And I'm pretty sure, they'll continue blocking port 80, etc.
I've run ssh, http/https, smtp, ftp, pop/pops, imap/imaps, et al. on all the standard ports for the last 9 years on my cable internet service and never had any ports blocked by the ISP. I've also never had Bittorrent traffic throttled. I can saturate both directions of my 10M/1M pipe with just a few popular swarms.
The account has passed through the hands of several companies over the years, from AT&T@Home to ATTBI to Comcast and now Time Warner (there may have been another one in there somewhere), but it's always been the same account with the same hardware and the same service. Downtime has always been rare, and usually weather-related. I've never had any of the problems I read about on here. I've just been lucky, I guess.
because frankly I think MS's current site is a mess (I can never find what I'm looking for)
Offtopic: It might be (I've only ever used it for Windows updates), but it can't be nearly as bad as the confusing, slow, inconsistent, often-broken, and overall craptastic experience known as www.sun.com.
I read his comment as an only slightly snarky one-line summary of the basic principles of shutting off unnecessary services and maintaining access control via things like tcp_wrappers and firewalls.
Your interpretation didn't even cross my mind, although I now see it.
I was a little surprised the first time I called Sprint's customer service, and they asked me for my password as one of their ID verification questions. The password I created for their website. Hell if I knew what it was, it's a pattern on the keyboard. The lady seemed confused that it wasn't my name or some other English word.
Maybe if we didn't have to fly half way 'round the world to see a good match...
*I don't know if that line worked, but I did play for three years in college. We're not all witless rubes, ya know.:)
I'd give you a funny point if I had one. The other replies prove that even a simple twist of words can be hard to pull off in writing, especially when a lot of the readers aren't native English speakers.
In the context of "IT warfare" (which is what TFA, and presumably this discussion, is about), the master of the computer is the master of society. Otherwise, you're just the guy who can't cash his check because some Chinese cracker DOS'ed the payroll system.
This is what I've always heard, but some years ago I experienced just the opposite. I was on a flight from Philly to Barcelona which took about 11 hours, but the return flight from Paris to Dallas was closer to 9 hours. I never did find an explanation.
Virtually all academic subjects, all the way up to college and even much of the graduate level, were laid out decades if not hundreds of years ago. The cycle of expensive textbook replacement and revisioning is an appalling money-making scam perpetuated by the publishing industry, not unlike the tactics of a certain Northwestern U.S. software company and their operating system upgrade paths.
Proper books stick around for many many years, enriching the lives of generations of children and adults alike. They're tangible and permanent and don't require patches and they don't get pwned and there's no such thing as a book virus*. They don't get cracked screens or memory errors or head crashes or burned out fan motors. They can be viewed from all angles and don't take 5 minutes to boot up, navigate the filesystem, and launch a document viewer...just find that passage you remember reading last week. Laptops and internet connections and ebooks and proprietary file formats are unreliable and fragile systems built upon complex frameworks on top of sketchy dependencies, and they are not now nor will they ever be as effective or efficient as simple words and pictures printed on paper, covered and bound, for anyone to pick up and read.
If Ramanujan had a laptop, he would have used the backlit screen to illuminate his outdated textbook and slate board.
And yes, as a matter of fact, I do work in a university library and I do resent the fact that it's slowly being converted into a 6-floor internet cafe, with our stacks being systematically transferred to the "collections depository" (read: storage warehouse) across campus. And I'm not even a crusty old library curmudgeon. I'm a 29-year-old UNIX admin.
*Maybe a bookworm, but I would deserve to be punished for that kind of language abuse.
A full Exchange client. Then I could completely ditch Windows on my desktop at work.
Native Unix versions of all of my favorite games, released at or near the same time as the Windows counterparts. I don't care about your favorite games, I just want the ones I play to work.:) Maybe I'm just really unlucky at picking them, but I've never gotten a single game that I like to play to work under Wine or Cedega. Maybe Madden '03 sorta works under every third version of one of them, but I want to play 2008. Company of Heroes? No way. MTGO? Last time I tried none of the text would show up onscreen. The list goes on...
I use Flashblock also, but I've never had problems with crashes like you describe. Flashblock and Adblock Plus are the only two FF extensions I use, and it makes the web so much more pleasant to use. NoScript is pretty great too, but it's just too dang cumbersome for my tastes, what with all of the per-site configuration.
Anyways, that's my $.02.
X always had problems with graphics. Some of those problems seemed to be related to caching. For instance, the icons in menus weren't loaded and cached until the first time you opened the menu. This meant a substantial delay when you first open your menus.
X menus? I think you're referring to your window manager or taskbar app.
What a crap article. Some Aussie tourist notices a stupid (and probably very dusty) book at a Grand Canyon gift shop, throws in some unsubstantiated (and wholly ridiculous) "opinion poll results", and now it's a quotable piece of journalism? I am simply amazed at the number of experts on American society and culture who live in Europe and Australia.
I grew up in the stereotypical small-town Texas that you see in the movies, and have lived in Texas for most of my life. Yes, church is a cornerstone of most of these communities, but 99.9% are not the ignorant rock-worshipers that everyone makes fun of. Most rural red-state folks are entirely too practical-minded for that kind of nonsense, but such a stereotype isn't as funny and couldn't be blamed for the problems of the world.
I find it utterly impossible to believe that almost 150 million people in the US think man was created 10,000 years ago, ate an apple that his girlfriend got from a talking snake, and built a cruise ship for swingin' animal couples. Too bad I don't have any made up opinion poll results to throw in here - apparently that's all it takes to form peoples' opinions for them.
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I've run ssh, http/https, smtp, ftp, pop/pops, imap/imaps, et al. on all the standard ports for the last 9 years on my cable internet service and never had any ports blocked by the ISP. I've also never had Bittorrent traffic throttled. I can saturate both directions of my 10M/1M pipe with just a few popular swarms.
The account has passed through the hands of several companies over the years, from AT&T@Home to ATTBI to Comcast and now Time Warner (there may have been another one in there somewhere), but it's always been the same account with the same hardware and the same service. Downtime has always been rare, and usually weather-related. I've never had any of the problems I read about on here. I've just been lucky, I guess.
Offtopic: It might be (I've only ever used it for Windows updates), but it can't be nearly as bad as the confusing, slow, inconsistent, often-broken, and overall craptastic experience known as www.sun.com.
I read his comment as an only slightly snarky one-line summary of the basic principles of shutting off unnecessary services and maintaining access control via things like tcp_wrappers and firewalls. Your interpretation didn't even cross my mind, although I now see it.
I doubt it. I registered sometime around 1999-2000, so there's no way that you got ID# 660419 by 1997.
Huh?
FTFIMDB:
Mini Biography: Kelly LeBrock was born in New York and reared in London. She is the daughter...I was a little surprised the first time I called Sprint's customer service, and they asked me for my password as one of their ID verification questions. The password I created for their website. Hell if I knew what it was, it's a pattern on the keyboard. The lady seemed confused that it wasn't my name or some other English word.
Maybe if we didn't have to fly half way 'round the world to see a good match... *I don't know if that line worked, but I did play for three years in college. We're not all witless rubes, ya know. :)
I'd give you a funny point if I had one. The other replies prove that even a simple twist of words can be hard to pull off in writing, especially when a lot of the readers aren't native English speakers.
In the context of "IT warfare" (which is what TFA, and presumably this discussion, is about), the master of the computer is the master of society. Otherwise, you're just the guy who can't cash his check because some Chinese cracker DOS'ed the payroll system.
You must be the guy sending me all that spam. Your writing styles are very similar.
This is what I've always heard, but some years ago I experienced just the opposite. I was on a flight from Philly to Barcelona which took about 11 hours, but the return flight from Paris to Dallas was closer to 9 hours. I never did find an explanation.
Software Development Rule #7:
Be liberal in what you accept and strict in what you emit.
Virtually all academic subjects, all the way up to college and even much of the graduate level, were laid out decades if not hundreds of years ago. The cycle of expensive textbook replacement and revisioning is an appalling money-making scam perpetuated by the publishing industry, not unlike the tactics of a certain Northwestern U.S. software company and their operating system upgrade paths.
Proper books stick around for many many years, enriching the lives of generations of children and adults alike. They're tangible and permanent and don't require patches and they don't get pwned and there's no such thing as a book virus*. They don't get cracked screens or memory errors or head crashes or burned out fan motors. They can be viewed from all angles and don't take 5 minutes to boot up, navigate the filesystem, and launch a document viewer...just find that passage you remember reading last week. Laptops and internet connections and ebooks and proprietary file formats are unreliable and fragile systems built upon complex frameworks on top of sketchy dependencies, and they are not now nor will they ever be as effective or efficient as simple words and pictures printed on paper, covered and bound, for anyone to pick up and read.
If Ramanujan had a laptop, he would have used the backlit screen to illuminate his outdated textbook and slate board.
And yes, as a matter of fact, I do work in a university library and I do resent the fact that it's slowly being converted into a 6-floor internet cafe, with our stacks being systematically transferred to the "collections depository" (read: storage warehouse) across campus. And I'm not even a crusty old library curmudgeon. I'm a 29-year-old UNIX admin.
*Maybe a bookworm, but I would deserve to be punished for that kind of language abuse.
FTFA:
The laptop is now called the XO, because if you turn the logo 90 degrees, it looks like a child.
It looks more like the symbol on poison labels and pirate ships, if you ask me.
with a $5G loss
Would that be five gajillion dollars?
Maybe REM sleep could be used as a random number generator.
A full Exchange client. Then I could completely ditch Windows on my desktop at work.
Native Unix versions of all of my favorite games, released at or near the same time as the Windows counterparts. I don't care about your favorite games, I just want the ones I play to work. :) Maybe I'm just really unlucky at picking them, but I've never gotten a single game that I like to play to work under Wine or Cedega. Maybe Madden '03 sorta works under every third version of one of them, but I want to play 2008. Company of Heroes? No way. MTGO? Last time I tried none of the text would show up onscreen. The list goes on...
I use Flashblock also, but I've never had problems with crashes like you describe. Flashblock and Adblock Plus are the only two FF extensions I use, and it makes the web so much more pleasant to use. NoScript is pretty great too, but it's just too dang cumbersome for my tastes, what with all of the per-site configuration. Anyways, that's my $.02.
X always had problems with graphics. Some of those problems seemed to be related to caching. For instance, the icons in menus weren't loaded and cached until the first time you opened the menu. This meant a substantial delay when you first open your menus.
X menus? I think you're referring to your window manager or taskbar app.
Embedded? Dedicated function or single-purpose maybe, but it's most certainly not 'embedded' software or meant to be run in an 'embedded' environment.
And the upper you go the wider it gets.
Some HBAs and RAID controllers too.
seanadams.com wrote:
Does the public in general use their real names?
A lot of the time they do.
Except for Food, Shelter, Heat, Water, and Transportation everything else you really have a choice to go without.
Substitute A/C for heat, where appropriate.
What a crap article. Some Aussie tourist notices a stupid (and probably very dusty) book at a Grand Canyon gift shop, throws in some unsubstantiated (and wholly ridiculous) "opinion poll results", and now it's a quotable piece of journalism? I am simply amazed at the number of experts on American society and culture who live in Europe and Australia.
I grew up in the stereotypical small-town Texas that you see in the movies, and have lived in Texas for most of my life. Yes, church is a cornerstone of most of these communities, but 99.9% are not the ignorant rock-worshipers that everyone makes fun of. Most rural red-state folks are entirely too practical-minded for that kind of nonsense, but such a stereotype isn't as funny and couldn't be blamed for the problems of the world.
I find it utterly impossible to believe that almost 150 million people in the US think man was created 10,000 years ago, ate an apple that his girlfriend got from a talking snake, and built a cruise ship for swingin' animal couples. Too bad I don't have any made up opinion poll results to throw in here - apparently that's all it takes to form peoples' opinions for them.