apparently you must think you're the only sysadmin. FYI I've done Sr Sys Admin'ing/Network Engineering, Network Adminstration, Security Engineering, Sec. Administration. What do you call a massive patch update? I've seen people rant on about that. Configuring SNMP when it was broken? Oh my god the crying that went on. Listen, currently I work at a mid sized ISP, throw up a new router, welp there goes who knows how many clec updates throughout the lata's. Domain changes, welp there go some named changes, oh man user wants Apache to do what? There goes some module configurations. Fuck vuln in $MISCBINARY fuck gotta go update 600+ machines... Spare me the pseudo justification of the lazy admins.
FYI when I need to do something host specific that's going to take 16+ hours, I don't whine because it's my job. I spend a little time writing expect +python scripts to fix shit. Sol admin? jumpstart shit left and right... It's what I get paid for not to whine like some eleventeen YO juvenile.
The entire industry is pretty grim right now, and I wouldn't be fooled into thinking the economy is picking up much. You can be fooled by all the garbage such as "Bull Market" and crap like that, but if you look at stock charts, you'd see it pretty much is in the same state as things were a few years back.
There are too many uncertainties nowadays for companies to spend spend spend on R&D and other things which really sucks, so I would hold my breathe waiting for the 'next big thing'.
Latest Comprelated/Financial news
Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich offered a plan to revive "bloated, underachieving, unfocused" server-computer maker Sun Microsystems -- including a personality makeover for Chief Executive Scott McNealy.
Warning that Sun is headed for a ravine "filled with carcasses" of defunct computer companies, the analyst wrote a research report as an open letter to McNealy and Sun's board. He said they should slash as much as 19 percent of the company's staff members and settle on a single new mission. [Full story
A Wall Street analyst's warning that Sun Microsystems could end up as another corporate carcass has led at least one rival to smell blood.
In an aggressive move, Hewlett-Packard said Friday that it is offering $25,000 in services and other incentives to Sun customers who move their computer systems to HP products.
No one will spend money (real money) until this government gets their act together. Iraq, Korea, Iran, etc., there is too much to lose in investing, when there is no stability over here.
Many NANOG'ers are always pissy when it comes to anything that affects their systems. Sometimes when I read the list I find it amusing and often portray many of the guys there as lazy bastards. Don't get me wrong I know a lot of people there know a heck of a lot of shit, but if you go back and check some of the older posts, you see a pattern of "fuck now I gotta work" type responses.
Odd though considering when some hardcore networking stuff needs to be assessed you will often see many *NOT* configure it then bitch about it somewhere down the line. I take many of those post and/dev/null them since there are a lot of whiners there, but I do enjoy reading the hardcore technical stuff when they're not trolling around about something trivial.
Hrmm now I know this post is not related to the story in general, and more than likely will be troll -1'd or something... But had to speak my mind about trusting information from anyone other source than RTFM for yourself.
They've also got a huge antiWindows theme going at times, which is funny because when I wrote brat.c the same people who were bitching about Windows were going to read the write up and program in... Windows... Talk about 'Egos Gone Wild"
Also note that a Massachusetts official makes mention of 'Open Source Overstatements' too. Could be people don't want to be hassled by the thought on instability due to SCO's antics regarding their lawsuits. Maybe people are starting to wonder whether it's going to cost them more in the long run or something...
A senior state official said Friday that reports about a planned shift to open source software platforms by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts were inaccurate and that the state has no "Freeware Initiative," as stated by a number of software industry lobbying groups opposed to the
Eric Kriss, the state's secretary for administration and finance, said that statements released by groups like the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), based in Washington D.C., were "very inaccurate." The state is simply considering ways to integrate disparate systems using open standards such as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), XML (Extensible Markup Language) and Java, he said.
Reports about a plan to favor open source platforms like Linux over proprietary software platforms surfaced in the media last week and claimed that state Chief Information Officer Peter Quinn was instituting a "Freeware Initiative" to invest in open source software such as Linux whenever possible. Those reports followed a leaked memo from Kriss to Quinn, Kriss said.
"Governor Mitt Romney must put a stop to this boondoggle,"
What the heck is a boondoogler?
"People mistakenly refer to Linux as 'free' software because it can be freely altered and distributed. Not necessarily freely altered or distributed. In fact if SCO has anything to do with it people will be paying one million... <smirks> one billion smackerooonis
Yet while the software itself is free, the cost to maintain and upgrade it can become very expensive.
Hrmm Expensive? I think not.
Windows reboots per day = how many? Employee downtime due to reboots = How many? Not to mention costs of licenses. I agree 100%, but not in the way you may think
And most ISPs will do anything to keep a spammer off of their bandwidth
Most can't do anything about it coming into their networks. Going out yes, but coming in, there is nothing that can be done unless every single customer agrees that spam should not reach their mailbox. See in order to add those kinds of rules to a router, it has to correspond to all. No ISP is going to update multitudes of routers to add one rule for one person.
Working for an ISP I can't begin to tell you the nightmares I hear day in and out... Anyway many wonder (our users) why we don't eliminate the receiving of spam, and the fact is, some etards actually don't mind getting it, I'm assuming this is like the nicer spam, (clothing, etc) Vicodin, Viagra, etc, blow. Blocking spam from coming in can be quite tricky when it's spoofed for the average layperson, but the headers always help. On one of my personal domains I have procmail scripted to just ipf block in on all from assholes to any port 25 which helps alot. When that gets out of hand then I ipf block in on all from asshole/17 to start all the way up to their class A's.
The scam almost cost Markley his business, his reputation, his website and his sanity. His Internet service provider wouldn't help him, despite the fact that his computer and his e-mail account were being overwhelmed by an avalanche of spam-spew that made it impossible to do business or even collect his personal e-mail.
Again, working at an ISP, we cannot dictate what a user can or should not receive. He should have installed filters. Now I know I will get flamed for saying this, but when flyer distributors come around, does anyone beat their ass or track them down. Now I know that there is a difference in volume, which is why if I had one million fscktards throwing flyers at my house, I would let loose the rottweiler. Get a filter, and if your ISP doesn't do shit change ISP's. Any ISP however will not filter spam from coming into their networks because for one, no one should dictate what someone should or should not receive. My two Lincolns
Wow can't believe I didn't include something about Revolution OS
The documentary Revolution OS explores the human side of the open source and free software movements, illuminating the behind-the-scenes story of the hackers and programmers rebelling against the corporate machine.
This 90-minute film begins with Richard Stallman's quest to create a free operating system. It then follows the movement through its two-decades-long evolution in interviews with Stallman, Linus Torvalds (creator of the open-source operating system Linux), Eric Raymond (author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar), Bruce Perens (author of the Open Source Definition), Brian Behlendorf (leader of the Apache Web server project), Michael Tiemann (founder of the first open source company) and Larry Augustin (founder of VA Linux Systems). Revolution OS also depicts the culture of the open source movement by documenting the Installfest parties where people can bring their computers to get free, expert Linux tech support; and the Refund Day protest marches, where Linux users demand reimbursement of the extra fees that get tacked onto the purchase price of new computers for pre-installed Microsoft applications.
then again you smoke so it looks like it worked on you whatever you may think, you are a testament to it
I smoke because I enjoy it not because I believe it makes me feel tough, nor sexy, nor anything. Why do some people fly kites, or take up model railroading? Because they enjoy it. I see no commercial flooding for those hobbies and there are a billion more. Why do we respond to Slashdot? I don't see Rob or anyone else flooding commercials about this site, we do it because we want to nothing more. So please spare me the psychobabble.
When I was ([post sponsored by Politrix) writing this I was thinking ([Sponsor) thinking about how much money ([Symantec) product placements generate. Maybe ([Pepsi) Slashdot should look into this for ([RSA) revenue generation?
Smoking in teenagers and watching films showing smoking
What kind of title is this really? To use something not even written properly is digraceful I mean what teh fsck? [source listed on pdf]
Hollywood needs to stop promoting smoking worldwide
What ever happened to freedom of choice? Philip Morris co isn't forcing anyone to smoke, nor is Hollywood. People make their own decisions and not some advertiser.
The tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers by associating its products with excitement, sex, wealth, rebellion, and independence. Films are a powerful way to make this connection---and, as a paper in this week's issue of Tobacco Control shows,1 they succeed.
Retains smokers with sex, wealth, rebellion? Shit where is my money, and sex? I smoke because I choose to, and I know the consequences of my actions. I am not being misled by anyone but myself for smoking. These lobby groups distort facts, and this request is ridiculous. Personally I think this group should have specified a "specific" company, as their current demand can affect anyone advertising. Say someone on Friends drinking Pepsi, get realistic what would they expect a cloudy dot around anything with a label? Oh Please, Patriot Act for advertising now. Shoddy article, unrealistic demand.
First, for employees and others who have trusted access to your network, the answer is not to poke holes in your firewall.
While this is simple to state, how many companies will follow this rule. Companies are not going to jail their users, so the first one who wants to listen to mp3's or streaming music, up goes Real, or Windows Media. What? You want to see the stock ticker from Bloomberg? Sure now you have multicasting crap. Get real, and that's not including someone who knows about things like datapipe.c
Rather, the answer is simple, just three letters. VPN. By setting up a secure, encrypted, authenticating channel, you bring your trusted users into your network.
You're either blind or too trusting in people. Remember the biggest security hole often comes directly from the inside. For instance, I know someone who has a VPN through IBM for her work. Lo and behold she wanted to take that same machine and hook up DSL to it. Say goodbye to security over VPN.
I won't get too deep into this since I'm tired but a VPN isn't always the answer. The answer is actually education. Instead of spending on a Cisco Pix, or Nokia VPN machine, try holding monthly meetings with employees and make them aware of issues. Doesn't have to be a full blown Harvard presentation, but a quick power point presentation will actually teach them things they could carry on in their home or future place of employment. VPN's are like security through obscurity in a way. If someone wants in a VPN will do nothing to stop them
The RIAA has announced it will launch a lawsuit against the Vorbis developers who created the OGG format.
"We are shocked and awed these college kids would code something that steals from kabillionaire struggling artists and post them on the sickening little iPee's or iPods. Have you seen the name OGG. Wasn't there a ganster rap song called OGG or something. It's a disgrace." stated an RIAA Spokesdevil.
Officials at Vorbis could not be contacted, however, another company stated they will be filing a countersuit against the suit in response to the suit originally filed.
P2P group seeks peace but talks tough
Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: September 29, 2003
A newly launched peer-to-peer trade association has offered to sit down and negotiate with music industry lawyers, while it simultaneously denounced its adversaries as obsolete and "tyrannosaurical."
P2P United, a group of six peer-to-peer businesses, held a coming-out event Monday in Washington, D.C. The lobbying effort is designed to demonstrate to the U.S. Congress that peer-to-peer companies are legitimate enterprises that will abide by the law. The group is touting a code of conduct that promises to warn users of their software that copyright infringement is wrong, but does not offer to police the vast sprawl of peer-to-peer networks for illegal activities.
The members of P2P United that showed up at the event at the National Press Club included LimeWire, Blubster, Grokster and Streamcast Networks, which distributes Morpheus. (The other two participants are BearShare and eDonkey 2000.) Noticeably absent from P2P United is Sharman Networks, distributor of Kazaa.
"P2P United is here and intends to remain here as a presence in Washington to demonstrate not just with our words but with our actions that this is not a fly-by-night business," Adam Eisgrau, a veteran lobbyist who represents P2P United, said at the event.
However, other members of the lobbying effort at the event denounced the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)--which is targeting individuals in its legal efforts to stifle file swapping--in language rarely heard in policy circles.
"What the hell are these guys doing? Who do they think they are? For God's sake!" Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster, said. "This is absolutely reprehensible. I don't care what anyone says, but suing a 12-year-old girl is child abuse."
Eisgrau said the colorful language shouldn't hurt the peer-to-peer group's planned efforts to reach a deal with the RIAA. "If they're afraid of a few adjectives, even our willingness to talk with them won't save them," Eisgrau said.
"It is refreshing to see that P2P United is acknowledging that their members should be more active in educating their users about the consequences of illegal file sharing that is rampant on their networks, as well as the other risks these networks pose to personal privacy and security," the RIAA said in a statement. "But, let's face it, they need to do a whole lot more before they can claim to be legitimate businesses."
P2P United wouldn't give details on what kind of deal it would seek with the RIAA and other copyright holders except to say that it was looking for some sort of compulsory license or indirect payment system. One idea that's been floated is for Congress to levy a tax on high-speed Internet connections, with the proceeds split between the RIAA and peer-to-peer companies.
"It has been reacted to as if it were radioactive," Eisgrau said, talking about the suggestion of compulsory licenses. "That has to change. It is a legitimate set of strategies present in copyright law in many forms. It is a general subject that belongs on the table."
Eisgrau, who once worked for the American Library Association, said the idea was to impose "small levies which are spread widely and pretty invisibly" and noted that a previous copyright compromise in Congress resulted in a few cents "being attached to the cost of a blank tape."
Words can be typed by pressing the raised keys, and numbers by pressing the four keys that surround a particular number.
Are things getting so overboard that companies are now just reinventing a round wheel. What purpose would this otherwise serve. Sure it might make things easier, hell could even save you a second or two, but is it really necessary. Is it even worth writing an article over.
Sometimes I question where companies get some of these quirky ideas from, I for one do not use my phone for email nor the net, it's what laptops with wifi is made for, or palms, handsprings, etc.. I Just don't get what one would get out of this other than a quick right to brag about some new geek/hip toy they got only to see the price get slashed in a month, and a bazillion others with the same thing the following week.
Is it me or did someone lace the waters with dumbanium, moronium, or idioticum
Security software industry veteran Amit Yoran is expected to be named the new head of federal cybersecurity by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday....
Yoran stayed on as Symantec vice president of worldwide managed security services operations, according to Symantec spokesman Cris Paden.
Yoran was well regarded at Symantec, Paden said. Infoworld
I've said it before, and I will say it again, hiring Yoran is going to produce a huge conflict of interest, and it seems it has already started. Personally I think this comment was made solely to gain a favorite view in the government's eyes. Remember government spends millions on pork barrel garbage, and I'm sure Symantec is looking forward to riding the gravy train back and forth.
even if Microsoft tried hard to make their offerings more attractive since, including a special license contract that could save the public sector 'a lot of money' according to interior minister Otto Schily, it looks as if Munich was only the beginning."
IMHO I think this is somewhat of a political move coming out of Germany, combined with the fact that MS has had MAJOR problems within the past few months with worms and all...
Now when I say political I mean maybe Germany doesn't want to spend their money on US products based on the tension between the US and Germany that started with the war somehow. It would also be benificial to Germany if say they were to choose SuSE for a distro of choice, maybe that would become a Euro standard distro of sorts. Something similar to what US companies think of when Linux comes to mind... Redhat. Sure geeks think of other distros, but have you ever mentioned Slackware, or Stampede to a CEO? Chances are he's heard of Redhat but not Slack, Debian, etc.
Let's not forget that nice little letter that went out earlier this month to the Dept. of Homeland Sec., which vendors asked the US gov to reconsider their use of MS products. Hell if US companies are turning their backs on MS, then why would foreigners want to use it.
See what I mean... Couldn't think of one company to offer support? That's the problem. Sure it's great and I know it is, but CTO's don't give a damn about what we think is great, they want to be wooed with shizzle like ROI, and TCO figures, asskissing shmoes who come into the office with the standard shirt and tie, laptop, and give a nice show, pass on the business cards, etc. Besides companies like feeling they can hold someone accountable should they need to chew off someone's head should the shit hit the fan. How are you going to do that on the opensource front?
<br>This is from my personal non working box just has snort running, ssh, apache nothing more... Now when I use the same w/CDE or *java anything* my load averages on 10 some times who knows its an old box but the thing still kix when i need it to, without any fancy smancy crap. A good old term is all I need. If I want pretty I'll either boot my alpha running OpenBSD or even my (http://politrix.org/mgz/currentdtop.jpg) Winlaptop
Sep 19 20:41:29 defective genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 5.9 Version Plague 64-bit Sep 19 20:41:29 defective genunix: [ID 943905 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Sep 19 20:41:29 defective Use is subject to license terms. Sep 19 20:41:29 defective unix: [ID 389951 kern.info] mem = 262144K (0x10000000) Sep 19 20:41:29 defective rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC-II 296MHz) Sep 19 20:41:29 defective rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] sbus0 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x0...
load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.07 defective 04:51:50 24 processes: 22 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 on cpu CPU states: 99.4% idle, 0.2% user, 0.2% kernel, 0.2% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 512M real, 151M free, 37.7M swap in use, 659M swap free
I just avoid CDE and things java and use consoles and ssh to do my deeds... Like I said I would rather use mem for something positive like streaming porn or something
Sun's Java Desktop System 'the most polished and real-world user-ready Linux desktop in existence.'
Bloat(processor)ware at its finest. Unless you have a ton of memory JDS is not that great. Sure its nice to port off OpenSource projects but it would be nicer to keep my load down while running them. It's bad enough apps like gtk chew on mem like a cowboy with some skoals, but java + gtk? Unf I would rather swim with piranhas
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apparently you must think you're the only sysadmin. FYI I've done Sr Sys Admin'ing/Network Engineering, Network Adminstration, Security Engineering, Sec. Administration. What do you call a massive patch update? I've seen people rant on about that. Configuring SNMP when it was broken? Oh my god the crying that went on. Listen, currently I work at a mid sized ISP, throw up a new router, welp there goes who knows how many clec updates throughout the lata's. Domain changes, welp there go some named changes, oh man user wants Apache to do what? There goes some module configurations. Fuck vuln in $MISCBINARY fuck gotta go update 600+ machines... Spare me the pseudo justification of the lazy admins.
FYI when I need to do something host specific that's going to take 16+ hours, I don't whine because it's my job. I spend a little time writing expect +python scripts to fix shit. Sol admin? jumpstart shit left and right... It's what I get paid for not to whine like some eleventeen YO juvenile.
The entire industry is pretty grim right now, and I wouldn't be fooled into thinking the economy is picking up much. You can be fooled by all the garbage such as "Bull Market" and crap like that, but if you look at stock charts, you'd see it pretty much is in the same state as things were a few years back.
There are too many uncertainties nowadays for companies to spend spend spend on R&D and other things which really sucks, so I would hold my breathe waiting for the 'next big thing'.
Latest Comprelated/Financial news
Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich offered a plan to revive "bloated, underachieving, unfocused" server-computer maker Sun Microsystems -- including a personality makeover for Chief Executive Scott McNealy.
Warning that Sun is headed for a ravine "filled with carcasses" of defunct computer companies, the analyst wrote a research report as an open letter to McNealy and Sun's board. He said they should slash as much as 19 percent of the company's staff members and settle on a single new mission. [Full story
A Wall Street analyst's warning that Sun Microsystems could end up as another corporate carcass has led at least one rival to smell blood.
In an aggressive move, Hewlett-Packard said Friday that it is offering $25,000 in services and other incentives to Sun customers who move their computer systems to HP products.
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No one will spend money (real money) until this government gets their act together. Iraq, Korea, Iran, etc., there is too much to lose in investing, when there is no stability over here.
Odd though considering when some hardcore networking stuff needs to be assessed you will often see many *NOT* configure it then bitch about it somewhere down the line. I take many of those post and /dev/null them since there are a lot of whiners there, but I do enjoy reading the hardcore technical stuff when they're not trolling around about something trivial.
Hrmm now I know this post is not related to the story in general, and more than likely will be troll -1'd or something... But had to speak my mind about trusting information from anyone other source than RTFM for yourself.
They've also got a huge antiWindows theme going at times, which is funny because when I wrote brat.c the same people who were bitching about Windows were going to read the write up and program in ... Windows... Talk about 'Egos Gone Wild"
Also note that a Massachusetts official makes mention of 'Open Source Overstatements' too. Could be people don't want to be hassled by the thought on instability due to SCO's antics regarding their lawsuits. Maybe people are starting to wonder whether it's going to cost them more in the long run or something...
A senior state official said Friday that reports about a planned shift to open source software platforms by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts were inaccurate and that the state has no "Freeware Initiative," as stated by a number of software industry lobbying groups opposed to the
Eric Kriss, the state's secretary for administration and finance, said that statements released by groups like the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), based in Washington D.C., were "very inaccurate." The state is simply considering ways to integrate disparate systems using open standards such as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), XML (Extensible Markup Language) and Java, he said.
Reports about a plan to favor open source platforms like Linux over proprietary software platforms surfaced in the media last week and claimed that state Chief Information Officer Peter Quinn was instituting a "Freeware Initiative" to invest in open source software such as Linux whenever possible. Those reports followed a leaked memo from Kriss to Quinn, Kriss said.
etc... etc... etc... ful article
Good old Roomba. Saved me from back pain plenty a times... You did mean the vacuum didn't you?
What the heck is a boondoogler?
"People mistakenly refer to Linux as 'free' software because it can be freely altered and distributed. Not necessarily freely altered or distributed. In fact if SCO has anything to do with it people will be paying one million... <smirks> one billion smackerooonis
Yet while the software itself is free, the cost to maintain and upgrade it can become very expensive. Hrmm Expensive? I think not.
Windows reboots per day = how many? Employee downtime due to reboots = How many? Not to mention costs of licenses. I agree 100%, but not in the way you may think
I don't know if I agree or if I don't...
What does banning screeners do to affect Indie filmmmakers?
Like duh... Didn't you
# Tacosubliminal v.1
sed 's/banning/banging/g' $post
See what is really meant is banging screeners. And the answer to that is... It just feels good. That's how it affects them.
(by the way moderator everyone needs a laugh sometimes)
I think he was having email spoofed to look as though it were coming FROM him
Microsoft viruses do the same thing. ISP's can stop spoofs from coming out of their networks though...
Most can't do anything about it coming into their networks. Going out yes, but coming in, there is nothing that can be done unless every single customer agrees that spam should not reach their mailbox. See in order to add those kinds of rules to a router, it has to correspond to all. No ISP is going to update multitudes of routers to add one rule for one person.
The scam almost cost Markley his business, his reputation, his website and his sanity. His Internet service provider wouldn't help him, despite the fact that his computer and his e-mail account were being overwhelmed by an avalanche of spam-spew that made it impossible to do business or even collect his personal e-mail.
Again, working at an ISP, we cannot dictate what a user can or should not receive. He should have installed filters. Now I know I will get flamed for saying this, but when flyer distributors come around, does anyone beat their ass or track them down. Now I know that there is a difference in volume, which is why if I had one million fscktards throwing flyers at my house, I would let loose the rottweiler. Get a filter, and if your ISP doesn't do shit change ISP's. Any ISP however will not filter spam from coming into their networks because for one, no one should dictate what someone should or should not receive. My two Lincolns
The documentary Revolution OS explores the human side of the open source and free software movements, illuminating the behind-the-scenes story of the hackers and programmers rebelling against the corporate machine.
This 90-minute film begins with Richard Stallman's quest to create a free operating system. It then follows the movement through its two-decades-long evolution in interviews with Stallman, Linus Torvalds (creator of the open-source operating system Linux), Eric Raymond (author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar), Bruce Perens (author of the Open Source Definition), Brian Behlendorf (leader of the Apache Web server project), Michael Tiemann (founder of the first open source company) and Larry Augustin (founder of VA Linux Systems). Revolution OS also depicts the culture of the open source movement by documenting the Installfest parties where people can bring their computers to get free, expert Linux tech support; and the Refund Day protest marches, where Linux users demand reimbursement of the extra fees that get tacked onto the purchase price of new computers for pre-installed Microsoft applications.
Didn't even stop to think about the new Sinbad movie from Dreamworks either. Or IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) Sorry FYI
Linux Storms Hollywood
Linux in Hollywood a Star is Born
I smoke because I enjoy it not because I believe it makes me feel tough, nor sexy, nor anything. Why do some people fly kites, or take up model railroading? Because they enjoy it. I see no commercial flooding for those hobbies and there are a billion more. Why do we respond to Slashdot? I don't see Rob or anyone else flooding commercials about this site, we do it because we want to nothing more. So please spare me the psychobabble.
When I was ([post sponsored by Politrix) writing this I was thinking ([Sponsor) thinking about how much money ([Symantec) product placements generate. Maybe ([Pepsi) Slashdot should look into this for ([RSA) revenue generation?
What kind of title is this really? To use something not even written properly is digraceful I mean what teh fsck? [source listed on pdf]
Hollywood needs to stop promoting smoking worldwide
What ever happened to freedom of choice? Philip Morris co isn't forcing anyone to smoke, nor is Hollywood. People make their own decisions and not some advertiser.
The tobacco industry recruits and retains smokers by associating its products with excitement, sex, wealth, rebellion, and independence. Films are a powerful way to make this connection---and, as a paper in this week's issue of Tobacco Control shows,1 they succeed.
Retains smokers with sex, wealth, rebellion? Shit where is my money, and sex? I smoke because I choose to, and I know the consequences of my actions. I am not being misled by anyone but myself for smoking. These lobby groups distort facts, and this request is ridiculous. Personally I think this group should have specified a "specific" company, as their current demand can affect anyone advertising. Say someone on Friends drinking Pepsi, get realistic what would they expect a cloudy dot around anything with a label? Oh Please, Patriot Act for advertising now. Shoddy article, unrealistic demand.
While this is simple to state, how many companies will follow this rule. Companies are not going to jail their users, so the first one who wants to listen to mp3's or streaming music, up goes Real, or Windows Media. What? You want to see the stock ticker from Bloomberg? Sure now you have multicasting crap. Get real, and that's not including someone who knows about things like datapipe.c
Rather, the answer is simple, just three letters. VPN. By setting up a secure, encrypted, authenticating channel, you bring your trusted users into your network.
You're either blind or too trusting in people. Remember the biggest security hole often comes directly from the inside. For instance, I know someone who has a VPN through IBM for her work. Lo and behold she wanted to take that same machine and hook up DSL to it. Say goodbye to security over VPN.
I won't get too deep into this since I'm tired but a VPN isn't always the answer. The answer is actually education. Instead of spending on a Cisco Pix, or Nokia VPN machine, try holding monthly meetings with employees and make them aware of issues. Doesn't have to be a full blown Harvard presentation, but a quick power point presentation will actually teach them things they could carry on in their home or future place of employment. VPN's are like security through obscurity in a way. If someone wants in a VPN will do nothing to stop them
"We are shocked and awed these college kids would code something that steals from kabillionaire struggling artists and post them on the sickening little iPee's or iPods. Have you seen the name OGG. Wasn't there a ganster rap song called OGG or something. It's a disgrace." stated an RIAA Spokesdevil.
Officials at Vorbis could not be contacted, however, another company stated they will be filing a countersuit against the suit in response to the suit originally filed.
Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: September 29, 2003
A newly launched peer-to-peer trade association has offered to sit down and negotiate with music industry lawyers, while it simultaneously denounced its adversaries as obsolete and "tyrannosaurical."
P2P United, a group of six peer-to-peer businesses, held a coming-out event Monday in Washington, D.C. The lobbying effort is designed to demonstrate to the U.S. Congress that peer-to-peer companies are legitimate enterprises that will abide by the law. The group is touting a code of conduct that promises to warn users of their software that copyright infringement is wrong, but does not offer to police the vast sprawl of peer-to-peer networks for illegal activities.
The members of P2P United that showed up at the event at the National Press Club included LimeWire, Blubster, Grokster and Streamcast Networks, which distributes Morpheus. (The other two participants are BearShare and eDonkey 2000.) Noticeably absent from P2P United is Sharman Networks, distributor of Kazaa.
"P2P United is here and intends to remain here as a presence in Washington to demonstrate not just with our words but with our actions that this is not a fly-by-night business," Adam Eisgrau, a veteran lobbyist who represents P2P United, said at the event.
However, other members of the lobbying effort at the event denounced the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)--which is targeting individuals in its legal efforts to stifle file swapping--in language rarely heard in policy circles.
"What the hell are these guys doing? Who do they think they are? For God's sake!" Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster, said. "This is absolutely reprehensible. I don't care what anyone says, but suing a 12-year-old girl is child abuse."
Eisgrau said the colorful language shouldn't hurt the peer-to-peer group's planned efforts to reach a deal with the RIAA. "If they're afraid of a few adjectives, even our willingness to talk with them won't save them," Eisgrau said.
"It is refreshing to see that P2P United is acknowledging that their members should be more active in educating their users about the consequences of illegal file sharing that is rampant on their networks, as well as the other risks these networks pose to personal privacy and security," the RIAA said in a statement. "But, let's face it, they need to do a whole lot more before they can claim to be legitimate businesses."
P2P United wouldn't give details on what kind of deal it would seek with the RIAA and other copyright holders except to say that it was looking for some sort of compulsory license or indirect payment system. One idea that's been floated is for Congress to levy a tax on high-speed Internet connections, with the proceeds split between the RIAA and peer-to-peer companies.
"It has been reacted to as if it were radioactive," Eisgrau said, talking about the suggestion of compulsory licenses. "That has to change. It is a legitimate set of strategies present in copyright law in many forms. It is a general subject that belongs on the table."
Eisgrau, who once worked for the American Library Association, said the idea was to impose "small levies which are spread widely and pretty invisibly" and noted that a previous copyright compromise in Congress resulted in a few cents "being attached to the cost of a blank tape."
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Well if he can achieve that then I'm gonna work doubly hard on Sex Over IP
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Are things getting so overboard that companies are now just reinventing a round wheel. What purpose would this otherwise serve. Sure it might make things easier, hell could even save you a second or two, but is it really necessary. Is it even worth writing an article over.
Sometimes I question where companies get some of these quirky ideas from, I for one do not use my phone for email nor the net, it's what laptops with wifi is made for, or palms, handsprings, etc.. I Just don't get what one would get out of this other than a quick right to brag about some new geek/hip toy they got only to see the price get slashed in a month, and a bazillion others with the same thing the following week.
Is it me or did someone lace the waters with dumbanium, moronium, or idioticum
I've said it before, and I will say it again, hiring Yoran is going to produce a huge conflict of interest, and it seems it has already started. Personally I think this comment was made solely to gain a favorite view in the government's eyes. Remember government spends millions on pork barrel garbage, and I'm sure Symantec is looking forward to riding the gravy train back and forth.
All aboard!
That "WAS" the purpose of me mentioning it. Did you think I would type it out for nothing?
even if Microsoft tried hard to make their offerings more attractive since, including a special license contract that could save the public sector 'a lot of money' according to interior minister Otto Schily, it looks as if Munich was only the beginning."
IMHO I think this is somewhat of a political move coming out of Germany, combined with the fact that MS has had MAJOR problems within the past few months with worms and all...
Now when I say political I mean maybe Germany doesn't want to spend their money on US products based on the tension between the US and Germany that started with the war somehow. It would also be benificial to Germany if say they were to choose SuSE for a distro of choice, maybe that would become a Euro standard distro of sorts. Something similar to what US companies think of when Linux comes to mind... Redhat. Sure geeks think of other distros, but have you ever mentioned Slackware, or Stampede to a CEO? Chances are he's heard of Redhat but not Slack, Debian, etc.
Let's not forget that nice little letter that went out earlier this month to the Dept. of Homeland Sec., which vendors asked the US gov to reconsider their use of MS products. Hell if US companies are turning their backs on MS, then why would foreigners want to use it.
Anybody suggest some support vendors for PHP?
See what I mean... Couldn't think of one company to offer support? That's the problem. Sure it's great and I know it is, but CTO's don't give a damn about what we think is great, they want to be wooed with shizzle like ROI, and TCO figures, asskissing shmoes who come into the office with the standard shirt and tie, laptop, and give a nice show, pass on the business cards, etc. Besides companies like feeling they can hold someone accountable should they need to chew off someone's head should the shit hit the fan. How are you going to do that on the opensource front?
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<br>This is from my personal non working box just has snort running, ssh, apache nothing more... Now when I use the same w/CDE or *java anything* my load averages on 10 some times who knows its an old box but the thing still kix when i need it to, without any fancy smancy crap. A good old term is all I need. If I want pretty I'll either boot my alpha running OpenBSD or even my (http://politrix.org/mgz/currentdtop.jpg) Winlaptop
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Sep 19 20:41:29 defective genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 5.9 Version Plague 64-bit
Sep 19 20:41:29 defective genunix: [ID 943905 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Sep 19 20:41:29 defective Use is subject to license terms.
Sep 19 20:41:29 defective unix: [ID 389951 kern.info] mem = 262144K (0x10000000)
Sep 19 20:41:29 defective rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC-II 296MHz)
Sep 19 20:41:29 defective rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] sbus0 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x0
load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.07 defective 04:51:50
24 processes: 22 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 99.4% idle, 0.2% user, 0.2% kernel, 0.2% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 512M real, 151M free, 37.7M swap in use, 659M swap free
I just avoid CDE and things java and use consoles and ssh to do my deeds... Like I said I would rather use mem for something positive like streaming porn or something
Bloat(processor)ware at its finest. Unless you have a ton of memory JDS is not that great. Sure its nice to port off OpenSource projects but it would be nicer to keep my load down while running them. It's bad enough apps like gtk chew on mem like a cowboy with some skoals, but java + gtk? Unf I would rather swim with piranhas