Psychopaths are treated like they have a disease, but in truth they're the next step of evolution.
You have just expostulated the Hitler hypothesis, however more modern thinking is starting to see things from a gentler and more humanistic point of view. Read Eric Fromm's Abnormal Psychology series and then after you get over the depression factor go on to read his little book The Art Of Loving.
Socially it all comes down to that one human trait that is not quantifiable or indeed understood, compassion and the intelligence to see beyond and suspend that which drives humans to act in a violent manner. A manipulative individual can quite often, through their desire for dominance, cause groups to act without intelligence and this is the essence of the collective psychotic behavior that is war. The collective population of Germany without a doubt acted in this group induced psychosis where compassion can be suspended as well as the intellect. Even though many will scoff at using a biblical reference about this, the wisdom of these words are still a universal truth and delve deeply into the psychological problems facing the entire human race
"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment"
You're only making me STRONGER each time you fools bogusly downmod my posts on hosts (you know that, don't you?) & yet you can't offer ANY valid technical critique vs. my points
... apk
It wasn't me that down-modded you, but holy crap how long did it take you to enter all the bees,
How soon people forget there are still all sorts of places to get modified Windows toolbars and shit ass apps like bear share and the likes for free and most of them hose you and phone home to momma. Most likely it is the same crowd of assholes that are modding Android apps and including phone home features that did shit like bear share and all the other Windows crapware back in the 90's. I just wonder how many of the gambling and porn sites are distributing free shit apps for Android, most likely about the same number that include iPhone, iPad and Windows apps on their sites.
As long as there are ponzi scams like Linkbucks and largely Mafia run gaming and porn sites happening on the net you will have shitty apps that phone home or redirect. It is no surprise that they are targeting Android. Again it comes down to if the original source is not available DON'T TRUST IT and this includes any app that is free to use regardless of the OS. ESPECIALLY good apps that have been modified and redistributed by someone else and do not match the checksum of the original binary.
It is not that these assholes that write phone home apps don't still write crap for Windows, it is just that they are going after a much larger audience when they target Android devices. Google does need to get proactive and dump the bullshit apps from their store though.
Microsoft seems to be learning the lesson but because they are starting to really fall behind in the consumer device market we will not see many shit apps for Windows phone or RT. Naturally this does not mean that all the shit apps for x86 will disappear it is just that fewer and fewer older Windows devices are using the net and and the scamware writers are trying desperately to catch up with the usage curve which has swung decidedly toward Android. Last but not least most users have over the years been scared away from installing free apps off net on Windows and there is damn good reason for it! Crapware is a plague and the only answer is to expose the apps and remove them from the net if possible.
I have a friend that frequents gaming sites and regularly complains about how shitty his high end i5 laptop with Win7 runs, but the guy just does not understand how malicious the spyware from gaming sites can be. He even has tool bars with activeX which are installed for his gaming sites. I warn him but he just does not get it, but then again I would say he is addicted to gambling so perhaps he is having trouble seeing through his WINDOWS with the rose coloured glasses he wears.
The biggest issue for a Lenovo or Samsung isn't Linux hardware support, it's the nightmare of customer support on Gnome3, and the coming X-to-wayland transition clusterfuck that drops next year.
On the contrary the apps that work on Gnome will all work on XFCE or for that matter KDE or LDXE or Enlightenment or whatever....YOU DO NOT have to install the full Gnome DE just the primary libs. This is why Linux just work because the truth is you can do what you want with the desktop environments.
This mythological bullshit that is spread by morons that Linux is not ready for the desktop is always written by those who do not have a frigging clue about how it works and why it works. FOR instance I can run a music notation program called rosegarden without a hickup in any desktop environment I frigging well chose. AND ROSEGARDEN is a QT based program. If I have the correct GTK libs installed I can run all sorts of other stuff that runs on GNOME without a hickup.
Stop all the fud and bullshit once and for all you guys it is about to be exposed for what it really is BULLSHIT. Just try a full install of Knoppix and see what is possible, hell I don't give a rats ass if it does not have Firefox installed directly, I can just download the latest build and run it directly from my home directory and not even install it to USR in the first place. AND THIS IS why Linux will catch on eventually because more and more people are starting to look past the FUD AND BULLSHIT being spread around about Linux software and the very advanced and complete desktops that are available.
And at $1,250, overpriced. And of course they can then point to poor sales as to why they only sell Windows laptops / tablets at a reasonable price.
It comes with one year support with the option of extending the support. Perhaps this is why Dell is trying out the market with Linux. It is billed as a developer device so one would think that the specs are for those who run and compile software not exactly your average joe consumer. If you notice the price is slightly lower than a comparable Mac Book PRO. The only difference is the screen res as Mac Books have a Retina Display, whatever the hell that is LOL. So this is not designed to be sold in the box stores. If it takes off then perhaps a cheaper line of consumer Linux option laptops might show up. Somehow I don't think Dell is going to dabble in the Chromebook market the way Samsung does.
There is another thought, perhaps Dell is doing this to piss off Microsoft again, every time they have offered a Linux or no os option in the past all of a sudden they get a quick visit from the men in black from Redmond and POOF the line gets axed. The other thought is the reason why they have chosen Ubuntu this time around is because a stock Ubuntu need to be tweeked to do certain file formats and in selling Ubuntu in a stock format the goons from the MPEGLA cannot come after them, even if Microshaft comes knocking about fat and ntfs patents perhaps they will just turn around and sick them on Shuttleworth this time around instead of just dumping the Linux line like they did with their RedHat option laptops and desktops in the past.
Considering that Dell already got cash from Redmond, perhaps they are trying to squeeze a little more cheese out of MS. Either way I do not expect them to actually aggressively market an alternative OS, they like all the other manufactures just kowtow to the almighty Windows, always have and I doubt they actually have the balls as a corporation to break the free from the OS monopoly.
I'm not sure what you require for high specs, but System76 has some decent 'gaming class' laptops that might fit the bill. Their Bonobo 17" maxed out a pretty decent machine, though quite heavy for a laptop.
I am hoping that the newer chips next year will will sip power in laptop form and get battery times up over 10 hours like a tablet can. Unfortunately the gaming type of laptops being made right now, though powerful enough to do everything I do are still power hungry and heavy as a brick. The Broadwell specs are incredible however especially for laptops and with a good 6-9 cell battery should easily out distance anything on the market today for performance and battery times. I currently get 5 hours out of an aftermarket 9 cell add on on this old T42 which is still better than most high end laptops with i5s and i7s.
[...] the old IBM T42 non-pae clunker that I am writing this on is still very usable
Out of curiosity, which distro do you run on that machine? I'm asking this question because distros that do not have PAE as a requirements are rare birds, so to speak.
Mint but not current, but Slackware current can run it and so can Knoppix. You just have to chose the right kernel options.
Considering that the 14NM Broadwell chips are not scheduled to ship till the second quarter of 2014. With support for power saving per component coming along it looks like using the Linux kernel on laptops will also be much more inviting. It is all well and good that the advances in the kernel hardware support are keeping pace with what Microsoft is doing. I am still eagerly awaiting a great high end powerhouse Linux laptop. As it is the old IBM T42 non-pae clunker that I am writing this on is still very usable but if a company ever finally does ship an OS agnostic laptop with high specs I will jump at the chance.
The temperatures in hell are dropping but I am not going to hold my breath as Windows still holds the retailers and manufacturers by the balls to say the least. However with both Intel and AMD actively supporting the Linux kernel this quickly for their most important product lines perhaps a manufacturer like Samsung or Lenovo might actually try to market a real full blown Linux based device for a change instead of just dabbling in Android consumer craptronic devices.
the fundamental thing they're missing is that computers are perfect in their instruction execution, there will be more 'human like' AI when you have a system that doesn't always get the correct answer, forgets and deliberately ignores instructions.
Microsoft already patented these capabilities.
Wtf? Now I've been duped, better watch out Slashdot has a patent on that feature already.
the fundamental thing they're missing is that computers are perfect in their instruction execution, there will be more 'human like' AI when you have a system that doesn't always get the correct answer, forgets and deliberately ignores instructions.
the fundamental thing they're missing is that computers are perfect in their instruction execution, there will be more 'human like' AI when you have a system that doesn't always get the correct answer, forgets and deliberately ignores instructions.
Here here! There will always be Anonymous twitwad morons who will jump to conclusions especially when it comes to bashing Google regardless of the facts. If Google are seen to be fighting for fair use then they must be doing something nefarious. I have even seen claims here that Google must have bought out the judge! NOTICE that the fuckwads posting the fud are all anon cowards. NOW when Slashdot posts an article about what the Rockstar consortium is up to the same fuckwads come out of the wood works with their UID full on defending the patent troll attacks on Google.
The very same crowd of morons hammer away at Engadget and other sites like CNET. I have been watching their posts and some are obviously doing it on a full time basis. There are only 4 or 5 of them but they are easy to identify to say the least because they are stupid enough to cut and paste the same comments between the sites!
You are using the term "patent troll" to mean anyone who is enforcing their patent rights, correct?
It is not real patents that are being used as cash cows here. Consider if an industry relies upon a standard for data storage in the form of a file system like fat and ntfs. It is crazy that a single implementation of a broad concept like a storage file system can be used to extort those who create all digital devices. NO MICROSOFT is not creating anything here they are simply manipulating markets through the dominance of their OS products. Same way that the anyone who wanted to start up a steel making factory in the US had to face artificial equipment and raw material supply constraints placed upon them by US Steel. Exactly the same way anyone who wanted to distribute fuel oil and petroleum products had to face the same production and material constraints artificially manipulated by Standard Oil.
Microsoft has used their operating system monopoly in exactly the same way and has become the troll at the bridge of the digital divide and needs to be shot down as a non competitive and economic disruptive monopoly once and for all! At least the titans of industry like Ford regardless of how much of a closet Nazi the jerk was, actually paid people to do real work and did not just sit back and live off their bullshit "intellectual property" the way Gates and Ballmer do.
Now if they absorb the Blackberry patents they will be unstoppable in the mobile highway patent troll robbery market. Hell people will not even notice if they become the worlds largest patent troll, seems that they are much better at that than actually creating software. Unusual bedfellows Apple and Microsoft?
Microsoft's so called "IP" is being more valuable than their actual production of software. Microsoft is becoming little more than a huge IP and patent troll firm that has managed with their operating system monopoly, to bully the hell out of everybody including the Government of the US and companies like Apple and Sony into going along with the IP value bullshit.
It was Microsoft and others that created this situation. This overvaluation of IP is to a large extent responsible for the complete devaluation of the US economy and the rabid denuding of the core of the very economy, which was the skilled and diverse middle class work force within the US.
IDEAS are cheap the implementation of ideas is where value is added. If we do not change the patent system soon the economy of the US will completely collapse under the burden of paying for overvalued so called Intellectual Property Values. It distorts and corrupts the very core of an economy.
The English realized the folly of the Royal Monopolies and how they were strangling trade and enterprise, Queen Elizabeth the first in her latter years finally began to see the value of the small shop keeper, wine merchant and candle maker. The modern day Lords of IP like Microsoft and other need to be brought down a notch and the economy will blossom as a direct result of their dismemberment, the same way the break up of Standard Oil and US Steel did.
Combine these barges with tethered balloons and presto you have one hell of a great ground plane for a wifi and high speed phone communication tower device that can sit in any harbor. Bring it up the Mississippi and you can cover most of the central US. Put a few on the Great Lakes and boom you cover huge populations in both Canada and the US. Put smaller versions of the same thing in strategic places and you can have a North American wide network that is not dependent upon the telcos or the cable companies like commie cast and the likes.
The first ones logically will be experimental but my bet is Google has already done all the logistics and it will just work. Que the anti Google lobbying in Washington and why the hell else would Microsoft be so hot to sponsor Rockstar right now to take out the Android platform with patent lawsuits unless they knew that Google was about to change the game? My bet is also that these barges will double as data centers using HP tech Moonshot servers so that the power consumption will make them viable as well. Notice also that HP, Oracle and IBM are conspicuously absent from the blood hungry zombie list of of contributors to the Rockstar patent troll consortium. Though I doubt very much that there is any love between Oracle and Google considering Oracle's failed attempts to torpedo Android. I just wonder how much Microsoft and Apple were involved in the original move to push Oracle into a law suit against Google.
This guy might say that the Annunaki are behind the Google barges but floating showrooms are about as sensible an explanation as using these barges for that purpose. It has to be something revolutionary otherwise Google would have leaked it already.
The choice of these companies makes it obvious that it is not an asp.net fix. Being from Canada I have no idea what front end the site is using in the first place. But if it is not a based upon Microsoft style asp.net in the first place then you can bet that the choice of who gets government contracts will be effected in the future.
Here in Canada the government has completely sold out to Microsoft and in some cases if you need to access government services on the net it is all coded in asp.net especially the revenue Canada sites where you do your taxes. I find it hard to believe that a Microsoft software based contractor did not get the original site contracts in the USA in the first place. Again if the site is not fixed on time then you can bet Redmond will have a PR field day with this one, if it is Google, Oracle, and Red Hat fixing asp.net code then Microsoft is in real trouble to say the least. MORE ACCURATE DETAILS of what happened in the first place to the site and who coded it would help here Slashdot!
No if he worked for CGI Federal he would have come up with a killer powerpoint presentation of the.gov site gui with no code used whatsoever! The actual code would then be quickly concocted to actually put a web site front end on the web, whether or not the actual code does anything is the least part of the problem. So if the compiler/interpreters on the server eats it without warning this is a software feature not a bug. If the site was coded in Coco then I am certain the tech doing the coding would tell the users that they were "clicking on the buttons wrong!"
Probably true, though I'm surprised anyone these days has even heard of Ada. Must be an older moderator, but one who thinks anything he doesn't agree with should be modded down. Better if you'd said safety critical software should be written in Ruby or something.
There are many things I like about Ada, but even the military has given up on it. The F-22 software was written in Ada, but the F-35 software is written in C++. Hmm, considering how the F-35 project is going, maybe they should bring back Ada.
How the heck could they sell Harper and his cronies on a project that actually had costs that went down instead of up?
Are you kidding the project would no longer meet Canadian milspec same as the used submarines that cost more to refit than build new!
<quote>Sounds great, looks great, but the price is the most important piece of information here and I don't see it. If it's as affordable as a Nexus 7, it's quite interesting. Priced at parity with ipad like Surface? Not nearly as interesting. Anyone know what the price is?</quote>
The LTE version will be an AT&T exclusive so I do not think the price point is a retail concern for Nokia. What I see happening is they are going to try the BlackBerry method and include it on contract. What I see happening before Christmas is an AT&T heavily advertised add campaign with a tablet phone combo package deal on a two year contract for close to the price of a single iPhone contract. The win8 phone sales are the key to this device and a package deal of tablet and phone could be really attractive. You can bet that the phone and tablet will sync instantly with content and contacts.
Here in Canada it is almost impossible to use two devices on the same contract but if MicroNokia is really smart they might have convinced AT&T with gobs of subsidy to do the deed. Essentially the North American launch is the one to watch here and it will most likely happen within the next few weeks to get in on the Christmas crunch season that the original Win8 RT launch botched terribly.
I suspect that Microsoft has learned their lesson this time around and setup Nokia to do what they failed to do in the first place with Surface products and Windows Phone 8. This is most likely the strategy because if they do not coerce a major carrier then their tablet LTE launch will not take off in any serious way. The packages will most likely be well under 200 dollars on a 2 year contract. This is the only launch strategy that makes any sense with this device as it will bomb in the stores because Nokia is not a known tablet device and consumers will just look at it and the Mac brushed metal sales crowd will poo hoo it big time and call it plastic crap like they do with Samsung, LG and Surface products.
<quote><p>But all I want to know is, will sudo rm -rf / delete the internet?</p></quote>
<p>No but sudo rm -rf \ will!</p></quote>
<p>\ is the escape sequence. / is the root directory. The GP had it right. rm -rf / will delete the internet.</p></quote>
<p> All this sounds rather fishy to me.</p><p> ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ | <°)))>< | <°)))>< <°)))>< | | ¿ >°)))>< </p><p> You see it took the fish hook out, pecked out the fishes eyes and told me that I was using junk characters and then you wounder why the hell the internet is so screwed up? Heck even slashdot cannot read simple ascii2 and convert it correctly, how can you expect a Linux user to understand any of this shit, good coding my arse! Kaboom!!!
To fully access the data stack from eth0 or wlan0 you need to run wireshark as root otherwise your trace will not be complete.
Nope.
For one thing, Wireshark shouldn't be accessing the network interfaces, it should be asking the dumpcap program, which is one of the components of Wireshark, to do so. To quote Wireshark's README.packaging file:
WIRESHARK CONTAINS OVER TWO MILLION LINES OF SOURCE CODE. DO NOT RUN THEM AS ROOT.
For another thing, the README.packaging document (in the "Privileges" section, which contains that rather emphatic quote), and the CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges page in the Wireshark Wiki, discuss ways in which you can avoid even running dumpcap as root - it may need additional privileges, but not full root privileges.
All packet sniffers technically need to have root to be effective on any Unix like system.
Nope. See the above documents and the main libpcap man page (following "Reading packets from a network interface may require that you have special privileges:"). That's what the ChmodBPF script installed by Wireshark on OS X does; see the "Under BSD (this includes Mac OS X)" section - it does the "some other way to make that happen at boot time".
This message was not sent from an iPhone because Peter Sellers really was a deviated prevert without a dime for the call
Presumably he had to answer to the Coca-Cola company for that?
Ok Thanks I am running the older version LOL
$ wireshark --version
wireshark 1.4.6
Copyright 1998-2011 Gerald Combs and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled (32-bit) with GTK+ 2.24.4, with GLib 2.28.6, with libpcap 1.1.1, with
libz 1.2.3.4, with POSIX capabilities (Linux), without libpcre, with SMI 0.4.8,
with c-ares 1.7.3, with Lua 5.1, without Python, with GnuTLS 2.8.6, with Gcrypt
1.4.6, with MIT Kerberos, with GeoIP, with PortAudio V19-devel (built Mar 18
2011 15:44:36), without AirPcap.
Running on Linux 2.6.38-8-generic, with libpcap version 1.1.1, with libz
1.2.3.4, GnuTLS 2.8.6, Gcrypt 1.4.6.
Built using gcc 4.5.2.
~ $
Guess I should upgrade and RTFM. I only use it when doing single traces though so the chances of leaving something open and being hacked while using it are almost zero, I do not run it as a process on the server only as a tracking mechanism if something gets hacked and then only on a the old laptop that I use for diagnostics. I should set it up as a service though if I can figure out an effective way to keep the log sizes down to specific info instead of a verbose as hell text file! Would be great if the files it created could be time stamped and compressed by wireshark itself on the fly as it logs. I tried setting up a cron with a shell script to do that but could not get it to spawn an output text log. Guess I should hone up my bash skills and do some more RTFM. Hopefully wireshark can use automated scripts to setup logging with a cron job without running a the gui something like the way I run vlc nox.
I don't use software that chmods or chown mydirectories. Wireshark has done so. Citation? Look it up. Wireshark sucks.
To fully access the data stack from eth0 or wlan0 you need to run wireshark as root otherwise your trace will not be complete. The result is that the files created by wireshark then are owned by # not $
All packet sniffers technically need to have root to be effective on any Unix like system. All you have to do is chown the output files and you can edit and delete them to your hearts content. Technically wireshark does not change the ownership of any directories but only inherits root because it is run as root so any directories or files that it creates are the property of root.
Wireshark is a great tool but it requires higher privilege to do the job it does. For a core logging piece of software it is very good and does not eat up resources like other ones that I have run over the years. One thing though if you turn down the verbosity level of the output so that it does less prefixing it sure helps to keep the output file size down, the default output is a little too verbose and includes too much unneeded spacing and device descriptions at all the start and stop requests. Sometimes if you are tracking a malicious web site bounce pattern it is nice to not have to wade through 30-40 meg of text data just to see a few dozen server hops!
A few weeks back tracking down a simple vbulletin hacked to do linkbucks scam site bounces created over 60 meg of data that I had to search through for the offending server sites, thank heavens for the line numbering capabilities and search features in Kate!
The use of Wireshark without a doubt helps keep servers clear of these assholes if it wasn't for a crowd of people tracking the linkbucks malware slinging assholes down and getting them kicked off servers using MS Windows on the net would be down right impossible.
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Psychopaths are treated like they have a disease, but in truth they're the next step of evolution.
You have just expostulated the Hitler hypothesis, however more modern thinking is starting to see things from a gentler and more humanistic point of view. Read Eric Fromm's Abnormal Psychology series and then after you get over the depression factor go on to read his little book The Art Of Loving.
Socially it all comes down to that one human trait that is not quantifiable or indeed understood, compassion and the intelligence to see beyond and suspend that which drives humans to act in a violent manner. A manipulative individual can quite often, through their desire for dominance, cause groups to act without intelligence and this is the essence of the collective psychotic behavior that is war. The collective population of Germany without a doubt acted in this group induced psychosis where compassion can be suspended as well as the intellect. Even though many will scoff at using a biblical reference about this, the wisdom of these words are still a universal truth and delve deeply into the psychological problems facing the entire human race
"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment"
You're only making me STRONGER each time you fools bogusly downmod my posts on hosts (you know that, don't you?) & yet you can't offer ANY valid technical critique vs. my points
... apk
It wasn't me that down-modded you, but holy crap how long did it take you to enter all the bees,
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I commend you sir for being the most imaginative anon coward I have ever had the privilege of responding to on Slashdot!
If you have a blog please post a link as I find deciphering html from hell to be an absolute blast.
Best wishes, look on the bright side of things. There might be a job for you at healthcare.gov designing secure phone apps that modify etc/hosts!
How soon people forget there are still all sorts of places to get modified Windows toolbars and shit ass apps like bear share and the likes for free and most of them hose you and phone home to momma. Most likely it is the same crowd of assholes that are modding Android apps and including phone home features that did shit like bear share and all the other Windows crapware back in the 90's. I just wonder how many of the gambling and porn sites are distributing free shit apps for Android, most likely about the same number that include iPhone, iPad and Windows apps on their sites.
As long as there are ponzi scams like Linkbucks and largely Mafia run gaming and porn sites happening on the net you will have shitty apps that phone home or redirect. It is no surprise that they are targeting Android. Again it comes down to if the original source is not available DON'T TRUST IT and this includes any app that is free to use regardless of the OS. ESPECIALLY good apps that have been modified and redistributed by someone else and do not match the checksum of the original binary.
It is not that these assholes that write phone home apps don't still write crap for Windows, it is just that they are going after a much larger audience when they target Android devices. Google does need to get proactive and dump the bullshit apps from their store though.
Microsoft seems to be learning the lesson but because they are starting to really fall behind in the consumer device market we will not see many shit apps for Windows phone or RT. Naturally this does not mean that all the shit apps for x86 will disappear it is just that fewer and fewer older Windows devices are using the net and and the scamware writers are trying desperately to catch up with the usage curve which has swung decidedly toward Android. Last but not least most users have over the years been scared away from installing free apps off net on Windows and there is damn good reason for it! Crapware is a plague and the only answer is to expose the apps and remove them from the net if possible.
I have a friend that frequents gaming sites and regularly complains about how shitty his high end i5 laptop with Win7 runs, but the guy just does not understand how malicious the spyware from gaming sites can be. He even has tool bars with activeX which are installed for his gaming sites. I warn him but he just does not get it, but then again I would say he is addicted to gambling so perhaps he is having trouble seeing through his WINDOWS with the rose coloured glasses he wears.
The biggest issue for a Lenovo or Samsung isn't Linux hardware support, it's the nightmare of customer support on Gnome3, and the coming X-to-wayland transition clusterfuck that drops next year.
On the contrary the apps that work on Gnome will all work on XFCE or for that matter KDE or LDXE or Enlightenment or whatever ....YOU DO NOT have to install the full Gnome DE just the primary libs. This is why Linux just work because the truth is you can do what you want with the desktop environments.
This mythological bullshit that is spread by morons that Linux is not ready for the desktop is always written by those who do not have a frigging clue about how it works and why it works. FOR instance I can run a music notation program called rosegarden without a hickup in any desktop environment I frigging well chose. AND ROSEGARDEN is a QT based program. If I have the correct GTK libs installed I can run all sorts of other stuff that runs on GNOME without a hickup.
Stop all the fud and bullshit once and for all you guys it is about to be exposed for what it really is BULLSHIT. Just try a full install of Knoppix and see what is possible, hell I don't give a rats ass if it does not have Firefox installed directly, I can just download the latest build and run it directly from my home directory and not even install it to USR in the first place. AND THIS IS why Linux will catch on eventually because more and more people are starting to look past the FUD AND BULLSHIT being spread around about Linux software and the very advanced and complete desktops that are available.
And at $1,250, overpriced. And of course they can then point to poor sales as to why they only sell Windows laptops / tablets at a reasonable price.
It comes with one year support with the option of extending the support. Perhaps this is why Dell is trying out the market with Linux. It is billed as a developer device so one would think that the specs are for those who run and compile software not exactly your average joe consumer. If you notice the price is slightly lower than a comparable Mac Book PRO. The only difference is the screen res as Mac Books have a Retina Display, whatever the hell that is LOL. So this is not designed to be sold in the box stores. If it takes off then perhaps a cheaper line of consumer Linux option laptops might show up. Somehow I don't think Dell is going to dabble in the Chromebook market the way Samsung does.
There is another thought, perhaps Dell is doing this to piss off Microsoft again, every time they have offered a Linux or no os option in the past all of a sudden they get a quick visit from the men in black from Redmond and POOF the line gets axed. The other thought is the reason why they have chosen Ubuntu this time around is because a stock Ubuntu need to be tweeked to do certain file formats and in selling Ubuntu in a stock format the goons from the MPEGLA cannot come after them, even if Microshaft comes knocking about fat and ntfs patents perhaps they will just turn around and sick them on Shuttleworth this time around instead of just dumping the Linux line like they did with their RedHat option laptops and desktops in the past.
Considering that Dell already got cash from Redmond, perhaps they are trying to squeeze a little more cheese out of MS. Either way I do not expect them to actually aggressively market an alternative OS, they like all the other manufactures just kowtow to the almighty Windows, always have and I doubt they actually have the balls as a corporation to break the free from the OS monopoly.
I'm not sure what you require for high specs, but System76 has some decent 'gaming class' laptops that might fit the bill. Their Bonobo 17" maxed out a pretty decent machine, though quite heavy for a laptop.
I am hoping that the newer chips next year will will sip power in laptop form and get battery times up over 10 hours like a tablet can. Unfortunately the gaming type of laptops being made right now, though powerful enough to do everything I do are still power hungry and heavy as a brick. The Broadwell specs are incredible however especially for laptops and with a good 6-9 cell battery should easily out distance anything on the market today for performance and battery times. I currently get 5 hours out of an aftermarket 9 cell add on on this old T42 which is still better than most high end laptops with i5s and i7s.
[...] the old IBM T42 non-pae clunker that I am writing this on is still very usable
Out of curiosity, which distro do you run on that machine? I'm asking this question because distros that do not have PAE as a requirements are rare birds, so to speak.
Mint but not current, but Slackware current can run it and so can Knoppix. You just have to chose the right kernel options.
The temperatures in hell are dropping but I am not going to hold my breath as Windows still holds the retailers and manufacturers by the balls to say the least. However with both Intel and AMD actively supporting the Linux kernel this quickly for their most important product lines perhaps a manufacturer like Samsung or Lenovo might actually try to market a real full blown Linux based device for a change instead of just dabbling in Android consumer craptronic devices.
the fundamental thing they're missing is that computers are perfect in their instruction execution, there will be more 'human like' AI when you have a system that doesn't always get the correct answer, forgets and deliberately ignores instructions.
Microsoft already patented these capabilities.
Wtf? Now I've been duped, better watch out Slashdot has a patent on that feature already.
the fundamental thing they're missing is that computers are perfect in their instruction execution, there will be more 'human like' AI when you have a system that doesn't always get the correct answer, forgets and deliberately ignores instructions.
Microsoft already patented these capabilities.
the fundamental thing they're missing is that computers are perfect in their instruction execution, there will be more 'human like' AI when you have a system that doesn't always get the correct answer, forgets and deliberately ignores instructions.
Microsoft has already patented these abilities.
Google bought every single copy they scanned.
They own those books.
Here here! There will always be Anonymous twitwad morons who will jump to conclusions especially when it comes to bashing Google regardless of the facts. If Google are seen to be fighting for fair use then they must be doing something nefarious. I have even seen claims here that Google must have bought out the judge! NOTICE that the fuckwads posting the fud are all anon cowards. NOW when Slashdot posts an article about what the Rockstar consortium is up to the same fuckwads come out of the wood works with their UID full on defending the patent troll attacks on Google.
The very same crowd of morons hammer away at Engadget and other sites like CNET. I have been watching their posts and some are obviously doing it on a full time basis. There are only 4 or 5 of them but they are easy to identify to say the least because they are stupid enough to cut and paste the same comments between the sites!
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You are using the term "patent troll" to mean anyone who is enforcing their patent rights, correct?
It is not real patents that are being used as cash cows here. Consider if an industry relies upon a standard for data storage in the form of a file system like fat and ntfs. It is crazy that a single implementation of a broad concept like a storage file system can be used to extort those who create all digital devices. NO MICROSOFT is not creating anything here they are simply manipulating markets through the dominance of their OS products. Same way that the anyone who wanted to start up a steel making factory in the US had to face artificial equipment and raw material supply constraints placed upon them by US Steel. Exactly the same way anyone who wanted to distribute fuel oil and petroleum products had to face the same production and material constraints artificially manipulated by Standard Oil.
Microsoft has used their operating system monopoly in exactly the same way and has become the troll at the bridge of the digital divide and needs to be shot down as a non competitive and economic disruptive monopoly once and for all! At least the titans of industry like Ford regardless of how much of a closet Nazi the jerk was, actually paid people to do real work and did not just sit back and live off their bullshit "intellectual property" the way Gates and Ballmer do.
Microsoft's so called "IP" is being more valuable than their actual production of software. Microsoft is becoming little more than a huge IP and patent troll firm that has managed with their operating system monopoly, to bully the hell out of everybody including the Government of the US and companies like Apple and Sony into going along with the IP value bullshit.
It was Microsoft and others that created this situation. This overvaluation of IP is to a large extent responsible for the complete devaluation of the US economy and the rabid denuding of the core of the very economy, which was the skilled and diverse middle class work force within the US.
IDEAS are cheap the implementation of ideas is where value is added. If we do not change the patent system soon the economy of the US will completely collapse under the burden of paying for overvalued so called Intellectual Property Values. It distorts and corrupts the very core of an economy.
The English realized the folly of the Royal Monopolies and how they were strangling trade and enterprise, Queen Elizabeth the first in her latter years finally began to see the value of the small shop keeper, wine merchant and candle maker. The modern day Lords of IP like Microsoft and other need to be brought down a notch and the economy will blossom as a direct result of their dismemberment, the same way the break up of Standard Oil and US Steel did.
The first ones logically will be experimental but my bet is Google has already done all the logistics and it will just work. Que the anti Google lobbying in Washington and why the hell else would Microsoft be so hot to sponsor Rockstar right now to take out the Android platform with patent lawsuits unless they knew that Google was about to change the game? My bet is also that these barges will double as data centers using HP tech Moonshot servers so that the power consumption will make them viable as well. Notice also that HP, Oracle and IBM are conspicuously absent from the blood hungry zombie list of of contributors to the Rockstar patent troll consortium. Though I doubt very much that there is any love between Oracle and Google considering Oracle's failed attempts to torpedo Android. I just wonder how much Microsoft and Apple were involved in the original move to push Oracle into a law suit against Google.
This guy might say that the Annunaki are behind the Google barges but floating showrooms are about as sensible an explanation as using these barges for that purpose. It has to be something revolutionary otherwise Google would have leaked it already.
The choice of these companies makes it obvious that it is not an asp.net fix. Being from Canada I have no idea what front end the site is using in the first place. But if it is not a based upon Microsoft style asp.net in the first place then you can bet that the choice of who gets government contracts will be effected in the future.
Here in Canada the government has completely sold out to Microsoft and in some cases if you need to access government services on the net it is all coded in asp.net especially the revenue Canada sites where you do your taxes. I find it hard to believe that a Microsoft software based contractor did not get the original site contracts in the USA in the first place. Again if the site is not fixed on time then you can bet Redmond will have a PR field day with this one, if it is Google, Oracle, and Red Hat fixing asp.net code then Microsoft is in real trouble to say the least. MORE ACCURATE DETAILS of what happened in the first place to the site and who coded it would help here Slashdot!
You work for CGI Federal by chance?
No if he worked for CGI Federal he would have come up with a killer powerpoint presentation of the .gov site gui with no code used whatsoever! The actual code would then be quickly concocted to actually put a web site front end on the web, whether or not the actual code does anything is the least part of the problem. So if the compiler/interpreters on the server eats it without warning this is a software feature not a bug. If the site was coded in Coco then I am certain the tech doing the coding would tell the users that they were "clicking on the buttons wrong!"
Probably true, though I'm surprised anyone these days has even heard of Ada. Must be an older moderator, but one who thinks anything he doesn't agree with should be modded down. Better if you'd said safety critical software should be written in Ruby or something.
There are many things I like about Ada, but even the military has given up on it. The F-22 software was written in Ada, but the F-35 software is written in C++. Hmm, considering how the F-35 project is going, maybe they should bring back Ada.
How the heck could they sell Harper and his cronies on a project that actually had costs that went down instead of up? Are you kidding the project would no longer meet Canadian milspec same as the used submarines that cost more to refit than build new!
<quote>Sounds great, looks great, but the price is the most important piece of information here and I don't see it. If it's as affordable as a Nexus 7, it's quite interesting. Priced at parity with ipad like Surface? Not nearly as interesting. Anyone know what the price is?</quote>
The LTE version will be an AT&T exclusive so I do not think the price point is a retail concern for Nokia. What I see happening is they are going to try the BlackBerry method and include it on contract. What I see happening before Christmas is an AT&T heavily advertised add campaign with a tablet phone combo package deal on a two year contract for close to the price of a single iPhone contract. The win8 phone sales are the key to this device and a package deal of tablet and phone could be really attractive. You can bet that the phone and tablet will sync instantly with content and contacts.
Here in Canada it is almost impossible to use two devices on the same contract but if MicroNokia is really smart they might have convinced AT&T with gobs of subsidy to do the deed. Essentially the North American launch is the one to watch here and it will most likely happen within the next few weeks to get in on the Christmas crunch season that the original Win8 RT launch botched terribly.
I suspect that Microsoft has learned their lesson this time around and setup Nokia to do what they failed to do in the first place with Surface products and Windows Phone 8. This is most likely the strategy because if they do not coerce a major carrier then their tablet LTE launch will not take off in any serious way. The packages will most likely be well under 200 dollars on a 2 year contract. This is the only launch strategy that makes any sense with this device as it will bomb in the stores because Nokia is not a known tablet device and consumers will just look at it and the Mac brushed metal sales crowd will poo hoo it big time and call it plastic crap like they do with Samsung, LG and Surface products.
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You see it took the fish hook out, pecked out the fishes eyes and told me that I was using junk characters and then you wounder why the hell the internet is so screwed up? Heck even slashdot cannot read simple ascii2 and convert it correctly, how can you expect a Linux user to understand any of this shit, good coding my arse! Kaboom!!!
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But all I want to know is, will sudo rm -rf / delete the internet?
No but sudo rm -rf \ will!
To fully access the data stack from eth0 or wlan0 you need to run wireshark as root otherwise your trace will not be complete.
Nope.
For one thing, Wireshark shouldn't be accessing the network interfaces, it should be asking the dumpcap program, which is one of the components of Wireshark, to do so. To quote Wireshark's README.packaging file:
For another thing, the README.packaging document (in the "Privileges" section, which contains that rather emphatic quote), and the CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges page in the Wireshark Wiki, discuss ways in which you can avoid even running dumpcap as root - it may need additional privileges, but not full root privileges.
All packet sniffers technically need to have root to be effective on any Unix like system.
Nope. See the above documents and the main libpcap man page (following "Reading packets from a network interface may require that you have special privileges:"). That's what the ChmodBPF script installed by Wireshark on OS X does; see the "Under BSD (this includes Mac OS X)" section - it does the "some other way to make that happen at boot time".
This message was not sent from an iPhone because Peter Sellers really was a deviated prevert without a dime for the call
Presumably he had to answer to the Coca-Cola company for that?
Ok Thanks I am running the older version LOL
$ wireshark --version wireshark 1.4.6 Copyright 1998-2011 Gerald Combs and contributors. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Compiled (32-bit) with GTK+ 2.24.4, with GLib 2.28.6, with libpcap 1.1.1, with libz 1.2.3.4, with POSIX capabilities (Linux), without libpcre, with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.7.3, with Lua 5.1, without Python, with GnuTLS 2.8.6, with Gcrypt 1.4.6, with MIT Kerberos, with GeoIP, with PortAudio V19-devel (built Mar 18 2011 15:44:36), without AirPcap. Running on Linux 2.6.38-8-generic, with libpcap version 1.1.1, with libz 1.2.3.4, GnuTLS 2.8.6, Gcrypt 1.4.6. Built using gcc 4.5.2. ~ $
Guess I should upgrade and RTFM. I only use it when doing single traces though so the chances of leaving something open and being hacked while using it are almost zero, I do not run it as a process on the server only as a tracking mechanism if something gets hacked and then only on a the old laptop that I use for diagnostics. I should set it up as a service though if I can figure out an effective way to keep the log sizes down to specific info instead of a verbose as hell text file! Would be great if the files it created could be time stamped and compressed by wireshark itself on the fly as it logs. I tried setting up a cron with a shell script to do that but could not get it to spawn an output text log. Guess I should hone up my bash skills and do some more RTFM. Hopefully wireshark can use automated scripts to setup logging with a cron job without running a the gui something like the way I run vlc nox.
I don't use software that chmods or chown mydirectories. Wireshark has done so. Citation? Look it up. Wireshark sucks.
To fully access the data stack from eth0 or wlan0 you need to run wireshark as root otherwise your trace will not be complete. The result is that the files created by wireshark then are owned by # not $
All packet sniffers technically need to have root to be effective on any Unix like system. All you have to do is chown the output files and you can edit and delete them to your hearts content. Technically wireshark does not change the ownership of any directories but only inherits root because it is run as root so any directories or files that it creates are the property of root.
Wireshark is a great tool but it requires higher privilege to do the job it does. For a core logging piece of software it is very good and does not eat up resources like other ones that I have run over the years. One thing though if you turn down the verbosity level of the output so that it does less prefixing it sure helps to keep the output file size down, the default output is a little too verbose and includes too much unneeded spacing and device descriptions at all the start and stop requests. Sometimes if you are tracking a malicious web site bounce pattern it is nice to not have to wade through 30-40 meg of text data just to see a few dozen server hops!
A few weeks back tracking down a simple vbulletin hacked to do linkbucks scam site bounces created over 60 meg of data that I had to search through for the offending server sites, thank heavens for the line numbering capabilities and search features in Kate!
The use of Wireshark without a doubt helps keep servers clear of these assholes if it wasn't for a crowd of people tracking the linkbucks malware slinging assholes down and getting them kicked off servers using MS Windows on the net would be down right impossible.
There I just sank your battleship!