And how am I going to get that microsoft stuff to work on my platform?.
Lessee... how many winders boxes do I have here... hmm.. zero.. now what?!??!
Not that MSN is remotely interesting to me anyway... All the good bits are available here and other places (like theregister.co.uk for example).
Still sucks that they shut other browsers out. Wasn't the web meant for universal interoperability and cross-platformness? How is a BLIND person going to read that site? Have they any idea how many blind people use lynx? trust me, a LOT of visually impaired people use lynx, because their braille lines can understand it better than a full blown click and drool interface.
Hey, I was not attacking you. Merely pointing even more thing out:)
Re:Alan (Cox) should update his diary... (OT?!)
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Why is this offtopic? Alan is a _kernel developer_ who usually writes comments in his diary about _what he is doing_ to his -ac tree and what he sends to Linus. I was merely stating about my curiosity about those comments he made in his 2.4.12-ac6 changelog and in the linux-kernel mailing list.
Obviously some moderators are on crack here...
Well... that's what meta-moderation is for I guess...
Your point 2 is off. A default install of FreeBSD and/or Debian is not close to a GB. The FreeBSD base system can fit easily onto a 100MB disk and the debian base too. And you would even have room to spare to store files.
Point 3 is also not really true, since most/. people run _more_ than one OS. Usually, one of 'em is that bloated piece of dung from some unnamed company in Redmond, WA. My guess is that most people use the browser and play the nifty games in that OS, but do their _real_ work in some unnamed free and open source OS that works like UNIX.
Statistics are worthless... They can give you some very wrong impressions about what it is really about. Usually, 90% of everything is crap.
Alan should update his diary...
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Yeah I know he's busy, but he really should. I really want to know about that DMCA censoring stunt he pulled in ac6. Telsa's diary
has a hint:
"We also opened the parcel that had arrived, It was a great big book on European copyright law and the net or something equally impenetrable. I sighed; Alan looked delighted."
You don't get it. The contents of the mail is encrypted, but the headers sure aren't. So they can do connection tracking. If I e.g. send an pgp/pgp encrypted mail to Bin Laden, then I'm a suspect. Why? because I send mail to him. The fact that I'm using encryption is even more suspicious.
To really hide your data from the FBI's prying eyes it to use steganography or something, and not through mail (connection tracking again). Of course you can resort to TLS, but both ends need to support it, and there is still a connection tracking vulnerability in that concept (mailservers tend to want to do direct tcp connections to deliver mail, unless otherwise set up)
Well, if we apply that, then every company/country that is a save haven or facilitates viruses are the 'terrorist''s allies and should be dealt with. Oh, and get McAfee and friends as well, since they make money and give the viruses a safe home (storage etc.) to live in...
Microsoft shouldn't whine. They should write less crap. That way, the whole virus mess wouldn't exist.
The whole 'industrial terrorism' idea doesn't hold water. Actually It's laugheable. This should have been posted under the "It's funny, Laugh" topic.
Well, if you add a little talcum powder to your letter and if you write in all caps, it will probably get noticed, but not in the way you would like I guess... Oh, you might end up in jail too if you do that. So don't even think about that...
I really wish that your statespeople would pay more attention to e-mail, and actually reading those things instead of letting the vacation and out-of-office scripts handle it.
I probably don't know jack shit about it since I'm neither a US citizen or resident. And the US is off my "places to visit"-list for a while because of all this DMCA stuff. Yeah I do security related stuff. DMCA freaks me out as well. I will probably not set foot in the states until that freaky law is removed.
Uhm... You can download the patch, look at the unified diff, and actually see what he fixed. I think personaly he is making a statement. Be patient. My bet is that Alan will surprise us later on.
ooh ooh ooh... can't wait to see what will happen... Where's my armchair? Where are the potato chips? Popcorn? I'll just sit back and watch the show..
So we know what's going on exactly, and with some motivation/reasons/who-what-where-why-when and such perhaps? Right now there's still old entries here and here. (It was the first place I went to read up on it, but alas, there was nothing).
Or are your diaries also subject to the DMCA? I doubt that...
Microsoft nowhere to be seen in the server room,
Open Software everywhere, and maybe the odd Microsoft workstation here or there.
I don't really care what runs on the desktop, as long as Microsoft doesn't have a chance to pervert those open protocols out there to leverage themselves totally shut in the place where it matters most.
oh come on... 'alien' is a package you can use to convert for example rpms to debian.debs or vice versa and even to other packaging standards. How is this offtopic? Are moderators on crack?
And aside from a few niggles (like, sound not working and other minor stuff), it is very fast and works very well. I use it daily to test PHP generated pages for if they look good under Icab, Mac IE, and mac netscape/mozilla amongst others.
There's another _very_ _good_ _use_ for PGP, and that's the Web of Trust thing. People tend to se only the encryption function of PGP, which is pretty neat and all, but the key management of the PKI infrastrcuture is also _very_ important.
Why?
Well, you can make sure that a person really is who he says he is, by asking him for his PGP fingerprint and checking it with his public key. This is a very important feature, for obvious reasons. Not only for the needed public key exchange, but also for authenticity. So PGP is not only for sending secret messages, it's also for establishing some level of trust between two or more parties and to ensure if a communication really originated from one of those parties.
(Now I'm probably going to be flamed by Hugh Daniels (of FreeSwan fame) because he thinks the whole web of trust thing is flawed and doesn't work in practice... Well, if people are willing to play along and able understand it, it works pretty good)
Is a hammer evil because you can crack someone's skull with it?
Is a bottle evil because you can gash someone nastily with it when you break it?
Is a computer screen evil because you can do a lot of damage to someone if you drop it from the second floor of a building?
Is a simple door evil because you can break someone's neck with it when you snap it between the door and the doorpost itself?
Is a mouse evil because you can use the chord to strangle someone?
Is a screwdriver evil because you can stab someone with it?
Are nails evil because you can cause some pretty serious puncture wounds with it?
Is that woodchipper in your backyard evil because it doesn't just chip wood, but anything else as well?
Are glass windows evil because they can cut you up badly if you fall through them?
I can think of even more outrageous and stupid examples...
If you squint at it the right way *EVERYTHING* is dangerous and/or evil. Tools and everyday objects. Just like the stuff in your toolbox. Should we ban tools or other everyday objects? Shall we all live in a rubber padded room, so we cannot hurt ourselves or eachother? The world is an evil place, and lots of nasty stuff can happen, but don't blame some ordinary (but very nifty) piece of math that keeps our private communications secure and makes sure we're really dealing with the persons we think we're dealing with.
Whoops... I got a little bit carried away, well you get my point...
> Maybe I'm not destined to learn any more chords then E-A-D.
Although it's enough to play almost every AC/DC song out there (sorry, couldn't resist;), but are those the only guitar chords you can play, Taco? Or are we still talking about keyboards?
;) <-- look, a wink there, so don't blow up on me...
(from a fellow guitar-geek)
Re:Desktop users may like the pre-emption patch
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I'm running it right now, built it with make-kpgk on debian and it indeed seems less swapperish. I'm right now playing skip-free mp3's, editing a webpage with Quanta, and checking out the modifications and switching desktops on KDE 2.2.1 like there's no tomorrow on a PII 400 with 64 MB. It's still slow (but tat's because of low mem and a slow box), but without this (and the VM changes which seem to work better than the previous version) I would have a box that would be frozen because of the HORRIBLE swapping. Much better indeed...
I'm keeping an eye on these people. Very nice for desktops indeed. Thanks for the pointer:)
Oh and it hasn't crashed on me yet, so that's even an added plus:)
Yeah but to operate them I would have to (gasp!) *leave* my chair and step away from the keyboard! The horror! The anguish! the embarassment! the *pain*!
...that illusive robot that can make and serve me coffee, do the laundry, clean the house squeaky clean without breaking anything, walk the dog around the park and intelligently answer my e-mail is just *way* off, right?
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Lessee... how many winders boxes do I have here... hmm.. zero.. now what?!??!
Not that MSN is remotely interesting to me anyway... All the good bits are available here and other places (like theregister.co.uk for example).
Still sucks that they shut other browsers out. Wasn't the web meant for universal interoperability and cross-platformness? How is a BLIND person going to read that site? Have they any idea how many blind people use lynx? trust me, a LOT of visually impaired people use lynx, because their braille lines can understand it better than a full blown click and drool interface.
Hey, I was not attacking you. Merely pointing even more thing out :)
Obviously some moderators are on crack here...
Well... that's what meta-moderation is for I guess...
Point 3 is also not really true, since most /. people run _more_ than one OS. Usually, one of 'em is that bloated piece of dung from some unnamed company in Redmond, WA. My guess is that most people use the browser and play the nifty games in that OS, but do their _real_ work in some unnamed free and open source OS that works like UNIX.
Statistics are worthless... They can give you some very wrong impressions about what it is really about. Usually, 90% of everything is crap.
But that is just making me more curious....
To really hide your data from the FBI's prying eyes it to use steganography or something, and not through mail (connection tracking again). Of course you can resort to TLS, but both ends need to support it, and there is still a connection tracking vulnerability in that concept (mailservers tend to want to do direct tcp connections to deliver mail, unless otherwise set up)
Hope that clears that up a bit.
Microsoft shouldn't whine. They should write less crap. That way, the whole virus mess wouldn't exist.
The whole 'industrial terrorism' idea doesn't hold water. Actually It's laugheable. This should have been posted under the "It's funny, Laugh" topic.
I really wish that your statespeople would pay more attention to e-mail, and actually reading those things instead of letting the vacation and out-of-office scripts handle it.
I probably don't know jack shit about it since I'm neither a US citizen or resident. And the US is off my "places to visit"-list for a while because of all this DMCA stuff. Yeah I do security related stuff. DMCA freaks me out as well. I will probably not set foot in the states until that freaky law is removed.
ooh ooh ooh... can't wait to see what will happen... Where's my armchair? Where are the potato chips? Popcorn? I'll just sit back and watch the show..
Or are your diaries also subject to the DMCA? I doubt that...
Microsoft nowhere to be seen in the server room,
Open Software everywhere, and maybe the odd Microsoft workstation here or there.
I don't really care what runs on the desktop, as long as Microsoft doesn't have a chance to pervert those open protocols out there to leverage themselves totally shut in the place where it matters most.
Weird.. After I blinked it went back to normal though.
oh come on... 'alien' is a package you can use to convert for example rpms to debian .debs or vice versa and even to other packaging standards. How is this offtopic? Are moderators on crack?
'alien' is your friend...
Huh? Last time I looked, sourceforge also has the linux kernel, WITH CVS...
So quit yer whining...
And aside from a few niggles (like, sound not working and other minor stuff), it is very fast and works very well. I use it daily to test PHP generated pages for if they look good under Icab, Mac IE, and mac netscape/mozilla amongst others.
Why?
Well, you can make sure that a person really is who he says he is, by asking him for his PGP fingerprint and checking it with his public key. This is a very important feature, for obvious reasons. Not only for the needed public key exchange, but also for authenticity. So PGP is not only for sending secret messages, it's also for establishing some level of trust between two or more parties and to ensure if a communication really originated from one of those parties.
(Now I'm probably going to be flamed by Hugh Daniels (of FreeSwan fame) because he thinks the whole web of trust thing is flawed and doesn't work in practice... Well, if people are willing to play along and able understand it, it works pretty good)
Is a hammer evil because you can crack someone's skull with it?
Is a bottle evil because you can gash someone nastily with it when you break it?
Is a computer screen evil because you can do a lot of damage to someone if you drop it from the second floor of a building?
Is a simple door evil because you can break someone's neck with it when you snap it between the door and the doorpost itself?
Is a mouse evil because you can use the chord to strangle someone?
Is a screwdriver evil because you can stab someone with it?
Are nails evil because you can cause some pretty serious puncture wounds with it?
Is that woodchipper in your backyard evil because it doesn't just chip wood, but anything else as well?
Are glass windows evil because they can cut you up badly if you fall through them?
I can think of even more outrageous and stupid examples...
If you squint at it the right way *EVERYTHING* is dangerous and/or evil. Tools and everyday objects. Just like the stuff in your toolbox. Should we ban tools or other everyday objects? Shall we all live in a rubber padded room, so we cannot hurt ourselves or eachother? The world is an evil place, and lots of nasty stuff can happen, but don't blame some ordinary (but very nifty) piece of math that keeps our private communications secure and makes sure we're really dealing with the persons we think we're dealing with.
Whoops... I got a little bit carried away, well you get my point...
Yeah, that person made Klingon, only it's much more elaborate then what you've done :)
Come on Taco! Watch out, Garth Brooks! Here comes Taco with his new Country hit: A lapdance is always better when the stripper is cryin'
(extra brownie points who can name the real artist of that song ;)
Although it's enough to play almost every AC/DC song out there (sorry, couldn't resist ;), but are those the only guitar chords you can play, Taco? Or are we still talking about keyboards?
(from a fellow guitar-geek)
I'm keeping an eye on these people. Very nice for desktops indeed. Thanks for the pointer
Oh and it hasn't crashed on me yet, so that's even an added plus
Let's do a little sed stream editing here...
s/Microsoft/Linux/
s/computers/the world/
s/Windows/Linux/
s/XP//
:)
That way, is it really a bad thing then? At least _our_ code is open to public scrutiny...
Cheers
(oh, sprinkle humor tags whereever possible here)
I knew some things were too good to be true ;)