All hardware and software should be language locked to English. People need to get with the picture and stop using those other languages because I don't understand them.:-)
You can easily get a 1000 minute per month phone plan on any carrier for less than $100/month. Also, he's a Jew so his family is probably loaded so $100 isn't going to kill him.
Despite only having 2% of the installs, TinyDNS serves 15% of all domains on the internet. Obviousy it is very capable, and has few to no exploits available for it. Why don't more people use TinyDNS if it's so capable?
Because it sucks. I tried to get it working a Linux box, followed the directions exactly step by step and all I ended up with was a DNS server that worked for about 2 minutes then stopped accepting queries and hung. Whether that's the crappy inetd replacement DJB wrote or the DNS server itself I have no idea. I happily went back to BIND and have NO problems. Not to mention DJB's whole arrogant attitude about zone transfers and using scp to copy zones around. WTF?
People figure "gee.... I wanna learn DNS servers", they think BIND. They think "gee.... I wanna learn SMTP servers". They think sendmail.
Naw, Bind 9.x is quite good and I love it. It probably helps that EVERYONE uses it so it's easy to standardize on it's zone file format. As for Sendmail, that's the biggest pile of shit mail system I've ever used and I have never looked back since switching my systems to Postfix. Bind on the other hand is acceptable.
Whereas I (owning one of these boxes) rate the flaw as a combination of 'wide open', 'come and hack me, here I am', and 'criminally stupid'. What the [insert expletive] is the point of the 'turn off remote administration' option, if it doesn't turn off remote administration ??!!
This is why I put my access point behind my OpenBSD firewall. When I turn off remote access on that it's pretty easy to verify via netstat.
SPF is flawed because computer users can't always specify their SMTP gateway when using a closed application (e.g., BlackBoard group learning systems).
SPF isn't flawed, the application is flawed. Put in a trouble ticket to the company that makes BlackBoard group learning systems and tell them they need to add outbound SMTP gateway support. That's a seriously misbehaved application if it just assumes it can send mail directly out. We haven't allowed users to send mail directly out for 12 years.. everyone has to relay through a central mail gateway for logging purposes.
Mod me down all you want nerds, but that's the truth. College is about socializing and adjusting to real life. If you're spending your time writing papers then you're missing out.
512MB of RAM is understandable, 1GB is not necessary. College students should be doing research and writing papers. IE/Moz/etc and a word processor do not require that much RAM.
I disagree. Battlefield 1942 will happily suck up over 450 megabytes of memory so you really need 768MB-1GB of RAM to play it without lagging. As for research... I don't know about CWRU, but where I went to school it was about having fun, meeting new people, drinking and partying. You'd have to be an uber-nerd to friggin spend your college life doing research and writing papers!
You're not going to get more than that, why run expensive fiber when you can run cheapo Cat 5, and put the phones on the unused pairs as well? The math doesn't work here.
Unless they're using Voice over IP phones. Still, gigabit to the desktop in a dorm room is ridiculous. I don't even have that at work.
Perhaps McAfee is secretly in league with spammers, so that this patent will help eliminate competition, increasing the overall number of unwanted messages delivered. Thus McAfee benefits, as do spammers whose audience is increased.
McAfee is also one of the leading virus creation operations in the entire world. The Backdraft law applies to situations like this. If you've got a crazy arsonist burning down buildings, he's probably a fireman. If you've got tons of viruses being introduced into the wild, it's probably coming from an anti-virus company whose entire life depends on them existing and being a threat.
It's definitely not hacked-together. It's simple, and therefore easy to maintain (if you've got a clue how a GNU system works).
My GNU system works wonderfully and currently it's running Debian Sid. What I'm saying is that people that run Slackware generally love to compile shit from scratch and install it and you get libraries and binaries all over the place on the system. I can't even imagine how you cleanly upgrade glibc versions on slackware without having 5 different versions hanging around.
Slackware's a great distro for the hacker set to pull a custom machine together with.
Slackware was fine when there was nothing else available, but unless it's changed a lot (something tells me it hasn't), it's definitely a hacked-together system. I would NEVER recommend anyone, including my worst enemy, use Slackware in a production environment. Package management and dependency controls used to be non-existent, unless you call a tgz tarball a package. The thing I remember most about Slackware is having to reinstall every 6 months or so because my system go so fucked up and out of whack with dependency hell that when I wanted to install something new it was easier to just wipe and reload. I NEVER have that problem with Red Hat or Debian anymore.
Seriously though, why do you assume she'd be interested in programming? I've been using computer almost all my life and I absolutely hate programming. Teach her how to use Access and let her develop a database to track something at home. Show her how to use instant messaging to hang out in chat rooms and pick up younger men, etc. Maybe she'd be interested in playing around with Photoshop with a digital camera or video editing with a camcorder. Don't pigeon-hole her into programming as the next evolutionary step she needs to make after learning e-mail! That's just crazy.
The number one reason I hate programming is that I don't have any reason to program anything. 99% of the time things I would want to write are already on freshmeat so why reinvent the wheel? Besides, I don't have the patience for coding outside a classroom environment where I have a very strict set of instructions on what the program should do and what mechanisms you need to use to implement it.
What I would like to know is, why was this marked as troll?
There are many, many liberals on Slashdot and they've been taught to believe guns can only be used by bad people to kill good people. I see it everyday and it's quite funny to see people who on one hand will demand that we defend their right to the first ammendment, yet would love to eliminate the second. It's very strange. I guess the liberal slant comes with the territory though so if you want to read "geek" news then you have to be stereotyped as a tree-hugging hippie as well.
I don't see any terrorists coming into my house to kidnap me do you? They know Americans are armed so they can only attack places that ban guns (i.e. Washington, D.C., New York, and airplanes). Coincidence? NO!
Getting a gun in London is hardly a problem, provided you don't mind breaking the law. Of course if you shoot a mugger, you'd better be ready to go to jail for years...
Sucks to be British then I guess. The mugger has no such reservations against using deadly weapons against you. I'm sure you'll feel safe knowing your government prevents you from defending yourself while the guy shoots you in the gut.
Amen. An armed populace is a secure populace. Either that or dress like a homeless man and push around your laptop, iPod, cellphone, etc. in a shopping cart filled with rubbish. It's unlikely a mugger will bother you, but you may have to fight a turf war with other homeless people. Chances are you have a Leatherman on you though since you're a geek so stab them in the throat and run away as fast as you can push your shopping cart.
What do the rest of us do in the real world? I drive a car and all my possessions are secure in the car with a gun in the glove compartment (and CCW permit). No worries about muggers here.
I don't know, but I want to believe that any phone that plugs into AC uses AC power to make the phone actually ring. Of course if you have five rotary phones in your house this may not matter, but I kinda can't imagine all five phones needing the meager phone lines to ring.
If you have 5 rotary phones in your house I doubt you are going to have Internet access, much less VoIP.:-)
You're one of those people that brings your cell phone to work with the ringer volume cranked all the way up, and then leaves your phone on your desk while you go to lunch, aren't you?
Yep. Except I take it with me if I go to lunch outside of the building. My cell phone is for my convenience to make outgoing calls and for emergencies. I use less than 100 minutes a month on average so it's rather bulky to carry with me everywhere during the day in my building. Besides, only 3 people have the phone number and they know to just call my work phone during the day or my home phone at night.
No, it isn't that hard. In fact, when I was investigating Vonage I noticed they already sell a device that does QoS and sits between your cable/dsl modem and your internal router so it can control traffic. VoIP really requires QoS for reliable connectivity.
I don't see how people can really do that though. In my house I have 5 phones in various rooms and on various floors so if it rings I can pick it up fairly easily. Do you just carry your cell phone with you wherever you go in the house? That seems like a pain in the ass.
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Since when are Jews a "minority"? It's a religion, not a race. Only the fscking Nazis believed otherwise.
All hardware and software should be language locked to English. People need to get with the picture and stop using those other languages because I don't understand them. :-)
You can easily get a 1000 minute per month phone plan on any carrier for less than $100/month. Also, he's a Jew so his family is probably loaded so $100 isn't going to kill him.
You have five active cell phones or one active cell phone and 4 old, cancelled cell phones?
Because it sucks. I tried to get it working a Linux box, followed the directions exactly step by step and all I ended up with was a DNS server that worked for about 2 minutes then stopped accepting queries and hung. Whether that's the crappy inetd replacement DJB wrote or the DNS server itself I have no idea. I happily went back to BIND and have NO problems. Not to mention DJB's whole arrogant attitude about zone transfers and using scp to copy zones around. WTF?
Naw, Bind 9.x is quite good and I love it. It probably helps that EVERYONE uses it so it's easy to standardize on it's zone file format. As for Sendmail, that's the biggest pile of shit mail system I've ever used and I have never looked back since switching my systems to Postfix. Bind on the other hand is acceptable.
Wow, you could cluster 100 of these together and get the computing power of a Pentium III. Imagine what you could do with that kind of hardware.
This is why I put my access point behind my OpenBSD firewall. When I turn off remote access on that it's pretty easy to verify via netstat.
SPF isn't flawed, the application is flawed. Put in a trouble ticket to the company that makes BlackBoard group learning systems and tell them they need to add outbound SMTP gateway support. That's a seriously misbehaved application if it just assumes it can send mail directly out. We haven't allowed users to send mail directly out for 12 years.. everyone has to relay through a central mail gateway for logging purposes.
Mod me down all you want nerds, but that's the truth. College is about socializing and adjusting to real life. If you're spending your time writing papers then you're missing out.
I disagree. Battlefield 1942 will happily suck up over 450 megabytes of memory so you really need 768MB-1GB of RAM to play it without lagging. As for research... I don't know about CWRU, but where I went to school it was about having fun, meeting new people, drinking and partying. You'd have to be an uber-nerd to friggin spend your college life doing research and writing papers!
Unless they're using Voice over IP phones. Still, gigabit to the desktop in a dorm room is ridiculous. I don't even have that at work.
McAfee is also one of the leading virus creation operations in the entire world. The Backdraft law applies to situations like this. If you've got a crazy arsonist burning down buildings, he's probably a fireman. If you've got tons of viruses being introduced into the wild, it's probably coming from an anti-virus company whose entire life depends on them existing and being a threat.
My GNU system works wonderfully and currently it's running Debian Sid. What I'm saying is that people that run Slackware generally love to compile shit from scratch and install it and you get libraries and binaries all over the place on the system. I can't even imagine how you cleanly upgrade glibc versions on slackware without having 5 different versions hanging around.
Slackware was fine when there was nothing else available, but unless it's changed a lot (something tells me it hasn't), it's definitely a hacked-together system. I would NEVER recommend anyone, including my worst enemy, use Slackware in a production environment. Package management and dependency controls used to be non-existent, unless you call a tgz tarball a package. The thing I remember most about Slackware is having to reinstall every 6 months or so because my system go so fucked up and out of whack with dependency hell that when I wanted to install something new it was easier to just wipe and reload. I NEVER have that problem with Red Hat or Debian anymore.
This isn't a big deal since XFree86 will be dead soon. All the major distributions (including your FreeBSD) are using X.org's version instead.
Seriously though, why do you assume she'd be interested in programming? I've been using computer almost all my life and I absolutely hate programming. Teach her how to use Access and let her develop a database to track something at home. Show her how to use instant messaging to hang out in chat rooms and pick up younger men, etc. Maybe she'd be interested in playing around with Photoshop with a digital camera or video editing with a camcorder. Don't pigeon-hole her into programming as the next evolutionary step she needs to make after learning e-mail! That's just crazy.
The number one reason I hate programming is that I don't have any reason to program anything. 99% of the time things I would want to write are already on freshmeat so why reinvent the wheel? Besides, I don't have the patience for coding outside a classroom environment where I have a very strict set of instructions on what the program should do and what mechanisms you need to use to implement it.
There are many, many liberals on Slashdot and they've been taught to believe guns can only be used by bad people to kill good people. I see it everyday and it's quite funny to see people who on one hand will demand that we defend their right to the first ammendment, yet would love to eliminate the second. It's very strange. I guess the liberal slant comes with the territory though so if you want to read "geek" news then you have to be stereotyped as a tree-hugging hippie as well.
I don't see any terrorists coming into my house to kidnap me do you? They know Americans are armed so they can only attack places that ban guns (i.e. Washington, D.C., New York, and airplanes). Coincidence? NO!
Sucks to be British then I guess. The mugger has no such reservations against using deadly weapons against you. I'm sure you'll feel safe knowing your government prevents you from defending yourself while the guy shoots you in the gut.
What do the rest of us do in the real world? I drive a car and all my possessions are secure in the car with a gun in the glove compartment (and CCW permit). No worries about muggers here.
If you have 5 rotary phones in your house I doubt you are going to have Internet access, much less VoIP. :-)
Yep. Except I take it with me if I go to lunch outside of the building. My cell phone is for my convenience to make outgoing calls and for emergencies. I use less than 100 minutes a month on average so it's rather bulky to carry with me everywhere during the day in my building. Besides, only 3 people have the phone number and they know to just call my work phone during the day or my home phone at night.
No, it isn't that hard. In fact, when I was investigating Vonage I noticed they already sell a device that does QoS and sits between your cable/dsl modem and your internal router so it can control traffic. VoIP really requires QoS for reliable connectivity.
I don't see how people can really do that though. In my house I have 5 phones in various rooms and on various floors so if it rings I can pick it up fairly easily. Do you just carry your cell phone with you wherever you go in the house? That seems like a pain in the ass.