chroot enviro's are pretty tough to setup. You need to copy all of the libraries needed from/lib and/usr/lib, any needed shared files from/usr/share and anything else you find you need such as programs. It can be done, but it would be easier to just change the source for the programs in question.
MS's plans will be yet another nail in the coffin of the old practice of building your own systems. This of course just happens to be exactly what Dell and others want. It's no suprise this highly restrictive copy protection has gone through, it's in the interests of everyone involved except the consumers.
The term Public Domain has a very specific legal meaning. It means that the work is "owned" by the public and has no restrictions what-so-ever on it's use no matter what that use may be. If some software is public domain you can copy it, modify it, sell it, incorporate it into one of your own works, etc.
Next, due to the way search engines work, you cannot a) locate all of the material you want to remove -OR- b) quickly and efficiently identify that material. This means that if you plot the amount of money put into removing information log-log with the amount of return, it will rapidly drop to zero and infinity, respectively. In short - there will always be a sizeable percentage of "forbidden" material available. Even with no mirroring, napster, or crawlers.
That's wrong. If the information can't be found by the RIAA, and hence can't be found by normal users, but exists what's the point of it? Only a minority of users can find it, and only that minority of users can use it. Realistically all you need to do is find the infomation that can be found easilly and shutdown it. Once you've done that the amount of effort needed to find the other mirrors can easilly become too great for the majority of users. The important thing with FreeNet and Gnutella is that if any single peice of information exists in the network you will be able to find it. With FreeNet it's automatically mirrored by the very process of asking for it.
The term 20/20 vision simply means that you can see at 20 feet what you would normally be able to see. Super good vision would be 20/60 (I may have the order reversed...) which would mean that at 60 feet you can see what a normal person can at 20 feet. 60/20 vision OTOH would mean that at 20 feet you can see what a normal person can see at 60 feet.
You may notice that at the top of the artical it says MP3.com chief executive Michael Robertson and Emusic.com chairman Robert Kohn both support the RIAA. Of course they just happen to be direct competitors... There probably trying to get Napster shutdown so they can make more money of their legal MP3's.
The Candu and French reactors are relatively standardized for starters. Secondly those major leaks aren't very dangerous to anyone but those working in the plant. Thirdly my source on this is someone who works in a US reactor and knows first hand how dangerous they are compared to the Candu and French reactors.
That would probably work. There would be a big outcry from a minority of people, IE enviormentalists, who can't stand to have their objectives hindered by any means. But I think overall it would be pretty easy to bribe a population given enough money. The problem is the money... Even $1000 a household will still add up to millions. And that may still be less then the amount that you can expect property values to drop... And by paying people anything you're basically admitting that nuclear power is dangerous and you need to compensate the population. This may be a short-term gain but a long-term loss as in the future people will *demand* their bribes.
Life is far easier in SimCity. You don't have to care about the short-term feelings of your population.
ESM - Simple, easy, system monitoring for Linux/UNIX
The biggest problem is the persistant NIMBY (Not in my backyard) attitude of people. There is no way you are going to be able to build a new power plant in city limits. People will protest no matter how good it may be for others. This means the power plants have to be built relatively far away increasing losses through transmission and the chance of outages.
Secondly other types of large scale power projects, for instance nuclear reactors and hydroelectric dams, are almost impossible to build because of enviornmental/political reasons. No matter how clean nuclear power may be (you have to remember that Chernoble was a horrible design along with inept staff) provided it's well run (look at the system France uses and the Candu reactors used in Canada) political reasons have killed almost all new reactor projects.
This leaves a whole lot of alternative power. But even then people don't like the idea of wind power, too noisy, and would probably protest against solar a bit too. (uses up a lot of space and doesn't look very good) And then you have the fact that wind and solar are relatively expensive and unreliable. There are efforts in place to promote them, in some places you can pay extra money to have your electricity generated from alternative power sources, but those efforts will need to be scaled up a lot before they are realistic alternatives. Of course with the fuss over nuclear and hydroelectric alternative power may be a very realistic alternative...
Who says that you'll find any two of those opinions in the same person? Linux users tend to be a varied bunch and because of that you can't expect them to have non-conflicting opinions as a whole.
For basic system monitoring there is ESM. It's easilly customizable so you could extend it to do what you want to do by writing your own plugins for it. Unfortunatly it's also pretty primitive and simple so there is no GUI or centralized control.
This bug may not be directly remotely exploitable but it makes a lot of remotely exploitable security holes much easier to use. Say you have program x that SUID's itself to the nobody user from root. Without the bug after breaking into program x you would have nobody permissions, pretty useless. But with the bug you would get root permissions, very usefull. This is a serious bug and makes remote exploits much easier.
It's easy for a driver to figure out how far away each pixel is, you just take the actual 3d scene that a modern game such as Quake 3 sends to the video card driver and use that. Unlike games such as Doom modern games don't have to render the 3d scenes themselves, they send them to the video card and let the video card do the work.
I have no idea what the reference to Doom is about... I've seen the source myself (I once did some AI development on one of the derivations made after id released the source) and it sure as hell doesn't support anything other then simple VGA graphics.
I wonder what would happen if you simply submitted some random sites from free web hosting services such as Tripod? I have a feeling that *anything* from Tripod and others might be automatically added without being even looked at in the theory that as the free hosting is uncontrolled anything might be on it, and also it isn't worth our time to bother to check anyway.
I've always found GNOME to be the slow one... I've run both and KDE is the smaller one, and with Linux's agressive disk caching it runs a lot faster then Windows for what I do. (software development (meaning lots of terminal windows open) and Netscape)
XWindows does use a client/server model. That's why in general graphics performence is worse then the more low-level (but not client/server capable) model of Windows. This lets you remotely run apps, but it also slows graphics performence. I've not found it to be much of a problem but then again I don't use any games.
IIRC shared memory is not used for communication, UNIX sockets are.
This makes perfect sense to me. %95 of Napsters files are illegal and all of the searches go through their servers and are run by their servers. Their business is supported by illegal MP3 trading. What can they expect? Unlike you average ISP their business is supported by illegal MP3 trading, not as they may claim supporting artists who want to bypass the record companies. (Something the RIAA wants to stop too, both sides are not blameless.)
In short I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Napster's getting what it deserved. And as expected velnerable technology, Napster's centralized servers, is in big trouble. Just like security through obscurity...
You shouldn't worry about this sort of action. You can get by it with Gnutella and FreeNet
Black for termal dissipation? At best a black case would make the chip heat up more in sunlight. The color of the case doesn't matter. However I'll bet that black plastic costs a bit less to make than clear plastic. In black plastic you should be able to tolerate more impurities.
Blocking ZDNet banner ads is easy enough. Just setup your DNS to screw up any doubleclick.net anything. I did this by creating a doubleclick.net domain with nothing in it. And best of all your still supporting sites such as Slashdot and Freshmeat, they don't use DoubleClick. Of course you do need a DNS server that you admin, but just setup named on your Linux box for that.
(Actually Slashdot does have DoubleClick ads sometimes, but not often)
I know that in a coal mine that my brother in law worked at, they had Loran navigation for the big trucks. On foggy days they could operate when they couldn't see the ground. Imagine driving up and down a mountain in a 300 tonne truck without seeing the road.
Just imagine all the damage the US could cause if someone had a bad dream and they decided to turn the GPS system off? What would happen if they figured out some way to only let some geographical areas get high-precision GPS? What something happened to the GPS sattelites, say some sort of technical problem? This sort of dependency is just plain dangerous.
Just another example of the iron wall between Slashdot editors and Slashdot marketers, I hope.:)
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I recently did a search for my own name, email addresses and website. Sure enough I found stuff from as long ago as 1995, almost (by a few months) as long as I've been using the net. Even though I didn't know about USENET etc. then I still had left a single entry in a long forgotten, but still running, guestbook. 5 years later it was one of the first things that I found.
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That'll be a few minutes work to fix... I'm off to write some patches for UAE, Bochs and Snes9x!
chroot enviro's are pretty tough to setup. You need to copy all of the libraries needed from /lib and /usr/lib, any needed shared files from /usr/share and anything else you find you need such as programs. It can be done, but it would be easier to just change the source for the programs in question.
MS's plans will be yet another nail in the coffin of the old practice of building your own systems. This of course just happens to be exactly what Dell and others want. It's no suprise this highly restrictive copy protection has gone through, it's in the interests of everyone involved except the consumers.
6. Make sure to send a bottle of Chivas Regal to the patent officer fielding your claim.
Come one! This is the patent office here! They don't need any bribes to do a bad job! Silly slashdotter...
The term Public Domain has a very specific legal meaning. It means that the work is "owned" by the public and has no restrictions what-so-ever on it's use no matter what that use may be. If some software is public domain you can copy it, modify it, sell it, incorporate it into one of your own works, etc.
Next, due to the way search engines work, you cannot a) locate all of the material you want to remove -OR- b) quickly and efficiently identify that material. This means that if you plot the amount of money put into removing information log-log with the amount of return, it will rapidly drop to zero and infinity, respectively. In short - there will always be a sizeable percentage of "forbidden" material available. Even with no mirroring, napster, or crawlers.
That's wrong. If the information can't be found by the RIAA, and hence can't be found by normal users, but exists what's the point of it? Only a minority of users can find it, and only that minority of users can use it. Realistically all you need to do is find the infomation that can be found easilly and shutdown it. Once you've done that the amount of effort needed to find the other mirrors can easilly become too great for the majority of users. The important thing with FreeNet and Gnutella is that if any single peice of information exists in the network you will be able to find it. With FreeNet it's automatically mirrored by the very process of asking for it.
The term 20/20 vision simply means that you can see at 20 feet what you would normally be able to see. Super good vision would be 20/60 (I may have the order reversed...) which would mean that at 60 feet you can see what a normal person can at 20 feet. 60/20 vision OTOH would mean that at 20 feet you can see what a normal person can see at 60 feet.
You may notice that at the top of the artical it says MP3.com chief executive Michael Robertson and Emusic.com chairman Robert Kohn both support the RIAA. Of course they just happen to be direct competitors... There probably trying to get Napster shutdown so they can make more money of their legal MP3's.
The Candu and French reactors are relatively standardized for starters. Secondly those major leaks aren't very dangerous to anyone but those working in the plant. Thirdly my source on this is someone who works in a US reactor and knows first hand how dangerous they are compared to the Candu and French reactors.
That would probably work. There would be a big outcry from a minority of people, IE enviormentalists, who can't stand to have their objectives hindered by any means. But I think overall it would be pretty easy to bribe a population given enough money. The problem is the money... Even $1000 a household will still add up to millions. And that may still be less then the amount that you can expect property values to drop... And by paying people anything you're basically admitting that nuclear power is dangerous and you need to compensate the population. This may be a short-term gain but a long-term loss as in the future people will *demand* their bribes.
Life is far easier in SimCity. You don't have to care about the short-term feelings of your population.
ESM - Simple, easy, system monitoring for Linux/UNIX
The biggest problem is the persistant NIMBY (Not in my backyard) attitude of people. There is no way you are going to be able to build a new power plant in city limits. People will protest no matter how good it may be for others. This means the power plants have to be built relatively far away increasing losses through transmission and the chance of outages.
Secondly other types of large scale power projects, for instance nuclear reactors and hydroelectric dams, are almost impossible to build because of enviornmental/political reasons. No matter how clean nuclear power may be (you have to remember that Chernoble was a horrible design along with inept staff) provided it's well run (look at the system France uses and the Candu reactors used in Canada) political reasons have killed almost all new reactor projects.
This leaves a whole lot of alternative power. But even then people don't like the idea of wind power, too noisy, and would probably protest against solar a bit too. (uses up a lot of space and doesn't look very good) And then you have the fact that wind and solar are relatively expensive and unreliable. There are efforts in place to promote them, in some places you can pay extra money to have your electricity generated from alternative power sources, but those efforts will need to be scaled up a lot before they are realistic alternatives. Of course with the fuss over nuclear and hydroelectric alternative power may be a very realistic alternative...
Who says that you'll find any two of those opinions in the same person? Linux users tend to be a varied bunch and because of that you can't expect them to have non-conflicting opinions as a whole.
Disclaimer: I wrote ESM.
For basic system monitoring there is ESM. It's easilly customizable so you could extend it to do what you want to do by writing your own plugins for it. Unfortunatly it's also pretty primitive and simple so there is no GUI or centralized control.
This bug may not be directly remotely exploitable but it makes a lot of remotely exploitable security holes much easier to use. Say you have program x that SUID's itself to the nobody user from root. Without the bug after breaking into program x you would have nobody permissions, pretty useless. But with the bug you would get root permissions, very usefull. This is a serious bug and makes remote exploits much easier.
It's easy for a driver to figure out how far away each pixel is, you just take the actual 3d scene that a modern game such as Quake 3 sends to the video card driver and use that. Unlike games such as Doom modern games don't have to render the 3d scenes themselves, they send them to the video card and let the video card do the work.
I have no idea what the reference to Doom is about... I've seen the source myself (I once did some AI development on one of the derivations made after id released the source) and it sure as hell doesn't support anything other then simple VGA graphics.
I wonder what would happen if you simply submitted some random sites from free web hosting services such as Tripod? I have a feeling that *anything* from Tripod and others might be automatically added without being even looked at in the theory that as the free hosting is uncontrolled anything might be on it, and also it isn't worth our time to bother to check anyway.
I've always found GNOME to be the slow one... I've run both and KDE is the smaller one, and with Linux's agressive disk caching it runs a lot faster then Windows for what I do. (software development (meaning lots of terminal windows open) and Netscape)
XWindows does use a client/server model. That's why in general graphics performence is worse then the more low-level (but not client/server capable) model of Windows. This lets you remotely run apps, but it also slows graphics performence. I've not found it to be much of a problem but then again I don't use any games.
IIRC shared memory is not used for communication, UNIX sockets are.
The idea is you use slow and cheap DRAM instead of fast and expensive SDRAM. But even the slowest DRAM is still far faster then a disk drive.
Secondly you treat all of this ram as a disk drive using specialized hardware that doesn't have any problem using multi-gigs of memory.
This makes perfect sense to me. %95 of Napsters files are illegal and all of the searches go through their servers and are run by their servers. Their business is supported by illegal MP3 trading. What can they expect? Unlike you average ISP their business is supported by illegal MP3 trading, not as they may claim supporting artists who want to bypass the record companies. (Something the RIAA wants to stop too, both sides are not blameless.)
In short I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Napster's getting what it deserved. And as expected velnerable technology, Napster's centralized servers, is in big trouble. Just like security through obscurity...
You shouldn't worry about this sort of action. You can get by it with Gnutella and FreeNet
Black for termal dissipation? At best a black case would make the chip heat up more in sunlight. The color of the case doesn't matter. However I'll bet that black plastic costs a bit less to make than clear plastic. In black plastic you should be able to tolerate more impurities.
Actually you can't do that. Everything in KDE2 depends on the KDE2 libraries. You have to install a good chunk of KDE2 or nothing at all.
Blocking ZDNet banner ads is easy enough. Just setup your DNS to screw up any doubleclick.net anything. I did this by creating a doubleclick.net domain with nothing in it. And best of all your still supporting sites such as Slashdot and Freshmeat, they don't use DoubleClick. Of course you do need a DNS server that you admin, but just setup named on your Linux box for that.
(Actually Slashdot does have DoubleClick ads sometimes, but not often)
I know that in a coal mine that my brother in law worked at, they had Loran navigation for the big trucks. On foggy days they could operate when they couldn't see the ground. Imagine driving up and down a mountain in a 300 tonne truck without seeing the road.
Just imagine all the damage the US could cause if someone had a bad dream and they decided to turn the GPS system off? What would happen if they figured out some way to only let some geographical areas get high-precision GPS? What something happened to the GPS sattelites, say some sort of technical problem? This sort of dependency is just plain dangerous.
Just another example of the iron wall between Slashdot editors and Slashdot marketers, I hope. :)
I recently did a search for my own name, email addresses and website. Sure enough I found stuff from as long ago as 1995, almost (by a few months) as long as I've been using the net. Even though I didn't know about USENET etc. then I still had left a single entry in a long forgotten, but still running, guestbook. 5 years later it was one of the first things that I found.