...can see that you're making connections to ports x and y before connecting to port z.
Rats. Why I can't I see it, then? Damn it, you make it sound so easy. Come one tell me, what else do I need? I wouldn't really have to be on the same subnet would I? Or owning me a few switches or routers on the network path?
security through obscurity works. I won't tell you how...
If nothing else, use a spellchecker. It makes you about twice as credible in one simple step.
Hmmm...thee original (tiny, insignificant, who the hell is thee idiot who picks up on things like this) mistake was two right "your" instead of "you're" and of coarse thee spell chequer is not going too help yew with that.
Yes. In order to secure your machine it will be necessary to rip the network cable out of the wall. Do not attempt to merely grip the RJ-45 connector and slip it out of the socket without using a massive ammount of force. Me, I recommend setting fire to the network cable first. It is imperative that the network connection is damaged beyond repair when performing these security measures...
As for retaining miles, ALL the road markings are in miles and MPH...
Er, I beg to differ. UK Motorways have "mile"-posts along the side of either carriageway. OK I say milepost but they appear every 100m along the road and they are marked in a kilometre notation. Obviously the emergency authorities and construction crews use this system to identify specific stretches of road.
I use the posts to calibrate the tachometer - in fact, good geek credentials require me to be concerned that the instrumentation in a car in which I drive may not be reading accurately. And the various mental arithmetics required to convert seconds per post to MPH are most welcome on a long journey. That's when I am not playing the "box" game, but that's another, er, post...
and bullshit questions like "what is your greatest weakness".
Uh huh. I agree too...it's the same problem as the canned cover letter, but on the employer's side - these are the canned interview questions.
I was interviewed in 1999 for a freelance position with a small agency. Things were going well and I thought the interviewer cool, the office gorgeous ('99 nu-media money natch) and the coffee drinkable. Then he asks me, "So where do you see yourself in 5 years time?".
I didn't even answer that. I just stared at him in disbelief and scorn until he asked another question. He knew he was a cunt to ask that.
I can't prove it, but I have a feeling that Singapore will become much like the US soutwest. My sister there tells me that her kids are learning Spanish simply because half their friends speak it.
Hahaha
I very much doubt you could prove that...I worked out of Singapore for a couple of years and I can tell you Spanish would be of no use to you there. There are 3 main languages used there: Chinese, Bahasa (Malay/Indonesian) and English. No Spanish. And even if there was, the place is not ever ever going to look like the US Southwest. It takes an hour to cross the entire country east to west (ok not at rush hour...). It looks like...a city.
>> all of the IT department at my company (50-80 people)
Oooh it must strike horror into your worker souls to see those numbers. How come the level of staff is so uncertain? And do you expect to gain or lose 30 people in between now and the dinner? Or will the numbers actually fluctuate during the dinner, like in some impish game of chess played by those senior board fellas in their tuxedos? I am worried.
Face it. The "www" subdomain notation is a relic. It comes from a lumbering nerdish approach to system administration, a poor first understanding of the functionality of the DNS. The principle domain name should have an A record and that's where you find the webserver. Just as it has an MX record and that's where you find the mailserver. We don't specify a "mail" subdomain to send mail...so we shouldn't specify the "www" to hit the webserver.
Sure set up the www name too - sadly, you have to... but redirect it straight back to the principle domain on the webserver. And while we are at it, we should change it to "web". WWW is a childish name and infuriating abbreviation. Drop that too, say I.
Everytime I see a URL painted on the side of a truck or printed in a newspaper with all those miles of redundant characters - yeah drop the "http://" too - i shudder. I cringe. It's so so uncool.
Hey that sounds really handy! Yeah, I want to organise the blizzard of email into a tree structure by thread! That would be really neat.
Hey! How come my current mail client can't do that? Shit, now I am going to have to start using MicrobeSoot LookOut to read mail coz i really need this cool new feature. And I thought Mozilla was the beeez-niss. Damn.
What?
...
Oh Mozilla can do that too. Oh. I never saw that before. "View by thread". Kewl!
>>> Subsequent research into phobias has been somewhat embarrassing at times, though for very different reasons: We now know that you cannot teach pigs to be afraid of snakes...
How fantastic. Shit I just love the way human knowledge expands. And probably I don't even see the true knowledge in it. But what a branch of research to be in. Too many questions. Chucking snakes in to the pigpen to see what happens.
>The fact is I think we haven't seen anything yet, and the Internet boom was just the first and weakest wave of what is yet to come.
So the fact is that you _think_. Not what you think _about_. And the 'fact' you are thinking is cast in the future, so won't be a (real) fact until it does, in fact (clue), come to pass. At this stage it is better classed as a premonition...
Furthermore, your 'fact' discounts all waves that came before this wave. What you experienced was just another wave. A big one for sure, but just a wave...
My advice sailor: enjoy the ride and don't think so much about the wave height. Think about your boat instead.
That's an amazing comment. I have never really considered the paedophilia from the context of the paedophile but of course they have rights(*) too and it isn't the thoughts (hey right: my thoughts are still mine, right? I can think what i like, right?) but the actions that make up the crime. OK, intent to commit a crime, but if I walk along the street and think a thought, anything controversial and no-one hears it, it's just in my mind, then it's not a crime. ah shit, IANAL. I don't know. I just don't like to hurt people and that's the field that swings my compass needle. Other then that, I am a weirdo and you wouldn't always want to be in my head...(I don't always like being there myself, so god help ya).
(*) not to realise their desires on other people, but to HAVE that condition and to control it and to be respected for doing so.
Fine. Earlier today I caught some asshole trying to run his spam through my mail server
Hmmm, you make it sound like you caught him in the act stealing apples from your garden. I assume you mean you found evidence in a log file. And I assume you mean a gender-neutral version of 'he' - because you didn't actually 'catch' anybody and so we can't be sure of the gender either.
The headers also showed him forging email addresses in my own domain name.
Hmmm. That's the next thing I'd try when the 'FROM:' part of the SMTP protocol doesn't accept a mail from any old name. SOP. I hope that doesn't work either on your mail server. Spam relies on open relays on the 'net and I don't understand why anyone would run an open SMTP relay. Your server should respond only to a restricted set of IP locations only. Nothing else is acceptable. If you are using your SMTP server to handle your outgoing mails rather than the ISP you connect with because you can't be bothered to change SMTP server settings when you connnect with different ISPs, that's not very cool. Find a different solution.
He doesn't care that his actions will result in me getting bounce messages, angry responses, and possibly even being blacklisted.
If you are running an open relay on the 'net you deserve to be blacklisted, in fact you should be blacklisted ASAP. If you aren't, you shouldn't be worried. Just stay away from your various server log files if you find they raise your bile so badly.
Hell, that's his PLAN!
No it isn't. That would remove the juicy open relay. When you get blacklisted, the relay's gone. That doesn't help the spammer. Also: it isn't _her_ plan either...
As it was explained to me recently, the problem with a TIA system is the problem of false positives....let's say:
population : 250,000,000
TIA is 99% likely to match a "bad guy"
lets assume there are 1000 bad guys in the population (ok lets say "really really bad guys" then)
the system finds 99%of them : 990 positive profiles
But let's say the TIA is 0.1% likely to falsely finger someone:
the system produces 250,000 false positives...
So now you have 990 + 250,000 = 250,990 profiles to examine and in fact, only 0.25% of them are geniuine. The rest get their doors kicked in after midnight as the suede-denim secret police blithely take the algorithm to its logical conclusion.
Just want to point out a little typo in the domain name given there for ARIN.
ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is at http://arin.net/, not the.com domain given above. Drop the IP address you want to find in the "search whois" search box at top-right of the page.
Note: I subscribe to the "death of the triple w". It isn't needed and it's horrible to pronounce and it adds up to an awful lot of wasted typing and space. So where do i sign up?
The server can run both modules, your php installations would have to be installed separately in their own locations of course, and your PHPv3 sites identified by a.php3 extension,.php4 or.php (or anything else too). Keeping to a single php version within each would help keep httpd.conf clean, too.
Backward compatibility, too, has never been a problem in my experience. From 3 to 4 there was only ever register_globals to think about, although I generally take the time to convert old code to check-in all the HTTP variables - it's a good opportunity to stocktake on variable usage within scripts and is and easy site-wide function. Quick fix: turn on register_globals.
Modern php looks ugly with variables like $_POST['mybutt'] so the clean method has to be to write your own registerV() function and pass it a list of the variables expected to make them available for the page. And you can wrap up extra input checking routines at this point too as well as cookie/session management routines.
Also: hold down control as you hit enter: opens the search results page in a new tab. (This works for URL's typed in to the address box too).
And in preferences: set "open new tab in background" (off the top of me head...), to let the search page open up while you are still reading off a different tab.
I can really relate to that. It's the achilles heel in on-the-road code plans, unfortunately, but that's not quite your problem. I for one still can't quite go totally digital for information look-up needs, although increasingly i do use web resources. No matter, it's not desirable to work without decent paper manuals, you just can't beat their random-access times and scannability.
That said, my home office library, currently used only for the odd evening session, is WAY WAY better then the junk on the shelves here in the office. I often yearn for it mid-way through a toughie, frustratingly picturing the page on the manual i need but no way to connect to the info therein.
Advantages for my employer:
* Cost savings
* Office space savings
Yeah OK sounds good to the ployer but don't do yourself out here. If you start to work full time from home then you have to acknowledge the costs that you will incur. Your employer should recognise the cost benefit to them and transfer some to you to cover your overheads. And you should book your costs accordingly for tax purposes - heating, rent, equipment, coffee, consult your local tax inspector...
Yes it would be nice, and what's more - you can. There is a way you can register your displeasure with timothy, he the "author" of this article. But you'd do well to note that it was filed under "funny" - like "It's funny. Laugh."...
...so you can decide to exclude timothy in your user preferences: [preferences>homepage] to find it.
and if you don't get the joke, then maybe you should....i might.
I do...I buy in. In the course of my working day, I might open - and leave open - 10 or more browser windows. As a windows (NT) user, if I opened each of these in a separate window, my task bar at the bottom becomes unusable, as they have to shrink to accomodate all the open tasks. So having my entire days worth of saved browser windows all neatly bundled up as tabs within Moz or Opera is very tidy.
At a slight tangent, it's always bothered me that I can't reorganise the task bar tabs, it would be great to be able to move them around to change the order they are in. I know that XP has improved the situation somewhat, but still not enough to satisfy my power-user hunger.
Slashdot Mirror
Er, ok. I got one. I like Ethereal.
Hmm, ok, I do now...thanks to this thread.
Rats. Why I can't I see it, then? Damn it, you make it sound so easy. Come one tell me, what else do I need? I wouldn't really have to be on the same subnet would I? Or owning me a few switches or routers on the network path?
security through obscurity works. I won't tell you how...
I hope your foot does not cause you undue trouble and heals quickly. I know it is a particularily nasty form of self-injury, hence my concern.
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grammar is spelt grammar
Funny sig, wasn't it? Me, I came for the tech chat, i stay for the sigs.
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this is not funny
Hmmm...thee original (tiny, insignificant, who the hell is thee idiot who picks up on things like this) mistake was two right "your" instead of "you're" and of coarse thee spell chequer is not going too help yew with that.
Yes. In order to secure your machine it will be necessary to rip the network cable out of the wall. Do not attempt to merely grip the RJ-45 connector and slip it out of the socket without using a massive ammount of force. Me, I recommend setting fire to the network cable first. It is imperative that the network connection is damaged beyond repair when performing these security measures...
Er, I beg to differ. UK Motorways have "mile"-posts along the side of either carriageway. OK I say milepost but they appear every 100m along the road and they are marked in a kilometre notation. Obviously the emergency authorities and construction crews use this system to identify specific stretches of road.
I use the posts to calibrate the tachometer - in fact, good geek credentials require me to be concerned that the instrumentation in a car in which I drive may not be reading accurately. And the various mental arithmetics required to convert seconds per post to MPH are most welcome on a long journey. That's when I am not playing the "box" game, but that's another, er, post...
Uh huh. I agree too...it's the same problem as the canned cover letter, but on the employer's side - these are the canned interview questions.
I was interviewed in 1999 for a freelance position with a small agency. Things were going well and I thought the interviewer cool, the office gorgeous ('99 nu-media money natch) and the coffee drinkable. Then he asks me, "So where do you see yourself in 5 years time?".
I didn't even answer that. I just stared at him in disbelief and scorn until he asked another question. He knew he was a cunt to ask that.
Got the gig too...
Hahaha
I very much doubt you could prove that...I worked out of Singapore for a couple of years and I can tell you Spanish would be of no use to you there. There are 3 main languages used there: Chinese, Bahasa (Malay/Indonesian) and English. No Spanish. And even if there was, the place is not ever ever going to look like the US Southwest. It takes an hour to cross the entire country east to west (ok not at rush hour...). It looks like...a city.
Oooh it must strike horror into your worker souls to see those numbers. How come the level of staff is so uncertain? And do you expect to gain or lose 30 people in between now and the dinner? Or will the numbers actually fluctuate during the dinner, like in some impish game of chess played by those senior board fellas in their tuxedos? I am worried.
Let's go further than that.
Face it. The "www" subdomain notation is a relic. It comes from a lumbering nerdish approach to system administration, a poor first understanding of the functionality of the DNS. The principle domain name should have an A record and that's where you find the webserver. Just as it has an MX record and that's where you find the mailserver. We don't specify a "mail" subdomain to send mail...so we shouldn't specify the "www" to hit the webserver.
Sure set up the www name too - sadly, you have to... but redirect it straight back to the principle domain on the webserver. And while we are at it, we should change it to "web". WWW is a childish name and infuriating abbreviation. Drop that too, say I.
Everytime I see a URL painted on the side of a truck or printed in a newspaper with all those miles of redundant characters - yeah drop the "http://" too - i shudder. I cringe. It's so so uncool.
Hey! How come my current mail client can't do that? Shit, now I am going to have to start using MicrobeSoot LookOut to read mail coz i really need this cool new feature. And I thought Mozilla was the beeez-niss. Damn.
What?
Oh Mozilla can do that too. Oh. I never saw that before. "View by thread". Kewl!
Hmmm. Who was involved then? Just give me their names, just give me their names...
Everyone...?
If that happens, he'll be able to afford Microsoft to keep him warm in his drafty house...
er...and used by some geeks to indicate units of the adhoc Kelvin scale of temperature?
How fantastic. Shit I just love the way human knowledge expands. And probably I don't even see the true knowledge in it. But what a branch of research to be in. Too many questions. Chucking snakes in to the pigpen to see what happens.
Links please I need to know more
>The fact is I think we haven't seen anything yet, and the Internet boom was just the first and weakest wave of what is yet to come.
So the fact is that you _think_. Not what you think _about_. And the 'fact' you are thinking is cast in the future, so won't be a (real) fact until it does, in fact (clue), come to pass. At this stage it is better classed as a premonition...
Furthermore, your 'fact' discounts all waves that came before this wave. What you experienced was just another wave. A big one for sure, but just a wave...
My advice sailor: enjoy the ride and don't think so much about the wave height. Think about your boat instead.
That's an amazing comment. I have never really considered the paedophilia from the context of the paedophile but of course they have rights(*) too and it isn't the thoughts (hey right: my thoughts are still mine, right? I can think what i like, right?) but the actions that make up the crime. OK, intent to commit a crime, but if I walk along the street and think a thought, anything controversial and no-one hears it, it's just in my mind, then it's not a crime. ah shit, IANAL. I don't know. I just don't like to hurt people and that's the field that swings my compass needle. Other then that, I am a weirdo and you wouldn't always want to be in my head...(I don't always like being there myself, so god help ya). (*) not to realise their desires on other people, but to HAVE that condition and to control it and to be respected for doing so.
Hmmm, you make it sound like you caught him in the act stealing apples from your garden. I assume you mean you found evidence in a log file. And I assume you mean a gender-neutral version of 'he' - because you didn't actually 'catch' anybody and so we can't be sure of the gender either.
The headers also showed him forging email addresses in my own domain name.
Hmmm. That's the next thing I'd try when the 'FROM:' part of the SMTP protocol doesn't accept a mail from any old name. SOP. I hope that doesn't work either on your mail server. Spam relies on open relays on the 'net and I don't understand why anyone would run an open SMTP relay. Your server should respond only to a restricted set of IP locations only. Nothing else is acceptable. If you are using your SMTP server to handle your outgoing mails rather than the ISP you connect with because you can't be bothered to change SMTP server settings when you connnect with different ISPs, that's not very cool. Find a different solution.
He doesn't care that his actions will result in me getting bounce messages, angry responses, and possibly even being blacklisted.
If you are running an open relay on the 'net you deserve to be blacklisted, in fact you should be blacklisted ASAP. If you aren't, you shouldn't be worried. Just stay away from your various server log files if you find they raise your bile so badly.
Hell, that's his PLAN!
No it isn't. That would remove the juicy open relay. When you get blacklisted, the relay's gone. That doesn't help the spammer. Also: it isn't _her_ plan either...
As it was explained to me recently, the problem with a TIA system is the problem of false positives....let's say:
population : 250,000,000
TIA is 99% likely to match a "bad guy"
lets assume there are 1000 bad guys in the population (ok lets say "really really bad guys" then)
the system finds 99%of them : 990 positive profiles
But let's say the TIA is 0.1% likely to falsely finger someone:
the system produces 250,000 false positives...
So now you have 990 + 250,000 = 250,990 profiles to examine and in fact, only 0.25% of them are geniuine. The rest get their doors kicked in after midnight as the suede-denim secret police blithely take the algorithm to its logical conclusion.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is at http://arin.net/, not the .com domain given above. Drop the IP address you want to find in the "search whois" search box at top-right of the page.
Note: I subscribe to the "death of the triple w". It isn't needed and it's horrible to pronounce and it adds up to an awful lot of wasted typing and space. So where do i sign up?
I absolutely agree with that post.
.php3 extension, .php4 or .php (or anything else too). Keeping to a single php version within each would help keep httpd.conf clean, too.
The server can run both modules, your php installations would have to be installed separately in their own locations of course, and your PHPv3 sites identified by a
Backward compatibility, too, has never been a problem in my experience. From 3 to 4 there was only ever register_globals to think about, although I generally take the time to convert old code to check-in all the HTTP variables - it's a good opportunity to stocktake on variable usage within scripts and is and easy site-wide function. Quick fix: turn on register_globals.
Modern php looks ugly with variables like $_POST['mybutt'] so the clean method has to be to write your own registerV() function and pass it a list of the variables expected to make them available for the page. And you can wrap up extra input checking routines at this point too as well as cookie/session management routines.
OK off to install v 5 for a monday giggle.
Me too: i find that feature so so useful!
/.ers knew this already, no doubt!
Also: hold down control as you hit enter: opens the search results page in a new tab. (This works for URL's typed in to the address box too).
And in preferences: set "open new tab in background" (off the top of me head...), to let the search page open up while you are still reading off a different tab.
But ya'all
I can really relate to that. It's the achilles heel in on-the-road code plans, unfortunately, but that's not quite your problem. I for one still can't quite go totally digital for information look-up needs, although increasingly i do use web resources. No matter, it's not desirable to work without decent paper manuals, you just can't beat their random-access times and scannability.
That said, my home office library, currently used only for the odd evening session, is WAY WAY better then the junk on the shelves here in the office. I often yearn for it mid-way through a toughie, frustratingly picturing the page on the manual i need but no way to connect to the info therein.
Advantages for my employer:
* Cost savings
* Office space savings
Yeah OK sounds good to the ployer but don't do yourself out here. If you start to work full time from home then you have to acknowledge the costs that you will incur. Your employer should recognise the cost benefit to them and transfer some to you to cover your overheads. And you should book your costs accordingly for tax purposes - heating, rent, equipment, coffee, consult your local tax inspector...
and if you don't get the joke, then maybe you should....i might.
I do...I buy in. In the course of my working day, I might open - and leave open - 10 or more browser windows. As a windows (NT) user, if I opened each of these in a separate window, my task bar at the bottom becomes unusable, as they have to shrink to accomodate all the open tasks. So having my entire days worth of saved browser windows all neatly bundled up as tabs within Moz or Opera is very tidy.
At a slight tangent, it's always bothered me that I can't reorganise the task bar tabs, it would be great to be able to move them around to change the order they are in. I know that XP has improved the situation somewhat, but still not enough to satisfy my power-user hunger.