Oh come on. Geeks find friday night the perfect time for installing KDE 3.2. What else are you doing to do? Wine already runs mydoom[1], and if you are a true geek you don't have much else to do while waiting for the next interesting project.
[1]Something a couple of us did at wineconf last weekend. grabed a copy of mydoom, put it on a linux machine and traced the run. Examined all the files is created/modified (mostly garbage), set the local machine to www.sci.com and watched is try a DOS attack on ourselves. (loopback is well able to keep up). Then we found the magic sequence that the port accepts. We didn't actually finish, dinner got in the way when I left, but we were close.
That is what real geeks love to do in a socal setting.
Sell them. Somehow. There were a lot of flyers around the office looking for people to buy these guns. A good deal on an okay gun, but only if you wanted one. I'd presume the cabbages went to the local distribution center directly. (executives are fairly good at arranging things like that).
Your right though, this was a major issue for a company used to selling comptuers to have to sell cabbages and guns. On the other hand Control Data at the time was buying every company they could find. They owned their own realtors, windmills, and a bunch of other non-computer related companies at one time.
My dad work for Control Data (remember them and their Cyber, the great super computers before Cray left to found his own company?) in the 70s and 80s. At one time the Soviet's bought a computer from them, some several million dollar purchases. A lot of paper work was involved (The US won't just sell these without knowing it won't be used against us...).
The Soviet currency was not a hard currency traded on the open market. That ment control Data got in return cabbages and guns (single shot 12 gauges, great for cheap hunters).
Not nessicarly. I know a number of programers who read code to learn how it works. They aren't auditing directly, just looking to see how/if they can use something in their own code. Programers are lazy, if they can use someone else's debuged work they will.
There is far too much code to write, without wasting time re-inventing the wheel.
The BSD RC system, not the SysV one (I know that some linux distributions use a BSD style RC).\
CAM on freeBSD is a lot better than Scsi for linux (As of 2.4 kernels, I've not looked at 2.6). As a user you might not notice, but as a programer who deals directly with scsi devices I care.
Seriously though, linux as a lot of cool things. BSD has a lot of cool things. Some get ported back and forth, some do not. (Linus has commited code to freeBSD in the past) I like the BSD way of doing things because it feels right. Others disagree, and that is their right.
I visited the site a few times, but didn't see anything to help me get started. Just some "we need to get project X reviewed". Then a complex point system that sounded motivating, but didn't do anything.
I just wanted to get started. All they said was "read this code and look for problems". No duh, but how about some examples. Some help. I'd learn much more if 30 people read one file, each commented on it, and I could read them all. Once I learn to think of everything 30 people think of (who have expirence reading code) I'll do some more on my own. Nothing gets me started though. I'm an okay programer (better than most really, but that isn't saying much considering the typical programer I've seen), and I need to learn how to do this. How do expert code reviewers think?
I just got back from wineconf, Alexander personally reads every single line that is commited to Wine. I know it can be done, but I need expirence before I could possibly do that, and noone bootstraps me to get the expirence.
I understand this is a hard thing. I've developed before, and I can't document my code any better than anyone else. They made it their stated goal to help me, but then never did anything useful.
This isn't TV. Few real cops ever draw their gun in the line of duty. "Stop or I'll shoot" is for the movies, when a real officer shoots it is more than just a criminal running away, it is a criminal who has proven to be too dangerious to let run. Every cop I know tells me that if you run they will let you go. (With all the body armor and equipment they wear there is very little chance the cop can catch you). Much easer to get on the radio and get help, and/or make sure that when you are caught you now also face the charge of running from the police.
I only know of one former cop that had to shoot in the line of duty. Former cop because he was never able to put on his uniform again. Sure it happens once in a while, but this guy had 20+ years in.
Mind I think it is silly the the british cops don't carry a gun. However it is about the least useful tool to have. Used by and expert in the right (well wrong really) situation and it prevents someone dangerious from commiting further crimes. Only used as the very last choice.
Every other ISP out there firewalls port 25, so they have to use your relay. If you have customers who need port 25 (but really you should have them relay on the other port through their other ISP then... I forget what, something in the 500 range) run a login script for them that turns this off in the firewall (not easy to do right, but you can do it).
Ideally your mail relay would log the email address of whoever was loged in (the one they signed up for, even if they use a different one), but that sound like a difficult scripting job.
Relay no email addresses from ISPs like AOL which impliment spf, presumably they have enough of a clue to have their own password protected relays.
Stay out of Minnesota. We have a lot of problems with our government (just like every other one), but at least sales tax is done right. There is no salestax on essentials. Food and clothing are essentialls. (though I have to wonder about $50 brand name jeans, not to mention the price of even a cheap suit) Textbooks are also not taxed. I sometimes with I was in less honest, I answered the clerks question "is this for a class" honestly when some books could have passed for class materials...
Of course this also means that Amazon.com and the like don't have nearly the advantage in Minnesota.
If the only difference is the problems, borrow the latest book from someone to copy it. Fair use says you can copy a small amount. Get to know the people in your class, is it easier to study with someone else anyway. Then split the cost of one new book, and get used books. Copy the problems, or in most cases just have the book on the table when you work so you can both look at it.
If they pull the trick of only allowying you into a website if you bought the book, and so you can't get in because the other guy was first then talk to the professor. The large majority will have sympathy for you (especially if this is the first assignment and you talk to him as soon as it is assigned not the day it is due). Odds are this tactic will get the assignment changed for everyone to not require web access.
Perhaps they do. What are the alternatives though? UoP is the only online university that I can reccomend. There are better ones I'm sure, but most of the compitition isn't worth looking at. Accredited is the first thing to look at, and I know UoP has got some good people behind their acrediting, most of the compition either doesn't have it at all, or has it from a place which doesn't give the term any meaning.
There are a lot of good bricks and morter universities. There are only a few good online ones.
Report this to his department, and the University. He can require any books he wants to, but professors cannot kick someone out of class for not getting the book. He can require materials, but you can get them anywhere.
Just share the book with a roommate/friend. Legal. If he requires your to cut a page from the book, you can copy that page under fair use.
It is at your loss when you only get the songs you like. I have several CDs that I got for one song, but after listening for several months I suddenly realized that a different song that I didn't care about is now the one I like the most. Not all songs have reached that point, but some have, enough that I'm unwilling to get just one song for fear of missing the better ones that you need to learn to like. Most real artists don't include a bad song on their album.
I however do not listen to (much) RIAA music. I cannot comment on some of their practices I've heard of but not seen myself. If you really want some hit song, perhaps you are better off with the one song, if they really do just but garbage on the rest of the tracks so they can get a their quota of 9 songs...
As if the manual was useful...
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My grandpa finially called the manufacture of his cell phone and had the lady open the manual to page 68, and then asked her to explain how to delete something from the directory. She finially admited the book didn't show how. (but not until he forced her to the end of her script that the instructions are on page 68). 2 pages (including cartoons) and all they did was tell you that you could delete an entry, and define delete.
At least they took the time to write a 100 page book, but it would be nice if they had taken the time to make sure the book told you how to do something.
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Where do you live that cell phone voice communication is too expensive? I know a lot of people here in the US where cell phones are not as popular as Europe who have droped their land phone line for the cell phone. They havn't changed useage patterns any, yet are saving money. (Free voice mail, free caller ID, free long distance, it all adds up)
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Maybe thats what you want, but I happen to want a few games. Not GBA quality, but something to pass the time. All to often I'm alone for a few mintues (doctors office) with nothing to do and I want to pass the time. I always have a cell phone so there is no worry about forgetting it. (I have a GBA, but only bring it with when I expect to use it. The games are great, but it is useless at work so I don't have it even when it turns out I did have time to waste one day).
I personally have no use for bluetooth. Nothing else I have uses it, and I don't expect that to change. I'll take a phone with a camera and bluetooth so long as it doesn't have games and it doesn't cost a lot. I have a tri-band phone, I think I like the idea even though I may never travel with this particular phone (or maybe I will, who knows?).
I've found one of the most important things is responsiveness. My current phone sucks that way, I often get in a loop with the unlook function. Simple enough, just hit two keys in sequence, but the phone somehow gets locked into a loop where the first button is ignored, the second prints the instructions to unlock, so I go back to the first button, but that just erases the screen, which the second button redraws. I havn't figgured it out exactly, but it really annoys me. (A lot of other little waits when I'm in a hurry to enter something annoy me too)
I guess my point is what works for you doesn't work for everyone.
P.S. If you read archives of my posts I was once more interested in camera phones. I go in streaks now, it seems like a nice idea, but it doesn't work good enough yet to be worth having.
If I was a typical Iraqii what would my life be like. Obviously it would be very different from what it is now. Even if you took my parents directly from the US the day I was born, they would have raised me different.
Remember, what is common place to someone born and living there is strange and interesting to those who have never been there. I'd be interested in replys (though they would be off topic) from those living in Russia, Thiland, France, Brazil and so on.
In theory you are right, the vunerabilitys in Outlook could apply to any Unix mail client. In practice they don't though. All unix mailers that I know of (pine, mutt, kmail, and so on) do not by default run programs they get from email. You might be able to configure kmail to do so, but it isn't the default. I'm sure that some mailers considered it, but once outlook got exploited a few times they re-considered. (I have no idea why Microsoft still hasn't).
If that isn't enough for you, most unix systems allow the sysadmin to prevent the user from running arbitary programs. If the sysadmin didn't install it you can't run it, (just mount/home and/tmp with -noexec) after which time you just make sure that the installed mail clients don't allow scripts. Okay, it is slightly more complex than that, but a good sysadmin can deal with it. AFAIK, Windows doesn't have this ability so an admin can't lock things down this way.
Except that isn't nessicarly true. From my viewpoint it is liberals who question nothing, and thus have no problem with government telling everyone how to live their life. Concervatives don't trust governement, so they want the least of it they can and they don't want it tell anyone how to live their life. Everyone makes exceptions for Murders and other criminals in their views.
Unfortunatly there is conservative/liberal in politics and the dictionary, and they are not the same. (and as far as politics they are different from country to country)
Truth is both, at least in the US have areas where they trust governement and areas where they don't. Just because someone is one lable doesn't mean they don't sometimes do something the other side would. Clinton barely got Nafta through, and it was only the republicans who made it happen. I can't recall anything off hand, but I'm sure Bush has found something only passed because of democrats. Often though if a republican proposes something a democrat wants, the democrat will change sides just because of who proposed it. Vise versa applies just as much.
Yeah, but but we gotta figgure out how to get those Oranges and peaches from the east coast, and all the fruit they grow in California to us here in the midde, even after we cut them out of good meat and bread.
Looking at that again, I think they are already preparing themselves. Vegitarinism is most popular on the coast, and with the popularity of low-carb diets, they can live without us already. Looks like I'm gonna have to figgure out how to live without my daily 5 servings of fruit.
No you wouldn't, because the guys that should have been in your neighborhood just beat someone else to something in their neighborhood, and are now taking care of that emergency. Not only do you have the crew that should respond to your problem busy elsewhere, but the crew that now comes in doesn't know your local streets as well.
Emergency crews need to be sure to stay in their assigned areas unless they are really needed elsewhere. (though it wouldn't be a bad idea to be in position if you are in the next zone to be closer to the second zone because that zone is uncovered and a second emergency could occure there.
Microsoft office runs on Windows and has a thriving use community. Many people write macros for it...
Seriously though, OpenOffice.org is nice. There is however plenty of room for Koffice. Even more when you realize that there are often mutually incompatable ways of programing something, and the two projects take different roads when they apply, while working togather when they don't.
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Oh come on. Geeks find friday night the perfect time for installing KDE 3.2. What else are you doing to do? Wine already runs mydoom[1], and if you are a true geek you don't have much else to do while waiting for the next interesting project.
[1]Something a couple of us did at wineconf last weekend. grabed a copy of mydoom, put it on a linux machine and traced the run. Examined all the files is created/modified (mostly garbage), set the local machine to www.sci.com and watched is try a DOS attack on ourselves. (loopback is well able to keep up). Then we found the magic sequence that the port accepts. We didn't actually finish, dinner got in the way when I left, but we were close.
That is what real geeks love to do in a socal setting.
Sell them. Somehow. There were a lot of flyers around the office looking for people to buy these guns. A good deal on an okay gun, but only if you wanted one. I'd presume the cabbages went to the local distribution center directly. (executives are fairly good at arranging things like that).
Your right though, this was a major issue for a company used to selling comptuers to have to sell cabbages and guns. On the other hand Control Data at the time was buying every company they could find. They owned their own realtors, windmills, and a bunch of other non-computer related companies at one time.
My dad work for Control Data (remember them and their Cyber, the great super computers before Cray left to found his own company?) in the 70s and 80s. At one time the Soviet's bought a computer from them, some several million dollar purchases. A lot of paper work was involved (The US won't just sell these without knowing it won't be used against us...).
The Soviet currency was not a hard currency traded on the open market. That ment control Data got in return cabbages and guns (single shot 12 gauges, great for cheap hunters).
Not nessicarly. I know a number of programers who read code to learn how it works. They aren't auditing directly, just looking to see how/if they can use something in their own code. Programers are lazy, if they can use someone else's debuged work they will.
There is far too much code to write, without wasting time re-inventing the wheel.
The BSD RC system, not the SysV one (I know that some linux distributions use a BSD style RC).\
CAM on freeBSD is a lot better than Scsi for linux (As of 2.4 kernels, I've not looked at 2.6). As a user you might not notice, but as a programer who deals directly with scsi devices I care.
Seriously though, linux as a lot of cool things. BSD has a lot of cool things. Some get ported back and forth, some do not. (Linus has commited code to freeBSD in the past) I like the BSD way of doing things because it feels right. Others disagree, and that is their right.
I visited the site a few times, but didn't see anything to help me get started. Just some "we need to get project X reviewed". Then a complex point system that sounded motivating, but didn't do anything.
I just wanted to get started. All they said was "read this code and look for problems". No duh, but how about some examples. Some help. I'd learn much more if 30 people read one file, each commented on it, and I could read them all. Once I learn to think of everything 30 people think of (who have expirence reading code) I'll do some more on my own. Nothing gets me started though. I'm an okay programer (better than most really, but that isn't saying much considering the typical programer I've seen), and I need to learn how to do this. How do expert code reviewers think?
I just got back from wineconf, Alexander personally reads every single line that is commited to Wine. I know it can be done, but I need expirence before I could possibly do that, and noone bootstraps me to get the expirence.
I understand this is a hard thing. I've developed before, and I can't document my code any better than anyone else. They made it their stated goal to help me, but then never did anything useful.
This isn't TV. Few real cops ever draw their gun in the line of duty. "Stop or I'll shoot" is for the movies, when a real officer shoots it is more than just a criminal running away, it is a criminal who has proven to be too dangerious to let run. Every cop I know tells me that if you run they will let you go. (With all the body armor and equipment they wear there is very little chance the cop can catch you). Much easer to get on the radio and get help, and/or make sure that when you are caught you now also face the charge of running from the police.
I only know of one former cop that had to shoot in the line of duty. Former cop because he was never able to put on his uniform again. Sure it happens once in a while, but this guy had 20+ years in.
Mind I think it is silly the the british cops don't carry a gun. However it is about the least useful tool to have. Used by and expert in the right (well wrong really) situation and it prevents someone dangerious from commiting further crimes. Only used as the very last choice.
Every other ISP out there firewalls port 25, so they have to use your relay. If you have customers who need port 25 (but really you should have them relay on the other port through their other ISP then... I forget what, something in the 500 range) run a login script for them that turns this off in the firewall (not easy to do right, but you can do it).
Ideally your mail relay would log the email address of whoever was loged in (the one they signed up for, even if they use a different one), but that sound like a difficult scripting job.
Relay no email addresses from ISPs like AOL which impliment spf, presumably they have enough of a clue to have their own password protected relays.
It isn't being a good sysadmin.
Stay out of Minnesota. We have a lot of problems with our government (just like every other one), but at least sales tax is done right. There is no salestax on essentials. Food and clothing are essentialls. (though I have to wonder about $50 brand name jeans, not to mention the price of even a cheap suit) Textbooks are also not taxed. I sometimes with I was in less honest, I answered the clerks question "is this for a class" honestly when some books could have passed for class materials...
Of course this also means that Amazon.com and the like don't have nearly the advantage in Minnesota.
If the only difference is the problems, borrow the latest book from someone to copy it. Fair use says you can copy a small amount. Get to know the people in your class, is it easier to study with someone else anyway. Then split the cost of one new book, and get used books. Copy the problems, or in most cases just have the book on the table when you work so you can both look at it.
If they pull the trick of only allowying you into a website if you bought the book, and so you can't get in because the other guy was first then talk to the professor. The large majority will have sympathy for you (especially if this is the first assignment and you talk to him as soon as it is assigned not the day it is due). Odds are this tactic will get the assignment changed for everyone to not require web access.
Perhaps they do. What are the alternatives though? UoP is the only online university that I can reccomend. There are better ones I'm sure, but most of the compitition isn't worth looking at. Accredited is the first thing to look at, and I know UoP has got some good people behind their acrediting, most of the compition either doesn't have it at all, or has it from a place which doesn't give the term any meaning.
There are a lot of good bricks and morter universities. There are only a few good online ones.
Report this to his department, and the University. He can require any books he wants to, but professors cannot kick someone out of class for not getting the book. He can require materials, but you can get them anywhere.
Just share the book with a roommate/friend. Legal. If he requires your to cut a page from the book, you can copy that page under fair use.
It is at your loss when you only get the songs you like. I have several CDs that I got for one song, but after listening for several months I suddenly realized that a different song that I didn't care about is now the one I like the most. Not all songs have reached that point, but some have, enough that I'm unwilling to get just one song for fear of missing the better ones that you need to learn to like. Most real artists don't include a bad song on their album.
I however do not listen to (much) RIAA music. I cannot comment on some of their practices I've heard of but not seen myself. If you really want some hit song, perhaps you are better off with the one song, if they really do just but garbage on the rest of the tracks so they can get a their quota of 9 songs...
My grandpa finially called the manufacture of his cell phone and had the lady open the manual to page 68, and then asked her to explain how to delete something from the directory. She finially admited the book didn't show how. (but not until he forced her to the end of her script that the instructions are on page 68). 2 pages (including cartoons) and all they did was tell you that you could delete an entry, and define delete.
At least they took the time to write a 100 page book, but it would be nice if they had taken the time to make sure the book told you how to do something.
Where do you live that cell phone voice communication is too expensive? I know a lot of people here in the US where cell phones are not as popular as Europe who have droped their land phone line for the cell phone. They havn't changed useage patterns any, yet are saving money. (Free voice mail, free caller ID, free long distance, it all adds up)
Maybe thats what you want, but I happen to want a few games. Not GBA quality, but something to pass the time. All to often I'm alone for a few mintues (doctors office) with nothing to do and I want to pass the time. I always have a cell phone so there is no worry about forgetting it. (I have a GBA, but only bring it with when I expect to use it. The games are great, but it is useless at work so I don't have it even when it turns out I did have time to waste one day).
I personally have no use for bluetooth. Nothing else I have uses it, and I don't expect that to change. I'll take a phone with a camera and bluetooth so long as it doesn't have games and it doesn't cost a lot. I have a tri-band phone, I think I like the idea even though I may never travel with this particular phone (or maybe I will, who knows?).
I've found one of the most important things is responsiveness. My current phone sucks that way, I often get in a loop with the unlook function. Simple enough, just hit two keys in sequence, but the phone somehow gets locked into a loop where the first button is ignored, the second prints the instructions to unlock, so I go back to the first button, but that just erases the screen, which the second button redraws. I havn't figgured it out exactly, but it really annoys me. (A lot of other little waits when I'm in a hurry to enter something annoy me too)
I guess my point is what works for you doesn't work for everyone.
P.S. If you read archives of my posts I was once more interested in camera phones. I go in streaks now, it seems like a nice idea, but it doesn't work good enough yet to be worth having.
How do you spray the Wineows Emulators?
Seriously, that is the first thing that poped into my mind when you said wine, and it took a while for the sentence to make sense.
If I was a typical Iraqii what would my life be like. Obviously it would be very different from what it is now. Even if you took my parents directly from the US the day I was born, they would have raised me different.
Remember, what is common place to someone born and living there is strange and interesting to those who have never been there. I'd be interested in replys (though they would be off topic) from those living in Russia, Thiland, France, Brazil and so on.
In theory you are right, the vunerabilitys in Outlook could apply to any Unix mail client. In practice they don't though. All unix mailers that I know of (pine, mutt, kmail, and so on) do not by default run programs they get from email. You might be able to configure kmail to do so, but it isn't the default. I'm sure that some mailers considered it, but once outlook got exploited a few times they re-considered. (I have no idea why Microsoft still hasn't).
If that isn't enough for you, most unix systems allow the sysadmin to prevent the user from running arbitary programs. If the sysadmin didn't install it you can't run it, (just mount /home and /tmp with -noexec) after which time you just make sure that the installed mail clients don't allow scripts. Okay, it is slightly more complex than that, but a good sysadmin can deal with it. AFAIK, Windows doesn't have this ability so an admin can't lock things down this way.
Except that isn't nessicarly true. From my viewpoint it is liberals who question nothing, and thus have no problem with government telling everyone how to live their life. Concervatives don't trust governement, so they want the least of it they can and they don't want it tell anyone how to live their life. Everyone makes exceptions for Murders and other criminals in their views.
Unfortunatly there is conservative/liberal in politics and the dictionary, and they are not the same. (and as far as politics they are different from country to country)
Truth is both, at least in the US have areas where they trust governement and areas where they don't. Just because someone is one lable doesn't mean they don't sometimes do something the other side would. Clinton barely got Nafta through, and it was only the republicans who made it happen. I can't recall anything off hand, but I'm sure Bush has found something only passed because of democrats. Often though if a republican proposes something a democrat wants, the democrat will change sides just because of who proposed it. Vise versa applies just as much.
Yeah, but but we gotta figgure out how to get those Oranges and peaches from the east coast, and all the fruit they grow in California to us here in the midde, even after we cut them out of good meat and bread.
Looking at that again, I think they are already preparing themselves. Vegitarinism is most popular on the coast, and with the popularity of low-carb diets, they can live without us already. Looks like I'm gonna have to figgure out how to live without my daily 5 servings of fruit.
No you wouldn't, because the guys that should have been in your neighborhood just beat someone else to something in their neighborhood, and are now taking care of that emergency. Not only do you have the crew that should respond to your problem busy elsewhere, but the crew that now comes in doesn't know your local streets as well.
Emergency crews need to be sure to stay in their assigned areas unless they are really needed elsewhere. (though it wouldn't be a bad idea to be in position if you are in the next zone to be closer to the second zone because that zone is uncovered and a second emergency could occure there.
Microsoft office runs on Windows and has a thriving use community. Many people write macros for it...
Seriously though, OpenOffice.org is nice. There is however plenty of room for Koffice. Even more when you realize that there are often mutually incompatable ways of programing something, and the two projects take different roads when they apply, while working togather when they don't.
If you are doing a year long trip, it might be worth buying 1 year access, assuming you will be near a flying-J often enough to use them.
The proper spelling is fibre channel. The british spelling of fiber is intentionally not used. (It is french IIRC)
I think that you just worded the above wrong, but I'm not sure.