OpenBSD doesn't need a book. OpenBSD is one of the few operating systems that makes a practice of actually maintaining some semblance of documentation.
OpenBSD (and a few of the other BSDs, I believe) has great support for ALTQ (alternate queuing) which does precisely what you want. (It's what I use it for).
If half of the effort that went into developing 8 million different "all-in-one" IM clients that support the various and sundry proprietary IM protocols out there went into developing the open-source Jabber codebase, we wouldn't be having this debate, because we'd already have a usable IM standard -- Jabber.
Go to jabber.org. Read the documentation. Download a client. Install a server. Report bugs. Write a client. DO something.
People complain and complain about the lack of IM standardization, yet seem to have their heads in the sand and to be completely oblivious of people working for just that.
IT'S CHARLIE FUCKIN PRIDE
kids these days, i swear
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Probably the day that kids started hiding shotguns under their trenchcoats and shooting classmates.
Left to their own devices, some kids/people in general do stupid things. Because you didn't isn't a reason to make assumptions about the rest of the world.
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Either way, that's not a good excuse to blanketly allow kids to see everything on the internet.
Most of the 'disturbing' content on the internet is neither productive nor educational, except perhaps as a testament to the extreme perversion and stupidity of some people. (yes, I am playing devil's advocate)
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It's a difficult decision to decide what merits varying levels of censorship.
Blanket censorship is always a bad thing, sure, but so is hardcore porn in schools.
It's easy for people like us on slashdot, who (for the most part.. *ahem*) are smart and mature, to say "well, I read all sorts of porn and hacker quarterlies and how to make a pipebomb on the internet when i was a kid, and I turned out fine".
Well, that's great. But there are kids out there who, upon reading how to build a pipebomb will go into their garage and blow themselves or others up. There are kids that will go to www.stormfront.org and think . o O ( hmm.. maybe I should be hating black people, too!! ). There are kids that upon going to www.cumsluts.com will think.. well, you get the idea.
The point is, free speech is great, but not all kids are blessed with the common sense and self-control that we might wish they were.
The categories may be broadly or ill-defined entirely, yes, but it's a start.
As someone else stated in a prior thread, I think it's pretty much agreed that hardcore pornography available to 2nd graders in a school library is unacceptable.
It's a compromising solution that is getting better.
It would continue to get better if perhaps people worked constructively and acknowledged the positive merits rather than labelling, bashing, and dismissing it as "evil censorware".
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Most implementations of N2H2 bess proxies are done transparently to the user.
This might confuse a proxy, but it would appear exactly the same as any other request to a server that is filtering transparent web traffic.
I think some defense and rationality is required here in defending N2H2, to a certain extent.
N2H2 by the very nature of its business plan doesn't decide what is "blocked" or "unblocked". They have a staff of people that categorize sites into certain areas based on specific criteria.
These categories include pornography, hacking, violence, et al; but they also include educational material and the like.
It is up to N2H2's *clients* to decide which categories are blocked and are unblocked.
N2H2 has a much more flexible filtering capability due to its design -- it utilizes a human element in its site categorization.
I'm not saying it's perfect, but it gives some flexibility.
Ultimately, it is up to their clients to decide what categories are left blocked or unblocked.
Don't be so quick to blast a company because of its use or misuse. N2H2 is actually one of the better implementations of "censorware" that makes an attempt to be flexible and customizable.
This thread is interesting to me as it pertains to the increased usage of PCs in the realm of recording music digitally.
I plan on upgrading my computer massively this summer to make it effectively a digital studio, and in my past experience, I've had trouble with picking up my HD chugging in the background.
If anyone has any info on quieter drives (I plan on going with LCD SCSI for the speed), sound-proofed cases, or any advice, I'd be interested to hear it.
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boxen is not a word.
Incidentally, if you are running Linux, you may be interested to know that Winamp 5.0 seems to work great under CrossOver Office.
Let me get this straight -- LDAP sucks because you couldn't figure it out?
OpenBSD doesn't need a book. OpenBSD is one of the few operating systems that makes a practice of actually maintaining some semblance of documentation.
See "man help" and http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html
This site was incredibly useful for me in making my website more accessible.
OpenBSD (and a few of the other BSDs, I believe) has great support for ALTQ (alternate queuing) which does precisely what you want. (It's what I use it for).
Go here for ALTQ.
And here is my altq.conf, if you're curious.
If half of the effort that went into developing 8 million different "all-in-one" IM clients that support the various and sundry proprietary IM protocols out there went into developing the open-source Jabber codebase, we wouldn't be having this debate, because we'd already have a usable IM standard -- Jabber.
Go to jabber.org. Read the documentation. Download a client. Install a server. Report bugs. Write a client. DO something.
People complain and complain about the lack of IM standardization, yet seem to have their heads in the sand and to be completely oblivious of people working for just that.
IT'S CHARLIE FUCKIN PRIDE kids these days, i swear
Probably the day that kids started hiding shotguns under their trenchcoats and shooting classmates.
Left to their own devices, some kids/people in general do stupid things. Because you didn't isn't a reason to make assumptions about the rest of the world.
Either way, that's not a good excuse to blanketly allow kids to see everything on the internet.
Most of the 'disturbing' content on the internet is neither productive nor educational, except perhaps as a testament to the extreme perversion and stupidity of some people. (yes, I am playing devil's advocate)
For all intents and purposes, yes.
You should. But not in third grade english.
It's a difficult decision to decide what merits varying levels of censorship.
.. well, you get the idea.
Blanket censorship is always a bad thing, sure, but so is hardcore porn in schools.
It's easy for people like us on slashdot, who (for the most part.. *ahem*) are smart and mature, to say "well, I read all sorts of porn and hacker quarterlies and how to make a pipebomb on the internet when i was a kid, and I turned out fine".
Well, that's great. But there are kids out there who, upon reading how to build a pipebomb will go into their garage and blow themselves or others up. There are kids that will go to www.stormfront.org and think . o O ( hmm.. maybe I should be hating black people, too!! ). There are kids that upon going to www.cumsluts.com will think
The point is, free speech is great, but not all kids are blessed with the common sense and self-control that we might wish they were.
You have to draw a line somewhere.
The categories may be broadly or ill-defined entirely, yes, but it's a start.
As someone else stated in a prior thread, I think it's pretty much agreed that hardcore pornography available to 2nd graders in a school library is unacceptable.
It's a compromising solution that is getting better.
It would continue to get better if perhaps people worked constructively and acknowledged the positive merits rather than labelling, bashing, and dismissing it as "evil censorware".
Most implementations of N2H2 bess proxies are done transparently to the user. This might confuse a proxy, but it would appear exactly the same as any other request to a server that is filtering transparent web traffic.
I don't think I would classify targetted advertising as "evil".
I think some defense and rationality is required here in defending N2H2, to a certain extent.
N2H2 by the very nature of its business plan doesn't decide what is "blocked" or "unblocked". They have a staff of people that categorize sites into certain areas based on specific criteria.
These categories include pornography, hacking, violence, et al; but they also include educational material and the like.
It is up to N2H2's *clients* to decide which categories are blocked and are unblocked.
N2H2 has a much more flexible filtering capability due to its design -- it utilizes a human element in its site categorization.
I'm not saying it's perfect, but it gives some flexibility.
Ultimately, it is up to their clients to decide what categories are left blocked or unblocked.
Don't be so quick to blast a company because of its use or misuse. N2H2 is actually one of the better implementations of "censorware" that makes an attempt to be flexible and customizable.
This thread is interesting to me as it pertains to the increased usage of PCs in the realm of recording music digitally.
I plan on upgrading my computer massively this summer to make it effectively a digital studio, and in my past experience, I've had trouble with picking up my HD chugging in the background.
If anyone has any info on quieter drives (I plan on going with LCD SCSI for the speed), sound-proofed cases, or any advice, I'd be interested to hear it.