I think the last time I got a real virus (as opposed to a worm or trojan) was a "stoned" variant on DOS when I was in high school. Nowdays when "virus" means "Outlook scripting exploit" the best protection is just not using it. Who needs virus scanners?
Given the physical fitness of many coders, the next step would be: die.
Granted, I do fall asleep fairly early in the evening (around 10:00pm) but I provide more work to my employer, on a time schedule that is convenient to him.
Think about that when the next round of layoffs begin.
For Apple to step in and offer a deal on $500k worth of new Macs.
I don't think linux is even close to being a viable option for a school desktop... Sure, the smarter kids could pick it up pretty quickly, but teachers would be screwed as soon as X (inevitably) crashed and dumped them back to a shell prompt, or worse a blank screen. Then, when they reboot (coming from a Win9x environment, this is the natural thing to do) they risk corrupting their filesystem, because, AFAIK, no distro has a journaling FS by default. Not to mention the fun that would ensue when some clueball "linux expert" connects a labful of default-installed RedHat 6.2 boxes directly to the internet. (Yes, this still happens. Sad, isn't it?)
Linux as a kernel is great, it's the poor desktop software and the even poorer distros that make the OS non-viable on the desktop.
And you can find more info here. The active ingredient is called Modafinil, and appears to have fairly low side effects. Backtrack up a directory on the above link, and there's more info.
So nice to be able to put the trackball in your lap and not have to hunch over the leetle tray table...
I dunno. If I looked across the aisle and saw some guy staring intently at his computer, feverishly twiddling something in his lap, I'd prolly be kinda creeped out.
Christ, Chicken Little, the sky hasn't fallen yet!
Sonny Bono is still rotting in his grave, the gov't is still fairly distracted, Canada isn't a state yet, and it doesn't look to me like S3CA will pass. (Although if it did, one of the odder artifacts would be paying exorbitant prices for "pre-ban" parts at a computer show just as if you were buying a pre-ban AR15 at a gun show...:D)
I can't seem to find better than 40 or 45c/disk on 700mb media.
Let's do some math: 640 / 25 = ~.04 cent per meg. 700 / 40 = ~.06 cent per meg.
Why buy 700s when the cost-per-meg is higher? Is that extra 60Mb really that important when storing MP3? You might have to carry a couple extra discs in your binder, so what?
Multi-read (I think that's they call it) technology has existed since at least '98-99, and is pretty much ubiquitious now, in most every device that uses a CD reader. (Just to confirm this, I dropped a -RW in my ~1 year old, ~$115-dollar Soul Player and it works fine.) I'd be pretty surprised to find a MP3 CD player that couldn't read -RW, but as always, buyer beware, do your research, there are always exceptions.
but CD-R costs $1.00
I dunno about you, but I end up paying like 20-30 cents per disk nowadays. Haven't paid a buck a disk for -R since at least mid 2000. I'd suggest you shop somewhere else.
Yeah, but they also cost $8000. Who, aside from gadget geeks and the absurdly rich, is going to buy one? I know I wouldn't drop $8k on a glorified scooter, even if it was gold plated with chainlink lowrider handlebars.
Nifty technology, bad business outlook. Drop the price to about $500-$1000 and then it might start getting viable.
Penis Not to mention the hype made the thing sound revolutionary...a lot of people were disappointed when it turned out to be an expensive electric scooter.
Whoa, dude. Maybe it's time for you to move to afghanistan so you can dole out justice to the criminals.
(You know, stoning women, choppin' off hands, all that fun stuff. Sounds like it'd be right up your unresolved-issues alley.)
I hear they need some new people over there, with all the bombs dropping and such.
DOInet is huge. It spans the USGS, EPA and other large.gov organizations.
Pulling the plug on the affected subnet(s) should have been adequate.
Organizations like the USGS, EPA, NPS and most others under DOInet
have nothing to do with the Indian Trust, let alone the actual compromised systems.
There is no technical reason why these orgs gateways should have been cut off along with the affected Indian Affairs-related gateways.
...by posting incorrect information.
I'm a contract coder at a.gov organization that is part of DOInet,
and our net connection went out at approx. 2:30pm this afternoon.
I assure you that DOInet, yes the whole DOInet, was/is dark.
Yes, pulling the proverbial plug was totally irrational,
but remember, this is the US government,
the same people behind the recent raping of the constitution.
Irrational moves are par for the course.
Web support sucks. The FAQ, etc. provides some help, not much. Even USENET isn't THAT helpful. You need need to get used to reading man pages... a LOT.
The difference is, BSD man pages tend to be MUCH better written and more useful[1] than GNU man pages,
so a lot of the time you can solve problems without having to resort to searching the web.
Init: rc style. I think that that the rc system is infinitely more manageable and sane in a BSD environment than a SysV environment, but YMMV.
Agreed. BSD init is just a lot more logical.
Community support. The mailling lists are key, but they are much less friendly. Advocacy isn't a priority. If there is a question answered somewhere in the documentation, you'll get told RTFM. If the docs aren't what you are looking for and need a different level of help (more/less tech than the man pages) you may or may not get it.
Going back to my first point, usually the docs WILL help enough, if you use them.
If it's really something difficult, people will usually help.
-d00d
[1] I'm not the only one who's noticed this...
I tried to explain the difference, but she cut me off
That's when you slap the bitch and tell her to shut the fuck up,
and that if she fucking listened she might fucking learn something once in a while.
She sounds like a great catch, someone you can really talk to about anything...
Me? I occasionally call myself a hacker, and if someone doesn't 'get it',
I explain to them the difference between white hats and black hats,
and that hackers are like Jedi.
I am, however, a cracker(as in chickenshit whiteboy) hacker.
Cracker? Fuck no. Sites do get cracked, but the act is still hacking.
"ScriptKiddie" is appropriate for a lot of defacements tho, as many of the people that
deface sites just use r00t kits and never actually do any work or have any real knowledge.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the last time I got a real virus (as opposed to a worm or trojan) was
a "stoned" variant on DOS when I was in high school.
Nowdays when "virus" means "Outlook scripting exploit" the best protection is
just not using it.
Who needs virus scanners?
run 3-5 miles,
Given the physical fitness of many coders, the next step would be: die.
Granted, I do fall asleep fairly early in the evening (around 10:00pm) but I provide more
work to my employer, on a time schedule that is convenient to him.
Think about that when the next round of layoffs begin.
So, what's it feel like being a slave?
For Apple to step in and offer a deal on $500k worth of new Macs.
I don't think linux is even close to being a viable option for a school desktop...
Sure, the smarter kids could pick it up pretty quickly, but teachers would be screwed
as soon as X (inevitably) crashed and dumped them back to a shell prompt, or worse a blank screen.
Then, when they reboot (coming from a Win9x environment, this is the natural thing to do)
they risk corrupting their filesystem, because, AFAIK, no distro has a journaling FS by default.
Not to mention the fun that would ensue when some clueball "linux expert" connects a labful of
default-installed RedHat 6.2 boxes directly to the internet. (Yes, this still happens. Sad, isn't it?)
Linux as a kernel is great, it's the poor desktop software and the
even poorer distros that make the OS non-viable on the desktop.
And you can find more info here.
The active ingredient is called Modafinil, and appears to have fairly low side effects.
Backtrack up a directory on the above link, and there's more info.
Mr. Peenis
This is prolly more a blessing than a curse.
Pen-15
It would be impressive if the game's AI coaxes the player to reveal if they actually paid for the game or pirated it, and shut down if pirated.
"To continue, type in the first word on page X of the manual..."
P*e^(ni)+s
Anyone else remember that?
Hell yeah. Think I still have a set somewhere.
You could put mad spin on the ball and unsuspecting people in the head with it.
It was great for squirrels and cats, too!
TrackPenis
So nice to be able to put the trackball in your lap and not have to hunch over the leetle tray table...
I dunno.
If I looked across the aisle and saw some guy staring
intently at his computer, feverishly twiddling something in his lap, I'd prolly be kinda creeped out.
Penis
You misspelled "ubiquitous".
Yup, sure did.
Thanks, Pussy!
Mr. Penis
Christ, Chicken Little, the sky hasn't fallen yet!
:D)
Sonny Bono is still rotting in his grave, the gov't is still fairly distracted, Canada isn't a state yet, and it doesn't look to me like S3CA will pass.
(Although if it did, one of the odder artifacts would be paying exorbitant prices for "pre-ban" parts at a computer show just as if you were buying a pre-ban AR15 at a gun show...
PPPENIS
I can't seem to find better than 40 or 45c/disk on 700mb media.
Let's do some math:
640 / 25 = ~.04 cent per meg.
700 / 40 = ~.06 cent per meg.
Why buy 700s when the cost-per-meg is higher?
Is that extra 60Mb really that important when storing MP3?
You might have to carry a couple extra discs in your binder, so what?
700 megabyte Penis
Many MP3 CD players can't read CD-RW
Multi-read (I think that's they call it) technology has existed since at least '98-99, and is pretty much ubiquitious now,
in most every device that uses a CD reader.
(Just to confirm this, I dropped a -RW in my ~1 year old, ~$115-dollar Soul Player and it works fine.)
I'd be pretty surprised to find a MP3 CD player that couldn't read -RW, but as always,
buyer beware, do your research, there are always exceptions.
but CD-R costs $1.00
I dunno about you, but I end up paying like 20-30 cents per disk nowadays.
Haven't paid a buck a disk for -R since at least mid 2000.
I'd suggest you shop somewhere else.
MPenis3
Hey, where do you admin at?
IP address or doamin, please.
31337 P3nis
He must be really serious about his wife/girlfriend not finding his pr0n.
Pen-15
Still doesn't change the outlook.
Penis
Yeah, but they also cost $8000.
Who, aside from gadget geeks and the absurdly rich, is going to buy one?
I know I wouldn't drop $8k on a glorified scooter, even if it was gold plated with chainlink lowrider handlebars.
Nifty technology, bad business outlook.
Drop the price to about $500-$1000 and then it might start getting viable.
Penis
Not to mention the hype made the thing sound revolutionary...a lot of people were disappointed when it turned out to be an expensive electric scooter.
The name of the guy that wrote the linked article is Richard Morecock.
All I can say is damn. Talk about being blessed.
# rm sinep
If shooting rubber bands at cats is funny, then shooting them with bb guns must be hilarious.
.30-06 must be a fucking riot!
Then a
Mr. Penis
Whoa, dude. Maybe it's time for you to move to afghanistan so you can dole out justice to the criminals.
(You know, stoning women, choppin' off hands, all that fun stuff. Sounds like it'd be right up your unresolved-issues alley.)
I hear they need some new people over there, with all the bombs dropping and such.
Mr. pen!s
Explain how this was irrational.
.gov organizations.
DOInet is huge. It spans the USGS, EPA and other large
Pulling the plug on the affected subnet(s) should have been adequate.
Organizations like the USGS, EPA, NPS and most others under DOInet
have nothing to do with the Indian Trust, let alone the actual compromised systems.
There is no technical reason why these orgs gateways should have been cut off along with the affected Indian Affairs-related gateways.
Mr. p3n1s
...by posting incorrect information. .gov organization that is part of DOInet,
I'm a contract coder at a
and our net connection went out at approx. 2:30pm this afternoon.
I assure you that DOInet, yes the whole DOInet, was/is dark.
Yes, pulling the proverbial plug was totally irrational,
but remember, this is the US government,
the same people behind the recent raping of the constitution.
Irrational moves are par for the course.
P3nis
Web support sucks. The FAQ, etc. provides some help, not much. Even USENET isn't THAT helpful. You need need to get used to reading man pages... a LOT.
The difference is, BSD man pages tend to be MUCH better written and more useful[1] than GNU man pages,
so a lot of the time you can solve problems without having to resort to searching the web.
Init: rc style. I think that that the rc system is infinitely more manageable and sane in a BSD environment than a SysV environment, but YMMV.
Agreed. BSD init is just a lot more logical.
Community support. The mailling lists are key, but they are much less friendly. Advocacy isn't a priority. If there is a question answered somewhere in the documentation, you'll get told RTFM. If the docs aren't what you are looking for and need a different level of help (more/less tech than the man pages) you may or may not get it.
Going back to my first point, usually the docs WILL help enough, if you use them.
If it's really something difficult, people will usually help.
-d00d
[1] I'm not the only one who's noticed this...
I tried to explain the difference, but she cut me off
That's when you slap the bitch and tell her to shut the fuck up,
and that if she fucking listened she might fucking learn something once in a while.
She sounds like a great catch, someone you can really talk to about anything...
Me? I occasionally call myself a hacker, and if someone doesn't 'get it',
I explain to them the difference between white hats and black hats,
and that hackers are like Jedi.
I am, however, a cracker(as in chickenshit whiteboy) hacker.
Cracker? Fuck no. Sites do get cracked, but the act is still hacking.
"ScriptKiddie" is appropriate for a lot of defacements tho, as many of the people that
deface sites just use r00t kits and never actually do any work or have any real knowledge.
Mr. P3n1z.