Is ssh server enabled in the default install? I would think (hope) not - You don't want to run services that you do not need, and does a workstation need sshd?
How else are you going to do remote maintenance on it? What are you going to use for remote access to your stuff? You sure as hell don't want to use telnet.
(If you think you'll never need remote access, though, you can leave it out. As for me, I like the ability to tap into my home machines anywhere I can run SSH and VNC. I even have Win32 SSH and VNC clients on my webserver that I can download on a random Win32 box (even many public systems) to access my systems (both Linux and Win32) at home.)
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Well you know something... As we are driving down our streets, we are constantly bombarded with billboards, signs, and ads of every sort.
If our streets were ad-free, I wouldn't mind the insanely high taxes.
Um...it's not that I particularly care for billboards (if I did, why would I have a page on my website about blocking ads?), but nearly all billboards I've run across have been on private property. I don't see how gas taxes and billboards are related in any way.
Besides, while you can't "filter" billboards, at least they're easier to ignore than "punch-the-monkey" or "evidence-eliminator" banner ads...
We already are...there's already a "tax" on the sale of blank media, AFAIK, which goes to the RIAA. Its paid for by the blank media producers, so it inflates your cost, but you don't see it as a line item when you purchase the products.
That's only on "audio" CD-Rs, not "data" CD-Rs. It's why you get bent over if you're buying blanks for an audio-CD burner...it's a wonder those things sell at all, when you can get a burner for your computer that's faster, cheaper, and uses cheaper media.
(I suppose the "RIAA tax" might also apply to audiocassettes, but I haven't bought those in ages. It's been even longer since I last used them for data storage.)
You were hearing 60Hz noise. From the EMF, not the light flicker.
The noise went away when the light was shut off. Besides, the circuit was battery-powered. (Not that it's impossible for a battery-powered circuit to pick up EM noise...but I don't think that was it. It has been a long time, though, and I don't have the kit available to me to try it again. I don't know if my parents still have it or if it got left behind somewhere...)
Certainly you aren't serious that people die in all forms of terror
That's not what I implied...well, at least not in two out of three examples, anyway.
Torch a research facility: No fire in billg's hand (not in any photographs, anyway), but hasn't Microsoft bought competing companies just to starve and/or kill them off?
Maybe a competitor had some technology it wanted for whatever reason. Are you saying that two companies shouldn't be able to enter into agreements (whether it's licensing or an acquisition) that they find mutually beneficial? How is that destructive toward the smaller company, if it's getting something it wants? If they don't want to cut a deal with Goliath, they're free to not do so. ALF torching a lab doesn't have quite the same beneficial effect for the lab's owners.
As for Microsoft buying something to take it off the market...I haven't heard of that happening, but if they want to throw their money away by doing that, why should I have a problem with it? It's that much less money that they'll have to do other stuff. I would think they would be smarter than that. (I could be wrong, though.)
Form a mob to take to the streets during a meeting: Well, this one just screams "lobbying budget and campaign contributions". If you don't think that Microsoft is working below the table to get their agenda supported by whatever current political machine is in charge, then you haven't been paying attention.
How does this differ from what any other company, interest group, etc. does? If you have a problem with politicians accepting cash from organizations you don't like, perhaps you should consider replacing the politicians.
(For the record, I think the so-called "campaign finance reform" measures that have been proposed are horrible attempts at stifling speech that incumbent politicians don't like. If you're worried about crooked politics (and who isn't?) but you're also concerned about free speech, what you should really favor is unregulated donations combined with full disclosure. If you don't care much for Microsoft and you know that they donated $1 million to Joe Schmuckboy's campaign, maybe you'd think twice about voting for Mr. Schmuckboy.)
It's pathetic when the U.S. Government can take a hard line on terrorism in traditional forms, but is cowed by a multinational corporation that has been demonstrated to be involved in monopolistic forms of terrorism.
No, what's pathetic is when someone attempts to make an analogy between cutthroat business practices and terrorism. When's the last time you saw a Microsoftie plow an airliner into a skyscraper, torch a research facility, or form a mob to take to the streets during a meeting?
Godwin's Law ought to be updated...the Nazis aren't the only ones used in flawed reasoning anymore.
but its really flashing on and off faster than you can see.
Fluorecents, yes, but not incandecent bulbs. The cycle of the AC going into the bulb is too fast to allow the filament to cool and stop emitting light. The intensity may waver ever-so-slightly (and that may or may not be detectable to sensitive equipment), but it doesn't go on-and-off.
As a kid, I had one of those Radio Shack electronics kits (the ones with the spring terminals that you wired together). One of the circuits hooked a photocell into an audio amplifier. IIRC, you could hear a slight hum from incandescent lighting...and this wouldn't have been a particularly sophisticated circuit. (The kit had four transistors of different types and an analog IC; this circuit probably used only one or two transistors, the photocell, and some passive components.)
Of course, If you want to stick it to the man, you could do the reverse and Block MSIE from your Site.
A few minutes of digging through my webserver log turned up about two-thirds of the hits come from IE. Whether that's lower or higher than average, I don't know. What I do know, though, is that I thought the Internet was about communication. Cutting people off because they don't meet your standard of 1337ness or whatever doesn't further that goal; instead, it makes you come across as snobbish and pretentious. If that's what you want, though, it's your website...everybody else will just buzz on by and go elsewhere.
I won't try to speak for others, but I wouldn't bother firing up Cygwin/XFree86 to bring up a website in Konqueror through an SSH link to one of my Linux servers just because some wanker thinks IE isn't good enough for him. That's a breach of netiquette on par with spawning a million browser windows to load goatse.cx.
And i'm tired of people conmplaining about Flash and Linux and the perceived mutual exclusivity. Flash and shockwave work fantastically on my boxen using mozilla, netscape and konquerer. Plus, i don't think there's any other web delivery medium that has as good a compression rate as flash.
Maybe, but can you create or modify Flash with $EDITOR? Yeah...didn't think so.
Sometime before I came along, my company's website was done entirely in Flash. One of these days I'll get around to trashing it and replacing it with proper HTML. (Have a look at all the meta tags...Google won't, so you might as well.:-) )
Why doesn't anyone use LISP or Scheme when they are clearly the better than Java and C++?
AFAIK, the only way to run LISP or Scheme on the vast majority of computers is with an interpreter. If you recall your early days putzing around with BASIC on an Apple II or whatever, interpreted languages tend to be slow. Most serious software gets written in something that can be compiled...nowadays, that typically means C or C++. Even Java, which was intended to be an interpreted language, has some just-in-time compilers available for it that speed up execution a bit.
Then again,.net is supposed to be an interpreted environment as well...if Microsoft wants everybody to go down that path, you could very well see LISP.net or Scheme.net from somebody before long. (Intel must've brib^H^H^H^Hpersuaded Microsoft to come up with something to justify the continued need for faster and faster processors...they must be having a wet dream over.net.)
Even to some extent my College is going a bit too far. While my courses do involve theory we spend whole semester long classes on subjects like C++ or Java.... really should be 3 weeks at the most...
Where I graduated, there are 100-level electives that you can take to pick up a specific language...looks like none are available this semester, but they've done some off-the-beaten path languages before. None are required, and they aren't prerequisites for anything.
The two introductory courses might take a nuts-and-bolts approach to a particular language. Once you get beyond those, the remaining courses use whatever's appropriate for the subject matter. Many of the upper-level courses are almost entirely theory-based, with little or no programming. (The only 400-level courses I took that involved programming were the two graphics courses (using C and/or C++ with calls to OpenGL) and compilers (using C++)). I ended up taking over twelve years to finish my degree; in that time, I ended up using Pascal, C, 8086 and VAX assembly, FORTRAN, and (in the last semester) C++.
(Someone starting today won't have to deal with Pascal, and I'm not sure what processor gets used in the systems-programming course now. The course where I used FORTRAN was actually a math course (computational linear algebra). That course especially was an exercise in picking up a language quickly enough to get the assignments done.)
I burn them all the time, but you can't fit an entire movie onto one unless you drop to a really low bitrate (=crappy quality)...and even then I don't know if the format would even allow going to such low bitrates.
...for a limited time, the cost of a lifetime subscription has dropped from $250 to $200. Maybe they're trying to get people to switch to lifetime service. It potentially means less money for TiVo in the long run, but a shot in the arm right now.
Ever since I got an Ebay account, I've been drowning in oceans of Viagra, Credit Checks, Spyware, yadda yadda.
How did you manage to do that? On my mail server, I have an address set up for nothing but eBay-related stuff. If eBay sells the address I've given them to somebody, I'd know they did it.
I've never gotten spam at that address. In the five or so years I've been using eBay, the only spam I could trace to them was when Onsale trawled eBay for addresses and mailed every address they found. (Shortly after that, eBay redesigned its system so that you can't do that.) Hell, even with my main address going into every Usenet post for the past few months, the amount of spam I receive in a month at salfter.dyndns.org could be counted on your fingers. (I do have a blacklist of known spammers, though, and the HTML-mail filter probably weeds out some more spam.)
My Hotmail address gets spammed six ways to Sunday, but that's pretty much expected. (I only opened that address to get one of those free X10 Firecracker kits back in the day.)
Actually it is $19.95/month if you pay them for a year at a time, upfront. There are not supposed to be any "roaming fees" either way though.
My parents used AOHell for two years while they were over in Germany. AFAIK, they paid the going monthly rate...no "roaming fees." (They did have to pay phone charges, but with a POP in Kaiserslautern (they were at Ramstein AB at the time), phone rates weren't too bad if you read your mail offline.)
(They had been using AOHell since '95 or '96...whenever Prodigy went squirrelly. For some reason, though, their software wouldn't let them access websites. They received a CD with the latest-and-greatest software; that didn't fix things. A call to tech support ended quickly when the bot at the other end of the line said the wait was 60 minutes. After several years of telling them that they ought to get something better, my parents are finally ex-AOLers.:-) )
...but I was never able to actually try it: it wouldn't work through my firewall, and I couldn't ever find any doc on just what holes to open up.
It's always worked fine through the Linux-based firewalls I set up, though a smaller group of files will be available than if you can forward the appropriate port (I think it's 1214) to the machine that's running the client.
You know the answer. The only thing Morpheus "value added" to the standard fast track client was their revenue model of displaying advertisements. The main reason for using it, of course, was the "value not-added": spyware. The rest of the client was apparently untouched.
I've done some playing around with some Gnutella clients (including the relabeled Gnucleus that calls itself Morpheus) over the past couple of days. Beyond scalability, one other point in FastTrack's factor is that the protocol allows for a sizable amount of metadata to be sent along with the search results. That way, I can (for instance) tell if an MP3 is encoded at a reasonable bitrate or I can determine the resolution and (if applicable) codecs used by an MPEG or AVI file. This helps FT's usability immensely, and Gnutella would be wise to add something similar.
I also tried out Grokster, but uninstalled it when it quit working after I had let Ad-aware wipe out the spyware components. Grokster punts if it doesn't find a Cydoor DLL to run. This page tells you how to install Grokster sans spyware; in addition to cleaning with Ad-aware and one other program, it has you install a dummy Cydoor DLL.
ISPs should block port 25 (TCP/SMTP) to all servers other than their own. This prevents lusers from using open relays to email their spams.
...and if you run your own mail server, what purpose does this serve other than to delay the transmission of your mail (especially if your ISP's mail server is tango-uniform)? What if you're sending email that needs to go through your company's server and you're just using the ISP for remote access? Besides, if this became common practice, what's to stop spammers from seeking out mail servers running on ports other than 25? Blocking outbound port 25 would create more problems than it solves.
I'm sure this guy is regreting it. I mean, his website is blackholed right now, a few days before the primary! And this guy was supposedly "net savy"....
From what I understand, his primary campaign isn't doing too well either. It's actually a distant third. Serves him right.
What I've found interesting is that, despite the existence of technology for it, automated speed traps are not more widely deployed. That is, radar guns with cameras, red lights with cameras, etc. that automatically mail you a ticket seconds after your moving violation.
The Constitution prohibits automated speed traps. Someone (that would usually be a cop or a state trooper) has to witness your speeding. If you take the ticket to court and the cop doesn't show up, the ticket is null and void—you have the right to confront your accuser. With an automated system, there's nobody to witness the event and nobody to take on in court. (You could set up a cop with a speed-trap camera, a box of Krispy Kremes, and orders to watch everything that the camera flags...but what are the odds they'd do that? If the cop will be there, you might as well not bother with the camera. He'll probably still want the donuts, though.:-) )
Blockbuster baby. They have your info, they have your credit card, they have your address.
Don't think for a minute they don't track and sell the info about what you rent.
I'm fairly sure that's illegal. There was a federal law passed in 1988 regarding the handling of video-store rental records in the aftermath of the Clarence Thomas nomination hearings, or something to that effect.
Making your page look good on every browser and platform is impossible. It will take too much work and you probably don't have all the systems
Three possibilities:
You're lazy.
You're stupid.
You're a troll.
It's not impossible; lots of sites manage somehow to pull it off.
Look at your target and decide what browser they are going to be using. For most web sites its IE4/5/6 and optimize for that... but also consider Netscape and Mozilla. You gotta remember the percentages.... (IE has like 85%+ of market share)...
What does this have to do with anything? I use the latest IE 99% of the time, but why should someone's choice of browser matter two shits in whether someone can access your site?
Use FRAMES and Images maps if you need it.
Frames are evil. Use CSS positioning instead. Nutscrape <=4 doesn't like it, but you can serve up a tables-based layout to deal with them if you must.
Image maps are appropriate for some purposes (such as enabling a selection based on geographic location), but they shouldn't be used for everything.
JavaScript is good... try to avoid VBScript and definately do not use ActiveX controls... Flash and Shockwave when necessary
Now you're just rambling. The only JavaScript I've run across that's genuinely useful is the one that keeps your site from being framed inside another site. Nearly everything else—JavaScript, Flash, or whatever—is more often than not an example of somebody using a design element just because he can.
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How else are you going to do remote maintenance on it? What are you going to use for remote access to your stuff? You sure as hell don't want to use telnet.
(If you think you'll never need remote access, though, you can leave it out. As for me, I like the ability to tap into my home machines anywhere I can run SSH and VNC. I even have Win32 SSH and VNC clients on my webserver that I can download on a random Win32 box (even many public systems) to access my systems (both Linux and Win32) at home.)
Um...it's not that I particularly care for billboards (if I did, why would I have a page on my website about blocking ads?), but nearly all billboards I've run across have been on private property. I don't see how gas taxes and billboards are related in any way.
Besides, while you can't "filter" billboards, at least they're easier to ignore than "punch-the-monkey" or "evidence-eliminator" banner ads...
That's only on "audio" CD-Rs, not "data" CD-Rs. It's why you get bent over if you're buying blanks for an audio-CD burner...it's a wonder those things sell at all, when you can get a burner for your computer that's faster, cheaper, and uses cheaper media.
(I suppose the "RIAA tax" might also apply to audiocassettes, but I haven't bought those in ages. It's been even longer since I last used them for data storage.)
The noise went away when the light was shut off. Besides, the circuit was battery-powered. (Not that it's impossible for a battery-powered circuit to pick up EM noise...but I don't think that was it. It has been a long time, though, and I don't have the kit available to me to try it again. I don't know if my parents still have it or if it got left behind somewhere...)
That's not what I implied...well, at least not in two out of three examples, anyway.
Maybe a competitor had some technology it wanted for whatever reason. Are you saying that two companies shouldn't be able to enter into agreements (whether it's licensing or an acquisition) that they find mutually beneficial? How is that destructive toward the smaller company, if it's getting something it wants? If they don't want to cut a deal with Goliath, they're free to not do so. ALF torching a lab doesn't have quite the same beneficial effect for the lab's owners.
As for Microsoft buying something to take it off the market...I haven't heard of that happening, but if they want to throw their money away by doing that, why should I have a problem with it? It's that much less money that they'll have to do other stuff. I would think they would be smarter than that. (I could be wrong, though.)
How does this differ from what any other company, interest group, etc. does? If you have a problem with politicians accepting cash from organizations you don't like, perhaps you should consider replacing the politicians.
(For the record, I think the so-called "campaign finance reform" measures that have been proposed are horrible attempts at stifling speech that incumbent politicians don't like. If you're worried about crooked politics (and who isn't?) but you're also concerned about free speech, what you should really favor is unregulated donations combined with full disclosure. If you don't care much for Microsoft and you know that they donated $1 million to Joe Schmuckboy's campaign, maybe you'd think twice about voting for Mr. Schmuckboy.)
I wasn't aware that throwing rocks through shop windows and fighting with police was considered "peaceful" by some. In that assumption, I erred.
Go crawl back under your bridge.
No, what's pathetic is when someone attempts to make an analogy between cutthroat business practices and terrorism. When's the last time you saw a Microsoftie plow an airliner into a skyscraper, torch a research facility, or form a mob to take to the streets during a meeting?
Godwin's Law ought to be updated...the Nazis aren't the only ones used in flawed reasoning anymore.
You are aware that "honest lawyer" is an oxymoron, aren't you?
As a kid, I had one of those Radio Shack electronics kits (the ones with the spring terminals that you wired together). One of the circuits hooked a photocell into an audio amplifier. IIRC, you could hear a slight hum from incandescent lighting...and this wouldn't have been a particularly sophisticated circuit. (The kit had four transistors of different types and an analog IC; this circuit probably used only one or two transistors, the photocell, and some passive components.)
A few minutes of digging through my webserver log turned up about two-thirds of the hits come from IE. Whether that's lower or higher than average, I don't know. What I do know, though, is that I thought the Internet was about communication. Cutting people off because they don't meet your standard of 1337ness or whatever doesn't further that goal; instead, it makes you come across as snobbish and pretentious. If that's what you want, though, it's your website...everybody else will just buzz on by and go elsewhere.
I won't try to speak for others, but I wouldn't bother firing up Cygwin/XFree86 to bring up a website in Konqueror through an SSH link to one of my Linux servers just because some wanker thinks IE isn't good enough for him. That's a breach of netiquette on par with spawning a million browser windows to load goatse.cx.
Maybe, but can you create or modify Flash with $EDITOR? Yeah...didn't think so.
Sometime before I came along, my company's website was done entirely in Flash. One of these days I'll get around to trashing it and replacing it with proper HTML. (Have a look at all the meta tags...Google won't, so you might as well. :-) )
AFAIK, the only way to run LISP or Scheme on the vast majority of computers is with an interpreter. If you recall your early days putzing around with BASIC on an Apple II or whatever, interpreted languages tend to be slow. Most serious software gets written in something that can be compiled...nowadays, that typically means C or C++. Even Java, which was intended to be an interpreted language, has some just-in-time compilers available for it that speed up execution a bit.
Then again, .net is supposed to be an interpreted environment as well...if Microsoft wants everybody to go down that path, you could very well see LISP.net or Scheme.net from somebody before long. (Intel must've brib^H^H^H^Hpersuaded Microsoft to come up with something to justify the continued need for faster and faster processors...they must be having a wet dream over .net.)
Where I graduated, there are 100-level electives that you can take to pick up a specific language...looks like none are available this semester, but they've done some off-the-beaten path languages before. None are required, and they aren't prerequisites for anything.
The two introductory courses might take a nuts-and-bolts approach to a particular language. Once you get beyond those, the remaining courses use whatever's appropriate for the subject matter. Many of the upper-level courses are almost entirely theory-based, with little or no programming. (The only 400-level courses I took that involved programming were the two graphics courses (using C and/or C++ with calls to OpenGL) and compilers (using C++)). I ended up taking over twelve years to finish my degree; in that time, I ended up using Pascal, C, 8086 and VAX assembly, FORTRAN, and (in the last semester) C++.
(Someone starting today won't have to deal with Pascal, and I'm not sure what processor gets used in the systems-programming course now. The course where I used FORTRAN was actually a math course (computational linear algebra). That course especially was an exercise in picking up a language quickly enough to get the assignments done.)
I burn them all the time, but you can't fit an entire movie onto one unless you drop to a really low bitrate (=crappy quality)...and even then I don't know if the format would even allow going to such low bitrates.
...for a limited time, the cost of a lifetime subscription has dropped from $250 to $200. Maybe they're trying to get people to switch to lifetime service. It potentially means less money for TiVo in the long run, but a shot in the arm right now.
How did you manage to do that? On my mail server, I have an address set up for nothing but eBay-related stuff. If eBay sells the address I've given them to somebody, I'd know they did it.
I've never gotten spam at that address. In the five or so years I've been using eBay, the only spam I could trace to them was when Onsale trawled eBay for addresses and mailed every address they found. (Shortly after that, eBay redesigned its system so that you can't do that.) Hell, even with my main address going into every Usenet post for the past few months, the amount of spam I receive in a month at salfter.dyndns.org could be counted on your fingers. (I do have a blacklist of known spammers, though, and the HTML-mail filter probably weeds out some more spam.)
My Hotmail address gets spammed six ways to Sunday, but that's pretty much expected. (I only opened that address to get one of those free X10 Firecracker kits back in the day.)
My parents used AOHell for two years while they were over in Germany. AFAIK, they paid the going monthly rate...no "roaming fees." (They did have to pay phone charges, but with a POP in Kaiserslautern (they were at Ramstein AB at the time), phone rates weren't too bad if you read your mail offline.)
(They had been using AOHell since '95 or '96...whenever Prodigy went squirrelly. For some reason, though, their software wouldn't let them access websites. They received a CD with the latest-and-greatest software; that didn't fix things. A call to tech support ended quickly when the bot at the other end of the line said the wait was 60 minutes. After several years of telling them that they ought to get something better, my parents are finally ex-AOLers. :-) )
It's always worked fine through the Linux-based firewalls I set up, though a smaller group of files will be available than if you can forward the appropriate port (I think it's 1214) to the machine that's running the client.
I've done some playing around with some Gnutella clients (including the relabeled Gnucleus that calls itself Morpheus) over the past couple of days. Beyond scalability, one other point in FastTrack's factor is that the protocol allows for a sizable amount of metadata to be sent along with the search results. That way, I can (for instance) tell if an MP3 is encoded at a reasonable bitrate or I can determine the resolution and (if applicable) codecs used by an MPEG or AVI file. This helps FT's usability immensely, and Gnutella would be wise to add something similar.
I also tried out Grokster, but uninstalled it when it quit working after I had let Ad-aware wipe out the spyware components. Grokster punts if it doesn't find a Cydoor DLL to run. This page tells you how to install Grokster sans spyware; in addition to cleaning with Ad-aware and one other program, it has you install a dummy Cydoor DLL.
From what I understand, his primary campaign isn't doing too well either. It's actually a distant third. Serves him right.
The Constitution prohibits automated speed traps. Someone (that would usually be a cop or a state trooper) has to witness your speeding. If you take the ticket to court and the cop doesn't show up, the ticket is null and void—you have the right to confront your accuser. With an automated system, there's nobody to witness the event and nobody to take on in court. (You could set up a cop with a speed-trap camera, a box of Krispy Kremes, and orders to watch everything that the camera flags...but what are the odds they'd do that? If the cop will be there, you might as well not bother with the camera. He'll probably still want the donuts, though. :-) )
Imagine a Beowulf cluster...on wheels!
I'm fairly sure that's illegal. There was a federal law passed in 1988 regarding the handling of video-store rental records in the aftermath of the Clarence Thomas nomination hearings, or something to that effect.
Three possibilities:
- You're lazy.
- You're stupid.
- You're a troll.
It's not impossible; lots of sites manage somehow to pull it off.What does this have to do with anything? I use the latest IE 99% of the time, but why should someone's choice of browser matter two shits in whether someone can access your site?
Frames are evil. Use CSS positioning instead. Nutscrape <=4 doesn't like it, but you can serve up a tables-based layout to deal with them if you must.
Image maps are appropriate for some purposes (such as enabling a selection based on geographic location), but they shouldn't be used for everything.
Now you're just rambling. The only JavaScript I've run across that's genuinely useful is the one that keeps your site from being framed inside another site. Nearly everything else—JavaScript, Flash, or whatever—is more often than not an example of somebody using a design element just because he can.