Actually, I managed to see Hunter live once. He was doing commentary on the 1972 presidential election from a club in NYC. He was incoherent, raving...in other words everything you'd expect!
...that my last name is the same as his. Between him and former senator Fred "Law & Order" Thompson, I may have to change it to something less controversial...like "Hussein" or "Qaddafi".
My wife, a CPA/CFA had this to say when I emailed her the link to the article. I include her response her for information:
"Should options be counted against revenue in the period for which they
are given? Most of the time, I think -- yes. People measure their
compensation here and now. It is important for the company to do
likewise. I don't think geeks really see their options down the road,
they think of them in the present tense, hence, they are a current
expense."
I've been trying to automate my system's updates using cron. Since I'm running Red Hat 7.1, I can run up2date nightly out of root's cron, and get the latest patches, but I cannot do this with Red Carpet, which insists on running in X. Would it be possible to add a CLI to Red Carpet to facilitate this? It might even make it worth my while to join Red Carpet Premium! (*grins*)
Sir, with respect to the FBI's deployment of DCS1000 (formerly known as Carnivore), is there some technical reason why the emails harvested by this system cannot be narrowly limited? In other words, if the FBI can get a warrant to search specific location involved in a criminal investigation, why can't this system be limited to only searching specific email being sent or received by a certain account Instead of filtering the enatire mailstream of a given ISP?
I like Jon's work, but a paragraph has me thinking. To paraphrase, he said that the new political paradigm involving the Internet will replace the old. This leads me to wonder: If the new paradigm takes over completely, and the 'Net experiences a catastrophic failure, what then? Do we blindly shift back to the old ways, or try to use the new ways in an analog fashion? Also, if we have recurrent failures, spaced out over, say, a year, how will this affect politics? In addition, let's talk global politics, not just 'Merican.
I thoroughly agree. MU* of any type, gaming , social, fandom-related, etc., replicate most of the interactions of society. Good and bad aspects, granted, but information and views are exchanged freely, much more freely than in society. Also, inhibitions such as class and race can safely be ignored (though they often are not, much to my regret.) Humans benefit from increased communications, and if they come in the context of beating the crap out of a buncha orcs, then I can live with that! (*grin*)
As a resident of Maryland for a number of years, I have watched Donald N. Langenberg do an outstanding job with the University of Maryland System. Another plus is his background in the sciences, and hence the scientific method, which should help cut through some of the political bullshit going on at ICANN. By Ghu, now I've got a reason to join! With no disrespect intended to Mr. Lessig, this man is a more qualified candidate.
I've been following these articles closely. It seems to me that the whole thing could be put down to a lack of manners. Sure the speed and facility of online communications makes it more immediate, but if you got a letter that was just as rude as some of the flames around here, you'd be on the phone to the postal inspectors. Geeks, IMNSHO, have lacked manners not because they weren't taught them (although that's possible, manners haven't been a very high priority in our society lately,) but because their tendancy to be shunned by "normal" society, combined with their tendancy to want to cut through societal bullshit, tends to make communication abrupt. (It might have something to do with conserving bandwidth too, for the more network-oriented among us:-)> ) If the same manners and social conventions were used online that were used in RL, I think a lot of this would clear up. Being (potentially) anonymous does _not_ relieve you of the responsibility of proper public behavior.
I missed this in the FAQ, thank you for pointing it out. It doesn't realy change my basic point, though. Rob is the primary developer, and he can control release timing to his liking. I don't see people screaming bloody blue murder when Linus Torvalds makes decisions regarding Linux releases. It also doesn't excuse the original posters abuse of Rob. You may have a valid point regarding Rob's use of the GPL (I haven't read the GPL, so I don't know for sure), but that still doesn't relate your comments back to Rob's release timing, which was what flame-boy was going off about. He's pissed about the fact that Rob has decided to put his commitment to the site and his contract with Andover over releasing the new source version. Since it's/. and not SLASH that Andover's paying for, I can't blame him. In regard to your comment comparing open-sourcing OS X and SLASH, I believe you are comparing apples (pun unintended) and oranges. OS X is going to have a major impact upon Apple's user community, and Apple's decision to open-source will spur development of OS X in a (hopefully) positive direction. SLASH is an application with a limited market, and while/. has had an impact on the user community, I can't say that those defending Rob (including myself) are being hypocritical. Hypocrisy in this case would be Rob saying "I believe in open source, but SLASH will never be open source, because it's mine." That's not happened. May I make a suggestion? Rob's statement in the interview (and the code page) was , at least to me, obviously a joke. Take it that way. I'm sure that Rob, like other developers, has enough pride in his work to want to make sure it's as good as possible before releasing it.
Translates to Fuck you and your open source ideals
This is gratuitous and unnecessary. If you read the SLASH page, it's not xPL'd code. CT makes it plain that you're welcome to use SLASH, but it's his to develop. He doesn't seem adverse to the idea of opening SLASH, but I can't blame him for not wanting to. Not wanting to open SLASH is not equal to not supporting Open Source! Moderator(s) should rate this as flamebait and move on. I support Open Source, I support/., but I don't support flamers who don't do some elementary research.
Victorinox, makers of the original Swiss Army Knife, have vome out with two new models they are call the Cyber Tool. They come in a 27 and 34 blade model. I just got mine. (my birthday present to myself). I won't go into detail here, but you can see it and read the specs here. Corrado Cutlery also had it USD$5.00 cheaper than anyone else selling them over the web. Availability is tight, they are probably backordered (Mine was, for about two weeks). The other distinctive feature about the CT is that the covers are not opaque red plastic, but the IMac style transparent red. They look very cool!
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Can I present this from the college's point of view? Students are not the only ones getting harassed. About a year ago, the college that I sysadmin for received a letter from the RIAA saying that an MP3 server had been found on our network (in our dorms, TBP). The letter essentially threatened the college with legal action for aiding and abetting copyright violation, unless we made sure that the student destroyed his MP3s. We called the student in to my office (one of the more clueful one on a campus of visual arts students, he was running Linux on his dorm box), and showed him the letter. He freaked, said he hadn't realized he'd been doing anything wrong (although you'd think a visual artist would also be sensitive to matters of copyright, nu?) and that he would erase them immediately. We could have taken his word for it, but we didn't, we sent a tech with a mil-spec erase untility to make sure. Then we sent acknowledgement back to RIAA, with a suggestion that we did not regard ourselves as an arm of their copyright enforcement. Colleges are not doing this because they want to, they're doing it to protect themselves from the liability.
I think your initial assumption is erroneous. GiS is not completely content free, just not as content-heavy as you might like. I value getting to hear the insider point of view on some of the issues that/. covers (more than CT's or Hemos' occaisional comment-tag in an article). It seems to me that they aren't trying to repro the site in a radio format, but act as an adjunct to it. They handle content well enough on the site, let's hear them do somehting really neat, like MSTie a Microsoft press conference that slams Linux. (or items like that, something pretentious that needs their special brand of deflation.)
Love the new studio sound, just remember not to pop your "p"s straight into the mike. Regrets on Hemos' property loss, glad to hear that he and Nate are unhurt. Guests are fine, humor is good, news is unimportant as long as you are having a good time doing it, we are having a good time hearing it. _Love_ the post-production. A small request: I'd like to hear you interview Cliff Stoll, maybe you could convince him to stop being the AntiGeek.:-)> Have fun guys, you're doing just fine.
Love it, folks. Keep it coming. I agree with those requesting a slashbox, it gives more options. In reference to people who would trash your style, may I remind them that this isn't a "professional" production, and CT, H, & Co. are still working on it. Do you honestly expect that Howard Stern of Rush Limbaugh (to cover both ends of the spectrum, STS) got it perfect by their 4th show? Let the guys have fun, otherwise it may not be worth doing at all. This is their chance to personalize their views beyond a one-liner on a submission. Keep it up. You'll find a balance between what you want to do, and what the listeners like, soon enough.
Look under the heading, "What are the Gotchas?". As far as your first statement goes, I have to track my inventory. If I relocate a machine (that doesn't happen often, BTW), I want to be sure that it's correctly configured for the new segment. Since this only takes about 2-3 minutes (allowing for the Windows execrable habit of rebooting for every config change,) it's not that big an overhead. The bonus is, _I know_ it was done right the first time. Regarding Flukemeters: I'll have to agree that a Flukemeter would find the problem. But I don't need to buy one, I can just turn on debug on my Cisco router attached to the segment, which I can do from my office.
Your comments indicate that you haven't been in this industry very long, or you are very naive, I can't decide which. BootP and DHCP are riddled with exploitable holes which leave a network vulnerable to intrusion. It also adds to network maintenance issues: If you have a device that starts broadcast storming, it becomes very tough to locate that device on a DHCP-managed network, whereas on my static-mapped network (approx. 1000 nodes, 7 class-C IP ranges provided by campus ISP), I can locate that device in seconds. I don't know about you, but I like to know what devices are connected to my network, where they are, and what they do. As far as configuring router IP addresses via DHCP, I can't see this happening. Even if your network is all DHCP, the DHCP server needs to provide the gateway address for the current segment you are connected to
which has to fixed!
If the gateway address is not static, then if the router went down, all connected stations would have to disconnect and reconnect, because they will have the wrong gateway address. For that matter, if you never go to a (l)user's workstation, you'll never know if it's a network problem, a problem with their protocol stack, or a problem with an application they installed behind your back. Try to think your argument through a little better.
Your comments indicate that you haven't been in this industry very long, or you are very naive, I can't decide which. BootP and DHCP are riddled with exploitable holes which leave a network vulnerable to intrusion. It also adds to network maintenance issues: If you have a device that starts broadcast storming, it becomes very tough to locate that device on a DHCP-managed network, whereas on my static-mapped network (approx. 1000 nodes, 7 class-C IP ranges provided by campus ISP), I can locate that device in seconds. I don't know about you, but I like to know what devices are connected to my network, where they are, and what they do. As far as configuring router IP addresses via DHCP, I can't see this happening. Even if your network is all DHCP, the DHCP server needs to provide the gateway address for the current segment you are connected to
which has to fixed!
If the gateway address is static, then if the router went down, all connected stations would have to disconnect and reconnect, because they will have the wrong gateway address. For that matter, if you never go to a (l)user's workstation, you'll never know if it's a network problem, a problem with their protocol stack, or a problem with an application they installed behind your back. Try to think your argument through a little better.
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Actually, I managed to see Hunter live once. He was doing commentary on the 1972 presidential election from a club in NYC. He was incoherent, raving...in other words everything you'd expect!
...that my last name is the same as his. Between him and former senator Fred "Law & Order" Thompson, I may have to change it to something less controversial...like "Hussein" or "Qaddafi".
OK, mod this one up funny, I actualy made a noise out liud when I read it. (Modesty forbids me from elucidating the noise.)
Hey, it didn't hurt Marty Feldman's career any!
My wife, a CPA/CFA had this to say when I emailed her the link to the article. I include her response her for information: "Should options be counted against revenue in the period for which they are given? Most of the time, I think -- yes. People measure their compensation here and now. It is important for the company to do likewise. I don't think geeks really see their options down the road, they think of them in the present tense, hence, they are a current expense."
I've been trying to automate my system's updates using cron. Since I'm running Red Hat 7.1, I can run up2date nightly out of root's cron, and get the latest patches, but I cannot do this with Red Carpet, which insists on running in X. Would it be possible to add a CLI to Red Carpet to facilitate this? It might even make it worth my while to join Red Carpet Premium! (*grins*)
If this is true, then ignore the question, the reading I had been doing suggested that it winnowed through the entire email feed.
Sir, with respect to the FBI's deployment of DCS1000 (formerly known as Carnivore), is there some technical reason why the emails harvested by this system cannot be narrowly limited? In other words, if the FBI can get a warrant to search specific location involved in a criminal investigation, why can't this system be limited to only searching specific email being sent or received by a certain account Instead of filtering the enatire mailstream of a given ISP?
I like Jon's work, but a paragraph has me thinking. To paraphrase, he said that the new political paradigm involving the Internet will replace the old. This leads me to wonder: If the new paradigm takes over completely, and the 'Net experiences a catastrophic failure, what then? Do we blindly shift back to the old ways, or try to use the new ways in an analog fashion? Also, if we have recurrent failures, spaced out over, say, a year, how will this affect politics? In addition, let's talk global politics, not just 'Merican.
I thoroughly agree. MU* of any type, gaming , social, fandom-related, etc., replicate most of the interactions of society. Good and bad aspects, granted, but information and views are exchanged freely, much more freely than in society. Also, inhibitions such as class and race can safely be ignored (though they often are not, much to my regret.) Humans benefit from increased communications, and if they come in the context of beating the crap out of a buncha orcs, then I can live with that! (*grin*)
As a resident of Maryland for a number of years, I have watched Donald N. Langenberg do an outstanding job with the University of Maryland System. Another plus is his background in the sciences, and hence the scientific method, which should help cut through some of the political bullshit going on at ICANN. By Ghu, now I've got a reason to join! With no disrespect intended to Mr. Lessig, this man is a more qualified candidate.
I've been following these articles closely. It seems to me that the whole thing could be put down to a lack of manners. Sure the speed and facility of online communications makes it more immediate, but if you got a letter that was just as rude as some of the flames around here, you'd be on the phone to the postal inspectors. Geeks, IMNSHO, have lacked manners not because they weren't taught them (although that's possible, manners haven't been a very high priority in our society lately,) but because their tendancy to be shunned by "normal" society, combined with their tendancy to want to cut through societal bullshit, tends to make communication abrupt. (It might have something to do with conserving bandwidth too, for the more network-oriented among us :-)> ) If the same manners and social conventions were used online that were used in RL, I think a lot of this would clear up. Being (potentially) anonymous does _not_ relieve you of the responsibility of proper public behavior.
May I ask you to expand upon that statement?
I missed this in the FAQ, thank you for pointing it out. It doesn't realy change my basic point, though. Rob is the primary developer, and he can control release timing to his liking. I don't see people screaming bloody blue murder when Linus Torvalds makes decisions regarding Linux releases. It also doesn't excuse the original posters abuse of Rob. You may have a valid point regarding Rob's use of the GPL (I haven't read the GPL, so I don't know for sure), but that still doesn't relate your comments back to Rob's release timing, which was what flame-boy was going off about. He's pissed about the fact that Rob has decided to put his commitment to the site and his contract with Andover over releasing the new source version. Since it's /. and not SLASH that Andover's paying for, I can't blame him. In regard to your comment comparing open-sourcing OS X and SLASH, I believe you are comparing apples (pun unintended) and oranges. OS X is going to have a major impact upon Apple's user community, and Apple's decision to open-source will spur development of OS X in a (hopefully) positive direction. SLASH is an application with a limited market, and while /. has had an impact on the user community, I can't say that those defending Rob (including myself) are being hypocritical. Hypocrisy in this case would be Rob saying "I believe in open source, but SLASH will never be open source, because it's mine." That's not happened. May I make a suggestion? Rob's statement in the interview (and the code page) was , at least to me, obviously a joke. Take it that way. I'm sure that Rob, like other developers, has enough pride in his work to want to make sure it's as good as possible before releasing it.
Translates to Fuck you and your open source ideals
/., but I don't support flamers who don't do some elementary research.
This is gratuitous and unnecessary. If you read the SLASH page, it's not xPL'd code. CT makes it plain that you're welcome to use SLASH, but it's his to develop. He doesn't seem adverse to the idea of opening SLASH, but I can't blame him for not wanting to. Not wanting to open SLASH is not equal to not supporting Open Source! Moderator(s) should rate this as flamebait and move on. I support Open Source, I support
Victorinox, makers of the original Swiss Army Knife, have vome out with two new models they are call the Cyber Tool. They come in a 27 and 34 blade model. I just got mine. (my birthday present to myself). I won't go into detail here, but you can see it and read the specs here. Corrado Cutlery also had it USD$5.00 cheaper than anyone else selling them over the web. Availability is tight, they are probably backordered (Mine was, for about two weeks). The other distinctive feature about the CT is that the covers are not opaque red plastic, but the IMac style transparent red. They look very cool!
Can I present this from the college's point of view? Students are not the only ones getting harassed. About a year ago, the college that I sysadmin for received a letter from the RIAA saying that an MP3 server had been found on our network (in our dorms, TBP). The letter essentially threatened the college with legal action for aiding and abetting copyright violation, unless we made sure that the student destroyed his MP3s. We called the student in to my office (one of the more clueful one on a campus of visual arts students, he was running Linux on his dorm box), and showed him the letter. He freaked, said he hadn't realized he'd been doing anything wrong (although you'd think a visual artist would also be sensitive to matters of copyright, nu?) and that he would erase them immediately. We could have taken his word for it, but we didn't, we sent a tech with a mil-spec erase untility to make sure. Then we sent acknowledgement back to RIAA, with a suggestion that we did not regard ourselves as an arm of their copyright enforcement. Colleges are not doing this because they want to, they're doing it to protect themselves from the liability.
I think your initial assumption is erroneous. GiS is not completely content free, just not as content-heavy as you might like. I value getting to hear the insider point of view on some of the issues that /. covers (more than CT's or Hemos' occaisional comment-tag in an article). It seems to me that they aren't trying to repro the site in a radio format, but act as an adjunct to it. They handle content well enough on the site, let's hear them do somehting really neat, like MSTie a Microsoft press conference that slams Linux. (or items like that, something pretentious that needs their special brand of deflation.)
Love the new studio sound, just remember not to pop your "p"s straight into the mike. Regrets on Hemos' property loss, glad to hear that he and Nate are unhurt. Guests are fine, humor is good, news is unimportant as long as you are having a good time doing it, we are having a good time hearing it. _Love_ the post-production. A small request: I'd like to hear you interview Cliff Stoll, maybe you could convince him to stop being the AntiGeek. :-)> Have fun guys, you're doing just fine.
Love it, folks. Keep it coming. I agree with those requesting a slashbox, it gives more options. In reference to people who would trash your style, may I remind them that this isn't a "professional" production, and CT, H, & Co. are still working on it. Do you honestly expect that Howard Stern of Rush Limbaugh (to cover both ends of the spectrum, STS) got it perfect by their 4th show? Let the guys have fun, otherwise it may not be worth doing at all. This is their chance to personalize their views beyond a one-liner on a submission. Keep it up. You'll find a balance between what you want to do, and what the listeners like, soon enough.
Well, a quick check of L0pht turns up this: http://www.l0pht.com/pub/blackcr wl/hack/dhcp-faq.txt
Look under the heading, "What are the Gotchas?". As far as your first statement goes, I have to track my inventory. If I relocate a machine (that doesn't happen often, BTW), I want to be sure that it's correctly configured for the new segment. Since this only takes about 2-3 minutes (allowing for the Windows execrable habit of rebooting for every config change,) it's not that big an overhead. The bonus is, _I know_ it was done right the first time. Regarding Flukemeters: I'll have to agree that a Flukemeter would find the problem. But I don't need to buy one, I can just turn on debug on my Cisco router attached to the segment, which I can do from my office.
- which has to fixed!
If the gateway address is not static, then if the router went down, all connected stations would have to disconnect and reconnect, because they will have the wrong gateway address. For that matter, if you never go to a (l)user's workstation, you'll never know if it's a network problem, a problem with their protocol stack, or a problem with an application they installed behind your back. Try to think your argument through a little better.- which has to fixed!
If the gateway address is static, then if the router went down, all connected stations would have to disconnect and reconnect, because they will have the wrong gateway address. For that matter, if you never go to a (l)user's workstation, you'll never know if it's a network problem, a problem with their protocol stack, or a problem with an application they installed behind your back. Try to think your argument through a little better.