This is exactly what I fear in life-- the invasion of my privacy in the interest of selling products.. It's bad enough already, and now this../me heads off to his shack in the woods and hides out there with his coputer
Well, it'd have to be a cage where they sit down at a computer with a choice of any operating system and then go at it in a series of challenges. Some of which would be cracking the opponents machine, others would be pure coding.
Heck, this would turn out some great code!
rtorrent and mplayer are both fantastic.
For image viewing I use xv, and I don't own an iPod.
I've got a nice perl script which plays m3u, mp3, and ogg files for me, but otherwise I use Amarok.:/
Amarok is fantastic but is full of bloat. On the other hand, "omp" (Ogg-M{p3, 3u} Play) is pretty much as lightweight as it gets.
I use DWM (Dynamic Window Manager), from suckless.org as my primary window manager now, after switching from Fluxbox. The code is clean and fast. Configuration (colours and whatnot), is handled by editing the C code and recompiling, which takes about 2 seconds on my AMD64 3200+ running Gentoo Linux. (Compilation needed on all distros). Works just as well on OpenBSD 4.1.
Most of the WM is controlled by key commands and supports a wonderful tilemode, for maximum efficiency. No desktop icons, no menus, no clutter. Based off of wmii.
And next year the hold the con in Germany so as to avoid this.
Honestly though is it a big deal? He's (was) already here, just let him go to the freaking con. I hope at least they didn't charge him for the flight back..
I'm starting the "Free Hans Reiser" movement..
I'll put up a page this week.
email at shardz4217@gmail.com
I'd rather have a skilled coder who killed his wife writing my FS instead of anyone else. Besides, I don't plan on being his wife.
Last semester I received 3 detentions for "messing with the computers, and creating a security hole".
Our school has all the computers connected via a proxy, which has port 80 open, and only a few unadvertised
ports open (including boinc-client). I was eager after a few AutoCAD drawings to ssh into my server and code
some C/C++, via PuTTY. So, I fire up internet explorer (UGH), and download PuTTY. They said we had to keep IE
as the default browser. When I opened PuTTY and told it to use 80 outgoing, and to use the proxy, my teacher
noticed the dialouge box, and immediately threw me out of class, no questions asked, and told me not to mess with
the network. I left the situation as it was. About 2-3 weeks later, I installed firefox onto the computer (IE was
absolutely driving me nuts). I had to tell it to use the proxy on port 80 before it would work, and the moment that
dialouge box opened, he noticed and yelled at me again, and talked to me out of class and sent me to the assistant principal.
I was then confronted with screenshots that they had taken 2-3 weeks ago of me trying to use PuTTY, claiming that's what I
was doing that today (apparently they ignore timestamps that would appear near the file...). They then told me that this was
a security liability and that someone could gain access to their network if I was connected to my machine from PuTTY. Which,
as we know, all they could do is sniff the trafic, but what does the school care about my SSH passwords? So, after explaining
it calmly, I was told it was besides the point and that I was still responsible. Our school server runs Micro$haft Winblows 2000, no SSH.
All admin work is done via physical access or a windows network login. But, yet, Mozilla Firefox and PuTTY are security holes! No one told me...
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This is exactly what I fear in life-- the invasion of my privacy in the interest of selling products.. It's bad enough already, and now this.. /me heads off to his shack in the woods and hides out there with his coputer
This is a great excuse to put Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) on your mp3 player.
Well, it'd have to be a cage where they sit down at a computer with a choice of any operating system and then go at it in a series of challenges. Some of which would be cracking the opponents machine, others would be pure coding. Heck, this would turn out some great code!
rtorrent and mplayer are both fantastic. For image viewing I use xv, and I don't own an iPod. I've got a nice perl script which plays m3u, mp3, and ogg files for me, but otherwise I use Amarok. :/
Amarok is fantastic but is full of bloat. On the other hand, "omp" (Ogg-M{p3, 3u} Play) is pretty much as lightweight as it gets.
Yeah, foobar is great. Also the only media player I've seen that supports tabs.
I use DWM (Dynamic Window Manager), from suckless.org as my primary window manager now, after switching from Fluxbox. The code is clean and fast. Configuration (colours and whatnot), is handled by editing the C code and recompiling, which takes about 2 seconds on my AMD64 3200+ running Gentoo Linux. (Compilation needed on all distros). Works just as well on OpenBSD 4.1.
Most of the WM is controlled by key commands and supports a wonderful tilemode, for maximum efficiency. No desktop icons, no menus, no clutter. Based off of wmii.
And next year the hold the con in Germany so as to avoid this. Honestly though is it a big deal? He's (was) already here, just let him go to the freaking con. I hope at least they didn't charge him for the flight back..
Kinda like the "free kevin" movement. I want him out of jail (or whever they put him), and back out writing ReiserFS.
I'm starting the "Free Hans Reiser" movement.. I'll put up a page this week. email at shardz4217@gmail.com I'd rather have a skilled coder who killed his wife writing my FS instead of anyone else. Besides, I don't plan on being his wife.
Last semester I received 3 detentions for "messing with the computers, and creating a security hole". Our school has all the computers connected via a proxy, which has port 80 open, and only a few unadvertised ports open (including boinc-client). I was eager after a few AutoCAD drawings to ssh into my server and code some C/C++, via PuTTY. So, I fire up internet explorer (UGH), and download PuTTY. They said we had to keep IE as the default browser. When I opened PuTTY and told it to use 80 outgoing, and to use the proxy, my teacher noticed the dialouge box, and immediately threw me out of class, no questions asked, and told me not to mess with the network. I left the situation as it was. About 2-3 weeks later, I installed firefox onto the computer (IE was absolutely driving me nuts). I had to tell it to use the proxy on port 80 before it would work, and the moment that dialouge box opened, he noticed and yelled at me again, and talked to me out of class and sent me to the assistant principal. I was then confronted with screenshots that they had taken 2-3 weeks ago of me trying to use PuTTY, claiming that's what I was doing that today (apparently they ignore timestamps that would appear near the file...). They then told me that this was a security liability and that someone could gain access to their network if I was connected to my machine from PuTTY. Which, as we know, all they could do is sniff the trafic, but what does the school care about my SSH passwords? So, after explaining it calmly, I was told it was besides the point and that I was still responsible. Our school server runs Micro$haft Winblows 2000, no SSH. All admin work is done via physical access or a windows network login. But, yet, Mozilla Firefox and PuTTY are security holes! No one told me...