Well played. There's no way to argue against the conclusion that any argument would be akin to a crack addiction. Might as well have said Solaris users are the new racists or just gone ahead and invoked Godwin.
...rather than suing companies which pick up its slack. I've tried on-and-off for several years to get support from Oracle on my Solaris machines. I'm even offering to pay for the support contracts which abruptly ended when Sun was bought out. It wouldn't have been such a problem if Oracle hadn't pay-walled the Recommended updates for Solaris. I'm having to move away from the venerable old operating system because of Oracle's neglect.
Took along my TI-99/4A with about 150 cartridges and an MBX system to Christmas with my family. My two nephews, 7 and 13, got neat new electronica, including a Nintendo DS. They spent most of the day on the TI playing "Championship Baseball" and "Frogger," amongst other games in the collection. They really thought the speech recognition of the MBX was cool, though not perfect.
Why not start them with what you started with, and explain to them your evolution? Maybe even demonstrate it if you can: I have my TI, my Commodore 64, and my Amiga which I can show to them. I can even show them early Macs and Ataris (8-bit and ST) like I got to use in school. It believe it's helpful for them to know from where the technology they use today came.
While I lament that the card-swappers of today don't know so much about the chip-swapping I did (though things like the Arduino and BASIC Stamp certainly help,) I am sure that some of my own elders lament that I never knew what it was like to solder a diode into a CPU to create a new instruction.
It was on some show. It was distributed as a game involving getting pink Frisbee-like objects into purple articulating horns which emanated from holes in plane which extended off into the distance. Seems like it might be quite addictive.
Definitely a good read. I thought this right away. As rescuers sift through the rubble of what once was the research lab at Ludwig Maximilian University, they will uncover a journal with the sentence
...over this bullshit? How many times do we have to hammer into managers and security teams alike that this shit is serious? When do we just start replacing ineptitude with people who give a shit?
Are all TV transmitters in England government-run? The problem I see arising from this plan is privately-operated TV stations become a critical infrastructure and eventually fall under government control for integrity and safety purposes. If a TV transmitter shuts down for whatever reason, planned or other-wise, then that part of the air traffic system could fail or operate under reduced capacity. If required for air traffic control, would TV stations then become "too important to fail?"
"Password vaults are likely to become more widely used out of necessity."
A long time ago I memorized my passwords. They started with simple six character passwords to more complex 10 characters. Later as complexity requirements became more disparate between systems, including aging and having to retire otherwise good passwords, I gave up and started saving them, instead.
I use the built-in password saver in Firefox with a master password and FIPS enabled (http://luxsci.com/blog/master-password-encryption-in-firefox-and-thunderbird.html) and with my user profile encrypted by Windows EFS. I use apg (http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/) to generate random passwords as long as 48 characters and with character sets dependent upon site requirements.
To my aggravation many web sites do not allow me to save my password. To mitigate this I have a bookmark button with Javascript code to strip all autocomplete=off from the forms. I get more aggravated with sites which have maximum lengths or do not allow certain special characters. So far as I know, if you hash what you get from the user it should not matter what is used for the password,assuming it meets complexity requirements.
Sure, I could get a third party password utility, but I feel that I should be allowed to use the built-in utilities available to me. While my way does have its weaknesses, and I know not everyone manages passwords much worse, the situation is no less aggravating.
If only I had mod points. I've been using the nightly x64 builds now for a while. I'll echo OP's statement on not easily finding the 64-bit nightly builds. I'm running a lot of 64-bit software on my XP x64 system (will be 7 x64 when I get around to it) simply because I have noticed performance increases in Firefox (with a butt-load of add-ons) and The Gimp in 64-bit. AutoCAD and Revit in x64 run like dreams, too (aside from the standard bugs.) Anyway, I'm disappointed I'll not be seeing more nightly builds. Even though every once in a while I have to go back a date because something got broken the night before, that's the gamble with using beta software. It was also pretty neat to see features folded in before they made it main-stream (though I suppose there's 32-bit builds to do the same?)
Without delving into the technicals presented in above threads on developing in a 64-bit environment, I'll just note that in 2012 (soon to be 2013,) with x64 Windows OS pretty much the standard I see no real reason why we don't have x64 software as the standard. My best guess is once developers drop XP, and maybe Vista support as well, perhaps we'll see more.
I posit that the car analogy is valid for the part of his question in which he denigrates RackSpace for charging for immediate service. In the sense that returning his web site (car) to a usable state (repair service) which would have normally incurred a nominal cost (insurance) but instead he addressed it after the DDoS (wreck) and wanted the mitigation to happen at a lower rate (paying the body shop for next-day service out-of-pocket versus letting the insurance cover it and pay for a rental.)
I like your pick-up on the effects on other customers and the wreck blocking the road. In terms of municipal services, the emergency responders are generally paid for by local taxes but services such as removal, repair of damage to public property, clean-up, and subsequent storage of the vehicle (if necessary) are all often billed to the party at fault.
Well, you got me to respond, AC. The poster answered his own question: RackSpace provides a DDoS mitigation service. But more to your critique of my response, since he took the extra effort to fold a statement into his question I naturally assumed that this might be part of his question and deserved a response. Sure, his primary point was how to deal with a DDoS, but perhaps he should have stuck to that point and not drifted off into a thinly-veiled rant against RackSpace.
If that was tl;dr, then perhaps "your mom" addresses your comment more in-line with your expectations.
So you never bothered with DDoS prevention services for what is apparently a critical company web site, which would allow the provider to work pro-actively on protecting your assets. Then when your assets come under attack you expect your provider will just drop everything and tend to your immediate emergency without additional costs? Sounds like car insurance after the accident, or health insurance after you develop cancer.
It's 2012. DDoS are a real and credible threat today. 10 years ago, perhaps a passing thing, but today... do you not read the news?
Stipulating that your lack of preparedness is not your fault and over-sight, I want to address RackSpace's mitigation fees and perhaps defend your position at least a little. Being that it is 2012 and DDoS are a real and credible threat, depending on the costs of such protection, perhaps RackSpace (or another provider, free market thingie and all) could provide these mitigation services as standard for a bumped-up cost. Perhaps 400% mark-up is a little steep for immediate service when 200-300% might cover the costs of getting someone involved.
Nonetheless, my inclination is to side with RackSpace. When you work proactively, your provider can have technology in place and ready to go so that a DDoS doesn't affect you. But calling in when it's going on: first off, they have to deal with the increase in bandwidth, the abuse of the server, virtual service, or multi-hosted box you occupy and hence affects on other customers, getting someone or a team of someones involved to start the mitigation process and move your incoming traffic to the systems which perform this protection, amongst other issues.
No, you need to bite the bullet on this one and count it as a learning experience. And call your local and/or state authorities and start an investigation, since your costs will most likely be well over the threshold of damages necessary to start such an investigation.
Can't find that in my copies of the Constitution. Just that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Black was very much anti-Catholic and disrespectfully invoked Jefferson for his ruling.
It's not necessarily about "useful" information, but more about turning enough basic information into knowledge and thinking skills for the child to elicit an interest in the subject or thought process at hand. My high school physics class was enormous fun an I learned quite a bit which laid a foundation for my college physics classes. Not that high school prepared me to pass a college physics test, but rather gave me some underlying principles to which I could refer in class with an, "oh yeah, I remember how this works" notion.
Same with chemistry to chemistry, Earth science to atmosphere and geology, social studies to Western civilization, and so on. High school offers a number of electives which may more interest students and put them on a path toward their college degree. But then again, I know of a large number of students, myself included, whose major wound up not reflecting their high school elective curriculum because we changed our minds or found we were more interested in one subject and less in another than we originally thought.
I wanted to be a fireman. Then a train engineer. Then I thought I'd do computer programming. Even though all of those are great interests of mine (I like to write programs that set trains on fire,) I am instead a criminologist who finds that those boring Western civilization and similar classes had some useful information for me. Oh, as did chemistry and physics for the investigative aspect.
I didn't excel at all of my classes, even the ones I found interesting. Sometimes I excelled at classes I didn't like. In any case, at the end of the day I remember a ton of stuff to which I have been exposed and it makes me a more rounded person with better heuristic and critical thinking abilities. Or, if you prefer, I already possessed these innate abilities and the material to which I was exposed helped to better develop them. Much like playing sports did not for me but did for others.
Had I only taken classes in subjects which interested me, there's a likelihood that I wouldn't be where I am today. I feel pretty lucky as I know several older adults who are only now getting exposed to materials in which they truly excel versus a previous career in which they had moderate interests and lack-luster productivity as a result. (I must also admit a tinge of jealousy toward some of the electives offered to kids in high school today: SharePoint administration and design, Cisco networking, network administration, network security, CSS in web design, database management, and the like. Some of these kids graduate high school ready to pass CCNA and MCSE exams.)
As much as our public school system is being shredded by pervasive bureaucracy and unending political intrusion, it still is one of the best venues for a wide-breadth of exposure to subjects and at least semi-competent people to foster learning of those subjects.
The author addresses a number of my points above, rather dismisses them off-hand with exaggerated examples, with the end result of turning high school into "speed dating" for education. High school is four years, grades nine through 12, with each year offering six to seven classes depending upon the school, for a total of 24 to 28 classes. If you consider a baseline each year of a science, English (reading and writing,) and math, that leaves 12 to 16 classes available. These classes may then be used for self-discovery and other requirements, such as two years of a second language, two years of social studies, two years of civics and history, etc. Not to mention the availability of "dual enrollment" allowing advanced students to enroll in college classes while still in high school.
He speaks of "opportunity costs" of one choice over another, but at the same time fails to address what may lead to those decisions. In his example of selling tomatoes versus cucumbers, consider if said grocer chose to only learn about and ultimately sell tomatoes because he was attracted to the red color, dismissing the opportunity to learn about c
The version on AmiNet is a little aged. While the site lists an official Amiga release for OS4, NovaCoder has been releasing for 68k Amigas and we should support his efforts. As well, there's a on official MorphOS port http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/MorphOS
Would anyone have cared if the token was 0xB16BA115? I've heard (and I've done it myself) people refer to well-spec'd out machines as "ballsy." Not exactly professional, but a recognized colloquialism none-the-less.
Maybe it's just time for some people to grow up and not be so offended by little things. Save your outrage for the big stuff.
Notice I said "hardware." I don't have that level access to all of the hardware I run without "rooting" or otherwise hacking the firmware. My Solaris boxes are one thing, and Windows handles time-skew fairly well. But it's "black box" hardware which is different. None my WAPs or routers crashed over the weekend.
Considering how much most of the hardware clocks on the hardware I support drift as it is, a leap second ain't nothing compared to the six-hour ntpdate updates.
You'll probably get a few different answers, but IMO if you want to experience the Amiga gaming platform on a real Amiga machine, you'll want to start with an Amiga 1200. It's AGA (the last generation Amiga video chipset,) 2MB Chip RAM, hard drive capable, and a PCMCIA port. There are a fair number of AGA games which will run on this setup stock. Pair it with an inexpensive 68030 accelerator and you can play older games which require the older chipsets using WHDLoad (http://whdload.de). As well, you can install a CF card on-the-cheap and have a low-power, low-noise hard drive-like system with PLENTY of storage space. (http://alan2.rateliff.us/a1200flash). Mind you, vendors like AmigaKit (http://amigakit.com) have all-in-one packages ready to go.
I encourage you to check out the various Amiga forums, starting with Amiga.org (http://amiga.org) and the English Amiga Board (http://eab.abime.net).
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Well played. There's no way to argue against the conclusion that any argument would be akin to a crack addiction. Might as well have said Solaris users are the new racists or just gone ahead and invoked Godwin.
...rather than suing companies which pick up its slack. I've tried on-and-off for several years to get support from Oracle on my Solaris machines. I'm even offering to pay for the support contracts which abruptly ended when Sun was bought out. It wouldn't have been such a problem if Oracle hadn't pay-walled the Recommended updates for Solaris. I'm having to move away from the venerable old operating system because of Oracle's neglect.
That stench in the air is the SCO disease.
Took along my TI-99/4A with about 150 cartridges and an MBX system to Christmas with my family. My two nephews, 7 and 13, got neat new electronica, including a Nintendo DS. They spent most of the day on the TI playing "Championship Baseball" and "Frogger," amongst other games in the collection. They really thought the speech recognition of the MBX was cool, though not perfect.
Why not start them with what you started with, and explain to them your evolution? Maybe even demonstrate it if you can: I have my TI, my Commodore 64, and my Amiga which I can show to them. I can even show them early Macs and Ataris (8-bit and ST) like I got to use in school. It believe it's helpful for them to know from where the technology they use today came.
While I lament that the card-swappers of today don't know so much about the chip-swapping I did (though things like the Arduino and BASIC Stamp certainly help,) I am sure that some of my own elders lament that I never knew what it was like to solder a diode into a CPU to create a new instruction.
It was on some show. It was distributed as a game involving getting pink Frisbee-like objects into purple articulating horns which emanated from holes in plane which extended off into the distance. Seems like it might be quite addictive.
Other companies wouldn't have to provide Solaris support if Oracle would provide it. Oracle's support sales team is in the witness protection program.
"This is quite different from his infamous 2009 remark"
Maybe that was the event to put his life back on track.
Definitely a good read. I thought this right away. As rescuers sift through the rubble of what once was the research lab at Ludwig Maximilian University, they will uncover a journal with the sentence
"Algernon bit me today."
...over this bullshit? How many times do we have to hammer into managers and security teams alike that this shit is serious? When do we just start replacing ineptitude with people who give a shit?
This addresses part of my question below. Thank you.
Are all TV transmitters in England government-run? The problem I see arising from this plan is privately-operated TV stations become a critical infrastructure and eventually fall under government control for integrity and safety purposes. If a TV transmitter shuts down for whatever reason, planned or other-wise, then that part of the air traffic system could fail or operate under reduced capacity. If required for air traffic control, would TV stations then become "too important to fail?"
*sigh* Guess I have to go RTFA.
"Password vaults are likely to become more widely used out of necessity."
A long time ago I memorized my passwords. They started with simple six character passwords to more complex 10 characters. Later as complexity requirements became more disparate between systems, including aging and having to retire otherwise good passwords, I gave up and started saving them, instead.
I use the built-in password saver in Firefox with a master password and FIPS enabled (http://luxsci.com/blog/master-password-encryption-in-firefox-and-thunderbird.html) and with my user profile encrypted by Windows EFS. I use apg (http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/) to generate random passwords as long as 48 characters and with character sets dependent upon site requirements.
To my aggravation many web sites do not allow me to save my password. To mitigate this I have a bookmark button with Javascript code to strip all autocomplete=off from the forms. I get more aggravated with sites which have maximum lengths or do not allow certain special characters. So far as I know, if you hash what you get from the user it should not matter what is used for the password,assuming it meets complexity requirements.
Sure, I could get a third party password utility, but I feel that I should be allowed to use the built-in utilities available to me. While my way does have its weaknesses, and I know not everyone manages passwords much worse, the situation is no less aggravating.
20.0a1 here. Without actually reading TFA, I wonder if this is the last version.
If only I had mod points. I've been using the nightly x64 builds now for a while. I'll echo OP's statement on not easily finding the 64-bit nightly builds. I'm running a lot of 64-bit software on my XP x64 system (will be 7 x64 when I get around to it) simply because I have noticed performance increases in Firefox (with a butt-load of add-ons) and The Gimp in 64-bit. AutoCAD and Revit in x64 run like dreams, too (aside from the standard bugs.) Anyway, I'm disappointed I'll not be seeing more nightly builds. Even though every once in a while I have to go back a date because something got broken the night before, that's the gamble with using beta software. It was also pretty neat to see features folded in before they made it main-stream (though I suppose there's 32-bit builds to do the same?)
Without delving into the technicals presented in above threads on developing in a 64-bit environment, I'll just note that in 2012 (soon to be 2013,) with x64 Windows OS pretty much the standard I see no real reason why we don't have x64 software as the standard. My best guess is once developers drop XP, and maybe Vista support as well, perhaps we'll see more.
I posit that the car analogy is valid for the part of his question in which he denigrates RackSpace for charging for immediate service. In the sense that returning his web site (car) to a usable state (repair service) which would have normally incurred a nominal cost (insurance) but instead he addressed it after the DDoS (wreck) and wanted the mitigation to happen at a lower rate (paying the body shop for next-day service out-of-pocket versus letting the insurance cover it and pay for a rental.)
I like your pick-up on the effects on other customers and the wreck blocking the road. In terms of municipal services, the emergency responders are generally paid for by local taxes but services such as removal, repair of damage to public property, clean-up, and subsequent storage of the vehicle (if necessary) are all often billed to the party at fault.
Well, you got me to respond, AC. The poster answered his own question: RackSpace provides a DDoS mitigation service. But more to your critique of my response, since he took the extra effort to fold a statement into his question I naturally assumed that this might be part of his question and deserved a response. Sure, his primary point was how to deal with a DDoS, but perhaps he should have stuck to that point and not drifted off into a thinly-veiled rant against RackSpace.
If that was tl;dr, then perhaps "your mom" addresses your comment more in-line with your expectations.
So you never bothered with DDoS prevention services for what is apparently a critical company web site, which would allow the provider to work pro-actively on protecting your assets. Then when your assets come under attack you expect your provider will just drop everything and tend to your immediate emergency without additional costs? Sounds like car insurance after the accident, or health insurance after you develop cancer.
It's 2012. DDoS are a real and credible threat today. 10 years ago, perhaps a passing thing, but today... do you not read the news?
Stipulating that your lack of preparedness is not your fault and over-sight, I want to address RackSpace's mitigation fees and perhaps defend your position at least a little. Being that it is 2012 and DDoS are a real and credible threat, depending on the costs of such protection, perhaps RackSpace (or another provider, free market thingie and all) could provide these mitigation services as standard for a bumped-up cost. Perhaps 400% mark-up is a little steep for immediate service when 200-300% might cover the costs of getting someone involved.
Nonetheless, my inclination is to side with RackSpace. When you work proactively, your provider can have technology in place and ready to go so that a DDoS doesn't affect you. But calling in when it's going on: first off, they have to deal with the increase in bandwidth, the abuse of the server, virtual service, or multi-hosted box you occupy and hence affects on other customers, getting someone or a team of someones involved to start the mitigation process and move your incoming traffic to the systems which perform this protection, amongst other issues.
No, you need to bite the bullet on this one and count it as a learning experience. And call your local and/or state authorities and start an investigation, since your costs will most likely be well over the threshold of damages necessary to start such an investigation.
Can't find that in my copies of the Constitution. Just that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Black was very much anti-Catholic and disrespectfully invoked Jefferson for his ruling.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2006/06/the-mythical-wall-of-separation-how-a-misused-metaphor-changed-church-state-law-policy-and-discourse
No.
It's not necessarily about "useful" information, but more about turning enough basic information into knowledge and thinking skills for the child to elicit an interest in the subject or thought process at hand. My high school physics class was enormous fun an I learned quite a bit which laid a foundation for my college physics classes. Not that high school prepared me to pass a college physics test, but rather gave me some underlying principles to which I could refer in class with an, "oh yeah, I remember how this works" notion.
Same with chemistry to chemistry, Earth science to atmosphere and geology, social studies to Western civilization, and so on. High school offers a number of electives which may more interest students and put them on a path toward their college degree. But then again, I know of a large number of students, myself included, whose major wound up not reflecting their high school elective curriculum because we changed our minds or found we were more interested in one subject and less in another than we originally thought.
I wanted to be a fireman. Then a train engineer. Then I thought I'd do computer programming. Even though all of those are great interests of mine (I like to write programs that set trains on fire,) I am instead a criminologist who finds that those boring Western civilization and similar classes had some useful information for me. Oh, as did chemistry and physics for the investigative aspect.
I didn't excel at all of my classes, even the ones I found interesting. Sometimes I excelled at classes I didn't like. In any case, at the end of the day I remember a ton of stuff to which I have been exposed and it makes me a more rounded person with better heuristic and critical thinking abilities. Or, if you prefer, I already possessed these innate abilities and the material to which I was exposed helped to better develop them. Much like playing sports did not for me but did for others.
Had I only taken classes in subjects which interested me, there's a likelihood that I wouldn't be where I am today. I feel pretty lucky as I know several older adults who are only now getting exposed to materials in which they truly excel versus a previous career in which they had moderate interests and lack-luster productivity as a result. (I must also admit a tinge of jealousy toward some of the electives offered to kids in high school today: SharePoint administration and design, Cisco networking, network administration, network security, CSS in web design, database management, and the like. Some of these kids graduate high school ready to pass CCNA and MCSE exams.)
As much as our public school system is being shredded by pervasive bureaucracy and unending political intrusion, it still is one of the best venues for a wide-breadth of exposure to subjects and at least semi-competent people to foster learning of those subjects.
The author addresses a number of my points above, rather dismisses them off-hand with exaggerated examples, with the end result of turning high school into "speed dating" for education. High school is four years, grades nine through 12, with each year offering six to seven classes depending upon the school, for a total of 24 to 28 classes. If you consider a baseline each year of a science, English (reading and writing,) and math, that leaves 12 to 16 classes available. These classes may then be used for self-discovery and other requirements, such as two years of a second language, two years of social studies, two years of civics and history, etc. Not to mention the availability of "dual enrollment" allowing advanced students to enroll in college classes while still in high school.
He speaks of "opportunity costs" of one choice over another, but at the same time fails to address what may lead to those decisions. In his example of selling tomatoes versus cucumbers, consider if said grocer chose to only learn about and ultimately sell tomatoes because he was attracted to the red color, dismissing the opportunity to learn about c
http://aminet.net/search?query=scummvm&sort=date&ord=DESC
The version on AmiNet is a little aged. While the site lists an official Amiga release for OS4, NovaCoder has been releasing for 68k Amigas and we should support his efforts. As well, there's a on official MorphOS port http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/MorphOS
Pretty neat stuff.
So "boobs" is equivalent to "bitch?" Maybe I'm missing your point?
Would anyone have cared if the token was 0xB16BA115? I've heard (and I've done it myself) people refer to well-spec'd out machines as "ballsy." Not exactly professional, but a recognized colloquialism none-the-less.
Maybe it's just time for some people to grow up and not be so offended by little things. Save your outrage for the big stuff.
Notice I said "hardware." I don't have that level access to all of the hardware I run without "rooting" or otherwise hacking the firmware. My Solaris boxes are one thing, and Windows handles time-skew fairly well. But it's "black box" hardware which is different. None my WAPs or routers crashed over the weekend.
Considering how much most of the hardware clocks on the hardware I support drift as it is, a leap second ain't nothing compared to the six-hour ntpdate updates.
You'll probably get a few different answers, but IMO if you want to experience the Amiga gaming platform on a real Amiga machine, you'll want to start with an Amiga 1200. It's AGA (the last generation Amiga video chipset,) 2MB Chip RAM, hard drive capable, and a PCMCIA port. There are a fair number of AGA games which will run on this setup stock. Pair it with an inexpensive 68030 accelerator and you can play older games which require the older chipsets using WHDLoad (http://whdload.de). As well, you can install a CF card on-the-cheap and have a low-power, low-noise hard drive-like system with PLENTY of storage space. (http://alan2.rateliff.us/a1200flash). Mind you, vendors like AmigaKit (http://amigakit.com) have all-in-one packages ready to go.
I encourage you to check out the various Amiga forums, starting with Amiga.org (http://amiga.org) and the English Amiga Board (http://eab.abime.net).
Good luck and welcome aboard!