We should free him? Why? He doesn't need us. He's doing such a marvelous job of freeing himself that he shouldn't need our help.
Hey, if I let someone crack into my machine after I commit really incriminating and expensive online crimes, do I get a "Get Out Of Responsibility" card too?
Would you happen to have any KeyTronic KB101 keyboards? The kind without Windows keys? How about old IBM keyboards (the heavy ones, not those wimpy PS/2 kind)? Would you have any for sale? If so, how much? I'm stockpiling good (circa 1989, 8 pound) keyboards.
Shouldn't be that slow for text heavy sites.. For pictures, maybe not
Run Opera over an ssh session. Use it with image loading turned off, and if you see a site with images you'd like to see, you just hit the 'g' key to load the images. After you've seen what you want to see, hit 'g' again, and image loading is off again.
The point I was trying to make is that if you can make a 'firewall' shut down by sending packets at it, that kind of defeats the purpose of a firewall in the first place.
You certainly have a point. Maybe you have bad hardware? I know of lots of people (~10) who own those routers and none of them have had any problems. If you can't return the one that you have, it might be worth it to try to find a used one on ebay and see if the problem persists.
When you fire a bunch of UDP packets at it, the NAT routing table overflows and the router crashes.
If you've seen slapper in action, you know this is true. A host behind the router gets infected by the slapper.* worm, and first thing it does (after building itself a new home) is start probing subnets for others. It finds friends, they talk, and much traffic ensues.
The Linksys can stand maybe 6, maybe 10 hours of that much UDP traffic before it reboots. Since the traffic is still coming in when it comes back up, it runs about a 10% chance (guestimate) of restarting successfully. It hangs otherwise. Power cycling restores functionality, and resets the inevitable cycle.
I don't think it's a fault of Linksys. They have a product aimed at a certain market; judging from its popularity it does quite well there. If you have special needs beyond the average SOHO user, you need either an SDK or another vendor.
If you lived in a world where any off-kilter thought from otherwise idle mind is considered insightful, it's perfectly reasonable.
The original poster thinks/. karma somehow matters. He just likes to see himself type and get moderated up (most likely by himself). He can be safely ignored.
Please try to buy all of the products that they advertise. Also if you can start fan pages for Futurama and sell merchandise of Futurama logos at CafePress.com. That's what all the big sites do.
You think this will work? Honestly, you really do?
Who (besides RMS) ever said that costless, non-open software was bad? I was a Linux/Solaris Netscape user for years and got along pretty well. I use Opera now and love it. Sure, having source is definitely a good thing but it's certainly not a hard and fast requirement most rational people would put on use of software.
If what you need to use is closed-source, then use it. If you can find an open/free alternative that works just as well, then use it. If you find something which costs nothing but doesn't offer source, then use that if you need to. Saying "use the right tool for the job" doesn't necessarily have to involve any discussions about openness or freedom if you have an open mind to begin with.
I've never understood why some people consider having a choice to be a bad thing. I suppose I've always valued liberty over equality, I guess.
I love php. It has done a lot for me, and it makes my life easier.... The language is good and solid - it is great to see it being used in places such as Yahoo.
Yeah, but you get no bragging rights or buzzword compliance. Do you realize how much some people here have paid (are paying) for their CS degrees? It's a club, and it requires certain things for access. Now anyone with $30 for a PHP book can buy membership. How can you ever be a snob again? How can you show your virtual face online anymore, knowing that you didn't have to build an expensive, enterprise-class system just to let people log into secure areas of your site? Woe is you...
Seriously, I'm with you. It's all about right tool for the job. If PHP works fine, then use it. I've noticed that most of the people that dismiss PHP (or Perl, or ASP, or anything else) out of hand are the ones that tend to not follow the "right tool for the job" advice. They know J2EE/Oracle, or Win2K/CF/Access, or whatever, and any project gets that -- regardless of how complex it actually is. See, everything has to scale, or it's merely a toy.
In tha past year, I've used servlets, XSLT/XML, Perl, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL and each one does exactly what we need it to do. It's all good.
Ya'll should consider using Windows instead.... I think it's amazing that Linux is being pushed as a desktop operating system when it can't display fonts to save its life. Pretty pathetic, if you ask me.
First off: if you're basing your choice of operaing system on a windowing program's ability to render fonts, then something is seriously wrong. IMHO.
Second: I don't like anti-aliased fonts. I'd rather look at code/text in a non-AA, monospaced font. It gives me fewer headaches. Text in a magazine or on a newpaper is one thing, but when I'm looking at a monitor, I don't want anti-aliasing. "Linux" (those with a clue, just assume that X is Linux for a minute here for the sake of discussion; some people don't know that the GUI and the OS are two different things) displays fonts just fine for me. If I wanted AA fonts, I can have them. If I don't want them, I don't have to get them; nobody has made my choice for me. Being forced to put up with someone else's choices is really what is pathetic. (Although trolling with old Windows bigotry comes close.)
Yeah, the bullshit quotient was pretty high with this one. I don't trust the authenticity of anyone who writes things like "had hundreds of fans because he said it had more than one intel inside it!" and "he 'lowclocked' it he said so that it didn't get as hot?".
It wasn't the Catholic trolling so much as the ending of a statement with a question mark. That did it for me...
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You've said it perfectly. I personally write stuff on my website mostly as a form of annotated bookmarks. If I see something cool, or figure some new thing out, I can post it on my site and then go back and find it later and know what I was thinking at the time. And if other people want to check it out, they can. I've posted some fairly helpful (if tiny) tidbits, even if I say so myself, and they do get searched for. My journal is like the margins in my book of the Internet.
But there is more to it than that. Everyone wants to spout off sometimes. If you have an easy forum for writing stuff down, eventually you'll rant about something. And doing so helps you "save state". You can go back a year later and see where you were mentally. And as you said, it helps people who are at a distance figure out what you've been up to. Having it web-accessible means you can write from anywhere.
Or, it was some attempt at sarcasm, ie the root servers obviously are not running an old unpatched NT
Yeah, it was an attempt and a fairly lame one, too. I should have been blunt: I was originally talking about home users on windows machines with DSL/cable needing to patch/firewall their machines. Hence that whole "preaching to the choir" thing. Anyone that asssumes the root servers aren't very well taken care of is a fool. And as you can see from some of the replies I got, there are more than a couple living here...
The guy a few pages back who runs the Japanese one said they use NT, twit.
Right, right. Japan. I distinctly remember saying that I thought every root server ran Unix, dickhead.
If you're going to call me names, at least do it with your real name. And also try to verify "the guy's" claims before you malign me anonymously, asshole.
Sorry, did I swear at you again? Sorry about that, shithead.
Oh, yea, those lazy root server admins. The whole attack probably just exploited a year old NT vulnerability, right?
What? Are you crazy?!? Are saying that the root servers run Windows NT? Not a chance buddy. You have no idea what you're talking about...
Yeah.
What a maroon.
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So what????
does that not allow me to be a slashdot geek?
Excuse me but the fact that some slashdot readers disagree with scientology or it`s policies and that i happen to BE a scientologist does NOT make me a non "slashdot kind geek"
I think that you'll find that there is very very little love lost for scientology (I refuse to capitalize it; churches and religions don't have "trade secrets", IMO) on Slashdot. The people involved with the running of the "church" of scientology have been heavy handed in the extreme when it comes to things near and dear to the Slashdot readership. It is a hot-button topic, to be sure. Your "church" is not seen in a very positive light by those that come here. One could therefore argue that, by extension, this means that a healthy percentage of the online "geek" community harbors negative feelings towards your "church". So it's likely that you might get a little heat if you bring up scientology on Slashdot.
The reason you might not be terribly welcome here in most people's minds is because, for good or ill, they cannot separate what your "church" does with what you say -- when you mention scientology. If you don't bother mentioning it, it's probable that nobody will like or dislike you anymore than they would any other person here. It's not a First Amendment issue so much as a "cultural" thing. I certainly wouldn't start yelling about my PETA membership at the annual Meat Packers Association convention meeting unless I wanted to start a shouting match. Perhaps you feel differently. I don't know. It's a free country.
Whatever my personal feelings are about scientology, I really don't care one way or the other about your religious beliefs (especially if they have no bearing on the conversation at hand). To each his own, I say; I certainly don't bother mentioning that I'm an agnostic Libertarian every time I post here. I'm just trying to give out a little friendly, free advice: you'd do well to not bring up your religion in this forum unless you're participating in a discussion about religion. Assuming you don't want your conversation degenerating into a flamefest, that is.
...but it needs saying: Patch your damn machines. Install a virus scanner if you run Windows and run a firewall on *any* machine hooked directly to the Net.
I'd love to see a breakdown of what networks the attacks came from and what the OS distribution was... pie charts optional.
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We should free him? Why? He doesn't need us. He's doing such a marvelous job of freeing himself that he shouldn't need our help.
Hey, if I let someone crack into my machine after I commit really incriminating and expensive online crimes, do I get a "Get Out Of Responsibility" card too?
What a load...
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Lemme know...
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Run Opera over an ssh session. Use it with image loading turned off, and if you see a site with images you'd like to see, you just hit the 'g' key to load the images. After you've seen what you want to see, hit 'g' again, and image loading is off again.
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You're exactly right. The atheist crap has got to go. The rest of the atheist stuff should stay, however.
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You certainly have a point. Maybe you have bad hardware? I know of lots of people (~10) who own those routers and none of them have had any problems. If you can't return the one that you have, it might be worth it to try to find a used one on ebay and see if the problem persists.
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If you've seen slapper in action, you know this is true. A host behind the router gets infected by the slapper.* worm, and first thing it does (after building itself a new home) is start probing subnets for others. It finds friends, they talk, and much traffic ensues.
The Linksys can stand maybe 6, maybe 10 hours of that much UDP traffic before it reboots. Since the traffic is still coming in when it comes back up, it runs about a 10% chance (guestimate) of restarting successfully. It hangs otherwise. Power cycling restores functionality, and resets the inevitable cycle.
I don't think it's a fault of Linksys. They have a product aimed at a certain market; judging from its popularity it does quite well there. If you have special needs beyond the average SOHO user, you need either an SDK or another vendor.
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The original poster thinks /. karma somehow matters. He just likes to see himself type and get moderated up (most likely by himself). He can be safely ignored.
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You think this will work? Honestly, you really do?
A fool and his money...
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If what you need to use is closed-source, then use it. If you can find an open/free alternative that works just as well, then use it. If you find something which costs nothing but doesn't offer source, then use that if you need to. Saying "use the right tool for the job" doesn't necessarily have to involve any discussions about openness or freedom if you have an open mind to begin with.
I've never understood why some people consider having a choice to be a bad thing. I suppose I've always valued liberty over equality, I guess.
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If only the people who got those Perl RSA tattoos could have known...
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Yeah, but you get no bragging rights or buzzword compliance. Do you realize how much some people here have paid (are paying) for their CS degrees? It's a club, and it requires certain things for access. Now anyone with $30 for a PHP book can buy membership. How can you ever be a snob again? How can you show your virtual face online anymore, knowing that you didn't have to build an expensive, enterprise-class system just to let people log into secure areas of your site? Woe is you...
Seriously, I'm with you. It's all about right tool for the job. If PHP works fine, then use it. I've noticed that most of the people that dismiss PHP (or Perl, or ASP, or anything else) out of hand are the ones that tend to not follow the "right tool for the job" advice. They know J2EE/Oracle, or Win2K/CF/Access, or whatever, and any project gets that -- regardless of how complex it actually is. See, everything has to scale, or it's merely a toy.
In tha past year, I've used servlets, XSLT/XML, Perl, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL and each one does exactly what we need it to do. It's all good.
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You're too funny, man... Right on.
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First off: if you're basing your choice of operaing system on a windowing program's ability to render fonts, then something is seriously wrong. IMHO.
Second: I don't like anti-aliased fonts. I'd rather look at code/text in a non-AA, monospaced font. It gives me fewer headaches. Text in a magazine or on a newpaper is one thing, but when I'm looking at a monitor, I don't want anti-aliasing. "Linux" (those with a clue, just assume that X is Linux for a minute here for the sake of discussion; some people don't know that the GUI and the OS are two different things) displays fonts just fine for me. If I wanted AA fonts, I can have them. If I don't want them, I don't have to get them; nobody has made my choice for me. Being forced to put up with someone else's choices is really what is pathetic. (Although trolling with old Windows bigotry comes close.)
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I'm kidding, I'm kidding... jeez...
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It wasn't the Catholic trolling so much as the ending of a statement with a question mark. That did it for me...
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But there is more to it than that. Everyone wants to spout off sometimes. If you have an easy forum for writing stuff down, eventually you'll rant about something. And doing so helps you "save state". You can go back a year later and see where you were mentally. And as you said, it helps people who are at a distance figure out what you've been up to. Having it web-accessible means you can write from anywhere.
There's nothing wrong with keeping a web journal.
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Yeah, it was an attempt and a fairly lame one, too. I should have been blunt: I was originally talking about home users on windows machines with DSL/cable needing to patch/firewall their machines. Hence that whole "preaching to the choir" thing. Anyone that asssumes the root servers aren't very well taken care of is a fool. And as you can see from some of the replies I got, there are more than a couple living here...
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Right, right. Japan. I distinctly remember saying that I thought every root server ran Unix, dickhead.
If you're going to call me names, at least do it with your real name. And also try to verify "the guy's" claims before you malign me anonymously, asshole.
Sorry, did I swear at you again? Sorry about that, shithead.
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What? Are you crazy?!? Are saying that the root servers run Windows NT? Not a chance buddy. You have no idea what you're talking about...
Yeah.
What a maroon.
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does that not allow me to be a slashdot geek?
Excuse me but the fact that some slashdot readers disagree with scientology or it`s policies and that i happen to BE a scientologist does NOT make me a non "slashdot kind geek"
I think that you'll find that there is very very little love lost for scientology (I refuse to capitalize it; churches and religions don't have "trade secrets", IMO) on Slashdot. The people involved with the running of the "church" of scientology have been heavy handed in the extreme when it comes to things near and dear to the Slashdot readership. It is a hot-button topic, to be sure. Your "church" is not seen in a very positive light by those that come here. One could therefore argue that, by extension, this means that a healthy percentage of the online "geek" community harbors negative feelings towards your "church". So it's likely that you might get a little heat if you bring up scientology on Slashdot.
The reason you might not be terribly welcome here in most people's minds is because, for good or ill, they cannot separate what your "church" does with what you say -- when you mention scientology. If you don't bother mentioning it, it's probable that nobody will like or dislike you anymore than they would any other person here. It's not a First Amendment issue so much as a "cultural" thing. I certainly wouldn't start yelling about my PETA membership at the annual Meat Packers Association convention meeting unless I wanted to start a shouting match. Perhaps you feel differently. I don't know. It's a free country.
Whatever my personal feelings are about scientology, I really don't care one way or the other about your religious beliefs (especially if they have no bearing on the conversation at hand). To each his own, I say; I certainly don't bother mentioning that I'm an agnostic Libertarian every time I post here. I'm just trying to give out a little friendly, free advice: you'd do well to not bring up your religion in this forum unless you're participating in a discussion about religion. Assuming you don't want your conversation degenerating into a flamefest, that is.
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I'd love to see a breakdown of what networks the attacks came from and what the OS distribution was... pie charts optional.
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