Firstly, there is a lot of different types of LANs.
I started out doing a 2 player thin coax LAN at my house.
That balloned up to a 12 player coax LAN at my house.
Then it became a 10/100 2 5-port hub, 8 player LAN at my friend Mikey's house...
The next step was a 40-50 player LAN in nice comfortable leather high back chairs and rented hotel space.
And now it's a 100-140 player LAN at Stars recreation center (www.stars.com) in Vacaville.
For lack of a better term I turned "pro". I now do it for money. Once you make the jump from garage LAN to paid LAN you have to keep the atomsphere of the garage LAN but deliever the reliability, power, and network of a professional LAN.
Garage LAN:
DIVERSIFICATION
Some people are console freaks, some people are PC freaks. Have plenty of both. Consoles are great, because you don't have to blow $500 to play a game. Big screens with movies are good too (but watch them copyrights on public viewings!)
PARTY ATOMSPHERE
Keep it relaxed and enjoyable. Do not break out the fine china and do not throw a LAN at a house or location with fine China to break. Loud music (techno, phat beats, or rock) is a must.
Professional LAN:
POWER
Buy, rent, or steal enough power so that there is never a blow circuit. Waiting an hour or so for the circuit breaker to cool down is retard (Go morons in Sacto!).
NETWORK
9 ms ping is your target. Have you ever tried to lightning gun in Rocket Arena 3 with higher than 50 ping? It sucks so much ass... Do you know how evil a railgun is at 9 ms ping?
Internet access is always very nice. More is better, but a little with do. If you have multiday events it's great to check your email. (Gets people to advertise your event to their buddies:) ).
SPONSORS
Everyone likes to get something for nothing. Give away prizes. Get some local or national company to pitch in and just give the stuff away. It's not that big a deal, but to a gamer it makes all the world.
TOURNAMENTS
Everyone likes to win too. Not only do you get the sweet file sharing at a LAN, but you also can prove your skilz. Run a baby single elimination tournament and then ballon it from there. Double elimination is good if you can handle the logistics... It gives everyone 2 games at least... even the people that suck at Quake 3 like me:).
LEGAL
If you allow minors, back off the pr0n and alcohol. You need stated policies and enforcement against them. That's the damn rules:(.
Ok, it's 3 AM, I'm going to bed. Gamerzday is always looking for more locations to LAN... got any ideas?:)
A couple of my friends use a logitech trackball for LAN'ing. It seems to be OK, but certainly killer on the thumb. Using it with the right hand it feels kinda right when playing a game with a right handed weapon (I know you can edit the centered'ness in the config, but all you FOV 110, Center handed'ness pansies can kiss my railgun).
One mouse that was pretty decent is the Kensington Expert Mouse. It gives a real good feeling of movement because of it's size. And if you must use center handed'ness it has a really good feel to it. I think it also has increased DPI like the M$ Explorer mouse or the Razer Boomslang.
Worms? Some LAN parties would kill to be able to play Worms...
I'm not proud of this, but it's the honest truth... the first LAN party I had after I got DSL was a Friday to Sunday shindig. NOT ONE GOD DAMN GAME WAS PLAYED. The culprit? Friday afternoon I had found the alt.binaries.* newsgroups and shared my new found bandwidth and knowledge with others... Good lord that was a lot of porn!
You might want to look up the 7 layer OSI model as well. Routers live in level 3. Stateful packet inspection firewalls live in level 4. It takes a little faster network and muscle to keep up with routers, but it's being done all across the 'net as we speak.
(I think the levels are right! Lord knows I'm going to be crucified if I'm wrong...)
We can then see for ourselves if it's a PDF or perhaps a NY times link. Let me guess, people would rather make things look pretty then give good detailed information about a link...
I think what they are doing is great.
I think their philosophy behind it is jacked up.
He is a curious, very clever child, someone that always wants to know more," said neuro-linguist Dr Anat Treister-Goren who is Hal's "mommy" and readily admits her attachment.
So HAL is a curious child... Fair enough.
When Hal was "born," he was hardwired with nothing more than the letters of the alphabet and a preference for rewards -- a positive outcome -- over punishments -- a negative one.
Psychology teaches that different people react to negative or positive outcomes at different levels.
HAL reacts to positive outcomes more readily. (As most people do (See: Greed))
"All of us strongly believe that machines are the next step in evolution," said Dunietz. "The distinction between real flesh and blood, old-fashioned and the new kind, will start to blur."
Wait! You've gone to far on that one! Evolution dictates variation happens... Nothing about voluntarily creating the next generation. It just happens when sexual attraction, variation of genetics, and variability of reproduction are found together. So how the hell does a machine meet those conditions? Not only that, but where do we get off creating a machine that does have those qualities:)? Evolution is not voluntary...
"We can have a personal assistant, a slave, a friend who doesn't really suffer by being delegated these tasks," he said.
Ok, so you are going to give HAL all this high flying human like characteristics, and then make him a slave? Man! You guys are fucked up!.
If he works on the idea that positive outcomes are good, then how does boring, mundane, tedious tasks fulfill what he was programmed for?
I'm not saying give HAL rights and don't unplug him. I'm saying it's screwed up to build HAL as a slave.
"We want to make HAL just like a human, and put him to work doing boring shit we hate!"
Wow... shallow.
(Actually the short answer is Slackware, but nevermind I'll stop trollin'...:) ).
First of all, it doesn't matter what distro you start with. You can always jump ship later for whatever your needs are.
Secondly, If you are looking for Linux experience to make you more attractive to businesses, go with a distro very friendly to businesses such as Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc. If you are looking for a distro to really get under the hood and see how everything works (ie. you won't be babied), try Slackware or Debian.
If you have no experience at all, play with a Tom's Boot and Root disk:) (or another distro that is a self booting "demo" of Linux such as Demo Linux, ZipSlack, WinLinux 2000?, etc).
Check out www.linuxiso.org and grab some CDs to play with:).
But I can't see it being more than a niche product. And niche products have a tendency of up and dying. Anyone really serious about playing the game wouldn't use it, because it doesn't offer any advantages to use it.
More fun sure, more competitive no. (It's focus seems to be fighting games.)
There's a difference between paying for something and when that something is commercialized.
Paying $20 a month for your unlimited Dial-up account is just a fact of life. You don't get something for nothing.
Paying $25 / month in addition to $20 / month just to use a companies "inteligent network infrastructure" is a bunch of crap. You're paying for the priviledge of sending packets above and beyond what it costs to afford the equipment. They want to graft "service sector" business plans on a decentralized open network. And they wonder why the are having problems...
You don't get any valed added services from having to pay for their commercialized Internet. You don't get a choice in the matter; you just have to. Who does it benefit? The companies that collect the money. Who's a flat rate of $20 / month for an ISP benefit? The consumer. $20 is well worth access to the Internet. Keep it that way.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go work for The Man to afford this damn cable modem....
I have the same problem with it as I do force feedback. Why on earth would you use it?
If you can get the same scorces, results, and endings using a regular keyboard and mouse (or Joystick), why expend the extra effort and jump around? Purely for exercise? OK, but that's not going to attract any hardcore gamers.
If you turn off force feedback, you don't have the distraction. What does it add to the game anyway? Sure, without it the realism goes straight to hell, but if your bottom line is beating the game (or an opponent), then you like the realism of having to expend energy to be nonexistant.
*Tom opens up VMWare, Opens up Netscape Messenger and sorts by Priority flag.
I have one email that is flagged highest priority by "visitalk". After I registered with them for PC to Phone calls that was their confirmation email.
(I always delete the SPAM, I'll have to check next time (give me 20 minutes...) )
Quote from article:
"By adding "intelligent" switches and other devices, they believe, the system could work faster, avoid traffic jams, distinguish between high-priority data and other material that can wait, and generally live up to its promise as a worldwide communications and entertainment medium."
It's exactly what they want to do... e-commerence is "highest priority" to some people. That's alright, but it's nice to have a level playing field.
hehehe:)
I was going to post a message just like that.:)
The problem is, what can anyone do about it? Nothing is offlimits from the grasp of greedy business men. You can say heathcare, bill of rights, etc, but that's just a load of crap. The United States still hasn't passed a universial heathcare program, and big businesses doesn't hesitate to walk on your rights when it's *profitable* to do so. I digress...
I haven't quite figured out what to do about it, but one thing that has me paranoid is an urgency flag in IPv6 (Is it in the RFC? Or am I imagining things again?). Just because some company has some e-commerence infrastructure now their packet is more important than mine? The purpose of the flag is to allow real time streaming such as surgeries and such. But it's wide open for abuse.
I don't know what can be done to protect anindividual's rights and make certain aspects of things (Non commercial Internet, Heathcare, Equal Rights, etc) offlimits to corporations while still being America... the land of the free.
Human beings require very productive weapons to kill each other will. And nuclear weapons just aren't efficient enough. A biological weapon or a neutron bomb is far better at killing.
My EAD 137 teacher (Engineering Applied Science), who knows his shit (works at Lawerence Livermore National Lab (LLNL)), said Nuclear Weapons will be ecilpsed by far better killing weapons. Which makes sense. You only get a 3 percent conversion of E=MC^2 with nukes.
Of course one thing I aways thought strange about his work... was that everyone says cold fusion is impossible right? Well at LLNL they are buidling the NIF (National Ignition Facility) that is supposed to help in making sure the nuclear stockpile is ready to go. If you actually look at what they are doing, they are trying to aim 196 lasers at some Tritium... For what cause? Cold fusion on a small scale:).
I can't find the exact reference (On Elcomsoft's website somewhere... FAQ maybe?)
Elcomsoft's software actually converts types of PDFs from one Adobe format to another. It will take the web buy stuff and make a normal PDF out of it. Backup purposes? Perhaps.
That's one Adobe format to another. I read his defcon presentation and it looks pretty indepth. His efforts could be duplicated and a GPL'ed version could be made (Everything is like that though:) ). It's not like they are hiding the fact that Adobe's protection mechanisms suck major ass or hiding them from you. They aren't saying "pay us because we have advanced knowledge!"
Lastly, the product, AEBPR, was created to convert encrypted ebooks to an unencrypted form. The Adobe eBook format was added later. They had this project. They added eBook support and then all hell broke loose:).
Elcomsoft has every right in the work to sell a program that allows backups of eBooks, etc.
It never was supported... It's being discontinued by David:(. He's going back to Georgia Tech to finish his degree. A few of us on the message board are going to continue it as a community project though.
We had to change the name so it wasn't copyright infringement.
www.splack.org
splack.sourceforge.net
We want to bring it up to Slackware 8.0 quality and then release it.
I hacked on the TFTP configure scripts yesterday... It's coming along.
Quotes from the article:
"One of the new studies, led by Rutgers University Professor David Merritt, found that if (Galaxy) M33 contains a black hole, it is not more than 3,000 times the mass of our Sun."
"Gebhardt refers to these possibly numerous groupings of stars as "very puny disk-only galaxies." Some researchers think there may be more of them in the universe than any other type of galaxy. And so if they in fact do not harbor black holes, then galaxies with black holes would be in the minority."
The jury is in! We know nothing conclusive about the universe! (Or why goatse.cx is so popular a troll spot.)
Here's the CERT advisory on the worm:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-19.html
Here's the cert advisory on the exploit:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-13.html
Where's it mention Sadmind/IIS? Sadmind/IIS have nothing to do with Code Red, besides the fact they they spread by scanning for IIS servers.
Yes, everyone and their grandmother need to run patched, secured, hardened boxes, but this particular Sunday, Sun is in the clear...
If you read the article and believe a little crap that my boss keeps telling me, GoTo.com has a real business strategy. (I never use GoTo.com I just use Google (used to use altavista...)). They have the infratstructure to accomodate all these Pay Per Rank sites. It's like an eBay account that Goto.com automatically debts when your key word is used. And because we are capitialists, and capitialists love advertising, it supposedly works.
All that is per my bosses words and a load of shit. When people stop using terrible search engines the companies will stop throwing their advertising dollars at search engines. I don't know how to make Google.com money, but a little ad on the side is OK by me.
On a side note, If you look at the article, most everyone is linked with GoTo.com...
(If you link to GoTo.com on your site, you can start out by making 2 cents a search (Paid by linkExchange)... and when you get enough searches you get roughly 6 cents a search (Paid by GoTo.com directly from the money the advertisers paid.). This of course is all from my bosses mouth and will get me fired... Of course I hate the job anyway so It's OK:).
For England, it was 3 miles and is now 12 miles around the island, according to www.havenco.com and www.sealandgov.com. Perhaps we should launch a satellite and claim it as an independent nation:). We won't pay taxes on it until we have representation on the city council...
Justin,
I'd like to think I'm one of your friends... Did you pay for that copy of Windows that you run in VMWare? (That Win98SE one? That WinME one? The one at work? And the one at home?) Don't you have photoshop installed? What the hell is your point about paying anyway?:)
Not to mention that fact that you insult all your "Windows-using friends" as being sheep. Not all of us "upgraded" to Windows 2000. Games (such as Quake 3) run slightly (1 to 10 FPS) better in Win98 SE (www.tomshardware.com).
Why is not owning a legal copy grounds for "the discussion being over"? Regardless of where I stand on the pirate software front do I not have knowledge of Windows 2000 and Linux? Therefore can I not make an informed opinion about their relative merit?
Get off your damn high-horse and take down your egotistical ideals a notch.
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Firstly, there is a lot of different types of LANs.
:) ).
:).
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:)
I started out doing a 2 player thin coax LAN at my house.
That balloned up to a 12 player coax LAN at my house.
Then it became a 10/100 2 5-port hub, 8 player LAN at my friend Mikey's house...
The next step was a 40-50 player LAN in nice comfortable leather high back chairs and rented hotel space.
And now it's a 100-140 player LAN at Stars recreation center (www.stars.com) in Vacaville.
For lack of a better term I turned "pro". I now do it for money. Once you make the jump from garage LAN to paid LAN you have to keep the atomsphere of the garage LAN but deliever the reliability, power, and network of a professional LAN.
Garage LAN:
DIVERSIFICATION
Some people are console freaks, some people are PC freaks. Have plenty of both. Consoles are great, because you don't have to blow $500 to play a game. Big screens with movies are good too (but watch them copyrights on public viewings!)
PARTY ATOMSPHERE
Keep it relaxed and enjoyable. Do not break out the fine china and do not throw a LAN at a house or location with fine China to break. Loud music (techno, phat beats, or rock) is a must.
Professional LAN:
POWER
Buy, rent, or steal enough power so that there is never a blow circuit. Waiting an hour or so for the circuit breaker to cool down is retard (Go morons in Sacto!).
NETWORK
9 ms ping is your target. Have you ever tried to lightning gun in Rocket Arena 3 with higher than 50 ping? It sucks so much ass... Do you know how evil a railgun is at 9 ms ping?
Internet access is always very nice. More is better, but a little with do. If you have multiday events it's great to check your email. (Gets people to advertise your event to their buddies
SPONSORS
Everyone likes to get something for nothing. Give away prizes. Get some local or national company to pitch in and just give the stuff away. It's not that big a deal, but to a gamer it makes all the world.
TOURNAMENTS
Everyone likes to win too. Not only do you get the sweet file sharing at a LAN, but you also can prove your skilz. Run a baby single elimination tournament and then ballon it from there. Double elimination is good if you can handle the logistics... It gives everyone 2 games at least... even the people that suck at Quake 3 like me
LEGAL
If you allow minors, back off the pr0n and alcohol. You need stated policies and enforcement against them. That's the damn rules
Ok, it's 3 AM, I'm going to bed. Gamerzday is always looking for more locations to LAN... got any ideas?
(Damn it's 3:02... It took 17 minutes!)
BANGG pulled out of some really big deals and then shrivled.
www.gamerzday.com
We're an hour north up in Vacaville however.
Quite a few in Sac too... but that's a little far.
We got some things in the works to spread the LAN lovin' though. Don't be surprised if Gamerzday mutates and multiplies.
A couple of my friends use a logitech trackball for LAN'ing. It seems to be OK, but certainly killer on the thumb. Using it with the right hand it feels kinda right when playing a game with a right handed weapon (I know you can edit the centered'ness in the config, but all you FOV 110, Center handed'ness pansies can kiss my railgun).
One mouse that was pretty decent is the Kensington Expert Mouse. It gives a real good feeling of movement because of it's size. And if you must use center handed'ness it has a really good feel to it. I think it also has increased DPI like the M$ Explorer mouse or the Razer Boomslang.
Worms? Some LAN parties would kill to be able to play Worms...
I'm not proud of this, but it's the honest truth... the first LAN party I had after I got DSL was a Friday to Sunday shindig. NOT ONE GOD DAMN GAME WAS PLAYED. The culprit? Friday afternoon I had found the alt.binaries.* newsgroups and shared my new found bandwidth and knowledge with others... Good lord that was a lot of porn!
Stateful Packet Inspection. Application Gateways. Enough buzzwords:
http://www.avolio.com/apgw+spf.html
You might want to look up the 7 layer OSI model as well. Routers live in level 3. Stateful packet inspection firewalls live in level 4. It takes a little faster network and muscle to keep up with routers, but it's being done all across the 'net as we speak.
(I think the levels are right! Lord knows I'm going to be crucified if I'm wrong...)
Open Source / GPL software:
1) can cause damage.
2) gets pulled when big companies bark.
3) licenses are a joke (not enforceable).
Fuck.
I hope they change their mind.
Hmmm code fork?
(I'm in Linux as we speak. I wish the authors all the best, but wish they can find a away to stand their ground.)
Could be written like:
The details about the 'FLEETzero' chips are detailed in this paper http://research.sun.com://../sml2001-0139.pdf
We can then see for ourselves if it's a PDF or perhaps a NY times link. Let me guess, people would rather make things look pretty then give good detailed information about a link...
I think their philosophy behind it is jacked up.
So HAL is a curious child... Fair enough.
Psychology teaches that different people react to negative or positive outcomes at different levels.
HAL reacts to positive outcomes more readily. (As most people do (See: Greed))
Wait! You've gone to far on that one! Evolution dictates variation happens... Nothing about voluntarily creating the next generation. It just happens when sexual attraction, variation of genetics, and variability of reproduction are found together. So how the hell does a machine meet those conditions? Not only that, but where do we get off creating a machine that does have those qualities
Ok, so you are going to give HAL all this high flying human like characteristics, and then make him a slave? Man! You guys are fucked up!.
If he works on the idea that positive outcomes are good, then how does boring, mundane, tedious tasks fulfill what he was programmed for?
I'm not saying give HAL rights and don't unplug him. I'm saying it's screwed up to build HAL as a slave.
"We want to make HAL just like a human, and put him to work doing boring shit we hate!"
Wow... shallow.
(Actually the short answer is Slackware, but nevermind I'll stop trollin'... :) ).
:) (or another distro that is a self booting "demo" of Linux such as Demo Linux, ZipSlack, WinLinux 2000?, etc).
Check out www.linuxiso.org and grab some CDs to play with :).
First of all, it doesn't matter what distro you start with. You can always jump ship later for whatever your needs are.
Secondly, If you are looking for Linux experience to make you more attractive to businesses, go with a distro very friendly to businesses such as Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc. If you are looking for a distro to really get under the hood and see how everything works (ie. you won't be babied), try Slackware or Debian.
If you have no experience at all, play with a Tom's Boot and Root disk
What do you have to do to change the Hostname of a Solaris box without using the GUI?
(Hint (that should not be given to them!): You have to change it in two places.)
Thank you for the link, troll, for now I am enlightened.
(Sometimes you need to be offtopic and indignant to get a message out...)
I'd love to try it too!
But I can't see it being more than a niche product. And niche products have a tendency of up and dying. Anyone really serious about playing the game wouldn't use it, because it doesn't offer any advantages to use it.
More fun sure, more competitive no. (It's focus seems to be fighting games.)
There's a difference between paying for something and when that something is commercialized.
Paying $20 a month for your unlimited Dial-up account is just a fact of life. You don't get something for nothing.
Paying $25 / month in addition to $20 / month just to use a companies "inteligent network infrastructure" is a bunch of crap. You're paying for the priviledge of sending packets above and beyond what it costs to afford the equipment. They want to graft "service sector" business plans on a decentralized open network. And they wonder why the are having problems...
You don't get any valed added services from having to pay for their commercialized Internet. You don't get a choice in the matter; you just have to. Who does it benefit? The companies that collect the money. Who's a flat rate of $20 / month for an ISP benefit? The consumer. $20 is well worth access to the Internet. Keep it that way.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go work for The Man to afford this damn cable modem....
I have the same problem with it as I do force feedback. Why on earth would you use it?
:).
If you can get the same scorces, results, and endings using a regular keyboard and mouse (or Joystick), why expend the extra effort and jump around? Purely for exercise? OK, but that's not going to attract any hardcore gamers.
If you turn off force feedback, you don't have the distraction. What does it add to the game anyway? Sure, without it the realism goes straight to hell, but if your bottom line is beating the game (or an opponent), then you like the realism of having to expend energy to be nonexistant.
Perhaps I'm just too damn lazy
*Tom opens up VMWare, Opens up Netscape Messenger and sorts by Priority flag.
I have one email that is flagged highest priority by "visitalk". After I registered with them for PC to Phone calls that was their confirmation email.
(I always delete the SPAM, I'll have to check next time (give me 20 minutes...) )
Quote from article:
"By adding "intelligent" switches and other devices, they believe, the system could work faster, avoid traffic jams, distinguish between high-priority data and other material that can wait, and generally live up to its promise as a worldwide communications and entertainment medium."
It's exactly what they want to do... e-commerence is "highest priority" to some people. That's alright, but it's nice to have a level playing field.
hehehe :)
:)
I was going to post a message just like that.
The problem is, what can anyone do about it? Nothing is offlimits from the grasp of greedy business men. You can say heathcare, bill of rights, etc, but that's just a load of crap. The United States still hasn't passed a universial heathcare program, and big businesses doesn't hesitate to walk on your rights when it's *profitable* to do so. I digress...
I haven't quite figured out what to do about it, but one thing that has me paranoid is an urgency flag in IPv6 (Is it in the RFC? Or am I imagining things again?). Just because some company has some e-commerence infrastructure now their packet is more important than mine? The purpose of the flag is to allow real time streaming such as surgeries and such. But it's wide open for abuse.
I don't know what can be done to protect anindividual's rights and make certain aspects of things (Non commercial Internet, Heathcare, Equal Rights, etc) offlimits to corporations while still being America... the land of the free.
I'm still working on my manifesto...
Yeah "hot enough to fuse!". And if you can get a lot of them to do that, without a nuclear reaction to implode them, is that not cold fusion? :)
Let's not mince words. I think it's pretty cool what the NIF is going (trying) to do, but it's still chasing cold fusion.
They want to do it on a small scale to study the reaction for the nuclear stewardship program, OK. Cold fusion in a box...
Human beings require very productive weapons to kill each other will. And nuclear weapons just aren't efficient enough. A biological weapon or a neutron bomb is far better at killing.
My EAD 137 teacher (Engineering Applied Science), who knows his shit (works at Lawerence Livermore National Lab (LLNL)), said Nuclear Weapons will be ecilpsed by far better killing weapons. Which makes sense. You only get a 3 percent conversion of E=MC^2 with nukes.
Of course one thing I aways thought strange about his work... was that everyone says cold fusion is impossible right? Well at LLNL they are buidling the NIF (National Ignition Facility) that is supposed to help in making sure the nuclear stockpile is ready to go. If you actually look at what they are doing, they are trying to aim 196 lasers at some Tritium... For what cause? Cold fusion on a small scale:).
I can't find the exact reference (On Elcomsoft's website somewhere... FAQ maybe?)
:) ). It's not like they are hiding the fact that Adobe's protection mechanisms suck major ass or hiding them from you. They aren't saying "pay us because we have advanced knowledge!"
:).
Elcomsoft's software actually converts types of PDFs from one Adobe format to another. It will take the web buy stuff and make a normal PDF out of it. Backup purposes? Perhaps.
That's one Adobe format to another. I read his defcon presentation and it looks pretty indepth. His efforts could be duplicated and a GPL'ed version could be made (Everything is like that though
Lastly, the product, AEBPR, was created to convert encrypted ebooks to an unencrypted form. The Adobe eBook format was added later. They had this project. They added eBook support and then all hell broke loose
Elcomsoft has every right in the work to sell a program that allows backups of eBooks, etc.
It never was supported... It's being discontinued by David :(. He's going back to Georgia Tech to finish his degree. A few of us on the message board are going to continue it as a community project though.
We had to change the name so it wasn't copyright infringement.
www.splack.org
splack.sourceforge.net
We want to bring it up to Slackware 8.0 quality and then release it.
I hacked on the TFTP configure scripts yesterday... It's coming along.
Quotes from the article:
"One of the new studies, led by Rutgers University Professor David Merritt, found that if (Galaxy) M33 contains a black hole, it is not more than 3,000 times the mass of our Sun."
"Gebhardt refers to these possibly numerous groupings of stars as "very puny disk-only galaxies." Some researchers think there may be more of them in the universe than any other type of galaxy. And so if they in fact do not harbor black holes, then galaxies with black holes would be in the minority."
The jury is in! We know nothing conclusive about the universe! (Or why goatse.cx is so popular a troll spot.)
Here's the CERT advisory on the worm:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-19.html
Here's the cert advisory on the exploit:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-13.html
Where's it mention Sadmind/IIS? Sadmind/IIS have nothing to do with Code Red, besides the fact they they spread by scanning for IIS servers.
Yes, everyone and their grandmother need to run patched, secured, hardened boxes, but this particular Sunday, Sun is in the clear...
If you read the article and believe a little crap that my boss keeps telling me, GoTo.com has a real business strategy. (I never use GoTo.com I just use Google (used to use altavista...)). They have the infratstructure to accomodate all these Pay Per Rank sites. It's like an eBay account that Goto.com automatically debts when your key word is used. And because we are capitialists, and capitialists love advertising, it supposedly works. :).
All that is per my bosses words and a load of shit. When people stop using terrible search engines the companies will stop throwing their advertising dollars at search engines. I don't know how to make Google.com money, but a little ad on the side is OK by me.
On a side note, If you look at the article, most everyone is linked with GoTo.com...
(If you link to GoTo.com on your site, you can start out by making 2 cents a search (Paid by linkExchange)... and when you get enough searches you get roughly 6 cents a search (Paid by GoTo.com directly from the money the advertisers paid.). This of course is all from my bosses mouth and will get me fired... Of course I hate the job anyway so It's OK
For England, it was 3 miles and is now 12 miles around the island, according to www.havenco.com and www.sealandgov.com. Perhaps we should launch a satellite and claim it as an independent nation :). We won't pay taxes on it until we have representation on the city council...
Justin, :)
I'd like to think I'm one of your friends... Did you pay for that copy of Windows that you run in VMWare? (That Win98SE one? That WinME one? The one at work? And the one at home?) Don't you have photoshop installed? What the hell is your point about paying anyway?
Not to mention that fact that you insult all your "Windows-using friends" as being sheep. Not all of us "upgraded" to Windows 2000. Games (such as Quake 3) run slightly (1 to 10 FPS) better in Win98 SE (www.tomshardware.com).
Why is not owning a legal copy grounds for "the discussion being over"? Regardless of where I stand on the pirate software front do I not have knowledge of Windows 2000 and Linux? Therefore can I not make an informed opinion about their relative merit?
Get off your damn high-horse and take down your egotistical ideals a notch.