You got modded funny for this Allan? (Its your former roommate by the way). I'd like to point out that some of us graduated in August and are just now getting a "tenatative conditional" offer of employment!
The jobs come.... just very sloooowly....
I don't know if it sadder I noticed your post on/. or I'm replying to it...
Why stop there? Surely we could build some sort of tunnel the thousands of miles from Argentina to New South Wales (After a quick stopover in Wellington). From there a nice counterclockwise spin around the continent and across a bridge to Tazmania and from there across another bridge to Antartica!! Drive to the South Pole and through the tunnel bored straight through the centre of the Earth to the North Pole!!! Then a quick drive across the ice sheet and sub-arctic ocean tunnel and we're back in Scotland!!
Brilliant!!!
Re:How bothersome is spam for most slashdotters?
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For the end user like me, its probably not all that bothersome. I have a spamassassin / bogofilter rig built into my evolution filters that takes care of most everything.
Now how about the sysadmin reading slashdot. The one that maintains that mailserver and has to find storage for all of that crap that comes pouring in. The one that has to setup spamassassin on the servers and teach people (which is probably the worst part) how to setup their outlook clients to filter all of this. The one that has to hear complaints about the 2-3 spam getting through over the 3 trillion that came in during the week and the one that has to requistition the money to maintain the spamfiltration instead of it going elsewhere in the company.
Spam costs the ISP/Company/User time and money whereas the spammer pays next to nothing and most slashdotters (IMHO) have a problem with that.
Re:Iraqi, U.S., or international trial appropriate
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Yes, that was actually my first thought at well; that the ICC should try him. I mean, the alledged reason that we've always opposed joining the ICC was that Americans could be fausly punished or some other unilaterallist rubish.
In this case I don't think that applies. Then I remembered more aptly this administrations policies and, even more important, that its an election year.
And to close talking about your last section: I'd just like to remind you that you're stereotyping America quite a bit. While I will do nothing to defend this administration note that there are a very large number of Americans who don't like unilateralism.
Hmm, I've always thought of those two as exclusive. Exceptionally hot aren't geeky and exceptionally geeky aren't hot. At least thats the way I've seen it with geek girls (though admitadly your pool of guys here is a bit bigger).
You have hit on one thing though. The surest way to a geeks heart is his love of gizmos and gadgets.
Anyway I'm done mumbling, carry on, nothing to see here.
Anyone want to recommend an easy to use IDS to put on a stand alone workstation? When I move again and I deploy a BSD router, snort will be going on that machine. Until then what would this group suggest I put on this stand alone workstation that will require the minimum amount of headaches to setup/use?
To that I offer two things to look at. The Great Firewall of China and the book "Code" by Lawrence Lessig.
The latter gives a very very good idea of how they could put a stop to it and things like it. Change the code. Which, incidently, various companies are doing.
Hmm, well, they're already starting to flame you so instead of jumping on that bandwagon I'll try and be more usefull as I write this from my Gentoo Linux desktop system *cough*.
Many of your complaints don't seem to affect Knoppix which is a live cd distro that includes KDE and gaim and gcc as well. If you want to go the other way, well, I believe they make a version of nethack that will run on windows:).
Oh and I think RedHat was plenty ready for desktops. I just don't think they would have made money there. If they want to go enterprise thats fine by me as, well, I'll still use other distros.
Umm, how is it Uninformed? I believe I gave a fairly acurate description of what epiphany was and I thought I made it fairly clear in the post that it was intended as a joke? I even stated at the end of the post that I didn't want to see google IPO as I consider them too great an asset. Its a post on slashdot to be funny, not my Doctoral Thesis.
As I read slashdot inside of epiphany, a variation of Mozilla, grandson of Netscape I ponder. A Google implosion that would result in the code being freely distributed and a 1,000 Google's across the net. You could even have a personal Google on your computer.
Dateline 2007: Girlfriend and you having a fight about something. She goes over to the computer and searchs for something you've carefully erased but the cache is still there! (*)&(*&#@$!
Note: this is "funny" not "troll" and no, personally I don't want to see Google IPO and explode. Its too useful for my everyday life.
Hi, I'm a BSD user as well (Open is my flavor) but what you said is full of crap. If you run similarly equipped Linux and BSD distributions side by side, you will find that they actually have many of the same security vulnerabilities (because, they run much of the same software in userland). I patched OpenSSH on my BSD box at the same time I was patching the Linux box.
What gives the perceived difference is that the ports have separate security advisories (I know they do for Open and presumably for Free) than the core distribution. If you compare a "core" distribution of Linux you would find similar security issues that are patched quickly. Both the BSD and Linux camps do a good job about their security updates and should be commended.
Thats a valid point but I'd like to make a counterpoint:
How many versions of Redhat/Fedora are going to be released during the time span of XP's launch to Longhorns?
Most desktop users will be running Redhat 20 on Linux 3.0 (I'll be running linux 3.11 at the time for laughs:)) by the time Longhorn ships. Oh yeah, *obligatory comment about how I can see/modify/patch the code on my Linux boxen.*
USB 2.0 support actually exists in 2.4 as well. Noteable improvements to 2.6 include a new scheduler, additional filesystems, pre-emptiblity and ACPI. (Its faster for sure).
Then again, I run Con Kolva's patch set in 2.4 so I have a pre-emptible kernel and the new scheduler and some other random goodies. Its not quite as fast as 2.6 but as I can't keep up with that development cycle it suits me.
Not to come down on you but the "nice, gentle power usage" seems to be outweighed by the power management problems. My laptop (APM, not even the ACPI I hear so many problems with) has had both Debian and 2k on it and it gets about and hour and a half more (out of a total of 3 hours) while in Windows. I would greatly prefer to have a linux distro on there but I can't get it to not eat up my battery for some reason.
With anything not wired down battery-life is a killer or a seller.
On behalf of American's that do know the difference (My degree in International Relations currently doesn't give me much more than the ability to "claim I know" what I'm talking about in politics) I'd like to apologize for the assholes who don't (majority of those who replied to your post).
Most American's do know the difference when they're out of work, without universal (although Canada's health care does have a bad rap down here) health care and struggling to survive with only "reformed" welfare (which is totally fscked up by the way).
Others talked about how we're a representative government. opensecrets.org can provide you with a quick guide to who your government is representing.
Don't attack other countries for their "problems" if you're not willing to address your own.
I don't think thats very likely. Its much more likely that someone would be assigned their own subnet. That way everything you have will have its own ip address. Sure, thats all tinfoil hat stuff for most stuff but when you can traceroute6 to your keys to find its one hop from "couch" you'll wonder how you ever did without it.
OpenSSH wasn't exploitable in Open3.3. And I've never had any BSD system panic on me and that machine is currently at a load average of 7.04.
OpenBSD and the products it has produced are very valuable tools. Despite its "critics" I will continue to use it alongside my debian machines thank you.
If you are using OpenBSD, you should move away now.
Right, because those of use using Open are doing so out of total performance. Lets do a comparison of the security of these systems and see who wins that one. I think most Open users (incidently I use it as my workstation and my server here) would use Net, Free or Linux in an all out performance situation. For security and comfort, I'll keep my Open machine thanks.
Using, development code and untuned boxes to do "benchmarks" is not professional at all. Heaven forbid 3.4-current's kernel is unstable as a development snapshot. I'll wait for someone that knows what they're talking about.
They put a man into orbit which is pretty impressive. I don't see an Apple "Spaceport" or Intel Pentium 4000Kilopascal rocket blasting off.
Now while I agree that they probably want to assert their own technical dominance and avoid US interests (thats good economics). But China talking about "restrictive anti-trust business practices"... I suddenly have pictures of Bill Gates standing in front of a tank at Tianamein. China doesn't care about Microsoft; it cares about its own self-interests. Exploring science leads to discoveries that help its people and *make money*. Its sad in these post 9-11 days the US has such a hard time with that.
I went to PSU. Almost all of the professor's boring presentations come in Powerpoint format. I know of only one that actually used PDF so your suggestion would probably be noticed:).
That said I'm sure the universities have some sort of way of auditing what the file contents actually are. Of course then they could read anything in those files. I doubt the university would do that for other reasons though.
All of that said they're still missing the key tenant of this whole issue: never underestimate the ingenuity of bored students. Although I presume the Unis are doing this for legal protection so, on second thought, they probably don't care if its effective.
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Tentative on the conditions that I pass both a background check and a drug test. Good times.
You got modded funny for this Allan? (Its your former roommate by the way). I'd like to point out that some of us graduated in August and are just now getting a "tenatative conditional" offer of employment!
.... just very sloooowly ....
/. or I'm replying to it ...
The jobs come
I don't know if it sadder I noticed your post on
Why stop there? Surely we could build some sort of tunnel the thousands of miles from Argentina to New South Wales (After a quick stopover in Wellington). From there a nice counterclockwise spin around the continent and across a bridge to Tazmania and from there across another bridge to Antartica!! Drive to the South Pole and through the tunnel bored straight through the centre of the Earth to the North Pole!!! Then a quick drive across the ice sheet and sub-arctic ocean tunnel and we're back in Scotland!!
Brilliant!!!
For the end user like me, its probably not all that bothersome. I have a spamassassin / bogofilter rig built into my evolution filters that takes care of most everything.
Now how about the sysadmin reading slashdot. The one that maintains that mailserver and has to find storage for all of that crap that comes pouring in. The one that has to setup spamassassin on the servers and teach people (which is probably the worst part) how to setup their outlook clients to filter all of this. The one that has to hear complaints about the 2-3 spam getting through over the 3 trillion that came in during the week and the one that has to requistition the money to maintain the spamfiltration instead of it going elsewhere in the company.
Spam costs the ISP/Company/User time and money whereas the spammer pays next to nothing and most slashdotters (IMHO) have a problem with that.
Yes, that was actually my first thought at well; that the ICC should try him. I mean, the alledged reason that we've always opposed joining the ICC was that Americans could be fausly punished or some other unilaterallist rubish.
In this case I don't think that applies. Then I remembered more aptly this administrations policies and, even more important, that its an election year.
And to close talking about your last section: I'd just like to remind you that you're stereotyping America quite a bit. While I will do nothing to defend this administration note that there are a very large number of Americans who don't like unilateralism.
Hmm, I've always thought of those two as exclusive. Exceptionally hot aren't geeky and exceptionally geeky aren't hot. At least thats the way I've seen it with geek girls (though admitadly your pool of guys here is a bit bigger).
You have hit on one thing though. The surest way to a geeks heart is his love of gizmos and gadgets.
Anyway I'm done mumbling, carry on, nothing to see here.
Anyone want to recommend an easy to use IDS to put on a stand alone workstation? When I move again and I deploy a BSD router, snort will be going on that machine. Until then what would this group suggest I put on this stand alone workstation that will require the minimum amount of headaches to setup/use?
Thank you.
To that I offer two things to look at. The Great Firewall of China and the book "Code" by Lawrence Lessig.
The latter gives a very very good idea of how they could put a stop to it and things like it. Change the code. Which, incidently, various companies are doing.
Cheers.
Ok ...
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This is modded informative? What the heck
Funny? Maybe, but informative? My faith in moderators has slipped another notch.
Hmm, well, they're already starting to flame you so instead of jumping on that bandwagon I'll try and be more usefull as I write this from my Gentoo Linux desktop system *cough*.
:).
Many of your complaints don't seem to affect Knoppix which is a live cd distro that includes KDE and gaim and gcc as well. If you want to go the other way, well, I believe they make a version of nethack that will run on windows
Oh and I think RedHat was plenty ready for desktops. I just don't think they would have made money there. If they want to go enterprise thats fine by me as, well, I'll still use other distros.
Umm, how is it Uninformed? I believe I gave a fairly acurate description of what epiphany was and I thought I made it fairly clear in the post that it was intended as a joke? I even stated at the end of the post that I didn't want to see google IPO as I consider them too great an asset. Its a post on slashdot to be funny, not my Doctoral Thesis.
As I read slashdot inside of epiphany, a variation of Mozilla, grandson of Netscape I ponder. A Google implosion that would result in the code being freely distributed and a 1,000 Google's across the net. You could even have a personal Google on your computer.
Dateline 2007: Girlfriend and you having a fight about something. She goes over to the computer and searchs for something you've carefully erased but the cache is still there! (*)&(*&#@$!
Note: this is "funny" not "troll" and no, personally I don't want to see Google IPO and explode. Its too useful for my everyday life.
Hi, I'm a BSD user as well (Open is my flavor) but what you said is full of crap. If you run similarly equipped Linux and BSD distributions side by side, you will find that they actually have many of the same security vulnerabilities (because, they run much of the same software in userland). I patched OpenSSH on my BSD box at the same time I was patching the Linux box.
What gives the perceived difference is that the ports have separate security advisories (I know they do for Open and presumably for Free) than the core distribution. If you compare a "core" distribution of Linux you would find similar security issues that are patched quickly. Both the BSD and Linux camps do a good job about their security updates and should be commended.
Thats a valid point but I'd like to make a counterpoint:
How many versions of Redhat/Fedora are going to be released during the time span of XP's launch to Longhorns?
Most desktop users will be running Redhat 20 on Linux 3.0 (I'll be running linux 3.11 at the time for laughs:)) by the time Longhorn ships. Oh yeah, *obligatory comment about how I can see/modify/patch the code on my Linux boxen.*
ubarfgyl, V qvqa'g frr gung bar pbzvat. Ab ernyyl, qvqa'g frr vg ng nyy :C
USB 2.0 support actually exists in 2.4 as well. Noteable improvements to 2.6 include a new scheduler, additional filesystems, pre-emptiblity and ACPI. (Its faster for sure).
Then again, I run Con Kolva's patch set in 2.4 so I have a pre-emptible kernel and the new scheduler and some other random goodies. Its not quite as fast as 2.6 but as I can't keep up with that development cycle it suits me.
Not to come down on you but the "nice, gentle power usage" seems to be outweighed by the power management problems. My laptop (APM, not even the ACPI I hear so many problems with) has had both Debian and 2k on it and it gets about and hour and a half more (out of a total of 3 hours) while in Windows. I would greatly prefer to have a linux distro on there but I can't get it to not eat up my battery for some reason.
With anything not wired down battery-life is a killer or a seller.
On behalf of American's that do know the difference (My degree in International Relations currently doesn't give me much more than the ability to "claim I know" what I'm talking about in politics) I'd like to apologize for the assholes who don't (majority of those who replied to your post).
Most American's do know the difference when they're out of work, without universal (although Canada's health care does have a bad rap down here) health care and struggling to survive with only "reformed" welfare (which is totally fscked up by the way).
Others talked about how we're a representative government. opensecrets.org can provide you with a quick guide to who your government is representing.
Don't attack other countries for their "problems" if you're not willing to address your own.
I don't think thats very likely. Its much more likely that someone would be assigned their own subnet. That way everything you have will have its own ip address. Sure, thats all tinfoil hat stuff for most stuff but when you can traceroute6 to your keys to find its one hop from "couch" you'll wonder how you ever did without it.
OpenSSH wasn't exploitable in Open3.3. And I've never had any BSD system panic on me and that machine is currently at a load average of 7.04.
OpenBSD and the products it has produced are very valuable tools. Despite its "critics" I will continue to use it alongside my debian machines thank you.
I agree, the guy is a complete troll:
If you are using OpenBSD, you should move away now.
Right, because those of use using Open are doing so out of total performance. Lets do a comparison of the security of these systems and see who wins that one. I think most Open users (incidently I use it as my workstation and my server here) would use Net, Free or Linux in an all out performance situation. For security and comfort, I'll keep my Open machine thanks.
Using, development code and untuned boxes to do "benchmarks" is not professional at all. Heaven forbid 3.4-current's kernel is unstable as a development snapshot. I'll wait for someone that knows what they're talking about.
For god's sake:
... I suddenly have pictures of Bill Gates standing in front of a tank at Tianamein. China doesn't care about Microsoft; it cares about its own self-interests. Exploring science leads to discoveries that help its people and *make money*. Its sad in these post 9-11 days the US has such a hard time with that.
NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO DO WITH MICROSOFT.
They put a man into orbit which is pretty impressive. I don't see an Apple "Spaceport" or Intel Pentium 4000Kilopascal rocket blasting off.
Now while I agree that they probably want to assert their own technical dominance and avoid US interests (thats good economics). But China talking about "restrictive anti-trust business practices"
I went to PSU. Almost all of the professor's boring presentations come in Powerpoint format. I know of only one that actually used PDF so your suggestion would probably be noticed :).
That said I'm sure the universities have some sort of way of auditing what the file contents actually are. Of course then they could read anything in those files. I doubt the university would do that for other reasons though.
All of that said they're still missing the key tenant of this whole issue: never underestimate the ingenuity of bored students. Although I presume the Unis are doing this for legal protection so, on second thought, they probably don't care if its effective.
... I have nothing profound to say but hey, as my nick is a petabyte I figured I should chime in.
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Then again, I'm only a petabyte here, usually I'm in a larger configuration.
Ah, good times good times
You forgot one important thing though: Verisign doesn't manage the .org TLD.
:)
As such, I'm glad to have one.