I work in schools, so that's a government entity. I specifically took down the mailto links from our main website due to spam issues (they've been replaced with a "mail me" script/textbox combo). Obviously for many this is less convenient that just clicking and having a mail client ready-to-send.
As for SPAM, light spam filtering is capturing 7-10k spams in a month...
End result, spam is costing us resources. Resources are money, and therefore they are costing the government money. Why wouldn't gov't want to do such a thing is what boggles my mind, surely the US gov't and their various agencies is dealing with sh*tloads of spam issues as well.
I guess that I should bugfix my abbreviations, the issue at-hand with GIMP was more for an MDI (with a parent form) interface, not an IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
While I am a strong Open-Source-Software user myself, I've found that quite often some of the biggest points of contention between the users and developers come with UI design/enhancements. If it's a programmatic bugfix the developers are happy to fix it, but if it's a UI/usability fix/change most developers seem to get their hackles up.
Developers of projects like the GIMP make a UI have long ignored user requests for things like an IDE environment, and when pushed both the developers and power users alike tend to get contentious.
Of course GIMP is just one example, many programs are like this. In the case of having something simple like an IDE, how hard would it be to simple allow an option to turn it on. It would satisfy both new and power-users, and put an end to many a flamewar...
I'm wondering if this had added fines, compounded interest, or something else funky. As per the headline "One pack-a-day smoker received a bill for $2,500 in back taxes."
If you look at the cost, assuming a 5% tax:
$2500 / 0.05 = $50000
So effectively, this person bought $50,000 in cigs? That's more than a lot of people make in a year. Yes, I have friend that smoke a lot, but I have a hard time imaging any regular person being able to afford smoking that much in a year's period, or possibly even 2-3 years. So how long do these "back-taxes" actually go?
We run a proxy here at work. It could easily record everything that passes through the wire, including chat conversations (if we didn't block most chat services in the first place anyhow).
Looks like VIA will have some competition. I've got a few Epia boards which I mainly use due to the low profile/power consumption.
Once I see how well the AMD products (including the motherboards for the chip, etc) work with linux I may consider a switch. At 400Mhz equivilent they could do nicely for servers and the video capabilities would make them decent enough for small media units. Wonder how well they would handle DVD, etc playback and TV out... as my M10000 does quite nicely for that with fairly low CPU consumption.
While I'm a regular user of OO, I found that while working on my resume that it was nicely mangling my tables. Saving in an older word format seemed to fix that, but it was definately uglified compared to something written in actual MS-Word.
In native OO format it was fine, but since I was making this resume copy for monster.com (which only accepts text or.doc), I pretty much had to install a real copy of word to get proper results (and believe me, when you're job-hunting you want your resume to look as good as possible).
It would be nice if monster would support PDF or some other format, but for the moment if I want to submit a proper resume there I'll have to use word (and yes, my productivity desktop of choice is linux).
WiFi is still an evolving technology. Over time new standards are being developed, and speeds are increasing.
Wired ethernet is also still improving, but it has hit a point where the existing standard is fairly solid.
Given this, and the very real possibility of security/interference/etc issues with WiFi, I think that building a large infastructure around it is a bit premature. Internet isn't a necesary service, and offices can generally afford to pay for their own. Having the gov't etc pay out billions for such a tech is not justified at this point (besides, it will probably get cheaper over time).
The problem is that journalists are often required to push up to and beyond the edges of the law, especially stupid laws. You offer military reporters as an example, but how about when they're reporting military misconduct? Perhaps given laws or military rules are in place to prevent them from reporting abuse of prisoners, rape, pillage, etc... but keep in mind that sometimes the laws themselves endanger the well-being of many in order to protect a few.
I don't know about everyone else, but personally I found that the last screenshot gave me shivers.
Username: root
Hostname: linspire
I don't really think that touting "looks and works like windows" is a good thing, because eventually that just dumbs down to "gets 0WN3D like Windows" as well.
I run as a local user, which works just fine for me (and guess what, my touchpad scroll also works on X.org). For things that need root access (such as installing new software through apt), specific apps are allowed via sudo.
Yes, I'm very dissappointed in Debian/unstable for this. Certainly many other packages are available in unstable, up to CVS and bleeding-edge upgrades. But no X.org.
I've had some nasty things happen with package dependencies breaking in unstable, so I'm fairly sure they're not holding off because of that.
I'm actually quite surprised that Symantec posted the notice about this publicly, rather than simply including an update in its next online patch.
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Definately a bad vulnerability, but kudos for being honest about it. I wonder though how liable they are to damages... not good when antivirus software actually ends up trigging the infection.
Actually I've wondered about this myself, what determines where the court proceedings will take place in regards to websites?
Nationality of infringers?
Location of infringers?
Location of hosting servers?
Location of "infringed" product?
If I as a Canadian were to post such patches on my server, if there were a law shared between Canada in the US that made it purportedly "illegal," where would I be tried?
This is a real question not a rhetorical one (I'm not in the US so I don't know the law). But is the restricted sale of movies mandated by law or by policy?I figure that hardcore porn might be legally-restricted, but what about other stuff?
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For the list:
Apache:/var/log
Syslog:/var/log
Apache-ssl:/var/log
Samba:/var/log
LPD:/var/log
FTP: User-defined in config
Email programs:/var/log (except for individual user procmail logs which are in their homedirs)
Not really sure what system the grandparent was using, but all my logs have generally been easy to find too. The only time logs go somewhere else is if *I* want them to, usually in the event that somebody else is hosted on my machine and I want them to have access to their own logs but not those of others...
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Yes, but it sucks if they or somebody they provide for got owned 2 days ago without noticing... logfiles do have a purpose other than espionage.
Agreed. I dislike the steam authentication idea, because of the inherent tracking/privacy issues among various others. But from a playability angle, I'm overjoyed that I can play the game without needing to cart "My Original Disc" around with me everywhere. Esp with a laptop, this has been a huge PITA, since I need to carry a CD folder full of "Play Discs" in order to play any of my games on the go.
The issues with valve going down one day.... well at that point they could release a patch of some sort that would allow the game normally to be played w/o steam (heck, they could just release an officialized version of the hacks that do the same).
Not that I like steam. I think the concept is in some ways better than CD-swapping, but it definately needs work.
There are many types of pressure. One is the "something unexpected happened everythings not working OMFG the main office needs this report in by TOMORROW oh shit oh shit oh shit."
In that situation, whilst everyone else is having a brain hemmorage, I'm usually decent enough at calmly plunking through various tests/diagnoses/documents/etc until a solution presents itself.
On the other hand, I and some of my colleages feel a heavy sense of defeat when dealing with certain administrative problems. That is, we present a good solution, but those that don't understand the technicality of said solution go with another (usually cheaper) solution that ends up being a pain-in-the-butt to maintain (and often less cost-effective in the long-run). That's stress pressure though.
Another thing that gets to most people I know is the "endless cycle" of pressures. That is, when everyone has a different problem and they're also harranging on you that they issue is critical. They can actually all be problems that individually are easy to deal with and not overly stressful, but when you look at all you have to do by day's end you foresee working a little over and probably having an apple for lunch while banging on the keyboard through break...
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Ditto to a lot of RPG's... really anything that doesn't require a huge amount of buttons and/or realtime control might work.
I work in schools, so that's a government entity. I specifically took down the mailto links from our main website due to spam issues (they've been replaced with a "mail me" script/textbox combo). Obviously for many this is less convenient that just clicking and having a mail client ready-to-send.
As for SPAM, light spam filtering is capturing 7-10k spams in a month...
End result, spam is costing us resources. Resources are money, and therefore they are costing the government money. Why wouldn't gov't want to do such a thing is what boggles my mind, surely the US gov't and their various agencies is dealing with sh*tloads of spam issues as well.
To those that do business in/through Canada.
I guess that I should bugfix my abbreviations, the issue at-hand with GIMP was more for an MDI (with a parent form) interface, not an IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
While I am a strong Open-Source-Software user myself, I've found that quite often some of the biggest points of contention between the users and developers come with UI design/enhancements. If it's a programmatic bugfix the developers are happy to fix it, but if it's a UI/usability fix/change most developers seem to get their hackles up.
Developers of projects like the GIMP make a UI have long ignored user requests for things like an IDE environment, and when pushed both the developers and power users alike tend to get contentious.
Of course GIMP is just one example, many programs are like this. In the case of having something simple like an IDE, how hard would it be to simple allow an option to turn it on. It would satisfy both new and power-users, and put an end to many a flamewar...
I'm wondering if this had added fines, compounded interest, or something else funky. As per the headline "One pack-a-day smoker received a bill for $2,500 in back taxes."
If you look at the cost, assuming a 5% tax:
$2500 / 0.05 = $50000
So effectively, this person bought $50,000 in cigs? That's more than a lot of people make in a year. Yes, I have friend that smoke a lot, but I have a hard time imaging any regular person being able to afford smoking that much in a year's period, or possibly even 2-3 years. So how long do these "back-taxes" actually go?
We run a proxy here at work. It could easily record everything that passes through the wire, including chat conversations (if we didn't block most chat services in the first place anyhow).
Looks like VIA will have some competition. I've got a few Epia boards which I mainly use due to the low profile/power consumption.
Once I see how well the AMD products (including the motherboards for the chip, etc) work with linux I may consider a switch. At 400Mhz equivilent they could do nicely for servers and the video capabilities would make them decent enough for small media units. Wonder how well they would handle DVD, etc playback and TV out... as my M10000 does quite nicely for that with fairly low CPU consumption.
While I'm a regular user of OO, I found that while working on my resume that it was nicely mangling my tables. Saving in an older word format seemed to fix that, but it was definately uglified compared to something written in actual MS-Word.
.doc), I pretty much had to install a real copy of word to get proper results (and believe me, when you're job-hunting you want your resume to look as good as possible).
In native OO format it was fine, but since I was making this resume copy for monster.com (which only accepts text or
It would be nice if monster would support PDF or some other format, but for the moment if I want to submit a proper resume there I'll have to use word (and yes, my productivity desktop of choice is linux).
WiFi is still an evolving technology. Over time new standards are being developed, and speeds are increasing.
Wired ethernet is also still improving, but it has hit a point where the existing standard is fairly solid.
Given this, and the very real possibility of security/interference/etc issues with WiFi, I think that building a large infastructure around it is a bit premature. Internet isn't a necesary service, and offices can generally afford to pay for their own. Having the gov't etc pay out billions for such a tech is not justified at this point (besides, it will probably get cheaper over time).
Guantanamo island: Prison of Despair. A nice place for sysadmins to teleport your character to when they get annoyed with you...
You think that no slashdot readers work in government offices, or that none of your data is possible going to pass to/from/through one?
Linus... I .... am... your... FATHER!
The problem is that journalists are often required to push up to and beyond the edges of the law, especially stupid laws. You offer military reporters as an example, but how about when they're reporting military misconduct? Perhaps given laws or military rules are in place to prevent them from reporting abuse of prisoners, rape, pillage, etc... but keep in mind that sometimes the laws themselves endanger the well-being of many in order to protect a few.
By allowing non-local referers for the primary index page?
I don't know about everyone else, but personally I found that the last screenshot gave me shivers.
Username: root
Hostname: linspire
I don't really think that touting "looks and works like windows" is a good thing, because eventually that just dumbs down to "gets 0WN3D like Windows" as well.
I run as a local user, which works just fine for me (and guess what, my touchpad scroll also works on X.org). For things that need root access (such as installing new software through apt), specific apps are allowed via sudo.
Yes, I'm very dissappointed in Debian/unstable for this. Certainly many other packages are available in unstable, up to CVS and bleeding-edge upgrades. But no X.org.
I've had some nasty things happen with package dependencies breaking in unstable, so I'm fairly sure they're not holding off because of that.
I'm actually quite surprised that Symantec posted the notice about this publicly, rather than simply including an update in its next online patch.
br Definately a bad vulnerability, but kudos for being honest about it. I wonder though how liable they are to damages... not good when antivirus software actually ends up trigging the infection.
Actually I've wondered about this myself, what determines where the court proceedings will take place in regards to websites?
Nationality of infringers?
Location of infringers?
Location of hosting servers?
Location of "infringed" product?
If I as a Canadian were to post such patches on my server, if there were a law shared between Canada in the US that made it purportedly "illegal," where would I be tried?
DOABV was just a precursor to what would have been a more adult game in the future, and the patches beat them to the punch?
This is a real question not a rhetorical one (I'm not in the US so I don't know the law). But is the restricted sale of movies mandated by law or by policy?I figure that hardcore porn might be legally-restricted, but what about other stuff?
For the list:
/var/log /var/log /var/log /var/log /var/log /var/log (except for individual user procmail logs which are in their homedirs)
Apache:
Syslog:
Apache-ssl:
Samba:
LPD:
FTP: User-defined in config
Email programs:
Not really sure what system the grandparent was using, but all my logs have generally been easy to find too. The only time logs go somewhere else is if *I* want them to, usually in the event that somebody else is hosted on my machine and I want them to have access to their own logs but not those of others...
Yes, but it sucks if they or somebody they provide for got owned 2 days ago without noticing... logfiles do have a purpose other than espionage.
Agreed. I dislike the steam authentication idea, because of the inherent tracking/privacy issues among various others. But from a playability angle, I'm overjoyed that I can play the game without needing to cart "My Original Disc" around with me everywhere. Esp with a laptop, this has been a huge PITA, since I need to carry a CD folder full of "Play Discs" in order to play any of my games on the go.
The issues with valve going down one day.... well at that point they could release a patch of some sort that would allow the game normally to be played w/o steam (heck, they could just release an officialized version of the hacks that do the same).
Not that I like steam. I think the concept is in some ways better than CD-swapping, but it definately needs work.
There are many types of pressure. One is the "something unexpected happened everythings not working OMFG the main office needs this report in by TOMORROW oh shit oh shit oh shit."
In that situation, whilst everyone else is having a brain hemmorage, I'm usually decent enough at calmly plunking through various tests/diagnoses/documents/etc until a solution presents itself.
On the other hand, I and some of my colleages feel a heavy sense of defeat when dealing with certain administrative problems. That is, we present a good solution, but those that don't understand the technicality of said solution go with another (usually cheaper) solution that ends up being a pain-in-the-butt to maintain (and often less cost-effective in the long-run). That's stress pressure though.
Another thing that gets to most people I know is the "endless cycle" of pressures. That is, when everyone has a different problem and they're also harranging on you that they issue is critical. They can actually all be problems that individually are easy to deal with and not overly stressful, but when you look at all you have to do by day's end you foresee working a little over and probably having an apple for lunch while banging on the keyboard through break...