CD-RW just isnt practical for backing up large amounts of data they may need to restored again. take a 40GB disk for example, thats quite a few cds, plus the inconvenience of changing the cd every 700megs. its alright i guess for a home user with a few files to backup, but not for a complete system backup/recovery solution. even the smallest tape drives out there on the market can hold a couple of gigs.
heh, that already happens with normal mobile phones.
i believe there was a case recently here in the UK where some twat was driving along while typing out a text message on his phone, lost control of the car and crashed into a park or something. luckily no one was injured. i think he was just charged with dangerous driving.
(begin rant)
some people just have no common sense when using phones and driving, you shouldnt be bloody driving whilst holding a phone up to your ear. get a hands free kit if you really _have_ to talk to someone right then and now. there cant be many things that are _so_ urgent that you cant wait 30 seconds to find somewhere to pull over.
I certainly agree about the removal of programs from windows because if you look at it like this, when windows is installed, it installs media player, internet explorer, outlook express, and possibly a few other programs without much of a choice for which program you want to you. this is especially true for pre-installed versions of windows or newbie installs where they pretty much install everything.
the average user can not be bother to go and look for better/other software and is then tied in to using the default microsoft products. in a way this is supposed to be userfriendly, but you can see it as pushing out the competition. do you really think the avererage user would try and find a different email client, even after all the security alerts, when outlook express is just sitting there ready to use?
i think not.
of course, i would imagine that most slashdot'ers would have the sense to use what ever program they want for the task, but not the average joe. they'll use whatever is there, or most convinient to use.
this is pretty much the main reason why so many people use outlook/outlook express, because it's there!
Where i work, just about everyone has internet access, but only through the proxy server. We were never hit by nimda/sircam/etc.. because of good admins. The email is filtered out and all emails containing anything executable is held in a "quarantine" with emails being sent out to the sender and reciever of the email notifing them of this and asking them to justify why the executable is being sent. this helps stop the spread of virii. As for internet explorer, i dont think the client copies on the workstations are patched up, but the proxy server is set up to block potentially harmful content. Plus, there is a virus checker running on every machine that is automatically updated.
this results in everyone having email and internet access without the problem of virii.
I'm still using slackware as my main workstation. Works great, no troubles at all. The install is faily simple, especially if you have used linux before. For a complete newbie, it is still kind of intuitive if you read what it tells you to do properly.
Sure, it doesnt have a snazzy graphical install with all the bloat, but it is a simple to use text based menu system. Was my first distro, and still the only one i use.
Its never been a nightmare to install for me. You may just have trouble with dependancies if you install using the expert method and dont have a clue what anything needs, but then there is the newbie option and normal menu method.
"They may have difficulty blaming themselves when they get laid off, so they direct their anguish at the company."
So its the employees fault that the company pissed all their money up the wall during the dot com boom and produced nothing but vapourware? I think not, the cheek of actually blaming the employees for going bankcrupt like that.
Im sure they would have preferred to have their jobs myself.
Not only was the fact that it was to be a low key mission, there was also the fact that the ring had power upon itself and had the ability to affect where it went. Just like when it was first lost, it managed to find its way back to civilisation through golem. So part of the reason why Frodo is entrusted with the ring is because he was _chosen_ by it as Bilbo had been chosen by it in the hobbit. The ring, as decribed in the book, is trying to get back to its master.
It could never predict British weather no matter how advanced. We usually cant even forcast whether it will be a nice day tomorrow or a thunderstorm.
I remember one day when it was blazing hot sunshine in the morning, afternoon it was pouring with rain, then it snowed in the evening. Only in Britain i tell you.
Thats why the British always comment on the weather, because you never have any idea what its going to be like, also the 'be prepared for any condition' attitude.
heh.
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This may be a bit of nit picking but, "SnapNames receives a copy of that change and maintains its own comprehensive database of domain name registrations called Whois."
Where i work, one work group have been trialing some satellite phones from glabalstar. From what i have heard, and from the quality reports ive seen, satellite phones arent all that good at the moment. It takes a long time to connect to the network, if at all. Then, if your lucky, it will connect your call. I think it was connecting maybe 50% of the time. Once you are connected though, the quality is awful and is affected by anything around you.
One guy was using on a camp site with a road nearby, and everytime a car went by, the signal quality would degrade to next to worthless.
He gave up in the end.
There is still a long way to go with satellite phone. But for the time being, we will just have to live with mobile phones.
This may be slightly off topic but, i was just wondering what the state of slashdot's wml site is like and if rob and co. are still working on it. so far i can get the headlines but was hoping that i'll be able to read the stories as well. With the nokia 7110 i cant follow on from the headline links.
ah well. hopefully soon i can read slashdot from just about anywhere:)
All i can say is, Good Luck to Patrick and the whole Slackware team. I'm sure that they will do well. I've been using slackware since kernel 2.0.27. I have tried other distros like Redhat and Suse but always came back to Slack. I just didnt like the way that Suse and Rh tried to do things behond your back, unlike slack. I find slackware's configuration fairly simple and straight forwards.
I just hope that cd distribution doesnt get affected as i cant easly download slack at the moment (no proper net access:( ).
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social engineering is lying. just lying very convincingly to fool others. making others think that you are someone you are not.
its not like you are gonna say "uh, i dont work here, but could you give me access to the server room" of course your gonna lie.
it wasnt ipfw, it was ipf. ipfw is the freebsd teams firewall, ipf is darren reed's.
CD-RW just isnt practical for backing up large amounts of data they may need to restored again. take a 40GB disk for example, thats quite a few cds, plus the inconvenience of changing the cd every 700megs. its alright i guess for a home user with a few files to backup, but not for a complete system backup/recovery solution. even the smallest tape drives out there on the market can hold a couple of gigs.
heh, that already happens with normal mobile phones.
i believe there was a case recently here in the UK where some twat was driving along while typing out a text message on his phone, lost control of the car and crashed into a park or something. luckily no one was injured. i think he was just charged with dangerous driving.
(begin rant)
some people just have no common sense when using phones and driving, you shouldnt be bloody driving whilst holding a phone up to your ear. get a hands free kit if you really _have_ to talk to someone right then and now. there cant be many things that are _so_ urgent that you cant wait 30 seconds to find somewhere to pull over.
bah
I see your point. however, even though linux distros come with a whole pile of programs, it doesnt tie you into any particular one. you have a choice.
;)
with windows, you still have a choice to some degree, but it certainly is a lot more inconvenient than firing up, say, outlook express.
as for you running XP, each to their own i guess
the average user can not be bother to go and look for better/other software and is then tied in to using the default microsoft products. in a way this is supposed to be userfriendly, but you can see it as pushing out the competition. do you really think the avererage user would try and find a different email client, even after all the security alerts, when outlook express is just sitting there ready to use?
i think not.
of course, i would imagine that most slashdot'ers would have the sense to use what ever program they want for the task, but not the average joe. they'll use whatever is there, or most convinient to use.
this is pretty much the main reason why so many people use outlook/outlook express, because it's there!
doesnt give other apps much of a chance does it.
just my thoughts...
Where i work, just about everyone has internet access, but only through the proxy server. We were never hit by nimda/sircam/etc.. because of good admins. The email is filtered out and all emails containing anything executable is held in a "quarantine" with emails being sent out to the sender and reciever of the email notifing them of this and asking them to justify why the executable is being sent. this helps stop the spread of virii. As for internet explorer, i dont think the client copies on the workstations are patched up, but the proxy server is set up to block potentially harmful content. Plus, there is a virus checker running on every machine that is automatically updated.
this results in everyone having email and internet access without the problem of virii.
kudos to the admin staff here!
Sure, it doesnt have a snazzy graphical install with all the bloat, but it is a simple to use text based menu system. Was my first distro, and still the only one i use.
Its never been a nightmare to install for me. You may just have trouble with dependancies if you install using the expert method and dont have a clue what anything needs, but then there is the newbie option and normal menu method.
Slackware isnt hard to install.
Trust me :)
So its the employees fault that the company pissed all their money up the wall during the dot com boom and produced nothing but vapourware? I think not, the cheek of actually blaming the employees for going bankcrupt like that.
Im sure they would have preferred to have their jobs myself.
Not only was the fact that it was to be a low key mission, there was also the fact that the ring had power upon itself and had the ability to affect where it went. Just like when it was first lost, it managed to find its way back to civilisation through golem. So part of the reason why Frodo is entrusted with the ring is because he was _chosen_ by it as Bilbo had been chosen by it in the hobbit. The ring, as decribed in the book, is trying to get back to its master.
That is how i had intepreted it anyway.
I remember one day when it was blazing hot sunshine in the morning, afternoon it was pouring with rain, then it snowed in the evening.
Only in Britain i tell you.
Thats why the British always comment on the weather, because you never have any idea what its going to be like, also the 'be prepared for any condition' attitude.
heh.
correct url is this http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,740 7,2812173,00.html?chkpt=p1bn
Just thought i would let everyone know, that it isnt 'snail' mailled keys, but 'emailed' keys. I just got mine through.
so their database called 'whois' is unique?
Where i work, one work group have been trialing some satellite phones from glabalstar. From what i have heard, and from the quality reports ive seen, satellite phones arent all that good at the moment. It takes a long time to connect to the network, if at all. Then, if your lucky, it will connect your call. I think it was connecting maybe 50% of the time. Once you are connected though, the quality is awful and is affected by anything around you.
One guy was using on a camp site with a road nearby, and everytime a car went by, the signal quality would degrade to next to worthless.
He gave up in the end.
There is still a long way to go with satellite phone. But for the time being, we will just have to live with mobile phones.
This may be slightly off topic but, i was just wondering what the state of slashdot's wml site is like and if rob and co. are still working on it. so far i can get the headlines but was hoping that i'll be able to read the stories as well. With the nokia 7110 i cant follow on from the headline links.
:)
ah well. hopefully soon i can read slashdot from just about anywhere
All i can say is, Good Luck to Patrick and the whole Slackware team. I'm sure that they will do well. I've been using slackware since kernel 2.0.27. I have tried other distros like Redhat and Suse but always came back to Slack. I just didnt like the way that Suse and Rh tried to do things behond your back, unlike slack. I find slackware's configuration fairly simple and straight forwards.
:( ).
I just hope that cd distribution doesnt get affected as i cant easly download slack at the moment (no proper net access
Anyhow, work bekons....