Dammit, I should have just left my computer off. Seems like people were supposed to disconnect because of the amount of crap that would be flowing around today.
Does anyone know when ALSA is going to be merged into the kernel proper? I've been using it for a good 8 months, and the only problems I've had is when they decide to go and rewrite a specific API, thus necessitating a recompile of everything. Is it not going in 2.4?
Go take a look at netcraft.org's lame networks list. The top "lamest networks" have been inaccessible for quite a while, which probably means they're being used as the source of these DoS's. Let's turn the/. effect on the listed administrators, and gently persuade these people to close up their networks.
Most general hardware stores (Home Depot, Hechinger, etc.) have electrical ducting you can buy for pretty cheap. Get some large ducting, some outlet boxes, a whole lot of extension cables (power, VGA, keyboard, mouse, ethernet) and run all your wires through the ducting. We have 7 mid-to-full-tower cases sitting next to each other with all cables running through the ducts. It makes life a lot nicer.
You've made one of the most basic confusions of religious practice:
church == religion
which is wrong. That is to say, I don't have any stand on Scientology as a religion, but I do have a rather vehement stand against the Church of Scientology. They're two separate entities. One is the criminal organization that badgers, harasses, defrauds, and violates the laws of almost every country on this planet; the other is the philosophy that underlies the organization. So don't take the rather harsh flames personally. They're directed not at the philosophy you follow, but at the organization to which you belong.
Okay, but I was thinking in terms on influence on the SF film industry -- there are a lot of movies that tried to emulate or pull elements from Blade Runner but none of them did very well. I expect we'll see a lot of Matrix / Dark City ripoffs within the next few years.
I'm working on a paper (which I eventually hope to be able to turn in for some class) dealing with parallels between the Information and Industrial revolutions. One of the major parts is about safety; at this time a century ago, the working conditions of most factories were terribly unsafe; think the Triangle Shirtcoat factory fire (lots of extremely flammable lint lying around; many young women died because of inadequate fire escapes so they jumped from the top stories of the burning building). It took some major (and much publicized) disasters for people to begin calling for safer working conditions en masse. I have the suspicion that it will take a similar mass failure in the electronic realm for a similar push for more bug-free software -- I don't claim to know what the failure will be, I'm just willing to bet that it will be a significant catastrophe. We've already had several minor accidents, like the Mars Orbiter or THERAC-25, but it's going to take something severe that affects many people, like a massive communications infrastructure failure. Though I don't think we have a lot to hope for right now, I have the feeling that eventually, peer-review of a program's source code (under any license, just as long as it's checked) will become basically mandatory, either by the laws of free-market economics or by (yuck) government mandate. The Free Software/Open Source communities already have the structures in place, putting us ahead in the game.
The fat guy down in MIS may love remote administration, but he'll end up suffering with Windows 2000 until StarOffice has that talking paper clip his users like so much.
Uh huh. Does anyone else hear the giant sucking sound of credibility going down the crapper?
I remember seeing this a while ago, but can't find it now. It has to deal with the amount of debugging symbols and stuff in the Linux binaries, plus there are some things in the Linux version that work and are compiled in, but that don't work and thus are not compiled in with the Windows version.
This is a pretty common "error" among StarOffice installations. It's not a well-set-up install program, and this trick is buried in the README.
rm -fr the installation you did, and re-install as root using this command:
./setup/net
Install everything in some dir like/usr/local/soffice. Then log in as a normal user, and run
/usr/local/bin/soffice/setup
and select the "local installation" (the one that's only 5 megs, not 115) option. You'll have the program files in/usr/local/soffice and your personal files in your home dir.
The original quote is from Abe Lincoln, 16th president of the USA:
"It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
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Dammit, I should have just left my computer off. Seems like people were supposed to disconnect because of the amount of crap that would be flowing around today.
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Does anyone know when ALSA is going to be merged into the kernel proper? I've been using it for a good 8 months, and the only problems I've had is when they decide to go and rewrite a specific API, thus necessitating a recompile of everything. Is it not going in 2.4?
Go take a look at netcraft.org's lame networks list. The top "lamest networks" have been inaccessible for quite a while, which probably means they're being used as the source of these DoS's. Let's turn the /. effect on the listed administrators, and gently persuade these people to close up their networks.
Most general hardware stores (Home Depot, Hechinger, etc.) have electrical ducting you can buy for pretty cheap. Get some large ducting, some outlet boxes, a whole lot of extension cables (power, VGA, keyboard, mouse, ethernet) and run all your wires through the ducting. We have 7 mid-to-full-tower cases sitting next to each other with all cables running through the ducts. It makes life a lot nicer.
... and drink twice if he misspells "weird."
This actually happens fairly frequently. Look up the etymologies of "bork," "quisling," and "spoonerism," to name a few.
now I want to see someone do that with a flat-panel display.
You've made one of the most basic confusions of religious practice:
church == religion
which is wrong. That is to say, I don't have any stand on Scientology as a religion, but I do have a rather vehement stand against the Church of Scientology. They're two separate entities. One is the criminal organization that badgers, harasses, defrauds, and violates the laws of almost every country on this planet; the other is the philosophy that underlies the organization. So don't take the rather harsh flames personally. They're directed not at the philosophy you follow, but at the organization to which you belong.
my mirror's here
The "lite" version is here
Bring it on, CoS. This is my ISP (I'm the sysadmin), so it'll be a cold day in hell before this site goes down.
Anyone want to take 10:1 odds that transmeta's website goes down within 5 minutes of the "release"? 100:1? (2 ** 64):1?
Okay, but I was thinking in terms on influence on the SF film industry -- there are a lot of movies that tried to emulate or pull elements from Blade Runner but none of them did very well. I expect we'll see a lot of Matrix / Dark City ripoffs within the next few years.
if you haven't seen [GATTACA], you missed the most important sf movie since SO 2001
Nah. Blade Runner gets that honor. But GATTACA is probably the best since then.
I'm working on a paper (which I eventually hope to be able to turn in for some class) dealing with parallels between the Information and Industrial revolutions. One of the major parts is about safety; at this time a century ago, the working conditions of most factories were terribly unsafe; think the Triangle Shirtcoat factory fire (lots of extremely flammable lint lying around; many young women died because of inadequate fire escapes so they jumped from the top stories of the burning building). It took some major (and much publicized) disasters for people to begin calling for safer working conditions en masse. I have the suspicion that it will take a similar mass failure in the electronic realm for a similar push for more bug-free software -- I don't claim to know what the failure will be, I'm just willing to bet that it will be a significant catastrophe. We've already had several minor accidents, like the Mars Orbiter or THERAC-25, but it's going to take something severe that affects many people, like a massive communications infrastructure failure. Though I don't think we have a lot to hope for right now, I have the feeling that eventually, peer-review of a program's source code (under any license, just as long as it's checked) will become basically mandatory, either by the laws of free-market economics or by (yuck) government mandate. The Free Software/Open Source communities already have the structures in place, putting us ahead in the game.
A messy proprietary protocol -- that's why there's a special "AOL Adapter" device under Windows.
That still doesn't mean anything. Dynamic IP's get re-assigned, so it could well have been someone else's system you portscanned.
The fat guy down in MIS may love remote administration, but he'll end up suffering with Windows 2000 until StarOffice has that talking paper clip his users like so much.
Uh huh. Does anyone else hear the giant sucking sound of credibility going down the crapper?
I remember seeing this a while ago, but can't find it now. It has to deal with the amount of debugging symbols and stuff in the Linux binaries, plus there are some things in the Linux version that work and are compiled in, but that don't work and thus are not compiled in with the Windows version.
Big fscking deal. This can be fixed easily in the next kernel release with:
/* Fuck Australian censorship! */ /* Fsck Australian censorship! */
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+
What's next, running strings on all binaries looking for obscene material?
Who needs a ticket in the first place? I pulled the old Jedi mind trick and got right in.
This is a pretty common "error" among StarOffice installations. It's not a well-set-up install program, and this trick is buried in the README.
./setup /net
/usr/local/soffice. Then log in as a normal user, and run
/usr/local/bin/soffice/setup
/usr/local/soffice and your personal files in your home dir.
rm -fr the installation you did, and re-install as root using this command:
Install everything in some dir like
and select the "local installation" (the one that's only 5 megs, not 115) option. You'll have the program files in
Guess that makes MS an unprofessional company.
The original quote is from Abe Lincoln, 16th president of the USA:
"It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."