...about this scenario. It might actually be better if innocent people are on the line for damages. It would show people that, yes, you have that wonderful cable/adsl line, but you also have the responsibility to use it wisely. Meaning you should put firewalls, antivirus, etc on your computer.
Think about it. People would be forced to become more computer literate, and with more firewalls and security conscious people, there would be less zombies firing away at SPEWS and stuff. Okay, true, US law doesn't reach out to Asia, Europe, etc, but I have to problem banning all traffic from all foreign IPs.
Not to nitpick or anything, but computers, radar, anything electronic doesn't work near Hogwarts, they "go haywire" according to Hermione.
Hermione really does say that. Check in book 4, where Harry is trying to figure out how Rita Skeeter is finding out loads of stuff about Hagrid, and he's going through the list of ways Rita could spy on Hogwarts without being detected. One of the things he mentions is an electronic bug, at which point Hermione butts in and says how electronic stuff won't work near Hogwarts.
Whoa... guess I've been reading too much 'Arry Potter myself...
You mean I have to pay $85 to read about stuff we know already and learn about practices all smart admins should take? Forget it.
But seriously, all of know already what we SHOULD do, it's just that we don't do it. How many people regularly work on their computer using an admin-level account, doing stuff that doesn't require admin level access? Far too many people do this, even techies.
I do everyday work logged onto a Limited account on Win XP, although I admit, it's a real pain to have to login to the root account to download an ActiveX control, configure hardware, do Windows Update, norton antivirus update, etc. But I do because I know it's safer to only use an admin level account when that type of access is required.
How many people do that? How many techies do that? How many college students in some tech-illiterate college (ex Liberal arts type majors) do this? What we need isn't a book, it's a good kick in the pants to force us to adopt good safety measures.
If Passport doesn't convert to the "Liberty Identity Web Services Framework", I fail to see how this can get wide consumer usage. Remember, people just want to buy stuff online, they don't want to learn about the differences between passport and a services framework. Somehow they're either going to have to persuade MS to use the framework, or make a superior client that's easy to download (maybe make it an ActiveX control?) Of course, the problem is, Passport ships with Windows/IE, so it's going to be more quickly available that any other client.
Still, I'd like to ask him. Red Hat has done a lot to advance the cause of Linux in the desktop arena, and I'm interested in hearing it "straight from the horse's mouth" if you will. The press releases I've read were full of spin and marketing talk, but I'd like to hear from Red Hat's captain.
Mr. Szulik, I have often recommended Red Hat software to people just beginning to learn Linux. Why have you discontinued the Red Hat Linux Desktop line, and what Linux distribution should I recommend to people wanting to learn Linux?
Please note, Mr. Szulik, I know very well your comments on how people should use Windows on the desktop, but I'm thinking of people who want to learn Linux.
*Nods
I agree. Arms races are fine, they may even be beneficial, because in this race, each side works harder and harder to increase the capabilities of a computer. That can only be a net good, because someday something good is going to come out of all this anti-spam research.
But for now, we have to concentrate on this arms race. As long as we can keep a small advantage over spammers, keep them reacting to us, we hold the advantage. Some military general once said that you have to keep the enemy reacting to you, because once the enemy has to react to you, they have no time to force you to act.
I think the good guys have a small advantage now with Bayesian filtering, but we have to start pushing the spam back so it doesn't clog the inbox. That's why challenge/answer on a web page is better: network resources won't be used up to send spam.
What about running the email through SpamAssassin, then strip out all HTML tags and run the message itself through it? That should kill it. Or just switch to text email.
The problem is, generating all those sentences. The sentences have to vary, they can't all be:
My name is Barney Big Purple Dinosaur. What are my initials?
My name is Einstein Mozart Bach Quartet. What are my initials?
Then a spammer could just use regular expressions to handle that. Even Java introduced an easy-to-use regex package a few versions ago. Another problem is, you would have to generate literally billions of them, because a spammer may theoretically just hit a service with billions of requests - who's to say that the requests are real or not?
And then the ultimate problem: How are we going to generate all these questions? A computer, of course, but the problem is again, how does a computer generate billions of these things so only a human and not a computer can interpret it? At that point, you're approaching true AI. And if we had AI, forget the spam problem: Just have the AI process each and every email.
Nobody is working on it anymore. Without Red Hat's active support, forget about it. Everybody's switched to working on other Linux distros. Fedora is going to die out, and Red Hat Enterprise edition is going to die soon after that because the Red Hat people won't have any testers and people writing code for free for them.
Nonsense, you need Saruman. In my opinion, Saruman's importance is emphasized far more in the movie than in the book, but still, to keep the "masses" in line, you need to remind them of Saruman.
At least now is the good part: Saruman's already been defeated, you can give some closure by showing Gandalf attempting to give Saruman his freedom, etc. And if you cut Saruman, how are they going to do the final scenes where the Shire is completely decimated (you can see a sneak peek of those when Frodo looks into the water with Galadriel; you can see Frodo, Sam, Merry, and the other hobbit chained up together and forced into a small cottage. Where else would that scene occur than the Shire? And they show Frodo's house, the hill, completely burned away). You need Saruman for those scenes as well. What are they going to do, have some Orcs handle it all by themselves? I don't care what race of Orcs they dream up - no Orc is cunning enough to take over the Shire. Are they going to completely erase the Shire portion? That would be madness indeed.
I guess they're going to "feminize" the movie... After all, Return of the King does feature two marriages (Faramir - Eowyn, Arwen - Aragorn), three if you count Sam and that female hobbit - forgot her name, but you can look it up. All the females are going to love the movie if a quarter of it is just feasting and marriage, etc.
Completely OT, I know, but in my opinion, Eowyn is much prettier than Arwen. Arwen really _flaunts_ it, if you know what I mean, but Eowyn has that "hidden power" stored up inside her - there's much more depth and power to her than Arwen, IMHO
Hey, I'm not trying to be a troll, I am a Linux newbie and I'd like some answers. isn't anyone going to help me instead of modding an innocent question down?
What stuff? I'm logged on as a limited account in Win XP, and Forbes isn't prompting me. Is it Gator-like garbage? I don't know why Forbes would need to install anything.... if Yahoo! Finance can go without software installations, then Forbes can too...
You folks are going to have to help me, because I'm a Linux newbie, but just before SCO shut down the ftp site, I downloaded the SCO linux kernel files (at least, I'm guessing that's what they are; I downloaded all the files starting with kernel-source[stuff here].rpm, which was 10 files, roughly 123 MB.) Would SCO object if I posted the files for download? Is it illegal? I'm betting not, since they were still licensed under the GPL when I downloaded them. So, if these are the real kernel files, and SCO would be pissed at them being posted freely, and it's not illegal under the DMCA or something, yeah, I'm going to post all the files. Can anyone tell me if these files would be useful to anyone, most of all IBM?
Nokia wasn't going to make money on the N-Gage anyway. Nobody is buying it. The best thing for Nokia to do, IMHO, is to keep on making games for the N-Gage anyway, and wait until people steal them for their Siemens, etc cellphones. At least Nokia will get some good publicity.
Today we are going to be building a budget, high performance storage server.
That's the first sentence in the article. That's what I was working off of. Perhaps "high performance" is a euphemism for gaming, but I took it to mean that it should be a kickass file server, not anything else.
Okay, I just looked at the article again. $3,000? Damn. I wouldn't mind having that budget...
Seriously folks, if you think you need $3,000 to build a server, then you're out of your minds. I don't want to be modded as Flamebait, but anyone here at/. (including me) could build a server for less than half that, and I would bet that for storage activities, it would be equivalent or faster than this moron's PC.
Video Card? Keyboard? Mouse? No. Shouldn't even be there. Yeah, sure, during initial setup, connect a secondhand monitor, mouse, etc (who doesn't have a spare monitor lying around? I have one 10 yrs old lying around somewhere and it still should work). But after initial setup, after you install and configure Linux/Apache, Windows/IIS, FreeBSD/whatever combos, forget it. After that, you should be able to telnet or remote admin the server.
I'm going to issue a challenge. Alexis Dang (the author of this piece), if you're listening, here's a challenge. Give me $1500 and I'll build you a server that can beat your server in storage related activities. Not video games, not music, not Paintshop testing.... just pure storage. Hell, give anyone on this board $1500, and they can beat your "server" upside down.
Wouldn't a mini-itx system make more sense here? You're building a simple storage server, doesn't need to be massively huge. A 533mhz processor (the low end with mini-itx boards, I think) is plenty fast enough to run a simple storage server.
Video card? Why on earth would you need a $70 video card for a storage server! He should have gotten a motherboard with integrated graphics, so even if he needed to attach a monitor, integrated graphics would be more than enough to handle anything. What is he building, a storage server or a full fledged PC?
The problem with that is, the router actually rewrites some packets to go to Belkin's ad server. So actually, you're losing data. What if you completed a long form and and you hit submit, but oops, the ad comes up. My only complaint is that the Belkin product is losing data packets, rewriting them so they go to the Belkin ad server instead of their intended target.
If Belkin wanted to sell ads on the router's hosted web page (where you set router settings, etc), yeah sure, I would be fine with that. It would even be OK with me if they put ads on an LCD screen on the Belkin router. Hell, I don't care if the router sends me ads to my email inbox every 8 hours. The only guidelines I want the Belkin router to follow is:
1. Route packets as best as it can. Do not intentionally destroy, edit, delete, mutilate, or otherwise change any packet.
2. If the router must send ads, do so in a manner consistent with it's function. Email me every 8 hours with the ad, along with usage stats for the router? Fine. Display a big honking LCD screen with 2 feet tall letters showing ads 24/7? I might not like it, but, OK. I'll even spring for the electricity costs.
But for goodness sakes, I want a router that routes. Period. Anything else, fine, as long as the core functionality of the router itself is not changed.
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...about this scenario. It might actually be better if innocent people are on the line for damages. It would show people that, yes, you have that wonderful cable/adsl line, but you also have the responsibility to use it wisely. Meaning you should put firewalls, antivirus, etc on your computer.
Think about it. People would be forced to become more computer literate, and with more firewalls and security conscious people, there would be less zombies firing away at SPEWS and stuff. Okay, true, US law doesn't reach out to Asia, Europe, etc, but I have to problem banning all traffic from all foreign IPs.
Not to nitpick or anything, but computers, radar, anything electronic doesn't work near Hogwarts, they "go haywire" according to Hermione.
Hermione really does say that. Check in book 4, where Harry is trying to figure out how Rita Skeeter is finding out loads of stuff about Hagrid, and he's going through the list of ways Rita could spy on Hogwarts without being detected. One of the things he mentions is an electronic bug, at which point Hermione butts in and says how electronic stuff won't work near Hogwarts.
Whoa... guess I've been reading too much 'Arry Potter myself...
You mean I have to pay $85 to read about stuff we know already and learn about practices all smart admins should take? Forget it.
But seriously, all of know already what we SHOULD do, it's just that we don't do it. How many people regularly work on their computer using an admin-level account, doing stuff that doesn't require admin level access? Far too many people do this, even techies.
I do everyday work logged onto a Limited account on Win XP, although I admit, it's a real pain to have to login to the root account to download an ActiveX control, configure hardware, do Windows Update, norton antivirus update, etc. But I do because I know it's safer to only use an admin level account when that type of access is required.
How many people do that? How many techies do that? How many college students in some tech-illiterate college (ex Liberal arts type majors) do this? What we need isn't a book, it's a good kick in the pants to force us to adopt good safety measures.
If Passport doesn't convert to the "Liberty Identity Web Services Framework", I fail to see how this can get wide consumer usage. Remember, people just want to buy stuff online, they don't want to learn about the differences between passport and a services framework. Somehow they're either going to have to persuade MS to use the framework, or make a superior client that's easy to download (maybe make it an ActiveX control?) Of course, the problem is, Passport ships with Windows/IE, so it's going to be more quickly available that any other client.
Still, I'd like to ask him. Red Hat has done a lot to advance the cause of Linux in the desktop arena, and I'm interested in hearing it "straight from the horse's mouth" if you will. The press releases I've read were full of spin and marketing talk, but I'd like to hear from Red Hat's captain.
Mr. Szulik, can I get your autograph? I wouldn't mind the autographs of the development team too. You guys really put Linux on the map.
Mr. Szulik, I have often recommended Red Hat software to people just beginning to learn Linux. Why have you discontinued the Red Hat Linux Desktop line, and what Linux distribution should I recommend to people wanting to learn Linux? Please note, Mr. Szulik, I know very well your comments on how people should use Windows on the desktop, but I'm thinking of people who want to learn Linux.
*Nods I agree. Arms races are fine, they may even be beneficial, because in this race, each side works harder and harder to increase the capabilities of a computer. That can only be a net good, because someday something good is going to come out of all this anti-spam research. But for now, we have to concentrate on this arms race. As long as we can keep a small advantage over spammers, keep them reacting to us, we hold the advantage. Some military general once said that you have to keep the enemy reacting to you, because once the enemy has to react to you, they have no time to force you to act. I think the good guys have a small advantage now with Bayesian filtering, but we have to start pushing the spam back so it doesn't clog the inbox. That's why challenge/answer on a web page is better: network resources won't be used up to send spam.
What about running the email through SpamAssassin, then strip out all HTML tags and run the message itself through it? That should kill it. Or just switch to text email.
The problem is, generating all those sentences. The sentences have to vary, they can't all be: My name is Barney Big Purple Dinosaur. What are my initials? My name is Einstein Mozart Bach Quartet. What are my initials? Then a spammer could just use regular expressions to handle that. Even Java introduced an easy-to-use regex package a few versions ago. Another problem is, you would have to generate literally billions of them, because a spammer may theoretically just hit a service with billions of requests - who's to say that the requests are real or not? And then the ultimate problem: How are we going to generate all these questions? A computer, of course, but the problem is again, how does a computer generate billions of these things so only a human and not a computer can interpret it? At that point, you're approaching true AI. And if we had AI, forget the spam problem: Just have the AI process each and every email.
Nobody is working on it anymore. Without Red Hat's active support, forget about it. Everybody's switched to working on other Linux distros. Fedora is going to die out, and Red Hat Enterprise edition is going to die soon after that because the Red Hat people won't have any testers and people writing code for free for them.
It's gollum, not Golem.
A Golem is this or this or this.
Yes, I am a Pokemon fan.
Just a few spelling corrections, and it's good to go:
Gil-galad was an Elven-king,
Of him the harpers sadly sing;
the last whose realm was fair and free
between the Mountains and the Sea.
His sword was long, his lance was keen,
his shining helm afar was seen;
the countless stars of heaven's field
were mirrored in his silver shield.
But long ago he rode away,
and where he dwelleth none can say;
for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are.
Nonsense, you need Saruman. In my opinion, Saruman's importance is emphasized far more in the movie than in the book, but still, to keep the "masses" in line, you need to remind them of Saruman.
At least now is the good part: Saruman's already been defeated, you can give some closure by showing Gandalf attempting to give Saruman his freedom, etc. And if you cut Saruman, how are they going to do the final scenes where the Shire is completely decimated (you can see a sneak peek of those when Frodo looks into the water with Galadriel; you can see Frodo, Sam, Merry, and the other hobbit chained up together and forced into a small cottage. Where else would that scene occur than the Shire? And they show Frodo's house, the hill, completely burned away). You need Saruman for those scenes as well. What are they going to do, have some Orcs handle it all by themselves? I don't care what race of Orcs they dream up - no Orc is cunning enough to take over the Shire. Are they going to completely erase the Shire portion? That would be madness indeed.
I guess they're going to "feminize" the movie... After all, Return of the King does feature two marriages (Faramir - Eowyn, Arwen - Aragorn), three if you count Sam and that female hobbit - forgot her name, but you can look it up. All the females are going to love the movie if a quarter of it is just feasting and marriage, etc.
Completely OT, I know, but in my opinion, Eowyn is much prettier than Arwen. Arwen really _flaunts_ it, if you know what I mean, but Eowyn has that "hidden power" stored up inside her - there's much more depth and power to her than Arwen, IMHO
at http://www.herrvinny.com/sdmirror/
Hey, I'm not trying to be a troll, I am a Linux newbie and I'd like some answers. isn't anyone going to help me instead of modding an innocent question down?
What stuff? I'm logged on as a limited account in Win XP, and Forbes isn't prompting me. Is it Gator-like garbage? I don't know why Forbes would need to install anything.... if Yahoo! Finance can go without software installations, then Forbes can too...
I believe you forgot another "Hee."
A toast to IBM!
You folks are going to have to help me, because I'm a Linux newbie, but just before SCO shut down the ftp site, I downloaded the SCO linux kernel files (at least, I'm guessing that's what they are; I downloaded all the files starting with kernel-source[stuff here].rpm, which was 10 files, roughly 123 MB.) Would SCO object if I posted the files for download? Is it illegal? I'm betting not, since they were still licensed under the GPL when I downloaded them. So, if these are the real kernel files, and SCO would be pissed at them being posted freely, and it's not illegal under the DMCA or something, yeah, I'm going to post all the files. Can anyone tell me if these files would be useful to anyone, most of all IBM?
Why not? Slashdot readers do it all the time....
Nokia wasn't going to make money on the N-Gage anyway. Nobody is buying it. The best thing for Nokia to do, IMHO, is to keep on making games for the N-Gage anyway, and wait until people steal them for their Siemens, etc cellphones. At least Nokia will get some good publicity.
Today we are going to be building a budget, high performance storage server.
That's the first sentence in the article. That's what I was working off of. Perhaps "high performance" is a euphemism for gaming, but I took it to mean that it should be a kickass file server, not anything else.
Total $3,140
/. (including me) could build a server for less than half that, and I would bet that for storage activities, it would be equivalent or faster than this moron's PC.
Okay, I just looked at the article again. $3,000? Damn. I wouldn't mind having that budget...
Seriously folks, if you think you need $3,000 to build a server, then you're out of your minds. I don't want to be modded as Flamebait, but anyone here at
Video Card? Keyboard? Mouse? No. Shouldn't even be there. Yeah, sure, during initial setup, connect a secondhand monitor, mouse, etc (who doesn't have a spare monitor lying around? I have one 10 yrs old lying around somewhere and it still should work). But after initial setup, after you install and configure Linux/Apache, Windows/IIS, FreeBSD/whatever combos, forget it. After that, you should be able to telnet or remote admin the server.
I'm going to issue a challenge. Alexis Dang (the author of this piece), if you're listening, here's a challenge. Give me $1500 and I'll build you a server that can beat your server in storage related activities. Not video games, not music, not Paintshop testing.... just pure storage. Hell, give anyone on this board $1500, and they can beat your "server" upside down.
Wouldn't a mini-itx system make more sense here? You're building a simple storage server, doesn't need to be massively huge. A 533mhz processor (the low end with mini-itx boards, I think) is plenty fast enough to run a simple storage server.
Video card? Why on earth would you need a $70 video card for a storage server! He should have gotten a motherboard with integrated graphics, so even if he needed to attach a monitor, integrated graphics would be more than enough to handle anything. What is he building, a storage server or a full fledged PC?
The problem with that is, the router actually rewrites some packets to go to Belkin's ad server. So actually, you're losing data. What if you completed a long form and and you hit submit, but oops, the ad comes up. My only complaint is that the Belkin product is losing data packets, rewriting them so they go to the Belkin ad server instead of their intended target.
If Belkin wanted to sell ads on the router's hosted web page (where you set router settings, etc), yeah sure, I would be fine with that. It would even be OK with me if they put ads on an LCD screen on the Belkin router. Hell, I don't care if the router sends me ads to my email inbox every 8 hours. The only guidelines I want the Belkin router to follow is:
1. Route packets as best as it can. Do not intentionally destroy, edit, delete, mutilate, or otherwise change any packet.
2. If the router must send ads, do so in a manner consistent with it's function. Email me every 8 hours with the ad, along with usage stats for the router? Fine. Display a big honking LCD screen with 2 feet tall letters showing ads 24/7? I might not like it, but, OK. I'll even spring for the electricity costs.
But for goodness sakes, I want a router that routes. Period. Anything else, fine, as long as the core functionality of the router itself is not changed.