Or does the slashdot crowd appear to be one of the most unforgiving groups on a news discussion board?
For heavens sake, it's just a duplicate article!! Timothy's apologised, and recognised his mistake. Just accept that and move on, people!
Reading the "outrage" from this article, you'd think that this was a crime akin to mass murder. Geez! The guy is just human. Cut him some slack!
I love reading Slashdot every day, and I really appreciate it. I also think that tech people are one of the nicest groups on the planet. Please don't change my opinion.
Look, there's plenty of reasons why a company would want to purchase a PIX from Cisco. Many have been outlined in postings already... support, service, quality guarantuee, etc. Cisco have the best support of any company I know, bar none!
A student wishing to practice configuring a PIX would benefit greatly from this information. They obviously wouldn't be able to afford a full PIX, so putting together a test box is their only choice.
As far as I'm concerned, this info can only benefit Cisco, as they get a whole bunch of people that know their product inside out. That then tips over into increased sales, as these people recommend using a PIX to their boss.
Great! We've covered the reasons why region coding exists. Now let's look at the reasons why region coding should not exist.
Pricing differences. DVDs are definitely cheaper in different parts of the world, and consumers should not be restricted as to which country they buy the product in.
Video and sound quality. Whether it be Dolby 5.1 or DTS or whatever new system they come up with, the same movie sold in different countries can vary in quality. Again, consumers should have the right to choose between these different versions.
Censorship. This is your government telling you what you may/may not view. Sure, let's "protect the children"... but let's give the choice to the parents as to how they should be protected! Buying from a different country (which children quite often do not do), allows the consumer to actually get the whole unedited video.
Features. Added extras on DVDs can vary WILDLY between different regions. Some consumers are willing to pay extra for features on their favourite movie. Since distributors decide not to give the consumer these extras in one country, the consumer has to have the ability to buy and use a DVD with the extras from a different country.
Language. Believe it or not, the may be people in English speaking countries that prefer to hear the movie in another language! You're at the mercy of the distributor again, unless you have the ability to buy and use a DVD from a different country.
Gifts. Say you want to send a gift to another person in another country. You'd better not send them a DVD, otherwise it would end up being an expensive coaster.
There may be more reasons, but these are the more obvious ones. If region coding was successful, then someone suffering from the above situations would effectively have their hands tied! This is understandably intolerable!!
One good example is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Region 1 and 2 have a release with featurettes, commentaries, documentaries, trailers, photos, a few singalongs, and more! The Region 4 release (where I live) gets some biographies, and "interactive menus" (yes! interactive menus are actually listed as a feature!). As this is one of my favourite movies, to say that I was royally pissed off would be understating the whole situation.
One last comment before I sign off... why are so many old movies being released with regions? It can't be because of the cinema release schedule:). Censorship is unlikely, as most stay exactly the same between different countries. Could this be proof in point of using region encoding to control the market?
Company officials added that the flaw isn't in Microsoft's CryptoAPI application program interface (CAPI) either, which would have left a number of applications and Windows services vulnerable, not just Internet Explorer.
<hypothetical> When further questioned about where the flaw was actually located, one Company official confided the following...
"Look, the flaw is in the implementation of CAPI, not CAPI itself. You get it?! We're claiming our programming interface is perfectly fine, but we don't mention anything about the code behind the interface. I really love how PR people twist language around to make it say what we want."
Well, they were talking about 50" CRTs. I can tell you that if a CRT is 50" in size, it's NOT a computer monitor. It's definitely a CRT TV. Do my comments make sense now?
I don't know of _any_ CRT computer monitor that will handle 3000x2000 either. Please reply if you do know of one.
CRT is a dead technology. It's gone almost as far as it can go. The solution definitely lies with flat panel displays like plasma and LCD.
Not to mention that even the best CRT TVs _CANNOT_ display a horizontal resolution beyond 800-900 pixels. Plasma screens have much better resolution than CRT TVs.
Actually, there is a CRT TV made by Sony, that does go beyond 900 pixels. It's worth nearly $40k USD. Definitely not a consumer product.
http://bssc.sel.sony.com/Professional/webapp/Mod el Info?p=8&sp=20073&id=57474
Dan is da man!! He's the geek's geek. A veritable god of the technophile.
RMS? He's got nothing on Dan... let's face it, Dan has a much better sense of humor.
Cmdr Taco? As much as we love out beloved Commander and his anime fetish, it just doesn't stack up to Dan's love affair with LED lights, CPU coolers, and radio controlled Sherman tanks.
If you feel compelled to find out more about Dan, just visit his website: www.dansdata.com . You will not come away unenlightened.
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Well there you go! You learn something new every day. No, I wasn't familiar with System Restore before. Now I'm marginally more familiar.
I discovered that the wuau* Automatic Update backup files aren't stored in the "C:\WINNT\Driver Cache" directory... they're stored in the "C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache\" directory AND in the "C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\" directory as well. Phew, what a mess!!
Anyway, after searching for every file named wuau* in the C:\WINNT directory, and doing a simeultaneous delete of all of them, you get a popup File Restore dialog, complaining that the version of the file you have installed is not valid, and it asks you to put in the Service Pack 3 CD. I just clicked on Cancel, to which another dialog box appeared, warning me that this may contribute to windows instability. I really wish they had a "Windows is already unstable" button on this dialog. I honestly would have clicked it.
So after hitting the OK (or whatever it was), it looks like I've finally rid myself of Automatic Updates!! As an added bonus, I get 1.5MB of memory back. Yes, that's how much memory it was taking up just to provide automatic updates. Makes me wonder what else I can kill in resident memory, to make this system more efficient.
DeeK
Permanently disabling Automatic Updates ...
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I too installed SP3 last night, and when I rebooted, found a funky new icon in my system tray. Needless to say, I was pretty annoyed that Microsoft automatically added it, without giving the ability to uninstall it (Automatic Updates README... scroll right down to the bottom. They SAY you cannot uninstall!).
So I tried to figure out how to do it.
What I did was kill the wwwauclt.exe process, then go to your system32 directory and delete the following files:
wuauclt.exe wuaucpl.cpl wuaueng.dll wuauserv.dll
You'll never guess what happened next. They reappeared!! They were literally recreated before my eyes!! I was left wondering what kind of evil had posessed my system.
If anyone knows how to disable this mysterious magic, then please feel free to reply.
It doesn't seem bad to me. Personally, I think it's a pretty funky way to advertise products.
I agree with Goonie, in that it's slightly dishonest because they're not being upfront about the whole thing being advertising.
Otherwise, I do NOT consider this anywhere near as bad as fake reviews, and blatant sales pitches about how wonderful their product is. All that's happening is they're posing as normal people, and they're getting you to use the product! As long as they DON'T bleat on about how it will change your life (blah, blah), then I'm fine with it all.
By spending money on free software, which is often manufactured by organized criminals, customers also are inadvertently stifling the growth potential of the economy and contributing to the loss of tax revenue and employment.
Congratulations to all those who work on free software. You now considered to be most likely a criminal. Don't bother calling the FBI, the FBI will probably call you:).
What a shame. Looks like USB is a slightly suckier interface than I originally thought. Looks like I'll have to follow Oculus Habent's suggestion and go with an IPod and a firewire ethernet transciever........ as soon as someone hacks the IPod to run Linux of course:)
I understand your desire to have aa portable whatever-you-want, but sometimes you should accept that a device isn't designed/meant to be used in this fashion.
I most definitely do not agree with this attitude. Getting something to do what it wasn't designed to do, is a beautiful thing. It's also called a Hack. Hackers are people that never resign themselves to the fact that something wasn't designed to do it. They go out there and they MAKE it do what they want! That is incredibly awesome.
The screen isn't large enough for output not specifically formatted for it. The buttons aren't sufficient for inputting data, unless you want to scroll through the alphabet console-game style. Sure, it can be done, but is it worth it?
If you make it act as a network device, you can telnet/ssh into it and essentially get keyboard and screen access that is perfectly sufficient, and is definitely worth it.
My iPod is a FireWire hard drive. It doesn't plug into a network, but you'd need a computer to make it worth anything as a network storage device. If you plug the drive into a computer, the computer can be the samba server much more easily.
Sure, I can kind of see where you're coming. If you're only serving one computer, you might as well just plug the device directly into the computer.
This is the thing, though... what if you want to serve more than one computer! This device can do it with Linux installed. It's a portable Samba server if you want it to be.
I'm not completely familiar with the USB standard, but I don't think you could get the device to talk properly to another peripheral. One big part of USB (not a FireWire limitation) is that peripherals must communicate through the host computer, and not directly.
This device IS the computer! It has a CPU, memory, storage area, input and output functions... it's got everything you need for a "computer". Therefore, with Linux installed, it can control the USB peripheral to do whatever you want.
I don't deny the work people put forth to install Linux on everything isn't amazing, and a testament to the perserverance and ingenuity of people, but, as with case mods, there's a "gee, look what I did" period, and then it's gone, becuase the functoin isn't worth the hassle.
Getting Linux to run on this device is very useful, because it essentially gives you an intelligent portable device with a large disk capacity. It's useful in any situation where you need portable storage that can be hooked up to any medium (I've obviously used the computer network as one example... but there's no need just to be limited to that).
Oh wow, I just thought of possibly hooking up a wireless LAN peripheral to this device, and using NetBEUI with Samba to provide instant filesharing to any machine in that wireless network. Now that is a very cool thing!
I wonder if Samba can be used with NetBEUI.... hmmmm....
Huh? Except for the choice of OS? This goes too far. Who gives a crap if they don't use linux?
Ummmm.... I care! If it was running Linux, then I can get this thing to do MUCH more than what it was intended for.
For example, I could possibly whack on a USB network adaptor, and use it as a portable samba storage unit. I could carry this around and download photos from a digital camera. I wouldn't have to buy any more memory storage for the camera (especially the exhorbatent Memory Stick! Are you listening Sony?!). I could not be limited to only mp3 and wmv files, but I could play ANY audio format that Linux can natively play.
Please, don't be jaded by the continual effort people make to get Linux running on every device. Getting Linux to run on this e.Digital device would be DAMN BRILLIANT!
Re:When did Ask Slashdot turn into Tech Support?
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There is a fine line between being a support center for Joe-Bob and a discussion driven community forum.
You're correct, there IS a fine line between support and discussion. With support, the same issues appear again and again. With discussion, an issue is talked about once, and never appears again unless there's new information.
Personally, I think that Traffic Shaping is a fine topic for discussion. If it also answers someones technical question, then all the better! But if this topic appears again in the next few months, though, then that has stepped over the line.
Hey!! Being holier-than-thou isn't all it's cracked up to be. There's the pain of being pious, the agony of virtuousness, and the misery of nobility. Plus there's plenty of people that are ready to hurl all sorts of obsenities and curses once they see how much more holy we are.
Just don't get me started on the torture of chasteness.
Do me a favour, and next time you see a holier-than-thou person on the street, give them a pat on the back. We've been through enough, and we need the appreciation.
If you want Gnome2 and KDE3 with Debian, you need to add an "unofficial" source to your apt list.
You can get Gnome2 via links located at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/
You can install KDE3 by reading and following the instructions at http://calc.cx/kde.txt
Pretty much any package not included with Debian can be discovered by going to http://www.debianplanet.org/ and searching, or having a look at the Unofficial Apt sources list at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-so urces/
Can't advertisers accept that we're just not interested in buying that new, quintuple bladed, titanium based, self-lubricating shaving blade?!
Other than food advertisements (I'm hungry... mmmm, KFC commercial on TV *drool*), I have never seen a TV ad that made me want to go out and buy that product. I really doubt that I'm going to be convinced if it pops up during the show.
Let me just ask a general question then - what's the best way to install a fresh Woody system? My current system is a bastardized Potato with some ugly Sid stuff thrown in to make it complicated. I want a Woody system, upgraded to a 2.4 kernel with ipfilter, and I'm willing to start from scratch.
The best way is to just edit your/etc/apt/sources.list file, replace the potato entries with woody entries, and run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
You may have a problem with the kernel install, since debian compiled kernels use initrd for booting. In that case, you MUST have a line in your lilo.conf file specifying where your initrd file is. A typical lilo.conf entry would look like the following:
... or wherever your initrd file is called. I can't recall off the top of my head exactly what it defaults to.
Do I remove all non-Woody sources from the apt-get sources file? Do I manually remove all potato and unstable packages? Or is it best to format and start over?
I'd just remove potato entries from the sources. You should be able to leave all non-Woody sources in.
You definitely do not have to format and start over. The Debian packaging system is smart enough to handle upgrading what exists.
After the general package upgrade, install the Debian 2.4 kernel separately, as this will not be installed in the upgrade. They've got 2.4.17 into Woody, and I'd go with that.
The biggest problem I have is that this is a P1-100 box, which takes about 3 hours to re-compile the kernel, AND it's my firewall/router, so I lose much of my ability to read net sources when it's down. The current bastardized system is ugly and doesn't do everything I want, but at least it works.
Your downtime should only be as long as it takes you to reboot your machine for a new kernel. I wouldn't bother recompiling the kernel, unless you specifically need to. The stock Debian kernel suits just about every need.
Now this is a concept... how about we have open source bands that create compatible songs through a clean room process of discovering chord progressions and rhythms, then simulating the song and releasing it openly?
Can music be considered free speech? Does everyone have the right to sing a song, and release the recording of it publicly and freely?
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veni, vidi, vivo (I came, I saw, I lived)
Go to your Cisco Config prompt, enter in the following:
access-list 101 deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log access-list 101 deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any log access-list 101 deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any log access-list 101 deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log access-list 101 permit ip any any int *insert your favourite interface here* ip access-group 101 in
Of course, make sure that you don't have an access list 101 already created:).
p.s damn, I should learn to preview my posts before submitting.
Go to your Cisco Config prompt, enter in the following:
access-list 101 deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log access-list 101 deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any log access-list 101 deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any log access-list 101 deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log access-list 101 permit ip any any int ip access-group 101 in
Of course, make sure that you don't have an access list 101 already created:).
There's something weird with the EtherExpress Pro 100 cards with the Linux drivers. It's either a hardware thing (and the drivers haven't implemented a workaround), or a driver bug/race condition. In any case, the solution to this is to set the multicast_filter_limit option to 3 or less. Most people just set it to 0.
If the driver is compiled into the kernel, you just edit the source and make sure the following line is set:
static int multicast_filter_limit = 0;
Recompile the kernel after this, of course:).
If you've compiled it as a module, then it's a much easier task. Edit your/etc/modules file and make sure that your eepro100 line looks like the following:
eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=0
Of course, you can even do it at the command prompt with an "insmod eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=0". I will not be held responsible for those who initially try to remove the module from memory, via their telnet session.
Slashdot Mirror
Or does the slashdot crowd appear to be one of the most unforgiving groups on a news discussion board?
For heavens sake, it's just a duplicate article!! Timothy's apologised, and recognised his mistake. Just accept that and move on, people!
Reading the "outrage" from this article, you'd think that this was a crime akin to mass murder. Geez! The guy is just human. Cut him some slack!
I love reading Slashdot every day, and I really appreciate it. I also think that tech people are one of the nicest groups on the planet. Please don't change my opinion.
DeeK
Look, there's plenty of reasons why a company would want to purchase a PIX from Cisco. Many have been outlined in postings already
A student wishing to practice configuring a PIX would benefit greatly from this information. They obviously wouldn't be able to afford a full PIX, so putting together a test box is their only choice.
As far as I'm concerned, this info can only benefit Cisco, as they get a whole bunch of people that know their product inside out. That then tips over into increased sales, as these people recommend using a PIX to their boss.
DeeK
- Pricing differences. DVDs are definitely cheaper in different parts of the world, and consumers should not be restricted as to which country they buy the product in.
- Video and sound quality. Whether it be Dolby 5.1 or DTS or whatever new system they come up with, the same movie sold in different countries can vary in quality. Again, consumers should have the right to choose between these different versions.
- Censorship. This is your government telling you what you may/may not view. Sure, let's "protect the children"
... but let's give the choice to the parents as to how they should be protected! Buying from a different country (which children quite often do not do), allows the consumer to actually get the whole unedited video.
- Features. Added extras on DVDs can vary WILDLY between different regions. Some consumers are willing to pay extra for features on their favourite movie. Since distributors decide not to give the consumer these extras in one country, the consumer has to have the ability to buy and use a DVD with the extras from a different country.
- Language. Believe it or not, the may be people in English speaking countries that prefer to hear the movie in another language! You're at the mercy of the distributor again, unless you have the ability to buy and use a DVD from a different country.
- Gifts. Say you want to send a gift to another person in another country. You'd better not send them a DVD, otherwise it would end up being an expensive coaster.
There may be more reasons, but these are the more obvious ones. If region coding was successful, then someone suffering from the above situations would effectively have their hands tied! This is understandably intolerable!!One good example is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Region 1 and 2 have a release with featurettes, commentaries, documentaries, trailers, photos, a few singalongs, and more! The Region 4 release (where I live) gets some biographies, and "interactive menus" (yes! interactive menus are actually listed as a feature!). As this is one of my favourite movies, to say that I was royally pissed off would be understating the whole situation.
One last comment before I sign off ... why are so many old movies being released with regions? It can't be because of the cinema release schedule :). Censorship is unlikely, as most stay exactly the same between different countries. Could this be proof in point of using region encoding to control the market?
DeeK
Company officials added that the flaw isn't in Microsoft's CryptoAPI application program interface (CAPI) either, which would have left a number of applications and Windows services vulnerable, not just Internet Explorer.
<hypothetical>
When further questioned about where the flaw was actually located, one Company official confided the following
"Look, the flaw is in the implementation of CAPI, not CAPI itself. You get it?! We're claiming our programming interface is perfectly fine, but we don't mention anything about the code behind the interface. I really love how PR people twist language around to make it say what we want."
Well, they were talking about 50" CRTs. I can tell you that if a CRT is 50" in size, it's NOT a computer monitor. It's definitely a CRT TV. Do my comments make sense now?
I don't know of _any_ CRT computer monitor that will handle 3000x2000 either. Please reply if you do know of one.
CRT is a dead technology. It's gone almost as far as it can go. The solution definitely lies with flat panel displays like plasma and LCD.
Not to mention that even the best CRT TVs _CANNOT_ display a horizontal resolution beyond 800-900 pixels. Plasma screens have much better resolution than CRT TVs.
d el Info?p=8&sp=20073&id=57474
Actually, there is a CRT TV made by Sony, that does go beyond 900 pixels. It's worth nearly $40k USD. Definitely not a consumer product.
http://bssc.sel.sony.com/Professional/webapp/Mo
Doesn't this mean that Microsoft products are EXTREMELY overpriced, while Linux is MUCH better value for money?!
Duh!
Dan is da man!! He's the geek's geek. A veritable god of the technophile.
... let's face it, Dan has a much better sense of humor.
RMS? He's got nothing on Dan
Cmdr Taco? As much as we love out beloved Commander and his anime fetish, it just doesn't stack up to Dan's love affair with LED lights, CPU coolers, and radio controlled Sherman tanks.
If you feel compelled to find out more about Dan, just visit his website: www.dansdata.com . You will not come away unenlightened.
Well there you go! You learn something new every day. No, I wasn't familiar with System Restore before. Now I'm marginally more familiar.
... they're stored in the "C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache\" directory AND in the "C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\" directory as well. Phew, what a mess!!
I discovered that the wuau* Automatic Update backup files aren't stored in the "C:\WINNT\Driver Cache" directory
Anyway, after searching for every file named wuau* in the C:\WINNT directory, and doing a simeultaneous delete of all of them, you get a popup File Restore dialog, complaining that the version of the file you have installed is not valid, and it asks you to put in the Service Pack 3 CD. I just clicked on Cancel, to which another dialog box appeared, warning me that this may contribute to windows instability. I really wish they had a "Windows is already unstable" button on this dialog. I honestly would have clicked it.
So after hitting the OK (or whatever it was), it looks like I've finally rid myself of Automatic Updates!! As an added bonus, I get 1.5MB of memory back. Yes, that's how much memory it was taking up just to provide automatic updates. Makes me wonder what else I can kill in resident memory, to make this system more efficient.
DeeK
So I tried to figure out how to do it.
What I did was kill the wwwauclt.exe process, then go to your system32 directory and delete the following files:
wuauclt.exe
wuaucpl.cpl
wuaueng.dll
wuauserv.dll
You'll never guess what happened next. They reappeared!! They were literally recreated before my eyes!! I was left wondering what kind of evil had posessed my system.
If anyone knows how to disable this mysterious magic, then please feel free to reply.
DeeK
It doesn't seem bad to me. Personally, I think it's a pretty funky way to advertise products.
I agree with Goonie, in that it's slightly dishonest because they're not being upfront about the whole thing being advertising.
Otherwise, I do NOT consider this anywhere near as bad as fake reviews, and blatant sales pitches about how wonderful their product is. All that's happening is they're posing as normal people, and they're getting you to use the product! As long as they DON'T bleat on about how it will change your life (blah, blah), then I'm fine with it all.
DeeK
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Congratulations to all those who work on free software. You now considered to be most likely a criminal. Don't bother calling the FBI, the FBI will probably call youBy spending money on free software, which is often manufactured by organized criminals, customers also are inadvertently stifling the growth potential of the economy and contributing to the loss of tax revenue and employment.
DeeK
'kay, I understand now.
.... .... as soon as someone hacks the IPod to run Linux of course :)
What a shame. Looks like USB is a slightly suckier interface than I originally thought. Looks like I'll have to follow Oculus Habent's suggestion and go with an IPod and a firewire ethernet transciever
Saw the slashdot article and immediately downloaded the beta.
So far it's working like a charm. They've fixed up the bugs from the alpha, like the one which caused word overlapping on some sentences.
This browser just keeps on moving from strength to strength! Thanks, Mozilla team!
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I understand your desire to have aa portable whatever-you-want, but sometimes you should accept that a device isn't designed/meant to be used in this fashion.
I most definitely do not agree with this attitude. Getting something to do what it wasn't designed to do, is a beautiful thing. It's also called a Hack. Hackers are people that never resign themselves to the fact that something wasn't designed to do it. They go out there and they MAKE it do what they want! That is incredibly awesome.-
The screen isn't large enough for output not specifically formatted for it. The buttons aren't sufficient for inputting data, unless you want to scroll through the alphabet console-game style. Sure, it can be done, but is it worth it?
If you make it act as a network device, you can telnet/ssh into it and essentially get keyboard and screen access that is perfectly sufficient, and is definitely worth it.-
My iPod is a FireWire hard drive. It doesn't plug into a network, but you'd need a computer to make it worth anything as a network storage device. If you plug the drive into a computer, the computer can be the samba server much more easily.
Sure, I can kind of see where you're coming. If you're only serving one computer, you might as well just plug the device directly into the computer.This is the thing, though ... what if you want to serve more than one computer! This device can do it with Linux installed. It's a portable Samba server if you want it to be.
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I'm not completely familiar with the USB standard, but I don't think you could get the device to talk properly to another peripheral. One big part of USB (not a FireWire limitation) is that peripherals must communicate through the host computer, and not directly.
This device IS the computer! It has a CPU, memory, storage area, input and output functions-
I don't deny the work people put forth to install Linux on everything isn't amazing, and a testament to the perserverance and ingenuity of people, but, as with case mods, there's a "gee, look what I did" period, and then it's gone, becuase the functoin isn't worth the hassle.
Getting Linux to run on this device is very useful, because it essentially gives you an intelligent portable device with a large disk capacity. It's useful in any situation where you need portable storage that can be hooked up to any medium (I've obviously used the computer network as one exampleOh wow, I just thought of possibly hooking up a wireless LAN peripheral to this device, and using NetBEUI with Samba to provide instant filesharing to any machine in that wireless network. Now that is a very cool thing!
I wonder if Samba can be used with NetBEUI .... hmmmm ....
Ummmm .... I care! If it was running Linux, then I can get this thing to do MUCH more than what it was intended for.
For example, I could possibly whack on a USB network adaptor, and use it as a portable samba storage unit. I could carry this around and download photos from a digital camera. I wouldn't have to buy any more memory storage for the camera (especially the exhorbatent Memory Stick! Are you listening Sony?!). I could not be limited to only mp3 and wmv files, but I could play ANY audio format that Linux can natively play.
Please, don't be jaded by the continual effort people make to get Linux running on every device. Getting Linux to run on this e.Digital device would be DAMN BRILLIANT!
You're correct, there IS a fine line between support and discussion. With support, the same issues appear again and again. With discussion, an issue is talked about once, and never appears again unless there's new information.
Personally, I think that Traffic Shaping is a fine topic for discussion. If it also answers someones technical question, then all the better! But if this topic appears again in the next few months, though, then that has stepped over the line.
Hey!! Being holier-than-thou isn't all it's cracked up to be. There's the pain of being pious, the agony of virtuousness, and the misery of nobility. Plus there's plenty of people that are ready to hurl all sorts of obsenities and curses once they see how much more holy we are.
Just don't get me started on the torture of chasteness.
Do me a favour, and next time you see a holier-than-thou person on the street, give them a pat on the back. We've been through enough, and we need the appreciation.
If you want Gnome2 and KDE3 with Debian, you need to add an "unofficial" source to your apt list.
o urces/
You can get Gnome2 via links located at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/
You can install KDE3 by reading and following the instructions at http://calc.cx/kde.txt
Pretty much any package not included with Debian can be discovered by going to http://www.debianplanet.org/ and searching, or having a look at the Unofficial Apt sources list at http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-s
Can't advertisers accept that we're just not interested in buying that new, quintuple bladed, titanium based, self-lubricating shaving blade?!
... mmmm, KFC commercial on TV *drool*), I have never seen a TV ad that made me want to go out and buy that product. I really doubt that I'm going to be convinced if it pops up during the show.
Other than food advertisements (I'm hungry
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Let me just ask a general question then - what's the best way to install a fresh Woody system? My current system is a bastardized Potato with some ugly Sid stuff thrown in to make it complicated. I want a Woody system, upgraded to a 2.4 kernel with ipfilter, and I'm willing to start from scratch.
The best way is to just edit yourapt-get update && apt-get upgrade
You may have a problem with the kernel install, since debian compiled kernels use initrd for booting. In that case, you MUST have a line in your lilo.conf file specifying where your initrd file is. A typical lilo.conf entry would look like the following:
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.17
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Do I remove all non-Woody sources from the apt-get sources file? Do I manually remove all potato and unstable packages? Or is it best to format and start over?
I'd just remove potato entries from the sources. You should be able to leave all non-Woody sources in.You definitely do not have to format and start over. The Debian packaging system is smart enough to handle upgrading what exists.
After the general package upgrade, install the Debian 2.4 kernel separately, as this will not be installed in the upgrade. They've got 2.4.17 into Woody, and I'd go with that.
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The biggest problem I have is that this is a P1-100 box, which takes about 3 hours to re-compile the kernel, AND it's my firewall/router, so I lose much of my ability to read net sources when it's down. The current bastardized system is ugly and doesn't do everything I want, but at least it works.
Your downtime should only be as long as it takes you to reboot your machine for a new kernel. I wouldn't bother recompiling the kernel, unless you specifically need to. The stock Debian kernel suits just about every need.Now this is a concept ... how about we have open source bands that create compatible songs through a clean room process of discovering chord progressions and rhythms, then simulating the song and releasing it openly?
Can music be considered free speech? Does everyone have the right to sing a song, and release the recording of it publicly and freely?
dave
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Go to your Cisco Config prompt, enter in the following:
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access-list 101 deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log
access-list 101 deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any log
access-list 101 deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any log
access-list 101 deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log
access-list 101 permit ip any any
int *insert your favourite interface here*
ip access-group 101 in
Of course, make sure that you don't have an access list 101 already created
p.s damn, I should learn to preview my posts before submitting.
Go to your Cisco Config prompt, enter in the following:
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access-list 101 deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log
access-list 101 deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any log
access-list 101 deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any log
access-list 101 deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any log
access-list 101 permit ip any any
int
ip access-group 101 in
Of course, make sure that you don't have an access list 101 already created
There's something weird with the EtherExpress Pro 100 cards with the Linux drivers. It's either a hardware thing (and the drivers haven't implemented a workaround), or a driver bug/race condition. In any case, the solution to this is to set the multicast_filter_limit option to 3 or less. Most people just set it to 0.
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/etc/modules file and make sure that your eepro100 line looks like the following:
If the driver is compiled into the kernel, you just edit the source and make sure the following line is set:
static int multicast_filter_limit = 0;
Recompile the kernel after this, of course
If you've compiled it as a module, then it's a much easier task. Edit your
eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=0
Of course, you can even do it at the command prompt with an "insmod eepro100 multicast_filter_limit=0". I will not be held responsible for those who initially try to remove the module from memory, via their telnet session.