The idea of a third party intermediary is not unheard of -- in fact, there are numerous BitTorrent replacement protocols being developed right now that take advantage of another user on a network to mask the sender and receiver from one-another. You can go out and get the latest "pirate" MP3, but you have no idea who you're getting it from and they have no idea who they're sending it to. I find that this is a better way to keep over-regulation of the Internet down, and uphold the right to free expression.
How would that stop "the government" from joining the networks with thousands of units, becoming one of the more "favorable" clients selected for the transfer, and then silently knocking on doors to people who share download or share the newest Britney Spears mp3. Heck, I think they'll even be able to bust more people if things go your way than they are able to now.
DNS will likely be the control system our governments user to censor the information out there.
We still do have IP addresses, right? Yeah, we do. Oh, and you'r Vision Of Doom(tm) about the DNS-level censorship is both ineffective, dumb and easy to circumvent. This "problem" is solved by allowing other countries than the US to have share-control over the DNS root servers.
Whoa, that is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard of.
There are other protocols that, in my opinion, are better that BT. I've seen a few that use other (third party) users to mask both the sender and receiver from one-another. I believe this is going to be important especially when it comes to government regulation and censorship. I'm anti-copyright, so I couldn't care less about who owns what.
These protocols need one or more centralized server(s) to function properly.
I could even see a future where we could do away with DNS in the long term as we could access webpages or other information through this network of shared temporary file folders.
Another idiotic idea. Why the hell would I want to spend my time LOOKING for the website I want, instead of just plain visiting it? Yes, this WOULD require me to look for the website. Also, security (Login information, et cetera) is practically impossible in such situations.
What you're basically saying, is that we should all go back to sharing plain-text ASCII, but in a new way. I say NO THANK YOU, please leave the internet as it is already.
vi users are real UNIX guys. "One task - one app - one purpose". Emacs, well, they might be "unix guys", but they're not following the mantra that vi users are.
The same with irssi. irssi1 is only an IRC client natively, but irssi2 will be emacs-style, in the sense that it does virtually anything in the broad field that it chose to specialize in.
Me? Well, I'm definately a vi user by heart....It's just that I prefer nano.
Yeah, it'd be nice if one could close Firefox, and open it again with all the previous tabs open. Something like the Windows Hibernate feature.
Or even better: Let the user configure a preset number of tabs which load automatically upon opening the first instance of a Firefox browser. If a Firefox instance is already open, the user has to click a certain button to make his preset tabs load. This would be a great feature for me, as I always spend at least 20 seconds opening five tabs each time I start my browser. Google/ig, gmail and slashdot, among others.
I have no knowledge of any solution that could match AD in a UNIX enviroment. But isnt forward-thinking, enthusiasm and a burning desire to improve efficiency, some of the things that companies list as "What we'd like to see"?
Either way, answering all the people who told me "Go to school" would be a tedious task, so I'm only going to answer that request in this post. Currently, I work as a director for a small company. Concider that "Management experience". I've been working as IT-support and network administrator since I was 15. I stayed on that job for about a year. The job was more of a hobby, as my boss didnt pay me anything (Apart from $100 every month, for saving his important PDF documents). The job consisted mostly of restarting the router, cleaning the Windows desktops off of virii, and having two desktop machine for myself. One of them had Windows. I mostly surfed the net during my "Work hours", while the Squid proxy on the Linux box I had installed and transparently forced upon every client on the network silently provided me with some extra bandwith to play with. All my network fiddling worked fine and seamlessly together with the AD solution we had going there which, by the way, was set up and monitored by the exact kind of "click&drool" type of Windows administrators I'm describing. He is one of the most incompetent and overrated IT personell I've ever come across. His take on security is that "If he is pinging a website, the website administrator immediately thinks that it is a hacking attempt". Mind you, I have a one-year hands-on experience with server security, from the "dark side". While I have never caused any damage, or even ever actually proceeded with a rooting of a server beyond finding and recognizing the security hole and then emailing the webmaster@domain, I think it is suffice to say that I know the "Security of servers 101". Lastly, I am undergoing an education as a Computer Technician... which translates into "An IT janitor". The job I'm seeking is going to give me the work experience I need to graduate. This education requires me to be on an IT job working with network servers, networks and a small bit of C/C++ programming. To graduate from my education, I need five years total work experience.
Reading the next few lines of text, please note that I am a sucker for the meaty *BSD flavor.
For network-specific servers, I'd pitch OpenBSD, as it has proven to me that it is indeed capable of such tasks. Also, it has a great reputation for being very strict about it's "Forbidden untill permission is given" policy. It would run Squid and ipfilter. I'd love to set up such a puppy to service a 150-people average daily users. I'd rather go with a box to act as a router, because my experience with regular enterprise-level routers is that they are expensive, and they do not allow for the amount of flexibility that I demand from my network routing implementation. When have you last seen a transparent Squid proxy running on a Cisco router?
For communicational purposes, FreeBSD. SMTP, POP3, whatever you can think of. This is because I feel more confident in FreeBSD than I do in OpenBSD.
File servers (SMB, FTP, etc.) also all go in my book as quite great tasks to complete by utilizing FreeBSD.
Webserver? While I do not think of Linux as a "UNIX flavor", I'd consider it for a webserver, but that depends on the scalability needed.
Now, do you want me to tell you why SSH'ing is better than telnetting to a server, or do I qualify to suggest you a OpenBSD box for a router?
Could you then tell me, what the heck are these things: SAP? SME? SEM? etc... etc... etc...
I'd be more than happy to walk into a company, and become one of those average Windows administrators who point, click, drool, point, click, drool, etc. I already know how to configure your average 150 employees AD server, just by reading a book (And trying it for myself). But I'd be damned if I didnt convert the whole thing into UNIX stuff within the end of the next year.
Today is my first actual day of jobseeking. I've just created an online CV at a job portal, and I'm looking through the list of job offers. The list does not leave much for an 18-year-old PHP developer with special interest in UNIX and overall network, web and server security. The list of job offers has more to offer to a person who can call himself a "Senior Software Engineer" who can develop in.net and knows all kinds of Business-IT jargon. I'm a little bit frustrated, but there are a few... a very few companies who are just looking for a good 'ol UNIX systems administrator.
Wether the I in RAID stands for Inexpensive, Independent, or Irritating, is not a fact - It's a technology, just like SATA is.
Anyhow. I am a Seagate purist. I have two Seagate Barracuda 80GB drives, and one Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB drive. I'm extremely satisfied, as I have yet to experience a harddrive failure - And these drives have been running since I bought them over about a year ago, for 24/7 (My system's uptime is 96,3%). The review of the 7200.9 drive which was linked to in the article, disappointed me quite a bit. I was hoping to gain a Cool Factor point or two by having Seagate drives. Nevermind, I'm still a Seagate fanboy.
The point that the Open-Source zealots who disrespect this kind of project seem to be missing, is the fact that different tasks require different tools. While Windows XP is my OS of choice when selecting a desktop OS, FreeBSD is my exclusive choice when I require the power and functionality a UNIX-like OS can deliver - Like when running a web- or file server. I do realize that Linux in certain situation can beat the crap out of Windows when used as a desktop OS, and I do realize that Windows can beat the crap out of any UNIX-like OS at rare occasions (Pun not intended).
Software, to me, is a matter of choice - Not a matter of ideal.
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How would that stop "the government" from joining the networks with thousands of units, becoming one of the more "favorable" clients selected for the transfer, and then silently knocking on doors to people who share download or share the newest Britney Spears mp3. Heck, I think they'll even be able to bust more people if things go your way than they are able to now.
We still do have IP addresses, right? Yeah, we do. Oh, and you'r Vision Of Doom(tm) about the DNS-level censorship is both ineffective, dumb and easy to circumvent. This "problem" is solved by allowing other countries than the US to have share-control over the DNS root servers.
These protocols need one or more centralized server(s) to function properly.
Another idiotic idea. Why the hell would I want to spend my time LOOKING for the website I want, instead of just plain visiting it? Yes, this WOULD require me to look for the website. Also, security (Login information, et cetera) is practically impossible in such situations.
What you're basically saying, is that we should all go back to sharing plain-text ASCII, but in a new way.
I say NO THANK YOU, please leave the internet as it is already.
vi users are real UNIX guys. "One task - one app - one purpose".
...It's just that I prefer nano.
Emacs, well, they might be "unix guys", but they're not following the mantra that vi users are.
The same with irssi.
irssi1 is only an IRC client natively, but irssi2 will be emacs-style, in the sense that it does virtually anything in the broad field that it chose to specialize in.
Me? Well, I'm definately a vi user by heart.
I'm starting to think that Microsoft has a pre-set budget for these kind of expenses.
Also, I'm starting to feel sorry for Microsoft. Partially because they didnt steer to avoid this kind of trouble.
Believe me, you'd rather want a /wiki/Whore. They're cheaper, too!
Indeed you make a valid point, but wouldnt it be completely trivial for such a species to figure out our - to them - simple technology?
It is also widely known that many server administrators are known to install many applications as root. PHP and apache, among many others.
Who should be held responsible for THAT? (Set an X)
[ ] The Apache developers?
[ ] The Linux developers?
[ ] The server "administrator"?
Wow, thanks a bunch. Where did you learn about this trick?
Yeah, it'd be nice if one could close Firefox, and open it again with all the previous tabs open. Something like the Windows Hibernate feature.
Or even better: Let the user configure a preset number of tabs which load automatically upon opening the first instance of a Firefox browser. If a Firefox instance is already open, the user has to click a certain button to make his preset tabs load.
This would be a great feature for me, as I always spend at least 20 seconds opening five tabs each time I start my browser. Google/ig, gmail and slashdot, among others.
Thanks for the kind words.
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By the way: http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164582&ci
The day I learned that BSD isnt true UNIX, I was sad.
I have no knowledge of any solution that could match AD in a UNIX enviroment. But isnt forward-thinking, enthusiasm and a burning desire to improve efficiency, some of the things that companies list as "What we'd like to see"?
Either way, answering all the people who told me "Go to school" would be a tedious task, so I'm only going to answer that request in this post.
Currently, I work as a director for a small company. Concider that "Management experience".
I've been working as IT-support and network administrator since I was 15. I stayed on that job for about a year. The job was more of a hobby, as my boss didnt pay me anything (Apart from $100 every month, for saving his important PDF documents). The job consisted mostly of restarting the router, cleaning the Windows desktops off of virii, and having two desktop machine for myself. One of them had Windows. I mostly surfed the net during my "Work hours", while the Squid proxy on the Linux box I had installed and transparently forced upon every client on the network silently provided me with some extra bandwith to play with.
All my network fiddling worked fine and seamlessly together with the AD solution we had going there which, by the way, was set up and monitored by the exact kind of "click&drool" type of Windows administrators I'm describing. He is one of the most incompetent and overrated IT personell I've ever come across. His take on security is that "If he is pinging a website, the website administrator immediately thinks that it is a hacking attempt".
Mind you, I have a one-year hands-on experience with server security, from the "dark side". While I have never caused any damage, or even ever actually proceeded with a rooting of a server beyond finding and recognizing the security hole and then emailing the webmaster@domain, I think it is suffice to say that I know the "Security of servers 101".
Lastly, I am undergoing an education as a Computer Technician... which translates into "An IT janitor". The job I'm seeking is going to give me the work experience I need to graduate. This education requires me to be on an IT job working with network servers, networks and a small bit of C/C++ programming. To graduate from my education, I need five years total work experience.
Reading the next few lines of text, please note that I am a sucker for the meaty *BSD flavor.
For network-specific servers, I'd pitch OpenBSD, as it has proven to me that it is indeed capable of such tasks. Also, it has a great reputation for being very strict about it's "Forbidden untill permission is given" policy. It would run Squid and ipfilter. I'd love to set up such a puppy to service a 150-people average daily users.
I'd rather go with a box to act as a router, because my experience with regular enterprise-level routers is that they are expensive, and they do not allow for the amount of flexibility that I demand from my network routing implementation. When have you last seen a transparent Squid proxy running on a Cisco router?
For communicational purposes, FreeBSD. SMTP, POP3, whatever you can think of. This is because I feel more confident in FreeBSD than I do in OpenBSD.
File servers (SMB, FTP, etc.) also all go in my book as quite great tasks to complete by utilizing FreeBSD.
Webserver? While I do not think of Linux as a "UNIX flavor", I'd consider it for a webserver, but that depends on the scalability needed.
Now, do you want me to tell you why SSH'ing is better than telnetting to a server, or do I qualify to suggest you a OpenBSD box for a router?
Could you then tell me, what the heck are these things:
SAP?
SME?
SEM?
etc... etc... etc...
I'd be more than happy to walk into a company, and become one of those average Windows administrators who point, click, drool, point, click, drool, etc. I already know how to configure your average 150 employees AD server, just by reading a book (And trying it for myself).
But I'd be damned if I didnt convert the whole thing into UNIX stuff within the end of the next year.
Today is my first actual day of jobseeking. I've just created an online CV at a job portal, and I'm looking through the list of job offers. .net and knows all kinds of Business-IT jargon.
The list does not leave much for an 18-year-old PHP developer with special interest in UNIX and overall network, web and server security. The list of job offers has more to offer to a person who can call himself a "Senior Software Engineer" who can develop in
I'm a little bit frustrated, but there are a few... a very few companies who are just looking for a good 'ol UNIX systems administrator.
Google has just built a LEGO castle.
Goatse is for real.
Actually, the activity of stretching ones anus is arousing for certain people.
Concider buttplugs as a mild version of Goatse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse
They busted this. ... showing his ass on cable.
The answer was no, and Adam even tried getting shot by a penny in the ass for the purpose of
Think about it.
Result:
2,8242294079603478742934215780245e+456573
time: 3:15
or: 195 seconds.
Average CPU usage already: 10%
CPU: Intel Pentium IV, 2.4GHz @ 2.6Ghz (18x144MHz)
Why hasnt anyone posted this yet?
FF rc2 @ mozilla
Three minutes have passed, and no replies?
I guess the hype about AJAX isnt big as we all previously believed...
I mean, if I had mod points, I would probably vote this +1, Funny, because it actually entertained me a bit.
Wether the I in RAID stands for Inexpensive, Independent, or Irritating, is not a fact - It's a technology, just like SATA is.
Anyhow. I am a Seagate purist. I have two Seagate Barracuda 80GB drives, and one Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB drive. I'm extremely satisfied, as I have yet to experience a harddrive failure - And these drives have been running since I bought them over about a year ago, for 24/7 (My system's uptime is 96,3%).
The review of the 7200.9 drive which was linked to in the article, disappointed me quite a bit. I was hoping to gain a Cool Factor point or two by having Seagate drives.
Nevermind, I'm still a Seagate fanboy.
The point that the Open-Source zealots who disrespect this kind of project seem to be missing, is the fact that different tasks require different tools.
While Windows XP is my OS of choice when selecting a desktop OS, FreeBSD is my exclusive choice when I require the power and functionality a UNIX-like OS can deliver - Like when running a web- or file server.
I do realize that Linux in certain situation can beat the crap out of Windows when used as a desktop OS, and I do realize that Windows can beat the crap out of any UNIX-like OS at rare occasions (Pun not intended).
Software, to me, is a matter of choice - Not a matter of ideal.
One thing I'd like to know is - How does overclocking my graphics card, improve my (graphic) gaming experience?