Correct, but experience has shown that a large number of installed NAT boxes either cannot map an externally accessible port to an internal IP address and port, or those who install the boxes do not provide their customers adequate information to permit them to do this. Given the trend, discussed in the last question, toward confining individual Internet users to a consumer role, I believe fewer and fewer users will have the ability to statically map ports as time goes on.
That's lovely if you accidentally enter "sitefinder.verisign.com". What if you accidentally enter "sakfjdkjf.com" ? The hosts file won't stop that from going to 64.94.110.11.
Since I know the context, I can figure it out without them. I'd hate to have to figure out the subject of a writing that was missing all middle letters.
The main reason you need them is for redundancy, to help reassure your brain that it read and understood something correctly (the length of the word is one cue and the letters in it are another). Otherwise your brain has to spend a lot of time double checking its guesses (was l__e lime line like lore limousine ?).
So, that might be a fun puzzle game or something, but wouldn't be good for normal text.
That's strange...I bothered to follow that link and there's no home phone number for the scumbag there. I even checked a past version. Guess what that means.
You're a moron
The person who posted the comment above (listing the phone number) probably used an online telephone directory, which means that if someone indeed has that same name and city and the scumbag is unlisted, then you will be calling an innocent person.
If they weren't making enough money from a telemarketing job because of such callers, what should they do ? If they're lazy morons or morons without any friends to give them simple job-seeking advice, they'd stay there and complain or be depressed. If not, they'd start looking for a decent job so they could switch.
There are always openings available. Most may be crap jobs, but what is telemarketing ? They don't even need to take time out of their day, just ask cashiers (or even managers) at places they frequent about job openings.
When have there EVER been a set number of jobs ? If I go out and mow people's lawns, that's one more job that wasn't there before. Yet, I somehow doubt that that job was included in your magically determined set number.
Considering that ANYONE can work freelance in a job that has a demand and get paid for it, I don't see why there'd be a limit.
This is a lot like the predictions they made in the early 20th century about science ending because nearly everything had been discovered.
What is a good way of learning enough to be a "Windows Guru" ? I'd like to be able to figure out problems that people I know (who all use Windows and aren't likely to switch) have in using their computers, even if I don't plan on using Windows myself.
Are there any recommended websites, books, or courses ?
Or they just have Microsoft's patch on them, which of course doesn't eradicate the worm, allowing it to continue to spread (as is the case with Blaster).
I've had to click reply multiple times after being deluged with 2+ complaints I didn't agree with a day.
Poor baby. I guess you made a poor choice when you opted in to a forum system that permits unsolicited messages with arbitrary complaints.
Wow, you're fucking oppressed.
How about you visit the seventh level of Hell/the death camps of the Nazis/Windows Me/(insert situation that inevitably is worse than person you are complaining about, because every situation is preferable to at least one other), and talk to me about it then.
Ummm...if I ran a software company, it would be worth more to get the hell out of software development as quickly as possible to avoid huge fines for things as inevitable as human errors. Or I might consider moving out of the effective reach of whatever organization enforced it.
Are you suggesting that there's someone moronic enough to keep working in such an environment ?
I think what the original post (about the $100) meant was a voluntary payment by the company to entice people to buy from them, not a forced fine by some crazed authoritarians.
You didn't quite get the analogy. There IS an equivalent of particular components being below spec. Unless you are making something trivial like a "Hello, World" program, the program will be divided into various parts like functions or classes (these are components...). These can be individually defective. The defective parts would be below spec.
It wouldn't be as if one in every thousand of such a program would come out defective. It would be as if one out of every five parts of the program would come out defective (which would make one out of one compilations of the program defective).
I suppose you could make it incredibly trivial for crackers to break, but hard for the average user. Maybe, in the binary, put "Copy protection: y". How many average users would be able to edit a binary without ruining it ?
Then, if a cracker posted it for bragging rights, people could laugh, removing that incentive.
Ummm...one is about fixed wireless access points that the university installed to give wireless access using wired links and standard routing protocols to connect them all...one is about constantly changing static and (in the future) mobile nodes installed by users off campus whenever they feel like it and the routing protocol they are developing to make it work well.
I'd think that you'd be able to connect to any computer on the local network with their IP address. You could then set up a DNS server that also provided local addresses.
So, you'd be able to connect to, perhaps, mitrock.mesh for streaming rock music or http://localnews.mesh/.
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You could have four antennas on each farm that point to the nearest two farms in each direction, or you could have Internet connections at both ends of the chain, so that if you can't get it from one direction, you'd just use the second gateway. Or, you could combine both ideas.
If the four-antennas idea would be too costly, you could just install extra antennas wherever you experience frequent disconnects.
No, Ricochet modems don't send the data to other users to hop around until it gets to a node of the ISP's. Ricochet modems send the data directly to a node of the ISP.
A person using their own Linux box is a bit different from a person using a box used by a lot of people.
I suppose you could modify the system to e-mail you the passwords to access those file servers whenever they're entered. That would cause a few problems. That's hard to do on your own Linux box when no one else uses it.
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If the data is hopping from rooftop to rooftop, all the nodes would have to have the WEP key anyway in order to route the packets, I believe. A better solution would be some system of encrypting the data (not the header) so that only the receiver (or the gateway) can decrypt the data.
The moving-from-Windows distributions do this. Lycoris and Lindows distributions, for example, don't require many decisions where Linux newbies would be lost due to inexperience. Any "difficult" questions would also be asked when setting up Windows.
Having specialized distributions like these seems to be a good way of handling the situation.
Some quote like "lies, damned lies, and statistics" keeps coming to mind. If you thought about what "Only 2 of the top 20 are "Windows" problems..." actually meant, you'd realize that there's a possibility that it means that the other OSs are getting fixed, that Windows might have a lot of vulnerabilities that can't be as easily found due to closed source, and last but greatest, Debian (with the most problems listed) had a grand total of *gasp* 3 problems listed !!!
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Correct, but experience has shown that a large number of installed NAT boxes either cannot map an externally accessible port to an internal IP address and port, or those who install the boxes do not provide their customers adequate information to permit them to do this. Given the trend, discussed in the last question, toward confining individual Internet users to a consumer role, I believe fewer and fewer users will have the ability to statically map ports as time goes on.
You'd miss out on Microsoft's award-winning support.
What exactly is the purpose of a TV license ?
That's lovely if you accidentally enter "sitefinder.verisign.com". What if you accidentally enter "sakfjdkjf.com" ? The hosts file won't stop that from going to 64.94.110.11.
Then, you could have the computer find all IPs that some known bad address (or sitefinder.verisign.net) resolves to. And do that once every few hours.
That wouldn't be much bandwidth and computers are good at that sort of repetitive thing.
Since I know the context, I can figure it out without them. I'd hate to have to figure out the subject of a writing that was missing all middle letters.
The main reason you need them is for redundancy, to help reassure your brain that it read and understood something correctly (the length of the word is one cue and the letters in it are another). Otherwise your brain has to spend a lot of time double checking its guesses (was l__e lime line like lore limousine ?).
So, that might be a fun puzzle game or something, but wouldn't be good for normal text.
If tihs alictre is cercort, the ttainosrlan is uenencsasry
If they weren't making enough money from a telemarketing job because of such callers, what should they do ? If they're lazy morons or morons without any friends to give them simple job-seeking advice, they'd stay there and complain or be depressed. If not, they'd start looking for a decent job so they could switch.
There are always openings available. Most may be crap jobs, but what is telemarketing ? They don't even need to take time out of their day, just ask cashiers (or even managers) at places they frequent about job openings.
When have there EVER been a set number of jobs ? If I go out and mow people's lawns, that's one more job that wasn't there before. Yet, I somehow doubt that that job was included in your magically determined set number.
Considering that ANYONE can work freelance in a job that has a demand and get paid for it, I don't see why there'd be a limit.
This is a lot like the predictions they made in the early 20th century about science ending because nearly everything had been discovered.
What is a good way of learning enough to be a "Windows Guru" ? I'd like to be able to figure out problems that people I know (who all use Windows and aren't likely to switch) have in using their computers, even if I don't plan on using Windows myself.
Are there any recommended websites, books, or courses ?
Or they just have Microsoft's patch on them, which of course doesn't eradicate the worm, allowing it to continue to spread (as is the case with Blaster).
I've had to click reply multiple times after being deluged with 2+ complaints I didn't agree with a day.
Poor baby. I guess you made a poor choice when you opted in to a forum system that permits unsolicited messages with arbitrary complaints.
Wow, you're fucking oppressed.
How about you visit the seventh level of Hell/the death camps of the Nazis/Windows Me/(insert situation that inevitably is worse than person you are complaining about, because every situation is preferable to at least one other), and talk to me about it then.
Ummm...if I ran a software company, it would be worth more to get the hell out of software development as quickly as possible to avoid huge fines for things as inevitable as human errors. Or I might consider moving out of the effective reach of whatever organization enforced it.
Are you suggesting that there's someone moronic enough to keep working in such an environment ?
I think what the original post (about the $100) meant was a voluntary payment by the company to entice people to buy from them, not a forced fine by some crazed authoritarians.
You didn't quite get the analogy. There IS an equivalent of particular components being below spec. Unless you are making something trivial like a "Hello, World" program, the program will be divided into various parts like functions or classes (these are components...). These can be individually defective. The defective parts would be below spec.
It wouldn't be as if one in every thousand of such a program would come out defective. It would be as if one out of every five parts of the program would come out defective (which would make one out of one compilations of the program defective).
That's why they'd likely build in an exception list to the addon, so that certain ports aren't closed with certain IPs.
I suppose you could make it incredibly trivial for crackers to break, but hard for the average user. Maybe, in the binary, put "Copy protection: y". How many average users would be able to edit a binary without ruining it ?
Then, if a cracker posted it for bragging rights, people could laugh, removing that incentive.
Ummm...one is about fixed wireless access points that the university installed to give wireless access using wired links and standard routing protocols to connect them all...one is about constantly changing static and (in the future) mobile nodes installed by users off campus whenever they feel like it and the routing protocol they are developing to make it work well.
There's a slight difference.
I'd think that you'd be able to connect to any computer on the local network with their IP address. You could then set up a DNS server that also provided local addresses.
So, you'd be able to connect to, perhaps, mitrock.mesh for streaming rock music or http://localnews.mesh/.
You could have four antennas on each farm that point to the nearest two farms in each direction, or you could have Internet connections at both ends of the chain, so that if you can't get it from one direction, you'd just use the second gateway. Or, you could combine both ideas.
If the four-antennas idea would be too costly, you could just install extra antennas wherever you experience frequent disconnects.
No, Ricochet modems don't send the data to other users to hop around until it gets to a node of the ISP's. Ricochet modems send the data directly to a node of the ISP.
A person using their own Linux box is a bit different from a person using a box used by a lot of people.
I suppose you could modify the system to e-mail you the passwords to access those file servers whenever they're entered. That would cause a few problems. That's hard to do on your own Linux box when no one else uses it.
If the data is hopping from rooftop to rooftop, all the nodes would have to have the WEP key anyway in order to route the packets, I believe. A better solution would be some system of encrypting the data (not the header) so that only the receiver (or the gateway) can decrypt the data.
The moving-from-Windows distributions do this. Lycoris and Lindows distributions, for example, don't require many decisions where Linux newbies would be lost due to inexperience. Any "difficult" questions would also be asked when setting up Windows.
Having specialized distributions like these seems to be a good way of handling the situation.
Some quote like "lies, damned lies, and statistics" keeps coming to mind. If you thought about what "Only 2 of the top 20 are "Windows" problems..." actually meant, you'd realize that there's a possibility that it means that the other OSs are getting fixed, that Windows might have a lot of vulnerabilities that can't be as easily found due to closed source, and last but greatest, Debian (with the most problems listed) had a grand total of *gasp* 3 problems listed !!!