These numbers are misleading. AT&T doesn't need to spend as much money to be as productive in infrastructure expansion as its CDMA competitors because their engineers can talk and surf at the same time.
Yeah, especially given that Google has opened up Chrome to AdBlock and AdSweep and has even welcomed the use of them in spite of being an ad broker, your remark really makes sense.
If you're an HTC WinMo man and you want to be able to tether uninterrupted with multiple laptops (uninterrupted by a call that is, incoming or out), to be able to do that together, just like Luke Wilson keeps whining about (Jesus I hate that guy), gotta have GSM 3G/WCDMA/HSDPA/UMTS/etc not CDMA. Your two options are TMo and AT&T for that.
Now if you want to be able to use data on your phone when you're in a department store or midtown Manhattan during business hours or Frisco, major metropolitan areas, and you want to minimize the risk of not having zero data as much as possible, Verizon. Go with Verizon and either tether or get a card thingy for your laptops. But I wouldn't have even mentioned AT&T if you didn't allude to tethering. It's worth adding that even without a tethering plan, I've tethered my ass off without ever having had a problem with AT&T stinging my ass with surcharges. Verizon's more anal, I believe.
If you're going in rural areas then, though you may still get EDGE with AT&T, firstly it's slow as balls data wise by design but with EDGE you won't get simultaneous voice and data. And data over EDGE, especially if you're tethering, man it's slow. So you might as well have Verizon then as its coverage, in case you haven't seen any of those ads, of "3G" speed over the States is much much better. So you're more likely to get reliable coverage with Verizon, but with AT&T, in the event of being within range of a 3G tower that just happens not to be congested and saturated, then you get to pop in your earpiece, go crazy tethering, the works. Again however, such events with AT&T are often intolerably rare.
Check your coverage maps obviously. Whichever way you swing it, for your tethering needs I strongly recommend wmwifirouter, no question.
As a Google shareholder, I am not only not freaked out on the business end, I am excited that this great company may be capitalizing on an opportunity to make real history here.
Now's the time to beat the squatter rush and register 3d fapping-related domains before The Man grabs them all. I came up with 3dfap.com which I could use, I suppose, both in case I decide to "reenter" the scene or alternatively for regular emailing as people who know what it means would not be offended by it and those who don't know what it is don't know what it is and 3dfap's nice and short, nice ring to it.
Any ophthalmologists care to weigh in on whether chronic eye crossing is risky? And if so any lawyers want to weigh in on whether 3d fapping sites should post health risks warnings?
To kick off a speculation thread, off the top of my head:
1) Google sticks to its guns.
A) Google's Internet operations including search and mail along with its Chinese staff are expelled from China.
a) Baidu, citizens and the government live happily ever after. Google lives happily ever after too but elsewhere.
b) This escalates and sparks more of what Hillary started, things heat up and this gets a little crazy in the name of human rights and fighting espionage.
c) The natives become restless and the Revolution will not be Youtubed.
B) The Chinese government says screw it and allows Google to continue doing its thing but uncensored.
a) This will stand as exceptional treatment for Google.
b) Yahoo grows some stones and follows suit sharing the same consequences as Google.
b) The Great Firewall will essentially be dismantled, hoo-ray. 2) Google loses its footing and caves to pressure of the Chinese government and market, resumes censorship.
A) Google loses major face, Chinese officials feel virile.
B) Google still successfully makes their point in spite of backpedaling and does not regret these decisions.
C) Google is unable to recover significant marketshare which Baidu had scooped up in its absence.
Okay that's all I got. I think 1-B-a is the most likely outcome, Google living on in China but uncensored with the Great Firewall and government policies standing and still being enforced for everyone else as the Chinese continue to remain mute about this. Any other outcomes you all can come up with? Lay down some odds too. Let's make this interesting.
Mods, parent is right, LostCluster has five top level and debatably vapid comments and counting. It's bizarre, annoying, narcissistic and rude behavior often characterized as karma whoring and he should be called out on it. As for the guy who does that, especially one who's been around here longer than you, shouldn't be stung for it.
Could someone really quietly tell me the fastest crash-course kind of way to learn all of that before the development market gets saturated? A book that covers all three? It's.. it's for my friend who's never coded anything from scratch except for a PRE tagged section of a web page.
How is this a bad thing exactly? With such changes Google makes it will only help you get better search results, maybe other people get better results too somehow and it will help Google target advertisements better which benefits not just Google but advertisers and consumers too. How does this pose enough a threat for you to turn your cookies off?
I know this is not its intended purpose, but given how the overwhelming majority of hacking attempts, automated or otherwise, come from Chinese IPs, and having a reputation as the digital nuisance country may be undesirable to them, why not take this thing a step further and try to curb some of the common hacking attempts from shooting out of their country?
I assume they can block outgoing and incoming data, if they can blacklist they could also whitelist, they can URL filter (which could come in handy for some kinds of attacks through the web server involving sql invading urls or maybe roundcube or wordpress http vulnerabilities), they can filter packets to, for one of many instances, spot and stop people using google to find websites using and old version phpmyadmin and phpbb, couldn't be too hard for them to spot IPs trying to log in to some server outside the wall over a thousand times in a few hours,... why don't the Chinese just hire the nod32 guys to come up with a list of no-no behavior, definitions to red flag their IPs that are infected with very malicious and communicative viruses and redirect those IPs to windows update and nod32 and avast and the trendmicro online thing? They clean their machines to the Great Firewall's satisfaction, then they get their internet back.
They'd be doing the world a service, they could pull off some of the above without it being too much of a logistical or political nightmare and they'd take a step in the direction of not being in the butt of jokes for how 90% of IPs showing up on network intrusion software logs are Chinese. They'd turn this vast and elaborate system much of the world finds objectionable into something that also does Good Things.
Here may be a good place to note that USB puts out 500mA at best theoretically (IE less than 400mA in reality). On idle phones can use between 15 and 150mA and when in heavy use, like wifi, gps, video, password cracking, high throughput (as in over 500kbit/s) and voice, as much as 600mA. So if you're tethering or running a phone torrent client for fun you may end up eating more power than your laptop's charging and you could even overheat and freeze or damage the phone if you get extreme.
Depending on your phone, different story with a wall charger which in the case of my HTC phone pumps out 1A. Another disadvantage of USB charging versus charging with wall chargers of the likes of my phone is that my charger, I'm told, knows when my phone's charged and eases back the juice so I don't overcharge my battery. USB may not be so smart. So maybe the GP knows about USB and opts for the outlet by the coffee machine. Wants a fast and effective charge, we've all been there. I've heard a few people claim that a full charge from USB tends to run out quicker than a full wall charge but I don't know why that would be true.
I've also heard that charging and using your phone even lightly (with the screen on, open data connection or more) can strain the battery a little too much and heat it up so that charging is much more painful for the long-term longevity of lion batteries.
Firstly, it's my fault for running a webmail client I got from browsing through apt-cache, installed with apt-get and configured mostly with dpkg-reconfigure instead of grabbing the official current build and reading the readme and man pages and faq, and doing this on a somewhat important machine. Did the same thing with Gallery and PHPNuke several years ago. Even webmin in my reckless and stupid experimental days. That's painting a target on yourself to get malware on your sites and start running irc bots or worse. Have you looked at some of these rootkit sites? Disturbing how finding and proliferating vulnerabilities in Linux, not just MS, is a full-time hobby/living for so many people. Then you install something like snort from apt-get thinking Yeah I'm on top of my security now, but you have no idea that you're using a six month old release of software with a demo package of ancient rules when it needs heavy configuration that dpkg doesn't handle and fresh rules with a subscription and a key in the right place to be effective.
That said, yeah, Debian's reputation for waiting a... conservative amount of time to make new releases of various software available on their repositories, whether it's gimp or gaim or kde or nmap, maybe I assumed that that behavior of deliberately (?) waiting a little while longer than the rest of the world to catch up to the developers' latest releases for the sake of not releasing anything that may contribute to snafus, that Debian's actually doing what's best for me. Maybe my roundcube adventure was anomalous. Regardless, I love Debian, I certainly love apt (so much I just tried Debian KFreeBSD to hang onto apt). By naming the package management systems of the other distros/OSs I was trying to suggest another point that Linux is becoming too easy. Lower learning curve, more people who may make my mistake and surrender their machines to China, Russia and 4chan by installing the wrong package.
It would be great if apt had svn/cvs behavior embedded into it to somehow investigate whether or not everything on your system is up to date by logging not just onto Debian's repositories but to servers maintained by developers. Can't expect apt to then install the next version but just to let me know what it found so I could deal with it myself. Maybe such a thing already exists -- guess I should apt-cache search it.:P
It's nice to be able to apt-get yourself the latest stable copy of apache2 and php5 and mysql and postfix humming with just a command or two, also nice to be able to apt-get upgrade them after you apt-got updated. Those who maintain, clean and contribute to the large public repositories that apt and yum and rpm and pkg_add, good people and they generally do a bang up job for 99% of the Linux and UNIX and UNIX-like folks. However, when you maintain servers which are not completely hidden behind a nat with these programs for years and once in a blue moon compile something you downloaded in a gzipped tar, you put yourself on admin autopilot and that can bite you in the ass.
Give you one example: I installed RoundCube, the most badass webmail client there will ever be, ever, with apt (the first time). Ran it for a while without incident. Had my system on weekly cron apt updates so I figured I was safe. Eventually I discover someone made it onto my system and put a malware installing js line in my web pages. Looking through the guy's bash history I discovered they got in through a RoundCube vulnerability. I checked out RoundCube's site, something I should have done first thing but did not, and it turns out their stable version was much newer than what apt realized and that this vulnerability would not have been on my system about five months ago had I downloaded straight from their site and stayed on the ball with their support resources which are things that are less necessary when you just let apt-get rip.
Bottom line, apt-get update/upgrading would not patch a glaring vulnerability in software I found with apt originally with the default Debian sources.list and I doubt it would have on most other distros' package management systems. It wasn't RoundCube's fault, the patched release was their Stable build for a long time but I was left wide open to anyone who went on a rootkit site and googled for roundcube hosts and I got nailed. Learned my lesson and I don't fault the repository maintainers for being behind the ball a bit on less popular software in their enormous archives but if you ask me software should not be available on the default repositories for Linux variants that the maintainers are not confident that they can keep up to date or don't have some kind of way to be quickly and effectively notified by the authors/vendors in the event of a critical upgrade being available and to put it live right quick. Put it on the people who want to install such software themselves -- if they can make it past that hump I'd say their odds of running the software safely will be substantially higher than Joe Yum. And spreading awareness of cvs/svn would be nice too.
A lot of you won't consider this to be relevant to anything but after sifting through her blog a bit, though lacking important collateral information to declare an amateur diagnosis, it seems very probable to me that this woman suffers (Charlottesville's law enforcement suffers I should say...) from at least one untreated mood and/or personality disorder including, possibly, something as colorful as erotomania which is secondary to major mood disorders like bipolar which she may also have (type one specifically) or perhaps something milder like conduct disorder -- but that wouldn't explain this extreme fixation on law enforcement -- and being naughty. The blog, from what I've skimmed, doesn't seem to have a mission of either vilifying police or praising them. Actually it may not be too great a stretch as identifying this blog as being her way of flirting with these men. The other explanation I can think of is that she had a very traumatic event in her earlier years with someone in a position of authority which screwed her up. Made her screws loose rather. Not saying she's completely delusional and psychotic, but she could be close.
I should note that it is common for people with mood disorders that break through into psychotic territory often have an elevated fascination as they grow more manic with law enforcement (but usually with the feds, not small town police officers). This manifests in a variety of forms including thinking the cops or CIA agents are out to get you or that you're a member of the secret service doing Good. And right here it could be manifesting itself in the form of a weird blog which is a nuisance, a sign of disrespect and potentially a reckless exposure to danger for these cops. Putting all privacy issues and whether or not cops are evil people who need to be monitored on this woman's blog aside, I believe that their arresting her, assuming she only gets a wrist slap at worst, may be a good thing for her as it is now much easier to incarcerate her involuntarily into a psychiatric facility. I know saying that sort of thing doesn't go well over here but think of it this way -- if she does in fact have an organic psychological malfunction that is degenerating over time, just like sociopaths torturing cats when they were children, as she grows bored of just doing this low-level borderline-illegal not-that-bad-but-weird stuff, it could get worse for her targets and herself. Get her in a hospital and accurately diagnose her with something, now the woman, especially if she has friends and family near by, might start seeing a psychiatrist and taking the right meds to make her happy so she can blog about... hmm... why she hates her meds and shrinks.
To offer my own opinion a little sharply here, unless corruption and abuse of power is so clearly pervasive in a city or small town's police department, men and women of law enforcement, along with firefighters and paramedics and mass transit workers, should be afforded more respect than this and it would be right if people when reading about this in the Charlottesville Daily Sun or Slashdot would lay off on the idealism and agree that this is just too much, the blog, and that the judge and DA feels like they have more public support to shut the site down and try to snap some sense into her, demand she sees a shrink/psychiatrist/both, whatever.
It's just too difficult to dismiss this behavior as a result of benign eccentricity; rather, one or more psychological diseases at play. And trying to treat diseases, barring any religious or evolutionary concerns you may have, is a good thing.
Registering a bunch of domains to see if any are already getting enough traffic to generate enough revenue to make hanging onto the domain worth it or canceling it before the bill comes. Aggressive typo-cybersquatting, a lot of it. Here.
My company went chapter seven and I've been scrambling to stop needing to collect unemployment and as I would (though I'll take what i can take) like to work for a small company, should I supplement my sales pitch/resume with being able to mitigate/eliminate the prospective employer's need to buy and have maintained a handful of servers when they could just pay me to make sure their network works and line them up with Google Premiere accounts? Or would that pretty much be saying Hey hire me so I can set you up to fire me a few months later?
I discovered this bulletproof form of encryption in the early nineties. Doesn't require any software and all both parties need to do is know how to touch type without looking at the keyboard. Basically you shift your hands one key to the right (rest your index fingers on g and k) and type as you normally would but without looking at the keys. Not even rainbow tables can break this. See, watch:
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs. ujr wiovl ntpem gpc ki,[d pbrt yjr;sxu fphd/
All the other guy needs to do is shift his hands one key to the left (index fingers on d and h), he starts retyping the encrypted code and bam, rock solid and convenient encryption with no packet overhead. May not work on binary code [yet]. And I don't know if it's legal or too strong for the government (IANAL... or should I say, osms;).
I don't know much about genes but I am rather familiar with different forms of psychosis experienced by positive-type shizophrenics, schizoaffectives and type one manic depressives alike and I can say with some authority that there is indeed a correlation between one's creativity and one's proximity to psychosis. Problem is, the super-psychotics among us are just too messed up to make it through the day (the affliction afflicting the patients in the most hospital beds is schizophrenia) that they are unable to unleash their creativity in contained forms that can be digested, documented and enjoyed by the rest of the world. You don't hear too many names you'd recognize except for the Pink Floyd drummer on the lists of famous people with schizophrenia.
But you do with manic depression probably because the treatment success rate, that is the chance you've got of getting a manic depressive patient to function in society, is in the nineties versus 40% [citation needed] for schizophrenia. Manic depressives, type one bipolar to be specific, get to shoot up into the same forms of psychosis positive typed schizophrenics perpetually are locked into, write an opera or a poem or whatever, come down from mania (either naturally or with drugs) and then try to market their psychotic product to whoever's interested. Or bipolar twos who ride just below the manic border, known as hypomania (think cocaine high), and can kind of do both at the same time (with the right handlers) like ODB and DMX and Axl Rose.
As for negative typed schizophrenics, catatonics, don't expect to get much Hemingway and Liszt out of them -- or their kids/if/ there is any specific heredity between the subtypes of schizophrenia. I don't know that part. But I will tell you this, more love should be shown to the crazies' diseases whose work you appreciate and enjoy regularly, work you admire and see in museums and have no idea that the artist behind it wasn't around before asylums turned into psychiatric hospitals and the drug lithium was born and applied to treating psychosis and soon after Thorazine and all the rest and they had a disaster of a life which in many cases ended in suicide.:(
Medicine has progressed much since those two drugs which might be a shame if you think that the medicines will squelch more creative genius from being contributed to the world's vault of precious art into the future.
I know this wouldn't be too helpful to openoffice and the FOSS world in general in terms of getting a leg up on native format overlords but it would help me not just deploy it in a large office by saving myself some clicks as I'm running around installing it but it would also enable me to hand out a CD to someone with an openoffice installation on it if I could somehow modify it to set the default save formats to Microsoft's. I also realize there's a risk such users should know, that they may lose certain formatting in doing this (and maybe I'd want to encourage them to crank out PDFs on final drafts), but most people just don't have the technical acumen to change these settings themselves and would have little interest in an editor that would only save a new document in an MS format if they went out of their way to specify it each time. Being able to double click an icon, type something, hit save and email to someone else who will then be able to open it with or without openoffice without having to do any extra steps would be a strong selling point.
So is there any way, a simple way without having to sift through all the source code, to modify some kind of openoffice installer to use ms formats by default? Maybe something like this exists already?
Ideally MS would be kind enough to support oo formats...
While I'm posting here's a link for MS fonts and another for Vista fonts for OO, works on all platforms OO works on according to what I found on google just now. Oh yeah, and back to my question, how about modifying an installer package to toss in fonts like this? Again, dealing with people who can barely click through a simple installation, not people who know where to find the basic settings of this kind of software.
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first and only theory i'm buying here so far..
Sounds right to me -- provided you're also on wifi.
These numbers are misleading. AT&T doesn't need to spend as much money to be as productive in infrastructure expansion as its CDMA competitors because their engineers can talk and surf at the same time.
Yeah, especially given that Google has opened up Chrome to AdBlock and AdSweep and has even welcomed the use of them in spite of being an ad broker, your remark really makes sense.
If you're an HTC WinMo man and you want to be able to tether uninterrupted with multiple laptops (uninterrupted by a call that is, incoming or out), to be able to do that together, just like Luke Wilson keeps whining about (Jesus I hate that guy), gotta have GSM 3G/WCDMA/HSDPA/UMTS/etc not CDMA. Your two options are TMo and AT&T for that.
Now if you want to be able to use data on your phone when you're in a department store or midtown Manhattan during business hours or Frisco, major metropolitan areas, and you want to minimize the risk of not having zero data as much as possible, Verizon. Go with Verizon and either tether or get a card thingy for your laptops. But I wouldn't have even mentioned AT&T if you didn't allude to tethering. It's worth adding that even without a tethering plan, I've tethered my ass off without ever having had a problem with AT&T stinging my ass with surcharges. Verizon's more anal, I believe.
If you're going in rural areas then, though you may still get EDGE with AT&T, firstly it's slow as balls data wise by design but with EDGE you won't get simultaneous voice and data. And data over EDGE, especially if you're tethering, man it's slow. So you might as well have Verizon then as its coverage, in case you haven't seen any of those ads, of "3G" speed over the States is much much better. So you're more likely to get reliable coverage with Verizon, but with AT&T, in the event of being within range of a 3G tower that just happens not to be congested and saturated, then you get to pop in your earpiece, go crazy tethering, the works. Again however, such events with AT&T are often intolerably rare.
Check your coverage maps obviously. Whichever way you swing it, for your tethering needs I strongly recommend wmwifirouter, no question.
bump, that was not flamebait
As a Google shareholder, I am not only not freaked out on the business end, I am excited that this great company may be capitalizing on an opportunity to make real history here.
Now's the time to beat the squatter rush and register 3d fapping-related domains before The Man grabs them all. I came up with 3dfap.com which I could use, I suppose, both in case I decide to "reenter" the scene or alternatively for regular emailing as people who know what it means would not be offended by it and those who don't know what it is don't know what it is and 3dfap's nice and short, nice ring to it.
Any ophthalmologists care to weigh in on whether chronic eye crossing is risky? And if so any lawyers want to weigh in on whether 3d fapping sites should post health risks warnings?
To kick off a speculation thread, off the top of my head:
1) Google sticks to its guns.
A) Google's Internet operations including search and mail along with its Chinese staff are expelled from China.
a) Baidu, citizens and the government live happily ever after. Google lives happily ever after too but elsewhere.
b) This escalates and sparks more of what Hillary started, things heat up and this gets a little crazy in the name of human rights and fighting espionage.
c) The natives become restless and the Revolution will not be Youtubed.
B) The Chinese government says screw it and allows Google to continue doing its thing but uncensored.
a) This will stand as exceptional treatment for Google.
b) Yahoo grows some stones and follows suit sharing the same consequences as Google.
b) The Great Firewall will essentially be dismantled, hoo-ray.
2) Google loses its footing and caves to pressure of the Chinese government and market, resumes censorship.
A) Google loses major face, Chinese officials feel virile.
B) Google still successfully makes their point in spite of backpedaling and does not regret these decisions.
C) Google is unable to recover significant marketshare which Baidu had scooped up in its absence.
Okay that's all I got. I think 1-B-a is the most likely outcome, Google living on in China but uncensored with the Great Firewall and government policies standing and still being enforced for everyone else as the Chinese continue to remain mute about this. Any other outcomes you all can come up with? Lay down some odds too. Let's make this interesting.
Mods, parent is right, LostCluster has five top level and debatably vapid comments and counting. It's bizarre, annoying, narcissistic and rude behavior often characterized as karma whoring and he should be called out on it. As for the guy who does that, especially one who's been around here longer than you, shouldn't be stung for it.
Could someone really quietly tell me the fastest crash-course kind of way to learn all of that before the development market gets saturated? A book that covers all three? It's .. it's for my friend who's never coded anything from scratch except for a PRE tagged section of a web page.
it's the stuff that drives the economy
How is this a bad thing exactly? With such changes Google makes it will only help you get better search results, maybe other people get better results too somehow and it will help Google target advertisements better which benefits not just Google but advertisers and consumers too. How does this pose enough a threat for you to turn your cookies off?
Maybe they're just bitter about the 4.6 stars the film got.
I know this is not its intended purpose, but given how the overwhelming majority of hacking attempts, automated or otherwise, come from Chinese IPs, and having a reputation as the digital nuisance country may be undesirable to them, why not take this thing a step further and try to curb some of the common hacking attempts from shooting out of their country?
I assume they can block outgoing and incoming data, if they can blacklist they could also whitelist, they can URL filter (which could come in handy for some kinds of attacks through the web server involving sql invading urls or maybe roundcube or wordpress http vulnerabilities), they can filter packets to, for one of many instances, spot and stop people using google to find websites using and old version phpmyadmin and phpbb, couldn't be too hard for them to spot IPs trying to log in to some server outside the wall over a thousand times in a few hours, ... why don't the Chinese just hire the nod32 guys to come up with a list of no-no behavior, definitions to red flag their IPs that are infected with very malicious and communicative viruses and redirect those IPs to windows update and nod32 and avast and the trendmicro online thing? They clean their machines to the Great Firewall's satisfaction, then they get their internet back.
They'd be doing the world a service, they could pull off some of the above without it being too much of a logistical or political nightmare and they'd take a step in the direction of not being in the butt of jokes for how 90% of IPs showing up on network intrusion software logs are Chinese. They'd turn this vast and elaborate system much of the world finds objectionable into something that also does Good Things.
Here may be a good place to note that USB puts out 500mA at best theoretically (IE less than 400mA in reality). On idle phones can use between 15 and 150mA and when in heavy use, like wifi, gps, video, password cracking, high throughput (as in over 500kbit/s) and voice, as much as 600mA. So if you're tethering or running a phone torrent client for fun you may end up eating more power than your laptop's charging and you could even overheat and freeze or damage the phone if you get extreme.
Depending on your phone, different story with a wall charger which in the case of my HTC phone pumps out 1A. Another disadvantage of USB charging versus charging with wall chargers of the likes of my phone is that my charger, I'm told, knows when my phone's charged and eases back the juice so I don't overcharge my battery. USB may not be so smart. So maybe the GP knows about USB and opts for the outlet by the coffee machine. Wants a fast and effective charge, we've all been there. I've heard a few people claim that a full charge from USB tends to run out quicker than a full wall charge but I don't know why that would be true.
I've also heard that charging and using your phone even lightly (with the screen on, open data connection or more) can strain the battery a little too much and heat it up so that charging is much more painful for the long-term longevity of lion batteries.
Firstly, it's my fault for running a webmail client I got from browsing through apt-cache, installed with apt-get and configured mostly with dpkg-reconfigure instead of grabbing the official current build and reading the readme and man pages and faq, and doing this on a somewhat important machine. Did the same thing with Gallery and PHPNuke several years ago. Even webmin in my reckless and stupid experimental days. That's painting a target on yourself to get malware on your sites and start running irc bots or worse. Have you looked at some of these rootkit sites? Disturbing how finding and proliferating vulnerabilities in Linux, not just MS, is a full-time hobby/living for so many people. Then you install something like snort from apt-get thinking Yeah I'm on top of my security now, but you have no idea that you're using a six month old release of software with a demo package of ancient rules when it needs heavy configuration that dpkg doesn't handle and fresh rules with a subscription and a key in the right place to be effective.
That said, yeah, Debian's reputation for waiting a ... conservative amount of time to make new releases of various software available on their repositories, whether it's gimp or gaim or kde or nmap, maybe I assumed that that behavior of deliberately (?) waiting a little while longer than the rest of the world to catch up to the developers' latest releases for the sake of not releasing anything that may contribute to snafus, that Debian's actually doing what's best for me. Maybe my roundcube adventure was anomalous. Regardless, I love Debian, I certainly love apt (so much I just tried Debian KFreeBSD to hang onto apt). By naming the package management systems of the other distros/OSs I was trying to suggest another point that Linux is becoming too easy. Lower learning curve, more people who may make my mistake and surrender their machines to China, Russia and 4chan by installing the wrong package.
It would be great if apt had svn/cvs behavior embedded into it to somehow investigate whether or not everything on your system is up to date by logging not just onto Debian's repositories but to servers maintained by developers. Can't expect apt to then install the next version but just to let me know what it found so I could deal with it myself. Maybe such a thing already exists -- guess I should apt-cache search it. :P
It's nice to be able to apt-get yourself the latest stable copy of apache2 and php5 and mysql and postfix humming with just a command or two, also nice to be able to apt-get upgrade them after you apt-got updated. Those who maintain, clean and contribute to the large public repositories that apt and yum and rpm and pkg_add, good people and they generally do a bang up job for 99% of the Linux and UNIX and UNIX-like folks. However, when you maintain servers which are not completely hidden behind a nat with these programs for years and once in a blue moon compile something you downloaded in a gzipped tar, you put yourself on admin autopilot and that can bite you in the ass.
Give you one example: I installed RoundCube, the most badass webmail client there will ever be, ever, with apt (the first time). Ran it for a while without incident. Had my system on weekly cron apt updates so I figured I was safe. Eventually I discover someone made it onto my system and put a malware installing js line in my web pages. Looking through the guy's bash history I discovered they got in through a RoundCube vulnerability. I checked out RoundCube's site, something I should have done first thing but did not, and it turns out their stable version was much newer than what apt realized and that this vulnerability would not have been on my system about five months ago had I downloaded straight from their site and stayed on the ball with their support resources which are things that are less necessary when you just let apt-get rip.
Bottom line, apt-get update/upgrading would not patch a glaring vulnerability in software I found with apt originally with the default Debian sources.list and I doubt it would have on most other distros' package management systems. It wasn't RoundCube's fault, the patched release was their Stable build for a long time but I was left wide open to anyone who went on a rootkit site and googled for roundcube hosts and I got nailed. Learned my lesson and I don't fault the repository maintainers for being behind the ball a bit on less popular software in their enormous archives but if you ask me software should not be available on the default repositories for Linux variants that the maintainers are not confident that they can keep up to date or don't have some kind of way to be quickly and effectively notified by the authors/vendors in the event of a critical upgrade being available and to put it live right quick. Put it on the people who want to install such software themselves -- if they can make it past that hump I'd say their odds of running the software safely will be substantially higher than Joe Yum. And spreading awareness of cvs/svn would be nice too.
Can't believe I just admitted I got compromised.
A lot of you won't consider this to be relevant to anything but after sifting through her blog a bit, though lacking important collateral information to declare an amateur diagnosis, it seems very probable to me that this woman suffers (Charlottesville's law enforcement suffers I should say...) from at least one untreated mood and/or personality disorder including, possibly, something as colorful as erotomania which is secondary to major mood disorders like bipolar which she may also have (type one specifically) or perhaps something milder like conduct disorder -- but that wouldn't explain this extreme fixation on law enforcement -- and being naughty. The blog, from what I've skimmed, doesn't seem to have a mission of either vilifying police or praising them. Actually it may not be too great a stretch as identifying this blog as being her way of flirting with these men. The other explanation I can think of is that she had a very traumatic event in her earlier years with someone in a position of authority which screwed her up. Made her screws loose rather. Not saying she's completely delusional and psychotic, but she could be close.
I should note that it is common for people with mood disorders that break through into psychotic territory often have an elevated fascination as they grow more manic with law enforcement (but usually with the feds, not small town police officers). This manifests in a variety of forms including thinking the cops or CIA agents are out to get you or that you're a member of the secret service doing Good. And right here it could be manifesting itself in the form of a weird blog which is a nuisance, a sign of disrespect and potentially a reckless exposure to danger for these cops. Putting all privacy issues and whether or not cops are evil people who need to be monitored on this woman's blog aside, I believe that their arresting her, assuming she only gets a wrist slap at worst, may be a good thing for her as it is now much easier to incarcerate her involuntarily into a psychiatric facility. I know saying that sort of thing doesn't go well over here but think of it this way -- if she does in fact have an organic psychological malfunction that is degenerating over time, just like sociopaths torturing cats when they were children, as she grows bored of just doing this low-level borderline-illegal not-that-bad-but-weird stuff, it could get worse for her targets and herself. Get her in a hospital and accurately diagnose her with something, now the woman, especially if she has friends and family near by, might start seeing a psychiatrist and taking the right meds to make her happy so she can blog about ... hmm ... why she hates her meds and shrinks.
To offer my own opinion a little sharply here, unless corruption and abuse of power is so clearly pervasive in a city or small town's police department, men and women of law enforcement, along with firefighters and paramedics and mass transit workers, should be afforded more respect than this and it would be right if people when reading about this in the Charlottesville Daily Sun or Slashdot would lay off on the idealism and agree that this is just too much, the blog, and that the judge and DA feels like they have more public support to shut the site down and try to snap some sense into her, demand she sees a shrink/psychiatrist/both, whatever.
It's just too difficult to dismiss this behavior as a result of benign eccentricity; rather, one or more psychological diseases at play. And trying to treat diseases, barring any religious or evolutionary concerns you may have, is a good thing.
That's it I'm done.
Registering a bunch of domains to see if any are already getting enough traffic to generate enough revenue to make hanging onto the domain worth it or canceling it before the bill comes. Aggressive typo-cybersquatting, a lot of it. Here.
My company went chapter seven and I've been scrambling to stop needing to collect unemployment and as I would (though I'll take what i can take) like to work for a small company, should I supplement my sales pitch/resume with being able to mitigate/eliminate the prospective employer's need to buy and have maintained a handful of servers when they could just pay me to make sure their network works and line them up with Google Premiere accounts? Or would that pretty much be saying Hey hire me so I can set you up to fire me a few months later?
not too funny but nice uid
I discovered this bulletproof form of encryption in the early nineties. Doesn't require any software and all both parties need to do is know how to touch type without looking at the keyboard. Basically you shift your hands one key to the right (rest your index fingers on g and k) and type as you normally would but without looking at the keys. Not even rainbow tables can break this. See, watch:
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs. ;sxu fphd/
ujr wiovl ntpem gpc ki,[d pbrt yjr
All the other guy needs to do is shift his hands one key to the left (index fingers on d and h), he starts retyping the encrypted code and bam, rock solid and convenient encryption with no packet overhead. May not work on binary code [yet]. And I don't know if it's legal or too strong for the government (IANAL ... or should I say, osms;).
I don't know much about genes but I am rather familiar with different forms of psychosis experienced by positive-type shizophrenics, schizoaffectives and type one manic depressives alike and I can say with some authority that there is indeed a correlation between one's creativity and one's proximity to psychosis. Problem is, the super-psychotics among us are just too messed up to make it through the day (the affliction afflicting the patients in the most hospital beds is schizophrenia) that they are unable to unleash their creativity in contained forms that can be digested, documented and enjoyed by the rest of the world. You don't hear too many names you'd recognize except for the Pink Floyd drummer on the lists of famous people with schizophrenia.
But you do with manic depression probably because the treatment success rate, that is the chance you've got of getting a manic depressive patient to function in society, is in the nineties versus 40% [citation needed] for schizophrenia. Manic depressives, type one bipolar to be specific, get to shoot up into the same forms of psychosis positive typed schizophrenics perpetually are locked into, write an opera or a poem or whatever, come down from mania (either naturally or with drugs) and then try to market their psychotic product to whoever's interested. Or bipolar twos who ride just below the manic border, known as hypomania (think cocaine high), and can kind of do both at the same time (with the right handlers) like ODB and DMX and Axl Rose.
As for negative typed schizophrenics, catatonics, don't expect to get much Hemingway and Liszt out of them -- or their kids /if/ there is any specific heredity between the subtypes of schizophrenia. I don't know that part. But I will tell you this, more love should be shown to the crazies' diseases whose work you appreciate and enjoy regularly, work you admire and see in museums and have no idea that the artist behind it wasn't around before asylums turned into psychiatric hospitals and the drug lithium was born and applied to treating psychosis and soon after Thorazine and all the rest and they had a disaster of a life which in many cases ended in suicide. :(
Medicine has progressed much since those two drugs which might be a shame if you think that the medicines will squelch more creative genius from being contributed to the world's vault of precious art into the future.
I know this wouldn't be too helpful to openoffice and the FOSS world in general in terms of getting a leg up on native format overlords but it would help me not just deploy it in a large office by saving myself some clicks as I'm running around installing it but it would also enable me to hand out a CD to someone with an openoffice installation on it if I could somehow modify it to set the default save formats to Microsoft's. I also realize there's a risk such users should know, that they may lose certain formatting in doing this (and maybe I'd want to encourage them to crank out PDFs on final drafts), but most people just don't have the technical acumen to change these settings themselves and would have little interest in an editor that would only save a new document in an MS format if they went out of their way to specify it each time. Being able to double click an icon, type something, hit save and email to someone else who will then be able to open it with or without openoffice without having to do any extra steps would be a strong selling point.
So is there any way, a simple way without having to sift through all the source code, to modify some kind of openoffice installer to use ms formats by default? Maybe something like this exists already?
Ideally MS would be kind enough to support oo formats...
While I'm posting here's a link for MS fonts and another for Vista fonts for OO, works on all platforms OO works on according to what I found on google just now. Oh yeah, and back to my question, how about modifying an installer package to toss in fonts like this? Again, dealing with people who can barely click through a simple installation, not people who know where to find the basic settings of this kind of software.