Nothing we know of can stop DDoS attacks - except law enforcement getting off their asses and ACTUALLY PROSECUTING CRIMES.
Remember, every DDoS attack is rooted in zombie machines. Unauthorized hijacking of someone's machine is a CRIME.
The problem is, the law enforcement people don't care about this particular crime, so nothing we do can fix iit.
http://www.seebs.net/log/archives/000071.html
I got a 2000-model Honda Insight in May of 2001. It was on sale, so I got it, along with a very-extended warranty, an air conditioner, and that early AIWA MP3-capable CD player, for a total of about $19k - $20k after the financing dust settled.
Do I really get 70mpg? Not in general.
I really do get >50. Consistently.
I've driven something like 24,000 miles in this car. I live in Minnesota, which has awful weather; I run the AC all the time in the summer, and our winters are famous. The car's "auto-stop" feature doesn't work below about 40 degrees F, so the car just idles at stop lights in winter.
Would I get another? Hell yeah.
I went from Saint Paul to Seattle and back, and commuted while I was there, for a week. The entire trip used about 55 gallons of gas; that's just over five tanks. So, we filled up five times, and got home with a half-tank.
Performance: Performance is just fine. Everyone bashes the Insight's punch, because they're driving it like any other car. Doesn't quite work. Second gear in the Insight can be used from about 5mph up through about 60. If you really want to accelerate, stay in a low gear; the gear ratios are incredibly broad. 5th gear works from about 23 to about 113. The pick-up is right there when you really need it - getting out of snow drifts, for instance, or peeling out on a left turn when traffic is bad. Once you're at freeway speeds, it's a little sluggish, but it's still a fine car.
I cannot possibly communicate how wonderful this car is to drive and to park. I regularly get parking spaces in winter because Minnesotan parking lots tend to have half-spaces which are full of snow. The Insight fits; nothing else does. You can parallel-park this car between people while they're kissing, and only nudge them in the shins a little.
It's a nice, maneuverable, little car, and it gets great milage. I have put in about a tank of gas a *month* since I got it.
Yes, I'd get another. And this is the 2000 model; I'm sure the 2004's are nicer.
The idea of something "costing" or "creating" jobs is a silly and misguided one; if it were that easy, we could all be rich by just paying some people to build pyramids, and other people to tear them down.
The question is what effect the telemarketers have; and the answer is tha they destroy and harm productivity, and that their loss is everyone's gain. In the long run, this is not two million people "losing their jobs". This is two million people getting jobs *doing something useful*.
1. Quit caffeine. 2. Organize. Get a feel for what the components of a job are. 3. Every time you notice that you have become distracted, stop and go back to what you were doing.
Every.
Time.
It takes a while to get the hang of working straight-through, but it can be done. It's experience, training, and maturity that make the most difference.
Could medication help? Maybe. However, for years, people were telling me I needed treatment for ADD, and I've gotten better. I'm still twitchy, I'm still easily-distracted, but I'm doing just fine now, because I've learned to adapt.
Well, when I get rights to my article back, I'll put up a version that links to yours then.
I don't see why you have to insult me. I wasn't trying for a complete and detailed guide; I was trying for an article to help people who needed a bit of a starting point, and when I started, there wasn't a really good HOWTO out there for it.
If you read all the posts from people who would never, ever, do this, because users are SUCH idiots...
How many of those posts do you think are from people whom the original author would have thought were idiots?
All the really *good* computer people I know cope just fine with tech support. It's basic professionalism; you have to do stuff like this occasionally, and it's really no skin off your nose to be polite to the people who are ignorant by comparison to you.
Every hacker I know would be happy to walk a friend through this for "come over, help me with this, I'll buy pizza". Not because it's anything like our real rates, but just because open source hackers are such cool guys.
Note the word "friend". For J. Random, I'd want my normal $100/hour plus expenses. (In fact, it was doing something very similar to this project under precisely those terms that got me interested in the topic.)
Y'know, it's interesting, because at least *my* last draft of the article pointed this out; it's not about being cost-effective, it's about learning how to do something fun and interesting.
FWIW, I still use a Linksys for my primary WLAN because it's cheap and fairly high-power, and reaches across the street, and it's already configured. But... if I have to replace it, I'll probably replace it with homebrew.
I know, intellectually, that people tend to assume that other people are like them more than is actually true.
However, the idea that 99% of geeks would use Mozilla for email is a truly stunning one. Of the geeks I know, a grand total of 0 use Mozilla for email. Geeks use mail programs for mail, and web browsers for browsing.
If you spend $140 on a wireless card, when they're available for $70, that's your problem. Extra battery? Battery charger? Why bother? You don't need those for anything. The device itself charges its battery, and the battery lasts a long time. Carrying case? I don't see much point, but if you want to spend the money, go ahead.
I would budget more like: PDA: $450 128MB memory card: $55 CF reader for your desktop: $30
and you're done. You don't need to fuss around with the sync crap. Beam old stuff over from your palm, if you have one, and do everything else on your choice of media. Wireless card is cool (albeit inessential), so fine, add $80 or so.
Anyone who doesn't think it's a mistake or leak doesn't understand Apple.
It's all about mystique, and it's all about Jobs. Jobs makes the big announcement at the WWDC keynote speech. Anyone who steals his thunder is hurting their marketing *plan*.
You've missed the point of the challenge. The point is that, if the GPL restrictions are unenforceable, then the rest of the license *STILL APPLIES* - you get to copy the code, because there's a license which says you can copy it.
The license doesn't all go "poof" all at once. There is nothing illegal about a license saying "you may copy this freely", so that part would go unchallenged, and remain in force.
Every few years, someone discovers an amazing way to hugely improve the performance of TCP, which works great under test conditions, and fails miserably in the lab. File it with perpetual motion.
This was new news when I submitted it a few days ago, along with a pointer to a Rocky Mountain News editorial that may have contributed. It's old now.;)
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Nothing we know of can stop DDoS attacks - except law enforcement getting off their asses and ACTUALLY PROSECUTING CRIMES. Remember, every DDoS attack is rooted in zombie machines. Unauthorized hijacking of someone's machine is a CRIME. The problem is, the law enforcement people don't care about this particular crime, so nothing we do can fix iit. http://www.seebs.net/log/archives/000071.html
Why would you expect anything from VeriSlime? They've always been like this.
1GB = 1024*1024*1024 bytes.
1000MB = 1000*1024*1024 bytes.
A hard drive "GB" is 1000*1000*1000 bytes.
Note that, strictly speaking, the drive vendors are right. The ISO standard says that "giga" is decimal billions, and "gibi" is 10^30s.
Be careful when browsing; if you're accepting cookies, they're tracking you! That's why they get called VeriSlime. I got my wife to do a cool slimy logo for them. http://www.seebs.net/log/archives/000065.html
VeriSgni: The Abuse of Trust It's late for the t-shirt competition, but they're still cool.
I got a 2000-model Honda Insight in May of 2001. It was on sale, so I got it, along with a very-extended warranty, an air conditioner, and that early AIWA MP3-capable CD player, for a total of about $19k - $20k after the financing dust settled.
Do I really get 70mpg? Not in general.
I really do get >50. Consistently.
I've driven something like 24,000 miles in this car. I live in Minnesota, which has awful weather; I run the AC all the time in the summer, and our winters are famous. The car's "auto-stop" feature doesn't work below about 40 degrees F, so the car just idles at stop lights in winter.
Would I get another? Hell yeah.
I went from Saint Paul to Seattle and back, and commuted while I was there, for a week. The entire trip used about 55 gallons of gas; that's just over five tanks. So, we filled up five times, and got home with a half-tank.
Performance: Performance is just fine. Everyone bashes the Insight's punch, because they're driving it like any other car. Doesn't quite work. Second gear in the Insight can be used from about 5mph up through about 60. If you really want to accelerate, stay in a low gear; the gear ratios are incredibly broad. 5th gear works from about 23 to about 113. The pick-up is right there when you really need it - getting out of snow drifts, for instance, or peeling out on a left turn when traffic is bad. Once you're at freeway speeds, it's a little sluggish, but it's still a fine car.
I cannot possibly communicate how wonderful this car is to drive and to park. I regularly get parking spaces in winter because Minnesotan parking lots tend to have half-spaces which are full of snow. The Insight fits; nothing else does. You can parallel-park this car between people while they're kissing, and only nudge them in the shins a little.
It's a nice, maneuverable, little car, and it gets great milage. I have put in about a tank of gas a *month* since I got it.
Yes, I'd get another. And this is the 2000 model; I'm sure the 2004's are nicer.
Now I'm worried.
The idea of something "costing" or "creating" jobs is a silly and misguided one; if it were that easy, we could all be rich by just paying some people to build pyramids, and other people to tear them down.
The question is what effect the telemarketers have; and the answer is tha they destroy and harm productivity, and that their loss is everyone's gain. In the long run, this is not two million people "losing their jobs". This is two million people getting jobs *doing something useful*.
1. Quit caffeine.
2. Organize. Get a feel for what the components of a job are.
3. Every time you notice that you have become distracted, stop and go back to what you were doing.
Every.
Time.
It takes a while to get the hang of working straight-through, but it can be done. It's experience, training, and maturity that make the most difference.
Could medication help? Maybe. However, for years, people were telling me I needed treatment for ADD, and I've gotten better. I'm still twitchy, I'm still easily-distracted, but I'm doing just fine now, because I've learned to adapt.
Well, when I get rights to my article back, I'll put up a version that links to yours then.
I don't see why you have to insult me. I wasn't trying for a complete and detailed guide; I was trying for an article to help people who needed a bit of a starting point, and when I started, there wasn't a really good HOWTO out there for it.
Well, you certainly could use BSD, but you wouldn't be able to sell that article to the developerWorks Linux zone.
If you read all the posts from people who would never, ever, do this, because users are SUCH idiots...
How many of those posts do you think are from people whom the original author would have thought were idiots?
All the really *good* computer people I know cope just fine with tech support. It's basic professionalism; you have to do stuff like this occasionally, and it's really no skin off your nose to be polite to the people who are ignorant by comparison to you.
More like "friendly".
Every hacker I know would be happy to walk a friend through this for "come over, help me with this, I'll buy pizza". Not because it's anything like our real rates, but just because open source hackers are such cool guys.
Note the word "friend". For J. Random, I'd want my normal $100/hour plus expenses. (In fact, it was doing something very similar to this project under precisely those terms that got me interested in the topic.)
Thanks! Glad someone spotted that.
Y'know, it's interesting, because at least *my* last draft of the article pointed this out; it's not about being cost-effective, it's about learning how to do something fun and interesting.
FWIW, I still use a Linksys for my primary WLAN because it's cheap and fairly high-power, and reaches across the street, and it's already configured. But... if I have to replace it, I'll probably replace it with homebrew.
Since when do you need to "register copyright" to use it? Not since Berne convention.
I know, intellectually, that people tend to assume that other people are like them more than is actually true.
However, the idea that 99% of geeks would use Mozilla for email is a truly stunning one. Of the geeks I know, a grand total of 0 use Mozilla for email. Geeks use mail programs for mail, and web browsers for browsing.
Oooh! How does one do MP3-encoded talkies on scummvm? I have a couple of CD versions of games that I'd love to have on my PDA.
If you spend $140 on a wireless card, when they're available for $70, that's your problem. Extra battery? Battery charger? Why bother? You don't need those for anything. The device itself charges its battery, and the battery lasts a long time. Carrying case? I don't see much point, but if you want to spend the money, go ahead.
I would budget more like:
PDA: $450
128MB memory card: $55
CF reader for your desktop: $30
and you're done. You don't need to fuss around with the sync crap. Beam old stuff over from your palm, if you have one, and do everything else on your choice of media. Wireless card is cool (albeit inessential), so fine, add $80 or so.
Anyone who doesn't think it's a mistake or leak doesn't understand Apple.
It's all about mystique, and it's all about Jobs. Jobs makes the big announcement at the WWDC keynote speech. Anyone who steals his thunder is hurting their marketing *plan*.
Sheesh.
You've missed the point of the challenge. The point is that, if the GPL restrictions are unenforceable, then the rest of the license *STILL APPLIES* - you get to copy the code, because there's a license which says you can copy it.
The license doesn't all go "poof" all at once. There is nothing illegal about a license saying "you may copy this freely", so that part would go unchallenged, and remain in force.
Every few years, someone discovers an amazing way to hugely improve the performance of TCP, which works great under test conditions, and fails miserably in the lab. File it with perpetual motion.
You can't buy a company that's suing you. Conflict of interest problems.
This was new news when I submitted it a few days ago, along with a pointer to a Rocky Mountain News editorial that may have contributed. It's old now. ;)
"Do I see 3G applications with a vibrate() call mandatory every couple minutes?"
No, but you see a great opportunity to show massive ignorance of thermodynamics in front of millions of people.
Lots of people use something like the DUL; if you don't like it, go kill a spammer; when they're all dead, this won't be a problem.