I use Adium on OSX and also received this message this morning. The two bots were automatically added.
I can predict many users here will bitch endlessly about it. The fact is that the service is free. If it means that I have to right click on each of the names of the bots and choose "Delete....", to use this service for free, so be it.
Does the book go into IDS tools such as Snort? I couldn't find any reference to this, but I can't imagine it to be left out of the book. Are there any well known tutorials/books out there on these tools?
Btw, thanks to fellow Slashdot readers for recommending DenyHosts - superb tool to stop those brute force SSH attacks...
Good. This means that, like the hardware in my Powerbook, OS X should play well with the hardware of their x86 PC. Better than trying to support all odds and ends of hardware for all x86's. Things are much more stable in the Powerbook, than the Linux desktop with the Nvidia graphics card (on which X.org crashes and freezes up the screen after 5 minutes of use).
Hey, I'm a huge fan of Linux, but sometimes, you just want things to work the way they were meant to and not spend 3 hours setting something up. This is how OS X spoiled me I suppose....
If it's in moderation, alcohol and/or caffeine is alright. Maybe you're thinking of extreme cases, like the unemployed guy down the street drinking 10 beers before lunch time. I have met many smart people who drink alcohol socially. Caffeine has been around for centuries and again, within moderation, it isn't going to kill you or make you stupid.
Before you start harping on people drinking caffeine or alcohol, take a look at what people eat. The nutrition value of meals these days, in the US, has taken a large nosedive. Obesity is huge, and it is mostly because of what people eat and the lack of exercise.
Moderated beer consumption doesn't make one a good or bad programmer....
I don't use Windows and haven't since '98. At one point, I ran Linux, but kept a dual boot system with Windows, just for opening complex Word documents. Then, I started using Crossover and that saved me a lot of time and I eventually wiped Windows off my box for good.
Now I got into OS X, and I run MS Office on it. I must say though, without bias, that MS Office has to be their greatest product. It just works and I haven't ever had any issues with it at all. It is fast, user friendly, stable and usable. Let's face it: when coders code a word processor they will always look at MS Office for implementation ideas. On the Powerbook, MS Office just flies.
A few weeks ago, I tried to run Openoffice on my Debian box, and there was a huge performance decrease, when compared to running MS Office. It was certainly noticeable. It took a while for a document to open up.
Though, Office has been around for a long time and Openoffice hasn't, so I'm sure there will be lots of features and performance gains in the coming years for the latter. I'm definitely going to keep an eye on Openoffice.
People working full time in America, despite these figures, still work relatively hard. There is little to no vacations available to a lot of workers here. How many times do you hear of someone going to Europe for a vacation, for a month? Rarely. Yet, this happens a lot in other nations. Many companies in Europe and Asia, for example, give 3-4+ weeks of vacation a year. Here in the U.S., it's called "sick days" and you get a very limited amount of them. Obviously not all companies, but most I have dealt with.
There are more than, say 500 good engineers in the US (supposing Google and Yahoo hired 500 people). Sure, not many VPs of big dot-coms are easy to hire but would a startup be able to afford the salaries/perks they demand?
Also, could this kid kiss Bill's ass just a little more? Wrote a poem celebrating his life's history? Are you fucking yanking my dick here? And they seem to gloss by her being a "computer programmer". What, because she made a little clicky-thingy in LOGO?
Might not be a big deal to you, however, for a girl that young in a third world country, such as Pakistan, it certainly is. She was bought over to the US (first time her father and her left Pakistan) and everything was probably paid for. So she was showing her appreciation. It isn't everyday a young child from Pakistan gets to come to the U.S., and especially on a trip paid for by the world's richest man.
However, if she is eager to start hacking away, and Microsoft won't hire her now, she should be encouraged to contribute to the Open Source community - even on a Windows project. That way, she will learn not only how to code more, but also learn how to interact with developers across the globe. That, at that very young age, will surely look extremely impressive and will teach her infinite things.
I really don't want to bash PHP - it seems flexible. However, after having people break into my server through phpBB and Gallery, I replaced those apps with their mod_perl equivalents, and things are working faster and more secure. Having said that, it was hard to find the Perl equivalents and even hard to find good support for it (ie. themes, etc). I'm still looking for a good Gallery replacement written in Perl.
Obviously, security issues aren't always the language but usually come from the people who write it. It just seems to me that, since PHP is more popular for writing forums, image galleries, etc, that there are a lot more careless coders out there coding in PHP.
phpBB is a good example of this. Every other week, they have some security issue.
Well, it is free advertising and people would rather read blogs for an opinion on a product, than read some flash-ad. I know I would. Especially with the open-source world, that's how I hear about the latest and greatest Linux/OS X apps...
You're thinking Saudia Arabia (a US ally, btw). Countries like UAE and Bahrain are quite liberal (ie. bars, clubs) and have a huge foreign population. Unlike Saudia Arabia, there are no public executions nor do they chop your hands off...
I used to live in Bahrain, and like Bahrain, the UAE is full of drivers who break all sorts of speed limits (the cops simply didn't care there). Popular to contrary belief, while these countries may be "police states" in some aspects (ie. talking about the government), they turned a blind eye towards traffic laws and simple "crimes". You rarely found cops hiding in a designated place to catch speeders, like they do here in the US.
Seems like the UAE govt. know this and are using another course of action to deal with speeders. But, as always, it's all about connections in those places, so I doubt many people will be penalised for the tickets. We'll see...
Whatever happened to this saying?! I mean they arrest this man immediately, and humiliate him in a store full of other customers. It just doesn't seem right to me.
My friend from the UK just came here to visit me, and he noticed how scared people are of the police here, and how the police tend to overreact very quickly. It isn't like that in the UK - people feel that the cops are on their side.
But this...this just is stupid. Did they have to cuff him and arrest him while the Secret Service came to confirm that the bills were not counterfeit? Why not put him in the Best Buy manager's office until the S.S. came along?
I do see your point, however, I love my mp3 player. I live in Chicago, and one has to walk a lot around this city to get to most places, or you'd use public transportation. Having an MP3 player in these cases is good.
Also, when I'm on the plane, music keeps me occupied. And when I workout at the gym. I'm not constantly around a computer, however...
I recently bought the 40Gb MP3 player from iRiver. To me, looks of an electronic device doesn't really matter. I just want the features. Simple as that. Compared to the iPod, the iRiver has superb battery life, more hard drive space for the buck, built in voice recorder, and even a AM/FM tuner. Plus it plays OGG and using Linux, I can index all my music files.
So what iRiver lacks in looks, they more than make up for it in features and cost compared to the iPod.
All I need is a scroll button and play/stop/fast/rewind buttons.
Before many users start discussing the privacy laws and what not, it should be noted that the data being stored is probably not new. It's the medium on which it is stored on, which is.
Even without this, the old database could have been searched for some terrorists. Nothing has really changed.
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I tried building my own "Tivo"-like box too in Linux. It eventually cost a bit more than buying a Tivo, but I use it as my DVD burning and mp3 jukebox in addition to MythTV.
Installed Debian on it with similar hardware as the author of the article had. I had no problems whatsoever, though I've been using Linux since '98.
If you want just a Tivo box for cheap, I don't suggest doing it unless you want shady quality. Get a damned good TV Card (like the PVR-250 which does encoding on the hardware - this is around $120 alone), and a huge hard drive, and a good amount of memory. If you have the PVR-250, you don't need such a powerful CPU as the MPEG encoding is handled by the PVR.
All in all, it was worth the time. I never have to look back and it's simply an amazing solution. I've been using Myth for about 8 months and it never stops to amaze me.
I don't agree with the double standard put forth by the poster of this article. Why do many people complain when patents are enforced, however, it's fine for Mozilla people to go ahead and create a patent.
Besides, think about the fact that Mozilla was probably behind the decision to eliminate pop-up ads in IE. That's something truly achieved in itself.
Currently, Linux users are not able to use several key Korean web-based services. For example, many portals run by banks and government agencies support only Microsoft's Windows operating system and Internet Explore (IE) browser. [from the article].
What's that have to do with Linux? The pages won't run on Mozilla within Windows either then.
If this is one of their main concerns about switching over to Linux, I don't think this is much of a problem. I mean how hard would it be to tune these portals to work on browsers other than IE? These portals should be fixed anyhow, not just for Linux, but for other browsers out there such as Opera, Mozilla, etc, etc.
As a non-American citizen living the US, I'm surprised at how many people constantly bash their government over stuff like this. Of course, I haven't lived all my life, but still...
If the US Govt. were only interested in money and companies that generate a lot, what about donotcall.gov?
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I use Adium on OSX and also received this message this morning. The two bots were automatically added.
I can predict many users here will bitch endlessly about it. The fact is that the service is free. If it means that I have to right click on each of the names of the bots and choose "Delete....", to use this service for free, so be it.
What's the big deal?
Does the book go into IDS tools such as Snort? I couldn't find any reference to this, but I can't imagine it to be left out of the book. Are there any well known tutorials/books out there on these tools?
Btw, thanks to fellow Slashdot readers for recommending DenyHosts - superb tool to stop those brute force SSH attacks...
OS X will not be available on any old x86 PC
Good. This means that, like the hardware in my Powerbook, OS X should play well with the hardware of their x86 PC. Better than trying to support all odds and ends of hardware for all x86's. Things are much more stable in the Powerbook, than the Linux desktop with the Nvidia graphics card (on which X.org crashes and freezes up the screen after 5 minutes of use).
Hey, I'm a huge fan of Linux, but sometimes, you just want things to work the way they were meant to and not spend 3 hours setting something up. This is how OS X spoiled me I suppose....
Off topic, but it comes up every now and again.
If it's in moderation, alcohol and/or caffeine is alright. Maybe you're thinking of extreme cases, like the unemployed guy down the street drinking 10 beers before lunch time. I have met many smart people who drink alcohol socially. Caffeine has been around for centuries and again, within moderation, it isn't going to kill you or make you stupid.
Before you start harping on people drinking caffeine or alcohol, take a look at what people eat. The nutrition value of meals these days, in the US, has taken a large nosedive. Obesity is huge, and it is mostly because of what people eat and the lack of exercise.
Moderated beer consumption doesn't make one a good or bad programmer....
I don't use Windows and haven't since '98. At one point, I ran Linux, but kept a dual boot system with Windows, just for opening complex Word documents. Then, I started using Crossover and that saved me a lot of time and I eventually wiped Windows off my box for good.
Now I got into OS X, and I run MS Office on it. I must say though, without bias, that MS Office has to be their greatest product. It just works and I haven't ever had any issues with it at all. It is fast, user friendly, stable and usable. Let's face it: when coders code a word processor they will always look at MS Office for implementation ideas. On the Powerbook, MS Office just flies.
A few weeks ago, I tried to run Openoffice on my Debian box, and there was a huge performance decrease, when compared to running MS Office. It was certainly noticeable. It took a while for a document to open up.
Though, Office has been around for a long time and Openoffice hasn't, so I'm sure there will be lots of features and performance gains in the coming years for the latter. I'm definitely going to keep an eye on Openoffice.
I bought an iPod nano since they first started shipping and I don't have one scratch on it. It's black too, so scratches would be more visible.
I don't keep it in the same pocket as I do with keys, or other objects. I also run an hour daily, and the nano's in my hand/pocket during this time.
I don't know how people treat their nano - I'm somewhat alarmed at all this. It's an electronic product: treat it as such.
People working full time in America, despite these figures, still work relatively hard. There is little to no vacations available to a lot of workers here. How many times do you hear of someone going to Europe for a vacation, for a month? Rarely. Yet, this happens a lot in other nations. Many companies in Europe and Asia, for example, give 3-4+ weeks of vacation a year. Here in the U.S., it's called "sick days" and you get a very limited amount of them. Obviously not all companies, but most I have dealt with.
Has anyone actually proved that HIV causes AIDS?
The South African President, Mbeki, as far as I know, does not believe that HIV causes AIDS. Sure, call it what you will, but he did argue this point.
There are more than, say 500 good engineers in the US (supposing Google and Yahoo hired 500 people). Sure, not many VPs of big dot-coms are easy to hire but would a startup be able to afford the salaries/perks they demand?
I don't think it's that much of an issue....
Also, could this kid kiss Bill's ass just a little more? Wrote a poem celebrating his life's history? Are you fucking yanking my dick here? And they seem to gloss by her being a "computer programmer". What, because she made a little clicky-thingy in LOGO?
Might not be a big deal to you, however, for a girl that young in a third world country, such as Pakistan, it certainly is. She was bought over to the US (first time her father and her left Pakistan) and everything was probably paid for. So she was showing her appreciation. It isn't everyday a young child from Pakistan gets to come to the U.S., and especially on a trip paid for by the world's richest man.
However, if she is eager to start hacking away, and Microsoft won't hire her now, she should be encouraged to contribute to the Open Source community - even on a Windows project. That way, she will learn not only how to code more, but also learn how to interact with developers across the globe. That, at that very young age, will surely look extremely impressive and will teach her infinite things.
I really don't want to bash PHP - it seems flexible. However, after having people break into my server through phpBB and Gallery, I replaced those apps with their mod_perl equivalents, and things are working faster and more secure. Having said that, it was hard to find the Perl equivalents and even hard to find good support for it (ie. themes, etc). I'm still looking for a good Gallery replacement written in Perl.
Obviously, security issues aren't always the language but usually come from the people who write it. It just seems to me that, since PHP is more popular for writing forums, image galleries, etc, that there are a lot more careless coders out there coding in PHP.
phpBB is a good example of this. Every other week, they have some security issue.
Well, it is free advertising and people would rather read blogs for an opinion on a product, than read some flash-ad. I know I would. Especially with the open-source world, that's how I hear about the latest and greatest Linux/OS X apps...
You're thinking Saudia Arabia (a US ally, btw). Countries like UAE and Bahrain are quite liberal (ie. bars, clubs) and have a huge foreign population. Unlike Saudia Arabia, there are no public executions nor do they chop your hands off...
I used to live in Bahrain, and like Bahrain, the UAE is full of drivers who break all sorts of speed limits (the cops simply didn't care there). Popular to contrary belief, while these countries may be "police states" in some aspects (ie. talking about the government), they turned a blind eye towards traffic laws and simple "crimes". You rarely found cops hiding in a designated place to catch speeders, like they do here in the US.
Seems like the UAE govt. know this and are using another course of action to deal with speeders. But, as always, it's all about connections in those places, so I doubt many people will be penalised for the tickets. We'll see...
Whatever happened to this saying?! I mean they arrest this man immediately, and humiliate him in a store full of other customers. It just doesn't seem right to me.
My friend from the UK just came here to visit me, and he noticed how scared people are of the police here, and how the police tend to overreact very quickly. It isn't like that in the UK - people feel that the cops are on their side.
But this...this just is stupid. Did they have to cuff him and arrest him while the Secret Service came to confirm that the bills were not counterfeit? Why not put him in the Best Buy manager's office until the S.S. came along?
More accurate screenshots here.
I like the shadow effect, but maybe that is here now, and I don't know it?
I do see your point, however, I love my mp3 player. I live in Chicago, and one has to walk a lot around this city to get to most places, or you'd use public transportation. Having an MP3 player in these cases is good.
Also, when I'm on the plane, music keeps me occupied. And when I workout at the gym. I'm not constantly around a computer, however...
I've been using Gaim since the late '90s. I even donated some beer to them way back in the day - it takes me back to my college days.
Thanks guys - it's amazing how much Gaim has expanded. I check regularly for a release and have pushed many people to check it out.
I recently bought the 40Gb MP3 player from iRiver. To me, looks of an electronic device doesn't really matter. I just want the features. Simple as that. Compared to the iPod, the iRiver has superb battery life, more hard drive space for the buck, built in voice recorder, and even a AM/FM tuner. Plus it plays OGG and using Linux, I can index all my music files.
So what iRiver lacks in looks, they more than make up for it in features and cost compared to the iPod.
All I need is a scroll button and play/stop/fast/rewind buttons.
Servers at work for example all run 2.4.x. It will be hell to unleash 2.6.x just like that.
And 2.4 works great - why break something that works fine? We haven't run into any issues whatsoever.
On my Debian box, I run 2.6 but users aren't depending on it to work without issues.
Before many users start discussing the privacy laws and what not, it should be noted that the data being stored is probably not new. It's the medium on which it is stored on, which is.
Even without this, the old database could have been searched for some terrorists. Nothing has really changed.
I tried building my own "Tivo"-like box too in Linux. It eventually cost a bit more than buying a Tivo, but I use it as my DVD burning and mp3 jukebox in addition to MythTV.
Installed Debian on it with similar hardware as the author of the article had. I had no problems whatsoever, though I've been using Linux since '98.
If you want just a Tivo box for cheap, I don't suggest doing it unless you want shady quality. Get a damned good TV Card (like the PVR-250 which does encoding on the hardware - this is around $120 alone), and a huge hard drive, and a good amount of memory. If you have the PVR-250, you don't need such a powerful CPU as the MPEG encoding is handled by the PVR.
All in all, it was worth the time. I never have to look back and it's simply an amazing solution. I've been using Myth for about 8 months and it never stops to amaze me.
I don't agree with the double standard put forth by the poster of this article. Why do many people complain when patents are enforced, however, it's fine for Mozilla people to go ahead and create a patent.
Besides, think about the fact that Mozilla was probably behind the decision to eliminate pop-up ads in IE. That's something truly achieved in itself.
Currently, Linux users are not able to use several key Korean web-based services. For example, many portals run by banks and government agencies support only Microsoft's Windows operating system and Internet Explore (IE) browser. [from the article].
What's that have to do with Linux? The pages won't run on Mozilla within Windows either then.
If this is one of their main concerns about switching over to Linux, I don't think this is much of a problem. I mean how hard would it be to tune these portals to work on browsers other than IE? These portals should be fixed anyhow, not just for Linux, but for other browsers out there such as Opera, Mozilla, etc, etc.
If the US Govt. were only interested in money and companies that generate a lot, what about donotcall.gov?