This is EXACTLY what we need, a government bureacracy created to step in and solve all our problems, just like they have in every other area.
Lord knows when you hire a licensed contractor, nothing will go wrong.
Instead of those "Licensed contractors build confidence" bumper stickers the union thugs put on their trucks, they should put:
"Licensed contractors build artificial barriers to competetion and inflate prices unecessarily while slowing everything down jumping through government red tape."
[ Insert statements about me being a hard-core long time Linux user here ]
Sorry, I won't push it on my parents yet. Or even my sister. They will have problems, they will harass me for help.
Sure, they do some of the same using Windows, but be realistic. Windows still offers a more cohesive if not stable operating environment for non-power home users.
It may be a tad shocking to hear Red Hat's CEO saying it, but it's the truth.
I want my time back. I want the 50% of my work time every year that I work for the damn government to pay for some crackhead to have 12 children, some corporation to get a free stadium, politicians to get a $1M/yr pension plan, etc...
I guess I don't understand why today's socialists don't like Bush, he's a pretty damn good socialist himself. He's already outspent Clinton on wealth redistribution programs.
Anyone else have their webservers HAMMERED by a plethora of grub.org spidering clients?
You know, the distributed spidering system that IGNORES ROBOTS.TXT and hammers the crap out of anybody that hosts a bunch of websites?
I just recently had to block them with a nifty Apache SetEnvIf, happened to notice quite a few monitoring services hitting us, and then read this article...
While I personally have my doubts, I still run into plenty of people out there that NEED to hear that you run on Sun, Solaris, Oracle, EMC, etc. in order to take you seriously.
With that in mind, I've been eyeing their newest dual Xeons. Best of both worlds.:)
Wow, so I can use a script to vacuum and analyze a few times a day, and maybe, if I really want to, use a script to reindex things every few months.
OR, I can hire an Oracle DBA for $100/hr to slave away maintaining Oracle.
Woot! What a choice. That's it, I'm going back to Oracle. I really miss the contants bugs and patches and the obscene support costs just to call an 800 number and be told "yes, that's a bug, you'll have to upgrade/patch/sacrifice a goat".
I long for that piece of crap SqlPlus, I can't stand using a SIMPLE explain plan, being able to rename columns, JDBC drivers that work, installations that take 3 minutes on a bad day.
I just don't get that with Postgresql, not matter how hard I try to fuck it up.:)
Yeah, Oracle has some features that Postgres doesn't have, but after 8 years of using Oracle (since 7.1.4 or so through 8.1.7.4 currently), I don't really miss anything except PERHAPS the ability to allocate my own datafiles to distribute I/O.
However, I can't come up with any real reason for that - machines have gotten so fast now, I see vastly better performance on my new dual Xeon 0+1 Linux Postgres boxes than I do on my EMC-backed E6500 Oracle boxes.
I also miss dealing with Oracle sales - people that make used car salesmen seem honest, with obfuscated licensing practices that make Microsoft's BSA invasions and SCO seem reasonable.
I know plenty of crusty Oracle people that swear "dag-nabbits' and 'gosh darnits' and spit on the floor when you mention something like Postgresql. I guess I'm just not old enough to be stuck in such a rut as to not give something else a spin.
1) Exchange virus scanner plugins have GOT to stop blindly sending replies to whatever email address the message loosely appears to come from. This is absurd - viruses that forge email addresses have been the NORM for what, 2? 3 years now?
2) Why can't someone write a virus that DESTROYS Outlook address books and turns off Auto-Learn, so that all the future viruses only have about 1% of the number of potential victims as current viruses?
I have postfix rejected 16,000 viruses a day, and 500-600 "You have a virus" emails, but I still get several hundred "You have a virus" mails per day that sneak by the filters because of unique subjects, content, etc.
Why won't somebody write a virus that runs through Outlook and destroys the entire address book, turns off address learning, and thus eliminates 98% of the spam fired off by the next worm ???
Yay, another socialist that thinks we can tax ourselves into prosperity, and that the uber-successful should be punished and made to pay for the less successful.
I just couldn't bring myself to join the ACLU until they decide that the entire bill of rights was to protect the rights of individuals, instead of their idiotic position that every ammendment except the second.
Here in Scottsdale, AZ, we have a private Fire/Ambulance service, Rural Metro. They're widely used across the United States these days, but started here.
They're very effective and less expensive than government run equivilants.
When has government ever managed to do something more efficiently than private enterprise? Those clodding bureaucrats have no interest in doing anything cheaply, or even doing anything well.
From: Hembree, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Hembree@Level3.com] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:39 AM To: undisclosed-recipients Subject: Level(3)
________________________________________________ __ _________________ As you may be aware, Level 3 performed significant maintenance to Cisco routers in our Network over the past two evenings. Due to restrictions in our contract with Cisco, we were not at liberty to share with you the nature or details of the pending work. Additional information can now be shared. Level 3 Communications was notified by Cisco on the evening of Tuesday, July 15, of a potential software risk running on Cisco routers. In coordination with Cisco, Level 3 Engineers worked to secure the Level 3 Network through network modifications and router maintenance that evening. The remainder of our core Network infrastructure was completed in the maintenance window last evening. We recognize that the timeframe and notification provided in this case have not been consistent with standard practice. The decision to move forward with work was based on a collective assessment of the potential impacts to your services if the risk was not mitigated. We will continue to conduct maintenance activities over the coming days as we address issues associated with this specific exposure, and mitigate any potential remaining risk. We will provide specific maintenance notifications to Customers on the associated services we would impact in those follow-on maintenance activities. For more information regarding the vulnerability please visit:
It's because the world wide fraud rates are obscene. You might be a nice guy, but when we see 49 of 50 orders a day from Hungary on stolen credit cards, guess what we're going to do?
Getting law enforcement cooperation from Europe is impossible - it's bad enough trying to get any here!
Yes, I speak from experience on 'the other side'.
It's WORLD wide web, but it's not WORLD wide we have to do business with you and your fraudulent neigbors.
First, I guess we shouldn't expect a hippie to be able to do MATH - that'd be 1/2 BILLION.:)
Second, the US Military isn't wasting their money. They're wasting MY money, and the money of every other tax payer in this country.
Third, to those who replied about how wonderful it is that the US Government is spending money to boost the economy - WTF? It's YOUR money. Wouldn't you rather KEEP more of your money so YOU can spend money and boost the economy?
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This is EXACTLY what we need, a government bureacracy created to step in and solve all our problems, just like they have in every other area.
Lord knows when you hire a licensed contractor, nothing will go wrong.
Instead of those "Licensed contractors build confidence" bumper stickers the union thugs put on their trucks, they should put:
"Licensed contractors build artificial barriers to competetion and inflate prices unecessarily while slowing everything down jumping through government red tape."
From their site:
"we will also soon file over 45 Federal Lawsuits against others who are in violation of one of our key patents (U.S. patent 5,666,531)"
... but it is always the truth.
[ Insert statements about me being a hard-core long time Linux user here ]
Sorry, I won't push it on my parents yet. Or even my sister. They will have problems, they will harass me for help.
Sure, they do some of the same using Windows, but be realistic. Windows still offers a more cohesive if not stable operating environment for non-power home users.
It may be a tad shocking to hear Red Hat's CEO saying it, but it's the truth.
What's wrong with just cutting out the garbage you eat and getting exercise ?
Why are most geeks so damn lazy?
You guys keep voting for the idiots that fund this stuff.
Vote third party.
I want my time back. I want the 50% of my work time every year that I work for the damn government to pay for some crackhead to have 12 children, some corporation to get a free stadium, politicians to get a $1M/yr pension plan, etc ...
Who's with me ?
I guess I don't understand why today's socialists don't like Bush, he's a pretty damn good socialist himself. He's already outspent Clinton on wealth redistribution programs.
Anyone else have their webservers HAMMERED by a plethora of grub.org spidering clients?
...
You know, the distributed spidering system that IGNORES ROBOTS.TXT and hammers the crap out of anybody that hosts a bunch of websites?
I just recently had to block them with a nifty Apache SetEnvIf, happened to notice quite a few monitoring services hitting us, and then read this article
Please, no suggestions, I'm already not looking forward to paying for the perpetual occupation of iraq for the rest of my life.
(and Japan, Europe, and 100+ other countries we have troops in for no goddamn reason)
While I personally have my doubts, I still run into plenty of people out there that NEED to hear that you run on Sun, Solaris, Oracle, EMC, etc. in order to take you seriously.
:)
With that in mind, I've been eyeing their newest dual Xeons. Best of both worlds.
Wow, so I can use a script to vacuum and analyze a few times a day, and maybe, if I really want to, use a script to reindex things every few months.
:)
OR, I can hire an Oracle DBA for $100/hr to slave away maintaining Oracle.
Woot! What a choice. That's it, I'm going back to Oracle. I really miss the contants bugs and patches and the obscene support costs just to call an 800 number and be told "yes, that's a bug, you'll have to upgrade/patch/sacrifice a goat".
I long for that piece of crap SqlPlus, I can't stand using a SIMPLE explain plan, being able to rename columns, JDBC drivers that work, installations that take 3 minutes on a bad day.
I just don't get that with Postgresql, not matter how hard I try to fuck it up.
Yeah, Oracle has some features that Postgres doesn't have, but after 8 years of using Oracle (since 7.1.4 or so through 8.1.7.4 currently), I don't really miss anything except PERHAPS the ability to allocate my own datafiles to distribute I/O.
However, I can't come up with any real reason for that - machines have gotten so fast now, I see vastly better performance on my new dual Xeon 0+1 Linux Postgres boxes than I do on my EMC-backed E6500 Oracle boxes.
I also miss dealing with Oracle sales - people that make used car salesmen seem honest, with obfuscated licensing practices that make Microsoft's BSA invasions and SCO seem reasonable.
I know plenty of crusty Oracle people that swear "dag-nabbits' and 'gosh darnits' and spit on the floor when you mention something like Postgresql. I guess I'm just not old enough to be stuck in such a rut as to not give something else a spin.
I did, and I'll never go back.
Isn't Oracle dumping SQL/J anyway?
1) Exchange virus scanner plugins have GOT to stop blindly sending replies to whatever email address the message loosely appears to come from. This is absurd - viruses that forge email addresses have been the NORM for what, 2? 3 years now?
2) Why can't someone write a virus that DESTROYS Outlook address books and turns off Auto-Learn, so that all the future viruses only have about 1% of the number of potential victims as current viruses?
I have postfix rejected 16,000 viruses a day, and 500-600 "You have a virus" emails, but I still get several hundred "You have a virus" mails per day that sneak by the filters because of unique subjects, content, etc.
Why won't somebody write a virus that runs through Outlook and destroys the entire address book, turns off address learning, and thus eliminates 98% of the spam fired off by the next worm ???
Yay, another socialist that thinks we can tax ourselves into prosperity, and that the uber-successful should be punished and made to pay for the less successful.
Oh, it's California.
I just couldn't bring myself to join the ACLU until they decide that the entire bill of rights was to protect the rights of individuals, instead of their idiotic position that every ammendment except the second.
Here in Scottsdale, AZ, we have a private Fire/Ambulance service, Rural Metro. They're widely used across the United States these days, but started here.
They're very effective and less expensive than government run equivilants.
When has government ever managed to do something more efficiently than private enterprise? Those clodding bureaucrats have no interest in doing anything cheaply, or even doing anything well.
All the honest politicians ARE working on a solution. :)
They've teamed up with the surviving dodo birds, a few wolly mammoths, and a sabre tooth tiger.
From: Hembree, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Hembree@Level3.com]
_ __ _________________
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:39 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: Level(3)
_______________________________________________
As you may be aware, Level 3 performed significant maintenance to Cisco
routers in our Network over the past two evenings. Due to restrictions in
our contract with Cisco, we were not at liberty to share with you the nature
or details of the pending work. Additional information can now be shared.
Level 3 Communications was notified by Cisco on the evening of Tuesday, July
15, of a potential software risk running on Cisco routers. In coordination
with Cisco, Level 3 Engineers worked to secure the Level 3 Network through
network modifications and router maintenance that evening. The remainder of
our core Network infrastructure was completed in the maintenance window last
evening.
We recognize that the timeframe and notification provided in this case have
not been consistent with standard practice. The decision to move forward
with work was based on a collective assessment of the potential impacts to
your services if the risk was not mitigated.
We will continue to conduct maintenance activities over the coming days as
we address issues associated with this specific exposure, and mitigate any
potential remaining risk. We will provide specific maintenance notifications
to Customers on the associated services we would impact in those follow-on
maintenance activities.
For more information regarding the vulnerability please visit:
It's because the world wide fraud rates are obscene. You might be a nice guy, but when we see 49 of 50 orders a day from Hungary on stolen credit cards, guess what we're going to do?
Getting law enforcement cooperation from Europe is impossible - it's bad enough trying to get any here!
Yes, I speak from experience on 'the other side'.
It's WORLD wide web, but it's not WORLD wide we have to do business with you and your fraudulent neigbors.
Has Netcraft confirmed this? :)
First, I guess we shouldn't expect a hippie to be able to do MATH - that'd be 1/2 BILLION. :)
Second, the US Military isn't wasting their money. They're wasting MY money, and the money of every other tax payer in this country.
Third, to those who replied about how wonderful it is that the US Government is spending money to boost the economy - WTF? It's YOUR money. Wouldn't you rather KEEP more of your money so YOU can spend money and boost the economy?
Sun Ultrasparc I - 64 bit.
Introduced: 1995
Aquired, used, for a few hundred bucks and running on my desktop: 1998
They finally release something with as much power as a PC, and it's as ugly as a PC. :)
Will any of you actually write your congress critters about this?
... I feel much safer with pot smokers and warez kiddies behind bars.
God forbid the FBI go after dangerous criminals