I've gotten rid of windows a long time about, and the Mac Mini, finally allowed me to get my wife off windows also. It wasn't for lack of trying, it was just that the pricetag made it ok (My wife is an accountant by day, artist by night). So the mac appealed to her artistic side, and didn't upset the accountant side. So with her pc scheduled to become another small server, we are down to 1 box @ home that has Windows on it, and that box dual boots FreeBSD 5.3 (where it spends most of its time).
As for it stealing Linux/*BSD users away. I can see this sort of happening. My primary workstation now is an 17" Al powerbook, It replaced a Dell Inspiron running slackware. I still use various forms of *nix everyday. My firewall @ home and my other laptop here are OpenBSD. My file server and workstation run FreeBSD (5.3 on workstation, 4-Stable on the file server). At work all 36 Servers run FreeBSD 4-Stable. So while it might not be on our desktops everyday, we still use it.
How often do you change addresses? This would be a slight inconvenience for most of us, but it could cripple spammers...
All they would need to do with this plan would be to go to Mailboxes etc... or any of those other places and get a bunch of mailboxes, or P.O. Boxes at the postoffice, etc... Also most Spammers don't use the mailbox with their account, the return addresses are BS. So it wouldn't matter all that much. Stopping the hosting of spamvertized sites, might be better.
yeah Scomp how great. They say take a scomp report as a request to be removed from a valid (double opt-in) mailling list, but then they strip all identifying marks from it you can't tell which user it is. Also AOL doesn't do any filtering on it's scomp reports, so anytime one of their users hits the report as spam button (Which I am told is very close to the trash button) we get a report. So we get reports on things like , Dear Grandma, thanks for the cookies , they where yummy, and this was in reply to an e-mail sent from AOL asking how the cookies where. I kid you not. So we have to sit and look and figure out which ones are legit and we need to pursue, and which ones are just the user on the other end not having a clue.
A couple of times it has been helpful since we can normally find a trojan/rooted box spitting out viagra/ciallis spam pretty quickly since we start to get a ton of reports not long after it starts, so we can locate it and noc it off line. Oh in case you are wondering I am an admin for a smaller regional ISP (about 25K mail accounts)
That might have been it, but my wife remembers the same thing and she doesn't spend 1/50th the time I do on the web and doesn't seem to read news sites @ all.
Does the Final Question seem familiar to anybody? I watch a lot of Jeopardy (DVR it). I've even tried out (Missed it by one:)). I am pretty sure I have see that final jeopardy question before, perhaps it was in the tournament of champions of this year, but I not 100% sure. It might have been worded differently. IIRC correctly I think all the people in Final Jeopardy Missed it. But I could just be nuts.. Does anybody out there remember seeing this before?
How many times have you encountered a similar situation - "Darn, it's only for Winders"?
Sadly not enough as BillG and company would hope for. I do have access to Windows if I "NEED"/"WANT" it. While looking at Sat Pictures is neat, it is still not neat enough to get my to install windows. That and the majority of the hardware I have isn't physically capable of running windows natively. 17" Powerbook, Sun Netra's , Sgi O2 and Octane. I guess my vaio laptop could run it, but why ruin a perfectly good OpenBSD box to install windows which would probably crawl (PII 366 128MB ram).
My main workstation at home ran windows @ 1 time in a partition, and it might run it again at some point. Any game that might get me to Use windows normally has too high hardware requirement so I would have to Upgrade my boxes to use it anyway and My other hobbies are where my money goes nowadays.. this being one of them
i wasn't trying to be cool. In fact I would say I am far from cool. Yes I have heard of dual booting. I have a couple systems that dual boot, mostly FreeBSD5.3/Slackware10, some that do boot FreeBSD/BeOS, I just don't have a need for windows. Figured since this was Slashdot and most people won't RTFA anyway, and would just go Yeah Google! I would post saying it was Winders (Sorry large Redneck Population up here does that to ya) only.
I remeber this one when that book was on my bookshelf at IBM Research.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs." -- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Programmer's Guide" (forward by Bill Gates)
Lol. Damn that list is great... What if you are like me.
Firewall@home - OpenBSD FileServer@home - FreeBSD-Current Dreamcast@home - Netbsd (I suck at video games) Workstation@home (FreeBSD-Current,OpenBSD,Beos,Slackware) (can't make up my mind):) (honorable mentions @ home - Octane and O2 running IRIX, Netra with Solaris on 1 drive, OpenBSD on the other).
Uhhh, I can get that from the numeric IP, who cares about the reverse DNS. Do the RIAA do reverse DNS lookups when they launch all those suits against IPs?
Based on the crap we get here, I would say they just look up the IP in an outdated copy of Whois Information since they are still sending reports to addresses that change 2+years ago..
ON My SV 650 I think it had an EPA sticker of around 35-40ish. If I ride like an idiot, i get around 40-45. Normal I want a better chance of not dieing riding gives me around 50. Just got back from a 340 mile casual ride through Upstate NY, VT, and MA. I averaged 60+MPG so I would say riding style has lots to do wit it:)
My favorite when dealing with circuits is if you lose a t1 or a ds3. You call in a trouble ticket and it mysteriously comes back, along with the NTF (no trouble found) answer to the ticket. Normally this is when some Central Office person plugs the test set into the wrong port on a MUX.
From the lovely folks at AOL. Customer gets $668 Phone bill for Calls to one of AOL's Dialup numbers. AOL techsupport does some magic or whatever and concludes that there is no way that AOL software could have dialed those numbers. Their answer "your telephone company has changed the routing on your correct (Local) number to the pay number, contact them". My brother (who works for the telco in question, just had to relay this to me.
I don't think that people in "rural" areas who depend on broadcast TV (trailer parks?) will go for the satellite option.
You have no idea about High Class White trash living do you? My brother installs DSL for a rural telco. You probably wouldn't belived the stories I get to hear about the rusted out trailer with a DirectTV dish on the side, a Harley and a mustang (the car not the horse) in the driveway, and how he has to climb over all sorts of crap/garbage to get to the computer. It is mostly that their priorities are different.
Please don't take this as a bash against trailer parks, I know a bunch of really great hard working people that happen to live in a trailer park, but I have also seen some pretty odd things..
Get yourself a
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I've gotten rid of windows a long time about, and the Mac Mini, finally allowed me to get my wife off windows also. It wasn't for lack of trying, it was just that the pricetag made it ok (My wife is an accountant by day, artist by night). So the mac appealed to her artistic side, and didn't upset the accountant side. So with her pc scheduled to become another small server, we are down to 1 box @ home that has Windows on it, and that box dual boots FreeBSD 5.3 (where it spends most of its time).
As for it stealing Linux/*BSD users away. I can see this sort of happening. My primary workstation now is an 17" Al powerbook, It replaced a Dell Inspiron running slackware. I still use various forms of *nix everyday. My firewall @ home and my other laptop here are OpenBSD. My file server and workstation run FreeBSD (5.3 on workstation, 4-Stable on the file server). At work all 36 Servers run FreeBSD 4-Stable. So while it might not be on our desktops everyday, we still use it.
How often do you change addresses? This would be a slight inconvenience for most of us, but it could cripple spammers...
All they would need to do with this plan would be to go to Mailboxes etc... or any of those other places and get a bunch of mailboxes, or P.O. Boxes at the postoffice, etc... Also most Spammers don't use the mailbox with their account, the return addresses are BS. So it wouldn't matter all that much. Stopping the hosting of spamvertized sites, might be better.
Only people who can't do math would be stupid enough to buy this
People still play the lottery..
What Version of Safari? (Mind you I am not trying to defend M$ here). But it appears to render fine in 1.2.4 (v125.12).
Not that crappy actors :)
Probably because I mention Bill Gates on my homepage, in reference to My Meeting Bill Gates Photo.
It is the little things in life..
yeah Scomp how great. They say take a scomp report as a request to be removed from a valid (double opt-in) mailling list, but then they strip all identifying marks from it you can't tell which user it is. Also AOL doesn't do any filtering on it's scomp reports, so anytime one of their users hits the report as spam button (Which I am told is very close to the trash button) we get a report. So we get reports on things like , Dear Grandma, thanks for the cookies , they where yummy, and this was in reply to an e-mail sent from AOL asking how the cookies where. I kid you not. So we have to sit and look and figure out which ones are legit and we need to pursue, and which ones are just the user on the other end not having a clue.
A couple of times it has been helpful since we can normally find a trojan/rooted box spitting out viagra/ciallis spam pretty quickly since we start to get a ton of reports not long after it starts, so we can locate it and noc it off line. Oh in case you are wondering I am an admin for a smaller regional ISP (about 25K mail accounts)
And try and remember not to mention you are going to the prom..
That might have been it, but my wife remembers the same thing and she doesn't spend 1/50th the time I do on the web and doesn't seem to read news sites @ all.
Does the Final Question seem familiar to anybody? I watch a lot of Jeopardy (DVR it). I've even tried out (Missed it by one :)). I am pretty sure I have see that final jeopardy question before, perhaps it was in the tournament of champions of this year, but I not 100% sure. It might have been worded differently. IIRC correctly I think all the people in Final Jeopardy Missed it. But I could just be nuts.. Does anybody out there remember seeing this before?
Sadly not enough as BillG and company would hope for. I do have access to Windows if I "NEED"/"WANT" it. While looking at Sat Pictures is neat, it is still not neat enough to get my to install windows. That and the majority of the hardware I have isn't physically capable of running windows natively. 17" Powerbook, Sun Netra's , Sgi O2 and Octane. I guess my vaio laptop could run it, but why ruin a perfectly good OpenBSD box to install windows which would probably crawl (PII 366 128MB ram).
My main workstation at home ran windows @ 1 time in a partition, and it might run it again at some point. Any game that might get me to Use windows normally has too high hardware requirement so I would have to Upgrade my boxes to use it anyway and My other hobbies are where my money goes nowadays.. this being one of them
I'll bite...
i wasn't trying to be cool. In fact I would say I am far from cool. Yes I have heard of dual booting. I have a couple systems that dual boot, mostly FreeBSD5.3/Slackware10, some that do boot FreeBSD/BeOS, I just don't have a need for windows. Figured since this was Slashdot and most people won't RTFA anyway, and would just go Yeah Google! I would post saying it was Winders (Sorry large Redneck Population up here does that to ya) only.
So I go to Download Free Registration, and it says compatible with Windows for PC's. So I guess I won't be able to use it :(
Forgot about the tattoo on My Leg
They're coming to take me away.. HaHa, HeHe. They're comging to take me away...
Lol. Damn that list is great... What if you are like me.
:)
Firewall@home - OpenBSD
FileServer@home - FreeBSD-Current
Dreamcast@home - Netbsd (I suck at video games)
Workstation@home (FreeBSD-Current,OpenBSD,Beos,Slackware) (can't make up my mind)
(honorable mentions @ home - Octane and O2 running IRIX, Netra with Solaris on 1 drive, OpenBSD on the other).
Laptop1 - OSX
Laptop2 - OpenBSD
Server Farms @ work (30+ FreeBSD-stable boxes)
Guess I need therapy..
One of my friends has a MegaTouch (the game you are referring to), and I too was surprised when we turned it on and I saw the boot messages.
Uhhh, I can get that from the numeric IP, who cares about the reverse DNS. Do the RIAA do reverse DNS lookups when they launch all those suits against IPs?
Based on the crap we get here, I would say they just look up the IP in an outdated copy of Whois Information since they are still sending reports to addresses that change 2+years ago..
ON My SV 650 I think it had an EPA sticker of around 35-40ish. If I ride like an idiot, i get around 40-45. Normal I want a better chance of not dieing riding gives me around 50. Just got back from a 340 mile casual ride through Upstate NY, VT, and MA. I averaged 60+MPG so I would say riding style has lots to do wit it :)
from a nanog post Avi In WSOP
:)
Avi is from Akamai, so there is geek for ya
My favorite when dealing with circuits is if you lose a t1 or a ds3. You call in a trouble ticket and it mysteriously comes back, along with the NTF (no trouble found) answer to the ticket. Normally this is when some Central Office person plugs the test set into the wrong port on a MUX.
From the lovely folks at AOL. Customer gets $668 Phone bill for Calls to one of AOL's Dialup numbers. AOL techsupport does some magic or whatever and concludes that there is no way that AOL software could have dialed those numbers. Their answer "your telephone company has changed the routing on your correct (Local) number to the pay number, contact them". My brother (who works for the telco in question, just had to relay this to me.
I don't think that people in "rural" areas who depend on broadcast TV (trailer parks?) will go for the satellite option. You have no idea about High Class White trash living do you? My brother installs DSL for a rural telco. You probably wouldn't belived the stories I get to hear about the rusted out trailer with a DirectTV dish on the side, a Harley and a mustang (the car not the horse) in the driveway, and how he has to climb over all sorts of crap/garbage to get to the computer. It is mostly that their priorities are different.
Please don't take this as a bash against trailer parks, I know a bunch of really great hard working people that happen to live in a trailer park, but I have also seen some pretty odd things..
I win :)
IF you want shoot me an e-mail with your Snail Mail address & I will burn you a copy and send it to ya, use patrick (at) muldoon (dot) us
Get yourself a KNOPPIX ISO (http://linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=44). Burn this to a CD and you should be able to play with a linux system without having to touch your Windows install.