Which number was first on the speed-dial, hers, or the ISP.
I don't have my ISP on speed-dial, but I am quick on the draw to call them if something goes funky... kind of a necessity when one runs servers though.
Firstly... a reply starting as "that was dumb bla bla" is rarely taken well.
Secondly, I'll see your oranges with some more of my apples, we're not talking about paid workers or fulltime, we're talking about the loyalty Bill inspires Vs that which Linus does. People *would* help work with Linus w/o immediate pay (not fulltime, we all need to live), the likelyhood of Billyboy attracting the same loyalty/following is fairly low.
Oh, and if you look at the amount of OS projects that are available, many without significant outside funding, I think you'd be surprised. The big ones, simply because of their volume, need funding (servers, etc are all costs). In terms of manpower vs paid hours, a well-knit team of 5-10 people working a few hours a day (after the regular job) can still get a lot accomplished.
It's a good point, really. If Bill G said:
"hey guys, I have this big project, might take a year or two to complete but it will be awesome... I can't pay you right now but we will all benefit later..."
How many people would go for this?
Now if Linus said something similar... don't you think you'd get quite a few people ready to donate whatever time they could?
It's like the old stories of rich kings Vs good leaders: rich kings have trained soldiers and can hire mercenaries. The good leader has people who will fight for him (or his cause), and in many cases die for it. Mercs will often fight for money, but not die for it.
Exactly, I think the major misconception here is "obsolete" Vs "somewhat outdated" or just "not cutting edge."
1.5MBps isn't really "cutting edge" anymore, but it's not yet outdated. Even 56k isn't obsolete, as a surprising amount of people still use modems, and lesser bauds can even go for fax machines etc.
My main point was, that if S. Korea implements 100MBps around the country, and nobody else does even that... well they might not be cutting edge comparative to some other locations, but they'll still be ahead of the game
FYI, Darl, the big guys aren't out to get you anymore than I am out to get a mosquito that keeps buzzing around my head. You keep pissing them off and eventually they will want to swat you
Now the little guys, all of us linux users and many slashdotters alike whom you are pissing off a great deal: we'd definately like to see you suffer a painful and humiliating spiral down the corporate toilet. But the big guys have a bigger flyswatter, so you probably notice it coming a lot sooner...
Indeed, one wonders why they don't go with fibre, or 1000Mpbs networking. In 7 years, 100Mbps may be the equivilent to dial-up.
However, the flipside is that if nobody else is installing even 100Mbps for future considerations, won't they still be ahead of the game in 2010 unless some new technology emerges to use on the existing networks/infrastructure?
If China is willing to be less anal about encryption/protection/etc than the US, then there are too things I foresee:
a) It can be happily embraced by the linux/open-source/etc community, and anyone who doesn't want to get sued for actually trying to do something with their disc that wasn't in the "box" the creators intended
b) The movie companies will hate it, and probably not use it, for the reason in (a)
Didn't see a whole lot about the encryption/etc on the disc, perhaps I just overlooked it though. How about capacity too?
Smoke and mirrors, but even smoke can scare some people into thinking there's a fire. In this case, SCO has nothing, but their posturing is scaring some companies into believing they do.
What other ways can people think of to attack the spammer business models
A spammer can still spam with broken legs, and possibly get out of an arrest. Typing with broken fingers, well... at least they'll be off spamming for awhile until they can toe-type.
Learning self-defence Vs offence is not a bad trait. Yes, you don't want your kids to become the next GB and invade some foreign country, but neither would you want them to sit around and let themselves be abused of their lives (be the ones invaded). The fact of life is, there are people of all ages who will try to abuse you. Some on an emotional level, some physical, some on a profession, and some on all. You have to teach your kids to defend themselves on all levels.
Mediation doesn't always work, and some people just don't learn... it's really that they're too simple to understand anything but fists, which is why they learn quick when they get their own asses kicked.
Teach your kids that violence isn't a good way of dealing with things, teach them to try alternatives, but for godsake also teach them that if nothing else works, they have a right to defend themselves, and physically if possible and/or probable.
It's not about teaching your kids that violence is the best route, it's about teaching them what is appropriate when, and not letting them be punching bags.
Oh, and for the record, as a former punching-bag in high-school, I don't advocate violence by default, but grinding an aggressor's head into the snow and putting a few others in headlocks did give me a lot of space from physical abuse afterwards (you can do a lot to show your strength without actually hitting somebody).
Trust me, I took hits from both ends of the spectrum. The only thing worse than being the guy harrassed by other guys is when you're also demeaned by the females. Of course, things suddenly improved near the end of high school... sometimes all it takes is a change in environment. I don't know exactly what brought upon the change, except for remarks such as "you know, you're almost cool when you're really drunk," indicated I must have done something pretty out-of-character. A little self-confidence now and I'm capable of dealing with either gender, though sometimes still a little internally squeemish when around the jock-types.
Had problems of this sort. Apparently some guy from school whom she shot down devoted a section of his blog to badmouthing her. I don't know what happened in the end, if she got him to take down the ugly blog site or if it just faded into antiquity.
Alternative to that, I've always been amusing by sending simpleminded people http://firstname.lastname.isgay.com, which prints out amusing articles about the person in the URL header.
But with current worries over the legality of Linux and validity of Open-Source licensing, it's not an empty off, at least from a PR perspective.
I think that the fact that JBoss felt the need to announce such a decision just shows that the OS movement is indeed feeling the heat from SCO's lawsuits/FUD/etc, and that action definately needs to be taken against them. Class-action comes to mind, is JBoss in with those standing off against SCO, the more the merrier.
Set up an XP laptop that had been offline for a few months, and thus was behind in security updates. Connected to broadband, modem-->switch-->machine, download patch from my own server where I had a cut+paste URL ready to go. Halfway through download, machine reboots, it's been infected. Total time, under 5 minutes.
Setting up new machine with XP installed, same scenario as above.
Setting up 2 machines behind linux box, no infections. Not just a linux solution, I believe even a cheap NAT'ing firewall would have helped in this case.
The point here being, routers do help, and if more people used them we'd probably have a much-reduced infection rate. If an ISP wants to protect against Welchia and kin, why not make a push for router/modems instead of normal ones, and tout them as "increased protection against internet viruses?"
The only obvious reason I see for not using routed modems is that server stuff won't work for games etc by default, and people could get away with >2 IP addresses. However, the former could be addresses by using "default NAT" policies, with commonly dangerous ports (SMB shares, RPC) not routed by default.
Hey, traffic just went up 400% on port 237 across 100 different hosts - it could go into "red alert" mode.
Red alert meaning that it increases its update-schedule unless an admin flags the traffic as non-virus.
Red Alert could mean to contact home-base every 5-10 min until a fix arrives. Alternately it could mean "login to homebase, leave a log in homebase's DB that I am looking for an update for heuristics X/Y/ZZ, and tell homebase to contact me when an update that looks applicable comes around (port/pattern match)"
If the same e-mail attachment comes through your network a few hundred times, it must be a virus.
Or a chain letter... though I think many of us can agree that these are evil anyways...
If the same kilobyte-long web address keeps getting requested, it must be a worm
Kilobyte-long? I don't know if worms all use long addresses, but a lot of people (or even a given machine) requesting the same address could apply to update sites, like virus updates? Amend this into "during time frame X" cuts it down a bit, but still might block legit traffic
but to be faster than them and to take off the work load of having to identify this week's worm when it comes in for the 34,939th time
If it came to censorship at an ISP level, this is one area I would agree. Why not have a shared list of common worm criteria, or even a government-funded study of this. When a new worm comes out, add to the list, have it start nipping the buggers off before they even reach users to wreak havoc. It wouldn't prevent the initial damage, but if detected early might slow fast-spreading worms.
When you look at this, you will see that some people are catching on. The problem is that a bad idea (that is good for corporations) catches on like wildwire and then gets passed through. A good idea, or the realization that a bad idea was an extreme f***-up, does catch on, but slower until it build momentum.
Eventually the DCMA will die, the ball is rolling... and we should be applauding decisions like this garage-remote judgement as they just add impetus to it.
OK, so while the internet overall is migrating towards more multimedia content and increased speed... currently there is little use for such bandwidth to the home consumer. However, when you think about it, what does the average netizen use heavy bandwidth for even on current DSL/cable standards. Excluding games and perhaps pr0n, I believe that piracy does include a decent chunk of it (though legal online music sales are definately starting to catch on).
So, if an ISP starts getting sued, or for that matter employees of an ISP, is this a game that the public/government really wants to get into? I mean, supporting the DCMA is a fine thing (for them) until they end up under the gun... and in many cases draconian anti-piracy enforcement won't endear them as an ISP.
I'd say that they'd better prepare for some interesting surprises, though perhaps having the gov't on our (or at least the ISP's side) of the DCMA/internet fence might be a godo thing.
-Dselect needs to be sent to/dev/null. The debian installer was never the problem. It isn't harder than slackware, but dselect really, really sucks.
Alternatives do exist. Aptitude isn't bad, though even it could use some improvement. I actually like DSelect for *some* things, but perhaps an option to choose which one you use as default during installation would be nice?
So does a nigerian scam get classified as a 419 then? It involves a promise of massive amounts of money being transferred... a cut for the account-holder, and then either a "transfer fee" that gets sucked off the account or an attempt at existing balances in the account itself...
Not the 5 years IT experience, nor the 3 years programming experience one... I want the job for kicking retarded recruiters out. You have no idea how satisfied I'd come home after knowing I'd given another high-expectation low-return clueless employer a good beating with a cluebat before marching them military-style off the premisis.
DT works very well, but I thought this was more about software that wouldn't allow an install to a network drive (some only allow local install, such as.NET). In this case, the copying trick does work as you are only trying to deal with installed data... for images of CD's daemontools et al are still the best solution though (I know a net cafe that runs everything off DT images stored on the server, no having customers steal their original CD's).
A question on DaemonTools though, which would you recommend as the best program for generating workable images/ISO's of CD's?
md C:\games
subst g: C:\games
(install game on G:)
subst/D g: (remove subst'ed drive)
net use g: \\myserver\gameshare
(move all files from C:\games to G:)
Your game is now on a networked share... if it only grouches during install, you're golden... since subst'ed drives appear as physical.
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Which number was first on the speed-dial, hers, or the ISP.
I don't have my ISP on speed-dial, but I am quick on the draw to call them if something goes funky... kind of a necessity when one runs servers though.
Firstly... a reply starting as "that was dumb bla bla" is rarely taken well.
Secondly, I'll see your oranges with some more of my apples, we're not talking about paid workers or fulltime, we're talking about the loyalty Bill inspires Vs that which Linus does. People *would* help work with Linus w/o immediate pay (not fulltime, we all need to live), the likelyhood of Billyboy attracting the same loyalty/following is fairly low.
Oh, and if you look at the amount of OS projects that are available, many without significant outside funding, I think you'd be surprised. The big ones, simply because of their volume, need funding (servers, etc are all costs). In terms of manpower vs paid hours, a well-knit team of 5-10 people working a few hours a day (after the regular job) can still get a lot accomplished.
It's a good point, really. If Bill G said:
"hey guys, I have this big project, might take a year or two to complete but it will be awesome... I can't pay you right now but we will all benefit later..."
How many people would go for this?
Now if Linus said something similar... don't you think you'd get quite a few people ready to donate whatever time they could?
It's like the old stories of rich kings Vs good leaders: rich kings have trained soldiers and can hire mercenaries. The good leader has people who will fight for him (or his cause), and in many cases die for it. Mercs will often fight for money, but not die for it.
Exactly, I think the major misconception here is "obsolete" Vs "somewhat outdated" or just "not cutting edge."
1.5MBps isn't really "cutting edge" anymore, but it's not yet outdated. Even 56k isn't obsolete, as a surprising amount of people still use modems, and lesser bauds can even go for fax machines etc.
My main point was, that if S. Korea implements 100MBps around the country, and nobody else does even that... well they might not be cutting edge comparative to some other locations, but they'll still be ahead of the game
"all the big guys" are out to get SCO"
FYI, Darl, the big guys aren't out to get you anymore than I am out to get a mosquito that keeps buzzing around my head. You keep pissing them off and eventually they will want to swat you
Now the little guys, all of us linux users and many slashdotters alike whom you are pissing off a great deal: we'd definately like to see you suffer a painful and humiliating spiral down the corporate toilet. But the big guys have a bigger flyswatter, so you probably notice it coming a lot sooner...
Indeed, one wonders why they don't go with fibre, or 1000Mpbs networking. In 7 years, 100Mbps may be the equivilent to dial-up.
However, the flipside is that if nobody else is installing even 100Mbps for future considerations, won't they still be ahead of the game in 2010 unless some new technology emerges to use on the existing networks/infrastructure?
If China is willing to be less anal about encryption/protection/etc than the US, then there are too things I foresee:
a) It can be happily embraced by the linux/open-source/etc community, and anyone who doesn't want to get sued for actually trying to do something with their disc that wasn't in the "box" the creators intended
b) The movie companies will hate it, and probably not use it, for the reason in (a)
Didn't see a whole lot about the encryption/etc on the disc, perhaps I just overlooked it though. How about capacity too?
All that's happened is a bunch bunch of hot air
Smoke and mirrors, but even smoke can scare some people into thinking there's a fire. In this case, SCO has nothing, but their posturing is scaring some companies into believing they do.
What other ways can people think of to attack the spammer business models
A spammer can still spam with broken legs, and possibly get out of an arrest. Typing with broken fingers, well... at least they'll be off spamming for awhile until they can toe-type.
Learning self-defence Vs offence is not a bad trait. Yes, you don't want your kids to become the next GB and invade some foreign country, but neither would you want them to sit around and let themselves be abused of their lives (be the ones invaded). The fact of life is, there are people of all ages who will try to abuse you. Some on an emotional level, some physical, some on a profession, and some on all. You have to teach your kids to defend themselves on all levels.
Mediation doesn't always work, and some people just don't learn... it's really that they're too simple to understand anything but fists, which is why they learn quick when they get their own asses kicked.
Teach your kids that violence isn't a good way of dealing with things, teach them to try alternatives, but for godsake also teach them that if nothing else works, they have a right to defend themselves, and physically if possible and/or probable.
It's not about teaching your kids that violence is the best route, it's about teaching them what is appropriate when, and not letting them be punching bags.
Oh, and for the record, as a former punching-bag in high-school, I don't advocate violence by default, but grinding an aggressor's head into the snow and putting a few others in headlocks did give me a lot of space from physical abuse afterwards (you can do a lot to show your strength without actually hitting somebody).
Trust me, I took hits from both ends of the spectrum. The only thing worse than being the guy harrassed by other guys is when you're also demeaned by the females. Of course, things suddenly improved near the end of high school... sometimes all it takes is a change in environment. I don't know exactly what brought upon the change, except for remarks such as "you know, you're almost cool when you're really drunk," indicated I must have done something pretty out-of-character. A little self-confidence now and I'm capable of dealing with either gender, though sometimes still a little internally squeemish when around the jock-types.
Had problems of this sort. Apparently some guy from school whom she shot down devoted a section of his blog to badmouthing her. I don't know what happened in the end, if she got him to take down the ugly blog site or if it just faded into antiquity.
Alternative to that, I've always been amusing by sending simpleminded people http://firstname.lastname.isgay.com, which prints out amusing articles about the person in the URL header.
But with current worries over the legality of Linux and validity of Open-Source licensing, it's not an empty off, at least from a PR perspective.
I think that the fact that JBoss felt the need to announce such a decision just shows that the OS movement is indeed feeling the heat from SCO's lawsuits/FUD/etc, and that action definately needs to be taken against them. Class-action comes to mind, is JBoss in with those standing off against SCO, the more the merrier.
As an example:
Set up an XP laptop that had been offline for a few months, and thus was behind in security updates. Connected to broadband, modem-->switch-->machine, download patch from my own server where I had a cut+paste URL ready to go. Halfway through download, machine reboots, it's been infected. Total time, under 5 minutes.
Setting up new machine with XP installed, same scenario as above.
Setting up 2 machines behind linux box, no infections. Not just a linux solution, I believe even a cheap NAT'ing firewall would have helped in this case.
The point here being, routers do help, and if more people used them we'd probably have a much-reduced infection rate. If an ISP wants to protect against Welchia and kin, why not make a push for router/modems instead of normal ones, and tout them as "increased protection against internet viruses?"
The only obvious reason I see for not using routed modems is that server stuff won't work for games etc by default, and people could get away with >2 IP addresses. However, the former could be addresses by using "default NAT" policies, with commonly dangerous ports (SMB shares, RPC) not routed by default.
Yes, but if this tool is installed and it says:
Hey, traffic just went up 400% on port 237 across 100 different hosts - it could go into "red alert" mode.
Red alert meaning that it increases its update-schedule unless an admin flags the traffic as non-virus.
Red Alert could mean to contact home-base every 5-10 min until a fix arrives. Alternately it could mean "login to homebase, leave a log in homebase's DB that I am looking for an update for heuristics X/Y/ZZ, and tell homebase to contact me when an update that looks applicable comes around (port/pattern match)"
If the same e-mail attachment comes through your network a few hundred times, it must be a virus.
Or a chain letter... though I think many of us can agree that these are evil anyways...
If the same kilobyte-long web address keeps getting requested, it must be a worm
Kilobyte-long? I don't know if worms all use long addresses, but a lot of people (or even a given machine) requesting the same address could apply to update sites, like virus updates? Amend this into "during time frame X" cuts it down a bit, but still might block legit traffic
but to be faster than them and to take off the work load of having to identify this week's worm when it comes in for the 34,939th time
If it came to censorship at an ISP level, this is one area I would agree. Why not have a shared list of common worm criteria, or even a government-funded study of this. When a new worm comes out, add to the list, have it start nipping the buggers off before they even reach users to wreak havoc. It wouldn't prevent the initial damage, but if detected early might slow fast-spreading worms.
When you look at this, you will see that some people are catching on. The problem is that a bad idea (that is good for corporations) catches on like wildwire and then gets passed through. A good idea, or the realization that a bad idea was an extreme f***-up, does catch on, but slower until it build momentum.
Eventually the DCMA will die, the ball is rolling... and we should be applauding decisions like this garage-remote judgement as they just add impetus to it.
OK, so while the internet overall is migrating towards more multimedia content and increased speed... currently there is little use for such bandwidth to the home consumer. However, when you think about it, what does the average netizen use heavy bandwidth for even on current DSL/cable standards. Excluding games and perhaps pr0n, I believe that piracy does include a decent chunk of it (though legal online music sales are definately starting to catch on).
So, if an ISP starts getting sued, or for that matter employees of an ISP, is this a game that the public/government really wants to get into? I mean, supporting the DCMA is a fine thing (for them) until they end up under the gun... and in many cases draconian anti-piracy enforcement won't endear them as an ISP.
I'd say that they'd better prepare for some interesting surprises, though perhaps having the gov't on our (or at least the ISP's side) of the DCMA/internet fence might be a godo thing.
-Dselect needs to be sent to /dev/null. The debian installer was never the problem. It isn't harder than slackware, but dselect really, really sucks.
Alternatives do exist. Aptitude isn't bad, though even it could use some improvement. I actually like DSelect for *some* things, but perhaps an option to choose which one you use as default during installation would be nice?
So does a nigerian scam get classified as a 419 then? It involves a promise of massive amounts of money being transferred... a cut for the account-holder, and then either a "transfer fee" that gets sucked off the account or an attempt at existing balances in the account itself...
Not the 5 years IT experience, nor the 3 years programming experience one... I want the job for kicking retarded recruiters out. You have no idea how satisfied I'd come home after knowing I'd given another high-expectation low-return clueless employer a good beating with a cluebat before marching them military-style off the premisis.
Hell, maybe they wanted you to filter out the email. At some times you might run into loads 'o' porn, of the animal and other varieties...
Did they ask if he wanted to be involved in porn (isn't animal illegal), or if you had a problem. There's a difference...
For the mostpart, winblows, linux (with kernel-support install for it, of course), and mac should all support this standard.
After all, they can all *read* CD's, even if they can't always make use of the content.
DT works very well, but I thought this was more about software that wouldn't allow an install to a network drive (some only allow local install, such as .NET). In this case, the copying trick does work as you are only trying to deal with installed data... for images of CD's daemontools et al are still the best solution though (I know a net cafe that runs everything off DT images stored on the server, no having customers steal their original CD's).
A question on DaemonTools though, which would you recommend as the best program for generating workable images/ISO's of CD's?
The trick I use for this...
/D g: (remove subst'ed drive)
md C:\games
subst g: C:\games
(install game on G:)
subst
net use g: \\myserver\gameshare
(move all files from C:\games to G:)
Your game is now on a networked share... if it only grouches during install, you're golden... since subst'ed drives appear as physical.