Because the http://www.rgj.com/ Reno Gazette Journal Fishwrap and Cage Liner is a piece of crap. That's why.
I live in Sparks just north of Reno and south of Stead where the races are. I was talking to a neighbor outside when I heard a million sirens all at once. I went in, and heard the news. What a mess.
Glad you're alright James. A friend of mine was going to go to the races today and decided to go four wheeling instead. He's glad he did.
Hey look, these are your VERY OWN 1's and 0's! We are taking painstaking measures to make sure that absolutely NOBODY ELSE has this same arrangement of 1's and 0's. Sure, we could randomly generate them and then check them by md5 sum against all other files in our database, but NO, we design them JUST FOR YOU!
Hurry now and we'll throw in not just one set of 1's and 0's, but we'll sell it at HALF PRICE! That's right call now and only pay $1999.99, that's 50% off the normal price of 3999.98!
But wait, there's MORE.
Call within the next TEN MINUTES and we'll give you not just one set of 1's and 0's, but TWO sets for the same price! That's only 999.995 EACH! Yes, that's 75% off each set of 1's and 0's!
For what its worth it was an editorial comment not a political statement. Your response was a typical "fuck corporate america! WOOO!!!!!" that I correlate to the typical teenage angst that regularly involves pit bulls and weed and watching Jackass.
You're right, the internet IS broken. Still want to run a mail server? Welcome to Internet Hell and Mail Mediocrity. You asked a question, you got REAL answers and your answer is to tell everyone to fuck off?
Fuck you. I'm sorry I wasted my time responding originally.
Oh, and Requiem18th, if you seriously think "something like WoT" hasn't already been thought of and implemented (sorbs, spamhaus, dnsbl etc) then you have quite obviously never ran a mail server and have no reason to reply except to say "fuck corporate america!" so go back to smoking weed and watching your pit bull lick its ass while you watch reruns of Jackass.
1) Install Linux 2) Put all the software on it 3) Be happy with yourself for mail actually working 4) Get blocked by your friends email hosts because they have no idea who the hell your server is 5) Learn about reverse dns, all the fucking host entries that you have to add so that you don't get automagically blocked by half the populated world 6) Some asshole user sends email with no subject and an executable attachment, it comes back to them bounced and they scream at you. 7) Same asshole user bitches and moans 3 times a day about how much spam they get and what a piece of shit your server is
This ends up with the following consequences:
1) Give up your life as an actual person. You're now a mail server admin 2) You stop giving a shit about said asshole user. 3) You start to second guess your decision to run your own mail server after somebody exploits something (weak password from asshole customer?) and sends half a million spam messages, and 2/3 of them bounce back at you. 4) You start growing pale and have hideous dark bags under your eyes 5) You're "that guy" in your apartment complex ("he never leaves!") 6) Eventually you miss your life, the outside world, and what is left of your sanity. 7) You start prioritizing your life and you finally give up and.....go back to Gmail.
I use a system that is similar to this: Take a phrase, mash it up very well and then add the name of the account to the end of it. Its very secure, but some sites don't support it because it contains plain text.
Phrase: Don't taze me bro! (remember that guy?) lets mash it up a big d0nT+A2eM3bR0!
After typing it in a few times it becomes natural. So, now you have a 14 character alphanumeric password with symbols. But, if some script kiddie hacks a site that you're signed up to (this happened to one of my various online accounts) then they will have access to all of your accounts using that password, rendering it useless, right? Well not so fast. Now we add the next part of protection.
Take the name of the site/account you're logging in to. Mash it up just once (one letter/number) and append it to the 14 character mashup. For example
In this case I replaced the first vowel in each site name with a symbol.
I consider this to be VERY secure, and if any of my accounts gets broken into, the likelihood of any other of my accounts being compromised is next to nil.
I'd love to hear the comments of my fellow slashdotters on this. Keep in mind that even a very simplified version is better than most of the passwords out there. I try to get my customers (neophytes mostly) to adopt this because at the very least they aren't using "password1" as their password for everything.
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That's because American is so easy to talk. We don't even use English. Thats fer those douchebags in england or wherever the hell they from. Chinese can try to learn English all they want but it aint American. They're nothing alike, yo.
Sure, mod me down and call me a troll. Fine. But its been proven time and again and again, and one more time even, that numbers that are generated by people trying to make a headline can *lie*. Call me a pessimist or whatever you want. The vast majority of "articles" are nothing more than propaganda designed to make those that its pandering to feel better.
And feel free to mod this a troll too. I can take the heat. Can you?
I do the same kind of work that AC does, and he's right. Its not impossible. Also, I'd like to introduce you to the Real World(TM) where wiping a machine at the drop of the hat isn't always an option.
Congrats, you work in a relatively clean environment. But the Average End User who opens up every email they see isn't one of those. And yes, senior citizens are unfortunately a large market for guys like me because they will believe anything they read. "Oh, I've got a virus? Click HERE? OK!" and then they call me because their ram needs defragging.
And despite your doubts, It can be fixed rather easily. Sometimes it takes more than one try, sure. My point was
A) TFA was written by someone who doesn't know their restore from their reload B) Rootkits don't require a reload (in most cases) C) Reloads aren't a blanket fix for cleaning viruses. People who do that aren't computer techs, they're reload techs.
Requires a system *restore* not *recovery* and fixmbr. SHOCKING. I do this multiple times a week in my role as a computer fix-it guy. Grandma can't afford to spend the cash to have her system reloaded just because some virus got in there. I've cleaned out some pretty nasty rootkits and virii that only took me a few minutes with a Linux boot CD and then fixmbr. It doesn't take long if you've done it a million times.
And you're using outdated technology to build websites. The frontpage extensions for apache sucked major butt in 1999 and and they still do. My suggestion? Go learn how to code instead of relying on outdated crappy "technology" that was never made to work very well to begin with. And before jumping down my throat about how awesome the FP extensions are, ask yourself if you ran 100 LAMP servers first. I did. I was so happy when the FP Extensions were discontinued that I almost cried.
And as for using platform specific software/hosting to build a website, you're not a web designer, you're a program end user with a neat title. We saw a lot of those come and go at the time too. People who could develop sites with real skills actually stayed in business and had steady clientele. The Frontpage "designers" came and went once their clients realized they could do the same thing with $100 worth of software and a few hours fiddling around.
I suppose I didn't tell the story well enough. The UPS driver got pissed off and started doing this *intentionally* to piss off the home owner.
As for the dogs, I can tell you that the first time I went to that persons house, the dogs did NOT know me, and they came tails-a-waggin' ready to lick me to death!
I know someone who lives in a rural area and has about 7 dogs and other animals. The UPS guy is a wuss and is afraid of dogs. He throws their packages in the desert next to their house, leaves them in the road in front of the house, and in general does everything he can to avoid going on their property. One package sat in the desert for 2 weeks before it was found. Another nearly got run over.
Whats funny is that the guy complained that one of the dogs "tried to bite him" and so he kicked it. I know the dogs, the worst they could possibly accomplish is death by licking.
When I was a kid in the mid 80's you could go into a RS and gawk at computer parts like a keyboard that was made for actually building a computer (from scratch!) and things of that nature. I even bought a 555 timer projects book and pored over it. I never got into electronics much, I'm a computer nerd (who has dabbled...) but going into RS back then sparked my imagination. By the time I got a chance to actually WORK at a RS in the mid 90's I was disappointed. Most of the focus was on selling stuff with a higher markup with an extended warranty. And make sure you get peoples zip code and stuff! I actually got talked to by the GM because I didn't ask for it all the time. That didn't last very long. After that I went to work for a *real* electronics store (They're still around, amazingly) but I got my stupid ass fired because my 18yo brain refused to show up for work on time.
For RS to do what it did for me back in the day I should be able to take my 15yo son in there and there be more for him to gravitate to than the celphone junk.
Lastly, I went in there in 3 different stores looking for a 25V 2A transformer for a power supply project for building a foam cutter. I knew exactly what I wanted. The kids who worked there had no idea what a transformer was (they probably thought I was talking about the movie...) and were shocked when I brought a metal thing with wires coming out of it. They probably thought I was trying to build a time machine or something.
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Because the http://www.rgj.com/ Reno Gazette Journal Fishwrap and Cage Liner is a piece of crap. That's why.
I live in Sparks just north of Reno and south of Stead where the races are. I was talking to a neighbor outside when I heard a million sirens all at once. I went in, and heard the news. What a mess.
Glad you're alright James. A friend of mine was going to go to the races today and decided to go four wheeling instead. He's glad he did.
Hey look, these are your VERY OWN 1's and 0's! We are taking painstaking measures to make sure that absolutely NOBODY ELSE has this same arrangement of 1's and 0's. Sure, we could randomly generate them and then check them by md5 sum against all other files in our database, but NO, we design them JUST FOR YOU!
Hurry now and we'll throw in not just one set of 1's and 0's, but we'll sell it at HALF PRICE! That's right call now and only pay $1999.99, that's 50% off the normal price of 3999.98!
But wait, there's MORE.
Call within the next TEN MINUTES and we'll give you not just one set of 1's and 0's, but TWO sets for the same price! That's only 999.995 EACH! Yes, that's 75% off each set of 1's and 0's!
They are virtually PRICELESS!
For what its worth it was an editorial comment not a political statement. Your response was a typical "fuck corporate america! WOOO!!!!!" that I correlate to the typical teenage angst that regularly involves pit bulls and weed and watching Jackass.
You're right, the internet IS broken. Still want to run a mail server? Welcome to Internet Hell and Mail Mediocrity. You asked a question, you got REAL answers and your answer is to tell everyone to fuck off?
Fuck you. I'm sorry I wasted my time responding originally.
Oh, and Requiem18th, if you seriously think "something like WoT" hasn't already been thought of and implemented (sorbs, spamhaus, dnsbl etc) then you have quite obviously never ran a mail server and have no reason to reply except to say "fuck corporate america!" so go back to smoking weed and watching your pit bull lick its ass while you watch reruns of Jackass.
1) Install Linux
2) Put all the software on it
3) Be happy with yourself for mail actually working
4) Get blocked by your friends email hosts because they have no idea who the hell your server is
5) Learn about reverse dns, all the fucking host entries that you have to add so that you don't get automagically blocked by half the populated world
6) Some asshole user sends email with no subject and an executable attachment, it comes back to them bounced and they scream at you.
7) Same asshole user bitches and moans 3 times a day about how much spam they get and what a piece of shit your server is
This ends up with the following consequences:
1) Give up your life as an actual person. You're now a mail server admin
2) You stop giving a shit about said asshole user.
3) You start to second guess your decision to run your own mail server after somebody exploits something (weak password from asshole customer?) and sends half a million spam messages, and 2/3 of them bounce back at you.
4) You start growing pale and have hideous dark bags under your eyes
5) You're "that guy" in your apartment complex ("he never leaves!")
6) Eventually you miss your life, the outside world, and what is left of your sanity.
7) You start prioritizing your life and you finally give up and.....go back to Gmail.
I use a system that is similar to this: Take a phrase, mash it up very well and then add the name of the account to the end of it. Its very secure, but some sites don't support it because it contains plain text.
Phrase: Don't taze me bro! (remember that guy?)
lets mash it up a big
d0nT+A2eM3bR0!
After typing it in a few times it becomes natural. So, now you have a 14 character alphanumeric password with symbols. But, if some script kiddie hacks a site that you're signed up to (this happened to one of my various online accounts) then they will have access to all of your accounts using that password, rendering it useless, right? Well not so fast. Now we add the next part of protection.
Take the name of the site/account you're logging in to. Mash it up just once (one letter/number) and append it to the 14 character mashup. For example
d0nT+A2eM3bR0!f@cebook
d0nT+A2eM3bR0!sl@shdot
d0nT+A2eM3bR0!n3wegg
d0nT+A2eM3bR0!f@rk
In this case I replaced the first vowel in each site name with a symbol.
I consider this to be VERY secure, and if any of my accounts gets broken into, the likelihood of any other of my accounts being compromised is next to nil.
I'd love to hear the comments of my fellow slashdotters on this. Keep in mind that even a very simplified version is better than most of the passwords out there. I try to get my customers (neophytes mostly) to adopt this because at the very least they aren't using "password1" as their password for everything.
A clearer close up view of Uranus. Did you know that Uranus has a gassy atmosphere?
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Condition: Slightly unused
Description: These underwear were owned by Gaga herself but never worn. It is not clear if she actually ever touched them or even knew she bought them. But they were hers for sure.
Bidding starts at $1000
That's because American is so easy to talk. We don't even use English. Thats fer those douchebags in england or wherever the hell they from. Chinese can try to learn English all they want but it aint American. They're nothing alike, yo.
Sure, mod me down and call me a troll. Fine. But its been proven time and again and again, and one more time even, that numbers that are generated by people trying to make a headline can *lie*. Call me a pessimist or whatever you want. The vast majority of "articles" are nothing more than propaganda designed to make those that its pandering to feel better.
And feel free to mod this a troll too. I can take the heat. Can you?
Percentages don't mean anything. Numbers can be skewed so many ways its not even funny.
Just because some greeny stuck a hose up his ass and lit his farts to make sear his tofu doesn't make it renewable energy.
Once you get rid of the rootkit, cleaning the rest is fairly trivial.
I do the same kind of work that AC does, and he's right. Its not impossible. Also, I'd like to introduce you to the Real World(TM) where wiping a machine at the drop of the hat isn't always an option.
After the primary infection is gone, the system gets a full scan with malwarebytes' anti-malware (malwarebytes.org). That usually gets the rest.
Congrats, you work in a relatively clean environment. But the Average End User who opens up every email they see isn't one of those. And yes, senior citizens are unfortunately a large market for guys like me because they will believe anything they read. "Oh, I've got a virus? Click HERE? OK!" and then they call me because their ram needs defragging.
And despite your doubts, It can be fixed rather easily. Sometimes it takes more than one try, sure. My point was
A) TFA was written by someone who doesn't know their restore from their reload
B) Rootkits don't require a reload (in most cases)
C) Reloads aren't a blanket fix for cleaning viruses. People who do that aren't computer techs, they're reload techs.
Requires a system *restore* not *recovery* and fixmbr. SHOCKING. I do this multiple times a week in my role as a computer fix-it guy. Grandma can't afford to spend the cash to have her system reloaded just because some virus got in there. I've cleaned out some pretty nasty rootkits and virii that only took me a few minutes with a Linux boot CD and then fixmbr. It doesn't take long if you've done it a million times.
In War Torn Afghanistan, we go looking for the Internet
In First World America, the Internet comes looking for YOU!
And you're using outdated technology to build websites. The frontpage extensions for apache sucked major butt in 1999 and and they still do. My suggestion? Go learn how to code instead of relying on outdated crappy "technology" that was never made to work very well to begin with. And before jumping down my throat about how awesome the FP extensions are, ask yourself if you ran 100 LAMP servers first. I did. I was so happy when the FP Extensions were discontinued that I almost cried.
And as for using platform specific software/hosting to build a website, you're not a web designer, you're a program end user with a neat title. We saw a lot of those come and go at the time too. People who could develop sites with real skills actually stayed in business and had steady clientele. The Frontpage "designers" came and went once their clients realized they could do the same thing with $100 worth of software and a few hours fiddling around.
I suppose I didn't tell the story well enough. The UPS driver got pissed off and started doing this *intentionally* to piss off the home owner.
As for the dogs, I can tell you that the first time I went to that persons house, the dogs did NOT know me, and they came tails-a-waggin' ready to lick me to death!
I know someone who lives in a rural area and has about 7 dogs and other animals. The UPS guy is a wuss and is afraid of dogs. He throws their packages in the desert next to their house, leaves them in the road in front of the house, and in general does everything he can to avoid going on their property. One package sat in the desert for 2 weeks before it was found. Another nearly got run over.
Whats funny is that the guy complained that one of the dogs "tried to bite him" and so he kicked it. I know the dogs, the worst they could possibly accomplish is death by licking.
Just sayin'.
When I was a kid in the mid 80's you could go into a RS and gawk at computer parts like a keyboard that was made for actually building a computer (from scratch!) and things of that nature. I even bought a 555 timer projects book and pored over it. I never got into electronics much, I'm a computer nerd (who has dabbled...) but going into RS back then sparked my imagination. By the time I got a chance to actually WORK at a RS in the mid 90's I was disappointed. Most of the focus was on selling stuff with a higher markup with an extended warranty. And make sure you get peoples zip code and stuff! I actually got talked to by the GM because I didn't ask for it all the time. That didn't last very long. After that I went to work for a *real* electronics store (They're still around, amazingly) but I got my stupid ass fired because my 18yo brain refused to show up for work on time.
For RS to do what it did for me back in the day I should be able to take my 15yo son in there and there be more for him to gravitate to than the celphone junk.
Lastly, I went in there in 3 different stores looking for a 25V 2A transformer for a power supply project for building a foam cutter. I knew exactly what I wanted. The kids who worked there had no idea what a transformer was (they probably thought I was talking about the movie...) and were shocked when I brought a metal thing with wires coming out of it. They probably thought I was trying to build a time machine or something.
Nope! Diabetes free, tested recently :)
But when I ingest caffeine it just makes my pee smell like coffee.
Yes, but then I realized this isn't slashdot anymore. It's slashdigg.