"Bill? I just have a quick question this time. I know you said stop calling but this will just take a minute."
Redials
"Bill - yeah, it's me. I know, I know. Hey why do I have to reinstall NT if Publisher crashes and burns? Since Microsoft wrote both the OS and the app can't you release a patch? Bill? Bill?"
I also work for a Fortune 100 company and am one of several people who are "on-call". We all have pagers, but we don't often need to come in for emergencies (it is a Novell shop - obviously we don't run much MS on the server side:)
If we have to come in for overtime, the company pays for four hours (at the overtime rate) even if you are only on premises for 15 minutes. I like it when something goes wrong after hours since they make it well worth my time. Since more than one of us are on-call, if someone is out of town it is understandable - we just exchange our weekend plans during the week so we know such-and-such won't be available.
I can easily see this happening. Construction worker(s) are hired to do piecework: "Put a wall from here to there." The computer is in plain site, but the administrator is not, or has already made it clear that he is far "too busy to talk right now." The supervisor (if there is one) or installers say "Screw him, then" and put the wall where they are told, leaving the admin to figure out where his computer went...which he obviously was too busy to get around to (or even notice).
No doubt. The only Novell server my current employer had when I started was a 3.12 server that had been up for about two years. It was a 486 with 64 Mb and the only reason we were afraid to reboot it was the hard drive might not spin back up.
I was in a Starbucks the other day and got a large cappucino - it was half foam. Borders has a real cappucino for $3.40 that is full to the top with 3 (count 'em: 3) shots of espresso. Screw Starbucks.
I once had the pleasure and honor of hearing Ellison speak as the key note speaker at a science fiction convention. The guy is brilliant, funny and quite level-headed IMHO. Course, this was almost twenty years ago; he may have grown more opinionated over time.
I'm not saying it's right or moral to download music, warez or whatever other copyrighted data is available on the web, I'm just saying it is inevitable and impossible to stop.
The RIAA can shut down Napster, but we will eventually have a solution that *can't* be stopped (sending files over p2p https connections, for example).
All I'm saying is it may or may not be right to share files (probably the latter in most cases today) but the RIAA and everyone else is just going to have to get used to it.
splitting powerful permissions away from the idea of a 'root' user may make system weaknesses harder to identify and close down.
You are missing the point. The idea is that if a process is compromised, the cracker does not own the entire system since the superuser account is not tied to that process.
Yeah - like the hyperlinks to products for sale. When you would search for a tech article it would hyperlink something like "router" to a Cisco ad (just an example - I don't know if Cisco advertised with them or not).
As for DNS timeouts I would doubt that is the delay. I don't personally use junkbusters - I use ipchains rules on my firewall to reject outbound browser request to advertisers' IP addresses. Since the output chain uses a "REJECT" it doesn't have to wait for timeout, at least as far as IP goes. I don't know enough about HTML to know whether the page code requires a response from the remote server to finish doing what it wants to do. What usually happens is the ads don't come up, but the hourglass remains even after the page has loaded. Even with the hourglass the cursor works, so browsing is quicker.
After using the new Google interface (I use it as my homepage now since Deja is defunct) I have to admit it is really fast. But will it remain that quick when they bring the rest of the archive online...
You make a good point. A friend and I were recently discussing that very question. I would easily pay $50 per year to access the archives since 1995. I use them every day for troubleshooting or just to read and post in the comp.os.linux.* threads.
Oh, come ON! Still hiding behind firewalls, are we? Why don't you just connect that default install to the web 24/7 like a *real* man? What's a little break-in now and then? Sure, I bet all your data is valuable, especially those pic.s of Natalie P.
And.mp3s - real valuable since you are sharing them with Napster anyway, why not just open Windows file shares or Samba to the whole world? Shouldn't open source types who want information to be free lead by example?...
or DHCP servers or routers. They are nice and small and at these prices, you can use individual boxes dedicated to each of these functions and have replacement boxes ready to go.
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Nah. You would need an SUV for Monica to have more ... uh ... head room.
and let it broadcast appletalk all day long. Ought to do the job nicely.
"Bill? I just have a quick question this time. I know you said stop calling but this will just take a minute."
Redials
"Bill - yeah, it's me. I know, I know. Hey why do I have to reinstall NT if Publisher crashes and burns? Since Microsoft wrote both the OS and the app can't you release a patch? Bill? Bill?"
God, I would love Bill Gates' home number.
If we have to come in for overtime, the company pays for four hours (at the overtime rate) even if you are only on premises for 15 minutes. I like it when something goes wrong after hours since they make it well worth my time. Since more than one of us are on-call, if someone is out of town it is understandable - we just exchange our weekend plans during the week so we know such-and-such won't be available.
I can easily see this happening. Construction worker(s) are hired to do piecework: "Put a wall from here to there." The computer is in plain site, but the administrator is not, or has already made it clear that he is far "too busy to talk right now." The supervisor (if there is one) or installers say "Screw him, then" and put the wall where they are told, leaving the admin to figure out where his computer went...which he obviously was too busy to get around to (or even notice).
No doubt. The only Novell server my current employer had when I started was a 3.12 server that had been up for about two years. It was a 486 with 64 Mb and the only reason we were afraid to reboot it was the hard drive might not spin back up.
Yeah, but 5.01 is nice and stable and doesn't hog RAM so why not upgrade? It don't cost nuthin'.
or shame.
Yeah - I see you posted on Usenet already with no success. Have you tried mkbootdisk instead? See this post.
This assumes you have a life, which considering the audience is ... optimistic :)
Or us pansies who want to drink the coffee in a coffee house where there are girls...get it?
I was in a Starbucks the other day and got a large cappucino - it was half foam. Borders has a real cappucino for $3.40 that is full to the top with 3 (count 'em: 3) shots of espresso. Screw Starbucks.
I once had the pleasure and honor of hearing Ellison speak as the key note speaker at a science fiction convention. The guy is brilliant, funny and quite level-headed IMHO. Course, this was almost twenty years ago; he may have grown more opinionated over time.
The RIAA can shut down Napster, but we will eventually have a solution that *can't* be stopped (sending files over p2p https connections, for example).
All I'm saying is it may or may not be right to share files (probably the latter in most cases today) but the RIAA and everyone else is just going to have to get used to it.
Valid point. However *completely non-responsive*. How about some suggestions for Linux?
You are missing the point. The idea is that if a process is compromised, the cracker does not own the entire system since the superuser account is not tied to that process.
Except free! After the recent demonstration at Openhack III, this looks like a really Good Thing. Now the kernel can do effectively the same thing :)
Yeah - like the hyperlinks to products for sale. When you would search for a tech article it would hyperlink something like "router" to a Cisco ad (just an example - I don't know if Cisco advertised with them or not).
As for DNS timeouts I would doubt that is the delay. I don't personally use junkbusters - I use ipchains rules on my firewall to reject outbound browser request to advertisers' IP addresses. Since the output chain uses a "REJECT" it doesn't have to wait for timeout, at least as far as IP goes. I don't know enough about HTML to know whether the page code requires a response from the remote server to finish doing what it wants to do. What usually happens is the ads don't come up, but the hourglass remains even after the page has loaded. Even with the hourglass the cursor works, so browsing is quicker.
After using the new Google interface (I use it as my homepage now since Deja is defunct) I have to admit it is really fast. But will it remain that quick when they bring the rest of the archive online...
You make a good point. A friend and I were recently discussing that very question. I would easily pay $50 per year to access the archives since 1995. I use them every day for troubleshooting or just to read and post in the comp.os.linux.* threads.
One word: junkbuster.
Did you notice that the people at the Chase site (didn't look at the other one) wouldn't use their full names?
Exactly. Even if she doesn't outright ask, it is nice to be able to provide for her (and maybe build a financial foundation for kids someday?)
And .mp3s - real valuable since you are sharing them with Napster anyway, why not just open Windows file shares or Samba to the whole world? Shouldn't open source types who want information to be free lead by example?...
or DHCP servers or routers. They are nice and small and at these prices, you can use individual boxes dedicated to each of these functions and have replacement boxes ready to go.