Commercials online? Just shut up! I really don't wanna be sitting in an IRC session and have a stupid commercial for viagra or barbie plop up and waiste 30 seconds of my time. How about when I'm downloading porn and a commercial for depends comes up? I mean, thats just totally gonna kill my mood!
Isn't there a law that... oh.. yeah, giants like Yahoo!(tm) don't have to worry about laws.. Then again, its probably in their agreement when you sign up. So in theory they aren't 'breaking any laws'.
Insight into who has spent more money in congress eh? Personally, I think these companies need to spend less time filling the pockets of congress and try to actually produce a (more) secure, (better) quality product. Then they probably wouldn't have to suck off congress all the time.
I agree, all of my production servers have RH 7.x on them. From the few times I've used MDK I've felt it was a cheap OS. Just didn't seem like it would take a beating. Then again, I never liked RedHat due to its bloat. Anyways, to make a long story short, who has more market share in the server market? Probably RedHat. Does Mandrake have a certification? Sure, but you don't hear about it as much as RHCE. Anyways, Even though I've never been the greatest fan of RedHat (I'm a slack kiddie, I admit it!), Its one of the original three distrobutions I grew up with, so I'm going to trust it over Mandrake.
Hrm.. I agree. Does my son really need to learn anything about computers (that he won't learn on his own at home) in the 1st grade? Yeah, I'm an Administrator at an ISP, but I'm guessing that he'll learn more usefull computer skills just fscking around on an old AMD K5-100 than those 'elder and wiser' teachers will give him. I remember my high school computer teacher that claimed she was 'elder and wiser', and then I said 'Older, yes, but how do you explain wiser when I taught myself *nix, and you had to go to a class to learn MacOS?' She didn't say much after that.
You watch the adds? I don't see what the big deal is. Am I also a thief due to the fact that every time a commercial comes on, I get up, take a leak, and then mollest my girlfriend a tad? Same concept, just skipping the advertisements.
Agreed... No government or company, corperation, whatever, is going to come up with a solution, and make that solution keep working. Too many people have too much access to too much knowledge. They only way RIAA is going to get what they want, is if someone drops a huge electromagnetic bomb on the world. People will ALWAYS find a way around it.
I think the majority of the problem is that law makers don't understand technology. I bet 99% of them can't even tell you what TCP or IP stands for. I think we need an agency that deals strictly with the tracking and enforcment of issues like this. I'm sorry, but a police officer from Iowa isn't going to have a clue on how to track someone down online. We need an organization that has "EXPERTS in the field".
Then again, if this agency gets ahold of my MP3 stash, and takes out all of my suppliers, the recording labels have won against me. Which means I'll be forced to buy CD's. If this agency cut out piracy altogather (Uhm.. thats like making a system 100% secure... ha!), EVERYONE would be forced to buy CD's from the recording labels, in which case, the recording labels would have their monopoly back, and I'd be broke from paying $17 for 1 CD that probably has 2-3 songs I like on it... I'm sorry, but I'm a overworked, underpaid admin from a small town, I can't offord to pay that kind of money. The radio stations around here suck, so I guess I'll put an icecream bucket in my car and bang on that on the way to work so I have something to listen to.. *sigh*
Hrm, Evercrack means The Sims? On the mud I used to play, there were lots of people that botted (Set up scripts to do all the work for them). I found this quite pointless. Their character grows, but they did none of the work, thus they could be a very high level, and still have no clue how to play the game effectively outside of the area that they were botting. On the other hand, A sim game that ran in the background, and grew as you and other players tweaked on stuff, would be fun. Wonder if their is a console style sim game out there that is multi player? Or a console style Sim game period.
As much as I love the Final Fantasy series, (Own all 10 games, and the respective console they run on, along with the other misc's such as Tactics, and the gameboy games) FF11 doesn't spark much interest for me. I am kind of curious about multiplayer FF. I think the idea is great, but I think between my job, the old lady, the kids, school... I'm just not giving myself any time for online games like I used to. I've seen EQ, thought it looked cool, but realized it took way too much time to be good at it, so I never started in the first place. And I'm sure FF11 will be the same way for me, not enough time, so I'll never get to play it.
What constitutes it as being the same machine? If I take the ram stick out of the gateway and put it in the new machine, does that make the OEM still good? What if I change the mother board in the gateway, does that kill the OEM? Kinda curious on that one. =)
Heh, sounds like my personal fleet of servers. I've probably parted out about 10 machines to get 3 shell servers up. Most of which were home users who were going to throw away their machines, and I said 'PFFT! I'll take it!'. They thought I was crazy for wanting those 'pieces of junk', but hell, I have machines that work. One mans trash is anothers treasure I guess.
*sigh* These guys were really cool.... I even had a dream about them once.. I somehow got transported back to before linux was 'the shit' to run.... and they were hackin Pac Bell boxen and stuff... and I was showing them all these cool things you could do, cuz they hadn't learned *nix that great yet.... *sniffle* Oh well... I guess they'll live on in my heart... *BUSTS OUT CRYING*
Well that looks pretty cool. The municipal utilities in a small town around here is looking at something similar, except adding in digital TV with that. Making it 1 big bill.. $60/month for Digital Cable + Cable Internet + Telephone service. Its coming along pretty well. Now that everyone else on earth has really freaking fast connectivy, can someone please bring broadband to my small town!!!!! Cuz I don't think I can do VoIP, Digital Cable, and Internet all over my 28.8 (noisy phone lines) =P
Its also haven for kiddie pr0n, movie traders, child mollestors, terrorists, horny teenagers, and 15 year olds that think they are hackers. Oh yeah, and my mom sits in #40something =P She goes in the category of 'CNN forgot that part'.
Maybe they should put in their adds that 'Any monkey can run a win2k server'. Obviously they would leave the part out about 'But those servers will get 0wned by some retarded worm, and if you want your box as secure as a unix box, you gotta pay loads of money for a MS expert... since.. an expert is an expert, and they are expensive.' Its sad. Thats all I have to say. But the fun part is, I'm diehard. No matter how much money MS dumps into advertising, they'll never get me. I'm only 1 person. But.. Still, atleast they won't get 'everyone'.
Sorry Bill, you can't get your monopoly on me, cuz I just don't like your shit.
I've yet to hear of any spyware for the various unices. Do marketting companies not care about us? Or do they get enough information from the millions of victims they already have installed their virus^H^H^H^H^Hspyware on? My other question is, if no unix spyware programs exist, how long will it be? With more and more people heading to mandrake, RH, and suse, is it only a matter of time before these people start checking client info, and trying to install RPM spyware packages?
months ago I decided to boycott companies that did this. Infotel Distributing was my main distributor for quite a while (before I knew about price watch). After I found out about their 'MS on all machines' issue, I just stopped buying from them all togather.
Spammers can sue people? That just aint right. Regardless, if you buy 10 million e-mail addresses, look at how many of those addresses are going to be canceled, or changed in just one day. Our ISP has 400 users, and we change usernames, add, and remove users daily. And thats just a 400~ customer base! Maybe if the list makers get sued, they'll have to adhear to the actually 'Opt-in' theory! Then maybe I'll stop getting stuff about Viagra that I don't need, Hair loss products that I don't need, Viacream *shudder*, Ferimones, and the other list of absolutely stupid shit that I can't believe anyone would buy, let alone try to sell! But thats just my opinion.
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Commercials online? Just shut up! I really don't wanna be sitting in an IRC session and have a stupid commercial for viagra or barbie plop up and waiste 30 seconds of my time. How about when I'm downloading porn and a commercial for depends comes up? I mean, thats just totally gonna kill my mood!
Isn't there a law that... oh.. yeah, giants like Yahoo!(tm) don't have to worry about laws.. Then again, its probably in their agreement when you sign up. So in theory they aren't 'breaking any laws'.
I just turned my keyboard upside down and shook it. Now I need to go get the vacuum and a hazmat team *Passes out*
Insight into who has spent more money in congress eh? Personally, I think these companies need to spend less time filling the pockets of congress and try to actually produce a (more) secure, (better) quality product. Then they probably wouldn't have to suck off congress all the time.
I agree, all of my production servers have RH 7.x on them. From the few times I've used MDK I've felt it was a cheap OS. Just didn't seem like it would take a beating. Then again, I never liked RedHat due to its bloat. Anyways, to make a long story short, who has more market share in the server market? Probably RedHat. Does Mandrake have a certification? Sure, but you don't hear about it as much as RHCE. Anyways, Even though I've never been the greatest fan of RedHat (I'm a slack kiddie, I admit it!), Its one of the original three distrobutions I grew up with, so I'm going to trust it over Mandrake.
Hrm.. I agree. Does my son really need to learn anything about computers (that he won't learn on his own at home) in the 1st grade? Yeah, I'm an Administrator at an ISP, but I'm guessing that he'll learn more usefull computer skills just fscking around on an old AMD K5-100 than those 'elder and wiser' teachers will give him. I remember my high school computer teacher that claimed she was 'elder and wiser', and then I said 'Older, yes, but how do you explain wiser when I taught myself *nix, and you had to go to a class to learn MacOS?' She didn't say much after that.
You watch the adds? I don't see what the big deal is. Am I also a thief due to the fact that every time a commercial comes on, I get up, take a leak, and then mollest my girlfriend a tad? Same concept, just skipping the advertisements.
Agreed... No government or company, corperation, whatever, is going to come up with a solution, and make that solution keep working. Too many people have too much access to too much knowledge. They only way RIAA is going to get what they want, is if someone drops a huge electromagnetic bomb on the world. People will ALWAYS find a way around it.
I think the majority of the problem is that law makers don't understand technology. I bet 99% of them can't even tell you what TCP or IP stands for. I think we need an agency that deals strictly with the tracking and enforcment of issues like this. I'm sorry, but a police officer from Iowa isn't going to have a clue on how to track someone down online. We need an organization that has "EXPERTS in the field".
Then again, if this agency gets ahold of my MP3 stash, and takes out all of my suppliers, the recording labels have won against me. Which means I'll be forced to buy CD's. If this agency cut out piracy altogather (Uhm.. thats like making a system 100% secure... ha!), EVERYONE would be forced to buy CD's from the recording labels, in which case, the recording labels would have their monopoly back, and I'd be broke from paying $17 for 1 CD that probably has 2-3 songs I like on it... I'm sorry, but I'm a overworked, underpaid admin from a small town, I can't offord to pay that kind of money. The radio stations around here suck, so I guess I'll put an icecream bucket in my car and bang on that on the way to work so I have something to listen to.. *sigh*
Hrm, Evercrack means The Sims? On the mud I used to play, there were lots of people that botted (Set up scripts to do all the work for them). I found this quite pointless. Their character grows, but they did none of the work, thus they could be a very high level, and still have no clue how to play the game effectively outside of the area that they were botting. On the other hand, A sim game that ran in the background, and grew as you and other players tweaked on stuff, would be fun. Wonder if their is a console style sim game out there that is multi player? Or a console style Sim game period.
As much as I love the Final Fantasy series, (Own all 10 games, and the respective console they run on, along with the other misc's such as Tactics, and the gameboy games) FF11 doesn't spark much interest for me. I am kind of curious about multiplayer FF. I think the idea is great, but I think between my job, the old lady, the kids, school... I'm just not giving myself any time for online games like I used to. I've seen EQ, thought it looked cool, but realized it took way too much time to be good at it, so I never started in the first place. And I'm sure FF11 will be the same way for me, not enough time, so I'll never get to play it.
What constitutes it as being the same machine? If I take the ram stick out of the gateway and put it in the new machine, does that make the OEM still good? What if I change the mother board in the gateway, does that kill the OEM? Kinda curious on that one. =)
Imagine the deposit refund on a beowulf of these returned in Michigan!
Had to say it.
Heh, sounds like my personal fleet of servers. I've probably parted out about 10 machines to get 3 shell servers up. Most of which were home users who were going to throw away their machines, and I said 'PFFT! I'll take it!'. They thought I was crazy for wanting those 'pieces of junk', but hell, I have machines that work. One mans trash is anothers treasure I guess.
NO!!!!!!!!!! *CRIES* *CRIES SOMEMORE* *Twitch* Must.. kill... carter.... *twitch twitch*....... =(... *cries more...
*sigh* These guys were really cool.... I even had a dream about them once.. I somehow got transported back to before linux was 'the shit' to run.... and they were hackin Pac Bell boxen and stuff... and I was showing them all these cool things you could do, cuz they hadn't learned *nix that great yet.... *sniffle* Oh well... I guess they'll live on in my heart... *BUSTS OUT CRYING*
Well that looks pretty cool. The municipal utilities in a small town around here is looking at something similar, except adding in digital TV with that. Making it 1 big bill.. $60/month for Digital Cable + Cable Internet + Telephone service. Its coming along pretty well. Now that everyone else on earth has really freaking fast connectivy, can someone please bring broadband to my small town!!!!! Cuz I don't think I can do VoIP, Digital Cable, and Internet all over my 28.8 (noisy phone lines) =P
I thought all they did was look at p0rn!?
Nice to see people recognizing that kids are doing stuff besides pr0n and 'haxx0ring with winnuke'. They are doing other stuff aren't they?
[rmadmin@insecure rmalek]$ uptime ; uname
8:39am up 417 days, 22:41, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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[rmadmin@insecure rmalek]$
Nope.. some of us don't have that problem =P
Then again, its gonna bring a tear to my eye when I have to swap battery backups next week *sniffle*
Its also haven for kiddie pr0n, movie traders, child mollestors, terrorists, horny teenagers, and 15 year olds that think they are hackers. Oh yeah, and my mom sits in #40something =P She goes in the category of 'CNN forgot that part'.
Maybe they should put in their adds that 'Any monkey can run a win2k server'. Obviously they would leave the part out about 'But those servers will get 0wned by some retarded worm, and if you want your box as secure as a unix box, you gotta pay loads of money for a MS expert... since.. an expert is an expert, and they are expensive.' Its sad. Thats all I have to say. But the fun part is, I'm diehard. No matter how much money MS dumps into advertising, they'll never get me. I'm only 1 person. But.. Still, atleast they won't get 'everyone'.
Sorry Bill, you can't get your monopoly on me, cuz I just don't like your shit.
I've yet to hear of any spyware for the various unices. Do marketting companies not care about us? Or do they get enough information from the millions of victims they already have installed their virus^H^H^H^H^Hspyware on? My other question is, if no unix spyware programs exist, how long will it be? With more and more people heading to mandrake, RH, and suse, is it only a matter of time before these people start checking client info, and trying to install RPM spyware packages?
months ago I decided to boycott companies that did this. Infotel Distributing was my main distributor for quite a while (before I knew about price watch). After I found out about their 'MS on all machines' issue, I just stopped buying from them all togather.
The next time my girlfriend says 'I'm gaining weight' I'm gonna tell her 'Its all in your head, here, look at this article on slashdot.' =P
Spammers can sue people? That just aint right. Regardless, if you buy 10 million e-mail addresses, look at how many of those addresses are going to be canceled, or changed in just one day. Our ISP has 400 users, and we change usernames, add, and remove users daily. And thats just a 400~ customer base! Maybe if the list makers get sued, they'll have to adhear to the actually 'Opt-in' theory! Then maybe I'll stop getting stuff about Viagra that I don't need, Hair loss products that I don't need, Viacream *shudder*, Ferimones, and the other list of absolutely stupid shit that I can't believe anyone would buy, let alone try to sell! But thats just my opinion.
Well, the OSS people can say 'OSS ROCKS!'
The Quick Time people can say 'QUICK TIME ROCKS!'
The Apple people can say 'APPLE ROCKS!'
The angry/happy slashdotters can find a stance for anything =)