I use bash on my windows box daily (along with sed, awk, gmake, uname, find, file, RCS-5.7, telnet, in.telnetd, and a host of other common tools).
Ever heard of Cygwin? It's a pretty damned fine piece of kit. It understands the way UNIX people work, and all that Windows stupidity at the same time. Brilliant, I say.
...just think, now all the Micro$oft users can see how unstable Linux applications are when running under Windows -- talk about a great way to present bad publicity to the uninitiated masses.
Or if all else fails, move to Canada. Senator Orin Hatch doesn't work for our government. We don't have the DMCA or anything like it..... yet.
Better yet, our new Copyright law (from Dec 97?) is quite good (search for "CD tax" or something).
It basically says that a person may make copies of any music he wants to listen to, on any media he damn well pleases. The catch is that the person making the copies has to be the person doing the listening.
Now THAT sounds like a good model for Napster.:)
...many moons ago, my 3rd year AI prof asked us to hand in a solution to the `Blocks World Problem' in any language we wanted to. (Of course he actually wanted a solution in Lisp, but I had just finished hacking some extra functionality into Emacs and was sick of that language)
I turned in a solution in ksh. He asked me "Why Ksh??", and I said "It doesn't fork to run functions like the bourne shell." Hee hee! I love given right-wrong answers to profs.;-)
A few weeks later I wrote a normal-math to RPN-math parser in Bourne shell using the Shunting Yard algorithm.
You can do all kinds of things in shell -- for those of you among us who extoll p*rl as the be-all and end-all of programming languages, I say, "Try Shell! If you can't do it in shell, you should be writing it in C, anyhow".
You don't need to build anything on the machine-to-be-h4x0rd if you know the target architecture -- which you must if you're going to write your 31337 buffer overflow 3xpl017 in assembler.
Anything which can generate binary from your telnet connection will do -- I've transfered binaries from one system to another by cutting and pasting them in base64, or escaped octal before. Hell, there are even special t00lz designed for transfering binaries which are often available on the target system.. Lets see... I think they are called "ftp", "rsh", "ssh", and other funny nam3z like that.
Yeesh. You people are idiots. Sysadmins beware? Puh-lease.
No 5cr1pt k1dd13 is going to be writing custom one-offs in assembler on a target box.. after all, the 5cr1pt k1dd1e collective IQ is somewhat near the value the ax register holds after xor ax,ax.
No skilled cracker is going to need this tool to do the deed, although it might be handy to have around.
Next time, think before you speak -- alarmism is not useful. If you weren't posting as an AC, I'd think that you were almost certainly trying to a frist psot karma-whore trick.
Ask dope-boy for a Time-Delay Reflectometer. I know where they can be had for about $10,000US, that would have solved your problem by *easily* pinpointing the tap.
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I agree completely -- check out the HomeBrew DSL page (google it, I can't be bothered).
A netopia router and head unit per conection was out $800 US last time I looked. Around here, a T1 is about $1500 US per month, and an alarm circuit (unloaded copper pair) from the ILEC costs $15 US per month.
So, for an $800 startup fee per customer, 100 customers on a T1 (not unrealistic, especially with no competition!), you can provide DSL for about $30 a month and break even. Oh, and spend $2000 on a Cisco Router -- a one-time expense.
Sounds reasonable to me. You could probably do better pricewise on the hardware, too -- I chose that solution when DSL was relatively new.
If you wanted to be a real-honest-to-God ISP, you could probably provide that hardware, and jack the price up to reasonable levels to allow you to recoup your hardware costs in 18 months or so. The best part is, you can probably get a $100 "sign up" fee, no problem-o.
In all seriousness, try Xemacs version 19.4 or better. The learning curve is pretty decent, because it uses a GUI menu with the shortcuts written in, and it will whine if you use a meta-x command when you've got a shortcut programmed for it. I've had recent-college-grads comfy enough with emacs to use it inside of a couple of hours.
BTW, the meta x menu uses command-line completion, so you also have a hope in hell of guessing stuff.:)
Finally, if you want to be really wierd, you could run "meta-x viper", which will run a VI emulator inside of emacs... but don't type "meta-x dungeon" unless you have a lot of time on your hands.
...the more middle class people with these things in their homes, the more of them there are for the truly poor to steal them and use them from the comfort of their *own* cardboard boxes.
Seriously, getting more PCs [of any kind] out there is bound to be good. If there is one thing poor countries can do these days to get long-term foreign money, it's to develop their brains. Cutting down a forest is a one-time windfall, not a real source of ongoing finance.
...reading Slashdot with my neural-ocular interface.
Synopsis Phosphorus on a cathode-ray tube is excited in a specific pattern, causing photons to travel through a gaseous interface composed of 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and 1% Misc. Gasses. Upon being translated into neural signals by the ocular interface of a human, said photons are translated into "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
Andover, Taco, Hemos: look out!! Pretty soon my Slashdot posts will have a.sig that says "Patent Pending".
But you have to take you hands off the home row to do this. Sure, it's a lot faster for the hunt-n-peck type.
No, you don't. That's why you should be using a real keyboard, like the Sun Microsystems Type 5c, which has the control key beside the A key, and the escape beside the one.
And wrt emacs baiting: I guess you guys aren't smart enough to use meta-x global-set-key, huh?
And no, you don't have to move your fingers off the home row to use the meta on a real keyboard, either -- that's what the escape key is for.
I'm a piano player, and a touch typing coder (~100-105wpm).
I can piano-play a hell of a lot faster than I can type.
How? Simple. PRACTICE! Yes, piano players practice the same piece over and over again when it is of said difficulty. Once you've practiced it enough, it is really easy to play it fast, because your motor memory kicks in.. it really just feels like your hands know where to go, and your brain decides how fast they do it.
Typists (useful ones, anyhow), tend to type different things every day -- this means that motor memory for a particular passage will never, never kick in. When it does (passwords, etc), you can expect 300+ wpm (bursts) from the "average coder".
Oh, and show me the "average piano player" (remember, we were talking about the "average coder") who can sight-read (no motor memory!) a piece at 220 in 4/4 that is solid 16th notes, with two-octave jumps in the right hand, and I'll eat my hat.
I still have a hard time believing that the "average coder" types 170wpm. I'm a pretty friggin' good coder, and I know how to type -- been doing it for over 15 years -- and 100 wpm seems to be several standard deviations above the mean.
g++ is a frontend as much as the GCC c compiler, fortran compiler, objective c compiler, chill compiler, etc.
They are frontends to the GNU compiler, which consists of a nifty set of parse trees, a register transfer language (RTL) [a sort-of arch-independant algebraic-pseudo-LLL], optimizers (mostly at RTL level), and an assembler (gas or as, depending on your installation).
You can't patent the alphabet because it's been in use for more than a year -- but go ahead, and invent your own if you like, and patent that. Better make it novel, though. Maybe add a letter for the "shwa" sound.
You don't apply for a copyright -- copyright is implicitly granted to the author of a piece of artistic work.
Since you didn't write the alphabet as a literary piece, you don't have copyright on it. On the other hand, you could paint a picture of the alphabet, and you would have copyright on that picture -- but not on the alphabet.
You could design a new font, and have copyright on it. Hell, you could probably submit it to the USPTO and say it was designed specifically to make writing easier when using a green pen and you'd get a patent on the font. Then you could write the alphabet in that font, and register that as your trademark.
Thanks to the stupid patent/trademark laws in the US, Microsloth can't continue along the Java path -- and a solution of the type provided by.NET or Java *is* needed.
Haven't you been reading Slashdot? That was big news last week.
I meant, to, actually -- my "Ego" post was intended as an "I-know-where-you-got-that-and-YOU-didn't-attribut e-it" follow up to the parent. (My post is basically Chapter 2 of the rant that the original parent starts)
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I use bash on my windows box daily (along with sed, awk, gmake, uname, find, file, RCS-5.7, telnet, in.telnetd, and a host of other common tools).
Ever heard of Cygwin? It's a pretty damned fine piece of kit. It understands the way UNIX people work, and all that Windows stupidity at the same time. Brilliant, I say.
Wes
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...just think, now all the Micro$oft users can see how unstable Linux applications are when running under Windows -- talk about a great way to present bad publicity to the uninitiated masses.
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Just think -- self-healing condoms! No longer worry about dying from ripping one of those little bastards.
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...many moons ago, my 3rd year AI prof asked us to hand in a solution to the `Blocks World Problem' in any language we wanted to. (Of course he actually wanted a solution in Lisp, but I had just finished hacking some extra functionality into Emacs and was sick of that language)
;-)
I turned in a solution in ksh. He asked me "Why Ksh??", and I said "It doesn't fork to run functions like the bourne shell." Hee hee! I love given right-wrong answers to profs.
A few weeks later I wrote a normal-math to RPN-math parser in Bourne shell using the Shunting Yard algorithm.
You can do all kinds of things in shell -- for those of you among us who extoll p*rl as the be-all and end-all of programming languages, I say, "Try Shell! If you can't do it in shell, you should be writing it in C, anyhow".
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You don't need to build anything on the machine-to-be-h4x0rd if you know the target architecture -- which you must if you're going to write your 31337 buffer overflow 3xpl017 in assembler.
Anything which can generate binary from your telnet connection will do -- I've transfered binaries from one system to another by cutting and pasting them in base64, or escaped octal before. Hell, there are even special t00lz designed for transfering binaries which are often available on the target system.. Lets see... I think they are called "ftp", "rsh", "ssh", and other funny nam3z like that.
Yeesh. You people are idiots. Sysadmins beware? Puh-lease.
No 5cr1pt k1dd13 is going to be writing custom one-offs in assembler on a target box.. after all, the 5cr1pt k1dd1e collective IQ is somewhat near the value the ax register holds after xor ax,ax.
No skilled cracker is going to need this tool to do the deed, although it might be handy to have around.
Next time, think before you speak -- alarmism is not useful. If you weren't posting as an AC, I'd think that you were almost certainly trying to a frist psot karma-whore trick.
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Ask dope-boy for a Time-Delay Reflectometer. I know where they can be had for about $10,000US, that would have solved your problem by *easily* pinpointing the tap.
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I agree completely -- check out the HomeBrew DSL page (google it, I can't be bothered).
A netopia router and head unit per conection was out $800 US last time I looked. Around here, a T1 is about $1500 US per month, and an alarm circuit (unloaded copper pair) from the ILEC costs $15 US per month.
So, for an $800 startup fee per customer, 100 customers on a T1 (not unrealistic, especially with no competition!), you can provide DSL for about $30 a month and break even. Oh, and spend $2000 on a Cisco Router -- a one-time expense.
Sounds reasonable to me. You could probably do better pricewise on the hardware, too -- I chose that solution when DSL was relatively new.
If you wanted to be a real-honest-to-God ISP, you could probably provide that hardware, and jack the price up to reasonable levels to allow you to recoup your hardware costs in 18 months or so. The best part is, you can probably get a $100 "sign up" fee, no problem-o.
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...before the Vogon Constructor Fleet destroys the planet to make way for an intergalactic bypass!
(Hey where's my thumb??)
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He is no more fucking ORBS than Linus is fucking Bill.
Producing a superior product is not called "fucking", it's called "innovating".
...now, if we could just teach the USPTO the difference between "innovating" and "fucking", the world might actually be a nice place.
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In all seriousness, try Xemacs version 19.4 or better. The learning curve is pretty decent, because it uses a GUI menu with the shortcuts written in, and it will whine if you use a meta-x command when you've got a shortcut programmed for it. I've had recent-college-grads comfy enough with emacs to use it inside of a couple of hours.
:)
BTW, the meta x menu uses command-line completion, so you also have a hope in hell of guessing stuff.
Finally, if you want to be really wierd, you could run "meta-x viper", which will run a VI emulator inside of emacs... but don't type "meta-x dungeon" unless you have a lot of time on your hands.
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...the more middle class people with these things in their homes, the more of them there are for the truly poor to steal them and use them from the comfort of their *own* cardboard boxes.
Seriously, getting more PCs [of any kind] out there is bound to be good. If there is one thing poor countries can do these days to get long-term foreign money, it's to develop their brains. Cutting down a forest is a one-time windfall, not a real source of ongoing finance.
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Now what the hell am I going to run??
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...reading Slashdot with my neural-ocular interface.
.sig that says "Patent Pending".
Synopsis
Phosphorus on a cathode-ray tube is excited in a specific pattern, causing photons to travel through a gaseous interface composed of 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and 1% Misc. Gasses. Upon being translated into neural signals by the ocular interface of a human, said photons are translated into "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
Andover, Taco, Hemos: look out!! Pretty soon my Slashdot posts will have a
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No, you don't. That's why you should be using a real keyboard, like the Sun Microsystems Type 5c, which has the control key beside the A key, and the escape beside the one.
And wrt emacs baiting: I guess you guys aren't smart enough to use meta-x global-set-key, huh?
And no, you don't have to move your fingers off the home row to use the meta on a real keyboard, either -- that's what the escape key is for.
Yeesh.
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I'm a piano player, and a touch typing coder (~100-105wpm).
I can piano-play a hell of a lot faster than I can type.
How? Simple. PRACTICE! Yes, piano players practice the same piece over and over again when it is of said difficulty. Once you've practiced it enough, it is really easy to play it fast, because your motor memory kicks in.. it really just feels like your hands know where to go, and your brain decides how fast they do it.
Typists (useful ones, anyhow), tend to type different things every day -- this means that motor memory for a particular passage will never, never kick in. When it does (passwords, etc), you can expect 300+ wpm (bursts) from the "average coder".
Oh, and show me the "average piano player" (remember, we were talking about the "average coder") who can sight-read (no motor memory!) a piece at 220 in 4/4 that is solid 16th notes, with two-octave jumps in the right hand, and I'll eat my hat.
I still have a hard time believing that the "average coder" types 170wpm. I'm a pretty friggin' good coder, and I know how to type -- been doing it for over 15 years -- and 100 wpm seems to be several standard deviations above the mean.
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g++ is a frontend as much as the GCC c compiler, fortran compiler, objective c compiler, chill compiler, etc.
They are frontends to the GNU compiler, which consists of a nifty set of parse trees, a register transfer language (RTL) [a sort-of arch-independant algebraic-pseudo-LLL], optimizers (mostly at RTL level), and an assembler (gas or as, depending on your installation).
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What happens when you have > 32768 messages in a given folder under Solaris 2.5.1 running UFS?
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You can't patent the alphabet because it's been in use for more than a year -- but go ahead, and invent your own if you like, and patent that. Better make it novel, though. Maybe add a letter for the "shwa" sound.
You don't apply for a copyright -- copyright is implicitly granted to the author of a piece of artistic work.
Since you didn't write the alphabet as a literary piece, you don't have copyright on it. On the other hand, you could paint a picture of the alphabet, and you would have copyright on that picture -- but not on the alphabet.
You could design a new font, and have copyright on it. Hell, you could probably submit it to the USPTO and say it was designed specifically to make writing easier when using a green pen and you'd get a patent on the font. Then you could write the alphabet in that font, and register that as your trademark.
But you couldn't patent "the alphabet". Get real.
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Better or not? That's no longer relevant.
.NET or Java *is* needed.
Thanks to the stupid patent/trademark laws in the US, Microsloth can't continue along the Java path -- and a solution of the type provided by
Haven't you been reading Slashdot? That was big news last week.
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I meant, to, actually -- my "Ego" post was intended as an "I-know-where-you-got-that-and-YOU-didn't-attribut e-it" follow up to the parent. (My post is basically Chapter 2 of the rant that the original parent starts)
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Karma whore!
What are you doing tonight? I've got lots to spend...
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...I've been submitting the story about Viking-I getting stranded on Mars since 1977 and haven't seen a friggin' thing about it YET!
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