Let's not forget that just because it's open source doesn't mean it's invulnerable.
I would think that it would be a given nobody is running Sendmail anymore. I guess not. How many times do you need to be kicked in the nuts before you realize that you should avoid something so buggy and complex as Sendmail? If you can't read a god damn config file and understand it without a 500 page O'Reilly book then something is horribly wrong. Switch to Postfix or qmail and sleep better at night. I'd trust my Postfix or a qmail setup anyday over Sendmail for crying out loud.
It's probably cheaper this way. If you don't like it then you'll still have the option of buying your software ala carte like you do now. This isn't really that big of a deal. Some companies (especially the federal government) LOVE having a nice flat yearly payment to make. We have tons of maintenance contracts on a yearly basis that are basically the same idea. You pay the maintenance contract, you always get the newest software. *shrug* Sure, it sucks if you're used to free GPL'd Linux products, but if you're used to buying thousands of dollars in software a year it will probably save you lots of money.
Pioneer isn't dead as long as its moving and carrying that plaque as its one final message from us.
Doesn't the plaque say something along the lines of "Hot man on woman action on the third planet from Sol. Our women are submissive and our men are dolts with small penises. You'll have no problem turning these chicks into your love slaves." Put some pants on those folks next time you go firing off plaques into space!
This might come as a shock, but I have photos form when I was 14 in which I started turning grey. I'm now pretty close to halfway there. It's not just me -- I've had a _lot_ of people comment on it.
My doctor is baffled at why... But then again, it really isn't all that important, so she never bothered to put much effort in.
Did you encounter any killer alien clowns in the sewer system around your town when you were a kid? They seem to have the effect of either devouring you or turning your hair gray/white. Maybe you repressed the memory.
Or better yet, what if you can pay your rent and afford a lower-quality knock-off CD of the music you like? Maybe lowering the price of music is something they should have done a long time ago.
Actually, what if you can pay your rent AND afford an identical quality knock-off CD of the music you like? It's not like they're copying analog tapes and records here. It's a CD and they can make perfect copies. So, in that situation, why the heck would you, at poverty level, pay whatever the equivalent of $18 is for an authentic CD when you can get a knockoff for a buck? It's certainly not because you feel sorry for the "rockstar lifestyle" or the rich record executives while you're living in your shithole hut thinking running water is a luxury.
I wonder why not consider some real hardware. See SUN Microsystems, Silicon Graphics etc.
I know a quad AMD would be considerably cheaper, but what about the failure rate? And, you know, CPU speed is not everything. Does nobody care any more? 8-)
You sound like you're kidding, so I'll assume so. Obviously for a home user an SGI would be overkill. Not to mention, it's not even the fastest solution anymore. Use a Beowulf cluster of Linux based Intel boxes! You think moving to a quad 900MHz Sun box for $50k is going to be a better solution than a quad P4 system for under $8k? SUN and SGI are dying unfortunately. They made good stable hardware, but they just got destroyed by the free market system. Nobody is going to pay $15k for a desktop anymore when you can setup Linux on a $1k Intel box that runs circles around it.
freeadvice.com paid for that search result? Or are you referring to the sponsored banner ad at the top that is from prepaidlegal.com? If you're referring to the latter, I've learned to just ignore that top spot since it's usually a banner ad and go on to the "real" search results. Even then I don't usually pick the top one or even the top 5. Sometimes I flip to the third page just to see what's around. Google still is much better than the alternatives.
Come on guys, the National Security Agency is one of the good guys. It's terrorists like Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden that we have to worry about getting access to this Google data. Maybe you're paranoid about being watched by the NSA because you're a terrorist? Hmm? Hmmmmm?? I thought so.
I've got the same iBook and after I bumped up the RAM ($80 512MB pc-133 SO-DIMM from Data Memory Systems) stuff worked a LOT better. 128-256 megs is just not enough memory to run OS X. 640 megs though works pretty good for anything I throw at it. Sure, load times are a little slow, but it's a laptop! Load times were slow on my PIII-600 Dell Inspiron 4000 as well, but the hard drive in that sounds like a table saw.
The iBook on the other hand is always virtually silent. I have to put my ear up to it to see if anything is running and even then it's hard to hear. Once in a great while the little cooling fan in it may come on if I do a lot of heavy CPU work but even that is quieter than my Dell was all the time.
If you want a nice affordable little native UNIX laptop then the iBook is a nice value. My only regret is I bought the $1299 12"/800Mhz one in October and now they have 12" Powerbooks for about $400 more. I would've definitely gone for the Powerbook just to get the G4 processor if I had the choice. Oh well, maybe it's time to trade up and give my wife this iBook.;-)
I see alot of "I can boot linux into matnience mode and do whatever I want" and physical access restrictions etc...
I'm sure someone has already said this, but it's very very trivial to put a system password on the BIOS and then remove the cdrom/floppy from the bootup sequence. Or better yet, remove them from the system entirely. As for Linux, you can easily add a restricted password so you can't modify the kernel parameters on the lilo boot line to bypass the normal startup.
Well, most of the people who had NES's were kids and young teenagers who don't know any better. Now the kids with the NES's have grown up into 20-something geeks, so hopefully expecting you to clean your electronics to keep them in tip-top shape is not that hard a task. Of course, this is coming from someone who had to clean a thick layer of dust off the insides of one of my servers last weekend when I was replacing a drive. That's a bad thing about Linux, I never seem to have a chance to reboot it for physical maintenance like my Windows box.:-)
Oh yea, and BTW, the main reason the Netra interested me was for the LOM support. I can't find any reasonably priced PC parts with both flawless serial console redirection support and the ability to power off/on the box from remote. Adding support like that in a card would probably run $500 easy.
I haven't seen the new machines, but for $1395 you get a 550MHz Sun Blade 150 with keyboard, mouse, 40 GB hard drive, 128 megs of ram, etc. It's also just PC-133 memory so you can add a gig of ram for $100 or less. Now, I was amazed to see they got rid of the Blade 100 priced at $995, but this is still affordable. To me, I'd buy a Sun box to act as a server so you can still buy the Sun Fire V100 for $995.
As for the PC, that's true. $1500 will buy you a PC that will kick the Sun box's ass. For around that price I built an AMD Athlon 2000+ system with a nice 4U rackmount case, 1GB of DDR ram, two 80GB WD "Special Edition" IDE drives, a 3ware RAID-1 controller, a cheapo ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card, a 3com 3c905 network card, AND an APC 620VA Smart-UPS to replace my old colocated web/shell/mail server box. I had originally bought a Sun Netra T1 105 off of eBay for $1400 to do the same thing (the listing said it had 512MB of ram and a single 18GB SCSI drive, but it came with 1024MB of ram and the 18GB drive) and I spent another $200 to add the proprietary CD-ROM drive to it. So, $1600 down the hole before I finally realized I'd be better off just running Debian GNU/Linux on a PC box as a colocated server. It's just much much easier to keep updated and I never have to physically be at the box to upgrade it with apt-get.
So let's see. 1.667 GHz AMD Athlon processor with 1 GB and two 80GB IDE hard drives vs. a 440 MHz Ultrasparc IIi with 1GB of ram and two 18GB SCSI disks. Frankly, the IDE disks run circles around the SCSI disks. I get 45MB/sec out of them. The processor is also much faster. The Sun is a dog serving up webpages and dealing with dynamic content with PHP/MySQL.
Maybe it's so much like an iBook because they're looking to phase out the G3 processor? When they do that they can just move the 12" Powerbooks down to the $1200 price range with a slow G4 processor and eliminate the iBook line altogether. I know if I had the option I would've bought the 12" Powerbook instead of the 12" iBook I bought in October even though it would've been about $400 more. The G4 alone is worth it. As for the 17" Powerbook.. is anyone buying these things? I can't imagine lugging a 17" iMac's display around all day. I'd rather have a 15" Powerbook with the same specs as the 17" (800 Mb Firewire, DDR ram, etc.)
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Well, I don't trust banks. As soon as I get my check I convert it to cold hard cash and use it to buy durable goods that I can easily trade for other goods in an emergency. Frankly, with the upcoming global war I would recommend converting at least 75% of your income into ammunition and canned goods. Remember, if possible, try to stay away from large cities where the radiation will be the strongest. It is very unlikely the suitcase nuke bombers will target farms and rural areas and instead will concentrate on large metropolitan areas. You may need to eventually contend with crop dusters filled with biological and chemical agents, but if you invest in decent small arms you should be able to take them out well before they can cause significant damage to the surrounding area. Oh well, gotta back to digging my bomb shelter before they deliver the air filtration system next week.
Well, let's put it this way. If they charged you what it actually costs them for the bandwidth, would you continue to use broadband? I sincerely doubt they can buy 1.5Mbps of bandwidth for $40 a month from THEIR upstream provider so they obviously have to radically oversell their bandwidth to provide those burstable speeds to their DSL customers. Customers that abuse this arrangement and leech tons of gigs of files only serve to hurt other users. So why not kick off the abusers to satisfy the requirements of 90% of the other customers? Sure, it sucks to not get streaming porn and live DVD quality movies over the Internet, but it was all a bullshit business plan to begin with.
Just block IP protocol 50 and 51. You'll kill most of the IPSEC VPNs out there. While you're at it, block GRE (ip proto 47) and you should kill PPTP as well. As for the rest of the VPNs that can tunnel IPSEC over TCP or just plain run natively over TCP or UDP I doubt they're going to be able to block it or even recognize it. Infoexpress VTCP/Secure, for instance, uses a single TCP session on any port you want to choose.
You're faulting George W. Bush for a normal cyclic correction in the economy? Look, when 18 year olds are getting hired out of high school with a GED making $45k/year because they have a little Linux and Perl skills, don't you think something is wrong? Go to college and try taking some economics courses if you don't understand what I'm getting at. The stock market was hugely inflated and nobody in their right mind believed it would last forever. The bigger the high the bigger the crash afterwards. They didn't call them the roaring 20's for nothing. We can only be glad they've instituted laws to help keep things like the Great Depression from happening again (as best as is possible) and that we only have a 6-10% unemployment rate. I don't see people on the street with signs saying "will code for food". Then again, I don't live in San Jose.
CD-RW drives can be had brand-new for about $75CDN and can burn 900MB worth of data to a disc in approximately 1 minute 30 seconds. 900MB discs can be had for about $0.50CDN, 800MB CD-RW discs can be had for about $3CDN or less.
Is that 900MB Canadian or 900MB U.S.? If it's Canadian then that comes out to about 700MB U.S. right? I wasn't aware they sold 900MB Canadian discs.. must be a perk of paying that music industry tax on recordable media.:-)
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Maybe it's dead because people may have more time on their hands because of the Dot-Bomb fallout to actually live a real social life instead of a simulated one? Why play a silly game simulating a person with a social life when you can just get off your keister and go to a pub and have a real one? The Sims was just about the silliest notion for a game I ever heard of. It's one thing to make a game about something you can't do in real life... killing terrorists, flying around in a jet fighter, smashing aliens, etc. But clubbing and making sure your Sim is up on time to get to work?? WTF?
My $1500 PC is MUCH faster than our $35k Sun Ultra box at running PHP/MySQL. I have no idea why since it's just testing stuff I'm playing with. Maybe I need to optimize something, but it flies on the PC with no changes. Hmph. The Sun boxes are rock solid as long as I don't have one of those Ultrasparc II's in it with the buggy Ecache problem though.
Why don't you just encrypt the key with a password? Any decent authentication system requires at least two factors. Stealing a Securid card, for instance, without knowing the pin is pretty worthless since it'll lock out by the time you guess the pin.
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I would think that it would be a given nobody is running Sendmail anymore. I guess not. How many times do you need to be kicked in the nuts before you realize that you should avoid something so buggy and complex as Sendmail? If you can't read a god damn config file and understand it without a 500 page O'Reilly book then something is horribly wrong. Switch to Postfix or qmail and sleep better at night. I'd trust my Postfix or a qmail setup anyday over Sendmail for crying out loud.
The Museum of 20th Century French Military Victories in Paris could make use of this technology on my old 8086 system.
It's probably cheaper this way. If you don't like it then you'll still have the option of buying your software ala carte like you do now. This isn't really that big of a deal. Some companies (especially the federal government) LOVE having a nice flat yearly payment to make. We have tons of maintenance contracts on a yearly basis that are basically the same idea. You pay the maintenance contract, you always get the newest software. *shrug* Sure, it sucks if you're used to free GPL'd Linux products, but if you're used to buying thousands of dollars in software a year it will probably save you lots of money.
Doesn't the plaque say something along the lines of "Hot man on woman action on the third planet from Sol. Our women are submissive and our men are dolts with small penises. You'll have no problem turning these chicks into your love slaves." Put some pants on those folks next time you go firing off plaques into space!
Did you encounter any killer alien clowns in the sewer system around your town when you were a kid? They seem to have the effect of either devouring you or turning your hair gray/white. Maybe you repressed the memory.
Actually, what if you can pay your rent AND afford an identical quality knock-off CD of the music you like? It's not like they're copying analog tapes and records here. It's a CD and they can make perfect copies. So, in that situation, why the heck would you, at poverty level, pay whatever the equivalent of $18 is for an authentic CD when you can get a knockoff for a buck? It's certainly not because you feel sorry for the "rockstar lifestyle" or the rich record executives while you're living in your shithole hut thinking running water is a luxury.
You sound like you're kidding, so I'll assume so. Obviously for a home user an SGI would be overkill. Not to mention, it's not even the fastest solution anymore. Use a Beowulf cluster of Linux based Intel boxes! You think moving to a quad 900MHz Sun box for $50k is going to be a better solution than a quad P4 system for under $8k? SUN and SGI are dying unfortunately. They made good stable hardware, but they just got destroyed by the free market system. Nobody is going to pay $15k for a desktop anymore when you can setup Linux on a $1k Intel box that runs circles around it.
freeadvice.com paid for that search result? Or are you referring to the sponsored banner ad at the top that is from prepaidlegal.com? If you're referring to the latter, I've learned to just ignore that top spot since it's usually a banner ad and go on to the "real" search results. Even then I don't usually pick the top one or even the top 5. Sometimes I flip to the third page just to see what's around. Google still is much better than the alternatives.
Come on guys, the National Security Agency is one of the good guys. It's terrorists like Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden that we have to worry about getting access to this Google data. Maybe you're paranoid about being watched by the NSA because you're a terrorist? Hmm? Hmmmmm?? I thought so.
The iBook on the other hand is always virtually silent. I have to put my ear up to it to see if anything is running and even then it's hard to hear. Once in a great while the little cooling fan in it may come on if I do a lot of heavy CPU work but even that is quieter than my Dell was all the time.
If you want a nice affordable little native UNIX laptop then the iBook is a nice value. My only regret is I bought the $1299 12"/800Mhz one in October and now they have 12" Powerbooks for about $400 more. I would've definitely gone for the Powerbook just to get the G4 processor if I had the choice. Oh well, maybe it's time to trade up and give my wife this iBook. ;-)
I'm sure someone has already said this, but it's very very trivial to put a system password on the BIOS and then remove the cdrom/floppy from the bootup sequence. Or better yet, remove them from the system entirely. As for Linux, you can easily add a restricted password so you can't modify the kernel parameters on the lilo boot line to bypass the normal startup.
Well, most of the people who had NES's were kids and young teenagers who don't know any better. Now the kids with the NES's have grown up into 20-something geeks, so hopefully expecting you to clean your electronics to keep them in tip-top shape is not that hard a task. Of course, this is coming from someone who had to clean a thick layer of dust off the insides of one of my servers last weekend when I was replacing a drive. That's a bad thing about Linux, I never seem to have a chance to reboot it for physical maintenance like my Windows box. :-)
Oh yea, and BTW, the main reason the Netra interested me was for the LOM support. I can't find any reasonably priced PC parts with both flawless serial console redirection support and the ability to power off/on the box from remote. Adding support like that in a card would probably run $500 easy.
I haven't seen the new machines, but for $1395 you get a 550MHz Sun Blade 150 with keyboard, mouse, 40 GB hard drive, 128 megs of ram, etc. It's also just PC-133 memory so you can add a gig of ram for $100 or less. Now, I was amazed to see they got rid of the Blade 100 priced at $995, but this is still affordable. To me, I'd buy a Sun box to act as a server so you can still buy the Sun Fire V100 for $995. As for the PC, that's true. $1500 will buy you a PC that will kick the Sun box's ass. For around that price I built an AMD Athlon 2000+ system with a nice 4U rackmount case, 1GB of DDR ram, two 80GB WD "Special Edition" IDE drives, a 3ware RAID-1 controller, a cheapo ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card, a 3com 3c905 network card, AND an APC 620VA Smart-UPS to replace my old colocated web/shell/mail server box. I had originally bought a Sun Netra T1 105 off of eBay for $1400 to do the same thing (the listing said it had 512MB of ram and a single 18GB SCSI drive, but it came with 1024MB of ram and the 18GB drive) and I spent another $200 to add the proprietary CD-ROM drive to it. So, $1600 down the hole before I finally realized I'd be better off just running Debian GNU/Linux on a PC box as a colocated server. It's just much much easier to keep updated and I never have to physically be at the box to upgrade it with apt-get. So let's see. 1.667 GHz AMD Athlon processor with 1 GB and two 80GB IDE hard drives vs. a 440 MHz Ultrasparc IIi with 1GB of ram and two 18GB SCSI disks. Frankly, the IDE disks run circles around the SCSI disks. I get 45MB/sec out of them. The processor is also much faster. The Sun is a dog serving up webpages and dealing with dynamic content with PHP/MySQL.
Shutup and get back to consuming you filthy drone. They don't pay for your ad impressions to hear your opinion. :-/
Maybe it's so much like an iBook because they're looking to phase out the G3 processor? When they do that they can just move the 12" Powerbooks down to the $1200 price range with a slow G4 processor and eliminate the iBook line altogether. I know if I had the option I would've bought the 12" Powerbook instead of the 12" iBook I bought in October even though it would've been about $400 more. The G4 alone is worth it. As for the 17" Powerbook.. is anyone buying these things? I can't imagine lugging a 17" iMac's display around all day. I'd rather have a 15" Powerbook with the same specs as the 17" (800 Mb Firewire, DDR ram, etc.)
Well, I don't trust banks. As soon as I get my check I convert it to cold hard cash and use it to buy durable goods that I can easily trade for other goods in an emergency. Frankly, with the upcoming global war I would recommend converting at least 75% of your income into ammunition and canned goods. Remember, if possible, try to stay away from large cities where the radiation will be the strongest. It is very unlikely the suitcase nuke bombers will target farms and rural areas and instead will concentrate on large metropolitan areas. You may need to eventually contend with crop dusters filled with biological and chemical agents, but if you invest in decent small arms you should be able to take them out well before they can cause significant damage to the surrounding area. Oh well, gotta back to digging my bomb shelter before they deliver the air filtration system next week.
Well, let's put it this way. If they charged you what it actually costs them for the bandwidth, would you continue to use broadband? I sincerely doubt they can buy 1.5Mbps of bandwidth for $40 a month from THEIR upstream provider so they obviously have to radically oversell their bandwidth to provide those burstable speeds to their DSL customers. Customers that abuse this arrangement and leech tons of gigs of files only serve to hurt other users. So why not kick off the abusers to satisfy the requirements of 90% of the other customers? Sure, it sucks to not get streaming porn and live DVD quality movies over the Internet, but it was all a bullshit business plan to begin with.
Just block IP protocol 50 and 51. You'll kill most of the IPSEC VPNs out there. While you're at it, block GRE (ip proto 47) and you should kill PPTP as well. As for the rest of the VPNs that can tunnel IPSEC over TCP or just plain run natively over TCP or UDP I doubt they're going to be able to block it or even recognize it. Infoexpress VTCP/Secure, for instance, uses a single TCP session on any port you want to choose.
Kind of ironic that an article about how Pixar is dumping Sun for Linux on Intel boxes has a big old Sun ad in the article. I know, offtopic.
You're faulting George W. Bush for a normal cyclic correction in the economy? Look, when 18 year olds are getting hired out of high school with a GED making $45k/year because they have a little Linux and Perl skills, don't you think something is wrong? Go to college and try taking some economics courses if you don't understand what I'm getting at. The stock market was hugely inflated and nobody in their right mind believed it would last forever. The bigger the high the bigger the crash afterwards. They didn't call them the roaring 20's for nothing. We can only be glad they've instituted laws to help keep things like the Great Depression from happening again (as best as is possible) and that we only have a 6-10% unemployment rate. I don't see people on the street with signs saying "will code for food". Then again, I don't live in San Jose.
Is that 900MB Canadian or 900MB U.S.? If it's Canadian then that comes out to about 700MB U.S. right? I wasn't aware they sold 900MB Canadian discs.. must be a perk of paying that music industry tax on recordable media.
Maybe it's dead because people may have more time on their hands because of the Dot-Bomb fallout to actually live a real social life instead of a simulated one? Why play a silly game simulating a person with a social life when you can just get off your keister and go to a pub and have a real one? The Sims was just about the silliest notion for a game I ever heard of. It's one thing to make a game about something you can't do in real life... killing terrorists, flying around in a jet fighter, smashing aliens, etc. But clubbing and making sure your Sim is up on time to get to work?? WTF?
My $1500 PC is MUCH faster than our $35k Sun Ultra box at running PHP/MySQL. I have no idea why since it's just testing stuff I'm playing with. Maybe I need to optimize something, but it flies on the PC with no changes. Hmph. The Sun boxes are rock solid as long as I don't have one of those Ultrasparc II's in it with the buggy Ecache problem though.
Why don't you just encrypt the key with a password? Any decent authentication system requires at least two factors. Stealing a Securid card, for instance, without knowing the pin is pretty worthless since it'll lock out by the time you guess the pin.