So you're in Euless eh? I live in Hurst and I have not noticed any cable slowdowns in my neighborhood. I am probably one of the few that have cable modem in my area though. There is one thing I'm wondering - Why do you have both cable and dsl? You did say "This does not happen on my personal cable modem nor does it happen on my DSL line..." Man, I thought I was die hard! hee hee. Hell, more power to you!
I picked up an old Sparc IPC at a computer swap meet for $10. It has an external scsi connection, 48MB or RAM and an extra video card. I have yet to hook it up or test it out because I don't have a sun keyboard or a sun monitor. Is there a sun to vga convertor? Is there a sun keyboard to AT/PS2 convertor? The network port on the back is AUI. Does this require an external transiever or can I straight plug this into a hub with an AUI port? I would love to get this thing up and running.
"Does this mean that carbon dating is "once again" wrong (laughing on the inside) or is Adam and Eve (if you Christian, which I am not) just that much older now?"
This is very dualistic thinking. This is Aristotolian logic gone mad. Our western society is based on this and our language and mindset forces us to catagorize and separate into this or that. We see true or false, zero or one, black or white, all or none. The big bang vs. creationism argument goes back a long way. The question I ask science is: who made the big bang? I do believe in God but I also logically follow science and I've learned to take things from a historical perspective. Here is my perspective that I will now share with you.
Creationism, as it was written in Genesis, is revealed in very simple terms and anthropomorphizes God so the simpletons of many thousand years ago could comprehend it. Could you tell a shepard of 500 B.C. about how amino acid chains are formed? Could you explain to him time on a "geologic scale" and have him comprehend that kind of time span? Can you describe a non-physical being accurately with physical terms? No... The best that could be done was a very simple approach to give people the foundation or sequence of events that would eventually lead to man's creation.
These events, as they are described in Genesis, are actually correct if we look at them in a simple way. The intent was to show a forward progression in that the earth was created then water then man. etc... The point here is to show a sequence and therefore set a foundation. The first day, second day, etc. was to show progression in a way simple people would understand. Millions or even billions of years would have made no sense to these people. The answer to creation that these early people received was not wrong, it was right for that day and age and it was all that people of that era could understand. Today however, the literal interpretation is wrong and misleading. We have evolved spiritually, intellectually, and mentally.
Do you teach a child calculus in the first grade? NO... you give him the foundation. Calculus will later be understood by the high school senior. If a child asks what makes him grow bigger you'll probably give him a glass of milk and tell him to eat his greens. You wouldn't tell him the intricacies of cell mitosis - cyclin dependent kinase, adds phosphate to a protein, along with cyclins, which are control switches for the cell cycle to move from blah blah... The kid would get bored and this info would go right over his head. Hence, it is too early for him to absorb this level of knowledge just as it would have been to difficult to explain the creation in scientific terms to illiterate shepards of 2500 years ago.
So where am I going with this you ask? Maybe you've already figured it out. Today, we have an understanding of our physical universe that nobody in previous eras of history could have ever imagined. Do I now discount genesis? No... I simply realize that this very simple childlike description of creation was setting the foundation for science. Science is one of God's most important creations and allows us to understand our physical environment. Big bang, is but one idea describing the method which God 'may' have used to create our earth as we know it. We are still learning and we are still progressing. Creationism and Big Bang/science do not cancel each other out. One is an extension of the other. The mature college senior understands human reproduction while the immature first grader has a rudimentary understanding of how chickens make eggs. The chicken/egg textbook is setting the foundation for the human reproductive cycle as it will be understood in biology class much later in life. Again, Creation was good then, Science helps us understand they physical properties of how the earth may have come to be. I have no doubt that God is the mastermind behind all of this, however, to say that the Earth is 6,000 years old and God simply waved his hand and created us is a simply childish and ludicrous explanation that has no bearing in this day and age.
A thousand years from now, our understanding will be even greater. The future beings will look upon our rudimentary view of science and call it primitive at best. Perhaps, they will have figured out some of the mysteries and maybe they will laugh at the thought of a "Big Bang" theory as we know it. They will call us simple and childlike, lacking intellect, and understanding. History will repeat itself.
Man... where did you get that "I am the end of all there is..." speech. I love that! I would love to say that to my boss when I decide to quit.
Oh, and what are prekies? Please excuse my ignorance.
"Perhaps Linux has a role on crippled one-function boxes (web tv, etc.), but as a multi-function computer Windows will continue to reign in its fully integrated existence."
You left out "server" use from your list of crippled one-function boxes. Linux's real power is in the server arena and that is exactly where it has taken off and grown very fast in a short period of time. Windows may have the desktop, but the server market is very fragmented. I don't forsee linux overtaking windows on the desktop any time soon. Linux will make a good workstation for scientific/engineering applications in the business arena. We often see the world from the end-user perspective and that is not where most companies make their money. Microsoft makes money from client access licenses and legitimate sales of NT server not off desktop sales to Joe Blow.
I use linux as a desktop but I can't imagine Joe Blow using it. I really have no problem with windows on the desktop. I do see a problem with MS in the server arena though. This is where companies spend zillions to make sure they have no downtime and this is where skilled technicians make a difference. This is where the money is and this is where MS, Redhat, Turbolinux and others make the bulk of their cash.
Ironically, there is a product one can find in oriental markets with this very brand name. I live near a vietnamese community and thus, I'm near a huge oriental market. I was perusing the isles of this huge supermarket and came upon "phuket fish sauce." I kid you not!!! I almost died laughing right then and there. I almost bought the bottle just for laughs and then I thought to myself "fuck it" - or should that be phuket? Anyhoo, back to the subject, I think that you're right on the money with anonymous services abroad. If privacy becomes a concern we can always use them.
Man oh man, calm down.... I agree... this guy should not have stolen your post. Don't worry, many people now see that he stole it and moderators should act accordingly. It was pretty shitty of him to do that even though your post was in the public domain. At least he found your post good enough to copy. Remember, imitation is flattery... I'd still be pissed though.
The link to my zip drive thru the zip icon on my desktop was/mnt.zip. I quickly changed the . to a / and the resulting/mnt/zip worked. I wonder why the properties were set wrong on the zip drive. I had this problem in 7.2 final, betas, and release candidates.
I have a 30GB drive in a machine that I had to fsck once and I can tell you that you'd better take a lunch break. ReiserFS is the way to go for large drives or for any data really. I hate to fsck.
Actually I downloaded my copy 2 days ago. Those of us in the know got them before the servers got swamped. I was actually quite surprised that/. waited for the mirrors to go up before posting the story. There are plenty of mirrors now and you should probably not go to the main site looking for them.
How many people out there with a computer are actually terrorists? How many people have been caught plotting a terrorist activity by the FBI using something like a network sniffer or Carnivore? Pedophiles, on the other, have been caught under certain circumstances. I would love to see pedophiles and terrorist get thrown in jail, but to give up everyone's right to privacy and to make potential criminals out of everybody is not the way to do it. I will NEVER consent to this type of fascist orwellian abuse of power. I will stop surfing the net alltogether should this happen. I know what you're thinking... "yea yea, whatever dude." However, I'm dead serious on this one. I value my freedom and my privacy more than anything and no I don't have anything to hide and I'm no criminal, however I do believe I am entitled to certain rights! On the other hand, I can only stand in horror and dismay at the eroding freedoms in the US. I posted a rant on Kuro5hin called Has the US government become to hungry for power? In this rant I pointed out some abuses by corporations and government both overseas and on the local front. I encourage you to read it.
If the FBI indeed pressured the NZ government to do this then a similar plan is in effect here. I mean we do have carnivore, but to have a backdoor to everyone's PC? That is an Orwellian nightmare! What about fourth amendment protection against searches and seizures? If they can go into your computer at will, the fourth is standing on it's last leg. Wait, civil forfeiture laws already have the fourth amendment on it's last leg. Well, so much for the fourth.
My point here is, if you give the government and inch, it will take a mile. This is an attempt by government to make potential criminals out of it's citizens. If everyone is suspect then the police don't have to justify a warrant. This is the end of your civil liberties buddy! It is sad that governments are using this technology to spy on their own citizens. What is more sad is that you buy into their lie and believe that government is doing this for your protection. It is doing this to have more control under the guise of "protecting the innocent." Sorry, I don't buy this and neither will anyone else with half a brain. Whether we can do anything about it is another story alltogther.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"It might be difficult to know for an OSS maintainer that a contribution to his software does not come from M$ stolen code....It won't be as simple as it looks."
I agree. There will be open source types who will use this code in a project regardless and in the end it will hurt us because microsoft will have access to the OSS source code of that project. The maintainer, on the other hand, may not have access to MS source code and won't know the difference until it's too late. So, should the maintainer get the illegal MS code to check against software submitted or should he sit blindly and assume the programmer submitting code is honest. This is a serious catch-22 here and it makes you wonder if there is a conspiracy behind the "stolen" code. Either way, OSS programmers have to be on red alert. A serious can of worms has been opened here and it could impact projects like SAMBA, WINE, or Win4Lin. Programmers of the aforementioned projects need to be cautious of anyone submitting a reverse engineering breaktrough of a Windows API.
I do want these projects to succeed by any means, however, the use of MS code will come back and bite them in the butt if they are not careful. Many of anti-MS types were happy that MS got cracked, but I have mixed feelings. The timing of the crack is too perfect - Samba TNG was formed recently which promises to implement primary domain controller type services. Could Microsoft be planning evil or is this coincidence? If you do find the code, be very careful and be smart. As much as I'd like these guys to look at the code, laugh at the bugs, and reverse engineer it, cheating will only cheat the users of free software somewhere down the line. MS has enough money to file some serious lawsuits against people they feel have used their code and in the end good projects like WINE or SAMBA will be forced underground.
This is another example of government and it's hunger for power. I am becoming more and more upset day by day. Our freedoms are being eroded away and the average joe has no clue. Those of us who are in the know are a very small group. I posted a rant on this matter on kuro5hin in a post called Has the US government become to hungry for power? Read it and you'll see what I mean.
I believe I will add this to the list of things that governments do to take away legitimate freedoms in the name of the greater good. I can only hope that the supreme court will see this as a free speech issue. The problem here is that non-techie people are making techie decisions about things they don't understand. When will the madness stop?
You hit the nail on the head with this one. I noticed your post was moderated as funny. While I do find this a bit humorous, the overtones of your post might seem logical to our otherwise illogical government. If you give the government and inch, they will take a mile!
micahjd said "Used to be with Telnet, but once I fount out how evil it is I switched to SSH. "
Good for you! I'm glad more people are switching to ssh. I had a friend who seriously got screwed by crackers and script kiddies because he used telnet and let his friends have access to his box. Someone probably was running a sniffer and caught a plain text login/pass combo and that was it. They used his box to send all kinds of spam and they used his box to hack multitudes of other boxes. Needless to say, @home got in touch with him and threatened to cancel his account if it happened again. Now he runs ssh and is much more security concious. The moral of the story: you can't be too secure!
I too use @home. I run an ipchains firewall with a very tight ruleset. I monitor my logs and I've noticed that @home scans, at least in my area, for port 119 every 4 hours on the dot. It's not just my IP, it's across my area. I have a friend on the other side of town who gets the same scans and we're not even on the same subnet. I know that newsfeeds take up a lot of bandwidth, but damn! The scan originates from 24.0.0.203 which resolves to authorized-scan1.security.home.net. Is there anybody else out there who is getting scanned by @home itself? And if so, what ports?
On top of @home's scanning, I get multitudes of other random scans for various ports. I get the usual scans for port 80,21,23,25,110 all the way from Japan to Germany and from the East to West coast of the US. I also got scanned for port 98(linuxconf) - if you have linuxconf service running you'd better disable it if you don't want to get hacked. Run SSH and get rid of telnet if you need to remotely access your box. It is imperative that anyone who has a cable connection use some kind of firewall. @home is full of shit if they tell you their network is safe. I've known many people, even geeks, get taken out because of some script kiddie or cracker.
Here is what I do. Now that there are tons of free webmail addresses available, I found a solution. I registered a hotmail account for the specific purpose of junkmail/spam. Freedrive, for example, says that in order for you to use their service they must be allowed to send you advertisements via email. I find hotmail to be excellent for this purpose. Everytime I sign up for some web promotion, I use this account and I never have to worry about recieving junk in my "real" email box.
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I also gave it a try. I downloaded the ISO image, burned it, booted it, installed it, and I must say - the install was flawless. The photon microgui is not X-based and is very fast. The OS itself is also very fast. I may use the floppy demo to setup an internet terminal on my LAN. I have to agree with you regarding the confusing file system layout.
You mentioned BeOS only now getting support from vendors and this is in fact mentioned on benews.com or one of the other beos sites. I am impressed with qnx overall as it has been a good embedded OS for many years now. It probably has more viability controlling robots in a high tech assembly plant than as a full blown desktop OS though. We'll just have to wait and see what comes of it.
Well, what can I say. I must agree and disagree at the same time. The UNIX command line is unparalleled in it's power for remote administration, scripting, etc.. the list goes on. This 30 year old technology still offers usability that I can't match in any other OS. Sure, X is a monster and it's not as flashy as MacOS X, but do you know of another protocol that will let you display a running app on another display? I mean, there is give and take here.
I would argue that Unix is the best server period. However, it may or may not be the best desktop for your needs. I use linux as a desktop but I also keep other OS's around as well - including the one from Redmond. I believe in diversity. I enjoy having the power of the *nix command line and right next to it, a box running a shiny apple gui, BeOS, or even Windoze if your needs dictate so. For me, Linux is the main platform, but who says I can't have them all!
It is truly hard to believe that this probe operated for 28 years and is in fact now 7 billion miles away from Earth. Let's consider the facts here: Earth's average distance from the sun is 93 million miles. Pluto, the furthermost planet, is on average a whopping 3.67 billion miles from the sun. Basically, this probe is 3.24 billion miles outside of our solar system and around 7.09 billion miles from our sun.
These figures are pretty impressive. Now let's do some more math. I'm no mathmatician so please feel free to contradict me. Here we go: It took 28 years for this probe to go 7 billion miles. So this means the probe travels 250 million miles per year. This would then translate into 684,932 miles per day or 28,539 mph. Let's be even more specific - this would factor out to 476 miles per minute or 8 miles per second. Now, that's a speedy craft isn't it? Your numbers may differ, as I divided 7,000,000,000 by 28 and divided that by 365 and I didn't factor in leap years and I rounded the numbers off just for convenience sakes. Nonetheless, when you break it down it is pretty cool.
"Excuse me? These would be the same people who brought us the CDA, the Clipper chip, Carnivore, and whose Justice Department wanted to have strong encryption completely banned."
Actually you have a good point here. I know many peoples opinions differ and I'm simply saying one is the lesser of the evils. I know they are both evil and I agree that Bush is far from ideal. Both parties suck in reality and I wish that a third-party candidate would gain enough popular votes to make the government consider the issues at stake.
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So you're in Euless eh? I live in Hurst and I have not noticed any cable slowdowns in my neighborhood. I am probably one of the few that have cable modem in my area though. There is one thing I'm wondering - Why do you have both cable and dsl? You did say "This does not happen on my personal cable modem nor does it happen on my DSL line..." Man, I thought I was die hard! hee hee. Hell, more power to you!
ghoti.... or fish rather.... Are you into linguistics by any chance?
"Other generations told war stories or bragged about their sexual exploits."
Does playing 'Leisure Suit Larry' count?
Thanks for the info... I'll give it a shot!
I picked up an old Sparc IPC at a computer swap meet for $10. It has an external scsi connection, 48MB or RAM and an extra video card. I have yet to hook it up or test it out because I don't have a sun keyboard or a sun monitor. Is there a sun to vga convertor? Is there a sun keyboard to AT/PS2 convertor? The network port on the back is AUI. Does this require an external transiever or can I straight plug this into a hub with an AUI port? I would love to get this thing up and running.
"Does this mean that carbon dating is "once again" wrong (laughing on the inside) or is Adam and Eve (if you Christian, which I am not) just that much older now?"
This is very dualistic thinking. This is Aristotolian logic gone mad. Our western society is based on this and our language and mindset forces us to catagorize and separate into this or that. We see true or false, zero or one, black or white, all or none. The big bang vs. creationism argument goes back a long way. The question I ask science is: who made the big bang? I do believe in God but I also logically follow science and I've learned to take things from a historical perspective. Here is my perspective that I will now share with you.
Creationism, as it was written in Genesis, is revealed in very simple terms and anthropomorphizes God so the simpletons of many thousand years ago could comprehend it. Could you tell a shepard of 500 B.C. about how amino acid chains are formed? Could you explain to him time on a "geologic scale" and have him comprehend that kind of time span? Can you describe a non-physical being accurately with physical terms? No... The best that could be done was a very simple approach to give people the foundation or sequence of events that would eventually lead to man's creation.
These events, as they are described in Genesis, are actually correct if we look at them in a simple way. The intent was to show a forward progression in that the earth was created then water then man. etc... The point here is to show a sequence and therefore set a foundation. The first day, second day, etc. was to show progression in a way simple people would understand. Millions or even billions of years would have made no sense to these people. The answer to creation that these early people received was not wrong, it was right for that day and age and it was all that people of that era could understand. Today however, the literal interpretation is wrong and misleading. We have evolved spiritually, intellectually, and mentally.
Do you teach a child calculus in the first grade? NO... you give him the foundation. Calculus will later be understood by the high school senior. If a child asks what makes him grow bigger you'll probably give him a glass of milk and tell him to eat his greens. You wouldn't tell him the intricacies of cell mitosis - cyclin dependent kinase, adds phosphate to a protein, along with cyclins, which are control switches for the cell cycle to move from blah blah... The kid would get bored and this info would go right over his head. Hence, it is too early for him to absorb this level of knowledge just as it would have been to difficult to explain the creation in scientific terms to illiterate shepards of 2500 years ago.
So where am I going with this you ask? Maybe you've already figured it out. Today, we have an understanding of our physical universe that nobody in previous eras of history could have ever imagined. Do I now discount genesis? No... I simply realize that this very simple childlike description of creation was setting the foundation for science. Science is one of God's most important creations and allows us to understand our physical environment. Big bang, is but one idea describing the method which God 'may' have used to create our earth as we know it. We are still learning and we are still progressing. Creationism and Big Bang/science do not cancel each other out. One is an extension of the other. The mature college senior understands human reproduction while the immature first grader has a rudimentary understanding of how chickens make eggs. The chicken/egg textbook is setting the foundation for the human reproductive cycle as it will be understood in biology class much later in life. Again, Creation was good then, Science helps us understand they physical properties of how the earth may have come to be. I have no doubt that God is the mastermind behind all of this, however, to say that the Earth is 6,000 years old and God simply waved his hand and created us is a simply childish and ludicrous explanation that has no bearing in this day and age.
A thousand years from now, our understanding will be even greater. The future beings will look upon our rudimentary view of science and call it primitive at best. Perhaps, they will have figured out some of the mysteries and maybe they will laugh at the thought of a "Big Bang" theory as we know it. They will call us simple and childlike, lacking intellect, and understanding. History will repeat itself.
Man... where did you get that "I am the end of all there is..." speech. I love that! I would love to say that to my boss when I decide to quit.
Oh, and what are prekies? Please excuse my ignorance.
"Perhaps Linux has a role on crippled one-function boxes (web tv, etc.), but as a multi-function computer Windows will continue to reign in its fully integrated existence."
You left out "server" use from your list of crippled one-function boxes. Linux's real power is in the server arena and that is exactly where it has taken off and grown very fast in a short period of time. Windows may have the desktop, but the server market is very fragmented. I don't forsee linux overtaking windows on the desktop any time soon. Linux will make a good workstation for scientific/engineering applications in the business arena. We often see the world from the end-user perspective and that is not where most companies make their money. Microsoft makes money from client access licenses and legitimate sales of NT server not off desktop sales to Joe Blow.
I use linux as a desktop but I can't imagine Joe Blow using it. I really have no problem with windows on the desktop. I do see a problem with MS in the server arena though. This is where companies spend zillions to make sure they have no downtime and this is where skilled technicians make a difference. This is where the money is and this is where MS, Redhat, Turbolinux and others make the bulk of their cash.
Ironically, there is a product one can find in oriental markets with this very brand name. I live near a vietnamese community and thus, I'm near a huge oriental market. I was perusing the isles of this huge supermarket and came upon "phuket fish sauce." I kid you not!!! I almost died laughing right then and there. I almost bought the bottle just for laughs and then I thought to myself "fuck it" - or should that be phuket? Anyhoo, back to the subject, I think that you're right on the money with anonymous services abroad. If privacy becomes a concern we can always use them.
Man oh man, calm down.... I agree... this guy should not have stolen your post. Don't worry, many people now see that he stole it and moderators should act accordingly. It was pretty shitty of him to do that even though your post was in the public domain. At least he found your post good enough to copy. Remember, imitation is flattery... I'd still be pissed though.
The link to my zip drive thru the zip icon on my desktop was /mnt.zip. I quickly changed the . to a / and the resulting /mnt/zip worked. I wonder why the properties were set wrong on the zip drive. I had this problem in 7.2 final, betas, and release candidates.
I have a 30GB drive in a machine that I had to fsck once and I can tell you that you'd better take a lunch break. ReiserFS is the way to go for large drives or for any data really. I hate to fsck.
Actually I downloaded my copy 2 days ago. Those of us in the know got them before the servers got swamped. I was actually quite surprised that /. waited for the mirrors to go up before posting the story. There are plenty of mirrors now and you should probably not go to the main site looking for them.
How many people out there with a computer are actually terrorists? How many people have been caught plotting a terrorist activity by the FBI using something like a network sniffer or Carnivore? Pedophiles, on the other, have been caught under certain circumstances. I would love to see pedophiles and terrorist get thrown in jail, but to give up everyone's right to privacy and to make potential criminals out of everybody is not the way to do it. I will NEVER consent to this type of fascist orwellian abuse of power. I will stop surfing the net alltogether should this happen. I know what you're thinking... "yea yea, whatever dude." However, I'm dead serious on this one. I value my freedom and my privacy more than anything and no I don't have anything to hide and I'm no criminal, however I do believe I am entitled to certain rights! On the other hand, I can only stand in horror and dismay at the eroding freedoms in the US. I posted a rant on Kuro5hin called Has the US government become to hungry for power? In this rant I pointed out some abuses by corporations and government both overseas and on the local front. I encourage you to read it.
If the FBI indeed pressured the NZ government to do this then a similar plan is in effect here. I mean we do have carnivore, but to have a backdoor to everyone's PC? That is an Orwellian nightmare! What about fourth amendment protection against searches and seizures? If they can go into your computer at will, the fourth is standing on it's last leg. Wait, civil forfeiture laws already have the fourth amendment on it's last leg. Well, so much for the fourth.
My point here is, if you give the government and inch, it will take a mile. This is an attempt by government to make potential criminals out of it's citizens. If everyone is suspect then the police don't have to justify a warrant. This is the end of your civil liberties buddy! It is sad that governments are using this technology to spy on their own citizens. What is more sad is that you buy into their lie and believe that government is doing this for your protection. It is doing this to have more control under the guise of "protecting the innocent." Sorry, I don't buy this and neither will anyone else with half a brain. Whether we can do anything about it is another story alltogther.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"It might be difficult to know for an OSS maintainer that a contribution to his software does not come from M$ stolen code....It won't be as simple as it looks."
I agree. There will be open source types who will use this code in a project regardless and in the end it will hurt us because microsoft will have access to the OSS source code of that project. The maintainer, on the other hand, may not have access to MS source code and won't know the difference until it's too late. So, should the maintainer get the illegal MS code to check against software submitted or should he sit blindly and assume the programmer submitting code is honest. This is a serious catch-22 here and it makes you wonder if there is a conspiracy behind the "stolen" code. Either way, OSS programmers have to be on red alert. A serious can of worms has been opened here and it could impact projects like SAMBA, WINE, or Win4Lin. Programmers of the aforementioned projects need to be cautious of anyone submitting a reverse engineering breaktrough of a Windows API.
I do want these projects to succeed by any means, however, the use of MS code will come back and bite them in the butt if they are not careful. Many of anti-MS types were happy that MS got cracked, but I have mixed feelings. The timing of the crack is too perfect - Samba TNG was formed recently which promises to implement primary domain controller type services. Could Microsoft be planning evil or is this coincidence? If you do find the code, be very careful and be smart. As much as I'd like these guys to look at the code, laugh at the bugs, and reverse engineer it, cheating will only cheat the users of free software somewhere down the line. MS has enough money to file some serious lawsuits against people they feel have used their code and in the end good projects like WINE or SAMBA will be forced underground.
This is another example of government and it's hunger for power. I am becoming more and more upset day by day. Our freedoms are being eroded away and the average joe has no clue. Those of us who are in the know are a very small group. I posted a rant on this matter on kuro5hin in a post called Has the US government become to hungry for power? Read it and you'll see what I mean.
I believe I will add this to the list of things that governments do to take away legitimate freedoms in the name of the greater good. I can only hope that the supreme court will see this as a free speech issue. The problem here is that non-techie people are making techie decisions about things they don't understand. When will the madness stop?
You hit the nail on the head with this one. I noticed your post was moderated as funny. While I do find this a bit humorous, the overtones of your post might seem logical to our otherwise illogical government. If you give the government and inch, they will take a mile!
micahjd said "Used to be with Telnet, but once I fount out how evil it is I switched to SSH. " Good for you! I'm glad more people are switching to ssh. I had a friend who seriously got screwed by crackers and script kiddies because he used telnet and let his friends have access to his box. Someone probably was running a sniffer and caught a plain text login/pass combo and that was it. They used his box to send all kinds of spam and they used his box to hack multitudes of other boxes. Needless to say, @home got in touch with him and threatened to cancel his account if it happened again. Now he runs ssh and is much more security concious. The moral of the story: you can't be too secure!
I too use @home. I run an ipchains firewall with a very tight ruleset. I monitor my logs and I've noticed that @home scans, at least in my area, for port 119 every 4 hours on the dot. It's not just my IP, it's across my area. I have a friend on the other side of town who gets the same scans and we're not even on the same subnet. I know that newsfeeds take up a lot of bandwidth, but damn! The scan originates from 24.0.0.203 which resolves to authorized-scan1.security.home.net. Is there anybody else out there who is getting scanned by @home itself? And if so, what ports?
On top of @home's scanning, I get multitudes of other random scans for various ports. I get the usual scans for port 80,21,23,25,110 all the way from Japan to Germany and from the East to West coast of the US. I also got scanned for port 98(linuxconf) - if you have linuxconf service running you'd better disable it if you don't want to get hacked. Run SSH and get rid of telnet if you need to remotely access your box. It is imperative that anyone who has a cable connection use some kind of firewall. @home is full of shit if they tell you their network is safe. I've known many people, even geeks, get taken out because of some script kiddie or cracker.
Happy Birthday to you and to your new desktop!
Here is what I do. Now that there are tons of free webmail addresses available, I found a solution. I registered a hotmail account for the specific purpose of junkmail/spam. Freedrive, for example, says that in order for you to use their service they must be allowed to send you advertisements via email. I find hotmail to be excellent for this purpose. Everytime I sign up for some web promotion, I use this account and I never have to worry about recieving junk in my "real" email box.
I also gave it a try. I downloaded the ISO image, burned it, booted it, installed it, and I must say - the install was flawless. The photon microgui is not X-based and is very fast. The OS itself is also very fast. I may use the floppy demo to setup an internet terminal on my LAN. I have to agree with you regarding the confusing file system layout.
You mentioned BeOS only now getting support from vendors and this is in fact mentioned on benews.com or one of the other beos sites. I am impressed with qnx overall as it has been a good embedded OS for many years now. It probably has more viability controlling robots in a high tech assembly plant than as a full blown desktop OS though. We'll just have to wait and see what comes of it.
An anonymous coward said, "This is so 70s!!"
Well, what can I say. I must agree and disagree at the same time. The UNIX command line is unparalleled in it's power for remote administration, scripting, etc.. the list goes on. This 30 year old technology still offers usability that I can't match in any other OS. Sure, X is a monster and it's not as flashy as MacOS X, but do you know of another protocol that will let you display a running app on another display? I mean, there is give and take here.
I would argue that Unix is the best server period. However, it may or may not be the best desktop for your needs. I use linux as a desktop but I also keep other OS's around as well - including the one from Redmond. I believe in diversity. I enjoy having the power of the *nix command line and right next to it, a box running a shiny apple gui, BeOS, or even Windoze if your needs dictate so. For me, Linux is the main platform, but who says I can't have them all!
It is truly hard to believe that this probe operated for 28 years and is in fact now 7 billion miles away from Earth. Let's consider the facts here: Earth's average distance from the sun is 93 million miles. Pluto, the furthermost planet, is on average a whopping 3.67 billion miles from the sun. Basically, this probe is 3.24 billion miles outside of our solar system and around 7.09 billion miles from our sun.
These figures are pretty impressive. Now let's do some more math. I'm no mathmatician so please feel free to contradict me. Here we go: It took 28 years for this probe to go 7 billion miles. So this means the probe travels 250 million miles per year. This would then translate into 684,932 miles per day or 28,539 mph. Let's be even more specific - this would factor out to 476 miles per minute or 8 miles per second. Now, that's a speedy craft isn't it? Your numbers may differ, as I divided 7,000,000,000 by 28 and divided that by 365 and I didn't factor in leap years and I rounded the numbers off just for convenience sakes. Nonetheless, when you break it down it is pretty cool.
"Excuse me? These would be the same people who brought us the CDA, the Clipper chip, Carnivore, and whose Justice Department wanted to have strong encryption completely banned."
Actually you have a good point here. I know many peoples opinions differ and I'm simply saying one is the lesser of the evils. I know they are both evil and I agree that Bush is far from ideal. Both parties suck in reality and I wish that a third-party candidate would gain enough popular votes to make the government consider the issues at stake.