OK, so maybe this begs the question: No time.
But, seriously, why not Debian?
Because, even though the market share statistics might say "RH 0wnz all of you", if you look beyond that, a lot of the clued users, a lot of the servers that get rolled out, are Debian.
I'm involved in rolling out servers, and they have to be able to be built, by unqualified people, in a short amount of time. I can't just say "yeah, edit the proftpd config flie and disallow... blah" - I have to have quick, easy, reproducable procedures. I must say I was rather pissed off at having to run with RedHat for the servers for that very reason.
Please think about Debian, SuSE, etc as well.
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I'm using DevFS withOUT devfsd. It's a Good Thing(tm). Not sure why everyone shies away from it. TRY IT, damnit! a) YOU MUST COMPILE IN DEVFS AND SELECT THE AUTOMATICALLY MOUNT AT BOOT OPTIION! b) change inittab to have vc/1... vc/x instead of tty1...x. c) put vc/1...vc/x into/etc/securetty d) create an rc script to link/dev/tty0->/dev/vc/0 and/dev/tty7->/dev/vc/7 (goddamn X) e) edit your fstab (for me, I'm now on/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1, not/dev/hda1). f) make your kernels (that means change the root= param) g) any problems, bitch at Richard Gooch:P d
OK kiddies, let's all CALM DOWN and take a DEEP BREATH. I went to my local library and did a quick search on a few broad keywords relating to criminal cases in the computer newspaper index. Between that and the archive, I was able to find as much info as probably was on CrimeNet on criminals. All CrimeNet are doing is making it easier to access. Agreed, that is a bad thing, but don't get all hyperactive because it's new and different. It's not. All they did is scour newspapers and get articles relating to criminals. I am not affiliated with CrimeNet, nor do I agree with what they are doing. There are cases where people have been "checked out" by neighbours and the like, and just because they shared a name with a criminal, they've virtually been run out of town, to use the old adage. A couple of people who have had minor convictions have had a lot of job applications automatically refused because of said convictions. It's not entirely good. But it's not new. It's not different. Read the newspapers, guys, and ease off on the red cordial. Calm down.
d PS: Our jury selection is exactly like.uk. Random. You get called up, and unless you can prove that doing it would cause financial loss, that you would be an incompetent juror or are in professions including, but not limited to, teachers, lawyers, etc.
Have any of you ever been on IRC? links.vbs is very, very old news (talking at least a year), to anyone who's ever been in a channel with mIRC weenies (I used to op in a huge MP3 and a huge MPEG channel, so I knew all about it very quickly;). Gawd, if you're going to release news of every old skript k1dd13.vbs "virus", you'd need a few terabytes just to handle the HTML involved.
OK, Let's remember one thing. Your country got it's freedom peacably. The US got it's in Blood. We took up arms against our government, and threw them out. Our founding fathers expected this to be necessary again! The "legitimate" reason for owning guns under the second amendment is TO BE ABLE TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. This is where Jefferson's quote "The Tree Of Liberty must be occasionaly water with the Blood of Patriots" comes from
Riiiiight. Welcome to the 20th Century, son. This is *DEMOCRACY*. The whole POINT is that you do NOT need arms to throw the Government out, just a bit of paper. Besides, the military are MUCH better armed than the citizens, and in the event of a revolt, would easily win. To quote Jon Katz, "like peas off an M16 tank".
I have read the posts, it just echoes how deeply entrenched the gun culture in America is. If you really ARE law-abiding, why do you need a gun? To protect myself, I hear you say? Why? Because everyone *ELSE* is carrying one! Studies (don't ask me where, and I read it in a print newspaper, anyway), have shown that quite a few killings are caused by people getting very agitated, and finally snapping. And whaddya know? The gun they had for protection purposes is being used for the exact opposite purpose. The hunted becomes the hunter. This raises the crime statistics, people say OMFG, I need a gun to protect myself, end up using it in a situation which definitely isn't self-defence, and then you go to the first part of this paragraph. Isn't recursion a wonderful thing? And, personally, if I did need a gun for a legitimate reason (shooting game, etc is the only one I can think of, and that's really less-than-astonishing), I could wait for a few days. If you're going to go out shooting on the weekend, reschedule. It's not that hard. Just my $AU0.02 (which is likely to be about $US0.00000000003 at the moment). d
We have teletext, it was a big fad in the early 90's (I think), but now it's quite hard to find in a TV. Captions are also virtually non-existant unless you get a little boxy thingy, and I doubt the geeks are going to contact the.au association for the deaf, or whatever it is, and get a little expensive box just for stuff they can get easier elsewhere.
Hrm, oddly enough, I just noted Jon Johansen was definitely *NOT* American, he was Norwegian AFAIK, and if he is Norwegian and DeCSS was done in Norway, where's America at all involved?
Actually, it's not really anything like the Fish Club, I can easily tell the difference between Mopy and real fish. The only thing that set the Fish Club apart from real fish was the fact that a fish tank wouldn't be about 2cm deep.
My Dad works for a subsidary of NEC Australia, its offices are off the NEC.au headquarters. They've had the NEC digital fish tank - FishClub - there for as long as I can remember there (at least 2-3 years). I spent the first 9 months trying to work out if the bloody fish were actually real or not.
C&W aren't down, just severely congested. At about midnight, no-one I knew on Telstra, Vodafone or Optus could get a call through, it was too busy. The power failure in the country I knew was a friend's mum's farm near Point Arlington (20 mins past Geelong).
Looks like someone's been busy trying to co-incide with the Y2k bug. EFF was cracked last night (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time), by Oyster n Clam. I think rootshell would have an archive by now, if not I do, just email me =)
Water, gas, phones lasted fine. Except the expected overload on the mobile network. And a mate's place on a farm in the country lost power and land-line phones. We're on daylight savings here, so the big moment for power was 1am. 5 minutes ago. And it's all still fine. Except I have a headache.
>It is too bad that the average person in Australia does not see through this smoke screen. Just goes to show how passive people have become. *AHEM!* We do NOT accept it! The only people who accept it is the middle-to-upper class people who send their kids off to private schools that cost more than the average person's house per term and voted in the conservative government in the first place! Also, the main reason the people aren't protesting is that there's a little margin scrawl in it that says "if we can't do it don't worry about it". It was only to satisfy another old conservative Catholic anyhows! If you are going to make any generalised statement about Australia, think again. Think of Melbourne - Australia's largest city. It also has the largest Greek population outside Greece, if my memory serves me well! There are also massive numbers of Asian and other cultures, so do NOT say we're all convicts, either!! At least do your research before you pay us out! A very annoyed Tamriel.
IMHO, closed-source doesn't necessarily mean evil. I think the present SSH is great. Admittedly, I'd prefer it if it was OSS, but that's the way it is. I'll continue to use ClosedSSH, just because of all the superior algorithms and stuff... Just my $0.03 (2c is rounded down to 0). d
In Australia, same as NZ - EFTPOS is everywhere. Even the little tiny MILKBARS have EFTPOS, for ****'s sake !! We've also had GSM since the early-mid 90's. Our billing systems are much better - either contract (pay $20 a month over about 24 months, get 20 hours a month of calls free, the phone's yours after the end of the contract), or pre-paid (for teenagers worried about the repo man). Either way you are just billed for OUTGOING calls. It rocks.
Australia have been talking about HDTV for quite a while now, and a standard has been in place for about a year. In 2008 analogue TV will be phased out completely. HDTV are gonna start broadcasting on the first day of 2000, and datacasting will follow soon after Go, Aussie, go, we lead the world in TV technology! PS : NTSC sucks. PAL is so much better. =) d
Even if this IS "only" a Finding of Fact, it makes it soooo much more likely that M$ will either get punished or settle with the DoJ. The Judge has said he finds that M$ is a monopoly and uses its power unfairly. Party.
Download KDE 1.1.2 and apply the Glax theme, with the Digital CDE colours. It's a brillo interface... sucks on the default layout, but theme it and BONZA !! (btw: don't say themes are extras, they're heavily integrated with K.)
One word: StarOffice. This is the best office package I've seen, and it even supports ALL the M$ formats (good for me because there are 3 WinXX machines in my network...) Its homepage : www.stardivision.com (download it for FREE!) And it's OS now... (semi-OS) =) d
What do you mean, no representation ? You have a member!! There are some countries that would have a national holiday to have a member on ICANN... the Internet is global... it "breaks communication barriers". So why are you saying one country should have a majority vote ? The earlier post was right on, about the US Letter default... I bet there would be a howl if M$ distributed Word with English (Australian) or English (UK) - the real English - as the default !! (i.e. we spell color colour).
Think globally, not locally. Because the Internet IS global by its very nature.
I live in Australia, and I had to use SSL on Apache. I decided to get Apache-SSL, but, oh, how to get 128-bit ? ftp.replay.com offers great archives of everything encrypted, and, since they're in the Netherlands, it's not illegal to export - just illegal out of the US. I thought that was pretty cool - and, BTW, mod_ssl was really cool and very easy to configure !! All you have to do is download openssl, apache, and then mod_ssl off replay.com and bang! fast, easy SSL =) d (BTW : I'm not in any way associated with replay.com, nor is anyone I know. Same with mod_ssl)
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OK, so maybe this begs the question: No time. But, seriously, why not Debian? Because, even though the market share statistics might say "RH 0wnz all of you", if you look beyond that, a lot of the clued users, a lot of the servers that get rolled out, are Debian. I'm involved in rolling out servers, and they have to be able to be built, by unqualified people, in a short amount of time. I can't just say "yeah, edit the proftpd config flie and disallow ... blah" - I have to have quick, easy, reproducable procedures. I must say I was rather pissed off at having to run with RedHat for the servers for that very reason.
Please think about Debian, SuSE, etc as well.
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I'm using DevFS withOUT devfsd. It's a Good Thing(tm). Not sure why everyone shies away from it. TRY IT, damnit! a) YOU MUST COMPILE IN DEVFS AND SELECT THE AUTOMATICALLY MOUNT AT BOOT OPTIION! b) change inittab to have vc/1 ... vc/x instead of tty1...x. c) put vc/1...vc/x into /etc/securetty d) create an rc script to link /dev/tty0->/dev/vc/0 and /dev/tty7->/dev/vc/7 (goddamn X) e) edit your fstab (for me, I'm now on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1, not /dev/hda1). f) make your kernels (that means change the root= param) g) any problems, bitch at Richard Gooch :P d
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OK kiddies, let's all CALM DOWN and take a DEEP BREATH.
.uk. Random. You get called up, and unless you can prove that doing it would cause financial loss, that you would be an incompetent juror or are in professions including, but not limited to, teachers, lawyers, etc.
I went to my local library and did a quick search on a few broad keywords relating to criminal cases in the computer newspaper index.
Between that and the archive, I was able to find as much info as probably was on CrimeNet on criminals.
All CrimeNet are doing is making it easier to access. Agreed, that is a bad thing, but don't get all hyperactive because it's new and different. It's not.
All they did is scour newspapers and get articles relating to criminals.
I am not affiliated with CrimeNet, nor do I agree with what they are doing. There are cases where people have been "checked out" by neighbours and the like, and just because they shared a name with a criminal, they've virtually been run out of town, to use the old adage. A couple of people who have had minor convictions have had a lot of job applications automatically refused because of said convictions.
It's not entirely good. But it's not new. It's not different. Read the newspapers, guys, and ease off on the red cordial. Calm down.
d
PS: Our jury selection is exactly like
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Have any of you ever been on IRC? ;). .vbs "virus", you'd need a few terabytes just to handle the HTML involved.
links.vbs is very, very old news (talking at least a year), to anyone who's ever been in a channel with mIRC weenies (I used to op in a huge MP3 and a huge MPEG channel, so I knew all about it very quickly
Gawd, if you're going to release news of every old skript k1dd13
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OK, Let's remember one thing. Your country got it's freedom peacably. The US got it's in Blood. We took up arms against our government, and threw them out. Our founding fathers expected this to be necessary again! The "legitimate" reason for owning guns under the second amendment is TO BE ABLE TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. This is where Jefferson's quote "The Tree Of Liberty must be occasionaly water with the Blood of Patriots" comes from
Riiiiight. Welcome to the 20th Century, son. This is *DEMOCRACY*. The whole POINT is that you do NOT need arms to throw the Government out, just a bit of paper. Besides, the military are MUCH better armed than the citizens, and in the event of a revolt, would easily win.
To quote Jon Katz, "like peas off an M16 tank".
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"stupid lawsuits".
Very good.
Stunning analogy, until you consider that MP3s never killed anyone. Firearms DO. See my post down towards the bottom.
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I have read the posts, it just echoes how deeply entrenched the gun culture in America is. If you really ARE law-abiding, why do you need a gun? To protect myself, I hear you say? Why? Because everyone *ELSE* is carrying one! Studies (don't ask me where, and I read it in a print newspaper, anyway), have shown that quite a few killings are caused by people getting very agitated, and finally snapping. And whaddya know? The gun they had for protection purposes is being used for the exact opposite purpose. The hunted becomes the hunter. This raises the crime statistics, people say OMFG, I need a gun to protect myself, end up using it in a situation which definitely isn't self-defence, and then you go to the first part of this paragraph. Isn't recursion a wonderful thing? And, personally, if I did need a gun for a legitimate reason (shooting game, etc is the only one I can think of, and that's really less-than-astonishing), I could wait for a few days. If you're going to go out shooting on the weekend, reschedule. It's not that hard. Just my $AU0.02 (which is likely to be about $US0.00000000003 at the moment). d
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We have teletext, it was a big fad in the early 90's (I think), but now it's quite hard to find in a TV. Captions are also virtually non-existant unless you get a little boxy thingy, and I doubt the geeks are going to contact the .au association for the deaf, or whatever it is, and get a little expensive box just for stuff they can get easier elsewhere.
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Hrm, oddly enough, I just noted Jon Johansen was definitely *NOT* American, he was Norwegian AFAIK, and if he is Norwegian and DeCSS was done in Norway, where's America at all involved?
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Actually, it's not really anything like the Fish Club, I can easily tell the difference between Mopy and real fish. The only thing that set the Fish Club apart from real fish was the fact that a fish tank wouldn't be about 2cm deep.
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It depends. I hang around the DJ scene and I've seen many an MD recording of a live set.
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My Dad works for a subsidary of NEC Australia, its offices are off the NEC .au headquarters. They've had the NEC digital fish tank - FishClub - there for as long as I can remember there (at least 2-3 years). I spent the first 9 months trying to work out if the bloody fish were actually real or not.
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C&W aren't down, just severely congested. At about midnight, no-one I knew on Telstra, Vodafone or Optus could get a call through, it was too busy. The power failure in the country I knew was a friend's mum's farm near Point Arlington (20 mins past Geelong).
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please understand: I only did that to piss off the l33+ f1r5+ p05+ k1dd135
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Looks like someone's been busy trying to co-incide with the Y2k bug. EFF was cracked last night (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time), by Oyster n Clam. I think rootshell would have an archive by now, if not I do, just email me =)
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Water, gas, phones lasted fine. Except the expected overload on the mobile network. And a mate's place on a farm in the country lost power and land-line phones. We're on daylight savings here, so the big moment for power was 1am. 5 minutes ago. And it's all still fine. Except I have a headache.
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>It is too bad that the average person in Australia does not see through this smoke screen. Just goes to show how passive people have become.
*AHEM!*
We do NOT accept it! The only people who accept it is the middle-to-upper class people who send their kids off to private schools that cost more than the average person's house per term and voted in the conservative government in the first place! Also, the main reason the people aren't protesting is that there's a little margin scrawl in it that says "if we can't do it don't worry about it". It was only to satisfy another old conservative Catholic anyhows! If you are going to make any generalised statement about Australia, think again. Think of Melbourne - Australia's largest city. It also has the largest Greek population outside Greece, if my memory serves me well! There are also massive numbers of Asian and other cultures, so do NOT say we're all convicts, either!! At least do your research before you pay us out!
A very annoyed Tamriel.
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IMHO, closed-source doesn't necessarily mean evil. I think the present SSH is great. Admittedly, I'd prefer it if it was OSS, but that's the way it is. I'll continue to use ClosedSSH, just because of all the superior algorithms and stuff ... Just my $0.03 (2c is rounded down to 0). d
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In Australia, same as NZ - EFTPOS is everywhere. Even the little tiny MILKBARS have EFTPOS, for ****'s sake !! We've also had GSM since the early-mid 90's. Our billing systems are much better - either contract (pay $20 a month over about 24 months, get 20 hours a month of calls free, the phone's yours after the end of the contract), or pre-paid (for teenagers worried about the repo man). Either way you are just billed for OUTGOING calls. It rocks.
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Australia have been talking about HDTV for quite a while now, and a standard has been in place for about a year. In 2008 analogue TV will be phased out completely. HDTV are gonna start broadcasting on the first day of 2000, and datacasting will follow soon after Go, Aussie, go, we lead the world in TV technology! PS : NTSC sucks. PAL is so much better. =) d
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Even if this IS "only" a Finding of Fact, it makes it soooo much more likely that M$ will either get punished or settle with the DoJ. The Judge has said he finds that M$ is a monopoly and uses its power unfairly. Party.
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Download KDE 1.1.2 and apply the Glax theme, with the Digital CDE colours. It's a brillo interface ... sucks on the default layout, but theme it and BONZA !! (btw: don't say themes are extras, they're heavily integrated with K.)
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One word: StarOffice. This is the best office package I've seen, and it even supports ALL the M$ formats (good for me because there are 3 WinXX machines in my network ...) Its homepage : www.stardivision.com (download it for FREE!) And it's OS now ... (semi-OS) =) d
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What do you mean, no representation ? ... the Internet is global ... it "breaks communication barriers". So why are you saying one country should have a majority vote ? The earlier post was right on, about the US Letter default ... I bet there would be a howl if M$ distributed Word with English (Australian) or English (UK) - the real English - as the default !! (i.e. we spell color colour).
You have a member!! There are some countries that would have a national holiday to have a member on ICANN
Think globally, not locally.
Because the Internet IS global by its very nature.
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I live in Australia, and I had to use SSL on Apache. I decided to get Apache-SSL, but, oh, how to get 128-bit ? ftp.replay.com offers great archives of everything encrypted, and, since they're in the Netherlands, it's not illegal to export - just illegal out of the US. I thought that was pretty cool - and, BTW, mod_ssl was really cool and very easy to configure !! All you have to do is download openssl, apache, and then mod_ssl off replay.com and bang! fast, easy SSL =) d (BTW : I'm not in any way associated with replay.com, nor is anyone I know. Same with mod_ssl)
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