In what the world has proclaimed to be one of the most tautological summaries ever, Slashdot today confirmed that server operating systems are intended to run on servers with codenames that contain the word "server".
I feel I have just bitten on a rather large hook. Even the editors are trolls these days:-)
Ah, but did you see the four idiots with a camera waving and shouting "Hellooo!" to the webcam? There's either a big sign that lights up "behave like a dick" when someone connects to the stream or these people have no life. I thought we got over the "Hi, mom! I'm on TV!" thing in the eighties.
Here's what I would like to see on the webcam instead of morons: Tak one of those morons, any of them, I don't care which. Now take deformed dick plant and shove it up his left nostril, firmly. Now cork the right nostril and tip a bucket of iced water over him to make him breathe in sharply. Then we can watch the resulting hilarity, knowing that this scientific process will confirm to those watching that the deformed dick plant does, indeed, stink.
If MS had been behind eugenics, we'd all be happy supermen by now
Aye. Picking up girls would be a bit of a bore though. It goes something like this:
"Can I get you a fatal exception error has occured. Please remain at the bar whilst this man-unit dumps core right in front of you, leaves, reboots to yesterday and returns to try again."
Do not worry, we French do not hate Americans as much as we seem, we too like to make jokes.
And you deserve it too:-)
Yes, I see one of your jokes was getting the bleeders independence so they could totally cock things up for themselves. They surely fell for that one. Talk about subtle troll! Way to go, France;-)
What is this fixation with this command? I can think of a much more widespread example of why running as root is not secure: Anything you launch runs with root privileges. That means a fast-track route for anything even slightly malicious (worms, trojans, spyware) to your kernel. Please don't tell me they don't exist; if this running as root becomes widespread, think of the 1337-ness factor of being the VX-er who trashed a few thousand Linux boxen.
If you think about the "root" username in terms of Australian slang, you'll get the idea: You *can* root your system using it in many ways that aren't immediately apparent. Try, for example, chmoding/var/log 400. Try chowning someone's home directory. Try deleting the kernel from/boot. Try changing root's shell and then deleting the shell binary (or one of its dependencies if it's dynamically linked) and dropping to single-user mode.
It looks to me like a case of SELECT FROM Linspire_employees WHERE CLUE > 0 No records found.
No offence to anyone working for Linspire, but if you don't tell your boss he's a jerk and needs a good dose of clue stick #10, you're as clueless as he is.
Between this little statement and Linus having a go at Tridge, I'm becoming more and more pleased with my own choice of open source OS. Please tell me these guys are going to stop before they destroy any good that they have done. If it wasn't for Linux, we'd have hardly any applications to run.
I'm curious, how long would it take for the in orbit debrii that is presumably from other satellites and space missions and things, to eventually get caught by earth's gravity and burn up in the atmosphere?
I would imagine that eventually the debris will lose enough energy to re-enter, but how long that would take is beyond me. The atmosphere doesn't just stop. It gradually becomes less and less dense with altitude and there is always some other matter about to hit. Someone, somewhere, probably has a table of the relative concentrations of matter and loss of momentum due to friction for various levels of orbit, but I'm too lazy to Google for it:-)
The problem is whilst it's up there, for however long, that's a slot in space you can't put to good use because it's full of uncontrolled junk whizzing hither and yon. On its way back down, if it isn't done in a controlled fashion, it also has the opportunity to cause havoc with other satellites and even space missions. I believe, somewhere, there is a small object tracking center that keeps an eye on the larger bits of junk. This is the sort of thing I'm talking about. You'll notice they talk about the smaller particles losing momentum fairly rapidly, which would suggest that it is contact with other matter and resultant conversion of kinetic energy to heat that causes decay of orbit.
So, after waffling on, no, it won't stay up there forever. As for robotic trash collectors, forget it. We can't even keep down here clean, let alone up there. Can you imagine what would happen if the thing dropped the can lid? "UFO Spotted by By Roland Piquepaille! Posted by Timothy on April 1st 2006 23:59 from the little-green-men-and-link-whores department";-)
Sorry, got a bit bitchy towards the end there, didn't I? Time for a coffee...
Because, dear Timothy, would you want to man a mission or risk a few billion dollars' worth of communications kit in a high velocity debris field, any tiny piece of which could either puncture your space suit, vessel or completely ruin your satellite?
It's already like a junkyard up there. Even though I will mourn the passing of Hubble, NASA is quite correct. Blowing it up is dangerous. We can't afford to have uncontrolled, unmonitored crap floating around up there. It takes much less energy to bring it down than accelerate it to the point it breaks free from Earth, so it's cost-effective and environmentally sound to do exactly what they're proposing.
Of course, I'm sure we'd all prefer they didn't scrap it at all. What it has taught us has vastly improved our knowledge of the space around us and, IMO, we will be that much poorer without it.
It does sort of have a DC jack on the LHS (presumably a photoshop of the same connector the Mac mini uses). It also has "Digiatl" outputs which sound pretty cool. Easier to say than SPDIF, too;-)
Yep, so am I. It's now 13:40 in NY, so the Eastern US should be packing this crap in about now. The Aussies still have plenty of time, though. Perhaps, another 200 years;-)
...they'll post a real story and shock everyone. Seriously,/., Jokes on April fools' day are ONLY VALID UNTIL MIDDAY. Please get a frigging clue.
Sorry, guys, but this is getting real old, real fast. Unless the whole joke is pissing your users off with fake stories so you can say "Ha! Pissed you off!"
Yes, but you may find the off-load terminal voltage of that setup is closer to 20.7V at full charge. Most laptops don't like overvoltage and the initial "off state" current will be fairly low, certainly not enough to significantly lower the terminal voltage of a low internal resistance lead-gel battery.
Be very careful if you're thinking of following this advice and also make sure you fuse the lead at both terminals, as close to the battery as possible and, preferably, between each 6V battery. Lead-gel cells, as I said before, have an extremely low internal resistance which means they can supply some huge currents, certainly enough to cause a laptop power lead to heat up to the point that it will cause some rather nasty burns.
portupgrade (freebsd) replaced my acrobat5 to 7 a week or so ago
Have you noticed the little adverts that pop up in the top right hand corner that launch a browser session when you click on them? I'm hoping they're actually embedded in the program. Having things fetching things from the 'net without my say so is not what I want to see on my boxen. Until I know for sure, I'll be sticking to KPDF.
Also using FreeBSD-STABLE, and have had acroread7 for about a week.
Never heard of them until now. Reading TFA and visiting their web site has made them unforgettable. 10/10 for getting it right and 15/10 for supporting most of the major open source OS out there (I nearly said all, and risked getting modded as a troll), including FreeBSD. We could do with more companies like these.
How about you just don't worry your pretty head about Linux at all, eh? For fuck's sake why does every BSD zealot have to bring up Linux all the time. It is really damn annoying. Enough with Linux. This is a FreeBSD thread, got it? Unless you are going to make an objective technical comparison of the two, just shut the hell up and leave the uninformed, biased, anecdotal crap that spews out of your ass in the toilet where it belongs.
Good point, well made. I apologise unreservedly for doing exactly what I proclaim to be against.
Nice. If you're going to try to look smart at DES' expense, at least get his name right. It's Smørgrav. I suppose you're going to start on PHK next? How about the completely mindless sport of picking on Søren?
These three are amongst the most productive developers on the project. Arguments are inevitable, especially on group projects like the BSDs. The real trick, which these have mastered, is not to let them get in the way of high quality code. Your comments are typical of the way this style of "advocacy" damages reputations in fairly short order, usually the reputations of those engaging in it.
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In what the world has proclaimed to be one of the most tautological summaries ever, Slashdot today confirmed that server operating systems are intended to run on servers with codenames that contain the word "server".
:-)
I feel I have just bitten on a rather large hook. Even the editors are trolls these days
I pay for access and data transfer. You want to peddle shit, pay for it. Don't expect me to.
Bastards.
NFS mount your /home. That way, your profiles and data follow you around.
Ah, but did you see the four idiots with a camera waving and shouting "Hellooo!" to the webcam? There's either a big sign that lights up "behave like a dick" when someone connects to the stream or these people have no life. I thought we got over the "Hi, mom! I'm on TV!" thing in the eighties.
Here's what I would like to see on the webcam instead of morons: Tak one of those morons, any of them, I don't care which. Now take deformed dick plant and shove it up his left nostril, firmly. Now cork the right nostril and tip a bucket of iced water over him to make him breathe in sharply. Then we can watch the resulting hilarity, knowing that this scientific process will confirm to those watching that the deformed dick plant does, indeed, stink.
...until they try to patent it?
If MS had been behind eugenics, we'd all be happy supermen by now
Aye. Picking up girls would be a bit of a bore though. It goes something like this:
"Can I get you a fatal exception error has occured. Please remain at the bar whilst this man-unit dumps core right in front of you, leaves, reboots to yesterday and returns to try again."
Next time be sure to clean out the registry on a regular schedule.
u ct\Lifetime.
Yes, specifically HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Capacitors\Self_Destr
Do not worry, we French do not hate Americans as much as we seem, we too like to make jokes.
And you deserve it too
Yes, I see one of your jokes was getting the bleeders independence so they could totally cock things up for themselves. They surely fell for that one. Talk about subtle troll! Way to go, France
What is this fixation with this command? I can think of a much more widespread example of why running as root is not secure: Anything you launch runs with root privileges. That means a fast-track route for anything even slightly malicious (worms, trojans, spyware) to your kernel. Please don't tell me they don't exist; if this running as root becomes widespread, think of the 1337-ness factor of being the VX-er who trashed a few thousand Linux boxen.
/var/log 400. Try chowning someone's home directory. Try deleting the kernel from /boot. Try changing root's shell and then deleting the shell binary (or one of its dependencies if it's dynamically linked) and dropping to single-user mode.
If you think about the "root" username in terms of Australian slang, you'll get the idea: You *can* root your system using it in many ways that aren't immediately apparent. Try, for example, chmoding
It looks to me like a case of SELECT FROM Linspire_employees WHERE CLUE > 0
No records found.
No offence to anyone working for Linspire, but if you don't tell your boss he's a jerk and needs a good dose of clue stick #10, you're as clueless as he is.
Between this little statement and Linus having a go at Tridge, I'm becoming more and more pleased with my own choice of open source OS. Please tell me these guys are going to stop before they destroy any good that they have done. If it wasn't for Linux, we'd have hardly any applications to run.
I'm curious, how long would it take for the in orbit debrii that is presumably from other satellites and space missions and things, to eventually get caught by earth's gravity and burn up in the atmosphere?
:-)
;-)
I would imagine that eventually the debris will lose enough energy to re-enter, but how long that would take is beyond me. The atmosphere doesn't just stop. It gradually becomes less and less dense with altitude and there is always some other matter about to hit. Someone, somewhere, probably has a table of the relative concentrations of matter and loss of momentum due to friction for various levels of orbit, but I'm too lazy to Google for it
Here's something I did Google up, though.
The problem is whilst it's up there, for however long, that's a slot in space you can't put to good use because it's full of uncontrolled junk whizzing hither and yon. On its way back down, if it isn't done in a controlled fashion, it also has the opportunity to cause havoc with other satellites and even space missions. I believe, somewhere, there is a small object tracking center that keeps an eye on the larger bits of junk. This is the sort of thing I'm talking about. You'll notice they talk about the smaller particles losing momentum fairly rapidly, which would suggest that it is contact with other matter and resultant conversion of kinetic energy to heat that causes decay of orbit.
So, after waffling on, no, it won't stay up there forever. As for robotic trash collectors, forget it. We can't even keep down here clean, let alone up there. Can you imagine what would happen if the thing dropped the can lid? "UFO Spotted by By Roland Piquepaille! Posted by Timothy on April 1st 2006 23:59 from the little-green-men-and-link-whores department"
Sorry, got a bit bitchy towards the end there, didn't I? Time for a coffee...
Because, dear Timothy, would you want to man a mission or risk a few billion dollars' worth of communications kit in a high velocity debris field, any tiny piece of which could either puncture your space suit, vessel or completely ruin your satellite?
It's already like a junkyard up there. Even though I will mourn the passing of Hubble, NASA is quite correct. Blowing it up is dangerous. We can't afford to have uncontrolled, unmonitored crap floating around up there. It takes much less energy to bring it down than accelerate it to the point it breaks free from Earth, so it's cost-effective and environmentally sound to do exactly what they're proposing.
Of course, I'm sure we'd all prefer they didn't scrap it at all. What it has taught us has vastly improved our knowledge of the space around us and, IMO, we will be that much poorer without it.
Rob, you should have screwed all the links up in the first place. I mean ALL the links. That would have had us in uproar. Well, some of us, anyway ;-)
It does sort of have a DC jack on the LHS (presumably a photoshop of the same connector the Mac mini uses). It also has "Digiatl" outputs which sound pretty cool. Easier to say than SPDIF, too ;-)
Yep, so am I. It's now 13:40 in NY, so the Eastern US should be packing this crap in about now. The Aussies still have plenty of time, though. Perhaps, another 200 years ;-)
...they'll post a real story and shock everyone. Seriously, /., Jokes on April fools' day are ONLY VALID UNTIL MIDDAY. Please get a frigging clue.
Sorry, guys, but this is getting real old, real fast. Unless the whole joke is pissing your users off with fake stories so you can say "Ha! Pissed you off!"
Yes, but you may find the off-load terminal voltage of that setup is closer to 20.7V at full charge. Most laptops don't like overvoltage and the initial "off state" current will be fairly low, certainly not enough to significantly lower the terminal voltage of a low internal resistance lead-gel battery.
Be very careful if you're thinking of following this advice and also make sure you fuse the lead at both terminals, as close to the battery as possible and, preferably, between each 6V battery. Lead-gel cells, as I said before, have an extremely low internal resistance which means they can supply some huge currents, certainly enough to cause a laptop power lead to heat up to the point that it will cause some rather nasty burns.
And, of course, this is the first ever thread where "KAAAHN!" is on topic ;-)
(See the second page of TFA for the hard of thinking)
portupgrade (freebsd) replaced my acrobat5 to 7 a week or so ago
Have you noticed the little adverts that pop up in the top right hand corner that launch a browser session when you click on them? I'm hoping they're actually embedded in the program. Having things fetching things from the 'net without my say so is not what I want to see on my boxen. Until I know for sure, I'll be sticking to KPDF.
Also using FreeBSD-STABLE, and have had acroread7 for about a week.
I can't believe nobody has jumped on the obvious ObPost. Dude! You should burn a DELL! ;-)
Never heard of them until now. Reading TFA and visiting their web site has made them unforgettable. 10/10 for getting it right and 15/10 for supporting most of the major open source OS out there (I nearly said all, and risked getting modded as a troll), including FreeBSD. We could do with more companies like these.
No, she doesn't. She runs IIS-5.0 and has done since 2001. Sadly.
Aye, I suppose they've got to fill the guest-list for Charlie's wedding to his horse somehow... ;-)
...of the year. From 13 months ago, if memory serves me correctly. Yup, thought so.
So we're into recycling now?
How about you just don't worry your pretty head about Linux at all, eh? For fuck's sake why does every BSD zealot have to bring up Linux all the time. It is really damn annoying. Enough with Linux. This is a FreeBSD thread, got it? Unless you are going to make an objective technical comparison of the two, just shut the hell up and leave the uninformed, biased, anecdotal crap that spews out of your ass in the toilet where it belongs.
Good point, well made. I apologise unreservedly for doing exactly what I proclaim to be against.
Smorgreff
Nice. If you're going to try to look smart at DES' expense, at least get his name right. It's Smørgrav. I suppose you're going to start on PHK next? How about the completely mindless sport of picking on Søren?
These three are amongst the most productive developers on the project. Arguments are inevitable, especially on group projects like the BSDs. The real trick, which these have mastered, is not to let them get in the way of high quality code. Your comments are typical of the way this style of "advocacy" damages reputations in fairly short order, usually the reputations of those engaging in it.