I have the same first and last names as a daily AP columnist, a screenwriter, and a prizewinning novelist (who lives in the same state I do!).
I'm not sure I could rob a bank and get myself on Google ahead of all that.
At any rate, it sounds like this guy needs to smother this one little bad brief mention from years ago with a ton of really good, awesome stuff. What exactly are you doing now? Nothing? Is a law enforcement interview really the most exciting and noteworthy thing you've done in the last few years?
That's hardly fair - in the 90's, I wrote the code for what, as far as I could tell, was the first "forum title control panel" (a way to set up a table for custom titles for individual usernames) that ever existed. Despite that code showing up all over the world in what was for several years the most popular forum software on the internet, it's WAY less "newsworthy" than a publicised LEO interview over a system intrusion.
Hell, I couldn't find my own example in Google's index just now.
What does this have to do with the cartoon contest? I RTFA and the world "religion" wasn't in it anywhere, and the only use of "Christ" was in "Christian Science Monitor", which magazine happens to be supplying one of the judges.
(and also FreeBSD, AFAIK), the out-of-the-box configuration has sendmail listening only on 127.0.0.1 and::1 -- you have to manually configure it (insert sendmail.cf snark) to listen on physical interfaces.
I just tested this on some of my boxes that I knew were still stock - it's true as of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE; not true as of FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE.
(FWIW, any of my boxes that are exposed to anything but my local LAN invariably get Qmail installed. No trustum Sendmail. But perhaps I'll stop bothering with that on boxes that aren't actually mailservers, now that I know that modern FreeBSD installs won't let Sendmail listen on real interfaces out of the box...)
Point is, I don't take my car to my buddy who can change spark plugs and ask him to rebuild the engine.
Well, you don't - but your presence here on Slashdot implies that you probably wouldn't do something similar with your computer either. You're not the best test case. Also consider that you're automatically assuming that the person on the other end KNOWS that the engine needs rebuilding - the average person doesn't know what's wrong with their car any more than they know what's wrong with their computer. They just know (if they pay attention, which most people don't do with cars MUCH better than they do with their PCs) that something isn't the way they expect it to be. The question isn't typically "can you rebuild my engine", it's "my car's making a funny noise, what's wrong with it?"
I'm no certified mechanic, but I've DEFINITELY had people try to dump some pretty hefty car repair problems on me, because they knew "I know cars" since I drove a reasonably warmed-over 70's sedan that I'd done most of the work on myself. It really is a pretty similar problem.
The one common thing about all spam emails is that they have a link to a product page [unless they're *scam* emails, a completely different thing]. Google can use algorithms on mail that gets marked and checked as spam to nerf the page rankings of those webpages.
An interesting idea, but it isn't really going to address spamming Google's index. The websites that really screw up Google returns aren't the ones that actually have a product to sell; they're the bajillions of bogus domains that the scammers and spammers purchase and then link recursively with each other a million times over with everything they can think of that they might like to sell - usually simply in the hopes that upon clicking their return in the Google index, you'll display their ad banners.
Another (possibly the same?) particularly vexing issue are "search engines" that aren't really search engines - they're static pages or subdomains that display the result of a search elsewhere, in order to recursively bump themselves up in Google's results and get clicks - check this or that out for examples. Those things spam up Google results for things like hard-to-find device drivers or other off-the-beaten-path things BADLY for me pretty often.
why was this modded "5, Informative?" the BBC article VERY specifically refers to 28 PROGRAMS per computer, never once mentioning cookies in any way... or the number 30, or the number 24. This was probably intended as a joke, but it's certainly not "informative" given that it's just making claims out of thin air.
When problems do come up, they tend to try to solve them by asking a friend who is supposed to know this stuff what to do rather than spending money on a professional.
I respectfully submit that if you don't think people will do the same thing with their cars, you probably aren't very versed in automotive maintenance yourself - or your friends and family would be bugging you about THAT just as much as they do about their computer.
Actually, the A/V scanner I use and recommend to my customers detects some spyware, and I really wish it wouldn't. Don't get me wrong, I don't like it when my customers (at least those of them on support contracts) get themselves spyware-infested, but the "danger level" of a spyware infestation is simply NOT on par with that of a true virus/worm/trojan infection, and it's incredibly disruptive to have customers panicking and calling me, terrified because they think they have a virus when in fact they just got a chunk of spyware.
I suppose you could make a case for the A/V scanner detecting spyware and just trying to be really clear about saying "this is spyware, not a virus", but in practice I'm much more comfortable with letting SpyBot handle the spyware and ClamAV or F-Prot handle the A/V work.
I was mostly referring to quick links on the taskbar (at least that's the Win32 terminology, dunno if KDE uses a different one). It's possible, but VERY painful, to get a link to a different application; you have to figure out what kind of button and blah, blah, crap crap CRAP when it would be so much easier if the damn thing would let you just "create shortcut" when you right-clicked the taskbar.
As for GUI speed, I'm going to have to return fire and tell you that your Win32 is very likely badly misconfigured - which it certainly is, if it's the default factory installation on a laptop - if it isn't considerably faster than X. Applications are inexplicably slow - VERY slow - to launch from the (KDE or Gnome) GUI on every machine I've ever used, and hardware acceleration is generally poorly implemented if implemented at all for various windowing tasks, even when present.
If your MSIE is constantly mysteriously locking up and waiting for who-knows-what, btw, you should fix that. It certainly sucks that you CAN get your windowing GUI spywared on Win*, but just because the design sucks doesn't mean you shouldn't baby it. Hit SpyBot up, and also make sure you don't have "automatic proxy detection" turned on in the MSIE Connection options (which it is by default). The only semi-acceptable reason for explorer to freeze during normal local file browsing usage is when you hit "My Computer" and the thing decides that you don't need to do ANYTHING AT ALL until it can spin up the CD-ROM drive far enough to decide whether or not there's a disk in there... and to be fair, that's a hardware problem with x86 machines in general, not a Win*-specific issue.
As much as I like love absolutely rely on being able to run multiple desktops or consoles simultaneously as arbitrary users, it would be nice if it was easier (possible?) to share a console and/or a GUI desktop under *nix. In my business I often find it invaluable to be able to VNC into a Windoze box and have clients WATCH what I'm doing; and I haven't come across any way to do that with a *nix console or desktop yet.
I absolutely agree. With KDE, in particular, one of the things that frustrates me to no END is how difficult it is just to make a freaking shortcut to an arbitrary file on the hard drive. ARGH, QUIT TRYING TO RAILROAD ME INTO MAKING A SHORTCUT TO A KDE APPLICATION! Drives me batty, it does...
And yeah, the GUI is far far too slow, when you compare it with Windows on modern hardware. The SYSTEM is so much faster, so why-n-heck do I have to put up with a GUI that's so slow?
1. 56K is what you get when you take a 64K circuit and use 7 bits of each word for data and the remaining 1 bit for signalling.
2. the FCC power level limit over POTS lines isn't to keep your equipment from frying, it's to keep your *head* from frying. The voltage is regulated low because the data is being transmitted over the same trunks used by analog telephones, in which the full electrical potential of the data circuit is delivered direct to the headset.
It doesn't support a bajillion options you're not used to seeing because it's designed for women, it sports a bajillion options you're not used to seeing because it's designed for Japanese domestic consumption. As far as I can tell, Inspector Gadget would stick out on a Tokyo city street mostly because his shoe-phone didn't have a color camera in it and play more games than a GameBoy Advance.
Every hop adds several milliseconds for processing time - and considerably more if the router in question is getting hit at the upper limit of its rated throughput (and thus having to buffer-and-wait instead of immediately routing packets).
Speed-of-light is 186,000,000 meters per second - from (Cincinnatti) Ohio to Minneapolis is roughly 1600km by highway, which would leave you with a wire-speed delay of only 16ms round-trip.
The extra 34ms you get on a well routed network generally tends to be time spent getting passed through intermediate routers along the way. Each router *does* add a noticeable amount of delay all of its own, apart from wire delay.
I *think* what they're trying to say is that BIC-TCP can utilize high-speed networks a lot better than plain-vanilla TCP/IP. But I don't know what the heck DSL is supposed to have to do with it; the physical *medium* consumer DSL uses (copper POTS lines) sure as hell isn't going to support a 9Gbps connection...
An awful lot of propagation delay tends to be equipment-internal rather than wire-length. Until you start talking about REALLY long distances like using satellite-based networking, anyway.
I certainly DON'T remember Windows moving from the business to the home - I remember it being the other way around; most businesses I dealt with were running DOS well into the Windows 95 days. Employees grumbling about how much nicer the Windows stuff they had at home looked than the raw text-mode ASCII stuff at work was a lot of the reason many businesses finally upgraded machines to run Windows instead of DOS.
Just like iTunes: up to 3 computers can play the file, and unlimited handhelds.
So the third time I upgrade my PC, I lose all of the rights to my media? Screw that.
We're running into a hardcore privacy issue here - the only faintly acceptable method of implementing DRM in terms of Fair Use would be for the license to follow an individual, not a computer - but that would do an even more horrendous job of tracking literally everything that single user did, regardless of machine.
I don't like either answer worth a damn. I don't see any good reason to give my money to somebody who's going to screw me over for a new license if I upgrade my machines, and I don't see any good reason to support someone's efforts to track my every single purchase and product usage either. The RI-MP-etc-AA are going to have to come up with a better answer - and yes, possibly even one that entails (Gasp!) actually trusting the people who pay them money for their products to be honest.
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I have the same first and last names as a daily AP columnist, a screenwriter, and a prizewinning novelist (who lives in the same state I do!). I'm not sure I could rob a bank and get myself on Google ahead of all that.
At any rate, it sounds like this guy needs to smother this one little bad brief mention from years ago with a ton of really good, awesome stuff. What exactly are you doing now? Nothing? Is a law enforcement interview really the most exciting and noteworthy thing you've done in the last few years?
That's hardly fair - in the 90's, I wrote the code for what, as far as I could tell, was the first "forum title control panel" (a way to set up a table for custom titles for individual usernames) that ever existed. Despite that code showing up all over the world in what was for several years the most popular forum software on the internet, it's WAY less "newsworthy" than a publicised LEO interview over a system intrusion. Hell, I couldn't find my own example in Google's index just now.
Is that why the vast majority of people do their best and most well known work before 30.
Ahhh, but they tend to make most of their money after 30.
What does this have to do with the cartoon contest? I RTFA and the world "religion" wasn't in it anywhere, and the only use of "Christ" was in "Christian Science Monitor", which magazine happens to be supplying one of the judges.
I'm no certified mechanic, but I've DEFINITELY had people try to dump some pretty hefty car repair problems on me, because they knew "I know cars" since I drove a reasonably warmed-over 70's sedan that I'd done most of the work on myself. It really is a pretty similar problem.
Another (possibly the same?) particularly vexing issue are "search engines" that aren't really search engines - they're static pages or subdomains that display the result of a search elsewhere, in order to recursively bump themselves up in Google's results and get clicks - check this or that out for examples. Those things spam up Google results for things like hard-to-find device drivers or other off-the-beaten-path things BADLY for me pretty often.
why was this modded "5, Informative?" the BBC article VERY specifically refers to 28 PROGRAMS per computer, never once mentioning cookies in any way... or the number 30, or the number 24. This was probably intended as a joke, but it's certainly not "informative" given that it's just making claims out of thin air.
I suppose you could make a case for the A/V scanner detecting spyware and just trying to be really clear about saying "this is spyware, not a virus", but in practice I'm much more comfortable with letting SpyBot handle the spyware and ClamAV or F-Prot handle the A/V work.
As for GUI speed, I'm going to have to return fire and tell you that your Win32 is very likely badly misconfigured - which it certainly is, if it's the default factory installation on a laptop - if it isn't considerably faster than X. Applications are inexplicably slow - VERY slow - to launch from the (KDE or Gnome) GUI on every machine I've ever used, and hardware acceleration is generally poorly implemented if implemented at all for various windowing tasks, even when present.
If your MSIE is constantly mysteriously locking up and waiting for who-knows-what, btw, you should fix that. It certainly sucks that you CAN get your windowing GUI spywared on Win*, but just because the design sucks doesn't mean you shouldn't baby it. Hit SpyBot up, and also make sure you don't have "automatic proxy detection" turned on in the MSIE Connection options (which it is by default). The only semi-acceptable reason for explorer to freeze during normal local file browsing usage is when you hit "My Computer" and the thing decides that you don't need to do ANYTHING AT ALL until it can spin up the CD-ROM drive far enough to decide whether or not there's a disk in there... and to be fair, that's a hardware problem with x86 machines in general, not a Win*-specific issue.
I've used VNC under FreeBSD. It spawns a new X session, not shares an existing one.
As much as I like love absolutely rely on being able to run multiple desktops or consoles simultaneously as arbitrary users, it would be nice if it was easier (possible?) to share a console and/or a GUI desktop under *nix. In my business I often find it invaluable to be able to VNC into a Windoze box and have clients WATCH what I'm doing; and I haven't come across any way to do that with a *nix console or desktop yet.
I absolutely agree. With KDE, in particular, one of the things that frustrates me to no END is how difficult it is just to make a freaking shortcut to an arbitrary file on the hard drive. ARGH, QUIT TRYING TO RAILROAD ME INTO MAKING A SHORTCUT TO A KDE APPLICATION! Drives me batty, it does... And yeah, the GUI is far far too slow, when you compare it with Windows on modern hardware. The SYSTEM is so much faster, so why-n-heck do I have to put up with a GUI that's so slow?
1. 56K is what you get when you take a 64K circuit and use 7 bits of each word for data and the remaining 1 bit for signalling. 2. the FCC power level limit over POTS lines isn't to keep your equipment from frying, it's to keep your *head* from frying. The voltage is regulated low because the data is being transmitted over the same trunks used by analog telephones, in which the full electrical potential of the data circuit is delivered direct to the headset.
Can anybody tell me what "Open Price" means?
It doesn't support a bajillion options you're not used to seeing because it's designed for women, it sports a bajillion options you're not used to seeing because it's designed for Japanese domestic consumption. As far as I can tell, Inspector Gadget would stick out on a Tokyo city street mostly because his shoe-phone didn't have a color camera in it and play more games than a GameBoy Advance.
math is hard. :)
You are correct sir. Thankfully, your correction of my own dumb mistake only made my original point more valid, so ... um ... LOOK! A BEAR!
Speed-of-light is 186,000,000 meters per second - from (Cincinnatti) Ohio to Minneapolis is roughly 1600km by highway, which would leave you with a wire-speed delay of only 16ms round-trip.
The extra 34ms you get on a well routed network generally tends to be time spent getting passed through intermediate routers along the way. Each router *does* add a noticeable amount of delay all of its own, apart from wire delay.
I *think* what they're trying to say is that BIC-TCP can utilize high-speed networks a lot better than plain-vanilla TCP/IP. But I don't know what the heck DSL is supposed to have to do with it; the physical *medium* consumer DSL uses (copper POTS lines) sure as hell isn't going to support a 9Gbps connection...
An awful lot of propagation delay tends to be equipment-internal rather than wire-length. Until you start talking about REALLY long distances like using satellite-based networking, anyway.
I certainly DON'T remember Windows moving from the business to the home - I remember it being the other way around; most businesses I dealt with were running DOS well into the Windows 95 days. Employees grumbling about how much nicer the Windows stuff they had at home looked than the raw text-mode ASCII stuff at work was a lot of the reason many businesses finally upgraded machines to run Windows instead of DOS.
We're running into a hardcore privacy issue here - the only faintly acceptable method of implementing DRM in terms of Fair Use would be for the license to follow an individual, not a computer - but that would do an even more horrendous job of tracking literally everything that single user did, regardless of machine.
I don't like either answer worth a damn. I don't see any good reason to give my money to somebody who's going to screw me over for a new license if I upgrade my machines, and I don't see any good reason to support someone's efforts to track my every single purchase and product usage either. The RI-MP-etc-AA are going to have to come up with a better answer - and yes, possibly even one that entails (Gasp!) actually trusting the people who pay them money for their products to be honest.