Our server room is small enough that, if the buzzer goes, you hold your breath and run for the door. There's a 'slap switch' which you can hit with your palm and get out.
The absolute first service we set up on anything is ssh. Then we administer *everything* remotely.
It means: "We here at $PRINTER_CORP really hate you goddamn limeys or you smelly Europeans with your different paper sizes and we're going to damn well specify an American paper size by default in every single application and printer we sell, so that you have to go hunt them all out and change them individually!"
so now the BIOS has to recognise the mouse? Why don't we implement a set of PS/2 mouse drivers in the BIOS, oh and we need serial too, just in case, and probably USB to make sure we've covered everything, and heck, while we're here and we're using the mouse, let's put a windowing system in the BIOS. 64Mb BIOS ROM?
And there's an extremely fundamental point to be made: You *can't* contact SPEWS. They have no MX record and consequently there is no way to send them email. m There is an address in Lake Baikal, Siberia, bit I don't think it's complete enought to be a postal address.
In short, there is no way anyone can contact SPEWS or reasonably claim to have contacted spews.
The only way to get on the SPEWS list is to: 1. Send spam to one of the many addresses used by SPEWS as spamtraps 2. Ignore complaints about spamming send from those addresses.
In short, only ISPs who persistently ignore spam get SPEWed. This is such a bloody useful indicator of email I don't want to read that I use it everywhere I can.
If you get an email rejected by an ISP who values SPEWS opinion, it's telling you that your ISP is a bad neighbour and values spammer dollars more than customer dollars.
No - if you send junk snail mail, then you pay the postage costs. If you send spam, the recipient pays to download it. (small amounts, to be sure, but the burden of cost is on the recipient.)
That's the crucial distinction between junk snail mail and spam.
Nope, spam will stop when and only when the ISPs refuse to tolerate it. They're the only people who can stamp it out at source. Blocklists like SPEWS (http://www.spews.org) block the ISPs who don't respond to spam complaints. When their own customers start complaining that their mail can't get through because their own ISP is a spam supporter, the ISPs might start to take action.
If it's the first time they've used a computer, they're going to go: "Oh *this*is how a computer works - I can pretty much how everything looks and behaves if I want. (And, when someone else logs in, they get their settings, so it's kewl!)"
The only problem is that their teachers are going to be those people who have learned how to use a computer out of a book, because they have to tech it, and think that all computers come with Word and Excel. They'll be lost, but the kids'll just pick it up.
On the contrary, they clearly associated the phrase: "it makes a grown man cry" with Windows 95 even before it was launched. I'd say that makes them proper slashdot linux zealots.
This is the kind of thing you see every day in news:news.admin.net.abuse.email.
"Waah, I'm being blocked by your nasty list! I demand you stop blovking me or I'll drop piano's on all your heads! and I'm a lawyer!"
"A. no-one's blocking you, they're justing *choosing* not to accept email from known open relays (or whatever the perp feels accused of)."
"You're abusing my First Amendment Rights to 'Frea Speach'"
"Our list is based in the Gobi Desert. *Our* first amendment guarantees the right to tea with yak butter."
Also, searching for his email address to see if he had ranted on usenet, I found this: Archived Article
an Excerpt (from the above article by "R. A. Hettinga" ): New Architect is a Microsoft/DotNet magazine. This article is agitprop for Microsoft's identity solutions: UDDI, Passport, and Palladium.
Any reputation framework that arises in the wild would reduce the profitability of a Microsoft solution, so they are going to badmouth it, sue it, etc.
HK and Macau were both *NOT* part of China for a long time. They're now both Special Administrative Regions and very independent.
I'm in HK and, trust me, there are no restrictions on the internet here.
As for cables to Macau, it would make some sense to run cables across the Pearl Delta from HK (it's not that far) just to avoid going through the Mainland, and because it's a shorter line. It would have been done a long time ago, though, well before Macau was handed back to China.
Macau was only returned to China in 1999, *AFTER* HK (1997), so I can't see any advantage - if there was a crackdown, HK would have been first.
Some of the sites on the 'inaccessible' list were for pro-Taiwan HK newspapers, so sites in one part of China are blocked from the main part.
> That's alot like saying "Everybody drives with a manual transmission because they > don't want to learn to drive stick". Somepeople have preferences you know.
Er, manual transmission *is* stick shift. You're thinking of automatic transmission.
Win 95 had a problem with a timer rolling over that would crash it after 49.(something) days. It took a long time for this to come to light because it would almost always fail for some other reason before then if you actually used it. There was a story here about it three or four years ago, where an intrepid/.er set up a laptop and ignored it until it crashed all by itself.
That's the nimda worm. Running apache, you're immune to it, but it makes a mess in your logs.
One thing to do is have a cron job to scan your logs and if it sees any of the above, add the ip to an iptables blocklist. At least that way, you only get hit once by it from each infected host.
Or you could use apache's rewrite rules to forward all attacks to www.micrsoft.com, but I wouldn't recommend that.
info is a humunguous pile of shite which is a pain to navigate and a pointless excercise in confusion. There's a perfectly functional existing standard which is the man page. If you want a pseudo-hypertext manual, what's wrong with html?
I want my documentation on one page, so I can grep it or in a sensible hypertext way, so I can slouch back, slurp my coffee and browse through it with my mouse.
Slashdot Mirror
Fourth that. hsbc.com.hk here, at it works fine with just about anything I've tried (mozilla, ie, konqueror.)
The only problem is that it opens up a window to login and if you have popups disabled, nothing happens.
dave
Our server room is small enough that, if the buzzer goes, you hold your breath and run for the door. There's a 'slap switch' which you can hit with your palm and get out.
The absolute first service we set up on anything is ssh. Then we administer *everything* remotely.
dave
Evolution of language, in this context, usually means "I r 2 thik 2 figger stuff out properly, so I'll pretend to be a champeen of da noo engrish."
dave
It means: "We here at $PRINTER_CORP really hate you goddamn limeys or you smelly Europeans with your different paper sizes and we're going to damn well specify an American paper size by default in every single application and printer we sell, so that you have to go hunt them all out and change them individually!"
dave
so now the BIOS has to recognise the mouse? Why don't we implement a set of PS/2 mouse drivers in the BIOS, oh and we need serial too, just in case, and probably USB to make sure we've covered everything, and heck, while we're here and we're using the mouse, let's put a windowing system in the BIOS. 64Mb BIOS ROM?
dave
And there's an extremely fundamental point to be made: You *can't* contact SPEWS. They have no MX record and consequently there is no way to send them email. m There is an address in Lake Baikal, Siberia, bit I don't think it's complete enought to be a postal address.
In short, there is no way anyone can contact SPEWS or reasonably claim to have contacted spews.
The only way to get on the SPEWS list is to:
1. Send spam to one of the many addresses used by SPEWS as spamtraps
2. Ignore complaints about spamming send from those addresses.
In short, only ISPs who persistently ignore spam get SPEWed. This is such a bloody useful indicator of email I don't want to read that I use it everywhere I can.
If you get an email rejected by an ISP who values SPEWS opinion, it's telling you that your ISP is a bad neighbour and values spammer dollars more than customer dollars.
dave
Except that you only have to do this if you want to recompile the kernel, not something mr average is going to do.
As for Grub - the install handles that - you only need to learn the config file if you want to do something fancy. It's far easier than LILO as well.
dave
And you've only posted 32 comments since then?
Jeez, yer UID's 54 and you've only posted 48 comments? That's less than ten per year?
No - if you send junk snail mail, then you pay the postage costs. If you send spam, the recipient pays to download it. (small amounts, to be sure, but the burden of cost is on the recipient.)
That's the crucial distinction between junk snail mail and spam.
dave
Nope, spam will stop when and only when the ISPs refuse to tolerate it. They're the only people who can stamp it out at source. Blocklists like SPEWS (http://www.spews.org) block the ISPs who don't respond to spam complaints. When their own customers start complaining that their mail can't get through because their own ISP is a spam supporter, the ISPs might start to take action.
dave
If it's the first time they've used a computer, they're going to go: "Oh *this*is how a computer works - I can pretty much how everything looks and behaves if I want. (And, when someone else logs in, they get their settings, so it's kewl!)"
The only problem is that their teachers are going to be those people who have learned how to use a computer out of a book, because they have to tech it, and think that all computers come with Word and Excel. They'll be lost, but the kids'll just pick it up.
dave
On the contrary, they clearly associated the phrase: "it makes a grown man cry" with Windows 95 even before it was launched. I'd say that makes them proper slashdot linux zealots.
dave
This is the kind of thing you see every day in news:news.admin.net.abuse.email.
"Waah, I'm being blocked by your nasty list! I demand you stop blovking me or I'll drop piano's on all your heads! and I'm a lawyer!"
"A. no-one's blocking you, they're justing *choosing* not to accept email from known open relays (or whatever the perp feels accused of)."
"You're abusing my First Amendment Rights to 'Frea Speach'"
"Our list is based in the Gobi Desert. *Our* first amendment guarantees the right to tea with yak butter."
Also, searching for his email address to see if he had ranted on usenet, I found this: Archived Article
an Excerpt (from the above article by "R. A. Hettinga" ):
New Architect is a Microsoft/DotNet magazine. This article is
agitprop for Microsoft's identity solutions: UDDI, Passport, and Palladium.
Any reputation framework that arises in the wild would reduce the
profitability of a Microsoft solution, so they are going to badmouth it,
sue it, etc.
dave
HK and Macau were both *NOT* part of China for a long time. They're now both Special Administrative Regions and very independent.
I'm in HK and, trust me, there are no restrictions on the internet here.
As for cables to Macau, it would make some sense to run cables across the Pearl Delta from HK (it's not that far) just to avoid going through the Mainland, and because it's a shorter line. It would have been done a long time ago, though, well before Macau was handed back to China.
Macau was only returned to China in 1999, *AFTER* HK (1997), so I can't see any advantage - if there was a crackdown, HK would have been first.
Some of the sites on the 'inaccessible' list were for pro-Taiwan HK newspapers, so sites in one part of China are blocked from the main part.
ah-wai
> That's alot like saying "Everybody drives with a manual transmission because they
> don't want to learn to drive stick". Somepeople have preferences you know.
Er, manual transmission *is* stick shift. You're thinking of automatic transmission.
dave
The technology may be for sale here (in hong kong) but it sure as heck isn't being used.
Movie theatres are plagued with mobile phone twats, as are almost all performances.
It doesn't help that it seems to be impossible to speak Cantonese quietly...
dave "WAI? WAI?"
ASP is a nasty, venomous reptile which can bite you in the ass and end your Egyptian dynasty.
dave "or something like that."
Ever heard of ssh?
dave
Win 95 had a problem with a timer rolling over that would crash it after 49.(something) days. It took a long time for this to come to light because it would almost always fail for some other reason before then if you actually used it. There was a story here about it three or four years ago, where an intrepid /.er set up a laptop and ignored it until it crashed all by itself.
dave
Apache allows you to rewrite incoming requests according to a set of rules. These are not the same as a page refresh in a META tag.
dave
That's the nimda worm. Running apache, you're immune to it, but it makes a mess in your logs.
One thing to do is have a cron job to scan your logs and if it sees any of the above, add the ip to an iptables blocklist. At least that way, you only get hit once by it from each infected host.
Or you could use apache's rewrite rules to forward all attacks to www.micrsoft.com, but I wouldn't recommend that.
dave
info is a humunguous pile of shite which is a pain to navigate and a pointless excercise in confusion. There's a perfectly functional existing standard which is the man page. If you want a pseudo-hypertext manual, what's wrong with html?
I want my documentation on one page, so I can grep it or in a sensible hypertext way, so I can slouch back, slurp my coffee and browse through it with my mouse.
dave
Well, when I had to run NT on a 64Mb PII 350, it was almost completely unusable. Not enough memory.
Win95 was *barely* usable on a 486DX66, You telling me that NT uses less resources?
dave
A quarter *to* ten is three-quarters *past* nine which would be 9.75.
dave