I hear that. Although a little over a year ago I did a side-by-side tasting of a Kona (brought back as a gift from friends) and my usual Costa Rica. The Kona was very good, but not nearly good enough to justify me paying almost 300% more (the Cafe Britt stuff I get is ~$7/lb when bought in 20-bag cases).
Interesting, especially that area of "Bad Coffee".. it's almost worth ordering a sack for the experience. These guys are close, too. I could drive there in a little over an hour.
How you can actually drink Folgers is quite beyond me.
When I grew up, coffee came out of a two foot tall stainless steel urn (military special). It was nasty crap that required huge amounts of sugar just to choke down.
Now that I'm a discriminating adult, I have my beans imported from Costa Rica (discovered the brand by accident while on vacation down there). I just plain can not get near a cup of freeze-dried crap anymore.
Do yourself a culinary favor; purchase whole beans, a grinder, and a good drip coffee maker (or a French Press type for those in a hurry). You'll be glad you did.
The control panel you are looking for is the "Network" one. The last tab on the panel for the particular interface allows you to set up the IP Filtering.
Has anyone ever considered the possibility that we might be the first ones, that all other "intelligent" life forms are decades or even eons behind us?
Someone had to achieve "advanced" first.. what if it's us?
Without getting into an argument, the wake turbulence coming off of a heavy jet is enough to put a small civilian private craft completely out of control (if not destroy it by snapping the wings due to the sudden and uncontrolled aerobatics). I got super-lucky in that I knew what was going on and was actively trying to avoid the WT while on final. Just the little taste I got was enough to make me pull out and radio for a go-around.
Anyway, your small prop-driven craft couldn't even keep up with a passenger jet (even if said passenger jet were flying just above stall speed and you were at max power).
Speaking as someone who has piloted a Cessna through the slipstream of a heavy (it was a military transport), I can tell you unequivocally that this is a BAD idea...
Do a little research on wake turbulence then come back and talk to me.
I'm going to claim that the "Recovery" is in spite of the Administration. With proper stewardship, the "Bubble Collapse" would have been a relatively short correction with a minimum of adverse affect upon the working populace.
Instead, we saw what was forecast as a 6-month slowdown become a 3-year recession. Numbers games were played by the Administration with zero sustainability ("let's give everyone a loan against next year's taxes.. oh, look; consumer spending went up! The economy is saved!"). Greenspan was forced to drop interest rates to the floor in order to keep money being used (in the form of such things as zero-interest car financing and cash-out refinancing of houses purchased during the Boom).
I charge that the Bush Administration has been negligent in letting the domestic economy flounder while it pursues its selfish foreign interests. The "recovery" we see now is in spite of the Administration. The unemployment rate has as much to do with people (like myself) who have fallen off the chart (not collecting unemployment anymore, unable to file a new claim, subsisting on part-time self-employment while looking for another stable job) as people actually employed per population.
Company profits boosting the stock numbers has much to do with layoffs and outsourcing. This is not sustainable.
You're correct that the tight integration of userspace apps and the juicy bits of the OS is bad bad bad, just asking for wholesale 0wn3r5h1p.. The failure of a userspace app should be limited purely to userspace, a sort of "fail safe" method where if something fails, it fails into a safe mode where everything surrounding it is concerned.
I measure my security by the ability of my computer systems to withstand attack, and the ability to mitigate damage from attacks that may succeed. Microsoft, after 20 years in the business, is JUST NOW starting to realize the importance of that.
By the way, Sasser, like many of the current crop of worms, leaves a backdoor process open (in Sasser's case, an FTP server). The next generation of Sasser's backdoor process could be an IRC bot allowing the master to control your computer for his/her own purposes. That's pretty damned critical, by any standard.
And my "rant" was actually about an irresponsible bit of crap "journalism" that was long on shill and short on salient fact. The writer of that bit of misinformation used the comparison of OSX to the "Windows worm du jour" (the fact that that is even a applicable term should be a big clue to you). I merely attempted to correct his error in comparison.
Man, I haven't read such an obviously antagonistic bit of tripe like that in a long time. Mentioning 5 possible exploits which all require default-off services to be enabled, only one of which could lead to a system-wide compromise under 99% of normal circumstances, then calling "Sasser" trivial in comparison (sorry.. "a blip") is not only completely incorrect but is irresponsible journalism.
The AFS vulnerability, which is the only process in the whole list which runs under root privs, would require someone be running AFS (the Apple equiv of NFS) over the Internet. It has been known for a very long time that NFS is *ONLY* for internal trusted networks. AFS is turned off by default on Macs, and the vast majority of users (certainly almost all home users) would never need to enable it.
The Quicktime vuln would only affect files owned by the executing user. Certainly a pain in the ass, but not fatal or prone to "zombification" of your computer like Sasser.
The Apache vulns, IIRC, are of the DOS type (one is a memory leak condition). Irritating, but not critical, unlike Sasser.
Kieren McCarthy should be ashamed of himself for writing such a disingenuous load of crap as that article. Microsoft's history of disclosure and cooperation with security research firms is ** FAR ** from unblemished.
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the moon is a giant lump of He-3, and we can beam down solar energy from microwave stations.
You mean "giant frickin' laser beams"?
It is if you're standing in front of the vent...
Actually, Butterfly Effect was a term originally coined to describe chaos theory as it regards weather.
"It's dead, Jim..."
"thinking of the children" was what got this guy in trouble in the first place...
I hear that. Although a little over a year ago I did a side-by-side tasting of a Kona (brought back as a gift from friends) and my usual Costa Rica. The Kona was very good, but not nearly good enough to justify me paying almost 300% more (the Cafe Britt stuff I get is ~$7/lb when bought in 20-bag cases).
Interesting, especially that area of "Bad Coffee".. it's almost worth ordering a sack for the experience. These guys are close, too. I could drive there in a little over an hour.
How you can actually drink Folgers is quite beyond me.
When I grew up, coffee came out of a two foot tall stainless steel urn (military special). It was nasty crap that required huge amounts of sugar just to choke down.
Now that I'm a discriminating adult, I have my beans imported from Costa Rica (discovered the brand by accident while on vacation down there). I just plain can not get near a cup of freeze-dried crap anymore.
Do yourself a culinary favor; purchase whole beans, a grinder, and a good drip coffee maker (or a French Press type for those in a hurry). You'll be glad you did.
Dude, he said IP Filtering, not IPSec.
The control panel you are looking for is the "Network" one. The last tab on the panel for the particular interface allows you to set up the IP Filtering.
Are you kidding? Those are PRECISELY the machines you want isolated...
"I could tell you about their SAAB civil aircraft, fortunately they are out of production now....."
Did they have their ignition keyholes on the floor, too?
Has anyone ever considered the possibility that we might be the first ones, that all other "intelligent" life forms are decades or even eons behind us?
Someone had to achieve "advanced" first.. what if it's us?
thanks for that Zork link.. ahhh, the memories...
Apparently these guys are having a tough time because of this.. insta-Slashdot side-effect!
Without getting into an argument, the wake turbulence coming off of a heavy jet is enough to put a small civilian private craft completely out of control (if not destroy it by snapping the wings due to the sudden and uncontrolled aerobatics). I got super-lucky in that I knew what was going on and was actively trying to avoid the WT while on final. Just the little taste I got was enough to make me pull out and radio for a go-around.
Anyway, your small prop-driven craft couldn't even keep up with a passenger jet (even if said passenger jet were flying just above stall speed and you were at max power).
Speaking as someone who has piloted a Cessna through the slipstream of a heavy (it was a military transport), I can tell you unequivocally that this is a BAD idea...
Do a little research on wake turbulence then come back and talk to me.
doesn't that sound to you like one big fucking problem?
I'm going to claim that the "Recovery" is in spite of the Administration. With proper stewardship, the "Bubble Collapse" would have been a relatively short correction with a minimum of adverse affect upon the working populace.
Instead, we saw what was forecast as a 6-month slowdown become a 3-year recession. Numbers games were played by the Administration with zero sustainability ("let's give everyone a loan against next year's taxes.. oh, look; consumer spending went up! The economy is saved!"). Greenspan was forced to drop interest rates to the floor in order to keep money being used (in the form of such things as zero-interest car financing and cash-out refinancing of houses purchased during the Boom).
I charge that the Bush Administration has been negligent in letting the domestic economy flounder while it pursues its selfish foreign interests. The "recovery" we see now is in spite of the Administration. The unemployment rate has as much to do with people (like myself) who have fallen off the chart (not collecting unemployment anymore, unable to file a new claim, subsisting on part-time self-employment while looking for another stable job) as people actually employed per population.
Company profits boosting the stock numbers has much to do with layoffs and outsourcing. This is not sustainable.
You are not completely correct...
Ximian has an Exchange add-in here.
...ouch...
+50
You're correct that the tight integration of userspace apps and the juicy bits of the OS is bad bad bad, just asking for wholesale 0wn3r5h1p.. The failure of a userspace app should be limited purely to userspace, a sort of "fail safe" method where if something fails, it fails into a safe mode where everything surrounding it is concerned.
I measure my security by the ability of my computer systems to withstand attack, and the ability to mitigate damage from attacks that may succeed. Microsoft, after 20 years in the business, is JUST NOW starting to realize the importance of that.
By the way, Sasser, like many of the current crop of worms, leaves a backdoor process open (in Sasser's case, an FTP server). The next generation of Sasser's backdoor process could be an IRC bot allowing the master to control your computer for his/her own purposes. That's pretty damned critical, by any standard.
And my "rant" was actually about an irresponsible bit of crap "journalism" that was long on shill and short on salient fact. The writer of that bit of misinformation used the comparison of OSX to the "Windows worm du jour" (the fact that that is even a applicable term should be a big clue to you). I merely attempted to correct his error in comparison.
Man, I haven't read such an obviously antagonistic bit of tripe like that in a long time. Mentioning 5 possible exploits which all require default-off services to be enabled, only one of which could lead to a system-wide compromise under 99% of normal circumstances, then calling "Sasser" trivial in comparison (sorry.. "a blip") is not only completely incorrect but is irresponsible journalism.
The AFS vulnerability, which is the only process in the whole list which runs under root privs, would require someone be running AFS (the Apple equiv of NFS) over the Internet. It has been known for a very long time that NFS is *ONLY* for internal trusted networks. AFS is turned off by default on Macs, and the vast majority of users (certainly almost all home users) would never need to enable it.
The Quicktime vuln would only affect files owned by the executing user. Certainly a pain in the ass, but not fatal or prone to "zombification" of your computer like Sasser.
The Apache vulns, IIRC, are of the DOS type (one is a memory leak condition). Irritating, but not critical, unlike Sasser.
Kieren McCarthy should be ashamed of himself for writing such a disingenuous load of crap as that article. Microsoft's history of disclosure and cooperation with security research firms is ** FAR ** from unblemished.
That, sir, was some funny shit.
Bravo.