I agree. When investigating my large eletricity usage it came to my attetion that the freezer was running overtime. The freezer was old and its CFCs had leaked to the atmosphere which kept the compressor running 24/7.
I think issues like this are far more relevant than "Should I keep my DVD player on standby?".
I agree. I work in a contract laboratory that provides results to various sectors. I don't get 400 emails a week but 200 is common and most of these are just keeping me in loop of what's happening.
Even with all this technology I still get faxes turn up on my desk from clients that think a fax is more certain than an email. I scan the fax to pdf and deal with it from there. I hate paper on my desk.
I started in a non IT related position 8 months ago. In that time I have managed to find the admin passwords to two domains, admin access to the company database, local admin access to all the PCs at my site, VNC passwords as well as discovered the company RedHat server runs a vulnerable version of SSH. All this by showing half an interest and sounding like you know what you're talking about. But then, maybe the IT department here is useless.
I have lived in Canada and I'd love to have my old Sympatico 1000/128 DSL for $45/m here in Australia. I live about 8km from a major city here and am one of the lucky ones as I have both cable and DSL in my area but there's a major effort to get both. I first swallowed my pride and organised for cable to be installed at $189 for connection and $87.95/m (about USD$55-$60) on a 18 month contract. This gives you a great connection of about 2-3000 down and 128 up but a pathetic 3 gig limit which includes upload traffic. Sure they offer unmetered content like Linux isos and game servers but still . They came to install it, said I wasn't home and I'd have to wait 15 days for another install date. I live in a security building the only to get in is to ring the phone from the main entrance but I got no ring. I thought screw this I'll get DSL and guess what my status is?
Initial Data Entry Date: Fri May 9 2003
Target Completion Date: Fri May 30 2003 (Indicative only, not guaranteed)
Overall Status: Provisioning is in progress
Detailed Status: Held: Service Held - Delay in provisioning encountered - Contact Internode for more information.
I contacted them, seems Telstra (which DSL connections must go through) don't have enough copper so I have to wait till Telstra gets of their arse and decides if they want to change my line over so it's copper all the way from the exchange to me. Telstra suck, I hate the company but what can you do when you want broadband?
DirecPC® Satellite Edition (SE) offers Unlimited High Speed Satellite Internet Connection Time at speed up to 400 kilobits/sec to virtually everyone in Canada with a phone line and an ISP connection - including Canadians who don't have access to other high speed Internet options such as Cable or DSL.
You still need a regular ISP as you have to upload through a regular modem. Not the best broadband but if it's your only option....
In the west there's Shaw Cable with speeds around 4000/350 or Telus DSL at 1500/256. In the east there's Bell Sympatico 1000/128, Rogers Cable 2000/128 and Videotron 3000/128. Plus there's also the various resellers that are basically rebranded from the bigger companies. The above all cost about $40-$50 CAN. Some companies are also introducing a "lite" product which offers 128/128 speeds for $25 CAN a month which is great for people that have little use for the internet but hate keeping the phone line busy. Even if you can't get DSL or Cable there is a satellite service which will allow you to download at better speeds than dialup. This will bring more jobs and more broadband, hopefully the other provinces will follow.
I had the same complaints but I am now using KDE 3 beta and the improvements in speed are amazing. Although quicker apps still take a while to start but the reponsiveness of switching between windows and menu actions is very much improved. Konqueror has also received a nice speed boost.
The KDE team and Trolltech have done a great job and when KDE 3 is released in the next month or so it will be definitly worth checking out.
Australia is a bunch of gamblers that will bet on anything and everything. The government makes a lot of money putting taxes on such things.
If they can regulate this they can then put a tax on it. Want to play that "Adult" rated blackjack game? Then your ISP bill will have a little extra on top.
I've only been gone two years and hope Australia doesn't change too much before I get home.
If you have been following this on bugtraq MS hasn't fixed the problem and it is still possible to hide the file. Click this link and a patched IE6 will tell you you're downloading a txt file but it's really an exe.
http://kuperus.xs4all.nl/microsoft.txt
Q: Where does the name come from? Are you aware that atheos means "without god" in Greek?
A: The name is short for Athena (the Greek goddess of wisdom) and OS and have nothing to do with atheism. I was not aware that "atheos" indeed was a word in any language when I named the OS but figured that out later. Just think of it as a name. It is not supposed to mean anything.
Not sure how new this is but a quote from someone at Source Forge on the ReiserFS site.
http://ftp.sourceforge.net/ has 850GB storage, half of which is reiserfs, half is ext2. Both filesystems have been running flawlessly for > 4 months of production (actually longer, but wasn't reiserfs before). That server pushes between 15Mbit and 50Mbit/sec, and pulls/syncs about 2-5Mbit/sec, 24x7.
reiserfs also powers the CVS tree filesystem for cvs-mirror.mozilla.org (also tokyojoe.sourceforge.net), which is the one and only anonymous CVS checkout point for mozilla. That server has run flawlessly under very heavy load since its birth.
I don't get involved in kernel politics, but as a production filesystem, reiserfs is ok in my book.
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Triple J's Hack had a good comment on this today. "I have more friends on Facebook than some of these ISPs".
I agree. When investigating my large eletricity usage it came to my attetion that the freezer was running overtime. The freezer was old and its CFCs had leaked to the atmosphere which kept the compressor running 24/7.
I think issues like this are far more relevant than "Should I keep my DVD player on standby?".
Even with all this technology I still get faxes turn up on my desk from clients that think a fax is more certain than an email. I scan the fax to pdf and deal with it from there. I hate paper on my desk.
I started in a non IT related position 8 months ago. In that time I have managed to find the admin passwords to two domains, admin access to the company database, local admin access to all the PCs at my site, VNC passwords as well as discovered the company RedHat server runs a vulnerable version of SSH.
All this by showing half an interest and sounding like you know what you're talking about. But then, maybe the IT department here is useless.
I have lived in Canada and I'd love to have my old Sympatico 1000/128 DSL for $45/m here in Australia. I live about 8km from a major city here and am one of the lucky ones as I have both cable and DSL in my area but there's a major effort to get both.
I first swallowed my pride and organised for cable to be installed at $189 for connection and $87.95/m (about USD$55-$60) on a 18 month contract. This gives you a great connection of about 2-3000 down and 128 up but a pathetic 3 gig limit which includes upload traffic. Sure they offer unmetered content like Linux isos and game servers but still . They came to install it, said I wasn't home and I'd have to wait 15 days for another install date. I live in a security building the only to get in is to ring the phone from the main entrance but I got no ring. I thought screw this I'll get DSL and guess what my status is?
Initial Data Entry Date: Fri May 9 2003
Target Completion Date: Fri May 30 2003 (Indicative only, not guaranteed)
Overall Status: Provisioning is in progress
Detailed Status: Held: Service Held - Delay in provisioning encountered - Contact Internode for more information.
I contacted them, seems Telstra (which DSL connections must go through) don't have enough copper so I have to wait till Telstra gets of their arse and decides if they want to change my line over so it's copper all the way from the exchange to me.
Telstra suck, I hate the company but what can you do when you want broadband?
Default setting:
/forums/all HTTP/1.1
/forums/all HTTP/1.1
kio_http: (638) ============ Sending Header:
kio_http: (638) GET
kio_http: (638) Connection: Keep-Alive
kio_http: (638) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)
kio_http: (638) Accept: text/*, image/jpeg, image/png, image/*, */*
kio_http: (638) Accept-Encoding: x-gzip, x-deflate, gzip, deflate, identity
kio_http: (638) Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5
kio_http: (638) Accept-Language: en, POSIX
or the same browser prentending to be a MS OS:
kio_http: (638) ============ Sending Header:
kio_http: (638) GET
kio_http: (638) Connection: Keep-Alive
kio_http: (638) User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
kio_http: (638) Accept: text/*, image/jpeg, image/png, image/*, */*
kio_http: (638) Accept-Encoding: x-gzip, x-deflate, gzip, deflate, identity
kio_http: (638) Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5
kio_http: (638) Accept-Language: en, POSIX
DirecPC® Satellite Edition (SE) offers Unlimited High Speed Satellite Internet Connection Time at speed up to 400 kilobits/sec to virtually everyone in Canada with a phone line and an ISP connection - including Canadians who don't have access to other high speed Internet options such as Cable or DSL.
You still need a regular ISP as you have to upload through a regular modem. Not the best broadband but if it's your only option....
In the west there's Shaw Cable with speeds around 4000/350 or Telus DSL at 1500/256. In the east there's Bell Sympatico 1000/128, Rogers Cable 2000/128 and Videotron 3000/128. Plus there's also the various resellers that are basically rebranded from the bigger companies. The above all cost about $40-$50 CAN. Some companies are also introducing a "lite" product which offers 128/128 speeds for $25 CAN a month which is great for people that have little use for the internet but hate keeping the phone line busy. Even if you can't get DSL or Cable there is a satellite service which will allow you to download at better speeds than dialup.
This will bring more jobs and more broadband, hopefully the other provinces will follow.
Also on the dot is this discussion which talks about a way to get QT only apps to look and act like native KDE apps.
I had the same complaints but I am now using KDE 3 beta and the improvements in speed are amazing. Although quicker apps still take a while to start but the reponsiveness of switching between windows and menu actions is very much improved. Konqueror has also received a nice speed boost.
The KDE team and Trolltech have done a great job and when KDE 3 is released in the next month or so it will be definitly worth checking out.
If they can regulate this they can then put a tax on it. Want to play that "Adult" rated blackjack game? Then your ISP bill will have a little extra on top.
I've only been gone two years and hope Australia doesn't change too much before I get home.
If you have been following this on bugtraq MS hasn't fixed the problem and it is still possible to hide the file. Click this link and a patched IE6 will tell you you're downloading a txt file but it's really an exe. http://kuperus.xs4all.nl/microsoft.txt
Q: Where does the name come from? Are you aware that atheos means "without god" in Greek?
A: The name is short for Athena (the Greek goddess of wisdom) and OS and have nothing to do with atheism. I was not aware that "atheos" indeed was a word in any language when I named the OS but figured that out later. Just think of it as a name. It is not supposed to mean anything.
http://ftp.sourceforge.net/ has 850GB storage, half of which is reiserfs, half is ext2. Both filesystems have been running flawlessly for > 4 months of production (actually longer, but wasn't reiserfs before). That server pushes between 15Mbit and 50Mbit/sec, and pulls/syncs about 2-5Mbit/sec, 24x7. reiserfs also powers the CVS tree filesystem for cvs-mirror.mozilla.org (also tokyojoe.sourceforge.net), which is the one and only anonymous CVS checkout point for mozilla. That server has run flawlessly under very heavy load since its birth. I don't get involved in kernel politics, but as a production filesystem, reiserfs is ok in my book.
Telling Konqueror to identify itself as IE 5.5 on Windows 2000 will let you view the page. It looks all screwed up though.
Put Xft.rgba: rgb in your .Xdefaults file to turn on sub pixel rendering for X. Works in KDE only though I think.