I live about 40 miles from GC&SU. I know the head of IT there (though he probably doesn't have much to do with this, he is the chair of the statewide IT committee and is very on top of things) and I have to read about this on the BBC's site?
GC&SU is a nice campus - kinda out in nowhere, the campus (mostly old buildings) makes up a lot of the town. They have wireless all over the campus and purposly spills over into surrounding student hot-spots. I think they even have a point-to-point wireless link to the downtown to provide access to students while there.
My first main beef is that nigh every alien species is just a human with a funny forehead or nose...no creativity.
My second beef is just about every alien world (cheap sets) is a semi-desert planet with what look like mud huts with technology dried into the walls, or some leftover hippie commune looking place. Can't they find a city like NYC or something on some Class M?
That aside, since this is star trek afterall, my main problem with Enterprise is how smoothly the ship seems to run. Basically our first big ship and it has less problems than the Red Dwarf.
well, they have the longest running Sci-Fi show - Doctor Who - oh...no they quickly stopped showing that.
Well, at least they have Crossing Over, Sightings, Scare Tactics and other crap.
Actually, Sci-Fi is getting better - slowly. Their Dune and Riverworld weren't all that bad, and I hear good things about Farscape.
But they should ditch some of the crap and horror movies for some other sci-fi shows. Knight Rider and X-Files are very borderline.
My worry is that an anime channel would be one or two series, Akira and Vampire Hunter-D every few weeks, and lots of Starblazers, Voltron and Battle of the Planets re-runs...not that I'm complaining:) (really need a tivo)
Ok...so my distro came out 6 months ago. In that time, there is a spanking new ATI card, a severe bug in sshd and other changes that have happened.
What I would do is make sure that the iso and whatever install stuff is constantly up to date. This way if you just pulled down 3 650MB ISO's, installed a system, you now don't need to go and pull down another 200MB of updates.
Debian hits on this a little bit with checking security.debian.org as a final install step, but you still have to pull down more.
I have always wanted this with NT/2k/XP - it's a pain to reinstall, then have to put infinite number of SP's and patches on.
Against Best Buy, CompUSA, Linksys or anyone selling AP's for not having huge labels saying the default settings are such that anyone can connect to the network.
A house in NH would probably be lower than annual property taxes in NJ.
When we moved back to Ga, the lady at the tax office was shocked that my dad's tax was gonna be $2400 on his house. After paying about $8700 for a smaller house, he was rather pleased.
You would think that being on/. you people would get it, but I guess you don't.
Telnet is insecure...it is trivial to sniff data going over the wire during a telnet session. It is also very easy for a man-in-the-middle attack to hijack the session.
Think about it - someone who hasn't paid could see how the movie ended, or a commercial could be forced right in the middle of the session.
What if your IDS breaks or your firewall breaks and you need to run during that repair line without it? What if you never bothered securing the hosts because you HAD a firewall to catch everything so you didn't need to worry.
We have a firewall, IDS, packetshaper, and a few other network toys. And if they were all removed from the network, the servers are still patched, still only have the services needed available, still use tcp wrappers, still use host based firewalls, still have things like tripwire running.
The other things are just additional tools for even more management/logging/whatever.
That would be my advice - make sure your network is safe without all the extra tools.
People are basically selfish assholes. As time goes on, they think more and more about themselves and less about how their actions impact others. As society gets more complex and has more technology, this is amplified - now instead of being an asshole in my own little area, I can be a much bigger asshole and affect more people. ("Gee...I don't see a problem with speakers that'll rattle a whole city block.")
Raises stress, causes more tension and then boom.
At least that's my take...think I may be a bit too cynical:)
Me being "lectured" by Patricia on the finer points of the kernel, along with Linus, Tove, and ESR himself (who I gave a ride back to the airport - he's a real nice guy)
Why can't you have a static IP with cable or multiple IP's?
They can implement the static's by a reservation in the DHCP server. Also, the modem can allow you to get more than one IP, but most companies set them up to just have one computer (MAC) recognized by the cable modem.
Perhaps it's easier to find a DSL company willing to do this, but I'm sure if you try to setup a business account with the cable company, you'll see all sorts of options that 99% of the home users wouldn't need.
My favorite is when the cable modem signal is too week to hold it's connection. Every computer in my house can be turned off and it still can not sync up to the office. Of course, this is most likely tcp/ip settings, nic drivers, patch cables, etc...
I've called support enough times that at the start of the call I state that this is what the problem is based on the readings from the internal modem page. Usually bypasses a lot of the pointless busy work, and pretending that my router is a windows machine.
"Uh yeah...I'm rebooting now ($ echo ^G), there it goes."
Though, by that token, phone companies should be dead against wireless phones. Or if you wanna take it further, the systems where you can have one base unit and multiple handsets - what's stopping me from giving my neighboor a handset and us sharing a line (Aside from the practical issues:)
The phone company went through the same thing - they wanted to charge you for the phone and each jack.
The cable company went through the same thing - they wanted to charge you per TV.
In both cases, the govt stepped in. Also, in both of those cases, it really doesn't matter if you have 1 or 100 TV's hooked up - the signal coming into the house ies the same...it does not affect them in any way.
However, with broadband the ISP's have a bad business model - they have x capacity, and sell for more than x on the assumption that not everyone will use it at once.
Like you said, 150kbps on one box or 75kbs on 2 boxes is the same total. However, look at it this way - you download a video (100kbps) and watch it...generally you will deal with that one video stream at a time. So, you use 100kbps. But if you are NATing, you can be watching that stream, junior can be watching one, so can the misses...that's 300k. Basically it becomes more likely that you can keep that 500k connection topped out constantly, thus eroding their business model.
Now, I'm not defending them, just stating why it's not the same.
Two other points: 1) would this make Linux boxes illegal because you could have terminals (serial) hanging off it and multiple people on, like you said with the multiple KVM.
2)I'm surprised after past deregulation the cable modem and dsl/phone companies are doing this.
Don't get me wrong - I think it's stupid too...just stating what I knew.
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Wife: what's good friday? Brother: That's the day Jesus died. Wife: then what's easter? Brother: Thet's when the easter bunny came along and dug him up.
In Georgia, sodomy used to be illegal. During some case about spousal abuse it came up that the guy had gone down on his wife. They ended up not being able to get the conviction on the abuse charge, but they were able to jail him for 2 years due to the violation of the sodomy law.
When the law was finally struck down, prosecuters alluded to the above situation in that sometimes it is the only way they have actually get a conviction on someone.
I'm guessing that these new laws are to do that. Just in case they can't get a jury to believe in theft, well, you have also violated this law - you'll pay one way or another.
The only thing that will cause you to lose a domain is money - either you don't pay to renew it or someone else has enough money to get it away from you.
RFC's are just suggestions - there are no penalties, other than being made fun of - for not following them.
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I live about 40 miles from GC&SU. I know the head of IT there (though he probably doesn't have much to do with this, he is the chair of the statewide IT committee and is very on top of things) and I have to read about this on the BBC's site?
:)
GC&SU is a nice campus - kinda out in nowhere, the campus (mostly old buildings) makes up a lot of the town. They have wireless all over the campus and purposly spills over into surrounding student hot-spots. I think they even have a point-to-point wireless link to the downtown to provide access to students while there.
Nice cafeteria too
Hows that for a subject.
My first main beef is that nigh every alien species is just a human with a funny forehead or nose...no creativity.
My second beef is just about every alien world (cheap sets) is a semi-desert planet with what look like mud huts with technology dried into the walls, or some leftover hippie commune looking place. Can't they find a city like NYC or something on some Class M?
That aside, since this is star trek afterall, my main problem with Enterprise is how smoothly the ship seems to run. Basically our first big ship and it has less problems than the Red Dwarf.
C'mon - Sci-Fi worked...
:) (really need a tivo)
they have Star Trek:TNG (oh wait, TNN has that)
well, they have the longest running Sci-Fi show - Doctor Who - oh...no they quickly stopped showing that.
Well, at least they have Crossing Over, Sightings, Scare Tactics and other crap.
Actually, Sci-Fi is getting better - slowly. Their Dune and Riverworld weren't all that bad, and I hear good things about Farscape.
But they should ditch some of the crap and horror movies for some other sci-fi shows. Knight Rider and X-Files are very borderline.
My worry is that an anime channel would be one or two series, Akira and Vampire Hunter-D every few weeks, and lots of Starblazers, Voltron and Battle of the Planets re-runs...not that I'm complaining
Ok...so my distro came out 6 months ago. In that time, there is a spanking new ATI card, a severe bug in sshd and other changes that have happened.
What I would do is make sure that the iso and whatever install stuff is constantly up to date. This way if you just pulled down 3 650MB ISO's, installed a system, you now don't need to go and pull down another 200MB of updates.
Debian hits on this a little bit with checking security.debian.org as a final install step, but you still have to pull down more.
I have always wanted this with NT/2k/XP - it's a pain to reinstall, then have to put infinite number of SP's and patches on.
If anyone doubts the parents post in any way, go to Yahoo and look at the message board for any news item.
Against Best Buy, CompUSA, Linksys or anyone selling AP's for not having huge labels saying the default settings are such that anyone can connect to the network.
A house in NH would probably be lower than annual property taxes in NJ.
When we moved back to Ga, the lady at the tax office was shocked that my dad's tax was gonna be $2400 on his house. After paying about $8700 for a smaller house, he was rather pleased.
Still...I do miss the mountains and snow.
You would think that being on /. you people would get it, but I guess you don't.
;)
Telnet is insecure...it is trivial to sniff data going over the wire during a telnet session. It is also very easy for a man-in-the-middle attack to hijack the session.
Think about it - someone who hasn't paid could see how the movie ended, or a commercial could be forced right in the middle of the session.
Please, use ssh instead.
What if your IDS breaks or your firewall breaks and you need to run during that repair line without it? What if you never bothered securing the hosts because you HAD a firewall to catch everything so you didn't need to worry.
We have a firewall, IDS, packetshaper, and a few other network toys. And if they were all removed from the network, the servers are still patched, still only have the services needed available, still use tcp wrappers, still use host based firewalls, still have things like tripwire running.
The other things are just additional tools for even more management/logging/whatever.
That would be my advice - make sure your network is safe without all the extra tools.
And I can't play my miniDV tapes in my VHS either.
As long as you know the limitations up front...legal or not.
People are basically selfish assholes. As time goes on, they think more and more about themselves and less about how their actions impact others. As society gets more complex and has more technology, this is amplified - now instead of being an asshole in my own little area, I can be a much bigger asshole and affect more people. ("Gee...I don't see a problem with speakers that'll rattle a whole city block.")
:)
Raises stress, causes more tension and then boom.
At least that's my take...think I may be a bit too cynical
Atlanta Linux Showcase 1997
Me being "lectured" by Patricia on the finer points of the kernel, along with Linus, Tove, and ESR himself (who I gave a ride back to the airport - he's a real nice guy)
Then he was a contractor with a cable company car.
:)
:)
He did say "unofficially"
Believe me, I'm not worried
Tove was in tears and very confused.
Why can't you have a static IP with cable or multiple IP's?
They can implement the static's by a reservation in the DHCP server. Also, the modem can allow you to get more than one IP, but most companies set them up to just have one computer (MAC) recognized by the cable modem.
Perhaps it's easier to find a DSL company willing to do this, but I'm sure if you try to setup a business account with the cable company, you'll see all sorts of options that 99% of the home users wouldn't need.
My favorite is when the cable modem signal is too week to hold it's connection. Every computer in my house can be turned off and it still can not sync up to the office. Of course, this is most likely tcp/ip settings, nic drivers, patch cables, etc...
I've called support enough times that at the start of the call I state that this is what the problem is based on the readings from the internal modem page. Usually bypasses a lot of the pointless busy work, and pretending that my router is a windows machine.
"Uh yeah...I'm rebooting now ($ echo ^G), there it goes."
Good point...I hadn't thought of it that way.
:)
Though, by that token, phone companies should be dead against wireless phones. Or if you wanna take it further, the systems where you can have one base unit and multiple handsets - what's stopping me from giving my neighboor a handset and us sharing a line (Aside from the practical issues
The phone company went through the same thing - they wanted to charge you for the phone and each jack.
The cable company went through the same thing - they wanted to charge you per TV.
In both cases, the govt stepped in. Also, in both of those cases, it really doesn't matter if you have 1 or 100 TV's hooked up - the signal coming into the house ies the same...it does not affect them in any way.
However, with broadband the ISP's have a bad business model - they have x capacity, and sell for more than x on the assumption that not everyone will use it at once.
Like you said, 150kbps on one box or 75kbs on 2 boxes is the same total. However, look at it this way - you download a video (100kbps) and watch it...generally you will deal with that one video stream at a time. So, you use 100kbps. But if you are NATing, you can be watching that stream, junior can be watching one, so can the misses...that's 300k. Basically it becomes more likely that you can keep that 500k connection topped out constantly, thus eroding their business model.
Now, I'm not defending them, just stating why it's not the same.
Two other points: 1) would this make Linux boxes illegal because you could have terminals (serial) hanging off it and multiple people on, like you said with the multiple KVM.
2)I'm surprised after past deregulation the cable modem and dsl/phone companies are doing this.
Mine says you're not supposed to, yet the installers recommended a brand of NAT device to buy.
:)
Wish I had that on tape
Don't get me wrong - I think it's stupid too...just stating what I knew.
When my wife was a kid:
Wife: what's good friday?
Brother: That's the day Jesus died.
Wife: then what's easter?
Brother: Thet's when the easter bunny came along and dug him up.
And I married that pagan.
My telescope showed up just fine.
I've had monitors go through just fine.
In fact, I don't think I've ever had a package fucked up.
Postal system has lost one on me though.
In Georgia, sodomy used to be illegal. During some case about spousal abuse it came up that the guy had gone down on his wife. They ended up not being able to get the conviction on the abuse charge, but they were able to jail him for 2 years due to the violation of the sodomy law.
When the law was finally struck down, prosecuters alluded to the above situation in that sometimes it is the only way they have actually get a conviction on someone.
I'm guessing that these new laws are to do that. Just in case they can't get a jury to believe in theft, well, you have also violated this law - you'll pay one way or another.
The only thing that will cause you to lose a domain is money - either you don't pay to renew it or someone else has enough money to get it away from you.
RFC's are just suggestions - there are no penalties, other than being made fun of - for not following them.
Then it would go nowhere.