John Stedman, a lieutenant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in charge of IP violations, testified in front of the Senate Homeland Security committee that some associates of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah may be involved in copyright violations.
Reason #6079870946321098708465498708407 why California should not be allowed to be a US state.
Heheh, InterMetro...for people who love their house to look like the stockrooms, kitchens and light storage rooms of the Oregon Zoo.
This is particularly amusing, since I used to work in retail before they privatized my department. That zoo has by coincidence a Jurassic Park-esque look to it and have enough of a sense of humor about it to occasionally play music from the movie soundtrack. But working around that shelving all day every day with the occasional Jurassic Park soundtrack music thrown in the mix, it's hard not to not associate metro shelving with veliociraptors, especially if it's been dark and rainy all day.
So I read your post and immediately thought, "Jurassic Living Room" or some Straight Eye for the Gay Guy ripoff that I can't even begin to make rhyme...
Apt and yum and yast don't solve fundamental problems with the way developers treat dependencies in RPM or distros forking the package format or package naming and versioning without rhyme or reason.
Four, what makes DEB's "just work" is policy, not technology. An RPM-based distribution with as anal a policy as Debian's would "just work" too.
Riiight. Go have fun installing a Red Hat RPM on Mandrake or vice-versa. Or just dependency hell Red Hat puts you in with it's own packages. The package system shouldn't allow per-file dependencies, it just causes dependency hell.
Other Debian-based distros are generally fairly anal about staying compatible with Debian. There isn't a lot in any Debian-based distro that you can't use in any other Debian-based distro. If you get a.deb and you're on a Debian-derived system, odds are that.deb will Just Work(tm). You might have to apt-get a few packages, but at least everybody uses the same package names in the.deb world and can't do per-file dependencies, so it's one extra command instead of an afternoon.
Your comment falsely assumes RPM-based distros don't think twice about forking the package standard at the drop of a hat and package maintainers don't think it's a good idea to depend on a random obscure file instead of a package, or if it is a package, the same name for the package as what everyone else calls it.
...therefor the only secure option is to format and reinstall from a known good backup. Otherwise, there's a big unknown whether or not you got rid of the compromising situation. Perhaps now is a good time to consider a platform that doesn't make your problem inevitable.
It's an OS semi-guaranteed to be undamaged by marketing hype and marketing decisions. What more could you want? (Well, othe than the entire thing to be FOSS? *sigh*)
What, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and the bajillion other free OSs; KDE, Gnome and the 8 bajillion window managers and desktop environments weren't enough options for you?
California already sends too many of it's drivers, many of whom would never qualify for an Oregon license if they didn't have a Californian one to surrender at Oregon DMV up here. Even if it is from Microsoft and even if the cars can't drive worth crap on their own, it's gotta be better than the Californian wanna-be human solution to driving...
You can't get a job in a field without experience and you can't get experience without a job. So how does one get into the field?
Any quality school system in the US at least offers students an internship program with various local businesses. Where I went to school, internships weren't only available, they were mandatory for graduation. Apparently, having a quality school system is rare, or I wouldn't have gotten what is essentially a "but I didn't have a quality high school education, you insensitive clod!" post in response.
I am tired of people saying that all you need is "to know what you are doing." But these people never explain how they "know what they are doing." Experience counts in any profession, so that is a non-starter.
Well, you could go the clueless route and not know what you're doing going in, but don't be surprised if you get job barely above minimum wage at the end of a gridlocked Silicon Forest commute to assemble printers at Tektronix...
All you really need if you're serious about a career in networking is:
High school diploma
Know your shit
Anything else is more time, money and expense to go through that ultimately won't make you more employable than the guy with the high school diploma who can back up his story convincingly in the interview. I met many college-educated network admin wannabes that failed to get the job because I showed up with a high school diploma and can run circles around the competition in my sleep.
If you make it out of high school and forgot to prepare yourself for an IT career beforehand, go to business school instead, it's too late for you. You should have been thinking about this when you were 16.
A bit like asking if someone has a pen knife and they hand you one of those swiss army knives with the works, when all you need is just a small sharp blade for 5 seconds (you spend 30 seconds trying to find the actal knife blade in the Victorinox monster.)
You were never a Boy Scout or had much use for a Scout knife or a Leatherman (inspired by a former Scout who wished he had pliers on his knife) have you? The knife and penknife blades are the first two blades to the left on the front side of the knife when held ring-side, or the furthest left blade (looking into the handle) on the left handle of a leatherman (when looking at the side with the namestamp). Almost every other similar knife or multitool has the same accessory layout order, but the two basic knife blades are always together on the front left side.
Huh? Have you actually used KDE or GNOME in the past few years? The only reason Windows could be considered "easier to use" is because everyone is already familiar with Windows.
Duh! It's a WIMP environment! Any idiot capable of operating a crosswalk signal can figure out damn near any GUI you're going to find in production today.
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If that were true, California wouldn't be the bane of every province and state's existence within 800 miles of it's borders.
Good soundtracks though. But then again, the 1990s were a good decade for rock music.
Reason #6079870946321098708465498708407 why California should not be allowed to be a US state.
This is particularly amusing, since I used to work in retail before they privatized my department. That zoo has by coincidence a Jurassic Park-esque look to it and have enough of a sense of humor about it to occasionally play music from the movie soundtrack. But working around that shelving all day every day with the occasional Jurassic Park soundtrack music thrown in the mix, it's hard not to not associate metro shelving with veliociraptors, especially if it's been dark and rainy all day.
So I read your post and immediately thought, "Jurassic Living Room" or some Straight Eye for the Gay Guy ripoff that I can't even begin to make rhyme...
True since NT3.51? No, no...True since DOS was released.
Yeah, but that's what we have the W3C for.
Why would anybody need or want to use a less functional renderer?
Apt and yum and yast don't solve fundamental problems with the way developers treat dependencies in RPM or distros forking the package format or package naming and versioning without rhyme or reason.
Riiight. Go have fun installing a Red Hat RPM on Mandrake or vice-versa. Or just dependency hell Red Hat puts you in with it's own packages. The package system shouldn't allow per-file dependencies, it just causes dependency hell.
Other Debian-based distros are generally fairly anal about staying compatible with Debian. There isn't a lot in any Debian-based distro that you can't use in any other Debian-based distro. If you get a .deb and you're on a Debian-derived system, odds are that .deb will Just Work(tm). You might have to apt-get a few packages, but at least everybody uses the same package names in the .deb world and can't do per-file dependencies, so it's one extra command instead of an afternoon.
Your comment falsely assumes RPM-based distros don't think twice about forking the package standard at the drop of a hat and package maintainers don't think it's a good idea to depend on a random obscure file instead of a package, or if it is a package, the same name for the package as what everyone else calls it.
Honestly, what good comes from another distribution broken by RPM's poor package management, when .debs just work?
eGroupWare has a trouble ticket system that you can adapt to suit your exact need fairly readily.
What's wrong? You or your ISP don't know how to use adzapper on a transparent proxy?
A constitutional provision demanding limited copyright...oh, wait...
...therefor the only secure option is to format and reinstall from a known good backup. Otherwise, there's a big unknown whether or not you got rid of the compromising situation. Perhaps now is a good time to consider a platform that doesn't make your problem inevitable.
It's the same distance to space no matter which way you go...
What, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and the bajillion other free OSs; KDE, Gnome and the 8 bajillion window managers and desktop environments weren't enough options for you?
California already sends too many of it's drivers, many of whom would never qualify for an Oregon license if they didn't have a Californian one to surrender at Oregon DMV up here. Even if it is from Microsoft and even if the cars can't drive worth crap on their own, it's gotta be better than the Californian wanna-be human solution to driving...
You can't get a job in a field without experience and you can't get experience without a job. So how does one get into the field?
Any quality school system in the US at least offers students an internship program with various local businesses. Where I went to school, internships weren't only available, they were mandatory for graduation. Apparently, having a quality school system is rare, or I wouldn't have gotten what is essentially a "but I didn't have a quality high school education, you insensitive clod!" post in response.
I am tired of people saying that all you need is "to know what you are doing." But these people never explain how they "know what they are doing." Experience counts in any profession, so that is a non-starter.Well, you could go the clueless route and not know what you're doing going in, but don't be surprised if you get job barely above minimum wage at the end of a gridlocked Silicon Forest commute to assemble printers at Tektronix...
Anything else is more time, money and expense to go through that ultimately won't make you more employable than the guy with the high school diploma who can back up his story convincingly in the interview. I met many college-educated network admin wannabes that failed to get the job because I showed up with a high school diploma and can run circles around the competition in my sleep.
If you make it out of high school and forgot to prepare yourself for an IT career beforehand, go to business school instead, it's too late for you. You should have been thinking about this when you were 16.
A bit like asking if someone has a pen knife and they hand you one of those swiss army knives with the works, when all you need is just a small sharp blade for 5 seconds (you spend 30 seconds trying to find the actal knife blade in the Victorinox monster.)
You were never a Boy Scout or had much use for a Scout knife or a Leatherman (inspired by a former Scout who wished he had pliers on his knife) have you? The knife and penknife blades are the first two blades to the left on the front side of the knife when held ring-side, or the furthest left blade (looking into the handle) on the left handle of a leatherman (when looking at the side with the namestamp). Almost every other similar knife or multitool has the same accessory layout order, but the two basic knife blades are always together on the front left side.
Sort of like show us your can!
Huh? Have you actually used KDE or GNOME in the past few years? The only reason Windows could be considered "easier to use" is because everyone is already familiar with Windows.
Duh! It's a WIMP environment! Any idiot capable of operating a crosswalk signal can figure out damn near any GUI you're going to find in production today.
...when there's Wikipedia?
And the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize in the field of medicine goes to...
6) ? 7) Profit!