I am using this rfc since 13 years, and it works fine. The management has tried to impose other naming schemes, by location or by usage. Just to find then problems renaming a system because it changed location or having systems named after applications which do no longer exist.
So utility naming only works for windows boxes. THey are too cheap to mess around for moving. Or too unstable to install more than one application and the OS is too horrible to even reuse it without reinstall for doing something else. And a reinstall is the best occasion to do a rename.
But for unix, linux, mainframes, utility naming is a nightmare. I stay with planets!
yes, we do that also. Everything is theme based. Except for the printers which are named after offices. So prt-fin is the thingie which throws paper out somewhere in the finance department.
Terrorists (or criminals, mafia) use viruses or tojans to install software on people's PCs to get to their bank accounts or credit cards. They also install dialers to get money and many more illegal money milking methods.
Selling pirated software is much more difficult, dangerous and less profitable.
that's true, often those engines are used in series to cool stuff down way below zero. No need for liquid nitrogen, just dump some stirlings on the problem.
installed linux, don't know which distrib... activate power saving wait a while, the laptop goes into hibernate and it stays there. forever. even removing batteries, harddisk etc... for several days did not help. needed to send it to compaq for repair.
yes it happens, still today with ext3 and reiserfs, that the filesystem check crashes and you have to do it manually. Now imagine a lambda user in front of a linux PC asking to "run fsck manually", that's a BIG no.
My current PC has a huge LCD, keyboard, mouse etc... A mac-mini is too low range, and the power mac is too big. An iMac would be fine, but it comes with LCD. Dear Apple, please build a simple "Mac", not a power-, mini- or i-Mac, just a Mac. The cube was cool btw.
it's getting very funny when the radio station compresses the already compressed CDs *again*. It washes out even more the dynamics. I wonder why we have 16 bit. 4 Bit should be enough. Just code them from -32752 to -32768 and +32752 to +32768
I love the THUD, THUD, THUD music. BUt the one played in the 90es. Nowadays it rather undalayd with wooOOOPPP...wooOOOPPP...wooOOOPPP... background music. In fact the background music, vocals, synthersizers etc ara all following the inverse volume of the main beat. Not *that* is horribly awful.
In the future they could just remove the beat and put silence where it was, people would not notice as they are now used to having no music at all during each beat.
you know how MS adresses software failures like this?
With popups! So the user clicks on OK and then it's the user's fault. Not fault of MS for creating an inherently faulty product.
But that there is no user reading the popups or even understanding them is not a problem? Or even that MS users are nowadays used to just click OK on any popup.
"Why did you click OK" - "why not" - "did you read what it said" - "no, should I?"
I do this already. I added the javascript so that real users can't click before the timeout else genuine messages would end up in the spam section. So, yes, the form works well without javascript.
I use a very effective method. Only javascript has to be activated. The submit button is only enabled after 20 seconds. Someone needing less time than 20s to write a post is a spammer or has nothing intelligent to say.
An bot will of course submit the form in less than 20s, there comes the timestamping into play. If the form display and form submit events are less than 20s apart it's considered spam too.
Catches 99% of the posts. 0% false positives.
Of course if a big site like yahoo implements this, it's easy for a spammer to work around this special case. It's always easy to work around a blocking if you know that some kind of measure is in place. So I added another trick: I show to the spammer his submitted post like as if he succeeded. You only see that it's bogous when you reload the original page and notice that oyur post is not there.
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isn't that a browser problem? The browser should not put UTF-8 into a text field which is latin1.
Let's see with firefox/linux: öäüéàè
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Works!
I am using this rfc since 13 years, and it works fine.
The management has tried to impose other naming schemes, by location or by usage. Just to find then problems renaming a system because it changed location or having systems named after applications which do no longer exist.
So utility naming only works for windows boxes. THey are too cheap to mess around for moving. Or too unstable to install more than one application and the OS is too horrible to even reuse it without reinstall for doing something else. And a reinstall is the best occasion to do a rename.
But for unix, linux, mainframes, utility naming is a nightmare.
I stay with planets!
we have the same sillyness. So we always say "Nottingham Room" to make things clear.
ah, you will never gat a goot IT guy then.
They usually follow the RFCs, like http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178 "Choosing a Name for Your Computer"
yes, we do that also. Everything is theme based. Except for the printers which are named after offices. So prt-fin is the thingie which throws paper out somewhere in the finance department.
Terrorists (or criminals, mafia) use viruses or tojans to install software on people's PCs to get to their bank accounts or credit cards. They also install dialers to get money and many more illegal money milking methods.
Selling pirated software is much more difficult, dangerous and less profitable.
you would be surprised how close stirling engines come to the optimum.
that's true, often those engines are used in series to cool stuff down way below zero. No need for liquid nitrogen, just dump some stirlings on the problem.
visibly USA is not Europe. Lucky Europe!
if everyone runs a script like this:
i=1
while true
do
nslookup stealme$i.com
i=$((i+1))
done
and the ISP wants to sell his failed DNS lookups there will be a whole lot of useless crap in it.
indeed, it worked
http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=networksolutionstakesitupthekeister&tld=com
not!
but still amazing that opportunity may witness an asteroid impact "nearby".
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/12/21/mars.asteroid.ap/index.html
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/1435223
on the Web we had popup blockers, on DVD players we have commercial skippers.
It's all the same. Industry abuses their own specs so they get abused back from the consumers.
this was like 5 years ago:
installed linux, don't know which distrib...
activate power saving
wait a while, the laptop goes into hibernate
and it stays there. forever.
even removing batteries, harddisk etc... for several days did not help.
needed to send it to compaq for repair.
is it because I behave like a BOFH in front of incompetent users? :-)
How is it possible that slashdot knows this?
Georges
yes it happens, still today with ext3 and reiserfs, that the filesystem check crashes and you have to do it manually.
Now imagine a lambda user in front of a linux PC asking to "run fsck manually", that's a BIG no.
My current PC has a huge LCD, keyboard, mouse etc...
A mac-mini is too low range, and the power mac is too big. An iMac would be fine, but it comes with LCD.
Dear Apple, please build a simple "Mac", not a power-, mini- or i-Mac, just a Mac. The cube was cool btw.
there you are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
it's getting very funny when the radio station compresses the already compressed CDs *again*. It washes out even more the dynamics. I wonder why we have 16 bit. 4 Bit should be enough.
Just code them from -32752 to -32768 and +32752 to +32768
I love the THUD, THUD, THUD music. BUt the one played in the 90es. Nowadays it rather undalayd with wooOOOPPP...wooOOOPPP...wooOOOPPP... background music. In fact the background music, vocals, synthersizers etc ara all following the inverse volume of the main beat.
Not *that* is horribly awful.
In the future they could just remove the beat and put silence where it was, people would not notice as they are now used to having no music at all during each beat.
you know how MS adresses software failures like this?
With popups!
So the user clicks on OK and then it's the user's fault. Not fault of MS for creating an inherently faulty product.
But that there is no user reading the popups or even understanding them is not a problem?
Or even that MS users are nowadays used to just click OK on any popup.
"Why did you click OK" - "why not" - "did you read what it said" - "no, should I?"
Ok, it's not a robot, but it drives on water without using any floatation device
yeah, Top Gear! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QBiBcK96Bs
Georges
several months ago:
apt-get install democracyplayer
worked fine, until miro came out. now it says all the time to upgrade.
apt-get install miro => no package found
yeah. Release new soft but don't tell the distributors first to get ready for the launch.
Bravo!
Georges
I do this already. I added the javascript so that real users can't click before the timeout else genuine messages would end up in the spam section.
So, yes, the form works well without javascript.
I use a very effective method. Only javascript has to be activated.
The submit button is only enabled after 20 seconds.
Someone needing less time than 20s to write a post is a spammer or has nothing intelligent to say.
An bot will of course submit the form in less than 20s, there comes the timestamping into play. If the form display and form submit events are less than 20s apart it's considered spam too.
Catches 99% of the posts.
0% false positives.
Of course if a big site like yahoo implements this, it's easy for a spammer to work around this special case. It's always easy to work around a blocking if you know that some kind of measure is in place.
So I added another trick: I show to the spammer his submitted post like as if he succeeded. You only see that it's bogous when you reload the original page and notice that oyur post is not there.