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Crack a Password, Save Norwegian History
Christian writes "With the death of the only person who knew the password to an archive held at a museum in Norway, suddenly the data became inaccessible. The result? A nationwide radio appeal asking for "hackers" to volunteer to help solve the problem! The
Norway Post has the story." I wonder if they looked under his keyboard yet..
Encryption can only be successfully used for terrorist purposes. For what possible reason could this guy have encrypted this information?
Now he's dead and we have to ask other criminals to come to Norway's rescue.
Thanks, encryption zealots. Thanks a lot.
I have been pwned because my
I wonder what English for Norweigan is?
Perhaps "Norwegian"??? Jeez, at least use a spell-checker.
As in Webster's dictionary...
They will never know the simple pleasure of a monkey knife fight
"If these "hackers" are anything like the Linux people I know, Norway is screwed. You know what I'm talking about, they do the following:"
:-)
/. that you won't sound like a total idiot if you just toe the party line.
.iso that doesn't exist.
/etc by hand. When newbie leaves, continue to wonder why Linux on the desktop is taking so long.
.9.x for you to REALLY use it. You preach that Galeon is the best browser, even though it only loads .5 seconds faster than regular Mozilla.
a) Pretend Windows doesn't do certain things. ("You can run DNS with Windows?" "Do I need Trumpet Winsock with Windows XP?")
I'd look at mplayer. There's things you can do under that which MS WONT let you do under Windows (or atleast sue you into the ground). I regularly re-master WMV streams to mpg. There's no way you can do that under Windows (unless some crappy hax0r tool can...)
b) Downplay everything that sucks about Linux every chance you get. (TT fonts are "blurry", and "hurt my eyes" - I like my jagged fonts, I think linux fonts are fine!)
Nuh. Whenever I show friends Linux, I tell them good with bad. For some reason X fonts are shitty... We because it has beta TrueType cabibility and the standard fonts use something like 2/3 's the resolution of fonts in whindows.
c) Research every new Windows feature and figure out how *nix got it first. Then make it sound like the feature has been necessary for mission critical applications and servers, and that only recently has MS "figured it out". If a third party app accomplishes this in Windows, that doesn't count, even though your whole Linux distro is nothing more than a collection of third party apps to begin with.
Well for the longest time, *nix was the only way to go to have access to the hardware. Windows was nice that the ordinary user could use it. Linux/Unix WASNT made for the average user.
d) When Linux gets a new feature that Windows has had forever, downplay the feature. ("Yeah, TTF fonts, we got them now, if it'll shut you up, now that I have them, I don't see what the big deal is.")
And support still sucks. Even in KDE 3, transperancies were only added after people found out that WIn2k could. Pissed the KDE group off so they added that in to the 'make' list.
e) If anything in Linux doesn't have that feature, it is not important. ("Noone uses that junk in Office anyway")
Who doesnt hate clippy? Elsewise, Office is nice for template construction and integration between the subset office products. And that aside, why the hell does Office NEED to add 2 MB to the kernel code? I always watch my system (using a tripwire-like tool), and found that 'functionality'. What the hell is it?
f) You switched to Debian, but you still hate Red Hat because the copy Red Hat you tried 6 years ago sucked.
Red Hat was really cool before. 5.1 had an installation language choice 'Redneck'.
"Y'all put yer shiny frisbee into yer cofffee cup holder. Now yall gonna do a thing to that drive. We's gonna floormat yer hard frisbee"
Funny as hell
g) Pray everytime you try a new USB device - ditto for adding new hardware AFTER you've installed linux. Chicken out and use the PS/2 adapter, blame the hardware manufacturer.
If you're patient, you probably get it to work. USB mp3 players are really easy to get working.
h) Blame X11 for every graphical performance measure in your subsystem, even though you have no idea what you're talking about. Complain that X needs to be scrapped for something like Berlin, even though you've never even been to the Berlin website. But everyone says X11 sucks, you just don't know why, but enough people say it on
Used to suck... Now it actually has 3d and direct rendering support. The "X11 sux" argument is depreciated.
i) Doesn't matter if you install Gnome or KDE, your menu's are going to have 42 text editors, but not one decent word processor.
Yep, unless you delete all but your favorite.
j) Find a reason to hate GCC 2.96 even though you've never compiled anything in your life.
Well, even the SGI website says not to use it. Said that Red Had in 6.1 put a bad compiler (devel). That's a good enough reason to not touch it.
k) Doesn't matter if you install Gnome or KDE, because you're going to like Evolution, Konqueror, Kate, GVIM, Gnapster, and Koffice. you're going to like Gnome's applets, but the KDE panel. KDE let's you put a seperate background in each virtual desktop, but Gnome lets you mouse from desktop to desktop. Mozilla looks out of place in both. The one or two motif apps you use make you want to punch your monitor. You decide it's impossible to go with a 100% desktop either way or the other, so you say fuck it and just install them both and run twice the libraries that you need to. Now nothing is consistent, your themes don't match, and now you've got twice as much bloat in your system. When some asks you what you run, you say "GNOME, KDE sucks!" or "KDE, GNOME sucks!" even though you know damn well you don't care.
Like it matters anyway. Linux's worst problem is this lib mess. Your desktop is only scratching the surface.
l) You're too lazy to learn a new window manager, but when another *nix guy asks what you use, you say "FWVM, with nothing but xterms, that's all X is good for."
You're too old. However, if that would've said Windowmaker, it would have held true right now.
m) If it doesn't run well on your Pentium II 350, it's slow and bloated.
The only few things that shouldnt run well on a lower MHz chip is vid apps and idiot screen-crap like seti. Fuck seti. Vid apps rule (DVD rips with a few commands.).
n) Ten years from now, if it doesn't run well on your Pentium II 350, it's slow and bloated.
o) Blame Red Hat for attempting to destroy/take over the linux community, all the while searching for that SuSE
p) You hate Microsoft because Windows cost $200 and Office costs $400, and it's too expensive to be affordable and how you're poor blah blah, but you're too cheap to send $10 to debian.org/Mandrake Club.
Fuck that argument. Most linux users WAREZ windows, or get school rebates. The rebates are 5$ a cd. How do I know? I got them.
q) When you compare features between Windows and Linux, you compare Windows 95's features to the latest CVS builds of GNOME/KDE.
Some features in KDE/Gnome are great, while many are embarassing. Linux is a work in progress.
r) Make fun of DLL Hell in windows, even though you know damn well you --force your RPMs all the time.
Have to. Shoddy developers dont include correct dependancies. Then again, SO Hell is just as bad.
s) Your first answer to a new user in #linux is "recompile your kernel", even though all he needs to do is double-click the little icon his distro gave him. When someone else points that out, complain that real men edit
Computer IRC chat rooms suck. Most people in there are kiddiez trying to gain 'l33tn3ss' points. That includes treating you lik e-shit. Anyways, I was thinking about a root-only tool that would be able to modify all the config files GUI-fracially. Make it simple. While all the other "real men" are wasting tiome reediting config files by hand, I'll be playing games.
t) You wait for someone to ask how to install something so you can say "apt-get install foo", just so you can start on your 25 minute tirade on why his distribution sucks compared to Debian.
Yep, that's the standard on Slashdot. Look in my previous posts for the "Gentoo sucks" article I wrote. I got flamed to hell over saying how bad it was for modem users and why couldn't they offer up cd-images. The linux goons started to attack me saying how simple it is bla bla. They didnt even grasp the simple concept "I dont have enough bandwidth".
u) You believe recompiling everything from source will give you a substantial performance benefit, even though you probably just recompiled that app with the default flags, but you didn't know any better. If it doesn't compile, see GCC2.96 comment above.
Binaries is the first I go at. Still some yokel is using weird-ass libs that I dont have (and isnt stated). I end up downloading the source and having to wait 10 minutes to download. Then 10 more minutes for compile-time. --==snooze==--
v) When above user posts problems with GCC2.96, link to http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html [bero.org] and flame user for trying to compile "shitty code", even though a week ago, you were doing the same exact thing.
I'd rather teach about stupid mistakes instead of flaming.
w) You've been saying that Mozilla has been your only browser since M18, though you know that it took until
Mozilla is good enough for me. I dont use IE much, well not on slashdot. Thank the troll-diots for the crap-floods.
x) You hated Macintosh your entire life until you saw the bash console on a Mac at CompUSA. You feel kindred with MacOSX fans, but hate Apple because they won't let you rip off their user interface.
No, apple is cool cause they filched FreeBSD code. It's now "part of the gang". My opinion: if they want to charge 100$ for a floppy frive, they can rot in hell.
This sort of thing works both ways and the powers that be aren't going to learn that if you come to their rescue. They'll eventually figure out the password, but if you let them do it on their own, and you tell them why you aren't going to assist them then maybe, just maybe, they'll learn a lesson. Something about doing to others as you would have them do to you.
Prevent email address forgery. Publish SPF records for y
With Norway's barter based economy, how are they gonna pay the cracker who pulls this off? Five chickens and a pig?
How ya like dat?