I have to agree... this is not a normal state of affairs... As an American living in the UK you should be able to afford a nice place near Cookham... with electric gates... and, dare I say it, a video intercom:0
I'm not talking about Free Software... SuSe either don't know how to make ISOs or they intentionally want to avoid the traditional distribution methods that all the other distributions use.
you, sir, are confused, as is the idiot of a moderator who thought that my original post was "flamebait"...
Well; if opinions other than the accepted norm for a discussion are not tolerated then I'm obviously wasting my time.
After all, without a difference of opinion, there is nothing to discuss.
My problem with SuSe is that I have not yet found a way to download ISOs of it's full installation.
Because of this I am not prepared to leave the distribution that I have worked with for nearly seven years (here).
I've heard a lot of good things about SuSe, but as Linux can be a finneckety thing to get used to I am not prepared to spend money on it until I know what it's like, including exactly what packages come with it. (I'm a bit stubborn when it comes to console text editors... hear that, Patrick?)
I'm not a Linux freeloader - I've pumped more money into Slackware than I have Windows, and I'm proud of it.
But until SuSe join the Open Source Revolution it's unlikely that they'll be seeing my $
yet another narrow minded person from america... sheez...
considering even the usa has at least 3 time zones (I'm sure Hawaii probably counts for a 4th) I'm nearly at the point to call you plain stupid.
No wonder your foreign policy is up the creek.
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What you say is interesting.
I use both Linux and Windows.
I've used both Linux and Windows for the same amount of time (6 years).
For the average user, Windows is far more suitable as a corporate client workstation.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is in their "Linux ivory tower".
Having said that, Linux makes a great firewall/router for me at home, as well as a nice transparent web proxy and a fairly nice remote X environment to play about with open source tools and utilities, some of which, end up on server end boxes at work.
Linux doesn't have viruses? (don't make me laugh - it has something far worse: hackers...)
Linux in the workplace: yes
Linux on the client: no
Linux on the server: yes
Windows in the workplace: yes
Windows on the client: yes
Windows on the server: yes
I saw a great article earlier stressing how:
Linux lacks the groupware application.
Linux NIS/NIS+ is difficult to manage.
Samba file permissions are impossible.
I'd like to see Linux improve, but I believe that concentrating on putting it on the desktop suitable for the average is a pipedream of many Linux zealots who just won't quit their "Ivory Towers".
My last company used to have a Token Ring network. THey had the same problem if an IBM PS/2 was brought up on the network at 4Mbps and not 16Mbps. In short it would bring down the entire network.
I did not view this as a PC problem, but an inherrent problem with Token Ring, so I moved that the company should migrate to Fast Ethernet, and low and behold they did.
I noticed on Tuesday that Slashdot was serving me static pages, unfortunately that just kept making me try to login time and time again and trying to refresh the page to get my personalised one up.
The fact is - unless I can "browse at 2" Slashdot becomes pretty much unnewsworthy - especially as I was relying on user comments for information.
My boss eventually got a 14" TV set up in our area.
Sky TV in the UK kept their website up for the entire day, which is good as they run my company's software - and from the links in the original story at Slashdot I would imagine that they would have been/.'d a few times over.
To be honest if the "secret messages" were to be simply embedded in GIFs of bitmaps without heavy encryption algorithms then I doubt that US intelligence would have caught on at all, especially if those pictures were not "sent" via email, but just posted on a some porn website somewhere pre-arranged by terrorists.
There are simply far too many ways for clandestine communication (It's like trying to find a microdot in a haystack).
If the US authorities try to impose laws on encryption then some company in a more liberal, non-US affiliated state is going to make billions of dollars selling hard encryption devices.
The blueprint for these devices is quite easy. Take an OSOS such as BSD or Linux, stick on FreeSWAN, develop it into an embedded device and sell it.
did you ever get the feeling that you're being followed?
are you not familiar with the book of revelations?
he forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand and on his forehead so that no one shall be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name and the number is 6, 6, 6.
What can such a specific prophecy mean?
What is the mark?
Well, the mark is the barcode, the ubiquitous barcode......
Every barcode is divided into two parts by three markers and those three markers are always represented by the numbers; 6, 6,6. 6!!!!check
So what does it say? Nobody will be able to buy or sell without that mark?
a new class of people emerged... the innumerates...
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I'm at 48 - so enough Karma to burn. Just like to leave something here before this topic gets archived and I cannot have my say.
Personally I think the idiots who rated this post as "Overrated" and "Offtopic" are idiots.
Offtopic - my arse - you lame moderator shit. You just cannot seee deep enough to understand humor.
Overrated - hah! let yourself be known, and let's see your posts.
Perhaps it will all come out in M2. I've moderated and I know that anybody who moderates a post as "Overrated" is a self-centered pig. It's a lame moderators tool used where a moderator doesn't share the same sense of humor as others. Beware, next time I moderate - If I see any posts moderated as both "Funny" and "Overrated" then I will rate it as "Underated"
I'm really not qualified to give you a good answer here. I started off with Slackware 2.3 and now, 6 years later, run Slackware 8.0.
I have momentarily tried Redhat, Debian and Mandrake, but all of those installs have not lasted more than a few hours.
By all means give Redhat and Mandrake a try, they're easy starter distributions, but try to graduate to Slackware or Debian once you've got the hang of it. I think this is more importantly so if you want to use learning Linux as a method of learning UNIX.
Learning Linux, however, should, above all, be fun. It's easy to lose sight of that.
I'm sure someone is going to come out of the woodwork here and contest some of the things I say, so before they do, let my stress that this is just my opinion and I'm perfectly entitled to it. I've also held this opinion for years and am unlikely to be chaning it anytime soon.
hehe... now this has possibilities...
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Hi, How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks
Re:If you've had a corporate hit on your network..
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So it probably would be a good idea for anyone to send every host that comes in searching for default.ida at least one reboot command to make sure that patched machines dont bother us again.
The root.exe left in their scripts directory would be their own problem.
No, this is another common misconception. The exploere.exe trojan makes Code Red ][ infected machines survive the reboot.
Also I've seen many people expressing that they could stop the IIS service. I have tried this and it doesn't work.
I've even seen another/. user set up a script to do this automatically. - He/She is using a similar technique to one that I've already tried. For some reason it doesn't work.
Files on an infected machine, can be accessed via the http://lusers.ip.net/scripts/root.exe, but there are restrictions as to what you can do.
The infected machines are Win2k (ie WINNT based) - if they're running NTFS then there are specific permissions on the file directory structure. I believe that this restricts what you can do with root.exe.
Those machines have probably been patched since infection, but have not been cleaned. The patch does not dis-infect Code Red from the machine, a lot of web admins don't realise this.
I have found Vulnerable machines with this tool. I'm also wondering if unpatched infected machines show up with it - as Code Red prevents re-infections by it's own code.
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What if someone used these cameras in a public area to, say, watch for two men/women kissing or something, then send someone over to harrass them.
oh for fucks sake... get a life!!!
I have to agree... this is not a normal state of affairs... As an American living in the UK you should be able to afford a nice place near Cookham... with electric gates... and, dare I say it, a video intercom :0
If everyone does it it won't be illegal...
people forget it's still democracy.
I'm not talking about Free Software... SuSe either don't know how to make ISOs or they intentionally want to avoid the traditional distribution methods that all the other distributions use.
you, sir, are confused, as is the idiot of a moderator who thought that my original post was "flamebait"...
Well; if opinions other than the accepted norm for a discussion are not tolerated then I'm obviously wasting my time.
After all, without a difference of opinion, there is nothing to discuss.
that is not an ISO...
*sigh*
My problem with SuSe is that I have not yet found a way to download ISOs of it's full installation.
Because of this I am not prepared to leave the distribution that I have worked with for nearly seven years (here).
I've heard a lot of good things about SuSe, but as Linux can be a finneckety thing to get used to I am not prepared to spend money on it until I know what it's like, including exactly what packages come with it. (I'm a bit stubborn when it comes to console text editors... hear that, Patrick?)
I'm not a Linux freeloader - I've pumped more money into Slackware than I have Windows, and I'm proud of it.
But until SuSe join the Open Source Revolution it's unlikely that they'll be seeing my $
yet another narrow minded person from america... sheez...
considering even the usa has at least 3 time zones (I'm sure Hawaii probably counts for a 4th) I'm nearly at the point to call you plain stupid.
No wonder your foreign policy is up the creek.
What you say is interesting.
I use both Linux and Windows.
I've used both Linux and Windows for the same amount of time (6 years).
For the average user, Windows is far more suitable as a corporate client workstation.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is in their "Linux ivory tower".
Having said that, Linux makes a great firewall/router for me at home, as well as a nice transparent web proxy and a fairly nice remote X environment to play about with open source tools and utilities, some of which, end up on server end boxes at work.
Linux doesn't have viruses? (don't make me laugh - it has something far worse: hackers...)
Linux in the workplace: yes
Linux on the client: no
Linux on the server: yes
Windows in the workplace: yes
Windows on the client: yes
Windows on the server: yes
I saw a great article earlier stressing how:
Linux lacks the groupware application.
Linux NIS/NIS+ is difficult to manage.
Samba file permissions are impossible.
I'd like to see Linux improve, but I believe that concentrating on putting it on the desktop suitable for the average is a pipedream of many Linux zealots who just won't quit their "Ivory Towers".
My last company used to have a Token Ring network. THey had the same problem if an IBM PS/2 was brought up on the network at 4Mbps and not 16Mbps. In short it would bring down the entire network.
I did not view this as a PC problem, but an inherrent problem with Token Ring, so I moved that the company should migrate to Fast Ethernet, and low and behold they did.
That was the end of that particular problem.
I noticed on Tuesday that Slashdot was serving me static pages, unfortunately that just kept making me try to login time and time again and trying to refresh the page to get my personalised one up.
/.'d a few times over.
The fact is - unless I can "browse at 2" Slashdot becomes pretty much unnewsworthy - especially as I was relying on user comments for information.
My boss eventually got a 14" TV set up in our area.
Sky TV in the UK kept their website up for the entire day, which is good as they run my company's software - and from the links in the original story at Slashdot I would imagine that they would have been
To be honest if the "secret messages" were to be simply embedded in GIFs of bitmaps without heavy encryption algorithms then I doubt that US intelligence would have caught on at all, especially if those pictures were not "sent" via email, but just posted on a some porn website somewhere pre-arranged by terrorists.
There are simply far too many ways for clandestine communication (It's like trying to find a microdot in a haystack).
If the US authorities try to impose laws on encryption then some company in a more liberal, non-US affiliated state is going to make billions of dollars selling hard encryption devices.
The blueprint for these devices is quite easy. Take an OSOS such as BSD or Linux, stick on FreeSWAN, develop it into an embedded device and sell it.
Russians (and the other 95% of the world's population) are only subject to your laws when they are in your country.
To be honest, depending on how Bush handles this US crisis I may make a point of never traveling to the US again.
quite, but then where else are you going to find a review at all, let alone impartial, other than at www.transmetazone.com
The finger server is up and running still, even if the web interface isn't.
Just do:
finger @bathroom.mit.edu
Seeing as this was a Slashdot headline, I thought it'd be something a little bigger.
ditto
Very much so... I've seen bigger parties at my local LUG.
This was rather inconspicious to say the least!!!
tell me the truth... you cannot please be please using Novell!!!!
jeez - I thought free software had eradicated them!!!!!
:-)
did you ever get the feeling that you're being followed?
...
,6. 6!!!! check
are you not familiar with the book of revelations?
he forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand and on his forehead so that no one shall be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name and the number is 6, 6, 6.
What can such a specific prophecy mean?
What is the mark?
Well, the mark is the barcode, the ubiquitous barcode...
Every barcode is divided into two parts by three markers and those three markers are always represented by the numbers; 6, 6
So what does it say? Nobody will be able to buy or sell without that mark?
If an author wants to limit the distribution of his or her work then it within their entitlement.
Sure information wants to be free, but the interpretation of information is, rightly so, very private.
How many contradictions and paradoxes can arise from these thoughts?
as i've had karma to burn for years I render myself awake from this big sleep and ask:
How the hell do I get rid of that wasteful multiline prompt that Cygwin gives me?
Is this basH? baj!! bah!!!
Someone let me know the answer, then I might appreciate.
Moderators: Offtopic: No, Funny: No, Informative: No, Insightful: Only if you Know, Troll: Don't be stupid, leave the rest to you idiots.
by... who... where is your math....
Has the whole world gone mad?
a new class of people emerged... the innumerates...
I'm at 48 - so enough Karma to burn. Just like to leave something here before this topic gets archived and I cannot have my say.
Personally I think the idiots who rated this post as "Overrated" and "Offtopic" are idiots.
Offtopic - my arse - you lame moderator shit. You just cannot seee deep enough to understand humor.
Overrated - hah! let yourself be known, and let's see your posts.
Perhaps it will all come out in M2. I've moderated and I know that anybody who moderates a post as "Overrated" is a self-centered pig. It's a lame moderators tool used where a moderator doesn't share the same sense of humor as others. Beware, next time I moderate - If I see any posts moderated as both "Funny" and "Overrated" then I will rate it as "Underated"
Fucking Wankers!!!
I'm really not qualified to give you a good answer here. I started off with Slackware 2.3 and now, 6 years later, run Slackware 8.0.
I have momentarily tried Redhat, Debian and Mandrake, but all of those installs have not lasted more than a few hours.
By all means give Redhat and Mandrake a try, they're easy starter distributions, but try to graduate to Slackware or Debian once you've got the hang of it. I think this is more importantly so if you want to use learning Linux as a method of learning UNIX.
Learning Linux, however, should, above all, be fun. It's easy to lose sight of that.
I'm sure someone is going to come out of the woodwork here and contest some of the things I say, so before they do, let my stress that this is just my opinion and I'm perfectly entitled to it. I've also held this opinion for years and am unlikely to be chaning it anytime soon.
Hi, How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks
So it probably would be a good idea for anyone to send every host that comes in searching for default.ida at least one reboot command to make sure that patched machines dont bother us again.
/. user set up a script to do this automatically. - He/She is using a similar technique to one that I've already tried. For some reason it doesn't work.
The root.exe left in their scripts directory would be their own problem.
No, this is another common misconception. The exploere.exe trojan makes Code Red ][ infected machines survive the reboot.
Also I've seen many people expressing that they could stop the IIS service. I have tried this and it doesn't work.
I've even seen another
Files on an infected machine, can be accessed via the http://lusers.ip.net/scripts/root.exe, but there are restrictions as to what you can do.
The infected machines are Win2k (ie WINNT based) - if they're running NTFS then there are specific permissions on the file directory structure. I believe that this restricts what you can do with root.exe.
Yes,
Those machines have probably been patched since infection, but have not been cleaned. The patch does not dis-infect Code Red from the machine, a lot of web admins don't realise this.
I have found Vulnerable machines with this tool. I'm also wondering if unpatched infected machines show up with it - as Code Red prevents re-infections by it's own code.