Replacing letters with l33t-speak numbers is not wise. That is one of the first variations that password cracking software will attempt after appending numbers. At least you aren't l33tifying plain dictionary words,;) When I ran 'crack' on our university shadow files( during job as sysadmin ) the cracked passwords were usually stuff like 'termin8'. I recommend any sysadmins to download software like 'crack' or 'john the ripper' just to get an idea of the techniques used to break passwords. e.g. the fact that 'dictionaries' in the case of password cracking also include things likes lists of anime and cartoon characters, actors, actresses, scientists, etc. And, of course, the aforementioned leet pattern replacements like s/ate/8/ and s/e/3/.
Just so you know, whenever I see a post preemptively whining about getting moderated down, I skip it. Even when I have mod points to give. Noone wants to hear whining. Just make your point.
Why would being white lower your score the most? Ever heard of the unabomber or the oklahoma city bombers? I think it's even possible that if you only count terrorist acts inside the US, then the majority of the perpetrators were white.
I assumed that 1% meant more like 3 days. So they have paid vacation time, some paid sick days and/or personal days and 3 paid volunteer service days. Somewhat like lawyers doing pro bono work. It could still be BS though; like if they have simply 'renamed' some of the normal vacation or personal days.
usually males in the 12-16 age group I think that you vastly underestimate the amount of jerks over the age of 16,;) "On average, people are mean."
Slashdot deals with this in a unique way by allowing the users to do the police work. This is (imo) vastly superior to having overzealous super-moderators cruising around laying down the law. That is an interesting observation considering that it works nearly the opposite way in real life. Perhaps it has to do with the ratio of offenders to the population. In real life, that ratio is quite small and so a dedicated force to hunt them down seems to work better. Online, with so many barriers removed, the ratio of offenders seems to be a lot higher.
Actually, I think that is wrong. People posting nonsense to annoy or harrass others is not the equivalent of a crime. It is more the equivalent of things like talking loudly in a theater or cutting in line. And we do have a moderation system in real life for things like that. It is called reputation. Even if we are somewhere with all strangers, our instincts generally make us want to look good in other people's eyes and we are also aware, even afraid, that our behaviour can make it back via gossip to whomever we do care about.
Why is it that people whining about spelling inevitably spell words incorrectly? For a detailed correction and a mod of 3, you also missed quite a bit.
grammer -> grammar
noname -> no-name
castor wheels -> casters (the castor mispelling is just about common enough to be proper(although m-w.com doesn't say so, and 'wheels' is redundant in either case)
16 wheeler -> 18 wheeler
plug into -> plug in to
centre -> center (I'd let that one by if you had changed both instances, but using both spellings doesn't make sense.)
I think his most classic work is actually "The Selfish Gene". Ever heard the word 'meme'? It's one of those books that everyone should read regardless of silly/prestigious prizes. A claim that his work is more important than many is not all that unjustified,;)
I don't think they marketed the American release of the game very well. I only found out about it because some friends of mine(one recently returned from Japan) were playing it. When I went to buy it at the Best Buy in Aventura, Fl, I think on November 1st last year, I couldn't find it, and the guy in the video section didn't know anything about it, and he claimed it wasn't even on their upcoming games lists and he would know because he is a big game fanatic, maybe my friends were playing a beta, yadda yadda... Then I went across the street and bought the game at EB. Maybe I just encountered an incompetent guy, but usually there is a lot more hype for upcoming/just released games; especially one with the visually stunning quality of ffxi.
MUME is a free multiplayer roleplaying game based upon J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth that has been continuously enhanced since fall '91.
In MUME players can explore and live in this meticulously crafted world during its late Third Age, and possibly join the epic War between the forces of the Dark Lord and the armies of the West.
I haven't played in many mango seasons, but according to the stats on that page it certainly is going strong after 12 years!
The ongoing war between the players of Trolls, Orcs, and Black Numenoreans versus Elves, Dwarves, Humans, and Hobbits was one of the best aspects of the game, but it had many other cool aspects too. Such as the world being absolutely huge; wow, I see they had 19465 opened rooms in 193 zones. Also all sorts of nifty little features like the ability to learn types of herblore and collect the ingredients to make potions, and fishing, and if someone is speaking a language you don't know the text you see is mangled based on how well you know the language. Also, truly difficult computer controlled opponents that took teamwork and cleverness to defeat and plenty of fascinating quests as well.
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I've never tried the others, but jpico is really great for those that first learned pico. jpico is just a symlink to joe, but when run that way all of the pico keybindings like ^K and ^U to cut/paste lines work; except now you have many of the features pico is missing like search and replace.
So it is a great way to 'move up the ladder' of editor functionality/productivity.
Incidentally, the first unix editor I used was 'ed'. For those arguing for an editor to be used on every system, it should be the ancient 'ed' which is even a part of the rescue shells like sash(this is what you use when glibc gets messed up somehow or you messed up ld.so.conf and none of your dynamically linked binaries work,;).
Keeping American soldiers alive is not the whole point of opposing the war. I do not want non-Americans to die either.
Incidentally, did anyone else note the peculiar capitalization of the word 'soldier' at every occurance in that article? Perhaps this is some kind of tradition in the ancillary defense research/business?
No offense, but this story is a joke. Did he even read the man pages for those utilities? The 'stat' in those tools names stand for 'statistics' not 'status'.
And don't even get me started on stupid statements like "linux never swaps" and "If paging activity happens all the time, buy more RAM"
These utilities are explained better in the man pages themselves or the various system administration guides and howtos at the linux documentaion project.
Oh yeah, and he is missing one of the best tools for this type of thing: namely 'sar', the system activity reporter, which is enabled by default on all redhat distros. (I have an xpostit note dedicated to all the flags to sar for various things)
As for the graphing/monitoring questions people are asking in other posts; look for tools like nagios and mrtg and sysmon and mon or just search freshmeat.net. It's quite a common task which has been done many ways. My personal monitoring/graphs are perl scripts I wrote to fetch stats via ssh which I plug into mrtg.
I used electrical tape on the two devices with annoying bright blue leds that I own(braun electric shaver and logitech speaker set). Since they are both black, the little squares of electrical tape I used to cover the leds are barely noticeable.
You'd probably be surprised at how many investors take ethics, or even distaste, into consideration when investing their money. Granted, some of them lean the other way; as evidenced by mutual funds solely devoted to 'vice' or 'sin' stocks.
Headers also pick up the numeric or Internet Protocol (IP) address of all the computers a packet touches as it travels from its originating machine all the way to its destination. Every computerized device connected to the Internet has its own unique IP number.
Evidently they are confusing packet headers(envelope, as they call it) with e-mail headers. And the counterexample to the second statement is NAT(Network Address Translation).
I was addicted also, but it only lasted two months. Not being able to group with friends of different levels and the too repetitious things and the amount of not very bright people were the frustrating factors. The world is beautiful though; I loved exploring and the danger, I'd often be the lowest lvl person in any given area because I was too lazy to do the repetitious stuff in easy areas. It was neat interacting with so many japanese people too. One of my favorite screen captures was from a group of these crazy dancing/clapping japanese tarus surrounding and circling my char(mithra whm/war) like a maypole.
Here's a brief trivia quiz for would-be corporate accountants. How much federal income tax did Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the supreme ruler of the known software universe, and Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), second only to General Electric as the most valuable company in the U.S., pay this past year?
Combined or separately, the answer is zilch, nada and not a cent.
That's just the first proof that came to mind. I'm sure you could find much more with a bit of research. Although you'd probably have to be a corporate tax accountant yourself to even know where to look to find all the various loopholes that are available to corporations.
I think that this whole system of needless complications and obscurity to hide kickbacks and tax breaks and influence behaviour is nearly as bad as one done in secret.
Your name and address used to be listed for donations over $250, but now it is for donations over $100(maybe just Florida?). I suspect the politicians lowered it to give themselves more addresses to spam/junk mail asking for donations for the next race.
The only difference between a programmer and a sysadmin is that the programmer has to debug his own code and a sysadmin has to debug other people's code. 8^)
My code to load data from swipes just reads exactly 337 bytes then checks the status bits and verifies the length and positions of each field and sentinal. So the answer is "nope" with our software at least.;)
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Replacing letters with l33t-speak numbers is not wise. That is one of the first variations that password cracking software will attempt after appending numbers. ;) When I ran 'crack' on our university shadow files( during job as sysadmin ) the cracked passwords were usually stuff like 'termin8'.
At least you aren't l33tifying plain dictionary words,
I recommend any sysadmins to download software like 'crack' or 'john the ripper' just to get an idea of the techniques used to break passwords. e.g. the fact that 'dictionaries' in the case of password cracking also include things likes lists of anime and cartoon characters, actors, actresses, scientists, etc. And, of course, the aforementioned leet pattern replacements like s/ate/8/ and s/e/3/.
Just so you know, whenever I see a post preemptively whining about getting moderated down, I skip it. Even when I have mod points to give. Noone wants to hear whining. Just make your point.
Why would being white lower your score the most? Ever heard of the unabomber or the oklahoma city bombers? I think it's even possible that if you only count terrorist acts inside the US, then the majority of the perpetrators were white.
I think sex would be the most significant factor.
I assumed that 1% meant more like 3 days. So they have paid vacation time, some paid sick days and/or personal days and 3 paid volunteer service days. Somewhat like lawyers doing pro bono work. It could still be BS though; like if they have simply 'renamed' some of the normal vacation or personal days.
I think that you vastly underestimate the amount of jerks over the age of 16,
"On average, people are mean."
Slashdot deals with this in a unique way by allowing the users to do the police work. This is (imo) vastly superior to having overzealous super-moderators cruising around laying down the law.
That is an interesting observation considering that it works nearly the opposite way in real life. Perhaps it has to do with the ratio of offenders to the population. In real life, that ratio is quite small and so a dedicated force to hunt them down seems to work better. Online, with so many barriers removed, the ratio of offenders seems to be a lot higher.
Actually, I think that is wrong. People posting nonsense to annoy or harrass others is not the equivalent of a crime. It is more the equivalent of things like talking loudly in a theater or cutting in line. And we do have a moderation system in real life for things like that. It is called reputation. Even if we are somewhere with all strangers, our instincts generally make us want to look good in other people's eyes and we are also aware, even afraid, that our behaviour can make it back via gossip to whomever we do care about.
I think his most classic work is actually "The Selfish Gene". Ever heard the word 'meme'? It's one of those books that everyone should read regardless of silly/prestigious prizes. A claim that his work is more important than many is not all that unjustified, ;)
I don't think they marketed the American release of the game very well. I only found out about it because some friends of mine(one recently returned from Japan) were playing it. When I went to buy it at the Best Buy in Aventura, Fl, I think on November 1st last year, I couldn't find it, and the guy in the video section didn't know anything about it, and he claimed it wasn't even on their upcoming games lists and he would know because he is a big game fanatic, maybe my friends were playing a beta, yadda yadda... Then I went across the street and bought the game at EB. Maybe I just encountered an incompetent guy, but usually there is a lot more hype for upcoming/just released games; especially one with the visually stunning quality of ffxi.
I haven't played in many mango seasons, but according to the stats on that page it certainly is going strong after 12 years!
The ongoing war between the players of Trolls, Orcs, and Black Numenoreans versus Elves, Dwarves, Humans, and Hobbits was one of the best aspects of the game, but it had many other cool aspects too. Such as the world being absolutely huge; wow, I see they had 19465 opened rooms in 193 zones. Also all sorts of nifty little features like the ability to learn types of herblore and collect the ingredients to make potions, and fishing, and if someone is speaking a language you don't know the text you see is mangled based on how well you know the language. Also, truly difficult computer controlled opponents that took teamwork and cleverness to defeat and plenty of fascinating quests as well.
So it is a great way to 'move up the ladder' of editor functionality/productivity.
Incidentally, the first unix editor I used was 'ed'. For those arguing for an editor to be used on every system, it should be the ancient 'ed' which is even a part of the rescue shells like sash(this is what you use when glibc gets messed up somehow or you messed up ld.so.conf and none of your dynamically linked binaries work, ;).
It's called a territorial instinct. Most of us animals have them, :)
I do not want non-Americans to die either.
Incidentally, did anyone else note the peculiar capitalization of the word 'soldier' at every occurance in that article? Perhaps this is some kind of tradition in the ancillary defense research/business?
These utilities are explained better in the man pages themselves or the various system administration guides and howtos at the linux documentaion project.
Oh yeah, and he is missing one of the best tools for this type of thing: namely 'sar', the system activity reporter, which is enabled by default on all redhat distros. (I have an xpostit note dedicated to all the flags to sar for various things)
As for the graphing/monitoring questions people are asking in other posts; look for tools like nagios and mrtg and sysmon and mon or just search freshmeat.net. It's quite a common task which has been done many ways. My personal monitoring/graphs are perl scripts I wrote to fetch stats via ssh which I plug into mrtg.
On the other hand, isn't accepting money to do this taking advantage of the FUD that people already have?
Another thing to consider is that the linux legal defense fund setup up by OSDL has already raised $3 million
I will try to keep this very brief
That is not the system time. uname -a gives you a timestamp that shows when the currently running kernel was compiled.
I used electrical tape on the two devices with annoying bright blue leds that I own(braun electric shaver and logitech speaker set). Since they are both black, the little squares of electrical tape I used to cover the leds are barely noticeable.
You'd probably be surprised at how many investors take ethics, or even distaste, into consideration when investing their money. Granted, some of them lean the other way; as evidenced by mutual funds solely devoted to 'vice' or 'sin' stocks.
Evidently they are confusing packet headers(envelope, as they call it) with e-mail headers.
And the counterexample to the second statement is NAT(Network Address Translation).
I was addicted also, but it only lasted two months. Not being able to group with friends of different levels and the too repetitious things and the amount of not very bright people were the frustrating factors. The world is beautiful though; I loved exploring and the danger, I'd often be the lowest lvl person in any given area because I was too lazy to do the repetitious stuff in easy areas. It was neat interacting with so many japanese people too. One of my favorite screen captures was from a group of these crazy dancing/clapping japanese tarus surrounding and circling my char(mithra whm/war) like a maypole.
Excerpt from article posted to /. a few years ago:
That's just the first proof that came to mind. I'm sure you could find much more with a bit of research. Although you'd probably have to be a corporate tax accountant yourself to even know where to look to find all the various loopholes that are available to corporations.I think that this whole system of needless complications and obscurity to hide kickbacks and tax breaks and influence behaviour is nearly as bad as one done in secret.
What makes you think people don't already do this? ;)
Your name and address used to be listed for donations over $250, but now it is for donations over $100(maybe just Florida?). I suspect the politicians lowered it to give themselves more addresses to spam/junk mail asking for donations for the next race.
The only difference between a programmer and a sysadmin is that the programmer has to debug his own code and a sysadmin has to debug other people's code. 8^)
My code to load data from swipes just reads exactly 337 bytes ;)
then checks the status bits and verifies the length and positions
of each field and sentinal.
So the answer is "nope" with our software at least.