Posts by foo_bar_baz

A year of git behind me

After cvs, clearcase and a smattering of svn, it is refreshingly simple to install, configure and use. Eclipse integration is nice, too.

While cc is powerful it's a monster to set up and maintain.

I do see a benefit in centralization considering the risk of disk failure, but I hope people push more often than the article suggests. And you can keep your repo on a backed up system, such as a shared server

Effect on KDE popularity?

I recall some people objecting to KDE due to Qt licensing. Could this help win people over from Gnome to KDE, or have other effects on the *nix desktop environment landscape?

@all sceptics

Amusing how all these experts are so eager to dismiss the proposed technology and take the opportunity to piss on their favourite target, academics in this case. How dare anyone think different? You'd all be stoning heretics or ridiculing heliocentrism had you been born a few centuries ago. OTOH the article set you up for it. Glad the AC put the record straight.

@AC, Elmer & co.

As Bryan B. points out, this was a not so subtle critique rather than a real request.

hypocrisy?

Nobody has an inherent right to edit Wikipedia. The fact that they protect the resource they are the custodians of through moderation and blocklists does not trample on anyone's rights. It's their prerogative and their job, as it is the job of a newspaper editor to reject a poor article. It's not censorship.

The IWF has effectively told every UK news agent to tear out a specific page from every Time magazine. Would they comply?

he's the sacrificial lamb

- the engineer who has to sit in endless meetings with PHBs and customers. And the last resort when a critical bug is threatening to destroy the product.

The ones I've worked with have been nothing short of wizards in tech terms, but always a bit frayed from the pressure and maddening non-tech aspects of the job. I tip my hat to them but would not want the role.

what would happen

should they get inundated with forms a la "singstar with me mates"?

7200.11 4 real?

Never again. I've 3 failed Maxtor 7200.xx drives at home. Two were in a RAID1 array and died simultaneously. I went for Samsung after reading up at storagereview.com.

@wrong business

Each herbal remedy spam is really a cry for help, isn't it? Girls' self-image issues are pretty well acknowledged, but it's pretty obvious moms and pops should be telling their sons

a) they're big enough

b) they can't get bigger with pills even if they wanted

c) getting bigger wouldn't make one a better lover anyway

d) what does make one better

If you think it's a tough issue to talk about, think about how much less spam you'll have in 20 years.

Tux because he doesn't have self-image issues. He knows he's a studmuffin.

@ cog

Dude, that 'cog' is the guy who started the company and wrote the software. 'My' in MySQL is his daughter's name though it has a dual English language meaning.

@pctechxp: double fail

I hope you feel suitably stupid for responding to a Linux-baiting troll like that.

WRT to your assertion there are lots of examples (thin clients, nodes in compute clusters, etc.) where diskless computers boot from the network and run off a ramdisk.

@bws

You haven't tried Ubuntu, have you?

10 points to JIM

Long since I've seen such a succesful troll. I hope everyone's learned a lesson and JIM moves on to some other forums. kthxbai

@ Adam Pearson

You're misinterpreting or purposefully misusing the words just like the disciples Jesus is talking to there. When the disciples use the swords to defend Jesus, he tells them to stop. Luke 22:49-51.

See http://www.freebiblecommentary.org/pdf/EN/VOL03A.pdf page 280 for starters.

It's dismaying to see what a bunch of fuckwits so many "Christians" are, too lazy or stupid to think. So easy to pick sentences out of context to defend any arbitrary position. Just what atheists do to show how the bible advocates evil actions.

useless

We simply pay according to the size and number of bins. In the neighbouring council it's by how often it's picked up. Never heard of abuse by neighbours. I guess Brits are just too unruly to be trusted to play by the rules.

@herby

asta ... Is a website reference not a spelling mistake.

MX records?

So they redirected the website. What about MX records? It would be a lot more damaging to redirect all Comcast emails to your own address, even for a short while. I would be willing to bet most SMTP servers ignore it if the SSL certificate does not match or is missing.

@Dan & co

http://aaisp.net.uk/ claim to offer IPv6, came across them via Phormwatch.

My ISP here on the mainland offers IPv6 free to home customers who have one of their more expensive plans, but as I have a "business" connection they want to charge an additional €10/month. I'm considering it for educational purposes.

nirvana...box

Very droll, here's your coat... ;)

Now you have me fighting the urge to trawl the Reg for more hidden references. How many have I missed? Damn you.

@wibbilus m

You've got to choose your fights, this one you cannot win.

'NAT' is too far entrenched and I'd argue you're comparing 1-many NAT with many-many NAT.

Yes, and Cisco is wrong on 'trunk' too.

@Legless

They're called script kiddies for a reason. They don't spend days on a target, mass defacement is easy as pie once you know a vulnerable CMS, forum software or similar. Just Google for telltale strings in the body or URLs and inject defacement scripts onto the servers. I've seen servers that were on the receiving end.

Plenty of examples, including the Turkish guys who did 38000 sites in a go.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=237

HTTP + DNS revisited

Let's see what NSA have to say about installing a web server on a machine with other services on it:

"Install IIS 5.0 on a server that is not required to support any other service."

(Page 7, Guide to the Secure Configuration and Administration of Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0)

There you have it, from the authoritative source. Fundamental, really.

@AC

The BIGIP platform is loosely based on RedHat but most of the traffic management is handled outside the Linux parts. Also, Ultramonkey et al are great for plain load balancing, but once you want to do something funky with the traffic BIGIP gives you an easy way to do very complex stuff. Perhaps you can't imagine a need for it, but there are people who are prepared to pay muchos dineros for that kind of capability.

But yeah, they're still overpriced.

@Fred

You sound like a typical home user who hasn't thought of enterprise requirements, or maybe you just figure that bigger is better.

RAID is not an alternative to backups, they deal with different problems. If your service must be highly available you need redundant hot-swappable hardware to survive hardware failure (in this case a disk). Backups mean nothing if you lose business because of downtime. RAID cannot replace backups either. If you notice you accidentally deleted something a month ago RAID won't help you.

RAID10 is the only viable option for high performance systems, especially where lots of writes are involved. I'd only consider RAID5 or 6 where performance is not a major consideration, such as HD based backups.

ISPs "not capable" are just not willing

ISPs that are not proactive are just being lazy and bad Internet citizens. A major ISP in my country will redirect all web pages to one saying "your machine is acting as a spam zombie, clean it up to regain Internet access" if it detects excessive SMTP traffic.

I'm not sure about the technical details (do they just redirect port 80 or block the entire connection; do they just look at volumes or do they analyze the traffic to see it's actually spam; is it automated or are humans involved) but it's happened to several people I know.

Don't say ISPs cannot do it.

patent pledge

Has everyone forgotten - MS promises not to sue only if your implementation conforms to OXML.

Mass destruction by proxy

Since almost everything is already invented, this is probably an old idea, but I'll present here what I'll call the foo_bar_baz_bomb:

1. Use Google to find sites that follow a simple URL-to-SQL scheme as in above examples.

2. For each construct a destructive URL string to drop or truncate tables

3. Put said URLs on a page as links

4. Wait for GoogleBot to arrive

Pure evil in a few lines of Perl. The only downside is the victims can see the referrer in their web logs.

KO

LOL, soon this page will turn up in mmr-related searches.

Talk about unintended consequencies. Next - libel suit vs. Reg in proper US style?

Life is good.

screwed

Trying a bit too hard to be clever. Maybe the low figures are what their entry level kit is rated at...

3g etc

I didn't care about 3g until it was "zero cost" to me. Since i no longer pay by MB i do a lot of surfing while commuting (typing this on an N95 on the bus). That and music on the phone, didn't miss them until the boss upgraded my phone last week (thx m8!)

The point being many like myself don't want to pay the premium for new features but happily use them when they are standard features. Applies to dvb-h too. Mms i still don't use tho.

Testing

So they rolled out an entire network only to find it doesn't work?

@xjy revisited

Lies.

Prewar Finland "state apparatus was solidly against the workers and egalitarianism etc".

In fact reconciliation started before the Winter War. The war further cemented national unity while fighting a common enemy.

Just look at the history of Finnish election results and try to convince me Finland has Fascist leanings. The Social Democratic party was the biggest party in 21 consequtive parliamentary elections starting 1907 through 1958, including before and after the civil war: 1917, 1919 and 1922

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduskuntavaalit_1917

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduskuntavaalit_1919

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduskuntavaalit_1922

In 1958 it was marginally overtaken by a MORE leftist party, the communist party.

"The wartime flag of the Finns had its blue and white with a Swastika in a circle. It was everywhere. "

More lies. I challange you to show me a *Finnish flag* with a swastika in it. The airforce insignia had a swastika, but as mentioned earlier it predated the NSDAP in Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Finland

You are really trying hard to shoehorn history into your one dimentional world view. Try to broaden it. This advice from the reddish-green dept.

@Dave Jones

Thanks to Globalization engineers are getting to travel to the dole while their jobs are being shifted to the Far East.

Just as well could say engineers are too busy fixing practical "problems" to ask awkward questions or to see the the bigger picture. Like building the Great Firewall for the Chinese and designing face recognition software for Big Brother at home. If it's not quantifiable, it's not worth considering.

When you study social sciences you (should) ask those awkward questions about things we take for granted during every day toil. This easily leads the head in the clouds syndrome, but it also means you won't accept the crap being fed to you.

Bill Gates because he's a prime example of an "amoral" capitalist engineer.

@ It's bound to happen again

If you loose a tape you can use a pencil to wind it up again ...

But seriously, there are things that are top priority in every job, things where you can't afford any slips. Mistakes happen, but that's why you have failsafe and contingency plans.