Most of you guys who're talking out of your ass about North Korea have never seen North Koreay, have you?
Actually, neither have I. But a friend of mine is a journalist who's been to North Korea many times. And through his pictures, yes, the majority (99.9999%) are dirt poor; they're mostly starving; some literally eat dirt for dinner; most of the bad things you hear about North Korea are probably true.
However, the remaining.00001% of the elites do have access to some incredible stuff - maybe more so than in most countries where 99.99999% of the people sacrifice so that the remaining few elites do better.
You may be asking: How the f*** did my journalist friend get to see all that shit? He's been there several times and learned how to evade the lazy guards they put on him.
Also, I don't know about Vietnam or other Southeastern, third-world countries, but the Koreans do not take education lightly. As a matter of fact, they are dead serious. Remember, Koreans have a literacy rate hovering around 97%, meaning unless they're blind or mentally retarded, they can read. Some of the programmers I've seen in Korea are the best I've ever seen (just stifled by stupid management). If an astute management gives them the green light to raise hell, they may stir up some serious shit.
I too am a Mac zealot, but I don't think OS X is the best OS out there. I know that OS X is pretty. I know that it's got a stable BSD kernel in the core, blah blah blah.
I also know that it's geared more toward desktop users than Linux is (or even will ever be according to some).
But with all things considered, OS X has some serious flaws which I predict will not be fixed until version 11 or so.
One, it's slow. Many people (namely Mac zealots) will fool themselves into thinking it runs zippy on their 500mhz G3 machines, but on my iBook combo, it runs slow. I'm not saying it "feels" slow, or that it could be faster. No, I mean straight up slow.
On my 733mhz G4, it fares better, but still surprisingly slow. I'd say Aqua creates the major share of the burden. It's a pleasing eye candy but after a while, you wonder why the hell you need the throbbing buttons, the genie effect, the vector graphic icons, etc.
After using OS X I look at Linux installed on a low pentium and am shocked at how fast it runs. Try the comparison sometime, it's an eye opening dose of reality.
Labelling seems minor initially, but it will help you a lot when you're modifying things. Use an easily-recognizable naming scheme for each ends of the wire and use something like p-touch wire labeller to label them permanently.
If you're gonna run phone lines through the cat5 your basement, or wherever your lines aggregate, is gonna be one chaos of wires.
If you're gonna use conduits, label the conduits too. Not gonna use conduits? That'd be a big mistake as it helps in reducing fire hazard and interference. Just pick 'em up at the local home depot. They're cheap and gives you infinite peace of mind.
About fibers, I'd stay away from them, not only because of the cost and the hassle, but mostly because they're dangerous. If the glass cracks and you get splinters on you, you may very well end up dead, because the tiny splinters will easily enter the skin and into your bloodstream and finally into your heart. It may be the most painful way to die, second only to having a bullet shot up your ass.
Many Linux geeks think that if they know, they can teach. Plus, many geeks think they know Linux but they don't.
The potential students are at fault too. Many people wanting to know Linux think that the pimply kid, picking his nose, drinking coke by the six packs and blabbering in bash script would be the best teacher.
Wrong.
The kid is just that - a pimply fool who picks his nose... etc.
I've taught Linux to some people, and it's much tougher than learning this yourself. It also takes much more discipline and logic than an average immature boy hiding behind a seemingly glorious name like sys admin.
But it's surprising that I get passed over by people wanting to learn Linux in favor of some dumbshit who doesn't understand the concept of hygiene (because I'm clean cut). I laugh though when we find that he doesn't understand the basic concepts of Unix and/or networking, that, in essence, his whole life is like a cheap hack, held together by poorly written shell script.
So, don't knock on teachers only. The students often just ask for it.
You know, with my Rio, I didn't change my music that much. But with the iPod, I find myself *not* resyncing *all* the music, but good chunks more often.
I'd change... oh, about 500MB or so of music every week. That could be more often than most people. And because I do this with such regularity, you know what I noticed?
Even firewire seems slow.
Can you imagine doing something like this with USB or via the serial port like the one in the original Rio? Not me, man.
So just think about it, you may not be changing your music that much, simply because it's not practical.
It puts minimal amount of stress on routers to multihome network x to network y and network z. More effort goes into filtering garbage/unnecessary broadcasts from the tier below you. If they're properly configured with just the right broadcasting frequency, it shoud cause minimal stress, if at all.
Multi-homing is not a luxury that you should be forced to pay extra for. It is an integral part in holding the Internet together. Just think about it, unless you can multi-home, you'll just be limited to AT&T, WorldCom, UUNet, or another umbrella.
Finally, I don't know where you live, but in California, you can pretty much get any flavor of frame relay (not DSL or cable!!) in anywhere in Bumfuck, USA. It doesn't matter whether you live next to a F/R CO or 10 miles away, you pay the same price and you should be guaranteed access.
Luxury? No, that's the law set by the CPUC to level the playing field of the Internet. And that's with tangible products.
If ARIN or some other IP allocation organization is being dicks to the have nots while kissing ass to the haves, then they shouldn't be. It wasn't meant to be that way.
If you think that people should pay for any of this and/or that poor should just be content not being able to get it, you're fucking brain dead.
First a disclaimer:
I don't like ftp in general and wu-ftpd in particular. Let's get that out of the way.
But ftp is an important service and wu-ftpd is attractive because it's default on many distros.
Saying something like "What, you still run (wu-)ftpd? Are you stupid?" is IMO a stupid statement. If you have time to burn and the server serves only you, then yeah, it is dumb to run an external ftp service.
But if you have to slap together a test bed in 15 minutes for a bunch of web designers who will be working from remote, then no, it's a serious issue.
The fact is dreamweaver does only ftp. Many designers have come to depend on this service, and you can't teach them to scp individual files over to a test bed behind a firewall. Researching and testing out various ftp servers (proftpd, et al) takes incredible amount of time. Time I simply do not have.
Ideally, I would like to run a bug-free ftp server behind my firewall and configure my iptables to competently weed out unwanted ftp visitors.
To that end, I need:
1. A bug free ftp server
2. iptables/ipchains script to allow the ftp ports to open up as needed.
The latter is tougher than I thought, because something breaks during ftp transaction in the firewall, and dreamweaver fails to open a connection.
Any takers?
Nowhere in my post did I say I corrupted the mbr. I have used linux for a long time. Let's get that out of the way.
I would like to know whether you know what lilo does? It's more than a utility that dumps a piece of code on the mbr. It lets you control everything about the multi OS booting process.
And that's what I'd like to know how to do that in FreeBSD. Not how to do it in MSDOS, Windows or Linux because I know how to do that already. It's a simple question. Sheesh.
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Actually, neither have I. But a friend of mine is a journalist who's been to North Korea many times. And through his pictures, yes, the majority (99.9999%) are dirt poor; they're mostly starving; some literally eat dirt for dinner; most of the bad things you hear about North Korea are probably true.
However, the remaining .00001% of the elites do have access to some incredible stuff - maybe more so than in most countries where 99.99999% of the people sacrifice so that the remaining few elites do better.
You may be asking: How the f*** did my journalist friend get to see all that shit? He's been there several times and learned how to evade the lazy guards they put on him.
Also, I don't know about Vietnam or other Southeastern, third-world countries, but the Koreans do not take education lightly. As a matter of fact, they are dead serious. Remember, Koreans have a literacy rate hovering around 97%, meaning unless they're blind or mentally retarded, they can read. Some of the programmers I've seen in Korea are the best I've ever seen (just stifled by stupid management). If an astute management gives them the green light to raise hell, they may stir up some serious shit.
And yes, I am Korean.
I also know that it's geared more toward desktop users than Linux is (or even will ever be according to some).
But with all things considered, OS X has some serious flaws which I predict will not be fixed until version 11 or so.
One, it's slow. Many people (namely Mac zealots) will fool themselves into thinking it runs zippy on their 500mhz G3 machines, but on my iBook combo, it runs slow. I'm not saying it "feels" slow, or that it could be faster. No, I mean straight up slow.
On my 733mhz G4, it fares better, but still surprisingly slow. I'd say Aqua creates the major share of the burden. It's a pleasing eye candy but after a while, you wonder why the hell you need the throbbing buttons, the genie effect, the vector graphic icons, etc.
After using OS X I look at Linux installed on a low pentium and am shocked at how fast it runs. Try the comparison sometime, it's an eye opening dose of reality.
If you're gonna run phone lines through the cat5 your basement, or wherever your lines aggregate, is gonna be one chaos of wires.
If you're gonna use conduits, label the conduits too. Not gonna use conduits? That'd be a big mistake as it helps in reducing fire hazard and interference. Just pick 'em up at the local home depot. They're cheap and gives you infinite peace of mind.
About fibers, I'd stay away from them, not only because of the cost and the hassle, but mostly because they're dangerous. If the glass cracks and you get splinters on you, you may very well end up dead, because the tiny splinters will easily enter the skin and into your bloodstream and finally into your heart. It may be the most painful way to die, second only to having a bullet shot up your ass.
The potential students are at fault too. Many people wanting to know Linux think that the pimply kid, picking his nose, drinking coke by the six packs and blabbering in bash script would be the best teacher.
Wrong.
The kid is just that - a pimply fool who picks his nose... etc.
I've taught Linux to some people, and it's much tougher than learning this yourself. It also takes much more discipline and logic than an average immature boy hiding behind a seemingly glorious name like sys admin.
But it's surprising that I get passed over by people wanting to learn Linux in favor of some dumbshit who doesn't understand the concept of hygiene (because I'm clean cut). I laugh though when we find that he doesn't understand the basic concepts of Unix and/or networking, that, in essence, his whole life is like a cheap hack, held together by poorly written shell script.
So, don't knock on teachers only. The students often just ask for it.
I'd change... oh, about 500MB or so of music every week. That could be more often than most people. And because I do this with such regularity, you know what I noticed?
Even firewire seems slow.
Can you imagine doing something like this with USB or via the serial port like the one in the original Rio? Not me, man.
So just think about it, you may not be changing your music that much, simply because it's not practical.
It puts minimal amount of stress on routers to multihome network x to network y and network z. More effort goes into filtering garbage/unnecessary broadcasts from the tier below you. If they're properly configured with just the right broadcasting frequency, it shoud cause minimal stress, if at all.
Multi-homing is not a luxury that you should be forced to pay extra for. It is an integral part in holding the Internet together. Just think about it, unless you can multi-home, you'll just be limited to AT&T, WorldCom, UUNet, or another umbrella.
Finally, I don't know where you live, but in California, you can pretty much get any flavor of frame relay (not DSL or cable!!) in anywhere in Bumfuck, USA. It doesn't matter whether you live next to a F/R CO or 10 miles away, you pay the same price and you should be guaranteed access.
Luxury? No, that's the law set by the CPUC to level the playing field of the Internet. And that's with tangible products.
If ARIN or some other IP allocation organization is being dicks to the have nots while kissing ass to the haves, then they shouldn't be. It wasn't meant to be that way.
If you think that people should pay for any of this and/or that poor should just be content not being able to get it, you're fucking brain dead.
First a disclaimer:
I don't like ftp in general and wu-ftpd in particular. Let's get that out of the way.
But ftp is an important service and wu-ftpd is attractive because it's default on many distros.
Saying something like "What, you still run (wu-)ftpd? Are you stupid?" is IMO a stupid statement. If you have time to burn and the server serves only you, then yeah, it is dumb to run an external ftp service.
But if you have to slap together a test bed in 15 minutes for a bunch of web designers who will be working from remote, then no, it's a serious issue.
The fact is dreamweaver does only ftp. Many designers have come to depend on this service, and you can't teach them to scp individual files over to a test bed behind a firewall. Researching and testing out various ftp servers (proftpd, et al) takes incredible amount of time. Time I simply do not have.
Ideally, I would like to run a bug-free ftp server behind my firewall and configure my iptables to competently weed out unwanted ftp visitors.
To that end, I need:
1. A bug free ftp server
2. iptables/ipchains script to allow the ftp ports to open up as needed.
The latter is tougher than I thought, because something breaks during ftp transaction in the firewall, and dreamweaver fails to open a connection.
Any takers?
Nowhere in my post did I say I corrupted the mbr. I have used linux for a long time. Let's get that out of the way.
I would like to know whether you know what lilo does? It's more than a utility that dumps a piece of code on the mbr. It lets you control everything about the multi OS booting process.
And that's what I'd like to know how to do that in FreeBSD. Not how to do it in MSDOS, Windows or Linux because I know how to do that already. It's a simple question. Sheesh.