I feel like a positive note has to be made on this subject: everyone on/. complains about poorly or even non-existent support for 802.11x wireless stuff. When I purchased my Toshiba Satellite something laptop, Slack (10.0, been out for two days when I installed it) asked me about wireless stuff during install. Didn't have it at the time, but thought heck maybe - so yes. Today I plugged the first SMC something card, didn't even bother to look if it's supported or something, and exactly two commands later (iwconfig eth1 essid somestring key somehexstring && dhcpcd eth1) I am online and well. Why the hech is everyone bitching about lack of wireless support?
Heck, show me how to run several instances of IIS, how to chroot it, show me how to make a full backup of its install, config and webroot restorable in a matter of seconds, on a different computer AND operating system version...
IRC doesn't run only on 6667. Yes, it's just a poor choice for an example. My point was: block access to external sources in 'paranoid' mode and you will just give users an incentive to overcome those limitations. They WILL find out about proxies and tunnels, they WILL dig for exploits trying to elevate access on their own (or worse, some other colleague's) machine. Keep the herd happy, allow them to mess around and poll the machines regularly to see what runs on them an what applications are installed (also archive those reports, of course). You will get more control and a solid explanation next time one of them f*cks up .
Not a native English speaker, but I think it was "slashdot them into nothingness".. like what will remain from a poor web server after they finish hammering it while screaming "Bleed them bits, bitch! Bleed!"
It's time that people like this stop thinking the whole goddam world is here just to satisfy their personal "curiosity".
The whole world IS there just to satisfy our personal curiosity/restlessness/ambition/greed/whatever. If it weren't so then living wouldn't be fun anymore.
Microsoft IS adding general bugfixes and features constantly. Please register your copy of XP and go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com before trolling. Of course, they also offer constant updates to the EULA, but that's a different issue;)
Because the end-user would have to contact a third-party unreliable service to track a phone number (think whois)? Because there are far more telephone users than connected computers (think there's no NAT)? Because people would have to re-adjust all their contact info (I get chills down my spine just thinking of it)?
24/365, work/home. On the (very) rare occasions I need silence, I just turn the speakers down, but the whatever radio I listen to at the moment still eats bandwidth.
How much software do you need, or can you even use?
Not that much, but those ISOs still quite add up. I also update everything, everytime - because I can.
Yes, I know I won't be able to carry on this lifestile for long, but for the moment my ISP sure as hell hates me.
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I feel like a positive note has to be made on this subject: everyone on /. complains about poorly or even non-existent support for 802.11x wireless stuff. When I purchased my Toshiba Satellite something laptop, Slack (10.0, been out for two days when I installed it) asked me about wireless stuff during install. Didn't have it at the time, but thought heck maybe - so yes. Today I plugged the first SMC something card, didn't even bother to look if it's supported or something, and exactly two commands later (iwconfig eth1 essid somestring key somehexstring && dhcpcd eth1) I am online and well. Why the hech is everyone bitching about lack of wireless support?
Heck, show me how to run several instances of IIS, how to chroot it, show me how to make a full backup of its install, config and webroot restorable in a matter of seconds, on a different computer AND operating system version...
IRC doesn't run only on 6667. Yes, it's just a poor choice for an example. My point was: block access to external sources in 'paranoid' mode and you will just give users an incentive to overcome those limitations. They WILL find out about proxies and tunnels, they WILL dig for exploits trying to elevate access on their own (or worse, some other colleague's) machine. Keep the herd happy, allow them to mess around and poll the machines regularly to see what runs on them an what applications are installed (also archive those reports, of course). You will get more control and a solid explanation next time one of them f*cks up .
In that respect, let's add the #11 technology anyone wishes was dead: paper invoices ;)
Not a native English speaker, but I think it was "slashdot them into nothingness".. like what will remain from a poor web server after they finish hammering it while screaming "Bleed them bits, bitch! Bleed!"
It's time that people like this stop thinking the whole goddam world is here just to satisfy their personal "curiosity".
The whole world IS there just to satisfy our personal curiosity/restlessness/ambition/greed/whatever. If it weren't so then living wouldn't be fun anymore.
Microsoft IS adding general bugfixes and features constantly. Please register your copy of XP and go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com before trolling. ;)
Of course, they also offer constant updates to the EULA, but that's a different issue
Because the end-user would have to contact a third-party unreliable service to track a phone number (think whois)? Because there are far more telephone users than connected computers (think there's no NAT)? Because people would have to re-adjust all their contact info (I get chills down my spine just thinking of it)?
How many movies can you watch in a month?
20 to 50, depending on my insomnia.
How much music can you listen to?
24/365, work/home. On the (very) rare occasions I need silence, I just turn the speakers down, but the whatever radio I listen to at the moment still eats bandwidth.
How much software do you need, or can you even use?
Not that much, but those ISOs still quite add up.
I also update everything, everytime - because I can.
Yes, I know I won't be able to carry on this lifestile for long, but for the moment my ISP sure as hell hates me.