I have a customer who used one of them, and their experience was *horrible*.
They leased a cobalt from the provider, which was supposed to be up to date.
It got hacked, and was used to send spam. The ISP shut the server down, and billed the company $500 to re-image the machine (this was about the time the customer called me.) The ISP swore up-and-down that the machine was secure, but a basic audit showed old versions of a bunch of software packages (SSL 0.96b, etc.) which had known security vulnerabilities. Knowing that some vendors backport security patches, I emailed them detailing the bugs, and asked them if the software had been secured.
I never received any answer.
A week later, the box got hacked *again*. The customer decided to move away from the ISP. He needed his server up, so he paid the ISP their $500 extortion fee to re-image the box. While I was setting up a new machine (the next day), their box got hacked *AGAIN* (even though the ISP still swore that it was secure.)
After we put the new box up, the box got some hack attempts which ceased after the attackers discovered that they wouldn't work.
Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, buy yourself a used Compaq Deskpro. They're already ultra-quiet, and you don't need to get an external power supply for them. As performance isn't an issue, you can pick up a PIII for under $100, and just add whatever size HD you want - no need to piecemeal your machine together or pay through the nose for quiet.
Seriously, Deskpros are wonderful machines, especially if you like silence.
It's obviously the work of an evil mastermind, setting up his new lair.
Since he needs the space, he's melting the rock in order to make space for his laboratory. The eruptions will stop once he's managed to carve his face into the side of the mountain.
The differences don't even need clarifying suffice to say I most certainly don't think what you suggest
They do need clarifying, and I wasn't actually saying that you think what I suggest, but that *YOUR OWN LOGIC* dictates the conclusion that all laws are bad because you can frame someone.
Arguing triviality just tells me that you can't actually refute the logic without admitting you were wrong. It's trivial to forge someone's signature (much easier than creating a botnet, as a matter of fact). Does this meant that we should not have laws against forgery?
How could you prove you DIDN'T instigate the run, and how could you prove its not your fault?
Suppose that instead of sending spam, your competitor posts paper notices in parts of the city where it's illegal. How do you prove that you DIDN'T do it, and how could you prove that it's not your fault?
Or perhaps they buy mass-media time, showing photoshopped pictures of how proud your company is that they enjoy killing puppies for sport. How do you prove that you DIDN'T do it, and that you don't really kill puppies for sport.
OK, now let's suppose that one of your competitors kills someone, and puts a "this death courtesy of Tlacuache Inc" card at the scene. How do you prove that you DIDN'T do it?
Your argument basically boils down to the assertion that we shouldn't make *any* activity illegal, because someone can frame an innocent party.
I searched the KDE bug database and this looks like your bug
Thanks for the links, but it's not the same problem. For me, the message gets moved, but the one immediately following disappears. Occasionally selecting a message will cause it to disappear. Restarting Kmail always brings them back. I don't see the same problem with Thunderbird.
The last time I tried it was with KDE 3.4.2 (the packages from Slackware 10.2), but it's been there since 3.1.4 (which is when I started using IMAP.) I haven't submitted a bug report, simply because I don't have time to compile my own version of KDE (the Slackware packages are usually a versions or two behind), and I can't reproduce it 100% (it happens about 50% of the time when deleting or moving messages and less often when just selecting one.)
I think the problem could be timing-related, as it happens much more frequently at work (100Mbs connection to the mail server, vs 500Kbps from home.)
I love Kmail, but it has one showstopping bug that makes it unusable for me.
Email "disappears" from my inbox when using IMAP. If I delete an email, or move it to a different folder, about 50% of the time Kmail will appear to delete the email that immediately follows it. It also happens (about 25% of the time) if I simply select a message. If I quit Kmail and restart it, the "disappeared" email returns, but the fact that it happens at all is annoying as hell.
It's been like this since the days of KDE 3.0, and each time a new version of KDE comes out, I check to see if they've fixed it. As of the most recent version, no dice. I'm currently stuck with Thunderbird until they fix it.
Only with decent special effects, actors who don't look like they're about to be attacked by termites at any moment, and without the aliens in rubber masks and funny hairdos (which all speak with identifiable earth accents.)
Actually, it's more like "We won't make it, and we won't allow anyone else to make it, because it's ours. We don't care that it might make or lose money for someone else. It's our football, and nobody else gets to play with it."
This is the standard attitude among publishers of pretty much anything.
About a year ago, I was contracted to install a Linux server for a client. The client used a vertical accounting app which ran only on SCO Unix and Linux. The client wanted to ditch SCO, and I was happy to help.
The vendor for this app insisted that the server be publically accessible so that their tech people could perform updates (my suggestion that we restrict via IP address was shot down, as apparently their tech support worked from their homes, and didn't have static IP addresses) via *TELNET*.
I recommended that they remove telnet, and use SSH (after all, would you want your accounting data to be available to everyone on the internet?) The client agreed, and we informed the vendor that they'd need to use SSH/Putty/whatever to access the server.
I got a call from one of their "tech" people, who asked why she couldn't log in. I told her that for (what I thought were obvious) security reasons, she'd need to use SSH.
She started bitching about "I don't know what that is! Nobody told me how to use that!", etc. After she calmed down a bit, I explained to her what SSH was, and how there were free SSH clients, such as Putty. She asked where she could go to download Putty, and I told her "Just go to Google, and enter 'putty SSH'", and click "I'm feeling lucky".
Her response floored me.
"What's Google?"
I can't believe that someone who has root access on god knows how many Unix and Linux boxes, and whose job it is to support these boxes, had absolutely no idea who Google was.
little kids cannot estimate time intervalls very well. They do not know exactly if an hour or four have passed
You're right. I wish there was a device that could measure time accurately, instead of having to rely on our internal estimates. It would also be cool if this time-measuring-device could emit a sound, or otherwise notify someone when a certain time is reached, or a time period has elapsed, so that you wouldn't have to keep looking at it.
But I guess I'm dreaming - such a device is clearly in the realm of science-fiction. But if there *are* rocket surgeons out there that implement my idea, and make millions of dollars, remember that you owe me some, because it was my idea!
.. ever since they sent me a nasty letter telling me my account (which I hadn't used in a year) was being used for fraud.
The fraud? Well, a guy I worked with three years earlier (but who hadn't worked there two years ago) had bid on some items and won. But he didn't contact the seller because he was in hospital in a coma because of a car accident.
Apparently, as this guy and I both had items shipped to us at work three years earlier, that meant to ebay that we were the same person (never mind that the other guy had won several dozen auctions since he left the company, and had them shipped to his house.)
I told ebay to go fsck themselves.
It seems to me that Ebay does nothing to sellers, but goes out of its way to nail "fraudulent" buyers who haven't actually done anything wrong.
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That's the problem - they had valid ID.
Sorry, if the problem is "bad people" having valid ID, how is having adding *another* piece of valid ID going to solve the problem?
A national ID, with biometric info, may not be a bad idea, of telling the authorities YOUR ARE WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE.
Which doesn't really address his point.
The guys responsible for 9/11 were who they said they were, and they had ID to prove it. How will this change?
A piece of ID can't tell anyone that you're going to break a law.
That's the problem.
"eventually" could be tomorrow, next month, next year, not in our lifetime.
So delay it to give someone else the chance to submit. If nobody else does, go with it.
Considering the number of times stores posted here have been months or years old, I can't imagine that waiting an extra week would do any harm.
if the link is good, why NOT share it with the audience?
If the link is good, won't it be submitted (eventually?) by someone else?
Fry: "Symposium? I love symposia!"
I have a customer who used one of them, and their experience was *horrible*.
They leased a cobalt from the provider, which was supposed to be up to date.
It got hacked, and was used to send spam. The ISP shut the server down, and billed the company $500 to re-image the machine (this was about the time the customer called me.) The ISP swore up-and-down that the machine was secure, but a basic audit showed old versions of a bunch of software packages (SSL 0.96b, etc.) which had known security vulnerabilities. Knowing that some vendors backport security patches, I emailed them detailing the bugs, and asked them if the software had been secured.
I never received any answer.
A week later, the box got hacked *again*. The customer decided to move away from the ISP. He needed his server up, so he paid the ISP their $500 extortion fee to re-image the box. While I was setting up a new machine (the next day), their box got hacked *AGAIN* (even though the ISP still swore that it was secure.)
After we put the new box up, the box got some hack attempts which ceased after the attackers discovered that they wouldn't work.
Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, buy yourself a used Compaq Deskpro. They're already ultra-quiet, and you don't need to get an external power supply for them. As performance isn't an issue, you can pick up a PIII for under $100, and just add whatever size HD you want - no need to piecemeal your machine together or pay through the nose for quiet.
Seriously, Deskpros are wonderful machines, especially if you like silence.
It's obviously the work of an evil mastermind, setting up his new lair.
Since he needs the space, he's melting the rock in order to make space for his laboratory. The eruptions will stop once he's managed to carve his face into the side of the mountain.
My money is either on Hank Scorpio or Dr. Evil.
Then why not get rid of the drinking age laws? Parents can watch their kids to make sure they don't drink.
Great idea. Glad to see an American who isn't afraid to follow in the footsteps of most of the rest of the first world.
No developer worth his salt will ruin a desktop machine. Someone who either on purpose or by accident comprimeses his machine should be fired.
What a great system.. just one question: where do you find people who are guaranteed never to make a mistake?
The differences don't even need clarifying suffice to say I most certainly don't think what you suggest
They do need clarifying, and I wasn't actually saying that you think what I suggest, but that *YOUR OWN LOGIC* dictates the conclusion that all laws are bad because you can frame someone.
Arguing triviality just tells me that you can't actually refute the logic without admitting you were wrong. It's trivial to forge someone's signature (much easier than creating a botnet, as a matter of fact). Does this meant that we should not have laws against forgery?
How could you prove you DIDN'T instigate the run, and how could you prove its not your fault?
Suppose that instead of sending spam, your competitor posts paper notices in parts of the city where it's illegal. How do you prove that you DIDN'T do it, and how could you prove that it's not your fault?
Or perhaps they buy mass-media time, showing photoshopped pictures of how proud your company is that they enjoy killing puppies for sport. How do you prove that you DIDN'T do it, and that you don't really kill puppies for sport.
OK, now let's suppose that one of your competitors kills someone, and puts a "this death courtesy of Tlacuache Inc" card at the scene. How do you prove that you DIDN'T do it?
Your argument basically boils down to the assertion that we shouldn't make *any* activity illegal, because someone can frame an innocent party.
The Globe was bought by the NY Times. Editorial standards, even just on a basic proof-reading level, seem to have gone nowhere but down ever since.
Why am I not surprised?
I searched the KDE bug database and this looks like your bug
Thanks for the links, but it's not the same problem. For me, the message gets moved, but the one immediately following disappears. Occasionally selecting a message will cause it to disappear. Restarting Kmail always brings them back. I don't see the same problem with Thunderbird.
The last time I tried it was with KDE 3.4.2 (the packages from Slackware 10.2), but it's been there since 3.1.4 (which is when I started using IMAP.) I haven't submitted a bug report, simply because I don't have time to compile my own version of KDE (the Slackware packages are usually a versions or two behind), and I can't reproduce it 100% (it happens about 50% of the time when deleting or moving messages and less often when just selecting one.)
I think the problem could be timing-related, as it happens much more frequently at work (100Mbs connection to the mail server, vs 500Kbps from home.)
I love Kmail, but it has one showstopping bug that makes it unusable for me.
Email "disappears" from my inbox when using IMAP. If I delete an email, or move it to a different folder, about 50% of the time Kmail will appear to delete the email that immediately follows it. It also happens (about 25% of the time) if I simply select a message. If I quit Kmail and restart it, the "disappeared" email returns, but the fact that it happens at all is annoying as hell.
It's been like this since the days of KDE 3.0, and each time a new version of KDE comes out, I check to see if they've fixed it. As of the most recent version, no dice. I'm currently stuck with Thunderbird until they fix it.
It is this decades babylon 5
Only with decent special effects, actors who don't look like they're about to be attacked by termites at any moment, and without the aliens in rubber masks and funny hairdos (which all speak with identifiable earth accents.)
Actually, it's more like "We won't make it, and we won't allow anyone else to make it, because it's ours. We don't care that it might make or lose money for someone else. It's our football, and nobody else gets to play with it."
This is the standard attitude among publishers of pretty much anything.
I know you're being funny, but... true story:
About a year ago, I was contracted to install a Linux server for a client. The client used a vertical accounting app which ran only on SCO Unix and Linux. The client wanted to ditch SCO, and I was happy to help.
The vendor for this app insisted that the server be publically accessible so that their tech people could perform updates (my suggestion that we restrict via IP address was shot down, as apparently their tech support worked from their homes, and didn't have static IP addresses) via *TELNET*.
I recommended that they remove telnet, and use SSH (after all, would you want your accounting data to be available to everyone on the internet?) The client agreed, and we informed the vendor that they'd need to use SSH/Putty/whatever to access the server.
I got a call from one of their "tech" people, who asked why she couldn't log in. I told her that for (what I thought were obvious) security reasons, she'd need to use SSH.
She started bitching about "I don't know what that is! Nobody told me how to use that!", etc. After she calmed down a bit, I explained to her what SSH was, and how there were free SSH clients, such as Putty. She asked where she could go to download Putty, and I told her "Just go to Google, and enter 'putty SSH'", and click "I'm feeling lucky".
Her response floored me.
"What's Google?"
I can't believe that someone who has root access on god knows how many Unix and Linux boxes, and whose job it is to support these boxes, had absolutely no idea who Google was.
"When do I start?"
when that happens, it means that the content providers will allow the telcos and cable cos to start delivering their content online.
Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my ass.
You should probably use 380K floppies for compatability.
IIRC the C64 5.25" floppies only held ~164K or so (664 blocks * 254 bytes per block.)
Do you really think that there are 100,000 local libraries in this country which have Mao's book?
No, that's the whole point. The guy got nailed because the library *didn't* have a copy.
Wow. I had *no* idea that getting a blowjob was illegal.
My wife keeps wanting me to go to the US to visit her relatives. At least now I have an excuse (I wonder how she feels being an accomplice?)
little kids cannot estimate time intervalls very well. They do not know exactly if an hour or four have passed
You're right. I wish there was a device that could measure time accurately, instead of having to rely on our internal estimates. It would also be cool if this time-measuring-device could emit a sound, or otherwise notify someone when a certain time is reached, or a time period has elapsed, so that you wouldn't have to keep looking at it.
But I guess I'm dreaming - such a device is clearly in the realm of science-fiction. But if there *are* rocket surgeons out there that implement my idea, and make millions of dollars, remember that you owe me some, because it was my idea!
.. ever since they sent me a nasty letter telling me my account (which I hadn't used in a year) was being used for fraud.
The fraud? Well, a guy I worked with three years earlier (but who hadn't worked there two years ago) had bid on some items and won. But he didn't contact the seller because he was in hospital in a coma because of a car accident.
Apparently, as this guy and I both had items shipped to us at work three years earlier, that meant to ebay that we were the same person (never mind that the other guy had won several dozen auctions since he left the company, and had them shipped to his house.)
I told ebay to go fsck themselves.
It seems to me that Ebay does nothing to sellers, but goes out of its way to nail "fraudulent" buyers who haven't actually done anything wrong.
1080i is 540 lines per screen, 720p is 720.
Yes, and 1080i is 1920 pixels per line, whereas 720p is 1280.
They're saving bandwidth.
Sorry, but WHAT?!!?!?! ?!?!
This is a broadcast or cable delivery, not an internet feed. The bandwidth is fixed, whether they use it or not.