*deploys cluebat* Installing FDS on Debian for how much money? Oh, right, zilch! If I had a dollar for ever time some idiot company or admin tried to buy his way out of a problem, I could own the company. If you guys seriously entertained that as a real possibility and it didn't occur to you that "Hey, it's GPL software, all of it, we can freaking rpm -i it ourselves" then I feel sorry for you. We have no money to buy a directory system, but guess what, that's OK!
Right now, Netware simply costs too freaking much IMO. Yes, other things are also spendy, but when I'm looking for directory services, which I currently am, here are the figures I'm faced with:
Netware: About 40 bucks per user
MS AD: About 10 bucks per user
Fedora Directory Server: About zilch.
No matter which way you cut it, I'm going to have to put in a boatload of time refactoring a painted-in-the-corner directory model with about 1400 users and 500 devices in this K12 school district. Add to that the insanity of Netware requiring Windows volumes to be FAT32 formatted (this might be out of date - if so I expect the LARTs to rain down appropriately), I just don't see any chance of going with Netware. It's a real pity, too: I actually think SuSE is an excellent desktop distribution, and deploy it here for LTSP solutions and for my own personal desktop. I imagine SuSE would probably play pretty nicely in an OES environment. But it's too much coin, and the tech just sucks at this point as far as I can see, and we ain't got no money.
So I'm stuck trying to decide between Active Directory and FDS. Wait - no I'm not;-)
Oh, I'm quite sure it's logged - I leave logging enabled on my apache boxes also. And honestly, I don't care: even if they weren't currently being bombarded by mad slashdotters, my browser quite properly sent along a referred-by (because I haven't told it not to) that clearly says I went there by clicking on the story linked in TFA. So, assuming they actually chase down each and every one of the 250K uniques they get this evening and attempt to prosecute, it'd be trivial for me to show that I was not visiting grokster as an attempt to obtain software that's not being used lawfully, but rather as general interest following a news story where it led me.
For real, who are they kidding? This is nothing more than the same cheesball.js that every forums troll uses in their sig to brag about how leet they are. I'm also debating whether or not I think this matters...
I can't help but wonder if this isn't also some kind of spam-reduction bug - a bot that's used to a simple one-step redirect is likely (as is Safari) to get null data. I'd imagine this would probably be an issue for search engine spiders. Not 100% what the benefit is, but writing a double-redirect like that is non-trivial even if it is brain-dead.
I was living in the area when DIA was being built (and life sucked badly after it was complete - pretty much everyone I talked to preferred Stapleton for many reasons, the simplest of which was that you didn't have to drive 5 miles at 25mph after getting your short-term parking ticket that charges by the tenth of an hour).
Anyhow, I remember they held a press conference when they finally started the baggage system, and it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. Suitcases were flying every which way, often ripped in half, and the reporters were all hitting the deck! Of course, this was funny to me because I wasn't down there dodging flying Samsonites; one of the problems with the baggage system was the startlingly high rate of Workers Compensation claims of the workers who had to deal with it, and the most-common cause of injury was, unsurprisingly, falling items.
If anyone has a link to that video, I'd love to see it again. I've tried, but no luck. Maybe some enterprising soul in one of the Denver local news channels can put it up on their website as part of the story of the system's closure?
Well, knock it for looks if you like, but the fact is, the Apollo program worked. We got people to the moon and back several times, using technology and engineering that would be considered startlingly primitive by today's standards.
Compare that to today's shuttle program, where the idea of even getting to the still LEO that the Hubble Telescope occupies is arguably too dangerous. And, while the idea of reusing the whole spaceship is elegant, and the sight of the Shuttle gliding to a landing is much more asthetically pleasing than a capsule plunking down below a parachute, the capsule tech is well-understood and a helluva lot simpler to model and maintain.
I'm not one of those people who accuse NASA of being 'fraidy cat about safety - to me, they honestly care about the lives of the people who are zooming out of the atmosphere on the flying bombs they produce. If this configuration is proven to work, and the Shuttle configuration is (as we have seen) proven to have serious and even fatal problems, then going "back to the future" is certainly the way to go - at least until we get to the point through any of the various technologies in development that we can abandon the whole chemical-rocket-blast-overwhelmingly-into-space concept.
So I say, if it works, go for it! Ditch the Shuttle but keep the bits that work.
I'm not saying I agree that the FBI should be involved in this horseshit (I don't), but the way "Trade Secrets" tort works is that you sign and swear to an agreement to NOT disclose certain information. If you break that agreement, you've violated a contract and an oath, and the other party is legally entitled to go after you.
On the other hand, I think this is a case of someone making an ethical decision to violate an NDA because, by his lights, the risk he faces is not as bad as Cisco continuing to have cranio-rectal inversion syndrome over this, not to mention all the half-brained dipsticks out there who haven't applied the months-old patch that fixes most of the problem.
Ethics versus NDA... it's a choice I haven't had to deal with, and for that I'm thankful.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, some Eastern European "security expert" is busy cheerfully 0wn1ng j00 when you order that book from Amazon. Checked your credit card statement lately?
...since half the people in that room have a bind setup to spam the address of Learning Perl in response to any question, no matter how obscure. One wonders why they bother.
Fortunately, perl is headed into a blessed obsolescense... here's a hint as to why. Cheers!
I'm thinking it was probably a function of the group that received the email. You know, the classic mailinglist Reply-to-group default. Drove people batshit at my last job, too. Plenty of personal information leakage due to that function, including such gems as the fact that one lady needed something appropriate for an upcoming event in a size 14.
I need to emmigrate. Enough is enough. This country has gone so far down the path of corrupt rubbish that I don't think it's reversable anytime soon, and I really don't want to raise my child in the mess that ensues (assuming such a mess is survivable, which you can argue either side of equally well without the use of a tinfoil hat). The glass marble award applies.
Anyhow, the shortest version of my resume is that I'm technically very skilled in a number of disciplines, and would prefer residency in an EEC country if at all possible.
Ahh, watch out for the session saver - there needs to be a way to disable it when needed. I had an issue with a particular web page that crashed FF on OS X, and the damn session saver would open directly to the crasher! I finally had to dig the extension out of the firefox settings in order to get my browser back.
Oh yeah, so this is (or may be but probably isn't) Steve Jobs. Well, as an avid apple user and supporter, I still have to say this: the model for television simply does not work for me, and given the hubbub surrounding this and related issues, I'm guessing that a hell of a lot of other people have found a better model, too. Leaving aside the need to decide between paying 40 bucks a month for internet or the same 40 bucks a month for cable TV (2.5 rabbit-ears channels available here), I have no interest in buying a bundle of cable channels, and you can't argue any justification beyond bundling other than greed. Go ahead and try. And I simply will not support some channels. Fox News? Not bloody likely - I refuse to go to their website even as I don't want them getting a page impression from me. Home Shopping Channel? I'd bet top dollar that they'd be gone tomorrow in an a la carte cable world.
Even with the channels I would pay money for, I'd be wasting money on what is to me crap content. One example of this is SciFi. They have some excellent programming, but they have this mistaken notion that crappy horror programming belongs on a science fiction channel. Thanks, but the gore-and-guts set can get their own damn channel.
Way I see it, there are two models which are worthy:
1) Paid subscription on a per-show basis. I'd subscribe to the shows I watch, get a bespoke tracker for those, and do what I'm doing anyhow, and feel better about it. Hell, if it can work for ITMS... 2)The model suggested in TFA. Little bugs which I see and ignore but are there. 3) Ok, I'm cheating on my math a bit here, but... a la carte cable programming. I'd pay monthly fees for the 4 channels that I'd want, and perhaps a premium to get all the local channels without rabbit-ears fuzzies on them.
Until the media companies get around to providing a way to adapt to what is now reality, they can quit bitching and moaning about the fact that they're not making money from it. Note that nowhere here have I attempted to justify what I'm doing - I'm saying "This is happening now, and here are some ways to get money from what will continue to happen regardless of lawsuits." Oh, and I'm pretty well judgement-proof, so don't bother taking that approach either.
PS: If you really are Jobs, can you please give us a way to get rid of the Dock? Thanks!
I mean, looking at your posts, it sure looks like you're taking a rather pure stance on behalf of the MPAA on this subject, and your other posts do tend to have a bias toward oligarchy, oligopoly, and pigopoly generally. So, which branch of the MPAA do you work for? Your name provides a clue.
Heh. I've always loved using Debian - it's like a time machine back to Linux as it was about three and a half years ago. 2.2 kernel? Love it! KDE 1.x? Gotta have it! Now, if I could only remember how to get stateful packet inspection working in ipchains...
I'm sure I'll be flamed to a crisp by some debianers over that obvious exaggeration, but after the experience I've had in places like #debian and the mailinglists, I really don't much care. In a way, deb is a great fit for xfree86, licensing issues aside. Same elitist attitude and brusque response to anyone daring to suggest an improvement.
Fascinating read. What I still can't avoid is the tendency of the Powers that Be of the channel feeling a bit righteous in being openly rude - I idle in ###########linux (okay, maybe not that many hash marks, but at least one too many), #linpeople, #freenode, and three other distro channels - ones which I support professionally but will not mention as to avoid the comparison game. Point is, rudeness in any of those channels is actively discouraged - I've seen people bend over backwards to try and deal with someone who is obviously frusturated and not "following the rules" as it were. If the person in question turns out to be a simple troll, then he/she/it gets a warning while someone digs up an op, and if that's ineffective, the troll gets banned. I've seen a very few snide comments made, which usually led to a scolding (unless they were simply too funny for words and even then led to a scolding, albeit somewhat more belatedly), but never, and this is going back to a year or two before openprojects became freenode, ever have I seen the sort of blatant abuse tolerated on any of the forementioned channels that I can see in about fifteen minutes of idling in #debian. The guy in that thread was right - he may not have been a terribly effictive communicator, but his point was correct. Or have we all forgotten "Two wrongs don't make a right?"
For my part, I'll continue to advocate for civility in #debian and #perl and a few other channels where such neanderthal behavior is still tolerated, and failing that, will advocate that freenode cut them loose. Sometimes a ban is the only way to get rid of a troll =]
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*deploys cluebat* Installing FDS on Debian for how much money? Oh, right, zilch! If I had a dollar for ever time some idiot company or admin tried to buy his way out of a problem, I could own the company. If you guys seriously entertained that as a real possibility and it didn't occur to you that "Hey, it's GPL software, all of it, we can freaking rpm -i it ourselves" then I feel sorry for you. We have no money to buy a directory system, but guess what, that's OK!
I'd bite, but only if kubuntu were as polished as ubuntu. Sadly (I just tried this last week), it isn't.
"Just use KDE." --Some famous geek-person.
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Netware: About 40 bucks per user
- MS AD: About 10 bucks per user
- Fedora Directory Server: About zilch.
No matter which way you cut it, I'm going to have to put in a boatload of time refactoring a painted-in-the-corner directory model with about 1400 users and 500 devices in this K12 school district. Add to that the insanity of Netware requiring Windows volumes to be FAT32 formatted (this might be out of date - if so I expect the LARTs to rain down appropriately), I just don't see any chance of going with Netware. It's a real pity, too: I actually think SuSE is an excellent desktop distribution, and deploy it here for LTSP solutions and for my own personal desktop. I imagine SuSE would probably play pretty nicely in an OES environment. But it's too much coin, and the tech just sucks at this point as far as I can see, and we ain't got no money.So I'm stuck trying to decide between Active Directory and FDS. Wait - no I'm not
Oh, I'm quite sure it's logged - I leave logging enabled on my apache boxes also. And honestly, I don't care: even if they weren't currently being bombarded by mad slashdotters, my browser quite properly sent along a referred-by (because I haven't told it not to) that clearly says I went there by clicking on the story linked in TFA. So, assuming they actually chase down each and every one of the 250K uniques they get this evening and attempt to prosecute, it'd be trivial for me to show that I was not visiting grokster as an attempt to obtain software that's not being used lawfully, but rather as general interest following a news story where it led me.
In other words: what-evah!
In Soviet Russia, IP logs YOU!
.js that every forums troll uses in their sig to brag about how leet they are. I'm also debating whether or not I think this matters...
For real, who are they kidding? This is nothing more than the same cheesball
I can't help but wonder if this isn't also some kind of spam-reduction bug - a bot that's used to a simple one-step redirect is likely (as is Safari) to get null data. I'd imagine this would probably be an issue for search engine spiders. Not 100% what the benefit is, but writing a double-redirect like that is non-trivial even if it is brain-dead.
My skill at solitaire was beginnng to get rusty...
I was living in the area when DIA was being built (and life sucked badly after it was complete - pretty much everyone I talked to preferred Stapleton for many reasons, the simplest of which was that you didn't have to drive 5 miles at 25mph after getting your short-term parking ticket that charges by the tenth of an hour).
Anyhow, I remember they held a press conference when they finally started the baggage system, and it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. Suitcases were flying every which way, often ripped in half, and the reporters were all hitting the deck! Of course, this was funny to me because I wasn't down there dodging flying Samsonites; one of the problems with the baggage system was the startlingly high rate of Workers Compensation claims of the workers who had to deal with it, and the most-common cause of injury was, unsurprisingly, falling items.
If anyone has a link to that video, I'd love to see it again. I've tried, but no luck. Maybe some enterprising soul in one of the Denver local news channels can put it up on their website as part of the story of the system's closure?
Well, knock it for looks if you like, but the fact is, the Apollo program worked. We got people to the moon and back several times, using technology and engineering that would be considered startlingly primitive by today's standards.
Compare that to today's shuttle program, where the idea of even getting to the still LEO that the Hubble Telescope occupies is arguably too dangerous. And, while the idea of reusing the whole spaceship is elegant, and the sight of the Shuttle gliding to a landing is much more asthetically pleasing than a capsule plunking down below a parachute, the capsule tech is well-understood and a helluva lot simpler to model and maintain.
I'm not one of those people who accuse NASA of being 'fraidy cat about safety - to me, they honestly care about the lives of the people who are zooming out of the atmosphere on the flying bombs they produce. If this configuration is proven to work, and the Shuttle configuration is (as we have seen) proven to have serious and even fatal problems, then going "back to the future" is certainly the way to go - at least until we get to the point through any of the various technologies in development that we can abandon the whole chemical-rocket-blast-overwhelmingly-into-space concept.
So I say, if it works, go for it! Ditch the Shuttle but keep the bits that work.
I'm not saying I agree that the FBI should be involved in this horseshit (I don't), but the way "Trade Secrets" tort works is that you sign and swear to an agreement to NOT disclose certain information. If you break that agreement, you've violated a contract and an oath, and the other party is legally entitled to go after you.
On the other hand, I think this is a case of someone making an ethical decision to violate an NDA because, by his lights, the risk he faces is not as bad as Cisco continuing to have cranio-rectal inversion syndrome over this, not to mention all the half-brained dipsticks out there who haven't applied the months-old patch that fixes most of the problem.
Ethics versus NDA... it's a choice I haven't had to deal with, and for that I'm thankful.
Everyone together now:Meanwhile, back at the ranch, some Eastern European "security expert" is busy cheerfully 0wn1ng j00 when you order that book from Amazon. Checked your credit card statement lately?
...since half the people in that room have a bind setup to spam the address of Learning Perl in response to any question, no matter how obscure. One wonders why they bother.
Fortunately, perl is headed into a blessed obsolescense... here's a hint as to why. Cheers!
I'm thinking it was probably a function of the group that received the email. You know, the classic mailinglist Reply-to-group default. Drove people batshit at my last job, too. Plenty of personal information leakage due to that function, including such gems as the fact that one lady needed something appropriate for an upcoming event in a size 14.
I need to emmigrate. Enough is enough. This country has gone so far down the path of corrupt rubbish that I don't think it's reversable anytime soon, and I really don't want to raise my child in the mess that ensues (assuming such a mess is survivable, which you can argue either side of equally well without the use of a tinfoil hat). The glass marble award applies.
Anyhow, the shortest version of my resume is that I'm technically very skilled in a number of disciplines, and would prefer residency in an EEC country if at all possible.
Well thanks. It downloaded, I watched it, it was great.
Worked a charm for me. Do you have a link describing the magnet: protocol and how you managed to get this information on the torrent?
Behold another legitimate use of bittorrent, and MPAA can suck a nut.
I got karma to blow here
/. has banned its own headline reader? HAHAHA!!!
Does anyone else notice that
"While it might be irrelevant for many /.ers"
Ahahahah!!! Oh, too funny. I almost busted up at a very inopportune time (what I get for slashdotting when I shouldn't).
Crap, that's a great idea. I'll try it next time I encounter this...
Thanks!
Ahh, watch out for the session saver - there needs to be a way to disable it when needed. I had an issue with a particular web page that crashed FF on OS X, and the damn session saver would open directly to the crasher! I finally had to dig the extension out of the firefox settings in order to get my browser back.
Even with the channels I would pay money for, I'd be wasting money on what is to me crap content. One example of this is SciFi. They have some excellent programming, but they have this mistaken notion that crappy horror programming belongs on a science fiction channel. Thanks, but the gore-and-guts set can get their own damn channel.
Way I see it, there are two models which are worthy:Until the media companies get around to providing a way to adapt to what is now reality, they can quit bitching and moaning about the fact that they're not making money from it. Note that nowhere here have I attempted to justify what I'm doing - I'm saying "This is happening now, and here are some ways to get money from what will continue to happen regardless of lawsuits." Oh, and I'm pretty well judgement-proof, so don't bother taking that approach either.
PS: If you really are Jobs, can you please give us a way to get rid of the Dock? Thanks!
I mean, looking at your posts, it sure looks like you're taking a rather pure stance on behalf of the MPAA on this subject, and your other posts do tend to have a bias toward oligarchy, oligopoly, and pigopoly generally. So, which branch of the MPAA do you work for? Your name provides a clue.
Seriously, if you wanna astroturf, don't.
Honestly, sometimes I think people post their websites to slashdot just to do load-testing.
Heh. I've always loved using Debian - it's like a time machine back to Linux as it was about three and a half years ago. 2.2 kernel? Love it! KDE 1.x? Gotta have it! Now, if I could only remember how to get stateful packet inspection working in ipchains...
I'm sure I'll be flamed to a crisp by some debianers over that obvious exaggeration, but after the experience I've had in places like #debian and the mailinglists, I really don't much care. In a way, deb is a great fit for xfree86, licensing issues aside. Same elitist attitude and brusque response to anyone daring to suggest an improvement.
Fascinating read. What I still can't avoid is the tendency of the Powers that Be of the channel feeling a bit righteous in being openly rude - I idle in ###########linux (okay, maybe not that many hash marks, but at least one too many), #linpeople, #freenode, and three other distro channels - ones which I support professionally but will not mention as to avoid the comparison game. Point is, rudeness in any of those channels is actively discouraged - I've seen people bend over backwards to try and deal with someone who is obviously frusturated and not "following the rules" as it were. If the person in question turns out to be a simple troll, then he/she/it gets a warning while someone digs up an op, and if that's ineffective, the troll gets banned. I've seen a very few snide comments made, which usually led to a scolding (unless they were simply too funny for words and even then led to a scolding, albeit somewhat more belatedly), but never, and this is going back to a year or two before openprojects became freenode, ever have I seen the sort of blatant abuse tolerated on any of the forementioned channels that I can see in about fifteen minutes of idling in #debian. The guy in that thread was right - he may not have been a terribly effictive communicator, but his point was correct. Or have we all forgotten "Two wrongs don't make a right?"
For my part, I'll continue to advocate for civility in #debian and #perl and a few other channels where such neanderthal behavior is still tolerated, and failing that, will advocate that freenode cut them loose. Sometimes a ban is the only way to get rid of a troll =]