1) Most of these "home servers" don't have a PTR record at all. 2) Those that do, almost NEVER have one pointing to the domain they claim to be recieving for.
Maybe because that would cost me even more money, and I don't see the need to pay for that, when all I really need is a static IP. If you want to pay for it, though, drop me an email (if you can).
3) All these residential users should be using their ISP as a relay. That's what the ISP is there for.
Except I have to pay for this service too. If I want to host my own domain, I can do it with Linux and an MTA. I don't need to rely on Pacific Bell, and more importantly I don't need to pay them extra for a service I can provide on my own.
4) Since there's no reason for them to need to send it out *not* through the ISP as a relay host, the majority of these users are spammers or just ignorant. In the first case, it's good to block them. In the second, maybe they will get a clue.
Pacific Bell's mail servers have been blacklisted in the past, thanks to these spammers. My IP, however, has never been blacklisted. If I tried to relay out through my ISP's SMTP server, I would have a hard time delivering my email.
I agree with your points, but in reality it is a flawed plan. All it takes is one spammer to get an ISP's mail server blacklisted (and I think we all know how quickly the ISPs react to get themselves removed from the lists). At least with my DSL line, as long as I am (apparently now it's "was") a good citizen, I could send mail to whomever I wanted.
If it comes down to me relaying through my ISP, I'll probably bounce through the server at work. Unfortunately, not everyone has that option.
Isn't the whole point of school (supposedly) to facilitate intellectual conversations.. DISCUSSIONS, which of course is what said "message boards" are for?
No, primary and secondary schools are designed to shift responsibilities for children off of the parents' backs, so they have someone else to blame when their child doesn't turn out to be Superman and/or Wonderwoman.
A while back, I did some experimentation with the "nv" driver, and apparently XFree86 4.2.1 and later include DVI support with the "nv" driver (which would be used during the RedHat install). However, the config file needs to be adjusted before installation (I guess), or output will be redirected to the VGA port instead of the DVI port.
In the video card section of the XFree86 config file, add: Option "FlatPanel" "true"
Just repeat the same joke over and over, until its funny.
This is what's wrong with April fools. Practical jokes are good, Onion-esque articles are great, but this isn't "national one-liner day" this is "national good-natured prank day."
I find it hard to believe that every time CmdrTaco reports this, he gets this maniacal grin and begins laughing like a mad scientist who just discovered white lab coats. I guess it could happen, but I didn't think the original joke was that funny in the first place. If that's the case, he must tell himself the same knock-knock joke every day, and laugh like he heard it for the first time.
"Post and repost were in an HTTP header. Post fell out. Who was left?" "Repost..." "Post and repost were in an HTTP header. Post fell out. Who was left?"...
The US wants a tame, US-friendly Arab client state
I agree with you on this point, as well as:
...to act as a regional bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism
However, my response was intended to mean that we are not attacking Saddam simply because he is Arab (as the Islamic fundamentalists would like many to believe). Yes, we want a "democratic" Iraq to be a moderating force in the Middle East, but achieving this goal requires removing Saddam, whether he is Arab, Anglo, Muslim, Christian, Martian, etc.
Ah, yes, I've heard this one. We're actually going to war to get rid of Saddam and his regime. The fact that he's an Arab is irrelevant.
If you support violence, you are, at least partly, violent person.
Would you say that human beings are an inherently violent species? Just like any other species on the planet, the majority will defend themselves when cornered; most people have a survival instinct, and will fight for their own life (and in many cases the lives of their family). Does this make them "violent?"
The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries in the last 58 years:
Interesting list, please make a list of countries who would attack the US if they didn't think we could fight back (feel free to refer to your first list for ideas).
Killing is the least socially sophisticated way of solving problems.
Perhaps, but how do you negiotiate with extremists?
Even a pacifist will use violence when necessary (a true pacifist will save violence as the last resort, but when they hit you, they will hit you so hard you will never consider attacking them again). It shouldn't be the first option, but we can't play "hide and seek" with weapons Iraq agreed to destroy. There could have been a longer period of inspections, but don't delude yourself into thinking Saddam wants to disarm. He desires power over Iraq (and Kuwait), and has demonstrated he has no intention to disarm (12 years was more than generous), if disarmament means losing power over his means of control.
Violence works. It would be nice if we lived in a magical happy land where soldiers gave flowers to their "enemies." But we live in reality, where life is hard and tough, and despite your (and my) sheltered lives, there are people who will stop at nothing for power and/or wealth -- these people must be dealt with swiftly and forcefully. We must show them in the strongest possible terms that their behavior is not acceptable to "us."
And who are "we?" We are the most powerful nations in the world (US & Britain). If you don't like that... live with it. I think that considering the amount of power we wield, we are very responsible with it.
If you try to bring morality into it, you'll get lost in the quagmire of relativism. Don't fall for that trap... ask yourself if the US and Britian honestly think that Iraq will be a better place without Saddam Hussein at the helm.
mt-st - Linux SCSI tape driver aware magnetic tape control (aka. mt) scsiadd - Add or remove SCSI devices by rescanning the bus. scsitools - Collection of tools for SCSI hardware management setcd - Control the behaviour of your cdrom device sformat - SCSI disk format and repair tool sg-utils - Utilities for working with generic SCSI devices. sg3-utils - Utilities for working with generic SCSI devices. smartsuite - SMART suite - SMART utility suite for Linux taper - Full-screen system backup utility.
Regarding the "incomprehensible binaries" and the Obfuscated C contest, those who are.NET developers may be interested in the following product, which I read about in a Microsoft brochure.
Key features at a glance
* Obfuscate all.NET assemblies - C#, VB, MC++, even the Framework itself!
* Removes unnecessary symbols producing maximal obfuscation and compression
* Removes unnecessary metadata preventing decompilation to the original source
* Encrypts string literals
* Obfuscates multi-module assemblies
* Obfuscates satellite resource assemblies automatically
* Supports incremental obfuscation of one or more assemblies
* Multiple obfuscation vectors designed to confuse both human and automated reverse engineering
* Uses XML configuration and reporting files allowing easy integration with other tools
* Visual Studio.NET integration allowing product building and obfuscation directly from the IDE
* Command line tool for us in your batch build environment
Pollution could be stopped today. The Segway obviously doesn't pollute. 50 years? That's confortably out of your frame of reference, isn't it? "I won't worry, they'll have it solved in 50 years." Ridiculous. Take some responsibility. We all need to.
Segway adds to pollution too (and entropy). Either it's clean nuclear power that the unwashed masses are scared of, hydro-electric/wind power/solar power, or burning fossil fuels, but something needs to generate power for the Segway's batteries.
The electricity required for Segway will generate pollution. Yes, it may not be created by Segway, but it will be created for Segway. And what about manufacturing? How many pollutants are generated during the manufacture of Segway's electronics? What about during the disposal of it's old batteries?
Pollution cannot be stopped today. But it can be managed today. Whether it's cars, factories, cows burping, etc is not important. What is important is how we control the output, minimize it as best we can, clean up what we can, and make it as expensive as possible for those who are "over-polluting." When people have an incentive to manage their pollution, they will.
Yea, I know, "everyone's gotta have one" culture inside, right?
The problem for Dean-o was that his product was too expensive. He (or his cronies) advertised it as a "revolution" (pun!) but it wasn't. Most people have no need for this product. For = $300 a large number of people might buy it. But not when it costs four figures. His product was supposedly this device which would change our lives forever, and frankly, I had visions of some sort of perpetual motion nonsense. I think most people were skeptical -- and then he releases it and I'm guessing most people were underwhelmed. Sure, it'd be fun to have one, but it's not a necessity in life, especially at it's opening price point.
I think Dean-o got a bit too wrapped up in his own reality distortion field, and was too convinced he was going to change the world and be a national hero.
FTA: Nerds don't realize this. They don't realize that it takes work to be popular.
Interesting point of view.
If this is the case, I have to wonder if nerds have a more difficult time at it because it's something far more abstract and socially oriented than the "traditional" strengths of nerds: "hard" subjects like science/math/computers/etc. I can accept the theory that it takes work to be popular in high school (perhaps you can coast a bit when you're at the top). But what if I realized that I'm probably smarter than X% of the students, but I can't figure out how to be popular? Suddenly I have an incredible mental boundary. Popularity often defies traditional logic... it would be difficult for a nerd to understand why all these other subjects (math/science/etc) come so easily to him/her yet popularity remains so elusive.
I know that in high school I did very little actual school work; most of the subject matter was easy for me and I could do well at it with minimal application of work. But popularity was a whole different ballgame; if I cared enough to apply myself I would have found that my normal levels of effort required for success would've fallen rediculously short.
Band Of Brothers was pretty close as far as I can tell (from the untrained eye of someone who was never a) in the military or b) in a combat zone). Granted, my perception of things may be wrong, but at the same time it's obvious that most war movies are over-dramatized and simply unrealistic.
Also, they say that most war movies are actually anti-war movies ("look at all these brave young men dying," etc). I didn't get that feeling with Band Of Brothers; yes, the young men who faught faced great adversity and fear, but at the same time the miniseries seemed to be "simply the story" and none of the over-dramaticization that is typical of Hollywood. Maybe that made it feel more realistic.
While I get the joke, I do want to note that most laptops have 85 - 88 keys on them. Note that IBM laptops such as my 570 and the X and T series do not have a Windows key. That's cool.;)
I play a lot of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and every time I try to download some new map from a server hosting that map, it CRAWLS at like 2k/sec. This is on a attbi.com cable modem where I just downloaded mozilla 1.21 at 120 KB/sec.
Most modern game servers allow the server admin to adjust your connection speed (potentially overriding the client's requested download speed -- what you set when you select "DSL" as your connection type).
On Unreal-based games the option is called "MaxClientRate" or somesuch, and would have a value such as "20000" for 20 Kbytes per second. It doesn't matter if you're fat pipe is 45 Megabits/sec; the server will limit you to reserve bandwidth for others. On Unreal Tournament, I was able to get away with 6 players on my server with a client rate of about 3000 (3 Kbytes per second) on a 12 Kbytes/sec DSL line. Pings were around what you'd get if you connected via modem.
Now, UT added a feature for the mapfile/mod/etc download as mentioned above. As I recall there was an additional rate limiter for this. It defaulted to the MaxClientRate, but could be set to another value. The server is limiting your bandwidth so the other players do not suffer.
My guess is RTCW has similar functionality.
Now, it'd probably be smarter to have a "MaxAggregateBandwidth" setting and set that to a bit below the upload speed of the DSL/Cable/etc. Then allow you, with your fat pipe, to use up any and all extra bandwidth, after all other needs are met.
I actually let them search my purchase bag, but not my work bag, which had my laptop, tools, CDs, etc.
I'll be honest, I was a bit nervous and I could've handled it better. But in the end, they let me go, with my purchase.
The guy at the door had no idea what to do though... he called the manager over, and the manager didn't really know what to do either. Here's a tip: Don't give them your bag or receipt, so you can just walk out (which you **can** do).
Slashdot Mirror
Step 1: Vibrate.
Step 2: Violate laws of thermodynamics.
Step 3: ?
Step 4: Profit!
Step 3 is "Post on Slashdot."
You down with entropy? Yeah, you know me.
On Debian, you'll need to follow the selected steps:
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc?" answer 'n'
;)
/etc/mail/mailertable.
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc?"
(Note that Sendmail is not Debian's default MTA)
First, you'll need mailertable support in your sendmail config.
Run "sendmailconfig" and when it asks you "Configure sendmail with the existing
As you answer the questions, be on the lookout for the mailertables support question. You want mailertables support.
Create a file
Nano works great for this. See parent post for examples to sidestep the AOL/Earthlink anti-DSL changes.
Rebuild the mailertable file. [and] Restart sendmail.
Just run "sendmailconfig" again, but this time answer 'y' to "Configure sendmail with the existing
When the command runs, it will rebuild your mailertables.db file for you. It will also ask you if you'd like to restart Sendmail.
That's it! And if you haven't updated Sendmail yet, "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" right away!
1) Most of these "home servers" don't have a PTR record at all.
2) Those that do, almost NEVER have one pointing to the domain they claim to be recieving for.
Maybe because that would cost me even more money, and I don't see the need to pay for that, when all I really need is a static IP. If you want to pay for it, though, drop me an email (if you can).
3) All these residential users should be using their ISP as a relay. That's what the ISP is there for.
Except I have to pay for this service too. If I want to host my own domain, I can do it with Linux and an MTA. I don't need to rely on Pacific Bell, and more importantly I don't need to pay them extra for a service I can provide on my own.
4) Since there's no reason for them to need to send it out *not* through the ISP as a relay host, the majority of these users are spammers or just ignorant. In the first case, it's good to block them. In the second, maybe they will get a clue.
Pacific Bell's mail servers have been blacklisted in the past, thanks to these spammers. My IP, however, has never been blacklisted. If I tried to relay out through my ISP's SMTP server, I would have a hard time delivering my email.
I agree with your points, but in reality it is a flawed plan. All it takes is one spammer to get an ISP's mail server blacklisted (and I think we all know how quickly the ISPs react to get themselves removed from the lists). At least with my DSL line, as long as I am (apparently now it's "was") a good citizen, I could send mail to whomever I wanted.
If it comes down to me relaying through my ISP, I'll probably bounce through the server at work. Unfortunately, not everyone has that option.
Then again, as Mark Twain said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
As "they" say, torture the data until it confesses.
Isn't the whole point of school (supposedly) to facilitate intellectual conversations.. DISCUSSIONS, which of course is what said "message boards" are for?
No, primary and secondary schools are designed to shift responsibilities for children off of the parents' backs, so they have someone else to blame when their child doesn't turn out to be Superman and/or Wonderwoman.
A while back, I did some experimentation with the "nv" driver, and apparently XFree86 4.2.1 and later include DVI support with the "nv" driver (which would be used during the RedHat install). However, the config file needs to be adjusted before installation (I guess), or output will be redirected to the VGA port instead of the DVI port.
In the video card section of the XFree86 config file, add:
Option "FlatPanel" "true"
Theoretically this could be setup for a massive deployment by Hacking Red Hat Linux Kickstart.
Just repeat the same joke over and over, until its funny.
...
This is what's wrong with April fools. Practical jokes are good, Onion-esque articles are great, but this isn't "national one-liner day" this is "national good-natured prank day."
I find it hard to believe that every time CmdrTaco reports this, he gets this maniacal grin and begins laughing like a mad scientist who just discovered white lab coats. I guess it could happen, but I didn't think the original joke was that funny in the first place. If that's the case, he must tell himself the same knock-knock joke every day, and laugh like he heard it for the first time.
"Post and repost were in an HTTP header. Post fell out. Who was left?"
"Repost..."
"Post and repost were in an HTTP header. Post fell out. Who was left?"
I'm glad I'm not a subscriber.
The US wants a tame, US-friendly Arab client state
...to act as a regional bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism
I agree with you on this point, as well as:
However, my response was intended to mean that we are not attacking Saddam simply because he is Arab (as the Islamic fundamentalists would like many to believe). Yes, we want a "democratic" Iraq to be a moderating force in the Middle East, but achieving this goal requires removing Saddam, whether he is Arab, Anglo, Muslim, Christian, Martian, etc.
Killing Arabs will make them more friendly.
Ah, yes, I've heard this one. We're actually going to war to get rid of Saddam and his regime. The fact that he's an Arab is irrelevant.
If you support violence, you are, at least partly, violent person.
Would you say that human beings are an inherently violent species? Just like any other species on the planet, the majority will defend themselves when cornered; most people have a survival instinct, and will fight for their own life (and in many cases the lives of their family). Does this make them "violent?"
The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries in the last 58 years:
Interesting list, please make a list of countries who would attack the US if they didn't think we could fight back (feel free to refer to your first list for ideas).
Killing is the least socially sophisticated way of solving problems.
Perhaps, but how do you negiotiate with extremists?
Even a pacifist will use violence when necessary (a true pacifist will save violence as the last resort, but when they hit you, they will hit you so hard you will never consider attacking them again). It shouldn't be the first option, but we can't play "hide and seek" with weapons Iraq agreed to destroy. There could have been a longer period of inspections, but don't delude yourself into thinking Saddam wants to disarm. He desires power over Iraq (and Kuwait), and has demonstrated he has no intention to disarm (12 years was more than generous), if disarmament means losing power over his means of control.
Violence works. It would be nice if we lived in a magical happy land where soldiers gave flowers to their "enemies." But we live in reality, where life is hard and tough, and despite your (and my) sheltered lives, there are people who will stop at nothing for power and/or wealth -- these people must be dealt with swiftly and forcefully. We must show them in the strongest possible terms that their behavior is not acceptable to "us."
And who are "we?" We are the most powerful nations in the world (US & Britain). If you don't like that... live with it. I think that considering the amount of power we wield, we are very responsible with it.
If you try to bring morality into it, you'll get lost in the quagmire of relativism. Don't fall for that trap... ask yourself if the US and Britian honestly think that Iraq will be a better place without Saddam Hussein at the helm.
Blood brings blood.
Thanks to the blood banks...
The mother of all banks!
Dividents paid in blood!
Be like Kramer and take your blood out because of their "hidden charges."
OK, that's enough for now.
I'd like see some commands like:
scsicontrol -send scsi commands
scsiha - used to reset and probe scsi bus
stacker - jukebox control
Well...
apt-get install mt-st scsiadd scsitools sformat sg-utils sg3-utils smartsuite taper
With some info:
mt-st - Linux SCSI tape driver aware magnetic tape control (aka. mt)
scsiadd - Add or remove SCSI devices by rescanning the bus.
scsitools - Collection of tools for SCSI hardware management
setcd - Control the behaviour of your cdrom device
sformat - SCSI disk format and repair tool
sg-utils - Utilities for working with generic SCSI devices.
sg3-utils - Utilities for working with generic SCSI devices.
smartsuite - SMART suite - SMART utility suite for Linux
taper - Full-screen system backup utility.
Thanks to: "apt-cache search scsi"
Who'd think I was anything less than trying to rip off Slashdot for creating a user-submitted news site called Bashdot?
Or better yet, "Clashdot"
Will this mean that the military will start recruiting 12-year-olds to keep everything running?
Someone like... Ender Wiggin, perhaps?
Without that picture, I would have been in the dark.
I agree, the diagram was a necessity. Without it, I wouldn't have known the students were paid in oversized novelty dollars.
Demeanor
From the site:
...when they aren't being badgered to meet deadlines and being dragged into meetings every other day.
Or filling out those TPS reports...
Pollution could be stopped today. The Segway obviously doesn't pollute. 50 years? That's confortably out of your frame of reference, isn't it? "I won't worry, they'll have it solved in 50 years." Ridiculous. Take some responsibility. We all need to.
Segway adds to pollution too (and entropy). Either it's clean nuclear power that the unwashed masses are scared of, hydro-electric/wind power/solar power, or burning fossil fuels, but something needs to generate power for the Segway's batteries.
The electricity required for Segway will generate pollution. Yes, it may not be created by Segway, but it will be created for Segway. And what about manufacturing? How many pollutants are generated during the manufacture of Segway's electronics? What about during the disposal of it's old batteries?
Pollution cannot be stopped today. But it can be managed today. Whether it's cars, factories, cows burping, etc is not important. What is important is how we control the output, minimize it as best we can, clean up what we can, and make it as expensive as possible for those who are "over-polluting." When people have an incentive to manage their pollution, they will.
Yea, I know, "everyone's gotta have one" culture inside, right?
The problem for Dean-o was that his product was too expensive. He (or his cronies) advertised it as a "revolution" (pun!) but it wasn't. Most people have no need for this product. For = $300 a large number of people might buy it. But not when it costs four figures. His product was supposedly this device which would change our lives forever, and frankly, I had visions of some sort of perpetual motion nonsense. I think most people were skeptical -- and then he releases it and I'm guessing most people were underwhelmed. Sure, it'd be fun to have one, but it's not a necessity in life, especially at it's opening price point.
I think Dean-o got a bit too wrapped up in his own reality distortion field, and was too convinced he was going to change the world and be a national hero.
FTA: Nerds don't realize this. They don't realize that it takes work to be popular.
Interesting point of view.
If this is the case, I have to wonder if nerds have a more difficult time at it because it's something far more abstract and socially oriented than the "traditional" strengths of nerds: "hard" subjects like science/math/computers/etc. I can accept the theory that it takes work to be popular in high school (perhaps you can coast a bit when you're at the top). But what if I realized that I'm probably smarter than X% of the students, but I can't figure out how to be popular? Suddenly I have an incredible mental boundary. Popularity often defies traditional logic... it would be difficult for a nerd to understand why all these other subjects (math/science/etc) come so easily to him/her yet popularity remains so elusive.
I know that in high school I did very little actual school work; most of the subject matter was easy for me and I could do well at it with minimal application of work. But popularity was a whole different ballgame; if I cared enough to apply myself I would have found that my normal levels of effort required for success would've fallen rediculously short.
Do war movies accurately depict soldiers?
Band Of Brothers was pretty close as far as I can tell (from the untrained eye of someone who was never a) in the military or b) in a combat zone). Granted, my perception of things may be wrong, but at the same time it's obvious that most war movies are over-dramatized and simply unrealistic.
Also, they say that most war movies are actually anti-war movies ("look at all these brave young men dying," etc). I didn't get that feeling with Band Of Brothers; yes, the young men who faught faced great adversity and fear, but at the same time the miniseries seemed to be "simply the story" and none of the over-dramaticization that is typical of Hollywood. Maybe that made it feel more realistic.
Just get an IBM X Series. I'm sure, but if you call them you miht be able to get a copy without Windows... if not "buy" Windows and then return it.
I know they offered systems without Windows in the past, as I said if you call you might be able to get a special order.
Isn't that what a laptop keyboard is now?
;)
While I get the joke, I do want to note that most laptops have 85 - 88 keys on them. Note that IBM laptops such as my 570 and the X and T series do not have a Windows key. That's cool.
If so, perhaps spamware like SpamAssassin could be modified to intentionally bounce mail?
You're looking for this:
marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html
I play a lot of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and every time I try to download some new map from a server hosting that map, it CRAWLS at like 2k/sec. This is on a attbi.com cable modem where I just downloaded mozilla 1.21 at 120 KB/sec.
Most modern game servers allow the server admin to adjust your connection speed (potentially overriding the client's requested download speed -- what you set when you select "DSL" as your connection type).
On Unreal-based games the option is called "MaxClientRate" or somesuch, and would have a value such as "20000" for 20 Kbytes per second. It doesn't matter if you're fat pipe is 45 Megabits/sec; the server will limit you to reserve bandwidth for others. On Unreal Tournament, I was able to get away with 6 players on my server with a client rate of about 3000 (3 Kbytes per second) on a 12 Kbytes/sec DSL line. Pings were around what you'd get if you connected via modem.
Now, UT added a feature for the mapfile/mod/etc download as mentioned above. As I recall there was an additional rate limiter for this. It defaulted to the MaxClientRate, but could be set to another value. The server is limiting your bandwidth so the other players do not suffer.
My guess is RTCW has similar functionality.
Now, it'd probably be smarter to have a "MaxAggregateBandwidth" setting and set that to a bit below the upload speed of the DSL/Cable/etc. Then allow you, with your fat pipe, to use up any and all extra bandwidth, after all other needs are met.
"Are you serious? What would you do if I refused?"
I've tried this, after reading this page:
http://www.crimedoctor.com/loss_prevention_3.htm
I actually let them search my purchase bag, but not my work bag, which had my laptop, tools, CDs, etc.
I'll be honest, I was a bit nervous and I could've handled it better. But in the end, they let me go, with my purchase.
The guy at the door had no idea what to do though... he called the manager over, and the manager didn't really know what to do either. Here's a tip: Don't give them your bag or receipt, so you can just walk out (which you **can** do).