i remember him as a genuinely nice guy. 15ish years ago, when i was a naive youngster just starting with gnu/linux (progeny linux), i often got stuck on pretty basic stuff. one day i simply emailed him and asked these absolutely beginner's questions about partitioning and debian installer. he, the legendary debian founder, took his time and patiently explained things to me. we exchanged over 50 emails that year. i wish i still had that mbox file. we kept in touch until he started working for sun.
install a retail copy of windows instead of manufacturer supplied OEM one and your hardware will work even less. that's what you're seeing with linux.
on the one hand you have a heavily manufacturer customised version of windows (on which the manufacturer spent months), on the other you have a generic distribution of gnu/linux about which the laptop manufacturer doesn't give a sh*t. blame the manufacturer not the linux distro. but it's a chicken/egg problem. why would they consider a minor OS that doesn't require hardware upgrade every year or two?
buy a dell xps laptop with preinstalled ubuntu and you'll get the same hardware support experience you get from a windows laptop. a laptop built FOR a particular OS.
so i keep telling him. an elderly gentleman who guilts me into occasional tech support. and like all 70 year olds, he's as stubborn as a mule. i tell him to buy good used laptop A, he lets his grandson pick shitty but pretty laptop B. i install and teach him a simplified ubuntu 8.04 (years ago), he lets his grandson restore vista instead. it's a multi-level clusterf*ck.
not in my country. the complete absence of guns allows for some crazy shit: * one can suddenly run towards the police AND the police will run towards one asking what's wrong (instead of assuming an attack) * one can joke about stuff in public! * one can wear a hoodie + baseball cap + sunglasses at the same time and nobody will care (because you're most likely 13) * one can walk around with a gun and NOBODY will believe it's not a toy gun (police will have to investigate if reported but they will not pull out their guns while doing so) * until very recently, traffic police didn't even have guns
i recently installed free avg antivirus on my (70 year old) neighbor's laptop. it installed a firefox extension which, if disabled or uninstalled, makes the main avg program complain without end. it did give me a choice to not install the extension during software install but i thought i'd try it and disable/uninstall it if i didn't like it. tough titties! the neighbor is now stuck with a stupid 'avg search' homepage until i find time to visit and reinstall it.
i feel very conflicted about this. it's one of those things where the law going in either direction will just create problems. * on the one hand, a person should not live in fear that another person can choose to blackmail them with intimate pictures they took during intimate moments when they were both in love and thought they'd be together forever. * on the other hand, where do you draw the line? how low a neckline in a photo means you have the right to force me to delete it?
this is one of those things where instead of courts and legislation, emphasis should be put on society to teach people mutual respect instead of allowing glorification of crime in every effing movie there is. when i broke up with my girlfriend of 7 years, i deleted all her (even slightly) sensitive pictures and made sure she knew about it. i didn't want her to live in uncertainty and simply did what i considered decent. it's the old "do unto others..."
while i was still at the university, our networking professor warned us about Germany and mentioned that similar laws were about to be passed in the UK. and then i read it in nmap's faq or in/usr/share/docs/nmap a few years later. i think it predates cameron.
having nmap on your computer is treated the same way as if you walked around with lock picking tools. presumption of guilt.
from what i remember, it was basically a string quintet they started on extended maternity leave. their music was meant primarily for wedding/anniversary/baptism videos. for a few of them, this was their only source of income (single mothers). just like somebody above pointed out, once the links to their work became ubiquitous, people just assumed it was public domain. when they contacted a few people who used their music in youtube videos, the people were always surprised it was copyrighted. that was also how they found out about megaupload.
major payday in court? maybe in america. they were not backed by a large stock music website with access to lawyers in every country or anything like that. (fun fact: stock music websites' cut is around 80%)
if by number you mean 2 (britain and germany), then yes. possession of nmap is illegal, although not enforced. it's basically a law to give them ammunition when they nab you and have nothing on you.
DMCA only applies to US. neither our friends, not megaupload were based there. so it went through an IP lawyer who knew how to approach this on an international level. (their email address for reporting copyright infringement was probably an alias for spam@megaupload) they kept dodging the bullet by claiming they're not subject to this and that, later they claimed to have made it unavailable in our country only (all bullsh*t). it was really pointless and frustrating. their each answer took at least 2-4 weeks. at no point were they interested in the fact that original authors might not want their work available for free.
you have probably never heard a story from the other side. like my wife's former classmates (small time artists composing and recording classical music for use in semi-professional videos) whose original work ended up on megafiles. they spent months trying to get megafiles to delete their work. to absolutely NO AVAIL!!! links to their work spread around the internet and their income slowly dropped to almost zero. when, after 2 years and lots of money spent, they managed to push this scumbag company to drop the files, they reappeared almost immediately and links spread again. the new files had the same md5sum so i suggested they ask for deletion of all files with the same hash, but the people they dealt with just taunted them.
i think testing cisco equipment for surreptitious traffic when you have only cisco equipment (in a cisco lab) listening down the line will yield no results. a few bits here and there to tag the nsa traffic and the backdoored firmware in routers down the line will simply not increase any counters.
the way to do it is to have a chain of cisco/juniper and huawei routers. huawei will notice traffic headed for nsa, cisco/juniper will notice the chinese backdoor. unless the two are in bed with each other.
the scopes of what "zfs send" and "rsync" do are so profoundly different, it's almost silly to compare them. they're at completely different layers of storage stack. when i sync my local filesystem with a remote site (every hour), i sync snapshots, clones, (sub)filesystems while things are mounted and heavily in use. there's also compression and deduplication to consider.
the rsync feature you suggested isn't possible without a complete zfs rewrite or another layer of abstraction. too costly in either case.
their howtos hold newbies' hands sufficiently. they simply don't provide a free "Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Administration course", which is what some people seem to expect. it seems i am discussing this with people who haven't even visited their website, so i'll stop here.
there are things in this world that simply aren't meant for participation award winners. so go get offended somewhere else.
if somebody doesn't know what ZFS replication is, their product clearly isn't meant for them. why bother with explanation to a visitor that has no use for the product/service?
the attitude of these ZFS people is still quite welcoming compared to some connectivity providers i've dealt with. e.g. bogons.net will just politely tell you to f*ck off if you don't fully understand what you're purchasing from them (dwdm/cwdm rings).
i expect the answer will be something like 'David' where David will have no recollection of inserting anything like that.
on a related note, is there a version control system that requires/allows users to cryptographically sign their commits? (i've only ever used svn and git)
if that annoying lady (mitchell baker - CEO of mozilla) ever stopped to think about thunderbird, she'd clearly see the opportunity to milk the almost-monopoly they have in nonenterprise market with thunderbird. instead, she concentrates on losing what little grip they still have with firefox by slowly changing it into chrome.
if they charged even something little like a dollar or 2 for thunderbird, they'd have more than enough money to actively develop it. it may even, one day, become their main source of income.
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i remember him as a genuinely nice guy. 15ish years ago, when i was a naive youngster just starting with gnu/linux (progeny linux), i often got stuck on pretty basic stuff. one day i simply emailed him and asked these absolutely beginner's questions about partitioning and debian installer. he, the legendary debian founder, took his time and patiently explained things to me. we exchanged over 50 emails that year. i wish i still had that mbox file. we kept in touch until he started working for sun.
install a retail copy of windows instead of manufacturer supplied OEM one and your hardware will work even less. that's what you're seeing with linux.
on the one hand you have a heavily manufacturer customised version of windows (on which the manufacturer spent months), on the other you have a generic distribution of gnu/linux about which the laptop manufacturer doesn't give a sh*t. blame the manufacturer not the linux distro. but it's a chicken/egg problem. why would they consider a minor OS that doesn't require hardware upgrade every year or two?
buy a dell xps laptop with preinstalled ubuntu and you'll get the same hardware support experience you get from a windows laptop. a laptop built FOR a particular OS.
oh that ever-present feeling of knowing everything. i miss being 16.
so i keep telling him. an elderly gentleman who guilts me into occasional tech support. and like all 70 year olds, he's as stubborn as a mule. i tell him to buy good used laptop A, he lets his grandson pick shitty but pretty laptop B. i install and teach him a simplified ubuntu 8.04 (years ago), he lets his grandson restore vista instead. it's a multi-level clusterf*ck.
not in my country. the complete absence of guns allows for some crazy shit:
* one can suddenly run towards the police AND the police will run towards one asking what's wrong (instead of assuming an attack)
* one can joke about stuff in public!
* one can wear a hoodie + baseball cap + sunglasses at the same time and nobody will care (because you're most likely 13)
* one can walk around with a gun and NOBODY will believe it's not a toy gun (police will have to investigate if reported but they will not pull out their guns while doing so)
* until very recently, traffic police didn't even have guns
i recently installed free avg antivirus on my (70 year old) neighbor's laptop. it installed a firefox extension which, if disabled or uninstalled, makes the main avg program complain without end. it did give me a choice to not install the extension during software install but i thought i'd try it and disable/uninstall it if i didn't like it. tough titties! the neighbor is now stuck with a stupid 'avg search' homepage until i find time to visit and reinstall it.
s/frien/friend
i had a frien from there. his name was bruce. do you know him?
i feel very conflicted about this. it's one of those things where the law going in either direction will just create problems.
* on the one hand, a person should not live in fear that another person can choose to blackmail them with intimate pictures they took during intimate moments when they were both in love and thought they'd be together forever.
* on the other hand, where do you draw the line? how low a neckline in a photo means you have the right to force me to delete it?
this is one of those things where instead of courts and legislation, emphasis should be put on society to teach people mutual respect instead of allowing glorification of crime in every effing movie there is. when i broke up with my girlfriend of 7 years, i deleted all her (even slightly) sensitive pictures and made sure she knew about it. i didn't want her to live in uncertainty and simply did what i considered decent. it's the old "do unto others..."
while i was still at the university, our networking professor warned us about Germany and mentioned that similar laws were about to be passed in the UK. and then i read it in nmap's faq or in /usr/share/docs/nmap a few years later. i think it predates cameron.
having nmap on your computer is treated the same way as if you walked around with lock picking tools. presumption of guilt.
from what i remember, it was basically a string quintet they started on extended maternity leave. their music was meant primarily for wedding/anniversary/baptism videos. for a few of them, this was their only source of income (single mothers). just like somebody above pointed out, once the links to their work became ubiquitous, people just assumed it was public domain. when they contacted a few people who used their music in youtube videos, the people were always surprised it was copyrighted. that was also how they found out about megaupload.
major payday in court? maybe in america. they were not backed by a large stock music website with access to lawyers in every country or anything like that. (fun fact: stock music websites' cut is around 80%)
have you seen american women? it's how einstein was first able to observe gravitational lensing and complete his works on general relativity.
if by number you mean 2 (britain and germany), then yes. possession of nmap is illegal, although not enforced. it's basically a law to give them ammunition when they nab you and have nothing on you.
DMCA only applies to US. neither our friends, not megaupload were based there. so it went through an IP lawyer who knew how to approach this on an international level. (their email address for reporting copyright infringement was probably an alias for spam@megaupload) they kept dodging the bullet by claiming they're not subject to this and that, later they claimed to have made it unavailable in our country only (all bullsh*t). it was really pointless and frustrating. their each answer took at least 2-4 weeks. at no point were they interested in the fact that original authors might not want their work available for free.
you have probably never heard a story from the other side. like my wife's former classmates (small time artists composing and recording classical music for use in semi-professional videos) whose original work ended up on megafiles. they spent months trying to get megafiles to delete their work. to absolutely NO AVAIL!!! links to their work spread around the internet and their income slowly dropped to almost zero. when, after 2 years and lots of money spent, they managed to push this scumbag company to drop the files, they reappeared almost immediately and links spread again. the new files had the same md5sum so i suggested they ask for deletion of all files with the same hash, but the people they dealt with just taunted them.
i think testing cisco equipment for surreptitious traffic when you have only cisco equipment (in a cisco lab) listening down the line will yield no results. a few bits here and there to tag the nsa traffic and the backdoored firmware in routers down the line will simply not increase any counters.
the way to do it is to have a chain of cisco/juniper and huawei routers. huawei will notice traffic headed for nsa, cisco/juniper will notice the chinese backdoor. unless the two are in bed with each other.
the scopes of what "zfs send" and "rsync" do are so profoundly different, it's almost silly to compare them. they're at completely different layers of storage stack. when i sync my local filesystem with a remote site (every hour), i sync snapshots, clones, (sub)filesystems while things are mounted and heavily in use. there's also compression and deduplication to consider.
the rsync feature you suggested isn't possible without a complete zfs rewrite or another layer of abstraction. too costly in either case.
their howtos hold newbies' hands sufficiently. they simply don't provide a free "Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Administration course", which is what some people seem to expect. it seems i am discussing this with people who haven't even visited their website, so i'll stop here.
there are things in this world that simply aren't meant for participation award winners. so go get offended somewhere else.
if somebody doesn't know what ZFS replication is, their product clearly isn't meant for them. why bother with explanation to a visitor that has no use for the product/service?
the attitude of these ZFS people is still quite welcoming compared to some connectivity providers i've dealt with. e.g. bogons.net will just politely tell you to f*ck off if you don't fully understand what you're purchasing from them (dwdm/cwdm rings).
i expect the answer will be something like 'David' where David will have no recollection of inserting anything like that.
on a related note, is there a version control system that requires/allows users to cryptographically sign their commits? (i've only ever used svn and git)
if that annoying lady (mitchell baker - CEO of mozilla) ever stopped to think about thunderbird, she'd clearly see the opportunity to milk the almost-monopoly they have in nonenterprise market with thunderbird. instead, she concentrates on losing what little grip they still have with firefox by slowly changing it into chrome.
if they charged even something little like a dollar or 2 for thunderbird, they'd have more than enough money to actively develop it. it may even, one day, become their main source of income.
agreed, you should be seeing 20x the electricity bill and have your CPU unavailable for most of 2016.
crap, i just realised it's Towel.blinkenlights.nl (.nl not .com)
s/lise/lised
oh come on...
for the despecialise edition: telnet Towel.blinkenlights.com
for the edition with extra colours and scenes: ditto, but use IPv6