I would imagine that a fix would be available in less than 24 hours... you know... wait and start your processes tomorrow?
Still sucks. I'm glad I didn't bother to keep my stuff completely up-to-date.
Great. If everyone followed this rule, then fine. Of course, these rules are in place because NOT EVERYONE FOLLOWS THE RULES. If your comment above makes you feel secure, please see the previous sentence, particularly the part I've helpfully indicated for you. You think some 8-dollar-an-hour x-ray-scanner-running-monkey is going to think of theft as anything more than a new job perk? You think his 15-dollar-an-hour manager is going to do anything about it when the law basically states "We'll take your stuff, do anything we want to it, you'll just learn to like it."? You think his manager will? His manager? There's plenty of precedent for people in every level of government being On The Take. Like I said before, if everyone followed the rules, then searches and seizures would be unnecessary.
Never carry any sensitive data on media that you cannot comfortably and discreetly swallow under duress.
Agree. I'm running VMware Server on Ubuntu 8.04 x64. Installed without a hitch. I'm actually running WinXP from a RAW partition that I also dual-boot as the guest OS, and it all works beautifully.
250GB a month is 101.15 KB a second. (in a 30 day month - which is Comcast's billing period). Every second of every minute of every day.
If you are following their terms of service (i.e. not running servers, not pirating, etc.) then you're probably not going to touch this (you have to sleep sometime). I remember getting a letter from them when I did about 15GB in a week saying that I was 'degrading service' and they would 'take action' if it continued. (distrowatch.org makes me feel like a kid in a candy store sometimes). I could pull at twice that rate and still not hit that limit.
Hell, I doubt I could do 100KB/s sustained for an entire month if I tried. The only time my Bittorrent Client ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Bandwith Monitoring Utility ever hit over 100KB/s I was grabbing the Hardy Heron iso on release day and had around 1000 seeds and over 4000 peers. Http downloads for me have never pulled down at better than 80KB/s.
Customs Agent: OK, you won't enter the password, I'm just going to confiscate your laptop and let those guys in the lab have a look. You can write a letter to request it back... blah blah blah Hey, Bubba, gimme that pirated Windows XP disk we confiscated from that kid that came through here an hour ago. Just found my kid a birthday present.
Unfortunately, Government also gives PEOPLE power. PEOPLE are, unfortunately, corrupted by power. Especially low-paid customs inspectors.
The best-of-worst-case scenario you can expect from them searching a device with encrypted data on it that is capable of decrypting said data is to lose both the device and the data. Especially if the device is new and shiny.
There's a comedy bit that a great comedian who's name currently escapes me does that says all cars should be converted to run on profanity, since that seems to be available in great abundance.
I have a 48G+ sitting on my desk right here next to me.
My high school calculus teacher insisted that we learn to use HP's 48 series for use in class. We used the 48G in class (loaners), but at the end of the year, the teacher went to a tech show of some sort and negotiated a bulk purchase with a vendor there to get calculators for any students that wanted to buy one. I decided on the 48G+ which is a 48G, but with 128K of RAM. The GX has a bunch of cool expansion features, as well as the expanded RAM.
I wish I hadn't forgotten how to do some of the cool stuff we learned to do with this machine. I did manage to build a serial interface cable for it to download some games^H^H^H^H^H educational educational software. I seem to remember a very minimal port of Doom running (somewhat) on it. I know there are C compilers out there, and there's still an active community writing in it's native assembly language. Good times.
Virtualization may help with this, at least on the client side. I've considered using VMware and an OS-on-CD (Knoppix or whatever, as long as you know it's got no bad stuff on it) to conduct sensitive transactions from my otherwise-susceptible Windows machines. I would think it very useful if someone could come up with a browser and email app that runs on a minimal OS in a virtual machine that's hardened against spy/mal-ware interaction from the host system. This is the effect I have sort-of generated, as I'm booting directly from the knoppix ISO (which could be checksummed before each boot) I have not included any persistant storage in the VM I've built, so nothing gets left hanging around. All there is to do now is roll it all up into a single "double-click-here-to-launch-secure-browser", and there you go.
Right now all I've done with it, though is use it as a middleman to read/write ext3 partitions on external drives from Windows when installing/configuring iPod Linux...
Worse, they call cramming for the standardized tests mandated as measures of education quality, "teaching," which is worse than a misnomer.
There is not a teacher around who doesn't agree with you. These mandated tests were required by state and federal government. Students HAVE TO take them, or the school is punished. Students HAVE TO do well on them, or the school is punished. These tests are a large determiner in funding that the school gets from the government. No funding = No teachers = No public school. We're actually fighting for your children and your wallet by cramming for these stupid government-mandated tests. If we didn't, we'd have to tax your $300,000 McMansion and your rediculously large SUV more. That, or just let you *shudder* pay to send your kids to private school.
You are absolutely right. We'd all rather be teaching that cramming for these stupid tests and jumping through all the "No Child Left Behind" hoops that we have to on a daily basis. BTW, NCLB (No Child Left Behind) is a four letter word, and as such, has NO place in school.
Pretty strong words. I'm sorry you've lost faith in America's educational system. I work in a private school, and my wife is an English/Theater teacher going back for a degree in Special Ed. I take offense at some of your comments, and would like to defend, or at least explain.
You can not treat the people that run the schools as professionals because they typically are not. They shoot from the hip and make broad assumptions in order to make it a very easy day for them.
Administrators, at least around here, nearly all of them require a Master's Degree (at least). Several principals in my area, and both superintendants have PhD's. They are professionals. You tell me (truthfully) there wasn't a time that you haven't done exactly the same thing you describe here at your job. I'll also kindly point out the fact that in these two sentences you "make broad assumptions" about all "people that run the schools", and then abhore the practice.
Teachers typically do not give a rats ass about teaching
I'm flabbergasted. Teaching is one of the most underpaid professions in the country. You honestly think that most of the teachers in America do a job they hate for less pay that they could make managing a McDonalds? Most of them teach because they love the job. The media loves to make all teachers out to be uncaring and inept. Just think of how we're portrayed in The Simpsons, movies like "Ferris Bueler's Day Off", and in the news by all the reporting on scandals recently. I'm not going to say that you need to pull your head out of you-know-where and really take a look at some of your kid's teachers, but it might help. Teachers scrape along on sub-standard saleries, take on extra-curriculars, and spend countless (unpaid) hours preparing and grading because they LOVE the kids.
You've stated the problem with America's schools - the onther 900 unattentive soccer mom's and SUV dad's. Perental Absenteeism is causing America's youth to need guidance and education in right-and-wrong from somewhere else, and MANY parents expect that guidance to come from the schools. I can tell that you take an active role in your child's life. You are part of the solution, not part of the problem, and for that I commend you. Your other comment - Yes there are exceptions of teachers that do care and make a difference but they are outnumbered by the crappy ones 20 to 1 and it is getting worse as the years go by. would benefit from some real thinking as well. You have listed one vague instance of a teacher not doing his job the year before he retired. That's one of how many? {SARCASM}I'm glad school administrators are the only ones that make broad generalizations.{/SARCASM} Time and time again it has been proven that 'one bad apple spoils the bunch'. The media and gossip blows one case in several hundred way out of proportion, and pretty soon the 'unwashed masses' believe that every case is the same. This is obviously what has happened to you. Take a closer look, and I think you'll realize that you shouldn't go ranting about things that you only have a very tenative grasp on.
I'm not even going to go into how teachers are being forced to cope with increased class sizes, and unfunded government mandates from both local, state, and federal governments.
I'm also not saying that the school district was right in disciplining the student for his actions. I believe they overstepped their bounds. The school should definately tell the parents, as it should be the parents' job to discipline the child, as the incident happened at home. I will say, though, that Myspace et. al. have been brutally badmouthed in the news, and in literature that school administrators follow lately. It has reached a fever-pitch, and most administrators will over-react, because they don't understand the problem, and the sources that they trust for information only vaguely understand the problem. They come from the by-gone world where the printed word held the zenith of
Quote: This seems to me to be an area that linux is better. Since most things are independent they can be updated with little impact on the rest of the machine, and the latest update usually fixes all previously known problems without the need for repeated updates.
I'm glad you've had better luck than me. I'm using Xandros 3.0.1 with a dual-display setup. The last "service pack" update they sent down broke my dual monitor setup, and caused my secondary monitor to go into seizures (due to being sent a signal at a refresh rate waaaaaaay out of spec for that monitor), not to mention that the default keyboard driver got changed, and due to that, X failed to start after the update. I got the keyboard problem figured out (luckily they changed to the other default-ish driver listed in man xorg.conf) and then had to re-tinker with xorg.conf to get it to stop freaking my secnondary monitor out. Note that I made no changes to xorg.conf and it dual monitor setup worked great at 1280x1024x2 (2560x1024) pre-update, and afterward (same xorg.conf) one primary monitor was at 1024x768, and autodetect of secondary monitor failed spectacularly.
My experience with *nix has usually been that if you can get it set up and doing what you want, then it will do just that, without fault, for as long as you want. The minute you try to change something, however, you are opening a can of worms with the only relief being that now you may have a slightly larger can to fit them back into this time around.
Heh, funny. My wife tried to buy a camera from one of those places once. They sent her an email telling HER to call THEM (I guess they don't like paying long-distance), so they could advertise, sorry, 'verify' her order. After being pressured to get the extended warranty, memory card, etc, she cancelled her order, and bought it for something like $2 cheaper somewhere else.
We still had to pay to call them to get advertised to. What a crime.
The link to the OpenBGPD site is wrong. A simple investigation reveals that the poster posted the site as www.openbDbd.org. "Slashdot editors" seems to be and oxymoron....
Slashdot Mirror
I would imagine that a fix would be available in less than 24 hours... you know... wait and start your processes tomorrow? Still sucks. I'm glad I didn't bother to keep my stuff completely up-to-date.
Great. If everyone followed this rule, then fine. Of course, these rules are in place because NOT EVERYONE FOLLOWS THE RULES. If your comment above makes you feel secure, please see the previous sentence, particularly the part I've helpfully indicated for you. You think some 8-dollar-an-hour x-ray-scanner-running-monkey is going to think of theft as anything more than a new job perk? You think his 15-dollar-an-hour manager is going to do anything about it when the law basically states "We'll take your stuff, do anything we want to it, you'll just learn to like it."? You think his manager will? His manager? There's plenty of precedent for people in every level of government being On The Take. Like I said before, if everyone followed the rules, then searches and seizures would be unnecessary.
Never carry any sensitive data on media that you cannot comfortably and discreetly swallow under duress.
Agree. I'm running VMware Server on Ubuntu 8.04 x64. Installed without a hitch. I'm actually running WinXP from a RAW partition that I also dual-boot as the guest OS, and it all works beautifully.
Sir, I would be interested in purchasing your Linux-powered flame-throwing death-machine.
Updates appeared in update manager a little bit ago, and work precisely as expected. Ubuntu 8.04 x64 here.
250GB a month is 101.15 KB a second. (in a 30 day month - which is Comcast's billing period). Every second of every minute of every day.
If you are following their terms of service (i.e. not running servers, not pirating, etc.) then you're probably not going to touch this (you have to sleep sometime). I remember getting a letter from them when I did about 15GB in a week saying that I was 'degrading service' and they would 'take action' if it continued. (distrowatch.org makes me feel like a kid in a candy store sometimes). I could pull at twice that rate and still not hit that limit.
Hell, I doubt I could do 100KB/s sustained for an entire month if I tried. The only time my Bittorrent Client ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Bandwith Monitoring Utility ever hit over 100KB/s I was grabbing the Hardy Heron iso on release day and had around 1000 seeds and over 4000 peers. Http downloads for me have never pulled down at better than 80KB/s.
...on an eCRAPted partition...Jon Law: well, we'll just pull the disk out and
Or better-- I believe, and slashdot should agree that any drive, virtual or not, that has Windows installed on it has already been enCRAPted.
<RIMSHOT>
Customs Agent: OK, you won't enter the password, I'm just going to confiscate your laptop and let those guys in the lab have a look. You can write a letter to request it back... blah blah blah Hey, Bubba, gimme that pirated Windows XP disk we confiscated from that kid that came through here an hour ago. Just found my kid a birthday present.
Unfortunately, Government also gives PEOPLE power. PEOPLE are, unfortunately, corrupted by power. Especially low-paid customs inspectors. The best-of-worst-case scenario you can expect from them searching a device with encrypted data on it that is capable of decrypting said data is to lose both the device and the data. Especially if the device is new and shiny.
Are we sure it wasn't just the smell?
I'm very glad you put that ampersand in there...
There's a comedy bit that a great comedian who's name currently escapes me does that says all cars should be converted to run on profanity, since that seems to be available in great abundance.
(random-buzz-phrase)+(random-trendy-phrase)=(front -page-story)
Look, I can do it, too!
Compiz/Beryl Merger, Where you at?
Ruby on Rails, it's all good!
Sheesh!
try, convict and punish on less than complete evidence
Leave it to the lawyers and courts, please.
Because that's what they do best!!!
I have a 48G+ sitting on my desk right here next to me.
My high school calculus teacher insisted that we learn to use HP's 48 series for use in class. We used the 48G in class (loaners), but at the end of the year, the teacher went to a tech show of some sort and negotiated a bulk purchase with a vendor there to get calculators for any students that wanted to buy one. I decided on the 48G+ which is a 48G, but with 128K of RAM. The GX has a bunch of cool expansion features, as well as the expanded RAM.
I wish I hadn't forgotten how to do some of the cool stuff we learned to do with this machine. I did manage to build a serial interface cable for it to download some games^H^H^H^H^H educational educational software. I seem to remember a very minimal port of Doom running (somewhat) on it. I know there are C compilers out there, and there's still an active community writing in it's native assembly language. Good times.
there are resources like Jarod's Myth-on-Fedora HOWTO which make this process much less painless.
:)
I've found that many online instructions make things much less painless, also.
Personally, I had my backend installed on FC5 in an afternoon.
I prefer my backend to be installed on the couch most afternoons
My frontend took a little longer, only because I'm using a fairly recent VIA EPIA board
I'm not even gonna touch that one.
Seriously, though, good link, and I'm glad it worked out so well for you.
Virtualization may help with this, at least on the client side. I've considered using VMware and an OS-on-CD (Knoppix or whatever, as long as you know it's got no bad stuff on it) to conduct sensitive transactions from my otherwise-susceptible Windows machines. I would think it very useful if someone could come up with a browser and email app that runs on a minimal OS in a virtual machine that's hardened against spy/mal-ware interaction from the host system. This is the effect I have sort-of generated, as I'm booting directly from the knoppix ISO (which could be checksummed before each boot) I have not included any persistant storage in the VM I've built, so nothing gets left hanging around. All there is to do now is roll it all up into a single "double-click-here-to-launch-secure-browser", and there you go.
Right now all I've done with it, though is use it as a middleman to read/write ext3 partitions on external drives from Windows when installing/configuring iPod Linux...
1.) Increase voltage of said system
2.) Add survailance webcam
3.) Broadcast
4.) Profit!!
Worse, they call cramming for the standardized tests mandated as measures of education quality, "teaching," which is worse than a misnomer.
There is not a teacher around who doesn't agree with you. These mandated tests were required by state and federal government. Students HAVE TO take them, or the school is punished. Students HAVE TO do well on them, or the school is punished. These tests are a large determiner in funding that the school gets from the government. No funding = No teachers = No public school. We're actually fighting for your children and your wallet by cramming for these stupid government-mandated tests. If we didn't, we'd have to tax your $300,000 McMansion and your rediculously large SUV more. That, or just let you *shudder* pay to send your kids to private school.
You are absolutely right. We'd all rather be teaching that cramming for these stupid tests and jumping through all the "No Child Left Behind" hoops that we have to on a daily basis. BTW, NCLB (No Child Left Behind) is a four letter word, and as such, has NO place in school.
Pretty strong words. I'm sorry you've lost faith in America's educational system. I work in a private school, and my wife is an English/Theater teacher going back for a degree in Special Ed. I take offense at some of your comments, and would like to defend, or at least explain.
You can not treat the people that run the schools as professionals because they typically are not. They shoot from the hip and make broad assumptions in order to make it a very easy day for them.
Administrators, at least around here, nearly all of them require a Master's Degree (at least). Several principals in my area, and both superintendants have PhD's. They are professionals. You tell me (truthfully) there wasn't a time that you haven't done exactly the same thing you describe here at your job. I'll also kindly point out the fact that in these two sentences you "make broad assumptions" about all "people that run the schools", and then abhore the practice.
Teachers typically do not give a rats ass about teaching
I'm flabbergasted. Teaching is one of the most underpaid professions in the country. You honestly think that most of the teachers in America do a job they hate for less pay that they could make managing a McDonalds? Most of them teach because they love the job. The media loves to make all teachers out to be uncaring and inept. Just think of how we're portrayed in The Simpsons, movies like "Ferris Bueler's Day Off", and in the news by all the reporting on scandals recently. I'm not going to say that you need to pull your head out of you-know-where and really take a look at some of your kid's teachers, but it might help. Teachers scrape along on sub-standard saleries, take on extra-curriculars, and spend countless (unpaid) hours preparing and grading because they LOVE the kids.
You've stated the problem with America's schools - the onther 900 unattentive soccer mom's and SUV dad's. Perental Absenteeism is causing America's youth to need guidance and education in right-and-wrong from somewhere else, and MANY parents expect that guidance to come from the schools. I can tell that you take an active role in your child's life. You are part of the solution, not part of the problem, and for that I commend you. Your other comment - Yes there are exceptions of teachers that do care and make a difference but they are outnumbered by the crappy ones 20 to 1 and it is getting worse as the years go by. would benefit from some real thinking as well. You have listed one vague instance of a teacher not doing his job the year before he retired. That's one of how many? {SARCASM}I'm glad school administrators are the only ones that make broad generalizations.{/SARCASM} Time and time again it has been proven that 'one bad apple spoils the bunch'. The media and gossip blows one case in several hundred way out of proportion, and pretty soon the 'unwashed masses' believe that every case is the same. This is obviously what has happened to you. Take a closer look, and I think you'll realize that you shouldn't go ranting about things that you only have a very tenative grasp on.
I'm not even going to go into how teachers are being forced to cope with increased class sizes, and unfunded government mandates from both local, state, and federal governments.
I'm also not saying that the school district was right in disciplining the student for his actions. I believe they overstepped their bounds. The school should definately tell the parents, as it should be the parents' job to discipline the child, as the incident happened at home. I will say, though, that Myspace et. al. have been brutally badmouthed in the news, and in literature that school administrators follow lately. It has reached a fever-pitch, and most administrators will over-react, because they don't understand the problem, and the sources that they trust for information only vaguely understand the problem. They come from the by-gone world where the printed word held the zenith of
Precisely. There are 2 things you need to hack any piece of hardware, period.
#1 - Suitable amount of time with unlimited access to said hardware
#2 - Technical expertise
By selling a video game system, computer, car, digital camera, etc, you are taking #1 and putting it firmly in the hands of people with #2.
There are also 2 ways to make hacking a piece of hardware popular:
#1 - Make it easy and profitable. Provide development kits, etc.
#2 - Say it's impossible.
Quote: This seems to me to be an area that linux is better. Since most things are independent they can be updated with little impact on the rest of the machine, and the latest update usually fixes all previously known problems without the need for repeated updates. I'm glad you've had better luck than me. I'm using Xandros 3.0.1 with a dual-display setup. The last "service pack" update they sent down broke my dual monitor setup, and caused my secondary monitor to go into seizures (due to being sent a signal at a refresh rate waaaaaaay out of spec for that monitor), not to mention that the default keyboard driver got changed, and due to that, X failed to start after the update. I got the keyboard problem figured out (luckily they changed to the other default-ish driver listed in man xorg.conf) and then had to re-tinker with xorg.conf to get it to stop freaking my secnondary monitor out. Note that I made no changes to xorg.conf and it dual monitor setup worked great at 1280x1024x2 (2560x1024) pre-update, and afterward (same xorg.conf) one primary monitor was at 1024x768, and autodetect of secondary monitor failed spectacularly. My experience with *nix has usually been that if you can get it set up and doing what you want, then it will do just that, without fault, for as long as you want. The minute you try to change something, however, you are opening a can of worms with the only relief being that now you may have a slightly larger can to fit them back into this time around.
Heh, funny. My wife tried to buy a camera from one of those places once. They sent her an email telling HER to call THEM (I guess they don't like paying long-distance), so they could advertise, sorry, 'verify' her order. After being pressured to get the extended warranty, memory card, etc, she cancelled her order, and bought it for something like $2 cheaper somewhere else.
We still had to pay to call them to get advertised to. What a crime.
The link to the OpenBGPD site is wrong. The poster wrote it as www.openbDpd.org. "Slashdot editors" seems to be an oxymoron....
The link to the OpenBGPD site is wrong. A simple investigation reveals that the poster posted the site as www.openbDbd.org. "Slashdot editors" seems to be and oxymoron....
My Pr0n looks just fine at 1600x1200, thank you!
21" CRT all the way, baby!