Ever try to get a muslim to eat pork? Man is that a deeply ingrained superstition, shared by about a billion people. My wife, who hasn't been to a mosque for 20+ years still gets weird about eating any kind of pork. She loves lobster, even though lobster meat is not more halal than pork.
The reviewer didn't investigated it because he doesn't understand it. Like most of these hobbiest turned pro review sites, they just have a surface knowledge of the way things work. It seems like 99% of articles on websites like TomsHardware and Anandtech are just a bunch of benchmarks and the occasional quote from somebody, usually a PR droid, at the company. Anytime they do try to explain the inner workings of something, you have to take it with a grain of salt as they are more likely to screw it up, like a bad game of telephone, then they are to get it right. These guys often don't even have a degree in CS, much less any pertinent real world experience.
Of course, the majority of their audience doesn't either, which is why they are so popular. If they had real meat to their articles, like the way Byte Magazine was in 80s for example, 90% of their readership would have their eyes glaze over and wouldn't finish the article - thus plenty of ads would never be displayed...
And how is "set[ting] your email client to forge the address..." NOT spoofing both the SMTP "MAIL FROM" command and the "Reply-To:/From:" line?
Of course you are just an AC who obviously couldn't even comprehend what I wrote in the first place and probably doesn't even know what RFC821 is, fucking retard.
This is a denial of service attack on the spammers:
If you get a lot of the Nigerian spam, here's a cute way to fight them. All it takes is two or more spams. Set your email client to forge the address of the first spammer and use that to reply to the second spammer, then switch addresses and reply to the first spammer. Make the replies good, but not identical. Tell them how excited/honor/glad/etc you are to help them in their important/meaningful/lucrative venture.
You will never see the result of this, but you can count on each spammer trying real hard to con the other spammer for at least a couple of messages back and forth (these guys really are tenacious, I've been baiting them regularly and sometimes they just don't give up unless you out and out call them con men).
This attack wastes there time and energy on their like-minded fellow con-men rather than on the suckers that are their true marks. If even 10% of the people who got Nigerian spam did something like this, they would be overwhelmed and crushed by the weight of their own greed.
It was all a hoax. The origin of the story was some marketing fluff about how powerful they were that got PS2's marked as restricted exports in the USA - as in you could import them from Japan where they were made, but once in the USA you couldn't export them because they had too many theoretical FLOPS. It was only a short hop from that to Saddam has already bought a bunch to build a COW supercomputer to design nukes with. All just media hype and rumours.
The goal was to require all corporate communications with the US government to be communicated with clipper-secured channels but not to put any requirements on the general populace. They hoped that instead of producing two product lines - one for government communications and one for everything else, that the industry would settle on just one line of products - the clippered version in an attempt to save money through standardization. Thus, the clippered version of the comm devices would filter out into the general market and eventually there would be enough of a pre-installed base that you could count on most, if not all, communications going through clipper insecured channels.
Fortunately, it didn't work out quite that way, no thanks to Ms Denning.
To that end, the Defense Department is now prohibited from purchasing any software that has not undergone security testing by the NSA. Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested.
Hello! The NSA has their own freaking linux distribution. I don't think you can get more undergone than that.
What is bad here is that he is an assistant secretary of defense and *THE* CIO for the DoD. He of all people should not be confused on this issue. He of all people, short of the president himself (who had better keep his campaign-donated nose out of this one, thank-you-very-much), has the most power to seriously fuck-up the growth of free software use in the DoD.
This guy is either exceptionally incompetent to have swallowed the MS bullshit hook, line and sinker, or exceptionally corrupt to have decided to throw his weight behind the MS worldview (and too stupid to keep his mouth shut about it when talking to journalists of the newspaper that took down Nixon).
In my own ethnocentric way like the idea of the world having to learn Imperial English in order to get to use the Internet. Long live the hegemenoy of white men on islands!
The problem is not when a lawyer represents a client in the wrong - it is when a lawyer advises a client to make a choice that is not clearly the best possible choice, but has the side-effect of benefiting the lawyer. You see this kind of behaviour in situations like the Sony vs the Aibo-fan website. You can imagine that when asked for advice on how to "deal" with that problem, he was all, "threaten litigation and if it that doesn't work, litigate" when some sort of non-confrontational, work-to-a-mutual-solution approach would serve everyone, except the lawyer, better in the long run.
In case it isn't obvious (and I guess it really isn't) there is more than one way that a lawyer in a situation like the above benefits by urging a course of litigation vs negotiation - litigation is more expensive than negotiation and requires more lawyers on all three sides (the court itself is the third side). By urging litigation, the in-house lawyer justifies the budget for the legal counsel division and helps out his "brother" lawyers that may end working as the defense. He also benefits in the long-term by establishing a precedent for such cases being determined through litigation rather than cooperation. So, not only does he gain short-term by getting more billable hours, but the "world" comes to accept that lawyers need to be involved in similar disputes for the rest of time and thus he gets job-security for him and his brethren.
Now, I don't know if that Aibo case specifically was the result of an overly litigious lawyer, but we hear about these things happening all the time - Adobe vs the Russian guy, etc, etc. And you can just tell by the feel of stories that there are lawyers in the background raking it in at the cost to our society in general.
I don't know about the company in Europe, but this railroad company in the USA did it on anyone who claimed carpal-tunnel on the job injuries and tried to use it to deny coverage, after the fact. Here is the first link off of google:
http://www.braytonlaw.com/news/legalnews/021601- ge netic.htm
Don't forget about the couple of mentions of "shadow goverment" - I don't recalling hearing that term on the X-files prior to this episode, but I it certainly has been in the real news recently and at least one of the uses in tonights episode matched the real-world meaning too (when they referred to the facility where Mulder got busted as being the location of the current shadow government - a big underground bunker where people are serving on a rotational basis in case there is a serious attack on our government infrastructure, they should be protected).
Religion is the opiate of the masses. Most of the time it is like smoking a doobie, but sometimes it turns into crack and you end up with addicts who have lost touch with the real world, people like those who kill in the name of protecting the unborn and, just because its trendy to mention terrorism nowadays, the fanatics who smoke the crack that bin Laden hangs out like candy.
I'm totally with yah on the bad speech needs good speech to counter it, not censorship thing. But besides the Nazis, you gotta feel a twinge of happiness that the $cientologists get officially kicked around in Germany.
Go to college and get a student job with the campus computing services department. You'll probably start off as a lowly cable-pulling punk, but give it time and make sure they know what you want to get out of working for them. Eventually you will get the opportunity to do sysadmin work and there will be at least one or two guru-sysadmins from which you can learn a ton if you cultivate the relationship. It will also give you the freedom to explore that is rarely available at a "real" job where deadlines and such are much more restricting. Also, it will help to mitigate costs.
While you are in college, make the most of it and take the broadest range of courses that you can. Many nerds go to college and ignore the humanities and even a lot of the scienes because they think "why will I ever need that?" Well, you never know what you are going to need and the more you know, the more able you will be in this life and the large the pool of potential employers will be too.
College is for learning three things - 1) Learning how to learn, 2) Learning vocational stuff, 3) Learning about the world in general. Make sure you participate in all three kinds of learning.
If you don't go to college, it is a lot easier to end up as a "one trick pony" and right now, people are averaging about 6 different careers (not just employers, actual different careers) in a lifetime and the rate of change is only accelerating. Without the exposure and cachet that a college degree brings you, it will be much harder (not impossible, just harder) to change yourself when the circumstances call for changing.
Meanwhile, don't believe those people who tell you college is expensive. Go to a public school in state, which should qualify you for much reduced tuition. If it is in your home town, just keep living with the parents while you do it. If it is out of town then as soon as you are able, move off-campus and get a roommate or three. If you haven't already, you should be applying for every kind of scholarship and student loan you can find, especially local, community based ones where the competition is often a lot less.
Oh, and finally - the best sysadmins are programmers. There are roughly three kinds of sysadmins - non-programmers who have to struggle to even write a script and even perl is mostly out of their reach - application programmers who have converted and are easily capable of whipping up a script or bit of C-code to fix some problem that would take the first category days or weeks to do - and last there are kernel programmers who have converted and not only can they write code, they also understand what is going on "underneath the hood" and thus are excellent at diagnosing OS problems and fixing things that might otherwise go unfixed and just suffered with in the hands of the first two classes of sysadmins, plus they have a better grip on "the way things ought to work" because they understand the mechanisms involved.
Hey, if they don't like it, they can stop sending out receiver-pays envelopes. It isn't like anyone signed a contract that they would only put what the receiver wants into those envelopes.
This is at least as much about Linux as it is about competing with IBM and HP. IBM released AIX 5L where the L stands for Linux - they tried to re-implement as much of the linux environment as possible in the AIX kernel and include a bunch of GPL utilities. HP has got a linux porting environment or something like that which is mostly a port of glibc and headers plus utilities to HP-UX 11i. All three vendors have the same goal, to keep their proprietary unix from being completely replaced by linux.
Sorry about that, looks like it might be cookie dependent or something, even after fixing the errneous space before the trailing 'C' in the part number.
Try this one, only one item is $0 so it should be obvious:
http://www.software.hp.com/OE_products_list.html
Meanwhile, 11 is not just for 64-bit. There is all kinds of other stuff, including better 32-bit performance. The 'i' in 11i represents lots of internet-relevant tweaks. If you have solaris boxes, 11 is closer to solaris than 10.20 was too.
It is more of a ram hog, so if you are running with something like only 64MB and X11 it probably is a net loss. But 64MB and no X server, or 128MB+ and an X server and it is probably worth the upgrade.
I am running XP on a Gigabyte 8IRXP which is Intel 845 based. The P4 is a 1.8GHz chip overclocked to about 2.4GHz with no other tweaks. I have a G550 in dual-head mode talking to two LCD's (SGI 1600SW) at 1600x1024 and it takes less than 3 seconds for a "dir" command to completely display over 450 entries in a regular 80x25 DOS window. I am running the latest drivers from Maxtrox's website.
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Ever try to get a muslim to eat pork? Man is that a deeply ingrained superstition, shared by about a billion people. My wife, who hasn't been to a mosque for 20+ years still gets weird about eating any kind of pork. She loves lobster, even though lobster meat is not more halal than pork.
The reviewer didn't investigated it because he doesn't understand it. Like most of these hobbiest turned pro review sites, they just have a surface knowledge of the way things work. It seems like 99% of articles on websites like TomsHardware and Anandtech are just a bunch of benchmarks and the occasional quote from somebody, usually a PR droid, at the company. Anytime they do try to explain the inner workings of something, you have to take it with a grain of salt as they are more likely to screw it up, like a bad game of telephone, then they are to get it right. These guys often don't even have a degree in CS, much less any pertinent real world experience.
Of course, the majority of their audience doesn't either, which is why they are so popular. If they had real meat to their articles, like the way Byte Magazine was in 80s for example, 90% of their readership would have their eyes glaze over and wouldn't finish the article - thus plenty of ads would never be displayed...
Pay attention - Borland has been profitable for at least the last 8 consecutive quarters.
And how is "set[ting] your email client to forge the address..." NOT spoofing both the SMTP "MAIL FROM" command and the "Reply-To:/From:" line?
Of course you are just an AC who obviously couldn't even comprehend what I wrote in the first place and probably doesn't even know what RFC821 is, fucking retard.
This is a denial of service attack on the spammers:
If you get a lot of the Nigerian spam, here's a cute way to fight them. All it takes is two or more spams. Set your email client to forge the address of the first spammer and use that to reply to the second spammer, then switch addresses and reply to the first spammer. Make the replies good, but not identical. Tell them how excited/honor/glad/etc you are to help them in their important/meaningful/lucrative venture.
You will never see the result of this, but you can count on each spammer trying real hard to con the other spammer for at least a couple of messages back and forth (these guys really are tenacious, I've been baiting them regularly and sometimes they just don't give up unless you out and out call them con men).
This attack wastes there time and energy on their like-minded fellow con-men rather than on the suckers that are their true marks. If even 10% of the people who got Nigerian spam did something like this, they would be overwhelmed and crushed by the weight of their own greed.
It was all a hoax. The origin of the story was some marketing fluff about how powerful they were that got PS2's marked as restricted exports in the USA - as in you could import them from Japan where they were made, but once in the USA you couldn't export them because they had too many theoretical FLOPS. It was only a short hop from that to Saddam has already bought a bunch to build a COW supercomputer to design nukes with. All just media hype and rumours.
By definition, if they were legitimate suspects, there would be evidence enough to charge them.
Uh, clipper was voluntary.
The goal was to require all corporate communications with the US government to be communicated with clipper-secured channels but not to put any requirements on the general populace. They hoped that instead of producing two product lines - one for government communications and one for everything else, that the industry would settle on just one line of products - the clippered version in an attempt to save money through standardization. Thus, the clippered version of the comm devices would filter out into the general market and eventually there would be enough of a pre-installed base that you could count on most, if not all, communications going through clipper insecured channels.
Fortunately, it didn't work out quite that way, no thanks to Ms Denning.
To that end, the Defense Department is now prohibited from purchasing any software that has not undergone security testing by the NSA. Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software that has been tested.
Hello! The NSA has their own freaking linux distribution. I don't think you can get more undergone than that.
What is bad here is that he is an assistant secretary of defense and *THE* CIO for the DoD. He of all people should not be confused on this issue. He of all people, short of the president himself (who had better keep his campaign-donated nose out of this one, thank-you-very-much), has the most power to seriously fuck-up the growth of free software use in the DoD.
This guy is either exceptionally incompetent to have swallowed the MS bullshit hook, line and sinker, or exceptionally corrupt to have decided to throw his weight behind the MS worldview (and too stupid to keep his mouth shut about it when talking to journalists of the newspaper that took down Nixon).
In my own ethnocentric way like the idea of the world having to learn Imperial English in order to get to use the Internet. Long live the hegemenoy of white men on islands!
The problem is not when a lawyer represents a client in the wrong - it is when a lawyer advises a client to make a choice that is not clearly the best possible choice, but has the side-effect of benefiting the lawyer. You see this kind of behaviour in situations like the Sony vs the Aibo-fan website. You can imagine that when asked for advice on how to "deal" with that problem, he was all, "threaten litigation and if it that doesn't work, litigate" when some sort of non-confrontational, work-to-a-mutual-solution approach would serve everyone, except the lawyer, better in the long run.
In case it isn't obvious (and I guess it really isn't) there is more than one way that a lawyer in a situation like the above benefits by urging a course of litigation vs negotiation - litigation is more expensive than negotiation and requires more lawyers on all three sides (the court itself is the third side). By urging litigation, the in-house lawyer justifies the budget for the legal counsel division and helps out his "brother" lawyers that may end working as the defense. He also benefits in the long-term by establishing a precedent for such cases being determined through litigation rather than cooperation. So, not only does he gain short-term by getting more billable hours, but the "world" comes to accept that lawyers need to be involved in similar disputes for the rest of time and thus he gets job-security for him and his brethren.
Now, I don't know if that Aibo case specifically was the result of an overly litigious lawyer, but we hear about these things happening all the time - Adobe vs the Russian guy, etc, etc. And you can just tell by the feel of stories that there are lawyers in the background raking it in at the cost to our society in general.
I don't know about the company in Europe, but this railroad company in the USA did it on anyone who claimed carpal-tunnel on the job injuries and tried to use it to deny coverage, after the fact. Here is the first link off of google:
- ge netic.htm
http://www.braytonlaw.com/news/legalnews/021601
Don't forget about the couple of mentions of "shadow goverment" - I don't recalling hearing that term on the X-files prior to this episode, but I it certainly has been in the real news recently and at least one of the uses in tonights episode matched the real-world meaning too (when they referred to the facility where Mulder got busted as being the location of the current shadow government - a big underground bunker where people are serving on a rotational basis in case there is a serious attack on our government infrastructure, they should be protected).
So, all that furor over scienos not being allowed to hold public office in Germany was bogus?
Religion is the opiate of the masses. Most of the time it is like smoking a doobie, but sometimes it turns into crack and you end up with addicts who have lost touch with the real world, people like those who kill in the name of protecting the unborn and, just because its trendy to mention terrorism nowadays, the fanatics who smoke the crack that bin Laden hangs out like candy.
I'm totally with yah on the bad speech needs good speech to counter it, not censorship thing. But besides the Nazis, you gotta feel a twinge of happiness that the $cientologists get officially kicked around in Germany.
Go to college and get a student job with the campus computing services department. You'll probably start off as a lowly cable-pulling punk, but give it time and make sure they know what you want to get out of working for them. Eventually you will get the opportunity to do sysadmin work and there will be at least one or two guru-sysadmins from which you can learn a ton if you cultivate the relationship. It will also give you the freedom to explore that is rarely available at a "real" job where deadlines and such are much more restricting.
Also, it will help to mitigate costs.
While you are in college, make the most of it and take the broadest range of courses that you can. Many nerds go to college and ignore the humanities and even a lot of the scienes because they think "why will I ever need that?" Well, you never know what you are going to need and the more you know, the more able you will be in this life and the large the pool of potential employers will be too.
College is for learning three things - 1) Learning how to learn, 2) Learning vocational stuff, 3) Learning about the world in general. Make sure you participate in all three kinds of learning.
If you don't go to college, it is a lot easier to end up as a "one trick pony" and right now, people are averaging about 6 different careers (not just employers, actual different careers) in a lifetime and the rate of change is only accelerating. Without the exposure and cachet that a college degree brings you, it will be much harder (not impossible, just harder) to change yourself when the circumstances call for changing.
Meanwhile, don't believe those people who tell you college is expensive. Go to a public school in state, which should qualify you for much reduced tuition. If it is in your home town, just keep living with the parents while you do it. If it is out of town then as soon as you are able, move off-campus and get a roommate or three. If you haven't already, you should be applying for every kind of scholarship and student loan you can find, especially local, community based ones where the competition is often a lot less.
Oh, and finally - the best sysadmins are programmers. There are roughly three kinds of sysadmins - non-programmers who have to struggle to even write a script and even perl is mostly out of their reach - application programmers who have converted and are easily capable of whipping up a script or bit of C-code to fix some problem that would take the first category days or weeks to do - and last there are kernel programmers who have converted and not only can they write code, they also understand what is going on "underneath the hood" and thus are excellent at diagnosing OS problems and fixing things that might otherwise go unfixed and just suffered with in the hands of the first two classes of sysadmins, plus they have a better grip on "the way things ought to work" because they understand the mechanisms involved.
Hey, if they don't like it, they can stop sending out receiver-pays envelopes. It isn't like anyone signed a contract that they would only put what the receiver wants into those envelopes.
This is at least as much about Linux as it is about competing with IBM and HP. IBM released AIX 5L where the L stands for Linux - they tried to re-implement as much of the linux environment as possible in the AIX kernel and include a bunch of GPL utilities. HP has got a linux porting environment or something like that which is mostly a port of glibc and headers plus utilities to HP-UX 11i. All three vendors have the same goal, to keep their proprietary unix from being completely replaced by linux.
Sorry about that, looks like it might be cookie dependent or something, even after fixing the errneous space before the trailing 'C' in the part number.
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Try this one, only one item is $0 so it should be obvious:
http://www.software.hp.com/OE_products_list.htm
Meanwhile, 11 is not just for 64-bit. There is all kinds of other stuff, including better 32-bit performance. The 'i' in 11i represents lots of internet-relevant tweaks. If you have solaris boxes, 11 is closer to solaris than 10.20 was too.
It is more of a ram hog, so if you are running with something like only 64MB and X11 it probably is a net loss. But 64MB and no X server, or 128MB+ and an X server and it is probably worth the upgrade.
The license is still free, you can get one for HPUX 11i right here:
e r. cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B9088A C
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_pars
Getting the media is a little harder, but I'm sure you could find one on Ebay if you can't make a copy from one at the office.
I am running XP on a Gigabyte 8IRXP which is Intel 845 based. The P4 is a 1.8GHz chip overclocked to about 2.4GHz with no other tweaks. I have a G550 in dual-head mode talking to two LCD's (SGI 1600SW) at 1600x1024 and it takes less than 3 seconds for a "dir" command to completely display over 450 entries in a regular 80x25 DOS window. I am running the latest drivers from Maxtrox's website.
Yeah, yeah - Tapedisk and Seagate's Direct Tape Access were the most common such tools. It was a joke though.
Reaching beyond terabytes, beyond pentabytes, on into exabytes
Woohoo! A filesytem on a tape drive, that's what I need.