I'm a sysadmin at a company that has hundreds of linux servers. About a year ago we hired a guy who is a former IS guy from the US Coast Guard (now a part of the Dept. of Homeland Security). He decided to quit the USCG when they told him that he had to move into a completely unrelated position in order to give somebody else a chance at working in IS. Apparently this is the way the USCG works - every couple of years pretty much everybody switches jobs. They wanted this guy, who is a top-notch linux admin, to move into something like finance. Rather than be forced into doing something he had absolutely no desire to do he decided to quit the USCG altogether and move into the private sector.
Definately NOT a good way for the government to hold on to talented people...
I know that here in Massachusetts the state laws require contractors to remove unused cable from plenums, raised floors, etc. when doing any renovation that involves those spaces. As was explained to me by one contractor the primary reason is the toxic gasses that can be released by PVC & other plastic coatings when they catch fire. Apparently contractors can be fined if they don't remove unused cables. This actually caused a problem at one place where I worked - we had 3/4 of a floor in a renovated office and the other 1/4 was vacant. When that space was leased out it was rebuilt and one day in the middle of the construction all our network connections on the walls between our space and this other space suddenly stopped working. The contractors incorrectly assumed that these were old cables so they ripped them out. Needless to say they ended up paying to have new cables run, but that took a couple days...
Thanks a lot for being such a childish jerk. What's wrong, Mr. Anonymous Coward, afraid to call me lame and stupid and actually admit to who you are? And then you have the gall to suggest that I actually subscribe to slashdot? Why should I if idiots like you are going to bash me for submitting interesting articles? The only reason I can guess is that you'd be getting that money (at least some of it), which really makes you all the more pathetic. First you have to bash people then you beg them for their money. Next time try being a man and don't post anonymously.
Interesting. I just found references to the acronym ADAS: "Airborne Data Automation System". Don't know if this is what you're referring to but it sounds like it could be. Google doesn't show much other than some links to the acronym & definition on some military websites.
Actually I don't think the location of the GPS receivers is all that important, other than the fact that they're located somewhere other than the event that occurs. I would guess that they need to remain stationary in order to detect the fact that the signals from the GPS satellites have fluctuated. I suppose you might need a group of receivers somewhere in the eastern hemisphere so that they're receiving signals from the satellites that are over the geographic area you're interested in (the ones most likely to be affected by this pressure wave) but they wouldn't necessarially have to be located in the countries you're interested in. A bunch of receivers in places like Australia, Japan, Hawaii, Russia, throughout Europe, etc. would probably be sufficient.
That article is from 2000, shortly after Ask Jeeves came into existance. That was back when the company had something like 700 human editors researching questions and supplying answers manually to a huge database. They gave up that model years ago and laid off all their editors. (probably since they couldn't afford the huge cost of all their salaries) As I said in my previous post the search engine they acquired through Teoma is what probably runs on *nix. They probably bought them because they realized they couldn't write a decent one in Windows since that's the only expertiese they had.
but I have a hard time believing that they run it on the back end. In fact I just did a quick google search for teoma.com and solaris and found a corporate Ask Jeeves website listing job openings. Most of their job openings actually sound a lot more like they're doing *nix development than Windoze development. Most of the *nix types of jobs are in Piscataway, NJ, which is where the company Teoma that they bought a few years back is located. So I'm guessing that they use IIS to make their pretty front ends but they use solaris and/or linux on the back end. I doubt Microsoft would like that fact if they really are interested in buying them!
which was originally written as a joke but actually implemented a few years ago. The RFC is officially titled "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers" (note the date of publication : April 1). In short it's a method of IP transmission using carrier pigeon. The Bergen Linux Users Group in Norway actually performed the first documented transmission of CPIP (Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol) back in 2001 and has a pretty detailed writeup of the event, including quite a number of pictures.
There actually ARE good competitors to Google. Check out Teoma for one. They've been called Googles biggest competition for quite some time now in all the search industry rags.
Um... Google, Ask Jeeves, and other major search engines have had image search capabilities for a while now. Just go to one of their sites, click on the menu tab for image search, then type in what you want to search for. Whether it's a celebrity, porn star, geographic location, tv show, or whatever, they'll usually have images of what you're looking for. MS is WAY behind the times here...
ISC has already released the patch. It's available at http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.h tml. What it does is let you specify any zone (ie. domain) whereby the server will filter out any wildcards from the authoratitive server.
I own two domains and I have all my records using my work address & phone number, not my home ones. No need to rent a PO box or anything else.
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Check out this article on eWeek about an interesting utility that Eric Raymond, the president of the Open Source Initiative, recently developed. It uses a method similar to DNA sequencing to analyze the history of a collection of source code trees. Mr. Raymond is quoted in the article as saying "I am grinning a grin that should frighten the thieves and liars at SCO out of a week's sleep."
At least on their own newsgroups (the microsoft.* hierarchy) they've been doing this for years. Back over 6 years ago I was a Windows programmer (don't worry, a long time ago I saw the light and now am a linux programer!) Anyway... Because of the work I was doing at the time with Windows and was also answering a lot of questions in the microsoft.* newsgroups I attracted MS's attention. They made me an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) back around '95.
One of the things MVP's were told was that MS tracked our posting habits in their newsgroups. They used our e-mail addresses for this. The tracking was purportedly to help determine if our MVP status would be retained from year to year. (it's an annual award) Since they acknowledged way back when that they were tracking users on their own newsgroups it really doesn't surprise me all that much that they'd expand it to cover more groups.
Actually, given that Google has an archive of many of the newsgroups it really wouldn't be all that difficult for pretty much anybody do track individual posting habits, etc. Just run some searches for the e-mail address of the user in question.
More likely they'll pull a page from SCO and make anybody who actually wants to watch a movie sign a non-disclosure agreement before they can enter the theater....
The last paragraph of the Rumor Central column of eWeek this week claims that a couple of big unnamed linux shops are considering racketeering charges against SCO because of their recent actions. The clip states that at least four more companies would have to come forward.
One a similar note eWeek is also reporting that members of the open source community have approached SCO with a proposal for viewing the supposed offending code.
Sorry plague but it's you who is wrong. When you signed your lease for your apartment it provided for certian rights. When you sign up with an ISP you agree to abide by their terms and policies, typically outlined in a TOS (terms of service) or AUP (acceptable use policy). Just becase you're paying them $20 a month or whatever does NOT give you the right to do whatever you want with that connection. Similarly, since the ISP is selling you a privtely owned service they have every right to state what is included in that service, whether it's RBL blocking at the router level or random blocking of IP's that have the number 6 in them. If you don't like that service then it's perfectly within your right to cancel your service and use a different ISP. Just like it's your right to move out of your apartment and into another one if the landlord won't let you hang up pictures.
First off, it starts by quoting the news.com article that claims the RBL only blocks about 2% of spam. This article is completely inaccurate, and if Jamie had bothered to research it at all he would have realized this. The article describes a series of tests of e-mail filtering services and lumps the RBL in with these filters. The RBL is NOT a filter. It is simply a list of IP's associated (for whatever reason) with spammers that server admins can use to block service from. Comparing the RBL to filters is like comparing Caller ID blocking (not even answering a call if the number belongs with a telemarketer) with call screening (answering the call, determining it's a telemarketer, then hanging up). If the people that ran the news.com test actually performed their test from a server listed in the RBL then 100% of the spam would have been blocked.
Claiming that the RBL is a "censorware tool" also shows that Jamie doesn't understand the purpose and use of the RBL. The RBL is nothing more than an electronic equivalent of a Consumer Reports article. The RBL is a list of IP's that MAPS determines is affiliated with spammers and shares that list publicly with anybody that wants to use it. I, as a user of the RBL, have made my own personal decision to trust MAPS and have included them in my mail servers configuration. If I have a problem with a site being added to the RBL (such as peacefire.org) I can simply tell my mail server to ignore the RBL listing for them. MAPS is simply providing a service and I am making use of that service. This does NOT Make it censorware. The RBL is as much censorware as the CallerID on my telephone - they both provide similar services.
Jamies view of the RBL as censoring Media3 is very nearsighted. The purpose of the RBL is not to censor sites like Media3 and their customers. It is a tool that attempts to encourage the owners of all the private systems that make up the internet to cooperate with each other. The vast majority of the owners of the systems that make up the internet abhor spam. By making use of the RBL, I and many of these other admins are speaking with a collective voice to the admins of providers like Media3 who either explicitly condone or implicitly allow spamming.
Jamie would do well to look up the defintion of censor. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, censor is defined as "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable". The RBL does not examine anything - it's just a list that any system administrator on the internet can utilize.
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I'm a sysadmin at a company that has hundreds of linux servers. About a year ago we hired a guy who is a former IS guy from the US Coast Guard (now a part of the Dept. of Homeland Security). He decided to quit the USCG when they told him that he had to move into a completely unrelated position in order to give somebody else a chance at working in IS. Apparently this is the way the USCG works - every couple of years pretty much everybody switches jobs. They wanted this guy, who is a top-notch linux admin, to move into something like finance. Rather than be forced into doing something he had absolutely no desire to do he decided to quit the USCG altogether and move into the private sector.
Definately NOT a good way for the government to hold on to talented people...
I know that here in Massachusetts the state laws require contractors to remove unused cable from plenums, raised floors, etc. when doing any renovation that involves those spaces. As was explained to me by one contractor the primary reason is the toxic gasses that can be released by PVC & other plastic coatings when they catch fire. Apparently contractors can be fined if they don't remove unused cables. This actually caused a problem at one place where I worked - we had 3/4 of a floor in a renovated office and the other 1/4 was vacant. When that space was leased out it was rebuilt and one day in the middle of the construction all our network connections on the walls between our space and this other space suddenly stopped working. The contractors incorrectly assumed that these were old cables so they ripped them out. Needless to say they ended up paying to have new cables run, but that took a couple days...
Don't you mean "Giggidy Giggidy!" ?
Thanks a lot for being such a childish jerk. What's wrong, Mr. Anonymous Coward, afraid to call me lame and stupid and actually admit to who you are? And then you have the gall to suggest that I actually subscribe to slashdot? Why should I if idiots like you are going to bash me for submitting interesting articles? The only reason I can guess is that you'd be getting that money (at least some of it), which really makes you all the more pathetic. First you have to bash people then you beg them for their money. Next time try being a man and don't post anonymously.
Interesting. I just found references to the acronym ADAS: "Airborne Data Automation System". Don't know if this is what you're referring to but it sounds like it could be. Google doesn't show much other than some links to the acronym & definition on some military websites.
Actually I don't think the location of the GPS receivers is all that important, other than the fact that they're located somewhere other than the event that occurs. I would guess that they need to remain stationary in order to detect the fact that the signals from the GPS satellites have fluctuated. I suppose you might need a group of receivers somewhere in the eastern hemisphere so that they're receiving signals from the satellites that are over the geographic area you're interested in (the ones most likely to be affected by this pressure wave) but they wouldn't necessarially have to be located in the countries you're interested in. A bunch of receivers in places like Australia, Japan, Hawaii, Russia, throughout Europe, etc. would probably be sufficient.
That article is from 2000, shortly after Ask Jeeves came into existance. That was back when the company had something like 700 human editors researching questions and supplying answers manually to a huge database. They gave up that model years ago and laid off all their editors. (probably since they couldn't afford the huge cost of all their salaries) As I said in my previous post the search engine they acquired through Teoma is what probably runs on *nix. They probably bought them because they realized they couldn't write a decent one in Windows since that's the only expertiese they had.
but I have a hard time believing that they run it on the back end. In fact I just did a quick google search for teoma.com and solaris and found a corporate Ask Jeeves website listing job openings. Most of their job openings actually sound a lot more like they're doing *nix development than Windoze development. Most of the *nix types of jobs are in Piscataway, NJ, which is where the company Teoma that they bought a few years back is located. So I'm guessing that they use IIS to make their pretty front ends but they use solaris and/or linux on the back end. I doubt Microsoft would like that fact if they really are interested in buying them!
Do you ever visit a domain with .com or .net TLD? If so then you use Verisign yourself. You're relying on the root DNS servers that they manage.
which was originally written as a joke but actually implemented a few years ago. The RFC is officially titled "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers" (note the date of publication : April 1). In short it's a method of IP transmission using carrier pigeon. The Bergen Linux Users Group in Norway actually performed the first documented transmission of CPIP (Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol) back in 2001 and has a pretty detailed writeup of the event, including quite a number of pictures.
There actually ARE good competitors to Google. Check out Teoma for one. They've been called Googles biggest competition for quite some time now in all the search industry rags.
Um... Google, Ask Jeeves, and other major search engines have had image search capabilities for a while now. Just go to one of their sites, click on the menu tab for image search, then type in what you want to search for. Whether it's a celebrity, porn star, geographic location, tv show, or whatever, they'll usually have images of what you're looking for. MS is WAY behind the times here...
ISC has already released the patch. It's available at http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.h tml. What it does is let you specify any zone (ie. domain) whereby the server will filter out any wildcards from the authoratitive server.
I own two domains and I have all my records using my work address & phone number, not my home ones. No need to rent a PO box or anything else.
Check out this article on eWeek about an interesting utility that Eric Raymond, the president of the Open Source Initiative, recently developed. It uses a method similar to DNA sequencing to analyze the history of a collection of source code trees. Mr. Raymond is quoted in the article as saying "I am grinning a grin that should frighten the thieves and liars at SCO out of a week's sleep."
I was just forwarded this URL:
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com
Interesting what you can do from there...
At least on their own newsgroups (the microsoft.* hierarchy) they've been doing this for years. Back over 6 years ago I was a Windows programmer (don't worry, a long time ago I saw the light and now am a linux programer!) Anyway... Because of the work I was doing at the time with Windows and was also answering a lot of questions in the microsoft.* newsgroups I attracted MS's attention. They made me an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) back around '95.
One of the things MVP's were told was that MS tracked our posting habits in their newsgroups. They used our e-mail addresses for this. The tracking was purportedly to help determine if our MVP status would be retained from year to year. (it's an annual award) Since they acknowledged way back when that they were tracking users on their own newsgroups it really doesn't surprise me all that much that they'd expand it to cover more groups.
Actually, given that Google has an archive of many of the newsgroups it really wouldn't be all that difficult for pretty much anybody do track individual posting habits, etc. Just run some searches for the e-mail address of the user in question.
More likely they'll pull a page from SCO and make anybody who actually wants to watch a movie sign a non-disclosure agreement before they can enter the theater....
The last paragraph of the Rumor Central column of eWeek this week claims that a couple of big unnamed linux shops are considering racketeering charges against SCO because of their recent actions. The clip states that at least four more companies would have to come forward.
One a similar note eWeek is also reporting that members of the open source community have approached SCO with a proposal for viewing the supposed offending code.
to be wanting to try to repair something like that on your own (well, at least not having a professional do it)...
Ever see a transformer blow up? Check out these pictures of the remains of one.
Sorry plague but it's you who is wrong. When you signed your lease for your apartment it provided for certian rights. When you sign up with an ISP you agree to abide by their terms and policies, typically outlined in a TOS (terms of service) or AUP (acceptable use policy). Just becase you're paying them $20 a month or whatever does NOT give you the right to do whatever you want with that connection. Similarly, since the ISP is selling you a privtely owned service they have every right to state what is included in that service, whether it's RBL blocking at the router level or random blocking of IP's that have the number 6 in them. If you don't like that service then it's perfectly within your right to cancel your service and use a different ISP. Just like it's your right to move out of your apartment and into another one if the landlord won't let you hang up pictures.
First off, it starts by quoting the news.com article that claims the RBL only blocks about 2% of spam. This article is completely inaccurate, and if Jamie had bothered to research it at all he would have realized this. The article describes a series of tests of e-mail filtering services and lumps the RBL in with these filters. The RBL is NOT a filter. It is simply a list of IP's associated (for whatever reason) with spammers that server admins can use to block service from. Comparing the RBL to filters is like comparing Caller ID blocking (not even answering a call if the number belongs with a telemarketer) with call screening (answering the call, determining it's a telemarketer, then hanging up). If the people that ran the news.com test actually performed their test from a server listed in the RBL then 100% of the spam would have been blocked.
Claiming that the RBL is a "censorware tool" also shows that Jamie doesn't understand the purpose and use of the RBL. The RBL is nothing more than an electronic equivalent of a Consumer Reports article. The RBL is a list of IP's that MAPS determines is affiliated with spammers and shares that list publicly with anybody that wants to use it. I, as a user of the RBL, have made my own personal decision to trust MAPS and have included them in my mail servers configuration. If I have a problem with a site being added to the RBL (such as peacefire.org) I can simply tell my mail server to ignore the RBL listing for them. MAPS is simply providing a service and I am making use of that service. This does NOT Make it censorware. The RBL is as much censorware as the CallerID on my telephone - they both provide similar services.
Jamies view of the RBL as censoring Media3 is very nearsighted. The purpose of the RBL is not to censor sites like Media3 and their customers. It is a tool that attempts to encourage the owners of all the private systems that make up the internet to cooperate with each other. The vast majority of the owners of the systems that make up the internet abhor spam. By making use of the RBL, I and many of these other admins are speaking with a collective voice to the admins of providers like Media3 who either explicitly condone or implicitly allow spamming.
Jamie would do well to look up the defintion of censor. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, censor is defined as "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable". The RBL does not examine anything - it's just a list that any system administrator on the internet can utilize.
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