Well, the default is to not plug your server into the Internet the first place, now isn't it? To quote Doug from Ghost World, "It's America, dude, learn the rules."
Seriously, if someone's precious intellectual property - as if anything worthwhile was ever posted on the Internet in the first place - becomes compromised because they don't know a basic principle of how to run a website, well then boo hoo.
It's worth the tradeoff. That the Wayback Machine exists is seriously cool, and some day will be of definite historical worth. If the occasional Brady Bunch erotic slash fiction author has to take a ride on the waaahmbulance because "A Very Brady Gangbang (M/m/F/f nc b/d)" got copied without their permission for the greater historical good, then that's a price worth paying.
Building a $120M satellite just to get a constantly updating view of the earth? Couldn't they save a ton by buying one of those very detailed 3D models of the Earth they use in sci-fi flicks and hooking it up to a giant renderfarm? They'd just need make sure they chose a model that doesn't leave out New Zealand.
Sure, it wouldn't be "the real thing," but I say, no harm, no foul. The populace would be happy because they could tune into "The Planet Channel" any time, and be filled with that warm fuzzy "I am a speck of dust" feeling. The Democrats and Republicans would be happy because they could spend their half of the 120 mil on whatever they wanted (the former on supplying clean needles to welfare mothers, the latter on black ops research to create a clone army of genetically-enhanced Richard Nixons.)
Didn't *anybody* follow the first link? This page describes how he actually did it. The reason that it looks like it's running in an Audrey window is because IT IS. He got a shell, all right, NOT by porting Linux to Audrey, but by updating Audrey's flash so to add a QNX shell application on the flash card. He then booted the Audrey and ran the shell. That's what the screenshot is of.
i mean, things like the samba project cannot be done anymore, thanks to the DMCA.
please, someone correct me!
Exsqueeze me? Baking powder? Samba is alive and well. If I recall, the DMCA outlaws reverse engineering for the purposes of bypassing copy protection. Now I know SMB is a little crufty, but it is ostensibly an open protocol. It may be de facto copy protected in that it's near impossible to get at the data, but as far as I know, Microsoft has always maintained that it's an open standard. Sheeah! Right! And monkeys might come flying out of my butt!
For those who are keeping track, that's two (2) Wayne's World references. Thank you.
The funniest quote from the Amazon reviews: (emphasis mine)
Cd Info, June 12, 2001
Reviewer: A music fan from Tx
This is an Excellent cd,to all of you that want to know, it will play in ALL cd players, Just not on cd roms,When you put it in your cd-rom drive you will be directed to a site where you may download the MP3 songs after you have given your info. To those people who do not like this, It is because you are thieves and upset you cannot get something for nothing. Your days are numbered
So long as I can buy CDs with cash, I don't exactly see this as being a problem. Although a mark-of-the-beast style purchasing scheme would kind of make sense, what with Hillary Rosen being the antichrist and all.
Besides Junk Yard Wars, the only other good "Reality-Based" TV shows didn't even get nominated! Those being, of course, the PBS-produced The 1900 House and American High.
Executive summary:
In The 1900 House, a family is forced to live as did Victorian families did for a few months. Needless to say, the situation puts some strain on familial relations.
American High chronicled the lives of a bunch of kids at a High School in Anywhere, USA. Real kids, too, not Real World rejects. It was originally slated for a run on Fox, but Fox decided at the last moment that it wasn't for them. Perhaps this was due to the fact that it violated Fox's "all our shows suck" policy.
Both great shows. Both not even mentioned. A shame. PBS may be underfunded and underwritten, but they're still churning out solid content.
Right on. Passing laws about spam just makes legislators think it's okay to pass laws regulating other aspects of online speech. I'd say it's worth a little extra annoyance to keep government net regulations *which are inevitably dumbassed* from being passed. The idea that we need the government messing in our private affairs because self-regulation is too hard (waah!) is just falling into the trap that keeps professional politicians in business. Either get a technical work-around, learn to live with spam, or simply stop using email. Just fer chrissakes, don't go whining to the government.
You see, you don't like Microsoft because they tweak with standards.
However, I am not you. I like some of the stuff Microsoft has done with IE. Microsoft has done some selective implementation of CSS2, for instance, that I find commendable, even. Not buckling as Mozilla did to the W3C's demand that CSS2 compliance means allowing for the page to screw with the widgets appearance (besides color,) for one.
You see? I have a different opinion about browsers. It's informed, but it's different than yours. The problem is, everyone has different opinions. One group isn't in the right, the other in the wrong. Republicans aren't more right than Democrats, they're just more different.
Just like everyone wants everone else's browser to do different things. It's not because you're right and they're wrong. You just have different opinions. If everyone starts banning everyone elses' browser in order to try to force change, the WWW will become an unbrowsable mess. And that would suck.
So, present your ideas in a public forum. Convert all your friends to your browser of choice. Just don't ruin the web for everyone else. That's just being a jerk.
Re:But if we electrify the instruments...
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Au contraire. If the instruments were merely amplified with no distortion, then that would indeed be the case. However, when they are intentionally amplified with distortion, then it is the output of the distorted speaker that is the most pure representation of that sound. Intentional distortion is itself an art form. A finely tuned Marshall stack, four of which could be purchased (for the purposes of the aformentioned electric quartet,) I might add, for easily under $5000; will yield an original sound that must be itself miked in order to achieve maximal purity for reproduction. A small live rock show, for instance, where the performers amplifiers/drums are not miked, is the closest equivalent to being in the audience of an opera you're going to find.
Enough of your commie treason. Duffbeer703 has a point - if those hackers had been successful, a large chunk of California might have lost power for perhaps twenty or even thirty seconds before someone figured out that something was wrong with the computers and switched to manual override.
And if that momentary deprivation of electrical services isn't equivalent to the assasination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I frankly don't know what is. A full-fledged atomic counterstrike is the only allowable course of action.
Protect consumers? How am I being injured if Captain Picard sips a Pepsi One instead of his standard Earl Grey? Yes, my sensibilities are offended, but are you really advocating a Department of Offended Sensibility?
If you don't like what you see on TV, vote with your dollar. Turn the television off. Read a book. Or better yet, create your own ad-free art. Then, you'll be contributing to a real solution to the problem.
Naw, what the hell am I suggesting? Why creatively solve the problem when we can sue?
The people who were blocked by above.net were customers of above.net. Maybe if they don't like sites being blocked, they could, oh, I don't know, switch to an ISP that doesn't go through Above.net?
If a candy bar tastes nasty despite the fact that it was advertised to be delicious, do you sue the manufacturer? There is no difference.
Right now, I work 8 hours a day. However, my material needs are few and I just end up saving most of what I earn. Of course, I don't want to wake up in 20 years having worked my youth away. So, I've been thinking about cutting my hours in half. I'd much rather be out running around getting into trouble and stuff than working, anyway. The nice thing about working in IT is that I could probably afford it, although it would make my life rather spartan.
Has anyone reading this tried it? Were you able to really use your time wisely, or did you find the lack of structure led to laziness? Was the cut in pay more drastic than you had anticipated? And input you folks can offer would be helpful.
How quickly you forget! You do not remember the awfulness of the foldout (oh yes) cover of Wired 4.06??? BEHOLD! TREMBLE IN HIS PALENESS!!
Re:Stupid question about netbios naming resolution
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As Mr. Allison previously noted, the ability to do this is built into the latest Samba. Just FYI, it is possible to do NetBios name resolution without Samba on the unix machine.
This long document on MSDN (scroll about 1/3 the way down to "Enabling WINS lookup") discusses setting up Microsoft's DNS server to use WINS to resolve names to any client that can point to a DNS server, including those which can't run Samba (OS/400, etc.) I've used it at work for a year with few problems.
Of course, you have to run Windows as your DNS server, which you may have technical or perhaps theological objections to. However, you can always have MS DNS forward on to your BIND server if it doesn't find the record in WINS, thus allowing you the best of both worlds (that's what we do.)
Slashdot Mirror
Looking forward to when this is the last thing that I see before the whirring blades eviscerate me.
Slashdot: where the socially retarded go to refine their stand-up comedy act.
You know, no matter how good you are at trolling Slashdot, it still doesn't mean women will ever want to have sex with you.
You're assuming the spammers can read.
Yes, but to be fair, you are running Solaris 7 on an UltraSPARC.
Most underrated /. comment of all time.
Well, the default is to not plug your server into the Internet the first place, now isn't it? To quote Doug from Ghost World, "It's America, dude, learn the rules."
Seriously, if someone's precious intellectual property - as if anything worthwhile was ever posted on the Internet in the first place - becomes compromised because they don't know a basic principle of how to run a website, well then boo hoo.
It's worth the tradeoff. That the Wayback Machine exists is seriously cool, and some day will be of definite historical worth. If the occasional Brady Bunch erotic slash fiction author has to take a ride on the waaahmbulance because "A Very Brady Gangbang (M/m/F/f nc b/d)" got copied without their permission for the greater historical good, then that's a price worth paying.
"Mr. President, we cannot allow a Desktop Biodetector gap!"
Building a $120M satellite just to get a constantly updating view of the earth? Couldn't they save a ton by buying one of those very detailed 3D models of the Earth they use in sci-fi flicks and hooking it up to a giant renderfarm? They'd just need make sure they chose a model that doesn't leave out New Zealand.
Sure, it wouldn't be "the real thing," but I say, no harm, no foul. The populace would be happy because they could tune into "The Planet Channel" any time, and be filled with that warm fuzzy "I am a speck of dust" feeling. The Democrats and Republicans would be happy because they could spend their half of the 120 mil on whatever they wanted (the former on supplying clean needles to welfare mothers, the latter on black ops research to create a clone army of genetically-enhanced Richard Nixons.)
And nobody would be any the wiser.
You might be thinking of MAC as in Media Access Control as in the hardware address for Ethernet (and other types of networks as well, I presume.)
Didn't *anybody* follow the first link? This page describes how he actually did it. The reason that it looks like it's running in an Audrey window is because IT IS. He got a shell, all right, NOT by porting Linux to Audrey, but by updating Audrey's flash so to add a QNX shell application on the flash card. He then booted the Audrey and ran the shell. That's what the screenshot is of.
Once again, not a fake.
For those who are keeping track, that's two (2) Wayne's World references. Thank you.
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME
So long as I can buy CDs with cash, I don't exactly see this as being a problem. Although a mark-of-the-beast style purchasing scheme would kind of make sense, what with Hillary Rosen being the antichrist and all.
Besides Junk Yard Wars, the only other good "Reality-Based" TV shows didn't even get nominated! Those being, of course, the PBS-produced The 1900 House and American High.
Executive summary:
In The 1900 House, a family is forced to live as did Victorian families did for a few months. Needless to say, the situation puts some strain on familial relations.
American High chronicled the lives of a bunch of kids at a High School in Anywhere, USA. Real kids, too, not Real World rejects. It was originally slated for a run on Fox, but Fox decided at the last moment that it wasn't for them. Perhaps this was due to the fact that it violated Fox's "all our shows suck" policy.
Both great shows. Both not even mentioned. A shame. PBS may be underfunded and underwritten, but they're still churning out solid content.
Right on. Passing laws about spam just makes legislators think it's okay to pass laws regulating other aspects of online speech. I'd say it's worth a little extra annoyance to keep government net regulations *which are inevitably dumbassed* from being passed. The idea that we need the government messing in our private affairs because self-regulation is too hard (waah!) is just falling into the trap that keeps professional politicians in business. Either get a technical work-around, learn to live with spam, or simply stop using email. Just fer chrissakes, don't go whining to the government.
You see, you don't like Microsoft because they tweak with standards.
However, I am not you. I like some of the stuff Microsoft has done with IE. Microsoft has done some selective implementation of CSS2, for instance, that I find commendable, even. Not buckling as Mozilla did to the W3C's demand that CSS2 compliance means allowing for the page to screw with the widgets appearance (besides color,) for one.
You see? I have a different opinion about browsers. It's informed, but it's different than yours. The problem is, everyone has different opinions. One group isn't in the right, the other in the wrong. Republicans aren't more right than Democrats, they're just more different.
Just like everyone wants everone else's browser to do different things. It's not because you're right and they're wrong. You just have different opinions. If everyone starts banning everyone elses' browser in order to try to force change, the WWW will become an unbrowsable mess. And that would suck.
So, present your ideas in a public forum. Convert all your friends to your browser of choice. Just don't ruin the web for everyone else. That's just being a jerk.
Au contraire. If the instruments were merely amplified with no distortion, then that would indeed be the case. However, when they are intentionally amplified with distortion, then it is the output of the distorted speaker that is the most pure representation of that sound. Intentional distortion is itself an art form. A finely tuned Marshall stack, four of which could be purchased (for the purposes of the aformentioned electric quartet,) I might add, for easily under $5000; will yield an original sound that must be itself miked in order to achieve maximal purity for reproduction. A small live rock show, for instance, where the performers amplifiers/drums are not miked, is the closest equivalent to being in the audience of an opera you're going to find.
Enough of your commie treason. Duffbeer703 has a point - if those hackers had been successful, a large chunk of California might have lost power for perhaps twenty or even thirty seconds before someone figured out that something was wrong with the computers and switched to manual override.
And if that momentary deprivation of electrical services isn't equivalent to the assasination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I frankly don't know what is. A full-fledged atomic counterstrike is the only allowable course of action.
What does that translate to -- about $40 US, right? They should just buy themselves a carton of Marlboro Reds and call it a day.
Protect consumers? How am I being injured if Captain Picard sips a Pepsi One instead of his standard Earl Grey? Yes, my sensibilities are offended, but are you really advocating a Department of Offended Sensibility?
If you don't like what you see on TV, vote with your dollar. Turn the television off. Read a book. Or better yet, create your own ad-free art. Then, you'll be contributing to a real solution to the problem.
Naw, what the hell am I suggesting? Why creatively solve the problem when we can sue?
Christ almighty.
The people who were blocked by above.net were customers of above.net. Maybe if they don't like sites being blocked, they could, oh, I don't know, switch to an ISP that doesn't go through Above.net?
If a candy bar tastes nasty despite the fact that it was advertised to be delicious, do you sue the manufacturer? There is no difference.
"Work less, spend less, live more fully"
Right now, I work 8 hours a day. However, my material needs are few and I just end up saving most of what I earn. Of course, I don't want to wake up in 20 years having worked my youth away. So, I've been thinking about cutting my hours in half. I'd much rather be out running around getting into trouble and stuff than working, anyway. The nice thing about working in IT is that I could probably afford it, although it would make my life rather spartan.
Has anyone reading this tried it? Were you able to really use your time wisely, or did you find the lack of structure led to laziness? Was the cut in pay more drastic than you had anticipated? And input you folks can offer would be helpful.
How quickly you forget! You do not remember the awfulness of the foldout (oh yes) cover of Wired 4.06??? BEHOLD! TREMBLE IN HIS PALENESS!!
As Mr. Allison previously noted, the ability to do this is built into the latest Samba. Just FYI, it is possible to do NetBios name resolution without Samba on the unix machine.
This long document on MSDN (scroll about 1/3 the way down to "Enabling WINS lookup") discusses setting up Microsoft's DNS server to use WINS to resolve names to any client that can point to a DNS server, including those which can't run Samba (OS/400, etc.) I've used it at work for a year with few problems.
Of course, you have to run Windows as your DNS server, which you may have technical or perhaps theological objections to. However, you can always have MS DNS forward on to your BIND server if it doesn't find the record in WINS, thus allowing you the best of both worlds (that's what we do.)