Yes, but the citizens of Afghanistan don't see the distinction. Neither do most of the rest of the citizens of the world. They see "Hey look, the US military did bad thing $X here! Damn those Americans!"
Regardless of whether you support them or not, the US military _does_ represent your country, and it _does_ represent you.
Well, if you have a process waiting to open a file on a NFS mount which is running over a link which has died, I think you'll find the process quite invincible (FreeBSD 5.4).
Or at least I found `kill -9` quite ineffective against the apache processes waiting on the dead NFS mount.
(It was also more than a little confusing until I noticed the NFS mount _was_ down...)
But when my computer is setting with me at the desktop/ssh session very few processes are running and the network latency / my thinking time are most likely to be the biggest source of delays.
Exactly! This is what all these damn ricers don't seem to get.
Probably 99% of the time, your computer is going to be stopped, waiting for input from the user, waiting for the next packet from the network, etc.
I'm sure if you really wanted to do the math, you'd find that for the 1% speed increase the 1% of the time when the machine is not waiting, you'd end up spending more time compiling all your apps than you would gain from compiling them all yourself.
Didn't even take 2 days for my IP to be banned from a multitude of websites (incl. Slashdot). So, feel free to blame the fucktards using Tor to troll Slashdot for the fact that I no longer run an exit node.
What is the difference in cost for the telecom compainies to transfer 1Mb of VoIP (voice video) data and say 1Mb of file data via FTP?
FTP packets can be dropped and retransmitted, can arrive out of order or can arrive 3 or 4 seconds late without causing any real problems with the file transfer.
A VOIP stream requires the packets to arrive promptly and dropped packets are useless as by the time a retransmit can be requested and sent the packet is no longer needed.
Basically, VOIP requires a quicker response and better reliability than FTP.
Personally, I run two 300GB drives in RAID1 on UFS and am quite satisfied with it, but you seem to be incredibly, incredibly picky, so I'm sure you could find something wrong with it;P
"Anyway, I'll disagree that x1.3 the house price automatically means that something is wrong. In our neighborhood, house prices shot up over 130% (x2.3) in some cases."
Well, obviously in some cases houses can double in value.
And in some cases, there may be a reason to allow a user to input a string into your program that is longer than the input buffer can hold.
And in some cases, there may be a reason for a complete stranger to have your bank account details.
And in some cases, you may want arsenic in your pop.
Yet, it seems that we are constantly trying to get rid of buffer overflows, we tend to not give our bank details to strangers and we (as a rule of thumb) do not have arsenic in our pop.
Err, I seem to have forgotten what my point was exactly. It was something along the lines of: Who gives a fuck about edge cases? This incredibly simple validation would be very effective in the majority of cases (the majority being the key) and should not be ignored because of a few examples where it would not be effective.
Yeah, well when I was your age, I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when I got home, my Dad would kill me, and dance about on my grave singing "Hallelujah."
Just like resetting the password on the typical Linux install is only a boot to single user away ?
If you try and boot one of my FreeBSD boxes into single user it's going to ask you for the root password, and as far as I know this is the default behaviour for at least Debian/Ubuntu under linux.
Well, I know I personally get no more than 2 or 3 hours sleep Sunday->Friday nights.
Sunday->Friday, bed between 0400 and 0500. I get up at 0700 Monday->Saturday mornings. Saturday night I crash. I go to bed about midnight (often times later) and sleep until around 1600 or 1700 on Sunday.
When I do not have to be up for certain things/etc, I naturally fall into a 34 hour or so cycle. I stay up for around 20 hours and then sleep for 14.
I know for a fact with 2 and 3 hours a night I do not function even close to correctly. The amount of sleep I get is more under the 'barely adequate' catagory as can be demonstrated by how poorly my paragraphs flow and the general incoherent babble I type;P
First off, how many manufacturers are going to pick an OS which they have to distribute the source for? This requires a lot of extra administrative overhead and just generally more work where-as they could buy one of the pre-existing embedded operating systems (Wind River systems sells a few...) and probably end up _saving_ money simply because they don't have to worry about the whole source code distribution issue.
Hell, even if they do decide they'd rather use a F/OSS OS rather than pay for an embedded operating system, why would they choose Linux? They can choose BSD, which, ignoring the technical advantages, makes no requirements except a simple copyright notice in accompanying documentation.
"3. You assume that Medicare is a sustainable, viable system."
If implemented correctly, yes.
I live in Canada. I can walk out of my house right now, go to a hospital, and they will treat whatever problem I have, requiring only proof that I'm actually some sort of citizen. No money required.
And guess what! Medicare has been available here (my provice) for 57 years and Canada-wide for 33 years. I imagine if it was not sustainable that it would have probably flopped by now. On top of that, my provice covers a lot of drugs I may need that the medicare system doesn't cover!
Attack social security if you want, it's a flawed idea and deserves to be attacked (good intent, bad implementation), but medicare is more than sustainable and is definitely a good idea, almost any way you look at it.
Another annoying bug which is quite a bit less frequent is a sudden split in the page, sometimes only part of the page, where all of a sudden parts of words on one side will be a couple px lower than the other. Sometimes, many pixels lower (warning: obnoxiously large png).
All in all, the speed, much lower memory usage and tendancy not to exhibit some of the more annoying Firefox bugs (which usually required me to kill FF, losing all I was working on) more than make up for these small annoyances, but I still never like to pass up a chance to bitch about things;P
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The reason for this there is an http module in snort which only captures the first 300 bytes of the request for (what I assume to be) speed reasons.
In order to detect this exploit, you have to disable this module. Not too bad unless your IDS is watching thousands upon thousands of requests in which case in order to check the full requests, it can easily take a lot of CPU power.
Last I heard the recommended action was to run one instance of snort with all our normal rules and this module enable, and one with only the wmf rule and the module disabled.
256MB RAM, 8GB IDE Hard-Disk, CD-ROM Set to Auto-Detect, Bridged Ethernet, Audio Enabled, Shared Folders Disabled, Snapshots Disabled, Guest Isolation Enabled
Note: I will be taking this down within a short amount of time simply to avoid sucking up too much of my bandwidth. Please mirror this file.
Note #2: I didn't actually test this in VMware Player. It should work and should boot off of your virtual hard-disk (which should fail, as it's blank) and then fall back to booting off of a CD in your CD-ROM drive (assuming the Player works as I think it would, which it probably doesn't).
I don't know how easy musical notation would be, but Microsoft OneNote (As much as people will hate me for saying it) supports drawing along with text, and (IMHO) works quite well for note taking.
But when's "Recycling Technician" day? I want a special day too:(
I put up with garbage, mice, every kind of insect imaginable, more rotten milk, mold, dirt and broken glass than you can shake a stick. I take off thousands of lids a day, sort through big green garbage bags full of cans, several different types of plastic bottles all while smelling that moldy milk I love so much. Don't forget the alcohol soaked cigarette butts & ashes which I'm alergic to. Oh, and don't worry about emptying and/or rinsing your bottles. I love going home smelling like the alchohol that spills out of your half-empty bottles. I almost forgot, once I'm done sorting the cans/bottles/etc out of the garbage you decided to throw in this bag too, finished bleaching out the chute because you brought in a dead mouse and then finished killing some of the members of the wasp colony that was living inside one of your bottles, make sure to tell me I counted wrong and how I'm a terrible person for shorting you $0.10. Be sure to come at 8:30 in the morning and do this. Then complain to my supervisor that I'm a terrible person. Then loiter around for another half hour while you wait for the bus making spuriodic outbursts about how I'm a bad person while I handle the other 150 odd people who'll be abusing me today. Don't forget, those signs that say "PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR LIDS" and "WE WILL NOT ACCEPT DIRTY/BROKEN THINGS" are only suggestions, not rules or anything.
I love it when I have good days at work.
Anyways, IMHO if your secretary/boss/admin/etc really is good enough to deserve a gift, just give them one for the hell of it. It'll mean a lot more than a gift given when they're expecting it. Plus, you can plan it at a time when you have some extra money (Hahahahaha...) to make it more convenient and possibly buy a nicer and more useful gift.
Ah, but the trick is to keep track of the last few hundred passwords and not allow any 'recently' used passwords to be used (for a very liberal definition of recently).
Last time I ran a forkbomb on my FreeBSD machine (was 5.2.1 at that time) I was able to SSH in and kill it no problem after leaving it running for a fair while.
The web server was still accessible (although very, very laggy) and the machine still handled nat routing just fine.
If you're actually concerned about this, try reading `man login.conf`.
"I don't like how programmers bloat their programs;"
I don't like how every fucking program, no matter how big or small, feels it needs to run itself on startup in the system tray and place icons in the start menu, quick launch bar, the programs menu and on the desktop.
For a web browser or something I can see _offering_ to put a shortcut in the quick launch bar. For something like a game it's just fucking stupid.
Example: Winzip
IIRC it puts a shortcut in the start bar, quick launch menu and on the desktop, and then creates a whole sub-menu under programs for misc. winzip stuff. It then installs 'WinZip Quick Pick' or something which runs on startup and sits in the systm tray. WHO THE FUCK NEEDS THIS?! Okay, so it decreases WinZip's loading time by 0.000905245 seconds... well, I'm sure I lost more time than I gain because of it sitting there soaking up all my proccessor cycles and RAM...
Then we get the piece of shit which is steam trying to load at startup so it can take up 100+MB of RAM all the time, not just when I'm playing games.
*sigh*
Okay. That's enough incoherent rambling for today. G'day.
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Yes, but the citizens of Afghanistan don't see the distinction. Neither do most of the rest of the citizens of the world. They see "Hey look, the US military did bad thing $X here! Damn those Americans!"
Regardless of whether you support them or not, the US military _does_ represent your country, and it _does_ represent you.
ND
Well, if you have a process waiting to open a file on a NFS mount which is running over a link which has died, I think you'll find the process quite invincible (FreeBSD 5.4).
Or at least I found `kill -9` quite ineffective against the apache processes waiting on the dead NFS mount.
(It was also more than a little confusing until I noticed the NFS mount _was_ down...)
ND
The goggles! They do nothing!
Exactly! This is what all these damn ricers don't seem to get.
Probably 99% of the time, your computer is going to be stopped, waiting for input from the user, waiting for the next packet from the network, etc.
I'm sure if you really wanted to do the math, you'd find that for the 1% speed increase the 1% of the time when the machine is not waiting, you'd end up spending more time compiling all your apps than you would gain from compiling them all yourself.
Google: 15 million degrees fahrenheit in kelvin
15 million degrees Fahrenheit = 8 333 588.71 kelvin
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Thanks. Tried it.
Didn't even take 2 days for my IP to be banned from a multitude of websites (incl. Slashdot). So, feel free to blame the fucktards using Tor to troll Slashdot for the fact that I no longer run an exit node.
Regards,
ND
Not really.
Evil or not, the law requires them to defend their trademark or risk losing it.
ND
FTP packets can be dropped and retransmitted, can arrive out of order or can arrive 3 or 4 seconds late without causing any real problems with the file transfer.
A VOIP stream requires the packets to arrive promptly and dropped packets are useless as by the time a retransmit can be requested and sent the packet is no longer needed.
Basically, VOIP requires a quicker response and better reliability than FTP.
ND
Comparison of FileSystems (from Wikipedia)
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Personally, I run two 300GB drives in RAID1 on UFS and am quite satisfied with it, but you seem to be incredibly, incredibly picky, so I'm sure you could find something wrong with it
ND
Well, obviously in some cases houses can double in value.
And in some cases, there may be a reason to allow a user to input a string into your program that is longer than the input buffer can hold.
And in some cases, there may be a reason for a complete stranger to have your bank account details.
And in some cases, you may want arsenic in your pop.
Yet, it seems that we are constantly trying to get rid of buffer overflows, we tend to not give our bank details to strangers and we (as a rule of thumb) do not have arsenic in our pop.
Err, I seem to have forgotten what my point was exactly. It was something along the lines of: Who gives a fuck about edge cases? This incredibly simple validation would be very effective in the majority of cases (the majority being the key) and should not be ignored because of a few examples where it would not be effective.
ND
Yeah, well when I was your age, I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when I got home, my Dad would kill me, and dance about on my grave singing "Hallelujah."
If you try and boot one of my FreeBSD boxes into single user it's going to ask you for the root password, and as far as I know this is the default behaviour for at least Debian/Ubuntu under linux.
ND
Well, I know I personally get no more than 2 or 3 hours sleep Sunday->Friday nights.
Sunday->Friday, bed between 0400 and 0500. I get up at 0700 Monday->Saturday mornings. Saturday night I crash. I go to bed about midnight (often times later) and sleep until around 1600 or 1700 on Sunday.
When I do not have to be up for certain things/etc, I naturally fall into a 34 hour or so cycle. I stay up for around 20 hours and then sleep for 14.
I know for a fact with 2 and 3 hours a night I do not function even close to correctly. The amount of sleep I get is more under the 'barely adequate' catagory as can be demonstrated by how poorly my paragraphs flow and the general incoherent babble I type
ND
Except for the fact that they wont use Linux.
First off, how many manufacturers are going to pick an OS which they have to distribute the source for? This requires a lot of extra administrative overhead and just generally more work where-as they could buy one of the pre-existing embedded operating systems (Wind River systems sells a few...) and probably end up _saving_ money simply because they don't have to worry about the whole source code distribution issue.
Hell, even if they do decide they'd rather use a F/OSS OS rather than pay for an embedded operating system, why would they choose Linux? They can choose BSD, which, ignoring the technical advantages, makes no requirements except a simple copyright notice in accompanying documentation.
ND
"3. You assume that Medicare is a sustainable, viable system."
If implemented correctly, yes.
I live in Canada. I can walk out of my house right now, go to a hospital, and they will treat whatever problem I have, requiring only proof that I'm actually some sort of citizen. No money required.
And guess what! Medicare has been available here (my provice) for 57 years and Canada-wide for 33 years. I imagine if it was not sustainable that it would have probably flopped by now. On top of that, my provice covers a lot of drugs I may need that the medicare system doesn't cover!
Attack social security if you want, it's a flawed idea and deserves to be attacked (good intent, bad implementation), but medicare is more than sustainable and is definitely a good idea, almost any way you look at it.
ND
(obnoxiously large PNGs ahead...)
onlamp.com in Internet Explorer
onlamp.com in Opera (this occured repeatedly (after multiple refreshes))
Source to onlamp.com (provided by Opera) - they aren't serving code with that image in it twice AFAICT
Another annoying bug which is quite a bit less frequent is a sudden split in the page, sometimes only part of the page, where all of a sudden parts of words on one side will be a couple px lower than the other. Sometimes, many pixels lower (warning: obnoxiously large png).
All in all, the speed, much lower memory usage and tendancy not to exhibit some of the more annoying Firefox bugs (which usually required me to kill FF, losing all I was working on) more than make up for these small annoyances, but I still never like to pass up a chance to bitch about things ;P
ND
The reason for this there is an http module in snort which only captures the first 300 bytes of the request for (what I assume to be) speed reasons.
In order to detect this exploit, you have to disable this module. Not too bad unless your IDS is watching thousands upon thousands of requests in which case in order to check the full requests, it can easily take a lot of CPU power.
Last I heard the recommended action was to run one instance of snort with all our normal rules and this module enable, and one with only the wmf rule and the module disabled.
ND
http://ikaruga.co.uk/~nd/vm.zip
256MB RAM, 8GB IDE Hard-Disk, CD-ROM Set to Auto-Detect, Bridged Ethernet, Audio Enabled, Shared Folders Disabled, Snapshots Disabled, Guest Isolation Enabled
Note: I will be taking this down within a short amount of time simply to avoid sucking up too much of my bandwidth. Please mirror this file.
Note #2: I didn't actually test this in VMware Player. It should work and should boot off of your virtual hard-disk (which should fail, as it's blank) and then fall back to booting off of a CD in your CD-ROM drive (assuming the Player works as I think it would, which it probably doesn't).
ND
I don't know how easy musical notation would be, but Microsoft OneNote (As much as people will hate me for saying it) supports drawing along with text, and (IMHO) works quite well for note taking.
If you have Windows/IE, you can try it online.
ND
But when's "Recycling Technician" day? I want a special day too :(
I put up with garbage, mice, every kind of insect imaginable, more rotten milk, mold, dirt and broken glass than you can shake a stick. I take off thousands of lids a day, sort through big green garbage bags full of cans, several different types of plastic bottles all while smelling that moldy milk I love so much. Don't forget the alcohol soaked cigarette butts & ashes which I'm alergic to. Oh, and don't worry about emptying and/or rinsing your bottles. I love going home smelling like the alchohol that spills out of your half-empty bottles. I almost forgot, once I'm done sorting the cans/bottles/etc out of the garbage you decided to throw in this bag too, finished bleaching out the chute because you brought in a dead mouse and then finished killing some of the members of the wasp colony that was living inside one of your bottles, make sure to tell me I counted wrong and how I'm a terrible person for shorting you $0.10. Be sure to come at 8:30 in the morning and do this. Then complain to my supervisor that I'm a terrible person. Then loiter around for another half hour while you wait for the bus making spuriodic outbursts about how I'm a bad person while I handle the other 150 odd people who'll be abusing me today. Don't forget, those signs that say "PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR LIDS" and "WE WILL NOT ACCEPT DIRTY/BROKEN THINGS" are only suggestions, not rules or anything.
I love it when I have good days at work.
Anyways, IMHO if your secretary/boss/admin/etc really is good enough to deserve a gift, just give them one for the hell of it. It'll mean a lot more than a gift given when they're expecting it. Plus, you can plan it at a time when you have some extra money (Hahahahaha...) to make it more convenient and possibly buy a nicer and more useful gift.
ND
Ah, but the trick is to keep track of the last few hundred passwords and not allow any 'recently' used passwords to be used (for a very liberal definition of recently).
ND
I didn't even try the console. I only fire up the KVM + monitor when something is seriously FUBAR.
If SSH is still going, I don't bother.
ND
Last time I ran a forkbomb on my FreeBSD machine (was 5.2.1 at that time) I was able to SSH in and kill it no problem after leaving it running for a fair while.
The web server was still accessible (although very, very laggy) and the machine still handled nat routing just fine.
If you're actually concerned about this, try reading `man login.conf`.
"I don't like how programmers bloat their programs;"
I don't like how every fucking program, no matter how big or small, feels it needs to run itself on startup in the system tray and place icons in the start menu, quick launch bar, the programs menu and on the desktop.
For a web browser or something I can see _offering_ to put a shortcut in the quick launch bar. For something like a game it's just fucking stupid.
Example: Winzip
IIRC it puts a shortcut in the start bar, quick launch menu and on the desktop, and then creates a whole sub-menu under programs for misc. winzip stuff. It then installs 'WinZip Quick Pick' or something which runs on startup and sits in the systm tray. WHO THE FUCK NEEDS THIS?! Okay, so it decreases WinZip's loading time by 0.000905245 seconds... well, I'm sure I lost more time than I gain because of it sitting there soaking up all my proccessor cycles and RAM...
Then we get the piece of shit which is steam trying to load at startup so it can take up 100+MB of RAM all the time, not just when I'm playing games.
*sigh*
Okay. That's enough incoherent rambling for today. G'day.
ND
It's shit like that that makes me love Google.
If someone is going to take over the internet, I'd definitely rather it be Google. At least they have a sense of humour.
ND