing it, still support the above functionality.
However I did learn from this discussion - there sould be a simpler system of deleteing all text in a field and replacing it with the current selection. I'm no gui expert, so I'm entitled to some rampant futile brainstorming! Consider putting either "Clear" or "Replace" in the right mouse menu. The former clears the text area, in preperation for a paste, and the latter does the same and then auto-pastes.
That's right, (on debian) configuring your serial ports to use different devices is about as straightforward as making a faster-than-light spaceship out of plastic sporks and wet-naps!
Its not an issue of not-enough-documentation. There's boatloads of documentation. The problem is the doc just sucks. IIRC it has you:
Its a mess. And my girlfriend's palm III still won't sync.
I don't think the navy gives a flying fish about "bang for the buck". Because their systems have to be so thorougly te$ted (we hope), $10,000 dollars in difference in cost of a single computer matters not a whit.
If, on the other hand, they'd already tested the software on that hardware, THEN you might see cost savings that make them sit up and take notice.
The question isn't obvious to me, because a CD seems like such a better, foolproofier way to do that. In these days everyone can boot from CD.
Um, coming from Kentucky, I have to say you picked the wrong horse:
Gate1: Secratariat
Gate2: Secratariat
Gate3: Secratariat
Gate4: Secratariat
etc...
Their way out is simple:
1) Fix the stupid bugs with Angel of Dorkness.
2) Name it AoD 2.0
3) Offer free upgrades and apologies to the few people who bought 1.0
4) Everyone else has to pay
5) regain lost honor
6) Profit!
To make a guess, perhaps as storage is growing fast, but read times are not, his drives are getting filled up faster than he can run "du -s -m | sort -n " to figure out whose's filling them up?
Also, whose to say file size increases with storage capacity? Perhaps at his site, number-of-files increases with storage capacity, with the file size staying statistically constant. MB for MB, traversing lots of little files is harder than traversing a few big files.
Dammit, I lost my mod points hours ago, but if I still had them I'd mod you up to 5.
Ray-o-vacs cost about $2.50 a battery, you can get them anywhere (Walgreens, Home Depot, etc). I got a $10 charger and about 20 of the little beggars, and am completely satisfied. I use them in bike lights, digitial cameras, and palm pilots. They work, period.
You're surely correct. I was singling out windows because of the incredible ease-of-development of keyboard monitors for it, and its high market penetration. True its a security-by-obscurity argument.
Uh, do you type in sensitive information to public computers running Windows? Then you're a super-dolt!
I hereby boycott all non-GPL'ed console games that I haven't already bought. I'm out of the console market. I'm applying the same logic to MS-hosted systems. Until I get my $ back, or I get Freedom of the source, I'm out of these propritary shit-holes.
mmmm.... apt-get install copter-commander...
Thanks, I've been looking for a tv-tuner card for linux for a long time now.