Yay, someone is going to get this for me. I know it. I'll get it as a fucking xmas gift, which is annoying, since I do not celebrate xmas, and have asked all of my friends and family to stop buying me things. All that has done is encouraged shitty gifts I didn't want as opposed to just gifts that I just didn't want.
Now, they have yet another cutesy baby gift for the dad to be. ATTENTION PLANET! Not everyone wants to be a parent, I sure as hell don't. See this bill? Its for a vasectomy, I had one, I have zero offspring, and I intend to keep it that way, and still be able to fuck like a lemming. This is not a phase, this is not going to change in a few years. This is a life decision that no one respects, no one listens to, and no one will leave me the fuck alone over, because we live in a nation that is fucking baby crazy. If you aren't breeding, your obviously unhappy and need some happiness and a few babies in your life.
Babies products as far as the eye can see, babies babies babies babies! Everyone loves babies, right?! Fuck babies, barely edible, all you can do is stew them, I represent the "Stop sending me pictures of your dumb ass kids" crowd, only thing I'd hate more than your kids would be my own.
My point? Easy, this is NOT news for nerds, and is certainely doesn't matter, now get it off the front page and into the dumpster where it belongs with the rest of the damned babies. World is overpopulated as is, last thing we should be doing is encouraging more of these morons to have big, happy families, of well adjusted children who grow up to be pacifist hippies who don't even have the common courtesy of going to war and dying. Trim the fat people! Trim the fat!
What I would do is, get a cheap pentium crap box, stick three nic's in it, and OpenBSD. One nic goes to the cable modem, the other two go to the wireless routers. Just ignore the WAN port, use them as switches that have wireless built in.
Each router(being used as a fancy wireless ready switch, and nothing more), lives on its own subnet, and you can use firewall rules to dictate access rights between the two of them.
This gives you two separate network segents, on different layer 2 broadcast domains, and a strong traffic cop to enforce your rules between them.
I know people who pay for cell phone ringers. I won't, its a waste of money. When my phone rings, I cringe, every god damned time. I do not want it ruining my favorite tunes at the same time. I'll hear guns n roses, and think, "I should get that, whoever the fuck it is."
They are overpriced when the masses of sheep stop paying for them. I've never paid for one, nor will I. But currently, the masses are eating them alive. I personally hope they raise the price, and kill the market off, then I don't have to listen to some fucker play steely dan everytime his mommy needs to be picked up at the old lady hair salon.
Or it could be a false negative induced by an as of yet unseen variant in the HIV virus. It has mutated several time in the past, and there are currently several active strains. Most behave the same, but who is to say we won't see one that evades scans, goes dormant, or turns into something completely new?
I think it is far more likely that we will hear about this in a month when he skin catches on fire, than that he just got over HIV. Not saying it can't happen, just doubting it a lot.
I hate all forms of advertisements, I don;t watch Television, haven't for over a year, because I was just so sick of commercials. I cancel mag subscriptions because they are well over 35% (easily) ad space. I've never listened to the radio because of all the ads in all the forms of media, radio ads are the worst bit of obnoxious filth that only appeals to the lowest dregs of society.
The only ads that don't really bother me, are the ones in the newspaper, and google. The former arrive generally in catalog form, toward the middle of the paper, and are easily bypassed. And yes, I do look at them, as they often tip me off to cheap items I am in need of. Google ads are the digital equivelent, as they are very unobtrusive, and often useless. Unlike most web ads which are shotgunned out, hoping that 1 in 100 visitors finds it relevent to them, and that maybe 1/100 of those people actually click the fucker.
But one form of web ad needs to be fucking killed. Those flash ads that say "Kill Osama, get a laptop!" or "Throw a touchdown pass and get an XBOX!" For starters, they are frackin' huge. I did not buy a cable modem to spend all the bandwidth downloading needlessly huge ads that are never relevent that will spike the fuck out of my cpu usage, and bring my lsptop to a crawl anytime I am on battery power. Yes, my laptop steps down noticeably when I am not on AC power, and hey guess what? Those ads are not cpu friendly.
Fuck marketers and their belief that the world is their billboard. Sometimes, I just want to see trees.
See my response to another poster to my so called flame bait, no one has flamed me yet. I like to think of it as more of a "useless opinion." I have plenty of them.
Yeah, for the sake of roaming access on my laptop at home, I have an AP, but I use strong crypto from the router (An opnbsd box, running ipsec and pfauth), to secure it. Securing wireless the good way isn't too tough, but my big beef is with how the system was designed.
They essentially took ethernet, and shoved it into the air. 802.11 uses collision detection, just as ethernet does. The problem is, 802.11 has no ability to notify the clients of each other's existence, so if you are sitting right next to each other, fine, you'll see each other, collision detection does its job. However, stick two clients on opposite sides of the access point, out of range of each other, and you have a problem. Neither client can see the other, so collision detection fails miseraby. You get what is know as the invisable neighbor problem. You are firing, your neighbor is firing, neither of you are aware of the other, and the access point is overwhelmed. Performance suffers for both people, and 802.11 still needs to fucking die.
I have a modded xbox with XBox Media Center on it. I peruse my network shares, play mp3's, videos, whatever. Beats any setup I have seen in the store, or building a PC with tv out+good sound card.
Except there is 13 root servers for a reason, that's all you can fit in the udp packet. Its a limitation of the IP protocol, not some random number they just made up and never exceeded. Can't just add more as needed, you'll exceed the payload of the datagram.
Now, there are many more than 13 root servers, most of them are now Anycast from multiple locations. But IPv4 anycast is a hack that has some serious limitations.
I work for a small ISP in NW Ohio. I have a few questions:
Who is going to pay for the disk space to store all of these logs. we couldn't possibly afford to keep even a weeks worth of logs. We have 2 DS3's for upstreams, out of two POPs, you know how much bandwidth that uses?
Who is actually okay with the policy of sniffing the innocent in case they might do something wrong? Sorry, no, this is just more repbulican facsist bullshit. Anyone who believes this is a good idea clearly doesn't value freedom in any real sense.
Who is going to station armed guards in my network, to keep me from making it official company policy to kick the logging machines as you walk by them?
As an employee of an ISP, I can say we are unprepared to do this, we are unwilling to do this, and..... fuck the DOJ, this is just wrong.
Opera has one major downfall, its fucking ugly as sin. The layout is absolutely ungodly, cumbersome, and just horrendous on the eyes, the colors make it worse. The whole window inside a window thing has always bothered me, Opera somehow managed to do it in such a way makes me want to go out and eat puppies for dinner. I can't look at Opera without getting angry at just how poorly designed the interface is.
I don't care how fast it is, I don't care how stable it is, I don't care how awesome the renderer is, fuck, I wouldn't care if it could suck me off and make pancakes, its uglier than a hooker after her forth kid and seven straight years of crack.
I have plenty of weird shit that not every person wants/needs, mrtg graphs on the cisco catalyst, ospf routing, ridiculous firewalling, all ran in the name of figuring out how stuff works.
But what I think everyone needs is simple:
A REAL router, I like OpenBSD, but just about any unix, or a bloody cisco will work. If you can buy it as Best Buy, it is far too limited for anything even remotely entertaining, unless you plan on moding the hell out of it.
A dhcp server, and a dns server, for most people, this is the router. Hand out static IP's to resident machines, dynamic for guests, and have a local dns server for faster queries, plus, its all fun to configure in convoluted ways for no reason whatsoever.
Third, ya need a fileserver, NFS (or, be brave, and do AFS), plus SMB, share/home all over the place. This should not be a workstation, all this machine should do is serve files. Format a workstation? No biggie, all your files are on the fileserver. Store everything here, that's what it is for, its accessable to every workstation in the house, and its....
Backed up, yes, forth essential is a backup server. Amanda is nice, but a pain to configure, I started out with rsync and some scripts. Tape drive is nice, but not nessesary. Just be sure you have enough space to mirror everything on the fileserver. Its not the greatest backup system, but it beats losing everything.
Lookups take time, lookups on remote dns servers take a long tiem, lookups to a local dns server take significantly less, and lookups to localhost take less that that.
Plus, you'd be surprised how much bandwidth dns servers tend to eat up. But speed is the biggest reason for it.
Same reason web browsers have caches, its not to save server bandwidth (not as a primary concern at least), its to save the real world time of the client.
Nvidia Nview is pretty handy for the X junkie who has to live in windows.
It can do a very nice on mouse over auto raise, sloppy focus style. It needs more options for people who are yused to a different type of mouse focus. But for those who prefer sloppy, its there.
MS Power Toys include a virtual desktop manager, but it sucks. Nview has a much better one, that has far fewer bugs (but it does have them), and is _much_ faster.
Then there are the little features, which include, but are not limited to: shading (minimize to title bar), throwing (toss a window accross the screen and watch it stick to the opposite edge), and true transparency (for those with massive cpu time to waste).
Go America, if we don't understand it, let our government regulate and control it for us, because they can do no wrong. They'll do what is right for us, yee haw!
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Yay, someone is going to get this for me. I know it. I'll get it as a fucking xmas gift, which is annoying, since I do not celebrate xmas, and have asked all of my friends and family to stop buying me things. All that has done is encouraged shitty gifts I didn't want as opposed to just gifts that I just didn't want.
Now, they have yet another cutesy baby gift for the dad to be. ATTENTION PLANET! Not everyone wants to be a parent, I sure as hell don't. See this bill? Its for a vasectomy, I had one, I have zero offspring, and I intend to keep it that way, and still be able to fuck like a lemming. This is not a phase, this is not going to change in a few years. This is a life decision that no one respects, no one listens to, and no one will leave me the fuck alone over, because we live in a nation that is fucking baby crazy. If you aren't breeding, your obviously unhappy and need some happiness and a few babies in your life.
Babies products as far as the eye can see, babies babies babies babies! Everyone loves babies, right?! Fuck babies, barely edible, all you can do is stew them, I represent the "Stop sending me pictures of your dumb ass kids" crowd, only thing I'd hate more than your kids would be my own.
My point? Easy, this is NOT news for nerds, and is certainely doesn't matter, now get it off the front page and into the dumpster where it belongs with the rest of the damned babies. World is overpopulated as is, last thing we should be doing is encouraging more of these morons to have big, happy families, of well adjusted children who grow up to be pacifist hippies who don't even have the common courtesy of going to war and dying. Trim the fat people! Trim the fat!
What I would do is, get a cheap pentium crap box, stick three nic's in it, and OpenBSD. One nic goes to the cable modem, the other two go to the wireless routers. Just ignore the WAN port, use them as switches that have wireless built in.
Each router(being used as a fancy wireless ready switch, and nothing more), lives on its own subnet, and you can use firewall rules to dictate access rights between the two of them.
This gives you two separate network segents, on different layer 2 broadcast domains, and a strong traffic cop to enforce your rules between them.
Besides, OpenBSD kicks ass.
I know people who pay for cell phone ringers. I won't, its a waste of money. When my phone rings, I cringe, every god damned time. I do not want it ruining my favorite tunes at the same time. I'll hear guns n roses, and think, "I should get that, whoever the fuck it is."
They are overpriced when the masses of sheep stop paying for them. I've never paid for one, nor will I. But currently, the masses are eating them alive. I personally hope they raise the price, and kill the market off, then I don't have to listen to some fucker play steely dan everytime his mommy needs to be picked up at the old lady hair salon.
Or it could be a false negative induced by an as of yet unseen variant in the HIV virus. It has mutated several time in the past, and there are currently several active strains. Most behave the same, but who is to say we won't see one that evades scans, goes dormant, or turns into something completely new?
I think it is far more likely that we will hear about this in a month when he skin catches on fire, than that he just got over HIV. Not saying it can't happen, just doubting it a lot.
I hate all forms of advertisements, I don;t watch Television, haven't for over a year, because I was just so sick of commercials. I cancel mag subscriptions because they are well over 35% (easily) ad space. I've never listened to the radio because of all the ads in all the forms of media, radio ads are the worst bit of obnoxious filth that only appeals to the lowest dregs of society.
The only ads that don't really bother me, are the ones in the newspaper, and google. The former arrive generally in catalog form, toward the middle of the paper, and are easily bypassed. And yes, I do look at them, as they often tip me off to cheap items I am in need of. Google ads are the digital equivelent, as they are very unobtrusive, and often useless. Unlike most web ads which are shotgunned out, hoping that 1 in 100 visitors finds it relevent to them, and that maybe 1/100 of those people actually click the fucker.
But one form of web ad needs to be fucking killed. Those flash ads that say "Kill Osama, get a laptop!" or "Throw a touchdown pass and get an XBOX!" For starters, they are frackin' huge. I did not buy a cable modem to spend all the bandwidth downloading needlessly huge ads that are never relevent that will spike the fuck out of my cpu usage, and bring my lsptop to a crawl anytime I am on battery power. Yes, my laptop steps down noticeably when I am not on AC power, and hey guess what? Those ads are not cpu friendly.
Fuck marketers and their belief that the world is their billboard. Sometimes, I just want to see trees.
See my response to another poster to my so called flame bait, no one has flamed me yet. I like to think of it as more of a "useless opinion." I have plenty of them.
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Its more a layout issue than a purely visual one. The browser feels all wrong, and no ammount of skinning can take care of that.
Opera reminds me of Eudora, another ap I simply cannot use due to the clutter of the UI design.
And what about those of us who want an interface that doesn't suck? Opera is _ugly_.
I'll stick with Firefox thanks.
1. Most movies suck ass, and even morons won't pay to see them.
2. All movies cost too much to see, even matinees at most theaters are costly these days.
Drop your quality and raise your prices, then blame someone else when your profits slip, god bless America.
Yeah, for the sake of roaming access on my laptop at home, I have an AP, but I use strong crypto from the router (An opnbsd box, running ipsec and pfauth), to secure it. Securing wireless the good way isn't too tough, but my big beef is with how the system was designed.
They essentially took ethernet, and shoved it into the air. 802.11 uses collision detection, just as ethernet does. The problem is, 802.11 has no ability to notify the clients of each other's existence, so if you are sitting right next to each other, fine, you'll see each other, collision detection does its job. However, stick two clients on opposite sides of the access point, out of range of each other, and you have a problem. Neither client can see the other, so collision detection fails miseraby. You get what is know as the invisable neighbor problem. You are firing, your neighbor is firing, neither of you are aware of the other, and the access point is overwhelmed. Performance suffers for both people, and 802.11 still needs to fucking die.
They can all exist, except for one, 802.11 needs to be fucking shot.
Insecure, unscalable, and the newest access points are flooding the 2.4 ghz by using all 11 channels as opposed to behaving and using one.
802.11 has ruined the 2.4 ghz spectrum, I ever start my own wireless ISP, I won't even try to use 2.4 ghz radios.
I have a modded xbox with XBox Media Center on it. I peruse my network shares, play mp3's, videos, whatever. Beats any setup I have seen in the store, or building a PC with tv out+good sound card.
Except there is 13 root servers for a reason, that's all you can fit in the udp packet. Its a limitation of the IP protocol, not some random number they just made up and never exceeded. Can't just add more as needed, you'll exceed the payload of the datagram.
Now, there are many more than 13 root servers, most of them are now Anycast from multiple locations. But IPv4 anycast is a hack that has some serious limitations.
Wow, this gives a whole new reason to claim to be a 13 year old girl on the internet.
I work for a small ISP in NW Ohio. I have a few questions:
Who is going to pay for the disk space to store all of these logs. we couldn't possibly afford to keep even a weeks worth of logs. We have 2 DS3's for upstreams, out of two POPs, you know how much bandwidth that uses?
Who is actually okay with the policy of sniffing the innocent in case they might do something wrong? Sorry, no, this is just more repbulican facsist bullshit. Anyone who believes this is a good idea clearly doesn't value freedom in any real sense.
Who is going to station armed guards in my network, to keep me from making it official company policy to kick the logging machines as you walk by them?
As an employee of an ISP, I can say we are unprepared to do this, we are unwilling to do this, and..... fuck the DOJ, this is just wrong.
Two stories up on the main /. page:
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I think not.
Opera has one major downfall, its fucking ugly as sin. The layout is absolutely ungodly, cumbersome, and just horrendous on the eyes, the colors make it worse. The whole window inside a window thing has always bothered me, Opera somehow managed to do it in such a way makes me want to go out and eat puppies for dinner. I can't look at Opera without getting angry at just how poorly designed the interface is.
I don't care how fast it is, I don't care how stable it is, I don't care how awesome the renderer is, fuck, I wouldn't care if it could suck me off and make pancakes, its uglier than a hooker after her forth kid and seven straight years of crack.
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I have plenty of weird shit that not every person wants/needs, mrtg graphs on the cisco catalyst, ospf routing, ridiculous firewalling, all ran in the name of figuring out how stuff works.
/home all over the place. This should not be a workstation, all this machine should do is serve files. Format a workstation? No biggie, all your files are on the fileserver. Store everything here, that's what it is for, its accessable to every workstation in the house, and its....
But what I think everyone needs is simple:
A REAL router, I like OpenBSD, but just about any unix, or a bloody cisco will work. If you can buy it as Best Buy, it is far too limited for anything even remotely entertaining, unless you plan on moding the hell out of it.
A dhcp server, and a dns server, for most people, this is the router. Hand out static IP's to resident machines, dynamic for guests, and have a local dns server for faster queries, plus, its all fun to configure in convoluted ways for no reason whatsoever.
Third, ya need a fileserver, NFS (or, be brave, and do AFS), plus SMB, share
Backed up, yes, forth essential is a backup server. Amanda is nice, but a pain to configure, I started out with rsync and some scripts. Tape drive is nice, but not nessesary. Just be sure you have enough space to mirror everything on the fileserver. Its not the greatest backup system, but it beats losing everything.
That's my bare minimum.
Translation: Our OS is a dog and we need to neuter it to keep it under control.
Not that this will solve anything, no raw sockets? I don't need no raw sockets, I have 48 billion bogus dns lookups!
Lookups take time, lookups on remote dns servers take a long tiem, lookups to a local dns server take significantly less, and lookups to localhost take less that that.
Plus, you'd be surprised how much bandwidth dns servers tend to eat up. But speed is the biggest reason for it.
Same reason web browsers have caches, its not to save server bandwidth (not as a primary concern at least), its to save the real world time of the client.
She was 15, and it happened two years ago..... and she is now sueing at age 19?
Something's not right there.
Nvidia Nview is pretty handy for the X junkie who has to live in windows.
It can do a very nice on mouse over auto raise, sloppy focus style. It needs more options for people who are yused to a different type of mouse focus. But for those who prefer sloppy, its there.
MS Power Toys include a virtual desktop manager, but it sucks. Nview has a much better one, that has far fewer bugs (but it does have them), and is _much_ faster.
Then there are the little features, which include, but are not limited to: shading (minimize to title bar), throwing (toss a window accross the screen and watch it stick to the opposite edge), and true transparency (for those with massive cpu time to waste).
But of course, you non Nvidia people miss out.
Go America, if we don't understand it, let our government regulate and control it for us, because they can do no wrong. They'll do what is right for us, yee haw!
Bunch of fucking sheep in this country.
Because Lucas knows that having boobs of all kinds in this movie is the only way he will get people to watch it.
I think of the kids I've not had, nor will ever have and smile.
I see other people with kids, and I run, screaming, in the other direction. I don't need any reassurance.