Well, I'm not sure about Slashdot, but I've noticed that the linux.com folks seem to have come up with a clever idea.
If you take a look at the source for the main linux.com page, you'll find a comment that contains the address spampoison@linux.com, both bare, and in the form of an HTML link. It is accompanied by a warning not to send mail to that address.
I suspect that what they're doing is collecting spam at that address, and then if a similar message arrives at one of their other addresses, it can be recognised and refused/blackholed immediately.
IMO, doing stupid shit like this shows your ignorance even more. Woohoo! I changed my command-line, big f*g deal. That's takes about as much skill as it did changes the text in old DOS programs. (Open it up in a hex-editor and start modifying strings.)
You're right; it doesn't necessarily show any particular skill. But did you ever consider that it might be useful? My prompt tells me a lot more than the default one does, and I find that useful. I like seeing other people's prompts, because it gives me ideas of useful information that I could include in mine.
Okay, fine, maybe I will post my actual prompt. It actually does that; the username root will turn up in red; everybody else is cyan. This requires zsh, of course:-).
I use a two-line prompt. Why? Because I can have a really long directory name, and there's still room to type a decent command line without running off the edge of the screen!
(There's actually colour to it too, but I won't post the actual prompt definition, because it's full of literal escape sequences. I knew memorising all those ANSI codes would pay off someday!:-))
SSH compression does marvellous things for remote X displays over slow connections. (Of course, my idea of a slow connection is a 64kbit/s upstream on an ADSL line, so it might not be the same thing.)
If that still isn't enough, I believe there is something called Low Bandwidth X (lbx) out there, and lightens things even more.
CmdrTaco, with all due respect to you position at Slashdot, your choice to put this article under "News" and not
under "Linux" is typical of your posting style.
Er... the software is all in source form. Pop it into your NetBSD box, compile it, and it works. So how is this specific to Linux?
I looked at the screenshot for the inetd configuration. All the settings are just as cryptic as in inetd.conf, only they're in GUI dropdown lists instead of columns in a text file.
How is it any easier for somebody to know what it means when there's an option called "Wait?" with options of "No wait" and "wait". You still have to know what it means; throwing a GUI around it doesn't help that.
I've found that a lot of projectors are rather fussy about video timings... and LCD displays on laptops aren't. I haven't spent too much time figuring out what's different in it, but I have an XF86Config file from an old installation that I hang onto, because projectors like it:-).
So, I'm not sure how much help this'll be, but try fiddling with different video timings until the projector likes you...
If the site is setup to handle... let say.... 100,000 hits a day, what server configuration is needed for this? With MySQL on it own server, of course.:)
Hmm... I'm sure I remember Slashdot reaching 100,000 hits in one day before Rob finally replaced the P133 serving it back then:-). Of course, there were a lot more static pages involved back then; if you're serving out dynamic stuff, you need a lot more horsepower.
We generally get at least one >24-hour power outage a year, but the phones never go down.
Yikes! A 24-hour power outage?! I don't think we've ever had an outage that long! Where do you live? And here I get annoyed if I get more than one power outage (of even a couple seconds) in a four month period:-).
Hmm... is that really what the names are supposed to signify?:-) Personally, I look at "Celeron" and see the Latin adjective "celer," which means "fast". (It turns up in English in such words as "accelerate.") Duron, I'm not so sure... maybe it's supposed to make you think of "durable"? <shrug>
Sure Konqueror will be usable but it will lack the ever important crypto in the source version.
Why? Not all countries have the same stupid crypto laws as the Americans (and I seem to recall that even they are smartening up a bit). So why wouldn't Konqueror include hooks to use OpenSSL?
...or even read e-mail in some cases.
What does e-mail have to do with a browser? What *is* it with all these people who seem to think that their browser should include an e-mail client, an instant messanger, a kitchen sink, and who knows what else? I just want a bloody browser!
Dreamweaver three has a rudimentary checkin/checkout system in place, if that's what you are looking for. I think it includes support for versions, but I'm not sure.
I think what he's looking for is perhaps something that would integrate CVS (or similar) with this functionality in Dreamweaver, so that the users could just use its built-in checkin/checkout commands seamlessly, but act on a CVS repository.
I wouldn't mind finding something like that myself:-).
Actually, WinChip is a bit of a misnomer. It's simply a relatively simple (and therefore reliable) and inexpensive CPU, which is designed to have the best performance doing the sorts of things that Windows does often.
However, they work great with Linux too. I've been using a 200MHz WinChip in one of my servers for a year and a half now, and I haven't had the slightest bit of trouble with it. The performance is just a bit better than an Intel Pentium 166.
I suspect that your ISP either doesn't know what they're talking about, or would simply rather that you pay them lots of money to host the DNS there;-). There is no reason that you can't use your own box; the only thing required is to register it with NSI as a DNS, which you've already done.
RSAREF is the library that American users are obliged to link with because of silly patent stuff. Those of us outside the US can use better international libraries, which do not suffer from this bug. Since ssh -V tells you that you're not using RSAREF, you should be fine.
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Well, I'm not sure about Slashdot, but I've noticed that the linux.com folks seem to have come up with a clever idea.
If you take a look at the source for the main linux.com page, you'll find a comment that contains the address spampoison@linux.com, both bare, and in the form of an HTML link. It is accompanied by a warning not to send mail to that address.
I suspect that what they're doing is collecting spam at that address, and then if a similar message arrives at one of their other addresses, it can be recognised and refused/blackholed immediately.
You're right; it doesn't necessarily show any particular skill. But did you ever consider that it might be useful? My prompt tells me a lot more than the default one does, and I find that useful. I like seeing other people's prompts, because it gives me ideas of useful information that I could include in mine.
Is that a bad thing?
Okay, fine, maybe I will post my actual prompt. It actually does that; the username root will turn up in red; everybody else is cyan. This requires zsh, of course :-).
3 6m %})%n%{ESC[37m%}@%{ESC[36m%}
PROMPT='%{ESC[0;1;37m%}[%(0#.%{ESC[31m%}.%{ESC[
%m%{ESC[37m%}] [%{ESC[36m%}'${ttyprefix}'%l%{ESC[37m%}] [%{ESC[36m%}%~%{ESC[37m%
}]
[%(0?.%{ESC[32m%}.%{ESC[31m%})%?%{ESC[37m%}] [%{ESC[36m%}%!%{ESC[37m%}] %{ESC[33
m%}%# %{ESC[22;36m%}'
POSTEDIT='ESC[0m'
[scott@pytheas] [pts/4] [~]
:-))
[0] [213] %
I use a two-line prompt. Why? Because I can have a really long directory name, and there's still room to type a decent command line without running off the edge of the screen!
(There's actually colour to it too, but I won't post the actual prompt definition, because it's full of literal escape sequences. I knew memorising all those ANSI codes would pay off someday!
SSH compression does marvellous things for remote X displays over slow connections. (Of course, my idea of a slow connection is a 64kbit/s upstream on an ADSL line, so it might not be the same thing.)
If that still isn't enough, I believe there is something called Low Bandwidth X (lbx) out there, and lightens things even more.
There is an extension to the SMTP standard to add SSL encryption. You can also run protocols like POP and IMAP over SSL.
:-). And yes, it works very nicely, and very seamlessly.
I think that pretty much takes care of it
Actually, I'm running 1440x1080 on my 19" ViewSonic monitor :-). E-mail me if you want my modeline to play with...
I looked at the screenshot for the inetd configuration. All the settings are just as cryptic as in inetd.conf, only they're in GUI dropdown lists instead of columns in a text file.
How is it any easier for somebody to know what it means when there's an option called "Wait?" with options of "No wait" and "wait". You still have to know what it means; throwing a GUI around it doesn't help that.
Yes, but what's in my drive's cache that isn't already in my operating system's cache (which should be even faster)?
I've found that a lot of projectors are rather fussy about video timings... and LCD displays on laptops aren't. I haven't spent too much time figuring out what's different in it, but I have an XF86Config file from an old installation that I hang onto, because projectors like it :-).
So, I'm not sure how much help this'll be, but try fiddling with different video timings until the projector likes you...
Hmm... is that really what the names are supposed to signify? :-) Personally, I look at "Celeron" and see the Latin adjective "celer," which means "fast". (It turns up in English in such words as "accelerate.") Duron, I'm not so sure... maybe it's supposed to make you think of "durable"? <shrug>
Er, sorry; just slipped out :-).
I wouldn't mind finding something like that myself :-).
Actually, WinChip is a bit of a misnomer. It's simply a relatively simple (and therefore reliable) and inexpensive CPU, which is designed to have the best performance doing the sorts of things that Windows does often.
However, they work great with Linux too. I've been using a 200MHz WinChip in one of my servers for a year and a half now, and I haven't had the slightest bit of trouble with it. The performance is just a bit better than an Intel Pentium 166.
What's your opinion of Objective C? Why do you think C++ is superior? (Or do you? ;-) )
I suspect that your ISP either doesn't know what they're talking about, or would simply rather that you pay them lots of money to host the DNS there ;-). There is no reason that you can't use your own box; the only thing required is to register it with NSI as a DNS, which you've already done.
Why exactly should there be a law saying when one can and cannot use a particular language in the first place?
So why not just write a Perl script with a big for loop in it, and wget them all? :-)