Shame that those buttons and functions frequently use proprietary drivers that the companies making the laptops won't open up. Why is the burden on "Linux" -- which is a kernel, essentially -- to make a bunch of closed-source companies' crap work? If the NVIDIA drivers are breaking, are you certain that the onus is on Linus and friends to fix it?
Questionable advice, if you meant it sincerely. The law often looks at the scale of the response made in proportion to the threat of violence; someone threatening to hurt you is rarely sufficient cause to kill them. As a martial artist, I am acutely aware that I am rarely allowed to respond with deadly force to an assault -- the presumption made by the courts is that my training puts -more- burden on me to not overreact and take a life unless mine is in extraordinarily grave danger, because I presumably can scale my response with greater precision than the average individual.
What the RIAA is doing sucks, I agree, but we don't really want to start acting out John Wayne fantasies over filesharing, both for legal and ethical reasons.
You know, the idea of having a guild blockade a pass sounds like the single most appealing thing ever done in a MMORPG. If they threw a little roleplaying, interacting a bit, and if another guild rallied the rest of the population that would otherwise be interested, there could have been an -incredible- battle, the likes of which would make for legends.
Spammers are not grade-school children who are learning about computers, and using built-in commands as part of their exploration. Seeing as the child sent a pop-up message to convey a message, rather than for an attempt at financial gain, I'd even say that he used them "as intended".
If the messages were a flaw which he exploited, it would be reasonable to call what he did hacking. It was not. It is not.
Hey, man -- I'm a straight guy, and I like flowers, too. I became interested in them because one of my teachers at the dojo I attend is interested in flower arranging, and I'm now apt to pick up a few to keep around my apartment.
Check your logic. Now, breathing, yes -- you've spent every living moment of your live respirating, more or less. Howevever, you've only spent PART of your life on the toilet, and part of it in front of food. You have not "spent" years doing those things -- even if you've been doing them sporadically for years.
Don't know what your experience with consoles being "EOL" is, but I've had a PS2 for about a year now, and there are more games in existance for it than I'll ever be able to play through, let alone the full PS1 library.
Also: the SNES came out (States'-side) in 1991, and had a fairly consistent flow of games until 1998; that's nearly a decade of game production, hardly a 2-year setup. Even if you waited until 1996 to buy a SNES, you still had 7 years worth of games to buy and play. I'm sorry to hear that you were pissed, but the SNES was by no means a rip-off.
As far as the cost of games goes: it's surprising to me that you're buying old laptops on ebay and not looking for games there, as well; I just picked up Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance for $10, shipped, and have had similar experiences in the past. I rarely buy "first run" games, because there's rarely a reason to put down $50+ for a game. Older consoles -- like the PS1, SNES, and NES -- have games available for them in the $5-$10 range.
If you really want to get into a roleplaying game, go buy a console. Chances are there will be games available for a long, long time -- if you bought a PS2, for example, you have almost every Final Fantasy at your disposal, as well as a great number of other RPG titles. Even if Sony stopped making games tomorrow, you wouldn't be out of luck for getting entertainment from your $150 box.
Erm...I don't think the parent poster was advocating for the bomber, Coyote. He showed that it would cost less to keep the Hubble in orbit for over a decade than to build one bomber, after all.
My ex-girlfriend joined the Marine Corps as a flutist. She's gone through basic training, and it turns out she's an Expert with a rifle -- roughly equivalent to a sniper in the army, I think, as Marine requirements are somewhat more rigourous.
I'm a pretty serious martial artist, and she could at least stand up to me -- and that's close combat. Give her an M-16 and the only ukemi I'd be doing would be when I hit the floor with a bullet in my side. Flute, nothing!:)
No, it isn't stealing. Neither is selling hardware cheaply and assuming that people will earn you a profit by buying your software. Both are merely flawed business models; stealing would mean that you took the camera without paying anything for it.
Moreover, if you "rent" something and don't stipulate a return-by date or charge a fee for extended possession, it most likely would fail to meet any legal condition for "rental". The idiocy of a company can rarely be mitigated by the idiocy of law.
In/etc/X11/XF86Config (or/etc/X11/XF86Config-4, if you happen to be using that -- it depends on the distro and the way X was installed; you could safely perform these steps in both files, if you have both), you need the following (as well as the device line, obviously:
Section "InputDevice"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
And that should do it, once you restart X. If this doesn't work, feel free to email me, or just post again.
Actually, it's like having a drive through window on your house and being arrested for it. P2P networks are NOT illegal or bad; piracy is illegal. Possessing a tool that has legit capabilities is not cause (or rather, should not be cause) for being harassed.
Mudge is not and never was the CEO of @stake. @stake is a private company that formed around hiring the l0pht guys to be their R&D team. Mudge was the leader of that team, but it was 6-10 guys in a company of hundreds.
You probably don't remember me, but I was an intern at @stake back when things were just getting started. I remember the day that you left; I asked what was up, and no one would tell me. Back then, I figured that there was some personal problem with you -- I was 17, never worked for a "Real Company" before, etc.
Now I wonder what the deal really was. The @stake I remember was an awesome place, and I really bought into the language about being daring and challenging the way people thought of and used their networks and computers. I left there to go to school in Amherst, but I always figured I might go back at some point. Seeing this today, I realized that I never would.
I hope things are going well for you -- and Dan, as well.
Dan is *not* a clown. I had the pleasure of working with him at one point; the man holds a PhD from MIT, was heavily involved with the USENIX group back in the late 90s, and was easily one of the most intelligent men I've ever met. Hell, Dan was up there in front of the Senate with the l0pht guys back in '97, when they explained why computer security was so vitally important, at a time when there was little recognition of the fact.
It saddens me to see @stake doing this. Back when I worked for them, they were just starting up; the office was abuzz with energy and belief in what we were doing. There was talk from the l0pht guys about "making a dent in the universe", in changing the way things got done. There was a wall of pizza boxes near them -- these guys were dedicated and amazing.
Around late 2000, early 2001, though, the culture at the company changed. Although it's always been a place I'd have been happy to have gone back to, now I wonder about it. I remember when Mudge cut off his signature long hair and started going by his given name (Chris Wysopal). The office colors went from grey, red, and black, with a logo "Making the Impossible Possible" to teal and orange, with "Securing the Internet Economy". Where once we were given black shirts with "Hacker" written on them, now we had shirts I would never wear.
Corporate color and hair styling I can forgive -- @stake wanted to be a respectable company, and the hacker image might have stood in the way of that. But to think that they'd fire their chief technology officer because he pointed out something that we *all* once believed back when we were working there sucks. Nearly every one of us ran Linux; we were not a company that was beholden to Microsoft. Sigh.
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Thanks for pointing those out. You're a big help. Insightful, too.
Shame that those buttons and functions frequently use proprietary drivers that the companies making the laptops won't open up. Why is the burden on "Linux" -- which is a kernel, essentially -- to make a bunch of closed-source companies' crap work? If the NVIDIA drivers are breaking, are you certain that the onus is on Linus and friends to fix it?
What the RIAA is doing sucks, I agree, but we don't really want to start acting out John Wayne fantasies over filesharing, both for legal and ethical reasons.
By which you mean, "best for Real Networks, and pretty atrocious for the rest of the world", of course.
You know, the idea of having a guild blockade a pass sounds like the single most appealing thing ever done in a MMORPG. If they threw a little roleplaying, interacting a bit, and if another guild rallied the rest of the population that would otherwise be interested, there could have been an -incredible- battle, the likes of which would make for legends.
Oh, I don't know. I'd love a good, high-resolution, fast refresh, consumer-priced 3D helmet.
If the messages were a flaw which he exploited, it would be reasonable to call what he did hacking. It was not. It is not.
He's clearly smoking the facts, not wishful thinking.
...because the only people who get laid are shiny, like on the TeeVee!
Sexual preference has nothing to do with plants.
Check your logic. Now, breathing, yes -- you've spent every living moment of your live respirating, more or less. Howevever, you've only spent PART of your life on the toilet, and part of it in front of food. You have not "spent" years doing those things -- even if you've been doing them sporadically for years.
Also: the SNES came out (States'-side) in 1991, and had a fairly consistent flow of games until 1998; that's nearly a decade of game production, hardly a 2-year setup. Even if you waited until 1996 to buy a SNES, you still had 7 years worth of games to buy and play. I'm sorry to hear that you were pissed, but the SNES was by no means a rip-off.
As far as the cost of games goes: it's surprising to me that you're buying old laptops on ebay and not looking for games there, as well; I just picked up Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance for $10, shipped, and have had similar experiences in the past. I rarely buy "first run" games, because there's rarely a reason to put down $50+ for a game. Older consoles -- like the PS1, SNES, and NES -- have games available for them in the $5-$10 range.
If you really want to get into a roleplaying game, go buy a console. Chances are there will be games available for a long, long time -- if you bought a PS2, for example, you have almost every Final Fantasy at your disposal, as well as a great number of other RPG titles. Even if Sony stopped making games tomorrow, you wouldn't be out of luck for getting entertainment from your $150 box.
The "fry quote" you're wondering about is the parent's sig.
Erm...I don't think the parent poster was advocating for the bomber, Coyote. He showed that it would cost less to keep the Hubble in orbit for over a decade than to build one bomber, after all.
I'm a pretty serious martial artist, and she could at least stand up to me -- and that's close combat. Give her an M-16 and the only ukemi I'd be doing would be when I hit the floor with a bullet in my side. Flute, nothing! :)
Moreover, if you "rent" something and don't stipulate a return-by date or charge a fee for extended possession, it most likely would fail to meet any legal condition for "rental". The idiocy of a company can rarely be mitigated by the idiocy of law.
And that should do it, once you restart X. If this doesn't work, feel free to email me, or just post again.
Actually, it's like having a drive through window on your house and being arrested for it. P2P networks are NOT illegal or bad; piracy is illegal. Possessing a tool that has legit capabilities is not cause (or rather, should not be cause) for being harassed.
So, you know the sexuality of operating systems and spend time with scantily-clad male executives? Hey, whatever does it for you...
Go start one. We'll be right behind you. Really.
Erm? The only change is that you need to install GTK2. That's not hard, generally -- what seems to be giving you trouble?
Mudge was not fired. Mudge did not flip out. Mudge cut his hair, started wearing suits, and now goes by his given name instead of by his handle.
Mudge is not and never was the CEO of @stake. @stake is a private company that formed around hiring the l0pht guys to be their R&D team. Mudge was the leader of that team, but it was 6-10 guys in a company of hundreds.
You probably don't remember me, but I was an intern at @stake back when things were just getting started. I remember the day that you left; I asked what was up, and no one would tell me. Back then, I figured that there was some personal problem with you -- I was 17, never worked for a "Real Company" before, etc.
Now I wonder what the deal really was. The @stake I remember was an awesome place, and I really bought into the language about being daring and challenging the way people thought of and used their networks and computers. I left there to go to school in Amherst, but I always figured I might go back at some point. Seeing this today, I realized that I never would.
I hope things are going well for you -- and Dan, as well.
It saddens me to see @stake doing this. Back when I worked for them, they were just starting up; the office was abuzz with energy and belief in what we were doing. There was talk from the l0pht guys about "making a dent in the universe", in changing the way things got done. There was a wall of pizza boxes near them -- these guys were dedicated and amazing.
Around late 2000, early 2001, though, the culture at the company changed. Although it's always been a place I'd have been happy to have gone back to, now I wonder about it. I remember when Mudge cut off his signature long hair and started going by his given name (Chris Wysopal). The office colors went from grey, red, and black, with a logo "Making the Impossible Possible" to teal and orange, with "Securing the Internet Economy". Where once we were given black shirts with "Hacker" written on them, now we had shirts I would never wear.
Corporate color and hair styling I can forgive -- @stake wanted to be a respectable company, and the hacker image might have stood in the way of that. But to think that they'd fire their chief technology officer because he pointed out something that we *all* once believed back when we were working there sucks. Nearly every one of us ran Linux; we were not a company that was beholden to Microsoft. Sigh.