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I guess it's like how some Jews in the US (and other countries) get excited when a TV show has a Jewish character or mentions Hanukhah. It's just a little bit of "recognition" from the "mainstream" for people who often feel like they are being ignored or even persecuted by the dominant majority.

Actually, there are many similarities between Unix users and other minorities (religious or otherwise), vis-a-vis the majority culture. All the way to the outright hostility we get from some Microsoft users because we won't do like "everyone else" does.

I can't believe UCLA is siding with the man on the street. When I lived there, I wasn't allowed to run linux in the dorms (no servers... except winblows file sharing, of course). Not sure what their policy is now (I think you have to be questioned and fill out some forms now)

You can read about one student's battle with UCLA resnet here

My HTML tags were correct when I posted this.. I even double-checked. Something's screwy with slashdot's tag filtering. Anyway, here's the link to the email message, if anyone's interested..

I'd just like to put out a warning to any enterprising college students who are reading about all these neat MIT and Caltech pranks and are thinking of trying something similar at their own schools. If your school is not prank-friendly and/or you get caught, you can find yourself in a whole boatload of trouble. What happened to me was that I tried a certain prank at my dumb school that was similar to an old one at MIT. Basically I sent a little email to several.. erm.. hundred.. freshman, letting them know that they had been reassigned to live in the University Library or the basement of Hedrick Hall due to overcrowding in the university. People believed it and called the Housing Office in droves. Some even showed up at the library to have a look at their new beds. Needless to say, the university was not amused. So they kicked me out of the dorms (with 4 weeks to go in the school year left and finals rapidly approaching!) and gave me 60 hours of community service. Sure, I probably shouldn't have sent the email in the first place, or I should have made it ultra-obvious that it was a joke (I thought I had done that..), but the university's reaction was way overkill. So the moral of this story: Don't pull a prank if you're at all worried about possible punishment. :)

However, it's recommended that you do all your stuff before 3 PM, because that's when the kiddies come home from school, and the flooding begins. Gnutella currently has absolutely no provision for flood protection, and effects are severe. I guess I've just encouraged them more... heh.

Another good source for stuff is #gnutella on EFNet. There is also #gnutelladev on EFNet. Please don't go to the second channel unless you have some question about the interal workings. All other questions should be directed to #gnutella. Also, #gnutella is a good place to find the available hosts. Here's one, digdug.dyndns.org. Let's see what happens to my dialup. :)

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However, it's recommended that you do all your stuff before 3 PM, because that's when the kiddies come home from school, and the flooding begins. Gnutella currently has absolutely no provision for flood protection, and effects are severe. I guess I've just encouraged them more... heh.

Another good source for stuff is #gnutella on EFNet. There is also #gnutelladev on EFNet. Please don't go to the second channel unless you have some question about the interal workings. All other questions should be directed to #gnutella. Also, #gnutella is a good place to find the available hosts. Here's one, digdug.dyndns.org. Let's see what happens to my dialup. :)

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http://oppression.n erdherd.org/Stories/1998/9810/ucla/ucla.html

I like to block those ports, who needs a password when it tells you to stick your smb request up your ass?

http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains
http://ipchains.nerdherd.org

Too bad for Slade.

Host adsl-61-0-42.dab.bellsouth.net (208.61.0.42) appears to be up ... good.
Initiating TCP connect() scan against adsl-61-0-42.dab.bellsouth.net (208.61.0.42)
...
Interesting ports on adsl-61-0-42.dab.bellsouth.net (208.61.0.42):
Port State Protocol Service
79 open tcp finger
139 open tcp netbios-ssn
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
Difficulty=792 (Medium)
Sequence numbers: 58C3CC 58C50E 58C828 58C83A 58C967 58D225
Remote operating system guess: Microsoft NT 4.0 Server SP5 + 2047 Hotfixes

The above line explains his anti-GPL attitude.

(Apologies to all if this information is repeated. I can't get /. to display the seven posts before mine.)

I'm terrible at building the firewall rules myself. I understand perfectly what is going on--it's just that any script I make (from ipmasqadm to ipchains) won't work correctly. To compensate for this deficiency, I use the scripts at http://ipchains.nerdherd.org/. So far, I've recommended them to clients, implemented them at work and at home, and they've made me look really, really good.

The masquerading script is so simple, yet easily configurable. The latest versions are self-configuring and are perfect for the SOHO network.

Chris

Here is a link to a Hacker's Jargon Dictionary with an explanation of foo() and bar(). "Cause everyone else does" is pretty much it. It's just one of those silly programmer tradition things.

Kind of like sig lines with geeky memory-management jokes. ;)