Set up a proxy server and force all outbound traffic over it. Tell the users it's to filter for Outlook viruses or some (.V)BS. Shut down all but a few ports, then run a packet sniffer to watch the ports you open. The proxy server has to be able to handle all the traffic, so if you have a LAN/WAN setup, you can use the proxy as a gateway between LAN servers and WAN/external traffic (so it won't slow down the outside users' access to your webpage).
We already do this (though the packet sniffer's for diagnostics only): LAN w/NT server+100 clients, proxy w/sniffer to get through to the WAN (Sun SPARCs for DBASE and web server), then another "standard" firewall out beyond the WAN to get to the internet. That way they have to get through two firewalls to get to our files from outside, and the inside users get their files scanned on the way out. Non-intrusive as we could make it, once the machines are set up for proxy the users don't know the difference. The packet sniffer's a 10-year-old SPARC classic, so we're not talking about major investment of $$$ here.
So The Matrix is really this big metaphor, right, for like, college. You, like, go in and sleep in bunk beds and eat cheap gruel and the girls are hot but there aren't enough for everyone and stuff, but you like learn really fast about the way the world really is and, like, the way you are, get it? Then once you learn all the stuff you can, like go back into the stupid conformist zombie world everyone else lives in, but, like, you totally can do whatever you want. Not like flying or catching bullets or anything, but like, you can just be whatever and do whatever and you'll be good at it because you know how the world really is, get it?
Hey, pack that shit again...
-jpowers
Re:...overanalysis? (Mage in a Nutshell)
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The comparison to Shakespeare is interesting. You can argue to some degree with his stylistic choices, but his work shows a clear understanding of both human nature and the ideas behind the "culture war" of his day. Same with Mage.
And it is a ripoff... of some great works of philosophy.
Besides, M:TA, in its original incarnation, is more sophisticated than a lot of technology. It takes the problem of competing ideologies and worldviews and breaks it down in an elegant manner, then almost makes its solution believable. Very interesting, and all you Eternal Golden Braid fans might enjoy it to wrap your minds around.
Actually, the newest version of Mage came out fairly recently.
Yeah, but the original game was out in '93, when I graduated HS. I think Meester Katz would do well to get himself a copy of the 1st Ed game. Totally unplayable, but much more insightful. Really just a metaphysics thinly disguised with a couple of dice rolls. He might also enjoy Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is to some degree the origin of the game's premise.
Each cost about a nickel per disc to produce, so one word'll explain it: Volume. Galaxy Quest had moderate (compared to The Matrix) box office and its replay value on DVD will drop as the jokes get stale. The Matrix, on the other hand, will have long-term value as each new batch of viewers discovers marijuana...
When will you gamer morons get it through your thick skulls that a lot of people *DON'T LIKE* First Person Shooters?!? I for one would not pay.10 for a First Person Shooter.
Don't get me wrong, I feel the same way about FPSes. I'd much rather play strategy games or RPGs, which I'm happy to pay for. What I was suggesting was that shareware has been and still could be an important route for NEW, DIFFERENT, and as yet UNDISCOVERED types of games to be introduced, and shouldn't be tossed aside while it still has potential value.
Of course, to understand what I was trying to say, you'd have to have the capacity to grasp things in context, which would require that you NOT be a moron... too bad you couldn't manage.
Use QDLS, it's Naderific!: Everybody pretend to buckle except for one guy, then send your $20 "personal user fee" to that guy for legal expenses. You'll win.
I think shareware culture is something we can live without in linux-community.
Don't toss shareware aside so casually, especially in reference to games. First Person Shooters pretty much owe their current popularity to the shareware Wolfenstein, and the next wave (whatever it is) could come from anywhere.
Buzzer. Plato cheated, son. Moral discussion can't leave the realm of the real world and remain moral. Parmenides says: "(Morally)Thou canst not speak of what is not nor indicate it in (moral)speech," which is shorthand for Hume/Kant's: All solutions to a problem fall into four categories:
Only one of these categories is "morally acceptable": Moral-Possible.
For you elite hackers and script kiddies:
M-P=[1], I-P=[-1], M-I=I-I=[divide by zero].
Therefore, all moral discussion involves discussion the discussion of reality, and reality in this discussion is -what you can do with a computer-. What these kids are doing is possible (napster, gnutella) and what they are arguing falls within the grey area of [soon to be possible], they are suggesting that something likely to be possible will make some moral argument of Sony's impossible.
It's a perfectly valid point, and your argument attempting to remove morality from reality demonstrates you grasp neither.
My users don't need goddamned force feedback from a device that MS can't get to work with an ATI card and SimCity3K...er, "an essential application." They don't need a mouse that has radar for the corner of the screen, or something that buzzes angrily when they try to install any app not written by MS.
All you hardware people: stop inventing useless shit and build me a mouse that doesn't vacuum up my stupid users' bagel crumbs. That'll be the day.
Yeah, that site sucks. It just so happens I've been sort of surveying the (non-corp) RPG pages around the web, and this one sucks less. Deals with both kinds of RPGs (electronic and tabletop), news/rumors from all over, pretty nice. It hosts the best site around for specific information on the new D&D3E books, Eric Noah's.
If you're into White Wolf's products (Mage, Vampire, Werewolf), their own site's pretty good, and Ex Libris Nocturnis isn't bad, either.
RPGnet is sort of the USA Today of the industry. You know, slick and dumb. They do have a rather nice habit of posting more than one review per book, though, so you get to see multiple perspectives, even if their writers are high schoolers.
No one's stealing anyone else's fire. The same company (New Line Cinema) is releasing both films, and plans to use the lower-budget, first-time-directed D&D film to whet the public's appetite for, well, Liv Tyler in body armor. LOTR might have some halflings or wizards or something, too, but definitely Liv Tyler.
Any admin who's servers got owned this way is fired. Just go home, you're done.
Take it one step further: Any sysadmin who's servers got owned this way raise your hand. Quite a few. Whoever paid some third party to set up their server for you, raise your hand. Less but still a lot. Who's going to buy from that company again? No hands? You did go to college!
Now do the rest of us a favor and post the names of those third parties here on this thread. I need a new server for our office up the street, and my last vendor, Entex, are no longer in the running for our contracts.
As the folks at 2600 will tell you, companies like MS won't fix dangerous security holes like this unless there's a scare. IT folks see the security vulnerablity story and say "whatever, it'll be in the next service pack." If they see the password is public knowledge, though, they call M$ and throw a nutty. My guess is Redmond's working on it and won't admit there's a problem until they can say "...and here's the solution." Makes them look good, you know?
Right. Most anime in the US was available years ago in Japan. Just like they wait a while to release US films in other countries (not as long, but US film isn't exactly a cottage industry in other countries).
Incidentally, this "lag" also has an effect on aesthetic comparisons. Up until a few of the recent theatrical releases of anime (GITS, Mononoke) films, it was tough to explain to people how far ahead of the curve some anime art is compared to the Disnified bullshit you see in the US, especially when your comparing post-Beauty and the Beast US anim and basically late-80s anime. Those two recent releases sure have made a world of difference for those of us who've been into it for a while.
For the people who say it doesn't belong on/.: clearly many of us appreciate it, these posts get tons of replies and are appreciated by many of us. The first few had complaints of "you need an Iicon for Anime so I can block it out" all over the place. Well you got your icon, so go into your user page and block it out. Same for you Katz haters.
As for me: Nested, Oldest First, -1, every day for two years.
If they've been out for a year, how are they news, exactly? Who pays you to use them? Are you coding for them, or is someone paying you to just dick around with them? There's stories just like yours all the time, and they always follow the format I used, whether those who submit them work for the company or not.
Even if you have no conflict of interest by sumbitting the story, I took the opportunity to point out how easily this process could be manipulated by someone who did.
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Set up a proxy server and force all outbound traffic over it. Tell the users it's to filter for Outlook viruses or some (.V)BS. Shut down all but a few ports, then run a packet sniffer to watch the ports you open. The proxy server has to be able to handle all the traffic, so if you have a LAN/WAN setup, you can use the proxy as a gateway between LAN servers and WAN/external traffic (so it won't slow down the outside users' access to your webpage).
We already do this (though the packet sniffer's for diagnostics only): LAN w/NT server+100 clients, proxy w/sniffer to get through to the WAN (Sun SPARCs for DBASE and web server), then another "standard" firewall out beyond the WAN to get to the internet. That way they have to get through two firewalls to get to our files from outside, and the inside users get their files scanned on the way out. Non-intrusive as we could make it, once the machines are set up for proxy the users don't know the difference. The packet sniffer's a 10-year-old SPARC classic, so we're not talking about major investment of $$$ here.
-jpowers
[hits bong]
So The Matrix is really this big metaphor, right, for like, college. You, like, go in and sleep in bunk beds and eat cheap gruel and the girls are hot but there aren't enough for everyone and stuff, but you like learn really fast about the way the world really is and, like, the way you are, get it? Then once you learn all the stuff you can, like go back into the stupid conformist zombie world everyone else lives in, but, like, you totally can do whatever you want. Not like flying or catching bullets or anything, but like, you can just be whatever and do whatever and you'll be good at it because you know how the world really is, get it?
Hey, pack that shit again...
-jpowers
The comparison to Shakespeare is interesting. You can argue to some degree with his stylistic choices, but his work shows a clear understanding of both human nature and the ideas behind the "culture war" of his day. Same with Mage.
And it is a ripoff... of some great works of philosophy.
-jpowers
Besides, M:TA, in its original incarnation, is more sophisticated than a lot of technology. It takes the problem of competing ideologies and worldviews and breaks it down in an elegant manner, then almost makes its solution believable. Very interesting, and all you Eternal Golden Braid fans might enjoy it to wrap your minds around.
Actually, the newest version of Mage came out fairly recently.
Yeah, but the original game was out in '93, when I graduated HS. I think Meester Katz would do well to get himself a copy of the 1st Ed game. Totally unplayable, but much more insightful. Really just a metaphysics thinly disguised with a couple of dice rolls. He might also enjoy Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is to some degree the origin of the game's premise.
-jpowers
Galaxy Quest: 19.95
Matrix: 14.95
I just don't understand....
Each cost about a nickel per disc to produce, so one word'll explain it: Volume. Galaxy Quest had moderate (compared to The Matrix) box office and its replay value on DVD will drop as the jokes get stale. The Matrix, on the other hand, will have long-term value as each new batch of viewers discovers marijuana...
-jpowers
When will you gamer morons get it through your thick skulls that a lot of people *DON'T LIKE* First Person Shooters?!? I for one would not pay .10 for a First Person Shooter.
Don't get me wrong, I feel the same way about FPSes. I'd much rather play strategy games or RPGs, which I'm happy to pay for. What I was suggesting was that shareware has been and still could be an important route for NEW, DIFFERENT, and as yet UNDISCOVERED types of games to be introduced, and shouldn't be tossed aside while it still has potential value.
Of course, to understand what I was trying to say, you'd have to have the capacity to grasp things in context, which would require that you NOT be a moron... too bad you couldn't manage.
-jpowers
Nader's busy. This is our fight.
Use QDLS, it's Naderific!: Everybody pretend to buckle except for one guy, then send your $20 "personal user fee" to that guy for legal expenses. You'll win.
-jpowers
I think shareware culture is something we can live without in linux-community.
Don't toss shareware aside so casually, especially in reference to games. First Person Shooters pretty much owe their current popularity to the shareware Wolfenstein, and the next wave (whatever it is) could come from anywhere.
-jpowers
Set-top DVD players won't read them without the encryption.
-jpowers
I asked him and he gave me a link to it.
-jpowers
moral, not technical
Buzzer. Plato cheated, son. Moral discussion can't leave the realm of the real world and remain moral. Parmenides says: "(Morally)Thou canst not speak of what is not nor indicate it in (moral)speech," which is shorthand for Hume/Kant's: All solutions to a problem fall into four categories:
Moral-Possible | Moral-Impossible
--------------------------------------
Immoral-Possible | Immoral-Impossible
Only one of these categories is "morally acceptable": Moral-Possible.
For you elite hackers and script kiddies: M-P=[1], I-P=[-1], M-I=I-I=[divide by zero].
Therefore, all moral discussion involves discussion the discussion of reality, and reality in this discussion is -what you can do with a computer-. What these kids are doing is possible (napster, gnutella) and what they are arguing falls within the grey area of [soon to be possible], they are suggesting that something likely to be possible will make some moral argument of Sony's impossible.
It's a perfectly valid point, and your argument attempting to remove morality from reality demonstrates you grasp neither.
-jpowers
A few companies are making them. Here's one. A friend of mine preordered his PS2 through EB and got a deal on the remote.
-jpowers
My users don't need goddamned force feedback from a device that MS can't get to work with an ATI card and SimCity3K...er, "an essential application." They don't need a mouse that has radar for the corner of the screen, or something that buzzes angrily when they try to install any app not written by MS.
All you hardware people: stop inventing useless shit and build me a mouse that doesn't vacuum up my stupid users' bagel crumbs. That'll be the day.
-jpowers
Yeah, that site sucks. It just so happens I've been sort of surveying the (non-corp) RPG pages around the web, and this one sucks less. Deals with both kinds of RPGs (electronic and tabletop), news/rumors from all over, pretty nice. It hosts the best site around for specific information on the new D&D3E books, Eric Noah's.
If you're into White Wolf's products (Mage, Vampire, Werewolf), their own site's pretty good, and Ex Libris Nocturnis isn't bad, either.
RPGnet is sort of the USA Today of the industry. You know, slick and dumb. They do have a rather nice habit of posting more than one review per book, though, so you get to see multiple perspectives, even if their writers are high schoolers.
-jpowers
And if Orel Roberts doesn't live in a fantasy world, no one does.
-jpowers
No one's stealing anyone else's fire. The same company (New Line Cinema) is releasing both films, and plans to use the lower-budget, first-time-directed D&D film to whet the public's appetite for, well, Liv Tyler in body armor. LOTR might have some halflings or wizards or something, too, but definitely Liv Tyler.
-jpowers
Any admin who's servers got owned this way is fired. Just go home, you're done.
Take it one step further: Any sysadmin who's servers got owned this way raise your hand. Quite a few. Whoever paid some third party to set up their server for you, raise your hand. Less but still a lot. Who's going to buy from that company again? No hands? You did go to college!
Now do the rest of us a favor and post the names of those third parties here on this thread. I need a new server for our office up the street, and my last vendor, Entex, are no longer in the running for our contracts.
-jpowers
As the folks at 2600 will tell you, companies like MS won't fix dangerous security holes like this unless there's a scare. IT folks see the security vulnerablity story and say "whatever, it'll be in the next service pack." If they see the password is public knowledge, though, they call M$ and throw a nutty. My guess is Redmond's working on it and won't admit there's a problem until they can say "...and here's the solution." Makes them look good, you know?
-jpowers
"Bonjourrrrrrrrrrrr! Ya cheese-eatin' surrender-monkeys!"
-jpowers
Burns rocks-
"...and the whole time I've been smoking harmless tobacco!"
-jpowers
I did, thank you. It'll take an Amendment to change it, though(I connected the rest of the dots earlier), so there's not much we can do.
-jpowers
Gee, if that's treason (and it is), wouldn't a congressman selling his vote to a corporation be treason, too?
It does make nice social commentary.
-jpowers
Look at ditherati for 8/16/00 (today's as I post).
-jpowers
Right. Most anime in the US was available years ago in Japan. Just like they wait a while to release US films in other countries (not as long, but US film isn't exactly a cottage industry in other countries).
/.: clearly many of us appreciate it, these posts get tons of replies and are appreciated by many of us. The first few had complaints of "you need an Iicon for Anime so I can block it out" all over the place. Well you got your icon, so go into your user page and block it out. Same for you Katz haters.
Incidentally, this "lag" also has an effect on aesthetic comparisons. Up until a few of the recent theatrical releases of anime (GITS, Mononoke) films, it was tough to explain to people how far ahead of the curve some anime art is compared to the Disnified bullshit you see in the US, especially when your comparing post-Beauty and the Beast US anim and basically late-80s anime. Those two recent releases sure have made a world of difference for those of us who've been into it for a while.
For the people who say it doesn't belong on
As for me: Nested, Oldest First, -1, every day for two years.
-jpowers
If they've been out for a year, how are they news, exactly? Who pays you to use them? Are you coding for them, or is someone paying you to just dick around with them? There's stories just like yours all the time, and they always follow the format I used, whether those who submit them work for the company or not.
Even if you have no conflict of interest by sumbitting the story, I took the opportunity to point out how easily this process could be manipulated by someone who did.
-jpowers