Last fall I visited a friend on Maui and we stayed in the "Treetops" treehouse at Tree Houses of Hana. It was fun, but we were a little unprepared, as at least in this case, it was basically camping with a roof, a bed and a hot shower. Not much in the way of walls, but a roof;-) I enjoyed it, but it's not for everyone. They do have one that is much less rustic as well though.
If you've got KDE, just type info:foo in the location bar. You can browse info pages the way they ought to be: as html.
That doesn't help when you're in a terminal window, which is one of the big advantages to Unix. And a browser is overkill when I just want the basic usage. I have no problem if the man page has a web link to detailed information, but I still want the man pages.
it was trivial for the guys who develop spammer software to recognize these systems, have their software detect such behavior, and cease using them within less than a minute. And that's what will happen with a TarProxy, alas.
I can only hope! At least Iand my users would stop getting it.
As long as Johnny Sixpack and Patricia Partygirl (who probably outnumber the geeks at this point) keep using their spam-magnet Hotmail accounts and engage in activities conducive to having their addies harvested, spam will survive.
I couldn't care less how much spam a hotmail account gets. If this causes spammers to only target badly run systems, good.
Even if everyone implements this there's no reason why spam software can't open up hundreds of tasks running in parallel and simply be patient when necessary.
At least it's consuming his resources and slowing down the rate he can spam *you*. And if they try parallel delivery to each server, it might get mailservers to implement a 1 (or N) connection per client restriction. Though there's another tarpit for ya: pass any connections > N to a light-as-possible dribbler
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It came with OS9, but I upgraded to OS X as that was the whole point of it --- finally a real OS with mainstream application support. I keep it updated to the latest with apple's update utility. At the risk of going off topic, I have to say I'm really amazed that Quicktime is broken in a major way, and according to Mac people I know, it's been that way for a long time: if you view a "full screen" clip, it totally f***s up the desktop. Like Windoze does if you resize to a smaller resolution, only worse.
I'm one. I bought a used G4 733 to get an inexpensive introduction to the Mac world and OS X in particular. I had high hopes, as 800Mhz is quite useable in the PC world. The only thing the G4 is good for is a terminal and light web browsing. It's much too slow to be useful, and especially since I've recently been doing some video editing, I went back to my 1.8Ghz P4 Win2K system (even *that's* too slow, really, it would be inconceivable to do mpeg transcoding on the Mac!) Apple: Ghz do matter. Much as I want to go Apple, first one to 4Ghz wins my next machine.
...the Slammer worm demonstrates just 'how vulnerable the Internet remains'
No, it demonstrates just how vulnerable a number of sites on the Internet that ought to know better are. "The Internet" stayed running just fine, though it maybe slowed down a bit in places. I certainly didn't notice any noticeable reduction in spam over it.
The next time Columbia flies will be in November, when it carries into orbit educator-astronaut Barbara Morgan, who was the backup for Challenger crew member Christa McAuliffe in 1986.
That's pretty scary: 1 flight off from being Challenger all over again, teacher-wise... and what is it with the end of January at NASA?
It's not unreasonable to quibble over exactly how we go into space, but it's absolutely imperative that we continue going there. If we were to stop entirely just because the current direction isn't optimal, it would be that much harder to get going again once we were able to agree what "optimal" might be.
A friend has told me of a cat that likes to ride on one, but I haven't seen pictures yet.
My question is if, as the article says, the thing can use ir to follow walls, why does it get its nose stuck under the cabinets in my kitchen that are just the wrong height? (it will eventually usually unstick itself, but it could be a little smarter I think).
Still, it works way better than I thought it would.
Those guys are using persistant server-side applications. Try getting those numbers from a reasonably complex PHP script, even with an opcode cache on such a small box
Yes, but each one of those wizbang annoyances is just another hit to the server. dynamic generation of pages is the real server killer, depending on how much hoop-de-loop you're going through to make them.
When I was benchmarking web servers in *1994*, servers could handle 100,000/hr, which is only about 30/sec. You may need a T3 to handle the bandwidth, but any server that can't handle it today is misconfigured.
Make sure you find a reputable restaurant, not one that substitutes chicken and uses your money on some silly thing like helping the endangered species they claim you're eating.
I have a PowerMac G4 733Mhz and a Windoze 2K 1.8Ghz machine. I got the PowerMac used as an inexpensive way to start moving to that platform, now that it has a real OS. I expected it to be a little slower than the Windoze machine, but people keep saying how the ppc holds its own. BS. This thing is a dog, relatively speaking. It's now relegated to being used for Mac compatibility or a couple of apps I like that only run on the Mac. Apple had better get cpus with some performance parity if they want to stay in the market, because at present, my next real machine will be a 3G p4, not a Mac that will run most things I care about at 1/3 the speed, and nothing better than 2/3 the speed.
And it's very painful to use. I'm constantly waiting on the bloody thing. Heaven help you if you try to reorder your recording priorities while recording on both tuners. Go have dinner.
Head-end based PVR/VOD will work if *everything* is reliably available, and by reliably, I mean past the introduction period when they're accepting losses to suck people in. I don't ever see that being cost effective, but you never know...
I'd be more than happy to pay 1 penny for skipped ads...if they never appeared in the first place so I got to watch the show uninterrupted. Except I can see it now: this popular show would have had 1000 ads but this other show would only have had 100. Still, if the price wasn't prohibitive, I'd pay to subscribe to say Farscape.
Unless you pay by cash, online bill payment adds nothing on top of the federal reserve system through which all checks are processed already. And automatic payment is the only way my bills get paid on time;-)
I've only played with a Lindows box briefly, but I'm not sure why people are talking about how bad Lindows is. I run a small ISP and one of my users got one and wanted to know how to set it up to connect to me. I made a free house call as I'd not seen Lindows, and it was basically enter the login, password and phone number in one menu (which he'd actually already done) and he was online. I looked at the desktop briefly, and was surprised how much it looked like Windoze, but it was the easiest connection setup I've yet seen.
I agree; I specifically avoided watching Taken as the last thing I want is to encourage them to continue in this direction. Frankly, with Steven Spielberg being used to market it so much, I'm pretty sure it's the audience that's getting taken, but I'm just not interested in alien abduction stories, unless of course they want to make a movie of Have Space Suit, Will Travel. Admittedly in Heinlein's juvenile collection, but it was my first science fiction book and hooked me immediately.
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Last fall I visited a friend on Maui and we stayed in the "Treetops" treehouse at Tree Houses of Hana. It was fun, but we were a little unprepared, as at least in this case, it was basically camping with a roof, a bed and a hot shower. Not much in the way of walls, but a roof ;-) I enjoyed it, but it's not for everyone. They do have one that is much less rustic as well though.
That doesn't help when you're in a terminal window, which is one of the big advantages to Unix. And a browser is overkill when I just want the basic usage. I have no problem if the man page has a web link to detailed information, but I still want the man pages.
Yes, but you said the same thing would happen to TarProxy, and TarProxy does sit at the endpoint.
I can only hope! At least I and my users would stop getting it.
I couldn't care less how much spam a hotmail account gets. If this causes spammers to only target badly run systems, good.
At least it's consuming his resources and slowing down the rate he can spam *you*. And if they try parallel delivery to each server, it might get mailservers to implement a 1 (or N) connection per client restriction. Though there's another tarpit for ya: pass any connections > N to a light-as-possible dribbler
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It came with OS9, but I upgraded to OS X as that was the whole point of it --- finally a real OS with mainstream application support. I keep it updated to the latest with apple's update utility. At the risk of going off topic, I have to say I'm really amazed that Quicktime is broken in a major way, and according to Mac people I know, it's been that way for a long time: if you view a "full screen" clip, it totally f***s up the desktop. Like Windoze does if you resize to a smaller resolution, only worse.
I'm one. I bought a used G4 733 to get an inexpensive introduction to the Mac world and OS X in particular. I had high hopes, as 800Mhz is quite useable in the PC world. The only thing the G4 is good for is a terminal and light web browsing. It's much too slow to be useful, and especially since I've recently been doing some video editing, I went back to my 1.8Ghz P4 Win2K system (even *that's* too slow, really, it would be inconceivable to do mpeg transcoding on the Mac!) Apple: Ghz do matter. Much as I want to go Apple, first one to 4Ghz wins my next machine.
No, it demonstrates just how vulnerable a number of sites on the Internet that ought to know better are. "The Internet" stayed running just fine, though it maybe slowed down a bit in places. I certainly didn't notice any noticeable reduction in spam over it.
That's pretty scary: 1 flight off from being Challenger all over again, teacher-wise... and what is it with the end of January at NASA?
It's not unreasonable to quibble over exactly how we go into space, but it's absolutely imperative that we continue going there. If we were to stop entirely just because the current direction isn't optimal, it would be that much harder to get going again once we were able to agree what "optimal" might be.
A friend has told me of a cat that likes to ride on one, but I haven't seen pictures yet.
My question is if, as the article says, the thing can use ir to follow walls, why does it get its nose stuck under the cabinets in my kitchen that are just the wrong height? (it will eventually usually unstick itself, but it could be a little smarter I think).
Still, it works way better than I thought it would.
...but certainly unethical, and clearly indicative of a company you want to avoid dealing with whenever possible.
Like I said, misconfigured ;-)
(yes, I'm joking)
Yes, but each one of those wizbang annoyances is just another hit to the server. dynamic generation of pages is the real server killer, depending on how much hoop-de-loop you're going through to make them.
When I was benchmarking web servers in *1994*, servers could handle 100,000/hr, which is only about 30/sec. You may need a T3 to handle the bandwidth, but any server that can't handle it today is misconfigured.
Make sure you find a reputable restaurant, not one that substitutes chicken and uses your money on some silly thing like helping the endangered species they claim you're eating.
I have a PowerMac G4 733Mhz and a Windoze 2K 1.8Ghz machine. I got the PowerMac used as an inexpensive way to start moving to that platform, now that it has a real OS. I expected it to be a little slower than the Windoze machine, but people keep saying how the ppc holds its own. BS. This thing is a dog, relatively speaking. It's now relegated to being used for Mac compatibility or a couple of apps I like that only run on the Mac. Apple had better get cpus with some performance parity if they want to stay in the market, because at present, my next real machine will be a 3G p4, not a Mac that will run most things I care about at 1/3 the speed, and nothing better than 2/3 the speed.
Yes, well, the first copy will be to my computer's hard disk.
And it's very painful to use. I'm constantly waiting on the bloody thing. Heaven help you if you try to reorder your recording priorities while recording on both tuners. Go have dinner.
Did they remove it after slashdotting? A search for "tivo" turns up nothing at all...
Head-end based PVR/VOD will work if *everything* is reliably available, and by reliably, I mean past the introduction period when they're accepting losses to suck people in. I don't ever see that being cost effective, but you never know...
I'd be more than happy to pay 1 penny for skipped ads...if they never appeared in the first place so I got to watch the show uninterrupted. Except I can see it now: this popular show would have had 1000 ads but this other show would only have had 100. Still, if the price wasn't prohibitive, I'd pay to subscribe to say Farscape.
Unless you pay by cash, online bill payment adds nothing on top of the federal reserve system through which all checks are processed already. And automatic payment is the only way my bills get paid on time ;-)
I've only played with a Lindows box briefly, but I'm not sure why people are talking about how bad Lindows is. I run a small ISP and one of my users got one and wanted to know how to set it up to connect to me. I made a free house call as I'd not seen Lindows, and it was basically enter the login, password and phone number in one menu (which he'd actually already done) and he was online. I looked at the desktop briefly, and was surprised how much it looked like Windoze, but it was the easiest connection setup I've yet seen.
I agree; I specifically avoided watching Taken as the last thing I want is to encourage them to continue in this direction. Frankly, with Steven Spielberg being used to market it so much, I'm pretty sure it's the audience that's getting taken, but I'm just not interested in alien abduction stories, unless of course they want to make a movie of Have Space Suit, Will Travel. Admittedly in Heinlein's juvenile collection, but it was my first science fiction book and hooked me immediately.