MP3 Player: $250cdn for a player only
Memory card(s): $199 for 96mb (96 minutes)
Minidisc *Recorder*: $299cdn with digital input, portable sized
Minidiscs: $4 for 76 minute re-recordable blank.
You tell me if it's dead!!!
Personally, I have a minidisc recorder walkman, a minidisc player/radio walkman (my gf's), a minidisc car radio ($250cdn) and use digital outs from my CD and sound card to record onto the handheld.
It's also *great* for bootlegs 'cause it's small and easy to hide.
I found this the other day while looking for something else entirely:
(From Freshmeat)
IP Personality
Jean-Marc Saffroy - July 27th 2000, 20:51 EDT
The IP Personality project is a patch to the newer Linux kernels that adds netfilter features: it enables the emulation of other OSes at network level, thus fooling remote OS detection tools such as nmap that rely on network fingerprinting.
Download:
http://ippersonality.sourceforge.net/download.ht ml (315 hits)
I just can't wait to log into my handheld as "root" so I can serial-cable over the latest rpm of some non-handheld-centric app, and try and hack it to work without a keyboard on a 1/4-vga sized screen.
Henzai looks pretty... for a bunch of screenshots.
Gnome / Xwindow (or variants) on a handheld? Do I *really* need that kind of overhead?
Here's what a handheld OS needs:
-- Non-file-based filesystem.
It needs an executable app, and a data container which contains all data and configs for that app. (just like the Palm does)
-- Non-windowing window system.
All I need is one window at a time which fills the screen, and *occasionally* a small pop-up child window (which *does not* need to be dragged 99% of the time, rather it should pop up out of the way of the current text entry point)
-- Standard row of icons on the top / bottom
Much like the standardized "File Edit View Bla Help" menu bar we all know, all a PDA needs is "New xx xx Switch Quit ?" to make a new entry, do something custom to this program, switch apps, close this app, get help.
-- Ability for apps to sleep and maintain their current state/session, rather than hardcore multitasking.
Quite frankly, with the exception of a timer, I'd *barely* need multitasking. Having an MP3 playing while I'm entering a few appointments is nice, but that's about the extent of it. Maybe a timer running while I charge my clients.;->
-- Handwriting recognition that works.
See any Grafitti device. All I can say is "Wow". I don't *expect* to use my PDA as a notebook computer, so why would I possibly want to enter data en masse with it? If I ever do, I'll plug in that little folding Palm keyboard.
-- QUICK searching of database files and the ability to call up the corresponding app.
I want to do a search for "Joe Blow" and not only see his "Contacts" entry, but any time logs in my time logger, any transactions in my Expenses program, and anything I've lent him in my Lists program. If I get his name and a row of icons which correspond to the apps that refer to his name, and I can click the icon to go right to that entry in the appropriate program, DAMN that's useful!!
-- Wireless connectivity
Be it by cable to my GSM cell phone, or CompactFlash card with a little 802.11 antenna, or whatever, as long as I have a *full* TCP stack, an IMAP/POP/folder-capable email client, and a text-mode/tables/frame-to-tables rendering browser, and an ICQ client, I'll never be away from useful info.
-- An encryption option for all the data files
Be it by signature-sign-on to the device if I haven't powered it up within an hour, or by tapping a password, or whatever. Very important if it gets lost/stolen.
-- Synchronization to desktops
The biggest problem with Linux even on a desktop, let alone a PDA, is "What the heck would I synch with?" Linux has NO decent organizational apps, and barely any mail apps (Pine is the best competition to Outlook Express, quite frankly!)
And finally,
-- An easy to develop for IDE which can take any standard language, compile it to the PDA's architecture, and has a REALLY nice drag-and-drop designer for the LIMITED standard set of widgets which a PDA would need. (small buttons, small text, button-row (as described above), jog arrows instead of a scroll bar (to save screen real estate), couple of other things I'm sure.)
That's my 2 cents. I can have everything I've asked for with acceptable exceptions, in my PalmPilot. Windows PocketPC is nice, but it's still an overkill OS and has NO apps worth mentioning. Until I see the above, there's no way I'd kill the functionality of a PDA by putting Linux on it.
Ahem. I've official decided that "Intellectual Property" is now the property of anyone you've expressed it to, based on the simple premise that most of us have brains and can act on any idea imposed on them. For all those who wish to keep their ideas to themselves, please do so. Thank you. mindslip designs. "We Think, Therefore You Are."
I think the *single* most important thing in *any* interface is consistancy.
Books are no different one to the other. Copyright page, Table of contents, Prelude/Prologue/Introduction, Chapters 1 through X, Epilogue, Appendicies, Index.
Commercial hi-fi/entertainment gear is no different one to the other... Channel up/down, volume up/down, play, stop, rewind, fast forward, pause, previous track, next track.
Cars have a turn signal that clicks up for right, down for left, a gearbox that goes RPND321, a brake on the left and a throttle on the right.
Windows, as much as you may hate it, is solidly consistant (in most places). File/Edit/View/Custom/Help/About
I know it's ALWAYS Ctrl-X/C/V for cut/copy/paste, and Ctrl-Z/Y for undo/redo.
Which leads me to the second most important thing in a user interface... keyboard shortcuts!
"...then, in a move about as brilliant as sticking your head in a vat of boiling oil, the university went ahead and applied for a patent on this so that no one in the human race can benefit without someone in amerika becoming rich off it."
I keep finding more and more reasons to hate the usa. C'mon for fsck's sake... this is UNIVERSITY RESEARCH, and it's *vital* technology to mankind. Get your greed out of the picture.
mindslip
Hot coffee in my lap! OOooh! Sue! Money! GREED!
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O, Canada, My home and native land, True intellectual rights In all that Law commands.
With glowing screens We code all night From persecution, Free!
To innovate, encrypt, And Hack*, Protected, completely!
States, keep away! Greed, you can't sue me! O, Canada, We stand on guard for thee, O, Canada, We stand on guard for thee!
...Just my little bit of appreciation for where I live.
Having lived/worked in the states, and travelled within it quite a lot, all I can say is... wow. Different world. Completely.
As your very own Ross Perot said once... "Money is the most overrated thing in the world."
*Hack, not crack. That's illegal here.
** BTW, that's sung to the tune of our national anthem, in case you didn't figure it out. Do you guys even know how many provinces we have? What our capital is? Who our Prime Minister is? Sheesh!
*** Flames elsewhere. We have freedom of speech here.
Every new distro, for the last LONG while, and for the next fairly long while, has had the SAME set of servers, the SAME set of clients, and either KDE or Gnome. Most have had both.
Until X4 and KDE2, any "new" distro is a bullshit rehash.
The only real difference is either i386 or i5/686 optimization (and as far as I can see, Mandrake's the only one with those optimizations... which is why I choose it religiously) and either Corel's mods to KDE (which royally suck and make it more frustrating than hell), and either a stupid illogical/etc/rc filesystem (debian) or a smart, logical/etc/rc.d/init.d (sysv, I think it's called?) redhat-style boot system.
Other than those two things, what's the big difference between these distros? They're all hard to use at best, unless you've become a linux geek by struggling through them.
So far, only mandrake meets the needs of a combination of power and usability as far as I'm concerned.
(don't bother to flamespam me, I don't read it anyways)
I'm sorry, but I had to stop reading it after I got to the part that said (to paraphrase):
"A computer could be embedded into the base of a lamp, with an infrared port pointing out the window transmitting information."
Ok... um... If I saw a network cable coming from my *DESKLAMP*, I think I'd suspect something. Especially if the base of the lamp *also* had this little red plastic filter strategically pointed right up close to and out of a window.
Is this guy SERIOUS about this article? He doesn't give *any* background to anything, (except a *little* about the hack/crack debate), and expects GOVERNMENT SECURITY PROFESSIONALS to relate to this???
Wow.
Makes me worry a *LOT* less about Eschelon... It's probably a bunch of radio shack scanners connected to old Ampex reel tape recorders!!!
One thing I've noticed in the last two years as I do more and more "big corporate" type contracts, is that businesses are run on greed, on ego, on capitalistic hedonistic obsessions for money, and that there's no one to take care of except yourself. Not even "the bottom line", just yourself.
At least this guy is HONEST about it!! He's 21 (younger than I am) and he already knows that in order to survive in the bulls**t world of capitalism, all you have to do is scratch peoples back, and watch your own. I didn't know that so well at his age.
He answers the questions defensively, but the questions are reminiscent of a high-school shouting match. What do you expect?
And he's right... it's not a public company. It's NOT anyones business!!
If he in fact *does* spread bs on his own (I honestly don't know, I think the whole things too petty to bother following in detail), then that's his perogative. If he can make it work FOR him, and not let it *get* to him, GOOD! He's doing something clever for his own needs, which brings us back to the first comment I made on "what business runs on".
I suspect he'll end up as CEO of something big in 20 years.
The way I learned routers and switches was not so much by all the Cisco courses, but more by working in huge telco's labs, huge financial conglomerates network-war-rooms, and by *immersing* myself in it. This guy's doing the same thing... he's saying "Hit me, hard." and studying every move you make (or so he says). Clever boy.
I may not like the bs that he is or isn't spreading, but quite frankly, I admire his candor, and his determination, not to mention his blunt honesty about his feelings on whole thing. Are any of *us* that honest about what we think and feel in life? We should be.
As for his sister... If it were me, someone would be castrated by very large, angry, rabid dogs, and then left to bleed in the middle of a public square with a big sign explaining what he did to deserve it.
Most of Europe hugs and kisses as a greeting. I was raised with this as a custom, and to this day (I'm 24) still kiss even my father hello and goodbye, and greet my friends and relatives with a hug.
"Csokolom" (with umlauts on the o's) is a typical Hungarian greeting... meaning literally "I kiss you".
I don't think this whole "uproar" has anything to do with *language* getting lost in the translation, but more with amerikans losing *culture* and *beauty* in the translation.
Flame me if you wish, but I thank God I live in Canada, which is *so* much closer to Europe, and so much more *human* than you people could ever realize.
Personally, this kind of "humour", as it was called, is on par with South Park: Disgusting and juvenile.
I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it, not that it would make much impact.
Any idea or expression which can be thought by more than one person by sheer coincidence should never be allowed to be protected. Expression is not an entity to be hoarded. Implementation may have its merits in the varying methods used, but the thought processes which led to those methods are ultimately responsible, and come from varying sources of inspiration which law can neither protect, enslave, or induce.
Research which truly *is* research, could be protected, certainly, as one protects the fruit of any labour (although for moral reasons, medicine, science, etc. they often shouldn't be). But clever programming tricks, methods that are already taken for granted, or legal wording of common-place procedures written and submitted for the purpose of making a buck... that's not justice, that's not even moral.
Patents fall under law, law is imposed to promote justice, and a capitalistic greedy move like this on the part of a bunch of Yahoo's does no justice to anyone.
Um... just 'cause you can *feed* a wire really fast, doesn't mean that the wire can handle it. For example, try putting your face under a hose at full blast and drinking. Good luck swallowing!! DSL has inherent problems with line length, conditioners (coils) on the line, splits, impedance, and a number of other problems. When I worked in the lab of a very very big DSL provider, we were lucky to get 7mb/s... 60 is ridiculous using copper at 12,000 feet, but good luck!
The Philips Pronto, and the site Remote Central have been MORE than perfect for me.
I control: an NAD cd-player, a Barco projector, an SSI Dolby Decoder, all three of which are very high end and very esoteric, as well as my Sony/Matsushita/Etc. equipment, all from a very funky front-end which I've put together with: TV-station logos for the channels (no more typing in 2-1-enter-oops-wrong-channel),screens for things like "Theatre", "Music", "Television",and all in a handy, backlit unit with the most powerful IR LED's I've seen.
I wonder if YRO and the whole "privacy online" thing isn't starting to get blown out of proportion... at least to the degree where we're missing real issues and turning any "violation" into an issue.
On a public mononpoly, or a service intended for personal communications, (i.e. the net, the phone company, cellphones, postal mail, etc) I wholly agree. Privacy is a "right" that is implied (note, not contracted, but only implied) by use of that system.
Something like RealPlayer, web pages, checkout counters, etc. No. I don't believe there is any "right to privacy" either implied or expressed.
Simple examples: I monitor my box and my web server. I use caller ID to see who's calling me. I look through the peephole in my front door.
Is monitoring the issue here? Ok, it's not "necessary" for use of the system, it's strictly for their marketing departments own good, but then again... I'm choosing conciously to use their product. There are alternatives, I could use them. If I were a better programmer, I could write one.
The point? I'm convinced that the whole "privacy" issue is getting blown way out of proportion especially in areas where it shouldn't really apply. YRO articles like this add to media congestion and hype, and only cloud the real issues: things like encryption laws, misuse of wiretaps and warrants, things that truly matter.
This is what I use in/etc/rc.d/init.d, called "firewall". Don't forget to chmod u+x it.
I've got it set to come up right after "network" is brought up. This leaves a micro-smidgon of time where the network is unfirewalled, but lets me make sure I have my DHCP address set right. If you're all static, you can (and should) put it up before "network".
Basically, it assumes your external is DHCP (as is the case with my cablemodem), and is eth0.
Internal is set as eth1, 192.168.0.0/24. Change these as necessary.
There are some example forwarders near the end of the script.
BTW, any hints on strengthening this would be greast!
I keep saying, and thus keep getting flamed by people in #linux, that if I want to type
"./dosomething"
I shouldn't first have to type
tar zxvf dosomething.src.tar.gz cd dosomething ./configure > make > make install > dosomething
I should be able to go "Click.. Click... Click..." and something should be done.
It's absolutely no surprise to me that Mandrake is the best selling distribution, no matter what name (Macmillan) they put it under.
It's optimized for what processors people have, it's *complete*, it's got a very good desktop (KDE, currently 1.1.2), it's got a friendly install (although it could be better), and Macmillan, being a publisher, knows how to get things on shelves far better than even a bright group of open-source programmers would.
I applaud Macmillan, the Mandrake folks, the KDE folks, and everyone who's working to keep the power in Linux while making it accessable to those who simply want to get things done, get them done fast, and get them done reliably.
These are the people that will push Linux further than any group of powerusers ever can.
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MP3 Player: $250cdn for a player only
Memory card(s): $199 for 96mb (96 minutes)
Minidisc *Recorder*: $299cdn with digital input, portable sized
Minidiscs: $4 for 76 minute re-recordable blank.
You tell me if it's dead!!!
Personally, I have a minidisc recorder walkman, a minidisc player/radio walkman (my gf's), a minidisc car radio ($250cdn) and use digital outs from my CD and sound card to record onto the handheld.
It's also *great* for bootlegs 'cause it's small and easy to hide.
mindslip
HEY! I resemble that comment. Canada sustains a whole lot more than just algae and lichen!
Now, granted, it's *WAY* too cold for amerikans up here, but we did that on *purpose*!!!
CanaMars: Bringing multiculturalism to a whole new level.
mindslip
I found this the other day while looking for something else entirely:
t ml (315 hits)
(From Freshmeat)
IP Personality
Jean-Marc Saffroy - July 27th 2000, 20:51 EDT
The IP Personality project is a patch to the newer Linux kernels that adds netfilter features: it enables the emulation of other OSes at network level, thus fooling remote OS detection tools such as nmap that rely on network fingerprinting.
Download:
http://ippersonality.sourceforge.net/download.h
Homepage:
http://ippersonality.sourceforge.net/
I just can't wait to log into my handheld as "root" so I can serial-cable over the latest rpm of some non-handheld-centric app, and try and hack it to work without a keyboard on a 1/4-vga sized screen.
;->
Henzai looks pretty... for a bunch of screenshots.
Gnome / Xwindow (or variants) on a handheld? Do I *really* need that kind of overhead?
Here's what a handheld OS needs:
-- Non-file-based filesystem.
It needs an executable app, and a data container which contains all data and configs for that app. (just like the Palm does)
-- Non-windowing window system.
All I need is one window at a time which fills the screen, and *occasionally* a small pop-up child window (which *does not* need to be dragged 99% of the time, rather it should pop up out of the way of the current text entry point)
-- Standard row of icons on the top / bottom
Much like the standardized "File Edit View Bla Help" menu bar we all know, all a PDA needs is "New xx xx Switch Quit ?" to make a new entry, do something custom to this program, switch apps, close this app, get help.
-- Ability for apps to sleep and maintain their current state/session, rather than hardcore multitasking.
Quite frankly, with the exception of a timer, I'd *barely* need multitasking. Having an MP3 playing while I'm entering a few appointments is nice, but that's about the extent of it. Maybe a timer running while I charge my clients.
-- Handwriting recognition that works.
See any Grafitti device. All I can say is "Wow". I don't *expect* to use my PDA as a notebook computer, so why would I possibly want to enter data en masse with it? If I ever do, I'll plug in that little folding Palm keyboard.
-- QUICK searching of database files and the ability to call up the corresponding app.
I want to do a search for "Joe Blow" and not only see his "Contacts" entry, but any time logs in my time logger, any transactions in my Expenses program, and anything I've lent him in my Lists program. If I get his name and a row of icons which correspond to the apps that refer to his name, and I can click the icon to go right to that entry in the appropriate program, DAMN that's useful!!
-- Wireless connectivity
Be it by cable to my GSM cell phone, or CompactFlash card with a little 802.11 antenna, or whatever, as long as I have a *full* TCP stack, an IMAP/POP/folder-capable email client, and a text-mode/tables/frame-to-tables rendering browser, and an ICQ client, I'll never be away from useful info.
-- An encryption option for all the data files
Be it by signature-sign-on to the device if I haven't powered it up within an hour, or by tapping a password, or whatever. Very important if it gets lost/stolen.
-- Synchronization to desktops
The biggest problem with Linux even on a desktop, let alone a PDA, is "What the heck would I synch with?" Linux has NO decent organizational apps, and barely any mail apps (Pine is the best competition to Outlook Express, quite frankly!)
And finally,
-- An easy to develop for IDE which can take any standard language, compile it to the PDA's architecture, and has a REALLY nice drag-and-drop designer for the LIMITED standard set of widgets which a PDA would need. (small buttons, small text, button-row (as described above), jog arrows instead of a scroll bar (to save screen real estate), couple of other things I'm sure.)
That's my 2 cents. I can have everything I've asked for with acceptable exceptions, in my PalmPilot. Windows PocketPC is nice, but it's still an overkill OS and has NO apps worth mentioning. Until I see the above, there's no way I'd kill the functionality of a PDA by putting Linux on it.
mindslip.
This sounds like a fun, cheap way to get a really cool multi-processor system going.
It runs Linux, it's got embedded flash and RAM, it's got a PCI bus interface... Hmmm...
If they can get Linux into the flash, why can't I get my own stuff in there and have a 6-processor very-pipelined, really cool system?
What are the possibilities for this board? Anyone care to take a guess, or an actual crack at it?
mindslip.
Ahem. I've official decided that "Intellectual Property" is now the property of anyone you've expressed it to, based on the simple premise that most of us have brains and can act on any idea imposed on them. For all those who wish to keep their ideas to themselves, please do so. Thank you. mindslip designs. "We Think, Therefore You Are."
I think the *single* most important thing in *any* interface is consistancy.
Books are no different one to the other. Copyright page, Table of contents, Prelude/Prologue/Introduction, Chapters 1 through X, Epilogue, Appendicies, Index.
Commercial hi-fi/entertainment gear is no different one to the other... Channel up/down, volume up/down, play, stop, rewind, fast forward, pause, previous track, next track.
Cars have a turn signal that clicks up for right, down for left, a gearbox that goes RPND321, a brake on the left and a throttle on the right.
Windows, as much as you may hate it, is solidly consistant (in most places). File/Edit/View/Custom/Help/About
I know it's ALWAYS Ctrl-X/C/V for cut/copy/paste, and Ctrl-Z/Y for undo/redo.
Which leads me to the second most important thing in a user interface... keyboard shortcuts!
mindslip
The press release forgot the sentence:
"...then, in a move about as brilliant as sticking your head in a vat of boiling oil, the university went ahead and applied for a patent on this so that no one in the human race can benefit without someone in amerika becoming rich off it."
I keep finding more and more reasons to hate the usa. C'mon for fsck's sake... this is UNIVERSITY RESEARCH, and it's *vital* technology to mankind. Get your greed out of the picture.
mindslip
O, Canada,
My home and native land,
True intellectual rights
In all that Law commands.
With glowing screens
We code all night
From persecution, Free!
To innovate, encrypt,
And Hack*,
Protected, completely!
States, keep away!
Greed, you can't sue me!
O, Canada,
We stand on guard for thee,
O, Canada,
We stand on guard for thee!
...Just my little bit of appreciation for where I live.
Having lived/worked in the states, and travelled within it quite a lot, all I can say is... wow. Different world. Completely.
As your very own Ross Perot said once... "Money is the most overrated thing in the world."
*Hack, not crack. That's illegal here.
** BTW, that's sung to the tune of our national anthem, in case you didn't figure it out. Do you guys even know how many provinces we have? What our capital is? Who our Prime Minister is? Sheesh!
*** Flames elsewhere. We have freedom of speech here.
Netsmell and Smellzilla, not to mention Internose Effervessor will all have a new way of alerting you to junk mail...
The sweet smell of a freshly-opened can of SPAM!!!
And of course, as a way of dealing with the offending poster...
They'll all send a reply with a scent tag of burning wood... A FLAME!!!
Hahahaha!
It's late.
Do I win? Email me.
mindslip.
I'm missing something....
/etc/rc filesystem (debian) or a smart, logical /etc/rc.d/init.d (sysv, I think it's called?) redhat-style boot system.
Every new distro, for the last LONG while, and for the next fairly long while, has had the SAME set of servers, the SAME set of clients, and either KDE or Gnome. Most have had both.
Until X4 and KDE2, any "new" distro is a bullshit rehash.
The only real difference is either i386 or i5/686 optimization (and as far as I can see, Mandrake's the only one with those optimizations... which is why I choose it religiously) and either Corel's mods to KDE (which royally suck and make it more frustrating than hell), and either a stupid illogical
Other than those two things, what's the big difference between these distros? They're all hard to use at best, unless you've become a linux geek by struggling through them.
So far, only mandrake meets the needs of a combination of power and usability as far as I'm concerned.
(don't bother to flamespam me, I don't read it anyways)
mindslip.
I'm sorry, but I had to stop reading it after I got to the part that said (to paraphrase):
"A computer could be embedded into the base of a lamp, with an infrared port pointing out the window transmitting information."
Ok... um... If I saw a network cable coming from my *DESKLAMP*, I think I'd suspect something. Especially if the base of the lamp *also* had this little red plastic filter strategically pointed right up close to and out of a window.
Is this guy SERIOUS about this article? He doesn't give *any* background to anything, (except a *little* about the hack/crack debate), and expects GOVERNMENT SECURITY PROFESSIONALS to relate to this???
Wow.
Makes me worry a *LOT* less about Eschelon... It's probably a bunch of radio shack scanners connected to old Ampex reel tape recorders!!!
mindslip
Tech Model Railroad Club. (MIT). It's *still* chugging.
mindslip
Um... HELLO? "Professors", supposedly-intelligent-people....
*** I *** own my thoughts, YOU do *** NOT ***.
And if I write them down and sell them, tough cookies for you, boy. You should have been an author instead of a professor.
mindslip
One thing I've noticed in the last two years as I do more and more "big corporate" type contracts, is that businesses are run on greed, on ego, on capitalistic hedonistic obsessions for money, and that there's no one to take care of except yourself. Not even "the bottom line", just yourself.
At least this guy is HONEST about it!! He's 21 (younger than I am) and he already knows that in order to survive in the bulls**t world of capitalism, all you have to do is scratch peoples back, and watch your own. I didn't know that so well at his age.
He answers the questions defensively, but the questions are reminiscent of a high-school shouting match. What do you expect?
And he's right... it's not a public company. It's NOT anyones business!!
If he in fact *does* spread bs on his own (I honestly don't know, I think the whole things too petty to bother following in detail), then that's his perogative. If he can make it work FOR him, and not let it *get* to him, GOOD! He's doing something clever for his own needs, which brings us back to the first comment I made on "what business runs on".
I suspect he'll end up as CEO of something big in 20 years.
The way I learned routers and switches was not so much by all the Cisco courses, but more by working in huge telco's labs, huge financial conglomerates network-war-rooms, and by *immersing* myself in it. This guy's doing the same thing... he's saying "Hit me, hard." and studying every move you make (or so he says). Clever boy.
I may not like the bs that he is or isn't spreading, but quite frankly, I admire his candor, and his determination, not to mention his blunt honesty about his feelings on whole thing. Are any of *us* that honest about what we think and feel in life? We should be.
As for his sister... If it were me, someone would be castrated by very large, angry, rabid dogs, and then left to bleed in the middle of a public square with a big sign explaining what he did to deserve it.
mindslip
Most of Europe hugs and kisses as a greeting. I was raised with this as a custom, and to this day (I'm 24) still kiss even my father hello and goodbye, and greet my friends and relatives with a hug.
"Csokolom" (with umlauts on the o's) is a typical Hungarian greeting... meaning literally "I kiss you".
I don't think this whole "uproar" has anything to do with *language* getting lost in the translation, but more with amerikans losing *culture* and *beauty* in the translation.
Flame me if you wish, but I thank God I live in Canada, which is *so* much closer to Europe, and so much more *human* than you people could ever realize.
Personally, this kind of "humour", as it was called, is on par with South Park: Disgusting and juvenile.
mindslip
I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it, not that it would make much impact.
Any idea or expression which can be thought by more than one person by sheer coincidence should never be allowed to be protected.
Expression is not an entity to be hoarded. Implementation may have its merits in the varying methods used, but the thought processes which led to those methods are ultimately responsible, and come from varying sources of inspiration which law can neither protect, enslave, or induce.
Research which truly *is* research, could be protected, certainly, as one protects the fruit of any labour (although for moral reasons, medicine, science, etc. they often shouldn't be). But clever programming tricks, methods that are already taken for granted, or legal wording of common-place procedures written and submitted for the purpose of making a buck... that's not justice, that's not even moral.
Patents fall under law, law is imposed to promote justice, and a capitalistic greedy move like this on the part of a bunch of Yahoo's does no justice to anyone.
mindslip
Um... just 'cause you can *feed* a wire really fast, doesn't mean that the wire can handle it. For example, try putting your face under a hose at full blast and drinking. Good luck swallowing!! DSL has inherent problems with line length, conditioners (coils) on the line, splits, impedance, and a number of other problems. When I worked in the lab of a very very big DSL provider, we were lucky to get 7mb/s... 60 is ridiculous using copper at 12,000 feet, but good luck!
I control:
an NAD cd-player, a Barco projector, an SSI Dolby Decoder, all three of which are very high end and very esoteric, as well as my Sony/Matsushita/Etc. equipment, all from a very funky front-end which I've put together with: TV-station logos for the channels (no more typing in 2-1-enter-oops-wrong-channel),screens for things like "Theatre", "Music", "Television",and all in a handy, backlit unit with the most powerful IR LED's I've seen.
Go buy one. Now.
=-)
mindslip
I wonder if YRO and the whole "privacy online" thing isn't starting to get blown out of proportion... at least to the degree where we're missing real issues and turning any "violation" into an issue.
On a public mononpoly, or a service intended for personal communications, (i.e. the net, the phone company, cellphones, postal mail, etc) I wholly agree. Privacy is a "right" that is implied (note, not contracted, but only implied) by use of that system.
Something like RealPlayer, web pages, checkout counters, etc. No. I don't believe there is any "right to privacy" either implied or expressed.
Simple examples: I monitor my box and my web server. I use caller ID to see who's calling me. I look through the peephole in my front door.
Is monitoring the issue here? Ok, it's not "necessary" for use of the system, it's strictly for their marketing departments own good, but then again... I'm choosing conciously to use their product. There are alternatives, I could use them. If I were a better programmer, I could write one.
The point? I'm convinced that the whole "privacy" issue is getting blown way out of proportion especially in areas where it shouldn't really apply. YRO articles like this add to media congestion and hype, and only cloud the real issues: things like encryption laws, misuse of wiretaps and warrants, things that truly matter.
mindslip
I know this is *totally* off topic... but what the heck is "squeeze the cat" country?!?
Sounds vaguely immoral.
mindslip
This is what I use in /etc/rc.d/init.d, called "firewall". Don't forget to chmod u+x it.
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
I've got it set to come up right after "network" is brought up. This leaves a micro-smidgon of time where the network is unfirewalled, but lets me make sure I have my DHCP address set right. If you're all static, you can (and should) put it up before "network".
Basically, it assumes your external is DHCP (as is the case with my cablemodem), and is eth0.
Internal is set as eth1, 192.168.0.0/24. Change these as necessary.
There are some example forwarders near the end of the script.
BTW, any hints on strengthening this would be greast!
Enjoy!
mindslip
#!/bin/sh
#
#
# FORTRESS
# Masquerade and Firewall loading script
#
#
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:$PATH
export PATH
#
# Turn on IP Forwarding
#
echo "1" >
#
# Turn on DHCP dynamic variable
#
echo "1" >
#
# Find out our cablemodem's address
#
DHCPIP="`/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/.
*://'`"
#
# Load some generic masquerading modules
#
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_portfw
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_mfw
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_user
#
#
# Set the firewall rules
#
# Incoming: Flush and set default policy of "deny all"
#
ipmasqadm mfw -F
ipchains -F input
ipchains -P input DENY
#
# Internal network: Going anywhere is ok
#
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth1 -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0
#
# Remote int., claiming to be a local machine, IP spoofs, etc: deny/log
#
ipchains -A input -j DENY -i eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -l
#
# Remote interface, any source, going to cablemodem's nic, permit
#
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d $DHCPIP
#
# Loopback (127.0.0.1/localhost): permit
#
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i lo -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0
#
# Catch-all, denying everything else and logging
#
ipchains -A input -j DENY -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -l
#
#
# Outgoing: flush and set default policy of "deny all"
#
ipchains -F output
ipchains -P output DENY
#
# Internal network: anything local is ok
#
ipchains -A output -j ACCEPT -i eth1 -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.0.0/24
#
# Outgoing to local net on cablemodem's nic, stuffed routing, etc, deny/log
#
ipchains -A output -j DENY -i eth0 -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 192.168.0.0/24 -l
#
# Outgoing from local net on cablemodem's nic, stuffed masquerading, etc, deny/l
og
#
ipchains -A output -j DENY -i eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -l
#
# Anything else outgoing on cablemodem's nic is valid
#
ipchains -A output -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -s $DHCPIP -d 0.0.0.0/0
#
# Loopback/localhost outbound is valid
#
ipchains -A output -j ACCEPT -i lo -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0
#
# Anything else is denied and logged
#
ipchains -A output -j DENY -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -l
#
#
# Forwarding: Flush and set default policy of deny
#
ipchains -F forward
ipchains -P forward DENY
#
# Masquerade from local net on local nic to anywhere
#
ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -i eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0
#
#
# Catch-all deny and log
#
ipchains -A forward -j DENY -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -l
#
#
# Specific application examples...
#
# Forward web stuff on 80 to another computer
#
#ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $DHCPIP 80 -R 192.168.0.100 80
#
# Forward talk to another computer
#
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L $DHCPIP 517 -R 192.168.0.100 517
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L $DHCPIP 518 -R 192.168.0.100 518
#
# Forward FTP to a machine
#
#ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $DHCPIP 21 -R 192.168.0.100 21
#
# Forward Telnet to a machine
#
#ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $DHCPIP 23 -R 192.168.0.100 26
#
I can't *wait* to see the crack that'll undoubtedly happen for THIS page!!
mindslip
(don't bother rating this!)
I keep saying, and thus keep getting flamed by people in #linux, that if I want to type
"./dosomething"
I shouldn't first have to type
tar zxvf dosomething.src.tar.gz
cd dosomething
./configure
>
make
>
make install
>
dosomething
I should be able to go "Click.. Click... Click..." and something should be done.
It's absolutely no surprise to me that Mandrake is the best selling distribution, no matter what name (Macmillan) they put it under.
It's optimized for what processors people have, it's *complete*, it's got a very good desktop (KDE, currently 1.1.2), it's got a friendly install (although it could be better), and Macmillan, being a publisher, knows how to get things on shelves far better than even a bright group of open-source programmers would.
I applaud Macmillan, the Mandrake folks, the KDE folks, and everyone who's working to keep the power in Linux while making it accessable to those who simply want to get things done, get them done fast, and get them done reliably.
These are the people that will push Linux further than any group of powerusers ever can.
mindslip
"Targeted at the Internet Economy"?
;->
WTF is the "Internet Economy" and how do you "target" a chip at it?
Is that like "targeting" the DreamCast at the pimple-geek economy?
I picture going to the Trading Floor at your nearest stock exchange and whipping these things at anyone who buys and sells dot-com stocks.
Hope itanium explodes on impact!
Wonder how it reacts to heat as a catalyst?
mindslip