DJB is going to turn into the next RMS if he doesn't stop spouting at the mouth with how inferior all of his competitor's software is. Even his documentation is arrogant, for chrissakes.
And I'm sorry, but bind9 isn't that complicated. I found djbdns to be much clunkier and difficult to set up. Like all of DJB's software, it relies on retarded configuration files and bizarre notation.
Don't get me wrong here; I'm a qmail admin myself and I love it, but I dislike it when people talk about his software like it was written by Moses and God and given to mankind for all of eternity. It may be pretty stable and secure, but it lacks common usability and many features of other, traditional DNS software.
Well, robots are far more likely to turn against their masters and hatch a plot to take over the world. We wouldn't want to turn a fresh, virgin planet over to the robots so soon, would we?!
Seriously... I'm 6'5", which means that I'm taller than a good 95% of the people that I meet. I think that something in the reptilian part of the brain tells people to be cautious of people/animals bigger than themselves. As much as I hate to admit it, it's a cultural advantage that I was born with.
But, if this alone doesn't get your respect, you can also hold tree branches above your head to appear taller to predators. This works great in an office setting, and most clients never expect it!
While this would ordinarily be true, my box wasn't hosted at a colo facility. It was graciously hosted by my office, which provided me with free bandwidth. The only catch was that I couldn't use the T1... I had to use the secondary office connection, which was a dedicated 256Kbps line. 30k/sec (max; usually 20k/sec is good for that line) actually isn't bad when all you do is serve out email and static websites, but as I said, doing 40Gb of backups off of that line to a remote server just wasn't going to happen.
..is almost done. Should be ready by the end of the week (crosses fingers)! I'm just about ready to implement the final touches on the UI. Right after I read slashdot, that is... and maybe check my email, and some of the other boards online. Shit, after that, it'll be lunchtime!
Yeah, sometime after lunch, it'll almost probably definitely maybe get done. I promise.
Thanks for the link; looks like a cool piece of software. Currently, I don't actually have anything important stored on my windows box (heh, shows how much I trust it's ass)... it just fetches all of the home directories via samba. I'll definitely bookmark this site, though. =)
It was never violent for me. I lost the hard drive in my webserver when it was mysteriously dropped while I was on christmas vacation.
4 years of email archives, website work, pictures, etc. All of my CVS archives (though fortunately, enough people had copies of my code and were nice enough to email them back to me... linus torvalds was right about backups!). Not to mention the fact that I lost the same amount of data for about a dozen friends which I was hosting. Damn.
My first reaction wasn't anger or grief (those both came later). It was fervor... the inspiration of trying to stay up all night and do anything possible to recover the data. No dice. Then the truth started to sink in...
The sad part is that I wasn't able to back up this machine, so I kind of saw this coming... I knew that it would be screwed if something happened to that drive, but I had no way to reliably back up 40Gb of data. The internet connection it was on was too slow to do a network backup, not to mention that my workplace would probably kill me for doing that on a regular basis. The server itself was a cobalt raq2, which means it had only a power plug, serial port, and ethernet cable on the back. So, no usb, firewire, or cdr backups were possible here, and backing data up to the drive itself obviously wouldn't have helped.
I guess the inevitable finally happened, but at least I learned from my lessons. I scrapped the cobalt and converted an old machine into my new server, with a mirrored raid-1 2x80Gb array. I rebuilt my home server, too, with a raid-5 4x80Gb array, and now I use a laptop and rsync to keep religious backups.
I don't really see it as "backing up", though... for instance, the music I write is on my laptop, because that's where I write it. When I finish writing a track, I'll master it on my desktop, and make a copy of it there. And every so often, I'll rsync the two servers just to make sure everything's current. I found it way too hard to discipline myself to make consistent backups, but it's easy to just copy data around. Once you get into the habit, it's far more foolproof than a tar+cron backup or trying to remember it by hand.
I'll remember this next time I download an n'sync song and retitle it under my own name for redistribution. Nobody will suspect a thing, and I'll get all the chicks!
Obviously, it's so you can call yourself an underground journalist, while covering stories mostly about weird things your friends took pictures of with their camera phones. Don't forget to quit your day job first!
Yes, I thought the same thing. I won't give blockbuster my business anymore... they lie too damn much.
"No late fees" was the first lie... turns out you had to pay a monthly fee to have no late fees (a blockbuster plus membership or some such thing, iirc).
"Here's a free movie rental" was the second lie. My ex-gf and I used to rent movies from blockbuster all the time... sometimes they'd give us a "free" movie as an incentive to come back. We later learned that "free" actually meant "free until the end of the month, which is coincidentally tomorrow".
"All your favorite movies in stock"... you ever tried to call them out on this one?
Blockbuster talks big, but their business practices suck. I'm much more fond of netflix (so far, anyways).
Perhaps require your students to hand in a draft first and you can tell them. In my experience very few professors cared about grammar, spelling, or even the basic content of the paper. How are these students supposed to know what they are doing is wrong if no one will take the time to teach it to them?
Wow, you must have gone to Arizona State, too! Sun Devils in da house reprezent!
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Completely agreed. If you want to know the definition of "software pain", it's accidentally clicking on a 2-hour mp3 located on a network drive from within finder. Have fun waiting for your "preview"...
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XP has an app that will package your computer up and transfer it to another.
I've been looking for an app in windows to do this for a long time.. do you remember what it was called?
Who says that just your feet have to be uncovered?
Maybe this isn't a "design limitation" so much as a clever trap, eh?
DJB is going to turn into the next RMS if he doesn't stop spouting at the mouth with how inferior all of his competitor's software is. Even his documentation is arrogant, for chrissakes.
And I'm sorry, but bind9 isn't that complicated. I found djbdns to be much clunkier and difficult to set up. Like all of DJB's software, it relies on retarded configuration files and bizarre notation.
Don't get me wrong here; I'm a qmail admin myself and I love it, but I dislike it when people talk about his software like it was written by Moses and God and given to mankind for all of eternity. It may be pretty stable and secure, but it lacks common usability and many features of other, traditional DNS software.
Damn... at first glance, I thought this story headline read "SBC Promotes Wireless Anti-Texas Bill".
"It looks like you're trying to pick up 14 year old girls on IRC. Would you like me to alert the authorities with your home address now?"
Well, robots are far more likely to turn against their masters and hatch a plot to take over the world. We wouldn't want to turn a fresh, virgin planet over to the robots so soon, would we?!
Shit, I guess it's time to revoke my membership to the flat earth society
Well, I'm still taller than you, SO THERE! =P
Being tall helps, too.
Seriously... I'm 6'5", which means that I'm taller than a good 95% of the people that I meet. I think that something in the reptilian part of the brain tells people to be cautious of people/animals bigger than themselves. As much as I hate to admit it, it's a cultural advantage that I was born with.
But, if this alone doesn't get your respect, you can also hold tree branches above your head to appear taller to predators. This works great in an office setting, and most clients never expect it!
See a problem here?!?
Yeah, you forgot step 8: Profit!!!
While this would ordinarily be true, my box wasn't hosted at a colo facility. It was graciously hosted by my office, which provided me with free bandwidth. The only catch was that I couldn't use the T1... I had to use the secondary office connection, which was a dedicated 256Kbps line. 30k/sec (max; usually 20k/sec is good for that line) actually isn't bad when all you do is serve out email and static websites, but as I said, doing 40Gb of backups off of that line to a remote server just wasn't going to happen.
..is almost done. Should be ready by the end of the week (crosses fingers)! I'm just about ready to implement the final touches on the UI. Right after I read slashdot, that is... and maybe check my email, and some of the other boards online. Shit, after that, it'll be lunchtime!
Yeah, sometime after lunch, it'll almost probably definitely maybe get done. I promise.
Thanks for the link; looks like a cool piece of software. Currently, I don't actually have anything important stored on my windows box (heh, shows how much I trust it's ass)... it just fetches all of the home directories via samba. I'll definitely bookmark this site, though. =)
You should apologize to the rest of us, too.
It was never violent for me. I lost the hard drive in my webserver when it was mysteriously dropped while I was on christmas vacation.
4 years of email archives, website work, pictures, etc. All of my CVS archives (though fortunately, enough people had copies of my code and were nice enough to email them back to me... linus torvalds was right about backups!). Not to mention the fact that I lost the same amount of data for about a dozen friends which I was hosting. Damn.
My first reaction wasn't anger or grief (those both came later). It was fervor... the inspiration of trying to stay up all night and do anything possible to recover the data. No dice. Then the truth started to sink in...
The sad part is that I wasn't able to back up this machine, so I kind of saw this coming... I knew that it would be screwed if something happened to that drive, but I had no way to reliably back up 40Gb of data. The internet connection it was on was too slow to do a network backup, not to mention that my workplace would probably kill me for doing that on a regular basis. The server itself was a cobalt raq2, which means it had only a power plug, serial port, and ethernet cable on the back. So, no usb, firewire, or cdr backups were possible here, and backing data up to the drive itself obviously wouldn't have helped.
I guess the inevitable finally happened, but at least I learned from my lessons. I scrapped the cobalt and converted an old machine into my new server, with a mirrored raid-1 2x80Gb array. I rebuilt my home server, too, with a raid-5 4x80Gb array, and now I use a laptop and rsync to keep religious backups.
I don't really see it as "backing up", though... for instance, the music I write is on my laptop, because that's where I write it. When I finish writing a track, I'll master it on my desktop, and make a copy of it there. And every so often, I'll rsync the two servers just to make sure everything's current. I found it way too hard to discipline myself to make consistent backups, but it's easy to just copy data around. Once you get into the habit, it's far more foolproof than a tar+cron backup or trying to remember it by hand.
I'll remember this next time I download an n'sync song and retitle it under my own name for redistribution. Nobody will suspect a thing, and I'll get all the chicks!
Obviously, it's so you can call yourself an underground journalist, while covering stories mostly about weird things your friends took pictures of with their camera phones. Don't forget to quit your day job first!
Yes, I thought the same thing. I won't give blockbuster my business anymore... they lie too damn much.
"No late fees" was the first lie... turns out you had to pay a monthly fee to have no late fees (a blockbuster plus membership or some such thing, iirc).
"Here's a free movie rental" was the second lie. My ex-gf and I used to rent movies from blockbuster all the time... sometimes they'd give us a "free" movie as an incentive to come back. We later learned that "free" actually meant "free until the end of the month, which is coincidentally tomorrow".
"All your favorite movies in stock"... you ever tried to call them out on this one?
Blockbuster talks big, but their business practices suck. I'm much more fond of netflix (so far, anyways).
Is Hilary Clinton trying to swell the ranks of the Young Republicans?
Young Republicans? Don't you mean the "Bush Youth"?
Update For for the dupe. Not going well. Appreciate all the hate mail. Really encourages improvement.
Welcome to the world of being an internet celebrity. You'll find the tissues next to the crying bloggers and emo kids section.
Perhaps require your students to hand in a draft first and you can tell them. In my experience very few professors cared about grammar, spelling, or even the basic content of the paper. How are these students supposed to know what they are doing is wrong if no one will take the time to teach it to them?
Wow, you must have gone to Arizona State, too! Sun Devils in da house reprezent!
Completely agreed. If you want to know the definition of "software pain", it's accidentally clicking on a 2-hour mp3 located on a network drive from within finder. Have fun waiting for your "preview"...
haha, not bad. ;]
Because "misled" doesn't rhyme with "thousands died"... gotta make it harder for protesters to come up with more clever chants, you know.
Titty Shakin' Asses, of course.