I had an idea for roaches as controllers years ago, but everyone said I was nuts. If I had just ignored my stoner friends, I could have been a pioneer! OK, so I wanted them guiding little rockets, but still...
Yesterday the RIAA wanted to have ISP's nuke anyone with big bandwidth use (because they MUST be pirates!). Today the movie folks want to use p2p for movie distribution. Do I sense a clash here?
Really. We can all trust salesmen to know better what's best for us, as opposed to our own brains. After all, wasn't all progress thru tha ages initiated by salesmen? No thanks, Mookie.
I have been in professional pc repair for 14 years, and I can honestly say he's missed a big point. While most problems are fixable by the user, most don't seem concerned enough to learn the basics and try it. While I wouldn't expect every home user to know all about their machines, I have dealt with businesses that are staggeringly, and proudly, computer illiterate. Then when you do that thing (found on page 12 of the manual) that fixes it, they give the same classic line : "I could have done that! Why should I pay you?" They'd rather call someone else to deal with it. This same principle keeps all those oil change places running! But, hey, as long as guys like this are around, I will always have the next house payment!
After reading this, I sought out a couple of forkbomb progs, and ran them. A reboot later, I have learned about ulimit. While this may be old news to some of you, there are still some of us who can get something useful out of it. Security starts with learning and experience, and sometimes the best way to learn is to crash your machine before someone else does.
Yes, but is it in a tube? If you were American, you'd realize that it's you sacred duty to buy whatever they tell you! (Yes, I am American. Please don't hate me!)
Quicktime is a proprietary format that takes a cranky codec to play and has WAY too many non backward-compatible forms. Divx/Xvid/avi/mpg are standards that are more widespread and viewable using readily available software.
The choice is easy.
(yes, I know Divx is an owned format, but Xvid is compatible and is open source.)
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I had an idea for roaches as controllers years ago, but everyone said I was nuts. If I had just ignored my stoner friends, I could have been a pioneer! OK, so I wanted them guiding little rockets, but still...
So, the AAZP (American Association of Zombie Persons) is now a valid voting block?
Yesterday the RIAA wanted to have ISP's nuke anyone with big bandwidth use (because they MUST be pirates!). Today the movie folks want to use p2p for movie distribution. Do I sense a clash here?
I asked it where the tv remote was. It didn't tell me. Damn, now I gotta dig behind the cushions again.
And then, like, I realized that there was never a tooth- just me toothing to myself. Maybe that's why it never worked.
Really. We can all trust salesmen to know better what's best for us, as opposed to our own brains. After all, wasn't all progress thru tha ages initiated by salesmen? No thanks, Mookie.
I have been in professional pc repair for 14 years, and I can honestly say he's missed a big point. While most problems are fixable by the user, most don't seem concerned enough to learn the basics and try it. While I wouldn't expect every home user to know all about their machines, I have dealt with businesses that are staggeringly, and proudly, computer illiterate. Then when you do that thing (found on page 12 of the manual) that fixes it, they give the same classic line : "I could have done that! Why should I pay you?" They'd rather call someone else to deal with it. This same principle keeps all those oil change places running! But, hey, as long as guys like this are around, I will always have the next house payment!
After reading this, I sought out a couple of forkbomb progs, and ran them. A reboot later, I have learned about ulimit. While this may be old news to some of you, there are still some of us who can get something useful out of it. Security starts with learning and experience, and sometimes the best way to learn is to crash your machine before someone else does.
BTW, Not flamebait, just what we call a "joke". Anything running a Nix-like OS is always better security-wise.
A Mini Mac? Hey, they SAID they weren't heartless bastards! ;)
Yes, but is it in a tube? If you were American, you'd realize that it's you sacred duty to buy whatever they tell you! (Yes, I am American. Please don't hate me!)
Quicktime is a proprietary format that takes a cranky codec to play and has WAY too many non backward-compatible forms. Divx/Xvid/avi/mpg are standards that are more widespread and viewable using readily available software. The choice is easy. (yes, I know Divx is an owned format, but Xvid is compatible and is open source.)