first, you've obviously been trolled. Second, committing rape is, by definition, committing adultry (unless your wife doesnt put out, but that's a different story). It also involved 'coveting your neighbor's wife', unless you rape people you dont covet, in which case you probably have some serious issues.
I happen to know two blind professionals. One is a programmer for an Orange county, ca, based startup, and the second is a sysadmin for a local isp. Braille based keyboards, and sound events for common problems, they seem to do ok. The programmer seems to function almost flawlessly, but the sysadmin occasionally has to ask his co-workers what his screen says (odd crash/core dump, when he doesnt have a sound event to alert him of what's going on). But yes, they do exist.
[9:28am] jjirsa (~) # traceroute kuro5hin.org
traceroute to kuro5hin.org (209.208.150.45), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 Banshee.AC.HMC.Edu (134.173.63.200) 2.959 ms 1.634 ms 2.098 ms
2 Inferno.Claremont.Edu (134.173.254.1) 10.082 ms 3.563 ms 9.562 ms
3 63.145.161.77 (63.145.161.77) 15.339 ms 14.075 ms 19.857 ms
4 svl-core-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.14.65) 12.510 ms 16.175 ms 23.549 ms
5 bur-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.5.217) 25.098 ms 22.106 ms 49.744 ms
6 bur-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.13.1) 26.068 ms 20.760 ms 20.661 ms
7 lax-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.8.41) 21.258 ms 20.196 ms 20.573 ms
8 lax-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.19.38) 19.932 ms 22.907 ms 22.069 ms
9 a8-0-0.cr01.lsan01.multa.net (216.179.227.5) 28.899 ms 21.148 ms 21.941 ms
10 a3-0-0.cr01.snjs01.multa.net (216.179.158.12) 37.975 ms 29.866 ms 34.787 ms
11 mae-west-atm.globix.net (198.32.200.22) 28.573 ms 26.652 ms 30.689 ms
12 pos2-2-core2.sjc1.globix.net (209.10.12.49) 43.268 ms 25.033 ms 24.848 ms
13 105.atm0-0-core1.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.11.5) 103.149 ms 96.710 ms 97.757 ms
14 pos4-0-0-aggr2.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.1.6) 107.506 ms 99.957 ms 98.836 ms
15 v3-edge2.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.1.90) 97.274 ms 119.086 ms 111.456 ms
16 www.kuro5hin.org (209.208.150.45) 100.196 ms 104.410 ms 98.455 ms
I guess it is the server.... oh well. valinux is trading at $2/share for a reason.
well.... k5 has a big readership,/. has a huge readership, combine those, k5 cant handle it...would i jump out and blame the valinux servers they run on? probably not, I'd blame the 10Mbit bandwidth they probably have more than the box itself.
I really do hope this is a passing phase. If, in 2 years, I am stuck buying things I know are flawed, I will be more than disappointed. It seems to me that one of the greatest reasons many people use linux in the first place is it's reliability, and the fact that it WORKS. Sure, you update occasionally for security, but overall, it gets the job done. Now, they're releasing products that dont even do that. It seems like the company that released this is wasting their time with linux, they could have just used wince and had a better platform, with better power management/video/motion playback/etc, for less time and money, and probably significantly less bugs. It's unfortunate, to say the least.
this is a very bad immitation of a goatse.cx hidden link trick. Please do not encourage him by getting mad, he'll just do it more. Simply be smart, dont click the link. (FYI: the page it pulls up has pop-ups with goatse.cx animation, not the actual picture).
to work on bringing linux to the masses. Rushing products, so that they arrive with less than perfect, or in this case: less than acceptible, hardware and software only causes people to assume that the operating system is to blame, and that good programs can not be created for linux. People, in general, do not understand that it is the programmer: they blame the program.
I would have much rather had to wait a few months and had a product that worked nearly flawlessly, so that I could recommend it to my friends, rather than be forced to recommend a winCE powered, or palmOS powered device. It's really a shame that market pressure ruins so many good ideas.
First off, being any kind of zealot is usually due to uninformed opinions.
While you are quick to point out that a Dodge Neon and win95 are american, you're also forgetting that so are:
intel
Corvettes
cadiallacs
*BSD
So, your 'pro-european' claim of superiority is rather short sided. What hardware has europe produced lately? What kind of cars have they produced that *I* can afford (I'm a college student on a limited budget, I cant afford a BMW or Benz, sorry). You're assuming that the most expensive (cost, and effort) is always the best, when that's not necessarily the case. Windows takes NO work to use, that makes it GREAT for older people who havent been using computers their whole lives, and young people who dont know how to hack shell scripts to make their lives easier.
There is nothing wrong with something being 'american,' the overall appearance can help familiarize a new program to smooth out the learning curve. Your pro-Euro, pro-linux zealot behavior isnt needed. Go hang out in kuro5hin.
I agree with you for the most part, but I take issue in the fact that KDE is significantly more stable than Gnome. I feel for the most part, the instablilities in Gnome come from the applications used by individuals. Most of the Gnome crashes I have endured have come when running BETA quality third party apps, and very rarely do I have problems when running final releases.
It's obviously not a very good business plan. In the case of RedHat, they seem to be doing ok, as long as they can continue selling service plans and making *some* money off of adspace on their website. Other open source dependant companies (VALinux would be the obvious example) are quickly realizing that the profit potential is small, and shrinking fast. I personally believe that the failure of the Linux companies is due to too many programmers in key positions, instead of MBA's and economists.
*disclaimer: graphic sig below*
(Please moderate on the content of my comment, not on my sig.)
fuck... i'm gettin modded down for everything lately... stupid fucking moderators... i'd rather get bitchslapped and sent to -10 than change my sig though
anyone who wants a patent will patent it in another country, thus still protecting themselves in as much geographical area as possible..
guessing a tcp sequence isnt *THAT* hard...
on
Security Hole In TCP
·
· Score: 3
take nmap, for example.
A simple run on a freebsd 4.2 box yields:
[1:37pm] root # nmap -O boris
Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on boris.ST.HMC.Edu (134.173.xxx.xxx):
(The 1513 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
23/tcp open telnet
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop-3
111/tcp open sunrpc
143/tcp open imap2
587/tcp open submission
3306/tcp open mysql TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments Difficulty=17911 (Worthy challenge)
note: random positive increments
Now, the same scan on a win2k box yields:
[1:40pm] root # nmap -O skittles
Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on skittles.ST.HMC.Edu (134.173.xxx.xxx):
(The 1518 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
21/tcp open ftp
80/tcp open http
81/tcp open hosts2-ns
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
3306/tcp open mysql
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=trivial time dependency Difficulty=2 (Trivial joke) Remote operating system guess: Windows NT4 / Win95 / Win98
Thus, guessing tcp sequences isnt entirely difficult for windows 9x boxen, its just that its generally easier to exploit other problems than play with tcp stacks.
This, once again, is not news. This was news last september, when it was originally ran. Apparently Michael Sims has a penchant for re-running stories, as he did it last night in a story about projectile robots, a 'news' story that's 11 months old.. This is ridiculous... andover's failing quickly, and they're wasting 100k/year on Michael Sims to post shit that happened months ago, that/. has already covered...
I hope you nerds enjoy reading about stuff that's already happened... its this kind of nonsense that's killing this site.
Satellite phones have their uses, especially for very remote areas.
Actually, the target market includes airtraffic, as normal cell/digital phones have substantial problems when communicating with multiple towers as they fly overhead. Thus, with decent marketing, they could offer this to airlines (two phones/plane, a few thousand planes, nice way to start up a new company) in addition to merely people who plan on communicating from remote locations...
The biggest problem isnt that people dont know they need to update, but that they dont have remote access to colocated or otherwise removed servers. If I have my box under my desk, its easily upgraded. If i have my box in an office 20 miles away on a nice t3 connection, its a little harder to do.
Although the NV1 was technologically superior to other chips of that era from a number of perspectives, the proprietary quadratic texture mapping of the NV1 was its death sentence. When Microsoft finalized Direct3D not too long after the NV1 had reached store shelves, polygons had been chosen as the standard primitive, and despite NVIDIA's and Diamond's best efforts, developers were no longer willing to develop for the NV1.
This is nonsense and self-contradicting. Microsoft's direct3d didn't kill nv1, a closed source proprietary texture mapping procedure that was incompatible with any other card killed nv1. Had nvidia worked closer with developers before direct3d became the standard, nv1 could have been accepted and implemented on a larger scale. True, direct3d replaced nv1, but blaming microsoft for the death is pointless: proprietary policies killed nv1, not its competition.
Can you buy a fast pc that runs unix for the price of a console? do you need to run a server if all you want to do is play games? consoles aren't silly. they fit their niche perfectly.
you obviously didn't read the link i posted, nor did you understand the original intent of the parent post... the modern definition of trolling often focuses more on crapflooding and nonsense than insightful trolls... this is what i'm referring to, not the well thought out, pseudo intelligent comments.
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first, you've obviously been trolled. Second, committing rape is, by definition, committing adultry (unless your wife doesnt put out, but that's a different story). It also involved 'coveting your neighbor's wife', unless you rape people you dont covet, in which case you probably have some serious issues.
blindprogramming.com
Gnu's blind programmer
games written by a blind programmer for blind users
Hope this helps.
I happen to know two blind professionals. One is a programmer for an Orange county, ca, based startup, and the second is a sysadmin for a local isp. Braille based keyboards, and sound events for common problems, they seem to do ok. The programmer seems to function almost flawlessly, but the sysadmin occasionally has to ask his co-workers what his screen says (odd crash/core dump, when he doesnt have a sound event to alert him of what's going on). But yes, they do exist.
Everything's fine... except your ideal gas law... where you left out a seemingly meaningless term (at least in this example) ...
pv = nRt, where p = pressure, v = volume, n = number of moles of substance, R = universal constant, t = temperature.
[9:28am] jjirsa (~) # traceroute kuro5hin.org
traceroute to kuro5hin.org (209.208.150.45), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 Banshee.AC.HMC.Edu (134.173.63.200) 2.959 ms 1.634 ms 2.098 ms
2 Inferno.Claremont.Edu (134.173.254.1) 10.082 ms 3.563 ms 9.562 ms
3 63.145.161.77 (63.145.161.77) 15.339 ms 14.075 ms 19.857 ms
4 svl-core-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.14.65) 12.510 ms 16.175 ms 23.549 ms
5 bur-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.5.217) 25.098 ms 22.106 ms 49.744 ms
6 bur-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.13.1) 26.068 ms 20.760 ms 20.661 ms
7 lax-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.8.41) 21.258 ms 20.196 ms 20.573 ms
8 lax-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.19.38) 19.932 ms 22.907 ms 22.069 ms
9 a8-0-0.cr01.lsan01.multa.net (216.179.227.5) 28.899 ms 21.148 ms 21.941 ms
10 a3-0-0.cr01.snjs01.multa.net (216.179.158.12) 37.975 ms 29.866 ms 34.787 ms
11 mae-west-atm.globix.net (198.32.200.22) 28.573 ms 26.652 ms 30.689 ms
12 pos2-2-core2.sjc1.globix.net (209.10.12.49) 43.268 ms 25.033 ms 24.848 ms
13 105.atm0-0-core1.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.11.5) 103.149 ms 96.710 ms 97.757 ms
14 pos4-0-0-aggr2.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.1.6) 107.506 ms 99.957 ms 98.836 ms
15 v3-edge2.nyc1.globix.net (209.10.1.90) 97.274 ms 119.086 ms 111.456 ms
16 www.kuro5hin.org (209.208.150.45) 100.196 ms 104.410 ms 98.455 ms
I guess it is the server.... oh well. valinux is trading at $2/share for a reason.
well.... k5 has a big readership, /. has a huge readership, combine those, k5 cant handle it...would i jump out and blame the valinux servers they run on? probably not, I'd blame the 10Mbit bandwidth they probably have more than the box itself.
I really do hope this is a passing phase. If, in 2 years, I am stuck buying things I know are flawed, I will be more than disappointed. It seems to me that one of the greatest reasons many people use linux in the first place is it's reliability, and the fact that it WORKS. Sure, you update occasionally for security, but overall, it gets the job done. Now, they're releasing products that dont even do that. It seems like the company that released this is wasting their time with linux, they could have just used wince and had a better platform, with better power management/video/motion playback/etc, for less time and money, and probably significantly less bugs. It's unfortunate, to say the least.
this is a very bad immitation of a goatse.cx hidden link trick. Please do not encourage him by getting mad, he'll just do it more. Simply be smart, dont click the link. (FYI: the page it pulls up has pop-ups with goatse.cx animation, not the actual picture).
to work on bringing linux to the masses. Rushing products, so that they arrive with less than perfect, or in this case: less than acceptible, hardware and software only causes people to assume that the operating system is to blame, and that good programs can not be created for linux. People, in general, do not understand that it is the programmer: they blame the program.
I would have much rather had to wait a few months and had a product that worked nearly flawlessly, so that I could recommend it to my friends, rather than be forced to recommend a winCE powered, or palmOS powered device. It's really a shame that market pressure ruins so many good ideas.
While you are quick to point out that a Dodge Neon and win95 are american, you're also forgetting that so are:
intel
Corvettes
cadiallacs
*BSD
So, your 'pro-european' claim of superiority is rather short sided. What hardware has europe produced lately? What kind of cars have they produced that *I* can afford (I'm a college student on a limited budget, I cant afford a BMW or Benz, sorry). You're assuming that the most expensive (cost, and effort) is always the best, when that's not necessarily the case. Windows takes NO work to use, that makes it GREAT for older people who havent been using computers their whole lives, and young people who dont know how to hack shell scripts to make their lives easier.
There is nothing wrong with something being 'american,' the overall appearance can help familiarize a new program to smooth out the learning curve. Your pro-Euro, pro-linux zealot behavior isnt needed. Go hang out in kuro5hin.
I agree with you for the most part, but I take issue in the fact that KDE is significantly more stable than Gnome. I feel for the most part, the instablilities in Gnome come from the applications used by individuals. Most of the Gnome crashes I have endured have come when running BETA quality third party apps, and very rarely do I have problems when running final releases.
*disclaimer: this is not flamebait*
It's obviously not a very good business plan. In the case of RedHat, they seem to be doing ok, as long as they can continue selling service plans and making *some* money off of adspace on their website. Other open source dependant companies (VALinux would be the obvious example) are quickly realizing that the profit potential is small, and shrinking fast. I personally believe that the failure of the Linux companies is due to too many programmers in key positions, instead of MBA's and economists.
*disclaimer: graphic sig below*
(Please moderate on the content of my comment, not on my sig.)
fuck... i'm gettin modded down for everything lately... stupid fucking moderators... i'd rather get bitchslapped and sent to -10 than change my sig though
the link's in my sig... not the comment
anyone who wants a patent will patent it in another country, thus still protecting themselves in as much geographical area as possible..
take nmap, for example.
A simple run on a freebsd 4.2 box yields:
[1:37pm] root # nmap -O boris
Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on boris.ST.HMC.Edu (134.173.xxx.xxx):
(The 1513 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
23/tcp open telnet
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop-3
111/tcp open sunrpc
143/tcp open imap2
587/tcp open submission
3306/tcp open mysql
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
Difficulty=17911 (Worthy challenge)
note: random positive increments
Now, the same scan on a win2k box yields:
[1:40pm] root # nmap -O skittles
Starting nmap V. 2.53 by fyodor@insecure.org ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on skittles.ST.HMC.Edu
(134.173.xxx.xxx):
(The 1518 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
21/tcp open ftp
80/tcp open http
81/tcp open hosts2-ns
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
3306/tcp open mysql
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=trivial time dependency Difficulty=2 (Trivial joke)
Remote operating system guess: Windows NT4 / Win95 / Win98
Thus, guessing tcp sequences isnt entirely difficult for windows 9x boxen, its just that its generally easier to exploit other problems than play with tcp stacks.
Why not let the ISP's themselves handle the filtering with kernel based firewalling? Or am I missing something here?
This, once again, is not news. This was news last september, when it was originally ran. Apparently Michael Sims has a penchant for re-running stories, as he did it last night in a story about projectile robots, a 'news' story that's 11 months old.. This is ridiculous... andover's failing quickly, and they're wasting 100k/year on Michael Sims to post shit that happened months ago, that /. has already covered...
I hope you nerds enjoy reading about stuff that's already happened... its this kind of nonsense that's killing this site.
Satellite phones have their uses, especially for very remote areas.
Actually, the target market includes airtraffic, as normal cell/digital phones have substantial problems when communicating with multiple towers as they fly overhead. Thus, with decent marketing, they could offer this to airlines (two phones/plane, a few thousand planes, nice way to start up a new company) in addition to merely people who plan on communicating from remote locations...
The biggest problem isnt that people dont know they need to update, but that they dont have remote access to colocated or otherwise removed servers. If I have my box under my desk, its easily upgraded. If i have my box in an office 20 miles away on a nice t3 connection, its a little harder to do.
well, some are, but they probably deserve it anyway...
Although the NV1 was technologically superior to other chips of that era from a number of perspectives, the proprietary quadratic texture mapping of the NV1 was its death sentence. When Microsoft finalized Direct3D not too long after the NV1 had reached store shelves, polygons had been chosen as the standard primitive, and despite NVIDIA's and Diamond's best efforts, developers were no longer willing to develop for the NV1.
This is nonsense and self-contradicting. Microsoft's direct3d didn't kill nv1, a closed source proprietary texture mapping procedure that was incompatible with any other card killed nv1. Had nvidia worked closer with developers before direct3d became the standard, nv1 could have been accepted and implemented on a larger scale. True, direct3d replaced nv1, but blaming microsoft for the death is pointless: proprietary policies killed nv1, not its competition.
Can you buy a fast pc that runs unix for the price of a console? do you need to run a server if all you want to do is play games? consoles aren't silly. they fit their niche perfectly.
you obviously didn't read the link i posted, nor did you understand the original intent of the parent post... the modern definition of trolling often focuses more on crapflooding and nonsense than insightful trolls... this is what i'm referring to, not the well thought out, pseudo intelligent comments.