This place has been very special to me since about December of 1997 after my first install of Linux (RedHat 5.0) and I scoured the net every day (using Netscape Navigator 3.01 & AltaVista) looking for news stories and information about Linux. I eventually registered an account and came back, not every day, but darn near it until now.
There is something that kept me coming back all these years, and I suspect it was something attached to you, Rob. Wish you the best.
Does no one else find the makeipodsafe.com site to be an obvious (and hilarious) parody?
* There are millions of Apple products out there at the customers...
* According to the last ones which already explode and went on fire...
* How to avoid iPhone from exploding
* Lots more...
First of all, she's totally hot. And the WaPo ran her picture with the story. She also works at Victoria's Secret. So, what we have here is a pretty girl, between the ages of 19 and 19 and a half, making exciting underwear. And she's being repressed.
There's no way Regal Cinemas will whether the maelstrom of bad press that this will generate.
The charges will be dropped by this time next week. Maybe sooner.
Look, being truly educated means being able to use your mind. Technical skills can become obselete in very short periods of time, but a robust intellect that knows how to solve problems in the general sense and can reason fairly and cogently is always a powerful tool (weapon?). This is the kind of thing you learn from reading Einstein and Newton, Euler and Gauss, even Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
From the masters, you learn mastery of your own human capacity to understand, and we all know that knowledge is power (ABC schoolhouse ROCK!)
There is one school in the USA where you can study such things. I graduated in 1994, and can say that I learned more permanently useful skills there than I did in all of my technical training (which was extensive). It's a great school, investigate.
While I can't say I respect his theology, I do believe he wrote some of the best fiction of the 20th century. His was a rare brain that was just slightly off in the most delightful way. His stories touched on the realm of the possible in a way that changed my view of the Galaxy. Only the good die young.
The only thing that can console me this morning is MST3K. Sshhh! It's on.
About a year ago, I installed FreeBSD 3.2 from an old CD a friend had given me. I did it just for kicks. I later added some accounts and removed or chmod 0'ed some setuid binaries. The next day I got an email from root telling me everything that I had done. I realize that this sort of thing could be done with Linux too, but the point is that none of my Linux boxes had ever done such a thing. And certainly not from a default install... EGADS -- NEVER !!!
Here I am a year later and I am very happily running FreeBSD on all dozen or so servers that I control. It truly is a wonderful thing to work with. For every remote root exploit or broken compiler that ships with RedHat (my old Linux choice), I have a new reason to love my new baby FreeBSD.
The ultimate testimony: I have installed 4.2-RELEASE on my home machine which I am posting from now. Haha, I feel like such a bad-ass seeing 'fxp0' instead of 'eth0' from ifconfig. That's my real motivation.
>even worse from your gateway IP, there went your internet access
I've heard this crap before and I simply have to respond.
You can block all packets coming from your gateway and you will not experience a loss of connectivity. Dropping packets from your gateway only means that packets with that machine's source address are ignored, it does not mean that every packet that goes through that machine is blocked, as your statement implies. If you firewall out your gateway, then you won't be able to ping it, it won't be able to ping you, you won't be able to connect to it's web server (why is your router running a webserver?), you won't be able to get your email from your router, etc, and so on. None of this really matters in the normal case (99.99% of the time). Your machine will still happily accept packets from sources that simply pass them through a host you have completely firewalled out, which is the entire Internet (minus your router). Yahoo doesn't stop working just because you drop packets that originate from your gateway.
Get a clue about TCP/IP. Also please understand that I still don't think that automated blocking of portscanner's IPs is a good idea.. it isn't. But your notion of IP routing is false and I cannot bear it without comment.
Nope, it's not Perl either. Unless 'wget' got slipped into 5.6 as a built in function (have to admit I haven't checked), it's missing a system() inside the loop. Let's call it pseudocode, just be charitable, OK smartass?
Actually, I got it from the fortune db. It was the first list in a list of lists. I should have attributed, you are right. It was an exciting time in my life. I love Jana.
X windows: Accept any substitute. If it's broke, don't fix it. If it ain't broke, fix it. Form follows malfunction. The Cutting Edge of Obsolescence. The trailing edge of software technology. Armageddon never looked so good. Japan's secret weapon. You'll envy the dead. Making the world safe for competing window systems. Let it get in YOUR way. The problem for your problem. If it starts working, we'll fix it. Pronto. It could be worse, but it'll take time. Simplicity made complex. The greatest productivity aid since typhoid. Flakey and built to stay that way.
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This place has been very special to me since about December of 1997 after my first install of Linux (RedHat 5.0) and I scoured the net every day (using Netscape Navigator 3.01 & AltaVista) looking for news stories and information about Linux. I eventually registered an account and came back, not every day, but darn near it until now. There is something that kept me coming back all these years, and I suspect it was something attached to you, Rob. Wish you the best.
You reply to the main story, up top. Look for the box that contains "The Fine Print:" and then hit 'reply'.
Has it all.
http://xkcd.com/653/
But does the way Carl Sagan talks remind anybody else of Agent Smith? "That's a billion suns, Mister Anderson."
Does no one else find the makeipodsafe.com site to be an obvious (and hilarious) parody?
* There are millions of Apple products out there at the customers...
* According to the last ones which already explode and went on fire...
* How to avoid iPhone from exploding
* Lots more...
And this?
C'mon people; that's comedy gold.
Take a screwdriver and mangle the hell out of the ethernet port(s). Then set up the whole house to use only wireless.
Then, it'll *never* work with Linux. Done!
First of all, she's totally hot. And the WaPo ran her picture with the story. She also works at Victoria's Secret. So, what we have here is a pretty girl, between the ages of 19 and 19 and a half, making exciting underwear. And she's being repressed.
There's no way Regal Cinemas will whether the maelstrom of bad press that this will generate.
The charges will be dropped by this time next week. Maybe sooner.
1997: Best damn summer of my life.
Internet, beer, house-sitting,
house-painting, differential equations....
woo, it was awesome. I need another one of those.
Are we all invited to the Bar Mitzvah?
(I know Larry is a Christian, but his brainchild is experimenting with Judaism).
Look, being truly educated means being able to use your mind. Technical skills can become obselete in very short periods of time, but a robust intellect that knows how to solve problems in the general sense and can reason fairly and cogently is always a powerful tool (weapon?). This is the kind of thing you learn from reading Einstein and Newton, Euler and Gauss, even Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
From the masters, you learn mastery of your own human capacity to understand, and we all know that knowledge is power (ABC schoolhouse ROCK!)
There is one school in the USA where you can study such things. I graduated in 1994, and can say that I learned more permanently useful skills there than I did in all of my technical training (which was extensive). It's a great school, investigate.
in hypertext that's: Thomas Aquinas College
that just plain sucked.
i'd be very surprised if whoever orchestrated it didn't include some explosives in their plan
Uh, explosives huh? You mean like jet fuel?
PS1="\[\e[1;37m\]\h\[\e[0;0m\]:\w> "
actually, doesn't the OpenBSD website run on a Solaris/Sparc machine at some university?
While I can't say I respect his theology, I do believe he wrote some of the best fiction of the 20th century. His was a rare brain that was just slightly off in the most delightful way. His stories touched on the realm of the possible in a way that changed my view of the Galaxy. Only the good die young.
The only thing that can console me this morning is MST3K. Sshhh! It's on.
About a year ago, I installed FreeBSD 3.2 from an old CD a friend had given me. I did it just for kicks. I later added some accounts and removed or chmod 0'ed some setuid binaries. The next day I got an email from root telling me everything that I had done. I realize that this sort of thing could be done with Linux too, but the point is that none of my Linux boxes had ever done such a thing. And certainly not from a default install... EGADS -- NEVER !!!
Here I am a year later and I am very happily running FreeBSD on all dozen or so servers that I control. It truly is a wonderful thing to work with. For every remote root exploit or broken compiler that ships with RedHat (my old Linux choice), I have a new reason to love my new baby FreeBSD.
The ultimate testimony: I have installed 4.2-RELEASE on my home machine which I am posting from now. Haha, I feel like such a bad-ass seeing 'fxp0' instead of 'eth0' from ifconfig. That's my real motivation.
Sorry, I couldn't resist:
>What Rooney's introduced is only a bill at this point
I'm just a Bill,
Yes, I'm only a Bill.
But, I've made it this far to Capitol Hill...
Does anybody remember the rest of the words to this classic ABC schoolhouse rock?
I agree with many of the above posts, i.e.
- the whole story is blatant advertising
- their license is utter brain-space pollution
- this product is nothing even remotely new
- and untested, immature, opens a port (hole?), etc
But I do have to say: damn that's a NICE looking webpage!Kudos to your webmaster, Ross.
>even worse from your gateway IP, there went your internet access
I've heard this crap before and I simply have to respond.
You can block all packets coming from your gateway and you will not experience a loss of connectivity. Dropping packets from your gateway only means that packets with that machine's source address are ignored, it does not mean that every packet that goes through that machine is blocked, as your statement implies. If you firewall out your gateway, then you won't be able to ping it, it won't be able to ping you, you won't be able to connect to it's web server (why is your router running a webserver?), you won't be able to get your email from your router, etc, and so on. None of this really matters in the normal case (99.99% of the time). Your machine will still happily accept packets from sources that simply pass them through a host you have completely firewalled out, which is the entire Internet (minus your router). Yahoo doesn't stop working just because you drop packets that originate from your gateway.
Get a clue about TCP/IP. Also please understand that I still don't think that automated blocking of portscanner's IPs is a good idea.. it isn't. But your notion of IP routing is false and I cannot bear it without comment.
Nope, it's not Perl either. Unless 'wget' got slipped into 5.6 as a built in function (have to admit I haven't checked), it's missing a system() inside the loop. Let's call it pseudocode, just be charitable, OK smartass?
so i moderated, what's next????
Actually, I got it from the fortune db. It was the first list in a list of lists. I should have attributed, you are right. It was an exciting time in my life. I love Jana.
X windows:
Accept any substitute.
If it's broke, don't fix it.
If it ain't broke, fix it.
Form follows malfunction.
The Cutting Edge of Obsolescence.
The trailing edge of software technology.
Armageddon never looked so good.
Japan's secret weapon.
You'll envy the dead.
Making the world safe for competing window systems.
Let it get in YOUR way.
The problem for your problem.
If it starts working, we'll fix it. Pronto.
It could be worse, but it'll take time.
Simplicity made complex.
The greatest productivity aid since typhoid.
Flakey and built to stay that way.