Does anyone else feel like that's a screenshot from a KDE Plasma desktop? Or is it just me?

I had a machine with over 10 years of uptime at my last job; it was a cobbled together firewall made from an old x86 load balancer, with the tiny little ide-flash drive replaced with a laptop drive (!) which eventually failed. It developed some bad sectors over the years on /home, which luckily wasn't needed for this machines role. I unmounted that filesystem probably 6 years in. I had backups...

Btw, it was a pf firewall running on openbsd 3.x, can't remember exact release.

Said anonymous coward...

What, you don't have front and back headphones?

At what point does a mechanism qualify as self driving?

A computer is just a more complex contraption.

My kid who's 5 now started using KDE/Mint over a year ago. Plays minetest, does abcmouse, watches Nick Jr on it.

Who can't nowadays? Embedded ARM SoCs come with GB's of RAM, and plenty of compute horsepower.

Unless you are bit twiddling on an AVR, or other micro, why not?

Portugal has had an interesting experience with Decriminalization: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-decriminalization-in-portugal-12-years-later-a-891060.html

Making drug users into felons is not a net positive for society, but man the prison industry sure benefits!

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

“So that the room will be empty.”

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

Thats not even all of it. Some of those blocks had a permit holder at every house. Do you really think criminals will go rob those houses, knowing the high likelyhood of facing down a gun barrel? Really, they'll look at the houses that don't have gun permits, and go rob them... What have they got to lose? Those home owners probably aren't armed with a gun.

A DoS on a DNS server is a pretty bad thing though... It's such a fundamental service on the network, that if it's down, lots of things break. So a DoS on DNS is an amplified problem such that many services will fail or become unreachable which is just as bad.

Any magic found in the Doom 3 sources yet? Like 0x5f3759df from Quake III Arena?

You must realize that IPv6 was an attempt to fix the retarded nature of some IPv4 behavior?

Time-To-Live? Yeah that makes a lot of sense! Although that feature was co-opted to eventually become a "hop-limit" just like is in IPv6 now, but there were some really other dumb things that weren't thought through for IPv4 that were fixed in IPv6 (*cough* QoS).

Also, unrelated to IPv6, TCP and UDP are not the only protocols on the Internet. If all I can pass are TCP and UDP packets, then I do not have an Internet connection, I have a bunch of TCP&UDP connection - very much not the same thing.

Carrier Grade NAT can go translate itself in the corner. If my ISP started shoving this down my throat I would switch ISPs, and if that's not an option because you live in the sticks, then file a complaint and bitch until you get up high in the organization.

That never works. Engineers are not SysAdmins, and rarely are they trained well enough to mimic one.

On shared machines, no one gets root (or sudo) unless they are managing that box and are responsible for it. So, everyone gets sudo on their desktop, and only the real Admins get sudo/root on the development servers. If someone can prove a real need to run something as root, and once we in IT can verify that it's not a security hole, we generally permit only one exact command line to be run via sudo. If they cannot distill their need to a very specific command (using absolute paths, including any arguments) then we reject it.

This is not a BS policy; it was derived from real events. Despite what the engineers around here would like to believe, they aren't generally smart enough to manage a box by themselves. It's been tried, and we refuse to take over any machine they managed without a wipe/reinstall of the OS.

"Oh but the whole build environment is setup on that machine, we'll have to do it over again!" Tough titty, learn to do it over again. If you were a good engineer or programmer, you should be able to find a way to make it not as hard next time. Whats that, the guy who set it up left the company? That sucks, guess you need to figure it out anyways in case your box breaks.

Yeah, but at least I didn't compare Windoze admins to Black people. You are not allowed to offend black people you know; that's how you get stabbed.