I know. I think he must literally be a retard if he can't setup his mail server to deny files with virus attachments. I assume Slashdot is running their own mailserver, so install noattach, a milter for sendmail, and set it to deny any mail that has an attachment that ends in any of the extensions listed here. I mean, do you really need to get.exes and.pifs mailed to you? If you run your own mail server and are still getting virus attachments, the fault is your own. I never touched sendmail before in my life, and I had sendmail+noattach running in a day, plus spam blockage courtesy of spamhaus.org.
Is it so much to ask that people do even a cursory search of the available resources before asking simple questions? If someone wants help recompiling their kernel, should Slashdot readers give them a step by step walkthrough even though there are literally hundreds of pages of information about the topic available from various resources? Nobody would mind people asking Slashdot if the answer to the asker's question wasn't the first response in a Google search, as is frequently the case.
I don't have any problem with someone asking slashdot, even if it's a dumb question; but if the answer to their question is 2 seconds away, why waste everyone's time with it?
This is not really a good way to test, as there are numerous ways to mask the Server-Software. In Apache this is easily done by setting ServerTokens Prod in httpd.conf. Actually, any setting other than Full will also hide this information.
To find out if/what-version-of openssl is installed on your system, try this:
[17:24:33 root@lunix/root]# find / -name openssl /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl [17:26:48 root@lunix/root]#/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl OpenSSL> version OpenSSL 0.9.6d 9 May 2002 OpenSSL>
If you see something like the above, you need to upgrade.
Canon apparently tried to have all links to the press release taken down.
Why didn't they just delete the release, or move it to another URL, or block it with.htaccess? Trying to pull links from external sites is just plain dumb.
It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that Slashdot is making good on its promise of "Slashvertisements" -- ads being run as stories; although the story was posted on April 1st, it seems that someone really thought it was a good idea. As far as I can tell, current clients include Maxtor, Intel, and AMD:
If this is indeed what is happening, I really think it should be disclosed in each story that it's a paid advertisement. If they're not advertisements then these are just really shitty stories, and they should be put in a "product announcement" category so they can be filtered out.
In any case, I would like to hear from Roblimo, CmdrTaco, or someone able to give an authoritative answer.
Yes, Jayanti was probably my favorite CS professor (I think I had him for CS37), along with Cormen; perhaps he could make the topic interesting. When I was taking the course it was being taught by a visiting professor from SUNY Albany -- that was one of my major gripes with Dartmouth, about half the classes I took in CS were taught by visiting professors. I chose dartmouth for the supposed quality of its teachers; if I had wanted to be taught by teachers from SUNY Albany or UMD, I would have attended those schools and saved quite a bit.
Dartmouth is not at all accommodating when it comes to options for completing your education there. Basically the only option is to move to Hanover and attend class there. I think all of the other Ivies have some sort of distance learning program to accommodate people in situations such as mine, but not Dartmouth, and when I spoke with the dean she indicated that there were no plans for any such program, as Dartmouth likes being a residential college. I'll admit that it was part of the charm that drew me to the school in the first place, but at this point in my life it seems ridiculous.
I'll probably finish up at Columbia, which is much closer, offers distance learning, and has an entire school just for returning students. Despite the pressure from my mother, it would be completely irresponsible of me to quit my job (which I love) to go and finish school only to be sitting on my ass after graduation. Also, I've found that I hate computer science -- I'm currently working as a sysadmin, something for which a computer science curriculum really doesn't prepare you.
Anyhow, I'm glad you like Dartmouth, but in retrospect it was probably the worst choice I've ever made (worse than the Aimster fiasco). I was quite unhappy with most of my classes, and I found that the school seemed to put students last on the priority list -- anyone who's made the mile-long trek from the Choates to A-lot in 36 inches of snow when it's -20 degrees F because the college allows everyone except students to park near the dorms can probably see where I'm coming from in that regard.
Again, best of luck, but you probably won't be seeing me there anytime soon.
That wasn't the goal when I joined them. It was supposed to be napster-like sharing but only with the people on your AIM buddy list, with the end result being basically groupware. Then at some point they made it basically another Napster clone, with a buddy list slapped onto the side. Incidentally, I believe the groupware idea has been commandeered by MS.
No thanks, I have a great job now. I have some friends that could use a job though, reply with some info and I'll pass it along to them. Thanks again for the offer.
net pay: $1400 every 2 weeks (they were deducting for a loan I had taken from the company to pay for my security deposit for the apartment) rent: $1150 electric/gas: $150 car payment: $310 car insurance: $180 cable/internet: $80 Credit cards: $100 Student loans: $150 Telephone: $40 G/F smoking 2 packs/day: $300
Monthly expenses: $2460 Net income: $2800
That leaves $340 for the entire month, and on top of that, there's gas, incidentals, and... oh yeah... food. Sure, if my gf had stopped smoking that would have made a sizable dent, but that's a long story in and of itself. She has since quit. In any case, while it's true that I should have been saving, it was simply not possible.
Ok, so you lived in Manhattan. Were you living alone? Or were you supporting another person and 2 dogs? If not then the only similarity I can draw between your story and mine is that we both left school for jobs and we were both in New York state.
His daughter looks like an average teenage girl. Most of the publicity photos were taken by a professional photographer, with a professional makeup artist on hand. As far as I know the images haven't been photoshopped much, if at all. She visited the Aimster offices maybe 10 times in the 10 months I was there, so I didn't really see her too frequently. Incidentally, this is why I found the stuff John fed the press about his daughter writing the program so infuriating; she had nothing whatsoever to do with the program and he gave her all the credit. Sigh.
Well, I definitely realized I was taking a risk, however it never occurred to me that Aimster would do what they did, i.e. totally shaft the employees. I figured even if the company tanked, they'd give us some warning. With even 2 weeks notice I could have made arrangements, but they chose to be cowards and allow us to all continue working for 4 weeks even though they didn't have the money to pay us.
As for the AIM trademark thing, I don't think anybody realized AOL had a trademark on AIM. After the initial ruling was handed down that ordered us to give over aimster.com to AOL, I suggested we change the name of the application. I thought something more generic, like imster, filetrader, or anything would be better than Aimster. John ignored this and decided to just fight the ruling, only to be shot down later on. He even suggested moving the Aimster service to www.aimeedeep.com/aimster/, yet another bit of evidence that his main goal with Aimster was to propel his daughter to stardom.
Regarding the previous missed payrolls, the most recent one before the Aug 10th one had been about 6 or 7 months before, so it wasn't like they were constant and I would have been expecting it.
While I was definitely partly to blame, it would never, in a million years, have occurred to me that anyone would do what Aimster did to me. Looking back now, I see that Aimster wasn't the only company to treat its employees as mere chattel, however I was naive enough to think that they would act honorably. As others have said, it was a hard, expensive lesson learned.
And to whomever said it: yes, my mother was right, and believe me, she lets me know it every time I see her.:-/
Also worthy of note is this site that John Deep has set up, ostensibly for his daughter to write about all her "knowledge" of the music industry; I'd put 10 to 1 odds that it's John himself writing that garbage, and 100 to 1 that it's not his daughter. The site is www.musicpundit.com.
Actually, what I was looking for was a generator, like you type in "bsd, linux" and it spits back that text. Did you use something like that or do it with good old find/replace?
I was pretty amused to see "Fact: earth is dead" etc.
Do you not find it strange that a 2-hour DVD, with commentary, subtitles, and extra scenes, can be sold for less than $10, while few audio CDs are that low priced?
Do CDs have opening weekends in theaters in which they generate, in some cases, hundreds of millions of dollars in a 3-day span; costing $9 per viewing? Don't forget that DVDs are generally not considered the primary revenue source for films, the theatrical run is -- though DVD/pay-per-view is catching up.
Is Slashdot now being paid by AMD and Intel to push their new products? New processors come out every 2 months; why do we need to have an update every time? I think there have been 4 stories about the P4 2.8, and now one about AMD 2700+. Who cares? Can you put this crap in its own category (Processor announcements) so I can block it? It's ridiculous at this point.
If this stuff is being paid for by Intel, AMD, or whomever, then Slashdot should really disclose it.
I, too, miss Roblimo and quality journalism. Maybe I'll go over to Newsforge. Honestly, michael sims's Slashdot stories are utter crap. Half of them seem to be complete overreactions and riddled with factual errors. I'd block him but if I did that I'd have to rename my bookmark to "TimothyDot", as he's the only other one who seems to post with any regularity. I've already got chrisd blocked, as well as JonKatz.
Since the system was introduced in Wilmington in June, most of the 200 people included in the file have been minorities from poor, high-crime neighborhoods.
Hrm, could this be because in that area, people in that group are the most likely to commit crime? Just because a group of suspected criminals includes mostly a certain group of people doesn't mean it's inherently racist. It would be racist if they artificially included or excluded a person or group based solely on race. But if an area is 90% black wouldn't you expect to see that 90% of the people on the list are black?
And even if that is not the case - if the population was 70/30 indian/hispanic, and it turned out that 80% of the crimes were committed by Hispanics, would that be racist, or would it be the truth? If 80% of the crimes are committed by a certain group of people then statistically it would seem to me that if you pick a crime at random and guess "the perp was a _____" then you have an 80% chance of being right. So if the statistics show that 80% of crimes are committed by "minorities" (a term that makes me puke, as soon it will include everyone) then you would expect a list of suspected criminals to consist 80% or more of people from that group. It doesn't necessarily make it racist.
To me it seems almost self-evident that those who commit crimes are most likely to live in poor, high crime neighborhoods. It just so happens that "minorities" tend to live in poor, high crime areas. I don't see how these facts alone are proof of racism.
To me this line of thinking is as disgusting as that which has led the ETS to change the SAT. Black students were not doing as well as white students, so the immediate conclusion was that the test is racist. Why is it inconceivable that certain ethnic groups are better at some things than others, or more prone to certain activities than others? Different breeds of dogs are better suited to different tasks, the same is true of horses and most other domesticated animals, and is probably true of every living organism on this planet. It's the purpose of evolution. For people to think that everyone is equally good at everything denies evolution, as well as all logic.
Haha! Everybody knows the proper way to dispose of toxic materials is for Superman to come round them all up and toss them into the sun. That must be what you meant by "computer recycling center".
If you really want to listen you could just setup your own streaming server at home or whatever and plug the radio into the line in jack. Assuming you have an always-on connection, of course. If you set the bitrate low enough you shouldn't have any bandwidth issues, but the sound quality would obviously suffer. But then again that probably won't matter if it's talk radio.
"A third output is a 9-pin s-video-like connector that interfaces with Gainward's VIVO cable. The cable features a set of composite/s-video input and output cables to take advantage of the Philips SAA7108E video encoder chip on the card itself. As we mentioned in our GeForce4 roundup, the Philips encoder chip only allows TV output for resolutions up to 800 x 600 but it makes up for that limitation in its support for both video output and input. Just as is the case with Gainward's more expensive GeForce4s, the Ti 4200 comes with a copy of WinCoder and WinProducer to help take advantage of the VIVO nature of the card. "
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I know. I think he must literally be a retard if he can't setup his mail server to deny files with virus attachments. I assume Slashdot is running their own mailserver, so install noattach, a milter for sendmail, and set it to deny any mail that has an attachment that ends in any of the extensions listed here. I mean, do you really need to get .exes and .pifs mailed to you? If you run your own mail server and are still getting virus attachments, the fault is your own. I never touched sendmail before in my life, and I had sendmail+noattach running in a day, plus spam blockage courtesy of spamhaus.org.
Is it so much to ask that people do even a cursory search of the available resources before asking simple questions? If someone wants help recompiling their kernel, should Slashdot readers give them a step by step walkthrough even though there are literally hundreds of pages of information about the topic available from various resources? Nobody would mind people asking Slashdot if the answer to the asker's question wasn't the first response in a Google search, as is frequently the case.
I don't have any problem with someone asking slashdot, even if it's a dumb question; but if the answer to their question is 2 seconds away, why waste everyone's time with it?
This may be the best post ever on Slashdot. Thanks.
This is not really a good way to test, as there are numerous ways to mask the Server-Software. In Apache this is easily done by setting ServerTokens Prod in httpd.conf. Actually, any setting other than Full will also hide this information.
/root]# find / -name openssl /root]# /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl
To find out if/what-version-of openssl is installed on your system, try this:
[17:24:33 root@lunix
/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl
[17:26:48 root@lunix
OpenSSL> version
OpenSSL 0.9.6d 9 May 2002
OpenSSL>
If you see something like the above, you need to upgrade.
Canon apparently tried to have all links to the press release taken down.
.htaccess? Trying to pull links from external sites is just plain dumb.
Why didn't they just delete the release, or move it to another URL, or block it with
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If this is indeed what is happening, I really think it should be disclosed in each story that it's a paid advertisement. If they're not advertisements then these are just really shitty stories, and they should be put in a "product announcement" category so they can be filtered out.In any case, I would like to hear from Roblimo, CmdrTaco, or someone able to give an authoritative answer.
Yes, Jayanti was probably my favorite CS professor (I think I had him for CS37), along with Cormen; perhaps he could make the topic interesting. When I was taking the course it was being taught by a visiting professor from SUNY Albany -- that was one of my major gripes with Dartmouth, about half the classes I took in CS were taught by visiting professors. I chose dartmouth for the supposed quality of its teachers; if I had wanted to be taught by teachers from SUNY Albany or UMD, I would have attended those schools and saved quite a bit.
Dartmouth is not at all accommodating when it comes to options for completing your education there. Basically the only option is to move to Hanover and attend class there. I think all of the other Ivies have some sort of distance learning program to accommodate people in situations such as mine, but not Dartmouth, and when I spoke with the dean she indicated that there were no plans for any such program, as Dartmouth likes being a residential college. I'll admit that it was part of the charm that drew me to the school in the first place, but at this point in my life it seems ridiculous.
I'll probably finish up at Columbia, which is much closer, offers distance learning, and has an entire school just for returning students. Despite the pressure from my mother, it would be completely irresponsible of me to quit my job (which I love) to go and finish school only to be sitting on my ass after graduation. Also, I've found that I hate computer science -- I'm currently working as a sysadmin, something for which a computer science curriculum really doesn't prepare you.
Anyhow, I'm glad you like Dartmouth, but in retrospect it was probably the worst choice I've ever made (worse than the Aimster fiasco). I was quite unhappy with most of my classes, and I found that the school seemed to put students last on the priority list -- anyone who's made the mile-long trek from the Choates to A-lot in 36 inches of snow when it's -20 degrees F because the college allows everyone except students to park near the dorms can probably see where I'm coming from in that regard.
Again, best of luck, but you probably won't be seeing me there anytime soon.
That wasn't the goal when I joined them. It was supposed to be napster-like sharing but only with the people on your AIM buddy list, with the end result being basically groupware. Then at some point they made it basically another Napster clone, with a buddy list slapped onto the side. Incidentally, I believe the groupware idea has been commandeered by MS.
And you would be...?
No thanks, I have a great job now. I have some friends that could use a job though, reply with some info and I'll pass it along to them. Thanks again for the offer.
net pay: $1400 every 2 weeks (they were deducting for a loan I had taken from the company to pay for my security deposit for the apartment)
rent: $1150
electric/gas: $150
car payment: $310
car insurance: $180
cable/internet: $80
Credit cards: $100
Student loans: $150
Telephone: $40
G/F smoking 2 packs/day: $300
Monthly expenses: $2460
Net income: $2800
That leaves $340 for the entire month, and on top of that, there's gas, incidentals, and... oh yeah... food. Sure, if my gf had stopped smoking that would have made a sizable dent, but that's a long story in and of itself. She has since quit. In any case, while it's true that I should have been saving, it was simply not possible.
Ok, so you lived in Manhattan. Were you living alone? Or were you supporting another person and 2 dogs? If not then the only similarity I can draw between your story and mine is that we both left school for jobs and we were both in New York state.
His daughter looks like an average teenage girl. Most of the publicity photos were taken by a professional photographer, with a professional makeup artist on hand. As far as I know the images haven't been photoshopped much, if at all. She visited the Aimster offices maybe 10 times in the 10 months I was there, so I didn't really see her too frequently. Incidentally, this is why I found the stuff John fed the press about his daughter writing the program so infuriating; she had nothing whatsoever to do with the program and he gave her all the credit. Sigh.
Well, I definitely realized I was taking a risk, however it never occurred to me that Aimster would do what they did, i.e. totally shaft the employees. I figured even if the company tanked, they'd give us some warning. With even 2 weeks notice I could have made arrangements, but they chose to be cowards and allow us to all continue working for 4 weeks even though they didn't have the money to pay us.
:-/
As for the AIM trademark thing, I don't think anybody realized AOL had a trademark on AIM. After the initial ruling was handed down that ordered us to give over aimster.com to AOL, I suggested we change the name of the application. I thought something more generic, like imster, filetrader, or anything would be better than Aimster. John ignored this and decided to just fight the ruling, only to be shot down later on. He even suggested moving the Aimster service to www.aimeedeep.com/aimster/, yet another bit of evidence that his main goal with Aimster was to propel his daughter to stardom.
Regarding the previous missed payrolls, the most recent one before the Aug 10th one had been about 6 or 7 months before, so it wasn't like they were constant and I would have been expecting it.
While I was definitely partly to blame, it would never, in a million years, have occurred to me that anyone would do what Aimster did to me. Looking back now, I see that Aimster wasn't the only company to treat its employees as mere chattel, however I was naive enough to think that they would act honorably. As others have said, it was a hard, expensive lesson learned.
And to whomever said it: yes, my mother was right, and believe me, she lets me know it every time I see her.
- Fuck Aimster
- My Semi-Complete Aimster Saga
- Life Goes On, Sort Of - special bonus material: AIM chat with Aimster/BuddyUSA/Pi 2 CEO John Deep
- Aimster's proposed "settlement" of the money they owe me.
Also worthy of note is this site that John Deep has set up, ostensibly for his daughter to write about all her "knowledge" of the music industry; I'd put 10 to 1 odds that it's John himself writing that garbage, and 100 to 1 that it's not his daughter. The site is www.musicpundit.com.Actually, what I was looking for was a generator, like you type in "bsd, linux" and it spits back that text. Did you use something like that or do it with good old find/replace?
I was pretty amused to see "Fact: earth is dead" etc.
an interesting perspective
Wow, somebody's going to have 160 gig hard drives soon... but what about the 180 gig drives that are already out?
Do you not find it strange that a 2-hour DVD, with commentary, subtitles, and extra scenes, can be sold for less than $10, while few audio CDs are that low priced?
Do CDs have opening weekends in theaters in which they generate, in some cases, hundreds of millions of dollars in a 3-day span; costing $9 per viewing? Don't forget that DVDs are generally not considered the primary revenue source for films, the theatrical run is -- though DVD/pay-per-view is catching up.
Is Slashdot now being paid by AMD and Intel to push their new products? New processors come out every 2 months; why do we need to have an update every time? I think there have been 4 stories about the P4 2.8, and now one about AMD 2700+. Who cares? Can you put this crap in its own category (Processor announcements) so I can block it? It's ridiculous at this point.
If this stuff is being paid for by Intel, AMD, or whomever, then Slashdot should really disclose it.
I, too, miss Roblimo and quality journalism. Maybe I'll go over to Newsforge. Honestly, michael sims's Slashdot stories are utter crap. Half of them seem to be complete overreactions and riddled with factual errors. I'd block him but if I did that I'd have to rename my bookmark to "TimothyDot", as he's the only other one who seems to post with any regularity. I've already got chrisd blocked, as well as JonKatz.
Since the system was introduced in Wilmington in June, most of the 200 people included in the file have been minorities from poor, high-crime neighborhoods.
Hrm, could this be because in that area, people in that group are the most likely to commit crime? Just because a group of suspected criminals includes mostly a certain group of people doesn't mean it's inherently racist. It would be racist if they artificially included or excluded a person or group based solely on race. But if an area is 90% black wouldn't you expect to see that 90% of the people on the list are black?
And even if that is not the case - if the population was 70/30 indian/hispanic, and it turned out that 80% of the crimes were committed by Hispanics, would that be racist, or would it be the truth? If 80% of the crimes are committed by a certain group of people then statistically it would seem to me that if you pick a crime at random and guess "the perp was a _____" then you have an 80% chance of being right. So if the statistics show that 80% of crimes are committed by "minorities" (a term that makes me puke, as soon it will include everyone) then you would expect a list of suspected criminals to consist 80% or more of people from that group. It doesn't necessarily make it racist.
To me it seems almost self-evident that those who commit crimes are most likely to live in poor, high crime neighborhoods. It just so happens that "minorities" tend to live in poor, high crime areas. I don't see how these facts alone are proof of racism.
To me this line of thinking is as disgusting as that which has led the ETS to change the SAT. Black students were not doing as well as white students, so the immediate conclusion was that the test is racist. Why is it inconceivable that certain ethnic groups are better at some things than others, or more prone to certain activities than others? Different breeds of dogs are better suited to different tasks, the same is true of horses and most other domesticated animals, and is probably true of every living organism on this planet. It's the purpose of evolution. For people to think that everyone is equally good at everything denies evolution, as well as all logic.
Haha! Everybody knows the proper way to dispose of toxic materials is for Superman to come round them all up and toss them into the sun. That must be what you meant by "computer recycling center".
When did slashdot start posting comments in xml?
If you really want to listen you could just setup your own streaming server at home or whatever and plug the radio into the line in jack. Assuming you have an always-on connection, of course. If you set the bitrate low enough you shouldn't have any bandwidth issues, but the sound quality would obviously suffer. But then again that probably won't matter if it's talk radio.
JWZ had some perl scripts for doing this... http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/icecast/ . It looks like the app doing the actual streaming is Icecast.
Oh no?