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I grew up about 50 feet on the other side of this fence
http://ufies.org/~aleith/trans...
Every night at two and four A.M., you would have about 50 streetcars slowly screeching in to park then leaving two hours later for the morning shift.
http://cdn.torontolife.com/wp-... (that whole thing filled up with streetcars)

Also the Toronto firehall training facilities are down the street on Knox Ave., so you'd get fire trucks blaring their sirens racing up Greenwood Ave. at random hours (all hours).

If that didn't bother me, then bring on the turbines (much preferable in my mind to coal fired power plants).

That said, maybe /. should start a dating site. :P
 
  Userfriendly got there first.

http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000879.ht ml

This post pretty much sums up why is isn't practical for Microsoft to fix every single bug. The harsh truth is that it's (financially speaking) not worth it.

Had Microsoft fixed a low risk browser vulnerability six months ago, perhaps we could have avoided last week's zero-day exploit.

everybody is dead, Dave

I heard they were giving back, but getting no help so they gave up..

http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000864.ht ml

At least one person - Dana Epp - alleges that there is a REASON why there are no ouside contributions to the scanning core engine:

http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000864.ht ml

Dana alleges there wasn't much give and take between Nessus and "the community" which discouraged any contributors.

[In 2002] "I was about a quarter of the way complete the port [to windows] when I ran into some issues with the NASL scripting and I tried to contact Renaud and his crew to point out some issues I found. The help I got? Squat. Nothing. Barely even communicated with me. I only ever got a couple of email responses saying "I was free to do it" when I asked if I could do it in the first place, and a follow up to an issue I found with a quick thanks."

What'll be affected are some of the security tools, e.g. nmap (patch already released) Some Rants about raw sockets here.

Did too. First hit on Google is a blog with a list of Microsoft softwares that requires admin priviledges.

Microsoft Age of Mythology
Microsoft Age of Mythology: The Titans
Microsoft Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings 2.0
Microsoft Age of Empires II Expansion: The Conquerors
Microsoft Age of Empires II Gold Edition
Microsoft Baseball 2001
Microsoft Casino
Microsoft Classic Board Games
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WWII Pacific Theater 1.0
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe
Microsoft Crimson Skies
Microsoft Dungeon Siege 1.0
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 - Century of Flight
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 Professional Edition
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 Professional Edition
Microsoft Freelancer
Microsoft Golf 2001 Edition
Microsoft Halo: Combat Evolved
Microsoft Impossible Creatures
Microsoft Links LS 2000
Microsoft Links 2001
Microsoft MechCommander 2.0 1.0
Microsoft MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
Microsoft MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
Microsoft Metal Gear Solid
Microsoft Midtown Madness 1.0
Microsoft Midtown Madness 2 2.0
Microsoft Motocross Madness 2 2.0
Microsoft NBA Inside Drive 2000 1.0
Microsoft NFL Fever 2000 1.0
Microsoft Pandora's Box 1.0
Microsoft Rise of Nations
Microsoft StarLancer 1.0
Microsoft Train Simulator 1.0
Microsoft Zoo Tycoon
Microsoft Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection
Microsoft Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs Expansion Pack
Microsoft Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania Expansion Pack

Apple pattents everything

Apple patents everything

I think OSS should NOT copy OS X, Apple is well known for suing the pants of the little guy.

From http://www.foxforums.com/index.php?showtopic=543.. .

http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2953....com% 5D.torrent (BitTorrent)
http://www.worldofepic.net/ep3.mov (Mirror #1)
http://members.cox.net/chambers30/teaser.mov (Mirror #2)
http://www.larney.co.uk/ep3.mov (Mirror #3)
http://www.jackpearce.info/full.mov (Mirror #4)
http://www.astercity.net/~jerry/full.mov (Mirror #5)
http://ufies.org/txt/switzler084hs_dl.mov (Mirror #6)
http://www.mindspring.com/~bodyslide/Video...er084 aol_dl.mov (Mirror #7)

IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121766/

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And in addition the last hint at

http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000257.ht ml about how to limit which programs are allowed.

I have not tried any of these myself, except the few I have had to "hack" (reset) on computers, where some admin didn't allow me to even use Notepad. To "hack" them, I had to use third party software, which the sloppy admin for some reason had installed. Perhaps it was just a silly test of my curiosity or integrity. In the former case I passed. In the latter I guess I failed, even though I actually didn't do any harm with Notepad.

At least hitting esc on the WinXP logon screen doesn't start up your machine!

You might try Peer 2 Peer. I recall signing up when it first started like 5 or 6 years ago, and I have no idea how active (or inactive) it may be now. I got a couple of bites but nothing that got past a few initial emails. And I wrote a damn good ad, too. :)

But that's all fine because I met my wife about 5 years ago through Yahoo! Personals, back when they were free. Happily married now, coming up on our 2 year anniversary.

I feel bad for people who are looking now, because the internet has passed its "everything is free" phase. Most personals sites require payment, and obviously there's no guarantee. I always felt like personals were a great way to meet the perfect match (provided you live in an area with a sufficiently large and diverse population). You can really get to know someone over email before moving on to phone and meeting face to face. And more importantly, if you both write your ads well, you won't waste much time with people who aren't right for you. I don't know if my wife and I would have met if Yahoo! required payment back then. Probably not. So I feel bad for you people who would like to try it now without wasting lots of money.

Regardless of what you do, good luck!

Here are more thoughts from a friend of mine and security expert.

Even the bloodiest of liberals such as Roger Ebert realize this. There are many Moore links to be found showing the intelectual dishonesty rampant in MM's ravings, but, I'm not going to do your homework for you.

I thought we already had one...

Peer2Peer

I gotta give credit, though, saw it in this comment buried on page 3.

These are the two very different goals that guys have when meeting women. Many (most?) "geek" guys are more interested in having a relationship. A good one may include the other part anyway. ;-) Most "normal" guys are more interested in getting laid, with as many women as possible. In most cases, these two goals are mutually exclusive. So, you face a choice.

If you want to get laid as much as possible, follow the advice of the Tom Leykis radio show. Be a jerk. Don't call her back. Tell her you'll call on Monday, then don't call til Thursday. Don't spend money on her -- make her pay (say you forgot your wallet, etc). Don't be available when she wants to go out, make her think you have more important things (or women) to do than her. For the type of woman who will screw anything that moves, this will only make her want you more. Go out on a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Don't go out on Friday or Saturday unless it's a guaranteed lay - remember you want her thinking you're doing something even more fun without her.

This stuff works, as long as you're willing to do hot chicks who've done dozens (if not hundreds) of other guys before you. A great little trick they've been talking about on the show lately is to make up fake ATM receipts with large account balances. This should be easy for the geeks - just scan your receipt, edit in gimp to give yourself a 6 figure balance, and print. Crumple it up a little to make it nice and believable. Then talk to some hot chick, tell her you have to go to some important meeting but give her your phone number and write it on that ATM receipt. She will call and you will get laid.

Now, let's face it. Many of us geeks are nice guys and just don't have the balls to do stuff like the above. We don't get laid by chicks like that - not because of our looks, but because we treat them nicely (oh, he's so nice -- and boring!!). But for many of us (myself included), that's ok - we'd rather run nothing but Windows 2.0 than have anything to do with those brainless dopey chicks who put out on command. I mean, come on -- ewww! Do you know what (or how many different... 'things') have been in that? No thank you! Have some self respect, lady!

For those of us in this group, we want a real relationship, with a lady who has a brain. I'm proud to say that I found one, without being a jerk, and ended up marrying her. I'm totally shy and awkward, with no confidence in social situations. So what worked? Personals.

Many people still look at personal ads with a stigma -- "Oh, he couldn't get a date so he had to resort to THAT! What a loser!" But screw them. It's practically the perfect way to find the right person, not just someone who's ok. Find out about the other person before wasting time or investing a lot of emotion into it. Search, wait, and hold out for that perfect gal (or guy).

Personally, I used Yahoo! Personals, about 4 years ago, back when it was still free. I responded to about 2 ads a week - some went as far as phone calls, some even went to a dinner date after several emails and phone calls. None went farther because none of these women felt "right." I never felt totally comfortable. That's ok, though. Nobody needs to be in a rush for this stuff!

Finally I posted my own ad and got 2 responses. One was thousands of miles away looking for a penpal. Ok, whatever. The other started emailing back and forth and then we started calling each other. The first night we talked for 4 hours on the phone. I never do that, much less with someone I've only emailed for a week. Needless to say, it was a sign that she was "the one." I felt totally comfortable on our first date (SW Episode 1 -- the movie sucked but the date rocked!). We just belonged together. 3 years later we were married.

So, you see, I am a big proponent of personals if you want to find that special someone. It worked beautifully for me, though that's no guarantee for anyone else. Relationships are a lot of work, no doubt about that - but what you get out of it is much more than you put in (and much more satisfying on all levels than the guys above who are just getting laid with a bunch of skanks -- but hey, if that's your thing, great! Have fun!).

Unfortunately most of the sites now require payment. That sucks but totally understandable. I don't know if I would have met my wife if one (or both) of us had had to pay. There's no guarantee that you'll get anything out of any one ad, so it's a crapshoot, with pretty poor odds. For geeks, though, I can recommend Peer2Peer which is made only for geeks. I believe it's still free, but it's been some time since I looked at it.

Anyway, good luck, be smart, and have fun -- whether you choose option #1 or #2, they're both ok as long as it's right for you!

The binary of Mozilla that you have supports antialiasing right now.

Go here and follow the instructions near the top of the page. Provided you have a recent version of FreeType2 on your system and some TrueType fonts for it to find (you have to uncomment a line or two in your unix.js file and tell it where to look), you'll be using antialiased fonts in no time. It looks great, and I wish they'd do it by default. One other thing--you may want to set unhinted to "false", as fonts appear to render better that way. Experiment with your system, though.

I've gotten this to work with the latest Mozilla and an otherwise fresh install of Redhat 8, plus a few .ttf's in the directory "~/.fonts".

So my question is where do the polititians get the addresses to spam? Since it's opt-out (but not the bad kind of opt-out of course) they don't ask people for their emails, so they must get them from a list from somewhere. Is there some sort of listing of email addresses and their geographic areas? I assume that sending email to say, canada to ask for votes for the sacramento east riding isn't going to do much good... Do they just purchase a list from a spamhaus and go to it or what?

I almost wish I didn't have spamassassin running so I could see if I get any, and offer my opinions :)

BTW, there is a good presentation on Mail::Audit and Mail::Spamassassin linked over at http://igor.penguinsinthenight.com/spamtalk/ with a PPT at this site.

Anyone who wants to use this for xplanet (a very cool globe program for *nix) can. There's a nice 2400x1200 version floating around somewhere, that combined with Hans Ecke's scripts, will create just awsome images for your desktop.

Nobody can accuse them of jumping into this. It's something that they have worked toward for years now and 0.9.5 has added some great features without hurting the current level of stability. This can only be good for the project.

Disclaimer: I use Galeon, so my main interest in Moz is Gecko to power the latest Galeon release. I do ride the lizard now and then just to see what they've done though. With the tabbed windows, they've almost caught up with Galeon. :)

A note for fellow Slackers, Mozilla 0.9.5 has been up for a couple days and Galeon 0.12.4 is worth snagging as well.

If you're looking for good .debs a dude by the name of christophe has made patched 0.9 .debs which are available at ftp://ufies.org/pub/galeon/people/christophe

They are made for the galeon project, but don't rely on any external (ximian, etc) debs. They are IIRC just recompiles of kitame's .8.1's.

Apt-gettable even via:
deb ftp://ufies.org/pub/galeon/people/christophe ./

Get your good good LOTR-lovin' at http://ufies.org/files/lotr_trailer3.rm

HTH, HAND

Scott Adams was by all accounts one of the greatest comic geniuses of all times, and his 5 part trilogy forming the Ultimate HitchHiker's Guide is not only roaringly funny, but deeply philosophical as well. Sum-Total, it sold over 50 million copies, and was translated into more than 147 languages (including Klingon, Ant and Dog). (no, seriously!)

Not only was Adams unique in his suberb writing ability and narrative style, but also featured prominently in radio, effectively bringing back to life the BBC's radio comedy.

In recent years, he had been working hard on a film version of his off-the-mark and sublimely nonsequitur series, with actors Hugh Laurie, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carrey, Ben Affleck and even Bruce Willis in the running for the lead part.

Adams leaves behind a wife and seven year old daughter.

As he goes to join Graham Chapman, the comedic genius behind many of the best Monty Python sketches (and with whom he worked extensively and whose semi-autobiography "A Liar's Autobiography, Volume VI" he co-authored with Eric Idle), I'm sure his presence, his genius, his personality and his work will sorely be missed.

In his own words,

"Dreadfully sorry for all the inconvenience"
"'Poof!' Vanished in a puff of logic"
"So long, and thanks for all the fish!"

And of course, the answer is 42.

Cheers,

jacobb

PS. to get the original Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series in mp3 format, surf on over to UFIE'S FTP
They are well, well worth it.

42.
fnord.

The group over at Userfriendly have an online personals service called Peer to Peer. Check it out.

This phone transcript is a hoot! Go checkt it out!

My favourite part (the caller asked about the set of applications that come with LinuxOne):

04:18 - LinuxOne: "Ummmm...There's a terminal emulator, a RPM manager called KPackage."
04:25 - Accipiter: "What is RPM?"
04:26 - LinuxOne: "RPM is uh, the program language that you program uh, within Linux."
04:33 - Accipiter: "Oh, so you can actually make programs with RPM?"
04:35 - LinuxOne: "Yes, it's a C++ programming, uh, programming tool."
04:38 - Accipiter: "Oh! Very cool..."
04:40 - LinuxOne: "Uhhmmm... A --"
04:42 - Accipiter: "Does that include a compiler so if I want to...if I write my - if I write my program in RPM, I can compile it with RPM too?"
04:49 - LinuxOne: "Yes."
04:49 - Accipiter: "Oh, Great!"

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Also here (bc, canada mirror)

There already is. Check out Peer 2 Peer.

Here you go (in case the opera site is still /.ed).

Sadly I've never liked Woo's "lets make that kick just a little cooler/wilder than the last one" style. Nor his "every action sequence must involve explosions or slow-mo no matter what it is".

But that's just me :)

Er, all your arguments apply to the current role of the ISP.

Why should I, as an ISP provide bandwidth to you when (lets face it, avgs here, and I ran an ISP, so I can speak to it) the collective you are probably using my bandwidth (at least part of the time) to look at porn, download warez, download MP3s you don't have IP rights to. I'd conservately estimate that 60% of my packets were related to one of those activities. (let's face it a few 650 mb CD-roms outstrip most people's legit websurfing for a month).

So why should I? Because some of you are doing Good_Things with my bandwidth. Because when I was 13, among the flames and the warez of the BBS scene I found a very compelling first person article from someone who was there when The Wall fell. It was propogated over fidonet, which for those of you without my long past was a network of home users with dial up modems who exchanged mail via packet transfers at 2am. I argue, and will continue to argue to my dieing breath that articles like this outweigh all the porn, warez and anything else floating through the net. And if just one person uses Freenet to store an article like that, or any of a number of stories that allow us to understand one another better, the IP abuse that would have occured anyways (does anyone here seriously expect that alt.binaries.* is going to vanish?) is excusable in the greater scheme of things. I will run a freenet. I will encourage all my bandwidth rich friends to run a freenet.

Untill you are willing to forgo your internet access because of the other abuses of that bandwith that are going on all around you, you sir, are a hipocrite, as you are asking your ISP to do something you are unwilling to do.

Minupla


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Remove the rocks from my head to send email

Check out for Example

http://bbs.ufies.org/

which has a telnet link on it

They are affiliated with the crazy folks at User-Friendly the Comic Strip.

That should be http://jamie.ufies.org

Although I would hope most of the /. crowd would be able to figure that out anyway :)


Tell a man that there are 400 Billion stars and he'll believe you

When I saw this, I thought, are there many homosexual male hackers? Has there been any studies or reports on this kind of thing? I'm asking because I geuinely want to know if geekdom is also a primarily a heterosexual male domain.

I would think that geekdom, which has been traditionally been mostly unconcerned with age/race/gender/religion/appearance/whatever in favor of quality of idea/code/implementation/whatever, wouldn't have much of a problem with sexual orientation, either.

But then again, I have seen *quite* a number of overtly homophobic comments on /. and elsewhere. Could it be that sexual orientation is the one area where geeks *don't* bring the same amount of automatic tolerance to the table? And if so, why? Surely no one would argue that choice of sleeping partner would impact upon ability to churn out code or skill at implementing a new hack.

Also, do stereotypical homosexual male traits preclude them from being geeks?

What "traits" would those be? If you mean, "does the (surprising?) level of homophobia in a supposedly ultra-tolerant cultural group like geeks adversely impact gay geeks?", then I'd have to say that yes, it probably does. If you mean "is there something inherent in queer people that would prevent them from becoming geeks?", then I'd have to say no. Besides, if the stereotype of gay guys being limp-wristed were true, you'd think that would be an *advantage* in playing Quake... :-)

And as to the question of "well, if there *are* gay geeks out there, then where are they?", I should point out that several of the main Linux kernel hackers are queer, as is the author of this reply, as are many geeks I know. In fact, I would posit that a larger percentage of queer people are geeks than the members of the general population as a whole are geeks. However, if a large percent of queers = geeks, large percent of geeks != queers.

If you're looking for a more precise percentage count, take a look at "Peer2Peer" over at UserFriendly (http://personals.ufies.org/) and check out the number of gay/bi/lesbian/queer/transgendered personals over there. Or notice how almost all large techie companies have a gay employees group? Even good old Microsoft has GLEAM.

Ergo, gay geeks exist. The question now is, when do we see a Jon Katz article on this? :-)

Raven- I was once your cow-orker, one of the 'guys' who treated you like just another of the guys.

Fact is, I treat all female geek friends as if they are one of the guys- not because I'm not interested (often I'm very interested), but because I hear over and over again how geek girls are annoyed by guys (keek or otherwise) hitting on you and treating 'geek girls' like girls rather than fellow geeks.

Hear that often enough and a guy starts to think 'If I show I'm attracted, she'll figure I'm just another jerk guy, so I'll remain silent and platonic (and frustrated).'.

I for one am not looking for 'cute girls with tight sweaters, perfect makeup and a styled do'. I am looking for somebody with brains, conversation skills, and who isn't taller or rounder than I am.

The geek girls I know all prefer to complain about how they keep getting hit on and how all the guys want 'the swedish bikini team', ignoring their available fellow geeks.

If you're serious about finding geek love, User Friendly's Peer 2 Peer free personals site is a good start.

From UserFriendly.org:

Harkening back to the halcyon days of dial-up Bulletin Boards, the UFie BBS can be reached at http://bbs.ufies.org and telnet://bbs.ufies.org. Tradewars and Lord and other famous BBS door games are available, as are message boards, Fidonet feeds, and more! Thanks go to Moe, the generous chap who set the whole thing up and paid for the license!

Linux-biased geek personal site, from Iambe of User Friendly. It worked for me.

I think there needs to be match maker board, just for geeks

There is:

Peer2Peer

Like this?

:)
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