I mostly ssh to it from a Windows 7 machine (horrors!:).
...while I mostly use my (freebie hand-me-down) MacBook to ssh to my Linux box. But then, the latter is far too big, heavy and noisy to have on my lap when I'm sitting on my sofa.
Yea, easy to read while sitting in a dark room underground.
Agreed. Here in Perth, Western Australia, where we have blazing sunshine 360 days of the year, a matte-finish screen is definitely an advantage. Even over the last few days of our brief winter, it's often hard to read stuff that's on a glossy screen.
Apple seem to be the worst offenders in this drive to make everything shiny (except for all those fingerprints on touchscreens - or am I the only one who has an issue with that?), to the extent that I sometimes wonder if Steve Jobs ever moved out of his Ma's basement. (Disclaimer: this typed on a MacBook with such a shiny screen.)
Well, whatever genre anyone insists on pigeonholing it into, I personally don't care whether Doctor Who is considered a children's show or not. I can't exactly call myself a Doctor Who geek, but the show probably formed nearly as much of a backdrop for our (British, that is) culture as Monty Python.
The original William Hartnell version of the Doctor formed one of my earliest memories back in the early '60s, and I followed the show more or less regularly until Tom Baker hung up his scarf.
The subsequent five incarnations more or less passed me by, but David Tennant revived the persona for me. The first Matt Smith episode left me unconvinced, but once he got into his stride, he did a great job.
If (a) Microsoft publishes a revocation for the cert, (b) the user runs 32-bit Windows, (c) the user downloads the Root Certificate Updates from Microsoft Update (they don't install by default), and (d) the user for some reason wants to re-install his drivers, then he needs to download new Realtek drivers.
The article tells us that the certificate in question expired in June anyway.
Which leads me to wonder what useful purpose these certificates serve...
Because it will cost thousands to get cabling through several km of forest.
You don't have to move there. You made that choice yourself.
Of course I did. But as a technically able sort of guy, I am simply investigating the best options for me to be able to both have my cake and eat it. After all, that's what Slashdot is supposed to be about.
I used to love my HP48G+, but the thing was just too damned unreliable. It had a habit of going into meltdown during exams or if a fellow-student not sufficiently familiar with RPN borrowed it.
Eventually I sold it and bought myself a TI-89 which is vastly better in some respects (speed, functionality), but lacks the nice clicky buttons and the big fat "Enter" key positioned exactly where your index finger can easily find it.
When I went to school, we used books of tables or slide rules. (I still have a nice log-log decitrig rule, but that's another story).
But when I went back to university a few (OK, ten) years ago, my profs made a point of not knowing or caring what calculators we used. The only restriction was that it should not have a QWERTY keyboard.
Well, at my rural property in Tasmania (where I'll be living in a few months' time), I'll have to take whatever connection I can get, and I'm quite sure it won't be as good as 1Mb/s. I'll be several km away from the nearest Telstra pole (or even a power pole, for that matter), and I'm not sure whether or not Telstra's wireless connection will actually be possible there. Obviously, all the satellite options suffer from the upstream latency issue for VOIP. Here in Perth (Western Australia, that is), I have plenty of choices for ADSL2+ connections, but it's easy to forget about regional areas until the day when you have to deal with them.
I never understood why a minimal install includes CUPS...
Because there are other types of server than DNSs. For instance, I have a headless file server at home that also handles printing and a number of other miscellaneous functions. It would be useless to me without CUPS and NFS. I know I could use SMB, but NFS has plenty of advantages in an environment made up entirely of Linux, BSD and Mac boxes.
I was hoping for some comment that might shed some (presumably ionising) light on this issue, since TFA offers no suggestions. Instead, we have a series of boring troll posts.
Oh well, I'll just move on, nothing to see here...
What for? He's doing a perfectly good job of fucking himself, thank you very much.
I'd like to imagine him howling out the rest of his days alone, unloved with his cats on a back stair in Stepney [credit: DNA], but I doubt if that's likely. But a mass boycott of his paywall is a good second-best.
If they did not have a gun, then it would have been a knife.
That, IMO is a healthier way of going about self-defence. If you want to kill (or even maim) someone, standing at any distance with a gun is a comparatively uninvolved way of going about it. But if you're using a knife, you have to be serious about it, and be prepared for all that blood and mess. If you seriously want someone dead, a knife is at least a more "honest" way of going about it.
I have never in my near-half-century lifetime held, let alone fired a gun, and I intend to keep it that way. However, that doesn't mean I have to be a shrinking violet when it comes to defending myself.
The great bulk of underage gun deaths are either suicide or gangbangers.
The trouble with having guns is that (1) sooner or later you're going to be tempted to use it on someone, which will result in you ending up in jail, or (2) someone else will use it on you, which will result in you being dead.
Funny, that's what Zyxel modems by CenturyLink default to.
They also happen to have Telnet and Web Access enabled by default to the internal and external world.
I've never heard of that manufacturer, but that's just plain bad, not sad. Telnet was useful back in the days when the internet was so small, many of us users actually knew each other, but I can't think of a single legitimate reason (excuse) to allow it to run now.
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I mostly ssh to it from a Windows 7 machine (horrors! :) .
...while I mostly use my (freebie hand-me-down) MacBook to ssh to my Linux box. But then, the latter is far too big, heavy and noisy to have on my lap when I'm sitting on my sofa.
Yea, easy to read while sitting in a dark room underground.
Agreed. Here in Perth, Western Australia, where we have blazing sunshine 360 days of the year, a matte-finish screen is definitely an advantage. Even over the last few days of our brief winter, it's often hard to read stuff that's on a glossy screen.
Apple seem to be the worst offenders in this drive to make everything shiny (except for all those fingerprints on touchscreens - or am I the only one who has an issue with that?), to the extent that I sometimes wonder if Steve Jobs ever moved out of his Ma's basement. (Disclaimer: this typed on a MacBook with such a shiny screen.)
Nope. Mine has duct tape over the lens.
I prefer the first two. This guy doesn't cut it, and the new writer is inadequate too.
The first two? You mean William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton?
Hmmm, OK, if you must. (Incidentally, Jon Pertwee was the first Doctor I saw in colour, comparatively late in his incarnation).
So you don't watch Doctor Who then because they've been making them for 4 years now.
WTF? Try 47 years.
Well, whatever genre anyone insists on pigeonholing it into, I personally don't care whether Doctor Who is considered a children's show or not. I can't exactly call myself a Doctor Who geek, but the show probably formed nearly as much of a backdrop for our (British, that is) culture as Monty Python.
The original William Hartnell version of the Doctor formed one of my earliest memories back in the early '60s, and I followed the show more or less regularly until Tom Baker hung up his scarf.
The subsequent five incarnations more or less passed me by, but David Tennant revived the persona for me. The first Matt Smith episode left me unconvinced, but once he got into his stride, he did a great job.
If (a) Microsoft publishes a revocation for the cert, (b) the user runs 32-bit Windows, (c) the user downloads the Root Certificate Updates from Microsoft Update (they don't install by default), and (d) the user for some reason wants to re-install his drivers, then he needs to download new Realtek drivers.
The article tells us that the certificate in question expired in June anyway.
Which leads me to wonder what useful purpose these certificates serve...
and we might as well take our minds off what we cannot change...
This sounds uncannily like something your former president Ronnie Raygun said:
[paraphrasing:] "We're all gonna die, but since we're the good guys, we've got a first-class ticket to heaven, so we're OK, dammit. Yee-Haw!"
Posting as AC, since YOU are trolling and I'm too drunk to login.
If you are too drunk to login, then just who is trolling around here?
(1) How about just using an old-fashioned phone?
Because it will cost thousands to get cabling through several km of forest.
You don't have to move there. You made that choice yourself.
Of course I did. But as a technically able sort of guy, I am simply investigating the best options for me to be able to both have my cake and eat it. After all, that's what Slashdot is supposed to be about.
I used to love my HP48G+, but the thing was just too damned unreliable. It had a habit of going into meltdown during exams or if a fellow-student not sufficiently familiar with RPN borrowed it.
Eventually I sold it and bought myself a TI-89 which is vastly better in some respects (speed, functionality), but lacks the nice clicky buttons and the big fat "Enter" key positioned exactly where your index finger can easily find it.
When I went to school, we used books of tables or slide rules. (I still have a nice log-log decitrig rule, but that's another story).
But when I went back to university a few (OK, ten) years ago, my profs made a point of not knowing or caring what calculators we used. The only restriction was that it should not have a QWERTY keyboard.
There was talk about funding coming from the TV license fee...
Damn, I'd almost forgotten about that. Here in Australia we don't have such a fee, but I guess there's a few other things we don't have too...
Well, at my rural property in Tasmania (where I'll be living in a few months' time), I'll have to take whatever connection I can get, and I'm quite sure it won't be as good as 1Mb/s. I'll be several km away from the nearest Telstra pole (or even a power pole, for that matter), and I'm not sure whether or not Telstra's wireless connection will actually be possible there. Obviously, all the satellite options suffer from the upstream latency issue for VOIP. Here in Perth (Western Australia, that is), I have plenty of choices for ADSL2+ connections, but it's easy to forget about regional areas until the day when you have to deal with them.
I never understood why a minimal install includes CUPS...
Because there are other types of server than DNSs. For instance, I have a headless file server at home that also handles printing and a number of other miscellaneous functions. It would be useless to me without CUPS and NFS. I know I could use SMB, but NFS has plenty of advantages in an environment made up entirely of Linux, BSD and Mac boxes.
Anybody here reminded of blipverts?
Heh. I fart in the general direction of your Active Denial System. I'm waiting for someone to come up with a working SEP field.
I was hoping for some comment that might shed some (presumably ionising) light on this issue, since TFA offers no suggestions. Instead, we have a series of boring troll posts.
Oh well, I'll just move on, nothing to see here...
But FUCK RUPERT MURDOCH
What for? He's doing a perfectly good job of fucking himself, thank you very much.
I'd like to imagine him howling out the rest of his days alone, unloved with his cats on a back stair in Stepney [credit: DNA], but I doubt if that's likely. But a mass boycott of his paywall is a good second-best.
If they did not have a gun, then it would have been a knife.
That, IMO is a healthier way of going about self-defence. If you want to kill (or even maim) someone, standing at any distance with a gun is a comparatively uninvolved way of going about it. But if you're using a knife, you have to be serious about it, and be prepared for all that blood and mess. If you seriously want someone dead, a knife is at least a more "honest" way of going about it.
I have never in my near-half-century lifetime held, let alone fired a gun, and I intend to keep it that way. However, that doesn't mean I have to be a shrinking violet when it comes to defending myself.
The great bulk of underage gun deaths are either suicide or gangbangers.
The trouble with having guns is that (1) sooner or later you're going to be tempted to use it on someone, which will result in you ending up in jail, or (2) someone else will use it on you, which will result in you being dead.
A story like this demonstrates to people that Facebook, and the internet in general, can be useful, even life-saving.
A phone call saying "Help!" would have had an equal effect.
My employer blocks access to Google Docs.
I am really not a fan of google docs, but you really need a different employer. Sorry.
...then even with a random default password an attacker can be malicious.
All attackers are malicious. After all, you don't have to hack your own router - you can just use a ballpoint pen.
Funny, that's what Zyxel modems by CenturyLink default to. They also happen to have Telnet and Web Access enabled by default to the internal and external world.
I've never heard of that manufacturer, but that's just plain bad, not sad. Telnet was useful back in the days when the internet was so small, many of us users actually knew each other, but I can't think of a single legitimate reason (excuse) to allow it to run now.