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Slashback: Blender, Pictures, Servitude

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the april-come-she-will dept.

Tonight, the updates and addenda continue apace, with more on the Anti-Unix Unix server, the possible future of Blender, Steve Mann's treatment at the hands of Air Canada, and an interesting consequence of Linux's popularity in Russia. Read below to enjoy.

Is your Blender still under warranty? Myriad writes: "NaN, the publishers of the free cross-platform 3D modeling and rendering package Blender, may not be as dead as was previously reported here on Slashdot. While Blender remains unavailable for download, some of the websites functionality has returned along with the notice "NaN is currently undergoing a re-organization of the company...and are working to restore wider operations as soon as possible." Hopefully they will manage to bring back Blender!"

"I only read Computerra for the pictures." Natalie Shahova writes: "As the translator of Just for Fun, I had to contact Linus by email in order to clarify some issues. This way we got virtually acquainted, and Linus agreed to give me an interview. Its Russian version was published in Computerra on March 26, but the original is - as you might guess - in English. As far as I know, Linus Torvalds has never given an interview to a Russian journalist before. Knowing from Just for Fun that Linus is tired of questions about Linux and open source, I chose some other subjects that interest me as a professional translator: languages, emigration, fiction, etc." A fun interview, with some amusing pictures, too (only in the Russian version). Thanks, Natalie!

Wasn't Windows NT 'More UNIX than UNIX'? thelizman writes: "C|Net is reporting that the joint Microsoft and Unisys website attacking Unix has been experiencing problems all day. Now, normally I would venture an evil laugh, but in light of yesterdays revelation here on /. about the site being FreeBSD powered, could this merely reinforce Microsoft's point? Not likely, since it was quickly switched over to IIS running on Windows 2000, and that's when the problem seems to have started."

What time is it when an elephant dances on your computer? Tom Veil writes: "Minor editorial changes have been made on the article "When Elephants Dance" (referenced earlier by Slashdot). The most interesting change adds one more step to the solution, suggesting that the DMCA must be repealed. A comment is also made as to how fair use is already protected, and thus 'there is no need for additional action in this area.'"

And thanks for flying Air Canada -- Have a nice day. steveha writes: "Linux Journal has more on cyborg Steve Mann's troubles with Air Canada. Over $100,000 in equipment damage, and possible... brain damage?!? Not good."

5 of 293 comments (clear)

  1. Who wants to bet Microsoft just changed the header by Spazntwich · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I doubt they went through ALL of that trouble to install win2k on those machines.

    I'm thinking they're still REALLY running BSD.

  2. From the website: by christurkel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Directory Listing Denied This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed." Yepper!

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  3. there is no site there. by upt1me · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They must have removed the content from their site in fear that there NT box could not handle being slashdotted. I recieved the following error message: Directory Listing Denied This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.

  4. What the HTTP server says: by Kymermosst · · Score: 2, Redundant

    $ lynx -mime-header http://www.wehavethewayout.com/
    HTTP/1.1 403 Access Forbidden
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 02:22:14 GMT
    Content-Type: text/html
    Content-Length: 172

    <html><head><title>Directory Listing Denied</title></head>
    <body><h1>Directory Listing Denied</h1>This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.</body></html>

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  5. Re:Anti-Unix site running IIS now? by Hawks · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ask and you shal receive:

    nmap -sS -O -v -v www.wehavethewayout.com

    Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
    Host www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.214.143) appears to be up ... good.
    Initiating SYN half-open stealth scan against www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.21
    4.143)
    Adding TCP port 443 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 25 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 21 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 3306 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 2105 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 5900 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 110 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 1433 (state open).
    Adding TCP port 80 (state open).
    The SYN scan took 11 seconds to scan 1523 ports.
    For OSScan assuming that port 21 is open and port 20 is closed and neither are f
    irewalled
    Interesting ports on www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.214.143):
    (The 1134 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
    Port State Service
    21/tcp open ftp
    25/tcp open smtp
    80/tcp open http
    110/tcp open pop-3
    443/tcp open https
    1433/tcp open ms-sql-s
    2105/tcp open eklogin
    3306/tcp open mysql
    5900/tcp open vnc

    TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
    Difficulty=591570 (Good luck!)

    Sequence numbers: 4DC1679D 4DDCE751 4DEDCAD4 4DF3B30E 4DF835BF 4DFD21F9
    Remote operating system guess: MS Windows2000 Professional RC1/W2K Advance Serve
    r Beta3
    OS Fingerprint:
    TSeq(Class=RI%gcd=1%SI=906D2)
    T1(Re sp=Y%DF=Y%W=402E%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=MNWNNT)
    T2( Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=S%Flags=AR%Ops=)
    T3(Resp=Y%DF =Y%W=402E%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=MNWNNT)
    T4(Resp=Y% DF=N%W=0%ACK=O%Flags=R%Ops=)
    T5(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%A CK=S++%Flags=AR%Ops=)
    T6(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=O%Fl ags=R%Ops=)
    T7(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=S++%Flags=AR%O ps=)
    PU(Resp=N)

    Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 15 seconds

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