That's not a fucking balance. That's a petty hissy fit. Letting them get away with that kind of crap is wrong. I may not have been party to such a demand myself, but if I were i'd sure tell them no without turning the job down...they'd have to deny me the job on grounds of my not accepting it. offer, counteroffer, dumbass
what kind of capitalist bullshit is that. "a market full of people offering the same bullshit offer. agree or go somewhere else". How the fuck does that make sense? man...grow some balls.
Simply put, anything Gentoo does, Debian can do better.
not true. Debian has rarely installed properly for me, whereas I've never had problems installing Gentoo by simply following the document. If I want a minimal install system, debian runs fine. If I want more than that, it just tends to fuck everything up. You can't blame that sort of result on someone who can successfully install Gentoo's technical knowledge of how the system works.
thats what the slash was there for, fucknut. http SLASH gaming. that way people can visit web pages and/or game. The real users, i.e. people who know how to run servers (with all that entails, including all the services of the other network) would be on the network with full services. You, I suspect would be on the HTTP/(thats a slash)gaming network judging from your ability to comprehend simple concepts.
you know, the more bad laws they pass regarding the internet, the more I think we don't need an internet as much as we need an HTTP/gaming network and a seperate network for real users who actually use HTTP, FTP, IRC, SSH, Telnet, etc. etc. ad nauseum. The more I learn about computers, the more I find that actually using any of it is considered a crime in most contexts. That, my friend, is the biggest problem.
Somebody please elect some legislators who actually understand that information technology involves more than hotmail and the hamster dance?
That, my friend, is one of the great reasons I bought a domain that sounds professional. If I say I have a home lan and that I run my own file server, gateway, and on the side i fix friends' computers, it sounds far less impressive to employers than if I write down that I am the proprietor of systemsalchemy.org, and that I maintain all their networks and computer equipment, and that I also do PC repair through systemsalchemy.org for those outside the organization.
It may not be any different to you and I, who know that it's the same work either way, but to an HR person (at least I hope) it looks a whole lot more impressive.
nobody should. it's a computer on a public network. Until I try something that is clearly malicious like a DoS attack or a malicious entry into their system (no, open FTP, HTTP, or other public and/or completely left open ports do not count), it's no crime
well, i think that's an unfair assumption. You put up a box on the internet, you learn to secure it. Sounds fair to me. Just getting port scanned does not make you a victim of a crime. I don't think it's unreasonable to perform any action on a box connected to a network that does not damage the system or take advantage of it. I recall once my wife (before I met her) was once ICQed by a white-hat who informed her of several holes in her system and moved on, while she patched them. Was this a malicious act? no, I think it was a perfectly reasonable act. If someone asks me a question about their computer online, and I ask what OS they run and they don't know, is it unreasonable for me to use nmap to find out? I don't think so. There are as many legitimate reasons to scan a box as there are illegitimate.
Hint: Scanning other people's networks for interesting stuff: Legit.
There are plenty of reasons that are perfectly legitimate to run a port scan on someone's network. it's no different from a search engine running bots. When you connect a computer to any network, it is understood that your computer can be scanned and possibly services will be used such as HTTP or open FTP ports. How, I ask you, is the parent of parent's port 80 scan any different from a windows box doing a NetBIOS scan, or for that matter, an nmap scan of an entire box from port 1 to port 1024? They are the same thing.
there's a certain point when violating one's morals becomes a justified reason for refusal...i would like to think that that time has come in your system's case.
Nope...both the term "Terrorist" and "Patriot" now both scare the living shit out of me. ever since "hacking" became a crime, I live in fear that someone might choose my computer to break into and use as a hop point for their attacks, so I spend much of my time learning computer security. However, in order to learn computer security, I have to be able to scan my own network for insecurities, requring me to download tools that probably place me on potential terrorist lists, and pray to God that none of the tools I download start hitting computers outside my network when I try to scan my file server for insecurity so I can't be arrested for attempted terrorism when the government interprests my accidental portscan as attempted terrorism.
Frankly, I support anyone who fights against anti-terrorism laws on the strict grounds that terrorism has never in the past fifty years caused more deaths than automobile accidents. The actions that are entailed by terrorism are illegal enough on their own without special treatment by law. Adding computer security to the list is an unbalanced abomination, and should be feared most not by people like myself who know enough to be scared, but by Joe Sixpack who never runs windows update. Sadly, he has no idea.
in my years of repairing PCs and professional testing of software, I find that the majority of software problems are either a direct result of the QA department having no say in the company, the fact that more often than not, QA is looked down upon (and therefore are all contractors who once they know the product and company networks inside and out are at the end of their contract), and that home users don't maintain (defrag, remove dust from inside the case) their computers or pay attention when fans burn out. Or that they bought shoddy hardware, like that of the Dell single-processor Xeon Precision Workstations or an Emachine.
Shiver me fuckin' timbers, matey...they say they be crackin' down on piracy. Hoist the mains'l! We best make sure they not be preventing Cap'n Torvalds from doin' what he wants with his ship...
Seriously, I thought financial security for corporations was the biggest halting factor on america's innovation and security. Last time I checked, Microsoft was financially secure. They rarely if ever innovate, they never produce secure products, and they have 95% of the desktop market.
Linux, on the other hand, is free, is a worldwide project (including americans), is far more secure than Windows, and depends upon the fates of the developers to continue. BSD is in a similar boat.
So unless they fully intend to ask Linus to switch to a BSD license, which would IMO be even more stifling than the GPL since companies wouldn't be releasing code of modified linux etc., then they're completely idiots as opposed to mostly idiots.
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um...no. you weigh more. smaller units = more of them
That's not a fucking balance. That's a petty hissy fit. Letting them get away with that kind of crap is wrong. I may not have been party to such a demand myself, but if I were i'd sure tell them no without turning the job down...they'd have to deny me the job on grounds of my not accepting it. offer, counteroffer, dumbass
what kind of capitalist bullshit is that. "a market full of people offering the same bullshit offer. agree or go somewhere else". How the fuck does that make sense? man...grow some balls.
Simply put, anything Gentoo does, Debian can do better.
not true. Debian has rarely installed properly for me, whereas I've never had problems installing Gentoo by simply following the document. If I want a minimal install system, debian runs fine. If I want more than that, it just tends to fuck everything up. You can't blame that sort of result on someone who can successfully install Gentoo's technical knowledge of how the system works.
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
fuck yourself.
it will be up later...it's down due to a server failure.
thats what the slash was there for, fucknut. http SLASH gaming. that way people can visit web pages and/or game. The real users, i.e. people who know how to run servers (with all that entails, including all the services of the other network) would be on the network with full services. You, I suspect would be on the HTTP/(thats a slash)gaming network judging from your ability to comprehend simple concepts.
that's more true than you think, my friend.
you know, the more bad laws they pass regarding the internet, the more I think we don't need an internet as much as we need an HTTP/gaming network and a seperate network for real users who actually use HTTP, FTP, IRC, SSH, Telnet, etc. etc. ad nauseum. The more I learn about computers, the more I find that actually using any of it is considered a crime in most contexts. That, my friend, is the biggest problem.
Somebody please elect some legislators who actually understand that information technology involves more than hotmail and the hamster dance?
Sounds like a good idea to me...allow me to join you in this momentous occasion!
That, my friend, is one of the great reasons I bought a domain that sounds professional. If I say I have a home lan and that I run my own file server, gateway, and on the side i fix friends' computers, it sounds far less impressive to employers than if I write down that I am the proprietor of systemsalchemy.org, and that I maintain all their networks and computer equipment, and that I also do PC repair through systemsalchemy.org for those outside the organization.
It may not be any different to you and I, who know that it's the same work either way, but to an HR person (at least I hope) it looks a whole lot more impressive.
preach on, my good man.
nobody should. it's a computer on a public network. Until I try something that is clearly malicious like a DoS attack or a malicious entry into their system (no, open FTP, HTTP, or other public and/or completely left open ports do not count), it's no crime
well, i think that's an unfair assumption. You put up a box on the internet, you learn to secure it. Sounds fair to me. Just getting port scanned does not make you a victim of a crime. I don't think it's unreasonable to perform any action on a box connected to a network that does not damage the system or take advantage of it. I recall once my wife (before I met her) was once ICQed by a white-hat who informed her of several holes in her system and moved on, while she patched them. Was this a malicious act? no, I think it was a perfectly reasonable act. If someone asks me a question about their computer online, and I ask what OS they run and they don't know, is it unreasonable for me to use nmap to find out? I don't think so. There are as many legitimate reasons to scan a box as there are illegitimate.
yes, but scanning is not a crime, nor should it be.
Hint: Scanning other people's networks for interesting stuff: Legit.
There are plenty of reasons that are perfectly legitimate to run a port scan on someone's network. it's no different from a search engine running bots. When you connect a computer to any network, it is understood that your computer can be scanned and possibly services will be used such as HTTP or open FTP ports. How, I ask you, is the parent of parent's port 80 scan any different from a windows box doing a NetBIOS scan, or for that matter, an nmap scan of an entire box from port 1 to port 1024? They are the same thing.
That, sir, was a remarkable troll. My hat is off to you.
there's a certain point when violating one's morals becomes a justified reason for refusal...i would like to think that that time has come in your system's case.
Nope...both the term "Terrorist" and "Patriot" now both scare the living shit out of me. ever since "hacking" became a crime, I live in fear that someone might choose my computer to break into and use as a hop point for their attacks, so I spend much of my time learning computer security. However, in order to learn computer security, I have to be able to scan my own network for insecurities, requring me to download tools that probably place me on potential terrorist lists, and pray to God that none of the tools I download start hitting computers outside my network when I try to scan my file server for insecurity so I can't be arrested for attempted terrorism when the government interprests my accidental portscan as attempted terrorism.
Frankly, I support anyone who fights against anti-terrorism laws on the strict grounds that terrorism has never in the past fifty years caused more deaths than automobile accidents. The actions that are entailed by terrorism are illegal enough on their own without special treatment by law. Adding computer security to the list is an unbalanced abomination, and should be feared most not by people like myself who know enough to be scared, but by Joe Sixpack who never runs windows update. Sadly, he has no idea.
sounds like an even more illegal way to get MP3s, since now they're making money off it instead of simply sharing.
in my years of repairing PCs and professional testing of software, I find that the majority of software problems are either a direct result of the QA department having no say in the company, the fact that more often than not, QA is looked down upon (and therefore are all contractors who once they know the product and company networks inside and out are at the end of their contract), and that home users don't maintain (defrag, remove dust from inside the case) their computers or pay attention when fans burn out. Or that they bought shoddy hardware, like that of the Dell single-processor Xeon Precision Workstations or an Emachine.
That was Michael.
Shiver me fuckin' timbers, matey...they say they be crackin' down on piracy. Hoist the mains'l! We best make sure they not be preventing Cap'n Torvalds from doin' what he wants with his ship...
no, like BSD.
Seriously, I thought financial security for corporations was the biggest halting factor on america's innovation and security. Last time I checked, Microsoft was financially secure. They rarely if ever innovate, they never produce secure products, and they have 95% of the desktop market.
Linux, on the other hand, is free, is a worldwide project (including americans), is far more secure than Windows, and depends upon the fates of the developers to continue. BSD is in a similar boat.
So unless they fully intend to ask Linus to switch to a BSD license, which would IMO be even more stifling than the GPL since companies wouldn't be releasing code of modified linux etc., then they're completely idiots as opposed to mostly idiots.