I'm no game player (save for Quake) but I'm ordering a copy. Games are what can help drive people to a platform, so I figure it is a great way to do my part to (hopefully) keep Loki alive, as well as to bring another game (and another reason) for somebody to migrate to Linux.
How the hell can Elcomsoft be indicted for breaking a U.S. copyright law when that firm is in RUSSIA!?
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I don't think the original poster was suggesting Russians can't take care of their own affairs, but that Skylarov was arrested unfairly under an American law and so it should perhaps be Americans who contribute financially as a means of retribution.
Well, this will likely be moderated as ``off topic'', but as it's another ``Rights Online'' case I am going to risk the karma hit, as I think this story is fairly important. I just submitted it as a story to Slashdot but for whatever reason it was rejected.
The Linux Freak site (no relation between the site and this story poster) has a rather interesting story about a good samaritan on the 'net who discovered a vulnerability on the Podeau Daily News web site, informed them about it along with tips on how to properly configure the software, only to find himself faced with felony charges. If you find your stomach tightening as you read this, feel free to contact Sheldon Sperling, the DOD prosecuting attorney behind this madness.
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Okay, if lwn.net says there are problems, there are problems. Have I used 2.4.x? Yes, for months.
2.4.2-2smp (SMP version, Red Hat release) -- both at home and at work on the servers. I haven't seen any particularly worrying performance problems, but that's just anecdotal isn't it.
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> I'm not the kernel, but if I were, the top of my wishlist would be a VM that actually works.
I'm not sure why, exactly, your post was moderated up (perhaps because it was lengthy?) -- you've not given any reasoning for saying the VM subsystem doesn't work, you just give an ad hominem (which, judging by the moderation, was effective in itself). Care to explain what, exactly, is wrong with the VM subsystem? (And don't use the "overcommit" excuse that FreeBSD zealots love to throw out...because memory overcommits can be toggled on/off with a setting in/proc now;-) ).
Now watch *my* post get moderated as "Flamebait".:p
Hmmm...Hotmail used to be a *fantastic* mail service until MS took it over (first, they added SSL which made accessing it from lynx impossible. Fortunately lynx-ssl made it possible again. Then, they added Javascript. Bastards. Javascript, for MAIL???)
Then Hotmail moved their cluster (several times, if memory serves) from trusty, reliable FreeBSD servers to MS products. We have seen the results of this changeover in the past, and now we're seeing what happens now with all the viruses floating around in MS-land.
I was happy enough to discover Yahoo Mail, which IS running on FreeBSD servers, and DOESN'T need SSL or Javascript to access. Haven't had a problem since then.:-)
Er, I meant, "Altavista" (pre-1999). I may as well explain my joke:p Altavista.com used to be some lame portal which you'd always end up at when you really wanted the search engine. It offered you a link to the REAL altavista search engine. Fortunately, Digital/Compaq snapped them up.;-)
I wonder why people bother posting babelfish translations. They are practically useless.:^) Interestingly enough, this one consistently misspells "launch" (as "launchn"). Somebody should send e-mail to Altavisa (pre-1999) er I mean to Digital, er, I mean Compaq, er I mean Altavista about this.:-)
This is a reply I typed up and started sending everytime I received one of these (annoying 200 Kb bandwidth-wasting) Sircam documents:
Hello. Just to let you know, it seems that your Windows-based PC appears to be infected with the "SirCam" virus (details at http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,606 1,2801171-2,00.html, possible anti-virus fix details at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sir cam.worm@mm.removal.tool.html). It is likely that you, or somebody else who has used your PC, double-clicked an attachment received from another infected user, which caused your own PC to be infected. (Double clicking on attachments you have received by e-mail, whether from a "trusted" source or not is almost NEVER a good idea.)
What you choose to do about this is your business, but I thought I'd let you know that your private documents are being sent to random Internet users around the world -- and not every one of them deletes them unread like I do.
By the way, you might wish to consider switching to Linux. I have been a happy Linux user since 1995, and I have not had to put up with these kinds of viral infections since giving up Microsoft software so long ago.
Well, forgive me for trying to grab some karma (check my posting history, I don't do it often;p) but if you want to read something free, my Linux Admin Made Easy (LAME) guide is rather uhh, Redhat-centric.
It's a _tad_ out-of-date but still relevant (and I'll be releasing an updated version "any day now").
What bites about this (about the software product "Nautilus"), exactly? Sure, it bites that a company couldn't make it good and people are out of work, but Nautilus is OPEN SOURCE and so it will not die a steaming death like its founding company has.
Anybody and everybody is free to keep on working and using Nautilus as they see fit. There might be a lull for a bit as new developers will take time to get up to speed, but if this product has potential then I wouldn't be too worried about its future.
...is that I seem to be suffering from an acute case of holo-addiction. But I think I've got things out of control. I have been going through a 12-step program offered by the EMH.
How does Red Hat fail on remote upgrade support? It's *nix...you just run "ssh" and upgrade it! Or you could use the point-and-drool approach and use something like up2date...
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Netscape under Linux had no problem saving it, I just clicked on the link and Netscape didn't know what to do with it so it popped up a "Save As" dialog box.;-)
I'm willing to bet the same thing would happen if you browsed the site with Lynx.
If you're actually using a Windows box (and I pity but understand your reasons for doing so), you should be able to just remove the MIME association in your browser and click the link.
On second thought, what about right clicking the link, or shift-click? Don't those allow saving the content to your local drive?
I happened to come across a free streaming contents site at like television when I was trying to find An Occurrence at Owl Creek, a movie I watched in elementary school in my youth -- an excellent movie which somehow surfaced in my mind while looking at the movie archive discussed by this story.
Only problem I have with 'like television' is that I can't seem to download and save, locally, the video streams, for smooth playback later.
The NewsForge article is definitely worth a read; it's an example of some very fine investigative reporting and is entertaining as well (particularly if you were following the earlier LinuxOne news over the last year and a half).
This ``Micrometix'' company which is supposedly planning a merger with LinuxOne seems rather shady itself, eh?:-)
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I'm no game player (save for Quake) but I'm ordering a copy. Games are what can help drive people to a platform, so I figure it is a great way to do my part to (hopefully) keep Loki alive, as well as to bring another game (and another reason) for somebody to migrate to Linux.
How the hell can Elcomsoft be indicted for breaking a U.S. copyright law when that firm is in RUSSIA!?
I don't think the original poster was suggesting Russians can't take care of their own affairs, but that Skylarov was arrested unfairly under an American law and so it should perhaps be Americans who contribute financially as a means of retribution.
...I've been tricked by Slashdot comments so often, I added a *.cx rule to my firewall. ;-)
Well, this will likely be moderated as ``off topic'', but as it's another ``Rights Online'' case I am going to risk the karma hit, as I think this story is fairly important. I just submitted it as a story to Slashdot but for whatever reason it was rejected.
The Linux Freak site (no relation between the site and this story poster) has a rather interesting story about a good samaritan on the 'net who discovered a vulnerability on the Podeau Daily News web site, informed them about it along with tips on how to properly configure the software, only to find himself faced with felony charges. If you find your stomach tightening as you read this, feel free to contact Sheldon Sperling, the DOD prosecuting attorney behind this madness.
Okay, if lwn.net says there are problems, there are problems. Have I used 2.4.x? Yes, for months.
2.4.2-2smp (SMP version, Red Hat release) -- both at home and at work on the servers. I haven't seen any particularly worrying performance problems, but that's just anecdotal isn't it.
> I'm not the kernel, but if I were, the top of my wishlist would be a VM that actually works.
/proc now ;-) ).
:p
I'm not sure why, exactly, your post was moderated up (perhaps because it was lengthy?) -- you've not given any reasoning for saying the VM subsystem doesn't work, you just give an ad hominem (which, judging by the moderation, was effective in itself). Care to explain what, exactly, is wrong with the VM subsystem? (And don't use the "overcommit" excuse that FreeBSD zealots love to throw out...because memory overcommits can be toggled on/off with a setting in
Now watch *my* post get moderated as "Flamebait".
Hmmm...Hotmail used to be a *fantastic* mail service until MS took it over (first, they added SSL which made accessing it from lynx impossible. Fortunately lynx-ssl made it possible again. Then, they added Javascript. Bastards. Javascript, for MAIL???)
Then Hotmail moved their cluster (several times, if memory serves) from trusty, reliable FreeBSD servers to MS products. We have seen the results of this changeover in the past, and now we're seeing what happens now with all the viruses floating around in MS-land.
I was happy enough to discover Yahoo Mail, which IS running on FreeBSD servers, and DOESN'T need SSL or Javascript to access. Haven't had a problem since then. :-)
Er, I meant, "Altavista" (pre-1999). I may as well explain my joke :p Altavista.com used to be some lame portal which you'd always end up at when you really wanted the search engine. It offered you a link to the REAL altavista search engine. Fortunately, Digital/Compaq snapped them up. ;-)
I wonder why people bother posting babelfish translations. They are practically useless. :^) Interestingly enough, this one consistently misspells "launch" (as "launchn"). Somebody should send e-mail to Altavisa (pre-1999) er I mean to Digital, er, I mean Compaq, er I mean Altavista about this. :-)
This is a reply I typed up and started sending everytime I received one of these (annoying 200 Kb bandwidth-wasting) Sircam documents:
Hello. Just to let you know, it seems that your Windows-based PC appears to be infected with the "SirCam" virus (details at http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,606 1,2801171-2,00.html, possible anti-virus fix details at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sir cam.worm@mm.removal.tool.html). It is likely that you, or somebody else who has used your PC, double-clicked an attachment received from another infected user, which caused your own PC to be infected. (Double clicking on attachments you have received by e-mail, whether from a "trusted" source or not is almost NEVER a good idea.)
What you choose to do about this is your business, but I thought I'd let you know that your private documents are being sent to random Internet users around the world -- and not every one of them deletes them unread like I do.
By the way, you might wish to consider switching to Linux. I have been a happy Linux user since 1995, and I have not had to put up with these kinds of viral infections since giving up Microsoft software so long ago.
Well, forgive me for trying to grab some karma (check my posting history, I don't do it often ;p) but if you want to read something free, my Linux Admin Made Easy (LAME) guide is rather uhh, Redhat-centric.
It's a _tad_ out-of-date but still relevant (and I'll be releasing an updated version "any day now").
Ze next von, comradeskees, vill be pointed at ze capitaliste pigz at Adobe.
Wow, things are NOT looking good for Netscape. Thank goodness Mozilla has started to become usable (I wish SSL would work though).
Anybody tried this out under VMware yet?
What bites about this (about the software product "Nautilus"), exactly? Sure, it bites that a company couldn't make it good and people are out of work, but Nautilus is OPEN SOURCE and so it will not die a steaming death like its founding company has.
Anybody and everybody is free to keep on working and using Nautilus as they see fit. There might be a lull for a bit as new developers will take time to get up to speed, but if this product has potential then I wouldn't be too worried about its future.
...is that I seem to be suffering from an acute case of holo-addiction. But I think I've got things out of control. I have been going through a 12-step program offered by the EMH.
Hey, wait a second!
How does Red Hat fail on remote upgrade support? It's *nix...you just run "ssh" and upgrade it! Or you could use the point-and-drool approach and use something like up2date...
Netscape under Linux had no problem saving it, I just clicked on the link and Netscape didn't know what to do with it so it popped up a "Save As" dialog box. ;-)
I'm willing to bet the same thing would happen if you browsed the site with Lynx.
If you're actually using a Windows box (and I pity but understand your reasons for doing so), you should be able to just remove the MIME association in your browser and click the link.
On second thought, what about right clicking the link, or shift-click? Don't those allow saving the content to your local drive?
During wartime, wouldn't we have bigger things to worry about than our daily Slashdot fixes?
I happened to come across a free streaming contents site at like television when I was trying to find An Occurrence at Owl Creek, a movie I watched in elementary school in my youth -- an excellent movie which somehow surfaced in my mind while looking at the movie archive discussed by this story.
Only problem I have with 'like television' is that I can't seem to download and save, locally, the video streams, for smooth playback later.
You low-level folks are hard to find and are exactly the type of people who should be reading -- and contributing to -- Kerneltrap.com.
Gah! I got the link wrong. Should have been, www.wxWindows.org (wxwindows.com is a squatter's site).
Personally, I'll save the $999 and use wxWindows, a free (as in beer and as in freedom) cross-platform development framework for C++.
Sorry Borland, too expensive. I would consider something as high as $199, but your greed is stunning.
The NewsForge article is definitely worth a read; it's an example of some very fine investigative reporting and is entertaining as well (particularly if you were following the earlier LinuxOne news over the last year and a half).
:-)
This ``Micrometix'' company which is supposedly planning a merger with LinuxOne seems rather shady itself, eh?