Linux support is fine for the dual 1.8GHz G5 we've got at work -- even the fan cooling is fine. I'm running Gentoo on it with [quick ssh] 2.6.10-gentoo-r4-g5 #3 SMP. Is there something different about the 2.0/2.5 G5s?
The AI could be instructed to trade up to a particular level and then it would require authorisation from Earth confirming that the traded items had been received before proceeding. This would slow things down but it would still be a lot faster than working without the AI at all.
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I'm sympathetic to his argument, but when he throws in blatant assertions like:
I have never used an encyclopedia as much as Wikipedia and I thank the Wikipedia community for what they have created. Countless others share these sentiments. Wikipedia has enhanced my life and brought considerable progress to society. I consider these facts so easy to demonstrate that they are pointless to debate.
then I'm leery about the rest of his arguments (though I'm still making my way through the rest of TFA).
So how did you manage to delete those logfiles? And how big a disk image did you have to make? Right now I'm filling up a 2GB image w/the files you talk about. I tried deleting them by mounting the image w/a Knoppix 3.6 CD, but only succeeded in borking the image so badly that Windows wouldn't even reinstall on it.
How did you manage to delete them? I tried getting at the files with a Knoppix disk (version 3.6) and only succeeded in borking the image badly enough that Windows refused to even reinstall on it.
He was arrested upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport last Wednesday....Greco had allegedly threatened to share his methods for spamming members of the group if MySpace.com didn't sign an exclusive marketing deal that would have legitimized the messages he was sending via the service. Greco believed he was flying to Los Angeles to cement that agreement with MySpace President Tom Anderson.
h5<>0r says: U R t0taLLY P0Wn3D unL355 u b0W t0 mY L33+ XK1LL5! tanderson says: Okay. But you have to show up to sign an agreement. tanderson says: LOL h5<>0r says: 5W33+!1!!1 j00 r0X0R! h5<>0r says: w51+! y u l5ff1Ng @ me? tanderson says: What? tanderson says: Sorry, just remembering a Seinfeld episode I saw last night h5<>0r says: 0 h5<>0r says: y3h t5t s00p n5Z1's funny h5<>0r says: 50, 1 sh0 uP on m0nd5y, OKBYU? tanderson says: Yeah, that's great tanderson says: You want a limo? h5<>0r says: 0 b0y r1LLY!!?!11?/ h5<>0r says: U b3+! tanderson says: Sucker h5<>0r says: wa+????????? tanderson says: Sorry tanderson says: My granddaughter's here tanderson says: I was just offering her some candy h5<>0r says: 0h y5h candy's good h5<>0r says: w1ll 1 G3t b3nif3+ts/!??!
I came across his site a while back, and holy crap if he isn't hacking his BIOS to get around these limitations. (His page is linked to if you follow a link from TFA, but I figured he deserves more prominence here.)
Interestingly, this is the same IBM (and HP, for that matter) that we have come to know and love for their help with Linux. I realize they're a big company, full of lawyers and patents and left hands unaware of what the right hand's doing, but I'm still really surprised I haven't heard about this before.
Anyone know of a blacklist of this sort of shenanigans? I'm the sysadmin where I work, and it'd be great to know what to stay away from -- and to explain to these companies why they've lost our business.
In addition to the two other excellent replies: you're right -- I probably wouldn't be able to make full use (or any use, beyond compiling) of the source code. I'm not a programmer, let alone a good enough programmer to understand or improve what's going on.
But if it's open-source, then lots of people who are that good can look at it and talk about how well it works, what its problems might be, how they can be improved. It's not guaranteed, of course, but it's a lot more likely than if it's closed-source. There will be (the potential for) more informed opinions about the software, and that will benefit me.
It's not that I can't, or won't, support it in its closed-source state. It's just that it would be so much more useful to me, though in indirect ways, if it were open-source.
As I mentioned above, we're using the compilers w/Wine w/o problems, just as you say. However, the IDE is quite liked by some of the engineers (not being one, I have no opinion on the matter), and that's what I'd like to get going on Linux.
Thanks for the tip on QEMU; if I go back on Monday and it's crapped out, I'll give that a try.
The code composer CD from December 2004 includes
statically linked x86 linux binaries.
Really! Man, didn't know that. We've been using the binaries with Wine, so that's good; it's more the GUI that I'm after for Linux. (Yeah yeah yeah Emacs, but some of the engineers really want the GUI.)
Thanks for the tip about the binaries, though. That's bound to be easier than trying to get the Solaris binaries (which I assumed without checking included the GUI) to work on FreeBSD or Linux...
I've been trying out VMware's latest beta at work (journal entry on that in an hour or so) to run W2K on Linux, in order to try some patch automation software. It's great, but I'd love it if there was a Free program that'd do this.
I dearly hope the accelerator gets GPL'd. Between sysadmin work (reverting to a snapshot ROX) and, just maybe, being able to move W2K people to Linux (there's only a handful of applications we need [damn you, Texas Instruments! Where's your Linux version of Code Composer?], and remote admin is just soooooooo much better with a Unix), I'd be very happy if a) this thing works as well as it's supposed to, and b) if there was some sort of tip jar I could kick in a few bucks to (like with Blender, I believe), and get it released when there was enough money.
Incidentally, I tried installing W2K on qemu w/o the accelerator. When I left work on Friday, it was finishing up the second stage of installation; it was slow as molasses, but seemed to be working. This seems to contradict the note re: disk full during install problem noted on the support page. It's always possible I just haven't hit it yet, but does anyone else have any experience with W2K and qemu?
I lived in London for a couple years, and I remember those things. I was amazed the first time I saw one; it just seemed like such a clever idea, that I wondered why I'd never seen something like it in N.Am.
Dan Bedore, a spokesman for Ford, said the company had confidence in the technology. "No security device is foolproof," he said, but "it's a very, very effective deterrent" to drive-away theft. "Flatbed trucks are a bigger threat," he said, "and a lot lower tech."
All you'd have to do is put a towing company logo (or something made-up and likely-looking), and who'd say anything?
And take your time getting ready to leave, because the very worst that'll happen is that someone'll come back early and bribe you into leaving.
You know the saying "you can't fix a social problem with technological means"? Well, a government convinced that it deserves to survive by any means necessary, including censoring its citizens (and that's if they're lucky), might be the best example of a social problem. You don't fix that with anonymous proxies and l33t pr0n-over-ssl.
I'm not denying the importance of free speech, either in the absolute sense or as something important to bringing about the downfall of dictatorships; I'm saying that your assumptions about the utility of "getting around" the firewall are so very, very wrong. What good will your laptop do you when your door is kicked in at 3am by the police? Or when you're hauled before a judge, charged with crimes against the state, because you were looking at a non-approved news site? Why do you think that when They've got guns and police and armies and courts who will do what They want, that it's not that big a deal?
Just out of curiosity, what are you using to block it at the firewall, and how happy are you with it? I might need to set up something like that, and I'm curious if there's OS something or other that can do it.
My parents are looking for a new machine to replace their current Win98 box (shudder). I've been trying to persuade them for a while now to get a Mac, but they've been put off by the price.
No, OS X isn't perfectly secure, nor is it Free -- both important considerations. But it will help keep my parents from inadvertantly polluting the Internet with spam, viruses, and trojans, and do a lot better job of it than Windows.
Ack...wrote that in a hurry. That second paragraph should read:
And a subset of that is coarse permissions on ports. Why in God's name to we still enforce root-only opening of ports below 1024? We need something like ACLs for ports built in to Unix, not an optional add-on.
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Linux support is fine for the dual 1.8GHz G5 we've got at work -- even the fan cooling is fine. I'm running Gentoo on it with [quick ssh] 2.6.10-gentoo-r4-g5 #3 SMP. Is there something different about the 2.0/2.5 G5s?
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So how did you manage to delete those logfiles? And how big a disk image did you have to make? Right now I'm filling up a 2GB image w/the files you talk about. I tried deleting them by mounting the image w/a Knoppix 3.6 CD, but only succeeded in borking the image so badly that Windows wouldn't even reinstall on it.
How did you manage to delete them? I tried getting at the files with a Knoppix disk (version 3.6) and only succeeded in borking the image badly enough that Windows refused to even reinstall on it.
h5<>0r says: U R t0taLLY P0Wn3D unL355 u b0W t0 mY L33+ XK1LL5!
tanderson says: Okay. But you have to show up to sign an agreement.
tanderson says: LOL
h5<>0r says: 5W33+!1!!1 j00 r0X0R!
h5<>0r says: w51+! y u l5ff1Ng @ me?
tanderson says: What?
tanderson says: Sorry, just remembering a Seinfeld episode I saw last night
h5<>0r says: 0
h5<>0r says: y3h t5t s00p n5Z1's funny
h5<>0r says: 50, 1 sh0 uP on m0nd5y, OKBYU?
tanderson says: Yeah, that's great
tanderson says: You want a limo?
h5<>0r says: 0 b0y r1LLY!!?!11?/
h5<>0r says: U b3+!
tanderson says: Sucker
h5<>0r says: wa+?????????
tanderson says: Sorry
tanderson says: My granddaughter's here
tanderson says: I was just offering her some candy
h5<>0r says: 0h y5h candy's good
h5<>0r says: w1ll 1 G3t b3nif3+ts/!??!
I came across his site a while back, and holy crap if he isn't hacking his BIOS to get around these limitations. (His page is linked to if you follow a link from TFA, but I figured he deserves more prominence here.)
Interestingly, this is the same IBM (and HP, for that matter) that we have come to know and love for their help with Linux. I realize they're a big company, full of lawyers and patents and left hands unaware of what the right hand's doing, but I'm still really surprised I haven't heard about this before.
Anyone know of a blacklist of this sort of shenanigans? I'm the sysadmin where I work, and it'd be great to know what to stay away from -- and to explain to these companies why they've lost our business.
But if it's open-source, then lots of people who are that good can look at it and talk about how well it works, what its problems might be, how they can be improved. It's not guaranteed, of course, but it's a lot more likely than if it's closed-source. There will be (the potential for) more informed opinions about the software, and that will benefit me.
It's not that I can't, or won't, support it in its closed-source state. It's just that it would be so much more useful to me, though in indirect ways, if it were open-source.
Thanks for the tip on QEMU; if I go back on Monday and it's crapped out, I'll give that a try.
Really! Man, didn't know that. We've been using the binaries with Wine, so that's good; it's more the GUI that I'm after for Linux. (Yeah yeah yeah Emacs, but some of the engineers really want the GUI.)
Thanks for the tip about the binaries, though. That's bound to be easier than trying to get the Solaris binaries (which I assumed without checking included the GUI) to work on FreeBSD or Linux...
I dearly hope the accelerator gets GPL'd. Between sysadmin work (reverting to a snapshot ROX) and, just maybe, being able to move W2K people to Linux (there's only a handful of applications we need [damn you, Texas Instruments! Where's your Linux version of Code Composer?], and remote admin is just soooooooo much better with a Unix), I'd be very happy if a) this thing works as well as it's supposed to, and b) if there was some sort of tip jar I could kick in a few bucks to (like with Blender, I believe), and get it released when there was enough money.
Incidentally, I tried installing W2K on qemu w/o the accelerator. When I left work on Friday, it was finishing up the second stage of installation; it was slow as molasses, but seemed to be working. This seems to contradict the note re: disk full during install problem noted on the support page. It's always possible I just haven't hit it yet, but does anyone else have any experience with W2K and qemu?
Eat my SETI@Home dust!
I lived in London for a couple years, and I remember those things. I was amazed the first time I saw one; it just seemed like such a clever idea, that I wondered why I'd never seen something like it in N.Am.
All you'd have to do is put a towing company logo (or something made-up and likely-looking), and who'd say anything?
And take your time getting ready to leave, because the very worst that'll happen is that someone'll come back early and bribe you into leaving.
You know the saying "you can't fix a social problem with technological means"? Well, a government convinced that it deserves to survive by any means necessary, including censoring its citizens (and that's if they're lucky), might be the best example of a social problem. You don't fix that with anonymous proxies and l33t pr0n-over-ssl.
I'm not denying the importance of free speech, either in the absolute sense or as something important to bringing about the downfall of dictatorships; I'm saying that your assumptions about the utility of "getting around" the firewall are so very, very wrong. What good will your laptop do you when your door is kicked in at 3am by the police? Or when you're hauled before a judge, charged with crimes against the state, because you were looking at a non-approved news site? Why do you think that when They've got guns and police and armies and courts who will do what They want, that it's not that big a deal?
Congrats to the LJ folks for getting things working, taking the time to do it right, and giving an admin's-eye-view into what actually happened.
http://openbsd.org/faq/pf/authpf.html
Just out of curiosity, what are you using to block it at the firewall, and how happy are you with it? I might need to set up something like that, and I'm curious if there's OS something or other that can do it.
All I have to say is "WOW". And well done.
Well, between this announcement and Microsoft's latest security fixes (including a fix for the HTML Help cross-scripting vulnerability, yay!), I think I'll finally be able to persuade them.
No, OS X isn't perfectly secure, nor is it Free -- both important considerations. But it will help keep my parents from inadvertantly polluting the Internet with spam, viruses, and trojans, and do a lot better job of it than Windows.
And a subset of that is coarse permissions on ports. Why in God's name to we still enforce root-only opening of ports below 1024? We need something like ACLs for ports built in to Unix, not an optional add-on.
What an awful mess that was...