Not a flame, but which distributions? I tried to get my Linux box to record TV to no avail (best I could do was video sans audio before ripping my hair out and giving up). I was using SuSE 7.2 or 7.3 and then switched to RedHat. I didn't realize there were distros directed at Multimedia. Can you tell me which ones? Thanks.
If I built a shrine to a Mac I get put on the front page of/., but if I build one tiny little shrine to Heidi Klum containing pictures, autographs, candid pohotos, pieces of her garbage and old phone bills, I get escorted away from her gate by police and get handed a restraining order. I just don't understand...
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No offense man, but by the 10th time you should have figured out you can use "M" and specify megs for partition size. Accept the default locations on the disk and guestimate in MB on what you need for/, swap,/tmp,/var,/home, and use the rest for/usr. Each time you add a partition, it will place the start of it after the end of the last one. Easy as pie.
Yes, the disk partitioning is the least intuitive part of the install, but it only took a complete newbie like myself a few times (3, maybe 4) to feel comfortable with it so I think you might have missed something in the documentation. I was using "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" at the time as well, but it's all there on the screen for you.
No, but the poster said that a hole in pf would cause a root exploit in the default install. Since you'd have to be root to enable pf in the first place, why bother with the exploit? My point was that since pf _wasn't_ enabled by default, there would be no exploit in the default install without having the root password already.
uhhh... pf isn't enabled in the default install. You have to enable it via/etc/sysctl.conf or manually, both of which require root privs to begin with.
AGGGGHHHH! Where did this come from?? This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I can deal with "learn" you a lesson. I can deal with "so don't I". The preceding is just ignorance as to what is porper English. I cannot deal with people "loosing" the spelling of "lose". I had never heard/seen this until about a year ago and now everyone seems to forget how to spell "lose". Where did this come from?
That you are making statements you _know_ to be false in an attempt to discredit someone? If these people are posting their honest opinions, that is protected, is it not? You can say whatever you want as long as you are not intenitonally misleading someone by stating things you know to be false.
You take it back to the store and the store says: "Sorry. We cannot accept returns on software or music. It can be pirated and returned so we have a strict no return policy once it's opened.". However, you can't read the license agreement that you don't agree with until it's opened. What do you do in that situation?
Maybe the Big Dig is delayed because the workers were going out to bars on their lunch breaks and getting tanked. Fox News ran a story (can't find it online) on it about a year ago. The constructions guys were having like 8 or 9 beers and then going back to work. Lovely
A lot of people like writing stories about say... Transformers. What is FanFic and what is official gospel from Hasbro has a pretty clear distinction.
Given that the characters in the article are public domain, is there any way to preserve the original intent of the character? I mean since they are public domain, one person could create a Black Terror that reinstates Nazi Germany. Another person create a Black Terror porno. If someone truly loved the character, how can the spirit of that character be preserved amid a landfill of junk?
Look at Batman. 60's TV show Batman is an abomination to me. Batman to me is supposed to be dark and gritty. The guy watched his parents gunned down as a child. That has to have some serious psychological effects. To see Adam West's gut hanging out over his utility belt while he, supposedly someone that had honed his body to the limits of human ability, punched out the joker's cronies with splahses of POW! and BLAMM!... Awful. But that was what the company was pushing at the time. Since then, DC has brought Batman back to what he should be. If Batman became public domain though, there could be a deluge of 60's Batman stories written by anybody and the original nature of the character would be completely lost. How do you preserve it?
I will now wait for the "well, what if I don't want the extra services" replies.
Nope. You raise valid points. I had forgotten about the mail and the virus protection (though really, how many mac virii are there?). The email is a big service and requires a fair amount of disk space, bandwidth, and admin'ing. I think we should get backup as part of the OS though. I have to have a.Mac subscription to backup to CDs?? C'mon. I think they offer a good service, I just don't agree with what they charge for what you get. Given that I was not taking the extras into account, the $20 vs $100 not as valid a point as I had originally tried to make. Still, I think the extras aren't worth the extra $80. I _almost_ did it at $50 (assuming all services came down. Not just $20 for space and the others are worth only $30).
Why a startup like this can offer 100 MB of space for $19.95 USD/year and a giant like Apple charges $100 USD/year for.Mac. Remote, hosted backups is to me what is most valuable. I realize these guys don't do website hosting/publishing like.Mac, but does it really cost the extra $80 to do so, Apple?
Most likely, the judge in the case won't know a bit of difference between Kazaa and Napster.
I'm as anti-RIAA as the next guy, but legality-wise, what is the difference between Napster and Kazaa? Not technically-wise, legality-wise. Both allow the trading of music on a massive scale without the artists' and record companies' consent. Personally I think the the record companies rape the artists and the consumer, but that's not the issue. Kazaa and Napster promote priacy. For me personally it also promoted buying a crapload more albums, but I know and am fully aware that was I was doing was stealing (in the sense of getting something I didn't pay for. I realize that stealing also implies depriving someone of the original possession which is not the case here, but I digress...).
To anyone that thinks dropping cars out of an airplane, much less dropping a greyhound bus, is a good idea, or fun, or remotely above cro-magnon thought:
line for the bus forms to the right, first 40 get in...
I am sooooo tired of seeing the "oh I thought they meant the old computer..." jokes, references whatever. I had a PS/2, I have a PS2. It was funny 3 years ago when SONY was naming the next Playstation. Now it's just as lame as "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of...". It's old, it's been done, please move on.
Just drive by Harvard... MacStumbler finds at least 5 access points along Memorial Drive. Harvard Business School on the other side of the Charles has at least 4. None WEP encrypted (yeah yeah, WEP's not secure. But it _is_ a deterrant). You would HOPE that universities (especially Harvard) implement some sort of protection on these things. Sure a college kid could give out the password to 100 people, but if it isn't there to begin with, anyone can jump on the network. Sad.
Sorry, not to take away from your story, but I want to clear up a minor conception:
Buddhism does not teach the concept of reincarnation. In Buddhism there is no concept of soul or afterlife. Here is a FAQ about it. I believe what you meant is Hinduism which teaches reincarnation with the end goal of reaching Nirvana.
I'm not missing the point though. If "joe bob nice guy" wants to set up a wireless AP for people to use out of the kindness of his heart, great. What a swell person. However, if this is what he is offering, he should post a sign outside of his house saying "Free wireless access" or put an ad in the paper.
On the other hand, wardriving to me is "let's see who's wireless network is open" regardless if it's "joe bob nice guy" or "joe dude I just use what Linksys gave me". Wardriving is not about sharing a connection, it's about "let me see who leaves their door unlocked in the neighboorhood". While not illegal, what are the legal, ethical benefits? I don't see any. It's not that it should be illegal, and more people should be aware of what they are setting up, but there is no benefit other than academic to going around and seeing who's door is unlocked.
Of course they are. You think the feds aren't going to be like "Hey, Microsoft, that hacker came from msn. If you don't help us find him, you're fuct." Then MS is of course going to respond with "Sure Mr. Feds. The person who did it is John Smith at...". What do you think they are going to do? Protect their users?? Please. Only when it gets to your end of the chain, what are you going to say "Uhhh... it was some wireless guy passing by. Sorry, I can't help you"? That will go over well.
While white hat hacking can be argued to be ethical (like Adrian Lamo type people), I don't see how wardriving does _not_ lead to unethical practices. It may be interesting how many people have open networks, but really what "good" does war driving accomplish? Do war drivers stop at the house and tell the people "Hey, you're network is open, and this is how you fix it"? What "good" comes out of knowing where wireless service is available?
I understand that some people invite others onto their network. This is very generous (but in my opinion insane because YOU are responsible for what comes out of YOUR router), but shouldn't these people advertise that their network is open instead of people driving around trying to discover these access points? I think the concept of wardriving is interesting, but the practical ethical results of wardriving efforts seem very very few. Maybe there is some application I am missing. Feel free to enlighten me
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Yes, the disk partitioning is the least intuitive part of the install, but it only took a complete newbie like myself a few times (3, maybe 4) to feel comfortable with it so I think you might have missed something in the documentation. I was using "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" at the time as well, but it's all there on the screen for you.
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Given that the characters in the article are public domain, is there any way to preserve the original intent of the character? I mean since they are public domain, one person could create a Black Terror that reinstates Nazi Germany. Another person create a Black Terror porno. If someone truly loved the character, how can the spirit of that character be preserved amid a landfill of junk?
Look at Batman. 60's TV show Batman is an abomination to me. Batman to me is supposed to be dark and gritty. The guy watched his parents gunned down as a child. That has to have some serious psychological effects. To see Adam West's gut hanging out over his utility belt while he, supposedly someone that had honed his body to the limits of human ability, punched out the joker's cronies with splahses of POW! and BLAMM!... Awful. But that was what the company was pushing at the time. Since then, DC has brought Batman back to what he should be. If Batman became public domain though, there could be a deluge of 60's Batman stories written by anybody and the original nature of the character would be completely lost. How do you preserve it?
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Nope. You raise valid points. I had forgotten about the mail and the virus protection (though really, how many mac virii are there?). The email is a big service and requires a fair amount of disk space, bandwidth, and admin'ing. I think we should get backup as part of the OS though. I have to have a .Mac subscription to backup to CDs?? C'mon. I think they offer a good service, I just don't agree with what they charge for what you get. Given that I was not taking the extras into account, the $20 vs $100 not as valid a point as I had originally tried to make. Still, I think the extras aren't worth the extra $80. I _almost_ did it at $50 (assuming all services came down. Not just $20 for space and the others are worth only $30).
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I'm as anti-RIAA as the next guy, but legality-wise, what is the difference between Napster and Kazaa? Not technically-wise, legality-wise. Both allow the trading of music on a massive scale without the artists' and record companies' consent. Personally I think the the record companies rape the artists and the consumer, but that's not the issue. Kazaa and Napster promote priacy. For me personally it also promoted buying a crapload more albums, but I know and am fully aware that was I was doing was stealing (in the sense of getting something I didn't pay for. I realize that stealing also implies depriving someone of the original possession which is not the case here, but I digress...).
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Buddhism does not teach the concept of reincarnation. In Buddhism there is no concept of soul or afterlife. Here is a FAQ about it. I believe what you meant is Hinduism which teaches reincarnation with the end goal of reaching Nirvana.
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On the other hand, wardriving to me is "let's see who's wireless network is open" regardless if it's "joe bob nice guy" or "joe dude I just use what Linksys gave me". Wardriving is not about sharing a connection, it's about "let me see who leaves their door unlocked in the neighboorhood". While not illegal, what are the legal, ethical benefits? I don't see any. It's not that it should be illegal, and more people should be aware of what they are setting up, but there is no benefit other than academic to going around and seeing who's door is unlocked.
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I understand that some people invite others onto their network. This is very generous (but in my opinion insane because YOU are responsible for what comes out of YOUR router), but shouldn't these people advertise that their network is open instead of people driving around trying to discover these access points? I think the concept of wardriving is interesting, but the practical ethical results of wardriving efforts seem very very few. Maybe there is some application I am missing. Feel free to enlighten me
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