I plan on drinking my kid's first beers with them, and i plan on smoking the first joint with them as well.
My father paid for my first stripper. Good old dad. Actually he thinks I used the money to go skydiving on my 18th birthday with my friends, but still...
He did buy me my first drink (rum and coke) when I was about 15 just so I could get curiosity out of the way.
To this day, I enjoy drinking. Yet I go for months sometimes without touching alcohol. Same with sex. Neither is a biological necessity nor a vice for me.
This article is so trollish that I can only hope it was written as a parody/joke. Otherwise, this guy has no idea and hasn't bothered to research about the subject he is talking about.
Webmin is nice, but only if you have local webmaster/web-admins. If you need to provide resellers with s control panel, tho, I guess you need to look elsewhere. I don't know what the security implications are in webmin... I seem to recall that it runs as root. Haven't used it in a while, tho.
Well written, simple explanation and non-inflamatory. This is the kind of letter to the editor that can (and should) be taken seriously by major publications. Kudos to nullard, for this is the kind of writing that can give the OS movement a good image.
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I've locked my company into W2K until I have a very, very good reason to switch.
Agreed. I'm very happy with Win2k at the moment. I'll wait for the "End of Life" before rolling an OS upgrade.
Sheeit... I don't think I know 10 tech comics. Can you recomend a couple?
As for cartoons, Userfriendly is nice, tho not laugh out loud funny. There are only so many jokes about tech support before it gets too repetitive. It usually feels like the cartoon version of slashdot articles.
Ubersoft has the right idea. Makes fun promarily of the company we love to hate, but spares no punches when poking fun at itself.
Are they still going to show you ads before the movie in that room?
Yes, but only those regarding the snack bar. After all, only fat cats who pay $13 por a seat can afford to pay $7 for a Crunch bar and $4 for a medium coke.
Unfortunately, unless your ISP is willing to implement the same DNS based filtering, you are out of luck.
I guess you could set a filter to process the IP prior to the secondary MX and filter that. I don't know of any ready made solution for this tho, and it requires that your server receives the message and examines the headers.
I disagree. I see no harm in an adult with a fairly firmly-set value system playing games in the Doom/Quake*/GTA*/Postal genre.
You are right (and I'm dead wrong). I just re-read the post I replied to, and perhaps I should have worded differently or simply not accused Jolyon of hypocrisy.
My intention in my post was to state that perhaps I (we) are hypocrites for denying our kids the misdemeanors we commited in our youth.
Of course, *now* we realize that our parents were right in getting angry/punishing us for our misbehaviour. And *now* we realize our kids will get angry at us for trying to protect them by restricting their "freedom".
Yes. You are also human. You are no more hypocrite than a former stoner/hippie parent cringing at the idea of their kids trying weed or some free love.
I used to sneak into "over 18" movies, shoplift and bribe clerks for booze. I got my first all night binge by the time I was around 15 (complete with rum induced vomiting). I had a darn good time and don't regret most of it. I also know that I would certainly not condone my kids doing either of those activities. Hell, I'll probably go out of my way to prevent it.
Eeh? Ever heard of a movie about a hacker named neo?
HA! Do you think that what made him cool was the fact that he was a hacker?
Hackers better start kung-fu-ing bad guys and dodging bullets if they aspire to be "Neo-cool". Either that or be as good looking as Carrie-Ann Moss in a catsuit.
BTW (and off topic): Agent Smith was the coolest char in "reloaded". That IMHO, of course. Then again, I think Darth Vader kicks ass, if only because he uses the force to choke underperforming underlings. It might be that I have something for the bad guy... but that's just me.
I don't know who your ISP is so I can't comment much on them. Advertising, for better or worse, is supposed to be taken with a grain of salt. Don't let yourself be misled by it. Read your contract and your TOS. If it says there that the will provide you with 100% bandwith 100% of the time, you have grounds for reclamation.
But in my experience, if you want 100% CIR, you'll need to get a clear channel circuit or somesuch and that is WAY more expensive than your typical DSL line. Shop around.
A lot of people have the idea that bandwith is "air" not taking into account the costs associated with maintaining a high speed connection. Oversubscription is the only thing that makes it profitable and if too much of the bandwith is constatly bogged by P2P applications then everybody loses.
Same goes for people who pays $50 bucks for a 256K ADSL and the complain about not getting sustained 256K 24x7.
Nowadays, it's really easy (and cheap) to buy a domain, but a lot of customers prefer to let the ISP/hosting company do this for them. Back in the day when there was a single registrar for.com,.net, etc, and the procedure involved complicated e-mail forms this was understandable. But today, buying a domain is as easy as buying a book on Amazon.
If, however, you insist on having your ISP do this, make sure that you are at least one of the listed contacts and, if the admin is done via a web form, make sure you have the password.
This probably doesn't help your friend, tho. I guess he can send a letterheaded note to the registrar and at least dispute the domain.
To act as devil's advocate: some ISP do hold onto domains whenever the business relationship is not terminated properly (say, the customer didn't give due notice, owes money, etc). I don't know if this is the case of your friend, but it would help to ask the ISP why they think they should hold onto the domain.
OR, if you want to read a good book that's funny, read any of the Terry Pratchett books.
I positively love Terry Pratchertt's Discworld books. But hardly any of the protagonists can be considered an anti-hero. That's the attraction of Apropos of Nothing. You know the protagonist is a mean spirited bastard (and not only because he was born out of wedlock). Yet you (ok, me) find yourself rooting for him.
Eh? I'm almost positive that I cvsup'ed to 4.9 RC1 a couple fo weeks ago (and for my non-production needs, it's pretty stable. It probably would be for my production needs but I'm still at 4.7 in those machines).
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I had to uninstall real player (now realone) for that reason. Man, that thing was anoying. Almost virus-like.
Passport users? Oh, you mean everyone who uses XP because of that annoying bubble that keeps pestering you to sign-up until you do.
WTF? It stopped pestering me after a couple of boots. Same with MS Money. Just say no and it'll stop asking.
I plan on drinking my kid's first beers with them, and i plan on smoking the first joint with them as well.
My father paid for my first stripper. Good old dad. Actually he thinks I used the money to go skydiving on my 18th birthday with my friends, but still...
He did buy me my first drink (rum and coke) when I was about 15 just so I could get curiosity out of the way.
To this day, I enjoy drinking. Yet I go for months sometimes without touching alcohol. Same with sex. Neither is a biological necessity nor a vice for me.
and I was the one fucking your wife!
LOL!! Nice if you died from some nasty STD. Even better if it's not true!
Since your ISP blocked your mail gateway, ask them to smart-host you.
This article is so trollish that I can only hope it was written as a parody/joke. Otherwise, this guy has no idea and hasn't bothered to research about the subject he is talking about.
Webmin is nice, but only if you have local webmaster/web-admins. If you need to provide resellers with s control panel, tho, I guess you need to look elsewhere. I don't know what the security implications are in webmin... I seem to recall that it runs as root. Haven't used it in a while, tho.
Just retire the poor guy
Should have been retired after the third. And we could have done without the second.
Of course, Sierra's policy seemed to be "keep 'em coming until the players find out we are out of new ideas".
Well written, simple explanation and non-inflamatory. This is the kind of letter to the editor that can (and should) be taken seriously by major publications. Kudos to nullard, for this is the kind of writing that can give the OS movement a good image.
I've locked my company into W2K until I have a very, very good reason to switch.
Agreed. I'm very happy with Win2k at the moment. I'll wait for the "End of Life" before rolling an OS upgrade.
Illiad is still in the top 10 tech comics, IMHO.
Sheeit... I don't think I know 10 tech comics. Can you recomend a couple?
As for cartoons, Userfriendly is nice, tho not laugh out loud funny. There are only so many jokes about tech support before it gets too repetitive. It usually feels like the cartoon version of slashdot articles.
Ubersoft has the right idea. Makes fun promarily of the company we love to hate, but spares no punches when poking fun at itself.
How Many Readers Speak Esperanto?
Ok, someone has to ask (you know, the whole stereotype thing and everything):
How many Readers Speak Klingon? Are there more klingon speakers than esperanto speakers in Slashdot?
Are they still going to show you ads before the movie in that room?
Yes, but only those regarding the snack bar. After all, only fat cats who pay $13 por a seat can afford to pay $7 for a Crunch bar and $4 for a medium coke.
Unfortunately, unless your ISP is willing to implement the same DNS based filtering, you are out of luck.
I guess you could set a filter to process the IP prior to the secondary MX and filter that. I don't know of any ready made solution for this tho, and it requires that your server receives the message and examines the headers.
I disagree. I see no harm in an adult with a fairly firmly-set value system playing games in the Doom/Quake*/GTA*/Postal genre.
You are right (and I'm dead wrong). I just re-read the post I replied to, and perhaps I should have worded differently or simply not accused Jolyon of hypocrisy.
My intention in my post was to state that perhaps I (we) are hypocrites for denying our kids the misdemeanors we commited in our youth.
Of course, *now* we realize that our parents were right in getting angry/punishing us for our misbehaviour. And *now* we realize our kids will get angry at us for trying to protect them by restricting their "freedom".
Am i a hypocrite?
Yes. You are also human. You are no more hypocrite than a former stoner/hippie parent cringing at the idea of their kids trying weed or some free love.
I used to sneak into "over 18" movies, shoplift and bribe clerks for booze. I got my first all night binge by the time I was around 15 (complete with rum induced vomiting). I had a darn good time and don't regret most of it. I also know that I would certainly not condone my kids doing either of those activities. Hell, I'll probably go out of my way to prevent it.
Eeh? Ever heard of a movie about a hacker named neo?
HA! Do you think that what made him cool was the fact that he was a hacker?
Hackers better start kung-fu-ing bad guys and dodging bullets if they aspire to be "Neo-cool". Either that or be as good looking as Carrie-Ann Moss in a catsuit.
BTW (and off topic): Agent Smith was the coolest char in "reloaded". That IMHO, of course. Then again, I think Darth Vader kicks ass, if only because he uses the force to choke underperforming underlings. It might be that I have something for the bad guy... but that's just me.
I don't know who your ISP is so I can't comment much on them. Advertising, for better or worse, is supposed to be taken with a grain of salt. Don't let yourself be misled by it. Read your contract and your TOS. If it says there that the will provide you with 100% bandwith 100% of the time, you have grounds for reclamation.
But in my experience, if you want 100% CIR, you'll need to get a clear channel circuit or somesuch and that is WAY more expensive than your typical DSL line. Shop around.
"Recomendo" ??
That sounds like one of Harry Potter's spells.
Bandwidth is expensive and not plentiful
Somebody mod parent up.
A lot of people have the idea that bandwith is "air" not taking into account the costs associated with maintaining a high speed connection. Oversubscription is the only thing that makes it profitable and if too much of the bandwith is constatly bogged by P2P applications then everybody loses.
Same goes for people who pays $50 bucks for a 256K ADSL and the complain about not getting sustained 256K 24x7.
What I want to know is, why aren't the ISPs doing something about this now?
Some ISPs did just that. That was the whole point of SPEWS, wasn't it? Punishing spam friendly ISPs.
Nowadays, it's really easy (and cheap) to buy a domain, but a lot of customers prefer to let the ISP/hosting company do this for them. Back in the day when there was a single registrar for .com, .net, etc, and the procedure involved complicated e-mail forms this was understandable. But today, buying a domain is as easy as buying a book on Amazon.
If, however, you insist on having your ISP do this, make sure that you are at least one of the listed contacts and, if the admin is done via a web form, make sure you have the password.
This probably doesn't help your friend, tho. I guess he can send a letterheaded note to the registrar and at least dispute the domain.
To act as devil's advocate: some ISP do hold onto domains whenever the business relationship is not terminated properly (say, the customer didn't give due notice, owes money, etc). I don't know if this is the case of your friend, but it would help to ask the ISP why they think they should hold onto the domain.
Obligatory Note: IANAL.
Does my cable ISP know what my IP address is at any given time?
Your cable modem has its own unique identifier. They could simply check which cable modem sees some IP and trace it back to you.
Tho, in real life it depends on the equipment and the knowledge of the cable company people.
OR, if you want to read a good book that's funny, read any of the Terry Pratchett books.
I positively love Terry Pratchertt's Discworld books. But hardly any of the protagonists can be considered an anti-hero. That's the attraction of Apropos of Nothing. You know the protagonist is a mean spirited bastard (and not only because he was born out of wedlock). Yet you (ok, me) find yourself rooting for him.
Eh? I'm almost positive that I cvsup'ed to 4.9 RC1 a couple fo weeks ago (and for my non-production needs, it's pretty stable. It probably would be for my production needs but I'm still at 4.7 in those machines).