I read a suggestion on here a couple of years ago that struck me as sensible at the time; post the web-browsing logs for the whole family, color-coded by member, on the fridge at regular intervals. It's a social solution rather than a technical one, so it might even work.
Just to mention, there are some interesting attacks against DenyHosts; check the bugtraq archives for details. Spoofed source packets can be used to block login attempts from any network address, for example, which can be... problematic.
Of course, if you make your living giving classroom lectures, you do have somewhat of a motive to interfere with students' access to reading material.
As an occasional professor here, I would love it if my students would read ahead of time. Hell, I'd love it if they'd read the materials I assign when I ask them to.
I think you're wildly overestimating the enthusiasm of most undergrads.
From what I understand, this is pretty common in higher ed -- in fact, the college that I work for is currently setting up something similar with another college in the area. Not cross-continent redundancy, true, but enough to keep things going should there be a smaller disaster in the area. If all of Western New York is wiped out, I don't really care if people can get their email.
This really came to the forefront with the beating the New Orleans area colleges took during Katrina; from what I recall, Loyola and Tulane were really unprepared and suffered for it.
You term limit politicians, they'll spend their years in office thinking about their next job.
As a resident of Western New York, I can tell you that elected officials like Senator Clinton are never in this mindset. Thank god we've been saved from term limits.
He wants to run Linux as his primary OS, or at least experiment with it. There's nothing wrong with it. That you see this as a kind of homicidal impulse is bizarre to say the least - is this a symptom of your fanatical devotion to an OS?
I don't understand why the original poster would refer to OS X as "beloved" and full of "goodness", and then ask for help in getting rid of it while explicitly requesting that the applications still run under Linux. If you want an OS that runs OS X applications, run OS X. If you want one that runs Linux applications, run Linux. If you want to run both sets, dual-boot or use a solution like Parallels. But the original question makes no sense.
The wife-killing metaphor, yeah, that was a bit much. Pre-coffee I tend to be a little sarcastic. Whoops.
The guy refers to "my beloved Mac OS X" and then goes on and on about how he wants to get rid of it, but can't leave behind the application support. Why?
"Dear Slashdot, I've got this urge to kill my beloved wife. Could you please tell me how to do it, and how to simultaneously make her sister as hot as she is and have her marry me instead?"
I have the urge to commit my 24" Core 2 Duo iMac to a single Linux operating system, thus giving up the goodness of my beloved Mac OS X.
Why?
It seems sort of silly to deliberately kneecap yourself like this. Generally, you only see this behavior in serious FLOSS zealots. They're the ones not trying to run closed-source Mac OS X applications.
Since it's hard to actually find a real-life crazy Mac user who pretends that Mac OS X is completely secure and that every bad thing happening to Apple is actually good, you just have to make up such a person [crazyapplerumors.com] to justify your Apple hating.
I could mail you the guy in the next cubicle, if you like. I think he's got scented candles in front of his Jobs shrine.
The CUPS implementation in OS X server was such a total piece of shit, prone to lockups and meltdowns, that we have all of the Macs on our campus printing through a Debian box instead. Hopefully this will allow Apple to handle the sort of printer sharing that _every other NOS on earth_ has done for the last three decades.
It's pretty bad when you're fucking something that simple up to a degree even Netware can't manage.
if the university forwards these letters along (which are almost always "John Doe" letters since they only have IPs), the university is actually in some way admitting who the individuals are.
How is that? The RIAA sends one of these letters, and they never hear back from us. We forward it along to the end user. As far as they know, we may have thrown it out, publicly executed the student, or anything in between.
BTW, who the fuck listens to Usher?
A surprising number of the students who these letters are sent to. Take it from someone who gets the takedown notices.
Wow. That was all wildly irrelevant to the point at hand. Thanks!
Incidentally, I sort of wish parents asked questions like that at the orientation sessions I run. It would be a nice change of pace from the questions about $300 shitbox computers from the back of Parade magazine.
The University's job isn't to assist a private corporation nor "hide" anyone. If there is a civil violation, it is the RIAA's job to demonstrate who did it, or get a subpeona for the information. If they can't get a subpeona, then that should tell you something.
Maybe you should have actually read my initial post.
Most universities, including the one that I work for, do just that. We forward these letters from the RIAA on to the students, but we do _not_ reveal any information back to the RIAA without explicit legal action. This is not only what you're suggesting, it's standard procedure for any institution of higher education that I'm familiar with.
(Sorry if I sound a little strident, but I'm chafing at all of the "Universities are pussies selling out to The Man!!" rhetoric around here whenever this comes up. I'm not wearing jackboots, I'm not kicking down doors, but I'm also not going to defy a judge so that you can download free Usher tracks.)
Most universities will do this sort of thing, forwarding along the letters so that the students have an inkling of what's going on if/when they get their subpoena.
Those of you calling colleges "spineless", would you rather the kids were blindsided by the legal system instead?
I remember playing Odell Woods in school, on the Apples, but my favorite was Odell Lake in its colorated glory on my C64. Pimpin' ain't easy but it's eight bit for sure.
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It is my preference (rightly or wrongly) to maintain my standard of living -- even if it's at the expense of an Indian or Chinaman.
I don't think that's the preferred nomenclature, Dude. Asian-American, please.
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If the kid can do that, he's earned his/her porn time.
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I read a suggestion on here a couple of years ago that struck me as sensible at the time; post the web-browsing logs for the whole family, color-coded by member, on the fridge at regular intervals. It's a social solution rather than a technical one, so it might even work.
--saint
I can't wait for wireless to take over everything. Collisions and shared bandwidth are awesome. I miss hubs so much.
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Just to mention, there are some interesting attacks against DenyHosts; check the bugtraq archives for details. Spoofed source packets can be used to block login attempts from any network address, for example, which can be... problematic.
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Of course, if you make your living giving classroom lectures, you do have somewhat of a motive to interfere with students' access to reading material.
As an occasional professor here, I would love it if my students would read ahead of time. Hell, I'd love it if they'd read the materials I assign when I ask them to.
I think you're wildly overestimating the enthusiasm of most undergrads.
--saint
From what I understand, this is pretty common in higher ed -- in fact, the college that I work for is currently setting up something similar with another college in the area. Not cross-continent redundancy, true, but enough to keep things going should there be a smaller disaster in the area. If all of Western New York is wiped out, I don't really care if people can get their email.
This really came to the forefront with the beating the New Orleans area colleges took during Katrina; from what I recall, Loyola and Tulane were really unprepared and suffered for it.
--saint
You term limit politicians, they'll spend their years in office thinking about their next job.
As a resident of Western New York, I can tell you that elected officials like Senator Clinton are never in this mindset. Thank god we've been saved from term limits.
--saint
Daihatsu Mira Gino Minilite Special
I preferred the Turbo Champion Edition, myself.
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He wants to run Linux as his primary OS, or at least experiment with it. There's nothing wrong with it. That you see this as a kind of homicidal impulse is bizarre to say the least - is this a symptom of your fanatical devotion to an OS?
I don't understand why the original poster would refer to OS X as "beloved" and full of "goodness", and then ask for help in getting rid of it while explicitly requesting that the applications still run under Linux. If you want an OS that runs OS X applications, run OS X. If you want one that runs Linux applications, run Linux. If you want to run both sets, dual-boot or use a solution like Parallels. But the original question makes no sense.
The wife-killing metaphor, yeah, that was a bit much. Pre-coffee I tend to be a little sarcastic. Whoops.
--saint
Flamebait? Fucking crackhead mods.
The guy refers to "my beloved Mac OS X" and then goes on and on about how he wants to get rid of it, but can't leave behind the application support. Why?
"Dear Slashdot, I've got this urge to kill my beloved wife. Could you please tell me how to do it, and how to simultaneously make her sister as hot as she is and have her marry me instead?"
What the fuck is he trying to gain?
--saint
I have the urge to commit my 24" Core 2 Duo iMac to a single Linux operating system, thus giving up the goodness of my beloved Mac OS X.
Why?
It seems sort of silly to deliberately kneecap yourself like this. Generally, you only see this behavior in serious FLOSS zealots. They're the ones not trying to run closed-source Mac OS X applications.
--saint
It also is occasionally used in Flanders (="Dutch part of Belgium").
Stupid sexy Flanders.
--saint
Since it's hard to actually find a real-life crazy Mac user who pretends that Mac OS X is completely secure and that every bad thing happening to Apple is actually good, you just have to make up such a person [crazyapplerumors.com] to justify your Apple hating.
I could mail you the guy in the next cubicle, if you like. I think he's got scented candles in front of his Jobs shrine.
--saint
The CUPS implementation in OS X server was such a total piece of shit, prone to lockups and meltdowns, that we have all of the Macs on our campus printing through a Debian box instead. Hopefully this will allow Apple to handle the sort of printer sharing that _every other NOS on earth_ has done for the last three decades.
It's pretty bad when you're fucking something that simple up to a degree even Netware can't manage.
--saint
I meant Objectivism not Objectives, but I guess my spell check never read Ayn Rand.
That's a lucky spell check.
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if the university forwards these letters along (which are almost always "John Doe" letters since they only have IPs), the university is actually in some way admitting who the individuals are.
How is that? The RIAA sends one of these letters, and they never hear back from us. We forward it along to the end user. As far as they know, we may have thrown it out, publicly executed the student, or anything in between.
BTW, who the fuck listens to Usher?
A surprising number of the students who these letters are sent to. Take it from someone who gets the takedown notices.
--saint
Wow. That was all wildly irrelevant to the point at hand. Thanks!
Incidentally, I sort of wish parents asked questions like that at the orientation sessions I run. It would be a nice change of pace from the questions about $300 shitbox computers from the back of Parade magazine.
--saint
The University's job isn't to assist a private corporation nor "hide" anyone. If there is a civil violation, it is the RIAA's job to demonstrate who did it, or get a subpeona for the information. If they can't get a subpeona, then that should tell you something.
Maybe you should have actually read my initial post.
Most universities, including the one that I work for, do just that. We forward these letters from the RIAA on to the students, but we do _not_ reveal any information back to the RIAA without explicit legal action. This is not only what you're suggesting, it's standard procedure for any institution of higher education that I'm familiar with.
(Sorry if I sound a little strident, but I'm chafing at all of the "Universities are pussies selling out to The Man!!" rhetoric around here whenever this comes up. I'm not wearing jackboots, I'm not kicking down doors, but I'm also not going to defy a judge so that you can download free Usher tracks.)
--saint
Most universities will do this sort of thing, forwarding along the letters so that the students have an inkling of what's going on if/when they get their subpoena.
Those of you calling colleges "spineless", would you rather the kids were blindsided by the legal system instead?
--saint
I remember playing Odell Woods in school, on the Apples, but my favorite was Odell Lake in its colorated glory on my C64. Pimpin' ain't easy but it's eight bit for sure.
--saint
(Grade school in Rochester, NY)
But it just seems to me that they need a "devious little shit" department
They should put Neidermeyer on it?
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I believe "Motorola" is actually Japanese for "retarded interface".
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Jesus -- you call Emacs bloated, and your sig has a Pentium division bug joke in it. As Roy says on The IT Crowd, are you from the past?
Vote Dole!
--saint
It smells like updog in here.
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