Absolutely correct on all points. Such that we'd hack it ourselves (using overwrite mode in cygnused, naturally) and infect ourselves with it as a matter of course each morning when my mates and I would fire up the old 500's.
It turns out I actually did misspell the word in the first place, but "whingeing" is in fact in the Collins English Dictionary. Again, meaning "to whinge".
to answer your questions:
The first question was actually rhetorical, but thanks. Anti-slash and their articles: I only piped up because someone linked to them, and was reminded of the first time I'd visited some months ago, expecting something at least vaguely competing with slashdot (I can't remember what the original post said, is was might even have been a troll). I visited again to see if anything had changed, if there was anything interesting. Indeed, it must be for some people given they have posts on their forums, but I couldn't see it being of value to many well-adjusted individuals.
So, I thought I'd vent my spleen on it once and for all in the hope of saving a few folk from hunting through a few tabs looking for something more nourishing than "omfg fscking got modbombed wtf!?!" and plan after plan on 'how to make the moderation system work how I want'.
If you were the slashdot crew, would you fix it? Let's just say, (because I've no idea) that slashdot is cranking the $$$. People complain about dupes, but still the $$$ keep rolling. The things people say about CmdrTaco in their sigs etc. No surprise he doesn't come here. But it cranks in the dollars for him. From what I understand of business, you treat complaints based on how your inaction will affect you in the future. In the dupe case, I'd say very little if nothing.
Sure, slashdot sucks, but I still come here. The town I live in sucks and the council sucks but I still live here (my job is nice, though). Lots of things suck in ways you just have to ignore sometimes. That's why I think that people that spend their time running a hair-splitting, pedantic and generally unconstructive site need to take a look at themselves before they become obsessed with it. Sure, complain to timothy, or taco or whatever, you're right to, but leave it at that.
re your disclaimer: if antislash didn't have to do what they do, I'm sure they'd find something else. What they need a wee reassessment of their priorities. It's not like slashdot's faults aren't blaringly obvious enough. Isn't it ironic that, on an articles second running, there might be 40 posts all saying "dupe!".
Someone spots a dupe, but for some reason they think they'll be the only person to notice, so they must report it. And set up a domain.
I was actually hoping you were associated with them, I was looking forward to hearing what one might say.
I dunno how it is outside of New Zealand, but the only way to get a solar panel here is from BP. Yes, a petroleum giant.
Nothing on the horizon that will drop the price of solar cells? Understatement, mate.
And yes, you're damn right, PoE is cheaper. Wireless is really handy, but I don't think there's any point in ditching cable because of it. I can usually go further, it can go practically anywhere, through nearly everything, and transmit power!
PoE is excellent, anything that gets rid of bulky transformers that are designed to fail early and cover three electrical outlets has got to be. It's 48V isn't it? What's the maximum current draw allowed? Or does that depend greatly on the switch?
You raise a very good point. So what's behind VOIP? Is it merely socialism? Are we better to leave telephony to the providers and contractors, who in most cases already own the transmission media we use for IP anyway?
As someone who spent quite a while setting up an Asterisk box for a company just under six months ago, and in light of VOIPs own drawbacks, I have started to wonder myself if there's any point at all in it. That's not to say I think there isn't (nearly clicked the submit button before saying that), Skype is handy and Just Works, but I'm not as thrilled as I used to be. I got hyped.
Wow, not only did you find a spelling mistake in my post, you found one in a valid dicionary word: whinging. Tricky one, that. It means "to whinge". Note "whinge" is also in the dictionary, it is not a mis-spelling of "whine".
I'm not saying it's reasonable of the editors to ignore dupes, or run slashdot to the standard they do, but it's not that I'm complaining about either.
Why can't the slashdot editors find the dupes? Well, why can't anti-slash run real articles? Something interesting? Just because you're able to spot someone/somethings deficiency and write detailed accounts of it doesn't make you the solution.
In fact it puts you of the mindset that you are somehow authoritive, and do things like correct spelling on words you haven't learned yet, and no doubt continually refresh slashdot pages so you can post them on anti-slash.
I really wish sometimes that I could open all those ILOVEYOU.PIF and LOL.SCR jokes my friends send to me. Whenever I go over to their place to see it they've got it in at the shop getting it "cleaned out" or something. Strange. Must be clumsy with their drinks.
Because sitting around whinging and moaning about about/. M1 while madly refreshing and searching for keywords in your dupe database so you can be the first to bring it to attention is somehow much more fulfilling than reading slashdot topics.
Great, not only can I be subjected still to dupes, I can access a database maintained by someone so obsessed with something that pisses them off so much, it's all they spend their time doing, and verify the article is in fact, a dupe. And find out the CID, date, editor(sic) etc! And then discuss it!
Marvellous idea! How you guys haven't brought slashdot to its very knees already amazes me.
That's why a lot of folks use Samba itself instead of NFS for filesharing between 'nixes. Of course, you do only get a completely different set of limitations.
I used to filter IM and games etc, basically anything that wasn't already accepted as bona-fide traffic. Put all that in when I took over admin of a network about 18 months ago.
It pretty much immediately upset some old dude with, of course, sick relatives overseas, and he managed to get management to bully me into opening ports for him.
The whole process took about a week, that's how long I didn't back down for. In spite of opening, and going to great lengths to find out how to sometimes, dropped packets from his machine still spewed into the logs, local smurfs, all sorts of shit. God knows what ran on his machine.
Since by the time your writeup is squished between the ads it'd take up three quarters of a page, I wouldn't be surprised they didn't run it. Cut out half or more of the text and you'd get another look.
Not that there's anything majorly wrong with your writeup, it's just that a lot of folk don't like long runs of text.
X86 processors and shitty firmware seem to go hand in hand, don't ask me why. When I heard Apple was dropping openfirmware I sobbed. I was looking forward to a REAL x86.
I'm surprised how well the server's holding up. I'm probably taking a different route to it than you guys outside of NZ, but I doubt their international link is too flooded, they're quite a big ISP these days,.orcon.net.nz.
Easy tiger, I was talking about the impact of encrypting _every_ backup. Yes, they're about $100, you're right. Say you've got thirty tapes in your organisation. That's an extra $3000 you've got to spend, and a lot of organisations just won't spend that much more, especially if they haven't lost a tape yet and don't perceive the threat of losing a tape as very significant.
If you don't use hardware compression, the backup could take longer too. And it's not like they're ever quick.
Exactly. It's acutally considered an 'exploit' of an algorithm if - from four binary files, three of them random noise, one of them ciphertext - one can tell which one is the ciphertext.
If your ciphertext encrypts at all and doesn't actually take up *more*space* (negligibly so, but more all the same) then there's something very wrong with it. Rot13 compresses well, because it's a static mapping, the same words are represented the same way no matter where they are in the plaintext. Consquently it's literally childs play to decipher it.
I hope they were encrypting their backups. It's only common sense to do that, right?
Goodbye hardware compression...
True, you could compress them before encryption, but that's more host cpu load. If anyone gets hold of my backup tapes then, well - if they have the same success getting anything back off them as I do, then I'm not worried at all.
I always wonder what the hell SMB is doing in all that time? And how does a computer programmer design a protocol that is so inefficient? Astonishing!
lol, wait for Longhorn then! I believe they're adopting XML for the binary format, they'll probably do the same for the SMB protocol. Probably not as extreme as my example, but even more ineffient than anything else nonetheless.
Remember, they'll always be able to use new technology as a smokescreen. 100TX lan performing poorly? Upgrade to gigabit, they'll say. Exchange server bogging in 512MB or RAM despite your Mailbox store only being 60MB? Upgrade to a Gig and dual-P4's!
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'Hitting the Hardware', I think you'll find. 'Banging the metal' probably does mean something, but it'd be OT for sure.
Absolutely correct on all points. Such that we'd hack it ourselves (using overwrite mode in cygnused, naturally) and infect ourselves with it as a matter of course each morning when my mates and I would fire up the old 500's.
Personally I've never been loosened, but the way I see it, they should have called the cops, not you! And racing at the same time. So irresponsible.
It turns out I actually did misspell the word in the first place, but "whingeing" is in fact in the Collins English Dictionary. Again, meaning "to whinge".
to answer your questions:
The first question was actually rhetorical, but thanks. Anti-slash and their articles: I only piped up because someone linked to them, and was reminded of the first time I'd visited some months ago, expecting something at least vaguely competing with slashdot (I can't remember what the original post said, is was might even have been a troll). I visited again to see if anything had changed, if there was anything interesting. Indeed, it must be for some people given they have posts on their forums, but I couldn't see it being of value to many well-adjusted individuals.
So, I thought I'd vent my spleen on it once and for all in the hope of saving a few folk from hunting through a few tabs looking for something more nourishing than "omfg fscking got modbombed wtf!?!" and plan after plan on 'how to make the moderation system work how I want'.
If you were the slashdot crew, would you fix it? Let's just say, (because I've no idea) that slashdot is cranking the $$$. People complain about dupes, but still the $$$ keep rolling. The things people say about CmdrTaco in their sigs etc. No surprise he doesn't come here. But it cranks in the dollars for him. From what I understand of business, you treat complaints based on how your inaction will affect you in the future. In the dupe case, I'd say very little if nothing.
Sure, slashdot sucks, but I still come here. The town I live in sucks and the council sucks but I still live here (my job is nice, though). Lots of things suck in ways you just have to ignore sometimes. That's why I think that people that spend their time running a hair-splitting, pedantic and generally unconstructive site need to take a look at themselves before they become obsessed with it. Sure, complain to timothy, or taco or whatever, you're right to, but leave it at that.
re your disclaimer: if antislash didn't have to do what they do, I'm sure they'd find something else. What they need a wee reassessment of their priorities. It's not like slashdot's faults aren't blaringly obvious enough. Isn't it ironic that, on an articles second running, there might be 40 posts all saying "dupe!". Someone spots a dupe, but for some reason they think they'll be the only person to notice, so they must report it. And set up a domain.
I was actually hoping you were associated with them, I was looking forward to hearing what one might say.
Nothing on the horizon that will drop the price of solar cells? Understatement, mate.
And yes, you're damn right, PoE is cheaper. Wireless is really handy, but I don't think there's any point in ditching cable because of it. I can usually go further, it can go practically anywhere, through nearly everything, and transmit power!
PoE is excellent, anything that gets rid of bulky transformers that are designed to fail early and cover three electrical outlets has got to be. It's 48V isn't it? What's the maximum current draw allowed? Or does that depend greatly on the switch?
As someone who spent quite a while setting up an Asterisk box for a company just under six months ago, and in light of VOIPs own drawbacks, I have started to wonder myself if there's any point at all in it. That's not to say I think there isn't (nearly clicked the submit button before saying that), Skype is handy and Just Works, but I'm not as thrilled as I used to be. I got hyped.
I'm not saying it's reasonable of the editors to ignore dupes, or run slashdot to the standard they do, but it's not that I'm complaining about either.
Why can't the slashdot editors find the dupes? Well, why can't anti-slash run real articles? Something interesting? Just because you're able to spot someone/somethings deficiency and write detailed accounts of it doesn't make you the solution.
In fact it puts you of the mindset that you are somehow authoritive, and do things like correct spelling on words you haven't learned yet, and no doubt continually refresh slashdot pages so you can post them on anti-slash.
Ooooh, careful. Soon he'll tell you he has twenty mod points on his other account, and he's going to bomb you to -5, Troll.
I really wish sometimes that I could open all those ILOVEYOU.PIF and LOL.SCR jokes my friends send to me. Whenever I go over to their place to see it they've got it in at the shop getting it "cleaned out" or something. Strange. Must be clumsy with their drinks.
Because sitting around whinging and moaning about about /. M1 while madly refreshing and searching for keywords in your dupe database so you can be the first to bring it to attention is somehow much more fulfilling than reading slashdot topics.
Great, not only can I be subjected still to dupes, I can access a database maintained by someone so obsessed with something that pisses them off so much, it's all they spend their time doing, and verify the article is in fact, a dupe. And find out the CID, date, editor(sic) etc! And then discuss it!
Marvellous idea! How you guys haven't brought slashdot to its very knees already amazes me.
Yeah, you really need gigs of OS bloat and XML-everything to get that...
It pretty much immediately upset some old dude with, of course, sick relatives overseas, and he managed to get management to bully me into opening ports for him.
The whole process took about a week, that's how long I didn't back down for. In spite of opening, and going to great lengths to find out how to sometimes, dropped packets from his machine still spewed into the logs, local smurfs, all sorts of shit. God knows what ran on his machine.
Not that there's anything majorly wrong with your writeup, it's just that a lot of folk don't like long runs of text.
X86 processors and shitty firmware seem to go hand in hand, don't ask me why. When I heard Apple was dropping openfirmware I sobbed. I was looking forward to a REAL x86.
You haven't seen a "welcome overlords" post yet because everybody is sick of them now. Everybody.
Just another bullshit analogy.
Ah, yeah. He's like, getting slashdotted at the moment. As well as allegedly getting 1M spam a day.
If you don't use hardware compression, the backup could take longer too. And it's not like they're ever quick.
If your ciphertext encrypts at all and doesn't actually take up *more*space* (negligibly so, but more all the same) then there's something very wrong with it. Rot13 compresses well, because it's a static mapping, the same words are represented the same way no matter where they are in the plaintext. Consquently it's literally childs play to decipher it.
You've at least got to give the headline a perfect ten for sensationalism.
Goodbye hardware compression...
True, you could compress them before encryption, but that's more host cpu load. If anyone gets hold of my backup tapes then, well - if they have the same success getting anything back off them as I do, then I'm not worried at all.
lol, wait for Longhorn then! I believe they're adopting XML for the binary format, they'll probably do the same for the SMB protocol. Probably not as extreme as my example, but even more ineffient than anything else nonetheless.
Remember, they'll always be able to use new technology as a smokescreen. 100TX lan performing poorly? Upgrade to gigabit, they'll say. Exchange server bogging in 512MB or RAM despite your Mailbox store only being 60MB? Upgrade to a Gig and dual-P4's!
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The rest of the icons are all "New Folder (n)". Damn kids.