Show me an out of the box windows OS with an ftp server in it
windows 2000 advanced server. I've got it running because I'm doing some development work on the side and they want me to have the same OS as the servers have. I'm not a windows admin by nature but know my way around a server pretty well. the windows FTP service starts by default; as well as http, nntp, smtp, and probably many others I don't know about - the point being that yes, windows does start BY DEFAULT with all these services running. Granted, it is a server OS but still; not the most secure way of doing things...
You run the setup or install program, and poof, it's there.
poof is right - I've run many 'updates' on windows that either messed up the original install (ie. resetting to a default config) or left behind the old version; only installing a new version on top of the old....leaving dlls, exes, and other files that I can't safely delete because I don't know what's old and what's new.
windowsupdate takes the cake though. I went to windowsupdate.com to install the ie patch of the week; rebooted, and...my registry was corrupt. I still haven't managed to fix the problems it's caused, and this was over a week ago.
The whole thing will heat up and send noxious steam and hydrogen through the hose. The bad stuff condenses in the hose and you are left with very pure hydrogen...Also, you can breath it. That produces a similar effect as helium
I don't know what type of bad stuff comes out of this type of reation; but I sure don't want to be sucking on a hose that had noxious chemicals in it...
(No, this isn't just blatant anti-M$ hatred, but rather the ranting of a student who is mad that his class is using Visual C++ and wants to just be able to use gcc and not deal with Windows)
I overheard some of my fellow CIS students chatting the other day. They were complaining that we still use GCC and that we're not using MS Visual C++. Personally, I much prefer using GCC and I'm very happy on our Solaris systems.
I suppose there's no real point to this story, just a slow Friday night...one last/. posting before bed
Basically as one variable goes up the other goes down; to make an example from #1 above:
Font size. Inversely proportional to quality of the text
The bigger the font size; the lesser the quality of the text. The smaller the font size the higher the quality.
Here in the US (pennsylvania), we have EZ-pass. Basically you put a small (3x3 inches or so) box on your windshield and whenever you travel on the turnpike (toll roads) it charges the toll against your account. It supposedly works interchangably with other state's systems.
Pluto is about 5900 x 10^6 km from the sun. Put in other words it's 39.4 AU(1) away. This comes out to 333 light minutes or 5.55 light hours. Apparently the sun (sol) would be no brighter than Sirius appears in our night sky. The nearest star is 6,634 sun-to-pluto lengths away.
1 - an AU is an Astronomical Unit, the average distance the earth is from the sun
That's a local number for me. In high school, One of the student teachers told us that some of his college buddies had that number and kept getting prank calls until they changed the number.
As one who is about to graduate college (for television production, not CS), you bring up a question that bothers me a lot. How to distribute my business card and/or resume. I've been in a few situations where I've made friends with some people at big places, places I'd love to work or at least have my name and contact information...but been to scared to give my resume or card to without being asked. Is it appropriate to meet someone at a function, chat with them for a while; and just give them my card? Isn't that rude - it makes it seem (at least to me) that the only reason i'd been chatting with them was to get my name in; which couldn't be further from the truth; but it's not what I intend that matters, it's what the other person perceives.
My university [Kutztown University (Pa, USA)] has done this for about a semester. Bandwith was a huge issue here before that; it was so slow that half of all web pages timed out. It was literally a 10-15 minute process to simply get to a hotmail or yahoo inbox - not to mention getting the mail. Using outlook express took 5-10 minutes to check mail. Other web sites and network programs like AIM were just as slow. The blame was placed on the p2p apps being run.
The university implemented a hardware device made by packeteer called PacketShaper which seems to be doing the trick because we've got our decently-fast connection back (I usually get about 150k downloads, slightly faster uploads but I rarely upload anything).
This is (in our case, and looks like in the article too since they mention packetShaper) a physical device that sits between the outside world and the inside world. It does slow p2p applications down - a lot.
I assume each use would be regulated based on restarts. Therefore, you need some type of procedure to reboot the machine every now and then to build revenue(1). Oh, wait; it's already in place...
1 - imagine if you had to pay a fee every time your *nix box restarted...:-)
This [arbitron.com].
You can't fill out the form properly so the station can charge the advertisers for your eardrums unless you know what stations you're listening to.
Excactly. Station identification and association is EVERYTHING. That's why there are remotes; the on-air talent will show up at an event for a while and may not even do a live on-air report; just *being* there helps get people to associate with the station.
I don`t see why a signature is so trusted as an authentication method. Most people i know generate slightly different signatures each time, not intentionally.. and a signature is trivial to fraud.
Indeed, this is true, but consider also the number of businesses that require a signature but don't even bother to compare it to the card. I'd say only 1 out of 3-5 businesses even look at my signature; only 1 out of 10-15 seem to do anything more than a simple glance at it. Don't I feel secure...
service has been decent? ha. this is OT, so moderate it as such if it pleases you; but I have a friend who has a sprint/pcs nationwide package, went to Maine (from PA) for a week, and didn't have a signal for most of the trip there or back. That combined with the problem she's having with people who call her phone getting a "this number has been disconnected" message once every two or three tries (and the support people hvae no clue, of course)...and I don't think I'll go sprint/pcs when I get a cell phone.
Hard drive power. - 9. Surprisingly easy to use, given the amperage it must support. The twisting behavior is really nice. I've never had problems with these.
I've scraped my knuckles way too much trying to unplug stuck power cables. The basic design is fine but the connectors get stuck on the jack and won't come off without a lot of tugging.
Otherwise, Waffle Iron's pulled together a nice collection of the good and bad of connectors.
RCA - What, like 100 years old or something? Classic, and easy to use.
The problem with RCA connectors is that they wear out. It's not a problem for your home stereo system, where nothing gets plugged and unplugged, but in any application where it's swapped around the jack gets worn out.
At the public school in Pennsylvania where i went and worked; the proxy server we were forced to use by our provider, the IU we're a part of, blocked freemail (incidentally, one site pro-linux/OSS site, perhaps sourceforge, was blocked as porn). This wasn't anything we had control over, but it would have been blocked anyway. Why? District's time - teachers, students, whoever; shouldn't be emailing on school time. It was annoying for students who could otherwise hvae emailed work home or to themselves, or who needed to ask a question online; but it was deemed important to block because of the amount of time students "wasted" checking their mail. And there was a lot of waste, but some good too.... in short, for us there's definately no way to get freemail back because of the polical climate of the district and provider.
Sure, I'll agree with you that in cases of a smaller office environment, a dedicated server is out of the question; however how many of these places are going to have full-time always-on internet connections? MS can't get on a box if it's not conencted. Sure, dial-up is still a problem; but how many of these places even have that? If they do, a personal firewall is still imporant, of course.
Huh this makes no sense, do you mean that the system then calls you up on that other phone when you are out if you get a call (thus incuring both cell phone AND the charges of this device), which would offer, err, heh, no benefits over a cell phone (except for when you are at home).
I have no experience with VoIP, but in POTS, call busy/unanswered forwarding is generally something that the phone company sets up for a small fee (I think it's like 3-5 bucks a month but I'm too lazy to run upstairs and check). An incoming, forwarded call costs nothing on the original line. In addition, most cell phones come with enough free minutes that this shouldn't be an issue on that end of the call.
I hear you about the Toshiba problem. I had the exact same issue - my drive, about 1 year old (had already been swapped out once in the past 2 years) started getting bad sectors. Now before I tell the story, I'm not sure what company I dealt with - it could be Circuit City's contracted support company that I went through this nightmare with; I don't have the information at hand right now. By the way; I was assured of a three year no questions asked warrenty, the salesman (yeah; I know, shouldn't listen to him) told me that I could drop it and they'd fix it no questions asked.
The folks on the other end explained that I had to run fdisk and format; then report to them the number of errors I had (never said anything about 20%, but needed to verify that it was getting worse). At this point I had like 100 meg out of 6 gigs bad (as I recall) and was okay with doing it the three times required (well, not happy about it but understanding their requirements). Then the last guy I called (for the third reporting) was a complete idiot, told me that I wasn't do the right thing and that the two previous tech support people were idiots, he said 'whoops' and then told me he couldn't find anywhere listed where my sectors had been recorded.
Long story short, I got a new drive, but it took me 4 weeks, calling almost every day (and in that 4 weeks, format and scandisk ran almost continually. I talked to at least 3 people who were complete idiots and didn't know what a bad sector was, one gentleman who was very helpful and knowledgeable (wish I would have his name or something so I could commend him). The other call I made a year before went really well; but this one sucked. I'll never buy anything at Circuit City again, and probably never by a Toshiba either.
that's actually not such an odd problem. At the school district where I work, we had to return several computers with that exact problem. Granted, the high school students are probably less careful than you. Apples's been great to us, we've had a number of problems and our support's always been excellent (although I haven't dealt directly with them).
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Show me an out of the box windows OS with an ftp server in it
windows 2000 advanced server. I've got it running because I'm doing some development work on the side and they want me to have the same OS as the servers have. I'm not a windows admin by nature but know my way around a server pretty well. the windows FTP service starts by default; as well as http, nntp, smtp, and probably many others I don't know about - the point being that yes, windows does start BY DEFAULT with all these services running. Granted, it is a server OS but still; not the most secure way of doing things...
You run the setup or install program, and poof, it's there.
poof is right - I've run many 'updates' on windows that either messed up the original install (ie. resetting to a default config) or left behind the old version; only installing a new version on top of the old....leaving dlls, exes, and other files that I can't safely delete because I don't know what's old and what's new.
windowsupdate takes the cake though. I went to windowsupdate.com to install the ie patch of the week; rebooted, and...my registry was corrupt. I still haven't managed to fix the problems it's caused, and this was over a week ago.
Um... it's also possible to dip your hand into liquid nitrogen, and to put some in your mouth and blow smoke :)
um..the article....???
[thinks]...or are you harassing your parent comment?
The whole thing will heat up and send noxious steam and hydrogen through the hose. The bad stuff condenses in the hose and you are left with very pure hydrogen...Also, you can breath it. That produces a similar effect as helium
I don't know what type of bad stuff comes out of this type of reation; but I sure don't want to be sucking on a hose that had noxious chemicals in it...
(No, this isn't just blatant anti-M$ hatred, but rather the ranting of a student who is mad that his class is using Visual C++ and wants to just be able to use gcc and not deal with Windows)
/. posting before bed
I overheard some of my fellow CIS students chatting the other day. They were complaining that we still use GCC and that we're not using MS Visual C++. Personally, I much prefer using GCC and I'm very happy on our Solaris systems.
I suppose there's no real point to this story, just a slow Friday night...one last
Basically as one variable goes up the other goes down; to make an example from #1 above:
Font size. Inversely proportional to quality of the text
The bigger the font size; the lesser the quality of the text. The smaller the font size the higher the quality.
Go here for [slightly] more in-depth information
Here in the US (pennsylvania), we have EZ-pass. Basically you put a small (3x3 inches or so) box on your windshield and whenever you travel on the turnpike (toll roads) it charges the toll against your account. It supposedly works interchangably with other state's systems.
Pluto is about 5900 x 10^6 km from the sun. Put in other words it's 39.4 AU(1) away. This comes out to 333 light minutes or 5.55 light hours.
Apparently the sun (sol) would be no brighter than Sirius appears in our night sky.
The nearest star is 6,634 sun-to-pluto lengths away.
1 - an AU is an Astronomical Unit, the average distance the earth is from the sun
That's a local number for me. In high school, One of the student teachers told us that some of his college buddies had that number and kept getting prank calls until they changed the number.
As one who is about to graduate college (for television production, not CS), you bring up a question that bothers me a lot. How to distribute my business card and/or resume. I've been in a few situations where I've made friends with some people at big places, places I'd love to work or at least have my name and contact information...but been to scared to give my resume or card to without being asked. Is it appropriate to meet someone at a function, chat with them for a while; and just give them my card? Isn't that rude - it makes it seem (at least to me) that the only reason i'd been chatting with them was to get my name in; which couldn't be further from the truth; but it's not what I intend that matters, it's what the other person perceives.
My university [Kutztown University (Pa, USA)] has done this for about a semester. Bandwith was a huge issue here before that; it was so slow that half of all web pages timed out. It was literally a 10-15 minute process to simply get to a hotmail or yahoo inbox - not to mention getting the mail. Using outlook express took 5-10 minutes to check mail. Other web sites and network programs like AIM were just as slow. The blame was placed on the p2p apps being run.
The university implemented a hardware device made by packeteer called PacketShaper which seems to be doing the trick because we've got our decently-fast connection back (I usually get about 150k downloads, slightly faster uploads but I rarely upload anything).
This is (in our case, and looks like in the article too since they mention packetShaper) a physical device that sits between the outside world and the inside world. It does slow p2p applications down - a lot.
Yeah Veggies!! ;-)
I assume each use would be regulated based on restarts. Therefore, you need some type of procedure to reboot the machine every now and then to build revenue(1). Oh, wait; it's already in place...
1 - imagine if you had to pay a fee every time your *nix box restarted...:-)
This [arbitron.com].
You can't fill out the form properly so the station can charge the advertisers for your eardrums unless you know what stations you're listening to.
Excactly. Station identification and association is EVERYTHING. That's why there are remotes; the on-air talent will show up at an event for a while and may not even do a live on-air report; just *being* there helps get people to associate with the station.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=39929&cid
I don`t see why a signature is so trusted as an authentication method. Most people i know generate slightly different signatures each time, not intentionally.. and a signature is trivial to fraud.
Indeed, this is true, but consider also the number of businesses that require a signature but don't even bother to compare it to the card. I'd say only 1 out of 3-5 businesses even look at my signature; only 1 out of 10-15 seem to do anything more than a simple glance at it.
Don't I feel secure...
although there's some question as to whether it should be moderated "funny" or "insightful"
service has been decent? ha. this is OT, so moderate it as such if it pleases you; but I have a friend who has a sprint/pcs nationwide package, went to Maine (from PA) for a week, and didn't have a signal for most of the trip there or back. That combined with the problem she's having with people who call her phone getting a "this number has been disconnected" message once every two or three tries (and the support people hvae no clue, of course)...and I don't think I'll go sprint/pcs when I get a cell phone.
Hard drive power. - 9. Surprisingly easy to use, given the amperage it must support. The twisting behavior is really nice. I've never had problems with these.
I've scraped my knuckles way too much trying to unplug stuck power cables. The basic design is fine but the connectors get stuck on the jack and won't come off without a lot of tugging.
Otherwise, Waffle Iron's pulled together a nice collection of the good and bad of connectors.
RCA - What, like 100 years old or something? Classic, and easy to use.
The problem with RCA connectors is that they wear out. It's not a problem for your home stereo system, where nothing gets plugged and unplugged, but in any application where it's swapped around the jack gets worn out.
At the public school in Pennsylvania where i went and worked; the proxy server we were forced to use by our provider, the IU we're a part of, blocked freemail (incidentally, one site pro-linux/OSS site, perhaps sourceforge, was blocked as porn). This wasn't anything we had control over, but it would have been blocked anyway. Why?
District's time - teachers, students, whoever; shouldn't be emailing on school time. It was annoying for students who could otherwise hvae emailed work home or to themselves, or who needed to ask a question online; but it was deemed important to block because of the amount of time students "wasted" checking their mail. And there was a lot of waste, but some good too....
in short, for us there's definately no way to get freemail back because of the polical climate of the district and provider.
[insert standard $0.02 joke here]
Sure, I'll agree with you that in cases of a smaller office environment, a dedicated server is out of the question; however how many of these places are going to have full-time always-on internet connections? MS can't get on a box if it's not conencted. Sure, dial-up is still a problem; but how many of these places even have that? If they do, a personal firewall is still imporant, of course.
Huh this makes no sense, do you mean that the system then calls you up on that other phone when you are out if you get a call (thus incuring both cell phone AND the charges of this device), which would offer, err, heh, no benefits over a cell phone (except for when you are at home).
I have no experience with VoIP, but in POTS, call busy/unanswered forwarding is generally something that the phone company sets up for a small fee (I think it's like 3-5 bucks a month but I'm too lazy to run upstairs and check). An incoming, forwarded call costs nothing on the original line. In addition, most cell phones come with enough free minutes that this shouldn't be an issue on that end of the call.
I hear you about the Toshiba problem. I had the exact same issue - my drive, about 1 year old (had already been swapped out once in the past 2 years) started getting bad sectors. Now before I tell the story, I'm not sure what company I dealt with - it could be Circuit City's contracted support company that I went through this nightmare with; I don't have the information at hand right now. By the way; I was assured of a three year no questions asked warrenty, the salesman (yeah; I know, shouldn't listen to him) told me that I could drop it and they'd fix it no questions asked. The folks on the other end explained that I had to run fdisk and format; then report to them the number of errors I had (never said anything about 20%, but needed to verify that it was getting worse). At this point I had like 100 meg out of 6 gigs bad (as I recall) and was okay with doing it the three times required (well, not happy about it but understanding their requirements). Then the last guy I called (for the third reporting) was a complete idiot, told me that I wasn't do the right thing and that the two previous tech support people were idiots, he said 'whoops' and then told me he couldn't find anywhere listed where my sectors had been recorded. Long story short, I got a new drive, but it took me 4 weeks, calling almost every day (and in that 4 weeks, format and scandisk ran almost continually. I talked to at least 3 people who were complete idiots and didn't know what a bad sector was, one gentleman who was very helpful and knowledgeable (wish I would have his name or something so I could commend him). The other call I made a year before went really well; but this one sucked. I'll never buy anything at Circuit City again, and probably never by a Toshiba either.
that's actually not such an odd problem. At the school district where I work, we had to return several computers with that exact problem. Granted, the high school students are probably less careful than you.
Apples's been great to us, we've had a number of problems and our support's always been excellent (although I haven't dealt directly with them).