I'm assuming the idea of giving out the root password was so that everybody could know what was running on the server.
How does revealing the password tell anyone what's running on the server?
...either some genius has changed the root password or the sys admins are fixing...
Yeah, it could be that. Or it could be the fact that you can't log in remotely as root by default. Which has been discussed over and over and over. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I ping each host to get the IP and make sure it was up. They both were. I used satan at linuxppc and found nothing good. Then I tried W2k--host is down already.
I guess somebody finally found a use for all that time spent rebooting Windows: security through unavailability. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Well, the problem was (like for many other systems, MS SQL Server included) user-defined functions. I limited each vendor to documentation that came with the demo and/or find on the website. Nowhere does IBM note how to actually create a user-defined function. They go on and on about how to CALL them, but nothing about creation.
I might also note that at the time I did the test DB2 on Linux was beta only AND more expensive than Oracle. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
SQL Server (both Sybase and MS) were on my list. MS got dropped because they don't do user-defined functions like I want. Sybase got dropped because I couldn't ANY information on their website. No pricing, no trial software, no docs--nothing. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I just finished testing Oracle/Informix/DB2 on NT/Linux and Oracle on Linux is the only system that even finished. (sorry, can't release results--licensing issues)
The only downside is that installing the Oracle ODBC drivers on a client is a 3 day procedure requiring a 84 MB download....
--- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
You'll note that *I* didn't say we should judge by the lowest denom, you did.
Also note that judging legal cases is different than judging the worth of art or science.
That said, who's to say what level of lying (humorous or not) is allowed in a commercial? I'm a reasonably intelligent person with a good sense of humor and Pepsi's commercial took me in for at least 1 second. That says to me that their attempt at humor was unwise at best and very dark gray at worst. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
But MS specifically said that they thought W2k was ready for the real Internet security world, so I consider that non-beta. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I don't think you understand the word "plausible". There is no "could be plausible", there is just plausible (meaning: "could be true") and implausible ("could not be true").
Now then, back to what I originally said. I said I believe the commercial for a second. That is, I momentarily fell for it, then realized that it was not true. That is because the claim was plausible: Pepsi is a rich company and 7 million points would be hard to obtain. There is no logical, legal or financial reason this could not be a real prize.
The type of joke Pepsi was attempting to use is to make a claim that has surface plausibility but is unlikely and then laugh at the moment of confusion in the victim. This is like the time I told my wife that a snapping turtle is "a kind of bear". For a split-second she just looked at me and then she said "Nuh-uh".
Now, clearly Pepsi didn't mean to be offering a jet. But just as clearly, they meant people to think they were. That's the whole joke. But I think we've all met people who don't understand humor, especially subtle humor. Therefore I think that reasonable (if a little...slow) people could believe that Pepsi is offering a jet as a prize.
This is not to say that I think the plaintiff in this case is one of those people. But that's beside the point: he's trying to cash in on the stupidity of the rest of Pepsi's target audience and, as far as I'm concerned, more power to him. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
But when I saw this commercial I did think for a split-second "I can win a jet?" The reason I thought this was that 7 million points seemed like an awful lot--I figured that if someone was actually able to get that many, maybe Pepsi had something up their sleeve.
As someone else has noted, when did reasonability become the criterion for legality? In a world where people can win lawsuits against peanut packaging firms because there is no warning about eating the shells, a company that says "you can win a jet" with a straight face has to be taken seriously. This is particularly the case with a well-heeled company like Pepsi that concievably really give a jet to the winner. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
First rule of responsible journalism: Don't provide free advertising by printing a press release as a real story.
Example: "The processor will be used in both the AS400 and RS/6000 server families, which are slated to hit the market in 2001."
In other words: "Even in our wildest dreams this product won't be available for at least 18 months and that's real time, not Internet time."
That's not an "exciting new product", that's a load of crap. I used to watch Beyond 2000 and other programs that "showcase new technology" until I realized that the promises of "you'll see it in 3-5 years" never came true. Same thing here.
What this fellow (not to mention/. itself) could do to salvage the situation is to print "IBM claims that..." before stories like this and track them all with hit/miss stats given. That way there would be less "free advertising" incentive because if they over-promised and under-delivered they'd be caught out. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
So? There are several operating systems (even Unix-like operating systems), too--choice is good. You don't have to be original to have an impact. Also note that this doesn't appear to be a (money-making) scam: At no point do you have to give any money to anyone.
USians can't have dual citizenship.
Wrong. Go check your facts. The State Department doesn't LIKE dual citizenships, but they do not have the power to revoke your citizenship unless you are a baddie (treason, etc)
I don't like how they are running things
Then don't join. Or, if you like the basic idea but not the details, join and then put your pet peeve up to a Public Vote (everything, including the constitution is malleable by Public Vote). I don't like that they are using MS software for an "open" society so I'm joining and hoping to change all that.
--- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
"First of all, the constitution on www.juga.com...is basically subject to change at the whim of the webmaster."
Wrong. If you actually read the constitution it says that all constitutional changes have to be approved by a simple majority of a two-thirds quorum. Furthermore, it says all citizens (secretaries) are equal and Public Votes can toss anyone out, which presumably includes the webmaster. --- Put Hemos through English 101! "An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
How about the "Catarra" (or whatever it is). Sounds and looks WAY to much like "catarrh". catarrh
A cold in the head. The word means a down-running; from the Greek katarrheo (to flow down).
A cold or similar malady.
--- Put Hemos through English 101!
I'll be avoiding it like the plague...
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I run a home network with Linux on the server (which is a 486x75). The last thing I need is to slow down network access and other processes just to save a couple of bucks on a modem. In any case, I prefer external modems--I'm guessing these pieces of junk can only work as an internal modem, yes? --- Put Hemos through English 101!
AFAIK there is only one way to keep Exchange from relaying and that is to go back to version 4.
The downside (well, one of the downsides) is that while Exchange 4 doesn't relay, neither does it tell you that it doesn't relay. So spammers try to relay against your Exchange server, which fails and sends mail to the mail admin, but to the spammer it looks like it worked so they keep using it.
If you are going to setup 25,000 users, do not, repeat NOT, use Exchange. I remember our migration of a mere 750 with extreme horror. We had to manually create each user.
Of course I was simply a lowly programmer working under the direction of our totally incompetent network admin--maybe there was an easier way and she missed that topic in the training the week before.
What you really need is a requirements analysis. Exchange is a totally different thing than, say, Sendmail. Analyzing what you need will tell you which to go with. For instance, do you need public folders, scheduling, etc? If so, maybe use Exchange. Do you need configurability, speed and Internet email? Then you want not-Exchange. --- Put Hemos through English 101!
"Merit" can only be calculated in a context. I may have high merit as a programmer, but low merit as an administrator, for example.
What this means is that a "meritocracy" has to be sure to calculate merit on the relevant characteristics. Those characteristics are unlikely to be solely technical for anything but the most trivial of social groupings.
Therefore: FascDot's Law--As technology advances, the more technologically literate will become more powerful (politically, socially, etc), all else being equal.
Corollary #1: If Joe Random is technologically literate but not powerful, "all else" must not equal--i.e. he doesn't know the first thing about history, psychology, economics, politics, etc, etc , etc.
A good argument for 4 year degrees for computer nerds, no? --- Put Hemos through English 101!
It used to be that I heard about things first on/. and then on the radio that night or the next morning.
Then I started hearing things on the mainstream radio news in the morning and seeing them on/. when I got to work.
Then I heard a story on NPR on Friday that I saw on/. on Monday.
I heard about IBM's Shark on yesterday morning from a mainstream Seattle news radio station. A very lame one. Furthermore, that "reporter" got the story right the first time around and didn't need an update to tell us the drives would be big and expensive.
I'm sure this post will be moderated down as a troll or offtopic or something, but before it goes, heed the warning CmdrTaco--the quality of your readership is directly related to the quality of your news site. If you cut corners we cut out. --- Put Hemos through English 101!
I've never used AIM or ICQ. I used talk/ntalk (when I cared for this sort of thing.
Advantages:
standards compliant
widely available
no additional IDs necessary (uses email addr)
Can someone explain why ntalk is sufficient or, if there is some little niggling reason, why we couldn't just add to ntalk rather than re-inventing the wheel? --- Put Hemos through English 101!
Slashdot Mirror
...how much did you pay for yours?
...either some genius has changed the root password or the sys admins are fixing...
I'm assuming the idea of giving out the root password was so that everybody could know what was running on the server.
How does revealing the password tell anyone what's running on the server?
Yeah, it could be that. Or it could be the fact that you can't log in remotely as root by default. Which has been discussed over and over and over.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I ping each host to get the IP and make sure it was up. They both were. I used satan at linuxppc and found nothing good. Then I tried W2k--host is down already.
I guess somebody finally found a use for all that time spent rebooting Windows: security through unavailability.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Well, the problem was (like for many other systems, MS SQL Server included) user-defined functions. I limited each vendor to documentation that came with the demo and/or find on the website. Nowhere does IBM note how to actually create a user-defined function. They go on and on about how to CALL them, but nothing about creation.
I might also note that at the time I did the test DB2 on Linux was beta only AND more expensive than Oracle.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
SQL Server (both Sybase and MS) were on my list. MS got dropped because they don't do user-defined functions like I want. Sybase got dropped because I couldn't ANY information on their website. No pricing, no trial software, no docs--nothing.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I just finished testing Oracle/Informix/DB2 on NT/Linux and Oracle on Linux is the only system that even finished. (sorry, can't release results--licensing issues)
The only downside is that installing the Oracle ODBC drivers on a client is a 3 day procedure requiring a 84 MB download....
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
You'll note that *I* didn't say we should judge by the lowest denom, you did.
Also note that judging legal cases is different than judging the worth of art or science.
That said, who's to say what level of lying (humorous or not) is allowed in a commercial? I'm a reasonably intelligent person with a good sense of humor and Pepsi's commercial took me in for at least 1 second. That says to me that their attempt at humor was unwise at best and very dark gray at worst.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
Yes, W2k is still in beta.
But MS specifically said that they thought W2k was ready for the real Internet security world, so I consider that non-beta.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
I don't think you understand the word "plausible". There is no "could be plausible", there is just plausible (meaning: "could be true") and implausible ("could not be true").
Now then, back to what I originally said. I said I believe the commercial for a second. That is, I momentarily fell for it, then realized that it was not true. That is because the claim was plausible: Pepsi is a rich company and 7 million points would be hard to obtain. There is no logical, legal or financial reason this could not be a real prize.
The type of joke Pepsi was attempting to use is to make a claim that has surface plausibility but is unlikely and then laugh at the moment of confusion in the victim. This is like the time I told my wife that a snapping turtle is "a kind of bear". For a split-second she just looked at me and then she said "Nuh-uh".
Now, clearly Pepsi didn't mean to be offering a jet. But just as clearly, they meant people to think they were. That's the whole joke. But I think we've all met people who don't understand humor, especially subtle humor. Therefore I think that reasonable (if a little...slow) people could believe that Pepsi is offering a jet as a prize.
This is not to say that I think the plaintiff in this case is one of those people. But that's beside the point: he's trying to cash in on the stupidity of the rest of Pepsi's target audience and, as far as I'm concerned, more power to him.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
But when I saw this commercial I did think for a split-second "I can win a jet?" The reason I thought this was that 7 million points seemed like an awful lot--I figured that if someone was actually able to get that many, maybe Pepsi had something up their sleeve.
As someone else has noted, when did reasonability become the criterion for legality? In a world where people can win lawsuits against peanut packaging firms because there is no warning about eating the shells, a company that says "you can win a jet" with a straight face has to be taken seriously. This is particularly the case with a well-heeled company like Pepsi that concievably really give a jet to the winner.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
First rule of responsible journalism: Don't provide free advertising by printing a press release as a real story.
/. itself) could do to salvage the situation is to print "IBM claims that..." before stories like this and track them all with hit/miss stats given. That way there would be less "free advertising" incentive because if they over-promised and under-delivered they'd be caught out.
Example: "The processor will be used in both the AS400 and RS/6000 server families, which are slated to hit the market in 2001."
In other words: "Even in our wildest dreams this product won't be available for at least 18 months and that's real time, not Internet time."
That's not an "exciting new product", that's a load of crap. I used to watch Beyond 2000 and other programs that "showcase new technology" until I realized that the promises of "you'll see it in 3-5 years" never came true. Same thing here.
What this fellow (not to mention
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
So? There are several operating systems (even Unix-like operating systems), too--choice is good. You don't have to be original to have an impact. Also note that this doesn't appear to be a (money-making) scam: At no point do you have to give any money to anyone.
Wrong. Go check your facts. The State Department doesn't LIKE dual citizenships, but they do not have the power to revoke your citizenship unless you are a baddie (treason, etc)
Then don't join. Or, if you like the basic idea but not the details, join and then put your pet peeve up to a Public Vote (everything, including the constitution is malleable by Public Vote). I don't like that they are using MS software for an "open" society so I'm joining and hoping to change all that.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
"First of all, the constitution on www.juga.com...is basically subject to change at the whim of the webmaster."
Wrong. If you actually read the constitution it says that all constitutional changes have to be approved by a simple majority of a two-thirds quorum. Furthermore, it says all citizens (secretaries) are equal and Public Votes can toss anyone out, which presumably includes the webmaster.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein
catarrh
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Put Hemos through English 101!
I run a home network with Linux on the server (which is a 486x75). The last thing I need is to slow down network access and other processes just to save a couple of bucks on a modem. In any case, I prefer external modems--I'm guessing these pieces of junk can only work as an internal modem, yes?
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Put Hemos through English 101!
Prolly so...I know *I* get turned on by *my* palm...
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Put Hemos through English 101!
So when are they finally going to perfect the technology that will make pennies the size of CDROMs?
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"[Vendor] experts in Redmond..."
Hmmmm....who could this be?
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Put Hemos through English 101!
AFAIK there is only one way to keep Exchange from relaying and that is to go back to version 4.
The downside (well, one of the downsides) is that while Exchange 4 doesn't relay, neither does it tell you that it doesn't relay. So spammers try to relay against your Exchange server, which fails and sends mail to the mail admin, but to the spammer it looks like it worked so they keep using it.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
...except an anti-recommendation.
If you are going to setup 25,000 users, do not, repeat NOT, use Exchange. I remember our migration of a mere 750 with extreme horror. We had to manually create each user.
Of course I was simply a lowly programmer working under the direction of our totally incompetent network admin--maybe there was an easier way and she missed that topic in the training the week before.
What you really need is a requirements analysis. Exchange is a totally different thing than, say, Sendmail. Analyzing what you need will tell you which to go with. For instance, do you need public folders, scheduling, etc? If so, maybe use Exchange. Do you need configurability, speed and Internet email? Then you want not-Exchange.
---
Put Hemos through English 101!
"Merit" can only be calculated in a context. I may have high merit as a programmer, but low merit as an administrator, for example.
What this means is that a "meritocracy" has to be sure to calculate merit on the relevant characteristics. Those characteristics are unlikely to be solely technical for anything but the most trivial of social groupings.
Therefore: FascDot's Law--As technology advances, the more technologically literate will become more powerful (politically, socially, etc), all else being equal.
Corollary #1: If Joe Random is technologically literate but not powerful, "all else" must not equal--i.e. he doesn't know the first thing about history, psychology, economics, politics, etc, etc , etc.
A good argument for 4 year degrees for computer nerds, no?
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"I told you so."
This is exactly why we need more free speech and less free beer.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
It used to be that I heard about things first on /. and then on the radio that night or the next morning.
/. when I got to work.
/. on Monday.
Then I started hearing things on the mainstream radio news in the morning and seeing them on
Then I heard a story on NPR on Friday that I saw on
I heard about IBM's Shark on yesterday morning from a mainstream Seattle news radio station. A very lame one. Furthermore, that "reporter" got the story right the first time around and didn't need an update to tell us the drives would be big and expensive.
I'm sure this post will be moderated down as a troll or offtopic or something, but before it goes, heed the warning CmdrTaco--the quality of your readership is directly related to the quality of your news site. If you cut corners we cut out.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
...just dynamic DNS. talk and write are both based off of username + domain and ftp is host + domain. No static IP needed.
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Put Hemos through English 101!
please explain why ICQ != talk + write + ftp
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Put Hemos through English 101!
Advantages:
Can someone explain why ntalk is sufficient or, if there is some little niggling reason, why we couldn't just add to ntalk rather than re-inventing the wheel?
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Put Hemos through English 101!