Just make sure those robotic eyes and visual cortex neural interfaces are a success. I may need them one day in my late middle-age in case I've inherited retinitis pigmentosa from my grandfather.
I work with Nuance speech recognition and speech synthesis products at work, often having to design grammars to match complex inputs (like "A 1 2 3 4" versus "alpha one-thousand two-hundred and thirty-four"). Talk about nuance... Nuance can obfuscate if it is sufficiently steganographic (subtle), but the additive power of "nuance + subtlety" -- which yields results orders of magnitude stronger than either used alone -- is a great tool for social engineering.
But I suppose you are right about evolution of our society and trauma. Evolution cannot operate without punctuated equilibrium.
And sure, more people are literate today than 100 years ago, even if handwriting on average is much worse than before. But the civil war actually started because the North wanted to count slaves as 3/5ths of a person, while the South wanted slaves to count as 1 whole person. The constitution doesn't actually say whether a slave is a citizen or property or has the right to vote or not. The obfuscation of these facts among others only evidences the declination of our society as a whole.... But, yeah, I was raise in Platte City, Missouri, the world headquarters of the KKK.
But we will have World War very soon, so all this muck will be cleared up through violence and bloodshed and massive death, and we can move on to a Brave New World Order. Beware the Double-Headed Eagle of Hattusa & Lagash (and of Albania & Serbia)!!
I was really just reacting to your statement: "But I've heard people like you all my life. The 'Buck up little camper,' the 'Just snap out of it,' the 'Oh stop whining,' you know you aren't doing it for me." And so I thought it'd be funny to be that person, and so I led in with such a statement.
Certainly we cannot insult each others' characters, as we do not know each other. We can only do as you say, infuse our own bias into our responses. So, my wife is a Pharm.D. and she doles anti-depressants all day long (Prozac, Zoloft, and a few others mostly) filling something like 500 scripts a day. People take drugs like candy because our society is devolving and digressing, not evolving and progressing. Just look a the decrease in quality of hand writing over a 50 year term to prove to yourself the stupidity of our times.
But, please, don't take my word for it: as the Satanists say, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" and "love is the law, love under will."
At least I am not a pathetic wretch who has to feel sorry for myself in order to feel better.
What you need is IRRATIONAL OPTIMISM. Trying to use rational thought to find your way out of depression is like trying to do leg-presses with your broken leg so that you can walk on it again.
I couldn't really follow your argument as to how will does not actually exist even though it does actually exist. But it's not like I'm going to take rational argument from someone with mental illness to have any degree of credibility.
In America, people don't have the benefit of living is a socialist/communist monarchy. Unless you're committed to a mental institution or you're on welfare/medicare, good luck getting time off from work for your "depression". You can't pay for drugs if ya don't work.
Great... Now you'll never be able to stop taking Prozac for your entire life. If you stop Prozac, you will likely become psychotic.
Our country will reap what is sows with over-medication. And I'll just live in a cabin in the woods to stay away from all you depressed and hateful people.
I've had "depressed" roommates, and they're the worst people ever to spend your time around. I ended up getting sick of the guy, told him I didn't care at all what was going on in his head, that he should just stop talking to me about his old job and old boss, and get the hell out of my house.
you being depressed makes only you uncomfortable. you whining about your stupid brain is just annoying.
"but how do you decide to do those things, and then actually do them?"
uh... you employ stick-to-it-iveness. like, decide you're going to stand up, now actually stand up. now decide you're going to sit down, and actually sit down. do this over and over, say 10 sets of 10 reps, and call it "exercise" and you've done it. give it a try.
Security consultant and hacker are not mutually exclusive. As a matter of fact, why would you pay for a security consultant that wasn't a hacker? What good can he do? Hacker is to security consultant as programmer is to developer.
The media is actually using a few terms correctly in this story, even if they got it wrong as to what Dan really did. It is you that is confusing terminologies and has bought into schizophrenic re-definition of words by the press.
Vonage is basically a Sprint Data Services reseller, and in some areas a Level 3 reseller. Vonage and other VoIP companies are basically what Sprint ION was supposed to be almost 10 years ago. Except Sprint ION failed with ATM-to-the-door. Now, Sprint is still hosting all the data services and SONET lines, etc., but they let smaller companies maintain servers and support. Smart move for Sprint.
Has anybody else noticed that SUSE's Update mirrors are screwed up at the moment, and that almost every mirror on the Internet has an equally broken mirror?
The Firepod's chipset (BeBoB) has a driver in the works for Linux, called FreeBoB. FreeBoB is still in early beta stages. While it does work and looks promising, there's still a lot of work to be done with it.
racoon is a very good Internet Security Association Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE) daemon. It is used to auto-negotiate keys for IPsec sessions.
At work we have three VPN concentrators built using Linux and racoon. Two are configured as normal tunnel-mode concentrators, using fully-qualified usernames on the endpoints for authentication. One of these is for employees, the other is for customers. We are able to use any commodity VPN endpoint device which supports IKE identifiers (for example, Netgear FVS114).
We also have a third concentrator which is configured to use Xauth and/etc/passwd for authentication. This concentrator allows the Cisco VPN Client software to connect into the network for Road Warrior style access (also does much better with NAT traversal than tunnel-mode IPsec).
It's a pretty kick ass setup, actually. In particular, you don't have to have a Linux/BSD box or other PC at every endpoint location, just lil' IPsec-enabled gateways/routers (Netgear FVS114 is the best I've found so far, even other Netgears like FVS318 devices suck or are broken).
You really should check out The Horde Project. Horde (and it's webmail client IMP) has been around for a very long time. Development is very active and open.
Horde went through a major rewrite/restructuring for the 3.0 effort. Horde 3.0 is definitely a web-based Exchange-killer (and Sharepoint-killer).
If you use Cyrus IMAPd as your IMAP backend, you even get shared mailboxes. Horde's other modules also have excellent sharing support. Shared calendars, mailboxes, todo lists, addressbooks, etc. Turba, the addressbook module, supports LDAP directories. Horde's other modules also have support to grab bits of info from LDAP.
I highly recommend Horde. I used to use it a lot more than I do know. When that was the case, I was also a regularly submitter of patches to the project (I helped mostly the last year 3.0 was still unreleased).
While Hula may look prettier, I find Horde to be much more functional.
Of course, there are plenty of things to be done... So, start using it and start submitting patches!
Actually, I agree with you... I rarely use the system-config-* programs myself. I'm a CLI junky and prefer to edit the config files myself with vim.
About the only one I use regularly is system-config-samba to add Samba shares quickly and easily. Just a few seconds to add a new share, change it to share-level security, and you're done; Samba picks up the changes immediately. I find system-config-samba much easier to use than editing smb.conf by hand.
Ubuntu has no means by which to change the security level (other than by hand). Suse's YaST doesn't seem to keep the settings when I change it to "security = shared".
Where I can get Samba public-access shares working out-of-the-box with Fedora, it takes a lot of effort to get it working under Ubuntu/Suse.
While I or you may not appreciate the GUI tools (because we're smart and whatnot), by no means does the OS rely on them, they're just available for all the stupid people.
I wasn't suggesting it was different from other distros... I was suggesting it was different from the route the reviewer took to install FC5. Besides, with my method, I was running FC5 months before he was...;) (Rawhide is rather stable for a development tree. Lately, I haven't had many serious problems. Actually, I've had more problems with tracking Ubuntu Dapper than Fedora Rawhide.
... have been around since before the Fedora split as redhat-config-* (after Fedora, they were renamed to system-config-*).
He is right that they're useful. Ubuntu, Suse, and other distros could really use system-config-samba, system-config-nfs, and others. (system-config-samba alone is about 10 times better than Ubuntu or Suse's Samba utilities.)
I installed FC1 a long, long time ago... Then I changed my yum repositories over to Rawhide. Since then, the newest version of Fedora is always a "yum upgrade" away.
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BWJones,
Just make sure those robotic eyes and visual cortex neural interfaces are a success. I may need them one day in my late middle-age in case I've inherited retinitis pigmentosa from my grandfather.
Thank you, Mormons, for superior technology.
Ever your willing servant,
DPMoore
Science Fiction sucks and reading sucks. Reading is detrimental to mental health, and reading science fiction even more so.
Fuck you, L. Ron Hubbard, Robert A. Heinlein, and Neil Gay-man!
I work with Nuance speech recognition and speech synthesis products at work, often having to design grammars to match complex inputs (like "A 1 2 3 4" versus "alpha one-thousand two-hundred and thirty-four"). Talk about nuance... Nuance can obfuscate if it is sufficiently steganographic (subtle), but the additive power of "nuance + subtlety" -- which yields results orders of magnitude stronger than either used alone -- is a great tool for social engineering.
... But, yeah, I was raise in Platte City, Missouri, the world headquarters of the KKK.
But I suppose you are right about evolution of our society and trauma. Evolution cannot operate without punctuated equilibrium.
And sure, more people are literate today than 100 years ago, even if handwriting on average is much worse than before. But the civil war actually started because the North wanted to count slaves as 3/5ths of a person, while the South wanted slaves to count as 1 whole person. The constitution doesn't actually say whether a slave is a citizen or property or has the right to vote or not. The obfuscation of these facts among others only evidences the declination of our society as a whole.
But we will have World War very soon, so all this muck will be cleared up through violence and bloodshed and massive death, and we can move on to a Brave New World Order. Beware the Double-Headed Eagle of Hattusa & Lagash (and of Albania & Serbia)!!
Hey, man, read your own signature. Hahaha.
I was really just reacting to your statement: "But I've heard people like you all my life. The 'Buck up little camper,' the 'Just snap out of it,' the 'Oh stop whining,' you know you aren't doing it for me." And so I thought it'd be funny to be that person, and so I led in with such a statement.
Certainly we cannot insult each others' characters, as we do not know each other. We can only do as you say, infuse our own bias into our responses. So, my wife is a Pharm.D. and she doles anti-depressants all day long (Prozac, Zoloft, and a few others mostly) filling something like 500 scripts a day. People take drugs like candy because our society is devolving and digressing, not evolving and progressing. Just look a the decrease in quality of hand writing over a 50 year term to prove to yourself the stupidity of our times.
But, please, don't take my word for it: as the Satanists say, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" and "love is the law, love under will."
At least I am not a pathetic wretch who has to feel sorry for myself in order to feel better.
What you need is IRRATIONAL OPTIMISM. Trying to use rational thought to find your way out of depression is like trying to do leg-presses with your broken leg so that you can walk on it again.
I couldn't really follow your argument as to how will does not actually exist even though it does actually exist. But it's not like I'm going to take rational argument from someone with mental illness to have any degree of credibility.
"why do you care so much about this issue?"
1) because it is fun to troll on the Intarnets
2) because I employ WILL to control my depression. it is WILL that medicated Americans lack, plain and simple
Standing up from depression is quite different to standing up from a broken back.
In America, people don't have the benefit of living is a socialist/communist monarchy. Unless you're committed to a mental institution or you're on welfare/medicare, good luck getting time off from work for your "depression". You can't pay for drugs if ya don't work.
Great... Now you'll never be able to stop taking Prozac for your entire life. If you stop Prozac, you will likely become psychotic.
Our country will reap what is sows with over-medication. And I'll just live in a cabin in the woods to stay away from all you depressed and hateful people.
I've had "depressed" roommates, and they're the worst people ever to spend your time around. I ended up getting sick of the guy, told him I didn't care at all what was going on in his head, that he should just stop talking to me about his old job and old boss, and get the hell out of my house.
you need to just stop whining so much...
you being depressed makes only you uncomfortable. you whining about your stupid brain is just annoying.
"but how do you decide to do those things, and then actually do them?"
uh... you employ stick-to-it-iveness. like, decide you're going to stand up, now actually stand up. now decide you're going to sit down, and actually sit down. do this over and over, say 10 sets of 10 reps, and call it "exercise" and you've done it. give it a try.
now do the same thing with mental states...
Security consultant and hacker are not mutually exclusive. As a matter of fact, why would you pay for a security consultant that wasn't a hacker? What good can he do? Hacker is to security consultant as programmer is to developer.
The media is actually using a few terms correctly in this story, even if they got it wrong as to what Dan really did. It is you that is confusing terminologies and has bought into schizophrenic re-definition of words by the press.
Vonage is basically a Sprint Data Services reseller, and in some areas a Level 3 reseller. Vonage and other VoIP companies are basically what Sprint ION was supposed to be almost 10 years ago. Except Sprint ION failed with ATM-to-the-door. Now, Sprint is still hosting all the data services and SONET lines, etc., but they let smaller companies maintain servers and support. Smart move for Sprint.
Here's proof.
Has anybody else noticed that SUSE's Update mirrors are screwed up at the moment, and that almost every mirror on the Internet has an equally broken mirror?
It has been on the market since Nov. 2004.
http://www.comsec.com/wiki?UsrpProgress
Why would anyone buy from electronics from the Chinese?!?
If you're an Anarchist, there are no nation-states and therefore no borders, so there are no more "illegal aliens". PROBLEM SOLVED!
Btw, my SS# is 323-80-9292.
Illegal Aliens everywhere: please use my social!
Hey, Congress: Is telling Slashdot my social a restricted use?!
323-80-9292, that's me
I also try to always announce my SS# over the phone when I'm calling friends to purchase quarter ounces of marijuana.
The Firepod's chipset (BeBoB) has a driver in the works for Linux, called FreeBoB. FreeBoB is still in early beta stages. While it does work and looks promising, there's still a lot of work to be done with it.
Firepod + Jack + Ardour is the shit!
racoon is a very good Internet Security Association Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE) daemon. It is used to auto-negotiate keys for IPsec sessions.
/etc/passwd for authentication. This concentrator allows the Cisco VPN Client software to connect into the network for Road Warrior style access (also does much better with NAT traversal than tunnel-mode IPsec).
At work we have three VPN concentrators built using Linux and racoon. Two are configured as normal tunnel-mode concentrators, using fully-qualified usernames on the endpoints for authentication. One of these is for employees, the other is for customers. We are able to use any commodity VPN endpoint device which supports IKE identifiers (for example, Netgear FVS114).
We also have a third concentrator which is configured to use Xauth and
It's a pretty kick ass setup, actually. In particular, you don't have to have a Linux/BSD box or other PC at every endpoint location, just lil' IPsec-enabled gateways/routers (Netgear FVS114 is the best I've found so far, even other Netgears like FVS318 devices suck or are broken).
You really should check out The Horde Project. Horde (and it's webmail client IMP) has been around for a very long time. Development is very active and open.
Horde went through a major rewrite/restructuring for the 3.0 effort. Horde 3.0 is definitely a web-based Exchange-killer (and Sharepoint-killer).
If you use Cyrus IMAPd as your IMAP backend, you even get shared mailboxes. Horde's other modules also have excellent sharing support. Shared calendars, mailboxes, todo lists, addressbooks, etc. Turba, the addressbook module, supports LDAP directories. Horde's other modules also have support to grab bits of info from LDAP.
I highly recommend Horde. I used to use it a lot more than I do know. When that was the case, I was also a regularly submitter of patches to the project (I helped mostly the last year 3.0 was still unreleased).
While Hula may look prettier, I find Horde to be much more functional.
Of course, there are plenty of things to be done... So, start using it and start submitting patches!
Actually, I agree with you... I rarely use the system-config-* programs myself. I'm a CLI junky and prefer to edit the config files myself with vim.
About the only one I use regularly is system-config-samba to add Samba shares quickly and easily. Just a few seconds to add a new share, change it to share-level security, and you're done; Samba picks up the changes immediately. I find system-config-samba much easier to use than editing smb.conf by hand.
Ubuntu has no means by which to change the security level (other than by hand). Suse's YaST doesn't seem to keep the settings when I change it to "security = shared".
Where I can get Samba public-access shares working out-of-the-box with Fedora, it takes a lot of effort to get it working under Ubuntu/Suse.
While I or you may not appreciate the GUI tools (because we're smart and whatnot), by no means does the OS rely on them, they're just available for all the stupid people.
I wasn't suggesting it was different from other distros... I was suggesting it was different from the route the reviewer took to install FC5. Besides, with my method, I was running FC5 months before he was... ;) (Rawhide is rather stable for a development tree. Lately, I haven't had many serious problems. Actually, I've had more problems with tracking Ubuntu Dapper than Fedora Rawhide.
... have been around since before the Fedora split as redhat-config-* (after Fedora, they were renamed to system-config-*).
He is right that they're useful. Ubuntu, Suse, and other distros could really use system-config-samba, system-config-nfs, and others. (system-config-samba alone is about 10 times better than Ubuntu or Suse's Samba utilities.)
I installed FC1 a long, long time ago... Then I changed my yum repositories over to Rawhide. Since then, the newest version of Fedora is always a "yum upgrade" away.
... is PF_KEY reliability!
My Linux-based VPN concentrators will thank you.