You stated that you can't plug a un-patched non-firewalled system into the net for 10 minutes. I hate to disappoint you, but I've seen systems get infected in 20 seconds, and the norm is down to 4 minutes.
The SPAMBOT ARMIES RULE THE NET. Sorry, but it's the way of things these days.
One thing about microsoft. If you use their popup blocker, sooner or later, someone will give them enough money to bypass it. I'd say I don't trust them further then I can spit, but that would be a lie, because I can spit alot further then I trust microsoft.
Of course I don't have a problem with pop-ups these days. Mozilla/firefox on linux keeps them at bay.
Remember the good old days when, even on Linux, you get to the wrong popup site, and the only solution was pkill mozilla? Poor windows users had to power off! Of course they were loaded with spyware after that. The asshole who was doing that had seirratradingpost.com, and I seem to always misspell that url. That's when I started managing my bookmarks better:)
Want bad package management, use Slowaris pkgadd, etc. Personally,.deb's and emerge are great.
The apt port to fedora isn't bad. But it's built on rpms:(
Re:He was too fucking old to drive Goddamnit!
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But look at all the fodder for the lawyers. We need those little black boxes to help support the #1 industry in the US. Sueing the fucking crap out of everyone we can. What are you, a communist? Trying to blame this on someone being to old to drive just doesn't support the courts need to sue someone.
So it doesn't bother you that they can catch you on every act you make. You must be perfect, and have never made a mistake in your life, and never made a bad judgement in your life. Never had a car accident, etc. So when your in your car with 3 kids screaming, your wife is hollering, and you just spilt your coffee, and the car in front of you on the icy road is skidding (you haven't hit your brakes yet), don't complain when they give you a ticket and being impared while driving because your reactions are the same as a person with a 1.5 alcohol content. That little black box they are talking about putting into cars is bullshit!
It's working fine for me, accept the menu close doesn't work.
Typical for 1.0 release. there's always a few bugs that slip through. It sounds like firefox got a few extra bugs on the 1.0 release. Note that they'll all be fixed on the 1.01 release.
And of the 270000 foreigners, 1/3 of them are getting trained to do the same job in india/eastern block countries. This number is just a guess, but many of the h1b visas are training positions. So lets say that for the last three years they've had 80,000 in here for 4 months training at a time. 80000*12/4*3=720000 How many people are in the high tech field? we don't have 300 million programmers/sysadmins/techs/phone support persons. This is making a dent in the high tech industry. Also note that of the 720000 persons, many of them are training more people to do what they do.
I don't have a problem with outsourcing on a level playing field. But in India and the eastern block countries, they get shit pay, no benefits, no health care, no retirement, no vacation, and can be shit on by there employer at any time. This is not a level playing field. And when this country hits 20-40% unemployment, those big markets for SUV's is gonna come crashing down. This is what it's going to take to get the government and corporate shithead economists to figure out what there doing. Hey, hopefully I'm full of it, but it seems like that's the direction were going in this country.
Yea, but Microsoft will be so busy sueing everyone making a linux distribution, you'll have to compile and build it from scratch. The billions $M has in the bank can keep alot of lawyers busy for a long time.
I've written my senators and representitives so many times in the last 3 years I've lost count. it's like pouring a cup of water out in the desert to end a drought. Unfortunately, the US gov only listens to PAC's and whoever's feeding their soft money portfolio. I'll write again, but it's like pissing into the wind.
I have thedish at home, and I've discovered that Serius is 100% better then radio. I've been boycotting music for a while now, but I can believe it would ding sales. I still think one of the biggest factors, that the RIAA pinheads are consistanly ignoring are the cd's coming out of china. Of course the fact that almost nothing original is coming out these days, and the mastering sucks has something to do with it also. clipping the peaks to make the volume louder doesn't make the music better.
There's also the backup irc channels. If I wrote a bot, I'd set it up so that if it couldn't talk to the primary channel, it would switch to the secondary. I loose an IRC channel, I update my bots with a new primary and secondary (or more) backup channels. These thieving bastards aren't going to loose there networks over an IRC server.
I upgraded my vmware image last week when my circuit was down. Instead of loading zonealarm first, I went to windowsupdate first.
BIG MISTAKE! In the first 10 minutes it took to install the first patch, I got 2 blaster variants and the latest LASS. There could have been more. I ended up reloading. This time, I had zonealarm and SP2 on before I brought the network interface up.
I was a fool. I should have known better.
It proves that this article is way wrong. He claims that TC0 is 3 days for windows. It's only 3 minutes.
Yep, this is the proverbial drop in the bucket. Remember that they're not a bank, so they can fuck you any way they want to. If you're running a business utilizing PayPal, remember to keep your balance as close to $0.00 as possible. They look for reasons to freeze your account. When they freeze your account, the only way to get your money back is to file charges, after the 180 day waiting period. I suspect that the court would ignore the 180 day waiting period. The laws need to change, so outfits like this have to follow banking rules. They did this in Europe. Unfortunately, there's to much graft (AKA lobbyist feeding congressmen green stuff) to make a change like this in the US.
I used to like ebay. Now I won't have anything to do with them.
When I saw the name sg1archive, I figured out why he was busted. However, using the patriot act to bypass getting a warrant is bull. I hope he gets off, specifically on this clause. Not that I want to screw the MPAA. They're being slightly more reasonable then the RIAA. But the patriot act, and if passed, the induce act are in direct conflict with the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights. Apparently, our representitives in congress and in the white house are more concerned with keeping thier campain coffiers full then protecting the Constitution and our principals of freedom and democracy.
The XKB mappings are easy to fix. Find Xfree config entries in the config file, and change them to xorg.
Re:Off thread but needing help figuring out distro
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Mandrake probably wouldn't be a bad choice.
Note adding the right repositories into yum will fix the mp3 and video codec problems. I don't know why they don't install xpdf right off the bat. I like it better the acroread at this point. With these simplemods, Fedora would become my first choice.
Debian, gentoo, etc would probably have to high a learning curve, unless you really want to get into it. If you really want to learn linux, use gentoo, and do a stage one install. If you do this, you'll probably install several times, but you'll learn linux!
The Prius is not a corvette, but I can punch it at 75Mph on Surrey Ridge (Mongo Hill south of Denver on I-25) and it will zip into the upper 80's very quickly. Also, it rely's on the electric motor for that instant acceleration. Electric motors have lag measured in milliseconds. Gas motor lag is measured in seconds. The Prius goes very well.
And the Luxus/Highlander hybrid that's comming out later this year is supposed to accelerate like a V8. Note that after the first generation Prius, one of toyota's goals was to put some punch in the hybrids. They succeeded.
I got a 2004 Prius last year. With very little searching and research on the web, you can find out the real expected mileage of the cars. And the dealer also warned me that EPA mileage tests were a joke, and that most people were getting mileage in the mid-40's. I've been getting 43-46. Of course I had Lead Inplants in my right foot when I was about 16.
Dealers are only allowed to report the EPA mileage ratings. I read an article last December which quoted Toyota Mgmt (I believe it was there CTO) that said they wanted to print the expected mileage, but were specifically told by the EPA that they could only release the EPA figures.
Admittedly, I'm cheap, but I looked at things other then just the gas mileage. I went with the Prius because the design is rock solid, and should outlast any American drive-train. The "Synergy Drive" is so damned simple that it not only eliminates the tranny, but will reduce the wear and tear on the rest of the drive-train. Toyota is 6-7 years ahead of everyone else in drive-train technology, and the Prius isn't just a car, it's an IP marketing tool. I suspect that within 5 years, all the auto manufacturers will be forced into licensing their technology just to catch up.
But don't worry, GM says that they will have Fuel Cell Technology in the mainstream by 2010, and will make hybrid technology outdated. They won't need battery and electric motor technology for fuel cells. They can't help it if there clueless fucks!
About 10 years ago, I was told to do just that. I worked for a defense contractor based out of a town just southwest of denver. They had me train 4 replacements. Of course, the first 3 were dufus's. The 4th was a friend and he convinced management that my services were needed. So we both stayed on the project for a year.
I suspect that there isn't a chance in hell that the people that are stuck doing this exercise now will have this kind of luck. Management is to busy shipping off the future for a gain in stock price today.
In Jone's article, he talks about what if a rogue distributer distributes a hacked version of Open Source Software? Ya know, this could happen:(
My question is, how many rouge distributors are there out there selling Micro$oft products? Judging from the number of virus writers there are out there, I would have to believe there's enough people out there with knowledge of Micro$oft operating systems to do this on Microsoft Proprietary products.
This potential problem isn't limited to Open Source distributions. It could happen with proprietary products also. Look at how many counterfeit disks are coming out of third world countries these days.
You could be buying the latest $M XP, and it's a counterfeit from Russia with a back door, and several backup back doors in it also.
Bad snowstorms will hammer my dish network connection. We have comcast in our area, and until last fall, all the local stations were crap. They just replaced the main feed in our area, and my neighbors comcast feed has been clear ever since. The satellite pic is still a little better. I just got a HD tv, and Satellite won't be offering the local stations in HD unfortunately. I can't pick up the over-the-air HD transmissions, so if I decide I want the local stations in HD, I'll probably be stuck going back to cable. Right now, cable has more channels in HS availible, but Dish supposidly has a "SuperDish" going on line soon (Aug 2003, thier late) that will increase HD dramatically. A grand for the HD pvr though. OUCH!!!
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Since HP no longer has chip developers, they won't be able to revive PA/RISC. It's as dead as ALPHA.
You stated that you can't plug a un-patched non-firewalled system into the net for 10 minutes. I hate to disappoint you, but I've seen systems get infected in 20 seconds, and the norm is down to 4 minutes.
The SPAMBOT ARMIES RULE THE NET.
Sorry, but it's the way of things these days.
One thing about microsoft. If you use their popup blocker, sooner or later, someone will give them enough money to bypass it. I'd say I don't trust them further then I can spit, but that would be a lie, because I can spit alot further then I trust microsoft.
:)
Of course I don't have a problem with pop-ups these days. Mozilla/firefox on linux keeps them at bay.
Remember the good old days when, even on Linux, you get to the wrong popup site, and the only solution was pkill mozilla? Poor windows users had to power off! Of course they were loaded with spyware after that. The asshole who was doing that had seirratradingpost.com, and I seem to always misspell that url. That's when I started managing my bookmarks better
Want bad package management, use Slowaris pkgadd, etc. Personally, .deb's and emerge are great.
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The apt port to fedora isn't bad. But it's built on rpms
But look at all the fodder for the lawyers. We need those little black boxes to help support the #1 industry in the US. Sueing the fucking crap out of everyone we can. What are you, a communist? Trying to blame this on someone being to old to drive just doesn't support the courts need to sue someone.
So it doesn't bother you that they can catch you on every act you make. You must be perfect, and have never made a mistake in your life, and never made a bad judgement in your life. Never had a car accident, etc. So when your in your car with 3 kids screaming, your wife is hollering, and you just spilt your coffee, and the car in front of you on the icy road is skidding (you haven't hit your brakes yet), don't complain when they give you a ticket and being impared while driving because your reactions are the same as a person with a 1.5 alcohol content. That little black box they are talking about putting into cars is bullshit!
It's working fine for me, accept the menu close doesn't work.
Typical for 1.0 release. there's always a few bugs that slip through. It sounds like firefox got a few extra bugs on the 1.0 release. Note that they'll all be fixed on the 1.01 release.
And of the 270000 foreigners, 1/3 of them are getting trained to do the same job in india/eastern block countries. This number is just a guess, but many of the h1b visas are training positions. So lets say that for the last three years they've had 80,000 in here for 4 months training at a time.
80000*12/4*3=720000
How many people are in the high tech field? we don't have 300 million programmers/sysadmins/techs/phone support persons. This is making a dent in the high tech industry.
Also note that of the 720000 persons, many of them are training more people to do what they do.
I don't have a problem with outsourcing on a level playing field. But in India and the eastern block countries, they get shit pay, no benefits, no health care, no retirement, no vacation, and can be shit on by there employer at any time. This is not a level playing field. And when this country hits 20-40% unemployment, those big markets for SUV's is gonna come crashing down. This is what it's going to take to get the government and corporate shithead economists to figure out what there doing. Hey, hopefully I'm full of it, but it seems like that's the direction were going in this country.
Yea, but Microsoft will be so busy sueing everyone making a linux distribution, you'll have to compile and build it from scratch. The billions $M has in the bank can keep alot of lawyers busy for a long time.
I've written my senators and representitives so many times in the last 3 years I've lost count. it's like pouring a cup of water out in the desert to end a drought.
Unfortunately, the US gov only listens to PAC's and whoever's feeding their soft money portfolio. I'll write again, but it's like pissing into the wind.
I have thedish at home, and I've discovered that Serius is 100% better then radio. I've been boycotting music for a while now, but I can believe it would ding sales. I still think one of the biggest factors, that the RIAA pinheads are consistanly ignoring are the cd's coming out of china. Of course the fact that almost nothing original is coming out these days, and the mastering sucks has something to do with it also. clipping the peaks to make the volume louder doesn't make the music better.
Libya or Iran.
We already tried canada. Didn't you see the South Park Movie? BLAME CANADA!
There's also the backup irc channels. If I wrote a bot, I'd set it up so that if it couldn't talk to the primary channel, it would switch to the secondary. I loose an IRC channel, I update my bots with a new primary and secondary (or more) backup channels. These thieving bastards aren't going to loose there networks over an IRC server.
I upgraded my vmware image last week when my circuit was down. Instead of loading zonealarm first, I went to windowsupdate first.
BIG MISTAKE!
In the first 10 minutes it took to install the first patch, I got 2 blaster variants and the latest LASS.
There could have been more. I ended up reloading. This time, I had zonealarm and SP2 on before I brought the network interface up.
I was a fool. I should have known better.
It proves that this article is way wrong. He claims that TC0 is 3 days for windows. It's only 3 minutes.
I'm enjoying the d0n't get it factor 0lso.
Yep, this is the proverbial drop in the bucket. Remember that they're not a bank, so they can fuck you any way they want to. If you're running a business utilizing PayPal, remember to keep your balance as close to $0.00 as possible. They look for reasons to freeze your account. When they freeze your account, the only way to get your money back is to file charges, after the 180 day waiting period. I suspect that the court would ignore the 180 day waiting period. The laws need to change, so outfits like this have to follow banking rules. They did this in Europe. Unfortunately, there's to much graft (AKA lobbyist feeding congressmen green stuff) to make a change like this in the US.
I used to like ebay. Now I won't have anything to do with them.
When I saw the name sg1archive, I figured out why he was busted. However, using the patriot act to bypass getting a warrant is bull. I hope he gets off, specifically on this clause. Not that I want to screw the MPAA. They're being slightly more reasonable then the RIAA. But the patriot act, and if passed, the induce act are in direct conflict with the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights. Apparently, our representitives in congress and in the white house are more concerned with keeping thier campain coffiers full then protecting the Constitution and our principals of freedom and democracy.
The XKB mappings are easy to fix. Find Xfree config entries in the config file, and change them to xorg.
Mandrake probably wouldn't be a bad choice.
Note adding the right repositories into yum will fix the mp3 and video codec problems. I don't know why they don't install xpdf right off the bat. I like it better the acroread at this point. With these simplemods, Fedora would become my first choice.
Debian, gentoo, etc would probably have to high a learning curve, unless you really want to get into it. If you really want to learn linux, use gentoo, and do a stage one install. If you do this, you'll probably install several times, but you'll learn linux!
The Prius is not a corvette, but I can punch it at 75Mph on Surrey Ridge (Mongo Hill south of Denver on I-25) and it will zip into the upper 80's very quickly. Also, it rely's on the electric motor for that instant acceleration. Electric motors have lag measured in milliseconds. Gas motor lag is measured in seconds. The Prius goes very well.
And the Luxus/Highlander hybrid that's comming out later this year is supposed to accelerate like a V8. Note that after the first generation Prius, one of toyota's goals was to put some punch in the hybrids. They succeeded.
I got a 2004 Prius last year. With very little searching and research on the web, you can find out the real expected mileage of the cars. And the dealer also warned me that EPA mileage tests were a joke, and that most people were getting mileage in the mid-40's. I've been getting 43-46. Of course I had Lead Inplants in my right foot when I was about 16.
Dealers are only allowed to report the EPA mileage ratings. I read an article last December which quoted Toyota Mgmt (I believe it was there CTO) that said they wanted to print the expected mileage, but were specifically told by the EPA that they could only release the EPA figures.
Admittedly, I'm cheap, but I looked at things other then just the gas mileage. I went with the Prius because the design is rock solid, and should outlast any American drive-train. The "Synergy Drive" is so damned simple that it not only eliminates the tranny, but will reduce the wear and tear on the rest of the drive-train. Toyota is 6-7 years ahead of everyone else in drive-train technology, and the Prius isn't just a car, it's an IP marketing tool. I suspect that within 5 years, all the auto manufacturers will be forced into licensing their technology just to catch up.
But don't worry, GM says that they will have Fuel Cell Technology in the mainstream by 2010, and will make hybrid technology outdated. They won't need battery and electric motor technology for fuel cells. They can't help it if there clueless fucks!
About 10 years ago, I was told to do just that. I worked for a defense contractor based out of a town just southwest of denver. They had me train 4 replacements. Of course, the first 3 were dufus's. The 4th was a friend and he convinced management that my services were needed. So we both stayed on the project for a year.
I suspect that there isn't a chance in hell that the people that are stuck doing this exercise now will have this kind of luck. Management is to busy shipping off the future for a gain in stock price today.
You just want the $50. Greedy Capitalist Dog!
Anyway, the reward window should be at least 90 days.
In Jone's article, he talks about what if a rogue distributer distributes a hacked version of Open Source Software? Ya know, this could happen :(
My question is, how many rouge distributors are there out there selling Micro$oft products? Judging from the number of virus writers there are out there, I would have to believe there's enough people out there with knowledge of Micro$oft operating systems to do this on Microsoft Proprietary products.
This potential problem isn't limited to Open
Source distributions. It could happen with proprietary products also. Look at how many counterfeit disks are coming out of third world countries these days.
You could be buying the latest $M XP, and it's a counterfeit from Russia with a back door, and several backup back doors in it also.
Think about it!
W.Kid
Bad snowstorms will hammer my dish network connection. We have comcast in our area, and until last fall, all the local stations were crap. They just replaced the main feed in our area, and my neighbors comcast feed has been clear ever since. The satellite pic is still a little better. I just got a HD tv, and Satellite won't be offering the local stations in HD unfortunately. I can't pick up the over-the-air HD transmissions, so if I decide I want the local stations in HD, I'll probably be stuck going back to cable. Right now, cable has more channels in HS availible, but Dish supposidly has a "SuperDish" going on line soon (Aug 2003, thier late) that will increase HD dramatically. A grand for the HD pvr though. OUCH!!!