This doesnt really count as "this year", but there is work going on towards a Free Doom-based game: there are of course many ports of the original doom source which run on Linux and will be able to run with this when it is completed.
Firstly, I think that any sane person can see that there is a difference between an operating system that performs connections automatically and an attempt by someone to explicitely scan a machine.
Secondly, I consider a port scan to mean an attempt to connect to a particular port or ports on a machine, to see if those ports are open. Performing a GET request goes beyond that definition and so I would not consider it a port scan.
The fact is, by connecting your machine to the Internet you're pretty much giving permission for random people to connect.
This is similar in attitude to the "admins that dont patch their systems deserve to get cr/hacked", and almost as ridiculous. There is no reason for anyone to be connecting to my machine unless it is something I have either explicitely ("please connect to my machine") or implicitely (eg. setting up a website) asked them to do. The sad fact is that the anonymity that the internet provides means that people seem to consider actions such as portscans as some kind of right and not the malicious invasion of privacy that it actually is.
i'd say any unsolicited attempt to connect to a tcp port could count as a port scan - if i try to connect to your machine without you asking me to then I am clearly very likely to be trying to find out information about you and/or your machine. And an "http GET request" is not a port scan.
The Cygwin.dll library is released under the GPL, which means(IANAL, correct me if i'm wrong here) that you can only use GPLed code on cygwin. Qt has similar licensing and from what I understand this is the basis of the Gnome/KDE flamewar (in both cases here, if you pay up cash you can license your code in any way you want).
I dont think that this kind of licensing is a good thing in any way whatsoever - forcing people to GPL their code is acceptable to me in normal programs but for libraries seems wrong altogether.
I'd be lying if i said i thought gnome was currently more usable and complete than KDE, but I think that in the long term, because it has so many people behind it (RedHat, Sun, HP, Eazel, Ximian, GFSF [i believe Gnome is part of GNU]) it is bound to eventually become a much more widespread and complete system.
There is also the issue of developers - gtk has language bindings for umpteen different languages and there also arent the licensing issues (unless you buy TrollTechs "Professional Edition" of Qt, you have to GPL all your Qt programs).
i am currently writing a small 2d game (a clone of the classic dos game 'sopwith': here) and have decided to use SDL for it, mainly because of its portability. I have found that it is very simple to use. However, the main problem is that it provides only a very basic set of operations: for example, I had to write my own routines for flipping and rotating surfaces, which took time (and quite a bit of geometry). There are libraries which add features such as this but it seems tiresome to have to use a seperate library for basic flipping and rotating.
unfortunately i fear we are going to see many of these kinds of events soon. as the various/. trolls keep pointing out, linux stocks and the computer industry in general are at an economical low. obviously linux itself isnt going to be killed by this but linux companies dying can only be a bad thing.
it would be nice if they could unify the gtk sourcetree and combine all the different versions (X, win32, framebuffer, beos etc). last time i checked they were all seperate.
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This doesnt really count as "this year", but there is work going on towards a Free Doom-based game: there are of course many ports of the original doom source which run on Linux and will be able to run with this when it is completed.
:)
I guess now you really can "hack the gibson"!
If debian is developed by volunteers around the world, wouldnt the centre of mass be somewhere deep inside the white hot core of the earth?
or sloshdat.org :P
Secondly, I consider a port scan to mean an attempt to connect to a particular port or ports on a machine, to see if those ports are open. Performing a GET request goes beyond that definition and so I would not consider it a port scan.
This is similar in attitude to the "admins that dont patch their systems deserve to get cr/hacked", and almost as ridiculous. There is no reason for anyone to be connecting to my machine unless it is something I have either explicitely ("please connect to my machine") or implicitely (eg. setting up a website) asked them to do. The sad fact is that the anonymity that the internet provides means that people seem to consider actions such as portscans as some kind of right and not the malicious invasion of privacy that it actually is.
i'd say any unsolicited attempt to connect to a tcp port could count as a port scan - if i try to connect to your machine without you asking me to then I am clearly very likely to be trying to find out information about you and/or your machine. And an "http GET request" is not a port scan.
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The Cygwin .dll library is released under the GPL, which means(IANAL, correct me if i'm wrong here) that you can only use GPLed code on cygwin. Qt has similar licensing and from what I understand this is the basis of the Gnome/KDE flamewar (in both cases here, if you pay up cash you can license your code in any way you want).
I dont think that this kind of licensing is a good thing in any way whatsoever - forcing people to GPL their code is acceptable to me in normal programs but for libraries seems wrong altogether.
I found this account worked: username: 123456 / password: 123456
i thought slashdot was supposed to be news for nerds, not news for truckers :P
Igloo melted
3d goatse.cx links! aaaargh!
spots, tubes, track, vegetation, trees, triangles, strange lines.... but no tripods
tools: exploits downloaded off the various security websites
tactics: gcc exploit.c -o exploit;
motives: 3y3 y4m a l33t hax0r d00d!!
I'd like to see how many of the winners donate their money to the Gnome Foundation or Gnome projects...
of which, 34,000 consists of "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" and links to goatse.cx
.... its easy with AOL!
I'd be lying if i said i thought gnome was currently more usable and complete than KDE, but I think that in the long term, because it has so many people behind it (RedHat, Sun, HP, Eazel, Ximian, GFSF [i believe Gnome is part of GNU]) it is bound to eventually become a much more widespread and complete system.
:)
There is also the issue of developers - gtk has language bindings for umpteen different languages and there also arent the licensing issues (unless you buy TrollTechs "Professional Edition" of Qt, you have to GPL all your Qt programs).
Not wanting to start a flamewar of course
bush@whitehouse:~$ su
Password:
root@whitehouse:/home/bush# ping -f saddam.gov.iq
PING saddam.gov.iq: 56 data bytes
actually, on second thoughts, bush is probably too stupid to use unix. he'd probably use l33tpingflood2000.exe or something else
i am currently writing a small 2d game (a clone of the classic dos game 'sopwith': here) and have decided to use SDL for it, mainly because of its portability. I have found that it is very simple to use. However, the main problem is that it provides only a very basic set of operations: for example, I had to write my own routines for flipping and rotating surfaces, which took time (and quite a bit of geometry). There are libraries which add features such as this but it seems tiresome to have to use a seperate library for basic flipping and rotating.
everybody knows that beer is the best coolant :)
unfortunately i fear we are going to see many of these kinds of events soon. as the various /. trolls keep pointing out, linux stocks and the computer industry in general are at an economical low. obviously linux itself isnt going to be killed by this but linux companies dying can only be a bad thing.
it would be nice if they could unify the gtk sourcetree and combine all the different versions (X, win32, framebuffer, beos etc). last time i checked they were all seperate.
"a vodka martini linux.... shaken, not stirred"
Qt is the trolltech toolkit, not gtk. In any case I believe that it is released under the GPL now (correct me if i'm wrong)