I know it is possible to fire up IIS on WINE, but seriously folks... (-:
I'd bet he's spoofing his headers, perhaps to provoke certain proxies or spiders. Or just for a laugh. Doesn't your SMTP server advertise itself as a "Commodore VIC-20 SMTP server, anti-spam cartridge loaded, please press PLAY after each command"?
All from the first Google page, yes. I've only got one lifetime to spend. But I'll bet you didn't do anything like that up front, just looked at the hit tally and assumed yourself into a corner. (-:
Are you doubting that my box has been up for that long?
No, it happens occasionally (but if it bluescreens (or whatever colour) tonight, I'll laugh myself to tears), I have a mate with a MS-Windows 2003 server (I borrow it via rdesktop to test MS-Windows stuff) which has been up continuously for about 5 months, and another who only has to reboot his very busy w2k server about every 2-3 months.
But it doesn't happen to "everybody". It's normal for MS-Windows to crash (or screw up weirdly), even XP, even on good hardware; but noteworthy - often hinting at a hardware problem - when Linux crashes.
My own box, despite being an experimental animal with a cheap motherboard, goes down only for power failures and hardware changes (for example, I borrow the CD burner a lot for other machines, some of which don't have USB else I'd get a caddy for it). I walk away from open, unsaved document sometimes for the better part of a week, and no worries about whether it'll be there when I get back.
The (Billion BIPAC 711CE) DSL modem locks up more often than all of the Linux boxes in this house combined. My wife's box has a dodgy motherboard and croaks about every two months, she also visits lots of websites with dodgy JavaScript etc and has to wait for the "verynice" daemon to unscrew her browser perhaps once a day. My 13yo daughter's Linux machine has never died of its own accord, but she locks up her old Mac (OS 8) about every month.
I'm not seeing a lot of Windows boxes in there...in fact, I can't see any in the top 50.
A solitary MS-Windows-2000 box finally made it over the two year mark (routine/mundane achievement for my Linux servers) towards the end of last year - but was promptly Slammered. Maybe again towards the end of 2004? (-:
Go and actually read the links from the Google ref you gave, and follow them until you find out what the problem was. In almost every case they're either trying out something experimental (which is either impossible under XP or something you do routinely every day, depending on how far from the HCL you are) or have dodgy hardware.
The other point to note is that if MS-Windows crashes regularly, the people using it think nothing of that (another day, another document trashed), and don't report it. What's the point in reporting it? Nothing ever gets done about it. I see this regularly when empenguinning older machines - they crashed six times a day under MS-Windows, and continue to crash under Linux until I fix the broken hardware (typically a dud SIMM else replace the mobo). OTOH, people often report kernel panics under Debian because they are unusual and something will get done about it if it's Linux's fault.
When people read "Where do you want to go today?" they miss the emphasis. It's "Where do you want to go today? Not likely!" - and in similar vein, few people ever realise that the "My" in "My Computer" is one William Henry "Trey" Gates III, not themselves. Once you realise these things, you start to understand what MS-Windows is for.
If you've not seen any blue screens from XP recently, perhaps it's because you changed the default background colour. (-:
..."demanding money with menaces" and it typically carries a penalty of several years in the can, where D'ohl can in principle think a bit about the error of his ways.
Unfortunately, RL prison is the place where "everyone is innocent" (for a personal example, I've heard one rapist justify a brutal rape and beating as "the bitch was asking for it, whaddaya expect me to do?"). Given D'ohl's actions so far, he'd be just another indignant twit too tied up in himself to imagine what it'd be like on the sharp end of his own idiocy.
Googling around a bit, the charge seems to be pretty much identical in at least NZ, HongKong, the UK and the USA.
...and have done for a while. OTToMH you may need the MaxSQL version of MySQL. Not sure that IBFireBird doesn't replicate as well. If not, then it will in the next major release.
I have a client using MS-SQL server replication, and AFAICT (they've never had a serious need to failover or replay) it works for them, but it sucks. It just gobbles the bandwidth even when you're doing bugger-all, and occasionally has an absolute traffic frenzy. It's also a pain in the ass to set up, and occasionally shuts down without bothering to mention this little fact to anyone.
BackOrifice does fine, but it's too late after the server goes toes-up to think about installing it. Also, it's just as susceptible to a dead WOW layer (or any one of a countless number of other roadblocks to GUI harmony).
It's called "cooking your frog", a process in which each small step to oblivion is too small to cause the frog (you) to jump out of the cooking pot (MS environment) as the heat (licencing conditions or other handicaps) is slowly turned up.
The normal approach is to start making your software as generic as possible without cruelling performance, so it will work on any SQL database, file server etc - then you can start opportunistically replacing entire components like the SQL server, file server, web server etc, one at a time, no-breakum-egg.
Sometimes, however, you just have to bite the bullet and reimplement your app more or less from scratch in parallel with keeping the existing one alive.
Fred Brooks (namesake, not relative) once said "plan to throw one away, you will anyhow" - and that point is the perfect opportunity for something like that.
/. as a whole is as clueless as ever, but you did see a few good posts.
Back on topic(-ish): as well as the low-bandwidth point the grandparent made, I think it's more germane to mention that any one of sixty-to-a-hundred failures will keep a Windows server (and hence VNC) off the air, but you only get a-handful-to-a-few-dozen chances to kill a Linux server stone dead as far as remote access is concerned.
Bob Brooks (dear old Dad) has made significant contributions in the Australian mining industry, his twin Colin Brooks is a well-known consulting geologist, their brother Don Brooks runs Harvestaire, and grandpa Charles Alfred Brooks made himself famous for finding things out about sports that helped people to do them better, but yes, the man you really want is Fred Brooks, famous for statements like "adding manpower to a late project makes it later".
My main claim to fame seems to be for abusing people in public (-: For which I am indebted to several skilled exemplars, who probably all know who they are:-)
Kudos to Russel Steicke for pointing out this post to me.
Yes. Debian's installs often provide run-time configuration based on a few simple questions as well (with reasonable defaults).
URPMI also installs from source, more opaque than Debian installs but often with more useful collections of patches and/or options preloaded, and you can always do the rebuild process by hand to suggest things to configure.
More typing, of course, but TANSTAAFL.
I suppose you could always try Debian FreeBSD and see how you get along.
The daggit should have been set on fire, roasted and shot into space.
Installing Longhorn should just about do it.
I'm very much in favour of shooting the smoking remains of the daggit into space, both for the intrinsic pleasure and because it'd have given them more than the three or four launch sequences that they had. And used. Again, and again, and again...
...in case you think nothing like this can be done, remember that helpless little Australia built their first few destroyer decoys for $2M, where it took the USA $70M to get a tethered rocket hovering.
Australia also has this technology called Jindalee which can do ATC in LAX from the middle of the Australian desert. China has something like it which tracks stealth aircraft no worries.
Care to bet that nobody else has this kind of technology, or could build it if they got annoyed enough? Germany? Brazil?
Quote: "You -ing Americans are all the -ing same! It's listen-to-me this or let-me-tell-you that! Well it's all finished now, 'coz you're..." (-:
You know - carriers never go alone. There are carrier battle groups including AEGIS cruisers, destroers, submarines. The carriers are defended and could defend themselves.
Here's one possible approach; two StarLifter-scale aircraft drop a spread of 30 small cruise missiles from roughly 300km away; cruise missiles assume a running altitude of approx 500mm above wavetops (we're assuming dumb cruise missiles, smart ones would travel in the troughs), missiles are programmed to use good old fashioned cameras to find stuff and hit the biggest thing they can find, launch platforms have given them a rough idea of where carrier is.
Can you shoot them down? Will Vulcan's radar pinpoint the incomings among the wave clutter well enough to aim within 100m? Will it see them at all? Could an aircraft even find these little buggers, let alone chase or down them? Does your enemy care if they wipe out eight cruisers and two supply ships on the way in as long as they get to drop a tac-nuke into the guts of your $5G toy? Would a price tag of $0.1G to do this upset them at all?
Next scenario is to throw two or three hundred conventional cruise missiles at once. Cheaper, dumber missiles, no fancy flying but how good is your EW? If they threw another thousand brainless decoys into the mix, would your computers deal well with, say 1300 targets at once? See that aircraft over there? Race you to it!
OK, having fun with that? How about plastic mines, timed to find you during the night? Sure, a little mine ain't going to do you much damage, but these are really, really cheap and the enemy can afford to lay down maybe fifty thousand of them. Here we are, it's four AM, and your carrier (every ship in your fleet) has just had several hundred mines punch holes in the side of it at once. Oops, no more manouverability... and, oh look, what are those funny incoming radar traces near sea level?
Next...? (-: Bear in mind that I thought all of these up in the last few minutes. Given time, resources and a bunch of seriously nasty cohorts I can't imagine Ronny babe staying afloat for more than a few days in a real shooting war:-)
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...in Australia involve a drunk driver. Bear in mind that roughly 8-fold as many people are maimed for life in road accidents as are killed outright.
If scanning is what it takes to ensure that my food, medicine etc (airliner's wing spars, name it) are not made by people who are (1) stoned; and/or (2) stupid/wilful enough to delibrately impair themselves for kicks, then so be it.
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I'd bet he's spoofing his headers, perhaps to provoke certain proxies or spiders. Or just for a laugh. Doesn't your SMTP server advertise itself as a "Commodore VIC-20 SMTP server, anti-spam cartridge loaded, please press PLAY after each command"?
All from the first Google page, yes. I've only got one lifetime to spend. But I'll bet you didn't do anything like that up front, just looked at the hit tally and assumed yourself into a corner. (-:
No, it happens occasionally (but if it bluescreens (or whatever colour) tonight, I'll laugh myself to tears), I have a mate with a MS-Windows 2003 server (I borrow it via rdesktop to test MS-Windows stuff) which has been up continuously for about 5 months, and another who only has to reboot his very busy w2k server about every 2-3 months.
But it doesn't happen to "everybody". It's normal for MS-Windows to crash (or screw up weirdly), even XP, even on good hardware; but noteworthy - often hinting at a hardware problem - when Linux crashes.
My own box, despite being an experimental animal with a cheap motherboard, goes down only for power failures and hardware changes (for example, I borrow the CD burner a lot for other machines, some of which don't have USB else I'd get a caddy for it). I walk away from open, unsaved document sometimes for the better part of a week, and no worries about whether it'll be there when I get back.
The (Billion BIPAC 711CE) DSL modem locks up more often than all of the Linux boxes in this house combined. My wife's box has a dodgy motherboard and croaks about every two months, she also visits lots of websites with dodgy JavaScript etc and has to wait for the "verynice" daemon to unscrew her browser perhaps once a day. My 13yo daughter's Linux machine has never died of its own accord, but she locks up her old Mac (OS 8) about every month.
...install a recent Mandrake Linux once, carefully and then edit the root password entry to be `!!'. If it works, don;t fix it. (-:
A solitary MS-Windows-2000 box finally made it over the two year mark (routine/mundane achievement for my Linux servers) towards the end of last year - but was promptly Slammered. Maybe again towards the end of 2004? (-:
The other point to note is that if MS-Windows crashes regularly, the people using it think nothing of that (another day, another document trashed), and don't report it. What's the point in reporting it? Nothing ever gets done about it. I see this regularly when empenguinning older machines - they crashed six times a day under MS-Windows, and continue to crash under Linux until I fix the broken hardware (typically a dud SIMM else replace the mobo). OTOH, people often report kernel panics under Debian because they are unusual and something will get done about it if it's Linux's fault.
When people read "Where do you want to go today?" they miss the emphasis. It's "Where do you want to go today? Not likely!" - and in similar vein, few people ever realise that the "My" in "My Computer" is one William Henry "Trey" Gates III, not themselves. Once you realise these things, you start to understand what MS-Windows is for.
If you've not seen any blue screens from XP recently, perhaps it's because you changed the default background colour. (-:
Seriously, most Win 3.x stuff is deleriously happy on WINE.
...it's just as readable as some of MS's formats. (-:
Does D'ohl MacBride have a Hotmail account? Freudian slip, that came out as "HotNail" the first time I typed it.
Don't worry, someone else will do it for you, this is /. you're reading, after all. BTW, you've confused the term with this word.
Unfortunately, RL prison is the place where "everyone is innocent" (for a personal example, I've heard one rapist justify a brutal rape and beating as "the bitch was asking for it, whaddaya expect me to do?"). Given D'ohl's actions so far, he'd be just another indignant twit too tied up in himself to imagine what it'd be like on the sharp end of his own idiocy.
Googling around a bit, the charge seems to be pretty much identical in at least NZ, HongKong, the UK and the USA.
I have a client using MS-SQL server replication, and AFAICT (they've never had a serious need to failover or replay) it works for them, but it sucks. It just gobbles the bandwidth even when you're doing bugger-all, and occasionally has an absolute traffic frenzy. It's also a pain in the ass to set up, and occasionally shuts down without bothering to mention this little fact to anyone.
BackOrifice does fine, but it's too late after the server goes toes-up to think about installing it. Also, it's just as susceptible to a dead WOW layer (or any one of a countless number of other roadblocks to GUI harmony).
It's called "cooking your frog", a process in which each small step to oblivion is too small to cause the frog (you) to jump out of the cooking pot (MS environment) as the heat (licencing conditions or other handicaps) is slowly turned up.
The normal approach is to start making your software as generic as possible without cruelling performance, so it will work on any SQL database, file server etc - then you can start opportunistically replacing entire components like the SQL server, file server, web server etc, one at a time, no-breakum-egg.
Sometimes, however, you just have to bite the bullet and reimplement your app more or less from scratch in parallel with keeping the existing one alive.
Fred Brooks (namesake, not relative) once said "plan to throw one away, you will anyhow" - and that point is the perfect opportunity for something like that.
Your drugs must be more expensive than mine. (-:
/. as a whole is as clueless as ever, but you did see a few good posts.
Back on topic(-ish): as well as the low-bandwidth point the grandparent made, I think it's more germane to mention that any one of sixty-to-a-hundred failures will keep a Windows server (and hence VNC) off the air, but you only get a-handful-to-a-few-dozen chances to kill a Linux server stone dead as far as remote access is concerned.
It's "hear, hear!" - a contraction of "hear the man, hear the man!"
Bob Brooks (dear old Dad) has made significant contributions in the Australian mining industry, his twin Colin Brooks is a well-known consulting geologist, their brother Don Brooks runs Harvestaire, and grandpa Charles Alfred Brooks made himself famous for finding things out about sports that helped people to do them better, but yes, the man you really want is Fred Brooks, famous for statements like "adding manpower to a late project makes it later".
:-)
My main claim to fame seems to be for abusing people in public (-: For which I am indebted to several skilled exemplars, who probably all know who they are
Kudos to Russel Steicke for pointing out this post to me.
Yes. Debian's installs often provide run-time configuration based on a few simple questions as well (with reasonable defaults).
URPMI also installs from source, more opaque than Debian installs but often with more useful collections of patches and/or options preloaded, and you can always do the rebuild process by hand to suggest things to configure.
More typing, of course, but TANSTAAFL.
I suppose you could always try Debian FreeBSD and see how you get along.
Or sue them. Welcome to America, land of the free and the brave?
...or in debian...
apt-get install nameofpackage
...or in MS-Windows...
Aaaah! Where do I click? How do I pay for this? I want my paperclip!
Installing Longhorn should just about do it.
I'm very much in favour of shooting the smoking remains of the daggit into space, both for the intrinsic pleasure and because it'd have given them more than the three or four launch sequences that they had. And used. Again, and again, and again...
Australia also has this technology called Jindalee which can do ATC in LAX from the middle of the Australian desert. China has something like it which tracks stealth aircraft no worries.
Care to bet that nobody else has this kind of technology, or could build it if they got annoyed enough? Germany? Brazil?
Quote: "You -ing Americans are all the -ing same! It's listen-to-me this or let-me-tell-you that! Well it's all finished now, 'coz you're..." (-:
Here's one possible approach; two StarLifter-scale aircraft drop a spread of 30 small cruise missiles from roughly 300km away; cruise missiles assume a running altitude of approx 500mm above wavetops (we're assuming dumb cruise missiles, smart ones would travel in the troughs), missiles are programmed to use good old fashioned cameras to find stuff and hit the biggest thing they can find, launch platforms have given them a rough idea of where carrier is.
Can you shoot them down? Will Vulcan's radar pinpoint the incomings among the wave clutter well enough to aim within 100m? Will it see them at all? Could an aircraft even find these little buggers, let alone chase or down them? Does your enemy care if they wipe out eight cruisers and two supply ships on the way in as long as they get to drop a tac-nuke into the guts of your $5G toy? Would a price tag of $0.1G to do this upset them at all?
Next scenario is to throw two or three hundred conventional cruise missiles at once. Cheaper, dumber missiles, no fancy flying but how good is your EW? If they threw another thousand brainless decoys into the mix, would your computers deal well with, say 1300 targets at once? See that aircraft over there? Race you to it!
OK, having fun with that? How about plastic mines, timed to find you during the night? Sure, a little mine ain't going to do you much damage, but these are really, really cheap and the enemy can afford to lay down maybe fifty thousand of them. Here we are, it's four AM, and your carrier (every ship in your fleet) has just had several hundred mines punch holes in the side of it at once. Oops, no more manouverability... and, oh look, what are those funny incoming radar traces near sea level?
Next...? (-: Bear in mind that I thought all of these up in the last few minutes. Given time, resources and a bunch of seriously nasty cohorts I can't imagine Ronny babe staying afloat for more than a few days in a real shooting war :-)
You thought I was kidding, didn't you?. (-:
...in Australia involve a drunk driver. Bear in mind that roughly 8-fold as many people are maimed for life in road accidents as are killed outright.
If scanning is what it takes to ensure that my food, medicine etc (airliner's wing spars, name it) are not made by people who are (1) stoned; and/or (2) stupid/wilful enough to delibrately impair themselves for kicks, then so be it.
$36300/P*0.3GP == roughly $10G
$4600/P*1.3GP == roughly $6G (6.something if you include more than "mainland" China)
But the point I presented was $300M vs $1500M ($1300M if only "mainland").