If I remember my dads old IBM PC XT keyboard right, it must have been the model M. Key-travel too far and springs too hard for my taste. Nice bounce and the metal feel was great though. Don't need the sound but the feel of the snap when the key goes in was good. I would not think you could get shorter key travel with the model M technology, so I' can't say I miss those. That might be me trying to justify shipping the rig to recycling twenty years ago...
Forget about eugenics, what with pensions and health-costs, education costs and what-not, humanity is basically a dud investment. The rational thing would be to kill off the entire species. Just need one or two guys to reboot skynet whenever there is an OS-update ready. Could ensure fiscal surplus, biodiversity and avoid global warming.
Neat idea, and given Elon Musks numbers are correct, he's right. But, if we are living in a simulation, it is a simulation with self-aware software agents. I do not think there will be "billions" of those in any forseeable future, so the basis is wrong.
M-x shell in emacs for anything long-running, or where you need copy-paste. M-x rename-buffer lets you run several shells in one emacs. If you have a file opened with tramp e.g. open a file named "/user@other-host:/etc/that-config-file" (i.e. ssh to another system) , M-x shell will launch on that host (at least in recent versions).
Also other shell-based interfaces like mysql, tclsh will usually have their own mode, launced with e.g. M-x sql-mysql .
Emacs does not like ncurses-based apps, so then Xterm needs to be kept around. These days emacs handles normal ansi-colors quite well, though tramp will usually fail if you try to open files on a busybox-based system.
For one-line, one-off commands Xterm or system default.
I think even the Economist will not have hubris to try turning the clock back 200 years, at least not in one swoop. I don't think it would take any pressure. Like ACorrosionOfDeviants says, the articles seem pretty well thought out. Considering the prevailing attitudes towards "IP", the position the Economist takes is actually pretty radical.
Financial newspaper Economist also did a large piece on patents recently. They have backed down on their original stance of abolishing patents altogether (from 200 years ago, when patent law was enacted), but they still come out pretty clearly on how patents may be stifling innovation.
command : # strings/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 | grep bash gives: Africa/Lubumbashi #!/usr/local/bin/bash #!/usr/local/bash #!/usr/bin/bash #!/bin/bash what is php5 doing with those ? And no, my cgi-bin directory is not facing the world, I've had a hand-crafted/usr/lib/cgie-bin doing in place since forever.
" I value stability and clarity.".That's called growing up. Next, before you know it, Jonathan Edwards is a grumpy old man..., Hey, wait, he's already there:-)
Just scrolled through the list at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_ALL_hackerspaces . Took a peak at a couple of the active ones in Norway, and they are operated by university level student societies. See a potential for hackerspace ranges: open-closed/simple-advanced/chaotic-orderly. Would be a nice fit as a "club" type thing in college aswell.
We are building a new library with a "Newton room" in my home town, just across the road from the local college. The potential here is huge. Just have to find the time to goad some people into supporting this before my boy turns 15;->
An authorized_hosts file with a weak key anywhere in your organization will have been a hole letting people in, compromising even the non-weak keys on that account. So the authorized_hosts file on the NEXT machine over, even though it looks good, may now be a hole letting the baddies in.
Regenerating keys is fine, but the important step is clearing out the authorized_keys file that contains the old keys:-). At the same time take the opportunity to clear out the keys belonging to that long-gone co-worker.
If you try logging in with a new key where an old one is expected, you will get an error and remove the old one from authorized_keys. When the client is never in use however, the hole might stay in there for a long time...
Why do they need computers at all? Just give them books. Make sure the covers are sturdy, kevlar is supposed to be good. Ban blow torches and such things from school premises. Better still, cut all references to combustion from all curricula. All students are evil and out to get you anyway, why should they be able to have fun when you are so miserable. It's not like they can do anything about it if they don't like the new regime. Never even let them suspect that they might gain an inch if they behave well. Any kind of good behaviour will stop the minute you turn your back.
_One_ april fools joke from a news source is cool. Wen you see the tenth "joke" on slashdot, its a bit old. When _all_ of those are just re-reporting of other sites' jokes, its pathetic.
Join DShield and keep a good general set of firewall rules, e.g. blocking SSH from any but a few select adresses or netblocks. DSHield will send out emails to ISP's with condensed reports on the worst offenders. That system has been labouring a bit recently, so consider a donation while you are at it.
The architecture supporting YaST is (very simplified*) like this:
Yast edtits the files under/etc/sysconfig.
Yast runs/sbin/SuSEconfig which will run:
/sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig."whatever". These things read the/etc/syconfig files and produce app-specific configurations.
"whatever" is things like apache, gdm2, tetex and loads of other stuff. Sometimes all of them gets run, but most will not actually do anything if nothing has changed. (md5 checksums ar kept for lots of things).
Several of the files under/etc/sysconfig have variables to turn off parts of the SuSEconfig machinery, meaning that the actual config files of the apps will not be changed. That way you can make your own changes stick, while still using YaST for most things.
You can add your own custom stuff to the/etc/sysconfig/* files, and add calls to custom stuff in the/sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.* scritps. Also when I've changed my/etc/sendmail.cf without turning off YaST processing of sendmail, SuSEconfig writes its version in a different file, allowing me to do a diff and maybe incorporate what I like in the actual sendmail.cf. These kinds of things will usually be disabled by an upgrade though, so it's best to keep custom stuff in separate files and just insert a "source" command in the stuff that belongs to YaST.
* "very simplified" means e.g that some things under/etc/init.d read the/etc/sysconfig/* stuff directly, YaST may stop/restart a service that is about to have its config files changed, and that there are lots of nooks and crannies in YaST I haven't stumbled upon.
>> How much responsibility does the owner of an >> Internet-connected computer have for crimes >> committed using their equipment > >None, unless they have responsibility for >the use itself.
You leave your loaded gun out on the porch for the neighbours to find aswell do you?
It suddenly struck me that, especially with some imprecice wording, "alternative energy" might get lumped together with other alternative things.
Unlike healing hands and crystal power, alternative energy is not about private rewrites of the laws of nature. Alternative energy is actually about alternative energy sources, which in turn is not about alternate truth but about a marketplace with choices.
Hydrogen can be used to produce energy, that's a proven fact. The heat that comes out of it is just like any other heat, nothing alternative about that. Hydrogen as an energy source could provide an alternative to the established energy-carriers, such as fossile fuels and (hydro-)electricity, if some technology development were encouraged and establishing an infrastructure was encouraged.
Maybe part of the reason for the slow progress in this area is the name?
Interface, i.e gui or cli and all their finer points.
Configuration/Options. Dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's. You will not be able to surf the net until you've set up TCP/IP, PPP and your browser with all the settings.
The first point can be solved through an iterative process. GNOME or KDE ar not there yet, but they will get there. It's just a question of getting "control-panels" for all the various textual config files, cron, httpd etc.
The second point is the really tough one. A geek does does not want to set up a default that may be sub-optimal, and any setup involves tradeoffs. Windows has its "wizards". They hide the tradeoffs from the user, lulling him/her into a false sense of confidence. Well there is no way around it, either we hold our noses and create wizards, or we come up with something better. Anything less, and Joe user will loose confidence and dump (on) linux.
Was: Translation of the Verldens Gang article "We will also interview Jon Bing
This could be really good (if his spoken english is tolerable). This guy is the authority in Norway on computers and law. He is also a pretty good writer (science fiction and related genres mostly).
Do a google search on his name, Jon Bing you'll find some reviews (in Norwegian) and some mailing-list archives dealing with computers, copyright and law (in english).
How I get to write GPL software on company time
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Hole in GNU GPL?
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Well, I just do it. Write a fix/extension. Send to maintainer. My boss asks me how dare I, I ask who will fold in my changes into the next release.
There comes a point where an addition is a major investment. (I've done nothing above 10 lines so far:-))
Well, you can't win the whole world at once.
P.S I haven't actually told my boss. Now you know boss.
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If I remember my dads old IBM PC XT keyboard right, it must have been the model M. Key-travel too far and springs too hard for my taste. Nice bounce and the metal feel was great though. Don't need the sound but the feel of the snap when the key goes in was good. I would not think you could get shorter key travel with the model M technology, so I' can't say I miss those. That might be me trying to justify shipping the rig to recycling twenty years ago ...
Forget about eugenics, what with pensions and health-costs, education costs and what-not, humanity is basically a dud investment. The rational thing would be to kill off the entire species. Just need one or two guys to reboot skynet whenever there is an OS-update ready. Could ensure fiscal surplus, biodiversity and avoid global warming.
Neat idea, and given Elon Musks numbers are correct, he's right. But, if we are living in a simulation, it is a simulation with self-aware software agents. I do not think there will be "billions" of those in any forseeable future, so the basis is wrong.
M-x shell in emacs for anything long-running, or where you need copy-paste. M-x rename-buffer lets you run several shells in one emacs. If you have a file opened with tramp e.g. open a file named "/user@other-host:/etc/that-config-file" (i.e. ssh to another system) , M-x shell will launch on that host (at least in recent versions).
Also other shell-based interfaces like mysql, tclsh will usually have their own mode, launced with e.g. M-x sql-mysql .
Emacs does not like ncurses-based apps, so then Xterm needs to be kept around. These days emacs handles normal ansi-colors quite well, though tramp will usually fail if you try to open files on a busybox-based system.
For one-line, one-off commands Xterm or system default.
I think even the Economist will not have hubris to try turning the clock back 200 years, at least not in one swoop. I don't think it would take any pressure. Like ACorrosionOfDeviants says, the articles seem pretty well thought out. Considering the prevailing attitudes towards "IP", the position the Economist takes is actually pretty radical.
Financial newspaper Economist also did a large piece on patents recently. They have backed down on their original stance of abolishing patents altogether (from 200 years ago, when patent law was enacted), but they still come out pretty clearly on how patents may be stifling innovation.
Mac or Windows.
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash/s....
Somebody who has actually used it could probably tell if it will run under wine
command : # strings /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 | grep bash /usr/local/bin/bash /usr/local/bash /usr/bin/bash /bin/bash /usr/lib/cgie-bin doing in place since forever.
gives:
Africa/Lubumbashi
#!
#!
#!
#!
what is php5 doing with those ? And no, my cgi-bin directory is not facing the world, I've had a hand-crafted
" I value stability and clarity." .That's called growing up. Next, before you know it, Jonathan Edwards is a grumpy old man ..., Hey, wait, he's already there :-)
Just scrolled through the list at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_ALL_hackerspaces . Took a peak at a couple of the active ones in Norway, and they are operated by university level student societies. See a potential for hackerspace ranges: open-closed/simple-advanced/chaotic-orderly. Would be a nice fit as a "club" type thing in college aswell.
This hackerspace: http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/ in Oslo apparently does "education fair" type work at http://www.gathering.org/ everey year.
We are building a new library with a "Newton room" in my home town, just across the road from the local college. The potential here is huge. Just have to find the time to goad some people into supporting this before my boy turns 15 ;->
An authorized_hosts file with a weak key anywhere in your organization will have been a hole letting people in, compromising even the non-weak keys on that account. So the authorized_hosts file on the NEXT machine over, even though it looks good, may now be a hole letting the baddies in.
Regenerating keys is fine, but the important step is clearing out the authorized_keys file that contains the old keys :-). At the same time take the opportunity to clear out the keys belonging to that long-gone co-worker.
...
If you try logging in with a new key where an old one is expected, you will get an error and remove the old one from authorized_keys. When the client is never in use however, the hole might stay in there for a long time
Why do they need computers at all? Just give them books. Make sure the covers are sturdy, kevlar is supposed to be good. Ban blow torches and such things from school premises. Better still, cut all references to combustion from all curricula. All students are evil and out to get you anyway, why should they be able to have fun when you are so miserable. It's not like they can do anything about it if they don't like the new regime. Never even let them suspect that they might gain an inch if they behave well. Any kind of good behaviour will stop the minute you turn your back.
_One_ april fools joke from a news source is cool. Wen you see the tenth "joke" on slashdot, its a bit old. When _all_ of those are just re-reporting of other sites' jokes, its pathetic.
Join DShield and keep a good general set of firewall rules, e.g. blocking SSH from any but a few select adresses or netblocks. DSHield will send out emails to ISP's with condensed reports on the worst offenders. That system has been labouring a bit recently, so consider a donation while you are at it.
The architecture supporting YaST is (very simplified*) like this:
"whatever" is things like apache, gdm2, tetex and loads of other stuff. Sometimes all of them gets run, but most will not actually do anything if nothing has changed. (md5 checksums ar kept for lots of things).
Several of the files under /etc/sysconfig have variables to turn off parts of the SuSEconfig machinery, meaning that the actual config files of the apps will not be changed. That way you can make your own changes stick, while still using YaST for most things.
You can add your own custom stuff to the /etc/sysconfig/* files, and add calls to custom stuff in the /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.* scritps. Also when I've changed my /etc/sendmail.cf without turning off YaST processing of sendmail, SuSEconfig writes its version in a different file, allowing me to do a diff and maybe incorporate what I like in the actual sendmail.cf. These kinds of things will usually be disabled by an upgrade though, so it's best to keep custom stuff in separate files and just insert a "source" command in the stuff that belongs to YaST.
* "very simplified" means e.g that some things under /etc/init.d read the /etc/sysconfig/* stuff directly, YaST may stop/restart a service that is about to have its config files changed, and that there are lots of nooks and crannies in YaST I haven't stumbled upon.
>> How much responsibility does the owner of an
>> Internet-connected computer have for crimes
>> committed using their equipment
>
>None, unless they have responsibility for
>the use itself.
You leave your loaded gun out on the porch for
the neighbours to find aswell do you?
Hey, Peru, we can help you lock all your data into proprietary formats, and wean all your best brains on proprietary sofware, for FREE !!
Unlike healing hands and crystal power, alternative energy is not about private rewrites of the laws of nature. Alternative energy is actually about alternative energy sources, which in turn is not about alternate truth but about a marketplace with choices.
Hydrogen can be used to produce energy, that's a proven fact. The heat that comes out of it is just like any other heat, nothing alternative about that. Hydrogen as an energy source could provide an alternative to the established energy-carriers, such as fossile fuels and (hydro-)electricity, if some technology development were encouraged and establishing an infrastructure was encouraged.
Maybe part of the reason for the slow progress in this area is the name?
The first point can be solved through an iterative process. GNOME or KDE ar not there yet, but they will get there. It's just a question of getting "control-panels" for all the various textual config files, cron, httpd etc.
The second point is the really tough one. A geek does does not want to set up a default that may be sub-optimal, and any setup involves tradeoffs. Windows has its "wizards". They hide the tradeoffs from the user, lulling him/her into a false sense of confidence. Well there is no way around it, either we hold our noses and create wizards, or we come up with something better. Anything less, and Joe user will loose confidence and dump (on) linux.
"We will also interview Jon Bing
This could be really good (if his spoken english is tolerable). This guy is the authority in Norway on computers and law. He is also a pretty good writer (science fiction and related genres mostly).
Do a google search on his name, Jon Bing you'll find some reviews (in Norwegian) and some mailing-list archives dealing with computers, copyright and law (in english).
Well, I just do it. Write a fix/extension. Send to maintainer. My boss asks me how dare I, I ask who will fold in my changes into the next release.
There comes a point where an addition is a major investment. (I've done nothing above 10 lines so far :-))
Well, you can't win the whole world at once.
P.S I haven't actually told my boss. Now you know boss.