This "geek" crap has long gotten on my nerves. The only stereotype even more BORING than a DnD playing, emasculated, Buffy the Vampire Slayer watching, socially crippled dweeb is the "business/entrepenur" dork.
Want proof? Bloggers. Give even a cursory look at the personal "blogs" out there and you realize none of these people have even a semblance of a life.
I don't think so - in my experience, most infrastructure equipment have terrible passwords. The truth is a simple dictionary attack would probably crack half the cisco routers out there. Just because it isn't sophisticated doesn't mean it won't work.
No, there is nothing wrong with patching, it's just that no company has ever bothered to ship an operating system which doesn't make applying patches like pulling teeth (including Sun here as well).
If you had any experience with BSD or Debian you would know that all it takes is a sensible package installation and update tool, and a sensible and user respectful approach to design (e.g., NOT including bug fixes and enhancements along with security updates).
You have a good point - look at all the other "high prestige" companies which entered low end markets (PC's). Hewlett Packard, IBM, Digital all suffered blows to their reputation by entering the low end PC market. There may be nothing else for them to do though.
Nothing to see here at all, this isn't even news. Every ISP, whether dial up or one leasing OC-3's has an abuse desk. When a customer generates enough abuse complaints and does not respond, you get cut off. They ALL do that.
Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death Marshal McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage
Ans that's just media... (which would be one of the primary culprits where stress is concerned).
However, "stress" isn't really the problem, it's much deeper than that, and you'll realize that after reading those books. All you're going to get from slashdot are the "but I love working on my computer and programming all day" sort of proclamations, but those really miss the point of (what I think) you're trying to get at.
I went through two periods of unemployment in the last few years, one for six months and one for four, and during those times must have sent dozens of resumes to postings on internet job boards. Never got a single response.
And before you ask, my resume was quite well done (albeit conservative) and I tailored every cover letter to the company I was applying to. I got responses from newspaper ads, but not a single one from internet job boards. I think basically the HR dept just throws the responses in the trash bin.
open source is capitalistic - it reduces your costs allowing you to make greater profits
That has nothing to do with capitalism, which has to do with ownership of capital - in the case of software, source code. The GPL socializes software, and could possibly be described as capitalistic in any sense. Profits don't really have anything to do with capitalism per se.
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I'm the only one who cooks in the family and a sysadmin by profession...
Usually if I go over to cook for my family I wind up looking at the mal/spyware virus infected pieces of junk. After three - four months most peoples pc's really need to be wiped clean. Unfortunately I'm not up on all the windows crap anymore since I stopped using it years ago.
Well before the end of the century, there will be no people on the battlefield," said Robert Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Management and Technology.
So the third world countries the US is always attacking are going to have this technology as well? More than likely this will give make the government immune to anti-war sentiment, since they've already succeeeded in getting americans to pay no attention to the losses of the "other side" in an american provoked aggression.
I have to say I can't believe that this "disease" is as prevalent as it supposedly is, but no one seems to talk about causes; as even though the condition may not be new, the diagnosis of it is very new.
What about diets? Too much sugar? Caffeine perhaps? Children eat way too much sugar in america and parent are only too happy to feed it to them. What about all the additives that are put in almost all food?
Imagery? We live in an image based culture - we are bombarded with images constantly - imagery is hostile to rational thought and it's about time people started taking this issue seriously. I am mainly talking TV here, but also signs and ads. Most of what is on television is disjointed and caters to the shortest attention span.
Advertising? We are bombarded with trivial lies all the time - from all prices ending in ".99" to fast food restaraunts in strip malls promoting themselves as "neighborhod restaraunts". What is the cumulative effect of this mountain of nonsense, really? I can't belive it has no effect on the human psyche at all.
This is good. To hell with these idiots. Anyone using a cell phone or, for crying out fucking loud, a laptop in their car needs to be beaten mercilessly. I don't see how either of these things are really any different from drunk driving.
What's worse is that it's always the soccer mom yuppie retards driving their kids (all armored up in helmets and various protective crap for their day at school no less) who are driving some 6 ton Nimitz class crew operated Ford monstrosity at high speeds while yakking on the goddamn phone about their dogs pedicure appointment.
And to all you geeks out there whining about not being able to use your laptops in the car, get a freaking life.
is there any way to get anti aliased fonts with Sun's X server? What about true type fonts? I spoose if sun's X server can use a networked font server like xfs true type would not be a problem.
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Haven't you heard of John Ashcroft?
Yep, that enormous "lost businessman in a foreign city with a camera cell phone" market has been screaming for something like this for years!
... "Christ ... I'm in Ashgabat? I thought I was in Montreal!!! Guess that airline pilot really screwed up!"
I can see it now
This is about the stupidest solution to an absolute non-problem I've seen in months.
If you so retarded that you can't "geo-locate" yourself with a damn $2 map you can get almost anywhere, just let evolution run it's course I say.
This "geek" crap has long gotten on my nerves. The only stereotype even more BORING than a DnD playing, emasculated, Buffy the Vampire Slayer watching, socially crippled dweeb is the "business/entrepenur" dork.
Want proof? Bloggers. Give even a cursory look at the personal "blogs" out there and you realize none of these people have even a semblance of a life.
That's called "sudo" and it's been around for quite some time on all unices.
I don't think so - in my experience, most infrastructure equipment have terrible passwords. The truth is a simple dictionary attack would probably crack half the cisco routers out there. Just because it isn't sophisticated doesn't mean it won't work.
No, there is nothing wrong with patching, it's just that no company has ever bothered to ship an operating system which doesn't make applying patches like pulling teeth (including Sun here as well).
If you had any experience with BSD or Debian you would know that all it takes is a sensible package installation and update tool, and a sensible and user respectful approach to design (e.g., NOT including bug fixes and enhancements along with security updates).
You have a good point - look at all the other "high prestige" companies which entered low end markets (PC's). Hewlett Packard, IBM, Digital all suffered blows to their reputation by entering the low end PC market. There may be nothing else for them to do though.
Nothing to see here at all, this isn't even news. Every ISP, whether dial up or one leasing OC-3's has an abuse desk. When a customer generates enough abuse complaints and does not respond, you get cut off. They ALL do that.
I thought Godzilla 2000 was ok (basically a ribbing of the 1998 American version). The one by Emerich was the horrible one.
They are actually much better in Japanese.
it's called godzilla vs megalon. there's also a gamera musical, i forget which one
Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death
... (which would be one of the primary culprits where stress is concerned).
Marshal McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage
Ans that's just media
However, "stress" isn't really the problem, it's much deeper than that, and you'll realize that after reading those books. All you're going to get from slashdot are the "but I love working on my computer and programming all day" sort of proclamations, but those really miss the point of (what I think) you're trying to get at.
I went through two periods of unemployment in the last few years, one for six months and one for four, and during those times must have sent dozens of resumes to postings on internet job boards. Never got a single response.
And before you ask, my resume was quite well done (albeit conservative) and I tailored every cover letter to the company I was applying to. I got responses from newspaper ads, but not a single one from internet job boards. I think basically the HR dept just throws the responses in the trash bin.
That has nothing to do with capitalism, which has to do with ownership of capital - in the case of software, source code. The GPL socializes software, and could possibly be described as capitalistic in any sense. Profits don't really have anything to do with capitalism per se.
Gee, I feel like me again!
A damn good joke too, I might add.
I'm the only one who cooks in the family and a sysadmin by profession ...
Usually if I go over to cook for my family I wind up looking at the mal/spyware virus infected pieces of junk. After three - four months most peoples pc's really need to be wiped clean. Unfortunately I'm not up on all the windows crap anymore since I stopped using it years ago.
So the third world countries the US is always attacking are going to have this technology as well? More than likely this will give make the government immune to anti-war sentiment, since they've already succeeeded in getting americans to pay no attention to the losses of the "other side" in an american provoked aggression.
Hmmm .... I've got some firewall bash scripts I think I can donate to thousands of people that must be worth thousands ... :-)
I have to say I can't believe that this "disease" is as prevalent as it supposedly is, but no one seems to talk about causes; as even though the condition may not be new, the diagnosis of it is very new.
What about diets? Too much sugar? Caffeine perhaps? Children eat way too much sugar in america and parent are only too happy to feed it to them. What about all the additives that are put in almost all food?
Imagery? We live in an image based culture - we are bombarded with images constantly - imagery is hostile to rational thought and it's about time people started taking this issue seriously. I am mainly talking TV here, but also signs and ads. Most of what is on television is disjointed and caters to the shortest attention span.
Advertising? We are bombarded with trivial lies all the time - from all prices ending in ".99" to fast food restaraunts in strip malls promoting themselves as "neighborhod restaraunts". What is the cumulative effect of this mountain of nonsense, really? I can't belive it has no effect on the human psyche at all.
actually I believe it's:
minimum wage: "I would pay you less, but it's against the law"
What's worse is that it's always the soccer mom yuppie retards driving their kids (all armored up in helmets and various protective crap for their day at school no less) who are driving some 6 ton Nimitz class crew operated Ford monstrosity at high speeds while yakking on the goddamn phone about their dogs pedicure appointment.
And to all you geeks out there whining about not being able to use your laptops in the car, get a freaking life.
Uh, this is slashdot. Most /. readers won't miss a thing.
I have to say, if BSD folks weren't already considered the most annoying, obnoxious and dweeby unix users around, this pushes them over the top.
is there any way to get anti aliased fonts with Sun's X server? What about true type fonts? I spoose if sun's X server can use a networked font server like xfs true type would not be a problem.
especially with kids. When I was a kid, it was godzilla and kaiju movies, now it's anime and dragonball z and so forth.
... well, there are bukakke fans, but I'm not going to touch that (yechh).
Other than with children, I don't see Japanese stuff being that popular