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Broadband Crackdown
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I do wonder, though.. Where exactly are they blocking access? At every single router in their networks? I somehow doubt that.. I suspect there'll still be plenty of internal traffic (but I could be wrong..)
However, the AP link wasn't broken. If you pick a newspaper, then go back to Slashdot and click on the link again, it takes you to the article. The AP site is fairly notorious for requiring a cookie to be set (it may also work when HTTP_REFERRER headers are pointing to a known newspaper). I've been thinking of finding a good way around that for a while now...
Yeah, there are problems
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There are always problems when comparing apples to oranges, like what always happens in the computing world. Hell, they were having discussions much like this back when the transition from 486 to Pentium was going on. A fast 486 (which was probably cheaper) was faster than a slow Pentium. You can't even compare Athlons to Pentium III or IV chips very easily.
I'd be happy to get a PowerPC system in certain situations, though. It's generally considered to be a cleaner architecture. PPC systems aren't restricted to less than 15 interrupts like Intel systems. They make good laptops, if you only need one mouse button..
My problem has always been that Apple doesn't like to let other people inside their boxes. It took them ages to finally put several expansion slots in their boxes.
I doubt that I'll ever go out and buy a pre-built `consumer' desktop system. I will probably always go from parts. If I want to do that with Apple hardware, I think Steve Jobs will have to keel over first.
I don't really care whether Vorbis becomes really popular or not. I think Vorbis files have superior sound quality -- certainly they handle the `ssss' sounds much better. I haven't compared against VBR MP3s, though (dunno why they aren't more popular).
I also usually listen to my music through some very nice headphones (I don't want to bother other people with my music), which really tests the strength of any encoding technology.
I hope it gets supported by portable devices sometime soon, but I'm not going to worry about that until they finally get to be as cheap as CD players.
Look, it's not going to destroy the internet. It's not going to be a tempest in a teacup either. incidents.org reports 22,000 infections at this point. I've recorded 4 hits so far this morning (though I got nearly 30 the last time around).
For the media to go nuts, it took press conferences and press releases from the FBI and Microsoft. Those big organizations aren't making the same noise about Sircam (or Sklyarov, or...).
I find it hard to believe that you are so surprised by this. This case covers several things that the media is scared to talk about these days.
First, he's a programmer -- the media hates to discuss anything even moderately technical, in the fear that it wil alienate their audience. Also, many TV news stories are just seconds in length, not nearly enough time to explain the case.
Secondly, there are serious issues where many media outlets are owned by or are organizations that have fought hard to have heavy control over their copyrighted material.
That's not to say the case hasn't been discussed at all. Robin Gross of the EFF went on NPR's Science Friday program to discuss the case (not sure if she really said the right things or not, though), and NPR had at least one previous story on the subject.
This case does remind me how little the media in this country cares about the rest of the world. Foreigners have been tried and executed in this country. Our media didn't say a thing, while the overseas media went nuts.
The US media is very strange. I recall when the Chandra Levy story first started rolling. The national news broadcasters were saying ``The story on everyone's lips,'' when in fact it was just what was being discussed on the local news in New York. Nobody else cared up until then.
The trick might be to get this case on the local news in New York --
If only Mozilla had come up with something so nice, more people would be using it now...
Indeed, but is anyone working on that? I hope?
The site for one of my local newspapers has popup ads now. The front page also refreshes, so a new window pops up every 10 minutes. I accidentally left my system on that page for several hours, and was left with a pile of windows to close. Really annoying. --
Yeah, my Dad works at IBM, and a lot of people in the Rochester, MN LUG work there as well. Lack of Notes support on Unix (mostly AIX and Linux) is a really annoying problem for those folks. Of course, the Windows Notes client isn't exactly the best mailer in the world either...
Still, I think people would be extremely happy to just see some documentation put up on how to communicate with Notes servers. I know that Notes support is one of the big questions hanging over the Evolution mailer, for instance.. --
Heh, it's there. Slashdot's comment system just divided it into chunks, to prevent people from putting really long lines in and screwing up the tables.
There should only be a single space in the prompt, between '\\$' and '$NORMAL' --
It occurs to me that the linux console and most xterms can switch in and out of a pseudo-vga mode where they can draw line characters to the screen using a standard iso8859-1 font. That's how `make menuconfig' and other menu-driven programs get line characters on the screen.
To go into and out of this mode, use these:
LINE='\[\016\]'
UNLINE='\[\017\]'
The letters `jklmnqtuvwx' correspond to different line characters when in this mode (well, single-line chars, at least). --
Hmm, in trying to post this, I came across a `lameness filter'. Probably a good idea in most situations, but this post contains a lot of the `junk characters' that it's complaining about. Maybe I just need to fill up some space with real words to offset whatever algorithm you guys are using to determine what shouldn't be posted.
Also, there's the bashish theme engine thingy that some people should look at. I've seen some really amazing prompts (well, sort of -- they don't always work).
In my/etc/bashrc:
[ -f/etc/jjcolors ] && ./etc/jjcolors
if [ "$EUID" = "0" ]; then
PS1="$BRIGHT$BLUE[$RED\u$WHITE@\h$BLUE][$YELLOW\ w$ BLUE]$RED\\$ $NORMAL"
else
PS1="$BRIGHT$BLUE[$CYAN\u$WHITE@\h$BLUE][$YELLOW \w $BLUE]$CYAN\\$ $NORMAL"
fi
[ -f/etc/jjcolors ] && ./etc/jjcolors unset
In my/etc/jjcolors:
if [ "$1" = "unset" ];
then
{
#
# unset all:
#
unset BLACK RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE
unset BGBLACK BGRED BGGREEN BGYELLOW BGBLUE BGMAGENTA BGCYAN BGWHITE
unset BRIGHT NORMAL REVERSE BLINK UNDERSCORE
}
else
{
#
# foreground colors:
#
BLACK='\[\033[30m\]'
RED='\[\033[31m\]'
GREEN='\[\033[32m\]'
YELLOW='\[\033[33m\]'
BLUE='\[\033[34m\]'
MAGENTA='\[\033[35m\]'
CYAN='\[\033[36m\]'
WHITE='\[\033[37m\]'
#
# attributes:
#
BRIGHT='\[\033[01m\]'
NORMAL='\[\033[00m\]'
REVERSE='\[\033[07m\]'
BLINK='\[\033[05m\]' # doesn't work in xterms
UNDERSCORE='\[\033[04m\]' # only works in xterms
The Internet is a two-way medium, people forget that a lot. Some protocols make more significant use of that fact than others.
I've seen a fair number of articles describing how to set up a host-based firewall on Linux. Unfortunately, I haven't seen them address the problem of how to properly filter out uninteresting data like this. --
Well, if the rent is so high in Silicon Valley, then get out of there! The United States is a big country, it's certainly possible to find a good job somewhere out there. In most places, the rent is certainly cheaper..
This appears to me to be like many of the mini-recessions that have hit specialized industry centers over the years. A decade or so ago, many areas of Michigan got hit as sales of American cars slowed. Sometimes, it just takes a restructuring of an industry, such as when textile mills on the east coast grew by an order of magnitude and moved away from the rivers that had been their main source of power until electricity came into widespread use.
Other than that, I think I have to follow the opinion of others posting here -- lots of people don't have the skills they say they do, only have a very narrow skill set, or just don't want to lower their standard of living by getting a cheaper car or smaller apartment. --
True, though I would think that this is a good thing to have worked on, if only to provide a short-term fix when appropriate hardware isn't readily available. If you need your network connection, but if you can't get a new DSL or leased-line modem for several days, this would be a good thing to try.
And no, I don't think it'd be a good idea to play quake on a machine that's doing this. It's something to be used on a router, IMHO.
I had been curious about this sort of technology a year or so ago, but my math must have been off, and I figured it wouldn't work any better than a standard modem. I'm glad to see that other people had the same idea. --
I think Ballmer made an interesting comment about `pirating' of software in homes when he said that artists and organizations like newspapers need to get paid. However, I don't know of any household that gets more than one copy of a newspaper.. --
Here is a documentary called Spin about how Bill Clinton's team used this same sort of thing in the 1992 election. I believe that the guy that did this also made a movie called Feed. --
No, I don't like that clause, but I think I may see where they're coming from. Motif has long been associated with commercial Unix platforms. As a method of protecting that revenue stream, Open Motif is not allowed to run on those platforms. --
Are there any significant updates to the VIA chipset code that can help prevent people with 586b and 686b southbridges from corrupting the data on their hard drives? --
I'm not sure how processor-intensive the Google software is, though.. Certainly, an S/390 has a lot of internal bandwidth, but I don't think it has the processing power of many PCs. If the searches are mostly just disk-intensive, it could work.. Of course, note that Google is using mostly IDE drives. Getting the same amount of SCSI storage would be, what? 3x the cost? Yeesh. --
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I do wonder, though.. Where exactly are they blocking access? At every single router in their networks? I somehow doubt that.. I suspect there'll still be plenty of internal traffic (but I could be wrong..)
Gah! What's everyone's obsession with the floppy drive? They suck, get over it.
Yeah, you found a better link.
However, the AP link wasn't broken. If you pick a newspaper, then go back to Slashdot and click on the link again, it takes you to the article. The AP site is fairly notorious for requiring a cookie to be set (it may also work when HTTP_REFERRER headers are pointing to a known newspaper). I've been thinking of finding a good way around that for a while now...
There are always problems when comparing apples to oranges, like what always happens in the computing world. Hell, they were having discussions much like this back when the transition from 486 to Pentium was going on. A fast 486 (which was probably cheaper) was faster than a slow Pentium. You can't even compare Athlons to Pentium III or IV chips very easily.
I'd be happy to get a PowerPC system in certain situations, though. It's generally considered to be a cleaner architecture. PPC systems aren't restricted to less than 15 interrupts like Intel systems. They make good laptops, if you only need one mouse button..
My problem has always been that Apple doesn't like to let other people inside their boxes. It took them ages to finally put several expansion slots in their boxes.
I doubt that I'll ever go out and buy a pre-built `consumer' desktop system. I will probably always go from parts. If I want to do that with Apple hardware, I think Steve Jobs will have to keel over first.
I don't really care whether Vorbis becomes really popular or not. I think Vorbis files have superior sound quality -- certainly they handle the `ssss' sounds much better. I haven't compared against VBR MP3s, though (dunno why they aren't more popular).
I also usually listen to my music through some very nice headphones (I don't want to bother other people with my music), which really tests the strength of any encoding technology.
I hope it gets supported by portable devices sometime soon, but I'm not going to worry about that until they finally get to be as cheap as CD players.
Well, I paid $50 for a Linux book back in 1996. Since then, I've always had enough bandwidth to just download it.
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For those of you who like pretty graphs, look at caida's nearly-live graphs: [normal scale] [logarithmic scale]
Look, it's not going to destroy the internet. It's not going to be a tempest in a teacup either. incidents.org reports 22,000 infections at this point. I've recorded 4 hits so far this morning (though I got nearly 30 the last time around).
For the media to go nuts, it took press conferences and press releases from the FBI and Microsoft. Those big organizations aren't making the same noise about Sircam (or Sklyarov, or...).
Eh? You're getting queries for your web server from multicast addresses? Interesting.
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I find it hard to believe that you are so surprised by this. This case covers several things that the media is scared to talk about these days.
First, he's a programmer -- the media hates to discuss anything even moderately technical, in the fear that it wil alienate their audience. Also, many TV news stories are just seconds in length, not nearly enough time to explain the case.
Secondly, there are serious issues where many media outlets are owned by or are organizations that have fought hard to have heavy control over their copyrighted material.
That's not to say the case hasn't been discussed at all. Robin Gross of the EFF went on NPR's Science Friday program to discuss the case (not sure if she really said the right things or not, though), and NPR had at least one previous story on the subject.
This case does remind me how little the media in this country cares about the rest of the world. Foreigners have been tried and executed in this country. Our media didn't say a thing, while the overseas media went nuts.
The US media is very strange. I recall when the Chandra Levy story first started rolling. The national news broadcasters were saying ``The story on everyone's lips,'' when in fact it was just what was being discussed on the local news in New York. Nobody else cared up until then.
The trick might be to get this case on the local news in New York
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The site for one of my local newspapers has popup ads now. The front page also refreshes, so a new window pops up every 10 minutes. I accidentally left my system on that page for several hours, and was left with a pile of windows to close. Really annoying.
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Yeah, my Dad works at IBM, and a lot of people in the Rochester, MN LUG work there as well. Lack of Notes support on Unix (mostly AIX and Linux) is a really annoying problem for those folks. Of course, the Windows Notes client isn't exactly the best mailer in the world either...
Still, I think people would be extremely happy to just see some documentation put up on how to communicate with Notes servers. I know that Notes support is one of the big questions hanging over the Evolution mailer, for instance..
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Heh, it's there. Slashdot's comment system just divided it into chunks, to prevent people from putting really long lines in and screwing up the tables.
There should only be a single space in the prompt, between '\\$' and '$NORMAL'
--
It occurs to me that the linux console and most xterms can switch in and out of a pseudo-vga mode where they can draw line characters to the screen using a standard iso8859-1 font. That's how `make menuconfig' and other menu-driven programs get line characters on the screen.
To go into and out of this mode, use these:
LINE='\[\016\]'
UNLINE='\[\017\]'
The letters `jklmnqtuvwx' correspond to different line characters when in this mode (well, single-line chars, at least).
--
Hmm, in trying to post this, I came across a `lameness filter'. Probably a good idea in most situations, but this post contains a lot of the `junk characters' that it's complaining about. Maybe I just need to fill up some space with real words to offset whatever algorithm you guys are using to determine what shouldn't be posted.
/etc/bashrc:
/etc/jjcolors ] && . /etc/jjcolors
\ w$ BLUE]$RED\\$ $NORMAL"
W \w $BLUE]$CYAN\\$ $NORMAL"
/etc/jjcolors ] && . /etc/jjcolors unset
/etc/jjcolors:
Also, there's the bashish theme engine thingy that some people should look at. I've seen some really amazing prompts (well, sort of -- they don't always work).
In my
[ -f
if [ "$EUID" = "0" ]; then
PS1="$BRIGHT$BLUE[$RED\u$WHITE@\h$BLUE][$YELLOW
else
PS1="$BRIGHT$BLUE[$CYAN\u$WHITE@\h$BLUE][$YELLO
fi
[ -f
In my
if [ "$1" = "unset" ];
then
{
#
# unset all:
#
unset BLACK RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE
unset BGBLACK BGRED BGGREEN BGYELLOW BGBLUE BGMAGENTA BGCYAN BGWHITE
unset BRIGHT NORMAL REVERSE BLINK UNDERSCORE
}
else
{
#
# foreground colors:
#
BLACK='\[\033[30m\]'
RED='\[\033[31m\]'
GREEN='\[\033[32m\]'
YELLOW='\[\033[33m\]'
BLUE='\[\033[34m\]'
MAGENTA='\[\033[35m\]'
CYAN='\[\033[36m\]'
WHITE='\[\033[37m\]'
#
# background colors:
#
BGBLACK='\[\033[40m\]'
BGRED='\[\033[41m\]'
BGGREEN='\[\033[42m\]'
BGYELLOW='\[\033[43m\]'
BGBLUE='\[\033[44m\]'
BGMAGENTA='\[\033[45m\]'
BGCYAN='\[\033[46m\]'
BGWHITE='\[\033[47m\]'
#
# attributes:
#
BRIGHT='\[\033[01m\]'
NORMAL='\[\033[00m\]'
REVERSE='\[\033[07m\]'
BLINK='\[\033[05m\]' # doesn't work in xterms
UNDERSCORE='\[\033[04m\]' # only works in xterms
# zzzzzz='\[\033[00m\]' # last env var
}
fi
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The Internet is a two-way medium, people forget that a lot. Some protocols make more significant use of that fact than others.
I've seen a fair number of articles describing how to set up a host-based firewall on Linux. Unfortunately, I haven't seen them address the problem of how to properly filter out uninteresting data like this.
--
Well, if the rent is so high in Silicon Valley, then get out of there! The United States is a big country, it's certainly possible to find a good job somewhere out there. In most places, the rent is certainly cheaper..
This appears to me to be like many of the mini-recessions that have hit specialized industry centers over the years. A decade or so ago, many areas of Michigan got hit as sales of American cars slowed. Sometimes, it just takes a restructuring of an industry, such as when textile mills on the east coast grew by an order of magnitude and moved away from the rivers that had been their main source of power until electricity came into widespread use.
Other than that, I think I have to follow the opinion of others posting here -- lots of people don't have the skills they say they do, only have a very narrow skill set, or just don't want to lower their standard of living by getting a cheaper car or smaller apartment.
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True, though I would think that this is a good thing to have worked on, if only to provide a short-term fix when appropriate hardware isn't readily available. If you need your network connection, but if you can't get a new DSL or leased-line modem for several days, this would be a good thing to try.
And no, I don't think it'd be a good idea to play quake on a machine that's doing this. It's something to be used on a router, IMHO.
I had been curious about this sort of technology a year or so ago, but my math must have been off, and I figured it wouldn't work any better than a standard modem. I'm glad to see that other people had the same idea.
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Sylpheed has been able to do GPG for a while, though I only got it going yesterday. I put some [S]RPMs up here
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I think Ballmer made an interesting comment about `pirating' of software in homes when he said that artists and organizations like newspapers need to get paid. However, I don't know of any household that gets more than one copy of a newspaper..
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Here is a documentary called Spin about how Bill Clinton's team used this same sort of thing in the 1992 election. I believe that the guy that did this also made a movie called Feed.
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No, I don't like that clause, but I think I may see where they're coming from. Motif has long been associated with commercial Unix platforms. As a method of protecting that revenue stream, Open Motif is not allowed to run on those platforms.
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Not for video, though Monty has supposedly done a little work on that -- the Ogg folks are focusing on their audio stuff at the moment.
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Are there any significant updates to the VIA chipset code that can help prevent people with 586b and 686b southbridges from corrupting the data on their hard drives?
--
I'm not sure how processor-intensive the Google software is, though.. Certainly, an S/390 has a lot of internal bandwidth, but I don't think it has the processing power of many PCs. If the searches are mostly just disk-intensive, it could work.. Of course, note that Google is using mostly IDE drives. Getting the same amount of SCSI storage would be, what? 3x the cost? Yeesh.
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