Spamming has become this prevalent. *That's* what has gone wrong.
I don't care which ISP or hosting service allows spammers to operate on their network - if they allow it, they need to be blacklisted. Hell, I'm of the opinion that they should be blocked at the router level - the Internet is an ISP's lifeblood, and without connectivity, their customer base goes elsewhere.
At this time, where at least one third of all email is spam, we *need* to be proactive in seriously limiting where spammers can find Internet access. If an ISP is going to be spam friendly, then it's time to kick them off the 'net.
The big problem with Windows is it's basic design: it's not modular. Just about everything in Windows is interdependent on something else.
UNIX (and Linux, being based on UNIX) has far more modularity built in. Do you absolutely need a GUI to run a server? Must you have KDE if you want to use WindowMaker?
With Windows, when a security hole is found, it often takes months to fix, since Microsoft has to figure out every aspect of their software which is affected by this bug - and even then, their patches tend to not fix the entire problem.
This isn't necessarily the cause of being user-friendly, though. Rather, it's the *way* Microsoft chooses to implement user-friendly - in the least efficient manner possible.
It takes ISPs long enough to wake up. Users in general *are* clueless - now that the ISPs are finally wielding the cluebat, perhaps some of these users will finally get a clue!
A bit over 10 years ago, my HS had a Novell network which was rather... open. I had figured out how to send messages to other computers, or groups of computers. After sending one to the computers in the school library, a few teachers started going around to network-connected classrooms (there weren't all that many), looking for whomever sent those messages.
My teacher at the time was the former admin of the network, and was sitting right next to me as I sent the message (I don't remember what it was now, but I wasn't particularly rude). He was rather amused by the whole incident, and as the roving pack-o-teachers reached the classroom I was in, he informed them that no one there had sent the message.
It scares me to think of what would happen to me now, if I were in HS and doing this.
Nothing like suppressing a kid's desire to learn computers, eh? If the teachers don't understand it, then it *must* be wrong to use.
Ask "Cuntcleaner" Slashdot: Motherfucks "Bumbanger" Your Company "Fill me up" Censor the Content for You?
Posted by Cliff on Tuesday "Big Dick" October 14, @08:18PM from the muff sniffing a-stealth-filter dept. JAZ asks: "A few felchs ago a unclefucking friend of mine and I were discussing plows story. He was trying to make a joke about some content in the article that might be fisted 'inappropriate' (the bit concerning 22,000 files). I didn't get his joke because the muff sniffing gangbangs weren't there. With a barfing little investigation, I creamed that my company's proxy server was pecking a raunching modified version. Is jerks a common practice? Has anyone else noticed pecking similar?"
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...responsible for several Redhat servers and workstations, I can tell you that we're beginning the process of switching to Debian.
Stable (if some of the software is a little outdated), easy to maintain and upgrade, no registration required to use apt (see how far you get on RHN without that), and far cheaper.
Yet, applications tend to affect the stability of Windows far more than I've seen on any other OS. Many application crashes seem to create a condition which only a reboot can resolve.
Why is Windows so susceptible to faulty applications?
I never said anything was irrelevant - I just stated that legislation is not the answer to the spam problem.
Why do spammers sue (and win, in some cases!) services like blackhole lists, if use of the lists is entirely voluntary, and there is no stated *requirement* anywhere that says you, as an email user, HAVE to waste time, bandwidth, and disk space with Viagra ads? Why do I, as a sysadmin, still have to put up with spam on the servers I maintain?
Sure, it may be nice to sue spammers for $500 - but it takes time and quite a bit of effort to do - IF you can track them down, and IF either you or they are in a jurisdiction which specifically disallows spam. However, this is a problem which really is better left to the 'net to resolve - as long as we don't have to look forward to the courts entering judgements in favor of spammers who are really nothing more than thieves (wasting YOUR time to download the message, read it, and hit delete, wasting YOUR bandwidth (and, in some cases, your money, too!), wasting YOUR disk space).
ISPs are becoming more complacent with spammers nowadays. There's not a hell of a lot that's currently done to them if they harbor spammers (and hell, they can charge the spammer more money!) - and, if they refuse to, they can look forward to the spammer suing them (hello, courts!).
As I stated in my earlier message, blackhole lists aren't a final solution to this growing problem, but they ARE a good start. They're even more useful if we don't need to worry about clueless judges entering judgement in favor of thieves.
I've always held the viewpoint that creating legislation to handle spam is a Bad Thing (TM). Unfortunately, such laws tend to be badly written, and get out of control quickly.
How do you define spam, in legal terms? If a random user sends you an unsolicited email for ANY purpose, can you declare his message illegal? Imagine the havoc.
Systems like ORBS were on the right track (though they're hardly the perfect solution) - let us, the users of the 'net, regulate spam. Unfortunately, due to sue-happy spammers, such systems are now being rendered ineffective (why does it seem that wherever the courts get involved, matters just get worse and worse...?).
Legislation is not the answer. If the courts would only throw such frivolous lawsuits out, we *could* take care of the problem ourselves.
A couple years back, I created a player for these 'movies' in perl (which is in use on blinkenlights.nl. It's a bit more than the one-liner, but it does play them smoothly (no flickering). It also supports Asciimation movies of other sizes (like Simon's Death of Jar Jar).
My suggestion - search on google for what you like. You're bound to come up with quite a few hits. Look at a few of them until you find something that suits you.
There are all sorts of music communities out there. If you're into metal, I personally recommend taking a look at Perpetual Motion. You're bound to find similar communities for other genres as well.
Typically, proxied connections *do not* return ident, unless the proxy is configured to do so (which is rare). Nowadays, ident is usually used to curb proxy abuse more than anything else.
I just rode PATCO out of Philly today, and noticed a Coke ad (I've ridden PATCO in/out of Philly several times now, and haven't noticed the ad until now).
There is far too much advertising in our society today. When they start introducing new advertising on trains like this, I wonder why ticket prices never go down (though they often seem to climb soon afterwards...).
I hate spam as much as most people do (wastes bandwidth, disk space, user's time, etc.), but I'm not convinced that legislation is the way to stop the deluge.
How does one define spam - in legal terms? This is something that would seem to be prone to misinterpretation: what types of advertisements count as spam? What about someone stating where they work (or that they're unemployed) in their sig? Could that be defined as spam?
Then there's the whole revenge thing - using the above, if you're receiving email from, say, someone you don't like, you may be able to declare HIM a spammer (even though his messages may not fit the original definition of spam).
I haven't read the text of the bill, nor am I a lawyer, so I can't say what is or isn't possible due to how it's written. However, this seems to be something to seriously consider - when laws try to regulate how the 'net works, they usually tend to make matters worse. Just look at spammers suing spam blacklists and those who put them on the blacklists for an example of things gone horribly wrong.
What do we do? We can't legislate, and we can't regulate on our own (without getting sued by some dumbass who would rather steal money from end-users and ISPs than stopping their own spam activities).
Despite having some problems with it - ever-widening plot holes (WHY was R2 + C3PO on the moisture farm?), some wooden acting, etc. - I thought it was a damned good movie overall. The Coruscant scenes were absolutely amazing (although the other planetary scenes were pretty good as well), and I like how the storyline starts falling into place (Anakin starts on the road to becoming mostly machine - and towards the Dark Side, plans for a certain secret weapon wind up in the hands of the Sith...)
Overall, the movie kicked some serious ass - and I, for one, will wind up seeing it at least one or two more times.
Seriously - this movie was bad. Real bad. The plot was nonexistent, the storyline jumped all over, and the morons behind the movie seemed to realize the fight scenes were the best part - much of the movie was devoted to jumping from fight scene to fight scene. So much so, in fact, that I nearly fell asleep DURING several of the (many) fight scenes - they couldn't even hold my attention.
This movie ranks second in my book of 'Movies To Avoid Like The Plague', behind Mars Attacks.
First off, a school facing budget cuts should not be relying on Windows. That's a 'solution' which will only get more expensive over time.
That being said, I would recommend Linux or one of the free BSD variants, as they have the capability to be thin clients (NFS mount filesystems). If you're interested in doing this with Linux, there's already a project set up to do just that: Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP).
I was nearly hired by a university myself, and had suggested they look into this, as it also makes life easier when trying to administrate such a large number of systems. Alas, the university rejected both the suggestion, and my bid for employment - but that's another story.:)
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Spamming has become this prevalent. *That's* what has gone wrong.
I don't care which ISP or hosting service allows spammers to operate on their network - if they allow it, they need to be blacklisted. Hell, I'm of the opinion that they should be blocked at the router level - the Internet is an ISP's lifeblood, and without connectivity, their customer base goes elsewhere.
At this time, where at least one third of all email is spam, we *need* to be proactive in seriously limiting where spammers can find Internet access. If an ISP is going to be spam friendly, then it's time to kick them off the 'net.
Disk Operating System?
Or did you mean DoS - Denial of Service?
The big problem with Windows is it's basic design: it's not modular. Just about everything in Windows is interdependent on something else.
UNIX (and Linux, being based on UNIX) has far more modularity built in. Do you absolutely need a GUI to run a server? Must you have KDE if you want to use WindowMaker?
With Windows, when a security hole is found, it often takes months to fix, since Microsoft has to figure out every aspect of their software which is affected by this bug - and even then, their patches tend to not fix the entire problem.
This isn't necessarily the cause of being user-friendly, though. Rather, it's the *way* Microsoft chooses to implement user-friendly - in the least efficient manner possible.
Not always - there are people who do work from home and do not have a problem.
However, I'm not going to give someone money so I can find a job. In general, THAT is a scam.
It takes ISPs long enough to wake up. Users in general *are* clueless - now that the ISPs are finally wielding the cluebat, perhaps some of these users will finally get a clue!
Yeah, one can dream...
A bit over 10 years ago, my HS had a Novell network which was rather ... open. I had figured out how to send messages to other computers, or groups of computers. After sending one to the computers in the school library, a few teachers started going around to network-connected classrooms (there weren't all that many), looking for whomever sent those messages.
My teacher at the time was the former admin of the network, and was sitting right next to me as I sent the message (I don't remember what it was now, but I wasn't particularly rude). He was rather amused by the whole incident, and as the roving pack-o-teachers reached the classroom I was in, he informed them that no one there had sent the message.
It scares me to think of what would happen to me now, if I were in HS and doing this.
Nothing like suppressing a kid's desire to learn computers, eh? If the teachers don't understand it, then it *must* be wrong to use.
Ask "Cuntcleaner" Slashdot: Motherfucks "Bumbanger" Your Company "Fill me up" Censor the Content for You?
Posted by Cliff on Tuesday "Big Dick" October 14, @08:18PM
from the muff sniffing a-stealth-filter dept.
JAZ asks: "A few felchs ago a unclefucking friend of mine and I were discussing plows story. He was trying to make a joke about some content in the article that might be fisted 'inappropriate' (the bit concerning 22,000 files). I didn't get his joke because the muff sniffing gangbangs weren't there. With a barfing little investigation, I creamed that my company's proxy server was pecking a raunching modified version. Is jerks a common practice? Has anyone else noticed pecking similar?"
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... long live BSD Lite.
Nothing worse than a vicious Disk Operating System attack. MS-DOS was particularly nasty. Or, perhaps you meant DoS (as in Denial of Service)...
...responsible for several Redhat servers and workstations, I can tell you that we're beginning the process of switching to Debian.
Stable (if some of the software is a little outdated), easy to maintain and upgrade, no registration required to use apt (see how far you get on RHN without that), and far cheaper.
Yet, applications tend to affect the stability of Windows far more than I've seen on any other OS. Many application crashes seem to create a condition which only a reboot can resolve.
Why is Windows so susceptible to faulty applications?
I never said anything was irrelevant - I just stated that legislation is not the answer to the spam problem.
Why do spammers sue (and win, in some cases!) services like blackhole lists, if use of the lists is entirely voluntary, and there is no stated *requirement* anywhere that says you, as an email user, HAVE to waste time, bandwidth, and disk space with Viagra ads? Why do I, as a sysadmin, still have to put up with spam on the servers I maintain?
Sure, it may be nice to sue spammers for $500 - but it takes time and quite a bit of effort to do - IF you can track them down, and IF either you or they are in a jurisdiction which specifically disallows spam. However, this is a problem which really is better left to the 'net to resolve - as long as we don't have to look forward to the courts entering judgements in favor of spammers who are really nothing more than thieves (wasting YOUR time to download the message, read it, and hit delete, wasting YOUR bandwidth (and, in some cases, your money, too!), wasting YOUR disk space).
ISPs are becoming more complacent with spammers nowadays. There's not a hell of a lot that's currently done to them if they harbor spammers (and hell, they can charge the spammer more money!) - and, if they refuse to, they can look forward to the spammer suing them (hello, courts!).
As I stated in my earlier message, blackhole lists aren't a final solution to this growing problem, but they ARE a good start. They're even more useful if we don't need to worry about clueless judges entering judgement in favor of thieves.
I've always held the viewpoint that creating legislation to handle spam is a Bad Thing (TM). Unfortunately, such laws tend to be badly written, and get out of control quickly.
How do you define spam, in legal terms? If a random user sends you an unsolicited email for ANY purpose, can you declare his message illegal? Imagine the havoc.
Systems like ORBS were on the right track (though they're hardly the perfect solution) - let us, the users of the 'net, regulate spam. Unfortunately, due to sue-happy spammers, such systems are now being rendered ineffective (why does it seem that wherever the courts get involved, matters just get worse and worse...?).
Legislation is not the answer. If the courts would only throw such frivolous lawsuits out, we *could* take care of the problem ourselves.
Sorry for the repost. Was logged out.
i imation.pl.
A couple years back, I created a player for these 'movies' in perl (which is in use on blinkenlights.nl. It's a bit more than the one-liner, but it does play them smoothly (no flickering). It also supports Asciimation movies of other sizes (like Simon's Death of Jar Jar).
Player is available at http://mordor.rutgers.edu/~sauron/asciimation/asc
Try not to abuse this server too much, please.
My suggestion - search on google for what you like. You're bound to come up with quite a few hits. Look at a few of them until you find something that suits you.
There are all sorts of music communities out there. If you're into metal, I personally recommend taking a look at Perpetual Motion. You're bound to find similar communities for other genres as well.
Typically, proxied connections *do not* return ident, unless the proxy is configured to do so (which is rare). Nowadays, ident is usually used to curb proxy abuse more than anything else.
Yes, Ogg supports variable bitrate. Take a look at this question in the Ogg Vorbis FAQ for more information.
I just rode PATCO out of Philly today, and noticed a Coke ad (I've ridden PATCO in/out of Philly several times now, and haven't noticed the ad until now).
There is far too much advertising in our society today. When they start introducing new advertising on trains like this, I wonder why ticket prices never go down (though they often seem to climb soon afterwards...).
I hate spam as much as most people do (wastes bandwidth, disk space, user's time, etc.), but I'm not convinced that legislation is the way to stop the deluge.
How does one define spam - in legal terms? This is something that would seem to be prone to misinterpretation: what types of advertisements count as spam? What about someone stating where they work (or that they're unemployed) in their sig? Could that be defined as spam?
Then there's the whole revenge thing - using the above, if you're receiving email from, say, someone you don't like, you may be able to declare HIM a spammer (even though his messages may not fit the original definition of spam).
I haven't read the text of the bill, nor am I a lawyer, so I can't say what is or isn't possible due to how it's written. However, this seems to be something to seriously consider - when laws try to regulate how the 'net works, they usually tend to make matters worse. Just look at spammers suing spam blacklists and those who put them on the blacklists for an example of things gone horribly wrong.
What do we do? We can't legislate, and we can't regulate on our own (without getting sued by some dumbass who would rather steal money from end-users and ISPs than stopping their own spam activities).
Saw the movie at 12:01 am - and it was worth it.
Despite having some problems with it - ever-widening plot holes (WHY was R2 + C3PO on the moisture farm?), some wooden acting, etc. - I thought it was a damned good movie overall. The Coruscant scenes were absolutely amazing (although the other planetary scenes were pretty good as well), and I like how the storyline starts falling into place (Anakin starts on the road to becoming mostly machine - and towards the Dark Side, plans for a certain secret weapon wind up in the hands of the Sith...)
Overall, the movie kicked some serious ass - and I, for one, will wind up seeing it at least one or two more times.
Just a nitpick, but I'm absolutely amazed at the number of people who cannot spell 'kernel'.
A hint for you Linux users (and for those who say it doesn't matter) - www.kernal.org doesn't distribute the Linux kernel.
... for the spoiler.
I *was* going to watch this episode, which a friend had taped for me. So much for that.
Seriously, think twice about posting something like this - period.
http://www.dell.com/us/en/esg/topics/esg_pedge_rac kmain_servers_1_pedge_1650.htm
I seem to recall these having decent serial consoles, supported by the BIOS (one can even configure the BIOS via serial console).
This movie blew some serious goat testicles.
Seriously - this movie was bad. Real bad. The plot was nonexistent, the storyline jumped all over, and the morons behind the movie seemed to realize the fight scenes were the best part - much of the movie was devoted to jumping from fight scene to fight scene. So much so, in fact, that I nearly fell asleep DURING several of the (many) fight scenes - they couldn't even hold my attention.
This movie ranks second in my book of 'Movies To Avoid Like The Plague', behind Mars Attacks.
First off, a school facing budget cuts should not be relying on Windows. That's a 'solution' which will only get more expensive over time.
:)
That being said, I would recommend Linux or one of the free BSD variants, as they have the capability to be thin clients (NFS mount filesystems). If you're interested in doing this with Linux, there's already a project set up to do just that: Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP).
I was nearly hired by a university myself, and had suggested they look into this, as it also makes life easier when trying to administrate such a large number of systems. Alas, the university rejected both the suggestion, and my bid for employment - but that's another story.
Good luck.