Mediocre films are released early in the year, because it's easier to get the "BEST FILM OF THE YEAR" accolades.
Hold on one second... those "BESTEST FILM OF TEH YEER" are hardly given out by "the academy." They're just quotes from review-whores or more likely from "reporters" who don't actually exist (yet manage to always get their rave reviews in on time, for the worst movies (remember the reviews of "The Animal"))
Don't get me wrong, I agree with what you're saying, but at the same time it's important to realize where those statements come from. Frankly, those statements is made all year long... but I think they're funniest at the beginning of the year... since obviously they are the best film (so far) since they're the first film.
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I'm nearly 19, Have my MCSE, CCNA, Hell of a lot of experence
There are people who have more years of experience than you've been alive, and they are struggling to find jobs. Just trying to inject a little perspective.
And let me tell you, perspective doesn't come easy to a 19 year old. That's great if you have experience, an ABC and an XYZ. You're still 19 and will be treated as such. Finish up school before you enter the job market.
This gives creedence to the "Those that can, do; those that can't, teach." phrase.
Granted, there are real casualties in the dotcom fallout (and when I say "real casualties" I mean skilled, intelligent employees who are fired with the rest of the chaff). But do we really want these people teaching the next generations of students?
As a native San Franciscan, a small part of me is happy to see all the dotcommers leave. But at the same time, diversity is what makes this city (and this country) great, and it's unfortunate that so many people have to leave at once. There are some in the city (who I think are a bit nutty) who claim that the dotcommers were driving out the real spirit of the city (the poor?). Whatever happens, I see that as the natural progression of the city...
However, I am happy to see the dotcommers learning the real value of money... and now housing prices, etc are coming back down. I see them as someone who has been poor their whole life and wins the lottery... they have so much money that it is difficult to fathom that you'd need to save some of those millions, etc. When I think of dotcommers I think of frivilous spending on unnecessary/overpriced goods, just for the sake of their acquisition. And that's fine if you're Bill Gates, but if you have not other savings (or it's your 401(k) [why is the "K" in parentheses?] and you work for Enron) then you're on your way towards learning a hard lesson about life.
I'm working in IT right now but I'm also still in school (as an Economics major) so at least this way when I get out I'll have more than one option available to me...
The slump is an opportunity to do other human things, for example, philosophy.:-)
What is my role in society?
What can I hope for?
Who am I and what is my destiny?
Is it tech? Is it being rich? How can you be sure?
How will I pay my bills?
Skip the philosophy, and get a job. There are many jobs to be had... the problem is that everyone wants a "great job." But any kind of job pays the bills, and in the mean time you can still be applying to better jobs. Just because you work at the local coffee house doesn't mean you should make a career out of it (you shouldn't).
But if you're asking the questions above instead of making ends meet you have some serious priority problems. And if you're one of those people who "needs hope" or the like, just set a goal for yourself... perhaps a new job?
Bit of a shame if you want to log any attacks
on the firewall though.
If you can get this to work with IPFilter/PF you could use the "dup to" method to send the packet out a third NIC to a packet logging machine. Now you can have a transparent firewall, which is not accessible at all, but you can still have some logging features. One possible design for this would be two SBCs in a 1U case... one is the "halted" firewall and the other is the logging machine.
I don't know if this is possible with NetFilter or IPChains, however.
Since the "hack" apparently allows downloads via HTTP, my guess is that Morpheus's built-in queue for those downloading from you will no effect... thus if you find yourself trying to download a file but are stuck in someone's queue, this might be a way to get around that and begin the download immediately.
If you're behind a NAT firewall you're probably protected because a direct HTTP connection is required.
I haven't verified anything yet, but initial observation supports my theory... now back to testing.
Fine. Please save some bandwidth for the rest of us by not downloading any kernel patches, software patches, nicotine patches, or any others you may be inclined to apply in order to fix any problems you have.
The mindless anti-Microsoft blathering will get you nowhere... so save it for after the end of the month to see if there have been any real results.
You're just hurting everyone else's opinion of your intelligence, so do yourself a favor.
I've read a few comments here how this is about "playing God" and it's a bad reflection on the Linux community. Funny how this kind of story will only show up on a pro-Linux site like Slashdot... and only here are people complaining (well, maybe the few Windows users who were denied from posting).
And why are Windows users the only ones excluded? Why not exclude Mac users too? Aren't they supposed to be even stupider than Windows users? So block two of my computing platforms if you want, I have more...
For all the hubbub that Steve Gibson made about Windows XP and it's raw sockets taking over the world, burning your toast, and painting your room pink, I would think Lindows would make him, and other over-reacting folk, well, over-react.
Sure, you need root access to use raw sockets, but if Lindows forces you to run as root (let's be honest here, if it doesn't work as a regular user you're only viable option is to run as root). So now we have Linux machines with computer dolts running as root who also have the ability to unleash various macro viruses upon the world.
I'm using "he" as the subject here. Women, typically, are not this dumb.
Wrong. Women are not smarter than men, nor are men smarter than women. People in general are not very smart and rarely take the time to think through their actions. The "it seemed like a good idea at the time" mentality is played out over and over throughout the world.
So, reading your post, I will guess that you are more intelligent than the individual that spammed you. However, by your logic:
If the spammer is a man, you are a woman (contradictory because your username is AnalogBoy)
If the spammer is a woman, you are smarter than her, thus you must be Wonder Woman (which would also explain the AnalogBoy handle as that is your "super-hero cover" designed to confuse the bad guys (who, again by your logic, would be unable to see past such an obvious ruse))
It is possible that you are a man, and therefore the spammer must have been a lower form of life.
Agreed, and as you go on to explain, and I believe I alluded to in my post, there are many proprietary implementations via the BIOS or DOS drivers, etc.
My point was that Windows 2000 separates the hibernation feature from the BIOS. As far as the BIOS can tell, the system is booting normally... but once the BIOS loads the NTLDR, Windows takes over of course and handles the hibernation. This is why it works so well and does not have all of the "stupid issues" such as custom drivers, partitions, or the like. The end result is not a MS-only function, but the implementation is, as far as I can tell.
If you have a Windows 2000 or XP machine you can enable hibernation. However, this is not a "power management" feature... it has been separated from ACPI and/or proprietary disk partitions and will work on all computers, even servers, whether they have ACPI/APM/nothing for power management.
Once you've enabled it, you create a hibernation file on the C: drive. Hibernation should only take place when there is minimal disk activity (eg, don't hibernate while trying to save your Word document). The system saves the contents on RAM to the hard drive, and then shuts down. When the machine boots, a flag was set (I assume) indicating the system should resume from hibernation... so the hibernation file is read from disk and written to RAM and you're back up and running, in less time than it takes to boot. Plus it keeps your uptime from resetting back to zero.
Some things to note:
You will need WHQL certified drivers, or at least properly-written drivers. I have a SB Audigy and the first drivers I used (the ones on the included CD) caused a blue screen on resume from hibernation. When a updated driver was released, it fixed this issue.
Applications need to be properly-written as well, as there is some sort of Win32 suspend signal that is sent to apps just before the system hibernates, so the app must support this and the resume command when the system is restored.
Hibernation works great on my laptop and on my workstation, and I especially like the fact that I don't need to create a separate partition or install special drivers to make it work (you can even use it on an NTFS formatted drive).
I don't see anyone else saying this: I think we shuold all say a big THANK YOU and WELL DONE to the friend who resigned his job over this - especially in today's economic climate. This sort of courage, to put one's own neck on the line over a principle, is sadly lacking amongst most of us. Well done, and best of luck finding another job with an more ethical employer.
Yes, I realize that some of you have no alternative.
No, they feel like there is no alternative because they want DSL/cable/T1 speeds with a nice cushy TOS that lets them do whatever they want without the ISP caring.
There are many alternatives:
No internet connection
AOL
Smaller local ISP
Living with your current ISP
Don't tell me people don't have a choice... or alternately feel free to tell me how you want to dictate what your connection is. Fine, it's called being a consumer. Go elsewhere, or live with it.
"Please open your wallet and close your mind... you can trust us, we're similar to the phone company, but we do TV instead."
Regarding firewalls, I think Comcast is more worried about not being able to scan YOU than they are about running servers... at least with servers they can monitor for that and kick your ass later.
What happens if you run MacOS 9 or earlier? There are no open ports, and thus they would likely assume you've got a firewall... better check outside to see if black-clad soldiers are dropping out of helicopters to "fix" your computer.
"Hello I'm calling on behalf of Comcast and we've noticed your cable modem usage has repeatedly been at the exact limit of your monthly allowance. While our routers do enjoy the exercise, we kindly ask you to only browse to our affiliated sites and never download any files. This should keep your bandwidth usage in our monthly "target" for each customer. If you continue to make full use of your allocated bandwidth we will be forced to kill you and eat your bones, and your family will be liable for our lost revenue after your demise. Thank you for using Comcast."
It's an OS bug if you think that the OS should be bright enough not to make AGP-touched memory cacheable (it wasn't intended to be).
I'm voting for option 3), myself.
I don't know about that... if you'll recall there have already been pre-emptive blamings from the Linux gurus, so since they're always right, well, it must be something else.
So I quote from Gentoo.org:
The bad news is that a major Athlon CPU bug has been discovered, and it affects Linux 2.4. Note that this is a bug in the actual CPU itself, and is not a Linux bug.
And:
And, the kind folks at AMD even created a simple patch for Windows 2000 that disables extended paging by tweaking the registry.
Cache coherency aside, what about logic coherency? These were posts in the same article. To me, it seems as if the Linux guys and gals are ready to blame everyone else but themselves (sounds like the phone company!).
So quick to blame others... but why not? I mean, if everyone believes you, then you're good to go!
Are geeks known for their maturity, social competence and rational decision-making?
But is anyone really known for that?
Do you walk down the street with your friends, and suddenly recognize a former co-worker, and point him/her out to your friends and say, "That's so-and-so, a mature, competent, rational decision-maker."
I doubt it.
Most people are able to make rational decisions. The problem is, that in order to do so you must remove all emotion, and have every piece of relevant information. Since that will never happen, don't expect perfectly rational decisions out of anyone.
Geek or mortal, all make decisions based on emotion and imperfect information.
How long do you think AC though about voicing his opinion on AOL/TW's buyout of RedHat? Do you think he tried to think how they'd react when he made his statements? AC might think that he's taking the high road, but I guarantee it's leading away from RedHat. No manager would keep AC around (assuming a buyout) after he made such statements... AC might claim he is quitting, but think of it as a mutual firing.
If your employer knows that you fear leaving them, they are suddenly in an extremely powerful position over you.
Let's not forget, though, that the majority of workers are underqualified for their job, don't understand their job at all, or are completely incompetent. Now put yourself in their position and see if the "food on the table" argument makes sense. If they lose their job are they likely to be re-hired? And let's not mention the fact that not everyone is saving a portion of their income each month for that "rainy day" when they decide to tell their boss to go to hell. There is a time for standing up for yourself, and there is a time to realize that you're not the decision maker.
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Mediocre films are released early in the year, because it's easier to get the "BEST FILM OF THE YEAR" accolades.
Hold on one second... those "BESTEST FILM OF TEH YEER" are hardly given out by "the academy." They're just quotes from review-whores or more likely from "reporters" who don't actually exist (yet manage to always get their rave reviews in on time, for the worst movies (remember the reviews of "The Animal"))
Don't get me wrong, I agree with what you're saying, but at the same time it's important to realize where those statements come from. Frankly, those statements is made all year long... but I think they're funniest at the beginning of the year... since obviously they are the best film (so far) since they're the first film.
I'm nearly 19, Have my MCSE, CCNA, Hell of a lot of experence
There are people who have more years of experience than you've been alive, and they are struggling to find jobs. Just trying to inject a little perspective.
And let me tell you, perspective doesn't come easy to a 19 year old. That's great if you have experience, an ABC and an XYZ. You're still 19 and will be treated as such. Finish up school before you enter the job market.
This gives creedence to the "Those that can, do; those that can't, teach." phrase.
Granted, there are real casualties in the dotcom fallout (and when I say "real casualties" I mean skilled, intelligent employees who are fired with the rest of the chaff). But do we really want these people teaching the next generations of students?
As a native San Franciscan, a small part of me is happy to see all the dotcommers leave. But at the same time, diversity is what makes this city (and this country) great, and it's unfortunate that so many people have to leave at once. There are some in the city (who I think are a bit nutty) who claim that the dotcommers were driving out the real spirit of the city (the poor?). Whatever happens, I see that as the natural progression of the city...
However, I am happy to see the dotcommers learning the real value of money... and now housing prices, etc are coming back down. I see them as someone who has been poor their whole life and wins the lottery... they have so much money that it is difficult to fathom that you'd need to save some of those millions, etc. When I think of dotcommers I think of frivilous spending on unnecessary/overpriced goods, just for the sake of their acquisition. And that's fine if you're Bill Gates, but if you have not other savings (or it's your 401(k) [why is the "K" in parentheses?] and you work for Enron) then you're on your way towards learning a hard lesson about life.
I'm working in IT right now but I'm also still in school (as an Economics major) so at least this way when I get out I'll have more than one option available to me...
The slump is an opportunity to do other human things, for example, philosophy. :-)
What is my role in society?
What can I hope for?
Who am I and what is my destiny?
Is it tech? Is it being rich? How can you be sure?
How will I pay my bills?
Skip the philosophy, and get a job. There are many jobs to be had... the problem is that everyone wants a "great job." But any kind of job pays the bills, and in the mean time you can still be applying to better jobs. Just because you work at the local coffee house doesn't mean you should make a career out of it (you shouldn't).
But if you're asking the questions above instead of making ends meet you have some serious priority problems. And if you're one of those people who "needs hope" or the like, just set a goal for yourself... perhaps a new job?
The article says the FTC recommends that you forward all of your spam to uce@ftc.gov. I know I will be doing so from now on...
Bit of a shame if you want to log any attacks
on the firewall though.
If you can get this to work with IPFilter/PF you could use the "dup to" method to send the packet out a third NIC to a packet logging machine. Now you can have a transparent firewall, which is not accessible at all, but you can still have some logging features. One possible design for this would be two SBCs in a 1U case... one is the "halted" firewall and the other is the logging machine.
I don't know if this is possible with NetFilter or IPChains, however.
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...may not make a difference with this hack.
Since the "hack" apparently allows downloads via HTTP, my guess is that Morpheus's built-in queue for those downloading from you will no effect... thus if you find yourself trying to download a file but are stuck in someone's queue, this might be a way to get around that and begin the download immediately.
If you're behind a NAT firewall you're probably protected because a direct HTTP connection is required.
I haven't verified anything yet, but initial observation supports my theory... now back to testing.
I will believe it when i stop patching it.
Fine. Please save some bandwidth for the rest of us by not downloading any kernel patches, software patches, nicotine patches, or any others you may be inclined to apply in order to fix any problems you have.
The mindless anti-Microsoft blathering will get you nowhere... so save it for after the end of the month to see if there have been any real results.
You're just hurting everyone else's opinion of your intelligence, so do yourself a favor.
Great idea... impersonating Federal employee will put you away for a lot longer than setting up a fake investment website.
I say go for it.
...allowing them to pay for the operating system based on usage...
I wonder if HP will try to patent that.
Lower usage means lower fees, while higher usage would bring higher fees for customers.
What rocket scientists are writing this?
What's scary is, I'll bet HP will patent the "lower usage means lower fees" with regards to usage-based licensing systems.
Is this a joke? Or a blatant insult to the intelligences of those who have them...
I've read a few comments here how this is about "playing God" and it's a bad reflection on the Linux community. Funny how this kind of story will only show up on a pro-Linux site like Slashdot... and only here are people complaining (well, maybe the few Windows users who were denied from posting).
And why are Windows users the only ones excluded? Why not exclude Mac users too? Aren't they supposed to be even stupider than Windows users? So block two of my computing platforms if you want, I have more...
For all the hubbub that Steve Gibson made about Windows XP and it's raw sockets taking over the world, burning your toast, and painting your room pink, I would think Lindows would make him, and other over-reacting folk, well, over-react.
Sure, you need root access to use raw sockets, but if Lindows forces you to run as root (let's be honest here, if it doesn't work as a regular user you're only viable option is to run as root). So now we have Linux machines with computer dolts running as root who also have the ability to unleash various macro viruses upon the world.
That's double plus ungood.
Wrong. Women are not smarter than men, nor are men smarter than women. People in general are not very smart and rarely take the time to think through their actions. The "it seemed like a good idea at the time" mentality is played out over and over throughout the world.
So, reading your post, I will guess that you are more intelligent than the individual that spammed you. However, by your logic:
If the spammer is a man, you are a woman (contradictory because your username is AnalogBoy)
If the spammer is a woman, you are smarter than her, thus you must be Wonder Woman (which would also explain the AnalogBoy handle as that is your "super-hero cover" designed to confuse the bad guys (who, again by your logic, would be unable to see past such an obvious ruse))
It is possible that you are a man, and therefore the spammer must have been a lower form of life.
;)
This is not strictly speaking a W2K function.
Agreed, and as you go on to explain, and I believe I alluded to in my post, there are many proprietary implementations via the BIOS or DOS drivers, etc.
My point was that Windows 2000 separates the hibernation feature from the BIOS. As far as the BIOS can tell, the system is booting normally... but once the BIOS loads the NTLDR, Windows takes over of course and handles the hibernation. This is why it works so well and does not have all of the "stupid issues" such as custom drivers, partitions, or the like. The end result is not a MS-only function, but the implementation is, as far as I can tell.
Once you've enabled it, you create a hibernation file on the C: drive. Hibernation should only take place when there is minimal disk activity (eg, don't hibernate while trying to save your Word document). The system saves the contents on RAM to the hard drive, and then shuts down. When the machine boots, a flag was set (I assume) indicating the system should resume from hibernation... so the hibernation file is read from disk and written to RAM and you're back up and running, in less time than it takes to boot. Plus it keeps your uptime from resetting back to zero.
Some things to note:
You will need WHQL certified drivers, or at least properly-written drivers. I have a SB Audigy and the first drivers I used (the ones on the included CD) caused a blue screen on resume from hibernation. When a updated driver was released, it fixed this issue.
Applications need to be properly-written as well, as there is some sort of Win32 suspend signal that is sent to apps just before the system hibernates, so the app must support this and the resume command when the system is restored.
Hibernation works great on my laptop and on my workstation, and I especially like the fact that I don't need to create a separate partition or install special drivers to make it work (you can even use it on an NTFS formatted drive).
And since it'll be sometime before they release another highly-vulnerable product, nobody will be able to contradict them.
Let's not forget it's a known fact XP was rushed to market in the first place, due to the various pending litigation against MS...
I don't see anyone else saying this: I think we shuold all say a big THANK YOU and WELL DONE to the friend who resigned his job over this - especially in today's economic climate. This sort of courage, to put one's own neck on the line over a principle, is sadly lacking amongst most of us. Well done, and best of luck finding another job with an more ethical employer.
Are you serious or naive?
No, they feel like there is no alternative because they want DSL/cable/T1 speeds with a nice cushy TOS that lets them do whatever they want without the ISP caring.
There are many alternatives:
No internet connection
AOL
Smaller local ISP
Living with your current ISP
Don't tell me people don't have a choice... or alternately feel free to tell me how you want to dictate what your connection is. Fine, it's called being a consumer. Go elsewhere, or live with it.
"Please open your wallet and close your mind... you can trust us, we're similar to the phone company, but we do TV instead."
Regarding firewalls, I think Comcast is more worried about not being able to scan YOU than they are about running servers... at least with servers they can monitor for that and kick your ass later.
What happens if you run MacOS 9 or earlier? There are no open ports, and thus they would likely assume you've got a firewall... better check outside to see if black-clad soldiers are dropping out of helicopters to "fix" your computer.
"Hello I'm calling on behalf of Comcast and we've noticed your cable modem usage has repeatedly been at the exact limit of your monthly allowance. While our routers do enjoy the exercise, we kindly ask you to only browse to our affiliated sites and never download any files. This should keep your bandwidth usage in our monthly "target" for each customer. If you continue to make full use of your allocated bandwidth we will be forced to kill you and eat your bones, and your family will be liable for our lost revenue after your demise. Thank you for using Comcast."
don't forget that this is NOT a charity, but a business
You say this to the slashdot crowd?
I don't think many people will forget that, when they don't know the difference in the first place.
This is the same crowd who thinks Linux is free (I guess time is worthless to them).
It's an OS bug if you think that the OS should be bright enough not to make AGP-touched memory cacheable (it wasn't intended to be).
I'm voting for option 3), myself.
I don't know about that... if you'll recall there have already been pre-emptive blamings from the Linux gurus, so since they're always right, well, it must be something else.
So I quote from Gentoo.org:
The bad news is that a major Athlon CPU bug has been discovered, and it affects Linux 2.4. Note that this is a bug in the actual CPU itself, and is not a Linux bug.
And:
And, the kind folks at AMD even created a simple patch for Windows 2000 that disables extended paging by tweaking the registry.
Cache coherency aside, what about logic coherency? These were posts in the same article. To me, it seems as if the Linux guys and gals are ready to blame everyone else but themselves (sounds like the phone company!).
So quick to blame others... but why not? I mean, if everyone believes you, then you're good to go!
Are geeks known for their maturity, social competence and rational decision-making?
But is anyone really known for that?
Do you walk down the street with your friends, and suddenly recognize a former co-worker, and point him/her out to your friends and say, "That's so-and-so, a mature, competent, rational decision-maker."
I doubt it.
Most people are able to make rational decisions. The problem is, that in order to do so you must remove all emotion, and have every piece of relevant information. Since that will never happen, don't expect perfectly rational decisions out of anyone.
Geek or mortal, all make decisions based on emotion and imperfect information.
How long do you think AC though about voicing his opinion on AOL/TW's buyout of RedHat? Do you think he tried to think how they'd react when he made his statements? AC might think that he's taking the high road, but I guarantee it's leading away from RedHat. No manager would keep AC around (assuming a buyout) after he made such statements... AC might claim he is quitting, but think of it as a mutual firing.
If your employer knows that you fear leaving them, they are suddenly in an extremely powerful position over you.
Let's not forget, though, that the majority of workers are underqualified for their job, don't understand their job at all, or are completely incompetent. Now put yourself in their position and see if the "food on the table" argument makes sense. If they lose their job are they likely to be re-hired? And let's not mention the fact that not everyone is saving a portion of their income each month for that "rainy day" when they decide to tell their boss to go to hell. There is a time for standing up for yourself, and there is a time to realize that you're not the decision maker.