Wasn't this the site that also had their mysql login info in a page accessible to everyone via the web? I remember this because they were on the same hosting provider as me and they basically hosed the mysql server while they were getting slashdotted!!!
And I just happened to pick that day to try and get some sh*t done with it!!
Note for reference: Keep your login/password somewhere in the filesystem where apache can see it, but where it can't serve it up.. Rule 1 of php+mysql!!
On an unrelated note, why is the Air Force demolishing decomissioned missle silos in North Dakota? Is it a START/SALT requirement, or is the Air Force more relentlessly secretive than the NSA?
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They're probably doing this for a few reasons:
1. the installations would have been abandoned for some time, and after a while get just plain unsafe. Those silos DROP 100s of feet and they can't have people wandering in there and falling on all the jagged metal scraps and drowning in the pool of water at the bottom.
2. They're in such a bad state of disrepair after being abandonded for so long, and it's cost-prohibitive for most to even think about fixing it up that it's got to go.
There are lots of sites regarding what's in those old abandoned missile bunkers.
http://triggur.org/silo/
http://www.missilebases.com/
and probably more.
Seriously, this is pretty cool if we *ever* expect Linux to gain a substantial foothold on the 'desktop.' The majority of users don't care how many bogomips or the details of how their scsi card is initialized, they just want to get going. All that junk *may* actually intimidate the average/novice user into thinking they're getting into something over their head.
Oh, and don't forget, in Win 9x/Me, you CAN hit -Esc- to show you all the juicy startup info....
Eh. As a csoft customer who's lived through a couple of the more annoying problems, all I have to say is this:
If you're comfortable doing things yourself, and can live with a little unexpected down-time here and there, and don't need much, if any, hand-holding as far as getting things set up then csoft is a hell of a deal.
They're real flexible as far as what they'll let you do (to a point.) and that means it's *your* responsibility to get your cgi's/scripts working. Your job to see that you don't hose the servers and your job to make sure you don't misconfigure anything you install. Follow their instructions on how to set it up, read the man pages for their installed software and you'll be alright.
Having frequented their irc support channels on more than one occasion I can say that I've seen some real idiocy and cluelessness. Think of them as the 'rent-a-garage' instead of the full-service mechanic shop. Don't come in asking for them to fix things you broke.
On the other hand, I've seen some server-related problems and issues with their admin tools go un-addressed for long periods of time, which on "internet-time" is not cool. At All(tm). And true, getting 'tech support' to actually pay attention can be downright difficult to say the least.
But, for the amount I pay for all the domains I have hosted on them (6 so far for $25/mo), I really can't complain.
Their site no longer lists the colo/dedicated server as an option, but I think if you talk to the admins, you can arrange it. (Don't hold me to it though.)
If you're pulling 5GB/mo in traffic, you'd really be better off doing a colo/dedicated solution anyhow.
Or hell, now that I think about it, are there any X-based TV/video apps that allow the video to be shown on the X root window.....I'm looking and can't find any!
So are there any *inexpensive* devices (which of course would work under Linux) which can overlay graphics onto a std. video signal in real-time? Through chromakeying or some other method?
I've been wanting to hack together a Linux box to do something like this for some time, but this is the big hurdle. The rest is pretty much cake. CallerID, IM, Web, X-10, IR remote...we've got all the main ingredients (well except for DVD) to do this ourselves.
No. I do not expect an elected official to vote what *he* believes. I expect his/her vote to be *representative* of the views of his/her constituents(sp?) in their district, or state, or country.
That's what wrong with the friggin system in this country, it's not about representation anymore, it's usually about one guy/gal's beliefs and morals and whatnot, and it shouldn't be.
They're not called 'representatives' for nothing.
Is that an un-real expectation? Probably. Some years down the road it shouldn't be. When public opinion in a region can be measured effectively on the issues, the representative should be bound by that majority vote. Whether he/she likes it or not.
Yeah, the last time I threw an old hard disk out...we got Adam Sandler. Before that, the old S3 Virge that started acting up got us that kid in the Pepsi commercials. I think my dad threw out an old phone-test set around '75...and that got us Mark Hamill!!
Already been tried. Already failed miserably. Aka DivX (not the encoding format)
The fact of the matter is, *given the choice* consumers do not like it, and they'll go elsewhere. What the DMCA is going to do, is eventually eliminate the choice.
Since about the mid-70s pretty much all GM cars are the same thing except for the skins, minor (non-critical) mechanical differences, but engines/drivetrains/etc.etc. have been across-the-board GM for quite some time.
And if memory serves, Chevy had some nasty aluminum head rat-motors in the late 60s....
A really simple caller ID app with a net-able X-client. It'll log names/numbers to a file for later use or I assume you could probably pipe it to something....
This is what I would try and do....
Shut off the Napster ports during business hours. Simple as that. from about 8am-6pm. Send out a blanket e-mail to the student body that the network *has* to be open for legitimate use during those hours. Also make it clear that after 6pm that Napster and other traffic will flow freely, you're not attempting to censor anyone's rights or anything, and you have a real problem that you have to solve.
You're probably in the position where you have to do *something* right?
It's history you nitwit.
It's important to have 'relics' like this that actually work properly, or at the very least actually exist. In a couple of hundred years we're going to have very little to remind us of this era, as we bulldoze, landfill, and recycle everything in sight. (At least in the US)
Yeah, but you know what?
That clause is directly related to the software which the license is for! Imagine that!
You can't use the GPL code in a non-GPL'd program. The GPL doesn't say you can't use the code if you paint your house green, pick daisies by the side of the road at four in the morning, the author doesn't like your hair, jerk off in front of the girl next door OR kill, abuse, and generally shit on the population of a nation you're in charge of. Why?
Because it's irrelevant. A driver's license doesn't say you can't watch reruns of 'BJ and the Bear' because it's irrelevant. A hunting license doesn't say you can't eat pie on Sunday because it's irrelevant. The GPL doesn't say you can't engage in human rights violations because its IRRELEVANT. LIKE THIS THREAD.
Look up freedom in the dictionary. What does it say?
I thought so.
Simply put: If you place restrictions on who may use 'Free Software' based upon something as arbitrary and subjective as 'Human Rights' then it ceases to become 'FREE Software' and becomes 'Free-only-for-those-we-want-it-to-be-free-for Software'
Like I said, you want to release *your* software under the MrEPL or whatever that says 'If you beat dogs you can't use this software' then fine. Do so.
You are completely missing the whole point of the GPL, which is FREE for EVERYONE software, regardless if we like them or not.
As for most Tibetans, I doubt if most of them really give two shits to the wind about software of any kind. Again, not the point.
Also, by choosing to use Linux and other OS/FREE software, they have accepted into their society a speck of freedom that would otherwise be controlled by some corporate and probably American entity, like Dell or Microsoft (to make a lame attempt to get back on topic. ) Which sounds better to you?
Go back to hugging trees and saving baby seals or something.
Nano-anythings floating around in earth orbit are a bad idea. We've got enough bits of crap and junk and hunks of old satellites zooming around at incredible speeds up there already. The last thing we need is a bunch of little damn 'bugs' getting lost up there, winged off a satellite by a discarded fleck of paint off of one of the Apollo mission craft. It'd probably latch onto the hubble and start fixing stuff it didn't know was broken to begin with.
That's right! They chose it. It's out there, free for *anyone* to choose it.
It's not like Linus or Bob Young went off to Beijing, briefcase in hand, trying to rustle up some business for the sake of the American dollar.
Also, Linux and other GPL software should NEVER have a 'human rights' clause in it. How fucking hypocritical would that be? Mr. Stallman probably cringes at the thought (at least he should) that his ideal of FREE(dom) software would be free except for those who we don't think worthy of it.
Human rights issues aside, if you don't want a segment of people to choose and use your software, don't GPL it.
Slashdot Mirror
Wasn't this the site that also had their mysql login info in a page accessible to everyone via the web? I remember this because they were on the same hosting provider as me and they basically hosed the mysql server while they were getting slashdotted!!!
And I just happened to pick that day to try and get some sh*t done with it!!
Note for reference: Keep your login/password somewhere in the filesystem where apache can see it, but where it can't serve it up.. Rule 1 of php+mysql!!
Another good link I finally found! I remembered reading this but couldn't find it until just now!
http://www.jump.net/~crossley/AtlasE/
Fun stuff
On an unrelated note, why is the Air Force demolishing decomissioned missle silos in North Dakota? Is it a START/SALT requirement, or is the Air Force more relentlessly secretive than the NSA?
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They're probably doing this for a few reasons:
1. the installations would have been abandoned for some time, and after a while get just plain unsafe. Those silos DROP 100s of feet and they can't have people wandering in there and falling on all the jagged metal scraps and drowning in the pool of water at the bottom.
2. They're in such a bad state of disrepair after being abandonded for so long, and it's cost-prohibitive for most to even think about fixing it up that it's got to go.
There are lots of sites regarding what's in those old abandoned missile bunkers.
http://triggur.org/silo/
http://www.missilebases.com/
and probably more.
Want some cheese to go with that?
Seriously, this is pretty cool if we *ever* expect Linux to gain a substantial foothold on the 'desktop.' The majority of users don't care how many bogomips or the details of how their scsi card is initialized, they just want to get going. All that junk *may* actually intimidate the average/novice user into thinking they're getting into something over their head.
Oh, and don't forget, in Win 9x/Me, you CAN hit -Esc- to show you all the juicy startup info....
...and the room dropped to a dead silence as Ripp *thwaps* frogstomper on the back of the head, saying "Humor. Look it up sometime."
Yeah, but without it....
How the hell are you supposed to eject your floppy disks!!!!?????
:p
(that always bugged me...)
All they needed was a Zippo(tm)
Any engineering problem can be solved (or eliminated) with any of the following:
A Zippo Lighter
A Ball-peen hammer
WD-40
Duct Tape
Chewing gum
baling twine
and of course
spit.
apt-get update...apt-get upgrade
.debs don't want to play well with evolution or even parts of helix-gnome itself....
Seems like this version of the nautilus
apt wants to remove evolution and stuff like task-helix-gnome and eog (due to dependencies)....
Attempting to manually rectify the situation, but these sorts of things should be taken into consideration...
(btw...the latest evolution preview rules...)
You could even say they suck.
dotsucks.sucks
Pistols at 20 paces!!
Is anyone else sick and tired of two guys with more dough than most third-world nations engage in pissing contests like this. Nobody cares. Nobody.
Well except for clueless manager types who judge the power of software by the number of zeros in the pricetag.
Eh. As a csoft customer who's lived through a couple of the more annoying problems, all I have to say is this:
If you're comfortable doing things yourself, and can live with a little unexpected down-time here and there, and don't need much, if any, hand-holding as far as getting things set up then csoft is a hell of a deal.
They're real flexible as far as what they'll let you do (to a point.) and that means it's *your* responsibility to get your cgi's/scripts working. Your job to see that you don't hose the servers and your job to make sure you don't misconfigure anything you install. Follow their instructions on how to set it up, read the man pages for their installed software and you'll be alright.
Having frequented their irc support channels on more than one occasion I can say that I've seen some real idiocy and cluelessness. Think of them as the 'rent-a-garage' instead of the full-service mechanic shop. Don't come in asking for them to fix things you broke.
On the other hand, I've seen some server-related problems and issues with their admin tools go un-addressed for long periods of time, which on "internet-time" is not cool. At All(tm). And true, getting 'tech support' to actually pay attention can be downright difficult to say the least.
But, for the amount I pay for all the domains I have hosted on them (6 so far for $25/mo), I really can't complain.
Their site no longer lists the colo/dedicated server as an option, but I think if you talk to the admins, you can arrange it. (Don't hold me to it though.)
If you're pulling 5GB/mo in traffic, you'd really be better off doing a colo/dedicated solution anyhow.
Or hell, now that I think about it, are there any X-based TV/video apps that allow the video to be shown on the X root window.....I'm looking and can't find any!
The alternative to the hardware solution....
So are there any *inexpensive* devices (which of course would work under Linux) which can overlay graphics onto a std. video signal in real-time? Through chromakeying or some other method?
I've been wanting to hack together a Linux box to do something like this for some time, but this is the big hurdle. The rest is pretty much cake. CallerID, IM, Web, X-10, IR remote...we've got all the main ingredients (well except for DVD) to do this ourselves.
Remember. Inexpensive (<$100)
"...do you expect him to vote what he believes?"
No. I do not expect an elected official to vote what *he* believes. I expect his/her vote to be *representative* of the views of his/her constituents(sp?) in their district, or state, or country.
That's what wrong with the friggin system in this country, it's not about representation anymore, it's usually about one guy/gal's beliefs and morals and whatnot, and it shouldn't be.
They're not called 'representatives' for nothing.
Is that an un-real expectation? Probably. Some years down the road it shouldn't be. When public opinion in a region can be measured effectively on the issues, the representative should be bound by that majority vote. Whether he/she likes it or not.
Yeah, the last time I threw an old hard disk out...we got Adam Sandler. Before that, the old S3 Virge that started acting up got us that kid in the Pepsi commercials. I think my dad threw out an old phone-test set around '75...and that got us Mark Hamill!!
Oh wait.....
problem: dvd's pay per play
Already been tried. Already failed miserably. Aka DivX (not the encoding format)
The fact of the matter is, *given the choice* consumers do not like it, and they'll go elsewhere. What the DMCA is going to do, is eventually eliminate the choice.
What sort of crack are you smoking?
Since about the mid-70s pretty much all GM cars are the same thing except for the skins, minor (non-critical) mechanical differences, but engines/drivetrains/etc.etc. have been across-the-board GM for quite some time.
And if memory serves, Chevy had some nasty aluminum head rat-motors in the late 60s....
Look for CID from www.tummy.com
A really simple caller ID app with a net-able X-client. It'll log names/numbers to a file for later use or I assume you could probably pipe it to something....
HTH
Ever here of Sprint-MCI???
Yes, Fredo, they are the same company....
This is what I would try and do....
Shut off the Napster ports during business hours. Simple as that. from about 8am-6pm. Send out a blanket e-mail to the student body that the network *has* to be open for legitimate use during those hours. Also make it clear that after 6pm that Napster and other traffic will flow freely, you're not attempting to censor anyone's rights or anything, and you have a real problem that you have to solve.
You're probably in the position where you have to do *something* right?
It's history you nitwit.
It's important to have 'relics' like this that actually work properly, or at the very least actually exist. In a couple of hundred years we're going to have very little to remind us of this era, as we bulldoze, landfill, and recycle everything in sight. (At least in the US)
Yeah, but you know what?
That clause is directly related to the software which the license is for! Imagine that!
You can't use the GPL code in a non-GPL'd program. The GPL doesn't say you can't use the code if you paint your house green, pick daisies by the side of the road at four in the morning, the author doesn't like your hair, jerk off in front of the girl next door OR kill, abuse, and generally shit on the population of a nation you're in charge of. Why?
Because it's irrelevant. A driver's license doesn't say you can't watch reruns of 'BJ and the Bear' because it's irrelevant. A hunting license doesn't say you can't eat pie on Sunday because it's irrelevant. The GPL doesn't say you can't engage in human rights violations because its IRRELEVANT. LIKE THIS THREAD.
Look up freedom in the dictionary. What does it say?
I thought so.
Simply put: If you place restrictions on who may use 'Free Software' based upon something as arbitrary and subjective as 'Human Rights' then it ceases to become 'FREE Software' and becomes 'Free-only-for-those-we-want-it-to-be-free-for Software'
Like I said, you want to release *your* software under the MrEPL or whatever that says 'If you beat dogs you can't use this software' then fine. Do so.
You are completely missing the whole point of the GPL, which is FREE for EVERYONE software, regardless if we like them or not.
As for most Tibetans, I doubt if most of them really give two shits to the wind about software of any kind. Again, not the point.
Also, by choosing to use Linux and other OS/FREE software, they have accepted into their society a speck of freedom that would otherwise be controlled by some corporate and probably American entity, like Dell or Microsoft (to make a lame attempt to get back on topic. ) Which sounds better to you?
Go back to hugging trees and saving baby seals or something.
Nano-anythings floating around in earth orbit are a bad idea. We've got enough bits of crap and junk and hunks of old satellites zooming around at incredible speeds up there already. The last thing we need is a bunch of little damn 'bugs' getting lost up there, winged off a satellite by a discarded fleck of paint off of one of the Apollo mission craft. It'd probably latch onto the hubble and start fixing stuff it didn't know was broken to begin with.
Silly.
...China has chosen Linux...
That's right! They chose it. It's out there, free for *anyone* to choose it.
It's not like Linus or Bob Young went off to Beijing, briefcase in hand, trying to rustle up some business for the sake of the American dollar.
Also, Linux and other GPL software should NEVER have a 'human rights' clause in it. How fucking hypocritical would that be? Mr. Stallman probably cringes at the thought (at least he should) that his ideal of FREE(dom) software would be free except for those who we don't think worthy of it.
Human rights issues aside, if you don't want a segment of people to choose and use your software, don't GPL it.