isonews lists nfo files. There are no downloadable images or even links to downloadable images or instructions on how to find links to download images etc etc etc.
Maybe you should go look at the site in question before you damn it.
I've been wasting time on Irc since 95 (various networks) and the thing I came to love about Efnet was the hands-off policy the ircops tend to take. Having experienced nosey, intrusive, childish, and vindictive oppers on other networks (*cough* undernet *cough*), it was a welcome change to experience the breathing room offered by efnet. Yes it was lawless and yes there tended to be a lot of takeovers particularly before server timestamping when you could split in to gain ops so easily but that was all part of learning to fend for yourself... Instead of having to go cry to an ircop when you lost ops on one of your channels, you could fix the problem yourself.
The day Efnet implements channel service will be the last day I log onto Efnet.
Are there any such organizations that would ship systems to underdeveloped countries? I would be interested in getting involved with something like this.
... hey, I am interested in how you are pulling off the resin/styrofoam part of your project. Sounds like it could be just what I'm looking for to do my own project.
Can you drop me a line at tobywong@phatchicks.com ?
So let me get this straight, everyone should stop producing DVDs of any sort until your demand for a DVD set of all the distributions is fulfilled? Not only that but you want only precompiled binaries? You sound like a windows man to me... don't waste everyones time pretending to dabble in linux.
OK, I'm going on what I know from watermarked images, so it's possible that this info would not apply to sound (I think it will tho).
Image watermarks are INCREDIBLY resiliant. You would be surprised how much you have to trash an image before you cant read the watermark. You change the brightness of the image, print it out, rescan it, tweak it some more.... it's still there.
AFAIK, the commercial music players would play non-watermarked music fine and dandy (for the time being anyhow) BUT the thing is they would not play watermarked tunes in certain circumstances. So maybe that import CD of your favourite aussie band won't work on your home sony cd player. This allows them to keep a tighter reign on where the music is moving and "fix prices" (overcharge) as well.
This is all pure conjecture of course but hey I can have some fun!
from my understanding of the technology, you can't actually remove the watermark as it is scattered throughout the song. So when they are offering a prize to "remove" this watermark, of course it will be difficult (impossible?) to remove this, but thats not the point... the point is, if you have a modded PLAYER then it will ignore this signature anyhow. Now for software this shouldn't be too much of a challenge but it might be a pain in the ass for component audio gear. Think about it, the next time you pick up a Sony stereo component, it will have regional/lockout control built in just like DVD players have but this time it affects music.
I guess in the end money talks, so if consumers ignore region locked components and buy open systems then it may sway the tide.
In the end it all comes down to consumer education.
only an AC could make the jump from computer security to rape.
Good call buddy, you get a shiny gold star for effort. Now please stop thinking so hard because I can see the veins sticking out of your neck and your head looks like it's about to explode.
If you live in a bad neighbourhood and leave your windows and doors open while you go out, then don't be surprised when you get unwelcome guests.
Yes the perp should go to jail but it doesnt change the fact that you are a fucking moron for leaving your doors open.
The problem with your logic is you are assuming that the finger can only be pointed at one person where in reality many times the admin holds some amount of responsibility.
Now if you are the admin and you are actually putting some time and effort into security and STILL get broken into with a previously unknown exploit, then hey... shit happens, there's not much you can do about that. Unfortunatley for every one well-secured box that gets compromised there must be hundreds of misconfigured boxes that fall prey.
...we could put your head on a stake with a sign below saying "incompetent admins beware!".
BTW i'm not sure if you know about this yet, but there is an entire cult devoted to making your life miserable. They call themselves the "lets fuck up sillysallys life cult" and devote every waking hour to thinking of new ways to torment you. Your best bet in fighting these ruffians is to go outside and shake your fist at the sky yelling "DAMN KIDS!" afterwhich you can head back inside, put your teeth in a glass of water and enjoy a nice tall glass of prune juice.
The code is *TINY* and is certainly not infringing on any USENET tabboos in spirit anyhow. It's not like they posted a 12 meg mp3 to a non-binary group.
"Microsoft Outlook uncompresses and executes e-mail attachment files automatically, saving individual users a small amount of time per e-mail message, but creating a huge security risk, which at the time of this writing is still a fundamental flaw in the software"
Here the author tries to say that because MS Outlook express is easy to use, it therefore presents security hole.
I'm sorry my friend but this is bad logic. The security holes in outlook express are simply a design flaw. There are plenty of easy to use email clients out there for various platforms that do not suffer from this problem. This point is just plain weak.
The author has a number of suggestions at the end of his piece on how we can reduce peoples dependency on easy to use programs(!?!) which include education, encouragement, and basic design principles.
So to paraphrase and summarize Bradley Dilger, we need to make our people smarter, not our programs easier.
yes that is certainly annoying... the workaround is to make a little 10x10 pixel square the same colour as your main gif background and tile with that rather than just specifying a hex background colour...
I'll second that, even on an old 233mmx I can do any day to day task without winamp skipping... only time it skips is if i'm doing some cpu intensive tast like rarring/unrarring a huge file or thrashing my HD by copying huge files all over the place.
Just out of curiosity, what would you qualify as "colour perfect work"?
From my experience once you set up the appropriate ICC profiles for your various devices you are good to go. This can take some time and effort initially(you get out of it what you put into it).
As for ESRs comments, I don't think he was ever implying that GNU/Linux is more advanced than mac as far as UI goes, but rather that linux is potentially more of a threat to MS/windows.
... ESR manages to step on a few toes but he makes some good points. Watch out ESR, those mac zealots are more rabid than the linux ones!;) If Macs were going to take over the computing world they would have done it by now.
One quote that had me saying "huh?@?" was:
"Stone agreed with Hertzfeld that the Mac is a niche, but neither has given up on the platform. "We (Mac users) are Unix too, we are open too, and we have a good GUI already. I can only say, buy Apple stock now," he said."
"we are open too"? does anyone care to enlighten me as to what he was referring to?
A) Win2k is not a gaming platform... if you want to play games, install WinMe. Many titles have problems under Win2k.
B) You forgot to finish off your sentence so allow me to do the honour: "It has no other good uses [for a person like me who is blinded by zealotry].
I have a GNU/Linux box and a win2k box running side by side on my desktop. I use the GNU/Linux box for all server type things/webdev/coding etc, and I use the win2k box for graphics work in 3DSMax, Photoshop and Illustrator. Both machines do a fantastic job and I really can't complain.
I suggest you redirect some of that boundless energy you seem to have for analyzing all Microsofts faults and apply it to a worthy open source project.
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yeah and theres always the off chance that you COULD pour hot grits down natalie portmans pants or run accross a penis bird in the wild!
If you believe that then I have a bridge to sell ya...
You are wrong.
isonews lists nfo files. There are no downloadable images or even links to downloadable images or instructions on how to find links to download images etc etc etc.
Maybe you should go look at the site in question before you damn it.
I've been wasting time on Irc since 95 (various networks) and the thing I came to love about Efnet was the hands-off policy the ircops tend to take. Having experienced nosey, intrusive, childish, and vindictive oppers on other networks (*cough* undernet *cough*), it was a welcome change to experience the breathing room offered by efnet. Yes it was lawless and yes there tended to be a lot of takeovers particularly before server timestamping when you could split in to gain ops so easily but that was all part of learning to fend for yourself... Instead of having to go cry to an ircop when you lost ops on one of your channels, you could fix the problem yourself.
The day Efnet implements channel service will be the last day I log onto Efnet.
Say, you wouldn't be Sean from "Survivor" by any chance would you?
=P~~
Are there any such organizations that would ship systems to underdeveloped countries? I would be interested in getting involved with something like this.
... hey, I am interested in how you are pulling off the resin/styrofoam part of your project. Sounds like it could be just what I'm looking for to do my own project.
Can you drop me a line at tobywong@phatchicks.com ?
Thanks,
So let me get this straight, everyone should stop producing DVDs of any sort until your demand for a DVD set of all the distributions is fulfilled? Not only that but you want only precompiled binaries? You sound like a windows man to me... don't waste everyones time pretending to dabble in linux.
"über-app" is gangsta?
What side of the tracks do you live on buddy?
Maybe if your name is Billy "the DoSman" Sanchez and you sit around drining 40's of diet 7-up then "über-app" is gangsta.
Jesus, are you some kind of progressive omish order?
No, Jesus is down the street with the protestants, you must be thinking of brother klaussen from the amish order.
do you understand what the "*cough* *cough*" means? It's called sarcasm.
Now put your little dick back in your pants before you hurt yourself.
OK, I'm going on what I know from watermarked images, so it's possible that this info would not apply to sound (I think it will tho).
Image watermarks are INCREDIBLY resiliant. You would be surprised how much you have to trash an image before you cant read the watermark. You change the brightness of the image, print it out, rescan it, tweak it some more.... it's still there.
AFAIK, the commercial music players would play non-watermarked music fine and dandy (for the time being anyhow) BUT the thing is they would not play watermarked tunes in certain circumstances. So maybe that import CD of your favourite aussie band won't work on your home sony cd player. This allows them to keep a tighter reign on where the music is moving and "fix prices" (overcharge) as well.
This is all pure conjecture of course but hey I can have some fun!
from my understanding of the technology, you can't actually remove the watermark as it is scattered throughout the song. So when they are offering a prize to "remove" this watermark, of course it will be difficult (impossible?) to remove this, but thats not the point... the point is, if you have a modded PLAYER then it will ignore this signature anyhow. Now for software this shouldn't be too much of a challenge but it might be a pain in the ass for component audio gear. Think about it, the next time you pick up a Sony stereo component, it will have regional/lockout control built in just like DVD players have but this time it affects music.
I guess in the end money talks, so if consumers ignore region locked components and buy open systems then it may sway the tide.
In the end it all comes down to consumer education.
only an AC could make the jump from computer security to rape.
Good call buddy, you get a shiny gold star for effort. Now please stop thinking so hard because I can see the veins sticking out of your neck and your head looks like it's about to explode.
If you live in a bad neighbourhood and leave your windows and doors open while you go out, then don't be surprised when you get unwelcome guests.
Yes the perp should go to jail but it doesnt change the fact that you are a fucking moron for leaving your doors open.
The problem with your logic is you are assuming that the finger can only be pointed at one person where in reality many times the admin holds some amount of responsibility.
Now if you are the admin and you are actually putting some time and effort into security and STILL get broken into with a previously unknown exploit, then hey... shit happens, there's not much you can do about that. Unfortunatley for every one well-secured box that gets compromised there must be hundreds of misconfigured boxes that fall prey.
...we could put your head on a stake with a sign below saying "incompetent admins beware!".
BTW i'm not sure if you know about this yet, but there is an entire cult devoted to making your life miserable. They call themselves the "lets fuck up sillysallys life cult" and devote every waking hour to thinking of new ways to torment you. Your best bet in fighting these ruffians is to go outside and shake your fist at the sky yelling "DAMN KIDS!" afterwhich you can head back inside, put your teeth in a glass of water and enjoy a nice tall glass of prune juice.
...with a collection of muddy smudged and blurred background images anyhow.
Damn those Va Linux guys for getting rich off of your ugly smudge work! Damn the man!
The code is *TINY* and is certainly not infringing on any USENET tabboos in spirit anyhow. It's not like they posted a 12 meg mp3 to a non-binary group.
"Microsoft Outlook uncompresses and executes e-mail attachment files automatically, saving individual users a small amount of time per e-mail message, but creating a huge security risk, which at the time of this writing is still a fundamental flaw in the software"
;)
Here the author tries to say that because MS Outlook express is easy to use, it therefore presents security hole.
I'm sorry my friend but this is bad logic. The security holes in outlook express are simply a design flaw. There are plenty of easy to use email clients out there for various platforms that do not suffer from this problem. This point is just plain weak.
The author has a number of suggestions at the end of his piece on how we can reduce peoples dependency on easy to use programs(!?!) which include education, encouragement, and basic design principles.
So to paraphrase and summarize Bradley Dilger, we need to make our people smarter, not our programs easier.
...and to that I counter:
Good luck buddy!
yes that is certainly annoying... the workaround is to make a little 10x10 pixel square the same colour as your main gif background and tile with that rather than just specifying a hex background colour...
I'll second that, even on an old 233mmx I can do any day to day task without winamp skipping... only time it skips is if i'm doing some cpu intensive tast like rarring/unrarring a huge file or thrashing my HD by copying huge files all over the place.
ever hear of "tongue in cheek"?
Just out of curiosity, what would you qualify as "colour perfect work"?
From my experience once you set up the appropriate ICC profiles for your various devices you are good to go. This can take some time and effort initially(you get out of it what you put into it).
As for ESRs comments, I don't think he was ever implying that GNU/Linux is more advanced than mac as far as UI goes, but rather that linux is potentially more of a threat to MS/windows.
... ESR manages to step on a few toes but he makes some good points. Watch out ESR, those mac zealots are more rabid than the linux ones! ;) If Macs were going to take over the computing world they would have done it by now.
One quote that had me saying "huh?@?" was:
"Stone agreed with Hertzfeld that the Mac is a niche, but neither has given up on the platform. "We (Mac users) are Unix too, we are open too, and we have a good GUI already. I can only say, buy Apple stock now," he said."
"we are open too"? does anyone care to enlighten me as to what he was referring to?
Those graphics apps run fine on Win95 for instance and that would leave you with a lot more memory for your apps.
Yeah win9x is GREAT for adressing that half gig of RAM.
*snicker*
A) Win2k is not a gaming platform... if you want to play games, install WinMe. Many titles have problems under Win2k.
B) You forgot to finish off your sentence so allow me to do the honour: "It has no other good uses [for a person like me who is blinded by zealotry].
I have a GNU/Linux box and a win2k box running side by side on my desktop. I use the GNU/Linux box for all server type things/webdev/coding etc, and I use the win2k box for graphics work in 3DSMax, Photoshop and Illustrator. Both machines do a fantastic job and I really can't complain.
I suggest you redirect some of that boundless energy you seem to have for analyzing all Microsofts faults and apply it to a worthy open source project.