This is the future of mail, and the only reasonable way to solve the spam problem.
Hopefully the meta-mods will knock this nonsense down. What this is proposing is barely a step above unplugging from the internet as a way to controll the virus problem. I figure it will be about a week before VP Bob can no longer email his buddy VP Joe dirty jokes and the whole thing is backed out.
I don't know, sounds like he's still a scam artist. I suspect a used car buisness in his future, if he doesn't wind up in fedral "pound you in the ass" prison, or wearing a Columbian Necktie first
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Pirates have always been considered bad in the strictest sense.
Pirates at various times were commisioned by governments such as England as a means to wage war on enemy nations, such as Spain. They would even turn a portion of their booty over to the King in return for the ships and safe havens he provided. Since they weren't military, but private citizens, they weren't subject to the "Rules of War" which would have frowned on attacking merchant ships on the open seas (part of why Germany's U-boat campaign was frowned upon).
Of course, England thought of these chaps as "Privateers", and were important but still looked down upon.
Does it go into hacking the Series 2 TiVo? I'm sick of reading about all these obsolete series 1 hack methods.
Sorry man, Series 1 DirecTiVo is where its at!
Honestly, The web is the best place for this stuff, and this book is just an organized, indexed reprinting of that information. But then, I've also order the book myself:)
1. I once had to give a Mac access to a network file server. It sucked- I needed to bypass a majority of the file server's security to allow this to happen.
When was this, ten years ago under windows NT 3.0? Or were you just using an inflexible security model? Nine years ago I set up an NT 3.51 server for a cross platform network and had no issues with the Mac security side. NT was full of security holes, of course, and getting patches was a bigger pain.
2. Mac doesnt have any real kind of client software that allows it to attach to an NT network (much less an AD network). Quite unlike Windows, which can connect to ANY other network (Netware, Apple, Unix, etc), and still be secure.
This is just so many kinds of wrong you need to be slapped.
a. Mac OSX is built off a BSD core, so unless you care to claim Samba is a myth and BSD doesn't network well, you're just talking out of your a**.
b. Yeah, I tried to hook my Windows box up to an NFS share just now. Guess what! It doesn't work out of the box. Tried to connect it to an old Appletalk network. Guess what! It doesn't work out of the box (Server can act as a Appletalk server, but cant connect to another). There's lots of other stuff a Windows box won't connect to either.
This guy needs to learn what he is talking about, but thats a tall order. Its so much easier to just bitch and whine.
Unlike a reasonable and intelligent poster like yourself.
Why on earth would you use 3 different filesystems? Hoping to maximize your failure rate?
I like JFS. In the past it didn't get along with NFS very well, but that seems to be fixed for over a year now. But your far better off picking a single FS and sticking with it, except possibly/boot, than doing a different filesystem each partition.
Age of Mythology? I recall seeing a FAQ entry on their site that Age of Mythology won't run on a system with two active monitors, the workaround being to disconnect the second monitor vi the control panel.
It also seems counter intuitive to the "all folks are equal" model of the new game. Under earlier games, bigger screens meant you could see more. Now my 1600x1200 21" monitor shows the same as the guy an a 12" laptop screen.
I'm calling bullshit on both of them. I challenge anyone here to cite any quantative evidence that replying to spam has resulted in them receiving so much as one extra message.
Oh, this sounds fun. I'm going to create a tracking email account then unsubscribe it to a bunch of lists (I get 300 spams a day, I think I can find some:)
ICMP is used in numerous DOS attacks, and with hundreds if not thousands of student machines exposed to the internet, it could easily become a farm for DDOS attacks. So its not unreasonable.
However, with a bit of work they could allow pings and some other key ICMP services while still guarding against this
The school has absolutely no right to scan the systems.
They are conducting port scans, not installing agents like AdAware or AntiVirus. And I'm sure there was an appropriate clause in the TOS the students agreed to that says the students consent to it. If they don't like it the can call up their own ISP and not connect to the school network.
Basically, its the schools network, they can use it as they please.
DJB telling people to "do what he says" and the/package,/doc and/service is better, breaking their filesystem hier(7)archy
Pretty much exactly why I avoid his stuff. Well, that and the rants on his site about how lame BIND is. Thats also a little sketchy. But I do use his DNScache for some DNS intensive stuff.
Pay attention to what was said. Not that 19% ran Linux exclusively on the desktop, just that in 19% of companies there exists a linux desktop. Might be that one cranky developer, might be like me, the IT guy who runs the Linux servers also has a Linux desktop to help him test scripts and new patches.
Ah ha!!! Finally, the belief that Linux can run on anything more powerful than a toaster will be proven wrong... when they make toasters with Linux embedded!!!!
Do you need to run an SMP kernel on the 4 slot toaster?
If you wnt to add a new service, you just set up the run and logging scripts, and create symlink. No editing config files, restarting init, etc.
So dr Bernstein has finally fixed the "do what I mean not what I say" problem? I no longer need to configure DNSCache to look to my internal DNS servers for local domain lookups, it just spontaneously knows the domains and IP addresses? Where do I buy stock, cause this is going to be huge!
The ultimate factor there is convenience. I agree with you however and would rather go to the store and rent for cheaper. Still there is certainly an audience for this feature. This is nothing new.
This seems to be a pretty direct competitor for PPV, and PPV seems to be a big winner because I don't have to pay a monthy rental fee for PPV. The possible plusses, Tivo like playback, aren't likely enough to convince folks to start paying $5/month to have the opportunity to get PPV from yet abother device in the house.
... they're using Macs. What about those of us who prefer to use a different platform?
Are you a musician? The Music industry is one of those "creative" industries that still tend to favor Mac's. This is changing slowly (I think PC's now account for almost 50% of musicians PC's)
But there's PC software/hardware too. Just check the back of music magazines and ask around at music stores (the ones that sell instruments, not record shops) for useful information. Just be careful because there's a lot of "junk" out there too.
I don't mean to troll, but exactly does one do with a dead OS like this? Is it just hobby value? Is there an app that works really well on BeOS, or only on BeOS?
Speaking as a writer -- which you're clearly not --
Am I a professional writer, no. I've worked tech support for a technical society that published dozens of journals and hundreeds of textbooks, not to mention having to do technical documentation for my job, and writing papers for my class. I started using Wordstar about 20 years ago and CP/M systems for high school.
So I know something about the subject
I'll say that you're missing the point, which is that a toolbox oughtn't be cluttered with extra, unnecessary tools.
No, you are the one missing the point.
The Author claimed that his ability to change fonts, margins, etc. was the reason he wasn't getting his work done. He suggested Vi was the perfect tool for writers because he couldn't fiddle with such things before.
My counter-point was that this was just a bad habit of the writer, and compared it to sharpening pencils. Other posters have pointed out that even the ability to easily edit text makes even vi dangerous to some writers, since they may have the urge to start tweaking prose immediately instead of getting the to the story writing. (See Billy Crystal's character in "Throw Mama from the Train")
You come back with "Stickies" is all I need, despite the fact that Stickies have features the original author was complaining about, font selection, font color, font size, etc.
And I didn't say "MS Word is great" (I actually called it bloated). Use what works for you. Just don't claim that vi is all anyone needs, and don't blame the tools for your personal foibles. Stickies works for you because what you write isn't meant for publication. Its a tool that works for you.
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These announcements are nothing more than vague future directions...
Speaking of which, anybody notice that the new Hybrid gas/electric Toyota Prius is the first Bluetooth enabled automobile in the US market?
Anyone know of a factory bluetooth enabled car that predates this?
Maybe a nice comfy chair. Everyone like those.
Hopefully the meta-mods will knock this nonsense down. What this is proposing is barely a step above unplugging from the internet as a way to controll the virus problem. I figure it will be about a week before VP Bob can no longer email his buddy VP Joe dirty jokes and the whole thing is backed out.
I don't know, sounds like he's still a scam artist. I suspect a used car buisness in his future, if he doesn't wind up in fedral "pound you in the ass" prison, or wearing a Columbian Necktie first
Pirates at various times were commisioned by governments such as England as a means to wage war on enemy nations, such as Spain. They would even turn a portion of their booty over to the King in return for the ships and safe havens he provided. Since they weren't military, but private citizens, they weren't subject to the "Rules of War" which would have frowned on attacking merchant ships on the open seas (part of why Germany's U-boat campaign was frowned upon).
Of course, England thought of these chaps as "Privateers", and were important but still looked down upon.
>Money changed hands? Folks didn't want to upset the boss?
Sorry man, Series 1 DirecTiVo is where its at!
Honestly, The web is the best place for this stuff, and this book is just an organized, indexed reprinting of that information. But then, I've also order the book myself :)
When was this, ten years ago under windows NT 3.0? Or were you just using an inflexible security model? Nine years ago I set up an NT 3.51 server for a cross platform network and had no issues with the Mac security side. NT was full of security holes, of course, and getting patches was a bigger pain.
2. Mac doesnt have any real kind of client software that allows it to attach to an NT network (much less an AD network). Quite unlike Windows, which can connect to ANY other network (Netware, Apple, Unix, etc), and still be secure.
This is just so many kinds of wrong you need to be slapped.
a. Mac OSX is built off a BSD core, so unless you care to claim Samba is a myth and BSD doesn't network well, you're just talking out of your a**.
b. Yeah, I tried to hook my Windows box up to an NFS share just now. Guess what! It doesn't work out of the box. Tried to connect it to an old Appletalk network. Guess what! It doesn't work out of the box (Server can act as a Appletalk server, but cant connect to another). There's lots of other stuff a Windows box won't connect to either.
This guy needs to learn what he is talking about, but thats a tall order. Its so much easier to just bitch and whine.
Unlike a reasonable and intelligent poster like yourself.
I like JFS. In the past it didn't get along with NFS very well, but that seems to be fixed for over a year now. But your far better off picking a single FS and sticking with it, except possibly /boot, than doing a different filesystem each partition.
It also seems counter intuitive to the "all folks are equal" model of the new game. Under earlier games, bigger screens meant you could see more. Now my 1600x1200 21" monitor shows the same as the guy an a 12" laptop screen.
I was thinking they might play real-life RISK :)
Oh, this sounds fun. I'm going to create a tracking email account then unsubscribe it to a bunch of lists (I get 300 spams a day, I think I can find some :)
I might even report back on the results...
ICMP is used in numerous DOS attacks, and with hundreds if not thousands of student machines exposed to the internet, it could easily become a farm for DDOS attacks. So its not unreasonable.
However, with a bit of work they could allow pings and some other key ICMP services while still guarding against this
They are conducting port scans, not installing agents like AdAware or AntiVirus. And I'm sure there was an appropriate clause in the TOS the students agreed to that says the students consent to it. If they don't like it the can call up their own ISP and not connect to the school network.
Basically, its the schools network, they can use it as they please.
Pretty much exactly why I avoid his stuff. Well, that and the rants on his site about how lame BIND is. Thats also a little sketchy. But I do use his DNScache for some DNS intensive stuff.
Good software killed by a maniacal maintainer.
That depends. When a researcher calls you on the phone and asks "Do you have or use any Linux desktops?" Would you answer yes?
They don't exactly do office visits to confirm this stuff
Pay attention to what was said. Not that 19% ran Linux exclusively on the desktop, just that in 19% of companies there exists a linux desktop. Might be that one cranky developer, might be like me, the IT guy who runs the Linux servers also has a Linux desktop to help him test scripts and new patches.
Remember, Lies, Damn Lies, and then Statistics.
Do you need to run an SMP kernel on the 4 slot toaster?
So dr Bernstein has finally fixed the "do what I mean not what I say" problem? I no longer need to configure DNSCache to look to my internal DNS servers for local domain lookups, it just spontaneously knows the domains and IP addresses? Where do I buy stock, cause this is going to be huge!
No editing config files, my ass!
This seems to be a pretty direct competitor for PPV, and PPV seems to be a big winner because I don't have to pay a monthy rental fee for PPV. The possible plusses, Tivo like playback, aren't likely enough to convince folks to start paying $5/month to have the opportunity to get PPV from yet abother device in the house.
I mean, where does a protest oriented person even FIND one of those thing?!?!?
Yeah, I know, there's still some things they can do that inkjets/Lasers/etc can't, including printing barely legible protest posters
Are you a musician? The Music industry is one of those "creative" industries that still tend to favor Mac's. This is changing slowly (I think PC's now account for almost 50% of musicians PC's)
But there's PC software/hardware too. Just check the back of music magazines and ask around at music stores (the ones that sell instruments, not record shops) for useful information. Just be careful because there's a lot of "junk" out there too.
I don't mean to troll, but exactly does one do with a dead OS like this? Is it just hobby value? Is there an app that works really well on BeOS, or only on BeOS?
Am I a professional writer, no. I've worked tech support for a technical society that published dozens of journals and hundreeds of textbooks, not to mention having to do technical documentation for my job, and writing papers for my class. I started using Wordstar about 20 years ago and CP/M systems for high school.
So I know something about the subject
I'll say that you're missing the point, which is that a toolbox oughtn't be cluttered with extra, unnecessary tools.
No, you are the one missing the point.
The Author claimed that his ability to change fonts, margins, etc. was the reason he wasn't getting his work done. He suggested Vi was the perfect tool for writers because he couldn't fiddle with such things before.
My counter-point was that this was just a bad habit of the writer, and compared it to sharpening pencils. Other posters have pointed out that even the ability to easily edit text makes even vi dangerous to some writers, since they may have the urge to start tweaking prose immediately instead of getting the to the story writing. (See Billy Crystal's character in "Throw Mama from the Train")
You come back with "Stickies" is all I need, despite the fact that Stickies have features the original author was complaining about, font selection, font color, font size, etc.
And I didn't say "MS Word is great" (I actually called it bloated). Use what works for you. Just don't claim that vi is all anyone needs, and don't blame the tools for your personal foibles. Stickies works for you because what you write isn't meant for publication. Its a tool that works for you.