Thats true. The conventional bombing raids killed far more and destryed much more property than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki fircrackers(relatively speaking)
Yeah, but when conventional bombing raids stop, people stop dying. The 'firecrackers', as you so blithely describe them, have far more long-lasting effect.
On the one hand it seems silly not to include it, on the other you have sony pushing bluray, DVD might not be much of a feature in 2 or 3 years time.
In 2 or 3 years time, I (like most people) will still have my DVD collection, and I'm pretty sure I'll still be watching them. That's going to be the case regardless of what happens with the next generation of DVD technology.
DVD on a console may not be a big deal in 2006, but DVDs themselves are certainly not going away just yet.
Not only is this old, but it hardly seems fitting for the/. main page. I realize the books are much-loved and all, but let's be serious. Do we really need Slashdot pimping movie trailers? I'm sure a good majority of us hit apple.com/movies often enough anyway. I prefer/. to report on cool tech stuff, not hollywood bullshit.
I'd prefer/. to go without the endless Microsoft-bashing and Apple/Google fanboyism, but one can't always get what one wants. The great thing about the internet is that you get to decide what you click on. There's plenty of other stories on the front page, if you don't like this one, why whinge about it? You could always try submitting something you'd like to see on the main page yourself.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the fourth movie after seeing the trailer. I wasn't very impressed with the first two, but I think the third made up for them and then some.
Also, rendering html in a graphical email client can stillbe troublesome for slower computers.
If a computer has trouble rendering HTML in a mail client, wouldn't it also have the same trouble rendering in a web broswer?
In that case, users who are accustomed to browsing slowly will probably think nothing of their mail client being just as slow.
Which means that your original claim that 83% use Firefox is inaccurate. Mozilla can mean anything from Firefox to the Mozilla 'Seamonkey' Suite to Netscape or anything else based on Gecko, depending on how your logging software interprets User-Agent headers.
It's great to see a site where IE isn't dominant, but Firefox can't take all the credit.
Are you serious?!
It looks like she has flames shooting out her ass and hair growing in all the wrong places.
And the toenails are more than a little creepy.
I get _TONS_ of logs from various ssh-worms roaming around these days.
If it's the same activity I see on my computer, it's an attempt to brute-force the username and password. You can use settings like AllowUsers and PermitRootLogin in/etc/ssh/sshd_config to make SSH more secure, and use iptables with the RECENT match to drop traffic from an offending IP temporarily, after a certain number of connection attempts within a certain period of time.
My router (D-Link DI-704 UP) fakes the Telstra login process and feeds them the MAC address of one of my machines -- in fact, I find that it's more reliable than Telstra's client app.
Now that I think of it... I changed out the NIC in that box about a month ago and Telstra can't tell the difference.;)
The only MAC address Telstra looks at is the one of your cable modem. Have a look at "HFC MAC Address" on http://192.168.100.1/address.html to see it.
Only cable modems that have been registered with Telstra are allowed to connect, but you can use any computer/NIC you like, as long as it's running a login client or connected through a router that does.
Fortunately, D-Link has a firmware upgrade that fools Telstra into thinking that I'm running their braindead Windows-only client.:)
Have a look at BPALogin, if you're looking to use Bigpond cable on a non-Windows box (or even on Windows, if you dislike the "braindead" official client).
26. The dialog for choosing a session similarly includes "Last" without telling me which that was, and "Default System Session" without telling me which that is. It also offers "GNOME" and "Failsafe Gnome"; failsafe behavior, apparently, is achieved partly by not SHOUTING.
Given that he's spent much of the previous 25 nitpickings whinging about capitalization, I can't help but wonder if GNOME was written as 'Gnome', would he complain that it was incorrectly capitalized, being an acronym and all?
To expand on this, a lot of you non-australians should probably know that Telstra Bigpond is the ISP that people choose when they don't know any better.
Not necessarily. Please don't generalise.
Where I live I have the choice of Optus or Bigpond (Telstra) cable internet. Optus prohibits servers in their acceptable use policy, and according to the Whirlpool forums they block certain ports to enforce this.
ADSL is also available, but it has a much lower download speed. We also have the Optus Local phone service running over their cable network, so to get ADSL we'd need to switch back to the (Telstra) copper phone line first.
When I signed up for broadband, Bigpond cable offered free installation and 2 months free access on a 24-month plan. Compared to getting the copper phone line reconnected and changing telcos, having ADSL activated, and whatever upfront fees were involved in getting an ADSL modem, and still only being able to download at a fraction of the speed, cable seemed the much better choice.
I'm not a big fan of Telstra, but right now there's nothing better out there. Hopefully by the time my contract expires my exchange will have ADSL2, and I can consider other options.
Hah! At least that proves that the problem is really serious and not just some silly excuse to take potshots against Windows boxen. They're giving up some revenues, after all!
They'd be giving up a lot more if they didn't fix the problem, as people would start to go to better ISPs. Bigpond's DNS performance has been terrible for at least a month now.
I for one would like to see these measures made permanent. Why should the rest of us suffer for the lazy few who can't look after their computers?
Of course, the problem is that the FF/TB upgrade mechanism is absolutely awful. There's no easy way to roll out the FF/TB duo on a Windows network. Worse, even for stand-alone use, the upgrade process just installs a new copy over top of the old. (redundant add/remove program item, desktop icons, and all!) As a reluctant part-time Windows admin, I can say with pretty good confidence that this is the one thing holding Firefox back from widespread use in businesses.
I should also point out that during the install process, if you choose not to add icons to the Desktop, Start Menu, and/or Quick Launch bar, Firefox setup goes ahead and installs them anyway.
Not a favourable first impression for a project trying to present itself as a better alternative to Internet Explorer.
I could install kde and in fact had it installed until I discovered K3b was the only KDE program I was using and KDE used more memory and diskspace (and update time) than I wanted to commit to a single program's dependencies.
You've already been toldtwice that it only needs kdelibs and kdebase, why do you keep trolling that you need all of KDE just for K3B?
If you don't like KDE, just say so and don't use it, but there's no need to spread misinformation about it.
While the restaurant was clearly stupid for not doing anything even after being warned, I'm not at all convinced that commercial enterprises are (or should be) under an obligation to find and destroy all out of date promotional material. Which is essentially what this judgement amounts to.
Nice straw man. Nobody is saying the restaurant, or anybody else, should have to destroy old promo material.
Anyone who now visits the website (assuming it hasn't been updated), will see old prices, which is equivalent to new promotional material deliberately containing old prices. I say deliberate, because TFA states the restaurant was informed of its oversight. This is false advertising, and this is what they have been fined for.
What if it's a personal website that gives obsolte directions on how to get somewhere?
I'm not a New Zealander, but I doubt that their Fair Trading Act would apply to individuals who aren't running a business. It seems that all you're doing is scaremongering about what is a perfectly reasonable judicial decision.
This is a nerd site, if you don't know an acronym find out what it means.
Actually, Slashdot story summaries would be an ideal place to use ABBR tags. It would leave a concise summary of the articles mentioned, while explaining acronyms to those unfamiliar with a particular subject.
It's a little bit like the United States here.
You can provide for the areas along the coasts where most Australians live, but attempting to expand beyond that means providing more and more infrastructure for not nearly as many people, and therefore much less return on investment.
Having said that, iiNet's new plans still don't beat cable. I'm paying $60/month for "unlimited" (possible traffic shaping after 10Gb--last month I transferred 30Gb without it) data transfer, unlimited downstream (I've gotten up to 8.5Mbit/s at times) and 128kbit/s upstream. For that price with iiNet, it looks like I'll only get 1.5Mbit downstream, and 5Gb peak + 5 Gb off-peak usage. Sure, the upstream is doubled, but that doesn't make up for the reduced downstream and data allowance.
How often do you actually download something at 5.0Mb/s? There are only a handful of servers in the world that would let a public internet connection download at that speed...
Pretty much every few days with Gentoo updates and such. http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/, http://mirror.pacific.net.au/, and http://planetmirror.com/ are all open to the public (well, mirror.aarnet.edu.au is reportedly.au only, I've never had the chance to see for myself), and very fast from my broadband connection here in Melbourne.
For foreign readers, telecommunications in Australia are monopolised by "Telstra", a formerly government owned body with a legal monopoly over the copper wiring throughout the country.
Much as the government would like to dispose itself of Telstra (and it may well happen now that they have their majority in both houses), Telstra is still 51% owned by the Commonwealth.
Ps. What's with the quotes? Telstra is very much a real corporation, and they've had their present name for several years now.
What's it like to be so afraid of the world that you never leave the house?
I have no idea. I'm not so paranoid that I don't ever use binaries from people I don't know; obviously without gcc, glibc, or the Linux kernel I wouldn't get very far. The grandparent AC said 'You should only use the binary version if you trust the person who compiled it.', and I'm simply trying to illustrate that unless you happen to personally trust the very large number of people involved in putting together your operating system of choice, you'll never really know for sure if it's compromised or not.
I am aware of what the other AC said, that Debian uses GPG signing, but again, it just makes a large group of people who trust each other, with no connection to me. There has been at least one incident in the past where unwanted code has made it into Debian, but this hasn't stopped me using it, since as I mentioned before, it's rather unfeasible to attempt to personally verify an entire distribution. I just install it, hope for the best, and move on with my life.
Backported pacakges are insecure. You should only use the binary version if you trust the person who compiled it.
True, but have a look at Ken Thompson's well-known presentation, Reflections on Trusting Trust. Can you trust your own compiler? Unless you can manage to manually write a trusted bootstrap environment to your hard disk, with which you only compile code that you've fully examined yourself, at some stage you'll need to trust that the toolchain you are using is safe, that the applications you are using are safe, and that at in any number of possible places where it could occur, no one has maliciously tampered with your sources or binaries.
I don't know anyone involved in Debian or any other Linux distro. How can I really be sure they aren't bad guys? Why should I trust them any more or less than the people behind Debian Backports?
In any case, you can always download Debian source packages from unstable, and attempt to compile them yourself on a machine running stable.
One possible solution would be to divide Debian into a "server version" and one for the workstations who actually _want_ (or need) to run stuff from testing.
Or you could, you know, actually run stable on your servers and testing on workstations. Debian will let you mix and match, it's called pinning, and if you're not willing to run testing or unstable, Debian Backports provides modern packages compiled for stable.
The system you're describing already exists, you just need to know how to use it.
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Thats true. The conventional bombing raids killed far more and destryed much more property than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki fircrackers(relatively speaking)
Yeah, but when conventional bombing raids stop, people stop dying. The 'firecrackers', as you so blithely describe them, have far more long-lasting effect.
On the one hand it seems silly not to include it, on the other you have sony pushing bluray, DVD might not be much of a feature in 2 or 3 years time.
In 2 or 3 years time, I (like most people) will still have my DVD collection, and I'm pretty sure I'll still be watching them. That's going to be the case regardless of what happens with the next generation of DVD technology.
DVD on a console may not be a big deal in 2006, but DVDs themselves are certainly not going away just yet.
Not only is this old, but it hardly seems fitting for the /. main page. I realize the books are much-loved and all, but let's be serious. Do we really need Slashdot pimping movie trailers? I'm sure a good majority of us hit apple.com/movies often enough anyway. I prefer /. to report on cool tech stuff, not hollywood bullshit.
I'd prefer /. to go without the endless Microsoft-bashing and Apple/Google fanboyism, but one can't always get what one wants. The great thing about the internet is that you get to decide what you click on. There's plenty of other stories on the front page, if you don't like this one, why whinge about it? You could always try submitting something you'd like to see on the main page yourself.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the fourth movie after seeing the trailer. I wasn't very impressed with the first two, but I think the third made up for them and then some.
Also, rendering html in a graphical email client can stillbe troublesome for slower computers.
If a computer has trouble rendering HTML in a mail client, wouldn't it also have the same trouble rendering in a web broswer?
In that case, users who are accustomed to browsing slowly will probably think nothing of their mail client being just as slow.
The breakdown of the top 15 is:
1 82.63% Mozilla
Which means that your original claim that 83% use Firefox is inaccurate. Mozilla can mean anything from Firefox to the Mozilla 'Seamonkey' Suite to Netscape or anything else based on Gecko, depending on how your logging software interprets User-Agent headers.
It's great to see a site where IE isn't dominant, but Firefox can't take all the credit.
Not very strange, is it?
Are you serious?!
It looks like she has flames shooting out her ass and hair growing in all the wrong places.
And the toenails are more than a little creepy.
I get _TONS_ of logs from various ssh-worms roaming around these days.
If it's the same activity I see on my computer, it's an attempt to brute-force the username and password. /etc/ssh/sshd_config to make SSH more secure, and use iptables with the RECENT match to drop traffic from an offending IP temporarily, after a certain number of connection attempts within a certain period of time.
You can use settings like AllowUsers and PermitRootLogin in
Until both sides stop this crap and figure out a way to meet in the middle, this will never end.
Maybe this is what you're looking for?
My router (D-Link DI-704 UP) fakes the Telstra login process and feeds them the MAC address of one of my machines -- in fact, I find that it's more reliable than Telstra's client app.
Now that I think of it... I changed out the NIC in that box about a month ago and Telstra can't tell the difference. ;)
The only MAC address Telstra looks at is the one of your cable modem. Have a look at "HFC MAC Address" on http://192.168.100.1/address.html to see it. Only cable modems that have been registered with Telstra are allowed to connect, but you can use any computer/NIC you like, as long as it's running a login client or connected through a router that does.
Fortunately, D-Link has a firmware upgrade that fools Telstra into thinking that I'm running their braindead Windows-only client. :)
Have a look at BPALogin, if you're looking to use Bigpond cable on a non-Windows box (or even on Windows, if you dislike the "braindead" official client).
26. The dialog for choosing a session similarly includes "Last" without telling me which that was, and "Default System Session" without telling me which that is. It also offers "GNOME" and "Failsafe Gnome"; failsafe behavior, apparently, is achieved partly by not SHOUTING.
Given that he's spent much of the previous 25 nitpickings whinging about capitalization, I can't help but wonder if GNOME was written as 'Gnome', would he complain that it was incorrectly capitalized, being an acronym and all?
To expand on this, a lot of you non-australians should probably know that Telstra Bigpond is the ISP that people choose when they don't know any better.
Not necessarily. Please don't generalise.
Where I live I have the choice of Optus or Bigpond (Telstra) cable internet. Optus prohibits servers in their acceptable use policy, and according to the Whirlpool forums they block certain ports to enforce this.
ADSL is also available, but it has a much lower download speed. We also have the Optus Local phone service running over their cable network, so to get ADSL we'd need to switch back to the (Telstra) copper phone line first.
When I signed up for broadband, Bigpond cable offered free installation and 2 months free access on a 24-month plan. Compared to getting the copper phone line reconnected and changing telcos, having ADSL activated, and whatever upfront fees were involved in getting an ADSL modem, and still only being able to download at a fraction of the speed, cable seemed the much better choice.
I'm not a big fan of Telstra, but right now there's nothing better out there. Hopefully by the time my contract expires my exchange will have ADSL2, and I can consider other options.
Hah! At least that proves that the problem is really serious and not just some silly excuse to take potshots against Windows boxen. They're giving up some revenues, after all!
They'd be giving up a lot more if they didn't fix the problem, as people would start to go to better ISPs. Bigpond's DNS performance has been terrible for at least a month now.
I for one would like to see these measures made permanent. Why should the rest of us suffer for the lazy few who can't look after their computers?
Of course, the problem is that the FF/TB upgrade mechanism is absolutely awful. There's no easy way to roll out the FF/TB duo on a Windows network. Worse, even for stand-alone use, the upgrade process just installs a new copy over top of the old. (redundant add/remove program item, desktop icons, and all!) As a reluctant part-time Windows admin, I can say with pretty good confidence that this is the one thing holding Firefox back from widespread use in businesses.
I should also point out that during the install process, if you choose not to add icons to the Desktop, Start Menu, and/or Quick Launch bar, Firefox setup goes ahead and installs them anyway.
Not a favourable first impression for a project trying to present itself as a better alternative to Internet Explorer.
I could install kde and in fact had it installed until I discovered K3b was the only KDE program I was using and KDE used more memory and diskspace (and update time) than I wanted to commit to a single program's dependencies.
You've already been told twice that it only needs kdelibs and kdebase, why do you keep trolling that you need all of KDE just for K3B?
If you don't like KDE, just say so and don't use it, but there's no need to spread misinformation about it.
While the restaurant was clearly stupid for not doing anything even after being warned, I'm not at all convinced that commercial enterprises are (or should be) under an obligation to find and destroy all out of date promotional material. Which is essentially what this judgement amounts to.
Nice straw man. Nobody is saying the restaurant, or anybody else, should have to destroy old promo material.
Anyone who now visits the website (assuming it hasn't been updated), will see old prices, which is equivalent to new promotional material deliberately containing old prices. I say deliberate, because TFA states the restaurant was informed of its oversight. This is false advertising, and this is what they have been fined for.
What if it's a personal website that gives obsolte directions on how to get somewhere?
I'm not a New Zealander, but I doubt that their Fair Trading Act would apply to individuals who aren't running a business. It seems that all you're doing is scaremongering about what is a perfectly reasonable judicial decision.
launch fever has begun to rise at America's spaceport
There's just the one? The Ansari X Prize wasn't that long ago.
This is a nerd site, if you don't know an acronym find out what it means.
Actually, Slashdot story summaries would be an ideal place to use ABBR tags. It would leave a concise summary of the articles mentioned, while explaining acronyms to those unfamiliar with a particular subject.
It's a little bit like the United States here. You can provide for the areas along the coasts where most Australians live, but attempting to expand beyond that means providing more and more infrastructure for not nearly as many people, and therefore much less return on investment.
Having said that, iiNet's new plans still don't beat cable. I'm paying $60/month for "unlimited" (possible traffic shaping after 10Gb--last month I transferred 30Gb without it) data transfer, unlimited downstream (I've gotten up to 8.5Mbit/s at times) and 128kbit/s upstream.
For that price with iiNet, it looks like I'll only get 1.5Mbit downstream, and 5Gb peak + 5 Gb off-peak usage. Sure, the upstream is doubled, but that doesn't make up for the reduced downstream and data allowance.
How often do you actually download something at 5.0Mb/s? There are only a handful of servers in the world that would let a public internet connection download at that speed...
Pretty much every few days with Gentoo updates and such. http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/, http://mirror.pacific.net.au/, and http://planetmirror.com/ are all open to the public (well, mirror.aarnet.edu.au is reportedly .au only, I've never had the chance to see for myself), and very fast from my broadband connection here in Melbourne.
For foreign readers, telecommunications in Australia are monopolised by "Telstra", a formerly government owned body with a legal monopoly over the copper wiring throughout the country.
Much as the government would like to dispose itself of Telstra (and it may well happen now that they have their majority in both houses), Telstra is still 51% owned by the Commonwealth.
Ps. What's with the quotes? Telstra is very much a real corporation, and they've had their present name for several years now.
What's it like to be so afraid of the world that you never leave the house?
I have no idea. I'm not so paranoid that I don't ever use binaries from people I don't know; obviously without gcc, glibc, or the Linux kernel I wouldn't get very far. The grandparent AC said 'You should only use the binary version if you trust the person who compiled it.', and I'm simply trying to illustrate that unless you happen to personally trust the very large number of people involved in putting together your operating system of choice, you'll never really know for sure if it's compromised or not.
I am aware of what the other AC said, that Debian uses GPG signing, but again, it just makes a large group of people who trust each other, with no connection to me. There has been at least one incident in the past where unwanted code has made it into Debian, but this hasn't stopped me using it, since as I mentioned before, it's rather unfeasible to attempt to personally verify an entire distribution. I just install it, hope for the best, and move on with my life.
Backported pacakges are insecure. You should only use the binary version if you trust the person who compiled it.
True, but have a look at Ken Thompson's well-known presentation, Reflections on Trusting Trust. Can you trust your own compiler? Unless you can manage to manually write a trusted bootstrap environment to your hard disk, with which you only compile code that you've fully examined yourself, at some stage you'll need to trust that the toolchain you are using is safe, that the applications you are using are safe, and that at in any number of possible places where it could occur, no one has maliciously tampered with your sources or binaries.
I don't know anyone involved in Debian or any other Linux distro. How can I really be sure they aren't bad guys? Why should I trust them any more or less than the people behind Debian Backports?
In any case, you can always download Debian source packages from unstable, and attempt to compile them yourself on a machine running stable.
Sarge seems to be lagging because they wanted to include gnome 2.8
Gnome 2.8 is now in testing, according to the last release update. The main delay is the security update infrastructure for testing.
Security updates are done ASAP on unstable too, so it's also an option if you don't want to wait for security updates to migrate into testing.
One possible solution would be to divide Debian into a "server version" and one for the workstations who actually _want_ (or need) to run stuff from testing.
Or you could, you know, actually run stable on your servers and testing on workstations. Debian will let you mix and match, it's called pinning, and if you're not willing to run testing or unstable, Debian Backports provides modern packages compiled for stable.
The system you're describing already exists, you just need to know how to use it.