"FTP Holes" refer to security problems in the ftp daemon. wu-ftpd (from Washungton University - anyone else remember ftp'ing to wuarchive.wustl.edu?) has a particularly bad security history.
Someone on Slashdot (sorry, I forget who) has/used to have this.sig:
Colleen McCullochs First Man in Rome series is awesome. i am on my third reading now. she has the largest collection of history books in the southern hemisphere and she tells the story so well. sulla is cooler than marius and julius ceasar is the man! She also wrote the Song of Troy which is an excellent story about Troy. taught me more about the history of it than i learnt in school.
I can second this recommendation (I just read the final book in the series, The October Horse, yesterday -- about 6 hours of nonstop reading, and I read fast ).
I just want to warn all of you that Ms. McCullogh's books are as addictive as crack.. Warn your friends that you will be unavailable for a week or two - you will end up spending all of your spare time reading them.
You said Ok, most people who enjoy Miles enjoy Honor.
Funny, I like both -- a lot, but I'd have never guessed there were a lot more like me. Go figure.
Other than they're both science fiction with military/political themes, I don't see them as being similar at all.
Weber is a *very very good* genre writer, something that our culture seems to underrate. For me, he's an automatic buy (and I plunked down $25+ for War of Honor even being unemployed). I've bought about 15 books written or co-written by Weber and have never been disappointed. If you like the genre, buy his books; you will afford yourself many hours of reading pleasure -- a master of the formula.
Bujold is something else. While she understands the demands of the genre and delivers, there's a lot more there. In just about every one of her books, she has done something that made me say "Oh no! She's changing stuff completely and it's all going to turn to crap", except it never does -- she takes the characters in entirely new directions and carries you along with her; it astounds me that I've had this reaction about 5 times already, and that it took me that many times to figure out that, while she writes in the traditions of a genre, she is not a "genre writer".
I once was trying to explain why I like Lois McMasters Bujold to someone who is not a fan of science fiction, and the best I could come up with was "Imagine if Jane Austin wrote space opera".
Looking for proofreaders on slashdot !!
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If they're looking for proofreaders here, the project is in deep trouble...
Back in the '80's there was a peer-to-peer network called 10Net.
A version was released to allow the use of Ethernet cards as well as their own proprietary cards. I was trying to upgrade to the new version without removing the old version, which turned out to be a no-no.
When I ran Install.BAT, the program started, but instead of asking the required questions to set up the network, the screen went completely blank. After about 15 seconds, a message appeared on the screen.
Personally I wouldn't mind my own traffic being used wholesale (aggregated with thousands of other users), but how do other/.ers feel about a company profiting from data emitted by the cellphone that they paid for?"
How's this any different from the news features you always see around the time of any big media event (SuperBowl, final episode of a popular TV program, etc. etc.) about estimating viewership by how many people flush their toilets during the commercials?
I think the key here is also that the (B) "effectively controls access". By definition, a control that be circumvented by a.99 pen and no special skill is not much of an effective control.
Where do you get them for.99? I have to pay at least $1.89 for mine?
Symantec, Real and Mcaffee, amongst others, probably have at least two dozen or so bug@off.com email entries from me.
Just a reminder from a mail admin:
If you're going to use a fake email, *please* use the domain "example.com". This is the domain name equivalent of the 10.x.x.x IP range -- it's guaranteed not to resolve. Otherwise, you may be causing a world of grief to an innocent mail administrator.
I'm the mail admin for the "fraudulent.org" domain, and have been bit by this a few times, and I once read a message (I think here) a few years ago from the guy who admins the "foobar.com" domain, who has major problems with this.
So remember boys and girls, by all means tell them to fuck off, but do it responsibly. (I personally use "fuck_you@example.com").
You say:
"Find me someone who's used neither before..."
Who's that? Maybe it is easier for the three people out there who have never used Windows in the last 12 years...
I sure wish that there was something like Control Panel in GUI Linux. Sure -- it's getting better, but I still don't see the place where I can change the display resolution on-the-fly without having to look up the arcane command-line to do that. And dependency hell is different from DLL hell exactly how?
Don't get me wrong -- I love and use the command line, and have since I first fed a ridiculous number of floppies into my machine and installed the SLS distribution lo these many years ago.
I'm just saying that, when I'm wearing my end-user hat I find the GUIs supplied with Red Hat 7.2 to be less useful and friendly than either the Windows GUI or the command line.
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The acronym stands for "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms".
Someone on Slashdot (sorry, I forget who) has/used to have this .sig:
wu-ftpd - providing remote root access since 1992
Colleen McCullochs First Man in Rome series is awesome. i am on my third reading now. she has the largest collection of history books in the southern hemisphere and she tells the story so well. sulla is cooler than marius and julius ceasar is the man! She also wrote the Song of Troy which is an excellent story about Troy. taught me more about the history of it than i learnt in school.
I can second this recommendation (I just read the final book in the series, The October Horse , yesterday -- about 6 hours of nonstop reading, and I read fast ).
I just want to warn all of you that Ms. McCullogh's books are as addictive as crack.. Warn your friends that you will be unavailable for a week or two - you will end up spending all of your spare time reading them.
2) Have a lot of them turn out right
3) ????
4) PROPHET!!!
Funny, I like both -- a lot, but I'd have never guessed there were a lot more like me. Go figure.
Other than they're both science fiction with military/political themes, I don't see them as being similar at all.
Weber is a *very very good* genre writer, something that our culture seems to underrate. For me, he's an automatic buy (and I plunked down $25+ for War of Honor even being unemployed). I've bought about 15 books written or co-written by Weber and have never been disappointed. If you like the genre, buy his books; you will afford yourself many hours of reading pleasure -- a master of the formula.
Bujold is something else. While she understands the demands of the genre and delivers, there's a lot more there. In just about every one of her books, she has done something that made me say "Oh no! She's changing stuff completely and it's all going to turn to crap", except it never does -- she takes the characters in entirely new directions and carries you along with her; it astounds me that I've had this reaction about 5 times already, and that it took me that many times to figure out that, while she writes in the traditions of a genre, she is not a "genre writer".
I once was trying to explain why I like Lois McMasters Bujold to someone who is not a fan of science fiction, and the best I could come up with was "Imagine if Jane Austin wrote space opera".
If they're looking for proofreaders here, the project is in deep trouble...
Now you *really need to be afraid of hidden goatse.cx links....
Yeah, they filter out the signal, leaving the noise...
Back in the '80's there was a peer-to-peer network called 10Net.
A version was released to allow the use of Ethernet cards as well as their own proprietary cards. I was trying to upgrade to the new version without removing the old version, which turned out to be a no-no.
When I ran Install.BAT, the program started, but instead of asking the required questions to set up the network, the screen went completely blank. After about 15 seconds, a message appeared on the screen.
The message was "Help me, Obi-Wan".
Given that Microsoft has inflicted COM on us, and is now working on .NET, can "Microsoft .ORG" be far behind?
I think I'd wait for Engineer-in-a-Box 2.1...
Kinda wish they had managed to eke out a few more cycles and produced a 4.77 gHz model.
Obviously, they wanted to keep you from copying it...
Personally I wouldn't mind my own traffic being used wholesale (aggregated with thousands of other users), but how do other /.ers feel about a company profiting from data emitted by the cellphone that they paid for?"
How's this any different from the news features you always see around the time of any big media event (SuperBowl, final episode of a popular TV program, etc. etc.) about estimating viewership by how many people flush their toilets during the commercials?
I think the key here is also that the (B) "effectively controls access". By definition, a control that be circumvented by a .99 pen and no special skill is not much of an effective control.
.99? I have to pay at least $1.89 for mine?
Where do you get them for
Am I the only one who initially read it as "Copyright Office Rejects Crap Recommendations" and thought, "Wow! Stuff that Matters!"?
Katz -- disconnecting?
Drat! You put my hopes up...
If you're going to do this, please, please use @example.com, which is guaranteed not to route.
I'm the mail admin for fraudulent.org, so this is of more than academic interest to me.
Does anyone who followed Groening's Life In Hell remember "Akbar and Jeff's Liposuction Hut"?
Just a reminder from a mail admin:
If you're going to use a fake email, *please* use the domain "example.com". This is the domain name equivalent of the 10.x.x.x IP range -- it's guaranteed not to resolve. Otherwise, you may be causing a world of grief to an innocent mail administrator.
I'm the mail admin for the "fraudulent.org" domain, and have been bit by this a few times, and I once read a message (I think here) a few years ago from the guy who admins the "foobar.com" domain, who has major problems with this.
So remember boys and girls, by all means tell them to fuck off, but do it responsibly. (I personally use "fuck_you@example.com").
Of course it's spelled wrong -- this is slashdot.
These guys should cut a deal with Unisys to host www.wehavethewayout.com.
I'll bite.
CowboyNeal, tell me about the fun with dealing with dealers in Hong Kong...
Who's that? Maybe it is easier for the three people out there who have never used Windows in the last 12 years...
I sure wish that there was something like Control Panel in GUI Linux. Sure -- it's getting better, but I still don't see the place where I can change the display resolution on-the-fly without having to look up the arcane command-line to do that. And dependency hell is different from DLL hell exactly how?
Don't get me wrong -- I love and use the command line, and have since I first fed a ridiculous number of floppies into my machine and installed the SLS distribution lo these many years ago.
I'm just saying that, when I'm wearing my end-user hat I find the GUIs supplied with Red Hat 7.2 to be less useful and friendly than either the Windows GUI or the command line.
Is Gilmore now in the Korean middle school business?