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If any one wants to keep up with the latest KDE-CVS but doesn't want to compile KDE 3 times a week check out my site.Bi-weekly binary and source snapshots of CVS-HEAD.

The kicker is you must run gentoo.

Word will chew up 100% processor time on any compuer I have used, but it works just as well and fast on all of them

It doesn't look like it does on mine.

More importantly to me, what will happen to my free mine.nu dynamic DNS entry from dyndns.org?

No global IP addresses. Without a publicly addressable IP, any intention of sharing is crushed.

You need to check out dynamic DNS, its been out for quite a while, and many places are free - for example, see dyndns.org

Hey folks, do a google search on a few key words of the above, like 'so many allegedly "educated" people' You will find a rich tapestry of trolls built off this same basic template. One link leads to a how-to-troll archive and guide. So, you fed the troll. Don't let it happen again.

And even as a previous slashdot comment, here.

It would have been nice had the original poster cited the original source....

Why not set up an account at www.dyndns.org and then set up a tracker yourself?

Here is a device to jam GPS and OnStar-style cellular tracking systems:

Cellular Phone/GPS "Burst" Tracking Device Jammer

Off-topic but here's a how-to on following cellular channel handoffs using an old Motorola phone in test mode:

AMPS Cellular System Call Monitor

Lomborg requested space for a rebuttal; SA gave him a page-and-a-half. He then replied to the criticisms on his website; SA forced him to take his replies down, as they (necessarily) contained the original critiques. SA's behaviour throughout has been thoroughly dishonest and shameful--witness Michael Crichton's speech on the Lomborg incident. But then, what can one expect from the sort of people who use French units?

The best way to influence the future of the show is buy the DVDs in record numbers in the hopes of Universal exercising their rights to make the movie.

In the meantime:

• My Firefly FAQ
• My Firefly Fanzine (please feel free to help!)
• The official bulletin board
• UK mailing list

Keep Flyin'

The best way to influence the future of the show is buy the DVDs in record numbers in the hopes of Universal exercising their rights to make the movie.

In the meantime:

• My Firefly FAQ
• My Firefly Fanzine (please feel free to help!)
• The official bulletin board
• UK mailing list

Keep Flyin'

it's like putting a tax on balaclavas and giving the tax money to banks that had been robbed. i agree. however, there are other bad things about this. consider:

• who gets this money? the blank cd levy is distributed via socan, the same people who cut songwriters cheques for airplay. all fine except that only canadian artists can be registered with socan - and, uh, "copyright theft knows no nation". you get the picture. of course i'm not opposed to canadian musicians getting a bit of cash, but this is a harsh mechanism.
• the chances of the levy actually being collected effectively are slim. maybe this is a good thing, but it leads to beurocratic fat. with the cd levy, if a retail outlet demonstrates that they sell cd's for "data only" purposes they are exempt from the levy. essentially, if they're a computer shop, they don't have to pay - this is why there are still supercheap cd's available in canada.
• is this whole thing contrary to the wto anyway? i know that "cultural" subsidies are exempt from most trade agreements (notably in the ftaa so that the crtc can keep on setting cancon quotas), but this is getting into a grey area when things like hard drives wind up on the list. i mean, will sheila copps (or whoever the hell the minister of culture is these days) decide to put a levy on bandwidth next?

as a side note - and this is important for all you canucks out there - the blank cd levy means that canadians can legally copy sound recordings for personal use. the details are here. please go easy on my server.

Hollllly shit. MS needs to patch this like...two weeks ago.

Someone is going to make a lot of money with this. For an example of this in action(harmlessly):

http://crayz.dyndns.org/test.html

1. Technically no, the spammer never got root. The spambot was sending spam as an unprivileged user (the same one that Apache ran as), which is still plenty to run a spambot.
2. Any user can chmod files that he/she/it owns, even to deny him/her/itself access and then chmod it back.
3. In this case, apparently not, although it should be.
4. There isn't anything built in at the command line to do it for you (at least, in any distro I'm aware of). You can kinda kludge it by reading /proc/net/dev, waiting 5 seconds, reading it again, and dividing the difference in bytes by 5. Hell, in fact, here's a Perl script I just knocked out to do it: bw-usage.pl. (You'll need Time::HiRes from CPAN; you can install it with perl -MCPAN -e 'install("Time::HiRes")' as root.)

Here is an online microwave path analysis script:

Microwave Radio Path Analysis

I'd agree with the parent on this one -- I started with a K-1000, which was a great camera to learn with. However, when the camera finally died my upgrade options were a) buy another Pentax (and have fewer accessories to choose from) or b) replace all of my lenses (and be broke). It seems that the selection of bodies and lenses are far greater with Canon and Nikon, and these cameras offer more "professional" features. In addition, you can find a lot more nice used Canon and Nikon equipment on eBay.

Long story short, I bought a Canon Eos Elan 7 and I'm thrilled with it. It has a few more of the features that I wanted (bracketing, remote shutter release) and the number of lenses and other accessories now available is awesome. The obligatory shameless plug: Photos are here.

Schematics and resources are available here

any technology that allows for people to protect their privacy within reason should be allowed and accepted.

But cellphone jamming won't prevent people from taking pictures of you with their phones and transmitting them later, or recording what you say in a voice memo. Cellphone jamming isn't about privacy - it's about putting the offensive cellphone talker in the same league with the chain smoker. If they need to partake in their addiction, they're more than welcome to do so outside. If you want privacy from personal communication devices, build a HERF gun.

On another note, I didn't think that jamming CDMA was possible at such low power. I can understand that GSM (which uses one channel) would be a fairly easy to jam by transmitting noise on the channel, but CDMA uses multiple channels, and the signal gets integrated over time, so random noise should have a nearly negligible effect. I'd imagine that any device that tries to block all of these channels would need to be more powerful and thus far larger and more expensive than its GSM counterpart.

Let's slashdot this guy and his disgusting GayCam!

He likes to post on RPGA Forums and .

But a PDP 11/20 was the first model made. DEC was only recently changing from a component manufacturer into a computer manufacturer. Naturally it was made from tons of cards plugged into a passive backplane.

There are plenty of PDP 11 models that have LSI and VLSI.

Not to mention that anyone can effectively have a PDP-11 or a VAX these days since there are many free emulators available.

Try Real Alternative. It installs Media Player Classic and enough codecs to play RealMedia. Nobody should have to use RealPlayer; it even crashes on TV.

I've seen the local community access channel with error messages a few times. Here's one example; it's the only one I managed to dig up. It's hard to read, but it's RealPlayer that crashed. It doesn't surprise me that RealPlayer crashed since it runs in the background for no reason, but I wonder WTF it was doing on that box.

Another time some program (like antivirus, or whatever they used to show ads and stuff) would crash, then the computer would reboot, then the cycle would repeat. It ran Windows 2000 Pro and I could see almost the entire bootup process every few minutes.

At a "future of technology" display at Epcot Center: the future is blue

In the San Diego airport: your flight is now... cancelled

In an interesting correlation, both of these pictures were taken on trips for the ACM World Programming Contest (different years), which made them even more relevant, since it leads me to think about good problem solving techniques.

At a "future of technology" display at Epcot Center: the future is blue

In the San Diego airport: your flight is now... cancelled

In an interesting correlation, both of these pictures were taken on trips for the ACM World Programming Contest (different years), which made them even more relevant, since it leads me to think about good problem solving techniques.

but check out: MailHop from DynDns. They'll "proxy" your domain at port 25 and forward it to your real IP at a non-standard port.

Not really. My brother has his own blog, and he's not a CS student (of course, he is an engineer with a degree from the US Naval Academy, so he's obviously quite bright). I have my own personal site and blog as well, although in my case I was a CS student.

It's not all that difficult. A few hours at W3C, a few tutorials and one's up and running. HTML is dead-simple; CSS is slightly more complicated--and that's all one needs to know.

He who cannot write HTML by hand can not, in all likelihood, write anything.

Not really. My brother has his own blog, and he's not a CS student (of course, he is an engineer with a degree from the US Naval Academy, so he's obviously quite bright). I have my own personal site and blog as well, although in my case I was a CS student.

It's not all that difficult. A few hours at W3C, a few tutorials and one's up and running. HTML is dead-simple; CSS is slightly more complicated--and that's all one needs to know.

He who cannot write HTML by hand can not, in all likelihood, write anything.

Not really. My brother has his own blog, and he's not a CS student (of course, he is an engineer with a degree from the US Naval Academy, so he's obviously quite bright). I have my own personal site and blog as well, although in my case I was a CS student.

It's not all that difficult. A few hours at W3C, a few tutorials and one's up and running. HTML is dead-simple; CSS is slightly more complicated--and that's all one needs to know.

He who cannot write HTML by hand can not, in all likelihood, write anything.

Not really. My brother has his own blog, and he's not a CS student (of course, he is an engineer with a degree from the US Naval Academy, so he's obviously quite bright). I have my own personal site and blog as well, although in my case I was a CS student.

It's not all that difficult. A few hours at W3C, a few tutorials and one's up and running. HTML is dead-simple; CSS is slightly more complicated--and that's all one needs to know.

He who cannot write HTML by hand can not, in all likelihood, write anything.

good lord. with red hat deep-sixing their standard version and now the threat of suse being captured by the khmer rouge, what the hell am i going to install now???

Most of those plans are stolen from the GBPPR Projects page.

What I hate are the what-if's in life that haunt you

(you may need to right click save as - stupid webserver - stupid IE - I've tried setting the mime type, and IE can't simply refer to the OS file extension setting or do something intelligent itself)

In Germany, one has to pay approx. 60 Euro/Month for an 768/128 ADSL connection with static IP. A perhaps typical setup there is:

• 20 Euro for T-DSL (german telecom)
• 30 Euro for unlimited traffic through an independent DSL-ISP (e.g. KAMP DSL)
• 10 Euro extra for static IP

This ISP doesn't block ports, has no objections of you operating your own servers, and is well-connected to major backbones.

Bigger ISPs are generally more reluctant to give you full access to their backbones, but smaller ISPs compete for customers and this is a very important point for many of them.

The biggest issue with this is T-DSL, which disconnects you every 24 hrs, so you have to immediately reconnect if you operate an HTTP, SMTP or DNS server over their link. Most ppp daemons or ppp routers will do this for you automatically. With a static IP, programs won't even notify the disconnect.

While it is trivial to operate your own domain(s) over an ADSL link, I wouldn't recommend it for more than just home usage purposes: You need to provide redundancy through alternative links, multiple servers (at least hot swappable), uninterruptible power supplies, RAID arrays, etc... You also need backup MXes and would need one or more external DNS servers, e.g. at zoneedit.com or dyndns.org. For a very small number of domains/users, this is too costly. You'd prefer to leverage economics of scale by renting a physical or virtual server in a well-connected data center. Of course, YMMV.

While I'm at it, I can recommend dyndns.org for DNS service. Relatively high but one-time cost; dynamic and static routing; servers are fast and reliable; good / powerful maintenance pages.

You must have forgotten that there was a site hosted on an Atari 800.

On a similar note, there's a site hosted on a 17-year old Mac Plus. Not quite as old as an Atari 800, but still impressive.

D.

All right, I managed to grab a new copy and this time I actually got to check that it really extracts. Here's the fixed link:

MozillaFirebird-0.7-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz.torre nt

Note: It's still the same link, I replaced all the files to have everybody download the right one automatically. Sorry for those who downloaded the corrupted one. :(

MozillaFirebird-0.7-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz.torre nt

Same notes than for the win32 post apply. Good luck downloading.

I'm probably going to regret this but I've put a BT tracker, seed and .torrent file online anyway:

http://tcnnet.dyndns.org/do
wnloads/MozillaFire bird-0.7-win32.zip.torrent
MozillaFirebird-0.7-win32.zip.torrent

I only have the win32 version right now, I'll try to put the linux one online once it completes downloading (and post the link as a child to this posting).

Note: My link is very slow (thus the first seeding clients low speed) so it would be nice if you could help seeding if you can.

Sorry, I meant to make that URL a link. Here 'tis: http://aurejac.dyndns.org/

If you ever need that Wang serviced, I was driving down the highway with a friend and happened to have one of those disposable cameras with me... We saw a Wang service van with chineese writing on it and a phone number. Nope, I haven't tried calling it yet.

self pic of the typical slashdot moderator

Slightly creative troll modded up... $0.00
"Mods on crack" reply... $0.00

Posting a link to a disturbing picture... $Priceless

spiralx troll archive

...and if your hosting company doesn't, there are very effective solutions to the dynamic ip problem.

For your information, Mark Linimon has made a website which extracts information from the bento logs and the PR database to make a better overview on the error reporting.

it's here

1) Get TorrentSpy
2) Find a Tracker
3) Follow these directions
4) Happy /.ing

I made this test case a while ago, but it seems relevant again. Can you make out this well-known slogan?

Now imagine trying to decipher the letters individually.

Being mirrored here

Ok...Here you go...
http://cbservices.dyndns.org/Graphics/Darl_McBride .gif