Same here. Thing is, I now see links to 'Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop" at the top, where once I used to see 'metamoderate' links. So yesterday I bothered to send in a story and it was rejected. (It was about a very cool gadget Philips has just made (the real one looks less gadgety, but is still so good I saw it on TV, all the presenters gathered round and said 'wow' and were obviously really impressed and not just parroting what they'd been told to say).
So, that's that then - no more submissions from me, and no more meta-modding either. And I don't want to take the friggin' survey! What has become of slashdot?
apparently you will - brand name drive manufacturers will have these drives out next year. And they'll be small to fit in iPods or mobile phones, so your concerns about reliability, power consumption and shock-resistance will be tested to the max then.
they do. My old boss told me about the place they used to have an old diesel engine from a locomotive to use as a backup generator. They'd test it every couple of months... and it'd shake the building:-)
I think you missed the point - the boneheaded stuff is in Dilbert *because* it occurs in your office. How many dilbert cartoons have you read, and thought - he's been round here looking through the windows!
Its basically observational comedy - standups do it all the time, and it works. Find something that people recognise and emphasise the parts of it that are dysfunctional. I suppose we laugh about it because we'd cry otherwise:-)
Hell, with Oracle, just having someone else install the damn thing and all the patches, would be worth having an appliance.
For things like MySQL, sure I can see why they would prefer to be a installed db - they do it very well for one thing so they do not need to make an appliance, but Oracle is almost never installed on a server along with other things, you buy a server to run Oracle on. Given that, its a simple step to have the OS get installed with the DB, and keep it updated regularly with patches that have already been tested by Oracle support people.
A skilled DBA would be able to tweak the system anyway once installed - just because its an appliance doesn't mean it has to be fixed in stone, so I can't really see a downside for Oracle on this one.
Its hardly a niche market - every server wants onboard graphics, mainly because they don't need to be superpowerful. I imagine this is similar - a low-powered CPU on the same chipset as the graphics chip (and no doubt the network chip) would make making motherboards a bit cheaper, or give them more capabilities that they currently have to have managed with software installed as a driver.
I really doubt the CPU part is going to compete with the latest super-quadcore chips from AMD or Intel, so no-one will use it for a mainstream computer. Possibly it'd have a market for embedded products but I thought they were already well catered for.
No, no-one wants to disable Windows. They want to disable downloading the security fix that gobshite spamking has exploited to install his Trojan emailer/DoSer/Phisher.
Not to mention disabling the ability to update the WGA tool too.
try www.msdewey.com you'll think its going to be some sort of porn or other dodginess, but its a clean and somewhat amusing search engine. Google beware:)
not really, but there's no reason why image compression wouldn't work with a CRT monitor too. think of things like VNC or RDP - these are display-over-network technologies that would be used with a wireless monitor, you're effectively viewing the monitor over a network instead of directly connected with a cable.
Now here's the killer question. Is your box not yet trojaned because:
a) you're a distrusting paranoiac b) you're not interested in all that rubbish?
The difference is the single most important answer, I feel. If a) then you're likely not to get trojaned because of the steps you take to protect your box. If b) then its only a matter of time before you do install *something* that is bad for you, without you realising. I mentioned bittorrent, but I should have said a P2P app - search for eMule on google and you get 1 hit of the F/OSS eMule, and a hundred for the hacked malware-infested eMules that appear at first glance to be the same thing, packaged slightly differently.
I run all kinds of tat - a backup agent, keepass, a CD ripper, MySql monitoring tool, etc. Any one of which could be a nasty.
and will happily do it if it gets them some new smileys. This is how Linux is so secure,
No, Linux is more secure because you don't get those smiley packs for it. That and Linux users aren't generally using it for the smileys and assorted mass-consumer crap that is targetted at Windows users.
However, if someone produced a tool that the average linux user wanted to use (say, for example a new fancy bittorrent client) that contained some kind of malware, you'd start to see the exact same problems that the windows users have - that you end up deliberately installing the malware. The security risk here is the human aspect, if the attackers find the right buttons to push for linux users, they'll own you just as easily.
That's just for consumers, admins can be just as bad - I read a web-hosting forum, the number of "my server was hacked and I don't know what to do" posts is appalling, as is the number of questions like "is there any webhost that allows IRC servers?".
Yes, but it also means that the old-generation plasma will get even cheaper as stores stock more Laser TVs. Lasers may be the premium product, but that just encourages the old stuff to get cheaper and commoditised. I think this is the death of the CRT TV, when a plasma is as cheap as a CRT is today, no-one will buy a CRT.
Not so. You don't understand the difference between comparing 32 bit numbers (ie IPv4 addresses) and 128 bit numbers (IPv6 addresses). There is an insignificant difference. The time taken to convert the IPv4 dotted decimal value to the 32-bit value takes longer than any comparison of any 128-bit value.
With the length of the blocklists, if they're sorted into order, then the lookups will be as fast as the current systems, regardless of how many addresses get added to them.
IPv6 has an added advantage of better categorising IPs from a particular country, so you can block all traffic from, say, China much more efficiently than with IPv4.
Furthermore, once we go IPv6 everyone will have their own IP address, no more hidden NAT systems and so forth, so the person sending spam will be easily identifiable. This means that those hosts on dynamic IPs will be able to be filtered correctly - currently, you block an IP, you end up blocking everyone else at that ISP as they use that shared IP. With IPv6 the ISP will know instantly who has the trojaned machine and will (hopefully) shut it down.
These last 2 things mean that RBLs will be smaller in future, not larger as they can be more accurately targetted at rogue ISPs and countries who refuse to deal with spam and other internet malware.
So, all in all, you have nothing to worry about when using IPv6. The only issue will be with systems that need to be updated to handle IPv6 addresses, but I imagine all software spam filters will have releases out the moment someone uses them on the new network.
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the anonymous post to this was close to the truth, I think video-on-demand will be the driver for IPv6, so yes... it'll be porn that is the killer app:-)
Chances are all it'll take is for Vista to come with IPv6 support enabled by default, and that'll kick it all off, once ISPs support it (and I think the majority already do, even if they don't yet advertise or use it), then it'll start to snowball.
Why would IPv6 be any different? The ip address is simply a bigger number - 128 bits instead of 32. The ability to lookup is slightly more difficult, but not particularly so and your text based lookups are significantly slower anyway.
On the other hand, if everything has its own IP address (instead of NAT), and a much faster routing and DNS system, then you will have better tools to tell whether an email came from the server it claims to. If it doesn't, then you can guarantee its a trojaned machine sending spams with forged headers. You won't need RBLs then.
alomst, I think as soon as AJAX became 'cool', the geeks split into 2 camps: those that persuaded their bosses that they could work with this new, cutting edge, cv-enhancing technology, and those that couldn't.
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which group thinks AJAX is the best thing, and which group in its jealousy thinks its rubbish:)
I've been using the internet since before the world wide web was invented, the term 'internet' was simply not used back then, its only been around as long as the web has been, no wonder they are synonymous with each other. There's no mistake there, the web is also the predominantly largest use of the internet anyway (as people use it), so just like people say 'hoover' when they mean 'a vacuum cleaner', people say internet when they refer to the web.
also, if you really use Wikipedia as a authoritative reference source, you're seriously misled.
also, who really gives a f*ck what its called as long as you understand the meaning in my words.
Maybe it'll be a blue world or circle, with 'Internet' in the name somewhere, and perhaps, as its used to explore the wonders of the internet, add the word 'Explorer' to it perhaps.
I can't see that catching on though, they'll call it WaterVole or something equally stupid:)
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Same here. Thing is, I now see links to 'Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop" at the top, where once I used to see 'metamoderate' links. So yesterday I bothered to send in a story and it was rejected. (It was about a very cool gadget Philips has just made (the real one looks less gadgety, but is still so good I saw it on TV, all the presenters gathered round and said 'wow' and were obviously really impressed and not just parroting what they'd been told to say).
So, that's that then - no more submissions from me, and no more meta-modding either. And I don't want to take the friggin' survey! What has become of slashdot?
apparently you will - brand name drive manufacturers will have these drives out next year. And they'll be small to fit in iPods or mobile phones, so your concerns about reliability, power consumption and shock-resistance will be tested to the max then.
they do. My old boss told me about the place they used to have an old diesel engine from a locomotive to use as a backup generator. They'd test it every couple of months... and it'd shake the building :-)
Or lots of minds thinking the same way...
Heroine: "I've arrived at last"
Hero: "I can't help feeling things are just starting to get hot"
Hero: "Do you want grits with them?"
Heroine: "yeah right, only in Soviet Russia would you say that"
Hero: "but in Russia, all your bases belong to us now"
yeah, maybe we shoud stick to the tried and tried and tried Hollywood formula plots.
I think you missed the point - the boneheaded stuff is in Dilbert *because* it occurs in your office. How many dilbert cartoons have you read, and thought - he's been round here looking through the windows!
:-)
Its basically observational comedy - standups do it all the time, and it works. Find something that people recognise and emphasise the parts of it that are dysfunctional. I suppose we laugh about it because we'd cry otherwise
True, lol. But if you can afford an Oracle enterprise licence, and more than 1 DBA.. you really don't need my advice :-)
Hell, with Oracle, just having someone else install the damn thing and all the patches, would be worth having an appliance.
For things like MySQL, sure I can see why they would prefer to be a installed db - they do it very well for one thing so they do not need to make an appliance, but Oracle is almost never installed on a server along with other things, you buy a server to run Oracle on. Given that, its a simple step to have the OS get installed with the DB, and keep it updated regularly with patches that have already been tested by Oracle support people.
A skilled DBA would be able to tweak the system anyway once installed - just because its an appliance doesn't mean it has to be fixed in stone, so I can't really see a downside for Oracle on this one.
Its hardly a niche market - every server wants onboard graphics, mainly because they don't need to be superpowerful. I imagine this is similar - a low-powered CPU on the same chipset as the graphics chip (and no doubt the network chip) would make making motherboards a bit cheaper, or give them more capabilities that they currently have to have managed with software installed as a driver.
I really doubt the CPU part is going to compete with the latest super-quadcore chips from AMD or Intel, so no-one will use it for a mainstream computer. Possibly it'd have a market for embedded products but I thought they were already well catered for.
No, no-one wants to disable Windows. They want to disable downloading the security fix that gobshite spamking has exploited to install his Trojan emailer/DoSer/Phisher.
Not to mention disabling the ability to update the WGA tool too.
try www.msdewey.com you'll think its going to be some sort of porn or other dodginess, but its a clean and somewhat amusing search engine. Google beware :)
not really, but there's no reason why image compression wouldn't work with a CRT monitor too. think of things like VNC or RDP - these are display-over-network technologies that would be used with a wireless monitor, you're effectively viewing the monitor over a network instead of directly connected with a cable.
But the best part, is that you can put it back in the post marked "not known at this address", and the company that sent it can share the joke!
Now here's the killer question. Is your box not yet trojaned because:
a) you're a distrusting paranoiac
b) you're not interested in all that rubbish?
The difference is the single most important answer, I feel. If a) then you're likely not to get trojaned because of the steps you take to protect your box. If b) then its only a matter of time before you do install *something* that is bad for you, without you realising. I mentioned bittorrent, but I should have said a P2P app - search for eMule on google and you get 1 hit of the F/OSS eMule, and a hundred for the hacked malware-infested eMules that appear at first glance to be the same thing, packaged slightly differently.
I run all kinds of tat - a backup agent, keepass, a CD ripper, MySql monitoring tool, etc. Any one of which could be a nasty.
and will happily do it if it gets them some new smileys. This is how Linux is so secure,
No, Linux is more secure because you don't get those smiley packs for it. That and Linux users aren't generally using it for the smileys and assorted mass-consumer crap that is targetted at Windows users.
However, if someone produced a tool that the average linux user wanted to use (say, for example a new fancy bittorrent client) that contained some kind of malware, you'd start to see the exact same problems that the windows users have - that you end up deliberately installing the malware. The security risk here is the human aspect, if the attackers find the right buttons to push for linux users, they'll own you just as easily.
That's just for consumers, admins can be just as bad - I read a web-hosting forum, the number of "my server was hacked and I don't know what to do" posts is appalling, as is the number of questions like "is there any webhost that allows IRC servers?".
However, it costs $40 if that matters to people who prefer free software like VirtuaWin.
Yes, but it also means that the old-generation plasma will get even cheaper as stores stock more Laser TVs. Lasers may be the premium product, but that just encourages the old stuff to get cheaper and commoditised. I think this is the death of the CRT TV, when a plasma is as cheap as a CRT is today, no-one will buy a CRT.
any civilization with even elementary maths knowledge and a primitive telescope can figure out quickly. "Hey, this can't be natural!"
:-)
They're going to send some internet porn out there? You'd have thought they'd send something a little more cultural.
Yeah, but I suppose they could get http://www.spamhaus.org.uk/ instead. Oh my, they read my mind :-)
Not so. You don't understand the difference between comparing 32 bit numbers (ie IPv4 addresses) and 128 bit numbers (IPv6 addresses). There is an insignificant difference. The time taken to convert the IPv4 dotted decimal value to the 32-bit value takes longer than any comparison of any 128-bit value.
With the length of the blocklists, if they're sorted into order, then the lookups will be as fast as the current systems, regardless of how many addresses get added to them.
IPv6 has an added advantage of better categorising IPs from a particular country, so you can block all traffic from, say, China much more efficiently than with IPv4.
Furthermore, once we go IPv6 everyone will have their own IP address, no more hidden NAT systems and so forth, so the person sending spam will be easily identifiable. This means that those hosts on dynamic IPs will be able to be filtered correctly - currently, you block an IP, you end up blocking everyone else at that ISP as they use that shared IP. With IPv6 the ISP will know instantly who has the trojaned machine and will (hopefully) shut it down.
These last 2 things mean that RBLs will be smaller in future, not larger as they can be more accurately targetted at rogue ISPs and countries who refuse to deal with spam and other internet malware.
So, all in all, you have nothing to worry about when using IPv6. The only issue will be with systems that need to be updated to handle IPv6 addresses, but I imagine all software spam filters will have releases out the moment someone uses them on the new network.
the anonymous post to this was close to the truth, I think video-on-demand will be the driver for IPv6, so yes... it'll be porn that is the killer app :-)
Chances are all it'll take is for Vista to come with IPv6 support enabled by default, and that'll kick it all off, once ISPs support it (and I think the majority already do, even if they don't yet advertise or use it), then it'll start to snowball.
Why would IPv6 be any different? The ip address is simply a bigger number - 128 bits instead of 32. The ability to lookup is slightly more difficult, but not particularly so and your text based lookups are significantly slower anyway.
On the other hand, if everything has its own IP address (instead of NAT), and a much faster routing and DNS system, then you will have better tools to tell whether an email came from the server it claims to. If it doesn't, then you can guarantee its a trojaned machine sending spams with forged headers. You won't need RBLs then.
alomst, I think as soon as AJAX became 'cool', the geeks split into 2 camps: those that persuaded their bosses that they could work with this new, cutting edge, cv-enhancing technology, and those that couldn't.
:)
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which group thinks AJAX is the best thing, and which group in its jealousy thinks its rubbish
I've been using the internet since before the world wide web was invented, the term 'internet' was simply not used back then, its only been around as long as the web has been, no wonder they are synonymous with each other. There's no mistake there, the web is also the predominantly largest use of the internet anyway (as people use it), so just like people say 'hoover' when they mean 'a vacuum cleaner', people say internet when they refer to the web.
also, if you really use Wikipedia as a authoritative reference source, you're seriously misled.
also, who really gives a f*ck what its called as long as you understand the meaning in my words.
cheers.
Or they could use a different logo/name combo that is quite similar to the original - how about FireFoxy.
Maybe it'll be a blue world or circle, with 'Internet' in the name somewhere, and perhaps, as its used to explore the wonders of the internet, add the word 'Explorer' to it perhaps.
:)
I can't see that catching on though, they'll call it WaterVole or something equally stupid