...webmasters will find this book fundamentally critical to day-to-day operations;
What webmaster uses SHELL scripts?!
I understand, PHP, Perl, some other CGI. Marginal use for scripts for log analysis, maybe some file management, making their own work a bit easier. But shells were never meant to do any web work. They are too slow, too heavyweight, too vulnerable to abuse by malicious users to be used as server side extensions!
...encryption using >128bits was forbidden in France. Is this still the case?
BTW, shouldn't pirating music be legal there then? I buy a CD, I pay for music I -might- record to it, why shouldn't it be legal for me to record what I paid for?
Do your ISPs use bogus antivirus counter-measures?
Mine: -disallows attachments with.js extension -disallows connections not-through-proxy and does some filtering there -disallows mail with From: other than their own mailserver -requires written permission for starting your own mailserver -allows connections matching your IP against your MAC address (despite lack of DHCP) - you need to "register" your new network card -limits ICMP to 2/s so if 3 people (out of hundreds) launch ping at the same time, packets start vanishing.
The more keywords in the file name the lesser chance it will contain anything that makes sense.
In EDonkey it's worth looking at other file names of given share, they often offer some insight. You grab ROTK, check and see 3 other names: FOTR-Extended-Edition, and you may be sure it was some moron who can't tell "1" apart from "3" who renamed it and some more morons download it without checking.
If it will have a hard, really unbreakable anti-piracy protection, and the competition won't, it will lose. Too many people depend on pirated games, uncrackable system won't ever surpass crackable ones.
Well, playing them was cool, but I always looked for ways to find hidden possiblities. Not only hidden treasures and easter eggs, but authentic bugs. Some way to squeeze through the wall outside the play area, walking endless desert then, or in a space shooter I found a position where I can kill all newly appearing enemies easily and managed to kill them all (yeah, just flew through empty skies without anything to shoot at, until I reset the machine with power switch), or climbing a ladder and shooting some object till I filled my score counter, or trying to earn enough extra lifes that they would overflow the screen...
It's always fun to (purposedly) crash an "embedded device":)
From 5pm to 11pm I go watch TV, read some book or do anything but websurfing, as due to all the online gamers my shared connection slows down to a crawl and you just can't do anything reasonable online.
...and I wonder about something different. Has anyone tried this yet? Change your user agent string to one matching the googlebot and crawl the web. I'm pretty sure many "registration only" websites would magically open themselves, but I wonder about other differences too:)
Remember presentation of Windows 98? BSOD while presenting the new "features"? Products speak for themselves, you don't need to talk about them, just let people have a "test drive" and it's enough to give them a clue. And vendors will learn ALL that is wrong if they just watch people on their "test drives".
(yep, one of parts of BOFH, plug-in the high-voltage laptop into SCSI port because the port supposedly is meant to withstand it and be capable to communicate this way. If you're down some $10.000 on demo equipment you will learn not to lie to customers next time.)
I know we were looking for a new hosting home, and had EV1 at the top of the list, but now they are not even a consideration...
And I seriously wonder who (from those who aren't old SCO customers) could consider SCO as their business partner or source of any kind of product or services?
For us it looks like SCO is a walking dead, inflated and kept alive by stockmarket gamblers yet, but about to fall apart. Is this right?
they normally only offer a complete wipe or split-in-two, but still need to reinstall your alternate OS
About the only "proprietary" software I use rather frequently, and on Windows. PowerQuest Partition Magic, allows resizing and moving of existing partitions without damaging the contents. Allows you to make room for Linux without breaking Windows. I always first repartition the drive from Windows with it, then boot Linux installer and skip repartitioning, just format and mount Linux partitions. Unless of course it's a dedicated Linux box:)
Does anyone know of some similar software for Linux? Mandrake people supposedly developed something alike, but with broken NTFS support in the kernel, I doubt it could work.
Whenever I burn audio CDs and CPU load or harddrive load jumps at least a bit up, the audio track gets broken, stuttering, breaks, noises...? It's not like buffer underrun, a small peak like at opening Xterm, less than 1/4s, is enough to cause problems!
Will CloneCD employ Realtime Linux extensions to prevent that? I'd like to see it!
The expert whose decision in a lawsuit is most important is a doctor. For several thousands of lawsuits, less than 10 were won by the patienst. People with sponges, scissors, pieces of bandaid left in their bodies during a surgery lost. People whose relatives died because the doctor administered a drug that works opposite to what was obviously required, lost. Doctors found drunk on duty were claimed innocent. Be happy that you can win at all.
I wonder what kind of portable hardware could you keep powered up just by using reasonable size solar cells. Like a laptop with its LCD backside/cover covered with them, so you direct it towards the sun (the cover casts shadow on the screen for better contrast, and even partially transparent for free backlight) and it runs, charging standard battery... Of course it won't be a P4 or such, but with current technology, how hard would it be to create extremely-low-power 486 clone with flash instead of HDD, no fan, low-speed cdrom... Say what you want, Linux runs nicely on 486 with plenty of RAM.
Slashdot Mirror
I think .mob would be appropriate description.
...webmasters will find this book fundamentally critical to day-to-day operations;
What webmaster uses SHELL scripts?!
I understand, PHP, Perl, some other CGI. Marginal use for scripts for log analysis, maybe some file management, making their own work a bit easier.
But shells were never meant to do any web work. They are too slow, too heavyweight, too vulnerable to abuse by malicious users to be used as server side extensions!
...encryption using >128bits was forbidden in France. Is this still the case?
BTW, shouldn't pirating music be legal there then? I buy a CD, I pay for music I -might- record to it, why shouldn't it be legal for me to record what I paid for?
Do your ISPs use bogus antivirus counter-measures?
Mine:
-disallows attachments with
-disallows connections not-through-proxy and does some filtering there
-disallows mail with From: other than their own mailserver
-requires written permission for starting your own mailserver
-allows connections matching your IP against your MAC address (despite lack of DHCP) - you need to "register" your new network card
-limits ICMP to 2/s so if 3 people (out of hundreds) launch ping at the same time, packets start vanishing.
The more keywords in the file name the lesser chance it will contain anything that makes sense.
In EDonkey it's worth looking at other file names of given share, they often offer some insight. You grab ROTK, check and see 3 other names: FOTR-Extended-Edition, and you may be sure it was some moron who can't tell "1" apart from "3" who renamed it and some more morons download it without checking.
that will decide if PS will win or lose.
If it will have a hard, really unbreakable anti-piracy protection, and the competition won't, it will lose.
Too many people depend on pirated games, uncrackable system won't ever surpass crackable ones.
Well, playing them was cool, but I always looked for ways to find hidden possiblities. Not only hidden treasures and easter eggs, but authentic bugs.
:)
Some way to squeeze through the wall outside the play area, walking endless desert then, or in a space shooter I found a position where I can kill all newly appearing enemies easily and managed to kill them all (yeah, just flew through empty skies without anything to shoot at, until I reset the machine with power switch), or climbing a ladder and shooting some object till I filled my score counter, or trying to earn enough extra lifes that they would overflow the screen...
It's always fun to (purposedly) crash an "embedded device"
From 5pm to 11pm I go watch TV, read some book or do anything but websurfing, as due to all the online gamers my shared connection slows down to a crawl and you just can't do anything reasonable online.
...and I wonder about something different. :)
Has anyone tried this yet? Change your user agent string to one matching the googlebot and crawl the web. I'm pretty sure many "registration only" websites would magically open themselves, but I wonder about other differences too
Remember presentation of Windows 98?
BSOD while presenting the new "features"?
Products speak for themselves, you don't need to talk about them, just let people have a "test drive" and it's enough to give them a clue. And vendors will learn ALL that is wrong if they just watch people on their "test drives".
(yep, one of parts of BOFH, plug-in the high-voltage laptop into SCSI port because the port supposedly is meant to withstand it and be capable to communicate this way. If you're down some $10.000 on demo equipment you will learn not to lie to customers next time.)
I know we were looking for a new hosting home, and had EV1 at the top of the list, but now they are not even a consideration...
And I seriously wonder who (from those who aren't old SCO customers) could consider SCO as their business partner or source of any kind of product or services?
For us it looks like SCO is a walking dead, inflated and kept alive by stockmarket gamblers yet, but about to fall apart. Is this right?
they normally only offer a complete wipe or split-in-two, but still need to reinstall your alternate OS
:)
About the only "proprietary" software I use rather frequently, and on Windows.
PowerQuest Partition Magic, allows resizing and moving of existing partitions without damaging the contents. Allows you to make room for Linux without breaking Windows. I always first repartition the drive from Windows with it, then boot Linux installer and skip repartitioning, just format and mount Linux partitions. Unless of course it's a dedicated Linux box
Does anyone know of some similar software for Linux? Mandrake people supposedly developed something alike, but with broken NTFS support in the kernel, I doubt it could work.
err, I meant CDRecord of course :P
Whenever I burn audio CDs and CPU load or harddrive load jumps at least a bit up, the audio track gets broken, stuttering, breaks, noises...? It's not like buffer underrun, a small peak like at opening Xterm, less than 1/4s, is enough to cause problems!
Will CloneCD employ Realtime Linux extensions to prevent that? I'd like to see it!
If you didn't have to carry them, but they were programmed to follow you everywhere...?
By the name, you'd think it's some mutant child or a perverse intercourse between Sun and Apple.
The expert whose decision in a lawsuit is most important is a doctor.
For several thousands of lawsuits, less than 10 were won by the patienst.
People with sponges, scissors, pieces of bandaid left in their bodies during a surgery lost. People whose relatives died because the doctor administered a drug that works opposite to what was obviously required, lost. Doctors found drunk on duty were claimed innocent.
Be happy that you can win at all.
I wonder what kind of portable hardware could you keep powered up just by using reasonable size solar cells. Like a laptop with its LCD backside/cover covered with them, so you direct it towards the sun (the cover casts shadow on the screen for better contrast, and even partially transparent for free backlight) and it runs, charging standard battery... Of course it won't be a P4 or such, but with current technology, how hard would it be to create extremely-low-power 486 clone with flash instead of HDD, no fan, low-speed cdrom...
Say what you want, Linux runs nicely on 486 with plenty of RAM.