slashdot does not publish so many articles everyday. Probably less than 30. How difficult is it to actually RTFA before publishing the summary and title?
Very difficult if someone is paying you to spam links to their site.
The next next story could well be 'Viagra is good for your sex life' with links to dodgy on-line drug stores.
One has to make a reasonable presentation of a serious, life threatning situation. A punch in the nose of itself would generally be insufficient.
People have died from a single punch to the head. I don't mean a well trained Mike Tyson super-punch, I mean a normal punch delivered by someone without any real fighting experience.
There was a case in the UK of someone hitting a random drunk for no reason. The drunk fell over and died.
Also there was that Ian Thomlinson case where the police beat a man once for no reason and he died soon after. White washed of course like all police murders are.
I don't think I've ever seen a unix, linux or BSD system that didn't have some kind of vi on it. I've seen very many that don't have emacs.
In the past, yes. For about the last decade? No. Every UNIX made for a long time now includes emacs unless the sysadmin chose to remove it.
The last system I had to add emacs to was around 20 years ago, HPUX/MPE. That and two VAX systems. But luckily it was not too hard to compile emacs for either.
That's not my experience. It's not installed in my new arch machine, my new debian machine, or my new mint machine. Vi is installed on all of these as standard. Sure I could install emacs very easily but you said it's there unless the sysadmin removed it, and I certainly never removed, or even looked for it, before today.
Sounds like the Dutch have some good judges exercising common sense on this issue.
Not at all, they just have the polar opposite to the US legal system.
US: Looked funny at a policeman you say? Lock him up and throw away the key. Netherlands: Killed 8 people in cold blood you say? Well he said he was sorry so put him in a minimum security prison for a week. Make sure he has a widescreen TV and a playstation so he isn't sad.
If I happen to be behind you at the ATM queue and warn you that your pin number is 1234 and you tell me to get lost am I then justified in stealing your card and withdrawing money?
This man committed criminal actions and should at least be given a short jail term or a reasonable fine.
I'm not on the internet in the first place. Any site that asks for a real name didn't get one. I never touched myspace or facebook, etc. Even my Gmail name is fake. So I'm all set.
Do you remember what you posted on that music forum in 2004?
I have never posted to a music forum. But if I did post something offensive or objectionable so what? Anyone that judges too harshly on such minor matters is best avoided anyway.
Or which services you tried for webmail before Gmail?
I used my own webmail before and after gmail. I once setup a gmail account solely to send my mail server test emails.
It discusses how difficult it is to get your data removed from Facebook
I've never had a facebook account. If I wanted the US government to build semantic graphs about my interpersonal relationships then I'd get a facebook account, but until that time I don't see the need for facebook in my life.
They were 1u servers although I don't remember exactly what model. I don't know what part was overheating, all I know was they crashed about once every week or two, just died with no messages when running big compile jobs. I rearranged the airflow so they got more cool air and afterwards they only crashed about once a month. Restarting these things became a major PITA.
This was in a server room with decent air-con. I never had the same trouble with custom built machines or the HP DL380's that were in the same rack or with the big old sun kit in the next rack.
Why on earth are you repurposing ~7-10 year old server hardware?
Because some companies don't have the cash to replace everything every few years. Old stuff can still be useful outside critical production and sometimes it's the best you are going to get.
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You worked in building security? What would you recommend to secure a house full of techno-kit?
Don't give slashdot ideas, you might just trigger a massive wave of insurance companies going bust.
On second thoughts screw the insurance companies..
go down to your local LUG group and see if anyone has offered to sell 2nd hand un*x computers.
He already got the payout. There is no reason to go hunting down the thieves.
It might not be such a bad deal really, he gets to replace his old kit with new stuff. I hope he encrypted his disks.
Buy what you need and keep the change. Only you can tell what you need.
The question is did you have off-site backups?
slashdot does not publish so many articles everyday. Probably less than 30. How difficult is it to actually RTFA before publishing the summary and title?
Very difficult if someone is paying you to spam links to their site.
The next next story could well be 'Viagra is good for your sex life' with links to dodgy on-line drug stores.
fire timothy. fire timothy NOW.
This guy has a valid point.
Stop posting link farm bull crap Timothy and get the dam summary right.
I swear to god if you keep posting articles that are links to Phoronix I'm going to firewall off your site and never visit again.
At least they could get the summary right. Not bluntly state something that is entirely and obviously false.
It's the dam installer that's being released, it looks like they stated a new Debian was being released just to drive links to Phoronix.
One has to make a reasonable presentation of a serious, life threatning situation. A punch in the nose of itself would generally be insufficient.
People have died from a single punch to the head. I don't mean a well trained Mike Tyson super-punch, I mean a normal punch delivered by someone without any real fighting experience.
There was a case in the UK of someone hitting a random drunk for no reason. The drunk fell over and died.
Also there was that Ian Thomlinson case where the police beat a man once for no reason and he died soon after. White washed of course like all police murders are.
It's the thief that does the shooting. They steal from you, you punch them, they shoot you dead. And it's all legal.
Stand your ground is fairly close to murder at will.
Everything knows this man is starting a cloud business... Good.
Everything knows this man is absolutely out of touch with the IT world.. Bad
I don't think I've ever seen a unix, linux or BSD system that didn't have some kind of vi on it. I've seen very many that don't have emacs.
In the past, yes. For about the last decade? No. Every UNIX made for a long time now includes emacs unless the sysadmin chose to remove it.
The last system I had to add emacs to was around 20 years ago, HPUX/MPE. That and two VAX systems. But luckily it was not too hard to compile emacs for either.
That's not my experience. It's not installed in my new arch machine, my new debian machine, or my new mint machine. Vi is installed on all of these as standard. Sure I could install emacs very easily but you said it's there unless the sysadmin removed it, and I certainly never removed, or even looked for it, before today.
Sounds like the Dutch have some good judges exercising common sense on this issue.
Not at all, they just have the polar opposite to the US legal system.
US: Looked funny at a policeman you say? Lock him up and throw away the key.
Netherlands: Killed 8 people in cold blood you say? Well he said he was sorry so put him in a minimum security prison for a week. Make sure he has a widescreen TV and a playstation so he isn't sad.
It is not ethical to access a computer system that you are not authorized to access. Period.
Sorry.
It's ethical if you don't have authorization in the form of a valid login but you have the owners permission to test security.
That wasn't what happened here though. This man's actions were the criminal, non-ethical, actions of a jerk. He should have been jailed.
If I happen to be behind you at the ATM queue and warn you that your pin number is 1234 and you tell me to get lost am I then justified in stealing your card and withdrawing money?
This man committed criminal actions and should at least be given a short jail term or a reasonable fine.
Man commits a computer crime, man happens to be an MP, man gets a tiny fine.
The only news here is that this criminal only got a tiny fine.
The only Linux terminal-mode text editor I can stand using is Midnight Commander.
You are a sick person. MC should be nuked from orbit.
Disclaimer: vi(m) is my editor of choice on the CLI.
Sorry to be pedantic but it's a Text User Interface, not a Command Line Interface.
Also Emacs has very good Prolog mode that communicates directly with the Prolog debugger so you can do line by line execution, watch variables, etc.
That's great if you program prolog but I've not used prolog since university.
Slime seems to be a lisp thing. I've never used lisp.
What else have you got?
I have been on ...I think two systems in my life that had emacs, but no vi.
The sysadmins were psychotic assholes.
I don't think I've ever seen a unix, linux or BSD system that didn't have some kind of vi on it. I've seen very many that don't have emacs.
I really don't see why emacs still exists, I can only assume it does something better than vi that I don't know about.
I'm not on the internet in the first place. Any site that asks for a real name didn't get one. I never touched myspace or facebook, etc. Even my Gmail name is fake. So I'm all set.
Doesn't gmail log every IP you logged in from?
So your master plan is to fool people into believing you are what you actually are?
Oh how I wish the wayback machine could remove all the old geocities data...
Because it's a waste of disk storage?
Do you remember what you posted on that music forum in 2004?
I have never posted to a music forum. But if I did post something offensive or objectionable so what? Anyone that judges too harshly on such minor matters is best avoided anyway.
Or which services you tried for webmail before Gmail?
I used my own webmail before and after gmail. I once setup a gmail account solely to send my mail server test emails.
It discusses how difficult it is to get your data removed from Facebook
I've never had a facebook account. If I wanted the US government to build semantic graphs about my interpersonal relationships then I'd get a facebook account, but until that time I don't see the need for facebook in my life.
They were 1u servers although I don't remember exactly what model. I don't know what part was overheating, all I know was they crashed about once every week or two, just died with no messages when running big compile jobs. I rearranged the airflow so they got more cool air and afterwards they only crashed about once a month. Restarting these things became a major PITA.
This was in a server room with decent air-con. I never had the same trouble with custom built machines or the HP DL380's that were in the same rack or with the big old sun kit in the next rack.
Why on earth are you repurposing ~7-10 year old server hardware?
Because some companies don't have the cash to replace everything every few years. Old stuff can still be useful outside critical production and sometimes it's the best you are going to get.