Yar, this is why man (8) ifconfig is the proper response when someone asks a very basic question about setting interface media options, and so forth. It's RTFM, but it's also very specific. Then, if they are confused, they can return with "in man page blah is says X, Y, and Z, but when I try..."
Actually, as people constantly forget, security in a repeated network is inherently lacking. Hence, wireless is insecure. MAC spoofing, sniffing, etc. Look at any wireless technology - there is a way to intercept the traffic, block the traffic, or fake the traffic. I don't want wireless to be part of MY networking future, and I doubt I'm alone...
Fiber doesn't break if you install it properly, ie, where it doesn't get messed with. Yes, it gets backhoed, yes, you can kill it with a hammer, yes, you can bend it too hard. However, if it is working right when it is installed in the conduit, it won't mysteriously break inside the conduit.
I'm not sure where you got the impression that fiber was flaky, unreliable, or a pain... It is expensive, but relative to the cost of building a house? We have many many miles of fiber infrastructure at work, multi-mode and single-mode, and it is the most reliable and solid part of the network. Literally, in the last two years there have been two fiber related outages - one was a backhoe and a bad map of the fiber plant, and the other was a steam tunnel explosion. The steam tunnel took out everything in that wiring closet, fiber plant, copper plant, hardware, walls... The fiber also doesn't have to be replaced to support a faster connection - in order to swap out an old 10Mbit coax repeater, we need to replace all of the coax runs with 5e runs, but the same fiber plant will be able to feed 10Mbit, 100Mbit, or 1000Mbit just as easily. In addition, you can get any of those over a much higher distance that you can with copper. Copper will only get you 100 meters at 10 or 100, where fiber can get you long hauls.
Of course, fiber in a house does seem a bit overkill with today's tech, but with 10 years of tech, or 20 years... I would say that the relatively small (against the cost of a house) cost of fiber in the house might significantly add to the future value of the house.
You've got to make a distinction between the "Fast and the Furious" and the serious performance imports. A (stock) WRX STi could take most/all (stock) American muscle cars on a track, and a racing tuned WRX STi would be downright scary. A civic with some stickers, on the other hand... It's not the speed that makes a WRX impressive, it's the combination of acceleration and handling, which none of the "F & F"-esque cares have (well, they did have a Skyline in the movie, but it was used as a support car and not a racer, and honestly, it was likely the fastest (stock) by a mile)... Having said that, I miss my Coronet, and I miss the days of taking "F & F" cars off the line.
When your TA can win Pikes Peak, you can talk shit. Until then, accept the fact that rally cars are simply obscene. You'll take a lot of things in a line, and that's good. You'd probably do better than my old Coronet (but not if she had been a GTX) off the line. But you'll lose in the corners, where a turboed Quattro/WRX STi/Evo 6/Delta Integrale will be able to take a faster line than anything rear drive and have a higher exit speed as a result. Frankly, racing with corners is more interesting - it takes a driver, instead of just an engine and transmission...
Oh, man, I'm not alone in wondering that? I was beginning to wonder... I don't think I've seen a turn signal used since I moved here. I walk to work, and I can't count how many times I've been nearly run down.
Every new Mac ships with a BSD installed, though. Mac OS X, unix for the masses. (With a much nicer GUI than anything I've seen shoehorned into X11, I might add....)
Just FYI, Mac OS X is about as easy/difficult to lock down as FreeBSD. Give or take NetInfo. And netbooting makes it easy to dodge Vinny Volunteer's efforts. All of a sudden, the iMac makes so much more sense - no floppy drive, you can keep the OS on a locked down server...
Are you kidding? q3a, return to wolfenstein, iCab, Omniweb, Maelstrom, etc, and you think there's no way to kill time on a mac? Yar, trolling is lame, sparky, get a job!
Fine, pending number crunching, s/99%/vast and overwhelming majority/
Happy? My point still stands - the people who get flamed, for the most part, did something really rude, which got them a rude response. Mind you, I did not say that they were in the FAQ, I said that they were in the FAQ, or they asked something like "how do i configure it" with no reference to what "it" was, or the question is answered by the man page, etc. Like I said, the questions that try to put the work off on someone else get angry responses, sort of like how your response was a bit snippy, because you (rightly) didn't want to do the work to back up my numbers.
I've been reading misc for the last two years, and yes, there are a lot of flames. 99% of them are responses to someone who didn't bother to try man -k, the FAQ, the mailing list archives, or including relevant information (like what version of Open on what hardware). If you can't be bothered to try to think about it for yourself, why ask other people to think about it for you? If you ask a question that you tried to answer, chances are you wont get flamed. If the entire message is "how do I configure this?" with no clue as to what this you might be refering to, I hope Theo flames you. Having said that, that 1% or so of flames are people being people. It's not pretty, it's not nice, but it's human nature, there are no mailing lists without flames.
It's been out for a while, in fact. It's got a BSD core, it's very user friendly (to the point that it is always criticized on/.), it has the simplest, cleanest install I've ever seen, and it's all about the user's experience. Mac OS X. I'm running 10.1.1 and OpenBSD (respectively) on my two primary machines, and if I could throw the two of them into a blender for a 3rd machine...
Don't run anything. If you wont put the effort into securing your ftp or http services, then buy/beg/borrow those services from someone who will learn how to maintain them right. There's no need for anything (maybe ssh) to be externally accesible from a workstation, so don't let there be anything accesible. It's just like picking an OS - if you need stability and nothing else, you wont run a development kernel or win95.
What would be cool would be if the wu-ftpd maintainers released a source patch, then the various distros rolled out rpms and debs later. If I used linux or wu-ftpd, I'd be annoyed with the various distro maintainers for not saying "hey wu-ftp, release your source patch as fast as you can' we'll worry about rpms and debs and whatnot later"
You're still using wireless, so it's still an insecure ball of suck. You're just choosing who you're wasting your money with. In addition, your pricing is BS. According to Intel's press releases, the 802.11a (which is not yet on sale) cards will be prices at about $180 each (about $80 more than an 802.11b card), and the APs will be $450 (about $150 more than an airport, buddy-roo). Hardly cheaper, and still shite. For $10 I bought 1000' of cat5. Borrow a crimp tool from work, wire the apartment, and I still have 800' of cat5. I can get faster speeds all over my apartment, and we've both got the bottleneck of leaving the local LAN. I saved $620, though, which I'll spend on beer. Meanwhile, you're still going to be waiting for your 802.11a gear. Remember, wireless==bad!
itachi
I know, I know, I've been trolled. But really, there's wrong and then there'e completely absurd.
History might teach us that with regards to intranational conflict, but not with regards to terrorism. Look at Israel, master of the ultra-violent response to terrorist attacks. Look at Britain, well versed in stomping on terrorists. Look at Spain and the Basques. Violence really doesn't stop terrorism. Appeasement might not either, but that means that policy makers need to come up with a third solution, not keep choosing one of the wrong answers.
Having read that article and the quotations that they attribute to that video, I'm wondering how the Telegraph turns those quotations into a confession or an admission of guilt. I mean, I know that there are some differences between the Queen's english and what us filthy americans speak, but I didn't realize that using the words "I" or "we" was a full fledged admission of anything... That's a huge frickin leap if you ask me.
Unfortunately, all of the powerbooks with lift-up keyboards (I think that's all of them since the first g3 powerbook, and I know that it's all of them since the beige/translucent keyed g3pb) use the same itsy-bitsy laptop keyboard. Which makes sense, it's just far too tiny, and it means that all of the powerbooks have the same ergo problems. Even the current tiBook, which has a huge amount of real estate to work with, has this problem. For real use that isn't on the road, you'll probably want to get a full sized keyboard and mouse... Having said that, I sold my athlon 1gig to pay for my iBook, and it was the best computing choice I've made in ages. 3 cheers for being x86 free...
No, the point is that the freedom comes at a heavy price. It's worth it, but it's a heavy price. I mean, constantly watching your rights to make sure that they aren't being trampled or removed, being so paranoid that freedom should come with a tinfoil hat, it's a lot of work. But it's your work to choose, eh? You can choose to be a sheep, to piss away the possibility of freedom. If you choose to do the work, then you get the tremendous benefits - think about how powerful it is to be able to say anything, to express any political thought. I recently heard it suggested that the freedom of speech is the root of all other freedoms, something I agree with completely. Just think about that relative to never being able to express any opinions at all...
Then remember that just because an analogy isn't drawn well enough to make the point clear to you doesn't mean that the point isn't a valid one. If a movie is a bad example, look at all of the people who have been released from prison after DNA testing cleared them. They had nothing to hide, they did nothing wrong, they just looked like someone else, or they wore the wrong clothes on the wrong day, etc.
:wq
Comparing John Ashcroft to the Gestapo is relating liberals to the communists under Stalin.
That's right, Ridge and his Homeland Defense is the Gestapo. Ashcroft is more like Goebbels ("if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, eventually, people will believe it"), putting on the show of support for the big guy and all...
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Yar, this is why man (8) ifconfig is the proper response when someone asks a very basic question about setting interface media options, and so forth. It's RTFM, but it's also very specific. Then, if they are confused, they can return with "in man page blah is says X, Y, and Z, but when I try..."
itachi
Actually, as people constantly forget, security in a repeated network is inherently lacking. Hence, wireless is insecure. MAC spoofing, sniffing, etc. Look at any wireless technology - there is a way to intercept the traffic, block the traffic, or fake the traffic. I don't want wireless to be part of MY networking future, and I doubt I'm alone...
itachi
Fiber doesn't break if you install it properly, ie, where it doesn't get messed with. Yes, it gets backhoed, yes, you can kill it with a hammer, yes, you can bend it too hard. However, if it is working right when it is installed in the conduit, it won't mysteriously break inside the conduit.
itachi
I'm not sure where you got the impression that fiber was flaky, unreliable, or a pain... It is expensive, but relative to the cost of building a house? We have many many miles of fiber infrastructure at work, multi-mode and single-mode, and it is the most reliable and solid part of the network. Literally, in the last two years there have been two fiber related outages - one was a backhoe and a bad map of the fiber plant, and the other was a steam tunnel explosion. The steam tunnel took out everything in that wiring closet, fiber plant, copper plant, hardware, walls... The fiber also doesn't have to be replaced to support a faster connection - in order to swap out an old 10Mbit coax repeater, we need to replace all of the coax runs with 5e runs, but the same fiber plant will be able to feed 10Mbit, 100Mbit, or 1000Mbit just as easily. In addition, you can get any of those over a much higher distance that you can with copper. Copper will only get you 100 meters at 10 or 100, where fiber can get you long hauls.
Of course, fiber in a house does seem a bit overkill with today's tech, but with 10 years of tech, or 20 years... I would say that the relatively small (against the cost of a house) cost of fiber in the house might significantly add to the future value of the house.
itachi
You've got to make a distinction between the "Fast and the Furious" and the serious performance imports. A (stock) WRX STi could take most/all (stock) American muscle cars on a track, and a racing tuned WRX STi would be downright scary. A civic with some stickers, on the other hand... It's not the speed that makes a WRX impressive, it's the combination of acceleration and handling, which none of the "F & F"-esque cares have (well, they did have a Skyline in the movie, but it was used as a support car and not a racer, and honestly, it was likely the fastest (stock) by a mile)... Having said that, I miss my Coronet, and I miss the days of taking "F & F" cars off the line.
itachi
When your TA can win Pikes Peak, you can talk shit. Until then, accept the fact that rally cars are simply obscene. You'll take a lot of things in a line, and that's good. You'd probably do better than my old Coronet (but not if she had been a GTX) off the line. But you'll lose in the corners, where a turboed Quattro/WRX STi/Evo 6/Delta Integrale will be able to take a faster line than anything rear drive and have a higher exit speed as a result. Frankly, racing with corners is more interesting - it takes a driver, instead of just an engine and transmission...
itachi
Oh, man, I'm not alone in wondering that? I was beginning to wonder... I don't think I've seen a turn signal used since I moved here. I walk to work, and I can't count how many times I've been nearly run down.
itachi
Every new Mac ships with a BSD installed, though. Mac OS X, unix for the masses. (With a much nicer GUI than anything I've seen shoehorned into X11, I might add....)
itachi
Just FYI, Mac OS X is about as easy/difficult to lock down as FreeBSD. Give or take NetInfo. And netbooting makes it easy to dodge Vinny Volunteer's efforts. All of a sudden, the iMac makes so much more sense - no floppy drive, you can keep the OS on a locked down server...
itachi
Are you kidding? q3a, return to wolfenstein, iCab, Omniweb, Maelstrom, etc, and you think there's no way to kill time on a mac? Yar, trolling is lame, sparky, get a job!
itachi
Don't forget, QT is on unix. Who needs it on linux when you can get it on a stable unix that has a real gui?
itachi
Fine, pending number crunching, s/99%/vast and overwhelming majority/
Happy? My point still stands - the people who get flamed, for the most part, did something really rude, which got them a rude response. Mind you, I did not say that they were in the FAQ, I said that they were in the FAQ, or they asked something like "how do i configure it" with no reference to what "it" was, or the question is answered by the man page, etc. Like I said, the questions that try to put the work off on someone else get angry responses, sort of like how your response was a bit snippy, because you (rightly) didn't want to do the work to back up my numbers.
itachi
I've been reading misc for the last two years, and yes, there are a lot of flames. 99% of them are responses to someone who didn't bother to try man -k, the FAQ, the mailing list archives, or including relevant information (like what version of Open on what hardware). If you can't be bothered to try to think about it for yourself, why ask other people to think about it for you? If you ask a question that you tried to answer, chances are you wont get flamed. If the entire message is "how do I configure this?" with no clue as to what this you might be refering to, I hope Theo flames you. Having said that, that 1% or so of flames are people being people. It's not pretty, it's not nice, but it's human nature, there are no mailing lists without flames.
itachi
It's been out for a while, in fact. It's got a BSD core, it's very user friendly (to the point that it is always criticized on /.), it has the simplest, cleanest install I've ever seen, and it's all about the user's experience. Mac OS X. I'm running 10.1.1 and OpenBSD (respectively) on my two primary machines, and if I could throw the two of them into a blender for a 3rd machine...
itachi
Don't run anything. If you wont put the effort into securing your ftp or http services, then buy/beg/borrow those services from someone who will learn how to maintain them right. There's no need for anything (maybe ssh) to be externally accesible from a workstation, so don't let there be anything accesible. It's just like picking an OS - if you need stability and nothing else, you wont run a development kernel or win95.
itachi
What would be cool would be if the wu-ftpd maintainers released a source patch, then the various distros rolled out rpms and debs later. If I used linux or wu-ftpd, I'd be annoyed with the various distro maintainers for not saying "hey wu-ftp, release your source patch as fast as you can' we'll worry about rpms and debs and whatnot later"
You're still using wireless, so it's still an insecure ball of suck. You're just choosing who you're wasting your money with. In addition, your pricing is BS. According to Intel's press releases, the 802.11a (which is not yet on sale) cards will be prices at about $180 each (about $80 more than an 802.11b card), and the APs will be $450 (about $150 more than an airport, buddy-roo). Hardly cheaper, and still shite. For $10 I bought 1000' of cat5. Borrow a crimp tool from work, wire the apartment, and I still have 800' of cat5. I can get faster speeds all over my apartment, and we've both got the bottleneck of leaving the local LAN. I saved $620, though, which I'll spend on beer. Meanwhile, you're still going to be waiting for your 802.11a gear. Remember, wireless==bad!
itachi
I know, I know, I've been trolled. But really, there's wrong and then there'e completely absurd.
History might teach us that with regards to intranational conflict, but not with regards to terrorism. Look at Israel, master of the ultra-violent response to terrorist attacks. Look at Britain, well versed in stomping on terrorists. Look at Spain and the Basques. Violence really doesn't stop terrorism. Appeasement might not either, but that means that policy makers need to come up with a third solution, not keep choosing one of the wrong answers.
itachi
Having read that article and the quotations that they attribute to that video, I'm wondering how the Telegraph turns those quotations into a confession or an admission of guilt. I mean, I know that there are some differences between the Queen's english and what us filthy americans speak, but I didn't realize that using the words "I" or "we" was a full fledged admission of anything... That's a huge frickin leap if you ask me.
itachi
Your Skynyrd story seems less than true... Where'd you read it?
itachi
Unfortunately, all of the powerbooks with lift-up keyboards (I think that's all of them since the first g3 powerbook, and I know that it's all of them since the beige/translucent keyed g3pb) use the same itsy-bitsy laptop keyboard. Which makes sense, it's just far too tiny, and it means that all of the powerbooks have the same ergo problems. Even the current tiBook, which has a huge amount of real estate to work with, has this problem. For real use that isn't on the road, you'll probably want to get a full sized keyboard and mouse... Having said that, I sold my athlon 1gig to pay for my iBook, and it was the best computing choice I've made in ages. 3 cheers for being x86 free...
itachi
No, the point is that the freedom comes at a heavy price. It's worth it, but it's a heavy price. I mean, constantly watching your rights to make sure that they aren't being trampled or removed, being so paranoid that freedom should come with a tinfoil hat, it's a lot of work. But it's your work to choose, eh? You can choose to be a sheep, to piss away the possibility of freedom. If you choose to do the work, then you get the tremendous benefits - think about how powerful it is to be able to say anything, to express any political thought. I recently heard it suggested that the freedom of speech is the root of all other freedoms, something I agree with completely. Just think about that relative to never being able to express any opinions at all...
itachi
s/War Games/Real Genius/
:w!
Then remember that just because an analogy isn't drawn well enough to make the point clear to you doesn't mean that the point isn't a valid one. If a movie is a bad example, look at all of the people who have been released from prison after DNA testing cleared them. They had nothing to hide, they did nothing wrong, they just looked like someone else, or they wore the wrong clothes on the wrong day, etc.
:wq
itachi
Comparing John Ashcroft to the Gestapo is relating liberals to the communists under Stalin.
That's right, Ridge and his Homeland Defense is the Gestapo. Ashcroft is more like Goebbels ("if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, eventually, people will believe it"), putting on the show of support for the big guy and all...
itachi
Re: your sig, is NH seceding now, or did the passsage of this bill boot NH out of the union? Either way, NH is better off...