Heh, I managed to forget to plug the cooler's fans in (I had to use three) after doing some work inside the box. All was well for about 10 minutes, then the shit hit the fan.
The screen went black and I started to smell something burning.
A couple of weeks ago I managed to fry my highend NVidia GPU (don't ask how). At the local 'puter store they only had a bunch of ATI's available at that moment and since it's not easy to use the machine without a GPU I had to settle for one.
I have to say, I've heard nothing but bad things about ATI cards under Linux as they're drivers are proprietary and rumored to be quite poor. Let me tell you, my X800 is working like a charm! It took me about 10 minutes to download the RPM from ATI.com, run it through alien and then install. It Just Worked.
Also the TV-out is awesomely overscanned form the get-go as opposed to the NVidias I have been using.
Sorry for the offtopic, but I am rather chocked that ATI has such a bad rep among you Slashdotters. Proprietary or not, the drivers works flawlessly for me.
I would love to have four gigabit ports on my router... Some people do have > 1 machines on their home LAN with gigabit-capable NIC's which quite often are forced down to 100 Mbps as many crappy(er) routers today don't have 1000 Mbps ports... At all.
[all Creative need to do is add Bluetooth to their devices and sell them at Taco Bell]
Dude, would you seriously wait 20 minutes for that song to download onto your device? Bluetooth ain't fast, and it never will be either. It's not made to handle large files being transferred.
Of course, if Taco Bell were to encode the songs using WMA or some other crappy codec, it might be small enough, but it would sound like sh**.
I don't know about you guys, but I actually lock my.conf's on a regular basis to prevent accidental input etc.
When we used OS X Server (10.2) as file servers chflags worked fine from keeping the management software from overwriting smb.conf for example.
This really should be less of a problem in 10.3 now though as Apple are constantly expanding the options available in Server Manager or whatever the app is called.
I can't really understand why Apple would release Keynote 2 now instead of when Core Image / Video is out. Keynote is one of Job's favorite ways of showing off their new technologies -remember the cube effect?
My guess is that we might see a minor version upgrade of it, but nothing really big until Tiger is released. But, what do I know?
If you really need MySQL 4 that bad then why don't you use backports.org which will allow you to run stable and yet keep some newer packages on your box?
But the question on everyone's mind is probably when the current Testing branch, featuring much more up-to-date packages, will be named the new stable release.
Oh, come on! When will the submitter realize that stableis what most of us want to run on our servers and mission-critical hardware. I for one cannot afford doing an apt-get upgrade and breaking three, two or even _one_ package. Even worse would be putting a serious bug in the software on a production machine. With stable this chance is minimal, but of course not non-existant.
One possible solution would be to divide Debian into a "server version" and one for the workstations who actually _want_ (or need) to run stuff from testing. Although this would mean double the work for the package maintainers (et al) I'm sure it would make Debian even more attractive as a desktop alternative. Today, I don't know a single n00b or even semi-n00b using it for her home PC or similar - it's all Windows, Xandros or possibly SuSE. On the other hand basically all of my friends who proudly call them selves sysadmins are running Debian (stable) on their production boxes...
Unless of course they need to run RH to get IBM to support WebSphere =)
What do you mean by "serverside control"? If you're refering to ASP.NET and its postbacks then I think you might be wrong. It's basically just a "state-of-view" represented by hidden form fields (usually) which are submitted by links triggering JavaScripts instead of plain old href's pointing to another page
These scripts may cause problems with clients who have disabled JavaScript completely, but the calls themselves are (again, usually) simple...
document.forms['something'].submit();
...and so on.
Even if they were to rely on code suitable only for IE and FireFox were to take over the world I'm sure MS could publish some sort of fix for IIS on Windows Update - because we all know everybody uses it frequently, right? Ehh, yes. I'm sure. Almost positive...
Apple has been doing this for quite some time. Last one I remember was the salutation of Jimmy Carter (sorry I couldn't find a better reference). I think they also ironically did the same thing when one of the Beatles passed away.
I am doing this exact thing, except I'm in Sweden. I do not block things like P2P but I do use keyword based filtering through a proxy if the client requests this (usually if it's family computer where they want to keep the kids from visiting Goatse.cx,;-)
Anyway, I'm no legal expert but I would think it'd help to keep the logs from Squid so you can account for who visited what and when. That way, you can always identify the person responsible if it ever comes to that.
I would not worry about your local ISP coming after you for stealing some of their potential customers as long as _your_ deal with _your_ ISP says that you can share your connection with others.
Oh, one more thing... You might want to looking into putting a contract together for your customers / friends who'll be using your line. You could basically ensure that _they_ are infact resposible for what they're doing on your xDSL.
IMO YDL is so much easier to install if all you need is a quick 'n dirty box for web development etc.
Personally I would never use anything but Debian on a production box, but sometimes I simply don't have the time to go through a rather complicated install process with Debian on PPC - which last time I checked was considerably more of a PITA than YDL even though I've installed Debian on x86 plenty of times.
Good point. Shows produced in the U.S. are usually one season (at the very least) behind here in the EU, so downloading gives us the leverage of being able to watch the "new" shows - instead of the "old" ones - sooner.
There's a lot of high quality rips made from HD-TV nowadays, so this is not an issue as much as it used to be.
I agree. It seems sensible albeit a bit rough. Did they have to serve a warrant to see Fyodor's logs?
Are the FBI or any authority in the U.S. cooperating with anyone who actually is well connected (oh, I hate that word) to the community or is it simply bureaucracy as usual with a horde of detectives working the cases?
I'm just curious on how the actual investigating is done and the types of credentials the investigators have.
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Heh, I managed to forget to plug the cooler's fans in (I had to use three) after doing some work inside the box. All was well for about 10 minutes, then the shit hit the fan.
The screen went black and I started to smell something burning.
Yupp. It's a classic.
A couple of weeks ago I managed to fry my highend NVidia GPU (don't ask how). At the local 'puter store they only had a bunch of ATI's available at that moment and since it's not easy to use the machine without a GPU I had to settle for one.
I have to say, I've heard nothing but bad things about ATI cards under Linux as they're drivers are proprietary and rumored to be quite poor. Let me tell you, my X800 is working like a charm! It took me about 10 minutes to download the RPM from ATI.com, run it through alien and then install. It Just Worked.
Also the TV-out is awesomely overscanned form the get-go as opposed to the NVidias I have been using.
Sorry for the offtopic, but I am rather chocked that ATI has such a bad rep among you Slashdotters. Proprietary or not, the drivers works flawlessly for me.
(No I am not an ATI employee)
Oh, come on!
I would love to have four gigabit ports on my router... Some people do have > 1 machines on their home LAN with gigabit-capable NIC's which quite often are forced down to 100 Mbps as many crappy(er) routers today don't have 1000 Mbps ports... At all.
No, no, no! You're one misinformed Dude. The current IP of the box is 127.0.0.1.
Do you mean Media Access Control?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
[all Creative need to do is add Bluetooth to their devices and sell them at Taco Bell]
Dude, would you seriously wait 20 minutes for that song to download onto your device? Bluetooth ain't fast, and it never will be either. It's not made to handle large files being transferred.
Of course, if Taco Bell were to encode the songs using WMA or some other crappy codec, it might be small enough, but it would sound like sh**.
Go Ogg!
Wireless? Why yes. It's available as an option.
I don't know about you guys, but I actually lock my
When we used OS X Server (10.2) as file servers chflags worked fine from keeping the management software from overwriting smb.conf for example.
This really should be less of a problem in 10.3 now though as Apple are constantly expanding the options available in Server Manager or whatever the app is called.
...and to unlock...
I can't really understand why Apple would release Keynote 2 now instead of when Core Image / Video is out. Keynote is one of Job's favorite ways of showing off their new technologies -remember the cube effect?
My guess is that we might see a minor version upgrade of it, but nothing really big until Tiger is released. But, what do I know?
If you really need MySQL 4 that bad then why don't you use backports.org which will allow you to run stable and yet keep some newer packages on your box?
Mr. Balmer, is that you?
But the question on everyone's mind is probably when the current Testing branch, featuring much more up-to-date packages, will be named the new stable release.
Oh, come on! When will the submitter realize that stableis what most of us want to run on our servers and mission-critical hardware. I for one cannot afford doing an apt-get upgrade and breaking three, two or even _one_ package. Even worse would be putting a serious bug in the software on a production machine. With stable this chance is minimal, but of course not non-existant.
One possible solution would be to divide Debian into a "server version" and one for the workstations who actually _want_ (or need) to run stuff from testing. Although this would mean double the work for the package maintainers (et al) I'm sure it would make Debian even more attractive as a desktop alternative. Today, I don't know a single n00b or even semi-n00b using it for her home PC or similar - it's all Windows, Xandros or possibly SuSE. On the other hand basically all of my friends who proudly call them selves sysadmins are running Debian (stable) on their production boxes...
Unless of course they need to run RH to get IBM to support WebSphere =)
What do you mean by "serverside control"? If you're refering to ASP.NET and its postbacks then I think you might be wrong. It's basically just a "state-of-view" represented by hidden form fields (usually) which are submitted by links triggering JavaScripts instead of plain old href's pointing to another page
These scripts may cause problems with clients who have disabled JavaScript completely, but the calls themselves are (again, usually) simple...
Even if they were to rely on code suitable only for IE and FireFox were to take over the world I'm sure MS could publish some sort of fix for IIS on Windows Update - because we all know everybody uses it frequently, right? Ehh, yes. I'm sure. Almost positive...
Apple has been doing this for quite some time. Last one I remember was the salutation of Jimmy Carter (sorry I couldn't find a better reference). I think they also ironically did the same thing when one of the Beatles passed away.
If you're using OS X you can always use FileVault to encrypt your stuff with AES-128.
Or if you're paranoid just use Secure Empty Trash or format your disc using Disk Utility and have it write random data over the entire disk 8 times.
We must not forget the excellent SCP application WinSCP which is based on Putty.
It really enables anyone to start using SCP instead of FTP or similar insecure stuff...
Actually, I just realized that very few kids actually want to visit Goatse.cx, or at least that's what I would like to believe...
Moving on...
I am doing this exact thing, except I'm in Sweden. I do not block things like P2P but I do use keyword based filtering through a proxy if the client requests this (usually if it's family computer where they want to keep the kids from visiting Goatse.cx,
Anyway, I'm no legal expert but I would think it'd help to keep the logs from Squid so you can account for who visited what and when. That way, you can always identify the person responsible if it ever comes to that.
I would not worry about your local ISP coming after you for stealing some of their potential customers as long as _your_ deal with _your_ ISP says that you can share your connection with others.
Oh, one more thing... You might want to looking into putting a contract together for your customers / friends who'll be using your line. You could basically ensure that _they_ are infact resposible for what they're doing on your xDSL.
IMO YDL is so much easier to install if all you need is a quick 'n dirty box for web development etc.
Personally I would never use anything but Debian on a production box, but sometimes I simply don't have the time to go through a rather complicated install process with Debian on PPC - which last time I checked was considerably more of a PITA than YDL even though I've installed Debian on x86 plenty of times.
In-Win's cases can be found here.
Actually, that link provided seems absolutely valid and does not show the message stated.
DNS poisoning anyone?
Can anyone in the U.S. who is getting the h4x0r3d message verify this IP?
Oh, I'm sorry. Perhaps I did not pay enough attention in english class.
Where are my modpoints when I need them?
Good point. Shows produced in the U.S. are usually one season (at the very least) behind here in the EU, so downloading gives us the leverage of being able to watch the "new" shows - instead of the "old" ones - sooner.
There's a lot of high quality rips made from HD-TV nowadays, so this is not an issue as much as it used to be.
I agree. It seems sensible albeit a bit rough. Did they have to serve a warrant to see Fyodor's logs?
Are the FBI or any authority in the U.S. cooperating with anyone who actually is well connected (oh, I hate that word) to the community or is it simply bureaucracy as usual with a horde of detectives working the cases?
I'm just curious on how the actual investigating is done and the types of credentials the investigators have.
Has anyone seen any articles on this?
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