Daily I end up banning a bunch of "naked ruth" bots (as others do) that don't seem todo much other than idle in various places.
I don't know what they're doing, but if it's for research purposes, it's really getting to be really annoying. The banlist I have has exceeded over a hundred of these being banned and they keep coming back (under different names). This isn't the main grid which is considered public, it's a grid of private simulators (known as the valley sims) and there has not been any permission granted at all for research purposes in the simulators I help out in.
It is at the end of the day wasting a lot of my time and I consider these bots without prior consent, harassment.
If we went to the cinema, we would give people the phone number to the cinema and incase of emergency and this all had to be planned in advanced. The cinema would be called, they'd send out someone into the cinema who'd yell your name to come and take the phone call or just yell the message.
There are other radio services, including police and fire, that use frequencies in the same bands as those used by cell phones.
Emergency services do not share the exact same frequencies used by mobile phones, so a Jammer that is designed to block mobile phone signals shouldn't cause issues. Even then, the emergency services here don't even use anything close in frequencies.
The only case I can think of where this would be a problem is on 112 calls - but that in itself is just a mobile phone call to a emergency service.
Here's my questions to the/. audience... When you go anywhere, are you expecting 100% of the time to get a cell phone signal?
-Drive into a parking garage, no signal. -Go down into the basement, no signal. -Drive through a tunnel, no signal.
I actually get signals in those places. But no, I don't expect consumer wireless mobile phone networks to be a reliable technology.
What would you do if you were in a movie theater, sports arena in which the walls were of sufficient thickness/material that you couldn't get a signal?
Can't remember how many years ago I even visited such places.:)
Would I have a job that required me to be on call 24/7, I wouldn't be in those places, even if I could get a signal.
Lastly, if you're a sysadmin, and you have a process in which "If we don't reach Bob in 5minutes, our whole business will die. Go create a procedure, whereby your IT group isn't "One car wreck away from a disaster." Go create backups, alternative people to help etc...
It depends on the situation. If the system is compromised, backups and so on won't help. Private customer information can be stolen among other things.
The only reason a sysadmin "needs a cell phone" is to protect corporate, capitalist interests.
They also protect government, emergency services. Corporations, emergency services, government also hold your personal information. I'm sure if all system administrators were not contactable (even via automatic notification needs), your very personal information would of got leaked out by now. This information can be used to commit identity fraud or against you in various ways obviously.
Everything else is a luxury that self-important humans have come to expect to be handed to them on a silver platter.
Generalizing.
The fact is, we've become so dependant on technology that we would be unable to live without it.
Even farmers without the ability to use tools would have difficulty surviving (assuming survival only required creating food and eating it).
Where can I go into a hight street shop and buy a PC without Windows?
Here (but the dedicated Apple stores did come along too late for Apple to gain a strong market share - most retail shops either didn't sell Macs or had them stuffed out of the way)
Apple doesn't market their computers as PCs but as 'Macs'. Additionally the hardware in Macs tends to be a bit different in comparison with other x86 systems. I think the grandparent was asking for a more 'normal' PC being sold with another OS.
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In other words, you allow Google to actually handle the information you enter into the service so you can use it. Such as passing a google groups message onto usenet.
You agree that this licence includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.
A generic bit that covers search engine related and targeted advertising bits of your service with the possibility of allowing more things fall under this if they expand the service more.
You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this licence shall permit Google to take these actions.
In other words, for usenet, e-mail to work, Google will need to transmit information to other (public) servers to actually do it.
You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above licence.
You agree to give Google the ability todo the above.
WINE is an unstable target (in terms of development, not performance)
Which is why Crossover is stable. I'll also add that any enhancements they make are free to go back into Wine. Eve Online was already supported under Crossover.
Please, first improve your design, know why common ppl like Mac and windows, like ipods.
Okay, I guess you want even more problems like the iPod (battery issues, bass response, equalizer, reliability and durability, patent disputes) and the only people being able to fix it will require you to send it off somewhere, just like the iPod.
I have the entire CS3 suite, and it does not run slow on my duo core lappy
Bloody hell!? you need a system with two cores to run it decently!?
Screw that. I'm glad I can't afford the software package if it's going to take up so many cycles pointlessly. You do realize how much 'power' a Intel core duo has, right?
Then the average Ubuntu user has no clue whatsoever how to install that software.
From what I've seen. It's just opening a.deb or.rpm file (the way you would open a image or such), package manager pops up and offers to install it and voila.
Gutsy broke my vmware. Not expected and from what I hear there's no vmware in gutsy still. We who have technical know-how can still fix it, but it does seem that the QA-dept slipped a bit on Gutsy.
If you used the vwmare-player/vmware-server packages in the Ubuntu repositories, that shouldn't of happened (there are even vmware kernel modules in the repositories that are updated with every kernel update).
If I was asked what things annoyed me most about Feisty (Offtopic?!), I would have said two things: Printers and all that stuff you needed Automatix for. Everything else was pretty much fine.
Why did you use automatix? Installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras package would of given you everything automatix installs.
I upgraded several (k)Ubuntu(-server) machines (five of which are not owned by me), I experienced no issues at all.
My only real annoyance was Dolphin now being the default file manager in Kubuntu, but default applications can easily be switched.
Given that Ubuntu's development process is far more "open" and there was no "third party" software involved (none were using third party binary drivers), what's the excuse?
I don't know. I can only say I haven't had issues.
I've seen CUPS break so badly that it constantly "stops" all the printers.
I've seen this happen on Linux, BSD, OS X. But not in the latest (k)Ubuntu(-server).
Monitor resolutions and scan rates that were completely wrong and required hand-editing Xorg's config file, when the old config had worked just fine.
Seen this happen on BSD, Linux, Solaris. But not in the latest (k)Ubuntu(-server).
One machine had an ethernet port completely disappear- and it was the one the ethernet cable was plugged into!
I haven't seen that happen before on any OS.. The closest related thing I can think of was OS X 10.4.9 not working with a particular macbookpro's internal wireless (yes, the one it came with - known issue with some macbookpros) after upgrading to it - requiring me to use a older version of OS X.
Even with the previous release, when I upgraded a very simple server, there were problems with device-mapper pegging the machine until I spent half an hour screwing around with it, and finally found a post and bug in the ubuntu bugtracker. Of course, the bug had been known for months, and do you think anyone bothered to release a fix? Nope!
My server setups tend to be quite complex... But even then, I haven't had any issues yet with ubuntu-server.
Name calling, that will really get your point across.
You make choices you live with the consequences. One of the consequences of using a third tier, server-centric operating system is that one does not get a lot of support and that support tends to be crappy.
It's obvious you didn't comprehend my post, but I forgive you.
Stop putting words in my mouth, fanboy.
You're the one whos generalizing:)
I really don't give a damn why you use it or what distro's you have used. I have used everything from Slackware back in the mid 90s to CygWin and SuSE today (I use it on my home server and dual boot my two windows boxes, plus I have an NSLU-2 running Unslung as a mail server). It is not stereotyping to suggest that one give back to the community instead of whining about someone not supporting their precious O/S.
You run random crap? So?
I really don't care that much for support of Linux as much as being forced to pay for a service I cannot use.
You fail to address that over and over. Instead you imply that my major point is that I want Linux support, no it isn't. There should be two options:
Support the people you're forcing to pay you.
Or
Exempt people you do not care to support.
Instead, you're still being forced to pay for a service you do not and cannot use. This service isn't even part of the government. I have a big problem with this.
First off, I do not smoke and I rarely drink
This wasn't a assumption on my part, this was just a theoretical fact created for argument sakes which you have failed to address.
Second, while you "shouldn't be forced to consume alcohol because the majority happen to", you also don't get to complain you didn't get a free beverage on "Free Beer" night, and that is exactly what you are doing.
Again, this isn't about something free, I am being forced to pay for a service I cannot use. Get it through your head.
Choosing to use Linux does not make you special and it does not mean that anyone has to think of you before Windows users, or even think of you and your operating system at all.
Using your own logic and examples.. Choosing to drink and drive is not special because there are majority that don't and therefore there shouldn't be any concern about it.
By your logic we should also prevent your browser from showing images (might be exploits in there!)
I didn't express a opinion on what todo. I merely stated the fact that there can be a vulnerability.
That said, minimizing the risks by 'automatic execution' such as requiring one to click 'open' on the download box is a lot safer than having the browser automatically download the file and automatically executing it (tricking a browser to download a file is trivial in this case).
Automatically opening a file format that has no known exploits, and in fact has been devoid of exploits for the past... God knows how many years now... is really not a security risk, any more than showing a JPEG in your browser is.
I think the last JPEG exploit I heard of was in 2004 (Google 'jpeg exploit toolkit') and that was one that had a lot of press. There likely have been others since.
You put too much faith in the security of your system and that may cause your downfall.
There's nothing a malicious DMG can do even up to that point, and any user who was tricked into downloading this DMG will SURELY mount it for themselves and double click on the installer, even if Safari didn't do it for them.
People say the same about displaying pictures and so on, but we all know there have been a tonne of exploits that proved these people wrong.
Many users aren't choosing to use Windows, many users aren't choosing to use Linux, they use either anyway.
Don't sit there and whine that you are not getting what you want and expect everyone to bend over backwards for you.
This is nothing about bending over backwards for someone. This is about being forced to pay for a service that some people cannot use and should be exempt from it.
No, Linux users are choosing to use Linux.
"CHOICE IS BAD!"
Then, you should, in the spirit of open source, volunteer to do the work for them.
Did you know that I use Linux because of it's technical superiority rather than any idealistic reasons?
I also actually paid for various distributions I use. From Mandriva to SuSE Linux, so stop with your annoying stereotyping.
Feel free though to suggest exactly what work for them and don't forget to give all the specifications for it.
DRM is already supported on Linux thanks to realplayer, which runs on OS X, Windows and Linux.
Tell me, do you believe that because a few people choose to drink and drive that the rest of the population should be forced to stay off the road?
No. I also don't believe I should be forced to pay for a service that I cannot use because I choose to use Linux. Much like the people who choose not to drink and drive.
Do you also believe that because a portion of the population chooses to smoke that smoking should be allowed everywhere including elementary schools, movie theaters, and hospitals?
This point doesn't make sense to me. Smoking is banned in public places and within private companies in the UK because it infringes on other people's health. These regulations are in place to protect lives. Linux users getting charged for a service that they cannot use does not protect lives.
No one should have to be forced to do something simply because you choose to be different.
I don't drink, I don't smoke. I shouldn't be forced to consume alcohol because the majority happen to. I shouldn't be forced to breathe the air you made toxic because you and many others have a smoking addiction. I shouldn't be forced to pay for a service I cannot use.
Remember, this is about paying licensing for a service provided by a private company, not a government tax.
Why not use Apple's free (as in beer) QuickTime Streaming Server? Not only is it actually free, but it can be played on Windows, Linux, OS X, and a host of other OSes.
There is no quicktime player for Linux.
It's like CNN using RealPlayer and Windows Media.
Realplayer is supported on Windows, Linux and OS X.
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Daily I end up banning a bunch of "naked ruth" bots (as others do) that don't seem todo much other than idle in various places.
I don't know what they're doing, but if it's for research purposes, it's really getting to be really annoying. The banlist I have has exceeded over a hundred of these being banned and they keep coming back (under different names). This isn't the main grid which is considered public, it's a grid of private simulators (known as the valley sims) and there has not been any permission granted at all for research purposes in the simulators I help out in.
It is at the end of the day wasting a lot of my time and I consider these bots without prior consent, harassment.
If we went to the cinema, we would give people the phone number to the cinema and incase of emergency and this all had to be planned in advanced. The cinema would be called, they'd send out someone into the cinema who'd yell your name to come and take the phone call or just yell the message.
The only case I can think of where this would be a problem is on 112 calls - but that in itself is just a mobile phone call to a emergency service.
Would I have a job that required me to be on call 24/7, I wouldn't be in those places, even if I could get a signal.It depends on the situation. If the system is compromised, backups and so on won't help. Private customer information can be stolen among other things.
Uh.. I didn't see anything wrong there.
"Captain, I'm detecting Cheerios in this direction."
Screw that. I'm glad I can't afford the software package if it's going to take up so many cycles pointlessly. You do realize how much 'power' a Intel core duo has, right?
My only real annoyance was Dolphin now being the default file manager in Kubuntu, but default applications can easily be switched.I don't know. I can only say I haven't had issues.I've seen this happen on Linux, BSD, OS X. But not in the latest (k)Ubuntu(-server).Seen this happen on BSD, Linux, Solaris. But not in the latest (k)Ubuntu(-server).I haven't seen that happen before on any OS.. The closest related thing I can think of was OS X 10.4.9 not working with a particular macbookpro's internal wireless (yes, the one it came with - known issue with some macbookpros) after upgrading to it - requiring me to use a older version of OS X.My server setups tend to be quite complex... But even then, I haven't had any issues yet with ubuntu-server.
I really don't care that much for support of Linux as much as being forced to pay for a service I cannot use.
You fail to address that over and over. Instead you imply that my major point is that I want Linux support, no it isn't. There should be two options:
- Support the people you're forcing to pay you.
Or- Exempt people you do not care to support.
Instead, you're still being forced to pay for a service you do not and cannot use. This service isn't even part of the government. I have a big problem with this.This wasn't a assumption on my part, this was just a theoretical fact created for argument sakes which you have failed to address.Again, this isn't about something free, I am being forced to pay for a service I cannot use. Get it through your head.Using your own logic and examples.. Choosing to drink and drive is not special because there are majority that don't and therefore there shouldn't be any concern about it.That said, minimizing the risks by 'automatic execution' such as requiring one to click 'open' on the download box is a lot safer than having the browser automatically download the file and automatically executing it (tricking a browser to download a file is trivial in this case).I think the last JPEG exploit I heard of was in 2004 (Google 'jpeg exploit toolkit') and that was one that had a lot of press. There likely have been others since.
You put too much faith in the security of your system and that may cause your downfall.
I also actually paid for various distributions I use. From Mandriva to SuSE Linux, so stop with your annoying stereotyping.
Feel free though to suggest exactly what work for them and don't forget to give all the specifications for it.
DRM is already supported on Linux thanks to realplayer, which runs on OS X, Windows and Linux.No. I also don't believe I should be forced to pay for a service that I cannot use because I choose to use Linux. Much like the people who choose not to drink and drive.This point doesn't make sense to me. Smoking is banned in public places and within private companies in the UK because it infringes on other people's health. These regulations are in place to protect lives. Linux users getting charged for a service that they cannot use does not protect lives.I don't drink, I don't smoke. I shouldn't be forced to consume alcohol because the majority happen to. I shouldn't be forced to breathe the air you made toxic because you and many others have a smoking addiction. I shouldn't be forced to pay for a service I cannot use.
Remember, this is about paying licensing for a service provided by a private company, not a government tax.