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  1. Shades of SCO at FBI's SourceForge on Microsoft Behind SCO Cash Investment? · · Score: 1

    whois Exodus Comm (NETBLK-EC21-1)
    64.28.64.0 - 64.28.95.255 sites .20 .35 .61 .81
    and .150 .

    whois on the site names returns Andover.net, whois on the IP's of those sites returns "steenkin' badges" i.e. FBI Hancock's Exodus Comm

    Andover.net is stock symbol LNUX, company name
    VALinux.VA Linux has bought up a lot of linux
    sites. Another alias for that netblock is Open
    Source Development Network. Press releases
    describing the outage said OSDN technicians were
    working on the problem.

    Has FBI Exodus bought VA Linux, which is another very troubled company? VA Linux also owns the sourceforge network--no wonder if some SCO-like vasoconstriction then--

    http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.ht ml

    2003.10.11, Saturday :: FFmpeg CVS moved to MPlayerHQ
    posted by Gabucino

    Due to the continuing degradation of Sourceforge services' quality, the decision was made to move FFmpeg CVS to MPlayerHQ.hu.

    MPlayer "oldtimer" users may remember the ages when libavcodec (the codec part of FFmpeg) was developed right inside the MPlayer CVS tree. The development was moved back to the Sourceforge server, so other projects - and the main FFmpeg of course - could take advantage of our developments. But let's get back to our current topic.

    The FFmpeg CVS tree on Sourceforge will cease to exist shortly! Other services will stay on SF for now, but it's highly possible we'll move the mailing list too.

  2. Re:this is the most serious threat to America on Diebold Issues Cease and Desist to Indymedia · · Score: 1

    Isn't Diebold acting like a perfect coup-state trojan here?

  3. coincidentally Euros folded on Iraq this week on EC Dumps Open Source Conference · · Score: 1

    Euros are finally getting on the bus with Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush.

    This happened the same week that France and Germany voted in the UN Security Council to approve of US rule in Iraq.

    Now Freedom Fries can go back to being called "pommes (de terre) frites" and French Fries.

    No more anthrax in Le Gare du Nord, they hope!

  4. Cowboy Kneel endangers village! on Diebold Issues Cease and Desist to Indymedia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't believe Cowboy Kneel just asked for a free and unlicensed hardcopy printout of Figure 2, like he's not going in the death-squad kidnapping and torture disappearance database for that bit of commie taint!

    And he didn't even kill a neighbor to prove his loyalty before 87% besmirching himself and his progeny and indeed HIS WHOLE VILLAGE!

    Shall his dangerous deed go unmoderated? I think not! We must kill the pig, slit his throat, to prove our loyalty!

  5. Re:I use RAID-0 all the time and on Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data · · Score: 1

    I've never had a problem with raid-0 or reiser, but I was too lazy to burn in a new set of drives one time and one of them had a bad spot that didn't show up until it filled up to a point. That wiped out reiserfs on the raid partition. I had backup for that, though.

    Another time I wiped out a two-drive raid0 by backup up, yes, if it ain't broke, don't back it up. I backed up /dev/null and /dev/urandom in such a way as to overflow both disks all night--"government wipe". How they wiped beyond a single md device and partition I cannot say.

  6. Re:Hey, Pot. You're black... on Slashback: Forbes, VoIP, Firefly · · Score: 1

    "So why is it ok for the FSF to protect their copyrights and not ok for the RIAA and MPAA?"

    Concept: Because FSF is protecting us FROM copyrighting, silly.

    And you know very well the difference between "their" and RIIA's MPAA's possession of something, silly.

    According to you the Bill of Rights is "hypocritical" because it's LAW, the same stuff as might enthrone feudal hereditary aristocracy and chattel slavery.

  7. backing up the problem not solution on Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data · · Score: 1

    Fix: If it ain't broke, don't back it up!

    I backed up /dev/null, wiping out an entire raid array.

  8. He Means Patching Nvidia drivers on Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux · · Score: 1

    like audio,ethernet, and stuff like that

    until nvidia via et all figure out they can PayPal
    money to linux developers to speed up development,
    MS can brag about "patching desktop drivers together"

    "Oh, you meant security patches?"

    We have nvidia k-2.6.0-test7 courtesy
    http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html Hint:
    A huge Paypal might get nvidia audio
    for test7, if not, it's overdue anyway,
    and it would inspire somebody to go
    for the next gig on speculation.

  9. compaq 8086's aluminum ps case on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    Five years ago a friend gave me a Compaq 8086 which I used for the box, drive cages, and aluminum power supply housing. Torx screws were another timeless feature.

    At that time I had not heard of Lian Li and knew of no aluminum pc case or drive cage or power supply case. I crammed a new 250watt power supply board inside of that aluminum ps case.

    Modern drives fit into the bays as they still do in archaic 5-1/4" bays now, by using stupid steel adapters to trap heat in the drives. CD's and DVD's are the only drives excusing 5-1/4 bays today.

    Nothing excuses steel 5-1/4 to 3-1/2 adapters, since aluminum adapters would take the heat away from the drive frame. Even in a stupid, evil steel drive cage heat could be dissipated from the aluminum bay adapters by silver-epoxying ram heat sinks on the aluminum bay adapters and the end of the drive frame.

    Mounting drives to aluminum cages makes them cool to the touch without fans or additional heat sinking. Silver epoxying ram heat sinks to any exposed side or end of the drive frame is A+ passive cooling.

    So, the old Compaq case had over-engineered aluminum power supply case and over-engineered torx screws everywhere. I really thought I should throw away my Philips and hex screwdrivers. The thickness of the sheet metal was probably greater than later cases, but that's just bad for cooling.

    A modern motherboard fits in the compaq 8086 case but I had to hack out more slots on the back. I use aluminum hvac tape for quick case hacks and Undo function. The case is about the same size as a horizontal desktop style case.

    Connectors on the back did not match up, so cutting and drilling and aluminum tape and electrician's duct seal putty made the case work for ATX form factor.

    Clear plexiglass cases are even worse for cooling
    hard drives by contact than steel cases. Cut away the steel bay adapters and position them to allow as many ram heat sinks to be glued on sides and end as possible, using silver epoxy or silver heat transfer compound mixed with epoxy. No extra fans are needed for drive cooling.

    I built two water-cooled raid arrays and both leaked, one to the inside of the drives and the other to the outside world. Then I discovered that drives will cool passively through aluminum cages or epoxied ram sinks. I made one more stupid mistake by heat-sinking a third raid array with a quarter inch layer of aluminum with less fins than required to pull heat out of that quarter inch aluminum plank layer. Better to have used thin aluminum planks between fins and drive frames.

  10. when is ripping the same as burning? on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 1

    When a PCB has to ask what an MP3 device is, still ripping cd's "After All These Years" to burn more while not knowing what what his children are using to play MP3's is tantamount to book-burning. Guilty!

    It's also called "Reeling In The Years", "Revolver", going in circles i.e. 78 rpm 45 rpm 33-1/3 rpm then reeling cd's, still rotating on their thumbs for fear of getting out of orbit and falling off the edge of the 2D earth...hence ripping cd's to burn cd's while not knowing what an MP3 device is, equivocates to book-burning.

    And PHB's got so many phd's.

  11. Re:It's called "coaching"... on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 1

    Consider this. We have on our minds the issue of glass ceiling for IT pros, that's good. How many of us know somebody with an MBA or law degree who is not clueless, who does know how to log on to their email account, who is NOT afraid to log off? There are non-toxic minds in management careers.

    Why, I know some who have stopped wearing ties, shaving, or bathing. They're online all the time. Imagine how Dilbert's boss could grow personally during a year of that. He's not doing anything in his corner office with a view now.

  12. Re:It's called "coaching"... on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 1

    Don't you hate the way glossy hardcopy magazines hire writers to write? That's why they're never at the edge.

    Is coaching outsourced to those who can't do it teaching it? Or offshore boiler-rooms by videoconferencing? That would earn a lot of edgy PCB points, don't you think, and points of the sort PCB's crave, the kind that put geeks in their place. Blazing elitist yuppie fascist methane! "We saved millions by outsourcing our IT coaching to India by CUSEEME...whiteboarded the first day..we'll be using AOL like pros in just 90 more days!!! We showed those geeks why white Baywatch hub oligarchs deserve five times geek pay.".

    Which brings us to the point. Commoditizing the people who built the city is why they come.In 2000 interest rates and oil prices commoditized a generation of intellectual capital. Now we're slaves. That's what piratization is really about.

  13. hey, Ceesco, we don't need no... on Slashdot Back Online · · Score: 1

    Hey, Ceesco, what's theese "melting" idea--
    blackboxing the problem so even tech minds will lose the trail?

    Hey, "melted[blackboxing the problem]" Ceesco
    router, we don't need no steenkin' badges.

    A dozen linux open source discussion and project
    sites go down, whois Exodus Comm (NETBLK-EC21-1)
    64.28.64.0 - 64.28.95.255 sites .20 .35 .61 .81
    and .150 .

    Tricky - whois on the site names returns
    Andover.net, whois on the IP's of those sites
    returns "steenkin' badges" i.e. FBI Exodus
    Comm, "hey, Ceesco"--

    "Sunday June 24, @07:30PM
    - by Robin "Roblimo" Miller -"

    "On Saturday, June 23, the primary controller
    in the router that controls access to all OSDN
    servers hosted at the Exodus facility in
    Waltham, MA, suffered a catastrophic
    failure...The first Cisco support people
    contacted professed to be 'amazed' at the
    situation,saying it was the first time they
    had seen a failure of this kind."--the third
    kind, MIB, Bill Hancock's men-in-black!

    Ceesco, maybe we have heard of this before.
    Maybe those SYN packets from Exodus Comm's
    sourceforge1 debian ftp server which elicit
    a return packet of unknown protocol are
    steenkin' badges, Ceesco. Maybe FBI Hancock's
    Exodus Comm is doing a leetle back door
    visiting with yo mama, eh, Ceesco?

    Andover.net is stock symbol LNUX, company name
    VALinux.VA Linux has bought up a lot of linux
    sites. Another alias for that netblock is Open
    Source Development Network. Press releases
    describing the outage said OSDN technicians were
    working on the problem. Has FBI Exodus bought VA
    Linux, which is another very troubled company?
    VA Linux also owns the sourceforge network, which
    has three ftp linux servers, of which one is an
    Exodus server rudely sending no-no SYN packets
    which made my teenage daughter pregnant.

    Linus Torvalds, Finn who invented linux,
    still presides over development, but works at
    Transmeta on a new processor which appears on
    top Japanese notebooks. Transmeta is controlled
    by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, owner of
    AOL, who bought Netscape. AOL hq is Vienna, and
    AOL has data centers on either side of
    Rockwell/NRO/CIA, which was built off the books
    without congressional oversight. Trust Hancock,
    right.

    NSA is backing a variation of linux with more
    separation between user spaces in memory, which
    will be more secure.

    The point of the day is that just as rebellious
    youth get their drugs from the government, they
    get their open source software from the FBI if
    they get it from 216.136.171.195 sourceforge1 .

    When a site goes down, FBI #1 e-forensic Hancock's
    sappers, er, servers, are on the blink, er, WTC
    Salem, uh, Waco front door, umm, OKC
    Petruskie/Strassmeir, oh, i mean PanAm
    Lockerbie McKee, no, TWA800, uh, Columbine
    book/vid/agent-in-charge, on the job, that's it,
    on the job, right Whitehurst? Whitehurst? Oops,
    he was competent on the job, oh well. Spywhare
    hooks make Hancock's servers clunky. Spywhare
    servers go down a lot, so to speak. They induce
    other parts to go down with them, so to speak.
    Poor Ceesco's not the only one. Yahoo went down,
    blame Hancock. Linux world alias VA
    slashdot/freshmeat/osdn/themes/thinkgeek/gifworks
    /animfactory goes down, blame Hancock. "To compete
    with me is SYN. -JD Rockefeller". Linux was
    PROMISing but Bill Gates hates to see crumbs go to
    waste around the edges, and Gates' MIB don't do rehab.

    -Bob

  14. Re:Fewer then 300: How many was "fewer"? on Transmeta Confirms Recall · · Score: 1
    Re:Fewer then 300: How many was "fewer"?
    by pen (slashdot@digdug.cx) on Thursday November
    30, @12:40AM EST http://GeekIssues.org/

    Besides being fluent in Russian, I am also
    familiar with Ukrainian and French. In none of
    theseother languages can something be spelled
    three different ways, have three different
    meanings,and yet be pronounced the same.

    English is not a language. It is a combination
    of several languages including French, Latin,
    German, Norwegian, Greek. It has the spelling
    and pronunciation rules of ALL those, so it's not
    as idiomatic as it seems. It might as well be,
    though, since there is no reasonable way to tell
    which original language a given word
    belongs to!

  15. Re:Mo info? turns out it's a non-Debian thing! on Possible Crusoe and Recall? · · Score: 1
    Re:More information?

    by Bluesee on Wednesday November 29, @05:12PM EST

    This doesn't make too much sense to me, as we
    devolve into more mindless speculation than
    CNN did on TWA Flight 800...

    Speculation as "mindless" as overlooking this? Here, let
    me juxtapose it for ya-- Subject: debian installs on Crusoe but RH, Suse, not!

    Newsgroups: linux.debian.user

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/11/29/20112 33&threshold=-1&commentsort=1&mode=flat&pid=0

    Transmeta press release on the recall

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29,
    @09:37PM EST (#230)
    http://www.transmeta.com/press/PRnec112900.html

    "SANTA CLARA, California, (November 29, 2000) -
    Transmeta Corporation today announced that
    it is working with NEC Corporation in Japan to complete
    an exchange of fewer than three hundred NEC notebooks with Crusoe
    microprocessors.

    "The exchange is being undertaken due to the
    possibility that a failure might occur if a
    consumer were to reinstall an operating system.

    It is the IO most likely

    by arivanov on Wednesday November 29, @05:26PM EST (#171)

    Ok, here is the story:

    I ran through lots of tests including a full
    debian install on a Crusoe Vaio. It ran very
    well (twice faster than the older PII model)
    and had no problems besides X (I could not get
    this running and sony deserves all the flak
    it can get for the display in the new Vaio).

    A the same time it could not install RedHat,
    recent SuSe (old Suse installs fine, upgrade is
    also fine) and Mandrake. In all cases it
    hanged on the initializing swap the first
    time. Which definitely shows a problem. Either
    in the CPU virtual addressing or in the peripherals.

    It is not just crusoe that is new in the machines.
    Crusoe is accompanied by a north bridge and
    new peripheral chips. As most of the machines
    released so far are subnotebooks these are not
    standard and IMHO buggy.

    I am not saying that crusoe itself may not have
    bugs but from what I saw so far bugs in the
    north bridge (which unfortunately is on the same chip with
    Crusoe) and/or southbridge/peripherals are more likely.

  16. Re:That "uebercrappy" Yahoo! will face a reckoning on Possible Crusoe and Recall? · · Score: 1
    You may ask, why no boycott of Yahoo!? Well,
    unfortunately they have no products, and hence
    are untouchable by anyone save the Government
    itself. -Tuxedo Mask

    Tux,

    You don't need the government, in case you
    haven't noticed.

    Simply "damn by faint praise", as a million
    penguins take to the streets and subways
    **MUMBLING**,"Do you Yahoo?" to
    ll they meet!!!

  17. Transmeta won't run til OpenSource ain't done on Possible Crusoe and Recall? · · Score: 1
    Re:This proves that Open Source doesn't work

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29, @04:37PM EST

    What the hell does Crusoe have to do with open
    source? -AnonCow

    Well, for starters, Paul Allen was Bill Gates' partner,

    may have a "reality distortion field" stronger
    than Jobs'--or Gates, because,

    was lifted by MS stock but diversified into
    AOL and Asymetrix so didn't get caught holding
    when MS's ponzi poofed,

    bought Netscape, whassup Marc Andreeson;
    tell us where is Linus headed, Marc,

    and Paul Allen, you guessed it, bought Linus
    via Transmeta,

    "Windoze ain't done til Lotus won't run"

    "AOL ain't done til Mozilla won't run"

    "Transmeta won't run til OpenSource ain't done"

    --see a common thread in Paul Allen's jeans here?
    Possibility thinking at every stage keeps untestable
    mistakes from burial in the monolith, nothing
    personal. Mudsuckers have been known to wear
    pantyhose to keep leeches out. Look at
    AOL, Netscape. AOL=PaulAllen. Look at Transmeta=Linus.
    Is Transmeta another run in Paul Allen's stocking, like buying
    Netscape and shipping Outlook with AOL?
    Or is that Mongolians in silk undies that stop arrows like
    Kevlar without humping manly metal? Or is VLIW the silk,
    not Paul ninja Allen?

    Of penguins and men.

  18. Re:Excuse Me ... on Possible Crusoe and Recall? · · Score: 1
    Excuse Me ...
    by Poligraf (liedetector@netscape.net) on
    Wednesday November 29, @08:56PM EST

    .. but Transmeta is about 5 years old.
    And its founder used to be a chief processor
    architect at Sun. and the technology they
    claim as their own was initially developed in
    Russia before 1990 because 1990-91 was the time
    when Elbrus team had designed the
    UltraSparc I (or at least helped Sun to start
    with the design).

    It means that it is not THAT new.

    _______________________________________________

    "Sbaw-w-w-n in the C-I-A", (c) Boss
    "Back in the ewe SS awe" (c) Beatles

    More bazaar than ever?

    _______________________________________________

    Does that mean it's irrelevent that
    Intel didn't go broke because the
    8086 was too slow for Windoze?

    AMD shoulda gone broke businesswise
    but penguins carried AMD on their
    shoulders for years and AMD is
    just coming into their own now.

    There's room for Transmeta. Even
    with their proprietary dark area
    their code-morphing area is an
    enlargement on the space open-
    source minds have been thriving
    in. More bazaar than ever!

    ____________________________________________

    "Spaw-w-wn in the C-I-A", (c) Springsteen
    "Back in the ewe SS awe" (c) Beatles

    Greenspan's Anti-Dot-Commie McCarthyism

    (Mighty Wurlitzer v. Victrola Charlie)

    "Kill the chinky gooks, er, cheeky GEEKS!!!",
    said Alan Greenback
    ____________________________________________

    ...dinosaurs kick back! It's not safe to
    ignore their big ugly feet.

    It takes a crowd of penguins to carry
    AMD, but why should we carry dinosaurs--
    I mean run windoze? How many penguins are
    there anyway?

    Transmeta's stock price went down because of
    SOMEBODY in the know ten dollars a couple
    of days BEFORE the $5 drop a half hour after
    this news...pre-news drop covered up by a dust-cloud
    kicked up by Linus' bio

    "Hoard intro credit card rates, drop til you
    pop",Victrola Charlie advised Transmeta

    "Kill VC[venture capitalists]!!!", shrieked
    Alan Greenbacks, drooling and foaming.

  19. Re:Why I can't support Opera on Update: Opera Browser for Linux · · Score: 1

    Those reasons given for why windozeware loss-leaders are not really free are "windoze reasons", a term which is an oxymoron! Nothing is free. Developer's expenses are paid with real money. Opera is using the same press release to us as to windoze users, and I think they have to start by relating to open-source concepts such as "making money around the edges". They have to start with our foundation before they can build on it, or they start looking like a castle on a cloud over here. I suggest that they place their cathedral up for auction at a bazaar like ebay. Whatever the majority of bids turn up to be, that's the minimum accepted.

  20. programmable processor on Transmeta Awarded Another Patent · · Score: 1

    Ten times faster, a hundred times faster with java and perl, a thousand times faster with awk and pipes, five to ten times faster with graphics. OK?

  21. Re:GTE ADSL Service on BellSouth denies ADSL for Linux users · · Score: 1

    Since you have an independent ISP, you didn't
    run into the GTE.net ISP policy that jumps
    over the desk and into your face about linux.

    I have dhcpcd running, so I will deceive
    GTE.net, which is no problem with GTE. I
    don't appreciate the insult, the degradation
    of sneaking linux in the back door in the
    middle of the night, and all.

    Crosslink is an ISP which gets along with
    linux on GTE. They cost quite a bit more
    than GTE.net, though.

    GTE and Bell Atlantic are merging. BA is
    in the next county, and Covad installs
    DSL there. For the same price as GTE.net,
    Covad ISP's, about six of them, offer
    much higher speed. I'm wondering if Covad
    can use their hardware, which is different,
    in GTE DSLAM's? That would be ideal.