They'd achieve far more if they instead spent some money on awareness campaigns to teach people the most common signs of abuse, and to make people aware that strangers isn't the greatest risk to their children.
In general, Americans don't like for their government to spend money. Rather, they don't like their government spending money on the common good.
I think it's a shame, but that's the American ideology.
Since I'm much more of a night person, I come in around 1pm every day and stay til around midnight--or at least I did until we moved into the building.
I'm not so good at mathematics, but I think that's 11 hours in the office a day.
Do you work a 4 day week? If you do, you're "only" putting in hours for an extra half day per week.
It's gotten to the point where I just started going home at 8 or so because I would accomplish absolutely nothing by being there.
Oh wait, never mind. You only work 7 hours a day. Well done!:)
(I meant this to be a joke, but I was surprised that almost 1/3 of Americans are classified as obese. I'd have to put on more than 45 pounds to be obese, so that's pretty fucking scary. As Mr. Slave says, Jesus Christ!)
I used to use edlin. Not for serious editing, but for small changes to files. My roommate made fun of me once. "Why don't you use a real editor?" My answer: "Because edlin will always be there, on every computer."
Imagine my surprise when MS-DOS 6 shipped without edlin.:(
If your system suffered a successful intrusion, you wipe.
It wasn't a good principle in the old days, and it's not a good principle now.
In the olden days, if your (say) Windows 95 box was compromised, and you wiped (and presumably re-installed), then it would be compromised again very soon, from the same security hole that was used the first time.
Unless you have some guess as to how the intrusion worked on your system, what makes you think it won't happen again?
My advice: Don't panic! A system was probably compromised long before you noticed. There is little reason to pull the plug and wipe it right away... a few minutes or even hours will probably not cause more problems. At the very least, try get a disk image of the system that you (or someone else) can use for forensics later.
Sure, you will need to wipe and reinstall (hopefully with a little more attention to security), but it should be done after you figure out what's going on.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
This is a pretty fucking stupid thing to say. But then again, it is an Ayn Rand quote.
A government has whatever power it is given, by whatever agreement or coercion it used to get it.
In the US, for instance, the government has the power to print money, to sign treaties with other countries, to go to war, set standards for trade (like standard measures for weight and volume, labelling laws), and so on.
Where does the Apollo program fit into this "criminal" idea? What about the interstate highway system? The post office? Research grants for improving crop yield? The DARPA work that created the Internet?
I guess you could twist each of them into the "criminal" idea, but I really think you'd be kidding yourself.
The old DOS api is fully spec'd, so why not windows?
When did that happen? Coding under DOS was a tightrope of undocumented system calls and 3rd party extensions (either via drivers or TSR) when I was a DOS programmer.
Mind you, this was 15 years ago, so maybe something changed... but only long after DOS ceased to become relevant.
I've heard many a DBA-type praise PostgreSQL up and down. However, for most end users, they aren't going to run something that requires the load of Slashdot or Google.
Most PostgreSQL advocacy I've heard ends up being an anti-MySQL rant. It must be frustrating to think you have better technology and find people using the competition's stuff anyway. I like MySQL though, and the complaints sound a bit shrill to me.
The 6bone dying means the last ipv6 broker I know of just went out of commission...
Intersting... perhaps you should try a "search engine" to find a new tunnel broker. It's a technology that lets you enter in one or more keywords and it will try to find web pages that have that word. Here's a site that I hear it is pretty good for this:
If that's too hard, I can recommend the following tunnel broker. I use it for a server I have in a non-IPv6 network (my server is in Amsterdam, and the broker is in Switzerland, so I have an extra 20 milliseconds of delay for IPv6 traffic vs. IPv4 traffic, but the broker seems to be reliable):
My ISP at home, xs4all, provides IPv6 for their customers. So everyone who wants it gets a/48. I'll give you the link, which you can use until you figure out this whole "search" concept:
Due to the presence of Mexican illegal aliens (of whom about 10 percent are infected with Chagas), if you live in Los Angeles, you are 5 times more likely to die.
I had a roommate when I was at university who interned with Microsoft (around 1992 or 1993, I think). At the end of summer they got to have lunch with Bill Gates. He asked Bill about Unix, and was told "nobody fucks with NT".
I'm not really sure what that means, but maybe Gates and Ballmer see the same psychiatrist...
There are lots of anti-homosexual verses in the New Testament. AFAIK, Jesus didn't say anything against gay people, but he's really not a major figure in a lot of Christian theology.;)
Allows you to take a clean snapshot of the entire database without taking it down. We've been using this for quite a while now (a couple of years I think). You need to use 4.0.2 or later.
Treating company information over an *external* IM system is not acceptable.
Exactly. I mean, imagine the loss to shareholders when somebody at Skype logs a typical programmer conversation: joe: hey i got an error committing the tree hnic: what? joe: CVS: unable to write to file conf/variant/noref hnic: okay, it's owned by frank still. joe: ill send an email to ops to get them to change the group on the directory hnic: call them, I want this done today - we can't make a new release on a Friday joe: okay, thx
Clearly a firing offense for these two "cowboy coders"!!!
We've been running a BGP database of around 300 Gbyte for many years now happily on MySQL. Our Whois server, runs in a cluster each server gets about 250 SQL queries per second on average, also on MySQL. I love MySQL, but I guess these aren't real databases.
Admittedly our schemas are pretty simple, but I consider that a matter of good design rather than a limitation of the tool.
I'm reading Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties right now and it seems to me that when you start to do "real" work with SQL servers you quickly descend into a proprietary quagmire, and end up with your poor brain melted into a heap in the process. But YMMV.:)
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They'd achieve far more if they instead spent some money on awareness campaigns to teach people the most common signs of abuse, and to make people aware that strangers isn't the greatest risk to their children.
In general, Americans don't like for their government to spend money. Rather, they don't like their government spending money on the common good.
I think it's a shame, but that's the American ideology.
Microsoft didn't like it then, any more than now:
l etter_to_hobbyists.html
http://www.tranquileye.com/cyber/1976/gates_open_
Since I'm much more of a night person, I come in around 1pm every day and stay til around midnight--or at least I did until we moved into the building.
:)
I'm not so good at mathematics, but I think that's 11 hours in the office a day.
Do you work a 4 day week? If you do, you're "only" putting in hours for an extra half day per week.
It's gotten to the point where I just started going home at 8 or so because I would accomplish absolutely nothing by being there.
Oh wait, never mind. You only work 7 hours a day. Well done!
we deal with some fairly large customers
Those must be the American customers then...
(I meant this to be a joke, but I was surprised that almost 1/3 of Americans are classified as obese. I'd have to put on more than 45 pounds to be obese, so that's pretty fucking scary. As Mr. Slave says, Jesus Christ!)
I used to use edlin. Not for serious editing, but for small changes to files. My roommate made fun of me once. "Why don't you use a real editor?" My answer: "Because edlin will always be there, on every computer."
:(
Imagine my surprise when MS-DOS 6 shipped without edlin.
If your system suffered a successful intrusion, you wipe.
It wasn't a good principle in the old days, and it's not a good principle now.
In the olden days, if your (say) Windows 95 box was compromised, and you wiped (and presumably re-installed), then it would be compromised again very soon, from the same security hole that was used the first time.
Unless you have some guess as to how the intrusion worked on your system, what makes you think it won't happen again?
My advice: Don't panic! A system was probably compromised long before you noticed. There is little reason to pull the plug and wipe it right away... a few minutes or even hours will probably not cause more problems. At the very least, try get a disk image of the system that you (or someone else) can use for forensics later.
Sure, you will need to wipe and reinstall (hopefully with a little more attention to security), but it should be done after you figure out what's going on.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
This is a pretty fucking stupid thing to say. But then again, it is an Ayn Rand quote.
A government has whatever power it is given, by whatever agreement or coercion it used to get it.
In the US, for instance, the government has the power to print money, to sign treaties with other countries, to go to war, set standards for trade (like standard measures for weight and volume, labelling laws), and so on.
Where does the Apollo program fit into this "criminal" idea? What about the interstate highway system? The post office? Research grants for improving crop yield? The DARPA work that created the Internet?
I guess you could twist each of them into the "criminal" idea, but I really think you'd be kidding yourself.
The old DOS api is fully spec'd, so why not windows?
When did that happen? Coding under DOS was a tightrope of undocumented system calls and 3rd party extensions (either via drivers or TSR) when I was a DOS programmer.
Mind you, this was 15 years ago, so maybe something changed... but only long after DOS ceased to become relevant.
Obviously you can't remove it by throwing Micorsoft's top engineers at it either...
They should have tried developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.. Yes!
I've heard many a DBA-type praise PostgreSQL up and down. However, for most end users, they aren't going to run something that requires the load of Slashdot or Google.
i es/slashdot.html
Slashdot runs MySQL:
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/success-stor
Most PostgreSQL advocacy I've heard ends up being an anti-MySQL rant. It must be frustrating to think you have better technology and find people using the competition's stuff anyway. I like MySQL though, and the complaints sound a bit shrill to me.
The 6bone dying means the last ipv6 broker I know of just went out of commission...
/48. I'll give you the link, which you can use until you figure out this whole "search" concept:
Intersting... perhaps you should try a "search engine" to find a new tunnel broker. It's a technology that lets you enter in one or more keywords and it will try to find web pages that have that word. Here's a site that I hear it is pretty good for this:
http://www.google.com/
If that's too hard, I can recommend the following tunnel broker. I use it for a server I have in a non-IPv6 network (my server is in Amsterdam, and the broker is in Switzerland, so I have an extra 20 milliseconds of delay for IPv6 traffic vs. IPv4 traffic, but the broker seems to be reliable):
http://tunnelbroker.as8758.net/
My ISP at home, xs4all, provides IPv6 for their customers. So everyone who wants it gets a
http://www.xs4all.nl/
So does this mean Linux is "free as in water "?
There is no cure, no treatment, no therapy for Celliac Disease. The only thing that can be done is remove gluten from the diet.
Um... removing gluten from the diet is the treatment. Kind of annoying, but certainly not the worst kind of dietary restriction.
Due to the presence of Mexican illegal aliens (of whom about 10 percent are infected with Chagas), if you live in Los Angeles, you are 5 times more likely to die.
:)
Actually, P(death) is 1.0 for everyone.
I had a roommate when I was at university who interned with Microsoft (around 1992 or 1993, I think). At the end of summer they got to have lunch with Bill Gates. He asked Bill about Unix, and was told "nobody fucks with NT".
I'm not really sure what that means, but maybe Gates and Ballmer see the same psychiatrist...
Funny, I don't think my Linksys router running OpenWrt has any GNU software installed. It sure runs Linux though!
There are lots of anti-homosexual verses in the New Testament. AFAIK, Jesus didn't say anything against gay people, but he's really not a major figure in a lot of Christian theology. ;)
mysqldump --single-transaction
Allows you to take a clean snapshot of the entire database without taking it down. We've been using this for quite a while now (a couple of years I think). You need to use 4.0.2 or later.
All of Europe is Region 2.
We just need to convince 60 million Brits that the UK is in Europe...
Treating company information over an *external* IM system is not acceptable.
Exactly. I mean, imagine the loss to shareholders when somebody at Skype logs a typical programmer conversation:
joe: hey i got an error committing the tree
hnic: what?
joe: CVS: unable to write to file conf/variant/noref
hnic: okay, it's owned by frank still.
joe: ill send an email to ops to get them to change the group on the directory
hnic: call them, I want this done today - we can't make a new release on a Friday
joe: okay, thx
Clearly a firing offense for these two "cowboy coders"!!!
Ok, why not User Mode Linux then.
So I guess for some reason you just don't like Xen.
Anyway, to answer your question, UML is dog slow. It's not so bad for basic processing, but anything that requires disk I/O is basically unusable.
Civ III gives you the option of playing past the end of the game (by which I mean the point where a player wins, or turns run out).
Database administrators who understand DB theory, have managed terrabyte servers, and know what a real database looks like.
:)
(My emphasis.)
Your reference to a "real" database immediately brings to mind the "no true scotsman" fallacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
We've been running a BGP database of around 300 Gbyte for many years now happily on MySQL. Our Whois server, runs in a cluster each server gets about 250 SQL queries per second on average, also on MySQL. I love MySQL, but I guess these aren't real databases.
Admittedly our schemas are pretty simple, but I consider that a matter of good design rather than a limitation of the tool.
I'm reading Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties right now and it seems to me that when you start to do "real" work with SQL servers you quickly descend into a proprietary quagmire, and end up with your poor brain melted into a heap in the process. But YMMV.
Um, why not just obey the law?
And just say "no" while you're at it!
Banks do NOT let their customers use '1234' or '9999' as a PIN!
My bank lets me use '1234' as a PIN, what are you talking about?
(It's a joke. I don't even know what a PIN is.)