Everyone here is talking about ActiveX and stuff, but I'm just simply PISSED at this company! Wouldn't you just love to get a baseball bat and sock these guys a homerun? That's how I feel about it, I can't explain my frustration with the situation, it just deeply angers me that they'd do this. I am so goddamn sick of stupid assholes like this. Yesterday I was at my friends house for an hour disarming his virus. I've had enough of these kids. I want them in the ring, with my baseball bat.
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
I am no expert on this situation, but from what I see, ID has had a lot of employee turnover in the last year.
The way I see it, for a REAL programmer to go to somethign as gay as a CONSOLE system named "Dolphin", it probably would take a good amount of money. Is ID/Carmack not putting up the competition for labor? Are there problems behind the scenes at ID?
I myself am a critic of Carmack, I read his interviews and just don't like him. ID has few workers and loads of revenue. I hope they're treating their employees properly.
It just seems that they're falling apart.
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
I'm very seriously thinking about investing some good money in this company (well, I'm 18 and don't have that much money, but a good amount for someone of my status)... The stock price is at the high of its life, but that hasn't stopped me before, and whenever I have a good feeling about something like this, it does great.
Kinda like when i bought netopia at 6, 100 shares. today netopia is at 87. 1450% increase isn't too shabby:) I bought it when I had just heard about DSL and thought it was the future. I was pretty right... and embedded linux systems should be the future as well.
also bought amd at 17, now at 42, its been up to 45 or higher very recently. AMD has much growth as well to come, especially if Intel keeps screwing up!
Bought a company called aware at 10, just because my uncle opened my account with 100 bux, so i bought 10 shares. It's a cablemodem/dslmodem company. Shortly it rose to 80!
I don't buy stock because of the stupid numbers, I buy it becuase the future of the company looks promising. There have been others. I think that this technology is VERY promising, and from that standpoint, im' going to buy this stock.
Any other viewpoints? Thanks!
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
All I can say, is that this is about time, he has been asking for this to happen for a long time, shoveling shit at people, now, I suppose it comes back at him..
"The shit rolls downhill, but the stink rises up!"
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
Does anyone ever create source RPM's from these pre-releases? If so, I'd be willing to try it. Otherwise i don't think so:) - Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
One thing that some of you linux "gods" forget about is the usability action for newbies. This is why I fully support things like RPM and think that they should be expanded as well. However, there is a point where the newbies must learn how to do stuff as well, and RPM type things really don't teach much except rpm -Uvh and rpm -e:)
One thing that i propose is that once there is a good, unified standard, that it gets CLEARLY and CONCISELY explained as far as its usability is concerned. Then after that have more in-depth faq's for you pros. Just don't leave out the newbies, please. Linux community won't grow without them, as much as some of you hate this fact:)
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
But the people who truly deserve the blame for the public's hours-long inability to swap "Steam Engine" jackknives on eBay are the short-sighted, tight-fisted monkeys who managed to build a multi-billion dollar industry on an insecure networking system, something so fragile that it can be brought to its knees by anyone willing to bother. The fact that a target as big and fat as Yahoo is fundamentally vulnerable to something as simple as a DoS attack is a clear invitation to go right ahead and shut them down.
Whoa, that's pretty intense there. They also go on to say that since vandalism is inevitable, its up to the people who will be vandalized to protect themselves. I agree to a good extent.
My question is this: How can you properly protect against many DOS attacks? Once so many requests come in from one IP, you block that IP? I can see problems there, such as if many customers through one ISP go through a cachebox. The way I see it, stopping this is just as hard as stopping the slashdot effect. What types of protections are there concering router-level protection?
thanks..
PS - I know that packets coming from our ISP cannot be spoofed due to our routers, so if my box (soul.apk.net) caught wind of the problem, nothing would be allowed out anyway. However, I don't think it's always our job to do the security for outgoing traffic.
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
Now come on, how this fall under "stuff that matters?"
I'll have to agree here. It's my professional opinion that the content should be relevant. Get in the game, Hemos. However, maybe it was worth it to put it there because it's a slow Sunday. But in that case, why not post about Charles Schultz's death (Yes... i know:-( )... ?
I think that the games should be left to a site like Thresh's FiringSquad unless its announced for Linux or BSD. Oh wait, nothing comes out for BSD! hahaa, BSD fools. Ok well BSD is good for its stuff, but It won't get GAMES! Chill out everyone, RIP Charles Schultz.
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
The amount of research done by colleges always impresses me, but one thing I've noticed is that they're really never doing anythign up in space. I think colleges could possibly link up and actually get something done out there in conjunction with NASA. Would it not be a nice step towards more space exploration? Colleges know mucho!
And back to the article... wouldnt' this be a perfect place to put a super-overclocked processor in the robot?:) - Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
It seems that the advertisers are forgetting their main purpose - to make me want to buy their "stuff", or use their service. The successful commercials did this well, such as the monkey E-Trade ad (what are you doing with YOUR money, they just wasted 2mill!), and the Gladiator movie trailer... VERY cool!
The Budweiser overkill wasn't bad, but they've done better with their advertisements as well. What happened to Millertime? Didn't see ANY of that, I used to love those (i haven't watched TV for quite some time).
Now my idea for these commercials would be something very simple... such as having some AMAZLINGLY hot girl pouring whatever Beer all over her naked body, which is covered by VERY small little black censor boxes. WOW, i'll support that beer! you know?
Another idea i kept yelling out is that they should just have NINJAS come out and beat the crap out of the idiots in the commercials.. how great would that be?!:)
Or have one of those BMW commercials where a BMW just flies by going 150 and TOTALS a Lexus or something. WOW! That'd be amazing..
My point: the commercials are NOT giving America what they want to see. And it's very simple: Sex, violence, substance abuse (this would be limited to alcohol in this case), and strong humor. The advertisers must look at who's watching these games and appeal more to it.
one more thing: The dotcom commercials were horrible. i dont like having idiots walk through the street blabbing about better jobs or whatever, it could hvae been done better. And knowing that there'd be SO many dotcom commercials, they should have found a better way to implant the domains into the viewers heads, because i can't remember most of them that did advertise their domains!
The advertising should break through and stop it with the same boring stuff, and make me want to GET what they got! They didn't make me thirsty/horny/excited enough! Stimulation is what is needed... good thing it was a great football game at least! I almost won the pool:/
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
This here is proof that Congress should not be in control of regulation of technology and should not be making laws if they cannot understand it. Simply having speakers come in and try to explain what's going on isn't going to help either, because many of them won't undertand it, and there's this stupid thing called LOBBYISM.
The same goes for economics. There are a bunch of idiots in Congress who don't understand simple laws of supply and demand, and love to throw things out of equilibrium. If they maybe understood a bit, we'd be in better shape.
All in all,there need to be better technology and economics sectors because they just don't get what's going on, and they're really hurting it for those who DO. - Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
I think that the main concern of the linux community is getting games that are addictive and long, that will KEEP the user in linux, and out of windows for that amount of time. Such a game for me was Diablo, which I spent far too much of my time with, but loved it. If there's no Diablo II for Linux, i'm going to be in Windows for quite some time, which will hurt.
It's my gut feeling that once there's quality 3d support in Linux, we're going to be in much smoother water as far as new games go.
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
This is yet another example where the general public in benefits once patents expire. Capitalism takes control and multiple companies can compete to provide the consumer with a better product for less money or for free. The set of laws that govern IP in the USA severely need to be reformed to work properly in the internet age. The RSA patent is one of few examples of a computer-related patent that still has usefulness after it expires. 17 years is too long for a government granted and subsidized monoply.
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
Not only is it silly/expensive/low benefits, but one thing many people don't realize is that these reviewers who check out the overclocked Athlons aren't using them for an extended amount of time. Try using it for 6 months+ and your chances for more problems gets worse and worse. Testing it for a week (if that) might sound good to test speed, but your chip probably isn't going to make the long haul. - Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
My resolution is to add just ONE more face to my list of split personalities that often occur in me... - Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
The second page reports this about the losers (which include Steve Jobs and Billy Goates):
WORLD LEADER: BILL CLINTON, THE UNITED STATES
Sad but true. Under his watch, U.S. companies have turned from entrepreneurs to spoiled children. While we bicker about wireless standards and broadband access and revel in our stock options, nations like China and Finland will usurp our lead
I have to begin to agree with the fact that our technology sector is going to lose it if we do not get proper regulation from people who KNOW what's going on. You can't have 80 year old men regulate something they don't know what their talking about. The same goes for anything, you can't let idiots control the economy if they don't understand economics. I think that the tech industry is going to be spun into a ditch if we aren't allowed more freedom.
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
In working at an ISP here in Cleveland and having made many How-To web pages, I must say that pictures are very essential to documentation, and linux howto's do not have enough of them.
Although many of the text-based unix commands seem to have no need for pictures, even having them pictured would make things easier, so that a newbie would know where to type a command and when.
And then for the graphical interfaces that the newbie will want to see, there should be a LOT more pictures. Just seeing a page full of words is very discouraging, which is why I still hate man pages. I'd rather read 50 pages with pictures around all over the place than 10 pages of pure text. And many others agree. Pictures lighten up documentation.
- Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
What many people are forgetting to realize is what POWER the linux community is putting over the internet. Slashdot has been very prominent in this as well. I'm sure many of you readers E-Mailed fox and yahoo just like I did. And it worked!
We should keep this trend up, and keep mentioning sites where this community is being hurt. Slashdot will cause an uproar and we WILL get our way becuase *nix owns the internet! - Mike Roberto -- roberto@apk.net --- AOL IM: MicroBerto
I work at APK Net, Inc., which is where Linuxquake.com is hosted, and my friends and I have a co-located p75 on the same switch as linuxquake. This article got our entire switch slashdotted, and although it held up well, we got drenched! haha Slashdot you rule
Slashdot Mirror
Sixth, GoHip.com sounds horribly sketchy. No phone numbers, bouncing e-mail addresses...is anyone surprised?
Everyone here is talking about ActiveX and stuff, but I'm just simply PISSED at this company! Wouldn't you just love to get a baseball bat and sock these guys a homerun? That's how I feel about it, I can't explain my frustration with the situation, it just deeply angers me that they'd do this. I am so goddamn sick of stupid assholes like this. Yesterday I was at my friends house for an hour disarming his virus. I've had enough of these kids. I want them in the ring, with my baseball bat.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
I am no expert on this situation, but from what I see, ID has had a lot of employee turnover in the last year.
The way I see it, for a REAL programmer to go to somethign as gay as a CONSOLE system named "Dolphin", it probably would take a good amount of money. Is ID/Carmack not putting up the competition for labor? Are there problems behind the scenes at ID?
I myself am a critic of Carmack, I read his interviews and just don't like him. ID has few workers and loads of revenue. I hope they're treating their employees properly.
It just seems that they're falling apart.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
I'm very seriously thinking about investing some good money in this company (well, I'm 18 and don't have that much money, but a good amount for someone of my status)... The stock price is at the high of its life, but that hasn't stopped me before, and whenever I have a good feeling about something like this, it does great.
:) I bought it when I had just heard about DSL and thought it was the future. I was pretty right... and embedded linux systems should be the future as well.
Kinda like when i bought netopia at 6, 100 shares. today netopia is at 87. 1450% increase isn't too shabby
also bought amd at 17, now at 42, its been up to 45 or higher very recently. AMD has much growth as well to come, especially if Intel keeps screwing up!
Bought a company called aware at 10, just because my uncle opened my account with 100 bux, so i bought 10 shares. It's a cablemodem/dslmodem company. Shortly it rose to 80!
I don't buy stock because of the stupid numbers, I buy it becuase the future of the company looks promising. There have been others. I think that this technology is VERY promising, and from that standpoint, im' going to buy this stock.
Any other viewpoints? Thanks!
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
All I can say, is that this is about time, he has been asking for this to happen for a long time, shoveling shit at people, now, I suppose it comes back at him..
"The shit rolls downhill, but the stink rises up!"
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
Does anyone ever create source RPM's from these pre-releases? If so, I'd be willing to try it. Otherwise i don't think so :)
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
One thing that some of you linux "gods" forget about is the usability action for newbies. This is why I fully support things like RPM and think that they should be expanded as well. However, there is a point where the newbies must learn how to do stuff as well, and RPM type things really don't teach much except rpm -Uvh and rpm -e :)
:)
One thing that i propose is that once there is a good, unified standard, that it gets CLEARLY and CONCISELY explained as far as its usability is concerned. Then after that have more in-depth faq's for you pros. Just don't leave out the newbies, please. Linux community won't grow without them, as much as some of you hate this fact
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
This is from the suck.com article.:
But the people who truly deserve the blame for the public's hours-long inability to swap "Steam Engine" jackknives on eBay are the short-sighted, tight-fisted monkeys who managed to build a multi-billion dollar industry on an insecure networking system, something so fragile that it can be brought to its knees by anyone willing to bother. The fact that a target as big and fat as Yahoo is fundamentally vulnerable to something as simple as a DoS attack is a clear invitation to go right ahead and shut them down.
Whoa, that's pretty intense there. They also go on to say that since vandalism is inevitable, its up to the people who will be vandalized to protect themselves. I agree to a good extent.
My question is this: How can you properly protect against many DOS attacks? Once so many requests come in from one IP, you block that IP? I can see problems there, such as if many customers through one ISP go through a cachebox. The way I see it, stopping this is just as hard as stopping the slashdot effect. What types of protections are there concering router-level protection?
thanks..
PS - I know that packets coming from our ISP cannot be spoofed due to our routers, so if my box (soul.apk.net) caught wind of the problem, nothing would be allowed out anyway. However, I don't think it's always our job to do the security for outgoing traffic.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
Now come on, how this fall under "stuff that matters?"
:-( )... ?
I'll have to agree here. It's my professional opinion that the content should be relevant. Get in the game, Hemos. However, maybe it was worth it to put it there because it's a slow Sunday. But in that case, why not post about Charles Schultz's death (Yes... i know
I think that the games should be left to a site like Thresh's FiringSquad unless its announced for Linux or BSD. Oh wait, nothing comes out for BSD! hahaa, BSD fools. Ok well BSD is good for its stuff, but It won't get GAMES! Chill out everyone, RIP Charles Schultz.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
Here's what I like to see (from the last sentence of his article):
I suspect it won't be long before browsers on other operating systems start to play catch-up.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
The amount of research done by colleges always impresses me, but one thing I've noticed is that they're really never doing anythign up in space. I think colleges could possibly link up and actually get something done out there in conjunction with NASA. Would it not be a nice step towards more space exploration? Colleges know mucho!
:)
And back to the article... wouldnt' this be a perfect place to put a super-overclocked processor in the robot?
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
It seems that the advertisers are forgetting their main purpose - to make me want to buy their "stuff", or use their service. The successful commercials did this well, such as the monkey E-Trade ad (what are you doing with YOUR money, they just wasted 2mill!), and the Gladiator movie trailer... VERY cool!
:)
:/
The Budweiser overkill wasn't bad, but they've done better with their advertisements as well. What happened to Millertime? Didn't see ANY of that, I used to love those (i haven't watched TV for quite some time).
Now my idea for these commercials would be something very simple... such as having some AMAZLINGLY hot girl pouring whatever Beer all over her naked body, which is covered by VERY small little black censor boxes. WOW, i'll support that beer! you know?
Another idea i kept yelling out is that they should just have NINJAS come out and beat the crap out of the idiots in the commercials.. how great would that be?!
Or have one of those BMW commercials where a BMW just flies by going 150 and TOTALS a Lexus or something. WOW! That'd be amazing..
My point: the commercials are NOT giving America what they want to see. And it's very simple: Sex, violence, substance abuse (this would be limited to alcohol in this case), and strong humor. The advertisers must look at who's watching these games and appeal more to it.
one more thing: The dotcom commercials were horrible. i dont like having idiots walk through the street blabbing about better jobs or whatever, it could hvae been done better. And knowing that there'd be SO many dotcom commercials, they should have found a better way to implant the domains into the viewers heads, because i can't remember most of them that did advertise their domains!
The advertising should break through and stop it with the same boring stuff, and make me want to GET what they got! They didn't make me thirsty/horny/excited enough! Stimulation is what is needed... good thing it was a great football game at least! I almost won the pool
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
This here is proof that Congress should not be in control of regulation of technology and should not be making laws if they cannot understand it. Simply having speakers come in and try to explain what's going on isn't going to help either, because many of them won't undertand it, and there's this stupid thing called LOBBYISM.
The same goes for economics. There are a bunch of idiots in Congress who don't understand simple laws of supply and demand, and love to throw things out of equilibrium. If they maybe understood a bit, we'd be in better shape.
All in all,there need to be better technology and economics sectors because they just don't get what's going on, and they're really hurting it for those who DO.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
I think that the main concern of the linux community is getting games that are addictive and long, that will KEEP the user in linux, and out of windows for that amount of time. Such a game for me was Diablo, which I spent far too much of my time with, but loved it.
If there's no Diablo II for Linux, i'm going to be in Windows for quite some time, which will hurt.
It's my gut feeling that once there's quality 3d support in Linux, we're going to be in much smoother water as far as new games go.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
This is yet another example where the general public in benefits once patents expire. Capitalism takes control and multiple companies can compete to provide the consumer with a better product for less money or for free. The set of laws that govern IP in the USA severely need to be reformed to work properly in the internet age. The RSA patent is one of few examples of a computer-related patent that still has usefulness after it expires. 17 years is too long for a government granted and subsidized monoply.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
I'm going to sue the RIAA now because I'm tired of seeing more stories on slashdot about poor sites and companies being sued over it.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
Not only is it silly/expensive/low benefits, but one thing many people don't realize is that these reviewers who check out the overclocked Athlons aren't using them for an extended amount of time. Try using it for 6 months+ and your chances for more problems gets worse and worse. Testing it for a week (if that) might sound good to test speed, but your chip probably isn't going to make the long haul.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
My resolution is to add just ONE more face to my list of split personalities that often occur in me...
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
boy i'm retarded
s/y/k
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
/s/y/k
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
The second page reports this about the losers (which include Steve Jobs and Billy Goates):
WORLD LEADER: BILL CLINTON, THE UNITED STATES
Sad but true. Under his watch, U.S. companies have turned from entrepreneurs to spoiled children. While we bicker about wireless standards and broadband access and revel in our stock options, nations like China and Finland will usurp our lead
I have to begin to agree with the fact that our technology sector is going to lose it if we do not get proper regulation from people who KNOW what's going on. You can't have 80 year old men regulate something they don't know what their talking about. The same goes for anything, you can't let idiots control the economy if they don't understand economics. I think that the tech industry is going to be spun into a ditch if we aren't allowed more freedom.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
In working at an ISP here in Cleveland and having made many How-To web pages, I must say that pictures are very essential to documentation, and linux howto's do not have enough of them.
Although many of the text-based unix commands seem to have no need for pictures, even having them pictured would make things easier, so that a newbie would know where to type a command and when.
And then for the graphical interfaces that the newbie will want to see, there should be a LOT more pictures. Just seeing a page full of words is very discouraging, which is why I still hate man pages. I'd rather read 50 pages with pictures around all over the place than 10 pages of pure text. And many others agree. Pictures lighten up documentation.
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
What many people are forgetting to realize is what POWER the linux community is putting over the internet. Slashdot has been very prominent in this as well. I'm sure many of you readers E-Mailed fox and yahoo just like I did. And it worked!
We should keep this trend up, and keep mentioning sites where this community is being hurt. Slashdot will cause an uproar and we WILL get our way becuase *nix owns the internet!
- Mike Roberto
-- roberto@apk.net
--- AOL IM: MicroBerto
thanks! I'll use that one on new years
Where can i get a Kernel Panic shot glass?
I work at APK Net, Inc., which is where Linuxquake.com is hosted, and my friends and I have a co-located p75 on the same switch as linuxquake. This article got our entire switch slashdotted, and although it held up well, we got drenched! haha Slashdot you rule