I, for one, wouldn't care to have my blog's domain erased because someone decided it was deemed harmful in some fashion.
Sure, but if your domain is well-known to be an attack site, then you should do something about the cause, rather than complaining that no-one wants to visit you any more (just assuming they ever did).
And atmospheric carbon fixation is something of a moot point when we have hundreds of years of reserves of carbon that we are already digging up out of the ground and expelling into the atmosphere as highly concentrated CO2.
Also, while cyanobacteria might be useful for sequestering CO2 as a temporary increase in biomass,, the beastie doesn't have much in the way of lifespan. So when it dies, that carbon is released straight back into the atmosphere unless we can find some other way to sequester it. I would put my money on trees to do a more effective job, but it seems prople are more interested in chopping them down.
But Workspaces have been around for years and years and have never caught on.
On Windows, that might be because not many people went to any trouble to publicise or install them. Most Linux or *nix desktops have had workspaces by default for so long, they've become an integral and normal part of the way people work, and for most people they are now indispensible.
It's ALWAYS in the best interests of everyone involved to counter propaganda and oppression with the TRUTH!!
No, if you can render the body of information kept by the opressors entirely useless, then you win, at least in that battle. There's no point sitting on a high horse about the of value of truth when you have one party that couldn't five a fuck about it.
The only useful weapons are those that you can use, and you can only use the weapons that you have.
He was listening to some quite well-recorded tracks from Paul Motian on the ECM label. Yes, he knew those cruddy earbuds were worthless, but nevertheless the uncompressed noise from my comparatively modest rig seemed to impress him. For the record, my setup is a Marantz CC4300 source through Cambridge Audio DacMagic DAC and Cambridge Audio A740 amplifier, with my new Monitor Audio RX8 speakers.
True. But something that bothers me is that there is now a whole generation that has no idea what their music is supposed to sound like. A friend brought his 21-year-old son round to my place just recently, and the boy was apparently blown away by the detail he could hear in the music from my OK-ish stereo setup. He had been so used to the cruddy MP3 or AAC files he gets from iTunes, he had never heard the real thing.
Openness implies access, understanding, knowledge, transparency. Without documentation, none of these exist.
No, you're conflating two completely different things. Open (as far as software is concerned) refers to access to, and freedom to use and re-use code. Documentation is (regarded as) a boring task required to make code accessible for newbies. Sure, it would be nice if the programmer could do both, but the simple fact is that it is common for competent programmers to lack the requisite communication skills for writing useful documentation.
If you really want to learn how to use Linux, then (my personal opinion is that) the currently most popular distro, Ubuntu, isn't the best way to go about it. There's quite a lot of machinery under the bonnet (or hood in the US), and scraping a few lines out of a cookbook or forum post without taking a bit of time to understand what you're doing can lead to the kind of frustration you describe. It does sound like you bit off a tough chew.
If you've got lots of time to spare (and an otherwise unused machine), you could try Linux From Scratch, but a gentler approach might be to try Slackware which will give you a world to stand on while you get your shit together. My current preference is Arch Linux, which has lots of similarities to Slackware, with a number of improvements, but assumes that you have some experience with editing things like init scripts.
Back when I first started using Linux, I found Linux Installation and Getting Started (a.k.a. LIGS) a really helpful reference. It's probably very much dated now (I last looked at it in 1998) but there's lots of useful information in it, probably much more than the average Ubuntu user will ever have considered necessary.
But now that I've got a bit of experience under my belt, I mostly hit Google and the manpages for answers to specific issues. Oh, and apropos is a useful command to remember for a search of the manpages. Most distributions include the command by default, but you sometimes have to build the database yourself, which is pretty straightforward.
In any case, if (as the article claims) one third of Cameroon domains host malware, the implication is that two thirds don't. I would be very curious to know what percentage of US domains host malware.
Regardless of the answer, the appropriate response is to use a robust browser and block individual sites, not block out whole nations. Otherwise one might just as well move to China.
Aghhhh... Double negitive
"I doubt Google won't give"...
Actually if you go back a few hundred years, you'll find it wasn't uncommon to find usage of "doubt" in literature as obviously meaning "believe" or "expect".
Take issue with this kind of behaviour and actively seek help from institutions such as th ACCC and the telecommunications ombudsman.
Unless you've been living in a barrel, you will be aware that it has been widely reported that both have received countless complaints against the telcos.
Have those bodies done anything about them?
No. Neither body has sufficient teeth to do so, and the Government has not lifted a finger to change that.
I don't believe this opinion qualifies as arrogance or autism. Try a dictionary.
Vodafone care a heck of a lot more about their customers...
Yeah. Pity their coverage sucks, though. And they're expensive. I'm on Vodafone currently (I had a couple of years with 3, and it was with relief that I dropped that to go back to Voda) but I'm going to have to go to Telstra to get the coverage I need when I move to Tasmania...
Indeed. Given the punitive contract clauses all the telcos enforce when customers change providers, it'll be Optus who wins. Actually, we might as well use $TELCO, since ALL of these operators in Australia have a smelly name when it comes to customer complaints. If the others aren't using similar methods to gouge their customers, it's only because they haven't thought of it yet.
A real writing instrument isn't mechanical. It requires the human hand to function, it lives and breathes the soul of a person
Postmodern wit aside, there's something very satisfying about writing with a fountain pen, or even a goose-quill for that matter. I still do so for my own purposes. But one would have to be a very well-established author to get away with only submitting a manuscript or typescript for publication these days. Most publishers aren't interested in having to transcribe from the author's pages, and I honestly can't blame them.
It doesn't accomplish anything to reiterate the meaningless and unproveable claim that Linux would be just as insecure as Windows if more people used it. The fact remains that in most sensible implementations, the user is unable to run arbitrary code outside his own directory.
The submission mentions the persistence in autostart as being really nasty, and not really a security hole that can be fixed, but it seems to me that it should be trivial to reset autostart or bashrc scripts to a known-good state on login. It would mean that the user would have to su or sudo to make permanent changes, but in this case he is in a good position to notice any untoward changes.
It seems to me that rather than going to the trouble of packaging up a malware toolkit and worrying about whether or not to release it, the submitter would be better advised to refer separate vulnerabilities individually to the developers concerned. All of the software he mentions is under active development, so it's unlikely he would be ignored.
I don't know whether or not every/. user gets the option to disable ads, but one thing that is apparent to me is that Slashdot page-loads seem to take a VERY much longer time than they used to. Given that I'm not seeing any ads (I would have filtered them anyway), and I view the content in "classic" mode, it is tempting to speculate that unless slashcode itself is somehow responsible, a speed-bump might be a simple ratio of server power to number of users.
It might be interesting to see statistics for average/. page-load times as a breakdown on a per-country basis. Here's a starter: mine is just over 5 seconds for a thread with just over 100 posts. (Yikes.) I'm in Australia.
OpenVPN was not designed to provide a proxy service to secure all your connections to everything else in the world but only between locations that you own.
And that is where using a VPN fails. No amount of encryption on the tubes will do you any good if your internet kiosk has a keylogger on board. Happened to me just under a year ago. No lasting damage was done in my case, but it was just enough of a cluebat to do me some good...
A drawback of using a residential connection to host a VPN is that (at least here in Australia), most home connections are throttled in the upstream direction. That's going to introduce a lot of latency at the user end.
but unless someone internally steps up and says "I'll make it for Linux!".. well, there is a lack of linux support.
That seems rather a rather extraordinary statement. I realise Google takes pride in the individual and spontaneous contributions of its staff (and I have no problem with that), but sooner or later someone has to sit down and do some grunt-work, or the organisation will become a disfunctional, undisciplined rabble.
If the job of providing cross-platform versions is beneath the abilities of in-house staff, or they have more useful things to do, then it would make sense for management to dip their fingertips into their wallets and pay someone else to do the work. Leaving the job half done because everybody's bored with it just doesn't cut it as a professional approach.
Google's Windows-centric attitude goes beyond their apparent antipathy towards Linux. Development of Mac versions of their software is also sluggish. Given that other software houses with incomparably smaller resources to allocate manage to produce creditable multi-platform versions of their software, one can only assume Google's tardiness in this regard is a matter of policy.
Well, I have news for Google. They are not yet a total monopoly, and while some of their products are actually quite useful, they don't produce anything we can't live without. So I guess they can do whatever they want with Gizmo5, just so long as they realise that we have alternatives.
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I, for one, wouldn't care to have my blog's domain erased because someone decided it was deemed harmful in some fashion.
Sure, but if your domain is well-known to be an attack site, then you should do something about the cause, rather than complaining that no-one wants to visit you any more (just assuming they ever did).
And atmospheric carbon fixation is something of a moot point when we have hundreds of years of reserves of carbon that we are already digging up out of the ground and expelling into the atmosphere as highly concentrated CO2.
Also, while cyanobacteria might be useful for sequestering CO2 as a temporary increase in biomass,, the beastie doesn't have much in the way of lifespan. So when it dies, that carbon is released straight back into the atmosphere unless we can find some other way to sequester it. I would put my money on trees to do a more effective job, but it seems prople are more interested in chopping them down.
But Workspaces have been around for years and years and have never caught on.
On Windows, that might be because not many people went to any trouble to publicise or install them. Most Linux or *nix desktops have had workspaces by default for so long, they've become an integral and normal part of the way people work, and for most people they are now indispensible.
It's ALWAYS in the best interests of everyone involved to counter propaganda and oppression with the TRUTH!!
No, if you can render the body of information kept by the opressors entirely useless, then you win, at least in that battle. There's no point sitting on a high horse about the of value of truth when you have one party that couldn't five a fuck about it.
The only useful weapons are those that you can use, and you can only use the weapons that you have.
He was listening to some quite well-recorded tracks from Paul Motian on the ECM label. Yes, he knew those cruddy earbuds were worthless, but nevertheless the uncompressed noise from my comparatively modest rig seemed to impress him. For the record, my setup is a Marantz CC4300 source through Cambridge Audio DacMagic DAC and Cambridge Audio A740 amplifier, with my new Monitor Audio RX8 speakers.
True. But something that bothers me is that there is now a whole generation that has no idea what their music is supposed to sound like. A friend brought his 21-year-old son round to my place just recently, and the boy was apparently blown away by the detail he could hear in the music from my OK-ish stereo setup. He had been so used to the cruddy MP3 or AAC files he gets from iTunes, he had never heard the real thing.
Isn't it more of a case that someone has found a bug, and now it's over to Apple to fix it?
;-)
It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature.
The simple fact is that people trust phones with far too much information, given their inherent lack of security.
and last I checked MacOS has given up on the commandline...
OK, then explain why OS X not only ships with a terminal, but also with zsh, bash, csh, tcsh, ksh and sh. All out of the box by default.
Openness implies access, understanding, knowledge, transparency. Without documentation, none of these exist.
No, you're conflating two completely different things. Open (as far as software is concerned) refers to access to, and freedom to use and re-use code. Documentation is (regarded as) a boring task required to make code accessible for newbies. Sure, it would be nice if the programmer could do both, but the simple fact is that it is common for competent programmers to lack the requisite communication skills for writing useful documentation.
If you really want to learn how to use Linux, then (my personal opinion is that) the currently most popular distro, Ubuntu, isn't the best way to go about it. There's quite a lot of machinery under the bonnet (or hood in the US), and scraping a few lines out of a cookbook or forum post without taking a bit of time to understand what you're doing can lead to the kind of frustration you describe. It does sound like you bit off a tough chew.
If you've got lots of time to spare (and an otherwise unused machine), you could try Linux From Scratch, but a gentler approach might be to try Slackware which will give you a world to stand on while you get your shit together. My current preference is Arch Linux, which has lots of similarities to Slackware, with a number of improvements, but assumes that you have some experience with editing things like init scripts.
Back when I first started using Linux, I found Linux Installation and Getting Started (a.k.a. LIGS) a really helpful reference. It's probably very much dated now (I last looked at it in 1998) but there's lots of useful information in it, probably much more than the average Ubuntu user will ever have considered necessary.
But now that I've got a bit of experience under my belt, I mostly hit Google and the manpages for answers to specific issues. Oh, and apropos is a useful command to remember for a search of the manpages. Most distributions include the command by default, but you sometimes have to build the database yourself, which is pretty straightforward.
In any case, if (as the article claims) one third of Cameroon domains host malware, the implication is that two thirds don't. I would be very curious to know what percentage of US domains host malware.
Regardless of the answer, the appropriate response is to use a robust browser and block individual sites, not block out whole nations. Otherwise one might just as well move to China.
Aghhhh... Double negitive "I doubt Google won't give"... Actually if you go back a few hundred years, you'll find it wasn't uncommon to find usage of "doubt" in literature as obviously meaning "believe" or "expect".
Take issue with this kind of behaviour and actively seek help from institutions such as th ACCC and the telecommunications ombudsman.
Unless you've been living in a barrel, you will be aware that it has been widely reported that both have received countless complaints against the telcos.
Have those bodies done anything about them?
No. Neither body has sufficient teeth to do so, and the Government has not lifted a finger to change that.
I don't believe this opinion qualifies as arrogance or autism. Try a dictionary.
Vodafone care a heck of a lot more about their customers...
Yeah. Pity their coverage sucks, though. And they're expensive. I'm on Vodafone currently (I had a couple of years with 3, and it was with relief that I dropped that to go back to Voda) but I'm going to have to go to Telstra to get the coverage I need when I move to Tasmania...
Why do we get shafted? Because the general populous are fucking morons
...
If you can tell me one thing the Australian populace can do about predatory telcos, then let's hear it.
??
Thought so.
There's certainly not a damn thing ANY of the political parties in Government have any intention of doing.
Indeed. Given the punitive contract clauses all the telcos enforce when customers change providers, it'll be Optus who wins. Actually, we might as well use $TELCO, since ALL of these operators in Australia have a smelly name when it comes to customer complaints. If the others aren't using similar methods to gouge their customers, it's only because they haven't thought of it yet.
A real writing instrument isn't mechanical. It requires the human hand to function, it lives and breathes the soul of a person
Postmodern wit aside, there's something very satisfying about writing with a fountain pen, or even a goose-quill for that matter. I still do so for my own purposes. But one would have to be a very well-established author to get away with only submitting a manuscript or typescript for publication these days. Most publishers aren't interested in having to transcribe from the author's pages, and I honestly can't blame them.
It doesn't accomplish anything to reiterate the meaningless and unproveable claim that Linux would be just as insecure as Windows if more people used it. The fact remains that in most sensible implementations, the user is unable to run arbitrary code outside his own directory.
The submission mentions the persistence in autostart as being really nasty, and not really a security hole that can be fixed, but it seems to me that it should be trivial to reset autostart or bashrc scripts to a known-good state on login. It would mean that the user would have to su or sudo to make permanent changes, but in this case he is in a good position to notice any untoward changes.
It seems to me that rather than going to the trouble of packaging up a malware toolkit and worrying about whether or not to release it, the submitter would be better advised to refer separate vulnerabilities individually to the developers concerned. All of the software he mentions is under active development, so it's unlikely he would be ignored.
I always post my birthday as April 1st. Anyone who believes that is a fool. :-)
I don't know whether or not every /. user gets the option to disable ads, but one thing that is apparent to me is that Slashdot page-loads seem to take a VERY much longer time than they used to. Given that I'm not seeing any ads (I would have filtered them anyway), and I view the content in "classic" mode, it is tempting to speculate that unless slashcode itself is somehow responsible, a speed-bump might be a simple ratio of server power to number of users.
/. page-load times as a breakdown on a per-country basis. Here's a starter: mine is just over 5 seconds for a thread with just over 100 posts. (Yikes.) I'm in Australia.
It might be interesting to see statistics for average
OpenVPN was not designed to provide a proxy service to secure all your connections to everything else in the world but only between locations that you own.
And that is where using a VPN fails. No amount of encryption on the tubes will do you any good if your internet kiosk has a keylogger on board. Happened to me just under a year ago. No lasting damage was done in my case, but it was just enough of a cluebat to do me some good...
A drawback of using a residential connection to host a VPN is that (at least here in Australia), most home connections are throttled in the upstream direction. That's going to introduce a lot of latency at the user end.
but unless someone internally steps up and says "I'll make it for Linux!".. well, there is a lack of linux support.
That seems rather a rather extraordinary statement. I realise Google takes pride in the individual and spontaneous contributions of its staff (and I have no problem with that), but sooner or later someone has to sit down and do some grunt-work, or the organisation will become a disfunctional, undisciplined rabble.
If the job of providing cross-platform versions is beneath the abilities of in-house staff, or they have more useful things to do, then it would make sense for management to dip their fingertips into their wallets and pay someone else to do the work. Leaving the job half done because everybody's bored with it just doesn't cut it as a professional approach.
Google's Windows-centric attitude goes beyond their apparent antipathy towards Linux. Development of Mac versions of their software is also sluggish. Given that other software houses with incomparably smaller resources to allocate manage to produce creditable multi-platform versions of their software, one can only assume Google's tardiness in this regard is a matter of policy.
Well, I have news for Google. They are not yet a total monopoly, and while some of their products are actually quite useful, they don't produce anything we can't live without. So I guess they can do whatever they want with Gizmo5, just so long as they realise that we have alternatives.