Userfriendly, Segfault, and Freshmeat all laid claims they received a cease
and desist letter from an unnamed party [supposedly MS] that ordered them to
take down their websites. That was the gag, but it kind of turned sour on them
after they revealed it being a joke.
Login: phorlakh Name: Joe User
Directory:/home/phorlakh Shell:/bin/bash
On since Tue Mar 27 15:13 (CST) on ttyp0 from sl4v3
25 minutes 25 seconds idle
On since Tue Mar 27 15:14 (CST) on ttyp1 from sl4v3
On since Tue Mar 27 15:26 (CST) on ttyp2 from sl4v3
22 minutes 33 seconds idle
No mail.
Plan:
"What are we going to do tonight, Brain?"
"The same thing we do every night, Pinkie...try to take over the world!"
Actually, I'm using Linux right now, but I've played with FreeBSD a little,
as well as a few of the other fun ones (:
"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning
as it were a lamp, and it fell upon a third part of the rivers, and upon the
fountains of waters;
"And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters
became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made
bitter."
END Obligatory "end of the world" post
Well, someone had to post it:P
"Oh shit...the database is being slashdotted....damnit, I knew I shouldn't
have eaten that burrito right before travelling...shit shit shit shit shit!"
speaking of "every which way", has anyone else been getting 1000s of the
"legal marijuana" type SPAM? I've gotten about 18 of them in the past week
[same company, etc...] and they've come from open relays in Hungary, Japan,
and over in Cali [99% of them are NT boxen with obscure and shitty SMTP
servers]. It appears that some of the headers are forged on them as to make
them look like they're coming from different locations...thank God for
sendmail logs!
w3m does admirably on *some* of them, but not all. You can't expect something
that's supposed to have a small memory footprint as well as reasonable
simplicity and security to be able to parse through javascript imagemaps
without a real headache.
As far as HTTP complexity, I didn't exactly say what I meant. I meant the
overextension of the HTML protocol in terms of special effects that don't
really add to content, but waste bandwidth.
The reasons I want to see gopher make a comeback:
1. Simple navigation without having to wait for 500000000M of images to load
while looking for information [I, as well as many others out here in the
country, have slow connection speeds on everything]
2. None of this over-hyped hypertext shit. Of course, you *can* use certain
gopher servers [like gn] for web servers, but they fulfill their purposes
quite nicely without having to push for that
3. It's a hell of a lot more simple than HTTP and other protocols of the same
line.
I use gopher on my own box exclusively.
I disagree with you a little on the ideas that ACLs would cause a fork. Most
likely, ACL support would be attributed to a module, and possibly an option in
the standard make config, but not "forced". No doubt we would all [most likely]
be happy with that.
You are right, though, that ACLs aren't important to everybody.
depends on your application. Some areas, ACLs are great...other areas, they're
nothing but a pain in the ass. I'm a bit more interested in splitting the
standard root capabilities into separate users, none with the same access as
the others; ex: user netdaemon having control over the ports 0-1024, locked
into a chrooted environment and having no control over filesystem, which would
be held by root or another account. User mount would have capability to mount
filesystems, but no real read/write permission over anything except what's
absolutely necessary. My interest would be in having a NOEXEC bit [like
on a partition] for directories, where you could have certain directories
specified not to allow any kind of executable file within, but would still
allow you to work in that directory. chmod a-x [directory] is a way to pull
your hair out (:
I also like the idea of rating items by confidential, classified, secret,
top secret, etc...but, that's just after having played around on B2 and B1
systems for a little while.
My favorite trick: set up getty to answer when someone calls. This not only
irritates the hell out of them, but it makes for a giggle whenever you hear
the modem try to handshake with a dumbass (:
After reading your post, I figured out the whole damn thing!
1: D:C gives away a free product
2: that free product sends them info about everyone, but they say they won't
use it in certain ways
3: they're trying to sue anyone who messes with their "Intellectual Property"
This all ads up to one thing: their business model is to give away the bar
code scanner, and sue everyone who uses it in any other way than it was
intended! Not only will they be making the lawyers rich, but they'll be
making themselves quite a stack of cash in the meantime!
The only two operating system/hardware combos I've ever seen with an A1
rating under this [yes, A1 is both hardware and software security] are
Trusted Xenix [where did this one go?] and Honeywell Multics [this one
was flushed down the shitter in France.]
Slashdot Mirror
Userfriendly, Segfault, and Freshmeat all laid claims they received a cease
and desist letter from an unnamed party [supposedly MS] that ordered them to
take down their websites. That was the gag, but it kind of turned sour on them
after they revealed it being a joke.
Actually, I'm using Linux right now, but I've played with FreeBSD a little, as well as a few of the other fun ones (:
--Joe Uservi document.doc
:%s/[ctrl-V][ctrl-@]//g
:wq
strings document.doc | fold -w 75 -s > document.txt
Works most of the time
Obligatory "end of the world" post
:P
"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning
as it were a lamp, and it fell upon a third part of the rivers, and upon the
fountains of waters;
"And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters
became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made
bitter."
END Obligatory "end of the world" post
Well, someone had to post it
[NITPICK] That's not gcc, that's the original C compiler for UNIX. [/NITPICK]
$ crontab -e
33 * * * * dd if=/dev/urandom | elm -s "Flight of the Buzzard" whatever@whatever
*giggle*
"Oh shit...the database is being slashdotted....damnit, I knew I shouldn't
have eaten that burrito right before travelling...shit shit shit shit shit!"
for w3m: chmod a-w ~/.w3m/cookies
I have only _one_ cookie in there (:
speaking of "every which way", has anyone else been getting 1000s of the
"legal marijuana" type SPAM? I've gotten about 18 of them in the past week
[same company, etc...] and they've come from open relays in Hungary, Japan,
and over in Cali [99% of them are NT boxen with obscure and shitty SMTP
servers]. It appears that some of the headers are forged on them as to make
them look like they're coming from different locations...thank God for
sendmail logs!
yup, I agree there, but tell that to the web designers for some of the :/
mom & pop companies. That's typically who I have to deal with
Three words for this:
image map navigation
w3m does admirably on *some* of them, but not all. You can't expect something
that's supposed to have a small memory footprint as well as reasonable
simplicity and security to be able to parse through javascript imagemaps
without a real headache.
As far as HTTP complexity, I didn't exactly say what I meant. I meant the
overextension of the HTML protocol in terms of special effects that don't
really add to content, but waste bandwidth.
[biting on the troll hook] exclusive server, d00d. [/biting on the troll hook]
IHBT. IHW. IWHAND.
minor nit: lynx is already a gopher client (:
lynx gopher://atralakh.dyndns.org
The reasons I want to see gopher make a comeback:
1. Simple navigation without having to wait for 500000000M of images to load
while looking for information [I, as well as many others out here in the
country, have slow connection speeds on everything]
2. None of this over-hyped hypertext shit. Of course, you *can* use certain
gopher servers [like gn] for web servers, but they fulfill their purposes
quite nicely without having to push for that
3. It's a hell of a lot more simple than HTTP and other protocols of the same
line.
I use gopher on my own box exclusively.
I disagree with you a little on the ideas that ACLs would cause a fork. Most
likely, ACL support would be attributed to a module, and possibly an option in
the standard make config, but not "forced". No doubt we would all [most likely]
be happy with that.
You are right, though, that ACLs aren't important to everybody.
depends on your application. Some areas, ACLs are great...other areas, they're
nothing but a pain in the ass. I'm a bit more interested in splitting the
standard root capabilities into separate users, none with the same access as
the others; ex: user netdaemon having control over the ports 0-1024, locked
into a chrooted environment and having no control over filesystem, which would
be held by root or another account. User mount would have capability to mount
filesystems, but no real read/write permission over anything except what's
absolutely necessary. My interest would be in having a NOEXEC bit [like
on a partition] for directories, where you could have certain directories
specified not to allow any kind of executable file within, but would still
allow you to work in that directory. chmod a-x [directory] is a way to pull
your hair out (:
I also like the idea of rating items by confidential, classified, secret,
top secret, etc...but, that's just after having played around on B2 and B1
systems for a little while.
If this actually happens, we won't have to worry about the 32 bit/UNIX time
bug problem in ~2036!
My favorite trick: set up getty to answer when someone calls. This not only
irritates the hell out of them, but it makes for a giggle whenever you hear
the modem try to handshake with a dumbass (:
Come on Winston! Goldstein's the ENEMY! Big Brother's protecting us all!
the next new gag gift: pants that start a large, flashing sign that says
"HE'S GOT A HARD-ON!!!" Imagine that for a public prank (:
After reading your post, I figured out the whole damn thing!
1: D:C gives away a free product
2: that free product sends them info about everyone, but they say they won't
use it in certain ways
3: they're trying to sue anyone who messes with their "Intellectual Property"
This all ads up to one thing: their business model is to give away the bar
code scanner, and sue everyone who uses it in any other way than it was
intended! Not only will they be making the lawyers rich, but they'll be
making themselves quite a stack of cash in the meantime!
but...but...but...I don't have a password! I run CP/M!
Simple solution: bounce all of them you receive to billg@microsoft.com.
The only two operating system/hardware combos I've ever seen with an A1
rating under this [yes, A1 is both hardware and software security] are
Trusted Xenix [where did this one go?] and Honeywell Multics [this one
was flushed down the shitter in France.]
everybody knows it's thousand island dressing! Oh wait, we're not talking
about McDonald's. My bad.