Sadly this isn't practical for everyone, especially if you are unlucky enough to live a fair amount away from work, or have to carry things in. Sometimes getting up a couple hours earlier to bike into work just won't work.
Not being able to purchase and download music is fine and dandy, but not being able to browse the site? No way man, that's just stupid.
Oh, and the site does work with opera 7 under linux for some reason. A hole they forgot to plug? Either way they still lost a potential customer, got a nasty customer feedback, and a rant on my website from this.
Wouldn't it be better to have put in safeguards that prevented MS from overpricing? I'm glad that the "little guy" won, but wee, vouchers... I'm surprised they didn't try to pay them off with XP licenses./didn't RTFA
I like the idea of popfile, but can I set it up on a remote server so that I can use it to filter the mail I read through mutt? Right now I'm using mutt+bogofilter/procmail(=happiness:) because I want all my mail in one place without having to duplicate addressbooks, procmail recipies, etc at both home and work. If I can filter it on the server, or even on the client side (but still leaving the mail on the server) that'd be sweet. I'll have to look into it.
Well, except that XP can't handle having the motherboard changed out from under it, so you have to do a repair and re-enter your serial# anyway, along with the joy of redownloading all the patches released. Yea, that sounds like fun.
And yes, I have done this, and I know for 100% sure that XP can't handle going from an athlon 900 to an athlon xp2500 with a new MB (a7v vs a7n8x-dx), or from a cel-533 on an asus board to the aformentioned a7v+k7-900 (I did the hardware shuffle a month or so ago).
Of course I didn't have to reactivate anything (corp ed.) but I know that the OS itself can't handle it.
I know xset, my problem/bitch was that the sensitivity changed that much with simply a kernel change, when nothing like this happened in the 2.2->2.4 changeover.
I played around a bit with.71-.73, but the big thing that got me was that my mouse speed in gnome was sped up by about 10x over 2.4. I had to set the accel down to the lowest setting in gnome to make it usable, compared to about the 25-50% setting with 2.4. Of course, there is no similar setting for GDM.
I'm guessing this is due to the new keyboard/mouse modules, but who knows. Hopefully this is one of the things that will get shaken out when 2.5 and 2.6 become more mainstream and the KDE/GNOME folks set things up to work nicer with the devel kernels.
Things like pop up blocking are becoming something that more and more people want I think. If you were to magically substitute mozilla for IE in your office or whatever would people (really) notice? They do the same thing. Now turn on the pop up blocking and let them use use mozmail/thunderbird and suddenly it's "hey, where are my pop up|unders?" and "hey, I haven't sent out viruseses in a week or more, what's going on?"
Well, that's great, except that up until 9/11 no one imagined that an airliner could be used. I think the parent posters point was that if no one thinks that a plane can be used, it's a great target. I'm not saying that any of your points aren't correct, but if someone wants to slip under the radar (so to speak), they would do something like figure out how to steal a military plane or c-* or whatever.
I remember a great quote about AI controlled railroads that went something like "I have no doubt that we could account for everything concievable... it's the ones we don't think of that will be the problem".
Because some of us use high quality oggs to back up our CDs, and re-sampling or downsamping or converting to a different format would be a PITA to put onto a portable.
I'm not sure when they actually registered for the patent, but we were doing transparent web caching in 1998 with squid and linux. Prior art case, here we come.
Course, I have a feeling these people patent things just to see who will fall for it, or to get other people up in a tizzy.
The os will be released on monday from what I've heard, or at least announced in a finished form (might not actually get to the resellers for a bit though).
Why doesn't the Linux community simply offer SCO some *better* source code. I think there is a "linux" thingy out there that is better than the source code they have, and more mature. If we give them a copy of the kernel, with complete source code, will they shut up and go away?
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I thought the current theory was that if SCO makes any sort of a win (huge long shot) MS buys them. If they crash and burn, well, MS wins again, even if only by giving more cred to their "virual license" argument against the GPL.
I'm also in agreement with those who think that SCO is going to try to drag this out as long as possible, because the sooner the court date the sooner they have to put their cards on the table, and from the reports I've seen, they've got squat.
It's a pain in the ass for users. I wouldn't want to have to reply to some stupid question every time I sent an email to someone new, and I don't have the time to go through my address book and send an email to everyone in it (assuming they all have this challenge response system set up) and reply to the challenge. Also, the people that I communicate with aren't always the most technically able, and I don't want to loose mail because someone gets confused and thinks it's bouncing (regardless of the nicely formatted and simple email/link/webform sent back.
IMHO anyway. I may change my mind if more starts slipping through bogofilter.
I use them too. Luckily I've only had to call them for tech support once, and the issue was a system outage caused by a traffic accident or something. Telus was really bad though, I felt physical fear when I had to tell them I use *gasp* linux. I went so far as to plug in my windows box into the dsl modem to "prove" to them their dhcp server was down. *sigh* fucktards. Though they are paid shit and treated like shit, and I know how much it sucks to do support, so I do feel a little for them.
I say this only partially in jest, but maybe try contacting the dept of homeland defense, or GWB himself or something. Call it terrorism, they'll be shut down faster than you can say "foo".
Seriously though, with the increase in the gov't involvment and crackdown on cyber terrorism (or they say there is) isn't this a prime candidate?
That said, it's scary that the ISP doesn't seem to give a fark about this. If I was in charge of their security I'd be fixing this as quickly as possible, not letting my company's customers continue to use a compromised service. Wouldn't it be considered negligence to allow your customers to continue using a server you know to be compromised (ie: not changing the DHCP server back, or simply shutting down all access)? Personally I'd much rather loose my net access for a bit while this is cleaned up than my ISP knowingly let me proxy through sniffers and password grabbers.....
Yes, a fraction of a second, but multiply that by the millions of hits that google gets means they have more satisfied "customers", less loaded servers, and less bandwidth costs.
There is something about optimizing your images so they will fit in a single tcp/ip packet as well, but I don't remember the size.
Would you prefer banner ands and pop ups? No, I didn't think so.
Yea, had this happen on my server when a user's site in ~/public_html accidently turned into a bot tar pit (each link to a new directory just put you back in the main page, but increased the directory depth). It was amusing until I realized that the fact my server was pegged at 100-200k/s instead of it's normal 10 or 20 was really going to suck when the bandwidth bill came. Turned out it was an inktomi bot (or rather, about 60 of them) who didn't know when to stop, even with the web server turned off.
Eventually I moved the public_html directory out and it *still* took about three hours for the bots to understand that 404's meant there was no file there to look at.
Erhm.... a large number of tech support people are complete fucking morons who do nothing but read scripts from in front of them without the slightest clue as to what they are doing.
The next time you call your ISP and tell them that their DHCP server is busted and they tell you to go into your control panel or reboot your computer you'll know what I mean.
Not *all* tech support people, but being in support does not mean you automatically get completely tech/net savvy.
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Another thing is that if you know how to do "simple" arithmatic in your head, you'll have a better chance of seeing if something is wrong when you plug numbers into your calculator. Even if it's not exact, the idea that "33 doesn't go into 90 27.2727272 times" will help you when doing the more complicated stuff.
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Sadly this isn't practical for everyone, especially if you are unlucky enough to live a fair amount away from work, or have to carry things in. Sometimes getting up a couple hours earlier to bike into work just won't work.
For some strange reason opera works just fine, even when set to identify as mozilla 5...
Not being able to purchase and download music is fine and dandy, but not being able to browse the site? No way man, that's just stupid.
Oh, and the site does work with opera 7 under linux for some reason. A hole they forgot to plug? Either way they still lost a potential customer, got a nasty customer feedback, and a rant on my website from this.
Wouldn't it be better to have put in safeguards that prevented MS from overpricing? I'm glad that the "little guy" won, but wee, vouchers... I'm surprised they didn't try to pay them off with XP licenses. /didn't RTFA
(8) - been to an airport lately?
(9) - good riddence! Course, everyone there knows kung fu right?
I like the idea of popfile, but can I set it up on a remote server so that I can use it to filter the mail I read through mutt? Right now I'm using mutt+bogofilter/procmail(=happiness :) because I want all my mail in one place without having to duplicate addressbooks, procmail recipies, etc at both home and work. If I can filter it on the server, or even on the client side (but still leaving the mail on the server) that'd be sweet. I'll have to look into it.
*sigh*
Only two comments posted, and already the link is showing a lovely error page.
Google cache still around though, grab it here.
Well, except that XP can't handle having the motherboard changed out from under it, so you have to do a repair and re-enter your serial# anyway, along with the joy of redownloading all the patches released. Yea, that sounds like fun.
And yes, I have done this, and I know for 100% sure that XP can't handle going from an athlon 900 to an athlon xp2500 with a new MB (a7v vs a7n8x-dx), or from a cel-533 on an asus board to the aformentioned a7v+k7-900 (I did the hardware shuffle a month or so ago).
Of course I didn't have to reactivate anything (corp ed.) but I know that the OS itself can't handle it.
I know xset, my problem/bitch was that the sensitivity changed that much with simply a kernel change, when nothing like this happened in the 2.2->2.4 changeover.
I played around a bit with .71-.73, but the big thing that got me was that my mouse speed in gnome was sped up by about 10x over 2.4. I had to set the accel down to the lowest setting in gnome to make it usable, compared to about the 25-50% setting with 2.4. Of course, there is no similar setting for GDM.
I'm guessing this is due to the new keyboard/mouse modules, but who knows. Hopefully this is one of the things that will get shaken out when 2.5 and 2.6 become more mainstream and the KDE/GNOME folks set things up to work nicer with the devel kernels.
Things like pop up blocking are becoming something that more and more people want I think. If you were to magically substitute mozilla for IE in your office or whatever would people (really) notice? They do the same thing. Now turn on the pop up blocking and let them use use mozmail/thunderbird and suddenly it's "hey, where are my pop up|unders?" and "hey, I haven't sent out viruseses in a week or more, what's going on?"
Well, that's great, except that up until 9/11 no one imagined that an airliner could be used. I think the parent posters point was that if no one thinks that a plane can be used, it's a great target. I'm not saying that any of your points aren't correct, but if someone wants to slip under the radar (so to speak), they would do something like figure out how to steal a military plane or c-* or whatever.
I remember a great quote about AI controlled railroads that went something like "I have no doubt that we could account for everything concievable... it's the ones we don't think of that will be the problem".
Because some of us use high quality oggs to back up our CDs, and re-sampling or downsamping or converting to a different format would be a PITA to put onto a portable.
I'm not sure when they actually registered for the patent, but we were doing transparent web caching in 1998 with squid and linux. Prior art case, here we come.
Course, I have a feeling these people patent things just to see who will fall for it, or to get other people up in a tizzy.
The os will be released on monday from what I've heard, or at least announced in a finished form (might not actually get to the resellers for a bit though).
Why doesn't the Linux community simply offer SCO some *better* source code. I think there is a "linux" thingy out there that is better than the source code they have, and more mature. If we give them a copy of the kernel, with complete source code, will they shut up and go away?
I thought the current theory was that if SCO makes any sort of a win (huge long shot) MS buys them. If they crash and burn, well, MS wins again, even if only by giving more cred to their "virual license" argument against the GPL.
I'm also in agreement with those who think that SCO is going to try to drag this out as long as possible, because the sooner the court date the sooner they have to put their cards on the table, and from the reports I've seen, they've got squat.
It's a pain in the ass for users. I wouldn't want to have to reply to some stupid question every time I sent an email to someone new, and I don't have the time to go through my address book and send an email to everyone in it (assuming they all have this challenge response system set up) and reply to the challenge. Also, the people that I communicate with aren't always the most technically able, and I don't want to loose mail because someone gets confused and thinks it's bouncing (regardless of the nicely formatted and simple email/link/webform sent back.
IMHO anyway. I may change my mind if more starts slipping through bogofilter.
I use them too. Luckily I've only had to call them for tech support once, and the issue was a system outage caused by a traffic accident or something. Telus was really bad though, I felt physical fear when I had to tell them I use *gasp* linux. I went so far as to plug in my windows box into the dsl modem to "prove" to them their dhcp server was down. *sigh* fucktards. Though they are paid shit and treated like shit, and I know how much it sucks to do support, so I do feel a little for them.
I say this only partially in jest, but maybe try contacting the dept of homeland defense, or GWB himself or something. Call it terrorism, they'll be shut down faster than you can say "foo".
Seriously though, with the increase in the gov't involvment and crackdown on cyber terrorism (or they say there is) isn't this a prime candidate?
That said, it's scary that the ISP doesn't seem to give a fark about this. If I was in charge of their security I'd be fixing this as quickly as possible, not letting my company's customers continue to use a compromised service. Wouldn't it be considered negligence to allow your customers to continue using a server you know to be compromised (ie: not changing the DHCP server back, or simply shutting down all access)? Personally I'd much rather loose my net access for a bit while this is cleaned up than my ISP knowingly let me proxy through sniffers and password grabbers.....
Yes, a fraction of a second, but multiply that by the millions of hits that google gets means they have more satisfied "customers", less loaded servers, and less bandwidth costs.
There is something about optimizing your images so they will fit in a single tcp/ip packet as well, but I don't remember the size.
Would you prefer banner ands and pop ups? No, I didn't think so.
Yea, had this happen on my server when a user's site in ~/public_html accidently turned into a bot tar pit (each link to a new directory just put you back in the main page, but increased the directory depth). It was amusing until I realized that the fact my server was pegged at 100-200k/s instead of it's normal 10 or 20 was really going to suck when the bandwidth bill came. Turned out it was an inktomi bot (or rather, about 60 of them) who didn't know when to stop, even with the web server turned off.
Eventually I moved the public_html directory out and it *still* took about three hours for the bots to understand that 404's meant there was no file there to look at.
+1 funny
You forgot to mention the optional YOU with a variable number of "!"s after it however.
Erhm.... a large number of tech support people are complete fucking morons who do nothing but read scripts from in front of them without the slightest clue as to what they are doing.
The next time you call your ISP and tell them that their DHCP server is busted and they tell you to go into your control panel or reboot your computer you'll know what I mean.
Not *all* tech support people, but being in support does not mean you automatically get completely tech/net savvy.
Another thing is that if you know how to do "simple" arithmatic in your head, you'll have a better chance of seeing if something is wrong when you plug numbers into your calculator. Even if it's not exact, the idea that "33 doesn't go into 90 27.2727272 times" will help you when doing the more complicated stuff.