Isn't any server that uses a stratum 1 server by definition a stratum 2 server?
Yes - when speaking of servers. However, plenty of clients are misconfigured to connect directly to stratum 1 servers. Those aren't stratum 2 servers; they're leeches.
Here, here. I withdrew from pool.ntp.org because the same 100 clients or so were polling me once per second. ntpd really needs a working monkey-off-my-back option, like sending horribly wrong time or even values known to crash bad clients.
Additionally, its blacklist functionality is severely broken. Try as I might, I never could get my server to simply quit replying to these idiot machines. The canonical answer on the mailing list was to set up a script to watch the logfile for abusive clients and then add them to my firewall, but that just seems defective on so many levels.
You really think you would respond the way he predicts you would?
Would I? No. I have friends, though, that basically let their kids watch whatever they want on TV because they have a V-chip. Those friends would cheerfully blacklist ".xxx" and believe that their kids were safe.
but seriously, everyone's so concerned about the problem of pornography and had to limit access to it, and yet here is an attractive solution, with very little downside, and of course the fanatics are opposed.
Out of curiosity, how did you think this would solve the problem?
Let's try a little experiment: replace ".xxx" with ".abortion". A majority of Americans are against abortion, so it seems like a good idea to segregate information about it from the rest of the Internet. Now, who is more likely to be anti-.abortion - fundamentalists or pro-free-speech groups? Doesn't the second group have at least as much legitimate complaint against the idea as the first?
Since you wouldn't then paint all anti-.abortion people as fundamentalists, stop insisting that all anti-.xxx people are. Some conservatives were speaking out against the idea, sure, but I think it's despicable that more liberals weren't shouting it down as well.
Never mind that by stopping the.xxx domain you've neatly made it impossible to protect minors from exposure to pornography (your ostensible goal)...
I normally agree with you, but I think you're completely off-base here. I was against.xxx because it was a bad idea. There were two main possibilities: 1) usage was voluntary, or 2) usage was compulsory. The former was silly; I don't recall anyone ever saying that they actually looked forward to using.xxx. The latter was scary; who decides what goes in there? What countries are affected? What's the penalty for deciding to publish a nude photo under.com and being ratted out by an over-zealous watchdog group?
No, I can't think of a single change from this proposal (other than compelling 90% of the population to add.xxx to a TLD blacklist in their browser - if you don't want to look at porn, you won't mind blacklisting it, ja?). No one wanted it, it couldn't have worked, and it would have caused more problems than it ever could have solved.
Good! This was a bad idea from the very beginning, and I'm glad it finally got put to rest. It never filled any real demand. Instead, the only purpose it served was to make certain pro-censorship groups feel like Something Was Being Done without actually doing anything useful.
Good riddance to.xxx. And please take.museum and.jobs with it, would you?
On a related note, what the heck does "clinically proven" mean?
It means that its thermogenic fat-blasting power can help you drop those pounds fast while purging toxins, straightening your hair, and whitening your teeth.
And also that they know a double-blind trial won't show the same thing, so they're throwing around BS terms to confuse suckers^Wcustomers.
"domain == '.mil' and port != 80" is a giant frickin' "dont [sic] go here" sign, perhaps the largest on the Internet.
I mean, really. You can't simultaneously decry the US as a bunch of warmongering paranoids and be surprised when we react strongly to someone probing our military systems. What did y'all think would happen? The Pentagon would send him a nice bouquet with a "good one, mate!" card on it?
Give up. A lot of people here look at Nvidia with rose-colored glasses. It's like they think that if we look the other way enough times, then NV will throw us a few table scraps on occasion. If a SCSI controller were so poorly supported (say, Adaptec yanked support for the 294x series out of the kernel), the community would have their heads. When it comes to video cards, though, we'll take what they give us and thank them forever.
You and I are apparently in the minority that doesn't get this mentality.
You mean, like when they "[r]emoved support for legacy GPUs" last year, meaning that if you have a perfectly usable older machine then you can never again upgrade its kernel (because the old NVidia drivers aren't compatible with newer kernels)?
What is the output of your Xorg.0.log?
For those users, something along the lines of
(EE) Time to buy new hardware whether you wanted to or not!
Yeah? When was the last time you hacked out "index.html3d" to make changes to the virtual environment hosted on your home webserver? I want to be able to design, too - what fun is merely exploration someone else's creation?
On behalf of everyone who ever read "Snow Crash" and wanted to play in that world: what's wrong with you? Many of us find this inherently cool, regardless of whether it's found to be useful. And drop the stupid "but we can't have 3D without 3D monitors!" meme; it's no more impossible than the 3D games like Doom and Unreal that we're playing today.
It might be a long time before we can achieve fully immersive environments, but I'd settle for an open protocol-driven explorable world on today's monitors. Have you all become so jaded that you don't find it all interesting? If someone dropped a working, documented, hackable VR terminal on your desk you wouldn't even bother to look at it? How can you call yourselves geeks without being excited about cool new technology?
My "high performance" car that requires 91 gets nearly double the mileage of your average full-size SUV.
...and probably less than another car of the same size and weight.
Now, someone's going to prove me wrong by saying how their Obscura Unique roadster gets 50MPG city. That's nice. But in the vast majority of cases, "requires premium" == "high performance" rather than "high efficiency".
Again, you're free to drive what you want, but if your vehicle requires premium gas because it's a performance model, then shut up about fuel prices.
In all seriousness, Good God, that problem was a PITA. You used to have to configure your machine to use one type of keyboard or the other (which required kernel edits last time I did so). Although you could put a command to switch between them in your startup sequence, you'd be stuck if you rebooted into single-user mode and your machine was configured for the one you didn't have at that moment.
Typical scenario: you install a server at your office using a PS2 keyboard. Then, you move it to a colo with a USB KVM switch. Guaran-frickin'-tee that if you ever had to work on it in person, you'd 1) have forgotten to reconfigure it, and 2) forgotten to bring along a PS2 keyboard.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing this! That wasn't a problem most people had to deal with often, but it always came up when you had the least amount of time and patience to deal with it.
If you're buying premium and you don't absolutely have to, then you're an idiot. If you really do require premium, then you have a high-performance engine and have no moral standing to bitch about high prices since you helped cause them.
I believe in every person's right to drive whatever they want, but have zero sympathy for people who make poor choices and then blame everyone else.
I installed OpenBSD 3.9, just to test -- why did I never try bsd before in all those years, after all ? Well,.. it felt even slower -- probably because of X11 though.
OpenBSD really is slower. However, that's because of its security functionality (cryptographically random process IDs and encrypted swap, anyone?) and not because of poor design. My understanding is that a crypto accelerator board actually makes all of OpenBSD quite a lot quicker but I haven't personally used one and can't vouch for them.
I agree about FreeBSD, though. It's just plain fast.
Again, kudos to you. I hope I can install that mix of personal responsibility, freedom, and knowing when to (and when not) to accept blame into my own children.
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Can you give an example of a project that hardcodes a network address that they don't explicit permission to use?
Yes - when speaking of servers. However, plenty of clients are misconfigured to connect directly to stratum 1 servers. Those aren't stratum 2 servers; they're leeches.
Additionally, its blacklist functionality is severely broken. Try as I might, I never could get my server to simply quit replying to these idiot machines. The canonical answer on the mailing list was to set up a script to watch the logfile for abusive clients and then add them to my firewall, but that just seems defective on so many levels.
Would I? No. I have friends, though, that basically let their kids watch whatever they want on TV because they have a V-chip. Those friends would cheerfully blacklist ".xxx" and believe that their kids were safe.
I am, and I agree with him completely.
Out of curiosity, how did you think this would solve the problem?
Let's try a little experiment: replace ".xxx" with ".abortion". A majority of Americans are against abortion, so it seems like a good idea to segregate information about it from the rest of the Internet. Now, who is more likely to be anti-.abortion - fundamentalists or pro-free-speech groups? Doesn't the second group have at least as much legitimate complaint against the idea as the first?
Since you wouldn't then paint all anti-.abortion people as fundamentalists, stop insisting that all anti-.xxx people are. Some conservatives were speaking out against the idea, sure, but I think it's despicable that more liberals weren't shouting it down as well.
For that matter, why are some of the porn outfits against the idea?
Asked and answered.
I normally agree with you, but I think you're completely off-base here. I was against .xxx because it was a bad idea. There were two main possibilities: 1) usage was voluntary, or 2) usage was compulsory. The former was silly; I don't recall anyone ever saying that they actually looked forward to using .xxx. The latter was scary; who decides what goes in there? What countries are affected? What's the penalty for deciding to publish a nude photo under .com and being ratted out by an over-zealous watchdog group?
No, I can't think of a single change from this proposal (other than compelling 90% of the population to add .xxx to a TLD blacklist in their browser - if you don't want to look at porn, you won't mind blacklisting it, ja?). No one wanted it, it couldn't have worked, and it would have caused more problems than it ever could have solved.
Good riddance to .xxx. And please take .museum and .jobs with it, would you?
It means that its thermogenic fat-blasting power can help you drop those pounds fast while purging toxins, straightening your hair, and whitening your teeth.
And also that they know a double-blind trial won't show the same thing, so they're throwing around BS terms to confuse suckers^Wcustomers.
"domain == '.mil' and port != 80" is a giant frickin' "dont [sic] go here" sign, perhaps the largest on the Internet.
I mean, really. You can't simultaneously decry the US as a bunch of warmongering paranoids and be surprised when we react strongly to someone probing our military systems. What did y'all think would happen? The Pentagon would send him a nice bouquet with a "good one, mate!" card on it?
Come on, fellow Slashdotter. That's:
Remember, pardner: anonymous dicts are your friends. And way more 1337.
You and I are apparently in the minority that doesn't get this mentality.
What is the output of your Xorg.0.log?
For those users, something along the lines of
Because unlimited free calling beats metered service.
And why would they want to use an IM service when the phone has it built in?
Because not all my family and friends are on T-MobilePropietaryMessaging.
Google "proprietary", where your continued ability to use something is dependent on the whims of those who control it.
Yeah? When was the last time you hacked out "index.html3d" to make changes to the virtual environment hosted on your home webserver? I want to be able to design, too - what fun is merely exploration someone else's creation?
It might be a long time before we can achieve fully immersive environments, but I'd settle for an open protocol-driven explorable world on today's monitors. Have you all become so jaded that you don't find it all interesting? If someone dropped a working, documented, hackable VR terminal on your desk you wouldn't even bother to look at it? How can you call yourselves geeks without being excited about cool new technology?
...and probably less than another car of the same size and weight.
Now, someone's going to prove me wrong by saying how their Obscura Unique roadster gets 50MPG city. That's nice. But in the vast majority of cases, "requires premium" == "high performance" rather than "high efficiency".
Again, you're free to drive what you want, but if your vehicle requires premium gas because it's a performance model, then shut up about fuel prices.
Typical scenario: you install a server at your office using a PS2 keyboard. Then, you move it to a colo with a USB KVM switch. Guaran-frickin'-tee that if you ever had to work on it in person, you'd 1) have forgotten to reconfigure it, and 2) forgotten to bring along a PS2 keyboard.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing this! That wasn't a problem most people had to deal with often, but it always came up when you had the least amount of time and patience to deal with it.
I believe in every person's right to drive whatever they want, but have zero sympathy for people who make poor choices and then blame everyone else.
OpenBSD really is slower. However, that's because of its security functionality (cryptographically random process IDs and encrypted swap, anyone?) and not because of poor design. My understanding is that a crypto accelerator board actually makes all of OpenBSD quite a lot quicker but I haven't personally used one and can't vouch for them.
I agree about FreeBSD, though. It's just plain fast.
I've found exactly two advantages to Linux:
For me, those are the only differences. I use Linux at work and FreeBSD at home, and that's all I've noticed.
Sure! And remember that at one time cigarettes didn't kill you, and only gay people got AIDS.
Today, only birds can transmit bird flu. As the disease and our understanding of it evolve, there's a very strong possibility that this will change.
Job well done.