Get an inexpensive router/firewall box from your local computer store. Set it up before you do your install. It's not 100% proof against someone with the determination and skills, but it's enough to keep the skript kiddiez out, at least until you can patch and harden your system and turn off the dangerous services.
FCC regs say that mobile-to-mobile transfers must be done IN A MATTER OF HOURS.
AT&T were out of compliance when they had me wait more than a day.
I eventually said "screw it!" and had T-Mobile assign me a number. Wouldn't you know, it's easier to remember than my old number, which I hadn't memorized in four years of having it.
This is not a reference to the Underpants Gnomes episode of South Park (an episode I have not seen because I got bored with SP during Season 2) but a reference to a commercial for Macintosh that ran during the first year or so after the original iMac's release.
"Step one: Open the box and take out your iMac. Step two: Plug in. Turn on. Step three: There's no step three! There's no step three!"
Installing Debian using Knoppix isn't as easy as this, but it's close. "Debian's too hard!" is no longer an excuse.
First of all, Debian is extremely user-unfriendly. If nothing else, it has a reputation of being next to impossible to install. If you can get it that far, there are no simple tools to use and maintain the system with, unlike the other distributions I suggested.
Step one: boot Knoppix.
Step two: open the Root Shell.
Step three: type knx-hdinstall.
Step four: follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Step five: There's no step five! There's no step five!
Second, Debian is extremely out of date.
Knoppix uses a combo of Testing and Unstable and is solid as a rock. And it's easy as apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade to get everything you need to be on the bleeding edge. Use Unstable sources for everything if you want the "Distro On The Edge" effect.
Third, Debian only applies security updates if you use the stable branch. This means that if you want to be confident that your computer is secure, you have to run even more out of date software. For most people, this is clearly unacceptable.
That's funny, if my memory serves me right all three branches are updated regularly for security issues.
OK Einstein...which distro do you suggest as a "better" distro? I'm waiting...
T-Mobile is a flat rate of $20/mo for GPRS Internet if you have a contract with them. That's also the same price you pay for unlimited HotSpot 802.11b service per month, half-price what people who are not T-Mobile customers pay. Both kinds of access will cost you $40/mo.
My phone has a built-in GPRS modem and Bluetooth and I bought a serial cable in case I can't get a good Linux-friendly Bluetooth dongle or PCMCIA card.
I haven't sprung for either service (yet) but they're both available.
Personally I have AT&T, but I want to switch to Verizon because my friends all have plans that give extra mobile-to-mobile minutes, which would be useful since they are the core group of people I talk to.
Well, good sir, (or madam) since you are with AT&T, you are S.O.L. I tried leaving AT&T for T-Mobile and taking my phone number with me. They didn't cough it up. AT&T is in violation of the FCC order mandating number portability.
Actually what would ROCK would be a re-envisioning of the eMate. A friend of mine has one and has been using it every day since 1997. Tough as nails and still looks every bit as cool as it did when it first came out. Ran NewtonOS. Kickass.
Amtrak works -- and is profitable --in certain parts of the U.S. The problem is they have to keep the unprofitable running of many long distance routes due to congressional pressure. The same Congress that won't let Amtrak cut unprofitable long distance routes is the same Congress that whines about giving them a few hundred million a year in subsidy (all while saying that spending 87 billion in Iraq is no big deal, it's just a drop in the bucket).
Actually the Surfliner, which runs between Goleta and San Diego, is another major profit center for Amtrak. So much so that during the time that it looked like the Bush administration was going to kill Amtrak Caltrans was absolutely drooling over the possibility of raking in those Surfliner revenues without having to split it with Uncle Sam.
The Surfliner has two classes: Coach and Business. Business class costs $9 each way and includes a newspaper, a snack box and more comfortable seats. On a particularly crowded Summer day, sometimes it's worth it to spring for the extra $18 to get some elbow room. 802.11b would make it even more worth it. Amtrak should definitely consider this.
Oh yeah, when you are dealing with a metal box (which is what a train is) you already have a Faraday Cage. It's highly unlikely that the hoi polloi in the cheap seats could get any signal leaking in from Business Class.
Wrong. They have Award BIOSes, and Award==Phoenix. Kiss ASUS goodbye along with the rest of the Taiwanese mobo makers. Everyone uses Award or Phoenix branded BIOSes and that's two sides of the same bad penny.
The original, uncopied version of the domesday book is in fine fettle in the public record office, in Kew, London.
Where also sits an x86 computer running Windows that has a fully operational version of the BBC Digital Domesday Book since June 2003. It took about 3 years to retrieve the data and write an emulator that could run the software, which originally ran on the BBC Micro computer, but they did it.
The devil has power over the world. People who serve money belong to the world. When this subdermal business becomes required upon pain of death, then you can start listening to the clamoring of the end-time-focused Christians' warnings. Until then, just listen to the message of love they are supposed to be sharing (instead of this doom and gloom stuff).
This is precisely why this dog won't hunt. In the hugely successful "end times" potboiler series "Left Behind" which was ghost-written for Christian author Tim LaHaye, they specifically mention people being "chipped" like cats and dogs and that this would be the Mark of the Beast. If this ever comes out as a consumer product, let alone if it becomes a requirement, there will be thousands and thousands of "Christian Patriots" running to their bunkers and arming themselves to the teeth.
Also, for those who mention that this would be Attorney General Ashcroft's dream, remember that he, too, is a fundamentalist Christian who believes that the Bible is the Word o'Gawd and that the book of Revelation is CNN from the future. He's not going to let this happen. He'll be more than happy to issue you a card you have to carry on pain of death, or require the use of biometric ID you have to register for on pain of death, but not something that you implant or tattoo. Nuh-uh.
And don't forget they use Windows for their voting machines, and Access for the database:P.
And that's the scariest part of all...imagine this nightmare scenario. General Election, USA, 2004. The latest worm hits and attacks every Diebold XP-based voting terminal. Everything grinds to a screeching halt as the voting terminals need to be deloused.
But it's ok, because Diebold gave tons of $$$ to the RNC and to Bush The Younger's reelection campaign. Right????
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user@host/~#apt-get install mozilla
How easy is that?
Knoppix is the future, baby! Debian without tears! knx-hdinstall your Windows nightmares away!
However, if you've got to run Windows, the new OpenCD is pretty damn slick. Put a Knoppix CD and an OpenCD in people's Christmas stockings this year. They'll love you for it!
If there is one word that gets my back up, even after going through my Ayn Rand phase and emerging unscathed, it's *altruism*.
Altruism, in philosophical terms, means the subordination of self-interest to the interest of an Other. That Other can be an amorphous mass, like Society. That Other can be The Leader, be that leader the current head of the Chinese Communist Party or George W. Bush or Osama Bin Laden. That Other can be God, Allah, Odin, Kami-Sama or the Hindu Trimurti, depending on where you live and what creed you believe in. It doesn't matter in the end. Deeds done in self-interest are tainted. Deeds done for another, especially which result in self-annihilation, are ennobled. Do you see how fscked that is?
Linus Torvalds didn't GPL the Linux kernel for altruistic reasons. He did it because he needed the help from other programmers, and he had a sense that opening up the code and letting others work on it would improve it far beyond what his own abilities as a programmer could allow him.
Every Open-Source developer I know has a similar rationale to putting their code out under an Open license. They do it because they realize that there are other minds out there who might be able to solve problems in a different and better way.
The first thing to do when thinking about F/OSS is to chuck that "a" word. It does the whole process a major disservice. Voluntary cooperation/collaboration towards a commonly held goal is a better way to describe it. Yeah, it doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as a single word. But it's more accurate.
Ironic that this would show up here on Slashdot because this kind of shit happens here all the time. Note: the vast majority of people here don't abuse this site...I have a small minority of abusers in mind as I write this.
Let's face it, guys, cyberbullying happens here all the time...a few twits calling each other queer, indulging in the cyber equivalent of towel-snapping in the locker room, modding people down as "flamebait," "troll," and "overrated" just because you don't agree with them or they rub you the wrong way...the irony is so thick it's not even funny.
MsGeek.Org closed down because of a group of cyberbullies and their extended attack on the site. Many of the people responsible still post here, and often. The crapflooders never have, and never will, provide anything of value on this site...they just shovel out the same crap, the same disgusting gay porn and disguised links to goatse and tubgirl. Someone needs to hit the entire lot of the crapflooders over their collective heads with a clue by four...it stopped being "cute" or "funny" years ago.
I kicked the WIPO Troll off my site and got his account pulled because he posted hardcore gay porn pics to my board using an IE exploit. He came by it rightly. I specifically started MsGeek.Org to give women in technology a "clean, well-lighted" environment to post on a Slashdot-like forum. The crapflooders ruined that, up to and including running exploits against the board software itself. The security issues got to be so much for the good people at Hosting Matters that we mutually decided it wasn't worth it.
I wish that Taco and Hemos and the rest of the founders here had the cojones to pull the accounts of those who have made posting here uncomfortable for many people. I have no problems dealing with it...I'm a 10-year Usenet veteran with the virtual purple hearts to prove it. But I have gotten emails from women who don't read Slashdot because the crap posts are so disturbing to them.
Anyway, this is why I continue to have comments turned off on my journal. I wanted one place where I couldn't be shouted down by a small minority of obnoxious idiots, and I have it. I am sorry that the stupid yahoo.com address always gets filled up with spam and people can't get email to me there. I intend to find another webmail account with a bit more space so you have some way of contacting me. I might even break down and pay Yahoo for a bigger mailbox. Whatever.
I was going to post this anonymously, but screw it...do your worst. Mod it down to Kingdom Come. I don't care anymore. Karma is worthless at this point anyway...I posted for awhile under an identity I used when posting from work, and it took me a grand total of 2 months to go from newbie to the 50 point cap. W00t. That account could have been used to troll like a mofo...instead, I retired it, Blade Runner stylee. I don't even remember the password on the account anymore, fuck it.
I'll chime in every now and again, but right now the main reason I use this site is to blog. My/. journal almost like still having MsGeek.Org, the only diff is that someone else has to worry about security issues and assholes. It's too bad.../. used to be fun a few years ago.
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Get an inexpensive router/firewall box from your local computer store. Set it up before you do your install. It's not 100% proof against someone with the determination and skills, but it's enough to keep the skript kiddiez out, at least until you can patch and harden your system and turn off the dangerous services.
Kit Fisto.
You see this aquatic Jedi for the first time in the Genndy Tartakovsky "Clone Wars" shorts. One of the shorts includes an underwater duel.
FCC Consumer Factsheet on Wireless Portability right here.
FCC regs say that mobile-to-mobile transfers must be done IN A MATTER OF HOURS.
AT&T were out of compliance when they had me wait more than a day.
I eventually said "screw it!" and had T-Mobile assign me a number. Wouldn't you know, it's easier to remember than my old number, which I hadn't memorized in four years of having it.
100% true.
I could only think of one thought..."My God! It's full of stars!"
Gorgeous. It's on one of my KDE desktops now.
This is not a reference to the Underpants Gnomes episode of South Park (an episode I have not seen because I got bored with SP during Season 2) but a reference to a commercial for Macintosh that ran during the first year or so after the original iMac's release.
"Step one: Open the box and take out your iMac.
Step two: Plug in. Turn on.
Step three: There's no step three! There's no step three!"
Installing Debian using Knoppix isn't as easy as this, but it's close. "Debian's too hard!" is no longer an excuse.
Step one: boot Knoppix.
Step two: open the Root Shell.
Step three: type knx-hdinstall.
Step four: follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Step five: There's no step five! There's no step five!
Second, Debian is extremely out of date.
Knoppix uses a combo of Testing and Unstable and is solid as a rock. And it's easy as apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade to get everything you need to be on the bleeding edge. Use Unstable sources for everything if you want the "Distro On The Edge" effect.
Third, Debian only applies security updates if you use the stable branch. This means that if you want to be confident that your computer is secure, you have to run even more out of date software. For most people, this is clearly unacceptable.
That's funny, if my memory serves me right all three branches are updated regularly for security issues.
OK Einstein...which distro do you suggest as a "better" distro? I'm waiting...
T-Mobile is a flat rate of $20/mo for GPRS Internet if you have a contract with them. That's also the same price you pay for unlimited HotSpot 802.11b service per month, half-price what people who are not T-Mobile customers pay. Both kinds of access will cost you $40/mo.
My phone has a built-in GPRS modem and Bluetooth and I bought a serial cable in case I can't get a good Linux-friendly Bluetooth dongle or PCMCIA card.
I haven't sprung for either service (yet) but they're both available.
Well, good sir, (or madam) since you are with AT&T, you are S.O.L. I tried leaving AT&T for T-Mobile and taking my phone number with me. They didn't cough it up. AT&T is in violation of the FCC order mandating number portability.
More details here.
Actually what would ROCK would be a re-envisioning of the eMate. A friend of mine has one and has been using it every day since 1997. Tough as nails and still looks every bit as cool as it did when it first came out. Ran NewtonOS. Kickass.
Rest In Peace, MTV's Downtown. We hardly knew ye. The 5th episode took place at a Sci-Fi/Horror/Gaming con, and got everything right. A classic. Shouts out to my homie Chris Prynoski..
Actually the Surfliner, which runs between Goleta and San Diego, is another major profit center for Amtrak. So much so that during the time that it looked like the Bush administration was going to kill Amtrak Caltrans was absolutely drooling over the possibility of raking in those Surfliner revenues without having to split it with Uncle Sam.
The Surfliner has two classes: Coach and Business. Business class costs $9 each way and includes a newspaper, a snack box and more comfortable seats. On a particularly crowded Summer day, sometimes it's worth it to spring for the extra $18 to get some elbow room. 802.11b would make it even more worth it. Amtrak should definitely consider this.
Oh yeah, when you are dealing with a metal box (which is what a train is) you already have a Faraday Cage. It's highly unlikely that the hoi polloi in the cheap seats could get any signal leaking in from Business Class.
And of course, you can see where this line of thought took Microsoft. Clippy. Microsoft Bob. At least the latter got Gates laid.
^_^
Outdated or not, I still have a copy of it. It's a really neat historical document, and should be taken as such now.
Wrong. They have Award BIOSes, and Award==Phoenix. Kiss ASUS goodbye along with the rest of the Taiwanese mobo makers. Everyone uses Award or Phoenix branded BIOSes and that's two sides of the same bad penny.
Where also sits an x86 computer running Windows that has a fully operational version of the BBC Digital Domesday Book since June 2003. It took about 3 years to retrieve the data and write an emulator that could run the software, which originally ran on the BBC Micro computer, but they did it.
Yes, but David Byrne loves it and uses it to make art. I suppose we should introduce him to OpenOffice.Org Impress...
This is precisely why this dog won't hunt. In the hugely successful "end times" potboiler series "Left Behind" which was ghost-written for Christian author Tim LaHaye, they specifically mention people being "chipped" like cats and dogs and that this would be the Mark of the Beast. If this ever comes out as a consumer product, let alone if it becomes a requirement, there will be thousands and thousands of "Christian Patriots" running to their bunkers and arming themselves to the teeth.
Also, for those who mention that this would be Attorney General Ashcroft's dream, remember that he, too, is a fundamentalist Christian who believes that the Bible is the Word o'Gawd and that the book of Revelation is CNN from the future. He's not going to let this happen. He'll be more than happy to issue you a card you have to carry on pain of death, or require the use of biometric ID you have to register for on pain of death, but not something that you implant or tattoo. Nuh-uh.
And that's the scariest part of all...imagine this nightmare scenario. General Election, USA, 2004. The latest worm hits and attacks every Diebold XP-based voting terminal. Everything grinds to a screeching halt as the voting terminals need to be deloused.
But it's ok, because Diebold gave tons of $$$ to the RNC and to Bush The Younger's reelection campaign. Right????
Well, that penguin that mysteriously disappeared from the Tacoma Zoo is still missing, as far as I know. I always suspected Gates had something to do with it. ^_^
user@host/~#apt-get install mozilla
How easy is that?
Knoppix is the future, baby! Debian without tears! knx-hdinstall your Windows nightmares away!
However, if you've got to run Windows, the new OpenCD is pretty damn slick. Put a Knoppix CD and an OpenCD in people's Christmas stockings this year. They'll love you for it!
- The Twisted Tales of Felix The Cat.
- MTV's Downtown.
- MTV Oddities: The Maxx.
- The entire Beavis and Butt-Head series.
And most importantly...If there is one word that gets my back up, even after going through my Ayn Rand phase and emerging unscathed, it's *altruism*.
Altruism, in philosophical terms, means the subordination of self-interest to the interest of an Other. That Other can be an amorphous mass, like Society. That Other can be The Leader, be that leader the current head of the Chinese Communist Party or George W. Bush or Osama Bin Laden. That Other can be God, Allah, Odin, Kami-Sama or the Hindu Trimurti, depending on where you live and what creed you believe in. It doesn't matter in the end. Deeds done in self-interest are tainted. Deeds done for another, especially which result in self-annihilation, are ennobled. Do you see how fscked that is?
Linus Torvalds didn't GPL the Linux kernel for altruistic reasons. He did it because he needed the help from other programmers, and he had a sense that opening up the code and letting others work on it would improve it far beyond what his own abilities as a programmer could allow him.
Every Open-Source developer I know has a similar rationale to putting their code out under an Open license. They do it because they realize that there are other minds out there who might be able to solve problems in a different and better way.
The first thing to do when thinking about F/OSS is to chuck that "a" word. It does the whole process a major disservice. Voluntary cooperation/collaboration towards a commonly held goal is a better way to describe it. Yeah, it doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as a single word. But it's more accurate.
Ironic that this would show up here on Slashdot because this kind of shit happens here all the time. Note: the vast majority of people here don't abuse this site...I have a small minority of abusers in mind as I write this.
/. journal almost like still having MsGeek.Org, the only diff is that someone else has to worry about security issues and assholes. It's too bad... /. used to be fun a few years ago.
Let's face it, guys, cyberbullying happens here all the time...a few twits calling each other queer, indulging in the cyber equivalent of towel-snapping in the locker room, modding people down as "flamebait," "troll," and "overrated" just because you don't agree with them or they rub you the wrong way...the irony is so thick it's not even funny.
MsGeek.Org closed down because of a group of cyberbullies and their extended attack on the site. Many of the people responsible still post here, and often. The crapflooders never have, and never will, provide anything of value on this site...they just shovel out the same crap, the same disgusting gay porn and disguised links to goatse and tubgirl. Someone needs to hit the entire lot of the crapflooders over their collective heads with a clue by four...it stopped being "cute" or "funny" years ago.
I kicked the WIPO Troll off my site and got his account pulled because he posted hardcore gay porn pics to my board using an IE exploit. He came by it rightly. I specifically started MsGeek.Org to give women in technology a "clean, well-lighted" environment to post on a Slashdot-like forum. The crapflooders ruined that, up to and including running exploits against the board software itself. The security issues got to be so much for the good people at Hosting Matters that we mutually decided it wasn't worth it.
I wish that Taco and Hemos and the rest of the founders here had the cojones to pull the accounts of those who have made posting here uncomfortable for many people. I have no problems dealing with it...I'm a 10-year Usenet veteran with the virtual purple hearts to prove it. But I have gotten emails from women who don't read Slashdot because the crap posts are so disturbing to them.
Anyway, this is why I continue to have comments turned off on my journal. I wanted one place where I couldn't be shouted down by a small minority of obnoxious idiots, and I have it. I am sorry that the stupid yahoo.com address always gets filled up with spam and people can't get email to me there. I intend to find another webmail account with a bit more space so you have some way of contacting me. I might even break down and pay Yahoo for a bigger mailbox. Whatever.
I was going to post this anonymously, but screw it...do your worst. Mod it down to Kingdom Come. I don't care anymore. Karma is worthless at this point anyway...I posted for awhile under an identity I used when posting from work, and it took me a grand total of 2 months to go from newbie to the 50 point cap. W00t. That account could have been used to troll like a mofo...instead, I retired it, Blade Runner stylee. I don't even remember the password on the account anymore, fuck it.
I'll chime in every now and again, but right now the main reason I use this site is to blog. My