VeriSign says that this will prevent 404 error messages from happening. How did the original SiteFinder prevent that? It prevented NXDOMAIN errors in the.com and.net TLDs, but it never prevented 404 errors, as those are handled by each individual webserver and have nothing to do with DNS, but only with not being able to find a file on an already-resolved webserver.
At work, we have a Sun IPX running Solaris 2 that we use for cross-platform development. We're just now thinking about replacing it with a Sun Ultra 60 because our budget allows it, but we've really had no problems with the IPX at all.
At home, we have a 133MHz 5x86 (a pin-compatible version of the 80486 from AMD) with 32MB of RAM running NetBSD that is functioning quite well as a DHCP, DNS, NT PDC. The only problem I've run into it is trying to get it to be a tape backup server, but I think that's too much to ask of a 486, so I'll move the tape drive over to faster machine. Here's a picture of it.
I'm one of the sysadmins for a CS department in a liberal arts college. I've been working with the web content admins off and on for a couple months as they prepare a system that will execute a Perl script to generate an image that will replace the e-mail address. The project is still in its infancy, but here's the URL to the description, and here's the URL to the current version of the project, in gzip'd tarball format.
The funny thing is that that very night I was out in the woods with a friend, and saw a big fireball coming down. I pointed, and my friend managed to see it even after I pointed. He turned fast, and managed to see it. Most times, by the time you point, it's already gone. It was about 1AM EST in Richmond at the time. Anyone else see it?
I'm talking about the AMD 5x86, which is a pin-compatible clone of the Intel 80486, and runs at 133MHz. Read all about it here.
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I started using Linux back in the Red Hat 5 days, and XFce was really the only good desktop available at the time. At one side of the spectrum was TWM (which, IMHO, is too minimalist), and at the other was GNOME (which defintely was too big and too buggy). XFce landed nicely in the middle, and actually hooked the entire family. My dad, mom, and sister all still use XFce when they use the Linux machine, so it's not impossible to convert people over.:)
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I use it. Right now, I'm using it on a dual 450MHz Xeon machine with 1GB of RAM, and it's just snappy. At home, I've run it on a 133MHz 486 with 32MB of RAM, and it's just snappy. At work, I run it on 2.0GHz P-4s with 512MB of RAM, and it's snappier.:)
In short, as long as you can run X, you can run XFce. I really like it because of its extensible and easy configuration (an uncommon combination, unfortunately), in addition to its low memory and CPU footprint.
We use Cricket to monitor the bandwidth usage on our T1s. Take a look at our PacketShaper reports. You can also look at the root of the server to see the other stuff that can be monitored.
Over in CS, we use Ganglia to monitor the network usage coming out of each individual machine.
I don't think a sufficient case could be made against Microsoft yet. But maybe you should talk to your legal department about suing the people whose computers were infected. Then they could turn around and sue M$ for allowing a worm onto their computer.
I say if they go ahead with this, ICANN should yank their registrar status. This is in blatant disregard of Internet standard (RFC, good practice, etc.) and should not be tolerated in any way.
I have to assume you've never actually done help-desk work at a college. There's a large number of college students who treat their computers like microwave ovens. And I why shouldn't they? They need it to do research, write a paper, and print something out. To them it's nothing more than a utility to get something else done.
My college, in response to Blaster, Nachi, etc., recently told students to download a copy of Vexira Anti-virus, for which we have a site license. One of my non-CS friends (yes,/. geeks can have non-CS friends) did just that and, since she (yes, a female, at that) had little computing experience, deleted every infected file. I'm only a UNIX admin with very little Windoze experience, so I'm not sure if deleting the infected files had something to with it, but XP Home refused to go past the login screen. She has been going through something of a family crisis, so I was up until about 1 in the morning getting her machine back into working order without losing any data. I succeeded, but it was still pretty stressful. She didn't really care about having a clean computer; she just wanted a working computer.
In short, just telling students to download and run a program they don't understand to clean up their computers isn't going to work. At best, no one's going to do it, and at worst, it's going to f*ck people's computers up, creating more of a support mess.
I realize I'm responding to a troll, but I think this point deserves an explanation.
The ACLU Executive Director, Anthony Romero, came to my school (Earlham College), and was asked about the Second Amendment. He said that the reason they didn't defend it was that someone was already there to defend it: the NRA. He (nor I) doesn't think we are in any danger of losing our Second Amendment rights as long as the NRA is around.
# Bar the use of state tax dollars to cover organ transplants for inmates who were sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison and have exhausted their appeals.
That's really ridiculous. There are few enough organs as there are. If they're there, then why should these go to waste?
Over the summer, I did volunteer work for a school district. I started off helping them clean their ~1500 client machines, spread between over 25 buildings. Once that was done, they let me observe/work at one of their new schools, which was being re-modelled. I learned a lot about pulling cable there. Volunteering isn't just about giving....
I know I'll probably get flamed for this, but dependencies problems are why I've started using the BSDs. Maintaining one FreeBSD server and two NetBSD servers takes about as long as maintaining one Red Hat 9 Linux server.
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VeriSign says that this will prevent 404 error messages from happening. How did the original SiteFinder prevent that? It prevented NXDOMAIN errors in the .com and .net TLDs, but it never prevented 404 errors, as those are handled by each individual webserver and have nothing to do with DNS, but only with not being able to find a file on an already-resolved webserver.
At work, we have a Sun IPX running Solaris 2 that we use for cross-platform development. We're just now thinking about replacing it with a Sun Ultra 60 because our budget allows it, but we've really had no problems with the IPX at all.
At home, we have a 133MHz 5x86 (a pin-compatible version of the 80486 from AMD) with 32MB of RAM running NetBSD that is functioning quite well as a DHCP, DNS, NT PDC. The only problem I've run into it is trying to get it to be a tape backup server, but I think that's too much to ask of a 486, so I'll move the tape drive over to faster machine. Here's a picture of it.
Actually I have scripts that manage the whole process, and CVS repository on the backend. Takes maybe three minutes to do, tops.
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I'm one of the sysadmins for a CS department in a liberal arts college. I've been working with the web content admins off and on for a couple months as they prepare a system that will execute a Perl script to generate an image that will replace the e-mail address. The project is still in its infancy, but here's the URL to the description, and here's the URL to the current version of the project, in gzip'd tarball format.
The funny thing is that that very night I was out in the woods with a friend, and saw a big fireball coming down. I pointed, and my friend managed to see it even after I pointed. He turned fast, and managed to see it. Most times, by the time you point, it's already gone. It was about 1AM EST in Richmond at the time. Anyone else see it?
I'm talking about the AMD 5x86, which is a pin-compatible clone of the Intel 80486, and runs at 133MHz. Read all about it here.
I started using Linux back in the Red Hat 5 days, and XFce was really the only good desktop available at the time. At one side of the spectrum was TWM (which, IMHO, is too minimalist), and at the other was GNOME (which defintely was too big and too buggy). XFce landed nicely in the middle, and actually hooked the entire family. My dad, mom, and sister all still use XFce when they use the Linux machine, so it's not impossible to convert people over. :)
I use it. Right now, I'm using it on a dual 450MHz Xeon machine with 1GB of RAM, and it's just snappy. At home, I've run it on a 133MHz 486 with 32MB of RAM, and it's just snappy. At work, I run it on 2.0GHz P-4s with 512MB of RAM, and it's snappier. :)
In short, as long as you can run X, you can run XFce. I really like it because of its extensible and easy configuration (an uncommon combination, unfortunately), in addition to its low memory and CPU footprint.
I guess I'll have to stop eating those burritos in the morning.
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We use Cricket to monitor the bandwidth usage on our T1s. Take a look at our PacketShaper reports. You can also look at the root of the server to see the other stuff that can be monitored.
Over in CS, we use Ganglia to monitor the network usage coming out of each individual machine.I don't think a sufficient case could be made against Microsoft yet. But maybe you should talk to your legal department about suing the people whose computers were infected. Then they could turn around and sue M$ for allowing a worm onto their computer.
I say if they go ahead with this, ICANN should yank their registrar status. This is in blatant disregard of Internet standard (RFC, good practice, etc.) and should not be tolerated in any way.
I have to assume you've never actually done help-desk work at a college. There's a large number of college students who treat their computers like microwave ovens. And I why shouldn't they? They need it to do research, write a paper, and print something out. To them it's nothing more than a utility to get something else done.
My college, in response to Blaster, Nachi, etc., recently told students to download a copy of Vexira Anti-virus, for which we have a site license. One of my non-CS friends (yes, /. geeks can have non-CS friends) did just that and, since she (yes, a female, at that) had little computing experience, deleted every infected file. I'm only a UNIX admin with very little Windoze experience, so I'm not sure if deleting the infected files had something to with it, but XP Home refused to go past the login screen. She has been going through something of a family crisis, so I was up until about 1 in the morning getting her machine back into working order without losing any data. I succeeded, but it was still pretty stressful. She didn't really care about having a clean computer; she just wanted a working computer.
In short, just telling students to download and run a program they don't understand to clean up their computers isn't going to work. At best, no one's going to do it, and at worst, it's going to f*ck people's computers up, creating more of a support mess.
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The broken PDF link on Mirror #2 should of course be this.
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I realize I'm responding to a troll, but I think this point deserves an explanation.
The ACLU Executive Director, Anthony Romero, came to my school (Earlham College), and was asked about the Second Amendment. He said that the reason they didn't defend it was that someone was already there to defend it: the NRA. He (nor I) doesn't think we are in any danger of losing our Second Amendment rights as long as the NRA is around.
Over the summer, I did volunteer work for a school district. I started off helping them clean their ~1500 client machines, spread between over 25 buildings. Once that was done, they let me observe/work at one of their new schools, which was being re-modelled. I learned a lot about pulling cable there. Volunteering isn't just about giving....
I know I'll probably get flamed for this, but dependencies problems are why I've started using the BSDs. Maintaining one FreeBSD server and two NetBSD servers takes about as long as maintaining one Red Hat 9 Linux server.
I've done some work cleaning out school computers, and I've found that Speedball is about as good as it gets. It gets damn near anything off.