And i suppose that the satelite system would run on a MS server. When it finally crashed and every car in the UK was disabled, tech support would tell the motorists to close their windows and try again?
1)Leonardo Da Vinci, of course. He was the original hacker. I mean, damn, he invented the helicopter hundreds of years before it was ever possible to build.
2) Gutenberg. Printing press. 'Nuff said.
3) Issac Asimov. Genius. Scientist. Author.Ladies man . Well maybe not a ladies man. But he wrote the definitive book on black holes. neat-o.
I know it's been done alot already, and I'm probably to late to make a difference, but you can find decss here, tastefully mirrored from cubicmetercrystal.com.
1)The ownership of a domain should _never_ change, especially when there's a DNS transfer involved. The only part that changes is the DNS info at the bottom (and possibly the tech contact). But under no cirumstances should this guy's name have been removed from administrative/billing roles.
2)He was using NSI's new "Worldnic" service, which gives you the same thing as the old registration, but costs $40 more. I'm the hostmaster at my place of employment, and the new system sucks. Whereas before one email + one reply was sufficent to make a change, now there are 3 different login/passwd combinations that need to be used to get anything useful done. I always thought the mail-back verification was more than safe enough; but it seems to me someone could try and brute force a password in order to steal a domain if they _really_ wanted to.
The setup is _sweet_...however, I'm wondering how many people caught the os (Solaris x86) that they were using. As beautiful/wonderful/powerful as Linux/(Free||Open||Net)BSD are, and even in the presence of such popular and generally spiffy open source software, solaris is still rock solid. i disliked alot of things about solaris on x86 (in comparison to the sparc version), but stability was never one of them....and i'm surprised not to see more similar setups like this (commercial OS + tons of open source software==very nice).
It definitely was different this morning, but seems to be back to normal now...no matter, i usewhodat instead./shameless plug. Actually i've used this for a while, since i work for an ISP that seems to attract register.com customers (Not only did they mess up whois, but try getting a verisign cert for a company registered there...)
I agree that a nice JDK would be useful for Linux. However, look at Sun's position:
Linux==Serious *nix competition.
BeOS!=Serious *nix competition.
BeOS is somewhat unix-like (it may even be POSIX compliant; i can't remember). BeOS does have a shell prompt (bash) and BeOS does use GCC. But BeOS is focused on high end media development, not serving mail/ldap/webpages/database stuff. By porting Java to BeOS, Sun has paved the way for more Sun applications on BeOS, and in the process learned a lot about the Be system. Doing this puts them a little bit closer to (possibly) reverse engineering some of the Be multimedia code and giving solaris one of the few things it lacks.
Good move for Sun; good move for Be; bad move for linux.
check rfc2100 out. This is a _true_ guide to naming a box (and it's in iambic pentameter).
Also, the company i work for has a customer who named all of their boxes after sesame street characters. You'd think it'd be easy , but try and name 10 of 'em...after you get past the big birds and oscars, you end up spending hours trying to figure out the name of the garbage man (bruno)..
Anyone remember this site? If not, read on... They were a "free porn" ("jumbo shrimp"?) site..all you had to do to get the pr0n was download thier "client"...which actually turned the speaker off of the (l)user's modem, dialed a phone number in Outer Mongolia , and connected to a pop there. Brilliant. beautifulgirls.com split the phone revenue with a northern slobovian phone company, and the people who found $200+ international ld calls on their phone bill were screwed; a court case determined that they were indeed liable for the charges....now _that_ was memorable..btw, i wasn't one of those lusers...
This is truly scary, and (for the first time) I actually enjoyed reading a Katz piece. What scares me the most is the possible legal precedent here. Does having an "unfavorable" profile on Mosaic (NCSA should really sue over copyright infringement, but that's another rant) give the school administrators the right to constantly monitor/track/watch certain students? Is the innocence of students not being presumed? Katz also brings up a good point about the "socially acceptable" clique. I've seen more people fall off of the cliffs of sanity because of alcohol-related accidents/deaths/pregnancies/etc than I've ever seen due to Doom or wearing all black or d&d. Will the alcoholic-suv driving-future frat boy get a "questionable" score because of his weekend partying habits? Probably not. Will the shy gothic kid that likes to read alot and play duke nukem? Most likely. Who's the _real_ threat here?
I've used AcceleratedX for 7 months now since they offered support for a particular laptop graphics chip that Xfree didn't. The installation/configuration process is nothing like Xfree. I had a working server config in about 30 seconds....whereas Xf86setup can still sometimes take an hour if i switch to a different monitor. XiG tends to have support for chips 3-6 months before Xfree, and the server itself is much faster. Sure, $150 was a lot to pay, but if I waited for the open source version, I would have been carrying around a $2500 vt100....
This coming from the group that decided network computers and e-money were the hotest tech items of 1998? Or the group that decided TCO of handheld devices was over $2700/year (read through their press releases..they're pretty funny). I dunno...i think I'd trust a Sesame Street review before I believed these guys....
Have you ever looked at the mozilla code? It looked like whenever MS promised a new feature, the Netscape coders slapped something together and stapled it at the end. Mozilla was "blessed" with this code as a base. It's quite unfair for the article to point to this as an example of open source development, simply because by the time the source was available, it was FUBARed. Honestly, I use IE on solaris piped into an X session on a linux box. It's slow, but still faster than Netscape natively in linux. MS had this battle won 15 months ago...netscape's just now admitting it.
I decided to gove Mandrake a shot. I ordered the cheapbyte's cd and took it for a spin on my ever-changing laptop. Right off the bat I noticed: 1) My cpu was being misidentified. 2) The "which" command didn't work. These may both seem minor, but not having the "which" command made the installation of certain necessary software quit difficult. And damn, I didn't spend all that money on the pII to be told it's a celeron. I always understood Mandrake to be "bleeding edge; the installation was almost identical to RH. I liked the Lothar project. I give Mandrake respect. I just can't imagine how the "most popular" distribution can have such gaping flaws.
this program is inherently flawed....it makes the assumption that the computer doing the sniffing is also going to be doing nslookups on every ip that comes by..it would be a simple task to just sniff the data, and process it 6 hours later from another machine on the same network. just my worthless opinion.
These laptops are way expensive....for $2500 i got a sager p2/366, 128mb ram, 6 gig hd , cd, 14.1" active, etc....totally linux friendly. I've had no problems. I admire what these guys are trying to do, but $4400 is a lot for a laptop.
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And i suppose that the satelite system would run on a MS server. When it finally crashed and every car in the UK was disabled, tech support would tell the motorists to close their windows and try again?
1)Leonardo Da Vinci, of course. He was the original hacker. I mean, damn, he invented the helicopter hundreds of years before it was ever possible to build.
2) Gutenberg. Printing press. 'Nuff said.
3) Issac Asimov. Genius. Scientist. Author.Ladies man . Well maybe not a ladies man. But he wrote the definitive book on black holes. neat-o.
I know it's been done alot already, and I'm probably to late to make a difference, but you can find decss here, tastefully mirrored from cubicmetercrystal.com.
1)The ownership of a domain should _never_ change, especially when there's a DNS transfer involved. The only part that changes is the DNS info at the bottom (and possibly the tech contact). But under no cirumstances should this guy's name have been removed from administrative/billing roles.
2)He was using NSI's new "Worldnic" service, which gives you the same thing as the old registration, but costs $40 more. I'm the hostmaster at my place of employment, and the new system sucks. Whereas before one email + one reply was sufficent to make a change, now there are 3 different login/passwd combinations that need to be used to get anything useful done. I always thought the mail-back verification was more than safe enough; but it seems to me someone could try and brute force a password in order to steal a domain if they _really_ wanted to.
The setup is _sweet_...however, I'm wondering how many people caught the os (Solaris x86) that they were using. As beautiful/wonderful/powerful as Linux/(Free||Open||Net)BSD are, and even in the presence of such popular and generally spiffy open source software, solaris is still rock solid. i disliked alot of things about solaris on x86 (in comparison to the sparc version), but stability was never one of them....and i'm surprised not to see more similar setups like this (commercial OS + tons of open source software==very nice).
It definitely was different this morning, but seems to be back to normal now...no matter, i usewhodat instead. /shameless plug. Actually i've used this for a while, since i work for an ISP that seems to attract register.com customers (Not only did they mess up whois, but try getting a verisign cert for a company registered there...)
I agree that a nice JDK would be useful for Linux. However, look at Sun's position:
Linux==Serious *nix competition.
BeOS!=Serious *nix competition.
BeOS is somewhat unix-like (it may even be POSIX compliant; i can't remember). BeOS does have a shell prompt (bash) and BeOS does use GCC. But BeOS is focused on high end media development, not serving mail/ldap/webpages/database stuff.
By porting Java to BeOS, Sun has paved the way for more Sun applications on BeOS, and in the process learned a lot about the Be system. Doing this puts them a little bit closer to (possibly) reverse engineering some of the Be multimedia code and giving solaris one of the few things it lacks.
Good move for Sun; good move for Be; bad move for linux.
check rfc2100 out. This is a _true_ guide to naming a box (and it's in iambic pentameter).
Also, the company i work for has a customer who named all of their boxes after sesame street characters. You'd think it'd be easy , but try and name 10 of 'em...after you get past the big birds and oscars, you end up spending hours trying to figure out the name of the garbage man (bruno)..
Anyone remember this site? If not, read on...
They were a "free porn" ("jumbo shrimp"?) site..all you had to do to get the pr0n was download thier "client"...which actually turned the speaker off of the (l)user's modem, dialed a phone number in Outer Mongolia , and connected to a pop there. Brilliant. beautifulgirls.com split the phone revenue with a northern slobovian phone company, and the people who found $200+ international ld calls on their phone bill were screwed; a court case determined that they were indeed liable for the charges....now _that_ was memorable..btw, i wasn't one of those lusers...
This is truly scary, and (for the first time) I actually enjoyed reading a Katz piece. What scares me the most is the possible legal precedent here. Does having an "unfavorable" profile on Mosaic (NCSA should really sue over copyright infringement, but that's another rant) give the school administrators the right to constantly monitor/track/watch certain students? Is the innocence of students not being presumed? Katz also brings up a good point about the "socially acceptable" clique. I've seen more people fall off of the cliffs of sanity because of alcohol-related accidents/deaths/pregnancies/etc than I've ever seen due to Doom or wearing all black or d&d. Will the alcoholic-suv driving-future frat boy get a "questionable" score because of his weekend partying habits? Probably not. Will the shy gothic kid that likes to read alot and play duke nukem? Most likely. Who's the _real_ threat here?
I've used AcceleratedX for 7 months now since they offered support for a particular laptop graphics chip that Xfree didn't. The installation/configuration process is nothing like Xfree. I had a working server config in about 30 seconds....whereas Xf86setup can still sometimes take an hour if i switch to a different monitor. ....
XiG tends to have support for chips 3-6 months before Xfree, and the server itself is much faster. Sure, $150 was a lot to pay, but if I waited for the open source version, I would have been carrying around a $2500 vt100
This coming from the group that decided network computers and e-money were the hotest tech items of 1998? Or the group that decided TCO of handheld devices was over $2700/year (read through their press releases..they're pretty funny).
I dunno...i think I'd trust a Sesame Street review before I believed these guys....
so THAT's why I couldn't register gerbilfuck.com....
Have you ever looked at the mozilla code? It looked like whenever MS promised a new feature, the Netscape coders slapped something together and stapled it at the end. Mozilla was "blessed" with this code as a base. It's quite unfair for the article to point to this as an example of open source development, simply because by the time the source was available, it was FUBARed. Honestly, I use IE on solaris piped into an X session on a linux box. It's slow, but still faster than Netscape natively in linux. MS had this battle won 15 months ago...netscape's just now admitting it.
where else can you do a search for
"more evil than satan himself" and get microsoft.com as the first hit?
I decided to gove Mandrake a shot. I ordered the cheapbyte's cd and took it for a spin on my ever-changing laptop. Right off the bat I noticed:
1) My cpu was being misidentified.
2) The "which" command didn't work.
These may both seem minor, but not having the "which" command made the installation of certain necessary software quit difficult. And damn, I didn't spend all that money on the pII to be told it's a celeron. I always understood Mandrake to be "bleeding edge; the installation was almost identical to RH. I liked the Lothar project. I give Mandrake respect. I just can't imagine how the "most popular" distribution can have such gaping flaws.
this program is inherently flawed....it makes the assumption that the computer doing the sniffing is also going to be doing nslookups on every ip that comes by..it would be a simple task to just sniff the data, and process it 6 hours later from another machine on the same network.
just my worthless opinion.
These laptops are way expensive....for $2500 i got a sager p2/366, 128mb ram, 6 gig hd , cd, 14.1" active, etc....totally linux friendly. I've had no problems. I admire what these guys are trying to do, but $4400 is a lot for a laptop.
I tried to register fuck.com, and got the following message:
"You cant register that domain at this time."
Grr....