I don't agree w/ anything you just said about Eugenia but I think most people on Slashdot would instantly notice how much more professional and knowledgeable she is than Michael.
How about an OpenBSD firewall? Secure by default, easy to patch, and you can actually do it all by reading the man pages and the OpenBSDFAQ. I consider myself an internediate Linux user but I was never able to get a Linux firewall up and running but OpenBSD 3.2 was simple and well laid out. The man pages spoil you w/ their easy to understand language and completeness. I've bought a few Open Source OSs' but OpenBSD was the best investment by far. Uptime is at 114 days, using about 34 megs of RAM and that's since I first got it up and running and patched.
Agreed. Here's something crazy... How about TESTING the phone support? How about going step by step on a couple of implementations (SAMBA, Squid, Apache) a SOHO may implement? Shit, how about load testing? Stability? Building a home-brewed WAP w/ authentication? Something.. Sheeesh.
The military has a long process to certify any aircraft for static line. I was speaking from a military context. I know you can do static line jumps out of about anything.
I can't remember what the name of the Heinlein novel but the novel or short story talked extensively about construction on an asteroid and how some of the work wouldn't be possible without synthetic spider webbing. Looks like Heinlein was ahead of his times again.
These comments are taken off of the front page of www.slashdot.org and were made by michael@slashdot.org This seems to be very bad publicity for your company. Will you be posting a response? You may want to have your public relations dept take a look at this website and these comments.
(in order)
> *from the speakeasy-dsl-sucks dept.*
> *from the speakeasy-has-spent-two-weeks-without-placing-my-o rder dept.*
> *from the i-thought-premium-price-meant-premium-service dept.*
> *from the not-in-speakeasy's-case-certainly dept.*
*from the even-writing-to-speakeasy's-ceo-gets-no-results dept.*
I've emailed Taco and Michael, requesting that Michael seperate his personal stuff and his job and leave Slashdot out of his little tiff with Speakeasy. I'm sure I won't get a response, just like the times Michael couldn't keep his political beliefs and snide comments off the front page. I really do think he's crossed the line this time.
What gets me is that subscribers are PAYING for his little comments about Speakeasy. Christ, take it up w/ Speakeasy, Michael. Try acting professional for once. Leave Slashdot out of it.
As long as he doesn't resort to this, I think we'll be alright. I would place money on Eric vs. Darl in a fight even without Eric's.45 Eric's pretty skilled in martial arts.
Kind of nice to have an Open Source leader who isn't long haired and unkempt that will also go shooting with you and your LUG:)
Why isn't Stallman doing anything about SCO? Is he too busy criticizing Debian and other Linux distros for not following his beliefs?
Yes. Look into Firestarter. Look into iptables/ipchains.
"If not, Windows is more secure than Linux for a desktop user."
Thats flawed and uninformed reasoning. Amng many reasons why Linux is more secure for a desktop user is that a normal desktop user runing Linux has almost zero chance of double clicking on an atachment and hosing their system w/a virus.
We didn't get Texas that way, you Eurotrash idiot. Texas defeated Mexico and became its own country. Then Texans voted in favor of annexation some years later and President Polk annexed Texas.
To my great surprise, Slashdot is almost impossible to view and post on since this "attack". Mozilla barfs on Slashdot every time but Konqueror is delivering for me right now albeit w/ a few reloads here and there.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't agree w/ anything you just said about Eugenia but I think most people on Slashdot would instantly notice how much more professional and knowledgeable she is than Michael.
How about an OpenBSD firewall? Secure by default, easy to patch, and you can actually do it all by reading the man pages and the OpenBSDFAQ. I consider myself an internediate Linux user but I was never able to get a Linux firewall up and running but OpenBSD 3.2 was simple and well laid out. The man pages spoil you w/ their easy to understand language and completeness. I've bought a few Open Source OSs' but OpenBSD was the best investment by far. Uptime is at 114 days, using about 34 megs of RAM and that's since I first got it up and running and patched.
Maybe /. and OSNews should try to work w/ each other since /. is routinely a few days behind OSNews. This article has been on OSNews for a few days.
Type this: /dev/null ; done
while [ true ] ; do wget -O - http://www.thebulkclub.com >
Watch this for a while....
esolving www.thebulkclub.com... done.
Connecting to www.thebulkclub.com[216.162.103.31]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14,437 [text/html]
100%[>] 14,437 4.05K/s ETA 00:00
Go rub one out, take a shower and come back to this:
Resolving www.thebulkclub.com... failed: Host not found.
Agreed. Here's something crazy... How about TESTING the phone support? How about going step by step on a couple of implementations (SAMBA, Squid, Apache) a SOHO may implement? Shit, how about load testing? Stability? Building a home-brewed WAP w/ authentication? Something.. Sheeesh.
The military has a long process to certify any aircraft for static line. I was speaking from a military context. I know you can do static line jumps out of about anything.
Yes, you can parachute out of them. Freefall I know for sure. I'm not too sure about about static-line.
I can't remember what the name of the Heinlein novel but the novel or short story talked extensively about construction on an asteroid and how some of the work wouldn't be possible without synthetic spider webbing. Looks like Heinlein was ahead of his times again.
This is NOT offtopic since I'm only responding to the editor's comments on THIS STORY. Of course, it could be Michael moderating me down.
Text of an email I sent to Speakeasy:
o rder dept.*
These comments are taken off of the front page of www.slashdot.org and were made by michael@slashdot.org This seems to be very bad publicity for your company. Will you be posting a response? You may want to have your public relations dept take a look at this website and these comments.
(in order)
> *from the speakeasy-dsl-sucks dept.*
> *from the speakeasy-has-spent-two-weeks-without-placing-my-
> *from the i-thought-premium-price-meant-premium-service dept.*
> *from the not-in-speakeasy's-case-certainly dept.*
*from the even-writing-to-speakeasy's-ceo-gets-no-results dept.*
So how is this offtopic if I'm responding to Michael's comment on THIS STORY?
I've emailed Taco and Michael, requesting that Michael seperate his personal stuff and his job and leave Slashdot out of his little tiff with Speakeasy. I'm sure I won't get a response, just like the times Michael couldn't keep his political beliefs and snide comments off the front page. I really do think he's crossed the line this time.
What gets me is that subscribers are PAYING for his little comments about Speakeasy. Christ, take it up w/ Speakeasy, Michael. Try acting professional for once. Leave Slashdot out of it.
OK, what's your problem with Speakeasy since you're making the front page of Slashdot your personal complaint forum.
Obviously, one of my enemies had mod points today.
When does the mail client fork?
Using thisduring my install of an OpenBSD firewall taught me a quite a bit.
As long as he doesn't resort to this, I think we'll be alright. I would place money on Eric vs. Darl in a fight even without Eric's .45 Eric's pretty skilled in martial arts.
Kind of nice to have an Open Source leader who isn't long haired and unkempt that will also go shooting with you and your LUG :)
Why isn't Stallman doing anything about SCO? Is he too busy criticizing Debian and other Linux distros for not following his beliefs?
The 3rd link on MSN search leads to a Redhat 9 review where "Expensive" is listed as one of the cons...
Huh?!
Can Linux do this?"
Yes. Look into Firestarter. Look into iptables/ipchains.
"If not, Windows is more secure than Linux for a desktop user."
Thats flawed and uninformed reasoning. Amng many reasons why Linux is more secure for a desktop user is that a normal desktop user runing Linux has almost zero chance of double clicking on an atachment and hosing their system w/a virus.
More like a lie you got caught telling.
We didn't get Texas that way, you Eurotrash idiot. Texas defeated Mexico and became its own country. Then Texans voted in favor of annexation some years later and President Polk annexed Texas.
Look it up, jackass.
I was thinking of upgrading my laptop's hard drive to a 7200rpm 8MB cache 60 gig but I couldn't tell if Tom's was testing the one w/ the 8MB cache.
To my great surprise, Slashdot is almost impossible to view and post on since this "attack". Mozilla barfs on Slashdot every time but Konqueror is delivering for me right now albeit w/ a few reloads here and there.
His attitude obviously did not infect everybody in the community from my experience.