It may well suck, but decisions that come down to money often do.
Interesting that you put it that way, because my decision when it came to my money was to use a bank that supports my platform. I use linux exclusively at work for reasons that are obvious if you look at my e-mail address. Fleet (BankBoston back in the day) has the best online banking software, and best of all, they support Mozilla on Linux and they supported Netscape 4.x on linux when that was standard. Their tech support answers the phone, and they are responsive to bug reports. I've sent in two bug reports, and they were both fixed within 48 hours. I've heard that they are similarly helpful for Mac users (and a quick check shows their software working correctly on my Mac). If Citibank won't support you, I recommend Fleet. As a bonus if you keep a large minimum balance, they have no fees and competitive interest rates to go along with their open-minded platform support policy.
Sucks for all those other banks that I looked into that turn away customers with large balances because they can't invest minimal effort in standards compliance.
Admitedly, requiring it is silly, but requesting it and logging the response are not.
So, if I go to report an abusive user, and his ident string is "gofuckyourself@some.unix.box.somewhere", you're saying, chances are, it'll be helpful, even when 99% of ident responses are phony?
You would only look in the ident log if the admin you were reporting an abuser to requested the information, and in that case you would be assuerd it was valid.
Why not just ditch ident, and simply ban the entire hostname, subnet, or domain of an abusive user, and let the admin sort it out once he starts receiving complaints from other, legit users? Hell, this is done all the time, anyway. When's the last time you saw a K-line for a single user@unix.box?
What if you are dealing with a university UNIX server, and one student is abusing your network from their shell account, while at the same time some of your network ops access your network through the same system?
I've never seen a single user banned from the IRC server side, but I have seen users loose their shell access (or worse) after an IRC server admin complained and the ident log was consulted.
You seem to be mistaken here in assuming that an admin of any system in the entire world is going to give one tiny little piece of shit about someone abusing someone else's IRC server.
That't funny, because I care, and I know alot of admins that care. We don't want our bandwidth being used up simply for the abuse of somebody else's network.
I find particularly funny the latest "don't get a satellite dish!" ads (even though IMO dishes offer much better service) There's one in particular playing here in Boston (On broadcast TV mind you) where these two parents say how "they have 5 kids and going 5 minutes without TV would be worse than cancer"
I saw that ad the other day too. I thought it was funny considering one of the (many) reasons I switched to DirecTV from AT&T Broadband was that the cable went out so much. In six months I've only seen problems with the dish ONE time, and the show was still watchable, the video was just degraded a little.
Of course with five kids and a dependance on television I think they have bigger problems than sattelite outages. They haven't figured out how to raise children or use condoms yet.
I've run several IRC servers since 1996. I am an "experienced server and network op", and I still can't figure it out. Speaking as an admin, I can assure you that ident buys me absolutely nothing in terms of dealing with problematic users. Every single one of them has spoofed a valid ident response, either by changing their "Username" value in mIRC, or by running a randomizing ident server.
The reason you are so confused is because you think that identd is supposed to help you in some way. It doesn't help you as the IRC server admin. The ident information is to help the administrator of the client. You see, if your abusive user is on a shell account, and you go to report abuse to the service provider, that admin is going to ask you for the ident information. Without it he is not going to know which of his users is the abuser. If you turn it off identd checking, you will have no recourse against the abuse.
The commonly-held belief among IRC admins that ident provides security and some sort of audit trail is unquestionably false.
I wasn't aware that this was a commonly held belief of experienced admins. This is something a newbie operator that doesn't know how to deal with abuse would think. Ident doesn't provide security, nor is it supposed to. The only time you are going to look at your ident information is when it is requested by the administrator of the multi-user client after you report abuse for his IP address. It's not good for anything else.
No serious systems administrator running a public or private access unix system with user accounts allows such valuable user information out onto the net.
The answer is that all systems aren't single user. On a single user system, the IP address is probably sufficient to track somebody down with, and the ident responce can be ignored. On a multi-user system it isn't. Those multi-user systems also typically have more bandwidth than hundreds of single user systems combined. If somebody on one of those systems is abusing your service, you're really going to want to inform the administrator of that system which of his/her users should be booted. Just because 99% of the data is worthless doesn't mean that the 1% that isn't doesn't make up for the rest in value.
Now, which do you think is the more likely scenario: All the l-users here that have never run an IRC server and are taking out of their ass know best, or that hundreds of experienced server and network ops know what they're doing and require identd for a reason?
Depends on the demographic you're looking at, IMO. High school and college students will probably find out how to get one of these "warezed" ISOs, but that isn't the case for much of the rest of the population.
I think that the rest of the population is more likely to end up with the warez then you give them credit for. My father (clueless about all things computer related) went out and bought an eMachines computer, and the first thing he did was buy a CD-R drive, and copy one of his friend's warez CDs. The guy he borrowed the Warez CD from got his copy the same way.
My mother figured out years ago that she could bring the DOS diskettes/Windows CD/Office CDs home from the office and install them at home when they upgraded at work instead of going to the store and buying the $99 upgrade. It's not a huge leap to go from there to realizing that you can save $50 if you buy the PC without windows, and then install the copy from the office when you get home.
People are smarter than you give them credit for when it comes to getting something for free.
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It's not for performance reasons, it's for reliability reasons. The IDE bus is not very tolerant of failures. There are many failure conditions for an IDE drive that will make the entire bus unuseable. If it's a mirror set, you haven't really gained any reliability if one drive takes the other drive out with it. You also can't hot-replace a drive if it's sharing a bus, but if it's the only one, you can. (You're software might not like it though...)
get good drives! big caches too!
Depending on how relibable you're trying to get with your RAID set, the cache won't help either. In fact, if you don't want data corruption, you have to run with the write cache off otherwise even your journaling filesystem won't protect you if your drives suddenly lose power.
What's not typically known is using electricity you can reletively easily seperate water in to Oxygen and Hydrogen. Both of which could be stored to later go through a fuel cell and turned back into water and electricity. These conversions are very near to 100% perfect in terms of energy transfer. I've seen it demostrated at an alternative-fuel car show. It was very interesting, and got me interested in Hydrogen as a possible fuel for cars (and other things).
Not only is it easy, but you can do it at home. All you need is a jar, some wire, some copper flashing, some salt, and a car battery charger. Coil two sheets of the copper flashing making sure they don't touch (I've used a strip of foam or the thick kind of double sided tape), Solder a wire to each plate, and put the coil in the jar submerged in salt water (just a little salt). Now hook the wires up to the battery charger and turn on the power.
As a warning, this produces hydrogen and oxygen in exactly the correct proportions to be explosive, so don't do this unless you have some way of seperating or venting off the gasses. You can seperate the gasses by sealing the jar, and insering two tubes through the lid. One tube should end flush to the lid of the jar, and the other should extend one third of the way to the water. You will have to keep adjusting it as the water level declines. This is still very dangerous, so be careful, and DONT DO IT INSIDE!
Both of you obviously havent read the OSDN terms of service (you know, that link at the bottom of the page?).
Read:
With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as message boards and bug trackers ("OSDN Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such OSDN Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display project activity, such content is owned by OSDN. In each such case, the submitting user grants OSDN the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable Open Source Initiative-approved license.
In other words, you have no rights but you maintain all liability. They can even publish and sell a book, and if somebody wants to sue over your comment, they keep the profits and you have a lawsuit...
It doesn't say how energy efficient these things are. The gasses in your refrigerator typically stay trapped in the plumbing for decades. The gasses released by the power plant that makes your electricity don't. If these things are less efficient than current refrigerators, they could actually be worse for the environment.
Anybody out there know anything about the efficiency of this type of heat exchange?
I hate to shatter your idealistic world view, but people have starved in Africa for centuries, and the biggest cause has never been the environment or the geography, but the local government and regional conflicts. Most of these countries have all the nescicary means to produce the food they need to survive, but cultural and political differences stop them from producing enough food, or cause their leaders to export all the food in exchange for money to buy weapons. The problem is exagerated now, because along with their culture starving some of them to death, they also have a huge AIDS problem.
BIOS is a no no even if you know what you are doing.
In other words, you don't know what you're doing.
If you buy a motherboard, there's a 90% chance the default for AGP prefetch and Fast Writes is 'off'. That can cause between 30-50% performance loss on the hardware you just paid good money for. They're off by default for compatability, but your mid-range to high end video card will perform like crap unless you go in there and turn them on. Some moterboards set things like CPU bus speeds through the BIOS, so if you don't go in there and change the setting, you'll run your CPU at 25% slower speed.
If you build the system, the BIOS is an essential utility. You can't just ignore it and never go in there.
That's an easy one. It's because it's simpler to be rude in a comment on slashdot.
I don't necissarily advocate an anti-immigration policy, I was just pointing out that most people, regardless of the country they are from, are anti-immigration.
You can't bring yourself to spend 1cm of screen real estate, at the *bottem* of the screen?!?! I will refrain from asking the size of your monitor.
I have 2 Dell P1110 20" monitors. I use Sawfish as a window manager, and a borderless theme. Yep, that's right. I'm so stingy with the pixels that I don't even use them for a border or window decorations. Now do you see why I'm reluctant to run an auto-hiding panel?
Here's a screenshot of my terminals screen if you're interested. It's the one with the most root window visable, but only because I happen to have the gimp running right now and I narrowed down one of the terminals for it to fit. I've also got a virtual desktop for my browser and e-mail, and another with emacs and more terminals. Keep in mind that I'm not advocating something like this for anybody else... I don't use anything like this on my home machine. Only on my work machine where the number and locations of windows I have open is almost completely constant. (I run Windows 2000 at home...)
Sure is. I bet America can do just fine with that attitude, since you don't really need other people or other places and you surely don't need any natural resources outside of your borders. Oh, wait...
Out of curiosity, where are you from? Countries where a majority of the population is supportive of immigration are in the vast minority. I think people just like to oppose things.
That's not what I saw at all. This totally elimintated the traditional "windows-like" taskbar in favor of things that were like "cards" that could be mostly slid past the edge of the screen when not in use. Also, each of these "cards" could have embedded applets. It's nothing like the Windows GUI, or anything else for that matter.
If you ask me, the whole thing still takes up too many pixels. I'm still desktop-less since I can't bring myself to spend the screen space. What I need is something like these "screenshots," but that disappears completely unless you're holding down the 'Alt' key or something.
There are many environments where the lock strategy you suggest would be a guaranteed deadlock.
I disagree. If you have a unique lock for each handler, and you never take that lock while holding any other locks you are guaranteed not to introduce any deadlocks. In the case of event handlers, you would only have to worry about deadlocks from locking around your entire handler if some code in your handler blocked on a second event, and if it did that you'd already have to be reentrant. The situation becomes more complicated if you previously could not have more than one of any event handler running at a given time, but that was not my impression of the situation. From what I read, multiple event handlers could already be running at once, and the change involved the same event handler being called multiple times simultainiously. This may be what you were saying required more thought.
Considering our current government, I'd think the U.S. would be much more likely to cover up astronaut deaths than freedom loving russians.
What kind of comment is that exactly? Really, I think there are people out there that like to take random shots our government for fun because they can't comprehend that a government can do both good and bad things at the same time. Besides, our government hardly has anything to do with wether something like this would be covered up in the US. People can go watch the launches in person here, and have always been able to (from a distance anyway). They're also televised. If the thing blows up, the government isn't going to be able to cover it up.
Besides, I said nothing about the current Russian government or society, I was talking exclusivly about things that happened before the end of the Soviet Union.
Normaly I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but considering the coverup record of the former soviet union, I think I'll indulge myself.
If somebody died during launch under Soviet watch, do you really think we would have been told? Look at all the things (failures) they did that we're still just learning learning about now...
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It may well suck, but decisions that come down to money often do.
Interesting that you put it that way, because my decision when it came to my money was to use a bank that supports my platform. I use linux exclusively at work for reasons that are obvious if you look at my e-mail address. Fleet (BankBoston back in the day) has the best online banking software, and best of all, they support Mozilla on Linux and they supported Netscape 4.x on linux when that was standard. Their tech support answers the phone, and they are responsive to bug reports. I've sent in two bug reports, and they were both fixed within 48 hours. I've heard that they are similarly helpful for Mac users (and a quick check shows their software working correctly on my Mac). If Citibank won't support you, I recommend Fleet. As a bonus if you keep a large minimum balance, they have no fees and competitive interest rates to go along with their open-minded platform support policy.
Sucks for all those other banks that I looked into that turn away customers with large balances because they can't invest minimal effort in standards compliance.
Then why do IRC server admins require it?
Admitedly, requiring it is silly, but requesting it and logging the response are not.
So, if I go to report an abusive user, and his ident string is "gofuckyourself@some.unix.box.somewhere", you're saying, chances are, it'll be helpful, even when 99% of ident responses are phony?
You would only look in the ident log if the admin you were reporting an abuser to requested the information, and in that case you would be assuerd it was valid.
Why not just ditch ident, and simply ban the entire hostname, subnet, or domain of an abusive user, and let the admin sort it out once he starts receiving complaints from other, legit users? Hell, this is done all the time, anyway. When's the last time you saw a K-line for a single user@unix.box?
What if you are dealing with a university UNIX server, and one student is abusing your network from their shell account, while at the same time some of your network ops access your network through the same system?
I've never seen a single user banned from the IRC server side, but I have seen users loose their shell access (or worse) after an IRC server admin complained and the ident log was consulted.
You seem to be mistaken here in assuming that an admin of any system in the entire world is going to give one tiny little piece of shit about someone abusing someone else's IRC server.
That't funny, because I care, and I know alot of admins that care. We don't want our bandwidth being used up simply for the abuse of somebody else's network.
I find particularly funny the latest "don't get a satellite dish!" ads (even though IMO dishes offer much better service) There's one in particular playing here in Boston (On broadcast TV mind you) where these two parents say how "they have 5 kids and going 5 minutes without TV would be worse than cancer"
I saw that ad the other day too. I thought it was funny considering one of the (many) reasons I switched to DirecTV from AT&T Broadband was that the cable went out so much. In six months I've only seen problems with the dish ONE time, and the show was still watchable, the video was just degraded a little.
Of course with five kids and a dependance on television I think they have bigger problems than sattelite outages. They haven't figured out how to raise children or use condoms yet.
I've run several IRC servers since 1996. I am an "experienced server and network op", and I still can't figure it out. Speaking as an admin, I can assure you that ident buys me absolutely nothing in terms of dealing with problematic users. Every single one of them has spoofed a valid ident response, either by changing their "Username" value in mIRC, or by running a randomizing ident server.
The reason you are so confused is because you think that identd is supposed to help you in some way. It doesn't help you as the IRC server admin. The ident information is to help the administrator of the client. You see, if your abusive user is on a shell account, and you go to report abuse to the service provider, that admin is going to ask you for the ident information. Without it he is not going to know which of his users is the abuser. If you turn it off identd checking, you will have no recourse against the abuse.
The commonly-held belief among IRC admins that ident provides security and some sort of audit trail is unquestionably false.
I wasn't aware that this was a commonly held belief of experienced admins. This is something a newbie operator that doesn't know how to deal with abuse would think. Ident doesn't provide security, nor is it supposed to. The only time you are going to look at your ident information is when it is requested by the administrator of the multi-user client after you report abuse for his IP address. It's not good for anything else.
No serious systems administrator running a public or private access unix system with user accounts allows such valuable user information out onto the net.
Valuable information like the username?
Oh, wait.. This is a troll...
The answer is that all systems aren't single user. On a single user system, the IP address is probably sufficient to track somebody down with, and the ident responce can be ignored. On a multi-user system it isn't. Those multi-user systems also typically have more bandwidth than hundreds of single user systems combined. If somebody on one of those systems is abusing your service, you're really going to want to inform the administrator of that system which of his/her users should be booted. Just because 99% of the data is worthless doesn't mean that the 1% that isn't doesn't make up for the rest in value.
Now, which do you think is the more likely scenario: All the l-users here that have never run an IRC server and are taking out of their ass know best, or that hundreds of experienced server and network ops know what they're doing and require identd for a reason?
Depends on the demographic you're looking at, IMO. High school and college students will probably find out how to get one of these "warezed" ISOs, but that isn't the case for much of the rest of the population.
I think that the rest of the population is more likely to end up with the warez then you give them credit for. My father (clueless about all things computer related) went out and bought an eMachines computer, and the first thing he did was buy a CD-R drive, and copy one of his friend's warez CDs. The guy he borrowed the Warez CD from got his copy the same way.
My mother figured out years ago that she could bring the DOS diskettes/Windows CD/Office CDs home from the office and install them at home when they upgraded at work instead of going to the store and buying the $99 upgrade. It's not a huge leap to go from there to realizing that you can save $50 if you buy the PC without windows, and then install the copy from the office when you get home.
People are smarter than you give them credit for when it comes to getting something for free.
It's not for performance reasons, it's for reliability reasons. The IDE bus is not very tolerant of failures. There are many failure conditions for an IDE drive that will make the entire bus unuseable. If it's a mirror set, you haven't really gained any reliability if one drive takes the other drive out with it. You also can't hot-replace a drive if it's sharing a bus, but if it's the only one, you can. (You're software might not like it though...)
get good drives! big caches too!
Depending on how relibable you're trying to get with your RAID set, the cache won't help either. In fact, if you don't want data corruption, you have to run with the write cache off otherwise even your journaling filesystem won't protect you if your drives suddenly lose power.
What's not typically known is using electricity you can reletively easily seperate water in to Oxygen and Hydrogen. Both of which could be stored to later go through a fuel cell and turned back into water and electricity. These conversions are very near to 100% perfect in terms of energy transfer. I've seen it demostrated at an alternative-fuel car show. It was very interesting, and got me interested in Hydrogen as a possible fuel for cars (and other things).
Not only is it easy, but you can do it at home. All you need is a jar, some wire, some copper flashing, some salt, and a car battery charger. Coil two sheets of the copper flashing making sure they don't touch (I've used a strip of foam or the thick kind of double sided tape), Solder a wire to each plate, and put the coil in the jar submerged in salt water (just a little salt). Now hook the wires up to the battery charger and turn on the power.
As a warning, this produces hydrogen and oxygen in exactly the correct proportions to be explosive, so don't do this unless you have some way of seperating or venting off the gasses. You can seperate the gasses by sealing the jar, and insering two tubes through the lid. One tube should end flush to the lid of the jar, and the other should extend one third of the way to the water. You will have to keep adjusting it as the water level declines. This is still very dangerous, so be careful, and DONT DO IT INSIDE!
Both of you obviously havent read the OSDN terms of service (you know, that link at the bottom of the page?).
Read:
With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as message boards and bug trackers ("OSDN Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such OSDN Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display project activity, such content is owned by OSDN. In each such case, the submitting user grants OSDN the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable Open Source Initiative-approved license.
In other words, you have no rights but you maintain all liability. They can even publish and sell a book, and if somebody wants to sue over your comment, they keep the profits and you have a lawsuit...
It doesn't say how energy efficient these things are. The gasses in your refrigerator typically stay trapped in the plumbing for decades. The gasses released by the power plant that makes your electricity don't. If these things are less efficient than current refrigerators, they could actually be worse for the environment.
Anybody out there know anything about the efficiency of this type of heat exchange?
Yeah, that's great, except that an inrease in decibels represents an exponential increase in sound.
I hate to shatter your idealistic world view, but people have starved in Africa for centuries, and the biggest cause has never been the environment or the geography, but the local government and regional conflicts. Most of these countries have all the nescicary means to produce the food they need to survive, but cultural and political differences stop them from producing enough food, or cause their leaders to export all the food in exchange for money to buy weapons. The problem is exagerated now, because along with their culture starving some of them to death, they also have a huge AIDS problem.
BIOS is a no no even if you know what you are doing.
In other words, you don't know what you're doing.
If you buy a motherboard, there's a 90% chance the default for AGP prefetch and Fast Writes is 'off'. That can cause between 30-50% performance loss on the hardware you just paid good money for. They're off by default for compatability, but your mid-range to high end video card will perform like crap unless you go in there and turn them on. Some moterboards set things like CPU bus speeds through the BIOS, so if you don't go in there and change the setting, you'll run your CPU at 25% slower speed.
If you build the system, the BIOS is an essential utility. You can't just ignore it and never go in there.
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It's in debian unstable. 'apt-get install gimp1.3'
Then why don't they oppose immigration *laws*?
That's an easy one. It's because it's simpler to be rude in a comment on slashdot.
I don't necissarily advocate an anti-immigration policy, I was just pointing out that most people, regardless of the country they are from, are anti-immigration.
You can't bring yourself to spend 1cm of screen real estate, at the *bottem* of the screen?!?! I will refrain from asking the size of your monitor.
I have 2 Dell P1110 20" monitors. I use Sawfish as a window manager, and a borderless theme. Yep, that's right. I'm so stingy with the pixels that I don't even use them for a border or window decorations. Now do you see why I'm reluctant to run an auto-hiding panel?
Here's a screenshot of my terminals screen if you're interested. It's the one with the most root window visable, but only because I happen to have the gimp running right now and I narrowed down one of the terminals for it to fit. I've also got a virtual desktop for my browser and e-mail, and another with emacs and more terminals. Keep in mind that I'm not advocating something like this for anybody else... I don't use anything like this on my home machine. Only on my work machine where the number and locations of windows I have open is almost completely constant. (I run Windows 2000 at home...)
Sure is. I bet America can do just fine with that attitude, since you don't really need other people or other places and you surely don't need any natural resources outside of your borders. Oh, wait...
Out of curiosity, where are you from? Countries where a majority of the population is supportive of immigration are in the vast minority. I think people just like to oppose things.
That's not what I saw at all. This totally elimintated the traditional "windows-like" taskbar in favor of things that were like "cards" that could be mostly slid past the edge of the screen when not in use. Also, each of these "cards" could have embedded applets. It's nothing like the Windows GUI, or anything else for that matter.
If you ask me, the whole thing still takes up too many pixels. I'm still desktop-less since I can't bring myself to spend the screen space. What I need is something like these "screenshots," but that disappears completely unless you're holding down the 'Alt' key or something.
There are many environments where the lock strategy you suggest would be a guaranteed deadlock.
I disagree. If you have a unique lock for each handler, and you never take that lock while holding any other locks you are guaranteed not to introduce any deadlocks. In the case of event handlers, you would only have to worry about deadlocks from locking around your entire handler if some code in your handler blocked on a second event, and if it did that you'd already have to be reentrant. The situation becomes more complicated if you previously could not have more than one of any event handler running at a given time, but that was not my impression of the situation. From what I read, multiple event handlers could already be running at once, and the change involved the same event handler being called multiple times simultainiously. This may be what you were saying required more thought.
Considering our current government, I'd think the U.S. would be much more likely to cover up astronaut deaths than freedom loving russians.
What kind of comment is that exactly? Really, I think there are people out there that like to take random shots our government for fun because they can't comprehend that a government can do both good and bad things at the same time. Besides, our government hardly has anything to do with wether something like this would be covered up in the US. People can go watch the launches in person here, and have always been able to (from a distance anyway). They're also televised. If the thing blows up, the government isn't going to be able to cover it up.
Besides, I said nothing about the current Russian government or society, I was talking exclusivly about things that happened before the end of the Soviet Union.
So with the help of Microsoft, Chinese guys won't see "big tits".
I just want to say thanks. That's the hardest I've laughed all week!
Normaly I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but considering the coverup record of the former soviet union, I think I'll indulge myself.
If somebody died during launch under Soviet watch, do you really think we would have been told? Look at all the things (failures) they did that we're still just learning learning about now...
Could you give females one thing and males another or does everyone need to get the same thing?
You like pain, don't you?