Right. And once again.. the problem is between the RECEIVER and PAYPAL, not the sender.
The receiver owes this guy some money still (the money paypal lost).
I don't judge a filesystem based on what kind of tools are there to 'convert' it from something else. That's not what it's designed for, and has nothing to do with what you get out of it.
No kidding ext2 takes seconds to convert to ext3... it's the same filesystem.
A JFS doesn't protect your data, it simply allows you to reboot faster after a crash.
You should have called your credit company.
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Did it not occurr to you to call your credit card company and simply say 'Observe this transaction. Two of the same value. The second one is fraudulent (which it is)'. They would have reversed it immediately and left the onus on Paypal to prove they needed to charge you.
Re:PayPal. Nice idea, but it has it's problems.
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Well.. does paypal have it? That's between you and paypal.
I would say the person you sent the money to should be sending you the remainder of the cash, or delivering the items.
The fact that he couldn't get his money out of paypal is between himself and paypal.
Paypal is *very* clear that bank transfer fees will not be refunded if you do them wrong (because it costs paypal money if you do it wrong). This includes transfering to a bank that doesn't exist, or won't accept transfers, etc (I believe). It costs paypal money to attempt a wire transfer, and to sort it out later. There's a reason they charge money for this.
Also.. why did this guy try again adn again? after it failed the first, time, he should have been on the phone to paypal to sort it out properly.
This is not a failure on paypal's part. Paypal is not a credit card. Paypal is not there to 100% protect you. They are there to factilitate transfering money.
Also... this guy needs to contact paypal to sort things you. It's HIS account that's having the troubles.
from space is only a problem because you are entering from orbit... it's not the downward motion into the atmosphere that kills you.. it's the sideways motion as you slow down from your near orbital velocity.
IF you were literally simply droping straight down towards the earth.. it wouldn't be too much of an issue.
From what I've seen, HUGE partially-inflated balloones are used.. they can go fro looking more like a giant upsidedown condom to a really huge round balloon.
As for the parachute.. of course you take one. Thing is.. you don't open it for a long, long time. At that altitude, if you opened a chute, it wouldn't help one little bit.. it would fall at the same rate as you.
on what you do and where you want to go.
I never said a degree was needed to work.. only that it's often the beginning, not the end.
You are doing great. Fantastic. If you feel you can continue to do so for the rest of your life, and not having that degree won't hold you back, then there's not much reason to get it, is there.
They don't care if a few people disagree with them.. but when a great many devleopers start NOT supporting microsoft, and not sayin "Gee, this is great new stuff you've given the world".. microsoft sees problems on the horizon.
but would it make sense that.. yes, MS made it easy to develop apps for a while. But after a while... the same libraries and things that made it easy also constrained programmers.. people had new ideas and new ways of doing things, and just couldn't implement them in Windows very easily.. wheras unix offered a more easy way to bring those ideas to light.
Finish your degree. You are so close. Whether you enjoy it or not, you want that piece of paper for down the road, trust me.
Now.. as for jobs. There certainly are jobs out there for CS grads. They just might not pay someone with a degree and no experience $100,000 a year like they would have a couple years ago.. that's the difference. Things are more realistic now.
You can expect to find a job somewhere, programming, or whatever, and gain some experience. If you are good, in a few years, you will have that big salary.
It's a mistake to think that the university degree is what gives you your big salary... University is just one way to open the door to a particular field for you. (In some fields, it's practically the only way). Your experience and abilities are what really count.
No degree is going to automatically finish your career for you. A degree is a beginning, not an end.
As an admin.. I often DONT CARE. I don't want a report every time someone tries some IIS exploit against my apache server. I dont' want to waste my own resources tracking and logging this.
Sure, more information is better.. but.. I'm just not at risk.
You make your servers secure, and then you forget about it. You keep on top of new vulnerabilities.... but seriously folks.
Why should I care one bit whether some code-red worm tried to exploit apache thinking it was IIS? I'm immune, it's not relevant to me.
Now.. knowing what goes on in a network in general, yes, that's important. Run snort or something.. keep an eye on traffic coming in/out of your net
But get real. There are better, more productive things to spend time on.
TFTP is udp based. Yes there are ports.
It runs on udp port 69.
And, you hit the nail on the head.. embedded systems.
tftp is 'trivial' so it can be used for bootstrapping systems. The protocol is as simple as it could possibly be (but not fast nor efficient network wise).
It was designed so it could be implemented with very little code in order to bootstrap systems.
Given that.. it really has no reason to be enabled at all in most modern systems.
The only uses I've used it for recently are:
booting diskless clients
cisco router configuration files
embeded systems work
This is not to say that you can't negate yourself of responsibilty... but that would usually require some kind of negotiation, and contracts signed and notarized by lawyers or something.
ie: Where it can be very clearly demonstrated that both parties thoroughly understood, in detail, the terms of the contract.
I mean, if the real estate is there, don't overlap, tile.
If the realestate isn't there, overlap, but offset. That's what virtual desktops are for.
I find one thing.. and I'm not picking on OS's here... but in windows, I find window management a pain in the ass. I find myself using the taskbar to flip between windows more often than not.
On unix desktops, I tend to have several things side-by-side or neatly arranged so I can see the data I need, the way I need it.
I've never analyzed why.. but it always seems less intuitive, or downright harder to do in windows.
It's probably due to a combination of different focus mechanisms and the types of applications run.. and I realize windows can be tweaked to have similar, if not the same, focus mechanisms.. but still.
As a general observation.. I find the typical KDE desktop a lot easier and more intuitive to work with than a windows desktop.
Secondly... a few things about windows that piss me off (that generally, though not always, only happen in Windows).
one is the popup dialog box that steals focus from whatever you are doing. That's a nono.
Stealing focus from the app it's related to.. that's one thing... but from unrelated apps.. it's a nono. Second is when one dialog box pops up and I cannot move the underlying windows. THAT is a nono.. I should be able to move any window on the screen at any time, period. I should be able to hide it, peg it, minimise it, shade it, whatever the WM wants.
That's probably another reason I find X a bit easier to work with.
My cardholder agreement very explicitly states that I *may* be held liable for a maximum of $50 in fraudulent charges, if those charges are due to my *card* being stolen. Note.. not the number.. the card itself.
So basically, aside from the inconvenience it may cause me having to get a new card, refute charges, etc.. I am not concerned about financial risk while using my credit card online. If someone does steal the number, a simple phone call is all it takes for me to refute all the charges. It would then be up to the merchants to PROVE that I authorized those charges. No signature? Wasn't shipped to my house? Tough.
The bottom line is right there on the back of your VISA card. Let me quote:
"Use of this Visa* card is subject to the terms of the Cardholder Agreement of which Cardholder acknowledges receipt by such use" (fair enough)
"THIS CARD IS THE PROPERTY OF AND ISSUED BY **** BANK AND MUST BE RETURNED ON REQUEST" (caps are how it is written)
There you go. IT's not even YOUR card, it's the banks. IT's a token the bank issues you to represent the credit they have issued you.. period. IF that token mechanism fails.. it's up to the bank to remedy the situation; they cannot hold you responsible, unless you lose that token and don't tell them... (in which case, obviously you have to shoulder some responsibility)
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SID does not mean 'Still In Development'.
Sid is a character from toy story... the boy next door who destroyed toys.
SID is the name given to the 'testing' distribution.. which is NOT necessarily the 'next' version.
From the FAQ: "It is a special distribution for architectures which haven't yet been released for the first time"
Right. And once again.. the problem is between the RECEIVER and PAYPAL, not the sender.
The receiver owes this guy some money still (the money paypal lost).
I don't judge a filesystem based on what kind of tools are there to 'convert' it from something else. That's not what it's designed for, and has nothing to do with what you get out of it.
No kidding ext2 takes seconds to convert to ext3... it's the same filesystem.
A JFS doesn't protect your data, it simply allows you to reboot faster after a crash.
Did it not occurr to you to call your credit card company and simply say 'Observe this transaction. Two of the same value. The second one is fraudulent (which it is)'. They would have reversed it immediately and left the onus on Paypal to prove they needed to charge you.
Well.. does paypal have it? That's between you and paypal.
I would say the person you sent the money to should be sending you the remainder of the cash, or delivering the items.
The fact that he couldn't get his money out of paypal is between himself and paypal.
Paypal is *very* clear that bank transfer fees will not be refunded if you do them wrong (because it costs paypal money if you do it wrong). This includes transfering to a bank that doesn't exist, or won't accept transfers, etc (I believe). It costs paypal money to attempt a wire transfer, and to sort it out later. There's a reason they charge money for this.
Also.. why did this guy try again adn again? after it failed the first, time, he should have been on the phone to paypal to sort it out properly.
This is not a failure on paypal's part. Paypal is not a credit card. Paypal is not there to 100% protect you. They are there to factilitate transfering money.
Also... this guy needs to contact paypal to sort things you. It's HIS account that's having the troubles.
from space is only a problem because you are entering from orbit... it's not the downward motion into the atmosphere that kills you.. it's the sideways motion as you slow down from your near orbital velocity.
IF you were literally simply droping straight down towards the earth.. it wouldn't be too much of an issue.
Do you think they are unaware of these things?
A large enough balloon, and it's no problem.
From what I've seen, HUGE partially-inflated balloones are used.. they can go fro looking more like a giant upsidedown condom to a really huge round balloon.
As for the parachute.. of course you take one. Thing is.. you don't open it for a long, long time. At that altitude, if you opened a chute, it wouldn't help one little bit.. it would fall at the same rate as you.
on what you do and where you want to go.
I never said a degree was needed to work.. only that it's often the beginning, not the end.
You are doing great. Fantastic. If you feel you can continue to do so for the rest of your life, and not having that degree won't hold you back, then there's not much reason to get it, is there.
They don't care if a few people disagree with them.. but when a great many devleopers start NOT supporting microsoft, and not sayin "Gee, this is great new stuff you've given the world".. microsoft sees problems on the horizon.
How does this compare to both
umlinux (I suspect this is not what's going on)
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freevsd (Check it out)
http://www.freevsd.org
but would it make sense that.. yes, MS made it easy to develop apps for a while. But after a while... the same libraries and things that made it easy also constrained programmers.. people had new ideas and new ways of doing things, and just couldn't implement them in Windows very easily.. wheras unix offered a more easy way to bring those ideas to light.
Finish your degree. You are so close. Whether you enjoy it or not, you want that piece of paper for down the road, trust me.
Now.. as for jobs. There certainly are jobs out there for CS grads. They just might not pay someone with a degree and no experience $100,000 a year like they would have a couple years ago.. that's the difference. Things are more realistic now.
You can expect to find a job somewhere, programming, or whatever, and gain some experience. If you are good, in a few years, you will have that big salary.
It's a mistake to think that the university degree is what gives you your big salary... University is just one way to open the door to a particular field for you. (In some fields, it's practically the only way). Your experience and abilities are what really count.
No degree is going to automatically finish your career for you. A degree is a beginning, not an end.
As an admin.. I often DONT CARE. I don't want a report every time someone tries some IIS exploit against my apache server. I dont' want to waste my own resources tracking and logging this.
Sure, more information is better.. but.. I'm just not at risk.
You make your servers secure, and then you forget about it. You keep on top of new vulnerabilities.... but seriously folks.
Why should I care one bit whether some code-red worm tried to exploit apache thinking it was IIS? I'm immune, it's not relevant to me.
Now.. knowing what goes on in a network in general, yes, that's important. Run snort or something.. keep an eye on traffic coming in/out of your net
But get real. There are better, more productive things to spend time on.
TFTP is udp based. Yes there are ports.
It runs on udp port 69.
And, you hit the nail on the head.. embedded systems.
tftp is 'trivial' so it can be used for bootstrapping systems. The protocol is as simple as it could possibly be (but not fast nor efficient network wise).
It was designed so it could be implemented with very little code in order to bootstrap systems.
Given that.. it really has no reason to be enabled at all in most modern systems.
The only uses I've used it for recently are:
booting diskless clients
cisco router configuration files
embeded systems work
Isn't there a native shockwave plugin for linux?
Will this interfere with, say, native plugins? Or does it simply allow you to use whichever windows plugins you want...
But what kind of drive/storage device did you have that had 100GB on a partition?
This is not to say that you can't negate yourself of responsibilty... but that would usually require some kind of negotiation, and contracts signed and notarized by lawyers or something.
ie: Where it can be very clearly demonstrated that both parties thoroughly understood, in detail, the terms of the contract.
Good. I didn't realize it could send mail when these things are attempted. That makes it okay in my books then.
I just thought it was funny to always hear about this 'intrustion detection system' that didn't actually detect anything.
I mean, if the real estate is there, don't overlap, tile.
If the realestate isn't there, overlap, but offset. That's what virtual desktops are for.
I find one thing.. and I'm not picking on OS's here... but in windows, I find window management a pain in the ass. I find myself using the taskbar to flip between windows more often than not.
On unix desktops, I tend to have several things side-by-side or neatly arranged so I can see the data I need, the way I need it.
I've never analyzed why.. but it always seems less intuitive, or downright harder to do in windows.
It's probably due to a combination of different focus mechanisms and the types of applications run.. and I realize windows can be tweaked to have similar, if not the same, focus mechanisms.. but still.
As a general observation.. I find the typical KDE desktop a lot easier and more intuitive to work with than a windows desktop.
Secondly... a few things about windows that piss me off (that generally, though not always, only happen in Windows).
one is the popup dialog box that steals focus from whatever you are doing. That's a nono.
Stealing focus from the app it's related to.. that's one thing... but from unrelated apps.. it's a nono. Second is when one dialog box pops up and I cannot move the underlying windows. THAT is a nono.. I should be able to move any window on the screen at any time, period. I should be able to hide it, peg it, minimise it, shade it, whatever the WM wants.
That's probably another reason I find X a bit easier to work with.
My cardholder agreement very explicitly states that I *may* be held liable for a maximum of $50 in fraudulent charges, if those charges are due to my *card* being stolen. Note.. not the number.. the card itself.
So basically, aside from the inconvenience it may cause me having to get a new card, refute charges, etc.. I am not concerned about financial risk while using my credit card online. If someone does steal the number, a simple phone call is all it takes for me to refute all the charges. It would then be up to the merchants to PROVE that I authorized those charges. No signature? Wasn't shipped to my house? Tough.
The bottom line is right there on the back of your VISA card. Let me quote:
"Use of this Visa* card is subject to the terms of the Cardholder Agreement of which Cardholder acknowledges receipt by such use" (fair enough)
"THIS CARD IS THE PROPERTY OF AND ISSUED BY **** BANK AND MUST BE RETURNED ON REQUEST" (caps are how it is written)
There you go. IT's not even YOUR card, it's the banks. IT's a token the bank issues you to represent the credit they have issued you.. period. IF that token mechanism fails.. it's up to the bank to remedy the situation; they cannot hold you responsible, unless you lose that token and don't tell them... (in which case, obviously you have to shoulder some responsibility)
SO what's the big deal?
"Our staff is not trained on XP yet, so we can't offer support yet".
Fair enough
This has been theorized for years and years and years.. it's still the most plausible explanation.
AFIAK, they all use the "Gecko" rendering engine, which, as far as I can see, seems to be the *best* renderer out there.
It's the rest of the app that's slow. The widgets are slow, interacting with the page is slow, etc...
The renderer itself is beautiful.