The stuff he's making in the washing machine is a rough malt liquor more akin to wine than what most people think when they think beer (his stuff ferments in the bottle and contains fairly high amounts of sediment). Probably fine if you like that sort of thing, but anyone expecting it to resemble a normal lager or ale will be disappointed.
MASQ works by rewriting port source port numbers into the upper 16,000 which looks fishy to network types who aren't familiar with it. Our firewall software at work goes berserk when it sees source packets above 32k and automatically generates alert spam, I assume comcast is seeing the same, and rather than tolerating the crap is just pulling the plug. Using a decent NAT solution keeps the source ports in sane range and doesn't raise red flags. Don't blame Comcast, blame Linux.
As one who suffers from various keyboard-related maladies, I only hope that common sense will prevail in the workplace and IT employers will continue to supply wrist braces and palmrests to those of us who so desperately need them.
You know, it really should say posted by cmdrtaco rather than jonkatz. Jonkatz seeming to say "Jon's blah blah blah" came off like a pro wrestler diatribe in that context.
"And that's the bottom line, 'cause JonKatz says so!"
If memory serves me right, there are several sites that parody other sites using misspellings, malapropisms and other cute devices for their domain names, I think if mircosoft.com is deemed the IP of that Redmond company it just paves the way for more anti-freedom of expression legislation/court decisions on the Internet. And, cmdr, nobody but nobody better tell me what to link to (or not) regardless of what my domain name is or what I choose to do with it. Stop internet abuse by technical means, not legislation.
Especially the Jason Bennet thing: "Commensurate with the redemption of customers from the bondage of industry" ?? which winds it's wordy way down to "This book will blow your mind, all the more so if you're new to the Internet or unsure about what it means." ?? This is like bad 6th-grade writing edited by someone who thinks wearing out a thesaurus will make it better. I can only assume that this sort of (clue?)train wreck article is the result of have one's mind blown by the book in question.
Microsoft could do some major damage to Linux and its users, indeed. Suppose they decided to come out with their own distribution, drop in a win32 emulation layer that'll play the office suite with a non-X gui, and charge 50 bucks for it?
They'd take over the linux desktop market, would be able to control the linux threat to win9x, and could make corporate types happy with something like "Certified NT Compatible" linux.
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The stuff he's making in the washing machine is a rough malt liquor more akin to wine than what most people think when they think beer (his stuff ferments in the bottle and contains fairly high amounts of sediment). Probably fine if you like that sort of thing, but anyone expecting it to resemble a normal lager or ale will be disappointed.
DALnet's for regular IRCin', not fancy IRCin'!
Wow! POT! KETTLE! BLACK!
MASQ works by rewriting port source port numbers into the upper 16,000 which looks fishy to network types who aren't familiar with it. Our firewall software at work goes berserk when it sees source packets above 32k and automatically generates alert spam, I assume comcast is seeing the same, and rather than tolerating the crap is just pulling the plug. Using a decent NAT solution keeps the source ports in sane range and doesn't raise red flags. Don't blame Comcast, blame Linux.
How about new batteries while you're at it? And get ribbed/lubricated.
As one who suffers from various keyboard-related maladies, I only hope that common sense will prevail in the workplace and IT employers will continue to supply wrist braces and palmrests to those of us who so desperately need them.
You know, it really should say posted by cmdrtaco rather than jonkatz. Jonkatz seeming to say "Jon's blah blah blah" came off like a pro wrestler diatribe in that context.
"And that's the bottom line, 'cause JonKatz says so!"
If memory serves me right, there are several sites that parody other sites using misspellings, malapropisms and other cute devices for their domain names, I think if mircosoft.com is deemed the IP of that Redmond company it just paves the way for more anti-freedom of expression legislation/court decisions on the Internet. And, cmdr, nobody but nobody better tell me what to link to (or not) regardless of what my domain name is or what I choose to do with it. Stop internet abuse by technical means, not legislation.
Especially the Jason Bennet thing: "Commensurate with the redemption of customers from the bondage of industry" ?? which winds it's wordy way down to "This book will blow your mind, all the more so if you're new to the Internet or unsure about what it means." ?? This is like bad 6th-grade writing edited by someone who thinks wearing out a thesaurus will make it better. I can only assume that this sort of (clue?)train wreck article is the result of have one's mind blown by the book in question.
where if you say donate $50 to the IrDA/Linux project you get a Linux tote bag donated by somebody like Red Hat?
Microsoft could do some major damage to Linux and its users, indeed. Suppose they decided to come out with their own distribution, drop in a win32 emulation layer that'll play the office suite with a non-X gui, and charge 50 bucks for it?
They'd take over the linux desktop market, would be able to control the linux threat to win9x, and could make corporate types happy with something like "Certified NT Compatible" linux.
Evil.