> Also, rm -f always returns true, so the #!/bin/sh -e will not catch anything interesting there.
Which isn't the point. It catches the failing cd/path/to/directory/you/dont/want. The rm -f will never be executed, because the program doesn't get to the directory you want to wipe out. Read more carefully!
You seem to be quite the pyro. I don't think memory, though, is capable of sustaining its own combustion. Even when inserted incorrectly into the slot.
This is why most people put their hostname in their $PS1.
jon@stonepath:~$
I know I'm jon, and am logged into stonepath. This is useful. (Of course, that doesn't stop me from typing ifdown eth0 when I mean ifdown eth1 and wiping out my ssh connection.)
> Linking is not the same as hotlinking. The former is what makes the web, the latter is stealing.
But downloading music and movies from P2P isn't? I don't understand that logic. Downloading stuff from P2P is not stealing. Stealing means physically depriving someone of property. Hotlinking is not stealing, it's just slimy and a fact of how HTML works. Your copy of the flash app still exists regardless of whether or not Foodfuckers hotlinks it, right? Not stealing. Just unethical behavior.
If you don't want your flash to load without the ads loading, make a cgi that won't push the flash to the client until it requests the ads. Easy. If that's too hard, you deserve what you get.
I do think that this was unethical on Foodfuckers' part, but since when has any corporation had ethics? I also think the poster took the right action -- redirect to goatse and install spyware or something (OK, he was nicer, but that's what I would do). Absolutely beautiful.
Exactly. There is nothing wrong with hotlinking, that's how the Internet is designed. If you don't like it, just make your.htaccess serve up goatse when you dislike the referer (BTW do standards designers ever spell check their documents? referrer has four Rs in it, not 3).
Nothing wrong with that at all. I can't believe this is a slashdot story:)
It runs qmail and Apache serving a perl-based CMS I wrote myself just fine. It's NFS performance is also acceptable.
Any problems you're having are probably related to your own inability:) Which is fine. One would expect a $100 server to be more difficult to administer than a $5000/month outsourced one. Cost is inversely proportional to difficult to administer, I think.
> 30 seconds of previewage isn't at all adequate for prog or trance, but.. whatever... just had to mention that.
I wish I could preview the whole song at reduced quality or something. There are a number of songs that I've bought but wish I could "take back". If I could listen all the way through I would probably buy more music.
> Yeah, like that's going to happen! A company refusing to make money by selling you stuff? No chance.
Try buying alcohol underage. It boggles the mind... Hello? I want to give you money! Money! How can you say no? Even worse, how did the alcohol industry let the government legislate a reduction in its sales? I thought the government was supposed to look out for any and all corporate interests!
That's why they have you sign 2 year contracts. I would switch, but I don't want to terminate the contract or take the credit hit of just not paying. Actually I am very close to not paying. Fuck them.
US Cellular in Chicago. Worst network, worst service, worst phones, worst plans, worst customer service. Ever.
Whoa whoa, I was following you until you brought sex into the mix. Now I'm completely lost:)
Do you mean that we should watch what the pornstars do when they want to upgrade their Linux kernel?
(Unrelated side note: If you've ever bought anything from IKEA, you know that's its hard to get the damn stickers with the barcodes off the bottom of the item you bought. A few days after visiting IKEA, I noticed the funniest thing in a pr0n movie -- they were using an IKEA pitcher with the sticker still on the bottom. I said to myself, wow that looks like an IKEA pitcher. When they zoomed in, I noticed that it still had the barcode on it. That just cracked me up. Even the pornstars can't get the damn stickers off.
Just the more reason to watch pr0n. It's absolutely hilarious at times.)
M$ is not into media devices for the money, they're in it for the lock-in. Imagine that you go buy a shiny WMA-only audio player tomorrow. Then OS X comes out for x86 in a few months. Guess what, if you want that player to work you won't be buying an Apple OS. You'll be forced to by Longhorn.
And again, Microsoft wins by making sure you can never use anything but their products.
That's why there's Windows media player. The key word is Windows.
> Can you see the irony of asking me not to talk about censorship?
On the surface, yes. But he's not censoring you, he's just telling you he doesn't want to hear about it.
Censorship would be him deleting your post or stabbing you to death. In this case, he just doesn't care what you think. You have the right to free speech, but everyone else has the right to ignore your free speech.
> this has the potential to be a lot less cludgy than gaim
This has an equal potential to be blocked within miliseconds. Do you really think that AOL, MS, and others are going to allow Google to steal their users?
How is Gaim kludgy, anyway? You're connected to three unrelated networks, but they appear as one. When you double-click on someone's name, Gaim automagically uses the right network to communicate with them. That's about the best you can do when nobody will standardize on a single IM protocol. If everyone used Jabber, you would talk to your MSN friend from AOL by IMing MSNluser1337@MSN.com, etc. That's what the world should be moving towards (it worked for e-mail and routing, after all), but nobody can make money from that, so we'll never see it.
Unless Google pushes everyone to Jabber, which would be damn cool.
Get a linksys NSLU2. It's a network attached storage unit, but it can be flashed with a firmware that lets you basically run Debian on it. Right now, one is serving mail, web, and storage for my domain.
It's no 4-way Xeon when it comes to performance, but at 8W power consumption and a $75 pricetag, you can't go wrong.
I'm actually writing an article on how to run a domain from one of those things for AnandTech, so in a few weeks you can read about it there. (Tom's Hardware did an article, but it isn't very good or accurate anymore. Stick with the nslu2-linux site.)
This is not a troll, this is a good point! OK, so nobody can compromise your.NET e-mail server, but they can blow away the RPC server and replace it with a rootkit.
The end result is the same, you're fucked. If your.NET mail program were running under Linux, then you might be secure.
A system is only secure as its least secure component..NET being Windows-only significantly reduces its security.
The bus is fine. You put your shit in your backpack and nobody will bother you. I do it all the time.
Now, I will admit that I have seen other people almost have their stuff stolen... one guy got on at Chicago/State (near the Apple Store) with 3 brand-new 17" Powerbooks. He just put them on the floor in front of him and dozed off. Even I was tempted to take one. I coined a new rule at that moment -- "If it costs more than $2000, take a taxi." Or at least guard the @*#$ing thing with your life!
Best Buy Employee: Would you like to get an extended service plan? Customer: Uh... what? Where can I get a gift card? Employee: Right over here. We have a special deal today. If you buy an extended service plan on the gift card, we'll automatically deduct the entire balance of the card from the card, just to make it useless but at the same time, sound like a good deal. If I use the word "good" enough and keep talking about extended service plans, your wallet will fall out of your pants and Best Buy will win! Yeah!
This is why I order things online. And any store that calls a bunch of high school students that charge $1000 to format a hard drive the "geek squad" is not worthy of anyone's business.
(Actually, I won a gift card once... but there was nothing in the store worth spending even fake money on. Isn't that kind of depressing!?)
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> Also, rm -f always returns true, so the #!/bin/sh -e will not catch anything interesting there.
/path/to/directory/you/dont/want. The rm -f will never be executed, because the program doesn't get to the directory you want to wipe out. Read more carefully!
Which isn't the point. It catches the failing cd
You seem to be quite the pyro. I don't think memory, though, is capable of sustaining its own combustion. Even when inserted incorrectly into the slot.
Sometimes I create files called "-rf *" in people's homedirs that are world writable.
:)
I'm sure that's fun for them -- oh, I think the rm command removes files, so let me just type rm and the name of the file...
$ rm -rf *
$
Oops. Maybe you should have read the WHOLE man page
This is why most people put their hostname in their $PS1.
jon@stonepath:~$
I know I'm jon, and am logged into stonepath. This is useful. (Of course, that doesn't stop me from typing ifdown eth0 when I mean ifdown eth1 and wiping out my ssh connection.)
> Linking is not the same as hotlinking. The former is what makes the web, the latter is stealing.
But downloading music and movies from P2P isn't? I don't understand that logic. Downloading stuff from P2P is not stealing. Stealing means physically depriving someone of property. Hotlinking is not stealing, it's just slimy and a fact of how HTML works. Your copy of the flash app still exists regardless of whether or not Foodfuckers hotlinks it, right? Not stealing. Just unethical behavior.
If you don't want your flash to load without the ads loading, make a cgi that won't push the flash to the client until it requests the ads. Easy. If that's too hard, you deserve what you get.
I do think that this was unethical on Foodfuckers' part, but since when has any corporation had ethics? I also think the poster took the right action -- redirect to goatse and install spyware or something (OK, he was nicer, but that's what I would do). Absolutely beautiful.
Exactly. There is nothing wrong with hotlinking, that's how the Internet is designed. If you don't like it, just make your .htaccess serve up goatse when you dislike the referer (BTW do standards designers ever spell check their documents? referrer has four Rs in it, not 3).
:)
Nothing wrong with that at all. I can't believe this is a slashdot story
> pushing open source (a.k.a. open source)
That sentence contains redundancy (a.k.a. redundancy).
It runs qmail and Apache serving a perl-based CMS I wrote myself just fine. It's NFS performance is also acceptable.
:) Which is fine. One would expect a $100 server to be more difficult to administer than a $5000/month outsourced one. Cost is inversely proportional to difficult to administer, I think.
Any problems you're having are probably related to your own inability
> 30 seconds of previewage isn't at all adequate for prog or trance, but.. whatever... just had to mention that.
I wish I could preview the whole song at reduced quality or something. There are a number of songs that I've bought but wish I could "take back". If I could listen all the way through I would probably buy more music.
> Yeah, like that's going to happen! A company refusing to make money by selling you stuff? No chance.
Try buying alcohol underage. It boggles the mind... Hello? I want to give you money! Money! How can you say no? Even worse, how did the alcohol industry let the government legislate a reduction in its sales? I thought the government was supposed to look out for any and all corporate interests!
That's why they have you sign 2 year contracts. I would switch, but I don't want to terminate the contract or take the credit hit of just not paying. Actually I am very close to not paying. Fuck them.
US Cellular in Chicago. Worst network, worst service, worst phones, worst plans, worst customer service. Ever.
Sample scenario:
Hi, your datacenter isn't TIA-compliant. We won't sell you xyz hardware. We won't sell you xyz fire-suppression system.
Hi, I notice your datacenter doesn't have a fire-suppression system. I have to close it, by law, until it's installed.
Hi, I can't install a fire-suppression system until you bring the datacenter up to TIA-standards.
Needless to say, TIA doesn't have to make their spec law for it to be able to screw your datacenter over.
> I mean sheesh, just look at sex for chrissakes!
:)
Whoa whoa, I was following you until you brought sex into the mix. Now I'm completely lost
Do you mean that we should watch what the pornstars do when they want to upgrade their Linux kernel?
(Unrelated side note: If you've ever bought anything from IKEA, you know that's its hard to get the damn stickers with the barcodes off the bottom of the item you bought. A few days after visiting IKEA, I noticed the funniest thing in a pr0n movie -- they were using an IKEA pitcher with the sticker still on the bottom. I said to myself, wow that looks like an IKEA pitcher. When they zoomed in, I noticed that it still had the barcode on it. That just cracked me up. Even the pornstars can't get the damn stickers off.
Just the more reason to watch pr0n. It's absolutely hilarious at times.)
Don't do that. You'll end up looking like CowboyNeil.
> FreeBSD: Open Source without that fishy smell
Are you referring to Puffy (OpenBSD) or the fish that Tux (uh, Linux) has overeaten?
M$ is not into media devices for the money, they're in it for the lock-in. Imagine that you go buy a shiny WMA-only audio player tomorrow. Then OS X comes out for x86 in a few months. Guess what, if you want that player to work you won't be buying an Apple OS. You'll be forced to by Longhorn.
And again, Microsoft wins by making sure you can never use anything but their products.
That's why there's Windows media player. The key word is Windows.
How ironic that the post about censorship gets modded "overrated".
> Can you see the irony of asking me not to talk about censorship?
On the surface, yes. But he's not censoring you, he's just telling you he doesn't want to hear about it.
Censorship would be him deleting your post or stabbing you to death. In this case, he just doesn't care what you think. You have the right to free speech, but everyone else has the right to ignore your free speech.
> If Google applies their anti-spam engine to network nodes, spam virtually faces extinction.
And if Google applies their anti-free speech engine to network nodes, freedom virtually faces extinction.
> this has the potential to be a lot less cludgy than gaim
This has an equal potential to be blocked within miliseconds. Do you really think that AOL, MS, and others are going to allow Google to steal their users?
How is Gaim kludgy, anyway? You're connected to three unrelated networks, but they appear as one. When you double-click on someone's name, Gaim automagically uses the right network to communicate with them. That's about the best you can do when nobody will standardize on a single IM protocol. If everyone used Jabber, you would talk to your MSN friend from AOL by IMing MSNluser1337@MSN.com, etc. That's what the world should be moving towards (it worked for e-mail and routing, after all), but nobody can make money from that, so we'll never see it.
Unless Google pushes everyone to Jabber, which would be damn cool.
Was the minimum security orphanarium on campus, as well?
Get a linksys NSLU2. It's a network attached storage unit, but it can be flashed with a firmware that lets you basically run Debian on it. Right now, one is serving mail, web, and storage for my domain.
It's no 4-way Xeon when it comes to performance, but at 8W power consumption and a $75 pricetag, you can't go wrong.
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
I'm actually writing an article on how to run a domain from one of those things for AnandTech, so in a few weeks you can read about it there. (Tom's Hardware did an article, but it isn't very good or accurate anymore. Stick with the nslu2-linux site.)
This is not a troll, this is a good point! OK, so nobody can compromise your .NET e-mail server, but they can blow away the RPC server and replace it with a rootkit.
.NET mail program were running under Linux, then you might be secure.
.NET being Windows-only significantly reduces its security.
The end result is the same, you're fucked. If your
A system is only secure as its least secure component.
The bus is fine. You put your shit in your backpack and nobody will bother you. I do it all the time.
Now, I will admit that I have seen other people almost have their stuff stolen... one guy got on at Chicago/State (near the Apple Store) with 3 brand-new 17" Powerbooks. He just put them on the floor in front of him and dozed off. Even I was tempted to take one. I coined a new rule at that moment -- "If it costs more than $2000, take a taxi." Or at least guard the @*#$ing thing with your life!
You have obviously never been to Best Buy:
Best Buy Employee: Would you like to get an extended service plan?
Customer: Uh... what? Where can I get a gift card?
Employee: Right over here. We have a special deal today. If you buy an extended service plan on the gift card, we'll automatically deduct the entire balance of the card from the card, just to make it useless but at the same time, sound like a good deal. If I use the word "good" enough and keep talking about extended service plans, your wallet will fall out of your pants and Best Buy will win! Yeah!
This is why I order things online. And any store that calls a bunch of high school students that charge $1000 to format a hard drive the "geek squad" is not worthy of anyone's business.
(Actually, I won a gift card once... but there was nothing in the store worth spending even fake money on. Isn't that kind of depressing!?)