I am behind a Linux firewall, typing this on Linux.
My cable modem (Shaw.ca) works just fine.
When I first set up my system, the tech came by with my free network card (part of @home at that time) and I said, install the cable modem, give me my free NIC and go away.
He insisted on installing the NIC... Until he saw my computer room with its 14 running systems (mostly *nix)
I got my systems up without problem, then one day @homes DNS went down in my area, and their routers began dropping packets.
When I phoned tech support to let them know they tried to "troubleshoot my system".
I had to inform the tech that "No, my system is fine, your DNS on my node is down, and the router from here to Calgary is loosing packets."
He could not understand that I had already switched over to my DNS servers at work (because theirs were down) and that the packet loss *HAD* to be on my end.
Thank god I know the (former) tech-head for that section, got through to him and told him what was wrong. I spent ages on hold, and longer talking to Tier 1. As soon as I got bumped up, mentioned the problem my node was working again (no loss) within 15 min. I don't know about DNS though, because I have not switched back off of my servers at work.
As most/.ers are aware, most phone techs know far less about networks than the average/.er. This aside, when I was on @home - my service *SUCKED*. Now, I am still "technically" on @home - but my provider (Shaw) has moved away from @home and begun to provide its own cable service.
Surprisingly the Shaw service here has improved to the point where it has surpassed the local Telus DSL lines - @home users here were deserting the service for Telus DSL in droves. Shaw realized this, and separated themselves from the usless @home network.
In that separation - static IP's have become STATIC. (This sounds dumb, but "static" IP's on @home used to *CHANGE* every 6 months - WTF?) My bandwith has quadrupled, I can now get downloads up to 500kb/s (when previously, ~180 was the max).
Smaller compaines are more mobile in the broadband market - it is not yet ready for a large scale monopoly. Local "monopolies" are more versatile, and offer better service.
The companies will change - because they will have to or go out of business.
Make certain you *COMPLAIN* about the level of service though, or the companies will not change as they have no reason to do so. (They believe that their customers are happy.)
Really, with all the cutbacks in NASA, you would think that they would want to make a mission like this more popular - think about it - battlebots on Mars (just think of the lag time) - the suspense as pictures come back, the contestants make their move - and wait....
On a more serious note it would be neat to have hobbyists designing bots for mars on a competitive level to see who can come up with the most efficent/reliable/lightweight etc design. The guys at NASA have great ideas and implementations - but I think that the bazzar vs cathedral idea could help here.
I regularly hang out in alt.2600, and I lurk in many other Newsgroups. Apart from the usual spam and trolls a new troll is breeding:
The Hate Troll.
A large number of posts are dominated by "Hack this Muslim site" or, "Hackers fight back against terror!" And of course these twits then list a site (which often has nothing to do with terrorisim, and often is hosted in the U.S... Not that the posters have discovered whois or nslookup yet...)
Fortunately the regulars (those who actually deserve the monoinker "hacker") ignore or flame the hell out of the poster. Not that that is an issue. The regulars can determine between free speech (freedom) and censorship (terrorism of words).
Unfortunately, the skript kiddies can't. Of course, this is the crowd that the advertisements are targeted towards. Not that it will help - the kiddies are incredibly thick skulled.
I just wish I could see the commercial (I don't watch T.V.) maybe it will show up on adcritic.
The sad thing about space travel is that it is currently being used for science. Don't mistake me here though - I happen to think that science is the best possible use for space programs, if anything there is not enough money to go around for scientific research in any field.
Currently, the only real "business" in putting things into space is in military hardware and communications satelites. If "big business" gets involved in space tourism, (and here is the key!) and space tourism becomes profitable, more advancements into space travel will be achived. It is ironic really, that profit will create a drive for better space accesability than research does.
The more trips that there are into space, the more the process will become streamlined - and the greater the economic drive to make it less expensive to get people into space.
And finally, just like the article mentions - space tourists coule cover much of the cost of space missions. This would allow for more research to take place in space.
All in all. It is about time.
Now if we were only able to put nuclear powered spaceships in space (such as the "Orion" design mentioned by Carl Sagan in Cosmos) and have craft capable of 1/10 the speed of light.
You need to read Tom's Hardware or Sharky Extreme. Even PC Computing (best for long flights, bird cages and darts). Tom's and Sharky's does the kind of detailed, intensive reporting that most magazines avoid.
Quite true. His article makes alot of sense, now if he had only included
The Register he would have rounded it out nicely. I can see that some posts are trying to take to task his portrayal of Slashdot as a Linux-Centric site. Come on. We all KNOW that this site is devoted to Linux Advocacy before tech journalism. There is nothing wrong with that. The main problem seems to be the rabid "knee jerk" reactions shown by the community in general here. (You only need to look at any story do do with Microsoft, and then read the comments therein.)
The authors comments towards the PC Mag Review are bang on. ZD net has always had a positive bias toward Microsoft products just as (as the author mentions) Macaddict has favorable review of Macs. Not much of a surprise there. The reason that ZD is still around is that it is very business oriented, and it's reader base is very much entrenched in the Microsoft world.
Maybe the net public realized this bias (or, perhaps I should say "lack of news") before the author did though. Myself and my friends frequently visit tech sites that are indepentant. In fact, in the list of independant sites we regularly visit we have noticed no layoffs of staff, or any change in the way they run their websites. If we the readers ignore the biased sites (and thus ignore the advertising) the site (which cannot now make any money sitting in their Aeron chairs) then the website dies.
I have not noticed that many of the "dotcoms" are dissapearing. This is probably because I realized long ago what was a good website, and what was not. I think most of us have.
I don't know if I totally agree with the writers outlook on elementary teachers avoiding the sciences - many of my favourite teachers in elementary school were strongly versed in the sciences.
However, I am Canadian, and I do not know if the rules for elementary teachers are different here.
Still, it does not surprise me in the least. In the course of my life I have run into only *five* people who were not Science Professors (or my parents) who truly understand critical thinking and Science.
I am still shocked by that.
The scientific method is not that hard to grasp - I got it in grade 8. Thats when I realized that it was a powerful tool for testing falsehood. I have been using it ever since.
If you are one of the few who understands these rules and applies them then you understand what I mean. I would dearly love to see the population at large appreciate science more, but as it is which gets more viewing? The Learning Channel or Fox?
The sad truth is not the teachers - but the population at large. Some people just don't want or care to know the answers, they just don't have the fundamental curiosity.
Maybe the article is correct. Children do have the fundamental curiosity - and that would be the best time to teach them.
Still - culturally we are left with statements like this from our leaders:
"Why should we subsidize intelectual curiosity?"
-- Ronald Regan
Up here Business Depot carries Linux of various flavours.. maybe they could get in there.
No, I used to work at Staples (Buisness Depot) and they will not carry Linux games. I know, I spoke on the phone to the head software orderer in Toronto.
Staples/Business Depot has no plans to carry Linux games, in fact, you cannot even special order them. (This may have changed in the last year and a half since I worked at that god-awful place, but I doubt it.)
You know, I sat here on Slashdot and advocated buying Loki games - within sight of my desk are:
Quake 3 - Linux
Soldier of Fortune - Linux
Unreal Tournament (supported by Loki, but no direct box for this game)
Descent 3 - Linux
Heretic - Linux
I tried to pre-order the Quake 3 Linux versions, I was going to buy extra copies for my friends so that they had Q3 for Linux, and could perhaps switch to the windows binaries later. I had even planned to install Linux for them just for Quake 3.
I wrote "purchased for use with Linux" on each non-linux game I purchased.
It did not help. =(
How many of us Dual Boot (I do) for games?
Sigh, here comes the cries of "Had I known I would have bought a game..." Right.
[rant]
I know I can't write code worth crap, so I support the free software movement where I can (including buying closed-source games!).
I suppose the slashbot trolls are correct - too many people associate free as in beer.
I am afraid that this is a far bigger loss for us now. Sure, some slashbots will run out to EB world and buy a Linux game. Whoopie. Its too damn late.
Let this be a lesson to those of you out there in the software community. There are more ways to contribute than code - and those who do code need to get paid to eat. Not everything is free (as in beer) nor should it be.
[/rant]
I have never officaly purchased windows, however I have recieved Windows 95 and 98 with some of my PC's which amounts to the same thing. I have purchased Linux off the shelf (specifically RH 6.2 for their higher support - for business use - this does not really count as my employer picked up the tab on that.)
I have purchased numerous CD's from cheapbytes, but now I have a cable modem I download my distros.
However, were you to ask how much money have I spent in the last little while on software?
I have spent $50.00 on Deus Ex for Windows (Because I did not know that there was a Linux version in the works - DAMN!)
However, I have also purchased:
Corel Word Perfect 8 for Linux
Quake 3 Arena for Linux
Soldier of Fortune for Linux
Decent 3 for Linux
Heretic II for Linux
Unreal Tournament (No Linux specific version, but it works under Linux if you download the installer.)
So I have spent more money on software companies that support Linux than those who support Windows.
Its a common theme on slashdot to obsfucate your email address, most of us here do it.
The account I have above (which is a junk account), I have had for the last 3 years. I have had it on slashdot for over two years.
Up until the last 6 months, I had not recieved a single spam message in my inbox at hotmail. My address appeared on the newsgroups, and on slashdot, but it was de-spammed to confuse the spambots. (I still love the.sig of one guy on./ who uses a perl algorithm to hide his...)
Then I decided to register for a few online services with this email account.
Bad move.
I got hit with about 20 spam mails per day.
I don't know which one it was, but as the article says take the "we take your privacy seriously" statements, often are pure B.S.
It is true. I witnessed the very same happen to a Red Hat 6.2 machine in 10 min. The next fastest I saw was 4 hours. I have 20 Rh machines now, and when I first started with them I did not know how to secure them properly.
I found out just how fast someone could "own" them.
I agree, the services should be OFF by default, just like Open BSD. Maybe the powers that be will listen one day.
For now, I install on a non-networked machine, install the patches off CD, and secure the machine before attaching a network cable.
For RH 6.2, before you even connect it to a network, I reccomend you have a copy of Bastille Linux (Which is actually a script, not a distrobution) on hand. This is great for newbies.
As a general rule:
run the "ntsysv" tool, and disable portmap, httpd, bind... hell disable EVERYTHING, and begin turning on things as you need them. (If you don't know what it does, turn it off, if something stops working, you know what that was and can turn it back on.)
Comment out everything in the/etc/inetd.conf file (which only appears in a server install).
Have nmap on hand, and scan 127.0.0.1 (yourself) with it, to make certain your ports are closed. Nmap should only find port 113 (and 22 if you install SSH). Sure, you can have more open ports after that - but that is providing you know what they do.
There is no way I can give you enough advice on how to secure a machine on a simple/. post, but the above is a good start for Red Hat 6.2.
I have been dying for something like this to come on the scene. I am a gamer, and I have also been studying martial arts for over 10 years.
I study Wing Chun Kung Fu specifically, and we use a wooden dummy to practice full-force techniques on. (It is not nice to practice full force techniques on a fellow student.)
I have wanted for something like this to practice on for some time. Mind you, what would be perfect for me is one that offered real world resistance. That is, you could whack it full-force like you do on a wooden dummy. You cannot do this with the infra red device, because there is nothing to physically hit. (And if you think you can throw full force punches and kicks against air, you either don't know what you are talking about, or you have wrecked your knees and elbows already.)
I have heard of a similar game to this in Japan that uses a stick as opposed to parts of the body.
All that said, I would use it because it would be fun, and keep me up with my training. To be certain, it will be a long time before the moves are accuately translated to the game. (I cannot for the life of me see some martial arts moves being picked up properly by this device.)
As for not attracting hard-core gamers, perhaps you have never been in play wrestiling matches with hard-core gamers.
"What I have done is simple: I select noises for electronic engineers, which I know the human brain will recognise and interpret within milliseconds. They then convert them into electronic noises, which, according to need, are variations on chusssh-chusssh-chusssh."
Recognize and interpret within milliseconds...
I don't know about the rest of you but "chusssh-chusssh-chusssh" is not a sound I hear often in my daily life.
I know what you are thinking, I must not be getting enough "chusssh" in my life.
Well I am getting enough "chusssh" and when I have "chusssh" it does not sound like "chusssh".
The last time I went there, there was a whole mound of paperwork. Sure, I can find places to contact via the internet, but the "gubernmint" gets in the way. I was asking because I was wondering if anyone was familiar w/ the process, and the best way to go about it.
I asked when I went there before, and I am asking again, because it can't hurt to ask.
(Despite your desire to echo "RTFM".)
I spent some time in Kenya in the 1990's building a medical clinic in North Eastern Kenya (no, the place is not on a map). I enjoyed it over there.
I would not mind going back to help the people out there develop an internet structure, or, to help teach...
So, where do I go to do this. I know I won't make a fortune doing it. Thats not my goal. I am a single geek, so it would not be that hard for me to uproot and head over to Kenya for a few years.
So, how do I go about doing that?
(Note: I am Canadian, not American. I am looking for international contacts, not local ones.)
I think looking at the source would be a great way to deep-six any open source projects you're working on at the time. Heck, even if you're a commercial developer, you should really have your legal team consider your position before looking at this code
Yes. Just as Microsoft employees are admonished not to look at GPL'ed code, open source coders now must be made aware that they should not look at "shared" code.
I think MS is going for a "GPL" licence that gives more rights to MS as opposed to the community. But this is to be expected.
Looks like Microsoft is up and fighting - and fighting hard.
From the licence it looks like this code is free (as in beer, not speech).
The Licence:
This License governs use of the accompanying Software.
You can use this Software for any non-commercial purpose, including distributing derivatives. Running your business operations would not be considered non-commercial.
For commercial purposes, you can reference this software solely to assist in developing and testing your own software and hardware for the Windows CE platform. You may not distribute this software in source or object form for commercial purposes under any circumstances.
In return, we simply require that you agree:
1) Not to remove any copyright notices from the Software.
* Ok, thats fair.
2) That if you distribute the Software in source code form you do so only under this License (i.e. you must include a complete copy of this License with your distribution), and if you distribute the Software solely in object form you only do so under any license that complies with this License.
* This is fair too.
3)That the Software comes "as is", with no warranties. None whatsoever. This means no implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or any warranty of non-infringement. Also, you must pass this disclaimer on whenever you distribute the Software.
* Standard Leaglease. This is in the GPL too.
4) That Microsoft will not be liable for any of those types of damages known as indirect, special, consequential, or incidental related to the Software or this License, to the maximum extent the law permits. Also, you must pass this limitation of liability on whenever you distribute the Software.
* Same as above.
5) That if you sue anyone over patents that you think may apply to the Software for a person's use of the Software, your license to the Software ends automatically.
* Hmmm, this is different.
6) That the patent rights Microsoft is licensing only apply to the Software, not to any derivatives you make.
* I don't understand this one, someone care to explain? (I think that they mean that if I make a derivitave, it is not owned by Microsoft? Or, does it mean not protected by Microsoft?)
7) That your rights under the License end automatically if you breach it in any way.
* Very different from the GPL! That your rights "Suddenly end" if you breach it in any way. GPL is designed to maintain rights, this one is designed to take them away.
Granted, you can't blame Microsoft for using this kind of licence. Their whole business model is based on this kind of thing. I still bet that there are people at MS that are having fits over the release of code. But, I guess the battle for free software must be ganing ground - because Microsoft is fighting back... On our turf.
Yes, someone will follow this up with YHBT, but what the hell, I'll bite.
Swift (also known for Gullivers Travels which is a brilliant satire) wrote "A Modest Proposal" as, you guessed it - Satire.
Slashdot Mirror
Same here.
I am behind a Linux firewall, typing this on Linux.
My cable modem (Shaw.ca) works just fine.
When I first set up my system, the tech came by with my free network card (part of @home at that time) and I said, install the cable modem, give me my free NIC and go away.
He insisted on installing the NIC... Until he saw my computer room with its 14 running systems (mostly *nix)
I got my systems up without problem, then one day @homes DNS went down in my area, and their routers began dropping packets.
When I phoned tech support to let them know they tried to "troubleshoot my system".
I had to inform the tech that "No, my system is fine, your DNS on my node is down, and the router from here to Calgary is loosing packets."
He could not understand that I had already switched over to my DNS servers at work (because theirs were down) and that the packet loss *HAD* to be on my end.
Thank god I know the (former) tech-head for that section, got through to him and told him what was wrong. I spent ages on hold, and longer talking to Tier 1. As soon as I got bumped up, mentioned the problem my node was working again (no loss) within 15 min. I don't know about DNS though, because I have not switched back off of my servers at work.
@home does suck.
/.ers are aware, most phone techs know far less about networks than the average /.er. This aside, when I was on @home - my service *SUCKED*. Now, I am still "technically" on @home - but my provider (Shaw) has moved away from @home and begun to provide its own cable service.
As most
Surprisingly the Shaw service here has improved to the point where it has surpassed the local Telus DSL lines - @home users here were deserting the service for Telus DSL in droves. Shaw realized this, and separated themselves from the usless @home network.
In that separation - static IP's have become STATIC. (This sounds dumb, but "static" IP's on @home used to *CHANGE* every 6 months - WTF?) My bandwith has quadrupled, I can now get downloads up to 500kb/s (when previously, ~180 was the max).
Smaller compaines are more mobile in the broadband market - it is not yet ready for a large scale monopoly. Local "monopolies" are more versatile, and offer better service.
The companies will change - because they will have to or go out of business.
Make certain you *COMPLAIN* about the level of service though, or the companies will not change as they have no reason to do so. (They believe that their customers are happy.)
of 100,000,000,000 webhits in an hour? And is it copywritable as the slashdot effect melody?
.jpgs are loading REALLY slowly...)
(As I look now their site is not down, but
Actually, that would be worth watching.
We would have to send up a bunch of used car salesman and forget to include extra oxygen al-la dilbert though. =)
Really, with all the cutbacks in NASA, you would think that they would want to make a mission like this more popular - think about it - battlebots on Mars (just think of the lag time) - the suspense as pictures come back, the contestants make their move - and wait....
On a more serious note it would be neat to have hobbyists designing bots for mars on a competitive level to see who can come up with the most efficent/reliable/lightweight etc design. The guys at NASA have great ideas and implementations - but I think that the bazzar vs cathedral idea could help here.
I regularly hang out in alt.2600, and I lurk in many other Newsgroups. Apart from the usual spam and trolls a new troll is breeding:
The Hate Troll.
A large number of posts are dominated by "Hack this Muslim site" or, "Hackers fight back against terror!" And of course these twits then list a site (which often has nothing to do with terrorisim, and often is hosted in the U.S... Not that the posters have discovered whois or nslookup yet...)
Fortunately the regulars (those who actually deserve the monoinker "hacker") ignore or flame the hell out of the poster. Not that that is an issue. The regulars can determine between free speech (freedom) and censorship (terrorism of words).
Unfortunately, the skript kiddies can't. Of course, this is the crowd that the advertisements are targeted towards. Not that it will help - the kiddies are incredibly thick skulled.
I just wish I could see the commercial (I don't watch T.V.) maybe it will show up on adcritic.
The order of the books:
1) The Hobbit
2) The Silmarillion (uncompleted)
3) The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Not counting Farmer Geils of Ham and other stories. Doubtless the slashbots will correct me if I am wrong.
The sad thing about space travel is that it is currently being used for science. Don't mistake me here though - I happen to think that science is the best possible use for space programs, if anything there is not enough money to go around for scientific research in any field.
Currently, the only real "business" in putting things into space is in military hardware and communications satelites. If "big business" gets involved in space tourism, (and here is the key!) and space tourism becomes profitable, more advancements into space travel will be achived. It is ironic really, that profit will create a drive for better space accesability than research does.
The more trips that there are into space, the more the process will become streamlined - and the greater the economic drive to make it less expensive to get people into space.
And finally, just like the article mentions - space tourists coule cover much of the cost of space missions. This would allow for more research to take place in space.
All in all. It is about time.
Now if we were only able to put nuclear powered spaceships in space (such as the "Orion" design mentioned by Carl Sagan in Cosmos) and have craft capable of 1/10 the speed of light.
Perhaps someday.
You need to read Tom's Hardware or Sharky Extreme. Even PC Computing (best for long flights, bird cages and darts). Tom's and Sharky's does the kind of detailed, intensive reporting that most magazines avoid.
Quite true. His article makes alot of sense, now if he had only included
The Register he would have rounded it out nicely. I can see that some posts are trying to take to task his portrayal of Slashdot as a Linux-Centric site. Come on. We all KNOW that this site is devoted to Linux Advocacy before tech journalism. There is nothing wrong with that. The main problem seems to be the rabid "knee jerk" reactions shown by the community in general here. (You only need to look at any story do do with Microsoft, and then read the comments therein.)
The authors comments towards the PC Mag Review are bang on. ZD net has always had a positive bias toward Microsoft products just as (as the author mentions) Macaddict has favorable review of Macs. Not much of a surprise there. The reason that ZD is still around is that it is very business oriented, and it's reader base is very much entrenched in the Microsoft world.
Maybe the net public realized this bias (or, perhaps I should say "lack of news") before the author did though. Myself and my friends frequently visit tech sites that are indepentant. In fact, in the list of independant sites we regularly visit we have noticed no layoffs of staff, or any change in the way they run their websites. If we the readers ignore the biased sites (and thus ignore the advertising) the site (which cannot now make any money sitting in their Aeron chairs) then the website dies.
I have not noticed that many of the "dotcoms" are dissapearing. This is probably because I realized long ago what was a good website, and what was not. I think most of us have.
I don't know if I totally agree with the writers outlook on elementary teachers avoiding the sciences - many of my favourite teachers in elementary school were strongly versed in the sciences.
However, I am Canadian, and I do not know if the rules for elementary teachers are different here.
Still, it does not surprise me in the least. In the course of my life I have run into only *five* people who were not Science Professors (or my parents) who truly understand critical thinking and Science.
I am still shocked by that.
The scientific method is not that hard to grasp - I got it in grade 8. Thats when I realized that it was a powerful tool for testing falsehood. I have been using it ever since.
Carl Sagan condensed these tools further into the following rules from the Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
If you are one of the few who understands these rules and applies them then you understand what I mean. I would dearly love to see the population at large appreciate science more, but as it is which gets more viewing? The Learning Channel or Fox?
The sad truth is not the teachers - but the population at large. Some people just don't want or care to know the answers, they just don't have the fundamental curiosity.
Maybe the article is correct. Children do have the fundamental curiosity - and that would be the best time to teach them.
Still - culturally we are left with statements like this from our leaders:
"Why should we subsidize intelectual curiosity?"
-- Ronald Regan
I saw the Slashdot headline:
Workingmac.com Interview With Jordan Hubbard
as:
Mac's working With L. Ron Hubbard
I think we can all be thankful that the second title is not real!
Up here Business Depot carries Linux of various flavours.. maybe they could get in there.
No, I used to work at Staples (Buisness Depot) and they will not carry Linux games. I know, I spoke on the phone to the head software orderer in Toronto.
Staples/Business Depot has no plans to carry Linux games, in fact, you cannot even special order them. (This may have changed in the last year and a half since I worked at that god-awful place, but I doubt it.)
You know, I sat here on Slashdot and advocated buying Loki games - within sight of my desk are:
Quake 3 - Linux
Soldier of Fortune - Linux
Unreal Tournament (supported by Loki, but no direct box for this game)
Descent 3 - Linux
Heretic - Linux
I tried to pre-order the Quake 3 Linux versions, I was going to buy extra copies for my friends so that they had Q3 for Linux, and could perhaps switch to the windows binaries later. I had even planned to install Linux for them just for Quake 3.
I wrote "purchased for use with Linux" on each non-linux game I purchased.
It did not help. =(
How many of us Dual Boot (I do) for games?
Sigh, here comes the cries of "Had I known I would have bought a game..." Right.
[rant]
I know I can't write code worth crap, so I support the free software movement where I can (including buying closed-source games!).
I suppose the slashbot trolls are correct - too many people associate free as in beer.
I am afraid that this is a far bigger loss for us now. Sure, some slashbots will run out to EB world and buy a Linux game. Whoopie. Its too damn late.
Let this be a lesson to those of you out there in the software community. There are more ways to contribute than code - and those who do code need to get paid to eat. Not everything is free (as in beer) nor should it be.
[/rant]
1984 is finally here?
No.
Now please proceed down the hall into room 101.
Thank you citizen.
I have never officaly purchased windows, however I have recieved Windows 95 and 98 with some of my PC's which amounts to the same thing. I have purchased Linux off the shelf (specifically RH 6.2 for their higher support - for business use - this does not really count as my employer picked up the tab on that.)
I have purchased numerous CD's from cheapbytes, but now I have a cable modem I download my distros.
However, were you to ask how much money have I spent in the last little while on software?
I have spent $50.00 on Deus Ex for Windows (Because I did not know that there was a Linux version in the works - DAMN!)
However, I have also purchased:
Corel Word Perfect 8 for Linux
Quake 3 Arena for Linux
Soldier of Fortune for Linux
Decent 3 for Linux
Heretic II for Linux
Unreal Tournament (No Linux specific version, but it works under Linux if you download the installer.)
So I have spent more money on software companies that support Linux than those who support Windows.
Sorry, I don't speak or read Russian, so I can't check.
But I was wondering if it is a big story in Russia. It certanly is a big story in the internet "underground".
Currently more people seem concerned with the "imminent collapse" (yawn) of the internet due to the code red worm than the release of Dimitry.
I would hope that this is a big story over there, if it is it increases the likelyhood that the story will eventually "leak" back to the west.
Well, at least we can hope.
Its a common theme on slashdot to obsfucate your email address, most of us here do it.
.sig of one guy on ./ who uses a perl algorithm to hide his...)
The account I have above (which is a junk account), I have had for the last 3 years. I have had it on slashdot for over two years.
Up until the last 6 months, I had not recieved a single spam message in my inbox at hotmail. My address appeared on the newsgroups, and on slashdot, but it was de-spammed to confuse the spambots. (I still love the
Then I decided to register for a few online services with this email account.
Bad move.
I got hit with about 20 spam mails per day.
I don't know which one it was, but as the article says take the "we take your privacy seriously" statements, often are pure B.S.
Wow. If that's true, this is just crazy.
It is true. I witnessed the very same happen to a Red Hat 6.2 machine in 10 min. The next fastest I saw was 4 hours. I have 20 Rh machines now, and when I first started with them I did not know how to secure them properly.
I found out just how fast someone could "own" them.
I agree, the services should be OFF by default, just like Open BSD. Maybe the powers that be will listen one day.
For now, I install on a non-networked machine, install the patches off CD, and secure the machine before attaching a network cable.
For RH 6.2, before you even connect it to a network, I reccomend you have a copy of Bastille Linux (Which is actually a script, not a distrobution) on hand. This is great for newbies.
/etc/inetd.conf file (which only appears in a server install).
/. post, but the above is a good start for Red Hat 6.2.
As a general rule:
run the "ntsysv" tool, and disable portmap, httpd, bind... hell disable EVERYTHING, and begin turning on things as you need them. (If you don't know what it does, turn it off, if something stops working, you know what that was and can turn it back on.)
Comment out everything in the
Have nmap on hand, and scan 127.0.0.1 (yourself) with it, to make certain your ports are closed. Nmap should only find port 113 (and 22 if you install SSH). Sure, you can have more open ports after that - but that is providing you know what they do.
There is no way I can give you enough advice on how to secure a machine on a simple
I have been dying for something like this to come on the scene. I am a gamer, and I have also been studying martial arts for over 10 years.
I study Wing Chun Kung Fu specifically, and we use a wooden dummy to practice full-force techniques on. (It is not nice to practice full force techniques on a fellow student.)
I have wanted for something like this to practice on for some time. Mind you, what would be perfect for me is one that offered real world resistance. That is, you could whack it full-force like you do on a wooden dummy. You cannot do this with the infra red device, because there is nothing to physically hit. (And if you think you can throw full force punches and kicks against air, you either don't know what you are talking about, or you have wrecked your knees and elbows already.)
I have heard of a similar game to this in Japan that uses a stick as opposed to parts of the body.
All that said, I would use it because it would be fun, and keep me up with my training. To be certain, it will be a long time before the moves are accuately translated to the game. (I cannot for the life of me see some martial arts moves being picked up properly by this device.)
As for not attracting hard-core gamers, perhaps you have never been in play wrestiling matches with hard-core gamers.
"What I have done is simple: I select noises for electronic engineers, which I know the human brain will recognise and interpret within milliseconds. They then convert them into electronic noises, which, according to need, are variations on chusssh-chusssh-chusssh."
Recognize and interpret within milliseconds...
I don't know about the rest of you but "chusssh-chusssh-chusssh" is not a sound I hear often in my daily life.
I know what you are thinking, I must not be getting enough "chusssh" in my life.
Well I am getting enough "chusssh" and when I have "chusssh" it does not sound like "chusssh".
(It sounds much more like pr0n...)
I would like a position in Kenya, not Uganda.
The last time I went there, there was a whole mound of paperwork. Sure, I can find places to contact via the internet, but the "gubernmint" gets in the way. I was asking because I was wondering if anyone was familiar w/ the process, and the best way to go about it.
I asked when I went there before, and I am asking again, because it can't hurt to ask.
(Despite your desire to echo "RTFM".)
I spent some time in Kenya in the 1990's building a medical clinic in North Eastern Kenya (no, the place is not on a map). I enjoyed it over there.
I would not mind going back to help the people out there develop an internet structure, or, to help teach...
So, where do I go to do this. I know I won't make a fortune doing it. Thats not my goal. I am a single geek, so it would not be that hard for me to uproot and head over to Kenya for a few years.
So, how do I go about doing that?
(Note: I am Canadian, not American. I am looking for international contacts, not local ones.)
I think looking at the source would be a great way to deep-six any open source projects you're working on at the time. Heck, even if you're a commercial developer, you should really have your legal team consider your position before looking at this code
Yes. Just as Microsoft employees are admonished not to look at GPL'ed code, open source coders now must be made aware that they should not look at "shared" code.
I think MS is going for a "GPL" licence that gives more rights to MS as opposed to the community. But this is to be expected.
Looks like Microsoft is up and fighting - and fighting hard.
From the licence it looks like this code is free (as in beer, not speech).
The Licence:
This License governs use of the accompanying Software.
You can use this Software for any non-commercial purpose, including distributing derivatives. Running your business operations would not be considered non-commercial.
For commercial purposes, you can reference this software solely to assist in developing and testing your own software and hardware for the Windows CE platform. You may not distribute this software in source or object form for commercial purposes under any circumstances.
In return, we simply require that you agree:
1) Not to remove any copyright notices from the Software.
* Ok, thats fair.
2) That if you distribute the Software in source code form you do so only under this License (i.e. you must include a complete copy of this License with your distribution), and if you distribute the Software solely in object form you only do so under any license that complies with this License.
* This is fair too.
3)That the Software comes "as is", with no warranties. None whatsoever. This means no implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or any warranty of non-infringement. Also, you must pass this disclaimer on whenever you distribute the Software.
* Standard Leaglease. This is in the GPL too.
4) That Microsoft will not be liable for any of those types of damages known as indirect, special, consequential, or incidental related to the Software or this License, to the maximum extent the law permits. Also, you must pass this limitation of liability on whenever you distribute the Software.
* Same as above.
5) That if you sue anyone over patents that you think may apply to the Software for a person's use of the Software, your license to the Software ends automatically.
* Hmmm, this is different.
6) That the patent rights Microsoft is licensing only apply to the Software, not to any derivatives you make.
* I don't understand this one, someone care to explain? (I think that they mean that if I make a derivitave, it is not owned by Microsoft? Or, does it mean not protected by Microsoft?)
7) That your rights under the License end automatically if you breach it in any way.
* Very different from the GPL! That your rights "Suddenly end" if you breach it in any way. GPL is designed to maintain rights, this one is designed to take them away.
Granted, you can't blame Microsoft for using this kind of licence. Their whole business model is based on this kind of thing. I still bet that there are people at MS that are having fits over the release of code. But, I guess the battle for free software must be ganing ground - because Microsoft is fighting back... On our turf.
Yes, someone will follow this up with YHBT, but what the hell, I'll bite.
Swift (also known for Gullivers Travels which is a brilliant satire) wrote "A Modest Proposal" as, you guessed it - Satire.
Please look up Satire in the dictionary.