Nope.. You ever leave yourself logged in? You ever have a roomate? It is entirely possible that this was not done by that individual. The trail of evidence is perfect, and yet it simply proves what?
So what is the complaint? That the original poster said that in *his opinion* that 25 is more appropriate? Or that that by law, you could buy this and play it three years ago?
I think I'll simply agree with your last paragraph and add the hint that the younger you are, the more suscepable you are to this distortion.
The original poster never said that nobody under 25 shouldn't play this, simply put that as a suggestion. Probably this was a result of him having played the game and been completely floored by the non-linearity and ability to do whatever the hell he wanted. Maybe you should be a game screener for him, you know, let him know when games are too scary;)
Come on! It *is* different. This is not prejudice regarding a physical attribute that differenciates portions of the populace, this is about an attribute that ALL people share.
Would you let your 8 year old watch "Faces of Death"? I assume you would say no, because you do not want to put them into a situation where you feel they could be traumatized. It follows from the (evolution reinforced) protection of children.
However, if my child were to put forth a reasonable and pursuasive argument as to why they should watch it, I would reconsider my earlier decision based on purely their age number. Same goes in this situation. When someone whines and complains that they are old enough, they are merely reinforcing the negative view that the world has of them.
Same argument does NOT apply for racism, etc. I happen to KNOW what it is like to be a kid and have the naivety that comes with that particular state of being. I am in no position to judge on other attributes, and thus cannot place a different set of values than my own upon some of different race/creed/color/etc.
I hope you get my point... there is quite a distinction between racism and agism.
Naw. Just jiggle the passenger-side door, and when the cop comes running after you, run around the car in the other direction and climb in the driver's seat. Priceless!
uh huh, sure... obviously using linuxconf will not work for all "unix box type" computers... unless there has been a port over to Solaris, FreeBSD, etc. From LinuxConf Documentation: "You can point your favorite web browser to any linuxconf's managed linux station and fully configure it. This is a major feature for remote administration." That is very cool, and for you probably a must, but does it scale to 50 servers? If you didn't have that utility available and didn't have net access, could you perform all the tasks that it can do? If so, great! If not, go learn, it is worth knowing!
You are quite right for naming the most common directories, kudos to you. Were you trying to say that all unix admins know that, or were you just trying to say that *you* knew that? I think you missed my point, which is that simply being able to install a machine to a GUI doesn't make someone an experienced admin.
As for your comments regarding malicious torture which forced you to take the role of AC (why, I don't know), I refuse to respond as I haven't knocked over grandma in WEEKS.
You get what you pay for. I'll take one Senior unix sysadmin over 3 junior NT admins any day of the week. Do the math.
And I'd take one senior NT admin over three junior unix admins... Really, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference between managing unix and NT. Let's all pretend that there aren't a lot of idiots out there that lied on resumes and consider running linux at home a qualification for being an administrator (same with the NT side).
I assert that administering either a Unix or NT variant is essentially the same thing. I run a mixed environment, and frankly, have comparible uptimes between similar servers of different breeds.
You have to install, configure, and secure.
This requires more than putting in a CD and hitting until you have a GUI up no matter what the platform. The means securing it, ensuring that random daemons/services aren't running, setting up appropriate accounts and accounting. The root cause of the hue and cry of "advocates", who are sometimes blind, is that the Windows platform is a little TOO easy to use. This is almost always an issue when something tries to be all things to all people. You have to dumb down the interface for the masses. However, whether I am installing or maintaining Windows or FreeBSD (or whichever *nix I happen to be in front of) you can be certain that I am not using a GUI to do this. A good administrator is going to script out--what!? you say? A script under Wind0ze? Yes, of course-- just once a process and then have yet another tool to use later. A bad administrator is going to do it manually, and thus you get admins that are LAZY and let simple things like keeping keeping up patch levels make them look like idiots. Please note that the issues with CodeRed and Nimda weren't that Windows was insecure, but that are too many NT admins are LAZY insufferable punks!
Where people go wrong is when they think that they know what they are doing. The more you learn, the more you understand how little you know.
Frankly, I love removing PATH variables from "Unix admin Gods" and watching them squirm to figure out where utilities are. Of course, I also love driving over imbicile NT admins that point and click a solution, then do it 100 more times for each user.
OK, enough ranting... Let me just reiterate the point I initially wanted to make: Doesn't matter which platform you are using, if you don't understand it, it will suck. Some platforms may suck less under default situations, but when things are well configured, all platforms start to resemble each other. This is why experienced people earn more than the college grads. And yes, there are a lot more inexperienced NT Admins out there, but then might that not be due to the simple fact that there are more NT systems out there? AND add in that it takes more of a learning curve to work with large *nix installations. Damn crossovers from BA degrees that think they are real administrators!! Sorry, I am beginning to rant again.. accept my apologies and read something else.
This is more than eerily reminiscent of Issac Asimov's stories about Univac? What? They read 30 year old science fiction (speculative fiction is the accurate term, or just SF, BTW) and reprossess it using modern parlance?
If I remember the story correctly, creating Univac gave terrorism a focus, a target with which to upset the entire world. Heck, that doesn't even sound good on a company level: why can't I access the files I need to work? There was a back-hoe the tore up our fiber-optic and our company has to shut down until March.
Good for you! I for one appreciate the fact that you are taught that course. However, now that you have seen the truly naive and how easy it is to go through the learning curve, don't you just laugh at anyone that whines "This is really hard." yet prefesses to be anti-MS and pro-linux?
PCI has historically held an important role in chipset interconnect architecture. Until recently, it has been responsible for connecting the North and South bridges, allowing up to 133MB/s (theoretical) transfer rates. When using faster drives, network adapters, and so on, the PCI bus became an inadequate interconnect bus. Both Intel and VIA have begun shipping chipsets utilizing proprietary point-to-point connections to increase interconnect bandwidth to 266MB/s. AMD's HyperTransport allow data transfer between the two bridges up to 1.6GB/s. We will go into more detail on these technologies shortly. These new interconnect methods relegate the PCI bus to just being another component hanging off the South Bridge. For a bunch of PCI information check out PCI & AGP. And for $25, you can download the latest PCI spec here.
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You do know that MSIE is based off of NCSA Mosaic, right? You can still reminisce by going to the help->About link and see:
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc.
Contains security software licensed from RSA Data Security Inc.
Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
Contains SOCKS client software licensed from Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
Contains ASN.1 software licensed from Open Systems Solutions, Inc.
Multimedia software components, including Indeo(R); video, Indeo(R) audio, and Web Design Effects are provided by Intel Corp.
Unix version contains software licensed from Mainsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Mainsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Mainsoft is a trademark of Mainsoft Corporation.
As a protocol, FTP is one of the worst. Open a control channel on port 21, then if using active FTP, choose a random port.. (actually x*256+y where x and y can be predicted) and have the server initiate a data channel from port 20 to that port. If you are using passive FTP, then the client initiates a data channel to the random port on the server.
Now really, does that make any sense? It means that behind a firewall (BSD, of course) running NAT, a client must run passive FTP, since there is no way an outside box should be able to initiate into the client box at a high port. However, what about that server? Do I really want to allow high port access to that box?
Finally, my question is this: How does one properly configure FTP between two NAT'd boxes without opening up lots of high ports? Better still: Where do I write my congressman to make FTP illegal!?
Notice in the shuffling poker chip video that the speed has been upped by a factor of 2 or 3. This is apparent when looking at the top left corner and seeing someone walk past at the very end. So, what would it take to speed up this process? More amplitude?
Yeah, you're right. I've always heard that Aristotle, Aquinas, and Shakespeare wrote their works for the quick bucks they could make.
Realistically, true artists produce art because they have to -- something in their souls move them and won't allow them to not create. I think that a lot of programmers are similar... most of the open source projects began because (a) someone had an "itch" they had to scratch and (b) once they had begun to scratch it, they weren't opposed to helping others scrath their itches, too.
Ummm... I don't quite understand you.. I agree with the "true artists" portion, but I feel you have a gap in your metaphor to open source. Now, don't get me wrong, I believe that art is at work in many people's programmatic creations, but the crux of the matter is that people have an intrinsic need to share their creations. Not to mention that most "artists" worked for monies doing prtraits and the like for the rich folk who paid them. That's how they survived. They didn't demand that every peasant down the street had the right to bring the historical equivalent of silly putty to be able to make copies or to even view it publicly.
My personal feeling as a programmer/systems engineer is that somebody pays me to solve their problem. However, the solution I provide, I should be able to give away to someone else. The original person who paid me is losing nothing, even though they had to pay and others didn't. The solution was personalized for them, and I fulfilled a need that they had that didn't previously exist in the world. That is what open source is to me. I don't see it as a bunch of guys trying to build something "because they can"... I see it as "because it solves a problem" whether it be to undermine a monopoly (BTW, how did Microsoft decide how much a product costs without competition?) or to feed a craving to try a new technology or whatever. This last example is typical of creation for creation's sake.
If economic value is the only value you recognize, of course, this makes less than sense. In fact, it's downright scary. That's why the suits and the drones and droids absolutely despise and (I think) secretly fear the FSOS movement. They don't understand it, because it's not entirely driven by economic profit. But if you free your mind from those sorts of blinders you begin to see that such things can make sense.
Yes and Yes and Yes and Yes and Yes The key is that companies spend X man hours on something and expect to get back 20X man hours worth of "value" by selling it to everyone. What's wrong with getting paid for the X man hours or even 2X hey, go crazy, and then doing more man hours? There's always something new and exciting on the horizon. Blows the hell out of Anne Rand, "get whatever the market will bear", but what the heck..
Actually, this is not quite true regarding NTFS. This is on their website regarding terminal server: "Fault Recovery The Windows NT Filesystem (NTFS) is a journaling, or transactional file system. This means that any I/O that alters the file system data or meta-data (directory structure, etc.) is completed atomically so that either all of the changes are completed, or none of the changes is completed. This design means the transaction log can be used to restore the file system to a known good state after a system crash. In addition, NTFS keeps copies of vital file system information in multiple sectors for extra redundancy."
I totally disagree. I've supported NT, Unix, hybrid, you name it... I've found that while it is much easier to get an NT network up and running, it is just as difficult to do the job *right*. Because NT has a point and click interface, and an "insert CD and press return" interface makes it very simple to implement a bad solution. With Unix, you use the tools available, there is no *easy* version of how to do things. Half the work of fixing an NT network is cleaning up after people that ONLY have 2 years of experience.
--paul
Actually, I'm in a pretty good mood..
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You are in a good mood now. Suddenly, a 16 yr old boy comes across Make Money Fast, and having never seen it before, decides "What a great idea! Pyramid schemes have gotta work, I mean, look at the stock market..." So, he dicides to mail this great message out with his own name and address at the top of the list.
Joncats is one of the recipients. In fact, he is a recipient every single day, cause the 16 year old boy has devised a system by which a slightly different message is sent, different subject, different text. Now, joncats realizes that this message is arriving in his email every day, cause he's a smart cookie and keeps tabs of his correspondance. Does joncats filter out this email? He knows that this is not personal mail, but that he is one of many on a very large list, so probably very quickly.
Now, this 16 year old boy grows himself up and has himself a web site. In fact, this website is one where a select few posters can make interesting new material available for a very large and dedicated web audience. He is the founder and chooses to post new articles under the name CmdrBurrito. His days of Make Money Fast have evolved and he now posts all sorts of things on his website (he doesn't send email anymore, he lost his account for SPAMMING) His topics are now "Make Burritos Fast", "Make Spicy Bean Dip Fast" (That's right, just send one bean to everyone on this list..) which is kinda strange because every other poster on the site posts things relating to whether mice should be round or oblong or rectangular or laser-fixated on the eyeball. (This explains the motto of the site: Mice for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. Joncats is a dedicated reader to this site, because he collects mice (being a cat) and has an opinion on the mouse world. Does he have to continuously see these articles about MMF? He can say It doesn't take much time to see that CmdrBurrito is back at it again, so let's move on to the next article ASAP. However, and this is the crux of the matter: If joncats decides that he wants to filter out all of CmdrBurrito's posted articles, how should CmdrBurrito feel about it? Should he be personally offended? Should he chug away at a bottle to soothe those blues? Should CmdrBurrito post an article saying that people shouldn't do what joncats did, namely not even checking to see if the latest CmdrBurrito post was worth while?
Prisoner's Dilemma kinda explained that it is always best to attack, so do I need to criticize people to be moderated up to get more points to win the game? Hmmm...
--paul
p.s. I like the sig, too [DAMN, that's not helping my game!] .
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Nope.. You ever leave yourself logged in? You ever have a roomate? It is entirely possible that this was not done by that individual. The trail of evidence is perfect, and yet it simply proves what?
So what is the complaint? That the original poster said that in *his opinion* that 25 is more appropriate? Or that that by law, you could buy this and play it three years ago?
;)
I think I'll simply agree with your last paragraph and add the hint that the younger you are, the more suscepable you are to this distortion.
The original poster never said that nobody under 25 shouldn't play this, simply put that as a suggestion. Probably this was a result of him having played the game and been completely floored by the non-linearity and ability to do whatever the hell he wanted. Maybe you should be a game screener for him, you know, let him know when games are too scary
Come on! It *is* different. This is not prejudice regarding a physical attribute that differenciates portions of the populace, this is about an attribute that ALL people share.
Would you let your 8 year old watch "Faces of Death"? I assume you would say no, because you do not want to put them into a situation where you feel they could be traumatized. It follows from the (evolution reinforced) protection of children.
However, if my child were to put forth a reasonable and pursuasive argument as to why they should watch it, I would reconsider my earlier decision based on purely their age number. Same goes in this situation. When someone whines and complains that they are old enough, they are merely reinforcing the negative view that the world has of them.
Same argument does NOT apply for racism, etc. I happen to KNOW what it is like to be a kid and have the naivety that comes with that particular state of being. I am in no position to judge on other attributes, and thus cannot place a different set of values than my own upon some of different race/creed/color/etc.
I hope you get my point... there is quite a distinction between racism and agism.
How about if you are old enough to not get all defensive when you read something about age?
Naw. Just jiggle the passenger-side door, and when the cop comes running after you, run around the car in the other direction and climb in the driver's seat. Priceless!
That's cause Mel was born in the United States ;)
And you have been meta-meta-critiqued. (and for those of you who want to criticize this post... meta-infinity, shut up)
You are quite right for naming the most common directories, kudos to you. Were you trying to say that all unix admins know that, or were you just trying to say that *you* knew that? I think you missed my point, which is that simply being able to install a machine to a GUI doesn't make someone an experienced admin.
As for your comments regarding malicious torture which forced you to take the role of AC (why, I don't know), I refuse to respond as I haven't knocked over grandma in WEEKS.
And I'd take one senior NT admin over three junior unix admins... Really, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference between managing unix and NT. Let's all pretend that there aren't a lot of idiots out there that lied on resumes and consider running linux at home a qualification for being an administrator (same with the NT side).
I assert that administering either a Unix or NT variant is essentially the same thing. I run a mixed environment, and frankly, have comparible uptimes between similar servers of different breeds.
You have to install, configure, and secure.
This requires more than putting in a CD and hitting until you have a GUI up no matter what the platform. The means securing it, ensuring that random daemons/services aren't running, setting up appropriate accounts and accounting. The root cause of the hue and cry of "advocates", who are sometimes blind, is that the Windows platform is a little TOO easy to use. This is almost always an issue when something tries to be all things to all people. You have to dumb down the interface for the masses. However, whether I am installing or maintaining Windows or FreeBSD (or whichever *nix I happen to be in front of) you can be certain that I am not using a GUI to do this. A good administrator is going to script out--what!? you say? A script under Wind0ze? Yes, of course-- just once a process and then have yet another tool to use later. A bad administrator is going to do it manually, and thus you get admins that are LAZY and let simple things like keeping keeping up patch levels make them look like idiots. Please note that the issues with CodeRed and Nimda weren't that Windows was insecure, but that are too many NT admins are LAZY insufferable punks!
Where people go wrong is when they think that they know what they are doing. The more you learn, the more you understand how little you know.
Frankly, I love removing PATH variables from "Unix admin Gods" and watching them squirm to figure out where utilities are. Of course, I also love driving over imbicile NT admins that point and click a solution, then do it 100 more times for each user.
OK, enough ranting... Let me just reiterate the point I initially wanted to make: Doesn't matter which platform you are using, if you don't understand it, it will suck. Some platforms may suck less under default situations, but when things are well configured, all platforms start to resemble each other. This is why experienced people earn more than the college grads. And yes, there are a lot more inexperienced NT Admins out there, but then might that not be due to the simple fact that there are more NT systems out there? AND add in that it takes more of a learning curve to work with large *nix installations. Damn crossovers from BA degrees that think they are real administrators!! Sorry, I am beginning to rant again.. accept my apologies and read something else.
but... Michael J Fox is Canadian! criminy...
If I remember the story correctly, creating Univac gave terrorism a focus, a target with which to upset the entire world. Heck, that doesn't even sound good on a company level: why can't I access the files I need to work? There was a back-hoe the tore up our fiber-optic and our company has to shut down until March.
Good for you! I for one appreciate the fact that you are taught that course. However, now that you have seen the truly naive and how easy it is to go through the learning curve, don't you just laugh at anyone that whines "This is really hard." yet prefesses to be anti-MS and pro-linux?
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Every word in that sentence is merely a gross misspelling of the word tomato.
Now really, does that make any sense? It means that behind a firewall (BSD, of course) running NAT, a client must run passive FTP, since there is no way an outside box should be able to initiate into the client box at a high port. However, what about that server? Do I really want to allow high port access to that box?
Finally, my question is this: How does one properly configure FTP between two NAT'd boxes without opening up lots of high ports?
Better still: Where do I write my congressman to make FTP illegal!?
--paul
Notice in the shuffling poker chip video that the speed has been upped by a factor of 2 or 3. This is apparent when looking at the top left corner and seeing someone walk past at the very end. So, what would it take to speed up this process? More amplitude?
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You forgot that a pike could
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Realistically, true artists produce art because they have to -- something in their souls move them and won't allow them to not create. I think that a lot of programmers are similar ... most of the open source projects began because (a) someone had an "itch" they had to scratch and (b) once they had begun to scratch it, they weren't opposed to helping others scrath their itches, too.
Ummm... I don't quite understand you.. I agree with the "true artists" portion, but I feel you have a gap in your metaphor to open source. Now, don't get me wrong, I believe that art is at work in many people's programmatic creations, but the crux of the matter is that people have an intrinsic need to share their creations. Not to mention that most "artists" worked for monies doing prtraits and the like for the rich folk who paid them. That's how they survived. They didn't demand that every peasant down the street had the right to bring the historical equivalent of silly putty to be able to make copies or to even view it publicly.
My personal feeling as a programmer/systems engineer is that somebody pays me to solve their problem. However, the solution I provide, I should be able to give away to someone else. The original person who paid me is losing nothing, even though they had to pay and others didn't. The solution was personalized for them, and I fulfilled a need that they had that didn't previously exist in the world. That is what open source is to me. I don't see it as a bunch of guys trying to build something "because they can"... I see it as "because it solves a problem" whether it be to undermine a monopoly (BTW, how did Microsoft decide how much a product costs without competition?) or to feed a craving to try a new technology or whatever. This last example is typical of creation for creation's sake.
If economic value is the only value you recognize, of course, this makes less than sense. In fact, it's downright scary. That's why the suits and the drones and droids absolutely despise and (I think) secretly fear the FSOS movement. They don't understand it, because it's not entirely driven by economic profit. But if you free your mind from those sorts of blinders you begin to see that such things can make sense.
Yes and Yes and Yes and Yes and Yes
The key is that companies spend X man hours on something and expect to get back 20X man hours worth of "value" by selling it to everyone. What's wrong with getting paid for the X man hours or even 2X hey, go crazy, and then doing more man hours? There's always something new and exciting on the horizon. Blows the hell out of Anne Rand, "get whatever the market will bear", but what the heck..
My personal dream has come true! I can now die a happy man.
:)
.... at least they're cheaper than Pokemon
Actually, this is not quite true regarding NTFS. This is on their website regarding terminal server:
"Fault Recovery
The Windows NT Filesystem (NTFS) is a journaling, or transactional file system. This means that any I/O that alters the file system data or meta-data (directory structure, etc.) is completed atomically so that either all of the changes are completed, or none of the changes is completed. This design means the transaction log can be used to restore the file system to a known good state after a system crash. In addition, NTFS keeps copies of vital file system information in multiple sectors for extra redundancy."
I totally disagree. I've supported NT, Unix, hybrid, you name it... I've found that while it is much easier to get an NT network up and running, it is just as difficult to do the job *right*. Because NT has a point and click interface, and an "insert CD and press return" interface makes it very simple to implement a bad solution. With Unix, you use the tools available, there is no *easy* version of how to do things. Half the work of fixing an NT network is cleaning up after people that ONLY have 2 years of experience.
--paul
You are in a good mood now. Suddenly, a 16 yr old boy comes across Make Money Fast, and having never seen it before, decides "What a great idea! Pyramid schemes have gotta work, I mean, look at the stock market..." So, he dicides to mail this great message out with his own name and address at the top of the list.
Joncats is one of the recipients. In fact, he is a recipient every single day, cause the 16 year old boy has devised a system by which a slightly different message is sent, different subject, different text. Now, joncats realizes that this message is arriving in his email every day, cause he's a smart cookie and keeps tabs of his correspondance. Does joncats filter out this email? He knows that this is not personal mail, but that he is one of many on a very large list, so probably very quickly.
Now, this 16 year old boy grows himself up and has himself a web site. In fact, this website is one where a select few posters can make interesting new material available for a very large and dedicated web audience. He is the founder and chooses to post new articles under the name CmdrBurrito. His days of Make Money Fast have evolved and he now posts all sorts of things on his website (he doesn't send email anymore, he lost his account for SPAMMING) His topics are now "Make Burritos Fast", "Make Spicy Bean Dip Fast" (That's right, just send one bean to everyone on this list..) which is kinda strange because every other poster on the site posts things relating to whether mice should be round or oblong or rectangular or laser-fixated on the eyeball. (This explains the motto of the site: Mice for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. Joncats is a dedicated reader to this site, because he collects mice (being a cat) and has an opinion on the mouse world. Does he have to continuously see these articles about MMF? He can say It doesn't take much time to see that CmdrBurrito is back at it again, so let's move on to the next article ASAP. However, and this is the crux of the matter: If joncats decides that he wants to filter out all of CmdrBurrito's posted articles, how should CmdrBurrito feel about it? Should he be personally offended? Should he chug away at a bottle to soothe those blues? Should CmdrBurrito post an article saying that people shouldn't do what joncats did, namely not even checking to see if the latest CmdrBurrito post was worth while?
Riddle me this!
--paul
How many points before I win?
Prisoner's Dilemma kinda explained that it is always best to attack, so do I need to criticize people to be moderated up to get more points to win the game? Hmmm...
--paul
p.s. I like the sig, too [DAMN, that's not helping my game!]
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