Am I the only one who thinks they didn't give nearly enough information about this exploit? Can it be used remotely? Do they already have to have at least user access to the machine? The author didn't give us any information about how it works.
I'm running the v2.0 beta3 on my dual p3 550 system and it runs great! However the sound support still leaves something to be desired. They are planning on the next beta soon with better sound, and last I heard the official v2.0 is planned for October. It won't be long.
They would actually prefer people patch their kernel with their patches and build their own kernel. It is much easier than trying to patch every distribution's kernel. But not everyone is comfortable with kernel compilation, so for ease of installation, they try to make as many distribution's kernel available in patched form.
Win4Lin has a few patches to the kernel (these are (GPL) which are just hooks to make the software work (presumably, catching interupts from Windows and whatnot). VMware does the same thing (if you install a new kernel, you have to run VMware's setup program again).
Windows does not run in kernel mode. It won't even let you run it as root. The bane of Windows stability is the cruddy drivers. Since Win4Lin has it's own driver for the hardware being emulated, it runs much better than Windows on its own machine.
Oh, don't be such a baby. It's not hard at all to return to your old kernel if you decide you don't like it. Personally, I don't think Windows deserves its own computer and I feel right at home demoting it to a little window on my Linux box. It boots up fast and runs fast. What more can you ask for?
I have recently been testing Win4Lin's 2.0 beta3, and absolutely love it! Although the main disadvantage is that it can only do Windows 9x, the main advantage is that it does so at near native speeds!!! Even on my dual PIII 550, VMware slugged along, at unreasonable speeds. You needed to have absurd resources to even run it. Win4Lin will run just fine on any Pentium class machine!!! For example, the ProcessTree client program runs a little bit faster in Windows than in Linux. And running the client in Win4Lin, is still faster running the Linux client!
And as for viruses, Windows runs within/$HOME/win. It doesn't have access to any other part of the filesystem unless you explicitly give it to it. Unlike VMware, Windows runs within the Ext2 filesystem: no repartitioning, no big honking files (unless you install VMware on a "raw" partition, you end up with one big file for a particular OS, with a 2Gb max size). That means, to transfer a file to Windows from Linux, just cp it over to your ~/win directory.
Since I don't have time/money for high powered games that require DirectX, I can now really sell my windows computer, and run MS Windows in a little window on my Linux box.
The thing I love most about open source is that it is forever. If I write some code and [insert open source license here] it, it will be there forever. People can build on it, improve it, learn from it etc...
If I write closed source code for a company, a couple of people in the company might see it. It may last until the company decides to sell that product.
I'd much rather write open source code because I feel I can really make a difference. And that difference can be felt as long as the code is worthwhile.
That's not true. I have a 486 tower I bought in 1993 with an AT power supply. That same case survived upgrades through P133 & P200MMX. You can still find AT motherboards for PII and probably PIII (haven't checked recently).
And just 2 months ago I spent $350 for a real nice server case w/ dual power supplies. I plan on using this case for at least 6 years, just upgrading the CPU & Motherboard. Throwing away a perfectly good standard just because Intel can't handle the heat is a big problem.
I highly recommend having an old computer as a firewall. The 486 will do just fine handling the load of a cable modem, and you will never even come close to maxing out the NE2000's 10Mbit speed.
As for security, I'm a big fan of portsentry and logsentry. And although I have never used Bastille Linux I've heard many good things about it.
But it is a whole lot easier to lock down and secure a firewall, than worry about what software on your desktop might expose you. You'll be glad you did.
Or, you could always secretly set up a server on that bunker in the ocean off of England. That'd be an interesting test to see how secure & secretive it really is.
What happens if DeCSS is declared legal? Will piracy run rampant? No, there are other, perhaps better ways to pirate DVD movies without DeCSS. But what will happens is any DVD player manufacturer can use the DeCSS algorithm to decode DVDs instead of paying exhorbitant amounts of money from the MPAA for a license. Also, the regional coding of DVD players would be out the window.
The MPAA would lose all control they have of the DVD format, and the money that comes with it. That's why they're fighting so strongly against this.
Why do they say it's all about piracy? Because that's what the courts understand. There are copyright laws that have been around forever, and it gets their attention. Who really thinks a judge would listen to a case about a company losing money & monopoly control because other companies that produce DVD players can get multi-regional DVD decoding for FREE!
So the next time you hear some twisted or totally false accusations, remember that this is what they're really trying to keep, and accusations of piracy is the only way to do it.
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Sitcoms are just one tragic example of the disasterous consequences of inventing the TV
Bandwidth isn't the cheapest thing in the world, especially when you're talking about large movie files.
How do you distribute your movies for free and get people to send you money for them? Easy, distribute them on Gnutella and let the little people pay for the bandwidth.
For this to really work, you need to log in as root. Then, at the root of the directory tree, type in 'rm -rf' and in a couple of minutes you'll see something totally amazing!
Disclaimer: If you are a newbie, don't try out this easter egg until you've read the man page on rm!
Anyone have any idea why a cracker would reboot your box? Just last week I came home and found my RedHat 6.2 & Mandrake 7.1beta rebooted, but my Windows box was still running fine so I know it wasn't the power. I've searched all over, but I can't find any trace of intrusion or meddling with binaries.
I'm still nervous and want to do a reinstall, but I don't know why he rebooted both Linux machines.
I was really getting tired of all the complaining about Napster/RIAA/MPAA/MS/MP3.com. It's been a while since we've had something new to really complain about. Variety has really been lacking.
But, for two hours during the movie, not once did I think about how evil Bill is. I wasn't worried about DVD decryption and how quickly our rights are disappearing. I was completely free to mock, ridicule and scorn every actor and director without being distracted.
And now, whenever I feel that RIAA has reached the absolute depths of humanity, I think back to Battlefield Earth and think, "You know, I guess RIAA isn't so bad after all."
Thanks Battlefield, you've given me a whole new perspective and outlook on life.
Microsoft must have learned a few tricks from the tobacco industries. Do you realize how many decades they got away with saying they didn't know of any proof that cigarettes cause cancer? It takes an amazing amount of gaul to lie straight-faced in court inspite of all the evidence.
There's nothing wrong with including Internet Explorer with Windows. Heck they can throw in whatever they darn well please. The problem is that MS made Internet Explorer part of the Operating System, ie they "tied it into the OS."
One thing that's nice about it is it pops up almost instantly (most of it is already running before you click on the icon). The bad thing is if IE crashes, it often takes the system down with it.
The legalities of it is that you can't remove IE from the operating system. People are stuck with it whether they want it or not. Thus, they force people to have IE and all of its bugs/instability problems.
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Disclaimer: I hate sales taxes more than the next guy. Heck, I live in Oregon and love the fact that I don't have to pay sales tax (however, I can't pump my own gas, which I'm rather bitter about).
But there is a slight flaw in your logic. Sure, someone on welfare pays the same sales tax on the same pair of shoes as the millionaire. But over the course of the year, who do you think pays more sales tax? The person who buys the most, and I would guess that would be the millionaire. They tax you based on how much you spend.
The thing that I'm bitter about is being taxed on my income, and then taxed again when I spend what's left. They get you both coming and going.
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There is no reason to give the state government an excessive amount of our money. If you give them $100 billion, they'll spend the money on any half-baked idea that comes their way and still come up short. If they have plenty, they won't think twice about spending your hard earned money.
Keep their budgets tight. Make them use your money carefully. Give them enough to get the important things taken care of and let the people who earned it keep the rest.
I say, go ahead. Charge us, screw us over! Tie both hands behind our backs so we can't do what we want with what we rightfully purchased.
I don't think it will take very long for people to realize what they've done and refuse to use their software any more.
Considering the rate of improvement of Linux: the ease of use, software availability, and stability, we will be in the perfect position to welcome with open the millions of people seeking computer freedom.
Microsoft wanted this law to prevent people from sharing Win95/98/2000 with their friends (or enemies). Everyone knows there hasn't been a virus unleashed yet that can compare to the damage caused by these viruses.
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I saw it too. I wanted to go back and read it and found this article instead. Weird.
Worthless.
I'm running the v2.0 beta3 on my dual p3 550 system and it runs great! However the sound support still leaves something to be desired. They are planning on the next beta soon with better sound, and last I heard the official v2.0 is planned for October. It won't be long.
They would actually prefer people patch their kernel with their patches and build their own kernel. It is much easier than trying to patch every distribution's kernel. But not everyone is comfortable with kernel compilation, so for ease of installation, they try to make as many distribution's kernel available in patched form.
Windows does not run in kernel mode. It won't even let you run it as root. The bane of Windows stability is the cruddy drivers. Since Win4Lin has it's own driver for the hardware being emulated, it runs much better than Windows on its own machine.
Oh, don't be such a baby. It's not hard at all to return to your old kernel if you decide you don't like it. Personally, I don't think Windows deserves its own computer and I feel right at home demoting it to a little window on my Linux box. It boots up fast and runs fast. What more can you ask for?
Win4Lin won't let you run it as root, it must be a regular user.
And as for viruses, Windows runs within /$HOME/win. It doesn't have access to any other part of the filesystem unless you explicitly give it to it. Unlike VMware, Windows runs within the Ext2 filesystem: no repartitioning, no big honking files (unless you install VMware on a "raw" partition, you end up with one big file for a particular OS, with a 2Gb max size). That means, to transfer a file to Windows from Linux, just cp it over to your ~/win directory.
Since I don't have time/money for high powered games that require DirectX, I can now really sell my windows computer, and run MS Windows in a little window on my Linux box.
If I write closed source code for a company, a couple of people in the company might see it. It may last until the company decides to sell that product.
I'd much rather write open source code because I feel I can really make a difference. And that difference can be felt as long as the code is worthwhile.
And just 2 months ago I spent $350 for a real nice server case w/ dual power supplies. I plan on using this case for at least 6 years, just upgrading the CPU & Motherboard. Throwing away a perfectly good standard just because Intel can't handle the heat is a big problem.
As for security, I'm a big fan of portsentry and logsentry. And although I have never used Bastille Linux I've heard many good things about it.
But it is a whole lot easier to lock down and secure a firewall, than worry about what software on your desktop might expose you. You'll be glad you did.
Or, you could always secretly set up a server on that bunker in the ocean off of England. That'd be an interesting test to see how secure & secretive it really is.
The MPAA would lose all control they have of the DVD format, and the money that comes with it. That's why they're fighting so strongly against this.
Why do they say it's all about piracy? Because that's what the courts understand. There are copyright laws that have been around forever, and it gets their attention. Who really thinks a judge would listen to a case about a company losing money & monopoly control because other companies that produce DVD players can get multi-regional DVD decoding for FREE!
So the next time you hear some twisted or totally false accusations, remember that this is what they're really trying to keep, and accusations of piracy is the only way to do it.
Sitcoms are just one tragic example of the disasterous consequences of inventing the TV
How do you distribute your movies for free and get people to send you money for them? Easy, distribute them on Gnutella and let the little people pay for the bandwidth.
What could be better?
Disclaimer: If you are a newbie, don't try out this easter egg until you've read the man page on rm!
I'm still nervous and want to do a reinstall, but I don't know why he rebooted both Linux machines.
I was really getting tired of all the complaining about Napster/RIAA/MPAA/MS/MP3.com. It's been a while since we've had something new to really complain about. Variety has really been lacking.
But, for two hours during the movie, not once did I think about how evil Bill is. I wasn't worried about DVD decryption and how quickly our rights are disappearing. I was completely free to mock, ridicule and scorn every actor and director without being distracted.
And now, whenever I feel that RIAA has reached the absolute depths of humanity, I think back to Battlefield Earth and think, "You know, I guess RIAA isn't so bad after all."
Thanks Battlefield, you've given me a whole new perspective and outlook on life.
I'm not sure if that's impressive or scary.
One thing that's nice about it is it pops up almost instantly (most of it is already running before you click on the icon). The bad thing is if IE crashes, it often takes the system down with it.
The legalities of it is that you can't remove IE from the operating system. People are stuck with it whether they want it or not. Thus, they force people to have IE and all of its bugs/instability problems.
But there is a slight flaw in your logic. Sure, someone on welfare pays the same sales tax on the same pair of shoes as the millionaire. But over the course of the year, who do you think pays more sales tax? The person who buys the most, and I would guess that would be the millionaire. They tax you based on how much you spend.
The thing that I'm bitter about is being taxed on my income, and then taxed again when I spend what's left. They get you both coming and going.
Keep their budgets tight. Make them use your money carefully. Give them enough to get the important things taken care of and let the people who earned it keep the rest.
I don't think it will take very long for people to realize what they've done and refuse to use their software any more.
Considering the rate of improvement of Linux: the ease of use, software availability, and stability, we will be in the perfect position to welcome with open the millions of people seeking computer freedom.
Microsoft wanted this law to prevent people from sharing Win95/98/2000 with their friends (or enemies). Everyone knows there hasn't been a virus unleashed yet that can compare to the damage caused by these viruses.