I'm intrigued. What FOSS projects has the British government poured millions of public money into exactly? All I see them doing is getting ripped off by EDS time and time again! Though to be fair it's not only EDS. I know a guy who put up a tender for a government cabling project, he didn't really want the job he just wanted to get all the paperwork and experience so he could tender in the future. His quote went in at £ludicrous money and he won! No one was more surprised than him.
If the government used more FOSS perhaps they would have more money to spend on the NHS!
Good ol' Jack... If you don't know him, he's an attorney and activist determined to squelch violent video games. He has been quoted saying, "[Video Games are] dangerous physical appliances that teach a kid how to kill efficiently and to love it." Sounds like someone was pwned too much when gaming as a kid. If you ever see his gamertag online, let him win a match so he stops crying.
I purchased a Gainward Geforce 6800GT from Scan in 2004. It blew up one day out of the years warranty and would have to be returned to Gainard. Gainward had stopped making that card so Scan replaced it for me with an XFX Geforce 7800GT free of charge. Now that's customer service!
Actually I think you'll find he was offered a solution in the second reply, which told him how to re-install the boot loader to his disk. The first post suggested he could boot from a livecd to get some more dignostic information. The guy was an ass from the very begining, and he *was* given usefull help from the very first post!
He was convinced he should be able to edit the bootloader without needing to boot first, and nothing anyone said could convince him otherwise.
I think most of the people on slashdot could tell similar stories. My favourite (and fashionable) spyware cleaner at present is Ubuntu Linux. In my experience it's been 100% effective!
Actually I had a fault with my BT line a litle over a month ago. I called BT on Friday evening (from my mobile) and a BT engineer was at my house on Saturday afternoon. BT kept me informed throughout the process. At around 4:30 Saturday afternoon I asked the engineer what time he clocked off and he replied "When the lines fixed, I can't leave a customer without service."
If you wanted to be safe and have it confirm your request before it does each and every action you shouldn't specify the 'force'
If you want that behaviour you require the 'interactive' option. rm -r will not prompt for every action. unless you're on a RedHat box with rm aliased to "rm -i"
That alias was the worst thing RedHat ever did. It didn't protect anyone, it just made the avergae joe too familiar with the force option. I haven't used RedHat since version 8.0, but the first thing I used to do was delete that bloody alias in my.bashrc
I suspect most people find the force option a long time before they find the alias, but by that time using -f has become entrenched.
Why can't my bank store it's customers account information inside a java applet. That way I could download my account and take it with me;)
strings account.class | grep -i welcome Welcome Richard J Cronan WELCOME SIMON K. YI WELCOME DONALD GENE GILMORE WELCOME KURT OBAN Welcome GUENTER REITH Welcome RAYMOND SEAH Welcome KENNETH W. BUSSA WELCOME VINCENT STURDIVANT WELCOME MONIQUE RODRIQUEZ WELCOME ROYLEAN COLLINS WELCOME Jean Paul Bouchet Welcome ALBERTO T ORTEGA Welcome Orin Gillian Welcome Teimuraz Ramazashvili Welcome HENRY PARK Welcome MAURICE AMANG "WELCOME DR. HENGAMEH GHAEN-MAGHAMI
Poor old DG, or should I say "DONALD GENE GILMORE"
interestingly the java class also contains the string "Please Produce Anti-Terrorist Certificate"
Back in my day PSTN was "Packet Switched Telephone Network". It was called that because it used packet switching to route information. Whoever heard of Public switching?
Public switching:
1. An outdated communications protocol used before IP on the original internet in 1500BC. It was slow by todays standards, had no means of error checking and could not gaurentee delivery. It's still used today, but only at childrens parties where it is more often referred to as Chinese whispers.
2. A method for routing humans around the world. It is used mostly at airports and train stations to route people to their destination via the most efficient link. Two people may travel to the same destination, but be switched through different routes. As a result people may arrive in a different order. Unfortunately the protocol has no method for reordering people, which is why the Airtours REP protocol is often used in conjunction with this network.
I would rather run OpenBSD on my Firewall, if for no other reason than ipfw is a mess and long over due for a rewrite. IMHO OpenBSD PF is far better. If you come from a Linux background writing your firewall backwards takes a bit of getting used to though:-)
I agree with your point about running from a LIVE CD, all my servers run GRSecurity patched Linux kernels from ISOLINUX boot CDs. The init process replaces the entire OS on disk from the CDRom. I can upgrade all of my boxes by changing the CDRom and rebooting.
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when it's a chille-con-carne?
Then it's yummy. What article?
I'm intrigued. What FOSS projects has the British government poured millions of public money into exactly? All I see them doing is getting ripped off by EDS time and time again! Though to be fair it's not only EDS. I know a guy who put up a tender for a government cabling project, he didn't really want the job he just wanted to get all the paperwork and experience so he could tender in the future. His quote went in at £ludicrous money and he won! No one was more surprised than him.
If the government used more FOSS perhaps they would have more money to spend on the NHS!
From Jinx.com:
Perhaps we should all send him a roll? http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&
Scan Computers in the UK http://www.scan.co.uk/
I purchased a Gainward Geforce 6800GT from Scan in 2004. It blew up one day out of the years warranty and would have to be returned to Gainard. Gainward had stopped making that card so Scan replaced it for me with an XFX Geforce 7800GT free of charge.
Now that's customer service!
"No wonder why there are no major companies who have a commercial version of BSD for the public, unlike Linux."
;p
Except of course Apple
Actually I think you'll find he was offered a solution in the second reply, which told him how to re-install the boot loader to his disk. The first post suggested he could boot from a livecd to get some more dignostic information. The guy was an ass from the very begining, and he *was* given usefull help from the very first post!
He was convinced he should be able to edit the bootloader without needing to boot first, and nothing anyone said could convince him otherwise.
With that config, bind will still give out already cached data. That could be used in information gathering attacks.
...
It would be better to use:
allow-query { clients; };
allow-recursion { clients; };
acl clients {
192.168.1.0/24
}
and then in your zones
zone "example.com" {
type master;
allow-query { any; };
};
Nope, not just you! It may be time to invest in a lawn mower.
I think most of the people on slashdot could tell similar stories.
My favourite (and fashionable) spyware cleaner at present is Ubuntu Linux. In my experience it's been 100% effective!
INEXPENSIVE is just so 90s dude!!
It used to be INEXPENSIVE, but that upset all the people shelling out the cash for the supposedly inexpensive disks. So it was changed to INDEPENDENT.
Is going out to buy a AMD64 X2 4800+.
This linux screensaver virus was only posted a little while ago.
It just gets worse and worse *g*
Silent delivery of Linux to the desktop, I think it's the way forward!
PS. No I didn't RTFA
Yes, but it's more like £1.50 a message. It's just a shame you can only take them for £20 a day! Damn the ICSTIS :)
It's good to see the worm simulator is only slightly less platform independant than your average worm.
Perhaps Symantec figure the only ones who would want to look at a spreading worm are those most affected by it??
Actually I had a fault with my BT line a litle over a month ago. I called BT on Friday evening (from my mobile) and a BT engineer was at my house on Saturday afternoon. BT kept me informed throughout the process. At around 4:30 Saturday afternoon I asked the engineer what time he clocked off and he replied "When the lines fixed, I can't leave a customer without service."
BT's not all bad.
If you want that behaviour you require the 'interactive' option. rm -r will not prompt for every action. unless you're on a RedHat box with rm aliased to "rm -i"
That alias was the worst thing RedHat ever did. It didn't protect anyone, it just made the avergae joe too familiar with the force option. I haven't used RedHat since version 8.0, but the first thing I used to do was delete that bloody alias in my
I suspect most people find the force option a long time before they find the alias, but by that time using -f has become entrenched.
What is this one???
http://www.tastaturen.com/TuxBoard
I know Aruze when I see one.
I also think not, and so do Dell.
Dell were very quick to point out "Questar is a direct Dell customer and that is the extent of the relationship."
This is old and inaccurate news.
Why can't my bank store it's customers account information inside a java applet. That way I could download my account and take it with me ;)
strings account.class | grep -i welcome
Welcome Richard J Cronan
WELCOME SIMON K. YI
WELCOME DONALD GENE GILMORE
WELCOME KURT OBAN
Welcome GUENTER REITH
Welcome RAYMOND SEAH
Welcome KENNETH W. BUSSA
WELCOME VINCENT STURDIVANT
WELCOME MONIQUE RODRIQUEZ
WELCOME ROYLEAN COLLINS
WELCOME Jean Paul Bouchet
Welcome ALBERTO T ORTEGA
Welcome Orin Gillian
Welcome Teimuraz Ramazashvili
Welcome HENRY PARK
Welcome MAURICE AMANG
"WELCOME DR. HENGAMEH GHAEN-MAGHAMI
Poor old DG, or should I say "DONALD GENE GILMORE"
interestingly the java class also contains the string "Please Produce Anti-Terrorist Certificate"
Rubbish!
Back in my day PSTN was "Packet Switched Telephone Network". It was called that because it used packet switching to route information. Whoever heard of Public switching?
Public switching:
1. An outdated communications protocol used before IP on the original internet in 1500BC. It was slow by todays standards, had no means of error checking and could not gaurentee delivery. It's still used today, but only at childrens parties where it is more often referred to as Chinese whispers.
2. A method for routing humans around the world. It is used mostly at airports and train stations to route people to their destination via the most efficient link. Two people may travel to the same destination, but be switched through different routes. As a result people may arrive in a different order. Unfortunately the protocol has no method for reordering people, which is why the Airtours REP protocol is often used in conjunction with this network.
bash has a help builtin which will direct the user to man and info commands.
$ help foobar
-bash: help: no help topics match `foobar'. Try `help help' or `man -k foobar' or `info foobar'.
I feel bash 2.05b responds well enough.
$ help foobar
bash: help: no help topics match `foobar'. Try `help help' or `man -k foobar' or `info foobar'.
Bash tells me what commands to run to find the information I'm after.
Thats great news!!
I would rather run OpenBSD on my Firewall, if for no other reason than ipfw is a mess and long over due for a rewrite. IMHO OpenBSD PF is far better. If you come from a Linux background writing your firewall backwards takes a bit of getting used to though :-)
I agree with your point about running from a LIVE CD, all my servers run GRSecurity patched Linux kernels from ISOLINUX boot CDs. The init process replaces the entire OS on disk from the CDRom. I can upgrade all of my boxes by changing the CDRom and rebooting.