- BitTorrent - Shareaza (gnutella2) - eDonkey2000 - FTP - with IPs traded amongst friends/etc. (a crude P2P, in a sense) - as well as a slew of others I'm not aware of, I'm sure.
All this knowledge simply from being online for a couple years. Imagine what a hardcore file trader is aware of.
Ok, this sounds a lot more like a police state than anything the Patriot Act allows (at least in the letter of the law and not its interpretation). Raiding homes in addition to business sites? For what, IP infringement?
What kind of freedoms do these goons get, anyway, when they raid? Do they take everything, bash down doors, and the like, as the article implies (and as would likely occur under the Patriot Act)?
If this kind of thing is valid, I don't see where so many.au slashdotters get off saying that the US is a police state. What bollix and hypocricy.
This is the most insightful thing I've seen on slashdot in a long time. It's quite true, and it's something that a person has to pay attention to even at an earlier age: it seems there are a lot of self-perpetuated stupid people in high school, FFS! It's partially encouraged by the education system, but largely sprouted from pop culture as well ("If you're smart, you're a boob; being cool, hot, a slut, and pimping hos is where its at!")
No, it's not "just a crash", it's a "very easily executed DOS" that could be perpetuated indefinately if the person on the receving end wasn't aware of this exploit.
Theo: don't be so egotistical and elitist. Such attitudes lead to failure and defeat. History teaches us this.
1) Why would you spend that much money on setting up wireless in your appartment building for everyone? Unless you've already got a surplus of income, you own the appartment building, or you're into some sort of odd techno-charity urge addiction, I'd suggest you don't waste your money on something so frivilous: buy a house or pay off your debt, FFS! Hell, invest the money, if you don't have debt and don't want to buy a house.
2) If in fact you are crazy or do own the appartment building, by all means, set things up to share internet access - at a (minor) to your tenants (either enough to cover costs, or to make a profit, you decide how nice you want to be). Personally, if it were me, I'd wire the place for ethernet (myself), provided the building wasn't too old (1970's). If the building was old and crappy, I probably wouldn't bother, and try and sell it off - though it would certainly still be feasable.
You can choke wireless networks up pretty quickly, and they introduce needless security issues. For the cost of an 8-port (or 16, or whatever, depending on how many ports per appartment you put in) 100BT (or go GigE, the cost difference is negligible now) and a couple hundred hards of cat5, you can get hundreds the bandwidth/signal quality and many times the security of wifi. The cost would be similar, and could possibly be under $500, provided you didn't splurge and get a nice managed router to bridge stuff to the outside world.
To be honest, though: I don't see why you even bothered asking this question. Are you not a geek? For me, the most fun of any project is the planning and getting things set up. You've got the resources of hundreds of thousands of knowledgeable people, after all: the Internet via search engine (WTF are you doing with an "Ask Slashdot", anyway? DAMN). The payoff of your work (ie, the planning and research) is the implimentation - to see how well you planned your project. What's the payoff if you have someone else do the research/thinking for you?
This is easily defeated by an intelligent spellcheck built into antispam filters. It'd be able to recognize things such as commonly misspelled words, PGP/GPG keys, and file signatures, but would then create a rating based on number or percentage of non-words.
It could then mark it with a spam rating and be combined with spamassassin or such.
plus, wouldn't the spamassassin logic be able to say, "hey, we're getting a lot of non-word stuff - our filters tell us it's spam" and defeat this spam already?
after reading his interview, it seems to me as if there are still fairly frequent problems with 2.0 relating to stability and potential security problems.
I don't recall hearing about these problems all that often with the newer 2.4; is it just my perception, or are the new kernels more soundly written than the older ones?
Reading that made me decide to abandon the idea of getting a job in the CS/IT field, let alone in something system administration related. If he can't cut it, what makes me think I have a chance?
Unless, of course, he just hasn't found the 'right' job yet, or he's not really looking. Still...
You can not serilize a human of harmful microbes - yet. Short of irradiating them, at least. Surely the advances to do so will come about sooner than later, on the cosmic scale of things.
Um, yes, I use dpkg to install all packages on my system, just as you use rpm to install all packages on your system.
The thing that makes dpkg/deb 'easier' than rpms is that rpms have this horrible addiction to breaking and having horrible dependencies. Then it gets to be difficult/a pain in the ass.
And here I was, hoping that "Switch from use of RPM to DEB package management" and "Get rid of/etc/sysconfig and do things in a less redundant manner" were on their list.
Maybe they're saving that for a later release? Doubt it, personally. You'd think they'd make the change, though - package management is much easier with debian than with an RPM system.
On Febuary 1st, at midnight, mydoom started DDoSing sco.com
At that very time, my ISP (one of the largest in the Midwest US) also increased the upload cap from 128kbit to 256kbit - an upgrade plan that was in the works for a couple weeks (at least) prior to the mydoom worm.
Does anyone else think the irony of a similarity between The Matrix, a society completely entrapped by the governing powers (machines), and the name of this act (MATRIX), which makes that same entrapment all the more possible seem kind of odd to anyone else? Surely the politicians realized that this would draw a very definite parallel in the minds of most people, particularly those that are fans of the film.
Maybe they did it to discredit the voices of those that protest the act? "Oh, they're just geeks with a Matrix obsession, and are overreacting because they're all anarchists."
Otherwise, why else name it MATRIX? You'd think they'd want to avoid anhy sort of association with complete thought control. Right?
Or is this simply a sign of how incredibly subdued the average citizen is already?
Now that that's out of the way: if you're considering a schooling method other than self-instruction, you're not going to be fit for the industry anyway, so don't even bother. Seriously - people go to school for things like IT and CS, sure, but just that won't do a thing for a person. CS requires one be always updating their skills; if you're just getting into the field at 40+ (I figure this number from the idea that you graduated college at 23ish, the spen 8 more years in school after that, plus whatever time you needed to become an established physician who is already considering a career change) and doing so by going back to school, chances are you've not got the right mindset to be successful in the field, especially considering the atmsophere of the industry for the last 3ish years.
Have you been under a rock for the last 3 years, I wonder? Seriously. I can't but almost consider this some sort of mockery of slashdot, and possibly simply a joke. You're a physician. You rob people of immense amounts of money (usually paid for by insurance). Your job is dependable - people will always get ill. You could live a comfortable live and spend your money on expensive gadgets and new server racks for your toys - and do it on your leasure, for enjoyment. But instead you'd rather make a pittance in your old age, at risk of being fired or dismissed for any number of reasons, so as to get to work long hours under unkind managers? It seems to me that the doctor tends to be at, or near, the top, in many situations. Seems a bit more preferable.
Oh, damn. Here I was, thinking google was starting a new dating service - called Fugitive.:)
It'd probably be immensely popular. "Check to see if this man is a fugitive? Yes | No"
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I can't believe this worm has been remotely successful. It's hard to believe that so many people are so incredibly stupid.
It's a bloody -attached- zip file, with a file inside it! People have been told for over a decade to NOT OPEN ATTACHMENTS. You'd think they'd catch on sooner than later.
This is all the more reason to strip all binaries from email at the server. Granted, then viruses would be linking to sites - but that'd be relatively easy to shut down, and wouldn't pose any significant threat.
first off: it would likely be impossible to directly use most windows drivers in linux. the architectual design is entirely different, and you'd essentially need to emulate the win32 substructure - kind of self defeating. What we need, quite simply, is vendor support of their products.
second: wtf does windows media player (this is what you're talking about, no?) have to with drivers? If you're talking about media codecs, you can use straight codecs from windows without a problem with both xine and mplayer in linux.
re: firewire, i've not had such an experience, but it does sound horrible, and a noteworthy concern. I hope they make ammends. nfi what sbp2 is, though.
Linux already has excellent driver support for most desktops.
What most people mean when they say better "desktop support" for linux is really that they want better game support.
Of course, there is a peripheral subset that simply doesn't work well; there's nothing that can really be done about this by the actual linux developers, I don't think - OEM manufacturers need to step up to the plate and take responsibility for their hardware's support.
I'm sure I'll get flamed and possibly marked as flamebait myself, but: the GPL is preventing OEM manufacturers from releasing drivers. If they could easily release a binary-only driver, which would interface with a module wrapper that's licensed under non-GPL terms (BSD? LGPL even?), then we might see some more of this. All I've seen so far is bad binary drivers which often break other things, with a couple exceptions.
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Er, lindows? As root?
Try Debian, Mandrake, Solaris, MacOS X, RedHat, or *BSD, as a normal user.
You don't need root privileges to check for email.
MyDoom is simply a result of way too many people using computers that should not be.
You forgot:
- BitTorrent
- Shareaza (gnutella2)
- eDonkey2000
- FTP - with IPs traded amongst friends/etc. (a crude P2P, in a sense)
- as well as a slew of others I'm not aware of, I'm sure.
All this knowledge simply from being online for a couple years. Imagine what a hardcore file trader is aware of.
Ok, this sounds a lot more like a police state than anything the Patriot Act allows (at least in the letter of the law and not its interpretation). Raiding homes in addition to business sites? For what, IP infringement?
.au slashdotters get off saying that the US is a police state. What bollix and hypocricy.
What kind of freedoms do these goons get, anyway, when they raid? Do they take everything, bash down doors, and the like, as the article implies (and as would likely occur under the Patriot Act)?
If this kind of thing is valid, I don't see where so many
This is the most insightful thing I've seen on slashdot in a long time. It's quite true, and it's something that a person has to pay attention to even at an earlier age: it seems there are a lot of self-perpetuated stupid people in high school, FFS! It's partially encouraged by the education system, but largely sprouted from pop culture as well ("If you're smart, you're a boob; being cool, hot, a slut, and pimping hos is where its at!")
I've got a friend (who is a 'dorm tech') that usually opts for a blowjob and some soda, when the individual is female.
(Kidding. I just thought it was funny.)
Yeah fucking right!
No, it's not "just a crash", it's a "very easily executed DOS" that could be perpetuated indefinately if the person on the receving end wasn't aware of this exploit.
Theo: don't be so egotistical and elitist. Such attitudes lead to failure and defeat. History teaches us this.
Um, ok, this is peculiar.
1) Why would you spend that much money on setting up wireless in your appartment building for everyone? Unless you've already got a surplus of income, you own the appartment building, or you're into some sort of odd techno-charity urge addiction, I'd suggest you don't waste your money on something so frivilous: buy a house or pay off your debt, FFS! Hell, invest the money, if you don't have debt and don't want to buy a house.
2) If in fact you are crazy or do own the appartment building, by all means, set things up to share internet access - at a (minor) to your tenants (either enough to cover costs, or to make a profit, you decide how nice you want to be). Personally, if it were me, I'd wire the place for ethernet (myself), provided the building wasn't too old (1970's). If the building was old and crappy, I probably wouldn't bother, and try and sell it off - though it would certainly still be feasable.
You can choke wireless networks up pretty quickly, and they introduce needless security issues. For the cost of an 8-port (or 16, or whatever, depending on how many ports per appartment you put in) 100BT (or go GigE, the cost difference is negligible now) and a couple hundred hards of cat5, you can get hundreds the bandwidth/signal quality and many times the security of wifi. The cost would be similar, and could possibly be under $500, provided you didn't splurge and get a nice managed router to bridge stuff to the outside world.
To be honest, though: I don't see why you even bothered asking this question. Are you not a geek? For me, the most fun of any project is the planning and getting things set up. You've got the resources of hundreds of thousands of knowledgeable people, after all: the Internet via search engine (WTF are you doing with an "Ask Slashdot", anyway? DAMN). The payoff of your work (ie, the planning and research) is the implimentation - to see how well you planned your project. What's the payoff if you have someone else do the research/thinking for you?
This is easily defeated by an intelligent spellcheck built into antispam filters. It'd be able to recognize things such as commonly misspelled words, PGP/GPG keys, and file signatures, but would then create a rating based on number or percentage of non-words.
It could then mark it with a spam rating and be combined with spamassassin or such.
plus, wouldn't the spamassassin logic be able to say, "hey, we're getting a lot of non-word stuff - our filters tell us it's spam" and defeat this spam already?
after reading his interview, it seems to me as if there are still fairly frequent problems with 2.0 relating to stability and potential security problems.
I don't recall hearing about these problems all that often with the newer 2.4; is it just my perception, or are the new kernels more soundly written than the older ones?
Exactly what I was thinking.
Reading that made me decide to abandon the idea of getting a job in the CS/IT field, let alone in something system administration related. If he can't cut it, what makes me think I have a chance?
Unless, of course, he just hasn't found the 'right' job yet, or he's not really looking. Still...
I wonder what he would recommend for someone running 2.0.18. It still works fine, why might I want to upgrade? :P
You can not serilize a human of harmful microbes - yet. Short of irradiating them, at least. Surely the advances to do so will come about sooner than later, on the cosmic scale of things.
set a cronjob. :)
You might be well read in science fiction, but you're certainly not well read in general.
Themes such as lazyness leading to morality (and vice versa) is a theme that's quite old and is common in many religious texts.
Um, yes, I use dpkg to install all packages on my system, just as you use rpm to install all packages on your system.
The thing that makes dpkg/deb 'easier' than rpms is that rpms have this horrible addiction to breaking and having horrible dependencies. Then it gets to be difficult/a pain in the ass.
And here I was, hoping that "Switch from use of RPM to DEB package management" and "Get rid of /etc/sysconfig and do things in a less redundant manner" were on their list.
Maybe they're saving that for a later release? Doubt it, personally. You'd think they'd make the change, though - package management is much easier with debian than with an RPM system.
I think your inner geek requires this little writeup for inner peace and happyness.
:P I'm sure further googling could turn up an even better mod.
I'm going to try this myself.
On Febuary 1st, at midnight, mydoom started DDoSing sco.com
At that very time, my ISP (one of the largest in the Midwest US) also increased the upload cap from 128kbit to 256kbit - an upgrade plan that was in the works for a couple weeks (at least) prior to the mydoom worm.
Furthermore, my ISP happens to be a huge fan of a certain freedom-supporting OS.
Does anyone else think the irony of a similarity between The Matrix, a society completely entrapped by the governing powers (machines), and the name of this act (MATRIX), which makes that same entrapment all the more possible seem kind of odd to anyone else? Surely the politicians realized that this would draw a very definite parallel in the minds of most people, particularly those that are fans of the film.
Maybe they did it to discredit the voices of those that protest the act? "Oh, they're just geeks with a Matrix obsession, and are overreacting because they're all anarchists."
Otherwise, why else name it MATRIX? You'd think they'd want to avoid anhy sort of association with complete thought control. Right?
Or is this simply a sign of how incredibly subdued the average citizen is already?
Spark, meet tinder. Tinder, spark.
Now that that's out of the way: if you're considering a schooling method other than self-instruction, you're not going to be fit for the industry anyway, so don't even bother. Seriously - people go to school for things like IT and CS, sure, but just that won't do a thing for a person. CS requires one be always updating their skills; if you're just getting into the field at 40+ (I figure this number from the idea that you graduated college at 23ish, the spen 8 more years in school after that, plus whatever time you needed to become an established physician who is already considering a career change) and doing so by going back to school, chances are you've not got the right mindset to be successful in the field, especially considering the atmsophere of the industry for the last 3ish years.
Have you been under a rock for the last 3 years, I wonder? Seriously. I can't but almost consider this some sort of mockery of slashdot, and possibly simply a joke. You're a physician. You rob people of immense amounts of money (usually paid for by insurance). Your job is dependable - people will always get ill. You could live a comfortable live and spend your money on expensive gadgets and new server racks for your toys - and do it on your leasure, for enjoyment. But instead you'd rather make a pittance in your old age, at risk of being fired or dismissed for any number of reasons, so as to get to work long hours under unkind managers? It seems to me that the doctor tends to be at, or near, the top, in many situations. Seems a bit more preferable.
Oh, damn. Here I was, thinking google was starting a new dating service - called Fugitive. :)
It'd probably be immensely popular. "Check to see if this man is a fugitive? Yes | No"
I can't believe this worm has been remotely successful. It's hard to believe that so many people are so incredibly stupid.
It's a bloody -attached- zip file, with a file inside it! People have been told for over a decade to NOT OPEN ATTACHMENTS. You'd think they'd catch on sooner than later.
This is all the more reason to strip all binaries from email at the server. Granted, then viruses would be linking to sites - but that'd be relatively easy to shut down, and wouldn't pose any significant threat.
first off: it would likely be impossible to directly use most windows drivers in linux. the architectual design is entirely different, and you'd essentially need to emulate the win32 substructure - kind of self defeating. What we need, quite simply, is vendor support of their products.
second: wtf does windows media player (this is what you're talking about, no?) have to with drivers? If you're talking about media codecs, you can use straight codecs from windows without a problem with both xine and mplayer in linux.
re: firewire, i've not had such an experience, but it does sound horrible, and a noteworthy concern. I hope they make ammends. nfi what sbp2 is, though.
Linux already has excellent driver support for most desktops.
What most people mean when they say better "desktop support" for linux is really that they want better game support.
Of course, there is a peripheral subset that simply doesn't work well; there's nothing that can really be done about this by the actual linux developers, I don't think - OEM manufacturers need to step up to the plate and take responsibility for their hardware's support.
I'm sure I'll get flamed and possibly marked as flamebait myself, but: the GPL is preventing OEM manufacturers from releasing drivers. If they could easily release a binary-only driver, which would interface with a module wrapper that's licensed under non-GPL terms (BSD? LGPL even?), then we might see some more of this. All I've seen so far is bad binary drivers which often break other things, with a couple exceptions.
sounds like this jem would be a hell of a lot of fun to disassemble.
:)
I'm waiting patiently for one in my mailbox