The first and last time a computer of mine boots Windows it will be to download a shiny new linux iso. I have no idea why people put up with Microsoft's tactics. Windows 7 was not a horrible OS, but their strongarm installation tactics for 10 would seem to turn almost any user off. Guess people will keep swallowing while MS keeps shoveling.
You convinced them that using a linux system with a CLI interface and custom code would be a better solution than Windows plus readily available and supported software? Nice job, hope you are proud of yourself. I am quite sure your church pals are only humouring you my friend, and probably regretting it already. Wanna bet any amount that as soon as you leave they will replace that box?
We need a union, or your children are never going to work in IT if you live in the USA. First the production / assembly line jobs went, and now the skilled labor / tech jobs are going to go also. Soon, this will be a country of only owners and janitors. I would love to see a list of companies who outsource their IT jobs, I would boycott them in a second. Proudly.
Not quite, it rather looks like they were planning to use their experiences as case study material for startups. I think licensing costs would definitly apply in that case.
The stats for the h.root servers are available for the time period of the attack. Seems as though the h servers were taking in close to 94Mbits/second for a while.
More links to server stats can be found at
Root Servers.org and some background is available at
ICANNWatch.
Once you have the hardware setup and the software configured, it is time to design your site to perform. The following tips will help you create a site that is just as scalable as ours. Enjoy.
Use lots, and I mean lots of graphics. Cute ones, animated ones, you name it and people expect to see them. Skimping here will hurt your image.
CSS style sheets may be the way of the future, but just for now make sure you include dozens or even hundreds of font tags, color tags, and tables in your site. Trust us. This has the added benefit of increasing your page file size by at least 30%. You do want a robust site right?
Make sure you are serving plenty of third party ads! Their bandwidth matters also, and you know the way to make money on the web is be serving lots of "fun" animated ads. This will not slow down the user experience of your site one bit! Those ad people are slick, they know that you are building a high bandwidth / high performance site and will be expecting the traffic.
A site is not a high performance site until is has withstood the infamous Slashdot effect. You will want to post a link to your site on/. post haste to begin testing.
That should be enough to get you started. Now you too can build a rocking 200K per page site, and having read our hardware guidelines, you can expect it to perform just as well as ours did. One more free tip: Placing a cool dynamic hit counter or traffic meter on your site in a prominent position will encourage casual visitors to hit the reload button again and again, driving the performance of your site through the roof.
Apparently RH is respecting the copyright of the people who discovered the flaws and chose to license the text under the "TheFreeWorld" blanket to prevent the authors from being accused of distributing potentially infringing documentation in the US. Read the article at The Register, it is almost as poorly written as this post but according to this excerpt:
The document has been copyrighted, and the authors have chosen to restrict its distribution, and to use Thefreeworld.net licence as the mechanism for doing so. Note that it is the copyright, rather than fear of the DMCA, that has forced Red Hat to join in.
RH is only doing this to protect the authors who for whatever reason chose to copyright the document. Possibly the wish to make a point as well concerning the idiocy of the DMCA.
brunes69, you are probably quite good at what you do. You have also more than likely worked with certification collectors who are far below your skill level, thus shaping your perception of them in a less than favorable light. You are correct that certs do not prove much of anything, but I hope you do not intend to imply that a four year degree proves much either. Apply your same theory to CS majors and see what you come up with. I could just as easily state that rich kids who are fortunate enough to have the funding for a four year degree and are looking to cash in on lucrative CS degrees are the problem, not the solution. Anyone with money can attend class, absord just enough to pass the exam, and attain the lofty title of software engineer. This does not mean they understand the basics of applying technical solutions to real world problems. What if they are thrust into the situation of having to think on their feet and having to learn quickly the solution to a problem which their instructor did not gloss over? I could go on, but I will not. Just as you display utter disdain for certification holders, I regard highly many of the cert holders I have worked with and shake my head in disbelief at some of the solutions I have seen put forth by CS majors. I will take passion and a voracious appetite for knowledge any day over a simple CS major, or a cert collector for that matter.
You could try using png format images. The libpng group provides a browser support reference.
For the images that require animation, you could look into the MNG/JNG format. A reference is available here. Support does not seem to very widespread but that may not
matter depending on the intended audience for your
application.
Wow, glad to see a fan from the UK! I wish you could see him play live. His amazing guitar work appears to be completely effortless for him, singing all the while. So in case you ever wondered, yes he pulls it all off live with seeming ease. He should have a new MP3 up this weekend too so check the new site.
"This is as bad as the MP3 whiners. Want free music? Make some, and give it away. Problem solved."
Ok, try some of these from a friend of mine. At least you will be supporting an artist who wants people to download and enjoy his work. Hope you like them.
I would form my corporation, Liandri Mining Corporation and immediately begin a serious weapons research program. At the same time thousands of scientists and doctors would be perfecting my re-animator device. Once several factory locations were complete, I would invite over all of my friends ( I would have a lot 'cause I'm rich remember ) for an afternoon of fun and frolic. Once I achieved Godlike status and my "friends" were reduced to a steaming pile of gibbs, I would invest in hardier prison stock from well, actual prisons. I would be willing to commute their sentences by buying out their term with suitable pentance to the state and victims, and they would finally have a suitable place to live, work, and play.
You have not seen my coffee cup! Trust me, it is more of a tankard than a "cup" and is quite heavy when full. On the other hand, I doubt that story is true but one can never be certain of anything when technology and users meet headlong in an orgy of stupidity, fear, and bad design. Anything is possible.
" No replies yet, and it's slashdotted already?!?"
Well, I tried to post a reply several times before there were any comments and was confronted with failure as slashcode seemed unable to realize that I did have both a Subject Line and Body to my post. I suspect others were trying to post too and got shut down by some bit of flakiness in slashcode. Oh well. Wonder what kind of condition these things are in what it would take to make them livable?
Hmmm, I wish I were hiring. You have excellent design skills, very impressive work. Good luck, I would think you would have no trouble attracting job offers. Have you considered starting your own business?
My resolution to the whole browser incompatibility problem is a combination of CSS1 and CSS2 with valid xHTML markup. All of my layout and formatting is pulled from CSS. My pages work in extremely well in IE 5+, Mozilla, Opera, and any text browser. I do not use browser detection scripts of any sort. I simply load the CSS via the @import method and if the browser understands that (most modern ones do) they get the site as intended. If they do not understand the @import method, they get a functional but very plain text site. The main browser this effects is NS 4.7 and below. Text browsers get pure text, as intended. I test on Linux and Windows extensively, and for the most part it works on the first try. I really need a friend with a Mac to test on as I cannot afford one.
Anyway, you can do a lot with xHTML and CSS now. Your markup will be much cleaner and if you are building sites for clients they will possibly be able to maintain the site themselves. Site wide changes such as layout, colors, and menus become much easier to effect as well, especially if you use something like php requires, SSI, or mod_layout on apache.
Half a dozen in the other. Security in my mind is about protecting information assets, be they physical, electronic, or human. It all comes down to defining policy and implementing reasonable measures to enforce your policies. Some times the solution is physical, sometimes it is social, and sometimes it is 1s and 0s.
At some high level, all of those elements should be combined into a single responsible entity. Whether the person in charge comes from a physical world or a data world does not matter, provided they have a talent pool from both worlds capable of enforcing their policy. I do not think the article intended to imply that we would see admins being asked to take a bullet (good luck!) or security guards expected to respond to the next Bind exploit (once again, good luck!).
If however, on the off-chance my company wished to provide me with say, oh I don't know maybe a chain gun or a redeemer, I would be more than willing to sit in a tower and secure the physical perimeter for them.
Slashdot Mirror
The first and last time a computer of mine boots Windows it will be to download a shiny new linux iso. I have no idea why people put up with Microsoft's tactics. Windows 7 was not a horrible OS, but their strongarm installation tactics for 10 would seem to turn almost any user off. Guess people will keep swallowing while MS keeps shoveling.
Put up with being fed garbage, and you will continue to be fed garbage.
Then an xbox it will be. It is much easier to justify an xbox than a whole new system dedicated to Doom. Easier to justify to the wife that is.
You convinced them that using a linux system with a CLI interface and custom code would be a better solution than Windows plus readily available and supported software? Nice job, hope you are proud of yourself. I am quite sure your church pals are only humouring you my friend, and probably regretting it already. Wanna bet any amount that as soon as you leave they will replace that box?
We need a union, or your children are never going to work in IT if you live in the USA. First the production / assembly line jobs went, and now the skilled labor / tech jobs are going to go also. Soon, this will be a country of only owners and janitors. I would love to see a list of companies who outsource their IT jobs, I would boycott them in a second. Proudly.
Not quite, it rather looks like they were planning to use their experiences as case study material for startups. I think licensing costs would definitly apply in that case.
- K12 Linux
- Linux For Kids
- Debian Jr
Good luck.The stats for the h.root servers are available for the time period of the attack. Seems as though the h servers were taking in close to 94Mbits/second for a while.
More links to server stats can be found at Root Servers.org and some background is available at ICANNWatch.
- Use lots, and I mean lots of graphics. Cute ones, animated ones, you name it and people expect to see them. Skimping here will hurt your image.
- CSS style sheets may be the way of the future, but just for now make sure you include dozens or even hundreds of font tags, color tags, and tables in your site. Trust us. This has the added benefit of increasing your page file size by at least 30%. You do want a robust site right?
- Make sure you are serving plenty of third party ads! Their bandwidth matters also, and you know the way to make money on the web is be serving lots of "fun" animated ads. This will not slow down the user experience of your site one bit! Those ad people are slick, they know that you are building a high bandwidth / high performance site and will be expecting the traffic.
- A site is not a high performance site until is has withstood the infamous Slashdot effect. You will want to post a link to your site on
/. post haste to begin testing.
That should be enough to get you started. Now you too can build a rocking 200K per page site, and having read our hardware guidelines, you can expect it to perform just as well as ours did. One more free tip: Placing a cool dynamic hit counter or traffic meter on your site in a prominent position will encourage casual visitors to hit the reload button again and again, driving the performance of your site through the roof.You can browse different categories of Mozilla projects at MozDev.
Apparently RH is respecting the copyright of the people who discovered the flaws and chose to license the text under the "TheFreeWorld" blanket to prevent the authors from being accused of distributing potentially infringing documentation in the US. Read the article at The Register, it is almost as poorly written as this post but according to this excerpt:
The document has been copyrighted, and the authors have chosen to restrict its distribution, and to use Thefreeworld.net licence as the mechanism for doing so. Note that it is the copyright, rather than fear of the DMCA, that has forced Red Hat to join in.
RH is only doing this to protect the authors who for whatever reason chose to copyright the document. Possibly the wish to make a point as well concerning the idiocy of the DMCA.
brunes69, you are probably quite good at what you do. You have also more than likely worked with certification collectors who are far below your skill level, thus shaping your perception of them in a less than favorable light. You are correct that certs do not prove much of anything, but I hope you do not intend to imply that a four year degree proves much either. Apply your same theory to CS majors and see what you come up with. I could just as easily state that rich kids who are fortunate enough to have the funding for a four year degree and are looking to cash in on lucrative CS degrees are the problem, not the solution. Anyone with money can attend class, absord just enough to pass the exam, and attain the lofty title of software engineer. This does not mean they understand the basics of applying technical solutions to real world problems. What if they are thrust into the situation of having to think on their feet and having to learn quickly the solution to a problem which their instructor did not gloss over? I could go on, but I will not. Just as you display utter disdain for certification holders, I regard highly many of the cert holders I have worked with and shake my head in disbelief at some of the solutions I have seen put forth by CS majors. I will take passion and a voracious appetite for knowledge any day over a simple CS major, or a cert collector for that matter.
You could try using png format images. The libpng group provides a browser support reference.
For the images that require animation, you could look into the MNG/JNG format. A reference is available here. Support does not seem to very widespread but that may not matter depending on the intended audience for your application.
For anyone who has only heard of it's legendary power, you may find an actual blink tag on the site. I thought those were gone for good!
Wow, glad to see a fan from the UK! I wish you could see him play live. His amazing guitar work appears to be completely effortless for him, singing all the while. So in case you ever wondered, yes he pulls it all off live with seeming ease. He should have a new MP3 up this weekend too so check the new site.
"This is as bad as the MP3 whiners. Want free music? Make some, and give it away. Problem solved."
Ok, try some of these from a friend of mine. At least you will be supporting an artist who wants people to download and enjoy his work. Hope you like them.
I would form my corporation, Liandri Mining Corporation and immediately begin a serious weapons research program. At the same time thousands of scientists and doctors would be perfecting my re-animator device. Once several factory locations were complete, I would invite over all of my friends ( I would have a lot 'cause I'm rich remember ) for an afternoon of fun and frolic. Once I achieved Godlike status and my "friends" were reduced to a steaming pile of gibbs, I would invest in hardier prison stock from well, actual prisons. I would be willing to commute their sentences by buying out their term with suitable pentance to the state and victims, and they would finally have a suitable place to live, work, and play.
Noted Egyptologist OLFHQ provided me with the following transcript:
"fingerprints show that the slaThe "133t hax0r" type you mentioned is much more likely to be trying to avoid snort than deploying it.
You can find some snort enhancements at this site. Have fun.
You have not seen my coffee cup! Trust me, it is more of a tankard than a "cup" and is quite heavy when full. On the other hand, I doubt that story is true but one can never be certain of anything when technology and users meet headlong in an orgy of stupidity, fear, and bad design. Anything is possible.
Well, I tried to post a reply several times before there were any comments and was confronted with failure as slashcode seemed unable to realize that I did have both a Subject Line and Body to my post. I suspect others were trying to post too and got shut down by some bit of flakiness in slashcode. Oh well. Wonder what kind of condition these things are in what it would take to make them livable?
Hmmm, I wish I were hiring. You have excellent design skills, very impressive work. Good luck, I would think you would have no trouble attracting job offers. Have you considered starting your own business?
My resolution to the whole browser incompatibility problem is a combination of CSS1 and CSS2 with valid xHTML markup. All of my layout and formatting is pulled from CSS. My pages work in extremely well in IE 5+, Mozilla, Opera, and any text browser. I do not use browser detection scripts of any sort. I simply load the CSS via the @import method and if the browser understands that (most modern ones do) they get the site as intended. If they do not understand the @import method, they get a functional but very plain text site. The main browser this effects is NS 4.7 and below. Text browsers get pure text, as intended. I test on Linux and Windows extensively, and for the most part it works on the first try. I really need a friend with a Mac to test on as I cannot afford one.
Anyway, you can do a lot with xHTML and CSS now. Your markup will be much cleaner and if you are building sites for clients they will possibly be able to maintain the site themselves. Site wide changes such as layout, colors, and menus become much easier to effect as well, especially if you use something like php requires, SSI, or mod_layout on apache.
Half a dozen in the other. Security in my mind is about protecting information assets, be they physical, electronic, or human. It all comes down to defining policy and implementing reasonable measures to enforce your policies. Some times the solution is physical, sometimes it is social, and sometimes it is 1s and 0s.
At some high level, all of those elements should be combined into a single responsible entity. Whether the person in charge comes from a physical world or a data world does not matter, provided they have a talent pool from both worlds capable of enforcing their policy. I do not think the article intended to imply that we would see admins being asked to take a bullet (good luck!) or security guards expected to respond to the next Bind exploit (once again, good luck!).
If however, on the off-chance my company wished to provide me with say, oh I don't know maybe a chain gun or a redeemer, I would be more than willing to sit in a tower and secure the physical perimeter for them.
Janis, was that a Dan Bernshirt you were wearing on your TechTV appearance? If so, you must decidedly rock and I shall DL an mp3 or two at once.