For recovery purposes, you are correct.
In the Forensics environment, however, you should NEVER CHANGE a file system.
What happens if you need to present your findings in a court of law? You will find your changes are tantamount to evidence tampering - rendering whatever you have discovered inadmissible in court.
Pending clarification of the statement "VERY small", I would think Steam is perhaps placing their revenue stream at risk. In nearly all cases, I expect folks who purchased the game used a credit card. If a significant number of the 20K turn out to actually be in that "VERY small" category, they can (as I CERTAINLY would) contact their bank, and reverse the charges. (This practice, not SSL encryption and what have you I would argue, is the only reason folks trust using a CC on line anyway.)
The all too important question to ask from the sidelines is, "Was this a knee-jerk reaction on the part of Steam?" If so... they may find themselves (20K * purchase price) poorer in the morning. If not, probably no big deal. I should also mention that I myself haven't purchased said product, and know very little about what is going on. Let us hope, for Steam's sake, that they are in the right. To add gasoline to the fire, however, I would also admonish all who paid good $$$ and cannot now play do precisely what I suggested above.
"NCIS is in my opinion, the best of the 3. They tend to concentrate as much on character and witty dialogue as the investigation itself (however, all the computer stuff they do is very deeply flawed at best. It always amazes me how much money they invest in making pretty graphics for those scenes but spend $0 researching them for plausibility)."
I have to agree with Prien715 whole-heartedly on both points. NCIS is definately my favorite of the three, and although a big fan of Gary S. the NY bit hasn't really "excited" me much.
In the research department, I thought that Clint Eastwood's "Bloodwork" was probably the most excellent I've seen. While not particularly technical in nature, the strong Type A personality of (you know the character if you know the movie), and the wealth of Linux and other Open Source stuff on the book shelf over his shoulder were a nice touch. Not hard to suspend disbelief on that one.
I don't post on/. frequently... but this one caught my attention. I posted earlier, and shortly thereafter decided to take a look at the freely available Chapter 3 on the Addison-Wesley site, after having lurked across the author's website.
Based merely on the contents of the free chapter I am appalled... to think that a BA from Rutgers, a Masters from Rutgers, and an MBA anticipated in May of 2005 from Columbia University... produces such drivel. I don't mean to insult Mr. Branigan, but the whole tone of his writing style smacks of back-woods self-aggrandizement more than that of a professional. It further solidifies my belief that a college degree, while looking great hanging on the wall in the den, is only useful when trolling for a job. (Required to pay for said degrees, etc.)
Either that, or he (and Addison Wesley) have assumed this book is written solely for the entertainment of a 6th grade reader. If you're looking for a book you can really sink your teeth into on a subject such as this, skip the anecdotes and go for the "Cybersecurity Operations Handbook" by John W. Rittinghouse and William M. Hancock. You can find it here. Or better yet, hop out to The SANS Institute and get yourself some tolp-quality training.
On a ten-scale, I'd have to give this one a 5 folks.
The parent story says, "The author is a Linux/Unix/BSD guru...", which makes one wonder why the website for his company is written with Microsoft Front Page.
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/me shrugs... Guess I should write a book too, since I've been doing this for a while.
Wow folks - mod the parent to my reply up because this guy is really onto something. In the past, Microsoft hit you with the EULA crap pretty much absolving themselves of indemnity beyond the sale price of the software. (This too was never really tested in court, so it's the antithisis of the GPL in more than one way I guess.)
So suddenly they've found that perhaps with a buttload of $$$ in the bank they can afford to accept this kind of risk now. It's a smart move - let's not overlook that the open source community can't do much to mitigate this since we're not bound to one another in business agreements and the like while we're "just a bunch of hippies with computers". Any ideas on how (or if it's possible for) some solidarity can dis-arm this tactic?
My next assumption is that anyone silly enough to be using wireless without decent encryption at the network layer will soon be getting sniffed at the satellite layer! Cheers.
I'm in Mission, KS - a suburb of Kansas City. I have DSL provided by SouthWestern Bell both in the office, and at home. Bear in mind, both locations are very short copper runs to the central office. Line tests were more or less off the charts when installers did their thing.
I have business class service in the office, and Enhanced service at home. Have had it since November of 99 both locations, with maybe an hour or two outage each month. I had Time Warners Road Runner Cable for a while too, but found it to be overpriced when one considers how overpriced their television services are, and the fact that they refused to offer me static IP at ANY cost. I dumped 'em as with my link at least, ADSL is killing cable.
With a 5.99mbps inbound channel I get consistent download speeds of 300+ kB/s. (Ask any KULUA members who've been on it, they'll vouch for me on this.)
My only issues have been getting control of my reverse DNS. It worked in the office for a month or so, and God himself only knows what the hell happened - it appears no longer delegated to me although tech support swears it is. They don't allow reverse delegation for non-business class users. In addition, the technology limits me to 384kbps outbound. Yuck!
Sprint has their new ION rolled out in KC, and as I understand it anyone who is close enough to their CO to get DSL can get ION. Several nice packaging plans make it look enticing.
Well, there are of course things to consider like the quasi-defacto file format standard M$ currently enjoys etc. But let's look at other issues. Of course, this won't be open-source, so a lot of us won't want to use it. Beyond that, the bigger question is who would trust this crap on their Linux machine? Do you really want to pay good money for crappy software that is sure to bring you into the same virus paradigm that the rest of the world suffers from now?
From spam@zandura.net Fri Jun 30 12:14:34 2000 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:22:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Dustin J. Decker To: Emmett Plant Subject: Re: Slashdot article
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Emmett Plant wrote: Okay, I'm writing the big 'LinuxFest 2000' piece tonight. To do this, I need to ask everyone on this list questions, and I need long, descriptive answers so I can pull some fantastic quotes from you and make you look like the sexy men you really are.:)
Emmett you take my breath away baby. OK, now the answers...
> 1. What is your full name and position at your company? Dustin Decker - Network Systems Administrator Preferred Physicians Medical (dd1@ppmrrg.com)
> 2. What was the first time you heard about LinuxFest 2000? I'd approximate the first mention of LinuxFest 2000 to me was a post forwarded to either of two LUG mailing lists I'm subscribed to in the Lawrence/Kansas City area. Greg Palmer, organizer of the show briefly introduced himself and the event. My first contact with Greg was about two weeks prior to march 21 2000. Greg met with the members of KCLUG (http://www.kclug.org) that day and I immediately volunteered to host a KULUA (http://kulua.org) meeting the following Saturday, inviting Mr. Palmer to attend the meeting and introduce himself to our community. In short, we were offering to support his efforts to put on a good show. Greg was unable to attend.
To clear the air I'll just say once that there was an e-mail from somewhere I don't recall, that cast a doubt on whether this thing was on the up and up... I nearly apologize for mentioning it but it's important as it cast a shadow of doubt from our first hearing of this fest. When Greg was unable to break bread with us it didn't help our understanding of where he was at or where his intentions were planted.
> 3. What did you think of the show? What did I think of the show? There's a fun question . I expected a great deal more from what hype had either been passed on to me by Mr. Palmer or I had perhaps created in my own mind. Either way, it is perfectly natural having attended well organized events (such as SANS Security 99 in New Orleans) that were really exciting; I expected to be blown away. I was not.
Shortly after learning that Eric S. Raymond would be a keynote speaker, I invited Eric to attend dinner with our LUG for some excellent Kansas City BBQ. Eric accepted, and he kept me in the loop on his travel schedule. I experienced vicariously a few weeks on the road with Eric, but just bad parts that is; missing planes due to poor communication, fear of not making a much desired trip to Korea, and a modification of Eric's not-unreasonable-to-begin-with travel rules. I volunteered to help Mr. Palmer with rides to and from Kansas City International Airport for dignitaries, with a bare minimum intention of assuring this sort of hell would not encroach upon the Kansas City portion of Eric's trip. I'm am greatly disappointed to say that despite my attempts, poor communication interfaces with Mr. Palmer made that very hard to do.
I attend the DeVry Institute of Technology in Kansas City in pursuit of a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems. Larry Augustin was scheduled to keynote a dinner at the Overland Park Trade Center the first evening, and coincided with two very important finals for me. I had expected to be tied up, but a storm had interrupted power at the school and all tests were postponed until the next day. I called a friend to arrange to get together for the dinner, and he invited me to Dick Clark's American Bandstand resturaunt about three miles from the trade center. I assumed this was to meet up with LUG members prior to the dinner, we kept the conversation very short.
But what later became evident was that dinner was now being held at the resturaunt... which was fine by me until about five minutes before Larry was to speak with between twenty and thirty guests in the audience. It was then that I realized the web page for the event indicated dinner would be at the trade center. I drove there quickly in an attempt to inform all who may be milling about as to the new location of dinner. There wasn't anyone there I'm afraid, the doors were locked and anyone who had been there had no indication of whether Linux Fest 2000 was really happening or not. As I type this, those details are still erroneously posted at http://www.linuxfest.com/speakers.html.
Emmett of/. had accepted an invitation by our LUG to attend the festival and be present in a booth which folks from the BeOpen group had graciously offered to pay for to sponsor us. We quickly requested donations from our membership, and the details were solidified and paid for within hours. This same precision coordination could easily have been afforded to Greg if he had put any great effort into solidifying a relationship with us. To be blunt, he was pleasant but just had lousy organizational skills.
Other factors came into play... RedHat received a shipment of computers from Dell that didn't work out quite the way they had intended, and accompanied by any other rumors I would never repeat chose to tear down their 40' by 40' booth space and leave the same day they had arrived. Informix left the next day. As time progressed, more and more vendors for various reasons chose to leave as well. Turnout was paltry, and there was much mumbling about lack of promotion for the event.
There were of course a few highlights... I managed to get interviewed by local television station Channel 9 in my shorts and a t-shirt. I spoke of my opinions of the use of the words hacker and cracker in context by the media, answered a number of questions about how home cable and DSL subscribers can take a more secure posture on the Internet, and completely forgot to "plug my LUG". Hal Duston of KCLUG, wearing a suit, did a lengthy interview with FOX4 as well. The local Linux community was on display for Kansas City viewers.
> 4. What was the best part of the show? I would say the best part of the show for me really wasn't the show itself at all. I spent a good portion of time with Eric S. Raymond, sharing some meals and a net connection in addition to firing fully automatic weapons at his Geeks with Guns gathering on day two of his trip. Eric is a truly down to earth guy, with a wonderful ability to explain how the open source movement works. Of course we all know he's very involved in the Linux cause, but it was just really neat to have him in the Kansas City area and to have face to face access to him. (Please Note: I'm not a teenaged groupie geek type, I just like to meet neat people.)
We linux users also had dinner at the Plum Tree resturaunt in Lawrence Kansas on Friday evening, with a turnout of about fourty people. Dinner with that measure of my tribe was of course a very joyous occasion - better than a Baptist revival.
> 5. What was the worst part of the show? The bad turnout, the bad vibe that ensued, and the exhaustion. I assumed one of the many savior roles that appeared from nowhere, and volunteered to put together a Quake3 tournament with Linux. The only hardware I lacked to get 6 or more machines up and running in hours were a handful of 3D video cards, which Sam Dein of a local computer store Telectronics loaned me on a moments notice. Oddly enough, I use Linux as my primary OS at home, but haven't played many games on it. As a result, I never really managed to get Quake3 running well by the last day, and after having lost much sleep over it packed up my own gear and left the event on Friday the final day of the event around 5:00 pm.
> 6. If it happened again, would you attend? Not only would I not attend, but I would probably be one of many who would petition Greg against organizing another of these events next year. I would instead prefer that someone with more experience organize the event.
> 7. Did you attend any panels? If so, which ones, and how were they? I was very busy, but managed to catch Kevin Fenz of tummy.com giving a talk on the replacement for ipchains, net filter. The tummy.com folks were at the geeks with guns event, and were really a great bunch of guys. Kevin provided some very detailed advice on the use of net filter, and I loved it. These sort of knowledge sharing moments in great number would have made the event much more successful. (BTW, Kevin is the co-author of the Linux Security HOWTO.)
> 8. What was the best thing the organizers did? Executed a flash-pot glimpse of what might have been great in the corner of my eye.
> 9. How does the show affect your view of the Linux community on the whole? On the whole, I meet a lot of the folks I hear about all the time but haven't been closer than 500 miles to. Folks like Bruce Perens, Larry Augustin, and Eric S. Raymond. I try to catch appearances by prominent members of the greater Linux community for a good dose of religion at least twice a year. It keeps me refreshed, solidifies my faith in the open source movement, and keeps my finger on the fleshy pulse of the community that's warmer than the on-line representation thereof.
> 10. Please include anything about the show that you would like to see in the Slashdot story about it. I think I covered everything in the first nine. Emmett, it was indeed apleasure to get to know you. [Personal notes to Emmett removed.]
Well, I can only say this much... when I arrived the very first day Greg needed help with his computer. Wanna know why? He was using Windows. Add this to his obvious lack of organizational skills and the problems with this conference become crystal clear.
Let's not forget that as George Carlin put it, claiming that all men are created equal while still owning slaves is known as being, "Stunningly, STUNNINGLY full of shit."
With this in mind, how can you so casually use verbage such as "The bill of rights guarantees..." ??? Wake up man, there are no guarantees any more.
I'll be brief. I'm a member of KULUA, the Kansas Unix/Linux Users Association, a LUG here in Kansas. LinuxOne is in the spamming business too, as is evident on our list from time to time. What more do I need before I decide I hate them?
I must say, I've grown weary of our entire political system. We don't need politics anymore, we need realy freaking leaders. Since I first reached voting age, I've *never* been offered a candidate worth voting for. I'm always forced to vote *against* the more evil of those candidates presented. We are in dire need as a country of a return to rugged individualism. A hand up, not a hand out. And by golly if we're gonna move forward we need someone who is actually tech savvy (insttead of well coached on how to look like an ass trying to be like Gore.)
Well then you just go right ahead and continue lap-dancing for Bill and company. Who knows, maybe he'll actually put a dollar in your G-String. (Don't hold your breath, don't you know in "Club Gates" you pay to dance naked, not the other way around?!?) What a fscking idiot! Please stay away from Linux, you'll water it down.
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What happens if you need to present your findings in a court of law? You will find your changes are tantamount to evidence tampering - rendering whatever you have discovered inadmissible in court.
Pending clarification of the statement "VERY small", I would think Steam is perhaps placing their revenue stream at risk. In nearly all cases, I expect folks who purchased the game used a credit card. If a significant number of the 20K turn out to actually be in that "VERY small" category, they can (as I CERTAINLY would) contact their bank, and reverse the charges. (This practice, not SSL encryption and what have you I would argue, is the only reason folks trust using a CC on line anyway.)
The all too important question to ask from the sidelines is, "Was this a knee-jerk reaction on the part of Steam?" If so... they may find themselves (20K * purchase price) poorer in the morning. If not, probably no big deal. I should also mention that I myself haven't purchased said product, and know very little about what is going on. Let us hope, for Steam's sake, that they are in the right. To add gasoline to the fire, however, I would also admonish all who paid good $$$ and cannot now play do precisely what I suggested above.
Isn't U2 also using Stream to let folks get to their new album, "How to dismantle a nuclear bomb" before it hit stores, as of today?
While perhaps not as popular, this could be an additional load as well.
"NCIS is in my opinion, the best of the 3. They tend to concentrate as much on character and witty dialogue as the investigation itself (however, all the computer stuff they do is very deeply flawed at best. It always amazes me how much money they invest in making pretty graphics for those scenes but spend $0 researching them for plausibility)."
I have to agree with Prien715 whole-heartedly on both points. NCIS is definately my favorite of the three, and although a big fan of Gary S. the NY bit hasn't really "excited" me much.
In the research department, I thought that Clint Eastwood's "Bloodwork" was probably the most excellent I've seen. While not particularly technical in nature, the strong Type A personality of (you know the character if you know the movie), and the wealth of Linux and other Open Source stuff on the book shelf over his shoulder were a nice touch. Not hard to suspend disbelief on that one.
Based merely on the contents of the free chapter I am appalled... to think that a BA from Rutgers, a Masters from Rutgers, and an MBA anticipated in May of 2005 from Columbia University... produces such drivel. I don't mean to insult Mr. Branigan, but the whole tone of his writing style smacks of back-woods self-aggrandizement more than that of a professional. It further solidifies my belief that a college degree, while looking great hanging on the wall in the den, is only useful when trolling for a job. (Required to pay for said degrees, etc.)
Either that, or he (and Addison Wesley) have assumed this book is written solely for the entertainment of a 6th grade reader. If you're looking for a book you can really sink your teeth into on a subject such as this, skip the anecdotes and go for the "Cybersecurity Operations Handbook" by John W. Rittinghouse and William M. Hancock. You can find it here. Or better yet, hop out to The SANS Institute and get yourself some tolp-quality training.
On a ten-scale, I'd have to give this one a 5 folks.
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So suddenly they've found that perhaps with a buttload of $$$ in the bank they can afford to accept this kind of risk now. It's a smart move - let's not overlook that the open source community can't do much to mitigate this since we're not bound to one another in business agreements and the like while we're "just a bunch of hippies with computers". Any ideas on how (or if it's possible for) some solidarity can dis-arm this tactic?
Looks to me like leakage from your AP might be even easier to get a look at from above.
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My next assumption is that anyone silly enough to be using wireless without decent encryption at the network layer will soon be getting sniffed at the satellite layer! Cheers.
I'm in Mission, KS - a suburb of Kansas City. I have DSL provided by SouthWestern Bell both in the office, and at home. Bear in mind, both locations are very short copper runs to the central office. Line tests were more or less off the charts when installers did their thing. I have business class service in the office, and Enhanced service at home. Have had it since November of 99 both locations, with maybe an hour or two outage each month. I had Time Warners Road Runner Cable for a while too, but found it to be overpriced when one considers how overpriced their television services are, and the fact that they refused to offer me static IP at ANY cost. I dumped 'em as with my link at least, ADSL is killing cable.
With a 5.99mbps inbound channel I get consistent download speeds of 300+ kB/s. (Ask any KULUA members who've been on it, they'll vouch for me on this.)
My only issues have been getting control of my reverse DNS. It worked in the office for a month or so, and God himself only knows what the hell happened - it appears no longer delegated to me although tech support swears it is. They don't allow reverse delegation for non-business class users. In addition, the technology limits me to 384kbps outbound. Yuck!
Sprint has their new ION rolled out in KC, and as I understand it anyone who is close enough to their CO to get DSL can get ION. Several nice packaging plans make it look enticing.
The guiness release directory is not readable to the public on the VALinux mirror. What gives?
Well, there are of course things to consider like the quasi-defacto file format standard M$ currently enjoys etc. But let's look at other issues. Of course, this won't be open-source, so a lot of us won't want to use it. Beyond that, the bigger question is who would trust this crap on their Linux machine? Do you really want to pay good money for crappy software that is sure to bring you into the same virus paradigm that the rest of the world suffers from now?
From spam@zandura.net Fri Jun 30 12:14:34 2000
:)
/. had accepted an invitation by our LUG to attend the festival and be present in a booth which folks from the BeOpen group had graciously offered to pay for to sponsor us. We quickly requested donations from our membership, and the details were solidified and paid for within hours. This same precision coordination could easily have been afforded to Greg if he had put any great effort into solidifying a relationship with us. To be blunt, he was pleasant but just had lousy organizational skills.
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:22:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dustin J. Decker
To: Emmett Plant
Subject: Re: Slashdot article
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Emmett Plant wrote:
Okay, I'm writing the big 'LinuxFest 2000' piece tonight. To do this, I need to ask everyone on this list questions, and I need long, descriptive answers so I can pull some fantastic quotes from you and make you look like the sexy men you really are.
Emmett you take my breath away baby. OK, now the answers...
> 1. What is your full name and position at your company?
Dustin Decker - Network Systems Administrator
Preferred Physicians Medical (dd1@ppmrrg.com)
> 2. What was the first time you heard about LinuxFest 2000?
I'd approximate the first mention of LinuxFest 2000 to me was a post forwarded to either of two LUG mailing lists I'm subscribed to in the Lawrence/Kansas City area. Greg Palmer, organizer of the show briefly introduced himself and the event. My first contact with Greg was about two weeks prior to march 21 2000. Greg met with the members of KCLUG (http://www.kclug.org) that day and I immediately volunteered to host a KULUA (http://kulua.org) meeting the following Saturday, inviting Mr. Palmer to attend the meeting and introduce himself to our community. In short, we were offering to support his efforts to put on a good show. Greg was unable to attend.
To clear the air I'll just say once that there was an e-mail from somewhere I don't recall, that cast a doubt on whether this thing was on the up and up... I nearly apologize for mentioning it but it's important as it cast a shadow of doubt from our first hearing of this fest. When Greg was unable to break bread with us it didn't help our understanding of where he was at or where his intentions were planted.
> 3. What did you think of the show?
What did I think of the show? There's a fun question . I expected a great deal more from what hype had either been passed on to me by Mr. Palmer or I had perhaps created in my own mind. Either way, it is perfectly natural having attended well organized events (such as SANS Security 99 in New Orleans) that were really exciting; I expected to be blown away. I was not.
Shortly after learning that Eric S. Raymond would be a keynote speaker, I invited Eric to attend dinner with our LUG for some excellent Kansas City BBQ. Eric accepted, and he kept me in the loop on his travel schedule. I experienced vicariously a few weeks on the road with Eric, but just bad parts that is; missing planes due to poor communication, fear of not making a much desired trip to Korea, and a modification of Eric's not-unreasonable-to-begin-with travel rules. I volunteered to help Mr. Palmer with rides to and from Kansas City International Airport for dignitaries, with a bare minimum intention of assuring this sort of hell would not encroach upon the Kansas City portion of Eric's trip. I'm am greatly disappointed to say that despite my attempts, poor communication interfaces with Mr. Palmer made that very hard to do.
I attend the DeVry Institute of Technology in Kansas City in pursuit of a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems. Larry Augustin was scheduled to keynote a dinner at the Overland Park Trade Center the first evening, and coincided with two very important finals for me. I had expected to be tied up, but a storm had interrupted power at the school and all tests were postponed until the next day. I called a friend to arrange to get together for the dinner, and he invited me to Dick Clark's American Bandstand resturaunt about three miles from the trade center. I assumed this was to meet up with LUG members prior to the dinner, we kept the conversation very short.
But what later became evident was that dinner was now being held at the resturaunt... which was fine by me until about five minutes before Larry was to speak with between twenty and thirty guests in the audience. It was then that I realized the web page for the event indicated dinner would be at the trade center. I drove there quickly in an attempt to inform all who may be milling about as to the new location of dinner. There wasn't anyone there I'm afraid, the doors were locked and anyone who had been there had no indication of whether Linux Fest 2000 was really happening or not. As I type this, those details are still erroneously posted at http://www.linuxfest.com/speakers.html.
Emmett of
Other factors came into play... RedHat received a shipment of computers from Dell that didn't work out quite the way they had intended, and accompanied by any other rumors I would never repeat chose to tear down their 40' by 40' booth space and leave the same day they had arrived. Informix left the next day. As time progressed, more and more vendors for various reasons chose to leave as well. Turnout was paltry, and there was much mumbling about lack of promotion for the event.
There were of course a few highlights... I managed to get interviewed by local television station Channel 9 in my shorts and a t-shirt. I spoke of my opinions of the use of the words hacker and cracker in context by the media, answered a number of questions about how home cable and DSL subscribers can take a more secure posture on the Internet, and completely forgot to "plug my LUG". Hal Duston of KCLUG, wearing a suit, did a lengthy interview with FOX4 as well. The local Linux community was on display for Kansas City viewers.
> 4. What was the best part of the show?
I would say the best part of the show for me really wasn't the show itself at all. I spent a good portion of time with Eric S. Raymond, sharing some meals and a net connection in addition to firing fully automatic weapons at his Geeks with Guns gathering on day two of his trip. Eric is a truly down to earth guy, with a wonderful ability to explain how the open source movement works. Of course we all know he's very involved in the Linux cause, but it was just really neat to have him in the Kansas City area and to have face to face access to him. (Please Note: I'm not a teenaged groupie geek type, I just like to meet neat people.)
We linux users also had dinner at the Plum Tree resturaunt in Lawrence Kansas on Friday evening, with a turnout of about fourty people. Dinner with that measure of my tribe was of course a very joyous occasion - better than a Baptist revival.
> 5. What was the worst part of the show?
The bad turnout, the bad vibe that ensued, and the exhaustion. I assumed one of the many savior roles that appeared from nowhere, and volunteered to put together a Quake3 tournament with Linux. The only hardware I lacked to get 6 or more machines up and running in hours were a handful of 3D video cards, which Sam Dein of a local computer store Telectronics loaned me on a moments notice. Oddly enough, I use Linux as my primary OS at home, but haven't played many games on it. As a result, I never really managed to get Quake3 running well by the last day, and after having lost much sleep over it packed up my own gear and left the event on Friday the final day of the event around 5:00 pm.
> 6. If it happened again, would you attend?
Not only would I not attend, but I would probably be one of many who would petition Greg against organizing another of these events next year. I would instead prefer that someone with more experience organize the event.
> 7. Did you attend any panels? If so, which ones, and how were they?
I was very busy, but managed to catch Kevin Fenz of tummy.com giving a talk on the replacement for ipchains, net filter. The tummy.com folks were at the geeks with guns event, and were really a great bunch of guys. Kevin provided some very detailed advice on the use of net filter, and I loved it. These sort of knowledge sharing moments in great number would have made the event much more successful. (BTW, Kevin is the co-author of the Linux Security HOWTO.)
> 8. What was the best thing the organizers did?
Executed a flash-pot glimpse of what might have been great in the corner of my eye.
> 9. How does the show affect your view of the Linux community on the whole?
On the whole, I meet a lot of the folks I hear about all the time but haven't been closer than 500 miles to. Folks like Bruce Perens, Larry Augustin, and Eric S. Raymond. I try to catch appearances by prominent members of the greater Linux community for a good dose of religion at least twice a year. It keeps me refreshed, solidifies my faith in the open source movement, and keeps my finger on the fleshy pulse of the community that's warmer than the on-line representation thereof.
> 10. Please include anything about the show that you would like to see in the Slashdot story about it.
I think I covered everything in the first nine. Emmett, it was indeed apleasure to get to know you.
[Personal notes to Emmett removed.]
Well, I can only say this much... when I arrived the very first day Greg needed help with his computer. Wanna know why? He was using Windows. Add this to his obvious lack of organizational skills and the problems with this conference become crystal clear.
Let's not forget that as George Carlin put it, claiming that all men are created equal while still owning slaves is known as being, "Stunningly, STUNNINGLY full of shit."
With this in mind, how can you so casually use verbage such as "The bill of rights guarantees..." ???
Wake up man, there are no guarantees any more.
That's very interesting... From your Win2K box point yer exploder at http://www.microsoft.com/y2k and see if you don't explode there too... [grin]
I'll be brief. I'm a member of KULUA, the Kansas Unix/Linux Users Association, a LUG here in Kansas. LinuxOne is in the spamming business too, as is evident on our list from time to time. What more do I need before I decide I hate them?
I must say, I've grown weary of our entire political system. We don't need politics anymore, we need realy freaking leaders. Since I first reached voting age, I've *never* been offered a candidate worth voting for. I'm always forced to vote *against* the more evil of those candidates presented.
We are in dire need as a country of a return to rugged individualism. A hand up, not a hand out. And by golly if we're gonna move forward we need someone who is actually tech savvy (insttead of well coached on how to look like an ass trying to be like Gore.)
Well then you just go right ahead and continue lap-dancing for Bill and company. Who knows, maybe he'll actually put a dollar in your G-String. (Don't hold your breath, don't you know in "Club Gates" you pay to dance naked, not the other way around?!?) What a fscking idiot! Please stay away from Linux, you'll water it down.