As one of your "end users" I would like to give you some praise. Following the guidance in your documentation (and elsewhere), I did not include the standard GNOME packages in my Slack install. Instead I downloaded the dropline installer and executed.
"It just works." The tweaks you've made to the default desktop (i.e. the icons, even the wallpaper) are sweet. The interface is really consistent, and everything (i.e. menu options, etc.) is in the right place.
Mod parent up some more, because this is exactly what happens in situations like these. The Feds have near infinite resources, at least in relation to yours. While you take out a second mortgage on your house to pay bail, legal fees, etc., all the Feds have to do is deficit spend.
Unless you have wads of cash, can defend yourself (not sure if you can even do this anymore in certain circumstances), or have a fetish for prison life, you would take the deal too.
They know that they can take your property (computers, domains, etc.) without your doing anything about it, because the power relations are so heavily in their favor. This is, of course, before your guilt or innocence has been determined. The sad (and frightening) part is that such practices constitute only the first wave of the fun and games to come (i.e. Patriot II and its successors).
Re:Popular Front for the Liberation of Europe
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This "thing" you're using to send a post to/.? You know, the Internet? Al Gore, my countryman, invented it. You're welcome.
A BIOS password only works if the attacker doesn't want you to know your system was compromised. If the attacker has no qualms about stealing your box, a simple removal of the motherboard battery (or something similar) will clear CMOS and eliminate the password. All this is, of course, not the point.
Physical security is a necessity, and this security often involves a policy that applies to the entire environment surrounding your computer systems, including such things as garbage compacting and making sure the pizza guy stays at the receptionist's desk.
For argument's sake, let's say you've set a BIOS password and whatnot. What stops a sophisticated attacker from attaching a hardware key logger (some device that goes between the keyboard cable and the keyboard port on the back of your computer) or hiding a small hub and computer combo somewhere near the target to do a little promiscuous sniffing (yes these are determined attackers, like industrial spies)?
BTW, in addition to your precautions, you should also disable netboot and boot via USB device.
Did you, perchance, miss the text ABOVE these links, containing the following (this is after typing 'cnn' into IE):
Popular 'cnn' Topics. (Narrow your search by selecting one of the following) CNN/SI - Sports (news) CNN Weather CNN Financial Network (media) CNN Headline News (news)
The whole point of the complaint is that Microsoft has been and is working hard to prevent alternatives.
You know, when I go to Dell's web site, I can configure a machine. Popup menus allow me to choose various configuration options. Guess what choices I get for Operating System? Let's not even bring up Free software. Let's just compare to, say a DVD player. The choice is DVD or No DVD. How about Windows or No OS? Shipping a CD hardware diagnostic would be the extent of the "support" they would have to provide. Just as they now say, insert the Windows CD to reformat and reinstall -- click. They could say -- insert the Diagnostic CD to proove that the hardware works perfectly -- click.
There are hordes of online vendors that will sell you a box sans OS. Many of these computers are superior (in components and in overall build) to the PC that Dell will sell you. Many are also less expensive. These days you can even walk into CompUSA and leave with a "fresh" PC and a copy of RedHat. No need to touch a Microsoft product!
Sure, Dell won't sell you a PC without Windows, due to an obvious relationship with Microsoft, but Dell is hardly the only distributor of computers.
You have a choice! Just because your fellow computer buyers are either ignorant of the alternatives or otherwise displeased with them does not mean that they are forced to use Windows!
Go to another store. Several online vendors will sell you a computer w/o an OS, and you can always *gasp* build your own. Just b/c the option isn't available at Worst Buy doesn't mean it's nonexistent.
If Linux came preinstalled on the average consumer Dell, Dell would be fielding numerous support calls each day to the tune of: "My husband bought a new sound card, and the computer says I must rebuild the kernel." Imagine the support tech leading the poor user through xconfig, menuconfig, or *shudders* config.
The worst thing for Linux would be a side-by-side comparison with Windows (or OS X) in the homes of average computer users. Word of mouth would spread quickly, prejudices would be formed, and Linux would be forever taboo on the desktop.
I picked up this tip from the February 03 issues of Computer Power User (CPU) magazine:
Use msconfig to edit your System.ini file. "In the System.ini tab, highlight [386enh] and click New to add a new line beneath this branch. Type
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
in the empty box that appears, then click Apply and restart your PC. We found that this helped clean up game jerkiness because it reduces the background file swapping that causes video hiccups and pauses."
This tip was for XP, by the way. I tried this on my machine (512MB), and the swapping that started during UT2K3 sessions has stopped. Maybe it will work for you.
How, then, would you explain the widespread, negative reaction to the "New Coke" (i.e. new taste) in the mid-80s? Surely the new formula had a lot to do with it?
Sorry, but it sounds like you haven't installed Windows XP. The days of 5 restarts and floppy-disk-drivers are mostly gone.
Installing Win XP was a breeze on a DIY box with a new mobo, CPU, and graphics card (other components were only relatively new). The install did not need any babysitting, and the only halt was for input during the "Activation" phase.
I've run Slackware 7 through 9 beta (current), and never really found it difficult to install. Very straightforward and minimal. We won't talk about PhatLinux, X, and Trident cards.
Comparatively, Windows, in all its previous incarnations, has presented various "issues" during the install. Intel NIC? "Sorry, where's your driver disk?" Logitech USB Mouse? "This restart was brought to you buy Plug-and-Play."
XP was, however, painless to install. Politics of "Activation" aside, I found it easier than all the above. YMMV
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In other news: Chris "Left Hand" Nandor reports that the uClinux group has successfully installed the free operating system, Linux, on Apple Computer's iPod music player.
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Why deprive the 15-yr. geek next door from his hard-earned free pizza and proximity to your 16-yr old daughter? So Worst Buy can do a lesser job and charge you $100 for installing a PCI card?
Imagine that you, a lone geek, apply for the "webmaster" position on the varsity football team. If you've never been in such a situation, I know it's difficult to do so, but try to imagine what it would be like. Would you feel "safe" in the lockerroom or at a keg party?
What I can tell you is that certain potential employees look at the %minority/female statistics not as an indicator of how "diverse" a company is, but as a sign that a significant number of minorities and women felt comfortable in joining the company.
Your chances of running into minorities (if you are white) outside of work are not that high, with the exception of the prominent metro areas in this country. But if you take the attitude displayed in this thred towards some of the women in your life, you really shouldn't wonder why you're home alone on a Friday/Saturday night.
Mod parent up please. Everyone knows what cryptome does, and mirrors to the relevant documents have been posted in several comments to this article. There's no need to/. his site.
You might have trouble finding a vocation that "fits your true character," even if you ever find such a thing as a "true character." Try to spend most of your short life doing what appeals to you (preferably getting paid for it), sharing that time with someone who has the uncanny ability to make seconds seem like eternity.
This is easier said than done, of course. In more concrete terms, find someone to love, love the hell out of them, and make enough to neither live on the street nor sacrifice your "spirit" in the process.
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Fact check! Aisle 1!
Would you care to mention exactly when/how Kevin a) broke into someone else's property (trash is NOT property), and b) caused hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage? Or perhaps you think that "reading source code" causes that amount of damage. Or perhaps you don't know much about the crimes in question and you pulled your diatribe out of your ass?
A match-making algorith can't be that different to a search algorithm, could it?
I've skimmed through all of my textbooks on algorithms, including Knuth, and I have yet to find a search algorithm as simple and elegant as this match-making "formula":
Funny you should mention Kinko's. A number of the 9/11 terrorists used their neighborhood Kinko's to purchase airline tickets. On second though, maybe the Administration is right; let's ban neighborhoods too!
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As one of your "end users" I would like to give you some praise. Following the guidance in your documentation (and elsewhere), I did not include the standard GNOME packages in my Slack install. Instead I downloaded the dropline installer and executed.
"It just works." The tweaks you've made to the default desktop (i.e. the icons, even the wallpaper) are sweet. The interface is really consistent, and everything (i.e. menu options, etc.) is in the right place.
Just wanted to say thanks!
Mod parent up some more, because this is exactly what happens in situations like these. The Feds have near infinite resources, at least in relation to yours. While you take out a second mortgage on your house to pay bail, legal fees, etc., all the Feds have to do is deficit spend.
Unless you have wads of cash, can defend yourself (not sure if you can even do this anymore in certain circumstances), or have a fetish for prison life, you would take the deal too.
They know that they can take your property (computers, domains, etc.) without your doing anything about it, because the power relations are so heavily in their favor. This is, of course, before your guilt or innocence has been determined. The sad (and frightening) part is that such practices constitute only the first wave of the fun and games to come (i.e. Patriot II and its successors).
This "thing" you're using to send a post to /.? You know, the Internet? Al Gore, my countryman, invented it. You're welcome.
A BIOS password only works if the attacker doesn't want you to know your system was compromised. If the attacker has no qualms about stealing your box, a simple removal of the motherboard battery (or something similar) will clear CMOS and eliminate the password. All this is, of course, not the point.
Physical security is a necessity, and this security often involves a policy that applies to the entire environment surrounding your computer systems, including such things as garbage compacting and making sure the pizza guy stays at the receptionist's desk.
For argument's sake, let's say you've set a BIOS password and whatnot. What stops a sophisticated attacker from attaching a hardware key logger (some device that goes between the keyboard cable and the keyboard port on the back of your computer) or hiding a small hub and computer combo somewhere near the target to do a little promiscuous sniffing (yes these are determined attackers, like industrial spies)?
BTW, in addition to your precautions, you should also disable netboot and boot via USB device.
Did you, perchance, miss the text ABOVE these links, containing the following (this is after typing 'cnn' into IE):
Popular 'cnn' Topics. (Narrow your search by selecting one of the following)
CNN/SI - Sports (news) CNN Weather
CNN Financial Network (media) CNN Headline News (news)
Show all Topics
The whole point of the complaint is that Microsoft has been and is working hard to prevent alternatives.
You know, when I go to Dell's web site, I can configure a machine. Popup menus allow me to choose various configuration options. Guess what choices I get for Operating System? Let's not even bring up Free software. Let's just compare to, say a DVD player. The choice is DVD or No DVD. How about Windows or No OS? Shipping a CD hardware diagnostic would be the extent of the "support" they would have to provide. Just as they now say, insert the Windows CD to reformat and reinstall -- click. They could say -- insert the Diagnostic CD to proove that the hardware works perfectly -- click.
There are hordes of online vendors that will sell you a box sans OS. Many of these computers are superior (in components and in overall build) to the PC that Dell will sell you. Many are also less expensive. These days you can even walk into CompUSA and leave with a "fresh" PC and a copy of RedHat. No need to touch a Microsoft product!
Sure, Dell won't sell you a PC without Windows, due to an obvious relationship with Microsoft, but Dell is hardly the only distributor of computers.
You have a choice! Just because your fellow computer buyers are either ignorant of the alternatives or otherwise displeased with them does not mean that they are forced to use Windows!
Go to another store. Several online vendors will sell you a computer w/o an OS, and you can always *gasp* build your own. Just b/c the option isn't available at Worst Buy doesn't mean it's nonexistent.
If Linux came preinstalled on the average consumer Dell, Dell would be fielding numerous support calls each day to the tune of: "My husband bought a new sound card, and the computer says I must rebuild the kernel." Imagine the support tech leading the poor user through xconfig, menuconfig, or *shudders* config.
The worst thing for Linux would be a side-by-side comparison with Windows (or OS X) in the homes of average computer users. Word of mouth would spread quickly, prejudices would be formed, and Linux would be forever taboo on the desktop.
I picked up this tip from the February 03 issues of Computer Power User (CPU) magazine:
Use msconfig to edit your System.ini file. "In the System.ini tab, highlight [386enh] and click New to add a new line beneath this branch. Type
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
in the empty box that appears, then click Apply and restart your PC. We found that this helped clean up game jerkiness because it reduces the background file swapping that causes video hiccups and pauses."
This tip was for XP, by the way. I tried this on my machine (512MB), and the swapping that started during UT2K3 sessions has stopped. Maybe it will work for you.
Happy Tweaking!
Not to mention that if Opera users were to start "surfing as IE," Internet Explorer "marketshare" would magically increase.
How, then, would you explain the widespread, negative reaction to the "New Coke" (i.e. new taste) in the mid-80s? Surely the new formula had a lot to do with it?
and knowing is half the battle!
Sorry, but it sounds like you haven't installed Windows XP. The days of 5 restarts and floppy-disk-drivers are mostly gone.
Installing Win XP was a breeze on a DIY box with a new mobo, CPU, and graphics card (other components were only relatively new). The install did not need any babysitting, and the only halt was for input during the "Activation" phase.
I've run Slackware 7 through 9 beta (current), and never really found it difficult to install. Very straightforward and minimal. We won't talk about PhatLinux, X, and Trident cards.
Comparatively, Windows, in all its previous incarnations, has presented various "issues" during the install. Intel NIC? "Sorry, where's your driver disk?" Logitech USB Mouse? "This restart was brought to you buy Plug-and-Play."
XP was, however, painless to install. Politics of "Activation" aside, I found it easier than all the above. YMMV
Rob "Right Hand" Malda reports that the Linux operating system has been successfully ported to the Apple iPod MP3 music player. For more details, visit sourceforge.net, your place for the latest in open source software.
/. "All the news that's fit to replay."
In other news: Chris "Left Hand" Nandor reports that the uClinux group has successfully installed the free operating system, Linux, on Apple Computer's iPod music player.
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1. Lock the recording industry into the Redmond One-Ring (TM) licensing system. ...
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3. Profit!
Why deprive the 15-yr. geek next door from his hard-earned free pizza and proximity to your 16-yr old daughter? So Worst Buy can do a lesser job and charge you $100 for installing a PCI card?
Imagine that you, a lone geek, apply for the "webmaster" position on the varsity football team. If you've never been in such a situation, I know it's difficult to do so, but try to imagine what it would be like. Would you feel "safe" in the lockerroom or at a keg party?
What I can tell you is that certain potential employees look at the %minority/female statistics not as an indicator of how "diverse" a company is, but as a sign that a significant number of minorities and women felt comfortable in joining the company.
Your chances of running into minorities (if you are white) outside of work are not that high, with the exception of the prominent metro areas in this country. But if you take the attitude displayed in this thred towards some of the women in your life, you really shouldn't wonder why you're home alone on a Friday/Saturday night.
Mod parent up please. Everyone knows what cryptome does, and mirrors to the relevant documents have been posted in several comments to this article. There's no need to /. his site.
You might have trouble finding a vocation that "fits your true character," even if you ever find such a thing as a "true character." Try to spend most of your short life doing what appeals to you (preferably getting paid for it), sharing that time with someone who has the uncanny ability to make seconds seem like eternity.
This is easier said than done, of course. In more concrete terms, find someone to love, love the hell out of them, and make enough to neither live on the street nor sacrifice your "spirit" in the process.
Fact check! Aisle 1!
Would you care to mention exactly when/how Kevin a) broke into someone else's property (trash is NOT property), and b) caused hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage? Or perhaps you think that "reading source code" causes that amount of damage. Or perhaps you don't know much about the crimes in question and you pulled your diatribe out of your ass?
More bandwidth. At least for today.
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Did we watch the same movie? The one I saw had whales.
Funny you should mention Kinko's. A number of the 9/11 terrorists used their neighborhood Kinko's to purchase airline tickets. On second though, maybe the Administration is right; let's ban neighborhoods too!