Not sure about how it was back in the day, but being a Gentoo user for about a year and sitting in the help channel (#gentoo) and the chat channel (#gentoo-chat) quite a lot I can say that the no swearing rule is still in effect for both channels and the policy is to not talk about crap in #gentoo.
Can't say I've seen much in the way of ego, but some guys kick first and ask questions later, same as any other IRC channel.
Your distro (lets say Fedora for this example) has to get the sources for a new kernel, apply their own patches, test that the kernel works, package it and then put it out to beta testers to see if it breaks any one of the many configurations of Fedora that are out there.
Sound familiar?
Then they have to upload it to their package management servers and put the fix out there for you to use.
This might not sound like a lot of work, but who needs a new kernel when they are busy with a whole truck full of other packages that people would notice an upgrade in (OpenOffice.org, KDE, Gnome etc.)?
If they keep to a kernel version for as long as possible they don't have to rewrite their own patches for a new version, they don't have to wonder if a new problem that comes through is due to the new kernel and they don't have to expend resources on a fairly back-of-the-store package that people (who use stock kernels) don't care about much.
Contrast that with other users (like myself) who eschew the patches that a distro puts into their kernels and download the latest vanilla sources from kernel.org (usually the same day it comes out), go through the config to make sure nothing major needs tweaking and compile a kernel that will only run at full potential (if I configured everything right... ) on a very small number of computers, not the whole gamut of x86 based machines (usually) that the Fedora stock kernel is designed for.
Even on my Arch Linux system that is very good at using up to date sources I prefer to roll my own. If you (and others like you) would prefer to run a newer kernel, read up on it (Scroogle Is Your Friend) and don't be afraid to try. The worst that can happen (if you keep your original kernel in the boot menu, and the modules to support it) is that your new shiny kernel sits there and tells you that there is no way on earth it can boot the system and it is having a bit of a panic with itself. Fixed by booting into your stock kernel and trying again.
Good luck with it if you choose to go that direction, and remember to read the changelogs for the newer kernels to see what has been improved and fixed. The latest stable kernel is 2.6.30.1, not 2.6.30. It isn't bleeding edge, it is the latest stable. Bleeding edge kernels have -xxn appended (where xxn is letters and numbers depending on what type of kernel or patches are added).
<wife>'s just come in and told me that you forwarded the email that you got from "Terry" to her.
I'm not going to have a go at you or anything, you didn't send it to me, as I requested =)
But, if you are going to do stuff like that, let me show you the best way to do it so that you don't do to others what I don't want doing to me.
When you get the email that you want to forward it will have loads of addresses in it already, which don't need to be sent around your friends.
To take them out, just drag your mouse over the interesting bit of the mail and copy it into a new mail.
If you're going to send it to loads of people, don't use the ordinary "send to" part, use the "BCC" address box.
"BCC" means blind cc, because each person that you send the mail to only sees their address, not everyone's that you sent it to.
This stops all the addresses from being visible to any nasty person that could "scrape" the email for addresses and sell them to spam companies.
I know you think this is just me being me, but if everyone did this there wouldn't be as many big willie/viagra/scam mortgages/rolex emails in your spam folder every week.
Believe me, I'm just glad that I wasn't on it, and <wife> wasn't moaning either.
With this extension built into every web browser security would improve in leaps and bounds.
For lazy people you can mix it with Secure Login or the Opera Wand.
After all, once an attacker has local access to your machine all bets are off right? Password Hasher makes guesses/brute forcing passwords as close to impossible as it needs to be. 26 characters should be enough for anyone, surely?
We needed a new "telly" last year, our old CRT had given up the ghost. We went shopping around (as one does when one wants a good deal on expensive technology) and saw a multitude of LCD and plasma screens.
We saw pretty much the cheapest to the most expensive (approximates the the worst to the best) of these HD ready, DVB, HDMI, scart, give you a blowjob and do the dishes telescreens and we decided to go with a CRT anyway. The price wasn't the problem, it was the perceived image quality.
In the opinion of my wife and I, LCD/plasma just isn't ready for putting in the corner of the room yet.
Theseguys do it on a semi-permanent or temporary basis for free, and I'm sure that is more computationally expensive than otherwise. Why should it cost so much money for a permanent one?
We had one, Mad Cow Disease. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE caused lots of healthy beef to be burned at the st[eak|ake] to satisfy the knee-jerk reaction crowd. Cases of CJD are still turning up and beef didn't get any cheaper.
Turkeys had a go recently too.
I'm sure that this is all a ploy by the Bildeberg Group to turn us all into under-nourished vegetarians who are so weak we can't stand up for ourselves when they take over the world.
Take the tinfiol off that pork and get it on my head!
When the authorities come knocking on your door asking to see the computer equipment with the MAC that did something naughty you have plausible deniability if they can check all your machines for a MAC that you don't own.
Just try and find one that actually exists; 12:34:56:... isn't going to cut it.
For bonus points grab the MAC of a neighbour's laptop and say they must have tapped your WiFi when you had it open after a firmware update.
Your WiFi, their equipment, no trace of the activity on anyone's PC. They go away unhappy after spending yet more of our tax $currency on something stupid instead of catching people who are committing real crimes involving violence and actual physical theft.
Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't pension off all the old guys (and gals) that actually know WTF their job is for and how to do it properly?
Bringing in new blood, bright young minds and college grads is the right idea, but have them work with the old guard for a while before they can change everything that kept the company running before they arrived with their new ideas and magic wands.
The main problem with business is "maximising profits and lowering costs".
Profits should be ploughed back into a company, not spread out to people who did little to deserve them. Costs should be high, especially for purchasing. The more you spend (generally) the better the products you're receiving, and the better the product you send out.
Too many bean counters, unanimously untrusted, universally disrespected bosses and management that are only in place long enough to empty the profit pot and move on to another position of extreme power and no fallout for their mistakes.
Everyone knows this, don't they?
If you know who Scott Adams is, you should.
After watching too much TV and reading not nearly enough books I gather that there are circumstances where this privilege can be maintained by having a third party open the safe who has been sworn under an NDA for anything that isn't part of the searched for items.
I'm sure that someone could confirm this who is A) American and B) a lawyer. I'm neither.
As root: 'ln -s/dev/null.bash_history' for all users. I do it in the first bash session I log into after installing. No need to shred as the file never had any content.
Stops anyone from turning the function on, or creating spurious histories.
I thought that you had to have all that crap when you went with a distro until I started running Gentoo. Then I wanted something binary for my EEE (701) and EEE Buntu Base just wasn't it.
Arch Linux. I ripped openSUSE off my other laptop to go with it. All the joy of Linux, none of the crap (and messed up layout) of a fat and bloated distro.
Arch, wicd, LXDE and NX. What more could a guy want on a laptop?
Here in the UK on Virgin's (possibly Phorm-laced offering we have that on a daily basis.
There are currently two "prime time" zones in the day and if you use too much bandwidth during those times you get your service cut in half until midnight.
Sure, they are giving us a free upgrade in speed, but it's totally asynchronous and potentially Phorm riddled.
On the upside, they are reliable (once you have it working), cheap (enough), let you have any port you want all the time and don't throttle BitTorrent.
Been using it for some time now. It's enough that the buggers have my mail without knowing that I like goat pr0n^w^wpepperoni pizza too.
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Under Windows 95 with a 2x CD recorder (4x were too expensive) we used to set the recording up.
Once the key was pressed we'd take a large but gentle step away from the machine so
as to not inadvertently move the mouse while it was "working"
Half an hour later we'd return carefully to the room to see if the CD light
was still on.
Temperamental semi-Operating System. Attempting any task while a write was in
progress yielded a coffee mat.
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That ability probably wouldn't help if you were looking for one of these.
Not sure about how it was back in the day, but being a Gentoo user for about a year and sitting in the help channel (#gentoo) and the chat channel (#gentoo-chat) quite a lot I can say that the no swearing rule is still in effect for both channels and the policy is to not talk about crap in #gentoo.
Can't say I've seen much in the way of ego, but some guys kick first and ask questions later, same as any other IRC channel.
That brings to mind Lord Vetinari's definition of choice that Reacher Gilt truly believed in at the end of "Going Postal".
Your distro (lets say Fedora for this example) has to get the sources for a new kernel, apply their own patches, test that the kernel works, package it and then put it out to beta testers to see if it breaks any one of the many configurations of Fedora that are out there.
... ) on a very small number of computers, not the whole gamut of x86 based machines (usually) that the Fedora stock kernel is designed for.
Sound familiar?
Then they have to upload it to their package management servers and put the fix out there for you to use.
This might not sound like a lot of work, but who needs a new kernel when they are busy with a whole truck full of other packages that people would notice an upgrade in (OpenOffice.org, KDE, Gnome etc.)?
If they keep to a kernel version for as long as possible they don't have to rewrite their own patches for a new version, they don't have to wonder if a new problem that comes through is due to the new kernel and they don't have to expend resources on a fairly back-of-the-store package that people (who use stock kernels) don't care about much.
Contrast that with other users (like myself) who eschew the patches that a distro puts into their kernels and download the latest vanilla sources from kernel.org (usually the same day it comes out), go through the config to make sure nothing major needs tweaking and compile a kernel that will only run at full potential (if I configured everything right
Even on my Arch Linux system that is very good at using up to date sources I prefer to roll my own. If you (and others like you) would prefer to run a newer kernel, read up on it (Scroogle Is Your Friend) and don't be afraid to try. The worst that can happen (if you keep your original kernel in the boot menu, and the modules to support it) is that your new shiny kernel sits there and tells you that there is no way on earth it can boot the system and it is having a bit of a panic with itself. Fixed by booting into your stock kernel and trying again.
Good luck with it if you choose to go that direction, and remember to read the changelogs for the newer kernels to see what has been improved and fixed. The latest stable kernel is 2.6.30.1, not 2.6.30. It isn't bleeding edge, it is the latest stable. Bleeding edge kernels have -xxn appended (where xxn is letters and numbers depending on what type of kernel or patches are added).
Actual email I sent to my mother last year:
--
Mum,
<wife>'s just come in and told me that you forwarded the email that you got from "Terry" to her.
I'm not going to have a go at you or anything, you didn't send it to me, as I requested =) But, if you are going to do stuff like that, let me show you the best way to do it so that you don't do to others what I don't want doing to me.
When you get the email that you want to forward it will have loads of addresses in it already, which don't need to be sent around your friends. To take them out, just drag your mouse over the interesting bit of the mail and copy it into a new mail.
If you're going to send it to loads of people, don't use the ordinary "send to" part, use the "BCC" address box. "BCC" means blind cc, because each person that you send the mail to only sees their address, not everyone's that you sent it to.
This stops all the addresses from being visible to any nasty person that could "scrape" the email for addresses and sell them to spam companies.
I know you think this is just me being me, but if everyone did this there wouldn't be as many big willie/viagra/scam mortgages/rolex emails in your spam folder every week.
Believe me, I'm just glad that I wasn't on it, and <wife> wasn't moaning either.
Love,
Mike
Password Hasher has that facility.
With this extension built into every web browser security would improve in leaps and bounds.
For lazy people you can mix it with Secure Login or the Opera Wand.
After all, once an attacker has local access to your machine all bets are off right? Password Hasher makes guesses/brute forcing passwords as close to impossible as it needs to be. 26 characters should be enough for anyone, surely?
Have you ever tried saying to your wife "no honey, I'm not cheating; I want to use the condoms on you"?
That ROFLCOPTER is about to land on your lawn and serve you the divorce papers.
We needed a new "telly" last year, our old CRT had given up the ghost. We went shopping around (as one does when one wants a good deal on expensive technology) and saw a multitude of LCD and plasma screens.
We saw pretty much the cheapest to the most expensive (approximates the the worst to the best) of these HD ready, DVB, HDMI, scart, give you a blowjob and do the dishes telescreens and we decided to go with a CRT anyway. The price wasn't the problem, it was the perceived image quality.
In the opinion of my wife and I, LCD/plasma just isn't ready for putting in the corner of the room yet.
YMMV and apparently does.
Yes.
These guys do it on a semi-permanent or temporary basis for free, and I'm sure that is more computationally expensive than otherwise. Why should it cost so much money for a permanent one?
We had one, Mad Cow Disease. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE caused lots of healthy beef to be burned at the st[eak|ake] to satisfy the knee-jerk reaction crowd. Cases of CJD are still turning up and beef didn't get any cheaper.
Turkeys had a go recently too.
I'm sure that this is all a ploy by the Bildeberg Group to turn us all into under-nourished vegetarians who are so weak we can't stand up for ourselves when they take over the world.
Take the tinfiol off that pork and get it on my head!
I just don't believe that yours is the only post that mentions Phorm.
How can we take anything this man has to say seriously when he is balls deep in that dung heap?
When the authorities come knocking on your door asking to see the computer equipment with the MAC that did something naughty you have plausible deniability if they can check all your machines for a MAC that you don't own.
... isn't going to cut it.
Just try and find one that actually exists; 12:34:56:
For bonus points grab the MAC of a neighbour's laptop and say they must have tapped your WiFi when you had it open after a firmware update.
Your WiFi, their equipment, no trace of the activity on anyone's PC. They go away unhappy after spending yet more of our tax $currency on something stupid instead of catching people who are committing real crimes involving violence and actual physical theft.
Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't pension off all the old guys (and gals) that actually know WTF their job is for and how to do it properly?
Bringing in new blood, bright young minds and college grads is the right idea, but have them work with the old guard for a while before they can change everything that kept the company running before they arrived with their new ideas and magic wands.
The main problem with business is "maximising profits and lowering costs".
Profits should be ploughed back into a company, not spread out to people who did little to deserve them. Costs should be high, especially for purchasing. The more you spend (generally) the better the products you're receiving, and the better the product you send out.
Too many bean counters, unanimously untrusted, universally disrespected bosses and management that are only in place long enough to empty the profit pot and move on to another position of extreme power and no fallout for their mistakes.
Everyone knows this, don't they?
If you know who Scott Adams is, you should.
After watching too much TV and reading not nearly enough books I gather that there are circumstances where this privilege can be maintained by having a third party open the safe who has been sworn under an NDA for anything that isn't part of the searched for items.
I'm sure that someone could confirm this who is A) American and B) a lawyer. I'm neither.
As root: 'ln -s /dev/null .bash_history' for all users. I do it in the first bash session I log into after installing. No need to shred as the file never had any content.
Stops anyone from turning the function on, or creating spurious histories.
I lose.
The Game for anyone who still doesn't know what it is.
Although, the way I heard it, you don't have to announce your loss to anyone in particular, just say aloud "I lose".
WindowsXP has cost the world economy far more than that over it's life.
I thought that you had to have all that crap when you went with a distro until I started running Gentoo. Then I wanted something binary for my EEE (701) and EEE Buntu Base just wasn't it.
Arch Linux. I ripped openSUSE off my other laptop to go with it. All the joy of Linux, none of the crap (and messed up layout) of a fat and bloated distro.
Arch, wicd, LXDE and NX. What more could a guy want on a laptop?
Don't be hypercritical!
Or am I being a hypocrite now?
Here in the UK on Virgin's (possibly Phorm-laced offering we have that on a daily basis.
There are currently two "prime time" zones in the day and if you use too much bandwidth during those times you get your service cut in half until midnight.
Sure, they are giving us a free upgrade in speed, but it's totally asynchronous and potentially Phorm riddled.
On the upside, they are reliable (once you have it working), cheap (enough), let you have any port you want all the time and don't throttle BitTorrent.
The regulatory bodies would love that.
The answer to so many questions is encryption, "they" would love a way to make it painful to use.
Yes, but there was never a time when we weren't at war with Eurasia.
I defy you to find a reference to it anywhere in history!
And don't give me that "here is some paper that proves it" crap, everyone knows that paper can be counterfeited. Only the internet can be believed.
Scroogle Is Your New Friend.
Been using it for some time now. It's enough that the buggers have my mail without knowing that I like goat pr0n^w^wpepperoni pizza too.
Under Windows 95 with a 2x CD recorder (4x were too expensive) we used to set the recording up.
Once the key was pressed we'd take a large but gentle step away from the machine so as to not inadvertently move the mouse while it was "working"
Half an hour later we'd return carefully to the room to see if the CD light was still on.
Temperamental semi-Operating System. Attempting any task while a write was in progress yielded a coffee mat.
I hope you're using company paper and ink.
Never pay for at home that which you can use for free at work.