Slashdot Mirror

I'm using it here for some months.

The Google cache is here

Some more mirrors are here, and here at XS4ALL in Holland.

And btw, one of the pages mentions that Mikki has written a book based on the article. The book is available on the Evil Patenting Amazon.com.

When you can sink this low. This script is so much fun, everytime I pick up the phone, I HOPE its a telemarketer

Anti-Telemarketer Script

"Telemarketers always use a script: why shouldn't you?"

Serious script

Fun script

I think this would be great if there were a lot more games like this online. I really, really want to see DOOM online with multiplayer. I know the Infocom games are available online which was posted at serious fix. This, I thought was really cool.

If anyone finds the DOOM online game ... please let us know.

Much more fun is to use the counterscript. I've had a few telemarketing people sounding so worried when I did it that I almost felt sorry for them.

...for the server load to die down :

Why, go and play all those Infocom text adventures, java'd, through your browser, of course!

CSS that doesn't work in IE appears to work in Opera

Example that's not found on Opera.com?

IE's implementations of CSS2 is just silly.
css2 tests

May be the answer is to stay away from http.

Web Services is basically describing the kind of services run over http. Excessive services result in http request saturation and thus people has to find some ways to circumvene the performance problems.

The reason why people nowaday mostly rely on http is the laziness of admins in handling corporate security. Services like RPC calls multiply the complexity of administration and it'd be easier if we all target the request on a single channel - http, which most enterprise has already opened it for normal web servers. Web Services beat CORBA in term of convenience in depolyment, not in term of its technical merit. (for more information, see this comparison)

The article and the links followed are insufficient to tell what's inside this research. If he could really find a solution to http saturation problem, that solution can absolutely be applied to everything else. I'm pretty skeptic on it. :)

There is an alternative to being on a do-not-call list: Take up as much of their time as possible. The Anti-Telemarketing Counterscript is downright funny, and is probably the telemarketer's worst nightmare.

If the site is a bit slow, check out the mirror, kindly hosted by xs4all

Boy are you clueless. Go back to the 1930's and get a job with William Randolph Hearst, he's got some tabloid articles for you to write.

You know why pot is really illegal? It's because HEMP threatens the profits of the industrialists. You can make any grade of paper with it. It's the toughest natural fibre aside from spider silk. You can run a car on hemp oil. People could be growing gas in their backyards. Can't have that! Dubya's family has been heavily into oil for decades. Step up the War on Drugs! No conflict of interest here, move along.

In 1937, when marijuana was banned, the American Medical Association OPPOSED it. They had been prescribing it safely for over a hundred years.

Every scientific study of marijuana has concluded that it is substantially less harmful than cigarettes or alcohol. Very recently, a senate committee here in Canada which studied it in depth, recommended unanimously to the government that pot is far less dangerous than smoking and drinking, and should be regulated accordingly.

Perhaps, gram for gram, there are more carcinogens in marijuana than tobacco. So what? People smoke far less pot than cigarettes, because pot is not chemically addictive. I've been smoking pot regularly for about 8 years. You know how much I smoke now? A small pipe bowl when I get home from work, and maybe a shared joint when my roommate gets home. Now compare that to a smoker who measures their habit in packs per day, and is only getting worse.

"There is why pot is illegial [...] I can tell by your wording that you are a pothead"

I can tell by your wording that you make the average pothead look pretty bright.

"Why does a single 24-year-old guy need coupons for feminine hygiene products?"

Now there's a question for the ages. Enquiring minds do want to know. There's always wallpaper, confusing the supermarket tracking your purchases in their database, anticipation (buy them in the hope ....). You could always take the coupons to singles bars and hand them out to likely prospects (laugh).

In this interview they talk with the authors of the Conectiva Crystal icons, and about using karbon to make them. They link to this screenshot.

Even though this is my first venture into vector art, I must say I like it - it looks like it could even make an artist out of me!

Karbon Pics

Anyone who's hung out on the Analogue Heaven or Synth-DIY mailing lists has known about these kind of mods for years (i'm talking mid-90s and earlier here).

It is SO MUCH FUN to play with old sound-making gear and randomly bypass resistors and short chips just to see what will happen. I've broken one synth doing this randomly, after that i always bought schematics :-) But with schematics you can do All Sort Of Cool Shit. It doesn't really work with newer, "System On A Chip" kind of gear, but who cares - it's only the late 70s and early 80s stuff that you get at garage sales for $10 anyway. Even if you're not musical and just an EE head it's a ball to go in and connect shit up and make it go "wheeeeeee" "waaaarrgggghhhh" "w00t".

This really reminds me of Power Pong.

No he didn't. That was you pushing the cage.

I'm sure most of the crackers (script kiddies) don't have the faintest idea of the consequences of their actions. To them, the remote system is just another system, another command processor that they can control.

Also, the idea that what they're doing is illegal doesn't sink in; it's only recognised superficially.

I'd say, find alternative sentences that shows the consequences of breaking in. Four weeks of miscellaneous chores in a backup tape factory, reinstalling systems that were broken in to, or something.

Also, make sure beforehand that everyone knows that cracking a system means downtime, a lot of work to reinstall, and consequential damages. All that, even if nothing was broken, because the sysadmin has to reinstall anyway just to be safe.

That being said, I think some responsible cracking should be permissible under some strict conditions (don't break anything, report the security hole, inform the victim), maybe to prove that there actually is a hole. My ISP (XS4ALL) have some rules (Dutch, sorry) on this.

I'm sure most of the crackers (script kiddies) don't have the faintest idea of the consequences of their actions. To them, the remote system is just another system, another command processor that they can control.

Also, the idea that what they're doing is illegal doesn't sink in; it's only recognised superficially.

I'd say, find alternative sentences that shows the consequences of breaking in. Four weeks of miscellaneous chores in a backup tape factory, reinstalling systems that were broken in to, or something.

Also, make sure beforehand that everyone knows that cracking a system means downtime, a lot of work to reinstall, and consequential damages. All that, even if nothing was broken, because the sysadmin has to reinstall anyway just to be safe.

That being said, I think some responsible cracking should be permissible under some strict conditions (don't break anything, report the security hole, inform the victim), maybe to prove that there actually is a hole. My ISP (XS4ALL) have some rules (Dutch, sorry) on this.

Algol68-to-C by Sian Leitch
(Source appears to be somewhat Debian-centric. I haven't managed to compile it on NetBSD yet.)


Algol-68G
(Works fine with NetBSD-i386, I suppose it would on sparc too.)

-Lasse

• mathematical analysis including some cool animation of Escher's "Print Gallery."
• Science Jokes website by Joachim Verhagen
• Adriaan van der Hek's First Virtual Mousepad Museum

When telemarketers call, just hit them back with this!

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/browsers5.html

I'd recommend sticking with Opera 7, even though it's still in beta, if you want to try Opera. It's way more standards-compliant than previous versions. Opera 7 even has better CSS2 support than any other browser according to some.

This telemarketing Counter-Script was linked to back in October over at Blue's News. It seemed to be relevant to this discussion. I keep a copy next to my phone, but alas, I haven't had a telemarketer get through to me yet.

Also, the cops have busted my chops during their yearly grab for cash, as a poster mentioned earlier (pre-emptive hang-ups and general McGruff-ness). I just write it off to them having to do a shitty and thankless job.

The evil girl-Terminator can be seen in this photo where she is using her striking appearance to gather intelligence on the primative life forms.

Some how, I think from this image, I can tell there is a much deeper, more hate-filled conflict being developed here. Anything could happen before this war hits.

try out the counterscript the next time you get a call.

it's a fun little script that is similar to what the telemarketers use when they call you.

Over here in Holland we can get ADSL at 8mbit/512kb
I am using it now (from my work), but normally it costs from around 90 - 120 euros a month like for example here

isnt america supposed to have invented the net...maybe get microsoft to innovate in the broadband market over in the ole america

Opera rocks! Check out: CSS support by browsers The JavaScript debugger is by far the best out there.(Mozilla's is also ok)
The new, improved "author mode" (can outline tables, other elements) is just amazing.
Enable/Disable popups/cookies/javascript/animated gifs/PLUGINS easily by hitting f12 is divine
Once in a while, when I'm forced to use some "old" browser such as IE and Netscape to check my code (IE is of course the "corporate standard"), I realize how bad life used to be.. If you code for the web, you should really try Opera. (Interestingly enough, for this thread, the free version has some Adwareish stuff, but at least they're open about it.)

Yeah, here's a good start (for BSD, anyway). Gotta love the booth bunnies.

What would a self-replicating nano-machine do if it went out of control? It would begin grabbing every other atom nearby, and converting them into the same nanomachines, and would multiply unstoppably and explosively.

It would eventually destroy the planet, as well as possibly the solar system and even the universe.

Read this before you tout nanotech as a panacea! It is scary.

For symbolic math there's yacas and for numeric work there is yorick. Both of these are comand line tools without GUI frontends, but they are both nice and solid and get the job done.

Hey, I posted that to debian-devel. Scary to see it get Slashdot headlines, since this posting from Wichert Akkerman himself is more 'official'.
He's now probably busy setting up klecker.debian.org as the next security.debian.org host. Don't get yourself trojaned, please people, don't panic and just wait for the official Debian announcement that everything has been fixed again. Or play around with inofficial mirrors like these, and there are more. But I feel a bit stupid myself, because - unlike Wichert - I have done nothing myself except forwarding the news and act like a karma whore.

Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
The old A-team theme

Kind of a neat way to honor an author you admire, doncha think?

See it here.

Someone please mirror this and reply to this msg to keep it from getting /.ed...

The counterscript is fun and easy.

I have a Wells Fargo account, and while I quite like their online banking site, I have them squarely in the "Sinners" column when it comes to browser support. The problem is that their site accepts and rejects browsers based purely on browser strings, without regard to the brower's actual capabilities.

Since my favorite browser, iCab for Mac OS X, is neither Netscape nor Internet Explorer, I have to tweak it's browser string. When I do it connects with only a few glitches. Their denied browser page and browser test page essentailly claim that nothing except Internet Explorer and Netscape meet their "strict security standards." But what they actually enforce is a policy that only allows browsers that claim to be Netscape or Internet Explorer.

I have called the number they provide to point out this problem, but the person on the other end of the call clearly didn't think there was anything that she could do about the problem and told me that I'd be better of expressing my opinion on their Contact Us page.

Lastly, not having lots of web-authoring savvy, I found the following two pages extremely informative on the subjects of browser and object detection:

Browser Detection
Object Detection

I think this guy's main point is that browser detection should be used to make your page more compatible by altering subtle aspects of a page to cater to certain browsers' eccentricities (read "bugs") but it is often used (abused) to make pages less compatible by turning away the browsers the author thinks won't work. To actually detect a browsers capabilities, object detection should be used.

I have a Wells Fargo account, and while I quite like their online banking site, I have them squarely in the "Sinners" column when it comes to browser support. The problem is that their site accepts and rejects browsers based purely on browser strings, without regard to the brower's actual capabilities.

Since my favorite browser, iCab for Mac OS X, is neither Netscape nor Internet Explorer, I have to tweak it's browser string. When I do it connects with only a few glitches. Their denied browser page and browser test page essentailly claim that nothing except Internet Explorer and Netscape meet their "strict security standards." But what they actually enforce is a policy that only allows browsers that claim to be Netscape or Internet Explorer.

I have called the number they provide to point out this problem, but the person on the other end of the call clearly didn't think there was anything that she could do about the problem and told me that I'd be better of expressing my opinion on their Contact Us page.

Lastly, not having lots of web-authoring savvy, I found the following two pages extremely informative on the subjects of browser and object detection:

Browser Detection
Object Detection

I think this guy's main point is that browser detection should be used to make your page more compatible by altering subtle aspects of a page to cater to certain browsers' eccentricities (read "bugs") but it is often used (abused) to make pages less compatible by turning away the browsers the author thinks won't work. To actually detect a browsers capabilities, object detection should be used.

Interesting idea. You'd have to remember to set ARCH depending on the URL you used (eg, /cgi-bin/menuconfig?ARCH=sparc64 or something) and to have the 16 gcc installations you'd need to cross-compile for anything the user wanted. ("Why does my new kernel keep crashing at boot with an 'Invalid Instruction' fault??")

And of course, this would be much easier if we just made a linux kernel conf frontend for this. :)

Should've been from the highly irrelevant-dept I think, especially considering that Blender has now been Open-Sourced! [U.S. Mirror | Dutch Mirror]

Yeah indeed... What have we *nix users got?

Old people with large beards?

And the daemonette.

From the website
The important changes which come with LinuxKernelConf are a new configuration syntax and a single parser for this language. Multiple utilities can be build on top of this, right now only the old configuration utilities are reimplemented which make use of it. The console utilities ("make config" and "make menuconfig") preserve their old behaviour for all the kernel hackers which loathe drastic behaviour changes. :-) The new X interface ("make xconfig") shows a bit how kernel configuration could be done in the future.

This is about how the linux kernel is configured and built. At the moment there are a mess of makefiles and shell scripts that provide make oldconfig/config/menuconfig/xconfig etc.

LKC is a new configuration file format/language for describing how the configurations options interelate and which are set, and a parser for this language that interfaces with the build system and tells it how to build your kernel. See this if you're interested.

This is all probably A Good Thing (it should make maintaining the the build system easier), but people who don't maintain linux makefiles probably won't find this the world's most fascinating feature. make menuconfig still does basically the same thing. Your .config files in 2.6.x/3.0.x will be in a different format to those from 2.4.x if you look. That's about it.

The aforementioned software can be found here, at least until it is /.'ed.

shoot. looks like there site is gettings slashdotted. Here is a mirror of the picture

yeah the site has been /.ed. So here's another picture of the mirror

In "Belgie" (Belgium) a song from "Het goede doel" (The Right Cause) there is a line that goes (All Dutch people sing along please!):

"Is er leven op Pluto? Kun je dansen op de maan? Is er een plaats in de sterren waar ik heen lan gaan?"
Is there life on Pluto? Can you dance on the moon? Is there a place amongst the stars where I can go?

You can find the rest of the lyrics here

I'm a "semi-power user" and I had the same thoughts. Allthough I was kinda *forced* into testing 2.5.x because all the patches I wanted to 2.4.x wouldn't play nice together (preempt, O(1), VM, xfs) and they had all been merged into 2.5.

I tried 2.5.38, but then alas, nvidia does not support the 2.5.x series! After doing a little googling I found that nvidia's driver is only broken on the source side (as opposed to the binary only part) and that people have had some success patching for 2.5.

Here's the best patch I've found, it is for the NVIDIA_kernel-2960 (Thanks to Nicholas Petreley & Mark Hurenkamp). After adding a xfs cvs patch on 2.5.24-dj2 and recompiling the nvidia driver, my system was up and running (faster than ever).

The improvements in 2.5.x are wonderful, and while I agree with both Linux and Igno have to say, I too am leaning toward 3.0, but it's only a number; distros will happily roll whatever [improvements/number] Linus and friends gives them.

Well, they've tried it with Karin Spaink and XS4ALL here in the Netherlands.
And they lost.

Yes, but they also tried it with Johan Helsingius and anon.penet.fi in Finland. You can read about the consequences, if you don't already know them, at Karin's webspace on xs4all here.