Errr, as the code is commented just above the part you pasted:
# logs attempts to break, fool, flood a particular form
That is, the people who are attempting to break, say, the comment posting form and post 500 comments at once are logged and may be banned by IP if they try hard enough.
Re:Not true about MD not taking off...
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Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen a pre-recorded minidisc in any U.S. store. So yes, I'm going by my experience... In the U.S. at least, if you got someone a minidisc player as a present, most of them would wonder what it was.
Why does the deal have to be "use the feature and be abused by having the information used without your knowledge?" Why can't seemingly smart people figure stuff like this out?
Because the people making the deal are the phone companies, and they know it's a "take it or leave it" deal. They *are* smart people - they just aren't on your side.:( Their smartness is working to figure out how to make more money off of you, not how to give you the best phone experience (those are not equivalent!). And there is no one at any level of government - because the FCC is also crewed by people who think exactly like the phone companies - who is on your side.
You know this, of course. You seem like a bright person. But the average schmoe has no idea how or why his phone works, and most importantly, has no idea that it could work differently.
Yes, of course. Alpha 1? It's going to be buggy like the cockroach exhibit at the zoo. I use KDE 2.2.whatever, and think it's great - but KDE 3.0 isn't great, not now anyway.
Feh, I don't work on site... Stealing my "work" computer would be challenging since it's mine.
But yes, I have great sympathy for employees who are owed wages and take property in lieu of cash. I know many people who were paid in computing equipment, entirely legitimately, by failing dot-coms. And employees who are owed back pay get paid *first* in bankruptcy proceedings, so these people would be getting their wages anyway, only with a lot more hassle and paperwork.
For what it's worth, when VA laid people off earlier this year, they treated people decently, paid a decent severance, and didn't have (as far as I know) any sort of theft problem. Treat people decently, they'll treat you decently.
Re:HP Creates it own version of Linux Based on Red
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Since Slashdot's search function is currently down while they rebuild the search database, I'll spare you the flame you might normally get for whining that your submission of a two-day-old story was rejected.
The new one is not terribly different: five beefier HTTP servers instead of six, still with the same Arrowpoint load-balancing switch; one NFS box and one beefier database machine.
And of course, this will mark the switch to Slash 2.0.
I'm sure there will be a story (maybe not until Monday though) which will give plenty of specs and info.
It would have to be done from outside the internal network anyway since one of the things we want to test is the load-balancing switch, which is more than a little tempermental.
And sure, the "right" way is to fire up ab and go to town, and we've done that to some extent already. But nothing simulates the load on slashdot like the load on slashdot.:)
And we're still in bug-finding mode, for that matter. Submit them if you find them.
That's a reasonable argument but I don't think it would work that way in practice. Humans don't fight over air because we don't see any scarcity of it. We don't fight over water because we don't see any scarcity of it, except when a hurricane knocks out our water supply - then we do indeed fight over the last bottled water at the local supermarket.
Humans fight only when there's scarcity. Well, mostly, anyway.
Eliminate the scarcity and the fighting - most of it, anyway - would disappear. The problem is, ICANN and most of the interests around ICANN like scarcity because it gives them power.
And "load on the DNS servers" is a non-argument. Load isn't proportional to the number of domains existing, it's proportional to the number of people and machines making requests, which is increasing steadily but not at a rate that can't be handled. Karl Auerbach says he has tested the DNS system with many many TLDs and encountered no problems, and I'm willing to take his word for it.
Adobe has no authority or ability to get Sklyarov out of prison. He is charged with a crime, charged by the United States, and Adobe has no say in whether or not he goes to prison for it. The U.S. can order Adobe to testify at trial and Adobe cannot refuse.
It's silly to cancel the protest. Adobe could beg the U.S. Attorney to release Sklyarov and nothing would happen. Sklyarov has now been strip-searched a dozen times or more as he is schlepped between various facilities. He's in prison, facing five years behind bars with no possibility of parole (because he would be deemed a flight risk if paroled, obviously).
100 Mbit/sec isn't slow at all - at least not (much) slower than your IDE hard disk.
If you need SCSI speed, take Gigabit or Myrinet
(yes, there's still the protocol overhead, I know - but just count the bytes - it's probably fast
enough).
Ok, normally I do hate those kind of replies, but things like that do really make me angry - spam 'em! On the reasonable side: I thought there was already a similar case in Germany - does anyone remember the details?
Well, for us (University of Innsbruck, Austria), the UWash IMAP server works well. We do serve nearly 20.000 users using a SGI Challange dm workstation (a powerful Intel or Alpha dual processor would do the same job I suppose - those SGI machine is 4+ years old...). There are no problems so far (8 month). However, we did some minor modifications - we do use dmail from imap-utils for mail delivery (does integrate well with procmail, too), changed to MBX style mailbox formats and changed the default mailbox lookup from ~/mail to ~/. Everything else is quite standard. We do not have any problems at all. The users do access their mail using Netscape Messenger (IMAP), Outlook Express (IMAP), pine (local or IMAP) or IMP. The only problem is that there are many processes (especially due to mail checkers). Normallly, this isn't a problem. But we do also offer a modified version of IMP for our users to access their mail worldwide. IMP is very slow if the server has many processes as it happens to create a process for every single mail when it reads a mailbox. We did modify IMP to overcome the major flaws, but everything else is pretty stand (or at least there are some publically available patches).
Just to inform you, they're still looking for sponsors for maintenance and further development (eg. network RAM). Hm, the great Linux distributions tend to spend money on stuff like that - would certainly be a good idea....
Well, the news is that they are looking for sponsors who may also decide on the license. Would be a chance for those who want to see it GLPed, wouldn't it?
Well, everybody's talking about Beowulf, about High Availability. But nobody dares to talk about MOSIX, a Linux Kernel Module developed at an Israel University. It supports things like application-transparent adaptive load balancing, memory ushering and things like that. The only problem: not free up to now. But, wait! They are currently looking for a sponsor for maintainance and further development. This sponsor(s) may also choose the license, too. Check this one: MOSIX Homepage. Tried to post it to slashdot wo times before, but they didn't seem to like it...:(
Nice to hear that KDE so many people write about KDE. But there's still a long way to go - if you really want to compete with Microsoft on the desktop market, you do have to have a good office product. Honesty, I don't like Word Perfect (and, well peple need more than a word processor) or Applix (the ever tried to make a more complex presentation?) or StarOffice (can you spell slow?). I personally feel fine with all those command line apps (tex, gnuplot and so on), but the average user will need a fully integrated Office product. KOffice might be he way o go, it looks really good and should be ready not too far from now. This would be a good opportunity to make the KDE and the GNOME people work together - GNOME should really think about integrating such a fine office product. I personally prefer KDE, but GNOME 1.0 is really useful and it would be a pitty if users turned away from it just because of the office suite.
Well, koffice is getting better every day. A BETA version should be out soon. Maybe 1.0 will be out there at the end of this year, maybe I'm just dreaming...
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Errr, as the code is commented just above the part you pasted:
# logs attempts to break, fool, flood a particular form
That is, the people who are attempting to break, say, the comment posting form and post 500 comments at once are logged and may be banned by IP if they try hard enough.
Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen a pre-recorded minidisc in any U.S. store. So yes, I'm going by my experience... In the U.S. at least, if you got someone a minidisc player as a present, most of them would wonder what it was.
There's a daemon that runs and, every few minutes, updates the comment counts on the front page. It died and needed to be restarted. No big deal.
Why does the deal have to be "use the feature and be abused by having the information used without your knowledge?" Why can't seemingly smart people figure stuff like this out?
:( Their smartness is working to figure out how to make more money off of you, not how to give you the best phone experience (those are not equivalent!). And there is no one at any level of government - because the FCC is also crewed by people who think exactly like the phone companies - who is on your side.
Because the people making the deal are the phone companies, and they know it's a "take it or leave it" deal. They *are* smart people - they just aren't on your side.
You know this, of course. You seem like a bright person. But the average schmoe has no idea how or why his phone works, and most importantly, has no idea that it could work differently.
Yes, of course. Alpha 1? It's going to be buggy like the cockroach exhibit at the zoo. I use KDE 2.2.whatever, and think it's great - but KDE 3.0 isn't great, not now anyway.
Feh, I don't work on site... Stealing my "work" computer would be challenging since it's mine.
But yes, I have great sympathy for employees who are owed wages and take property in lieu of cash. I know many people who were paid in computing equipment, entirely legitimately, by failing dot-coms. And employees who are owed back pay get paid *first* in bankruptcy proceedings, so these people would be getting their wages anyway, only with a lot more hassle and paperwork.
For what it's worth, when VA laid people off earlier this year, they treated people decently, paid a decent severance, and didn't have (as far as I know) any sort of theft problem. Treat people decently, they'll treat you decently.
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HP To Sell Custom High-Security GNU/Linux Distro.
Since Slashdot's search function is currently down while they rebuild the search database, I'll spare you the flame you might normally get for whining that your submission of a two-day-old story was rejected.
Naw. You can tell the difference because he gets paid more.
The old hardware setup is here.
The new one is not terribly different: five beefier HTTP servers instead of six, still with the same Arrowpoint load-balancing switch; one NFS box and one beefier database machine.
And of course, this will mark the switch to Slash 2.0.
I'm sure there will be a story (maybe not until Monday though) which will give plenty of specs and info.
It would have to be done from outside the internal network anyway since one of the things we want to test is the load-balancing switch, which is more than a little tempermental.
:)
And sure, the "right" way is to fire up ab and go to town, and we've done that to some extent already. But nothing simulates the load on slashdot like the load on slashdot.
And we're still in bug-finding mode, for that matter. Submit them if you find them.
It deserved front-page treatment, IMHO.
That's a reasonable argument but I don't think it would work that way in practice. Humans don't fight over air because we don't see any scarcity of it. We don't fight over water because we don't see any scarcity of it, except when a hurricane knocks out our water supply - then we do indeed fight over the last bottled water at the local supermarket.
Humans fight only when there's scarcity. Well, mostly, anyway.
Eliminate the scarcity and the fighting - most of it, anyway - would disappear. The problem is, ICANN and most of the interests around ICANN like scarcity because it gives them power.
And "load on the DNS servers" is a non-argument. Load isn't proportional to the number of domains existing, it's proportional to the number of people and machines making requests, which is increasing steadily but not at a rate that can't be handled. Karl Auerbach says he has tested the DNS system with many many TLDs and encountered no problems, and I'm willing to take his word for it.
The first notion of copyright is less than 300 years old. Books have been written for thousands of years.
Don't let facts get in the way of a good argument-by-conclusion, though.
Adobe has no authority or ability to get Sklyarov out of prison. He is charged with a crime, charged by the United States, and Adobe has no say in whether or not he goes to prison for it. The U.S. can order Adobe to testify at trial and Adobe cannot refuse.
It's silly to cancel the protest. Adobe could beg the U.S. Attorney to release Sklyarov and nothing would happen. Sklyarov has now been strip-searched a dozen times or more as he is schlepped between various facilities. He's in prison, facing five years behind bars with no possibility of parole (because he would be deemed a flight risk if paroled, obviously).
Protest on.
100 Mbit/sec isn't slow at all - at least not (much) slower than your IDE hard disk.
If you need SCSI speed, take Gigabit or Myrinet
(yes, there's still the protocol overhead, I know - but just count the bytes - it's probably fast
enough).
Ok, normally I do hate those kind of replies, but things like that do really make me angry - spam 'em!
On the reasonable side: I thought there was already a similar case in Germany - does anyone remember the details?
Well, for us (University of Innsbruck, Austria), the UWash IMAP server works well. We do serve nearly 20.000 users using a SGI Challange dm workstation (a powerful Intel or Alpha dual processor would do the same job I suppose - those SGI machine is 4+ years old ...). There are no problems so far (8 month).
However, we did some minor modifications - we do use dmail from imap-utils for mail delivery (does integrate well with procmail, too), changed to MBX style mailbox formats and changed the default mailbox lookup from ~/mail to ~/. Everything else is quite standard. We do not have any problems at all. The users do access their mail using Netscape Messenger (IMAP), Outlook Express (IMAP), pine (local or IMAP) or IMP.
The only problem is that there are many processes (especially due to mail checkers). Normallly, this isn't a problem. But we do also offer a modified version of IMP for our users to access their mail worldwide. IMP is very slow if the server has many processes as it happens to create a process for every single mail when it reads a mailbox. We did modify IMP to overcome the major flaws, but everything else is pretty stand (or at least there are some publically available patches).
Well, MOSIx was actually developed first for the PDP-11 in 1982.
Just to inform you, they're still looking for sponsors for maintenance and further development (eg. network RAM). Hm, the great Linux distributions tend to spend money on stuff like that - would certainly be a good idea ....
Well, the news is that they are looking for sponsors who may also decide on the license. Would be a chance for those who want to see it GLPed, wouldn't it?
Well, everybody's talking about Beowulf, about High Availability. But nobody dares to talk about MOSIX, a Linux Kernel Module developed at an Israel University. It supports things like application-transparent adaptive load balancing, memory ushering and things like that. The only problem: not free up to now. But, wait! They are currently looking for a sponsor for maintainance and further development. This sponsor(s) may also choose the license, too. Check this one: MOSIX Homepage. Tried to post it to slashdot wo times before, but they didn't seem to like it ... :(
Nice to hear that KDE so many people write about KDE. But there's still a long way to go - if you really want to compete with Microsoft on the desktop market, you do have to have a good office product. Honesty, I don't like Word Perfect (and, well peple need more than a word processor) or Applix (the ever tried to make a more complex presentation?) or StarOffice (can you spell slow?). I personally feel fine with all those command line apps (tex, gnuplot and so on), but the average user will need a fully integrated Office product. KOffice might be he way o go, it looks really good and should be ready not too far from now. This would be a good opportunity to make the KDE and the GNOME people work together - GNOME should really think about integrating such a fine office product. I personally prefer KDE, but GNOME 1.0 is really useful and it would be a pitty if users turned away from it just because of the office suite.
Well, koffice is getting better every day. A BETA version should be out soon. Maybe 1.0 will be out there at the end of this year, maybe I'm just dreaming ...