Re:Circuit City shoppers are the Slashdot standard
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I agree with you. I'm going to go out and say that the firehose here on slashdot is being misused. People are probably voting !newsworthy news up causing it to eventually show up on the main page? Of course I can be dead wrong.
I agree with you. I read the whole 2 part interview. To me he was spot on and enjoyed reading it (did not listen it). Basically he touched on how what the Linux community is, development processes that occur, etc. He even stated that he focus's on the kernel and its code maintenance. The kernel of course by itself is worthless. It must work together with other things such as the X server... externals.
of course my description sucks but I said what I wanted... Just go HERE. Now flame me (>:-D)
Mine still works also. However, I have seen broken LCD screens on them. So its not like they are indestructible. If you take fairly good care of it then you'll have it for years. I have a 4 drawer plastic box filled with different things from when I grew up. If they are not worth anything to pawn shops when I become 50+ then at least they will be worth something to me:-P. Hopefully my future wife does not junk them:-(.
Should M$ aquire Yahoo! I sure hope my del.icio.us bookmarks will still be up and running. If so they better still work in FF/WindowsXP or FF/Kubuntu->Linux. Otherwise I'll just use the local FireFox bookmarks again. Backed up my bookmarks just in case... That would be a pretty big downer for my bookmarks to vanish or just stop working across different platforms...
I have not read the article and chose to read some comments instead.
I agree that by doing more than one task at the same time results in performing the tasks poorly. If I talk on my cell while driving (which is illegal here if you do not use hands free) I will have a very difficult time keeping track of the conversation while trying to do the more important task at hand which is to drive. That may be more difficult for me probably because I drive a manual car and double clutch. So, I just don't answer my phone if I'm on the road. My friends and family understand that because I've made that clear. If I make a phone call it will require me to pull off the road and park somewhere. Those are my rules and I stick to them. On the other hand listening to music does not distract me when driving.
exactly... well said. Enterprise users/managers want their programs to "just work". They don't really care what platform it runs on. Lotus getting support on Ubuntu is GREAT because its used by many corporations. It will make Linux distros look more attractive to these types of users. My school uses Lotus also. I don't like it myself. I see Linux support as a positive thing. Now they just need to get FF a better IT deployment application and management system so it can replace IE and we *might* see large deployments of FF.
I don't think command line users are a "dying breed" either. I use the command line often. My 2 Debian servers at home are only command line. I know how to use the command line to do what I want. Its fast and efficient for me. However on my main machine I like to use a GUI. Personally, I think its very important to know how to use a shell. My command line skills helped me out many times. When my X server broke on me I had to use only the command line.
So... the bottom line I think is the command line is here to stay. Also any experienced user who programs/administers/etc should know how to use a command line. Its not a MUST of course but its a plus. It should also give you preference to employers who seek *nix admins.
These pages are probably detecting that you are using IE, and enabling ugly IE6 hacks (or more likely the sites are "designed for IE6", and only enable the standards compliance hacks when they detect Mozilla/Firefox and perhaps Safari and Opera. Nothing is perfect, but IE7 is miles better than IE6 when it comes to standards compliance and rendering CSS properly.
Agreed. IE7 is miles better at rendering CSS properly. I'm curious about how good the new FF and IE8 will be. The bottom line for me is IE7 is much better than IE6. When I designed my personal web site I came across whether I should add support for IE6 or not. I chose not to add any IE hacks to the site which resulted in render issues in IE6. IE7 to my surprise renders most of my site quite well except for some things. My main browser, FF renders everything correctly along with Konqueror, Opera, Safari, and lynx (haha). The site is fully standards compliant.
One day I was driving down the road when my car turned off. Turned out the timing belt snapped. Good thing I was a squad leader because I just requested a vehicle drop and the commander delivered right away. While I used that car a fellow teammate started to fix my other car with a "magic wrench".
Before Patch 1.3 this was not possible for cars to be dropped. Thank goodness for this new gift from EA.
Well, I think I killed the humor but I'll post this anyway...:-P
My first gaming experience was when I was around 6 or 7 years old. Originally I was pretty resistant to gaming and just wanted to play outside but my father got me into computing and gaming. I was exposed to the Atari playing Space Invaders, Pacman etc... Then we got Nintendo. I kept up with all the Nintendo console gaming systems all the way until the N64. Next to Console gaming I also was PC Gaming. Some of my most memorable experiences were from PC gaming not console gaming. Games such as Mystic Towers, Commander Keen, Doom, Aldo, Muppet adventures, MyGrandPiano, were great fun (still run with dosbox:-)). I stopped wasting money on Console gaming and stuck with PC Gaming after the N64.
Good point. However it does not bother me that they use "K" in front of many of the applications that are available on KDE. I like it. But thats just me. Now that I think of it they do go a bit too far.
Now if you excuse me I will have some Koffee. But right after I finish editing my Conf files in Kwrite.
I agree... The box looks nice, hardware meager, but I for one would not buy one of them. Even for a server or storage device.
Why? Because I could find free machines on dumpster day or at the dump. Also, if a customer is purchasing a new machine I find that they are likely to throw the old one out. When you keep a look out for machines sitting at the end of peoples driveways when you drive you might find a free machine. If the machine is a ugly color why not just paint it... I don't bother:-P
I'm glad to see more Linux boxes out there. Also getting press. Going back 5 years ago my friends never heard of Linux. Now some of my friends ask me about Linux and know something about it.
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I agree with your point of view. Word processors should NOT be able to add images, generate a HTML page, etc. It should process words. Desktop publishing software should do the images and the other stuff. I prefer to code my web pages by hand because otherwise I'd be looking at a mountain of code with image instead of one line with an image if I coded it by hand.
Never mind... got a patch which got me support for WPA2 in WinXP. Gotta patch up other machines with WinXP. So now in order to connect you need WPA2 and AES Authentication. Going to test WPA2 Enterprise as I said before. Got to get the freeRADIUS server working right first with the router. Still looking into it. If I get that working is that the best way to go? WPA2 + AES is the best for a home router though I think.
Today I decided to take the plunge and change my wireless configuration...
I removed MAC address filtering, enabled SSID broadcasting and enabled wireless security. I ended up using WPA Personal and AES WPA algorithms. I made my Shared Key 63 characters long (which is the max). It contains uppercase+lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. The router I have here is a Linksys WRT54G V2.0. Not sure if I wanna install that HyperWRT firmware and I did look into it years ago and not that interested. I did a fair share of research on these encryption technologies and theres much to learn and its very interesting. I tried to use WPA2 personal but my WinXP machine did not like it. Also tried to setup freeradius server on my Debian box and use WPA2 Enterprise (Tried WPA Enterprise but gotta try again). I figure the most secure way that will work with this networks devices is to use WPA Enterprise which requires authentication with the key and the RADIUS server (did I say that wrong?). When I boot to Ubuntu after gaming I must see if I can get connected. Not really necessary as I'm wired though but worth a try just to see if it works.
From most of the sources I read this statement pretty much says it all for WPA/WPA2:
In either WPA or WPA2, your password is the weakest link.
And my pass is 63 chars long.
It was a good experience. Any suggestions? Comments?
aww why did you have to burst my bubble of feeling secured:-P
Yeah, anyone who really wants to get into my networks can do so. I just added a few things in the way. If I add secure encryption WPA on top of that it'll be much better right?
I'd prefer to have no wireless broadcasting at all since for the most part I am plugged in to the network.
True... I am lucky to have great parents. I was a horrible kid to parent growing up. Always had problems and made their lives a living hell. My mother stuck by me through everything after they were divorced. She dealt with most of everything I dished out. I appreciate it a lot. My father gives me good advise on reality issues and is pretty strict. Not many parents would deal with that.
Today I see many parents lax in monitoring their kids. They really try to be their friends instead of parents. That rubs me the wrong way... Especially when their kids are fat, loud, and greedy/needy.
If you disable SSID broadcasting and enable a trusted only MAC list and deny all other MAC addresses are you pretty much secured from brute force scan attacks? The attacker would have the program scanning for SSIDs. The scanner would not see it. I set my networks up so you have to manually add the SSID. I don't have encryption enabled though. I just make sure that when I go to websites like my banking site or email I use the SSL address. I also use long passwords with capitals, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. One of the networks I manage I do the same as I mentioned before plus I disable DHCP on the router and set everything static.
I used to work at CompUSA (which I mentioned before and was the worst job I ever had) and saw firsthand the mishandling of private information of customers. The hardware I saw thrown out was shocking. Lots of hardware was usable in some way. Service requests were not shredded (can't remember a shredder being in the store). Thats how I got my nice HP machine for almost nothing (had to replace the system board for $140.00). The machine is 2.8GHZ Intel P4 HT... etc.. Still using it and functioning well. I'm pretty sure other companies are as careless as CompUSA was. I just hope I am not one of these victims...
same here... I'd be using Linux full time if it had all the popular games supported on it. Cedega and Wine do not cut it. I need native gaming. Its only until then will I be booting directly to Linux all the time. Kind of a pain... Good thing I don't game all the time so I am in Linux most of the time.
Agreed. I used Netscape for only two times. Never really liked it. The earlier versions were probably better like you say but I never used those versions (to be honest I can't remember). I use Firefox all the time and like it. Looking forward to version 3.0 stable.
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I agree with you. I'm going to go out and say that the firehose here on slashdot is being misused. People are probably voting !newsworthy news up causing it to eventually show up on the main page? Of course I can be dead wrong.
I agree with you. I read the whole 2 part interview. To me he was spot on and enjoyed reading it (did not listen it). Basically he touched on how what the Linux community is, development processes that occur, etc. He even stated that he focus's on the kernel and its code maintenance. The kernel of course by itself is worthless. It must work together with other things such as the X server... externals.
of course my description sucks but I said what I wanted... Just go HERE. Now flame me (>:-D)
Mine still works also. However, I have seen broken LCD screens on them. So its not like they are indestructible. If you take fairly good care of it then you'll have it for years. I have a 4 drawer plastic box filled with different things from when I grew up. If they are not worth anything to pawn shops when I become 50+ then at least they will be worth something to me :-P. Hopefully my future wife does not junk them :-(.
Should M$ aquire Yahoo! I sure hope my del.icio.us bookmarks will still be up and running. If so they better still work in FF/WindowsXP or FF/Kubuntu->Linux. Otherwise I'll just use the local FireFox bookmarks again. Backed up my bookmarks just in case... That would be a pretty big downer for my bookmarks to vanish or just stop working across different platforms...
so... why is this modded funny? I thought this poster made good points and should be informative. Thats what I think...
http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/homepong.html
I have not read the article and chose to read some comments instead. I agree that by doing more than one task at the same time results in performing the tasks poorly. If I talk on my cell while driving (which is illegal here if you do not use hands free) I will have a very difficult time keeping track of the conversation while trying to do the more important task at hand which is to drive. That may be more difficult for me probably because I drive a manual car and double clutch. So, I just don't answer my phone if I'm on the road. My friends and family understand that because I've made that clear. If I make a phone call it will require me to pull off the road and park somewhere. Those are my rules and I stick to them. On the other hand listening to music does not distract me when driving.
exactly... well said. Enterprise users/managers want their programs to "just work". They don't really care what platform it runs on. Lotus getting support on Ubuntu is GREAT because its used by many corporations. It will make Linux distros look more attractive to these types of users. My school uses Lotus also. I don't like it myself. I see Linux support as a positive thing. Now they just need to get FF a better IT deployment application and management system so it can replace IE and we *might* see large deployments of FF.
I don't think command line users are a "dying breed" either. I use the command line often. My 2 Debian servers at home are only command line. I know how to use the command line to do what I want. Its fast and efficient for me. However on my main machine I like to use a GUI. Personally, I think its very important to know how to use a shell. My command line skills helped me out many times. When my X server broke on me I had to use only the command line.
So... the bottom line I think is the command line is here to stay. Also any experienced user who programs/administers/etc should know how to use a command line. Its not a MUST of course but its a plus. It should also give you preference to employers who seek *nix admins.
Agreed. IE7 is miles better at rendering CSS properly. I'm curious about how good the new FF and IE8 will be. The bottom line for me is IE7 is much better than IE6. When I designed my personal web site I came across whether I should add support for IE6 or not. I chose not to add any IE hacks to the site which resulted in render issues in IE6. IE7 to my surprise renders most of my site quite well except for some things. My main browser, FF renders everything correctly along with Konqueror, Opera, Safari, and lynx (haha). The site is fully standards compliant.
Speaking of BF2...
:-P
One day I was driving down the road when my car turned off. Turned out the timing belt snapped. Good thing I was a squad leader because I just requested a vehicle drop and the commander delivered right away. While I used that car a fellow teammate started to fix my other car with a "magic wrench".
Before Patch 1.3 this was not possible for cars to be dropped. Thank goodness for this new gift from EA.
Well, I think I killed the humor but I'll post this anyway...
My first gaming experience was when I was around 6 or 7 years old. Originally I was pretty resistant to gaming and just wanted to play outside but my father got me into computing and gaming. I was exposed to the Atari playing Space Invaders, Pacman etc... Then we got Nintendo. I kept up with all the Nintendo console gaming systems all the way until the N64. Next to Console gaming I also was PC Gaming. Some of my most memorable experiences were from PC gaming not console gaming. Games such as Mystic Towers, Commander Keen, Doom, Aldo, Muppet adventures, MyGrandPiano, were great fun (still run with dosbox :-)). I stopped wasting money on Console gaming and stuck with PC Gaming after the N64.
Good point. However it does not bother me that they use "K" in front of many of the applications that are available on KDE. I like it. But thats just me. Now that I think of it they do go a bit too far.
Now if you excuse me I will have some Koffee. But right after I finish editing my Conf files in Kwrite.
I agree... The box looks nice, hardware meager, but I for one would not buy one of them. Even for a server or storage device.
:-P
Why? Because I could find free machines on dumpster day or at the dump. Also, if a customer is purchasing a new machine I find that they are likely to throw the old one out. When you keep a look out for machines sitting at the end of peoples driveways when you drive you might find a free machine. If the machine is a ugly color why not just paint it... I don't bother
I'm glad to see more Linux boxes out there. Also getting press. Going back 5 years ago my friends never heard of Linux. Now some of my friends ask me about Linux and know something about it.
I agree with your point of view. Word processors should NOT be able to add images, generate a HTML page, etc. It should process words. Desktop publishing software should do the images and the other stuff. I prefer to code my web pages by hand because otherwise I'd be looking at a mountain of code with image instead of one line with an image if I coded it by hand.
Never mind... got a patch which got me support for WPA2 in WinXP. Gotta patch up other machines with WinXP. So now in order to connect you need WPA2 and AES Authentication. Going to test WPA2 Enterprise as I said before. Got to get the freeRADIUS server working right first with the router. Still looking into it. If I get that working is that the best way to go? WPA2 + AES is the best for a home router though I think.
I removed MAC address filtering, enabled SSID broadcasting and enabled wireless security. I ended up using WPA Personal and AES WPA algorithms. I made my Shared Key 63 characters long (which is the max). It contains uppercase+lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. The router I have here is a Linksys WRT54G V2.0. Not sure if I wanna install that HyperWRT firmware and I did look into it years ago and not that interested. I did a fair share of research on these encryption technologies and theres much to learn and its very interesting. I tried to use WPA2 personal but my WinXP machine did not like it. Also tried to setup freeradius server on my Debian box and use WPA2 Enterprise (Tried WPA Enterprise but gotta try again). I figure the most secure way that will work with this networks devices is to use WPA Enterprise which requires authentication with the key and the RADIUS server (did I say that wrong?). When I boot to Ubuntu after gaming I must see if I can get connected. Not really necessary as I'm wired though but worth a try just to see if it works.
From most of the sources I read this statement pretty much says it all for WPA/WPA2:
In either WPA or WPA2, your password is the weakest link.
And my pass is 63 chars long.
It was a good experience. Any suggestions? Comments?
The weaker the Ori will become and we might face a mass plague to renew our faith in Origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ori_(Stargate).
Thanks, I'll have to rethink my configuration. I Appreciate your constructive criticism.
aww why did you have to burst my bubble of feeling secured :-P
Yeah, anyone who really wants to get into my networks can do so. I just added a few things in the way. If I add secure encryption WPA on top of that it'll be much better right?
I'd prefer to have no wireless broadcasting at all since for the most part I am plugged in to the network.
True... I am lucky to have great parents. I was a horrible kid to parent growing up. Always had problems and made their lives a living hell. My mother stuck by me through everything after they were divorced. She dealt with most of everything I dished out. I appreciate it a lot. My father gives me good advise on reality issues and is pretty strict. Not many parents would deal with that.
Today I see many parents lax in monitoring their kids. They really try to be their friends instead of parents. That rubs me the wrong way... Especially when their kids are fat, loud, and greedy/needy.
Thats my pet peeve for the article...
If you disable SSID broadcasting and enable a trusted only MAC list and deny all other MAC addresses are you pretty much secured from brute force scan attacks? The attacker would have the program scanning for SSIDs. The scanner would not see it. I set my networks up so you have to manually add the SSID. I don't have encryption enabled though. I just make sure that when I go to websites like my banking site or email I use the SSL address. I also use long passwords with capitals, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. One of the networks I manage I do the same as I mentioned before plus I disable DHCP on the router and set everything static.
Should I do anything extra?
I used to work at CompUSA (which I mentioned before and was the worst job I ever had) and saw firsthand the mishandling of private information of customers. The hardware I saw thrown out was shocking. Lots of hardware was usable in some way. Service requests were not shredded (can't remember a shredder being in the store). Thats how I got my nice HP machine for almost nothing (had to replace the system board for $140.00). The machine is 2.8GHZ Intel P4 HT... etc.. Still using it and functioning well. I'm pretty sure other companies are as careless as CompUSA was. I just hope I am not one of these victims...
same here... I'd be using Linux full time if it had all the popular games supported on it. Cedega and Wine do not cut it. I need native gaming. Its only until then will I be booting directly to Linux all the time. Kind of a pain... Good thing I don't game all the time so I am in Linux most of the time.
Agreed. I used Netscape for only two times. Never really liked it. The earlier versions were probably better like you say but I never used those versions (to be honest I can't remember). I use Firefox all the time and like it. Looking forward to version 3.0 stable.