I have an aunt in china, and my father travels a lot, sometimes he goes to china. When he was in China last, he was visiting my aunt, and they had one of those 'moments' where they discover how sophisticated the censorship in China is.
My father had the BBC website open in his web browser. My aunts computer was next to it, and she opened the BBC website, and they noticed that on my aunts computer, there were gaps where news stories should have been. On my fathers computer, they contained little snippets of headlines, photos, etc. These stories were 'snipped' out of the HTML on my aunts computer.
They were obviously quite confused, as they were accessing the internet over the same internet connection, until my father realised that he was using a VPN into an office in Australia. So all his web traffic was going over an encrypted tunnel to Australia, where it was getting uncensored full access to the internet, while my Aunt was getting the Chinese version of the internet, which from the evidence visible, was either getting modified before being transmitted from the BBC servers, or being censored on its way into china via some kind of transparent content modifying proxy.
Not only does China censor the internet. They've got advanced methods for doing it.
Editor is too strong a word for what is done by Slashdot staff. Person who clicks button to approve story is far more accurate, although lacking a certain panache.
Good lord. Is that all they do? I thought they often read what the story submitted wrote, and checked that the links weren't 404s!?
Surely, I haven't seen a 404 on the front page for weeks!
Of course, I think the editorial process is a load of bull too. 'Read the f---ing article' should apply to editors much more than mere story commenters.
This story is a bit of a doozy tho. It's a "Ask Slashdot Something Stupid". I usually filter out this tripe by exlcuding 'timmothy' from appearing on my slashdot (done via user preferences), but occasionally his troop of story editing monkeys pick up the slack and approve tripe like this.
The main reason I like Firefox is that it pushes innovation. Back when IE was the clearly dominant browser, with no real competition, there were very few sensible inovations for browsers. Sure, a few little things here and there, but for the most part it was monopolized. Firefox's popularity will ultimately lead to a better browser market all around.
I don't forsee the battle between IE and firefox as anything other than an opportunity for both sides to improve the internet experience for everyone.
It's the users who win from software producers fighting each other. And neither The Mozilla Foundation or Microsoft can lose this war.
Thats an irresponsible position to take on the issue. Every single one of my coworkers reads the front page of slashdot, rarely will they click through to read the comments or the full article.
This kinda shit just makes me sad.
http://alterslash.org/ is where I read slashdot - saves me the clickety-clicking to see comments.
I play an indiana jones pinball machine that has this as the sound effect after the game is finished (right before the ever appropriate "See you tomorrow! Indiana Jones...")
I installed the libraries, installed the client, ran it, typed in a sip address, hit 'call' and *volla* I was talking to some dude from alabama (I'm in.au).
The Franklin ebookman is a pda designed to read books on, its got a jog-wheel, touch screen, large screen, backlight. I've got one, and I use it constantly. It supports all the modern formats, and handles text files nicely.
search ebay, you can pick up one new with warrenty for under 50 USD last I checked.
Don't get a secondhand one, becuase if its got a fault (looses memory after you change batteries, requiring re-sync) you'll want to send it back under warrenty (franklin provide a *new* unit to replace faulty ones).
When I sit down at someone else's windows computer, I do the following:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - the download link is in the top left corner http://www.google.com/search?q=putty+downl oad - save as.. C:\windows\putty.exe
After these two pieces of software are installed I can almost successfully ignore I'm on a windows box. That is, until I realise I've either got to use the rodent or alt-tab to switch programs.
Alt-tab is my No.1 reason for hating microsoft (and don't bother suggesting lots of different interface shells I could install, because all the windows machines I use are OTHER PEOPLEs - if I wanted to install something sane I'd install debian).
I'm in.au, where its perfectly normal for business grade connections to be provided with a 19c/meg bandwidth charge, sometimes as low as 9c/meg. Excess charges on home ADSL connections vary from 1c/meg to 20c/meg. Many home connections are shaped after x gigabyte, for some major providers to as slow as 28kbit (yes, thats slower than a 56k modem on a bad line).
To put that in perspective, for some people: 1 full motion advertisement, weighing in at 5 megabytes would cost up to $1 AUD to download (.75USD == 1AUD at the moment).
2 Advertisements would cost as much as an iTunes track.
For, say, an optus cable user who's already used their allowance for the month (was 3 gig, now 6 gig, is going up to 12 gig thanks to some stiff.au pricewars at the moment) to download such an ad would take 41 minutes (assuming constant rate of 2,000 bytes/second).
I still use a honeywell mouse, I don't know the exact vintage of this one, but it looks about 10-11 years old, possibly older.
Its one of the few deviations from the 'ball' system of mice. Instead of a ball that can get dirty and muck up the internal workings of a mouse, or a stupid opitical system (who remembers the old gridline mousepads!) it has 2 rotating discs that are angled so that they rotate on up/down and left/right movement.
Until I get a 5 button optical+scrollwheel mouse, I'm sticking with this one, I love it to bits.
The correct answer to this question is RTFM. If you have to ask this question, you're not competent to plan out a large network.
I disagree, This question has been one thats plagued me for a long time.
I don't see any reason to use anything other than 10.0.0.0/8 in my home situation, but I go to lans and other peoples networks that use 192.168.0.0/24 or 16 (or, ignorantly, a mixture on a single network)
The only place I can track down the 'standard' usage of 192.168.0.0 in home networks is actually to tutorials on how to setup a home network. The 'wingate' manual was a culprit here, amongst many others. Its crazy but It seems to be true. Any other comments about why some people only know about 192.168.x and not 10.x? I'm at a loss.
Thing is, 192.168.0.0/24 is defacto, and 10.0.0.0 is sensible, but less used. Thats why the question was asked. He was confused by the way that on one hand you have something sensible, and on the other hand you've got something that everybody does. He was trying to find out if there was a bona fide reason.
Others have mentioned that if you're NATing within NAT its good to not use the same net address. If you're NATing to a network that's 10.0.0.0/8, use 192.168 or that 172.x one.
In the company where I work, we have 3 linux desktop machines. My own (which I got as a condition of employment. I refused to use windows) and more recently the IT manager and another developer have moved to linux.
Most of the work we do is php/web development, and mostly on intranet stuff (mozilla and netscape! no IE!) and we find its fantastic.
All our servers are linux or SCO, and have been for over 10 years, but thats another story:)
So far we haven't found anyone else in the company outside of the IT dept installing linux, but I believe we have a salesperson who was peviously selling linux cheat sheets (mousepads and stuff) on ebay while he was out of work.
Most of the work that some of our staff do is basically Browser+Email, so we could feasably move those staff over to linux. But really its been a matter of "it ain't broke, ain't costing any more, don't fix it". (This is company with a 15 person IT dept, and no IT support people).
I currently work for a company that has quite a few MySQL databases in production, dating back to '97. Currently we have 7 production MySQL database servers, each server during a 'typical' hour during a workday (they're only utilised 8 hours a day, it runs a business application) executes somewhere between 400,000 and 1,000,000 queries an hour (thats each server, total queries per hour would be around 3,500,000).
The only problem we've *ever* had with these machines have been hardware faults, or operating system level (they run linux) faults. Either disks going down or the entire machines going down.
Do you mean <i>"reliability"</i> has come about in in the last decade? or were you meaning the last one or two years? Because if you do mean its improved in the very recent past, I feel you should put less faith in off-hand anecdotal evidence.
You can easily control 16+ LEDS using the parallel port and a couple of transistors.
It'd be far more expensive to use the serial port because you'd have to use an RS-232 tranciever. Using the parallel port you can just light up a couple pins, and depending on what pins are high/low, you light particular LEDs.
Go get a book on electronics, I'm sure there are many good ones with simple examples that'll do what you want.
You're obviously not aware of the petrol situation here in australia (you may call it gas, but it doesn't go gaseous until after its in the engine itself).
Petrol is expensive. Why is it expensive? its about 70/29/1 to tax, large petroleum companys (shell, bhp, etc), and the petrol station.
Many petrol stations LOSE money on the petrol at the pump, and only make money on the tiny store they have with overpriced softdrink and chocolate. Or car servicing.
We get ripped off, and its the government driving the prices.
C'mon, there are other ways to annoy spammers, heres two I've heard of being used to good effect, both involve contacting those who spam you.
First way (less vicious): Contact the spammer, tell them you're interested, but would prefer to have hardcopy material - pamphlets, etc. Delivered to your PO box.
I have a friend (in.au) who reguluarly has spammers spend over $20 US to send large packages of advertising material, which he promptly bins. This hits spammers where they hurt. In the pocket.
Second way (more vicious): Do nearly the same thing, but say you'd rather communicate via the postal service. Ask for some information plus reply paid cards (I believe these exist in the US, I've never seen them in.au).
Wait with baited breath for the reply paid cards.
Once you recieve them, find a nice large, heavy brick, bundle it up, and mail it back to the spammers. They get billed for the cost of sending the large, heavy, package.
Apparently this approach works in the US, or so an american friend told me. Their email addresses got removed from quite a few lists after a few iterations of this scenario.
Compromise: How about a feature that allows me to specify that from some sites I do not want ads at all, and from other sites I want to download the ad, but not display it. Thus the site gets their advertising money, and I am not bothered. Haven't seen this in any browser yet, though.
This is unethical behaviour, sure, I hate ads as much as the next guy, and block them when I can (actually, I probably hate ads more than the next guy, I don't own a tv, nor do I watch tv. DVDs at home, and videos at friends places, never tv. HATE tv ads). But downloading ads for the purpose of revenue raising, but not viewing them?
It devalues web advertising for all sites that rely on them for revenue.
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I have an aunt in china, and my father travels a lot, sometimes he goes to china. When he was in China last, he was visiting my aunt, and they had one of those 'moments' where they discover how sophisticated the censorship in China is.
My father had the BBC website open in his web browser. My aunts computer was next to it, and she opened the BBC website, and they noticed that on my aunts computer, there were gaps where news stories should have been. On my fathers computer, they contained little snippets of headlines, photos, etc. These stories were 'snipped' out of the HTML on my aunts computer.
They were obviously quite confused, as they were accessing the internet over the same internet connection, until my father realised that he was using a VPN into an office in Australia. So all his web traffic was going over an encrypted tunnel to Australia, where it was getting uncensored full access to the internet, while my Aunt was getting the Chinese version of the internet, which from the evidence visible, was either getting modified before being transmitted from the BBC servers, or being censored on its way into china via some kind of transparent content modifying proxy.
Not only does China censor the internet. They've got advanced methods for doing it.
Worst Slashdot Article Ever.
Good lord. Is that all they do? I thought they often read what the story submitted wrote, and checked that the links weren't 404s!?
Surely, I haven't seen a 404 on the front page for weeks!
Of course, I think the editorial process is a load of bull too. 'Read the f---ing article' should apply to editors much more than mere story commenters.
This story is a bit of a doozy tho. It's a "Ask Slashdot Something Stupid". I usually filter out this tripe by exlcuding 'timmothy' from appearing on my slashdot (done via user preferences), but occasionally his troop of story editing monkeys pick up the slack and approve tripe like this.
I dug down into the help documents, and there's a bit of a strange thing you have to do, you have to set up your username/server as such:
Username: stephen.thorne
Server: gmail.com
but you have to then go into the advanced options and set the 'connect server' as such:
Connect Server: talk.google.com
This will allow you to connect properly, and the 405 error will go away.
I don't forsee the battle between IE and firefox as anything other than an opportunity for both sides to improve the internet experience for everyone.
It's the users who win from software producers fighting each other. And neither The Mozilla Foundation or Microsoft can lose this war.
No.
How to leech the latest distro without killing your connection:
/path/to/torrents
btlaunchmanycurses.bittornado --max_upload_rate (75%ofupstream) --max_download_rate (95%ofdownstream)
Its important to use launchmany because you want to be able to run multiple torrents concurrently, and limit their total upstream capability.
but I've been using gmail for a number of months now, and I'm finding their targeted advertising more and more helpful.
I guess I've officially lost at the internet.
The boss at the end is hard. Try D D B F kick kick, and be careful to avoid (not block) his popup attack.
Thats an irresponsible position to take on the issue. Every single one of my coworkers reads the front page of slashdot, rarely will they click through to read the comments or the full article.
This kinda shit just makes me sad.
http://alterslash.org/ is where I read slashdot - saves me the clickety-clicking to see comments.
tee hee
I play an indiana jones pinball machine that has this as the sound effect after the game is finished (right before the ever appropriate "See you tomorrow! Indiana Jones...")
Shtoom is the only voip client that *just works*
.au).
I installed the libraries, installed the client, ran it, typed in a sip address, hit 'call' and *volla* I was talking to some dude from alabama (I'm in
Cred to anthony for writing it.
The Franklin ebookman is a pda designed to read books on, its got a jog-wheel, touch screen, large screen, backlight. I've got one, and I use it constantly. It supports all the modern formats, and handles text files nicely.
search ebay, you can pick up one new with warrenty for under 50 USD last I checked.
Don't get a secondhand one, becuase if its got a fault (looses memory after you change batteries, requiring re-sync) you'll want to send it back under warrenty (franklin provide a *new* unit to replace faulty ones).
Hi, I'm a linux user.
l oad - save as.. C:\windows\putty.exe
When I sit down at someone else's windows computer, I do the following:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - the download link is in the top left corner
http://www.google.com/search?q=putty+down
After these two pieces of software are installed I can almost successfully ignore I'm on a windows box. That is, until I realise I've either got to use the rodent or alt-tab to switch programs.
Alt-tab is my No.1 reason for hating microsoft (and don't bother suggesting lots of different interface shells I could install, because all the windows machines I use are OTHER PEOPLEs - if I wanted to install something sane I'd install debian).
those of us who use http://alterslash.org get to see it however. :)
Here's an article that actually explains the history behind the name, and what "AD&D" is in relation to "D&D".
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/20/
I'm in .au, where its perfectly normal for business grade connections to be provided with a 19c/meg bandwidth charge, sometimes as low as 9c/meg. Excess charges on home ADSL connections vary from 1c/meg to 20c/meg. Many home connections are shaped after x gigabyte, for some major providers to as slow as 28kbit (yes, thats slower than a 56k modem on a bad line).
.au pricewars at the moment) to download such an ad would take 41 minutes (assuming constant rate of 2,000 bytes/second).
To put that in perspective, for some people:
1 full motion advertisement, weighing in at 5 megabytes would cost up to $1 AUD to download (.75USD == 1AUD at the moment).
2 Advertisements would cost as much as an iTunes track.
For, say, an optus cable user who's already used their allowance for the month (was 3 gig, now 6 gig, is going up to 12 gig thanks to some stiff
Yuck.
I still use a honeywell mouse, I don't know the exact vintage of this one, but it looks about 10-11 years old, possibly older.
Its one of the few deviations from the 'ball' system of mice. Instead of a ball that can get dirty and muck up the internal workings of a mouse, or a stupid opitical system (who remembers the old gridline mousepads!) it has 2 rotating discs that are angled so that they rotate on up/down and left/right movement.
Until I get a 5 button optical+scrollwheel mouse, I'm sticking with this one, I love it to bits.
I disagree, This question has been one thats plagued me for a long time.
I don't see any reason to use anything other than 10.0.0.0/8 in my home situation, but I go to lans and other peoples networks that use 192.168.0.0/24 or 16 (or, ignorantly, a mixture on a single network)
The only place I can track down the 'standard' usage of 192.168.0.0 in home networks is actually to tutorials on how to setup a home network. The 'wingate' manual was a culprit here, amongst many others. Its crazy but It seems to be true. Any other comments about why some people only know about 192.168.x and not 10.x? I'm at a loss.
Thing is, 192.168.0.0/24 is defacto, and 10.0.0.0 is sensible, but less used. Thats why the question was asked. He was confused by the way that on one hand you have something sensible, and on the other hand you've got something that everybody does. He was trying to find out if there was a bona fide reason.
Others have mentioned that if you're NATing within NAT its good to not use the same net address. If you're NATing to a network that's 10.0.0.0/8, use 192.168 or that 172.x one.
In the company where I work, we have 3 linux desktop machines. My own (which I got as a condition of employment. I refused to use windows) and more recently the IT manager and another developer have moved to linux.
:)
Most of the work we do is php/web development, and mostly on intranet stuff (mozilla and netscape! no IE!) and we find its fantastic.
All our servers are linux or SCO, and have been for over 10 years, but thats another story
So far we haven't found anyone else in the company outside of the IT dept installing linux, but I believe we have a salesperson who was peviously selling linux cheat sheets (mousepads and stuff) on ebay while he was out of work.
Most of the work that some of our staff do is basically Browser+Email, so we could feasably move those staff over to linux. But really its been a matter of "it ain't broke, ain't costing any more, don't fix it". (This is company with a 15 person IT dept, and no IT support people).
I currently work for a company that has quite a few MySQL databases in production, dating back to '97. Currently we have 7 production MySQL database servers, each server during a 'typical' hour during a workday (they're only utilised 8 hours a day, it runs a business application) executes somewhere between 400,000 and 1,000,000 queries an hour (thats each server, total queries per hour would be around 3,500,000).
The only problem we've *ever* had with these machines have been hardware faults, or operating system level (they run linux) faults. Either disks going down or the entire machines going down.
Do you mean <i>"reliability"</i> has come about in in the last decade? or were you meaning the last one or two years? Because if you do mean its improved in the very recent past, I feel you should put less faith in off-hand anecdotal evidence.
The easy thing to to is to use the parallel port.
You can easily control 16+ LEDS using the parallel port and a couple of transistors.
It'd be far more expensive to use the serial port because you'd have to use an RS-232 tranciever. Using the parallel port you can just light up a couple pins, and depending on what pins are high/low, you light particular LEDs.
Go get a book on electronics, I'm sure there are many good ones with simple examples that'll do what you want.
You're obviously not aware of the petrol situation here in australia (you may call it gas, but it doesn't go gaseous until after its in the engine itself).
Petrol is expensive. Why is it expensive? its about 70/29/1 to tax, large petroleum companys (shell, bhp, etc), and the petrol station.
Many petrol stations LOSE money on the petrol at the pump, and only make money on the tiny store they have with overpriced softdrink and chocolate. Or car servicing.
We get ripped off, and its the government driving the prices.
C'mon, there are other ways to annoy spammers, heres two I've heard of being used to good effect, both involve contacting those who spam you.
.au) who reguluarly has spammers spend over $20 US to send large packages of advertising material, which he promptly bins. This hits spammers where they hurt. In the pocket.
.au).
First way (less vicious): Contact the spammer, tell them you're interested, but would prefer to have hardcopy material - pamphlets, etc. Delivered to your PO box.
I have a friend (in
Second way (more vicious): Do nearly the same thing, but say you'd rather communicate via the postal service. Ask for some information plus reply paid cards (I believe these exist in the US, I've never seen them in
Wait with baited breath for the reply paid cards.
Once you recieve them, find a nice large, heavy brick, bundle it up, and mail it back to the spammers. They get billed for the cost of sending the large, heavy, package.
Apparently this approach works in the US, or so an american friend told me. Their email addresses got removed from quite a few lists after a few iterations of this scenario.
Compromise: How about a feature that allows me to specify that from some sites I do not want ads at all, and from other sites I want to download the ad, but not display it. Thus the site gets their advertising money, and I am not bothered. Haven't seen this in any browser yet, though.
This is unethical behaviour, sure, I hate ads as much as the next guy, and block them when I can (actually, I probably hate ads more than the next guy, I don't own a tv, nor do I watch tv. DVDs at home, and videos at friends places, never tv. HATE tv ads). But downloading ads for the purpose of revenue raising, but not viewing them?
It devalues web advertising for all sites that rely on them for revenue.
When I was a kid I thoughly enjoyed the 2 ewok adventure movies, and the droids cartoon.
I haven't seen them SINCE I was a kid, but I loved them back then.