Perhaps you should've either got RealPlayer to test this out, or AT LEAST inspected the.ram file the server spits back. Turns out that this redirects to pnm://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/support/redirect.ra and not actually the HitchHiker's episode in question.
In fact, if you had bothered to test further, you would have noticed that you can type whatever you want (with extension.ram, at least) after http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/media/ and it'll still spit back a.ram file that is just a redirect to the support site. What I'm really wondering is why it took you 2 tries to get the "good" address for the episode, as your first try should have given you the same.ram as the 2nd.
And of course, why the hell do people moderate these posts up without verifying the information? But hey, this is/. after all. *sigh*.
... why SCO can even sue Linux users at this point? I mean, don't they have to actually WAIT for the court decision vs. IBM to come through before suing the users? They're basically saying "following the court decision in our favor in the case of SCO vs IBM that went to court in 2005, you owe us money". Do they have a time travel section in addition to their litigation one?
Christ, have them stop already. They haven't even been to court yet and are acting as if they won. I wonder how the courts will react to these legal proceeding against the users on the basis of a pending legal case.
Ordered some brain teasers from hotbox back on the 20th of Nov. Received an email saying we'd receive them within 2 weeks. Waited, nothing appeared. Emailed them again, they "guaranteed" that the package would be here by christmas. Needless to say, nothing at all. They apologized, said no one was working there during the holidays, and we should contact them again about it in early Jan. Won't ever be buying anything from them again, to be sure.
Ordered quake 3/linux from Loki when it was announced (early dec?). Due to a CC failure, was postponed. Provided them with correct info again 3 weeks ago. No news from them, no package. I thought they were receiving the gold master from ID before the 27th, but somehow that can't be right, as I would've had it by now.
Ordered a Dust Puppy doll and a Pitr coffee mug from userfriendly. Was made aware that it wouldn't be here for christmas. As they said, it's not, but it's for myself, so it's all good. At least they notified people that packages wouldn't likely be received before christmas prior to any orders. My best experience with online shopping to date;)
1) A Happy Hacking Keyboard. A throwback to the Sun Type 3 keyboards, 60 keys, compatible with Macs and PCs.
2) Victorinox Cybertool. Already suggested by many of you, the ultimate pocket knife to have around for us techies.
3) Pretty much anything from thinkgeek.com. Great products, get the shooter glasses and play the unix drinking game:) Plus, they sell stuffed Tux penguins.
After downloading the linux client, I emailed both the author of it and the guy behind napster, asking to know why this was without source. The author of the linux client said that napster doesn't want the protocol to be open, that they wanted to retain "full control" over the clients. After seeing a few nasty bugs in the linux client, I've decided to take action.
I've begun reversing the napster protocol in my free time, basically trying to draw up a paper about it, so people can code their own clients (improve on the already existing one; make one with a GUI; make a PHP interface to napster; etc.). I am not much of a coder, but I used to reverse dongle protections in my sleep a while back, so I'm confident this should be easy. Plus, after looking at a few straces', I can say that this shouldn't take very long.
I would like to know who would be interested in helping out. Anyone that has some details on the protocol, or anyone that is interested in coding a free, open-source napster client. Please email me at splice(at)videotron(dot)ca.
1) People have been mentionning this case could lead to a breakup of microsoft, microsoft being forced to release source code to their programs, or being fined. Can you see other possibilities? What do you think is the most likely outcome and why?
2) How do you see this affecting computer users at large, other companies in the field (Intel, IBM, Apple), and the future of computing in general?
Thanks for considering my questions. I feel this interview will be a very interesting read.
My preferred way to remember passwords is through their use. For all my important passwords, I just randomly type letters and numbers until I have 8 to 12 characters, then capitalize some of the letters. Just jot down the password on a piece of paper that you'll keep with you., and keep it until you remember the password without help (takes me maybe a week). Burn the paper afterwards.
This ensures that you have a password no one can guess, and that would only be cracked through brute force after a few days/weeks of work (unless you don't burn the paper and someone finds it, that is). I also noticed that with this method, I tend to remember passwords a lot longer than if the password was somehow related to the machine I use it to login to. I still remember my first password made that way, from about 5 years ago for my first ISP (it was "fOe9Gm3C", but I never used it again).
I work for a local ISP here, and we had gotten a very peculiar email this week (on the 6th, I believe). The message was from someone who named himself "not mahir" at therealmahir@hotmail.com The message read (in full):
Since that came from a hotmail address, we couldn't help the guy. The site was a mirror of the "real" fake page (the one on xoom), though it now redirects to some bizarre star trek page..
Of course, the email was faked; it came from one of our pops in toronto, and the real mahir is in turkey. Still, it did make for some creepy moments when we read about his story here:)
Of those 11, 7 are working on "classified" matters. I doubt they'd be working on echelon though, but I'd very much like to know exactly what it is they are doing:)
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Perhaps you should've either got RealPlayer to test this out, or AT LEAST inspected the .ram file the server spits back. Turns out that this redirects to pnm://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/support/redirect.ra and not actually the HitchHiker's episode in question.
.ram, at least) after http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/media/ and it'll still spit back a .ram file that is just a redirect to the support site. What I'm really wondering is why it took you 2 tries to get the "good" address for the episode, as your first try should have given you the same .ram as the 2nd.
/. after all. *sigh*.
In fact, if you had bothered to test further, you would have noticed that you can type whatever you want (with extension
And of course, why the hell do people moderate these posts up without verifying the information? But hey, this is
... why SCO can even sue Linux users at this point? I mean, don't they have to actually WAIT for the court decision vs. IBM to come through before suing the users? They're basically saying "following the court decision in our favor in the case of SCO vs IBM that went to court in 2005, you owe us money". Do they have a time travel section in addition to their litigation one?
Christ, have them stop already. They haven't even been to court yet and are acting as if they won. I wonder how the courts will react to these legal proceeding against the users on the basis of a pending legal case.
Ordered some brain teasers from hotbox back on the 20th of Nov. Received an email saying we'd receive them within 2 weeks. Waited, nothing appeared. Emailed them again, they "guaranteed" that the package would be here by christmas. Needless to say, nothing at all. They apologized, said no one was working there during the holidays, and we should contact them again about it in early Jan. Won't ever be buying anything from them again, to be sure.
Ordered quake 3/linux from Loki when it was announced (early dec?). Due to a CC failure, was postponed. Provided them with correct info again 3 weeks ago. No news from them, no package. I thought they were receiving the gold master from ID before the 27th, but somehow that can't be right, as I would've had it by now.
Ordered a Dust Puppy doll and a Pitr coffee mug from userfriendly. Was made aware that it wouldn't be here for christmas. As they said, it's not, but it's for myself, so it's all good. At least they notified people that packages wouldn't likely be received before christmas prior to any orders. My best experience with online shopping to date ;)
Here's some ideas for the geeks in us:
1) A Happy Hacking Keyboard. A throwback to the Sun Type 3 keyboards, 60 keys, compatible with Macs and PCs.
2) Victorinox Cybertool. Already suggested by many of you, the ultimate pocket knife to have around for us techies.
3) Pretty much anything from thinkgeek.com. Great products, get the shooter glasses and play the unix drinking game :) Plus, they sell stuffed Tux penguins.
4) Shirts from copyleft. Great ones there.
Other nice gifts ideas from Sharper Image and Hotbox. Check out the infinity puzzle at the latter, seems very interesting.
After downloading the linux client, I emailed both the author of it and the guy behind napster, asking to know why this was without source. The author of the linux client said that napster doesn't want the protocol to be open, that they wanted to retain "full control" over the clients. After seeing a few nasty bugs in the linux client, I've decided to take action.
I've begun reversing the napster protocol in my free time, basically trying to draw up a paper about it, so people can code their own clients (improve on the already existing one; make one with a GUI; make a PHP interface to napster; etc.). I am not much of a coder, but I used to reverse dongle protections in my sleep a while back, so I'm confident this should be easy. Plus, after looking at a few straces', I can say that this shouldn't take very long.
I would like to know who would be interested in helping out. Anyone that has some details on the protocol, or anyone that is interested in coding a free, open-source napster client. Please email me at splice(at)videotron(dot)ca.
Some questions that I would like an answer to:
1) People have been mentionning this case could lead to a breakup of microsoft, microsoft being forced to release source code to their programs, or being fined. Can you see other possibilities? What do you think is the most likely outcome and why?
2) How do you see this affecting computer users at large, other companies in the field (Intel, IBM, Apple), and the future of computing in general?
Thanks for considering my questions. I feel this interview will be a very interesting read.
My preferred way to remember passwords is through their use. For all my important passwords, I just randomly type letters and numbers until I have 8 to 12 characters, then capitalize some of the letters. Just jot down the password on a piece of paper that you'll keep with you., and keep it until you remember the password without help (takes me maybe a week). Burn the paper afterwards.
This ensures that you have a password no one can guess, and that would only be cracked through brute force after a few days/weeks of work (unless you don't burn the paper and someone finds it, that is). I also noticed that with this method, I tend to remember passwords a lot longer than if the password was somehow related to the machine I use it to login to. I still remember my first password made that way, from about 5 years ago for my first ISP (it was "fOe9Gm3C", but I never used it again).
I work for a local ISP here, and we had gotten a very peculiar email this week (on the 6th, I believe). The message was from someone who named himself "not mahir" at therealmahir@hotmail.com The message read (in full):
why isn't my site working? http://204.187.137.63/mahir
Since that came from a hotmail address, we couldn't help the guy. The site was a mirror of the "real" fake page (the one on xoom), though it now redirects to some bizarre star trek page..
Of course, the email was faked; it came from one of our pops in toronto, and the real mahir is in turkey. Still, it did make for some creepy moments when we read about his story here :)
Of those 11, 7 are working on "classified" matters. I doubt they'd be working on echelon though, but I'd very much like to know exactly what it is they are doing :)