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Re:Apply the same to guns? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19, @09:52AM (#11407826)

People have been killed by having someone's cock crammed into their mouths and suffocated.

Would you like to outlaw those too?

That's already been proposed.

See http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3642/1 /

.comment: The Digital Millennium Rape Act

What to Expect

Dennis E. Powell
Monday, July 23, 2001 02:23:15 AM

WASHINGTON -- Federal law enforcement officials today began rounding up men for alleged violation of the new Digital Millennium Rape Act.

The law, which went into effect June 30, bans "possession of any item or device that makes it possible to commit the crime of rape." It was approved last month by a narrow margin in both the House of Representatives and the Senate following intense negotiations during which a provision was added which excempts government employees, including senators and representatives, from the new law. The legislation was necessary to bring the U.S. into compliance with a treaty negotiated in Japan two years ago by the Clinton administration, but thusfar unsigned by any country. International pressure on the U.S. to sign the accord was intense, however, coming especially from the European Union and many non-European third-world nations. The treaty specifies actions that the United States must take, making no mention of other nations.

"This landmark legislation serves notice on all would-be rapists: If you've got the equipment, we'll lock you up," said the bill's sponsor, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California), immediately after its passage.

Critics of the bill argued at the time that mere ability to commit a crime should not itself be a crime, but were overwhelmed by an intense public relations campaign mounted by proponents. Among the existing laws cited in defense of the bill were federal gun regulations and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which make possession of firearms and software, respectively, illegal.

"If you can do the crime, you will do the time," said Boxer. " This is a crime prevention measure -- by the time someone has actually committed an offense, it's too late."

Silly, Isn't It

The above is not real -- if you thought it was, get help at once. But it's a demonstration of the direction in which things are headed, and unless this trend is seen as a whole, there's not a chance of stopping it, if indeed a chance of stopping it still exists at all.

Monday's arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has outraged many in the hacker community. Skylarov, who it is now reported also sold password-cracking software to the FBI, is accused of making it possible to circumvent certain technology owned by Adobe Systems Inc. Note that he is not accused of having employed this software to circumvent that technology but merely of having demonstrated that it can be done.

As readers of this column cannot have escaped noticing, there is no one louder in defense of copyright protections than I am. But there is a difference between the ability to violate copyright and actually doing so.

The community is enraged, but the rest of the world doesn't give much of a toot, one way or the other. Sound familiar?

That is how totalitarianism is achieved. You pick a fairly small, even fringe, community, and you use them to create the underpinnings for what could result in far broader controls. There's no broad outcry, because people figure it doesn't effect them, and they're too busy worrying about the truly important stuff, such as how the Yankees are doing.

You may think that what fol

Gene Spafford was interviewed by linuxplanet couple of years ago. He says why linux isn't completely secure, even though it is a outdated interview, I will like to say most of his ideas do make sense even today.

Even if those honeypots are harder to penetrate that does not mean drivers, or individual applications that many people use are designed with security in mind first. Hackers are always going to be around all this means is that script kiddies are going to be able to do less and less to break into a linux but but more sophisticated hackers are going to want to try harder and within time. You will have the same problems just like in real life a ADT system can make your home safer does not mean you still will not get broken into. Plus, within this article you should be asking who are the security experts?

All in all I would hope people read this article in hopes that linux is their solution too security out of the box. In other words if you believe in security do not rely on the distro. to be 80% secure even if you locked the system up tight like your suppose too you still have a good chance of getting hacked. This article is just showing business people in the IT world that they can setup linux and not need a administartor with good experise to be hired instead of that person they can pay half as much with little experence to manage the network because linux is so secure. See where I am going with this article?

You are probably already aware but gnome icons in OOo does not make it a Gnome project. Suse already shipped 9.2 with KDE-ified OOo. See http://dot.kde.org/1101482981/ http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5679/4/ screenshot3180/" http://www.openoffice.org/files/documents/159/1804 /NWF_icons_writer.jpg

On the other hand, if you want real scalability, try Linux

Dude! That was history. (rest /. 's read as trolling of him)

Today linux offer all of the sutff you mentioned earlier.

At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult....were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.

Just look at the sites like google.com, slahsdot.org; I am sure they supports more than 5000+ user less than second without any panic.In one of my past experience (RH 7.2 box) ProFTPD server daily servers more than 100-500 users with 35-50 GB data transfer on just Intel Cel 1.3, 512 MB RAM. Same server gets mirrored every day for backup (at midnight in same IDC).

Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc

journaled filesystem - Yes linux got it
memory protection - Yes linux got it
SMP support - Yes linux got it
Read Kernel 2.6 Rocks the Enterprise World - http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/526 3/1/
Did you read Microsoft Found Guilty of Misleading Advertising http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/25/115625 3&tid=109

As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.

Yah it rocks with virues, IE bugs and all sorts of things. I'm dam sure within next 5 years people stop dealing with business those rely of buggy Microsoft technologies.

Long live to tux. Happy birthday :)

bleh... must've mistyped the link. *slaps forehead*

The article's here

Linux's share of the desktop PC market is growing, but is still a small fraction in comparison to the 90 percent-plus market share enjoyed by Windows.

Worse than that, you haven't even been reading the pro-Linux press, such as this articlefrom LinuxPlanet on May 6 in which they state that

...Linux desktop remains far behind with IDC estimating its market share at less than 3 percent.

Sounds pretty grim to me.

Sun has recently signed a deal to supply 1 million Chinese desktops with Linux.

There are 1.3-1.4 billion people in China. That means one copy of Sun-supplied Linux per 1,300 - 1,400 people.

Walmart is selling machines with Linux.

They are also selling Depends adult diapers, but I don't think that means that Depends is about to become a a major player in the undergarment market.

Red Hat has just launched a new desktop offering.

No, Red Hat just killed off their boxed desktop offering and is letting connected geeks beta test for them with Fedora.

IBM and Novell are converting all staff to Linux desktops.

And what percentage of the desktop PCs in the world are owned by IBM and

fyi: review from another distro (redhat).

cooincidentally i was reading another review (from their site) of the same laptop recently, but this one is with redhat. interesting comparisson.

personally i am actually interested in these LC laptops because for me (in australia) they are so cheap. anyone with personal experience of shipping/delivery costs/times overseas, problems etc, would be appreciated.

Some time I read about it in Linuxplanet
with something similar to linux.
I think it's about time to address this on linux don't you? Why do you still have to do kernel hacking and XFree hacking to achieve this, it should come as standard option.
If there is already an easy way to achieve it, not requiring big recompiling, can someone point me to it?

This website states that helix player is developed "sponsored by or in association with Real", so it seems like Real is at the very least passively supporting a linux distro. The review also states that while "the standalone Helix Player started on my system and played all of the RealMedia files I could throw at it", it still has some issues with integration with Firefox.

This website states that helix player is developed "sponsored by or in association with Real", so it seems like Real is at the very least passively supporting a linux distro. The review also states that while "the standalone Helix Player started on my system and played all of the RealMedia files I could throw at it", it still has some issues with integration with Firefox.

There is an (old) article just about that (think 40K rapors instead of a T-Rex... heheh nice analogy) on LinuxPlanet.

"My name is Linus Torvalds and yes, I am your God". Funnily enough, the article thinks this was some sort of joke which it was I suppose; but I'm not the only one who thinks comments like that are unnecessary and reveal a deeper psychosis. What I find amazing is that people call RMS egotistical and yet, here's Linus, naming an OS after himself and a God complex to boot.

Somebody else said he's a pragmatist which he is, but it doesn't stop him from telling other people that they should be pragmatists too (that's what the OSS movement is all about). What he fails to understand that an absence of political opinion such as this is itself a political opinion. The difference being that his political opinion is completely devoid of reason or sentiment. I for one find that absolutely heinous and won't have anything to do with him.

The funny thing is, I didn't have an opinion at all about Linus before I read his autobiograhy, "Just for Fun". Now, I just think he's an arsehole. Sure he writes good code and keeps the Linux kernel in check but apart from that, he's absolutely useless to us.

how is it possible to change a user on x without logging out?!

There are many ways, depending on exactly what you want to accomplish. I suspect the one you're talking about is "Start New Session" -- on KDE 3.2*, just click the "K" menu and pick "Start New Session".

Using that plus vnc you can even make your X session relocatable -- again supported in point-and-click fashion out of the box by KDE 3.2 (called Desktop sharing). Wife is using the computer in the den? Just pull up your still-running desktop on the machine in the kitchen. Do that with XP!

The coolest way, though, is this one. This guy dropped two video cards into his machine, hooked up two keyboards and mice and set things up so that both he and his girlfriend could use the machine at the same time. Granted, this isn't something that can be done out of the box (it requires running two different X servers, one patched), but it's a very cool hack.

* I'm sure GNOME has similar features, since KDE isn't actually doing any of the multi-session heavy lifting, that's part of XFree86. KDE just puts a pretty interface on it.

He would never do something like that

A keystroke-by-keystroke walkthrough of applying a patch.

So I guess the Linux Kernel-HOWTO just mysteriously disapeared all of a sudden. get over it people, linux has GLOBS of docs, more than any one human should ever have to read, FAR more than windows or any other OS for that matter considering all the user contrib'd sutff out there now.

Get them here:
and for some more reading on this subject go here

KOffice comprises the customary litany of applications...

This posting is plagarism of the worst sort. Cut and paste in its entirety from: LinuxPlanet. Taking someone else's work and presenting it as your own without attribution is simply dishonest. It is not informative or insightful.

Yet another troll.

Even a 3-year old reposting from a October 2000 review of Koffice in KDE 2. A for style, F for brains.

What then of your personal data? Would you still say with your best NYC accent that the victim got what they deserved for giving personal data to a business that willfully and knowingly used insecure technology which cannot be improved for years to come? Especially when more secure options are known and well-documented?

This article which was on the front page of Linuxplanet.com for months would seem to counter this statement.

P.S. Has any other watcher of The Record noticed that the anchor is always leaning against a desk, upon which are two LCD monitors, the right hand one of which is always showing "it is now safe to turn off your computer"

If you don't mind a bit of work to get it all looking good then
read here I found using xfs and installing every font I could find to be successful :)

[..]Debian was developed specifically to counter "Linux Companies"[..] That, my dear Twitter, is complete nonsence. Please read the retrospective by the founder of Debian himself. When the Debian project was started, there were no other distro types!

Running Photoshop in an emulation layer is not the same as in 'native' Windows, because WINE can possibly alter the colorspace (eg. to fake a 24-bit visual on 16-bit displays). So you can't just calibrate your setup in Windows and hope to get accurate results with the same ICC profile in WINE.

Corel PhotoPaint for Linux can do ICC, and so does Scribus. Not sure on the GIMP side of things, but overall I think at least manual calibration (Adobe Gamma) should give good results.

If you're genuinely as useful as you claim, management would certainly be receptive

It's glib, but anytime you think you're indispensable, stick your hand in a bucket of water and when you pull it out see how big a hole it leaves.

Remember that when you walk in to the office.

WRT the DIY version, you can set Linux up to merge inputs from multiple keyboards (actually, that's its default behaviour and dissuading it from doing that is one of the big traumas involved in making multiple independent X instances work), so you could plug two potentially mangled keyboards in and lay one to each side, and potentially also have another unmangled keyboard before you as well.

This question was asked quite awhile ago here.
There was a tutorial mentioned in the comments.

`make mrproper' will do a more extensive clean'ing. It is sometimes necessary; you may wish to do it at every patch. `make mrproper' will also delete your configuration file, so you might want to make a backup of it (.config) if you see it as valuable.

'make oldconfig' will attempt to configure the kernel from an old configuration file; it will run through the `make config' process for you. If you haven't ever compiled a kernel before or don't have an old config file, then you probably shouldn't do this, as you will most likely want to change the default configuration.

Makes a real clean source tree (I think). A lot of people like to cp .config ~ && make mrproper && cp ~/.config . before reconfiguring/compiling the kernel. Dunno what advantages it really carries. I just started using it recently.

lookie

I have a lot of respect for KDE (and the file picker dialog really is better because of offering easy shortcuts to desktop, floppy, CD etc. even if a little busy... I bet GNOME will adopt those).

This has me totally confused. I've been using GNOME for a few years now, and the file picker dialog doesn't look like the one in the article. It looks more like this, and it's looked like that for many months.

The author's argument that KDE apps automatically gain from having standardized components like the file picker is also bogus, because GNOME applications benefit from the same thing. Does he really think that every GNOME application writer implements their own file dialog?

PHP is "the one" for me!

Now with the gtk extensions it does a mighty fine job on the server or on the client!

It has the ease of text manipulation of Perl without all the nasty hacks in syntax. It's cross platform, free, and performance is good. (Probably better than Java, since my own testing indicates it's considerably faster than Python)

It makes a good, all-around scripting language for sysadmining, UI management, etc. and it even makes a good case for fast web development!

Among other things, a web server (yes, a replacement for Apache!) has been written in PHP!

I figure that with all the noise of "web services" this, and "cross platform" that, there's a good chance that PHP could be the "next big thing"...

Yeah, I use PHP an awful lot.

The BBC has been (increasingly) a Linux shop for some years now.

You obviously need to look better at how Linux scale on 8P machines and more before making such statements

If linux scalability is really an issue, beyond 8 processors, then i guess that the SGI Altix 3700 is just
vaporware/gare.

I suggest that you read the following articles that debunk the myth of the 8processor barrier :

SGI Busts into Linux with 64-Processor Scalability

NEC Calls Dibs on Breaking Linux Eight-Processor Limit

I personally hope that these benchmarks can be run against more recent kernels and a full description of optimizations and patches used disclosed.
Considering that SGI is using a [somewhat] standard 2.4.19 kernel to scale this well , I am certain that the results will be much better.

You obviously need to look better at how Linux scale on 8P machines and more before making such statements

If linux scalability is really an issue, beyond 8 processors, then i guess that the SGI Altix 3700 is just
vaporware/gare.

I suggest that you read the following articles that debunk the myth of the 8processor barrier :

SGI Busts into Linux with 64-Processor Scalability

NEC Calls Dibs on Breaking Linux Eight-Processor Limit

I personally hope that these benchmarks can be run against more recent kernels and a full description of optimizations and patches used disclosed.
Considering that SGI is using a [somewhat] standard 2.4.19 kernel to scale this well , I am certain that the results will be much better.

Linux will be ready for the desktop when Gnome or KDE drop dead (I can't wait) and some consistency settles in. Until then, I'll run BSD on my servers (the documentation is much better as a result of the consistency) and Windows on the desktop.

Then you should look at
Xandros Linux
Which is based on debian/corel linux and is quite good

Or
Lindows

Or
Lycoris

All of these are quite good Windows replacments and they will get better. Have a look at each and their prices/policies. Lindows has click'n'run which you have heard of. Lycoris I have used and is quite good.

Reviews are available from

Xandros Review

Lycoris Review

Xandros Review

Xandros Review

Xandros Review

Lindows Review

Xandros Review

Lycoris Review

Xandros Review

Lycoris Review

Lindows Review

Favourite quote: "Windows is awful, but well, so is Linux."

b.

Alan Cox works for red-hat.

Those rushing out to download the ISO's may wish to note that Psyche does not include out-of-the-box support for playing MP3's or any form of decent video player (no xine, etc). You may want to check out a review:
here

Combine this with a CPEN and you've got an awesome digital capture device hack...

As you should--that's the way it's supposed to work by default. If you want it to work differently, you need to configure it differently. You get three choices for what is recoverable. That's two more than most other journalling file systems give you.

and at times, my journal was, at times,(seemingly) corrupt, and I would have to boot into single user mode and manually fsck the disk, which took forever.

It can happen, I suppose, but I haven't noticed it, and I crash machines with ext3 a lot.

There's a Texas company that makes a plugin for Outlook, called InsightConnector, that allows it to do all its groupware features over any IMAP4 server with ACL support. It's not OSS, and it's not free, but it's supposed to be cheaper than MS Exchange.

You can find a review of it here.
The company's website is here.

The practically have to have experience in moving servers like this to have any business. You might try contacting them and seeing what they cost.

Linux Planet has a great tutorial section if you're interested.

I asked myself the same question only a few weeks ago. I came to the conclusion that Kapital from theKompany was the best option. You'll probably need KDE and Linux or FreeBSD to run it.

Somewhat ironically, I'm using GnuCash until I can afford to buy it. :-/

Both Kapital and GnuCash claim to be able to import Quicken data files, which is a very handy feature.

Kapital is reviewed here.

Freshmeat also has a brief review that compares many Linux/Unix financial products.

If none of these seems sufficient, maybe Quicken runs under WINE. Has anybody tried doing so?

Microslop just can NOT suck enough.

They make ol' John D. look positively meek in comparison. That's John D. Rockefeller, if you were wondering.

All you reactionary horse's asses out there, take note: even a notable 'conservative' such as Robert H. Bork knows an outrageous affront to capitalism when he sees one.

There is precious little in the way of redeeming factors in what MS does as a matter of course, day in and day out, in their quest to eliminate even the possibility of competition. MS is utterly nefarious.

By the way, the review itself seems to me rather weak. It is mostly a "hey folks, don't do this at home" warning for newbies. And no, this does not fit my definition of a good review ;-)

4) Lastly, what's to stop microsoft from paying top dollar for searches including the words "Linux," "open source," and "monopoly"?

Heh, Ximian already did this with KDE searches. Story here.

Try the Font Deuglification HOWTO.

You might find a more recent copy on linuxdoc.org, but they seem to be down at the moment.

Alan

I believe the following HOW-TO is what you're looking for is here

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials /3 100/1/

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