Well, some of the Opera entries look like: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux) Opera 5.0 [en]
which you might say is "pretending to be IE", as Opera has another common user-agent entry: Opera/5.11 (Windows 2000; U) [en].
Of the IE hits I listed though, they all claimed to be running on some flavor of Windows, with nothing varying from the standard IE log pattern.
Perhaps Opera can also log in this manner, but I seriously doubt that the statistics I gave are off by more than a percent or two.
Face facts, slashdroids love to say they hate windows, but at the end of the day, it's what they use on their desktops.
So I guess my Mercedes shouldn't have an AMG logo on it. Hell, the Mercedes E55 actually comes with AMG logos on it from the factory.
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Everybody knows that actions speak louder than words. A few weeks ago I posted a link to a page that I mirrored, as the original site got slashbanged. Looking at the logs, I have:
Let me guess...you never hit fast-forward or mute when an ad comes up on TV. If you do, then please explain how running an ad filter is any different.
There's a huge difference between sometimes fast-forwarding ads with my TiVo and having a device which automatically removes every advertisement. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to realize this.
That being said, I don't have anything at all against ad-blocking software. Nor do I have anything against ad-modifying software as a concept. You can't be for one and against the other.
The issue at hand isn't whether it's legal to modify ads in the browser. Sure it is, and I hope to hell it stays that way. The issue at hand is one company's unethical manner of getting users to install their product.
It's not the OS's fault, it's not even the package manager's fault, it's the packagers fault.
You could trivially do the same thing with an RPM. Hell, you could make the post-uninstall script run a quick dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1, thus leaving the linux box without a working MBR.
Additionally, if you watch carefully a LOT of RPMs don't have the package list specified properly, and do leave crufy around when you undelete.
I can't fucking believe this karma whore worked. I mean really, you're fucking retarded... you didn't read the article or find facts... you made a (false) insinuation based on nothing.
slashdot needs killfiles.
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Don't pretend that just because it works for you, it works for everyone else. Within the past 3 months I've crashed (kernel panic-style, not just locked console) W2K, Linux and FreeBSD.
And no, not once was it faulty hardware to blame.
p.s. next time you troll, you need to be more subtle.
What a well-written article!
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Internet service providers can always pull the plug?treating Freenet, in essence, as an unsupported feature, in the way that many providers today do not support telnet, Usenet and other less popular services
Gee, what an intelligent statement. I know there are so many providers that drop my telnet traffic.... oh wait, I've never seen that happen, even when I was visiting china.
As far as the "digital signatures" of certain types of traffic. Sure you could block port 6347 or something, but then they'd use a different port. You could analyze every packet to see if it was GNUtella, but a) that would take massive hardware upgrades and b) people would just encapsulate the traffic. Suddenly gnutella will be proxied over HTTP-SSL, and the choice will be either to shut down all e-commerce, or live with it.
Let's burn these bridges when we get to them, There's no need for full-scale paranoia yet.
first of all, close your tags if you don't want to look like a complete moron.
secondly, if mandrake got you hooked... good for you. i got hooked by yggdrasil, doesn't mean it's right for everybody/anybody. i *liked* not knowing anything. i *liked* learning something completely different. you liked a familiar comfortable environment.
as previously noted, who cares? try something... try to learn it, if you don't like it, try something else. lather, rinse, repeat.
Why will it contain this crap? Because it really doesn't matter what you use as long as you learn the unix philosophy, so just pick a distro that you like, be it Debian, RedHat, Mandrake, Suse, Caldera or even FreeBSD or something.
What really matters is that you realize that your choice isn't the only choice. Make one, explore it, learn about it for a few months, then try another one and learn the differences. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
It's no substitute for some serious therapy, but maybe you should take this serial killer profile quiz, and in the meantime avoid any job that involves the Postal Servie.
Okay, well in that case we need to include a few monitors in the computer setup as well. Let's call it $500 a monitor, adding $1500 to the total. And then for the PS2 side, get a nice big 36" Sony WEGA for $1500. the price gap remains, except with the PS2 solution you've now got a dope TV, with the PC solution you've got some pointless 21 inch monitors.
upgrade to include TV output on video, seeing as you neglected to include the cost of a monitor, or a KVM -- $30
Total : $687
But wait... a playstation 2 lets 2 people play games against each other no problem. PC games all seem to require multiple computers for that too... so let's assume you only have one friend, and we'll double it.
Total Cost : $1374
but wait... now we need two NICs and a crossover cable.
Total Cost : $1424
Shit, you got a second friend. He wants to play too. Now you need 3 patch cables, another NIC, a hub and another machine.
Total Cost: $2241
So for $2241, you have a multiplayer gaming system that rivals... a $400 ps2 based setup. except it's a pain in the ass to setup, takes a ton of space, uses about 850 watts more power, and isn't as much fun as having your friends all huddled around one TV.
to the fucks who blather their mouths without reading the article. He burned 2 NeXT cube cases. One was a blank case he obtained solely for that purpose, the other was just the outer shell of a functional case.
In any case, it was intended to represent NeXT setting the technology world on fire.
Originally they were going to just burn the blank, but well... READ THE ARTICLE, it's interesting in a "i'm stoned off my ass" sort of way.
The Pennsulvania Unemployement Compensation Registration worked fine for me, back in April. It sounds to me like maybe you were just a little stressed out about losing your job and had a little misplaced aggression.
You'd think I'd remember that. I seem to remember wood or plastic chairs in the center of the Student Union, well-padded chairs in the sides of the union and wooden chairs/tables down in the rathskeller.
Where were the concrete chairs?
Okay, so here's what we have. A company has made available 10 hours of access to an eBook for $1, or you can purchase it in a "permanent format" for $5.
I fail to see the problem. If you want to buy the eBook, you can. If you want to rent it, you can. If you think eBooks are incredibly gay, you can buy a dead-tree edition.
Now quit whining about things that don't matter and Support the EFF
there's not a set answer for that one. many newer cable systems actually allow for dual-rate pricing, one where a license to record the material is granted, the other where it is not.
We can talk all day here, but we're preaching to the choir. Let's do something useful instead.
Everybody, think real hard about how much money you can part with. Surely most people here can let go of at least $100, without blinking. Hell, a lot of you wouldn't blink at spending $500 on a night out. or maybe you can only spare $20, you can still help with that. Now do two things with that money:
1) Donate to the EFF, or Join the EFF. They're a great organization, and they can use your help. You, on the other hand, can use the tax break.
2) Purchase Elcomsoft software.
amavis works well, though there is the obvious performance hit due to the extra processing done on every message. With some optimization, you can get the performance to stay at an acceptable level though.
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Legal: Yes
DiVX
Legal: No
That right there is enough to make most people avoid DiVX. Most people don't want to be criminals, even if they know they won't get caught.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux) Opera 5.0 [en]
which you might say is "pretending to be IE", as Opera has another common user-agent entry:
Opera/5.11 (Windows 2000; U) [en].
Of the IE hits I listed though, they all claimed to be running on some flavor of Windows, with nothing varying from the standard IE log pattern. Perhaps Opera can also log in this manner, but I seriously doubt that the statistics I gave are off by more than a percent or two.
Face facts, slashdroids love to say they hate windows, but at the end of the day, it's what they use on their desktops.
So I guess my Mercedes shouldn't have an AMG logo on it. Hell, the Mercedes E55 actually comes with AMG logos on it from the factory.
There's a huge difference between sometimes fast-forwarding ads with my TiVo and having a device which automatically removes every advertisement. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to realize this.
That being said, I don't have anything at all against ad-blocking software. Nor do I have anything against ad-modifying software as a concept. You can't be for one and against the other.
The issue at hand isn't whether it's legal to modify ads in the browser. Sure it is, and I hope to hell it stays that way. The issue at hand is one company's unethical manner of getting users to install their product.
You could trivially do the same thing with an RPM. Hell, you could make the post-uninstall script run a quick dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1, thus leaving the linux box without a working MBR.
Additionally, if you watch carefully a LOT of RPMs don't have the package list specified properly, and do leave crufy around when you undelete.
Not everything evil is because of Microsoft.
slashdot needs killfiles.
And no, not once was it faulty hardware to blame.
p.s. next time you troll, you need to be more subtle.
Gee, what an intelligent statement. I know there are so many providers that drop my telnet traffic.... oh wait, I've never seen that happen, even when I was visiting china.
As far as the "digital signatures" of certain types of traffic. Sure you could block port 6347 or something, but then they'd use a different port. You could analyze every packet to see if it was GNUtella, but a) that would take massive hardware upgrades and b) people would just encapsulate the traffic. Suddenly gnutella will be proxied over HTTP-SSL, and the choice will be either to shut down all e-commerce, or live with it.
Let's burn these bridges when we get to them, There's no need for full-scale paranoia yet.
first of all, close your tags if you don't want to look like a complete moron.
secondly, if mandrake got you hooked... good for you. i got hooked by yggdrasil, doesn't mean it's right for everybody/anybody. i *liked* not knowing anything. i *liked* learning something completely different. you liked a familiar comfortable environment.
as previously noted, who cares? try something... try to learn it, if you don't like it, try something else. lather, rinse, repeat.
- 27 posts saying mandrake is the best
- 15 posts saying mandrake is lame
- 42 posts saying debian is the best
- 11 posts praising SUSE
- 20 posts flaming redhat
- 12 posts saying you should use *BSD instead
- 75 posts with no identifiable content
- 0 informative, well-reasoned posts
Why will it contain this crap? Because it really doesn't matter what you use as long as you learn the unix philosophy, so just pick a distro that you like, be it Debian, RedHat, Mandrake, Suse, Caldera or even FreeBSD or something.What really matters is that you realize that your choice isn't the only choice. Make one, explore it, learn about it for a few months, then try another one and learn the differences. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
It's no substitute for some serious therapy, but maybe you should take this serial killer profile quiz, and in the meantime avoid any job that involves the Postal Servie.
Okay, well in that case we need to include a few monitors in the computer setup as well. Let's call it $500 a monitor, adding $1500 to the total. And then for the PS2 side, get a nice big 36" Sony WEGA for $1500. the price gap remains, except with the PS2 solution you've now got a dope TV, with the PC solution you've got some pointless 21 inch monitors.
- Athlon 1.3Ghz w/mobo -- $192
- 512 megs of DDR -- $82
- 40 Gig hd -- $95
- Geforce 2 MX -- $78
things you didn't -- $240- Case + power supply -- $35
- Firewire port -- $20
- Keyboard -- $40
- Mouse -- $40
- Gamepads -- $40
- Sound card -- $35
- upgrade to include TV output on video, seeing as you neglected to include the cost of a monitor, or a KVM -- $30
Total : $687But wait... a playstation 2 lets 2 people play games against each other no problem. PC games all seem to require multiple computers for that too... so let's assume you only have one friend, and we'll double it.
Total Cost : $1374
but wait... now we need two NICs and a crossover cable.
Total Cost : $1424
Shit, you got a second friend. He wants to play too. Now you need 3 patch cables, another NIC, a hub and another machine.
Total Cost: $2241
So for $2241, you have a multiplayer gaming system that rivals... a $400 ps2 based setup. except it's a pain in the ass to setup, takes a ton of space, uses about 850 watts more power, and isn't as much fun as having your friends all huddled around one TV.
http://overtone.org/sass/cubefire.html is a mirror, if you're finding the main site to be slashdotted.
In any case, it was intended to represent NeXT setting the technology world on fire.
Originally they were going to just burn the blank, but well... READ THE ARTICLE, it's interesting in a "i'm stoned off my ass" sort of way.
The Pennsulvania Unemployement Compensation Registration worked fine for me, back in April. It sounds to me like maybe you were just a little stressed out about losing your job and had a little misplaced aggression.
You'd think I'd remember that. I seem to remember wood or plastic chairs in the center of the Student Union, well-padded chairs in the sides of the union and wooden chairs/tables down in the rathskeller. Where were the concrete chairs?
I fail to see the problem. If you want to buy the eBook, you can. If you want to rent it, you can. If you think eBooks are incredibly gay, you can buy a dead-tree edition.
Now quit whining about things that don't matter and Support the EFF
there's not a set answer for that one. many newer cable systems actually allow for dual-rate pricing, one where a license to record the material is granted, the other where it is not.
my w2k box does the same thing, with Known Good, ultra-standard hardware. "works for me" != "works".
the easiest way i've found to lock my w2k machine is to try to watch The Family Guy on realvideo.... hasn't worked once for me.
Unless they, oh... released a driver for NT and 2K.
Everybody, think real hard about how much money you can part with. Surely most people here can let go of at least $100, without blinking. Hell, a lot of you wouldn't blink at spending $500 on a night out. or maybe you can only spare $20, you can still help with that. Now do two things with that money:
1) Donate to the EFF, or Join the EFF. They're a great organization, and they can use your help. You, on the other hand, can use the tax break.
2) Purchase Elcomsoft software.
amavis works well, though there is the obvious performance hit due to the extra processing done on every message. With some optimization, you can get the performance to stay at an acceptable level though.
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