Its new, but it shows a lot of promise. It uses a kernel module to take consistent backups of partitions at the file system block level and store them on a remote server. The cool part is, it tracks changes. If you haven't rebooted your machine since the last backup, it takes a few seconds to send the changed blocks and almost no CPU usage. It can also interpret the file system in any incremental backup to restore individual files. Not to mention backup up the entire MBR and partition tables of disks. I don't think anything like it currently exists for linux servers.
You dont get to be a string theorist without knowing about particle physics. Maybe you should trust that these people (that are several orders of magnitude smarter than you) know what they are doing.
I think we've come to the end of this conversation. You obviously don't understand science, which neither proves nor attempts to prove any such thing. I find your lack of understanding odd given the side of this debate you've taken up. In any case, I wish you all the best in your meaningless life, and hope that one day you do find meaning and purpose.
Thanks. Im certainly enjoying my life, as meaningless as it is:D
I've found some, but not on the Norton firewall level. Not many ISPs do, but some certain ISPs make use of network filtering devices. They can monitor packets in real time and filter out certain things. All you have to do is find one of the filters they're using on port 6667 and make a message look like that.
I've even found some that are only exploitable if the IRC server sends it directly to the user. However, most filters wont check for the newline before the IRC message, so simply sending someone a message containing something that looks like an irc client exploit can work and they drop offline.
I wont give any examples though. I've left that as an exercise for the reader.
Somehow you are able to categorize your beliefs as superior to mine, but I doubt that you are answering these questions purely with science.
Why would you doubt that?
When I say that, Im thinking of things such as the age of the universe. I wouldnt not start reading Bible verses about how God created the heavens and the Earth about 10,000 years ago. I would instead go to wikipedia.org, and type in "Age of the Universe" and go over the different methods we have used for calculating the age of the universe and the amount of error that each method has, and the best approximate answer that we as humans have.
I dont think its strange that I have the answer's to life's great questions. I have wikipedia.
And if some things are uncertain, such as "why does matter exist?", I'll tell him that its uncertain. Im not going to make up some story or tell an unproven urban legend.
No you don't. You're making assumptions. I didn't even mention religion. I'm talking about raising children and equipping them to function in the world. That may or may not include religion. I'm certainly telling my kids what has worked for me and what problems I've seen with it. But of course I'm going to give my kids my point of view. You will do the same. Yours is that religion is irrational. That is a belief that you are going to pass on to them, right? Or are you just never going to mention it?
Im not going to mention it at all. Im not a very religious person. I'll give him actual explanations for life's greatest questions.
Dont you think it's a little strange to pass along an unproven, unsubstatiated belief system to your child when he or she is at an impressionable age?
Second, like many slashdotters, you seem to think that religion is useless to rational people, except as a tool to control others' behavior.
Most people I talk to (look at some of these/. posts), say that they're passing along religion to their children so that they act right and have respect for other people. I guess we both agree that this is the wrong reason for religion.
religion is a tool that helps us deal with some of the more difficult parts of life. Perhaps you've never had someone very close to you like, say, a child, die, but if it does happen to you you'll find that science provides you with little more than mechanisms. Unless you're a robot or a psychopath you'll have some serious emotions to deal with. It's tempting to think that you don't need anything more than yourself -- well I know, I've been there -- but if you really don't need anything more than cold logic to deal with such situations, it's not because you're strong it's because you're missing something.
It sounds like you're using religion to makes yourself feel better during hard times of life. Sorry, but you're only fooling yourself. I think Jesse Ventura said it best when he said "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." Isnt the truth better than false hope? (maybe not if you convince yourself it isnt false).
Even beyond the issues of how you handle the tough times, spirituality adds a depth, a richness to life that's well worth having all on its own. No, it's not rational, but neither is it irrational.
People always think without religion, atheists are so unhappy, wandering around life aimlessly with a huge void in their lives. Thats really bullshit. Life is pretty beautiful and amazing on its own. You can enjoy it just as well without warping your beliefs to some strange set that someone else gave you.
As an average human being, I believe that most parents would want thier children to turn out something like themselves. To do that, parent's teach thier children thier values and beliefs. I do not consider this forcing it upon them.
Sure I see what you're doing and it doesnt seem like forcing it upon them. But they are pretty impressionable and will pretty much believe anything their parents tell them. Dont you think its a little strange to keep passing unsubstatiated beliefs from generation to generation?
Personally I feel that respect for others stems from your own beliefs, and without a solid base of what to believe, which will evolve over time as life shapes a person, that person will likely have little respect for others, or possibly be less socially palatable
I find this all pretty strange. I treat people nicely because I have respect for them as people, not because my parents told me I'd go to hell if I didnt. Im confused where this idea came from that you have to fool your children into believing they'll be judged in the afterlife to get them to act right. Its like Santa Claus, only on a longer scale. WEIRD
You'll do the same to yours, assuming you have any. It is called raising children. We all teach our children what we think is best for them. Get over it.
Yeah, I know what you think you're doing. And just because everyone else is doing it doesnt make it correct. Im trying to show you that its stupid to give your child a belief system. The whole concept of a belief system is incredibly stupid and bad for you and your children. You end up with people following a belief systems over rational thinking and doing things like killing each other over cartoons.
Contrary to popular belief, people without a belief system dont turn into criminals. Just raise your child right and teach him to have respect for others. He'll develop his or her own belief system.
The alternative is to teach them nothing and let their idiot friends and the state take over. A winning combo, I assure you.
Wow. You're assuming your child is a complete follower waiting to be lead. You also seem to think that your only job as a parent is to teach religion or nothing at all. Quit raising a follower and instead encourage him or her to think for themselves and have respect for others.
Whose beliefs would you have us 'force' on our children? The governments? As a parent, I have a moral responsibility to raise my children with beliefs to get them through life.
WHAT?? Are you serious?! Is the government the only alternative you can think of?! What is wrong with you?
You do know that you're rasing a human being don't you? You know that humans can develop their own thoughts and feelings and beliefs?
You sound like you think your job as a parent is to pick some belief system and fool your child into thinking its real. That way, he'll be a good person because he fears hell!
You know, there is something more important than a following a belief system? Its called respect. Respect for your fellow man. If you raise your kid right and to have respect for people, you shouldnt have any problems.
I think I have a moral responsibility to give my child the benefit of something that has done so much good for my life, and the lives of so many others I know.
The Muslims and the Scientologists are saying the same thing about their children.
All religion causes people to disregard logical thinking and follow a certain set of someone else's beliefs as truth. It causes people to believe in things so strongly that you end up with people believing stupid warped and twisted things that science has already disproven (Intelligent Design for example).
Please, think of the children. Dont raise an idiot.
Even without taking into account how these number are completely meaningless, this is even completely wrong. If you look, most every title has "(Updated)" after it under unix.
1) They finally fixed tab chatted, so if someone on your MSN list decides they want a 20 character display name, their tab wont take up 20 spaces on your chat window. Instead it truncates it and evenly spaces the tabs.
WOW. All tabs should be like this! This is my main problem with x-chat. Awesome.
The real question is.. did the experts reviewing the articles click "edit this page" and correct the mistakes?
Either way, I'd like to see a repeat of the same test. They listed the articles they reviewed. Im sure the wikipedia articles are full of "0" errors now.
Hah. This is the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen. I can't believe it actually got published on The Register.
It seems like the major complaint of Linux, and really this guys ONLY complaint is about Linux support for random hardware. I guess he's never thought about it. He expects all these linux people to write drivers for vast amounts of hardware? Does Microsoft write drivers for all these pieces of hardware? The answer is "No." Microsoft barely writes any drivers. The hardware makers provide drivers for Windows. And hardware makers today dont provide ANY information about their crazy hardware. Does this mean Microsoft Windows is better than Linux? I think Linux is doing a damn good job at supporting the amount of hardware it does! Whatever..
You cant judge the greatness of an operating system by comparing the amount of manufacturer made drivers to the amount of reverse engineered ones.
Wouldnt worry?? They just bought an antivirus company and are planning to release it with the next version of windows, and you dont think anyone should worry about it?
This is pretty far fetched, but dont you think microsoft would then benefit from viruses and end up looking like heros? As well have further in-depth knowledge about how every virus/worm works with windows, as opposed to the very limited knowledge of current antivirus companies. With their windows leverage, I dont see how they can fail.
I just searched all my very old conversations and I sont see any refernce to a Daniel Wu.
If he was part of the magnet school, we'd only talk to them for a while before or after the contests. I think we were the only ones that really respected each other.. because everyone else sucked.
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I like to use Righteous Backup: http://www.r1soft.com/
Its new, but it shows a lot of promise. It uses a kernel module to take consistent backups of partitions at the file system block level and store them on a remote server. The cool part is, it tracks changes. If you haven't rebooted your machine since the last backup, it takes a few seconds to send the changed blocks and almost no CPU usage. It can also interpret the file system in any incremental backup to restore individual files. Not to mention backup up the entire MBR and partition tables of disks. I don't think anything like it currently exists for linux servers.
Im more concerned about Brazil's "one script kiddie per child" project.
You dont get to be a string theorist without knowing about particle physics. Maybe you should trust that these people (that are several orders of magnitude smarter than you) know what they are doing.
I think we've come to the end of this conversation. You obviously don't understand science, which neither proves nor attempts to prove any such thing. I find your lack of understanding odd given the side of this debate you've taken up. In any case, I wish you all the best in your meaningless life, and hope that one day you do find meaning and purpose.
:D
Thanks. Im certainly enjoying my life, as meaningless as it is
"Why do I exist?" is a much more important one, don't you think? And science isn't going to give you any meaning there.
Science proves there is no meaning to our existance. I know you'd like to think otherwise.. but.. sorry.
I've found some, but not on the Norton firewall level. Not many ISPs do, but some certain ISPs make use of network filtering devices. They can monitor packets in real time and filter out certain things. All you have to do is find one of the filters they're using on port 6667 and make a message look like that.
I've even found some that are only exploitable if the IRC server sends it directly to the user. However, most filters wont check for the newline before the IRC message, so simply sending someone a message containing something that looks like an irc client exploit can work and they drop offline.
I wont give any examples though. I've left that as an exercise for the reader.
Somehow you are able to categorize your beliefs as superior to mine, but I doubt that you are answering these questions purely with science.
Why would you doubt that?
When I say that, Im thinking of things such as the age of the universe. I wouldnt not start reading Bible verses about how God created the heavens and the Earth about 10,000 years ago. I would instead go to wikipedia.org, and type in "Age of the Universe" and go over the different methods we have used for calculating the age of the universe and the amount of error that each method has, and the best approximate answer that we as humans have.
I dont think its strange that I have the answer's to life's great questions. I have wikipedia.
And if some things are uncertain, such as "why does matter exist?", I'll tell him that its uncertain. Im not going to make up some story or tell an unproven urban legend.
I've seen both sides, and I have no doubts whatsoever about which is better. Can you say the same?
At least I can say Im not fooling myself.
No you don't. You're making assumptions. I didn't even mention religion. I'm talking about raising children and equipping them to function in the world. That may or may not include religion. I'm certainly telling my kids what has worked for me and what problems I've seen with it. But of course I'm going to give my kids my point of view. You will do the same. Yours is that religion is irrational. That is a belief that you are going to pass on to them, right? Or are you just never going to mention it?
Im not going to mention it at all. Im not a very religious person. I'll give him actual explanations for life's greatest questions.
Dont you think it's a little strange to pass along an unproven, unsubstatiated belief system to your child when he or she is at an impressionable age?
Second, like many slashdotters, you seem to think that religion is useless to rational people, except as a tool to control others' behavior.
/. posts), say that they're passing along religion to their children so that they act right and have respect for other people. I guess we both agree that this is the wrong reason for religion.
Most people I talk to (look at some of these
religion is a tool that helps us deal with some of the more difficult parts of life. Perhaps you've never had someone very close to you like, say, a child, die, but if it does happen to you you'll find that science provides you with little more than mechanisms. Unless you're a robot or a psychopath you'll have some serious emotions to deal with. It's tempting to think that you don't need anything more than yourself -- well I know, I've been there -- but if you really don't need anything more than cold logic to deal with such situations, it's not because you're strong it's because you're missing something.
It sounds like you're using religion to makes yourself feel better during hard times of life. Sorry, but you're only fooling yourself. I think Jesse Ventura said it best when he said "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." Isnt the truth better than false hope? (maybe not if you convince yourself it isnt false).
Even beyond the issues of how you handle the tough times, spirituality adds a depth, a richness to life that's well worth having all on its own. No, it's not rational, but neither is it irrational.
People always think without religion, atheists are so unhappy, wandering around life aimlessly with a huge void in their lives. Thats really bullshit. Life is pretty beautiful and amazing on its own. You can enjoy it just as well without warping your beliefs to some strange set that someone else gave you.
As an average human being, I believe that most parents would want thier children to turn out something like themselves. To do that, parent's teach thier children thier values and beliefs. I do not consider this forcing it upon them.
Sure I see what you're doing and it doesnt seem like forcing it upon them. But they are pretty impressionable and will pretty much believe anything their parents tell them. Dont you think its a little strange to keep passing unsubstatiated beliefs from generation to generation?
Personally I feel that respect for others stems from your own beliefs, and without a solid base of what to believe, which will evolve over time as life shapes a person, that person will likely have little respect for others, or possibly be less socially palatable
I find this all pretty strange. I treat people nicely because I have respect for them as people, not because my parents told me I'd go to hell if I didnt. Im confused where this idea came from that you have to fool your children into believing they'll be judged in the afterlife to get them to act right. Its like Santa Claus, only on a longer scale. WEIRD
You'll do the same to yours, assuming you have any. It is called raising children. We all teach our children what we think is best for them. Get over it.
Yeah, I know what you think you're doing. And just because everyone else is doing it doesnt make it correct. Im trying to show you that its stupid to give your child a belief system. The whole concept of a belief system is incredibly stupid and bad for you and your children. You end up with people following a belief systems over rational thinking and doing things like killing each other over cartoons.
Contrary to popular belief, people without a belief system dont turn into criminals. Just raise your child right and teach him to have respect for others. He'll develop his or her own belief system.
The alternative is to teach them nothing and let their idiot friends and the state take over. A winning combo, I assure you.
Wow. You're assuming your child is a complete follower waiting to be lead. You also seem to think that your only job as a parent is to teach religion or nothing at all. Quit raising a follower and instead encourage him or her to think for themselves and have respect for others.
Whose beliefs would you have us 'force' on our children? The governments? As a parent, I have a moral responsibility to raise my children with beliefs to get them through life.
WHAT?? Are you serious?! Is the government the only alternative you can think of?! What is wrong with you?
You do know that you're rasing a human being don't you? You know that humans can develop their own thoughts and feelings and beliefs?
You sound like you think your job as a parent is to pick some belief system and fool your child into thinking its real. That way, he'll be a good person because he fears hell!
You know, there is something more important than a following a belief system? Its called respect. Respect for your fellow man. If you raise your kid right and to have respect for people, you shouldnt have any problems.
I think I have a moral responsibility to give my child the benefit of something that has done so much good for my life, and the lives of so many others I know.
The Muslims and the Scientologists are saying the same thing about their children.
All religion causes people to disregard logical thinking and follow a certain set of someone else's beliefs as truth. It causes people to believe in things so strongly that you end up with people believing stupid warped and twisted things that science has already disproven (Intelligent Design for example).
Please, think of the children.
Dont raise an idiot.
If the whole coffee table is a touch screen, it really needs to be multi-input.
check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs
I hope the companion didn't feed it after midnight.
Its always after midnight.
The slashdot story indicates that unix vulnerabilities accounded for 3 times as many as windows.
krappie:~/tmp$ cat winvulns.txt | wc -l
812
krappie:~/tmp$ cat unixvulns.txt | wc -l
2330
Even without taking into account how these number are completely meaningless, this is even completely wrong. If you look, most every title has "(Updated)" after it under unix.
krappie:~/tmp$ cat winvulns.txt | sed 's/ *(updated\?)\?//i' | uniq | wc -l
679
krappie:~/tmp$ cat unixvulns.txt | sed 's/ *(updated\?)\?//i' | uniq | wc -l
1046
And dont forget this counts all flavors of unix and even mac os.
1) They finally fixed tab chatted, so if someone on your MSN list decides they want a 20 character display name, their tab wont take up 20 spaces on your chat window. Instead it truncates it and evenly spaces the tabs.
WOW. All tabs should be like this! This is my main problem with x-chat. Awesome.
The real question is.. did the experts reviewing the articles click "edit this page" and correct the mistakes?
Either way, I'd like to see a repeat of the same test. They listed the articles they reviewed. Im sure the wikipedia articles are full of "0" errors now.
Hah. This is the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen. I can't believe it actually got published on The Register.
It seems like the major complaint of Linux, and really this guys ONLY complaint is about Linux support for random hardware. I guess he's never thought about it. He expects all these linux people to write drivers for vast amounts of hardware? Does Microsoft write drivers for all these pieces of hardware? The answer is "No." Microsoft barely writes any drivers. The hardware makers provide drivers for Windows. And hardware makers today dont provide ANY information about their crazy hardware. Does this mean Microsoft Windows is better than Linux? I think Linux is doing a damn good job at supporting the amount of hardware it does! Whatever..
You cant judge the greatness of an operating system by comparing the amount of manufacturer made drivers to the amount of reverse engineered ones.
"The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It's partners, it's competitors...the whole space is being transformed."
Have you noticed that since the antitrust lawsuits that every quote from Bill Gates mentions competing and competitors?
I was wondering if I was the only one that had to read this headline about 5 times slowly trying to make sense of it.
Here is a list of every currently exploitable problem in Microsoft products that a SINGLE company has found.
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http://www.eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/index.
They have currently been waiting 165 days for a patch for remote code execution.
Wouldnt worry?? They just bought an antivirus company and are planning to release it with the next version of windows, and you dont think anyone should worry about it?
This is pretty far fetched, but dont you think microsoft would then benefit from viruses and end up looking like heros? As well have further in-depth knowledge about how every virus/worm works with windows, as opposed to the very limited knowledge of current antivirus companies. With their windows leverage, I dont see how they can fail.
Which school are you referring to?
I just searched all my very old conversations and I sont see any refernce to a Daniel Wu.
If he was part of the magnet school, we'd only talk to them for a while before or after the contests. I think we were the only ones that really respected each other.. because everyone else sucked.