I have RT running supporting 500+ employees in a school district. I chose it because of its configurability. It integrates with our LDAP servers and is easy for our (mostly non computer geek) users. I agree that the older versions were slow, but v3.6.3 is speedy.
I'm running 2.6.4 on a sun netra X1, gentoo. I've had some problems in the 2.6-pre versions with usb, and now again with 2.6.5. Otherwise everything is supported and runs noticeably faster than 2.4.x on the same hardware. Versions before 2.6.1 were unstable and seemed to crash weekly or so, but lately its been solid.
Thats $700k per user, as per SCO. counter.li.org guesses there are 18 million Linux users, so the total value of the kernel is roughly $12,600,000,000,000. If Linus collected he could pay off the US national debt and live comfortably with $5 trillion left over!
Acording to true audiphiles, the audio output quality of consumer grade cd players is crap.
They are correct that different DACs sound very different. For example, I got a Midiman Flying calf 24 bit DAC for my car mp3 player. It sound *MUCH* better than any sound card. I know some audiophiles purchase single disc cd players for > $1000, just to sound that little bit better.
The problem is, once you hear something that sounds better your ears get spoiled, and you think that anything less completely sucks!
In Hemmah's home, police say they found seven computers and how-to books on computer hacking.
I have lots of computers and hacking books, am I breaking the law? Unless he is slandering the police, posting false information that he claims is true that damages the image of the police he will not be convicted of any crime (if he does I'm moving). You can't go around calling saying the local police kill small children (unless of course they do). If he posts information of reasons he dislikes the police, then thats what the 1st ammendment is all about and he shouldn't be touched.
Of course, police love to do things like this to people they know won't be convicted because the police know that his equipment will be seized. He will likely never see any of his 7 computers or "hacking books" ever again no matter what happens because it will be filed as evidence. Read "the hacker crackdown". Of course, that book would be "evidence" if you are ever raided.
Of course we have less freedom now. Try telling someone 100 years ago that in the future there will be movies on DVD. When you buy them you don't actually own them, if you attempt to look at it and figure out how it works you are breaking the law. The government makes far too many stupid laws that do nothing but restrict our rights.
But with the net we can do something about it. Geeks have always been 1 step ahead in circumventing restrictions and I see no evidence that will change. At least for the foreseeable future, they will keep throwing roadblocks at us and will will keep jumping them. That is until all US ISPs are bought up by some "US Department of Internet" or something dumb like that. Which is they day we all switch to guerillanet.
...will overcome any censorship that any government imposes on us. I don't foresee any method of stoping information in the near future. Like the article said, there will always be services such as anonymizer and freedom (great program, the linux version rules) that will circumvent restrictions on our freedom online. With freedom 2.0 I can appear to come from almost any country I choose and the server I'm reaching has no clue of my true identity. Services such as Freenet are near impossible to stop. As soon as a country filters out such traffic someone will create a proxy to get around it.
Nothing compiles on slackware? Are you crazy? I have the opposite problem with redhat. Things compile perfectly on every version of slackware I've used (all of them). Then I take the same program to a friend's redhat box and it won't compile. Redhat puts includes and libraries in non-standard locations for some unknown reason. So most programs designed to be portable to any box need to be "fixed up" to compile under redhat.
And before you go complaining about a distro check the program you are trying to compile. What is -pthread supposed to be??? It probably should be -lpthread. Thats not slackware's fault the author of your program screwed up.
Slackware was my first and still my current distro of choice. I've tried others, they just don't compare.
Anyway, if you head on over to ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware you will see there is no slackware-7.2 directory yet and no announcement on www.slackware.com. All they did was update the README file in the slackware-current directory in _preparation_ of releasing the next version.
Excelent choice. I'm using the Sony DB-930 and the Energy Take 5 with the 8" sub as well. I did lots of research and finally chose this setup that was just barely over my $1000 limit. I am extremely happy with the results.
Hasn't anyone here read applied cryptography? The man-in-the-middle attack has been known about for years. This is not a "new" attack as reported in the article. This is however the first I've seen a ready to use implementation of the attack.
(please note: offline lockpicks are not illegal. online ones will be illegal soon.)
Not quite, I own a set of lock picks and I have asked friends that are police officers. They tell me that I could be charged with possing and instrument of crime. I believe this is just as rediculous as software being an instrument of crime just because I have a copy of it. I've never used lock picks to break into anyone's house illegally, only to impress friends and gain knowlege on my own locks. The same goes for computer software, its great to test the latest exploits on my personal computers but I would never use them to take down.com. Does this mean I should be charged with "the possession of an item referred to in paragraphs (a)(1) and (2) above"???? That sucks! It is the act of commiting the crime that is (or should be) illegal, not having the ability to do so.
I have the ability to take my kitchen steak knive and stab the authors of this dumb law...they better come arrest me and take away this "instrument of crime" before I eat my dinner tonight.
I forgot to mention that you could always copy the raw VOB files, give them to someone else, burn them to a DVD (if you could) and they would still play in a licensed DVD player, still encrypted. So how does CSS stop piracy if it can be copied with no special skills and no generation loss? Their only copy protection is the large file size, which is cumbersome but not protection. The MPAA obviously knows this, but they claim otherwise. This is another issue I believe should be brought up in an appeal.
Well not exactly easy, but the MPAA's arguement was that DeCSS is a PIRATE's tool. They claim it is required to use DeCSS to pirate a DVD. I know for a fact this is not true because I've downloaded DVD rips long before DeCSS. People simply captured the output from a licensed player and compressed it with MPEG1 or DiVX. The result looks exactly the same whether using DeCSS or not. So every time they claim CSS is necessary to prevent piracy they are lying. Can you use this arguement to show that CSS does not prevent piracy and therefore the only use for it is fair use. From what I can see, using DeCSS to pirate a DVD just adds extra steps.
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Yes you can. They install a filter on your cable line to block tv channels *and* charge you a $20/mo non-subscriber fee (at least in my area).
To avoid the $20 bogus fee I signed up for earthlink cable internet, and my bill comes from TW minus the non-subscriber fee.
I have RT running supporting 500+ employees in a school district. I chose it because of its configurability. It integrates with our LDAP servers and is easy for our (mostly non computer geek) users. I agree that the older versions were slow, but v3.6.3 is speedy.
I'm running 2.6.4 on a sun netra X1, gentoo. I've had some problems in the 2.6-pre versions with usb, and now again with 2.6.5. Otherwise everything is supported and runs noticeably faster than 2.4.x on the same hardware. Versions before 2.6.1 were unstable and seemed to crash weekly or so, but lately its been solid.
Thats $700k per user, as per SCO. counter.li.org guesses there are 18 million Linux users, so the total value of the kernel is roughly $12,600,000,000,000. If Linus collected he could pay off the US national debt and live comfortably with $5 trillion left over!
Comparing Perl to Java is foolish, Perl is more like Awk than a general purpose programming language, and not meant for large projects at all.
Ummm.. Slashdot is written in Perl, as are many other large projects. I've yet to see anything like Slashdot written in Awk.
The New World Order conspiracy theory states the UN is an evil organization who's soul purpose is total world domination and eradication of freedom.
http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/
Coincidence?
The radeon [78]500 cards are not supported by the DRI or XFree cvs. Only 2d is supported at this time, so you are running glxgears in software mode.
Acording to true audiphiles, the audio output quality of consumer grade cd players is crap.
They are correct that different DACs sound very different. For example, I got a Midiman Flying calf 24 bit DAC for my car mp3 player. It sound *MUCH* better than any sound card. I know some audiophiles purchase single disc cd players for > $1000, just to sound that little bit better.
The problem is, once you hear something that sounds better your ears get spoiled, and you think that anything less completely sucks!
(From robots.cnn.com/2001/US/11/12/newyork.crash/ index.html)
Here it is:
Star office 6.0 beta, linux x86, english
In Hemmah's home, police say they found seven computers and how-to books on computer hacking.
I have lots of computers and hacking books, am I breaking the law? Unless he is slandering the police, posting false information that he claims is true that damages the image of the police he will not be convicted of any crime (if he does I'm moving). You can't go around calling saying the local police kill small children (unless of course they do). If he posts information of reasons he dislikes the police, then thats what the 1st ammendment is all about and he shouldn't be touched.
Of course, police love to do things like this to people they know won't be convicted because the police know that his equipment will be seized. He will likely never see any of his 7 computers or "hacking books" ever again no matter what happens because it will be filed as evidence. Read "the hacker crackdown". Of course, that book would be "evidence" if you are ever raided.
Of course we have less freedom now. Try telling someone 100 years ago that in the future there will be movies on DVD. When you buy them you don't actually own them, if you attempt to look at it and figure out how it works you are breaking the law. The government makes far too many stupid laws that do nothing but restrict our rights.
But with the net we can do something about it. Geeks have always been 1 step ahead in circumventing restrictions and I see no evidence that will change. At least for the foreseeable future, they will keep throwing roadblocks at us and will will keep jumping them. That is until all US ISPs are bought up by some "US Department of Internet" or something dumb like that. Which is they day we all switch to guerillanet.
...will overcome any censorship that any government imposes on us. I don't foresee any method of stoping information in the near future. Like the article said, there will always be services such as anonymizer and freedom (great program, the linux version rules) that will circumvent restrictions on our freedom online. With freedom 2.0 I can appear to come from almost any country I choose and the server I'm reaching has no clue of my true identity. Services such as Freenet are near impossible to stop. As soon as a country filters out such traffic someone will create a proxy to get around it.
Nothing compiles on slackware? Are you crazy? I have the opposite problem with redhat. Things compile perfectly on every version of slackware I've used (all of them). Then I take the same program to a friend's redhat box and it won't compile. Redhat puts includes and libraries in non-standard locations for some unknown reason. So most programs designed to be portable to any box need to be "fixed up" to compile under redhat.
And before you go complaining about a distro check the program you are trying to compile. What is -pthread supposed to be??? It probably should be -lpthread. Thats not slackware's fault the author of your program screwed up.
Slackware was my first and still my current distro of choice. I've tried others, they just don't compare.
Anyway, if you head on over to ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware you will see there is no slackware-7.2 directory yet and no announcement on www.slackware.com. All they did was update the README file in the slackware-current directory in _preparation_ of releasing the next version.
Excelent choice. I'm using the Sony DB-930 and the Energy Take 5 with the 8" sub as well. I did lots of research and finally chose this setup that was just barely over my $1000 limit. I am extremely happy with the results.
Of course, stay away from bose, they SUCK.
Hasn't anyone here read applied cryptography? The man-in-the-middle attack has been known about for years. This is not a "new" attack as reported in the article. This is however the first I've seen a ready to use implementation of the attack.
I was using the Linux beta until it expired, it worked great. When 2.0 is released linux will be fully supported, it should be any day now...
(please note: offline lockpicks are not illegal. online ones will be illegal soon.) Not quite, I own a set of lock picks and I have asked friends that are police officers. They tell me that I could be charged with possing and instrument of crime. I believe this is just as rediculous as software being an instrument of crime just because I have a copy of it. I've never used lock picks to break into anyone's house illegally, only to impress friends and gain knowlege on my own locks. The same goes for computer software, its great to test the latest exploits on my personal computers but I would never use them to take down .com. Does this mean I should be charged with "the possession of an item referred to in paragraphs (a)(1) and (2) above"???? That sucks! It is the act of commiting the crime that is (or should be) illegal, not having the ability to do so.
I have the ability to take my kitchen steak knive and stab the authors of this dumb law...they better come arrest me and take away this "instrument of crime" before I eat my dinner tonight.
I forgot to mention that you could always copy the raw VOB files, give them to someone else, burn them to a DVD (if you could) and they would still play in a licensed DVD player, still encrypted. So how does CSS stop piracy if it can be copied with no special skills and no generation loss? Their only copy protection is the large file size, which is cumbersome but not protection. The MPAA obviously knows this, but they claim otherwise. This is another issue I believe should be brought up in an appeal.
Well not exactly easy, but the MPAA's arguement was that DeCSS is a PIRATE's tool. They claim it is required to use DeCSS to pirate a DVD. I know for a fact this is not true because I've downloaded DVD rips long before DeCSS. People simply captured the output from a licensed player and compressed it with MPEG1 or DiVX. The result looks exactly the same whether using DeCSS or not. So every time they claim CSS is necessary to prevent piracy they are lying. Can you use this arguement to show that CSS does not prevent piracy and therefore the only use for it is fair use. From what I can see, using DeCSS to pirate a DVD just adds extra steps.