When I was first diagnosed with Type II, I was about 30 pounds overweight by my own standards. Then, I was laid off when my company outsourced my job and closed the office I worked in. Before I could find new work, I'd run through all of my savings and barely had enough money to keep myself fed. By the time I got things under control, I'd lost almost sixy pounds and was decidedly underweight. However, this had absolutely no effect on my diabetes; I had two major low blood sugar episodes, and came close on several other occasions. My weight is now roughly where I'd like it, but my condition has progressed to the point that I'm now on insulin, which I wasn't when my weight was at its lowest.
Not a trick question - but now you're exactly where you were before you tried to fix it..
Yes. You're right back where you started, with only your original, known problem, and without any new problems caused by the update. How easy is it to back out of a bad update on a Windows box if that's what you need? Please understand that this is a serious question, because I've not run Windows at all for at least four or five years, and when I did, I never ran across this situation, so I really don't know the answer.
I don't know; I haven't done any programming in almost 20 years, and when I did, it wasn't that type of thing. There's a bug report open on it, and I'm not the only one suffering from it, so there may be some hope. And, I'm going to research the possibility of a firmware update because if there is one, it might help.
If it hung after several days, I'd probably never even notice it, because my laptop's rarely in use for more than a few hours. Alas, with any 3.x kernel, it hangs during boot. Still a firmware update might be worth looking into.
And what do you do when the kernel change causes your system to start crashing, when it had previously operated for years with no failures?
I'd really, really love to respond by saying that That Just Doesn't Happen. Alas, I know better. My laptop is currently running Fedora 16 with a PAE kernel from Fedora 14 because every 3.x kernel I've tried on it hangs during boot while trying to do something with my card reader. And, if I have a card in the reader, it ends up rebooting itself. About all I can say is that the situation you describe is (mercifully) rare, and if you do find yourself stuck with that, about all you can do is turn off ntpd before the leap second, and turn it back on later.
That would work just fine if leap seconds occured at regular, predictable intervals the way leap days do, but they don't. AFAIK, there's no way to know in advance when it's going to be appropriate to have one, so there's nothing that can be put into zoneinfo to deal with them.
If we were a space-based civilization, living in ships, space colonies and bases on moons, asteroids and so forth, there'd be no reason for leap seconds but we're not. As long as we're stuck on this planet, it's going to be convenient to keep our time keeping synchronized with the Earth's rotation as closely as we can, and doing that requires the occasional leap second.
Dealing with a known bug is considered less problematic than installing a new OS version...
If there's a kernel bug to be patched, you download and install a newer kernel, with the bug patch, then reboot (at some time when the outage will be the least inconvenient) into the new version. And, if you really can't afford the downtime, there are ways to get a new kernel running without even that. No need for a complete OS upgrade, just to get a more recent kernel.
They are perfectly happy to have businesses rip us off in any way possible, under the make believe principle that the free market is a bag of magical fairy dust that can solve any problem that faces mankind.
No, those aren't conservatives, they're Libertarians. Libertarians think that the marketplace is a panacea that can cure all of society's ills.
Those implants aren't for everybody. I have a service connected atilliary notch in my hearing, both ears. It's bad enough that I need hearing aids, and Closed Captions are a great help, but it's nowhere near bad enough for implants to be considered. (My disability rating is 0%; enough to get me free hearing aids, but not enough for compensation.) I don't currently use Netflix, but if I did, I'd prefer having captions whenever possible.
we end up putting unreasonable burdens on people for very little benifit.
I'd love to see what you have to say about Closed Captioning after you find out that all that loud music you've been listening to has ruined your hearing to the point that even with hearing aids you're still having trouble understanding your favorite TV shows unless the captions are turned on. That's exactly my situation, except for the reason: not loud music but too much outbound shore bombardment back in '72.
If they are unable to make money writing new music, maybe they should get a different job?
Writing a hit song isn't easy, because it's hard (if not impossible) to know what people are going to want to listen to, except in the most general way. (Young people are more likely to buy some sort of rock than they are to buy a waltz, or a polka.) Some people have a nack for it, but not many. And, there's no way to know if you've gotten it right except to have it recorded and put it on the market. And, I think it's reasonable to say that if people are still buying what you wrote years later and new versions of it are still coming out, you've done something right. Now, you may not feel that the original composer deserves his royalties, but the vast majority of people out there do. Personally, I don't blame the artists for all of those suits, I blame the people who aren't willing to pay for the music they use. If the performers and publishers didn't try to shaft the copyright holders there wouldn't be all that litigation and the price of a CD would be lower because the cost of making them wouldn't have to include the cost of litigation.
Yes. Of course. The fact that you don't approve of them, or what they've done is no reason not to be fair to them. If it were, you'd probably find yourself on the wrong side of that sooner than you'd like. And, the fact that your post is currently at +3 says a lot about the attitudes of some of the moderators, none of it good.
Now look at some of those "one hit wonders" from the same time period that go around complaining and suing people at the drop of a hat.
To be fair, they're probably doing that because it's the only income they have. Remember, not all of those "one hit wonders" stopped recording after their hit; they kept on going, kept trying for another hit but only struck paydirt that one time. Now, royalties on that one hit are their main source of income and they'll do whatever they can to protect it, just as you would in their situation.
Yeah, I kinda figured that. However, the distro does come with the appropriate fonts by default, and the maintainers would probably see nothing wrong with adding an Arabic spin. The important thing, IMO, is getting them away from using a vulnerable OS for their political activities.
I took a look at TFA, and saw exactly what I expected: the malware is specifically designed to attack computers running Windows. Now, I'll admit that that's reasonable, considering how big Microsoft's market share is, but it does lead to an interesting suggestion: get the dissidents to move to Linux, at least as dual-boot, and only use Linux for their political activities. Not because Linux is immune to malware, but because it's immune to the specific malware they need to be concerned about. And, if they're not comfortable with English, there's even a distro, Parsix, that can be installed in either English or Parsi.
People in general fear change. Once they reach 25 or 30, they want things to keep on being like "the good old days". But that's not how the world has ever worked, and it won't start now.
Not everybody starts fearing change once they mature, but most of us stop thinking that change for its own sake is a good thing. I know that I wouldn't want to go back to the way computers worked when I was young. I have absolutely no desire whatsover to go back to punched cards and a specialized typewriter on the console!
In a similar way, a school knows the median student (and family) can toss in $5K/yr outta pocket, and the govt will toss in an additional guaranteed $20K. Therefore the price will be set by the school at $25K because $5K + $20K = $25K.
And, of course, if well-meaning do-gooders raise the government's contribution to $25K, the total price goes up to $30K. No college administrator will ever admit it, but they all set their tuition according to Nicholas va Rijn's mantra: "Everything the traffic will bear."
Absolutely! My thought was that by avoiding the use of Windows for your servers you'd be minimizing your potential attack vectors, making your job much easier.
I'd suggest a change to your point four: don't use an OS for your servers that requires AV/anti-malware unless you have no other choice.
Yes, I know that there are a small number of exploits for Linux and the various BSDs, but the vast majority of them target Windows. Just keeping your servers off of Windows will make it much harder for crackers or worms from getting a foothold, and the skript kiddies probably won't have a cheat sheet for your OS. That doesn't mean that if you don't use Windows you can ignore all of the other excellent suggestions you made in point 4, but it will probably make them more effective.
Actually, an eye for an eye can be very appropriate, if you understand what the passage is really saying: not that you're entitled to an eye for an eye, but to no more than an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth. It doesn't so much institutionalize revenge as place a fair limit on it. There are, of course, two problems here: first, making sure you've identified the culpret correctly and second, how much hacking, DDOS or whatever is appropriate. Personally, if the attacker lives in a country where the law is respected, turning the evidence over to the proper authorities is probably your best bet. If not, have fun; after all, what's the worm going to do? Tell the police, "He found out I was hacking his computer, so he hacked me back?"
I've been wearing behind the ear hearing aids for about five years or so. They're very comfortable, and after a minute or two, I can't even feel them. Every now and then, I've tried using earbuds. (Yes, I take my hearing aids out first because otherwise, the earbuds don't fit.) I find it very hard to get earbuds to stay seated unless they're pushed in farther than they're probably supposed to be and they're always very uncomfortable. For me, at least, using them as a replacement for my hearing aids is not an option, and I'm sure that there are many others out there who'd say the same thing. Looking goofy isn't an issue, but the constant discomfort would be an absolute show stopper for many of us.
My dad recently got a behind-the-ear pair that didn't include a custom mold.
That's the type I have. The volume's ajustable but they don't have multiple channels. I can't complain, because the price was right: $0. You see, I get mine through the VA, and I have the magic words in my file, right next to my hearing loss: service connected. It took several decades to show up, but once it did, the VA agreed with me that it's caused by exposure to outbound shore bombardment back in '72 and accepted responsibility for the damage.
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When I was first diagnosed with Type II, I was about 30 pounds overweight by my own standards. Then, I was laid off when my company outsourced my job and closed the office I worked in. Before I could find new work, I'd run through all of my savings and barely had enough money to keep myself fed. By the time I got things under control, I'd lost almost sixy pounds and was decidedly underweight. However, this had absolutely no effect on my diabetes; I had two major low blood sugar episodes, and came close on several other occasions. My weight is now roughly where I'd like it, but my condition has progressed to the point that I'm now on insulin, which I wasn't when my weight was at its lowest.
Not a trick question - but now you're exactly where you were before you tried to fix it..
Yes. You're right back where you started, with only your original, known problem, and without any new problems caused by the update. How easy is it to back out of a bad update on a Windows box if that's what you need? Please understand that this is a serious question, because I've not run Windows at all for at least four or five years, and when I did, I never ran across this situation, so I really don't know the answer.
I don't know; I haven't done any programming in almost 20 years, and when I did, it wasn't that type of thing. There's a bug report open on it, and I'm not the only one suffering from it, so there may be some hope. And, I'm going to research the possibility of a firmware update because if there is one, it might help.
If it hung after several days, I'd probably never even notice it, because my laptop's rarely in use for more than a few hours. Alas, with any 3.x kernel, it hangs during boot. Still a firmware update might be worth looking into.
And what do you do when the kernel change causes your system to start crashing, when it had previously operated for years with no failures?
I'd really, really love to respond by saying that That Just Doesn't Happen. Alas, I know better. My laptop is currently running Fedora 16 with a PAE kernel from Fedora 14 because every 3.x kernel I've tried on it hangs during boot while trying to do something with my card reader. And, if I have a card in the reader, it ends up rebooting itself. About all I can say is that the situation you describe is (mercifully) rare, and if you do find yourself stuck with that, about all you can do is turn off ntpd before the leap second, and turn it back on later.
Put the leapseconds in zoneinfo.
That would work just fine if leap seconds occured at regular, predictable intervals the way leap days do, but they don't. AFAIK, there's no way to know in advance when it's going to be appropriate to have one, so there's nothing that can be put into zoneinfo to deal with them.
If we were a space-based civilization, living in ships, space colonies and bases on moons, asteroids and so forth, there'd be no reason for leap seconds but we're not. As long as we're stuck on this planet, it's going to be convenient to keep our time keeping synchronized with the Earth's rotation as closely as we can, and doing that requires the occasional leap second.
Dealing with a known bug is considered less problematic than installing a new OS version...
If there's a kernel bug to be patched, you download and install a newer kernel, with the bug patch, then reboot (at some time when the outage will be the least inconvenient) into the new version. And, if you really can't afford the downtime, there are ways to get a new kernel running without even that. No need for a complete OS upgrade, just to get a more recent kernel.
They are perfectly happy to have businesses rip us off in any way possible, under the make believe principle that the free market is a bag of magical fairy dust that can solve any problem that faces mankind.
No, those aren't conservatives, they're Libertarians. Libertarians think that the marketplace is a panacea that can cure all of society's ills.
THIS on the other hand would be a terrifying weapon.
"He has loosed the fateful lightning,
Of His terrible swift sword..."
Those implants aren't for everybody. I have a service connected atilliary notch in my hearing, both ears. It's bad enough that I need hearing aids, and Closed Captions are a great help, but it's nowhere near bad enough for implants to be considered. (My disability rating is 0%; enough to get me free hearing aids, but not enough for compensation.) I don't currently use Netflix, but if I did, I'd prefer having captions whenever possible.
we end up putting unreasonable burdens on people for very little benifit.
I'd love to see what you have to say about Closed Captioning after you find out that all that loud music you've been listening to has ruined your hearing to the point that even with hearing aids you're still having trouble understanding your favorite TV shows unless the captions are turned on. That's exactly my situation, except for the reason: not loud music but too much outbound shore bombardment back in '72.
If they are unable to make money writing new music, maybe they should get a different job?
Writing a hit song isn't easy, because it's hard (if not impossible) to know what people are going to want to listen to, except in the most general way. (Young people are more likely to buy some sort of rock than they are to buy a waltz, or a polka.) Some people have a nack for it, but not many. And, there's no way to know if you've gotten it right except to have it recorded and put it on the market. And, I think it's reasonable to say that if people are still buying what you wrote years later and new versions of it are still coming out, you've done something right. Now, you may not feel that the original composer deserves his royalties, but the vast majority of people out there do. Personally, I don't blame the artists for all of those suits, I blame the people who aren't willing to pay for the music they use. If the performers and publishers didn't try to shaft the copyright holders there wouldn't be all that litigation and the price of a CD would be lower because the cost of making them wouldn't have to include the cost of litigation.
Yes. Of course. The fact that you don't approve of them, or what they've done is no reason not to be fair to them. If it were, you'd probably find yourself on the wrong side of that sooner than you'd like. And, the fact that your post is currently at +3 says a lot about the attitudes of some of the moderators, none of it good.
Now look at some of those "one hit wonders" from the same time period that go around complaining and suing people at the drop of a hat.
To be fair, they're probably doing that because it's the only income they have. Remember, not all of those "one hit wonders" stopped recording after their hit; they kept on going, kept trying for another hit but only struck paydirt that one time. Now, royalties on that one hit are their main source of income and they'll do whatever they can to protect it, just as you would in their situation.
Yeah, I kinda figured that. However, the distro does come with the appropriate fonts by default, and the maintainers would probably see nothing wrong with adding an Arabic spin. The important thing, IMO, is getting them away from using a vulnerable OS for their political activities.
I took a look at TFA, and saw exactly what I expected: the malware is specifically designed to attack computers running Windows. Now, I'll admit that that's reasonable, considering how big Microsoft's market share is, but it does lead to an interesting suggestion: get the dissidents to move to Linux, at least as dual-boot, and only use Linux for their political activities. Not because Linux is immune to malware, but because it's immune to the specific malware they need to be concerned about. And, if they're not comfortable with English, there's even a distro, Parsix, that can be installed in either English or Parsi.
People in general fear change. Once they reach 25 or 30, they want things to keep on being like "the good old days". But that's not how the world has ever worked, and it won't start now.
Not everybody starts fearing change once they mature, but most of us stop thinking that change for its own sake is a good thing. I know that I wouldn't want to go back to the way computers worked when I was young. I have absolutely no desire whatsover to go back to punched cards and a specialized typewriter on the console!
In a similar way, a school knows the median student (and family) can toss in $5K/yr outta pocket, and the govt will toss in an additional guaranteed $20K. Therefore the price will be set by the school at $25K because $5K + $20K = $25K.
And, of course, if well-meaning do-gooders raise the government's contribution to $25K, the total price goes up to $30K. No college administrator will ever admit it, but they all set their tuition according to Nicholas va Rijn's mantra: "Everything the traffic will bear."
Actually, there's something much, much better than a drone if you really want to be sure: OADS. Let the anvils ring!
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I would like to thank you, sir,. for one of the best typos I've seen in a long, long time.
Absolutely! My thought was that by avoiding the use of Windows for your servers you'd be minimizing your potential attack vectors, making your job much easier.
I'd suggest a change to your point four: don't use an OS for your servers that requires AV/anti-malware unless you have no other choice.
Yes, I know that there are a small number of exploits for Linux and the various BSDs, but the vast majority of them target Windows. Just keeping your servers off of Windows will make it much harder for crackers or worms from getting a foothold, and the skript kiddies probably won't have a cheat sheet for your OS. That doesn't mean that if you don't use Windows you can ignore all of the other excellent suggestions you made in point 4, but it will probably make them more effective.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind...
Actually, an eye for an eye can be very appropriate, if you understand what the passage is really saying: not that you're entitled to an eye for an eye, but to no more than an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth. It doesn't so much institutionalize revenge as place a fair limit on it. There are, of course, two problems here: first, making sure you've identified the culpret correctly and second, how much hacking, DDOS or whatever is appropriate. Personally, if the attacker lives in a country where the law is respected, turning the evidence over to the proper authorities is probably your best bet. If not, have fun; after all, what's the worm going to do? Tell the police, "He found out I was hacking his computer, so he hacked me back?"
Just use earbuds.
I've been wearing behind the ear hearing aids for about five years or so. They're very comfortable, and after a minute or two, I can't even feel them. Every now and then, I've tried using earbuds. (Yes, I take my hearing aids out first because otherwise, the earbuds don't fit.) I find it very hard to get earbuds to stay seated unless they're pushed in farther than they're probably supposed to be and they're always very uncomfortable. For me, at least, using them as a replacement for my hearing aids is not an option, and I'm sure that there are many others out there who'd say the same thing. Looking goofy isn't an issue, but the constant discomfort would be an absolute show stopper for many of us.
My dad recently got a behind-the-ear pair that didn't include a custom mold.
That's the type I have. The volume's ajustable but they don't have multiple channels. I can't complain, because the price was right: $0. You see, I get mine through the VA, and I have the magic words in my file, right next to my hearing loss: service connected. It took several decades to show up, but once it did, the VA agreed with me that it's caused by exposure to outbound shore bombardment back in '72 and accepted responsibility for the damage.