> I'd think in the future we'll see joy-stick controlled metal-storm/.50 cals > where the gunner is inside a vehicle with software aided remote targeting
My supervisor at work used one of these when he was deployed and supposedly (I may not be remembering correctly, so assume any error is mine) it can put a grenade in a window at a 1000 yards.
Seems a big privacy issue since they don't seem to be blurring the license plates. I found several that were fairly easy to read without enhancing them at all.
For the most, it will be hard to avoid, especially when another company aquires your former host. I ran into this recently when WHP (yep, the same company in the OP) bought out Netbunch. It went from a crown jewel of a hosting company into a nightmare almost overnight.
Blotched migrations (why keep the nice shiny fast servers, when we can move you to our own slow oversold ones?), horrible support (tickets unanswered for weeks or closed without reply), constant downtimes (usually 2-6 hours / day for weeks on end), and completely incompetent techs (Can even follow simple instructions it seems).
WHP doesn't seem to have a grasp on how to handle migrations, nor cares to learn from their mistakes. Just google them to see their handy work all over the place. Which leads to the best advice anyone can probably give, research the host fully first. A hosting provider not showing up in any of the webhosting forums is not always a bad thing, as it seems to be human nature to complain 10x as much as praise. Along as the host isn't "new" then you should have plenty to go off of.
Also, find out when they were started, and be sure to google the whois address and the support's telephone number to see if you get any hits. A lot of bad hosting providers have multiple sites under different company names, but ofcourse have the same main office and the same support hotline.
There is a Threshold Plugin for Cacti, it requires the Plugin Architecture, which is set to be rewritten and integrated in the next major release of Cacti.
I think it works extremely well, but I may be biased considering I helped write it.
So you want the people viewing your site to also help support it...
You should really try to look at it this way. You can probably categorize most people into 2 groups, the anonymous users, and your regulars. The anonymous users view your content, maybe gleam a little info from your forums, and you never hear from them. Your "Community" is what drives your site, and adds the content to the forums, and returns often. So really, your Community is already supporting your site by adding the content to draw in the anonymous users. So why make them do a lot of the work, and then still have to pay for it too?
So the simplest answer is to disable the ads for users that are logged in. Fairly simple to do, and it seems to work well enough as I haven't had a single complaint on any of my sites. You could even have it show for all users with less than say 20 posts or so.
Union's do not protect the people right's, unless it is the "right" to get payed three times what something is worth, for doing it half-ass and two weeks late. I'm so glad I live in a right-to-work state.
I haven't noticed a drop in Spam, so most of it must not originate from there. How about we shutdown the rest of the countries one at a time, to try to pin point the problem?
I wouldn't mind banner ads if they weren't annoying and targeted at broadband users.
At home I have a dialup (there is nothing but satellite available and its not worth it). At work, we are monitored, so I normally NX to my home machine to surf the web. Considering that I am now both surfing the web, and then transferring the images to work over the same 24K connection, I don't like annoying flashing ads. They waste my bandwidth, and more importantly my time. Google ads, other text ads, and non-flashy things are fine, everything else gets the right-click / Adblock treatment.
>> You're absolutely right that firewalls don't belong on the desktop.
Normally, I would tend to agree except you are overlooking the users that are still stuck on dialup. You can't expect everyone to get a Router with RAS and a serial port, and hook it up to an external modem...
Windows doesn't belong on a desktop, and for gods sake, don't put it on your servers either.
I perfer to use 0.0.0.0 also, considering it times out instantly (unknown host) and 127.0.0.1 actually reroutes the requests to your PC, which (especially if your running your own test server) takes quite abit longer to timeout.
I will see about posting it on one of my websites (minus the updates ofcourse), I should probably make it a little more modular and include some type of instructions, so give me a bit to get it all together.
Custom Update CDs are by far the easiest way to fix most of your family members problems without actually having to be there (or netmeeting ect...)
My custom CD auto runs upon insertion, and with the help of a little autoit script, it does this
- Pops up a windows telling them to politely leave the PC the hell alone (and updates the status along the way) - Locks all user keyboard and mouse input (don't want them screwing anything else up) - Executes "ipconfig/release" (die network!) - Runs the latest McAfee Stinger (silently) - Runs the latest McAfee Command Line scanner from the extracted SuperDat files - Checks Whether its 2000 or XP and makes sure that the latest SP is installed, if not, it installs it (and then reboots) - Installs all the latest Critical Updates for that OS - Updates their McAfee or Norton Anti-Virus with the lastest dats on the CD (unless older) - Runs Spybot (copies config file over first, which autostarts/autofixes everything upon running) - Verifies that several of the services are set to the correct status (stopped/disabled or started/automatic) - Installs a registry file to help speed up the menus, ect... - Reboots
This has saved me more time than I can possible count. Before switching to this method, my life was hell (not to mention how high my gas bill was), now I just Fedex them a Updated CD anytime they call, and 99% of all problems are solved.
Actually, I believe McAfee picks up most spyware (but not nearly all of it) as "Potentially Unwanted Programs", or at least I get a McAfee report every week from our networks' sys admin detailing what computer has spyware (which I then have to remove)
You shouldn't have to physically Install it on every PC. Spybot should run without the initial registry settings (which you could also push to each machine in a script if you want to), you just need the files to be on the PC or a mapped drive and set it to run at startup via the logon script.
I believe what he was trying to say (though I may be confused considering it was quite confusing to read) is that the USPO is a government job, so they should actually be working for the people to make sure that no *bad* patents get through, the qouta destroys the whole concept of working for the people, and instead makes them work for the paycheck.
Or at least that is how I interpretted it.
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Unlike other wars, in this one no one gets killed, only asteroids
That is, ofcourse, assuming that we win the war...
I run both Linux and Win2K and found both of them to be fairly stable and secure.
In RH7, I have had X crash on me many many times and for no apparent reason that I could see. But after finally solving that problem, I had to take a trip to the redhat site and installed the 50 or so security patches / updates. RHN made it alittle easier, but not as easy as it is for me to just to jump onto the windows update site and click a few times.
I currently have a Win2K box at work that has a uptime of 124 days. And that is only because the power went out. It does everything I use the redhat box for; http server, ftp, mail server, mysql, php, cgi, irc bot, and I use it to backup my workstations nightly over the network. It boots faster and its easier to manage.
Now don't get me wrong, I luv Linux (I use both daily) but it just irritates me when someone gets so fanatical about something to where they can't see the good points on both sides of the line. I say embrace them both, each one to its purpose.
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> I'd think in the future we'll see joy-stick controlled metal-storm/.50 cals
> where the gunner is inside a vehicle with software aided remote targeting
Actually, thats not the future, its been in use for a while.
CROWS nest: Safe, armed
My supervisor at work used one of these when he was deployed and supposedly (I may not be remembering correctly, so assume any error is mine) it can put a grenade in a window at a 1000 yards.
I believe you forgot a few steps...
3. ????
4. Profit!!
Its an odd business plan, but it always seems to pan out in the end.
Seems a big privacy issue since they don't seem to be blurring the license plates. I found several that were fairly easy to read without enhancing them at all.
I would think it would be more hilarious to teach them the Jaws theme song, but maybe that's just me.
For the most, it will be hard to avoid, especially when another company aquires your former host. I ran into this recently when WHP (yep, the same company in the OP) bought out Netbunch. It went from a crown jewel of a hosting company into a nightmare almost overnight.
Blotched migrations (why keep the nice shiny fast servers, when we can move you to our own slow oversold ones?), horrible support (tickets unanswered for weeks or closed without reply), constant downtimes (usually 2-6 hours / day for weeks on end), and completely incompetent techs (Can even follow simple instructions it seems).
WHP doesn't seem to have a grasp on how to handle migrations, nor cares to learn from their mistakes. Just google them to see their handy work all over the place. Which leads to the best advice anyone can probably give, research the host fully first. A hosting provider not showing up in any of the webhosting forums is not always a bad thing, as it seems to be human nature to complain 10x as much as praise. Along as the host isn't "new" then you should have plenty to go off of.
Also, find out when they were started, and be sure to google the whois address and the support's telephone number to see if you get any hits. A lot of bad hosting providers have multiple sites under different company names, but ofcourse have the same main office and the same support hotline.
There is a Threshold Plugin for Cacti, it requires the Plugin Architecture, which is set to be rewritten and integrated in the next major release of Cacti. I think it works extremely well, but I may be biased considering I helped write it.
So you want the people viewing your site to also help support it...
You should really try to look at it this way. You can probably categorize most people into 2 groups, the anonymous users, and your regulars. The anonymous users view your content, maybe gleam a little info from your forums, and you never hear from them. Your "Community" is what drives your site, and adds the content to the forums, and returns often. So really, your Community is already supporting your site by adding the content to draw in the anonymous users. So why make them do a lot of the work, and then still have to pay for it too?
So the simplest answer is to disable the ads for users that are logged in. Fairly simple to do, and it seems to work well enough as I haven't had a single complaint on any of my sites. You could even have it show for all users with less than say 20 posts or so.
Like blotting out the sky and moving under ground?
Union's do not protect the people right's, unless it is the "right" to get payed three times what something is worth, for doing it half-ass and two weeks late. I'm so glad I live in a right-to-work state.
I haven't noticed a drop in Spam, so most of it must not originate from there. How about we shutdown the rest of the countries one at a time, to try to pin point the problem?
I wouldn't mind banner ads if they weren't annoying and targeted at broadband users.
At home I have a dialup (there is nothing but satellite available and its not worth it). At work, we are monitored, so I normally NX to my home machine to surf the web. Considering that I am now both surfing the web, and then transferring the images to work over the same 24K connection, I don't like annoying flashing ads. They waste my bandwidth, and more importantly my time. Google ads, other text ads, and non-flashy things are fine, everything else gets the right-click / Adblock treatment.
>> You're absolutely right that firewalls don't belong on the desktop.
Normally, I would tend to agree except you are overlooking the users that are still stuck on dialup. You can't expect everyone to get a Router with RAS and a serial port, and hook it up to an external modem...
Windows doesn't belong on a desktop, and for gods sake, don't put it on your servers either.
from all the loose hair that you'll find in the drain
Should probably have read...
from all the loose hair the plumber pulls out of the drain after it becomes completely clogged
I perfer to use 0.0.0.0 also, considering it times out instantly (unknown host) and 127.0.0.1 actually reroutes the requests to your PC, which (especially if your running your own test server) takes quite abit longer to timeout.
I will see about posting it on one of my websites (minus the updates ofcourse), I should probably make it a little more modular and include some type of instructions, so give me a bit to get it all together.
Custom Update CDs are by far the easiest way to fix most of your family members problems without actually having to be there (or netmeeting ect...)
/release" (die network!)
My custom CD auto runs upon insertion, and with the help of a little autoit script, it does this
- Pops up a windows telling them to politely leave the PC the hell alone (and updates the status along the way)
- Locks all user keyboard and mouse input (don't want them screwing anything else up)
- Executes "ipconfig
- Runs the latest McAfee Stinger (silently)
- Runs the latest McAfee Command Line scanner from the extracted SuperDat files
- Checks Whether its 2000 or XP and makes sure that the latest SP is installed, if not, it installs it (and then reboots)
- Installs all the latest Critical Updates for that OS
- Updates their McAfee or Norton Anti-Virus with the lastest dats on the CD (unless older)
- Runs Spybot (copies config file over first, which autostarts/autofixes everything upon running)
- Verifies that several of the services are set to the correct status (stopped/disabled or started/automatic)
- Installs a registry file to help speed up the menus, ect...
- Reboots
This has saved me more time than I can possible count. Before switching to this method, my life was hell (not to mention how high my gas bill was), now I just Fedex them a Updated CD anytime they call, and 99% of all problems are solved.
Actually, I believe McAfee picks up most spyware (but not nearly all of it) as "Potentially Unwanted Programs", or at least I get a McAfee report every week from our networks' sys admin detailing what computer has spyware (which I then have to remove)
You shouldn't have to physically Install it on every PC. Spybot should run without the initial registry settings (which you could also push to each machine in a script if you want to), you just need the files to be on the PC or a mapped drive and set it to run at startup via the logon script.
I remember back when I used to split the pencil open, replace the back 7/8 of the lead with a piece of coat hanger, reglue, repaint, and then sharpen.
Solid as steel and nearly impossible to break.(including by all those "cheaters" who tried to karate-chop it)
Actually, you might find that resolving them to 0.0.0.0 instead, for all respective reasons, it works alot better than using 127.0.0.1.
I believe what he was trying to say (though I may be confused considering it was quite confusing to read) is that the USPO is a government job, so they should actually be working for the people to make sure that no *bad* patents get through, the qouta destroys the whole concept of working for the people, and instead makes them work for the paycheck.
Or at least that is how I interpretted it.
Unlike other wars, in this one no one gets killed, only asteroids
That is, ofcourse, assuming that we win the war...
Yes, Tito did pay the Russians, maybe thats why NASA is against it in the first place. Its their space station too, where's their cut?
Jimmy
I run both Linux and Win2K and found both of them to be fairly stable and secure.
In RH7, I have had X crash on me many many times and for no apparent reason that I could see. But after finally solving that problem, I had to take a trip to the redhat site and installed the 50 or so security patches / updates. RHN made it alittle easier, but not as easy as it is for me to just to jump onto the windows update site and click a few times.
I currently have a Win2K box at work that has a uptime of 124 days. And that is only because the power went out. It does everything I use the redhat box for; http server, ftp, mail server, mysql, php, cgi, irc bot, and I use it to backup my workstations nightly over the network. It boots faster and its easier to manage.
Now don't get me wrong, I luv Linux (I use both daily) but it just irritates me when someone gets so fanatical about something to where they can't see the good points on both sides of the line. I say embrace them both, each one to its purpose.
Jimmy