My main machines are a pda, a smartphone, a laptop, and three linux machines. One of the linux machines is my home machine which is basically a workstation and whatever I feel like fooling with (typing this right now in firefox and fluxbox in Slackware 10.2). The other two linux machines are basically colocated servers.
The first three machines are Windows based. The laptop being an XP pro machine. It outperforms my workstation at home, but it's the hardware, stupid. An installation of Slack 10.2 would run very nice on the work laptop. Hell, I might even install it in VMware.
Then, the small windows embedded devices... are abysmal on memory. Anyone who's ever used a pda or smartphone, you know you have to run task manager and kill all those running processes. There's a ton of people who say "I hate my windows smartphone it crashes all the time"... well run the task manager and kill some of the 20 things you never stop from running all at once.
And back to the topic at hand... Kudos to the guy who had the "apples to apples" statement. Put similar hardware (PII, 64 megs of ram) with Linux running apache and the same machine with NT4 or 2000 running IIS... then we'll see what happens.
The honest truth is, MS can run all the lab tests they want. Us folks out there using this stuff know the real story. Don't even get me started on the scads of Linux and Windows servers at work...
Let's see... the FCC regulates a technology (such as wireless transmissions, or spectrum) by understanding the underlying technology, and making sure people don't abuse it, or interfere with others' communications illegally, etc.
So, when they understand IP, and the underlying technologies of the internet, they can begin to fathom how to "regulate" it. What they're going to realize is technical regulations are already in place, built into the protocol. It maintains itself. It's social regulation that we need.
Anyone who designs, implements, manages, and troubleshoots interconnected networks would welcome this social regulation. I think they're in for a big surprise. It is not just going to be VOIP, one tiny protocol. I would love to send my abuse complaints, virus reports, compromises, cracking attempts, phising attempts, and whatnot to the FCC. They can contact the parties responsible for the remote networks, and take some of these issues off my back. I'm hoping they're prepared. I'm hoping they're prepared to start diplomatic communications' regulations with other countries.
So FCC, here's your homework... speak to those responsible in China, and make sure all of their IP space reverse resolves to something. When you're finished, come back, and I'll have your next task. This will be the first of millions of requests I'm (personally) going to have.
Either that or stick to regulating old, outdated communications. I'm ready when you are!
It wasn't long ago that/. changed to a mobile-aware CSS. Which was a good thing for my smartphone, but bad thing for my PDA. It looked pretty decent to begin with on the PDA.
But overall, this is really a good idea. Where I work, we have some monitor/reporting/utility pages, and I've already requested mobile-device css for them.
If I go somewhere (and am on call) I don't need a PDA or laptop, just a smartphone or something similar... all set.
I'm posting this from a freely available "linksys" wireless network in the neighborhood, from the IP address of an entity I don't know who has DSL.
Thank you for proving my point. If there's abuse from the DSL, it's the providers responsibility to shut it off or take action. If you sent 10 million pieces of spam through the DSL IP, and the provider disconnected them for violation of their AUP, it's sorta a little bit of incentive not to run an open wireless access point, isn't it?
If I worked for the company providing the DSL, I'd shut it off in an instant (depending on the severity of the abuse). Granted, situations like yours, (or encryption, or proxies), make it more difficult, but for the most part, all the tools are in place.
The issue was resolved amicably, and the "investigator" found him by his IP address. So uh what's the problem?
I love how people who say there's no way to track someone down because of privacy laws and there's no accountability, yet these people don't understand the IP protocol, which allows for just that.
Everyone has an IP address, and IP addresses can be tracked down to ISPs. ISPs provide these connections, and although they're not liable, their users agree to avoid illegal activity (like defamation)... so again, what's the problem?
Of course the last piece of the puzzle is proving illegal activity, which can usually be done in logs.
I'm with you. Mine isn't exactly false. It's my workplace's address. As for the email, I standardized on an address and I use it for all my domains. And seeing as I control the mailserver, I can do whatever I wanna with that address. (And it's not one of the RFC ones like postmaster).
I'm legit and wanted my real info out there. I don't worry about spammers, because it's been out there for a while with no problems.
I honestly feel it depends on the person. Where I work, we've lost people and had them terminated immidiately. Others gave their notice and worked the last two weeks, if you want to call it that.
I was going to take a contractual job, for "a big place", but decided against it. They like me where I am, and pretty much talked me into staying.
When the author said he's compensated in pay for the next two weeks, was it from this employer? If so, what's the problem? You quit, they let you go then and there, were fast and efficient about removing your access, and you got sent home with pay. I found it humorous when the author said "I can't do my job..." well that's because you just quit it!
I don't have a dual-headed setup at work, (although I could if I wanted to), I use mostly a wireless laptop. Most of my wireless clients (laptop, pda) are Windows... using programs like putty, filezilla, and vnc, and the best multi-desktop util in the world called AltDesk. (http://www.astonshell.com/ - not free but only $15 to register). Vim for windows (or another good text editor, emeditor free) also comes in handy.
But my machine at home is linux (and actually my first workstation at work was a Win2k machine until the power supply blew up, switched to Linux and had it dual-headed for a while).
But my Linux workstation at home is mostly fluxbox with about 5-6 desktops, things like ssh, screen (of course), firefox, thunderbird, umm vim, gkrellm, grdesktop, to name a few. Fluxbox is small, fast and awesome. It's easy to configure and the "mouse wheel through desktops" comes in handy, available via keys if your hands are nowhere near the mouse. Of course VMware (player or otherwise) can be a help too.
I'm a big proponent of "the right tool for the job". And when it comes to popular key-combinations (alt-arrow keys to cycle through desktops for example), my setup makes it nice to use the same keys to change desktops on Linux in fluxbox that I use in Windows under AltDesk.
And screen+ssh is definitely a killer combo. I had took a class over the summer at a local university, and they had Windows 2000 Server PCs. I downloaded the putty, filezilla, and vnc viewer executables, that's all I needed. None of these utils installed, they kept their configurations in a neat place, and when I left, everything was removed and cleaned up. It makes it extremely easy for remote management from anywhere when the majority of your work is on the internet.
Back in summer of 98 I bought a cheapbytes package. It came with Slackware 3.4, and whatever the Debian and RedHat were of the day. I tried Redhat at first. The debian install was broke. Redhat didn't agree with me... I was used to and fond of unix, and I couldn't understand why things were going so poorly.
Then I tried slack... and it made perfect sense. I've been a big fan ever since. I work for an ISP, and we have standardized on mostly redhat variants.
I understand Linux in general because I learned on slack. I feel comfortable with any distribution. There are slight differences, but slack was very raw, powerful and simple. My machine at home and all my personal servers run slack.
Nowadays people often ask me what distribution they should try. I say the same thing. How the hell should I know? I can make recommendations for me, not you. Then they say "Well, what's easy?"... again, how the hell should I know what's easy for you? I tell them all the same thing: go on a binge, try as many different ones as you can and pick one you like.
Back to TFA: appearently we have a guy who likes slack and one that doesn't. BF deal. I side with the guy who likes it.
Not only that, my.bash_history is dated April 2004.:( Guess I've been using tcsh for a while. And since I do use screen, my "history -h | sort | awk '{print $1}' | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10" comes up with weird values.
According to the screen session I did it in, my top 10 last most frequently used apps were inaccurate.
Mod parent up. I was just going to say... compare the list of countries who wanted more control of the root dns servers to the ones who want to do this.
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After reading several of the comments, we should just trump our previous definition of "vulnerability".
If you have a computer and it's power is *ON*, it's vulnerable to something.
Next week I will show that even a computer in which it's power is *OFF* is vulnerable to the 8lb sledge hack.
My main machines are a pda, a smartphone, a laptop, and three linux machines. One of the linux machines is my home machine which is basically a workstation and whatever I feel like fooling with (typing this right now in firefox and fluxbox in Slackware 10.2). The other two linux machines are basically colocated servers.
... well run the task manager and kill some of the 20 things you never stop from running all at once.
The first three machines are Windows based. The laptop being an XP pro machine. It outperforms my workstation at home, but it's the hardware, stupid. An installation of Slack 10.2 would run very nice on the work laptop. Hell, I might even install it in VMware.
Then, the small windows embedded devices... are abysmal on memory. Anyone who's ever used a pda or smartphone, you know you have to run task manager and kill all those running processes. There's a ton of people who say "I hate my windows smartphone it crashes all the time"
And back to the topic at hand... Kudos to the guy who had the "apples to apples" statement. Put similar hardware (PII, 64 megs of ram) with Linux running apache and the same machine with NT4 or 2000 running IIS... then we'll see what happens.
The honest truth is, MS can run all the lab tests they want. Us folks out there using this stuff know the real story. Don't even get me started on the scads of Linux and Windows servers at work...
Well, when it comes to cars, I'm an idiot. I couldn't fix one to save my life ... if I wanted to learn, I probably could. But I don't wanna.
But I'm still a good driver... my point is, some level of effort is to be expected.
...that Windows assumes you're an idiot, and Linux doesn't.
Don't agree with me? Who here has ever told someone to click on "the big blue E"?
Yea, all you have to do is type "man alg.exe" and-- er oh wait, nevermind.
That's right.
Let's see... the FCC regulates a technology (such as wireless transmissions, or spectrum) by understanding the underlying technology, and making sure people don't abuse it, or interfere with others' communications illegally, etc.
So, when they understand IP, and the underlying technologies of the internet, they can begin to fathom how to "regulate" it. What they're going to realize is technical regulations are already in place, built into the protocol. It maintains itself. It's social regulation that we need.
Anyone who designs, implements, manages, and troubleshoots interconnected networks would welcome this social regulation. I think they're in for a big surprise. It is not just going to be VOIP, one tiny protocol. I would love to send my abuse complaints, virus reports, compromises, cracking attempts, phising attempts, and whatnot to the FCC. They can contact the parties responsible for the remote networks, and take some of these issues off my back. I'm hoping they're prepared. I'm hoping they're prepared to start diplomatic communications' regulations with other countries.
So FCC, here's your homework... speak to those responsible in China, and make sure all of their IP space reverse resolves to something. When you're finished, come back, and I'll have your next task.
This will be the first of millions of requests I'm (personally) going to have.
Either that or stick to regulating old, outdated communications. I'm ready when you are!
It wasn't long ago that /. changed to a mobile-aware CSS. Which was a good thing for my smartphone, but bad thing for my PDA. It looked pretty decent to begin with on the PDA.
But overall, this is really a good idea. Where I work, we have some monitor/reporting/utility pages, and I've already requested mobile-device css for them.
If I go somewhere (and am on call) I don't need a PDA or laptop, just a smartphone or something similar... all set.
ssh -D
... or perhaps maybe I have ssh tunnel syndrome.
ssh -L
ssh -R
I'm posting this from a freely available "linksys" wireless network in the neighborhood, from the IP address of an entity I don't know who has DSL.
Thank you for proving my point. If there's abuse from the DSL, it's the providers responsibility to shut it off or take action. If you sent 10 million pieces of spam through the DSL IP, and the provider disconnected them for violation of their AUP, it's sorta a little bit of incentive not to run an open wireless access point, isn't it?
If I worked for the company providing the DSL, I'd shut it off in an instant (depending on the severity of the abuse). Granted, situations like yours, (or encryption, or proxies), make it more difficult, but for the most part, all the tools are in place.
The issue was resolved amicably, and the "investigator" found him by his IP address. So uh what's the problem?
I love how people who say there's no way to track someone down because of privacy laws and there's no accountability, yet these people don't understand the IP protocol, which allows for just that.
Everyone has an IP address, and IP addresses can be tracked down to ISPs. ISPs provide these connections, and although they're not liable, their users agree to avoid illegal activity (like defamation)... so again, what's the problem?
Of course the last piece of the puzzle is proving illegal activity, which can usually be done in logs.
When will you realize it's all one in the same?
I'm with you. Mine isn't exactly false. It's my workplace's address. As for the email, I standardized on an address and I use it for all my domains. And seeing as I control the mailserver, I can do whatever I wanna with that address. (And it's not one of the RFC ones like postmaster).
I'm legit and wanted my real info out there. I don't worry about spammers, because it's been out there for a while with no problems.
I honestly feel it depends on the person. Where I work, we've lost people and had them terminated immidiately. Others gave their notice and worked the last two weeks, if you want to call it that.
I was going to take a contractual job, for "a big place", but decided against it. They like me where I am, and pretty much talked me into staying.
When the author said he's compensated in pay for the next two weeks, was it from this employer? If so, what's the problem? You quit, they let you go then and there, were fast and efficient about removing your access, and you got sent home with pay. I found it humorous when the author said "I can't do my job..." well that's because you just quit it!
...I can see it now. The most popular channels will be the porn and violent ones.
"But Mr Cheney, you are already subscribed to all the porn channels we offer."
I don't have a dual-headed setup at work, (although I could if I wanted to), I use mostly a wireless laptop. Most of my wireless clients (laptop, pda) are Windows... using programs like putty, filezilla, and vnc, and the best multi-desktop util in the world called AltDesk. (http://www.astonshell.com/ - not free but only $15 to register). Vim for windows (or another good text editor, emeditor free) also comes in handy.
But my machine at home is linux (and actually my first workstation at work was a Win2k machine until the power supply blew up, switched to Linux and had it dual-headed for a while).
But my Linux workstation at home is mostly fluxbox with about 5-6 desktops, things like ssh, screen (of course), firefox, thunderbird, umm vim, gkrellm, grdesktop, to name a few. Fluxbox is small, fast and awesome. It's easy to configure and the "mouse wheel through desktops" comes in handy, available via keys if your hands are nowhere near the mouse. Of course VMware (player or otherwise) can be a help too.
I'm a big proponent of "the right tool for the job". And when it comes to popular key-combinations (alt-arrow keys to cycle through desktops for example), my setup makes it nice to use the same keys to change desktops on Linux in fluxbox that I use in Windows under AltDesk.
And screen+ssh is definitely a killer combo. I had took a class over the summer at a local university, and they had Windows 2000 Server PCs. I downloaded the putty, filezilla, and vnc viewer executables, that's all I needed. None of these utils installed, they kept their configurations in a neat place, and when I left, everything was removed and cleaned up. It makes it extremely easy for remote management from anywhere when the majority of your work is on the internet.
Sure! They'll call it ... Gaim! ...er wait.
...I just realized how much of a nerd I really am, by getting excited about this. Time to convert it to reflow format for the pda...
Will Al Canton sign an official piece of paper saying I'm a "highly professional" with a Ph.D because I love slack?
Back in summer of 98 I bought a cheapbytes package. It came with Slackware 3.4, and whatever the Debian and RedHat were of the day. I tried Redhat at first. The debian install was broke. Redhat didn't agree with me... I was used to and fond of unix, and I couldn't understand why things were going so poorly.
... again, how the hell should I know what's easy for you? I tell them all the same thing: go on a binge, try as many different ones as you can and pick one you like.
Then I tried slack... and it made perfect sense. I've been a big fan ever since. I work for an ISP, and we have standardized on mostly redhat variants.
I understand Linux in general because I learned on slack. I feel comfortable with any distribution. There are slight differences, but slack was very raw, powerful and simple. My machine at home and all my personal servers run slack.
Nowadays people often ask me what distribution they should try. I say the same thing. How the hell should I know? I can make recommendations for me, not you. Then they say "Well, what's easy?"
Back to TFA: appearently we have a guy who likes slack and one that doesn't. BF deal. I side with the guy who likes it.
Need a law to create "intercept legislation".
Some of us techies know it as "packet sniffers".
Not only that, my .bash_history is dated April 2004. :( Guess I've been using tcsh for a while. And since I do use screen, my "history -h | sort | awk '{print $1}' | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10" comes up with weird values.
According to the screen session I did it in, my top 10 last most frequently used apps were inaccurate.
Bah.
... then head -10. It was a top ten list ya know.
You should've added 'uniq -c' and sorted that
Mod parent up. I was just going to say... compare the list of countries who wanted more control of the root dns servers to the ones who want to do this.
I think the talking quickly requirement is for keeping long distance tolls to a minimum when you have to call someone from ebay. Good thinking!
Am I the only one who read the title wrong and thought it said:
EU-wide Music Listening Policies Published