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There's always a cost. Part of the "cost" of Linux is having to do things yourself, and frankly, it is getting old. As much as I've used Linux (since 0.9.4, dammit), it simply does NOT have good tools for audio and DV editing that I've been doing for about two years now.
I used to be a Mac user, even running A/UX on my 68030 mac (and even ran MacBSD on it circa 1994), but had to give it up.
However, my eyes have been open towards Apple since then for whenever OS X or another decent OS was released, and after playing with OS X, it does everything I need it to. And it's still UNIX.
I'm never giving up Linux. It will remain on my main server (and in use at work), but for my personal stuff *nothing* touches OS X.
After the Apollo missions, Arthur C. Clarke was asked just how he knew what the trip would be like. I don't know which books the interrogators were referring to, but obviously those written prior to 1969.
From the _Rama_ series, the idea of inputting a specification for an arbitrary object, and having it produced by a machine is a more refined form of our current (and still fairly new) 3-D printers. I.e., you render your object in CAD and the printer creates a molten-plastic part as a result. (I've seen these printers demo'd at conferences and having a working gear assembly produced in plastic, on demand, is incredible.)
Clarke is also credited with the concept of geosynchronous telecommunications satellites. Does anyone know if the concept was originally described in his books or elsewhere?
For all the "nerds" complaining about not knowing the clock speed, get over it. AMD has proven that the clock speed doesn't tell the whole story, and is, in fact, quite irrelevant outside of gross comparisons.
But I understand the pissing match that ensues. So why don't you read up on the RDTSC instruction, and code up a little timing loop in assembly? That'll determine your pissing ability coefficient, and filter out the real h@x0r5! from the continual plagueish onslaught of petulant, whining wannabes.
I agree. Intent, in the computer networking field (which is bereft of suitable precedences) doesn't mean a thing here. The "victim", the person with the infected CodeRed'ed IIS box, can legitimately claim they were further hacked by your benevolent fix-it-up antivirus.
After visiting the antivirus pages on kiro5hin, I immediately wrote up a PHP/default.ida file to NOT probe or exploit their box, but to send this HTTP request: GET/your_box_is_infected_with_code_red/please_get_pat ches_from_microsoft HTTP/1.0
Should they check their logs (and I'm hoping IIS reports failed requests since I don't know how it works), they'll see this message and maybe, just maybe, they'll do something about it.
This is an entirely passive, noninvasive approach that uses the existing (and intended) ports on their machine to report the problem. Let's just hope they have ears.
In some ways I hope they don't. That I'll never have to watch yet-another-overly-stylistic-ad for financial implements, self-referential sites or just how much Oracle will speed up my nonexistent DB, is probably enough to switch...
There are just not enough Xiao Xiao animations to keep other browsers around.
I've wondered about that, too (the blacklist). I post less frequently now, but used to post several messages to Usenet a day with my undisguised email address. At first I got lots of spam (no surprise there!).
What I did to control it was to save every spam message for a few months. After this time, I had a collection (a few thousand emails) of various scams, sales pitches, etc, each with it's own wording. A little perl program was then fed this archive of spam, and it sorted the most popular 3 and 4 word phrases, which were then used for fgrep fodder via procmail. The MarketingSpeek(tm) is self-identifying...
It was a bit of work, but the results were worth it. Of course, "make money fast" was near the top of the 3-word list.
Are you kidding? Jamie is one of the most slanted posters of stories. That and, especially as evidenced by this AYB.* post, he has blatantly ripped off stories and headlines from The Register.
Jamie, do us all a favor a get a journalistic clue.
I have an ad blocker on my VCR. No kidding, it has a "commercial skip" feature that, after recording a show, it goes back over the tape and marks the ins and outs of the commercial break. I don't know how it works, but it works very well.
During playback, the VCR automatically FFs over the commercials -- it's a great feature.
Cable TV used to be ad-free, but that's no more. Now we pay for the ads.
I installed TurboLinux (server edition) and it
didn't even load the module for the network card.
Incredible, and it's a 3com 3c90x module...
The installation didn't ask about networking, so
I wonder just what their definition of "server" is.
Meanwhile, I've been very happy with my Mandrake and RedHat setups.
If you're interested in actually hacking these boxes as opposed to blatant theft of service (not much of a distinction, but, hey, we all gotta rationalize),...
In this situation, I say more power to DirecTV! Hacking is one thing, but stealing is quite another, and DirecTV has beaten, at least temporarily, the crackers at their own game. This is hysterical.
People who perform blatant theft of service in the name of "freedom" obviously do not understand, nor can they handle, true freedom! Freedom without responsibility cannot exist.
I don't want to come off as an extremist, but this is the BEST way we can make the MPAA change their tune: hit them in the ass pocket. Don't buy their crap. Don't give them money. Encourage your friends to do the same.
On some aspects I agree with your post, but I prefer a more subversive approach. I looked for and purchased a DVD player that has hidden options to subvert region coding, macrovision (i.e., analog copy protection), etc. There is nothing wrong with DVD technology, and in fact many movies are available as unencrypted DVD (no CSS encryption used). But purposely looking for and purchasing "empowering" equipment is my way to regain my rights - to use the media I purchase the way I want, and not for piracy.
Another poster in this thread said this too -- existing copy protections are failing in their goal. Real-world software pirates do not care about encryption because they make bitwise copies of whatever it is they are pirating. Copy protection has always been an inconvenience for the honest consumer, and a nonsolution for the real pirates.
I'm in the process of converting my old cassette tapes and LPs (the big black analog CDs:-) to MP3. This is fair use, and our rights have not changed for video!
Actually, like all of Clarke's books (the ones really written by him, I mean, as opposed to the ones ghostwritten for him like all the Rama sequels) Rendezvous is very fast paced, almost clipped, with minimal characterization...
For the past few months I've been on an SF binge and decided to read Clark's older stuff. I just finished Rendezvous with Rama a week ago, and am halfway through Rama II. You hit the nail on the head - the sequel is full of extemporaneous character building, complete with childhool-memory-recollection BS. Pure Clark is a rush to read - you get in, you get out, and your brain expands because he wallops you with unexpected ideas.
apply a 'negative' filter to the image, achievable in most basic art packages and/or the ppm tools. This will remove all the flesh tones, which is what these things normally check for.
Yeah, but if I wanted to watch blue people doing that which goes by "it", I would have stayed on my home planet.
Icebox: We also might want to think about the day when 4096 bit encryption can be broken in a few minutes (or seconds). Once a log of your session is captured it can be kept around for quite a long time.
For the current rate at which CPU power is increasing, one will probably run up against the statute of limitations before a 4096 bit encryption is cracked.
It all depends on how the in-browser filtering is implemented. If it's site-based (akamai.net) then yes, it'll break, but that's a poor implementation anyway.
I ran directly into this when I was developing a REGEXP-based URL filter. My first pass at filtering blocked akamai.net, but then I learned what it was and how to more selectively block ads from within akamai.
REGEXP-based filtering is a powerful feature, and any pattern specified sloppily can "nuke" any site, not just Akamai. Can (l)users handle this power? In general, for a product like Mozilla I don't think so. But for those of us who can, external proxies are still most effective.
Banner ads are the next BLINK tag. I find them highly irritating, distracting, and very very few of them are even close to interesting.
I'm sure I'm not alone on this, but I want a web browser that allows me to:
Turn off custom web colors with a simple button (like the plug/unplug on/offline feature).
Disable animated GIFs.
Disable sending the REFERRER [sic] HTML header.
Specify REGEXP-based URL blocking (for ad or other sites).
The only item above I can control is the last. I rely on tinyproxy (and a patch) to do my banner ad filtering. One thing the web and application developers can't control is the actual net link -- intermediate software (such as Junkbusters) will remain effective. That is, until "management" decides to remove proxy access from the browser.
(As a filtering example, a visit to www.salon.com caused a total of 25 HTTP requests. With ad filtering, the number of requests dropped to 12 and the page loaded much faster.)
Ad servers are not powerful enough to deliver the ads without delay. Many sites that use ad servers are sluggish, and it's due simply to the ad servers. Since many web sites don't receive payment unless a visitor actually clicks on the ad, my filtering of otherwise uninteresting ads isn't denying them income. And it speeds up my browsing while decreasing the annoyance factor.
I browse for content. I want it quick, and I want it without being nagged to Punch the Monkey!
Excuse me, but how do you run an OS on top of another OS? Not counting things like VMWare, Plex86 and others, running an OS straight on top of another is impossible.
While not trivial, you can run an OS on top of another OS. It's been done before.
A couple examples on the MacOS:
Minix, that great little *nix-like OS for learning about OSes, was ported to MacOS in 1991. It was an application that ran under MacOS, but internally it performed context switching, etc.
MachTen is another Mac product that ran a Mach kernel with a BSD layer, on top of MacOS as an app/environment. This came out around 1993.
These two products supported multitasking, compiling, etc. They were full-fledged environments.
Perhaps the most commonly known architecture of this sort is Mach - the microkernel provides basic services, and then a separate layer runs on these services. NextStep/OpenStep is BSD on Mach, MachTen, mentioned above, is Mach, etc. So at a core level, these are OSes on an OS.
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There's always a cost. Part of the "cost" of Linux is having to do things yourself, and frankly, it is getting old. As much as I've used Linux (since 0.9.4, dammit), it simply does NOT have good tools for audio and DV editing that I've been doing for about two years now.
I used to be a Mac user, even running A/UX on my 68030 mac (and even ran MacBSD on it circa 1994), but had to give it up.
However, my eyes have been open towards Apple since then for whenever OS X or another decent OS was released, and after playing with OS X, it does everything I need it to. And it's still UNIX.
I'm never giving up Linux. It will remain on my main server (and in use at work), but for my personal stuff *nothing* touches OS X.
Cost means nothing. Functionality is everything.
From the _Rama_ series, the idea of inputting a specification for an arbitrary object, and having it produced by a machine is a more refined form of our current (and still fairly new) 3-D printers. I.e., you render your object in CAD and the printer creates a molten-plastic part as a result. (I've seen these printers demo'd at conferences and having a working gear assembly produced in plastic, on demand, is incredible.)
Clarke is also credited with the concept of geosynchronous telecommunications satellites. Does anyone know if the concept was originally described in his books or elsewhere?
Your class topic would be a fun paper.
Get real.
For all the "nerds" complaining about not knowing the clock speed, get over it. AMD has proven that the clock speed doesn't tell the whole story, and is, in fact, quite irrelevant outside of gross comparisons.
But I understand the pissing match that ensues. So why don't you read up on the RDTSC instruction, and code up a little timing loop in assembly? That'll determine your pissing ability coefficient, and filter out the real h@x0r5! from the continual plagueish onslaught of petulant, whining wannabes.
Stick that in your Slot-1 and smoke it.
After visiting the antivirus pages on kiro5hin, I immediately wrote up a PHP /default.ida file to NOT probe or exploit their box, but to send this HTTP request: /your_box_is_infected_with_code_red/please_get_pat ches_from_microsoft HTTP/1.0
GET
Should they check their logs (and I'm hoping IIS reports failed requests since I don't know how it works), they'll see this message and maybe, just maybe, they'll do something about it.
This is an entirely passive, noninvasive approach that uses the existing (and intended) ports on their machine to report the problem. Let's just hope they have ears.
There are just not enough Xiao Xiao animations to keep other browsers around.
What I did to control it was to save every spam message for a few months. After this time, I had a collection (a few thousand emails) of various scams, sales pitches, etc, each with it's own wording. A little perl program was then fed this archive of spam, and it sorted the most popular 3 and 4 word phrases, which were then used for fgrep fodder via procmail. The MarketingSpeek(tm) is self-identifying...
It was a bit of work, but the results were worth it. Of course, "make money fast" was near the top of the 3-word list.
Jamie, do us all a favor a get a journalistic clue.
Cable TV used to be ad-free, but that's no more. Now we pay for the ads.
I installed TurboLinux (server edition) and it didn't even load the module for the network card. Incredible, and it's a 3com 3c90x module... The installation didn't ask about networking, so I wonder just what their definition of "server" is.
Meanwhile, I've been very happy with my Mandrake and RedHat setups.
In this situation, I say more power to DirecTV! Hacking is one thing, but stealing is quite another, and DirecTV has beaten, at least temporarily, the crackers at their own game. This is hysterical.
People who perform blatant theft of service in the name of "freedom" obviously do not understand, nor can they handle, true freedom! Freedom without responsibility cannot exist.
On some aspects I agree with your post, but I prefer a more subversive approach. I looked for and purchased a DVD player that has hidden options to subvert region coding, macrovision (i.e., analog copy protection), etc. There is nothing wrong with DVD technology, and in fact many movies are available as unencrypted DVD (no CSS encryption used). But purposely looking for and purchasing "empowering" equipment is my way to regain my rights - to use the media I purchase the way I want, and not for piracy.
Another poster in this thread said this too -- existing copy protections are failing in their goal. Real-world software pirates do not care about encryption because they make bitwise copies of whatever it is they are pirating. Copy protection has always been an inconvenience for the honest consumer, and a nonsolution for the real pirates.
I'm in the process of converting my old cassette tapes and LPs (the big black analog CDs :-) to MP3. This is fair use, and our rights have not changed for video!
-3dr
For the past few months I've been on an SF binge and decided to read Clark's older stuff. I just finished Rendezvous with Rama a week ago, and am halfway through Rama II. You hit the nail on the head - the sequel is full of extemporaneous character building, complete with childhool-memory-recollection BS. Pure Clark is a rush to read - you get in, you get out, and your brain expands because he wallops you with unexpected ideas.
Yeah, but if I wanted to watch blue people doing that which goes by "it", I would have stayed on my home planet.
For the current rate at which CPU power is increasing, one will probably run up against the statute of limitations before a 4096 bit encryption is cracked.
I ran directly into this when I was developing a REGEXP-based URL filter. My first pass at filtering blocked akamai.net, but then I learned what it was and how to more selectively block ads from within akamai.
REGEXP-based filtering is a powerful feature, and any pattern specified sloppily can "nuke" any site, not just Akamai. Can (l)users handle this power? In general, for a product like Mozilla I don't think so. But for those of us who can, external proxies are still most effective.
Banner ads are the next BLINK tag. I find them highly irritating, distracting, and very very few of them are even close to interesting.
I'm sure I'm not alone on this, but I want a web browser that allows me to:
The only item above I can control is the last. I rely on tinyproxy (and a patch) to do my banner ad filtering. One thing the web and application developers can't control is the actual net link -- intermediate software (such as Junkbusters) will remain effective. That is, until "management" decides to remove proxy access from the browser.
(As a filtering example, a visit to www.salon.com caused a total of 25 HTTP requests. With ad filtering, the number of requests dropped to 12 and the page loaded much faster.)
Ad servers are not powerful enough to deliver the ads without delay. Many sites that use ad servers are sluggish, and it's due simply to the ad servers. Since many web sites don't receive payment unless a visitor actually clicks on the ad, my filtering of otherwise uninteresting ads isn't denying them income. And it speeds up my browsing while decreasing the annoyance factor.
I browse for content. I want it quick, and I want it without being nagged to Punch the Monkey!
Not counting things like VMWare, Plex86 and others, running an OS straight on top of another is impossible.
While not trivial, you can run an OS on top of another OS. It's been done before.
A couple examples on the MacOS:
These two products supported multitasking, compiling, etc. They were full-fledged environments.
Perhaps the most commonly known architecture of this sort is Mach - the microkernel provides basic services, and then a separate layer runs on these services. NextStep/OpenStep is BSD on Mach, MachTen, mentioned above, is Mach, etc. So at a core level, these are OSes on an OS.
-bpb