"Obviously, you're using cash in an attempt to hide your activities from the government. You're probably
buying drugs or funding terrorism. If this is not the case, then please document how you used these withdrawals."
For the last two years, all kinds of "liberal" media have been warning you about the attack against our rights and the constitution by Bush, Ashcroft, and the rest the crew. You ignored it. You watched Fox News, and CNN, and The Bachelor, and listened to Bill Reilly and Rush.
Try reading some back issues of The Nation or
Mother Jones. Or browse Alter Net. Or even the New York Times, for gosh sakes.
Not that any of the above should be read alone, either. Read the Wall Street Journal, and/or The Economist, or whatever other "conservative" paper/magazine you prefer.
But you can't blame it on any of them. The story is out there. You just didn't bother to pay attention.
Yeah, in fact I *do* listen to NPR. And the other local university stations, and sometimes the Pacifica station (good politics, dreadful on-air people (if, uh, uh, you know, uh, what I, uh, mean.))
None of the above shoestring operations are going to have HD radio broadcasts anytime soon.
The problem is not the FM signal technology, but your cheap-o FM tuner, and likely your crappy FM broadcaster. If you ever get a chance to listen to a good FM tuner (which these days pretty much means one made by Magnum Dynalab) with a decent antenna, you'd be amazed at how good FM is capable of sounding.
None of which helps in the car, of course...but I'd
spring for a Sirius system before an HD FM system, given that I still could only listen to the same crap local ClearChannel stations.
I do know that if I don't have any reason to keep a schedule (eating, going to bed, and getting up whenever I feel like it), I drift into a 25-26 hour cycle, and yes, I have kept this up long enough to
go all the way around the clock. But I won't claim that it's my "body clock", because I suppose it could be that I just stay awake reading longer than I should.
That's because the Windows XP CD doesn't include Office, or Exchange, or SQL Server, or Photoshop, or... I think you know where I'm going with this. Still not a completely accurate comparison, but a lot closer.
If the sysadmins want to distribute KDE programs, then they'll need to also distribute the appropriate
libraries.
See, the thing is, you're thinking about things like "well, what if a particular oganization likes
konqueror better than nautilus?", and the reality
is that by the time an org has chosen the JDS, that
decision has already been made. "We chose the
JDS, this is what is." Sun is not interested in selling this to a group of 4 geeks who will spend a week getting the colors just right. They want to roll this out to a thousand people at a time, who
will write documents, make presentations, and use the company's internal webapps. If Mozilla ain't
good enough to run those apps, they the company will NOT fsck around trying to paste Konqueror into the JDS, they will simply choose a different system that works.
...while this is good for cosistency across their desktop [...] it also limits its users from an out-of-the-box KDE and its thousands of apps choice.
And that's a Good Thing(tm).
Now, before you flame me, that's absolutely NOT
intended as a anti-KDE comment. It's simply that the Sun Java Desktop is not intended for hobbyists who are going to be installing random applications. It's intended to be used by organizations who will install it on everybody's machine (or a central server, or whatever), and that's it. Everybody's got the same stuff, and uses the same tools. Anything else is a support nightmare for a large organization, and eventually for Sun.
An "oops" is what the Linux kernel does for an exceptional condition. There's a nice intro at http://www.urbanmyth.org/linux/oops/slides.html
The Debian crack included adding a new kernel module that hid the cracker's activities. Apparently, it
had a bug in it that caused kernel oops, and when the same oops occured on different machines (which is extremely unlikely in normal operation), that was a hint that something funky was going on.
I hope this is sufficient clue to get you going.:-)
At present, those are all good points. 10 (or 8, or 5) years ago, HP and Sun and IBM made the same points about Linux vs. HP-UX/Solaris/AIX. Now it's becoming hard to justify paying for those OS's except in very big iron, high reliability, specialized operations. Oracle has made noises very recently about being everywhere, from the smallest to the largest. Ain't gonna happen, because MySql and Postgres are good enough for many applications, and getting better.
Larry and Oracle need to figure out whether they're going to deal with and incorporate the "toy databases", like IBM has done with Linux, or
ignore the problem until they're on the verge of failure, like Sun.
We paid our wedding photographer to take pictures, and make a single 3x5 print of each one. We got the
negatives. I think it cost ~$300 (mabye ~500) about
two years ago. It was a small, informal wedding, only a few posed pictures, so his time investment was relatively small, and it was 4 or 5 36 shot rolls. The posed pictures were no worse than any other posed pictures of us (my wife and I both have
a extremely difficult time looking "normal" when we know a camera is pointed at us), and some of the candid/casual/whatever shots are pretty good.
I know others who have made similar arrangements with their wedding photographer. Decide what you want, and find someone to do it.
Marketing said "We want to lure people into
signing up for our censorware, can you program the
ad into the router?"
Engineers: "No, it's too big."
M: (long pause) "Well, how about you make the
router go to our website periodically, is that possible?"
E: "Uhh, yeah, but it violates both the whole
technical point of the product and sll sort of ethics, and once people find out about it they'll
spread the word, no one will buy products, and our company will go bankrupt."
M: "Shuddup, who is the marketing expert here? This is brilliant!"
We can also set it up so people receive an email to notify them when someone has added to the thread.
Yeah. Right. So now I get a message that says
I need to go look at something else, rather than
a message with actual content. Great.
Why not just set up an e-mail list? Set it
for "reply to list by default": not a good idea for
public lists, but reasonable for internal lists where you don't really want private replies.
Or ditch the e-mail notification for the blog,
so I can participate or not, as I choose. But the notification e-mails will get annoying real fast.
Debian has plenty of maintainers. But packaging
something like Gnome or OpenOffice, making it
work on all the platforms that Debian supports,
and dealing with clean upgrades is a non-trivial task.
And MONTHS is a bit of an exageration:
Gnome 2.4 was released September 11th.
OpenOffice.Org 1.1 was released October 1.
SodiPodi 0.31, okay, I'll give you that one.
You want faster releases? Come help, there's
nothing stopping you from it.
And did you even *read* the ammendment? It's got nothing to do with getting new developers.
Re:Are you fsking kidding me?
on
ALA 3 Goes Online
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Nice site (seriously!) (at least once I noticed that the link and the text didn't match:-)) But,
you note, I can't make it as *wide* as I want.
Better than an absolute fixed width, but still annoying.
Try to be a little more civil.
Huh? You stated an opinion, I disagreed. If disagreeing with you is uncivil, then you're not going to like this post either, I suppose. If you're objecting to the term "silly-ass", well,
then, you shouldn't be hanging out on slashdot: it
gets a lot stronger than that.
The primary good reason to fix the width is that readers tend to suffer more-than-usual fatigue reading lines beyond the 65-80 character range.
No, that's not a good reason. If I find the text too wide for comfort (and I often do), I *gasp* narrow the window. Gee, that solves the problem *and* avoids the need for any silly-ass tricks that may or may not validate *and* lets me access the sidebars *and* works on narrower than average screens/windows/whatevers.
Are you fsking kidding me?
on
ALA 3 Goes Online
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Let's see: low contrast type. Doesn't expand or shrink to fit into browser window. *plonk*.
This is
supposed to be the paragon of web design? ALA has good articles and ideas. I wish they'd followed some of them in their redesign. (Their second incarnation was pretty good. I wonder what happened...)
And now the same story, with semi-competent editing:
"Jeffrey Zeldmans A List Apart ("ALA"), a very educational website for everything concerning webdesign [no comma] that also heavily promotes web standards, has come back online in its third incarnation. As you might expect from one of the world leading web designers, it works well in all standards compliant browsers and - unlike other recent attempts at webdesign - doesn't make your eyes bleed;-)."
I apologize for the grammar flame, but my brain
was bleeding.
You're thinking about it backwards, protecting things from two-year-olds is basically impossible. Instead,try this: Vari Kennel These are great: tough, reliable, fairly cheap, widely available, and come in different sizes.
1) RT supports external authorization, basically converting the e-mail on the incoming address to account info. Interfacing it to your customer database is probably roll-your-own. There's a nice user community, though, so post specifics on the mailling list and maybe someone will have already done it.
2) Yes. It can even cooperate with the e-mails (i.e. you can communicate both ways via e-mail regarding a ticket that was created through the web interface).
I've been carrying a purse for the last couple of years. It's gray canvas, about the size of Programming Perl, and used to be my wife's. It holds my wallet, PDA, camera, keys, pen, plus whatever
other small crap that I need that I used to shove in my pockets, thus having to empty/reload every day. I love it.
I think in the whole time I've had maybe two people make some sort of comment about "a guy with a
purse." I just say "yep" and that pretty much is it.
My point? (Do I have to have one?) Don't sweat the the word "purse". Just go
to the department store or whatever, browse the nearly infinite supply of purses, and pick one that will suit. You'll like it.
OpenSSH is OpenBSD specific. "Portable SSH" is what
everybody else uses. In other words, the OpenBSD developers (quite reasonably) don't spend any effort making SSH portable off of OpenBSD, and sometimes use OpenBSD specific functions. Other people then spend the time/effort to make run on Linux, etc. There are features (such as, presumably, PAM support) that are not
in the core OpenBSD version.
Actuall, more than two: the changelog includes several fixes. Right above the fix you quote, there's one that *is* exploitable, which is why they've gone ahead and released it:
8.12.10/8.12.10 2003/09/24 SECURITY: Fix a buffer overflow in address parsing. Problem detected by Michal Zalewski, patch from Todd C. Miller of Courtesan Consulting.
The fact it's separate bugs is clear from the indention in the original (Fscking/. doesn't support PRE)
Slashdot Mirror
10. Millenium Ford Falcon
A friend in high school had a mid-60s Falcon. We called it the "Minimum Falcon".
PS Nice Mike Oldfield quote...
Yeah, right.
"Obviously, you're using cash in an attempt to hide your activities from the government. You're probably buying drugs or funding terrorism. If this is not the case, then please document how you used these withdrawals."
For the last two years, all kinds of "liberal" media have been warning you about the attack against our rights and the constitution by Bush, Ashcroft, and the rest the crew. You ignored it. You watched Fox News, and CNN, and The Bachelor, and listened to Bill Reilly and Rush.
Try reading some back issues of The Nation or Mother Jones. Or browse Alter Net. Or even the New York Times, for gosh sakes.
Not that any of the above should be read alone, either. Read the Wall Street Journal, and/or The Economist, or whatever other "conservative" paper/magazine you prefer.
But you can't blame it on any of them. The story is out there. You just didn't bother to pay attention.
Yeah, in fact I *do* listen to NPR. And the other local university stations, and sometimes the Pacifica station (good politics, dreadful on-air people (if, uh, uh, you know, uh, what I, uh, mean.))
None of the above shoestring operations are going to have HD radio broadcasts anytime soon.
The problem is not the FM signal technology, but your cheap-o FM tuner, and likely your crappy FM broadcaster. If you ever get a chance to listen to a good FM tuner (which these days pretty much means one made by Magnum Dynalab) with a decent antenna, you'd be amazed at how good FM is capable of sounding.
None of which helps in the car, of course...but I'd spring for a Sirius system before an HD FM system, given that I still could only listen to the same crap local ClearChannel stations.
That's a myth based on very bad science.
Reference?
I do know that if I don't have any reason to keep a schedule (eating, going to bed, and getting up whenever I feel like it), I drift into a 25-26 hour cycle, and yes, I have kept this up long enough to go all the way around the clock. But I won't claim that it's my "body clock", because I suppose it could be that I just stay awake reading longer than I should.
That's because the Windows XP CD doesn't include Office, or Exchange, or SQL Server, or Photoshop, or ... I think you know where I'm going with this. Still not a completely accurate comparison, but a lot closer.
Not to mention the sourcecode.
If the sysadmins want to distribute KDE programs, then they'll need to also distribute the appropriate libraries.
See, the thing is, you're thinking about things like "well, what if a particular oganization likes konqueror better than nautilus?", and the reality is that by the time an org has chosen the JDS, that decision has already been made. "We chose the JDS, this is what is." Sun is not interested in selling this to a group of 4 geeks who will spend a week getting the colors just right. They want to roll this out to a thousand people at a time, who will write documents, make presentations, and use the company's internal webapps. If Mozilla ain't good enough to run those apps, they the company will NOT fsck around trying to paste Konqueror into the JDS, they will simply choose a different system that works.
And that's a Good Thing(tm).
Now, before you flame me, that's absolutely NOT intended as a anti-KDE comment. It's simply that the Sun Java Desktop is not intended for hobbyists who are going to be installing random applications. It's intended to be used by organizations who will install it on everybody's machine (or a central server, or whatever), and that's it. Everybody's got the same stuff, and uses the same tools. Anything else is a support nightmare for a large organization, and eventually for Sun.
An "oops" is what the Linux kernel does for an exceptional condition. There's a nice intro at http://www.urbanmyth.org/linux/oops/slides.html
The Debian crack included adding a new kernel module that hid the cracker's activities. Apparently, it had a bug in it that caused kernel oops, and when the same oops occured on different machines (which is extremely unlikely in normal operation), that was a hint that something funky was going on.
I hope this is sufficient clue to get you going. :-)
At present, those are all good points. 10 (or 8, or 5) years ago, HP and Sun and IBM made the same points about Linux vs. HP-UX/Solaris/AIX. Now it's becoming hard to justify paying for those OS's except in very big iron, high reliability, specialized operations. Oracle has made noises very recently about being everywhere, from the smallest to the largest. Ain't gonna happen, because MySql and Postgres are good enough for many applications, and getting better.
Larry and Oracle need to figure out whether they're going to deal with and incorporate the "toy databases", like IBM has done with Linux, or ignore the problem until they're on the verge of failure, like Sun.
We paid our wedding photographer to take pictures, and make a single 3x5 print of each one. We got the negatives. I think it cost ~$300 (mabye ~500) about two years ago. It was a small, informal wedding, only a few posed pictures, so his time investment was relatively small, and it was 4 or 5 36 shot rolls. The posed pictures were no worse than any other posed pictures of us (my wife and I both have a extremely difficult time looking "normal" when we know a camera is pointed at us), and some of the candid/casual/whatever shots are pretty good.
I know others who have made similar arrangements with their wedding photographer. Decide what you want, and find someone to do it.
Marketing said "We want to lure people into signing up for our censorware, can you program the ad into the router?"
Engineers: "No, it's too big."
M: (long pause) "Well, how about you make the router go to our website periodically, is that possible?"
E: "Uhh, yeah, but it violates both the whole technical point of the product and sll sort of ethics, and once people find out about it they'll spread the word, no one will buy products, and our company will go bankrupt."
M: "Shuddup, who is the marketing expert here? This is brilliant!"
E: "Really, it's a bad idea, don't do it."
M: "Do it or we'll fire you."
E: "Okay."
We can also set it up so people receive an email to notify them when someone has added to the thread.
Yeah. Right. So now I get a message that says I need to go look at something else, rather than a message with actual content. Great.
Why not just set up an e-mail list? Set it for "reply to list by default": not a good idea for public lists, but reasonable for internal lists where you don't really want private replies.
Or ditch the e-mail notification for the blog, so I can participate or not, as I choose. But the notification e-mails will get annoying real fast.
Debian has plenty of maintainers. But packaging something like Gnome or OpenOffice, making it work on all the platforms that Debian supports, and dealing with clean upgrades is a non-trivial task.
And MONTHS is a bit of an exageration:
Gnome 2.4 was released September 11th.
OpenOffice.Org 1.1 was released October 1.
SodiPodi 0.31, okay, I'll give you that one.
You want faster releases? Come help, there's nothing stopping you from it.
And did you even *read* the ammendment? It's got nothing to do with getting new developers.
Nice site (seriously!) (at least once I noticed that the link and the text didn't match :-)) But,
you note, I can't make it as *wide* as I want.
Better than an absolute fixed width, but still annoying.
Try to be a little more civil.
Huh? You stated an opinion, I disagreed. If disagreeing with you is uncivil, then you're not going to like this post either, I suppose. If you're objecting to the term "silly-ass", well, then, you shouldn't be hanging out on slashdot: it gets a lot stronger than that.
The primary good reason to fix the width is that readers tend to suffer more-than-usual fatigue reading lines beyond the 65-80 character range.
No, that's not a good reason. If I find the text too wide for comfort (and I often do), I *gasp* narrow the window. Gee, that solves the problem *and* avoids the need for any silly-ass tricks that may or may not validate *and* lets me access the sidebars *and* works on narrower than average screens/windows/whatevers.
Ack!
Well, I did say "semi-competent".
Let's see: low contrast type. Doesn't expand or shrink to fit into browser window. *plonk*.
This is supposed to be the paragon of web design? ALA has good articles and ideas. I wish they'd followed some of them in their redesign. (Their second incarnation was pretty good. I wonder what happened...)
And now the same story, with semi-competent editing:
"Jeffrey Zeldmans A List Apart ("ALA"), a very educational website for everything concerning webdesign [no comma] that also heavily promotes web standards, has come back online in its third incarnation. As you might expect from one of the world leading web designers, it works well in all standards compliant browsers and - unlike other recent attempts at webdesign - doesn't make your eyes bleed ;-)."
I apologize for the grammar flame, but my brain was bleeding.
You're thinking about it backwards, protecting things from two-year-olds is basically impossible. Instead,try this: Vari Kennel These are great: tough, reliable, fairly cheap, widely available, and come in different sizes.
Answers:
1) RT supports external authorization, basically converting the e-mail on the incoming address to account info. Interfacing it to your customer database is probably roll-your-own. There's a nice user community, though, so post specifics on the mailling list and maybe someone will have already done it.
2) Yes. It can even cooperate with the e-mails (i.e. you can communicate both ways via e-mail regarding a ticket that was created through the web interface).
3) Yes.
I've been carrying a purse for the last couple of years. It's gray canvas, about the size of Programming Perl, and used to be my wife's. It holds my wallet, PDA, camera, keys, pen, plus whatever other small crap that I need that I used to shove in my pockets, thus having to empty/reload every day. I love it.
I think in the whole time I've had maybe two people make some sort of comment about "a guy with a purse." I just say "yep" and that pretty much is it.
My point? (Do I have to have one?) Don't sweat the the word "purse". Just go to the department store or whatever, browse the nearly infinite supply of purses, and pick one that will suit. You'll like it.
OpenSSH is OpenBSD specific. "Portable SSH" is what everybody else uses. In other words, the OpenBSD developers (quite reasonably) don't spend any effort making SSH portable off of OpenBSD, and sometimes use OpenBSD specific functions. Other people then spend the time/effort to make run on Linux, etc. There are features (such as, presumably, PAM support) that are not in the core OpenBSD version.
Actuall, more than two: the changelog includes several fixes. Right above the fix you quote, there's one that *is* exploitable, which is why they've gone ahead and released it:
The fact it's separate bugs is clear from the indention in the original (Fscking /. doesn't support PRE)