Do you really do that? Wow, what the heck do you do with all of the printers?
I'm sure he just tosses them down a hole in the ground like everybody else. We stopped giving a crap about the Earth long before consumers were printing their own photos. It's just "buy now pay later" at an extreme.
What, none of you realised we're slo^H^H^Hquickly but surely screwing the planet with progress?
Because colour lasers are terrible for photos. They're fine for graphs and different coloured blocks of text (don't forget to laminate it to keep the drool off!) but smooth grades look horrible on all the lasers I've seen. Good enough for illustration, not good enough to frame.
I don't disagree with your points, I just got all excited that you seemed to know a why for an ISP to stop customer machines being able to use raw sockets - they can't. Indeed, there doesn't seem to be a valid argument to let spoofed source IPs through.
Ben
There are also many tools available to scan for rootkit activity,
Yep. And it sure seems like you're one of 'em. With your toolbelt of Sysinternals, and your "Absolute method" of detecting rootkits (with what!?), weekdays after school, for $10
Sounds like you know your shit. I'll bet we can all rely on you to be able to guarantee us without a doubt that every single instance of infection has been cleaned off a machine, and that it is once again pure as the driven snow.
Of course, the GP is absolutely correct. A fresh windows install has enough going on that's not known in depth by many people. One that's had a "screen saver" installed could have anything. There's more to disinfecting a machine than emptying everything out of All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, Sparky.
Linux kernel: "USB mass-storage support integrity not assured!"
And they ain't kidding. I always sync and unmount, haven't had any problems with recent kernels yet, but I've been bitten the ass bigtime in the past by corruption on USB removabless.
While some tropical fish care for their young (and sometimes it's the male's job!), goldfish have nothing to do with them after laying the eggs. Except to eat the occasional one, of course.
Just a couple of things to add to your post:
Sun developed it and trademarked it as OpenBoot, which is the name for their impelementation of it. OpenFirmware is the name given to any IEEE 1275 conforming implementation.
The ROM code is FCode, or Forth Bytecode. This is machine independent, so you can take an IEEE1275 ethernet card from a Sun Sparc, put in a PCI Machintosh, and boot off the LAN right out of the box.
Scrambling to keep up, BIOS manufacturers added bling like being able to change the boot priority of different devices, and for the system to just carry on booting in the face of a keyboard error. Truly revolutionary.
Bloody well said! And believe it or not, I'm one of the die-hards he's talking about, except that I don't:
fail to recognize that improvements to the presentation of information need to be geared to facilitating the user's interaction with it. - I agree 100%.
I've always used a shell since 16MB was a chunk of RAM, and it's going to stay that way. Every time I've tried out a new Desktop Environment I've just ended up frustrated at the waste of time that it was. Geez, guys - at least borrow some old Mac running OS8.1 and take some tips from that for a start. I've resigned to using XFCE, I've managed to tweak it so that enough shit stays out of my way graphically, and don't use much past launch menus and the dock, usually to open a Terminal or a Browser.
I often wonder if the very fact that it is free (as in beer) will doom it forever. Nobody can complain, because nobody pays for it. The guy who wasted time writing Wanda the Gnome fish can't be fired. The guy who stayed up until 3 coding a fix that would keep once again instill peace of mind in millions of administrators might get a pizza or a box of beer. There's little incentive or disincentive in it.
While I'm not entirely chuffed with OSX myself, I give it 10/10 for "The devs giving a crap about the users experience"
Until the recruitment agency calls you back to tell you they couldn't open your document on any of their computers, and to resend it as a dot dee oh sea file. Not that I've bothered at all with recruitment agencies since. Last job I went for, you could have sent the guy a TXT file which was a UUEncoded gzipped tarball and he would have figured it out and had fun doing it.
From what I remember of doing and Ubuntu install for my sister, it's pretty polished, they've obviously had more than the OSS-usual non-programmer input. Still in need of a little more perhaps, but definitely a long way in the right direction.
I can't believe how well it's worked, she's only called me twice. Once was to ask for her password; Automatic Updates needed it to
sudo
presumably. Pretty good run for someone who'd only 'heard' of Linux. Someone else at her work had done the hard job of convincing her to use it, so all up I've spend two hours tops on it, never even touched the computer since, and my first Linux convert has now been using it for over a year.
It's an unwritten Opensource rule, be technically excellent, but as ugly as hell at all costs. No matter what transparency / spinning cubes and fading effects you thrown on a *nix desktop, it only lets you see one ugly thing through another.
Unfortunately the "It's free so don't complain" mentality is to thank for this: I'm really starting to lose faith in Open Source and Linux (after about 10 years of using it exclusively at home) - I'm starting to believe that unless devs are paid like that are at Apple or Microsoft, we'll never get the product presentation that they have.
And like it or not, we're not even that technically superiour across the board any more, either. I'm actually starting to want to pay for an OS.
The one improvement I saw, though, was being able to browse my local workgroup/domain with one click instead of having to click though "My Network Places --> Entire Network --> Microsoft Windows Network --> [Domain Name]".
You mean they've made it like Win95/98 again.
You can call that an improvement if you like, to me it just seems like a reversion of yet another braindead and ill-thought out function of XP/2000.
That generation of MS OS's really did have some great improvements for users, but as a sysadmin they drive me mad! Even changing from DHCP to a static IP or back again (sometimes I do this 8 or more times a day) can't be done without clicking here, properties, scrolling to the bottom to see TCP/IP (because we know that's rarely used), changing details, click OK, Wait 15 secs, click OK, wait 15 secs. It's faster to leave the WinIP the same and use a Linux box with NAT and packet mangling to give the illusion of changing it instead, I swear!
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I'm sure he just tosses them down a hole in the ground like everybody else. We stopped giving a crap about the Earth long before consumers were printing their own photos. It's just "buy now pay later" at an extreme.
What, none of you realised we're slo^H^H^Hquickly but surely screwing the planet with progress?
Because colour lasers are terrible for photos. They're fine for graphs and different coloured blocks of text (don't forget to laminate it to keep the drool off!) but smooth grades look horrible on all the lasers I've seen. Good enough for illustration, not good enough to frame.
I don't disagree with your points, I just got all excited that you seemed to know a why for an ISP to stop customer machines being able to use raw sockets - they can't. Indeed, there doesn't seem to be a valid argument to let spoofed source IPs through.
Ben
Yep. And it sure seems like you're one of 'em. With your toolbelt of Sysinternals, and your "Absolute method" of detecting rootkits (with what!?), weekdays after school, for $10
Of course, the GP is absolutely correct. A fresh windows install has enough going on that's not known in depth by many people. One that's had a "screen saver" installed could have anything. There's more to disinfecting a machine than emptying everything out of All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, Sparky.
And they ain't kidding. I always sync and unmount, haven't had any problems with recent kernels yet, but I've been bitten the ass bigtime in the past by corruption on USB removabless.
Laden or unladen?
No, it doesn't have very good multicast support.
While some tropical fish care for their young (and sometimes it's the male's job!), goldfish have nothing to do with them after laying the eggs. Except to eat the occasional one, of course.
I don't think NASA would care much what the round trip time was. It's not like they're going to ssh into it or anything.
Will the price of crack be coming down soon too?
Unless you meant affected
The parent?
;-)
You must have had brilliant karma before you started trolling if you're still not down to -1 yet! Well done!
Thanks for the links! Best laugh I've had all week!
Mmm, I can see all the devs lick their lips while they relish writing a TCP/IP stack complete with QOS in Forth!
Just a couple of things to add to your post:
Sun developed it and trademarked it as OpenBoot, which is the name for their impelementation of it. OpenFirmware is the name given to any IEEE 1275 conforming implementation.
The ROM code is FCode, or Forth Bytecode. This is machine independent, so you can take an IEEE1275 ethernet card from a Sun Sparc, put in a PCI Machintosh, and boot off the LAN right out of the box.
Scrambling to keep up, BIOS manufacturers added bling like being able to change the boot priority of different devices, and for the system to just carry on booting in the face of a keyboard error. Truly revolutionary.
I've always used a shell since 16MB was a chunk of RAM, and it's going to stay that way. Every time I've tried out a new Desktop Environment I've just ended up frustrated at the waste of time that it was. Geez, guys - at least borrow some old Mac running OS8.1 and take some tips from that for a start. I've resigned to using XFCE, I've managed to tweak it so that enough shit stays out of my way graphically, and don't use much past launch menus and the dock, usually to open a Terminal or a Browser.
I often wonder if the very fact that it is free (as in beer) will doom it forever. Nobody can complain, because nobody pays for it. The guy who wasted time writing Wanda the Gnome fish can't be fired. The guy who stayed up until 3 coding a fix that would keep once again instill peace of mind in millions of administrators might get a pizza or a box of beer. There's little incentive or disincentive in it. While I'm not entirely chuffed with OSX myself, I give it 10/10 for "The devs giving a crap about the users experience"
Until the recruitment agency calls you back to tell you they couldn't open your document on any of their computers, and to resend it as a dot dee oh sea file. Not that I've bothered at all with recruitment agencies since. Last job I went for, you could have sent the guy a TXT file which was a UUEncoded gzipped tarball and he would have figured it out and had fun doing it.
(in soviet, federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison)
From what I remember of doing and Ubuntu install for my sister, it's pretty polished, they've obviously had more than the OSS-usual non-programmer input. Still in need of a little more perhaps, but definitely a long way in the right direction.
I can't believe how well it's worked, she's only called me twice. Once was to ask for her password; Automatic Updates needed it to
presumably. Pretty good run for someone who'd only 'heard' of Linux. Someone else at her work had done the hard job of convincing her to use it, so all up I've spend two hours tops on it, never even touched the computer since, and my first Linux convert has now been using it for over a year.Yep. Just as soon as that headache's over with...
It's an unwritten Opensource rule, be technically excellent, but as ugly as hell at all costs. No matter what transparency / spinning cubes and fading effects you thrown on a *nix desktop, it only lets you see one ugly thing through another.
Unfortunately the "It's free so don't complain" mentality is to thank for this: I'm really starting to lose faith in Open Source and Linux (after about 10 years of using it exclusively at home) - I'm starting to believe that unless devs are paid like that are at Apple or Microsoft, we'll never get the product presentation that they have.
And like it or not, we're not even that technically superiour across the board any more, either. I'm actually starting to want to pay for an OS.
You mean they've made it like Win95/98 again.
You can call that an improvement if you like, to me it just seems like a reversion of yet another braindead and ill-thought out function of XP/2000.
That generation of MS OS's really did have some great improvements for users, but as a sysadmin they drive me mad! Even changing from DHCP to a static IP or back again (sometimes I do this 8 or more times a day) can't be done without clicking here, properties, scrolling to the bottom to see TCP/IP (because we know that's rarely used), changing details, click OK, Wait 15 secs, click OK, wait 15 secs. It's faster to leave the WinIP the same and use a Linux box with NAT and packet mangling to give the illusion of changing it instead, I swear!