A couple years ago, a Minneapolis newspaper appropriatly called Ax Man "A Unibomber's wet dream".
Seriously though, it's a great place, and if you are ever in the Twin Cities, check out one of their locations. My personal favorite is on University ave near frogtown. Also, (OT, yes) Landfill records is near by and is worth a stop. They have an absolutly absurd stockpile of old LP records that would take a lifetime to go through. I think it's actually Cheapo's (used music store) warehouse, and selling records directly to the public was just an afterthought.
...Now that too has gone and XML is the big thing? Whatever next?
I think we ALL know the answer to that one...
Profit!
Re:How to clean boot Windows?
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Windows Rootkits
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· Score: 3, Insightful
How did this get modded insightful? If the root kit modifies core system binaries (which is exactly the M.O. of most root kits), then it would still get loaded in safe mode.
Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash says a BIOS is NOT a basic input/output system, but rather a Built In Operating System!!!
...yes, I use RH8 and I am obsessed with the phosphor (please type/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor at your RH8 prompt before modding) screen saver. THANX!!!
1) Log it somewhere only accessable through an obscure state-of-the-industry key sequence held at boot (I propose ctrl-Alt-~-F5-j-F9-q-}(yes, with all the shifts)-\).
2) Make it post so damn fast that nobody even notices
Quote from the article (since I know most of you didn't read it)
In 1961, sensitive American and Soviet radar watching for World War III detected only 50 manufactured objects, burned-out rocket stages and the like, circling the globe.
The list of orbiting objects tracked by an array of military radars and telescopes now tops 10,000, but these are only the bits large enough to be routinely tracked -- things larger than a softball.
I would imagine that radar has become a bit more refined in the last 30+ years, so this statistic should be taken with a grain of salt.
ps, it's somewhat offtopic, but does anyone have a link to stats regarding the ratio of visible natural meteors flaming through the atmosphere vs. man made ones doing the same?
Using Opera 6.11 on RedHat 8.0, I noticed a distinct difference between some microsoft.com pages after changing how the browser identified itself and hitting reload.
For example, at http://microsoft.com/insider/default.asp you'll get a clearly readable page when setting Opera to identify as IE 5.0, but if you identify as Opera, the links in the "Tips and Tricks" and "Trials, Downloads and Patches" will be mashed together and very difficult to read.
Oh, and the page I mentioned is the target of the "Home Users" link on www.microsoft.com. This is not some page lost in the depths of their webtree.
space elevator physics explained
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Columbia Coverage
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· Score: 4, Informative
The article on space elevators said the physics were sound, but it didn't really explain how it works. Here's the short of it:
The structure extends from earth to a point in space beyond geostationary orbit. As the earth spins, centrifugal force keeps the structure under tension to prevent it from collapsing. To place something in orbit, you just climb the structure and let go.
Yeay, no kidding. Besides, with mouse gestures, you can comfortably hit F11 and browse full-screen with absolutly no realestate used by anything other than the web page.
We offer SpamAssassin at the college where I work. I always tell new users that any spam blocking system, no matter how good, will eventually block something that was legitimate. That's why I don't write procmail recipies that redirect mail flagged as spam to/dev/null. You gotta put it in a seperate folder and you are asking to get burned if you don't skim the subjects and senders every couple days. Also, they should be whitelisting messages from addresses in their domain.
I don't see how this is news. It's just an example of bad system administration.
Ok, so it was only briefly, but if you finished Metroid quickly enough, the dude would strip and turn into a chick. I'm pretty sure I saw some nipples in the process too.
Want to see it yourself? Enter "justin bailey" in passcode area (use 12 spaces to fill in the last 12 spaces) and you will start in very good shape. Just get the freeze gun, the power tank (the one closest to the start of the game) and go kill Mother Brain.
I had the TV on providing background noise last night, and someone called it "As good as the last Star Wars". I laughed to myself wondering if it was an insult to AOTC or not. I guess now I know.
Why did you single out Catholics as being opposed to birth control? I'm Catholic and I try to use condoms, and my wife does her best to remember to take the pill. Double protection has probably saved our lifestyle more thaan once. Sure we have a single head of our church (the Pope for the clueless), but we have not considered his opinions infallibale for hundreds of years.
haha, good one! Seriously though, I had an easier time getting my network card to work in linux. I just checked "Enable DHCP" during the install and DHCP works just fine. Windows 2K needed a driver installed before the card would work. I thought it was pretty funny that I had to boot to Linux to get the software to make windows work!
Anyway, for those of you who tried redhat back in the 6.x days and couldn't get anything to work, try 8.0. You will be pleasently suprised
This is a bad idea because it creates a false sense of security. It could easily and stealthily be defeated by an onlooker wearing polarized contact lenses.
Yes, it is pure hype. Taco didn't make them buy a banner ad because they paid more for a whole story. Did you miss the announcement about slashdot's new policy of posting one story a day that is really a paid advertisement? Here is is, straight from Taco's mouth.
Well, my ATI TV wonder VE is lacking in linux drivers. I bought it before I converted (RH 7.2 was finally good enough to use as my primary OS, especially with Wine as good as it's gotten) and I'm getting soooo sick of rebooting to windows.... If anyone has experience getting it to work, I'd me much obliged for the info!
So, as usual, we must blaim the users and the applications for software decay for the most part.
Don't blame the user. Blame the single-user OS.
That's one of the major benefits of a true multiuser operating system such as linux. If you are not sure of the quality of a program, just create a temp user, "su - temp" to that user, and run it. If it sucks, just "userdel temp", do a "find / -uid temp -exec rm{}\;" and the program is 100% gone.
With Windows, it's really a single user OS (can't switch users without logging out first), everything expects administrator privs to install, and once it's in the registry, your box is at the mercy of those binarys you executed.
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A couple years ago, a Minneapolis newspaper appropriatly called Ax Man "A Unibomber's wet dream".
Seriously though, it's a great place, and if you are ever in the Twin Cities, check out one of their locations. My personal favorite is on University ave near frogtown. Also, (OT, yes) Landfill records is near by and is worth a stop. They have an absolutly absurd stockpile of old LP records that would take a lifetime to go through. I think it's actually Cheapo's (used music store) warehouse, and selling records directly to the public was just an afterthought.
Perl is great on the command line. There are so many ideas in text
transformation that can be expressed in a single line of Perl
A skilled PERL coder can write anything in one line. The secret is to start sufficiently far to the left.
...Now that too has gone and XML is the big thing? Whatever next?
I think we ALL know the answer to that one...
Profit!
How did this get modded insightful? If the root kit modifies core system binaries (which is exactly the M.O. of most root kits), then it would still get loaded in safe mode.
Yeah, I know. I was just trying to spoof phosphor and get modded funny.
...as if I wouldn't read every page between the covers of a novel of that calibre...
Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash says a BIOS is NOT a basic input/output system, but rather a Built In Operating System!!!
/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor at your RH8 prompt before modding) screen saver. THANX!!!
...yes, I use RH8 and I am obsessed with the phosphor (please type
1) Log it somewhere only accessable through an obscure state-of-the-industry key sequence held at boot (I propose ctrl-Alt-~-F5-j-F9-q-}(yes, with all the shifts)-\).
2) Make it post so damn fast that nobody even notices
I'd love to have a > 3 lb. tiny subnote for browsing and veggin' on the couch
I bet you'd love more than 3 pounds on you lap while taking care of business on the couch. Hell, I'd enjoy the same.
Quote from the article (since I know most of you didn't read it)
In 1961, sensitive American and Soviet radar watching for World War III detected only 50 manufactured objects, burned-out rocket stages and the like, circling the globe.
The list of orbiting objects tracked by an array of military radars and telescopes now tops 10,000, but these are only the bits large enough to be routinely tracked -- things larger than a softball.
I would imagine that radar has become a bit more refined in the last 30+ years, so this statistic should be taken with a grain of salt.
ps, it's somewhat offtopic, but does anyone have a link to stats regarding the ratio of visible natural meteors flaming through the atmosphere vs. man made ones doing the same?
Using Opera 6.11 on RedHat 8.0, I noticed a distinct
difference between some microsoft.com pages after
changing how the browser identified itself and hitting reload.
For example, at http://microsoft.com/insider/default.asp you'll get
a clearly readable page when setting Opera to identify as IE 5.0, but if you identify as Opera, the links in the
"Tips and Tricks" and "Trials, Downloads and Patches" will be mashed together and very difficult to read.
Oh, and the page I mentioned is the target of the "Home Users" link on www.microsoft.com. This is not some page lost in the depths of their webtree.
The article on space elevators said the physics were sound, but it didn't really explain how it works. Here's the short of it:
The structure extends from earth to a point in space beyond geostationary orbit. As the earth spins, centrifugal force keeps the structure under tension to prevent it from collapsing. To place something in orbit, you just climb the structure and let go.
Yeay, no kidding. Besides, with mouse gestures, you can comfortably hit F11 and browse full-screen with absolutly no realestate used by anything other than the web page.
We offer SpamAssassin at the college where I work. I always tell new users that any spam blocking system, no matter how good, will eventually block something that was legitimate. That's why I don't write procmail recipies that redirect mail flagged as spam to /dev/null. You gotta put it in a seperate folder and you are asking to get burned if you don't skim the subjects and senders every couple days. Also, they should be whitelisting messages from addresses in their domain.
I don't see how this is news. It's just an example of bad system administration.
Ok, so it was only briefly, but if you finished Metroid quickly enough, the dude would strip and turn into a chick. I'm pretty sure I saw some nipples in the process too.
Want to see it yourself? Enter "justin bailey" in passcode area (use 12 spaces to fill in the last 12 spaces) and you will start in very good shape. Just get the freeze gun, the power tank (the one closest to the start of the game) and go kill Mother Brain.
I had the TV on providing background noise last night, and someone called it "As good as the last Star Wars". I laughed to myself wondering if it was an insult to AOTC or not. I guess now I know.
I wonder if a corpse could fit in it?
Huh? Oh, no reason...
Why did you single out Catholics as being opposed to birth control? I'm Catholic and I try to use condoms, and my wife does her best to remember to take the pill. Double protection has probably saved our lifestyle more thaan once. Sure we have a single head of our church (the Pope for the clueless), but we have not considered his opinions infallibale for hundreds of years.
Is it illegal to paintball the MS skaters?
Legal or not, you should never fire a paintball gun at someone not playing paintball.
That's what real guns are for
haha, good one! Seriously though, I had an easier time getting my network card to work in linux. I just checked "Enable DHCP" during the install and DHCP works just fine. Windows 2K needed a driver installed before the card would work. I thought it was pretty funny that I had to boot to Linux to get the software to make windows work!
Anyway, for those of you who tried redhat back in the 6.x days and couldn't get anything to work, try 8.0. You will be pleasently suprised
This is a bad idea because it creates a false sense of security. It could easily and stealthily be defeated by an onlooker wearing polarized contact lenses.
Yes, it is pure hype. Taco didn't make them buy a banner ad because they paid more for a whole story. Did you miss the announcement about slashdot's new policy of posting one story a day that is really a paid advertisement? Here is is, straight from Taco's mouth.
God, these "Slashvertisements" are getting pretty bad.
exactlly what is missing in the current PC PVRs?
Well, my ATI TV wonder VE is lacking in linux drivers. I bought it before I converted (RH 7.2 was finally good enough to use as my primary OS, especially with Wine as good as it's gotten) and I'm getting soooo sick of rebooting to windows.... If anyone has experience getting it to work, I'd me much obliged for the info!
So, as usual, we must blaim the users and the applications for software decay for the most part.
Don't blame the user. Blame the single-user OS.
That's one of the major benefits of a true multiuser operating system such as linux. If you are not sure of the quality of a program, just create a temp user, "su - temp" to that user, and run it. If it sucks, just "userdel temp", do a "find / -uid temp -exec rm{}\;" and the program is 100% gone.
With Windows, it's really a single user OS (can't switch users without logging out first), everything expects administrator privs to install, and once it's in the registry, your box is at the mercy of those binarys you executed.
And since CD is made up of two layers of clear plastic, sandwitching a thin wafer of metal media inside...
There is only one layer of plastic in a CD. The thin metal layer is glued to one side with a thin layer of laminate.