As a long-time Linux user, one of the best points is that everything comes without strings attached. I would say "the idea that apps should cost something" is questionable at best, but leave it to Apple and their users to advocate it.
Not to rain on your troll, but I think the whole point of the article is that Apple and their users AREN'T advocating it.
Some of the people writting apps are making money so someone must be advocating it.
As a long-time Linux user, one of the best points is that everything comes without strings attached. I would say "the idea that apps should cost something" is questionable at best, but leave it to Apple and their users to advocate it.
Orginal, well thought out, and enjoyable games like Angry Birds, Plants V Zombies, World of goo, and Contre Jour are total bargains. For less than the price of a sandwich you get a lot of entertainment. Everything else I can and do get for free. I agree that paying good money for a SSH client when all the core work is freely avalible is a piss take.
Open source gives you several great advantages. You don't give it to your company, but you get the credit anyways, while maintaining control of the project. The company gets to use it and you get the advantages you spoke of at work. You also improve your resume globally.
You can't open source something without the owners permission. The owner is not this guy, it's his employer.
a senior sysadmin should expect to write some in-house tools, yes.
UNIX guys are expected to write tools. This guy mentioned he setup exchange so maybe he is a windows guy. In my experience windows guys don't write tools, they buy tools.
But then this guy sounds like a grade A asshole anyway.
The poster is a scumbag. He was paid to do a job and did more than he was expected to. Now he is bitter that he spent his working hours working insteading of playing computer games. He somehow thinks the work they already paid him to do for is his to barter with, not theirs. The poster may have done some good work but his attitude problem makes him unemployable.
I say sack this scumbag and get in someone without the bitter attitude. No company can afford people who think honest work is beneath them.
That's interesting. I've noticed, in these articles about domain or hosting providers, that low UID users were the ones recommending the worst providers. Does your company buy low UID/. accounts and use them in articles like this, for damage control PR for their clients?
Most likely people with low UID's last setup domains a while ago and companies that start good often turn bad. I know a lot of companies I was very happy with in the past are not worth going near now. Having said that I can't remember a time when 1&1 didn't suck.
Of course it's possible that marketing companies are buying low UID accounts too.
That is not something new godaddy started doing just recently. They had the habit of pulling such shit for close to a decade now. the only provider that is FAR worse, is 1&1 in all its incarnations. I had to bail out numerous clients out of their hands - both godaddy and 1&1. some, i wasnt able to bail out, and these were generally those with 1&1.
I once registered a domain with 1&1. Never again. Everyone should be warned to never go near those scumbags.
I've been a customer for what feels like 10 years now.
I've been using Linode since they started as well as various other providers for VPS's and dedicated servers. Everything the parent says is true, Linode rock, they would be my first choice for a small VPS.
'If you know what you're doing' excludes most computer users.
It's not for most people who just want to run office tools, read web pages, and maybe play games. They can't handle the possible instability and won't notice the gains in most cases. You always sacrifice stability when overclocking, you are just hoping the difference is too small to be noticable.
How is it unfortunate? That people aren't buying into transit encryption anymore? It's not the movement of the email you need to worry about. It's what happens when it gets there. If someone steals your computer, email encryption is the least of your worries.
One measure won't protect you from everything, you can use disk encryption as well as transit encryption if you wish.
Actually it's the job of IT to support the employees who are designing the products that bring in the revenue. It isn't the role of IT to dictate what those employees can use.
It is the job of IT to keep virus and malware ridden windows laptops off critical business networks, to keep anything unlicensed or illegal off business systems, and to stop staff from downloading torrents at work. Not to mention the people who plug wifi access points into core networks and don't even setup WEP/WPA.
The trick is to give users what they want before they try to take it themselves and fuck everything up in the process. There are very few people in your average office that can be trusted to 'do whatever they like'.
I Didn't really read the article (if it was readable text at all, or was it audio)? But I assume that the challenge of setting up a security conference, must be making the wifi and other stuff secure, with all those hackers attending who want to prove something.
It's India. The challenges will be more along the lines of wifi points getting stolen, getting people in and out of the building when there is an army of beggers outside, and all guest speakers getting food poisoning.
Just bacause things are messed up in one place does not mean they are not more messed up in another place.
Have you ever been to India? I have, despite what Indians like to tell people it's very much a third world country with open sewers, piles of rubbish, and rats all over the place. It's hard to believe that they would have any great interest in computer security given the other problems they have.
I did a search on some IP addresses assigned to overseas US military facilities. Let's just say it turns out US soldiers like transsexuals and big girls. And possibly big transsexual girls.
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As a long-time Linux user, one of the best points is that everything comes without strings attached. I would say "the idea that apps should cost something" is questionable at best, but leave it to Apple and their users to advocate it.
Not to rain on your troll, but I think the whole point of the article is that Apple and their users AREN'T advocating it.
Some of the people writting apps are making money so someone must be advocating it.
As a long-time Linux user, one of the best points is that everything comes without strings attached. I would say "the idea that apps should cost something" is questionable at best, but leave it to Apple and their users to advocate it.
Orginal, well thought out, and enjoyable games like Angry Birds, Plants V Zombies, World of goo, and Contre Jour are total bargains. For less than the price of a sandwich you get a lot of entertainment. Everything else I can and do get for free. I agree that paying good money for a SSH client when all the core work is freely avalible is a piss take.
Open source gives you several great advantages. You don't give it to your company, but you get the credit anyways, while maintaining control of the project. The company gets to use it and you get the advantages you spoke of at work. You also improve your resume globally.
You can't open source something without the owners permission. The owner is not this guy, it's his employer.
a senior sysadmin should expect to write some in-house tools, yes.
UNIX guys are expected to write tools. This guy mentioned he setup exchange so maybe he is a windows guy. In my experience windows guys don't write tools, they buy tools.
But then this guy sounds like a grade A asshole anyway.
The poster is a scumbag. He was paid to do a job and did more than he was expected to. Now he is bitter that he spent his working hours working insteading of playing computer games. He somehow thinks the work they already paid him to do for is his to barter with, not theirs. The poster may have done some good work but his attitude problem makes him unemployable.
I say sack this scumbag and get in someone without the bitter attitude. No company can afford people who think honest work is beneath them.
That's interesting. I've noticed, in these articles about domain or hosting providers, that low UID users were the ones recommending the worst providers. Does your company buy low UID /. accounts and use them in articles like this, for damage control PR for their clients?
Most likely people with low UID's last setup domains a while ago and companies that start good often turn bad. I know a lot of companies I was very happy with in the past are not worth going near now. Having said that I can't remember a time when 1&1 didn't suck.
Of course it's possible that marketing companies are buying low UID accounts too.
That is not something new godaddy started doing just recently. They had the habit of pulling such shit for close to a decade now. the only provider that is FAR worse, is 1&1 in all its incarnations. I had to bail out numerous clients out of their hands - both godaddy and 1&1. some, i wasnt able to bail out, and these were generally those with 1&1.
I once registered a domain with 1&1. Never again. Everyone should be warned to never go near those scumbags.
I've been doing this for years.
I use p0f to detect connections coming from windows and greylist them. Very little genuine mail comes from windows based mail servers.
I find there is little point greylisting mail from unix machines as very little spam comes from them.
I've been a customer for what feels like 10 years now.
I've been using Linode since they started as well as various other providers for VPS's and dedicated servers. Everything the parent says is true, Linode rock, they would be my first choice for a small VPS.
Gandi are a very well respected DNS registrar. I've used them for VPS service though.
There are a lot of VPS providers that provide a good, stable, service but most of them are not cheap.
If you want good and cheap you want Linode as first choice and Bytemark as a close second. You won't go wrong with either of these.
No. Mobile internet access is convenient at times but it's not a matter of need.
What's with the easy answer polls these days?
dearbook.com.cn is a chinese online technical book retailer owned by CSDN.
The first answer that doesn't take the piss. Thanks.
What does 'dearbook' mean something to the chinese? It sounds like nonsense to a native English speaker.
Clear text passwords - idiots.
You should haved logged in because that is a +5 insightful comment.
'If you know what you're doing' excludes most computer users.
It's not for most people who just want to run office tools, read web pages, and maybe play games. They can't handle the possible instability and won't notice the gains in most cases. You always sacrifice stability when overclocking, you are just hoping the difference is too small to be noticable.
Few people have any real need to sacrifice stability for a little more speed. Overclocking is pretty pointless for anyone with a modern CPU.
A third of the way around the world is 10 hours at most. You said you were flying right?
You hardly have time to finish a huge pile of books. Check out the airport book store like everyone else.
How is it unfortunate? That people aren't buying into transit encryption anymore? It's not the movement of the email you need to worry about. It's what happens when it gets there. If someone steals your computer, email encryption is the least of your worries.
One measure won't protect you from everything, you can use disk encryption as well as transit encryption if you wish.
Actually it's the job of IT to support the employees who are designing the products that bring in the revenue. It isn't the role of IT to dictate what those employees can use.
It is the job of IT to keep virus and malware ridden windows laptops off critical business networks, to keep anything unlicensed or illegal off business systems, and to stop staff from downloading torrents at work. Not to mention the people who plug wifi access points into core networks and don't even setup WEP/WPA.
The trick is to give users what they want before they try to take it themselves and fuck everything up in the process. There are very few people in your average office that can be trusted to 'do whatever they like'.
I Didn't really read the article (if it was readable text at all, or was it audio)? But I assume that the challenge of setting up a security conference, must be making the wifi and other stuff secure, with all those hackers attending who want to prove something.
It's India. The challenges will be more along the lines of wifi points getting stolen, getting people in and out of the building when there is an army of beggers outside, and all guest speakers getting food poisoning.
Just bacause things are messed up in one place does not mean they are not more messed up in another place.
Have you ever been to India? I have, despite what Indians like to tell people it's very much a third world country with open sewers, piles of rubbish, and rats all over the place. It's hard to believe that they would have any great interest in computer security given the other problems they have.
I did a search on some IP addresses assigned to overseas US military facilities. Let's just say it turns out US soldiers like transsexuals and big girls. And possibly big transsexual girls.
Give us the IPs or it didn't happen.
Oh good, Apple took a trick from Microsoft on indoctrinating the next generation.
I think you will find that Microsoft took that trick from Unix.
Microsoft didn't invent anything, not even their marketing tricks.
They save lot's of money, right up until you have to replace a smashed one.
Exactly. What kids need is something cheap, functional, and really hard to break. Being 'oh,shiney!' is not an essential requirement.