Yes. It is too much. As of Thursday our government is owned by the huge corporations. No one there is going to care if individuals are treated correctly or even if corps follow through their contracts.
They'll start caring the moment the citizens exercise their first amendment right, backed up by their second amendment right. And when the citizens are finished, they can all kick back and enjoy a nice, cold glass of their twenty-second amendment right.
...volunteer our professional services (I'm a network guy and my wife has a master's degree in counseling)
You know...that might actually work. After I let some volunteer-for-a-week upgrade my network, I'm sure my boss will demand I have a shrink examine my brain...
Slashdot 10:01:17: Thou shalt use no GUI, and only text mode - the way God intended computer displays to be!
Don't you mean 'From the book of Slashdot, 2nd Parenthesis chapter 10, verse 1: Thou shalt use no GUI, and only text mode - the way God intended computer displays to be!"
At least show some reverence when quoting from the good site.
But in the us you don't go to jail for being a part of the religion that is not the one the sate forces you to be in.
Give us time. Soon we'll be able to send you to jail for using too much fuel or electricity or driving the wrong type of car or not buying health insurance.
The difference between China and the US is that China tells you what religion you can or can't be where the US government is becoming its own religion.
But, according to all the experts, you only need it to last till 2012.
...and 640k ought to be enough for anyone. ...and IPv6 is so huge as to be nearly inexhaustable.
and I'm sure they said the same thing about IPv4 way back when...
Better make sure your computer rounds that (way way down) to 13.7 billion.
According to current cosmological thinking, that's when time began.
Yes, and some still think we have no need for dates after 12/21/2012. It's that kind of short-sightedness that will bite us in the ass when we suddenly realize that we've calculated something wrong with the decay of carbon in relation to neutron stars or whatever...and then we realize we need to adjust the beginning of the universe by a few billion years...
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Because everybody forgot about Y2K on Jan 1 2000. Planes didn't fall from the sky, remember (well not immediately, anyway).
Yes. I anticipated this. I now store all my dates much like the Unix epoch, except I store it in a 1 gigabit integer field (f*ck 64-bit integers) that counts the number of seconds since midnight January 1st, 50,000,000,000^1024 years ago.
We should be safe from now until the universe collapses, Jesus comes back, Allah blows us all up, or the Great Green Arkleseizure wipes his nose.
Oh--and you do have that new holographic storage tech in your laptop, right? You'll need a few exobytes just to store the timestamps on all your files...
However, it is my job to protect our computers/network and I do that by blocking "risky" sites.
Good idea. I'd hate for you to accidentally get a virus when I SSH into my home machine and read my email using mutt. You'd be surprised at the number of viruses that can encode themselves in an email as a start ZMODEM trigger and get transfered through a zssh connection back to a work computer. Then all the virus has to do it wait for a double-click...;)
My provider runs spamassassin, and given their track record in updating their other software, I rather doubt that they'll update spamassassin anytime soon. Is there any way around this that doesn't involve root access? (I love helpful responses from idiots that start with "first, edit the/etc/spamassassin.conf file" or whatever.)
Oh yeah, the other wonderfully helpful stock response "stop using the software if you don't like it". Sure, I'd love to go back to getting 500 spams a day.
My car is so old it doesn't have an airbag. I heard about this glitch where I have a higher chance of dying because my car doesn't have an airbag. Given my track record in buying new cards, I doubt I'll update my gremlin anytime soon. Is there a way around this that doesn't involve require spending money? (I love helpful responses from idiots that start with "first go to NAPA" or whatever.) Oh yeah, the other wonderfully helpful stock response "stop driving the car if you're worried about dying in a wreck". Sure, I'd love to go back to the horse and buggy.
The first thing that comes to my mind is huge bloated printer drivers that are constantly updating.
What? I thought customers and admins *loved* their 2 MB printer drivers to come bundled with the.NET framework and constant reminders to buy ink when levels dropped below 75%...
Um, customers do love 2MB printer drivers; it's the 300MB printer drivers that are a bit tough to swallow.
I guess my wording wasn't too clear. That's exactly what I meant--a 2 MB print driver that gets packaged with a ton of other crap.
The first thing that comes to my mind is huge bloated printer drivers that are constantly updating.
What? I thought customers and admins *loved* their 2 MB printer drivers to come bundled with the.NET framework and constant reminders to buy ink when levels dropped below 75%...
Or how about Hyades1. Once the recipient of such moderations as "+5. Insightful" and "+5, Informative" the brand is now associated with failing to RTFA.
Or how about darkpixel2k? The brand is associated with cheap and inferior knockoffs of existing jokes.
They could start by releasing a *&^#@ MSI file for Windows and a deb/tar/rpm for Linux.
They have packages. Check www.adobe.com and look under Linux.
Are they finally up to date? I remember a year or so back that they were slightly outdated.
But the one that really hurts is no Windows MSI. I can easily install a deb to 500 linux machines using cssh. I can't easily install some stupid EXE with lots of clicky installer bullshit to 500 machines without going insane. When managing a large Windows network, I've found you *must* have MSIs to mass-install software. That's the whole reason we aren't using Firefox anywhere. Can't easily deploy it.
They could start by releasing a *&^#@ MSI file for Windows and a deb/tar/rpm for Linux.
Currently I have to wade through a bunch of retarded forms and sign a corporate distribution agreement and wait a few hours so they will send me a link to an MSI so I can update flash.
Put an MSI on your home page that I can download in a few clicks and push out via Group Policy.
With a deb, I can update all the linux systems I manage using cssh, wget to grab the deb, and 'dpkg -i' to install.
If they're not willing to do that, they aren't being helpful.
Although they could always release the source and let us take care of the updates for them...;) But I'm sure they're even more against that then releasing an MSI.
Howto configure PVLANs on a Cisco Cat 3750 switch:
Can you tell all the small-time hotel owners out there how to do that with a dlink or netgear device...;)
I would bet that most of the hotel owners out there aren't the Hilton, Ritz, or Embassy. And possibly even those big guys wouldn't want to spend a butt-load of money on *all* their hotels for pvlan capable switches when a netgear device would work well. Maybe they would for hundred or thousand room hotels in NY, Vegas, etc...but we have one down the road that's ~20 rooms...
Developing software for a living means making a product people want to buy. If you want to create something and hope people buy it, that's your choice. If you want to develop on-demand, you can produce the functionality and still open the code.
Sorry--that was my bad terminology causing confusion there. I'm not against building a product for a customer and giving them the source along with the completed product at all.
I would claim that basing your business model on selling something which is easily copied is a terrible business model.
Really? It seems to work well for the music industry, Microsoft, Apple, etc... When was the last time you saw a shareware author rise from a pauper to be a billionaire through their shareware development?
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Yes. It is too much. As of Thursday our government is owned by the huge corporations. No one there is going to care if individuals are treated correctly or even if corps follow through their contracts.
They'll start caring the moment the citizens exercise their first amendment right, backed up by their second amendment right. And when the citizens are finished, they can all kick back and enjoy a nice, cold glass of their twenty-second amendment right.
...volunteer our professional services (I'm a network guy and my wife has a master's degree in counseling)
You know...that might actually work. After I let some volunteer-for-a-week upgrade my network, I'm sure my boss will demand I have a shrink examine my brain...
Cue the "cue the" comments in 3, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2, -3....
-1? Looks like you just found a bug that's been in Microsoft's Meta Countdown tool. This one goes all the way back to Windows 2.0.
robots.rtf?
No, it's robots.wmf. Just take a screenshot of the URL you don't want them accessing...
Bing?
Ned? Ned Ryerson?
I prefer goat's blood and human skin, with a nice big feather from a bird of prey for a quill.
It's nice to see Microsoft employees being represented in this discussion...let me guess...Office Ribbon developer?
Slashdot 10:01:17: Thou shalt use no GUI, and only text mode - the way God intended computer displays to be!
Don't you mean 'From the book of Slashdot, 2nd Parenthesis chapter 10, verse 1: Thou shalt use no GUI, and only text mode - the way God intended computer displays to be!"
At least show some reverence when quoting from the good site.
what do a bunch of dorks on slashdot know anyway?
Well, collectively there's someone who knows the answer to any question you ask, complete with car analogy.
But in the us you don't go to jail for being a part of the religion that is not the one the sate forces you to be in.
Give us time. Soon we'll be able to send you to jail for using too much fuel or electricity or driving the wrong type of car or not buying health insurance. The difference between China and the US is that China tells you what religion you can or can't be where the US government is becoming its own religion.
How Earth Avoided a Fiery Premature Death
The dinosaurs were smart (especially the Velociraptors). They stopped driving SUVs. That's why we're here.
Apple's BSoD is the kernel panic, just like any other self-respecting Unix.
I like my operating system to be self-respecting when it goes down on me.
So they are working on IPv7 for when I have a few million individually addressable nanobots floating in my bloodstream?
But, according to all the experts, you only need it to last till 2012.
and I'm sure they said the same thing about IPv4 way back when...
Better make sure your computer rounds that (way way down) to 13.7 billion. According to current cosmological thinking, that's when time began.
Yes, and some still think we have no need for dates after 12/21/2012. It's that kind of short-sightedness that will bite us in the ass when we suddenly realize that we've calculated something wrong with the decay of carbon in relation to neutron stars or whatever...and then we realize we need to adjust the beginning of the universe by a few billion years...
Because everybody forgot about Y2K on Jan 1 2000. Planes didn't fall from the sky, remember (well not immediately, anyway).
Yes. I anticipated this. I now store all my dates much like the Unix epoch, except I store it in a 1 gigabit integer field (f*ck 64-bit integers) that counts the number of seconds since midnight January 1st, 50,000,000,000^1024 years ago.
We should be safe from now until the universe collapses, Jesus comes back, Allah blows us all up, or the Great Green Arkleseizure wipes his nose.
Oh--and you do have that new holographic storage tech in your laptop, right? You'll need a few exobytes just to store the timestamps on all your files...
This high-risk, long-range Internet research will kick into high gear in 2010
Eh? What do you mean we've tried this before?
Besides, SSH tunnels won't work on my network.
However, it is my job to protect our computers/network and I do that by blocking "risky" sites.
Good idea. I'd hate for you to accidentally get a virus when I SSH into my home machine and read my email using mutt. You'd be surprised at the number of viruses that can encode themselves in an email as a start ZMODEM trigger and get transfered through a zssh connection back to a work computer. Then all the virus has to do it wait for a double-click... ;)
My provider runs spamassassin, and given their track record in updating their other software, I rather doubt that they'll update spamassassin anytime soon. Is there any way around this that doesn't involve root access? (I love helpful responses from idiots that start with "first, edit the /etc/spamassassin.conf file" or whatever.)
Oh yeah, the other wonderfully helpful stock response "stop using the software if you don't like it". Sure, I'd love to go back to getting 500 spams a day.
My car is so old it doesn't have an airbag. I heard about this glitch where I have a higher chance of dying because my car doesn't have an airbag. Given my track record in buying new cards, I doubt I'll update my gremlin anytime soon. Is there a way around this that doesn't involve require spending money? (I love helpful responses from idiots that start with "first go to NAPA" or whatever.) Oh yeah, the other wonderfully helpful stock response "stop driving the car if you're worried about dying in a wreck". Sure, I'd love to go back to the horse and buggy.
The first thing that comes to my mind is huge bloated printer drivers that are constantly updating.
What? I thought customers and admins *loved* their 2 MB printer drivers to come bundled with the .NET framework and constant reminders to buy ink when levels dropped below 75%...
Um, customers do love 2MB printer drivers; it's the 300MB printer drivers that are a bit tough to swallow.
I guess my wording wasn't too clear. That's exactly what I meant--a 2 MB print driver that gets packaged with a ton of other crap.
The first thing that comes to my mind is huge bloated printer drivers that are constantly updating.
What? I thought customers and admins *loved* their 2 MB printer drivers to come bundled with the .NET framework and constant reminders to buy ink when levels dropped below 75%...
Or how about Hyades1. Once the recipient of such moderations as "+5. Insightful" and "+5, Informative" the brand is now associated with failing to RTFA.
Or how about darkpixel2k? The brand is associated with cheap and inferior knockoffs of existing jokes.
They could start by releasing a *&^#@ MSI file for Windows and a deb/tar/rpm for Linux.
They have packages. Check www.adobe.com and look under Linux.
Are they finally up to date? I remember a year or so back that they were slightly outdated.
But the one that really hurts is no Windows MSI. I can easily install a deb to 500 linux machines using cssh. I can't easily install some stupid EXE with lots of clicky installer bullshit to 500 machines without going insane. When managing a large Windows network, I've found you *must* have MSIs to mass-install software. That's the whole reason we aren't using Firefox anywhere. Can't easily deploy it.
They could start by releasing a *&^#@ MSI file for Windows and a deb/tar/rpm for Linux.
;) But I'm sure they're even more against that then releasing an MSI.
Currently I have to wade through a bunch of retarded forms and sign a corporate distribution agreement and wait a few hours so they will send me a link to an MSI so I can update flash.
Put an MSI on your home page that I can download in a few clicks and push out via Group Policy.
With a deb, I can update all the linux systems I manage using cssh, wget to grab the deb, and 'dpkg -i' to install.
If they're not willing to do that, they aren't being helpful.
Although they could always release the source and let us take care of the updates for them...
Howto configure PVLANs on a Cisco Cat 3750 switch:
Can you tell all the small-time hotel owners out there how to do that with a dlink or netgear device... ;)
I would bet that most of the hotel owners out there aren't the Hilton, Ritz, or Embassy. And possibly even those big guys wouldn't want to spend a butt-load of money on *all* their hotels for pvlan capable switches when a netgear device would work well. Maybe they would for hundred or thousand room hotels in NY, Vegas, etc...but we have one down the road that's ~20 rooms...
Developing software for a living means making a product people want to buy. If you want to create something and hope people buy it, that's your choice. If you want to develop on-demand, you can produce the functionality and still open the code.
Sorry--that was my bad terminology causing confusion there. I'm not against building a product for a customer and giving them the source along with the completed product at all.
I would claim that basing your business model on selling something which is easily copied is a terrible business model.
Really? It seems to work well for the music industry, Microsoft, Apple, etc... When was the last time you saw a shareware author rise from a pauper to be a billionaire through their shareware development?