Does that mean my receipt can be used to prove to others who I voted for? I hope not, as that would open the system up to external influences... as in coercion or bribery.
I dare you to config a cisco router or switch with your USB port.
I happen to use a mac powerbook usb port to connect to my Cisco switches all the time.... Of course, I had to get a USB to Serial adapter, but it works...
URU online* was just killed (laggy, unscalable design), SWG is trying to pull back all those who tried it and quit (great engine, no content), and I bailed FFIX (great content, poor user interface).
Getting it out the door in a non-playable state is worse than getting it out late. Players will put up with some level of problems when a new on-line game is released. However, it there is not drastic improvement in the first month, they are gone for good.
Harvest started out shaky, but there has been so many positive changes that many are still hanging on.
The real problem is lack of communication with the customer base. Talk to us and we are very forgiving. Lie to us and we'll tell the world. (Or as least/.:)
* This one was wierd - They released the game CD's while the on-line version was still in Beta! Only, they never called it a Beta, the called it a "Prelude"! 30 player limit per server, expanded to 35! Would that be called a MicroMulti-Player Online Game?
I am not a fan of MicroSoft, but I am a fan of being truthful. The phrasing used in the announcement would have been flagged -1 TROLL or -1 FLAMEBAIT if I was moderating.
MicroSoft's sponsoring of something like this is not something that we should condemn or flame. Sounds like it is the people at/. who operate the 'Ministry of Truth'.
I'm disappointed that everyone is focusing on the FUD related to the money factor and ignoring the other items in the article, such as the "FAX back" and barcoding schemes. Do you think they may be valuable?
The one positive I see for this tool is that the
host would be invisible to most scanning tools as all ports are closed until the correct port sequence is sent... On the other hand, the fact that the port stays open until another port scan sequence is sent leads me to suspect that a dropped connection could leave it fully exposed anyway. So, is it worth the time and effort? I suspect not.
That user fall under the 'high cost of maintenance' category. Unfortunately, they see to exist everywhere! Education has nothing to do with it. Some of my highest costing users were engineers who were always 'helping'....
Needless to say, I will not test or recommend the product distributed by a company that will register the domain of a open software competitor and redirect it to their site. That just does not site right with me.
For instance, the first-seen SCSI device will remain as device sda, using the serial number of the device as an identifier regardless of the order in which it's found during a later boot.
Sweet! This was my one pet peeve when using Linux on a production server, such as a tape backup systems.
Well, in 1985 people assigned to the NAS project at NASA's Ames research center received their e-mail at user@nas.nasa.gov and people assigned to Ames Research center were found at user@arc.nasa.gov.
I used to hang out on a BBS system around
1992 that had e-mail addresses in the form of
user@host.city.state.us... Is that enough levels
of subdomaining for you?
Master and Commander is a sleeper of a movie. My son and I went to see it on a lark and were blown away by it... I have always loved sailing ship books and movies -- and have not seen one done as well as this one.
RotK is definately number one on my list, but Master and Commander is a close number two.
[Of Note: There was NO love interest at all! Doesn't that break some unwritten rule of Hollywood?]
Are you people really getting so much spam every day that the "delete" button just doesn't do it for you?
SPAMASSASSIN flags close to 1000 e-mail messages PER DAY as spam for the four e-mail addresses that I use. Unfortunately, two of those are 'well known' support addressess for some web sites I maintain. I've had to scan through those flagged messages looking for support requests from users, only to give it up as a lost cause.
Bottomline; if a user sends in a support request that, because of a false positive, gets flagged as spam, they will not get an answer.
Running the 'd' key over 1000 spam messages per day is not what I consider to be a productive use of my time.
The author must be new to the internet. If you go back to the good old days, for example when Yahoo used to be at yahoo.stanford.edu, there were no banner ads. Guess what, the internet was free then.
And who, do you think, paided for Yahoo's servers/bandwith? Hmmmm.... TANSTAAFL
[...]the first thing one should do with a major-brand laptop or desktop is wipe it clean and reinstall an operating system from scratch.
Unfortunately, the standard windows distribution CDs are often missing the needed drivers for your laptop.
If you want to do this, first got to the vendor support site and download all of the drivers, placed them on a CD and then reformat your hard disk.
I for one would love to be able to vote from the comfort of my home/work/cafe without having to wait in lines
And, of course, you don't have to worry about someone in power monitoring the way you vote at your home/work/cafe...
One of the nice things about polling places is the effort the staff goes through to prevent "voting by intimidation". Those protections are not available at your home/work/cafe.
Actually, when I am asked to retire a system, it is my job to "snoop through the files" and insure nothing of value is lost, prior to scrubbing the disk drives.
So, failure to snoop can also be grounds for dismissal.
If I was confronted with something equivalent to this, obviously contrived, situation, I would scrub the drives, without comment, and move on. The only time I would report something is if it would impact on the corporation. For example. correspondance related to misuse of corporate IP would be reported immediately.
md5 checksums are nice but if I was going to put a trojan in to something, I'd probably rebuild the md5sum too.
A simple solution would be to place the md5sum somewhere different from the source file, like embedded in the web page at the primary site. Of course, adding a gpg sig with instructions on how to test it would be better.
Scanning the B&N shelves, there are always books that I think I might enjoy, but they are numbers two and up in a series... with number one missing from the self. Givin that one in the series is unavailable, I won't normally buy any of them.
On the other hand, if the missing ones happen to be on a CD in the back of one of them.... I might jump in.
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Does that mean my receipt can be used to prove to others who I voted for? I hope not, as that would open the system up to external influences... as in coercion or bribery.
You are correct, I meant FFXI, not FFIX...
I've been told that the interface is very usable on a console. However, since I've never been a console player, that didn't help.
The real reason I dropped FFXI was the inability to play solo/casual when you hit around level 15.
URU online* was just killed (laggy, unscalable design), SWG is trying to pull back all those who tried it and quit (great engine, no content), and I bailed FFIX (great content, poor user interface).
/. :)
Getting it out the door in a non-playable state is worse than getting it out late. Players will put up with some level of problems when a new on-line game is released. However, it there is not drastic improvement in the first month, they are gone for good.
Harvest started out shaky, but there has been so many positive changes that many are still hanging on.
The real problem is lack of communication with the customer base. Talk to us and we are very forgiving. Lie to us and we'll tell the world. (Or as least
* This one was wierd - They released the game CD's while the on-line version was still in Beta! Only, they never called it a Beta, the called it a "Prelude"! 30 player limit per server, expanded to 35! Would that be called a MicroMulti-Player Online Game?
I agree 100%
/. who operate the 'Ministry of Truth'.
I am not a fan of MicroSoft, but I am a fan of being truthful. The phrasing used in the announcement would have been flagged -1 TROLL or -1 FLAMEBAIT if I was moderating.
MicroSoft's sponsoring of something like this is not something that we should condemn or flame. Sounds like it is the people at
I'm disappointed that everyone is focusing on the FUD related to the money factor and ignoring the other items in the article, such as the "FAX back" and barcoding schemes. Do you think they may be valuable?
The one positive I see for this tool is that the host would be invisible to most scanning tools as all ports are closed until the correct port sequence is sent... On the other hand, the fact that the port stays open until another port scan sequence is sent leads me to suspect that a dropped connection could leave it fully exposed anyway. So, is it worth the time and effort? I suspect not.
That user fall under the 'high cost of maintenance' category. Unfortunately, they see to exist everywhere! Education has nothing to do with it. Some of my highest costing users were engineers who were always 'helping'....
Warning - If you go to www.spybot.com, you won't find Spybot S&D, you'll find a competitor's web site!
The correct site is: http://www.safer-networking.org/
Needless to say, I will not test or recommend the product distributed by a company that will register the domain of a open software competitor and redirect it to their site. That just does not site right with me.
Sakshale
Nicely written presentation, but completely off-topic.... Maybe you need to install spyware on nerd computers to verify your suppositions!
There - Now we are back on topic....
Sweet! This was my one pet peeve when using Linux on a production server, such as a tape backup systems.
Well, in 1985 people assigned to the NAS project at NASA's Ames research center received their e-mail at user@nas.nasa.gov and people assigned to Ames Research center were found at user@arc.nasa.gov.
... Is that enough levels
of subdomaining for you?
I used to hang out on a BBS system around 1992 that had e-mail addresses in the form of user@host.city.state.us
Master and Commander is a sleeper of a movie. My son and I went to see it on a lark and were blown away by it... I have always loved sailing ship books and movies -- and have not seen one done as well as this one. RotK is definately number one on my list, but Master and Commander is a close number two.
[Of Note: There was NO love interest at all! Doesn't that break some unwritten rule of Hollywood?]
SPAMASSASSIN flags close to 1000 e-mail messages PER DAY as spam for the four e-mail addresses that I use. Unfortunately, two of those are 'well known' support addressess for some web sites I maintain. I've had to scan through those flagged messages looking for support requests from users, only to give it up as a lost cause.
Bottomline; if a user sends in a support request that, because of a false positive, gets flagged as spam, they will not get an answer.
Running the 'd' key over 1000 spam messages per day is not what I consider to be a productive use of my time.
Sakshale
And, of course, you don't have to worry about someone in power monitoring the way you vote at your home/work/cafe...
One of the nice things about polling places is the effort the staff goes through to prevent "voting by intimidation". Those protections are not available at your home/work/cafe.
Actually, when I am asked to retire a system, it is my job to "snoop through the files" and insure nothing of value is lost, prior to scrubbing the disk drives. So, failure to snoop can also be grounds for dismissal.
If I was confronted with something equivalent to this, obviously contrived, situation, I would scrub the drives, without comment, and move on. The only time I would report something is if it would impact on the corporation. For example. correspondance related to misuse of corporate IP would be reported immediately.
Sakshale
A simple solution would be to place the md5sum somewhere different from the source file, like embedded in the web page at the primary site. Of course, adding a gpg sig with instructions on how to test it would be better.
Sakshale
Scanning the B&N shelves, there are always books that I think I might enjoy, but they are numbers two and up in a series... with number one missing from the self. Givin that one in the series is unavailable, I won't normally buy any of them. On the other hand, if the missing ones happen to be on a CD in the back of one of them.... I might jump in.