What are you doing awake so early in the morning?
I am guessing that you are on the late / early shift, things are slow and you have some time to catchup on all your slashdotting. It's so quiet and if it wan't for slashdot you'd go mad! BTDT!
So how does this effect me if I live outside of the USA and don't have a clue what the U.S constitution or Bill Of Rights says?
Does my country's laws kick in? Because if it is all electronic then surely they can stretch across borders and mess with my system too.
Yeah and I love that everytime a window opens or data scrolls through a list box there are those cool 'digital click' sound effects. And their window borders are never grey - they're always 'Funky' to match the background lighting of the forensics lab.
Wow strong words.
Let's examine what a server is supposed to do in an enterprise:
(Among other things)
1] Security
2] Resource Server (file, print etc)
3] EMail
4] Web
Also things like...
A] Replication
B] Scalability
C] Failover
And so on...
Now in which of these areas do you think that Linux is not well suited?
I am not Flaimbating I am genuinely interested because I am in the linux vs Solaris situation at the moment and I would love some insight into where you think Linux falls short.
That post was both interesting and inspiring. Thanks for that.
Just yesterday I installed Mandriva on my PC and started doing some C coding (not C++ cos it seems that everything I need to do at the low level is C).
It is my aim to learn linux development as best I can. Start with small kernel recompiles/patches etc for my local machine and see where I get.
Like I said your post was an inspiration.
This includes things as replacing your old XP software with Ubuntu and selling the disk, certificate, box and packaging on ebay Are you sure about this? Because I was once going to purchase some MS software from an auction site and decided to contact MS to check if it was legal. They replied that as long as the other guy had completely uninstalled it from his PC there would be no issues.
That was a well thought out response.
I am a believer but I came at that decision by a very hard fought intellectual battle so I totally know where you are coming from and wouldn't assume for a second to tell you what to believe.
One thing that you might find interesting from an archaeological point of view is this exersize...
Type something like this into Google.... real mt sinai... or a variation on that theme.
Basically the idea is this. Moses and the Hebrews fled Egypt and arrived at mt Sinai.
While there, a lot of things happened. God decended on the mountain as a burning fire, Moses set up pillars around the mountain, the israelites built a golden calf, Moses split the rock and water came out of it and so on and so on - you know the story. Also centuries later the Bible tells us that Elijah visited the mountain and stayed in a cave.
Well the big question is where is this place? If it existed surely there would be archaeologocal evidence for it. I mean, some 2 million people (depending on your interpretation) spending a few years in an area with all this supernatural stuff going on must have left an historical footprint of some kind.
Well the commonly accepted site is in the plains of the Sinai paninsula - so named by the mother of Constantine who believed that she knew where this place was.
Unfotunately there is no evidence at this 'accepted' site.
However some - non archaeologists - have found another site in Saudi Arabia.
They have dubbed it the 'Real' Mt Sinai.
Look it up on Google there is a hugely suggestive historical footprint - I say suggestive because as far as I know - no aerchaeologist has visited the site to make any studies. The Saudi's have fenced the mountain off and blocked all access to it. Some people have sneaked in however and there are pics and stuff on the net.
Here is a list of some of the things that they have found:
1] The entire top of the mountain is burned black. Only this one peak. And the rocks are normal inside - suggesting being burnt from the outside. (The Bible says that God decended like a fire onto the mountain summit)
2] There is a huge cleaved rock standing on a hill, with water erosion at its base. (There is no flowing water for miles)
3] there is a cave on the opposite hill.
4] There are pillare remnants around the base. (and their number exactly matches the number that God told Moses to put down)
And numerous others.
It is interesting if nothing else.
Now I know that 99.9% of people that read this will start an immediate intellectual defense to defend their ingrained POV - I did that too, but your post seems to suggest that you are able to process information neutrally and without bias. Letting the evidence produce a decision rather than a pre convceied notion inform your interpretation. - Hmmm is didn't articulate that too well but I hope you know what I mean:)
In theory AV companies say "... pay us money and we will release you of the infection..."
From F-Secure's website...
"
F-Secure Anti-Virus can detect and decrypt files encrypted by Gpcode trojan as well as it can detect and remove the trojan's file. If you are hit by this trojan and your files are encrypted, please scan ALL files on your hard disk and they will be decrypted.
"
I know that they didn't put it there in the first place but there is some parrallelism isn't there?
I disagree with your sig.
Who were the good guys in WW2 and who were the bad guys?
What Hitler did in the 30's and 40's is just what other nations had done before and since (including the Bristish and Americans) to other nations, and who stopped them?
You say that 'war' ended the Nazi movement, but what replaced it?
Ended slavery? Maybe it ended one form of it in America, but even Africans had slaves before they were slaves themselves. I'm not saying it's right, I 'm just speaking aganst the blanket statement of yur sig.
Anyway I could go on but I don't really want to.
Look guys, certain things are inevitable.
They will eventually clone a human - somewhere in the world - regardless of laws.
We will eventually have computer chips embedded under our skin - it will start with a way to track children, then a way to expedite purchases, then a way to hold critical medical info and so on.
And so on and so on...
All we can do is educate ourselves, stay informed and be alert.
To quote David Letterman, when interviewing Bill O'Reilly... "I'm not smart enough to debate you, but I have a feeling that 90% of everything you say is crap"
By my estimates there are many government and other activities which could be considered 'terrorist' by some definitions of the word.
Back in South Africa Nelson Mandela was considered a 'terrorist'.
So how do we define 'terrorism' without implicating the so-called 'good guys'?
Wow this sounds like a cool little project.
You should blog it with step-by-step instructions for others who might like to try it out ( like me:) )
I love to hear stories of people who innovate by thinking outside the spinning rhombus.
Is there anything they can't do?
Seriously, since moving to NZ I have been very impressed with the level of brilliance that I have encountered. They really do 'punch above their weight' so to speak and consistently produce amazing results.
I have been challenged to lift my own game quite a lot.
I remember when I was a youngster living in South Africa. We were told that the government was corrupt because they were white supremacists. Then the black government came into power and were just as corrupt. It then dawned on me that PEOPLE=GREED and POWER=OPPORTUNITY.
When I studied government administration as one of my college modules we did the prcuremnt process and the lecturer went to great pains to tell us some of the schemes that people came up with to win contracts. Wow, the human mind has no limit when it comes to selfishness.
I do a lot of Biztalk dev and I often need to send data to remote HTTP locations.
Usually the outgoing message is transformed inside an outgoing pipeline and it is not always easy to see exactly what is being sent to the client. This is where WireShark has come in handy. I just monitor my ethernet interface for a few seconds. The results are usually colour coded and easy to read. Very useful tool.
I think that it is interesting that although we are more 'connected' electronically speaking, we are chosing to spend more time isolated - physically speaking - in front of consoles in our lounges and studies. Typing messages over a keyboeard to a pseudonym we'll never meet. Yes I do know that there are gamers who have in-house organised gaming sessions - but I think that the typical player would be a - in my house - alone - type player. And then there is the content of the games. Just like some of the more successful movies I guess, we seem to crave the idea of pain, mayhem, slaughter, rebellion etc Sure they are challenging but I wonder if there is something deeper going on here. I guess (nearly?) all sports are built around the same psychology (defeat, crush, destroy, out perform) it's just that more people can vent the same energy without the physical restriction. Hmmm I wonder if other art forms would be as successful if they catered more to this spirit? Peotry, Art, Sculpting and such
I'm not trying to bait or anything but I am curious. Why does the internet community give so much energy to the liberation of Tibet but they don't do the same to the USA, South Africa, Australia etc that are overrun and controlled by accupying colonial powers. Yes they may be 'democracies' but if you go and speak to a native aborigony and ask them about it I think that their perspective would be different to that of some slashdotters.
There are occupying forces all over the world and all throughout history - I just wonder why we choose to make a fuss over Tibet when there are injustices in our own backyard that we are choosing to ignore.
I am a huge fan of PC-BSD but I have found it to be very slow. On both my laptop and PC it is slow.
To open firefox or openoffice or netbeans takes very long. The updates are huge and everytime I install the startup process hangs on the sendmail initiation and I have to edit a file to make that go away. I believe it has promise but it's not there yet.
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What are you doing awake so early in the morning? I am guessing that you are on the late / early shift, things are slow and you have some time to catchup on all your slashdotting. It's so quiet and if it wan't for slashdot you'd go mad! BTDT!
16!? Damn you're doing pretty well. When I was 16 I couldn't even spell maeths or psychics
So how does this effect me if I live outside of the USA and don't have a clue what the U.S constitution or Bill Of Rights says? Does my country's laws kick in? Because if it is all electronic then surely they can stretch across borders and mess with my system too.
I see what you did there. I say well done sir!
Yeah and I love that everytime a window opens or data scrolls through a list box there are those cool 'digital click' sound effects. And their window borders are never grey - they're always 'Funky' to match the background lighting of the forensics lab.
Wow strong words. Let's examine what a server is supposed to do in an enterprise: (Among other things) 1] Security 2] Resource Server (file, print etc) 3] EMail 4] Web Also things like ...
A] Replication
B] Scalability
C] Failover
And so on ...
Now in which of these areas do you think that Linux is not well suited?
I am not Flaimbating I am genuinely interested because I am in the linux vs Solaris situation at the moment and I would love some insight into where you think Linux falls short.
That post was both interesting and inspiring. Thanks for that. Just yesterday I installed Mandriva on my PC and started doing some C coding (not C++ cos it seems that everything I need to do at the low level is C). It is my aim to learn linux development as best I can. Start with small kernel recompiles /patches etc for my local machine and see where I get.
Like I said your post was an inspiration.
Wow I love reading these kinds of case studies. I would love it if you would blog / rcord this somewhere so that the rest of us could learn from it.
That was a well thought out response. I am a believer but I came at that decision by a very hard fought intellectual battle so I totally know where you are coming from and wouldn't assume for a second to tell you what to believe. One thing that you might find interesting from an archaeological point of view is this exersize ...
Type something like this into Google .... real mt sinai ... or a variation on that theme.
Basically the idea is this. Moses and the Hebrews fled Egypt and arrived at mt Sinai.
While there, a lot of things happened. God decended on the mountain as a burning fire, Moses set up pillars around the mountain, the israelites built a golden calf, Moses split the rock and water came out of it and so on and so on - you know the story. Also centuries later the Bible tells us that Elijah visited the mountain and stayed in a cave.
Well the big question is where is this place? If it existed surely there would be archaeologocal evidence for it. I mean, some 2 million people (depending on your interpretation) spending a few years in an area with all this supernatural stuff going on must have left an historical footprint of some kind.
Well the commonly accepted site is in the plains of the Sinai paninsula - so named by the mother of Constantine who believed that she knew where this place was.
Unfotunately there is no evidence at this 'accepted' site.
However some - non archaeologists - have found another site in Saudi Arabia.
They have dubbed it the 'Real' Mt Sinai.
Look it up on Google there is a hugely suggestive historical footprint - I say suggestive because as far as I know - no aerchaeologist has visited the site to make any studies. The Saudi's have fenced the mountain off and blocked all access to it. Some people have sneaked in however and there are pics and stuff on the net.
Here is a list of some of the things that they have found:
1] The entire top of the mountain is burned black. Only this one peak. And the rocks are normal inside - suggesting being burnt from the outside. (The Bible says that God decended like a fire onto the mountain summit)
2] There is a huge cleaved rock standing on a hill, with water erosion at its base. (There is no flowing water for miles)
3] there is a cave on the opposite hill.
4] There are pillare remnants around the base. (and their number exactly matches the number that God told Moses to put down)
And numerous others.
It is interesting if nothing else.
Now I know that 99.9% of people that read this will start an immediate intellectual defense to defend their ingrained POV - I did that too, but your post seems to suggest that you are able to process information neutrally and without bias. Letting the evidence produce a decision rather than a pre convceied notion inform your interpretation. - Hmmm is didn't articulate that too well but I hope you know what I mean :)
In theory AV companies say "... pay us money and we will release you of the infection..." From F-Secure's website ...
"
F-Secure Anti-Virus can detect and decrypt files encrypted by Gpcode trojan as well as it can detect and remove the trojan's file. If you are hit by this trojan and your files are encrypted, please scan ALL files on your hard disk and they will be decrypted.
"
I know that they didn't put it there in the first place but there is some parrallelism isn't there?
I disagree with your sig. Who were the good guys in WW2 and who were the bad guys? What Hitler did in the 30's and 40's is just what other nations had done before and since (including the Bristish and Americans) to other nations, and who stopped them? You say that 'war' ended the Nazi movement, but what replaced it? Ended slavery? Maybe it ended one form of it in America, but even Africans had slaves before they were slaves themselves. I'm not saying it's right, I 'm just speaking aganst the blanket statement of yur sig. Anyway I could go on but I don't really want to.
Look guys, certain things are inevitable. They will eventually clone a human - somewhere in the world - regardless of laws. We will eventually have computer chips embedded under our skin - it will start with a way to track children, then a way to expedite purchases, then a way to hold critical medical info and so on. And so on and so on ...
All we can do is educate ourselves, stay informed and be alert.
To quote David Letterman, when interviewing Bill O'Reilly ... "I'm not smart enough to debate you, but I have a feeling that 90% of everything you say is crap"
By my estimates there are many government and other activities which could be considered 'terrorist' by some definitions of the word. Back in South Africa Nelson Mandela was considered a 'terrorist'. So how do we define 'terrorism' without implicating the so-called 'good guys'?
Wow this sounds like a cool little project. You should blog it with step-by-step instructions for others who might like to try it out ( like me :) )
I love to hear stories of people who innovate by thinking outside the spinning rhombus.
I remember reading an article about Round Robin DNS setup as a way of combatting DOS attacks. This seems to be a similar thing on a much bigger scale.
Is there anything they can't do? Seriously, since moving to NZ I have been very impressed with the level of brilliance that I have encountered. They really do 'punch above their weight' so to speak and consistently produce amazing results. I have been challenged to lift my own game quite a lot.
I remember when I was a youngster living in South Africa. We were told that the government was corrupt because they were white supremacists. Then the black government came into power and were just as corrupt. It then dawned on me that PEOPLE=GREED and POWER=OPPORTUNITY. When I studied government administration as one of my college modules we did the prcuremnt process and the lecturer went to great pains to tell us some of the schemes that people came up with to win contracts. Wow, the human mind has no limit when it comes to selfishness.
I do a lot of Biztalk dev and I often need to send data to remote HTTP locations. Usually the outgoing message is transformed inside an outgoing pipeline and it is not always easy to see exactly what is being sent to the client. This is where WireShark has come in handy. I just monitor my ethernet interface for a few seconds. The results are usually colour coded and easy to read. Very useful tool.
I think that it is interesting that although we are more 'connected' electronically speaking, we are chosing to spend more time isolated - physically speaking - in front of consoles in our lounges and studies. Typing messages over a keyboeard to a pseudonym we'll never meet. Yes I do know that there are gamers who have in-house organised gaming sessions - but I think that the typical player would be a - in my house - alone - type player.
And then there is the content of the games. Just like some of the more successful movies I guess, we seem to crave the idea of pain, mayhem, slaughter, rebellion etc
Sure they are challenging but I wonder if there is something deeper going on here.
I guess (nearly?) all sports are built around the same psychology (defeat, crush, destroy, out perform) it's just that more people can vent the same energy without the physical restriction.
Hmmm I wonder if other art forms would be as successful if they catered more to this spirit?
Peotry, Art, Sculpting and such
I'm not trying to bait or anything but I am curious. Why does the internet community give so much energy to the liberation of Tibet but they don't do the same to the USA, South Africa, Australia etc that are overrun and controlled by accupying colonial powers. Yes they may be 'democracies' but if you go and speak to a native aborigony and ask them about it I think that their perspective would be different to that of some slashdotters. There are occupying forces all over the world and all throughout history - I just wonder why we choose to make a fuss over Tibet when there are injustices in our own backyard that we are choosing to ignore.
I am a huge fan of PC-BSD but I have found it to be very slow. On both my laptop and PC it is slow. To open firefox or openoffice or netbeans takes very long. The updates are huge and everytime I install the startup process hangs on the sendmail initiation and I have to edit a file to make that go away. I believe it has promise but it's not there yet.