Sounds like a good plan, but slashdot is probably the worst place to do advertising like that, especially as so many of us will* be using AdBlock/NoScript or Squid filtering, thus negating the ads.
* Should be - I recall a stat a little while back that had something like 40% of/. traffic as IE still. The numbers may be wrong.
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Of course, I'd put a lock on my computer that would require complex thought to unlock shortly after...
It doesn't help. It takes three rather complex passwords and a USB fob to unlock my computer, and yet every now and then I wake up in the morning to find a bucket load of C on the screen and no idea how it got there.
What scares me is that "doctors" have "just" discovered this - when I'm sure hundreds (if not thousands) of slashdotters can claim to have done it years ago.
This is utter crap on behalf of any developer. If you make a decent software app and it sells to 100,000 people for $0.99 then how much have you actually made. Yes it is a competitive market, but you sell your app for 0.50c and let people go with it. 100,000 people buying an app for 50c each should more than pay for it. An idea could be as complex as you like and I still can't see spending more than $100 Grand on it for an iPhone app.
Unless you're a shitty developer or you're not writing a good app.
This sort of thing has been available for years, at the same sorts of prices. Who wants a mass list anyway, you can't target spam at people just because they're German and they have a bank account, and stealing that many identities begs the question, "why?". Maybe Poland is going to invade them back or something:D
Complete non sequitor to the argument, anyone with spare mod points feel free to overrate me.
Did anyone notice that the major telco's changed their BPay numbers AND client reference numbers recently? Or are they just trying to fuck me over. The whole BPay system works, but if I wasn't an anal retentive bastard I wouldn't have noticed and just relied on the numbers stored in my banks details for the payments.
Ok... so the real title should be: "Humans associate objects with potential enemies". How is it that scientists get funding for BS research like this when they could be doing something cool like getting me my flying car already.
Whilst I happen to be highly entertained by your idea about GA I should like to recount a little story:
Fully registered and licensed domain of XP machines (~60 or so). Update Windows Genuine Advantage. 58 of them claim to be pirated and cease to work at any level that can be considered acceptable for a corporation.
Stories like that are why people complain about GA.
rrdtool is great to show a graph of disk usage and so forth - for management of servers and for management of managers - but showing it to clients on a tour? Big whoop. Any hick can go make a graph (I personally graph/dev/random a fair bit and give it good titles - or the Fibonacci sequence when I want to get more hardware) so showing it to a bunch of clients (or at least making it the focus) is not such a great idea. Someone further down recommended glTail and I have to agree - it's cute, it's flashy, it feels "Web 2.0" and it gives an accurate on the spot idea of what the server is doing.
Anyone have a link to the google projector where they throw up the current search term on the wall? Completely useless but freaking awesome. That's the sort of thing you want to show clients, not a bunch of graphs about bandwidth usage and CPU speed.
Not when you are admin for a media company or a sales firm. Both people are required to be on the cutting edge of trends. Same applies to a receptionist though that's just because I know she's bored (so long as it doesn't affect her work).
Incidentally if you can get a job as a Digital Researcher that is justification to surf porn on the job (Porn used bluray rather than HD - as a rule not a definition - and look what "won" the market).
Should the beancounters be on facebook? No. Should they be permitted on the Internet? Hell no.
Just because it's a shitty site doesn't mean it's a problem.
Doesn't work for anyone mildly security conscious if you're constantly changing passwords. I have a good 30 passwords active at any given time and they change at least once a month - storing these in a safe sounds good but is not optimal.
Now storing them in a database on an OpenBSD box with no network in said safe might be appropriate - encrypt the system and leave the TrueCrypt keys sealed with your executor (or the lawyer who holds your will?).
Could argue semantics all week if we tried, but for the record my copy of "New Spring" has "A Wheel of Time Novel" on the cover. The 11 books (which, incidentally, have numbers on them) are written as "Book X of The Wheel of Time".
There are 11 books, 12th on the way. Everybody here seems to think there are 13. There are not. There are TWELVE. (This is bugging the hell out of me). The "New Spring" book is a prequel and is not part of the series, it was even written out of order.
New "terrorist" weapon. Botnet to search for plague symptoms in such a manner as it looks like it's moving towards the $COUNTRYOFCHOICE so they go into a massive panic and shut down all communications.
The actual implementation would be difficult, but this was the first thing I thought about when I read false positives.
It is unfortunate that acronis don't offer a free solution, but (despite this fact) I'm still going to recommend them heartily for being solid and damned good. Judging by the fact that your work is "classified" I'm guessing they could afford to shell out a few bucks for the home edition. I've also seen hack jobs put together out of FreeDOS boot disks and file transfers.
They might have the "last time logged in" column in their db. Dunno why they don't take out those who haven't logged in x (say 5) years and give people (say me) those accounts. I was reading slashdot back then, damnit. Was just too lazy to create an account...
So was I but I'll be damned if it doesn't sound like we're just whining about it!
On topic, here's one for you:
(
(
# Handle http, https, and relative URIs:
((https?://([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*(\.[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*)*\.?))|
([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)?
((/([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)*/?) # path
(\#([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)\+]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)? # fragment
)|
# Handle ftp:
(ftp://([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*(\.[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*)*\.?)
((/([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)*/?) # path
(\#([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)\+]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)? # fragment
)
)
It's not mine though, comes courtesy dwheeler.com (whom I've been chatting to recently, hence remembering it was online). A "mostly safe" validation of URI's.
Some things you should keep to yourself no matter how bad it operates;)
This is a real case of quality, support and "bling" factor. To use a (bad) car analogy: There is no need to buy a Mercedes when you can own a Nissan for half the price and it has exactly the same features (it may even be more powerful in some cases). However anyone can drive a Nissan (or can afford to), so there is a certain bling factor to driving the Mercedes. Just like there is a hell of a "bling" factor to owning Sun equipment as opposed to the "hack job" we can all put together. Personally I would prefer to spend twice as much and know that it's no longer my problem, even if it crashes, but that's just the opinion of one Network Admin.
Completely off hand: I've never had a mobo fail in any server, IBM or Dell based.
Nothing wrong with it, except that sometimes my terminal intercepts ^Z before it gets to the SSH connection, sometimes it gets stopped at the other end. I've been known to use so-called 'hack' shells that don't permit job control. I can see where GP is going though, it's just easier to build the functionality into a piece of software and know it works every time rather than rely on the systems around it.
And if you're running vi under someones "sudo" access account, that'll get you a root shell. I use ':sh' personally, mostly to drop to a shell when I'm in the middle of editing something and I just want to quickly check the name of a file.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like a good plan, but slashdot is probably the worst place to do advertising like that, especially as so many of us will* be using AdBlock/NoScript or Squid filtering, thus negating the ads.
/. traffic as IE still. The numbers may be wrong.
* Should be - I recall a stat a little while back that had something like 40% of
Of course, I'd put a lock on my computer that would require complex thought to unlock shortly after...
It doesn't help. It takes three rather complex passwords and a USB fob to unlock my computer, and yet every now and then I wake up in the morning to find a bucket load of C on the screen and no idea how it got there.
What scares me is that "doctors" have "just" discovered this - when I'm sure hundreds (if not thousands) of slashdotters can claim to have done it years ago.
while driving on a windows mobile device
Shouldn't that be +5 AccurateUseOfVehicle ?
This is utter crap on behalf of any developer. If you make a decent software app and it sells to 100,000 people for $0.99 then how much have you actually made. Yes it is a competitive market, but you sell your app for 0.50c and let people go with it. 100,000 people buying an app for 50c each should more than pay for it. An idea could be as complex as you like and I still can't see spending more than $100 Grand on it for an iPhone app.
Unless you're a shitty developer or you're not writing a good app.
At least he's less likely to try and identify me to my local government...
This sort of thing has been available for years, at the same sorts of prices. Who wants a mass list anyway, you can't target spam at people just because they're German and they have a bank account, and stealing that many identities begs the question, "why?". Maybe Poland is going to invade them back or something :D
Complete non sequitor to the argument, anyone with spare mod points feel free to overrate me.
Did anyone notice that the major telco's changed their BPay numbers AND client reference numbers recently? Or are they just trying to fuck me over. The whole BPay system works, but if I wasn't an anal retentive bastard I wouldn't have noticed and just relied on the numbers stored in my banks details for the payments.
Ok... so the real title should be: "Humans associate objects with potential enemies". How is it that scientists get funding for BS research like this when they could be doing something cool like getting me my flying car already.
Whilst I happen to be highly entertained by your idea about GA I should like to recount a little story:
Fully registered and licensed domain of XP machines (~60 or so). Update Windows Genuine Advantage. 58 of them claim to be pirated and cease to work at any level that can be considered acceptable for a corporation.
Stories like that are why people complain about GA.
No we'll be seeing goatse everywhere because of all the crackers who're going to be on site with a copy of ettercap.
Well done London, fucking ingenious.
False
Probably. But you don't need to tell your manager that ;)
I'd actually argue against this.
/dev/random a fair bit and give it good titles - or the Fibonacci sequence when I want to get more hardware) so showing it to a bunch of clients (or at least making it the focus) is not such a great idea. Someone further down recommended glTail and I have to agree - it's cute, it's flashy, it feels "Web 2.0" and it gives an accurate on the spot idea of what the server is doing.
rrdtool is great to show a graph of disk usage and so forth - for management of servers and for management of managers - but showing it to clients on a tour? Big whoop. Any hick can go make a graph (I personally graph
Anyone have a link to the google projector where they throw up the current search term on the wall? Completely useless but freaking awesome. That's the sort of thing you want to show clients, not a bunch of graphs about bandwidth usage and CPU speed.
Not when you are admin for a media company or a sales firm. Both people are required to be on the cutting edge of trends. Same applies to a receptionist though that's just because I know she's bored (so long as it doesn't affect her work).
Incidentally if you can get a job as a Digital Researcher that is justification to surf porn on the job (Porn used bluray rather than HD - as a rule not a definition - and look what "won" the market).
Should the beancounters be on facebook? No. Should they be permitted on the Internet? Hell no.
Just because it's a shitty site doesn't mean it's a problem.
Just a thought.
If your admin isn't secretly keeping logs of you then (s)he is doing something very wrong. And very nice.
Doesn't work for anyone mildly security conscious if you're constantly changing passwords. I have a good 30 passwords active at any given time and they change at least once a month - storing these in a safe sounds good but is not optimal.
Now storing them in a database on an OpenBSD box with no network in said safe might be appropriate - encrypt the system and leave the TrueCrypt keys sealed with your executor (or the lawyer who holds your will?).
God I just realised how geeky that seems.
given that the words "Lenny" and especially "Debian" are a good deal more important to most of us
You realise you're talking about a bunch of geeks who stereotypically have never seen a real life woman? Slashdotter's, new poll:
[ ] Lesbian
[ ] Debian
We'll let the masses decide.
My first thought was more directed towards destroying people without a trace. Push a guy into the machine and voila, no traces.
Could argue semantics all week if we tried, but for the record my copy of "New Spring" has "A Wheel of Time Novel" on the cover. The 11 books (which, incidentally, have numbers on them) are written as "Book X of The Wheel of Time".
There are 11 books, 12th on the way. Everybody here seems to think there are 13. There are not. There are TWELVE. (This is bugging the hell out of me). The "New Spring" book is a prequel and is not part of the series, it was even written out of order.
New "terrorist" weapon. Botnet to search for plague symptoms in such a manner as it looks like it's moving towards the $COUNTRYOFCHOICE so they go into a massive panic and shut down all communications.
The actual implementation would be difficult, but this was the first thing I thought about when I read false positives.
It is unfortunate that acronis don't offer a free solution, but (despite this fact) I'm still going to recommend them heartily for being solid and damned good. Judging by the fact that your work is "classified" I'm guessing they could afford to shell out a few bucks for the home edition. I've also seen hack jobs put together out of FreeDOS boot disks and file transfers.
They might have the "last time logged in" column in their db. Dunno why they don't take out those who haven't logged in x (say 5) years and give people (say me) those accounts. I was reading slashdot back then, damnit. Was just too lazy to create an account...
So was I but I'll be damned if it doesn't sound like we're just whining about it!
On topic, here's one for you:
(
(
# Handle http, https, and relative URIs:
((https?://([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*(\.[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*)*\.?))|
([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)?
((/([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)*/?) # path
(\#([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)\+]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)? # fragment
)|
# Handle ftp:
(ftp://([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*(\.[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*)*\.?)
((/([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)*/?) # path
(\#([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.\!\~\*\'\(\)\+]|(%[2-9A-Fa-f][0-9a-fA-F]))+)? # fragment
)
)
It's not mine though, comes courtesy dwheeler.com (whom I've been chatting to recently, hence remembering it was online). A "mostly safe" validation of URI's.
We've got HP Proliant Servers in production
Some things you should keep to yourself no matter how bad it operates ;)
This is a real case of quality, support and "bling" factor. To use a (bad) car analogy: There is no need to buy a Mercedes when you can own a Nissan for half the price and it has exactly the same features (it may even be more powerful in some cases). However anyone can drive a Nissan (or can afford to), so there is a certain bling factor to driving the Mercedes. Just like there is a hell of a "bling" factor to owning Sun equipment as opposed to the "hack job" we can all put together. Personally I would prefer to spend twice as much and know that it's no longer my problem, even if it crashes, but that's just the opinion of one Network Admin.
Completely off hand: I've never had a mobo fail in any server, IBM or Dell based.
No no he means for breaking out to read lines.
Nothing wrong with it, except that sometimes my terminal intercepts ^Z before it gets to the SSH connection, sometimes it gets stopped at the other end. I've been known to use so-called 'hack' shells that don't permit job control. I can see where GP is going though, it's just easier to build the functionality into a piece of software and know it works every time rather than rely on the systems around it.
!bash
And if you're running vi under someones "sudo" access account, that'll get you a root shell. I use ':sh' personally, mostly to drop to a shell when I'm in the middle of editing something and I just want to quickly check the name of a file.