Um... no I didn't, besides which I've always thought that a firewall is just a bandaid fix for not running Apache or Boa... Actually I put a page similar to the "hacked by chinese" one up on a test server at work, and I thought my boss was going to have a heart attack. Well I thought it was funny at least:)
Anyone else have a problem with Mozilla restarting their computer (Win2k)? I have no idea why, but sometimes - around once a week or so - when I close mozilla it takes my entire computer with it instantly. It wouldn't be so weird in itself since it could be a bad win2k install, except that I've had it happen at work as well (again under Win2k). The only hardware the machines really have in common is the main board. Unfortunatly when this happens it also seems to completely wipe all my settings (bookmarks/history/mail/prefs). Other than that things look good. Hopefully RC2 will fix that problem with JavaScript changing the status bar text (in chinese) and using 99% of my cpu...
So I guess when we get to the point where his girlfriend leaves, takes all his beer, drives off with his pickup truck and runs over his dog we know Caldera is REALLY going down?
look at the samba homepage (or google) for SWAT. For some reason I've never actually gotten SWAT to work so I can't say how well it works. I've heard good things about it though. I believe there are other front ends for samba also.
The real cool thing (or one of them at least) about samba, is that once you have it fired up, and have a SMB name, people on a windows PC can just point their web browsers to that SMB name. That's saved me a lot of headaches because people can't remember an IP address.
I'd say I found college similar to you. Although I'd say we had a ratio of 1 out of 10 pro unix students. But I didn't really go there to learn to program a language - the view there was you go to college to learn HOW to program, the language is up to the job you get (try passing that off on a job interview). I stuck with college not because I wanted the money, nor because I actually thought I'd learn something, I did because I wanted the piece of paper that said I graduated so I could GET a job I wanted. Yeah it's BS but that's sort of how the whole system works. I mean do most people become doctors because they really want to help people? Honestly I haven't met many.
I sort of laughed until I realized that's how I check my e-mail at work (as someone pointed out on slashdot the other day). Check your mail anywhere - no browser, mail client, or window enviornment needed.
Assuming that they have no firewall at all now, probably having something in place would be better than nothing. I think if you just throttled all non standard ports (i.e. not 21 or 80) it would be enough. Generally if you don't put comments in there and have a large enough range I don't think they could nail you for anything.
But if it was up to me I'd just start blocking stuff and act like I didn't know what was going on. When people complain I'd just claim they need to upgrade whatever software they're useing. "And what were you using BTW?"
I agree. I think what it boils down to is that people don't want to believe that the universe will eventually be a cold dark ever expanding lifeless hulk. They'd rather see it reborn. I guess I like the idea that the universe cycles, but after reading various arguments, I'd have to say I don't buy the cycle theory. The insignificant amount of time that life on earth has/will exist pales in comparison to how many trillions of years the universe will expand (in either theory).
Yeah, that's what it's supposed to mean - although few ever really obey it. Usually what happens is people don't stop until the light is actually red, or for the bad drivers, it's not really red until it's been red for a few seconds.
Really what it comes down to is that people know they can get away with it. I'm originally from North Dakota where there is a fairly short cycle for yellow, and about one second where all lights are red. When I moved to Pennsylvania I found a longer interval for yellow, but once one set of lights turns red, the other instantly turns green. It's interesting to see how the driving habits have been adjusted accordingly - and people still run red lights either way
You've never bought a CD where there is only one good song? Then you're lucky. I have, and it pissed me off. Now this is certainly not the usual case considering the weird taste in music that I have, but I really feel ripped off when it happens. Now when I download music it's usually to get a feel for the group. If I find I like a lot of songs from the album, I definatly go and buy the album (and usually rip much higher quality for myself). Then again I spend most of my time trying to download songs to replace my huge tape collection. I've purchaced CDs to replace the ones I REALLY like (when I can find a CD for it), but I'm not going to do that for all of them.
I think where record companies are seeing sales crap out is in the cookie cutter crap that is marketed on MTV. In my opinion none of the music pushed there is worth paying for (or probably downloading either). The record companies are scared because they don't know how to market talent, they've become trapped in there own little game of push garbage wrapped in pretty packaging.
inevitable die off of even more hardware companies
I don't know if HPQ will totally die off, although I imagine in the future we'll say to ourselves, I remember when HPQ made more than just printers and scanners.
Well the flip side is that if you come up with a good idea, you should patent it so someone else doesn't pull crap like this with your idea (or something similar). Either way it's a screwed up system.
If you go into the setup options (somewhere) there is a smoothing option. At leat I think that's what it's supposed to do... I found that increasing the disk spin rate actually does seem to load some things on PS1 games faster.
"Am I trying to prove God doesn't exist? No. Am I trying to prove that he does exist? No. I'm just asking: why do we need to prove anything about God?"
I think you hit the nail on the head there. People always seem to miss the point that you don't need proof for religion. Religion is about FAITH. Who has the stronger faith: the main who believes because he has the hard facts in front of him, or the man who simply believes? If you look at the bible (mainly the old testament), a lot of it is about people doing crazy stuff that God told them to, and having it actually work out because God rewards their faith. In this respect, most religions work in the same fashion. I wish other people wouldn't be so quick to criticize those who believe in their faith - that is after all; the point.
Yeah, that's exactly my view. I mean am I going to seriously switch 80+ computers over to be compatable with the one new one? Especially since the network I help admin still has a few important computers running Windows 3.1 on them. But maybe that's the point at where we actually start using Samba for windows on the new machines =)
That's a very interesting idea. And I'd have to say that I would probably also switch to such an implementation. I'd also like to see passwords stored in Win9x with MUCH stronger encryption. I wonder if the Samba team is up for a few ideas.
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Um... no I didn't, besides which I've always thought that a firewall is just a bandaid fix for not running Apache or Boa... Actually I put a page similar to the "hacked by chinese" one up on a test server at work, and I thought my boss was going to have a heart attack. Well I thought it was funny at least :)
Yes but with Mozilla finally rounding off to 1.0
If Mozilla goes into RC3 I'm going to start a betting pool to see which rolls over to "1" first. Mozilla, or 32 bit UNIX time()
Anyone else have a problem with Mozilla restarting their computer (Win2k)? I have no idea why, but sometimes - around once a week or so - when I close mozilla it takes my entire computer with it instantly. It wouldn't be so weird in itself since it could be a bad win2k install, except that I've had it happen at work as well (again under Win2k). The only hardware the machines really have in common is the main board. Unfortunatly when this happens it also seems to completely wipe all my settings (bookmarks/history/mail/prefs). Other than that things look good. Hopefully RC2 will fix that problem with JavaScript changing the status bar text (in chinese) and using 99% of my cpu...
So I guess when we get to the point where his girlfriend leaves, takes all his beer, drives off with his pickup truck and runs over his dog we know Caldera is REALLY going down?
Heh, why not push some other good stuff too?
Open office - good and free.
"but we need MS Access?"
"who needs Access when you can have your own SQL server"
look at the samba homepage (or google) for SWAT. For some reason I've never actually gotten SWAT to work so I can't say how well it works. I've heard good things about it though. I believe there are other front ends for samba also.
The real cool thing (or one of them at least) about samba, is that once you have it fired up, and have a SMB name, people on a windows PC can just point their web browsers to that SMB name. That's saved me a lot of headaches because people can't remember an IP address.
I'd say I found college similar to you. Although I'd say we had a ratio of 1 out of 10 pro unix students. But I didn't really go there to learn to program a language - the view there was you go to college to learn HOW to program, the language is up to the job you get (try passing that off on a job interview). I stuck with college not because I wanted the money, nor because I actually thought I'd learn something, I did because I wanted the piece of paper that said I graduated so I could GET a job I wanted. Yeah it's BS but that's sort of how the whole system works. I mean do most people become doctors because they really want to help people? Honestly I haven't met many.
I sort of laughed until I realized that's how I check my e-mail at work (as someone pointed out on slashdot the other day). Check your mail anywhere - no browser, mail client, or window enviornment needed.
It's all a conspiracy to get gamers to sleep - ie : all nighter.
Assuming that they have no firewall at all now, probably having something in place would be better than nothing. I think if you just throttled all non standard ports (i.e. not 21 or 80) it would be enough. Generally if you don't put comments in there and have a large enough range I don't think they could nail you for anything.
But if it was up to me I'd just start blocking stuff and act like I didn't know what was going on. When people complain I'd just claim they need to upgrade whatever software they're useing. "And what were you using BTW?"
Think i'd be more worried about zlib in Netscape than any mozilla bugs. Did netscape issue a fix for zlib?
it helps if you rename reality to quake.exe
I agree. I think what it boils down to is that people don't want to believe that the universe will eventually be a cold dark ever expanding lifeless hulk. They'd rather see it reborn. I guess I like the idea that the universe cycles, but after reading various arguments, I'd have to say I don't buy the cycle theory. The insignificant amount of time that life on earth has/will exist pales in comparison to how many trillions of years the universe will expand (in either theory).
Yeah, that's what it's supposed to mean - although few ever really obey it. Usually what happens is people don't stop until the light is actually red, or for the bad drivers, it's not really red until it's been red for a few seconds.
Really what it comes down to is that people know they can get away with it. I'm originally from North Dakota where there is a fairly short cycle for yellow, and about one second where all lights are red. When I moved to Pennsylvania I found a longer interval for yellow, but once one set of lights turns red, the other instantly turns green. It's interesting to see how the driving habits have been adjusted accordingly - and people still run red lights either way
You've never bought a CD where there is only one good song? Then you're lucky. I have, and it pissed me off. Now this is certainly not the usual case considering the weird taste in music that I have, but I really feel ripped off when it happens. Now when I download music it's usually to get a feel for the group. If I find I like a lot of songs from the album, I definatly go and buy the album (and usually rip much higher quality for myself). Then again I spend most of my time trying to download songs to replace my huge tape collection. I've purchaced CDs to replace the ones I REALLY like (when I can find a CD for it), but I'm not going to do that for all of them.
I think where record companies are seeing sales crap out is in the cookie cutter crap that is marketed on MTV. In my opinion none of the music pushed there is worth paying for (or probably downloading either). The record companies are scared because they don't know how to market talent, they've become trapped in there own little game of push garbage wrapped in pretty packaging.
inevitable die off of even more hardware companies
I don't know if HPQ will totally die off, although I imagine in the future we'll say to ourselves, I remember when HPQ made more than just printers and scanners.
Well the flip side is that if you come up with a good idea, you should patent it so someone else doesn't pull crap like this with your idea (or something similar). Either way it's a screwed up system.
you mean there are programs you can install without rebooting? Hell with MS sometimes rebooting requires rebooting...
/usr/bin/perl
If you go into the setup options (somewhere) there is a smoothing option. At leat I think that's what it's supposed to do... I found that increasing the disk spin rate actually does seem to load some things on PS1 games faster.
Damn... and it's even cross platform!
Eat THAT MS!
"Am I trying to prove God doesn't exist? No. Am I trying to prove that he does exist? No. I'm just asking: why do we need to prove anything about God?"
I think you hit the nail on the head there. People always seem to miss the point that you don't need proof for religion. Religion is about FAITH. Who has the stronger faith: the main who believes because he has the hard facts in front of him, or the man who simply believes? If you look at the bible (mainly the old testament), a lot of it is about people doing crazy stuff that God told them to, and having it actually work out because God rewards their faith. In this respect, most religions work in the same fashion. I wish other people wouldn't be so quick to criticize those who believe in their faith - that is after all; the point.
Yeah, that's exactly my view. I mean am I going to seriously switch 80+ computers over to be compatable with the one new one? Especially since the network I help admin still has a few important computers running Windows 3.1 on them. But maybe that's the point at where we actually start using Samba for windows on the new machines =)
"I'd like to see SSL support built into SMB"
That's a very interesting idea. And I'd have to say that I would probably also switch to such an implementation. I'd also like to see passwords stored in Win9x with MUCH stronger encryption. I wonder if the Samba team is up for a few ideas.
Maybe they include the parking lot where AOL tech support continually jump out of windows and land.