Yeah, dd is fast. I was trying to zero a partition and I typed the wrong device name. Fortunately it was the root of a new test install and not something valuable. I realised my mistake in about 5 seconds but that was way too long.
So? Most men with babies are taken. And women like to visit cute babies, taking care of them permanently isn't that big a turn on. I think posing as a cute uncle who is good with kids would be a better all-around pickup than being a lonely father.
Just guessing. Cause now that I'm a father I don't think of having a hard time talking to women but it also doesn't get very flirty.
Oh yes, I used the firefox plugin leetkey to decrypt your signature. It's kinda fun. I've never ever had to use it for anything else but decrypting slashdot user's sigs.;p
Thanks, that's a really detailed and well written guide there. I'll give it a shot. I've only really played with iptables once then I basically gave up but you've given me a lot of insight into how the overall thing works with this so I'll have another go at it. cheers.
"Finally realized that one of the memory slots was bad"
Be careful with this method! I had a nearly identical issue except it was the MB SATA slot that was unreliable. That ended in complete disaster as my flaky SATA connection polluted one disk that ended up taking down and damaging the whole RAID5 set. Stupid of me, I know.
If a slot is flaky there has got to be an underlying reason for that and it's not worth betting that the problem starts and ends with only that one slot. If it's a $30 MB then it's easy to get a new one, you probably will have to do that anyway and its better to do that before the problem manifests itself as wrecking your data.
I had linux crash dramatically because my motherboard was broken. The real problem was I think that it was broken for a while but didn't crash early enough for me to notice and stop the drama. Ended up having to put a different motherboard in then it worked (except for some sound issue because the motherboards had signifigantly different sound archiatecture)
Let's see someone reboot into Vista with all the HDD switched around and a new motherboard. Oh yes, will never work because M$ makes their products to deliberately not work in such situations because they want to charge you more money.
Stability is open to definition. I'd say stable is not being tied to hardware that is bound to eventually fail (except for the odd lucky guy)
I think you are right. Essentially, this is a case of there being no real crime taking place but technically there is the possibility. The people who are focusing all the attention on what are essentially photos that should have been kept more private are the ones exploiting the sexuality of the kids. The photos should have been deleted and the kids had their cameraphones or myspace accounts taken away with the lesson to be more private with their private lives. Should have ended with that.
Except for using the word Science here there is nothing whatsoever to do with Science in this.
That, and the whole issue of what is in the photos is quite irrellevent.
The interesting thing about this case is that the defendants took the photos of THEMSELVES. No matter how explicit the photos were or are, the issue is how can one pornographically exploit ones-self.
The law may be another matter. It may be to hard to judge who motivated the picture taking and rather than allow a grey area the law is ruling all sexual child photos illegal even if the child victim and perpetrator are all one and the same. But that's obviously got some outrageous consequences too.
Deciding if photos are explicit enough to be child porn and the context is a more general issue than this case presents. Child porn in general is a pretty slippery area.
But how can you write such a long rambling article and only focus on the issue which isn't really special in this case? Surely if the children had taken photos of themselves in more explicit ways the issue of pornography against self comes up.
I'm pretty ignorant of this stuff too but I read in a different thread that basically the solution you are suggestion (block IPs) worked on an earlier version of this type of virus but this new version (the main reason it is so famous I think) has the ability of use so many IPs that it's way too much for anybody to block (even though I think the Canadian.ca TLD is trying this anyway - maybe the.ca is a smaller range so it could work)
As for decrypting and then sending a sort of poison pill to the virus apparently it's well encrypted with a 4096 bit key which means that I guess its pretty unbreakable. (Not sure why, I never fully got the math of encryption anyway)
So I think you are thinking of the right things but they don't work.
I think there is a newer slashdot story saying that this can be detected remotely on a server so that is the fix that will be used.
And by you driving a car to work making it harder for me to cycle you are depriving me of a happy livelihood and therefore owe me $80 Gazillion Dollars.
Lost-potential-profit is the art of lying.
However, I do need to disagree with "registrar." A copy certainly does have some value. That is the backup value which is immeasurable if you have some kind of all to common data disaster. But it seems like the best backup these days is the collective memory of the internet. No storage solution is foolproof. But if something lives on as a healthy torrent pool then it can be available almost indefinately (or until the power runs out) because the more copies you have the more likelyhood that one will survive and as you correctly point out one is enough to propagate as many more copies as you like.
Copy use to be a word meaning wealth and richness: copious bounty of the harvest. Nowadays the **AA liars whose primary value seems to be lost potential profit all have us believing that copy means fake or less than real. Whereas all good geeks know the primary function of a computer is copying data around while changing little bits of it - without the copy function there is no compute function.
Utter nonsense, one would expect more from a Lawyer. The **AA can only sue symbolically because there is no cork big enough to dam the ocean. Sure they could figure out a way to send out 100 million scary threatening letters to most users... but like most spam most people ignore it.
Only with computer graphics development can we talk about 3 years ago as if it were ancient history that needs to be dug up and re-defined. Heck, I'm a Ubuntu newbie still, I just wanted to play with Compiz scripts back then so I remember pretty well as it was the most interesting changes I could learn to make to the system at that point.
Compiz Fusion is the a merge of previous software the main difference being that it fits together and is more stable. The experimental technology and graphic effects of early beryl and earlier Compiz/GLX were very similar - essentially the important changes happened with these more experimental packages. There isn't a lot to copy from Compiz Fusion that sets it apart except the CompizConfig Settings manager which makes it all be able to tie together and be more stable... But that isn't the issue... Or maybe it is. Compiz makes the GNU/linux desktop a heck of a lot less stable as a tradeoff for eyecandy. Maybe OSS IS starting to copy Windoze finally!
(To technically correct myself I think Beryl was trying to be stable as well. The most flashy and talked about feature -cube desktop- was all in the earliest Compiz and Beryl was trying to make it be a simple package you could manually add rather than an ever changing list of tweaks and scripts to manually add as Compiz was)
Yeah but Compiz was before Beryl and then again after it but called Compiz fusion because the more popular (with Ubuntu anyway) Beryl fork was merged back in. XGL is still used for ATi Graphics cards. All that stuff is still developing quite radically and we'll probably have new names for things in just a little while. To be fair to mikey177 and argue a totally trivial point: Beryl and XGL were probably more relevant when Windows7 was being made and thus inspiration for the GUI developed by M$'s EEE policies. Though I don't think they will be able to Eliminate Compiz.
I think M$ is reviving themselves because they realise they don't have to Eliminate the competition because Open Source can pretty much do that for them (Open source is vital to OSX and who else competes with M$? Google? Also using lots of Free Software) and as a competitor isn't really a real money drain (no one pays for it, like how P2P piracy tends to increase the market rather than compete with it) Now all they have to do is copy the best ideas from open source,(no more need for underhandedness, Open Source is open so that people can copy from it) make it all more braindead simple that it requires no setup skills, and voila they can have cutting edge technologies from 3 years ago which is good enough for most consumers and more stable as well. Outsource the research to the Free community and just pay for a few Wizards that can put that stuff to use.
Yeah, Compiz "Window Preview" is probably what they copied, the Bat-Window probably is just a better story and makes it look like M$ doesn't take all their ideas from others.
I love bike trailers but recently I've fallen in love with a Dutch export called a Bakfiets.Cargo Bike. (The proper "Box-Bike" in the Netherlands is actually a bigger Cargo Tricycle)
It's super convenient. My wife and I would have been miserable with our new baby if we didn't use this every second day. The only problem is cost, because it is imported from so far away. I'm thinking about making one myself though later this yearrusl.ca because we really need more of them around. (In Vancouver, bc)
You're right things are designed around cars and furniture, groceries and jobs... everything is part of it.
But the benefits are greater. People NEED to belong to community more than they need a certain particular thing or habit. Everyone who does it is happy afterwards. But it can't be done alone or as an individual because you just have to give up. On the other hand a little support (like helping a friend fix a flat bicycle tire and going riding together to share good routes, or just talking to your neighbours in the local park) helps much more than the effort put in.
Or perhaps a more positive spin: You really have it better there without cars.
People WILL give up cars willingly. Many do now. Bicycles are infinitely superior in most cities, all it takes is some geekiness to figure out how to do it.
We need a mind shift and we need people to be able to imagine Car-Free cities as thriving. It shouldn't be hard, Car-Free areas thrive even when they are put in to replace car-areas in cities that have become built around cars. But it's a massive undertaking and there are opponents to this change with really deep pockets (The auto and oil industries are connected pretty solidly to the military industries too)
The US is a hard place to change due to a long history of privatising public spaces (the essence of car space culture) but look at places like Portland and Davis, CA, what it takes is willpower most of all.
Our only hope is that, with the long time it takes to "pave the way" and reconfigure a country around the private automobile (India, China) That those of us in the rest of the world will start wising up and stop building our cities around cars.
"who the hell are you to decide who gets to drive and who doesn't"
This is exactly why we have so many problems with cars taking over. We view this collective problem as the responsibility of the individual. Some people even think driving is a human right!
This is in part due to how cars are marketed, what ideologies are ascendant in our culture (free-market individualism) and the nature of the technology itself.
Cars can seem very atomistic, you feel totally independent when you are behind the wheel and there is an open road. But, unlike a bicycle, you are not really self propelled. There is a lot of realisation taking place these days about the tremendous interconnected web that fuel oil consumption requires in order to drive a car. And some realisation about the global nature of our atmosphere. But there is still little recognition of the "train-tracks" under these "cars" that are required to make the system go, the space taken up and layout of all our cities, or the tremedous discipline required to keep all people, animals and everything else in cities off the public streets sequestered on sidewalks.
Open roads are pretty rare where people use cars a lot.
We need to take collective action to remove cars from our cities. We need to decide who gets to use cars. That should be ambulances and some other special uses. Otherwise we need thriving car-free cities. It's a great way to save money and build jobs. But right now we lack the imagination to move forward with the idea of a city that is build around people and not cars.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, dd is fast. I was trying to zero a partition and I typed the wrong device name. Fortunately it was the root of a new test install and not something valuable. I realised my mistake in about 5 seconds but that was way too long.
Conficker has infected *nix now?
Small quibble: that is to say that small is the big thing when it comes to people being big into small laptops nowadays.
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So? Most men with babies are taken. And women like to visit cute babies, taking care of them permanently isn't that big a turn on. I think posing as a cute uncle who is good with kids would be a better all-around pickup than being a lonely father.
Just guessing. Cause now that I'm a father I don't think of having a hard time talking to women but it also doesn't get very flirty.
Oh yes, I used the firefox plugin leetkey to decrypt your signature. It's kinda fun. I've never ever had to use it for anything else but decrypting slashdot user's sigs. ;p
Thanks, that's a really detailed and well written guide there. I'll give it a shot. I've only really played with iptables once then I basically gave up but you've given me a lot of insight into how the overall thing works with this so I'll have another go at it. cheers.
"Finally realized that one of the memory slots was bad"
Be careful with this method! I had a nearly identical issue except it was the MB SATA slot that was unreliable. That ended in complete disaster as my flaky SATA connection polluted one disk that ended up taking down and damaging the whole RAID5 set. Stupid of me, I know.
If a slot is flaky there has got to be an underlying reason for that and it's not worth betting that the problem starts and ends with only that one slot. If it's a $30 MB then it's easy to get a new one, you probably will have to do that anyway and its better to do that before the problem manifests itself as wrecking your data.
I had linux crash dramatically because my motherboard was broken. The real problem was I think that it was broken for a while but didn't crash early enough for me to notice and stop the drama. Ended up having to put a different motherboard in then it worked (except for some sound issue because the motherboards had signifigantly different sound archiatecture)
Let's see someone reboot into Vista with all the HDD switched around and a new motherboard. Oh yes, will never work because M$ makes their products to deliberately not work in such situations because they want to charge you more money.
Stability is open to definition. I'd say stable is not being tied to hardware that is bound to eventually fail (except for the odd lucky guy)
I think you are right. Essentially, this is a case of there being no real crime taking place but technically there is the possibility. The people who are focusing all the attention on what are essentially photos that should have been kept more private are the ones exploiting the sexuality of the kids. The photos should have been deleted and the kids had their cameraphones or myspace accounts taken away with the lesson to be more private with their private lives. Should have ended with that.
Except for using the word Science here there is nothing whatsoever to do with Science in this.
That, and the whole issue of what is in the photos is quite irrellevent.
The interesting thing about this case is that the defendants took the photos of THEMSELVES. No matter how explicit the photos were or are, the issue is how can one pornographically exploit ones-self.
The law may be another matter. It may be to hard to judge who motivated the picture taking and rather than allow a grey area the law is ruling all sexual child photos illegal even if the child victim and perpetrator are all one and the same. But that's obviously got some outrageous consequences too.
Deciding if photos are explicit enough to be child porn and the context is a more general issue than this case presents. Child porn in general is a pretty slippery area.
But how can you write such a long rambling article and only focus on the issue which isn't really special in this case? Surely if the children had taken photos of themselves in more explicit ways the issue of pornography against self comes up.
I'm pretty ignorant of this stuff too but I read in a different thread that basically the solution you are suggestion (block IPs) worked on an earlier version of this type of virus but this new version (the main reason it is so famous I think) has the ability of use so many IPs that it's way too much for anybody to block (even though I think the Canadian .ca TLD is trying this anyway - maybe the .ca is a smaller range so it could work)
As for decrypting and then sending a sort of poison pill to the virus apparently it's well encrypted with a 4096 bit key which means that I guess its pretty unbreakable. (Not sure why, I never fully got the math of encryption anyway)
So I think you are thinking of the right things but they don't work.
I think there is a newer slashdot story saying that this can be detected remotely on a server so that is the fix that will be used.
I've set up a few without knowing what I was doing. They are pretty easy to install nowadays.
Could you point some of us newbies in the direction of how to do this? I've moved my ssh port already too, but I don't know about DROP.
Carnegie was a robber baron pirate. He funded so many libraries because of this. Libraries are from the devil, that socialist.
And by you driving a car to work making it harder for me to cycle you are depriving me of a happy livelihood and therefore owe me $80 Gazillion Dollars.
Lost-potential-profit is the art of lying.
However, I do need to disagree with "registrar." A copy certainly does have some value. That is the backup value which is immeasurable if you have some kind of all to common data disaster. But it seems like the best backup these days is the collective memory of the internet. No storage solution is foolproof. But if something lives on as a healthy torrent pool then it can be available almost indefinately (or until the power runs out) because the more copies you have the more likelyhood that one will survive and as you correctly point out one is enough to propagate as many more copies as you like.
Copy use to be a word meaning wealth and richness: copious bounty of the harvest. Nowadays the **AA liars whose primary value seems to be lost potential profit all have us believing that copy means fake or less than real. Whereas all good geeks know the primary function of a computer is copying data around while changing little bits of it - without the copy function there is no compute function.
Utter nonsense, one would expect more from a Lawyer. The **AA can only sue symbolically because there is no cork big enough to dam the ocean. Sure they could figure out a way to send out 100 million scary threatening letters to most users... but like most spam most people ignore it.
Only with computer graphics development can we talk about 3 years ago as if it were ancient history that needs to be dug up and re-defined. Heck, I'm a Ubuntu newbie still, I just wanted to play with Compiz scripts back then so I remember pretty well as it was the most interesting changes I could learn to make to the system at that point.
Compiz Fusion is the a merge of previous software the main difference being that it fits together and is more stable. The experimental technology and graphic effects of early beryl and earlier Compiz/GLX were very similar - essentially the important changes happened with these more experimental packages. There isn't a lot to copy from Compiz Fusion that sets it apart except the CompizConfig Settings manager which makes it all be able to tie together and be more stable... But that isn't the issue... Or maybe it is. Compiz makes the GNU/linux desktop a heck of a lot less stable as a tradeoff for eyecandy. Maybe OSS IS starting to copy Windoze finally!
(To technically correct myself I think Beryl was trying to be stable as well. The most flashy and talked about feature -cube desktop- was all in the earliest Compiz and Beryl was trying to make it be a simple package you could manually add rather than an ever changing list of tweaks and scripts to manually add as Compiz was)
Yeah but Compiz was before Beryl and then again after it but called Compiz fusion because the more popular (with Ubuntu anyway) Beryl fork was merged back in. XGL is still used for ATi Graphics cards. All that stuff is still developing quite radically and we'll probably have new names for things in just a little while. To be fair to mikey177 and argue a totally trivial point: Beryl and XGL were probably more relevant when Windows7 was being made and thus inspiration for the GUI developed by M$'s EEE policies. Though I don't think they will be able to Eliminate Compiz.
I think M$ is reviving themselves because they realise they don't have to Eliminate the competition because Open Source can pretty much do that for them (Open source is vital to OSX and who else competes with M$? Google? Also using lots of Free Software) and as a competitor isn't really a real money drain (no one pays for it, like how P2P piracy tends to increase the market rather than compete with it) Now all they have to do is copy the best ideas from open source,(no more need for underhandedness, Open Source is open so that people can copy from it) make it all more braindead simple that it requires no setup skills, and voila they can have cutting edge technologies from 3 years ago which is good enough for most consumers and more stable as well. Outsource the research to the Free community and just pay for a few Wizards that can put that stuff to use.
Yeah, Compiz "Window Preview" is probably what they copied, the Bat-Window probably is just a better story and makes it look like M$ doesn't take all their ideas from others.
I love bike trailers but recently I've fallen in love with a Dutch export called a Bakfiets.Cargo Bike. (The proper "Box-Bike" in the Netherlands is actually a bigger Cargo Tricycle)
It's super convenient. My wife and I would have been miserable with our new baby if we didn't use this every second day. The only problem is cost, because it is imported from so far away. I'm thinking about making one myself though later this yearrusl.ca because we really need more of them around. (In Vancouver, bc)
forgo the hassle of a car!
You're right things are designed around cars and furniture, groceries and jobs... everything is part of it.
But the benefits are greater. People NEED to belong to community more than they need a certain particular thing or habit. Everyone who does it is happy afterwards. But it can't be done alone or as an individual because you just have to give up. On the other hand a little support (like helping a friend fix a flat bicycle tire and going riding together to share good routes, or just talking to your neighbours in the local park) helps much more than the effort put in.
Or perhaps a more positive spin: You really have it better there without cars.
People WILL give up cars willingly. Many do now. Bicycles are infinitely superior in most cities, all it takes is some geekiness to figure out how to do it.
We need a mind shift and we need people to be able to imagine Car-Free cities as thriving. It shouldn't be hard, Car-Free areas thrive even when they are put in to replace car-areas in cities that have become built around cars. But it's a massive undertaking and there are opponents to this change with really deep pockets (The auto and oil industries are connected pretty solidly to the military industries too)
The US is a hard place to change due to a long history of privatising public spaces (the essence of car space culture) but look at places like Portland and Davis, CA, what it takes is willpower most of all.
Our only hope is that, with the long time it takes to "pave the way" and reconfigure a country around the private automobile (India, China) That those of us in the rest of the world will start wising up and stop building our cities around cars.
Otherwise we're all doomed:
Open Library: The Endless Pavement
"who the hell are you to decide who gets to drive and who doesn't"
This is exactly why we have so many problems with cars taking over. We view this collective problem as the responsibility of the individual. Some people even think driving is a human right!
This is in part due to how cars are marketed, what ideologies are ascendant in our culture (free-market individualism) and the nature of the technology itself.
Cars can seem very atomistic, you feel totally independent when you are behind the wheel and there is an open road. But, unlike a bicycle, you are not really self propelled. There is a lot of realisation taking place these days about the tremendous interconnected web that fuel oil consumption requires in order to drive a car. And some realisation about the global nature of our atmosphere. But there is still little recognition of the "train-tracks" under these "cars" that are required to make the system go, the space taken up and layout of all our cities, or the tremedous discipline required to keep all people, animals and everything else in cities off the public streets sequestered on sidewalks.
Open roads are pretty rare where people use cars a lot.
We need to take collective action to remove cars from our cities. We need to decide who gets to use cars. That should be ambulances and some other special uses. Otherwise we need thriving car-free cities. It's a great way to save money and build jobs. But right now we lack the imagination to move forward with the idea of a city that is build around people and not cars.