I've seen people write Blogs & Livejournal entries just like that.. linking to whatever they were talking about. It's helpful, but IIRC (which I probably don't) people were using links and stuff to trick Google results a while back and lead people off to pr0n sites. Weren't they?
*home mp3 players/media station
*Gateway connected home with touchpads everywhere
*TiVO
*DVD players
*Playstation 2 & Dreamcast
*Digital cable & cable modem
*1.4ghz Athlon on the desk with external RAID
*video equipment everywhere
......and I'm stuck at work for 9 hours, in addition to my 1.5 hour commute each way. By the time I get home, the only thing I want to see is some dinner and a pillow...
Why doesn't someone make a device that runs linux that will slap my ass out of bed and brush my teeth for me? Maybe go get the damn paper and my coffee... How about an alarm clock that doesn't have an iffy snooze button?
Can we PLEASE turn this worm loose on all APNIC owned IP blocks and upgrade every machine in.jp,.kr,.cn, etc with a newer non-open relay version of Sendmail or Postfix? Please?!?! Considering that's where 95% of the spam I get comes from, I'd welcome something like that.:P~
(FYI, I quit shortly after the AOL/TW merger)
Using AOL with a SecurID card isn't that big of a hassle at all. It binds your account name to the card, but it's in no way a big hassle at all. It's been set up that way for a looooong time now, too.
Stupid Gracenote. I don't use Toast to burn music CDs. I use Toast to burn data CDs, backup software, make bootable restore CDs...
Sounds like a RIAA thing to do... they assume that all we do with software these days is PIRATE their music. The idea of *legal usage* of the software has never entered their feeble minds..
UgH... screw Gracenote. Screw Rambus, too. They're down by the DMV in Mountain View, CA... let's all go take a leak on their lawn..
How does this differ from taking GNU software and adding your own bits and re-releasing it?:P
Imagine the credits..
GPL Homework License... termpaper, version 0.9
sh0utZ to my h0mieZ in this class last year..
I personally think it's sad to see people saying "Oh, they're not going to live & die by the GPL? Well, screw them! Let Caldera crash & burn!"
Actually, I think they'd do quite well. They make a few pretty cool products, Volution being one of them. Excellent tool for managing multiple servers. I like the GPL, but really.. it's hard to get something back from it, namely what you need to continue your business. Businesses need to make money to survive. I've seen too many rip-offs of GPL software springing up left & right. "Kondama" (something like that) was jumping on the bandwagon, putting out what looked exactly like a $99 box to Comanche (the Apache conf GUI) complete with their logo and goofy penguin cartoon with "LINUX RULES!!" tattooed on its arm.
If Caldera altering their products to a new license would prevent crap like *that* from coming out in the future, I'm all for it. Mr. Love *does* have a point, whether one likes to admit it or not. With the number of Linux companies folding these days, whatever they can do to stay afloat might not be a bad thing. Think about it, would you rather see Linux remain a viable solution or would you rather have Microsoft be correct when they say "Look, we're still here, look at these Linux companies failing.. stick with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, we're a STABLE company...".. or what?
Gotta be realistic here, folks..
I see quite a few people saying "Oh, you can just get by with 1 old Linux box for all your web/mail/ftp, it's great!"
What happens when the hard drive fails? Or you have to take it offline to add RAM? If it gets hacked?
People overlook backup systems. UPS systems. Tape backups. Redundancy!
Please, don't forget that kind of stuff. If you have to up your ante to "TWO SuSE boxes!" then do it.. but never put all your eggs in one basket with running your business on ONE machine, linux or not. You might as well sit there with a gun to your head.
Besides, Fry's isn't open 24/7.:)
Back when I worked as a sysadmin for Netscape/America Online-Time Warner, the fuckers at Dell refused to help me with a hardware issue.
Why?
I installed Windows 2000. The laptop (Dell Latitude CPx, entium III/650) had originally shipped with Windows 98. I insisted that it was a hardware issue (it was, the same issue occured when I had linux on the thing) and they insisted that they would not service me because I had altered the machine.
Fuck Dell. Fuck their service people. I'm happy you are getting yours fixed. I wish I had the same luck.
Oh yes. Mine also had the battery recalled last time they had this battery issue. I never got a battery back.. I had to loot IS for one.
Meanwhile, both the Powerbooks I've owned (AOL replaced my Dell with a Powerbook G3/500 that worked perfectly, and I have a Powerbook G4/400 at my new job) have worked fantastic.
that nobody has mentioned that Linux is still something useful that you can get on the internet for free.:)
I've actually never received anything more than "opt-in" junk mail to a h0tmail account from those "Get free stuff" websites. I really have better things to do with the internet anyway. Like www.thehun.net.:P
The Nintendo platform had already been out. Microsoft is buying out game companies to make games for the so far non-existant X-Box. They are using every dollar they can to strongarm their way into the console game market.
I just wonder what will happen to Interplay if the X-Box is a flop and the game doesn't sell well..
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Apple doesn't need to.
That's why you search Versiontracker for "Brickhouse"
Voila, click some pretty buttons, secure MacOS X.:)
Still doesn't suggest trusting sensitive data to it, just says "it's comparable to that of a cabled network"... and we all know how much security can lie on a cabled network at times.;)
Go find exactly where on Apple's page it says that they want you to use AirPort for your secure internal company communication, and perhaps I'll find the post "funny."
40bit encryption, you can hide the networks from broadcasting themselves, allow only specific MAC addresses, and require a password to join the AirPort network.
But no where does it state that they intend for you to trust all of your data to it.
Microsoft, on the other hand, would be saying that it, just like Windows 2000, is totally secure and safe to use on any corporate LAN. *snort*
Why do I have the feeling that because of the EFF, we're not only going to have 5432 Napster clones, but now we're also going to have 3525 versions of the same song?
What does an artist do when another group starts playing their (O) tunes and sounding a hell of a lot better than the original? Which concert is one going to see?
I'm all for protecting rights, and if that's all this is designed to do, great. I can still see people having issues and being jealous anyway. It's just human nature.
what would be nice is for radio stations to occasionally play some (O) tunes, and denote them as such. Have an "EFF Music Hour" once a week. Something like that might encourage this... until the RIAA feels it's a threat too.:(
A few points:
1)Why is it being an "open source solution" really that important? Just so it can get on slashdot? As much as people hate Windows, (or the MacOS) there are quite a few viable webcam software alternatives out there. Digital Radar by Connectix (Logitech owns it now) worked pretty good.
2)Say it sees something.. is he going to check the image before calling the cops? I'm sure the cops would *not* be pleased if he called them thinking his boat was being broken into every time a stupid seagull lands in the camera's view.
3)Who winds up being liable if the camera idea fails miserably? What would the insurance company say if the only security measure taken was "some Linux webcam rig?"
If something was really that valuable to me and needed to be watched, a webcam is the *last* thing I'd think about. If it's worth it, just shell out the money and have some sort of alarm installed. Most webcams suck at low light shots anyway. The 3Com cams were ok, but discontinued now.
...seem to be the fresh-from-Heald-college-paper MCSE drones. The type that read the MCSE cram session books. The one that doesn't know squat about any other OS but Windows. The type that would never go to a trade show or Fry's just to look at the toys.
Yes, that type is the one that doesn't care. They got into computers because they heard it paid well and all they care about is the paycheck.
It most definitely affects the quality of the work because they're usually the types to do the bare minimum on the job, just enough to get the job done. Just enough to make sure they keep getting paid.
What scares me more is when one of these drone type IT guys becomes a manager.....
I think it was in 1979 when a 16yr old girl got a rifle for her birthday and decided to sit in her OWN HOME and pick off 11 people at a school across the street. She only killed two. Now I might be wrong on the dates, I'd have to look it up, but the point remains: She did not play Doom before killing people. She did it on her own. As did other school shooters in recent years.
I mean.. really, had those guys at Columbine been any GOOD at Doom, they would have racked up more frags.
You didn't read what I said - What do you do when the 800 number is just another recording? You can't complain to the recording..;) Also, abusing 1-800 numbers can really annoy the phone company, but all of that is covered in a thread about payphones a few days ago..
That's great and all, but what do you do when you pick up your phone and you hear "Please hold for this very important message..." or even worse "Please call this number on Monday morning for a very important announcement" and it turns out to be some prerecorded announcement on a 1-800 number.
Then what do you do? I'd love to know.. because at least when a person phonespams you, you can say "Take me off your list" and/or squeak information out of them but when it's just a random almost wardialed attempt to get you to call their 1-800 number, what do you do?
Tracking down 1-800 numbers can sometimes be a pain and when you find out that the company that owns the number is based overseas.. well, good luck collecting your $500 from them.:(
I'd much rather see the stuff IBM painted on the ground than seeing some very kanji-like scribbles on a wall somewhere. At least we can understand it.:P
Then again, it is rather amusing watching exchange students try to make sense of the graffiti, that actually says "R-Town Posse" if you look reeeeally close.
It's even better when they happen to write "dumbass" in some foreign language.
I never really understood that either, considering a credit card is not a valid form of legal identification. Just because someone has a credit card sure as hell doesn't mean they're an adult. Sure, they're probably over 13, but in the case of stupid porn sites that want you to enter a credit card as "age verification" it's worthless.
In the old days of a BBS, you'd have to fax a copy of your ID proving you were over a certain age, or the sysop (hah, remember those?) would call back and want to speak to the parent in charge.
Not a very foolproof system, but certainly better than "Check here if you're under 13"
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How long will it be before someone turns RMS loose on Ballmer as well? ;)
I've seen people write Blogs & Livejournal entries just like that.. linking to whatever they were talking about. It's helpful, but IIRC (which I probably don't) people were using links and stuff to trick Google results a while back and lead people off to pr0n sites. Weren't they?
No matter what my ping time is, I still keep blowing my stupid self up with the rocket launcher. :(
*home mp3 players/media station
;)
*Gateway connected home with touchpads everywhere
*TiVO
*DVD players
*Playstation 2 & Dreamcast
*Digital cable & cable modem
*1.4ghz Athlon on the desk with external RAID
*video equipment everywhere
......and I'm stuck at work for 9 hours, in addition to my 1.5 hour commute each way. By the time I get home, the only thing I want to see is some dinner and a pillow...
Why doesn't someone make a device that runs linux that will slap my ass out of bed and brush my teeth for me? Maybe go get the damn paper and my coffee... How about an alarm clock that doesn't have an iffy snooze button?
Ahh... all this stuff and no time to use it!!!
Can we PLEASE turn this worm loose on all APNIC owned IP blocks and upgrade every machine in .jp, .kr, .cn, etc with a newer non-open relay version of Sendmail or Postfix? Please?!?! Considering that's where 95% of the spam I get comes from, I'd welcome something like that. :P~
(FYI, I quit shortly after the AOL/TW merger) Using AOL with a SecurID card isn't that big of a hassle at all. It binds your account name to the card, but it's in no way a big hassle at all. It's been set up that way for a looooong time now, too.
Stupid Gracenote. I don't use Toast to burn music CDs. I use Toast to burn data CDs, backup software, make bootable restore CDs...
Sounds like a RIAA thing to do... they assume that all we do with software these days is PIRATE their music. The idea of *legal usage* of the software has never entered their feeble minds..
UgH... screw Gracenote. Screw Rambus, too. They're down by the DMV in Mountain View, CA... let's all go take a leak on their lawn..
How does this differ from taking GNU software and adding your own bits and re-releasing it? :P
Imagine the credits..
GPL Homework License... termpaper, version 0.9
sh0utZ to my h0mieZ in this class last year..
I personally think it's sad to see people saying "Oh, they're not going to live & die by the GPL? Well, screw them! Let Caldera crash & burn!"
Actually, I think they'd do quite well. They make a few pretty cool products, Volution being one of them. Excellent tool for managing multiple servers. I like the GPL, but really.. it's hard to get something back from it, namely what you need to continue your business. Businesses need to make money to survive. I've seen too many rip-offs of GPL software springing up left & right. "Kondama" (something like that) was jumping on the bandwagon, putting out what looked exactly like a $99 box to Comanche (the Apache conf GUI) complete with their logo and goofy penguin cartoon with "LINUX RULES!!" tattooed on its arm.
If Caldera altering their products to a new license would prevent crap like *that* from coming out in the future, I'm all for it. Mr. Love *does* have a point, whether one likes to admit it or not. With the number of Linux companies folding these days, whatever they can do to stay afloat might not be a bad thing. Think about it, would you rather see Linux remain a viable solution or would you rather have Microsoft be correct when they say "Look, we're still here, look at these Linux companies failing.. stick with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, we're a STABLE company...".. or what? Gotta be realistic here, folks..
I see quite a few people saying "Oh, you can just get by with 1 old Linux box for all your web/mail/ftp, it's great!" :)
What happens when the hard drive fails? Or you have to take it offline to add RAM? If it gets hacked? People overlook backup systems. UPS systems. Tape backups. Redundancy!
Please, don't forget that kind of stuff. If you have to up your ante to "TWO SuSE boxes!" then do it.. but never put all your eggs in one basket with running your business on ONE machine, linux or not. You might as well sit there with a gun to your head.
Besides, Fry's isn't open 24/7.
It's gotta be unix if you can get gnapster to compile on it...
Back when I worked as a sysadmin for Netscape/America Online-Time Warner, the fuckers at Dell refused to help me with a hardware issue.
Why?
I installed Windows 2000. The laptop (Dell Latitude CPx, entium III/650) had originally shipped with Windows 98. I insisted that it was a hardware issue (it was, the same issue occured when I had linux on the thing) and they insisted that they would not service me because I had altered the machine.
Fuck Dell. Fuck their service people. I'm happy you are getting yours fixed. I wish I had the same luck.
Oh yes. Mine also had the battery recalled last time they had this battery issue. I never got a battery back.. I had to loot IS for one.
Meanwhile, both the Powerbooks I've owned (AOL replaced my Dell with a Powerbook G3/500 that worked perfectly, and I have a Powerbook G4/400 at my new job) have worked fantastic.
that nobody has mentioned that Linux is still something useful that you can get on the internet for free. :)
:P
I've actually never received anything more than "opt-in" junk mail to a h0tmail account from those "Get free stuff" websites. I really have better things to do with the internet anyway. Like www.thehun.net.
The Nintendo platform had already been out. Microsoft is buying out game companies to make games for the so far non-existant X-Box. They are using every dollar they can to strongarm their way into the console game market.
I just wonder what will happen to Interplay if the X-Box is a flop and the game doesn't sell well..
Apple doesn't need to. That's why you search Versiontracker for "Brickhouse" Voila, click some pretty buttons, secure MacOS X. :)
Ok. I forgive you. :P
;)
Still doesn't suggest trusting sensitive data to it, just says "it's comparable to that of a cabled network"... and we all know how much security can lie on a cabled network at times.
Go find exactly where on Apple's page it says that they want you to use AirPort for your secure internal company communication, and perhaps I'll find the post "funny."
40bit encryption, you can hide the networks from broadcasting themselves, allow only specific MAC addresses, and require a password to join the AirPort network.
But no where does it state that they intend for you to trust all of your data to it. Microsoft, on the other hand, would be saying that it, just like Windows 2000, is totally secure and safe to use on any corporate LAN. *snort*
Why do I have the feeling that because of the EFF, we're not only going to have 5432 Napster clones, but now we're also going to have 3525 versions of the same song? :(
What does an artist do when another group starts playing their (O) tunes and sounding a hell of a lot better than the original? Which concert is one going to see?
I'm all for protecting rights, and if that's all this is designed to do, great. I can still see people having issues and being jealous anyway. It's just human nature.
what would be nice is for radio stations to occasionally play some (O) tunes, and denote them as such. Have an "EFF Music Hour" once a week. Something like that might encourage this... until the RIAA feels it's a threat too.
A few points: 1)Why is it being an "open source solution" really that important? Just so it can get on slashdot? As much as people hate Windows, (or the MacOS) there are quite a few viable webcam software alternatives out there. Digital Radar by Connectix (Logitech owns it now) worked pretty good.
2)Say it sees something.. is he going to check the image before calling the cops? I'm sure the cops would *not* be pleased if he called them thinking his boat was being broken into every time a stupid seagull lands in the camera's view.
3)Who winds up being liable if the camera idea fails miserably? What would the insurance company say if the only security measure taken was "some Linux webcam rig?"
If something was really that valuable to me and needed to be watched, a webcam is the *last* thing I'd think about. If it's worth it, just shell out the money and have some sort of alarm installed. Most webcams suck at low light shots anyway. The 3Com cams were ok, but discontinued now.
...seem to be the fresh-from-Heald-college-paper MCSE drones. The type that read the MCSE cram session books. The one that doesn't know squat about any other OS but Windows. The type that would never go to a trade show or Fry's just to look at the toys.
Yes, that type is the one that doesn't care. They got into computers because they heard it paid well and all they care about is the paycheck. It most definitely affects the quality of the work because they're usually the types to do the bare minimum on the job, just enough to get the job done. Just enough to make sure they keep getting paid.
What scares me more is when one of these drone type IT guys becomes a manager.....
I think it was in 1979 when a 16yr old girl got a rifle for her birthday and decided to sit in her OWN HOME and pick off 11 people at a school across the street. She only killed two. Now I might be wrong on the dates, I'd have to look it up, but the point remains: She did not play Doom before killing people. She did it on her own. As did other school shooters in recent years.
I mean.. really, had those guys at Columbine been any GOOD at Doom, they would have racked up more frags.
You didn't read what I said - What do you do when the 800 number is just another recording? You can't complain to the recording.. ;) Also, abusing 1-800 numbers can really annoy the phone company, but all of that is covered in a thread about payphones a few days ago..
That's great and all, but what do you do when you pick up your phone and you hear "Please hold for this very important message..." or even worse "Please call this number on Monday morning for a very important announcement" and it turns out to be some prerecorded announcement on a 1-800 number.
:(
Then what do you do? I'd love to know.. because at least when a person phonespams you, you can say "Take me off your list" and/or squeak information out of them but when it's just a random almost wardialed attempt to get you to call their 1-800 number, what do you do?
Tracking down 1-800 numbers can sometimes be a pain and when you find out that the company that owns the number is based overseas.. well, good luck collecting your $500 from them.
I'd much rather see the stuff IBM painted on the ground than seeing some very kanji-like scribbles on a wall somewhere. At least we can understand it. :P
Then again, it is rather amusing watching exchange students try to make sense of the graffiti, that actually says "R-Town Posse" if you look reeeeally close. It's even better when they happen to write "dumbass" in some foreign language.
I never really understood that either, considering a credit card is not a valid form of legal identification. Just because someone has a credit card sure as hell doesn't mean they're an adult. Sure, they're probably over 13, but in the case of stupid porn sites that want you to enter a credit card as "age verification" it's worthless.
In the old days of a BBS, you'd have to fax a copy of your ID proving you were over a certain age, or the sysop (hah, remember those?) would call back and want to speak to the parent in charge.
Not a very foolproof system, but certainly better than "Check here if you're under 13"