It's already been posted, but apparently no one's reading it
===================== Linux-hero wrote about how Ubuntu kills your hard drive. The situation is somewhat less clear than you might think from the article, but the basic takeaway message is that Ubuntu doesn't touch your hard drive power management settings by default. In almost all cases, it's more likely to be your BIOS or the firmware on your hard drive.
The script that's executed when you plug or unplug your laptop is/etc/acpi/power.sh. The relevant sections are:
That is, when the laptop_mode_enable function is called, we set the drive power parameters. Now, by default laptop_mode_enable isn't called:
if [ x$ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE = xtrue ]; then
(sleep 5 && laptop_mode_enable)& fi
because ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE is false in the default install (check/etc/default/acpi-support). This means that, by default, we do not alter the hard drive power settings. In other words, the APM settings that your drive is using in Ubuntu are the ones that your BIOS programmed into it when the computer started. This is supported by the fact that people see this issue after resuming from suspend. We don't touch the hard drive settings at that point, so the only way it can occur is if your BIOS or drive default to this behaviour.
If you enable laptop mode, then we will enable aggressive power management on the drive and that may lead to some reduction in hard drive lifespan. That's a fairly inevitable consequence of laptop mode, since it only makes sense if the laptop enages in aggressive power management. But, as I said, that's not the default behaviour of Ubuntu.
There's certainly an argument that we should work around BIOSes, but in general our assumption has been that your hardware manufacturer has a better idea what your computer is capable of than we do. If a laptop manufacturer configures your drive to save power at the cost of life expectancy, then that's probably something you should ask your laptop manufacturer about. =====================
Don't fall prey to 'Digg-ish' sensationalism. You all are supposed to know better over here.
Interesting. Showing how modern ham radio is by posting a link to a system that's basically non-functional without an existing commercial infrastructure (EchoLink). Think about that for a second. That's progress?
Now, for fun: poll your local group of Amateur Extras, your local ham techno leaders - count up how many of them can connect to, setup or even know how to find a remote E-link node. Now, ask the same question of your newest bunch of techs - the n00bs of the game. Interesting ratio isn't it.
Airmail 2000 - yes, yes. PACTOR really shows Amateur Radio's progress. Yup, you betchya. A modern, contemporary communications system that's based on an encoding technology first publicly used before the TRS-80 was released and moves data at 200bps - if you're lucky.
At the least, you could've pulled out the ol "PSK31 is as good as CW" argument - at least that dog can walk. PSK31, at least, was a newer idea.
Now, how would a group of hams handle H&W traffic for a shelter like Qualcom stadium? OK, maybe one about half that size. Maybe a quarter that size?
VHF/UHF voice to outside stations with HF links to other stations or maybe just to a station with I-net access and email? How long is it going to take to get status messages out for 2.5K people using a setup like that?
How about a 2.4Ghz, 54Mbit robust link via rapidly deployed, self sustaining gear to provide managed, meshed, multi-client access to high speed switched packet connectivity - providing self service messaging.
Nope, that's not real "ham radio" and you know most hams wouldn't even recognize such a description as WiFI. Worse, how many would be able to connect their laptops to it. Hell, how many hams you know that even HAVE laptops? How many of 'em are WiFi enabled? And for a kicker - how many know what WPA2 is?
The professionals are getting so good at providing high volume, high bandwidth and robust communications it takes a disaster on the scale of 9/11 or Katrina for ham radio's "infrastructure-less" systems to be much more than a novelty.
By the way - I am that old man with the HT and an HF rig in the basement, and the club's server farm and the local APRS infrastructure and the local E-link node. But maybe not - I'm also the wild eyed fanatic with the Extra ticket that's so damned frustrated with this 'laurel sitting' I see so much of in the ham community. A story like this comes out and the first reaction I get from the locals is self-righteous defensiveness about how 'they' are intruding on 'our' traditional roll. How dare they progress to the point that we can't contribute what we did 10 years ago! They so often forget that part of our 'task' is to put ourselves out of a job. Develop these methods and systems to the point they CAN'T fail. Instead, they'd rather spend mega-bucks on Kenwood's latest AVL applicance with 2k4 instant messaging. Or get all wet when they can connect their HT to a repeater in the next state by Internet.
You wanna talk 'bout the dumbing down of Ham Radio? It's not the FCC's exams.
Yea, I'm eager to read the after actions on this. See just how useful the 'ol farts' with the HTs actually were when the shelter has it's own WiFi up and running. Gotta wonder if that ol fart even knew it was there.
I'm curious to read the after action reports - no more so than the folks living this nightmare. I'm curious to see how the local ham community participated in all this.
Using texting for 'Health and Welfare' messaging via WiFi at a shelter is great and the shelter folks are to be applauded for making that work so well! Such communications has traditionally been - at least augmented - by the amateur radio community. Was there still need/a place for this? Where they reachable by those dozen or so people who don't have texting cell phones or WiFi clients? Did the hams setup the WiFi access, coordinate it or what did they do?
Who knows - maybe now the SSB and CW enthusiasts will finally have to learn how to deal with TCP/IP, CAT5, WiFi and texting - in spite of the Jay Leno message race results.
What may well be fake is anyone who shows up. There's even some kinda hot chicks in underwear show going on sometime at this place. (night of the slashparty?). But so far no one says they're gonna show up.
Hell, I'll be there - if for no other reason than the happy hour munchies.
Like most tools, it's not so much the size, but how it's used.
First goal is to NOT get in such a situation in the first place!! Control your environment.
However, if situation arises, an appropriately applied.22 could do the job - takes more skill though. A commodity that may well be in short supply under such conditions.
Personally I like.45 ACP. Small enough you can carry it (thus, not leaving it in the locker when you need it), large enough it allows for some less-than-perfect application and remain effective.
Remove the battery in an attempt to wipe the password - it locks up the BIOS, bricking the LT.
Have to send it back to IBM (Lenovo?) to get it 'fixed'.
"'Despite what you read on websites and blogs, newspapers and magazines, people on the whole aren't all that dissatisfied with Windows. There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty.'"
And that's only because 'people on the whole' not only have no clue what an operating system is, they don't recognize the OS is often the seat of their frustrations, nor are they aware there are alternatives. It's actually a refreshing to have a user not blame their own PC ignorance for the delicate nature of their work environment.
If I only had a nickel for the number of times I've had to explain that Word is not Window, not only doesn't come with the OS, but you have to buy it. That inevitably leads to the question, "What is an OS?". That leads to the explanation of what Linux is - because there IS a choice and they deserve to know about it.
So - my own empirical experience - Windows fragility and weaknesses are not only a motivator for the development of Linux, but a well used marketing channel as well.
Lets all create laws that will penalize everyone else for not being a parent to every pip-squeak they encounter!
This makes SO much sense. Legislate away parenting responsibility from the actual parents - who obviously are doing such a wonderful job - to some stranger who's doing 'something else'. Like earning a living.
I just love how some folks "think".
What ever happened to parents anyway? Never did hear about 'em being on the "Endangered Species" list - must be though, by now. What with all these 'legislative parenting' things flying all over. We all gotta pitch in it seems. Maybe that's the real problem. parents were never recognized as being at risk, never got listed so no Federal money to support their waning numbers. Who's supposed to be watching out for this anyway? Lets make another law for that!!
You've seen the smoldering piece of space junk. You've taken photos of the dimple in the prairie where it landed. You drank all our beer. You've chased our women and you've run over our Antelope. We tolerated your complaints about there not being enough Starbucks around to satisfy your habits.
Now, just pay your damn bar tabs and go home already. Winter is setting in, we got work to do and we don't want to have to spend time saving your happy asses when the weather gets bad.
Thank you and have a nice day.
- Wapiti-eater
Wyoming Immigration Officer
Central District
Get Oxfam and the RIAA together. They can really teach each other a thing or two about how markets should really work in the real world! Uh huh, you betchya. Can you just imagine that bastardly combination of mis-guided world-views???
Folks on this Oxfam video: empty headed, do-good, sensationalists. "Save the gay baby whales!" bumper stickers must be back in vogue, again. In their mis-guided - if 'honorable' - efforts to help the 'less fortunate', all they accomplish is looking like the bunch of ignorant children. "The world ain't Fair!". Show me on your birth certificate where it says "it's fair".
I can only hope Oxfam itself has some mature leadership than was demonstrated by their 'supporters' here.
Instead of whining about what is, change it. No, you're not going to change reality with wishes or sandwich boards. No matter how loud you scream, you'll not get anyone else to change it for you. You gotta put in real efforts yourself, real resources like supplies, materials, blood, education - even their own. However, it just doesn't play as well on Youtube. It's so much easier to 'go after' a successful capitalist 'entity', point fingers and complain than really invest of yourself to make a tangible difference. Wonder how many of them went home after their 'day of action' to a cup of coffee distributed by some other reseller. Wonder how many of them have been to Ethiopia or even sent of their own resources to anyone in Ethiopia. Wonder how many have spent of themselves to improve anyone else's standard of living instead of blocking a sidewalk a few blocks from their own kitchens cuz that was the 'cause de jour'.
Kudos to Starbucks - gotta give 'em credit for trying. They buy these folk's products, they support their efforts in real ways, they offered a workable solution to this 'trademark' question. Why? Because they're out to save the world? Cuz it 'feels good'? Because someone told 'em to buy poor farmers products? No - it's simply good business. By making money themselves, their business improves the quality of life of their suppliers - incidentaly. Believe me, that's NOT their goal. However, they do make a real difference in the real world without expecting someone else to hand it out. A "minor" detail Oxfam not only overlooks, but neglects to understand.
Maybe if Oxfam could generate some other markets for Ethiopian products or support Ethiopians in producing products for existing markets....
Anyone who thinks the world owes them anything is delusional. Hell, on this planet, you'll be one of the lucky ones if at the end, you get your own hole in the ground.
All I can do is block any and all AOL origionated connections from any I-net resource I have influence over. That's now done - and should've been done long ago. AOL is a product unto itself. The internet is something all together different.
The I-net is dividing into two classes. Those that use it and those that're used by it. I refuse to further facilitate and/or enable the continued abuse of the 'not yet educated'. Instead I vow to support, educate and lead 'n00bs' into effective and responsable participation and membership in this world wide community.
Yea, even if it's *just* helping my neighbor get Firefox installed - every bit helps. Hell, at least I got him OFF of AOL and onto a local ISP that provides a real I-net experience (FF was just the begining). The Internet is not a shopping mall packaged and pablum loaded empty calory gorging of other's sweet waste. That's AOL - an empty, but well packaged product leeching off of the reality and efforts of the Internet and it's citizens - and making a mockery (and profit) of it.
Spam needs to be faught, but like so many social ills, it's a symptom of a larger, not an intrinsic 'evil' in itself. The problem is blatant comercialisation. The same economic drive that's turned television into a mindless, soal robbing robotic eye into a two dimensional fantasy.
But this stupid and greedy decisioin on AOL's part is an attempt to grasp and retain power over the infrastructure. By sheer mass, an attempt to turn a profit over what many consider a basic human communication. Mmm, maybe we need an Open Internet....
Anyone who buys into the idea that this is some kind of alturistic manouver for the good of all needs to return their Willy Wanka bars. The freak'n elevator was a special effect and you ain't gonna see no Munchkins - no matter what the wrappers say.
It may be helpful to document a situation where CW did make a difference in an emergency situation. Say some emergency that occured in the past 10 years or so.
CW may have been radio back in the day of spark-gap transmitters. But, take a look around. It's time to catch up.
In the mean time - maybe you'll benifit from learning about how modern battle field communications have evolved. Take a look at what was used durring Destert Storm. The lessons of Normandy were learned and learned well.
No, what's lame is to think that even token ability with a communications method developed in the 19th century is a measure of an individual's drive to learn, use or develop 21st century technology.
"No son, you can't drive the car. You haven't shown me you can correctly hitch up a team to the Prairie Schooner yet"
http://www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/windows/1298.ph p
Should likely be included with every consumer PC sold and every new house-hold broadband connection - at least...
(and yes, it's a bit dated - but still a good start)
of the decline of/. into a cespool of sensationalist pablum. This reads like it was published by the National Enquirer - not a "news for nerds" site. (maybe a 'news for n00bs' site)
Not news, not newsworthy, not even mildly interesting to anyone who was awake in 6th grade science class.
What's next? A front page story on the dangers and publich health threat of dihydrogen oxide?
on when 3.8 may become publicly available?? I see nothing on the knopper.net site about 3.8.
Speculating and debating all these neato features, politics and wish lists is just mental masturbation until folks can actualy get their grubby mits on it and can abuse it, break it and other fun things.
KNOPPIX 3.8 relaesed for public download HERE!
Now, that'd be a headline worth clicking on. Who's crystal ball has been recently calibrated? Give us the skinny!!
We manage netowrks, servers and entire IT departments for several smaller companies. We're not a 'retail' store front at all. Similar problem is that we do *not*, as a rule, deal with home user/end user systems. However, the employees of our clients would all want their home sysetms fixed. It's part of the contracts now - they get a deal. Non-contract, per incident rate is $100/hr, contract rate is $80/hr and employees of contractees are charged $75/hr and handled by appointment only. Save's 'em $25/hr off the 'walk in price'.
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It's already been posted, but apparently no one's reading it
/etc/acpi/power.sh. The relevant sections are:
... /dev/$drive 2>/dev/null /dev/$drive 2>/dev/null
/etc/default/acpi-support). This means that, by default, we do not alter the hard drive power settings. In other words, the APM settings that your drive is using in Ubuntu are the ones that your BIOS programmed into it when the computer started. This is supported by the fact that people see this issue after resuming from suspend. We don't touch the hard drive settings at that point, so the only way it can occur is if your BIOS or drive default to this behaviour.
=====================
Linux-hero wrote about how Ubuntu kills your hard drive. The situation is somewhat less clear than you might think from the article, but the basic takeaway message is that Ubuntu doesn't touch your hard drive power management settings by default. In almost all cases, it's more likely to be your BIOS or the firmware on your hard drive.
The script that's executed when you plug or unplug your laptop is
function laptop_mode_enable {
$HDPARM -S $SPINDOWN_TIME
$HDPARM -B 1
}
That is, when the laptop_mode_enable function is called, we set the drive power parameters. Now, by default laptop_mode_enable isn't called:
if [ x$ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE = xtrue ]; then
(sleep 5 && laptop_mode_enable)&
fi
because ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE is false in the default install (check
If you enable laptop mode, then we will enable aggressive power management on the drive and that may lead to some reduction in hard drive lifespan. That's a fairly inevitable consequence of laptop mode, since it only makes sense if the laptop enages in aggressive power management. But, as I said, that's not the default behaviour of Ubuntu.
There's certainly an argument that we should work around BIOSes, but in general our assumption has been that your hardware manufacturer has a better idea what your computer is capable of than we do. If a laptop manufacturer configures your drive to save power at the cost of life expectancy, then that's probably something you should ask your laptop manufacturer about.
=====================
Don't fall prey to 'Digg-ish' sensationalism. You all are supposed to know better over here.
Interesting. Showing how modern ham radio is by posting a link to a system that's basically non-functional without an existing commercial infrastructure (EchoLink). Think about that for a second. That's progress?
Now, for fun: poll your local group of Amateur Extras, your local ham techno leaders - count up how many of them can connect to, setup or even know how to find a remote E-link node. Now, ask the same question of your newest bunch of techs - the n00bs of the game. Interesting ratio isn't it.
Airmail 2000 - yes, yes. PACTOR really shows Amateur Radio's progress. Yup, you betchya. A modern, contemporary communications system that's based on an encoding technology first publicly used before the TRS-80 was released and moves data at 200bps - if you're lucky.
At the least, you could've pulled out the ol "PSK31 is as good as CW" argument - at least that dog can walk. PSK31, at least, was a newer idea.
Now, how would a group of hams handle H&W traffic for a shelter like Qualcom stadium? OK, maybe one about half that size. Maybe a quarter that size?
VHF/UHF voice to outside stations with HF links to other stations or maybe just to a station with I-net access and email? How long is it going to take to get status messages out for 2.5K people using a setup like that?
How about a 2.4Ghz, 54Mbit robust link via rapidly deployed, self sustaining gear to provide managed, meshed, multi-client access to high speed switched packet connectivity - providing self service messaging.
Nope, that's not real "ham radio" and you know most hams wouldn't even recognize such a description as WiFI. Worse, how many would be able to connect their laptops to it. Hell, how many hams you know that even HAVE laptops? How many of 'em are WiFi enabled? And for a kicker - how many know what WPA2 is?
The professionals are getting so good at providing high volume, high bandwidth and robust communications it takes a disaster on the scale of 9/11 or Katrina for ham radio's "infrastructure-less" systems to be much more than a novelty.
By the way - I am that old man with the HT and an HF rig in the basement, and the club's server farm and the local APRS infrastructure and the local E-link node. But maybe not - I'm also the wild eyed fanatic with the Extra ticket that's so damned frustrated with this 'laurel sitting' I see so much of in the ham community. A story like this comes out and the first reaction I get from the locals is self-righteous defensiveness about how 'they' are intruding on 'our' traditional roll. How dare they progress to the point that we can't contribute what we did 10 years ago! They so often forget that part of our 'task' is to put ourselves out of a job. Develop these methods and systems to the point they CAN'T fail. Instead, they'd rather spend mega-bucks on Kenwood's latest AVL applicance with 2k4 instant messaging. Or get all wet when they can connect their HT to a repeater in the next state by Internet.
You wanna talk 'bout the dumbing down of Ham Radio? It's not the FCC's exams.
Yea, I'm eager to read the after actions on this. See just how useful the 'ol farts' with the HTs actually were when the shelter has it's own WiFi up and running. Gotta wonder if that ol fart even knew it was there.
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I'm curious to read the after action reports - no more so than the folks living this nightmare. I'm curious to see how the local ham community participated in all this.
Using texting for 'Health and Welfare' messaging via WiFi at a shelter is great and the shelter folks are to be applauded for making that work so well! Such communications has traditionally been - at least augmented - by the amateur radio community. Was there still need/a place for this? Where they reachable by those dozen or so people who don't have texting cell phones or WiFi clients? Did the hams setup the WiFi access, coordinate it or what did they do?
Who knows - maybe now the SSB and CW enthusiasts will finally have to learn how to deal with TCP/IP, CAT5, WiFi and texting - in spite of the Jay Leno message race results.
What may well be fake is anyone who shows up. There's even some kinda hot chicks in underwear show going on sometime at this place. (night of the slashparty?). But so far no one says they're gonna show up. Hell, I'll be there - if for no other reason than the happy hour munchies.
Played just fine on my F7 box in Firefox.
Follow this, may haylp ya sum:
Shows/videos/articles like this are made to help anyone - other than the producers?
They exist to sensationalize and already existing fear. capitalize on it and sell air time.
If "the market" was really pissed about poor service, believe me, the market would make things change.
Like most tools, it's not so much the size, but how it's used.
.22 could do the job - takes more skill though. A commodity that may well be in short supply under such conditions. .45 ACP. Small enough you can carry it (thus, not leaving it in the locker when you need it), large enough it allows for some less-than-perfect application and remain effective.
First goal is to NOT get in such a situation in the first place!! Control your environment.
However, if situation arises, an appropriately applied
Personally I like
Yea - just don't try that on some IBM Thinkpads.
::blush::
Remove the battery in an attempt to wipe the password - it locks up the BIOS, bricking the LT.
Have to send it back to IBM (Lenovo?) to get it 'fixed'.
DAMHIK
"'Despite what you read on websites and blogs, newspapers and magazines, people on the whole aren't all that dissatisfied with Windows. There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty.'"
And that's only because 'people on the whole' not only have no clue what an operating system is, they don't recognize the OS is often the seat of their frustrations, nor are they aware there are alternatives. It's actually a refreshing to have a user not blame their own PC ignorance for the delicate nature of their work environment.
If I only had a nickel for the number of times I've had to explain that Word is not Window, not only doesn't come with the OS, but you have to buy it. That inevitably leads to the question, "What is an OS?". That leads to the explanation of what Linux is - because there IS a choice and they deserve to know about it.
So - my own empirical experience - Windows fragility and weaknesses are not only a motivator for the development of Linux, but a well used marketing channel as well.
I don't know what would be.
Write your thoughts, as requested by authority.
Your written thoughts get you arrested by that same authority.
Where the hell did the constitution go here?
It don't get much clearer than that. Don't anyone read "Farenheit 451" or watch "THX 1138" anymore?
I can only hope the teacher, the school and the LEO agency involved get the wholy ba-jeebies sued out of 'em.
Lets all create laws that will penalize everyone else for not being a parent to every pip-squeak they encounter! This makes SO much sense. Legislate away parenting responsibility from the actual parents - who obviously are doing such a wonderful job - to some stranger who's doing 'something else'. Like earning a living. I just love how some folks "think". What ever happened to parents anyway? Never did hear about 'em being on the "Endangered Species" list - must be though, by now. What with all these 'legislative parenting' things flying all over. We all gotta pitch in it seems. Maybe that's the real problem. parents were never recognized as being at risk, never got listed so no Federal money to support their waning numbers. Who's supposed to be watching out for this anyway? Lets make another law for that!!
You've seen the smoldering piece of space junk.
You've taken photos of the dimple in the prairie where it landed.
You drank all our beer.
You've chased our women and you've run over our Antelope.
We tolerated your complaints about there not being enough Starbucks around to satisfy your habits.
Now, just pay your damn bar tabs and go home already. Winter is setting in, we got work to do and we don't want to have to spend time saving your happy asses when the weather gets bad.
Thank you and have a nice day.
- Wapiti-eater
Wyoming Immigration Officer
Central District
Get Oxfam and the RIAA together.
They can really teach each other a thing or two about how markets should really work in the real world!
Uh huh, you betchya. Can you just imagine that bastardly combination of mis-guided world-views???
Folks on this Oxfam video: empty headed, do-good, sensationalists. "Save the gay baby whales!" bumper stickers must be back in vogue, again.
In their mis-guided - if 'honorable' - efforts to help the 'less fortunate', all they accomplish is looking like the bunch of ignorant children. "The world ain't Fair!". Show me on your birth certificate where it says "it's fair".
I can only hope Oxfam itself has some mature leadership than was demonstrated by their 'supporters' here.
Instead of whining about what is, change it. No, you're not going to change reality with wishes or sandwich boards. No matter how loud you scream, you'll not get anyone else to change it for you. You gotta put in real efforts yourself, real resources like supplies, materials, blood, education - even their own. However, it just doesn't play as well on Youtube. It's so much easier to 'go after' a successful capitalist 'entity', point fingers and complain than really invest of yourself to make a tangible difference. Wonder how many of them went home after their 'day of action' to a cup of coffee distributed by some other reseller. Wonder how many of them have been to Ethiopia or even sent of their own resources to anyone in Ethiopia. Wonder how many have spent of themselves to improve anyone else's standard of living instead of blocking a sidewalk a few blocks from their own kitchens cuz that was the 'cause de jour'.
Kudos to Starbucks - gotta give 'em credit for trying. They buy these folk's products, they support their efforts in real ways, they offered a workable solution to this 'trademark' question. Why? Because they're out to save the world? Cuz it 'feels good'? Because someone told 'em to buy poor farmers products? No - it's simply good business. By making money themselves, their business improves the quality of life of their suppliers - incidentaly. Believe me, that's NOT their goal. However, they do make a real difference in the real world without expecting someone else to hand it out. A "minor" detail Oxfam not only overlooks, but neglects to understand.
Maybe if Oxfam could generate some other markets for Ethiopian products or support Ethiopians in producing products for existing markets....
Anyone who thinks the world owes them anything is delusional. Hell, on this planet, you'll be one of the lucky ones if at the end, you get your own hole in the ground.
All I can do is block any and all AOL origionated connections from any I-net resource I have influence over. That's now done - and should've been done long ago. AOL is a product unto itself. The internet is something all together different.
The I-net is dividing into two classes. Those that use it and those that're used by it. I refuse to further facilitate and/or enable the continued abuse of the 'not yet educated'. Instead I vow to support, educate and lead 'n00bs' into effective and responsable participation and membership in this world wide community.
Yea, even if it's *just* helping my neighbor get Firefox installed - every bit helps. Hell, at least I got him OFF of AOL and onto a local ISP that provides a real I-net experience (FF was just the begining). The Internet is not a shopping mall packaged and pablum loaded empty calory gorging of other's sweet waste. That's AOL - an empty, but well packaged product leeching off of the reality and efforts of the Internet and it's citizens - and making a mockery (and profit) of it.
Spam needs to be faught, but like so many social ills, it's a symptom of a larger, not an intrinsic 'evil' in itself. The problem is blatant comercialisation. The same economic drive that's turned television into a mindless, soal robbing robotic eye into a two dimensional fantasy.
But this stupid and greedy decisioin on AOL's part is an attempt to grasp and retain power over the infrastructure. By sheer mass, an attempt to turn a profit over what many consider a basic human communication. Mmm, maybe we need an Open Internet....
Anyone who buys into the idea that this is some kind of alturistic manouver for the good of all needs to return their Willy Wanka bars. The freak'n elevator was a special effect and you ain't gonna see no Munchkins - no matter what the wrappers say.
Just in case you didn't see it before: TheOpenCD is a project - at least partly - developed with this in mind.
Chock full of F/OSS software for Windows, it's a great tool to introduce MS entrenched minds to the availability of quality, alternative software.
http://www.theopencd.org/
Hey Dan,
It may be helpful to document a situation where CW did make a difference in an emergency situation. Say some emergency that occured in the past 10 years or so.
LTS - you're making my point for me.
CW *is* radio?
My friend, that's just plain silly.
CW may have been radio back in the day of spark-gap transmitters. But, take a look around. It's time to catch up.
In the mean time - maybe you'll benifit from learning about how modern battle field communications have evolved. Take a look at what was used durring Destert Storm. The lessons of Normandy were learned and learned well.
No, what's lame is to think that even token ability with a communications method developed in the 19th century is a measure of an individual's drive to learn, use or develop 21st century technology.
"No son, you can't drive the car. You haven't shown me you can correctly hitch up a team to the Prairie Schooner yet"
Here's a start point:
h p
http://www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/windows/1298.p
Should likely be included with every consumer PC sold and every new house-hold broadband connection - at least... (and yes, it's a bit dated - but still a good start)
I stand corrected.
::reads numerous warnings, cautions and advisories on the dangers of Hydrogen Hydroxide::
But, I have to wash my hair now.
of the decline of /. into a cespool of sensationalist pablum. This reads like it was published by the National Enquirer - not a "news for nerds" site. (maybe a 'news for n00bs' site)
Not news, not newsworthy, not even mildly interesting to anyone who was awake in 6th grade science class.
What's next? A front page story on the dangers and publich health threat of dihydrogen oxide?
When this came out as a strip in the Userfriendly comic universe.
Way to perpetuate the Urban Legends there Cmdr T!!
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010523
on when 3.8 may become publicly available?? I see nothing on the knopper.net site about 3.8.
Speculating and debating all these neato features, politics and wish lists is just mental masturbation until folks can actualy get their grubby mits on it and can abuse it, break it and other fun things.
KNOPPIX 3.8 relaesed for public download HERE!
Now, that'd be a headline worth clicking on. Who's crystal ball has been recently calibrated? Give us the skinny!!
(HINT: It'd be stuff that matters)
And there's also root kit hunter. Be interesting someday to see a well written comparision 'twixt chkrootkit and rkhunter.
Initial reading implies rkhunter is, "...more user-friendly and comprehensive...". See This PDF (Dealing with Rootkit Attacks on Linux).
We manage netowrks, servers and entire IT departments for several smaller companies. We're not a 'retail' store front at all. Similar problem is that we do *not*, as a rule, deal with home user/end user systems. However, the employees of our clients would all want their home sysetms fixed. It's part of the contracts now - they get a deal. Non-contract, per incident rate is $100/hr, contract rate is $80/hr and employees of contractees are charged $75/hr and handled by appointment only. Save's 'em $25/hr off the 'walk in price'.