It mess up the mobile networks within the phones reach and
therefore generates a lot of flak (pun intended) towards
the airlines if they allow mobile phone usage.
IRC is nowadays usually blocked in the corporate firewalls since it's often used to control bot armies. At the same time it's one of the most usefull resources for quick help. It's often a good way to get directly in touch with developers of the f/oss software your using.
What will they think of blocking next ? mailing lists ?
I run two colocated web servers on NetBSD. Both are stock installations and I haven't had any problems. The one thing I would like to see change is that a single IP address can do a dictionary attack on sshd for hours on end without OpenSSH saying "ok lets not listen to that IP address for a while.
The delay setup you outline should not be step one but step two. The first step is to use tcpwrapper around sshd to limit your exposure. The kiddies cant do their dictionary attack if they cant reach sshd in the first place.
I do telecom for a living and simply won't accept anything that's not solid. 24/7/365.25 is not just a requirement in telecom. It's standard business practice. We measure anual downtime in minutes. I can get that with Linux and solid hardware. End of Story.
Telenor (old Norway monopoly) tried blocking Skype
and failed in a big way. The customers revolted and
wanted Skype unblocked. Telenor had to reverse and
unblock Skype. Major publicity bummer.
I work in one of these oldfashioned phone companies.
Due to our location international charges is a large
part of our intake. Therefore we dont like Skype much.
In fact we'd like this whole VoIP thing to be
un-invented.
We tried looking into blocking and it's bad karma all
the way. Trust me, the old guys loved the idea but
the publicity would kill us. In the end we have to do
VoIP ourself. Better to loose business to yourself than
to somebody else. This of course provides me with interesting
work so I'm not complaining;-)
If you build a bridge, and a single Engineer is on the hook for the whole project, that doesn't mean that if a junior engineer miscalculates something that the junior engineer is suddenly responsible -- that means that the managing engineer is on the hook, because it was his legal responsibility to ensure the junior engineer's work was correct.
The moment you, the junior engineer, signs the load calculations and the blueprints for that piece of bridge YOU are the man. If YOU have cut corners when the piece of shit falls apart then your signature will be found on the relevant documents. From there on you can kiss your career goodbye. This kind of responsibility also requires that you can tell your dear manager to go fsck himself if he requires something unsafe/unsound/unprofessional. Now lets try that on for size in software...
Mainstream? Well, I was into Linux before it was cool. I totally dig their older stuff so much better... then they sold out to the man
Yeah. I blame the distros. Before the distros it was real. Softlanding (SLS) started the downward spiral when they made their distro. It's been all downward ever since. Don't even get me started on Red Hat et. al.
What is the link between Dihydrogen Monoxide and school violence?
A recent stunning revelation is that in every single instance of violence in our country's schools, including infamous shootings in high schools in Denver and Arkansas, Dihydrogen Monoxide was involved. In fact, DHMO is often very available to students of all ages within the assumed safe confines of school buildings. None of the school administrators with which we spoke could say for certain how much of the substance is in use within their very hallways
Flat out prohibiting use of GPL software to companies that us DRM and/or Patents seems a bit extreme. Sure I would love to see both go, but this overreaching and do us more harm than good. We simply don't have the strength to do it.
How about something along the lines of prohibiting companies from using gpl stuff in building drm schemes ?
There are good reasons to pay someone for support, if the people you're paying know their stuff. If you're building enterprise level, mission critical data warehouses, you'll want immediate access to expert help when things go horribly wrong.
GP metioned Oracle. IMHE Oracle support and Metalink hell is something you wouldn't wish upon your worst enemy.
Nerds should have their own country. Kind of like Isreal. We can encourage other nerds to enter and have a 0 tolerance policy to all other imigrants - unless they're cute and attracted to nerds.
Nice idea but in the real world(tm) wed be invaded 20 minutes later by the hordes from Jock'istan, Jerk'asia, Manager'ston and Moron'ville.
This is like **AA suing your ISP because you downloaded coprighted material. Google is basically a common carrier just like your ISP.
Their search engine doesn't give a shit if stuff is copirighted or not. If it's available then it's indexed. They have to manually remove stuff that people raise a sufficient stink about.
Google should challenge those asshat lawyers and take their chance in court. Might discurage the next company planning to file that kind of crap.
A car's internal combustion engine will generate a LOT more pollution per unit of energy than a power plant.
I've heard this claim before, but can you actually provide any sort of proof to back it up? I suspect you can't, but I'd like to be proven wrong.
Simple. You have zero cold starts where the engine runs highly inefficient. The rpm is allways spot on at the optimum operating point (max efficiency). There is also an 'economy of scale' issue but I don't have the link to prove it. Anyway that's two points for the power plant.
In addition the power plant is stationary and can therefore be fitted with much bigger filters, catalysts etc than a car. This gives an advantage in sulfur and particle emmisions. That's and additional point for the power plant.
I'd say the power plant beats pretty much any car you can come up with.
In any case, getting back to diskless workstations netbooting... this is a MAJOR win when you have rooms full of hardware. There's no reason each of them needs their own hard drive if every single one of those hard drives will just have the same data and enough RAM to run w/o excessive paging/swapping is cheap.
Booting and running OS plus apps across the net is all nice and dandy but you shure-as-hell doesn't want to page/swap across the net. It slows the machine down to a crawl. We had a few of those back at uni. We used to call them dickless workstations....
You may laugh, but in some countries (eg. Costa Rica) it is ILLEGAL to sell full face motorcycle helmets because these were used by criminals to rob banks...
Oh my. It's a well known fact in motercycle circles that full face helmets are waaayyy better and safer then the open ones. In northern Europe you're hard pressed to find to find a motorcyclist with an open helmet that's not associated with HA et al, a Harley nut or usually both.
I guess the money in the bank is worth more than the life of some yahoo's on motercycles.
Just run the code in your head. It's no harder than understanding comments in English, it's just another language.
Sure thing. But it tends to be a bit difficult to sort out the big picture from the source code. When presented with 1E6 lines of code you are pretty much lost in the forest. You can't see anything but trees.
Providing an outline or a roadmap makes things so much easier. Don't forget you often have to return to this code 6-12 months down the road and it really is a pain to figure out what you were thinking at that time.
Write clear, transparent code by any means and I'll be eternal gratefull but if You don't provide some clues to how You structured the whole mess then You better check for semtex underneth Your car before You start it. This tends to get hard on Your knees after a while...
And remember most of the time the pure sod who wrote the code 6-12 months ago is the one assigned to updating it (You touch'd it last, pal) and short term memory don't last that long...
Been there, done that and have the scars to prove it.
Your description is disturbingly similar to to what I've seen at my last three jobs. I think it's an Industry standard. Perhaps something out of ISO...
Now we need to enrich the stuff first. These guys
http://www.urenco.com/
do it for a living and have a few nifty articles on centrifuges.
We also need a suitable boiler to make the good stuff(tm). My personal favorite is the Canadian (take that you pacifists) Candu design http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/.
This should get you in the WMD business in no time. Now don't try this at home unless you've got your own TV-show...
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It mess up the mobile networks within the phones reach and therefore generates a lot of flak (pun intended) towards the airlines if they allow mobile phone usage.
That big and efficient power supply generates a lot less heat.
What will they think of blocking next ? mailing lists ?
The delay setup you outline should not be step one but step two. The first step is to use tcpwrapper around sshd to limit your exposure. The kiddies cant do their dictionary attack if they cant reach sshd in the first place.
I do telecom for a living and simply won't accept anything that's not solid. 24/7/365.25 is not just a requirement in telecom. It's standard business practice. We measure anual downtime in minutes. I can get that with Linux and solid hardware. End of Story.
I work in one of these oldfashioned phone companies. Due to our location international charges is a large part of our intake. Therefore we dont like Skype much. In fact we'd like this whole VoIP thing to be un-invented.
We tried looking into blocking and it's bad karma all the way. Trust me, the old guys loved the idea but the publicity would kill us. In the end we have to do VoIP ourself. Better to loose business to yourself than to somebody else. This of course provides me with interesting work so I'm not complaining ;-)
The moment you, the junior engineer, signs the load calculations and the blueprints for that piece of bridge YOU are the man. If YOU have cut corners when the piece of shit falls apart then your signature will be found on the relevant documents. From there on you can kiss your career goodbye. This kind of responsibility also requires that you can tell your dear manager to go fsck himself if he requires something unsafe/unsound/unprofessional. Now lets try that on for size in software ...
Like broncy, only made of iron.Shameless stolen from blackadded
Outstanding now make a new poll.
Yeah. I blame the distros. Before the distros it was real. Softlanding (SLS) started the downward spiral when they made their distro. It's been all downward ever since. Don't even get me started on Red Hat et. al.
What is the link between Dihydrogen Monoxide and school violence?
A recent stunning revelation is that in every single instance of violence in our country's schools, including infamous shootings in high schools in Denver and Arkansas, Dihydrogen Monoxide was involved. In fact, DHMO is often very available to students of all ages within the assumed safe confines of school buildings. None of the school administrators with which we spoke could say for certain how much of the substance is in use within their very hallways
How about something along the lines of prohibiting companies from using gpl stuff in building drm schemes ?
GP metioned Oracle. IMHE Oracle support and Metalink hell is something you wouldn't wish upon your worst enemy.
Nice idea but in the real world(tm) wed be invaded 20 minutes later by the hordes from Jock'istan, Jerk'asia, Manager'ston and Moron'ville.
Google should challenge those asshat lawyers and take their chance in court. Might discurage the next company planning to file that kind of crap.
This is actually a pretty good measurement of how random your input is. If it's sufficient close to random then you can't compress it at all.
I've heard this claim before, but can you actually provide any sort of proof to back it up? I suspect you can't, but I'd like to be proven wrong.
Simple. You have zero cold starts where the engine runs highly inefficient. The rpm is allways spot on at the optimum operating point (max efficiency). There is also an 'economy of scale' issue but I don't have the link to prove it. Anyway that's two points for the power plant.
In addition the power plant is stationary and can therefore be fitted with much bigger filters, catalysts etc than a car. This gives an advantage in sulfur and particle emmisions. That's and additional point for the power plant.
I'd say the power plant beats pretty much any car you can come up with.
You mean like Java ?
MS has already killed that idea because it commoditized the desktop and broke their API lock-in.
Booting and running OS plus apps across the net is all nice and dandy but you shure-as-hell doesn't want to page/swap across the net. It slows the machine down to a crawl. We had a few of those back at uni. We used to call them dickless workstations....
Oh my. It's a well known fact in motercycle circles that full face helmets are waaayyy better and safer then the open ones. In northern Europe you're hard pressed to find to find a motorcyclist with an open helmet that's not associated with HA et al, a Harley nut or usually both.
I guess the money in the bank is worth more than the life of some yahoo's on motercycles.
Sure thing. But it tends to be a bit difficult to sort out the big picture from the source code. When presented with 1E6 lines of code you are pretty much lost in the forest. You can't see anything but trees.
Providing an outline or a roadmap makes things so much easier. Don't forget you often have to return to this code 6-12 months down the road and it really is a pain to figure out what you were thinking at that time.
Write clear, transparent code by any means and I'll be eternal gratefull but if You don't provide some clues to how You structured the whole mess then You better check for semtex underneth Your car before You start it. This tends to get hard on Your knees after a while...
And remember most of the time the pure sod who wrote the code 6-12 months ago is the one assigned to updating it (You touch'd it last, pal) and short term memory don't last that long...
Been there, done that and have the scars to prove it.
According to imdb it's allmost the only non-pooh film he's done for the last teen years.
Your description is disturbingly similar to to what I've seen at my last three jobs. I think it's an Industry standard. Perhaps something out of ISO ...
Now we need to enrich the stuff first. These guys http://www.urenco.com/ do it for a living and have a few nifty articles on centrifuges.
We also need a suitable boiler to make the good stuff(tm). My personal favorite is the Canadian (take that you pacifists) Candu design http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/.
This should get you in the WMD business in no time. Now don't try this at home unless you've got your own TV-show...
The caption: "Mindre er bedre" means "Smaller is better" (even more yeah right)
Whoever approved this article in "non-english" should be trambled to death by a mob of angy penguins.