In my previous job, there were 4 guys administrating over 1500 Unix Workstations and servers, and 150 techies taking care of 3000 WIndows PC.
Now I'm in a small University department, we're two over-worked techies with about 50/50 Linux/Windows machines and let me tell you, this Windows crap is taking up all of my effin' time.
We're firewalled, we've got NAV Server and clients running on all workstations, and were almost up to date until some student brought in an infectected notebook (I call 'em whores now) on the internal network.
By the time arpwatch bleeped it was too late.
Now you're telling me I've gotta go back to all those stupid workstations and patch each individually again?
ARRRRGH!!!! I HATE WINDOWS!
This is such a waste of my time, I could be coding instead. -- Pfff.
I can make an electronic noise circuit using two or three zener diodes, a few gates (flip-flops, XORs, shift registers), an R-C clock, hook it up to a serial or paralell port and feed the bits to/dev/random for enthropy. And all that for about $20.
Bonus: Feed cheap radio to soundcard, use those bits as well.
Besides, lava lamps have a pretty short operating life; after a while, the wax and water mix up and it stops bubbling.
Instead of bitching about OpenSource and free (as in beer) products which have not even reached 1.0 stable release, be nice to the project developpers and make constructive suggestions.
Man! People are such a***oles nowadays. They expect everything for free and delivered on a gold plate. Pffft!
Maxtor. We have over 5000 PC Workstations at my previous job. We've had problems with just about every manufacturer (Quantum, Seagate, Fuji, WD, etc...) except one: Maxtor. Personally, I've got around 8 of them at home, 3 up and spinning 24/7 and one actually trashing all around the place continously (compiles, builds, rendering, etc...) and never had a bad block.
"The first applications of the new technology will be to build power control devices in which the control circuitry is electrically isolated from the power switching devices, the company said. Currently such isolation can only be achieved by using external components, adding bulk and cost to designs."
If, like me, you prefer the Stephen Hawking's kind of voice, go get IBM's ViaVoice TTS SDK (free with registration). Yup, they have a Linux version.
It's cool, software-only, fast, understandable and will utter any obscenity you care to throw at it.
--
Danny C.
Slashdot Mirror
Re. your solution, try www.spamgourmet.net, as many throw-away addresses as you like and no need for any configuration whatsoever.
I love it when some people try to show off with tech-talk but get it wrong. Netcraft's article says:
"... SCO can direct that Tsunami at an object of their choosing, simply by changing an A record in named.conf"
Nobody puts A records in named.conf, dumbass. A records go into zone files.
Somewhat like a one-line tetris game. I loved it so much I had to port it to linux.
Source: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~danny/zero.c
Readme: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~danny/zero.txt
Simple controls: any letter to aim, spacebar to fire.
Yeah, and never know why, suddenly applications stop working.
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See this nice article by John C. Dvorak, biggest MS shill ever:
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=108
Nice mouth you've got on you, by the way. Your mom must be really proud.
In my previous job, there were 4 guys administrating over 1500 Unix Workstations and servers, and 150 techies taking care of 3000 WIndows PC.
Now I'm in a small University department, we're two over-worked techies with about 50/50 Linux/Windows machines and let me tell you, this Windows crap is taking up all of my effin' time.
We're firewalled, we've got NAV Server and clients running on all workstations, and were almost up to date until some student brought in an infectected notebook (I call 'em whores now) on the internal network.
By the time arpwatch bleeped it was too late.
Now you're telling me I've gotta go back to all those stupid workstations and patch each individually again?
ARRRRGH!!!! I HATE WINDOWS!
This is such a waste of my time, I could be coding instead.
--
Pfff.
I can make an electronic noise circuit using two or three zener diodes, a few gates (flip-flops, XORs, shift registers), an R-C clock, hook it up to a serial or paralell port and feed the bits to
Bonus: Feed cheap radio to soundcard, use those bits as well.
Besides, lava lamps have a pretty short operating life; after a while, the wax and water mix up and it stops bubbling.
I have too much self-respect to ever buy a "... for dummies" book.
Go ahead and call me conceited.
I'd have prepared for this by mirroring the images and videos and redirected to them. Ain't so hard if you know in advance.
I didn't post the story, somebody else here at McGill did without telling me.
Anyways, anybody want to host 'em?
Came in this morning, tried to login to squirrelmail.... Hmmmm... very slow... Get to the web server.... Hummmm... Lotsa httpd processes... Hummmmm...
tcpdump -i eth0 -n port 80...
Hmmmm... The console scrolls non-stop! Arrrgh! Am I being DOS'ed!?!?!?!?
Thanks slashdot, you made me panic for a while. Hope somebody mirrored the pages cuz' I can't handle this load without being prepared for it.
Please check again in a few days if you're really intereseted.
--
Danny, McGill CIM SysAdmin.
Instead of bitching about OpenSource and free (as in beer) products which have not even reached 1.0 stable release, be nice to the project developpers and make constructive suggestions.
Man! People are such a***oles nowadays. They expect everything for free and delivered on a gold plate. Pffft!
Maxtor. We have over 5000 PC Workstations at my previous job. We've had problems with just about every manufacturer (Quantum, Seagate, Fuji, WD, etc...) except one: Maxtor. Personally, I've got around 8 of them at home, 3 up and spinning 24/7 and one actually trashing all around the place continously (compiles, builds, rendering, etc...) and never had a bad block.
Does your mileage vary?
I like this bit in the article:
"The first applications of the new technology will be to build power control devices in which the control circuitry is electrically isolated from the power switching devices, the company said. Currently such isolation can only be achieved by using external components, adding bulk and cost to designs."
Are they trying to re-invent opto-isolators?
It's less than 1K. Controls: AnyAlpha key to select, SPACE to fire.
m e(0)); ; }
#include <stdio.h>
#include <termio.h>
struct termio n,o;
#define gtty(fd,arg) (ioctl(fd,TCGETA,arg))
#define stty(fd,arg) (ioctl(fd,TCSETA,arg))
#define ff fflush(stdout)
main(){
int a,b,s,m,u=1,c=0,t=0,h=0,z=0,g=0,e=10,v=150,l=1;
char d[80],f=48,i=32;
gtty(0,&o);gtty(0,&n);n.c_lflag &=~(ICANON|ECHO);n.c_cc[VMIN]=n.c_cc[VTIME]=0;
stty(0,&n);for(a=0;a<80;d[a++]=i);d[e]=0;srand(ti
while (c!='q'&&g==0){
if(u){printf("\r>%s< %c Level:%d Hits:%d Score:%d ",d,f,l,h,z,v);ff;u=0;}
c=getchar();
if(-1!=c){
u++;
if(c!=i){
if(++f>58) f=48;
}else{
m=s=0;
for(a=0;a<e;a++){
if(d[a]==f){
h++;m++;if(f==58) m++;
s+=m;for(b=a;b<e;d[b]=d[1+b++]);d[e-1]=i;a--;
}
}
z+=s;
if(s==0){z-=z>>2;putchar(7);}
if(h>=30){h=0;l++;for(a=0;a<e;d[a++]=i);v-=1+v/10
}
}
if(++t>v){
u++;t=0;g=1;
for(a=e-1;a>=0;a--){
if(d[a]==i) g=0;
d[a+1]=d[a];
}
d[e]=0;d[0]=48+rand()%11;
}
usleep(1e5);
}
stty(0,&o);puts("");
}
When they start airing Cowboy Bebop on TV, then I'll watch. Everything else pales in comparision. Check Bebop on AnimeFu. It's Good.
If, like me, you prefer the Stephen Hawking's kind of voice, go get IBM's ViaVoice TTS SDK (free with registration). Yup, they have a Linux version. It's cool, software-only, fast, understandable and will utter any obscenity you care to throw at it. -- Danny C.