So, when you need to change something, or fix an error with your registered RFID tag, you can attempt to make the change via their web interface, then wait a week and a day, or you can call in and fax in the form and have someone never get anything done with it, too??
Then, right in the middle of it all, they'll switch out how things are done and you'll have to conform to their backward standards..
"According to the New York Times, Dell also suggests HP is making a mistake. A Dell spokesman said: "We expect competition and it's good for customers. Over time, however, customers will want industry standard choices."
Waddaya want to bet.. with Novell wanting to be a Linux company, if they can get a court to judge for them on this whole owenership / copyright thing . and they terminate the SCO license..
Novell gifts the System V code to the community under either GPL or BSD license..
I run a (very) small ISP. My main servers are Linux.
Let's - for a second - look at costs involved.
First off -- hardware. My main web/mail/dns/doitall server is a P4 1.9ghz with 512mb ram. It cost in the neighborhood of $650 (SCSI drives, the P4 1.9 was the fastest thing around when I bought it). That's a non negotiable cost.
Due to the nature of the startup funding, I only have software protecting my box (that runs ON the box).
So - let's look at the costs.
If I ran Windows (anything) I'd have had to deal with the following: Windows Messaging service spam / Code Red / Nimda / Email viruses / Email spam / possible hack opportunities with whatever remote administration tool I use.
Since I run Linux - I avoided the costs involved with.. Code Red - Nimda - Windows Messaging service spam - Email Viruses - Email Spam - remote exploits (keep it patched!).
I have not had to invest in an expensive hardware based firewall (i.e. if I was running a NON M$ shop I wouldn't have a smooth wall or anything, right?), couldn't run open source virus scanning / spam checking (exchange doesn't support it natively, or didn't at least when I started up), can anyone say Blaster ??
M$ is and always has been full of it.. Linux is FAR cheaper to run than a M$ server.
The following access list is specifically designed to block attack traffic. Note that the attack traffic can include spoofed source addresses. This access list should be applied to all interfaces of the device, and should include topology-specific filters. This could include filtering routing protocol traffic, management protocols, and traffic destined for the internal network. Protocol 103 is Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), which is a commonly deployed application in multicast networks.
Interfaces with PIM enabled have not been found to be vulnerable to exploit traffic with protocol 103; PIM traffic may be permitted to those select devices.
access-list 101 deny 53 any any access-list 101 deny 55 any any access-list 101 deny 77 any any access-list 101 deny 103 any any !--- insert any other previously applied ACL entries here !--- you must permit other protocols through to allow normal !--- traffic -- previously defined permit lists will work !--- or you may use the permit ip any any shown here access-list 101 permit ip any any
First, you have to get others in on your gag. Second, you have to know ALL the smoking areas (even if you don't smoke) Third, you have to be a network guy..
Ok..Complete timewasters if you REALLY have to be there! (TM)
1. Play pass the candy. Everyone has a candy dish. Take a handful. Distribute it around to other candy dishes. Do the same at all candy dishes and every dish will have the same mix. Of course, the good stuff ends up in yours!!!
2. We had a 5 up and 2 down story building. Servers were scattered. Walk to the 5th floor and talk to the parts guy. Then to the 1st and talk to the receiving girl. Have a smoke right outside her door. Go downstairs to the dock to see if there's anything there for you. Go visit the cube farm downstairs to see if anyone needs anything. Back to your desk, read an email, fix a problem in 3 seconds then go on another round.
3. Invent a problem at a remote facility (180 miles away). Drive there and enjoy the mileage compensation. Fix the imaginary problem. Have a beer. On company time. Drive back. (one beer, alright?)
4. Use both a laptop and a dual monitor setup on your desktop pc. Bring up all sorts of monitoring stuff on the desktop -- actually work on the laptop (work..slashdot..or yahoo games...doesn't matter).
5. Do the wiring guy's job (or make his job harder) by messing with the wiring closets. Whoops. Network is down.
6. Periodically bounce servers. Tell em they crashed. It's easier than asking for downtime.
7. Put in requests for $25,000 orders. Tell them they're critical upgrades. They always got vetoed, but you look like you're working hard.
I worked a required 8 hour day.. but after 2 months of working 60 hours a week and getting the network in shape.. I only had to REALLY work 3 hours a day.
Then I started only coming IN three hours a day.. but was still as productive. They let me go.. go figure..
news commentator: "Our Headline: The republican national commitee has announced today that it's broke. A spokesperson says "We had money yesterday, but it's all gone!" In other news, donations to Greenpeace, PETA and other environmental groups are up."
Maybe it should have been labeled...
Setec Astronomy
Our headline: the Republican National Committee issued a press release that it's broke! In other news, Greenpeace, PETA and several other high profile environmental groups report increased donations.
We all know that Microsoft won't release the source code because they cannot remove all the embedded comments in the source code..I've organized them into product categories..
MS Office: Fuck clippy
MS Bob: Bob is SOOOO ghey Soviet Russia OWNS BOB
Screen saver controls: We will DOMINATE your WORLD
Kernel code: Gates can blow me That guy in goatse.cx is GATES!!!
IE:
-- 1. Make shitty browser
-- 2. Give it away
-- 3. Make it go into dominance.
-- 4. ???
-- 5. Get your ass sued. (Oh shit! Where's Profit!!!)
A A President "No!! Ok.. I'll tell you the combination!! 1" Lackey#1: ONE! Lackey#3: writes down 1 A A President: 2 Lackey#1: TWO! Lackey#3: writes down 2 A A President: 3 Lackey#1: THREE! Lackey#3: writes down 3 A A President: 4 Lackey#1: FOUR! Lackey#3: writes down 4 A A President: 5 Lackey#1: FIVE! Lackey#3: writes down 5 Lackey#1: so the combination is 1.2.3.4.5. A A President:... yes... Lackey#3: 12345? That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage.
I could see where it would be nice to have a bunch of dual 800 PIII boxen / taking less power input and generating less heat...
Applications?
1. Citrix farm. They're NOT disk intensive. You can do load balancing on them. If one goes down the ICA client only has to hit reconnect.
2. Web service farm. One server goes down (MS), kernel panics for some reason...remote reboot.. back up no biggy, nobody sees or knows the difference.
3. Novell (or NT) clusters. Exchange or Groupwise. Box dies / need to upgrade..
4. Home control system..Building control system. have 2-6 blades controlling different things..
there's a lot of benefit from cheap blade dual proc boxes..
A client called me "Are you having problems with your systems? We can't get our email from here, but one of our sales people who uses AOL can get his email."
Pretty sad when AOL works better than a UUNet/Worldcom connection.
Oh..Us? We use Qwest. Not an outage since I put in the T1, except due to power outage city wide (ice storm this last winter/spring)
Please try to be gentle on his server: it is the $80 computer that he mentions in the tutorial.
... Slashdotted!!!
Did anyone else think to themselves..I'm gunna click on that link just because it said go easy on it?
#!/bin/sh
rm -Rf/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.5
mv/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.4/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.5
mv/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.3/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.4
mv/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.2/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.3
mv/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.1/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.2
mv/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.1
tar -zcf/SAVE/bkup.tar.gz/etc/var/spool/mail/home/var/www
Then I have an FTP script that runs once per day on the OTHER server sitting there (dare I say, the MS box) that grabs the BKUP.TAR.GZ from the linux box..And does much the same as far as replication.
Remember Divx? No, not the Mpeg video compression codec. The players.
Remember. Sales were slow - why? because the discs weren't portable. You registered it to YOUR player and YOUR player only. Your player broke? You had to call them and beg them to unlock the disc for another player.
There was an article in Salon bout 2 months ago with Courtney Love. this article where she talks aobut Record Labels and Piracy. A VERY good read. Even if you (like I do) think her music sucks.
I think, as she states, that we're going to see a big upheaval in the Recording Industry as a whole. Not by the consumers, but by the artists.
Artists are out there to create something, and to have that something viewed or listened to by the public masses. Not to be censored down so far as to only PAYING customers by record companies that only have themselves to think about..
Wish I had the venture capital to start what she's talking about.
The army is using mysql for at least ONE war simulation project, on the backend.
Of course, I've not seen it as it is classified, just have heard about it from several sources.
And NO, I am NOT talking about that America's Army game.
Slashdot Mirror
You get women? How?
Oh I bow before you!
And just what the hell is football??
So, when you need to change something, or fix an error with your registered RFID tag, you can attempt to make the change via their web interface, then wait a week and a day, or you can call in and fax in the form and have someone never get anything done with it, too?? Then, right in the middle of it all, they'll switch out how things are done and you'll have to conform to their backward standards..
From the article..
.MP3
"According to the New York Times, Dell also suggests HP is making a mistake. A Dell spokesman said: "We expect competition and it's good for customers. Over time, however, customers will want industry standard choices."
Uhm..thought we already had a standard...
Duuuuhhhh....
Waddaya want to bet .. with Novell wanting to be a Linux company, if they can get a court to judge for them on this whole owenership / copyright thing . and they terminate the SCO license ..
Novell gifts the System V code to the community under either GPL or BSD license..
Wouldn't that be a hoot!
I run a (very) small ISP. My main servers are Linux.
.. Code Red - Nimda - Windows Messaging service spam - Email Viruses - Email Spam - remote exploits (keep it patched!).
.. Linux is FAR cheaper to run than a M$ server.
Let's - for a second - look at costs involved.
First off -- hardware. My main web/mail/dns/doitall server is a P4 1.9ghz with 512mb ram. It cost in the neighborhood of $650 (SCSI drives, the P4 1.9 was the fastest thing around when I bought it). That's a non negotiable cost.
Due to the nature of the startup funding, I only have software protecting my box (that runs ON the box).
So - let's look at the costs.
If I ran Windows (anything) I'd have had to deal with the following: Windows Messaging service spam / Code Red / Nimda / Email viruses / Email spam / possible hack opportunities with whatever remote administration tool I use.
Since I run Linux - I avoided the costs involved with
I have not had to invest in an expensive hardware based firewall (i.e. if I was running a NON M$ shop I wouldn't have a smooth wall or anything, right?), couldn't run open source virus scanning / spam checking (exchange doesn't support it natively, or didn't at least when I started up), can anyone say Blaster ??
M$ is and always has been full of it
Check out NASA TV streaming..they're excited..
There _is_ a lot of good listening on shoutcast.
"Something for everyone"..
I have several customers (as well as my own servers) who run Linux web / mail servers (many of them on RH 7.3).
/mo are well worth it.
7.3 is a strong, stable platform (IMO) and updates for $5
I like the idea already..
First the auto mechanics make it big -- with the idiots who cannot remember to check their oil in their cars..
Now when some idiot home use forgets to water their computer -- I get paid!
I like it..
How do you lug that sumbitch to a LAN party?
And hope you dont have any cheats on the game...
Ugh!
The following access list is specifically designed to block attack traffic. Note that the attack traffic can include spoofed source addresses. This access list should be applied to all interfaces of the device, and should include topology-specific filters. This could include filtering routing protocol traffic, management protocols, and traffic destined for the internal network. Protocol 103 is Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), which is a commonly deployed application in multicast networks.
Interfaces with PIM enabled have not been found to be vulnerable to exploit traffic with protocol
103; PIM traffic may be permitted to those select devices.
access-list 101 deny 53 any any
access-list 101 deny 55 any any
access-list 101 deny 77 any any
access-list 101 deny 103 any any
!--- insert any other previously applied ACL entries here
!--- you must permit other protocols through to allow normal
!--- traffic -- previously defined permit lists will work
!--- or you may use the permit ip any any shown here
access-list 101 permit ip any any
When you work at a hospital it's easy.
.. but after 2 months of working 60 hours a week and getting the network in shape .. I only had to REALLY work 3 hours a day.
.. but was still as productive. They let me go .. go figure..
First, you have to get others in on your gag.
Second, you have to know ALL the smoking areas (even if you don't smoke)
Third, you have to be a network guy..
Ok..Complete timewasters if you REALLY have to be there! (TM)
1. Play pass the candy. Everyone has a candy dish. Take a handful. Distribute it around to other candy dishes. Do the same at all candy dishes and every dish will have the same mix. Of course, the good stuff ends up in yours!!!
2. We had a 5 up and 2 down story building. Servers were scattered. Walk to the 5th floor and talk to the parts guy. Then to the 1st and talk to the receiving girl. Have a smoke right outside her door. Go downstairs to the dock to see if there's anything there for you. Go visit the cube farm downstairs to see if anyone needs anything. Back to your desk, read an email, fix a problem in 3 seconds then go on another round.
3. Invent a problem at a remote facility (180 miles away). Drive there and enjoy the mileage compensation. Fix the imaginary problem. Have a beer. On company time. Drive back. (one beer, alright?)
4. Use both a laptop and a dual monitor setup on your desktop pc. Bring up all sorts of monitoring stuff on the desktop -- actually work on the laptop (work..slashdot..or yahoo games...doesn't matter).
5. Do the wiring guy's job (or make his job harder) by messing with the wiring closets. Whoops. Network is down.
6. Periodically bounce servers. Tell em they crashed. It's easier than asking for downtime.
7. Put in requests for $25,000 orders. Tell them they're critical upgrades. They always got vetoed, but you look like you're working hard.
I worked a required 8 hour day
Then I started only coming IN three hours a day
Oh..their network? Went back to shit wihtout me.
Exactly.
I can see a flicker in theatres NOW. What's to say that I wont see this "extra" flicker.
I already almost need dremamine to catch a flick (no pun intended) NOW.
Course, I can hear TV picture tubes and florescent lights with miniblinds letting in sunlight also screw with me.
Little hums and vibrations get to me (like Picard with the warp drive on the Enterprise).
And the sound of a fountain trickling water makes me wanna go apeshit...
Setec Astronomy (ever seen sneakers?)
news commentator: "Our Headline: The republican national commitee has announced today that it's broke. A spokesperson says "We had money yesterday, but it's all gone!" In other news, donations to Greenpeace, PETA and other environmental groups are up."
Maybe it should have been labeled... Setec Astronomy Our headline: the Republican National Committee issued a press release that it's broke! In other news, Greenpeace, PETA and several other high profile environmental groups report increased donations.
We all know that Microsoft won't release the source code because they cannot remove all the embedded comments in the source code..I've organized them into product categories..
MS Office:
Fuck clippy
MS Bob:
Bob is SOOOO ghey
Soviet Russia OWNS BOB
Screen saver controls:
We will DOMINATE your WORLD
Kernel code:
Gates can blow me
That guy in goatse.cx is GATES!!!
IE:
-- 1. Make shitty browser
-- 2. Give it away
-- 3. Make it go into dominance.
-- 4. ???
-- 5. Get your ass sued. (Oh shit! Where's Profit!!!)
A A President "No!! Ok .. I'll tell you the combination!! 1" ... yes...
Lackey#1: ONE!
Lackey#3: writes down 1
A A President: 2
Lackey#1: TWO!
Lackey#3: writes down 2
A A President: 3
Lackey#1: THREE!
Lackey#3: writes down 3
A A President: 4
Lackey#1: FOUR!
Lackey#3: writes down 4
A A President: 5
Lackey#1: FIVE!
Lackey#3: writes down 5
Lackey#1: so the combination is 1.2.3.4.5.
A A President:
Lackey#3: 12345? That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage.
Applications?
1. Citrix farm. They're NOT disk intensive. You can do load balancing on them. If one goes down the ICA client only has to hit reconnect. .. back up no biggy, nobody sees or knows the difference.
2. Web service farm. One server goes down (MS), kernel panics for some reason...remote reboot
3. Novell (or NT) clusters. Exchange or Groupwise. Box dies / need to upgrade..
4. Home control system..Building control system. have 2-6 blades controlling different things..
there's a lot of benefit from cheap blade dual proc boxes..
A client called me "Are you having problems with your systems? We can't get our email from here, but one of our sales people who uses AOL can get his email."
Pretty sad when AOL works better than a UUNet/Worldcom connection.
Oh..Us? We use Qwest. Not an outage since I put in the T1, except due to power outage city wide (ice storm this last winter/spring)
Did anyone else think to themselves..I'm gunna click on that link just because it said go easy on it?
#!/bin/sh rm -Rf /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.5
mv /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.4 /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.5
mv /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.3 /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.4
mv /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.2 /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.3
mv /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.1 /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.2
mv /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz.1
tar -zcf /SAVE/bkup.tar.gz /etc /var/spool/mail /home /var/www
Then I have an FTP script that runs once per day on the OTHER server sitting there (dare I say, the MS box) that grabs the BKUP.TAR.GZ from the linux box..And does much the same as far as replication.
"ISS to Houston, come in please."
"Houston, go ahead"
"Will you fix the toilet up here? It's not flushing and theres shit all over the place."
"ISS, we're trying, but 200,000 bloody people are trying to look @ pictures of Uranus right now. Will advise."
I am a Dell reseller. Our contract says that they are supposed to sell to us at at LEAST 3% lower than their website pricing. Which isn't a lot.
However, I can go to their website and find a "deal" better than reseller price on basically (if not) the same machine.
By the time I pay for the PC, resell it, pay shipping, register the equipment and bill them for it, it actually costs me *more* than I make.
Remember. Sales were slow - why? because the discs weren't portable. You registered it to YOUR player and YOUR player only. Your player broke? You had to call them and beg them to unlock the disc for another player.
There was an article in Salon bout 2 months ago with Courtney Love. this article where she talks aobut Record Labels and Piracy. A VERY good read. Even if you (like I do) think her music sucks.
I think, as she states, that we're going to see a big upheaval in the Recording Industry as a whole. Not by the consumers, but by the artists. Artists are out there to create something, and to have that something viewed or listened to by the public masses. Not to be censored down so far as to only PAYING customers by record companies that only have themselves to think about..
Wish I had the venture capital to start what she's talking about.
The army is using mysql for at least ONE war simulation project, on the backend. Of course, I've not seen it as it is classified, just have heard about it from several sources. And NO, I am NOT talking about that America's Army game.
Sorry...How did I get that in here?