I think that their idea might be to restructure the backbone services so that they are able to handle the imminent speed and reliability increases in the last mile.
In future news we'll be seeing things like: x Telecomms corporation runs fibre in the last mile giving millions of European households the faster internet access that was made possible with the introduction of Géant's new backbone network.
Yet another annoying worm comes and goes, wasting countless IT hours
If the Admins secured their systems properly, nobody would be wasting any time fixing problems they allowed to happen through their own incompetence.
I'm saying that as an admin of a small network. I would be ashamed of myself if I was having to spend lots of time fixing things that were messed up by a worm.
Perhaps the admins involved in things like this should be subject to the opposite of Christmas Bonuses. They should loose out on part of their pay packet at the end of the year for not doing their job properly.
When will people learn to use secure systems and to apply all the latest patches and use all the latest virus detection, both server (eg. Mail server, etc) and client side (if it's Windows clients). I could recommend QMail as a mail server that is very good at checking for viruses - or use one of the many hacks for sendmail that filter out nasty looking things. If you must use Exchange, use it as an *INTERNAL* server, and have all mail coming in from outside be filtered by a more secure system first. It's common sense really.
Oops. Even then it still seems rather pointless to me. I only have a digital connection between my speakers and my soundcard. So I won't be hearing any music when I play the file? Kinda like paying to rent a sun bed when you're dressed like an engineer from an Intel ad.
I use an Orange mobile phone in the UK and am unable to get AOL's WAP client to work. I know people on Cellnet that can use it. Does anyone know why this happens? Is there any way to get AIM to work on an Orange phone? I've tried it on a Nokia 7110 and a Nokia 6210 - and as far as I know both of these handsets can use AIM on other networks.
Yeah that stops you simply using Creative's software for recording "What U Hear", but you can still run a cable between the digital-out of one soundcard and the digital-in of the other. None (or very little) loss of quality and it will always work, since the soundcard *always* gives digital output:-)
Now... if only they could get drivers for all their hardware to work properly in Windows XP!
If I could do that, then I could also use an iPod with Linux, right? but the reason the Apple iPod MP3 Player doesnt work (well, the 1st one anyway) is that Linux's FireWire support isn't very much evolved yet. If I had time I would find out how Darwin does it and start trying to get Linux to go the same way.
Please don't steal access to my website. I'll sell you a copy (for your own use only) on CD for $19.99.
This reminds me of the story about google finding things it "wasn't meant to find" on the net. If you don't want people to access the resource - don't put it on the internet:-)
Geez!!! Give them a break! I bet most people don't read things on their own websites. Even when you do, it's much easier to spot things on other people's sites than it is on your own one.
If you really wanna complain about something, go compain about people using "then" instead of "than" and other (more important) things like that. If you want to post a link to an earlier article, feel free to do that too.
... Windows wasn't something I had heard of, and I got on quite happily learning to program with a command prompt and a BASIC interpreter. If a 5 year-old can use these tools, then I see them having no problem using a Linux console... and naturally progressing to running Gnome, KDE or whatever within X. You're only thinking they won't manage it, because from your perspective changing permanently to Linux would be a huge change whereas for a kid, there's no change. It would be just like learning Windows:-)
This isn't intended to be flaimbait - it's a valid response to the growing amount of script kiddies who just use their root-kit and don't REALLY know how anything works...
If the people who turn into script kiddies gain a lot of UNIX/Linux experience at school, they will have a better understanding from an early age about how people are able to exploit security flaws in popular products. If all children who grow up to be programmers have had experience at school of stuff like this, dontcha think that the software they produce might not be subject to so many security flaws as some of the crap that passes as "good software" today?
> Teach the kids on Linux rather than Windows.
> It's a better OS, though the real world generally
> uses a crappier one.
And why do you think the real world uses the crappier one? Because all the yound people using it now were brought up with it at school.
If you were in favour of the whole world using the better OS, then you'd be in favour of it being used extensively in schools (note that I didn't say exclusively), since the school-leavers will eventually dictate what the rest of the world does.
They've made you need to go and buy better security measures and rethink your security policy, as what you currently have obviously isn't good enough
If someone just strolls into the house through the open door and walks away with my TV, then that's my own dumb fault for leaving the house wide open.
So, taking your original phrase "but its less of a serious crime to pick the lock and just watch the TV",I would be equally upset either way. And in the computer world I'd be worried if someone broke into my server and stole my MP3's than if someone downloaded what was available on my website. Breaking in to steal things, or even just to look at them, has a deeped psychological effect on the victim than simply taking advantage of what was provided.
Just to help assess the geekiness of your workplace... by "CATV", did you mean "Cat V" (Cat 5) or Cable TV?
Anyway... socializing is pointless unless you can talk about stuff like that with the people you're out with:-P
If David, Michael, Cathy and Andrea were paying per megabyte for the bandwidth used by their site (for instance if they required what some ISPs consider to be premium services such as ASP or PHP) they would not want everyone who was looking for DMCA information to view their site, since that would most likely more than double their bandwidth consimption. With a frequently searched for word such as DMCA being used as a nonword for their site, they are both saving their own money and the performance of their ISP's network and servers. Another example would be if someone's surname is the same as that of a commercial organisation. They do not want all of that organisation's customers wandering into their site by accident.
I'm not a sysadmin by profession yet, but I am the sysadmin of my house. A good way to learn the necessary stuff would be administering your home network - all aspects of it. Hardware, software, users, connections, etc. And don't take the easy Windows ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) route - set up a FreeBSD or Linux box as a firewall and another as a file server. Get Samba/NFS going. Get a friend to test how secure your network is. At my house everyone's got their own computer (or two). I'm in the process of upgrading all the 10mbps parts of the network to 100mbps. The main file server is on Linux - it's been that way for a few years now. It feels good knowing exactly what to type when you SSH to your router after someone complains that they can't get IRC to work. Successfully being in control of a large amount of machines and keeping them secure (even if it's just at home) would look good on your resumé, as long as the person reading it knows what they're looking for.
I don't go out shopping much, but as far as I recall, this Casio wristwatch camera has been available in my local home/catalog retail outlet (Argos, UK) since the autumn (fall) release of their shopping catalog, which has been around for a good few weeks. I didn't realize it was as expensive as $200 though. I'm not going to check since I'm lazy, but I seem to remember someone talking about a wristwatch camera that could send photos to Nokia phones to be used as operator/caller-group logos too. The guy that mentioned it had a Nokia 9xxx series phone, so maybe it wasn't.NOL (or any other) nokia-specific file type.
Hmmm... if watches now have the ability of different tones and pictures, all they need is GSM (or the US-equivalent) to become the best thing since cell phones!
I noticed your sig and remembered this (dunno where I got it from)...
Top scientists agree that with the present rate of consumption, the earth's
supply of gravity will be exhausted before the 24th century. As man
struggles to discover cheaper alternatives, we need your help.
Please...
CONSERVE GRAVITY
Follow these simple suggestions:
(1) Walk with a light step. Carry helium balloons if possible.
(2) Use tape, magnets, or glue instead of paperweights.
(3) Give up skiing and skydiving for more horizontal sports like curling.
(4) Avoid showers.. take baths instead.
(5) Don't hang all your clothes in the closet... Keep them in one big pile.
(6) Stop flipping pancakes
The strange thing is that viewing this page which shows threaded comments, oldest first, shows mine above the original article. Am I missing something, or does shalsdot have a strange and twisted idea of "oldest first"?
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In other news:
Budweiser patents a simple method of connecting storage devices to a personal computer or workstation.
- As timothy pointed out, TiVo don't have anything that does this
- Other things like ethernet webcams already do this
Don't companies ever check for prior art any more?- They're not even using 1% of capacity
- They should invest more in the last mile
I think that their idea might be to restructure the backbone services so that they are able to handle the imminent speed and reliability increases in the last mile.In future news we'll be seeing things like:
x Telecomms corporation runs fibre in the last mile giving millions of European households the faster internet access that was made possible with the introduction of Géant's new backbone network.
I may be wrong, but that's just my $0.02
The BBC Reported A student group at Brown University converted their Science Library into a giant video game screen by installing over 10,000 Christmas lights in the windows. on Wednesday, 19 April, 2000. Someone said this was "Off Topic", but as it also appeals to people who get excited about using large non-comkputer-oriented objects as video displays, then it is entirely relevant. I like the idea of both this and the CCC Blinkenlights. Talking of blinkenlights, try telnetting to here and see a starwars movie via telnet. I think this has been around for about as long as the CCC's Blinkenlights page has.
Patch 2 Peer :)
Yet another annoying worm comes and goes, wasting countless IT hours
If the Admins secured their systems properly, nobody would be wasting any time fixing problems they allowed to happen through their own incompetence.
I'm saying that as an admin of a small network. I would be ashamed of myself if I was having to spend lots of time fixing things that were messed up by a worm.
Perhaps the admins involved in things like this should be subject to the opposite of Christmas Bonuses. They should loose out on part of their pay packet at the end of the year for not doing their job properly.
When will people learn to use secure systems and to apply all the latest patches and use all the latest virus detection, both server (eg. Mail server, etc) and client side (if it's Windows clients). I could recommend QMail as a mail server that is very good at checking for viruses - or use one of the many hacks for sendmail that filter out nasty looking things. If you must use Exchange, use it as an *INTERNAL* server, and have all mail coming in from outside be filtered by a more secure system first. It's common sense really.
Yet another annoying worm comes and goes, wasting countless IT hours
Oops. Even then it still seems rather pointless to me. I only have a digital connection between my speakers and my soundcard. So I won't be hearing any music when I play the file? Kinda like paying to rent a sun bed when you're dressed like an engineer from an Intel ad.
I use an Orange mobile phone in the UK and am unable to get AOL's WAP client to work. I know people on Cellnet that can use it. Does anyone know why this happens? Is there any way to get AIM to work on an Orange phone? I've tried it on a Nokia 7110 and a Nokia 6210 - and as far as I know both of these handsets can use AIM on other networks.
Yeah that stops you simply using Creative's software for recording "What U Hear", but you can still run a cable between the digital-out of one soundcard and the digital-in of the other. None (or very little) loss of quality and it will always work, since the soundcard *always* gives digital output :-)
Now... if only they could get drivers for all their hardware to work properly in Windows XP!
If I could do that, then I could also use an iPod with Linux, right? but the reason the Apple iPod MP3 Player doesnt work (well, the 1st one anyway) is that Linux's FireWire support isn't very much evolved yet. If I had time I would find out how Darwin does it and start trying to get Linux to go the same way.
Please don't steal access to my website. I'll sell you a copy (for your own use only) on CD for $19.99.
:-)
This reminds me of the story about google finding things it "wasn't meant to find" on the net. If you don't want people to access the resource - don't put it on the internet
Geez!!! Give them a break! I bet most people don't read things on their own websites. Even when you do, it's much easier to spot things on other people's sites than it is on your own one.
If you really wanna complain about something, go compain about people using "then" instead of "than" and other (more important) things like that. If you want to post a link to an earlier article, feel free to do that too.
No, I think you meant: Ewige Blümenkraft
(Note the umlaut above the U);
When I was a lad...
:-)
... Windows wasn't something I had heard of, and I got on quite happily learning to program with a command prompt and a BASIC interpreter. If a 5 year-old can use these tools, then I see them having no problem using a Linux console... and naturally progressing to running Gnome, KDE or whatever within X. You're only thinking they won't manage it, because from your perspective changing permanently to Linux would be a huge change whereas for a kid, there's no change. It would be just like learning Windows
This isn't intended to be flaimbait - it's a valid response to the growing amount of script kiddies who just use their root-kit and don't REALLY know how anything works...
If the people who turn into script kiddies gain a lot of UNIX/Linux experience at school, they will have a better understanding from an early age about how people are able to exploit security flaws in popular products. If all children who grow up to be programmers have had experience at school of stuff like this, dontcha think that the software they produce might not be subject to so many security flaws as some of the crap that passes as "good software" today?
> Teach the kids on Linux rather than Windows.
> It's a better OS, though the real world generally
> uses a crappier one.
And why do you think the real world uses the crappier one? Because all the yound people using it now were brought up with it at school.
If you were in favour of the whole world using the better OS, then you'd be in favour of it being used extensively in schools (note that I didn't say exclusively), since the school-leavers will eventually dictate what the rest of the world does.
I Disagree!
Apples (the fruit variety) and Oranges can indeed be compared, as this paper points out, in a scientific experiment.
- They're wasting your electricity
- They've made you need to go and buy better security measures and rethink your security policy, as what you currently have obviously isn't good enough
If someone just strolls into the house through the open door and walks away with my TV, then that's my own dumb fault for leaving the house wide open.So, taking your original phrase "but its less of a serious crime to pick the lock and just watch the TV"
And in the computer world I'd be worried if someone broke into my server and stole my MP3's than if someone downloaded what was available on my website.
Breaking in to steal things, or even just to look at them, has a deeped psychological effect on the victim than simply taking advantage of what was provided.
Just to help assess the geekiness of your workplace... by "CATV", did you mean "Cat V" (Cat 5) or Cable TV? :-P
Anyway... socializing is pointless unless you can talk about stuff like that with the people you're out with
If David, Michael, Cathy and Andrea were paying per megabyte for the bandwidth used by their site (for instance if they required what some ISPs consider to be premium services such as ASP or PHP) they would not want everyone who was looking for DMCA information to view their site, since that would most likely more than double their bandwidth consimption. With a frequently searched for word such as DMCA being used as a nonword for their site, they are both saving their own money and the performance of their ISP's network and servers. Another example would be if someone's surname is the same as that of a commercial organisation. They do not want all of that organisation's customers wandering into their site by accident.
> This isn't remarkably more dangerous
> than sitting down at a Nautilus machine for
> the equivalent ammount of time
Wow! I never knew *Nautilus* was that dangerous!
I'll be sticking to Konqueror from now on then.
I'm not a sysadmin by profession yet, but I am the sysadmin of my house. A good way to learn the necessary stuff would be administering your home network - all aspects of it. Hardware, software, users, connections, etc. And don't take the easy Windows ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) route - set up a FreeBSD or Linux box as a firewall and another as a file server. Get Samba/NFS going. Get a friend to test how secure your network is. At my house everyone's got their own computer (or two). I'm in the process of upgrading all the 10mbps parts of the network to 100mbps. The main file server is on Linux - it's been that way for a few years now. It feels good knowing exactly what to type when you SSH to your router after someone complains that they can't get IRC to work. Successfully being in control of a large amount of machines and keeping them secure (even if it's just at home) would look good on your resumé, as long as the person reading it knows what they're looking for.
I don't go out shopping much, but as far as I recall, this Casio wristwatch camera has been available in my local home/catalog retail outlet (Argos, UK) since the autumn (fall) release of their shopping catalog, which has been around for a good few weeks. I didn't realize it was as expensive as $200 though. I'm not going to check since I'm lazy, but I seem to remember someone talking about a wristwatch camera that could send photos to Nokia phones to be used as operator/caller-group logos too. The guy that mentioned it had a Nokia 9xxx series phone, so maybe it wasn't .NOL (or any other) nokia-specific file type.
Hmmm... if watches now have the ability of different tones and pictures, all they need is GSM (or the US-equivalent) to become the best thing since cell phones!
Oops!
.. take baths instead.
... Keep them in one big pile.
I noticed your sig and remembered this (dunno where I got it from)...
Top scientists agree that with the present rate of consumption, the earth's
supply of gravity will be exhausted before the 24th century. As man
struggles to discover cheaper alternatives, we need your help.
Please...
CONSERVE GRAVITY
Follow these simple suggestions:
(1) Walk with a light step. Carry helium balloons if possible.
(2) Use tape, magnets, or glue instead of paperweights.
(3) Give up skiing and skydiving for more horizontal sports like curling.
(4) Avoid showers
(5) Don't hang all your clothes in the closet
(6) Stop flipping pancakes
A wierd hting I noticed...
This comment (2382187) was posted at 03:00 AM. I then posted this comment (2382608), which natuarally gets a higher comment ID.
The strange thing is that viewing this page which shows threaded comments, oldest first, shows mine above the original article. Am I missing something, or does shalsdot have a strange and twisted idea of "oldest first"?