It is my birthday this week and I was given an XBox early. With all this talk, I am wondering if that was a poor investment (for the other person). Also, I have just two games, with plans to purchase more, so what should I do? When will this Xbox 2 even be coming out?
I know of a guy that builds/maintains small office networks for a living. When asked why he wouldn't use Linux for some (most) of his projects, when he knows enough to be dangerous from using it at home, the response is:
Why would I install Linux somewhere and never get any more revenue out of them. Hell, I could pay for Windows licensing for them and still make out like a bandit! If I install Linux, I will starve.
TCO is rediculous when you consider small offices with no real computer staff. They don't have someone on salary to install patches and work on crap, so they must pay hour-minimum service charges to get anything done.
I love terrible spellers on eBay. I buy and sell Magic cards and have been able to pick up cards cheap. It seems that even with the card in front of them, not everyone can spell:
Chains of Mephistopheles Tolarian Academy Nicol Bolas
I would never endorse an Internet attack against anyone, but attacking www.sco.com doesn't affect SCO's systems at all. Rather, it kills their web host systems.
Besides, this hurts us Unix/Linux people just as bad as SCO and Windows machines. I have spent a good portion of the last two days writing Spamassassin rules and setting up Snort to monitor this stuff. Just for good measure, I went ahead and wrote a cycling shell script to stop all traffic going to www.sco.com, and it checks every 15 minutes to make sure with their nameservers that the address hasn't changed, or iptables changes.
Not to mention the phone calls coming into the call center with regard to bounces! I finally just designed Spamassassin rules to/dev/null all the "you sent us a virus" messages.
Tolkein was not a holy saint. His work is not the Bible.
Thank goodness his work isn't the bible. Can you imagine every sentence or two starting with a little number? All the scenes in the beginning half would need to be more violent and include incest, rape, and mass murder. The second half would have no substance of a story, it would simply be some letters written to all the races of middle earth informing them that they all suck and everyone should love. The book would then end with a written-down dream that everyone will claim to understand completely, but everyone's interpretation will be different. To top it off, some of the elf chapters will be left out of some editions, with some of the public complaining they were added, others that they were always in. Some other chapters would be left out completely by the original publishers; information about Frodo's youth and more information about his alleged love life.
As I said at the time, using "niggardly" in a room full of black people is kind of like being in a room full of homosexuals and saying, "It's cold in here -- throw another fagot in the fire."
You also have international issues. "Excuse me, I am to step out and light a fag." Nothing archaic there, simply a differentiation of the word; here meaning to smoke a cigarette.
I live close to Mexico (in south Texas), and it is becoming difficult here to say the word Mexican. Hispanics here, even those born in Mexico, seem to take offense to the word. Many restaurants are changing their signs and menus from Mexican food to other titles, such as Jalisco-style or Tejano food. It is just getting rediculous to the point where you cannot say anything without someone getting upset.
As far as niggardly goes, there are many words that are archaic and not uttered often. Many of those have alternate or negative meanings, or sound close to words that do. Would it be unfair to you if every word you spoke was "hate speech"? It sure would seem that way to me.
Seriously, I developed programs under many Unix flavors, and enjoyed developing solutions with Linux. But, when we needed to interface our software with Word for mail merges, or Excel for spreadsheet drop-ins, then (at least at the time) Windows programming was a necessary evil. Development of databases was done on Unix for stability, web applications using PostgreSQL and Perl, but front ends were usually Access or some VB application.
There was also a problem hiring programmers. Salaries asked for by experienced programmers were much higher (IMHO rightfully so) than salaries demanded by Windows programmers. While the Windows programmers in general were less flexable to learn new languages or stray from mainstream programming, they were quite efficient. And, the tools they were using allowed them to create and alter code quicker than us Unix-folk. That having been said, we never had to cuss-out our monitors because of a blue screen...
If I were a shop doing custom programming, it would be a mix of Windows and Unix, and Windows programmers would be about 2/3 or 3/4 of the programming population in the office. It is simply good business to sell a comfortable solution, and businesses are comfortable with Microsoft. Now, you don't have to disclose that MS-SQL will not be on the back end of that Access application...
There has been talk about this at my local ISPs, and they are afraid that blocking access or automatically filtering user's mail would open them up for lawsuits. Way back, contracts had to be signed by Internet users stating that they would basically not use the Internet for illegal activities, and in exchange, the providers would not hinder access or peer into their activities.
I wonder why they didn't just point DNS for the website to 127.0.0.1.
Find out the addresses "attacks" are coming from and update DNS records to round-robin between those addresses, rotating them out every 5,000 or so machines.
Matthew Broderick would have never been asked to "play a Game" if they'd just locked down telnet.
No one used telnet in War Games. Rather, they should have used callback on WOPR's serial interfaces that answered phone lines via a modem.
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$19.99 may not fool you or me, but subliminally many people perceive it quite differently from $20.
Du Pont also has a posted speed limit of 19 instead of 20 on their plants for several reasons. One of the top reasons being that at 20, a majority of people will drive any speed in the 20's. At 19, amazingly, they will not drive above 20.
People familiar with Du Pont will also remind me that 19 sticks in your head better than 20 because it is an odd number to see on a limit sign -- so you will adhere to it because you are more concious about it.
What I find interesting, though, are the people that think the.9 cents is the tax on gasoline! When I see a sign at a fill-up station, and it says 1.299 per gallon, I say gas is going for 1.30. And, I know that here in Texas, 38.4 cents is the tax per gallon!
If the chance of failure was 1 in 10, there would still be thousands of people lined up to be space explorers. These people are piloting the most well-maintained vehicle on Earth in the most dangerous travel path. Before you villianize the space industry, look at how many of us are killed in car accidents.
I listen to mostly punk, and am very happy with the wonderful pricing of music. I can pick up sampler CDs for less than ten bucks to see what is really worth listening to, get samples from websites, and purchase whole, new CDs for $12 (shipping included). When I order direct, I usually get a thrown-in CD sampler and a sticker or poster.
The punk mentality has paid-off in some situations. Look at Epitaph or Fat Wreck Chords. Not only are they highly sucessful, but are good to the bands. And, the bands are good to the fans.
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Well, too many people would have the same brain scan. The values would all be zero.
It is my birthday this week and I was given an XBox early. With all this talk, I am wondering if that was a poor investment (for the other person). Also, I have just two games, with plans to purchase more, so what should I do? When will this Xbox 2 even be coming out?
TCO is rediculous when you consider small offices with no real computer staff. They don't have someone on salary to install patches and work on crap, so they must pay hour-minimum service charges to get anything done.
Chains of Mephistopheles
Tolarian Academy
Nicol Bolas
etc.
I would never endorse an Internet attack against anyone, but attacking www.sco.com doesn't affect SCO's systems at all. Rather, it kills their web host systems.
/dev/null all the "you sent us a virus" messages.
Besides, this hurts us Unix/Linux people just as bad as SCO and Windows machines. I have spent a good portion of the last two days writing Spamassassin rules and setting up Snort to monitor this stuff. Just for good measure, I went ahead and wrote a cycling shell script to stop all traffic going to www.sco.com, and it checks every 15 minutes to make sure with their nameservers that the address hasn't changed, or iptables changes.
Not to mention the phone calls coming into the call center with regard to bounces! I finally just designed Spamassassin rules to
ln -s
ln -s
There, now you have a regedit utility. Seems to be just as useful as the Microsoft version.
Well, it don't make me no nevermind. Hell, Ize just 'bout to spank this puppy into overdrive anyhoo.
Thank goodness his work isn't the bible. Can you imagine every sentence or two starting with a little number? All the scenes in the beginning half would need to be more violent and include incest, rape, and mass murder. The second half would have no substance of a story, it would simply be some letters written to all the races of middle earth informing them that they all suck and everyone should love. The book would then end with a written-down dream that everyone will claim to understand completely, but everyone's interpretation will be different. To top it off, some of the elf chapters will be left out of some editions, with some of the public complaining they were added, others that they were always in. Some other chapters would be left out completely by the original publishers; information about Frodo's youth and more information about his alleged love life.
You also have international issues. "Excuse me, I am to step out and light a fag." Nothing archaic there, simply a differentiation of the word; here meaning to smoke a cigarette.
I live close to Mexico (in south Texas), and it is becoming difficult here to say the word Mexican. Hispanics here, even those born in Mexico, seem to take offense to the word. Many restaurants are changing their signs and menus from Mexican food to other titles, such as Jalisco-style or Tejano food. It is just getting rediculous to the point where you cannot say anything without someone getting upset.
As far as niggardly goes, there are many words that are archaic and not uttered often. Many of those have alternate or negative meanings, or sound close to words that do. Would it be unfair to you if every word you spoke was "hate speech"? It sure would seem that way to me.
Perhaps if reinserted it was transformed from a bug to a feature.
Seriously, I developed programs under many Unix flavors, and enjoyed developing solutions with Linux. But, when we needed to interface our software with Word for mail merges, or Excel for spreadsheet drop-ins, then (at least at the time) Windows programming was a necessary evil. Development of databases was done on Unix for stability, web applications using PostgreSQL and Perl, but front ends were usually Access or some VB application.
There was also a problem hiring programmers. Salaries asked for by experienced programmers were much higher (IMHO rightfully so) than salaries demanded by Windows programmers. While the Windows programmers in general were less flexable to learn new languages or stray from mainstream programming, they were quite efficient. And, the tools they were using allowed them to create and alter code quicker than us Unix-folk. That having been said, we never had to cuss-out our monitors because of a blue screen...
If I were a shop doing custom programming, it would be a mix of Windows and Unix, and Windows programmers would be about 2/3 or 3/4 of the programming population in the office. It is simply good business to sell a comfortable solution, and businesses are comfortable with Microsoft. Now, you don't have to disclose that MS-SQL will not be on the back end of that Access application...
Find out the addresses "attacks" are coming from and update DNS records to round-robin between those addresses, rotating them out every 5,000 or so machines.
No one used telnet in War Games. Rather, they should have used callback on WOPR's serial interfaces that answered phone lines via a modem.
Du Pont also has a posted speed limit of 19 instead of 20 on their plants for several reasons. One of the top reasons being that at 20, a majority of people will drive any speed in the 20's. At 19, amazingly, they will not drive above 20.
People familiar with Du Pont will also remind me that 19 sticks in your head better than 20 because it is an odd number to see on a limit sign -- so you will adhere to it because you are more concious about it.
What I find interesting, though, are the people that think the
If the chance of failure was 1 in 10, there would still be thousands of people lined up to be space explorers. These people are piloting the most well-maintained vehicle on Earth in the most dangerous travel path. Before you villianize the space industry, look at how many of us are killed in car accidents.
The punk mentality has paid-off in some situations. Look at Epitaph or Fat Wreck Chords. Not only are they highly sucessful, but are good to the bands. And, the bands are good to the fans.
do
iptables -A FORWARD -j DENY -s ${i} -p tcp --destination-port 25
done
Round so the poor guy that has to climb down into them has no protruding edges or points to get cut on while descending or ascending.