The reality is that Joe Consumer gets a glaze over his eyes (yes, both) when I start talking about port knocking, man-in-the-middle, and automated backups.
Then usually my wife elbows me in the ribs and announces: "Don't listen to my husband, he can't make good party conversation".
So no, I don't talk security to people. They don't want to hear it.
Then they all blabber about the latest football team this and draft that and did you see that pitcher? At which point I hit the punch bowl and the cashews and sit by myself, running through my head the list of things I need to implement as xmlrpc services.
Lastly, for jane newbie, there are TONS of good sources out there on what to do and how to do it. (Borders bookstore comes to mind, as well as Professor Google).
And generally guru geeks LOVE to talk about tech, they just don't like to be ignored.
Actually, this should be a real enhancement, where plants (potato, wheat, lettuse, tomatoes, need to be planted, harvested, in order to "sell" to the local inn. That way, people can be farmers for real and when wizards and ghouls wan to kill the farmers just for fun, the local musclemen will go knock their heads, because they want to eat in 2 weeks/3 months.
This should also apply to woodcutters. Want a wooden shield? Need some wood, buddy. "but there isn't a single tree for thirty leagues!". "Well, then, better plant some, no?"
Also, fish, and ore. Ore should be interesting. It has to be mined. Miners are needed to go down there and the more "enterprising fellows" should be able to hire people to mine the mines and extract the ore. "Want a full body armor? Need 50 kilos of metal ore, buddy." "But, there isn't any ore around here!" "Well, then, better mine some, or get a wagon and go to the land of the dwarves and bring me back some."
This would then effectively create a merchant class.
It would also be fun to have food shortages, and fights outside the inn to break into the storage and steal their food so the 30 paladins could be bested by three enterprising thieves and three oxen carts, for lack of food.
Of course, same goes for leather. Want leather greaves? Find me a cow and a tanner. "But there's not a single cow for miles!" "Well then, buddy, wanna wooden shield instead?"
And a million GP won't make a difference when you hear "Wizard needs food, badly".
Finally, rangering skills would be invaluables: "Just got this deer, we can eat folks."
I bought a computer at a local store. The guy fished through a boxed and handed me a nice shrinked-wrapped windows licence with Getting started guide and CD. I pushed it back to him across the counter and said: "Keep it for the next guy, this machine won't be running windows."
Isn't that what happened at Jericho? If I recall, the entire population of the city was slaughtered (except for the prostitute and her folks...) once the walls fell down.
Slightly OT, but does place a precedent on mass-killing.
BTW, it was God who brought the walls down and commanded the killing. I wonder what the 4 year olds Jerichoans had done to upset God that much...
Wait... Who else is on our To Hate list? Amazon -> One Click Adobe -> Skylarov Microsoft -> Developers Developers developers... Stomp stomp stomp (can somebody make a techno tune out of that NOT?) Apple -> DRM ridden iPod? Sony -> ??? Sun -> let go of Java already... RedHat -> Licence fees for Enterprise Edition? WTF? George Lucas -> Boba fired first? (how do you "fire" a laser gun?)
Oh, but before the bloomer and doomer come along, here's our "To Love" list:
IBM -> In spite of the chalk-based street ads, linux support, ThinkPads. NOVELL -> SUSE and Ximian and Evolution....the list grows thin...
What you should do is not grow it, pay the tax, have them come arrest you for growing it, and you let your lawyers kill them.
That will teach them.
If they ask you why you paid the Pot Tax, you said you were confused by the wording of the law and you wanted to make sure that you were not breaking the law, so just to be on the safe side, you sent it in.
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1.0 should be enough to satisfy the current administration.
The reality is that Joe Consumer gets a glaze over his eyes (yes, both) when I start talking about port knocking, man-in-the-middle, and automated backups.
Then usually my wife elbows me in the ribs and announces: "Don't listen to my husband, he can't make good party conversation".
So no, I don't talk security to people. They don't want to hear it.
Then they all blabber about the latest football team this and draft that and did you see that pitcher? At which point I hit the punch bowl and the cashews and sit by myself, running through my head the list of things I need to implement as xmlrpc services.
Lastly, for jane newbie, there are TONS of good sources out there on what to do and how to do it. (Borders bookstore comes to mind, as well as Professor Google).
And generally guru geeks LOVE to talk about tech, they just don't like to be ignored.
Then they'll get $7/hour security.
When disaster strikes and the backup had not been run since Jan 1, they'll scream bloody murder and then pay you $120/hr, and they'll be glad to.
It's like children and that glowing flame atop the candle. They have to put their finger in it at least once.
Actually, this should be a real enhancement, where plants (potato, wheat, lettuse, tomatoes, need to be planted, harvested, in order to "sell" to the local inn. That way, people can be farmers for real and when wizards and ghouls wan to kill the farmers just for fun, the local musclemen will go knock their heads, because they want to eat in 2 weeks/3 months.
This should also apply to woodcutters. Want a wooden shield? Need some wood, buddy. "but there isn't a single tree for thirty leagues!". "Well, then, better plant some, no?"
Also, fish, and ore. Ore should be interesting. It has to be mined. Miners are needed to go down there and the more "enterprising fellows" should be able to hire people to mine the mines and extract the ore. "Want a full body armor? Need 50 kilos of metal ore, buddy." "But, there isn't any ore around here!" "Well, then, better mine some, or get a wagon and go to the land of the dwarves and bring me back some."
This would then effectively create a merchant class.
It would also be fun to have food shortages, and fights outside the inn to break into the storage and steal their food so the 30 paladins could be bested by three enterprising thieves and three oxen carts, for lack of food.
Of course, same goes for leather. Want leather greaves? Find me a cow and a tanner. "But there's not a single cow for miles!" "Well then, buddy, wanna wooden shield instead?"
And a million GP won't make a difference when you hear "Wizard needs food, badly".
Finally, rangering skills would be invaluables: "Just got this deer, we can eat folks."
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the machine went from 325 to 300. That was 4 years ago.
Exactly.
I bought a computer at a local store. The guy fished through a boxed and handed me a nice shrinked-wrapped windows licence with Getting started guide and CD. I pushed it back to him across the counter and said: "Keep it for the next guy, this machine won't be running windows."
He smiled and said, "Cool".
That was a rethorical question.
Of course they don't care about them, as long as they got the money.
That'll just about offset the number of machines that were bought with windows on them that are now running linux. Or do they not care about those?
Actually, that would be Google News Beta.
Thanks, that's goot to know...
Exactly.
And while we're at it, I don't think they waited until the girls were 18 to "plant the seeds".
Of course, there was no one there to arrest them, so...
Reformat their hard-drive.
(use a knoppix cd to boot the beast)(wear gloves at the keyboard)
They'll assume drive failure the first time. The second time, they'll get a really uncomfortable feeling.
PS: I don't actually advocate doing that. I would just move.
PPS: If you really want to do something, call a lawyer.
PPPS: Landlord?
Isn't that what happened at Jericho? If I recall, the entire population of the city was slaughtered (except for the prostitute and her folks...) once the walls fell down.
Slightly OT, but does place a precedent on mass-killing.
BTW, it was God who brought the walls down and commanded the killing. I wonder what the 4 year olds Jerichoans had done to upset God that much...
The only way to fight spam, which is going to be inconvenient as hell for most people, is to autoblock any machine that sends or relays spam.
/dev/nulled for a few months, but that's the alternative to living with spam.
Of course, email systems will buckle and fall, and people won't be getting mad as hell because their emails are bouncing or just not getting there.
Then ISP and other companies will actually spend money (120K+) on very competent email admins and fix their damn servers.
Each spam sets the clock forward by 1 week for domain and IP block.
I guarantee there won't be any spam in 1 year.
Of course, 99% of emails will be
Wait... Who else is on our To Hate list?
...the list grows thin...
Amazon -> One Click
Adobe -> Skylarov
Microsoft -> Developers Developers developers... Stomp stomp stomp (can somebody make a techno tune out of that NOT?)
Apple -> DRM ridden iPod?
Sony -> ???
Sun -> let go of Java already...
RedHat -> Licence fees for Enterprise Edition? WTF?
George Lucas -> Boba fired first? (how do you "fire" a laser gun?)
Oh, but before the bloomer and doomer come along, here's our "To Love" list:
IBM -> In spite of the chalk-based street ads, linux support, ThinkPads.
NOVELL -> SUSE and Ximian and Evolution.
Ever since when the US recording industry big boys have cared about ethical? If it's legal and they can make a buck, they will do it.
They don't need to be. If the battery is rated: "Power to 2160", how many times will you need to recharge it in your lifetime?
So that was you...
Islamic Space Program... Now I know why it's so hard to get anything out of my ISP, they're busy towing shuttles around in the desert.
Are you sure the terrorists were not using it to train to take over the american shuttle?
The suspicious looking fellow with the 62 goats needs to be interrogated.
I've used the other browsers. Prefer Lynx from prompt. Mozilla 1.7.3 if gui.
Also, don't need a fully usable desktop. Need a server to run python scripts. When so little is installed on the box, it's surprisingly stable.
I have a PII 166 with a 1.6 gig hd and 96MB of ram running Debian and kernel 2.6.x
:)
I only installed base with nothing else, then apt-got python and ssh.
Guess what, it's plenty fast.
Of course, no GUI.
Oh, I forgot. Lynx too.
And I still have 1 gig of storage left...
Weee Moon-seer!
Vee avv leenoox Man'Drak.
Fir houR lit skeels
(by the way I am french so beware, our Ministry of Defence is full of haxors (not much else, granted... but, c'est la vie!))
As far as I am concerned (living in Los Angeles) this is great news. Less money for the Evil Redmond Empire (ERE).
What you should do is not grow it, pay the tax, have them come arrest you for growing it, and you let your lawyers kill them.
That will teach them.
If they ask you why you paid the Pot Tax, you said you were confused by the wording of the law and you wanted to make sure that you were not breaking the law, so just to be on the safe side, you sent it in.
Then file for a refund.
Sweet!!!
But set it up from a computer at a net cafe. or kinko's. Pay cash.