The root DNS servers at [a-l].root-servers.net are just as vulnerable to this stuff.
Yes and no. Providers of root servers usually won't stop hosting root servers because of a DDOS attack. The root servers aren't going away. The whole point about EFNet is that most of these servers are optional, run because some provider felt like doing a good turn for the community. When these providers get hit, they drop their IRC servers pretty fast. The same thing will not happen to the root servers, at least in terms of getting dropped.
Also, there is much more redundancy in DNS than IRC. If several/most/all root servers die, caching should continue to provide some level of service. Generally speaking, end users don't send DNS queries directly to the root servers, (unless they're running djbdns, like me).
Apple's approach has been more more like selling Hyundais for the price of Cadillacs: nice exteriors, but lacking in features once you get under the skin, and priced way above what they should be.
Try Mercedes for the price of a Mercedes. Elegant, well-engineered, and a pleasure to use. Of course, if you grew up thinking a Ford Fiesta was just fine, you sort of miss the point of having an elegant machine.
When the day is done, what really makes a computer good is what it does when it is turned on, not how the case looks.
S'funny. I thought that when the day is done, what really makes a computer good is what you can do with it when its turned on, not what it does. I'm incredibly more productive with my Mac than any of my PC's. Sure I paid a higher price, but it helps me get where I need to go and makes it a pleasure to get there. Of course, YMMV.
The post was modded down because the "discussion" was shorter than the sig
Interesting reasoning. However, I must disagree. A comment can be brief and insightful. For proof look at Rochefoucauld's Maximes
...razor thin margins in the personal computer hardware industry. Remember IBM has pulled out of the retail PC.
Last I checked, VA was aiming for a server market where the margins are *not* razor thin. In fact, if you go here you'll see that they only sell servers and NAS devices. Also, IBM did not pull out of the personal computer hardware industry. They pulled out of the *retail* market. They still sell personal computers direct. I fail to see how you can cite IBM pulling out of the retail PC market, but remaining in the direct only PC market as justification for VA pulling out of the direct only server market.
If you don't want your ISP invading, uh, your "privacy", then don't use your equipment on their network. Do transfers with floppies and Zip disks. It's not your network, and you have no "rights" with regard to it.
Where I work, they filter out viruses using procmail at the sendmail server. I think they use Norton's anti-virus definitions. Unfortunately, sometimes virii come out sooner either than Norton updates the definitions, or before those updated definitions are applied to the mail server. The other problem is I don't particularly trust Norton (or any anti-virus software, for that matter). I've seen both Norton and McAfee miss virii that other programs pick up, and vice-versa.
I've been after the sysadmin dept. for a while for them simply to block all attachments ending in.exe and.vbs (probably a few others which need to be filtered as well). This would prevent a majority of the nasty viruses which break out and spread quickly, like Melissa.
They won't do it, ostensibly because people legitimately need to send.exe's to each other?!? My argument is that even with Norton scanning for viruses on the server, we've had two major outbreaks where Norton did not catch it.
My advice: kill all executable attachments before they're delivered. While this really only helps with an OS that relies on file-name extensions (i.e. Windows), that's where the majority of virii are. Use a commercial virus scanner as a back-up to filter out other virii, e.g. Word macro viruses and the like.
If you put a folder alias in the Dock, the alias doesn't resolve, so no hierarchial menus from aliases in the Dock... so you can't fake your own Apple menu.
Thats funny. Works fine for me.
I'd still rather have the Apple Menu, though. Can't argue with your other points.
should be roughly 8 mkeys/sec per machine (a little less, usually). multiply by 16 and you have your answer. 128megakeys/sec. not too shabby. my single athlon 1Ghz only gets about 4.
Sort of like the old Nintendo Power hotline, where they'd route you to game specialists, if I remember correctly. Press one for Konami games, two for Super Mario 1, 2, 3, etc...
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oops. hit / instead of space. should be/usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL
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as someone else pointed out, what you gave was just for compiling and installing a new kernel, not the whole userland + kernel. I haven't seen anyone give the FreeBSD equivalent, so here it is:
vi MYKERNEL;/usr/sbin/config/MYKERNEL; cd../../compile/MYKERNEL; make depend; make; make install
Building a new kernel in fbsd is literally config, make depend, make, make install.
I see the posters plastered along construction sites and boarded up buildings around Chicago too
Im surprised no one's mentioned this, but the spray paint is here in Boston too. Last Sunday went out walking through a rather random neighborhood sort of in between Cambridge and Somerville and saw the peace love linux spray paint at every crosswalk. Didn't know what to make of it until now.
No idea why they chose that area. Not near MIT. It was about 4 blocks from the local Micro Center--but a residential area! not much foot traffic, so I don't know what they expected to do except perhaps make the whole thing look like a community groundswell (which, of course, I thought it was until now).
Thanks for that link. sort of obviates the need for my later post.
The name was popularised by Arthur C Clarke, in his short story Sunjammer of 1964 (reprinted as the title story of The Wind from the Sun in 1972), though the concept in science fiction goes back at least as far as Cordwainer Smith's The Lady who Sailed the Soul of 1960. In factual speculation it is even older: the Russian aeronautics pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and his colleague Fridrickh Tsander wrote in 1924 of "using tremendous mirrors of very thin sheets" and "using the pressure of sunlight to attain cosmic velocities". The term itself seems to have been coined in the late 1950s by the American engineer Richard Garwin.
Smith did it for sure in 1963 with Think Blue, Count Two. Some of his earlier stories I suspect dealt with solar sails. Sunjammer was published in 1964, according to www.sfsite.com, so it looks like Smith beat him to the idea.
Anyone more familiar with Smith's short stories remember if any of these earlier works dealt with solar sails? I included Think Blue on the list as the first one I could think of.
War No. 81-Q (1928)[as Karloman Jungahr] - This story was first published
in 1928 in a school publication when 'Smith' was 15.
Scanners Live in Vain (1950)
The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955)
Mark Elf
[vt Mark XI] (1957)
The Burning of the Brain (1958)
Western Science Is So Wonderful (1958)
Angerhelm (1959)
The Fife of Bodidharma (1959)
Golden the Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh! (1959)
Nancy
[vt The Nancy Routine] (1959)
No, No, Not Rogov! (1959)
When the People Fell (1959)
The Lady Who Sailed the Soul (1960)
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (1961)
Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons (1961)
A Planet Named Shayol (1961)
The Ballad of Lost C'Mell (1962)
From Gustible's Planet (1962)
Drunkboat (1963)
The Good Friends (1963)
On the Gem Planet (1963)
Think Blue, Count Two (1963)
The first time I ran across the idea of solar sails was in some of Cordwainer Smith's sci-fi short stories written, I think, in the 50's & 60's. It seemed to show up in the Instrumentality of Mankind stores before the sail ships were replaced with planoforming. Anyone else remember those books? When did Cordwainer Smith first write about solar sails? More to the point, anyone know of a reference to solar sails which predates Cordwainer Smith. As far as I can tell, he invented the idea, though no one seems to read him much today.
The guy is in marketing. Why would he have been in a development meeting?
because the course of Microsoft development is determined by the marketing dept.
Do you think development on IE was really determined by developers saying, "let's build a better browser?" or by marketers saying, let's drive Netscape out of business because they are a threat to our desktop monopoly. Here's how we'll do it."
On the other hand, I think a lot of companies develop based on the mandates their marketing departments give them: make it Java, XML, and middleware compliant! Oh yeah, and future proof for the information superhighway...
until I read the write-up at The Register which ends:
The two companies [Siemens and Deutsche Telekom] have supplanted Microsoft (and anything else American) and will be producing a secure, home-grown system that the German military can be confident in.
So basically, instead of having a proprietary American software running a major military organization, they'll have proprietary German software running a major military.
ok. moderators. no more crack. this post was not off-topic. the previous poster said that the movie "Mimic" was a good thing for scientists to watch. by describing the plot of mimic i was hoping to point out that it really didn't have too much relevance to releasing glow-in-the-dark moths and that in fact the movie was incredibly unbelievable.
10% of the market, which includes non-CE handhelds, is quite a statement that MS doesn't always carry a market by name.
Give it time. What was netscape's share of the market? How many years did it take Microsoft to obliterate them? Just wait until everything in Windows get tied into CE. Wait until you can sync a letter via infrared from Word (or something equally inane and ubiquitous). Just wait until Outlook and Outlook Express suddenly no longer sync with the Palm. Just wait until MS buys Palm.
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Yes and no. Providers of root servers usually won't stop hosting root servers because of a DDOS attack. The root servers aren't going away. The whole point about EFNet is that most of these servers are optional, run because some provider felt like doing a good turn for the community. When these providers get hit, they drop their IRC servers pretty fast. The same thing will not happen to the root servers, at least in terms of getting dropped.
Also, there is much more redundancy in DNS than IRC. If several/most/all root servers die, caching should continue to provide some level of service. Generally speaking, end users don't send DNS queries directly to the root servers, (unless they're running djbdns, like me).
Try Mercedes for the price of a Mercedes. Elegant, well-engineered, and a pleasure to use. Of course, if you grew up thinking a Ford Fiesta was just fine, you sort of miss the point of having an elegant machine.
When the day is done, what really makes a computer good is what it does when it is turned on, not how the case looks.
S'funny. I thought that when the day is done, what really makes a computer good is what you can do with it when its turned on, not what it does. I'm incredibly more productive with my Mac than any of my PC's. Sure I paid a higher price, but it helps me get where I need to go and makes it a pleasure to get there. Of course, YMMV.
They did pretty well in the first one. Perhaps what you meant to say is that they fell pretty early on in World War II.
Interesting reasoning. However, I must disagree. A comment can be brief and insightful. For proof look at Rochefoucauld's Maximes
Last I checked, VA was aiming for a server market where the margins are *not* razor thin. In fact, if you go here you'll see that they only sell servers and NAS devices. Also, IBM did not pull out of the personal computer hardware industry. They pulled out of the *retail* market. They still sell personal computers direct. I fail to see how you can cite IBM pulling out of the retail PC market, but remaining in the direct only PC market as justification for VA pulling out of the direct only server market.
Note to crack-smoking moderators: the parent post was *funny*. Definitely not redundant...
Exactly. Or encrypt it.
I've been after the sysadmin dept. for a while for them simply to block all attachments ending in .exe and .vbs (probably a few others which need to be filtered as well). This would prevent a majority of the nasty viruses which break out and spread quickly, like Melissa.
They won't do it, ostensibly because people legitimately need to send .exe's to each other?!? My argument is that even with Norton scanning for viruses on the server, we've had two major outbreaks where Norton did not catch it.
My advice: kill all executable attachments before they're delivered. While this really only helps with an OS that relies on file-name extensions (i.e. Windows), that's where the majority of virii are. Use a commercial virus scanner as a back-up to filter out other virii, e.g. Word macro viruses and the like.
Thats funny. Works fine for me.
I'd still rather have the Apple Menu, though. Can't argue with your other points.
oops. feeding the trolls, but.. its a $1299 laptop now, not a $1600.
should be roughly 8 mkeys/sec per machine (a little less, usually). multiply by 16 and you have your answer. 128megakeys/sec. not too shabby. my single athlon 1Ghz only gets about 4.
Sort of like the old Nintendo Power hotline, where they'd route you to game specialists, if I remember correctly. Press one for Konami games, two for Super Mario 1, 2, 3, etc...
oops. hit / instead of space. should be /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL
vi MYKERNEL; /usr/sbin/config/MYKERNEL; cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL; make depend; make; make install
Building a new kernel in fbsd is literally config, make depend, make, make install.
that's funny. I've been running it for several months on an SMP system. no problems yet.
Im surprised no one's mentioned this, but the spray paint is here in Boston too. Last Sunday went out walking through a rather random neighborhood sort of in between Cambridge and Somerville and saw the peace love linux spray paint at every crosswalk. Didn't know what to make of it until now.
No idea why they chose that area. Not near MIT. It was about 4 blocks from the local Micro Center--but a residential area! not much foot traffic, so I don't know what they expected to do except perhaps make the whole thing look like a community groundswell (which, of course, I thought it was until now).
Tell them "please take me off your calling list."
They will. From what I remember FCC regulations set this up so that if you ask to be taken off their calling list, and they don't, you can sue them.
I went from at least 1 telemarket call a day (and usually 3 or 4) to none. Not one.
Thanks for that link. sort of obviates the need for my later post. The name was popularised by Arthur C Clarke, in his short story Sunjammer of 1964 (reprinted as the title story of The Wind from the Sun in 1972), though the concept in science fiction goes back at least as far as Cordwainer Smith's The Lady who Sailed the Soul of 1960. In factual speculation it is even older: the Russian aeronautics pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and his colleague Fridrickh Tsander wrote in 1924 of "using tremendous mirrors of very thin sheets" and "using the pressure of sunlight to attain cosmic velocities". The term itself seems to have been coined in the late 1950s by the American engineer Richard Garwin.
Smith did it for sure in 1963 with Think Blue, Count Two. Some of his earlier stories I suspect dealt with solar sails. Sunjammer was published in 1964, according to www.sfsite.com, so it looks like Smith beat him to the idea.
Anyone more familiar with Smith's short stories remember if any of these earlier works dealt with solar sails? I included Think Blue on the list as the first one I could think of.
War No. 81-Q (1928)[as Karloman Jungahr] - This story was first published
in 1928 in a school publication when 'Smith' was 15.
Scanners Live in Vain (1950)
The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955)
Mark Elf
[vt Mark XI] (1957)
The Burning of the Brain (1958)
Western Science Is So Wonderful (1958)
Angerhelm (1959)
The Fife of Bodidharma (1959)
Golden the Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh! (1959)
Nancy
[vt The Nancy Routine] (1959)
No, No, Not Rogov! (1959)
When the People Fell (1959)
The Lady Who Sailed the Soul (1960)
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (1961)
Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons (1961)
A Planet Named Shayol (1961)
The Ballad of Lost C'Mell (1962)
From Gustible's Planet (1962)
Drunkboat (1963)
The Good Friends (1963)
On the Gem Planet (1963)
Think Blue, Count Two (1963)
The first time I ran across the idea of solar sails was in some of Cordwainer Smith's sci-fi short stories written, I think, in the 50's & 60's. It seemed to show up in the Instrumentality of Mankind stores before the sail ships were replaced with planoforming. Anyone else remember those books? When did Cordwainer Smith first write about solar sails? More to the point, anyone know of a reference to solar sails which predates Cordwainer Smith. As far as I can tell, he invented the idea, though no one seems to read him much today.
because the course of Microsoft development is determined by the marketing dept.
Do you think development on IE was really determined by developers saying, "let's build a better browser?" or by marketers saying, let's drive Netscape out of business because they are a threat to our desktop monopoly. Here's how we'll do it."
On the other hand, I think a lot of companies develop based on the mandates their marketing departments give them: make it Java, XML, and middleware compliant! Oh yeah, and future proof for the information superhighway...
from the Register article I was quoting: German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping.
I sort of thought that "German armed forces" counted as a major military organization. How about you?
The two companies [Siemens and Deutsche Telekom] have supplanted Microsoft (and anything else American) and will be producing a secure, home-grown system that the German military can be confident in.
So basically, instead of having a proprietary American software running a major military organization, they'll have proprietary German software running a major military.
ok. moderators. no more crack. this post was not off-topic. the previous poster said that the movie "Mimic" was a good thing for scientists to watch. by describing the plot of mimic i was hoping to point out that it really didn't have too much relevance to releasing glow-in-the-dark moths and that in fact the movie was incredibly unbelievable.
shit. and I just posted so I can't mod you up. someone please mod parent post +1 funny.
Give it time. What was netscape's share of the market? How many years did it take Microsoft to obliterate them? Just wait until everything in Windows get tied into CE. Wait until you can sync a letter via infrared from Word (or something equally inane and ubiquitous). Just wait until Outlook and Outlook Express suddenly no longer sync with the Palm. Just wait until MS buys Palm.