I had been about to mention that submissions usually get put through the mangle by some so-called editors(*) before making an appearance in public. You are probably fortunate that it is comprehensible at all.
*term used loosely; my original (edited) choice was less polite, but possibly more informative.
On this topic: Unless Hewlett-Packard has changed its policy with more recent machines, every one of their printers I have ever used since ~1997 spits out innumerable test pages at every opportunity. I can only imagine this is a deliberate effort to gouge their customers, and I now make a point of refusing to buy any HP printer, and advise anyone else who asks likewise. It's a pity, because quite a few of their machines are otherwise quite good.
Rule 4 (I guess): Don't let a printer's support for Mac boxes fool you into thinking that it will work with the versions of CUPS that come with any Linux distro. I made that mistake with a Fuji/Xerox CP105b laser printer, and ended up prowling around dozens of forums to no avail. I eventually got it working by hacking the PPD file, but that was a bit more of a learning curve than I needed at the time.
I would second the recommendation to look for a machine with an ethernet port. A host running lpd or whatever needs no user-side configuration.
You may miss some vapid messages. Is that a bad thing?
No, indeed. And even when we are "plugged in", far too many websites have a ridiculously high-frequency autorefresh (via scripts that I haven't found a way to disable) that serve up exactly the same inane drivel that we were foolishly attempting to read in the first place. Serves us right, I suppose...:-|
Then don't. NFTables is (as I see it) simply another (supposedly/perhaps) more elegant way of approaching the issue. I don't believe there is anything that makes it technically superior to iptables, and in any case, there is nothing that says you have to use NFTables. If your distro won't work properly without it, it's time to change your distro to a more sensible one.
somebody decides they have a better way, and rather than keeping the two available until one stops being maintained they go and dump one as 'inferior'
To be fair, the kernel developers have (to my knowledge) never done this. If you have ever compiled a kernel yourself, you will have seen that new features are flagged as "experimental", older features as "deprecated", and defaults are applied judiciously.
You will most likely find that it is your distribution that is most guilty of foisting bleeding-edge, half-tested stuff on to its users. Linus and the kernel devs are (and have to be) almost fanatically conservative.
When I first embarked on my undergrad degree in biotech back in 2000, it took a fair amount of work to identify and replicate or insert a sequence of bases into a given segment of DNA. Now it can easily be done in a morning (OK, an afternoon if you're a late riser). Sooner or later the information will become available, but common sense would say that allowing a bit of time to prepare defenses isn't a bad idea.
Doubleclick offers no service whatsoever that benefits the web user. Its only purpose is as a facilitator for advertisers. There is absolutely no reason to accept any traffic from their servers, and the most sane option is to block them entirely at the hosts file level.
There is a reason why other distributions - even ones that had switched to Upstart - adopted systemd.
I was under the impression that the majority of current distributions had adopted sytemd for little other reason than because Ubuntu had done so. Fortunately (for me, at least), Slackware is still an outlier in that Pat has (thus far) shunned both systemd and pulseaudio. And (guess what?) my Slackware boxes (!boxen) work perfectly well, regardless.
I just picked the first link off the search results, and of course the two go together. I actually worked with Tektronix back in the late '70s, but I never heard of Mel then...:-)
I can give you one better than that, in the person of Hedy Lamarr, the actress famous for her beauty and also an outstanding mathematician who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping. Sadly, she now seems to be most remembered for the faked orgasm in her 1933 debut film Ecstasy.
He has an unfair advantage in the area of unmaintainable code since he is writing about C/C++.
No, that's just not trying. To make your programs truly unmaintainable, you should write self-modifying assembly code, so it'll take a Real Programmer to understand it. And he will be much too busy destroying the planet to bother. Mwahahahaha...
Considering LavaBit is intended for the high-priority-needs user, I find it hard to suspect that this is a very large demographic.
Seems to me that this debacle serves to highlight another reason to take charge of your own mail via POP3. That way, you can manage your own backup routine, which of course means that if you fail to do so, you're SOL and deserve to be.
I'm sometimes accused of being a troglodyte for my preference to POP3 over IMAP, but the latter offers nothing I really want, including an absolute dependence on the availability of an internet connection, which is not universally practicable where I live.
It's the other way around. If you are a better person you will read better books. The study is flawed.
Even that is flawed. If you read books at all, you are a better person. (Flame on.)
I once heard a Yorkshireman say "I read a book once. It were a green one."
Seriously, though, I get very tired of any content available on the internet being reduced to 30-second video clips (of course, prefaced by 60-second advertising clips). I (for one) resent having to be subjected to all that noise just to read something I could easily read in less than 15 seconds.
Setup your preferred DNS server as 8.8.8.8 and presto!
Just for the record, Google's public DNS can be useful as a diagnostic tool for comparison, but in general you would optimally use the DNS closest to your router (assuming that DNS actually works OK - if not, then whine to your ISP and use one of the OpenDNS servers). Anyone who cares even slightly about Google logging and passing on data about your traffic should NOT be using 8.8.8.8 as their DNS.
There are so many source ips here, that this is almost certainly an attack.
These log entries indicate a scan of some kind. Since the logged intervals are generally less than 20s, I would be disinclined to attribute this to a dDOS of any kind, as this amount of traffic is not unusual, and should slip under the radar of any (even barely) adequate DSL connection.
My impression is that her internet connection just sucks. I realise this isn't very informative, so I'll add that her best approach might be to try ping tests to close servers (by IP address, then by name) to establish whether or not her DNS is working properly (maybe trying different packet sizes, in case her ISP is playing games). Then try an alternative DNS (either 8.8.8.8 or one of the FreeDNS servers) and see if that makes a difference.
The above will give an approximate indication of network responsiveness. To get an idea of actual speed, I would suggest using wget to download any portion of a large-ish file from her ISP's mirror site (assuming it has one) - I usually use an ISO image of any available Linux distribution, but anything over (say) 50MB will do.
If that speed looks close enough to advertised spec, then she should try the same procedure from a more distant server. If there's a significant discrepancy between this speed and that from the earlier test, then this could indicate that her ISP just doesn't have enough bandwidth available to the outside world.
Your LAN loses TIA/EIA specification compliance, what with Cat 5e superseding Cat 5 about a decade ago. Also, should you be forcing 1000+ Mbps over Cat 5, expect to see the unexpected.
If the OP's machine is at the end of any kind of DSL connection, the slowest part of the link is between him and his ISP, so this kind of bottleneck won't apply.
you don't know how to use netsh/?
get the fuck out.
If you have nothing informative to contribute, why don't you do likewise? Since (as I just found out) that utility is exclusively the domain of MS environments, you can't reasonably expect everyone here to know about it.
It is truly sad that there are people in this world who were not born knowing everything.
Lady Bracknell: I have always been of the opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?
Jack: I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a very delicate exotic fruit. Touch it and the bloom is gone.
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I had been about to mention that submissions usually get put through the mangle by some so-called editors(*) before making an appearance in public. You are probably fortunate that it is comprehensible at all.
*term used loosely; my original (edited) choice was less polite, but possibly more informative.
I can't comment on the cost of consumables...
On this topic: Unless Hewlett-Packard has changed its policy with more recent machines, every one of their printers I have ever used since ~1997 spits out innumerable test pages at every opportunity. I can only imagine this is a deliberate effort to gouge their customers, and I now make a point of refusing to buy any HP printer, and advise anyone else who asks likewise. It's a pity, because quite a few of their machines are otherwise quite good.
Rule 4 (I guess): Don't let a printer's support for Mac boxes fool you into thinking that it will work with the versions of CUPS that come with any Linux distro. I made that mistake with a Fuji/Xerox CP105b laser printer, and ended up prowling around dozens of forums to no avail. I eventually got it working by hacking the PPD file, but that was a bit more of a learning curve than I needed at the time.
I would second the recommendation to look for a machine with an ethernet port. A host running lpd or whatever needs no user-side configuration.
You may miss some vapid messages. Is that a bad thing?
No, indeed. And even when we are "plugged in", far too many websites have a ridiculously high-frequency autorefresh (via scripts that I haven't found a way to disable) that serve up exactly the same inane drivel that we were foolishly attempting to read in the first place. Serves us right, I suppose... :-|
Cue the ancient NO CARRIER meme.
Ancient? Come here and say that, you whappersnipper! My X.25 modem is only 25 years old and as good as the day it was made. Now get off my lawn...
Please, I do not want to change everything again.
Then don't. NFTables is (as I see it) simply another (supposedly/perhaps) more elegant way of approaching the issue. I don't believe there is anything that makes it technically superior to iptables, and in any case, there is nothing that says you have to use NFTables. If your distro won't work properly without it, it's time to change your distro to a more sensible one.
As far as I know, 2.4 is not supported anymore.
The most recent update to the 2.4 tree was in 1st May of this year. So it looks like it is indeed still being supported.
somebody decides they have a better way, and rather than keeping the two available until one stops being maintained they go and dump one as 'inferior'
To be fair, the kernel developers have (to my knowledge) never done this. If you have ever compiled a kernel yourself, you will have seen that new features are flagged as "experimental", older features as "deprecated", and defaults are applied judiciously.
You will most likely find that it is your distribution that is most guilty of foisting bleeding-edge, half-tested stuff on to its users. Linus and the kernel devs are (and have to be) almost fanatically conservative.
I notice all the fuss rests on the tension created by the phrase " expected future downward trajectory of the U.S. nuclear arsenal".
I guess that means we shouldn't build any more nuclear weapons until we've used the ones we've got.
When I first embarked on my undergrad degree in biotech back in 2000, it took a fair amount of work to identify and replicate or insert a sequence of bases into a given segment of DNA. Now it can easily be done in a morning (OK, an afternoon if you're a late riser). Sooner or later the information will become available, but common sense would say that allowing a bit of time to prepare defenses isn't a bad idea.
Doubleclick offers no service whatsoever that benefits the web user. Its only purpose is as a facilitator for advertisers. There is absolutely no reason to accept any traffic from their servers, and the most sane option is to block them entirely at the hosts file level.
My eyes glazed over halfway through the story summary, and I really don't care.
So the reason you are posting in this thread is to say "lookatme,lookatme!"
OK.
There is a reason why other distributions - even ones that had switched to Upstart - adopted systemd.
I was under the impression that the majority of current distributions had adopted sytemd for little other reason than because Ubuntu had done so. Fortunately (for me, at least), Slackware is still an outlier in that Pat has (thus far) shunned both systemd and pulseaudio. And (guess what?) my Slackware boxes (!boxen) work perfectly well, regardless.
...because only if you understand the text, you can give halfway accurate probabilities for what comes next.
Browning turned to the lady saying: "Madam, when those lines were written two knew their meaning, God and Browning. Now only God Knows.
I just picked the first link off the search results, and of course the two go together. I actually worked with Tektronix back in the late '70s, but I never heard of Mel then... :-)
640k (neurons) ought to be enough for anybody
So it would seem.
*ducks*
For some reason I thought she was a porn star.
I can give you one better than that, in the person of Hedy Lamarr, the actress famous for her beauty and also an outstanding mathematician who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping. Sadly, she now seems to be most remembered for the faked orgasm in her 1933 debut film Ecstasy.
He has an unfair advantage in the area of unmaintainable code since he is writing about C/C++.
No, that's just not trying. To make your programs truly unmaintainable, you should write self-modifying assembly code, so it'll take a Real Programmer to understand it. And he will be much too busy destroying the planet to bother. Mwahahahaha...
Considering LavaBit is intended for the high-priority-needs user, I find it hard to suspect that this is a very large demographic.
Seems to me that this debacle serves to highlight another reason to take charge of your own mail via POP3. That way, you can manage your own backup routine, which of course means that if you fail to do so, you're SOL and deserve to be.
I'm sometimes accused of being a troglodyte for my preference to POP3 over IMAP, but the latter offers nothing I really want, including an absolute dependence on the availability of an internet connection, which is not universally practicable where I live.
It's the other way around. If you are a better person you will read better books. The study is flawed.
Even that is flawed. If you read books at all, you are a better person. (Flame on.)
I once heard a Yorkshireman say "I read a book once. It were a green one."
Seriously, though, I get very tired of any content available on the internet being reduced to 30-second video clips (of course, prefaced by 60-second advertising clips). I (for one) resent having to be subjected to all that noise just to read something I could easily read in less than 15 seconds.
Setup your preferred DNS server as 8.8.8.8 and presto!
Just for the record, Google's public DNS can be useful as a diagnostic tool for comparison, but in general you would optimally use the DNS closest to your router (assuming that DNS actually works OK - if not, then whine to your ISP and use one of the OpenDNS servers). Anyone who cares even slightly about Google logging and passing on data about your traffic should NOT be using 8.8.8.8 as their DNS.
There are so many source ips here, that this is almost certainly an attack.
These log entries indicate a scan of some kind. Since the logged intervals are generally less than 20s, I would be disinclined to attribute this to a dDOS of any kind, as this amount of traffic is not unusual, and should slip under the radar of any (even barely) adequate DSL connection.
My impression is that her internet connection just sucks. I realise this isn't very informative, so I'll add that her best approach might be to try ping tests to close servers (by IP address, then by name) to establish whether or not her DNS is working properly (maybe trying different packet sizes, in case her ISP is playing games). Then try an alternative DNS (either 8.8.8.8 or one of the FreeDNS servers) and see if that makes a difference.
The above will give an approximate indication of network responsiveness. To get an idea of actual speed, I would suggest using wget to download any portion of a large-ish file from her ISP's mirror site (assuming it has one) - I usually use an ISO image of any available Linux distribution, but anything over (say) 50MB will do.
If that speed looks close enough to advertised spec, then she should try the same procedure from a more distant server. If there's a significant discrepancy between this speed and that from the earlier test, then this could indicate that her ISP just doesn't have enough bandwidth available to the outside world.
HTH...
Your LAN loses TIA/EIA specification compliance, what with Cat 5e superseding Cat 5 about a decade ago. Also, should you be forcing 1000+ Mbps over Cat 5, expect to see the unexpected.
If the OP's machine is at the end of any kind of DSL connection, the slowest part of the link is between him and his ISP, so this kind of bottleneck won't apply.
you don't know how to use netsh /?
get the fuck out.
If you have nothing informative to contribute, why don't you do likewise? Since (as I just found out) that utility is exclusively the domain of MS environments, you can't reasonably expect everyone here to know about it.
It is truly sad that there are people in this world who were not born knowing everything.
Lady Bracknell: I have always been of the opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?
Jack: I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a very delicate exotic fruit. Touch it and the bloom is gone.
[Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest]