Running a box properly required you to be informed about security vulnerabilities that are discovered
Exactly my point. The original poster said "Just set it up right and let it go forever." However, your keen tech-savvy mind picked up that you can't just "let it go"... you need to stay informed and maintain the system.
As a sort of joke, I send HP tech support and email: "Please send me the linux drivers for the HP2100." Here's the response:
Hewlett-Packard does not write Linux drivers for the HP LaserJet 2100.
Your Linux provider is responsible for providing these drivers. The HP
LaserJet 2100 is backward compatible with most older HP LaserJet
drivers. You should be able to run the HP LaserJet 2100 using another
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet driver provided by Linux.
>One a Linux box is set up and configured properly, it can go forever.
I set up my RH6.2 box "properly" and "let it go". Well, it didn't last forever. After a couple of months, someone exploited an ftpd hole and screwed up my system!
IE3,4,5 support this, but IE2 does not. Ever try to visit your [virtual hosted] website after a nice fresh install of NT4? You'll be suprised at what you see!:)
Apple will sue its employees for leaking info to presss, revoke speaking priveleges at conventions and sue manufacturers of "blueberry" cases.... but nobody has a problem with the iPaq?
Corel Draw was the only program I've ever seen with a genuine y2k issue. In June 1999, I got constant GPF's from the app. Tech support told me to check the date on my system, and sure enough it was set for June 2000. A switch back to 1999 fixed the problem.
Wait, we can't allow encryption to fall into the hands of non-white people! Oh wait, europeans are white... so maybe it's okay.
In the future, the USA will probably not be the best country on the planet. And at that time people will be saying: - Americans used to think that only they had a right to encryption. What arrogant bastards. - Americans arrogantly continued to use the illogical lbs-feet-fahrenheit system while the rest of the world went metric. What arrogant bastards. - Americans... (feel free to add more here)
>I vote for establishing an anime category in Slashdot, so that users like me can opt out. Very good idea.
Extremely good idea. I think it's about time Taco does that
So let me get this straight. You saw the Anime article, opened it up, read the comments, posted, and announced that you don't want to waste your time with Anime articles?
I wouldn't call that headline sensational because nobody actually thought magic was being used to prove the theory (except for maybe a few 250lb QVC old lady regulars).
I worked for a vitamin supplement supplier/formulator with 100 employees and created such a system using (sorry) ASP and IIS and an Access database. It was very easy, took me less than a day to get a working version online. Basically, users logged in, submitted a 'trouble ticket' by selecting a trouble category (Phone, Internet, Goldmine, etc.), severity and provided a description.
Admins could log in, assign trouble tickets to MIS staff, update status, and send email notes to originator and MIS handler. Eventually the "system" evolved with a customizable searchable phone list (we were tired of printing them out). At another company (30 emps), I took the system and added a calendar which pulled everyone's Exchange (sorry) calendar and created a "company" calendar for everyone to search/view.
Pros: - Allowed employees/management to see what MIS was up to ("Let me drop everything and work on your problem!") - MIS manager could log in and find out what people are up to (even from home) - Provided company with an official way to report problems (we had none) - Execs loved the new "technology" of web based form - Calendar thing was really cool
Cons - Users were afraid to use it, many thought it was confusing to log in (this was really due to people having no experience using web pages.) - It was always easier for users to call in their problems (and not use the site) - Easier for MIS to receive phone calls than log in and check pending work (I'm not saying this was better, just easier) - Trouble tickets/Phone lists weren't updated by users/MIS
Eventually, to make it easier on the users, we put shortcuts on everyone's desktop that logged you right in.
You could probably set one up with relatively little cost/time and see what happens. Be sure to get constant feedback from your users to find out what they don't like about the system -- or they'll turn in to a mob of grumbling pissed off users.:)
If you would like to know more about how I set this up (the Exchange thing was a bitch), send me an email.
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Running a box properly required you to be informed about security vulnerabilities that are discovered
Exactly my point. The original poster said "Just set it up right and let it go forever." However, your keen tech-savvy mind picked up that you can't just "let it go"... you need to stay informed and maintain the system.
As a sort of joke, I send HP tech support and email: "Please send me the linux drivers for the HP2100." Here's the response:
d oc/lpg40837.html. CD Burners ship with win9x, NT drivers. You pay us $25+shipping for the win2k drivers.
Hewlett-Packard does not write Linux drivers for the HP LaserJet 2100. Your Linux provider is responsible for providing these drivers. The HP LaserJet 2100 is backward compatible with most older HP LaserJet drivers. You should be able to run the HP LaserJet 2100 using another Hewlett-Packard LaserJet driver provided by Linux.
Also, check out HP's "policy" on win2k drivers: http://w ww.hp.com/cposupport/information_storage/support_
>One a Linux box is set up and configured properly, it can go forever.
I set up my RH6.2 box "properly" and "let it go". Well, it didn't last forever. After a couple of months, someone exploited an ftpd hole and screwed up my system!
IE3,4,5 support this, but IE2 does not. Ever try to visit your [virtual hosted] website after a nice fresh install of NT4? You'll be suprised at what you see! :)
I know a lot of people that use dba/sql as username/password for sybase's Adaptive Server.
Actually, the site's really cool. Check it out before wasting everyone's time with your "almost first" post.
Apple will sue its employees for leaking info to presss, revoke speaking priveleges at conventions and sue manufacturers of "blueberry" cases.... but nobody has a problem with the iPaq?
BTW, iPaq is a lame name anyway.
Corel Draw was the only program I've ever seen with a genuine y2k issue. In June 1999, I got constant GPF's from the app. Tech support told me to check the date on my system, and sure enough it was set for June 2000. A switch back to 1999 fixed the problem.
I'm going to miss their product.
Wait, we can't allow encryption to fall into the hands of non-white people! Oh wait, europeans are white... so maybe it's okay.
... (feel free to add more here)
In the future, the USA will probably not be the best country on the planet. And at that time people will be saying:
- Americans used to think that only they had a right to encryption. What arrogant bastards.
- Americans arrogantly continued to use the illogical lbs-feet-fahrenheit system while the rest of the world went metric. What arrogant bastards.
- Americans
Those pigs once sued (or threatened to sue) a Foodmart grocery store for advertising Olympic sized savings! in a newspaper.
That red carpet looks like it came out of The Avenging Disco Godfather
>I vote for establishing an anime category in Slashdot, so that users like me can opt out. Very good idea.
Extremely good idea. I think it's about time Taco does that
So let me get this straight. You saw the Anime article, opened it up, read the comments, posted, and announced that you don't want to waste your time with Anime articles?
It's about time.
sound = (original_audio_cd + line_out) || (super_duper_encryped_audio + line_out) || (encrypted_audio + speaker + microphone);
mp3 = sound + sound_card + recording_software + mp3_encoder;
If a someone creates sound for human ears, whether encrypted or not, then an mp3 can be made and distributed.
Thanks for the support talonyx. I would bet that easily 98% of the US population didn't know what Inktomi was.
Flamebait? Are you guys nuts?
I wouldn't call that headline sensational because nobody actually thought magic was being used to prove the theory (except for maybe a few 250lb QVC old lady regulars).
I worked for a vitamin supplement supplier/formulator with 100 employees and created such a system using (sorry) ASP and IIS and an Access database. It was very easy, took me less than a day to get a working version online. Basically, users logged in, submitted a 'trouble ticket' by selecting a trouble category (Phone, Internet, Goldmine, etc.), severity and provided a description.
:)
Admins could log in, assign trouble tickets to MIS staff, update status, and send email notes to originator and MIS handler. Eventually the "system" evolved with a customizable searchable phone list (we were tired of printing them out). At another company (30 emps), I took the system and added a calendar which pulled everyone's Exchange (sorry) calendar and created a "company" calendar for everyone to search/view.
Pros:
- Allowed employees/management to see what MIS was up to ("Let me drop everything and work on your problem!")
- MIS manager could log in and find out what people are up to (even from home)
- Provided company with an official way to report problems (we had none)
- Execs loved the new "technology" of web based form
- Calendar thing was really cool
Cons
- Users were afraid to use it, many thought it was confusing to log in (this was really due to people having no experience using web pages.)
- It was always easier for users to call in their problems (and not use the site)
- Easier for MIS to receive phone calls than log in and check pending work (I'm not saying this was better, just easier)
- Trouble tickets/Phone lists weren't updated by users/MIS
Eventually, to make it easier on the users, we put shortcuts on everyone's desktop that logged you right in.
You could probably set one up with relatively little cost/time and see what happens. Be sure to get constant feedback from your users to find out what they don't like about the system -- or they'll turn in to a mob of grumbling pissed off users.
If you would like to know more about how I set this up (the Exchange thing was a bitch), send me an email.
Which "government" are we referring to? The prosecution or the courts?
Of course the prosecution is going to give MS a thumbs down. Let's not get carried away with sensationalist headlines.