Unless it's something about a business that doesn't feel like paying their extortion fee, or a personal page that the staff repeatedly "forgets" to index.
OK, it's their database, they can charge for it if they want - but thier competitors (ala google) don't charge..
Yahoo used to be about providing the best (ie: most complete) directory. Now they're about making money at any cost. When a company says "quality be damned", I go somewhere else.
The smartest one I ever knew was a "Network Engineer" (his official designation from the technical school he graduated from.) Here's a story about him:
I was a System Administrator for a small (but growing) company - we had approx. 15 computers, most of them running Windows 3.11 (this was a few years ago..)
He came to me one day, said he was upgrading one of the stations to Windows95, and asked what the IP address for the station in shipping/receiving was.. so I told him. He came back a few minutes later, and said that the IP I gave him was wrong, because Windows said that the IP address was in use.. I was in the middle of something, so I told him I'd come see him in 10 minutes.
So I'm on my way to see him, I walk through the shipping area, and the computer is there, and someone is using it, so I figure he's figured out the problem he had with the address..
An hour later, he comes up to me and asks if I'd forgotten about him.. I told him that I saw the station running..
He says "Yes, but I'm gonna replace it, I have the new machine all set up on the network, but when I put in it's IP address, it doesn't work because it says another machine is using that address."
To which I reply "Of course it doesn't work, the old station is still running!"
His reply: "Oh, is that important?"
MCSE's are generally people who aren't smart enough to get a job with other skills.
if I wanted to post other people's creditcard numbers or root passwords online, would that be allowed? After all, it's just an expression of my thoughts.
See what you wrote there?
If the CC#'s or passwords belong to other people, how can you claim ownership?
If you wanted to post your credit card number or root password, then you'd be perfectly entitled (and stupid) to do so.
And this is what the entire case is about - people want to post their own code, not someone else's. Just like you could post an explanation of a how credit card CRC checks are done, or the crypt(2) algorithm used to encrypt a password.
Short answer: there are specific legal definitions of what constitutes free speech. Posting someone else's personal information isn't one of them. Go look them up before posting again.
I would recommend a journalling file system, because you don't want to lose your MP3 selection if you don't unmount your drive properly (which could happen otherwise)
Or he could not bother screwing around with this hassle and use any other non-journaling FS, and turn off the disk cache by using the 'sync' mount option.
Think about it: the disk in an MP3 player is gonna be doing one of two things at one time: reading (playing the file) or writing (saving the file).. it won't be doing both at once, so the performance of benefit of a disk cache would be negligible.
There was a recent Supreme Court (Canada) case in which it was ruled that prohibiting possession of Child Pornography was unconstitutional (the law was deemed to be overbroad).
These are two different things.
They (the BC supreme court) did not rule that prohibiting possession was unconstitutional, but they did rule the law (Bill C-128) was overly broad.
They ruled that the law was overly broad because it included in its' definition of "child pornography" stories about fictitious characters and events, personal diaries, and drawings... it's been awhile since I read the ruling, but the judge ruled that it came "dangerously close to infringing on a person's freedom of thought."
This is essentially what the problem is. If a high school girl writes in her diary about a sexual fantasy, under bill C128, she could be arrested for child pornography.. there is something chilling about that..
Mail servers (even old ones, my experience only goes back to Sendmail 8.6, but IIRC it went back to V5.. it's probably in RFC 822/821 as well, but I'm too lazy to check) count the Received: headers on an email.. when the count passes a certain threshold (typically 25, but frequently much lower) the mail gets returned to the sender, (or to the postmaster if undeliverable.)
You might bump the load for the mailservers a little for a minute or so, but that's about it.
I went to their website as described on their emails and unsubscribe.
Congratulations.. you just got yourself added to their "This email address is Real, and the guy reads our spam!" Gold List.
The Proof:
Well the next month they send me another email so I went through the same motions again, and it said that the email address was already marked for removal
You've just guaranteed that you will receive TONS and TONS more spam.
An experiment: Get a new email address, and don't give to anybody (as in nobody - don't put it in any mail program, don't give it to anybody, don't put it on a web page, make sure it's completely secret.).. then go to that 'remove' page you mentioned, and enter it in.. then check it next month, and see how much spam they sent it..
I just wish there was a spam filter that you can use that would return unknown user like an account died, so the spam programs would automatically remove the user.
Are you really that naieve?
Spam programs don't remove users, ever!.. spammers use bogus MAIL FROM: email addresses because they don't care if the spam bounces... think about it.. if a spammer cared if an email address was real or not, would they be spamming in the first place?
You get back at spammers by contacting their ISP, not by talking to them directly. Spammers are (by definition) scum, just like crap you step in. If you step in something unpleasant, you don't reason with it, you get a stick and scrape it off.
We require being the Technical contact for domains we host, becase we are the technical contact for the domain.
Administrative contact should be the customer - this is who actually owns the domain. If the customer owns it, they should be the Admin contact.
The reason that you are the Technical contact is so that you can make changes. If you change your DNS servers (add/remove/replace one) you should be updating the DNS record - it's your job, not the customer's.
But more about your reasons:
1.Increased security - you can turn off the spammers when they violate your terms of service.
This is crap. If they violate the TOS, you just drop the zone. It's faster (root server changes happen every 12 hours - '/usr/sbin/ndc reload' is _MUCH_ faster.), and you don't need to screw around with a third party.
2.When they try to change domain name servers with their registrar, an e-mail is usually sent to the administrative and technical contacts. This is a good notification that you just lost a customer and can take the record out of your DNS.
This isn't really an issue either. First, you should contact a customer before deactivating their zones (DNS hijacking, anyone?) Second, if a customer were to change service providers and not tell you, then it's their domain that's screwed. It's their responsibility to notify you; you shouldn't need to keep checking.
3.You can hold the domain for ransom when/if the customer does not want to pay their bill (evil, but sometimes necessary).
I don't think this is necessary at all. If they're not gonna pay you, pissing them off probably won't help the situation. If the domain is part of a trademark (or the domain is registered in their name), they can just go to Network Solutions and get it yanked anyway.. but even then, holding the domain for 'ransom' is an act of bad faith - if they're inclined, they could probably sue you. (And the fact that they owe you money will probably be overlooked by a judge, unless your contract explicitly states that you can do this - where I live, once you've extended them credit, you can't hold their property without prior written consent.)
Yes, you should be the Tech contact for all domains you host, so that you can make changes to the domain, not for the reasons you listed.
1) The states are co-prosecutors. They do not, and many have stated they will not, withdraw.
OK, granted, but it doesn't stop the DOJ from fighting with them.. (as in "we should just fine them $100" or something stupid like that.
2) The DOJ won a resounding victory in the trial. Backing off would make you look like an idiot.
Come on, this is the Shrub we're talking about - this is the same guy who said to Dick Cheney "Find me the best person to be my running mate", then Cheney comes back and says "Umm, it's me!" - and the Shrub just says "Oh, OK!"..
I can just see some infighting between the plaintiffs, and the Supreme Court siding with MS.
It starts off by telling ICANN that they shouldn't be thinking about new TLD's, then goes on to criticize ICANN for neglecting "Internet Business Modellers" in the search for new TLD's.
The letter (and e2p's website) are pretty stark of details, can anybody shed any light on exactly what these bozo's are trying to pull?
The residents of Nunavut voted on the name "Bob," but the government told them that that name wasn't allowed.
Actually, this isn't quite true.
When the Northwest Territories was split up (almost exactly along the boudary between the District of Keewatin and the District of MacKenzie) the name of Nunavut (which means "our land" was decided by the government. The residents of the other part were presented with the option to choose their own name.. some of the nominations:
Bob
Alluvut
Therestuvut
In the end, the decision was to keep the name Northwest Territories.
why don't they just use one of those pass-through devices for the serial or parallel ports?
That's an easy answer:
Because a dongle can be moved.. by tying the software to existing hardware inside the case, they prevent you from moving your "license" to a new machine in the future. (Buy a new machine, you have to buy a new OS - you can't use the old "license" you already own.)
Did everyone that worked there wear ESD Wrist straps too.?
They'd have to, if there were any electronics there they wanted to keep (and the story was correct in it's physics..)
First, if they wanted to prevent the building from conducting static electricity, they would use an insulator, not a conductor (metal is a conductor)..
Second, if you did prevent a building from conducting static, then the static electricity would build up in the people (or anything else moving around) and spark whenever you got near something grounded (like an electronic device)..
If the writer didn't screw things up, I think they got the purpose right, but the physics wrong - if static was an issue, the carpet was there to increase the building's conductivity of static electricity, which would minimize it. (The static would dissipate all the time, instead of building up and zapping something.)
child pornography has been found to be protected under free speech laws
This isn't true; it's (at best) based on a half-truth..
Kiddie porn is illegal under bill C-128, which is an amendment to Canada's criminal code.
The courts ruled that the wording of bill C-128 violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (our constitution.) The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does more that just guarantee free speech.
The reason that the courts ruled that it violated the Charter is because the bill is badly written. It makes an overly-broad definition of the term "child pornography", and severly limits who is allowed to "possess" it (it's not completely illegal.) The part the BC supreme court had a problem with (specifically) is that the definition of child porn includes nude pictures of anyone pretending to be under the age of 18, or writing that describes sexual acts with anyone under the age of 18.
In their ruling, the judge specifically singled out the written part, saying (correctly) that if someone were to write down a personal fantasy of a fictional account they could be thrown in jail, and "this comes dangerously close to infringing on freedom of thought" (quoting from memory, it's been ahwile since I read the breif).
The problem stems from Mulroney's conservative government, who passed the bill even after they were told that the wording was flawed.
If the damn liberal government was really serious about this crap, they would re-write the law, and address the issues mentioned in the judge's ruling.
I just bought a new car (2001 Neon, for the curious..:o).. the first day we had it, I almost got smoked from behind while stopped at a light..
The guy behind me (a taxi) stopped late, and the camaro behind him couldn't stop in time.. I heard the screech of brakes, and immediately moved forward out of the way.. a second later the taxi's front fender was where my back seat would have been..
I've never had any defensive driving courses, but (in my mind) it makes sense to leave room between you and the guy in front of you.
My first vehicle was a motorcycle, and the friend who taught me how to ride gave me one piece of advice that I always use, whether I'm in a car or on a bike:
"Pretend you're invisible, and drive accordingly."
Interestingly enough, my wife started driving lessons a few weeks ago, and one of her first lessons was "accident avoidance" - where they covered this exact same topic..
Overall pretty good, but there are a few (minor) points..
First, your firewall should always be initialized before initializing the network interface, not after... initializing it after your network comes up means that there is a period (however small) that your machine is vulnerable (or, more vulnerable than it could be:o)
Second, blocking all inbound pings can (potentially) cause problems with things such as DHCP.. (most DHCP servers attempt to ping an address before they issue it, to determine if it's in use or not..) if the DHCP server's lease database becomes corrupt/invalid (because of a network/hardware failure, for example), it could give your IP address to someone else, because your machine doesn't answer the ping..
Third, he misspelled Kurt Seifried's name (I think that Seigfreid is a magician from Vegas:o)
Your requirements page mention that it requires an X server - so this is just a WM then, right?
Whatever the reasons for such hostility
Well, the reasons are pretty simple: you put up a buzzword-compliant website for a window manager, heralding it as the second coming of Jim Butterfield.. frankly, it insults the intelligence of the people who visit it. (I, for one got the distinct impression that you are a bunch of con-artist marketdroids trying to pass yourselves off as professional programmers.)
Now, this description may seem pretty harsh, but you should realize that this reaction is prompted by your propaganda.. if my impressions are incorrect, it's because your website (the only source for information) created them.. (of course, judging from the other posts here, I'm not the only one who got this impression.)
Actually, my favourite part is this: (from section III of the TOS)
2. We do not monitor traffic until you surpass the specified amount with your package at the time of purchase in one months period of time.
Besides the horrible grammar, they're saying that they don't monitor you until after you've exceeded some amount.. but how do they know that you've exceeded your limit unless they're monitoring the traffic?
I'm guessing that the 18-year-old CEO is a high-school dropout..
The latest version of Roxen webserver supports embedded Perl (among many other languages)..
from the Roxen Perl Support Module page:
With the "Script output" option of the perl support module set to HTTP, it is possible to run old perl CGI scripts more or less as they are, only with better performance, provided they don't rely on their environment being reset upon each run of the script. (This performance boost comes in part from the script already being loaded and compiled, thus staying resident in-between requests and in part from the fact that there is no need to fork off new processes for the script.)
It also supports the mod_perl API, for compatability
Just because you can be fired "for no reason" doesn't mean that if they have an invalid reason they can fire you..
Where I live, it's legal for a landlord to evict on 30 days notice, with no reason.
A few years ago, a woman complained to her landlord about the 'sandbox' in her apartment complex because it was full of cat feces.. The landlord didn't do anything, and the woman complained to the housing authority.. The landlord got fined many thousands of dollars, and was forced to clean up the sandbox.. a month later, the woman got an eviction notice - she was given 30 days to move, and was cited 'no reason' for the notice..
She sued the landlord, saying that she was evicted because she complained, and she won, because the judge made the distinction between "no reason" and "a bad reason".
If they've already told him he'll be fired for refusing a promotion, and he refuses, it doesn't matter if they list "no reason" on his pink slip - they've already admitted there is a reason - he can still sue them for unfair dismissal..
ASCII and UTF are supported by Microsoft in their original forms
Umm, no.
Ever visit a website that was created with MS products? Ever visit it with non-MS OS/browser? Take a ?close look? at why things that should contain apostrophe?s has question marks instead?
It's because MS has it?s own version of ASCII, that?s not compatable with real ASCII.
But really, this just underlies the bigger issue: MS can't make their software standards-compatable, even when they write the standard themselves.. witness PPTP - a MS protocol from day one.
According to the standards paper, a PPTP server can't accept multiple concurrent connections from a single client (which makes sense - it's a tunneling protocol).. however one PPTP server that exists does allow it - and guess who's version it is? - MICROSOFT's!
They don't HAVE to release any changes they make to GPL software, like Linux, unless they're selling it to someone.
Right?
Wrong.
They have to release the changes they make to whomever they distribute it.. so if they give/sell/lend their distro to someone, they have to give them the source code to their changes.
Slashdot Mirror
If I want something, Yahoo will have it.
Unless it's something about a business that doesn't feel like paying their extortion fee, or a personal page that the staff repeatedly "forgets" to index.
OK, it's their database, they can charge for it if they want - but thier competitors (ala google) don't charge..
Yahoo used to be about providing the best (ie: most complete) directory. Now they're about making money at any cost. When a company says "quality be damned", I go somewhere else.
The smartest one I ever knew was a "Network Engineer" (his official designation from the technical school he graduated from.) Here's a story about him:
I was a System Administrator for a small (but growing) company - we had approx. 15 computers, most of them running Windows 3.11 (this was a few years ago..)
He came to me one day, said he was upgrading one of the stations to Windows95, and asked what the IP address for the station in shipping/receiving was.. so I told him. He came back a few minutes later, and said that the IP I gave him was wrong, because Windows said that the IP address was in use.. I was in the middle of something, so I told him I'd come see him in 10 minutes.
So I'm on my way to see him, I walk through the shipping area, and the computer is there, and someone is using it, so I figure he's figured out the problem he had with the address..
An hour later, he comes up to me and asks if I'd forgotten about him.. I told him that I saw the station running..
He says "Yes, but I'm gonna replace it, I have the new machine all set up on the network, but when I put in it's IP address, it doesn't work because it says another machine is using that address."
To which I reply "Of course it doesn't work, the old station is still running!"
His reply: "Oh, is that important?"
MCSE's are generally people who aren't smart enough to get a job with other skills.
if I wanted to post other people's creditcard numbers or root passwords online, would that be allowed? After all, it's just an expression of my thoughts.
See what you wrote there?
If the CC#'s or passwords belong to other people, how can you claim ownership?
If you wanted to post your credit card number or root password, then you'd be perfectly entitled (and stupid) to do so.
And this is what the entire case is about - people want to post their own code, not someone else's. Just like you could post an explanation of a how credit card CRC checks are done, or the crypt(2) algorithm used to encrypt a password.
Short answer: there are specific legal definitions of what constitutes free speech. Posting someone else's personal information isn't one of them. Go look them up before posting again.
I would recommend a journalling file system, because you don't want to lose your MP3 selection if you don't unmount your drive properly (which could happen otherwise)
Or he could not bother screwing around with this hassle and use any other non-journaling FS, and turn off the disk cache by using the 'sync' mount option.
Think about it: the disk in an MP3 player is gonna be doing one of two things at one time: reading (playing the file) or writing (saving the file).. it won't be doing both at once, so the performance of benefit of a disk cache would be negligible.
There was a recent Supreme Court (Canada) case in which it was ruled that prohibiting possession of Child Pornography was unconstitutional (the law was deemed to be overbroad).
These are two different things.
They (the BC supreme court) did not rule that prohibiting possession was unconstitutional, but they did rule the law (Bill C-128) was overly broad.
They ruled that the law was overly broad because it included in its' definition of "child pornography" stories about fictitious characters and events, personal diaries, and drawings... it's been awhile since I read the ruling, but the judge ruled that it came "dangerously close to infringing on a person's freedom of thought."
This is essentially what the problem is. If a high school girl writes in her diary about a sexual fantasy, under bill C128, she could be arrested for child pornography.. there is something chilling about that..
That won't work..
Mail servers (even old ones, my experience only goes back to Sendmail 8.6, but IIRC it went back to V5.. it's probably in RFC 822/821 as well, but I'm too lazy to check) count the Received: headers on an email.. when the count passes a certain threshold (typically 25, but frequently much lower) the mail gets returned to the sender, (or to the postmaster if undeliverable.)
You might bump the load for the mailservers a little for a minute or so, but that's about it.
Instead of "good" porn.. what about something disgusting?
:o)
I think we've finally discovered a use for that goatsecx link that keeps poppin up here!
I went to their website as described on their emails and unsubscribe.
Congratulations.. you just got yourself added to their "This email address is Real, and the guy reads our spam!" Gold List.
The Proof:
Well the next month they send me another email so I went through the same motions again, and it said that the email address was already marked for removal
You've just guaranteed that you will receive TONS and TONS more spam.
An experiment: Get a new email address, and don't give to anybody (as in nobody - don't put it in any mail program, don't give it to anybody, don't put it on a web page, make sure it's completely secret.).. then go to that 'remove' page you mentioned, and enter it in.. then check it next month, and see how much spam they sent it..
I just wish there was a spam filter that you can use that would return unknown user like an account died, so the spam programs would automatically remove the user.
Are you really that naieve?
Spam programs don't remove users, ever!.. spammers use bogus MAIL FROM: email addresses because they don't care if the spam bounces... think about it.. if a spammer cared if an email address was real or not, would they be spamming in the first place?
You get back at spammers by contacting their ISP, not by talking to them directly. Spammers are (by definition) scum, just like crap you step in. If you step in something unpleasant, you don't reason with it, you get a stick and scrape it off.
We require being the Technical contact for domains we host, becase we are the technical contact for the domain.
Administrative contact should be the customer - this is who actually owns the domain. If the customer owns it, they should be the Admin contact.
The reason that you are the Technical contact is so that you can make changes. If you change your DNS servers (add/remove/replace one) you should be updating the DNS record - it's your job, not the customer's.
But more about your reasons:
1.Increased security - you can turn off the spammers when they violate your terms of service.
This is crap. If they violate the TOS, you just drop the zone. It's faster (root server changes happen every 12 hours - '/usr/sbin/ndc reload' is _MUCH_ faster.), and you don't need to screw around with a third party.
2.When they try to change domain name servers with their registrar, an e-mail is usually sent to the administrative and technical contacts. This is a good notification that you just lost a customer and can take the record out of your DNS.
This isn't really an issue either. First, you should contact a customer before deactivating their zones (DNS hijacking, anyone?) Second, if a customer were to change service providers and not tell you, then it's their domain that's screwed. It's their responsibility to notify you; you shouldn't need to keep checking.
3.You can hold the domain for ransom when/if the customer does not want to pay their bill (evil, but sometimes necessary).
I don't think this is necessary at all. If they're not gonna pay you, pissing them off probably won't help the situation. If the domain is part of a trademark (or the domain is registered in their name), they can just go to Network Solutions and get it yanked anyway.. but even then, holding the domain for 'ransom' is an act of bad faith - if they're inclined, they could probably sue you. (And the fact that they owe you money will probably be overlooked by a judge, unless your contract explicitly states that you can do this - where I live, once you've extended them credit, you can't hold their property without prior written consent.)
Yes, you should be the Tech contact for all domains you host, so that you can make changes to the domain, not for the reasons you listed.
1) The states are co-prosecutors. They do not, and many have stated they will not, withdraw.
OK, granted, but it doesn't stop the DOJ from fighting with them.. (as in "we should just fine them $100" or something stupid like that.
2) The DOJ won a resounding victory in the trial. Backing off would make you look like an idiot.
Come on, this is the Shrub we're talking about - this is the same guy who said to Dick Cheney "Find me the best person to be my running mate", then Cheney comes back and says "Umm, it's me!" - and the Shrub just says "Oh, OK!"..
I can just see some infighting between the plaintiffs, and the Supreme Court siding with MS.
It gets even worse than this..
l -11oct00.htm
A company called e2p has notified ICANN that they have a patent on all new TLD's..
The letter they sent to ICANN is available for viewing at http://www.icann.org/tlds/correspondence/e2p-emai
It starts off by telling ICANN that they shouldn't be thinking about new TLD's, then goes on to criticize ICANN for neglecting "Internet Business Modellers" in the search for new TLD's.
The letter (and e2p's website) are pretty stark of details, can anybody shed any light on exactly what these bozo's are trying to pull?
The residents of Nunavut voted on the name "Bob," but the government told them that that name wasn't allowed.
Actually, this isn't quite true.
When the Northwest Territories was split up (almost exactly along the boudary between the District of Keewatin and the District of MacKenzie) the name of Nunavut (which means "our land" was decided by the government. The residents of the other part were presented with the option to choose their own name.. some of the nominations:
Bob
Alluvut
Therestuvut
In the end, the decision was to keep the name Northwest Territories.
More like the Steve Ballmer Charm School..
Seriously, have you ever seen Ballmer in an interview? He talks like this guy writes..
why don't they just use one of those pass-through devices for the serial or parallel ports?
That's an easy answer:
Because a dongle can be moved.. by tying the software to existing hardware inside the case, they prevent you from moving your "license" to a new machine in the future. (Buy a new machine, you have to buy a new OS - you can't use the old "license" you already own.)
Did everyone that worked there wear ESD Wrist straps too.?
They'd have to, if there were any electronics there they wanted to keep (and the story was correct in it's physics..)
First, if they wanted to prevent the building from conducting static electricity, they would use an insulator, not a conductor (metal is a conductor)..
Second, if you did prevent a building from conducting static, then the static electricity would build up in the people (or anything else moving around) and spark whenever you got near something grounded (like an electronic device)..
If the writer didn't screw things up, I think they got the purpose right, but the physics wrong - if static was an issue, the carpet was there to increase the building's conductivity of static electricity, which would minimize it. (The static would dissipate all the time, instead of building up and zapping something.)
child pornography has been found to be protected under free speech laws
This isn't true; it's (at best) based on a half-truth..
Kiddie porn is illegal under bill C-128, which is an amendment to Canada's criminal code.
The courts ruled that the wording of bill C-128 violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (our constitution.) The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does more that just guarantee free speech.
The reason that the courts ruled that it violated the Charter is because the bill is badly written. It makes an overly-broad definition of the term "child pornography", and severly limits who is allowed to "possess" it (it's not completely illegal.) The part the BC supreme court had a problem with (specifically) is that the definition of child porn includes nude pictures of anyone pretending to be under the age of 18, or writing that describes sexual acts with anyone under the age of 18.
In their ruling, the judge specifically singled out the written part, saying (correctly) that if someone were to write down a personal fantasy of a fictional account they could be thrown in jail, and "this comes dangerously close to infringing on freedom of thought" (quoting from memory, it's been ahwile since I read the breif).
The problem stems from Mulroney's conservative government, who passed the bill even after they were told that the wording was flawed.
If the damn liberal government was really serious about this crap, they would re-write the law, and address the issues mentioned in the judge's ruling.
An interesting aside to this..
I just bought a new car (2001 Neon, for the curious..:o).. the first day we had it, I almost got smoked from behind while stopped at a light..
The guy behind me (a taxi) stopped late, and the camaro behind him couldn't stop in time.. I heard the screech of brakes, and immediately moved forward out of the way.. a second later the taxi's front fender was where my back seat would have been..
I've never had any defensive driving courses, but (in my mind) it makes sense to leave room between you and the guy in front of you.
My first vehicle was a motorcycle, and the friend who taught me how to ride gave me one piece of advice that I always use, whether I'm in a car or on a bike:
"Pretend you're invisible, and drive accordingly."
Interestingly enough, my wife started driving lessons a few weeks ago, and one of her first lessons was "accident avoidance" - where they covered this exact same topic..
Overall pretty good, but there are a few (minor) points..
:o)
:o)
First, your firewall should always be initialized before initializing the network interface, not after... initializing it after your network comes up means that there is a period (however small) that your machine is vulnerable (or, more vulnerable than it could be
Second, blocking all inbound pings can (potentially) cause problems with things such as DHCP.. (most DHCP servers attempt to ping an address before they issue it, to determine if it's in use or not..) if the DHCP server's lease database becomes corrupt/invalid (because of a network/hardware failure, for example), it could give your IP address to someone else, because your machine doesn't answer the ping..
Third, he misspelled Kurt Seifried's name (I think that Seigfreid is a magician from Vegas
Other than that, a pretty good start..
What about the "It's just a WM" arguments?
Your requirements page mention that it requires an X server - so this is just a WM then, right?
Whatever the reasons for such hostility
Well, the reasons are pretty simple: you put up a buzzword-compliant website for a window manager, heralding it as the second coming of Jim Butterfield.. frankly, it insults the intelligence of the people who visit it. (I, for one got the distinct impression that you are a bunch of con-artist marketdroids trying to pass yourselves off as professional programmers.)
Now, this description may seem pretty harsh, but you should realize that this reaction is prompted by your propaganda.. if my impressions are incorrect, it's because your website (the only source for information) created them.. (of course, judging from the other posts here, I'm not the only one who got this impression.)
Check the spelling of usage.
I did - he spells it the same way you do..
total bandwidth usage
Unless you mean how he spells wusage, which is the name of a web log analyzer/grapher (and is also spelled correctly, although not capitalized.)
Besides the horrible grammar, they're saying that they don't monitor you until after you've exceeded some amount.. but how do they know that you've exceeded your limit unless they're monitoring the traffic?
I'm guessing that the 18-year-old CEO is a high-school dropout..
from the Roxen Perl Support Module page:
It also supports the mod_perl API, for compatability
Just because you can be fired "for no reason" doesn't mean that if they have an invalid reason they can fire you..
Where I live, it's legal for a landlord to evict on 30 days notice, with no reason.
A few years ago, a woman complained to her landlord about the 'sandbox' in her apartment complex because it was full of cat feces.. The landlord didn't do anything, and the woman complained to the housing authority.. The landlord got fined many thousands of dollars, and was forced to clean up the sandbox.. a month later, the woman got an eviction notice - she was given 30 days to move, and was cited 'no reason' for the notice..
She sued the landlord, saying that she was evicted because she complained, and she won, because the judge made the distinction between "no reason" and "a bad reason".
If they've already told him he'll be fired for refusing a promotion, and he refuses, it doesn't matter if they list "no reason" on his pink slip - they've already admitted there is a reason - he can still sue them for unfair dismissal..
ASCII and UTF are supported by Microsoft in their original forms
Umm, no.
Ever visit a website that was created with MS products? Ever visit it with non-MS OS/browser? Take a ?close look? at why things that should contain apostrophe?s has question marks instead?
It's because MS has it?s own version of ASCII, that?s not compatable with real ASCII.
But really, this just underlies the bigger issue: MS can't make their software standards-compatable, even when they write the standard themselves.. witness PPTP - a MS protocol from day one.
According to the standards paper, a PPTP server can't accept multiple concurrent connections from a single client (which makes sense - it's a tunneling protocol).. however one PPTP server that exists does allow it - and guess who's version it is? - MICROSOFT's!
They don't HAVE to release any changes they make to GPL software, like Linux, unless they're selling it to someone.
Right?
Wrong.
They have to release the changes they make to whomever they distribute it.. so if they give/sell/lend their distro to someone, they have to give them the source code to their changes.